| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/27/2009 | Babieri, Gato | In Search of the Mystery | CD | $11.99 | ESP-DISK' | "In Search of the Mystery, Gato Barbieri's debut album as leader, was recorded March 15, 1967, on the heels of his work on Don Cherry's famed Blue Note recordings: Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers. This avant-jazz masterpiece from the Argentine tenor saxophonist shows off his volatile, shrieking sound to full and unrelenting affect, fueled by the twin interweaving strings of cellist Calo Scott and bassist Norris Jones (Sirone) and Bobby Kapp's impressionistic drum splatter. Recorded in one day, the session exemplifies the spirited energy of the times and remains distinctive and inspiring today." "In Search of the Mystery is one of Gato Barbieri's early fiery sets. It was released on the ESP label and follows that tradition of stunningly chaotic jazz. This hit-and-run date consists of four tracks, all recorded on March 15, 1967. It is relentless, with Barbieri screaming on tenor throughout, backed by an interesting instrumental array of Sirone on bass, Calo Scott on cello, and Bobby Kapp on drums. Like most ESP dates, this is intense early cutting-edge free jazz, so much so that it continues to be in the early 21st century." - Al Campbell. Housed in digipak with liner notes. |
| 4/17/2003 | Baby Woodrose | Blows Your Mind! | CD | $18.99 | Bad Afro | “Baby Woodrose is Lorenzo, drummer from Danish heavy stoner/psych rockers, On Trial. Here, he plays all the instruments (guitars, drums, organ & electric piano), performing songs very much in the retro-garage blazing fuzz-psych tradition, more 1966 than either later-60s acid rock psychedelia, or the 70s heavy rock that inspired today's ‘stoner’ scene. The influences of that era are abundant and pretty readily apparent, referencing everything from the Thirteenth Floor Elevators to the Strawberry Alarm Clock, by way of the Yardbirds, Electric Prunes, Seeds, Chocolate Watchband; even the Stooges and Sonics. The guitars are either twangy & reverb-drenched or maximally fuzzed, the vocals snarl in your face or ooze from the murk deep in the back of the reverb chamber; all of the expected period nuances are there. Not much in the way of ‘space’ (nice seagull screams on ‘Living A Dream’, though) or ‘progressive’ (it's far too greasy) music here, but fans of earlier ‘head’ music ought to get into this album. After all, how can you argue with a song like ‘Right To Get High’?” – Aural Innovations |
| 1/13/2004 | Baby Woodrose | Disconnected | 7" | $6.99 | Bad Afro | "The Danish music scene is finally getting somewhere and Baby Woodrose is the latest proof. They create a unique sound that takes them to the 60's and back leaving the music being influenced by many shades of rock'n'roll and psych but played with heartfelt punk attitude. ‘Disconnected’ is the first single from the new album ‘Money For Soul’ and is backed with the exclusive ‘Too Far Gone’." |
| 1/13/2004 | Baby Woodrose | Money For Soul | CD | $18.99 | Bad Afro | "The Danish music scene is finally getting somewhere and Baby Woodrose is the latest proof. They create a unique sound that takes them to the 60's and back leaving the music being influenced by many shades of rock'n'roll and psych but played with heartfelt punk attitude. Baby Woodrose are: Lorenzo Woodrose alias Guf Lorenzen on guitar/vocals (ex-drummer for OnTrial and main man behind side projects like Disconnected Flowers, Pandemonica, Spids Nøgenhat a.o.) Riky Woodrose alias Anders Skjødt on bass (ex-guitar player in On Trial) Rocco Woodrose alias Anders Grøn on drums (drummer in an early incarnation of The Raveonettes). Baby Woodrose received quite a lot of attention outside Denmark with their self-released debut album ‘Blows Your Mind’ from 2001. In reality a one-man operation by Lorenzo Woodrose who wrote the songs, played all the instruments, produced the record and put it out on his own Pan Records. Baby Woodrose is now a real band and the next album is quite different. Baby Woodrose have only been playing live for 2 years but they already have a reputation of being a sweaty, jaw-dropping live experience. During the summer 2002 they played festivals like Roskilde Festival, Gutter Island, Barbarella, By:Larm, Swamp Room Happening and a showcase at Popkomm with Flaming Sideburns and Sweatmaster. In 2003 they have toured in Norway twice and in Germany with Sweatmaster, played SXSW in Texas and New York and in June they opened the main stage at the biggest festival in Northern Europe: Roskilde Festival." |
| 1/13/2004 | Baby Woodrose | Money For Soul | LP | $18.99 | Bad Afro | "The Danish music scene is finally getting somewhere and Baby Woodrose is the latest proof. They create a unique sound that takes them to the 60's and back leaving the music being influenced by many shades of rock'n'roll and psych but played with heartfelt punk attitude. Baby Woodrose are: Lorenzo Woodrose alias Guf Lorenzen on guitar/vocals (ex-drummer for OnTrial and main man behind side projects like Disconnected Flowers, Pandemonica, Spids Nøgenhat a.o.) Riky Woodrose alias Anders Skjødt on bass (ex-guitar player in On Trial) Rocco Woodrose alias Anders Grøn on drums (drummer in an early incarnation of The Raveonettes). Baby Woodrose received quite a lot of attention outside Denmark with their self-released debut album ‘Blows Your Mind’ from 2001. In reality a one-man operation by Lorenzo Woodrose who wrote the songs, played all the instruments, produced the record and put it out on his own Pan Records. Baby Woodrose is now a real band and the next album is quite different. Baby Woodrose have only been playing live for 2 years but they already have a reputation of being a sweaty, jaw-dropping live experience. During the summer 2002 they played festivals like Roskilde Festival, Gutter Island, Barbarella, By:Larm, Swamp Room Happening and a showcase at Popkomm with Flaming Sideburns and Sweatmaster. In 2003 they have toured in Norway twice and in Germany with Sweatmaster, played SXSW in Texas and New York and in June they opened the main stage at the biggest festival in Northern Europe: Roskilde Festival." |
| 11/4/2006 | Bad Brains | Live At CBGB 1982 | DVD | $16.99 | MVD | Culled from footage filmed over the course of three days at CBGB's legendary Hardcore Festival, this stunning performance from punk/reggae pioneers Bad Brains showcases their unique sound and unforgettable stage presence. Songs include "Big Takeover," "Attitude," "Right Brigade," "Riot Squad," "At the Movies," "Redbone in the City," "Pay to Cum," and more. |
| 9/30/2005 | Bad Drumlin Grass | Bad Drumlin Grass | CDR | $8.99 | Milvia Son Records | "The 24 minute opening track is born of a clear deep stream. Once ashore, its pulsating sighs feedback languidly over the faintly brittle sounds of its kaleidoscopically hardening shell. Track 2 arrives with the rains, swelling and exploding all that has gone before, and imparting upon the listener the vaguely disturbing impression of Bootsy horse-whipping an instrumental version of "Do What You Like" out of a nude and wasted Terry Riley." "Bad Drumlin Grass is the first release on Milvia Son Records, a nascent label which exists to document the personal expression of a two discrete musicians who stumbled through years of post-adolescence under the influence of acid, beer and analog feedback. In the beginning, BDG limited itself to performance art pieces before small unwilling audiences (e.g., playing frisbee stoned in the front of one member's apartment complex as the strains of Revolution Number 9 blasted out of his bedroom window). Later pieces in a similar vein included the endless playing of the choicest and most sublime Grateful Dead bootlegs for two of Black Flag's ugliest fans who happened upon BDG's hotel suite. Now, at last, their self-titled CDR presents Bad Drumlin Grass doing what they were born to do: mutually destroying and recreating their egos via the deliberate or accidental contact of acoustic and electrical musical instruments with their hands, feet and lips." Numbered edition of 175 copies. |
| 10/6/2007 | Bad Drumlin Grass | The Invigorating Scent of… | LP | $9.99 | Milvia Son Records | "The second Bad Drumlin Grass record is the first vinyl release on Milvia Son Records. Way back in July of 2006, Sensei Rebel chose the band's schizophrenic inaugural CDR (Birth/Afterbirth) as his 'Ambient Pick of the Week.' Forsaking the drone (at least temporarily), Bad Drumlin Grass presents two solid sides of junk 'n' roll instrumental freakouts that careen into the void like cigarette cherries dropping into the fake beard of a paranoid neo-folkie where, like Sonny Bono, they just sit there and *burn*. These are not the lost Hams rehearsals tapes. Imagine Richard Thompson and Garth Hudson rehearsing for 10,000 hours and touring with This Heat. This record is the exact opposite of that, except for being recorded live without overdubs. 300 copies for the world." |
| 1/29/2003 | Bad Girls | Unauthorized Recordings | CD | $8.99 | Public Eyesore | "Unauthorized Recordings is the collected recordings from a series of improvisational sessions between Mike Khoury (Entropy Stereo. violin), Ben Bracken (Flashpaper. guitar, organ), and Michigan experimenter Wade Kergan. A widely varying series of unsettling recordings from eerie frigid electronic pieces to crunchy minimalism to dizzying start/stop interplays approaching free jazz." |
| 8/22/2008 | Bad Statistics, The | Lucky Town Gone | CD | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "On the follow up to last years debut "Static" LP ((Kr-aa-k)3) The Bad Statistics have set about laying waste to the New Zealand suburban dream with this album, a much darker and heavier affair than their debut. Led by a bald suit clad psychopath named Thebis Mutante who chants and howls and grunts throughout their doom laden droning rock mantra the closest comparison I have been able to come up with is some sort of hybrid of The Birthday Party, Circle, and The Reynols. If the debut LP were to be regarded as the Mission Statement of Bad Statistics Great Annual Report in the Sky, "Lucky Town Gone" is not the Business Highlights chapter to be expected next, but a sideways lurch straight to Appendix 17: Corrupted Data. Recorded onto degraded old cassette tape, "Lucky Town Gone" is a collection of mean-spirited practice room jams that sees the core four-piece of Bad Statistics further embracing the stoner doom drone rock that already defined large parts of "Static". The seven tracks of "Lucky Town Gone" are again spearheaded by the abrasive, sense-eluding vocal emissions of Thebis Mutante. Critical response to Mutante's contributions on "Static" was deeply divided, and the new album is expected to further polarise opinions. Mutante is backed by Mark Williams (Marineville, Idle Suite, Cookie Brooklyn) on guitar, Justin Barr (Raskolnikovs, Users, Wrongdoings, Delaney Ghost Orchestra) on bass, and Johannes Contag (Jay Clarkson, Cloudboy, Sleepytime) on drums and production." |
| 12/24/2005 | Badgerlore | Stories for Owls | LP | $12.99 | Yik Yak | The second full-length release from psychedelic bread bakers and bird whisperers Badgerlore -- represented on this release by beard-core ambassadors Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On Fire), Tom Carter (Charalambides), Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), and Rob Fisk (7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) -- Stories For Owls features six beautifully lush, organic pieces that rise and fall with the group's broke-down, burned-up improv and the interplay of piano, vocals, and dual guitars. The music is organized around the conceptual theme of birds constructing nests, and each track explores this idea differently. Stories For Owls also showcases the talents of two newcomers; Tom Carter, whose playing seems beamed in from some entirely off-kilter universe; and Pete Swanson, who by grabbing and processing live sound, both in real time and through tape-delay, gives the already rickety skeletons of these songs an even greater fragility and tenderness. Beautiful and devastating." |
| 11/23/2004 | Bahrain | Bahrain | CDR | $12.99 | Blue Circle | "The band first emerged from Austin's psychic inner ear in July, 2000. A year later they'd finalized their lineup and were honing what was becoming a very distinct approach to postpunk's high-strung musical palette. The foursome has the net effect of a carload of grad students (with great record collections), who've picked up instruments and marched forward to slay the dumbed-down cartoon that pop has become. It's been a quick year. The results are showing and the rewards are there for the hearing. Singer Scott Telles (ST 37) has a vocal range not heard since the days of David Byrne and Feargal Sharkey. T. helms the keyboards but also plays bass: this in combination with bassist / backing vocalist Colleen G. makes for a deep, rich, undulating groove. Drummer Melissa J. adds the substantial (read: heavy) underpinning for the emergent, hypnotic bedrock. Guitarist Doug B. has plenty of room to further punch up the song's lick or skitter over its top, wild-eyed, and create plenty of nice, jagged spaces. He's the counterweight, wearing away his frets for the cause." - Dave Bottoms |
| 4/20/2008 | Bailiff, Jessica & Annelies Monseré | untitled | CD | $11.99 | Morc | "Although it's just the two of them, this ep has a very built-up sound, not unlike Jessica's earliest output and Annelies' most recent live shows. the songs are built on vocals, guitars, cello- and keyboard drones. ltd to 310 copies." |
| 2/4/2007 | Baird, Kathleen | Lullaby For Strangers | CD | $12.99 | Secret Eye | "I already knew that Chicago's Spires That in the Sunset Rise is an amazing band, but I was still blown away by their sheer brilliance at the recent Terrastock festival in Providence, RI. Given that, it was with great excitement that I received another solo disk from Kathleen Baird, this time dropping the Traveling Bell moniker she’s been using before. Fans of Spires That in the Sunset Rise’s eclectic, Comus-inspired free folk meanderings will enjoy this but ’Lullaby for Strangers’ is despite its bleak tone not quite as disturbingly dark and fractured. Let’s just say that this gently meandering slice of mystical folk for the most time has more to do with Incredible String Band than Comus and Current 93. Baird takes the late 60s work of ISB as a starting point and adds her own unique voice in the form of various exotic instruments (bells, mbira, guitars, flutes, synthesizers and more) as well as ocean deep female vocals that honestly is worth the price of admission alone. There’s something deeply spiritual about Baird’s droney folk arrangements and evocative lyrical phrasing that somehow completely transcends what we think we know. Her stories and worlds aren’t just trapped in another time; they’re born from another dimension. The end result is temple-like bliss of the highest order, easily ranking with the brightest hopes in the genre." - Mats Gustafsson for Terrascope Online |
| 4/10/2009 | Baker, Aidan | Thoughtspan | LP | $17.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Aidan Baker is one of the most interesting genre defying solo experimentalists around right now... Aidan also plays in the mind melting shoegaze doom duo of Nadja. This release reissues two tracks from a very limited CDR release entitled Thoughtforms, the original issue was on Tosom and is now long sold out, the LP collects two tracks from this release Thoughtspan and Thought Climate... Two long form tracks of genre blending shoegaze, post rock, krautrock and almost free jazz clatter at times... this is some very beautifully crafted music. Limited to 350 copies." |
| Baltic Whisperings | Baltyckie Szepty | CD | $15.99 | Plus GSM | Marek Styczynski and Anna Nacher of Magic Carpathians (ex-Atman) create a beautiful soundtrack to a documentary produced by Polish TV about the Baltic Sea and its endangered wildlife. Mixing their usual arsenal of exotic, natural instruments (voice, didjeridu, fujara, clarinet, mouth harp) with time-stopping electronic soundscapes, guitar loops and sea samples they create an evocative musical journey. An excellent side project that is as fine on a rainy afternoon as it does during a late night headphone excursion. Imported from Poland." Also be on the lookout for a forthcoming cd by the Magic Carpathians that will be released 'soon' by Drunken Fish (and I am told the recordings for this cd are incredible!) and look for them to tour near your town this Spring as they play the SXSW festival in Austin and will also play as they travel West and Northwest hitting San Francisco & Seattle. Possible show in Chicago, too. Contact Drunken Fish for more info. | |
| 1/30/2010 | BambiKill / Joey Chainshaw | split | c51 cassette | $7.99 | Bumtapes | "BambiKill and Joey Chainsaw's split tape collaboration is born screaming from all basements of weathered rented city houses. Joe and Christelle have been making Art and Music as a duo in Bristol for some while now, and are finally captured here together for the first time. Subterranean amps rumble and strain under the shifting earth-tones channelled by their guitars, a real unity can be heard as both musicians lay down tracks of personal psychedelic beauty, Joey's bowed rusted guitar strings carefully sing alongside Christelle's haunting vocals and stripped down fuzzed out guitarŠHuge riffs are held down and restrained as metal strings scrape and echo into drifting delicate song structures, reminiscent of charalambides etc.." |
| Bananafish | #14 | zine with CD | $10.99 | Tedium House | "The latest issue in the Glass-Monroe-Beezer family's long-running magazine dedicated to that which cannot be spoken (but certainly read). Includes print and audio material from outsiders like Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle, Peg Murray of U.S. Saucer, John Wiese of Bastard Noise, James Goode, Reynols, Panicsville, Vote Robot, Polar Goldie Cats (doing a feline version of Edgar Winter's 'Frankenstein,' and 'others.' 164-page magazine with a 14-track CD companion. Beautiful cover art (the best yet)." | |
| 11/18/2004 | Bananafish | Issue #18 | Magazine + CD | $10.99 | Tedium House | “The final issue of this long-running haven for avant-garde mavericks of all flavors checks in with in depth features on artist, musican DAVID LESTER (MECCA NORMAL); NYC acid-headed improv tour guides MONOTRACT (interviewed by DYLAN NYOUKIS); avant violin/electronics/voice iconoclast and author BURNING STAR CORE (aka C. SPENCER YEH); lost and overlooked Argentinean psychospatial composer NELSON GASTALDI (found and restored by South American sideshow barkers REYNOLS); CRAWL UNIT noise mumbler JOE COLLEY; and experimental writer, visual poet, xtant editor and Juxta publisher JIM LEFTWICH. Packaged with a CD featuring exclusive music from all the above. Bye-bye, Miss American Piehole.” |
| 5/8/2005 | Banhart, Devendra | Rejoicing In the Hands/Nino Rojo | DBL LP | $19.99 | Young God | "This double LP contains the entire Nino Rojo and Rejoicing in the Hands CDs, and features unique artwork for the inner gatefold. Contains two vinyl-only spoken-word bonus tracks by M. Gira." |
| 5/13/2003 | Bannister, Bob | Easterly | 7" | $4.99 | Remora | 1994 release features Bob Bannister on all instruments (guitars, bass, keyboard, violin, fuzz flute, voice, and pseud-organ) over the 4 tracks on the EP. |
| 9/29/2003 | Barbed | Pocket Reminders | 7" | $4.99 | Elevator Bath | "Barbed is the London based duo Alex McKechnie and Alex Burrow. They've appeared on numerous compilations (and most recently on the People Like Us Hate People Like Us remix project) and have released a full-length on These Records, but this is the first I have heard from them. These two tracks are teeming with intensity and energy, defined by their strong rhythms, heavy loops, bizarre vocal manipulations, feedback and lots of sound interference. These tracks impel me to turn the volume way up to fully experience these cathartic and energetic sounds, but this is especially so in the case of "Pocket Reminders" on side A, my favourite of the two tracks. Barbed has produced a wonderful and impactful little single, and makes me very glad to see that Elevator Bath seems to be committed to presenting records that are high on quality and short on duration (thus far their catalogue is composed of 7, 10 and 12" records). This edition is limited to 800." - Richard di Santo |
| 4/25/2008 | Bardo Pond | Batholith | LP + CD | $20.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "Batholith is a collection of six tracks that are near and dear to Bardo Pond but, for some reason or another, have never previously been released. That one-sentence description might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material - neither conclusion could be further from the truth. The tracks included on "Batholith" range from previous live staples ("A Tune," one made 'famous' by opening Bardo's set at Terrastock II in San Francisco as joined by Roy Montgomery [and a recording of which was featured on the KFJC compilation "Live from the Devil's Triangle, Volume 2"]) to tracks the band recorded in John Peel sessions ("Slip Away"). Collected as a whole, these tracks form a fluid and cohesive album. "Batholith" is not just an exciting moment for long time Bardo Pond fans, but a great jumping on point for folks who are relatively new to their craft. As per the Three Lobed standard, "Batholith" is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. It will be housed within heavy "old-style" one-pocket Stoughton gatefold jackets bearing new artwork by John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger. The record will be from an edition of close to 1000 copies and, and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax." This is now out of print. These remaining copies are the 'standard edition' - it does not include the bonus (2nd) cd. |
| Bardo Pond | Dilate | DBL LP | $29.99 | Matador | "Where eerie, droning, psychedelic feedback meets textured, multi-layered song- writing, there we find Bardo Pond. Their 4th Matador album, Dilate is their most fully realized record to date, providing a fresh yet familiar insight into the band's unique take on apocalyptic tension and noise distortion. Stylistically, Bardo Pond venture further into the stoner-drone territory that they pioneered but bring with them a newfound diversity which is unparalleled." Highly recommended! | |
| 7/8/2003 | Bardo Pond | On The Ellipse | CD | $12.99 | All Tomorrow's Parties | "The sixth album from Philadelphia psych lords and deep-lung THC rockers Bardo Pond. Six brand new tracks that come off like a leaden mix of Sabbathian riffs blended with the folk beauty of Led Zeppelin III, rocked heavier and fresher sounding than anything the band's done prior." Recommended! |
| 4/22/2009 | Bardo Pond | Peri | LP + CD + bonus CD | $20.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "In early 2008, Bardo Pond and Three Lobed Recordings teamed up to assemble "Batholith," a collection of tracks that were close to the band's heart but for various reasons had never been released. The result was an extremely cohesive and vital statement that was positively received by both old and new Bardo Pond fans. During the compilation of "Batholith" the band had to agonize over the wealth of material that they were sitting on in constructing the ultimate tracklisting - there were too many good songs! The band approached this "problem" by structuring two sister albums, "Batholith" and "Peri," each possessing their own musical themes and each fully capable of standing independent from the other. For this reason, "Peri" is every bit as potent as its predecessor. The meticulous sequencing of "Peri's" five tracks provides a classic Bardo Pond experience. While the initial description of the material might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material, neither conclusion could be further from the truth. the band is quite excited to finally see all of the material on "Peri" venture into the public. For example, "Chicken Gun" will be recognizable to the band's longtime fans. A former live staple from 1996 through 1998 (even making an appearance in the band's set at the first Terrastock festival), it is a propulsive and fiery rocker every bit as monumental as some of the band's classics such as "lb." and "Tommy Gun Angel." "The Path" is a subtle number featuring floating flute work from Isobel Sollenberger. The album-closing "Silver Pavilion" is the sort of meditative psychedelia that has been Bardo Pond's calling card over their lengthy career. The track dates to the band's extremely fertile, yet barely documented, period between the release of "Dilate" and "On The Ellipse." "Silver Pavilion's" slow, enveloping build properly see the listener to the door and is reminiscent of such flawless Bardo closing tracks as "RM," "Aldrin" and "Night Of Frogs." "Peri" is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl and is housed within heavy "old-style" one-pocket Stoughton gatefold jackets bearing new collage work from Michael Gibbons. The record is from a one-time pressing of 1640 copies and, as an added convenience for our vinyl-loving friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax." Copies at Eclipse will be accompanied by a bonus CD (TLR-068) of previously unreleased Bardo Pond material. Only a handful left - will be restocking copies without bonus cd shortly. |
| Bardo Pond | Set and Setting | CD | $13.99 | Matador | "They may no longer name their records after psychedelic toads and Indian magic mushrooms, but when it comes to locating the lysergic mainline to the soul, Bardo Pond have few peers. The Philadelphia quartet's sixth album achieves the noble feat of heightening the charred intensity of 1997's 'Lapsed' while evincing a peculiar clarity at the eye of their slo-mo distortion hurricane. Bardo Pond have long since given up on merely making noise for its own sake. 'Set And Setting' is an aural travel documentary featuring four people and how far they can get without moving from behind their amps. Opener 'Walking Stick Man' sucks its cheeks for 11 minutes, sluicing around the whacked-out slivers of John and Michael Gibbons' black-hole guitar tracings until, exhausted and delirious, it collapses into a wheezy harmonica outro and, finally, the next track. Which is called 'This Time (So Fucked)'. Jesus, it's heavy. Meanwhile, Isobel Sollenberger has been groaning like a feral Kim Gordon about, oh y'know, stuff that comes down. Never hitherto properly audible, her voice is crucial in humanising Pond life." - NME | |
| 9/17/2006 | Barf Thoth | Dark Speech | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "sick llama presents : more ancient tongues unforgotten as they rise through th ground up from the grave. edition 77." |
| 7/16/2006 | Barf Thoth | Peep Roky | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "sick llama presents more from behind the scab curtain. the elevator lights went out and the only other dude in there w/ me kept complaining about the silence. said at his crib 13 televisions and radios would be on all the time 25 / 8, all set to different stations. he busted me this tape. edition 77." |
| 3/20/2007 | Barf Thoth / The Cases | split | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "Well, i can't say that this tape is boring, that's fer sure. edition 77." |
| 10/25/2008 | Bark Haze / Traum | Monolith: Jupiter | LP + CD | $19.99 | Music Fellowship | "After Dave shuts down HAL and finds the true objective of their mission to Jupiter, he boards a pod and descends towards a monolith in search of the destination of the transmission mankind discovered on the Moon. As he reaches the Jupiter monolith, he begins to travel through a tunnel of lights, projected through space and time until he ends up in an ornately decorated bedroom with Renaissance artwork and molding. In the bedroom, Dave starts to rapidly age. As he lies in his deathbed another monolith appears. Just as the apes did in the opening sequence, he reaches out to it, echoing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and is evolved; the starchild is born. The Monolith series combines two like-minded artists on the same one-sided, reverse-cut LP by hard-panning one recording to the right and the other recording to the left. By adjusting the panning controls on his or her turntable, the listener is free to control the degree to which the two recordings melt into one. Each edition in the series is limited to a one-time pressing of 500 picture disc LPs featuring a Monolith inspired painting by Ned Clayton and includes a CD with stereo mixes. Monolith: Jupiter is realized by two fre(e/ak)-jazz duos: Traum and Bark Haze. On the right is Bark Haze, the duo of Gown (Andrew MacGregor) and Thurston Moore. Bark Haze explores the interplay between two unbridled electric guitars. This recording focuses on restraint: an intimate melding of the minds through careful abuse of the strings. On the left is Traum, in this recording the duo of Hell Hall (Graveyards) and Zac Davis (Lambsbread). The project is Hall's continuation of Graveyards' from the gutter ode to jazz's influence on noise. This recording combines Hall's creative and controlled drumwork and percussion with Davis' schizophrenic/ADHD guitar hallucinations. The combination of the two recordings is either interstellar kismet or pure trash or at least interstellar trash." |
| 3/20/2007 | Bark Haze, The | The Bark Haze | LP | $15.99 | Important Records | "This limited edition LP is pressed in an edition of 1000. These are completely different recordings than The Bark Haze compact disc, also on Important Records. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera). Auxiliary members have been know to include Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Cops, et al). Their name came from a mis-hearing of the radical early '70s R+B group the Bar-Kays and from that moment the concept of mis-hearing and allegiance to presenting the mis-hearing as some open-ended musical course became The Bark Haze's identity." |
| 1/17/2010 | Barker, Kevin | You and Me | CD | $12.99 | Gnomonsong | "You & Me is KEVIN BARKER's debut album, released by Gnomonsong. Though it's his first solo release under his own name, Barker's no newcomer to the scene-he's spent the last few years recording, touring, and collaborating with Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Antony and the Johnsons, and Espers, to name just a few. Essentially acting as everyone's favorite sideman, Barker has influenced and helped create a sound with which this generation is happily familiar. During his college days, Barker became interested in the finger-style guitar playing of John Fahey and Bert Jansch and began to record under the name CURRITUCK COUNTY. This solo project (sometime a duo with Vetiver / Espers drummer Otto Hauser) recorded albums for Teenbeat Records, Troubleman Unlimited, and the UK's Track and Field Organisation. Now Barker has assembled an unbelievable group of musicians for You & Me. Produced by THOM MONAHAN (Vetiver, Lilys, Gary Louris, Devendra Banhart), the album features PAT SANSONE (WILCO), JOANNA NEWSOM, JONATHAN WILSON (ELVIS COSTELLO, JENNY LEWIS), ERIC JOHNSON (SHINS, FRUIT BATS), and OTTO HAUSER (VETIVER, ESPERS). Full of sunny, rural country rock, You & Me recalls the rustic grooves of The Band and The Grateful Dead, the heady melancholy of Roy Harper, and the golden harmonies of CSNY. LP version to be released 2/02/2010." |
| 11/6/2002 | Barlow / Petersen / Wivinus | The Transparent World | CD | $9.99 | Hand/Eye | "The Transparent World CD finds Barlow / Petersen / Wivinus working exclusively with acoustic instrumentation to achieve a sonic landscape that is at turns lush and austere, meditative and menacing. All tracks on the disc are improvised at their core and utilize a wide variety of instruments and techniques, creating many sounds not normally associated with ‘acoustic’ recordings. Of course there are guitars (both six- and twelve-string), but often unusually tuned and occasionally bowed. Piano, dulcimer, mandolin (occasionally augmented by e-bow and slide) bowed cymbals, the Freeman Monostring (played with a ballpeen hammer) the ‘rattletrap,’ bagpipe chanter and various other peripheral devices are all used to create a very singular and evocative whole. Musically, the disc ranges across a wide variety of styles and influences, but still retains a unified vision and a cohesive sound. Any number of genres can be seen in fleeting glimpses throughout the recordings: menacing blues from the deepest edges of a swamp swimming with spirits and psychosis, avant soundscapes conjuring images of a creaking old house with a will all its own and possible ill intent, long and languid soundtracks toward the horizon at the end of a lengthy and perhaps lucid dream. This release rests somewhere between the experimental avant-garde, the darkest psychedelic folk music, and the epic 360 degree horizons of pure drone/dream music. Fans of Third Ear Band, Makoto Kawabata’s ‘Inui’ project, Six Organs of Admittance and select movie soundtracks will surely find something to appreciate here." |
| 6/4/2004 | Barlow, Rich | Black Diamond Baby | CD | $9.99 | Stick It To the Man Records | "In April of 2004 Flaneur Productions presented ‘Black Diamond Baby,’ a new play by Jim Bovino. The soundtrack was written and recorded by Rich Barlow (The Pins, Barlow / Petersen / Wivinus, Molloy) and features theme music and dronescapes for Hammond organ and electric guitar, as well as spoken word and music interludes from the play." More info at http://www.geocities.com/flaneur_productions |
| Barlow, Rich | Inventory | CD | $8.99 | Stick It To The Man Records | “In October of 2001 Flaneur Productions presented the world premiere of ‘Inventory’, a new play by playwright John O’Donoghue at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. The soundtrack was recorded by Rich Barlow (The Pins, Molloy, Barlow/Petersen/Wivinius) and is now available as limited edition cdr from Stick It To The Man. The soundtracks creepy ambience perfectly matches the subject matter of the play, a psychiatric ward where it’s unclear who is the doctor and who is the patient, or whether the building itself is making the inhabitants sick. It was recorded using almost exclusively non-traditional sound sources: fluorescent lights, motors, ground hum and feedback.” | |
| 8/20/2004 | Barlowe, John & Surface of Eceyon | John Barlowe's Reading of "Myths From the Surface of Eceyon," Accompanied By Syrfyyc yf Ycyon's Dragyyn | CDR | $9.99 | Spirit of Orr | “Mysterious poet John Barlow reads the Franz Prichard penned myth that was originally printed in the Surface of Eceyon ‘Dragyyn’ cd packaging...with the audio from Dragyyn as the audio landscape background. The story and music are synced up perfectly for an awesome audio-story sonic adventure.” Limited edition of 100 copies. |
| Barnes, Tim | All Acoustics | CD | $12.99 | Quakebasket | Solo disc from Tim Barnes (Tower Recordings and lots of other projects including the great Quakebasket label). These two improvisations were performed on July 18, 2001 at Lost Planet Editorial, between 9pm and 11pm. There has been no editing or overdubbing done to these performances. “All Acoustics is now pressed as a full-on CD and contains additional art from the original release. However, the music is the same - two lengthy percussion improvisation - cut live with no overdubbing or editing. Barnes attack (and restraint) in line with Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, or Toru Takemitsu. But as Tony Oxley, Milford Graves, and Paul Lovins did before him, Barnes searches out all the possible sounds of any object he chooses to play. A recording for non-cynical people everywhere.” | |
| 12/24/2005 | Baroque Bordello | Abnormal Songs | LP | $22.99 | QBICO | Originally issued on cassette on the R.E.P. label in the 80's in very limited quantities, then re-issued on a 10 CD-R box set entitled "Makoto Kawabata Early Works 1978-1981" (ltd. ed. 100 copies only, numbered, sold out). "This is a music that i originally composed for a play called Alice in Nakedland. The play was some erotic expressionist nonsense, sort of like Alice in Wonderland and Dr. Caligari's Crime added together then divided by two. My script was used, but my music was rejected by the other staff members" M. Kawabata. These are recordings from 1980 pressed on light blue clear vinyl. |
