| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30/2002 | e jugend | formate heaven syntax hell” featuring the epic tales of tempokhan | LP | $13.99 | Saucerlike Recordings | "e jugend is the side project for members of germany’s experimentalists Ma Cherie For Painting and Stale. On this record they evolve through various moods incorporating drones, samples, tape loops, eighteen instruments and found sounds. In the footsteps of the Fab Four there are seven songs per side, each painstakingly and perfectly crafted to flow into the next so both sides play as one long soundscape. Vinyl only. ‘e jugend is no. 5 and no. 9’, and this debut album is more or less treating the tracks of Tempokhan, a forgotten legend which has almost mystic traits now. Some say it has been a slavonic medieval vagabond, wizard, trickster that devastated Eastern countries, some are sure it is the brother of a famous German football goalkeeper, again others presume it is the lost texture that unites manhood whereas others are convinced it is the desperate pursuer of a greek mystic female figure in the direct family line of Aphrodite. No use saying that they’ve almost become mad while having finished these recordings to the point that more than a teeth has fallen out and we both ended up in hospital. Thanks to the Stuttgart producing celebrity Bach Vick these recordings still survived and thanks to Saucerlike Recordings they are going to see the day. (Hooray) Supper’s ready, and I’m starving'" |
| E.A.R. | Data Rape | CD | $15.99 | Space Age Recordings | Sound collages using Speak & Spells - intense damaged sounds | |
| 11/27/2007 | Earle, Matt | Golden Guitar | CDR | $11.99 | Black Petal | "Sometimes muura just wants to be himself. harshest yet. Downer vocals and acoustic guitar recorded by a dying fire in the murky winter dark of the blue mountains. cdr with thread-bound covers. Matt Earle also records as Muura and is a member of XnobbqX, who recently released an lp on Siltbreeze." |
| 7/19/2009 | Early Hominids | Metatarsal | CDR | $10.99 | Music Mundane | "First issue by new electronic punk duo of Paul "Nonnen" Walsh (original other half of Smell & Quim) and Neil Campbell (currently Astral Social Club, but has also done time in the notorious S&Q band). Live to 2-track jams that temper heavy analogue throb and fingers-in-sockets yowl with fleeting moments of hyper-merangue sweetness and light. 10 tracks, 32 minutes." |
| 8/8/2009 | Early Hominids | Metatarsal | CDR | $10.99 | Music Mundane | "First issue by new electronic punk duo of Paul "Nonnen" Walsh (original other half of Smell & Quim) and Neil Campbell (currently Astral Social Club, but has also done time in the notorious S&Q band). Live to 2-track jams that temper heavy analogue throb and fingers-in-sockets yowl with fleeting moments of hyper-merangue sweetness and light. 10 tracks, 32 minutes." |
| 6/27/2009 | Early Tunnels | Aerial Caves | c35 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "What a swamp this sucker is. throw the body over the side and get the fuck back to shore because there's some serious action about to go down after dusk. early tunnels is the ohio duo of jon lorenz (wasteland jazz unit, etc) and pete fosco (pete fosco, etc) bringing down the blitzkrieg through a mess of electric fences and barbed wire. "aerieal caves" is a gnarly excursion through minefield guitar syndrome, waltzing electronics, and firebrand horns that are guaranteed to peel paint and manufacture all kinds of dissonance with the neighbors. lorenz & fosco don't fuck around. they concoct a steaming cocktail that sounds so foreign you'd swear everything they were playing was from another planet. total kong. edition of 70, pro-dubbed and scrubbed." |
| Early W | Volume 2: Nur Die Tiere Blieben Ubrig | LP | $10.99 | Swill Radio | "Volume two in a Swill Radio series of LP's documenting the early work of Ralf Wehowsky (aka RLW). As with volume one, a slightly different version of this LP was originally released on cassette by Wahrnehmungen (later renamed Selektion) in the early 80's. This is a much more band-oriented release than volume 1. A number of tracks were recorded live and the mood is aggressive throughout. This is a fantastic Neue Deutsche Welle document. If it had been released on LP, it would be legendary. It still is." | |
| 12/24/2005 | Earth | Legacy of Dissolution | CD | $12.99 | No Quarter | "This features exclusive remixes (commissioned by No Quarter) of classic Earth songs by Mogwai, Russell Haswell, Jim O'Rourke, Autechre, Justin Broadrick and SunnO))). "Seattle band Earth have a had a less than luxurious career consisting of substance addictions, catastrophic live performances and angry record labels. Yet through the tumultuous haze they managed to release a number of highly regarded studio albums in the early to mid 90's. Often attributed to helping sculpt the ever so popular Doom/Drone/Stoner Metal genres, Earth's influence was far more wide-reaching as evidenced by this varied collection of remixes entitled Legacy of Dissolution -- a fitting title for a band who existence was corrosive from the start. Only lasting member Dylan Carlson helped compile the list of remixers, each of whom chose their favorite track from the Earth back catalog." |
| 11/21/2008 | Earth Crown | Say Fuck You to the Beast | cassette | $6.99 | Night People | "Earth Crown is Door, and Door is Earth Crown, Door moved down to Baltimore's annihilated warehouse district a few months ago from his legendary former address Castle Puppy in New Brunswick NJ and the change seems to make sense, the sound collected on this tape relates to the deserted post apocalyptic feel of the cities most lost inhabitants and streets. Sci Fi sythy feedback fuckers, crust nihilism, industrial pulse wars, termination soundtracks, ultra control feeding into chaotic electronic spew, dystopian rules. Door is dialed into a dark cold future. Ragging and minimal, music for replicant dreams. Art by Door." |
| Earth Trumpet | Roman | DBL CDR | $19.99 | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | "2 X CDR set: One audio cdr and one video cdr in the Quicktime format. CD inserts include printed and original hand drawn/autographed inserts by Laurence Coleman (aka Earthtrumpet, and ¼ of Volcano the Bear) and all packaged in a gatefold mylar sleeve. Numbered edition of 200 only and will not be reissued again on any other format. Volcano The Bear says: matches don't start fires...sound does. And what a lovely little light shines from the blaze created by this wandering offspring of The Bear. If La Monte Young was a swarm of bees flying through a Residents eyeball, well, wouldn't we all be covered in stingers? Luckily, Earthtrumpet takes the pain away, playing chamber level Kraanerg stochastics mixed with a dash of Lou Harrison/John Cage whimsy that climbs out of the speakers by the end of the opening scherzo (maybe it's the tack piano sound under the buzz). It would seem that I am describing a 20th century classical piece, which I am. It sure smells like that level of composition. Of course, there ARE the whacky bits of collaged sounds in the middle and what could set things off better, really? Sort of in the spirit of Bartok, too, Earthtrumpet is appropriating ‘folk’ instruments (including the so called ‘sample’ as an example of modern folk music) into the piece which, as quotes, create pleasant surprises." | |
| 6/19/2007 | Earthling Society | Plastic Jesus and theThird Eye Blind | LP | $24.99 | Nasoni | "Earthling Society's second album takes you into the furthest reaches of the Earth's stratosphere. It comprises of 6 new tracks (up to 20 minutes long pieces, like the 'Kozmic Suite No.2') as well as a bonus live version of 'Outsideofintime' which was recorded at Sonic Rock 2005 and features legendary Harvey Bainbridge (Hawkwind) on keyboards. The album is a crafty combination of spacey ambient jamming trips and outstanding cosmic rockers with space-funky jazzy grooves, wailing cosmic trip guitars and alienated electronics. This is mindblowing psychedelic space rock at it's best." Edition of 500 - copies here are on black vinyl |
| 6/19/2007 | Earthling Society | Tears of Andromeda - Black Sails Against the Sky | DBL LP | $42.99 | Nasoni | "3rd album by the Lancashire, UK based band. Similar to the albums last released this is an other brilliant mind-bending Spacerock'n'Psychedelic journey at it's absolute best. Consequentely it is more psychedelic and a bit more krautrock informed as ever before. Coincide with the release of this new album the Earthlings performed a highly acclaimed show at this year's Roadburn Festival in Tilburg (NL)." Gatefold sleeve, edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - all copies in stock are colored vinyl. |
| 3/27/2004 | Earthmonkey | Drum Machine | CD EP | $12.99 | Beta-Lactam Ring | “Each cover will have a unique handprinted image by Earthmonkey. Earth ‘Scratch’ Monkey? Pete Bog's studio may not exactly be a Black Ark, but it is certainly a Grey Henge. Just when we thought we had the guy pegged, he adds a drum machine, eshewing his class of '72 psych ministrations for a more tranced out electro-dub. You all like LSD, right? Well, the first part of Drum Machine is rather like a post script to Coil's ‘Love's Secret Domain’ album. Thereafter, Monsieur Le Bog retrofits his rockets with Kraut engines and even coughs up a hummus flavoured punker. Even more surprises in store as Earthmonkey really puts the E in EP. You'll hear what we mean, or will you?” |
| 12/24/2005 | Earzumba | Afuera De La Naranja | CDR | $12.99 | Audiobot | "Behind the mystic monniker of Earzumba hides none other than Christian Dergerabedian, originally born in Buenos Aires and now residing in Barcelona. Christian once played with Argentinean outrock absurdists Reynols and the Lens Cleaner Trio and is now currently working solo. He now resides in a dimension all of his own, where thick waves of punishing drones coalesce with a meditative layer of sound manipulation. He scrapes together unusual sound sources, cuts them from their 'common' environment and lets them reemerge from nowhere in order to crave a rich deep cavernous sound entity. Yet strangely always balancing on the outer limits of imagination, allow the archangels to enter the auric field to work with you. Indeed his way is elsewhere... Packaged in jewel-case with full color digital-printed artwork and blue tray. Limited to only 60 copies so don't fall asleep..." |
| 4/16/2007 | Earzumba | Real Ruido Pastizo | CDR | $7.99 | Editions_Zero | "Christian Dergarabedian is by now more known through his Earzumba than his previous engagement with Reynols, and releases a great bunch of great CDRs. More and more he relies on the sampler to be the crazy melting pot of sounds and here he seems to be taking matters a bit further. From the field recordings of 'Intro' to a heavily cut up reggae collage madness in 'Descuidado'. Spinning vinyl by hand and picking up crazy fragments, and not by strange coincidence Editions_zero remarks that this is a nice soundtrack to a b-movie. I was playing this a couple of times in a row, and each time I turned it back on and discovered new themes in this crazy road movie. It has a strange appeal, this madness, this hotchpotch of music. A strange kind of radio play even when words aren't really used here to any extent. Not even a real story actually now I come to think of it. Turntablism without turntables. A story of no words, but the perfect soundtrack to out and make your own crazy roadmovie." (FdW) - Vital Weekly |
| 12/25/2005 | Earzumba | Simulando Un Refugio | CD | $10.99 | Old Gold | "Apparently this is already Earzumba's tenth release, so I am sure I missed some here and there, which is a pity, as so far, 'Simulando Un Refugio' included, I liked what I heard. Earzumba is Christian Dergarabedian, once a founding member of Reynols, a member of CD Lens Cleaner Trio and since time a solo artist. The eleven tracks on this new album can be seen as one long track. Earzumba plays synthesizers, percussion, guitars and piano, but he knows how to process these with the use of a computer beyond the point of recognition. In one long mix, the eleven parts drift by, moving from hectic and furious sound collages to more ambient like passages, such as 'Con Sus Heroes Famosas'. As ever an eye for detail in the production, there isn't a single moment of weakness here. I never realized before, but there is a strong resemblance between the work of Earzumba and the old Brume work: the strong collage approach, with hectic and nervous changes, the percussive element and 'the never a moment of silence' approach. You can get lesser things to be compared with. Another great CD. The only trap Earzumba shouldn't fall into, is producing too many similar works (like Brume did for a while)." (FdW) Vital Weekly |
| 9/30/2008 | Earzumba | Vivo | CDR | $9.99 | Hrysallida | "Out of the blue striked the idea of handling a surprise birthday party in xanthi to celebrate the birthday of a close friend last december 07... being foxed of whom to invite to perform and whom for a dj set we were intoxicated by the sounds of 'bestia infernal' a super blaster of earzumba so without 2nd thoughts an email to christian dergarabedian was sent resulting a pure freaked-out 4 day mayhem in the city of xanthi ...on one hand the ever mindblowing almost 'soundtrack' like performance of christian @ the city's folk museum and after the stellar dj set of mr. overdub @ the bar 'kokori' set our souls on fire!!!! & upon our return while discussing w/ christian about life on the road did the idea of this release strike... blended also w/ his performances at m.a.m.b.a. (buenos aires) & flue (wien) makes it a pure bizarre coctail of sounds, from his soundtrack like dialogues / effects to more a la 70's synthetised prog or 'funky'(?) sounds this is another stunning ascent/descend to earzumba's disillusioned world!!! why don't you step into it?" |
