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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
5/8/2005	C.O.B.	Moyshe McStiff & The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart	CD	$18.99	Radioactive Records	First official reissue of the one of the true pinnacles of British Psychedelic Folk, orginally issued by Polydor in 1972. This, their 2nd and final record after Spirt Of Love, is truly 'as good as it gets' and Radioactive have really bumped up the quality ratio for this release. "Formed by Clive Palmer (folk legend and founder of the Incredible String Band) and championed today by figures as diverse as Billy Connolly, Johnny Marr and Bert Jansch, COB's music was neglected in its time but has come to be regarded as the epitome of acid folk. Radioactive is delighted to announce the first ever official reissue of their 1972 masterpiece, Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers Of the Sacred Heart. Soulful, reflective, joyous and utterly musicianly, its reappearance is way overdue. Fully licensed from the band. Featuring the legendary Danny Thompson on bass. Remastered at Abbey Road by NickWebb from the original master tapes. Featuring full participation from all musicians involved. Complete with fully annotated and illustrated 8 page booklet. This issue is not only set to be definitive, but also to place Moyshe McStiff firmly where it should always have been - in the pantheon of truly classic albums."
9/30/2005	C.O.B.	Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart	LP	$25.99	Radioactive Records	"Formed by Clive Palmer (folk legend and founder of the Incredible String Band) and championed today by figures as diverse as Billy Connolly, Johnny Marr and Bert Jansch, COB's music was neglected in its time but has come to be regarded as the epitome of acid folk." Comes in a deluxe gatefold sleeve - reissue of 1972 release.
2/7/2009	Cabinet of Natural Curiosities	Searchlight Needles	CD	$8.99	For Arbors	"It was November 2006 when I first heard "Vineland" and fell in love with the intoxicating music of Jasmine Dreame Wagner, the album filled with dream-laden folk and whispering melodies. Now, two years later, I am hypnotised again, the beautiful sounds of this album even eclipsing what has gone before, a mature and confident records that manages to awaken my very soul. Opening with a chiming guitar, "little Ice Age" is quickly enveloped in a sonic mist that falls from the mountainside, chilly whispered vocals creating tension that is not released by the persistent percussion and insistent echoed flutes. Following on, "Sun" follows a similar path, although this time the guitar and melody remain at the front, dancing above the mist, the gorgeous chorus refrain shining like a jewel within the song. Sounding like Banhart covering Pink Floyd (almost), "For Sparrow" is possibly the finest track on the album, the soft folk beginnings of the song soothing the listener before the strange things happen, the tune drifting into a slice of electronic psych-drone, destroying time and any memory of what has gone before. All of a sudden, guitar and vocals return, the haunting "Cities", beautifully simple and simply beautiful. More psych than folk, "moon" is a whispering lament seemingly as ancient as the world itself, a wisp of smoke that curls across the room and vanishes. Building from a rattle of bells, "Glass" utilises every second of its eleven minutes, rising from experimental roots to become an electric monster, featuring raw drumming and banshee guitar, demonstrating a rare sense of abandon within its fractured groove, before finally decaying into the forest floor. Offering sweet rest "Grass" relaxes the senses, calming the very earth with poetic charm. After the drone of "Fabulist Decay", a stuttering cloud of noise, "Black Water" emerges slowly, blinking in the pale sun, a minimalist guitar line frosted with a gorgeous vocal performance, slow and delicious. Finally "Owllullaby" end as it began, a chiming guitar and wonderful lyrics bringing a smile to your face and warmth to your heart." - Simon Lewis, Terrascope Online
3/28/2010	Caboladies / Oneohtrix Point Never	split	c30 cassette	$6.99	NNA Tapes	"This split unfolds as a singular and flowing journey. Caboladies reaches out to solar gods above while Oneohtrix Point Never wanders through the arid deserts of the mind and heart."
11/2/2008	Cadena Muerto	Paranoia is Total Awareness	CDR	$8.99	Cut Hands	"Cadena Muerto is a new demon brought to life by Slow Listener's Robin Dickinson. Dickinson's harsher alter ego if you will, the rage inside in the shape of wretched guitarnoise, deformed pieces of snare fuck, mangled metal and visions of Derek Baily recording inside metal shredders." edition of 40 copies, black and white artwork and insert.
7/11/2011	Caesar, J.A.	Jashumon	CD	$16.99	Phoenix Records	"This mighty soundtrack for Shuji Terayama's nihilistic movie of the same name contains all the elements necessary to reach J.A. Caesar's intended pleasure-centers. Here, turmoil, mind-numbing repetition, abject misery and grisly partriarchs abound, and all orchestrated by Caesar's damaged proto-metal and choral-led psychedelic sound. Mind-infesting in the truest sense, this soundtrack played in the dark is as certified a Gateway to the Underworld as any acknowledged classic by Faust, Magma, the Cosmic Jokers, Ash Ra Tempel or early Amon Düül." --Julian Cope, Japrocksampler; Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited collector's edition housed in a gatefold sleeve.
10/31/2009	Caesar, J.A.	Shintokumaru	CD	$34.99	Belle Antique	"Fourth J.A. Caesar album, originally issued on Victor in 1978. More crazy theatrical prog, but less bombed than Kokkyo Junreika, and seemingly more reliant on missing visual imagery." - FE. "This is another J. A. Caesar's album. Though we can not find his name on the cover, he composed all the tunes. A recorded live album and the music in the album must be very magical. Now is the time you have to estimate his genius for this unknown Japanese artist."
3/1/2007	Cahier	Jour Ouvrable II	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Finland's marko neumann aka cahier returns with his second blast of warm air straight from the arctic. lilting drones that are conjured from a variety of sources, some electronic, some acoustic, dance like magical lights just out of reach, but close enough to feel. this sequel to cahier's first foxglove offering puts the puzzle pieces in place so that the listener can hear the full scope of his range. the short bursts are like chance meetings in the street; like a place of refuge from the cold. cahier's latest continues neumann's quest to touch the sun." Edition of 100 copies.
5/14/2007	Cahier	Jour Ouvrable III	CDR	$13.99	Cut Hands	"Third and final edition in Marko Neumann's Jour Ouvrable series and without a doubt the heaviest and most intense Cahier so far. Ashened glaciers of droning feedback crashing with insane, electrocuted pianoloops, muffled vocal scum and organs being torn out. It all builds up real nice from drawn out noisescapes to intenser, filthier heights before falling face down in a pool made of the sweetest piano melody ever. Comes in chalk paper sleeves with insert. Cover art by Mako Sushi, limited to 60 copies."
7/14/2007	Cahier (Orchestra)	Ciudad	CDR	$7.99	Phantom Limb Recordings	"Marko of FInland has been making music for a long time (with releases on Foxglove, Cut Hand and Sloow Tapes). But he has never made a collection of sounds as brutal and intense at this yet. Phantom Limb is honored to release this truly epic set of sonic mayhem, blasted rhythms and blurred soundscapes. Glitched out bliss from across the sea!" Limited edition of 90 copies.
10/1/2011	Caine, Virgil	Virgil Caine	LP	$28.99	Time-Lag Records	"Hopelessly rare & obscure 1971 southern private press outsider folk psychedelia. simultaneously totally crude & deeply mystical. a truly unique slice of american underground and a very special record that really doesn't sound like anything else out there. first ever reissue... a one-time vinyl only pressing of 500 copies. highest quality 180gm virgin vinyl, exact reproduction heavy vintage style covers, plus an insert with new liner notes from the band."
2/20/2010	Cairo Gang	Twyxt Wyrd	LP	$19.99	Blackest Rainbow	"This was actually the first ever LP I asked someone to do for Blackest Rainbow, way back in early 2007... The Cairo Gang previously had a CD released several years ago on Narnack Records, and the main man behind The Cairo Gang, Emmett Kelly, came over and toured with John Dwyer's OCS (now currently known as Thee Oh Sees), which was actually the first ever show I put on... After meeting Emmett back then he made several reappearances in the UK playing guitar for Beth Orton and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. This new record was recorded back in 2007, and in some ways is a slight departure for the roster on Blackest Rainbow. The record features 8 proper songs of loose relaxed Chicago style songs, if you're into the trademark sounds of labels like of Thrill Jockey you'll definitely dig this. The line-up for the release is also pretty damn sweet, featuring Rob Lowe (Lichens, 90 Day Men), Ben Vida and Joshua Abrams (both of Town & Country, Vida also performs solo as Bird Show). Limited to only 300 copies, with paste in covers and insert."
6/30/2010	Callahan, Jack	Music From Airports	LP	$15.99	Feeding Tube Records	"Amherst resident solo percussionist and booker of countless basement shows. His music aims to create a total sonic takeover of the space, always by employing silence to gather souls towards a complete ecstatic takeover. (Or, sometimes by). Sometimes you will ask, "Is this record still playing"? Yes it is still playing. Edition of 100."
7/30/2006	Calvinist, John Henry	King Solomon Hill	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Traditions don't often go softly into the night. they may fest under the surface of things for a while, but they don't truly disappear. the lost domain's john henry calvinist prepares a set of limestone-dusted originals which snake their way through the muddy rivers of days gone by. dirt-soaked radio transmissions from distant dimensions scorch the reels and get things moving. there's enough space in these towering guitar explorations to suck marrow from the sky. these back porch acoustic blues sing to the heavens, "come down and get me, i'm just waiting..." - label
10/25/2008	Camellia	23'39- EP	CDR	$12.99	Reverb Worship	"Camellia are an excellent trio from Japan.The band play instumental post/progressive rock with some interesting time signatures reminding me a little of a more commercial version of Koenjihyakkei or Ruins.The cd features three excellent tracks and comes in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies."
2/23/2004	Campbell, Neil	Lost Predelic Moonshine Music	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	“One hour of Neil rippling free over a pot of bubbling kenyan lard.”
6/19/2007	Campbell, Neil	Sol Powr	CD	$14.99	Music Mundane	"A timely reissue of an LP that originally saw the light of day on vinyl, courtesy of the esteemed Finnish label Lal Lal Lal, some time toward the start of this millennium. Well, the 300 copies soon disappeared, Campbell and Lal Lal Lal moved on to further releases and everyone was happy. That is, all apart from those who missed out and had to trawl ebay and rare record lists if they wanted to hear what amounted to only the second Neil Campbell solo record, after 1997's "These premises are no longer bugged". Campbell is of course familiar from his recordings with Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof!, Richard Youngs, The A Band and many more over the past two decades. His current project, Astral Social Club, goes from strength to strength, prompting Dusted magazine to call it "the purest expression of his art of the ecstatic on record". In many ways, "SOL POWR" is the logical precursor to Astral Social Club, with its heavy focus on keyboard-driven electronic pulse flotation - when it was originally released Julian Cope remarked that it "sounds as though Martin Rev had teamed up with Moebius and Roedelius, during their CLUSTER 2 period". This reissue, the first release on Campbell's own Music Mundane label, supplements the original vinyl LP with three additional tracks from the same period. Two of them were originally released on a miniscule-edition 7" lathe-cut by Stavanger's Gold Soundz Records, while the third was commissioned for download on Brian Lavelle's online TechNOH label. They fit right in with the LP's original seven tracks, forming fifty of the most glorious minutes in Campbell's not-inconsiderable discography." Edition of 500 in hard DVD style case.
5/27/2003	Campbell, Neil	The Hearing Force of the Humanverse	CDR	$11.99	fencing flatworm recordings	"Neil Campbell may be more recently known as part of local resonant experts Vibracathdral Orchestra, but Hearing Force shows three years of worth of equally absorbing solo work. Less guitar based than when with Vibracathedral, Campbell continues in their semi-improv, intuitive vein, using windchime-like bells, cut-up tapes of opera, Velvet Underground-style violin groans and radio tuning trills to create both beautiful disquiet and contemplative melancholy." - from The Leeds Guide, May 2001
5/27/2003	Campbell, Neil & Rob Hayler	In Luck	CDR	$9.99	fencing flatworm recordings	Neil Campbell + - CD $9.99 () "6 tracks, 34 minutes of electro-loopage, starting fairly minimal, then spilling over into glorious drunken forest swirl. Not so much a midway point between Campbell solo and Hayler's Midwich project, more another door opening into somewhere new."
1/13/2002	Campbell, Neil & Stewart Walden	Here Comes Fun	CD	$11.99	Slippy Town	"Back yonder in 1992, before he got around to dronin' with the VibraCathedral Orchestra, Neil Campbell recorded this set of 21 improvised songs with collaborator Stewart Walden. The sound is hard to describe, but how about this: the Godz timewarp to the early 90s, obtain electronic keyboards, and imbibe the substances necessary to produce this kinda twisted FUN! There are also similarities to Slippy Town faves the Screamin' Mee-Mees. Dance to the beat of 'Really Nasty Stain,' 'Dog Song,' 'Hello Bastard,' 'Edmund Sparkler, Sun Ra Fan,' 'Vegan Vampires,' and many mo'! Edition of 120."
8/20/2011	Can	Doko E	LP	$19.99		"An unreleased studio recording from the "Future Days" sessions, this was made at the band's own Inner Space Studio in 1973 and features Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on percussion, Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and Damo Suzuki on vocals. Much like "Ogam Ogat," this is one long and radically shifting improvisation that runs over both sides. Beautiful full color cover, Euro import."
1/23/2003	Can	Moonshake	LP	$17.99		"Previously unreleased on vinyl, these are radio sessions from 1973 and 1974, with excellent sound quality and artwork. Euro import." Features these tracks: Up the Bakerloo Line woth Anne, Return to BB City, Tape Kebab, Tony Wanna Go
7/11/2008	Can	Prehistoric Future	LP	$19.99		"The first-ever recording session in 1968 by one of Germany's most influential bands. This very noisy and experimental album was first out in the mid-'80s as a cassette-only release, then finally on vinyl LP in 2001. Out of print for nearly 5 years, now available again! Euro import."
10/30/2002	Can	Radio Waves	CD	$15.99	Sonic Platten	Same as LP version that is stocked here but also includes 35 minute version of Up the Bakerloo that is not on the LP version. 6 tracks - 71 minutes including 2 tracks recorded live for a tv performance in Germany 1970, plus 1969 studio recording, 2 non-LP b-sides for singles recorded in 1971 and the aforementioned Up the Bakerloo recorded for BBC Radio on March 16, 1972.
2/14/2008	Can't	Private Time Part 2	LP	$15.99	Weird Forest	"For me this is the ultimate Can't LP. Its a sound cornucopia of everything Jessica Rylan does so beautifully... amazing scraped and destroyed analog synth-laden vocals, lovely singer/songwriter stylings with acoustic guitar, and Shaggs-style garage gusto! This record features Jessica's own homemade synthesizers including the Little Boy Blue! One of my favorite Weird Forest releases to date! Beautiful color covers by Abide Visuals and a fabulous inner sleeve with artwork by Jessica." - label. Limited edition of 500 copies.
11/17/2007	Can't / Carly Ptak / Heather Leigh / Zaimph	Can't / Carly Ptak / Heather Leigh / Zaimph	dbl lathe cut 8"	$29.99	Curor Recordings	"New limited to 100 copies double lathe set (plays at 45rpm) that bundles four of the foremost female avant/noise insurgents this side of Yoko fucking Ono. And that's the only side to be on. Heather Leigh's "Loch Awe" is the first recorded evidence of her profound post-Adris Hoyos approach to drums and vocal disobedience, with a bandstand rocking sound that references Robbie Yeats's machine gun stagger as much as The Shaggs or Harry Pussy. The Zaimph track is a tornado of levitation with vocals sucked through tiny collapsing galaxies. Can't aka Jessica Rylan presents a synth and vocal piece that draws on all of the most magical aspects of her live shows while Carly Patak of Nautical Almanac presents an excerpt from a conceptual work entitled "Activity: brief fugue", intended to "create change through the process of focussed intent". The whole set comes wrapped up in some particularly fine art by Karen Constance of Blo od Stereo/Chocolate Monk/Polly Shang Kuan Band etc. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue. "The brief, such as it was, for this double 8" lathe-cut set was that each artist should submit a track of 'vocal exploration.' The artists were free to interpret this however they wished. It was not a condition that tracks should necessarily be a capella. Jessica Rylan (aka Can't) provides a 'cover version' of part of Junko's 'Sleeping Beauty' with heavily processed voice and homemade modular synthesizer. Double Leopard's Marcia Bassett pushes the tolerances of the lathe-cut to breaking (up) point with the intensely distorted vocal loops of 'Winter Lips'. Carly Ptak's 'Activity: Brief Fugue' offers perhaps the most unexpected interpretation of the brief, being the documentation of a talk the artist gave during a workshop dedicated to creative realisation. Finally, on 'Loch Awe', Heather Leigh assaults a massively reverberant drum set, all the while wailing like some supernatural creature of Scottish legend. Stunning cover art by Karen Constance." - label
3/26/2006	Can't / Nipple Creek	split	CDR	$12.99	U-Sound Records	"Can't is Jessica Rylan, here in live performance from 2004. enter this sweet chirping composition, and become lost in her zonked home-made synth world. Nipple Creek is Thurston and Gene Moore running wild with their guitars open. full on!! joined by lottsa familly members, and Tom Greenwood to boot. like a big barney with a deluxe almond joy division!"
11/16/2004	Canterbury Music Festival	Rain & Shine	LP	$22.99	Beatball	"Top quality LP version of only recordings from New York quaret, whose album was an ultra obscure release on The Tokens’ B.T. Puppy Records label; like most soft pop/psych from New York (ie: Left Banke) there is a melancholic underpinning to the sunshine, as you'll hear on mournful sounding ballads like 'First Spring Rain', 'Why Does Everybody Run To Home', 'You're The Only Good For Me', and 'Poor Man'. Unlike most soft pop groups, however, these guys could rock when they wanted, as they do on 'Super Duper Trooper' and an unlikely instrumental take on 'The Son Of A Preacherman'. The crown jewel of the album is the snappy 'Angelina', which is the best song that the Epic-era Don & The Goodtimes never did." - Lion Productions
8/4/2007	Capece, Lucio	BB.	DVD-R	$11.99	a question of re_entry	"the dvdr contains two performances for solo saxophone and assorted utilities, filmed in berlin & buenos aires. for those who have grown weary of audio & visuals releases, fear not! these are videos of a man doing his work, nothing to distract you from your listening habits (you'll be missing the point of course but what more could we do..). i should pause here and mention two or three other discs lucio has been involved in lately. first of all there is his duo disc with toshimaru nakamura - IJ on formed, this is not out yet but should be pretty soon according to reliable sources. what is out and circulating on the net though is reviews, ranging from great to ecstatic, from some duo dates these two have been playing during the past weeks. needless to say this is a document that's been generating some expectation. out on azul discographica is the trio of lucio capece/robin hayward/axel dörner - "Kammerlärm". and last but not least, on l'innomable, there is the duo record of lucio capece & axel dörner. i am writing all this info on lucio's projects just to get to this last one, the disc on l'innomable, which you should be by now getting up your lazy asses and buying, it's that good. don't say i didn't warn you."
1/22/2011	Capricornus	Halation	CD	$9.99	Infraction	"Halation gives off a flat-on-back eyes-to-skies drowsy air with its long drawn out tone-rays. Highly amorphous in strategy, a purist ambient Enovian ethos a la Thursday Afternoon may suggest itself. On occasion, clusters of notes flicker within the freefloating drone, mirroring the eponymous halation effect - transient morning brume, or light refracted through water vapour rendered blurred." - Alan Lockett for Furthernoise.org Features artwork by Alan McClelland using a stock Infraction layout. Halation is the working name of Hiroshi Tanaka. This is his first release in any format. Influences from Andrew Chalk, Taiga Remains and David Tagg. CD issued in a 4 panel digipak, limited to 500 copies.
5/1/2003	Captain Beefheart	Some YoYo Stuff - Don Van Vliet	DVD	$9.99	MVD	"A short film by Anton Corbijn revealing the thoughts on many subjects of Captain Beefheart / Don Van Vliet. Includes questions posed by David Lynch, footage of Van Vliet's mother Sue, and Corbijn explaining why he made the film in the first place."
8/31/2010	Car Commercials	Prisoner of Type	7" + download	$4.99	Soft Abuse	"Car Commercials explore the personal / loner side of DIY with their singular take on no-chord strum & mumble rock n' roll alienation. Dave Sutton and Daniel DiMaggio have created another soundtrack of suburban boredom & terminal paranoia; the stifling, mundane source of this music (geographically and psychologically speaking) is mirrored and regurgitated in these five tunes. Where once they tread a formless, lurching path, Car Commercials now tromp along with more-cohesive abandon. Moments of spontaneity & pure attitude are delivered in restrained spurts and jabs, and their chops seem better, too. All in all, Prisoner of Type extends the duo's unsettling missives into (slightly) less-rudimentary corners. Each side offers a different, uh, side of the band. Its a savory listen. 300 pressed, includes a free download."
12/2/2008	Car Commericals	Eric's Diary	LP	$14.99	Soft Abuse	"Car Commericals are generally uncomfortable; probably shifty-eyed loners that barely leave the basement. Their brand of strictly personal suburban ooze was borne deep within the recesses of New Jersey, just east of I-95. More specifically, this music springs from inside that unspeakable zone deep within the mind where feelings get very messy.David Sutton and Daniel DiMaggio, the duo known as Car Commercials, make mysterious fake rock clatter for heavy petting (yeah right). Following a brief stint as GT Performers, Daniel and David began to make duo recordings as Car Commercials a few years ago, releasing their creepy missives in small runs, mostly for Sutton's Leaf Leaf label. The two have tapped into an aspect of nonsensical nihilism that makes Jad Fair's early recordings so alluring, but have forgone his obsession with cartoon horror and monster movies in favor of Faces of Death I thru VI. Eric's Diary is the second LP release from Car Commericals, following the out-of-print Judy's Dust LP (Cenotaph) from early 2008. Those confounded by Judy's Dust will be pleased to know that Eric's Diary is where things get...intense. Breathe deep, and prepare to scratch yr head faster than you can say 'Home Blitz.' LP edition of 200 with full color paste-on sleeves."
4/22/2009	Carbonara, Eric	Towards a Center of Infinite Flux	CDR	$6.99	Majmua Music	"Eric Carbonara is a Philadelphia based multi-instrumentalist & recording engineer, whose search for raw aural expression has led him far and wide - from noise & electro-acoustic music to taking deep root in the bounty of the wooden guitar. Carbonara's playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk to form a kind of exalted pidgin style of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease. On Towards a Center of Infinite Flux, Carbonara brings the many facets of his playing together and makes these seemingly disparate elements work together as a focused whole. Meditative workouts flow into electronic excursions and back again, reminding the listener that dichotomies in the world of sound only exist when we create them, and those that are receptive are richly rewarded."
2/26/2006	Carchesio, Eugene	Garden of Souls	3" CDR	$7.99	Kindling	"Eugene Carchesio's timeless work as a visual artist has unjustly eclipsed his extraordinary output as a soundmaker. Since the early '80s, Mr E has steadfastly proliferated a sackful of barely-released cassettes and cdrs under the D.N.E moniker. Garden of Souls is Mr E's most recent recording and his first widely’ available work since the landmark DNE LP released in 1990. It seamlessly melds his recent explorations of percussion and electronic sound in a typically playful suite of organic and minimal compositions. Another small but precious drop in the pond."
4/10/2005	Carchesio, Eugene / Leighton Craig	Community of Opposites	3" CDR	$6.99	Kindling	"Capital A ambient. 19 minute real time keyboard cycle dripped through a computer to produce crystalline electronic music. Delicate and hypnotic. Play at low volume."
12/24/2005	Cardoen, Christope / Lionel Marchetti / Emmanuel Petit	Mere Feu 40 Tetes	CDR	$12.99	Absurd	"it was back in september 2003 when christophe cardoen (forge) & lionel marchetti / emmanuele petit (musicians) were invited for the cremation mass of mr. pierre de la faye (1917-2003), the short (around 32 min) sound farewell was recorded and issued here on the occasion of what absurd considers as the end of its 'mark II' era. as if the cremation ceremony and its almost 'nihilistic' soundscape farewell is both for mr. pierre de la faye and a piece of absurd's history. upon the ashes of which its 'mark III' is soon to be born." Edition of 127 copies.
11/6/2010	Carl Calm	Dayglo Port	LP	$17.99	Dekorder	"Carl Calm ist the solo project by Chicago citizen Eric Lanham of Caboladies. "Dayglo Port" was recorded and mixed over two days in the tiny back bedroom of The Fact House (a house Chris and Eric of Caboladies used to live and host shows in Lexington, KY) in the fall with the windows wide open and gear eliminating any floor space. In contrast to Caboladies' extensive jam-heavy explorations "Dayglo Port" favors a more introspective and rural atmosphere recalling the mood of seminal home electronica classics such as Nuno Canavarro's "Plux Quba", Sunroof!'s "Cloudz" or Microstoria's "Init Ding". Eric Lanham started playing music in 2006. His then roommate and longtime friend Ben Zoeller got him going and they started playing together. They then added Chris Bush and formed Caboladies. They were enthralled with the experimental music they saw coming through Lexington, KY (where they were all living) and decided to go for it. It started with pedals and feedback mangling and they eventually moved to samplers and synths. They did their first tour in 2007 with Three Legged Race (Hair Police). Chris and Eric moved to Chicago in 2009 and continued Caboladies as a duo. Been grooving ever since.... Although they are considered one of the spearheading groups of a new age/synth revival scene in the USA along with Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never, Caboladies have always been equally influenced by the likes of Francois Bayle, Gil Melle, Bernard Parmegiani, and other acousmatic composers, which clearly sets them apart from likeminded artists. Limited edition of 300 copies!"
2/22/2007	Carson, Walter	Recalcitrants	LP	$11.99	Gods of Tundra	"Debut full length LP by Lexington's finest sound creater/destroyer. After a handful of tape releases on Ides, Rampart and Gods of Tundra, Carson pulls out by far his most complete and excellent work to date. Carson's work can be as complex as the person who's creating it. Here we have 2 distinct side long pieces. Side A depicts a battle between organic clang/scrape and piercing ruined electronics. Each faction ponies up with total trance like, but not very calming, moves. By the end you'll have just walked through a weird fucking fight, and time will not really matter anymore. And thats only side A. Side B removes the organics and goes straight for the brain with sharp shocks and tones. Its not harsh, its not calming, its not drone...its just total deep fried electronics. Edition of 300, clear vinyl."
1/25/2011	Carson, Walter	Sneezes and Breezes	cassette	$5.99	Hanson	"Sounds like some mice ate an old synth tape... really... It sounds like some old dude recorded some fucked up shit in school on his colleges fuckin' ARP... stuck the reels in a box in 1973... moved a few times... left em in some shitty storage unit for a couple years... moved em into the basement of his NEW place... had a "mouse issue"... saw that the mice had gotten into his old tapes... that they had actually pulled some tape out and used it w/ pieces of the box to make a nest... died in there. He tossed the whole box out... Walter Carson, on one of his nightly garbage picking runs, comes across this shitty old box of reels... "hey cool!" He dubs em "AS IS" onto cassette...then sends it to me as his master... AMAZING TAPE."
6/11/2006	Carson, Walter & The Three Legged Race	Nocturnal Hymn	cassette	$9.99	Heavy Tapes
12/25/2005	Carson, Walter and the Three Legged Race	Primitive Ash	CDR	$12.99	Mountaain	"A collaboration between the Three Legged Race (Robert Beatty of Hair Police) and Walter Carson, who has done releases for Rampart and Gods of Tundra. Uplifting drones and underwater junk gamelan, with punctuated triumph racket."
11/9/2004	Carter, Christina	Living Contact	CD	$13.99	kranky	"The material on Living Contact is made up solely of Christina Carter on acoustic guitar and occasional vocals. It was recorded on boombox and four track tape from 1994-98, the period between Charalambides' Union and Houston albums, with most of the material recorded in 1995 and 1996. Wholly Other originally released Living Contact as an edition of 100 CDRs in 2001 and the label's catalog describes the music as 'The primitive and spectral underpinnings of Charalambides rendered with mysterious simplicity'." Recommended!
6/13/2011	Carter, Christina	Obelisk / Tholos	7"	$7.99	Emerald Cocoon	"A new 7" by Christina Carter which serves as the opening ceremony for our new 7" series of solo performances 'Alone Together'. A loan voice, the tangled bells, the caw of a crow, a plane passing overheadŠ A fortuitous overlapping of sound moments, trapped in amber by Christina for us to bear witness. Much like her early CDRs 'Hand & Mind' or 'Human As Guitar', 'Obelisk/Tholos' is an act of white witchcraft, a healing spell that defines time with the merest of tools: bells, voice, a microphoneŠ Mastered by Pete Swanson, Edition of 300."
3/10/2011	Carter, Christina	Texas Blues Working	double LP	$29.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Quite simply one of my all time favourite releases on Blackest Rainbow from one of this generations most amazing artists gets the upgrade from cassette to double vinyl LP, featuring the original 6 tracks from the original release, along with an additional brand new amazing track. The original edition on tape received some fantastic reviews, so its great to finally have this out on vinyl, as it really is a superb recording, which came out around one of Christina's most amazingly active recording periods, self releasing fantastic discs like Masque Femine, Two Nights Film and A Blossom Fell as well as Kranky releasing Original Darkness in 2008. Texas Blues Working features six tracks of stunningly haunting guitar and vocals, creating an immensely deep and emotional listening experience. The previously unreleased track, the sublime 21 minute 'Ladyfriend', is another example of Christina's incredible voice and guitar playing. Her voice is just unreal, so deeply emotional and mournful it gives you goosebumps. Pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring a series of black and white photographs by Joe Blanchard."
11/10/2011	Carter, Christina	Trickster Who Is Like God	CDR	$15.99	Many Breaths	One track - 60 minutes - using vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bells. Excited to hear this! Each copy has its own unique artwork.
2/26/2003	Carter, Daniel / Randall Colbourne / Paul Flaherty / Ralph Malik / Sabir Mateen	Resonance	CD	$12.99	Zaabway Music	"’Truth’ is a concept I lost touch with long ago, but ‘truths’ I've still got a handful of; two that've seemed particularly durable are that the three greatest collective improv recs ever are Free Jazz, Ascension, and New York Eye & Ear Control, and that I won't live to hear a fourth. Not that the number of superior free-playing individuals isn't currently at an all-time high; but as most of today's worthwhile recs are inhabited by at most four people, the saintly mix of mutual leadership and all-star collectivism uncannily shared by the Holy Trinity seems unlikely to re-arise. And while I haven't yet burned that last scrap of personal Bible, Resonance has me considering it. That these six individuals actually inhabited one building simultaneously (Amherst Unitarian Meeting House, Amherst, MA, May 16 1997) is history enough; that they proceeded to turn their flaming insides fully outward next to a fire-proof tape recorder is the kind of ulti-moment civilizations build archives for. Of the 10 or so climaxes spread out among the 70 raging minutes of what may be jazz's Fourth World War, the eye-stretching outburst of gut-yelps, throat-calls, and heart-hacks that arises about 2/3rds into 'Piece II' is the candidate most likely to reintroduce you to every millimeter of your skull. Tempting to isolate individuals for appraisal (particularly Flaherty and his virus-carrying tenor coughs), but, much like three other albums I've heard, Resonance's group weight wipes out the concept of sound-separation. Nothing here exists in and of itself; everything is defined by that which it surrounds (and is surrounded by). The only work left is to figure how we're going to wrestle the remaining 37 minutes that Flaherty couldn't fit on this CD from his endlessly strong hands.” - Marc Masters, Opprobrium
9/30/2008	Carter, Tom	After Lunch, Only Devils	CDR	$10.99	Wholly Other	"Relentlessly looped fuzz wah spun into muzzy knots around dazed spectators' heads, crumbling into fragmenting crumbs of varying bit depth. presented in two longish improv settings (recorded during a residency in louvain-la-neuve belgium by daniel duchamp, in paul labrecque's basement), and one short blast recorded before a very zoned audience in berlin by steve gunn, laid down during the massively psyched out GHQ/ tom carter tour in europe, spring 2008. edition of 100, gatefold silkscreen covers."
6/11/2006	Carter, Tom	Glyph	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Since the early '90s, Tom Carter has played as one-half of the essential Charalambides. During that time, Carter also released a handful of solo albums on his own Wholly Other imprint as well as a recent reissue on the seminal Kranky Records. With these he also proved to be an extremely capable solo artist. Since relocating to Oakland, Carter has also joined forces with Ben Chasny and Rob Fisk as a regular member of Badgerlore, while also playing in various outfits with Robert Horton. "Glyph" was originally issued as a limited-edition CD-R on the aforementioned Wholly Other. It is long-since out-of-print. This reissue of these remastered tracks breathes new life into the pieces. What is most striking is the warmth that pervades this entire album. With one piece for steel string acoustic guitar, another for lap steel, and the final (and shortest) on nylon string acoustic, there is diversity amongst the cogent thread that holds it all together. Carter's improvisations speak volumes without saying a word, and "Glyph" is one of his finest achievements to date. It is an ode to the last year of his life in Austin, Texas and all that it contained. As stated in Tom's liner notes for the reissue, "I regret nothing yet I miss Texas and its unpressured passage of time, the ability to create an oppositional universe under the nose of redneck reality, the cicadas, the hot green light through afternoon trees, rolling joints in a lawn chair." "Glyph" is all of these things and more, depicted in an aural form that only Tom Carter could create. First 500 come in gatefold sleeves, silk-screened on one side by Rob Fisk (Free Porcupine Society) and spraypainted on the other by Tom."
