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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.
10/6/2007	Cabinet of Natural Curiosities	Glass vs Grass	CDR	$5.00		"2 tracks 19 minutes of meandering folk excursions; straddling spaces between dark and light. rooted in the same ground as "vineland" but journeying outward into more distant pastures. comes with a small, photocopied insert of drawings & hand inked case"
10/25/2008	Caboladies	Waterslide Mines	cassette	$6.99	Arbor	"Kentucky's Caboladies recreate the cosmic birth of droning stars. Dense, psychedelic synth compositions, building to the point of electro-ecstatic infinity. Sliding through the crystallized air, shining with beauty. Uplifting, transcendental spells stuck in the newness and awe of the atmosphere. The young trio have released stellar cdrs on Students Of Decay and Mountaain. Limited to 100 tapes with full color art and labels."
9/30/2008	Cadaver In Drag	Raw Child	LP	$10.99	Animal Disguise	"Pummeling psychedelic heaviness from the fertile musical underground of Lexington, Kentucky, the three-piece Cadaver In Drag are often linked to the genre labels of noise or metal, but like most bands in the ADR universe, it is nearly impossible to categorize whats really going on here. Just know that this is an extremely heavy trip, and that the striking cover art tells the entire story better than I ever could. Added aural mind-fucking courtesy of Robert Beatty (of Hair Police) on synthesizer and mastering duties. Demonstrating their capability of harnessing the thick, violent power of Man is the Bastard while filtering it all through a cloud of phased-out Floydian weed smoke, Cadaver In Drag weave a tale of misanthropy and disgust with Raw Child, their debut full-length, proudly presented on both vinyl and CD formats from Animal Disguise Recordings."
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.
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.
8/22/2008	Caldera Lakes	Caldera Lakes	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"New born duo of eva aguila (kevin shields / gang wizard) and brittany gould (married in berdichev) lay down some of the most beautiful / hideous / beautiful again experimental music around. the two create juxtopositions of gently sung vocals with scrapyard convulsions layered overtop of each other with results that are next level hypnotic. covers printed on vellum paper."
11/4/2006	Cale, John	New York in the 1960's	3 x CD	$39.99	Table of the Elements	"JOHN CALE's great credit, both inside and outside the Velvet Underground, was to have found the inoculation dosage that would addict the music industry to SOUND without alienating one world from the other. But outside the "official" VU there was also an uncut version of the virus, incubated behind the slum walls of the 1960s Lower East Side, and maintained live in the liquid nitrogen of these insolently recorded reel-to-reel audiotapes, RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY JOHN CALE and now available in the massive Table of the Elements 3xCD boxed set, "New York in the 1960s." Housed in a killer, sturdy black wood box.
11/9/2004	Cale, John & Terry Riley	Church of Anthrax	LP	$15.99	Columbia	"A one-time-only collaboration between former Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale and minimalist composer Terry Riley, 1971's Church of Anthrax doesn't sound too much like the solo work of either. Around this time, Riley's works were along the lines of ‘A Rainbow in Curved Air’ or ‘Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band’: pattern music with an obsessive attention to repetition and tricks with an analogue delay machine that gave his music a refractory, almost hallucinogenic quality. Though Cale was trained in a similar aesthetic (he played with La Monte Young, surely the most minimal of all minimalist composers), he had largely left it behind by 1971, and so Church of Anthrax mixes Riley's drones and patterns with a more muscular and melodic bent versed in both free jazz and experimental rock. Not quite modern classical music, but not at all rock & roll either, Church of Anthrax sounds in retrospect like it was a huge influence on later post-minimalist composers like Andrew Poppy, Wim Mertens, and Michael Nyman, who mix similar doses of minimalism, rock, and jazz. On its own merits, the album is always interesting, and the centerpiece ‘The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles’ is probably the point where Riley and Cale approach each other on the most equal footing. The low point is Cale's solo writing credit, ‘The Soul of Patrick Lee,’ a slight vocal interlude by Adam Miller that feels out of place in these surroundings.” – Stewart Mason, All Music Guide. 180 gram vinyl reissue of 1971 LP.