| 4/16/2007 | Eastenburia | Eastenburia | LP | $20.99 | Japan Overseas | "A wild and primitive festival of tribal fever and ultra-modern sound sensations from this cutting-edge performance troupe consisting of Yoshimi P-We & Atari (Boredoms), David Nuss (No Neck Blues Band), Shoji (Japan Overseas), painter Rita Ackermann, and Mhayow (Psycho-Baba). Pressed on picture disc vinyl with artwork by Rita Ackerman on one side and Yoshimi on the other." Long out of print. "Summer of 1999 Dave Nuss of NNCK and Rita Ackermann traveled to Japan for the book release of Revelations, a chronicle of the Father Yod dynasty penned by Byron Coley and illustrated by Ackermann. While there they scored a record deal for Angelblood with Capt. Trip, and traveled to Osaka to record an album for Japan Overseas with the Yoshimi and Atari of the Boredoms, joined by in-house musician Yoshida. Recording and recording, only breaking to visit the local Shinto shrine, the ensemble found their sound in a blend of NNCK primitive shaman percussion with the Boredoms penchant for electronically-inspired repetition, Rita's Eastern European vocal eccentricities, and the ocassional strum of the sitar. Yoshimi handled all mixing and re-mixing. A beautiful full-color picture disc with art by Yoshimi and Rita. Is it middle-eastern? Indeed, it is Eastenburia." |
| 7/30/2006 | Eastern Fox Squirrels | Eastern Fox Squirrels | CD | $12.99 | Last Visible Dog | "Dream Magazine has come to the same conclusion as I: Brad Rose does not sleep. He can't possibly. Here is a man who runs two labels (both highly prolific), an e-zine, blog, podcast, and who knows what else, and still manages to both work and be about half a dozen bands. He seems a one-man jewelled antler (in fact, he's revived their old e-mail group!), especially when it comes to pioneering some truly innovative and beautiful new groups. Eastern Fox Squirrels is a collaboration between Brad, his wife Eden and Robert Horton. Along the way they are joined by the talents of Tom and Christina Carter (Charalambides), Dan Plonsey (a player in the company of Anthony Braxton and Eugene Chadbourne) and Jason Bill (Charlambides, also recording with Jack Rose.) Sonically, Eastern Fox Squirrels has a varied pallet. Like the Jewlled Antler folks, we have bouzouki, glockenspiels, bowed banjos, weird exotic flutes and who knows what else being used to great effect. The results being very much like what you'd expect; experimental but with soft, round edges and nice, nearly ambient dirges that feel welcome but really aren't normal." - label |
| 11/21/2009 | Easy Rider | The Golden Fairest part II | c40 cassette | $5.99 | Rotifier Cassettes | Edition of 50. |
| 11/21/2009 | Easy Rider (a.k.a. Stefan Kushima) | The Golden Fairest part I | c40 cassette | $5.99 | Rotifier Cassettes | Edition of 50. |
| 1/30/2010 | Eat Skull | Jerusalem Mall | 7" | $5.99 | Woodsist | "Eat Skull return with a follow-up of sorts to last year's Siltbreeze released debut, Sick To Death. Three new tracks. "Don't put baby in the corner. "Jerusalem Mall" is a newer Christmas time jingle for these hopeful times. Backed with two Sick to Death outtakes unavailable on vinyl till now. No one puts baby in the corner." Limited edition pressing. |
| 4/10/2009 | Eat Skull | Wild and Inside | CD | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Eat Skul's Sick to Death received worldwide accolades for its frantic pacing, unimpeachable lyric quality, and nugget after nugget of pop hooks buried under a gob of lo-fi muzz. On this follow-up, fans and critics will find a cleaner, more inimitable Eat Skull at work. Frontman ROB ENBOM has outdone himself with both lyrics and structure on Wild and Inside, and the band as a whole rises to the challenge of nixing the lo-fi tag for a sound that's less... antecedent. Gone is the wall of crud that prevents discerning listeners from identifying the instrumental play-by-play; in its stead, a set of crafted songs recall the paisley punk of The Last and the rural-delica of Great Plains, as well as nodding to the sanguine pop of early Flying Nun bands such as The Double Happys. Wild and Inside is a grower for the ages. It breathes deep and exhales perfectly." |
| 5/9/2009 | Eat Skull | Wild And Inside | LP | $15.99 | Siltbreeze | "Eat Skull's Sick to Death received worldwide accolades for its frantic pacing, unimpeachable lyric quality, and nugget after nugget of pop hooks buried under a gob of lo-fi muzz. On this follow-up, fans and critics will find a cleaner, more inimitable Eat Skull at work. Frontman Rob Enbom has outdone himself with both lyrics and structure on Wild and Inside, and the band as a whole rises to the challenge of nixing the lo-fi tag for a sound that's less... antecedent. Gone is the wall of crud that prevents discerning listeners from identifying the instrumental play-by-play; in its stead, a set of crafted songs recall the paisley punk of The Last and the rural-delica of Great Plains, as well as nodding to the sanguine pop of early Flying Nun bands such as The Double Happys. Wild and Inside is a grower for the ages. It breathes deep and exhales perfectly." "On their first album Sick to Death, the Portland band Eat Skull mashes together almost everything that's great about trashy art-punk, weirdo fuzz-garage, skuzzy punk-pop, Kiwi garage-rock and off-kilter bedroom-strum. ...once your ears adjust, you realize that it's all killer, no filler." --Pitchfork (8.3 rating) |
| 11/21/2009 | Eat Skull / Ganglians | split | 7" | $5.99 | Dulc-i-tone | "This Jabba-sized double-shot of damaged pop has finally dropped! At first needle-drop, once might find this an odd pairing, but give these songs a few minutes to leak their glorious glass-shard-spiked goo into your aural cavities, and it'll make sense why the 'Skull loved Sacramento's GANGLIANS enough to bring them on tour. While with EAT SKULL you might have to get your nails a bit dirty digging through their lovingly antagonistic nego-vibe surface scuzz to get to the underlying tunefulness, both bands share a knack for oblique and/or fucked-up pop songs. Ganglians' first trip to the vinyl farm is a perfect example of their lazily catchy, GREAT UNWASHED-like, stoned-out folk-strum (emphasis on STONED). Pop songs were specifically requested from EAT SKULL this time around, and they certainly delivered in their own 'special' way with two songs from the "Sick to Death" sessions: one a straight-ahead fly-by-night scrappy punk-pop number, and the other a fractured dirge-pop epic. (Ever been whale-watching? Well, if you've ever found yourself leaning over the rail, waiting for that next burning throat-surge, now just imagine that at that very moment, a great song popped into your head. There, now you've got 'Leave the Universe.') 400 copies, silkscreen-on-offset-printed covers, ridiculous artwork." |
| 11/5/2002 | Echo Is Your Love | 8 Hours | CD | $10.99 | Stickfigure | "The second full-length album from Finnish noise-pop and art-punk/rock Echo Is Your Love. Nine beautiful tracks of out-of-tune guitars and near-angelic vocals that aims to land somewhere between Evol-era Sonic Youth and the Dead C." |
| 8/1/2006 | Eclipse Records | Bullhead City | t-shirt | $11.99 | Xero Ink | New Eclipse shirts made by Phil Franklin (Sunburned Hand of the Man). These are all black, sizes small through extra large. The design is a kind of fish eye lens effect with the shirt layed out like this in the psychedelic Fillmore font: Eclipse Bullhead City Records The shirts are 100% cotton (pre-shrunk) and the lettering have a rainbow effect = usually 2 or more colors (red & blue on many). Sorry I do not have a scan of a shirt yet. These shirts are limited in quantity but there will be a new design out next year after I have relocated from Bullhead City. |
| 8/8/2009 | Edgar Wappenhalter | Spuiglavementen | cassette | $7.99 | Goaty Tapes | "Steve Marreyt of Sylvester Anfang and the KRAAK label has a handful of old tapes and just a twinkle of psych pop wunder. Edition of 60." |
| 11/16/2004 | Edip Akbayram & Dostlar | Nedir Ne Degildir? | CD | $17.99 | World Psychedelia | "A very different take on the Anatolian rock sound (tracks date from 1975-76), with strange keyboard washes leading to arrangements that feature wah-wah fuzz guitar and (I think) wah-wah saz, Akbayram's powerful swirling vocals, all backed by funked-up drums; many of these tracks have a tough hashish rock sound that somehow meshes well with folk instruments, and/or the odd addition of Jethro Tull-esque flute; keyboards and arrangements from 'genius' Murat Ses (Mogollar) supplement the Dostlar line-up; probably the most important non-Erkin Koray, 3 Hur El, or Mogollar album from Turkey; among the best that Turkey produced in the seventies - and that's saying something; lyrics and photos in 12-page booklet." - Lion Productions |
| 9/14/2004 | Edwards, Dave | Loose Autumn Moans | CDR | $12.99 | Fiffdimension | "In a way the most 'definitive' fiffdimension album to date - songs, spoken word and instrumental interludes, and with a subtle new sense of duende. Tends toward the acoustic end of the spectrum but ye'd never in a million years mistake it for Bryan Adams Unplugged. From summer tans fading solo to live performances by The Winter - includes string-section accompaniment from cellist San Shimla and Sammy the Snake on violin." |
| 9/14/2004 | Edwards, Dave | Mantis Shaped and Worrying | CDR | $12.99 | Fiffdimension | "Third Dave Edwards solo album moves into increasingly unique territory. Grit spate in scribble, guitars describing captivation intense, unmade in taut barrage. Stupid funk basement and all cause for rueing contempt or contemporary perfume wanders. Numbered edition in handmade fold-out cover." |
| 9/14/2004 | Edwards, Dave | Scratched Surface | CDR | $12.99 | Fiffdimension | "The debut album, first released in 1998. 'Worth searching out coz this lo-fi singer/songwriter oddball has a unique take on the genre. He’s pissed off, a tad fucked up (as usual), but not full of lugubrious self-pity (as unusual) and is happy to get raucous & obnoxious in just the right kinda way' - Chris Knox." |
| 9/14/2004 | Edwards, Dave | The Marion Flow | CDR | $12.99 | Fiffdimension | "2nd idiosyncratic sepia-toned album, ranging from lazy acoustic pop, through postpunk distortion frenetics to spoken word and a touch of free jazz. Warm sounding and accessible, but revealing hidden depths. 'Edwards' music is often a sculpture rather than a melodic composition... there's much difficult pleasure to be had for the musically adventurous' - Real Groove" |
| 10/31/2009 | Edwards, John & Chris Corsano | Tsktsking | LP | $25.99 | Dancing Wayang | "TSKTSKING is the first duo album by London-based double bassist John Edwards and US drummer extraordinaire Chris Corsano. The album was recorded at Eastcote Studios, London in December 2008. Limited to 500 copies it comes housed in hand screenprinted wrap-around sleeves. The accompanying insert features exclusive and humorous liner notes written by UK sax pioneer Evan Parker. Defying the drum and bass's classic roles as rhythm instruments, Edwards and Corsano's TSKTSKING is a beautifully melodic album. At times Corsano's drumset sounds like it's got strings whilst Edwards's double bass takes its fair share of scrapes and slaps. Extended passages explore the most subtle and some unexpected sounds that can be summoned from metal and timber. Equally, possessed progressions and untamed eruptions of energy and power are conjured up. These two musicians prey and pounce on their instruments like it's their last chance.” |
| 7/16/2006 | Egghatcher | Cat's Ear | CDR | $11.99 | Spanish Magic | "A few friends have been raving about Robert Horton's music lately and although I certainly have enjoyed everything I've heard, nothing has had the same effect on me as his most recent work under the Egghatcher moniker. Cat's Ear is an enthralling journey through a wide range of experimental musical styles, but in some strange way Horton manages to bind things together no matter if we get shimmering blankets of drone fog, fractured folk structures, buzzing improvisations, claustrophobic layers of feedback or dense fogbanks of primitive electronics. The opening "Lost Issues" kicks things off with a thick lava flow of buzz, screech, fuzz and hiss that brings an equally cavernous and joyous feeling to the table. Without recognizing quite how it happened the frantically insane electronic monsoon is all over and has perfectly flowed into the title track that sounds like a graceful celebration to someone that wandered off a bit earlier than expected. Another favorite cut is the dark and beautiful folk of "Tamlin" that drones, swirls and vibrates for just over eight minutes. I have no clue what's what here as Horton generally applies a myriad of all sorts of weird instruments and field recordings but I do know that the sounds presented hangs in the air like distant echoes in the clear night of a hidden valley. These eight minutes are just true bliss. The following track is decidedly more electric but shows the same sort of tension between complete darkness and skeletal guitar beauty. It offers a kind of rustic, caustic, even abrasive electric folk music that is so honest that it might be painful for some to listen to. There's a loose and natural approach to notes, folk, drones and quiet noise present here that has me thinking as much about early Charalambides and Sunroof! as Sandoz Lab Technicians and Roy Montgomery. If you know anything at all about what makes my head spin you know exactly what you need to do. Nearly perfect." - Mats Gustafsson, Broken Face |
| 4/24/2006 | Egghatcher | Empty Microphone | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "Egghatcher is Robert Horton made of space in delicate petals that speak like stars like red units fresh from the cosmos seeping a thinking upon distilled minds." |
| 2/4/2007 | Egypt is the Magick # | The Valentine Process | LP | $15.99 | Mad Monk | "Resistant to the clutches of Anubis, the members of Egypt have emerged from a six year hiatus to produce an archival release dating from the DCLXVI Dynasty. After serving as priests to Hathor, the Mistress of Life, the Great Wild Cow, for five years, these Egyptian numerologists have honed their aesthetic reeds to razor sharp points. These tracks include glossalalia praising the pantheon, an illustration of the electromechanistic migration of the soul as well as ecstasy soaked instrumental excursions. Look for these adepts appearing at your local oasis soon! 180 gram vinyl, full color covers, 500 copies!" |