6/25/2004	Carter, Tom	Monument	CD	$13.99	kranky	"Monument is a recording of guitar music from Tom Carter of Charalambides and is the second in a series of Charalambides-related reissues by Kranky. The two tracks of solo lap steel guitar were recorded live to DAT by Tom Carter a few days before a live performance in March, 2001. Monument was originally released by Wholly Other in an edition of 55 CDRs. The first track, 'Monument 1 (Memorial)' is slightly longer than two minutes and barely reveals itself. The second, 'Monument 2', is 47 minutes in length and considerably more expansive and louder than the opening cut. The album was made using lap steel guitar, glass slides, digitech tsr-12 stereo reverb, a rat distortion pedal and craftsman screwdrivers."
9/25/2010	Carter, Tom	Numinous	c40 cassette + download	$7.99	Prairie Fire Tapes	"When we began planning for future Prairie Fire releases, Tom was at the top of our wish list. Needless to say that we're pretty excited to be able to release two hot live T.C. Jams to fire off our fall release parade. Recorded in Brooklyn and Montreal, these tracks (Beauty Draws The Seed & Numinous) offer some of the best solo psych guitar I have heard in loooong time." Edition of 100 copies.
11/4/2006	Carter, Tom	Phantom Lung	7"	$6.99	Anthem	"An extremely limited one-sided 7-inch from TOM CARTER of CHARALAMBIDES. Features two tracks, "Phantom Lung" and "Temescal Blues," packaged in sewn paper sleeves and pressed in a numbered edition of 211 copies."
8/31/2008	Carter, Tom	Shots at Infinity 1	CD	$15.99	Important	"Shots at Infinity 1 is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern US from late 2007. Steering away from the more delicate string environments and modal folk improvisations of previous CDs, the disc features maximum loop delay drone overload stretched over long, densely harmonic tracks, retaining the melodic content and flow of earlier releases. Carter's solo work covers a lot of territory, but latter-day sightings show him concentrating on looped guitar drones of immensely stacked beauty, with heaps of psychedelic melodic content missing from the repertoires of many noise and drone bands."
8/31/2008	Carter, Tom	Shots at Infinity 2	LP	$18.99	Important	"Shots at Infinity 2 contains two long live tracks in the same mode as volume one, but more cut loose and blown out, recorded in Nemo Bidstrup's record store and Burnt Hills' basement jam zone. Tom Carter is a guitar player best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone iconoclasts Charalambides. Since 2000, however, he has become increasingly active as not only a solo artist but as a collaborator. He has performed with improvising musicians as diverse as Thurston Moore, Jandek, Tetuzi Akiyama, Matt Valentine, and many others, as well as being a key member of groups like Badgerlore (with Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance), Friday Group, Mudsuckers (with Robert Horton and the Yellow Swans), and Zaika (with Marcia Bassett of the Double Leopards and Hototogisu)."
9/17/2006	Carter, Tom	Sun Swallower	CDR	$12.99	Wholly Other	"Great solo set from Tom Carter recorded live at the Ecstatic Yod Mill Outlet on a hand held in 2001. Heavy magnetic blues/drone on the same bill as Scorces. No liners from eye-witness Matt Krefting tho. Limited edition in screened sleeves." - Volcanic Tongue
12/24/2005	Carter, Tom & Robert Horton	Lunar Eclipse	CD	$13.99	Important Records	"Lunar Eclipse was culled from over 30 hours of recordings taking place, inadvertently, on the equinox, lunar eclipse and winter solstice of 2004.The duo of Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Robert Horton sound as if they are channeling the natural power of these significant calender days into the music. They both noticed something special was happening during the initial recording session when they looked at a clock and realised that they'd been playing for over 5 hours. Throughout the album Carter slowly plays louder and more powerfully than usual over drone-master Robert Horton's organic & electronic chimes, drones, jangles, dangles and splendor. The result is a vast, expansive sound cavern full of hidden melody, slow drones, textured tribal gong and hidden mystic rhythm."
10/6/2007	Carter, Tom & Vanessa Arn	What is here for	LP	$17.99	A Silent Place	"Contains two long and deep duo cuts of univibe-era lap steel / electronic tone generator improvisation, one side recorded live and stamped w/ the indelible mark (ie, the #15 bus rumbling by) of Bullbabe Studios, Austin TX (the odor of sweat, lone star, and barbeque is palpable). The sounds: monolithic serenity infused with a deep breath from the void, as peaceful and violent as a mountain range. A shame that this configuration is so underrepresented in the discography, as the mesh of T&V's playing is so instantly seismic...Tom Carter is best known for his work with Charalambides, which he co-founded with longtime creative partner Christina Carter in 1991. Since 2002, Carter has also undertaken solo work and collaborations. His 2003 solo tour, centered around the seminal Brattleboro FreeFolk festival, featured unaccompanied solo shows and musical excursions (on stage and tape) with Bardo Pond, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, the MVEE Medicine Show, Ian Nagoski, Tower Recordings, and Double Leopards, among others. Vanessa Arn became a member of Boston/California/Texas group Primordial Undermind soon after Tom's brief tenure in the group. The potential for mountainous difference tones between the lap steel and the triwave tone generator (a custom built synthesizer) was immediately apparent to all parties, and Tom suggested a collaboration (which was greatly assisted by the fact that Tom and Vanessa were at the time next door neighbors). A sole performance and a handful of recordings ensued and the results are here for your perusal." Limited edition of 515 copies.
12/21/2004	Carter, Tom and Vanessa Arn / The Moglass	Snake-Tongued, Swallow-Tailed	CD	$14.99	Nexsound	"Tom Carter (Charalambides) & Vanessa Arn (Primordial Undermind, Gourmet Chef) combined their powers to tap the reverberant waves of the ether on this split release with improv trio from Ukraine - the Moglass. While Carter / Arn part made with lap-steel guitars and triwave picogenerator sounds very soft, cajolingly and tensely at times, the Moglass part sounds more dense and brighter."
7/16/2006	Cases, The	The Cases (#4)	cassette	$8.99	Fag Tapes	4th release from michigan basement cult band. snowed in. midnight incantations. prayers for the Black Fog.
6/11/2006	Cases, The	untitled	casette	$8.99	Fag Tapes	"third release from the cases...more sounds from the instrument filled down-stairs of the Michigan Black Mass cult compound. wasted all night winter worship. snowed in speakers."
11/17/2007	Casket Sinkers, The	Baked Beans, Brains, and Spiders	one-sided 7" & CDR	$12.99	American Tapes	"Wacked Duo of Coorz on downtown soprano sax and Rad Dad Dillowaysted on synth and processing. Some of the last recordingz in his basement of the crib right by the sacred temple Banfields, where Greh and Undressa reside now. Jamz are short blasts of lurking, churning synth creepers with echo'd reeds hidden within, ending in a time rattling lock groove. CD includes some outtakes from the session, some dillo re: Spine Scav tracks, and full basement weirdnezzz. The title is taken from a strange hand during an Apples to Apples session. Edition of 200, color art, color vinyl, jammable at any speed. No info, at all."
1/25/2011	Casket Sinkers, The	Operations	CDR	$7.99	Hanson	"Recorded on New Years Eve 2009/2010 at Tarker Mills, OH. John Olson on Sax and Electronics, Aaron Dilloway on Synth and Tapes. Originally released as a limited s/t cassette earlier this year on PLASTER CASTER."
	Castro, Jorge	The Joys and Rewards of Repetition	CD	$7.99	Public Eyesore	"The title is not misleading, folks: there's some heavy repetitive mantra action going down on these four long tracks. Not that this is a bad thing. O my no. I don't know what instruments Castro is using on this release - whatever it is, it's fed through banks of reverb and delay until it emerges as different- sounding drones, basically. This is hardcore drone music that wouldn't be out of place on the Drone label (home of the mighty Troum). A lot of this actually reminds me of Troum's more recent material, come to think of it. So the man must be doing something right.... The only real difference between the four tracks (no titles, so sorry) is in the textures of the drones and the delay speeds, but even accounting for such minimal adjustments he gets a pretty surprising amount of variety from his oscillating drone-o- tron. The high-pitched shimmering drones of the third track are particularly interesting, sounding like the singing of high-tension wires - Alan Lamb fans take note - and more of these sounds appear on the fourth track, where the drones 'n whines interact to form eddies and whirls. This is pretty swank stuff for drone fanatics, but the rest of the world should probably approach with caution."
	Castro, Jorge / Carlos Giffoni	Guitarras del olivido y pensamientos Dimensionales	CD	$9.99	Public Eyesore	Collaboration between New York free rock guitarist Carlos Giffoni (of Monotract) and Puerto Rican ambient guitarist Jorge Castro.
7/16/2006	Castro, Nick & The Young Elders	Come Into Our House	CD	$13.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"West Coast psychedelic folkie Nick Castro is currently making some of most dynamic and truly original sounds to emerge from the much-ballyhooed new folk movement. As 'freak-folk' and assorted hairy-fairy type labels grab the headlines in the underground, Castro strives for a solemn, serene sort of beauty, summoning utterly melodic incantations in song and sound. Gracefully immersing '60s/'70s British Isles acid balladry with Middle-Eastern traditional music and heady, pan-cultural communal jams, Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas and ocean-spanning folk transcendence. Following up 2005's lauded Further From Grace, Castro unfurls his sprawling third album Come Into Our House, easily his most far-reaching and deeply molecular outing yet."
6/5/2004	Castro, Nick and the Poison Tree	Further From Grace	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Beaming warmly from the underground enclaves of Los Angeles, CA like a lambent ray of soft sunlight, the music of Nick Castro is breathing fresh life and pristine wonderment into an old sound. Castro released a beguiling album called A Spy in the House of God in 2004 on his own imprint Records of Ghaud, and it caused quite a stir in the new acid folk circles. Imagine a melding of More-era Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett solo and a touch of Incredible String Band with modern fractured folk sound-weavers like the Tower Recordings and maybe you are in the right sphere. For his follow up, Castro has assembled a cast of players calling themselves The Poison Tree, boasting amongst its ranks underground folk icons Josephine Foster and members of Espers. It is a heavenly match as evidenced on Further From Grace, a simply mystical sophomore effort illustrating with a feathery wallop that Castro is a major voice amongst the new insurgence of THC troubadours. Induced by flourishes of psychedelic '60s folk bards like Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine) and Bert Jansch, laced with flashes of Amon Duul-like acoustic communal atmosphere (circa Paradieswarts Duul), Further From Grace is a graceful tab of Nick Castro's own heady universe, an acid-folk masterpiece advancing today's sound into sparkling new frontiers."
5/16/2011	Catalogue	Brussels Live	LP	$24.99	Metaphon	"Catalogue is a French music collective formed in the late 70's by Jacques Berrocal. This recording features highlights of 2 concerts from Brussels (2007-2008) Drums, Keyboards - Gilbert Artman Guitar - Jean-François Pauvros Trumpet, Voice - Jac Berrocal. "Highlights of their first 2 concerts in about 20 years, live in Brussels (2007-2008), shows the trio of Artman, Berrocal and Pauvros anarchistic, powerful and controversial as ever."
6/9/2010	Cave Bears	Crawl Space	7"	$4.99	Feeding Tube	"This is mostly a conceptual single about a crawlspace. I can imagine they rehearse in someone's attic or basement and there it was...that creepy tiny door that leads to the crawlspace. Or the pull down rickety ladder in the ceiling. That abandoned place in the house where you can't even really store things, it's just an empty area where all kinds of things/people could live. It's inherently scary....it's exactly what you've been looking for for years...it's completely insane...a suburban wasteland masterpiece."
7/11/2011	Cave Bears	Jump To Your Bed	LP	$11.99	Feeding Tube Records	"The game show where everything is already won. (To the viewer) See these "people" try to cope with being winners. In here, (the future) everything is all ready over. There is plenty for you to eat, because everyone else is dead. Perform the same tasks you did in what was once called you "life", wash dishes, answer phone, go to the store, give yourself a pat on the back, because you have achieved the max score. Congratulations, you won. There are no remaining objects, you don't even have to eat any more. But you will want to because there is nothing left except food. You can never escape, so enjoy a hearty meal. Eat, eat. I hope you choke, pig!!! My story. Many 1000's of years ago, I was an artist like you. I made the most art anyone had ever seen. Then I made the best art of all and I won. No I live in a castle and cast spells all day. My life is over, but I can never die. My crystals are in chaos. Can you help me capture them?" Edition of 300 copies. "It's really the most fucked up awesome thing ever! In visual and sound it's like some lost wasted private press from god knows when...think frolk haven or something, but worse."
6/30/2010	Cave Dudes	First Strolls	CDR	$7.99	Inyrdisk	"The first splintering musical melding sessions between Kevin Hainey & Bob McCully from back in the fruitful new grounds of summer ’06. Multi-layered lo-fi sub-rock scrape and mega-drone primitive warlords go out to hunt. Lots of instruments and space set on fire and thrown about. Edition of: 100"
7/30/2010	Cavebears	Get Out of the House	CDR	$6.99	Blueberry Honey	"Another total tantrum from one of the valley's latest and tastiest. CAVEBEARS are a what we call a nervous breakthrough, cooked. They are constant hustlers in the desperate theater of sound destruction. Much appreciation for their 'limits' endlessly expanding, as it helps 'ours' do the same. Don't blame them, blame your folks."
11/6/2010	Celer	Compositions for Cassette	c66 cassette	$5.99	Avant Archive	"Celer's Compositions for Cassette remains one of the duo's most curious and exploratory works. This is Celer on a noble mission, with clearly defined rules and a very limited toolset. Over the course of twelve pieces, Will and Danielle gush their customary mysterious-yet-gorgeous sound, but in this particular case it is all built from brief piano loops recorded to quickly- decaying tape. The pieces are perforated all over, some of them appearing almost only as ghosts of what they might have once been. It's an apropos approach for this couple who have such a distinct reputation for almost defining that controversial 'genre': 'drone'. This reissue edition collects the original compositions now on Avant Archive's customary high-bias chrome cassette, and it includes an original artwork and layout by Johnny Utterback, as well as some combinative photography and layout created in a collaborative process between Will Long and Avant Archive."
5/16/2010	Celer	Dwell In Possibility	LP	$20.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Dwell In Possibility is the debut vinyl LP by the formerly active American husband and wife duo Celer, and is also their first release for Blackest Rainbow. Consisting of 15 different sections sprayed across two sides of vinyl, with little if any distinctions, Dwell In Possibility is arranged as a muted patchwork of keyless voices blinded by sunlight, hollow echoes from unlit interiors, and scrolls of unrolled piano tunes. Enclosed in empty shadows, with vague slides of unanswered prayers, these two sides etch a dateless form into weak ends, and pyrrhic dells. Everydays are left empty-handed, and enjoyed only then. Positions change, and rely only on your imagination to wake from this, to sleep, in hope to feel again. Full-colour fold-over pro-printed covers featuring vintage photography. Limited to approx. 400 copies."
1/22/2011	Celer	Salvaged Violets	double CD	$13.99	Infraction	"In February of 2008, Dani and I recorded, mixed, and completed the music for 'Salvaged Violets'. The words came as the subject line of a short poem, sent to me over email, included with an unrelated question. During these weekdays, our working schedules were almost the opposite, but we spoke over email constantly. Until recently, I did not notice how similar this was to our beginnings, sending letters as we were on different sides of the country. With no conceptual idea in mind, and since we were apart for so much time during the weekdays, we decided to begin 'Salvaged Violets', and see what came of it. Every night when I returned home, before sleeping, I would spend time working on the music that Dani had worked on through the afternoon, and had left on the desk. Every afternoon, she would find a different version to work on that I had left, and this continued for some time. When together, we would sip our tea, laugh at silly jokes, cook, watch television, and so on. There was no need for longing while we were together. There was always laughing, pots and pans clanging, or a muttering television. In forming 'Salvaged Violets', we did not mix it in a particular arranged order. It was mixed simply by the order it was first played, compiling many miniature sections rolled into one. In this case, they were rolled into two. Nothing was discarded, nothing was rearranged. As the sound changed over time, the original form did not. When it was finally complete, we listened together, for the first time. I remember how familiar it seemed, yet I also felt that so much of it was unknown, and undefined. More than a year later, in September of 2009, I revisited the recordings for the first time since 2008. At this time, it was being mastered by our good friend Corey Fuller, so I was still listening to the original. Riding my bike through the endless suburban subdivisions, through the busy downtown streets, I listened repeatedly, for days, over and over. Something was familiar, but so much I was unable to recall, and yet I was able to relate. I returned home, put my bike against the door, and took my headphones off. There, in the still silence, I think I understood finally what it was about." Will Thomas Long, December 2009. Edition of 998 copies. Stoughton mini-lp gatefold CD sleeve. 12 art prints and photographs by Peter Lograsso. Mastered by Corey Fuller."
9/30/2008	Celer	The Everything and the Nothing	CD	$11.99	Infraction	"Celer is a husband (Will) and wife (Danielle) duo from California that use a variety of strings as the basis for their sound. Cello, viola, violin and the sounds are mixed in with field recordings, choir, live theremin and then tape spliced and re-assembled in varying lengths to create a loop base. Those sounds are then sampled, layered and processed. The result is a shimmering orchestra. Periods of silence between the notes only enhance the sound. Though at times very haunting, it's brightly hazy ambient. Initially "Discourses..." was to be 1 full-length CD with a bonus CDR ("The Everything and the Nothing") to accompany the first 100 copies. When Celer presented the bonus material, with field recordings mixed in obtained by Danielle over several months in India, the quality of the material was so high that it was suggested and agreed to instead be a concurrent release of two full-length discs." 2nd edition.
1/22/2011	Celer	Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy	LP	$20.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Second vinyl LP from this formerly active American duo of Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long, which also happens to be the second LP from Celer on Blackest Rainbow. Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy follows on from the recent pairing of releases on Basses Frequences and features 2 sides of unearthed recordings that were created between December 2006 and July 2008. These two sides find the duo creating some truly beautiful drone works with their use of an organic and electronic palette of instrumentation; cello, violin, pipe organ, electronics, tape, field recordings, samples, and mixing board. This really is a standout side from Celer, pulling together their variety of sounds to make a heart breaking collage of sounds falling between beautiful dream tones and heavier dark moments. Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy again pushes Celer further to the front of modern minimal compostion, proving that they were one of the most interesting, consistently outstanding, and intriguing acts around in recent years, creating some of the finest and most beautiful, fragile drone records around. The full experience of a Celer release is complete with accompanying titled fragmented sections for the side long pieces, and striking cover photography by Danielle. Limited to 500 copies in thick old style tip-on hardback jackets with LPs pressed on 140 gram virgin vinyl."
7/30/2006	Celesteville	Kohoutek	CDR	$7.99	Tape Mountain	"It takes a million bees a lifetime to make one pound of honey. This is sweeter and sadder. Ancient and musty sounds from my days in grad school in California, this is easily the darkest record on Tape Mountain, with the possible exception of the Charlie McAlister record." - label.
1/24/2009	Century Plants	Circular Spaces, Vol. 1	CDR	$7.99	Tape Drift	"The tenth release on Tape Drift brings us back to the first, with a brand new offering from Century Plants. The first in a multiple volume series, "Circular Spaces, Vol. 1" finds Hardiman and hare in particularly fine form, showing how far they've come since their debut. This one splits the difference between their melodic and noisy extremes, with two beautifully intense guitar workouts and a long excursion into the depths of sonic abstraction unlike anything else they've committed to tape yet. Debut LP out soon on Music Fellowship!"
1/24/2009	Century Plants	Electrics	CDR	$7.99	House of Alchemy	"Last November we put together an amazing show here in Buffalo featuring a spectrum of -house and alchemy- friends/partners, past, present and future. Century Plants were the future. And, that future is now. Featuring their set from that wonderful night in Buffalo and another live set, Electrics is Century Plants in top form. Cd-r edition of 123 in sleeves with full color artwork by Katheryn Richards."
7/16/2009	Century Plants	Frozen Generation	c32 cassette	$4.99	905 Tapes	"Eric Hardiman (rambutan) and Ray Hare make up the experimental-psychedelic unit of new york's Century Plants. these dudes squeeze a mixture of 70's slow motion riffs and irrational distortion out of their guitars like narcotics coated pop rocks. wheezy and ugly, breezy and celestial. two tracks here; a remix of their track frozen generation from their inversions cdr and a stone cold cruiser called ice land." Edition of 40 copies.
10/25/2008	Century Plants	Inversions	CDR	$8.99	Ikuisuus	"Latest from Albany guitar duo whose six string damaging has often shred the guitar beyond recognition. For this outing, however, Century Plants plug in, and allow their guitars to be guitars. Psych raga, melting icebergs of roaring drone, metallic strum and clang, oceanic melody and even a helping of pastoral song melody separate this from previous smash ups. Hardiman and Hare create these hypnotic states from the ground up, building their sound out of pure improvisation. Oh yeah, the guitars don't always sound like guitars!"
7/14/2007	Century Plants	Sound System Sound	CDR	$8.99	Tape Drift Records	"Two long tracks of windswept noise, hidden melodies, amp rumble, scraping, and utterly beautiful droned out bliss. Also look for summer 2007 Century Plants releases on Phantom Limb, Cut Hands, Music Your Mind Will Love You, and Abandon Ship Records." Edition of 50 copies
8/31/2008	Century Plants / The Quost	split	CDR	$9.99	Deep Water	"Our latest shared release continues the transatlantic theme, featuring a pair of duos who follow different but complementary routes to lost lands of avant-psych-drone overload. Century Plants is a two-headed guitar monster from upstate New York, both also serving in the larger Burnt Hills collectivity; gtrs plugged directly into hi-tension wires mainline pure raw overbleed, calling to mind the finest Japanese and New Zealand noise masters w/o sounding like anyone but themselves. French twosome the Qoast have a number of releases under their belts under the name Ghost Brames; here they kick things up a good few notches, doubling up each on swirling gtrs & bash-tastic drums for a Gallic free-psych whirlwind epic that manages to be simultaneously atomically heavy and woozily levitational. Three tracks total, 50 minutes."
5/7/2004	Cerebral Pals	Throb For Me	CDR	$8.99	Musically Incorrect Records	"Do you like guitar noise? Melvins-meets-Cosmonauts Hail Satan-like 'rock'? Industrial screech? The 'Pals offer them all! Limited edition of 70 copies."
5/16/2010	Cetacean Nation Institute For Environmental Sounds	Peru	c30 cassette	$7.99	Taped Sounds	"A 30 minutes composition, using only short snippets of fieldrecordings of Peruvian Birds. originally inspired by the heavy whistling birdsongs in the Aguirre movie. the final result is pretty random, yet very nice to listen to."
5/16/2010	Cetacean Nation Institute For Environmental Sounds	Spinner & Spotted Dolphins	c40 cassette	$7.99	Taped Sounds	"A soothing 40 mins of water-, snorkling- and dolphin squeeks and sounds. experience the Higher Intelligence with swimming in the Pod. recorded off the coast in Kona (Hawai'i) & Bimini (Bahamas)."
2/11/2006	Ceylon Mange	The Maiming Path	LP	$15.99	HP Cycle	"Ceylon Mange is the trio of Dylan Nyoukis (Chocolate Monk proprietor and sound molder in Blood Stereo, Decaer Pinga), Karen Constance (Blood Stereo, Smack Music 7) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt). The Maiming Path extends from the group's previous mind melts with two side long (de)constructions that are assembled from a variety of mangled loops and electronics, guitar feedback/slaughter and cromagnon vocals. The results are a murky stew, as each emerging sound creeps upon the listener like a blackened sloth nightmare. It's the type of organic brain tangle that is rarely unleashed by the spirits these days. The LP is housed in a full-colour printed sleeve featuring Karen's outsider artwork." 2nd edition.
7/16/2009	Chalice	Chalice	CDR	$10.99	High Spirits	"Weird jams from stange guests to visit cosmos farm."
2/7/2009	Chambers	Soon	cassette	$8.99	Tone Filth	"Gentle and restrained tape movements from the one behind Ides Recordings. I've never been to Chicago, but I'd imagine it would feel a lot like this tape. Minimal lo-fi dirt. Edition of 100 with 2 color screen printed inserts and professional printed chrome cassettes."
1/22/2011	Channels 3 And 4	Christianity	LP	$10.99	Gilgongo Records	"Originally slated to come out on Summer Lovers United several years ago, as a follow up to their "Christian Girls Like to Get Cut" 12" ep w/ Johnny Jewel - this long delayed collection of Vancouver riot grrl synth punk has finally made it's way out there. Members of SHEARING PINX and TWIN CRYSTALS, their output includes many obscure gems in the realms of cassettes and lathes on their respective ISOLATED NOW WAVES and DEAR + BIRD labels. Dancey, manic outbursts from three of the many prolific members of the modern Vancouver scene."
3/1/2007	Chaob	Chaob	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"This supergroup of sorts recorded this, their first album, in october of 2005 in portland, oregon. consisting of mike tamburo, matt mcdowell, and world's honey owens and adam forkner. the results are monolithic. two sprawling jams that illuminate the night sky with their own vivid lightshow. these massive drones are dense and subtle, with each hypnotic change commanding the listener's full attention. on their own, each of these artists are major league talents, but put them in a room together and they're a different monster. just one listen to chaob and you'll feel the electricity in the air." Edition of 100 copies.
4/24/2006	Chapel Soil Tunnel	Tongue & Song	CDR	$9.99	Celestial Jars	"emitted directly from nature's own, hidden, soily tunnels, chapel soil tunnel explores the posibilities from a purgatorial point of view. by combining the instrumentation in a unique way, he uses sonic outbursts of ancient warcries to deliver the message of old masters. this is music from one of the tunnels, you cross when being forced to purgatory. eclectic layers of acoustic scrawl weaves in and out of layers of flutes, horns and dense drones, which subsequently end up being replaced by cherub screams and hollers in eternal time. chapel soil tunnel is originally played entirely by mikkel andersen - and then mixed down with help from brad dixon."
4/27/2011	Chapels	Call It Killing You Off	c29 cassette	$5.99	Imminent Frequencies	"If you have ever wondered what it would sound like to sneak into an abandoned Victorian mansion during a blizzard this is it. Translucent voices, bits of metal debris, found sounds and what sounds like some percussion all meld into a collage of frigid archaic beauty. When not running his House of Alchemy label Adam Richards has stayed rather busy the last couple of years maintaining a strong body of work with his Chapels project creating hauntingly striking sound compositions. Like many Chapels releases the sounds within are opaque and eerie often hard to decipher but I think I like it better that way."
9/30/2008	Chapels	Dust Bells	cassette	$6.99	Tired Trails	"Here we have a curious exploration of mind, matter and mania. Subtle echoes form mandala like patterns, while surging electricity collapse their efforts. The opening track is a meditative distended sit down stay down, swaying like abandoned swings, grasping but pushing away, an empty heart, a broken nest. The second track starts off discreet, sensitive even, and while it keeps itself refined, it also rips the fabric of fortune, stabbing swords at its purpose, caving in on it's commands. Side B demands the same attention and diligence. it is cunning chaos and loopy destruction. impulsive expeditions. it is the reminder of urgency, the remainder of madness and the recollection of delight. dive in. blue cs housed in hand-made cs pockets with silver bells. comes with a lovely sticker with a curious photo from the 30's. lmt ed of 40!!"
4/10/2009	Chapels	In Aspic	cassette	$4.99	Anathema Sound	"This new project sees Buffalo 's Adam Richards (of The Circle and the Point and the House of Alchemy label) playing the role of lo-fi exorcist. In Aspic is a fascinating, addictive listen that extols both warm melodies and eerie vibes in heavy doses at once. Richards juggles guitars, synths, and hand percussion to lift spirits from the tape hiss and cause all the floorboards in the house to creak at once. It's densely-layered and swirling at one moment, sparsely whispering the next, yet always beautiful and engrossing in its own haunting way. With full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub." Edition of 50 copies.
1/22/2011	Chapels	Mensagem	c30 cassette	$4.99	Ghetto Naturalist Series	"Adam Richards= stellar releases all over the map as you know- dudes label, house of alchemy, cranks out some of the sickest shit on earth- could go on and on w/ compliments... 'mensagem' is intimate and strange and eerie and textural and fkn gooood!! an honor to release this!!! - edition of 50."
6/11/2006	Charalambides	A Vintage Burden	CD	$13.99	kranky	"For those desperate to pigeonhole A Vintage Burden into the Charalambides canon, it'd be fair to say it's more of a 'song' type release than nearly all of their past collaborative work. It's to the group's credit that this doesn't mean there is a reduction in the breadth or depth of their music. Filled with exquisite playing, beautifully realized songs, and bona fide emotion A Vintage Burden is not a concession to commercialism. In fact, if it weren't for the miles of music left still to create and the multitudes of paths to take, the album would be looked back on as Charalambides definitive release. It takes a rare talent to channel the sound of a season so exactly, as "Spring" does. The main line of clean electric guitar paces around the other melody lines like twinkling rays of sunlight. There's a hesitance in the playing that creates a languid warm feel. Christina Carter's gorgeous "let it shine...it will shine" refrain is one of hope, after all hope has been dashed. It's a flinging open of doors and windows to take in the first draughts of warm air. The song sounds like a second chance, and it's a wondrous piece of music; picking up the pieces isn't a speedy process. This sense of fragility and resettling your feet are recurring themes in A Vintage Burden. Tom Carter manages to make the guitar work on opener "There Is No End" both step haltingly and slowly unfurl as it progresses. The song, even with the weight of double tracked vocals, slides by with the delicacy of a thin layer of glass underfoot. The mix and production job, done by Tom Carter, retains ingenuousness despite its "hear everything" polish. The almost Cure / Cocteau's sound of "Dormant Love"s lap steel teeters between electronic, organic and something else altogether, insinuating itself through the song's core. The notes waver, bend, and stretch like some chillingly sharp breeze over the relatively loose acoustic guitar strum. Before Christina even mentions snow in her lyrics ("the year of the heaviest snow") you can feel the distance in the music and the cold in Carter's trembling hurt vocals. The instrumental cut, "Black Bed Blues," is the lengthiest piece here, but still keeps itself within a structure. This is the unseen improv of what normally happens when the tape machines don't stop; the extended solo. Building slowly on acoustic pieces of whizzing neon, glinting slide bottleneck blues appear. From this finger-picking swirl comes an unobtrusive vocal drone (from Christina?) that grows under the relaxed Neil Young acoustic rhythms. There's even space for some coiled dueling, whereas most of the other guitar work on the album seems more stunningly dislocated. Ending in backwards sliding drones, this is the closest A Vintage Burden gets to the "old days." Despite the chill of "Dormant Love," A Vintage Burden might just be the best summer LP you'll hear this year-perfect timing." - Stylus Magazine
9/30/2008	Charalambides	Branches	CD	$10.99	Wholly Other	"A rare document of a brief arc in Charalambides' 17 year (and counting) trajectory, somewhere between the extreme spatial attenuation of the long gone Crucial Blast CDR Being As Is and the gentle intergalactic trio sway of the kranky disk Unknown Spin- and quite distance from both the exclamatory exhalations of Joy Shapes and the layered songcraft of Likeness. These are spartan duets of formalistic near-symmetry, a reminder that there was a time when Charalambides swung as close to the axis of Incus and FMP as to that of Takoma and ESP. Christina (voice) and Tom Carter (guitar) improvise non-textual melodic lines around an locus of mirror clarity, occasionally overlapping various strands using two DAT machines and a mixing board, in a nod to the pre ProTools digital scrap heap. Originally issued as a Peter King lathe cut LP on Eclipse Records in an edition of 100 in 2000, the reissue of this extreme rarity is remastered from a superior source for maximum clarity. Inkblot artwork courtesy of Heather Leigh Murray. The whole package is dedicated to Bruce Connor (R.I.P.). The reissue at hand is an edition of 500, with fold-over printed sleeves in the style of Electricity Ghosts."
9/17/2006	Charalambides	Emerald Message	CDR	$12.99	Wholly Other	"Brand new collection of primo early material from the duo of Tom Carter and Christina Carter in a hand-numbered edition of 250 copies in beautiful, individually painted hand-made sleeves. All material recorded during 1995 as part of the Internal Eternal sessions. Features the duo on vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, chord organ, bells and shortwave. Excellent." - Volcanic Tongue
9/17/2006	Charalambides	Glowing Raw	CDR	$12.99	Wholly Other	"Another new and equally jaw-dropping collection of archival material from the duo of Tom and Christina Carter with one track from the first trio line-up that also included Jason Bill (now of Migrantes). A huge amount of sonic territory covered here, featuring 1998 material drawn from the original Houston album sessions as well as tracks from late 95, unreleased material from 95's Drilling The Curve sessions and late 95 material from an aborted Siltbreeze album. Tom is on vocals, electric and acoustic guitar and saxophone, Christina on vocals, organ and guitar and Jason on acoustic guitar. Hand-numbered edition of 250 copies in beautiful individually painted hand-made sleeves." - Volcanic Tongue
5/12/2004	Charalambides	Joy Shapes	CD	$13.99	kranky	"To say that the words 'unique' and 'singular' are over-used in describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist's work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken new ground in the primitive/folk/mystic/improv/psych valley in which they toil. This new album is certainly not for the faint of heart. Five songs stretch and crawl over 75 minutes, with Christine Carter finding a new fearlessness in her voice that will draw comparisons to Patty Waters or the early work of Meredith Monk. Joy Shapes is the first studio album recorded by Charalambides in a long time." This may be the Charalambides best release yet! Super heavy!! Highly recommended!