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
8/21/2002	Campbell, Neil & Campbell Kneale	Collaboration	CD	$15.99	Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon	"Two guys who lived in the same street, in the same suburb, on different sides of the globe fiddle about with each others unfinished tapes for about three years and pop out an extremely ambitious collection of multiple-fidelity drone, shimmer & tinkle, and stereo carnage that easily ranks with the best that either of the participants have created on their own. Its pretty clear that the universe has pre-ordained this pairing of souls since the dawn of time, and smiled kindly upon their meager efforts to entertain and amuse the record buying public. Come, partake of their very impressive Feng Shui."
3/26/2006	Campbell, Neil & John Clyde-Evans	Live At Transmission Gallery, Glasgow	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Recorded 22 November 1998 this is a bliss blister of cello, violin, tapes and voice. Like some shortwave radio broadcast straight from the porch, the duo conjuer up Sticky Foster as a 'ghost presence'. Karen Constance done did the artwork. You needs it."
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."
9/18/2006	Can	Future Days	LP	$17.99		The first ever vinyl reissue of their 1973 fifth studio album, which was recorded in 1972. Tracks are "Future Days," "Spray," "Moonshake," and "Bel Air." Euro import.
11/23/2004	Can	Monster Movie	CD	$17.99	Spoon	"Can's debut is the only full-length, proper release to feature original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, whose free-form ranting is matched by a raw, aggressive dynamic unlike anything else in the group's canon; driving, dissonant songs like the extraordinary 'Father Cannot Yell' and 'Outside My Door' even owe a rather surprising debt to psychedelia and garage rock. More indicative of things to come is the closer 'Yoo Doo Right,' a 20-minute epic built on the kinds of hypnotic motifs and minimal rhythms which quickly became Can trademarks." - Jason Ankeny. “2004 remastered edition, with expanded artwork by Can (the entire Can catalog will be reissued in this same manner). Hybrid CD that can also be played on an SACD player. Reissue of the first Can album, originally issued in 1969.” - FE
	Can	Monster Movie	LP	$17.99	Spoon	Limited vinyl reissue of their very first LP, originally privately pressed, then later on major label United Artists, and now back on their own Spoon label. Recorded in 1969 and featuring vocalist Malcolm Mooney, this has some wonderful free form jamming Krautrock like the side long ‘Yoo Doo Right’
	Can	Radio Waves	LP	$17.99		"Five tracks from the krautrock pioneers: studio and TV show recordings from 1969-71, including two non-LP 7" sides, plus one uncredited bonus track, edited from a longer jam. Great stuff, ranging from the relentless attack of 'Entropy' to the trippy playfulness of 'Turtles Have Short Legs.'"
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."
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."
7/16/2004	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Grow Fins Vol. II: Trout Mask House Sessions	DBL LP	$18.99	Xeric	"Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band set rock on its ear from 1965 until 1982, when leader Don Van Vliet retired from music. Engineering a mutant strain of musical DNA (tuff-ass garage punk R&B, extraterrestrial field hollers, austere 'classical' miniatures, loping sea chanties, scorched-earth delta blues, free-blowing skronk, fat-bottom groove and post-everything clangor all found their way into the soup). CB&HMB are now regarded as one of the most original and consistently compelling bands ever waxed." 1969 recordings.
8/13/2004	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Grow Fins Vol. III: Grow Fins	DBL LP	$18.99	Xeric	"Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band set rock on its ear from 1965 until 1982, when leader Don Van Vliet retired from music. Engineering a mutant strain of musical DNA (tuff-ass garage punk R&B, extraterrestrial field hollers, austere 'classical' miniatures, loping sea chanties, scorched-earth delta blues, free-blowing skronk, fat-bottom groove and post-everything clangor all found their way into the soup). CB&HMB are now regarded as one of the most original and consistently compelling bands ever waxed." These recordings are from 1969-1982 with the majority from 1971-1975.
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."
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.
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."
6/11/2006	Carson, Walter & The Three Legged Race	Nocturnal Hymn	cassette	$9.99	Heavy Tapes
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!
10/28/2008	Carter, Christina	Original Darkness	CD	$12.99	Kranky	"Christina Carter (Charalambides, et al.) has a gift. In a world where most people shy away from the truth, from honesty in emotion, Christina has the strength to address those feelings head on through her music. Within the songs of Original Darkness, she confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy and desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes tender, sometimes forceful, sometimes pleading voice, a voice in which you can hear her vulnerability, her trepidation. Christina's words, and the mournful sound of them, stirs a melancholy that is supported and framed by her gently plucked guitar notes, notes that echo the sadness in the world she sings of, as well as the words she sings. These ten new songs are effective at painting pictures, exposing the underbelly of what we all really think but most will not say, of what we all really feel but push away. With the addition of gentle bells and occasional keyboards, Christina reminds us of what it means to be honestly human."
