| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/11/2008 | 500mg | Another Order Of Existence | CD | $14.99 | Archive | "A two part experimental acoustic guitar offering funneled through a train load of pedals and effect and then ejected from a Marshall ½ stack performed by Michael Gibbons of Bardo Pond (and all things Philadelphia and psychedelic). Recorded by myself in 2007 at the worlds nosiest book store - BigJar in Philly. The CD edition comes housed in a slightly taller sleeve with two color silk screen work by Alan Sherry of SIWA on a heavyweight 140lb paper. The front cover is die cut with an inserted picture from the performance printed on vellum, all hand glued and assembled by myself. Graphic work by Demian Johnston." Edition of 500 copies. |
| 3/23/2007 | 500mg | Apocatastisis | LP | $20.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "Performed and recorded by michael gibbons (bardo pond) over the course of 2006 in the lemur house, "apocatastisis" is a meditation on restoration and awakening. an inner voyage in seven parts consisting of guitars, effects, sitar, tabla and violin. a truly special record. from a one-time pressing of 677 hand-numbered copies. housed within sleeves that were individually silk-screened by alan sherry (SIWA)." |
| 4/24/2006 | F/i | A Question For the Somnambulist | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Along with Die Kreuzen, Boy Dirt Car and sister band Vocokesh, Milwaukee psychedelic rock-and-sound legends F/i spawned a space-rock scene in the 80's unlike any other around. Originally issued in a miniscule run in 2003, A Question For The Somnambulist traverses dark and hazy landscapes, hypnotic textures laced with electronics and exploratory guitar riffs dripping with effects. A mini event in its own right, A Question for the Somnambulist marks the return of original member Richard Franecki, who left in 1990 to pursue the way-out trajectories that his band Vocokesh continue to explore. Resuscitated from the annals of uber-obscurity for another suckerpunch to your third eye, this reissue includes one bonus track from the sessions and comes in a limited edition of 1000 housed in a deluxe letterpressed and recycled paperboard package. This is Vol. 4 of the Strange Attractors Resurrection Series." |
| 6/24/2003 | F/i | A Question For The Somnambulist | CD | $12.99 | Submergence | "Long awaited new CD. F/i have explored industrial, psychedelic and space-rock realms over the course of their career, and this is their first new release since 1997's excellent Helioscopum. An unexpected surprise this time is the return of co-founding member Richard Franecki as a full member (not merely a 'special guest')." |
| 12/24/2005 | F/i | Blanga | CD | $14.99 | Lexicon Devil | "Yep, that's right... Milwaukee space/psych-rock veterans, F/i, are back with original member Richard Franecki in the fold (you may know him from his other outfit, Vocokesh) and the results are here to behold. With a string of highly-praised reissues from the band under our belts, ranging from the years 1983-'91, we figured it was high time we did the deed with some of their more contemporary recordings, especially now that core member Franecki has once again joined the gang. Recorded in 2004, Blanga sees the line-up including F/i stalwarts Brian Wensing, Grant Richter and Franecki, with also Rick Hake and John Frankovic joining the troupe. Most of all, Blanga - that's apparently an in-joke within the group and something to do with Amon Duul and Hawkwind... go figure - shows that the band hasn't diluted their talent in ripping out some of the most awe-inspiring, trance-inducing and speaker-destroying psych-rock of the last 25 years. All the crucial pieces are in place: the metronomic drum beats, the Eno/Hawkwindesque synth swirls and, most of all, the overwhelming cloud of fuzzbox guitar distortion coating the proceedings. You get a mere 5 songs in 47 minutes; from the raga-drone of 'An Extremely Lovely Girl Dreams of Blanga' to the stunning blips 'n' whirls of the keyboard/sitar track, 'Blanga's Love Song', right on through to the closer, 'Grandfather Blanga and His Band Light It Up', a Flipper-y dirge with one foot on Earth, one on Mars. You could say it's a whole load of Blanga. What in the heck is Blanga? Best ask the band. They insisted on a Chinese opium den "theme" for the artwork, so maybe they've been indulging in all kindsa things I dare not ask. Of course, I jest. The band is as straight edge as your local Posi Youth Crew, it's just their music which is out to lunch. Just the way we like it." |