11/17/2007	Charalambides	Likeness	CD	$13.99	Kranky	"Likeness is the newest release from the duo of Tom and Christina Carter. Recorded over a period of several weeks during the Spring of 2006, the album is a return to the spontaneous composition of previous Charalambides records such as Houston and Union. Lyrical content largely derives from public domain, American popular song from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, edited, rearranged and largely deconstructed by Christina into abstract 'protest' songs for the century at hand. Musically, the album departs from the warm psych of A Vintage Burden in favor of the lush and layered vocal strata of Christina's later solo works, and a chillier, more abrasive guitar sound that favors The Velvets over The Byrds. Though containing much of the compositional concision that gave A Vintage Burden much of its appeal, the sound here just as frequently turns the corner into the abstract echoing spaces that characterize the more discordant sounds of Charalambides at the dawn of their Kranky residency."
3/2/2008	Charalambides	Rose / Thorn	LP	$19.99	Klang Industries	"Long-, long-, long-, loooooong-awaited and singular entry in the Charalambides and Klang Industries discographies; one of those "does it really exist?" items that's finally seeing daylight, or moonlight. A stark, unsettling and beautiful slice of duo Charlambides invocation / incantation, taken from the period between Jason Bill and Heather Leigh Murray's tenures with the band and featuring extraordinary chord organ and vocal work from Christina and some signature lap steel mastery from Tom. Fans of the band's most recent, more song-based work will find this relevatory, long-time listeners will say "ahhhh" and settle in for the flight. Heavy vinyl, limited pressing, cover handiwork by Tom, the first release in years from Klang and a sign perhaps of a truly epic revival." - label. "Long awaited klang debut of charalambides. this record has been brewing since 2000, and is now finally available under the auspices of eclipse/ klang. two side long improvisations in much the same vein as IN CR EA SE, a bit more topographical perhaps, but still horizontally serene and horizonless. chord organ, lap steel, vocals." - Wholly Other
10/13/2010	Charlatan	Holograms	c30 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"There are bombs and then there are bombs. the charlatan was revealed, not that there was a mask to begin with and then everything went to the fucken birds. so what's the mirage this times? four to the floor and ready to move those muscles. electro inspiration pushes the nu-age gash to the side and buries it under the dancefloor. spiral-topped nods to certain boards and a massive dose of sci-fi nostalgia concocted with synths to spare blast off the launch-pad straight out of the gate. look, progression and participation are the themes of 2010 and charlatan takes another step toward god only knows. this ain't no mirage; it's a fine line in there somewhere, but it all ends up under a mile of smoke anyway. edition of 80, chrome tapes."
8/1/2011	Charlatan	Triangles	LP	$18.99	Digitalis	"There's something almost religious about this Charlatan (Brad Rose) LP, its narrative arc swinging from light to dark and back again. From the opening chords of "Lime Beauty," we're awash in polarized-lens glinting twilight, fluorescent skies over the water. "Trace Blue Outlines" is trance-like and reflective, with long, arpeggiated figures chasing each other skyward in a fugue. Darkness creeps in around the edges of "Vodka Rocks," with almost post-rock moodiness bringing the side to a close. "Traces" opens the B-side and is a breakout track. With dark new-wave synth textures and warped dissonance, it has almost an Altar Eagle vibe, but things get darker, deeper, and more personal as multilayered melodic lines close in on the loping drum track. This is the kind of song you don't want to end, and wonder if you can set lyrics to. After "Foxes" provides the perfect interlude with classic Charlatan synth tones on a masterfully layered canvas, closer "Swimming Pool Summer Nights" is just as staggering. Its slow drum pattern echoes early Cluster experiments as blissed-out synths and even bird-like squawks pass through its celestial gates. As time goes on, it yields into what could almost pass for some kind of acceptance, embracing the darkness that came before it. More than any before it, this is an extremely emotional Charlatan record -- majestic, reflective, yearning for something like transcendence. Even though it's richly layered, it's not gauzy. There is nothing dreamy or half-remembered about these pieces. They are sharp, fresh as wounds. This record puts Charlatan on a seriously high plane for anyone exploring these tones, textures, or emotions. Limited to 500 copies only. Mastered by John P. Twells (Xela) at Seventh Door, cut to vinyl at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Original cover illustration by Caroline Teagle."
9/30/2005	Charles Balls	Less Difficult To Hard Water	CDR	$12.99	Beniffer Editions	"Gastric Female Reflex related, concrete slander. Cut up prepared piano, consumed many sleepless nights. Collage gem's, found arguments, directions. A gazette, a document of andrew zukerman's free time. Will make music about how he can no longer desire the affection of another woman. NOT a recovering pervert! Marbled and printed velum gatefold art object. Beautiful, stunning look. Unlimited edition."
4/24/2006	Charles Curse	Insilverscene	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"Isolationist folk from the heart of a madness...purely improvised, captured and manipulated into a piece of abstract psychosis. Skeletal truth music interwoven with ecstatic noise and doused with petrol. A skull on fire in the dead of winter. Alone in his kingdom. Burn down the F word."
9/30/2005	Chasse, Loren	The Air In The Sand	CD	$12.99	Naturestrip	"The San Francisco based sound artist Loren Chasse is apt to describe the many facets of his work through a simple metaphor. For example, Chasse often qualifies his microphone as a physical extension of the ear, and site-specific environments become his ersatz studio and mixing board. Yet these metaphors extend far beyond the concept of sound construction and into sympathetic relationships with everything around him. On his critically acclaimed 2002 album Hedge of Nerves, he applied the often fetishized sound of vinyl crackle to elemental recordings of wind, sand, fire, wood, and surf for an album bristling with tactility whose complex details amassed into an transcendent, oceanic blur. This was not a mimesis of an antiquated technology dumped upon a digital production with the facade of "making something real," but an abstracted coupling of complementary acoustics hopefully to engage the imagination of the audience. For his most recent album The Air In The Sand, Chasse posits another metaphor: the composition as a diorama. Within his ideas about the sound diorama, Chasse exaggerates those sounds which he feels to be essential for a space and minimizes everything else. Again, the recording process of The Air In The Sand revolves around Chasse's active participation within a particular environment. In these unspecified spaces, he broadcasts an array of drones, textures, and field recordings back into the sonic environment where they intermingle with the ambience of that location. Part of this process is an attempt to move away from the constraints of the digital workstation; but at the same time, Chasse is far more interested in the curious alchemy that occurs when a space listens to itself making sound. The nighttime chorus of crickets gurgles within aqueous percolations and the tectonic crash of surf crashing against rock. Elsewhere, rain vaporizes in a caustic sizzle as it falls upon overhead electrical wires, and this sound is compounded by the sharp crack of branches and the slow hiss of sand. For all of the elemental sounds that dominate his recordings, Chasse extracts subtle musical timbres and fragile half-melodies that haunt The Air In The Sand. While some of Chasse's recording techniques remain similar, it is important to note that Chasse sets this body of work (along with id battery and Coelacanth) outside of his ongoing pastoral contributions to the polyphonic Jewelled Antler constellation (e.g. Thuja, The Blithe Sons, Child Readers, and even his pseudonymous solo project Of.) With an emphasis placed upon location and its sonic ghosts, Chasse exposes something profoundly beautiful lurking in the shadows of the landscape." - Jim Haynes, June 05
11/2/2008	Chasse, Loren	The Footpath	CD	$14.99	Nature Strip	"Loren Chasse places his ear to the earth and becomes a microphone... hands on stones, stones against stones, a cymbal, dust blown, a strum, earth sounding, earth turning, leaves, wind, tones, drones, moments fading in, fields fading out, something from another atmosphere, something as another music, not music of the spheres, but this sphere, a music of the earth rolling, like a cloud floats, like blades of grass walked upon, with gentle tones droning, the music of dirt, the music of dust, the moving back and forth in wind, tones ringing, and more tones ring, quietly, strings are plucked as though moved by wind, and then breeze, and pause, and begin again, in another place. here, sounds move like rolling a coin along the ground on its edge - simple, gentle, yet full of wonder... music at its most tactile nature, quietly rubbing dirt clods in your hands until dust... drift, a whole lot of drift, of small crackling presences, clear wind, field recordings of unknown activities, and tones again but this time more present - more music, and then a feeling like sagebrush rolling in wind, desolate, and then the tones return, and there are all these moments when desolate becomes beauty. there are shifts and also stillness...we are told we are on a footpath, but even more so, we are submerged inside of an ear-path, where the earth is transformed not through handling, but through listening. loren places his ear upon the earth and begins his journey. we've all wished at times that we could present our dreams, or other complex things inside of us, to others exactly as we can see or hear them within us. in this case, loren has given us access to this little listening space inside his head, for we hear things we could only hear if we were inside him - it is the sounds of the world, sometimes manipulated by his hands, resonating through the earth and moving into us through his ears." - steve roden (august 2008)
5/7/2004	Chatham, Rhys	Echo Solo	LP	$15.99	Azoth / Table of the Elements	"By 1989, downtown legend Rhys Chatham had been fusing art music and punk rock for almost fourteen years and wanted to try his hand at something else. Accordingly, he set out to combine forms using a diverse vocabulary drawn exclusively from the classic avant-garde; the result is Echo Solo. In it, Chatham appropriates a number of musical styles - serial technique, chance operations, and just intonation - then through a process of amalgamation and superimposition, he transcends their original musical meaning while at the same time imploding it. Only the tiniest pair of critical scissors could isolate the individual elements from the final product; it's a fascinating, paradoxical composition, one which the composer happily describes as 'a rite of decimation.'"
6/27/2011	Chatham, Rhys	Outdoor Spell	LP	$15.99	Northern Spy	"Rhys Chatham has trail-blazed a course through late 20th century music, equally aplomb in post-minimalist composition as he is in punk. Not since Roebling laid his span across the East River has there been an artist who builds bridges in both how we hear music and how we can appreciate art. His latest album, Outdoor Spell, is a further document in that direction. Here has has eschewed 100 guitars, or even himself playing a single guitar, for the trumpet and voice, both electrified and dry. It is an Earthquake Island for the 21st century, tugging at the corners of new ideas, taking in forms endemic to a shared imagination and renewing the beauty there."
8/24/2009	Cheater Slicks	Bats in the Dead Trees	LP	$13.99	Lost Treasures of the Underworld	2nd edition of 500 copies with pro-printed covers. "Four long heavy instrumental total damage meltdown jams. this is the other side of the cheater slicks that until now has never been captured on vinyl!"
2/11/2006	Cherry Point, The	Death Screams	cassette	$7.99	Tone Filth	"Legions of moans and death chatter. Hollywood horror. Edition of 101 with hand screened covers and hand inked tapes."
	Cherry, Don	Mu First Part	LP	$16.99	Get Back	"Originally recorded on August 22nd, 1969 at Studio Saravah in Paris, this album became the first one of the whole BYG/Actuel series. Don Cherry electrifying duets with Ed Blackwell are memorable. 6 tracks. Original artwork, gatefold sleeve, 180 gram HQ vinyl."
8/4/2007	Chessex, Antoine	Lost in Destruction	CDR	$7.99	editions_zero	"berlin... april 06, while spending their easter vacations editions_zero members attend a real-punch-in-the-stomach set of antoine chessex in stralau 68 as a part of mini fest and get crazily astound w/ his lo-fi 'doom sax' sounds!... berlin, somewhere in kreuzberg, january 07... while sitting in a bar w/ daniel. joke and other pals drinking during a weekend's trip, the same members pop up w/ the idea of a release to remember that instant trip. a proposal for a raionbashi/antoine chessex split 7" is dropped and less than a month later crashes in our po box in amphissa an envelope from antoine including a cdr of his recordings (that stellar set from stralau as well!!!). 5 tunes (+ 1 w/ the necessary silence as well) as spewn from his tenor sax through gtr amps & his shitty efects pedals, from droning passages, to pure 'doom sax' chaos or the lo-fi madness of live sets, this cdr works not only as fine introduction to his world but as a blastin' experience as well (it sets editions_zero's central on fire!!!). housed in an envelope w/ a replica of how usually look like the letters or packs, collective members around greece exchange between them... (as of what happened to the raionbashi thing? be glad for the sound has no ending, up here in the mountain where the editions_zero central lies....)"
7/16/2009	Chessex, Antoine	Terra Incognita	one-sided LP	$15.99	Absurd	"Striked accidentally to do a 1sided LP of antoine's work a couple of months ago. turned out to be no more no less but a documentation of recent live stuff recorded in berlin and in asia. 2 sax / electronics blasts and a more frequency like one capturing as much as possible of antoine's live energy and atmosphere. while working on it we found a mutual interest in ancient and medieval maps therefore is housed as such... as if you are opening a map and start examaning an unknown sound origin that lies in front of you with all its known, unknown, hidden or not places... simply play loud and get sucked into it!" "Recently I found that Antoine Chessex is/was a member of a band who I actually saw a couple of times: Monno. He told me that himself, when he played at Extrapool. That concert was short, powerful and noisy, but it worked really well, with Chessex using the dynamics of the space. Here he has a solo one sided LP, but with a hidden track (think New Order's 12" on Touch) on the other side. It is a kind of documentation of stuff he has done recently, using saxophone and electronics. It starts out in known land (nodding to the title here), of heavy noise: piercing electronics and sustained saxophones. Then there is a somewhat quieter piece of saxophones in a larger hall, which create a kind of strange atmosphere. Nice as well. So it goes for the final track of the one side which some heavily controlled playing. In between there is a noise blast and so is the main part of the hidden track. I think I expected a bit more of this, based on what I heard live, but this fits the saxophone brut that he is known for." - FdW, Vital Weekly
9/30/2008	Cheval Sombre	I Sleep	7" & CD	$9.99	Trensmat	"Cheval Sombre is the project of New York-based musician Christopher Porpora. On this release he produces three tracks of hazy, effevescent beauty. On the 7" spread over both sides is 'I Sleep', a hymn of love lost recalling 'Perfect Prescription'-era Spacemen 3, but filtered through that Galaxie 500 summer-sun-space-reverb - all shimmer and throb, oscillating into the ether. The strings languidly build over a gently plucked guitar while all spreads out lazily, like sonic ripples. On the additional CD is the full version of 'I Sleep' along with two exclusive tracks featuring very special collaborators. Sonic Boom, once of the aforementioned Spacemen 3, is on production duty for 'Strangest Thought' and the track bears his unique stamp sounding like a Delta blues broadcast from outer space, twisting & reversed in shimmering air - musical narcotics that flow and drift you right off. Britta Philips, once of Luna and currently of Dean & Britta, provides a remix of 'Troubled Mind' which creates a bleary cloudy atmosphere which is brilliantly broken and carries along with a languid bluesy swagger. Absolutely, perfectly gorgeous. Limited edition package of green vinyl 7" and CD. In full colour wraparound picture sleeve." Recommended!
2/20/2010	Chew, Hans	New Cypress Grove Boogie / Forever Again	7" picture disc	$6.99	Three Lobed Recordings	"Hans Chew's skill as a piano player has previously been on display both in a complementary fashion to Jack Rose (appearing as a member of Jack's live backing band at Arthurdesh as well as on both The Black Dirt Sessions and Luck in the Valley) and as a integral member of D. Charles Speer & the Helix (including his vocal turns on both 'Life Insurance' off Distillation and 'Bar-Abbas Blues' off the In Madagascar 7"). This new single offers an expanded glimpse at not only Chew's songwriting prowess but also his powerful boogie-blues, bar-rockin' piano skills. Both tracks presented on this 7" are slated to appear on Chew's debut album, Tennessee and Other Stories, but appear in different versions exclusive to this release. The 7" itself is a vivid picture disc bearing stunning shots by Jake Cunningham and comes from a limited edition of 500 copies. This record is a joint release between Three Lobed and Divide By Zero."
3/2/2005	Chicken Legs Weaver	Wishbone Hands	LP	$12.99	Ecstatic Yod / Shagrat	"Bee-stung guitar, vocals dug up in some gravel pit, Chicken Legs Weaver create some of the most feverishly destroyed R'n'B in recent memory.." - Byron Coley, Arthur Magzine. "The Debut Album Nowhere [produced by Johnny Dowd] has a timeless, stateless feel - equally rendolent of dingy northern cities and the plains of middle America .. essentially, this is international blues of the very highest calibre.." - Joe Cushley, 'Blues Matters' magazine / 'Ballin' the Jack' on Resonance FM 104.4. "Clearly the best band the UK has produced in a while.." - Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth. "Hard times, lost loves, missed connections and dangerous visions, common to all, concealed from none, but each murderously twisted to the tenor of the times. Too true to be any easy, diamond-ring tall-shucking tale - and too good to be ignored by those who know the shouts and moans - the howling of the mighty Wolf and the graveling of the exalted Captain - and all the rest who have moved, red-eyed, in from the special places where the brain and the heart and the hand strike the ever-particular smokestack-sparks - and the words that make strong men weep, women wail, and policeman turn in their badges. Cheap gin will make you blind, but the clear truth will never fail you. The blues will set you free....Chicken Legs Weaver play the blues - and plays it right, right? Not a bad one in the barrel. So help me, Hannah."
8/22/2008	Child Bride	Reflections On Prism City	CDR	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"OK, so I don't support any kids getting married to old dudes, its not cool... but then this is a new recording by THE Child Bride! Spooked vocals, weird clunks, cut up surreal vibes, this one is a real slayer, almost like some kinda fucked up singer songwriter noise styles. The killer gem here has gotta be 'Rabbit Moon', some far out repetitive churns, some how blurring supremely with some thudding rumbling, and then some killer trance drugged vocal, that'll hypnotize your mind man! Edition of 60 packaged in stamped envelopes with pasted art and an insert."
7/21/2010	Child Bride	The Bell Witch	cassette	$5.99	Feeding Tube Records	"Beautifully packaged in double-sided full color fold-out. >From Baltimore noise maker Shana Palmer. "Practically gothic in its delivery, dark as hell. The natural reverb could very well have been due to the walls of a mental institution". 9/10 Foxy Digitalis
5/16/2010	Child of A Creek, The	Find A Shelter Along the Path	CD	$15.99	Red Birds	"Ever taken a walk in the woods and just wanted something perfect for the trek? Well, here you go. The Child of a Creek is Italian folk artist Lorenzo Bracaloni. He has collected nine microcosmic tracks of his own woodland excursion through the mountains. Nature does something to us. It touches our heart as we gaze upon its humble majesty. It gives us pause for thought as we recognize our insignificance and mortality. And it gives us a peace from the busyness that we have lamentably created for ourselves. Such "vagabond" musings are at the center of Lorenzo's lyrics. Within "The Golden Light" he declares, "There's a treasure kept inside a cave; I am looking for, I hope to find; It's not gold, but consciousness; It's not gold, but something to better myself, to have nothing to regret." This kind of romantic yearning for something more, something intangibly satisfying, is a mature renouncement of everything that the banal influence of the media tells us we should seek after. I also love how the acoustic emotionalism bleeds with sincere poetry in its strings. I can just imagine him seated upon a log, a mosaic of leaves blustering around him, and soulfully partnering his voice with his instrument in a duet between his fleshly vocal chords with the organic notes of his wooden guitar. Flute, zither, balalaika, electric piano, minimal synthesizer and percussion also find their way into the forest of his heart. One of the most earnestly genuine albums that I've heard in a while. Make sure to take a look at this one." - 8/10 Dave Miller, Foxy Digitalis.
11/21/2008	Child of A Creek, The	Unicorns Still Make Me Feel Fine	CDR	$13.99	Dust Wind Tales	"Unicorns still make me feel fine" is the second 10 song plus an hidden completely self produced album I wrote, sung, composed, arranged, performed, recorded, produced and mixed together in my home recording studio and mics through various rooms, bedrooms and gardens neighbour between February and May 2006. I've performed singing, acoustic old folk electric and slide guitars, harmonica, flute, organ, electric piano, Steiner wall piano, bohdran, timpanoes, wooden boxes, little russian balalaika, crashes and electronics. All lyrics, All songs by The Child of A Creek. Front and back cover Art by The Child of A Creek." "When I first heard this collection of songs I wanted to cry tears of happiness. The feeling that Lorenzo Bracaloni creates on this album is truly amazing. Beautiful melodies that twist & turn like twine around a tree. Melodies that pick you up & melodies that lift you to a view of dusty meadows & landscapes. This is pure...Spray painted cdr packaged in a clear pvc case together with a cover featuring artwork by Lorenzo himself. Four inserts are also included featuring lyrics, credits & a small photo. As a bonus there is a badge (made especially for this release) that is held to a piece of curtain from The Child of A Creeks house." - label. Edition of 60 copies.
4/5/2011	Child of a Creek, The	Whispering Tales Under an Emerald Sun	CDR	$13.99	A Beard of Snails	"This, the fourth album from Italy's The Child of a Creek, is a gleaming, lysergic gem for sure. Eight stunning neo-folk shoegaze tracks (four of which are instrumentals), equally rural and cosmic, with touches of almost Floydian / Frippian prog. Fragile, electricfied, cinematic. Comes in a in pearlescent bronze envelope. Edition of 60 copies.Waiting for the ideal sequel of the wonderful Find A Shelter Along the Path, a small danish label has now released this new record entititled Whispering Tales under an Emerald Sun; this new stuff was recorded a little time before the recording of the mentioned Child of A Creek masterpiece. Although the eight songs sound slightly more experimental and less song oriented, the incantatory art of Lorenzo Bracaloni is here deployed in the grooves of these tales whispered under an emerald sun. Acoustic and electric guitars, flute, electric piano, organ and sinthetizers, loops and percussions are played here by a musician who has a rare meastria who reveals a rare and a precious neo psych folk wriring at every listening (but watching also elsewhere), certainly not only in the italian way. Songs like The Voyager or Shivers (just to name two of my favourites) are indicative of a path that can?t be longer confined only to a current or to a simple psychfolk variant, but they are here to subscribe themselves into the aesthetics of the most unassignable visionary music." - Blow Up Magazine #156, Review by Gino Dal Soler. SCORE: 8.
4/29/2008	Child Readers, The	Music Heard Far Off	CD	$11.99	Soft Abuse	"The Child Readers tread the implied ground that lies somewhere between a music heard far off and a music finally pulled together. Active since 2000, Loren Chasse and Jason Honea, The Child Readers, present the disparate dualities of metaphysical improvisation and meticulous composition in their otherworldly recordings, an adventurous & dense take on art-pop songwriting unheard since the heyday of Cherry Red and 4AD (imagine Eyeless in Gaza nicking from the Xiu Xiu or Richard Youngs songbook). Rather than solely draw from any musical discourse, The Child Readers found inspiration in the creative adventures of Rockwell Kent, Lawren Harris, Charles Burchfield and Sherwood Anderson in making their fourth & best album, Music Heard Far Off. Presenting music bathed in the beauty of everyday things, The CRs' avant-pastiche approach touches upon musique concrète, pastoral pop, new romanticism, fractured folk & minimal techno with equal prejudice. Sonic prayers to country, wastes of sea, songs, drawings, particular times of day and different furs are all presented here as esoteric sing-a-longs. Aiding Honea & Chasse's vision are three short films (the video album 'Superstition Island,' contained on the disc), eye-popping album artwork, and contributions from Mark Williams (Mirza), Rob Reger (Thuja) and Christine Boepple (Ov). Music Heard Far Off was recorded, played back, re-recorded and collaged in various locales, including the California redwoods and coastlines, Estonia, Berlin, Madrid and Portugal. The true stories contained therein unite listener and creator for a unique musical experience; the duo's confessional torch songs offer an intimacy that may embarrass the untrue of heart."
7/10/2008	Children of the Sixth Root Race	Songs From The Source	LP	$16.99	Drag City	"A lost-and-found 1973 recording of THE SOURCE FAMILY. These twelve songs were recorded live in the Hollywood Hills as a rehearsal for a concert date that SPIRIT OF '76--aka YAHOWAH 13, THE SAVAGE SONS OF YAHOWA, YODSHIP, AND FIREWATERAIR, now known as CHILDREN OF THE SIXTH ROOT RACE--had at the Whisky. A 1/4" tape copy of the recording was found in Chicago in 2006, though no-one is really sure how it got there. Songs From The Source has more R&B--grooved energy, with splashes of synth and organ, a female vocal chorus and streamlined fusion rhythms backing the uniquely Yahowan lyrical populism of songs like "Godmen" and "Lost Dead But Hoping." The ebullient, ever-climbing power of the climactic "We Are the Dinosaurs," has few analogues in the other Source recordings and is furthermore an outstanding piece of music from the entire era. Songs From The Source is a miraculous missing piece of The Source's positive musical movement." - Revolver
6/4/2010	Chin Chin	Sound Of The Westway	LP	$13.99	Mississippi	"In 1985, Sound of the Westway was released on Chin Chin's own Farmer Records. As a progression from their first 7", SOTW proved to be a brilliant mix of post punk and pop sensibility. The band's fierce DIY stance and girl-positive ethics have echoed down through the indie scene. Mississippi and Slumberland are excited to collaborate on this classic reissue. On vinyl only, remastered by Tim Stollenwerk and new original artwork by Alec Icky Dunn. Includes Free Download Card."
5/14/2007	Chingar Mimi & Leslie Keffer	Live At The Embassy, Cleveland, Ohio 3/3/07	cassette	$7.99	Action Claw Records	Split live release from Ohio's Chingar Mimi (with Leslie Keffer on part of it) and the other side is Leslie Keffer solo. Packaged in sewn paper sleeves.
5/14/2007	Chingar Mimi / d.i.b.	split	cassette	$7.99	Action Claw Records	"Chingar Mimi is a 2 piece keyboard / guitar noise in your face pussy power ensemble with songs such as "men, menstration", "once upon a hippie", "inverted cupcake" and lindsay lohan tributes "roast beef pussy". d.i.b. was recently listed in bulltongues top 80 of 2006--66. DO IT BIG - Coke Dick cassette (milk tart records) From what we can tell the members of this elusive outfit are heralded as "murder," "kuss," "blood," "creampuff" and "brookie g." They are supremely addled. This, presumably their debut recording, sounds like an LSD playground riot which runs through a good trip / bad trip journey unlike anything we've encountered in a while. Regardless it's outstanding in its wastedness." Packaged in a sewn sleeve.
4/10/2010	Chora	Ruined Parabola	LP	$19.99	Chironex	‘Ruined Parabola’ is the second vinyl offering by London’s Chora, but first with all new material…In addition to Ben Morris and Robert Lye is respected solo musician and engineer Ben Nash and emerging collaborator/session/ solo musician Karl Brummer. With 3 tracks recorded at their space in Camberwell, and a 4th track marking a return to their old space in Sheffield, ‘The Furniture Makers’, recorded just before jumping onto a train to play their spot at the Rowf festival in Manchester. Ruined Parabola sees Chora playing with the brighter elements of their palette, in a pointillist haze of clattering percussion, ecstatic reeds, bodily yelps and scraping strings which lift in a joyous racket, carrying a trace of the ending summer when they began playing as a 4 piece." Edition of 250 copies. "Chironex release their fourth vinyl only LP in a run of stellar outings, which included Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and The Hunter Gracchus. Linear, sedimentary formed artwork wraps this heavy weight slab of vinyl in a primitive motif that echoes the sonics within. The first side houses a huge 17minute blast that kicks off with Gamelan inspired percussion and metallic drones. The sound is rich and expansive, feeling like the scouts of a storm have amassed with invisible bodies; playing impishly amongst the bones of a weathered shipyard. Warm tones ebb in cycles, while the percussion thins and a strangled horn blasts a Fire-styled cry. Vocals holler at a ghostly distance, translucent amongst the din. Chimes and cymbals are met with thudding, hard wooden knocks. Then the horn and drones are left to play with weary gong and vibrations of timid tranquillity. The singing notes that hang behind proceedings add a warmth and continuity that elevate the shorter and coarser improvised ramblings. The middle section is a chorus of crying entities of a vastness beyond that of the oceans largest mammals. There is a tragedy that is both moving, haunting and deeply unsettling, present in these passages. Human, instrument and alien noises cloud in plumes of grey and deep blue. Crying wolves and howling moons seep into the nighttime with scraping breath and rancid claw. The end draws near with an atmosphere that sends shivers down my spine. Guitar is introduced in elongated tones that add a sense of arid landscape to what originally felt like a nautical storm. Then things shuffle to black in an instance. A violent, caustic piece of organic noise and improvised calamity is struck into existence as if one had stumbled across something that had been spluttering and regurgitating itself for some time. Things become more determinable as the piece unravels, leaving a fractured rhythm that is met with flashes of light and terror. This loose ensemble weaves a sonic path of such acid tinged, narcotic fragments that you can’t help but forget where the fuck you are and drift into your own little world. The third and shortest piece rockets skyward with towering drones that hold the heat and force of several active geysers. Violin and scraping strings accompany the core tones in what I can only describe as one of the greatest ascensions of primitive sound I have ever heard. It holds a truly unbreakable trance that extends its 5minute life to a seemingly endless existence; like some fuck-up of physics, or the true understanding of time without observed natural decay. The final motion is filled with a lot of hope, and rides with comparative joyousness. There is an almost country feel to the structure, although very distorted. The journey, like all Chora’s best work, is restless and finds avenues of exploration around what could be a solid path to tread. There are more nods to Fire jazz playing in this piece, yet the primitive organic nature of the overall sound pallet allow for a richer and more humane listen. The various instruments twist and arch in suffocating formations, yet the violin stays at the core of proceedings, adding this country feel that manages to embrace another feeling with exquisite abandonment. The latter playing of strings, sounding like some kind of eastern fiddle, is utterly spellbinding. The piece closes with alarm calls and a feeling of farewell from a nights playing. I imagine a fire dwindling to orange embers, as I walk to black with the sound gradually fading from view. 9/10" - Peter Taylor, Foxy Digitalis
9/10/2011	Chora	The Wax Heel	CD	$15.99	Zerojardins	"Chora is an improvising UK avant-freak group. This record covers a bunch of bases while providing a good snapshot of the group at its best, balancing minimal string-think with alien fourth-world drone resonance, overdriven vocal/electronics oblivions and that 'classic' Sheffield/Singing Knives scattershot musical ambience that we all 'go' for. Simply one of the best bands in the UK. After a slew of CDR and vinyl releases The Wax Heel is Chora's first proper CD album. Recorded in Camberwell, South London, in the same flurry of activity that birthed 'Ruined Parabola' & the 'Quivers/Chora' split, The Wax Heel again documents jams from the Morris/Lye/Nash/Brummer line-up. Aesthetically, the album sees the band at their sparsest and most minimally refined to date. Largely forgoing the orgiastic brightness of 'Ruined Parabola', The Wax Heel is a difficult sibling to the Chironex release. Spatial, at moments deranged but with a sublimely glacial ambience bound by their communal movement."
5/14/2007	Christa Min, The	The Devil And Tex Watson	7"	$6.99	rundownsun	"Over 12 minuets of lo-fi west coast style psych garage. featuring formers members of some of Vancouver's indie, rock, and weird elite including folks from jackie-o-motherfucker, staked plain, BUG, the nasty on, the cinch, vancouger, video tokyo, the countless jibes, fuck me usa, and more. the christa min are no longer but it's members have gone on to great things and great bands including: ANEMONES (records out soon on jagjaguwar sub labels, and 1777rex!), ESP SNAKE (featuring members of aids wolf), SUN ARISE, and THE PINK MOUNTAIN TOPS!!! one track of suicide influenced down and out garage split over two sides of wax. packaged in 2 piece, silk screened millboard cover. art by nicholas bragg. xerox insert."
7/5/2011	Christian Brothers	Christian Brunch	CDR	$4.99	Pool Party	"Debut release of chapel hill, nc duo. oscillates back and forth between dub-inspired beats and sparse creeping drones. edition of 15 in hand sewn paper slip cases."
8/28/2007	Christian Family Underground	For the Depth of Your UnionŠ	LP	$12.99	Woodsist	"Summer 06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken song, electric guitar/conga "rock," and an odd ghostly sheen coating the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: "I remember when we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording, which was likeŠ humankind's natural state. And then thinking about Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents no man can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for us some fantasy of fulfillment that would carry us through the weekend like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed in the deepest bluest seaŠ." Another killer Family Underground release - highly recommended!
9/30/2005	Christopher	What'cha Gonna Do?	LP	$25.99	Lion Productions	"Deluxe LP reissue of one of the absolute rarest American psychedelic LPs of the '60s - and one of the best. Every song is of the highest quality (all originals too), with an accessible sound that suggests the band could have had more widespread success, had they ever made it out of their native South Carolina. The album was originally pressed in 1969 to use as a demo, but you'd never know it based on the overall quality of the production; the music demands your attention: well-crafted trippy lysergic lyrics about plastic capsules (and more), flanged vocals (among other effects), fine vocal harmonies, extended jamming, and a transcendent quality well expressed by the gutsy and creative guitar work. When you've got blistering acid rock mixed with acid blues, with a couple of thoughtful melodic songs for good measure, you've got a recipe for something special. Had Christopher been a major label release it would be a staple in every record collection. Now, on to the presentation... highest quality mastering and pressing (done at Acoustech Mastering/RTI in California); the resulting LP is housed in a poly-lined sleeve, which is inside an ultra-heavy 1960s Project 3-label style gatefold jacket, which is in a loose-fitting plastic sleeve. Top of the line pressing all the way. Limited by license to exactly 500 copies."
8/8/2009	Chrome	3rd From The Sun	LP	$19.99	Cleopatra	"Limited edition 12" vinyl reissue of the 1982 album by the Bay Area masters of alternative industrial noise rock, Chrome!" Very welcome reissue of Chrome classic!