| 9/24/2002 | El Ron | Are Dangdut Kings | LP | $10.99 | Records | "Released in 1997, this is the first record to feature the music of Keith Whitman (aka Hrvatski). El-Ron was a duo featuring Keith Whitman on guitar and electronics and Russ Newman on drums. The facts of this history have been obscured through the use of generic record labelling techniques, pseudonyms, and a musical approach that sits outside of popular genres. Hrvatski interviews have mentioned that El-Ron was a no-wave band, and it is best to approach this record in that way, although their recorded work is way more psychedelic than most 'no-wave'. Unlike his creations that fall into IDM, electronic, computer-based experimental, and ambient categories, El-Ron is a noise heavy, feedback scrawl, with ever building anthemic themes puctuated by powerful raw explosive drumming. Its a freakout. Limited to a few hundred copies." |
| 11/15/2008 | el-g | Tout Ploie | LP | $16.99 | Kraak | "We first heard the music of Paris-based Laurent Gerard when he forgot a demo-cdr in the tourvan of Jack Rose last year, and directly became one of our favourite French acts of the moment. el-g makes a strange mix of French ballads and avant-garde song-writing. A pig-headed approach of the French language and ingenious arrangments are the core business of this dude. Tout Ploie is a compilation of both the best tracks from previously released cdr's and new work. el-g appears as a sort of modern day miniature version of Serge Gainsbourg on this debut-lp. The female singer, Charlene Darling, who accompanies him throughout the most part of the record only makes this comparison more apt. Gerard has never been affraid to buy records of Lee Hazlewood and late Fleetwood Mac. He extracted the right ingredients from those records and added some genuine French sensuality. Tout Ploie is the pop album that had to be made for a long time and doesn't fear experiment with guest appearances of e.g. Ignatz, Phil Todd, Mim and Foxy De Man." |
| 12/12/2009 | Él-G | Capitaine Présent 5 | LP | $29.99 | Nashazphone | "Monsieur Laurent Gerard, aka Él-g, aka one third of Ghedalia Tazartes' Reines d'Angleterre has been slowly building a little world of his own with several homemade records, cassettes and CDr's through the past few years and also through several interesting collaborations. Capitaine Present is his most intimate project with already 4 volumes released on CD, cassette and DVD. This fifth outing (and first on vinyl) consists of a hallucinogenic promenade inside his psyche. Cut up spoken words, poetry, cosmic standup comedy from the afterlife, synth insanity, make up this, sometimes very eerie, personal release. ONE SIDED LP - Edition of 190 copies." |
| 3/21/2009 | El-g & Duncan | El-g & Duncan | CDR | $8.99 | Ruralfaune | "El-g & Duncan Pinhas with pieces of Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Steven Warwick's (Birds of Delay) brain and hands inside it. Mastering by Richard Pinhas (Heldon), Oversized cover illustrated by Jonas Delaborde." Limited edition of 64 copies. |
| 5/1/2009 | Electric Annihilation | Issue #1 | zine | $1.99 | DNT | The first issue of Electric Annihilation is now available. EA is a 20-page music publication, b&w on tabloid-size (11 x 17 pages) newsprint. Circulation of 5,000 copies. The first issue includes interviews with: Thurston Moore Henry Rollins John Olson (Wolf Eyes/American Tapes) Emeralds Sun Araw Wet Hair Nomen Dubium Plus scene reports from Gothenburg Sweden (written by Matthias Andersson of Release the Bats), Cleveland (by Sam Goldberg) and Iowa City (by Shawn Reed). Also an article by Jon Isaac. There's a centerfold poster too. Cover artwork and border/frames by Zachary Fleming." |
| 6/5/2005 | Electric Banana | Rave Up With Electric Banana | LP | $29.99 | Guerssen | "Licensed vinyl reissue of the legendary Pretty Things sessions - released for contractual reasons under the name Electric Banana - and some of the greatest examples of British psychedelia. The music was originally recorded for the De Wolfe Music Library, who used it on various low-budget Swingin' London flicks such as ''What's Good For The Goose', 'The Haunted House Of Horror' & 'Some like it sexy'. This is top notch psychedelic rock full of tight harmony vocals, fuzzed out guitars, swirling Hammonds, Mellotrons, effects...Fourteen tracks including ‘Alexander'’, ‘Grey Skies’, ‘Blow Your Mind’, ‘Eagle's Son’, ‘Rave Up’ and many more! LP comes housed in a groovy cover. Limited to 1000 copies." - Lion Productions |
| 1/17/2010 | Electric Bunnies | Through The Magical Door | LP | $16.99 | Florida's Dying | "THE ELECTRIC BUNNIES have been both praised and panned for the eclectic nature of their singles and with their first full-length. The naysayers should be silenced. This is their most cohesive release to date with eleven tracks which weave in and out of each other working more as two sides then as eleven free-standing songs. This is seriously a modern psychedelic masterpiece. A concept album with out the pretense which comes off like a trip through an exotic paradise. An ode to their hometown of Miami. Packaged in gatefold sleeves with four inserts." Nice! |
| Electric Company and Vas Deferens Organization | More Pelvis Wick For The Baloney Boners | CD | $12.99 | Tekito | "Electric Company and Vas Deferens Organization is another teamup between VDO and Brad Laner and features the classic freaked out madness that we've come to expect from the VDO camp. There are numerous layers of electronics and Constant shifts in the action making this extremely hard to follow, yet one hell of fun ride. This is among the most well-crafted freaked out madness you can find. Aggressive electronica that demands the listener's attention. It's only 35 minutes in length, but believe me... it makes its statement quite succinctly in that timeframe." Aural Innovations | |
| 5/31/2009 | Electric Omen | Abandon All Hope | cassette | $10.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Electric Omen is possibly some of my favorite work of Sindre Bjerga, rumbling darkness, like an earthquake at night, this is unexpected and terrifying. Bleak black and white covers. Limited to 60." |
| Electric Prunes | Stockholm ’67 | CD | $13.99 | Birdman Records | “In the winter of 1967, a psychedelic-garage-punk band from Woodland Hills, California, arrived in Europe for what would be their first and last tour of the continent. On the strength of their hit single ‘I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night,’ the band was welcomed with open arms by European rock fans as well as British rock royalty - they smoked out with Hendrix, partied with Brian Jones and Keith Moon, and hung out in the studio with the Beatles - but were also subjected to harassment and ridicule over the fact that their homeland was at war in Vietnam. Yep, good times, good times... Twenty days and six countries later it was all over. Luckily, on the last stop of the tour someone pushed the record button and this artifact is the result. Stockholm '67 finds the Electric Prunes at the height of the powers. Some ninnies have griped that the 'Prunes were nothing more than a psychedelic one-hit wonder, and a studio project at best. This performance burns the criticism to the ground. Over-amplified and fuzzed to the max, the 'Prunes here are explosive, noisy and wild. This recording proves that the Electric Prunes deserve to be ranked alongside the very best bands of their era.” | |
| Electric Prunes | Underground | LP | $15.99 | Awesome follow up to their debut LP. This one is slightly less garage and more psych-pop, emphasis on psych. Also highly recommended. | ||
| 6/19/2007 | Electric Riders | Music For a Family Gathering | DBL LP | $42.99 | Nasoni | "Third album of the acclaimed psychedelic underground band from Spain. The Music for a Family Gathering is a collection of eleven tales of the best heritage of 60's - 70's psychedelic rock bands, a new experience based in eclectic songs where all influences come to mind. Ten original songs and one superb cover of 70's U.S. rockband Demian ("Coming") became this record in a trip over the golden years of the music." Gatefold sleeve, edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - all copies in stock are colored vinyl. |
| 12/31/2003 | Electroputas | Piano Blooms | 12" EP | $7.99 | The Social Registry | "Still nothing could prepare for the total overhaul espoused in the group's confidence, agility and creativity. Piano Blooms surges with a focused tension and rhythmic stride of a group who're coming into their own as songwriters as well as feedback laden rockers." Artrocker. "The Electro-Putas are finally ready to unleash the spatial sound groove attack from their modern era with this the second release in the The Social Registry’s 12" series. Think krautrock in the realm of Can with dashes of no wave, free rock, and just plain freakiness. This is the antidote to all of those bands who are 'pushing the envelope' with all the force of baby sloth. These three songs will put the frizz back in your hair and have you checking your smoke for flakes of something else besides tobacky. Joe, Jaiko and Akio combine their love of psychedelia, full force blasts, and ramblings along the noise path on this limited edition chunk of vinyl. This is for the people who swing their hips in more than just one direction. Sure to be playing on your turntable until the needle gives out or your mind does. This releases is the second in our ongoing 12" series and, as always, is limited to 600 copies." |
| 3/21/2009 | Elektronavn | Blind Turtle Analogy | CDR | $8.99 | Ruralfaune | "Strange terrains of chain-shaking hymnals, enchanted echo attic exploring, and timeless vocal phantasmagoria. Personal, parallel odysseys into devotion and repetition". "Would that blind turtle, coming to the surface once every one hundred years, stick his neck into the yoke with a single holeŠ" Previous releases on Notnotfun and Ikuisuus." Limited edition of 78 copies. |
| 4/10/2009 | Elephant Micah | Exiled Magicians | CD | $8.99 | Third Uncle | "Kentuckiana's Elephant Micah has been practicing the fine art of flying under the established indie radar for almost a decade now. Despite occasional flashes of visibility, including written accolades in avant music mag The Wire, overseas gigs with Jason Molina's Magnolia Electric Company, and a landmark CD/LP release for the pioneering Time-Lag Records (Hindu Windmills, 2007), the band still seems to move with an impressive, if accidental, stealth.Whatever its cause, Elephant Micah's situation in the geo-commercial margin has offered plenty of creative room to roam. After years of working off the grid, the band has developed a satisfyingly self-styled approach to writing and recording, feeding into a long string of rough-hewn but well-made albums. The musical ground this material covers might border that of freak folk, Americana, or other media-heralded roots revivals, but Elephant Micah tends to end up in a "country" all its own. Like the best of Elephant Micah's past work, Exiled Magicians is a set of haunting, loosely thematic tunes-an especially fruitful reworking of that centuries-old voice, verse, and guitar combination. The album's first class analog audio (as recorded by Justin Vollmar on ?" tape) and often unexpected accompaniments (ranging from mountain fiddle to shaken amplifier) are added delights, all-in-all begging the question of how long Elephant Micah can hide out in the under-underground." |
| 10/21/2009 | Elm | Nemcatacoa | CD | $12.99 | Digitalis Arts & Crafts | "For my money, Barn Owl is the best new band to emerge in the last five years. Their trajectory has been meteoric, progressing musically and conceptually in leaps and bounds. I've been thrilled to be there from the beginning, watching and listening in awe as the duo of Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti have carved out an impressive niche of their own. Heavy doses of guitar savagery and tribal essence have them firmly planted at the top of the mountain. So it makes sense to deconstruct the duo and present each as a solo entity, soaring on their own. Elm is the name of Porras' solo creations. His music retains the megasonics of Barn Owl, but finds his tutelage deep in the heart of the desert. "Nemcatacoa" is a lonesome, epic journey. Named after one of the deities of his Colombian heritage, his latest full-length (and first large-scale solo release) feels huge and endless. Walls of guitars shatter beneath the weight of the booming percussion blasts that find their way from the caves into the light. An acoustic guitar is mournfully plucked, the beginning of a procession of the dead. "Nemcatacoa" is an album begging for somebody, anybody to find and embrace. Porras is a master artist. The instrumentation at work here is even more impressive when you consider it's played by a lone soul. Guitars, Rhodes, Harmonium, Trumpet and more echo through the caverns of the ancient Earth. Even though this album is dark and at times bleak, it never overpowers. Traversing similar aural planes as Sunn O))) and Earth, Porras is staking a claim all his own. As his voice wails over blankets of guitars, he never loses sight of the golden life ahead. Incredible. Edition of 500 CDs in silver-on-black gatefold sleeves." |
| 12/25/2005 | Eloe Omoe | Eloe Omoe | cassette | $5.99 | Animal Disguise | First edition of 150 numbered copies in full color sleeves. This is the second document from the Boston area free-sludge duo containing two full live shows from Boston and New York. "Bass and drums splattered shark disaster. The sound of a weak human trying to remove itself from the fangs of the great white death! A totally straight faced, head nodding... AWESOME!" |
| 9/30/2008 | Eloe Omoe | Marauders | LP | $9.99 | Animal Disguise | "Eloe Omoe is the Boston, MA duo of Sam Rowell (bass) and Tim Leanse (drums). For the uninitiated and other strangers to Eloe Omoes aural assault, I have described them as relentless free-sludge. Their challenging and rewarding sound could be compared to both the depths of early free-jazz and the over-the-top amplifier worshipping metal of the legendary godheadSilo. But more than anything, the music is akin to the unpredictable shift of a group of sharks than to normal song structure. This is crisp and extreme rock rejection. From the first note of the first song, you are instantly sucked into the undertow and already past the point of no return. Churning and chugging bass that sounds as if 8 arms are striking the strings in a battle to keep time with the insanity of the spastic and shifting drums. An album that reveals more subtleties and gets better with each listen, Marauders is an impressive debut that has been long overdue." |
