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| Artist: CASTRO, NICK & THE YOUNG ELDERS Title: Come Into Our House Format: Dbl LP + 7" Label: Daffodelic Country: Netherlands Price: $33.00 |
| "Deluxe vinyl issue, 2x180 gram vinyl + extra 7" featuring three so-far unreleased exclusive tracks! West Coast psychedelic folkie currently making some of the most dynamic and truly original sounds to emerge from the new freak-folk movement. Gracefully immersing 60s/70s UK acid balladry with Middle Eastern traditional music and communal jams. Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas and ocean-spanning folk transcendence. He assembled a new band, The Young Elders, a truly stellar cast of musicians who played in folk and avant rock ensembles like Current 93, In Gowan Ring, Cul De Sac and Damo Suzukis Network performing together on an East-meets-West melting pot of instrumentation from acoustic guitar to Celtic harp to Moroccan tabla to nyabinghi drum. A mixing of folk ballads, psychedelic folk rock, Middle Eastern traditional music and Bay Area acid-raga. The result being astonishing, challenging and utterly psychedelic. A modern acid folk masterpiece." -Daffodelic. |
| Artist: CARPENBORG, STAFF AND THE ELECTRIC CORONA Title: Fantastic Party Format: LP Label: Daily Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Some really outrageous Krautrock out-there-ness on this 1970 release on the Maritim label, this has been compared to early CAN, SOFT MACHINE or FAUST (or maybe REYNOLS or YAHOWHA 13 trying to appeal to a lounge crowd) with free jazz/avantgarde influences, all subsumed in psychedelic rhythmic fog, with crazed fuzz guitars, swirling organ and Moog, and hypnotic vocals. Originals are stoopidly expensive and rare collectors" items! This nice reissue comes to us via the fine folks behind the "Prae-Kraut Pandaemonium" series. Original full color artwork, white vinyl pressing," - Daily |
| Artist: PSYCHIC TV/PTV3 Title: Mr. Alien Brain Vs. The Skinwalkers Format: Double LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Psychic TV / PTV3 returns with Mr Alien Brain vs. The Skinwalkers! A collection of ALL new material from various sessions. This beautiful full color packaging with insert holds TWO multi-colored marbled slabs of vinyl that feature THREE tracks not available on the CD version. Limited to 500." -Dais |
| Artist: AWEN Title: The Bells Before Dawn Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "We are proud to release the first LP of inspirational Ancestral Ambience and folk from Texas-based Awen! Beautifully dark compositions accompanied by deep vocals - songs of life, history, and blood! Not to be missed!" - Dais. Edition of 300. |
| Artist: LUNDVALL, TOR Title: Sleeping and Hiding Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This is a very special release for us, having admired Tors artwork and music since first hearing him over a decade ago! Originally recorded in 2005 and intended as the third and final chapter in the series which included the beautiful albums "Last Light" and "Empty City", Dais Records is proud to release the latest album from Ghost Ambient composer Tor Lundvall: "Sleeping and Hiding". Dark and beautiful soundtracks for afternoon daydreams and moonlit forest walks. Limited to 500 hand numbered editions." - Dais. "Sleeping And Hiding (or two things Im very good at) was recorded in what seemed like the blink of an eye during the Spring of 2005 and then shelved while I concentrated on other projects. I originally intended this album to be the third and final chapter in the series which also included "Last Light" and "Empty City". Listening to it now, however, I feel this album stands alone in its own unique space. Musically, its an enitrely vocal effort and somewhat more song oriented than my previous releases. Several of the tracks were inspired by evening drives through the woods, watching the copper-pink sunlight reflecting off bright yellow-green blossoms. Other tracks were inspired by specific events, such as Falling Trees which was recorded after my next door neighbor cut down all of the oaks in her backyard, forever changing the view from my porch. The Dead Period is a personal favorite which describes a space I still find myself falling into. The final track Sleeping manages to conjure up the precise atmosphere of one of my earliest childhood memories: Lying in bed during a bright afternoon as the strange sounds outside lulled me to sleep." -Tor Lundvall |
| Artist: CONRAD, TONY & GENESIS P-ORRIDGE Title: Taking Issue Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "An exclusive vinyl release of the live violin collaboration between avant-garde legends Tony Conrad and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge featuring percussion by Morrison Edley. Presented by filmmaker Marie Losier and recording live in January, 2009 at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. LP limited to 500 hand-numbered copies." - Dais. |
| Artist: FRANK ALPINE Title: Night Tripper Format: 7" Label: Dais Country: Price: $7.00 |
| "Former drummer of enigmatic LA synthpunk outfit New Collapse, Rich Bitch (AKA Frank Alpine) has been privately sharing his solo work with friends over the last few years on cassette. Dais is proud to announce the first vinyl release of these cassette recordings. (Dark ambient / analog synth / coldwave.) Limited to 300 copies." - Dais. |
| Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Endometrio Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "First ever vinyl reissue of the highly coveted classic LP by Italian noise composer/ sound visionary Maurizio Bianchi. Originally released in an extremely limited private press quantity in Italy in 1983, Endometrio showcased M.B. at his most crucial turning point, delving into the uncharted waters he aptly titled bionic music, blending organic electronics with contorted sounds of the human body to compose one of the most interesting ambient records to date. Copies of the original LP are practically non-existent and hard to come by, therefore making this reissue an important addition to any experimental aficionados audio library. Complete with current liners and artwork insert from Maurizio Bianchi, limited to 500 hand numbered editions." - Dais. |
| Artist: ATELECINE Title: ...And Six Dark Hours Pass Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "…sometimes difficult and sometimes confrontational but always true to who we are , if even in a fantasy…" Easily the most asked about and anticipated release on Dais this summer, aTelecine is famed performance artist and porn actress Sasha Grey along with Pablo St. Francis and Anthony Djuan. After causing a stir with their first release on Pendu Arts last year, aTelecine return with an LP on Dais continuing their course through brooding intimate soundscapes." - Dais. |
| Artist: PSYCHIC FARE Title: The Slow Drag Format: CDR Label: Damaged Restrooms Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Blazing living room budget psych from this mysterious mid-90s Humboldt County trio, with ties to the Plague Lounge (featured Six Organs of Admittances Ben Chasny). This release is steeped in old weird America monsters like Vertical Slit and Half Machine Lip Moves, as well as great NZ jams like Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Dead Cs Runway cassette and other "weve smoked as much as we possibly can" basement classics." -Damaged Restrooms, Numbered edition of 97. |
| Artist: DAMON Title: Song Of A Gypsy Format: CD Label: Damon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Legit reissue of US private pressing monster from the late 60s. Originally recorded in 1969 and released in some micro-quantity of non-distributed LPs, the album documents Damons travelling-gypsy-psych concoctio...the final track, "The Road of Life," a metaphysical battle where "some wear suits, some wear beads," caps off one of the finest philosophical acid-comedy records of all time. This record was recently listed in Paul Majors "Top Five of Weird Underground Psych/Folk", as revealed in Vice magazine." |
| Artist: MOTOR GHOST Title: A Gold Chain Round Her Breast Format: LP Label: Dancing Wayang Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "MOTOR GHOST is the new project of free drummer / vocalist Alex Neilson and multi-instrumentalist Ben Reynolds. Both Glasgow residents and frequent collaborators on the live circuit, A Gold Chain Round Her Breast is their first recorded document as a duo. From the brooding opener through tracks of soaring electricity to the beautifully fragile a capella rendition of the folk song Leaves Of Life, this album sees Alex and Ben exploring darkness and light and all shades in between. Alex drumming provides much of the backbone of the album supporting and conversing with Bens acoustic and electric guitars, loops and the call of the dürmuk (a Greek horn). Recording in a studio environment allowed MOTOR GHOST to define their sound and experiment with overdubs to lay down some intense tracks. The album comes in screenprinted sleeves, all of which have been hand embellished with gold enamel and are individually numbered. ALEX NEILSON SOLO bonus disk ?? The first 100 copies of the album include a 3? bonus disk containing a 4 song solo vocal set Alex performed at the Macbeth in London the day before the MOTOR GHOST studio session. The bonus disk features exclusive liner notes by Scottish folk singer Alasdair Roberts (Drag City). ALEX NEILSON has been drumming up a storm in the last few years playing with some of the UKs finest innovators like Richard Youngs, Ashtray Navigations, Taurpis Tula and Scatter as well as accompanying Jandek on his first ever and subsequent UK live shows. More recently hes been playing internationally with Bonnie Prince Billy and developing his solo project Directing Hand further to include (solo) singing as well as his inspired freeform drumming. Alex personal interest to investigate parallels between improvised, experimental and more traditional folk music is clearly audible on A Gold Chain Round Her Breast. BEN REYNOLDS (www.benreynolds.tk) is an improviser, guitarist and composer who has been an active participant in the UK underground music scene for several years, playing and recording as a solo artist as well as in Phil Todds Ashtray Navigations and with such underground activists as Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra), John Fail (Lied Music, Oakwhistle), Andy Jarvis (Sculptress, A Warm Palindrome) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton). More recently Ben has become increasingly interested in the potential of music as a psychedelic force, which can change life by illuminating the usually unconscious faculties of the human psyche." - Dancing Wayang. Limited to 300 copies. |
| Artist: DIRECTING HAND Title: What Put The Blood Format: LP Label: Dancing Wayang Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Dancing Wayang record label is based a short distance from the Honest Jons hood, in Eastcote Studios. Sessions for the label are released in a limited run of 500 LP copies packaged in hand screenprinted sleeves. The second and latest release, Directing Hands What Put The Blood, blends free jazz with chilling folk. With drums, harp and wordless vocals and interpretations of traditional English folk songs. The band is Lavinia Blackwall on vocals and Alex Neilson on drums. Alex has worked with Rochard Youngs (who features on the Honest Jons album Migrating Bird), Bonnie Prince Billy and Baby Dee. Lavinia is a classically-trained singer in early music and is a member of The Pendulums. This is her debut with Directing Hand." - Dancing Wayang |
| Artist: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB Title: Plug Music Ramoon Format: LP Label: Dancing Wayang Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Dancing Wayang Records are proud to present the new studio-recorded, full-length album by Neil Campbells Astral Social Club. Featuring two tracks of fearless sonic bliss and two long journeys to a state of sustained ecstasy Plug Music Ramoon was recorded in one day on analogue 2" tape. This limited edition LP comes housed in a gorgeous hand-printed silkscreen sleeve, with insert. Sequenced in chronological order on the LP as the tracks were recorded in the studio, the opener Flamingo Moon takes off into outer space. Its a gentle start to the impending Astral chaos as the rambunctious Punk Rocker / Mug Cracker noisily propels itself and its passengers forwards. This 14-minute showdown is divided into two parts with the loose, drum-led Punk Rocker submerging into the swooping sonics of the Mug Cracker. Side 2 introduces a playful element into the spiral density with percussive sticks and bells providing a tribal backdrop for resonant electronics, keyboard odysseys and some experimental vocal work from helmsman Neil Campbell. After a wild solar adventure, the album culminates in Ramoon Ramoon, a considered and tight improvisation that steers the Club homeward. Whilst Club member John Clyde-Evanss laptop contributions provide much of the backbone groove of the album, Stewart Keith adds light and shade on a variety of keyboards and toys. But its Campbells dense guitars that thicken the very stem of these four tracks and leads his Astral Social Club to conjure up his dreams and visions. Neil Campbell is a stalwart of the UK experimental music scene who began making music in the early 1980s. Originally a member of loose improvisational collective A-Band, he established himself more firmly in the 90s as a founding member of Vibracathedral Orchestra. Campbell utilizes guitars, electronics, vocals and laptop generated and manipulated sounds in his freeform improvisations. In 2005, he embarked on his solo project Astral Social Club often drawing on the talents of kindred spirits. Stewart Keith is a long-time friend and collaborator of Neil Campbell and one of the main members of Nottinghams the A-Band playing free drone and high-energy rock music and championing an un-tutored, elemental and almost primitive approach to music making. John Clyde-Evans, aka Tirath Singh Nirmala, has played with artists such as Richard Youngs and Vibracathedral Orchestra contributing computer generated sounds, electronics and violin. Limited 500 copies, numbered." -Dancing Wayang |
| Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS & JOHN EDWARDS Title: Tsktsking Format: LP Label: Dancing Wayang Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "TSKTSKING is the first duo album by London-based double bassist John Edwards and US drummer extraordinaire Chris Corsano. The album was recorded at Eastcote Studios, London in December 2008. Limited to 500 copies it comes housed in hand screenprinted wrap-around sleeves. The accompanying insert features exclusive and humerous liner notes written by UK sax pioneer Evan Parker. Defying the drum and basss classic roles as rhythm instruments, Edwards and Corsanos TSKTSKING is a beautifully melodic album. At times Corsanos drumset sounds like its got strings whilst Edwardss double bass takes its fair share of scrapes and slaps. Extended passages explore the most subtle and some unexpected sounds that can be summoned from metal and timber. Equally, possessed progressions and untamed eruptions of energy and power are conjured up. These two musicians prey and pounce on their instruments like its their last chance." -Dancing Wayang |
| Artist: OSCURO LUGAR Title: Alguien Muere Format: 7" Label: Darbouka Country: France Price: $10.00 |
| "From Medellin, Colombia, comes this duo with 3 tracks of very dark goth/postpunk synthwave that sounds a bit like early CURE recordings. Full color board sleeve with lyrics, limited to 300 copies." - Darbouka. |
| Artist: DEATH DOMAIN Title: Ethidium Bromide Format: 7" Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Death Domain aka Adam Stroupe is a science nerd from Baltimore and wears it as a badge of honor. His sound is undoubtedly one of the most bewildering, disorienting yet magnetic and infectious slices of downright bleak takes on synth-based dance music. A one man all-live-analogue electronic ice machine (who is also behind the likes of SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). His sound is as cryptically raw as it gets - summoning the seminal Industrial/EBM sounds of the likes of early Cabaret Voltaire, Skinny Puppy, and The Normal. Limited to 400 silk screened, hand numbered copies with 4 different covers that feature a different glow-in-the-dark letter of each base pair of DNA: A,C,T,or G." - Dark Entries. |
| Artist: SECOND DECAY Title: Le Décadence ?lectronique Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dark Entries presents, for the first time ever on vinyl, the debut full length album by German electronic darkwave pioneers, Second Decay. Formed by Christian Purwien and Andreas Sippel in 1987, Second Decay hit the underground dark dance scene with their 12" Killing Time and then worked on their debut album from 1988 to 1992. La Décadence ?lectronique is an album full of addictive analogue electronics that combine synthetic sounds and constant rhythms with memorable vocals. Each song has been carefully remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies." - Dark Entries. |
| Artist: ELEVEN POND Title: Bas Relief Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Dark Entries Records is proud to announce the reissue of the debut album by Eleven Pond. Long sought after by collectors, the Rochester, NY band only released a single LP in their time together before dissolving into obscurity. Their sound??a merging of post punks dark dance and synthpops melodic arrangements??reflected the originality of gifted songwriters who met in art school with a shared interest in 4AD and Factory Records. In cooperation with the band members, the entire album has been remastered from the original 2-track analogue masters by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The recordings on this release comprise the bands entire recorded output and the LP includes a 2009 redesign by Jeff Gallea of Eleven Pond: 11?11 cardstock lyrics/artwork sheet, 2 Eleven Pond postcards and 1 Dark Entries Sticker. Eleven Pond officially parted ways in 1987 but nearly a quarter-century later these recordings prove how vital they remain." - Dark Entries. |
| Artist: ZWISCHENFALL Title: Heute Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Zwischenfall formed in 1982 with Michael Sass (synths), Martin Urban (bass/vocals) and Stephan Kraemer (guitar/drums)??all of German descent. They were united by musical sensibilities that combined electronic and traditional instruments developing the basis for their 1982 demo recordings. By chance Patrick Codenys of the Belgian electro pioneers FRONT 242 heard two songs and decided to record a 4-song EP for the electro bands newly formed label MASK. The Heute EP was released in 1983 after a week of recording in Fronts private studio under the direction of sound-whiz Daniel B. Bearing in mind MIDI had not been invented at the time, the recording involved some extensive sound sculpting including the use of individual synths (PPG Wave, Syrinx, Roland System 100, etc.) for separate drum sounds. To create an organic feel to the combination of acoustic and electric guitar, a trumpet and a bass were incorporated into the electronic arrangements. Sonically way ahead of their time, Zwischenfall have a distinct sound with hard rhythms and melancholic melodies that blend minimal yet catchy electronics to create a very danceable production. Remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios, the EP features two bonus tracks from the Heute sessions never before released on vinyl: the uptempo ??Tausend Jahre? and ??Katastrophe? the demo version of Flucht. The Dark Entries release of Heute will include an original press kit with lyrics and band photos and is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies." - Dark Entries. |
| Artist: THOSE ATTRACTIVE MAGNETS Title: Electromagnetic Pulse Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Those Attractive Magnets were created early 1980 in a town called Tamworth, the heart of the English Midlands, as a vehicle for Rikk Quay (keyboards) and Andy Baldwin (vocals). They self-released a super limited cassette EP, Pictures on the Wall in 1980 and the Nightlife/Love Chimes 7? in 1983 and appeared on a Futurist music compilation LP, Synthetic Romance in 1982. Their music travels beyond copycat synthpop bands of the time into electronic realms of the 80s underground scene. There are some obvious parallels of the time you can hear the commercial strains of The Human League, Soft Cell and Kraftwerk at times but the band never wholly embraced commercialism as these tracks reveal. Although their sound takes a cue from the post-punk and early new romantic scenes, it still remains one step ahead in a unique futuristic world full of delicious dance beats! Electromagnetic Pulse is the first ever compilation of a number of tapes Those Attractive Magnets produced during their three creative and prolific years of song writing, 1980-1983. This LP contains remastered versions of both songs from the 7? as well as 2 songs from the cassette EP and a different version of the song that appeared on Synthetic Romance; 9 songs in total, 7 of which have never appeared on vinyl until now! Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies with an 1117 poster/insert of lyrics, photos and liner notes by Sam Holliday." - Dark Entries. |
| Artist: NEON JUDGEMENT Title: Early Tapes Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dark Entries has dug deep into the early days of the Belgian cassette scene to release two tapes by The Neon Judgment in the form of one vinyl LP for the first time ever! These pioneers of underground electronic music hail from the small town of Leuven near Brussels, Belgium and gave birth to the New Beat and EBM scenes worldwide in 1981/2 with the release of their first two cassettesneatly compiled here as Early Tapes. Always a consistent duo of Dirk Da Davo (synthesizers, vocals) and TB Frank (guitar, drum machine, vocals) The Neon Judgment worked in a parallel world alongside Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, and the Deutsche Neue Welle recording under the watchful eyes of Roland Beelen (Antler-Subway) & Ludo Camerberlin (A Blaze Colour). Arriving just in time to celebrate the Neon Judgments 30th anniversary, Early Tapes showcases the bands brash and seedy lyrics, with raw synth stabs and repetitive drum machine beats adding to this rhythmic discourse. The result is a combination of lo-fi technology and emotional sincerity to create a sound both warm yet alienating that has stood the test of time and 30 years later, still evokes the same magic. The 10 songs on this LP were remastered from the original cassette masters resulting in a cohesive, gritty, maniacal dance program that sounds more relevant today than ever. Each sleeve is hand numbered in limited edition copies of 500 with an 1111 lyric sheet including rare photos, a mini poster and two silk screened die-cut diagrams taken from the bands original synthesizer workbooks." - Dark Entries. |
| Artist: DE MARIA, WALTER Title: Drums And Nature Format: CD Label: De Maria, Walter Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "..In 1957, (De Maria) graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned his M.F.A. in painting two years later. De Maria and his friend, the avant-garde composer La Monte Young, participated in Happenings and theatrical productions (including very early Fluxus events) in the San Francisco area. In 1960, De Maria moved to New York; here he wrote essays on art, which were published in 1963 in Youngs "An Anthology", and took part in Happenings and multimedia presentations. In 1961, he made his first wooden box sculptures. De Maria and Robert Whitman opened the Great Jones Street gallery in New York in 1963; the same year, De Marias first solo show of sculpture was presented there. This year, he worked as a drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. He continued to work in wood, began his "invisible drawings," and composed music. With the support of collector Robert C. Scull, De Maria started making pieces in metal in 1965. De Maria emerged as a leader of the Earthworks movement in 1968 when he filled the Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Munich with dirt. This year, he also made his The Mile Long Drawing in the Desert in the Mojave Desert for Walls in the Desert, a project, originally conceived in 1962, which is to consist of two parallel mile-long walls. In 1968, he also participated in Documenta in Kassel. A major exhibition of De Marias sculpture was held at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1972. Earthworks and serial geometric sculpture continue to occupy De Maria in the 1970s: his Three Continent Project was completed in 1972 and the Lightning Field in New Mexico was finished in 1977. That same year, De Maria recreated his Earth Room at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery in New York. The artist lives in New York." -Guggenheim. Self released CD (with almost no distribution) featuring De Marias tribal drumming mixed with field recordings (as the title implies). The two pieces, Cricket Music and Ocean Music, were originally recorded in 1964 and 1968 (evidently with some help from Tony Conrad). Restocked yet again... Very highly recommended! |
| Artist: MAC BLACKOUT Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Dead Beat Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The debut solo album from MAC BLACKOUT of FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS and DAILY VOID fame. Upon listening to the songs, one distinctly get the feeling something special is going on. The tracks have a sweet DIY home recording feel to them which makes these deeply personal tunes shine. Performed with guitar and vocals, self-created clarinet, saxophone and electronic violin all intricately layered into very cohesive, concise songs. Twelve tracks. For fans of Electric Eels, Blank Dogs, Chrome, early David Bowie, Catholic Boys, Factums, Frustration, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Daily Void, Haunted George, Jay Reatard, Funtional Blackouts and Dead Hookers."- Dead Beat |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electric Pure Land Stars Format: CD/DVD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $60.00 |
| "CD includes (previously unreleased): 1. Lost Aaraaff, Meiji University April 74 2. Hiroshi, summer 73. 3. Masato Minami, Back Page Studio May 79 4. Lost Aaraaff, private session July 73. DVD features: 1.Electric Pure Land #5 Document in Hibiya,May,74 - The treasuring document films of the situation of work of Venue of those days etc. is recorded focusing Rallizes special session on the super-magnificence films of Mizutani, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Acid Seven, Keiji Haino, Kenny Inoue, Masato Minami etc (about 18 min). 2. Evening Glow Festival/Hadaka No Rallizes - The performance of Rallizes in the legend event performed by Ishikawa ,August,76 Rallizes to play is the new film which can rarely be seen in daytime. (about 5 min)." |
| Artist: HIROSHI Title: Where Do You Come From Format: CD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
| "Anthology for Hiroshi who played in Datetenryu, Zuno Keisatsu, Rallizes, Niplits, etc. Point is Hiroshis vocal version of Zuno Keisatsus song and "Arayuru Yami" the live that maniacs regard it as best live." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Yuuyake Matsuri Best Format: DVD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $75.00 |
| "Including the performance from "Yuuyake Matsuri" regarded as Japanese Woodstock fes. Mentanpin is like Grateful Dead. And this is a complete version for the performance of Rallizes gig, that can be seen just a few minutes on "Electric Pure Land Stars" so far." THIS IS A JAPANESE REGION 2 DVD. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electric All-Night Show @Saitama Univ. 1973.11.3-4 Format: Double CD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $55.00 |
| Tracks by 70s festival regulars Les Rallizes Denudes, Masato Minami (who recorded the classic "The Tropics" LP and was featured on "Oz Days Live"), Gypsy Blood, Acid Seven (on "Oz Days Live"), Anzen Band, New Soul Session, Lazy Kim Blues Band, and Mentanpin. Includes an insert entitled "Dead Flower Chronicle - Japan Rock History" (in Japanese unfortunately). Purchase a copy of this CD along with at least one LP and youll get a free Dead Flower promo poster of Mitzutani (and it MUST be ordered with at least one LP - no expections). Limited supply available. |
| Artist: ANGKOR WAT Title: When Obscenity Becomes the Norm Format: LP Label: Death Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Sealed copies of this late 80s, TX metal/hardcore band featuring Dave Nuss (NNCK). |
| Artist: HORSE DWARVES Title: 1st Adventure Format: Triple 3" CDR Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Collection of the first 3 Horse Dwarves releases, DBA045, 46, and 47. feat members of Friends Forever, ex-Hale Zukas, Foot Village, Gang Wizard, etc..." - Deathbomb Arc. |
| Artist: YUMA NORA Title: Red Train Graphing The Sunset Of All Format: CD Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Debut cd from this ex-Gang Wizard improvised long song group. Somewhere between Charalambides and Neon Hunk." - Deathbomb Arc. |
| Artist: FRIENDS FOREVER/GANG WIZARD Title: Split Format: CD Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Both bands tackle the theme of SPACE on this moody disc." - Deathbomb Arc. |
| Artist: GANG WIZARD Title: The Atlas of Cancer Format: LP Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| " Ten years of Gang Wizard has seen the band/collective take on many forms. For the US and European tours in support of their album on Load, Byzantine Headache, Gang Wizard locked down their lineup, cast off their "fight club the band" cocoon, and emerged as an angelic force, delivering a unique thrash-bliss sound to the world. Sparkeling synths and homemade glitter electronics are combined with whirlwind drums, screaming vocals, and aluminum spring guitars. A fantasy of blindness cycling through your lungs. Features members of Dynasty, Yuma Nora, Foot Village, Kevin Shields, Unicorn Hard-On, and Mike Landucci himself. co-release w/ Accidie & Gilgongo" - Deathbomb Arc. |
| Artist: GANG WIZARD Title: Why Is There A God? Format: LP Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Released at the height of Gang Wizards "the is no such thing as music any more" / complete nhilist phase, this follow-up to the Jeckyl Loves Hyde LP on Ecstatic Peace was completely panned by critics for not sounding like mystical stoney-baloney. Combining a distinct love for 80s college rock ala REM and ribcage crushing Harry Pussy sludge, Gang Wizard was walking in a land that perhaps no one has ever been to even since. This album remains one of Gang Wizards best kept secrets, dont pass it up now that you have a 2nd chance! co-release with Father Yod, SNSE, Breaking World Records, & many more!" - Deathbomb Arc. |
| Artist: ROBIN WILLIAMS ON FIRE Title: Jungle Gym of Crucifixes Format: 7" Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Over the top rebel-mockers, crowd pleasing self-abusers, nudists, treble enthusiasts, and all around good ol boys bring out the noise and the punk. Somewhere between XBXRX and Harry Pussy is the chaotic sound that has earned these youths the title of "best band in LA" even though they are from San Francisco (or Santa Barbara or something). For anyone that wanted to know what happens when you play with fire, and the fire loses, then make sure to pick up a copy of this wax... if you think you can handle it. No refunds if the music bullies you around too much." - Deathbomb Arc |
| Artist: V/A Title: Nova Popularna Format: LP Label: Decemberism Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
| "The first release on Decemberism records is a document of the temporary bar that the artists Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska ran for one month in Warsaw, 2003, in collaboration with Foundation Gallery Foksal. In a limited release of 1000, with extravagant pop-up gatefold sleeve, the LP presents the music of: donAteller, Bianca Glazebrook, Mathilde Rosier, Nightshift [forthcoming release on Kompakt], Marcin Dutka. All of whom played live in the illegal salon, many performing material specially written for Nova Popularna. An eclectic mix including house, show tunes and prepared piano, the record reflects the amalgam of finesse that was that place. donAteller is an ongoing collaborative project from London. The work comprises records, CDs, live performance, video, various forms of publicity and other strategies associated with the promotion and distribution of pop music. All tracks involve the re-editing and mis-matching of popular melodies and lyrics. donaAteller are, were, or have been, at various times Ed Liq, Mark Leckey, Bonnie Camplin and Enrico David. They have released CDs, artefacts and 7?s through High Society Records, Cabinet and GBE. Bianca Glazebrook was born in 1975 in London. She studied vocals at the Warsaw Academy of Music, graduating in 2000. Biancas repertoire is a mixture of classical jazz, blues and cabaret songs, which she performs in galleries and salons in Warsaw and London. She also performs with experimental audio-visual group RH+, whose first recordings are to be release soon. Mathilde Rosier lives and works in the rural outskirts of Versailles, devoting her time to filmmaking, painting and song writing. Her work featured here was performed live as a duet with a hidden piano which emanated from behind a curtain, actually generated by a soundsystem. Nightshift are the Berlin artists Makus Selg and Marcel Hüppauff. Their music blends samples from Ibiza house, soul and cock rock with vocals, performed in a ravishing style. Releases include on their own Parfüm label, through L`AGE D´OR / LADO Musik and we currently await the Christmas 2004 release of their first album Still Crazy After All These Years on DIAL records. Marcin Dutka was born in 1974, and studied painting and mural design in the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw, finishing his MA degree in 1999. Since seven years old he had taken violin lessons, but when twenty he decided to concentrate on investigations in music with piano. He uses piano as a whole body instrument. He still works in fine art, painting and music and often combines all of the above. Some of the recorded concerts include: Teatr Studio, â Szpachla na Fortepianâ 2004, Kielce â Preparated Pianoâ 2003, Marcin Dutka also makes music for short length feature films. Decemberism is a label based in Glasgow devoted to new music and the spoken word. Particular attention to detail is given considering vinyl LPs and their attendant sleeves as objects of beauty. Upcoming releases for 2005 include Cosey Fanni Tutti, Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska, Bonnie Camplin, Alasdair Gray and Joanne Tatham and Tom O Sullivan." - Decemberism. |
| Artist: CAMPLIN, BONNIE Title: Heavy Epic Format: LP Label: Decemberism Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
| "Bonnie Camplin is a musician, artist, dj and club organiser from London. Featuring previously on Dec01, Nova Popularna a a member of donateller. Decembarism are proud to present this, her first solo LP. Its a collection of electoronic compositions, working with samples and simple programmes. Shedeconstructs optimistic, familiar music, and remodels it with a sleeker and more autonomous soul. It includes the monumentally melancholy reworking of Polish Discopolo, Polanda Heavy Epic, and pieces psanning subjects such as death, normality and mutually assured destruction. Limited to 1000 copies, full colour gatefold sleeve with artwork by Enrico David and insert."- Decemberism. Recent release on artist Lucy Mckenzies label. |
| Artist: LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Deep Space Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Take a dose of LSD & THE SEARCH FOR GOD-the highly anticipated debut from these San Francisco space-rockers. This masterful collection of five lysergic-dipped, guitar-based gems is delightfully reminiscent of the early Creation Records sound. Turn it on and tune in to a psychedelic trip, where swirling guitars and playfully flirtatious boy/girl vocals travel through dreamy pop hooks and fuzzed out drones. This brilliant EP makes it clear why the bands astonishing live performances up and down the West Coast have firmly established them as the up-and-coming darlings of the underground psychedelic, space rock, shoegaze community. Limited to 1,000 copies." - Deep Space |
| Artist: KUUPUU Title: Yökehrä Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Jonna Karanka aka Kuupuu is one of the main movers of the (deservedly) much hyped Finnish Psychedelic Free Folk scene. Originally hailing from Tampere she is known as a core member of Avarus, Anaksimandros, Kukkkiva Poliisi and Maniacs Dream. Additionally, she has recently started Hertta Lussu ?ssä with Lau Nau and Islaja and has collaborated with Tomutonttu (aka Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystävät) and Paavi (as Lussu ja Paavi). "Yökehrä" is the first of two vinyl-only LPs on the Dekorder label compiling the best material from her first four CD-R and cassette releases, all of which immediately became much sought after collectors items, fetching ridicolous prices on the eBay market. This LP is a beautifull collection of haunting (sometimes spooky) home baked freeform folk songs, strange lo-fi loops, vocal drones and psychedelic cut-ups, made using weirdly tuned plucked and strummed strings, bells, clattery percussion, unidentifiable wind instruments, backwards tape loops and a ton of other noisemakers all played and recorded by herself; accompanied by her distinctive voice (often looped and layered) with vocals sung and whispered in her native Finnish language making the whole atmosphere even more haunting and mysterious. Jonna Karanka creates an intimate space where the listener feels like sitting next to her in a small chamber or outside in the woods where Kuupuu sings a lullaby just for him. Were proud to say that this has to be one of the most exciting debut albums of the year. Housed in a full colour sleeve with beautifull design / drawings / collage artwork by Jonna Karanka herself." - Dekorder. |
| Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: Rückwärts Backwards Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| "Finally, heres the vinyl version of the debut album by Hamburgs Black To Comm. Strictly limited edition of 222 copies, hand screened grey cardboard sleeves, full colour insert, postcard and gold stamped labels." - Dekorder. "The whole album is very dream-like, mystical and fascinating, like being in the middle of a fog bank and loosing your sense of direction but always knowing that youll find your way out one way or the other." - (Mats Gustaffson/The Broken Face). "What makes this record stand out so much is its attention for detail and the thoughtful combination of source material and additions. On the album opener "Bees" for example, somebody humms over the sound of bees. It just fits perfectly. The same goes for the vintage sounding sweet lullaby loops on "March of the Vivian Girls" that get shadowed by a full distortion noise attack. Over the course of its eight tracks, "Rückwärts Backwards" exemplifies this hard-to-achieve equilibrium of beauty and repulsion, of nature and civilization. A fascinating listen." - (Foxy Digitalis). "The title track sounds like Nicos "Marble Index" produced by William Basinski instead of John Cale with vague traces of glockenspiel becoming increasingly carnival-like, wandering behind decaying hiss. Special mention must also go to the accelerator tones and military rigour of "March of the Vivian Girls" which slowly build to a collapse of trebly noise." - Indiecult. |
| Artist: KUUPUU Title: Unilintu Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Unilintu" is the second of two vinyl-only LPs on the Dekorder label compiling the best material from Kuupuus first four CD-R and cassette releases, this time presenting a slightly darker and even more coherent sonic vision compared to last years gorgeous "Yökehrä" LP.." - Dekorder. "Of all the many travellers in the Finnish psychedelia scene, Kuupuu is surely one of the most enigmatic.(.....) Among the Finnish leftfield, Yökehrä is second only to Ess Sateenkaarisuudelma in its meditative intensity." - The Wire, September 2006. |
| Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: s/t Format: 10" Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| Artist: BLACK TO COMM/AOSUKE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "This vinyl-only split-LP release is a meeting of two of the most interesting bands coming out of Hamburg, Germany at this moment, both continuing the long tradition of both challenging and explorative music coming from this city in the last decades. From Krautrock to the origins of the so-called Neue Deutsche Welle from experimental sound artists to some of the finest Pop Ambient, Hamburg is regularly spitting out some of the most singular artists on this planet. Both Aosuke and Black To Comm have absorbed influences from all these sources (and a million others) while working towards their very own individual vision The two brand new tracks by Black To Comm are continuing the massive organ/voice drone alchemy of the last double-LP while refining and personalizing his sound, reaching new heights of blazing sonic mysticism. Aosuke have decided to home-record their new material, continuing their loop-oriented, monotone yet highly melodic ambient journeys. Working with repetition and small abstractions, all instrumental "loops" are played by hand and recorded live without overdubs (one of the main principles of the guitar/electronics duo), creating surprisingly concrete dormant and somnambulistic soundscapes while fortunately completely lacking the washy and drowsy effects of most ambient music. Black To Comm is the one-man project of Marc Richter who is the brain behind the Dekorder label as well. So far he has released two albums on his own label ("Rückwärts Backwards" and "Wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun..."). Aosuke is the duo of Tobert Knopp and Ulf Schütte, the latter being a label head as well (Tape Tektoniks). Last year they have released their debut "Monotone Spirits" album co-released by Hamburgs Audiolith label and South Germanys Meudiademorte label." -Dekorder. |
| Artist: UTON Title: Alitaja Ylimina Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Alitaju Ylimina" is the first vinyl album by Finlands Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies in a marvellous fold-out sleeve with a full-colour drawing by Uton himself on the outer sleeve and some fierce black&white illustrations by dutch artist Christelle Gualdi inside. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere and currently travelling and recording in India. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. The music of Uton is no exception there, drawing inspirations from psychedelia to free jazz to pure ecstatic drones and noises using a wide range of acoustic instruments from various parts of the globe and a bulk of electronics. Recorded in glorious lo-fi the mystery of Hirvonens sound is difficult to pinpoint; sheer ravishing beauty, elegancy and variegation is stashed behind a wall of grey, inscrutable haze - gorgeous melodies and voices, reeds and alien sounds gleaming through the mist from time to time, shimmering like diamonds through layers of dust. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) will be released on LP by Dekorder later this year." - Dekorder. |
| Artist: LEUKERS, ANTONIA Title: Hasenlove Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| ""Hasenlove" is the debut musical release of Hamburg visual artist Antonia Leukers. Shes a founding member of "Institut Hasenbart", a 10-piece artist collective dedicated to a meta-scientific research of hares and related social, zoological and aesthetical phenomena in reference to the art world and pop culture. Leukers has previously created stitched, sewed and animated sculptures while casually growing cucumbers, working for a local in-vitro fertilization hospital and advising young people on erotic issues as a German Dr. Ruth for a popular Online magazine. Inspired by a journey to Island, hearing local travel guides spontaneously interweaving their narrations with sudden outbursts of folklore chanting and an encounter with Wolfgang Müllers (Die Tödliche Doris) strategy of transforming and combining his (pseudo-)scientific, documentary and social research into a musical and artistic performance she started to elaborate her fellow artists lectures with musical renditions. As a passionate DIY home-recording artist she has soldered her own microphones, used cheap toy instruments, gameboys and minidisc recordings of kitchen sounds to create her very own bricolage comic universe. By recycling corny AOR mainstream Rock/Pop songs into some oddly disturbing and wonderfully weird rabbit love songs with newly-made German lyrics and combining these with some truly strange original compositions (ranging from freeform collage to distorted techno to deranged singer/songwriter stuff), she has created a musical love story in 7 parts. Spiritually influenced by (though not really sounding alike) German "Neue Deutsche Welle" artists such as Der Plan and theatrical and surreal performance bands like The Residents her versions of popular love songs sound like a teenage/female Andrew Lloyd Webber on bad acid. This 1-sided vinyl-only picture-disc LP is a strictly limited edtion of 300 copies. Both the gorgeous design and ornamental etching on the b-side have been done by fellow Hasenbart founding member Renate Nikolaus." - Dekorder. |
| Artist: UTON Title: Straight Edge XXS Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| ""Straight Edge XXS" is the 2nd vinyl album by Finlands Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on the Dekorder label. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself. While Utons last Dekorder album "Alitaju Ylimina" (and most of his other recorded works respectively) are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely diffferent affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. Or is it World Music from an unknown planet recorded by those Sublime Frequencies guys from mysterious short wave transmissions? Well, it is all that and more. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting. One of the purest forms of music you could imagine; while all the familiar Uton elements remain evident in a hazy backcloth. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) is released on LP by Dekorder simultaneously." - Dekorder. |
| Artist: KUBIN UND DAS MINERALORCHESTER, FELIX Title: Music for Theatre and Radio Play Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin. Kubin has achieved world wide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980s, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker. Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris). Some of Kubins most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play". While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods its still almost immediately recognisable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - its all there, and more!" - Dekorder. |
| Artist: MACHINEFABRIEK/BLACK TO COMM Title: Stofstuk/Stickstoff Format: 7" Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| "Private release in a limited edition of 100 copies! Grey vinyl, handstamped labels, 100 different individual full-colour sleeves (handmade laserprints)! Alternative version of "Stofstuk" on one side and a Black To Comm-remix thereof (titled "Stickstoff") on the B-side (both not included on the recent Machinefabriek remix-CD / previously unreleased)." - Dekorder. A few copies of this 2008 release. |
| Artist: OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD Title: Stillborn Plague Angels Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "The gates of Birchville Cat Motel crack, creak wide, and crash, unleashing a gush of soul-fried bleakness and love-damage stained with a defiantly metallic pose. Thats METALLIC... as in, has the surface qualities of metal not METAL... as in, has the surface qualities of Metallica... step back you fucking freaks. Although the broken bricks of BCM are still plain to see amid the burning wreck and ruin, Stillborn Plague Angels represents the first fully formed sentence in a new chapter of Campbell Kneales ongoing tome of star-spangled, psychedelic, noise-OM. Cholesterol-shaving guitar peeks over the trench to survey an adrenalised landscape of endless roaring catastrophy... Everything louder than everything else! Our Love Will Destroy The World is the new one-man project by New Zealander Campbell Kneale after disbanding BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL. In the past Kneale has released albums on Ecstatic Peace, Corpus Hermeticum, Last Visible Dog, Conspiracy and his own Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. He has colllaborated with Lee Ranaldo, Neil Campbell, Bruce Russel, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Yellow Swans, has toured throughout Japan, Europe, America and Australia and also records und the names Black Boned Angel and Ming. "Stillborn Plague Angels" is the debut LP by this new project." - Dekorder. |
| Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: Like A Neuron Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Richard Youngs is a prolific British musician (located in Glasgow) with an extremely diverse output. Dusted Magazine once wrote he is "defying strict genre classifications since the early nineties, swapping labels, styles, partners, motifs, and recording techniques as the desire has struck him". So his new album for Dekorder might not be a surprise to anyone following his career. Still, a self-proclaimed all-electronic "ecstatic House record" comes somewhat unexpected. With a line of distinctive synthesizers often used for Techno/House Music Youngs recreates the energy, euphoria and frenzy of these styles without ever trying to recreate the music note by note. The final outcome sounds like recordings made by aliens who have received transmissions about House Music but never listened to the music itself. The album reminds of the sound of hallways/corridors inbetween large House parties where you can hear the music from several floors collide. While its an emulation, interpretation or replica of House Music, its still managing to evoke similar feelings even though some might find it difficult to dance to the music. In the past, Youngs has released several albums on a dozen labels such as VHF, Jagjaguwar, Table Of The Elements, Gipsy Sphinx, Majora, Chocolate Monk, Celebrate Psi Phenomena, Fusetron and his own No Fans outlet. He has collaborated with Neil Campbell (aka Astral Social Club), Matthew Bower, Simon Wickham-Smith and many others and was a member of the A-Band and has performed live and in the studio with Sunroof! And Skullflower. Additionally, Youngs played bass for Jandek, appearing on three of his live records/DVDs. Limited edition of 500 copies!" - Dekorder. |
| Artist: HEMATIC SUNSETS Title: Aroma Club Paradox Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Hematic Sunsets is an alias (an anagram to be exact) for German Soundartist Asmus Tietchens from Hamburg. Tietchens is a self taught artist with more than 50 LP and CD releases on numerous labels (Nurse With Wounds United Dairies, Sky Records, the Mille Plateaux sub-label Ritornell, Staalplaat, Selektion, recent albums on Richard Chartiers Line label and a massive reissue series on Die Stadt, to name but a few). His solo works are mainly concerned with the manipulation of concrete sounds and (most recently) pure sine waves (on his Mengen series) and their placement (assemblage?) in time and space. While his solo efforts are often austere formal works (yet never lacking a twisted humour),Hematic Sunsets is a different beast altogether. Reminiscent of his Sky-era attempts with rhythm and melody, the Aroma Club series is Tietchens warped, almost parodic (per)version of lounge music. Each record of the series is based on the sounds and rhythms of one particular (preferredly cheap) organ/keyboard, usually a Yamaha product (this time its the PSR 36). While the last Club LP was recorded with several guests (Felix Kubin, Michael Rother...) and the 2007 X-mas 7" was a collaboration with long-time "producer" Okko Bekker, "Aroma Club Paradox" is another solo effort (collaborating with several fictitious anagrams/characters though). The result is a timeless and completely unique take on muzak using cheap keyboard sounds usually associated to drunk wedding bands or your grandmothers home organ family music. Tietchens elaborately transforms the cheesy associations into cold, bloodless, almost unhuman pop tunes totally lacking the sensationalism and pseudo-fervour of most music, especially modern pop music. Limited edition of 500 copies in baby blue heavy vinyl!" - Dekorder. |
| Artist: PADDEN, DANIEL Title: Pause For The Jet Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wounds United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last years "The Isaac Storm" on the Ultra Exzema label being the first seminal result. Over the years Padden has developed a strong fascination for obscure musics from all over the world (re his recent "Epiphanies" article for The Wire magazine): mouth organ love-songs from Thailand, The Ramayana Monkey Chant from Bali, Khene pieces from Laos; so-called world music from Burundi to Bulgaria. Combining these interests with his love for British Folk and Art Rock (This Heat, Robert Wyatt), Kraut Rock (Faust), Free Jazz, the surreal collage techniques of Nurse With Wound and the odd humour of The Residents, he has developed a totally unique and highly personal musical vision without ever sounding overambitious or directionless. Gorgeous song-writing is seamlessly transformed into pure fuzz or string drones, suddenly interrupted by some improvised reeds or collapsing percussion, all within the blink of an eye, and never losing its natural flow, "Pause for the Jet" is already an auspicious aspirant for our "Record of the Year"." -Dekorder |
| Artist: IIBIIS ROOGE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "Iibiis Rooge is the new superastral duo team bringing together the mysterious High Wolf (Not Not Fun Records, Winged Sun) with the seminal talents of Mr. Neil Campbell, better known these days as Astral Social Club (Fat Cat, VHF, Qbico, Important, Textile, Bottrop-Boy and countless other labels around the globe) and (ex-) member of Vibracathedral Orchestra, A-Band, and other obscure/legendary outfits. The new self-titled LP is the debut album of the band (dont call it "project") combining modern psychedelic High Wolf jams with the fucked up yet refined electronics and techno-infused beat choppery of the Astral Social Club - the result being a lot more then you might have expected from the two, transcending their combined talents into a multicoloured supernova. The strength of the album is an unexpected pop sensibility and airiness, while still being tighter and more consolidated than their regular solo outfits. Even the noisier elements are embedded in loose song structures with a carnivalesque air dominating the whole atmosphere. While the duos solo outings are often camouflaging any melodies in oodles of electronic noises or lo-fi psych jams and hiss this is a fairly different affair with simple melodic textures always dominating the four tracks. The defibration of structures is still apparent but the music is constantly pulling itself together again. Where the Astral Social Club is sometimes willingly losing himself in electronic soundscapes and the High Wolfs short & sketchy songs are rarely fully formulated by nature, all the positive aspects of their respective works are combined and complemented in Iibiis Rooge. These gentlemen are the perfect match. A visible proof that (musical) online dating can be a highly prosperous activity." -Dekorder |
| Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: L Opus LH Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Dutch artist/musician Raymond Dijkstra is one of the most radical and original composers around today. With a clear DIY ethos and self-imposed restrictions he has created a singular universe all by himself. In the past 7 years he has (self-)released countless LPs, 7" , 5" & 3" Vinyl releases in very tiny editions on his Le Souffleur label, all packaged in carefully edited artworks made by Dijkstra himself. ??LOpus LH" will be one of his first widely available releases since 2003s collaboration with Timo van Luijk (Af Ursin, Noise Makers Fifes, In Camera, Nurse With Wound) as Asra. Dijkstra is using a minimal set-up for all of his compositions: harmonium, scraping metal & glass, and, exclusively to his "Opus" cycle the addition of tuba, strings and audio effects. Hes exploring these small parameters in an improvised and highly personal, often trance-like, ecstatic setting comparable to "Automatic Writing" or "Surrealist Automatism" techniques. By offensively restricting and repeating his methods he is able to profoundly explore the depths of the particular sounds and, not least, of the player/composers psyche itself. "LOpus LH" is the second title in Dijkstras series "The Advantages of Schizophrenia". "All my work is highly autobiographical, highly subjective and highly emotional. In this sense my work is the complete opposite of that from most musicmakers out of the experimental corner whos work is mostly without any emotion. The reason for me making music is to strenghten my connection with life. For me my music is not experimental, simply because it was Never made to experiment. There is a bit of a problem with most experimental musicians, who are mostly only touching the surface of a subject after which they go beyond to find another experiment. I feel more connected to painters and sculptors who delve deep into the subject and explore it thoroughly, going into every possible direction, to really connect with their world. Even more interesting I find it when one connects with ones own genuine personal world. Just to come home to his self, instead of going out for a journey, what experimenting often is." Limited edition of 300 copies!" -Dekorder |
| Artist: UTON Title: Unexplained Objects Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Unexplained Objects" is the 3rd vinyl-only LP by Finlands Uton for the Dekorder label, like his previous Dekorder albums released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies in a beautiful full-colour heavy duty sleeve designed by Hirvonen himself. While the last albums explored rural soundworlds from the outer reaches of this planet and hidden places of the inner human (and animal) mind, he has finally left planet earth completely and is now reaching out for outer space and alien communication. Hirvonen seems to have traveled the spaceways, bringing home folk music and field recordings from faraway planets and alien cultures. Erich von Däniken beware! Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) has been released on LP by Dekorder as well." - Dekorder. |
| Artist: CULTURCIDE Title: Home-Made Authority Format: CD Label: Delayed Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| ??The first new recording from these pre-post rock heroes in 5 years is a high energy rocknroll animal with a canker-worm of noise gnawing at its heart, with ever-present flamboyant guitar and pointed detours into dance and country, contemptuous vocals and canned applause. Limited to 1000 copies for some unknown reason.? ?? Delayed. |
| Artist: WOLF EYES & SMEGMA Title: The Beast Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| " ***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Intergenerational discomfort rock performed together by two free-sound conglomerates-the sprawling Portland, Oregon-based LAFMS progenitors SMEGMA, and the more compact WOLF EYES. With cover art depicting crop circles, alien grave rubbings and cryptographs, and group portrait inside resembling a family reunion snapshot you might find at a thrift store, The Beast merges RICHARD MELTZERs nasal meander, reptilian pulsations, exploratory tweakadelica, outsider improv, toys, devices, and electronic noises. Proof that old weird America is far from obsolete and more than capable of frying the fiendly skies." |
| Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: The Girl In The Chair Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "1971 heavy private press free blues/psych from the left coast cortical geo zone of the US underground chain spearheaded by Don Campau and essentially the Californian amalgam of the Gate 5 as ESP disk punk/jazz 3rd eye. A higher key farrago of hypercosmic extended runs that oscillate between the tubular philosophy of the Sun City Girls sound/art and the aloneness of stoned blues concréte. A refreshing lost artifact of pure American fizz resurrected from the iconoclasm void and perfectly reissued in a joint effort from De Stijl and Child Of Microtones. An essential LP for anyone concerned with the paramount energy fields of all the above ground sound subterrains." - Destijl. Highly recommended! Tons of Roots Of Madness and related CDRs also available from Dons label, Lonely Whistle Music. See: http://www.fusetronsound.com/index.php?whomlab=LonelyWhistleMusic |
| Artist: TUCKER, MARK Title: Batstew Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "America is a great country when one realizes its roadside stops offer artistic haven for all brands of perverts, bloodletters and musical cut-ups. More than mere concréte audio-collage, Batstew is both a respite from and an antidote for the sottish Reykjavik-borne revues polluting our national collegiate airwaves, and when the rare song-icons of folk-rock rise up from the maelstrom, one wants to offer both a firm handshake and a slingshot to the eye. Ive followed Merce Cunninghams lead and pasted a photo of Hilary Duff on the jacket of my copy, letting the excrement seep outward at its whim. something else, again, that i suppose you can file next to your tweddle, trimble and grudzien lps. this is tuckers first lp, the second being in the sack, a rec which goosed jim orourke into gasping, "thats the greatest record ever made"! batstew was pressed twice, with a stop at the mental institution inbetween. and with that thing passing around for not much less than 5 bones, this reish is priced for the people. sweet, innocent and totally wrecked DIY vibes, evoking the desperate bicylcles, department store santas, et al. Batstew may not make it into the freezer bag of bejeweled sonic artifacts for the next century, but for now, let it help eradicate realizations of what will." - Destijl. |
| Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Spectacular of Passages Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "There is certainly nothing wrong with chanteuses ?? we are quite lucky to now have a fair few in our aural midst as some of the younguns seem to take off ?? but neu-folk composer Samara Lubelski is absolutely not a chanteuse by nature. In truth to her pedigree in Metabolismus, Tower Recordings, Hall of Fame, the Sonora Pine, Pacer, Matt Valentine et al., shes a master of atmospheric textures at both juggernaut tempi and languorous sonic canvasses, her part as one of whole. Samara, with dew-flecked voice and slippery strung chords, makes that languor a tour of both honeyed breakfast plate and the midday crackle of dried grass. Third as bandleader, ten new classics of deliciously effusive songcraft, Passages joins Lubelski with The Cleans Hamish Kilgour and otherworldly luminaries Matt Heyner (NNCK), Christian Frederickson (Rachels), and Cynthia Nelson." - Destijl. |
| Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Chimärendämmerung Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hototogisu are Marcia Bassett and Matthew Bower, and they dwell upon two continents (Marcia in Brooklyn NY and Matthew in Leeds UK). Both share rich discographical heritage. Marcia has recorded with numerous labels (Siltbreeze, Timelag, Eclipse, Troubleman Unlimited, etc.) with UN, GHQ and the Double Leopards, and Matthew with Total, Skullflower, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra and more. A Wikipedia entry in his name clearly (sic) illustrates his cultural heft: Bowers huge discography of visceral, free drone-rock is probably the most formidable of its kind and he was rightly considered in 2005 by The Wire to be one of the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s (issue 259) . Chimärendämmerung is the 3rd Hototogisu release on Destijl and the 5 untitled walls of vertical viola drone/overtone, lapped by shifting electronic waves of feedback, blackened guitars, rhinegold cast deep into dying rivers, an instrumental cycle of conflict of the birth of a supreme aristocratic beauty into a fallen world, and its inevitable conflagration, then a glimmer of hope of escape from the cycle, in tune w/ the breath of the cosmos, like a glacial reimagining of Van der Graafs A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, and it represents a current plateau for the duo." - Destijl. |
| Artist: ROCKEY, LEE Title: Music Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "destijl is pleased to present the first archival digs into the wondrous world of lee rockey. lee was a hardswinging jazzbo who had mastered the modern style by 46, and became known as one of the vancouver whiz kids. he went to the city in 53, jammed with neil hefti, and appeared on the first few herbie mann recs ( plays bethlehem BCP-58, east coast jazz / 4 bethlehem BCP-1018). upon his left coast return, he began developing his own sound / style, with an intent of transcending traditional musical forms / expectations. ju suk reet meate caught one of his performances in early 76, and lee became a figure of big inspiration. hed eventually invite lee to play on a few early smegma recs. aside from a few record booth lathes cut in the 40s / 50s, this is his first solo release. on first spin there are a few brief moments when the sounds of toshi ichiyanagi come to mind, but these sounds inhabit a universe that is entirely that of lee rockey. tho the pieces contained on this rec were recorded from the yrs 59 to 73, they own a keen third eye prescience that portends the likes of c spencer yeh and axolotl. this is far / away the most modern sounding rec to ever brandish the destijl logo, and youll scratch yr head until the kingdom comes.." - Destijl. "Portland oregon, art museum, early 1976. in the auditorium, drums / electic violin / and cello played thru an echoplex, a 4 channel tape deck was playing pre -recorded electronic skronks, flutes, and off speed voices, dancers were holding video cameras, connected to a paik video synth that was creating a live video projection. The music was crazed, scary and funny and beautiful. of all the live shows Ive seen, this one stands out. The man behind all this was Lee Rockey. 1926 -2002. this was the second (and last) of his full blown personal music / art world performances. A few months later I saw lee on drums with Kenneith Rexroth poetry and jazz. after that lee mostly played at home and a few low key gigs in town. Lee rockey was a hardswinging jazz drummer who mastered the modern style by 1946 and became known as one of the Vancouver whiz kids. Went to NYC in 1953, worked and recorded with neil hefty and herbie mann later moving back to Portland and playing with the top modern jazz artists. He was also developing his own music and painting style and appeared on a few smegma records. this record (his first solo release) is from 7 inch reel tapes recorded mostly early 1960s, early 1970s with lee on home made electronics loops, horns, violin, cello, drums, bells, and poss dick Knudsen on cello." -Ju Suk Reet Meate / Smegma, Portland OR 2006. |
| Artist: OLAUSSON, JAKOB Title: Moonlight Farm Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Jakob Olausson is a farmer in the south of Sweden, from Landskrona, and he works there in the fields of sugar beets. Not to re-hero-ize the life of the prole, but the workday sun has had a clear influence: Moonlight Farm is a rec made on a dime, in a dime-sized bedroom apartment, and it transcends all the limitations that that scenario has thusly taught us to expect. A real "statement", in the micro-politics of personal resistance / expression in a globally commodified life, and were here to sell it to you. Moonlight Farm is comprised of ten songs, somehow both comforting and unsettling, concerned with the classic subjects: the garbage, the flowers, ones mother, and the love of them all. Laid thick with a vague dissonance, they possess a mask of fog / haze, but the trail between writer / performer / song is not often trodden in such a deftly crystalline manner. Enter the Moonlight Farm. "From one loner to another, this is everything that the phrase private press conjures up and more. A modern classic. " - David Keenan / The Wire. "Well, no reason for me to make music anymore. This kid hit it." - Ben Chasny / Six Organs of Admittance. Jakob has toured extensively thru Europe and somewhat thru the States, sharing the stage with Samara Lubelski, Times New Viking, MV EE & the Bummer Road, James Blackshaw, Charlie Nothing and many others." - Destijl. |
| Artist: JU SUK REET MEATE Title: Solo 78/79 Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Smegma were formed as a reaction to the bands perceptions of how horrible things were in the 70s. We moved up to Portland just as the Los Angeles Free Music Society came out of the closet. There was the whole punk scene and a rebirth of things, but when we left, it was the deadest, worst time to be there unless you were into glam. This disgust is reflected in the tone of the early classics Pigface Chant, Flash Cards, Disco Diarrhea and Glamour Girl 1941. The crown jewel, perhaps, of the early Smegma dawn, is this CD, a solo Ju Suk Reet Meate joint, recorded in 78/79 and pressed in a miniscule quantity in 80, this is a recording that has been largely unavailable outside of certain collector circles. Even there, you better rub yr rabbits foot/save yr pennies. But here comes the kingdom, finally made available in an affordably-priced digipak CD, with liner notes by Wolf Eyes John Olson and containing a couple of never before released tracks, Solo 78/79 aka Do Unseen Hands Keep You Dumb? is a post-Zappa, stoned blues/concrete melange of guitar, tapes, Do Unseen Hands Keep You Dumb? aka found sounds and voice. As a member of what many have called the greatest band of our time, Ju Suk Reet Meate has had an immeasurable influence, shaping the lives/sounds of the creators of underground culture the globe over, and this CD bears his heft."-Destijl. |
| Artist: YONKERS, MICHAEL Title: Grimwood Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "When considering Grimwood, itd be a mistake to not also give thought to Microminature Love. Recorded in 68 for Sire, MML languished unreleased until the spring of 2002, when we unearthed it swank on wax (later reissued as a Sub Pop CD). Called the greatest psych record of the 60s by more than a few, its no stretch to say that had it materialized, it wouldve altered the lay of the land. Tho recorded in 69, Yonkers privately released Grimwood in 74, along with 3 other recs: Goodby Sunball (recorded in 71), Michael Lee Yonkers (72) and a duo with Jim Woehrle (73), borders of my mind. If they sold at all, they sold horribly. There is a photo inside Sub Pops MML CD of Yonkers throwing copies of Grimwood up in the air, as theyd seemingly become disposable, as well as a heavy burden to lug around. Enterprising rec collectors have had a run on Grimwood for some time and its been impossible to affordably obtain. So here it is, remastered, digitized and priced for the people." -Destijl |
| Artist: ASKEW, ED Title: Little Eyes Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| First CD issue of this unreleased 2nd album, recorded in 1970. This was the intended follow-up to Eds classic ESP-disk album, Ask the Unicorn from 1969. This CD adds 6 bonus tracks from radio sessions, 1970-71. Wow. "Ed Askew recorded Little Eyes in one continuous take during a brief, hot, hetero moment, 1970, New York City. Thirty-two years later, Destijl released it on LP. Made with little more than magnetic tape, Eds voice, and the stunningly modern arrangements of his beloved Martin Tiple, Little Eyes is as grand, sad and beautiful a statement as can be expressed. His off-key lilt hangs like a seductive pink mist and settles deeply; youll hear these songs long after they are over. Attempting to publicize an unreleased record, Ed did a string of radio gigs between New York and New Haven, and the best of them are collected here. Lovely and wild, this one is very near and dear to our hearts. Soon, yours too." -Destijl. |
| Artist: KING DARVES Title: The Sun Splits For .. The Blind Swimmer Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "So i would imagine that youd have one look at the photo of King Darves we have here and think "Oh brother! Another guy with a beard getting over what looks like a bad case of the clap and an acoustic guitar. Wheres my axe?" so were not gonna put it up here. (Mystique, dig?) But its really not like that, i tell you! The bedrock of King Darves New Brunswick based concoction is certainly folk based but theres no headband and hes not singing of pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue, or maybe a one-manned Meat Puppets. This kid has really cobbled something together in his kitchen sink! The Sun Splits For ... The Blind Swimmer will shock and please when the prettiest sound of his deep, rich voice comes out of yr headphones, and itll make you tap yr toes and nod yr head like a little Jersey Goil." - Tony Rettman. |
| Artist: KING DARVES Title: The Sun Splits For... The Blind Swimmer Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "So I would imagine that youd have one look at the photo of King Darves we have here and think oh brother! Another guy with a beard getting over what looks like a bad case of the clap and an acoustic guitar. Wheres my axe? So were not gonna put it up here. (Mystique, dig?) But its really not like that, I tell you! The bedrock of King Darves New Brunswick-based concoction is certainly folk-based but theres no headband and hes not singing of pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue, or maybe a one-manned Meat Puppets. This kid has really cobbled something together in his kitchen sink! The Sun Splits For... The Blind Swimmer will shock and please when the prettiest sound of his deep, rich voice comes out of yr headphones, and itll make you tap yr toes and nod yr head like a little Jersey Goil." --Tony Rettman |
| Artist: KANDALINI NIVAGRETSEVI Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Dear people at Destijl records, I has come to my attention lately that the Kandalini Nivag Retsevi 7" has been surfacing lately quite a lot. I bough that 7" with a promo sheet that read something along the lines of: SHOCK. BOOTLEG.200. $2.60. NO INVOICES/ TRADES ARE PREFERRED. SURELY YOU KNOW WHO NIVAG RETSEVI WAS: NO ONE ELSE HAS COPIES. I picked it up at a second hand store in London 10 years ago because of the cover. I liked what looked like (actually is) a xerox of the back cover of V/A WEIRD NOISE 7" (Fuck Off Rcs). I didnt know of the WEIRD NOISE comp at the time and I was intrigued by the cover, the record lasted months at the record store and finally when it was reduced to £0.50 I bought it. Ive been fascinated by it since then. I keep playing it to people and trying to make any sense of it all this time. I searched online and in fanzines and the only clue I got was Nivag Retsevi from TONGUE AVULSION (V/A Not so quiet on the Western Front LP) Secretly I had that record in my pantheon of oddities since then and it has been only lately that doing another random search I came across your website after finding a copy for a friend. All at sudden the record is for sale in Fusetron and a few other places and I am puzzled of how a record absolutely no one knows about can be repressed and/ or in demand... I mean, it is the ultimate prank since it can be anyone farting on their backroom really. Anyway, I just realized I may be wasting your time and not making much sense at the same time so all I ask for is some LIGHT. Please enlighten me, I want and need to know more about this record. Regards" - Paco Mus |
| Artist: ORANGE Title: In The Midst of Chaos Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Free jazz group Oranges one and only release In The Midst Of Chaos was recorded in 1978 and became renowned saxophonist Paul Flahertys first record. Its also the first and only release of legendary out guitarist Barry Greika, who along with Bob Laramie on bass and Glen Hobbit Peterson on drums remains a terribly under-recorded group. Orange made a screaming, blistering, howling slap of a record that defies categorization, as it pushed the already hazy 70s into uncharted confusion. An LP release of only 200 copies on its only run, it received the notice of seriously few. Besides the band, only two people definitely heard it; one sailed it out the kitchen window, the wife of the other demanded the thing leave the house. But as the times have changed, were just certain its gonna sell wildly now. So here you go, hardcore free-form improvisation enthusiastically rejuvenated, without shame." --Charles F. Destruction |
| Artist: CIRCUIT DES YEUX Title: Symphone Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| SOLD OUT!! "the arrival of circuit des yeux symphone, from the small, fresh sigh?of haley fohrs wings, has been one of the most unexpected,?pleasurable gifts bestowed upon on us in recent memory (and were?already blessed). blurred and bold with husk and chutz, there is an?obscured narrative route to her work, and the songs of symphone emerge?with an emphasis on chronology rather than thru decisive lines of?development. its like journaling (but no blog). whatever teh intent,?the thing is a subtly kinetic creature honoring the most basic,?earthy, and archetypal cycle we have. it doesnt sound like this, and?it doesnt sound like that. her very individual expressions are marked?by confident force and a gentle subversiveness, and their effect?unfolds slowly. like snakes dangling round a medusa head, wrapped in?blood, wool, and other things. yum. herein lies the dreams. (its no)?trash ! (go pick it up) .." - Destijl. Limited to 150 copies. SOLD OUT!! |
| Artist: TUCKER , MARK Title: In The Sack Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "There seems to be two truisms I keep to: ONE - By and large, when an album is described as loner / psych / real people it isnt going to be as good as I hope, and TWO - The Residents suck. Generally these hold true for me, maybe you too, and often Ill look suspiciously at descriptions like that. But then I remember, hey the first few Residents records are pretty damn amazing, and hell, the Kenneth Higney and Moolah records are pretty great too. But when I have a need for the real people sound, the first record I reach for is Mark Tuckers In The Sack. Although better known for his Batstew record, which is pretty relative, this album is no slouch. The cast of characters is familiar, upright piano, backwards vocals, rants, ravings, life savings. But here its damn cheap; hell you should buy a few for friends, Im going to! Mark Tucker is very mean on the piano and the best backwards vocalist Ive ever heard, he knows more than blues progressions, this guy is writing pop symphonies. If David Ackles or bootleg Brian Wilson is your bag, this one is gonna rip the sack open (you can take that literally or apply it to Coley style allusion). Comparisons to the first Residents record are not far off, but I truly prefer Tuckers record, and it wouldnt be out of place in a spin with Moolah, Bruce Haacks kids records, Song Cycle and Horrific Child." - Jim ORourke, Brooklyn 04. Reissue of Tuckers second LP from 1983. Very highly recommended! |
| Artist: SPERM Title: Shh! Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "totally legit LP only reissue of this amazing Helsinki monsterpiece from 1970. Shh! is primarily a document of Pekka Airaksinens experimental compostions, consisting of primitive samples, guitar loop feedback and musique concrete. Sperm also functioned as a wildly theatrical live act ala Dionysis in 69, that would arrange underground happenings, occasionally inspiring a rallied public outcry against the derisive act of public sex atop a grand piano. ooh la la.." -Destijl. Very Highly Recommended! |
| Artist: 39 CLOCKS Title: Zoned Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The first public appearance pairing Christian Henjes (then Zero Jack) and Juergen Gleue (then Genius Nr.17) was in 1976, at the Dada Nova (a space later occupied by Otto Müehls AAO commune) in midtown Hannover, Germany. Known for pranksterism and the destruction of the clubs in which they would perform, friction would follow the band everywhere. In 1979 they were thrown out of a show in Kassel at the Documenta (their sounds had disturbed Joseph Beuys). They created an outrage (they wrote a tune with the title Art Minus Idiots) at the Filmtage Hannover with their avant garde Super 8 movies under the guise of director Zachius Lipschitz. Rumour claims that at a Hannnover show at the Cafe Glocksee, they played the vacuum cleaner and a circular saw instead of guitars. Inspired, then (clearly), by protest in the broadest and most romantic sense (they wrote a tune with the title Radical Student Mob In Satin Boots) theirs was a sound attuned to classic American punk/Nuggets. This collection was put together with the non-completest in mind (originals of some of these records are as rare as Italian underwear), intending to display the general 39 Clocks vibe, but also some of their more curious wrinkles. And as Diedrich Diedrichsen wrote the first review of the band, we at DeStijl are very pleased with his liner notes." - DeStijl |
| Artist: CIRCUIT DES YEUX Title: Sirenum Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "From a small town in the middle of the land of milk and honey, where the air is filled with the blossoming of the fruit trees for a big part of the year, comes these perfect little lilies of bands that make perfect little records that reflect this fertile and flowery region. its a timeless land, and making records there is possible during this surely short period of history wherein the youth of this era feel as if theyve solved the mystery of life and love and its really loving that is the answer to everything. all of which has nothing at all to do with circuit des yeux and sirenum, which was made in indiana, and there arent exactly pipers at the gates of lafayette. sound? its the sound of "issues", and the sound of "troubles". you dont get but one phone call and honey, the girls voice makes this message a bit rubbly anyway. take the manic snorts of captain liberty, dissonant as chalk and the next moment as melodic as sharp yet slick, metal teeth. take the mermaid, 1988, turn the tides, gently, gently away. selected breath / silences / selected feedback. take an argument you have here with an empty street while the memory of high traffic is leaking back. sirenum has a real "spiritual food" vibe and its fucking pain and pleasure relief in this real met en zonder sort of way. this world is her world, and pipe if you like it ..." -DeStijl |
| Artist: PENS Title: Hey Friend! What You Doing Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Where have all the good new British bands gone? Hello? Is there anyone out there? The answer is a pretty resounding nope. Stop and think of a genuinely good new band you have heard in a year that is already way past half-done and I bet you ten Chomps youll struggle. Then we saw Pens and it changed everything. Their set lasts about 14 minutes and the girls swap instruments in between tunes mainly because it appears none of them really know what they are doing. The whole thing is so swathed in static and reverb and shambolic about-to-fall-apartness that its like watching that YouTube clip of the kid kicking through the granite wall and getting his ankle snapped in half: kind of bite-your-bottom-lip atrocious but kind of the best thing you have seen since ever. They also do a cover of Sex Beat by the Gun Club that sounds like the Germs trying to be the Shangri- Las through a gauze of early K Records fuzz." - Jammin Johnson / VICE |
| Artist: PENS Title: Hey Friend! What You Doing Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Where have all the good new British bands gone? Hello? Is there anyone out there? The answer is a pretty resounding nope. Stop and think of a genuinely good new band you have heard in a year that is already way past half-done and I bet you ten Chomps youll struggle. Then we saw Pens and it changed everything. Their set lasts about 14 minutes and the girls swap instruments in between tunes mainly because it appears none of them really know what they are doing. The whole thing is so swathed in static and reverb and shambolic about-to-fall-apartness that its like watching that YouTube clip of the kid kicking through the granite wall and getting his ankle snapped in half: kind of bite-your-bottom-lip atrocious but kind of the best thing you have seen since ever. They also do a cover of Sex Beat by the Gun Club that sounds like the Germs trying to be the Shangri- Las through a gauze of early K Records fuzz." - Jammin Johnson / VICE |
| Artist: MICHAEL AND THE MUMBLES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Before Michael Yonkers would revise the history of recorded music with the clarion chords of Microminature Love he was in a band called Michael and the Mumbles and they made this self-titled LP in 1966. Upon immediate spins, their would-be debut comes off as a naive, teenage trip thru the typified garage band moves of this era. But repeated spins reveal a darkness beneath what some dullard might be deceived by as its crisp, winsome visage. Its only to a slightly less visible degree that the Mumbles LP has the same characteristics that would make Micro the singularly original piece that is; its emotionally bleak themes, dissonant undercurrents, and recklessly wild performance. So, once again we have a Michael Yonkers LP that is going to turn the world upside down, make the college girls scream, and leave you wondering how many more times this can happen. Seriously, Pigeon Falls up here looks like a Riot on the Sunset Strip. Indulge yrself. PS. Michael and the Mumbles is on the king of all known formats (with a digital download coupon, natch). The mastertapes used herein are 45 yrs old and aside from the glitch on Cold Town they sound amazing." -Destijl |
| Artist: JERUSALEM AND THE STARBASKETS Title: Room 8/Swingin Vine Format: 7" Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The great rock writer James Jackson Toth has regarded Jerusalem and the Starbaskets as being on the verge of sounding like the third Velvets LP as played by The Terminals. We couldnt agree more, but this could be twisted around rightfully if anyone feels like it to provide an analogy that would make the Terminals feel pretty good about playing the Velvets third to sound like what the Starbaskets just might be on the verge of sounding like. First, there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. Crypto rock illiteration, like fear over Columbia Regional." -Destijl |
| Artist: MESSAGES Title: After Before Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The baby believes the womb is the Universe. At birth there is a glimmer of light and a shifting of space. I was there, but now i am Here. Then there are still but 2 things : Me and the Universe. And then what happens is Other People. From a note sounded in 1960 and held for a long time, a continuum of Sound has been sluiced along a diagonal of personal ecstasy, and some have come to call it a Drone. Surrounding the Drone is a genre, and within, wheat and chaff often comingle all too comfortably. But with tones as thick and texturally luxuriant with spiritual resonance as their long, glorious hair, Messages are the two worthy gurus currently contributing to the echo. Messages evoke the womb. And when the womb smiles, it whispers Messages, and then there is the first glimmer of Light.." - Meassges. ""TAKETO SHIMADA moved to New York in late 80s and has been making music with TRES WARREN of PSYCHIC ILLS as MESSAGES since 2006, exploring a hybrid of raga, techno and drone rock. Odds are someone walking down Canal Street in NYC will hear the sound of Messages coming from a fifth floor walkup: mashing sine waves, bass loops, guitars, samplers and turntables into a storm of slowly shifting repetitions, heavy monotone low-end and smoky echoes that conjure unexpected subsonic grooves. Dusted called their Social Registry seven-inch "some heavy, humid drone, pregnant with 4am electricity and, in the end, thick fuzzy beats. A beautiful surprise, engaging even in its abstract tendencies." - Destijl. Taketo Shimada on bass and tambura, Tres Warren (Psychic Ills) on shruti box, guitar and ukelin and Spencer Herbst (Matta Llama) on percussion. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: FUCKIN FLYIN A-HEADS Title: Swiss Cheese Back Format: 7" Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "THE FUCKIN FLYIN A-HEADS were a band from Hawaii most commonly construed as "punk", tho they might provide one of the more exciting links between a more typified conception of "punk", and that of "noise". If the A-side of this hybrid genre is the final aggregate regimented elements of deconstructed hard core that Harry Pussy by way of Magic Band displayed, the flip is the excess of Experience inspired freedom and recklessly abandons anything that even vaguely resemble "form". Perhaps the most radically mixed recording, ever (to the extent that you might wonder if they just fucked up, or were working with a broken machine). A completely astounding spin. Their first review is a riot : from Damage Magazine, DEC 1980: White noise this pure must take lots of to work to perfect. Somewhere far away there is a 60s endless guitar solo, bass playing 2 notes, a cymbal being hit at a constant 2 / 4 beat, and a distorted voice talking. But mostly there is white noise, simultaneously complex and simple. Its quite disturbing when cranked up. I like to play this record and watch TV. It instantly gives a surreal sense to the most mundane images. Not recommended for anyone with high blood pressure. -- M.C. Parker" - Destijl. Some days this is possibly the greatest single ever. Very highly recommended! |
| Artist: PENS Title: Love Rules Format: 7" Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "PENS are three girls who take an old-school approach to a hum and riff and add their own who-gives-a-fuck, homemade panache. Tuck yourself into bed with some warm milk and cookies and throw this new platter in repeat mode. Nighty night!" -Destijl |
| Artist: HYPE WILLIAMS Title: Han Dynasty 1 Format: 7" Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "HYPE WILLIAMS is an eighteen-year "relay project" conceived in 2005 by husband and wife motivational speakers FATHER RONNIE KRAYOLA and DENNA FRANCES GLASS. Every three years it gets passed on to someone else to "look after." Recordings from the first three years were stuffed into a pinata and will be released at the conclusion of the project. In May 2008 it was passed on to a heckler called ROY BUNDY (PARADISE SISTERS) who, along with KAREN GLASS and BAHAAMA MOUTCHAKA (ARC M) have released numerous CDRs through the Ceylan Projects gallery in London. They have a large rotating cast of deviants they play with live under the moniker BO KHAT ETERNAL TROOF FAMILY BAND." -Destijl |
| Artist: NOTHING, CHARLIE Title: Charlie Nothing & Dingulator Format: Cass Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Charlie Nothing & Dingulator was one of the seemingly myriad 80s Charlie Nothing cassettes and its inclusion was, in part, intended within a 2CD anthology that wed planned but the amount of material is too great and the moments therein are too grand to even dream of an edit. Although this is fairly late in Mr Nothings oeuvre, we cant think of a more fully realized statement regarding the scope of his playing recycled automotive steel guitars and the performing of his Big Dingulator Song Sweet (or Suite, as it were, a concept of his that implied all songs were but one song) than a reissue of this 1985 manifesto-like piece. What you are about to hear is... Dingulation." -Destijl |
| Artist: MOTHER OF FIRE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Troubling rituals are gathering. Haggling skills are becoming golden chisels, and granite belts grind them to sparks. Turning with traction, these sparks gather like flies. The kinetic tones of acceleration found within Mother of Fire combs the psyche for hints of panic and replaces it with an imperative momentum. Drive away superficial doubt like a herd of unwanted beasts, and allow the sagacious freedom our instinct rightfully deserves, its requisite course. Channeling this responsibility with confident sincerity, the troubling is at once the relaxing. This conviction and tolerance is persistent, enabling a bloodletting which battles to cure and to cull. Without the contemporary irony used to punctuate and justify in distanced safety, Mother of Fire instead creates an honest reflection through brave hand forged lenses. Churned in memory-like cycles the ritual is commanded by searing bow strokes and a Muscovy glass voice. Silhouette elements pass decree through almost ancient melodic incantation. The stable hand of song in a world saturated with scattering distraction. Beside these earnest standards a rich understandable darkness, like the pulse of frozen lakes and failing factories, urges us toward the terrible, daunting and sublime. It is here in the folds of both endurance and remedy that Mother of Fire sways with darkness until darkness swoons." -Asa Irons |
| Artist: PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "the parasites of the western world are a band from portland OR who released their recorded debut in 1978. its a fascinating spin, a galactic ramble across the otherworldly themes of alienation and paranoia, seemingly inspired by LSD and philip dick. primarily the creation of patrick burke and terry censky, the parasites were limitless with invention and completely DIY. this is a record that was recorded in an apartment, by a crew thoughtful enough to curtail its loud excursions for the daylight hours. its rockist moves are surprisingly informed by the typical institutions of this era : pink floyd, the beatles and hawkwind and its many electronic flourishes are an above ground sound that would presage the likes of vertical slit, f / i and vertigo. the parasites remain to be light years ahead of a time that has yet to come." - Destijl. Easily one of our "desert island discs".. Very highly recommended! |
| Artist: MAN?O, BARIS Title: Live In Tarsus 1975 Format: LP Label: Destur Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
| "Destur Records is proud to present more ultra rare, previously unreleased material from the 70s Turkish rock scene: Baris Manço, Live in Tarsus 1975, a live bootleg from the end of 1975. In the concert, Manço and Kurtalan Express mostly present songs from their new LP called 2023 which had not been released in that period. During the concert, the group displays an eclectic sound from space rock to psychedelic funk which is blended with Turkish traditional music and a mystical atmosphere. 500 copies only, blue vinyl and with liner notes. Sound quality is not perfect but its more than enjoyable. A fantastic piece of Turkish rock history!" - Destur. |
| Artist: CIRCLE X Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Dexters Cigar Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "1996 release, somehow available again. Dexters Cigar is the now defunct Drag City subsidiary reissue label run by Jim ORourke (unofficially, the first 2 releases were the Mayo Thompson and Red Krayola reissues; the label now has separate catalog numbers and design motifs from Drag City proper). Most releases on this label are now out of print or soon-to-be. Reissue of the debut (recorded 1979) 12" EP by this group, originally from Louisville before migrating to NYC. A "seminal no wave classic"; in the words of Jordan N. Mamone: "brutal outbursts of feedback-and-blare emitted by the late Bruce Wisiepe remain perhaps the most underrated and unknown influences in underground rock." - FE. |
| Artist: DISKAD Title: The Answers Format: 7" Label: DF Country: Sweden Price: $12.00 |
| "Diskad is Drajan from Brainbombs solo. Only drums and feedback. Sleazy stuff, feels like a dark and very noisy no wave meets freejazz version of Brainbombs or something." Edition of 100 in very nice, textured silkscreeend covers. |
| Artist: NO BALLS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: DF Country: Sweden Price: $12.00 |
| SOLD OUT!! Drajan from Brainbombs - LP soon on Release The Bats. Edition of 187. SOLD OUT!! |
| Artist: NO BALLS Title: Problems That Will Solve Themselves Format: 7" Label: DF Country: Sweden Price: $11.00 |
| More destroyed pummel from Drajan Bryngelsson and Dan Rberg of Brainbombs. Numbered edition of 306. |
| Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Cone Toaster/Endless Happiness Format: 12" Label: DFA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Fuck electroclash -- this Brooklyn quartet is here to plant a flag in your skinny-tie ass, reclaiming it in the name of twisted, post-ambient no wave sounds. Cone Toaster, their new single, is a track that lays a 4/4 techno thump under some of the strangest noises made by, well we actually have no idea how they were made. And we dont ask questions. The B-side features a remix by Eye of Japanese legends The Boredoms, bringing a (dare we say) jazzy dance sound to the group." - DFA. |
| Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Beaches & Canyons Format: CD Label: DFA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Known for never performing a song the same way twice, Black Dice manipulates and reorganizes sound into a fluid, swelling, blissed-out frenzy while your brain searches for patterns, your body struggles to find the beat. Somehow, it all comes together in a discombobulated synchronicity. It is chaotic for sure, but somehow symphonic and orchestrated as well. They manipulate their instruments and feedback at intense volumes with the energy and enthusiasm of artists in love with the beautiful sounds of a machine." - DFA. |
| Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Miles of Smiles Format: CD Label: DFA Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Every release by Black Dice is different. You know that by now, right? Changing the game once again, Black Dice release this 2 song EP, entitled Miles of Smiles. Clocking in at a total running time of 28 minutes, this release will please and confound fans and critics alike, as the band prove once again that whatever they tackle, it is on their terms only. Miles of Smiles was originally created for The Poetry of Sex art exhibit in Tokyo and finds the band exploring a Musique Concrete-like world of chance and surprise. The flip side Trip Dude Delay has been a live staple for many years. It has been on the DFA release schedule for far too long, and we are thrilled to finally get it out there for everyone to experience." - DFA. Highly Recommended! |
| Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Creature Comforts Format: LP Label: DFA Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the official follow-up to their DFA debut CD and Double LP Beaches & Canyons. It finds the band pushing in yet another direction, at once unmistakably Black Dice, and noticeably different. Recorded with Steve Revitte (Liars, Kill Me Tomorrow), the DFA & Nicolas Vernhes (Fisherspooner, Fiery Furnaces). Venturing further into their own psychedelic, increasingly electronic world, Creature Comforts is as expansive, experimental and structurally unique as its predecessor, but there is a new sense of playfulness and accessibility mixed with naïve wonder and not-quite-steady rhythms. It is hazy, dreamy, but they have suddenly emerged as a band with an untouchably original terrain, mixing dub, tropicalia and the entire history of psychedelic rock music into one heady concoction." - DFA. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Smiling Off Format: Double 12' Label: DFA Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The first single off the new Broken Ear Record album from BLACK DICE. You get the album version of "Smiling Off," along with remixes by DFA, LUOMO, ZZ POT, and the video edit." - DFA. |
| Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Manoman Format: 12" Label: DFA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The latest release from New York avant-garde leaders BLACK DICE features three brand new tracks that further refine the industrial, beat-driven direction of their last album, Broken Ear. Coinciding with the release of this 12-inch single (which includes a full-color poster designed by BJORN COPELAND), Black Dice recently teamed up with longtime friend and photographer JASON FRANK ROTHENBERG on a collection of found images, photographs, and collages. Entitled Gore (listed below), this flexi-bound, full-color book documents both the making of the aforementioned album and the cut-and-paste, psychedelic aesthetic that has influenced a whole new generation of artists and musicians." - DFA. |
| Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Just Another Diamond Day Format: CD Label: DiCristina Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Long overdue reissue and first-time available on CD as a domestic pressing, Vashti Bunyans lone 1970 solo release features contributions from British folk royalty, including members of Fairport Convention and preeminent producer Joe Boyd. Vashti was also recently heard singing alongside Devendra Banhart on the title track of his Rejoicing In The Hands album." - Dicristina. "Ejected from art school in 1964 for failing to choose between writing songs and painting, Vashti was found by Andrew Loog Oldham singing her songs in London. She was given a Jagger-Richards song to record as a single for Decca and a year later she released a single on Columbia. She went on to record further tracks for the Immediate Label, which remain unreleased. Vashti intended to leave the music business and the city behind for good when she started off for the outer limits of northern Britain in 1968 with a horse and a wagon, heading for the promised land. "These songs were written over two summers and one winter of travelling. After a chance meeting that winter with Derroll Adams (noted Woody Guthrie era folksinger and banjo player) who told her not to "hide her light under a bushel," Vashti took the songs of her journey to Joe Boyd. A year later he recorded Just Another Diamond Day, inviting Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band and Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol (who also played on Nick Drakes records) from Fairport Convention to accompany Vashti on some tracks. "The album was released late in 1970 to little attention. The music was abandoned by the singer in favor of further horse journeys and complete obscurity. However, over the years all the recordings have succeeded in finding their own way to the notice of music collectors. The master tape of the album lay in a London warehouse for thirty years before being unwisely taken across the city in an underground train and getting wet in a raging thunderstorm, but has survived almost intact. The four additional on this edition are from well traveled old vinyl, acetate demos, and home recorded tape." - Paul Lambden, CD liner notes. |
| Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Just Another Diamond Day Format: LP Label: DiCristina Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| " Produced by JOE BOYD (Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band), Just Another Diamond Day is an E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L album of pastoral British folk that sounds as rarified and beautiful now as it did in 1970. Includes four bonus tracks not featured on the original release, as well as contributions from members of FAIRPORT CONVENTION and the INCREDIBLE STRING BAND. Named one of the top British albums of all time (# 54) by the London Observer." - Dicristina. |
| Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Lookaftering Format: LP Label: DiCristina Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "First time LP edition of this miraculous follow-up to 1970s influential folk classic Just Another Diamond Day. Deluxe gatefold jacket with tip-on style sleeve. Features contributions from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), Robert Kirby (Nick Drake), Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker (Espers, Currituck County)." - Dicristina. |
| Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind Format: Dbl CD Label: DiCristina Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyans recent re-emergence as an artist after an exile of over 30 years, comes the release of Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind, a comprehensive compilation of early recordings dating from the period prior to Vashtis classic Just another Diamond Day album which was originally released in 1970. Titled after Vashtis (Jagger/Richards-penned) debut single which opens the compilation, this double-album represents an attempt to both open out and draw a line under the past, and also to try to set the record straight about the disparity between how Vashti viewed (and still views) herself against the way she has been popularly perceived. Widely construed as a folk singer-a tag she fundamentally disagrees with-these recordings instead reveal Vashti as a pop singer, however fragile and unique. A complete collection of Vashtis existing early recordings, the album is divided across two discs and features 25 tracks-mostly rescued from a number of old acetates and quarter-inch tapes Vashtis brother John had found in his attic a few years ago. The first disc gathers together the early singles (two of which were unreleased) and a set of taped demos recorded between 1965 -67. The second disc comprises the entire, unaltered contents of a long-forgotten tape discovered at the last minute before mastering, whilst Vashti was searching for one of the master reels for disc one. Beautifully packaged in period style and annotated for both vinyl & CD formats." - DiCristina. |
| Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind Format: Double LP Label: DiCristina Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A comprehensive compilation of early recordings dating from the period prior to VASHTI BUNYANs classic Just another Diamond Day album. Titled after Vashtis (Jagger/Richards-penned) debut single which opens the compilation, this double-album represents an attempt to both open out and draw a line under the past. A complete collection of Vashtis existing early recordings, the album is divided across two discs and features 25 tracks. The first disc gathers together the early singles (two of which were unreleased) and a set of taped demos recorded between 1965 -67. The second disc comprises the entire, unaltered contents of a long-forgotten tape discovered at the last minute before mastering, whilst Vashti was searching for one of the master reels for disc one. Beautifully packaged in period style and annotated for both vinyl & CD formats. LP PACKAGED IN GATEFOLD SLEEVES." -DiCristina. |
| Artist: MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Title: Drone Trailer Format: LP Label: DiCristina Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Orbiting the earth in Vermont is MATT "MV" VALENTINE, once the brawn of the TOWER RECORDINGS, and ERIKA "EE" ELDER, CEO of HEROINE CELESTIAL AGRICULTURE and The MV & EE MEDICINE SHOW. Together with their dog Zuma, they run the Child of Microtones library of exploratory music--sometimes their own lunar blues, sometimes finger-picking-style noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier folk. MV & EE have landed at the DiCristina Building bearing Drone Trailer, featuring THE GOLDEN ROAD: DOC DUNN (pedal steel, guitar, harmony), MIKE SMITH (bass, Fender Rhodes, harmony), and JAMES ANDERSON (drums, engineer). You may recognize these names as part of MV & EEs touring band when they scorched across New England and the Rust Belt en route to Terrastock this past June. Drone Trailer is a consolidation of the previous musical high-life of the duos space shanties for the 21st century. In other words, MV & EE explore their unique mix of lunar raga and astral string band music, with a couple deep-space burners/covert jams such as opening blast "Anyway" thrown in to bust it all open. Nobody is gonna mind if they hear a little Crazy Horse and prime-era Dead here as well! Previous releases on their own Child of Microtones label, along with notable albums on Time Lag and Ecstatic Peace." -DiCristina |
| Artist: CILIO, LUCIANO Title: Dell Universo Assente Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
| "Deluxe triple-folded CD digipak with the lost work of Luciano Cilio, a Neapolitan avantgarde composer who committed suicide in the early eighties and whose music is absolutely stunning, deep and melancholic, placed between avantgarde and the most adventurous prog. It includes the legendary Dialoghi del Presente 1977 LP along with several unreleased tracks; liner notes by Jim ORourke. 24 pages booklet." From ORourkes liner notes: "These recordings sound as they feel self contained, introspective, and determined, you can feel in the music a sort of necessity that can be rarely found, as in Bill Fays Time of the Last Persecution or in Nick Drakes Pink Moon: this enormous weight that is bearing on its creators, the absolute need to exorcise it from their lives, a moment in time where you are invited to hear artists truly in contact with their existence. Luciano Cilio holds that moment in time, an authentic emotional testament, something to be cherished..." - Die Schachtel. "This developing Italian label is setting a new standard for high quality modern composer artifacting -- extremely impressive!" - FE. Great record! |
| Artist: GUACCERO, DOMENICO Title: Rot (1971-73) Format: LP Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $31.00 |
| With Electronica Viva members Alvin Curran, M. Hirayama, W. Branchi. "Die Schachtel is proud to present two brand new releases, both dedicated to Domenico Guaccero, an important Italian composer/musician of the 60s, very active in the fields of avant garde, electronic and aleatory music. The "ROT" LP edition is the 4th in the "metallic" series, dedicated to the masters of Italian electronic music, and it will soon be followed by a great and unpublished work by Marino Zuccheri. With the great Alvin Curran at the synth, "ROT" is a lost gem of raw musical power, one of the most exciting pieces of electroacoustic music around." "This provocative and very advanced multi-media work, was conceived from the beginning to include purely notated music, improvised music, and recorded music on tape which the composer could manipulate, redesign and remix (long before that concept existed) and create yet another layer, or sonic strata with those sounds." (Alvin Curran). "The electroacoustic parts of Rot are now available for the first time ever in a limited vinyl LP edition (350 copies), with a gatefold wallet cover, silver foil design on silver, diecut letters, custom inner sleeve and a 4-page booklet in English and Italian. The second piece on the LP (CMPSZN 2), for eight treated pianos, is a powerful and mesmerizing concrete/electroacoustic piece that takes to the limits the sonic possibilities of the instrument, but still remaining musical and highly enjoyable." - Die Schachtel. Another amazing production from Die Schachtel. SOLD OUT |
| Artist: INSIEMEMUSICADIVERSA Title: Format: CD Box Set Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
| "Another remarkable package from the jet-setting Die Schachtel label." - FE. "Much more than just a CD, this edition encapsulates the true spirit of Die Schachtel. It really is a box full of surprises; a journey into the sound of a unique group and the mind of a genius composer. The white industrial cardboard box includes an audio CD, a 12-page booklet, five graphical scores plus Roulette, a clock-like gadget originally used as the score of the aleatory composition with the same title. The music on the CD includes the digitally re-mastered edition of their only (and impossible to find) LP, privately pressed in 1977, plus two previously unreleased long compositions, for more than an hour of a great musical experience. About: Insiememusicadiversa (Different Collective Music): A remote part of the world staged the hidden and extraordinary musical utopia of Insiememusicadiversa, an experience of collective music that devoured and assimilated the seeds of the musical avant-garde of the second half of the twentieth century, mixing Cage and Cardew, DIY aesthetics and free jazz, fluxus and electronic/concrete music, nihilism and mal de vivre. Founded in Umbria (a region of central Italy) in the early 70s by Terzilio Mancinelli, creative genius and visionary composer, Insiememusicadiversa was the representation of Sound as a way of living, as a devouring obsession, a breathing and pulsating paradigm. Its a lucid delirium in which every single sound was -- surprisingly -- rigorously determined (each composition is annotated with mind-blowing graphical scores). Insiememusicadiversa was looking for collective music, often played with self-built or invented electronic instruments, including in its timbre-filled landscape the remains and debris of music shattered into tiny fragments." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: ZUCCHERI, MARINO Title: Parete 1967 Format: LP Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $31.00 |
| "Marino Zuccheri was the sound engineer of the famous Milan RAI (Italian Broadcasting Company) Electronic Music Studio, and he worked with Berio, Nono, Maderna, Cage, Pousseur among the others, and he gave birth to some of the great masterpieces of early electronica. He was the one who actually knew how to operate the machines (oscillators, tapes etc), and thats why Umberto Eco (the philosopher and world famous novelist - i.e. The Name of the Rose - who worked at RAI and especially with Berio on "Thema-Omaggio a Joyce") wrote: «Who is one of the most performed contemporary electronic composer in the world? Marino Zuccheri, the sound engineer of the RAI Studio of Fonologia in Milan. Illustrious figures in the history of contemporary music arrived there with State grants; but after many months, they still couldn??t figure out how to handle the machines. Then Marino (who, working with Berio and Maderna, had become a wizard), started mixing tapes and producing electronic sounds: that is why some of the compositions now being performed all over the world are by Marino Zuccheri.» (Umberto Eco) In 1967 the world-famous painter Emilio Vedova was appointed by the National Government to create an installation for the Italian Pavilion at the Montreal Expo. Vedova came up with this great idea of using small glass slides, especially created to reproduce his abstract painting, and then projected on the asymmetrical walls of the Pavilion. He then asked Nono to compose some electronic music. Nono had no time, and suggested to ask Marino. He replied: "I could do something, but keep in mind that I am no composer". The result is Parete (Wall) 1967, a spectacular and intense 30-minutes loop of pure and intense electronics, a magmatic cascade of harsh sounds and deep drones, and a fantastic counterpart to the vibrant and expressionistic painting of Vedova. As in Marinos word: "I used some previously recorded sounds, the result of an early research: they were really rough material. I created a great loop, which intersected another one, a 30 meters, 30-minutes tape ring. It was so long that it extended out of the Studio room, my colleagues thought I was gone totally nuts. You heard this very loud timbre?the music interacted freely with Vedova??s visuals, it really was a free encounter between sound and light." This great work has been totally forgotten since today. This record is in fact a world premiere, and the final act of justice towards a man that contributed so much to the birth and development of Electronic Music. PERSONAL NOTE: We have received the tape directly from Marinos hands , taken from his archive. He has been dreaming for years to have it released, and he was totally enthusiastic about our project. Unfortunately he was very old and sick, and he died a few months ago, before we could give him the actual record. It surely is one of our greatest regrets, although we think that justice is done, after all." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: CLEMENTI, ALDO Title: Punctum Contra Punctum Format: CD Box Set Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "Aldo Clementi marks out the distance with an absolute refusal to provide narratives, whether of tension resolved, or simply of that logically unending succession of states of being so dear to many of his contemporaries. His materials, whether gathered from a tonal past, generated as a jeu desprìt from the names of dedicatees, or produced by a purely abstract process, are projected into a rotational steady state that has no logical end or beginning." - David Osmond-Smith, 2005. "On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Die Schachtel is proud to present "Punctum Contra Punctum", a deluxe compact disc box dedicated to Aldo Clementi, one of the most important figures of Italian music of the 20th Century. Born in Sicily in 1925, he studied piano and later composition under the guidance of teachers such as Goffredo Petrassi and Bruno Maderna, who also introduced him to electronic music at the RAI Studio of Phonology in Milan. Like many composers of the period, he employed serial technique early in his work, to abandon it later on in favor of a very personal, ingenious and unique method for creating new music. Blessed with extraordinary skills of invention and assimilation, Clementi may be the one living composer for whom "genius" is not too strong a word. His musical language is extremely articulate and profound, resulting in a fascination with obsessive repetitions, collages, canons, and incredibly complex rhythmic textures which have to be heard to be believed. At the same time his music maintains to stay fresh, dynamic and highly enjoyable. A must-have for all the modern music lovers, and a great discovery for the most adventourous and prepared listener. Deluxe white and silver-foil design CD-box edition, complete with a lovingly designed 64-page booklet in English and Italian." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: ? Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
| "Die Schachtel is proud to present ?, a group of young and very talented Italian musicians who, picking up the best of the Italian avantgarde heritage, are able to create a very personal music mixing elements of free form improvisation and experimental rock, with a hint of exotic percussion and electronic background. The result is certainly one of the most fresh and unexpected listening experiences coming from Italy. ? (which is the first and the last letter of some Scandinavian alphabet) is a young trio of musicians on violin, exotic percussions, theremin, guitar, synth and piano, who have created a remarkably original world of sound. Although one can hear occasional influences from kraut rock style and the early minimalism, this sound is uniquely Italian in its sense of sound, space and time. An imaginative, meditative, bizarre, courageous and nostalgic music consisting in spontaneous compositions and improvisations, lately arranged by Xabier Iriondo - the result of four or five long free-form improvisations, resonating of minimal drones à la Conrad, largos for piano that sound like a raw Cilio, strange electrified noises, and percussive inventions. And much more. Since some time, we were playing with the idea of launching a series dedicated to the most creative Italian music of to day, and this seemed to be the perfect start. It took some production & arrangement magic and a crystal clear CD mastering and boom: the first Die Schachtel "Zeit" (time) title is now ready." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: PETRONELLA, ANGELO Title: Sintesi da un Diario Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "Angelo Petronella has been working as a composer and sound artist for many years, and has developed a very personal vision on the narrative qualities of acousmatics, which he pursues with millimetric precision and obsessive passion. In Sintesi da un Diario (Abstract from a Diary), he has created a rich and complex soundscape made of distant and future memories, imaginary places and countless possible stories." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: CHRISTA PFANGEN Title: Watch Me Getting Back The End Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "Christa Pfangen are Andrea Belfi and Mattia Coletti. The name is an homage to Nico, although the music has obviously no relation with the icon of the New York avant garde scene. They belong to the new electroacoustic/improv/avant-rock scene which is taking shape in Italy and includes such names as 3/4 Had Been Eliminated, Valerio Tricoli, ?, Stefano Pilia and others. Working with percussion, treated guitar and an array of different objects and noises, they have given birth to a dynamic work of great beauty and reverberating rhythms, oscillating between avant-folk and electroacoustic music." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: ART FLEURY Title: I Luoghi Del Potere Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "Art Fleury was born in Brescia, Northern Italy, in the mid-70s. They were still in their teens when they had the opportunity to open for the group Area at the famous Parco Lambro Festival in Milan (1976), in front of fifty thousand people. In the following years they extensively toured and played with Henry Cow, and in 1980 they were finally able to produce and release their first record, I Luoghi del Potere (The places of power), which they started recording in 1977. Superficially (or intentionally) included in the prog genre, I Luoghi del Potere (originally conceived as the soundtrack of an imaginary movie), is a very personal and radical experience, at times recalling Fausts free-form Kraut riffing, or the industrial sound collages of Nurse With Wound. The music is articulated through an outstanding dynamic juxtaposition of instrumental parts, with frequent structural and harmonic fragmentations, and a diverse array of unusual sound elements: from a sort of brass-band progression to radio frequencies, from cacophonic intermezzos to expressionist tape-collage techniques. Through this free flow of sounds, only apparently casual, the group wanted to expose the alienation, the folly, the hopes and fears of their times, through a creative act that pushed to the limits their expressive means." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: BOSETTI, ALESSANDRO Title: Exposé + Art Format: CD/Art Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $76.00 |
| Limited art version, signed/numbered edition of 33 copies. "Audio CD + 34 art sheets in a special cover with hand drawn translucent dust-jacket, numbered and signed by the author. This limited edition includes the 33 art sheets presenting the musical ideas that generated the compositions on the CD. The complete series was printed, framed and exposed in a recent installation at the OArtoteca art gallery in Milan, in March 2007. The minimalistic design is the result of a collaborative work with Die Schachtels designer Dinamo, who has typographically interpreted Alessandros surprising conceptual scores, expanding the music into a visual territory that gives a completely new listening perspective to the fascinating music of this very creative musician." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: BOSETTI, ALESSANDRO Title: Exposé Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "Based on a series of 33 musical ideas written, printed, framed and exposed in a recent installation in Milan, Exposé is the first of a new cycle of works as well as the result of Alessandro Bosettis fascination with speech loops. The mesmerizing voice of Audrey Chen, endlessly repeating the same sentence over the entire duration of each piece, is full of musical nuances, and it rewards close attention. The result is a weird and fascinating experience, that takes the listener through a surreal sonic space. The misty, microtonal electronics and instrumental layers are arranged and recorded in an extremely precise fashion. The slowly shifting speech-derived rhythmical patterns provide a subtle, low-key backdrop to the vocal parts, perhaps suggesting the option of adopting an ambient-like listening strategy, while at the same time the use of headphones will enhance the works strangely compelling blend of the surreal and hypnotic." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: BACHI DA PIETRA Title: Non Io Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "Bachi da Pietra (The stone worms) is a two-men band whose dark and resonating music wraps around tunes of desolate candor and lyrics (in Italian) as dark and imaginative as broken love can be. A relentless drumming hovers over a huge wash of ride cymbal and a deep, plaintive voice, which is able to capture sadness, anger and yearning. The entire album is a visceral emotional journey: the dissonant blues-based songs develop around the steady drone of the singers voice, a trance-inducing vocal presence singing of grim meditations on life that are crafted and performed with disarming sincerity. Just like the mysterious and enigmatic characters that orbited their doom-laden, disturbing world, Bachi da Pietra is an unpredictable band that leaves the listeners feeling vulnerable, moved, and sometimes totally spaced-out." - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: RAMPAZZI, TERESA Title: Musica Endoscopica Format: LP Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $31.00 |
| "Following the acclaimed CD edition released by Die Schachtel in 2008, heres the long-awaited limited "silver" LP edition of Teresa Rampazzis incredible early electronic music. It differs from the CD edition with the inclusion of "Metamorfosi," a previously-unreleased and magnificent drone piece. Teresa Rampazzi, a seminal yet very little-known female Italian composer/musician, founded the NPS - Nuove Proposte Sonore -- an experimental music collective formed in the late-60s. She was also one of the founders and main figures of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, a computer music research center active from the early-70s at the University of Padua. It would be easy to see electronic composer Rampazzi as Italys equivalent of Daphne Oram or Delia Derbyshire, those long-neglected pioneers behind the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. But zoomed in closer, though, a more intriguing picture begins to emerge: Musica Endoscopica is in fact an immersive journey into a futurist-ic/early digital electronic music with dense, long drone pieces made of complex textures that explore the computers capacity to produce endless variations of source material, at times anticipating some of the electro-feel to emerge in the years to follow. A welcome return of Die Schachtels celebrated "metallic" series vinyl LP editions, dedicated to early electronic Italian composers. Housed in a deluxe silver cover with silver foil design with a custom inner sleeve and a 4-page booklet in English and Italian." -Die Schachtel |
| Artist: NIBLOCK, PHILL Title: Six Films (1966-1969) Format: DVD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
| "Die Schachtel in collaboration with O artspace proudly presents a deluxe DVD featuring six experimental films by New York-based composer, photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock from the late-1960s. Anybody familiar with Niblock would probably characterize his work by the sound of his long, sonorous drones, producing rich overtones usually combined with a visual element -- since before moving into composition, Niblock was an active photographer and filmmaker. While he usually is known for his films from the Movement Of People Working series alongside performances of his music, Niblocks early works stand apart as unique objects. The integrity and consistency of his style is fully on display in these seldomly-seen or screened 16mm sound films wonders that include: Morning (1966-1969) from an idea by Phill Niblock and Jean Claude Van Itallie, filmed by PN, text by Lee Worley and Michael Corner, with members of the Open Theater group. Starring Lee Worley, James Barbosa, Cynthis Harris, Sharon Gans, Joseph Chaikin; text read by Lee Worley, James Barbosa, Barbara Porte, Dorothy Lyman, Michael Corner. Black & white 16mm film. The Magic Sun (1966-1968) with members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, music by Sun Ra and the Arkestra. Filmed on high-contrast black & white 16mm film. Dog Track (1969) -- a film by Phill Niblock, with a found text read by Barbara Porte. Color 16mm film. Annie (1968) -- a portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff, with a sound collage soundtrack. Color 16mm film. Max (1966-19) -- an image collage film/portrait of percussionist/sound-artist Max Neuhaus, with a collage soundtrack by Max Neuhaus. Black & white 16mm film. Raoul (1968-1969) -- a portrait of the painter Raoul Middleman, with extensive use of time-lapse film technique. The soundtrack is improvised by Raoul Middleman and Phill Niblock. Color 16mm film. Limited edition of 500 copies. NTSC, all-region DVD, stereo, 4:3 format. Run-time: 65 minutes." -Die Schachtel |
| Artist: CHIARI/DANIELE LOMBARDI, GIUSEPPE Title: +/- Format: LP + CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $60.00 |
| "LP+CD special limited edition release by Fluxus composer Giuseppe Chiari and Futurist pianist Daniele Lombardi. Each LP is hand-numbered, and contains two art prints by Giuseppe Chiari, housed in a very original fold-out cover. The CD is hand-numbered and signed by Daniele Lombardi. The total selling copies of the bundle edition are limited to 130. Giuseppe Chiari was one of the leading names associated first with Fluxus (being the only Italian member of the interdisciplinary art group since 1962) and later with conceptual and performance art as well as sound art. Coming from a background of different disciplines, he established new theoretical and practical standpoints in relation to music and art: his approach was always irreverent, walking the tightrope between to do or not to do, to say or not to say, while continually challenging the limits of language. The Die Schachtel vinyl LP (titled +/-) features some of his previously-unreleased and most intense pieces for piano, the musical instrument par excellence and emblem of conformist sound with which Giuseppe Chiari has a love-hate relationship, bestowing on it equal measures of ridicule and praise. It is also an amazing document of his last concert, with Frederic Rzewski (playing the 1964 groundbreaking piece "La Strada"), Giancarlo Cardini, Daniele Lombardi and Giuseppe Chiari himself. The limited CD edition by Daniele Lombardi, published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at MUDIma Foundation in Milan (2008), is the reissue of a 1978 piano sound exploration entitled Costellazione, based upon a map of sky constellations, planned as the first step in a large work focused on the exposition and "performance" of constellations maps, planetaria and maps of the heavens. It is a perfect counterpoint to the Chiari Edition, and it is housed in a custom-made, silk-screened natural cardboard case, inserted in the fold-out cover together with the LP. " - Die Schachtel. |
| Artist: CURRAN, ALVIN Title: Under the Fig Tree Format: LP Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Two masterpieces of the early 70s by Alvin Curran, released by Die Schachtel for the first time ever. Using VCS3 live electronics and environmental sounds, Alvin Curran created a hypnotic and meditative transcendency of minimalist beauty. Limited deluxe vinyl LP edition. "The two works presented here are seminal pieces of two genres from which a great part of my musical practice springs, and to this day, continues to evolve from. Under The Fig Tree is, in fact, the realization of one monophonic piece contained in my well known early collection of single line melodic compositions entitled Music For Every Occasion. The version I present here was originally made for a performance of trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini, playing against the recording. It is realized by myself playing a VCS3 (Putney) synthesizer, one of the first in a famous line of portable electronic synthesizers from the early 70s. Notable are electronically produced timbres which approximate acoustic flutes, clarinets, trombones and tubas -- long before the availability of multi-track tape machines, these tracks were recorded on multiple Revox tape recorders and mixed on a custom-made mixer. The Magic Carpet is, remarkably, my first sound installation, long before that phrase came into our daily vocabularies. It was inspired by a project of my dear friend and sculptor Paul Klerr -- an American with Italian-Jewish roots, who lives in Rome. He had this brilliant idea to fill a gallery with steel and gut wires, to which I suggested that he was actually building a fantastic musical instrument which could even be played by the visiting public -- so my intervention in this spontaneous collaboration was to figure out how to amplify this jungle of long steel wires -- which I did with simple contact microphones placed at various connecting points; and further adding a vertical element of sounding glass chimes plus aluminum and brass tubing and occasionally placed metal chimes." -Alvin Curran |
| Artist: GROSSI, PIETRO Title: Combinatoria Format: Double CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "A comprehensive guide to the core recordings of one of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians from Italy, this 2CD box deluxe edition captures Pietro Grossis original vision, presenting a wide selection of his studio early recordings, beautifully remastered to preserve the enduring quality. Pietro Grossi used to playfully define himself as pigro (trans. "lazy"), but he wasnt lazy at all! Few musicians have been working everyday at such a cracking pace, creating, teaching and writing -- and when we listen to his music, we should bear in mind how this complex figure of musician, cellist and composer, and also visual artist, has developed creative thinking in a path where a blend of very different aspects organically cohabited. Since the late 50s, Grossi was convinced of the potential of the "new sound" and was totally obsessed with pioneering it, to the point where he would found the S 2F M (Studio di Fonologia Musicale di Firenze) in 1963 -- which made its headquarters in Florence at the Conservatorio, and then in his apartment -- spending days and nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to create his abstract soundscapes. The two CDs feature his first analogical electronic music, as well as some S 2F M studio works by colleagues such as Vittorio Gelmetti, Gruppo NPS (with Teresa Rampazzi) and Albert Mayr, while the second disc is focused on the prototype computer-generated sound synthesis." -Die Schachtel |
| Artist: Z EV/THOMAS KONER & ULRICH KRIEGER Title: Untitled Format: Double 7" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $18.50 |
| "Four exclusive tracks. Released in conjunction with a live performance at the Lagerhaus Bremen on 17. April 2004. Record One features two very dynamic untitled tracks by legendary industrial percussionist Zev recorded and mixed in early 2004 , while record Two features Zerfall_Gebiete a new collaborational project by Thomas Köner and Ulrich Krieger (former Zeitkratzer member who besides his solo work also plays in various other projects e.g. in a band project called Text Of Light with Lee Ranaldo, DJ Olive, William Hooker and others). The two atmospheric tracks mark the very beginning of their mutual work and are a promise of more great work to come." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ORA Title: Morgendammerung Format: 10" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "This 10inch vinyl only release by Ora, a group project which mainly consisted of Andrew Chalk, Colin Potter and Darren Tate - who both later moved on to become Monos - active between 1991-1998 features two hauntingly atmospheric tracks from their rare New Movements In G CDR (150 copies) originally released on Darren Tates own Gnome Records label in 1998, and were not included on the two Ora retrospective CD compilations Final and After The Rainfall (both on Colin Potters own ICR label). For these recordings Ora were: Darren Tate, Colin Potter, Lol Coxhill, Daisuke Suzuki on the A-Side The Sun Sheds A Golden Tear, and Darren Tate & Colin Potter on the B-Side The Impregnable." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: MIRROR Title: Still Valley Format: LP Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $34.00 |
| "Fantastic new album by Andrew Chalk, Christoph Heemann and Jim ORourke recorded between May 2002 - January 2004. This strange atmospheric work ranges among their finest works to date and is first released on vinyl only (the CD version feat. extra material to follow in spring 2005). Edition of 500 copies." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ORGANUM/ZEV Title: Toscin - 6 thru +2 Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Following their maxi CD Tinnitus Vu on Touch in 2004 Tocsin is the first full length album by these two renowned sound artists. Whereas Zev simply reworked already existing work by Jackman for Tinnitus Vu ,this time the artists agreed to both meet in the studio for Tocsin . They created and recorded sounds from a piano which can be found at RMS Studios London and a stainless steel piece built by Zev circa 1989, over the course of several hours, took the recordings home, and after a period of each one mixing these sounds by themselves came up with what can be heard on this CD. Two distinctively different works/sections by both artists which form a multilayered and fascinating album. Design by Jonathan Coleclough. Edition of 600 copies in full colour 4 panel digisleeve." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: PRIME, MICHAEL Title: Requiem Format: LP Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| ??A new album by Michael Prime who is another prolific sound composer for many years. Being an active member of Morphogenesis he also collaborated with among others: David Jackman/Organum, Jim ORourke, Eddie Prevost, David Toop, Adam Bohman. Hes also one half of Negative Entropy a collaborational project with G. Feyton (Noise Makers Five). Recorded between December 1998 and December 2000 Requiem is one of his most intense works so far and quite different from his more inviromental studies. Dedicated to M, H and LL. Pressed on 180 gramm vinyl the record is coming in a full color gatefold sleeve. Limited edition of 700 copies.? - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: MONOS Title: Generators Format: Double CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "Long announced new drone release by Colin Potter & Darren Tate. This double album consists of two different works recorded between 2002-2003 at IC studio. Disc one features 3 tracks that are loosely based on processed field recordings in the classic Monos style, exploring internal spaces. Disc two has one long track of organic and electronic tones which combine to give a dense cloud of flowing sound. Full colour digisleeve. Artwork by Darren Tate & Helen Potter. Design by Jonathan Coleclough." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: AUTECHRE & THE HAFLER TRIO Title: aeo3/3hae Format: Double CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "Two of the leading artists in their own field team up again for the much-anticipated second installment of their collaboration project. Like Part One this comes in a special deluxe handmade cover with mysterious inserts. First edition of 1000 copies. Total playing time: 82:16 min." - FE. |
| Artist: ZEV/JOHN DUNCAN/AIDAN BAKER/FEAR FALLS BURNING Title: Untitled Format: Double 7" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $19.50 |
| There are 2 versions of this release. Both contain 2x7" discs; this first one (DS 085CD) has 2 bonus CDs added, with remixes. "Released in conjunction with a live concert on the 2. October 2005 in the Lagerhaus Bremen. The 2x7inch feat. four exclusive tracks for this project. ZEV provides another intense mix of material which partly originates from a live recording from the Atonal Festival in Berlin back in 1983. Side B feat. John Duncan with a strange static sound/noise piece, whereas both Aidan Baker on Side C and Fear Falls Burning (a new project by Vidna Obmana) on Side D give fine examples of their slowly building drone scapes. Edition of 600 numbered copies. The discs come in a full colour fold-out cover. The 2CD consists completely of remixes by all four artists reworking the original material of the 7inchs by another artist. CD E track 1 feat. ZEV remixing John Duncan plus Duncan remixing ZEV on track 2. CD F feat. Fear Falls Burning remixing Aidan Baker and vice versa on tracks 2 and 3. The CDs come in a seperate full colour fold out cover." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: MIRROR Title: Still Valley Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| "Re-release of DS78 incl. one extra track. One of Mirrors finest works recorded by Andrew Chalk, Christoph Heemann and Jim ORourke between May 2002 - January 2005. The music on Still Valley might seem calm on the surface but something mysterious is going on underneath. Edition of 1000 copies in dye-cut cover similar to the LP version." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: FOVEA HEX Title: Bloom Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $17.50 |
| "First in the Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent series of three CD EPs by this new project founded by Irish singer Clodagh Simonds. Contributors incl. Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Laura Sheeran, Lydia Sasse, Cora Venus Lunny, Toby Arnott, Carter Burwell and Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio. The CD comes in a beautiful embossed cover in an edition of 2000 copies." - Die Stadt. Simonds is the ex-vocalist for Mellow Candle. |
| Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS Title: Seuchengebiete Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Seventh part in the re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980-1991. Another early Tietchens classic, the first where he only used a single sound source as the basis for a complete album. Originally released on A-Mission in 1985 the CD version includes one bonus track. Full colour fold-out booklet featuring the original cover artwork plus liner notes by Tietchens." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ORGANUM Title: Die Hennen Zahne Format: 3" CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| "A four track mini CD combining the never released two 10"s Maus (DS57) and Die Hennen Zähne (DS66). Die Hennen Zähne opens with Die Kralle, actually a David Jackman track from his archive recorded in the early 1980s. Next is the title track Die Hennen Zähne, a joyful noise not unlike some of the TNB/Organum material including the sound of broken glass and Tibetan horns, best to be experienced LOUD. Maus is the centre piece of this mini album and typical old school Organum. The album closes with the more quiet and haunting Kazi, a live improvisation featuring collaborators Michael Prime and Emma OBong. Digipack. 600 copies. Total playing time: 18:18 min." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ORGANUM Title: Sanctus Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "The first album in a trilogy of new material, Sanctus represents the new architecture of the Organum sound. Recorded utilizing an implicit graphic score, the album is comprised of four discrete parts, each a variant of the others. These are not parts as in a movement or continuation of the composition, but rather four distinct audio canvases that represent a continuum of the elements at large. Composed in the spirit of the early Organum material, David Jackman has resurrected the droned-based, percussive turbulence of earlier years with a distinct new form of compositional systems. These new systems are scored for grand piano, Hammond organ, tower bell, and gong. While each element retains its distinct acoustic quality, the whole of each piece resonates the art of its totality. The results convey an ecstatic sense of presence, vast expanse, and, ultimately, infinitude." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: FOVEA HEX Title: Huge Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $16.50 |