7/31/2011	Chrome Dome	Chrome Dome	c16 cassette	$5.99	Night People	"Chrome Dome a trio from Melbourne AU, channeling dark brooding synth punk into an intense droned out assault on the senses. After a slew of great down under releases, Chrome Dome finally have a chance to hit the international radar and no contemporary band in the contemporary minimal synth/cold wave/synth pop vein deserving it more. Great well recorded material bleeds from this magnetic tape, and Night-People is so excited to help spread the word."
6/4/2010	Chrome Wings	Time Patterns	c30 cassette	$6.99	Stunned	"Nothing is exempt from evolution, and Portland's Chrome Wings are a prime example of that principle when they take simple amoeboid sounds and swiftly sculpt them into electric body parts & sets of hi-fi feathers for the dance floor. With the magic and levity of storm clouds parting way to a rainbow or a kiss from a lover, 'Time Patterns' approaches unassumingly, yet leaves the listener breathless and wanting more a half-hour later. It's a sound that's taken Chrome Wings personal time & dedicated evolution to arrive at, obvious to all who've caught their recent live performances. Rhythms this juicy and soundforms this hypnotic in arrangement offer proof that we higher-primates can ascend toward the very stuff of dreams - in the club, at home, in the car, all of the above. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert."
10/21/2011	Chubby Wolf	Turkey Decoy	LP	$18.99	Digitalis	"Chubby Wolf was the moniker used by the late Dani Baquet-Long of Celer for her subdued world of sound. With the help of Dani's husband and Celer's other half, Will Long, the final Chubby Wolf recordings are finally seeing the light of day, posthumously. Turkey Decoy represents some of her most accessible work. "Cantankerous Baby" opens the set with cybernetic clouds -- it's like endlessly floating through an unknown haze built around processed vocals and sample-ridden electric guitar. As you continue dreaming through the morose romanticism of pieces like "Prescient Inspiration," there's an understated sensuality that weaves its way into the music. "If There's An Elephant In The Room" pulls back the curtain and reveals a breathless aftermath punctuated by distant piano chords and sprawling drones. Each swell of Baquet-Long's voice makes you want to avert your eyes, unsure if it's something you're supposed to see. Closing out the album, "Scalloped Toes" and "Intrusively Coexisting" wrap things up with an elegant sweetness as everything comes full circle. The former is bathed in warm, relaxing tones that bleed into the barking and howling of Dani's beloved wolves that begin the last song on the album. "Intrusively Coexisting" is more gloomy and leaves lingering questions about all that came before it. It's the right way to end such a raw album -- each layer removed like an article of clothing, until there's nothing left to hide behind. Limited edition of 500 copies only. Cut at Dubplates And Mastering, Berlin."
4/10/2009	Churinga Canaries	untitled	LP	$20.99	QBICO	Phil Legard, Alexander Neilson, Tirath Singh Nirmala, and Phil Todd. Recorded in Leeds, December 2005. Originally released as a CD-R limited to 100 copies. "Collaborations can be a hell of a gamble. Fortunately, it seems that in the world of the underground music lover, collaborative ventures always seem to turn out to be synergetic exercises that yield amazing results. Churinga Canaries is such an endeavor: a one-off group effort improvised by four of the brightest lights in the UK underground music dog-and-pony show. A rundown of the participants should be more than enough to cause many of you to drool with excitement. Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band), Alex Neilson (Scatter, Richard Youngs collaborator, etc.), Tirath Singh Nirmala (formerly John Clyde-Evans of Hood) and Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) assembled in Leeds in chilly December 2005 to bang out some noise and melt the ice right out from under themselves with a warm bowl of sonic porridge. The results are two stunning long-form tracks of joyful jazz-inflected psych-noise in the vein of some of the wilder Ash Nav moments. Neilson's propulsive yet amazingly free drumming serves as the perfect background for the virtual maelstrom conjured up by the other three improvisers. About five minutes into the leading track, 'Under Heavy Rent,' the sound is so dense and chaotic that it's almost dizzying. The foursome manage to keep themselves and their sound from breaking apart into a million tiny pieces, but just barely. 'A Sovtek Swirl' starts off subdued, with a recurring thematic element gluing the shards of our dumbstruck minds back together again. By the time the disc is finished however, you'll be left panting in a useless heap on the floor. This is powerful stuff, not to be taken lightly. Don't say I didn't warn you!" -- Review of the CD-R by Byron Hayes from July 2006 (Foxy Digitalis)
	Cinorama	Three Lies And Ding at 5 O'Clock	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Project featuring Toshi (ex-Brain Police - legendary 70s Japanese cult group). Great complex avant garde sound with female vocal."
4/24/2006	Circle	Arkades	LP	$18.99	Fourth Dimension	"Arkades catches a session Finnish group, Circle, recorded exclusively for WFMU during their US tour, on 19/9/05. Comprising two lengthy pieces taking up a side each, 'The Greatest Kingdom' and 'The Ghost of the Highway', it focuses on their often spacey improv. underpinning and applies new meaning to a vision which strides powerfully over the line dividing apocalyptic dread from a semblance of hope. Agonised wailing, screams and torrents of molten sound dance ghostly shapes over psychedelic keyboard patterns, distant clattering, moonlit guitars and a rhythm section so carefully tempered that it's impossible not to feel the chemistry at work. Coupled to a fantastic sleeve which illustrates a homage to spaghetti western films and includes fitting notes by WFMU's Program Director, Brian Turner, Arkades proves what these New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metallers are capable of when they leave most of the rock at the door. File somewhere near Acid Mothers Temple after having been given the kinda makeover only the Scandinavians have the formula for. Indeed, this is sweet shit..."
4/24/2006	Circle	Earthworm	CD	$8.99	No Quarter	"Circle is a band whose sound is constantly evolving. That evolution continues with Earthworm, a four song EP released on the eve of their third US tour. Earthworm finds the band further integrating their love of late seventies/early eighties metal with the 'circular' Kraut-influenced psych that has become their trademark. The songs on Earthworm are heavy and dense with guitar riffs that shred, backed by the intense and hypnotic rhythm section of bassist Jussi Lehtisalo and drummer Tomi Leppanen. The band has invited Bruce Duff (singer of the legendary LA band Jesters of Destiny) to contribute vocals on three tracks."
12/24/2005	Circle	Forest	CD	$12.99	No Quarter	"Formed in 1991, Circle is the most visible and prolific name in the Finnish rock underground. With Forest the band have touched on their most accessible sound yet with four lengthy, percussive heavy songs that navigate through dark Kraut-inspired rhythms, whispered vocals and hypnotic repetition."
11/23/2004	Circle	Forest	CD	$16.99	Ektro	“Almost as eerie as Guillotine, Circle have forsaken the metal of Sunrise in favor of a return to their rhythmic precision, although of a more subtle variety, along with some seriously dark folk full of disturbing touches. There is no doubt in my mind that these gents should be scoring horror films at this point, just listening recalls terrifying film moments (this album makes a great prelude to Thriller aka They Call Her One Eye, and I also can't stop thinking about the psychological horror of Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms). Goblin Shmoblin, Forest will damage your mind.” - Scratch
12/23/2003	Circle	Guillotine	CD	$16.99	Ektro	“Born in the bucolic city of Pori, Finland, Circle has been defying expectations since 1991. This unpredictable ensemble led by Jussi Lehtisalo has been reinventing, refining and perfecting its technical drones and heavy riffs over the course of numerous European, American and Japanese releases. The band effortlessly devours and personalizes skewed progressive-rock rhythms, distorted guitar firepower, cosmic sound paintings, gleaming minimalism, Kraut-influenced phrase repetition, and hymnal incantations written in a made-up language called Meronian. Circle’s instantly recognizable albums and frantic live sets have garnered ample international praise while masterfully exploring the outer limits of grinding tension and celestial calm." This is their new December 2003 release!
6/6/2009	Circle	Meronia	CD	$14.99	Ektro Records	"1991. We had been running a small indie label called Bad Vugum for a mere four years, but we genuinely felt we had found bands that made a difference, definitely in the budding Finnish scene at least. So in 1991 friends and even total strangers at gigs and festivals suddenly started telling us that the best two undiscovered bands come from a drab small town called Pori - and that they both sounded exactly like they should be on Bad Vugum. Naturally our interest was piqued and we got to hear the self-released 7"s by these bands called Circle and Deep TurtleŠ Alas, we were not overly impressed. "They're still undeveloped, they still sound too much like their apparent musical heroes, and most importantly the songs aren't strong enough", we convinced ourselves. To this day I still thank our lucky stars that Mr. Dassum of Deep Turtle, who recorded in the same small basement as Circle, called me and asked if we were at all interested in hearing some new Deep Turtle demos. Sure we were, and we sure got more than we bargained for: as a bonus he also included some new stuff from their friends Circle - and we were blown away by both bands' progression. We duly agreed to start releasing 7" EP's at first, just to make sure the bands only put out all killer / no filler kinds of records, and to slowly build a following before any financially riskier album productions. During the next 18 months Circle for their part got two awesome EP's out of their system, and absolutely floored live audiences all over the country with their high-intensity gigs. Which were more akin to hypnotic mass rituals, what with their glowing body paints, jarring lighting tricks and various blooddripping props. Sometime in 93 - 94 the guys and we both felt sure Circle were mature enough for a full-length. After unleashing them in the studio we got to hear quite a few mind-boggling new, slower songs they had concocted, then a few more. Then even more. We almost couldn't believe our ears, it was becoming clear that a single LP could not contain these inspired goofballs' creative output. Recently I discovered I still get goosebumps from listening closely to Meronia. Not just because I love just about every track on the album, but also because it brings me back to the days of trying to work out the best possible order for the songs. I'm always on a personal mission to "help" bands with that ( IMHO) essential dimension to any record, but Meronia's sprawling bulk of 15 -16 tracks (we often added bonus tracks on the vinyl versions, even with single LP's, just to mess with CD buyers) proved a daunting task. I spent literally days and weeks immersing myself in the music, switching and changing the song sequence every which way - and those were the gruelling days of a double-deck cassette players, mind you. Then I spent hours on the phone with Circle's Jussi, discussing and speculating what each track might "mean" in any particular order. I felt I truly lived on planet Meronia. In Finland, the album got rave reviews both in the underground zines and, somewhat surprisingly, mainstream press as well. Abroad, it opened some new doors in the underground, but surprisingly was not licensed for a foreign release. In those times small foreign labels still seemed to settle for 7" records for Circle. But it was still early days in what was later to become a global Circle industry as we know itŠ What is it now? Some 20 + albums, half of which on foreign labels? And whenever I talk to Jussi, Circle seem to have at least three albums already recorded and waiting for a release. They've sure succeeded in carving a respectable niche for themselves, while still taking chances and trying new things. Maximum respec'. To wrap this up, a funny Meronia anecdote. In the mid-90's someone claiming to be an A& R executive for the David Geffen Company sent us a fax, complete with letterheads and everything, requesting a promo copy of Meronia. He wrote he was a big fan of the 7" stuff he had heard and was interested in checking out the band's "album potential". We sent the CD, and waited for a reply. I mean c'mon, the label that made Sonic Youth huge, right? Well, since we didn't hear anything, I first faxed the guy back, and then even called the number on the letterhead - but it didn't even connectŠOh the lengths resourceful Circle fans can go to when hunting for an import missing from their collection!" - Heikonen, Bad Vugum / BV 2 Produktions. The 2007 Ektro Records release is a re-mastered version and features updated artwork.
11/4/2006	Circle	Miljard	DBL CD	$18.99	Ektro Records	"Exploding walls of psychedelic guitars, "ingenious pop compositions", motorik krautrock, melodic harmonies, intensive riffs and ecstatic vocal performances? This album does NOT contain any of the things previously mentioned! Slow-moving abstract atmospherics, inspiring and determined wandering and a stagnant universe of winter are present on Circle's new double album MILJARD. New Wave of NWOFHWM! The album was produced by Mika Ratto. Rocking has been traded for some quiet reading on the cough at home."
6/6/2009	Circle	Panic	CD	$14.99	Ektro Records	"A new release from Circle, once again. This time these experimental veterans study the both ends of the previously unheard static / hyper-active scale. Soundwise they have clearly proceeded to the 21st century, jumping from limpid synthesizer soundscapes to wall-smashing "speed-kraut" bursts. The triptych construction of the album along with the cover art that portrays war and street riots raise various associations on the history and the current state of Western civilization." 2007 release.
6/6/2009	Circle	Rakennus (Live)	CD	$14.99	Ektro Records	"Rakennus - approximately the seventh full length Circle release this year - is an hour-long snapshot of the band's recent tour of the USA. The concert (recorded in September in Charlottesville, Virginia) thunders and wobbles onwards with unprocessed autenticity. The recording effectively captures the full spectrum of Circle's contemporary live expression, revealing to us a glimpse of the spiritual landscapes of the most astonishing speedkraut pioneers of our times. There's an abundance of ritualistic rumbling to be discovered between the twitchy hard rock show opener "Uusi uhraus" and "Kaappikellon kummitus", the ravishing Rättö ja Lehtisalo cover song that closes the album. Rakennus displays the joy of playing music in its most pure form." (Eetormentor). 2007 release.
4/10/2009	Circle	Triumph	double LP	$22.99	Adverse Effect	"Recorded in 2007 at a WFMU Radio session in New Jersey, the material on this latest LP from Finnish kraut-experimenters Circle includes some of their strongest to date. In addition to a plethora of strange, progged-out passages, Triumph features some incredibly sensitive, far less theatrical work. Tracks like fifteen-minuter 'Skiing' and the similarly slippery 'Dungeon' are full of tumbling piano keys and delay effects, creating an atmosphere that's somewhere between Sunburned Hand Of The Man at their most blissed-out and The Necks when they let Chris Abrahams loose. Always purveyors of superior kosmische fare, this release ranks amongst the Finnish bands finest..."
12/26/2005	Circle	Tulikoira	CD	$16.99	Ektro	"The insert proclaims nothing except NWOFHM in huge block text. That is it, a proclamation of the The New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal is upon us. There is no further information aside from track names, line up and when it was recorded... Hmmm, I am skeptical. Circle have a reputation in my mind of being a bit out there at times and for every exquisite piece I have heard there has been some stuff I have found to be patchy at best, so I coming to this brand new album with an open mind. Well, not so much open as slightly excited as Russell, who works in monorail and who convinces me into spending too much money every damn time, described it as a jam between King Crimson and Budgie. Which I admit was enough for me to pick it up instead of just downloading it or overlooking it for something more staid. There is no way I can explain the first two tracks better than the description that Russel gave... Moments of soothing quiet with haunting vocals juxtaposed with some full on metal fantasticness which is just the right side of being considered trite. Totally fist pumping hard rock... Awesome! The third track is more akin to what I would have expected from Circle, meandering, quirky and kind of going nowhere. It has a couple of flashes of riffdom and a few glitchy electronic effects, some vocals that add to the paranoid feeling it creates but it's a bit of a comedown after the opening two tracks. Now with the closing track, the 25 minute epic called Puutiikeri, Circle begin with an intense pounding rock style bit and damn does this sound fucking fantastic when it drifts into being one of their artsy epic jawns! Great album and definitely as good a start point as any for people new to Circle." - Steve Carlin
3/21/2009	Circle	Tyrant	double LP	$19.99	Latitudes	"Tyrant sees the band in tranced-out, metallic shoegaze territory, blast beats clash with Krautrock rhythms, disembodied screams pierce the murk as time slips beautifully away... As with all Latitudes sessions, this was recorded and mixed in one day and the resulting album a testament to their singular outsider vision and live prowess." Edition of 1000 copies.
1/22/2011	circle and the point, the / Sleepwalkers Local / Chapels	three way split	c30 & c40 double cassette	$7.99	House of Alchemy	"What started in Syracuse many years back splintered off to Los Angeles and Buffalo, also many years ago. When the moons align every few years -the circle and the point- shack up somewhere dusty with whatever instruments are in reach to drink beer and summon the interstellar drone-werks. When the moons and waves are out of whack, sounds come forth from the Sleepwalkers Local and Chapels units. Here, for the first time, we get all the heads in one place. One whole cassette of new -the circle and the point- material recorded over the last few years teamed up with a cassette split between new out-sounds from Sleepwalkers Local and Chapels. It's all just getting started. Edition of 150."
6/4/2010	Circle Bros	Haven	LP	$17.99	Morc Records	"Circle Bros is the project of Wim Lecluyse, the man behind Morc records. Just as with Morc records, Circle Bros doesn't focus on quantity - this is the first Circle Bros full length album since late 2001. The past few years, there was an occasional ep here and there (incl. the recent ep on the alphabet-series of the Bluesanct-spin-off Orphanology) and a bunch of collaborations, most notably with Karina ESP and Drekka. Partially thanks to these collabs, Circle Bros shifted from a pure ambient-esque project to a more song-oriented unit. Equally important for this slightly different sound is that Influences that were reserved for other projects, now merged into circle bros as well. But after 10 years, there's definitely something like a 'morc-sound' - hazy, hushed folk-melodies mixed with distorted ambient. Not surprisingly, Circle Bros takes elements from all of this. About Haven: Haven is definitely one of these albums that happened by accident. The oldest recordings from this session, Your sound and Sure & Sure 2, were originally intended as an ep. Even though these tracks make up the core of the album, it didn't feel 'ready'. The recordings were shelved, but then Unlikely, originally composed for another ep, seemed to match all too well. This was what was necessary to start working with the original recordings again. Ironically, the opening track No turning back was the last one to be put on tape. (Literally - the album was mainly recorded on an 8-track cassette recorder) It took almost two years before these tracks made it into a whole - and then it turned out that an lp seemed the best way to gather them. This is an album in the classic sense - not made to be listened to in shuffle mode. So there was no intention to make an album - these songs just proved to be heard best in an album-form. Michael Anderson (of Drekka) mastered the recordings, making the album sound even more coherent. On Haven, you'll still hear echoes from the classic drone-outfits likes of Windy and Carl or Azusa Plane, but the sound palette is no longer focussed just on guitars. organ, vocals and sound-collages give the more recent recordings a very warm tone, and sometimes refer to the experimental pop- and folk structures of e.g. Richard Youngs, Grouper or Castanets. The LP is pressed in an edition of 143 copies. The jackets were silkscreened by Levi Seeldraeyers of Smeraldina-Rima. Recommended if you like: Drone, folk, experimental singer-songwriting, Flying Saucer Attack, Roy Montgomery, Castanets, Grouper, Richard Youngs"
9/25/2010	Circle Pit	Bruise Constellation	LP + download	$15.99	Siltbreeze	"Glimmer Twins infatuation--well, some folks can pull it off, others cannot. We all know how well Royal Trux rocked 'n' cocked it through the '90s, and now in the second decade of the 21st century, Circle Pit have sauntered into the boozy sway with their debut LP Bruise Constellation. Seemingly born out of the tar and tobacco of Nellcote / Exile on Main Street-session blooze, Circle Pit ably finesse a torn and frayed sound that's as retro as it is original. Oozing raw talent and possessed with uncanny sensual / sexual osmosis, Bruise Constellation will have you believing it's the Summer of '72 all over again (again)."
4/3/2011	Circuit Des Yeux	Degrees of Seperation	c20 cassette	$5.99	Night People	"Circuit Des Yuex is long running solo project by Haley Fohr who currently living in Bloomington IN. After a couple excellent LPs on great Minneapolis label De Stiljl this tape is another addition to a growing catalog by Haley. A loner outing of soulful isolated music inhabiting an intimate world of murky landscapes and haunted feelings. Sonic textures drift in and out of lo fi tape saturated acoustic guitar ballads as Haley's voice rings from distant surrounds. At times up front and then again fading away. Another great release from Circuit Des Yuex."
1/22/2011	Circuit Des Yeux	Ode To Fidelity	7"	$4.99	DeStijl	"3 new songs from Haley Fohr. Seemingly inspired by something or someone that has pierced her young, little heart, Ms Fohr has established herself as one of the most ambitious songwriters (for anyone who's taken the time to actually listen to her previous efforts). These sounds form a part of the arc that I doubt has apexed. This single will echo between yr ears till the new full length is complete, surely a monster in full."
6/27/2011	Circuit Des Yeux	Portrait	LP	$15.99	De Stijl	"Portrait is Haley Fohr's third LP and a massive step in her growth as a musician and artist. While pursuing a degree in recording and ethnomusicology she has become proficient in the studio. The result - radically unexpected qualities of cohesion and hi fidelity posit Portrait's narratives in a space that we've yet to experience. this sort of playing the game in the way that the game is usually played, i think is usually called a sell-out. And had her intent faltered to the slightest degree that conclusion might be apropos. But it's merely an effort to strip the canvas bare and get face to face with things. And it's Haley's intent that continues to be championed, as it has endured the acts of recording and performing and yet still stands strong and pristine. the rare qualities of strength and character can only be attributed to a rare artist. The modest, clarion sparkle of Portrait would not have been expected, or even achievable, considering the arc of Symphone and Sirenum, and it stands as a cornerstone and a monument, a testament to the daily practice of channeling her 21 yr old, roiling emotions into sound recordings."
6/27/2009	Circuit Des Yeux	Sirenum	LP	$17.99	DeStijl	"From a small town in the middle of the land of milk and honey, where the air is filled with the blossoming of the fruit trees for a big part of the year, comes these perfect little lilies of bands that make perfect little records that reflect this fertile and flowery region. it's a timeless land, and making records there is possible during this surely short period of history wherein the youth of this era feel as if they've solved the mystery of life and love and it's really loving that is the answer to everything. All of which has nothing at all to do with circuit des yeux and sirenum, which was made in indiana, and there aren't exactly pipers at the gates of lafayette. sound? It's the sound of "issues", and the sound of "troubles". You don't get but one phone call and honey, the girl's voice makes this message a bit rubbly anyway. Take the manic snorts of captain liberty, dissonant as chalk and the next moment as melodic as sharp yet slick, metal teeth. Take the mermaid, 1988, turn the tides, gently, gently away. Selected breath / silences / selected feedback. Take an argument you have here with an empty street while the memory of high traffic is leaking back. Sirenum has a real "spiritual food" vibe and it's fucking pain and pleasure relief in this real met en zonder sort of way. This world is her world, and pipe if you like it .."
11/17/2007	Circuit Refusal	Circuit Refusal	one-sided LP	$19.99	American Tapes	"Heavy swirling noise from Circuit Wound and Birth Refusal, west coast and mid coast knockout collabo. CW remixed the Refusal podcast from a while ago, mail style. Thick weirdness but kinda tech with is a nice new angle considering the anti-sound/fidely Coorz/Conn combo. Aint walls, but walls of the schizo ward, closing in.........in. schizo ward, closing in.........in art, and speed, any....."
5/16/2010	Circuit Wound / Al Qaeda	split	c5 cassette	$4.99	Anathema Sound	"These two golden state crushers prove that you don't need a lot of time to get it done. L.A. noise mainstay Jay Howard is Circuit Wound and his A-side is the aural equivalent of a sudden grab to the throat. Perfectly recorded sheets of distortion blast forth unrelentingly as destroyed electronics and mangled guitar take your skull for a wild, captivating ride. San Francisco's absurdly-named collective Al Qaeda (here in the core trio formation of Scott Miller, Eric Sanchez, and Erin Love) take a more cerebral approach. Set to the words of Stephen Hawking, the trio unleashes a steady stream of oceanic bass swells, walls of feedback, and melodic undercurrent. While it's probably the shortest we'll ever release, you'll have to take my word when I say this tape is still remarkably satisfying. A perfect harsh noise quick fix. Just get ready to flip and repeat. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by M.Y." Edition of 60 copies.
2/8/2011	Citay / Cloudland Canyon	Tugboat / Temperature Rising	7"	$6.49	Bathetic Records	"We are now carrying the split single from Cloudland Canyon & CItay. Both bands covering Galaxie 500, with Cloudland pulling off "Temperature Rising" and Citay doing "Tugboat." This was released last year on Kip of Cloudland's label, Intercoastal Artists. The sleeves are hand-crafted and each one is unique, colorful inks, insane geometic patterns, and hand-numbered. It's an incredible tribute to an amazing band. Snag one before they're all gone - there will be no repress! Edition of 300."
3/20/2010	City Center	Spring St.	12" EP	$19.99	Quite Scientific	"Single-sided 12" pressed on clear vinyl with beautiful silk screen on back. Edition of 500 w/ Download Coupon. The latest from Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good To Me) and Ryan Howard (Canada). Following up their debut full length on Type as well as a split 7" with Grouper comes this four song EP."
5/29/2008	City People's Farmer's Music	Afternoon Tea	3" CDR	$8.99	Black Petal	"Tender drone damage from NZ's finest, Sam Hamilton and Mark Sadgrove. Drink a cup of the new blood." "A really beautiful 3"CDR, a nice gentle drone with some really beautiful vocals! Both these guys have appeared on PseudoArcana in the past.."
11/15/2008	CJA	Bruce Lee	3" CDR	$9.99	Ruralfaune	"Report of a lost youth, these twin cdr's transport us in the foundations of CJA's sound. An electric side (The Dio Years), another acoustic one (Bruce Lee), two aspects of NZ: the north and the south, the calm and the wild, both different, both essential." Edition of 51 copies.
5/8/2005	CJA	Ironclad	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"CJA screams, 'I am a fucking monster.' Shout it from on high. CJA's master opus, 'Ironclad,' reeks of monstrous minimalist genius. These songs are unearthed from a secret place, within the depths of New Zealand's green pastures and jagged mountains. This is music that was destroyed and pieced back together so that it can destroy you. 'Ironclad' is a monolith. hell, it caused CJA to stop making solo records. It is that good. Don't take it from me, take it from Glenn Donaldson: 'I've already set all my electric guitars ablaze in tribute to CJA.' Amen to that.
11/15/2008	CJA	The Dio Years	3" CDR	$9.99	Ruranfaune	"Report of a lost youth, these twin cdr's transport us in the foundations of CJA's sound. An electric side (The Dio Years), another acoustic one (Bruce Lee), two aspects of NZ: the north and the south, the calm and the wild, both different, both essential." Edition of 51 copies.
11/4/2006	CJA / Witcyst	untitled	cassette	$7.99	Dutch Beer	"collaborational cassette from two of the finest New-Zealand men. songs, scetches and stories. nice full color cover designed by VEET, M."
7/23/2010	Clams	Clams	CDR	$10.99	High Spirits	Lambsbread + James Ferraro + C. Spencer Yeh
	Clarinette	Haze	LP	$11.99	Ecstatic Yod	“Regardez-vous the debut recording by clarinette, a solo project that has flowed from the brain of well- known archivist, Daniel Dan Vallor. Utilizing such instruments as guitar, swinehorn and kuck, Mr. Vallor has created a world of scrambled-diz miniatures of disarming variety. Played w/ tiny robot fingers, lacerated by stumps of home-studio fuckery, the five pieces here are as potently frenched a selection of man-handled string readymades as any record collector has ever waxed. Mr. Vallor is probably best known in the subterranean passages of this great planet for work that is involved w/ music in ways that are far more tangential than the protean form-gropes here. Over the yrs, Mr. Vallor has been associated w/ American popular combos as disparate as Panther Burns and Game Theory. More recently, he has worked at codifying and archiving the sounds of underground New Zealand, first as delineated in the fall-out from the Flying Nun concern, then as documented on the lathe cut records made by Peter King and others. Listening to the genteel hum and dribble of Haze it becomes apparent that Mr. Vallor has done more than catalogue the musics of NZ. Indeed, the weirdly shaped instrumentals that comprise the LP might easily be mistaken for the latest sounds from one of the bands on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Root Don Lonie for Cash, or one of the other labels that he has so brilliantly documented.” – Byron Coley
10/26/2004	Clarinette	Little Fluttery Screamy Thing	lathe cut 7" + CDR	$19.99	self-released	“With 2001's ‘Haze’ on Ecstatic Yod and the forthcoming ‘Transmuting Fall’ on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Clarinette has confounded a few, delighted some others and remained completely unheard of by just about everyone else. Drenching everything in blankets of echo (natural and synthetic) Clarinette has effectively evaded creating anything reasonably identifiable as proper music. Dusted's Charlie Wilmoth called Clarinette's ‘Haze’ ‘a bizarre gem of a record’ describing it as ‘like nothing a human being would try to make on purpose’. ‘Haze’ went on to take an impressive 916th place in The Village Voice's Pazz 'n' Jop Poll for 2002. 2004's Little Fluttery Screamy Thing EP and its accompanying album length CD-R explore what happens when too many equipment failures crash into an unhealthy obsession with the recent DNA CD anthology. It is nearly all guitar and echo and just barely appropriate for release. Lathe cut by Peter King in New Zealand and limited to 51 copies.”
9/25/2010	Clarinette	Nul	double CDR	$15.99	Cassetto Editions	"The third Clarinette album, after the Haze LP on Ecstatic Peace!/Father Yod and Transmuting Fall on New Zealand's Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Nul is a double set featuring drones (both floating and unsettling). Limited to a hand numbered edition/hand painted edition of 105, the album features eight pieces ranging from 3 1/2 minutes to 30 minutes. KFJC reviewed Nul saying "Mysterious, ephemeral, experimental. Swirling atmospherics will take you, transport you, like endless Maverick-style waves or orbiting satellites billions of light-years away." Edition of 105 copies.
6/4/2010	Clarinette	Well-Sung Woes	8" lathe cut	$20.99	Root Don Lonie For Cash	From Dan Vallor, 4 songs, light, airy, summery, spacey, infinte. Two copies available 1.music for a honda commercial (7:46) 2.and echo sighs (1:12) 3.long forgotten heat (1:32) 4.motion, pulse and breath (7:01)
10/8/2010	Clarinette	Well-Sung Woes	8" lathe cut + CDR	$19.99	Cassetto Editions	From Dan Vallor, 4 songs, light, airy, summery, spacey, infinte. 1.music for a honda commercial (7:46) 2.and echo sighs (1:12) 3.long forgotten heat (1:32) 4.motion, pulse and breath (7:01) Also includes cdr version (same material as on lathe record).
7/10/2008	Claudio Two	Hot Lead	CDR	$12.99	Mad Monk	"Latest and best from this mysterious tribe finds them in full synthesizer horror mode. Taking cues from the soundtracks of John Carpenter, the mutant space techno of Allan Bryant, the time-lapse mesmerism of Robert Fripp, and the intrepid synthesizer experiments of Ruth White, Hot Lead deals in nightmarish arpeggios, shapeshifting noise and ominous melodic variations. Recorded direct to 8 track - no boring, sterile microhouse polish here - and comprised of mostly solo tracks by individual members. Complete with dreamy Sisters of Mercy fanboy cover art. Limited to 150 copies."
1/1/2008	Claudio Two	Sniper at The Gates of Dawn	CDR	$11.99	Mad Monk	"Some folks may claim that improvisation is all about LISTENING, but Claudio Two - a new project starring partners Chazz Improv and Norma Bates (aka James and Jessica Toth, formerly of WWVV), and featuring the first appearance in over ten years by former Golden Calves vocalist Max "Mev" Wicker - is all about the opposite. Recorded in various spurts over the fall of 2007, Sniper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut CDR by Claudio Two, on which the band layers individual single tracks recorded solo and combines them unheard (a la Durian Durian), and, elsewhere, uses this source material to try to recreate this accidental music while in a group setting. Mixed in glorious mono. 150 copies, no reissues."
7/10/2008	Claudio Two	The Corpse	one sided cassette	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"New band featuring Chazz Improv and Norma Bates (aka James and Jessica Toth aka Wooden Wand and Satya Sai), and Max "Mev" Wicker, so far this little crew has just had two jams out on Toth's own Mad Monk label... Here you got two tracks of weirdo psyche drone blues, compared by James to some of the Hassara jams, pretty damn slick, I played this in my local record and book store and they compared it to the an old skool German loner, although the name slips my mind. Limited to 100 hand numbered copies with black printed pastel paper sleeves."
2/19/2004	Clay Figure	Eyes Of The Sun God	3" CDR	$6.99	267 Lattajjaa	"Hannu asked me to write a few words about this cdr, so here we go.. During the 10+ years that I've been playing music, I've always liked cover songs. My first serious band played a lot of covers from 1980s and early 1990s Finnish alternative rock bands and such. After that I've drifted into more experimental waters, but the thought of making more covers has always been in my mind. When Hannu told he'd like to release a Clay Figure cd-r on 267 Lattajjaa, I figured out that the time had come. The first track, Back In The Village, was originally made by Iron Maiden. It's a little less known track from their 1984 masterpiece lp Powerslave. I figured out the song's basic chord structure and thought it would translate well into a folk song. I changed the chorus a bit to make it more singable (is that a real word?), and replaced the solo/bridge section with a bunch of samples from The Prisoner tv serial. The song is based on that serial (Maiden also have an earlier song based on the same theme titled The Prisoner) and as I'm also a Prisoner fan, it was an obvious solution. The song (and the serial) is, to put it briefly, about a non-comformist individual repressed by the society around him. 1984, Brave New World, We... The second track, Divine Death, is a classic one from Napalm Death's first lp Scum. In the end of that song there's the repeated scream 'divine death'. I sampled and looped that scream, and recorded it through a couple of effect pedals, added some more sounds to make it a fuller whole and finally spoke the lyrics on top of that. The part 'individuality disabled, blinded by fables' fits well into the theme introduced in the first track. The final track, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, originally appears on Pink Floyd's second lp A Saucerful Of Secrets, as well as on the live section of their Ummagumma double lp. I've been wanting to make a cover of this song ever since I started to play music, so it was about time. I recorded a drum loop and played variations of the basic riff of the song on top of that with a keyboard. Then I layered a whole lot of different things there and manipulated the track on a computer for a rather interesting result, I think. Originally this song is, I think, just a psychedelic space rock song, but I tried to turn it into a description of an Icarus character who is finally blinded by a divine (or whatever) light because he refuses to accept his lousy situation and aims higher. 'Individuality disabled, blinded by fables' again..." - -Pekka PT/Clay Figure
10/26/2004	Clay Figure	Songs For Friends Of The Past	CDR	$8.99	Musically Incorrect	“Clay Figure left the 4-track days of folk-industrial-sound collage behind and came up with a shamelessly catchy and straightforward indierock/pop album that's occasionally perhaps a bit reminiscent of 22-Pistepirkko, Nick Cave/Birthday Party, Neil Young, etc. Limited edition of 150 copies.”