| 10/25/2008 | Emaciator | Coveting | LP | $16.99 | Not Not Fun | "Misery wears many masks, but Tulare, California fatalist JON BORGES has etched his mark on most of them. For at least half a decade he's pursued increasingly suicidal tendencies under his PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT guise (which is currently on hiatus), splicing subdued loops of morbid beauty against savage canyons of harsh noise histrionics. Lately, though, he's been straying more and more from this aggressive exercise in contrasts in favor of his EMACIATOR alias, which draws from the same dark wellspring of bitter memories and bipolar rage but, instead of unleashing it in grand frenzies, bottles everything up inside until it seeps out the pores. Early efforts/cassettes retained a strain of buzzing nausea reminiscent of his PD days, but the last 12 months have witnessed a complete abandonment of any ties to the past. Times are still bleak, sure, but the gray prisms of brooding ambience Borges now conjures and slowly collapses convey a depth of mood and subtlety far surpassing simple signifiers like Indifference, Resentment, Remorse. Coveting collects together five exquisite Emaciator compositions (including two particularly riveting songs that were debuted live at Echo Curio last winter) for a harrowing 40 minutes of troubled solace, crisscrossing suicide guitar lines, and entranced self-reflection. Meditation is a myth; desire does not sleep. Black vinyl LPs in shrink wrapped jackets with layout by Borges, Edition of 430." |
| 7/10/2008 | Emeralds | Solar Bridge | CD | $10.99 | Hanson | "Starting out in 2005 performing live sets using only television sets as sound sources, Emeralds has grown in recent years into a monster of HEAVY improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. Born out of the midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the INTENSE HEAVINESS of their midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers w/ a VERY DIFFERENT though EQUALLY INTENSE blast of COSMIC DRONE POWER! HANSON RECORDS is proud to announce EMERALDS - SOLAR BRIDGE, the trio's first full-length album after numerous cassette and cd-r releases on such labels as American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, and the bands own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album opens with the side long "MAGIC" where the band builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick sawblade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. The flip is yet another sidelong journey titled "THE QUAKING MESS", a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttschingesque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of 'New Age Of Earth' era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's 'Heathen Earth' should take note, as Emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs." LP version coming, too... |
| 2/7/2009 | Emeralds | What Happened | CD | $10.99 | No Fun | "Emeralds is at the forefront of a new American movement that continues the experimentation in analog electronics of the 60's and 70's while ignoring the formulaic and boring turn electronic music took in the later part of the 20th century. Add a renewed energy gained from their connections to the noise movement, and you have some of the most original and true music of the new century. 'What Happened' continues their exploration in tonal beauty of their recent work that brought to mind pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Cluster, while presenting a new approach to structure that brings to mind masters like Luc Ferrari and opens our ears to a new universe full of astonishing possibilities. This is the true new American infinite electronic music of our present. Recorded by Emeralds and mastered by James Plotkin." |
| 1/24/2009 | Emeralds / Pain Jerk | European Tour 2009 | CD | $12.99 | No-Fi | "To celebrate their European tour together this month, the astoundingly prodigious trio from Ohio and the punishing Japanese noise legend take a track each on this 500-copies only cd. Emeralds' track 'Landlocked' journeys further through the planet they share with Popol Vuh and Terry Riley, then is violently usurped by Pain Jerk's aptly titled 'Berserker', which features Rudolf Eb.er and Mai Sau in a noise/voice/aktion showdown. 500 copies only." |
| 1/16/2003 | Emergency String Quintet | On the Corner (Market & Sixth) | CD | $8.99 | Public Eyesore | "Under the direction of Bob Marsh (who also contributes cello), improvisers Jeff Hobbs (violin), Kevin Van Yserloo (violin), Jonathan Fretheim (viola), and Damon Smith (double bass) present a series of four extended pieces, that extend from vaguely reductionist dialogs to lush sonic landscapes. Follow-up to ‘Hill Music’ on Jack Wright's Spring Garden music." |
| 3/1/2007 | Emil Beaulieau | Moonlight In Vermont | LP | $11.99 | Ecstatic Peace | "Emil Beaulieau is the nom de plume of Ron Lessard, long regarded as the most significant arbiter of American noise music. As a record store owner and label boss (the infamous RRRecords) Ron has introduced to ravenous noise mongering appetites around the world the pitiless pleasures and perverto-platitudes of the most arcane and near-insane noise practitioners of the last 20 plus years. All along Ron has himself been an extremely influential and highly unique creator of noise music on both record and stage. His performances are legendary. With bizarre turntable machinations, a sweater-vest, tie and table-lamp Ron's live show is a possessed demon dance to the relationship of normality and not-rightness. Moonlight In Vermont has long been considered, to those who were able to find it in CDR format, one of Emil Beaulieau's most masterful documents. A recording due to be released by the inimitable Hanson records in 2004, it's production gone awry, it was put into the Ecstatic Peace release schedule in late 2005 and again got tied-up in an unforgiving production morass. The details are ridiculous in retrospect but Ron's original cover concept of a minimal white lettering on black jacket got skabibbled and resulted in Ron creating hand-made cut n' paste collage covers. Every LP is it's own work of art and each is stunning. 500 are for sale and not only is this LP one of the great noise listens of the age but it's an amazing and singular visual document of a mind dedicated to danger." |
| 3/20/2007 | Emil Beaulieau / Jason Lescaleet | split | 7" | $5.99 | Absurd | "Split single in a hand-numbered edition of 333 copies in octagonal card gatefold sleeves from two renowned turntable/loop manhandlers. First side is a wheezing grunt through spliced and glued shards of rock noise, B-side is a beautiful dart shot straight through the heart of Aerosmith. They fucking deserve it." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 10/9/2003 | Empirical | untitled | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Pseudoarcana | "New pair of improvisations from Empirical, Marcel Bears project exploring the sonic world embodied in his (amplified) handmade shimsaws (intricate constructions of steel and wire that are bowed and plucked). The sound of these may be familiar to you from his track on the Hermes Corp. compilation ' Le Jazz Non'. This time around he is joined by Rosy Parlane and Alie McPherson. Beautiful stuff." |
| 1/24/2009 | Empty Set | No Solution Set One | CDR | $9.99 | American Tapes - AM-792 | "Another new unit, inspired by the elegance and mystery of numbers. Piercing low tech raw electronics, a X/Y axis of negative slope non liner of horrible integers spinning terribly outta control. ŠŠ.Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." |
| 1/30/2010 | Emuul | Egeiro | c42 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Emuul's debut, "the ghostwood estates," was a codeine-drenched feast, and on his latest exploit "egeiro," you are wrapped even tighter in your cellophane blanket. minimal synth drones float lazily through the air creating endless sonic vectors. the brainchild of kyle iman, these sprawling pieces show an incredible restraint all the while sucking the listener deep under their collective spell. both side-long tracks fit together perfectly. crackling tones deviate from the ghost notes underneath adding texture and references points if you're lost in the fog. this builds into an intense meditation that grows and grows until finally being killed by the sun. flip it over and you've got melancholy on phased waves of glass growing darker by the minute. beautiful. each soundscape is carefully constructed, artfully executed and soaked in the best stuff available. edition of 72, pro-dubbed." |
| 12/12/2009 | Emuul | The Ghostwood Estates | cassette | $9.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Emuul is the project of Kyle Iman, he sent me a double 3" CDR that was his first released recordings or demo if you will, I think there were something like 40 copies, barely any, and I gotta say that it was so good I asked to reissue it. Kyle's far out ambient electronic dream scapes were originally available in a nice little pouch, this reissue features new minimal j-card art by Kyle. Check out the review of the original self released edition over at <http://digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=4762>Foxy Digitalis Pro-dubbed cassettes." |
| 9/17/2006 | Enema Syringe | Bögens Massage Institut | LP | $24.99 | Ultra Eczema | "This is a collection of rare and unreleased tracks by these crazed heavy industrialised weirdos from sweden! all recorded between 1986 and 1988. originally formed in 85 by kai parviainen and mats lundberg (who later got replaced by landgang) ENEMA SYRINGE played heavy monotone simple noise industrial the way it should be done; straight forward, loud, heavy and simple!! brutal toy synths and repetitive beats dominate the whole recorded archive and the few live sets this duo did, spiced with horrific sounding lyrics in swedish (usually about funnier things then the usual industrial fan would hope for like farts, massage shops, etc..) all of the tracks on this lp are recorded without any mixing possibilty straight onto two channels with a marrantz amp and a tape deck, prophet one, casio RZ1 drummachine, casio toy synth, an old rhythm box and vocals thu headphones and a crappy mike! these beats are the best fist in the airpumpers ever, reminding of early throbbing gristle, club moral or more recent wolf eyes and meerk puffy! the lp comes with liner notes by kai parviainen, a discography, and is completely remastered. artwork by dennis tyfus - limited to 400 copies" |
| 3/27/2008 | Enema Syringe | Live at No Fun Fest 2007 | LP | $15.99 | No Fun Productions | "Limited to 350 copies. Full No Fun 2007 live set, recorded to the best possible quality. Totally insane and heavy set from Industrial/Noise Swedish Pioneer’s Enema Syringe." |
| 7/11/2008 | Enfer Boreal | Cloud Matter Inside Your Bones | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Four droney tracks recorded in November 2007 by Maxime Primault in his small haunted room in Rennes, France. Mostly built upon prepared guitar improvisations fed with different effects. Bass, electronics, voice, field recordings, voice and various objects has also been used to complete the recordings. The whole disc is quite quiet and meditative with different moods for each piece. No supercharged sounds here. No dance music. Only abstract and intuitive expression. Think about clouds filling the sky. Think about bones wich are the main structure of your body. Imagine them both related through music." |
| 11/15/2008 | Enfer Boreal | Enfer Boreal | CDR | $12.99 | Ruralfaune | "Deep. long and emotive drones by Maxime Primault after releases on mighty labels like 267 Lattajjaa, Ikuisuus, First Person, and Cut Hands - these are the very first sonic meditations ever recorded by Maxime. Two long tracks of minimal spacey and repetitive moments of purity. Concrete." Edition of 52 copies. |
| 3/21/2009 | Enfer Boreal | The Way of the Masks | CDR | $7.99 | Tape Drift | "Following releases on Ikuisuus, Cut Hands, and Housecraft, France's Maxime Primault provides a massive headlong dive into the deep psych-laden abyss here. Patient ambient sounds, foreboding static drones, seismic sonic shifts, blasts of feedback, haunting melodic passages, and warped electronics all make appearances, tied together with care. When played loud, maximum escape velocity is reached in no time at all. His best work yet." |
| 9/24/2009 | Enfer Boréal | Adn / Dna | CDR | $10.99 | Crier Dans Les Musees | "After US Invasion, with releases on great labels such as Stunned Records, Housecraft, Peasant magik and Digitalis, Enfer Boreal is back home! One 40 min long track / jam recorded on September 2008, right after a half year asian trip. With his mind full of memories, voices, nature sounds, different languages, mountains, sea and everything met while travelling Maxime took his guitar and effects for this result. Single track do not mean monotoneous music : droney sounds and field recordings for the beginning, then haunted guitar improvisations, and band-like jam for the end. Handmade cover artwork by Anne Pilet (two different design available)." - label. Edition of 50 copies. |
| 1/17/2010 | Enfer Boreal / Drunjus | Climate Change / Ranking Charioteer | cassette | $6.99 | Earjerk | "OK. We'll admit it. Earjerk is kind of a drone label. Not on purpose though! We just keep coming across like-minded folks I guess... Some of the headiest material ever from both of these projects. Enfer Boreal starts from a deep bell toned pulse and as soon as you have locked on he tosses you into space. You bounce off various soft, rubbery astroids and UFO's. You will have to re-enter the Earths atmosphere without burning up and these cold drones won't leave you hangin. Drunjus... Awww, you know what to expect. Anyway, how many times can I use the words heavy and deep and cosmic when describing drones. I mean this is heavy, deep, cosmic and COSMIC, but I have used all those descriptions before.Throbbing? Pulsing? Alive? Yes. All that. A definite buzz enhancer. Blue tapes with carefully applied green spray. Killer wrap-around collage artwork by Woodman. Limited to 45 copies." |