| "Following the critical acclaim which has greeted EP 1 Bloom, Die Stadt and Janet Records are proud to announce that Huge EP 2 in the Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent limited edition series by Fovea Hex is out. Fovea Hex continues to shape-shift and to evade & confound those who bray what exactly IS it?, and where does it BELONG exactly?, and who exactly belongs to IT?. If you must bang on the table like that, you wont hear a thing. If this music can be described as up-to-the-moment, then perhaps we could use an up-to-the-moment term like collective. But eschewing all Fashion Accessory stalls, it lives as many miles away from the shocknawe factory beloved of the avantgarde, as it does from the souvenir-strewn temple of the new nostalgics. All in all, Fovea Hex is something more akin to a labrynthine ensemble of associates, some recent, some ancient, some close to the core, some distant, some very heard-of and some never-heard-of, all of whom showed willing and able, at some point in time (and for reasons best known to themselves) to slither in and help prepare and perform these songs and quasi-songs written -- or at least started-off -- by Clodagh Simonds. Songs that dont go where you think. With voices to match... somebody said recently. At the end of the day, thats about all that CAN be said with any kind of certainty. If you need a better idea of what this means, visit the Janet Records website now, where youll find some treats we prepared earlier -- three mixes (by Andrew McKenzie) of near-moment excerpts from the songs from EP 1 Bloom and three (by Colin Potter and Clodagh Simonds) from new songs from EP 2 Huge. Players on Huge: Clodagh Simonds, Colin Potter, Roger Doyle, Cora Venus Lunny, Brian Eno, Laura Sheeran, Percy Jones, Carter Burwell, Lydia Sasse, Hugh ONeill, Sarah McQuaid. The CD comes in a full colour embossed cover. Edition of 2000 copies." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: VON HAUSSWOLFF, C.M. Title: Operation of Spirit Communication Format: 7" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| "Two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 for this 7" meant as a companion release to the repress of DS31 LP. The 7" comes in a full colour sleeve reproducing the original artwork of the LP. 500 copies on clear vinyl." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: VON HAUSSWOLFF, C.M. Title: Operations Of Spirit Communications Format: LP Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| Year 2000 release, repressed. Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl, edition of 300. "Die Stadt is very pleased to announce the release of a long time project, an LP by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. C.M. von Hausswolff is a prolific sound composer for almost 20 years now who lives and works in Stockholm/Sweden. He was the founder of now defunct Swedish label Radium and still is one of the two Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland (together with fellow artist Leif Elggren). His works (also under the name PHAUSS in his early years) have been released on labels such as Touch, Sub Rosa, Fire, Table of the Elements/Edition. The entire piece on this vinyl only released is dedicated to the research of Friedrich Jürgenson a Swedish artist and researcher who recorded The Voices Of The Dead from the radio with his tape recorder (for further information on his works you may consult the CD From The Studio Of Audioscopic Research on Ash. The 47 min. long LP comes in a color gatefold cover." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ZEV Title: Production and Decay of Spacial Relations... Format: Double CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| ...vs. Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations. "Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Zev studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, Die Stadt is proud to announce the re-release of Production and Decay of Spacial Relations for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six recodings entitled Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations made by Zev in May/June 2005. Back in the day, Zev used to bring boxes over from Holland when he would come back to New York City which he would sell to Bleeker Bob (a famous record shop situated in the East Village of NY) who told him: this is the best industrial record ever and I sell it to every Japanese buyer who comes into the store. The CD is housed in a reproduction of the original LP (!) cover and comes with a special handmade insert. First edition of 500 copies. Total playing time: 79:57 min. The first edition of 500 copies also includes a bonus CD with never before released archive material all recorded in 1982." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ILLUSION OF SAFETY/THOMAS KONER Title: Heartmath/ Intro/Col de Vence Format: 7" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "Two exclusive tracks that were specially recorded for this concert release on the 19. September 2002 at the Lagerhaus Bremen. Heartmath is a typical IOS track using found music which mutates into a quiet pulsating soundscape and back to the beginning (ending with a lock groove). Intro/Col de Vence was performed by Thomas Koner in full lenght (60 min.) and in quadrophonic sound at the concert. A beautifully athmospheric track that can be seen as a further progression from his great Unerforschtes Gebiet pic LP (DS43). Limited edition of 400 numbered copies." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ORGANUM Title: Amen Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $23.50 |
| "The second installment of a short series begun with the Sanctus album issued by Robot Records in January of 2006. Amen, Unto the Aeon of Aeons, is a work of two parts using grand piano, Hammond organ, tower bell, gong and voices. The CD is pressed in a first edition of 600 copies in digipack. Playing time: 40:08 min." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: WATERMANN, JOHN Title: Calcutta Gas Chamber Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $33.00 |
| "Re-release of the long out-of-print album by the late John Watermann. The idea for this project came about after a visit to Calcutta in 1990, and through the nightmarish experiences during that short visit. The concept of aurally conveying the horror of a gas chamber was realized through field recordings in an abandoned electrical power station in Brisbane in 1992. The sounds are grating and harsh, a mixture of field recordings and electronic manipulations. One can rarely pinpoint a location or action but the images the sounds conjure up are of all sorts of nefarious activities related to death by machinery. The sleeve notes take you into the horror that is the Calcutta Gas Chamber. John Watermann started the re-design for this re-issue (originally released in 1993 on U.S. label ND), but tragically passed away in 2002 before its realization. A beautifully composed and produced album, completely remastered and featuring new artwork. This special picture LP is limited to numbered 444 copies. A CD version of Calcutta Gas Chamber was released by Cold Spring in late 2006." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: COLECLOUGH, JONATHAN & ANDREW LILES Title: Torch Songs Format: Double LP Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $51.00 |
| "Torch Songs is a collaboration between Jonathan Coleclough and Andrew Liles. They met in October 2004 when they both performed at Intergration 3 in Preston, UK. Liles subsequently reworked the recording of Colecloughs solo performance from that evening. He went on to add, subtract, multiply and divide further live recordings supplied by Coleclough, and the eventual result was this double LP. Torch Songs is packaged in a gatefold sleeve featuring I Dreamt I Was a River, a poem composed and painted by Geoff Sawers during a performance with Coleclough in Geneva in March 2005. The sound of Geoffs brush painting this lettering can be heard on side B of Torch Songs. There is a special edition of Torch Songs (250 copies) which includes an additional CD of Colecloughs solo performance at Intergration 3, the basis for some of the music on Torch Songs. The album comes in a full color gatefold sleeve with full color inner sleeves in a limited edition of 500 copies. 180gr. vinyl." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist: ORGANUM Title: Omega Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "The third and final part of the Organum trilogy that started with Sanctus (Robot Records) and Amen (Die Stadt). Omega is a further continuation of the first two parts. While The Stars Be Not Darkened. First edition of 600 copies in digipack sleeve." - Die Stadt |
| Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS Title: Zwingburgen des Hedonismus/Mysterien des Hafens Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Part 9 of the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums from 1980-1991 on CD. This combines two separate releases from 1987 (Zwingburgen des Hedonismus) and 1988 (Mysterien des Hafens on Face to Face, Vol. 1). Zwingburgen des Hedonismus was originally released as a one-sided LP on Swedish label Multimood and features a single 21-min. long track composed on a Fairlight CMI. Mysterien des Hafens was part of a split LP (the other side feat. Die Form) originally released on French label Odd Size and featuring recordings made by Tietchens using underwater microphones. The bonus track Faircomp 1K on this CD is a different version of the first track and previously unreleased. First edition of 600 copies in jewel case with full cover artwork and poster booklet also feat. the original album covers." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS Title: Notturno Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| "Tenth part in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980-1991. Notturno was originally released by Spanish label Discos Esplendor Geometrico in 1987 and also by Barooni on CD in 1992. Remastered version in a first edition of 600 copies in jewel case with full color artwork and poster booklet also featuring the original front and back cover. By the time Studie für Klavier (Formen Letzter Hausmusik, DS84) was released, it actually wasnt my first attempt to use the piano as a sound source. Various pre-studies came before this, but all which either were not characterized as such in their title or simply didnt make it onto record. I was intrigued by the great range of sounds it offers in general, but also by the multiple possibilities to produce sounds inside of the piano. Of course I was fully aware that these techniques had already been used by other composers like Henry Cowell and John Cage in the past. Not only could I make use of a grand piano in 1986, I also had the technical equipment at hand which didnt leave nothing to be desired. I wasnt quite precise calling these pieces Studien für Klavier (Piano) by the way, as I was actually using a flügel (grand piano). I began preparing the strings in an almost old fashioned way, also producing sounds with unusual aids (electric gastr beater, wire brush, coins and others). Then in another step, with the help of the studio, I carefully started working on the recorded sounds. While doing this, I wasnt even afraid of using some good old avant-garde tricks, by the way. But I wont tell. The fact that Notturno was released by an industrial label, shows how much the interest in unusual electro-acoustic music had grown at the time. In fact, Notturno is nothing less than an industrial album. To my own delight and to the delight of the listeners as well, I used techniques which were introduced in the field of new music since several years already. As a result, Notturno can be seen as a cross between musical styles. On one hand it sounds academic, but in fact it isnt. But the question whether this was U (popular) or E (serious) was obsolete anyway, as electro-acoustic experiments didnt exclusively belong to the circle of serious composers anymore. Of course I wasnt the first or only non-academic composer who produced music, which couldnt be categorized easily then, and maybe even still not until today. As a result, the exchange of these new aesthetic strategies with other musicians and listeners in the mid-80s, further encouraged the musicians to produce such music, and as a result, labels such as Discos Esplendor Geometrico could be sure to sell a small edition of 500 copies in a fairly short time. The ears had opened up for this genre-crossing music and the heads were ready to accept. We had succeeded breaking new ground." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS Title: Aus Freude Am Elend Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "Eleventh part in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980-1991. Aus Freude Am Elend is based on the human voice as a primary sound source and was originally released in an edition of 500 copies on Dom America in 1988. The CD includes two previously-unreleased tracks and comes in a jewel case with full color artwork and poster booklet also featuring the original front and back cover. First edition of 600 copies. "Following my research of piano and water sounds, it didnt come as a surprise that my next project was about the human voice as a sound source. The great masters of Plunderphonics already showed the way in the early 80s, when they plundered the gigantic junk-shops packed full of already recorded material, which was stolen by them to use it for their own aesthetic targets. This album only consists of such stolen goods. Each track (with the exception of In Memoriam P.F.) was based on voices of people who I naturally didnt ask their permission to use these recordings in the first place. So you can hear the voices of ecstatic religious people as well as other people making love. Youll also hear someone singing to Annette and Peggy out of the trash bin of a publishing company. Even the screams of furious teachers came in handy while I made loops from them. Especially loops: rarely before this album and only once after it did I made use of the structural means of loops to such an extent. I was fascinated by the rhythmical and harmonic permanence, in the same way as many of my musical colleagues at the time. The aspect of the ritual was a self-evident common formulation in difficult music during the 80s, so loops and tape voices, monotonous rhythms and LoFi became obvious means to shape the music. Aus Freude Am Elend too was strongly spiced with these ingredients and therefore can be seen as a prototype album of this specific view of music during the time. This tendency was supported -- even partly inspired -- by a new generation of sound machines, which also made it possible for new aesthetic goals to appear at the horizon. The 90s were near at hand and sound art music would develop drastically in many ways in the years to follow. Samplers, digital editing, hard-disc recording and the first PCs opened new doorways. Half of the material on Aus Freude Am Elend was already created with these digital tools. I never quite understood how the labels Dom America (run by Jon Carlson) and Dom here in Germany were connected. Was Carlson a fan of Dom which was founded by Christoph Heemann and Achim Flaam? Did he simply like the release politics of this label? And what became of Dom America? Actually I dont know. I guess it was one of the small enthusiastic independent labels which released a handful of titles and which disappeared after being active for a couple of years during the 80s. However ,Aus Freude Am Elend had vanished shortly after its release. I only used stolen voices twice again after this album, by the way." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: JACKMAN, DAVID Title: Machine Guns Format: 7" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| "Two new tracks using the archive recordings of the Imperial War Museum in London as a sound source. Again, these recordings mark another departure from his previous work and are bound to leave some people confused. Edition of 400 copies." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS Title: Leuchtidioten Format: 10" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "This new release features two rhythmic tracks that were recorded during the Teilmengen sessions (which appeared on CD as a-Menge and b-Menge on Ritornell) but were not used for these albums as Tietchens regarded them as too different to the other pieces and therefore decided to have them released on their own. Limited edition of 500 copies." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: JACKMAN/PHILIP SANDERSON, DAVID Title: Terrain Format: 10" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "Two archive tracks. Side A features an unreleased version of Terrain. The original version of this track appeared on their very rare (maybe less than 25 copies) 0 Degrees North cassette only release from 1982 on Aeroplane Records (AR4). The B-Side features the David Jackman solo track Adrift which originally appeared on another rare cassette single (also released in an edition of about 25 copies) Ritual / Offshore on Snatch Tapes (Phillip Sandersons own label) in 1981. Limited edition of 500 copies." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: JACKMAN, DAVID Title: Flak Format: 10" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "New release by David Jackman and the first of four 10"s to be released on Die Stadt in 2003 (though this is not a series). Side a features Flak which consists of a multilayered mix of harsh sounds (similar to some of his works as Organum) whereas side B Wietrzendorf is a straight field recording. Edition of 500 copies." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: JACKMAN, DAVID Title: Verhalte Dich Ruhig Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Long time announced re-release of a very rare cassette (edition of 61 copies only) from 1996. The two pieces (with a total playing time of about 30 minutes) can be seen as the first step into a direction which later developed into the Laus 7inch (DS17), Sternklare Nacht CDR & Rabenfeld CDR (Flugzeug Schallplatten) and also the Machine Gun pieces. Found sounds (here a real orchestra) overlaid and altered making this a very strange listening experience indeed. For a live performance any number of musicians using any instrumentation play along with the tape as best they can (from the liner notes of the cassette). Full color booklet. 700 copies." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: ORGANUM Title: Ein schwärzeres Schwarz Format: 7" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "The two tracks featured here are a further development from the Die letzte Musik vor dem Krieg 7" (DS70) using the new work with piano sounds and its one of the best works of Organum yet in our opinion. Edition of 500." -Die Stadt |
| Artist: TV GHOST Title: 9 Song 12" Format: LP Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The worlds sole purveyors of Wabash Wave coming back with the Lubricatedgoatdoomsuicid ealuminumknoteyewolfeyes countryteaserscrampsafra mes (Your words, not mine) mash-up thats all the rage. Thats right, something here for the whole family. Your mommys a junkie you say? Give her a taste of "The Nihilist". Daddys a faggot? Inspire him with the sounds of "Lee is Free". Little sisters a beard punk? Well thats unfortunate, but shell like the record too. 9 songs on this 12" and recorded on Ohio State Fair weekend by Matt Horseshit at Self-Esteem Studio. Relentless! - Die Stasi. Available again in silkscreened/stickered cover. |
| Artist: TV GHOST Title: Atomic Rain Format: 7" Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "How many records just feel mysterious these days? The debut Pink Reason 7" had it, the Los Llamarada LP has it in spades, certainly the Blank Dogs can pull it off whenever "they" choose, but most records will sit before your jaded eyes and ears and perform exactly the dance they appear to advertise: powerpop, electro-beep, folkie stems n seeds, etc. This here TV Ghost 7" is more in line with the aforementioned bands as a new X Factor on the micro-popular music scene, a band whose sound is difficult to categorize and resists easy comparison. No, they dont sound like the Blank Dogs, they are working a vein that drives a path back thru indie rock all the way to early No Wave and threads forward to us thru the LAFMS archives with a pitstop in Port Chalmers for a spot of homebake. It helps that the songs on this record feel like excerpts from a larger whole, and that the vinyl tends to make your needle act like its haunted by St. Vitus in the middle of one side. Musico Mysterioso. Please kids, no limited-to-50 cassette follow-up to this, get this shit out to the "masses"? "-RW, Z-Gun. |
| Artist: LEPER PRINT Title: Coma Format: 7" Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "One-man army Leper Print brings three shots of gnashing-teeth DIY to the lunch counter. Get a seesaw and you slap this monster on one end and Home Blitzs "Live Outside" on the other and the thing is dead level. Light and dark, good and evil, balance! Leper Prints third and most luscious banger weaves like a drunken monkey in a ski mask." - Die Stasi |
| Artist: V/A Title: XXperiments Format: LP Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "...varied in instrumentation and sound (from total primitiveness to entirely grandiose) but overall has a very cold/creep vibe. All the songs are currently unreleased except for the Buckets of Bile track which was on her short-run, self-produced cassette. The artwork for XXperiments is a one-color spraypaint stencil and a couple little stickers. One-time only pressing on this one." Includes Cro Magnon (members of Circuit des Yeux), Luxury Prevention, Circuit des Yeux , Buckets of Bile, Bird, U.S. Girls, and Zola Jesus. |
| Artist: ELECTRIC BUNNIES/PINK REASON Title: Colorful Teardrops/Hey Girl Format: 7" Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Both bands take a stab at some pop with the Bunnies making a mosaic named "Colorful Teardrops" and Pink Reason teaching a lesson in pachydermy called "Hey Girl." Enough ivory on that one to return a couple tusks! "Rest your head on a cloud while flower petals sprinkle from the heavens" is a down-under style Thumper and the Electric Bunnies second offering on this one. Make sure your stereo is fit. And then we got some vintage Pink Reason drag: "Watching You Fall" Some say its Kevins best track--it sticks to the ribs, boy." - Die Stasi |
| Artist: THIS HEART ELECTRIC Title: Polar Format: 7" Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Gentleman of leisure Ricardo G, serves up two Flexi Pop style rulers complete with twists, turns and a BIG personality. Its always summer in Miami, and that shines through on "Polar," a true-blue a-side. "Nowhere to Run..." bubbles and bristles under a lathering of paranoia. Two lovely and odd tracks with screenprinted covers." -Die Stasi |
| Artist: PUFFY AREOLAS Title: Rock N Roll Express Format: 7" Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Rust belt bruisers hailing from the 80/90 corridor of Ohio bang out 3 tracks. The a-side (and title track) travels through inner space before crashing into Lake Erie. The double-dose b-side tears the mask off these heels revealing...songs...catchy songs. Theyre broken, scarred, ugly (I can see why they wear a mask), but if you can keep yourself from recoiling in horror, the reward is yours for the taking. Acetate overlay sleeve." -Die Stasi |
| Artist: SLASHDEATH Title: Kein Mitleid Format: LP Label: Die Taubnessel Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "One-sided LP record. After completing the Unrein Bis Zum Abend/Reise Ins Diesseits LP recordings, Arnulf Meifert decided to be available for the Slashdeath project, this time under the direction of Kommissar Hjuler and in collaboration with Mama Baer. What resulted is a kind of death-metal-pastiche or parody, spontaneously realized with nearly no instruments at all. Quite noisy and primitive screams with percussive cymbal ostinato! Black cover with no info at all, except Slashdeath in printed lettering. Edition limited to 115 copies." -Die Taubnessel |
| Artist: MEIFERT, ARNULF Title: Unrein Bis Zum Abend/Reise Ins Diesseits Format: LP Label: Die Taubnessel Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "A record of extreme poetry and sound. Arnulf Meifert was the first drummer in the legendary German group Faust (he is only present on Faust, the first LP issued by Polydor). Later, and for many years, he was a companion of Vienna actionist Guenter Brus, whose 50th birthday was celebrated with the publication of the Panishes Liederbuch LP (the now mythical first LP issued by Die Taubnessel back in 1988). For the recordings of this new project, Meifert met Kommissar Hjuler and his wife Mama Baer, also experimental musicians, but nearly two generations younger. They have been working together for just a few hours, so everything had to be totally improvised. Nevertheless, Meifert brought some texts with him, fascinated by confrontations of word and music. These texts range from the Old Testament to Renaissance artistry and Christian hate-speech from the 20th century, ending with a modern guide for the voyage from death to rebirth. The impressive and singular cover artwork was done by Klaus Holzmann, an upcoming Austrian artist. Two letters showing the discussion between Meifert and Hjuler after the meeting are also included. Edition limited to 280 copies." -Die Taubnessel |
| Artist: ANTIFAMILY Title: Antifamily EP Format: CDR Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
| "I blame WFMU for infecting me with my first taste of Antifamily. "Staring at a Point" from the self-titled EP came on the radio and I was hooked. I started exploring antifamily.org and quickly found myself obsessed with their intricate DIY methodology. An UK-based collective that holds four members at its core but has included up to 15 different participants. Utilizing people who have never sung or played before. An improvisational spontaneity reined in with editing and production. Each song is an artifact of a band in continuous flux. Antifamily stride the acerbic, detached, anxious, cathartic, and brittle with intellect and innovation. Distancing the likes of Erase Errata and Numbers with a nod toward Lilliput, Can, and Velvet Underground along the way. Syncopated repetition, guitar flourishes, electronic hooks, and lyrical content are all part and process of an actuated dialogue where obscurantist tactics flirt with convention in a trialectic loop of art, philosophy, and music." - Other Music. Limited, handpainted artwork. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Difficult Fun Format: 7" Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
| "The Difficult Fun compilation introduces an additional 3 equally adventurous bands and repeated visits to difficultfun.org had me pretty keyed-up to get my hands on a copy. Sharing the A side with Antifamily, Philosophy Queen bring a fractured drop in fidelity to beautifully render a fragile and hazy display of emotion, "Lucy" a.k.a. "defeat is not important/defeat is not unimportant" is a rough-hewn gem. For the flip, Hellogabalus celebrate the damaged acoustic sonorities of their instruments. Then the brilliant Asja Auf Capri round things out with a tempered strut of Zick Zack/Ata Tak but without all the pomp and pose of the Neue Deutsche Welle. The packaging is a kit composed of six parts that beg interaction and offer a multiplicity by design. A card inserted into my copy includes a phrase that I think might be Marxist in origin. This is so much more fun than the bulk of what hits the singles rack these days." - AG, Other Music. |
| Artist: ASJA AUF CAPRI Title: Novi Ronde Format: LP Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| Collaboration with German label Labil. Limited edition of 355 (numbered), Hand printed covers with inner sleeve notes. "marries the minimal synth of DAF with Weltklangs restless panic, Malarias cool intonations with Grauzones icy monosynths" - PLAN B. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Game & Errancy Format: LP Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
| "Difficult Fun follow their critically acclaimed first compilation 7" with a 10 track collection of eclectic left-field and DIY music. The LP features kraut/punk collisions from Antifamily, experimental music from Sarcomasine Bloc and Larcin, Electronic pop from Petit Mal and Break/Flow and ambient guitar excursions from Vaw, and avant-folk from Moscow courtesy of Star Wars. Comes with individual hand made cards and a 16 page zine containing beautiful text and images from each artist featured. Limited 500 copies." - Difficult Fun. Recommended! |
| Artist: VAW/HELIOGABULUS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "The new split vinyl LP featuring sides by Vaw and Heliogabalus will be out in the UK and Germany from the 7th November. Heliogabalus featured on the DF001 7" and Vaws track on the Game & Errancy compilation was described by Other Music as beautiful, meandering Eno/Fripp-style guitar work. Each side contains around 25 minutes of music.The cover features artwork from both bands, and the record comes with 2 inserts with track listings and information." - Difficult Fun. |
| Artist: KEIJO Title: Palla, Blown From Here Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Keijo hails from Jyväskylä, Finland - a small town in the north that claims to be the center of the universe. In the sprawling Finnish underground, Keijo is the wise sage who everyone admires. In his 52 years, he has travelled the world twice and seen his share of turmoil. He was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident and still bears a metal plate in his skull as a constant reminder. But these experiences have been essential in shaping the sound world he constructs with his fingertips. After releasing a handful of small-run CD-R releases on labels such as Pseudoarcana, Lal Lal Lal, and Foxglove, Palla, Blown From Here sees Keijo finally getting the larger audience he deserves. He has worked and collaborated with Finnish acts such as Vapaa, Avarus, and Kheta Hotem. This CD, limited to 500 copies, sees Keijo taking a more solemn path, reflecting on the quiet moments nature brings. These nine songs showcase Keijos array of talents, including his impressive throat-singing abilities. Palla, Blown From Here is the aural transition of summer into autumn. Over the course of this album, Keijos soft acoustic compositions flow from him like prose from a poets pen. The beauty this music exudes is a testament to his life and his work. This is Keijos world and we are just living in it. Packaged in beautiful imported paper in slip case." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA & GOWN Title: Weve Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Christina Carter is best known for her work with ex-husband Tom Carter in the legendary Charalambides. She also boasts an impressive body of solo work on labels such as Kranky and Eclipse. Gown is Nanaimo, BCs own Andrew MacGregor. Early in 2005, the two begin a month-long trek from MacGregors home in British Columbia to their current place of residence in Western Mass, where MacGregor is temporarily running the mighty Yod store. During their journey, the duo played live on WDVS radio in California. Weve is culled from that sprawling session. Carters playing has always been about creating open spaces that live and breathe on their own. Weve is no different, but Gown manages to find his way into those spaces and destroy them. There is a constantly shifting dichotomy at play here, and the results are fantastic. Gown and Carter have loads of chemistry and Weve is the perfect of example." - Digitalis Industries. |
| Artist: KRGYZ Title: Kyrgyz Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: United States Price: $11.00 |
| "Kyrgyz is a name that will be unfamiliar to most, but the bands members read like an all-star team of Bay Area improvisers. This quartet consists of Tom Carter (Charalambides), Loren Chasse (The Blithe Sons, Thuja, etc), Christine Boepple (Skygreen Leopards Skyband), and Robert Horton (Broken Mask, Infinite Article, etc). Kyrgyzs debut album is 60 minutes of droned-out bliss. With its roots firmly planted in trance-inducing soil, the six songs here stretch their branches toward the sun. When four artists of this calibre come together in a single setting, the expectations are high. There is tension to spare. But Kyrgyz is such a perfect blend of all their talents that it never implodes beneath the pressure. Horton is the hand that guides this mix of heavy, hypnotic drones, a thicket of acoustic scrawl, and even free jazz skronk. Each sound is carefully chosen and blended together magically. There are equal elements of Charalambides and Jewelled Antler throughout Kyrgyz, but again it is Horton that upsets the balance to create something completely new. In the end, this is nothing short of brilliant." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Gold Leaf Branches Format: Triple CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $22.50 |
| "Gold Leaf Branches is a massive collection. It is an undertaking that is years in the making, one that often looked as though it would never be completed. But after endless hours of emailing, calling, and generally harassing the 59 artists presented here, Gold Leaf Branches is complete. This is a compilation with two simple motives: to collect as much of the music I love from all over the globe in one place and to expose as many people as possible to numerous outstanding artists they might not have heard. Gold Leaf Branches succeeds with flying colors. Of the 59 tracks here, all but one are exclusive to this release." Artists include: Six Organs of Admittance, Charlambides, James Blackshaw, Hala Strana, Lau Nau, Wood & Wand featuring the Rose, Nick Castro, Marissa Nadler and more. |
| Artist: WITH THROATS AS FINE AS NEEDLES Title: With Throats as Fine as Needles Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Deep inside an abandoned bunker on New Zealands north island, With Throats as Fine as Needles have perfected their craft. On this, their debut CD release, the group has expanded to a quartet. Birchville Cat Motels Campell Kneale and Pseudoarcana chief, Antony Milton, have joined forces with James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Gate) and Richard Francis (Eso Steel) to create a claustrophobic, organic web of massive drones. Everything on this CD was recorded outdoors with battery-powered instruments. Underneath the ground, the quartet burrows out their own cavern, bouncing sounds off the walls until it becomes a singular, solid mass. Each gently sculpted tone floats in humid air. The music is saturated with the dirt and grime from a million a years of human history, wailing out in unison like an excavation turned exorcism. With Throats as Fine as Needles are your guides through this aural fog." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD Title: Goodbye Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "As far as the Southern Hemisphere goes, Australias budding underground has often played second fiddle to that of its island neighbor, New Zealand. But a new crop of Aussies is levelling the playing field. Leading the way is the brother/sister duo of Michael and Kristina Donnelly aka Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. These cosmic travellers are soaked to the bone in dust, like relics from the past. They speak only in tongues and send out shortwave psychedelic radio transmissions into the bleeding edges of drugged-out folk sludge. BOTOS organic compositions are familiar to many by now. After a string of CD-R releases on Time-Lag, Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon, and others, this is their first pro-pressed offering. Building on transcendent themes and saturating everything in an all-encompassing puff of bong smoke. Endless walls of instrumentation create artificial boundaries that the Donnellys destroy with far-reaching, hypnotic drones. By the time Goodbye comes to a grinding halt, it feels like the stuff of legend. Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood are only interested in blowing your skull to smithereens while cradling you in their arms. They are simply magnificent, and there arent many doing it better these days." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: UTON Title: Mystery Revolution Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "One of Finlands best kept secrets returns with a new album, and a sonic excursion through the Finnish forests unlike any other. Massive drones are balanced by the hypnotic dance of flutes, bells, and keyboards. Underneath everything runs a mind-altering stream of fuzzed-out brainwaves. Every corner you turn, theres another smiling nymph, begging you to follow the golden path into the mystic woods. UTONs minimalist rumblings are there to infect and enchant, and never fail to impress. "Utons a genius & I always love his art, album titles & cryptic noise mud-slides. Great forestdrone, shortwave, bowed guitars? ... I dont know what he uses, but it all sounds mysterious & subconscious, dreamlike."- Glenn Donaldson, Jewelled Antler. |
| Artist: NIRMALA, TIRATH SINGH Title: Bluster, Cragg, & Awe Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Not too long ago, John Clyde-Evans made a huge splash with his phenomenal solo LP on Englands Fisheye imprint. He also performed as an important member of the seminal UK group, Hood. After taking a seven year hiatus and committing to the path of Sikhism, he returned as Tirath Singh Nirmala. His continually unfolding backstory is interesting enough, but its his music where the real magic and mystery stretch their silver wings. Nirmala returned to making music after his close friend and collaborator, Vibracathedral Orchestras Neil Campbell, gave him some free software and set him on his way. Nirmala responded with nearly a dozen self-released, highly limited CD-Rs. The releases were filled to the brim with Eastern-influenced, transcendental drones and uplifting spiritual sound explorations. His manipulation of sine waves and use of obscure Asian instruments creates a wholly original and unique sound. As on his solo LP as John Clyde-Evans, Nirmalas ability to concoct sprawling, majestic drones using such simple terms is unmatched. Bluster, Cragg, & Awe, Nirmalas first non-CD-R release, is the perfect beginning. It collects the best tracks from those now impossible-to-find releases and adds one new song and one collaborative piece with Scottish guitar guru, Richard Youngs. It is a journey that lasts less than an hour, but contains a lifetime of aural experience, wrapped into one, shimmering golden package. Oh yes, Tirath Singh Nirmala has returned." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: CARTER, TOM & ROBERT HORTON DUO Title: Steeljaguar Rocket Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Charalambides Tom Carter and Robert Horton have become close collaborators over the past few years, appearing in a handful of projects together from Kyrgyz (w/ Jewelled Antler-ites Loren Chasse and Christine Boepple) to Mudsuckers (w/ D. Yellow Swans). But when they are stripped back to a duo, the sonic onslaught is just as dense and impressive. Steeljaguar Rocket is the second album, following-up Lunar Eclipse on Important Records. Horton again acts as the puppetmaster, pulling the strings to move each sound into its right place. Expansive improvisations and full-on psychedelic freakouts intermingle, creating a cosmic web of enchanted debris. Fiddler extraordinaire Hal Huges adds exponentially to the dynamics at work with his marvelous playing on the title track. The strained violin notes whisk the listener away to the dirt-soaked alleys of Damascus. Its a hypnotic journey through jewel-encrusted foreign lands, like a solo flight to sun. Everything is not peaceful on Steeljaguar Rocket, however. Digging further into the cataclysm finds Carter & Horton turning up the volume knobs and cranking out wailing solos on top of a bed of heavy drones and cacaphonic drums. Like Hortons Future Ears project, its equal parts noise, free jazz, and fractured folk bliss. There is no stone unturned on Steeljaguar Rocket, and just as it feels as though it will collapse in on itself, Carter & Horton bring everything back down to earth, ready to begin again." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: ZELIENOPLE Title: Stone Academy Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Hailing from Chicago, Zelienople have been etching out a place for themselves in the Windy City for the past five years. Constant collaborators with Souled Americans Scott Tuma, this quartet mixes ghostly song structures with ambient drones better than just about anyone. With recent releases on Time-Lag, New Zealands Pseudoarcana, and Tarentels Root Strata imprint, the boys of Zelienople are rising like vines toward the canopy. Stone Academy picks up where 2005s brilliant Ink (recently reissued on CD by Loose Thread Recordings) left off. It balances the simple beauty of guitar-based songs with overwhelming, dark drones. The combination is as powerful as it is intricate. Each note, each chord is carefully chosen and perfectly placed; they never take too long or push too much. The attention to detail is magnificent. Zelienople have mastered the art of making expansive, luminescent drones sound as organic as the soil beneath your feet. Stone Academy reverberates like its planted deep inside a lost cavern, hidden miles beneath the surface waiting for excavation. With rich textures and challenging soundscapes, Stone Academy is a wholly satisfying listening experience. The darkness is only a canvas for the light of these compositions to shine through. Zelienople offer up one of the years finest aural adventures." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: HORTON, ROBERT Title: Dirt Speak Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Robert Horton made a monumental splash into the scene of free music in 2005. With nearly 30 years of experience under his belt, the catalog of recordings hes accumulated is enough to make even the most prolific artists blush. After taking a hiatus from releasing music from the mid 90s until now, the dam finally broke in 2005 with the release of Angel Humming Through Wire on Foxglove. Ever since, Horton has released albums on Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon, Jyrk, Important, Nosordo, Last Visible Dog and more. Dirt Speak is Hortons first solo CD release under his own name. When he plays with close collaborators Tom Carter (of Charalambides), Yellow Swans, and others, Horton takes on the role of primary curator. He weaves his magic into the sounds of others with mathematical precision. In his solo works, he takes this boundless inspiration and pushes it even further. Organic, insular drones are the backbone of Dirt Speak, but the heavy tinges of folk, jazz, and musique concrète are equally important to its unique sound. Horton will use anything that makes any kind of sound as a source for his music. In addition to more traditional instrumentation, Dirt Speak also features the use of vibrators, an electric toothbrush, and even the sound of contact mics in a fire. In a world full of copycats and fakers, Robert Horton is one of the most original voices to emerge in music in recent memory." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: KEIJO Title: Flying Over Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The godfather of the Finnish Underground is back with his most complete album to date. Keijo Virtanens far-reaching hands can be felt throughout the Nordic peninsula from his home in Jyväskylä. While he often performs in numerous groups such as The Free Players and Kheta Hotem, it is in his solo work that he is most accomplished. Virtanen is not just a talented and prolific musician, but also an artist and published author. His inspiration and creativity know no bounds. At 54 years-old, Virtanen still rides his motorcycle all over the country and shows no signs of letting up. Virtanen finally took his show on the road this past autumn, touring with members of Uton and Vapaa throughout Northern Europe. He also released two CDs on the much heralded Last Visible Dog imprint. Flying Over is the culmination of a landmark year for this troubadour. These nine tracks run the gambit of all of Keijos talents, from the rattling blues transgressions of On the Edge, to the throat singing-laced organic drone of Late Night Here & Far Away. Virtanens range is pure magic. While the bulk of Flying Over is entirely Virtanens creation, he is joined by two of his closest collaborators on two tracks: Sami Virtanen and Jussi Karsikas, two extremely talented Finns in their own right. Whatever the moment calls for, though, Virtanen fills the void and the empty space with exactly what is needed. He is a wizard of sound and a seemingly endless well of magnificent music. It shouldnt be surprising for someone who makes their home at the center of the universe." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: CLYDE-EVANS, JOHN Title: Apetal Thunderfall Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Its been a monumental year for John Clyde-Evans. He recently returned from a year living in the Punjab region of India, and after a slew of releases under his Sikh name of Tirath Singh Nirmala, hes back to the good ol JCE. Thats not all thats changed, though. His latest opus, apetal thunderfall, spins off into a new web of cacophony, leaving behind the pastoral anthems of yesteryear and taking aim at more abrasive ways to leave behind the rust. apetal thunderfall was recorded entirely during JCEs stay in Jalandhar in 2007 using found software and audio sources. The resulting recordings feel almost primitive. Evans uses his uncanny ability to blend and mix multitudes of tones into sprawling thickets of sound. It is hard to call this music drone, but at the same time there is a continuous flow to these three pieces that works in a similar way. Over the course of 43 minutes, this music etches itself into your skull, drilling itself in deep without drawing blood. Divided into three tracks, apetal thunderfall is more a singular entity than a collection of works. This album is cathartic, both musically and as a vehicle for JCE himself. But make no mistake, this is not spiritual music with mystic over/undertones. Simply, it is the new aural vision from one person made while living in India for a year. It is abrasive yet beautiful, and harkens back to a time and place when things were far less complicated." -Digitalis. |
| Artist: POCAHAUNTED/ROBEDOOR Title: Hunted Gathering Format: Double CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Theres a savage battle raging in the hallowed streets of Los Angeles, being fought by prehistoric megaliths spewing lava from their mouths. These acid-tongued shamans are interested in one thing and one thing only, and thats to raze this city to the ground. Okay, perhaps its not so apocalyptic, but hot off the heels of opening for Sonic Youth, dirt worshippers Robedoor and their native sisters Pocahaunted have unleashed an army for the ages with Hunted Gathering. Drones painted with black holes collapse under their own weight while the archangelic voices of Pocahaunted birth a brand new world of spirit decay. Hunted Gathering is both a split release and a collaboration. Each band offers up their own malfeasance while collaborating on the epic final eponymous track. The union of these two groups is a natural combination. Two members are married and run the Not Not Fun label together and they share amps and a practice space, for example. But theres also something about both that is visceral and raw. Robedoors subsonic doom is washed down with a smooth chaser of Pocahaunteds reverberating soul sounds. Recorded by the inimitable Bobb Bruno at the NNF/Bored Fortress studio space across many moons in 2007 and mastered by Yellow Swans Pete Swanson, Hunted Gathering is an essential feast for fans of doom-infused drones and Stevie Nicks. These hunting & gathering songs from the Eagle Rock air also feature appearances by the aforementioned Bruno as well as Changeling mastermind, Roy Tatum. Climb the totem pole and let these mutant beasts put you under their psychosis spell. Hunted Gathering is full of antiquated sounds soaked in electric mud. Robedoor and Pocahaunted are your brothers and sisters in conjuring and the gatekeepers to a lost universe of sonic enchantment." -Digitalis. |
| Artist: CURSILLISTAS Title: Wasp Stings The Last Bitter Flavor Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Wasp Stings The Last Bitter Flavor marks the first widely available release from this Portland, Maine troubadour. The brains behind the project is Matt Lajoie and he is perhaps best known for his enchanted album on Time-Lag Records. His folk-inspired psychedelia reaches new heights on Wasp Stings as he puts together an album of lost songs, found hiding in a dank and dusty cellar. Lajoies approach here is different. Its as if hes taken the negative space of his previous works and hashed them out and spruced them up until theyve become epic, flowing songs whitewashed with a basket full of analog hiss. The whole thing flows together like magic poured straight from the sky. Its haunting, beautiful music. Cursillistas music is often densely populated with a variety of instrumentation and textures. Lajoie is a master at molding sounds from a variety of sources into a cohesive, organic whole. This music, as with past efforts, sounds like an intimate secret whispered in the listeners ear."-Digitalis |
| Artist: AHMED, ILYAS Title: Between Two Skies/Towards The Night Format: Double CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Im going to keep this short and sweet. Ilyas Ahmed is incredible. Born in Pakistan and raised in New Jersey, he now plies his trade in Portland, Oregon. Between Two Skies and Towards The Night is where it all began. Released in criminally limited editions of 50 copies each, both albums are now fully remastered by Pete Swanson and repackaged in beautiful gatefold jackets from Stumptown Printers. Also included are extended liner notes from David Keenan. I think he sums up both these albums best: Call it abandon, a facility for letting go, for moving on; either way Ahmeds music is *gone*. And all we have are the recordings, scattered notes to prove that he once existed and felt it all as deeply and miraculously as any of us. And right now, from where Im calling from, I wouldnt ask for anything more. Ahmeds original voice is a welcome addition to an oversaturated aural world. He has gone on to put out numerous self-released CD-Rs as well as a new CD/LP on Time-Lag. But in the beginning there were these. What Between Two Skies and Towards The Night make crystal clear is that his vision and his voice were there from the very beginning."-Digitalis |