| 1/15/2005 | Barrett, Syd | Barrett | CD | $13.99 | Harvest | CD issue of Syd Barrett’s 2nd and last official release from 1970. This reissue features 6 bonus tracks in addition to the 12 on the original recording. "On his second solo album, Barrett was joined by Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley and Pink Floyd members Rick Wright (organ) and Dave Gilmour (guitar). Gilmour and Wright acted as producers as well. Instrumentally, the result is a bit fuller and smoother than the first album, although it's since been revealed that Gilmour and Wright embellished these songs as best they could without much involvement from Barrett, who was often unable or unwilling to perfect his performance. The songs, however, are just as fractured as on his debut, if not more so. 'Baby Lemonade,' 'Gigolo Aunt,' and the nursery rhyming 'Effervescing Elephant' rank among his peppiest and best-loved tunes. Elsewhere, the tone is darker and more meandering. It was regarded as something of a charming but unfocused throwaway at the time of its release, but Barrett's singularly whimsical and unsettling vision holds up well." – Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide |
| 10/25/2008 | Barrett, Syd | Opel | LP | $19.99 | "This excellent collection of Syd's psychedelicly whimsical, mostly-acoustic alternate versions and demo tracks was recorded between 1968 and 1970 at Abbey Road Studios, though not compiled and released until 1989. With 8 never-before-heard songs and 6 alternate versions (9 of them produced by David Gilmour), this includes "Opel," "Clowns & Jugglers (Octopus)" (with SOFT MACHINE backing), "Rats," "Golden Hair" (vocal version), "Dolly Rocker," "Word Song," "Wined and Dined," "Swan Lee (Silas Lang)," "Birdie Hop," "Let's Split," "Lanky (Part One)," "Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe)," "Milky Way," and "Golden Hair" (instrumental version). The 2-color printed board innersleeve includes extensive liner notes and recording details. Original artwork, UK import." | |
| Barrett, Syd | Return of the Crazy Diamond | LP | $18.99 | "A collection of demos and rarities 1968-70 from the psychedelic madcap, it's mostly Syd and his acoustic guitar, with electric guitar and drums accompaniment on a few tunes. 16 tracks, including versions of songs like ‘Baby Lemonade,’ ‘It is Obvious,’ ‘Clowns and Jugglers,’ ‘Gigolo Aunt,’ ‘Effervescing Elephant,’ and several more, with minimal production mostly by Dave Gilmour." | ||
| 1/1/2008 | Barrett, Syd | The Madcap Laughs | LP | $19.99 | "His first 1970 post-FLOYD album (recorded the previous year), with half of the tracks produced by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, and half by Malcolm Jones of Harvest Records, and including some with overdubs by members of SOFT MACHINE. Original artwork, Euro import." | |
| 1/15/2005 | Barrett, Syd | Wouldn’t You Miss Me?: The Best of Syd Barrett | CD | $15.99 | Harvest | "What is it about depravity that demands attention? From disaster porn to Lifetime movies, our culture loves to vicariously exorcise their diminutive traumas through those whose lives have been wrought with pain. This carries over to the world of music where the dynamic between tragedy and reverence is exalted, rather than critiqued, and personified by such talents as Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, Johnny Ace and, more recently, Mark Sandman. The macabre tales and images of their self-destruction are indelibly linked to the bodies of work they left behind, forever blurring the lines that separate an impartial assessment of their talents from the content of their character. The truth is that the music of those who burn out isn't necessarily judged by a different set of standards so much as it's judged by the standards the artists set for themselves during their creative zeniths. After all, these modern legends posthumously govern a world where rumors and hearsay reach mythical proportions and idolaters devote their entire lives to collecting every shred of sound their own personal God/Goddess ever committed to tape. 'Syd' Roger Barrett is one of those golden calves, though fashioned by a much different maker. The infamous story of his rise to the forefront of the burgeoning British psychedelic scene in the late 60s - for those of you not up on your Syd, he was the premier singer/songwriter of Pink Floyd that fell into a drug-induced mania catalyzed by already-prevalent schizophrenic conditions - has been reiterated, exaggerated, invoked, and novelized so many times that it's arguably overshadowed his seminal contributions to popular music. These contributions - his two solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, both released in 1970 - transcend his work with late-60s Pink Floyd and make for haunting aural documents of a prolific talent's dilapidating psyche while paradoxically managing to retain a rich charm and hooks sharp enough to make Peter Pan wet his tights. Discounting a few independently distributed releases and Cleopatra's Octopus, no serious attempt has ever been made to compile the 'best of' Syd Barrett, let alone to confine the content to his solo material. This may be partially due to the Herculean nature of the task. Though the Madcap's output as a solo artist only adds up to roughly 45 songs (22 of which are contained here), it would be easy for the compiler to fail in their intention, given Syd's penchant for an enduring arrangement and melody. The release of Wouldn't You Miss Me, which draws from every facet of Barrett's available recorded output, is certainly no exception, notably omitting 'No Man's Land,' a common fan favorite, and the stark acoustic demo of 'Rats,' which is home to some of Barrett's most self-effacing (and successful) stream-of-consciousness, and was originally released with fuller instrumentation on Barrett before finding its way onto Opel, a collection of rarities and outtakes. Regardless, the collection itself is a long overdue acknowledgment of the disarming beauty found in Syd's work outside the psychedelic stratum." - Kevin Adickes, February 13th, 2002, Pitchfork Magazine. It is also worth noting that this cd includes 'Bob Dylan Blues'which has not been released anywhere before or since. |
| 7/10/2008 | Barrett, Syd | You Got It Now | LP | $20.99 | "This collects 6 rare studio outtakes from 1968-70 on side 1 ("Wouldn't You Miss Me," "She Took a Long Cold Look at Me," "Wined and Dined," "Golden Hair," "Dylan Blues," and "Religious Experience"). The real treat however is his final recording session from 1974, as far as we know previously unreleased: "Boogie #1," "Boogie #2," "Boogie #3," "If You Go," "Ballad," "Chooka Chooka Chug Chug," "If You Go #2," "Slow Boogie," "John Lee Hooker," "Fast Boogie," and an untitled track! UK import." |
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| 3/27/2004 | Basho-Junghans, Steffen | 7 Books | DBL CD | $16.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "With over two hours of music spread across two discs, 7 Books finds Basho-Junghans stretching way out, mutating the steel string tradition into the most elaborate excursion into sound and composition that has ever fluttered from his fingertips. Basho-Junghans' experimental works are microcosms of his chance discoveries with the acoustic steel string guitar, focusing in on a particular aspect of his epiphanies; 7 Books gathers all of these microcosms into one Big Bang, erupting into a vast universe of subtle and complex sound galaxies. Six-string guitar provides the template for Disc One, and each 'book' (composition) opens and closes with a deep array of chapters and passages. Chiming tones, pulsating percussive runs, finger scrapes and dazzling finger techniques build and build in raga-like fashion. Disc Two focuses on music composed with slide guitar, and Basho-Junghans' particular alien glissandos dance like refracted light, a gloriously disorienting sound broadcast seemingly from a foreign land. Minimalism, Eastern raga, trance-inducing repetition, Spectralist tonal investigations, folk and American fingerstyle steel-string tradition coalesce into one astounding epic for the solo acoustic guitar. Steffen Basho-Junghans follows his instincts above everything else and discovers a myriad of universes within a solitary instrument, inventing a new language in the process." |
| Basho-Junghans, Steffen | Inside | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Evolving amorphously from the New Folk tradition inspired by Takoma Records artists John Fahey, Peter Lang and especially Robbie Basho, Berlin's most enigmatic steel-string guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans exorcises radically new voices and perspectives out of the acoustic steel string guitar. Possessing an impeccable instinct and insatiable curiosity, this innovative guitar master is on a constant search to discover new possibilities for the instrument. Conceptually, Inside is a metaphysical excursion exploring the idea 'inside the outside'. Using 'wrong' playing techniques as the basic launching point, Inside casts aside the inhibitive shackles of theory and develops the basic idea via a meditative and utterly minimalist approach. Hypnotizing soundscapes emerge from the depths, enveloping and distorting any semblance of time to the point of blissful disorientation. Broken into three movements, '1st Movement' establishes the very essence of the piece as a subtly shifting meander through space, building in a somewhat percussive, raga-like manner. '2nd Movement, Part 1, 2 & 3' seem to hit a sojourn in the trip, dancing around a universe where Derek Bailey and Rod Poole incessantly debate the merits of John Fahey's America album. '3rd Movement' moves back into the saturating theme, galloping through various minute manifestations, ebbing and flowing effortlessly. An astonishing array of sounds are coaxed out of his acoustic steel string, remarkable considering Inside was recorded solo, with no overdubs whatsoever. Standing uniquely apart as a singular suite of minimal-trance for solo acoustic guitar, Inside sets folk standards collectively on it's ear. With this record, Steffen Basho-Junghans makes a radical statement on the potential of acoustic guitar music. His ultimate achievement, however, is the creation of absolute beauty." | |
| 11/4/2006 | Basho-Junghans, Steffen | Late Summer Morning | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Much in the vein of his pastorale epic Rivers and Bridges, Steffen Basho-Junghans harkens back to the heyday of American Primitive guitar, as defined by John Fahey circa Fare Forward Voyagers and America, and the American raga structures of Robbie Basho. 'Late Summer Morning,' the title track, is an unabashedly beautiful extended composition for 6-string guitar, stretching out languidly and effortlessly like a morning raga saturated in crisp, warming hues. With the steel string tradition as a steadfast reference point, Basho-Junghans utilizes unorthodox pacing, picking and rhythms as Late Summer Morning progresses. 'Woodland Orchestra' discreetly harkens to themes of tone and minimalism as found on 7 Books or any one of his experimental albums, while 'Azure No. 3' wraps glistening guitar lines into circular patterns to create lovely trance-inducing color wheels. A key component to Late Summer Morning, however, is Basho-Junghans' ability to strike out into the unknown while keeping the sounds and tones grounded, something that is evident as multiple sound forms hit the ear with calming bliss. American folk and classical, East Indian raga, Native American linearity, the resonance of Middle Eastern folk and melodic minimalism (i.e. Steve Reich) meld together in a fashion that is tremendously cinematic and allegorically vivid." |
| 2/13/2003 | Basho-Junghans, Steffen | Rivers and Bridges | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Rivers and Bridges is a pastoral experience, rich in color and texture, coursing through various moods with river allegory at its' core. Impressionist six-string dramaturgy cascade forth, ebbing and flowing in steady rage-like waves, across placid sound pools and frothing rapids. Through each piece a myriad of sounds styles are explored, touching upon American folk, Native American linearity. Middle Eastern resonance, East Indian raga, and Western classical with heartfelt ease - and often within the same tune. Propelled all the while by an intricate sense of melodic invention, the depth of imagery and complexity of texture is remarkable and simply gorgeous. Reminiscent of his Songs of The Earth and the timeless Takoma Records sound, Rivers and Bridges is an instant classic acoustic guitar record, sounding familiar and yet imbued with subtleties unlike anything else you've heard before." |
| 4/10/2005 | Basho-Junghans, Steffen | Unknown Music 1: Alien Letter | CD | $14.99 | Sillyboy | "'Alien Letter is the 1st project of a series of guitar 'excursions into the Unknown', most of them dialogues with one guitar, recorded live and pure (in my living room) to dat and edited gently. Into this one I came deep at night, when I took a guitar to close the 'day' with some sounds. The channel characteristics are those of the player position. No overdubs or reverb have been added.' - SBJ, Berlin, August 2004. This is how Steffen describes his brand new album, the first one for Sillyboy Records. For us, Alien Letter is another fascinating chapter in Junghans' outstanding musical career - and one of the most mysteriously intriguing. This time, the Berlin-based acoustic guitarist is really mapping uncharted territories and the result is this dense, massive album, linked to the tradition of both Derek Bailey and John Fahey, but also one step forward, out in the unknown. Quite literally beyond description, spiritual and out-there, Alien Letter has probably more in common with the healing power of Albert Ayler and surely it is a deeply personal missive from one of today's greatest acoustic guitarists." |
| 9/30/2005 | Basho-Junghans, Steffen | Unknown Music II | CD | $14.99 | Preservation | "The Preservation label presents Unknown Music II - Transwarp Meditation, from Steffen Basho-Junghans. The passion for exploratory acoustic music currently in grip has been with Steffen Basho-Junghans for a long time. Based in Berlin, Steffen has been one of the most searching artists in the ever-increasingly loose folk idiom for over two decades. His work on the six and twelve-string guitar makes him a modern-day counterpart to great trailblazers John Fahey and Robbie Basho, from who he takes his name as a creative talisman. Unknown Music II is much more than just a set of psychedelic overtures. It's a work of deep spiritual vision that comes from having travelled far down an exceptionally individual path. |
| 2/2/2002 | Basho-Junghans, Steffen | Waters in Azure | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Steffen Basho-Junghans of Berlin, Germany is certainly the most expansive guitarist working solely within the medium of solo acoustic steel string guitar today. Seeking to understand and absorb every language, every dialect, every ounce of slang that could possibly be uttered from the mouth of the acoustic guitar has led him on a diligent, far-reaching campaign of search and discovery. And the results have been fantastic. Waters in Azure, Steffen's latest exploration since 2001's lauded Inside (SAAH002), takes the next logical step beyond the minimalist free-raga of the aforementioned CD into further uncharted terrain...with even wilder, confounding, but no less gorgeous sonic results. Waters in Azure is an album of sound sculptures, coursing through themes of structure, space and state. Inaugurating the album is 'Waters', a winding, amorphous meditation upon waters' various characteristics. Broken into three distinct parts, the composition coaxes blissfully disorientating shrapnel from the guitar, slithering under Steffen's alien 12-string slide techniques. 'Waters' dances drunkenly like a burbling creek, building, cresting, then breaking into a spacious trickle, only to swell again as it spills forth across some eerie landscape. Harkening back to INSIDE's raga-pulse is 'Inside The Rain', the absolute centerpiece of the album. Shimmering fractals glisten with fantastic beauty, expanding determinedly towards an ecstatic plateau, propelled by the rhythmic, vibrant sparkle of SBJ's 12-string. 'One no. 1' displays (to the extreme) Steffen's penchant for imposing limitations onto his technique as he searches diligently for new planes of discovery. Played entirely with only one finger on the left hand, what once began as a joke (inspired by exaggerated photos of players proving their chops via difficult chord structures) has evolved into a remarkable netherworld. This stark, spacious, otherworldly soundscape ebbs and flows glacially, chiming with tone and color across three parts. The subtly-shifting 'Azure No. 1 - The Suntreader' rounds out the disc with a 'plain color' splash of incessant 6-string strumming. Multiple sound microcosms inhale/exhale methodically, manipulating odd tricks upon the ear from minute variations of attack. You would swear there was a keyboard in there! But no...Waters in Azure was recorded, as always, totally solo, in real time, with absolutely no overdubs, implements or effects used. Experimenting with technique, form, and sound by merging minimalist composition, Eastern raga and the acoustic steel string/folk tradition pioneered by Robbie Basho, John Fahey and Sandy Bull, indifferent to the inherent disparity between those genres, Steffen Basho-Junghans transcends any easy pigeonholing to sit perched high atop a musical plane entirely of his own vision. Water is Azure is his latest volley at the gods and goddesses of sound, pelting them mercilessly with his elaborately foreign, yet utterly beautiful brand of minimalist solo guitar." |
| 2/21/2009 | Bassett, Marcia / Carlos Giffoni | Organized Anatomy | CD | $10.99 | Blossoming Noise | "Collaborative release from No Fun creator Carlos Giffoni and Marcia Bassett of Hototogisu & Double Leopards. Edition of 300." |
| 10/5/2004 | Batoh, Masaki | Collected Works 1995-1996 | LP | $14.99 | Drag City | "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 Ghost's 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." |
| 10/25/2008 | Baumann, Matt | An Island | CDR | $12.99 | Reverb Worship | "This is "An Island" by saxophonist Matt Baumann. Over the summer months we talked about releasing an album. Matt's response was to send me this wonderful solo recording. The cd is split into eight tracks.Imagine the waves breaking on the beach of some remote deserted island with echoing calls of a lyrical,mournful and lonely saxophone crying from a inner soul. I wanted to combine the release with a recollection from my past. I always loved the music of saxophonist Jan Garbarek and cover designs of the german ECM record label he was on. So this is the result." |
| 12/13/2008 | Baxendale, Tom | Her Ghost | 7" | $6.99 | Great Pop Supplement | "Beautiful debut 45 from London singer songwriter Tom Baxendale. Ace blend of alt. country, folk and Americana, with an 'A' side rush of acoustic guitar and mandolin recalling atmospheric odes to love and loss. The 'B' side lowers the tempo and is way more gentle, recalling perhaps, 'Gosdin Brothers' era Gene Clark. Regular gigging partner to previous GPS debutant Pete Greenwood. A pressing of 300 copies in gorgeously cool orange and green tracing paper booklets, again, not expected to sit around for longŠ" |
| 5/23/2009 | Bayal with Arnaud Riviere | First Contact | CDR | $10.99 | Bug Incision | "John Boyle and Aya Onishi (of Nihilist Spasm Band) play an arsenal of drums, modified thumb pianos & kazoos, with guest Arnaud Riviere (of Textile Orchestra, among other things) on destroyed turntables. The music was recorded live in France, documenting their set at Sonic Protest from a few years back. It consists of a half hour of unrelenting primal improvisation, underpinned by some early-man-style drumming and skittering cascades of feedback and heavily amplified, tactile interplay. Limited edition of 100, with b&w photo-print." |
| 1/13/2004 | Baz / Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit Insurance | split | LP | $8.99 | Nauscopy Records | "Imagine if an ant the size of a golden retriever and an elephant the size of an ant haunted you at night in an effort to get you to smear your naked body with electricity and deli mustard in the stratosphere, only to be directly transported to a very dark place. You fumble around and find a doorknob. Won't open. Your vision adjusts to the darkness and you slowly realize you are in your own closet. Whose idea was it to lock the closet anyway?" Handmade jackets. Lot of inserts. A strange record. Edition of 200 copies. |
| 1/1/2008 | Beach Boys | Smile | LP | $20.99 | "A great collection of unreleased outtakes and demos from their psychedelic "Smiley Smile" period: "Prayer," "Heroes & Villains," "Barnyard," "Do You Like Worms," "The Old Masterpainter / You are My Sunshine," "He Gives Speeches," "Wonderful," Child is Father of the Man," "Cabin Essence," "Look," "Good Vibrations," "I Wanna Be Around/Friday Night," "Vega-Tables," "Wind Chimes," "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow," "I Love to Say DaDa," "You're Welcome," and "Surf's Up." Very informative liner notes on each track, and a nice full color cover. UK import." | |
| 3/5/2009 | Beach Fuzz | untitled I & untitled II | 7" | $6.99 | Great Pop Supplement | "5 minutes pulled from 2 epic, cacophonous jams make up both sides of this first beach fuzz 45. following on a slew of home spun cassette and CDR releases on their own golden lab label as well as blackest rainbow, lotus birth and others. insistent, narcotic drone pieces featuring bowed, scraped lap steel, wailing echo drenched synth wash with occasional mo-esque, circling percussion. 300 only in cool, fliptop, yearling lined card fliptop sleeves." |
| 6/5/2009 | Beach Fuzz with Dave Jackson | Nosferatu Hex | CDR | $9.99 | Golden Lab Records | "It's the final Beach Fuzz recording made with Barry Dean on drums and also features the eyeball-melting saxophonic skree of Solar Fire Trio's Dave Jackson. It was recorded in Warrington on 29th Oct '08 and is a more melodic yet typically cacophonous jam than previous releases. We hope you dig. Ltd to 80 copies, sleeves printed on recycled card w/soya based ink." Here's what Norman Records has to say about it..."NOSFERATU HEX. A title so good I can't help but write it in capitals. The sleeve's cool too but I can't write that in capitals...This CD by Beach Fuzz follows up on the limited cassette they did on Blackest Rainbow and definitely doesn't kick out the jams.. In fact it embraces them quite heartily. Saxophonist Dave Jackson (of Solar Fire Trio) joins the band to blow the skin off your very face while everyone else clatters around in a whirlwind of tribal dustbin lid drums, squealing feedback and deep-voiced zombie incantations. It's a bit like a jazzy Heavy Winged+Satan..." |
| 11/17/2007 | Beak Full of Rubies | Beak Full of Rubies | one sided LP | $12.99 | Ypsilanti Records | "An entire year after they were initially pressed, the Beak Full Of Rubies one-sided LPs are finally finished, printed, amazing and ready for the world. There were only 100 copies made, and they'll be gone in a lot less than a year! If you have no idea who BFOR are, don't worry, they're kinda under the radar. It's Scott Deroche, Chuck Sipperly & Chandan Narayan, three sweet dudes who improvise and rustle in an elctro-acoustic via sampled noise and prepared instruments style." |
| 7/14/2007 | Bear Bones Lay Low | Djid Hums | LP | $19.99 | Gipsy Sphinx | "Its the debut LP of Bear Bones Lay Low, the psych noise power drone project of Ernesto González, an 18 year old Venezuelan kid who moved to Belgium with his family three years ago. Thick layers of Hototogisu-like guitar drones interfere with endless tape loops and warm washes of analogue jungle color tone to work up to an overwhelming fuzz guitar climax, leaving listeners helpless, ecstatic, puzzled and bemused. Ernesto has been making music for three years now, has various solo as well as collaboration projects going on, has released a slew of amazing selfmade cdrs and has recently also become a full time member of Belgiums best: freefolk/krautrock outfit Silvester Anfang, whove got an LP out on Eclipse now. A promising new star in the psych drone skies." |
| 12/25/2005 | Beast People, The | Special Edition | DVD-R | $12.99 | Hanson | "DVDr reissue of THE BEAST PEOPLE vhs video released in 1999. This contains the entire video, plus commentary by drunk college girls! Also in the extras are the 1996 & 1997 HANSON promotional videos with clips from ISIS & WEREWOLVES, AWK, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, and more...1997 promo can also be played backwards! DVD authored by C. Spencer Yeh." |
| 2/26/2006 | Beast People, The | The Beast People | 10" | $8.99 | Hanson | Recorded in 1999. One-sided 10" in generic green sleeve. No other information available. Ltd. to 300 copies only. |
| 10/31/2009 | Beatles, The | Sweet Apple Trax 1: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds | LP | $18.99 | Vigotone | "Very likely the last time we'll have these! Recorded at Twickenham Film Studios and Apple Studios throughout January 1969, these are selections from what turned out to be rehearsal sessions for the "Let It Be" rooftop concert film. Originally intended to be part of the film, hundreds of tracks were laid down, including many improvisations and cover versions, with both tape machines and cameras rolling the whole time. What you hear on these 3 LPs is the band live in the studio, loose and relaxed and having fun, with lots of goofing around and experimenting with both music and lyrics, all with excellent sound quality. And forget about the track listings on the covers: they're only a vague approximation, and frequently dead wrong. This first volume opens with a 2-part satirical razzing of rightwing British politician Enoch Powell, and it just gets crazier as the tape rolls on, finally ending with a very beautiful "Let It Be" followed by a very loose version of the old country song "Hey Good Lookin'." Extremely limited edition, full color cover, color vinyl pressing, UK import. " |
| 10/31/2009 | Beatles, The | Sweet Apple Trax 2: Smoking Behind Strawberry Fields | LP | $18.99 | Vigotone | "This 2nd volume of live-in-the-studio insanity opens with Paul singing "Get Back" in German, followed by "Don't Let Me Down," then working out parts and lyrics for "On Our Way Home," followed by much more goofing off and loose covers, another severely mutated and over-the-top "Get Back," "I've Got a Feeling," more surprises, some piano improvisations by Paul, and finally ending with another very different "Get Back." Once again, pay little attention to the track listing! Extremely limited edition, full color cover, color vinyl pressing, UK import." |
| 10/31/2009 | Beatles, The | Sweet Apple Trax 3: The Beatles Play Bob Dylan | LP | $18.99 | Vigotone | "The final volume of this live-in-the-studio series, recorded towards the end of these January 1969 rehearsal sessions, this has short cover versions of many songs like "All Shook Up," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Three Cool Cats," "Stand By Me," the "Third Man" theme and more, plus a few Dylan covers ("Blowin' in the Wind," "All Along the Watchtower," "Threw It All Away" and "Mama You've Been on My Mind"), as well as a very goofy "Across the Universe," and the unreleased original "Look at the Window," and more. Extremely limited edition, 3-color cover, color vinyl pressing, UK import." |
| 3/5/2009 | Beatles, The | Yesterday and Today | LP | $17.99 | "Yes, this is the reissue with the legendary butcher cover! Color vinyl pressing, Euro import." | |
| 8/17/2009 | Beatty, Robert | SOLOS | LP | $15.99 | What The… ? | "In spring 2009, Robert Beatty (of solo Three Legged Race and band Hair Police) Beatty travelled as a collaborating and touring member of Burning Star Core -- with whom he has collaborated and toured as a member of for a number of years as well. Written into the setlist performed every night was slot for an improvised solo by Robert, on his special electronics rig, synthesizer, space echo, question boxes, etc. Anything sound he wanted, "make it sing." So imagine similar to three hour stadium show, the moment for the bass solo or perhaps drum solo, except this is a few minutes out of a 30 or 40 minute long set. Except the stage doesn't rise up or no additional smoke blows across. So imagine if almost every Burning Star Core performance was recorded on this tour and these "Robert Beatty" solos were cut out and strung along into an work of their own ? This LP "SOLOS" realizes that concept. It is live, but it is not collage; it is a document, but it is not comprehensive to the originating context. So ten complete solos, in chronological order, on two sides of LP, about run time of 35 minutes. Paste-ons jacket with creepy Robert poster to get to know. 166 copies of this work for fans of detailed-driven minimum electronics." |
| 4/22/2009 | Bee Mask | Hyperborean Trenchtown | LP | $14.99 | Weird Forest | "I think Chris Madak was born after impact in a car crash, and his Hyperborean Trenchtown will enter the world in a similar fashion. The album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic and minimalist pioneers. Thorough audio examinations covering every facet of sound/tone property as a whole will reveal astonishing new layers listen after listen. Undeniably pure processes of creating and sustaining sound visually, sonically and otherwise brings a mathematical and scientific accuracy that hasn't been seen since the days of Lovely Music Ltd. or GRM. The album's two side-long cuts are divided into two displays of versatility with varied sound sources including amplified acoustic instruments, hand-made electronics, phonography and more. Brilliant textures and audio hallucinogenic time/space wormholes create infinite listening possibilities for this album. Few albums can create such a disorienting tunnel that it sounds as if the record has multiple albums locked within itself -- you can hear these sounds and interpret them in so many ways that only time can unlock its many possibilities. Great albums only gain significance and this is surely no exception. Listen to this record on your turntable and stop time completely or melt into the past or the future with it -- your choice." - John Elliott. Housed in a nice silkscreened jacket. |
| 11/21/2008 | Bee Mask / Astronaut | The World is Transformed and all the Heavens Sing for Joy! / Will they Remember F-Zero? | cassette | $6.99 | Deception Island | "A fat streak of grease on the wall while the room turns itself inside out. Post-kundalini awakening pissing words in the proverbial horse ear. Fucked Lee Perry-style deep tape scum/shimmer-oriented reworking of live sessions from WCSB. On the reverse, the late Massachusetts synth trio Astronaut, featuring Daniel "Oneohtrix Point Never" Lopatin, reach dizzying extremes of paranoia and lfo-heavy entheogenic ritual dread/churn in shadowy "final" sessions, coming on in a more blown out and breathless fashion than on any side to date. Full black light trails/campfire mode, complete with appropriately face-melting peaks." |
| 3/27/2004 | Beequeen | A Touch of Brimstone | CD | $14.99 | Staalplaat | “Beequeen planned to celebrate their tenth anniversary in 1999 with two releases. The first was 'Do Be Do - an anthology of live recordings', which was released as a limited 2LP set on Plinkity Plonk in 1999 (now available as a CDR). The second one was an anthology of recordings that were hard to get and/or previously unreleased - a CD called 'A Touch Of Brimstone'. 'Brimstone' was sent to various labels who expressed their interest in releasing it, but somehow and somewhere lost interest. So merely three years in the process of making, it's now finally available. 'A Touch of Brimstone' features many unreleased recordings from 1989 to1995, aswell as a one cut from the now long-deleted Scala Destillans LP. This release comes with a 32-page booklet, with many exclusive flyers from concerts and hilarious, not seen before, photographs of the band and a fully updated discography. The texts in this booklet are by Till Kniola (Auf Abwegen magazine), Baraka[H] (Troum), Terry Bennett (Beequeen's webmaster), Elenka Freikkar (longest dedicated fan) and Seward D. Faran (Institute for Electrical Music).” |
| 8/22/2008 | Beequeen | Sandancing | CD | $13.99 | Important | "After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song-based, this album features new vocals by Olga Wallis solely (with some backing by Freek Kinkelaar). Well rounded pop songs in some places, but Beequeen never forgets to put in some strange element, without leaping in the dark alley of pointless experiment." |
| 3/27/2004 | Beequeen | Sugarbush | CD | $14.99 | Raum 312 | 1996 release of industrial veterans Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar is inspired by and dedicated to Joseph Beuys, the German visual artist whose unconventional and transitory works of art were an attempt to break through society's rationality. This third, Beequeen album is conceptually very much in line with Beuys' philosophy. Coveting the titles of some of their favourite Frank Sinatra, Nell Diamond and Presley songs they start from a commonly known theme, but the great thing about it is they allow a whole new world of musical forms and matters to flourish from it in a composition that radiates positive ambiences from beginning to end. 'Sugarbush' is one huge organic flow of constantly shifting moods, with music that ranges from softer ambiental textures with a quiet rhythmic undercurrent, over more extreme metallic noise acoustics and semi-melodic collages of recuperated and manipulated sounds. Beautiful soundscapes for your cold winter evenings, and - in my opinion - the best Beequeen album to date. An experience that is not to be missed...” - GR - from Tanz Der Rozen No. 4 |
| 3/11/2005 | Beequeen | The Bodyshop | CD | $10.99 | Important Records | "It took Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar two years to complete the recordings for The Bodyshop, the successor to their much-acclaimed CD Ownliness from 2002. The Bodyshop continues where Ownliness left off. Ownliness marked a distinct break with Beequeen's past. The ambient-industrial drone music of yesteryear was said goodbye and the Beequeen's love of pop music returned. The instruments changed from organs, synthesizers and sound effects to guitars, drums, bass and guest musicians on cello and even vocals (a distinctive first for Beequeen). The Bodyshop features two of these remarkable vocals tracks; a cover of Nick Drake's 'Black Eyed Dog' (sung by Antenne's Marie-Louise Munck) and the indeed very sad track 'Sad Sheep'. Although Beequeen never cites influences, it's easy spot their interest in the Beatles' psychedelic period and latter day Talk Talk in combination with a love for krautrock and microsound - not the most likely of combinations, but somehow it all makes sense on The Bodyshop." |
| 8/22/2008 | Beequeen | Time Waits For No One | CD | $13.99 | Herbal | "Time Waits For No One's material isn't new, having been recorded in Nijmegen in 1992-93 and originally released in 1994 on Staalplaat, but the genre of experimental drone-based exploration is one of those most capable of transcending time. Beequeen members Freek Kinkelaar (Brunnen) and Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Goem) use electronics, voices, and unidentified instruments to scatter two long tracks (ten and twenty minutes) amongst seven more modest settings. Whether long or short, the pieces are largely hazy meditations whose industrial churn is speckled with string plucks, percussive patterns, and electronic effects. Not surprisingly, the long tracks make the strongest impression: in the episodic "Six Notes on Blank Tape," bowed scrapes of string instruments groan over a throbbing bass drone and the simulated roar of a train clatters along its tracks, and in the album's most fully-realized piece, the a doomscape "Rupert Writes a Rainbow," a '50s sci-fi synthesizer floats atop a droning unfurl of whooshes and gaseous emissions. The album's material unfurls organically in subtle strokes, sometimes so quietly it verges on microsound, and the generally relaxed feel suggests the collaborators had ample studio time with which to pursue their playful explorations." - textura.org |