12/24/2005	Clay Figure & Verde	Kalliopora	CDR	$13.99	Audiobot	"It all started with a newspaper ad. On the morning of April 3rd. 2004 I was reading through a local newspaper. There I saw an ad where some store sold rock drills that they had got from Swedish army surplus. On the evening of the same day I was in another town to play my first gig as the guest bass player for Verde. I told Mika of Verde about the hilarious ad that I had seen in the paper. We had already recorded most of the material for the this collaboration. and Mika suggested that we should name the collaboration album Kalliopora. which is of course Finnish for rock drill. Then he started fantasizing how he would buy one and drill his way beneath his neighbour's house and set there a bomb. This recording doesn't sound much like a rock drill or even a bomb. Instead. there is the unique sound of Mika's self-built synthezisers. a bunch of guitars played by yours truly. and all kinds of other sounds that I hope you all like. even if they don't sound like rock drills. - Pekka PT/Clay Figure. Packaged in stencil-printed oversized covers by outsider rehab man Dennis Tyfus. Limited to only 150 copies."
12/29/2004	Clay's Festering Lungs	Clay's Festering Lungs	Cassette	$5.99	23 Productions	"One man band rumbling magic. Three tracks of live improvisations in thick rural noise gospel." This is Clay Ruby of Davenport. Edition of 55 copies.
3/26/2006	Clay's Festering Lungs	Raven's Hyke	DBL Cassette	$11.99	23 Productions	"Long awaited collection from heavy sessions in the tomb, same sessions that bore "Silver Skull". All out medicine worship, oily secretions of black sunshine to dampen your hollow bones. 80 minutes thick with whirlwind of mangled audio snapshots, healing rituals, analog psychosis treatment, massaging the dump."
9/15/2004	Claypipe	Crescent	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"These recordings actually pre-date the releases on Jewelled Antler and catch Claypipe engaged in clattery huge epic dronings which were in no small part fuelled by a peculiarly green tinged cake (ahem..). Organ, sampler, violin, guitar and percussion - not so many vocals on this one – the instruments sang for themselves, with nuanced and articulate tongues…!"
4/24/2006	Clear People	Clarity	CDR	$11.99	Manhand	"Limited full-length album from this sci-fi inspired caveman unit secreted in the ranks of Sunburned Hand Of The Man and featuring Don Harney, John Moloney, Rob Thomas and Dave Bohill. These guys turned up alongside Mystery Gypped on NNCK's Live At Ken's Electric Lake LP but this recording is even more devolved than that particular grunt-summit, with various epiglottal extremities plotted (vowels endlessly gurgle, throats floated in bowls of reverb) while tiny sound events (the ping of metal, a comb of bamboo percussion, what sounds like marbles on drums skins and the warp of sheet metal) combine in chains of weird allusive logic. Later tracks ratch up the distortion, with tapes and fuzz making for a suitably grainy backdrop for some beautifully confused acid babble. Recorded in 2005 and one of the more formally challenged shots from their lips to date. Comes in a card envelope with colour art, insert and mylar-printed quote from Octavio Paz." - Volcanic Tongue
9/17/2006	Clear Spots, The	Electricity For All	DBL CDR	$12.99	Deep Water	"During the Great Depression, 'Electricity for All' was a slogan of the Tennessee Valley Authority, part of FDR's New Deal, as it strove to bring electric power to isolated communities in the Appalachians. Some 70 years later, the Clear Spots commemorate that wiring process by expanding the concept. Drawing on various energies both natural and otherwise, using the barn as a resonator and the holler as a natural amplifier, the trio (plus specialist aetheric-engineering friends) opens an interplanetary conduit between the dirt and the stars, beaming diverse sonic signals out into the void. Is anyone up there listening? Maybe the mountains could sayŠ Two CDs, 17 tracks, 95 minutes."
6/11/2006	Clear Spots, The	Mansion on the Sky	CDR	$9.99	Deep Water	"In which three of our troupe embark on an expedition deeper into the woods, re-establishing their sonic forge in an abandoned barn overlooking a deserted river valley. Divers metallurgical, chemical, and electrical experiments are undertaken and documented. Twelve tracks across forty-nine minutes, a starker and earthier breed of klang."
6/11/2006	Clear Spots, The	Mountain Rock	CDR	$9.99	Deep Water	"Ten tracks spread across an hour of born-in-a-barn-falling-down psychedelic noise rock, rural electrification project improvisations, and deep-woods sasquatch rituals, lovingly recorded using tin cans and twine. As raw and ragged as you'd hope, you can smell that Appalachian soil in every blown speaker. (DW001)"
4/3/2011	Cleared	Cleared	c40 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"following up their killer lp on immune, the chicago-based duo of steven hess and michael vallera offer up another 40 minutes of expansive, haunting drones and skeletal blues. subterranean tones sacrifice themselves into mounds of barely-there rhythms before hess takes over those duties with aplomb. combined with vallera's angular guitar work, there's a feeling of wandering through empty city streets on "II (6PM)" while "III (NATURAL)" is as dense and sprawling as a black hole. cleared sounds like chicago. what stands out most with cleared is the subtlety with which these two operate. this is long-form experimentalism at its best. edition of 80, chrome."
2/2/2011	Cleared	Cleared	LP + download	$15.99	Immune Recordings	"Cleared was formed in the latter part of 2009 as a project meant to focus on repetition and patience as central elements of composition. Hess and Vallera have previously worked in various contexts of improvisational, long form and experimental music. Cleared is an effort to take the knowledge both have gained from these arenas in order to build hypnotic patterns of sound and rhythm. Steven Hess is a member of On (with Sylvain Chauveau), Haptic, Ural Umbo, and has recorded and performed with such artists as Pan*American, Stefan Németh (Radian), David Daniell & Douglas McCombs, Fennesz, Locrian, Dropp Ensemble, and Sylvain Chauveau. Michael Vallera has recorded for Catholic Tapes, Reverb Worship and Complacency Productions, and has performed with David Daniell, White Car, Sinkane, and Rhys Chatham. The sessions that created the material for the initial tracks were made in Steven Hess's Chicago studio in an extremely straightforward manner of recording. Percussion, electronics, field recordings and other experiments were arranged and supplemented with synthesis and guitar. Frequently, parts of the original audio recordings were sampled and further manipulated back into the work. The result is a body of songs that are simultaneously familiar and indistinguishable in their instrumentation." Cleared is the Chicago duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. Cleared is the debut album from Cleared. LP released in a limited edition of 500 copies on heavyweight white vinyl. Included is a coupon for DRM-free MP3 download.
12/26/2005	Clementi, Aldo	Punctum Contra Punctum	CD	$22.99	Die Schachtel	"On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Die Schachtel is proud to present Punctum Contra Punctum, a deluxe compact disc box dedicated to Aldo Clementi, one of the most important figures of Italian music of the 20th century. Born in Sicily in 1925, he studied piano and later composition under the guidance of teachers such as Goffredo Petrassi and Bruno Maderna, who also introduced him to electronic music at the RAI Studio of Phonology in Milan. Like many composers of the period, he employed serial technique early in his work, to abandon it later on in favor of a very personal, ingenious and unique method for creating new music. Blessed with extraordinary skills of invention and assimilation, Clementi may be the one living composer for whom 'genius' is not too strong a word. His musical language is extremely articulate and profound, resulting in a fascination with obsessive repetitions, collages, canons, and incredibly complex rhythmic textures which have to be heard to be believed. At the same time his music maintains to stay fresh, dynamic and highly enjoyable. A must-have for all the modern music lovers, and a great discovery for the most adventurous and prepared listener. The CD box -- silver-foil design on a matte white paper CD-box edition, complete with a lovingly designed 64-page booklet in English and Italian."
2/7/2009	Clerics	Born In A Lake	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"The second meeting of Clerics, but only the first time i actually was aware we were even playing. let's go ahead and consider this the first meeting of clerics, which is the duo of sal giorgi (the confused blotch-jock behind peasant magik records and the pillars of heaven project) and mike haley (905 head honcho, local wether man). got together on a weekend at my place, possibly to settle that star wars argument we had earlier in the week. had a nice lunch then broke out the ultra heavy delay. we took some pictures in the tunnel under my house afterwards, but they didn't come out."
5/20/2009	Cliffsides	Cliffsides	CDR	$6.99	Small Doses	"Bones of Seabirds' ryan mcgill is back again, but this time with his new cliffsides project. this one is entirely synth based, very ethereal and airy. it called to mind the Vangelis score to Blade Runner at times, both in a shared aesthetic with that music, but definite similarities in its melancholic mood and tone. this is really lush, beautiful stuff. edition of 72 copies in a white-on-white silk screened cover wtith vellum insert."
	Climax Golden Twins	untitled	7"	$19.99	Road Cone	"Destroyed turntable cut-up and musique concrete style cut-up, with short acoustic interludes. Black on black cover, white vinyl."
4/15/2011	Cline, Nels & Devin Sarno	Rise Pumpkin Rise	LP	$19.99	Volvolo Records	"Cline and Sarno transform their formidable stringed attack into four familiar ringing and feedback drenched tracks on "Rise Pumpkin Rise." At times, this sounds like just one person playing all ranges of tone in a thick slew of chased-around-the-room sonic zoom with just enough underlying white noise current to avoid any sludge-like realms. Nice."
12/24/2005	Cline, Nels / Wally Shoup / Chris Corsano	Immolation / Immersion	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Fans of modern fire-breathing jazz rejoice, for a true meeting and melding of the minds is at play. Immolation/Immersion is the inaugural recording of what will hopefully be more blasts of fury and filigree by three leading lights of improvised music - guitarist Nels Cline, saxophonist Wally Shoup, and young percussionist-on-the-rise Chris Corsano. Nels Cline should need no introduction. Be it the improvised fervor of his Nels Cline Trio or Nels Cline Singers, forward-thinking rock by Geraldine Fibbers, his collaborations with Carla Bozulich in experimental outfit Scarnella and via his weeping lap steel found on her remake of The Red Headed Stranger, or his latest incarnation as a member of Wilco, Cline is a truly versatile and virtuosic avant guitarist par excellence. Wally Shoup has been around the block a few times himself. Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Shoup has been involved with Project W, has collaborated on many recordings and performances with Thurston Moore, and has brushed up against many American and European improvisers, largely documented on the Leo label. Chris Corsano is on a sharp upward trajectory as of late, pummeling flesh and bone with his blitzkrieg drumming and splashes of color alongside saxophonist Paul Flaherty and in Cold Bleak Heat. Corsano has also been performing with the A-team of the "New Weird America", including Matt Valentine (Tower Recordings, MV + EE), Sunburned Hand of the Man and Six Organs of Admittance (most recently appearing on Six Organ's latest Drag City opus School of the Flower). Taken together, the three form a unit of seriously subliminal beauty, displaying a phenomenal degree of interplay that alternates between pummeling mayhem and subtle sonic passages. Out of the gate, Cline's guitar bubbles and broods, Shoup's gritty sax coughs forth both whiskey-drenched blues and supersonic skree, while Corsano turns energy into light with his death-defying drumming. Onwards into the affair, a more gentle trio surfaces to display effects-laden guitar yawns, warm sax purrs and nuanced drum kit explorations of bowed cymbals and quiet patterings. Cline, Corsano and Shoup play off each other like they have been performing together for years, their spontaneous flights spawning fully formed compositions that unfurl from the atmosphere like sudden spring thunderstorms. As indicated by the title, Immolation / Immersion is compellingly dynamic, capturing a full range of destructive force and quiet submersion. Jaw-dropping and essential."
1/22/2011	Clinton Machine	Gettin' Personial	LP	$16.99	Inyrdisk	"Canadian Blake Hargreaves has been involved in a number of notable projects over the past several years, including Jim Slay, Dreamcatcher, Thames, and Cousins of Reggae. All of these have crisscrossed the underground world, with challenging releases exploring skuzzy electro, noise, and even guitar-and-drum blues noise. So, even though this is a rock record, his debut as Clinton Machine may be seen as a sort of coming out of the woods, a surprising turn that successfully captures even more aspects of his musical personality. For those most familiar with Hargreaves, the acoustic guitar that opens the album on "Thing 2" will sound extra bizarre, and the feeling may continue even after the tune bursts into a stomping groove full of the fuzzed-out walls of guitars and thick drums that are typical of the rest of the album. But it will fade, yielding to an undeniably solid set of rock tunes. With riffing and tempo inspired by the rougher aspects of grunge and the lo-fi Guided By Voices vein, the "backing band" (apparently actually all Hargreaves himself) captures the sneering heave and aggression of Nirvana or even at times the bluesy glam of (as the exalting press release claims) a band like T. Rex in a concoction of genre that Hargreaves refers to as "smoke." All of this is stretched and warped in what is an increasingly common manner-the obliteration of vocal as lead instrument, instead being used as a textural one. This focus on voice over lyric fulfills the voice's role as a musical instrument-the connection in the song only based on the dynamics of the band as a whole-and the vocals may only serve as a marker of time, like a drum fill, to signal the passage or beginning of a section. In some situations, especially in the chillwave corner of the bedroom synth-pop slumber party, this vocal strategy can be to be the only mark of the nowing of the sound-the rest of the instrumentation and arrangements marking songs that weren't written in the '80s only by coincidence. And indeed, as seems to be the style nowadays, Hargreaves wails, mumbles, and barks over the grooves, with hardly an understandable line. But with their diverse rock touchstones, the quality of the Clinton Machine tunes makes them work the vast majority of the time. "Gemini" is an upbeat rocker reminiscent of Weezer, with a gutturally atonal guitar solo that could stand with any U.S. Maple record. The truncated "What" finds Hargreaves unleashing pretty good Black Francis shrieking, and "Sun Dog" features a great chord progression that juxtaposes guitar changes against static basslines. The most puzzling aspect is without a doubt the final track, "The Cat's Meow," a ten-minute solo guitar jaunt that might be described by some as a "freakout," but really plays more as a kind of wandering around with a guitar, a non-narrative dirge that isn't compelling texturally or otherwise. I'm tempted to say that this was placed here for one of two reasons-either to make the album longer, or to remind the listener of Hargreaves' origins as a more experimental musician, which it would do in a rather unflattering way if this is the case. Either way, the track seems like an afterthought, the only blemish on what is an exciting new direction for a very dynamic artist." - Foxy Digitalis 8/10
2/20/2010	Cloaked Light	Plain Curtain	c15 cassette	$5.99	Arbor	"These early four-track experiments from Peter Friel's Cloaked Light project offer a look into focus. With the slowest subtlety changes grow, only perceptible through reflection. A new form of seeking to understand; a non-linear music, offering a space of contemplation to look forward and behind. On A Long Green Hall Friel shifts meaning and reorients the place of speech in a Lucierian experiment with self-help tapes. On But I'm Trying, subtle tonal expansions mirror the manipulation of speech on the previous track, though without the recognizable markers of language the result is more obscured. Each track offers insight to the others processes. Recorded in Summer 2009, these tracks are some of the earliest from the project, a precursory inquiry to the tapes on Ekhein and Monorail. Upcoming split 12" EP with Pale Blue Sky further explores the nature of tonal interactions and non-linear explorations of sound. In an edition of 125 copies with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes."
6/4/2010	Cloaked Light / Pale Blue Sky	split	LP	$10.99	Arbor	"Working together, but differently. Clear Of, shows Cloaked Light working within a new mode; an expanded temporal sensitivity through field recording and discrete static chords. Slow movement- revealing growth and decay at the subtlest thresholds; disappearing music with a heavy presence, a shifting sense of space, not in the room, but of the room. Pale Blue Sky's Someday, Sometime approaches a similar expansion of perception and unobscuring blur. Through tape manipulation, the inner workings of tonal relationships are placed under focus; extending time to reveal new moments; widening the view. Distorting to understand; a reorienting pause. Originally conceived to coincide with the Cloaked Light / Pale Blue Sky California tour with Pedestrian Deposit, Infinite Body, Earn, and Mirror to Mirror in January 2010; a testament to a common point and it's different trajectories. Approaching the possibility. Mastered by Pete Swanson; cut at 45 rpm. In an edition of 400 copies with glossy jackets and inner sleeves."
	Clop Neplat	CD1	CD	$18.99	Demonosound Records	Drones, hums, and scrapes from Norwegian Mads Staff Jensen. Like Surface of the Earth at times
4/3/2011	Cloudland Ballroom	Illusion Circles	cassette	$8.99	Aguirre Records	"Pure listening pleasure for your synthetic dreams. Kosmische delicatesse which sounds a lot like early Brother Raven and JD Emmanuel. Limited to 100 copies."
9/3/2010	Cloudland Canyon	Fin Eaves	CD	$12.99	Holy Mountain	"Originally an all-things-not-Panthers outlet for guitarist Kip Ulhorn swapping musical ideas with Simon Wojan (now in King Khan and his Shrines), Cloudland Canyon spent several years interpreting the more structurally-challenged examples of Krautrock, '70s psych of the drone-discovering variety, spots of unnerving (in a good way) improv here and there, and the wonderful '90s bands that started out as head-scratchers and ended up as innovators (first-wave Siltbreeze and Kranky highlights). Fin Eaves, the band's third full-length overall, is the inaugural album from Cloudland Canyon Phase II. Joined once again by significant-other Kelly Ulhorn and a rotating cast of contributors, Kip has crafted a unique take on really, really goddamned loud and noisy. Most important--hinted at on 2008's Lie in Light--are big, unavoidable pop hooks clawing their way out of a pulsating, throbbing thickness of guitar, bass, who-knows-what-type-of-effects and understated but omnipresent drumming. Imagine a Flying Saucer Attack foundation supporting noise on par with the first two Iran albums, or maybe even Jesu, with flowing vocals providing the major pop-hook components. Cloudland Canyon's new creative level is not indebted to, but informed by the aforementioned band. Fin Eaves is an antidote for widespread devastation caused by Creative Bankruptcy and The Arrogance of Assumed Originality--two epidemics of devastating mediocrity that will cause our children to break their own ribs with convulsive laughter. This album will be slobbered over by both cobweb-crotched solitude-enthusiasts and beautiful people alike for years and years, necessitating a barrage of reissue box-sets that make that Stone Roses behemoth look like a cassingle. Here's your chance to get blown away the first time around."
9/25/2010	Cloudland Canyon	Fin Eaves	LP + download	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Originally an all-things-not-Panthers outlet for guitarist Kip Ulhorn swapping musical ideas with Simon Wojan (now in King Khan and his Shrines), Cloudland Canyon spent several years interpreting the more structurally-challenged examples of Krautrock, '70s psych of the drone-discovering variety, spots of unnerving (in a good way) improv here and there, and the wonderful '90s bands that started out as head-scratchers and ended up as innovators (first-wave Siltbreeze and Kranky highlights). Fin Eaves, the band's third full-length overall, is the inaugural album from Cloudland Canyon Phase II. Joined once again by significant-other Kelly Ulhorn and a rotating cast of contributors, Kip has crafted a unique take on really, really goddamned loud and noisy. Most important--hinted at on 2008's Lie in Light--are big, unavoidable pop hooks clawing their way out of a pulsating, throbbing thickness of guitar, bass, who-knows-what-type-of-effects and understated but omnipresent drumming. Imagine a Flying Saucer Attack foundation supporting noise on par with the first two Iran albums, or maybe even Jesu, with flowing vocals providing the major pop-hook components. Cloudland Canyon's new creative level is not indebted to, but informed by the aforementioned band. Fin Eaves is an antidote for widespread devastation caused by Creative Bankruptcy and The Arrogance of Assumed Originality--two epidemics of devastating mediocrity that will cause our children to break their own ribs with convulsive laughter. This album will be slobbered over by both cobweb-crotched solitude-enthusiasts and beautiful people alike for years and years, necessitating a barrage of reissue box-sets that make that Stone Roses behemoth look like a cassingle. Here's your chance to get blown away the first time around." Comes with free digital download coupon
2/8/2011	Cloudland Canyon	Mothlight, Part 2 / In The Cold	7"	$6.49	Bathetic Records	"Bathetic is proud to release the first single from the Cloudland Canyon full-length LP, Fin Eaves (out on Holy Mountain)! We're very happy this chunk of dreamscaped atmosphere could serve as our first venture into vinyl territory. Cloudland Canyon are widely respected for their shimmering approach to music, a combination of elements as varied as krautrock, shoegaze, pop, and drone. "Mothlight, Part 2" is a perfect first single and represents the band's slight re-direction into the more uptempo, catchier nooks and crannies of their vibe. Don't miss out on this! Edition of 300."
7/16/2006	Cloudland Canyon	Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004	CD	$16.99	Tee Pee	"Spanning three years of studio work, Cloudland Canyon was born when Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan. Tapes were exchanged, and a handful of improv performances across the Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that year. Within, strictures of German new age and electronic music of the '70s haze into field recordings mottled with analog burble and echoes of woodwinds. Shambling, modal organ ruminations detour browned-out meditation hang sesh. Blue-eyed drunken soul collapses upon swarms of meticulously composed synthesizers into a yellowed, rejoicing howl." For fans of: Boards of Canada, Animal Collective, The Dead C., Ash Ra Tempel, This Heat, Gong.
4/16/2007	Cloudland Canyon	The Mind Electric	cassette	$9.99	Tape Tektoniks	"2 hyper-psychedelic brain wave studies by this hamburg / new york experimentalists. psychedelia is science!
11/17/2007	Cloudland Canyon / Lichens	Exterminating Angel	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"This collaboration between the mellow, Memphis-meets-Germany duo of KIP ULHORN and SIMON WOJAN (aka Cloudland Canyon) and Chicago's great rock 'n' roll concierge and knower-of-mystics MR. ROBERT LOWE (aka Lichens) was born on a trip to the West Coast of the United States a few years ago. Exterminating Angel's single 30-minute track uses voice, guitar, samplers, and ARP synthesizer. You've heard of the unmade science fiction epic whose would-be director proposed using different big-name progressive bands to perform a soundtrack for specific planets used in the script; here then are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that's a combination Death Star and Taco Bell from the 1970s filled with cement Mayan temples and pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed reptilian beings. Every so often a bell goes off to break the spell and presents convincing evidence of this record's special journey."
7/29/2004	Club Moral	Living(stone) Concert	CD	$13.99	Club Moral	"Club Moral Living(stone)concert was recorded live on 23 December 2003 in Berchem. All the tracks were improvised on the spot and the lyrics were taken from 'Gazet van Antwerpen' newspaper of the same day. except for 'On Suicide'. About 35 people witnessed the concert in Lies and Marthe's (real) livingroom. The set was recorded on mini-disc and digital Pro Tools mixer. The final mix on this CD approaches as much as possible the original sound in the room. Club Moral has a 20-year reputation of noise music. performing on various occasions and locations ranging from music venues over art galleries to factory buildings. AMVK has a long history of computer-related art which dissects. re-locates. transforms the human mind and body in a multitude of applications. DDV is known for the protracted displacement of his own body in situations undermining he audience's experience of his and their behavior. Dylan is one of Belgium's leading Drum'n'Bass dj's and master of the Gromophon on 78rpm and backwards. Mauro used to be an Evil Superstar who reincarnated as 'count' Somnabula to tear dead therapists out of the grave by his strings. Packaged in standard jewel case with 16-page full color booklet designed by AMVK. Highly recommended folks!"
4/3/2011	Clutter	Live at the Bombed Out Church	CDR	$9.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"A kind of dark, swirling chamber kosmiche/ambient tangent, Clutter has created something organic & cerebral from contributed noises & sounds which he has re-arranged & processed to create something quite wonderful. I don't particularly want to rattle on too much about this as the music is of a rich, fascinating quality, 'Live at the Bombed Out Church' takes you right off on a dream-like astral plain. Does this church exist? If so, I want to go." Norman Records
9/16/2007	Clyde-Evans, John	Apetal Thunderfall	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"It's been a monumental year for John Clyde-Evans. He recently returned from a year living in the Punjab region of India, and after a slew of releases under his Sikh name of Tirath Singh Nirmala, he's back to the good ol' JCE. That's not all that's changed, though. His latest opus, "apetal thunderfall," spins off into a new web of cacaphony, leaving behind the pastoral anthems of yesteryear and taking aim at a more abrasive ways to leave behind the rust. "apetal thunderfall" was recorded entirely during JCE's stay in Jalandhar in 2007 using found software and audio sources. The resulting recordings feel almost primitive. Evans uses his uncanny ability to blend and mix multitudes of tones into sprawling thickets of sound. It is hard to call this music drone, but at the same time there is a continous flow to these three pieces that works in a similar way. Over the course of 43 minutes, this music etches itself into your skull, drilling itself in deep without drawing blood. Divided into three tracks, "apetal thunderfall" is more a singular entity than a collection of works. This album is cathartic, both musically and as a vehicle for JCE himself. But make no mistake, this is not spiritual music with mystic over/undertones. Simply, it is the new aural vision from one person made while living in India for a year. It is abrasive yet beautiful, and harkens back to a time and place when things were far less complicated."
11/30/2011	Co La	Daydream Repeater	LP	$16.99	NNA Tapes	"It's time to welcome in the era of New Exotica with "Daydream Repeater", the debut LP by Co La, gentleman and purveyor of all things avant-luxury. Matthew Papich designs a new sonic territory, creating something that nods to Jamaican Rocksteady and 50's American Pop in spirit, but ultimately presents an elegant re-purposing of those parts into fresh, smart, electronic music. For all seeking an attitude adjustment in the era of austerity, try burning one for Co La's cultivated luxury sound - you may find an emerging solidarity slipping into your ears. In other words - if you're too wise to live straight, you better grip this sound sooner than later. Mastered by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin."
5/8/2005	Co., Inc.	Hollows Time	CD	$14.99		"Just quietly, Jon Chapman has spun through a variety of incarnations in the years leading up to this well tasty cd of electronic delights. From founding the ever-expansionist Double Leopards in Philadelphia and appearing on their first three records, he went on to jam with Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp; he's also sat in on the never-ending drum circle of outback Australian life, as well as fronting the world's first Skullflower tribute band. Now resident in Dunedin, New Zealand, Hollows Time marks a maturity of the home-cookin' electro vibe that dates back to the very first Co., Inc. cassette in the mid nineties. Improvised and composed impulses collide in a mess of short-to-middling tracks that display a refreshing simplicity and clarity of purpose. Rough, pitted, obtuse, impossible electronica building blocks are juggled and arranged into floating ocean cities by genius lemurs under Chapman's firm but friendly direction. Housed in a gorgeous handmade and letterpressed (more like letter-hammered) sleeve, this marks out the down-under ex-patriate free-electronica art-folk slicker-trash scene as one to keep a close eye on."
5/29/2008	Co., Inc.	Nerve Pluck Game	CDR	$14.99		"Switched-out surge-and-spike, drum-and-treble, thrum-and-tremble from Co., Inc. (Jon Chapman: ex-Double Leopards, Rory Storm and the Invaders, Ray Off, Sinking Infinities) Unvarnished digital and vintage analog constructs: solo improv dissected and interleaved upon solo improv; all hard-/ no soft-ware. Covers hand-built of cotton rag matboard and gummed linen tape, with woodcut-printed titles, and artwork of shaved willow charcoal and archival book-repair tape. Numbered edition of 100. File Under: Submachine Bells."
	Coachmen, The	Ten Compositions New Frontiers In Free Rock	LP	$12.99	Ecstatic Peace	"Guitarist JD King, the sole remaining original member of the Coachmen (1978-80), is joined by Valerie Boyd (Farfisa organ), Dave Wain (bass guitar) and Simon Quick (drums) for a deft and transcendental blending of Cageian principles, free jazz and psychedelia. it's music that's truly liberating, a sunny avenue of escape from the muck and mire of the illness commonly referred to as 'the music industry'. The LP comes wrapped in neo-Japanese sleeves w/a book of poetry by the beat/avant legend Arthur Childs."
11/17/2007	Coal Hook	Coal Hook	CDR	$12.99	There Is No Trouble In Denmark	"Coal Hook is jørgen teller and ron schneidermann - a bi-continental, willing-to-travel duo hailing from somewhere close to the eye of the storm with news from beyond instant satisfaction. in the heat of copenhagen's post-millennium christiania, ron schneiderman (sunburned hand of the man, aethr myth'd et al) and experimental madman & truth-teller jørgen teller (Š & the empty stairs) discovered the vibe for coal hook during a one-time performance in december, 2006, with causa sui under the moniker pewt'r jjjjj. the famed venue byens lys and it's fire-heated wood-house cult-ambience went straight into the blood of this new being. from there the duo met at teller's city studio a couple of days later for this session of blistering music that proved there was a newly formed bond merely at it's inauguration. the course has been set for this string to be untied and the story to be opened. the music of coal hook has all the nerve of today's free rock movement at hands. both contributors have long lasting relationships with the music of free spirits in both improv, alt rock, psychedelica, dub, noise and folk music. coal hook's autonymous debut offers glances into dark places of insane beauty lighted by flashes of white sonic bolts spewed from two guitars' glowing strings. odds are thurston moore will like this."
7/30/2010	Coal Hook	Subsistance Compulsion	CDR	$6.99	Blueberry Honey	"This is the the second official release by this self-driven mind mash featuring Danish experiMENTAList / composer / inventor JØRGEN TELLER (http://www.jorgenteller.dk/) and RON SCHNEIDERMAN (call for details). Originally devised as a long lost collaboration after an impromptu concert at BYENS LYS in COPENHAGEN's CHRISTIANIA section in 2006. These all new recordings from TYTE STUDIO recorded in MAY of 2009 show that the fuel is still burning. No rules, no plans, simple pure expression & explosion is what is offered. A dance between light & dark, noise & calm, beyond language..."
7/30/2010	Coal Hook	Who's Distracted?	CDR	$6.99	Blueberry Honey	"The second set of recordings from this past MAY, and like the SUBSISTANCE COMPULSION album this one is also edited by TELLER, with artwork by SCHNEIDERMAN. This disc is perhaps a little more abrasive, though that is of course a matter of personal taste."
8/4/2007	Cobills, Chris	Two Hams in a Can	CDR	$7.99	Brothers	"Somehow or rather, Chris Cobilis (b. 1979 in Perth, Australia) began performing pop music and noise music in the same month - May 1997. He isn't really sure how he landed himself in this situation since he had little experience in music aside from being an avid listener & sometimes music journalist. Early noisy performances earnt recognition for Cobilis as an "accomplished musician" which he thought very funny because he felt this was untrue. Early pop performances with the 'good time' pop group, The Tigers, were met with startling reviews also, some suggesting that this new 'party' band were "avant-gard" and "challenging". Cobilis thought this funny also, as he had always imagined The Tigers to be a 'fun' pop band.Cobilis has performed at many of Perth's Totally Huge New Music Festivals. In 1997 he did his regular song and dance routine for the good folk attending the festival club following the percussionist Amy Knowles. Unfortunately, an ant bit him mid set, causing the disorented Cobilis to drop his guitar and scream "I'm an angry young man" over and over. Nobody was impressed. In 1999, Cobilis was asked to support the affable and well-adjusted fellow, Masame Akita and partner Reiko A (aka Merzbow), in the wonderful surrounds of the Players Diskotheq, where the few people actually watching him thought he was the 'disc-jockey'. Cobilis regrets his decision to wear headphones for the duration of said performance. Cobilis has subsequently played on bills featuring Four Tet, Wolf Eyes, Pita, Pimmon, Rik Rue, David Thrussel, Annie Gosfield, Alan Lamb, Ross Bolletter & Cat Hope. In addition he has shared the stage with Damo Suzuki, Ikue Mori & Jon Rose. In 2006, Cobilis intends to pedal his wares across the entire globe, busting heads, making noise and generally having a good time. If you reckon you'd like Cobilis in your town this year, drop him a line. He will come and dance for you." - CHRISCOBILIS.COM
2/1/2005	Cock E.S.P.	Menaha Red Light District	CD	$9.99	Betley / Sunship / BBPTC	“Big sausage noise from Emil and Matt plus Adris Hoyos guest spot.”
11/12/2003	Cock E.S.P. / Panicsville	Last Train to Cocksville	CD	$10.99	Nihilist Records	"This is exactly what it sounds like...America's two leading noise bands paying homage to the Monkees. What it may have sounded like if Manson did make the cut, simply ear shredding & yet playful. Banjos, beats, melodies & gobs of feedback make this THE party album of the Fall semester! With the hits ‘I Can't Get Her off of My Cock’, ‘She’ & ‘"Last Train to Cocksville’."
7/31/2006	Cody, Turner	The Great Migration / Quarter Century	LP	$13.99	Mad Monk	"Turner has been kicking around the NYC folk scene for quite a few years now, but this is, perhaps inexplicably, his first foray onto wax. While most 'singer / songwriters' these days seem to draw most of their water from Iron and Wine via Pavement and back again, Turner sounds like he began his musical education listening to Gershwin player piano rolls and quit buying records somewhere around the time Dylan brought it all back home. Lyrically, Turner can turn a phrase with the best of 'em, and the gloriously ramshackle accompaniment is Mungo Jerry meets Herman Dune sharing a squat in Tin Pan Alley. This LP combines two of Turner's self-released CDs, and is as good an introduction to his wonderful music as any. Here's what Jeweled Antler head honcho Glenn Donaldson sez about Turner: "Cody is pre-war, Old Testament & A Confederate General from Big Sur." ErrŠnuff said, no?" Completely blown away by this record! Highly recommended!