| 2/19/2004 | Enkidu (Chie Mukai / Sei ichi Yamamoto / Eric Cordier) | Hasselt | CD | $16.99 | Turtles' Dream | "Live recording from the European tour of the trio in October / November 2002, to the invitation of Densité festival (France) . Meeting between two Japanese improvisators : Chie Mukai (kokyu, drums, voice) and Sei ichi Yamamoto (guitar, flute, voice) with Éric Cordier (hurdy-gurdy & electronics). " At the risk of officiously imputing to it a conceptual patness it neither implies nor desires, _Enkidu_ - a 67-minute live recording from a 2002 visit to France, Mukai's regular duo with Yamamoto enlarged to accommodate kindred spirit Cordier - could be said to form a trilogy with _Live At Showboat_ [Last Visible Dog] and _L'Energie De L'Existence_ [Turtles Dream]: each offers its own interpretation of Mukai's trademark long-form noise-drone-dream psych-folk improvisations. Basing itself around two momentously elongated, deliriously swirling and head-spinningly noisy slow-burn deep-sound drone-ragas, _Enkidu_ drifts nebulously and looms menacingly, exerting a subtle yet irresistible undertow, always on the brink of falling apart and cohering into something ‘else’ altogether, sucking in signifiers and referents, spinning them out into an endless psychedelic fug.” - liner notes (extract) by Nick Cain |
| 7/11/2002 | Enos Slaughter | On Sunday | LP | $14.99 | Sound @ One / Conduit Creations | "On Sunday is the initial release of recorded material from Enos Slaughter: a collaboration of three peripherial, improvising characters based in NYC. Between the years of ‘00 and ‘02 David Shuford (of No-neck Blues Band and Suntanama), Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand of the Man) and Carter Thornton (Izititiz) met regularly at Harlem’s Hinthouse, documenting each meeting on an insect field recorder. The music on this album is born from those sessions. The resulting material contrasts heavily abstract, electric, arhythmic explorations with foot stomping, acoustic, drone centered swimming. A description of the instrumentation may serve to describe the music better than any genre comparison: banjos, clavinet, trombones, bowed and plucked strings, disoriented electric guitars and a range of sounds from unidentifiable sources can all seen at different times approaching and receding just below the surface. Aptly described by a regular onlooker as ‘mind erasure’. Vinyl only, limited to a pressing of 500." |
| 9/29/2005 | Enos Slaughter | On the Shore of Jupiter | CDR | $11.99 | Sound@One | "Special spring / early summer edition from the string band trio with the highest slugging percentage around. With hometurf productions from the Hinthouse, On the Shore of Jupiter contains over an hour of speaker smoke and bonus beats. Cover image by Warhol acolyte and Bardist master SS. This is the electrified beanball war youve been waiting for." |
| 7/29/2004 | Enos Slaughter | Saloth Sar | CD | $12.99 | Sound@One | "Yes yes, heres new molten sounds from three cats taking cues from a bat wielding spirit. Saloth Sar contains two massive tracks from Enos Slaughter, all electric and poking a thumb in third eyes everywhere. Electric guitar, bozuk, trashcan moog sounds, and mystery sources combine to create a throbbing piece of alienation that retains a weird undercurrent of lyricism. Space lute meets the human string incinerator. Housed in a beautiful package, this release includes graphics culled from Cambodias S21 prison archives. The imagery hopes to argue a sensible point: the abolition of the military of US. Featuring members of Sunburned, IZITITIZ, and NNCK.". |
| 12/1/2004 | Entente Cordial | 100 Yrs | CDR | $8.99 | Carbon Records | “Triple-guitar damage and drone. 2 tracks – 34 minutes. Not too far from the first release, at first. but the second track, ends with a crushing 10+min drone and dual-drummer action. Covers are hand-silkscreened, edition of 102 copies.” |
| 2/23/2004 | Entente Cordiale | 1904 | CDR | $9.99 | Carbon Records | "A 22+ minute experiment in guitar drones, swells and even some melodies. 3 guitars, multiple (distortion) pedals and some very loud amps. think Gate, Earth, Vibracathedral Orchestra, etc." |
| Entrance | Entrance | CDR | $3.99 | Last Visible Dog | Matthew St. Germain (Late), Eric Wivinus (Salamander & Gentle Tasaday), J Petersen, & J Wodarz all playing guitar. Nice drone recorded 9.26.98. | |
| 6/27/2009 | Envenomist | The Reservoir | c30 cassette | $6.99 | Tape Fiend | "Mysterious and haunting analogue soundscapes from this Ohio-based project." |
| 9/17/2006 | Envenomist | The Sixth and Seventh Key | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "SINISTER dark synth work from this mysterious Ohio project. I have no clue what these keys open up but whatever it is...it's CAN'T BE GOOD. HANSON RECORDS take no responsibility to persons who harm themselves while listening to this recording." |
| 8/4/2007 | EOH | Cavernous Hall | CDR | $7.99 | Brothers | "EOH are a coming together of Rob Mayson [Grey Daturas, Bone Sheriff, Breathing Shrine etc], Simon Taylor [Whitehorse, Malakat, Bone Sheriff] and Aaron Coyes [Rahdunes, Omen Compass etc] named for Mayson's son Max's imaginary friend. A trio of drinking buddies who channel their sparkling ale and amyl fueled unruliness into recording session after recording session. These 3 chunks of dark drones and abstract free noise were culled from hours and hours of wild drunken recording in a cavernous hall in the heart of Melbourne way back in April 2006. Aside from kicking out the drone, the three spent many an evening hanging around Mayson's kitchen, listening to records, eating Japanese curries, getting boozy and stonedŠ the usual shit. Densely packed with organ, oscillators, circuit-bent instruments, contact microphones, ride cymbals, bass, guitar, piano, floor tom, tape machines, transistor radio, the EOH - Cavernous Hall CD is being delivered as a memento to commemorate the group's upcoming West Coast tour of the US in late July 2007. This is what AQUARIUS RECORDS had to say about they're debut 3" CD: "still dense and noisy and intense, but with a soft touch. More whisper than roar, more drone than screech. A Wolf Eyesian industrial murk march. Dense swirling layers of thick pulsing guitar distortion, wavering and warbling in thick sheets laid over everything, peppered with occasional cymbal crashes and what sounds like some sort of throat singing. This is some seriously massive ur-drone shit. Huge industrial wastescapes, abstract spare stretches of low end rumble swirling like black fog over ruined landscapes of damaged amplifiers and detuned guitars. Haunting, and desolate but strangely lovely." |
| 5/14/2007 | Epiro, Donato | After Dinner Black Out | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Akoustic Desease | "The debut album of a young italian musician..a collision between electronic & music concrete..an awesome audio portrait of a violent story. limited to 106 copies." |
| 9/30/2005 | Erickson, Roky | Night of the Demon | LP | $20.99 | "A superb acoustic set, recorded on Halloween night in 1984." | |
| 9/30/2005 | Erickson, Roky | The Psychedelic Banjoman | picture disc LP | $21.99 | "A special collection of rare studio outtakes, demos, radio sessions and live tracks 1976-1985! Some of these tracks reveal a man not just on the edge, but right over the edge; just don't let him anywhere near that bloody hammer! This is definitely not to be missed!! 14 songs, full color artwork, heavy vinyl pressing, Euro import." | |
| 7/14/2007 | Erickson, Roky | You're Gonna Miss Me | DVD | $27.99 | Palm | "In the annals of spooked rock, Roky Erickson is a legend. When you hear his wobbling, impassioned, vocal yowl, you have to admit: He could've been a sort of psychedelic, proto-punk, American Van Morrison. Alas, history has been less kind to Roky. Kevin McAlester's documentary discloses precisely why (and how) Roky's early status as an icon--a maverick rock genius as demonstrated by his band, the 13th Floor Elevators--went sadly awry. At the center of You're Gonna Miss Me are some crucial dramatic tropes: a terribly broken family; a pressing, age-old "Am I my brother's keeper" predicament; and a relatively simple case of schizophrenia. The film opens in a courtroom, Erickson's aging and awkward mother, Evelyn, and his youngest brother, Sumner, locked in a battle for guardianship over the then-53-year-old, mentally imbalanced singer. The film captures Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Patti Smith, and Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), among others, testifying to Roky's non-pareil genius. Also present, however, are tales of Roky's singular madness--extended acid and heroin binges and, alas, his then-present-day condition, living in cramped, decrepit quarters with an array of transistor radios, stereos, TVs, and keyboards, all cranked fully as he placidly reclines or wanders aimlessly. The film painstakingly shows the Erickson family's longstanding fissures, contextualizing Roky's schizophrenia and, disarmingly, putting his mother's own awkward idiosyncratic behavior on display. Lee Daniel's cinematography brilliantly captures the desolation and desperation of Roky's life, camera shaking and panning and finding hidden angles to show the strange, seemingly endless schizophrenic signs around the singer--dozens of antennae, stacks and stacks of mail strewn throughout his apartment, and Evelyn's complicated obsession with Roky's history--from his highpoints as a rocker to his tragic three-year stay at the Rusk State Hospital for marijuana possession (where, for example, he played in an ad hoc band with a couple of murderers, a rapist, and, improbably, a hospital counselor) to her own, eerie film project where she casts Roky as "the king of the beasts" in a home-movie she undertakes as a "legacy" for the family. The film is all about otherworldly dimensions, centering in large part on youngest brother, Sumner--himself an accomplished musician playing tuba with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra--and his legal battle to become Roky's guardian and get Roky "simple medical care" and medication for his schizophrenia." - Andrew Bartlett. Color, DVD-Video, NTSC - Language: English Region: Unknown. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
| 2/12/2008 | Erickson, Roky & The Aliens | Roky Erickson & The Aliens | LP | $19.99 | "A reissue of the UK version of the 1980 Europe-only CBS release, with all the original artwork. Includes his best-known songs of that period: "Creature with the Atom Brain" and "Two Headed Dog." Includes lyric sheet. Euro import." | |
| 1/1/2008 | Es | Sateenkaarisuudelma | DBL CD | $21.99 | Fonal | "Sateenkaarisuudelma is my fourth solo album under the name Es. The double LP is a trilogy containing three independent parts: Sateenkaarisuudelma, Maailmankaari and Pianokaari. Sateenkaarisuudelma contains songs I've played live since 2002. These songs were composed and recorded during the same period I made Kaikkeuden kauneus ja käsittämättömyys cd. At some point it became obvious I was doing two albums at once. Also I soon realised that these songs would benefit and work well in vinyl format allowing me to divide songs to different sides and also give them an aging and changing format. With Sateenkaarisuudelma ready for pressing already in July 2004 I started my journey to Canada, Toronto where I studied fine arts for four months. During this time I also made a ten day tour in USA with Miriam Goldberg on cello, Jeffrey Alexander on guitar and effects, Tara Burke on vocals and keyboard. Shary Boyle did live drawings on overhead projectors. It was an excellent collaboration and the fruits can be heard on the second LP's side C. Maailmankaari I and II were recorded in Boston at the WMBR radio station. Side D finishes of the trilogy with two songs composed as early as 2002. I've recorded the first song Universaali totuus at least five or six times. This version was recorded in June of 2005 just before sending it to pressing. Pianokaari was mutilated, cut and changed for three years. These two songs span the whole duration of the recording and creation of this double album. All this time Juri Puhakka was working on the drawings on the sleeves. Featured on the cover is me with rainbows ponting directly at my hands. It represents hope for understanding dreams are within ones grasp. Other musicians featured on the covers are Suvi Mäkinen who has been a part of the Es live line-up many times. Jan Anderzen and I have collaborated on so many occasions that the facts get blurred. Elissa Määttänen has appeared on all but the first album and continues to contribute her vocals to Es live shows as well as the recorded releases. Other musicians on the album are Jeffrey Alexander and Miriam Goldberg from the Black Forest / Black Sea duo and Laura Naukkarinen (aka. Lau Nau). All my gratitude goes out to these people who have been an integral part in the birth of this double LP." -Sami Sänpäkkilä. |
| 11/4/2006 | Escapade | But Distractions Abound | CD | $11.99 | Submergence | "But Distractions Abound" is Escapade's followup release to their 2003 split CD with Acid Mothers Temple, "A Thousand Shades of Grey". The band's hypno-rock explorations, begun on 2002's "Rule #3" and furthered on the split CD, are continued here for a set of music which although based on improvisation, often instead sounds like it's composed. This is because of the band's tendency to work as a collective unit in search of a unified musical statement rather than as a bunch of instrumentalists trading solos. While their earlier music focused on ever mutating underlying musical structures, their most recent music utilizes building blocks of repetition and drones that have a remarkable amount of detail creeping below the surface. The result is a solid release of modern psych music that the listener can trance out to, but also stands up equally well to attentive listening." |