| 6/7/2005 | Beets, The | Say Yes | CDR | $5.99 | Colour Sound Recordings | "This 6 track 54+ minute album from Brooklyn noise-improv-textural-sound duo THE BEETS is a plea for all of us and even YOU to "Say Yes"! Say yes to the "No's" to the "I Don't Knows" to the "Maybe's" and to the lust of life. On a musical level, THE BEETS reside in a world that crosses the lines of noise, European free-improvsation, abstract yet lush electronics, and focused chance taking?! "Say Yes" was recorded in one night, all complete 100% improvisations, and with NO overdubs, and yet all tracks form stories of their own languages, non-synonymous with each-other, yes somehow, globally cohesive. Think of the edgy noise-improv of AMM fused with lush synths ala TANGERINE DREAM, random cassette samples clashing with chimes and a bass feeding back, and even one track of nothing but distorted cymbals...yup that's just a hint of the madness and confusion within, and its a fucking mind-scramble of beautiful proportions. THE BEETS is John Dalessi on keyboard, 4-track w/ cassettes, electronics, and cymbal and Adam Kriney on drums, percussion, electric bass, and electronics. You may also know John from his noisy distortions in his freak-rock collective DIRTY CHURCHES and you may have heard Adam banging away with his psych/prog duo LA OTRACINA or his free-jazz group OWL SOUNDS." Limited edition of 100 copies. |
| 1/24/2009 | Begushkin | King's Curse | LP | $15.99 | Locust | "Recorded live to tape in two days, after a sleep deprived month of Beefheart style creative lockdown, Begushkin -- Dan Smith's 8-headed hydra -- lay to rest the twilight folk of 2007's Nightly Things and re-emerge with the wicked and strange hard rock gypsy shake of King's Curse. Smith yells and carries on like a man possessed with tales of the damnation of a robber king and the band plays it ultra tight and ultra heavy. King's Curse is higher-tier creep-rock." 180 gram vinyl. |
| 6/26/2002 | Behrens, M. | Architectural Commentaries | CD | $10.99 | CMR | "German composer and sound artist Marc Behrens has put forth a beautiful installment of sound work for cmr's second CD release, entitled Architectural Commentaries. Marc has been working with sound (in one form or another) since 1986 and is probably most recognised for his digitally re-worked field material and composition. With a long history of installation work and live performance, he has exhibited alone and in group exhibitions; and performed live internationally in locations such as Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. He has completed tours with fellow sound artists Francisco Lopez, Bernhard Gunter and John Duncan and has had notable CD releases on Gunter's label Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Digital Narcis (Japan), Raster Music (Germany) and Intransitive Recordings (USA). Architectural Commentaries is comprised of five tracks. The first three pieces, entitled Architectural Commentaries 1-3', are some of Marc's most recent compositions arranged in 2001 using basic material recorded from 1990- 2000 in various global locations. Taking title, sleeve images and sound together we are left with new audible environments for architectural structures; jets of forced air and amplified nothing, distant machinery and tiny bites of frequency, faded and cut together to create beautifully atmospheric soundscapes. Track 4 was previously released on RLW's 'Tulpas' 5 CD set (Selektion 024) and was constructed using source material from Ralf Wehowsky. Track 5 was composed in 1992 as a soundtrack to accompany the video Der Raum by Torsten Grosch - stills of which feature on the CD sleeve. The album permits a smooth flow between Marc's earlier and more recent work and shows the artists' continuing exploration into the depth and dimensions of sound recording." |
| 2/15/2005 | Believers, The | Brontoursaurus | CDR | $8.99 | Apostasy Recordings | From Hadley, Massachusetts we have a new six track cdr from The Believers (Anna Klein, Jessi Swanson, and from both Son of Earth and Shackamaxon Matt Krefting and John Shaw). "Packaged in handmade, elongated cardstock envelopes; with hand-stamped cover and informative insert." |
| 7/16/2006 | Believers, The | Forgotten Tracks | CDR | $9.99 | Blueberry Honey | "A long three track CDR collecting a particularly insulated and homespun era of the BELIEVERS development. Especially the longer-than-album-side rendition of their standard, ëThe Lakeí. Step inside, take a breath, get to know this album. Perhaps you will glimpse the reasons why so many in the valley are holding their breath for the BELIEVERS debut LP. Features members of SON OF EARTH, SHACKAMAXON, DUCK, IDEA FIRE COMPANY, SAPAT, so many other spins, the whole meatball is here. Packaged in simple xerox folded jackets, origami style." |
| 5/20/2009 | Bellerue, Bob & Jarrett Silberman | Amplified Piano Duets | one-sided 12" + CDR | $10.99 | Anarchymoon Recordings | "A lost journey to unknown planets, defective machinery, dead pilots at the controls. recorded in late 2006, in the waning light of the Il Corral, when free pianos roamed the wild west. Jarrett Silberman is the lone gunsliger of downtown LA, a founding constituent of the Smell, formerly in Young People, tours with Liars and others. Bob Bellerue is the harbinger of Halfnormal / Redglaer / Anarchymoon, plays with KILT / Purple Pansy. both have solo amplified piano pieces, and getting together seemed like the perfect idear. Each album comes with a 1-sided 12" of the essential set of the session, as well as a CDR of all the recordings. Edition of 200, paste-on xerox covers (ultra orange!!)." |
| 12/12/2009 | Benevolents | Still Excavation | c28 cassette | $5.99 | Housecraft | "An incidental collaboration made up of Kane Pour, Jason Nicolaus, and Jeff Astin. Recorded in Vermont, Fall '09.Edition of 48." Out of print. |
| 4/10/2009 | Benjamin Franklin | Splitsing | cassette | $8.99 | Sloow Tapes | "A dark trip in the neither world of Benjamin Franklin (Buffle, R.O.T.) sleepwalking along deep low humming casio rumblings and floating urban soundscapes. 70 copies." |
| Bensen, Nick | No Resistance | CD | $12.99 | Free City Media | "The San Francisco iconoclast is back to settle old scores and forge new directions on his second solo CD. More straight psychedelic rock than the first album, No Resistance also ventures further into uncharted territory. 'I listened to a lot of music by the Dipsomaniacs, Lucky Bishops, Motorpsycho and Spirit while recording the album. Those of you familiar with these groups may detect their influences in my work. As always, my usual favorites The Bevis Frond, Guided by Voices and Pavement, and lifelong musical heroes John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix were never far from my consciousness. At any rate, this CD is a labor of love and I hope it blows your mind.'" | |
| Bensen, Nick | Psychedelic Juggernaut | CD | $12.99 | Free City Media | "Nick Bensen is a San Francisco-based musician and composer originally from New York, and a veteran of the New England jam scene. His first album, Psychedelic Juggernaut, released on the Free City Media label, is definitely worth checking out. The album is, in Bensen's words, a 10-track exploration of 'the acid rock thread running through Britpop, heavy blues, progressive, alternative and techno.' As 1960's acid-rock bands mined the catalogues of blues musicians and interpreted their music through a modern, psychedelic sound, so Bensen, using entirely original songs, has interpreted 'the acid rock' in an entirely contemporary mode, combining electronica and indie sounds to create something new. What results is a progressive fusion of today's 'science fiction' techno with 60's psychedelia, a sound reminiscent of Beck, or the British artists The Bevis Frond and The Lucky Bishops." | |
| 5/23/2009 | Bent Spoon Trio | More Experienced Filthier | CDR | $10.99 | Bug Incision | "The definitive document of 2008's midnight tunnel shows. Features the trio in a mode with is more easily aligned with the recent Dadge/Munro BSD music. Laing's sax playing is extremely spacious and restrained. Dadge and Munro play violin, viola, trumpet, cuatro, trombone, and sparse percussion. Limited edition of 50, with insert." |
| 5/23/2009 | Bent Spoon Trio + 3 | Dead Salems Danced In Their Ashtrays | CDR | $10.99 | Bug Incision | "Two prime BST tracks, complete with string+sax sexctions, vocals, and some fine straight-up trio moments. Third track adds Thom Golub on the double bass. The final cut is a quintet, adding Jay Crocker on guitar and pink dolphin, and Dan Meichel on tenor sax. Recorded by Brad Hawkins, culled from the monthly series at Theatre Junction. Limited edition of 50, with insert." |
| 3/2/2007 | Bernstein, Michael R. & Mike Shiftlet | Live, New York | CDR | $8.99 | Gameboy | "Heavy Tapes & GMBY co-sponsored wrestling match. Recorded live at the ErstQuake Festival at Tonic., this one's a set of heavy and focused modulation. The improv crowd hated it, maybe you will too." |
| 7/31/2006 | Besombes, Philippe | Cesi est Cela | CD | $13.99 | Mio Records | "Third volume in MIO's Besombes reissue program, following Libra & Pole. First time on CD. Features recordings made in France 1972-1979. "A chemist by training, Philippe Besombes was engaged in the French avant-garde scene from the early 1970s. Abandoning his doctoral degree for his pioneering work with new electronics in different musical contexts, he supported himself through the seventies creating the sounds for theater and ballet, and was a well-known audio engineer in the French contemporary concert scene. Perhaps best known for his group Hydravion, Besombes still records and releases music at his studio in Versailles. This 1976 release includes early ballet music that was originally recorded between 1974-1975 for several contemporary ballet groups in Paris. The recording was assisted by Jean Louis Rizet, with whom Besombes was then working in his recording studio. Bonus tracks include 2 early pieces from 1972 (recorded during his time engineering for Stockhausen, Nono and others at the Festival d?Art Contemporain de La Rochelle) and thirty additional minutes of unreleased ballet music from 1975, which is among his best work for theater." |
| 6/27/2009 | Bestia Ferida | Live Wounded | cassette | $5.99 | Scumbag Relations | "3 piece from barcelona Bèstia Ferida (means "wounded beast" in catalan)....Arnau Sala of OZONOKIDS and Adrian De Alfonso with Marc Cunningham of MARS...playing something that simultaneously touches on past/current free mind melt and focused blistering stumble and then shreds all of that for crackling-pure sound...This release is a compilation of different live acts around Barcelona, all of them during year 2008 at places like la Pedrera, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Convent de Sant Agustí, Sala Apolo or Sala Big Bang." |
| 1/21/2005 | Bevis Frond | Through The Looking Glass | CD | $14.99 | Rubric | "A CD reissue of the Bevis Frond's 1987 double-LP odds'n'sods album, originally released as a private press item in an edition of 500. Thirteen tracks in all, including 'Alistair Jones' - which Nick Saloman recorded in 1967 at the tender age of 14 - and the epic lysergic workouts 'The Shrine,' '1970 Home Improvements' and 'Purple Shine.'" Nice collection to finally be available again! |
| 7/29/2004 | Bianchi, Maurizio | Cycles | CDR | $17.99 | Alga Marghen | "The terminal concept of 'Cycles' is matured after the sharp "Fragments" and the "Glacial Mosaics" of MB's recent artistic reproduction, at the end of a triennial project, aiming to exacerbate the routine of prefab sound, the common and forgone sound created to be exclusively consumed by an amorphous and servile mass, sunken in a sullen entertainment. The approach here is totally new and the fragment is isolated and costantly repeated in order to build an aural minimal architecture. As MB states: 'Our whole existence is subordinated to intense and mathematical cycles, from the biological to the technological one, from the solar to the lunar one, from the historical to the legendary one. The cyclicity of the sonorous meanders of 'Cycles' is, probably, the unique example of cyclic music. Particular and interatomic sonorous repercussions infinitely and distinctly repeating themselves, captured in a spectroscopy of atavic and coriaceous notes'. And in the classic mood of the early 80s style, MB continues: 'The establishment will disagree. Such an experiment will be considered tedious and banal. What matters to me is not the ephemeral judgement of this sick and condemned reality. Finally the nine cycles included in this minimal work could be considered my appropriate epitaph. I have already entirely expressed my own artistic freedom and I wonder whether this might be nothig but the end of another cycle, in anxious expectation of the... eternal cycle'. Due to the extreme nature of the material included, the reproduction of this edition has been limited to 200 copies only." |
| 2/12/2008 | Bianchi, Maurizio / Fhievel / Hue | Erimos | CD | $12.99 | Digitalis | "This release is quite special as it has given us the opportunity to work with one of our all-time favorite artists (and one of the true all-time greats), Maurizio Bianchi. "Erimos" is the first in a series of works about the spaces "between the elements." This album contains a single, 40+ minute exploration. Heavy on electronics, the amazing thing is how warm the whole piece feels. Bianchi is joined by two of the next generation of Italian sound sculptors, Hue (aka Matteo Uggeri) and Fhievel (aka Luca Bergero). The two have breathed new life into Bianchi's music, showing that the future of the Italian underground is brighter than ever. Bianchi began producing music almost 30 years ago in 1979, and since 1980 has used electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence." His best known work, "Symphony for a Genocide" was recently reissued by New York-based Hospital Productions. This seminal work proved what a pioneer in electronic music he was. On "Erimos," we find Bianchi stretching time and manipulating sound as ever. Over the course of this monster performence, the trio weaves intricate circles around one another, nearly colliding at every point. But the success comes from their abilities to play off each other, resulting in original and captivating sounds and textures. It is electronic drones unlike any other. "Erimos" is captivating and beautiful, even if it's main inspiration comes from something as desolate and isolated as the deserts on its cover." |
| 1/17/2010 | Bianchi, Maurizio / M.B. | Das Platinzeitalter | double LP | $17.99 | Weird Forest | "Have you ever looked into the abyss? Man, it's scary! An infinite void of the blackest black where not even a gleam of light can escape its dark talons. Needless to say, it's not the most popular destination, but hey, it is there. And believe me, sooner or later that day will come when you will sit on the cusp and fix your eyes on the vast nothingness that is everything. But until that hour beckons, you may as well prepare yourself by spinning Das Platinzeitalter by Maurizio Bianchi. 'Dark ambient' barely captures what is engraved in these grooves. Loops from the history of dust, ancient as the catacombs and spectral like the last rays of hope. There's an eerie calmness to all four sides of this LP. Timeless and inevitable as the setting sun, as if this music has always been here. Which it has. It was up to Bianchi to find it. This recording captures the never-ending decay of beauty at the point when it is realized that resistance is futile and the metamorphosis has begun. There are not many musicians who can distill this essence: early Zoviet France, Nature Unveiled-era Current 93, Lustmord and Andrew Chalk/Mirror to name a few, but Das Platinzeitalter sounds like it comes from hallowed grounds, the once sacred is now profane. It forces your head to turn toward the abyss. It's up to you to open your eyes and look. Then the next thing you know, it's over. It's all over. Limited to 500 copies on silkscreen foldover covers and hand-numbered in silver ink." |
| 4/24/2006 | Big Huge, The | A Woven Page of Silver Light | CD | $10.99 | Secret Eye | "Drew Nelson continues to bless us with his wavering tenor voice, plinky banjo and old world balladry on this EP, a follow-up to The Big Huge's 2004 Secret Eye debut, Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown Your Heart With Joy. Brought up on American folk and British psychedelic pop music, The Big Huge wears its influences on its sleeve, while being sure not to recreate the past. After the split of Sonna, a Baltimore-based instrumental ambient group with releases on Temporary Residence (two of which were recorded by Steve Albini), The Big Huge (Drew Nelson) decided to revert back to his love of acoustic instrumentation. After a few solo shows, he decided to recruit fellow Baltimore-based musician, Michael Lambright, to help with accordion, ukulele, glockenspiel, and banjo. Recorded by Micah Blue Smaldone at Cerberus Shoal's house in Portland, Maine, the record has a hazy vibe with lyrics harking back to a time of Welsh communes during the summer of love. The American answer to Alasdair Roberts... but without the brogue." |
| 12/1/2004 | Big Huge, The | Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown Your Heart With Joy | CD | $12.99 | Secret Eye | "Brought up on American folk and British psychedelic pop music, Sonna (Temporary Residence) member Drew Nelson has forged out on his own to record this new album as The Big Huge. Drew’s simple acoustic arrangements, traditional influences and reedy tenor have earned comparisons to Alasdair Roberts and Will Oldham, with whom Drew has toured while playing with Sonna." |
| 12/26/2005 | Big Nurse | American Waste | LP | $11.99 | High Density Headache Records | Debut killer release from Tennessee's Big Nurse. Hard for me to describe exactly what this sounds like but its got elements of noise, psychedelia, experimental and punk - I love this! They've listed their influences as Bad Brains, Acid Mothers Temple, Flipper, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Godz, Oneida, Nihlist Spasm Band, Melvins and Faust and they describe their sound as "the world collasping in on itself or something like the end of the entire social structure and the liberation of body and mind". Check it out! |
| 4/24/2006 | Big Nurse | Back To Basics | CDR | $8.99 | High Density Headache Records | "The newest spew from Big Nurse finds the guys scraping the depths of their faux-talent to stir their songs, (some old, some new, at least a couple totally indecipherable covers) into churningly dizzy anthems, concealed chaos crooning, and rose tinted dirges for the post-pubescent scout crowd. I don't necessarily know what that means, but somehow: it means you." |
| 4/10/2009 | Big Nurse | Temporarily Unavailable | LP | $14.99 | High Density Headache | 2nd and final lp from Big Nurse. These are the last copies of their 2007 release - comes in a real nice silkscreen sleeve. |
| 4/10/2009 | Big Nurse | Time Trip | CDR | $6.99 | High Density Headache | "Take a trip thru the ages with us, recorded over three years and three different cities. special collaboration with Zack Kouns, ex-Social Junk, etc. plus the extended family. we just kept growing!!!?" 2008 release. |
| 2/26/2006 | Big Nurse | Very Professional | cassette | $5.99 | High Density Records / Dementoid Tapes | "A live document of the first Big Nurse tour in March of '05. Includes a collaboration with Robert Inhuman (Realicide), Jim Swill and Nina Wright (Divine Pile) and Lara Dempsey (Grinning Evil Death), material from the best show we've ever played and from one of the worst, a spirited cover of the Batman theme with a homeless guy on vocals, and at least one drunken dis: 'I'm not gonna name any names, butŠ'" |
| 2/26/2006 | Big Nurse | Who Wants to Kill the President? / Electrocute Your Cock | 7" | $5.99 | High Density Records | "One original (death). One cover (sex). All static." |
| 12/12/2009 | Bigger Insides | Hunters Gathering | c27 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "It's definitely time to throw a party and bigger insides is your guest dj for the night. we first met chris thorne many moons ago when he appeared on "gold leaf branches" (as snake oil) and then reconnected recently as his new band, tan dollar, and new solo project (THIS) were spreading their collective wings. so what's the skinny? minimal beats and insanely catchy casios and synths battling it out in a neon pit of doom. except there's really not any doom, but sun-specked skies and silver streams. as it hops along, you feel as though you're being whisked away on a hot air balloon ride toward the pink horizon. thorne's ability to create songs that are full of pop hooks yet disjointed and feel as though they could fall apart at any second is a gift. bigger insides: ready to throw down. edition of 70, pro-dubbed." |
| Bill, Jason & Jack Rose | Via St. Louis | CD | $13.99 | Drunken Fish | “Jason Bill and Jack Rose have spent the last however many years bending strings and twisting knobs in Charalambides and Pelt, two of America's premier stare at the sun ‘zoner psych’ outfits. ‘Via St. Louis’ catches these two vagabonds improvising to tape over two separate sessions. The results are mind numbing to say the least.” Jason Bill now plays in Migrantes who have recorded two excellent LP's released on Eclipse (Moon Journals & Monsoon Moods). Jack Rose has recorded two solo LP's on Eclipse - one of which is still available - Opium Musick. | |
| 9/10/2003 | Billawtm | Solo 03 | CDR | $9.99 | "3 instrumental tracks, 1 for solo guitar (22:51) - like echoey sheets of sound. 1 for synth, ,theremin, and organ (15:39) - very cosmic and 1 collage piece featuring guitar, bass, synth, organ, and found sounds (36:58) - a conceptual trippy journey." Bill has toured with Cotton Casino in the US in August and the duo will tour again in September & October ’03 as well as release a cdr (at least). | |
| 7/14/2007 | Birchville Cat Motel | Birds Sister Blasphemy | CD | $13.99 | Battlecruiser | "Oh dear Lord... NO! The EVIL twin to 'Birds Call Home Their Dead's good son, released simultaneously for maximum destruction. Just when the heavy meds were kicking in and I was beginning to think there might be some kinda universal point to all this working and eating and sleeping, Birchville Cat Motel re-adjusts the good/evil ratio back. Thanks. No really, thanks a lot. You'll no doubt be as delighted as I am to hear this is NOT the new Black Boned Angel album, in fact Mr Cat Motel himself told me this has "more to with W.A.S.P, 'Kill Em All' styled too-tight denim, and big white sneakers than the ceremonial pre-historicism of the current neo-doom movement". PRE-HISTORICISM?! What a dick. These prowling, growling eruptions of frantic thrash'o'delia will surely attract babes like a burning tyre scented aftershave. Is that a twin guitar solo in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?" |
| 4/25/2008 | Birchville Cat Motel | Four Freckle Constellation | LP | $27.99 | Conspiracy | "6 New tracks by New Zealand's Birchville Cat Motel (Campbell Kneale). Birchville Cat Motel has gained international recognition as one the bright shining lights of drone-music.Kneale has to be one of the most exciting proponents of the New Zealand noise-avantgarde scene, engaging the full spectrum of electro-acoustic sound exploration over numerous releases on such labels as Ecstatic Peace, Drunken Fish, Freedom From, Last Visible Dog, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Insample and more … To listen to Birchville Cat Motel, one must really free their mind. It is more than just an aural experience. Being immersed in his soundscapes is like being transported to another world, like a great composer, he puts each piece in its perfect place as to leave the longest impression. To say Kneale is a drone master is kind of an understatement. Over the courses of too many releases to remember, he has constructed a sonic arsenal to match any threats that may arise. 'Four Freckle Constellation 'is no less then a mindfuck of epic proportions…" "I just want to make beautiful things." - Campbell Kneale. All records are 180gr vinyl, 150 on Transparant and 350 on Black vinyl, Full colour fold out sleeve with artwork by Seldon Hunt and come with a coupon for a free MP3 download." |
| 12/24/2005 | Birchville Cat Motel with Lee Ranaldo | 30th December 2004 | CD | $15.99 | Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon | "New York is pretty different from Lower Hutt. In a lot of ways. But that doesn't mean New York is BAD... its just 'different', y'know? I was down the Lower East Side recently with the guy from Sonic Youth. He was as cool as he looked in Rip It Up magazine! We tuned our guitars and bagpipes, the lights sunk in anticipation, and we buried the audience in a cloud of fairy-dust so thick you could eat it with chopsticks and people with shovels tried to dig their way out of it but it just got deeper and deeper and when the sound couldn't get any louder my soul gnawed a hole in the roof with its teeth and the cast of Friends descended on angel-wings, urinating in ecstacy on the assembled masses in what looked like a tornado of golden glitter. WOW! Afterwards we cleaned up the mess and I got Phill Niblocks mobile phone-number on a napkin. Yeah... New York is just 'different'." |
| 2/4/2007 | Bird By Snow | Industrial Collapse | 7" | $4.99 | Gnome Life Records | "Now to you Universe, we present “Industrial Collapse,” in celebration and preparation for the dawning age of enlightenment. We (Gnome Life Records) give to you, objects verbose and handmade, giving ourselves over to our cells, and to the messages within them. This record is two sides of total existential rebirth! Placental for you and Bird By Snow, a 7 inch baby of the cosmos, belching new sounds, and visions. Replete with new-metal guitar tones, falsetto cave paintings, and gasoline-riot guitar solos (think Blue Cheer in Thunderdome). “No Beard Now” is an epic navigation through grunge, totem magic. Teetering, at all times, on the line that separates creation and destruction. The wild call of “No beard now!” could just as easily be sung: “No more disguises!” While the rumble of the guitar through the shredded amplifier is akin to the tireless marching of a man, naked and always new, in a life of energetic surrender, and present-moment-living. “Chew Your Fucking Legs Off (if you have to)” is quite simply a call to arms, or armlessness (or leglessness as the case may be.) A hyperbolic request of humankind to set itself free in this world of infinite everything. The sounds beyond the title reveal the world itself, wonderfilled and wet, sparkling in the cave of creation, thumping with a heart-beat of growth and giving. Beyond this there is another layer of personal narrative, a depiction of individual growth and awakening in the world. The records themselves are limited to 300 in this vinyl form, while the covers are handmade, and touched by human work and time. Each cover was printed by Fletcher Tucker (of this band, Bird By Snow) from a linoleum block, in an edition of 300, and numbered accordingly." |
| 2/4/2007 | Bird By Snow | Sky | LP + CD | $12.99 | Gnome Life Records | "To you, children of the Zeitgeist, we give “Sky,” offered in the same generous spirit as this bountiful world itself. Ten songs of reggae-infused, psychedelic folk music. Existentialism you can dance to! Open-hearted sound-fields, vast and colored with tiny blue-grass orchestras, authentic Dub banjo, black cloud back-beats, and (if you can believe it) California Soukous guitar! Open eyes wide, and take in “Sky,” Bird By Snow’s outrageously lush new LP. Cloudy or clear, day or night, let us be absorbed in the one-always-giving-moment, and know the sky not as vacuous hole, but as container (whole). Limited to 300, on beautiful transparent-blue vinyl, with hand silk-screened gold covers. Each disc also comes with a lovely handmade booklet containing lyrics, drawings, and ideas. And a CD version! Bird By Snow is Fletcher Tucker and company, creating self-described “beach and mountain music” from Northern California coasts. The music that Tucker writes and records is a heartfelt reflection of his woolly world… barking moons and wooded landscapes, ocean swells and gnashing leaves. Although Tucker cites the worlds within music as an even deeper source of inspiration: “The world is born again and again in music, songs can be rich and fertile, relics of this birth, like the placenta. I make placenta records.” Bird By Snow has been taping and performing since 2001, building a following wherever they travel in the physical, recorded or internet realms. Their debut LP, “Antlers and the Sun and All the Things That Grow Old and Pass Away,” was released on limited vinyl in 2005 by Gnome Life Records. Earlier this year, G.L.R. also released Bird By Snow’s first single, “Industrial Collapse.” Both releases are still available, and lovely in their own hand-made way." |
| 3/21/2009 | Bird By Snow | Songbread/Another Ocean | LP | $14.99 | Gnome Life | "The most fertile Bird By Snow record (so far) each side of this album has its own name, in order to give the tunes more mind-space to flourish and expandŠ Side A is "Songbread" and side B is "Another Ocean." In this record-world we find BBS harvesting perspectives in an old-growth forest of ontology & swimming joyfully in wide-wonder-waters of multi-instrumentalism. Cellos, drones, pianos, field-recordings, tape-collage & all manner of drumming, strumming & singing confer and conspire to create Bird By Snow's 3rd long-playerŠ 42 minutes; 2 years in the making. Ten free-pop-mantras, ancient-babies of modern song. "Songbread/Another Ocean" is also some of Gnome Life's most beautiful and ambitious packaging! The cover is a color lithograph poster and d the LP also includes a deluxe hand-made book of literature, lyrics, ideas, and points of entry. AND a second semi-transparent poster of poetry called: "SLOW POEMS" by Fletcher Tucker (a.k.a. Bird By Snow)." This edition is limited to 550 copies, and is on completely clear vinyl and comes with a CD. |
| 3/2/2005 | Birdbrain | I Fly | CD | $10.99 | Persian Cardinal | "Everybody likes a bit of tension now and then, and I Fly, the debut release from New York quartet Birdbrain, provides plenty. Consisting of just two saxophones, trombone and vocals, the group's music features spirited horn battles and a singer (Yvette Perez) who treats the notes of the standard diatonic scale as if they were merely rough guides to be tweaked as needed. Obvious reference points for I Fly are The World Saxophone Quartet or Rova Saxophone Quartet, though Birdbrain are less selfconciously avant garde - more poppy, in fact. The ten songs here are short and savoury rather than sweet. They're epigrammatic mini-stories, like the haiku-ish 'Sea Cow': 'Sea cow/Swims in our tow/Sea cow/Kinda like you now/Oh, manatee in tow/Ahoy ahoy/Sea cow.' Perez's breathless punk jazz vocalising, half spoken/half sung, owes much to No Wave. Time and again she almost hits the expected note but veers away at the last moment, twisting short of her presumed target. With no rhythm section as such, Birdbrain's three horn players (Don Trubey on alto, Tim Noe on tenor, and downtown avant garde legend Peter Zummo on trombone) fill multiple roles. Most tracks feature pulsing pedal bass figures on alto sax, laying a foundation for rhythmically complex call and response duels between tenor and trombone. The horn interplay resolves from time to time into harmonic cadences that are surprisingly lush for such a small group. In its less restrained moments, the horn section almost evokes the crazed French jazz rock outfit Etron Fou Leloublan. At its punkiest, it comes close to the naive, atonal wailing of Lora Logic." - Dave Mandl, THE WIRE, Issue 251, January 2005 |
| 12/12/2009 | Birds of Delay | A Living Room At The Bottom Of A Lake | LP | $29.99 | Nashazphone | "BIRDS OF DELAY is a Leeds duo whose first half lives in London (and loves Whitehouse and Rush) and the other in Berlin (and loves Farley Jackmaster Funk). With several releases on labels such as Chocolate Monk, American Tapes, Troniks, Hospital Productions, or their own: Alcoholic Narcolepsy, Luke and Steven have been crafting and sculpting their psychedelic-electronic-noise-drone sound for over half a decade. But who cares and what does that sound description mean anyway? If you ask them, they'll simply tell you "A Living Room at the Bottom of a Lake" is a projection into a TOTAL RAINBOW BLISS zone! Edition of 240 copies." |
| 3/26/2006 | Birds Of Delay | Chambers | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Heavy stellar trio as the 'regular' lunks are joined by Shakeeb Abu Hamdan (Isambard Kingston Brunel) for almost half an hour of delirium. Electronic and throat make-outs, organ and percussion chunder, A plain old 'out' sonic love-in." |
| 11/17/2007 | Birds of Delay | Sun Pillars | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Chondritic Sound | "a universe out of control, spinning ever so slowly as the sound of broken scraping, whining and grinding give way to astral pulse and flutter. this uncomfortable heaviness knows no boundaries. three pieces of low-down power croak from these uk manglers. color cover and painted cdr." Edition of 86 copies. |
| 6/11/2006 | Birds of Delay / Goldblood | split | CDR | $9.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "one track each: Birds of Delay offer up a maze of bird calls in a fog of synth drone / noise. Goldblood is Plastic Crimewave and Amy Cargill, psych guitar spiralling into delay feedback and ominous organ" |
| 9/30/2005 | Birds, The | Birds Birds Birds In the World | CD | $13.99 | Important Records | "The first full length from the Japanese/Norweigan super-group The Birds. Comprised of Cotton Casino of The Acid Mothers Temple and Per Gisle Galaen of Slowburn, The Birds are reminiscent of other Norwegian groups like Deathprod, Supersilent and Alog though their unmistakeable and unpredictable meld of psychedelic melodies, guitar noise, Eno-esque synth dirge, Cale-drone, musique concrete and rock sets them apart. Birds Birds Birds In The World was produced by Kai Mikalsen of Sketch, Jazzkammer/Del member Lasse Marhaug and mastered by Supersilent/Deathprod producer Helge Sten. Artwork by the world famous graphic artist/collectible figurine designer Pete Fowler. The first 1000 will be packaged in deluxe 3-D artwork." |
| 4/16/2007 | Birth Refusal | Cove Core | one sided 7" & CD | $12.99 | American Tapes | "Bruiser and Kid, separated physically (not emotionally) by about ten feet in the shadowz of Schooner Cove, lay down the first vinyl outing by this "wives at work = the boyz will jam" afternoon electronic harsh noise project. The upcoming BR lp on Troniks was threatened not to be cut by the mastering dude due to horrible clean tones, and you tell on this they were struggling as well. Black hole sound, terrible textures. Ruff & Raw. Color wax, color cover, lock groove, and tape collab CD round this mutha out. Edition of 200." |
| 3/20/2007 | Birth Refusal | Phantom of the Sewer | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "Schooner Cove H X C . Jeff Olson and Mike Corvette of Wolf Eyes / Hair Police ect... the music of thrown away souls forced to die in slow motion painfully. hardcore fucking waste zone of rotting death. spectacular sounds! edtion 77." |