6/11/2006	Coelacanth & Keith Evans	Wrack Light in Copper Ruin	CD & DVD	$17.99	Seal Pool	"Jim Haynes and Loren Chasse have collaborated with Keith Evans to create Coelacanth's fourth and most complex record. Culled from two performances -- a 5-hour recording session during Matmos's 96 hours of performances at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and an audio/visual performance with Keith Evans -- Wrack Light in Copper Ruin explores the the symbiosis of materiality and sound, and its infinite network of metaphors and allegories. Like an abandoned aquarium in which an accidental and incongruous microcosm takes shape, Coelacanth's sound illustrates a constant evolution of decay, encroachment, and repossession of the border space between the natural and the man-made. With Wrack Light in Copper Ruin, Coelacanth also meditates on the space of performance, the tactile nature of the creation of sound, and its ephemeral, elusive and entirely subjective character. The visuals of Keith Evans further the exploration with their organic, nocturnal, energy. Comparatively, Wrack Light is more delicate than Coelacanth's previous recordings, inhabiting a space where artists such as Jonathan Coleclough, Andrew Chalk, Mirror, and MNortham can be found, yet it maintains the mysterious, oceanic nature its name implies."
7/23/2004	Coffee	dik mik rabbit ear antennae	CDR	$9.99	Carbon Records	"The sixth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. Almost a full hour of Coffee magic. Consists of two live recordings from 1997 and 1998. Includes the Coffee core of Dave Cross and Tim Poland, along with Brian Shafer (Nod), Phil Marshall, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell and Nuuj."
12/3/2003	Coffee	Hex Vex And The Lavender Mink	DBL 10"	$26.99	Elica	"Hex Vex And The Lavender Mink compiles the group's musical obsessions at the turn of the century, droll Brit drone, the magnificent Arthur Doyle, extremely dangerous onstage pyrotechnics, the fabulous Raymond Scott, cheesy electro dub effects and, most of all, competitive and confusing American free improvisation. David Cross and Tim Poland with their friends Arthur Doyle, Nuuj (of Hilkka and Sheet), Neil Campbell (of Vibracathedral Ochestra), Phil Marshall (of Colorblind James Experience), John Schoen (of Pengo), Adam Wilcox, Lawrence Feldman, Mark Martin, John Olson (of Wolf Eyes), Th. Metzger, Sticky Foster (of A Band), Joe Sorriero (of NOD), Coffin Kim, Gregg Boltz (of Left4Dead), Ed Wilcox (of Temple Of Bon Matin), Richard Scott compete with drums, bass, guitar, electronics, saxes, Clavinova, Crummar organ, violin, wood horn, electronic sounds & clips, repeater, Casio, electric birds, an old drum machine, subliminal voice track and hiss, confusing them into various formations and musical styles. With hommages to Arthur Doyle by doing a Conspiracy Nation with him and one without him, and to Raymond Scott with two exquisite covers of Naked City and Coming Down To Earth. The first Coffee in color (coverwise), after an output limited both by a scarce quantity of releases in nine years of activity (one double compact-disc, two LP records and two singles) and by the very underground nature of some of them (it is hard to know of the exsistence of the black single, for example, let alone the possibility to recognize it when you find it!). On this album, the project is also partly confused with the Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. This is also the first non-archival Elica release. A double 10" LP record set with color gatefold cover with notes and text about the band and photographs of their dangerously pyrotechnic shows, released in an edition of about 400 copies."
8/23/2009	Cohen, Alice	Walking Up Walls	LP	$15.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"Walking Up Walls" is the second solo album from long-time musician and visual artist Alice Cohen. In contrast to her previous studio efforts these are raw home recordings with an intensely personal vibe. The sixteen short song-sketches alternate between densely layered shoegaze burners and shimmering, ethereal drifters. Exploring shadowy corners and using the musical equivalent of automatic writing - this was considered to be a sonic diary and not originally intended for release. For reference points think "Pink Opaque" era Cocteau Twins filtered through the early 90's lens of New Zealanders like Alastair Galbraith & Sandra Bell."
3/20/2007	Cohen, Charles & Ed Wilcox	Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes	CD	$15.99	Ruby Red	"Next up, check out THOSE PEARLS THAT WERE HIS EYES by synthesist Charles Cohen and Ed Wilcox, drummer and leader of the legendary Temple of Bon Matin. Technically, the duo employ the same instrumental line-up as Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid featured in their EXCHANGE SESSION album. But the two achieve remarkably different effects due to Charles Cohen's weapon of choice: a Buchla Music Easel. Longtime Bon Matin fans will recognise Cohen's name from that band's Bulb Records album BULLET INTO MESMER'S BRAIN, a swirling soupy cacophony highly informed by the same Buchla Music Easel, designed by '60s synth boffin Don Buchla. That machine's parps, shudders and all-purpose weirdness alone make this record a treat, but the package is rendered essential by Herr Wilcox's fabulous fine art cover; what a whopper!" - JULIAN COPE in Head Heritage, February 2007. "CHARLES COHEN: Based in the Philadelphia area, Charles Cohen has been amazing and challenging audiences for over 20 years. His music is entirely improvisational and produced solely on a vintage Buchla Music Easel synthesizer. An avid collaborator, Cohen is most well known to [most] listeners from his work with Jeff Cain in their group The Ghostwriters. With few recorded/commercially available works to his credit, Cohen prefers to concentrate on creating Electronic Music in the setting of the live performance space. His music ranges from completely abstract and challenging to pleasantly rhythmic and infectious. Each performance is original and new, to the audience and to Cohen as well. ED WILCOX: Ed Wilcox is an incredibly talented percussionist and artist from the Philadelphia area. For over ten years he has been performing in his own Art Blakey style psyche outfit Temple of Bon Matin as well as producing paintings in prolific quantities. He resides in a condemned tower on the outskirts of Philadelphia, providing shelter for the local raccoon population."
	Coits	Desire Runs For Me +2	CDR	$10.99	Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers	"First CD by this one man project who had a much-coveted LP of knowing guitar primitivism on the Very Good label some years ago, plus a couple of split 7" releases. This CD collects material due for an LP and two 7"EPs, all recorded mid-to-late 90s and unreleased until now. Stark and imposing guitar/raw feedback electronics. First edition ltd.50."
3/11/2005	Cold Bleak Heat	It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War	CD	$12.99	Family Vineyard	"Cold Bleak Heat is the East Coast's maximalist tour de force of spontaneous sound construction. It is a staggering group line-up that raises the eyes and the ante. It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War, is the debut from a subterranean assembly of today's most active: Connecticut's prevailing operator of the alto/ tenor saxophones, Paul Flaherty; the seemingly ten-handed/ footed drummer Chris Corsano (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance), definitely today's leading light in pure spectrum propulsion; sound sculpting trumpeter Greg Kelley (nmperign, Heathen Shame), who opens into full-force gales during this session; and Earth-boom grounding acoustic bassist Matt Heyner (No Neck Blues Band, Test), whose tone/shape-shifting agility wrangles all these wild horses into one field. From the start Flaherty's combusting, scorched tone burrows into the torrential grooves with a bleating and vivid lyricism that never waivers. His 30+ years of New England horn calling is at its apex with these younger brothers-in-arms. The human electric pulse and ecstatic goal of Cold Bleak Heat keeps these four riding the lighting from end to end."
3/21/2009	Cold Turkey	Contact High	cassette	$7.99	Middle James Co.	"mjc is proud to bring you our 2nd Cold Turkey release! "contact high" features Andrew Coltrane solo on sax and electronics tho instead of being burnt buried by FX and madness as some previous releases, the sax rings clean and sober clear over a wash of weirdness as only A.C. can manifest. each side is a concentrated movement. side a stretches breath in rusty wind, slight delay in life. side b blows like a dragon sad sax haunted horns a lament for trying catch a buzz...limited to 33."
9/24/2009	Cold Turkey	Mega Shark	one-sided LP	$11.99	Hermitage Tapes	"Question? What does the debut Cold Turkey platter sound like? A) A Horn having an exorcism inside a destroyed/ blown out Wendy's in the year 2897 AD after the world has been destroyed to tiny bits FOUR times hundreds of years ago B) The Soundtrack to someone who has inject spraypaint into to his spine for any kind of physical activity, and "cold turkey" is blasted into their headphones as they "spray up" for a bout of tropical heat water skiing. C) the WORST track submission in the history of "THE BOSTON POPS SEND IN YOUR OWN SAX SOLO COMPETITION" D) ALL OF THE ABOVE. Dunno about ya'll but test intuition 101 says go with All of the Above every time. But don't listen to this mug, jamm this COLD TURKEY onesider instead. Screw tests, up the HEARING TESTS!! And what a test this is, just a HORRIBLE SOUNDSCAPE. The sound of things not comfortable where they are placed, just plain freakin' to get outta joint/dodge/town/here. FAST. But they are trapped! Puts the SQUIRM resistance up to: A MILLION until the evil lock groove bookending the sound forces everything into a PERMA JAIL. BOXED IN!!! THE HORROR!! Hearing this over and over I start to lean in to listen to the voices inside the jailed reed bleeding rib cage sound trap, terrible voices emerging from the din. What would they say? Is it even reeds? Is my rec. needle striking back? What? Who is AC anyway? Did they press this record on rotten cottage cheese? Does it come with a free voucher for a priest to break it in half? Can I own this and still live twenty feet from a school??? HELP!!! So. Hermitage vinyl debut. Handpainted. Handrulin. Mine was HANDED to me at a killer party. Where NO ONE HAD HANDS. I would file this killer LP in the "Tales from the Darkside" section of all your Michigan Psycho Mafia wax/platters. I'll brag and say mine is a double YARD wide and contains the beyond rare / priceless ZOMBI lathe cut LP from ages ago (that COLD TURKEY kinda sounds like a BEST BUY version) and the unknown TALL BIRCH COLLAPSED ON FAMILY private weirdo noise LP from MICH. that sounds like a "scrambled" part two of the legendary Paul Feinberg's VACATIONS mind-blowing single. Why all this nerd talk? Cold Turkey LP fits right in, hand done, raw locked inside mental battle SOUND LP. It rages with quiet slow burn, like a relay switch dipped in magic batter and cut with urine. Cold Turkey: best served: BOXED IN!!!! " John Olson Michigan, Capital Fall 2009 Pressed on black. vinyl with handpainted sleeves. Edition of 100 copies.
4/25/2008	Cold Turkey	Transmission	cassette	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Cold Turkey is a altar ego for Michigan's Andrew Coltrane, who's had a stack of stuff coming out on labels like Sound Holes, John Olson of Wolf Eyes American Tapes, and his own killer Hemitage Tapes print, he's a fine as fuck example of the noise leaking from that part of the US. Searing sludge electronics and tapes, minimal bleep moments leading into junk jazz sax spillage. Limited to 50 copies, blackened swooshed and splattered gold textured paper, again each individual with hand numbered stamped backs. This release is on insane reel to reel style vintage 80s cassettes, pretty damn fresh... F'real." Sold out at source.
5/29/2008	Coldstream	Coldstream	cassette	$5.99	Amp Tower	"Using computers, guitars and field recordings amongst other sound sources, Coldstream presents 4 tracks of drones, and dark atmospheres." Side A 1. Learn - Organ drone recorded in a church in the middle of the night 2. Search - One long depressive drone Side B 1. Taken - Apocalyptic deep drone with harsh electronic overtones 2. Fia - Endlessly looped machinery
11/24/2003	Coleclough, Jonathan	Casino	LP	$22.99	Idea	"Volume 02 in the 12" field recording series comprises of two distinct tracks by UK composer Jonathan Coleclough. Track One:'Casino' is a recorded document from 1998 that captured the whimsical spins, whirls, bleeps & chirps made by electronic gaming machines from inside of a Las Vegas casino. Track two: 'Tree Frogs' was recorded in November 2000 at Deep Bay, Antigua. Amazingly enough, 'Tree Frogs' sounds like digital voices echoing in some other unknown universe. 'Casino' is a remarkable field recording album in all respects & it sounds like Mr. Coleclough's beautifully composed music." Packaged in deluxe heavy jacket. 12" 220g Audiophile vinyl. LTD ED 400."
7/16/2009	Collins, Cybele	untitled	Book	$5.99	Sloow Tapes	"Very pleased to present this collection of beautiful drawings by the amazing Cybele Collins. She also records as Blue Shift and her visions have graced covers for labels such as Last Visible Dog and Rare Youth. Drawings have appeared in dozens of magazines including Morbid Curiosity, Paper Rodeo, Sound Projector, Free Radicals, The Ganzfeld, Cemetery Dance, Shimmer, Dark Animus and Vial. Full color cover, 36 b&w pages."
6/30/2010	Collins, William Fowler	Enter The Host	cassette	$8.99	Root Strata	"Two side longs blast of Shuruti Box form William that are as caustic as any of his feedback journeys on electric guitar. Half an hour of total darkness channeled into long waves of sound. Edition of 100 dubbed cassettes with offset printed covers."
8/31/2010	Collins, William Fowler	Hiding In Light	c30 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"Hell hath no fury like the desert, or at least that seems to be the implication on this latest mini-opus from the inimitable william fowler collins. the sparse landscapes of new mexico (where he plies his trade) are evident all over "hiding in light." the churning of distant machines fight against the wind and blowing sand. but the darkness overcomes as soon as WFC drops the guitar bomb early on and lets things disintegrate from there. eventually you're dragging bones toward the river styx looking to fill the blackest hole in your heart. "lost in fire" echoes how you feel after the fact. once you've destroyed everything and secluded yourself in isolation, the numbness takes over. but there's an unsettling comfort in feeling nothing and WFC etches that out like a true sonic magician. eventually the blackness reaches a distorted feverpitch and falls in on itself until there's no sound left. edition of 100, pro-dubbed."
12/21/2004	Colophon / 1 Mile North / Wind-Up Bird	Conduction. Convection. Radiation	CD	$12.99	Music Fellowship	"Named for the scientific terms that define the three methods of heat transfer, Conduction. Convection. Radiation. is the third edition in the Music Fellowship¹s Triptych Series, which combines EP-length recordings from three like-minded bands on a single CD. Electronic, minimalist, and post-rock music is much maligned for being 'cold,' implying the style of composition is more rooted in technique and complexity than the heart. Conduction. Convection. Radiation combines three artists who destroy that stereotype. 1 Mile North is Jon Hills on guitar and Mark Bajuk on synthesizers. Hills' ability to shape subtle melodies out of abstract structures blends beautifully with Bajuk¹s masterful playing of a diverse collection of analogue synthesizers. Colophon is the solo project of Tarentel's Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Colophon¹s music builds off Cantu¹s droning guitar work in Tarentel, but deconstructs it, leaving only the bare essence. The Wind-Up Bird is Joe Grimm sometimes accompanied by Jeff Smith. On their 2nd album, Whips, on the Music Fellowship, Grimm used his Powerbook, guitar, vocals, violin, and horns to musically interpret a post-breakup voicemail message, creating a luxuriant dark dream and a revelatory song suite."
6/30/2010	Colored Mushroom and The Medicine Rocks	At Red Frosting	c26 cassette	$7.99	Wagon	Killer synth project featuring John Elliott of Emeralds. Look out for vinyl release by these guys before too long.
5/28/2011	Colorguard / Ashley Paul	Secr's Lip / The Places	c40 cassette	$8.99	No Basement Is Deep Enough	"Male Bonding #1. "Since my Bangugot-brain (yes, every night I go to sleep dressed like a pig-tailed Filipino) is still brooding lusty tour-de-force loops in the right side of my electrically malformed but always eloquent bosom, this cassette could represent The Best of One's Onions. The wide white middle class still silently weeps under the tyranny of a hundred hot reality teevee degrees, while Mr. Natural's Sunny- Side-Up-remedy again prescribes to pile-up all broken voices, shellac, reeds, bells and steel to rocket launch the lone and inverted mind totem that made my grandmother recollect her wisdom teeth. Served with a perfect Wednesday afternoon cuisson, no proletarian house with laughing windows will ever let the new baked weapons of botox balsam and plastic consumer poetry rise above zero again. Ok, don't bother to ring at the door of the Anne Frank mansion because the damsel of the house is never home, but after all, when time jumps as a broken type writer, just make sure to give the clovened speaking clock a call : already half of the third petrified beep will be smoothly sanctified by a scythe of pineal gland gazing." "Hand-numbered edition of 80, all wrapped in Joke Leonare Desmet's color synesthetic take on how underwater nebula's could bloom without dolphin shrieking."
10/23/2003	Colours	Colours	CD	$17.99	World Psychedelia	"The liner-notes from this, tha band¹s first album tell us that they 'have the crystalline sharpness of the Beatles before they turned acid' and what's more, it's quite true; an excellent pop-psych album, first released on DOT in 1968; the first track, Bad Day At Black Rock, Baby, must be reckoned among the very best attempts at an orchestrated psych sound, with the band easily switching from key to key and featuring many disturbing time-changes; it's charms are many and varied, with songs like the sitar drone Rather Be Me, and the commune-song Brother Lou's Love Colony , later covered by Moon, and the eerie Cataleptic. An underestimated LP, until now, but not anymore."
1/30/2010	Coltrane, Andrew	Conflict	c30 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"AC brings his bag of toys back to oklahoma, but this time goes back in time and pulls out a total war bomb from the archives. heavy electronics and thick, bleeding walls of synth skronk are just what you need after a long weekend of drinking with the fam. it feels like there's some serious guitar riffing trying to find its way out of this electronic hell, but half the time there's no fucking telling what's going on here. it's everything all at once. coltrane goes to eleven. i don't even know. sax blasts come in from the deep, sourcing new megacreatures that don't just want your blood, they want your fucken soul. rusted factories breaking down never sounded so damn good. hell, if this isn't cathartic, i don't know what is. edition of 70, pro-dubbed."
11/21/2009	Coltrane, Andrew	Cyclops	c60 cassette	$7.99	Hermitage Tapes	"Various unreleased analog synth recordings from the last 10 years cut-up into analog tape loops. B&W art."
9/30/2008	Coltrane, Andrew	Eternal Cold Turkey	cassette	$8.99	Sound Holes	"Hailed as the SOUL of the Michigan Underground Basement Sound (MUDS).... AC rips another blat of outsider lurch/vision... loops/krunk/horns + ????? make this release another glimpse into his unique universe..... is there any stopping him????" Edition of 97 copies.
12/2/2008	Coltrane, Andrew	Synth Tapes Vol. 5	cassette	$8.99	Digitalis Limited	"I wish i could remember the first stack of bones from michigan superscuz andrew coltrane, but in the past year or so i've been buried under such an epic pile of a.c. fuzz that it'd be near-impossible to figure out where it all began. point is, he is a machine who never sleeps, never eats, i dunno... he just keeps going like his life depends on it. from junkyard electronics to heaps of rotten metal and there and back again, coltrane's always got new tricks up his sleeve. "synth tapes vol. 5" is exactly what it says it is - the fifth volume in an ongoing exploration of analog sound constructed with only, you guessed it: synths and tapes. the sounds on here are looped and stretched and dragged into pits of black mud. underneath the drowning, though, lives the vaguest and most unexpected hints of melodies and hooks, just enough to fool you and suck you in. next thing you know, you're tarred and feathered and dreaming of your next root canal. fucken genius. limited to 91 copies, cassette inspired art by stone baby's cory card."
11/21/2009	Coltrane, Andrew	Synth Tapes: Volume 7	c60 cassette	$7.99	Pizza Night	"man, that's one pissed synth" - wyatt howland
3/21/2009	Coltrane, Andrew	Terminal Towers	cassette	$7.99	Middle James Co.	"yet another side/sound of A.C. 'terminal towers' showcases work with tape loops. side a = chord organ tape loop recorded on two channels and mixed in stereo warping out of time with itself. ends up sounding like a haunted ancient broken phonograph deep in the Hermitage dungeon, skipping for eternity and back again, degrading into a hypnotic hiss and buzz. side b= one side selected from a private edition of 'tape loops' 4 cassette boxset A.C. handed to me during our past summer tour. it's a maniac stereo mix of ripping tape squeeze, industrial conveyor belt construction and dirty bombs. limited to 33."
8/20/2011	Coltrane, Andrew / Bob Bellerue	A Confederassy of Burnt Bridges split	12"	$14.99	Anarchymoon	"two firestorms, two sides. AxCx brings two tracks in a long delirious slow burning assault, with virgin sacrifices in a sonic sacrifice. mastered offa cassette till it was pure carnage. BxBx sketches and slashes out a busted landscape, with FM radio battles and assault horns to salve the suburban frontier with fire and metal rain. color paste-on art on white jackets, xerox insert. limited edition of 125 copies."
	Column One	Labyrinth	7"	$4.99	Obuh Records	"Disconnected voices fading into piano, violin duet on the flip"
7/23/2004	Comets on Fire	Blue Cathedral	CD	$13.99	Sub Pop	“Blue Cathedral is the third album from Comets on Fire and their first for Sub Pop. It is also the Bay area band’s most varied and richly textured album yet. With their first two albums, (2001’s self-titled debut/self-released and 2002’s Field Recordings from the Sun on Ba Da Bing!) they established themselves as flag-bearers of modern psychedelia. However, where their previous efforts are full-tilt psychedelic affairs, Blue Cathedral is harder to pin down (which elusiveness we heartily support). Their trademark sound is here enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning Blue Oyster Cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of Harvest-era Pink Floyd. They recently opened a string of dates for Sonic Youth and have also played shows with Rocket From The Tombs, Dead Meadow AND Dead Moon, Sunburned Hand of the Man and more. They also made a BIG fan outta Lord Head on High, Julian Cope, who said of them: ‘Comets on Fire deserve our gratitude…for their distillation of all the best rock riffs since High Rise’s take on Blue Cheer…’” Naturally, we agree.” Highly recommended!!
7/23/2004	Comets on Fire	Blue Cathedral	LP	$11.99	Sub Pop	“Blue Cathedral is the third album from Comets on Fire and their first for Sub Pop. It is also the Bay area band’s most varied and richly textured album yet. With their first two albums, (2001’s self-titled debut/self-released and 2002’s Field Recordings from the Sun on Ba Da Bing!) they established themselves as flag-bearers of modern psychedelia. However, where their previous efforts are full-tilt psychedelic affairs, Blue Cathedral is harder to pin down (which elusiveness we heartily support). Their trademark sound is here enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning Blue Oyster Cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of Harvest-era Pink Floyd. They recently opened a string of dates for Sonic Youth and have also played shows with Rocket From The Tombs, Dead Meadow AND Dead Moon, Sunburned Hand of the Man and more. They also made a BIG fan outta Lord Head on High, Julian Cope, who said of them: ‘Comets on Fire deserve our gratitude…for their distillation of all the best rock riffs since High Rise’s take on Blue Cheer…’” Naturally, we agree.” 180 gram pressing. Highly recommended!!
8/6/2003	Comets On Fire	Field Recordings From The Sun	LP	$19.99	Ba Da Bing!	2nd edition. "Issued for the first time in a limited run, the Field Recordings From The Sun LP was pressed at RTI and features high quality mastering, Stoughton pressed jackets and top grade vinyl, and a stunning insert. Field Recordings From The Sun is not a psychedelic album in the manner of cheap guitars and gentle dorian meanderings served with an oil light show. It is an aggressive attack on a fragile reality, a peeling back of the skull above the brain and a transmigration of the senses to a universal location of beer drunk joy and overwhelming white heat in thundering, all consuming sound. Field Recordings From The Sun is simultaneously a deformation and unabashed celebration of all that is purely grotesque and whorishly beautiful about Rock and Roll music. It is the sound of human expression full of horror, full of joy, full of whiskey and grass, laughing, full of love and confusion." Highly recommended!
3/30/2005	Comets On Fire / Burning Star Core	Comets On Fire / Burning Star Core	LP	$29.99	Yik Yak	"Comets On Fire and Burning Star Core and his familiar (Hair Police) in a rehearsal space and get buckwild recording two long sides of noise-damaged psychedelia. One side is funkier than the other, and apparently a 'roadhouse' number got nixed. What remains is pure expando-band blown-jam sorcery. Shirts were shed, inhibitions forgotten, magic was made. Limited edition pressing packaged in sweet screened sleeves."
11/15/2008	Common Eider, King Eider	Figs, Wasps & Monotremes	CD	$12.99	Root Strata	"Rob Fisk's (Badgerlore / Free Porcupine Society / Deerhoof) second CD under the Common Eider, King Eider name. This one was written last winter in Fairbanks Alaska, which is just under the arctic circle. Comes in offset print, 3 panel paper, silver on white."
9/16/2007	Common Eider, King Eider	How to Build a Cabin	CD	$9.99	Yik Yak	"With raw viola, haunting vocals, and noise guitar, Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) has created an exquisite album that sounds perfectly at home in the natural world between dusk and dawn. Packaged in a hand-sewn book of drawings by Fisk entitled "How to Build a Cabin."
7/23/2010	Common Eider, King Eider	Worn	LP	$15.99	Root Strata	"Common Eider, King Eider is led by Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof, Badgerlore). Now expanded to a four piece, Common Eider, King Eider have crafted yet another blast of high end wind chill that whips threw the empty spaces in your skull. More stories of flora & fauna that hang beautifully in dynamic rooms of piano, strings, voices and stargazing guitar explosions born of layer after layer of feedback. This ghost world is all gray and black, with a high condensation of loss penetrating throughout. Moonlight occasionally lights the path, but for the most part prepare to be lost in the woods. Liz Harris (Grouper) and Tom Carter (Charalambides) make guest appearances on the tracks 'Ennui' and 'Earth Liver' to add to the overall sense of dread. Worn is limited to 300 copies housed in silk- screened jackets done by the band, with a download coupon."
1/24/2009	Communication Palace	Live From An Unopened Room	cassette	$7.99	American Tapes - AM-796	"Third release from a sound pyramid in debt to fully strange local communication system in Lansing. What would a Palace of Communication do? Hope language sacrifices? Do dances in unison to shouted rotten verbs? Would it pay rent in long sentences scribbled on moist magic ancient forest logs? What would the king or queen be like? The Queen of Communication Palace? Mouths are magic, no words inside this tape, just the echoes of the halls of the Palace when no one is aroundŠŠultra strange sound for the weird local zone where things are communicatedŠŠ.Wear a vowel gown with a adjective necklace while busting this. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art."
8/20/2011	Community Action	Color vrs Poison Arts	CDR	$5.99	American Tapes	"Brand new in-house electronic abstraction unit. Spiraling patterns and burning circuits. Recorded in random and composed styles. All strange & homemade. Was a demo floating around in LIVE FRYING style but here's the debut. Sliced and diced from direct DRIBBLING GOLD studio sessions all thru the spring and summer. Color covers, edition of 40." AM 906
6/27/2009	Compassing	Old Woes New Hopes	c50 cassette	$6.99	Bum Tapes	"There's a hell of a lot going on in this new 10 track cassette by the two guys who make up the band Compassing. A microcosm of sounds, tiny little experimentations click into view then whirl away, an orchestra of warped instruments throb and groove against each other only to be joined together by the occasional chugging krautrock pulse and scattered free form drumming, kind of like Faust jamming with Taj Mahal Travellers and being produced by Louis & Bebe Barron." Edition of 20 copies.
3/6/2010	Computer	What Was Computer?	c20 cassette	$7.99	Scumbag Relations	"Continuation of a theme. Each tape picking up and building upon where the previous installment left off. More space, more time, and more intricacy developing with each new volume. Thorough investigations of hidden and accidental sound structures. The voice of the computer emerges. (v2.0)"
7/11/2011	Comus	East Of Sweden: Live At The Melloboat Festival 2008	CD	$16.99	Gnostic Dirt	"The seminal British progressive rock/folk band Comus is back. Their classic debut album, First Utterance, release in 1971, is on just about anybody who's anybody's list of "Desert Island" records. East Of Sweden is a live CD recorded at the Melloboat Festival in 2008, which was the first time the band had played live in 34 years. They were met with a tumultuous reception and this fantastic CD is a great document from that show. It is also the first release on the Dirter subsidiary imprint Gnostic Dirt, launched by Steve Pittis and David Tibet."
10/21/2011	Comus	First Utterance	double LP	$28.99	Get Back	"The first LP is rock music only by association. Taking British folk as a point of departure, the music twists and oozes as a vile bunch of snakes, pairing gorgeous melodies and expert playing to ecstatically altered vocals and vicious lyrics. Rape, murder, witchcraft and abuse are main ingredients to the menu, which is cooked with raging madness, but still manages to taste delicately composed. One of the very first British folk albums that creates a totally new, dangerous and utterly unique atmosphere." -- Marcel Koopman. The second disc in this Get Back reissue is a 12" EP with 3 bonus tracks from their 1971 7" on Down Records featuring "Diana" (single version) and 2 non-album tracks. The classic weird-folk British album from 1970, more recently infamous for influence on Current 93's sound in the 90s. Repressed.
7/16/2009	Concern	Truth & Distance	CD	$11.99	Digitalis Arts & Crafts	"Gordon Ashworth is Concern and this is his manifesto. "Truth & Distance" is a mini-epic, a minor masterpiece. Within these sonic walls lies a stunning landscape, adrift in golden tones and silver siren songs. Ashworth creates beautiful, shimmering music that defies categorization. It stands on its own, droning away into the furthest reaches of the night. Using only acoustic instrumentation, Ashworth conceives pieces of music in which resonance and timbre mutate and in the air and unfold naturally, organically. Hints of piano glisten like night shadows whispering through the leaves. Strings are bowed and plucked into oblivion. Everything is turned into a pile of reverb. Everyone is a ghost. Concern will shine a light on it all. "Truth & Distance" indeed. It's all coming up roses this time. Co-released with Iatrogenesis. Packaged in custom-designed silkscreened gatefolds by Seizure Palace."
1/31/2011	Concern	Truth & Distance	LP	$18.99	Digitalis	"Gordon Ashworth is Concern and this is his manifesto. "Truth & Distance" is a mini-epic, a minor masterpiece. Within these sonic walls lies a stunning landscape, adrift in golden tones and silver siren songs. Ashworth creates beautiful, shimmering music that defies categorization. It stands on its own, droning away into the furthest reaches of the night. Using only acoustic instrumentation, Ashworth conceives pieces of music in which resonance and timbre mutate and in the air and unfold naturally, organically. Hints of piano glisten like night shadows whispering through the leaves. Strings are bowed and plucked into oblivion. Everything is turned into a pile of reverb. Everyone is a ghost. The title track starts with frayed edges and continually dials back, trying to not to fall apart. Ashworth's skill in wrangling discordant sounds out of his array of acoustics seems to grow as the piece flows along. Daunting as the seemingly endless layers of droning tones may be, its the all-enveloping nature of this music that makes it so engaging. Like hearing Basinski destroy and rework Peter Broderick's deepest compositions, "Truth & Distance" feels familiar while sounding new. As the final, looping piano chords of "Heartsink" disintegrate into oblovion, Concern has gone all in. This is music that trades in immediacy for reservation and restraint. Ashworth is able to combine all these elements into towering aural monuments that he scatters through the air and down into the soil. It's all coming up roses this time. New vinyl edition features extended cuts of all three pieces from the original CD, adding 10 minutes of new music that pushes the album to another level. In addition there is all new art and a cut by Berlin's D+M."
9/5/2010	Concert Silence	9.22.07	CD	$13.99	Infraction	"We've been fans of Eluvium for quite some time, so when the opportunity to work with Matthew Cooper came up, I jumped at the chance. This recording is a collaboration with Charles Buckingham and Eluvium under the name Concert Silence. It was originally a live set on 9.22.07 and then the recording assumed that name. It was mastered (by Carl Saff) and touched up a bit by both Cooper and Buckingham. The release is going to be available as a CD as well as a 2LP set. The LPs are 180g pressings, with a D-side vinyl etching. The sleeves will be Stoughton tip-on gatefold style with full color printed inner sleeves and an OBI. The CD will be a 6 panel digipak. Both editions limited to 900 copies each.
9/5/2010	Concert Silence	9.22.07	double LP	$29.99	Infraction	"We've been fans of Eluvium for quite some time, so when the opportunity to work with Matthew Cooper came up, I jumped at the chance. This recording is a collaboration with Charles Buckingham and Eluvium under the name Concert Silence. It was originally a live set on 9.22.07 and then the recording assumed that name. It was mastered (by Carl Saff) and touched up a bit by both Cooper and Buckingham. The release is going to be available as a CD as well as a 2LP set. The LPs are 180g pressings, with a D-side vinyl etching. The sleeves will be Stoughton tip-on gatefold style with full color printed inner sleeves and an OBI. The CD will be a 6 panel digipak. Both editions limited to 900 copies each.
9/5/2010	Concert Silence	Rain Furniture ep	12"	$14.99	Infraction	"Matthew and Charles did not want Concert Silence to be a one-hit wonder, so they recorded the 'rain furniture' ep in 2008. This was not a live recording, instead an exchange of ideas in a home studio setting. Fuzzy ambient with buried muffled minimal orchestral interludes."
9/5/2010	Concert Silence	Rain Furniture ep	CD	$9.99	Infraction	"Matthew and Charles did not want Concert Silence to be a one-hit wonder, so they recorded the 'rain furniture' ep in 2008. This was not a live recording, instead an exchange of ideas in a home studio setting. Fuzzy ambient with buried muffled minimal orchestral interludes."