| 2/18/2003 | Escapade | Citrus Cloud Cover | DBL CD | $18.99 | Mother West | "For those like me, that love instrumental psychedelic rock, we're being spoiled for choice these days, and much of it (strangely) comes from the USA. Between the contrasting ends of the genre: Mushroom and Melting Euphoria, and taking over the mantle from the once great Djam Karet, are Escapade - intent on living up to their name - exploring further than anyone else. And, to prove their worth, here they treat us with a massive 2CD slab of jamming that sizzles as it trundles off into space! Though they're from the other side of the USA than Djam Karet, it's often remarkable to note the many similarities, that nimble slightly funky bass, guitars that bridge John McLaughlin and Syd Barrett stylisms, flowery yet solid drums, and superb interaction. Though Djam Karet implemented synths into their music in the late 80's, they let it become too smooth in the end, wheras Escapade have learned to let such sounds roar, scream and twitter along with the music, making them kind of a modern hybrid of classic Guru Guru and Hawkwind. As you may have guessed, this is another classic album, full of riffs, drifts, fiery drives and sizzling solos. Do I really need to say more?" - Alan Freeman, Audion #41 |
| 9/17/2006 | Eskimo King | Tooth-Shaped Migration | CDR | $11.99 | Our Mouth | "Debut solo monster from Brian Sullivan, guitarist/vocalist with void-gobbling 'rock' group Mouthus. Songs with huge seams of devouring fuzz ala Crystalized Movements, stoned thousand-mile vocals that overlap in butterflies of slow tongue, lo-fi post-hardcore balladry, lung-puncturing shots of drum and a beautifully addictive atmosphere of honey-thick lethargy." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 7/10/2008 | Eskimo King | Weird Flag | CDR | $5.99 | Abandon Ship Records | "As Brian Sullivan still flies high from his performance at No Fun Fest this year, we've prepared a gem of a release from this half of the now legendary Mouthus. While feeding off of similar meditative vibes of the aforementioned Brooklyn duo, he manages to put together a cohesive collection of distinct tracks he can call his own. Infinite layers of blown out fuzz dominate some tracks, and deep, trance-inducing rhythms prevail in others. Another primer for an up-and-coming ASR LP, due later this year. Keep your eyes peeled. And as with most Mouthus-related material, this one will not be around for very long." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 2/7/2009 | Eskimo King + Sky Juice | Bad Lieutenant | CDR | $9.99 | Our Mouth | Collab w/ thief Zac Davis from Lambsbread. "dual guitar squall" |
| 11/21/2009 | Eskimo King / Afternoon Penis | split | LP | $12.99 | Abandon Ship Records | "A split offering from two of the baddest dudes on the east coast. Both members of Mouthus, Brian Sullivan (Eskimo King) and Nate Nelson (Afternoon Penis) each take the reigns on their respective sides of the record. Eskimo King churns out three tracks of melancholy-bizarro-skuzz riffs and ethereal wind-chimage. The drum samples on 'Dry Strike' track take me back to earlier Mouthus times, when the world was still young. Keep it close to your turntable after your first listen because you will undoubtedly need to play it again and again. Afternoon Penis presents us with something entirely off the beaten path. Truly strange and epic, this freaked-out sidelong track sounds like something Bob Dylan would be singing in his head after a week-long ayahuasca binge. Utilizing several instruments, including percussion and the accordion, Nate also blesses us with a rhythmic mantra that should benefit both the mentally-ill and mentally-sound alike. Limited edition of 400 with plastic outer sleeve and insert." |
| Eso Steel | Galleries 1-3 | CD | $12.99 | 20 City | "The official compilation of the three Geraldine 10" releases. Textured ambient sound. Watch out for a continuation of the Galleries sometime in 2000." | |
| 1/25/2004 | Espers | Espers | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "Espers are a boy/girl/girl trio from Philly featuring singer/songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons who combine the elemental sound of acid-folk with the baroque arrangements of late 60s chamber rock. Fully versed in the sumptuous vernacular of drug music, the cradle of Appalachian song, and the succinct truths of the three-minute pop ballad, their full length debut is an irresistible collection of sweet and subtle songs essential for fans of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Jackson C. Franck, Bread, Love & Dreams and Bert Jansch. Espers are the sound of the New Weird America the way it should be heard - with the ease, infectious grace and absolute beauty of an ever expansive trio bound for ever greater pastures." Highly recommended! |
| 6/11/2006 | Espers | II | CD | $13.99 | Drag City | "From the beginning, Espers has been a living, growing thing. II finds the group at sextet size, with greater powers and capabilities than before. Still, the original spirit of the band -- the American ideal of the democracy (that is in no way reflected in its current government) -- rules Espers in everything they do, gives them true freedoms to reach for the spiritual and the fun at once, and to make their music from it. The sound of Espers II was achieved using a mad variety of instruments, from your standard, everyday Martin 6-string acoustics, Fender jazzbass and drumkit to more exotic implements such as doumbek, dholak and male & female larynx (which we assume are swung around in the air to produce a recorder-like sound). Espers at play tap into their shared spaces with joy and a sense of humor (and wonder, naturally). The musical outcome is a friendly new sensation -- as the record plays, it warms the room and dims the lights with dense yet agile atmospherics, allowing you, the listener to relax, despite and yet still in communion with the realities of our present day." |
| 10/17/2009 | Espers | III | CD | $14.99 | Drag City | "Picking up the threads with ease, Espers III was intended to be an aural reversal of the layered sound of II. The goal was to record fewer tracks in order to achieve a stronger, more oxygenated sonic presence. Where II was almost claustrophobic in its density and darkness, III was envisaged as being somehow lighter, effervescent; perhaps even of a cheery disposition at times (whoa there! Don't go not breaking our heart, Espers). Under these auspices, recording started in late 2008 and spilled into the spring and summer of 2009. As more time passed in the recording process, a growing dementia within both song and lyrics emerged, making even the most ethereal songs on III seem oddly unwholesome to all involved. As with past releases (both by Espers and significant others), III was recorded with the vinyl LP in mind, playing as a whole divided into two equally weighted sides. Recorded to analog tape and mixed to analog tape again at the end, the songs ended up in a stippled, rippling, ever-flowing space, another important factor in the realization of III. 'Space' is a core concept here -- each of these songs in some way access new space, whether they are envisioning, locating, or claiming and colonizing it. In fact, III's working title was Colony, owing to a subtextual thought process that encompassed aspects of Herzog's Aguirre, Heart of Darkness, cult groups, deep Amazonian treks, religious nation building, ritualistic drug ceremonies (taking drugs to take canoe trips to take drugs on) -- eg., escape from assimilation, surviving cultural wars by embedding themselves in the wilderness, among friends and fellow travelers. The cover aesthetic and Xavier Schipani's arresting artwork mirror these themes and Espers' desire to reach beyond what might be expected of an Espers album with metaphoric imagery and increased dimensionality -- not just a new Espers album, but indeed, a new Espers." |
| 12/25/2005 | Espers | The Weed Tree | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "When discussions were first taking place for a teaser album before Espers' next 'proper' studio full length, it didn't take any of us long to agree on the timeliness of an album of cover songs. Over the last few years while out on the road supporting their self titled debut, audiences were floored by renditions of traditionals like the bittersweet 'Black is the Color' or the intergalactic take on master traveler Michael Hurley's 'Blue Mountain.' An album of covers & traditionals was a perfect plan. Simple, no big deal. Selections were made: Hurley, Nico, Durutti Column, Blue Oyster Cult, trad cuts inspired by Bert Jansch & the Famous Jug Band & a new original called 'Dead King' - a single dispatch from the future - would fill out the album. We could call The Weed Tree yet another exemplary example of acid folk, baroque psych or sunshine pop with a sinister edge but none of this brings us any closer to giving meaning to a mess of unexplainable tears - the result of the old happy/sad life humdrum that, by now, is a personal blueprint for an album gifted with the arch beauty of the Weed Tree. So, The Weed Tree is an album between the stations but, as transitions go, this is just further proof that Espers are at the nadir of what makes music meaningful & meaning matter in music today." |
| 9/17/2006 | Espvall, Helena | Nimis & Arx | CD | $11.99 | Pax Recordings / Fire Museum | "The debut solo release from Helena Espvall, cellist of Espers. Her past and present collaborators include such diverse figures as Fursaxa, Oluyemi Thomas, Sharron Kraus, From Quagmire, Lukas Ligeti, Samara Lubelski, Eugene Chadbourne, Pauline Oliveros, Scorces, Katt Hernandez and many others.With production and electronics provided by sonic maverick George Korein of Infidel?/Castro!, "Nimis & Arx" is a recording of translucid wonder. Utilizing cello, guitar, recorder, voice and electronics, Espvall has delivered a CD which touches on aspects of all the multi-faceted elements of her musical journey to date while creating a vocabulary in a voice which is uniquely hers. Having played guitar and cello in several rock bands (as well as performing in a silent movie orchestra, an Arabian Music ensemble and free improvised music), Swedish-born multi-instrumentalist Helena Espvall moved to Philadelphia in the year 2000. Besides performing with Espers, Helena performs with the Amnesiac Music & Dance ensemble and collaborates with many others in the psychedelic folk and free improvisation world." |
| 4/19/2004 | Estribou, Gene & Jean Paul-Pickens | Intensifications | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "By no means household names, both Jean Paul-Pickens & Gene Estribou levitated around the Bay Area scene and each made a subtle mark along the way: Pickens was one of San Francisco's legendary 'Diggers' and a knockout banjoist with poet David Meltzer's folk rock outfit Serpent Power. Gene Estribou famously recorded the Grateful Dead's second studio sessions & released their first 45 single in 1965. Footnotes? Sure. But that should only make the discovery of this lost gem all the more tantalizing. Cut in the mid-1960s, Intensifications is an obscure and illuminating slice of Marin county raga folk, a taste of latter day deltadelica that's a must for fans of the acid folk sound old and new. Together, Estribou and Pickens each cut a side of brilliant, meandering unaccompanied instrumentals: Estribou on acoustic guitar and Pickens on banjo. This single document has only ripened with age and should make it clear to anyone who ventures to give it a listen that both Estribou & Pickens deserve their place in the inner sanctum of charismatic acoustic guitar legends. Originally released on Henry Jacobs' MEA label." |
| 9/17/2009 | Eternal Tapestry | The Invisible Landscape | LP | $13.99 | Not Not Fun | "Last year's Mystic Induction LP captured PDX wah junkies Eternal Tapestry at their hairiest hour, awash in color trails and nightshade flashbacks. Since then they've reverted back to their original power trio line-up, circled the tube amps, and written a fresh, flooring set of brand new electric rippers. And The Invisible Landscape is the fruit of this from-bliss-to-blistering evolution/revolution. It's packed deep with six kraut-punk psych-shredders, huffing fumes from the twin guitar hero dogfighting of Dewey Mahood and Nick Bindeman while drum demon Jed Bindeman does barrel rolls and nosedives into the eye of the storm. There's also a rawness and warmth to the production that helps the songs bleed into the ear with more electricity than before, and the riff/vocals interplay is streamlined for optimum mainlining. A fiery high point for a fiery high band. Hit it or quit it. Randomly colored LPs (hues range from silt grey to swamp green and beyond) in pro-printed jackets with art by the band plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500." |
| 9/23/2003 | Ethereal Planes Indian | Ethereal Planes Indian | CDR | $9.99 | Twilight Flight Sound | "Ethereal Planes Indian is B. C. Smith, member of the infamous Austin, Texas improv unit The Iron Kite, and ex-guitarist for Primordial Undermind. Guitars, bass, vox organ, flute, and various percussion comprise the musical toybox. Nine tracks of soaring to astral heights and swooping to murky depths. Edition of 100." |
| 12/26/2005 | Ethereal Planes Indian | Smoke Signals | CD | $12.99 | Twilight Flight Sound | 2nd release from Brian C Smith (Friday Group, Iron Kite, ex-Primordial Undermind). 2nd release from Brian C Smith (Friday Group, Iron Kite, ex-Primordial Undermind). "Just in time for the new year, the second Ethereal Planes Indian release has arrived. Smoke Signals displays a wider pallette of sounds, as well as a larger arsenal of instruments. Vocal/percussive workouts and subdued accoustic rambles swirl, collide, and disperse into moog freakouts, psych guitar jaunts, and other sounds between and beyond. EPI is the solo moniker under which B. C. Smith (The Iron Kite, The Friday Group) plays and records. |
| 11/21/2009 | Ettinger, Dylan | Bringin' The Heat | cassette | $5.99 | Not Not Fun | "Companion piece to the 'Smokin' 7" that rules equally. Two more pieces to the neon police chase puzzle. Material repeats on both sides to save you flipping time." |