| 2/6/2007 | Birth Refusal / Cassis Cornuta | Collaboration | one-sided LP | $26.99 | Ultra Eczema | "During the last euro tour of wolf eyes, john olson (of american tapes, spykes, guam river etc..) and mike connelly (of gods of tundra, hair police, failing lights etc..) decided it was enough! they screamed "IM NOT GOING TO BED!!! I NEVER WANNE SLEEP AGAIN!!!", they missed their flights and stayed in antwerp with the ultra audiobored horror crew for 7 more weeks without food and drinks, just dry weed and cancerbags to suck on! after that intense test to see if they could adapt to the antwerp life style, they finally met up with legendary belgian eccentric cacti and hat collector CASSIS CORNUTA, this psychadelic caracter brought his whole space synth and tape lab over to radio centraal to record an intense last gasp jam with the hardly breathing olson and connelly, the end result is an amazing trip to space and back to the mental hospital! like pouring lighter fluid and tabasco up your genitals or like olson states it so beautifully; like pissing on your own hand, freezing it and then using it as a lollypop for 5 days! comes in a gross 6 panel cover design and with an etch on the b side!" |
| 9/29/2004 | Bishop, Sir Richard | Improvika | CD | $12.99 | Locust | “By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika, Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism.a very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, django inspired gypsy arcs, & latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richard's follow up to his part on locust's celebrated Wooden Guitar collection and second full length release after his debut on John Fahey's Revenant label.” |
| 4/22/2009 | Bishop, Sir Richard | Improvika | LP | $14.99 | Locust | 180 gram vinyl, packaged in deluxe silkscreened art paper. "By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world once sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika, Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism.. A very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, django-inspired gypsy arcs, & Latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richard's solo installment for locust's long running Wooden Guitar series." |
| 11/17/2007 | Bishop, Sir Richard | Polytheistic Fragments | LP | $15.99 | Drag City | "Is Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) just another virtuoso or something more powerful, like a magus or sorcerer? It's hard to tell through the mystic fields that his playing always conjures-but we can hear enough in our somnolence to tell that he is a lord of guitar among the many greats, and that his first Drag City release, Polytheistic Fragments, gathers the glittering slivers of his sound into a divine procession. 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 Richard's powers lie in his ability to captivate with just the sound of his guitar, but he doesn't completely abandon studio processes, which allow Polytheistic Fragments to communicate a greater wholeness: all Sir Rick, all the time, if you will. 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." |
| 5/21/2009 | Bishop, Sir Richard | The Freak Of Araby | CD | $14.99 | Drag City | "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 Rick's had it up to here with solo acoustic guitar records! The Freak Of Araby isn't even a solo record! And there's no acoustic guitar on it! So let's 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, he's 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 'Ka'an Azzaman,' written by Elias Rahbani, one of Lebanon's finest songwriters, something dawned on Sir Richard. Half-Lebanese by birth (it didn't 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 Richard's 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 Richard's Freak Of Araby Ensemble intends to play it everywhere there's interest in hearing it. So get your Freak on." |
| 5/21/2009 | Bishop, Sir Richard | The Freak Of Araby | LP | $15.99 | Drag City | "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 Rick's had it up to here with solo acoustic guitar records! The Freak Of Araby isn't even a solo record! And there's no acoustic guitar on it! So let's 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, he's 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 'Ka'an Azzaman,' written by Elias Rahbani, one of Lebanon's finest songwriters, something dawned on Sir Richard. Half-Lebanese by birth (it didn't 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 Richard's 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 Richard's Freak Of Araby Ensemble intends to play it everywhere there's interest in hearing it. So get your Freak on." |
| 7/16/2009 | Bishop, Sir Richard | While My Guitar Violently Bleeds | LP | $17.99 | Locust | "This is an essential document by one of America's most original and inventive unaccompanied guitarists working today. While My Guitar Violently Bleeds is a splendid three piece gem in which the good sir branches out & nods to points West, East & otherworldly with the classic spaghetti western-tinged, spidery fretwork of 'Zurvan,' to the Fushitsusha style psych decay & feedback drench of 'Smashana' to the brilliant 25+ minute raga epic 'Mahavidya.'" Limited edition repress with slight difference to original pressing: cover image is inverted & labels and paper sleeves are black rather than white. |
| 11/19/2003 | Bisio, Michael / Eyvind Kang | MBEK | CD | $14.99 | Meniscus | “...Kang's punkish energy meshes gloriously with Bisio's merciless, yet versatile bass sprawl. Throughout, Kang's scintillating violin flashes every possible color in the tonal spectrum, his maniacal mewl and screech on the last half of 'After The Break' diminishing to introspective plucking on 'JGLag.' On their absolutely beautiful rendering of Coltrane's 'Seraphic Light,' Kang amazes with his anguished, keening high notes screaming and swirling with unearthly fervor while Bisio's rugged, relentless bass gravity fulfills its earthbound duty of anchoring the whole blistering sermon by tugging and pushing Kang's burning rainbow. Sessions like this can be slippery propositions in the quality department, but it's obvious that both players' ears were open to each other's ideas and spontaneous creativity, alternately tussling and locking it in as the situation demanded." - Kevin Lian-Anderson, One Final Note |
| 5/11/2009 | Bitters, The | Wooden Glove | LP | $14.99 | Captured Tracks | "Love this: Captured Tracks seem to be heading a wave that would re-establish actual songs - albeit informed by all sorta out musical praxis, crude home-burned aesthetics and an interesting sense of non-linear history - as the lingua franca of the contemporary underground. Fucking great. Call it avant rock, out rock, free folk, noise, it's all rock to me. If rock hadda continued on the kinda revolutionary trajectory it had in the late-1960s it woulda sounded just like the underground does now, instead of the nth rate airbrushed parody that passes for 'rock' in the mainstream. And songs have always been a part of that. I mean, I understand why you would wanna take shelter in noise or avant just to get away from fuggin harmonies, singer-songwriters, strings and beats but in the right hands great songs are still a passport to tomorrow. So lighten the fuck up. This great 12" EP from The Bitters is a case in point. It reminds me of alla the great early Flying Nun and NZ sounds that were a beacon of hope for so many people who were otherwise disillusioned by what happened to rock music across the 70s/80s. There are dual female/male vocals that cross pneumatic pop stylings with spacey garage atmospherics and the bulk of this great record would have sat perfectly on Getting Older or one of the classic Flying Nun comps. It has aspects of The Verlaines and The Clean while still coming out of the whole USA garage thing. The opening track, "Warrior", is instantly memorable and is one of those repeat-spin tracks that get completely under your skin. I dunno, this is great, and it feels good to have so many great new odd pop/rock records suddenly appear. It feels like we're in the middle of some kind of basement/pop renaissance. But fuck, let's just call it rock. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue. Each lp jacket has a bumped, dented corner courtesy of UPS. |
| 8/2/2008 | Bixobal | #4 | magazine | $1.99 | Ri Be Xibalba | "Features: A massive overview of the life and work of avant garde percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta, including his first English-language interview in over 30 years. A child prodigy, his meteoric rise in the Classical world spawned a new world of improvisation and Avant Classical in the late '60s and early '70s before melding Eastern concepts with Jazz Fusion via his more well known outfits Come to the Edge, East Wind, and Go. Includes never-before-revealed insight into collaborations with Toru Takemitsu, Takehisa Kosugi, Masahiko Sato, the Baschet brothers, and others. Years in the making, this exhaustive survey corrects misinformation and apocrypha carried down for decades, and opens a new window to Yamash'ta's current projects featuring instruments made from resonant stones - Akio Suzuki's UK travelogue translated by the expert on Japanese underground Alan Cummings - a history of the beautiful limited edition releases by Raymond Dijkstra - Patrick Marley (former publisher of Muckraker magazine) with his column Nickels and Dimes - reviews of vinyl, cassettes, compacts disc, DVDs and books, both new and old" 56 pages, 5.5" by 8.5", 20 lb. paper, b&w |
| 11/2/2008 | Bixobal | #5 | zine | $1.99 | "Issue 5 is out now and includes: The No-Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss recalls his time with The Source Family which led to the first Yahowa 13 performance in New York City and their new LP. As much about Dave's experiences throughout this and how it brought him into the Family, as about discovering the wealth of their archives and continuing energy - An extensive interview with reformed Vancouver noise band Tunnel Canary by Allan MacInnis. Allan speaks not only to the leader of the group, Nathan Holiday, but also Tunnel Canary members past and present Mya Mayhem, Ebra Ziron, and Dave Sheftel about their intense performances, early influences, their specially altered instruments, life and musical philosophy, and the different reactions in the early 1980s and now, matched with photos from their recent live shows and one from the archives. - A remembrance of Noggin violin player Michael Griffen by his friend Aaron Gorseth. - A feature on the Belgian group Onde featuring former members of Noise-Maker's Fifes; supplemented by photographs taken on tour by Dan Burke of Illusion of Safety - A feature on the new label Assophon, home to The Sea Donkeys, Spider Trio and Factums with photographs by Mark Sullo. - Rob Millis, waxing on about the preciousness of shellac while discussing the drive to recycle that raw material in the war years and the price that artifacts from that time can command. - Eric Lanzillotta's reviews of vinyl, compacts discs, and books, both new and old by Bill Bissett, Bob Cobbing, Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh, Malcolm Goldstein, The Howling Hex, Dieter Schnebel, and "Radio Mynamar (Burma)". - Patrick Marley's column Nickels and Dimes focusing on American Tapes and Drunjus." | |
| 5/29/2008 | Bixobal | Issue 3 | magazine | $1.99 | Features: Allan MacInnis talks to Peter Stampfel (The Holy Model Rounders) about Harry Smith, the Fugs, Santeria, amphetamines, god, coincidence, music and much more in a major feature appended with a short interview with Antonia Stampfel.....Rob Millis' Talking Machine reports back from India.....Patrick Marley (former publisher of Muckraker magazine) with his column Nickels and Dimes.....reviews of vinyl, cassettes, compacts disc, DVDs and books, both new and old.....PLUS a few other things.... 56 pages, 5.5" by 8.5", 20 lb. paper, b&w | |
| 11/21/2009 | Bjerga / Iversen | Amplified Crystal Rust | CDR | $11.99 | Striate Cortex | "Bjerga/Iversen offer a set of improvocations recorded live at Stavanger Public Library one chilly saturday afternoon last winter.. No singer/songwriter this saturday, the casual library visitors were treated to a lumpy gravy of bubbling frozen electronic transmissions and spacey metallic rust, being sucked into a veritable vertigo of clank! and skronk! Kinda like turning on the air-conditioning mistaking it for the intergalactic, gravity-smashing vacuum-cleaner... No, not really, but anyway - a surprising number of people didn't mind a saturday afternoon with no singer/songwriter..." Recorded live at Stavanger Public Library, Stavanger, Norway, January 17th 2009. |
| 5/14/2007 | Bjerga / Iversen | Hijacked Frequencies | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | *The norwegian duo of jan m. iversen and sindre bjerga has been as prolific as anyone in the two years since we first released an album of theirs. but it's still cold in norway, and bjerga/iversen are still traversing the glacial world of dense, sprawling drones. "hijacked frequencies" digs deep through skin and bone and finds a home deep inside the crevices of your skull. this will satiate your need for delicious, delicious sludge." |
| 9/17/2006 | Bjerga / Iversen | Illuminated By A Thousand Flashing Lights | CDR | $10.99 | Whistle Along / Tegel | "Another addition to the ever growing catalogue of mesmerizing soundscapes by Norwegian duo Bjerga and Iversen.Recorded live at the Garage in The Hague, Holland on March 4, 2006. A night to remember, the place was packed, there was magic in the air! The audience was treated to a 45 minute piece of dense synth drones, gently distorted guitar patterns and dislocated celestial sounds so sweet it threw circles in the air. Now for all to hear on this Tegel/Whistle Along joint release. An edition of 85 numbered copies, silkscreened covers with photo and gig flyer." |
| 12/24/2005 | Bjerga / Iversen | Play the Oslo Groove Machine | CDR | $12.99 | Absurd | "chronis petras, called in the middle of the night.. our printer's in malmo had done an important mistake and a couple of upcoming releases were badly printed. we had lots of sleeves of releases to use and why not recycle. it was back in late december that did costas & tiina been accidentally in oslo had encountered a great almost industrialish nightmare show of the sindre bjerga on electronics, amplified objects & j m iversen on electronics and were totally into it so the chance was great a special 'recycled' cover on the 'utan titel' not only to remind us of our mistakes but also some of some trully impressive moments our friends had lived back then watching our norwegian freaks em 'playing'. limited to some 110 copies or so." |
| 9/30/2005 | Bjerga / Iversen | The Lighthouse Tapes Vol 2 | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Firstperson | "Sindre Bjerga and Jan Iversen (GoldSoundz and TIBProd respectively) leave the rat race and hole up in a cabin near a lighhthouse and emerge with hours of inspired clangNthrum. Other volumes available on FoxyDigitalis and Kabukikore." |
| 11/4/2006 | Bjerga / Iversen | There's a Ghost in the Dream Machine | CDR | $11.99 | Time-Lag | "another haunted earthy drone vortex from this ultra-prolific norwegian duo. one extended & arching track. dusty electronics flutter and moan, crackle, and drone their way through some sort of underground cavernous dirge of rippling sound decay. the beauty lays in its blankness... fold-over art paper cover with paste-on art & hand stamped text. silver rimmed all black cdrs. numbered edition of 88." |
| 6/25/2004 | Bjerga, Sindre | Broken Hearted and Cardiac Arrested | CDR | $10.99 | Audiobot | “Sister release to the Fibo-Trespo disc on Imvated. Garbagetronica and electronic dogpoop and whatnot in a hazy mix... Edition of 100 copies.” |
| 8/22/2008 | Bjerga, Sindre | Crystal Cranium, Diamond Head | cassette | $12.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Solo live blurt from 25 June 2008 from Sindre Bjerga, one half of Bjerga/Iversen. Background drones hit in immediatley accompanied with some minimal scrapes and sputtering kinda growth aura from aforementioned drone, there's a real static vibe cruising through this. Occasional clunk and taps blur away as the heavy dense drone consumes the lot like an electric mist, with feedback clots clogging up your lungs, and creepy terror sounds. Limited to 50 hand numbered copies, each with indvidual handmade weird paper and an insert, everyone looking entirely different." |
| 3/3/2005 | Bjerga, Sindre | Slow Collapse | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Imvated | "The second installment of Sindre on Imvated, after his still available Fibo-Trespo disc. This time, a broken analogue synth is being wired through some cheap effect pedals, creating thick arctic drones. Nordic temperatures ahead!! This mini album comes hot on heels after Sindre's full cdr on Audiobot." |
| 10/17/2009 | Bjerga, Sindre | UK Tour | CDR | $9.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Very limited disc of raw live records from Norway's Sindre Bjerga. Two tracks recorded earlier this year in the Czech Republic, Prague 25/2/09, and Varnsdorf 26/2/09." |
| 7/12/2003 | Bjerga, Sindre / Anders Gjerde | Stavanger | CD | $9.99 | Absurd | "while translating/editing archive material for upcoming fanzine issues at the editions_zero central, started accidentally as an idea the creation of a zine which will focus each time on certain topic(s) /artist(s) / project(s), or in other words how ‘playground’s idea was born. for its premier issue (#0) sindre bjerga & anders gjerde who both have in common besides their diy cdr labels (gold sounds & humbug) & friendship the fact that they live in the city of stavanger (norway's 4th largest city), were invited to host an ‘audioguide’ to stavanger (or to perceive their town as a ‘playground’). so both spent some time doing field recordings on their minidiscs which later they either edited or reworked offering us 6 tracks of various moods & atmospheres...either abstract, or 'ambient', or pure field recordings, even w/ noisy touches at times, making it overall a bizarre view of stavanger the way our norwegian friends perceive their city. housed in a (almost) transparent xerox of stavanger map's greek version, just for this time won't be a supplement to the issue (which will come out later as a diy pocket size map edition) but as a separate release as both our friends (anders/sindre) & we (editions_zero) consider it as a bizarre introduction to the ‘playgound’. limited to 150." |
| 2/26/2006 | Bjerga, Sindre / Jan Iverson | untitled | CDR | $8.99 | Beniffer Editions | "Norwegian music with lovely packaging." |
| 5/14/2007 | Black Air | Plague Ritual | one-sided LP | $11.99 | rundownsun | "A pure and focused collaboration from OSCILLATING INNARDS, PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT, and THE RITA. to call this recording 'brutal', 'unforgiving', or 'punishing', would only belittle the finesse, poise, and obsession with which it was executed. RUNDOWNSUN exclusive special edition includes one-sided 12" LP with silk screened b-side, silk screened cover on heavy paper, and high quality glossy black and white 11"x17" poster of album art and label info." |
| 12/11/2002 | Black Dice | Beaches & Canyons | CD | $14.99 | DFA | "The anticipated debut full-length album from Brooklyn sound manipulation specialists Black Dice. A fluid, swelling and blissed-out frenzy of chaotic and orchestrated electronics, percussion, vocals and treated guitars that beg your brain to search for recognizable patterns, while your body yearns to find a beat. Meditative, emotional and lovely." |
| 10/30/2002 | Black Dice | Cold Hands | CD | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Brooklyn-based ear-splitters and thermonuclear speaker-blowers Black Dice return with another vicious attack on the senses. Beheading into new realms of improvisation, the band unmercifully adds new experiments in noise to their already über-violent hardcore to create some of the most painful music in punk." |
| 6/25/2004 | Black Dice | Creature Comforts | CD | $14.99 | DFA | “Black Dice venture further into their own psychedelic, increasingly electronic world with Creature Comforts, mixing in a new sense of playfulness and accessibility, and not-quite-steady rhythms with their trademark expansive, experimental and structurally unique sound. Though still hazy and dreamy, Black Dice emerge as a band on untouchably original terrain, where dub, tropicalia, and the entire history of psychedelic rock swirl in a heady concoction. Eight tracks in all.” |
| 3/5/2009 | Black Eagle Child | Kite Excursions | CDR | $9.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Mike Jantz from Milwaukee has been laying down some seriously amazing far out folk inspired drone dreams recently with some damn fine tapes split with Sean McCann and Pistil Cosmos, and here is a collection of drones weaved with field recordings and meandering guitar meditation." |
| 1/17/2010 | Black Eagle Child | Under Our Feet | c30 cassette | $9.99 | Gold Soundz | "Two lovely pieces from Michael Jantz where he slowly and quietly crafts beautiful and somewhat gloomy folksy guitar lines perfectly in sync with delicately mixed field recordings from the woods.. There's a special melancholy rarely heard in this kind of music these days.. On side 2 he cranks it up a bit with a more aggressive guitar sound, the vaguely psychedelic strumming and riffing makes a perfect counterparts to the first sides more comtemplative character... A perfect sound for a chilly autumn evening where you can hear the leaves razzling away in the streets...Gray wrapround A4 covers, black tapes. Edition of 50 copies." |
| 9/30/2008 | Black Eagle Child / Sean McCann | Cambrian Members | cassette | $6.99 | "I fell asleep late last night right after I jammed this latest burner from Sean McCann and Black Eagle Child. That was lucky, let me tell ya... this split is a total tropical dreamscreamer. Each one of them gets a side, but it doesn't matter - the message is the same: it's time to zone the fuck out. Crisp capricorn tones drizzle down like pink sunkissed mists from the heavens, totally enveloping your aural sensibilities. Guitar zoners and gooey, synthed up flow-ers take you through the perfect lazy river, floating on scarlet sonic waves to the stars. This is the new space race. If all drones were drenched in this much bliss, we'd all be rotten to the core." - Animal Psi. Limited edition of 77 copies. Each tape is housed in a hand sewn sleeve. | |
| 3/2/2007 | Black Forest / Black Sea | Black Forest / Black Sea | CD | $12.99 | Music Fellowship | "BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA is the Providence duo of Jeffrey Alexander (mostly guitar) and Miriam Goldberg (mostly cello). They play free-form music that draws from folk traditions. The have toured extensively in the US and Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to Reykjavik and Portland to Portland. This is the fourth BF/BS full-length - recorded in Providence, RI, Portland, ME and Montague, MA with guest performances by Italian sound sculptor Stefano Pilia (guitar, tiny sounds) and Miriam's sister Margot Goldberg (phonorgan). Yet another sister - Gillian Goldberg - provides lyrics. Miriam and Jeffrey also incorporate voice, ur-pedal, casio, bul bul tarang and omnichord. "...a half-improvised framework of guitar, cello and sundry accented glitches...a magnificent patchwork tent of bark, calico fabric, twisted vines, and fallen stars...a gorgeous snapshot of the free psych underground, one of the purest spaces of otherworldly terrain in the current musical landscape." - Pitchfork |
| 4/20/2008 | Black Forest / Black Sea | Black Forest / Black Sea | LP | $16.99 | Music Fellowship | "Black Forest / Black Sea is the Providence duo of Jeffrey Alexander (mostly guitar) and Miriam Goldberg (mostly cello). They play free-form music that draws from folk traditions. The have toured extensively in the US and Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to Reykjavik and Portland to Portland. This is the fourth BF/BS full-length, and the 2nd self-titled album - recorded in Providence, RI, Portland, ME and Montague, MA with guest performances by Italian sound sculptor Stefano Pilia (guitar, tiny sounds) and Miriam's sister Margot Goldberg (phonorgan). Yet another sister - Gillian Goldberg - provides lyrics. Miriam and Jeffrey also incorporate voice, ur-pedal, casio, bul bul tarang and omnichord. The pressing of the BFBS LP is limited to 500 copies and are on 12x24 white stock. The covers are hand-silkscreened with the same artwork as is represented on the CDs." |
| 4/1/2004 | Black Forest / Black Sea | Forcefields and Constellations | CD | $12.99 | Blue Sanct | "From the ashes of The Iditarod comes Black Forest / Black Sea. Backwards backwoods playing, electronic effects, a shortwave radio and some knob twiddling are all incorporated into their sound, which twists from traditional folk Americana to beatbox improv and back again. Nothing, however, is quite what it seems, and this constant sound shifting gives Alexander and Goldberg's musically metamorphic contribution to the New Weird America cult an edge over the competition. 'Forecefields and Constellations' is their second album as BF/BS, following 2003¹s critically acclaimed self-titled debut on Last Visible Dog. This new CD features guest appearances by Christina Carter (Charalambides - Kranky Records), Glenn Donaldson (Blithe Sons - Jewelled Antler Collective, Family Vineyard), and Fursaxa (Ecstatic Yod, Eclipse).” |
| 2/12/2008 | Black Forest / Black Sea | Portmanteau | 10" | $9.99 | Secret Eye | "For this new 10", the duo is joined by guests Margot Goldberg and Joe Grimm (a.k.a. The Wind Up Bird). This quartet version of BF/BS is the very same lineup that performed at Terrastock 6. 10" vinyl-only release limited to 500 copies worldwide. Silkscreened metallic silver covers by Mike Taylor (Lungfish, Avarus, Dan Higgs). 21 minutes of music - all exclusive material." |
| 3/5/2009 | Black Guys | Some Of My Best Friends Are.. | cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Now faux liberals around the world can feel better about their white, upper class lifestyles with the help of one simple and inspired drone cassette. you'll be all the rage at that next mixer or cocktail party when you can tell everyone about how some of your best friends are... black guys! little will they know that you're talking about this new mexico duo of alan george ledergerber and raven chacon (kilt, cobra//group, etc). "some of my best friends are..." stretches time out ad infinitum with piles of crusty drones and scabbed-over electronics that can only dream of breaking the skin. you may not know black guys yet, but once you do, you're definitely going to love them. limited to 50 copies." |
| 6/11/2006 | Black Hands, The | The Perfect Beauty of Venus | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Firstperson | "Alex Neilson has released solo recordings under the name THE DIRECTING HAND and also played with the likes of Jandek, Richard Youngs, Alasdair Roberts, Ashtray Navigations, Mirror etc etc caught here in duo form with Frank Janiurek." Review by Scott Mckeating from Brainwashed.com: "From a steady rhythmic bum Casio organ note, which might just even be the tight circling of reverberating tones, the song begins. The slowly layering tones regularly break cover to reveal a digital starlight twinkle. The hilltop woodwind, scoured cymbal and drained/bleached feedback rise as if lit by the slow slide of slinking daylight. Many times on The Perfect Beauty of Venus the music takes deep dips into descending noisy slides but always seems to settle on a rhythm or melody. Instead of creating a straightforward common montage of sounds, the sounds here have a life of their own; the music is organic and evolving as it progresses. Instead of a linear movement of layering sound after sound, the music seems to spin and consume itself, revolving spirograph style as opposed to horizontally. Conventional melodies are found in the higher / lower vocal parts which wordlessly talk about melancholy through, what are perhaps, lost-and-found traditional tunes. Even when a passage of (probably percussion sourced) digitally messed-with vinyl scratch sounds takes centre stage and tumbles down into straighter high speed crackling noise, the vocal remains as desolately dominant. But better, stronger and more emotive stirrings are sourced straight from the dipped tab hits of high percussive sounds dancing over the music. Proof, if still needed, that the drum has a stronger emotive pulse than merely playing the part of the time-honoured rock band's heartbeat. The confluence of these gorgeous stretches of percussion and smooth thousand sided tones is what makes this release such a beautiful beginning to The Black Hands." |
| 7/16/2004 | Black Hole | Black Hole | CDR | $6.99 | "The electro-punk stylings of Suicide, Caberet Voltaire Sparks, Factory Records bands, The Screamers, etc. along with a need for an edgier, noisier, grittier ‘synth pop’ – yet cold, calculating and sleek, with our energy directed towards subverting faceless technology." Features Plastic Crimewave (guitar, vocals, synths, electronics, tapes, drum machines) and Rebecca Crawford (formerly of The Puta-Pons – currently of The Dials) on vocals, guitar, synths, drum machines. | |
| 1/24/2009 | Black Joker | Watch Out! | CDR | $11.99 | Pacific City | "New project of Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap/Monopoly Child et al. Spencer himself describes this as being more drone-focussed and with faster percussion than the recent Monopoly Child sets. The percussion is up-front, with arcs of criss-crossing time signatures generating plenty of phantom space and the combination of trance-informed momentum and bubbling electronic sci-fi tones sounds closest to one of the Sun Ra Arkestra's most future-visioned takes on "Ancient Aethiopia" while expanding on the classic post-Angus MacLise feel of all of the best Skaters material." - Volcanic Tongue. Comes with liner notes from Charles Berlitz. Recommended! |
| 8/23/2009 | Black Joker | Watch Out! | LP | $15.99 | Olde English Spelling Bee | "Fully re-mastered vinyl edition of what was originally a Europe-only cassette released in an edition of 80 copies from the solo project of Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap/Monopoly Child et al. Spencer describes Black Joker as being more drone-focused and with faster percussion than the recent Monopoly Child sets. Indeed, the percussion is thrifty and up-front, with arcs of criss-crossing time signatures generating maximum space/time confusion. The combination of trance-informed momentum and bubbling electronic sci-fi tones sounds closest to one of the Sun Ra Arkestra's most future-visioned takes on "Ancient Aethiopia" while expanding on the classic post-Angus MacLise feel of all of the best Skaters material. Comes with pro-printed 80s style 12" maxi-sleeves with liner notes by Fortean authority, itinerant visionary and Skaters road mangler in-absentia Charles Berlitz. "Šthe drifting of desert sand sculptures appearing within crystaline miraged mountains during a cycle in which the gleaming of sand star sparkled night is blown, floating towards dawn, as the racing of the camels amongst the sunbound mirages expend dimensions of presentation for these sculptures, which, as wind diminishes and returns, a sand is cast to represent the variety of dimensions interacted : as symbold vision, where the atmosphered wind senses the stars amongst the sand, the camel within the mirage, and the mediation of an experiences whole motion of interaction..." - David Keenan. |
| 2/12/2008 | Black Magic Disco | Black Magic Disco | DBL LP | $19.99 | A Silent Place | "Black Magic Disco is a new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien), and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope). The project was born when Greenwood invited the Opalio brothers and Ponzini to perform with him for two months, touring throughout Europe, in May/June 2005. As one can imagine, the result was killer. The music that came out of these live performances was totally explosive, combining Ponzini's Japanese vocals and hypnotic chimes with Greenwood's psych-blues guitar attitude and wild turntablism, all layered over MCIAA's alien cosmic flux of electric guitars, space toys, and percussion. This debut release represents a unique chance to experience almost eighty minutes of that pure, magical live action, divided into four long tracks taken from the original live recordings." Limited edition of 500 copies on colored vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with poster. |
| 5/9/2009 | Black Moth Super Rainbow | Don't You Want To Be In A Cult b/w Feel the Drip | picture disc LP | $15.99 | Mexican Summer | "Two brand new, exclusive cuts from a revitalized Black Moth Super Rainbow, presented on an eye-searing picture disk. Both tracks take cues from both German synth/ambient pioneers like Cluster and Harmonia, as well as Italian soundtrack legends Ennio Morricone and Fabio Frizzi, effectively building off of the hazy, Technicolor acid dreamcoat this Pittsburgh-area group has been weaving from the get-go. Essential!" Edition of 1000 copies. |
| 10/25/2008 | Black Pus / Foot Village | split | LP | $12.99 | DNT / Deathbomb Arc | "Including the tracks from their split cassette released last year on DBA, this 12" adds 1 Foot Village bonus track and 2 Black Pus bonus tracks. This music is raw, distorted, and totally fucked up drum rock. Each 12" includes a 16" x 22" poster that is a full color animal photo with art by Brian Chippendale screened on top. Brian is the dude behind Black Pus and he is the drummer of Lightning Bolt. This release is all about drums being punk as fuck. Edition of 300. Co-released with Deathbomb Arc." |
| 2/11/2006 | Black Quarter | Sodomy ESP | cassette | $14.99 | Heavy Tapes | "After the Gematria debut, Maya Miller returns with her second solo effort, the highly anticipated "Sodomy ESP." Recorded in one take in deep-afternoon haze deer-skull-on-the-table statement style, Maya closes her eyes, rocks back and forth, and blasts a magnetic mono hymn with organ and tone-vox. Like trying to figure out how the hell "Nelil" Young plays guitar and harmonica at the same time, on the same beach, circa the invention of the honey slide. At 4 RPM. Last round of warmup jams before the Ecstatic Peace LP drops. First black and white HT cover since the first few tapes -- feel free to color "it" in." |
| 7/11/2002 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | LP | $12.99 | Virgin | "Debut album BRMC is a woozy, disorientating, horny swirl of bad sex, sensory overload, righteous fury and missionary zeal. Start with Lou Reed's deadpan demi-monde dispatches, move on to Iggy Pop – who pretty much wrote the lexicon of degradation in rock ('Death trip', 'Penetration') - take a little of Marc Bolan's licentious boogie, fast forward to The Jesus and Mary Chain's scuzzed-up surf punk and the messiah complex of the first Stone Roses album and you're close to the down-and-dirty brooding psychedelia of songs like 'Red Eyes and Tears' and the self explanatory 'Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n Roll (Punk Song)'. Named after the biker gang in classic Brando flick The Wild One, the band formed in the East Bay area around the nucleus of school friends Robert Turner (sharp bass moves, wild William Reid bouffant, dad in dodgy 1980s band The Call) and Peter Hayes (scuffed Lothario, lascivious drawl, guitar); five years on they found the perfect drummer in Jago. Under the watchful eye of Robert's dad, a brilliantly raucous set of demos came together - basically the sound of primetime Jesus and Mary Chain exploding - which caught the ears of Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr. A year of fiddling turned those songs into the widescreen splendour of BRMC." |
| 2/7/2009 | Black River Error Band | Cosmic Battles | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Mattias Gustafsson is an early 905-cohort, with his altar of flies project filling the 905.4 slot. black river error band is another one of gustafsson's solo endeavors. b.r.e.b. brings the same complex crunch as a.o.f. but includes some black reed magic by way of alien sax vibes for a neurotic-cosmic mash. illuminated fluttering gripping onto dark sounds like mold on a butterfly. cosmic battles phantom workshops." |