4/25/2008	Carter, Christina	Texas Working Blues	cassete	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Stunning new limited edition cassette album from Christina Carter, in a run of only 200 hand-numbered copies, with liners from Christina, full colour covers and pro-printed tapes. It feels like we have been pretty much constantly drooling over new Christina releases of late but she seems to be in the middle of one of the most creatively-accelerated phases of her career right now and Texas Working Blues is yet another monster in a dazzling run of blats. This one matches choirs of overdubbed voice soaked in a ton of mystery and F/X over electric guitar shapes that move from knotty, almost Jandekian chord puzzles through lucid single-note heartbreak that feels closest to Loren Mazzacane's amazing form circa Hells Kitchen Park or Keiji Haino's recent midnight loop work. But it's the vocals that really grab you by the back of the neck, with supernaturally mournful wordless cries echoing through deep space and lucid sunbursts of west coast-style psychedelic oblivion (something of Jefferson Airplane circa After Bathing At Baxters/Volunteers) carved into some of the most emotionally barren and personally spooked song forms. Haunting and unforgettable, another masterpiece from Christina. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue. Sold out at source.
11/25/2007	Carter, Christina / Pocahaunted	split	LP	$13.99	Not Not Fun	"Stunning split between Charalambides' ms. carter and local NNF lovelies. CC's side tiptoes through four brainwashing acoustic confessionals spiraling and lost. and Pocahaunted's contributions span their psych canyon from doomy plodding to total cloud nine voice angel ascension. on marbled peach wax. edition of 500."
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."
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."
4/3/2003	Carter, Tom	Root King	LP	$10.99	Eclipse	"Second solo release (first if CDRs don't count) by Charalambides member Tom Carter. White Les Paul copy, lap steel, and a purloined bell collection layered into three long tracks of string moan and slithering hum. A manifesto of grounding during an uprooted time, an attempt to bend in the wind. A slice of a long winter and a momentary flash of cranially pooled guitar sound suddenly scattered by unexpected freedom. A guitar album (mostly)." – Tom Carter. Really great LP pressed in an edition of 533 copies with printed sleeves and very nice artwork by Tom Carter. This is highly recommended!
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
5/14/2007	Carter, Tom	Whispers Toward Infinity	CDR	$11.99	Wholly Other	"Four live (mostly) improvised guitar & lap steel pieces, captured just before the delay pedals snuck back into the line signal. Shimmering modal folk/blues/raga frameworks collapsing under the weight of myriad microsounds, ebows, & slides and reforming into quietly pulsing soundscapes. A summation of all the solo fretwork motion up to the point where that approach was back-burnered in favor of collaborative efforts, wah, & electro harmonix. numbered edition of 150, hand-printed lino block & xerox card covers, artwork by Natacha Robinson (A Vintage Burden artist) front and back."
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."
11/4/2006	Cashmore, Michael	Sleep England	CD	$14.99	Durtro / Jnana	"Sleep England is the first solo release from guitarist Michael Cashmore, who has worked extensively with Current 93 and released albums with his own project Nature And Organisation. Over the last fifteen years he's written a majority of the music on some of Current 93's most acclaimed albums including classics like Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, Soft Black Stars, All the Pretty Little Horses and the recently released Black Ships Ate the Sky. Coupled with the lyrical stylings of David Tibet, Cashmore has established the group's reputation for producing some of the most challenging, profound and influential works in contemporary music. Cashmore has also recorded with Antony (Antony and the Johnsons), Nick Cave, Marc Almond and many others. Incorporating only electric and bass guitars, Sleep England consists of twelve new and previously-unreleased tracks that together form a singular and very personal work. This album is essential for followers of Current 93 and Nature and Organisation and will also appeal to fans of Jack Rose, John Fahey and Bert Jansch."