2/15/2011	Concord Ballet Orchestra Players	First Annual North Falmouth Organ Slaughter	c-49 + c55 double cassette	$8.99	L'animaux Tryst Field Recordings	"After bearing witness to a couple mind-blowing live sets by these psychedelic truth-seekers, we are complete converts to Concord Ballet Orchestra Players' cause and are proud to bring their epic analog debut double-cassette audio-tome FANFOS to the physical realm. Concord Ballet gathers together a crew of the Boston-area's finest kraut-worshipers, space-rock psychonauts, and in-the-moment free-improv experimentalists onto a single sprawling stage, resulting in a wide variety of heady cinemascope-worthy jams. Documenting CBOP relatively early in its existence, FANFOS suggests a particularly wide-open canvas and technicolor palette of possibilities (ghostly theremin, flute, casio banks, electric guitar divinations, grooving basslines and edge-of-seat drums), leading the listener down prismatically-varied paths as the band navigates thru the perpetually-manifesting "now". Ranging from brief mysterious vignettes to majestic side-long mindscapes, these tracks were recorded with a fly-on-the-wall live quality that doesn't omit tripped fire alarms, off-mic sneezes, or stumbles, all of which reveal Concord Ballet to be devout believers in authentic improvisation and psychedelia. Expertly mastered by Greg Davis and pro-duped onto premium chrome tape, FANFOS is limited to 75 copies and packaged "audio-book style" in a white vinyl folder, with pro-printed full-color cover art. Also includes a download code for a complementary digital copy, for easier track-by-track parsing of this massive missive."
8/22/2008	Cone	II	CDR	$13.99	Reverb Worship	"I am delighted to announce this new release on Reverb Worship.Its a really superb album by Cone and called "Cone II".The cd contains six tracks from the mind of Hermann Blaupunkt and recorded @ Casa Cassette Studios in Eindhoven.Cone is a one man project with the addition of drums on the first track.The music features acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, vocals, swirling backwards effects and many feild recordings of speeding cars, passing trains and the screech of rolling stock, birdsongs, voices and other varied sounds. As a way to describe this recording if you like Six Organs of Admittance and/or Jakob Olausson you will really love this.The cd comes in an edition of 50 copies with a PVC coated cotton fabric insert with a grass design."
2/21/2005	Connaughty, Sean	Five Hands Tall	CD	$10.99	Mutant Music	“Sean Connaughty hasn't won a neighborhood yet, although the guitarist and painter seems deeply entrenched at Lyn-Lake's Soo Visual Arts Center. A near-legend among near-legends, Connaughty's rep hinges mostly on his fretwork and vocals for Minneapolis-based psychedelic bands Salamander and Vortex Navigation Company. While neither is the touring kind, both outfits boast discs on Camera Obscura--the well-disseminated, Melbourne-based psych, folk, and psych-folk label whose alignment with Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine and the sadly flatlined Terrastock festival have helped make it a favorite among lovers of nouveau acid rock. On Five Hands Tall, his second solo release (and first on Salamander bassist Dave Onnen's Mutant Music label), the righteous snarl he sometimes wields in ensembles is absent, as are the bands' occasional forays into songdom. Low-key and focused, Connaughty plays improvising acoustic troubador, freestyling like Burl Ives on a cocaine and Courvoisier bender over nuanced muleskinner drones. Keeping his playing and singing simple and repetitive affords the mental leeway Connaughty needs to pull the album's spontaneous narrative out of his ass. ‘Glory, glory hallelujah/Teacher hit me with a ruler,’ he begins, by way of introducing one of the album's principal characters on album opener ‘Glory One.’ Glory, a young woman who ‘ran with a wicked crowd and didn't give a damn for you and me,’ comes and goes throughout the disc, like the shadowy Mr. Whittaker, ‘who knows a thing or two about baking.’ At his best--as when he rhymes ‘synapses’ with ‘synopsis’ - Connaughty could give Aesop Rock a run for his money. His occasional faltering moments work better still, endowing the album's bedroom surrealism with a goofy outsider charm.”
1/17/2010	Connector	STEEL/RUST	c50 cassette	$6.99	Stunned	"Carnal energy meets primal masculinity meets 360 tons of public-art-installation STEEL. Entering the belly of this beast for two separate midnight sessions, Bryce Loy (Abaddon Records) and Peter Lamons scratch and beat the RUST nearly clean off their instrument of creation/object of destruction. This is Connector — both the name of the experimental percussion project of Bryce & Peter’s, debuting on this cassette, as well as the name of a Richard Serra mega-sculpture erected last year in the belly of yet another beast: Orange County, California. The Connector duo’s pacing and control is tremendous within Serra’s massive acoustical space over both their 25-minute sides. The intimate sounds of crickets, heaving breath, and torqued steel moans are given just as much footing as vocal eruptions & volcanic percussions upon the 66-foot-tall sculpture sides. No electricity. No effects. Just the quickening of sweat, absorption of metallic shock, and shedding of blood in a thrilling attempt to locate one of the deepest ancestral rites — discovery though smashing shit up. Special edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c50 tapes with double-sided jcard and foldout color insert."
9/29/2005	Connelly	Failing Lights vol. 1	3" CDR	$19.99	Chondritic Sound	"organ grinding from this psychotic growler. a mess of gross, heavy tones. rumbling and rolling through two tracks of mutant wind-hazed drone. a stagnant fog descending and making everything stand still. this is the first in a series of three which were somehow released in backwards order making the puzzle all the more confusing." Edition of 113 copies.
12/24/2005	Connie Acher	Lovesick Lip Service	CD	$8.99	Flipped Out Records	"Come kiss the clouds with this debut record from harlem usa….ride the voice of an angel as glorious guitars wrap around home-made percussion and more to soothe the most chattering mind...." "First release by this Brooklyn spinner of lo-fi doughnuts. Ethereal four-track layerage lends her sad cant an air of confused mystery and the guitar is plucked as though someone had spiked the bug juice at girl scout camp w/ a big goddamn sugar cube." - Byon Coley
10/31/2009	Connie Acher	Spray Me Down	CD	$7.99	Flipped Out Records	"Amazing grace and beauty abounds on this fourth full length recording by connie acher....this time around strawberry is the foil and he sweetens her stew with precise production and virtuosic instrumentation....connie gushes forth streams of magic honey that slide right down to the sweet spot of the soul....full cover covers....edition of 500 copies."
6/18/2002	Connie Acher & Blind Drunk John	For The Love Of It	LP	$9.99	Flipped Out Records	"A mountain of melodie and shimmering strings makes a ghostly trail under sweet vocal clouds with percussion eruption and hot vapor guitar....” The two previous releases by Connie Acher on Flipped Out Records have been outstanding and so is this one!
12/24/2005	Connie Acher & Jelly	Love Pop	CD	$8.99	Flipped Out Records	"The rhythm of life in happy harlem spins jelly into the melodie jamming note chomping blur over and under Connie's cascading songs of high beauty...." "It initially went under/over/around my radar, but this time its fragile little folk/pop is sounding just about right. Acher lives in NYC. Her songs are short and kind of sweet and pretty, but also kind of awkward sounding, like they might fall apart any minute. Arrangements are sparse, mainly just her accomplished but delicate and unassuming guitar playing and vocals. Jelly, her backup band, seems to consist of another electric guitar player, a skewed sort of kitchenette-type percussionist, and not much else. (Male vocals appear, but only on one song that I remember.) It might be recorded live -- in the middle of side two Acher is heard introducing a song, though if there's an audience I can't tell from listening. It all goes down pretty nicely, with a fair share of that certain combination of dreamy 'n' skewed that I pretty much demand from my post-folk/psych/rock listening diet." - Blastitude
3/21/2009	Connors, Loren	The Curse of Midnight Mary	CD	$12.99	Family Vineyard	"In 1981 guitarist Loren Connors took his tape recorder to the graveyard where the legendary Midnight Mary's grave lies in New Haven, Connecticut. The curse is: Anyone who gets caught in her graveyard past midnight will die the next day. But Connors, like a young fool, taped in that place, making this album. Lost and forgotten, a cassette of this music -- made at Evergreen Cemetery -- was found by chance in 2008. Recorded between Connors' eight volume Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations LP series and the folk albums he would make with Kath Bloom, these nine pieces meld those distinct, haunting styles. Connors, singing in a trance like moan, reforms the Mississippi Delta blues on acoustic guitar with flashes of melodic hooks and a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs and other world spirituals. It's an album for followers of Connors' spine tingling solo albums and his collaborations with Suzanne Langille or Jandek. Devotees of early 20th Century blues artists such as Blind Willie Johnson or Charley Patton will be equally enthralled. A rare and essential peak into the still mysterious early years of this American guitar master."
5/1/2009	Connors, Loren	The Curse of Midnight Mary	LP	$13.99	Family Vineyard	"In 1981 guitarist Loren Connors took his tape recorder to the graveyard where the legendary Midnight Mary's grave lies in New Haven, Connecticut. The curse is: Anyone who gets caught in her graveyard past midnight will die the next day. But Connors, like a young fool, taped in that place, making this album. Lost and forgotten, a cassette of this music -- made at Evergreen Cemetery -- was found by chance in 2008. Recorded between Connors' eight volume Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations LP series and the folk albums he would make with Kath Bloom, these nine pieces meld those distinct, haunting styles. Connors, singing in a trance like moan, reforms the Mississippi Delta blues on acoustic guitar with flashes of melodic hooks and a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs and other world spirituals. It's an album for followers of Connors' spine tingling solo albums and his collaborations with Suzanne Langille or Jandek. Devotees of early 20th Century blues artists such as Blind Willie Johnson or Charley Patton will be equally enthralled. A rare and essential peak into the still mysterious early years of this American guitar master. The LP version is a recreation of Connors' Daggett-style releases, featuring pasted on cover art and back liner notes with handstamped labels. Unlike the CD version, the LP is in a stark black sleeve with a reworked black and white cover drawing and limited and hand numbered to 515 numbered copies."
3/21/2009	Connors, Loren & Jim O'Rourke	Two Nice Catholic Boys	CD	$12.99	Family Vineyard	"These two nice Catholic boys, Loren Connors and Jim O'Rourke, met at the crossroads each night during a 1997 European tour. By this time O'Rourke already reissued Connors' seminal heartbreak album In Pittsburgh on his Dexter's Cigar label and was preparing to produce the guitarist's big-band mash-up with Alan Licht, Hoffman Estates. Together, Connors-O'Rourke unravel slow motion ghost blues across three extended pieces that evolve from the elder's Martian style to the thundering, feedback splattered lead grooves of that whippersnapper. The spontaneous melodies shift from devastating, country road intimacy to hypnotic over amped rock. It's ferocious, epic, and an utter beauty capable only from two who know themselves and each other all too well. This live CD is only the second duo release by these musical partners despite performing together since the mid-90s. During the past decade, O'Rourke has repeatedly returned to the hours of recordings captured across Europe to select these 47 minutes."
2/11/2006	Conrad, Tony	Bryant Park Moratorium Rally (1969)	CD	$14.99	Table of the Elements	"An October afternoon in 1969. Midtown Manhattan. A rally in Bryant Park against the Vietnam War. Down 42nd Street towards Times Square, Tony Conrad is adjusting microphones in his 5th floor loft, one directed at the TV set -- where it will pick up live local news coverage -- the other pointing out the window, where the echo of speeches and crowd noise mingles with the oceanic rush of crosstown traffic. As the event is about to begin, he rolls tape. Thirty-four years later, we hear what he heard. And the juncture, for so many reasons, could not be more critical. As the Bush Administration pursues a risky military agenda in the Middle East -- one with unsettling long-term implications both at home and abroad -- we see a nation not divided, as in the Vietnam Era, but strangely complacent. Our media-saturated reality functions like a drug, instantly televised warfare a new entertainment, and organized public dissent a novelty at home and a roaring chorus everywhere else. Conrad's recording of the Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium Rally is an eerie flashback that offers urgent new insights into our own lives and times, post-9/11 and full on into a new millennium."
2/11/2006	Conrad, Tony	Fantastic Glissando	CD	$14.99	Table of the Elements	"It's 1969, and Tony Conrad wants to take you Higher. Celebrated for the thrilling roar of his amplified violin, Conrad is a founding father of 'minimalism' and a giant in the American soundscape. Now Conrad's own Audio ArtKive imprint presents the first in a series of releases that reveal the wild breadth of his 40-year career, including field recordings, piano compositions, film soundtracks and more. Fantastic Glissando (1969) is a series of (d)evolving electronic compositions created with sine-wave oscillators. The instrumentation is different, but the effect is typical Conrad: soaring, aggressively textured and jet-engine massive. This first-time CD release contains an extra ten-minute bonus track not included on the original LP version."
11/4/2006	Conrad, Tony	Joan of Arc (1968)	CD	$13.99	Table of the Elements	"TONY CONRAD is a founding father of "minimalism" and a giant in the American soundscape. With help from TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS, Conrad's AUDIO ARTKIVE imprint continues to document the wild breadth of his 40-year career, with an array of releases that includes field recordings, piano compositions, power electronics and more. The indefatigable Conrad kept busy during the Revolution Summer of 1968. In addition to his reunion recordings with JOHN CALE (documented earlier this year in the Cale set "New York in the 1960s"), Conrad starred in IRA COHEN's legendary film "The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" and made extensive solo recordings, including "Joan of Arc", available here for the first time. One of Conrad's personal favorites, it's a long piece for pump organ, in which he conjures both searing white heat and malignant gothic dread. An excerpt was used as the soundtrack for the PIERO HELICZER film of the same name, but Conrad feels a greater affinity with that year's Cohen film; accordingly, Cohen graciously provided restored stills from "Thunderbolt Pagoda" for the packaging of this release. Cohen's sumptuous imagery -- which JIMI HENDRIX described as "looking through butterfly wings" -- features a blissed-out and shirtless Conrad replete in pencil mustache, mascara and blood-red turban. The man is just downright cool -- about as cool as Hendrix, and almost always louder."
11/4/2006	Conrad, Tony / Tim Barnes / Mattin	untitled	CD	$16.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Time to dig out that old crash-helmet from the back of the wardrobe to meet the challenge of this head-wrecker. No folks, this recording will not go down in history for its subtlety. The obligatory chair-shuffling intro quickly gives way to the most withering scree-ee-ech and grubby microtonal shudder in a near-Stalinist attempt for total mind control. I can see the audience now... blubbering and gripping the chair in front like some kinda airliner catastrophe! A twenty storey Hoover gobbles the entire North East of the USA... pausing only briefly to empty the bag and replace smoldering fuse wire. Hard, harmful, full of choking dust... toasters are shorted out all over the northern hemispere and cassettes are erased in car stereos. Electricity decides upon a new master and casts off its cumbersome rubber shackles... free and burning! All hail the great cosmic soundcheck in the sky."
9/22/2011	Container	LP	LP	$19.99	Spectrum Spools	"Container is a recent moniker of Nashville, Tennessee resident Ren Schofield, who has been actively shifting about the U.S. playing shows and releasing cassettes on his mysterious I Just Live Here imprint for a long while now. Known primarily for his God Willing project, a disjointed, confusing maze of crude oscillator, tape, and guitar, Ren has established himself as a staple in the East Coast underground. Here we have a new experiment in electronic beat-oriented music. This is no standard fare, however. It glows with a vision all its own, completely isolated and separate, making it difficult to place in the awkward world of the "genre." The sounds are a thick stew, congealing new ideas and naive experiments into something in the ballpark of the new super-weird Wolfgang Voigt 12"s, abstract and minimal in nature with time-stopping tendencies . Take those 12"s and send them through the garbage can, tape loop, reel-to-reel experiments of Ake Hodell's "220 Volt Buddha" or that weird track with a lawnmower by Charles Amirkhanian on the first Slowscan volume and we might be getting closer. This music, by being so unruly and defiant of any kind of trend, has created a fresh fusion we have not heard until now. "Application" introduces you to Container in the most suitable way. A confusing anti-rhythm accompanied by eerie, unidentifiable tones before a collapse of metallic drum sounds washes you out into the minimal, motorik "Protrusion." The flip takes off with intense feedback squeal and more light speed rhythm, leading into "Overflow," the album's wildest, most textural piece. "Rattler" leaves the listener absolutely baffled and flipping the record over again to try to figure it all out as this record makes no sense to anybody but its creator. The experimental nature of this album alone warrants its vinyl release; however, the fine detail and unique structures will have you waiting for the next Container 12". Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, July 2011. Design and layout assistance by Mike Pollard."
5/7/2004	Continental Fruit	Mentor Mentee	CD	$15.99	Smalltown Supersound	"The latest from eclectic electro-minimalists Continental Fruit. A warm and intense blend of electronica and post-rock magic, flowingly delivered with sleepy/talking vocals, and a cleaner, less lo-fi sound than their quick-to-sell-out debut 7-inch. Includes a cover of the Cocteau Twins' Dear Heart, as well as a collaboration with fellow Norwegian Andreas Brandal (Larmoyant)." – Revolver
9/30/2005	Contreras, John / Rose McDowall / Nurse With Wound	Afraid 1 & 2 / Geometric Horsehair Cavalclade	CD	$14.99	Durtro / Jnana	"This CDEP contains three tracks, all featuring the skillful playing of John Contreras, the handsome young cellist and recent Current 93 and Cyclobe collaborator. The first and third tracks on the disc are adaptations of Nico's beautiful song "Afraid" (from her classic 1970 album Desertshore, one of several collaborations with John Cale), with the singular Rose McDowall lending her sweet, lilting vocals to the song. We haven't heard from Rose McDowall in quite a while, that inimitable chanteuse from Strawberry Switchblade, Sorrow and countless collaborations with Current 93, Death in June, Coil and Michael Cashmore, so it was very nice indeed to hear her lovely vocals again. Even though both versions of "Afraid" are brief, insubstantial and slight, they are still very pretty, and a good showcase for McDowall's voice and Contreras' elegiac, vibratory swells of cello. Sandwiched unceremoniously between these two tracks is an unexpected collaboration between Nurse With Wound and John Contreras, surreally entitled "Geometric Horsehair Cavalcade." The horsehair refers perhaps to the rosined fibers of Contreras' bow, and the geometry perhaps to the angularly edited, resculptured strings of Contreras' cello and Steven Stapleton's prepared piano. There's no telling where the cavalcade comes in. The track, not surprisingly, bears a passing resemblance to Stapleton's collaborations with another master of the stringed instrument on Acts of Senseless Beauty and Santoor Lena Bicycle. In fact, Aranos AKA Petr Vastl is listed as the engineer for all three of these tracks, so there's your connection." - Jonathan Dean
1/9/2003	Control R Workshop	Missing	LP	$12.99	KOS Recordings	"Daron Key (guitar) and Randy Sutherland (sax) founded Control R Workshop in early 1999 as a means to focus on various branches of music which include composition and free improvisation. Kessel Crocket, the percussionist on this recording, contributed heavily to our structuring of trio works. Crocket’s trap kit style propelled the dynamic range of the music through his use of minimalism, accents and controlled techniques. With a mainstay percussionist, the saxophone, guitar and string elements were able to intensify and minimize in accordance to a self-imposed structure."
6/30/2010	Conversions	Spineless Wonders	LP	$11.99	Ride The Snake	"The Conversions were mavericks of the Boston punk scene from 2005-2008. Brandishing a distinctive combination of scathing female vocals, bursts of free jazz improv and early 80's hardcore velocity, they polarized audiences into love 'em and hate 'em camps. They were incongruous yet remarkable-- tireless nonconformists that fit in as much as they stood out while splitting bills that included Sex/Vid, Clockcleaner, Fucked Up, Gerty Farish, the Observers, Pissed Jeans and celebrated locals as diverse as Neptune and Major Stars. The Conversions have been compared to a wide array of predecessors including the Futures, Cold Sweat, and Stretcheads, but their sound is all their own. An extremely active band, they toured the US three times and Mexico once. They played constantly in Boston and the Northeast in their heyday, breaking up on the eve of a European tour. They leave two cassettes, a split 7", a 7" ep, and an lp in their wake. Their finest recorded hour, the Spineless Wonders LP, managed to slip between the cracks when the group disbanded. Until now. Spineless Wonders finds the Conversions' deviant musical fusion at its peak. Originally set to be released on the legendary modern hardcore label, Level Plane, it builds on the promise of their first lp, Prisoners' Inventions, and brings the band's musical aspirations to their logical conclusion. The record opens with the short, sharp shock of "Boiling Point," snakes its way though the post-punk and Black Flag-influenced sounds of "Specifics" and "Consolation Prize" and even manages to add a touch of pop to the collective jaggedness with "the Front Lines." Side B throws the listener down into the depths of dissonance and angularity on "Adverse Reaction" and "Cause and Effect," concluding with the Conversions' best song "Projectiles," a definitive product of all of the band's best ideas coming together in a not-to-be-missed zenith. Spineless Wonders is limited to 300 sure-to-go-quick copies featuring gorgeous silk-screened covers." - label. "This posthumous release was recorded in 2007 and finally sees the light of day. The Conversions were one of the more interesting and talented bands to come out of Boston in recent years. The speed and thorniness of hardcore but, with all the odd time shifts in the drumming (not much 4/4 here) and tension between the instruments, there was as much of a post-punkish flair. Terry Cuozzo's angrily acidic vocals meshed perfectly with the innovative music and they were always evolving without moving into any sort of pretentious realm. The lengthy "Cause and Effect" really pushes things, a mesh of martial drumming, deconstructive guitar and bass damage. If that sounds too artsy for some of you, it's really not the case. Goddamn, I miss this band. Terry is now the vocalist with Foreign Objects and the three musicians have reconvened as Vile Bodies with Jeff Walker (ex-Sleeper Cell/Balance of Terror) on vocals, with both bands continuing to defy convention while maintaining plenty of edginess." - Al Quint/Suburban Voice
1/28/2004	Cookie Brooklyn	Gets Cute	3" CDR	$7.99	Pseudoarcana	"Cookie Brooklyn is the home recording project of Mark Williams of Marineville and The Idle Suite. Sweet small Kilgour brother type melodies butt up against more 'gestural' noise pieces. Nice stuff."
4/10/2009	Cooper, Mike	Live At The Hint House	LP	$20.99	QBICO	Recorded in NYC, 2000. "Live At The Hint House might be considered a field rec. in as much as it is a recording of an ambience or soundscape. Made on my first ever trip to mainland America to play music this is the 2nd set of that evening, the 1st set had been an acoustic one of songs and slide guitar. At the start of the 2nd set I quickly realized that my guitar was not working and rather than stop and attempt to find out what was wrong I decided to just continue and improvise with what was at hand on the table in front of me. A Casio SK1 sampler keyboard, a Yamaha SU10 sampling unit with some pre-recorded samples loaded, a mini disc with some tropical ambience rec. from Malaysia and a pitch shifter delay pedal. I was not very happy with what happened that night and when Matt Zwed gave me two CD-Rs the next day I don't remember giving much attention to the 2nd set. Five years on, coincidently to the day as I write this, I realized he had captured more than me trying to get through the piece. It was me, the people in the room, the dog that ran around barking, the traffic sounds coming through the door that was open right behind me and a whole host of magically transported tropical birds and insects that suddenly found themselves reciting whatever it was in the loft space on the edge of Harlem, competing or colluding with all of the above to produce a piece of urban exotica." -- Mike Cooper
11/17/2007	Cope, Julian	Japrocksampler	Book	$49.99	Bloomsbury	Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, hip archaeologist and one time frontman of Teardrop Explodes, follows the runaway underground success of his book Krautrocksampler with Japrocksampler, a cult deconstruction of Japanese rock music. Japrocksampler reveals what really happened when East met West after World War Two and the mayhem that ensued ... and is a must for anybody interested in modern music and Japanese culture. It explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock 'n' roll renegades of the 1960s and 70s and tells the tale of the seminal artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking. The book concludes with enticing reviews of Julian's Top 50 Jap Rock albums." Over 300 pages / hardback. Very limited stock.
3/20/2010	Copper Glove	Surviving The Garden of Hate	7"	$6.99	Arbor	"Copper Glove, the new project from Baltimore's Door (formerly Earth Crown; who shared splits with Secret Abuse and Kites on past Arbor releases), shows a further progression of his one man industrial-noise synth unit. In opposition to his former work, Copper Glove is more mindful of composition; utilizing tone generators and processed synthesis and vocals to present a dense cut up analog form of industrial concréte. Door's nihilistic optimism carries itself with a sense of effortlessness; ideological aggression, a pure translation. With focused energy, the noise of the machine continues as man controls it. The city is destroyed but we can still live here, forever. In an edition of 300 7"s with silkscreened covers with white ink on metallic black paper and printed labels by Door."
6/5/2005	Cops, The	Fables	CDR	$9.99	Battlecruiser	"As if from a distance, you watched yourself smash up all the cocktail glasses on the bar and attempt to lick the frosting off the slivers of glass resting in the bleeding flesh of a couple of, now sobbing, girls. A thrashing, crashing, screeeeech-fest that brings all those fragments of ‘christmas-party-gone-wrong' memories together into one embarrassing and frightening whole. I believe Ozzy summed it up nicely when he said 'Ohno...no...pleasegodhelpme'."
1/22/2011	Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III	Pleroma Æon	cassette	$6.99	Oms-b	"90 minute journey through an inner cosmos of pure, powerful, compositional sound art collages of field recordings, found sounds, cassette and reel to reel tape manipulation, organic drone with tibetan bowl, harmonium, hand built instruments and electronic audio manipulation devises. Recorded between September 2009 and February 2010. Edition of 100 copies."
11/16/2004	Cornucopia	.C. Works	DBL CD	$16.99	Zeromoon / Locus of the Assemblage / Sonora Disks	"Cornucopia is the premiere sound art project to hail from the island of Puerto Rico. Claudio Chea and Jorge Castro have recorded numerous drone-a-thons on CDR which have been released by small labels from New York to Barcelona to Valencia, Le Mans and Mexico City. 'C.works' is their first full length on the CD format, and to celebrate, they have asked for a little help from their friends. In all, fourteen other artists were asked (and some even asked in themselves!) to use Cornucopia's 37 minute track '.c.' into their own composition. Two years later, this is the end result. Remixers included: Omei, Needle & Sony Mao, Lasse Marhaug, Black Sand Desert, RGV, Ultra Milkmaids, David Wells, TV Pow, duul_drv, Andrew Duke, Kim Cascone, Critikal, Zanstones, & Francisco López. Double CD set packaged in a DVD case."
7/8/2010	Corsano Band, Chris	High and Dry	CDR	$5.99	Hot Cars Warp Records	First recordings by the Chris Corsano Band. 28 minutes of guitar-bass-drum trio music. Features Corsano plus 2(?) others who remain anonymous.
4/13/2011	Corse	Corse	CDR	$8.99	Bug Incision	Philippe Battikha / trumpet & pedals Matthew Waddell / laptop & electronics Sam Vipond / drums & electronics Etienne Lebel / trombone & sax "First time I witnessed any of these players in action, they were inside a large box, in a loft space in Montreal, playing at a welcome-our-new-neighbours concert. It was a great trumpet and trombone duo, and it was in a box. That night I chatted up said trumpeter, who gave me a very-handsomely-packaged 3" cdr, which contained some fine improvised playing. Months down the road, I'm back in Calgary, answering an email from someone named Matt Waddell, about booking a show, and by the time he'd come & played, we had a chance to hang at Weeds, it became clear that this guy was also on that 3" cdr, as a member of Corse. When visiting Montreal again last year, Matt laid on me a copy of their new full-length, which is now making its way out to the world via Bug Incision. The music resembles some aspects of more (post-)rock-informed modes of improvising such as Supersilent or Death Ambient, but it is more unhinged and less single-minded. The majority of the members of Corse have augmented their instrumental leanings with various types of processing, blurring the lines of who's-doing-what and allowing for a quite wide pallette of textures." Edition of 75, b&w covers in plastic sleeves, with insert
3/1/2007	Corsican Paintbrush	Aquarian Hymns	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Tulsa, Oklahoma is probably one place you would not expect to find a bouzouki or a person who can play one. But thankfully for the spirit of international culture, husband and wife team Brad and Eden Rose live in that very city. They make music under many names (most notably the North Sea but also Wax Ghost, Golden Oaks, and Agilvsga), and with many friends (from Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood to Robert Horton (as Eastern Fox Squirrels)), but Corsican Paintbrush is purely their creation, their musical offspring. Combining lush instrumentation with clattering percussion and ramshackle beats, Corsican Paintbrush creates a new world of sound out of old world technology. Fresh from a sold-out lathe-cut record split with Italy's prolific space-artists My Cat is An Alien, and following up two beautiful CD-r releases on Foxglove and Musicyourmindwillloveyou, Corsican Paintbrush has focused their considerable talents and energies into a "proper" CD release. Swerving feverishly between what could easily be chopped up Native American rhythms, sampled Celtic melodies, and space-age funk played on trash heaps, the music of Corsican Paintbrush is actually all of this and none of it. "Aquarian Hymns" is nine tracks of gorgeously recorded acoustic grace; marked with periodic bursts of lysergic freak-outs, from the sharpened slide guitar strings and tired voice of "Break Through These Branches" to the heavy accordion and woodwind drones of the closing track "Aquarius". The true masterpiece of the release is the expansive and slow-developing "Carbon Revival", taking its sweet time (over fifteen minutes) to uncoil its scaly form and sink its dripping fangs into your mind. Corsican Paintbrush paints an engrossing picture of a folk music never before encountered, and it does so with broad and yet delicate swaths of color and texture. Just don't call this sound New Age or Ethnic Folk, it digs deeper and broader than that, sounding at times like a piece from the richly diverse Sublime Frequencies collection, and at other times like a death march across the desert, carried on the back of the Sunburned Hand of the Man."
12/24/2005	Corsican Paintbrush	Twilight Blue Skies	CDR	$11.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"gorgeous ethnological forgeries from the husband and wife duo of brad rose and eden hemming rose.these gentle , free improvisations set the lister gently down amidst the dappled sunlight and sweet scents of a long forgotten time.truly beautiful , honest music for the tired ears of a dying civilization."
6/27/2009	Cortes, Lula	Rosa De Sangue	LP	$25.99	Time-Lag Records	"Deluxe first ever reissue of this Brazilian private press monster rarity. Originally custom pressed in 1980, Rosa De Sangue is the closing chapter of the amazing Recife psychedelic movement that flourished and centered around the work of Lula Cortes, beginning in 1973 with the release of Satwa, and the creation of 'Abracadabra,' Lula's loose art/music/design collective. Leading up to 1980 Lula had produced and privately released Satwa in 1973 (Brazil's first private press LP) as well as Marconi Notaro's No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios LP that same year (featuring the recording debut of Ze Ramalho). He then started the legendary but incredibly short lived Solar label, releasing only two albums: 1975's Paebiru double album, and a year later the lone album by Flaviola. As if that wasn't enough, he was also heavily involved in other productions and performed on many seminal albums coming out of the region, including many collaborations with Alceu Valenca. By the close of the '70s the heavily utilized Rozemblit recording studio/pressing plant had been destroyed by repeated floods, Abracadabra had run its course, and along with Lula's marriage, the Solar label was no more. So Rosa De Sangue was conceived as a bookend and tribute to this closing era; as Lula himself states 'I want to close all of this with a golden key.' And a golden key it is. Entering a small local studio with a head full of songs and his freshly road tested 'mountains band,' Lula created an album simply overflowing with ideas. Along with his power trio backing, he was further assisted by many old friends dropping in, including, among many others: Alceu Valenca, Flaviola, Ze De Flauta and Paulo Rafael. With hints of the past era and of things to come, it is a truly wild audio experience, covering many styles and moods. From crazed ethno folkrock, to magical, gentle, jungle folk psych zones, to hard hitting, coke dusted fuzz rock, to insane mutant disco dance floor groove, to tweaked Americana, to acid vocal raga trance, and way beyond. All throughout Lula's beautiful tricordio work pins things down, and for the first time he is the main vocalist (this is, after all, his first 'solo' album!) His is a smoke and booze steeped voice darting between crazed abandon, deep sadness, and glowing soulful humor. When things are mellow, you could easily imagine you're hearing an outtake from Marconi Notaro or Paebiru, but the next moment you're dropped into a raging street party or dimly lit booze drenched bar scene vibe. Frenzied guitars all over, including some tough fuzz, as well as powerful rolling bass groove, soaring violin, moog weirdness, dusted backup vocals, and great drum kit/regional percussion interplay. Psychedelic at heart, but brimming with flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, and pure hot blooded rock and roll. A bizarre and amazing album. But of course, the story doesn't end there. At some point while the album was being recorded and pressed, Lula signed a major label contact which would produce 1981's far tamer O Gosto Novo Da Vida LP. When his new label got wind of Rosa De Sangue's eminent release, they were displeased to say the least. As soon as the pressing was complete, the entire small edition was seized and destroyed, making this album by far Brazil's rarest. So rare, in fact, that even among the most hardcore Brazilian collectors the original LP is often only rumored to exist, often cited as 'unreleased.' A few copies did however survive, and now, 29 years later, the world can finally hear this 'golden key' from a truly visionary artist. Packaged in a heavy vintage style cover with exact reproduction original artwork, including the huge full color, double sided, foldout poster insert, plus an extra insert featuring new liner notes from Lula Cortes as well as translated song titles. 180gm audiophile virgin vinyl pressing with exact repro label art. Limited edition one time pressing of 1000 copies."