| 6/5/2009 | Face Plant | Face Plant | LP | $15.99 | Heard Worse | "Face Plant is the solo modular hessian noise trance project of Aaron Coyes (Unborn Unicorn, Rahdunes, Peaking Lights) with brutal frequency's, mellow drone, and all around stoney flavoring, pumping thru a large ape mans primitive oscillating home brewed modular synth made from old stereo components and hacked up electronics connected to a homemade 3 head tape delay, and some hand cut records being played on one fucking hefty needle!" Includes some additional material by Rats With Wings. |
| 6/6/2009 | Face Plant | untitled | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Whoa! Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes, Peaking Lights ) solo. home-made synth stuff rad heavy heavy work junk garbage rot gunk nose-pick stall drift acid-drop wheel-bite. AMAZING SOUNDS ! edition 50." |
| 6/11/2006 | Facialmess / Hana Kodama | split | 12" | $21.99 | Cipher Productions | Hana Kodama is a Yukiko (Yamaakago) & Fumio Kosakai (Incapacitants) collaboration - edition of 200 copies. |
| 4/24/2006 | Fagus | Dans L'Involucre Entre Ouvert | CDR | $12.99 | A Question Of Re_Entry | "On a new Greek label, A Question Of Re_entry, comes a duo improvisation CDR by Ferran Fages, who plays an acoustic turntable and Pascal Battus, who plays acoustic walkman. I can imagine what the first is, but the second? Fages has made name for himself as part of the lively Portuguese improvisation scene, and Battus is a new name for me. Despite their two 'acoustic' instruments, this is not really 'improvisation unplugged' and if it is, they know very well how to play around with all sorts of hand-cranked manipulation of their objects to make high piercing sounds, like the fingers on the school-board, which you didn't like at school. But here it sounds fascinating. We don't recognize any sound from either vinyl or tape, but an highly noise related set of sounds, playing at times softly and at other times quite loud and abrasive, but always with full on intention and attention. A highly improvised disc of highly unusual sounds and something that moves out of the onkyo styled improvisation and certainly creates something of it's own." (FdW) |
| 11/17/2007 | Fail Sick | One Was Lost | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "More crinkled blown out confusion from Failing Lights / Sick Llama colab. depressing. something is just not right here. edition 50." |
| 10/6/2007 | Fail Sick | Poison Describer | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Colab. of Failing Lights and Sick Llama recorded at th decrepit HAM Studios. everything crackles w/ mold and tones and shit happen and you have a really fun time, but then you end up dead. sick sounds! edition 50." |
| 1/17/2010 | Fail, John W. | The 15,000 Day Boat Trip | LP | $31.99 | 8mm Records | "It happens every so often, something astounding arrives out of nowhere. Like a revelation from another era that has been trapped between dimensions, floating endlessly through the empty layers of space and time and then suddenly arriving like an ancient message in a bottle. The message: “The 15,000 Day Boat Trip” A stunning soundtrack to an imaginary travel through the oceans of the mind, and the wonderful diary of a lonely traveller across the world. My word: This record sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before, a strange alchemy between styles. Completely without genre and extending beyond the boundaries of the infinite! Decades of avant garde, are homaged together in a sort of “harmonic schizophrenia” In this unique distillation of (electro) acoustic music, sound collage, spectral folk passages, free improvisation, and an almost orchestral arrangement for violin and strings. Each subject is particularly approached and concurring in the creation of an ancestral form of a “blues” hybrid. If what you ask from a record is the chance to travel with your imagination, close your eyes and you’ll be somewhere between Atlantis and Utopia floating in the hold of this ship full of ghosts! Music Composed, performed and edited By John W. Fail (Cenotaph audio label, past releases on Dronedisco, Ultra Eczema, Lied Music, Spiral joy band) Mastered by Ruradith Sadancahaan. Massive nautical-style silkscreened artwork and inserts by Cavalo Branco. Handnumbered and limited to 300 copies." |
| 7/16/2006 | Fail, John W. | The Icewhistle | CDR | $8.99 | Sharks & Pfennigs | "John W. Fail has turned up in a lot of places but on few recordings; this is the first release entirely under his own name, following an 8-project cassette compilation on Dronedisco last year. Most well-known as 1/2 of Lied Music, The Icewhistle finds Fail quietly scraping ghost overtones from his israj (the traditional Bengali instrument heard on Lied Music recordings). In eight minimal tracks, the sounds of air and urban ambiance mix with the israj to create a haunting, suspended soliloquy." |