3/20/2007	Cashmore, Michael	The Snow Abides	CD	$12.99	Durtro Jnana	"Durtro Jnana is delighted to release The Snow Abides, a new solo mini-album from longtime Current 93 guitarist and contributor Michael Cashmore. Comprised of five thematically linked songs, the album was written and performed by Cashmore with song texts composed by David Tibet (Current 93) and vocals contributed by Antony (Antony and the Johnsons). Cashmore has enjoyed a long and successful partnership with Tibet and his compositions have appeared on some of Current 93's most acclaimed albums including classics like Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, Soft Black Stars, All the Pretty Little Horses and Black Ships Ate the Sky. Presented in an elegant, full-color digipak, The Snow Abides is Cashmore's most accomplished and poignant work to date, solo or otherwise."
11/17/2007	Casket Sinkers, The	Baked Beans, Brains, and Spiders	one-sided 7" & CDR	$13.99	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."
7/16/2006	Castings	Allo Hickory	CDR	$11.99	Spanish Magic	"Have you ever sat out on the porch in spring watching as the skies darken and severe weather rolls in? The subtle changes in air pressure, temperature, and wind direction create a stirring and cathartic atmosphere in which explosions take place. First, there's the jarring presence of brilliant lightning flashes crawling across the sky in the distance. They are the warning bells for the heavy rumbles that follow. The decreasing time between the two is one of the most nautral ways to experience suspense and the build-up of tension. Castings exploit this idea, this process on a musical level. Castings are a relatively new group from Australia, where vegemite roams free. This group lives for moments like described above. They are not afraid of looking such a giant undertaking square in the face, and their confidence leads them to success. The scope of these recordings is massive and is glaringly obvious from the opening track, "Black Man's Hand on a White Sans Dolby" and onward. This 12 minute adventure goes from extreme density to desolate sparseness and then back and forth and over again. It's as though they have collective ADD, but have managed to harness its artistic power. Sounds disorienting, and it is, but it's equally enchanting. Distorted spastic guitar exercises intermingle with reverb-laden drum blasts. All the while, there are various cryptic hums that underpin the whole piece, giving it a certain cohesiveness it would otherwise lack. The whole thing is brilliantly spliced together and never feels forced or out of place. On this track, and on "'Allo Hickory" in general, Castings use the Australian desert as their canvas. They bounce sounds off the ground and shoot them into the clouds, catching them before they disintegrate on impact. It's a perfect balancing act of chaos and calm. These are truly talented individuals. Castings embrace certain elements from two of my favorite Australian outfits: The Lost Domain and Terracid. Intricate, organic improvisations with a heaving leaning towards other, various archaic forms dot these I's and cross these T's. This is much post-war blues inspired as it is prehistoric cave pounding. Add in a little distortion and you've got a vague idea of a jumping off point. This shit is truly enigmatic. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Castings thrive in impossible situations. Except, instead of rising like a spire, they're more comfortable burrowing deep into the farthest reaches of the earth's crust. This is inspiring music.- Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
	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.
2/12/2008	Castro, Nick & The Young Elders	A Day Without Disaster	10"	$12.99	A Silent Place	"A Day Without Disaster is the newest chapter in the musical adventures of Nick Castro & The Young Elders. The group has spent the last year recording and touring the world while honing its skills both in the studio and on stage. This EP is a glimpse into the ever-evolving mind of the group, which dwells somewhere between the romantic male/female duets of Richard & Linda Thompson and the exotic worldly arrangements of the Incredible String Band. With a focused touch, unusual acoustic textures, gentle wordplay, and ensemble interaction, The Young Elders are traversing the folk world and leaving large shoes to fill. The band is currently comprised of members Wendy Watson, Ryan Kirkpatrick, Christof Certik (Winter Flowers), and guest Jeb Lipson. Though often lumped in with the "freak-folk" genre, Nick Castro has been transcending such labels since most of these new folkies were still playing indie rock.Limited edition pressing in a deluxe cover with foil stamping includes a poster and postcard."
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."
8/31/2008	Cavaliers Unlimited	Soul Vein / The Nasty	7"	$8.99	Mississippi Records	"...Subtitled: North Portland Music Series, Vol. #1. 'Limited one-time only edition of 500. Hard to find North Portland funk 7" recorded in 1968. This record was made right in our store's neighborhood. Formed in 1969 and together for only a short time, this record has two sides of the roughest breakbeat funk you never heard; only a few original copies are known to exist, most of those in poor condition. Not for the faint of heart, 'The Nasty' and 'Soul Vein' are two instrumentals that the define the phrase 'raw funk.'' Limited available stock; previously reissued on DJ Shadow's Cali-Tex label." - FE
3/14/2008	Celer	Cantus Libres	DBL CDR	$14.99	Celer	"2xcdr of golden, streaming experiments in free sound, with uninhibited mutation and evolution, alongside minimal, if any artist interaction once Play is pressed, and Stop ends. Heavy strings. Six tracks, two discs." Over 2 hours.