| 11/21/2009 | Ettinger, Dylan & The Heat | Smokin' | 7" | $5.99 | Not Not Fun | "Sick vinyl debut by this Bloomington taper finds him teaming up with a backing band (The Heat) to soundtrack some sleazy Miami law enforcement noir via key motifs, smoky sax, and midnight vibes. Awesome. Edition of 380." |
| 9/17/2006 | Eubanks, Bryan | Intrinsic Vol. 2 | 3" CDR | $5.99 | Onomato | "Eubanks is one half of the duo GOD, who have released multiple discs on the JYRK label. Here you have one loooong track of minimal open circuit & cracxked electronics drone, developing at the glacial pace of a Niblock piece. It's quite a head crusher really. Limited to 50 copies. Hand stamped and #'d." |
| 7/14/2007 | Eubanks, Bryan / J.P. Jenkins | split | LP | $14.99 | Olde English Spelling Bee | "Bryan Eubanks (of GOD) delivers a throbbing wall of distressed electronics that is "indeed heavy at intervals but also makes a cognitive transparent treatment" according to the cryptic liner notes. To further quote the liner notes: "... this music is a tool for is is sunk that in a different interpellation than overleving neccasitates." What? For his side, J.P. Jenkins (of Ghosting, Portland Bike Ensemble) layers acoustic guitars in a psychedelic, personal style thats more intuitive and exploratory than technically inclined. His unique approach sidesteps any of the current neo-folk/fingerpicking trends and goes for something more organic and amorphous." |
| 1/24/2009 | Evening Fires | Blue Mountain Water | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Evening Fires' fourth release was originally planned for another label, but when it went belly-up we just had to give the album a rescue via Deep Water. In Fall 2007 a core trio version of the group took the sounds underground (literally - all tracks here were recorded in subterranean settings), exploring collective creation in mostly non-rock formats. The results are decidedly rustic (presented in genuine you-are-there-fi MONO-SONIC sound) and both outward- and inward-bound at the same time. From opiated acoustics to howling electronics to spacious tribal percussion explorations, Blue Mountain Water gives a window onto a spontaneous-shamanism side of the band not usually heard outside of the root cellars and mountain caverns of their northern Appalachian home. Five tracks, 45 minutes. |
| 4/10/2009 | Evening Fires | New Worlds for Old | double CDR | $11.99 | Deep Water | "New Worlds for Old is the fifth Evening Fires release, and easily the most sizeable one yet. Parts were recorded in early 2008, at a time when the group was trying out its m.o. in a more obviously "rock band" format than usual, though with a pretty wide range that takes in everything from apocalyptic acid sludge to elastic folk rock to large-booted klang, along with further permutations that no one is quite sure what to call. But the rock formations cover just part of the sonic landscape, and there's also plenty of room for sun-dappled butterfly folk, Appalachian-Mesopotamian village festivals, an interplanetary prana-powered pipe synthesizer, and various other sorts of world-conjuring. Just eight tracks that stretch out across two sound-filled discs, over two hours of long-form explorations." |
| 10/31/2009 | Evening Fires | Waves In The Air | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Right on schedule, Evening Fires sail back around the ridge, riding an updraft of sonic bliss on the way to bring us their sixth full-length release. Several of the tracks on Waves In the Air took shape in preparation for a live radio show in summer 2008, and it's clear that the group mind at that point was focused on the possibilities of aetheric streaming and aerial transmission. Formed into a four-track suite that unfolds across some 50 minutes, bringing together saxophone raga & guitar psychedelia & the usual clouds of drone, collecting vibrations and beaming them onward, this is the sound of a wide-eyed and windswept headspace. Those whose antennae are similarly attuned are likely to find at least a bit of sympathetic reverberation." |
| 7/16/2006 | Evenings | Day Terrors | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "Fresh kalamazoo michigan fucking host / padadice shit. undermining parasttic maggots of wires synthetic horror. but above ground is worse. edition 77." |
| 11/17/2007 | Evenings | Early Burial | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Chondritic Sound | "perhaps better known as the head honcho of kalamazoo, mi's tapeworm tapes, miles haney's evenings is a solo outing, active in the realm of earthen thunder, somewhat like an aural augur. starting slow and gentle but eventually the vast displacement of sentient burrowing can't be ignored. color cover, painted cdr." Edition of 80 copies. |
| 4/10/2009 | Evenings | Growing Isolation | LP | $15.99 | Fedora Corpse | "First time on vinyl! Evenings is a terrifying rumble of evil from Kalamazoo, Michigan's Miles Haney. Two tracks on this maroon vinyl LP. Distant and deep tones. Mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Silkscreened covers. Limited to 300." |
| 6/27/2009 | Everyday Loneliness | The Bond | CDR | $8.99 | Students of Decay | "New recordings from this side project of the estimable Jon Borges (Emaciator/Pedestrian Deposit) which focuses entirely on tape-based composition. The EL tape that Jon put out on Monorail a few years back really blew me away. "The Bond" takes the vernacular that Borges established on that release and channels it into something grander, something singularly refined." |
| 7/16/2009 | Evil | A True Untimely Atrocity | 10" | $13.99 | Wishbone | "Anyone who remembers the New Zealand bands Constant Pain and 3Ds can find solace in knowing that some of these creeps are now bombing around Scotland and the UK, coming together when touched by the black thumb of Beelzebub in order to blow out overly skuzzed metal puke rock under the aegis of Evil. Evil's first document is a 10", A True Untimely Atrocity (Wishbone Records) and it's pretty damn hellacious. Good to hear Liz Matthews smashing her kit and awesome to once again see artwork by 3Ds' David Mitchell. These tots may have sold their buns to the devil but if that's what it takes, then screw God. Hell is our destiny." - Byron Coley & Thurston Moore, Bull Tongue |
| 7/16/2006 | Evil Moisture | untitled | lathe cut 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. XXX - must be at least 18 to order this! |
| 6/19/2007 | Ex-Cocaine | Esta Guerra | LP | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Forged in the Garden City (that's Missoula, Montana to you, piker), Ex-Cocaine is the formidable, sneer-wielding duo of Bryan Ramirez (guitars, effects, vocals) and Mike C (percussion, hexes, spells). Their debut LP from 2005, Keep America Mellow (on Ramirez's Killertree label) brought to light heavy august vibes steeped in the tippled, woodbine 'n' cider electro-folk of Michael Chapman, Steve Peregrine Took, Roy Harper, and other more reclusive Anglo biscuit-snuffers whose works haunt the archives of Kissing Spell and Shadoks. On their second effort, Ex-Cocaine throw down hard, evoking a gnarled bonfire with flames that roar thunderously like the detuned, rockist clang of Dead C's Harsh '70s Reality, and burns evenly like the smelted, Rust Belt psychedelia of Stone Harbour's Emerges. Vinyl-only and limited, the sparks are flying off this one already. Catch it if you can." |
| 4/20/2008 | Ex-Cocaine / Yellow Swans | split | LP | $13.99 | Not Not Fun | "Two storied USA duo institutions share war stories across twelve miles of raw wax, and the rest of us are lucky enough to eavesdrop. Missoula, Montana's Ex-Cocaine continue roping that weird rambling wind that seems to stir the soul and keep America mellow, and the pair of anthems they jam out here encapsulates the whole breadth of their sea-to-shining-sea cosmosis. Plainsong guitar lassoes around loose-limbed percussion flame-fanning, building and burning till a boss bonfire glows on the horizon, then they close out the side with a ragged and earnest Meat Puppets cover that's become a live staple of late. Real and roamin'. On the B, Yellow Swans channel a supreme slice of psychedelic eulogy that cuts twice as deep with the knowledge that after many a summer (they birthed in 2002-ish) dies the Swan. Pete and Gabe's DYS saga has spanned the decade and their impending non-existence will be lamented all over the world, so the more 11th hour record books they want to stencil with their electric synergies, the better for all of us. R.I.P.eace out. In a stunning "sexy legs" kaleidoscopic masterpiece art jacket by Religious Knife Maya Miller. Half on bleached olive vinyl, half on black. Edition of 600." |
| 1/17/2010 | Excavacations | Excavacations | c56 cassette | $6.99 | Stunned | "The Offices of Moore & Moore guys often have a thing or two up their sleeves when it comes to their design and label curation. But now OMM’s Chad and Nicholas have gone and slammed down the wild card. The formation of their musical arm signals a refreshed zeitgeist with little prior warning. Excavacations nod toward just about everything that’s worked right in rock/kraut/indie/pop/drone the last 40 years while still managing to sound entirely original and future-bound. With this fine balance in place, the duo execute a veritable opus for our WTF times in under an hour. Expansive, ambitious, endlessly-repeatable, and oftentimes fist-pumping fun like tearing through Big Sur on a motorcycle. With all requisites met for a holiday in the sun, Chad and Nicholas along with Stunned invites everyone to kick back with this soundtrack, rest up, and tilt our shades toward a brand new decade. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c56 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert." |
| 10/22/2009 | Excel | Excel | CDR | $12.99 | New Age Tapes | "Another new pseudonym from James Ferraro of The Skaters, this limited solo album features deep womblike settings of choral vocals, slow-moving symphonic keyboards and a daze of narcoleptic F/X that is very beautiful, with aspects of Nijiumu's Era Of Sad Wings, the most spacious Krautrock, contemporary vocal ritual et al. Some of the most overtly gorgeous dream music to come out of the Skaters cultus." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 11/4/2006 | Excepter | Alternation | DBL LP | $21.99 | Fusetron | "Half-recorded in one blizzard, and completed by the next, Alternation is a years-in-the-making, tossed-off-in-a-moment exploration of the difference between EXCEPTER live on stage and EXCEPTER alone at home and the goal to eradicate the distinction between the two. Double the length and twice the depth of past EXCEPTER releases, Alternation is EXCEPTER looking both ways, a geometric expansion around all the territories marked so far in their brief discography: the primal death trips of Ka, the noise pop tropics of Vacation, the long drone goodnight of Throne, the cool electro doom of Self Destruction and the blasted steam cycle of Sunbomber." |
| 11/20/2003 | Excepter | Ka | LP | $12.99 | Fusetron | "Excepter is the new group spearheaded by J F Ryan, former electric tree-branch swinger for the No-Neck Blues Band. Using a mutating system of synchronized electronics engineered to ensure live sequencing, Excepter seeks to carry freestyle composition from the tip of the tongue on down to the ones and zeros. All tracks on this LP were performed and mixed live to stereo. Digital editing was only used to arrange the phantasmagoric second side, a tribute to HP Lovecraft's novella Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath. Excepter also marks the singing debut of dancer/choreographer Caitlin Cook. Guaranteed to make you dream in color." |
| 2/28/2006 | Excepter | Self Destruction | LP | $13.99 | Fusetron | "Self Destruction was recorded in the winter of 2004 and mixed, edited and reprocessed mostly in the winter of 2005. Self Destruction is the first Excepter record to be feature multi-track recording and overdubbing. Self Destruction is also the first Excepter record to prominently feature the polyphonic synthesizer playing of Nathan Corbin. The husband-wife duo of Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin make the final statement on the album as they take sole vocal duties on the last track, 'Your House'." |
| 11/21/2009 | Excepter | STEPS: La Sala Rossa | CDR | $5.99 | Abandon Ship Records | "Official bootleg of the live concert on June 23rd, 2006 at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, Montreal, Quebec. Features the four-man, Alternation-era band sharing the stage for the first time with current member Lala. Opening with a cover of "Cocaine Blues" and bleeding into recognizable album tracks like "Knock Knock" and "Ice Cream Van" this set overflows with the spectral, slow-burn electro-improv for which they are known. 99% unreleased." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 2/11/2006 | Excepter | Sunbomber | 12" | $8.99 | 5 Rue Christine | "Recorded in one hour on a hot afternoon, July 2005, Sunbomber captures Excepter fresh from an expedition to the streams and power lines of the Catskill Mountains, and documents the first time the current four-man lineup had played together. Dedicated to the perpetual forward motion of the fixed-gear cyclist, this EP serves as a launching pad into the visionary plane of the modern-day barnstormer." |