| Artist: GUNN, STEVE Title: Sundowner Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Steve Gunn is probably best known as a key component to the mighty GHQ with Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards) and Pete Nolan (Magik Markers), but his solo efforts have been even more impressive. With a couple limited & hard-to-find CD-Rs under his belt and a few offerings under the moniker Moongang, Gunn is ready to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight with his first proper CD. This music is finely-tuned and expertly crafted by Gunns capable hands, showing his skill not only as a guitarist, but as a songwriter as well. Sundowner may be short & sweet, but it has an epic feeling. Gunn reaches deep into the vaults to line the walls with hypnotic acoustic guitar dirges, organic drones, and banjo ditties. And unlike any of his previous work, he also unleashes his voice on three songs, showing that not only can he play with the best of them, he can sing too. When hes not wowing the listener racing around the fretboard, his simple but effective vocal hooks are sinking themselves deep into the confines of your memory." Limited to 500 copies in 2-color black gatefold jackets. - Digitalis |
| Artist: MAN PACK VARIENT Title: Sticky Wickets Format: CDR Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Manpack Variant is the persistently intermittent commingling of electronicists Jaime Fennelly (Peeesseye, peeinmyfacewithsurgery, Phantom Limb & Bison) and Chris Peck, resulting in transcendent sound rituals and unexplainable detritus such as the recent "Flash Vault" 7" split with Gerritt on Misanthropic Agenda and now "Sticky Wickets," the bands first full-length CD. "Sticky Wickets" will take the paint off your walls. Bone-crunching noises fly in an analog heaven, short on altitude but high on fire? Insanity? Asylums? Try it all on for size. Manpack Variant are bringing barrels of concrete to the show, ready to build a scuzzed-out monument complete with skeleton electronics and bags of fuzz. And to add even more sparkle, "Sticky Wickets" features original artwork by Jason McLean. Entranced by latent characteristics of military-industrial sound hardware, Manpack Variant has laid audiences from Vienna to Vancouver (to waste) with there own special bland of ecstatic nose drool. Ambient ambient ambient! Ambient ambient ambient! Four years now they have failed to either get a sharper blade or have a new one made. Take a load off: the album woks!" - Digitalis |
| Artist: UTON Title: Were Only In It For The Spirit Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "For the past five plus years, Uton has been one of the most consistent projects to come out of the snowy confines of his native Finland. His output has been constant, but the quality is always great. His drones have always been underscored with a sense of melody and a keen utilization of the space where the music was created. These songs are not icy or glacial, though, like one might think. Uton has an uncanny ability to inject an inviting sense of warmth and spirit. Were Only In It For The Spirit is ghost music; barely there and out-of-sight in the blink of an eye. The man responsible for these masked-spirit journeys is Tampere native, Jani Hirvonen. Hes collaborated with the likes of Jan Anderzén (Kemialliset Ystävät, etc), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra), & Anla Courtis (Reynols), among others. When it comes to enchanted, sprawling drones, Hirvonent is a true Rennaissance man. He is joined by Vapaas J.P. Koho on all tracks, who complements Hirvonens delicacy with subtle hints of chaos. Were Only In It For The Spirit continues to trek through new worlds of sound, polishing off the once-rough edges of Utons sound into something that acts as a beacon in the void. Dark, brooding drones for guitar and electronics flicker and fade like a distant, stellar horizon. Hirvonen is a master craftsman, and Koho is his perfect foil. The two play off each others every move and produce an end result that rivals anything Uton has released previously. Were Only In It For The Spirit is a magical piece of work." -Digitalis |
| Artist: SUPER MINERALS Title: Multitudes Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "There are a lot of good times happening in SoCal these days and the Stunned Records/Magic Lantern crew is responsible for a whole hell of a lot of it. Well, Super Minerals are an important cog in that machine and this duos intentions are blaring loud and clear on their first proper CD, Multitudes. This duo of Phil French and William Giachhi may rip it up when theyre moonlighting in Magic Lantern, but here they are burning it all down slow. This is an album full of zoned-out drones that smolder and sink deep down into the mud. Synths wallow in the sun-dried ruins while guitar & bass write new epochs with shards of sonic debris. Fried whispers drift in the analog breeze slipping in and fading out before you even realize theyre there. Late night whirrs and gentle skeletal purrs make a home in these aural prisms, never quite letting the blood boil. But Super Minerals will guide you as you meander through the rain-soaked city streets, never quite leading you back home. Limited to 500 copies in gatefold jackets." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: ROLL THE DICE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Limited vinyl pressing of 500 copies only for the world. Though this is the official debut recording from Swedish duo Roll The Dice, Malcolm Pardon and Peder Mannerfelt are certainly not strangers to the world of independent music. Mannerfelt has been producing records for years as The Subliminal Kid and also produces for and tours with Fever Ray while Pardon continuously composes for film and television. Having shared a studio in southern Stockholm for several years, they finally decided to join forces in something musical. Each of their sessions together started and ended in the same way. There were to be no pro-conceived ideas going in, but there had to be a completed track at the end of each day. These forced limitations led to a creative cloudburst, finding unexpected passages from beginning to end. Elements of early analog electronics bleed into hints of minimalists such as Terry Riley and Arvo Pärt. Repetition and understated progression engage the listener subtly. It may bring a piece of Basic Channel to mind, but its another beast entirely. Each track consists of only synths and piano. Nothing more. No computer processing. No drum machines -- pure analog. The result is something warm and emotive. There may be a murky darkness underlying these tracks, something almost sinister, but theres a streak of something comfortingly familiar running throughout. Two years after their first session together, they put the finishing touches on the record through the API desk at the legendary Gröndal studio in west Stockholm. It is music that etches itself into your mind like diamond on glass. Pardon and Mannerfelt operate with absolute precision, expressing raw emotions and ideas that are as flitting as they are unforgettable." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: TUMA, SCOTT Title: Dandelion Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "This is Scott Tumas third release on the Digitalis label. After a five-year hiatus, 2008s Not For Nobody reminded everyone of the subtle force that was lurking in Chicago. He followed that up with an epic collaborative LP with Zelienoples Mike Weis and an underrated gem as part of the Good Stuff House trio. Those ideas and manifestations present on all three albums come to a head with Dandelion. This is Scott Tuma at his most definitive, most vocal, and most devastating. His acoustic vignettes flicker in and out like the specters of long-forgotten greats, showing up just long enough to remind you that once upon a time, they ruled the land of kings. Sparse guitar plucks and banjo strums ache in the thin air. "Red Roses For Me" puts all the pieces in place with hollow, reverberating drones piercing the grey skies in the first half of the song. Quiet recordings of birdsong echo in the background, bouncing off minimally shifting banjo and chimes. But this is when Tuma really starts to mess with you, this is when Dandelion takes one of many unexpected turns. As a siren wails in the background, he is almost playful in the last half of the piece with a chord organ and gently strummed guitar bleeding nostalgia into the streets. Its a sinister joke in the middle of the flood. Dandelion is a hymn to loves won, then lost. Dying on the vine, he bellows "you are so pretty," yearning for something simpler and easier to navigate. "Youre always on my mind" reminds us that things come to an end, that even the best things have a shelf-life. It runs head first into the megalith that is "Free Dirt." Mike Weis makes his presence felt as the duo navigates the darkest moments Tumas ever put to tape. This is "Taradiddle" drowned in the mud. Hope is lost to the darkness as denial turns to acceptance. Winding down into a wall of cymbals and heavy-handed acoustic guitar, its total catharsis. Eventually this ride, this testament comes to an end. The mournful longing of the final two pieces wraps Dandelion up into a perfect, graceful package. Scott Tuma shows one more time why theres nobody else like him around. This may be an album that asks a lot of questions, but it also answers every single one. Limited vinyl edition of 450 copies only for the world, featuring custom artwork by award-winning artist, Christopher Koelle." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: BRODERICK, HEATHER WOODS Title: From The Ground Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "LP version. This is Heather Woods Brodericks debut album -- From The Ground is built around warm, reverberating atmospheres and familiar yet striking melodies, gently wrapping around the listener and finding magic in subtlety. Her soft voice matches the delicate neo-classical arrangements that are as light as a feather. Careful attention has been paid to the albums understated production, giving the feeling that these are lullabies pulled straight from the still morning air. Brodericks songs make the case that sometimes starting out somewhere simple is often better. At the core is Heather and her guitar and throughout From The Ground that combination is its greatest strength. Plucked and strummed chords provide the foundation from which these songs take flight. The record is populated by lyrically-engaging songs and impressive instrumentals that take the listener into a world full of Indian summers and pink sunset skies. Its inevitable that anytime From The Ground comes up, the fact that Heather Woods Broderick is, indeed, the older sister of everyones favorite ultra-talented multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick is mentioned, but his string arrangements and production on the album cannot be overlooked. They add another layer to compositions that are already stunning, further making the case that From The Ground is an alluring yet subtle force to be reckoned with. From The Ground was originally released on CD by Preservation Records (Australia). This limited LP edition features new artwork and a previously-unreleased bonus track. Vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Includes a hidden locked groove." -Digitalis |
| Artist: SVARTE GREINER Title: Penpals Forever (and Ever) Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "LP version. The first side (first two tracks) were originally issued on the Penpals Forever cassette on Digitalis in 2008, limited to 180 copies. Both tracks have been completely remastered. The remaining pieces are all new and exclusive to this release. Svarte Greiner is the nom de plume of Deaf Centers Erik K. Skodvin. Hailing from Norway, his solo efforts are always stripped bare, white-knuckle sojourns through dark, haunted ambient sonic corridors. Penpals Forever (And Ever) is the imaginary tale of a long dead Baroque painter and his telekinetic correspondence with a flightless bird. It feels archaic; experimental death marches circa 1622. Like Guercinos Et in Arcadia ego, once the end is realized, theres nowhere left to go. Its beyond our experience and sometimes you never recover from the shock. Despite its rather cheery title, Penpals Forever (And Ever) is another step toward the abyss. Musically sparse, Svarte Greiner finds new channels connecting desolate landscapes through ethereal nightmares. It is music best served cold. Chattering, looping guitar lines that feel like muscle being separated from bone slowly build into aching piles of aural dissonance. Its painful to a point. Recorded voices speak a language you cant understand underneath ominous, echoing single notes. Distant metal fragments scrape the dirt from detuned strings while a nefarious feathered minstrel bows dying instruments in the background. No hope left, death is just around the corner. As it ever was, Svarte Greiner is again weaving something deliciously sinister. This is music that is uncomfortably bare. Within its blood-stained confines, there is nowhere to hide. Skodvins tangled, gnarled tale goes back and forth into infinity until it becomes clear that the flightless bird in question lives inside your skull. Drowning slowly into ones own twisted mind, Penpals is the soundtrack of loss; the procession of fears gradually becoming so overbearing that you cant escape your own demons." -Digitalis |
| Artist: RADIO PEOPLE Title: Radio People Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "LP release; limited to 500 copies only. Radio People is a project from Ohio-stalwart Sam Goldberg. After a handful of solo releases under his own name on Weird Forest, 905 Tapes and the Emeralds-run Wagon & Gneiss Things labels, he debuted Radio People on an ultra-limited self-titled cassette on his own Pizza Night imprint. At that point, there was no way back and the only move was to push forward with this cosmic beast. Two more short-run tapes followed and it was clear that this new chemically-imbalanced synthesizer project wasnt just a quick hit one-off. Radio People is here to stay. On this, his debut vinyl effort, Goldberg has compiled the best elements of those three, long-gone cassettes. This Dubplates & Mastering-cut slab of wax is the strongest statement Goldberg has made, proving his talent lies far beyond ambient soundscapes and well into the world of pop-infused synthesizer chaos and Kraut-inspired composition. Major hooks sit alongside dense planetary drones. Goldberg pairs rivers of polysynth tracery with deep shards of droning organs, minimal live percussion and a whole host of drum machine backbone. This really is the best of both worlds. Melodies suck you in, beats get your head bobbing and then youre sucked down a complex tonal wormhole of introspective loops and ambient synthscapes. Pop song frameworks nestle themselves neatly beside somber soundscapes, sometimes jumping back and forth in the same track. Barely-there vocals foil the stasis, leaving the listener guessing and wondering if theres a ghost in the mix. Radio Peoples embracing of simple Kraut rhythms to underscore the catchy, kosmische wanderings give this music an accessibility not present in much of Goldbergs previous work. It crosses boundaries and comes back and shows still-untapped wells of talent and ideas in Goldbergs bag of tricks." - Digitalis. |
| Artist: BROTHER RAVEN Title: VSS-30 Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "In 2010, the ride never seems to stop so if you want to get off youve just got to jump head first. Brother Raven, the Seattle-based duo of Jason Anderson (Spare Death Icon, Gift Tapes, etc) and Jamie Potter (ex-Bonus, Million Mists, etc) are taking synthesizer-based music into new and unexpected realms. Anderson and Potter are total time travellers, searching out old, forgotten methods and sounds and taking them into a square-wave future. VSS-30 is rooted in its namesakes primitive synthesis but is forward-thinking enough to take the listener on a tripped-out cosmic space walk. As with all their music, Brother Ravens sound is 100% improvised and always recorded to tape. That added warmth keeps their space-age intonations from getting distant or cold. The flip-side of the record dials things in and shows just how much focus and restraint the duo possess. More blitzed beats push things along at a reliable pace, underscored by repetitive tones leading into candy-striped, totally sweet synthesizer loops. VSS-30 seems, on the surface, to be all over the map but its absolutely cohesive and flows like a perfect pink stream. Theres no doubt that theres been dozens upon dozens of new synth-based bands and artists coming out of the woodwork over the last couple of years, but Brother Raven have shown over and over that theyve got a head above most. VSS-30 is an impressive, fully-realized piece of work that cements their place on the astral plane. Edition of 300 in silkscreened jackets. With full-color insert." -Digitalis |
| Artist: MARBLE SHEEP Title: Tokyo 1988 Format: CD Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "Brand new re-mastered and expanded edition of this long out-of-print seminal live CD from Japans Marble Sheep (or to give them their full title on this release: Marble Sheep and the Run-Down Suns Children). This was originally issued by Cold Spring back in 1995, and sold out within a week of release. This classic Marble Sheep line-up boasts the inclusion of some giants of the Japanese scene. Members of Zeni Geva, Incapacitants and Hijokaidan all grace the CD for this blistering performance. This is by no means a noise release though - it is incendiary Japanese rock music in the tradition of the likes of High Rise, Fushitsusha and Acid Mothers Temple. The CD is lavishly housed in a beautiful mini-LP gloss laminated sleeve, with brand new full color artwork. It is rounded off with the inclusion of two previously unreleased tracks from the same period in the bands history. The special mini-LP packaging is exclusive to the first 1000 copies." -Dirter. |
| Artist: FAUST & NURSE WITH WOUND Title: Disconnected Format: Double LP Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $40.00 |
| "An entirely logical and almost mythical collaboration, this joining of the two greatest studio bands in the history of audio recording has finally arrived on vinyl. Disconnected delivers in every way. Sounding, as you might expect, like both bands, but also standing on it own as might not. With bands such as Faust having an early influence way back on a young NWW, its clear that as the years pass, NWW have had a profound effect on the German legends. The feeling is mutual, and it comes across." -Dirtier Promotions |
| Artist: PINHAS, RICHARD AND MERZBOW Title: Keio Line Format: Triple LP Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $40.00 |
| "Deluxe vinyl version of Keio Line (the same content also to be issued on double CD by Cuneiform); the complete recording of an incredible collaboration that sweeps across the generations of electronic music. Richard Pinhas is internationally recognized as one of Frances major experimental musicians: the "father" of French electronic music. He was the founder of seminal space-rock band Heldon, a band whose violent fusion of electronics and guitar in the 70s rivalled the German electronic school. As a guitar player, he has been compared to Robert Fripp. Cited as an influence by many electronic musicians, Pinhas has helped to define the space music genre. Since founding Heldon in 1974, Pinhas has released over 15 albums, had involvement in dozens more and shaped the way we listen to music today. Masami Akita aka Merzbow is the forerunner of Japanese electronic music, and for the last 20 years plus, has been at the top of his game ploughing more and more extreme sonic territories. This release, recorded in Tokyo in October 2007, will surprise a lot of people in its sheer beauty. This is a collaboration that works in the true sense of the word, with each artist complimenting the other over six long, sprawling tracks, each occupying the whole of each side. The set comes housed in a gloss-laminated sleeve and is limited to just 1000 copies."-Dirter Promotions |
| Artist: RAMLEH Title: Too Many Miles: Complete Singles 90-95 Format: CD Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the CD collection of all the long-unavailable Ramleh singles spanning the years 1990-1995, now reissued due to Ramlehs sprawling 6-page feature in The Wire (issue #305, July 2009). Ramlehs history goes back to the early 80s, when their brand of "power electronics" caused outrage, along with their contemporaries Whitehouse. Much has changed since then, and over the years, they developed a reputation as one of the leading exponents of UK "noise rock." Along with the likes of Skullflower, Splintered, etc., they made the genre their own, to much acclaim from not only the UK, but Europe and America as well. In fact, many of the singles compiled on this disc were U.S.-only releases by such labels as Sympathy For The Record Industry. The CD is packaged in the same style as many of the singles were, featuring artwork culled from former member Philip Bests personal collection. They continue to have a loyal fan base, and still perform (the current line-up is comprised of founding member Gary Mundy, bassist Anthony di Franco, drummer Martyn Watts), and a collection such as this will never not be in-demand. The songs on this compendium will cement Ramlehs reputation as geniuses in your memory, as they pretty much summoned, prefaced and heralded every crushing, free-form, feedback-worshipping, extreme noise/avant-rock moment that was to follow them." - Dirter Promotions. |
| Artist: NURSE WITH WOUND Title: Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine Format: 2LP Box/Shirt Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $115.00 |
| "...And An Umbrella. This is the long-awaited vinyl re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by Sounds at the time as a record that "makes The Faust Tapes sound like Carousel," nothing has changed to alter this view over the last 30 years, and to say that this work is the "Sgt. Pepper of the avant-garde" would not be hyperbole. The special box edition will consist of: the double LP, which will be a 2LP set with the extra track "Strain, Crack, Break" (never previously available on vinyl and appearing for the first time in any format in its intended unedited form) on side three and an etching on side four. Also included in this box is a t-shirt with the legendary "NWW list" (a list of 294 bands that accompanied NWW on this album) in luminous ink on a black shirt, and a die-cut enamel badge of the woman from the iconic front cover. The collection will be housed in a beautiful box printed with a matte laminate coating. Only 250 copies of this box will be available at retail level. The regular double LP will be released shortly thereafter. Members include: John Fothergill (synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, wind), Heman (synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, wind), Nicky Rogers (guitar), and Steve Stapleton (synthesizer, flute, guitar, keyboards)." -Dirter Promotions |
| Artist: RAMLEH Title: Hole in the Heart Format: Double CD Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Originally issued by Gary Mundys own Broken Flag label in 1987 on cassette, this is UK noise/industrial/power electronics wizards Ramlehs Hole In The Heart, now expanded and remastered on a double CD set, also including material from their 1987 Nerve cassette release. Here at last, is part of the "missing link" in the long and ever-evolving history of Ramleh. This material bridges the gap between the (for want of a better description) early "power electronics" material and the (for want of a better description) later "noise rock." Neither of these terms do justice to this pioneering group led by Gary Mundy. To quote Anthony Di Franco (the other half of the band these days): "...swirling phased feedback, fuzzed vocals and guitars. At the same time there were melodies, words and structures in the music, which itself consisted of very simple electronic and acoustic elements magnified to a colossal scale...." This music has a harmonic beauty, if you look for it, that all its imitators lack. Listen and you will hear the genesis of what was to follow from many 90s underground bands such as label mates and close collaborators, Skullflower. This double CD set is packaged in the classic Broken Flag stark, monochrome style." - Dirter Promotions. |
| Artist: CURRENT 93 Title: Like Swallowing Eclipses (Dreamt By Andrew Liles) Format: 6LP Boxset Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $102.00 |
| "For the first time on vinyl, the complete, highly-acclaimed Andrew Liles remixes of the first five classic Current 93 albums. Andrew Liles has re-imagined Nature Unveiled (1984), Dogs Blood Rising (1984), In Menstrual Night (1986), Dawn (1987) and Live at Bar Maldoror (1985). Also exclusive to this set is a sixth LP, Haunt Invocation (Apadno), which is a remixed version of Faust (2000) and A Special Plan (2000). These influential albums by Current 93 are regarded by many as ground-breaking and innovative -- building upon this, Andrew Liles has re-dreamt and re-imagined these pieces with the flare and vision that he is renowned and respected for. All the records in this 6LP set come in individual covers in a beautiful spot-varnished box and are adorned with astounding artwork by David Tibet and photographs by Simona Dalla Valle." -Dirter Promotions |
| Artist: SNOWY RED Title: The Right To Die Format: LP Label: Dirty Dance Country: Europe Price: $25.00 |
| SOLD OUT!! "Snowy Red was a one-man minimal wave outfit from Belgium, active throughout the 1980s. Though occasionally a band here and there (and featuring scattered collaborators during their tenure), Snowy Red was primarily an outlet for Micky Mike (real name: Marcel Thiel), who released four records, and two cover records under his proper name before seemingly disappearing from the music scene in the early nineties. Though each of Snowy Reds four records are synth classics, 1982s The Right to Die is many peoples favorite, as it has a darker atmosphere and heavier synthetics than some of the other Snowy Red material." - Dirty Dance. SOLD OUT!! |
| Artist: SNOWY RED Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Dirty Dance Country: Europe Price: $25.00 |
| SOLD OUT!! "Snowy Red was a one-man minimal wave outfit from Belgium, active throughout the 1980s. Though occasionally a band here and there (and featuring scattered collaborators during their tenure), Snowy Red was primarily an outlet for Micky Mike (real name: Marcel Thiel), who released four records, and two cover records under his proper name before seemingly disappearing from the music scene in the early nineties. Ultra limited reissue of this very rare legendary 1980 first LP" - Dirty Dance. SOLD OUT!! |
| Artist: WRIGHT, PETER Title: Magpie Attack on the Back Road to Albert Town Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "New 2-song single by New Zealand-born, London-based Peter Wright. Aquarius Records says Peter is ??one of the most compelling sound makers we have ever heard? and has released records on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Drone, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, and PseudoArcana. Peter uses a 12-string guitar, effects, amplified mini tambura, bells, chimes, and other gizmos to create powerful, organic noise. For fans of Smith and Youngs, Matthew Bower, and Birchville Cat Motel. Mastered by John Golden for maximum volume and pressed on think vinyl. 500 pressed" - Dirty Knobby. |
| Artist: DRILLS, THE Title: Skull Death Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "1981/1982 recordings from Seattles noisiest hardcore band. They were formed by two thirtysomething ex-hippies with distortion boxes and a drum machine who fell in love with the local hardcore scene, recruited some young punks, and recorded a bunch of racket that was out of step with the world. They appeared on the 1983 What Syndrome cassette compilation tape along with the Fartz, the Rejecters, Mr. Epp, Silly Killers, and Solger, and played loud, noisy, and primitive punk rock. These recordings were lost for 25 years until now.... Think Forming-era Germs meet Bobby Sox or something equally as awesome and youll be close." - Dirty Knobby. |
| Artist: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB Title: Monster Mittens Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "New single by Neil Campbells ever-evolving solo project, Astral Social Club. Neil (A Band, Vibracathedral Orchestra) with assistance from Karl Bauer (Axolotl) unleashes two electronic psychedelic noise jams with distorted loops, cascading feedback, and the sound of hypnotic drones recorded in space. 500 pressed" -Dirty Knobby. |
| Artist: AFCGT Title: S/T Format: 10" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Following the extremely limited cd-r, AFCGT (or A-Frames Climax Golden Twins) drop eight new mangled tunes for their debut vinyl release. A truly rare case of a supergroup living up to expectations, AFCGTs unholy racket goes from noise punk jams to tripped out psychedelic intergalactic excursions. 500 pressed on manly 10? red vinyl." -Dirty Knobby |
| Artist: OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD Title: Polished Glass Autobahn Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Debut single of the new project by Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel / Black Boned Angel) Sure to pack the dance floors in Hades." -Dirty Knobby ??Shoot. The goddamn funkiest noise record ever? Like a bop-off between Rudolph Grey and Terminator X. Grinding psychedirgecore plastered over tasteless and ghastly electrosplatter and ambivalent fake-folk strummage. (EVERYBODYDANCENOW!)? -Campbell Kneale |
| Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: Ill Tell You Evrything Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "2nd EP from San Franciscos Finest. Featuring members of Black Fiction and Skygreen Leopards, the Fresh and Onlys bust out three freakbeatpop hits with the best goddamn harmonies youll hear all year. We love these guys and wish they were our neighbors. The band also has current and future full lengths on Castle Face and Woodsist. " - Dirty Knobby. Repressed. |
| Artist: WRIGHT, PETER Title: The Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Peter returns for a 2nd single on Dirty Knobby. This three song EP is an organic wash of gorgeous drones made from a contact microphone, Bulbul Tarang, 12-string, found noise/field sounds and laptop effects. The pieces run the gamut from abrasive machine noise grind to blissed-out ambient hush and back, maintaining a strong sense of craft and human warmth." -Dirty Knobby. |
| Artist: PUMICE Title: Magnedisk Recordings Of gFrenzy Songs Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Bleedin gorgeous. Pumice covers 4 songs by NZ genius recluse gFrenzy, and the results will make you want to throw all yr other records out of the window. Seriously unique and utterly gleeful warble-fi gems. Stefan Pumice sez ??its a pretty rugged record. 4 gfrenzy songs, i recorded it on this weird dictation machine from the 1940s. its like a turntable but has special flexi discs made of magnetic oxide like analogue tape and instead of a stylus the arm has a magnetic record/playback tapehead. the speed is inconsistent so it sounds wobbly too. all live all mono. hope you like it.? If you dont, yre a soulless git. Please go away." - Dirty Knobby. |
| Artist: INTELLIGENCE, THE/UNATURAL HELPERS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Dirty Knobby Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "At last! The single weve all been waiting for! Unnatural Helpers & the Intelligence cover each others top ten singles. See! Intelligence Getting Classy. Hear! Helpers gettin Confident. Lars Intelligence & his legendary 7 track bang out 3 outstanding Helpers covers, and the Helpers return the favour with their brill Dutchess & the Dean take on 2 Intelligence songs. Worth it for the cover alone. 500 pressed." - Dirty Knobby. |
| Artist: SISA, JAUME Title: Orgia Format: CD Label: Discmedi Country: Spain Price: $17.50 |
| "JAUME SISA was an important part of MUSICA DISPERSA. The same year, 1971, that MUSICA DISPERSA was released, he also put out this great solo album. Crazy acid folk with lots of humour and weird vocals by Sisa himself!" - Discmedi. |
| Artist: MUSICA DISPERSA Title: Musica Dispersa Format: CD Label: Discmedi Country: Spain Price: $17.50 |
| "Spanish album from 1971 that featured the talent of three of the most significant musicians from the Catalonian underground movement of the late sixties: Jaume Sisa, J.M. Brabo El Cachas and Albert Batiste, who after their Miniatura project with Pau Riba were joined by young hippie girl Selene. Echoes of The Incredible String Band are present mainly in the guitar parts; drums are absent in all but one track on which they are played by Josep M. Vilaseca Tapi, of Máquina & Tapiman fame, but percussion, harmonica, organ, mouth harp, piano and wordless vocals are heard throughout the album, as is Selenes flute work. All in all this is a strange, relaxing little piece of underground from Barcelonas early seventies hippie youth that has become a classic of Spanish pop music; a masterpiece full of melodic tunes that are equally indebted to the English folk music of the era, as they are to the early Amon Duül freakout sound concept; beautiful digipack edition." - Discmedi. |
| Artist: NUDITY Title: The Nightfeeders Format: LP Label: Discourage Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ".. reserve yourself a place in your LP collection for the incredible new 12? purple vinyl monster from Nudity, those killer guitar heroes led by Monseigneur Dave Harvey, former lead guitarist with Tight Bros From Way Back When. I know Ive already bigged up this band before, but I aint even started, motherfuckers. For not only is D. Harvey one of only two whiteys who can hit me with a raga and make me want more (TiMOTHy Revelator is the other), Harveys also a percipient enough motherfucker to have boosted the bands personnel to new heights by adding former Tight Bros fellow guitarist Quitty on bass, thereby bringing the current Richter Scale stature of this ensemble to Overfloweth. And while side one clocks in at twenty-one minutes of early (TNT-period) DC as played by Amon Düül 2, side two sports a re-mix/re-model by Fucking Champs hero Tim Green, thereby stuffing even more sonic overload into the grooves. Once Nudity get their first full album up-and-running, I know all Hell will break loose cause theyze already majorly there with this release. So dont just kick your heels and wait for Nudity to come to you, demand one of these exquisite purple vinyl delights and pronto, Tonto!" - Juian Cope, Headheritage.co.uk |
| Artist: DESPER, BOB Title: New Sounds Format: LP/7" Label: Discourage Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "If you havent heard Bob Despers New Sounds yet, you may have heard something about it. Originally recorded in 1974, New Sounds is considered to be one of the Pacific Northwests best-kept secrets, a regional Holy Grail with copies fetching upwards of $1000. Until recently, not much was known about this mysterious blind folk-singer from Oregon. In 2007, Discourage Records located Bob Desper, alive and well, living in Albany, Oregon. After two years of culling materials, Discourage Records is proud and honored to officially reissue this once lost masterpiece. Evoking the melancholy mood of Nick Drake, the fluid improvisation of Van Morrisons Astral Weeks, and the intricate instrumentation of Jose Gonzales, New Sounds dark, meditative urgency immediately transcends the thirty-five years marking its original release. This official reissue of New Sounds includes Bob Despers 1972 debut 7", Dry Up Those Tears (including picture sleeve); an 11 x 17 insert with extensive liner notes and full color photos; and 1970s style tip-on sleeve." -Discourage |
| Artist: DURIAN BROTHERS Title: Clubs EP Format: 12" Label: Diskant Country: Scotland Price: $22.00 |
| "The Durian Brothers are a three piece band (sequencer, 2x2 prepared turntables). their music is a vision of a new and radical club music (strictly 90 bpm). not a bassdrum is the boss of the rhythm but multiple dense, rhythmic structures generated from turntables played with rubberbands and found objects; muted guitar sequences lead through a jungle of sounds. this is the first release of the new diskant label. the group consists of two members of institut für feinmotorik and antonelli electr. founded around the salon des amateurs in düsseldorf in late 2008. this extended play vinyl comes with a silkscreen cover on black cardboard and is limited to 350 copies." - Diskant. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Unattainable Text #1 Format: LP Label: Diskono Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| ??9 tracks. 9 artists. 38 minutes. Clear vinyl. Clear Cover. No identifying marks. 500 copies. The first two releases in our self-styled anonymous series. The representational analysis of music and the nostalgic sick bucket trip of music journalists provided the impetus for us to commission this series of releases. Wild boar attacks in France and Austrian immigration police also played a part. Only Peter knows the identity of all the participants, and he can neither read nor write; though he did whisper something about Madrid and biology. So throw away your copies of The Wire and forget Wagner meeting Throbbing Gristle in car crash with the Monkes whilst chewing the innards of a laptop computer, in the end, the only thing that can assist you are your ears.? |
| Artist: HAGGART, SCOTT Title: 117 Format: LP Label: Diskono Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "DISKONO 017 is a 45rpm 12" conceptual LP by Scott Haggart titled "117" . The A-Side Scott Haggarts original edit is "psychotopologically derived from a 0.7 millisecond recorded extract of a DISKONO performance (2000)." Six others (SCOTT HAGGART, EVOL, FELIX KUBIN, LARY SEVEN, CHARLIE MCALISTER, JAN VEN DEN DOBBELSTEEN) created alternate versions (resulting in seven total variations). Strict adherence was required to a rule of the versions being 1:17 seconds in duration, so as to absurdly explore the potentials of this 0.7 millisecond sound. Keywords : analog, feedback, fridge, beauty, horror sound pressure levels, implode. note : The performance is inspired by the presence of Diskono in Eindhoven, 2003 where they held a transatlantic telephone interview with PHIL MILSTIEN at the opening of the exhibition I AM A CAMERA (a JaDa-Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen/Danielle Lemaire concept-curators, also behind the telephone piece). Founded in the spring of 1998 and described as a "a Scottish multi media cabal masquerading as a record label" , DISKONO was initially based in Central Scotland but befitting its constitution as a complex carbohydrate, the constituent pieces of its chemical structure are now strewn all over the globe ; New York, London, Moscow, Brussels etc. The known and affiliated elements of Diskono were/are Klaus Oldanburg, Ruth Random, Findo Gask, Dr. Barnes Advocaat, Gunter Saxenhammer, Ttocshagg Forfib, Joel Ongthorne, Kosten Koper ; although these may be pseudonyms for the same person or persons. Together or alone, they / he / she operated a record label releasing sound art & "avant-garde flicks of the wrist" as well as curating savory pretentiously artistic projects such as the exhibition Revisionland by Alejandra and Aeron (which won an Award of Distinction in Digital Music at Prix Ars Electronia 2002) and physical remixseries of 7" records with Aerospace Soundwise and Prix Ars Electronica winner Janek Schaefer. Diskono also released music by blue-chip figures such as Felix Kubin, Alejandra and Aeron, Kid 606, Pimmon, Nomex, Ashtray Navigations, JaDa, People Like Us, Francisco Lopez, Boards Of Canada, Goodiepal, V/vm, Hrvatski, Aavikko." - Diskono. |
| Artist: WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON Title: Rapt Format: CD Label: Disposable Thumb Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "On his latest release, with beautiful hand-printed foldover jackets of his own design, Simon continues to explore his obsessions and fascinations with reverence, wry wit and a skillful ear. Aesthetically similar to 2002s dyrø (PseudoArcana), the CD is an exercise in "wonderment and rapture" via the friendly conduits of electronic drone, cut and paste minimalism and mischievous white noise. Oftentimes a confluence of contrasting disciplines and perspectives, the document is a rich work of intricate spells merging tension and release. Says Simon of Meiji13: "Its a very uncharacteristic foray into program music: the fuzz over the top is like a patina of age, like hearing Caruso singing I Pagliacci." - Disposable Thumb. |
| Artist: L.S.O.D Title: Sublivian / Astral Being Format: 10" Label: Disques Le Carotte Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "L.O.S.D. is Laboratory of Sonic Discovery from Amsterdam the Netherlands, the project of Peter Fleur and also in collaborations with Radboud Mens. Both have been active since the early 80s as soundmixers on various radiostations. With this project there is always a search for Organic electronics and a way to create a living sound. Also known as remixers under the name L?SD creating a different style of sound in the realms of rhythm. For L.O.S.D. this means that it can keep concentrating on the more experimental works." - discogs.com. Sealed original copies of this 10 inch e.p released in 1998. Comes on clear vinyl, packed with a screw to a dense, multicolor paper-mache disc. |
| Artist: TYVEK Title: Blessed Format: 7" Label: Disques Steak Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "Just in time for their first Euro tour with Cheveu, beginning the 10th in Switzerland, les disques STEAK is releasing Tyveks all new 7" "Blessed b/w Summer things". The 7" is 600 copies, all white vinyl." -Disques Steak |
| Artist: V/A Title: Waterpipes & Dykes: Dutch Psychedelic Underground 1966-1972) Format: CD Label: Distortions Records Country: Netherlands Price: $12.00 |
| "...Volume One. "Dutch & English language psychedelia from 1966-1972. In 1968 the new foreign hippie gods caroused through the pristine Dutch tulip gardens. In musical history, this moment marked the end of the typical Nederbiet scene as we knew it. The impact on culture and society of these new rockstars was totally overwhelming. People were dumbfounded. The handful of pearls which were produced by these bands are amongst the least-known and most sought-after vinyl that was ever produced in the Netherlands. After 30 years, these peals are wrested from oblivion and this unique collection of recordings finally gets the well-deserved recognition in the world of pop music." --from the liner notes. Artists include: Karel Appel, The Maskers, Met & Zonder, N.V. Groep 65, Dirty, The Motives, Crash, The Bumble Bees, Woorden, Mothers Love, The Nicols, Incredible, St. Giles System, Short 66 I.L.N., Children of Jubal and Suprieze." - Distortions Records. |
| Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: Weaponry Pt. 1 Format: LP Label: Divorce Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Divorce was so pleased with how SHEARING PINX delivered on the Haruspex 7-inch last year that they decided to up the ante considerably and release a double LP in two parts. In return the Pinx have gone all in with the new material. Weaponry Pt. 1 is a mountain that will remain visible in the sea of astounding, bizarre releases Shearing Pinx have been pouring for the last half decade. It is made clear from the first moments of the opening track; the Vancouver trio has been committed here to tape while in rare form. This LP sets up a classic, demento-tuned twin guitar battle where a nonchalant vocal delivery squares off against the drum sets muscular fake jazz-jizz-isms. William S. Burroughs used a shotgun to create paintings. Shearing Pinx use musical instruments to wound and maim. Tunes for the unglued. Artwork by RICK WHITE of ERICS TRIP and ELEVATOR. Edition of 600 copies. For fans of Harry Pussy, No New York, Sonny Sharrock." -Divorce. |
| Artist: NOVELLER/AIDAN BAKER Title: Colorful Disturbances Format: LP Label: Divorce Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| "Guitars warped so hard they dissolve into pure consciousness! Seriously, this record had to happen because these two are the NOW of transcendental guitar weirdness. In families like ours where deformed music of one kind or another pours out of the speakers all day long, Torontos Aidan Baker is a household name. He is no doubt one of the most imaginative experimental musicians of the new generation, quickly creating a universe of limitless sound with his bursting discography. He offers this record an extensive piece which mixes drone, texture, and an ever-bowing foundation -- imagine the sound of falling backwards... forever. The new blood on this split is guitarist Sarah Lipstate from Brooklyn, New York (aka Noveller). Sarahs prepared twin guitar works up a slow hypnotic force, gently pulling way out to the furthest deep end of pulses and patterns. Beautiful repetitions effortlessly skirt over a dark undercurrent. A+++ listen. Edition of 600 copies." -Divorce |
| Artist: F.D.A.S.F.D.A. Title: High Fashion Format: 7" Label: Djuring/Borft Country: Sweden Price: $6.50 |
| "a cool & bizzare sound that mix together classic folk music with today electonics and much more." - Borft. Edition of 250. |
| Artist: JAZZFINGER Title: Wixxon Flag Bearer Format: CDR Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Jazzfinger, from the UK, have been making music for quite some time now. The main thing that Ive noticed about them, is that they never stay put with just one sound. Their sound can change from song to song even. The first song on this cdr has a keyboard (or is it a melodica?) drone, changing chords a few times, with a guitar or other screeching sound over it. The second song continues right where the first one left off, this one is a quarter of an hour long. This time, it builts up in substance, with some drumming from cans and various toys. The next few tracks continue the calmness, and five songs in a piano joins the mix, with pots-and-pans drumming. Water-color splashes over a weird drawing of heads. Edition of 100" - DNT. |
| Artist: GANG WIZARD Title: I Remember You From the Party In Long Beach Format: 7" Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "This was supposed to come out awhile back, but who cares, because now its out. Im bad at describing music, so heres a description of them: "...an angelic force, delivering a unique thrash-bliss sound to the world. Sparkeling synths and homemade glitter electronics are combined with whirlwind drums, screaming vocals, and aluminum spring guitars. A fantasy of blindness cycling through your lungs." members of foot village, rose for bohdan, and many other bands. Edition of 300 on black vinyl with minimalist cover." - DNT. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Caked Paradise Format: Mag/CDR Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Guess what everybody? DNT has now been around for two years! This is the compilation to celebrate it! Who wants cake? Totally (not really) in the making since last years birthday comp. This one tops it for certain. Drone cake batter by Warmth & Quilts. Psychedelic icing by Moonmilk. The socks that grandma always gives you by German. Stringed folk-balloons by The North Sea & Nomen Dubium. Melted ice cream by The Mighty Acts of God. Art by: Puff & Magic, Dean Sullivan, Zach McCraw and Adam Baz of Night Wound fame, and Zach Fleming. Comic by Britt Brown (NNF). Writing by DJ Rick (Art for Spastics), Eric Hesson (maan), Bob Gregorio, plus reviews of the past years releases, by Z-Gun, Animal Psi, Cassette Gods & more. Plus then its like, flip to the back bro and pop in the disk (remember when disc was spelled with a k? what changed that?). Anyway, full-color art for some of it, black ink-colored paper for the rest of it. In a dvd case with birthday stencils and invisible cake. Hand numbered out of 150. Eat up!" - DNT. |