9/30/2008	Cosi, Valerio	Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock	CD + CDR special edition	$18.99	Digitalis	"Valerio Cosi may be young at only 22, but his talent is undeniable. He may be mostly known for his exquisite saxophone playing, but this Italian wunderkind doesn't stop there. Cosi composes strings of magic using all sorts of instrumentation and production tricks. "Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock" marks the first CD release in Cosi's ever-expanding discography, and he saved the best for this, his most widely-available release to date. "Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock" is a monster. Clocking in at nearly an hour in length, this kraut-infused ride takes Cosi's modus operandi of juxtaposing multitudes of ideas that generally seem at odds and pushes it to its outer limits. Using techniques and ideas often found in contemporary free-jazz, but blurring them and whitewashing them with buckets of noise and Eastern-inspired rhythms, it is clear Valerio is on a mission. His music is the spaced-out reincarnations of the ghosts of giants. It is an arsenal of unique sonic phrasings built to bend your mind. This is Valerio Cosi at his peak as a performer, young as he is. "Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock" is his finest hour, his opus. Limited to 500 copies. Special edition limited to 100 copies. **extra disc that comes with the special edition features a long suite that accompnies the album, called "heavey electronic pacific loop." this bonus disc should be played at low volumes through speakers in the late night.**"
	Cosmic Jokers	Galactic Supermarket	CD	$17.99	Spalax	“Starting with a heavy piano-drums groove like John Cale and Terry Riley's ‘The Protégé’ from their classic LP Church of Anthrax, The Cosmic Jokers return to their trip with an un-cosmic dub beginning, melodicas and guitars spinning off all over the place Gille Letmann says a couple of words before the breakdown into Clangerland, a place where goofy synthesizers call to each other over exquisite mellotrons and tinkling spacey grand piano. Again, it's just two huge tracks - this time the ever shifting ‘Kinder Des Als’ and the title track ‘Galactic Supermarket’. The female voices take a while to assimilate after the austerity of the first Cosmic Jokers LP, and the opening track wanders around for a while before ascending to its righteous groove. The women scream ‘Schnell Schnell!’ and the helicopter drums of Harald Grosskopf propel us once more into a hectic frantic major-chord trance out. It's the sheer unbalance that makes this recod such a delight. At times, Klaus Schultze's synthesizer is so loud that it swamps everything in its path. The title track ‘Galactic Supermarket’ begins like one of Van Der Graaf Generator's greatest and most drawn out riffs. A slow 6/4 bass licks over ominous Pawn Hearts style shifting chords. Again, the piece is slow to begin, as though they are searching for harmony but each musician is confused and solitary. Manuel Gottsching freaks out in a fury of wa-guitar madness, forcing the others awake, but this really is a down-in-the-mouth scene and the whole Trip descends further and further until...an inevitable slow burning groove gets itself together and the scene whips itself up into a Shake Appeal Flip Out. The LP takes a little longer to get into than The Cosmic Jokers, but give it time and it's in your head forever. Those piercingly loud Klaus Schultze snythesizers which sound so bizarre the first time? You'll be waking up with them in your head, whistling them in the street, people will think you've lost your fucking mind. Right On.” – Julian Cope
8/8/2002	Cosmic Jokers	Gilles Zeitschiff	CD	$14.99	Spalax	"Not exactly a Cosmic Jokers record, this one contains material plundered from various Kosmische Musik releases, mostly other Jokers tracks as well as those of Ash Ra Tempel and Klaus Schulze. Despite its dubious origins, Zeitschiff is another wild ride into the furthest reaches of cosmic space rock, an acid trip set to music and with added narration, mostly by Gille Lettmann and also others, including Timothy Leary and his ominous-voiced cohort, Brian Barritt. With much more mixing and manipulation than the Sci Fi Party compilation, and again with tracks segued together, this one doesn't quite reach the intensity of the first two albums, but comes pretty close. Three snippets from the weak first side of Ash Ra Tempel's Seven-Up, with Timothy Leary's lame blues-rock singing, are more effective in the short doses on this album. Plenty of exceedingly trippy keyboard work from Klaus Schulze, especially on ‘Cosmic Courier Bon Chance’ and ‘The Electric Scene,’ and the usual Ash Ra-style jamming and riffing provide another space rock soundtrack into the cosmos."
11/10/2011	Cosmic Jokers, The	The Cosmic Jokers	LP	$22.99	Klimt	"Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fueled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks' studio near Cologne, Cosmic Jokers was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), Jürgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf (both of Wallenstein). This free-form freak out -- consisting of two epic tracks, the 22 min "Galactic Joke" and the 19 min "Cosmic Joy"--was first of five albums by the group to be released on Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser's Cosmic Couriers label in the coming months. A first rate slab of space rock up there with other classics of the genre."
8/20/2004	Cosmic Sonic Tag Team	Violence in Birmingham	CDR	$12.99	Droning-on Records	"The tag team does Birmingham!!! Recorded live in 2003 at the Medicine Bar...from gentle waves to sonic slaughter,the tag team really opened the can of whoop-ass this night...personnel: Monolab (synth, theremin), Cotton Casino (vox, synth, beer & cigarettes), Billawtm (guitar, acid & cannabis). Edition of 100 copies.
12/24/2005	Coster, Tim	Mornings	3" CDR	$7.99	Pseudoarcana	The city of Auckland is rapidly becoming the hub for the more adventurous end of NZ's electronic music. It seems as though there's a festival every other week & there's a constant stream of artists and performers hitting the road to share their work. Tim Coster is a significant figure within this community both as the man behind the CLaud label (which specialises in field recordings) and through his own compositions and performances. 'Mornings' follows on the heels of the recent 7" released by cmr and uses as its main sound source a series of collaborations with various instrumentalists. These raw recordings have been reworked and crafted into a series of drones and discreet expressive moments that encourage one to follow Coster on a warm but sublime cognitive journey."
7/10/2008	Coster, Tim & Mark Sadgrove	Untitled (35:20)	CDR	$14.99	Transient Recordings	"Last recordings from this great Auckland duo prior to Sadgrove's departure for Tokyo in 2006. There’s a fine balance between meditative stasis and purposeful activity in these computer / guitar / electronics recordings, conjuring images of a living-dead Douglas Lilburn dropping in to jam with the Improvised Music From Japan crew. Both Coster and Sadgrove are members of the minimalist supergroup Plains (with Rosy Parlane, Richard Francis, Paul Winstanley and Clinton Watkins) and run their own very fine labels (CLaudia and A Binary Datum, respectively)."
7/1/2004	Cotton & Billawtm	Sweet Sticky Summer Love Suite	CDR	$12.99		“A Cotton & Billawtm release that features the many faces of c & b !!! Hard acid rock, spacey ballads, and floating kozmick miasma...this recording has it all...” Limited edition of 300 copies. Nice!
5/8/2005	Cotton Casino & Billawtm	Live Cigarettes & Beer Series Vol.4: Thee Snakeoiler Space Ritual	CDR	$12.99	c&b	“The last installment in the c&b live c&b series (as rumour has the proud parents are cleaning up their image)...recorded live in fall '04 on their east coast US tour supporting their dear fiend Nik Turner...this disc features the first available sounds from c&b's new full band unit,’Snakeoiler’, featuring Cotton Casino (theremin,vox), Billawtm (gtr,vox), Ian Stevenson (bass vibrations),and Greg Kreis (battery)...the tightest c&b sound to date, high flying gtr and theremin tangled up in love,with a tight-ass rhythm section keepin' it grounded as much as need be...if you love yr psych hard & spacey,this is what you need...mastered by Billawtm and Jason Willett (Half Japanese).” Limited edition of 200 copies.
7/23/2004	Cotton Casino & Billawtm	Metaphysical Circus UK Tour '04	CDR	$12.99		Limited edition of 200 copies featuring 2 exclusive tracks... 1.Under Blanket of Stars (Northern Lights Medley) - by The Birds - recorded live in Bergen, Norway on their tour last year. A half hour of total bliss!!! 2. Speak to Me (the Sky's Crimson T ears) - by Cotton & Billawtm doppelganger - recorded at Wormwood South in June ’04 - this is a 15 minute acid freakout, very heavy!!!
11/9/2004	Cotton Casino & Billawtm	Thee Cottonclub Vol.1: Floating Suite	CDR	$12.99	c&b	“A 48 minute floating opus in 4 parts, featuring sweetly sung Cotton Casino vocals,a s well as her new melodic piano style...this one starts blissfully and ends with a crushing noise outro, with scenic peaks and valleys in between...very different from their past releases...rumoured to go out of print when second volume in the series is released, which is currently being recorded...”
10/25/2008	Cotton Museum	No Face in the Bog	LP	$24.99	QBICO	Cow's milk vinyl, artworks and music by Chris Pottinger, with insert. Side A originally released as a ltd ed. CD-R art set in 100 copies on Tasty Soil, Creature. B1 track is unreleased, rec. in 2007. B2 originally released in 2006 on Fag Tapes as a side of a tour cassette with Sick Llama. B3 was played as a loop for 8 months straight on a pirate radio station that broadcast out of the Cloud House on 107.9 fm. "Far out electronic music for the third millennium!" Out of print.
8/17/2009	Cotton Museum	Pus Pustules	one-sided lp w/ etched B side	$12.99	Tasty Soil	"'Pus Pustules' is one of the most diseased Cotton Museum recordings to date. Clocking in at 21 minutes on side A, adorned with with a detailed etching of sickly beasts on side B and a five color silk screened album cover designed by Chris Pottinger. Theremin, Synth, and other odd electronic instruments create a bubbling cesspool of rotting sounds that leak from your stereo speakers like a cancerous sludge. Take a trip through a strange world where you can hear these sickly beasts devouring corpses while insects sting their bodies, leaving them covered with infected welts. Cotton Museum is a solo electronic noise project from visual artist Chris Pottinger that has been performing for the past seven years. Limited edition of 400 hand numbered copies, black vinyl with thick chipboard album cover."
5/14/2007	Cotton Museum	Sick Llama Remixxx	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"rescued from the sticky soda pop garbage floor of a movie theater. original recordings never used for anything till now, and now they are stretched and fogged. edition 77."
4/27/2011	Cough Cool	Cough Cool	CDR	$7.49	Debacle Records	"Cough Cool's debut tape on Sweat Lodge Guru, re-mastered with new art. Downercore bedroom-pop nuggets pulled from the ether of teenage memories and adult disappointments. Slow moving song mantras. Itchy frustration and sleepy ambition. Look for releases this year from Dan on Not Not Fun and Bathetic."
4/24/2006	Courtis	(the name of this drone is hidden in your DNA)	CDR	$8.99	Ikuisuus	"One long hypnotic drone by ex-Reynols member Anla Courtis. This cdr was originally released by Nidnod (2004). Mysterious sound!"
5/9/2004	Courtis	Greatest Hits	CDR	$10.99	Lonely Whistle Music	“A collection of untitled experimental pieces from a member of the the Argentinian group Reynols. Very lovely Drone Music from Argentina"
5/7/2004	Courtis / Marhaug	North & South Neutrino	CD	$17.99	Antifrost	“The Antifrost label has put out some of the most challenging records of recent times, and this collaboration between Lasse Marhaug, one half of Norwegian noise thugs Jazzkammer and Anla Courtis, the musical mastermind behind the unruly Argentinians Reynols, is as forbidding as they come. For the opening half hour it is a minimalist exercise in the slow motion deployment of a small clutch of extreme frequencies. Then a richer metallic texture emerges from the brittle digital atmosphere recalling the isolationist going pieces of Thomas Koener. This darker, more brooding sound is submerged once more into the digital realm, as if we are viewing the same vast, immobile object from above and below the waterline. Or perhaps it is the subatomic particle referenced in the album title under two different magnifications. It's certainly not an easy listen, but submit yourself to its cold, dramatic logic and you will be rewarded.” – The Wire - May 2004
9/17/2006	Courtis / Moglass / Kiritchenko	Courtis / Moglass / Kiritchenko	CD	$11.99	Nexsound / others	"Collaboration album by Anla Courtis, Andrey Kiritchenko and the Moglass. Drones and improv acoustic by Kiritchenko, psycho-folk by the Moglass, and sound-collages by Courtis."
1/19/2004	Courtis, Anla	Fractal Albur Solenoide	3" CDR	$6.99	23 Productions	"Anla Courtis is part of the amazing Argentinean music project Reynols. The sounds on this disc are unlike anything Courtis has done in the past. All sounds are composed and created using fractal music generators. The music is cascading electronic wash over the menacing ebb and flow of broken melody lines and scattered musical shards. Very strange and psychedelic, in which sense it is similar to his previous work, but certainly Courtis is navigating new and interesting sonic territory with this piece."
4/27/2011	Courtis, Anla	Hiroshima Tree	7" lathe	$17.99	Root Don Lonie For Cash	"In Belgium theres a tree from hiroshima, anla went and banged it, & here it is, a beautiful little see through lathe record."
3/31/2008	Courtis, Anla	Llegaron	lathe cut 8"	$25.99	alt.vinyl	"This is just so astounding. Symphonic drone otherness on a par with Eliane Radigue, Charlemagne Palestine, and more recently Gareth Hardwick. The music contained herein is a cloud of chalky brine, a warm, distant, fuzzy thing, a thing of absurd purity which easily transcends the boundaries of minimalism to become something entirely cosmic, something universally lovely. We are so glad to present you this miniature masterpiece from a man who used to be one third of the greatest band of all time, Reynols. Limited edition of 100, clear, square, hand-cut by Peter King 8" lathe."
5/8/2005	Courtis, Anla	Tribute to Calcium	7"	$5.99	Tonschacht	"Tribute to Calcium is the first solo-release on vinyl by Anla Courtis, founding member of the Reynols, who released numerous records on labels such as trente oiseaux, drone records and beta-lactam ring records. After the bands’ life-cycle came to an end in early 2004, Courtis concentrated on his solo works and collaborations with Lasse Marhaug, Kawabata Makoto or Culver. 'Tribute to calcium is a piece in two parts that explores the harmonic resonances generated by the amalgam of electric guitar and toba violin (a one-stringed instrument made with cans by native argentinian indians of the north-east region). This work brings to light a singular sound alchemy that combines: electric-waterfalls, wide-spectrum-drones and just-intonation-entropy. a real journey to re-discover calcium molecules through modern noise-shamanism. Tthese are the first pieces I've ever recorded with the toba violin. I was delighted by the raw sound of this native instrument and my aim was to explore its possiblities beyond the traditional approach, that's why I decided to combine it with layers of electric guitar. The recording documents this exploration process and maybe keeps fresh the spirit of this first encounter." - Anla Courtis
4/16/2007	Courtis, Anla & Dylan Nyoukis	Fight The Pyramids	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Anla's solo piece is a sweet ride of ponderous strings, designed to bury deep. Dylan's piece is a electronic drunken swagger straight to tape. The final piece is a live duet which sounds more like an ensemble piece, real fucking strange brain gas emission that confused all in attendance, especially the two performers."
4/10/2005	Courtis-Romero	Psychomemory of...	3" CDR	$6.99	P Tapes	2 live radio duos from December 2004 melted together.
10/25/2008	Cousins Of Reggae	Methridge	LP	$19.99	Old English Spelling Bee	"These Montreal-based destructo rockers grind the edges of form with teeth as shaven as Harry Pussy, early Royal Trux, The Shaggs and Nautical Almanac. The kind of deliriously free rock that feels so caught up in the tradition that it's perpetually ten years ahead. And not a whiff of skank in sight." - David Keenan. Limited & numbered edition of 250 copies, silkscreened covers.
4/11/2008	Cousins of Reggae / Lubriphikatttor	split	LP	$17.99	Galerie Pache	"Brand new lp with dirty sounds from Cousins of Reggae, Montreal based 2 man mind fuck. utilizing guitar, drums, turntables and voice. ( featuring Blake Hargreaves of dreamcatcher, Fluorescent Friends...& liam Thurston of Orphanage...) Go for a trip via 2 different pieces, heavy, loud, hit electric noise & fatal attack. First vinyl release for parisian noise anti brutal pro violence Lubriphikatttor (with members of Zaraz wam Zagram, TG, Napalm Jazz, Ero BABAa...) long tune 'babypute' / death of flowers & elaborated destruction." Split LP - edition of 319 copies in silkscreened cover.
5/16/2010	Cove, The	The Cove	cassette	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"The latest artifacts from an ever growing river of haze. Moss covers dirt covers earth covers the void. The things you hear at night are real."
9/17/2006	Coyote Ugly	The Shining	DBL Cassette	$10.99	Hanson	"Double c-30 reissue of COYOTE UGLY material recorded in 2000, and originally released on American Tapes in an edition of 10 copies only. Coyote Ugly = duo of John Olson and Aaron Dilloway. Recently relistened to this and played it for Olson...askin him to guess who it was... he guessed Prick Decay....ha! Fully mangled double tape manipulations."
12/19/2002	Crackhouse	Hard-Core	CD	$8.99	Mandragora Records	"Pure dose of raw, uncut Crackhouse straight from the lowest of fi jambox master tape. Kicks off with a brutal white noise maelstrom then descends into an endurance test of primal drumming, sick acid-wank guitar, pirate booty bass, and total wah-overload. Earliest known Crackhouse recordings w/ the boys in full-on Grand Fug Railroad mode."
11/4/2006	Cramps, The	Live at Napa State Mental Hospital	DVD	$17.99	MVD	In June 1978, The Cramps played a free concert for patients at the California State Mental Hospital in Napa, California. The Cramps were at the peak of their engaging sound. They had just finished recording "Gravest Hits." Midway through the second song, a young woman commands the stage and begins sharing the mic with Lux. By the time the "Human Fly" is played a real ho-down is occurring on and off stage with the audience members dancing about, grabbing at the mic and embracing each other - all of which adds to the spectacle of this once-in-a-lifetime performance! Songs include: "Mystery Plane," "The Way I Walk," "Human Fly," "Domino," "Garbage Man," and more.
7/8/2010	Cranc	Copper Fields	CD	$9.99	Absurd #82 / Organized Music From Thessaloniki #9	"It’s been a whole decade since the first release of the Cranc trio (All angels, ??O 2000). Today, it’s clear that that first album marked the end of a phase. Since 2001, all three musicians (Rhodri and Angharad Davis from Wales, UK and Nikos Veliotis from Greece) have abandoned the twelve-tone jargon and the instrumental musique concrete and dedicated themselves, with an impressive self-discipline, to the research of slow, long, droning sounds. After a decade of independent, personal orbits and casual meetings, here they join their forces once again, more mature and more essential than ever. And they succeed to catch exactly what is missing in the vast majority of projects of this kind: They manage to keep the interest at a top level from the first till the last minutes of the album, neither hanging around nor sinking to any minimalist coma. Cause, as it gets finally obvious, it’s of great importance that these long and sustained sounds raise not from automatic generators, but from strings pulsating under human fingers. Needles to say, under great human fingers." - Costis Drygianakis
8/22/2008	Crandell, Richard	In the Flower of Our Youth	LP	$13.99	Tompkins Square	"In The Flower of Our Youth, originally released on the private press label Cutthroat Records in 1980, was Richard Crandell's first LP. His tune 'Rebecca' was famously covered by admirer Leo Kottke on his Chewing Pine album. Crandell has gone on to record several other guitar albums, as well as two mbira recordings for John Zorn's Tzadik label. Crandell's music has recently been featured on Tompkins Square's Imaginational Anthem Vol. 3, as well as the guitar compilation Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli." Reissue of solo acoustic guitar album.
12/24/2005	Crane / Toth Duo	Live	CDR	$8.99	Polyamory	"First available recordings by this long-running freak jazz duo. Recorded over various U.S cities during the summer of 2005, Live expertly captures the primitive dynamism of these two sound-obsessed players. James Toth's playing is feral and militantly unsophisticated, but Lucas 'Bones' Crane, on trumpet, is the draw here. It is certain that aficionados will instantly recognize Crane's mastery of his instrument in the traditional sense, but like many great players before him, Crane's unique tone and fluid sense of melody are the byproducts of many years of defiant unlearning in the face of tedium and scholarship. What results is an exciting document of New Music not for the faint of heart or spirit. Strictly limited to 150 copies."
	Crank	#5	zine w/ 7"	$5.99	Crank Automotive	Zine features Ascension, Broken Lightbulb Anal Fetish, Richard Youngs & reviews. 7" features Ascension & Broken Lightbulb Anal Fetish
2/23/2004	Crank Sturgeon	E-Z Voiceover Box-Top Living Solutions	7"	$6.99	Humbug	"Another super hot 45rpm, this one sees Crank Sturgeon hitting a flabbergasting stride on the A-side with lots of clattering percussives and flailing-about dadaspooge action..... and of course wheezing, sneering voices, 'supplanting saliva where once would've been electronic noises' in the words of our good Reverend. Hell yes! B-side previosly appeared on our 'Cottage Industrial volume 1' compilation and actually contains some semi-coherent ramblings as well as lots of profanity and indigestible out-of-control tape muddle. Precious! 220 copies made."
12/2/2004	Crank Sturgeon / Gastric Female Reflex	split	7"	$6.99	Beniffer Editions / Gold Soundz	"On one side, Torontosaurs Gastric Female Reflex expose their vulnerable underbellies by offering the world the gift of song, as transmitted through the cackle of thirty meter bronze age jump ropes, and then swatted with limitless spools of tape culled from businessmen's faulty tape recorders. The flipside is deepwoods Maine-based Crank Sturgeon, taking a similar story and running it into the side of a convent full of shark-eating nuns. Setting loose the angry hornets, these ladies of the lord respond with high powered leaf blowers, stopping now and again to play a little violin and pee into their dixie cups. Not your typical avant 'electro-acoustic' record, both projects assure this baby can dance like a school of fish, drunk on mercury and TAB cola perhaps, but to an effect that is glorious and spacious; snakey and experimental as all hairy heck, yet an electro-doot we can all blorp and weeze and get primitive with."
5/14/2007	Crappy Nightmareville	Neutron Dracula	7"	$5.99	blackvelvetfuckererecordings	"13 gestating years past and CRAPPY NIGHTMAREVILLE's pod unfolds in full color via this 7" single which is not just their debut but also birth marks the first of a four part vinyl single series: an engraved introduction by way of alien-forcept exacavation of their Old Kentucky Womb. Prior stages spiraled from Public-Prank to Outer-Earth Music-Concret to Scaling-the-Scaur of Bavarian-Salt-Licks. Side A, "NEUTRON DRACULA", imagines the scene from gypsy classic Latcho Drom when children sing "We are the bloody nail in the foot of Jesus on the cross", only reinterpreted as a Saturday morning cartoon. Side B, "BLACK BEAM DUB", is smoke from a wounded nurse surrealing Sun Ra into a new form of dub music that will have you and your headphones installing a seatbelt into your couch for endless round trips. Crappy Nightmareville is one of Louisville's longest running aural magnetic-bananimals and shares drinking water with a huge cast of bands including The Web, Evergreen, The Belgian Waffles, Sapat and Kark. Beautiful post-nuclear fall-out full-color sleeve. Edition of 350."
	Crawlspace	Ape Scrawl	DBL CD	$14.99	Slippy Town	"What happens when middle-aged men start finger-painting with sounds? The most 'primitive' Crawlspace material since before Crawlspace started releasing stuff!? Come git scratchy in the concrete bayou while Greg, Joe, and Eddie stomp through 28 'songs' played on drums, bass guitar, electric guitars, wall furnace, portable heater, piping chanter, acoustic guitars, bronze candy dish, metal box, congas, synthesizer, blimp guitars, water bottle, milk crate, cymbals, trumpet, strainer in plastic container, amplified acoustic guitar, unamplified electric guitar, collapsing chair, sleigh bells, electric fan, mixing board, etc. Edition of 88."
	Crawlspace	Archive'Space 2: 1990/1991	CD	$11.99	Crawlspace	"46 more minutes from Sphere'Space: 'Bleed Jam'; 'Kitty Krawl' improv; 15 minutes of 'Crawl Crappersweet'; 'Sphereality'/'Ocean = You' mutation.
	Crawlspace	Archive'Space 3: 1993	CD	$11.99	Crawlspace	"57 minutes recorded at a mellowed, spacious rehearsal-studio session - and a chaotic rocked-out 13-minute burst from a Crawlspace 'shroom party with special Backbiter guests."
	Crawlspace	Archive'Space 4: 1993/1994	CD	$11.99	Crawlspace	"53 minutes of rehearsal jams, and a bit from a live show, by the last 'band' line-up of Crawlspace. With three different versions of 'Lake Daddy Jim'!"
	Crawlspace	August/Africa	7"	$5.99	Sympathy for the Record Industry	Recorded in 1989. " 'Africa' is a depressing dirge mostly supported by a meandering bass line. The guitars and vocals whine and lament away. 'August' is a heavier, slower tune that sounds like the Stooges on the wrong speed."
	Crawlspace	Birds of the Southern Regions	CD	$11.99	Slippy Town	"'Walk Away Slowly' (4:26) rock-slip; 'Birds of the Southern Regions (33:06) layers of 'Space improv; 'Short Thing April 1' (5:13) a bit o' blimp; 'McKeever' (31:40) takin' it to the street. Handmade torn-cardboard-in-jewel-case package."
	Crawlspace	Blimp Music Volume 2: Deep Sea Dives	CD	$11.99	self-released	"The series of dirigible guitar inflation continues with two more half-hour plunges into the deep end of nada."
	Crawlspace	Crawls Pace	DBL CD	$14.99	Slippy Town	"11 short-ish pieces on disc one; 73 minutes of nonstop crawlsprawl on disc two. Recorded live to CD at the Slippy Town Lifestyle Studio, August/September 2000. Edition of 88."
	Crawlspace	Dogs Begin To Crawl, Snakes Begin To Howl	CD	$11.99	Slippy Town	After 14 cassette releases in '99 and 10 CD releases this year, here comes the long-awaited songs'n'sounds follow-up to Crawlspace's 1997 ¨Et II Bluto? CD. Acoustic-dominated rock songs, swangin' noise, electric-guitar stumble'n'scratch, band improv, funny voices, minimal mockery, and the end of time as we know it. 2000 + 1, remember? With Eddie Flowers, Joe Dean, Greg Hajic, Mark McCormick, Dave Fontana, Allen Clark, and Remora. First edition of 333."
	Crawlspace	Sphereality	CD	$11.99	Sympathy for the Record Industry	" . . . loose, juiced, brilliant acid-mumble-sprawl by the west coat's kings of lost chordage. Allowed 66 minutes to roam the walls at will, Crawlspace conjure up a world where twang=drone= fuzz=bup, and the look of everything melting is as natural as an un-de-fleeced pubis." - Byron Coley
1/26/2002	Crawlspace	Static from the Slowdown	CD	$11.99	Slippy Town	"16 bite-size 'tunes' done with turntable, blank tape + EQ, CD loops, acoustic guitars, trumpet, bird call, jaw harp, percussion, guitar amp, voices, & mac. Ssssss . . . kraaaang! Cover art by Greg circa 1975. Edition of 100."
	Crawlspace / Mooseheart Faith	On the Tide / Hook In The Gray	split 7"	$5.99	Forced Exposure	Recorded in 1990. "Featuring the bulk of Crawlspace (L.A.'s premier psilocybin-oriented galactic adventurers) and a sizable portion of M. Faith . . . this wanders much further into regions of primal consciousness-leaping than either group's more ordinarily rockin' tendencies. Exhibiting a Jandek-like flair for capturing a moment with non-existent production, both sides are lighthearted stoner-sensical ramblings. . . . "
11/21/2008	Crazy Dreams Band	Crazy Dreams Band	LP	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"Grooves that confuse? Crazy Dreams Band presents its guitar-free "thug pop" dirge with creeping crooning and brassless horn blasts. Like the best Giallo films, you'll be as turned on as you are terrified. As tender as Coco Rosie, as brutal as Magik Markers, and as cool as Royal Trux' Radio/Video vibe. Imagine if Bruce Springsteen and Martin Rev collaborated on songs for Patti Smith or Catherine Ribeiro. Channeled inner voices are expelled as cave anthems into neon text in Linear A, while bones poke through the skin atop a witch's brew of venomous sludge. Crazy Dreams Band is the urban tribal music that survives whatever "end is nigh" theory you choose." - Revolver
5/16/2010	Crazy Dreams Band	War Dream	LP + download	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"War Dream, the second album from Baltimore's CRAZY DREAMS BAND, is saturated with heaviness, psychedelia, pomp and grit, and noticeably lacking any nostalgia hang-ups. This rock music is refractory and satisfyingly off; put on a slide, manipulated and projected on a screen, or felt through a chain-link fence. Lost love, genocide and forgotten histories collide with raw-dog vocal thundering, slippery bass frequencies, adventurous percussion and seductive guitar ripples. Opener "Feels So Good" is a swirling dirge that could be a half-figured-out version of "Carouselambra"; "Awkward for Everyone" showcases recent addition Jorge Martins of Lisbon duo Fish & Sheep playing what sounds like a deflating blow-up Les Paul copy that actually has strings-you've got to hear the killer solo! The side-long "Life Is the Knife" is like a secret ritual from an unreleased Billy Jack sequel where he went back to Vietnam and built a temple that bled the purest opium. Here, JAKE FREEMAN's adventurous sub-frequencies and NICK BENDER's saucy space wanderings shine on to break the dawn in half. War Dream was recorded in three days at Beat Babies in Woodstock, MD, by CHRIS FREELAND (OXES, Frenemies, Long Live Death, Baltimore Rowdies Collective) with heaping platefuls of assistance from his brother MICKEY (Bow 'n' Arrow, Height with Friends) and a cat that looked like a dirty snowman. Features NATE NELSON of MOUTHUS / RELIGIOUS KNIVES, JORGE MARTINS of FISH & SHEEP, and LEXIE MOUNTAIN of LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS. LP includes free digital download."
7/16/2006	Crazy River	Sounds Like a Melon to Me	CD	$12.99	Apartment Records / Humbug	"Multi-instrumentalist Per Gisle Galåen from Norway play in numerous bands, including Slowburn, DEL, Birds, Kobi and many others. Galåen has been touring Europe, Oceania and Japan partly as Crazy River and partly with DEL and Birds. Birds are a duo consisting of Galåen and Japanese Cotton Casino (former Acid Mothers Temple member) [The Birds debut cd has just been released from Important Records]. He's also done collaborations with Keiji Haino, ultrasound, Alexander Rishaug and Carlos Giffoni to name a few. Galåen has formerly released a split 7" (OHM records) with fellow-Norwegian Fredrik Ness Sevendal and has contributed to a few compilations, but "Sounds like a Melon to Me" is his first solo album. Its ripe for release has been sitting on a dusty shelf for some years, but we are very glad he finally took his time to wipe the dust of these well-seasoned gems. Looking inside this jewel-case you'll find some peeling abstraction and fuzzy heavy organ sounds at first glance. But, if you listen closely you'll be able to catch some whimsical and strange pop-songs dancing the dance of modestly cheerful melancholia somewhere behind the dust. It's a beautiful musty odor to this album that makes you feel good and awoke a smell of nostalgia around the house. The smell of good old lo-fi home-recordings that is. And me oh my, how we have missed that smell! This is a joint release with Humbug Records."
7/30/2010	Crespo / Schneiderman Duo	No Complaints	CDR	$6.99	Blueberry Honey	"As if 'proximity' ever mattered. How much closer to the sun can anyone of us really get anyway. Eventually you realize we are all in the same place. Or everywhere is the same place. Concepts and ideas beyond that understanding are gonna just lead us off the track. Or onto a track I suppose. Anyway, this is the premier release for a duo created by JOSHUA BURKETT (he also supplied cover art for this title) featuring ANDY CRESPO (BARN OWL, x-SERIES) and RON SCHNEIDERMAN."
1/24/2009	Cripple Crime's "Triangle"	Deny Opportunity One	cassette	$7.99	American Tapes - AM-790	"New in house unit with a whole new twisted gnarl electronic mangel sound. Double right hand tape abuse. The audio equivalent to seeing someone smile with with fingers instead of teeth. Nasty magnetic. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art."
9/17/2009	Crocker, Jay	Joachim On Eggshells	CDR	$9.99	Bug Incision	"Crocker discards his usual array of guitars, homemade pedals, and keyboards, in favour of six years' worth of home recordings of himself. Mostly recorded on single track cassette tape, and patched through a larger system, these sketches and mini-improvs are woven together on one 'take', an acceptable one of which we have here. Moments here recall the denser sides of Richard Youngs or NWW. A strange one, for sure. Edition of 50, color covers, clear plastic sleeves, in print." - label.
1/1/2008	Crocker, Jay & Chris Dadge	Humming & Crackling	CDR	$9.99	Bug Incision	"banjo & percussion improvisations. scratchy, small sounds and lots of high listening skills involved." "The titles say it all, really. Both the name of the album, which describes quite well a lot of the sounds Messrs Crocker (banjo, preparations, percussion) and Dadge (percussion) make here, and the label name, with its attendant associations of insect music and laboratory experiment. Bug Incision is a CDR label run out of Calgary, Canada, which if I remember rightly is where Eugene Chadbourne fled to to avoid the draft. He must have left some kind of lasting impression there, as Crocker's banjo work (inevitably?) recalls some of the good Doctor Chadbourne's thornier outings. But there's more percussion than banjo on offer here, and the musicians' concern for small sounds brings mid-70s John Stevens and the SME to mind - which means I'm definitely not following Brooker Buckinham's instructions in the liner notes: "Zen mind. Forget everything you know about music. Forget every piece of music you've ever heard." But then again neither is he, when he describes it all as "skeletal jazz phantoms from an alternate universe -