| 6/17/2004 | Excepter | Vacation / Forget Me | LP | $12.99 | Fusetron | "Even though it would be wrong not to consider these protest songs against the back porch policies of certain undisclosed and secure locations, we shouldn’t let THEM come between us. EXCEPTER says, ‘Yeah, well play’ ... freestyle, the crawl, the butterfly, the breast, the rest. ‘How long will you stay?’ Just as expressions and intuitions reflect the oceans unleashed, there is no desert island, dig, just the big, bare teeth of EXCEPTER there, smiling beneath. ‘You forgot something?’ To survive the coming weather, you are going to need to know a sailor, a captain, an engineer, a figurehead, as well as a pirate, so SHOW ... A continuous stream of music split into two sides. Performed and mixed live to stereo. SS EXCEPTER: ‘Were only a world away.’ - Excepter. ‘For the second time in a row now, one of Brooklyns grandest experimental entourages have presented us with a sonic totem whose jaunty and bright packaging belie an almost certain palpable sense of unease. This new twelve-inch is entitled "Vacation", and here Excepter have perhaps crafted a treatise on nothing less than the uncomfortable aspects of having to leave oneshome. Or they may well have been channeling the soundtrack to a particularly bizarre road trip I once went on involving an Indian burial ground, a cross eyed woman Xeroxing chain letters at a supermarket, and an extremely sadistic alligator farm outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas where I witnessed a stuffed Fiji Merman. Unease indeed. But of course, like on any worthy and good vacation, once youve become used to new unsettling sensations like foot blisters and sunburn you realize how sublime the landscape is. And sublimity is what Excepter trades in spades. Side-one positions the moment where you have trouble getting your bearings, trouble putting your surroundings into perspective. The rhythms are all displaced, their center of gravity slackened by synths squiggling all willy-nilly looking for something to latch onto. Side-two, ‘Forget Me,’ is where everything comes into focus -- like a photograph that you can spend some time with to chart your inner progress. This track could be Excepters pop moment, their breezy road trip down the Autobahn (and here the Kraut reference is especially apt). Pistons fired, these beats are allowed to lope carefree into the coming summers new season of discontent. Ex-ceptional." - Michael Klausman; Other Music. |
| 6/5/2005 | Exegene | Clockwork Insects Have Invaded the End Time | C90 | $5.99 | 23 Productions | "Epic death drone work outs, from local mystery. I only met him for five minutes once when he handed me these tapes and said 'Here this is for you to put out on 23 if you want.' Alien loner heavy tone bending and texture mangle add up to and hour and a half of massive skull bust. Recommended. Limited edition of 43." |
| 2/21/2009 | Exhumed Corpse | Crashing | CDR | $7.99 | Morbid Tapes | "haunting death music " housed in jewel case w/black and white art - limited to 40 copies |
| 7/29/2004 | Exias-J | Balance of Chaos | CD | $15.99 | PSF | “Thrilling document of seriously wired Japanese improv collective, raising electric ghosts and phantom sonorities live in New York. Exias-J (short for Experimental Improviser's Association of Japan) have been around since 2000, and this is their second release on PSF. The group express a dedication to bringing the sounds of classic euro free improv into collision with free jazz, minimalism, electronic music, scalp-raising rock improv and a dozen other musical discourses. Balance of Chaos captures the collective, in a number of shifting trio and quintet permutations, live on their first tour of the US in the autumn of 2003. The stated aims of the collective’s Œlectric conception is to disrupt traditional instrumental hierarchies through the application of electro-acoustics. However, that pat explanation gives little sense of the kinetic physicality, knife-edge tensions, and complex structural density embodied in these thrilling performances (though the whooping and hollering audiences were clearly feeling it). If you have any bottomless holes in your musical history that need filling, these boys and their diachronic spades will more than do the job.” Featuring Hideaki Kondo (guitar with electronics), Takuo Tanikawa (guitar with pc), Shinichiro Kanda (piano, analogue synth), Tetsuy Miyazaki (live electronics, computer), Jun Kawasaki (contrabass), Naoto Nishizawa (drums, percussion), Nicholas Kent (analogue synth) |
| EXIAS-J | Critical Blank | CD | $16.99 | Bishop Records | Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan is where the name comes from. "In this country our target is the real 'avant-garde' music, not an 'avant-garde' style of music. Born in the Asian country which is heavily influenced by the European/American culture, we are trying to deconstruct and reconstruct the Japanese music." This cd features Tanikawa Teruaki (alto & soprano sax), Ikegami Hideo (double bass), Nishizawa Naoto (percussion, drums) & Kondo Hideaki (guitar). Recommended. | |
| EXIAS-J | Phenotypes In A Polygon | CD | $16.99 | Bishop Records | "Kondo Hideaki (guitar), Nishizawa Naoto (drums & percussion) ,Nakamizo Toshiya (piano), Tanikawa Teruaki (sax), and Ikegami Hideo (contrabass). Absolute free improvisations, which spin the immanent structure, draw the music geometrically." | |
| EXIAS-J | Spatial...In Depth | CD | $16.99 | Bishop Records | Features Tanikawa Teruaki (sopranino sax, alto sax) and Nishizawa Naoto (drums, percussions). 7 tracks 61 minutes. Recorded 8.3.00 & 12.26.00 | |
| 10/16/2003 | Exkursions, The | The Exkursions | CD | $13.99 | Hidden Vision | "High-octane power rock trio absolutely blitzes through eight tunes of heavy blues-influenced material in the vein of Hendrix and Cream. No muffled sounds here - the production is top- notch and the guitars shine forth loud and mean, heavily imbrued with 60's psych effects. 'Baby You Lied', a love-gone- bad slow blues rocker sounds like one of those lengthy Derek & the Dominoes tracks and features wild stereo separation that I'm sure made many a hippie smile back then. Dual rhythm guitar and leads gives the band a fuller sound than most trios. Singer/lead guitarist Mike Johnson gives an exceptional performance - he contributed a number of fine solo albums in the 70's but none of them cooks with near the intensity of this baby. 'Third Eye' is a good example - after starting with some bizarre psycho-babble, the piece breaks into a minute-and-a- half electric guitar jam (recalling Stu Heiss' opening solo in Rez Band's 'White Noise'). The intensity doesn't let up until 'Would You Believe', a smooth piece of soft jazz that Mike also included on his Velvet Prince album. This one delivers the mustard." 1970 Christian psych release. |
| 5/14/2007 | Expansion Bay | Star Obsolescence | CD | $13.99 | Spanish Magic | "Expansion Bay is Nathan Thompson, who has been a long standing member of New Zealand based Sandoz Lab Technicians and also been involved in Sleep, EYE and heaps of others. This is his third solo release but the first under the Expansion Bay name. Star Obsolescence is a mind melding disc comprising of three tracks of various processed instruments, laptop, field recordings and samples taken from previous band projects. |
| 11/21/2009 | Expensive Shit | Powwow With Copper | cassette | $5.99 | Not Not Fun | "Wild brain-pillaging from this xxxtremely fried destructo unit from Austin, TX. Beyond in-the-red, in some other color, physical mayhem streaked with patches of junked space rock. In radical double-sided full-color J-card artwork by main man Spencer Longo. Edition of 128." |
| 8/23/2009 | Explorers | Bermuda Telepaths | LP | $10.99 | Not Not Fun | "Bermuda Telepaths is the latest title lifted out of the fruit-and-photocopy-strewn Outer Limits Recordings archive and into the ears of the world at large. Recorded under the never-again-used Explorers moniker and first edited into album form about a year ago, this hallucinatory patchwork trip into the ether synthesizes all of OLR's deepest loves -- boombox fidelity, quick cuts, keyboard loop sorcery, underwater pop, general mind surfing -- into a humbly hypnotic whirlpool of energies. Apparently there was a concept/thesis behind the album's genesis somehow involving psychic powers, lizard people, and the Bermuda Triangle, but the details are hazy. Which befits the audio in question. Read your palm. Take a walk in your thoughts. Explore away. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork designed by the artist, plus a copy shop poem insert. Edition of 330." |
| 6/5/2009 | Expo '70 | Psychosis | LP | $16.99 | Peasant Magik | "Random alien noises drift in and out, distracting you from the hellish static brewing. Melodies begin to creep out of the murk, still covered in filth, trying desperately to escape, forever being pulled back down. Guitars lament for their fallen brothers, and the battle begins. Standard edition consists of 180 gram black vinyl, silk screened 12" x 24" insert, and pro-printed covers and OBI." |
| 12/12/2009 | Expo 70 | Galaxy Of Mysticism | CDR | $13.99 | Reverb Worship | "I have been a fan of the music of Expo 70 for sometime.We started discussions about doing this album many months ago.Justin went away and recorded this wonderful piece of music specially for Reverb Worship.On hearing "Galaxy Of Mysticism" I was very impressed and highly delighted.On this recording you will hear Justin Wright (electric guitar and analogue drum machine) and McKinley Jones (voices and realistic moog).The album is made up of three long psychedelic improvisations that take you to another dimension.Like some lost soundtrack to a science fiction movie.The music pulsates, floats and reverberates to the centre of your mind." 2nd edition - sold put at label. |
| 12/12/2009 | Expo 70 | Sonic Messenger | double CD | $19.99 | Beta-Lactam Ring | "One Eno Eon past normal, the patter of EXPO 70s dark matter squeaks and moans in wave forms, like the Doppler buzz of an armada of flying fortresses piercing through the blackvacuum. A fiery comet tail of piercing Kraut flavored psych trails behind. The whistles of cosmic winds commingle with acid fury as the Expo 70 command craft slowly leads the armada in for a truly great gig in the sky. Ambience morphs into a monstrous, heavy psychedelic blaze color of Big Bang proportions." |
| 4/22/2009 | Expo 70 / I Am Seamonster | I Am Seamonster / Expo 70 | 7" | $6.99 | Small Doses | "Expo 70 offers up an amazing piece of guitar drone while IAS's fuzzed-out drone has an odd sort of pop sensibility bubbling underneath the distortion. Edition of 285 copies on black vinyl packaged in a two-color, silk screened cover." |
| 11/8/2003 | Exuma | Exuma II | CD | $15.99 | Repertoire | "Only a few months after Exuma's tremendous success with their eponymous debut album (Exuma), charismatic singer Tony 'The Obeah Man' McKay and his band released their follow-up LP on the Mercury label. Based once again on intriguing Afro-American and Indian percussion and tribal chants, the seven-piece New York City based group landed another great album, that will now be available in the record stores for the first time on CD. A cult recording, like its predecessor." Second release from 1970. |
| 4/29/2008 | Eye Shaking Kingdom | Heavy Glass | cassette | $6.99 | Arbor | "Eye Shaking Kingdom is the severely fried, technicolor overdrive duo comprised of Glasgow's Nackt Insecten and Alistair Crosbie. Their sole past release, "With Metal and Swordlight" placed their feedback driven drones in a league of their own, though they have still managed to remain below the crossfuzzed radar. These two tracks can be taken as totally overdriven crushing walls of loops, feedback and keys; but intense listening shows luscious keyboards painting the soundscape with all the colors of the lunar rainbow. Totally dynamic flows and heavy clarity streak across the foggy night sky. In an edition of 80 tapes with art, tape labels, and a poster by JKtapes Peter Friel." |
| 1/30/2010 | Eyeballs | The Invisible Castle | CD | $14.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Richard Dawson's project that debuted on Blackest Rainbow earlier this year, which was followed by CDRs on Bells Hill, Low Point and Dead Pilot, and another release on Blackest Rainbow, a split cassette with fellow UK droner Gareth Hardwick. The Invisible Castle is far more intense, and in some ways heavier than the previous releases on BR, but retains Dawson's own dark take on the world of psychedelic drone music, and this is a proper drone release, clocking in an hour for the full piece. Limited to 1000 copies in pro-printed wallets." |
| 1/17/2010 | Eyes Like Saucers | Parmalee, Tribute To A Dog | CD | $11.99 | Ruralfaune / Ikuisuus | "Artisan of the indefinable musics, Jeff Knoch (ex-Urdog) explores the gallery of the displaced instruments (harmonium, glockenspiel, Farfisa..) for a tribute with his companion of always, his dog Parmalee. An obsessional trip into space folk drones." Edition of 500 copies. |
| 9/16/2007 | Eyes Like Saucers | Still Living in the Desert | CD | $12.99 | Last Visible Dog | "...is the solo project of jeffrey k., formerly the Farfisa organist for Secret Eye recording artists urDog. eyes like saucers explores the darker, more organic regions of inner space via a slightly modified Indian pedal harmonium, effected voice, percussion and electronics. Drawing inspiration from such artists as Nico, Robert Wyatt, Popol Vuh, Current 93, and early 20th century German poet, Georg Trakl, eyes like saucers channels the incessant and labored breathing of the ancient harmonium to evoke a mood that is bleak and doom-laden, while reaching for the sublime. The title still living in the desert (and mostly inside my own head) is derived from a late journal entry of Nico's. Jeffrey spent most of the year 2006 living within a Volkswagen van in the northern Arizona desert, with his dog, his harmonium, and a 4 track cassette recorder, and much of the material on still living... he recorded during this period. The music often betrays a childlike simplicity - as though the artist were completely unaware of what he was doing; yet a close, critical examination will reveal that certain patterns and structures do emerge, and perhaps even more. There is undoubtably a cohesiveness, a logic, and, for want of a better term, an underlying - and unstated and inextricable - "numinosity." Jeffrey has toured the U.S. and Europe extensively - playing with his most recent act, urDog, as well as playing as an occasional member of such acts as Black Forest/Black Sea and A.K.R. and the Eyesores - and has shared the stage with artists as varied as Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Circle, Boris, Six Organs of Admittance, Bardo Pond, Sunn O))), Jim O'Rourke, Acid Mothers Temple, and Merzbow. Eyes like saucers will be performing throughout the United States during the summer of 2007, and a European tour will hopefully ensue." |