| Artist: MUDBOY Title: MuDMuX Volume One Format: 7" Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "This is the first installment of a series of 7"s to be released by various labels. Each record contains a single track on each side by a different band- produced, mixed, orchestrated, destroyed, mutilated and brought back to life by the dark dreams of Mr. mudboy. Side A of this first edition features an unearthed file by the Extreme Animals resurrected as a tribute to "Lil John Carpenter." Percussion by Jeremy Lazy "animal" Magnet Harris. Side B is a devastating whirlpool cliff walk based on a song written and sung by the DarkDarkDark band. Backup fingers by Alec K Redfearn of the Eyesores fame. Cover art is a hand made blue and gold 4 pass silkscreen by R Lyon in collaboration with Kevin Hooyman. Limited to 535."- Dnt |
| Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND Title: Helium Rug Format: LP Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Denmarks drone demons release another one. A helium rug would float, which is exactly what your melted mind will do while listening to this record. Whistling blown by the birds of hell. This has been in the works for quite some time. Originally intended to come out last summer on their US tour, but we didnt want to flood the market (they already had 3 LPs coming out the same time). Edition of 300 on black vinyl with bi-color stencil. The front cover is what you will look like after listening to this. Your mind will split open unleashing the helium rug from within. Artwork by Zachary Fleming.1-sided LP" - Dnt |
| Artist: GAY BEAST Title: Disrobics Format: LP Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Somebody give me some dope. (Just kidding mom) DNT has finally entered the LP realm--and all this time you thought we were only going to release cdrs and cassettes. "Disrobics" was originally self-released on CD by the band, but I felt it needed to be heard on vinyl. Gay Beast are a skronky neo-wave group of kiddos from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Silk screened covers and black vinyl. Hand numbered pressing of 500." - Dnt |
| Artist: PLANKTON WAT Title: Dawn of the Golden Eternity Format: LP Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Debut solo LP by DEWEY MAHOOD of Portland psych-jammers ETERNAL TAPESTRY. Ten songs recorded at the Owl House basement last winter on cassette 4-track. The LP encompasses a vast array of sounds and moods, from blissed-out drone punk rippers to super chill deep space folk. Total late night stoney textures, and radiant sun anthems. Acoustic and electric guitar, drums, banjo, mbira, and some singing, all mega tripped with syrupy analogy delay. Really beautiful heavy zoners. Hand drawn covers and insert by Dewmah. Edition of 500 on marbled orange vinyl." - DNT. |
| Artist: ATTESTUPA Title: 1867 Format: LP Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "A winter so harsh, a spring so cold and a summer so late. A dead harvest. The failure of the crop meant starvation and thousands and thousands of people died. Bark bread, lichen gruel and families slowly fading away. This bleak period, ended in 1869, resulted in that more Swedes than ever emigrated to Northern America and other places for a better life. Based around those years, Gothenburgs ?ttestupa here creates an absolutely terrific soundtrack to this misery with their new 3-song EP. Exploring the dark past of their native country Sweden, this is a well-executed journey into the never ending well of hopelessness. Into the struggle of nature and mankind. The unique production is getting close to perfection, a raw and disgusting thick sonic bliss with a continuous crunch. A sharpened blend of noise, Kraut and black metal with a crude melancholic atmosphere. Vocals buried deep under the soil and guitars being more prominent. Organs, screeching metal junk, tape loops. Pounding drums. The recording reeks of bad times and tremendous coldness and its hard to grasp for air. No hope and definitely no joy. Recorded during the first three months of 2009. Limited to 330 copies on black vinyl." - DNT. |
| Artist: SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Title: Transgression Format: LP Label: Dogma Chase Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
| "Dogma Chase proud to announce the new album of the true innovative power electronics band from UK. SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Transgression follows This Is The Truth on Ground Fault Recordings and Hospital Productions. It comes absolutely standing and disturbing electronics noise which is thorough aggressiveness and total directly fierce vocals. Its tension is ultra violent including seditious for all of need it. We are sure that you feel strongly again they are still outstanding and are growing toward into the living truth. We would like to dedicate it for all of the human living with strength that continue to be honest and real NOISE fanatics. This release was sold at their first Japan tour in April. It comes on pure white vinyl with a A4 sized insert in textual sleeve with embossed band name. Limited to 500 copies." - Dogma Chase. |
| Artist: NECROPHONIE Title: 1996-2006 Format: 10" Label: Dogma Chase Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "Necrophonie is a collaboration project of M.Nothing a.k.a. Atrax Morgue, and Devis G. a.k.a. DeV, Lvnvs, Teatro Satanico. This is their first 10 inch vinyl released in 2006 from Japanese new label "Dogma Chase". Greasy electronic noises are discharged with muddiness reverberation like as leaking from stoned coffin. One side is filled with poisonous shadow as unreleased new track recorded in 2006. The other side is more rusted industrial noise mainly inorganic rhythms and heavy layered paranoid electronics and comes from long deleted cassette tape collaboration as Atrax Morgue/Lvnvs on Slaughter Productions (spt69) recorded in 1996. Special corset styled foldout sleeve with an inside message and full color printed insert. Hand-numbered limited edition 300 copies." - Dogma Chase. |
| Artist: DUNGER, NICOLAI Title: Tranquil Isolation Format: LP Label: Dolores Country: Sweden Price: $23.00 |
| "Special limited 500, vinyl edition of album by Swedens answer to Nick Drake. His 6th album to date recorded with/by Will Oldham in USA." - Dolores. 2002 release. |
| Artist: ROWENTA, FRANK Title: Weingüter Format: CD Label: Dom Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "Franks newest output on Dom Elchklang features music that he originally composed for an exposition of french architecture in Bordeaux, France. Weingüter, a quadrophonic piece in 4 parts (for 4 tube amplifiers) was actually never performed, as his concert at the exhibition had to be stopped when Frank began to throw grand crus at the audience. 10 years after this event the original composition is available to the recordbuyer for the first time (carefully mixed down to stereo by Achim P. Li Khan). Compared to its predecessor Schuss in den Ofen, Weingüter shows Frank in a more power-electronics mood, featuring some adventurous use of synthesized amplifier sounds."- Dom. |
| Artist: ULTRA Title: Roman Holiday Format: Double LP & 7" Label: Dom America Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "A double-LP reissue of the 1997 CD, with an additional seven tracks taken from various 7-inches and compilations-sixteen songs in total of unparalleled refinement and sensitivity (and often a great deal less). Includes a bonus 7-inch containing two previously unreleased tracks culled from the Zoll sessions. "Classic early industrial / power electronics from the American Northwest receives a deluxe vinyl treatment of their entire output. Violent cacophony reminiscent of Whitehouse and similar ilk; a beautifully presented monstrosity." Limited edition of 400 copies." -Dom America |
| Artist: YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS Title: Colossal Youth Format: LP Label: Domino Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In their short lifetime Young Marble Giants: Alison Statton and brothers Stuart and Phil Moxham released one album, a handful of singles and a Peel Session; the album, 1980s acclaimed Colossal Youth, is one of the most definitive records of the post punk era. Taking the unprecedented step of making their first ever release a long player certainly paid off. Colossal Youth became a parallel soundtrack to the unsteady stabs of the post punk early eighties, and quickly became one of (the then nascent) Rough Trade Records best sellers. Becalmed, resigned and a little tense, it created a new vocabulary for song." -Domino |
| Artist: NUSS, DAVE Title: Wood on Wood Format: DVD Label: Dornbracht Culture Projects Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "Premiere solo performance of Nuss of the NNCK from Fall 2006, this gallery edition DVD includes a 40-page color photo journal of the event and essay by the Bernadette Corporation. A drummer at the centre of the sportshall in the former Postfuhramt building, Berlin Mitte, closely encircled by tracks to transport the slowly and relentlessly moving camera, capturing his every movement, his every emotion. The audience postiions itself a safe distance from the increasingly loud, ecstatic acoustic attacks. The ground is vibrating. The pressure waves tranform the room into a single force field. Dave Nuss continues until the final beat of his inner being had been sounded. The DVD presents two versions of the entire performance, one from above, and one from a camera rotating constantly around him in a 360 degree circle, as well as a 10-minute "short version" edit of the two." - Dornbracht Culture Projects ALL Region DVD player required. |
| Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Out of Order b/w Beside Format: 7" Label: Dot Dot Dot Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
| "Two 7 min+ tracks, one with vocals, one without. 250 copies only, marbly grey/green vinyl." - Dot Dot Dot. Recent solo recordings from from Hayward (This Heat, Quiet Sun, Camberwell Now, etc...) |
| Artist: NISENNEN MONDAI Title: Tori Format: CD Label: Dot Line Circle Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "*newest release, enhanced cd (has a 5 minute video of them freaking out on it while wearing chicken mask, kind of like Scissor Girls, Butthole Surfers, and Boredoms all rolled in one)." - Dot Line Circle. |
| Artist: NISENNEN MONDAI Title: Sorede Sozo Suru Neji Format: CD Label: Dot Line Circle Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| Debut CD. |
| Artist: MIKE GUNN, THE Title: Durban Poison Format: LP Label: Double Naught Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Sealed copies of this 1992 psych release featuring Tom and Christina Carter (Charalambides). |
| Artist: CULTURCIDE Title: Short CD: For Commotional Use Only Format: CD Label: Double Naught Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ??The first release from this legendary Texas group in over 4 years grafts their infamously sarcastic attitude onto a collection of rock and blues tunes recorded live and in the studio, with elements of country, thrash, electronic and emo-core tossed in for good measure. This gets really sick in places, too.? ?? Double Naught. 1995 release. |
| Artist: PUMICE Title: s/t Format: 10" Label: Doubtfulsounds Country: France Price: $16.00 |
| "Some time ago, I got a message from Stefan Neville about this record : "I been workin on some recording for you. some dumb punk slop and some tape loop soup and a pretty love song." I couldnt describe the record better. Its maybe the end of an era for Pumice with his 8 track pushed to its maximum limits and dying soon after these recordings were finished. So the result is maybe one of the noisier Pumice records to date... with a pretty love song. Recorded in june 2009 in Sandringham, Auckland, NZ. And mixed in january 2010 at Mainz. Black vinyl packed in black paper silkscreened by Cotoreick, with 2 postcards. Artwork by Stefan Neville. Mastering by Aigle noir. Limited to 500 copies." - Doubtfulsounds. |
| Artist: TIMMYS ORGANISM Title: Im on a Hunt Format: 7" Label: Douchemaster Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Finally! The King of Weird Punk finds himself on Douche Master. If there were a budget rock hall of fame, TIMMY VULGAR would almost have to be one of the first inductees. Its always a thrill to see what Timmy will do next, either in a studio or perhaps walking down the street. The A-side is grimy as hell and sounds a bit like early Dead Boys. B-side carries a similar vibe but with a healthy dose of heroine soaked Bad Seeds. Edition of 600." - Douchemaster. |
| Artist: BREGGER, DOUGLAS Title: My Innermost Thoughts Format: DVDR Label: Douglas Bregger Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "An animation hand-painted onto 16mm film. Made throughout 2006. About 30:00. Dedicated to Stan Brakhage." -Douglas Bregger. First new release from Bregger since Vampire Radio in 1991 (the RRR100 track was from a previous LP)! Very minimal packaging. |
| Artist: RTX Title: Transmaniacon Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Jennifer Herrema is back. Its not the Royal Trux, its RTX. Flash to the present. Transmaniacon sounds instead like it was recorded on Mars -- or maybe Saturn. Together, Jennifer, Nadav Eisenman and Jaimo Welch track into new territory. The sounds will immediately make sense, sounds formed into the tightest breed of pure rock energy. A mass of guitars that squirm and scream around the granite rock of the rhythm section, occasionally rocketing into the sky -- pre-verb ricochets colliding with waves of synth and razor sharp vocals cutting right through anything in their path. Jennifer summons the ageless teenager eating cotton candy with the summertime blues and it all boils down hot and cold into one piece of controlled rage post-apocalyptic marching music, or titanium stadium rock, with tight pop rhythms. And the vibe is dead on weird, ripe with images. . . what comes to mind. . .biker gangs, sci-fi mythology, and personal introspection (destruction and then triumph formed from the ashes). This is the sound of RTX." - Drag City. CD also available. |
| Artist: HAGERTY, NEIL Title: Public Works Format: Book Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Public Works is a collection of 17 satirical essays and short stories by Neil Hagerty. It brings together for the first time all of Hagerys short pieces which appeared in magazines and journals during his travels through the past ten years. Collected and revised, they form a newly realized endeavor which embraces a broad set of concerns: the starkly pallid Travel Diary abets an elegy for the humor magazine CAR-toons, a short story set in the nexus of boxing and right-wing activism appends a conversation with the ghost of Al Jolson. We visit dark, dusty border towns and encounter the world within a dirty mattress. Such a classic literary genres as the western and the detective story are revisited through characters who are the compelling, ironic and humorous people we meet every day, as well as a few whom we pass without notice. Baked beans are also discussed." - Drag City. |
| Artist: RTX Title: Speed to Roam Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The pure rock energy found in Low Ass (Live) On the Beach and Joint Chief Beach Freak (Live) is the live sound of RTX -- a sound fucked with extensively for the studio versions, but presented to you hear with a whomp of granite. Powerful stuff! Kitty Grom takes us back to the lab, where strange and twisted things are occurring minute-by-minute. This RTX single contains one of the hot cuts from Transmaniacon with three bonus tracks." - Drag City. |
| Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: All-Night Fox Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Deeply grooved and stomping, alive with a triple-headed vocal attack, aloft on clouds of reverb, All-Night Fox can be heard in a variety of tongues. As in so much of life, meaning comes after the moment of impact. This is built into the design. The songs on All-Night Fox are free from structural cliché -- verse, chorus and solo have been incorporated into a stream that runs through the entire album. Additionally, the generic designations rhythm and blues and rock and roll are surpassed. The Howling Hex play their music beyond genre, with the reality of rhythm and blues inherent in the music, regardless of whether or not it is exploited for their image. The Howling Hex features Neil Michael Hagerty on guitar, vocals, production and songs." - Drag City. |
| Artist: THOMPSON, MAYO Title: Corkys Debt To His Father Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Mayo Thompsons until now ultra-rare solo album. The album was produced in Houston, Texas in 1970 by Thompson, Frank Davis and Roger Rocket Romano for the short-lived but nonetheless legendary Texas Revolution label of Walt Andrus. Though pressed and advertised in the pages of Rolling Stone, the demise of the label meant the album went largely undistributed until the mid 1980s when Glass Records (London) gave it its first proper release. Coming as the sun set on the first psychedelic rock era, Corkys Debt evokes the early days of acoustic blues, but is already in the maelstrom from which punk rock would emerge just a few years later. The set features innovative performances by some of Houstons finest musicians of the time playing eleven songs by Thompson - one with Frederick Barthelme, with whom he started The Red Crayola. They represent a broad range of expressive manners and forms. Made to stand with the finest comparable work of the period, Corkys Debt shows Thompson at his most accessible. Unique ballads, blues, rock and love songs flow one to another with style, grace and intensity, and the handling of diverse popular-music idioms and language that characterize his more widely known work in The Red Crayola are also to be found. The line between genius and madness is very thin." - Drag City. |
| Artist: HIGGINS, GARY Title: Red Hash Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| First reissue of this underground folk-psych classic, originally released in 1973 as a self-released LP. " Red Hash features eleven haunting tracks of folk-pop played on acoustic and electric guitar and arranged with percussion, cello, flute, piano, organ, bass and mandolin. This plus Garys transcendent vocals bring to mind the perfectly-damaged vibes found in David Crosbys masterpiece of peace, love and paranoia, If I Could Only Remember My Name and the recently re-discovered and acclaimed Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs. This is the first-ever authorized reissue of Red Hash -- direct from the original master tapes. The Red Hash CD includes two unheard bonus cuts and never before seen artwork/photos. Red Hash is held in very high regard by current torch-bearers/taste-makers: Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom, WFMU, Devendra Banhart, Ben Chasny, Sunburned Hand of the Man, White Magic, and Espers." - Drag City. |
| Artist: AUGUST BORN Title: August Born Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "August Born is a collaboration between Japans Hiroyuki Usui and Six Organs of Admittances Ben Chasny. Well versed heads already know Hiroyuki under his alias of L, in which he recorded the subtle psychedelic gem, Holy Letters . Along with spending time in Marble Sheep, he also played drums for Fushitsusha for six years and played in an early incarnation of Ghost, which can be seen on the live DVD, Metamorphosis .Holy Letters was an early template for Six Organs when it was released nearly ten years ago. August Born started off as a game that was based on the idea of fortuitous mistranslation. That is: even if they didnt understand exactly what the other wanted to do or where to go with the song, the songs themselves would find their own direction. The project started with the scraping sounds of a bird being buried. As improbable as it seemed, these sounds eventually created music. August Born is a mellow work seamlessly blending Hiroyukis guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, and didgeridoo with Chasnys unmistakable voice and guitar. The tunes found here hold rewards that will only grow with patience and time." - Drag City. CD also available. |
| Artist: RED CRAYOLA WITH ART & LANGUAGE Title: Kangaroo? Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Repressed! Reissue of long o/p LP from 1981 (Rough Trade UK). Features guests like Epic Soundtracks, the Raincoats Gina Birch, Allen Ravenstein, Laura Logic, etc." - FE. |
| Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: You Cant Beat Tomorrow Format: CD/DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The DVD contains the pilot episode of The Howling Hexs variety show, You Cant Beat Tomorrow , while the CD is the soundtrack of the same name, containing complete versions of the songs featured in the show -- and more. Listeners whove already sampled the high-energy sounds of The Howling Hex (as heard on their CD, All-Night Fox ) will be thrilled by the expanded lineup, featuring The Theatre Fire on banjo, violin, trumpet and pedal steel guitar and Neil Michael Hagerty on lead vocals and guitar. The video presentation weaves a collage of every-day images, musical segments and a hilarious animated serial following a group of all-American types down at Henrys bar." - Drag City. |
| Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Sun Awakens Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The latest from BEN CHASNY under his SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE moniker, and his darkest album to date. You get a six-track song cycle where waves of guitars and beauty are betrayed by madness-in the prettiest possible way, backed an extended seventh song, "River of Transfiguration," featuring AL CISNEROS (OM, SLEEP) on bass." - Drag City. |
| Artist: GHOST Title: In Stormy Nights Format: Double LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A brand new album from heavy-hitting Japanese cosmic crew GHOST. Six tracks that range from pop-folk to hard rock to outré concepts, all held together by the bands diverse musical personality. Includes the epic 33-minute "Hemicyclic Anthelion," a seamlessly blended free improvisation piece strung together from several live shows. LP version features a non-CD bonus mix of the track "Caledonia."" - Drag City. |
| Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: Nightclub Version of the Eternal Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Existing simultaneously below the crust of the earths war-torn culture and on the main street of consumer America, The Howling Hex spend their time pushing their trademark New Border Sound to the bold, the curious, and the jaded alike, crafting sonic pleasures for all needs. Albums such as All Night Fox and 1-2-3 have explored frontier sounds and sampled local cultures while brewing an unmistakable essence of rock and roll as never heard before. The A-V approach of You Cant Beat Tomorrow caught these two Americas in the frame as The Howling Hex jammed their unmistakable sound. Now come seven new songs that take it higher. Nightclub Version Of the Eternal builds, builds and builds in the manner of The Howling Hex live shows seen across America funking on and on with a collective abandon, while dispensing information with g-g-generous style." - Drag City. |
| Artist: P.G. SIX Title: Slightly Sorry Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Pat Gubler (aka P.G. Six) came on the scene in 1994, as a member of Memphis Luxure, a noise/rock band from Port Chester, NY. That band morphed into Tower Recordings, a musically omnivorous ensemble that released several albums on the Siltbreeze and Communion labels over the past decade. Pats first solo album, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites saw the light of day in 2001, followed by The Well of Memory in 2004. Music from the Sherman Box Series, a collection of instrumentals, arrived in late 2006. His music fuses an unlikely range of influences including 60s British folk, country rock, & experimental music. On Slightly Sorry, in addition to the Anglo-Irish quasi-folk influences, you get some Garth Hudson attempts, some Roger McGuinn-izations, the odd Crazy Horse-ism and a pretty nifty cover of a song by Youngbloods pal Jeffrey Cain (note there is a near-approximation of some Dave Schramm-ittude on that Cain number - not really but kinda. Okay, maybe not). After all influences have been calculated, the roots-informed, detail-obsessed, defiantly handspun sound - and the transcendently glossy results of such alchemy, make the truth about P.G. Six." - Drag City. CD also available. |
| Artist: GHOST Title: Metamorphosis: Ghost Chronicles 1984-2004 Format: DVD/CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $18.50 |
| "From twenty years of performances, many of them hidden from the public eye, Ghost give you Metamorphosis: Ghost Chronicles 1984-2004 DVD + CD. What you will find in the nearly three hours of footage on the DVD: improvisations, one-time-only band lineups, unknown band lineups, unknown places, performances in temples, psychedelic costumes, bonfires, freak-outs and trances, the visual analog of a song from Temple Stone, footage from Terrastock, a variety of light shows and a demonstration for the oppressed people of Tibet. Over the course of the twelve performances, a total of thirty different songs are played -- with a couple of extras thrown in for good measure." - Drag City. The DVD is NTSC, all-region, 150 minutes. |
| Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: XI Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: US Price: $18.00 |
| "Off in the distance, the sounds of cities and towns groan, rumble and heave. It might be bustling industry or some strange storm that stuck around so long that inhabitants forgot it was ever supposed to leave. In some places, it is rumored that sirens are forgotten altogether. Can you imagine? OMG! With this in mind, The Howling Hex congregated. A tour had been booked and there was work to do. Working collaboratively with each other, the band descended upon each city in turn. Nightly, they gathered with the citizens and took note. Wherever The Howling Hex went, they heard the sirens - howling, screaming, soothing. They put them in the grooves of their new songs. Writing songs on the road and playing them, night after night, led them and us to this moment-defining statement: XI. This unnameable thing we know as rock is matched on XI with sharp-eyed lyricism and a multiplicity of vocal approaches." - Drag City. |
| Artist: RED KRAYOLA WITH ART & LANGUAGE Title: Sighs Trapped By Liars Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With the entirely new music statement, Sighs Trapped by Liars, The Red Krayola renew their association with conceptual artists, Art & Language. Beginning in 1973, their collaboration includes the video projects Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors, and Struggle in New York, as well as the much-acclaimed and decried music releases, Corrected Slogans, Kangaroo?, and Black Snakes. Thirty years has mellowed the various parties not at all. The faint-hearted might want to swallow something calming before giving Sighs Trapped by Liars a spin. Sighs Trapped by Liars is as much a delightful bit of latter-day entertainment as it is a sensational musical excursion not trapped in any era. The composers of Red Krayola classics such as Keep All Your Friends, Portrait of V.I.Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Black Snakes, and Born In Flames have made another try at negotiating the relationship between language and music in this new collection. Speaking in a contemporary (and frequently foul-mouthed) voice they say something we could all stand to hear - in a popular music format that we can all enjoy. Those expecting a further trip into the radical leftist pamphleteering of the former works will have to listen closely; these are new songs for new days. Perspectives are taken from quotes, exhibits and jokes of history are translated into material that addresses the state of the art. This music couldnt be made without the experiences and politics of former days. The questions the 60s asked about the very idea of music and objects inform the practice today; the relationship of these new songs to the old ones is projective and analytical, subject to change without notice." -Drag City. |
| Artist: BISHOP, SIR RICHARD Title: Polytheistic Fragments Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "It goes without saying that Polytheistic Fragments is an instrumental release - who among us would want it otherwise? In the tradition of his classic debut, Salvador Kali, this new record features equal amounts of improvisation and composition. Sir Richards powers lie in his ability to captivate with just the sound of his guitar, but he doesnt completely abandon studio processes, which allow Polytheistic Fragments to communicate a greater wholeness: all Sir Rick, all the time, if you will. We have come to expect a few solo acoustic guitar pieces with the gypsy stylings of his hero, Django Reinhardt - and as if to tenderize our consciousness and prepare it for the ride, Cross My Palm with Silver meets and exceeds our expectations. Rub Al Khali is an ode to the oud, a northern African lute of sorts. On Free Masonic Guitar, Sir Richard manifests free form acoustic playing wholly in his own style. Peppering the mix are the sounds of electric guitar and lap steel guitar, bringing contrast and color. Hecates Dream is a dreamy praise to a dark Greek Goddess, but Tennessee Porch Swing and Canned Goods and Firearms switch gears to good old down home Americana and country twang. Sir Richard is renowned for his prowess and mastery with the guitar, but the piano playing on Polytheistic Fragments shows a fluid, meditative style. Saraswati is a lengthy river piece bathed in Hindustani serenity, while Cemetery Games is a short celebratory skeletal dance, with more light-heartedness than spook. In a record with so many spirits, Bishop fills in the space where necessary and rounds out the feeling with catchy tunes such as Elysium Number Five and Ecstasies in the Open Air. Polytheistic Fragments shows that the divinely inspired Sir Richard Bishop cannot be contained in one form." -Drag City. |
| Artist: BISHOP, SIR RICHARD Title: Polytheistic Fragments Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "It goes without saying that Polytheistic Fragments is an instrumental release - who among us would want it otherwise? In the tradition of his classic debut, Salvador Kali, this new record features equal amounts of improvisation and composition. Sir Richards powers lie in his ability to captivate with just the sound of his guitar, but he doesnt completely abandon studio processes, which allow Polytheistic Fragments to communicate a greater wholeness: all Sir Rick, all the time, if you will. We have come to expect a few solo acoustic guitar pieces with the gypsy stylings of his hero, Django Reinhardt - and as if to tenderize our consciousness and prepare it for the ride, Cross My Palm with Silver meets and exceeds our expectations. Rub Al Khali is an ode to the oud, a northern African lute of sorts. On Free Masonic Guitar, Sir Richard manifests free form acoustic playing wholly in his own style. Peppering the mix are the sounds of electric guitar and lap steel guitar, bringing contrast and color. Hecates Dream is a dreamy praise to a dark Greek Goddess, but Tennessee Porch Swing and Canned Goods and Firearms switch gears to good old down home Americana and country twang. Sir Richard is renowned for his prowess and mastery with the guitar, but the piano playing on Polytheistic Fragments shows a fluid, meditative style. Saraswati is a lengthy river piece bathed in Hindustani serenity, while Cemetery Games is a short celebratory skeletal dance, with more light-heartedness than spook. In a record with so many spirits, Bishop fills in the space where necessary and rounds out the feeling with catchy tunes such as Elysium Number Five and Ecstasies in the Open Air. Polytheistic Fragments shows that the divinely inspired Sir Richard Bishop cannot be contained in one form." - Drag City. |
| Artist: GHOST Title: Overture Format: CD/DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "At sunset on the night of October 9th, 2006, a crowd gathered at Nippon Yusen Soko, a converted warehouse space located on Yokahama Bay. Their purpose: to see and hear new music played by Ghost. Once they had completely arrived, the doors were shut and locked and the announcement made: no one would enter or exit the space until the performance was complete. Starting in complete darkness, the performance was spun, like yarn from a cocoon. The set for this evening was not just new to the audience. For this event, Ghost played entirely improvised material. Improvisation is the wellspring of creation for Ghost, both live and in the studio, though theyve never made an entire album of improvisations until now. In order to not miss a single inspiration, Ghost brought their orchestras-worth of instrumentation, playing bass, drums, piano, electric and acoustic guitars, saxophones, flute, tin-whistle, bells, frame drums, lute, tabla-baya, waterphone and even tapes! The performance space was chosen for its sonic qualities such as natural reverb as well as its resemblance to Potala Palace in Lhasa -- an ancient meditation retreat. Band members were spaced apart to prevent eye contact and allow distance for the reverberations to unfold between them -- which in turn, were recorded by four microphones spaced distantly from the band and faced toward the walls, in order to catch the sound in the room with the audience present as well as the echo of that sound. The CD performance is an edited version of the evenings events -- but the DVD is a completely live, four-camera view into the collective journey of Ghost and their audience. In addition to the sounds and sights of the band in action, the viewer will also experience the atmospheres created by Overheads, whose far-ranging light works (and subtle placement of a lace curtain) enhanced the mood within Nippon Yusen Soko that night." DVD length: 1 hr., 30 mins.; color, NTSC format; All-Region; Audio: Stereo & 5.1 Surround." - Drag City. |
| Artist: MAJOR STARS Title: Mirror/Messenger Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Now giant-size and louder than ever, Major Stars plunge further down the path of their second, larger life with Mirror/Messenger. Their new sextet record features the same triple-guitar frontline and fervid vocalizations from Sandra Barrett as did 2006s Syntoptikon - but with more songs then ever before found on a single Major Stars album (as many as two albums, in several cases). Mirror/Messenger is an assault on popular music, with considerable muscle exerted to create a jukebox-ready duck-and-shuffle - if the needle dont get tossed out the groove, that is." - Drag City. LP version. |
| Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Shelter from the Ash Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Shelter From The Ash features a most fluid combination of electric and acoustic Six Organs of Admittance styles. Chasny went into the studio with the songs both in his mind and also demoed out, a different way of working than in previous sessions. Sure, improvisations were still a big part of the sound; within the song structures, they create dynamic sparks from the other side of the inspiration. Additionally (if you must know), standard tuning played a part for the first time in history - but dont worry, this doesnt mean that Six Organs of Admittance has come in from the drone-storm - far from it! The man who was once Torn By Wolves in an unknown key is now Coming To Get You, no matter what it takes - with a tuning any man could play, but few would use as he does." -Drag City. LP version. |
| Artist: RTX Title: RaTX Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Back in March of this year, we issued RTXs second ball-busting album, under a title that we all really loved and you did too. But the man! The man came down on us, telling us that in a court of law the album with that title would be struck down and that we must cease and rethink. Thusly armed, we went to RTX and told them that a rebirth was at hand. Fortunately, they were up for the change - and RaTX is the inevitable result! Containing the exact same contents as its former self, RaTX has the additional benefit of being released in a super-limited vinyl edition (manufactured behind the former Iron Curtain) with exclusive artwork. Its the least we can do to party in the face of the man and his stupid rules and laws. If you havent given rock of the heaviest kind a spin this year, RaTX is the album you need to have. Unless you already have it under a different title." -Drag City. |
| Artist: SPACEMAN, J./SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Mister Lonely: Music From A Film By Harmony Korine OST Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| LP version, gatefold sleeve."When Harmony Korine started the production for his film Mister Lonely back in 2006, he asked two of his favorite artists to send him music to accompany the images and scenes he was putting together. They were busy, so fuck em, they get no ink here -- but both Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls were actually his favorites anyway. Some of the sounds these two formidable musicals acts made comprise the all-new soundtrack album, Mister Lonely -- Music From A Film By Harmony Korine. Korines previous films have found their truths in unblinking realities cross-cut with surreal images, exposing an emotional core that remains elusive after the movie is over -- ennui, delight, disgust, celebration... soft-core snuff porn? Mister Lonely subtly heightens all these effects with a narrative involving celebrity impersonators searching for a place where they just can be themselves and nuns who have discovered a new way to fly. The soundtrack for Mister Lonely is deceptively minimal -- a guitar or piano line that blinks past repetition and blushes into something grander; a motif reappearing under new auspices; link pieces that become spotlight moments, densely worked-out, stars in their own right. Classic soundtrack sounds are modern and nostalgic, which may make the progressive tilt of Mister Lonely 2008s #1 dark-horse chart-topper! Working independently and never collaborating (would you believe in studios right next door to each other? How about in same studio during different hours of the day?), Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls employ an instrumental approach for the sounds here, with one or two chanted exceptions. Their music conspires in an exquisite corpse-like fashion -- without knowing what the other was doing, theyve each brought half a body to the film, supplying the apparitional and austere sounds of a world in which everyone is something theyre not, i.e. the people they dream of being."-Drag City |
| Artist: SPACEMAN, J./SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Mister Lonely: Music From A Film By Harmony Korine OST Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "When Harmony Korine started the production for his film Mister Lonely back in 2006, he asked two of his favorite artists to send him music to accompany the images and scenes he was putting together. They were busy, so fuck em, they get no ink here -- but both Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls were actually his favorites anyway. Some of the sounds these two formidable musicals acts made comprise the all-new soundtrack album, Mister Lonely -- Music From A Film By Harmony Korine. Korines previous films have found their truths in unblinking realities cross-cut with surreal images, exposing an emotional core that remains elusive after the movie is over -- ennui, delight, disgust, celebration... soft-core snuff porn? Mister Lonely subtly heightens all these effects with a narrative involving celebrity impersonators searching for a place where they just can be themselves and nuns who have discovered a new way to fly. The soundtrack for Mister Lonely is deceptively minimal -- a guitar or piano line that blinks past repetition and blushes into something grander; a motif reappearing under new auspices; link pieces that become spotlight moments, densely worked-out, stars in their own right. Classic soundtrack sounds are modern and nostalgic, which may make the progressive tilt of Mister Lonely 2008s #1 dark-horse chart-topper! Working independently and never collaborating (would you believe in studios right next door to each other? How about in same studio during different hours of the day?), Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls employ an instrumental approach for the sounds here, with one or two chanted exceptions. Their music conspires in an exquisite corpse-like fashion -- without knowing what the other was doing, theyve each brought half a body to the film, supplying the apparitional and austere sounds of a world in which everyone is something theyre not, i.e. the people they dream of being."-Drag City |
| Artist: CHILDREN OF THE SIXTH ROOT RACE Title: Songs From The Source Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Songs From The Source is a lost-and-found 1973 recording of The Source family. These twelve songs were recorded live in the Hollywood Hills as a rehearsal for a concert date that Spirit of 76 -- aka YaHoWaH 13, The Savage Sons of YaHoWa, Yodship, and FireWaterAir, now known as Children of the Sixth Root Race -- had at the Whisky. A 1/4" tape copy of the recording was found in Chicago in 2006, though no one is really sure how it got there. Djin Aquarian, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for Spirit of 76, recalls being sent on a mission to Chicago later in 1973, where he believes he left the tape with an old friend. Djin wrote most of the songs in the year before he joined with The Source, as part of his solo mystical quest to help enlighten the world before it might annihilate itself, adding, Im glad both the album and the world are still here. Though this rehearsal wasnt meant to be released at the time, there are probably no other recordings as complete of the band doing these songs. The Spirit of 76 had a different sound than the one YaHoWaH 13 made with Yahowa. Songs From The Source has more rnb-grooved energy, with splashes of synth and organ, a female vocal chorus and streamlined fusion rhythms backing the uniquely Yahowan lyrical populism of songs like Godmen and Lost Dead But Hoping. The ebullient, ever-climbing power of the climactic We Are the Dinosaurs, has few analogues in the other Source recordings and is furthermore an outstanding piece of music from the entire era. Songs From The Source is a miraculous missing piece of The Sources positive musical movement. The members of YaHoWaH 13 (Djin, Sunflower on bass, Octavius on drums) were joined by family members Ahom, Aquariana, Cinderella, Rhythm, Vibration, and Zoroaster on lead guitar, to create the ecstatic sound of Spirit of 76. In summing up, Djin told us, I know Father is behind this redeeming of the Spirit of 76 album and up to his old tricks again... Yahowha." -Drag City |
| Artist: CHILDREN OF THE SIXTH ROOT RACE Title: Songs from The Source Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Songs From The Source is a lost-and-found 1973 recording of The Source family. These twelve songs were recorded live in the Hollywood Hills as a rehearsal for a concert date that Spirit of 76 -- aka YaHoWaH 13, The Savage Sons of YaHoWa, Yodship, and FireWaterAir, now known as Children of the Sixth Root Race -- had at the Whisky. A 1/4" tape copy of the recording was found in Chicago in 2006, though no one is really sure how it got there. Djin Aquarian, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for Spirit of 76, recalls being sent on a mission to Chicago later in 1973, where he believes he left the tape with an old friend. Djin wrote most of the songs in the year before he joined with The Source, as part of his solo mystical quest to help enlighten the world before it might annihilate itself, adding, Im glad both the album and the world are still here. Though this rehearsal wasnt meant to be released at the time, there are probably no other recordings as complete of the band doing these songs. The Spirit of 76 had a different sound than the one YaHoWaH 13 made with Yahowa. Songs From The Source has more rnb-grooved energy, with splashes of synth and organ, a female vocal chorus and streamlined fusion rhythms backing the uniquely Yahowan lyrical populism of songs like Godmen and Lost Dead But Hoping. The ebullient, ever-climbing power of the climactic We Are the Dinosaurs, has few analogues in the other Source recordings and is furthermore an outstanding piece of music from the entire era. Songs From The Source is a miraculous missing piece of The Sources positive musical movement. The members of YaHoWaH 13 (Djin, Sunflower on bass, Octavius on drums) were joined by family members Ahom, Aquariana, Cinderella, Rhythm, Vibration, and Zoroaster on lead guitar, to create the ecstatic sound of Spirit of 76. In summing up, Djin told us, I know Father is behind this redeeming of the Spirit of 76 album and up to his old tricks again... Yahowha." -Drag City. |
| Artist: BATOH, MASAKI & ESPVALL, HELENA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh are known to open-eared music listeners for their collaborations with other artists -- artists with names such as Ghost, Espers, Damon & Naomi, Fursaxa, Tom Rapp, Lukas Ligeti, Bert Jansch, among many others. By collaborating with each other, theyve made one of the most beautiful recordings either one of them has yet participated in. They first met at a festival in the United States in 2006. Batoh presented Helena with a handmade bamboo instrument; short on spare celli, she gave him a copy of her solo CD. Afterwards, they stayed in touch. At some point Helena suggested an improvised musical collaboration. Batoh wrote back and said: Actually Im too busy now to think about music... if my idols Moondog, Henry Cowell or Toru Takemitsu wanted me, Ill refuse their orders. Several weeks later, he had a change of heart. He contacted Helena and said that he felt they should record not improvisations only, but songs as well. Helena made a demo of some Scandinavian folk songs that she remembered in her spirit from growing up in northern Sweden, thinking that maybe theyd record one. The recording session was held in Tokyo over four days in December 2007. For instruments fans, this session might be a treasure. So many strings were used: 6- and 12-string guitar, banjo, cello, hurdy-gurdy, harp, contra bass, chappa Tibetan bells, Kin (Buddist metallic bowl), timpani, bass marimba, vibraphone, thunder sheet & on & on. Six of the Swedish traditional tunes were reconstructed, along with Batohs arrangement of Death Letter, a classic Son House delta blues song. Additionally, a European medieval tune was addressed in its own arrangement and expression. Zeranium, a dreamy folk tune that Batoh wrote for Damon & Naomi (they didnt use it), was re-arranged for this session as well. The improvisations were done on the last recording day, with no overdubs. Completely Free was the essential concept. For one of them, they were joined by Batohs fellow Ghosts Takuyuki Moriya (contra bass), Kazuo Ogino (piano,Celtic harp) and the santur player Mayumi Nagayoshi. The same morning, Helena had received notice that her grandmother suddenly had died, and that a dear friend had chosen to end his life. Two death letters in one day? There is great emotion reflected in the improvisations. And great depth and beauty throughout the whole Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh album." - Drag City |
| Artist: BATOH, MASAKI Title: Collected Works 1995-1996 Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The works that Collected Works collects are A Ghost From The Darkened Sea and Kikaokubeshi, two albums recorded and released in 1995 and 1996, during the final period of conceptualization for Ghosts Lama Rabi Rabi album. These two solo records allowed Batoh to explore musics and textures in an entirely free space from the already quite free (and rapidly morphing) Ghost. This is a solo record in a very complete sense: acoustic guitar, marimba, harmonium, voodoo drum, bells, hurdy gurdy, organ, drums, horns, duff, Moog synthesizer and the mysterious giri giri pee are all played by Batoh. In addition, field recordings done by Batoh are in the mix -- birds, seashore, winds on a bluff, industrial noise, metro, mountains, etc. The two works are fundamentally different: A Ghost From The Darkened Sea being an earthy collection of folk-songs; Kikaokubeshi composed almost entirely of a dreamy ambience." - Drag City |
| Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: Earth Junk Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Come back to the world of the all-new, all-different Howling Hex, the planet of Earth Junk. Three targets are routinely sighted during the genesis of new music in The Howling Hexs free-ranging New Border Sound: observation and incorporation of space/time around the band in the period preceding the recording of the album (aka, the writing process); a consideration of the nature of the worldwide audience of The Howling Hex, whoever they may be (i.e., the marketing meeting); and additionally, the consideration of equally unpredictable future listeners (with nominal input from Drag City account executives). Each time around, this method elicits new sounds from The Howling Hex in a divergent, entirely refreshing manner. What does that make Earth Junk? Take a guess. If you figured on an electric country-pop hoedown for small ensemble (featuring circus organ), as minimal and repetitive as all rock and roll, youd be getting somewhere. If youre concerned it might create a bit of curiosity or perplexity, youre on the right track. The Howling Hex are convinced that as musical entertainers, they owe the audience (an audience? Any audience!) something of value for their money. Emblematic identity and presentation doesnt fall under their umbrella of worthwhile experiences -- and furthermore, what seems dire and spacious can also be sly and hellacious. With The Howling Hex, youre free to get up or get down, and know theres room for one more -- and another beyond it. As test listeners, we concur. Recorded in Austin in the late winter of early 2008, Earth Junk is a ramble in the dappled sunlight of the American southwest, twisted metallic folk-art in the ever-changing breeze, an offering to all nations. Throw Earth Junk in your sound-trunk and keep on rolling. The Howling Hex will be there to greet you whenever -- and wherever - you arrive." - Drag City |
| Artist: KORINE, HARMONY Title: The Collected Fanzines Format: Book Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Trade paperback approx. 350 pages, 24.98 list price. Reproduces all the original pages, mostly hand-written or featuring primitive xerox art, that were published in small editions, 1992 thru 1999. Youre excused if youve never seen or heard of these "fanzines". Influential line: "Janet Jackson thinks Christ is a Hoax." There are many other pages with similar sentiment, but dude, the vibe is a little scurrilous... "Going back through the years...its so hard to remember, I was always tripping and falling over myself. These zines were written over the last fifteen years, mostly in dark rooms and the basements of old people. With names like Adulthood, Foster Homes and Gardens, Pocahontas Monthly, Hümer, and others, they were sold in limited editions out of the Alleged Gallery and Andrea Rosen Gallery. Some were sold on street corners and given away to the tramp sects that were so prominent during that time period. Scraps of paper and half thoughts in the guise of art objects, you see. Not many people actually got a chance to have these but the ones who are still amongst the living have greatly benefited. I know one lady in Panama who has the complete set, her family has stopped referring to her as a gimp, now they call her Sue. They were never meant to be collectible -- just low-concept laugh-inducing juxtapositions of words and images, images and images, lists, monologues, cartoons, free verse, jokes, half-thoughts, fake/real interviews, innuendo and Matt Dillons phone number. If you sold them on eBay for a bunch of money, I want my cut. Or if you bought them then please spare a percentage to the dyke army and the flame militia, its a good charity and its ribbon buttons are invisible. Some of them read like letters from prison. I know these were popular in some prisons but Im not sure why." -Harmony Korine, 2008. |
| Artist: KORINE, HARMONY Title: The Collected Fanzines Box Set Format: Boxset Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $95.00 |
| "Limited deluxe box set containing exact reproductions of the original eight fanzines. "Some of these collected fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony and Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. Theyd stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like Mae West Go East. When there were enough sheets, theyd put them in some kind of order, a lot of time they would use the pages as pillows. It was a lot of fun, lots of laughs. Weve tried to reproduce them in trade paperback form with the same production values -- which is to say, not much. They also come in an ultra-deluxe limited-edition box-set containing replicas of the original fanzines, for those of you with your eyes on future auction profits. Fuckers. Harmonys house burned down around 2000 or something. At that point, the focus shifted. And he got lazy. But today, weve got this collection of seven fanzines from a time of innocence, exploration, experimentation, discovery, depression and hanging around. Including these fanzines: My Friend Or Sheep Boy, Adulthood, Adulthood 2, Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting, Foster Homes And Gardens, Humor. Pocahontas Monthly, Hümer." -Drag City |
| Artist: LIECHTI, PETER Title: Kick The Habit Format: DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by Peter Liechti, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to eastern Switzerland is Voice Crack, the everyday household electronics duo of Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechtis vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress. Kick That Habit is a short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage of Voice Crack rehearsals and concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the fall and winter landscape of the area between Alpstein and the Bodensee. Utilizing color and black-and-white footage as well as combining the visual and the acoustic in an expression that subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence through sound and geography. Like the world the rest of us live in, its a world of beauty, quiet tragedy and the endless march forward. NTSC, 42 minutes, 4:3, mono, all-region." -Drag City |
| Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "First vinyl pressing since the original 1988 Royal Records LP issue. First time on Drag City." -Drag City |
| Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: RTZ Format: Triple LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Triple LP gatefold of long out of print and limited 4-track bedroom psych from the early years of Six Organs Of Admittance." -Drag City |
| Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: RTZ Format: Double CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The double-CD epic called RTZ (named after the button on a Tascam 484 that returns to zero) fashions several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittances early years into a massive prismatic arc, colossal and organic like some wonder of the ancient world. How could it be otherwise? Even when existing as only one half of a record, as many of these pieces once did (and still do, somewhere), Mr. 6OOA (Ben Chasny, yall!) leans into the eternal -- letting the winds of Time scar his face and the light of All There Is burn his skin black. Grandmaster Chas has sacrificed the body for his music time and again over the years. RTZ is an iridescent chimera infull flight, viewed through stained glass. Cataloging these early non-album excursions requires a bit of leg-(and mind)work. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to locate Resurrection, half of a Time-Lag split 12 with Charalambides. Warm Earth, Which Ive Been Told is half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra and Magic Carpithans from 2003. You Can Always See the Sun, was part of Three Lobed Recordings. Purposeful Availments subscription CD series in 2002. And Nightly Trembling was released way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free! Thats some spiritual shit right there. Combined with a never-before-released extended piece called Punish the Chasm with Wings from pre-millennial days and youve got yourself a deep, DEEP box set, crammed into a double CD. Rich with excursions to exotic musical climes and rhythmic with prayerful chants from the dark shadows of the earth, RTZ uses strings and bells, riffs both warm and icy, glowing lead guitars, massed voices and the pure, open air for its mantras and rituals. As the title alludes, these old sounds were forged in that bastion of personal expression, the four-track recorder. When a man can record a few feet from his bed, he becomes more inclined to render his nocturnal intuitions. And when that man is Ben Chasny, he can use those remastered (but still good and dusty) early recordings to attain the ultimate goal. We should all be so lucky. Oh wait, we are -- now that weve got RTZ forever, and more." -Drag City |
| Artist: DEATH Title: For The Whole World To See Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Their time in the studio was overseen by engineer Jim Vitti, whose work with Parliament/ Funkadelic seems to have informed his decision to record Death in raw fashion with little polish, showcasing the organic power relationships within the trio. The songs recorded there make up ?For the Whole World to See, which today blasts from the speakers as a fresh and inspired early entry in the category of punk rock. Death had a single pressed, Politicians In My Eyes b/w Keep On Knocking, selling them at their shows and on the street. Things werent really going anywhere when they heard from Columbia Records president Clive Davis. He was interested, but he had one demand -- theyd have to change their name. David, acting as the bands leader, would have no part of it, a decision that ultimately brought an end to Death. Moving to New England, David, Bobby and Dannis reconnected with their faith, forming the Christian rock-n-roll band The 4th Movement, whose self-released early-80s album joined Deaths 45 as a sought-after obscurity for the next generation. 2009 is the time that Death is finally here ...For The Whole World to See. ...For The Whole World to See is the first full-length release EVER for the band called Death -- with only one 7" single to their name, and that usually goes for about a grand per. Thats $1000! For those who do have the single, the remastered sound here will break you up." -Drag City. |
| Artist: DEATH Title: For The Whole World To See Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Their time in the studio was overseen by engineer Jim Vitti, whose work with Parliament/ Funkadelic seems to have informed his decision to record Death in raw fashion with little polish, showcasing the organic power relationships within the trio. The songs recorded there make up ?For the Whole World to See, which today blasts from the speakers as a fresh and inspired early entry in the category of punk rock. Death had a single pressed, Politicians In My Eyes b/w Keep On Knocking, selling them at their shows and on the street. Things werent really going anywhere when they heard from Columbia Records president Clive Davis. He was interested, but he had one demand -- theyd have to change their name. David, acting as the bands leader, would have no part of it, a decision that ultimately brought an end to Death. Moving to New England, David, Bobby and Dannis reconnected with their faith, forming the Christian rock-n-roll band The 4th Movement, whose self-released early-80s album joined Deaths 45 as a sought-after obscurity for the next generation. 2009 is the time that Death is finally here ...For The Whole World to See. ...For The Whole World to See is the first full-length release EVER for the band called Death -- with only one 7" single to their name, and that usually goes for about a grand per. Thats $1000! For those who do have the single, the remastered sound here will break you up." -Drag City. Repressed. |
| Artist: GEORGE-EDWARDS GROUP Title: 38:38 Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "38:38 is the lone release of THE GEORGE-EDWARDS GROUP, an autumnal alien soundtrack that, over thirty years after being recorded (but not really released) defies time and categorization. If youve never heard of it before, that just means its rare, right? This makes 38:38 one of the rarest private press albums of all time. 38:38 departs from the norm of the genre: instead of a low-fi demo-quality outing elevated mainly by dealer hype, its a haunting piece of music that offers an unusually highbrow take on the archetypal Midwestern rocknroll existentialism usually addressed with a solid beat and sneering vocal. Crafting their sound out of the many influences of the day, EDWARD BALIAN and RAY GEORGE created pop music with acoustic guitars and harmonies, heavily-reverberant piano riffs, cold sheets of synthesizer, bells and chimes. Operating amidst the factory-charred grime of late 1960s Detroit, Balian and Georges first group was the garage-rock obscurity ANDROMEDA, regularly sharing bills with local heroes like The Frost, Rationals, and Amboy Dukes. Unlike these groups, Balian and George spiked their guitar blowouts with incongruous sound-on-sound experiments whose strangeness recalled lounge/exotica records of the 1950s. Too heady for the Motor City hard rock scene, they gradually lost interest in the restriction of playing all-covers gigs and turned to the basement, powered with multi-track tape recorders, processors and Moog synthesizers, flanging and phasing heavily with space effects and backwards loops, leaving a fair share of destroyed microphones and tape machines in their experimental wake." - Drag City. |
| Artist: SUARASAMA Title: Fajar Di Atas Awan Format: Double LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Drag City is pleased to reintroduce the sound of Suarasama to the world. Fajar Di Atas Awan was first released by Radio France Internationale (RFI) in 1998, and the title track appeared on a Smithsonian Folkways compilation in 2000. This release is the first U.S. issue of the entire album and its first-ever release on LP anywhere. Suarasama is a group of many members, mostly ethnomusicological musicians. Founded in 1995 by Irwansyah Harahap and Rithaony Hutajulu, they are based in Medan City in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Suarasama plays contemporary music, exploring conceptually or instrumentally the sounds of African, Middle Eastern, Indian, Sufi Pakistani, Eastern European and Southeast Asian and particularly Sumatran traditions. Arranging this diversity of sounds and instrumentation, Suarasama come up with more than the sum of their parts; music that mitigates the absurd generalization in the name world music with an organic approach. This organic quality is deeply compelling; the quiet beauty and simple intensity of Fajar Di Atas Awan express the albums title (Dawn Over The Clouds) with a clarity that belies the complexity of the groups compositional methods. Faith is a theme of the lyrics, which even when not translated or understood, convey their essences with a meditative, prayerful approach, often using multi-part harmonies that indicate at (and create in the listener) higher ecstasies. Following a century of multi-cultural consolidation resulting in countries comprised of a multitude of different tribes, a group like Suarasama is inevitable; rather than isolating their Sumatran identity within the larger mosaic of Indonesia, they explore the meeting points of their music with the sounds of neighbor cultures, finding a harmony in the confusion. Theyre not the first -- were reminded of Sandy Bull, John Fahey, the Radha Krsna Temple, the collaborations of Ravi Shankar and André Previn, even our own Ghost and Six Organs of Admittance." -Drag City |
| Artist: FEMS Title: Go to a Party Format: 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Drag City resurrects the fantastic sound of THE FEMS. To do so, they had to travel back to the year 1982, when this single was pressed in some insignificant amount by the band and spread around the country, one copy at a time. The Fems represented early American hardcore punk at a time when speed wasnt necessary in order to punk out and the intersection of angst and humor was a common crossroads for aspirant songwriters. Hence, the barbed humor of "Go To A Party" and "Is It Living?," alongside the primal screaming of "Order." The Fems were a legend in their hometown of Buffalo, presiding over energy-charged crowds with loads of sarcastic banter and making themselves a party favorite in the wide-open early 80s. Their 7-inch EP Go To A Party was recorded with the vocals, drums and bass closest to the mic and the guitar somewhere in the next room-but the low, rumbling sound that resulted is a unique vision from early punk days. For frustrated collectors, its a must-have-but not too many copies have been pressed, as part of our effort to duplicate the original release in every way." - Drag City. |
| Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Balf Quarry Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Balf Quarry is the an all-new album-length piece of the puzzle from MAGIK MARKERS. Long known for their shattering live appearances, Magik Markers put together really hot albums too -like Balf Quarry. Working with engineer SCOTT COLBURN (Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Sir Richard Bishop), Magik Markers have captured a lot of different moods and twitches on Balf Quarry. Tremoring mid-rhythms form the body, with a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free-duo style and several clinking music boxes of woe as well. On slower tunes, the mass of brooding guitar tone generated is ELISAs signature, a carving all of her own. Fills, licks and other touches move the songs a broken arms length away from a fundament of chaos and horror." - Drag City |
| Artist: LIECHTI, PETER Title: Signers Suitcase: On the Road with Roman Signer Format: DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Signers Suitcase (aka Signers Koffer) is a kind of road movie across Europe -- from the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenerys magically-charged contours, immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then traveling on. And what better traveling companion than the elusive artist Roman Signer? A quiet roommate -- but always with something unexpected up his sleeve. A road trip requires finding the right places. On the road through Signers Suitcase, Roman Signer brings his chosen spots alive using a variety of tricks from his kit bag, launching brilliantly simple operations with a combination of gunpowder, fuses, rubber boots, balloons, stools, small tables and other seemingly random items. All his endeavors result in a marvelous visual display full of poker-faced humor that has earned him a place on the cover of Gastr del Sols Upgrade & Afterlife, as well as the sometimes-title, Roman Signer: The Buster Keaton Of Art. Signers Suitcase is also a journey through a state of mind, a tightrope walk from fun to melancholy. Mental and physical risk promote stimulus of the senses -- and sudden crashes and abrupt changes of mood determine the rhythm and atmosphere of this cinematic journey. Peter Liechti, whose collaboration with Voice Crack, Kick That Habit, was just reissued by Drag City, saw a calling in Roman Signer: the preservation of work that so resolutely resists commercial evaluation...or at least the capturing of it photographically, so that in some way it would endure. The sensuality and simple clarity on the one hand as well as this unimpeachable, almost religious being on the other were the challenge of filming Roman Signers work. On the cinematic journey we made together, Roman Signer in a way dictated the route; the film improvises as we proceed on our way." - Drag CIty |
| Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Balf Quarry Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Oh, Magik Markers -- you dirty fuckers! You look like a reasonably intelligent young woman and man -- perhaps a bit intense, but who isnt in these end times? Then the needle drops and youre amok, dusting us from the git-go, wild-eyed in a china shop where stop keeps meaning more. Ah, if it were only music -- but it would appear youve rethought that too. And would it kill you to crack a smile? When an album begins with a song called Risperdal, one should assume a mind-and-body-slamming forty-five minutes or so are underway. And one wouldnt be wrong, dickhead. Sure, Balf Quarry has moody space in its soul, melodies whether stretched over rock, ululating rhythm, chimes n piano and/or wah-wah. Regardless of the configuration, Elisa Ambrogio and Pete Nolan are locked together, beating it out, listening to feeling the sound of their earth quake. And slicing through all the atmosphere, Elisas voice is a spear of light, splashes of mud, an acid purple flashback. The Balf Quarry libretto reads like an inner monologue of some poor bastard from The Stand: desperate and vengeful musings from the head of a witness to and survivor of an apocalypse, in a world they never made, dreaming helplessly of the demons out west. Safe before their life sets in might mean hope in this landscape. The worlds not broken -- people ruin it every time. Working with engineer Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Sir Richard Bishop), Magik Markers have captured a lot of different moods and twitches on Balf Quarry. Tremoring mid-rhythms form the body, with a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free-duo style and several clinking music boxes of woe as well. On slower tunes, the mass of brooding guitar tone generated is Elisas signature, a carving all of her own. Fills, licks and other touches move the songs a broken arms length away from a fundament of chaos and horror. When colors actually match and you have grey music for grey days, its great -- but what about grey music for cherry red lava days, or rainbow sounds arcing over six months of darkness? Anything goes -- and just your luck, Magik Markers have brought anything with them on Balf Quarry -- a multicolored projectile of vomit you can sing along to! If psychosis is your thing, Balf Quarry is like a jukebox just for you. The only thing its missing is a brick attached to the CD to facilitate throwing it through your window! No, were not talking about you, asshole. This is the royal you -- the you of all Magik Markers fandom, the you of anyone with ears and the guts for this shit. Wot fun! Prepare for the birth of the second sun, yall." - Drag City |
| Artist: BISHOP, SIR RICHARD Title: The Freak Of Araby Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Another album of acoustic guitar music from Sir Richard Bishop-- are you freakin nuts? The Freak Of Araby is a new direction for our distinguished gentleman, and just in the nick of time as well. Sir Ricks had it up to here with solo acoustic guitar records! The Freak Of Araby isnt even a solo record! And theres no acoustic guitar on it! So lets have no more of this kind of talk. Over his years with Sun City Girls, Richard Bishop threw a wide variety of music and sound against the wall -- and all of it stuck. Among those who know, hes reasonably fluent in any number of international music traditions, playing them for (mostly) fun and (sometimes) profit all over the place. The Freak Of Araby is the debut of Sir Richard Bishop and his Freak of Araby Ensemble, a talented quartet of players getting deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it captured with depth, detail and sympathy for the eternal enigma by engineer Scott Colburn. But a Sir Richard Bishop album with a backing band -- how did this happen? After recording a cover of Kaan Azzaman, written by Elias Rahbani, one of Lebanons finest songwriters, something dawned on Sir Richard. Half-Lebanese by birth (it didnt just occur to him later), he found himself suddenly possessed to really dig into Middle Eastern sounds. A pair of original melodies not fully developed at a prior recording session had the Arabic inspiration, so these were reattacked and finished in short order. Soon, Sir Richards head was flooded with some of the classic sounds spun for him by his grandfather back in his (way) younger days, like Farid Al-Atrache, Oum Kalthoum and Fairuz, along with other personal favorites, such as the guitarists Omar Khorshid and Mike Hegazi. In addition to the studio improvisation, Taqasim For Omar, the whole of The Freak Of Araby is dedicated to these inspiring players. Check em out. In addition to his soul-stirring electric guitar playing, Sir Richard grabbed a couple of Moroccan chanters and blew the house down on Blood-Stained Sands, providing an epic (not to mention epochal, heh heh) finish to this journey to the center of one-half of the family tree. This is music meant to be played live, and Sir Richards Freak Of Araby Ensemble intends to play it everywhere theres interest in hearing it. So get your Freak on." -Drag City. |
| Artist: WILSON, LARRY JON Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "In from the cold is Larry Jon Wilson, with his first album since 1980, an intense masterpiece of his casual performing style. Once upon a time in the 1970s, Larry Jon Wilson released four acclaimed albums and garnered a reputation as one of the best new outlaw country songwriters around alongside such hallowed names as Mickey Newbury, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. Starting his career late (learning guitar in 1970, at the age of 30) and leaving it early (ten years later), he walked away from the business, not the music. Signed to Monument Records by Fred Foster on the strength of a letter and a demo cassette, his legacy has been the four albums of deep country soul released between 1975 and 1979, but none of them came as close to the bone as this new, appropriately self-titled album. Larry Jon Wilson has been quietly playing shows on and off in the southern states over the last two decades - but it wasnt until some new friends twisted his arm with recording gear in tow on the 15th floor of a Perdido Key condominium that a new album became a reality. This album stands apart from his 70s recordings. On Larry Jon Wilson, he stands mostly alone, occasionally accompanied by a single fiddle. With the release of Larry Jon Wilson, the world is privy to the Larry Jon Wilson sound, clear and worn, deep and resonant." -Drag City |
| Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: Magnificence In The Memory Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The legendary Father Yod was a wealthy man, with a rich inner life, a family of disciples that loved him, many, many women and seemingly unlimited power. So why at the height of his success, did he choose to spend his time playing rock and roll? Having a band in residency at Father House provided him and all his children with another path to travel in their never-ending search for experience and wisdom. Taking time out from their busy schedule as Fathers students and spiritual seekers in the Source Family, Sunflower, Octavius, Pythias and Djin took instruments in hand and, at a mere gesture from Father, turned up the amps and began tapping into the cosmos. First, they recorded themselves. The energy was good. Equipped by Father with instruments and effects pedals to ensure that they could create music that came from the spheres, their sounds provided spiritual growth to everyone in the Source Family. After a time, Father became the lead singer, as a way to record wisdom in a modern, youth-oriented way, Djin tells us. And YaHoWha 13 was born with Sunflower, Octavius and Djin. The music was recorded at a studio in the Father House on a TEAC 4-track reel-to-reel machine and was released on the Source Familys Higher Key Records label. In a couple short years, nine LPs were created, to be sold at the Source Restaurant and at YaHoWha 13 shows. Much sought-after items today, theyve all been reissued. Even more exciting is the material that wasnt released - enough music to fill over sixty albums, all of them mind-blowers. Skimmed from the riches in Isis Aquarians vaults (by Dave Nuss of the No-Neck Blues Band), the nine tracks on Magnificence in the Memory run the gamut of YaHoWha 13s rainbow of styles, from the whispered funk of Camp of the Gypsies to the screaming and stomping of, well, Camp of the Gypsies. Storming through moments with abandon, Father and his Sons never repeated themselves, committing everything they did to tape in a single take. The capacity of their riffs and grooves to sound like German prog bands of the same era, psychedelic rock bands of several years previous or the as-yet-uncreated avant sounds from the indie rock movement a decade away is testament to their ability to tap the source of human inspiration. Adds Octavius, These cuts will always be a source of inspiration. The songs on Magnificence in the Memory were chosen to provide a non-stop exciting listening experience for Source fans and neophytes alike - and as Sunflower has stated, Fathers music is our legacy and represents the voice of the times." -Drag City |
| Artist: GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER Title: #8 Format: Mag/CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The worlds greatest psychedelic underground hand drawn pro-zine. Two years in the making, this just might be the most action-packed issue of the magazine lauded by the likes of Mojo, Fader, Julian Cope, Pitchfork, Spin & Heads Galore! Featuring: Interviews with elemental folk goddess Vashti Bunyan, L.A. tribal-cult axman Djin Aquarian of Ya Ho Wha 13, raga guitar god Peter Walker, Krautrock visionary Mani Neumeier Guru Guru, light show pioneer Bill Ham. Features on: Del Shannon, The Blue Things, Eddie Hazel, The George-Edwards Group, Hoyt Axton, MV & EE, Kim Fowley, Skip James vs. Cream, Turned-On Superheroes, Brewer & Shipley. Plus: More sweet full-color damaged guitar god & astral folk maiden trading cards! And: A CD compilation of totally unreleased magical sounds by Ya Ho Wha 13, Vashti Bunyan, Peter Walker, Monster Magnet, La Otracina, Naked Death, Christina Carter, Ruthann Friedman, Samara Lubelski & way more!" -Drag City |
| Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Luminous Night Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Through dark days and glowing nights, Six Organs of Admittance continues to step to the far rim of the world with purposeful strides. Indeed, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, Ben Chasny as Six Organs refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion; in response, he keeps moving on. This is the first Six Organs of Admittance albums with such a lengthy gap between it and its former number. In the past two years Chasny has kept busy writing this new epic, moving house to Seattle, composing soundtracks for novels and movies, and touring constantly in America and Europe (with bands like The Dead C and OM) as well as being invited by legendary post-metal group Neurosis to play their Beyond The Pale festival in Belgium. Six Organs of Admittance is such a singular experience that it is sometimes easy to forget that Ben was the lead guitarist in Comets On Fire, as well as a songwriter and guitarist for Current 93s Black Ships Ate The Sky album and half of the pan-Pacific psych-folk duo August Born. But clearly, Chasny knows heavy, having grown through times of heavy and times of light. And in answer to the question whats heavier, a pound of rock or a pound of feathers, Six Organs of Admittance has devised this for Luminous Night: a pound of rock covered with a pound of feathers -- twice as heavy, but feathery light to the human eye. With Luminous Night, Chasnys working with some heavy dudes, like producer Randall Dunn and Eyvind Kang, whose sound on viola shines with a guiding glow throughout the album (both Dunn and Kang contributed their talents to the outré arrangements of the recent Sunn O))) album). The other invaluable contributors to the album are Hans Teuber on flute, Tor Dietrichson on tabla, Matt Chamberlin on drums, and Dave Abramson on percussion. Occupying their spots with care, theyve collaborated to create something rich and vibrant, aching and new, in the world of Six Organs of Admittance. The arc of Luminous Night is wide as the sky, commencing with a stirring instrumental evocation of the Greek myth of poor Actaeon before flowing into the vocal, the vengeful, the ancient, the divine and celestial, scored with guitars, bass, viola, flute, tabla, electronics and synthesizer, as well as a buried-in-the-rain-soaked-earth-of- Seattle-then-exhumed four-track cassette that formed the basis of the instrumental Cover Your Wounds With the Sky. For its blanketing sound, Luminous Night draws inspiration from such cinematic sources as Jodorowkys El Topo soundtrack and the scores of Kurosawas samurai films, but is at the same time music that could only have come from the singular sound world of Six Organs of Admittance. What is it about the man that buries his sound in the ground? He has faith in the earth, for one. When we think of Six Organs of Admittance, we think of a man with six-string ambitions, a rambler with mystic beliefs and dark electric visions. Its a big universe and were only human, which basically means that weve got spirit and that were going to die. But until then, we live. Six Organs of Admittance has lived to tell about it on Luminous Night." |
| Artist: ESPVALL HELENA & MASAKI BATOH Title: Overloaded Ark Format: Double LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Further along the path of musical friendship that Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh have discovered for themselves, we find Overloaded Ark ready to sail. And indeed, a new and better society might be provided for with all that theyve packed on board. These are end times, we are told. Often, though, the craft of Espvall & Batoh drifts through placid waters. In the distance, thunderheads raise up and lightning flashes. When the storms finally come raging, they blow through -- and, singular in purpose under skies of shifting color, the intrepid ark sails onward. Espvall & Batoh have come prepared for anything, armed with acoustic and electric guitars, cello, renaissance harp, organ, sho, banjo, electronics, recorders, piano, hurdy gurdy, frame drums and several more obscure instruments such as auschpfeife, crumhorn, cornamuse, darbuka, and rig. Listen for them! But look them up first, so you know what youre listening for. There are vocals as well, sung mostly by Helena but also with Batohs empathetic support. They are backed by two of Batohs Ghost-mates, Kazuo Ogino and Junzo Tateiwa, and joined by ancient music specialist Haruo Kondo. As on the first Espvall & Batoh album, Overloaded Ark features a trove of traditional and ancient music alongside self-composed explorations. Songs from many cultures and ages are in evidence, from Scandinavian folk to German madrigal to French and Italian medieval court dances and even a good old Latin hymn! Nearer our present day, Sueno Con Serpientes is a cautionary tale from the legendary Cuban protest singer Silvio Rodriguez, and Sham No Umi is a Batoh solo piece from the mid-90s. Espvall & Batoh endeavor to combine sounds from different times in history with an eye towards the creation of a peaceful new global village in the world of today. And indeed, Overloaded Ark is a gentle and expansive trip, fusing the sounds of east and west, new world and old into a new epic for all nations. Charted with grace and skill, Overloaded Ark is a human record, its passions focused under a stoic, enduring exterior." -Drag City |
| Artist: SIC ALPS Title: A Long Way Around To A Shortcut Format: Double LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Ever shrouded, serpentine by design, the legend of the Sic Alps has at last made its way to the gates of Drag City. The new, first-time-ever-on-vinyl 2xLP reissue of A Long Way Around To A Shortcut is somehow a greatest hits of the golden not-quite-decade of Sic Alps. Well, not quite golden, either. Can gold be tarnished? Can it be done on purpose? If so, Sic Alps are artisans of the highest order -- for their music is the bright, surging sound of ye olde rock and roll radio (and the garages that tuned in), but heard through air darkened with specks of nameless obstruction. In and amongst their ingrown sounds, Sic Alps take on classic tunes from Strapping Fieldhands, Throbbing Gristle and The Zipps on A Long Way Around To A Shortcut. It is to their credit that they completely absorb their estimated predecessors and create the only sound left to them: the sound of the Sic Alps. A Long Way Around To A Shortcut was issued as a CD in 2008. It collected songs that were first issued throughout the epic years of 2006 and 2007 on two 12"EPs, three 7" singles and a cassette, plus a song from a compilation CD-R and a song released nowhere else but on the ALWATAS compilation. The records were originally given titles like United, Strawberry Guillotine, Semi- Streets, Hip-Hop Sweepers Vol 1, Teenage Alps, The Soft Tour in Rough Form-- but all these original releases are long gone, and the CDs fairly much OOP as well. Can this vinyl version be far behind? The hordes are coming, so heed well and get your own copi(es) in stock now." With full color innersleeves. -Drag City |
| Artist: ESPERS Title: III Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Picking up the threads with ease, Espers III was intended to be an aural reversal of the layered sound of II. The goal was to record fewer tracks in order to achieve a stronger, more oxygenated sonic presence. Where II was almost claustrophobic in its density and darkness, III was envisaged as being somehow lighter, effervescent; perhaps even of a cheery disposition at times (whoa there! Dont go not breaking our heart, Espers). Under these auspices, recording started in late 2008 and spilled into the spring and summer of 2009. As more time passed in the recording process, a growing dementia within both song and lyrics emerged, making even the most ethereal songs on III seem oddly unwholesome to all involved. As with past releases (both by Espers and significant others), III was recorded with the vinyl LP in mind, playing as a whole divided into two equally weighted sides. Recorded to analog tape and mixed to analog tape again at the end, the songs ended up in a stippled, rippling, ever-flowing space, another important factor in the realization of III. Space is a core concept here -- each of these songs in some way access new space, whether they are envisioning, locating, or claiming and colonizing it. In fact, IIIs working title was Colony, owing to a subtextual thought process that encompassed aspects of Herzogs Aguirre, Heart of Darkness, cult groups, deep Amazonian treks, religious nation building, ritualistic drug ceremonies (taking drugs to take canoe trips to take drugs on) -- eg., escape from assimilation, surviving cultural wars by embedding themselves in the wilderness, among friends and fellow travelers. The cover aesthetic and Xavier Schipanis arresting artwork mirror these themes and Espers desire to reach beyond what might be expected of an Espers album with metaphoric imagery and increased dimensionality -- not just a new Espers album, but indeed, a new Espers." - Drag City. |
| Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE & JOSEPH MATTSON Title: Empty the Sun Format: Book/LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A new novel by JOSEPH MATTSON featuring music by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE. Available in First Trade Paperback Edition with CD soundtrack and as a limited edition vinyl LP soundtrack with Large Format Book. "Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles." Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattsons Empty the Sun, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance." - Drag City. |
| Artist: MAJOR STARS Title: Return to Form Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "When youve got a love for music, theres no time to spare. The band called Major Stars all got other gigs that take them from place to place without room to converse much. Thats okay, because theyre about playing music, not small talkin! So whats been going on around the practice space then? Major Stars have a new one that might lay it on you all at once like a plank of solid stone, and theyre calling it Return to Form. Starting with a mid-fight schoolyard threat like Better Stay Down (what, no exclamation point?), Major Stars do definitely seem to be returning to somewhere on this new new album, maybe even perhaps somewhere adolescent where the rock and roll was never better? But really, titling the whole damn thing Return to Form has some humor in it. Mirror/Messenger wasnt out of form; all Major Stars records have been a part of a vision and even if some shit said he or she (probably he) didnt like it, that doesnt really call for a response title on the next album. We read it like this: its you whos returning to form! Major Stars atomized you to fucking bits on the last record and only now are you returning to a fully formed entity. And here Major Stars are to blow you to pieces again. Youre fucked up. Return to Forms got eight pieces, all heavy rocks, a few of them come with power jams. Theres also a few just under three minutes, but distinguished by riffage that lifts em up. The guitars trio of Wayne Rogers, Kate Village and Tom Leonard is into their third full album as such, allowing them to have fused into a wall of distorto with a myriad of identities but singular purpose. Behind their ubiquitous combination signal, the drums trample with pummelous authority. Still, they cant help but sound a bit crushed by the din, glorious din. This is Major Stars signature rock of the easties -- more likened to the sounds of Motorpsycho than any of that psych-rock these days! Again, this is organic growth, home territory. Could it be that the space you know is better than the space you dont know? Major Stars got answer, and its Return to Form." - Drag City. |
| Artist: YONKERS, MICHAEL Title: Lovely Gold Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The legend of Michael Yonkers has taken its place among the great stories of underground rock and roll music. Hed been playing rock and roll for nearly forty years when Microminiature Love was finally issued in 2003 (Sire had taken a pass way back in 1968). A thousand noise-rock ears pricked up -- for Yonkers, a reclusive Minneapolis dancer-musician with a handful of self-released records over the years, had seminally prefigured proto-punk/metal/noise through his own brand of amped up garage rock. Since the revelation, Michael has picked up where he left off, exploring blown-out frequencies with collaborators around the globe, and his work has claimed a seat next to immortals like The Fugs, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and even ol Jimi. What a lot of folks STILL dont know is that Michael put aside his hand-built fuzz boxes and bellowing vocal style in the 1970s to record and self-release some truly curious albums of lilting loner-folk music, including Grimwood, Goodby Sunball and Michael Lee Yonkers. Of this holy trio of albums, only Grimwood has yet seen reissue. Throughout this time, Yonkers layered madrigal-like vocals, simple acoustic guitars, and used electricity in only the most subtle of ways - all to serve his somber, mesmerizing songs. This brings us to Lovely Gold. Planned as the fourth LP in his 70s trilogy, it was never released - a true crime, because it is an exotic work of homespun brilliance. Recorded in 1977 on a four-channel tube type tape recorder that Michael built himself by combining parts of other machines, it is perhaps his most multi-faceted solo album. The trademark Yonkers chug appears (though more stripped-down and dreamlike) and even some spraying acidic guitar on the title track, but the sweeping choral voice arrangements on gorgeous hymns like Will It Be are entirely unique and indeed lovely creations. Whats more, while digging through his archives Michael located previously lost cuts intended for the album, including the harrowing, near-Krautrock glide of Nevermore. Utilizing original photos and the exact layout specs/fonts/and notes of the planned 1977 Lovely Gold release, a lost classic at last becomes available -- once again! How many more reside in the Yonkers vaults? Only time (and Michael) will tell..." - Drag City. |
| Artist: EUBANK, JEFF Title: A Street Called Straight Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Welcome to A Street Called Straight, where the sounds echo from a time so long ago...well, it was like another lifetime ago. The street on which JEFF EUBANK lived was already slipping away when this album was released in 1983. Those golden-hued "good vibes" from the 60s and 70s seemed much more finite in the early days of the 1980s, encroached upon by the creeping darkness of changing times. A Street Called Straight was a cry into the darkness-man can live and flourish. A Street Called Straight is a beautiful slice of second-wave album oriented rock, unfolding a series of peaceful, easy feelings, articulated with carefully crafted music and lyrics. How is it that a landlocked creature could come up with such beachy sounds, such cheerfully extraterrestrial visions? Jeff Eubank channeled the sunshine and moonlight of southern California via Kansas City, Missouri. Hed been playing music since the mid-70s and had finally gone out to LA and played music there before returning to lay his songs down in familiar lower-midwestern stomping grounds where studio rates were cheaper. You hear what you hear in the music. Some of the names that listeners have been so far reminded of include Fred Neil, Al Stewart, David Crosby, Kenny Rankin and a fellow traveler of the early 80s private press highway, Bobb Trimble. No Export to Europe." -Drag City |
| Artist: RANGDA Title: False Flag Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "RANGDAs been building up behind the scenes for some time now. As label mates and members of an exclusive mutual admiration society, SIR RICHARD BISHOP and BEN CHASNY thirsted for a conflagration involving two electric guitars plus a drummer. Bringing in CHRIS CORSANO they recorded a studio session with Seattle sound guru SCOTT COLBURN. Beforehand, a mere ninety minutes was allotted for the three to further discuss ideas and play together for the very first time. What would happen? What do you think happened, stupid? Of course they planted a garden of lyricism seeded with several compositions and several improvisations! Placed end-to-end, the six pieces of the Rangda saga (part the first) rock from splintering onslaught to soulful meditation and back again with manifest precision - this was a planned attack. Unceasing battery slides suddenly into ritual form with elemental ease. The fretworks of Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny split time while Corsano shapes the air around them. Each players moves as part of the whole of Rangda, and whether surging, cycling, or in pastoral, they are never less than explosive. This initial foray flies under the banner of False Flag. No Export to Europe." -Drag City |
| Artist: RANGDA Title: False Flag Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "When witch-gods collide, it might sound something like this. Six Organs of Admittance...Richard Bishop...Chris Corsano. Riders of the apocalypse, its them vs. us. After absorbing their über-holy dynamo, youll be prepared to join up with these wraiths, making it all of us against...well, whomevers fool enough to stand in our way. To evil! Rangdas been building up behind the scenes for some time now. As label mates and members of an exclusive mutual admiration society, Sir Rick and Kid Chasny thirsted for a conflagration involving two electric guitars plus a drummer. In such an environment requiring excellent survival skills as well as composition and improvisation rhythms, who better than Chris Corsano to work the skins... On paper, this was colossal, but actually getting everyone together proved awesomely impossible, with each man in a different city sprawled across the vastness of the United States -- not to mention each mans diverse state of mind sprawled across the vastness of inner space. And so, time passed. Chuckling, the guitar men dreamed of visiting Rangda on our world, working figures on their necks in anticipation. Finally, with the desperate recklessness of the ancient witchsoul herself, they booked a live show, followed by a studio session with Seattle sound guru Scott Colburn. Beforehand, a mere ninety minutes was allotted for the three to further discuss ideas and play together for the very first time. What would happen... What do you think happened, stupid... Of course they planted a garden of lyricism seeded with several compositions and several improvisations! Placed end-to-end, the six pieces of the Rangda saga (part the first) rock from splintering onslaught to soulful meditation and back again with manifest precision -- this was a planned attack. Unceasing battery slides suddenly into ritual form with elemental ease. The fretworks of Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny split time while Corsano shapes the air around them. Each players moves as part of the whole of Rangda, and whether surging, cycling, or in pastoral, they are never less than explosive. This initial foray flies under the banner of False Flag. Yet this is only the beginning, for Rangda is alive. To ensure your future in the endless cosmos, march forward with the forces of Rangda, heart and soul, now and forever." -Drag City |