11/17/2007	Celer	Elias	3" CDR	$7.99	Celer	"Elias was made for our friends' soon-to-be-newborn son, Elias. Comes as a 1xmcd, with 4 tracks, running about 15 minutes in total. All sounds used for this recording were made by the mother's voice, with very little speed manipulation, but complete overprocessing, and dense reconstruction. Meant to be comforting, yet human. Dedicated to the Hildebrands. This disc comes packaged in a custom made cover stock case, with a special cutout for the cover. Minimal inserts and no titles. Why try to assume and predict? Comfort, care, family."
3/14/2008	Celer	I Love You So Much I Can’t Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out)	CDR	$14.99	Celer	"3 tracks of reorganized and refocused string and vocal arrangements from recordings made in a San Francisco Cathedral, of choirs and a string quartet performing the works of Samuel Barber."
3/14/2008	Celer	Para	CDR	$14.99	Celer	"1xcdr of a single, floating arrangement of bestial loops, focusing on the harmony and change of repetition, careening synchronization, and emotive focus. Originating from the Greek word, meaning ’Beside’."
10/6/2007	Celer	Red Seals	CDR	$14.99	Celer	"Two lengthy tracks of nighttime, rising, careening loop orchestras designed for environmental awareness."
11/17/2007	Celer	Untitled (Frozen Loop)	3" CDR	$7.99	Celer	"A 1xmcd, This recording contains 3 single revolutions of a loop, which we placed in a freezer, allowed it to run through water, and recorded as it froze, and stopped revolving. Though the process took nearly 30 minutes, these are only 3 small excerpts: The beginning, the middle, and close to the end. Strings are dying, tones are static, and the recording heads are crumbling or wilting. Included are further explanations, and a cover photo of the completely frozen tape. Packaged in a handmade cardstock case, and a painted mcd. DISCLAIMER: This disc is only 5 minutes long, and contains only 3 tracks. This is merely a record of the experiment, with excerpts for understanding, and for looping. These tracks could be looped forever. Would it be better dry, freezing, or frozen?"
11/17/2007	Celer	Voodoo Crowds: 22 Focal Loops For Variation and Disks	DBL CDR	$14.99	Celer / Pathmusick	"Co-release with Pathmusick (mp3), here presented in a minimal, 2xcdr package, with random track arrangement of 22 loops, meant for random arrangement, entirely designed by the listener. Complete 1800's-era string arrangements, wagons, bells, and singular voices."
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.
4/29/2008	Century Plants	Accidental Visitor	CDR	$13.99	Cut Hands	"Massive inferno style guitar destruction by this new crew outta Albany, NY. Part raging metallic clang by way of the holy Shred, part meditative feedbacking in total Zen style. Escaping melodies get trashed like Blue Humans digging on a Loren Mazzacane Connors riff. You can just hear the pleasure in the trashing and bashing. Century Plants mitglieds Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare (also making a mark as a part of Burnt Hills) have shared bills with Dead Machines recently and are bound to shake things up wherever they plug in their tools. 3rd 'official' release, 50 copies in polyvinyl sleeves with bah-boom artwerk."
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."
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.
	Chadbourne, Eugene	Guitar Freakout	CD	$15.99		"From Dr. Chadbourne's archives comes this beauty: solo recordings, 1982-84, originally released by Eugene on cassette in the 80s. The title track is a brilliant fugged-up 24-minute mostly-guitar collage, with bits of TV, household conversation, radio interview, etc. Plus the sounds of Jimi and dogs and noise and Fab 4 and guitars and more guitars and harmonicas and etc. on 'Secret of the Cooler' (18:12), 'The Bird Cage' (10:57), 'The Porthole' (10:21), and of course,'The Rake II' (9:09). Non-jewel case custom package design by Dr. Chadbourne."
12/24/2005	Chainsaw Gutsfuck / The Gateless Gate	split	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Belgiums unsilent necrotic death squadron lets loose the voodoom curse. On the B-side, local outcast one man psych doom unit captures first live take playing drums, guitar, vocals, and effects all at once."
