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Taking the darker moments of JOY DIVISION as a starting point but leaving behind the industrial angst and fury for a rich and soulful melancholy that seamlessly blends first and third world cultures, they built something else entirely with insistent tribal rhythms, atmospheric guitar work, and Erics ghostly and desolate vocals, all with fine recording and production.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the best shows I went to in San Francisco during 1984 was the Glorious Din \u0026amp; Trial gig. This show really changed my life \u0026amp; made realize that I had to follow my dreams. Both of these bands were local bands, but they had created this killer post-punk sound that could hold its own with any band from anywhere. Around this time, Glorious Din released their classic album Leading Stolen Horses. This album is a post-punk gem that many people have never heard _¢‚Ǩ‚Äú trust me, after one listen you will be hooked. Every song on Leading Stolen Horses will touch your spirit in some way. I cant front, their singer Eric Cope could be compared to Ian Curtis, but honestly to me he had his own twisted vocal delivery. Glorious Din songs had these rad tribal drums that cascaded around your skull \u0026amp; then waltzed with your brain cells. Whats strange is that when I was younger, I believed this album gave me intelligence _¢‚Ǩ‚Äú with each listen, I learned more about my being.The guitar licks on this album are catchy \u0026amp; eternal, which puts you in a transcendental state. Their song Cello Tape shows that band was on a plane of their own. 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A real gem. Folk unit mixed with tape music. Loose thin line between composed and improvised, or, as member Dan Johansson defines it, quite sparse outsider anti-music.\" The Enhet starts where _ɂÄûttestupa left off. Strictly limited to 150 copies, then on to Dokument 2.\" - Holidays. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holidays","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52003963719,"sku":"17128-HOLIDAYS","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/R-7246518-1437067999-4073.jpg?v=1724845211"},{"product_id":"bailey-derek-solo-guitar-volume-1","title":"BAILEY, DEREK - Solo Guitar Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Honest Jons Records present Solo Guitar Volume 1, a reissue of Derek Baileys Solo Guitar release on Incus in 1971, with additional tracks included on previous reissues and a performance at York University in 1972. 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Restoration and mastering by Detlef Funder at Paraschall Mastering, Düsseldorf; Cut at Calyx, Berlin Translation by Miki Yui and Claus Laufenburg.\" - Tal.\n\u003cdiv id=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"After producing the album Souvenir De Mauve with Maher Shalal Hash Baz which we released on our label Majikick, the idea came to us, to release Reiko Kudo's work. For Reiko's work, we brought our recording equipment from Tokyo to Shikoku and recorded the entire album at her house . . . Reiko plays only at certain times of the day, so that we were able to complete only two or three recordings a day. Therefore, we had plenty of free time. We went to a hot spring, to a cafe, or we tried pottery on a spinning wheel at Tori's workshop. It was a very rewarding time. When this album was finished, we brought it to her to listen to. 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(Of course, repeated use is what silkscreens are normally made for, but Mark’s use of silkscreen had been anything but normal.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark had screens made of these texts:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVOTE FOR LAW AND ORDER\u003cbr\u003eBUSH IS GOD\u003cbr\u003eFREE THE RICH\u003cbr\u003eGET A JOB\u003cbr\u003eFOUR MORE YEARS\u003cbr\u003eBE A NARC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI can’t bring myself to italicize their irrational crudeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo this group, he added some new screens, pictures of George Bush Senior, Richard Nixon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a still from the video of the Rodney King beating. The large American flag from his collaborations with Randy Cole would get reused.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark’s protest signs were not straightforward. They seem to be intended to disrupt the thinking of the viewer, rather than to instruct or inform. Some of his slogans are clearly sarcastic; others are oblique, more difficult to interpret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome signs combined BE A NARC with pictures of Bush and that US flag. Two combine GET A JOB with Bush. At least one said BUSH IS GOD combined with the picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOthers combined the flag with the slogan FREE THE RICH, or BE A NARC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only FOUR MORE YEARS I’ve ever seen is combined with pics of Bush and Nixon. That one is printed on raw cardboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the signs Mark made featured the image of the Rodney King beating. The trial of the LAPD and the resulting riots had occurred just a few months earlier. Mark screened the image on the upper portion of maybe half the signs. Underneath he printed VOTE FOR LAW \u0026amp; ORDER. This was clearly sarcasm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark, a habitué of various underworlds of drugs, gay sex, and punk rock, was no friend of the cops; rather, he feared them greatly. He had friends and acquaintances who had been victimized by cops, and one friend went to prison. In 1986 he had written, recorded, and released the mocking “Houston Lawman” on Culturcide’s Tacky Souvenirs LP, in response to another police scandal, the murder of Ida Lee Delaney by the HPD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s a pattern here. Survival-oriented Mark, who likes to keep a low profile and avoid trouble, occasionally sticks his neck out when he gets sufficiently pissed off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarcastic and oblique they may have been, but the signs were used enthusiastically by protesters, probably ones drawn from the art underground. Hixson documented numerous uses of the signs on the streets in marches and rallies. They were originally outfitted with thin six-foot sticks for carrying, but the police made the protesters tear these off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark tried to recover these works after demonstrations, after they had been “baptized by reality.” They were often discarded on the ground. He saved a handful, and a few others are in private collections. No systematic documentation of the group was made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark has always been concerned about the problem of making art meaningful, either by adjusting it to the ever-changing reality of the art world, or placing it in certain contexts where it has a function. These signs were a case of the latter. 