| Artist: TRASH HUMPERS Title: Original Soundtrack Format: 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A limited edition 7-inch single featuring music from HARMONY KORINEs Trash Humpers. Packaged in stained brown paper sacks." -Drag City |
| Artist: MCBEE, HAMPER Title: The Good Old-Fashioned Way Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The late Hamper McBee was a moonshiner, carnival barker, and ballad singer of legendary proportions. First discovered and recorded by folklorist and performer Guy Carawan in 1964, Hampers prodigious talent and personality won him admirers not only in his native Smoky Mountains but throughout the folk music world, where his wholly unique approach to old-time ballads and lyric songs struck like revelations. He drew from both the oral tradition and from records -- he especially loved Bradley Kincaid, Vernon Dalhart, and, surprisingly, Burl Ives -- to create a repertoire entirely his own, and that he sung in a warm, powerful voice seasoned by prodigious quantities of cigarettes, booze, and joie de vivre. Recorded by renowned country music scholar Charles K. Wolfe and filmmaker Sol Korine at Hampers home in Monteagle, Tennessee, in 1977, The Good Old-Fashioned Way compiles the best of McBees traditional ballads, affecting original compositions, and outlandish, side-splitting stories of life on the carnival circuit, at the moonshine still, in the back of Sheriff Bill Malones patrol car, and as Hamper McBee. Youve never met anyone like him before. Youll be glad you did." -Drag City |
| Artist: MCBEE, HAMPER Title: The Good Old-Fashioned Way Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The late Hamper McBee was a moonshiner, carnival barker, and ballad singer of legendary proportions. First discovered and recorded by folklorist and performer Guy Carawan in 1964, Hampers prodigious talent and personality won him admirers not only in his native Smoky Mountains but throughout the folk music world, where his wholly unique approach to old-time ballads and lyric songs struck like revelations. He drew from both the oral tradition and from records -- he especially loved Bradley Kincaid, Vernon Dalhart, and, surprisingly, Burl Ives -- to create a repertoire entirely his own, and that he sung in a warm, powerful voice seasoned by prodigious quantities of cigarettes, booze, and joie de vivre. Recorded by renowned country music scholar Charles K. Wolfe and filmmaker Sol Korine at Hampers home in Monteagle, Tennessee, in 1977, The Good Old-Fashioned Way compiles the best of McBees traditional ballads, affecting original compositions, and outlandish, side-splitting stories of life on the carnival circuit, at the moonshine still, in the back of Sheriff Bill Malones patrol car, and as Hamper McBee. Youve never met anyone like him before. Youll be glad you did." -Drag City |
| Artist: YOUNG, MATTHEW Title: Travelers Advisory Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Mixing a hammered dulcimer and a drum machine makes no logical sense. Taking your lyrics from instruction manuals is not a good idea. Covering Michael Hurley in 1986 is about as out of step with the times as you can get. And yet... somehow this 25-year-old 12th-century/folk/electronic album feels perfectly up to date and dare we say...cooler than anything else youll hear this year! Drag City and Yoga Records proudly present Matthew Youngs Travelers Advisory. Recorded at home, made and distributed at the end of the first age of vinyl, Travelers Advisory is a startlingly original work: an utterly unique mix of vocals, dulcimer, banjo, Casio synths, and electronic drums, Matthew played every instrument & recorded every note. A graphic designer by trade, he too created the album artwork. Aside from a few traditionals and one cover version, Young composed everything. The haunting song Young chose to cover, Werewolf, comes from another original, Michael Hurley, approximately 20 years before Hurley came back into fashion with the kids. The striking blend of electronic & traditional should appeal to fans of Arthur Russell; another pioneer responsible for an unlikely wedding of drum machine and cello. Opener Objects in Mirror does indeed evoke Russells intimate home recordings compiled on the posthumous Calling Out Of Context. So much private press music comes off as the result of some sort of vanity -- private press is often nothing more than code for vanity press. Hearing Travelers Advisory, one is struck by the vivid image of an artist who is full of ideas and learning how to express them as he goes along out of a sense of necessity. Young is the receiver and transmitter of strange ideas drifting in the ether, and renders them quite understandable to any open-minded listener." -Drag City |
| Artist: LE SANG SONG Title: Le Sang Song LP Format: LP Label: Dragnet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "If youve been following underground music of Seattle, you might have already heard music by CRAIG CHAMBERS before. If you havent, you will now. Chambers is the creative force behind LE SANG SONG, the name for what originated as a solo recording project for songs that for the most part are quieter than those of his other excellent bands (THE LIGHTS, LOVE TAN). Le Sang Songs basic framework is simple: get a good rhythm going, a rolling bass line or laconic guitar strum, paint the corners with more rhythms and harmonies. The result is the same kind of late night living room vibe that I get from listening to heavies like Syd Barrett or Skip Spence. While Chambers draws from folk styles, he pushes his songwriting and varies Le Sang Songs instrumentation to include violin, thumb piano, and other noise makers. Chambers is also an excellent lyricist, something uncommon these days, when vapidity is standard fare. The lyrics are carried by a keen sense of vocal melody. Recorded in 2007, the album sat neglected. Determined to give Le Sang Song the audience it deserves, I dusted off Dragnet Records and decided to put it out myself. Live performances of Le Sang Song are Chambers accompanied by his lovely wife ADRIA GARCIA on guitar/vocals, MATTHEW FORD (Love Tan, FACTUMS, YVES SON ACE) on drums/percussion, a yours truly, MIN YEE (A FRAMES, AFCGT) on bass/vocals."-Min Yee. Edition of 660 copies. |
| Artist: CRISPY AMBULANCE Title: Plateau Phase Format: LP Label: Drastic Plastic Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Sex Pistols legendary June 1976 Manchester gig and the first performance of Magazine both inspired vocalist ALAN HEMPSALL to form CRISPY AMBULANCE in 1978. The band released their seminal and only full length LP, The Plateau Phase, in 1982 on Factory Benelux. This avant-garde sound is now considered an influence on post-punk, post-rock, gothic rock, and other atmospheric/melodic music with an artistic edge. Full of complex, yet minimalistic strings of music that surprise with intricacy and force, this release sounds as relevant today (if not more) than in the year of the its initial release. Faithfully reproduced aurally and visually, one can hear the influences of Brian Eno, Popol Vuh, and Joy Division pressing through Crispy Ambulances strummings and croonings on this utterly original work. A truly haunting tour de force. Limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Drastic Plastic. |
| Artist: SECTION 25 Title: Always Now Format: LP Label: Drastic Plastic Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| " Produced by Factory Records sound genius MARTIN HANNETT, SECTION 25s 1981 debut LP, Always Now, bears similar aural markers to label mates Joy Division and Crispy Ambulance. Full of the late 70s/early 80s post-punk zeitgeist, here is music borne out of punks simple and urgent delivery, but with loftier artistic aims and an introspective, more complex delivery. Always Nows songs lay out a darkening landscape examining and reexamining the twilight; an aural document of the grays comprising both light and dark. The impression is not unlike Pisarros pastoral evening landscapes...but bleaker and more evocative of ghosts and the sounds of their chains. Limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Drastic Plastic |
| Artist: DREAM Title: #7 Format: Mag/CD Label: Dream Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The seventh issue of this magazine dedicated to the creative music community. You get features on ABSALOM, BEEQUEEN, LOREN CONNORS, JOSEPHINE FOSTER, BERT JANSCH, LANTERNS, P.G. SIX, MAYO THOMPSON, and many others. Includes a CD with unreleased tracks from FUNCTION, SHARRON KRAUS, KEENAN LAWLER, FARINA, many of the above, and more." - Dream. |
| Artist: YEH, SPENCER C./RYAN JEWELL/WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT Title: Ohio Ghastly Soil Format: CDR Label: Dreamsheep Country: Italy Price: $13.50 |
| "Sounding like Laddio Bolocko playing Aufgehobens songs, this amazing quartet shares a seriously mindblowing connection with the huge underground noise scenery in the United States. This half-an-hour free-form session between these Ohio-based dudes is a long electroshock torture which features Yeh (experimental violinist/electronic musician with a highly growing reputation around the world) playing bass here, Jewell (experimental drummer/electronic musician also involved in Pink Reason and Psychedelic Horseshit) on drums/electronic junk and John Rich/Jon Lorenz (Wasteland Jazz Unit) totally immersed in a hyper-amplified and nihilistic sax playing. File under sparkling brutality. CDR comes in a limited edition of 200 copies." - Dreamsheep. |
| Artist: KLANGMUTATIONEN Title: Liturgie Format: CDR Label: Dreamsheep Country: Italy Price: $13.50 |
| "One of the most outstanding/uncompromising jazz collectives circulating right now is (without any doubt) Klangmutationen. Coming from the Eastern side of the world, they suddenly remind us of noise legends such as Masayuki Takayanagi, Kaoru Abe and Kousokuya. But you should consider them an exception because they come from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and they play organic free metal (!). Liturgie is a black ritual devoted to schizophrenia and otherworldly meditation which clocks at around 20 minutes. It is a burning candle for Shiva. For all you listeners, a final suggestion is to turn off the lights and immerse yourself into this deep black hole. CDR comes in a limited edition of 150 copies." - Dreamsheep. |
| Artist: TBC Title: Gute Luft/Muskel Format: 7" Label: Drone Country: GERMANY Price: $6.50 |
| "TBC is the short form for THOMAS BECK, a sound-activist from Hamburg, Germany, who has been involved in the experimental sound-explorer scene since many years there (also active with a Radio-programme and a magazine for experimental music). Among his releases we find some cassettes and two split LPs (with REZNICEK and recently with BRUME). On the three tracks on this EP he uses human voice and environmental recordings to create droning sound-patterns of a higher beauty, structures appear and dissolve again, tension is build and re-build (similar to TOY BIZARRE or ERIC LA CASA).... without knowing where exactly the sounds are derived from, everything stays mysterious and alien, a very own soundworld to experience. PINK VINYL WITH "OLD STYLED" PHOTOCOPIED B/W COVER. 33 rpm, in a limited first edition of 250 copies." - Drone. |
| Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: Live Stockholm July, 1971 Format: Double CD Label: Drone Syndicate Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| New lower pricing; 2008 repress. "Led by infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, Tokyos Taj Mahal Travellers were one of the prime examples of a band more heard-of than actually heard. Their vinyl legacy (the 1972 LP July 15, 1972 released on CBS/Sony Japan; the 1974 2LP August 1974 released on Columbia Japan and recently reissued by P-Vine as a 2CD; one side of the mythical Oz Days Live 2LP compilation released on Oz in 1973 and recently bootlegged as a single LP) could dig a hole in your wallet deeper than the Grand Canyon. However, the recent reissues have spread the gospel and so here is the chance to hear the young Taj Mahal Travellers live in Stockholm during their tour through Europe in 1971. Its one 2-hour long improvised track. Enough free-floating higher key bliss to keep every grown-up space cadet happy for a lot longer.." From Julian Copes Japrocksampler: "This album is a discorporated, cerebral dance whose rhythm sounds like six weather Gods emulating the cover of Deep Purples Fireball by zooming around Silverstone circuit just inches above the track, each urging himself on by making engine noises: Eee-oww-urghh-ow!!!!!!! Opening with Ryo Koikes horizontally played bowed double bass, its my fave of Taj Mahal Travellers three releases, better even than the obstinate medication of the first official LP JULY 15, 1972, because theres twice as much of it. Meditatively, its extremely useful too: at the entrance portals of this live record, Ryo Koike uses his bass to invoke phlegm phantoms and cranny demons from the butt walls of Cronosian caverns; conjuring a sound as Biblical as Conrad Schnitzlers bizarre bowed cello on T. Dreams Electronic Meditation. Gradually, hesitatingly, almost imperceptibly, a violin theme installs itself, establishing over the next quarter of an hour clop-clopping hooves of hollow rhythm that conjure up the image of frustrated pastoralists driving their reluctant donkeys around the highest and most precipitous cliff edges, as their valuable cargoes sway and shudder and threaten to come untied at any moment. Recorded a full year before their first official LP, I think this in concert album is a far better and more confident shamanic statement, for this Stockholm recording melded together all six group members in such a way that no single musician rises from the primal soup long enough to establish his singular muse. The vocal effects are truly stunning, evoking everything from comb-and-paper voices playing Zeus in the sixty-metre deep Dhikhtean Antron to braying cartoon coyotes laughing to their deaths." -Drone Syndicate |
| Artist: LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE Title: Love Will Make A Better You Format: CD Label: Drone Syndicate Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Number six on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade!" "Commencing with singer Akira Fuses goggle-eyed one-day-old-baby innocence, Love Live Life + 1s album opener The Question Mark escorts us through an eighteen-minute free-rock R&B adventure like nothing before or since. Clanking harsher than even the title track of Funkadelics Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow, and twice as long; cosmic as the Cosmic Jokers Galactic Supermarket, and gnarly as John McLaughlins out-there-a-minute axe excursions on Miless Right Off or his own Devotion solo LP, do these guys fight for their right to party! The mellower second side includes the insanely brilliant eight-minute epic Shadows Of My Mind, in which Akira Fuse sings like some drunken Italian baritone, while atonal swooping strings and crazy brass support/undermine him; then its off into a juggernaut bass-heavy clatterthon with duel-axe outrage of the highest level. And how about that title track whose catchy bastard licks unashamedly rip Slys I Want To Take You Higher, but still have you singing along with Fuse? The record closes brilliantly with the demented Facts About It All, which opens like Fuse laying a grunting 6/8 James Brown/Eric Burdon ballad on us. But no, this miniature R&B opera says in 2 minutes and 56 seconds what prog bands took a whole side to say. All hail visionary genius Ikuzo Orita for uniting his fave guitarist Kimio Mizutani with the errant free-jazz Gibson 335 of Takao Naoi, whose brittle spittle pops permanent wheelies around these slippery rhythm tracks. Also hail Orita for recognizing the genius of these songs of sax player Kei Ichihara, for trusting Akira Fuses professionalism and open-mindedness, and for seeing this 33-minute-long classic to its unlikely conclusion." -- Japrocksampler |
| Artist: SATOH & SOUNDBREAKERS, MASAHIKO Title: Amalgamation Format: CD Label: Drone Syndicate Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Number seven on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade!" "This preposterous piece of psychedelic avant-jazz sounds like the work of aliens, each with only one foot in our universe. Propelled by cacophonous brassy blasts, volleys of machine-gunning, ecstatically Light Fantastic rhythms and moments of Teo Macero-style Mixing Concrète (during which the whole track becomes consumed by waves of new sound); the result is the most singular mash-up of inappropriate sounds any listener is ever likely to hear. Over two side-long tracks, shaman Masahiko Satoh sends us through a sonic mind-field, baffling our senses and our sense of gravity. Located at the centre of Amalgamations giddy sessions was the frantic Detroit drumming of hard-bop legend Louis Hayes, whose role it was to play the bubbling ever unfolding fundament on which Masahiko Satohs whole trip proceeded, as though the rhythm section were a magic carpet magically pulled out from under the feet of the other performers. Over this rhythmic shaking, Satoh scattered Hammond organ around and ring-modulated his Fender Rhodes piano solos (Roland built three especially for the record), added lead guitar from super session legend Kimio Mizutani, trumpets and sax from Mototeru Takagi, scat singing from Kayoko Itoh, and strings from the Wehnne Strings Consort." -- Japrocksampler |
| Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Two In The KY & One In The OH Format: Double Cass Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Latest installment of BxC live unit documents on cassette. Three complete sets from 2005 featuring an extended BxC live line-up (Yeh/Beatty/Tremaine/Shiflet) in trio and quartet configurations. One bar, one artspace, one auditorium. Two in the KY and one in the OH. Edition of 100, in white vinyl case with pamphlet." - Drone Disco. |
| Artist: HOTOTOGISU & BURNING STAR CORE Title: Volume 1 Format: CD Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Live in-person" collaborations between Hototogisu and the BxC. Hototogisu, as you know, are the time-defying duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Ramleh, Sunroof!, Total, etc.) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, Zaimph, etc.). For these sessions, Burning Star Core was C. Spencer Yeh, Robert Beatty, and Trevor Tremaine (the latter two being of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Sick Hour, etc.). Note that the music on this disc is different material from the Heavy Blossom companion volume "HG/BxC II" released earlier this year. Five tracks, totalling approximately fifty minutes. Packed into the small Horrible Room (RIP) inside the Cedar House (RIP) down in Lexington KY (still alive), individuals huddled in every corner, painting the room in colored cables, glossy wood and metal boxes. Deafness and disorientation was administered through the afternoon on into the night. Summoning over two hours of recorded tape, it was decided to cut the baby in half for adoption between two imprints. Heavy Blossom ferried away the long thick sides of torso, and Dronedisco seized the hooves, antlers, and jaw. The disc starts off with an appropriate invocation; from there punches blindly through one stone cloud after another, coughs and gasps from exhaustion, stumbles and lies motionless. The ritual concludes with a moment of naked acoustic/instinctual spasm, then a cut-off. Originally released in a very small quantity on CD-R as merchandise during various US and UK spring tours, the Dronedisco half of these sessions has been edited and resequenced for this release in the autumn. The pro-pressed disc comes in a black polycase with black and white inserts and a special randomly-selected 1" button (there are five button variations in all)." - Dronedisco. |
| Artist: YEH, C SPENCER/LORENZ, JON/JEWELL,RYAN Title: Live at CAC 7.21.08 Format: Double Cass Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Newly-formed trio with Yeh (of Burning Star Core, etc.) on violin, Jewell (of Pink Reason, etc.) on drums, and Lorenz (of Wasteland Jazz Unit) on tenor saxophone. Excerpts from the first live gig at the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati OH, in compact cassingle format. Lorenz alternates between tuneful howls and piercing squeaks, Jewell beats and scrapes, and Yeh scrapes and beats. Expect more from this Ohio trio always. All that is needed now is someone from Cleveland. Edition of 60 in double cassette Norelco boxes. (2x c10)"- Dronedisco |
| Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER & WIESE, JOHN Title: Cincinnati Format: CD Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The cooperative of composer/improvisers John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) reveals itself again, presenting a collection of new works titled Cincinnati. So far Wiese & Yehs previous full-length documents have been culled from live performance situations and one could site Cincinnati as the duos first studio album. Recorded face-to-face in late 2007 at Ashworth Tap Room in Cincinnati OH, Cincinnati reveals further unexpected developments and strategies of this ongoing partnership. Familiar machineries were primed, but an increasingly alien attitude was fed through and processed into churning and bewildering shapes. The results of these sessions were catalogued and surgically isolated into specimens by Yeh; a little editing employed to carve the forms somewhat presentable, but no "studio trickery" to mask the organic nature. Mastered by Saff Mastering to sharpen the bulbs and polish the blades, the whole of the fourteen tracks form a monumentally intimate body touched by indeterminate intuition, instant composition, and interior logic. Wiese and Yeh first joined together on a stage in Columbus OH, and since then have participated in the No-FI/CMN "Free Noise" 2007 tour in the UK, as well as fireworks-laden travels through coastal, midwest, and southern USA. With many finished missives yet to be issued, and many ideas discussed but not yet realized, the combined restlessness and curiousity of the team insures that "Cincinnati" gestures not only towards the past and present, but the future as well. Cincinnati is available in an edition of 500 copies in the increasingly alienated compact disc format. The included 8-page booklet contains a pictoral documenting the typical meeting between the two players." |
| Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Live from New York 07-08 Format: Double Cass Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Two live Burning Star Core sets straight from Manhattan -- the Cakeshop 9/01/07 and Rehab 11/08/08. One set solo presentation, the other a duo line-up, featuring Robert Beatty (Three Legged Race, Hair Police). In chunky vinyl case with insert. Edition of 100." - Dronedisco. |
| Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER Title: Memories of Murder/ Always Been a Storm Format: Cass Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Double album on one cassette of works for voice and electronics, collected from 2007 - 2008. Includes inserts and liner notes. In vinyl case. Edition of 100. - Dronedisco" |
| Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER Title: Helsinki FI / Berlin DE / 09-10 Format: Triple Cass Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Two complete live sets of violin and voice spread out over four sides, from Helsinki Finland and Berlin Germany, in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Amplified hands, bow, mouth, throat, air, etc. In chunky vinyl case with insert. Edition of 75." -Dronedisco |
| Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER Title: Bergen Format: CDR Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Live set of violin and voice from Landmark at the Kunsthall Bergen, Norway, early 2010. "Landmark is foremost a space for new medias and cross-genre art. In addition to the artistic activity, it also serves the function of being a restaurant and bar. The space itself is designed and adapted for screening of videos, electronic art, concerts, DJs, movies and lectures." - Last.fm. With glued covers and insert." -Dronedisco |
| Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER Title: Trondheim Format: CDR Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Live set of violin and voice from Dokkhuset Jazz Club in Trondheim, Norway, early 2010. "In an artistically converted former pumping station (look through the glass beneath your feet at the old engines), the Dock House is at once an auditorium - where if its the right night youll hear experimental jazz or chamber music - restaurant and café-bar. Sip a drink on the jetty or survey the Trondheim scene from its roof terrace." - Lonely Planet. With glued covers and insert." -Dronedisco |
| Artist: TRUMANS WATER Title: Godspeed The Static Format: LP Label: Drunken Fish Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Trumans Water is an indie rock band from San Diego, California formed in 1991. They have released over a dozen full length recordings over their career, wherein they collaborated with acts in genre, including Azalia Snail, Chan Marshall and Thurston Moore. The band was formed by brothers Kirk and Kevin Branstetter in San Diego in 1991, after they were given a guitar and bass by a friends father. They advertised for a "lead singer, brain optional", and recruited Glen Galloway (now SOUL JUNK) as a result. Other members of the band have included Ely Moyal, Andres Malinao, and Kevin Cascell. Captain Beefheart, Wire, The Boredoms, Sun City Girls, Pavement and Sonic Youth have all been identified as influences, and during the course of the bands history Trumans Water has produced experimental indie rock, often with a substantial element of improvisation." - Wikipedia. 1994 release, with handmade/spraypainted jackets. Edition of 500. |
| Artist: SFERIC EXPERIMENT Title: Eight Mile Format: CD Label: Drunken Fish Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Posthumous release by this Dunedin, NZ group, compiling their long deleted Xpressway cassette along with some live recordings. Some of the murkiest exuberance produced from this land. Liner notes by Bruce Russell." -Drunken Fish. 1996 release. |
| Artist: CANTERBURY, KLAUS & THE ACES Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Dry Leaf Discs Country: UK Price: $6.50 |
| "Canterbury plays guitar and sends tapes to friends like the Shadow Rings Graham Lambkin, and others (Coffee) who contribute Melodia air organ, piano, clarinet guitar, etc.; needless to say, this is drop out, detuned music, rich in the Dryleaf Discs aura." Original, unplayed copies of this mid-90s release on Shadows Rings inhouse label. |
| Artist: KAS PRODUCT Title: Try Out Format: CD Label: DSA Country: France Price: $15.00 |
| "Spatsz (electronics), born in Nancy (France). Left his job (in a psychiatric hospital) in 1978 to work on synthesizers and rythm machines. Mona Soyoc (guitar, piano, vocals). Born in Stamford, Connecticut (USA), from Argentinian origin. For 2 years she sung in a jazz band before she met Spatsz. In January 80, Spatsz and Mona Soyoc form KaS Product and work on their own material. Soon after, they record their first E.P., Mind Seven in a bedroom with a 2 tracks recording machine. This record is released by a local record label. During the summer 80, the duo records a second E.P., Take me Tonight , in the same conditions as the previous one . It is released on the same local record label, Punk Records (also a shop). From May to July 1981, KaS Product rehearse 11 new songs which are featured in their first album, Try Out , recorded in 11 days at Sunrise Studio in Switzerland. Produced by the band and Gerard Nguyen, this album has been released by RCA in 1982 in France, Germany, Japan and England where the duo plays 3 times (at The Embassy, The Rock Garden and The Venue) after huge articles in Sounds, Melody Maker and New Music Express. The second album, By Pass , is recorded in February 1983 in cold and snowy New York at Sorcerer Sound Studio (Swans, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson..) upon recommendation from Martin Bisi. KaS Product has toured extensively in France, and in England, Italy, Switzerland and Netherlands, playing with Tuxedomoon, Alan Vega, Minimal Compact, This Heat etc. They also made a concert at the Danceteria in New York. In 1984, Gerard Nguyen starts Les Disques du Soleil et de lAcier (DSA) and KaS Product records a third album, Ego Eye , for french label AZ. One of KaS Products last concerts did feature Rowland Howard (Birthday Party/These Immortal Souls) on guitar?20 and more years later, Try Out and By Pass are still essential records in the new/no wave scene, not only French but international." - DSA. |
| Artist: NAKED ON THE VAGUE Title: Blood Pressure Sessions Format: CD Label: Dual Plover Country: Australia Price: $14.00 |
| "LUCY CLICHE and MATTHEW P. HOPKINS dive deep into a world of apocalyptic pop and psychedelic weirdness with disparate vocals that grip onto menacingly hook-laden basslines and stabbing keys, pushed by an unrelenting drum machine far past the end of its warranty period. Expanding on the final moments of no-wave and what that imploded scene might have become, this nine-track punk assault ranges from almost danceable, short-and-sharp hits to gloomy, extended freak-outs. Life never looked so bleak. -Dual Plover "Distilled nihilism." -Drop Dead Magazine. |
| Artist: EAT SKULL/GANGLIANS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Dulc-I-Tone Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "This Jabba-sized double-shot of damaged pop has finally dropped! At first needle-drop, once might find this an odd pairing, but give these songs a few minutes to leak its glorious glass-shard-spiked goo into your aural cavities, and itll make sense why the Skull loved Sacramentos GANGLIANS enough to bring them on tour and split a record with em. While with EAT SKULL you have to get your nails a bit dirty digging through their lovingly antagonistic nego-vibe surface scuzz to get to the underlying tunefulness, both bands share a knack for oblique, and/or fucked-up, good pop songs. Ganglians first trip to the vinyl farm is a perfect example of their lazily catchy, Great Unwashed-like, stoned-out folk-strum (emphasis on STONED). Pop songs were specifically requested from EAT SKULL this time around, and they certainly delivered in their own special way with two songs from the "Sick to Death" sessions: one a straight-ahead fly-by-night scrappy punk-pop number, and the other a fractured dirge-pop epic. (Ever been whale-watching? Well, if youve ever found yourself leaning over the rail, waiting for that next burning throat-surge, just now imagine that at that very moment, a great song popped into your head. There, now youve got Leave the Universe.) EAT SKULL are currently working on their second LP for Siltbreeze & look out for coming Ganglians releases on Woodsist & Weird Forest. 400 copies, silkscreen-on-offset-printed covers, ridiculous artwork." - Dulc-i-tone |
| Artist: SCROTUM POLES Title: Auchmithie Forever Format: LP Label: Dulc-I-Tone Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Three-plus years and many hurdles overcome, the long-awaited SCROTUM POLES treasure trove has finally been unearthed! Twenty-two unreleased 1979/1980 studio and home recordings from one of the best early UK DIY pop bands. Except for the most dour and hygienically-challenged of punk collectors, SCROTUM POLES first hit the public radar via one of Hypedtodeaths first homemade Messthetics CD-R compilations of lost late-70s/early 80s UK DIY punk & pop bands. For those whose minds were blown by the seemingly unending depths of amazing slop bubbled to the surface by the Messthetics series, The Scrotum Poles "Pick the Cats Eyes Out" and "Helicopter Honeymoon" (both from their only vinyl release, the legendary, oddly-sized Revelation EP) were arguably the best of the mess. Formed in Dundee, Scotland in 1978, the scrappy Scrotum Poles exemplify wonderfully the anything-goes attitude of the time immediately following the first wave of punk, and Auchmithie Forever opens up a perfectly imperfect chapter of this exciting period. Sure, theres nods to the obvious punk forebears, and the surefire upbeat punk-pop hits are undeniable, but other dreary pop tendencies come much closer in sound to early Go-Betweens or the loping bass-driven bands appearing out of Manchester in following years. Auchmithie Forever has been painstakingly culled from hours of lost-then-found-then-lost-then-found-again C-90 cassette tapes recorded by the band before and around the recording of the legendary Revelation EP. The best of the best songs from three different tapes appear here, including different versions of both "Pick the Cats" and "Helicopter" (pop fans will LOVE the drum-less, near-acoustic bedroom version of "Pick the Cats"). Cassette transferring was a monumental task, but no expense or effort was spared to find the right balance of noise and clarity. In addition to their admitted lack of instrument mastery or traditional tuning abilities, the recordings are mucky-the tapes made muckier with 30 years of soggy English basement storage. Sticklers for hi-fi recordings will run for their lives, but those with patience (or love) for some hiss & flutter will be generously rewarded. Auchmithie Forever is available with full cooperation from the band, containing photos, clippings, lyrics and liner notes from SMEG POLE himself." - Dulc-i-Tone. Highly recommended! Restocked! |
| Artist: RTFO BANDWAGON Title: New Jack Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Psychedelic Horseshit member, folk/punk "Punx is Hippies" is what they say. "Hard Frolics." Fans of the PH, messed up folkpunk ala Home Blitz, or the Columbus Ohio now sound will love it. Edition of 300." |
| Artist: WIGGINS, THE Title: Feed The Ghost Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Part electro surf punk from outer space, part David Lynch outtake, and part home brewed garage opiate, Im not exactly sure what The Wiggins are, but whatever it is, its in rad. Think the redefinition of lo-fi, Lou Reed in a garage disposal, Johnny Thundersvampire alter-ego, leper underwear parties, and successful amateur noir snake charming. Rumor has it theres just one local Houstoner behind all this madness, which makes the effort even more impressive. This is the stuff of magic that gluttonous hipster vultures and college radio DJs will be getting all weak the knees about once Pitchfork clocks in a 8.372, so do yourself a favor and get it while its fresh." - Punk Planet. "The Wiggins sound like very early Primal Scream and even Jesus & Mary Chain without the shoegaze or the Beach Boys fixation, and thats a totally good thing in my book" - Mundane Sounds. |
| Artist: INDIAN JEWELRY/FUTURE BLONDES Title: Split Format: LP Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Houston, Texas based INDIAN JEWELRY are on a roll. Last years "Free Gold" album blew many minds and was the best document to that point of their mastery of the aural psychic-swirl. Their side-long contribution to this split EP highlights what they do best...combining uncanny songcraft with insistent, pulsing and throbbing layers of sound. With "Zing Zang" its as if they are leading a pied piper-like caravan through the countryside, picking up joyful followers along the way (zing) while sternly pointing out the hazards of following (zang). Its the sound of a band confidently striding off in their own direction, which is an all too rare thing these days. Fellow Houstonians FUTURE BLONDES (Domokos of RUSTED SHUTs side project) occupy the "other side" of this record in more ways than one. Their "Heartless" is a relentless piece of dark, hypnotic electro-spuzz that isnt going to fill anyone with anything resembling hope for the human race. Not so much music made for the denizens of the dance floor but more like a soundtrack for the detritus left on the dance floor after everyone has gone home. Limited to 525 copies." - Dull Knife. |
| Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: High Sun Energy Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Part 1 in the the first pair of singles in the dull knife songwriter series featuring Glasgow, Scotland avant legend Richard Youngs." -Dull Knife |
| Artist: RTFO BANDWAGON Title: Dums Will Survive Format: LP Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "28 minute whirlwind exercise touching on various American folk musics, traditional Greek melodies, and a Sister Ray like freakout for an exclamation mark. A real gem of a modern, not-so-modern pop record. Youre zigging, theyre zagging." -Dull Knife |
| Artist: CIRCUIT DES YEUX Title: Fruition Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "HALEY FOHR follows up her cult LP on De Stijl and appearances on the Die Stasi curated XXperiments compilation (as both CDY and as one half of CRO MAGNON) with the haunting Fruition 7-inch. This EP finds her exploring more accessible song territory than previous outings while still retaining that late night, under the bridge Jandek loner vibe that made her previous work so striking. The A-side finds right alongside contemporaries like Zola Jesus or US Girls, while the flip find hers doing a torchy folk number that showcases her voice in a way that no previous work has. Hand-numbered edition of just 300. Green vinyl in a glued pocket color sleeve with silkscreened vellum obi strip." - Dull Knife. |
| Artist: ROSEMARY KRUST Title: Bernt Anker Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Four songs of noisy, delicate, barely there pop??all hanging together by a thread. The Baltimore duo of KATHARINE PLUMMER and WILLIAM HARDY have a sound that harkens back to a time when twee wasnt a bad word and lo-fi wasnt marketing jargon. ROSEMARY KRUST seemlesly blend the fuzz and fumble of Charalambides with the naive pop of Beat Happening, finding their own charming niche. Theyve even been called an American Garbage & The Flowers, which certainly isnt a bad thing. 300 hand-numbered copies." - Dull Knife. |
| Artist: BALACLAVAS Title: Roman Holiday Format: LP Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Roman Holiday is the debut LP from Houston, Texas BALACLAVAS, following two 12-inch EP releases on the Phonographic Arts and Dull Knife labels. Roman Holiday is the groups finest recording to date, and showcases their diverse and unique sound. While the band makes nods to the dub punk of Public Image Ltd., the rhythms of Can, and the coldness of Killing Joke, they are able to keep things wholly unique and create an original, highly melodic sound. The band makes an awfully big sound for a 3-piece, supplementing their traditional rock setup with electronic drums and synthesizers." - Dull Knife. |
| Artist: LAMPS Title: Niels Bohr Was An Excellent Ping Pong Player Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "You know THE LAMPS from their fines releases on In The Red Records. Fans have been waiting a while for these two favorites to be released. "Niels Bohr" has to be considered one of, if not the best song yet from the Los Angeles trio. Its guitar riff jackhammers into your brain before giving way to a deadpan chorus that is catchy as hell. The flip side, "Ive Been on a Lot of Camels," is a killer noisy number in the Amp Rep tradition, and is the perfect foil to the A-side. In fact, lets just call this a double A-sided 7-inch." -Dull Knife |
| Artist: PILCHER, JOHN & MCKELVEY, MARTIN Title: A Bun Dance Format: CD Label: Dungeon Taxis Country: New Zealand Price: $22.00 |
| "The Eagle Has Strayed in this 48-minute opus of lunar musique concrete right out of the late 1960s in Hastings, New Zealand. These squiggly, prescient jams emerge on the very 40th anniversary of Apollo 11s inaugural moonlanding, having originally sampled and plunged that stuttering, televized transmission into another sea of tranquility and magnificent desolation right out here in an even more remote solar system. Pilchers periperal figure hangs ghostlike out on the edge of the front cover next to a poster of The Beatles HELP! semaphore (theyre not even spelling HELP by the way), Its a revealing allusion to the radically warped jams that were already taking place Out Here, a preamble for the winding genealogy of the countrys later musical lab tests. Stellar tapezones joyously light years ahead of time." -Dungeon Taxis. "Originally slated for release on Corpus Hermeticum (Bruce Russell from the DEAD Cs label) until that project went dormant.." |
| Artist: RYLAN, JESSICA Title: Wiped Away Format: Cass Label: Durable Stimuli Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Artist: FINN, SIMON Title: Magic Moments Format: CD Label: Durtro/Jnana Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The first collection of new material from legendary psych-folk giant SIMON FINN since the release of his seminal album Pass The Distance. Recorded in a more personal and stripped-down style and featuring JULIE WOOD from CURRENT 93 on violin. Twelve tracks in all. Will play select North American dates with Current 93 and Six Organs Of Admittance, Summer 2005." |
| Artist: FAY, BILL GROUP Title: Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrrow Format: CD Label: Durtro/Jnana Country: Canada Price: $15.50 |
| "Third album (previously unreleased) from iconoclastic folkster Bill Fay, recorded between 1978 and 1981; With the intense interest in Fays past work, its surprising to discover that twenty new songs have remained unreleased for over two decades. Fay has been portrayed as a mysterious figure who somehow created two brilliant albums and then vanished. But as Fay himself has said, It wasnt me who left the music, it was the music business that left me. Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow continues Fays tradition of writing thoughtful, life-affirming songs that, this time, benefit from extended studio sessions and input from three equally committed musicians. This disc does not consist of demos, outtakes or alternative versions of previously recorded songs. It was planned and recorded as Fays follow-up to Time Of The Last Persecution." - Durtro/Jnana. |
| Artist: FAY, BILL Title: Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow Format: CD Label: Durtro/Jnana Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Musics (1918-1955) Format: CD Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recordings made between 1918-1955 compiled by Ian Nagoski. A compilation of 24 recordings from the first half of the 20th century of music from Syria, Bali, Scotland, Thailand, Ukraine, China, Cameroon, India, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Japan, Poland, Greece, Java, Portugal, Laos, Sweden and Burma, all newly transferred and mastered from 78 rpm discs, at least 18 of which have never been issued before on CD (all but one never having been previously reissued in the U.S.). Influenced by Pete Whelans Origin Jazz Library, Pat Contes Secret Museum of Mankind, Harry Smiths Anthology of American Folk Music, Henry Cowells Music of the Worlds People, Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayets Sublime Frequencies label, Lance Ledbetters Goodbye, Babylon, Michael Snows The Last LP and much more. Sounds like zamr, naa phaat piphat, gong kebyar, Northumbrian piping, periya melam, rhumba, Carpathian weddings, Rulin opera, Uilleann piping, Bollywood, dan bau, Handel, rembetika, gusle, tembang sunds, flamenco, fado, prayer, djanger, kabuki and yien pwe." -Dust-to-Digital. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva Format: CD Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recordings from 1969 of Tuvan folk music and throat-singing with liner notes by Dr. Pekka Gronow of the University of Helsinki. With the advent of the folk music revival in the 1960s, a new interest in Tuvan music swept through Asia and Eastern Europe. Capitalizing on this appeal, these 16 recordings were issued in 1969 in the Soviet Union. Dust-to-Digital is proud to reissue for the first time on compact disc these traditional performances including several khoomei songs plus one modern take on the classic Tuvan sound. In khoomei, the singer simultaneously produces two more distinct musical notes: a low, sustained bass note and a flute-like higher note. Tuvan sheep herders often practiced khoomei in an effort to calm animals and appease spirits. The effect is hypnotic, eerie, and drone-like, unlike any sound youve heard come out of a cowboy. The Republic of Tuva lies between Russia and Mongolia in the Altai Mountains, at the geographical center of Asia. Tuva is a land of mountains, lakes and rivers. Although the geographical area of Tuva is as large as the state of Florida, it has only 300,000 inhabitants." -Dust-to-Digital. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days Format: 2CD/BOOK Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $44.00 |
| "Recordings made between the 1920s-1950s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the Seattle-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, fado, hillbilly, jazz, blues and much, much more. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably the film Session Nine), worked on documentary films (Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts Of Isan released on Sublime Frequencies) and contributed soundscapes to NPR radio programs in addition to releasing numerous recordings on CD and LP, including a recent LP on the Sun City Girls Abduction Records imprint entitled 5 Cents A Piece. Influenced by the Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo releases, Harry Smiths Anthology Of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also inspired by art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe. Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. Hundreds of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more." - Dust -to-Digital |
| Artist: VA Title: Art of Field Recording Volume I Format: 4CD boxset Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $64.00 |
| "Repressed and fully available again. This is volume 1 of Dust-to-Digitals robust Art of Field Recording series assembled by esteemed archivists Art and Margo Rosenbaum. This impressive 4CD set includes ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs and slave songs, religious singing, such as the African-American ring-shout and other traditional folk music from Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan and New York performed with voices and stringed instruments such as banjo and fiddle. Comes housed in a 11"x11"x1" color cardboard box containing a 96-page 10"x10" perfect-bound book with over 100 illustrations and photographs, and four CDs with a total of 110 tracks. The diverse talents of both Art and Margo Rosenbaum have allowed them to document music traditions in a way few others could have done. Art is a painter, a muralist, and an illustrator, as well as a collector and performer of traditional American folk music. Margo is a photographer that has captured many of Arts field recording encounters. Art Rosenbaum of Athens, Georgia, has been collecting and studying traditional American music for over 50 years. His focus covers Appalachian banjo tunes and ballads, Southern and Midwestern fiddle tunes, blues and spirituals. Rosenbaum began seeking out traditional performers while in his teens, rediscovering and recording the great blues guitarist Scrapper Blackwell and fiddler John W. Summers, both in his then-home state of Indiana. His fieldwork has produced archival material in the Indiana University Folklore Archives, the University of Georgia Libraries and the Archives of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress." - Dust-to-Digital |
| Artist: MUDBOY/AUK THEATRE Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Dutch Beer Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
| "side A is last visible dog recording artist MUDBOY. dude with a circuit bended 1975 organ. every tone he pushes out of his equipment is bliss and joy for everyone. pure new-age. side B is AUK THEATRE, straight outa CHARLES MANSION. better known as IRENE MOON, SARA OKEEFE, etc. great spoken word, scary theatre, weirdo voices and beauty melodies." - Dutch Beer. |
| Artist: BUFFLE/BENGEORGE7 Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Dutch Beer Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
| "2 very very very HIP bands. first part in the series of split-tapes with BREAKING WORLD RECS. Ben and George sing about daddys digweed and bad boys. Buffle has the blues." - Dutch Beer. |
| Artist: FRICARA PACCHU Title: Kleinstein And Co. Format: Cass Label: Dutch Beer Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
| "kevin joonas (AVARUS, ANAKSIMANDROS, etc) on his mission from outer space! little people, kraut electronics and goa trance moods." - Dutch Beer. |