| 1/1/2008 | Black Sash | Fungus of Terror | LP | $12.99 | Defective Records | "This full length 4 track LP (1 Original and 3 Remakes) is Defective Record's 32nd release and the 2nd in its "Defective Experiments" side project. Deeply underground, presumed dead, during the dormant years the label's roots crept into uncharted ground with "Fungus of Terror", and the 1st shared release "Cambodian Psych-Out". Going beyond their 90's electronic mutations into electro/acoustic realms, this release of original material, its first from the 21st century, is an exploration in alien soundscapes of psychotropic tempos, murky hypnotic beats, distorted guitars, space funk and cinematic atmospheres. After 6 years of gathering remixes from definitive artists in their genre, Defective Records (the first electronic music label in Baltimore, est. 1994) succeeds in producing a platter that brilliantly reflects their ever expanding tastes. The remixes explore new worlds of weirdness from Tipsy's (Asphodel, Ipecac) lush exotic electronika voyage thru the fungus, Solar X's (Worm Interface, Hymen, Art-Tek, Defective) mushroom cloud of hyper ballistic brain melting beats to Snakeoiler's (Billawtm and Cotton Casino, Acid Mothers Temple) soaring, spore filled, spacerock supermix. Put all this on green wax and slip it in a tripped out sleeve with original cover art by Bobby BeauSoliel (Lucifer Rising) and you have a truly unique piece of vinyl designed to enhance your perception and delight your senses." |
| 3/5/2009 | Black Serama | Rough Wood | CDR | $9.99 | Reverb Worship | "This is Black Serama's "Rough Wood" album. Black Serama are a brother and sister duo comprising Jonny and Bel. Musically these two have a similar sound and sonic timbre to Charalambides using guitars, keyboards, percussion, bells and objects. "Rough Wood" is the bands second release.It contains twelve excellent tracks and clocks in at over sixty minutes. The cd comes in a hand numbered edition of 40 copies in a white card cover with paste on artwork,insert and sprayed cd label." |
| 1/1/2008 | Black Sparrow | Black Sparrow | CDR | $9.99 | Peippo | "Black Sparrow is from UK and is also known for his works as Slow Listener, Hereharehere and so. These lo-fi drone works are spiced (and done) with voices, loops and voices again. Comes with beautiful hand assembled b/w covers drawn by the Duuser collective from Finland. All this, a great wood stick holds together." |
| 7/30/2003 | Black Sun Ensemble | Starlight | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Starlight' follows up 2002's consolidating release Hymn of the Master with a set of recordings that showcase a band that has found a place for itself in the early 21st Century. The previous paradigm of mixing rearranged old material with new material has been shattered, and replaced by a completely new set of compositions that represent a launching pad for the band to enter an entirely new phase of its existence. It is now more than just a conduit for Acedo's guitar epiphanies. 'Starlight', like Hymn of the Master, was recorded and mixed at Tucson's SlowBurn recording studio. The release was mastered by John Axtell at Tucson's Cranky Jesus Studio. The album features not only the visionary compositions of Acedo's but also songwriting contributions from Tucson's Sun Zoom Spark leader, Eric Johnson; saxophonist, Brian Maloney and Tucson's Infinite Beauties front-man, Joseph Graves. Starlight also marks the return of long-time BSE collaborator, Duane Norman. Alchemy is performed everywhere, from the dazzling undulations and North African atmospheres of the opening instrumental 'Jewel of the Seven Stars', to the stygian jazz-metal of 'Loki's Monstrous Brood' and 'The Lycian' to the pyramid moon shadows of the cross-cultural 'Arabic Satori' (added intrigue given via Joseph Graves' stream-of-consciousness intonations over the top of it all), to the exquisite classical guitar piece 'Tralaine'. And for perhaps the first time, really successful vocals are added to the dynamic instrumental work. Eric Johnson's vocals make sure that the pop credentials of 'I Am I Was' are such that in a sane world it should be a hit single and he lists 'Sunbeam Angel' to another realm, and Jesus Acedo gives you a clear idea of some of the places he's been on the stormy 'Angel of Light'. Needless to say, there is extraordinary instrumental work everywhere, not just by Acedo, but also by Duane Norman on guitar, clarinet and sax, Brian Maloney on sax and baritone guitar, Eric Johnson on bass, guitar and keys, and the appropriately named Otto Terrorist on drums and percussion." |
| 7/16/2009 | Black To Comm | Charlemagne & Pippin | CD | $11.99 | Digitalis Arts & Crafts | "Marc Richter's new Black to Comm offering "Charlemagne & Pippin" churns out a slowly, methodically building single-tone battleship, that somehow manages to become more powerful, hopeful, and grandiose as it oscillates. Richter's characteristic organ noise is rounded off beautifully with various electronics, bells, metal percussion, toys, water, and violins, provided by band members Renate Nikolaus and Ulf Schütte ,which grow around the central note yet slowly move to the center themselves. The Bursting electronics, white noise, and buzzes become more frequent and attempt to overpower the mighty organ. Together, these three musicians bring about a musical pairing that suits the title. A pairing of power and play, father and son, age and youth. Its probably best to turn the lights off and the speakers up for this meditative 35 minute slab of drone excellence." |
| 1/17/2010 | Black To Comm | Wave UFO | double 7" | $16.99 | Dekorder | "Following his latest album "Alphabet 1968" on Type Records and several releases for Digitalis, Trensmat and his own Dekorder label Marc Richter (aka Black To Comm) has recorded another amazing yet unexpected collection of brand new tracks. Always hard to pinpoint, on these two vinyl singles Richter's music oscillates between cosmic drones, dub, lo-fi pop anthems, musique concrete and high-pitched free jazz rhythms. Strictly limited edition of 200 copies in a large full-colour collage poster cover. Limited edition of 200 copies!" |
| 8/4/2007 | Black To Comm / Aosuke | split | LP | $18.99 | Dekorder | "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." |
| 4/22/2009 | Black Vial | Noise Frequency PWM | CDR | $17.99 | Impulsy Stetoskopu | Limited edition of 120 copies in plexi frame. Reissue of LP with 7 bonus tracks. "That Liebfried Loch has been making his found sound/voice/guitar/organ recordings more or less unnoticed since the late 70s is a real shocker. And he has played amongst and with the bigger names of a DIY, Velvets / Barrett / Drake inspired 'scene' in and around Berlin, with connections to 39 clocks, Phantom Payne, Beauty Contest, etc. But his method is decidedly more 'avant-garde' than most. Loch has no patience for a melody, choosing to layer sounds unwittingly. That method has been used to some very tiresome results by a great many artists, but for whatever reason, is much kinder to Herr Loch. If you got ahold of his '95 debut Frozen Morning you were one of the lucky few probably to be taken with its freshness. That Loch was pushing 60 was that much more enticing." |
| 7/10/2008 | Black Window | Gunwales | CDR | $14.99 | Transient Recordings | "Debut release from the duo of US guitarist Andrew Weeks and Ben Spiers. Black Window formed following a late night acoustic busking session at Wellington Railway Station, 'Gunwales' couldn't be much further from those beginnings as a bed of garage doom explodes into punked-up mass projection guitar, then collapses into tape warble. 3" CDR housed in an oversized gatefold sleeve with pro-printed outer and hand-painted inner. Edition of 60 copies." |
| 7/16/2004 | Blackout Beach | Light Flows The Putrid Dawn | CD | $10.99 | Soft Abuse Records | "Blackout Beach is the solo vehicle for Carey Mercer, the head howler and songwriter for the criminally under-appreciated Frog Eyes. Like his work with Frog Eyes, these Blackout Beach songs are intense, miniature epics filled with decadent imagery and dark paths. Some might fence Mercer into the 'new weird folk' movement, but his songs are filled with more conviction, agitation and true sonic experimentation than all of those other folkies combined. Light Flows The Putrid Dawn is an atmospheric song cycle (in fourteen parts) that touches on a wide range of emotions, and an even wider range of song structure and arrangements." |
| 5/21/2009 | Blackshaw, James | Glass Bead Game | CD | $13.99 | Young God | "I'm extremely pleased to announce that James Blackshaw will now be releasing his absolutely spellbinding music via Young God Records. He has received attention as a 12-string guitar prodigy / virtuoso. He used to be in punk bands in England, but then he started listening to people like John Fahey, Robbie Basho, etc., and I assume locked himself in a room for 12 hours a day for several years and just played constantly. It takes intense discipline and a religious commitment to get to the place where he's at with his instrument. But his music isn't about his "skill." It's not showy. It's deeply meditative--the secret language of a pre-thought, pre-dream place. "Blackshaw plays soulful and kaleidoscopic, ever-shifting mantra cycles of incredible beauty. Just his guitar by itself, with its swirling overtones, cascading notes, and a thousand points of light, resembles an orchestra, but with further orchestration--piano, strings, wind, and vocals--the music is positively cinematic and mesmerizing. "The 18-minute-plus gem on this record is 'Arc,' performed on piano with the sustain pedal on full throttle. The rush of sound created by the overtones from Heaven, augmented by strings and wind, when played at proper (full) volume, is one of the most thrilling pieces of music I've heard in years. It takes a rare and single-minded courage and commitment to make music with such a powerfully positive force at its heart, especially in these troubled times. This is healing music that reaches for what's possible, just beyond our grasp. It is stellar..."Blackshaw is joined on this record by Joolie Wood (Current 93, Simon Finn) on violin, clarinet, and flute, and John Contreras (Baby Dee and Current 93) on cello. Lavinia Blackwall (Directing Hand) is a classically trained singer and contributed vocals." --Michael Gira/Young God Records |
| 8/8/2009 | Blackshaw, James | Glass Bead Game | LP + CD | $15.99 | Young God | "I'm extremely pleased to announce that James Blackshaw will now be releasing his absolutely spellbinding music via Young God Records. He has received attention as a 12-string guitar prodigy / virtuoso. He used to be in punk bands in England, but then he started listening to people like John Fahey, Robbie Basho, etc., and I assume locked himself in a room for 12 hours a day for several years and just played constantly. It takes intense discipline and a religious commitment to get to the place where he's at with his instrument. But his music isn't about his 'skill.' It's not showy. It's deeply meditative--the secret language of a pre-thought, pre-dream place. Blackshaw plays soulful and kaleidoscopic, ever-shifting mantra cycles of incredible beauty. Just his guitar by itself, with its swirling overtones, cascading notes, and a thousand points of light, resembles an orchestra, but with further orchestration-piano, strings, wind, and vocals-the music is positively cinematic and mesmerizing. The 18-minute-plus gem on this record is 'Arc,' performed on piano with the sustain pedal on full throttle. Blackshaw is joined on this record by JOOLIE WOOD (CURRENT 93, SIMON FINN), and JOHN CONTRERAS (BABY DEE and CURRENT 93) on cello. LAVINIA BLACKWALL (DIRECTING HAND) is a classically trained singer and contributed vocals."-Michael Gira/Young God Records. Beautiful six-panel fold-out digipack with art by NICOLE BOITOS. LP includes bonus CD version." |
| 4/5/2008 | Blackshaw, James | Lost Prayers and Motionless Dances | CD | $12.99 | Tompkins Square | "James Blackshaw's second release, originally recorded in October 2004 by John Hannon, NRS. Released as a CD-R on Digitalis December 2004. "An absolutely monumental recording, Lost Prayers and Motionless Dances re-examines many of the themes that were explored on Celeste and distills them into one brilliant 35-minute composition that is full of excitement and surprise. The piece begins with a harmonium drone and acoustic 12-string, tuned to the guitar-unfriendly C-F-C-F-C-F (I can't find any examples of this tuning being used elsewhere) and unfolds beautifully. Blackshaw moves effortlessly from Takoma-inspired picking into electroacoustic improvisation and concludes with 12-string, harmonium and ride cymbal falling into a blissed-out circular folk groove that is absolutely infectious." -Grown So Ugly. |
| 2/28/2006 | Blackshaw, James | O True Believers | CD | $13.99 | Important Records | "When UK native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string, something spiritual takes place. This unassuming 23 year-old is transformed into a guitar god whose name belongs alongside the likes of Jack Rose, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and Glenn Jones. Making instrumental, solo, acoustic music that remains consistently interesting and moving is a difficult task. Yet, time after time, Blackshaw hits out of the park, constantly breaking boundaries in what could be conceived as a somewhat limited medium. O True Believers is the latest in a string of impressive releases, all with their own mood and inspiration. An untrained musician living in the isolated suburban environs of Greater London, Blackshaw draws inspiration not only from the early Takoma Records roster, but from sources as varied as the sublime film-work of Werner Herzog, the books of Richard Brautigan and an endless amount of music: free-jazz, '60s psych, drone, ethnic music and modern-day composers, to name a few." |
| 4/5/2008 | Blackshaw, James | Sunshrine | CD | $12.99 | Tompkins Square | "Reissue of this November 2005 release (originally issued on Digitalis and Bo Weavil). "...Blackshaw has already mustered up enough talent on the guitar to put many more renowned acts to shame. His gorgeous finger picked melodies on 12-string guitar are incredibly affecting and a stark contrast to the ragas and ragtimes of peer Jack Rose. Instead of concentrating on replicating a specific era of music or showing his technical prowess, Blackshaw aims straight for the heart and listening to these two extended pieces is enough for you to be transported into another realm entirely. One of the standout releases in the now slightly bloated folk revival movement, Sunshrine is a real pleasure to listen to and should be wedged firmly into any self-respecting folk follower's CD shelf." - Boomkat |
| 7/14/2007 | Blackshaw, James | The Cloud of Unknowing | CD | $12.99 | Tompkins Square | "When UK-native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string guitar, something spiritual takes place. Performing and recording since 2003, his name is frequently mentioned as one of the foremost modern solo acoustic guitarists. Now at the age of 25, Blackshaw, an untrained musician born and still residing in the suburban environs of Greater London, draws as much inspiration from early religious music, South-Asian folk music and composers such as Arvo Part, Simeon Ten Holt, Steve Reich and Charlemagne Palestine as he does from John Fahey, Robbie Basho and the early Takoma Records roster, constantly breaking boundaries in what could be conceived as a somewhat limited medium. In his part improvised and part written songs, Blackshaw makes expert use of Eastern and Western scales, chord changes reminiscent of European classical music and incredibly intricate fingerpicking patterns to make a sound that is both challengingly minimalist, yet warm and approachable to anybody who might hear it, with a rare sensitivity that conveys immense beauty, hope and sadness." |
| 7/14/2007 | Blackshaw, James | The Cloud of Unknowing | LP | $14.99 | Tompkins Square | "When UK-native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string guitar, something spiritual takes place. Performing and recording since 2003, his name is frequently mentioned as one of the foremost modern solo acoustic guitarists. Now at the age of 25, Blackshaw, an untrained musician born and still residing in the suburban environs of Greater London, draws as much inspiration from early religious music, South-Asian folk music and composers such as Arvo Part, Simeon Ten Holt, Steve Reich and Charlemagne Palestine as he does from John Fahey, Robbie Basho and the early Takoma Records roster, constantly breaking boundaries in what could be conceived as a somewhat limited medium. In his part improvised and part written songs, Blackshaw makes expert use of Eastern and Western scales, chord changes reminiscent of European classical music and incredibly intricate fingerpicking patterns to make a sound that is both challengingly minimalist, yet warm and approachable to anybody who might hear it, with a rare sensitivity that conveys immense beauty, hope and sadness." |
| 5/29/2008 | Blank Dogs | On Two Sides | LP | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Blank Dogs proposition does also contain a great deal of the otherworldly, I think you shall find the way in which they resonate uncertain and hazy like transmissions coming from the other side most appealing, like reliable messengers delivering a lost love letter across impossible distances with a fierce passion which reminds me of that most excellent Sir John Maus. Blank Dogs seem to have studied in the cadaverous school of German minimalism where thaumaturgs such as Grauzone excelled, but covered some of the piercing angles with the flesh and blood of the new wave that these Islands did bear, particularly Joy Division and even Young Marble Giants at certain moments of trembling melodic beauty. All laced with that distorted barbed wire one finds in so many promising new acts from the other side of the pond. Formidable material, I am sure you will agree, do purchase their album On Two Sides when it is made available and you shant be disappointed." |
| 5/21/2009 | Blank Dogs | Seconds | 12" | $14.99 | Captured Tracks | "Four new tracks self-released on a 12-inch by Blank Dogs' own Captured Tracks label. Limited edition silkscreened sleeves, not to be reissued." - Revolver |
| 12/13/2008 | Blank Dogs | The Fields | LP | $14.99 | Woodsist | "Blank Dogs are actually singular: it's the insanely prolific one-man Brooklyn-based band of Mr. Blank Dog. We don't know too much about the biography of the guy behind the bedroom new-wave pop/punk and he's usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads, but that's fine. The aura of anonymity allows you to focus on the sounds -- and, really, he might be releasing a ton of things, but there's definitely a higher jam-to-crap ratio. It's like Joy Division vocal lines with The Cure's synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. And that voice? All the feedback in the world can't hide his knack for melody. Blank Dogs have been making plenty of rumbles in the noisier and more secretive outposts of the underground (half his discography's sold out), but Troubleman Unlimited's just repressed his very recommended full-length On Two Sides (on yellow vinyl in an edition of 500) and In The Red's releasing a 20-song double LP (or single CD) called Under And Under . It's all new material. He's also playing his first shows in NYC, so if you want to take a peek, you can. All this to say: seems like Blank Dogs is on his way out of the basement." --Stereogum |
| 7/16/2009 | Blank Dogs | Under and Under | double LP | $15.99 | In The Red | "For the past several years, a slew of 12-inches, 7-inches, and cassettes have been released by the mysterious Brooklyn artist known as Blank Dogs. Blank Dogs is actually singular-it's the insanely prolific one-man band of Mr. Blank Dog. Not too much is known about the guy behind the bedroom new wave / pop / punk act and he's usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads. The sound is Joy Division vocal lines with The Cure's synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient, submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. Under and Under is Blank Dogs' latest and most massive release to date-a double-album housing twenty brand new songs (fifteen on the CD and digital versions) that show off his pop chops to a greater extent than any of his previous releases. Also, for the first time, Blank Dogs has incorporated the assistance of outside musicians to lend a hand, including members of the Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls, among others. contribute this time around." - Revolver |
| 1/30/2010 | Blank Realm | Heatless Ark | LP + bonus cassette | $15.99 | Not Not Fun | "Overdue vinyl debut by this consistently killer Brisbane crew finds them more form-destroying and ambitious than ever before. outsider psych rabble burned through an art-punk eyeball. Comes with a fantastic companion cassette album, DIRTY ARK." |
| 1/24/2009 | Blank Realm | Street Bananas | cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Blank Realm has evolved over the past few years from some of the best droners in the land of oz to doing something far more disjointed, original, catch, and honestly, fucking genius. they exist in the same zone as their breakdance the dawn brethren, but have easily etched their own fractals in the sand. everything is played and sung like it's being drawn out of a thick haze. you can never quite see it, but bits and pieces slowly reveal themselves so you can connect the sparkling dots. "street bananas" finds its groove right away, and at times will have you wanting to shake your ass out on that stretch of empty highway that leads straight to the fucken moon. hell, blank realm even through a few pop missives out of nowhere that you'll hum until the day you implode. i think i'm ready to move down under where everything... everything is baked and/or fried. limited to 77 copies that give homage to 1983." |
| Blanking Machine | A Flock Of Fish | 7" | $4.99 | Scottish single features Roy Montgomery with Darryl Anthony | ||
| 6/11/2006 | Blaster Al Ackerman | I Am Drunk | LP | $13.99 | Ehse | "This listener's prediction: the muffled voice of Blaster Al Ackerman reading his "Pepper Young" translations with a presumed bar of soap in his mouth followed by tree frog belches will replace the sound of a passing steam locomotive as the poetic sounds of indescribable mystery and high lonesomeness. This audio icon of the 21st Century can be found on Ehse Records' LP release of Blaster Al Ackerman's "I Am Drunk". And indeed at times he does sound drunk, but not just on booze, also on language and human absurdity. Featuring live as well as "studio" recordings, "I Am Drunk" also has two Blaster classics that raise the humdrum world of the workplace to the giddy heights of Philip K. Dick in Munchkinland - "The John Eaton Recommendations" and "The Crab". Another prediction: copies of this album with its linguistic hijinks and squat and thrusts will be played far more times and enjoyed much more than any mothball enshrined Caedmon LP of T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost intoning. Original artwork for LP front cover by Blaster Al Ackerman. Edition of 500." |
| 7/14/2007 | Blastocyst | True Tales For A New American Century | CDR | $8.99 | Phase | "Drums & Bass madness from NY's noise duo Blastocyst (members of Paper Legs, George Steeltoe Ensemble, Cakes Of Light, et al). True patriots, indeed, they praise the true beast of the American Beast w/ low frequency cluttering and brain damaged percussion. Total chaos! Handpainted w/ acrylic stains heavy covers w/ paste-on photography and inners." |
| 10/3/2009 | Blatchley, Joshua Emery | Solo Acoustic Volume One | LP | $15.99 | Vin Du Select Qualitite | "A new voice in the Ragtime and American Primitive guitar-playing lineage, Blatchley offers a unique interpretation of both new and traditional compositions. Blatchley performs in the band Mountain Home with Marissa Nadler and Greg Weeks of Espers." The series will be released on high quality LP with letterpressed sleeves, each with a picture of the guitar used to record the albums. Track-by-track liner notes will also be included. Edition of 500 copies. |
| 8/8/2002 | Bley, Paul | Ramblin' | LP | $15.99 | Get Back / BYG Actuel | "Avant-garde pianist Paul Bley (recorded here at RCA Studios in Rome on July 1st, 1966) has been able to use melody and space in inventive ways while performing fairly free improvisations. Barry Altschul is spectacular on drums, with effective polyrhythmic support, and bassist Mark Levinson fits perfectly into the mix. 6 tracks. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl." |
| 3/20/2003 | Bley, Paul Quintet | Closer | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "This historic album, originally released on ESP-Disk in 1965 (featuring drummer Barry Altschul and bassist Steve Swallow), is one of Canadian-born pianist Paul Bley's most adventurous albums of the period. Bley helped spearhead the 1960s free jazz movement, standing shoulder to shoulder with men like Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry." |
| 11/2/2008 | Blithe Sons, The | The Great Orthochromatic Wheel | LP | $14.99 | Family Vineyard | "The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly they've remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse ) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canyon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine nature's melodic pull and minimalist songs forms summoned by a miniature orchestra of eclectic instruments. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside. The indoor set consists of slow-motion ballads built on hymn-like organ, nylon string guitar, analog drum machine & stark percussion. The outdoor side offers a web of exotic wind-instruments & battery-powered electronics reverberating in cavernous hall cut in the side of a sea-cliff." Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album. |
| Blodeudd / Gang Wizard | split | 7" | $9.99 | Oggum | Edition of 300 copies with stamped sleeve and painted label. | |
| 11/21/2009 | Blood on Tape / Pet Coffins | split | c38 cassette | $4.99 | Anathema Sound | "This split presents a meeting of two stellar, young ambient projects that deserve your ears. Texas’ Blood on Tape is a duo comprised of Kevin O’Sullivan and David Gonzalez. Inspired by distant and peaceful lands in Bolivia, their composition combines melancholy synths, reverb-drenched guitars, and pastoral field recordings for an experience that coasts gently and sooths unequivocally. Indiana’s Pet Coffins is the solo work of Philip Egierski. His piece begins with jarring, dissonant chimes that eventually give way to a dense and melodic sound world full of whispering acoustic guitar strums and ethereal vocal drones. Both acts iterate that there is mystery in beauty and vice versa. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 75." |
| 5/1/2009 | Blood Sabbath | Blood Sabbath | CDR | $6.99 | Funeral Folk | "20-minute soundtrack edit from this obscure 70s movie about witchcraft. Ritualistic percussion, psych funk and creepy organs. Starring Dyanne Thorne!" |
| 4/16/2007 | Blood Stereo | Enfold The Hiss | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Some more low brow head tangle, this time in a smoky late night vein. Two tape mulch pieces of magnetic creep and two live joints (1 recorded in front of an audience of 6 one summer night in Cambridge. The other to a packed house in Brighton). A nice slow labotomy." |
| 12/10/2004 | Blood Stereo | Hymn for the Crippled Mulato | CDR | $8.99 | Carbon Records | “10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brother's Harley. Kicks ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis].” |
| 2/21/2005 | Blood Stereo | Live at Sonic Protest | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | “Blood Stereo featuring Professor Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and Milche Grand invaded the stage and spat a half-hour of pure sonic bliss. They offered an onslaught of ‘hydrostatic’ sounds that made both my constipation and blood circulation problems avoid the need for any form of homeopathy.” - Hicham Chadly, Blastitude.com. Joined by Milche Grand (Chrome Hoof), this is a mangled/remixed recording of the Blood Stereo show at Sonic Protest Festival in Paris in 2004. |
| 2/21/2005 | Blood Stereo | The Trunk Is Flexed | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | “A late night whiskey jam with brain bent serenades. Nyoukis & Constance joined by Caroline Lewis (PSKB) and southern ladies man Billy Taylor (ex-Melted Men, ex-TL&SiLA).” |
| 3/26/2006 | Blood Stereo / Moysk en Chimyser | split | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Super split. Belgian learning disabilites duo Moysk en Chimyser produce some wondrous low brow scum/shit noise, elbow deep in patch cords and cheap beer. Blood Stereo get all bent out of shape and try to explain the sounds of tape machines dying. This is xerox psychedelia. " |
| 6/5/2005 | Bloodyminded | Gift Givers | CD | $10.99 | BloodLust! | "Gift Givers is the third full-length release from Bloodyminded, and it follows their late-2003 single, 'Mothercare,' and their previous album, 'True Crime' (2002). Moving on from 'crime,' this time the group has placed its focus on numerous other types of obsessive behaviors. A recurring theme, initiated on 'Mothercare' (if not hinted at on their first CD, 'Trophy'), is self-destructive behavior - particular, but certainly not exclusive to - teenage girls. As the album title hints, such dangerous behavior cuts across both sexes and all ages. Gift Givers takes some of its cues from True Crime, such as that album's deep layering of vocals. This time, however, the band takes things a step further by utilizing its international depth - creating a multi-lingual recording with English, French, and Spanish vocals. Hearkening back to Trophy, this album mixes 10 songs in the four- to six-minute range with several of the band's trademark blast songs. An likely unexpected introductory track starts things off, while a middle passage, based on new recordings by special guest Pierpaolo Zoppo (previously of the pioneering Italian project, Mauthausen Orchestra), acts as a curious segue between the central Pro-Ana/Pro-Mia suite. Another special guest, Michael D. Williams (EyeHateGod/Outlaw Order), adds lead vocals to the key track, Ten Suicides, which incorporates a number of true successes and near misses, and which carries the album's prevalent theme/question. Brian Gaynor, who has worked on numerous BloodLust! recording projects, engineered the majority of the recording sessions and the ultramaximized master, and he co-produced the album with Mark Solotroff, at Alien Soundscapes, Inc., Chicago. Additional recording was completed by the band, as well as by Amadou Sall (Collapse/Treponem Pal). Veteran BloodLust! designer and former Bloodyminded member Megan Emish executed the exquisite packaging design." |
| 4/24/2006 | Bloodyminded | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 11/16/2004 | Blossom Toes | If Only For a Moment | CD | $17.99 | Polydor | "Talented, ignored and legendary band's second album (1969, for the Marmelade label) is heavier and more dramatic than their pop/psych debut; lots of crunching guitars and a more power rock approach, but still with the same imagination that sets both of the band's albums apart from most others of the same era; booklet comes with original UK art as well as lyrics." - Lion Productions |
| 11/16/2004 | Blossom Toes | We Are Ever So Clean | CD | $17.99 | Polydor | "Stylish reissue replicates original cover art and includes the lyrics to this top-notch UK psychedelic album, the band's quirky 1967 Marmalade label debut; truly one of the finest stabs at pop/psychedelia produced in the heady era, which is saying quite a lot, since the year belonged to the pop/psych of the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper's; cellos, trumpets, and full-blown orchestra meant the band could not perform this material live, which ultimately left them high and dry despite the legions of devoted listeners which grows with each passing year; and why not? Hard to find many songs from that era catchier than 'Telegram Tuesday'." - Lion Productions |
| 3/21/2009 | Blown Doors | Crystal Myths / Crystal Paths | cassette | $4.99 | 905 Tapes | "Third 905 effort to date. recorded a month ago while rains came down outside. walls melted and all the paint was lead. connolly's strings and effects played his fingers and vocal chords while haley 360'd the synths and delay. got diseased and mutated into moisture." Edition of 33. |
| 9/30/2008 | Blown Doors | Drug Punishment | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Sean and i lived together for a year, and within that time we recorded exactly zero seconds of blown doors material. maybe it was the cramped, suburban townhousery that kept the jams contained, that I don't know. either way, now that we are separated by a few miles the tones are blooming. the latest is this barn burner, a 92 minute cassette loaded from start to finish with heaps of static infused scorchers. recorded direct to tape in two back to back sessions. punishment. mics, electronics, and cell phones." |
| 4/24/2006 | Blue Collar | Lovely Hazel | CD | $12.99 | Public Eyesore | "Blue Collar is experimental jazz power trio. Wooley teams up with two of the finest musicians to be found in any style - the peerless trombonist Steve Swell and Tatsuya Nakatani, a dazzlingly innovative percussionist - and the result is smart and winsome chaos. Here, Wooley's expanding quiver of sounds is profoundly multiplied by those of his veteran comrades. Lovely Hazel seems almost easy listening after Wooley's solo disc, but a similar caveat applies: it's not for the sweet of tooth. You won't encounter anything further from top 40 pop, or more rewarding to your patience." - Ty Cumbie |
| 5/20/2009 | Blue Sabbath Black Cheer | DDTTNB | one-sided 12" | $21.99 | Anarchymoon Recordings | "Blue Sabbath Black Cheer tear us a new one on their latest slab of sublime filth "DDTTNB" (Destructively Dedicated to the New Blockaders). This surly one-sided 12" delivers 15 minutes of unyielding harsh beauty, using amplified cement mixers as well as source material from the New Blockaders' Rupenus brothers, roiling and thrashing about within BSBC's trademark "dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise" sound machine. Released in an edition of 200, this deluxe package includes 2-tone screen-print covers by the inimitable Seizure Palace, with the record screen-printed on the blank side. Get them before they get you." |
| 8/24/2009 | Blue Sabbath Black Cheer | Dead Death, Death Dead | LP | $15.99 | Gnarled Forest / Troubleman | "Side A features 2 live tracks originally released on the "Dead" c20 on Scumbag Tapes, a live version of 'Borre Fen' recorded at the Baltic Room in Seattle Washington on September 26th, 2006 & 'Black Acid' recorded live at the Funhouse in Seattle Washington on October 22nd, 2006. Side B features 'Victim' recorded live at the Rebar in Seattle Washington on December 23rd, 2006, originally released on the "Feral Debris Vol. 2" CDr compilation + zine & a previously unreleased track recorded and mixed back in 2007. Black vinyl, black hand stamped labels, comes housed in a pro-printed jacket with a gruesome spot varnished photograph by Stan Reed on the front. Includes an 11x11" insert." Edition of 500 copies. |
| 12/13/2008 | Blue Sabbath Black Cheer | The Endless Blockade | LP | $15.99 | Gnarled Forest | "This new BSBC LP reissues 3 tracks from some older out of print BSBC Gnarled Forest cassette releases, "The Sense of Violence", "Funeral Rehersal" & "The Endless Blockade". Raw, black and nasty crunch presented to you in it's proper fomat. Features Geoff Walker of Gravitar and John Lukeman of Drowner. Cover art by Crystal Perez. A side plays at 33rpm, B side at 45rpm. Edition of 400 copies on Black Vinyl." |