| 2/11/2006 | Failing Lights | Dismal Winds | one-sided cassette | $9.99 | Heavy Tapes | "Failing Lights is Mike Connelly, who also plays in Hair Police, Wolf Eyes, and runs the Gods of Tundra label. His work in the mentioned bands is incredible, deranged and shows his uncanny ability to work with other powerful players, always to synergistic ends. With "Dismal Winds," Connelly starts a strange dance with some electronic devices that seem to be confounded by themselves: a sludgy, clogged, and choked affair. A short and thick burst, this is dark, bass-heavy, and "just right." |
| 10/25/2008 | Failing Lights | True Form | 7" | $7.99 | BloodLust! | "Pressed in an edition of 300 copies; White vinyl; White labels with minimal black text; Poly-lined inner sleeves; Unmarked white cardboard sleeves - sealed on three sides; Black and white insert; 45 RPM; Failing Lights is Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes and Hair Police [etc., etc.]; If it seems like there have been a lot of synth releases on BloodLust! these days and forever, then this is Connelly showing you what he can do with dark, distorted, droned-out organ playing; In my head, at least, I understand why this record perfectly illustrates the collision - and probably the collusion - between the contrasting styles of sound generated by members of the Lexington, Kentucky and the greater Detroit, Michigan-area scenes; Somber and unsettling, "True Form" is as "true industrial" as can be; seemingly old, and to my ears, totally non-derivative." |
| 4/24/2006 | Failing Lights | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 2/11/2006 | Failing Lights | What Once Was | cassette | $8.99 | Hospital | "Grisly rough and raw organ noise from mike connelly. bizarre organic noise wrought with tension and narrow minded singularity ˆ as if it could all collapse and suffocate at any moment. like an ill child preparing for a hike naively thinking they will last the mile. packaged in vinyl box with color cover. |
| 8/23/2009 | Failing Lights & Jason Zeh | A Lesson in Tension | cassette | $5.99 | Gods of Tundra | "I've know Mr. Zeh for almost a decade now...why its taken us this long to work together is beyond me. Tape infiltration of the highest order. Stretch the wire until it snaps." |
| 6/16/2003 | Fair, Jad & Jason Willett | Superfine | CD | $11.99 | Public Eyesore | "Way fine super rock from Jad Fair and current Half Japanese collaborator Jason Willett. Jad Fair's spontaneous word'n'tongue action is as joyous and madmanic as ever. Willett's music is wound up, slinky, drivin', rootsy but chaotic. Besides 20 slices of superfine to play on your reg'lar ol' CD player, these busy boys have added 135 (!) MP3 bonus songs to pump through your computer speakers." - Eddie Flowers |
| 2/15/2005 | Fake Hand / Ayler's Angels | Frozen Hammer vs. Ancient Axe | LP | $10.99 | Hot Cars Warp | "During their year-long existence, the Fake Hand screwed many a hole in the skulls of college-hipster-type fucks. Try explaining the beauty of Rockette-(Morton)-propelled basslines, neo-no-wuh guitar, and surgically tweaked drumming executed by then eighteen-year-olds to some schmuck in a Sugar t-shirt. Go ahead, try. Ayler's Angels were birthed from the head of the Fake Hand like twin Athenas blurting out 1960Õs free skronk. This is the their first record. Another offering under the AA name came out a year or two later w/ an expanded line-up. Then they changed their name to Army of Ghosts & recorded for Matador-head Gerard Cosloy’s other label, Parallelism. Later on still, they became A.R.E. Weapons." - Byron Coley. 1997 release. |
| 2/13/2003 | Falafel Avantgarde | Risky Golf | CD | $9.99 | Earsay | "Israeli 9 man ‘band’ + occasional guests. 2 guitarists, 1 bassist, 1 drummer, 4 analog synth twiddlers and 1 active sound engineer + some accordion, tapes, and other junk. 3 long improv / jam / free rock/ kraut / experimental tracks. Recorded live to DAT without any overdubs and with absolutely no rehearsals. They love naming their tracks so much that each one has two titles! New 7" available now on Public Eyesore." |
| 3/26/2006 | Family Underground | Axial | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Great heavy jam from these Danish black-out artists. Lurching drone and electronic strangeness slowly worm their way into yr face hole and blow smoke rings. That sound? Thats an ancient axe cutting through cosmic fog, man. Come breath the thunder." |