5/14/2007	Chainsaw Paws	This Light	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Tennessee's chainsaw paws come at you from a million different directions. after a release on alamagator (not to mention numerous offshoots like broken tape choir, beesty, mild red sorrow, and more), "this light" is the bands most fully-realized album. deconstructed, whimsical pop with hooks galore build around varying stringed instruments, vocals, and percussion that, at times, brings to mind groups like animal collective. but this is catchy, surreal, and psychedelic all wrapped into one tight little ball. delightful in every way."
7/16/2006	Chalk, Andrew	Blue Eyes Of the March	CD	$32.99	Faraway Press	"There's an amazing attention to aesthetics that Andrew Chalk undeniably pays for each release with his name on it. It starts with the music and continues through the cover artwork, packaging, and presentation. The first part of Blue Eyes of the March is a 20 minute long piece which sounds like it was created by a prepared guitar, tuned only to play a limited number of pre-determined notes as they're quietly plucked and resonate for long stretches. The tones resemble some of those on the Buddha Box, and while the effect is similarly serene and meditative, there's a number of differences that are inherent with the basic natures of the medium. The biggest advantage I think is the ability to amplify the sound and be completely bathed in it, which is something Chalk's music always lends itself to. Chalk's music is not on a loop, either, and each piece makes a gradual evolution over the time. The second part is an absolutely heavenly 31 minute long piece. Unlike the first part, this one sounds like it was created by piano, yet it echoing in a similar way to the other. The piano tones and treatment are almost reminiscent of some 20+ year old Harold Budd work but while the set notes are very rigid, Chalk's playing is quite fluid." - Brainwashed. Edition of 500 copies in handmade sleeves.
3/27/2004	Chalk, Andrew	Over the Edges	CD	$15.99	Streamline	"He walked on to the porch and stood still. He breathed in. It was young air, still and undisturbed. He looked out at the world - it was new and turning green. He raised his head. The sky unfolded, pink from the sun rising somewhere unseen. He raised his head higher. Spindle-shaped, porous clouds, centuries of laborious workmanship, stretched across the whole sky, but only for a few moments before dispersing, seen only by the few who happened to throw back their heads at that minute." 1997 recordings performed and composed by Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Organum).
8/28/2007	Changeling	Five Hundred Nights	CDR	$7.99	Phantom Limb Recordings	"Recorded at the lavish Phantom Limb Recording studios, aka my house, this new cd-r from Los Angeles' premier composer of blissed out loops sounds like it was transmitted directly through time and space from Kevin Shield's brain while recording "Loveless". Lush and yet desolate, this is the best work of Changeling so far (who also releases music as the Buried Valley label), and it only promises to get better. Two massive guitar and keyboard compositions, flying high above the ground, casting shadows on our hearts, "Four Hundred Nights" feels like an eternity… as eternal as the psychedelic artwork created for the cover by Changeling Roy himself."
3/8/2008	Changeling	Into Great Peace	cassette	$6.99	Not Not Fun	"Ex-Texan Roy Tatum has been holing up in un-air conditioned apartments mumbling out his bleak loner blues drift for the past couple years, but his most recent-ish outpourings have found him plumbing even foggier inner vistas (see Five Thousand Nights, On The Other Side Of You, etc), and Into Great Peace may be the ultimate Changeling surrendering to date. A pair of blurry, beautiful guitar meditations that tread water in the sky, rippling with murmurs and weird waves, cycling through a lost, narcoleptic wash of reverb atmospherics and mirage vibrations. A slow-motion migration from new age depths to ancient heights. Let go. Pro-manufactured aqua cassettes with seaweed-green shell art in a Tatum-designed J-card. Hand-numbered edition of 200."
2/19/2007	Changeling / Quetzolcoatl	split	cassette	$6.99	Arbor	"Scientists say that sound travels better through water and rocks than it does through air. LA's Changeling and Dublin, Ireland's Quetzocaotl challenge these scientists. In a split tape of international proportions, airy loftiness and spiritual mist-icism play the key roles. Changeling's guitar-centric drones become one with the ambience of the mist surrounding them. Quetzocoatl uses a multitude of instruments and delay to build a drone which floats across the sky next to the birds. Each piece ends too soon, almost evaporating into the clouds from which they were born on a constant migratory path to rad. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes in sprayed/screened/stamped linen bags with art/insert by Roy Tatum (aka Changeling)."
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."
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!!"
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