| 6/3/2009 | Blue Sabbath Black Cheer / Dried Up Corpse | split | 10" | $11.99 | Gnarled Forest | "Originally released as a c16 on What We Do Is Secret in an edition of 50 copies. Two bleak and desolate trips to despairsville are what await you here, BSBC take a more minimulist approach to horror than the usual roar, sure to make you a bit uneasy as your led into the fog. DUC ride a slow drone of death into the winds of the end. Comes housed in a screen printed jacket, front and back, with a double sided insert." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 1/24/2009 | Blue Sabbath Black Fiji | Splash | cassette | $6.99 | Oms-b | "The guitar duo from Paris (now relocated in Glasgow) present 30 minutes of noise and beats. a great cassette for after all the harsh noise girls and guys have played their sets and no one wants to go home." Edition of 40 copies. |
| 4/10/2009 | Blue Sabbath Black Fiji | Stamini Stamina | cassette | $7.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "French duo of Charles and Janin, totally wild I don't really know what to say about it... crazy jams and total insanity, i'm not sure these guys sound like anyone else right now... like some kinda kraut noise destruction... Limited to 100." |
| 3/5/2009 | Blue Sabbath Black Fiji / Ajilvsga | split | cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "It's 4 am, it's time to sober up and there's no black coffee to be found. cold shower? not an option either. so what's left? blue sabbath black fiji and their mind-warp shotgun electronics and percussive blasts. your girlfriend might be passed out on some other dude's house, but don't worry about it, this mix of raging electronics, sludge guitars and soft, sweet crooning will make it all okay. ajilvsga? we'll keep drinking blackened mud until the cows come home. limited to 85 copies, handstamped zoo-in-suits theme." |
| 12/12/2009 | Blue Tree, The | The Blue Tree | CDR | $8.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Debut release for this collaborative project between Andrew Paine (frequent Richard Youngs collaborator, and Sonic Oyster head honcho) and Matthew Shaw (the man behind Apollolaan Records). Six tracks of experimental excursions into far off plains of weird-ed out crisp autumnal psyche, blending piano, guitar, distroted vocals, earthy drones and much more. Limited to 100 copies in digipak with professionally printed full colour stickers on the front and back of photographs of The Blue Tree." |
| 3/3/2002 | Blue, Jerry | Flowers of Urban Decay | CD | $10.99 | Shudder, zoom, stopf, click freezing frozen Tim(e) like a paint smallbrushstrok. condensd spare squace ni mouvmountain near 'ounds. Look, knot meat it at. Tory(s) for brainsml brainthnk write bak atya relate/shun. Instruments played on this recording are guitar: acoustic/electric (prepared and otherwise), flute, dulcimer, field recordings, loops, bass, some percussion, glass, etc. Please visit www.jerryblue.org for more info. | |
| 6/19/2007 | Blues Control | Blues Control | CD | $13.99 | Holy Mountain | "As you may or may not know, it can sometimes get pretty hairy working at a record store when some smelly, denim-clad dude walks in asking for the blues. If you're lucky, he's at least wearing a belt when you point him over to the records that are now relegated to an open spot on the floor. That's just one scenario; who doesn't love those other blues fondly recalled with names like Blues Addicts and Blues Creation? And let's not forget that other queen of the blues -- Barbara from Just Farr a Laugh. Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and legendary experimentalist Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts (think Harold Budd), through which guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse cuts, whittles and lays to waste. It's a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian -- and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, I gotta mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album." |
| 8/28/2007 | Blues Control | Blues Control | LP | $14.99 | Holy Mountain | "As you may or may not know, it can sometimes get pretty hairy being in a record store when some smelly denim clad-dude walks in asking for the blues. If you're lucky he's wearing a belt when you point him over to the records that are now relegated to an open spot on the floor. That's just one scenario because who doesn't love those other blues that are fondly recalled with names like Blues Addicts and Blues Creation. And let's not forget that other queen of the blues-Barbara from "Just Farr a Laugh." Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts [think Harold Budd] for guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse to cut through, whittle and lay waste to. It's a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, a lazy stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian-and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, did I mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album? So is there a blues angle to it? Yeah, but you've got to bury yourself in it or dig your way in. Come out stinking if you want." |
| 8/8/2009 | Blues Control | Local Flavor | CD | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Local Flavor is the fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space, Local Flavor is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track "Good Morning" is practically a sideways step into boogie rock (horn accompaniment provided by none other than Jesse Trbovich and Kurt Vile); with the proper seismic shift, it could almost be heard as an alternate reality take on "Re-make/Re-model." It's easily the band's longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette, and, man, them boots leave a bruise! The remaining three tracks morph and ebb harmoniously-in true Blues Control fashion-the timbre occasionally elegiac, yet more often riffing on a plane that has yet to be transcribed." |
| 8/8/2009 | Blues Control | Local Flavor | LP | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Local Flavor is the fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space, Local Flavor is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track "Good Morning" is practically a sideways step into boogie rock (horn accompaniment provided by none other than Jesse Trbovich and Kurt Vile); with the proper seismic shift, it could almost be heard as an alternate reality take on "Re-make/Re-model." It's easily the band's longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette, and, man, them boots leave a bruise! The remaining three tracks morph and ebb harmoniously-in true Blues Control fashion-the timbre occasionally elegiac, yet more often riffing on a plane that has yet to be transcribed." |
| 4/10/2009 | Bo Knows / Katchmare | split | cassette | $5.99 | Scissor Death | "Two of Normal, Illinois' strangest bands thwart expectations on this limited cassette. Bo Knows with guitar and drums, Katchmare with an overdriven computer." |
| 5/19/2004 | Boca Raton | Mansdoof | CDR | $9.99 | absurd | “Here comes another great surprise from absurd's vaults. Being delayed for lots of reasons (financial being the most important of all) for sometime during which it was totally reworked & remixed 'mansdoof' stands for me as a great documentation of the Dutch electroacoustic network that I've came across the last few years. For those unfamiliar with the project, Boca Raton is the vehicle of Martijn Tellinga (the person behind the dutch 'mixer' label) who offers us here 10 pieces (or 1 piece divided in 10 tracks if you wish) of an adventurous electroacoustic nature that will definitely appeal to all those who seek obscure creative soundscapes to stimulate their bodyand mind.” Edition of 131 copies. |
| 8/8/2009 | Boduf Songs | Inviolate Projection, Blood From Rome (Blankets) | 10" | $16.99 | Bluesanct | "Bluesanct announces the fourth release in our art vinyl series will be Boduf Songs. Like it's predecessors, this will be a beautiful single, with an exclusive recording on one side, and a screenprinted image of the song on the other side, housed with a letterpressed sleeve. Boduf Songs is primarily the work of Mat Sweet, minstrels of misery from the United Kingdom. They have released three incredible albums on Kranky Records, as well a devastating EP on Southern Records as part of their special Latitudes series. Mat gave us an exclusive 12 minute epic entitled 'Inviolate Projection, Blood From Rome (Blankets)' which not only gives us the drones and hushed guitar they are known for, but also ventures into their (partially) suppressed doom underpinnings. The record is accompanied by gorgeous specially commissioned artwork by Norwegian artist, Johannes Hoie, whose apocalyptic scenes perfectly embody the yearning for the black sun that is Boduf Songs." |
| 5/9/2009 | Body Morph | Negative Face | c30 cassette | $6.99 | Arbor | "Dan Dlugosielski (of Uneven Universe, Mossy Throats, etc) has kept his Body Morph project relatively wrapped up until recently with only a few limited releases on his own Excitebike as well as stellar appearances American Tapes and Gods of Tundra. Body Morph finds Dan at his simplest; a minimal take on strange-fidelity. Smooth saxophone waves wash over a dense bed of electronic warmth, mirroring the ambience of the ocean. Sonic contortions from a willing pallet; a fresh sense of control. In an edition of 100 tapes with textured cardstock covers and printed labels." |
| 6/11/2006 | Bodyvehicle | Amplified Voices of Crystals | cassette | $7.99 | Tone Filth | "Rencently I recieved a package from Russia neatly wrapped in twine with just a single CDr inside marked "BODYVEHICLE". Here are the best moments, "Amplified Voices of Crystals". Very Kosugi / Taj Mahal Travellers - esque. Edition of 100 with hand screened cases, inserts, and tapes. |
| 5/14/2007 | Bogan Dust | Tonight I Present My Back To The Future | cassette | $7.99 | Spanish Magic | "This is a document. Two collaborative sets recorded live @ Yvonne Ruvé in late 2005. The first set includes a performance by Jim Currin (Ray Off), Jon Chapman (ex-Double Leopard) and Eamon Sprod (Tarab). Side two features the same three musicians with the addition of 5 members from Castings. - SUPER LIMITED." |
| 11/21/2009 | Bohren and Der Club | Mitleid Lady | LP | $15.99 | Latitudes | "There is no documentation as to how MORTEN GASS, THORSTEN BENNING, ROBIN RODENBERG (and also REINER in the beginning) left Mülheim an der Ruhr, why they buried their own past as the legendary hardcore act 7 INCH BOOTS, and began to explore the unparalleled boundaries of time and endless darkness. Perhaps they met one night, in the shade of trees, under the light of the darkest moon as a rising storm's wind carried the sound of howling wolves and ravens flying into the night. This is the twilight zone of the BOHREN mystery, where inconclusive evidence and hearsay only strengthens the power of their dark secret. The artwork for each one of our Latitude releases will be specifically embellished by the band. Cult designer Stephen O'Malley has provided us with a wonderful template for the series - think smoky wavy cloud scapes and creatures of apocrypha. On top of this visceral odyssey of a cardboard CD casing, we ask our bands to design an artisan sleeve motif and insert, bearing the details of the session and a photograph either from the tour or session which best symbolises the spirit in which the session was recorded. Six parts doom, four parts jazz-balladry - Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore return with this ten minute soundtrack to an unmade existential chiller. The band formed in 1988, Mitleid Lady is their ninth release and their first since 2005's Geisterfaust. Limited edition and it will not be repressed." |
| 5/20/2009 | Bones of Seabirds | Sacrament | CDR | $6.99 | Small Doses | "Considering that this is the first release from Ryan McGill's Bones of Seabirds, the level of craft and maturity is astounding. Rich and densly textured, improvised drones unfold over 8 tracks in 49 minutes. For fans of older Sunn0))) material and Birchville Cat Motel. Edition of 138 numbered copies in a folded cardstock cover with hand cut vellum overlay and insert." |
| 5/20/2009 | Bones of Seabirds | Subterranean Lightsource | CDR | $6.99 | Small Doses | "It seems that ryan mcgill is completey unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed. packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies." |
| 1/30/2010 | Bong | Gilgamesh Lives | CD | $14.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Amazing new live jams from Newcastle's BONG. Two long tracks of stoned slow motion drums, guitar, bass and sitar... This is a great follow up to their previous split LP we put out earlier in the year, edition of 1000 copies is bleak pro-printed card sleeve with cover artwork by Chris from Gnod and back artwork by the band." |
| 5/31/2009 | Bong / Quittinirpaaq | split | LP | $17.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Bong are Newcastle's finest doom stoner band, as you'd expect you got distant vocals, totally wild psych guitar, heavy solid drums, but the thing with Bong that gives them a totally different vibe from all the weak band is they got a damn sitar in there, and it sounds so damn killer. On the flip we got a slice of Quttinirpaaq, we released a CDR by this dude last year to some damn good reviews, its hard to understand how so few people know this dude. It's basically the one man band of Texan Matt Turner who definitely doesn't bust out the Texas blues or country styles... this isn't no straight up doom though, opening with totally weirdo keys and feedback, with what sounds like some droning vocals and bizarre clicks, this is pretty out there. That is until three minutes in when Matt plugs in and then trashes a drum kit, whilst all this other crazy shit is going on. This is a fucking killer act, as far as I am concerned this is genius, not like any other drone doom vibes going on out there right now. Limited to 300 copies." |
| 4/22/2009 | Bongo | Live at Sleazy's | CDR | $7.99 | Future Sound | "All star cast featuring members of real estate, ducktails, julian lynch, brittany botz, miami heat, cave of time, lese majesty, paperface, etc. Sleazy's Mom thought we were ripping off Yoko Ono" |
| 11/4/2006 | Bonus | On Earth | CD | $12.99 | Root Strata | "On Earth , is the first studio document created by the group, recorded with Marcelo Spinna at the Space in May 2006 with production assistance from Pete Swanson (D. YELLOW SWANS). While previous CD-R releases were entirely improvised, On Earth is comprised of three untitled pieces composed by the group with elements of restrained improvisation. Musically, each piece has a specific concern, ranging from extremely subtle microtonal shifts to distorted crashes of intervals against one another. On Earth captures the reductive BONUS sound with all the sustained tones and sparkling textures, but with a more focused and succinct delivery." Edition of 500 copies. |
| 4/10/2009 | Bonus Beast | #1 | cassette | $4.99 | High Density Headache | "Turns out this is one of the guys (or more) who was in Big Nurse which i guess is now broke up, i saw them play a pretty good set here in western mass at mystery train records. This tape shares sentiments with the now defunct BN but takes a different route. Definitely a home-recorded affair, awkward mixing choices, overdriven signals, lost moments, zero engineering and tape hiss are all worn proudly on the sleeve, and i think to their benefit. While it does have a feel to it that it's thrown together at parts it still reveals awesome moments of guitar damage and wiggly drums all woven together, though not without the corresponding moments of clean guitar wires woven through clattering drums. It definitely feels like these guys know how to play underneath the mush and smoosh of their blownout recordings, it's nice they leave it as a suggestion and don't focus too much on showmanship. The second side has a slight detour into sliding, glazed fields of slowed down tapes, loops and a really nice patterned keyboard that repeats until heading back into the guitar/drum duo where more of their skill sets are revealed definitely suggesting some sort of guitar scales and jazz inflections underneath a wall of spaced out jitters and noisy critters." - cassettegods.blogspot.com/2008/11/bonus-beast-1-c30-high-density-headache.html |
| 4/10/2009 | Bonus Beast | Set Your Hair On Fire | cassette | $5.99 | Serious Hype | Most recent recordings featuring Ryan King who played in Big Nurse. First release on Ryan's new label. |
| 1/1/2009 | Book of Am | Book of Am | double lp box | $199.99 | Wah-Wah Records | "We are proud to announce the reissue of the legendary Book Of Am, a unique combination of recordings and artwork which stands up as an enduring testament of the fertile hippie scene which flourished in the Baleric islands during the seventies. Known to record collectors and psych/folk/prog music aficionados alike, this multicultural band formed in the island of Mallorca in the mid 70's, where they recorded a beautiful (and outrageously scarce) album which has gained cult status as years passed by. The Book Of Am was originally devised as a beautifully illustrated book that would focus on various world folklore and traditions, coupled with four LP's which would represent a musical version of the four phases of day (Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Night). Only the first of these records (Morning) would eventually see the light of day in a tiny private pressing, which changes hands nowadays for obscene amounts of money. The centerpiece of this elaborate box set is a 112-page book that reproduces the original engravings of band-leader Juan Arkotxa-never released back in the day due to it's high production costs-including 64 engravings in full-color. This, the central part of the Book Of Am, has finally seen the light of day: it is a round-the-world trip through the folklore, legends, lore and cosmogonies of some of the world's cultures, from ancient Egypt to Celtic traditions. Alongside the actual Book Of Am, comes the first-ever reissue of the Morning LP, as well as the previously released Part II of the Book Of Am, which leader Arkotxa recently re-mastered from the original tapes. Stricltly limited edition-500 LP sets and 500 CD sets were pressed, all of which were pre-sold for months before this project was complete, and virtually all of which are already sold, and gone forever. IMPORTANT NOTE: every single copy of this elaborate box set seems to have sustained corner damage at some stage of its journey from printer to pressing plant to Wah-Wah to distributors." One copy available. |
| 10/31/2009 | Book Of Am, The | The Book Of Am Part 1 & 2 | double SHM-CD with Book | $124.99 | Belle Antique | "Outrageous reissue with 2 Super High Material audio CDs (playable on any CD player) housed in a mini-LP style gatefold sleeve accompanying a 140-page book." - FE. "A unique combination of recordings and artwork which stands up as an enduring testament of the fertile hippie scene which flourished in the Baleric islands during the seventies. Known to record collectors and psych/folk/prog music aficionados alike, this multicultural band formed in the island of Mallorca in the mid-'70s and recorded a beautiful (and outrageously scarce) album which has gained cult status as years passed by. The Book Of Am was originally devised as a beautifully illustrated book focused on various world folklore and traditions, coupled with 4 LPs which would represent a musical. This (never completed) 4LP set would correspond to the four phases of day (Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Night). Only the first of these records (Morning) would eventually see the light of day in a tiny private pressing which changes hands nowadays for obscene amounts of money. A round-the-world trip through the folklore, legends, lore and cosmogonies of some of the world's cultures, from ancient Egypt to Celtic traditions." |
| 4/5/2008 | Book Of Shadows | The Cosmic Doctrine | CDR | $11.99 | Ruralfaune | "Beautiful and meditative journey through an unknown galaxy of magical practices and new philosophies. Start your initiation to the rituals of a new age. BOS is from Austin, Tx, they have upcoming releases on Ikuisuus and MYMWLY. Oversized Sleeve 20X14cm (7,87"x5,5")." Limited edition of 64 copies. |
| 2/12/2008 | Bookstaber, Rafi | Easy Harmony | cassette | $8.99 | Azriel | "Sun light gold blues. hand painted and lettered covers. numbered edition of 76." From Death Chants' Rafi - nice. |
| 9/17/2006 | Boots / C.C. / Snake & Remus | Box | 3xLP | $35.99 | HP Cycle | "These three LPs were originally privately pressed by the artist(s) in minuscule editions sometime in this new century. It appears that very few copies were circulated outside a close circle of acquaintances and it was only by chance/luck that they found their way to us. Each LP contained no information whatsoever, the only hint was the name stamped on the plain white jacket. Clouding matters even further was the fact that each of the three albums bore a different moniker. Musically the LPs share a consistent solitary vision, one that treads an inward-looking path that leads to far-reaching psychedelic excursions. "Boots" is a prime example of the range of these albums. Side one features five tracks of acoustic guitar and raw vocal accompaniment heavy on the loner vibes. The flip changes directions entirely, offering a wild ride of percussion and electronics. Likewise, "C.C - Live at Rainbows End" follows a similar course, although the mood is somewhat less solemn (though no less introspective) on the tracks featuring voice and guitar. The counterpoint here is the near side-long track of barely audible field recordings from an unrecognizable location. "Snake & Remus - No Tape Outside" is a continuation of sound and thought. Interchangeably piano, electronics and percussion supplement the songwriter, adding a haunting layer to the already subdued mood. The final side contains instrumental passages of processed guitar strum that weave delicate waves. The LPs are presented in a box, its own cryptic coffin perhaps, with individual stamped jackets consistent with the original LPs. As it says, "It's just a box man"." |
| 12/1/2004 | Borbetomagus | Coelacanth | 7" | $6.99 | Butt Rag | Last copies of this out of print 7" featuring 1992 and 1993 recordings featuring the trio of Don Dietrich (saxophones), Jim Sauter (saxophones), and Donald Miller (electric guitar). |
| 1/27/2004 | Borbetomagus | Live In Tokyo | CD | $21.99 | Alchemy | Recorded at La Mama on June 16, 1996 and features the 43+ minute track Pachinko Cadaver! |
| Borbetomagus | Live At Inroads | CD | $15.99 | PSF | Reissue of cassette recorded live 11.27.82 featuring Jim Sauter (sax), Don Dietrich (sax), Brian Doherty (live electronics) and Donald Miller (guitar). | |
| 11/5/2003 | Borbetomagus / Voice Crack | Fish That Sparkling Bubble | CD | $15.99 | Agaric | "Reissue of the group's first recordings with the legendary Swiss duo of Moslang & Guhl (aka Voice Crack), on ‘cracked everyday electronics’. Adam Nodelman plays bass to give Borbeto the full quartet sound." - FE |
| 10/31/2009 | Boredoms | Super Roots 10 | double 12" | $15.99 | Thrill Jockey | "Long regarded as musical pioneers, Boredoms have continually pushed sonic boundaries and inspired musicians for over 20 years. Their albums and their performances defy categorization, each one a completely unique event. After only being released on CD in Japan, Thrill Jockey is proud to bring Super Roots 10 to the US. The album is only available as a limited 2 x 12” release. The album is produced by EYE and all the artwork was created and designed by EYE as well. Super Roots 10 features a remix from Norwegian artist Lindstrøm who has released music on the label Smalltown Supersound and has also done remixes for Franz Ferdinand, LCD Soundsystem, and The Juan McClean. Also featured is a remix from Japanese artist Altz who has recorded albums for Bear Funk and Jet Set Records Japan and previously done remixes for the Boredoms in addition to Tal M. Klein, Cro-Magnon, and Harp On Mouth Sextet. This 2x12” is pressed on two high quality virgin vinyl LPs at RTI and is cut at 45 rpm for maximum fidelity. Includes a 24”x 24” full-color poster of artwork from EYE. Super Roots 10 is limited to 2,000 copies." |
| 2/21/2009 | Borgmann, Thomas / Wilber Morris / Reggie Nicholson | Live At Tunnel | LP | $21.99 | QBICO | "Thomas Borgmann (tenor and soprano sax, ocarina), Wilber Morris (bass), Reggie Nicholson, (drums). "Only available recording of a kind of historic festival that EP and Laura Moja organized in Milan in 2000. other sets were Sunny Murray/Arthur Doyle, Mego night with Rehberg & Bauer, Peter Kowald/Daunik Lazro, Frank Perry solo, the music of Conrad Schnitzler, Han Bennink solo, John Butcher/Phil Durrant. It's a live set full of passion and warmth, in total contrast with the cold cover. This trio evolve from the original one of Borgmann/Morris/Dennis Charles (which I had the pleasure to see and invite in 1998). Reggie Nicholson took jazz's chair after his premature passing. Dedicated to you, Wilber." |
| 5/8/2005 | Boris | Akuma No Uta | CD | $15.99 | Southern Lord | “Boris adds a unique 'experimentalist' ambience to all they touch. Which perfectly explains their involvement and collaboration with such cult-experimental artists like: Merzbow, and Keiji Haino. Every release from this group is different, colossal in its own right. Boris also incorporate elements drawn from other sources, including psychedelic rock, garage rock, metal, noise, minimalism, and pure sludge-drone. Akuma No Uta is now available in the USA for the very first time with a cover that perfectly re-creates Nick Drake's Bryter Layter." Akuma No Uta is a 39 minute, six song album that offers up a variety of styles from past Boris albums, drawing from the heavier-than-thou rumble of Absolutego and Amplifier Worship to the exquisite beauty of Flood, and the sheer jams-out-kickin' of Heavy Rocks." - Aquarius |
| 9/29/2009 | Boris | Japanese Heavy Rock Hits 1 - "8" | 7" | $5.99 | Southern Lord | "For over 15 years Boris has lead the charge as Japan's most exciting experimental rock act. This fall marks yet another first for the band as they release Japanese Heavy Rock Hits, a series of 7"s showcasing their wide-reaching, genre-smashing sound. The band has been locked in the studio over last few months and in association with Southern Lord they are ready to bring to you their latest offerings. Over the course of the next 3 months 3 brand new exclusive vinyl 7"s will be released. The first 7", Volume One, "8", features two newly recorded tracks. On SideA, the title track "8" continues the spacey hard-rock sound established on their classic albums Pink and Smile, building from a mono, lo-fi wall of feedback into a ripping, slab of lush vocals, crunchy guitar and thunderous drums. Things get switched up on Side B with "Hey Everyone", a chewy bit of power-pop bubblegum that sees the band mining a much lighter source for their sound. It's a reminder that the most daring thing this band can do is record something so straight-forward it could easily be misconstrued as "alt-pop". Dont fret its still got a dark core and is unmistakably Boris! Gorgeous tip-on, heavy-weight cardboard jacket designed by Stephen O'Malley." |
| 11/21/2009 | Boris | Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Volume 3 | 7" | $5.99 | Southern Lord | "The third and final chapter in BORIS’ Japanese Heavy Rock Hits series features two newly recorded tracks. The A-Side track is an exercise in beautiful simplicity, a downtempo mix of dulcet guitars and steady snare and hi-hat beats featuring guitarist WATA’s sugary-sweet vocals. The flip is a slow droning number that is a spiritual cousin to classic Boris tracks like “Farewell” and “Fuzzy Reactor.” |
| 8/22/2008 | Boris | Smile | DBL LP | $22.99 | Southern Lord | "Upon reflection of the aftermath of releasing their most successful album to date-Pink-Boris has found the desire to create sounds that are a wider extension of just simply music. They are searching for sounds that are also an extension of life and the many experiences they've had since Pink's release two years ago. Drawing on hair metal, Japanese cartoon songs, and 1980s Japanese pop singers to help shape their new direction, the band delivers another evolutionary step in their broad based sound. Blistering psychedelia, mammoth hooks, innovative songwriting and a reinvention of dark heaviness all get their due. Features guest appearances from STEPHEN O'MALLEY and MICHIO KURIHARA. Vinyl version features two bonus track, plus extended versions and different mixes of songs than were on the CD. Packaged in gatefold jackets with metallic, matte silver foil." |
| 1/1/2008 | Boris Morgana | Im Plodoovosch | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Free psych / improv - weird primal vocals, high-wire drones, free-falling drums, feedback, dense electronics" Boa Melody Bar |
| 2/14/2008 | Boris Morgana | Liquid Child | LP | $24.99 | QBICO | Recorded early 2006 in Pakkala, Finland. Robin Ellis, Juho Hotanen, Juuso Paaso, Taneli Tuominen, Jukka Vallisto and Hermanni Yli-Tepsa. "When I went in Finland for the first Qbico u-nite in Turku, I met Taneli (sax player) who gave me this strong recording of his group Boris Morgana... after hearing a few seconds of it, I immediately thought that it alone was worth the trip up North: heavy stuff and pretty unique in its kind!" Pressed on chocolate brown vinyl. |
| 10/25/2008 | Boris Morgana | Rotti Frutti | CDR | $8.99 | Ikuisuus | "I gave a kiss to a giant leech. It sucked me in. With a little effort, I wriggled to its opposite end and out into a different world, but I can't say how it differed from the one before. Likewise, all the atoms and other bits of matter that pass through us - that we swallow and transform - bear more or less fresh fruit, as they are reborn through us. Boris Morgana's Rotti Frutti is not just an oral delight, it's aimed at the whole organism. It percolates, hisses, comes and goes: gently as well. Furtively it infiltrates the brain through the ears and causes reactions. And maybe these inner oscillations move on to the hands, feet and other organs: maybe they carry the germ of a wholly new fruit. When it comes about, it's too late: everything has changed and one can't but accept it - allow the rotten fruit to issue forth." |
| 6/11/2006 | Boris Morgana / Hetero Skeleton | split | cassette | $9.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Two sides of Northern drunken reindeer swings balancing between controlled breathing and total insanity. Boris Morgana get some vibrant explorations of the inner and outer musical sides going, expanding their minds on a steady diet of outsider free/jazz/folk/improv/psych jams. The B-side melts in a smoke of deranged riffs and blackened buzz of oozing turntables by the madmen of Hetero Skeleton. This tape even has two covers, each designed by a band and glued on a painted homemade cardboard box. 100 sticky copies." |
| 4/19/2004 | Born Heller | Born Heller | CD | $12.99 | Locust | Josephine Foster: (harp, mandolin, guitar); Jason Ajemian: (stand up bass). "Born Heller are the earthen folk duo of Josephine Foster (Children's Hour) & Jason Ajemian and one of the better kept secrets to emerge out of Chicago's clandestine campfires and music dens. Their sound captures an Appalachian- transatlantic folk tradition so effortlessly that if it didn't already exist, they would have had to invent it themselves. Foster's spine tingling vocal delivery has been rightly compared to the likes of British folk legend and current hipster fave, Shirley Collins. On their debut, that voice is finally given full justice by the spare rhythmic arrangements of Ajemian on strings. Recorded by Paul Oldham in Louisville Kentucky." |
| 2/10/2004 | Boy Dirt Car | Winter / F/i Split | CD | $12.99 | Lexicon Devil | "Milwaukee's Boy Dirt Car were their good city's preeminent punk-noise-industrial outfit who roamed the state and country from roughly 1981 'til 1989. Formed by the disgruntled duo of Eric Lunde and Darren Brown after being inspired by a local cacophonous Glen Branca gig, they decided to gather a group of fellow miscreants from the Milwaukee punk scene with a mission to create a truly inspired, ungodly, riot-inducing racket. Roping in, amongst others, Dan Kubinski and Keith Brammer from local hardcore kings, Die Kreuzen (whose Touch & Go albums are some of the finest albums of their time), they formed Boy Dirt Car. With a sound approximating some sort of bizarre stew of Throbbing Gristle, early Sonic Youth, Birthday Party, AMM and Einsterzunde Neubauten, they set about documenting themselves through a slew of self-released cassettes. Playing the circuit with everyone from Fred Frith to Flipper to Shockabilly to Screamin' Jay Hawkins(!), BDC caught the ear of noise aficionado, Ron Lessard, of the famed RRR label out of Massachusetts, who released the 1986 split LP with fellow Milwaukee space-rockers, F/i. Winning praise from the hipsters and running through a few pressings for its troubles, the band went and did it again in 1987 with their debut full-length, Winter. Both have these have been out of print for almost 15 years and never been given the CD treatment, until now. So why bother with Boy Dirt Car? For the simple reason that they are one of the great missing links in '80s US punk-noise underground culture. Listening to the CD is like revisiting a time in history that really drew a line in the sand: are you with us or not? It was a time when 'getting in the van' was all a 'challenging band' could do to survive; a time when Whitehouse and Black Flag were one and the same; a time when 'industrial' meant more than some New Romantic reject churning out z-grade speed-metal riffs with a drum machine. It's all part of a link to a puzzle, and Boy Dirt Car, as obscure as they may seem, were truly one of those great links that need reinvestigating." |
| 12/19/2002 | Boykins, Ronnie | The Will Come, Is Now | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "Bassist Ronnie Boykins is perhaps best known for his work in Sun Ra's Arkestra, of which he was an intrinsic member for nearly a decade. His inimitable bass style can be heard on all of Ra's most significant recordings, and Ra had a difficult time finding someone to fill Boykins' shoes when he left the Arkestra in 1966. His 1975 self-titled release, featuring all original material, is from his post Ra period and represents one of the last great releases in the ESP-Disk catalogue. Featuring Joe Ferguson on tenor sax and flute, Monty Waters and James Vass on alto and soprano sax, Daoud Haroom on trombone, and Art Lewisand George Avaloz on percussion. Also includes various bells and hand shaken instruments played by all musicians." |
| 1/13/2004 | Bradley, Julian | Ditch Us In The Doorway | CDR | $15.99 | Audiobot | “Next to his activities with the Vibracathedral Orchestra, Julian Bradley has been recording and putting out his solo works for years now. ‘A companion as glamorous as sleeping on wheels’ compiles the best from his self released tapes from '97-'00. Primitive strings, keyboards and tapes are taken to its most glamorous. The cd comes in a smartly packaged silkscreened artwork (7” single size).” Great looking packaging! This release is also known as Ditch Us In The Doorway. Out of print – last copies available here. |
| 2/23/2004 | Bradley, Julian | Heel Intercom | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "All new solo recordings from Julian Bradley of Vibracathedral Orchestra.. 30+ minutes of late night electric-tape loop whatsist? A subtle brain massage with hidden huh?!" |
| 10/17/2009 | Bradley, Mark | Eternal | CDR | $9.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "New CDR from this American experimentalist who's had previous releases on Reverb Worship and Basses Frequences. Six tracks across only 19 minutes, totally far out dream tone keys blending into one another pushing you into an almost nightmarish state of mind. Eternal could almost work as a 70s Italian horror soundtrack with its minimal blurred humming almost reminiscent of some kind of devil organ. Limited to 100 copies. Pro-manufactured CDRs with on disc print." |
| 3/2/2005 | Brainstorm | Smile a While | LP | $18.99 | Think Progressive | “First out in 1972, this is the debut album by a German band sometimes compared to Soft Machine or Caravan, with a dynamic, complex sound, unusual harmonies, and prominent use of flute and distorted organ. Gatefold sleeve, original artwork, 180 gram vinyl, German import.” |