| 8/28/2007 | Family Underground | Black Hole | DBL LP | $18.99 | Weird Forest | "Family Underground drenched the east coast of the USA in molten syrup last year and they toted along a tour CD-R entitled Black Hole released by the fine folk of Secret Eye. Mega bummed I didn't get to feel their magic live but I ordered that tour disc post-haste. Man, when I got it I was slain. I thought it was their finest work to date so I had to invoke it on vinyl. I tapped into the band's communication network and together we figured this would make a killer double LP, definitely one for the record books. So The Underground sent me a half hour of unreleased musics to fill the vinyl sides to fruition. Holy Hannah was I unprepared for A! How well the new jams mind-melded with the other tracks. And B - the superb variation of the entire work with paramount peaks and deep arcane valleys. Get it and trip! Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl with full color gatefold jackets." Highly recommended! |
| 4/5/2008 | Family Underground | Candle Finger's part one and two | CDR | $12.99 | Into the Lunar Night | "This one is a special one from the Lunar crew we had Stefan Neville (Pumice) chillin at our place the week before we left for the UK and one night while making this release ready Sara asked if he wanted to make the cover drawing 'cause nothing is for free hehe! so the FU went out to the waffle cone to do the final tour jam and coming home later that night we found that Stefan had drawn it all plus even an innersleeve. those kiwis are fast man! much unlike the the usual Lunar speed of things. so here goes candle fingers with two 15 minutes plus tracks. and colour printed covers courtesy of Stefan Neville." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 1/17/2010 | Family Underground | Consensus Reality | CD | $16.99 | Into The Lunar Night | Edition of 200 copies (not a CDR) with handmade cardboard covers. "Recorded over a period stretching from summer till late fall as a duo. As a place of common-ground understanding of this world- the consensus reality is in this sense that what we understand as our reality as just a reflection of the powers that be in the form of the dystopian and utopian ideas of the medias and their intended goal of making the population believe anything anytime." |
| 8/8/2009 | Family Underground | Crystal Hangovers | CDR | $8.99 | Our Mouth | "rad jams.some awesome viola on it." |
| 8/2/2008 | Family Underground | Helium Rug | one-sided LP | $11.99 | DNT Recordings | "Denmark's drone demons release another one. A helium rug would float, which is exactly what your melted mind will do while listening to this record. Whistling blown by the birds of hell. This has been in the works for quite some time. Originally intended to come out last summer on their US tour, but we didn't want to flood the market (they already had 3 LPs coming out the same time). Edition of 300 on black vinyl with bi-color stencil. The front cover is what you will look like after listening to this. Your mind will split open unleashing the helium rug from within. Artwork by Zachary Fleming." |
| 6/11/2006 | Family Underground | Raising the Labyrinth | CDR | $12.99 | into the lunar night | June 2006 release of two tracks recorded back in March of this year. Like all FU, this comes highly recommended! |
| 8/4/2007 | Family Underground | Riven | LP | $11.99 | Not Not Fun | "Crushing new full-length by this legendary Danish drone squad. 2 massive side-long black holes, mastered by Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans. Hand-numbered edition of 450." |
| 6/19/2007 | Family Underground | Salt of the Sun | CD | $19.99 | Ikuisuus | "New minimal full-length album from Family Underground that abandons the drug-hit-sally-inside feel of early Velvets jags for the sound of the last gasp of Lou Reed's long-suffering amp in the final seconds of 'Black Angel's Death Song' extended to oblivion. Comes in a fold-out four panel digipak." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 2/4/2007 | Family Underground | Warriors Lodge | CDR | $12.99 | into the lunar night | "Brand-new self-released album from these European spaceways navigators, Warriors Lodge starts out sounding like the dying embers of a Hawkwind/Terry Riley All-Night Junket before lucid licks of silver strings and rattlesnake percussion build up the kind of heavy Industrial head of steam that you’d more commonly associate with juggernauts like Faust, “Heart Of The Sun”-era Pink Floyd or even live Simply Saucer at their most savagely dilated. Two tracks, limited to only 100 copies." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/2/2008 | Family Underground & Dead Machines | Strangled Pairs Vol Eleven - "Kitchen Clatter" | CDR | $9.99 | American Tapes | "There is a whole nasty grip of bands that would rule to be in: early Allman Bros., early Nerve Noise Net, Kanssan Uutiset , The Singing Alvias, "Victims" Period Cimex, others. Add the amazing Denmark underground thick drone mystery troupe Family Underground to that long list. You wanna be in the band? Just jamm happily along to the audio of choice and sail awayŠ that's exactly what The Dead Machines did to the FU (re: not FU's) totally rad "Candle Fingers" cd. Here are the resultsŠ..a complete electronic dense world of scrape, buzz, and hum. Hopefully we will all jamm live together someday, somewhere, somehowŠŠ Electronics for the setting of all suns underwater. ŠŠ.Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." |
| 3/2/2007 | Family Underground / My Cat is an Alien | Mysterious Invaders / Extraterrestrial Call | LP | $21.99 | Reverse | Family Underground's side is killer! Heavy drone like you dig it. MCIAA's side rules, too. They were recorded live in Portugal. Limited edition of 356 copies on transparent vinyl and housed in a transparent silkscreened plastic sleeve. Highly recommended! |
| 9/18/2006 | Family Underground / Quintana Roo | Vengeance Valley b/w Horses Neck | 7" | $6.99 | Not Not Fun | "A pair of implosion constructs from Denmark's finest and Eagle Rock's vaguest. Originally conceived for the Quintana/Underground doomed west coast tour dates, but car rental hostilities and passport chaos shot the drone team scheme dead. Alas. At any rate: the single still stands. 'Vengeance Valley' finds FU at their most steeped-in-dread, channeling Spahn Ranch brainwash kill vibes into rumbling black hills of bad acid alchemy. Pure murder magick. Q Roo's 'Horses Neck' wanders its own Death Valley nothingness, loses contact/control, and carves slow sigils in the sand. A hovering aura of desert oblivion. Black vinyl 7 inches in hand-numbered, hand-screened grey cardstock jackets with skull-rider/ancient ruins cover art. Limited to 300." |
| 6/11/2006 | Family Underground and Rauhan Orkesteri | QBICO U-Nite III, Bruxelles | LP | $21.99 | QBICO | rotten green vinyl, cover by qbico. This has Family Underground on side A and Family Underground and Rauhan Orkesteri on side B. Recorded April 19, 2005 @ Cinema Nova. "the animal which could best depict the music of this other memorable nite @ Cinema Nova is a cobra, in fact i think this music kills! worth mentioning is the final jam: a rare meeting between psych drones and free music, here FU & RO unite to burn loose..." |
| 8/31/2008 | Fankhauser, Merrell & HMS Bounty | Things | LP | $29.99 | Guerssen | "One of the all-time '60s classics, coming out from the California desert of Antelope Valley where HMS leader Merrell Fankhauser lived for a couple of years. This was released on Uni in late 1968, and gosh it's a killer! Flower power psychedelia, great all original songs, this is one of these albums you shouldn't miss under any circumstance. Make yourself a favor and get one of these wonderful reissues we have for you, with remastered sound, original artwork and an insert with liners by Merrell and a great photo from his own archive." |
| 7/14/2007 | Fantastic Ego | Ego Trip the Light Fantastic | CDR | $7.99 | Phantom Limb Recordings | "From Ged Gengras (Antique Brothers) comes this accomplished take on the new wave pop song ("Down in the Park") and some inspired no wave guitar and sonica instrumentals. For fans of Current 93 and any Beta-Lactam Ring releases. Truly dark and yet surprisingly enlightening folk-based music from one of the most promising young musicians playing and recordings their own music in a closet today. Check out Ged's interview in the recent edition of Foxy Digitalis- smart kid!" Limited edition of 90 copies. |
| 7/14/2007 | Fantastic Sleep | New Master | cassette | $5.99 | Phantom Limb Recordings | "Recorded on the two most harrowing days of the year (Halloween and Tax Day), this cassette documents the on-going assault on boring drone music. Created by Ged Gengras (Fantastic Ego, Antique Brothers, and Thousands) and Grant Capes (Sleepwalkers Local 242, (VxPxC), and Thousands), this sounds like none of that... OR this sounds like all of that mixed together and shot through broken subwoofers, chewed on by an electric dog and then shat out onto a landmine! For fans of Sunroof!, Birchville Cat Motel, and Neil Diamond." |
| Fantasyy Factoryy | Dreams Never Sleep | CD | $17.99 | Ohrwaschl Records | "The third album from lauded psychedelic trio, with bandleader Alan Tepper joining forces with the mysterious Dr. Cosmos and C. Stone for the ultimate expression of psychedelic mania to emerge from tortured subconsciosness." | |