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His gnarled, distorted guitar tone and aggressively moan-based vocal style are both as distinctive as they are secretly beautiful. Morley has released dozens of solo recordings -- starting in the late 1980s as Gate, then more recently under his own name, and as the Righteous Yeah. He's also unafraid to tackle entirely new genres and sounds, and to move into interactive installation-based music as well. Birdman is beyond excited to present the first vinyl release of this archival Gate release.\" \"... I think it is classic Gate material. The idea of the palette is fascinating as I think I did approach it with a set of limited instrumentation and the desire to make something again that could sound like rock music. There is certainly a direct line from Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos, through the Dead C, and to Gate. 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Influenced by concrete music or composers such as Stockhausen, they also tried to bring an intellectual dimension to their work by making use of references from the new French critique or the manifesto of the composer Carles Santos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLater, with the aim of clarifying his ideas outside of music, Giménez spent two years in Paris studying philosophy, sociology and literature, approaching professors such as Deleuze, Foucault and Lacan, who were decisive for the later intellectual development of his work. On his return to Spain he decided to settle in Logroño in the heart of a hippie community where he formed part of the group Casablanca. Founded in 1977, the band was composed by more than seven members and generally leaned more towards progressive rock, but with numerous influences ranging from salsa to jazz, along with the work of composers such as La Monte Young or Pierre Schaeffer and groups like Gong or\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHawkwind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the dissolution of the band and a period in which he decide to distance himself from making music, Pablo A. Giménez regained interest when he was invited to compose the soundtrack for an amateur film. As a result of this episode, having already delved into theoretical issues such as structural anthropology and made use of resources such as the automatisms of the surrealists, his interest in sound creation returned. With magnetic tape as a support, his first works are characterised by the use of simple elements and cheap machines, with the exception of the saxophone. An approach which was certainly closer to a lack of means rather than to a specific sound aesthetic decision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis release reunites Pablo A. Gimenez’s first four albums, originally published between 1987 and 1991 on Javier Cinca’s label, Sindicato de Trabajos Imaginarios (S.T.I) in Zaragoza, Spain. They contain various forms of home-made electroacoustic compositions, that draw inspiration from traditions such musique concrete or free jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe original tapes have been digitized and remastered at Tezett-platte studio. Besides a hiss reduction, none of the audios have been edited and are thus presented as how the author recorded them originally. The edition contains 4 x C90 cassette tapes presented on a 4 way case, accompanied with an insert containing original photocopies of a newspaper interview to the artist from which most of the previous information is sourced, along with archival material. 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For its tenth anniversary, Night School and Dark Skies Association is making the most sought-after long player in Molly Nilsson's catalogue available again on a new format with new artwork. Pop music rarely comes as honest and heartfelt as when delivered by Molly Nilsson. Having traveled around the world singing to the romantic and the doomed, Nilsson found herself in the Summer of 2014 in Buenos Aires. Inspired by the crumbling urban landscape and the heavy hearts that populate it, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSólo Paraíso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not only an ode to a specific time and space but a musical novella that meditates on youth, idealism and belonging. The soundtrack to a summer you thought you had when looking over bleached out old photo albums. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSólo Paraíso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has the feel of a bridge between the more lo fi, first phase of Nilsson's career and the expanded sonic scope she has employed in the last decade. 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Using rhythm as texture, the tracks gravitate to concussive and bass voices, high bpm rates, and constantly evolving timbres shaped by granular synthesis, sampling, heavy processing, audio manipulation, rich distortion, with the maximum dynamic range vinyl can offer. 'We're always thinking about sound quality, about what's possible in a recording for vinyl demands a very specific approach. Pitch, dynamics, layering, density all play a more significant role in analog recording and reproduction,' says Leimer, as Barreca continues, 'Let's just say it's not music you can dance to.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArrhythmian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is released as a double disc vinyl set, produced to safely allow the grooves their maximum possible excursion while giving one's stylus a rewarding and demanding workout. Marc Barreca and Kerry Leimer have worked on a nearly parallel musical course for more than forty years. 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