| Brandal, Andreas | Better Than Casters | 7" | $4.99 | Polytone | Minimal drones via organ, bass, electronics, tapes, voices, & microphone manipulations | |
| 11/21/2009 | Brandal, Andreas | Jernvognen | CDR | $7.99 | Tape Drift | "Established sound artist and drone/noise musician Andreas Brandal graces us with this release from deep in the heart of Norway. Dark and ominous, with deep doom-laden bass tones, powerful drones, and beautiful hints of noise lurking in every corner. Inspired by an old Norwegian crime/ghost story (translated to the "The Iron Wagon"), Brandal's command here is staggering, displaying a control over each sound, and wrapping it all up with an organic feel and sustained attention to compositional dynamics throughout. The immersive sounds are at turns soothing, frightening and probing, suggesting a journey into the abyss, but guided by the confident hands of a sheer master." |
| 11/21/2009 | Brandal, Andreas | Liber Null | c29 cassette | $4.99 | Anathema Sound | "Norway’s twilight traveler Andreas Brandal is a sound craftsman of the highest order, using anything and everything as his source material. Liber Null is his harrowing descent into total aural blackness inspired by occult rituals and chaos magic. Creaks of old furniture, hum of the wilderness, static from old cassettes—all of it is buried deep within a bubbling sonic stew that boils over with the slow burn of synth, guitar, and some of the most menacing trumpet drones you’ll ever hear. Listen close and repeatedly, if you dare, as bleak, new flourishes continue reveal themselves and the ancient spirits threaten to take you down even further. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 60." |
| 1/26/2002 | Brandsdal, Kjetil D. | untitled | LP | $14.99 | Ecstatic Peace | "This is a deluxe thick gatefold sleeve, heavy vinyl pressing of the mysterious Norwegian (other releases on Corpus Hermeticum and Swill.) This is an intense yet low key, quite mesmerizing piece of guitar/turntable/electronic goodness." Edition of 400 copies. |
| Brandsdal, Kjetil D. / Fibo-Trespo | split | 7" EP | $8.99 | MykeDroner | "Introspective and deep guitar drones from the Norwegian underground" | |
| 7/30/2006 | Brasil and the Gallowbrothers Band | Legionowo | CD | $12.99 | Monotype | "Legionowo is an postindustrial soap opera which libretto is written by the housewife's longing to eldorado from TV, the fear of leaving their poky rooms, as well as mumbling of their husbands when sipping beer. Despite of it they still believe that is all right, safely and it has never been better than now. The album praises the warm slowly beating heart of the town as well as its gray, rough and squalid crust. The town perceived as dormitory. Oh, it would be fantastic to sleep through whole life, not to attract anybody's attention - lover's, boss's, terrorist's, neighbor's. Legionowo has nothing to do with morality play, it is rather a collage created by field recordings and their interpretation, snatches of memories, improvisations, melancholy and dirt straight from rubbish tip full of substitutes. Brasil and the Gallowbrothers Band is a second, after One Inch of Shadow, headquarters of t.e.r., Dominic Savio and Mirt. Since 1995 they've created music together and solo. As One Inch of Shadow, Mirt, Dominic Savio and Brasil they had recorded for numerous labels (Perun, Nefryt, MonotypeRec., Digitalis Industries, Last Visible Dog) including their own label, Cat Sun. |
| 11/16/2004 | Bread, Love + Dreams | Bread, Love + Dreams | CD | $17.99 | Hugo-Montes Productions | "The first, and perhaps the dreamiest album from these famed folk/psych purveyors (Decca, 1969), who include David McNiven (he wrote all the lyrics for the amazing Human Beast 'Volume One' album), and Carolyn Davis from Looking Glass; flowery yet mournful stuff - fragile and introverted songs in minor keys reminiscent of no one - and all of high quality." - Lion Productions |
| 3/20/2007 | Bread, Love and Dreams | Amaryllis | LP | $24.99 | Sunbeam | "Previously reissued on CD by Sunbeam, now issued on deluxe LP format as well; 180 gram pressing. The third and final album by the Edinburgh-based duo of David McNiven (ex-Human Beast) and Angie Rew was barely released in 1971, but has gone on to become one of the most treasured "acid folk" albums of all time. Comprising the epic, 21-minute title track and four unforgettable stand-alone songs, Amaryllis features a heady, trippy blend of true acoustic melodies as well as outstanding support from musicians including Danny Thompson and Terry Cox of Pentangle, and is an essential purchase for all fans of psychedelic singer-songwriting." - FE |
| 12/14/2003 | Breathe Stone / The Does | Sleep Deprivation Blues | split CD EP | $6.99 | Hand / Eye | "The Does (as in female deer, pl.) play music that is dirty, dark, and hazy. Singer Carol Anne and guitar player Neddal were brought together by their shared love of sleaze, sloppy rock ´n roll, and feedback. Originally, the idea was to sound ‘something like a cross between the Rolling Stones and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.’ Things didn´t work out as planned. Carol couldn´t quite shake her goth background. (She refers to herself as a ‘recovering goth.’ Neddal says there´s no such thing.) Neddal couldn´t quite get the sludge out of his system. They wrote some songs. They went into the studio. When they came out they had three songs that didn´t sound anything the songs they´d been rehearsing. On the way to the studio they´d shanghaied Carol´s band mate Jim (Carol and Jim play in Toronto´s Nice Cat. Check them out, they are sludgilicious!) to sit in on drums. What started out as moody, minimal blues/punk ended up as a brooding, psychedelic, not-quite-so-minimal mix of Pussy Galore, ZZ Top, the Melvins, and My Bloody Valentine. Breathe Stone come with an impressive pedigree. Formed on October 31, 2002 by Mr. Timothy Renner, Breathe Stone is an extension of well-known acid/psych/wyrd-folks Stone Breath. Breathe Stone´s mandate is to take the dark, haunting, acoustic folk of Stone Breath in a more electric (literally), experimental direction. Timothy is joined on these recordings by his Stone Breath band mate Sarada, Alicia of Funeral, and guitarist RA Campbell. Using such instruments as electric banjo, slide banjo, glasstamboura, dumbek, and squeezebox, along with the electric guitar, Breathe Stone conjure images of crumbling farmhouses, empty glades, overgrown paths, and lonely silhouettes in the moonlight." Track listing: the does 1. four am 2. five over three 3. sleep deprivation blues - Breathe Stone 4. Rara Avis 5.Crow Omens 6. Maria Walks Amid The Thorn |
| 4/22/2009 | Breeders | Fate To Fatal | 12" | $19.99 | "Limited edition of 1,000, with Kim and Kelley personally hand-screening the artwork. The artwork for the vinyl was designed by Chris Glass who also created the logo for President Obama's "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." The four songs on the Fate to Fatal EP were recorded in a variety of places. The band booked time at the Fortress in London to record the title track. Track two, "The Last Time," was written by Kim and recorded in her Ohio basement with guest vocalist Mark Lanegan [Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, The Gutter Twins]. For "Chances Are," a cover of the Bob Marley and the Wailers song, Kim and Kelley went to Steve Albini's Chicago studio where they recorded it live. The EP's closing song, "Pinnacle Hollow," was also recorded in Kim's Ohio basement on a four-track, tape hiss and all." | |
| 4/24/2006 | Brekekekexkoaxkoax | We Used To Be Such Good Friends | CDR | $9.99 | Hushroom Records | "Apart from a few appearances on compilations, this is my first full length encounter with the ever so oddly named Brekekekexkoaxkoax, the project with Josh Ronsen in the middle. You may recognize his name from his own Monk Mink Pink Punk magazine, or of ND Magazine (whatever happened there?) or his contributions to the Abrasion Ensemble, Frequency Curtain, the Gates Ensemble or the Austin New Music Co-op. This new release is a pretty long one, which according to Josh falls into three categories: two pieces are free improvisation quartets of Ronsen on electric guitar and clarinet and others on oboe, flute, snare drum, banjo, violin etc., one is an electro-acoustic sound collage and one is a 'piece of conceptual sound organization'. The first of the two improvisation pieces, I must admit didn't do much for me. The players move around too careful around each other, and there seems not to be much dialogue or interaction. In the other quartet piece however there is a lot of good tension between the players. The two other pieces are solo pieces and they are the best of the release. Especially 'For I.D. II', for bowed bass guitar, is an intense, minimal piece of music, that moves slowly around like a giant beast. But as said, all four pieces are a bit long and that makes this not the most easy thing to listen to. I think we could have done well enough without the first piece. That would have made a more consistent and easier to listen to release - despite the more difficult pieces." - FdW, Vital Weekly |
| 8/22/2008 | Brethren of the Free Spirit | All things are from Him, through Him and in Him | CD | $13.99 | AudioMER | "Brethren of the Free Spirit consists of 12 string guitarist James Blackshaw and Lutist Jozef Van Wissem. Both musicians have established themselves as respected artists in their own fields, so this collaboration comes with a lot of expectation behind it. That being said, "All Things..." is the first full introduction I've had to either musician, so I'm hearing it with pretty fresh ears. Blackshaw's 12 string seems to be the dominant force for the first two tracks, setting a solid skeleton of minimal rhythmic guitar segments that slightly change and morph. The Lute seems to work a little more subtly on these tracks, either coming into play as an accent or mirroring the guitar. There is a strong meditative mood that seeps through these tracks, and by the middle of track two's hypnotic, circular riffing, I am long gone. The subtle accents of the Lute and the slowly evolving passages of guitar remind me of a Phillip Glass composition. When the passages repeat so many times, things start to stick out and shift, and it's hard to tell whether it is your own mind assimilating the pattern or the musicians playing tricks with you. Track three is a bit of an oddball here as it devolves into feedback, odd acoustic plucks, and cat meows. The mood is dark and kind of cartoonish. I'm thinking that the artists had a conceptual reason for including this track (and it does serve as a break from the heavy hypnotism of the other pieces), but I still wasn't feeling it as strongly as the rest of the disc. The final track returns to the form of the first two, falling a little bit closer to madrigal territory, which is just fine with me. Things end on a positive note, and I'm left wanting to hear more. This great collaboration is a good example of contemporary musicians taking traditional instruments and song forms and adapting them to their own unique vision. 8/10" -- Charles Franklin (8 April, 2008) - Foxy Digitalis. |
| Brian Jonestown Massacre | Give It Back | CD | $11.99 | Bomp | Most recent full length | |
| 11/18/2004 | Brian Jonestown Massacre | Tepid Peppermint Wonderland | DBL CD | $19.99 | Tee Pee | “A retrospective collection of tracks recorded between 1995 and 2004 by long-running rock mess-ups Brian Jonestown Massacre. Includes all the band's tracks from Dig! - the documentary film about them and the Dandy Warhols (winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize) - along with fan-favorites and overlooked songwriting gems.” - Revolver |
| 10/16/2003 | Bridge, The | Best of the Bridge | CD | $13.99 | Hidden Vision | “An American folkrock group. This North Carolina band developed a unique, joyful, exuberant, electric sound with emphasis on melody, harmonies, percussion, heavy bass, and organ, combined with worshipful lyrics. ‘Hallelujah is a fave here: a fun percussion-oriented piece full of maracas, woodblocks, cowbells, pumping bass, and a chorus of 'Hallelujah!"s (verse one) followed by "Jesus!" (verse two). 'Nothin's Been The Same' has a nice psychy organ intro.” There’s also some nice fuzz guitar happening on some tracks as well from these Christian rockers recorded in the early ‘70’s. |
| 12/24/2005 | Bright | Bells Break Their Towers | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Bright have studiously erected majestic pillars of sound since their inception in Boston, MA in 1994. Gaining notoriety and a dedicated following for their trance-inducing, cascading minimalist rock, Bright have amassed a brain-flogging discography of four albums and an ep to date (on Ba Da Bing! and Darla Records). It has been a while since their last opus, 2000's Full Negative (or) Breaks, as the band went on hiatus, with guitarist/vocalist Mark Dwinell's remarkable solo Nonloc project as the only platter offered in the interim. Now relocated to Brooklyn, the duo of Dwinell and multi-instrumentalist Joe Labrecque have recharged their energies, entering the studio early in 2005 to conceive their fifth full length. Rapture and reverence shall be bestowed unto all fans of minimalist, melodic ambient rock, for leading lights Bright are back with Bells Break Their Towers, their most sonically taut and elaborately adorned recording yet. Early on, Bright tread predominantly in ecstatic instrumental rock forms. Colliding harmony and dissonance, their music clung precariously to a raw, edgy core, even as blossoming sound forms methodically unfurled outwards, like flowering vines towards the sun. By the time of Full Negative (or) Breaks, vocals became part of the mix, but largely used as more décor for their vibrant sound pools. What makes the jaw drop with a thud to the floor, however, is the realization that Bright's finely-honed music is composed entirely on the spot. Entering the studio, Bright let it fly, and with a few overdubbs of added instrumentation, the result is head-bobbing and mind-elevating all at once. Drone and ambient textures, motorik Kraut rhythms and repetitious grooves collide with a tremendously melodic, almost pop sensibility, lending Bright a unique sound. Bells Break Their Towers expands their textural palette further, as evidenced on the acoustic hypnosis of "Flood ", and with the Terry Riley-like ambient propulsions of "Secret Form of Time ", which turns keyboard lines into cartwheels while overtones exhale into space. Bright make it seem so effortless…their sonorous whirlpools erupt from improvisation but never sound overtly "jammy", while their attention to melody, form and instrumental layering buffs to a shine the circular breathing of their rhythms. This is improvised rock you can hum to while you drift into trance states. German minimalist rock as forged by Neu! melds with 70's ambient and modern underground independent rock, sculpting fresh new trajectories in sound. Impeccably recorded, Bells Break Their Towers is a triumphant return for Bright, one of psych rock's most underrated sound spinners." |
| 5/8/2005 | Brigitte & the Hansen Experience | Frau Hansen Am Bass | CD | $15.99 | Psychedelic Pig | "HNAS-offshoot reissue, originally issued on Dom Elchklang in 1989. Psychedelic Pig only offers up about 1 package a year, but each one is a definitive classic. "During his off hours while a member of the legendary German underground avant-garde group Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, Achim P. Li Khan kept himself busy with a number of unusual side projects. The late 80's were an especially fruitful period for Achim, and it was during this time that his group Brigitte & the Hansen Experience released their only album. Packaged in an unassuming cover, the record's two side-long tracks were a mutant space-rock hybrid assembled from distorted samples, stretches of atmospheric interference, and out-of-sync beats so profoundly damaged that the few listeners who had acquired the LP were left disoriented and amazed. Because of the LP's limited edition, it's arrival was overlooked at the time, and it has remained an elusive collectible known of by only a lucky few. Now, Psychedelic Pig has endeavored to bring forward this mind-boggling audio collage once again. Remastered from the original tapes, with additional photos and a previously unreleased 17-minute live track, this definitive re-release is set to mystify and delight a fresh population of tuned-in ears worldwide." |
| Brise Glace | When In Vanitas | CD | $13.99 | Skin Graft | Featuring Jim O'Rourke | |
| 9/4/2004 | Broder, Andrew & George Cartwright | Andrew Broder & George Cartwright | LP | $13.99 | Roartorio | “Andrew Broder (aka Lex Records/Ninja Tune recording artist Fog) and George Cartwright (leader of the long-running avant/jazz group Curlew, as well as the GloryLand PonyCat trio) can each lay claim to some serious barrier-crashing & genre-splicing within their respective bodies of work. Together on a Minneapolis stage in February 2004, they carried on the cross-pollination even further: utilizing an array of saxophones, laptops, turntables, keyboards, and various effects, this freely-improvised set touches on familiar territory from their pasts & points a way to future possibilities. By turns lyrical and abstract, meditative and unsettling, Broder and Cartwright create imaginary soundtracks for pirate-broadcast TV documentaries on phenomena you never knew existed. A limited edition of 500 copies on red vinyl, with hand-silkscreened covers.” |
| 9/17/2003 | Broken Face | Issue #17 | zine | $5.99 | "Issue #17 of The Broken Face is finally available. These 69 pages include interviews/features about Sandoz Lab Technicians, the uncrowned masters of intoxicating noise, free jazz and drone; Oddfellows Casino's delicate pop beauty in disguise; Birchville Cat Motel's crackling electronic clatter and gorgeous organic dronescapes; Chris Thompson's timeless psychdelicised folk; Reynols' surrealism and pure rock magic, percussionist/producer/noise maker Tim Barnes and Climax Golden Twins' irresistible collage of global impressions and sonic references. Add to that interviews with The Impossible Shapes, Bloomington's finest deliverers of brilliant pop and complex melodies, New Zealand's Armpit, Devendra Banhart the gardener of Pleasantville, the wide open folk deserts of Migrantes and more than 200 reviews." | |
| 12/17/2003 | Broken Face | Issue #18 | zine | $5.99 | "The final issue of the Broken Face is now available. Included are interviews/features on Portland’s jazz-folk-drone-indie-improv-whatever ensemble Rollerball, Simon Wickham-Smith’s consistently amplified and expanded lexicon of creative music, the Ponys’ pop music which is so much about contradictions that we’re not even sure it’s pop at all, Californian multi-instrumentalist Steven R. Smith, the fog-clad vibrations and aural claustrophobia of Lovely Midget, the untamed beauty of Michael Gira and a deep look into the Finnish underground scene. We also got a chance to visit the frank and humorous, informed and loose world of Pengo, the textural, languid and open landscapes of the Necks, Italian space/psychedelia explorer Dario Antonetti and Texan Crevice’s mysterious and atmospheric drones crossed with a puckish sense of humor. Add to all this an extensive 1998-2003 wrap up, more than 200 reviews and you've got yourself another issue fully packed with fascinating music." | |
| 2/26/2006 | Broken Penis Orchestra, The | Teticle Difficulties | LP | $15.99 | Nihilist | "Conductor Dick Flick masterminds this long playing mind fuck. Like early Nurse With Wound serving moldy krumpets to Negativland! As heard on the ultra-limited Nurse With Wound 'absynthe box'. Dick Flick displays a wild and twisted array of sound collages that pull your ears through your brain and back again, (not unlike early Negativland or Nurse With Wound). This is the debut LP for B.P.O. and is limited to 300 copies on 150 gram black vinyl." |
| 5/1/2009 | Bromp Treb | Twins | 7" | $5.99 | Apostasy Recordings | "Dementedly abstract drumming highlights this release from Turners Falls' "hostess with the most-ess", Bromp Treb. Bleep-bloop, plink-plonk, yada-yada. Dimension is sent packing, as tiny scrapes thunder across the stereo spectrum, and cymbal crashes recede to the horizon. And here we are, locked inside the middle... as this vortex of percussive clatter swirls and gusts, this way, then that. One must plant two feet on the ground to not lose one's bearings in the chaos. Full color sleeve art by George W. Myers." |
| 2/15/2005 | Bronson Comet Lighter | Dollinger / Dillinger Duo | 7" | $4.99 | Bronson Recordings | 5 track EP from 2003. |
| 2/15/2005 | Bronson Comet Lighter | Gin, the Imperial Vodka | 7" | $4.99 | Bronson Recordings | "Very skewed instrumental pop record from Norway. This is toe-tappable in a Clean-esque kind of way, while incorporating weird sounds and non-production reminiscent of the Puddle at their outer-space best. I don't think they surf in Norway, but this is what they'd listen to if they did." – Bruce Russell. 1996 recordings. |
| 2/15/2005 | Bronson Comet Lighter | Wipes the Pipes | 7" | $4.99 | Bronson Recordings | 2001 recordings from Norway. |
| 7/11/2008 | Brother JT | Purgatory, Sweet Purgatory | square 8" lathe cut | $12.99 | Summersteps | "Since the late 1980's, Eastern Pennsylvania's John Terlesky (a.k.a. JT) has cut a unique path from his garage stomping path of self destruction with his band The Original Sins to his more lo-fi & psychedelic impulses released under the Brother JT monkier. We at Summersteps are proud to announce an amazing EP of exclusive tracks from Ol' JT. This 4 song EP features an introspective velvets infused vibe that's very reminicent of his 2005 full length effort, Off Blue on Birdman Records. The record features 3 new songs and lusher revision of the song "Throwaway" from his 1999 effort Way to Go released on Drag City. This EP is very limited edition, so don't miss out on your chance let Brother JT take you on a trip to Purgatory, despite whatever the Pope has to say." 2nd edition - very limited. |
| 11/11/2003 | Brother JT3 | Hang In There, Baby | CD | $14.99 | Drag City | "Brother JT3 is back. They've brought a new batch with them too - guaranteed to move your head around. Hang In There, Baby is a towering rock, a mighty peak in the best of all possible worlds - a record that moves and grooves yuh, but a record with an axe or two to grind and, at the end of the day, a message or two. As was said once before, music for the other head - the one inside the one - remember?" |
| Brother JT3 | Spirituals | CD | $13.99 | Drag City | "It’s the second Brother JT3 release on good old Drag City, the second produced by Neil Michael Hagerty, as well (Neil co-produced Way To Go as part of Adam and Eve back in ’99). Brother JT wears a more complicated coat of colors on Spirituals than on Way To Go or previous Brother JT releases. The good Brother’s got some preaching to do, but in a sweetly melodic setting, with acoustic guitars ringing, flutes and recorders riffing, with liquid leads and gentle mid-tempos...it’s full-on sandals rock. You’ll find that JT’s crafted a stoner anthem in ‘Mellow’ - an instantly compelling tune with lyrics that just keeps knocking you out. There’s a few more of them on Spirituals as well as some other things that make Brother JT great, like lots of rock and roll, heavy religious moments, a jam, two traditional songs, more melodies, cultish weirdness and an air of grooviness that just won’t blow away. All without breaking its pure pop stride." | |
| 2/12/2008 | Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood | Odalisque at Secret Vortex | CDR | $13.99 | Akoustic Disease | "Botos like this..flaming tunes catching with angels chants..we accept the bet for the winner!! another 9 crazy trip from the massive band from Blissland - handmade HARD cardboard limited to 116 copies." |
| 1/30/2010 | Brouk, Joanna | Healing Music | cassette | $9.99 | Hummingbird Productions | "(Joanna Brouk) was an extremely early new age type musician who had a radio show on KPFA even before Hearts of Space. She put out five tapes of music recorded between 1976 and 1982. You can hear an early interview (1972) and some of her most minimal and severe drone music via this link: http://disquiet.com/2008/02/28/joanna-brouk/ (These are) original, sealed tapes from the 80s, although she updated the dates every time she did a new pressing (Sounds of the Sea is from 1981 but says 1990)." - Douglas Mcgowan. "Two side-length pieces -- Maggis Flute and Healing Music. Maggi is Maggi Payne of Lovely Records fame, today an instructor at Mills College. This long improvisation based on Brouks directions later provided the basis for a short symphonic piece by Brouk in the mid 80s. Healing Music (1976) is one of Brouks first piano works, a self-taught rondo of deep, hypnotic power." |
| 1/30/2010 | Brouk, Joanna | Songs Of The Sea | cassette | $9.99 | Hummingbird Productions | "(Joanna Brouk) was an extremely early new age type musician who had a radio show on KPFA even before Hearts of Space. She put out five tapes of music recorded between 1976 and 1982. You can hear an early interview (1972) and some of her most minimal and severe drone music via this link: http://disquiet.com/2008/02/28/joanna-brouk/ (These are) original, sealed tapes from the 80s, although she updated the dates every time she did a new pressing (Sounds of the Sea is from 1981 but says 1990)." - Douglas Mcgowan. "Brouks most unusual, ambitious, and remarkable recording consists of two side-long suites, Atavesta, and The Sailor And The Nymph. Lonesome whistles, flutes, drones whale songs, and wordless vocal wails suggest the experimental album Kate Bush never made, or a de-progged "Sunborne" by Constance Demby. A startling, haunting work, highly recommended." |
| 1/30/2010 | Brouk, Joanna | The Healing Touch | cassette | $9.99 | Hummingbird Productions | "(Joanna Brouk) was an extremely early new age type musician who had a radio show on KPFA even before Hearts of Space. She put out five tapes of music recorded between 1976 and 1982. You can hear an early interview (1972) and some of her most minimal and severe drone music via this link: http://disquiet.com/2008/02/28/joanna-brouk/ (These are) original, sealed tapes from the 80s, although she updated the dates every time she did a new pressing (Sounds of the Sea is from 1981 but says 1990)." - Douglas Mcgowan. "Brouks last tape (for now) finds her revisiting old themes explored on earlier recordings with the addition of digital synths. The sounds are still cosmic and weird and way ahead of the curve. Great J card cover photo features Ms. Brouk blissing out in the woods." |
| 1/30/2010 | Brouk, Joanna | The Space Between | cassette | $9.99 | Hummingbird Productions | "(Joanna Brouk) was an extremely early new age type musician who had a radio show on KPFA even before Hearts of Space. She put out five tapes of music recorded between 1976 and 1982. You can hear an early interview (1972) and some of her most minimal and severe drone music via this link: http://disquiet.com/2008/02/28/joanna-brouk/ (These are) original, sealed tapes from the 80s, although she updated the dates every time she did a new pressing (Sounds of the Sea is from 1981 but says 1990)." - Douglas Mcgowan. "Early San Francisco experimental music figure Bill Maraldo achieves remarkable, just slightly off piano tones on the side-length title piece. Side two, Chimes and Bells / Winter Chimes / Golden Cloud Layers finds Brouk combining piano tapes with saron, electric piano, and Moog." |
| 2/4/2007 | Brown | Brown | CDR | $12.99 | Usound | "New ensemble from portland, or. whose NW live performances have been unpredictable, tightrope walks of electronic interplay. committing suicide-like shards of pulsing energy amid reckless feedback-level processed tones... wallops yr ears like a cold salmon to the side of the head." |
| 6/1/2002 | Brown, Dan | Inner Boroughs | CD | $12.99 | Amish Records | “Solo recordings from the percussionist from Hall of Fame and David Grubbs, made with the help of engineer Nicholas Vernhes and some additional percussive muscle by Greg Anderson of Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue. The personnel here is limited but the instrumentation is varied and open and includes traditional drum workouts, variety of bowed and struck cymbals, gongs and ceramic pots, hammered guitar, thumb piano and more. Inner Boroughs exists in a tradition which isn’t wholly jazz , rock or experimental music, but draws on a wealth of sources from ‘Suite for Toy Piano’ on John Cage’s ‘Early Works’, to Don Moye’s ‘Sun Percussion’, Hal Blaine’s Psychedelic Percussion and Art Blakey’s Holiday For Skins volume 1.” |
| 5/21/2009 | Brown, E.C. and I'Diamond | Gothick Reforme | cassette | $8.99 | Earjerk | "Everything just keeps getting darker and darker... It just must be time for this lost treasure to be unearthed. In 2001 someone gave me a cd-r. They said they knew I liked "strange music" and they thought I should have this. The cover art was a robed figure with a golden mask and the back of the cd-r had a similar female figure, posing with similar robes and a different mask. Both figures were set against a background of neon pink and yellow forest leaves. Somehow, despite the colors, there was something distinctly ominous about the artwork for this cd-r. And the same can be said of the sounds within. Truly ahead of it's time, I had no frame of reference for this at this point in my life. I kept the cd-r mostly to myself; a secret revealed only to some. Very few were ready to except it's slimy, sometimes oppressive atmospheres. It's jarring, film score "scene changes". And it's mixture of Free(k) Folk, Noise and even Black Metal tendencies. Earjerk tracked down Mr. Brown and was stupified to learn that a mere 35 copies of this cd-r exsist! Well, no longer will this linger in dark corners of cardboard boxes and basement floors, subject to CD rot and digital decay. Earjerk has re-issued this wonder for all the world to hear. The original artwork has been lovingly re-formatted for cassette. Puke pink or yellow cassettes with two different covers. Buy this. Be the first to say you weren't there." |
| 4/25/2008 | Bruhin, Anton | Vom Goldabfischercd | CD | $24.99 | Alga Marghen | "Presents for the first time on CD the classic experimental folk recordings with the same title first issued on LP in 1969. Anton Bruhin conceived some of the most original sonic art musiks, a double of his artistic work as an outsider painter and with the help of Stefan Wittwer on electric guitar and Cristian Koradi on bass and cello, recorded this masterpiece of far out sonorities well hidden in the Swiss mountains. Anton Bruhin sings and plays jew's harp (his favorite instrument), ch-phon (an instrument he invented constructed with a PVC tube with saxophone reed), harmonica, flute, fiddle, percussion, water. This record, surely one of the most psychedelic, experimental and private to be issued in Europe in the 1960s, should be of great influence for the actual renaissance of experimental folk music. Surely it was an important source of magick for Steven Stapleton, so no surprise to see it mentioned in the mythical list of references that Nurse With Wound included in their first LP. This CD edition also includes 5 jew's harp instrumental tracks." |
| 6/19/2002 | Brume | Zona Ventille | CD | $12.99 | elsieandjack | "Elsie and Jack are proud to present the final Brume release Zona Ventille. Layered, mood dependent music. After many successful years of running with the musique concrète baton, Zona Ventille represents the final dash for this modern french composer. More than just mere process, this is an artifact of sheer beauty, intrigue and suspense in the tradition of Pierre Henry and Luis Buñuel. Zona Ventille is a constantly mutating soundscape - nothing is static. With recordings on Ant-Zen, ND, Old Europa Café, Relapse, Staalplaat and his own Brume rec. among others, this release on Elsie and Jack marks the end of an era for Christian Renou as Brume. Elaborately packaged in a metal laser-etched stickered jewel case, featuring a duotone sleeve printed on heavy art-stock card with a vellum wrap - another precious thing courtesy of Elsie and Jack." |
| 12/24/2003 | Brunnen | The Honey Button | 8" EP | $29.99 | Plinkity Plonk | 4 track EP by Freek Kinkelaar who plays all the instruments and handles the vocals as well. Housed in a nice printed sleeve, this is a lathe cut record in an edition of 25 copies 2 available here. |
| 10/25/2008 | Bruno, Bobb | Clown's Castle | cassette | $5.99 | DNT | "I first saw Bobb Bruno about two years ago at The Smell in downtown LA. I had heard of him prior to the show (he also plays in Goliath Bird Eater and Knit Witch, among others) but didn't really know what to expect from him by himself, and live. He came out wearing a full bunny costume, head and all and sat down playing the coolest electronic drum pad I've ever seen. Some of his past releases have been dreamy pop, others have been heavy as nails. This tape falls somewhere in between. One minute there's beautiful synthscapes and the next it's heavy bass and pounding drums. Hand-numbered edition of 79 on purple cassettes with full-color piggie artwork by Bobb Bruno." - Tynan / DNT |
| 3/4/2003 | Bryant, Allan | Can'bl Sel | CD | $11.99 | IRML | "Pretty great albeit confusing new CD by Mssr. Bryant, he of MEV and the Space Guitar, once again in fact eschewing said guitar and utilizing what appears to be some recordings of thunderstorms followed by some wonderfully primitive electronics. Like the title 'says' this seems to be a meditation on Darwinism on the cellular level, all of the squishy and gurgly electronics mirroring (perhaps) the soundtrack of the alleged primordial ooze, and given that premise and the pedigree of the man behind the curtain, how can you go wrong? Easily the best music concerning microbes since the Incredible String Band's 'A Very Cellular Song'. In addition it's packaged with a wonderful broadsheet exhorting the virtues of phonetic spelling and mandatory organic chemistry classes for all. Still confused? Alan's track listing might illuminate things: 1. Intence THUNDR! - a real storm this x! (time) 2. bbLg: N7 benz C6 intu amino n nucleic asidz (RNA)bacTria, vyRs, plants (procaryotes). 3. O8-cryss(crisis) = sunlyt n CO2-eatrz kild by 7er O8 waste 4: Supersel aryvz(arrives). Hi (he) eats O8 - a hy-powrd fUl (fuel) 5. Spurts - Hi invEdz(invades) n bcmz part v bigr selz (eucaryotes) 6.CS -7e(they)now also eat proteen - 7er(their) nEbrz(neighbors). Run 7. If its smalr, get 7 kechup. 7 last 1/2 BY (billiun yearz)." - FE |
| 3/4/2003 | Bryant, Allan | Space Techno | CD | $11.99 | IRML | "Solo electronics from the ex-member of MEV. Primitive xerox sleeve in jewel case, ala previous IRML documents. 'Contemporary electronic musings from this MEV founder and producer of arguably the finest electric-guitar-process-as-musique-concrete-slab in the history of such an amalgam (that would be the Space Guitars CD on CRI). Despite the slightly sickening title, involved musics have less to do with 'tecno' than, say, a selection of gold doubloons found off the Ivory Coast. Musically, these multi tracked solo synthesizer tracks (sonically akin to bending concave/convex sheets of hard vinyl) overlap in a most pleasing/mystically organized way. Liners feature new phonetically challenged texts to baffle in-laws and fans alike. Trance-inducing.'" - FE |
| 5/14/2007 | BT.HN. | Black Mirrors and Dark Planet Alignment | one sided LP | $12.99 | rundownsun | "Over a year in the making, and well worth the wait. BT.HN. (LA BETE HUMAINE) brings you to a place where profane ritual meets barbaric violence! domineering waves of crushing bass and crackling electronics bury slithering spoken rites, and crest in thundering commands. a steady, measured rumble peppered with heavily effected vocals breaks into volatile metal abuse. vocals shift from paced incantation to frantic possession! similar to the abrasive works of TAINT, ATRAX MORGUE and IUGULA-THOR, but underpinned by a raw, ritualistic violence. BT.HN. is the power electronics side project of SAM MCKINLEY of long running noise project THE RITA. with numerous releases as THE RITA on a wide variety of labels (troniks/PACrec, chondritic sound, self abuse records, dada drumming, audiobot, etc.) 10+ years of experience and touring and a growing catalog of material as BA.KU./BT.HN. sam has developed a voracious cult following. THE RITA will be appearing at this years NO FUN FEST, along side numerous noise luminaries. THE RITA will be touring japan in the summer of 2007 in support of new releases on MOLEHILL japan including a BT.HN. full length LP. 2-sided black and white offset-printed cover on heavy paper. one-sided 12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve. featuring art and layout from the artist." |