| Fantasyy Factoryy | If I Like It, I Do It | CD | $17.99 | Ohrwaschl Records | "This first saw light of day in 1998, with two new tracks added as a bonus. Don't forget that there was a time when people were fair and had sky in their hair so keep your heads above the flipping clouds of reality." | |
| 8/31/2008 | Fapardokly | Fapardokly | LP | $29.99 | Guerssen | "Fapardokly is probably regarded as the most important release in Merrell Fankhauser's long career, and an absolute collector's item. The band recorded about 30 tracks in a small studio in Palmdale, California, from 1965 to 1967, when the owner of the studio decided to release an album with some of these tracks. With such different recording dates, you find here different sounds - organized '60s pop, jangly folk-rock, psychedelia - a truly fantastic album that finally gets, for the first time, a legit vinyl reissue and with the original artwork. Comes with an insert featuring photo from Merrell's personal archive, and liner notes by him as well." |
| Far Out | Far Out | LP | $18.99 | Satori | "The last stock of this re-issue of a legendary and mega-rare 1972 Japanese progressive-psychedelic album by what was essentially an early incarnation of The Far East Family Band. Unlike that group however, there's little keyboards on this, which instead relies on heavy, Pink Floyd-like space-rock guitar, bass and drums. Original artwork, Euro import." | |
| Faris, Marc | Drone-on This | CD | $9.99 | Carbon Records | "51 tracks. Among men, marc faris is a puppy. Drone-On This is a confluence of many musics, not just funk-tinged bluegrass like so much of the CDR.Series. Includes 3 'pop songs' (including an ill-advised cover of Lou Reed's 'Satellite of Love'), 3 tracks of 'free improv,' 1 longer 'piece,' 43 tracks of digital silence and 1 'hidden bonus track' (entitled 'Hidden Bonus Track'). The results are not as immediately compelling as, say, the recent output of Finkbeiner or what have you, but the attentive listener will find much to enjoy. Includes instructions for devising one's own track sequence to suit a variety of listening environments. [limited edition of 75, each packaged in a glossy white cd folder with a swatch of Thai paper attached to spine, and 4 double-sided postcard inserts with song descriptions. hand numbered]" | |
| 1/24/2009 | Fat Day | Iguanadonaland | LP | $14.99 | Spirit of Orr / 100% Breakfast! Records | "Now ready to ship is the long awaited, and only slightly discussed sixth album from FAT DAY called IGUANADONALAND. A work worthy of being their capstone, an amassing of all FAT DAY concepts and ideas. Ideas that needed to be woven into the fabric of the music, an effort that took time to balance. . . to prepare correctly for the ages. And since FAT DAY understands that the magic is in the follow-through, these ideas are fully realized, and fully in effect. This project became a four-year journey into a slanted concept record. It was first described to me as a 'sort of parallel ATLANTIS story for lizards. . . them that this planet belongs to'. It is a story that could only be conspired by four close friends who have spent the past 15 or so years locked in deep commune with each other and their four unique visions. Working together with all of the experimenting and learning, to pass along a message to the future of 'what happened here'. Because contained here in these grooves is also what will be the FINAL exhibit from FAT DAY. If you miss out on it, perhaps you will never know what was missed. I would warn that by opening yourself to this, you will be charged with a powerful, inspiring, and real element. RAW, PURE, BEAUTIFUL." Recommended - insane record! |
| 2/11/2006 | Fat Worm of Error | untitled | 7" | $15.99 | Ultra Eczema | "The most spastic band of this very moment on this gross planet is definitely the north-or east (whatever) hampton based no wave fartband Fat Worm of Error. These druide change costumes with every song on their scary live shows while 567 different sounds pop out of 456 instruments. They have moustaches that are bigger than anyone's hairsausages in the antwerpe snorrenclub, and play actually very tight songs!" This 7" comes in an oversized cutout stencilprinted cover designed by Dennis Tyfus. Beautiful package! |
| 1/1/2008 | Father of the Flood | Posture | CDR | $10.99 | The Lotus Sound | "Father of the Flood's, "Posture" is an elegiac collection of songs about the disconcerting moments in life when self-introspection and the coercive methods chosen to project personal absolution and contrived identities upon others begins to dismantle one's organic self. The individual sounds of sparse piano chords, traces of dialogue, and intertwined field recordings cumulatively evoke a somber mood of skepticism that due to the length of the release does not become oppressive. Although derivative to various compositions by Arvo Pärt and numerous references to poems by John Donne, the authenticity of these home-recordings is apparent and lends support to the personality of this release." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 4/25/2008 | Father Yod | Liberation | Book | $15.99 | Source Family | "Father's personal book. He wrote it in 1970 in 10 days and has been re-issued with a current update about the Source Family. Father's Wisdom is timeless and will definitely help you to find your own "Path"!" |
| 7/16/2006 | Father Yod & The Spirit of '76 | Contraction | CD | $18.99 | Swordfish | First authorized CD reissue of this album, originally issued by Higher Key in 1974. "The legendary and ultra-rare second album fully remastered and presented in the original full colour sleeve. Includes new notes from various family members especially written for this release. The extremely positive & instructive nature of the Contraction period lyrically is amazing. Father is like a marine taking a beachhead in WWII and we were the beachhead. Our previous 'Pavlovian' lives of following the repetitive death culture were the enemy and he was taking no prisoners. His aim in Contraction was to give birth to the highest conception of oneself as no less than the messiah." --DJIN AQUARIAN 2005 |
| 2/11/2006 | Father Yod and the Spirit of '76 | Contraction | LP | $29.99 | Swordfish | First authorized reissue of this album, originally issued by Higher Key in 1974. "The legendary and ultra-rare second album fully remastered and presented in the original full colour sleeve. Includes new notes from various family members especially written for this release. The extremely positive & instructive nature of the Contraction period lyrically is amazing. Father is like a marine taking a beachhead in WWII and we were the beachhead. Our previous 'Pavlovian' lives of following the repetitive death culture were the enemy and he was taking no prisoners. His aim in Contraction was to give birth to the highest conception of oneself as no less than the messiah." - Djin Aquarian 2005 |
| Faust | Faust | CD | $20.99 | Japanese Polydor | "Brilliant/primitive studio effects with psychedelic intensity, surrealist collage technique and purely flowing conceptual genius." Debut release from 1971. | |
| 7/30/2006 | Faust | Impressions | DVD & CD | $20.99 | Zick Zack | First ever DVD package from Faust, featuring 11 full video tracks shot between 1971 and 1994 by Zappi-W-Diermaier - all previously unreleased, including three tracks that have never been heard before. Comes with a bonus cd of material called "I Spin" featurng half an hour of music. NSTC For all regions. |
| Faust | IV | CD | $13.99 | Caroline | 4th release from 1973 features 'Krautrock'. | |
| Faust | Ravvivando | CD | $16.99 | Klandbad | "An extended blend of guitar scree and organ atmospherica spread over 'that' syncopated rhythm, breaking it down only to build it up again." | |
| 6/4/2004 | Faust | Rien | CD | $14.99 | Table of the Elements | "From 1971 to 1975, Germany's Faust carved a megalithic reputation as the greatest avant-garde group of the era. Formed in the spirit of the May '68 uprisings, they inspired the term "Krautrock," influenced generations of subsequent bands, and to this day define an entire genre. In 1994, Table of the Elements brought the reclusive Faust to America for the first time, taking them on tour and orchestrating their return to the studio. The result is Rien, the first studio recordings from Faust in over 20 years. With major contributions from producer and performer Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth), as well as guest members Keiji Haino (Fushitsusha), Steven Wray Lobdell (Redford-David Triad) and Michael Morley (The Dead C), Faust have managed to create a record as unflinchingly audacious and uncompromising as their earliest work. An aggressive collection of electronic pastiche, musique concret, power tools and group improvisation results in an extraordinary return by one of the seminal experimental ensembles of all time. Out-of-print since 1995, this the first and finest of the records by the 90s-era Faust, notoriously packaged entirely in silver, with spoken credits hidden on the CD." |
| Faust | Seventy One Minutes Of... | CD | $15.99 | Recommended | Combines the 5th & 6th Faust records from the late '80's | |