| 4/10/2009 | BubbleWrap Holocaust | BubbleWrap Holocaust | CD | $12.99 | Textile | "Bubblewrap Holocaust is one of these band that popping up with a more punk edge but not the spikey haired kind!!!! The band captures the primal thrust of punk and the playfullness of 60's garageŠThe Stooges meet The FallŠ an Amalgam of sloppy guitars, speedy base line and cahotic catchy tunes. The defining element of Bubblewrap is the singer's snarling voice and offensive lyrics between irony and geekery. Colin speak-sings every song in a thick Scottish brogueŠ think about Mark E SmithŠyes you can! This debut album is a great collection of short punchy songs each dynamic to sustain many repeated listen!" |
| 4/23/2003 | Buchanan, Steve | Tiny Grimes | CD | $10.99 | Hanan | "Initiated as a film soundtrack and then added to and reworked, this is an unusual and fine collection of pieces featuring tenor guitar (with, variously, keyboards, violin, percussion, singing, Computer, bagpipes, Harmonica, Flutes). No comparisons help, really; a one-off." The tenor guitar is really cool. Not sure how this fits in with the usual stuff carried here but I dig it. |
| 6/1/2002 | Buckingham, Bob & Friends | My Friend is a Mule in the Mines | CD | $9.99 | Dark Holler | “My Friend is a Mule in the Mines is the second release from Dark Holler. Subtitled ‘Old-Time Excursions,’ this CD is being praised for it’s wonderfully original approach to old-time music. Fiddle tunes, old-time country, and blues are all handled with equal skill by Bob, a multi-instrumentalist from York County, Pennsylvania. The title cut is a song his Grandfather sang for the Bishop among others when he retired from the Methodist clergy. The CD also includes a nearly lost, traditional York County Fiddle tune, called ‘Unicorn’. Bob appears regularly in the region with the Contra Rebels, the house band for the York Folk Dance Association. Fellow band members, Reed Martin and Todd Clewell join Bob on this project which includes four banjo duets with Reed. Other guests include Bob Hess and Tim Renner.” |
| 1/1/2008 | Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit | Alive | CD | $17.99 | Ruby Red | "BSPU are Steve Baczkowski on tenor/baritone Sax, Ravi Padmanabha on Drums / Percussion, Mike Allard on alto Sax, Michael Hermanson on Trombone, and Leif Ingvar Nicklas on contrabass. They´ve recorded this album live in Buffalo, N.Y. at Soundlab. All compositions are improvised." |
| 2/26/2006 | Buffle | Constrictor | cassette | $6.99 | LalLalLal | "What needs to be said about a band that invents a new dance for every song they make and play flute by hanging it from a car window during their tours? The wind plays the flute like Buffle their casios, percussions and guitars. So we hear a pure feast of love and joy. Flux of funny sounds meet clumsy and naive repetition in a way that would make Holger Czukay hot of jealousy in his pool. And there's nothing better in life than to be hanging out in the breezing streets of Belgian winter and be saved by Buffle feeding you different kinds of vegetarian pizza slices." |
| 2/4/2007 | Buffle / Bengeorge7 | split | cassette | $8.99 | Dutch Beer | "2 very very very HIP bands. first part in the series of split-tapes with BREAKING WORLD RECS. Ben and George sing about daddy's digweed and bad boys. Buffle has the blues." |
| 6/11/2006 | Bugaj, Adam | Waves of Tears | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Adam Bugaj sometimes plays lysergic barn rock with the Clear Spots, other times vaporizes neurons with Peacefeather, but more than either he's a bedroom-studio Dr. Moreau, toiling away in his attic laboratory to bring us fragmentary new sonic life forms. If the medium is the message, this is definitely speaking in tongues: flashes of recognizable elements float by -- ghosts of Wilson/Parks sketches, malfunctioning electronica, lo-fi psychedelia, tape hiss and machine hum and the click of the edit button -- then fly off in mid-sentence just as their import begins to clarify. This is what it would feel like if Daylight Savings Time happened every day." |
| 10/21/2009 | Bugskull | Communication | LP | $17.99 | Digitalis | "Flashback to 1997 and in the world of underground droning weirdness, Bugskull were heavyweight champions. The revolving cast of characters always centered around Sean Byrne. He concocted buckets full of syrupy delights that encompassed everything from electronica, post-rock, dub, noise and endless pop hooks. Byrne was joined by multi-instrumentalist Brendan Bell and percussionist James Yu throughout the latter half of the '90s, taking Bugskull from bedroom wonder to full-blown magic carpet band. Bugskull released records and singles on some of the great experimental labels of the day such as Road Cone, Scratch, and Shrimper. I can safely say that as I was discovering experimental music during my mid & late teens, Bugskull were one of my all-time favorite bands. The last album Byrne released was in 2002, "The Big White Cloud," which followed-up the acclaimed "Distracted Snowflake" duology. During the late '90s, Byrne recorded a third album that extended the themes of the "Snowflake" records. Due to label issues and disputes, this third album never came out until now, almost ten years later. "Communication" is the bookend to the hypnotic reverie created by "Distracted Snowflake" volumes 1 & 2. With layers of organ and synth floating like cotton candy on top of dub and hip-hop infused beats, Byrne is in top form. "Communication" isn't so much a lost album as it is confirmation of a legacy and declaration of intent. Bugskull is back. >From the tribal beach vibes of "High Steppin' II" right down to the drenched bones of the droning, black river sonics of "Subterranean Life," this album brings everything that made Bugskull so great and concentrates it on two sides of vinyl. Upbeat, fast-moving synth lines bob and move in minimal electronic waves while violins moan on "Squeaky Bagpipe." The title track is an exercise in restraint as Byrne uses turntables and molasses-paced guitars to the listener into a false sense of serenity, only to be drowned in opiates and put to bed by "Pondlife." Whether he's created simple, deceptive trips with sparse, but effective rhythmic cues or is just wallowing in the aural beauty of sine tones and synth drones, Byrne doesn't ever let up. For those who have been as big of fans I have through the years, you probably never thought another Bugskull album would show up on the horizon. I know I didn't. But after seven years of waiting for something fresh, it's all worth it in the end to start the journey from scratch. Vinyl only and limited to 300 copies." |
| 4/20/2008 | Bulbs | Light Ships | CD | $12.99 | Freedom to Spend | "Anyone familiar with the CDR label, JYRK, that I ran from 2001-2006, would know that I have long been a fan of William Sabiston's music. As a member of Axolotl, as a filmmaker, or on his own, as ball lightning, he's delivered the goods. William formed Bulbs with Jon Almaraz in 2005, shortly after his leaving Axolotl and shortly following Jon's move from Bakersfield to San Fran. Jon was a younger, ambitious guitarist just hitting the big city. Apparently the pairing was destiny, William's beating-around-the-bush electronic drum styles mesh perfectly with Jon's ultra-processed minute guitar jabs. Bulbs hovered around the SF underground for a few years, only occasionally releasing hints at what they were capable of. I received a cassette, "Anela Of Tailoo Too," which left me feeling like I had been punched in the gut. The music was light years away from anything else in the underground scenes they were occupying. Light Ships finds bulbs at their most psychedelic and pointillistic. They occupy an odd space between the gloss of Kompakt records minimalism, the glue huff ambiguity of a band like Mouthus, and the stuttering clicks and confusion of a Han Bennik/Derek Bailey duo. There's a lot of movement from more acoustic to more electronic sounds, from more straight rhythmic patterns to totally elliptical percussive gurgling, from understanding what's going on to not having any sort of idea who is doing what to whom. Despite all these shifts and potential contradictions, the music manages to be entirely cohesive and the record is surprisingly easy on the ears. Everything here has its place." - Pete Swanson |
| 11/16/2004 | Bulent | Benimle Oynar Misin | CD | $17.99 | World Psychedelia | "Extremely rare and sought-after album shows a very different side to the incredibly rich Turkish music scene of the late 1960’s/early 1970’s, with gravelly vocals and introspective folk rock arrangements; a mostly calm album with incredible songs and lyrics from revered songwriter Bulent Ortacgil, recorded in 1973 or 1974; regarded by Hans Pokora's Record Collector Dreams book as psych folk, where it received four stars; musical support provided by a team of dynamite musicians including Onno Tunc and Atilla Ozdemiroglu; booklet includes lyrics and photos." - Lion Productions |
| 12/19/2002 | Bull Anus | Anus Comes Alive | CD | $8.99 | Mandragora Records | "The Anus opens wide and sprays its sonic diarrhea in a torrent of free noise and electronics. A rare public appearance from the infamous 8/02 Noise Show, the clan let loose with this brutal o-ring blowing assault. Old Bull spazzes out on aggro-synths and purple box as the Moses shreds the Sammy cassette. Short and sweet, 17 minutes that feels like days. Get ready to dance with Mr. PoopiePants." |
| 8/7/2002 | Bull Anus | Enter The Anus | CD | $9.99 | Mandragora Records | "I just had to chuckle when I first caught a glimpse of this album as it came out of it's mailing package. I mean, how can you take this seriously? The band's name alone is jokey, and the big picture of a bull's rear end on the cover doesn't help matters. The truth is, though, that this is pretty serious noise music. Actually, it's not only serious - it's good. From the label that releases 'pure psychedelic noise' comes a funky batch of ear chaos that is sure to get your brain pulsating. Or at least quivering. 'Beefry,' for example, is a piece of harsh noise that's been injected with crazy broken beats; listening to it will make you want to move (even if this so-called 'movement' is actually just violent spasms). Other tracks, like 'Scar' and 'La Purga' are more atmospheric and relaxing, while 'Anus Strain' and 'Robotonk' are glitchy and complex. All around, Bull Anus has released a great selection of noise. If you like your noise abrasive, you'll totally dig this!" - Matt Shimmer, indieville.com "Harsh fucking noise. Bull Anus grabs hold and rams it home in 17 tracks of non-stop sadistic eardrum torture. Play Loud to ruin your stereo and annoy everyone. Can you pass the Anus Test?" |
| 8/11/2003 | Bulldog Breed | Made In England | LP + 7" | $24.99 | Acme | "First official (ie: non-bootleg, as in Won-Sin CD etc.) release of one of the best late 60s UK psych albums, originally released in 1969 on Deram; members of Please, Neon Pearl and the Flies (all these bands had similar line-ups, but I won’t confuse the issue) get together for one of those quintessential British takes on life in the late 60’s, in a similar vein as the first Blossom Toes album, I would say; taken from the original stereo master tapes, pressed in a strictly limited edition of 700 vinyl copies; comes with the incredible rare 1969 Deram single 'Portcullis gate'/'Halo in my hair' as a bonus 7"." |
| 6/11/2006 | Bummer Road, The | The Cowboy's Road | CDR | $15.99 | Child of Microtones | "Brand new under-the-radar Child Of Microtones release from the Bummer Road orchestra, put together especially for their recent appearance at the Terrastock festival. Here the line-up is Matt Valentine, Erika Elder, Mo' Jiggs, Nemo, Sparrow Wildchild, Samara Lubelski and Tim Barnes and the sound is quite unlike any of their previous orbits with two wild, free-floating guitar heavy cosmo-jams that sound like the Ray Russell big band re-working the more sandoz aspects of electric Miles circa Big Fun/Live Evil. Second track, "Death Guitars", is an especially great Teo Macero/John Oswald style phantom guitar re-take of "Death Don't Have No Mercy". Very limited, the set comes packaged in a fold-out glossy sleeve with stamped black-bottom discs. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 6/11/2006 | Bunny Brains, The | A Sense of Tokyo | CD | $13.99 | Lost Frog | "A Sense of Tokyo can get you in your sleep, attacking the klump of lung muscle not coated w cowboy french fry grease and pandowdy fritter walls. The Sense is a scent, a whiff of marooned boys all xibiting their whalebone necks, moss wrapped so nicely around their thin necks. Let it drag you to the floor and go thru your pockets, the hole in your jeans is so soft now, fingers filled w honey, Owens lil undies whacked up against the wall. If you can see itchy clearly then you may want to tear a piece of goldfish off the line for Khaya, she is a sainted pillow provider, worship is useless. Great to chat, now let's listen." -- Dan Bunny |
| 7/30/2003 | Bunny Brains, The | Holiday Massacre ’98 | CD | $9.99 | Public Eyesore | "The five piece Bunny Brains further the lo-fi side of PE, shifting into a country punk vein. Guitars, from Dan Bunny, Raimondo Paolucci and Jim Roberto are the main noise creators (with some less obvious keyboards thrown in) but the drive behind the whole set (which sounds at times like a live recording) is Davo's bass – this is a powerful motivator in most tracks – with assistance from Peter Partenio's drums. 'Freshen up!' gives the band a chance to loosen up before dropping into a swamp rock groove, some primal lyric screams in there, dirty guitar slashes before some increasing feedback and then tape effects close. Shorter than its title 'Harm is coming to me every day in every way' plays some light guitar and throbs before the introduction of vocals (back country) into the mix with 'Stookey ring of evil' where the guitars provide twangs, big sounds and pyrotechnics. The drawled vocals in 'Upland lane' get drowned in the pumping punk country rocker with squarly guitar solo. 'Switchblade sister' gets a live announcement and is a slower number that reminds me of Neil Young – both in vocals and melody – particularly 'Roll another number' with some noise guitars instead of a chorus. Country rock again in 'Birty doots' with shouted chorus, short twangy guitar and possible keyboards. A wall of sound from 'Overdose of cum' and a suggestion we have entered part way in, eases rebuilds and then into a more tentative conclusion. That mood continues in 'Chocolate party', twice as long as other tracks which opens slowly with scratchy loops and simple guitar and then develops into more open and experimental areas than the rest of the album. Whispered vocals, scraping slide guitar builds to a bit of warbly rock in the last few minutes. Into the final stretch of rock with the banjo loose rubbery 'Never did the deed', a brief improv in 'Robert is a corpse' then 'I love me do' driven by the bass and feedbacky guitar in the heavy instruments spoken word and a band intro which is of the Teddy Roxborough Group (?!) before a grungy climax. Dueling guitars spiral up through 'Plying and dying' into the late night meanderings of 'Greenwich mean sister' with some slurred Doors lyrics and chugging rhythm which is broken by a call of 'take 2' before continuing into the darkness. Good time rock and roll – a hoot-nanny pleasure punk." - Jeremy Keens |
| 12/24/2005 | Bunyan, Vashti | Just Another Diamond Day | LP | $15.99 | Dicristina Stair Builders | This vinyl reissue of Vashti Bunyan's lone 1970 solo release features contributions from British folk royalty including members of Fairport Convention and preeminent producer Joe Boyd. "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 Drake's 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 |
| 11/17/2007 | Bunyan, Vashti | Lookaftering | LP | $14.99 | DiCristina | "Thirty-five years since her only previous album, Just Another Diamond Day, was released, British folk songstress Vashti Bunyan returns with a brand new album. Lookaftering is a fully beautiful eleven-track affair anchored around Bunyan's voice and picked acoustic guitar, with backing piano and arrangements by MAX RICHTER. Includes guest performances from Bunyanites JOANNA NEWSOM, DEVENDRA BANHART, ADEM, ADAM PIERCE (MICE PARADE), ROBERT KIRBY (NICK DRAKE), OTTO HAUSER and KEVIN BARKER (ESPERS, CURRITUCK COUNTY). Packaged in deluxe gatefold jackets with "tip-on" style sleeves." 2006 release. |
| 11/29/2007 | Bunyan, Vashti | Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind | DBL LP | $19.99 | DiCristina | "Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan's 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 Vashti's classic Just another Diamond Day album which was originally released in 1970. Titled after Vashti's (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 Vashti's 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 Vashti's 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." Housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve. |
| 11/17/2007 | Bunyan, Vashti | Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind | LIMITED EDITION DBL CD | $14.99 | DiCristina | "Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan's 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 Vashti's classic Just another Diamond Day album which was originally released in 1970. Titled after Vashti's (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 Vashti's 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 Vashti's 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." DBL LP version out in late November. |
| 10/6/2007 | Burial Hex | Goy Godal | cassette | $6.99 | Skulls of Heaven | "Completing the damaged cycle, a pathworking disaster turned to ritual acoustic murder. Goy Godal is the perfect fool, naked and nearly beaten. Closest to death is where the brightest light shall shine..." |
| 5/29/2008 | Burial Hex | Initiations | DBL LP | $19.99 | Aurora Borealis | "Members: Clay Ruby - feedback, voice, PAIA 4700, samples, microphones, homemade oscillators, metal, organs, earth, distortion, delay, insect, reverb, electric piano and analog tape. Burial Hex first made itself known to Aurora Borealis a few years ago when browsing obscure blackened electronic treats online. The subsequent purchase delivered a rather bizarre cassette tape, totally without markings, and a cryptic, darkly printed simple cover bearing ancient symbols and occult schematics: The Curses Of Earth, indeed. It conjured all sorts of imaginings — nocturnal rites, lonely vigils with archaic analog equipment, moonlight, madness. For fans of Prurient, Wolf Eyes, Whitehouse, Dead Raven Choir, Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Masonna." |
| 7/10/2008 | Burial Hex | Silver Crescent Sonata | one sided cassette | $12.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Two tracks of total bleak weirdo synth, analog noise and fake pipe organ... Sounds like something has taken over your local church, piled in a bunch of hooded dudes and some fucking weird shit is going on. Totally incredible. Stark black and white hand numbered sleeves with heavily sprayed black sleeves with silver inked label. Limited to 59 copies." |
| 10/6/2007 | Burial Hex | Trinity Position | cassette | $6.99 | Skulls of Heaven | "First in a pair of crushing EPs, feedback meditations, violent evocations and psychotic actions under a faulty ritual spell of St Michael and the serpent tyrant Mrdvall. Nothing left but a rotten tape of crude pain and defiled Horror Electronics." |
| 10/6/2007 | Burial Hex / Oath | split | cassette | $6.99 | Skulls of Heaven | "Oath is/was (?!) an international occult research group that just happened to include two ex members of Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice as active participants. Much to our musical pleasure, these two were eventually involved in a record that was to document the spiritualist content in a particular series of chord intervals as played on what seemed to be a haunted synthesizer. One of our protagonists was instructed to played these intervals (and some original compositions made of them), in various recording situations,over the course of several months. Then a powerful female medium was given a series of poems, lyrics and sound-art exercises for vocal performance. They were to be performed and recorded in accordance with the order of a set tarot cards as drawn just before the recording sessions. All of these recordings were then assembled and mixed together by an inner circle of researchers and production assistants.. Shortly after these recordings were completed, a gnarly schism was sparked between various emerging factions within the group and Oath was quickly disbanded. Our protagonists took advantage of this opportunity and released a very limited edition cdr bootleg of the Oath recordings. Now years have gone by and everyone has pretty much forgotten about this little magical fiasco.. We are proud to present this miraculous cassette reissuing the complete Oath recordings partnered with the debut of Burial Hex's "Sede Vacante", a very creepy composition for pipe organ and modular synth. This album sounds like if Ruth White did a split with Antonius Rex..." |
| 8/22/2008 | Burke, Dan / Thomas Dimuzio | Upcoming Events | CD | $10.99 | No Fun Productions | "Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful." |
| 8/8/2009 | Burkett, Joshua | Owlsleavesrustling | LP | $14.99 | Spirit of Orr | "Originally released in a micro-run of 200 in 1996 as the first release on Joshua's own Feather One's Nest label, it is with deep honor and respect Spirit of Orr has prepared this reissue version with hopes that it will be as much a treasure to hold as the original. We have carefully used the same stampers as the original, however this edition will be pressed in colored vinyl. Also included will be a booklet containing art from Joshua, and an extensive set of liner notes with impressions of this record from several of your favorite record heads, Angela Sawyer, Clint Simonson, John Olson, Thurston Moore, Willie Lane and more... This reissue will be housed in recycled lp jackets much like the original, though this time the jackets will be reversed with taped spines and a reversal of the original art." |
| 4/21/2008 | Burkett, Joshua | Where's My Hat? | CD | $13.99 | Time-Lag Records | "Digital version of Red Records 1. A lucky few got to hear this little gem as the tiny self released CDR edition, but here's the real deal. An absolutely lovely album and surely Joshua's finest dose yet. Oozing with a perfectly warm lo-fi bedroom glow, and full of Joshua's most direct and achingly melancholy song forms. Totally hitting a whole new level of intimate vibrations, full of fragile hushed vocals, gentle acoustic guitar plucking, somber dirges and electronic bagpipe mantras. Beautifully formed lyrics step up the forefront as a rare treat, and the effect is just as stunning as it is simple. We just can't get enough of this one. The kind of record you'll want to spin again and again to soothe a busy mind. Truly psychedelic folk music for late night soul searching. Sweet custom art paper mini LP style gatefold covers with full color art to match the LP version. Woven Japanese inner sleeves. Edition of 1000." LP sold out. |
| 7/16/2006 | Burning Star Core | 3 Sisters That Share An Eye | LP | $16.99 | No Fun | "compositions for 9 midgets with mohawks screaming about life and harsh electronics. nastiest burnign star core release to date. Spencer continues his search for the lost kingdom,with an army of his own spencer screams to them to get them psyched: "HARSH IS NICE!!!!!" limited to 300." - No Fun. |
| 6/3/2009 | Burning Star Core | Amelia | 10" | $11.99 | No-Fi Records | "First in the series of six 10"s by C. Spencer Yeh entitled 'Mes Soldats Stupides 96-05'. Hard to find reissues on vinyl for the first time. Includes insert with design by guest artist Robert Beatty (Hair Police)." "Three very different but equally captivating electronic pieces, this may be some of the most focused work Spencer has produced to date." (Rock-A-Rolla magazine) |
| 8/23/2009 | Burning Star Core | Brighter Summer Day | LP | $15.99 | Thin Wrist | "Burning Star Core's first vinyl full-length and first widely available recording after numerous private releases that began surfacing in 1993. Massive layers of sustained SOUND driven thru violins and electronics direct to climax -- backed by broken organs dropped into shifting darkness and cracked Computer hypnotics. Abstract/Concrete (sensual) Satisfaction. After years of obscured operations, another question answered, another step past the cognizant few." "A really fine debut LP by a combo from the Kentucky/Ohio underground DMZ. One side has skin-destroying violin drone-dynamics, amped the hell up, and run through shards of electronic hell-dither. The other side is synth/key-based form-whackery that sounds like an out-of-control toad carnival taking place in your brain." - Byron Coley / Thurston Moore, Arthur, May 2003. "from Cincinnati, Spencer is a violin and electronics alchemist of the first water and this is a very fine debut in a mass produced edition (many previous CDR/cassette titles to track down later, kids!). You could easily lose whole days hiding under the bed with this on the turntable." - Bruce Russell, Corpus Hermeticum. Repressed. Originally released in 2002. Housed in a full color heavy duty cover - very nice! Features: CS Yeh - Violin, Electronics (Side A) Computer (Side B) Chris Rosing - Additional Climax Electronics (Side A). |
| 7/10/2008 | Burning Star Core | Challenger | LP | $15.99 | Plastic Records | "Challenger is a composed work rather than his more improvised work, each piece revolving around a central melodic theme with field recordings, an audio diary bridging the gaps. It's emotions of a period of time set to tape. The sounds range from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. But what's most remarkable is the use of space, where parts come in and drop to build or recede .When the piano crashes in "Mysteries of the Organ" its almost a frustration of paradise, a rejection of perfection or maybe a jolt of inexplicable life, unable to be translated into proper 'communication. Juxtaposed with the quiet haunting of "Hopelessly Devoted" which sounds like a love letter written to outer space, it makes for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement. licensed from plastic records." - Hospital Productions |
| 9/30/2005 | Burning Star Core | Let's Play Wild Like Wildcats Do | CD | $12.99 | Hospital Productions | "So why pick Burning Star Core now after all these years? Aside from the obvious, there's an amazing confluence among Spencer Yeh's own sound that he's been striving at for years and between various facets of an underground noise and improv scene that's virtually bursting at the seams. His music fits a number of certain tastes, be it catering to those raised on the tried and true avant garde-ians of yesteryear to the recent emergence of the post-hardcore set ripe for fresh sounds and new, more abstract and virulent noises. With all the attention being paid to left-field musicians at the left and right of America, now might be the time to head towards the heartland, and some of the seeds planted in Cincinnati courtesy of Burning Star Core." - Michael Crumsho. |
| 5/1/2009 | Burning Star Core | Live from New York 07-08 | double c30 cassette | $9.99 | Dronedisco | "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." |
| 12/24/2005 | Burning Star Core | See You in 2004 | CDR | $12.99 | U-Sound Records | 3 tracks recorded live in 2004 by C. Spencer Yeh (violin, voice, and electronics on 3rd track) with guests Robert Beatty of Hair Police on the first 2 tracks and Mike Shiftlet on the first track. Handpainted silkscreened sleeves. |
| 8/23/2009 | Burning Star Core | The Very Heart of the World | CD | $11.99 | Thin Wrist | "On The Very Heart of the World, Burning Star Core (BXC) has created an incredibly heavy record, built on dense, layered drones, pulses, splintered vocals, and deep rhythms that euphorically build to total overload. With a line-up including the Hair Police front line and other luminaries from across the exploding Midwestern psych/noise/folk underground, BXC's C. Spencer Yeh has assembled a group that seamlessly shifts through epic movements and pushes pure electronic / concrete / physical / rock energy to undeniable, massive sound. Expanding on what was hinted at on the collaboration LP with Comets on Fire earlier this year, The Very Heart of the World is a definitive statement of the evolving Burning Star Core sound. Operating since 1993 out of Cincinnati Ohio, and emerging as one of the essential units in the American underground, Burning Star Core has always centered around C. Spencer Yeh." Repressed. |
| 8/23/2009 | Burning Star Core | The Very Heart of the World | LP | $15.99 | Thin Wrist | "Only BXC’s second full-length. An incredible record of deep drones and pulses, voice-cuts, and building/collapsing rhythms—The Very Heart of the World is incredibly rich, colorful and immense. Led by C Spencer Yeh on violin, voice, electronics, piano (+) and featuring among others, Sara O’Keefe, Mike Shiflet, and the Beatty/Connelly/Tremaine Hair Police axis. A classic, now. Edition of 500 LP's / full color heavy jackets / 180 gram vinyl." 2nd pressing. |
| 4/24/2006 | Burning Star Core | Two in the KY & One in the OH | DBL cassette | $13.99 | Dronedisco | "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. Typical low-run edition, in white vinyl case with pamphlet." |
| 4/24/2006 | Burning Star Core | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 6/3/2009 | Burning Star Core | WSBC/SSS | 10" | $11.99 | No-Fi Records | "Second in the series of six 10"s from C. Spencer Yeh, launching immediately into a giant feedback epic that slowly reveals delicate harmonies beneath a sea of howling distortion. This edition comes with insert insert design by John Olson (Wolf Eyes)." |
| 11/4/2006 | Burning Star Core / Lambsbread | Live in St. Louis | CDR | $8.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "lambs as the chiefs backing band.... 1st jam is slow, quiet, longer developing jam that never really bursts; just builds.... 2nd jam = quick burner with the chiefs electronics getting fried.... edition of 80" |
| 8/2/2008 | Burnt Hills | Blunt Greeper | cassette | $10.99 | Bumtapes | "Minotaur surf party firing nitrous arrows into a flaming headswim universe, a wealth of decomposing monster saturated jams, dripping n' melting in a heavy golden like syrupŠ.. edition of 50." |
| 3/14/2008 | Burnt Hills | Green Blare | CDR | $10.99 | Lotus Sound | "monday monday, so good to me....heads roll in, bread is broken, time for the basement....tubes aglow, the bash begins....djrah3 and philthy rex break out of the gate with a guitar/drum conversation that suspends time, then we all join in and toast the lone red bulb....the good doctor throttles the bass with philthy killing his skins while the mighty wovoka, pog, djrah3 and i blaze guitarded....peaks and valleys, ebb and flow, yin and yang, the dark minutes fly by....the language of shred is immediate and relentless, collectively summoning the joyous noise....once it vibrates into being it only ends at the end, my friend....sick llana climbs aboard at minute thirty four with her insistent tingaling and we coast on the green blare until minute fifty nine....whoosh, the air leaves our balloon as pog exults a celebratory toast to the crisp night....TONIGHT WE RIDE" - ziamaluch. Edition of 100 copies. |
| 9/30/2008 | Burnt Hills | Microburst | CDR | $9.99 | Yodtapes | "Shred your head as five blistering guitars rage with wah wah fury, a blown out bass drops the heavy anchor, an eight armed drummer pummels through the basement night and an amplified xylophone sprays broken glass into the clouds....edition of 100 copies." - Flipped Out Records |
| 5/31/2009 | Burnt Hills | Microburst | LP | $17.99 | Flipped Out Records | "Shred your head as five blistering guitars rage with wah wah fury, a blown out bass drops the heavy anchor, an eight-armed drummer pummels through the basement night and an amplified xylophone sprays broken glass into the clouds. Reissue of the Yod Tapes CD-R. Edition of 99 copies." |
| 8/2/2008 | Burnt Hills | Morning Glory | CD | $17.99 | Ruby Red | "Psych trip genius, Burnt Hills drop a 57min wild wild ride to the best possible place. Truly Albany´s best. Play it loud and you will find all sorts of lost zones there! Play it very loud and you will be re-born." Featuring: Llana - Xylophone, Eric K - Bass, Phil - Drums, Mike - Drums, Ray - Guitar, Paula - Guitar, Eric H - Guitar, Johnny - Guitar, Jackson - Guitar |
| 6/11/2006 | Burnt Hills | To Your Head | CD | $9.99 | Flipped Out Records | "Manic, frantic, buzzed and burnt, listen closely as this nine piece releases a tidal wave of freaked basement atmosphere filled with unhinged riffs, squalling feedback, bedrock bottom end and pounding pulse." |
| 4/24/2006 | Burnt Hills | To Your Head | LP | $29.99 | Flipped Out Records | "Manic, frantic, buzzed and burnt, listen closely as this nine piece releases a tidal wave of freaked basement atmosphere filled with unhinged riffs, squalling feedback, bedrock bottom end and pounding pulse." Limited edition of 99 copies from this Albany, NY crew. |
| 10/25/2008 | Burnt Hills | Tonite We Ride | CD | $9.99 | Flipped Out Records | "Dig the raging thunderstorm of sound as four squealing, reeling and paint peeling guitars thrash riffs, tones and cosmic bursts, a massive bass throbs and centers, propulsive dive bomb drums explode constantly and the sweet glaze of an insistent chiming xylophone rings out from the eye of the storm....one track, one hour and twenty seven seconds long....cover art by bill nace" |
| 6/11/2006 | Busby, Stuart | North / South | DBL 3" CDR | $11.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Originally appearing in an ultra limited home-pressed edition 'North/South' is the follow up to last years wonderful 'Drift' (Digitalis). Best known as a trumpeter, the Brisbane resident Busby ventures here into a subtle processed exploration of that instrument, but also brings a glockenspiel, ukulele and voice into the mix. The album is split into two discreet movements separated onto two 3" disks. 'North' is made up of predominantly gestural percussive pieces. Slow chimes and pulses drifting across space. 'South' is a more harmonic enterprise, with layered tones and trumpet passages creating a beautiful eerie melancholia that shifts between an icy chill and a deep warm glow. Packaged in an art card gatefold designed by the artist." |
| 2/12/2008 | Busby, Stuart | Radiance and Decay | CDR | $11.99 | Kindling | "Following the runaway success of two major label long players, the prodigal returns to the fold to deliver his most developed work to date. This fourth solo release features our man kayaking deep into the Tasmanian wilderness with his pocket trumpet to commune on the banks of the Arthur River with feathered brethren. Elsewhere, field recordings of native bees and fencing wire comfortably neighbour short unaccompanied trumpet melodies. There is an emerging playfulness to this work which complements the swooning ambient explorations that have become the Busby trademark. Yes, the Kindling Corporation proudly commends to you 'Radiance and Decay'! Welcome home son." |
| Busride | Digital Sunset | 7" | $3.99 | No | Fi Records | |
| 2/11/2006 | Butchertown Allstars | Butchertown Allstars | CDR | $8.99 | Black Velvet Fuckere | < |