| 8/31/2008 | Faust & Nurse With Wound | Disconnected | Double LP | $49.99 | Dirtier | "Previously released on CD by the Art-Errorist label, this is the vinyl edition of an almost mythical collaboration, joining two of the greatest studio bands in the history of audio recording. Legendary '70s German Krautrock band Faust today includes Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and bassist Jean-Hervé Peron, the only original members, joined by Amaury Cambuzat from the band Ulan Bator. British experimental band Nurse With Wound was formed three decades ago by Steven Stapleton, now joined by Colin Potter. Since expectations are most certainly high for such a joint venture, Disconnected delivers in every way, and of course sounds, as you might expect, like both bands, but also stands on it own, as you might not expect. Faust had an early influence way back on a young NWW - but as the years have passed, NWW have had a profound effect on the German legends. Disconnected opens new worlds of sound with audio collage, incantory drum beats, deconstructed sound samples, mesmerizing feedback loops, and echoing electronics. New trails are forged by seasoned masters. For the first 1000 copies only, this vinyl edition has two sides of previously-unreleased material, one side pure Faust from the Disconnected sessions, the other a NWW track, unique to this set. The double LP is also pressed on clear yellow and clear orange vinyl for this limited edition." - FE |
| 12/12/2009 | Faux Amis | Faux Amis | LP | $15.99 | Zero Jardins | "Big band collaboration LP in the style of the Drapeau Noir album that pits a bunch of player associated with the free music scene around Lyons in France - Motherfucking, I'm A Grizzly, Julien Dupont, Francois Virot, Le Geme Faute - with members of the current crop of underground groups centered on Sheffield - Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, Chora, Helhesten and Lanterns. In April 2008 the collective recorded a marathon five hour jam, of which this LP presents 35 minutes of highlights. The form ranges from obtuse NNCK-style navigations of the furthest fringes of form through lolloping almost International Harvester/Parson Sound-style psychedelic monoliths." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 9/17/2009 | Fay Group, Bill | Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow | LP | $16.99 | Drag City | "The Durtro Jnana CD release in early 2005 added a new chapter to the Bill Fay legend. And now comes another addendum: the LP release of Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow features a new mastering of the material, a remix of 'Planet Earth, Daytime' extending the song's length, and the inclusion of three tracks not on the CD ('Change Is Near,' 'Pear Tree' and 'My Friend') in place of a montage of songs (tracks 6-14 from the CD). This is a sequence that better serves the album format and provides a fresh listening perspective for those among us who've worn out their CD copies already. Additionally, Bill Fay has written extensive notes for inclusion in this new package, illuminating the period in which the album was written and the intentions with which it was undertaken. Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow was recorded in 1978-1981 but remained unreleased until 2005. The Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow LP is slightly resequenced and ten minutes shorter than the CD, a move that clarifies the scope and curve of the album." |
| 1/28/2005 | Fay Group, Bill | Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | CD | $14.99 | Durteo / Jnana | "With the renewed interest in Bill Fay's past work, the reissue of his first two albums, Bill Fay and Time Of The Last Persecution, and recently made-available pre-Decca demos (From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock), it's surprising to discover that twenty new songs have remained unreleased for over two decades. This CD does not consist of demos, outtakes or 'alternative' versions of previously recorded songs. It was planned and recorded as Fay's followup to Time Of The Last Persecution. It is The Bill Fay Group's third, previously unreleased, album, recorded between 1978 and 1981." |
| 9/30/2005 | Fay, Bill | Bill Fay | CD | $19.99 | Eclectic Discs | "Bill Fay is an enigmatic UK based singer, songwriter and pianist whose work is impossible to categorise. His late '60s and early '70s work has a strong cult following, is highly regarded by many music journalists and is dark and haunting with songs rarely going over three minutes. Bill was originally signed to Decca and between 1967 and 1971 the label released a beautifully odd single ('Some Good Advice'/'Screams In The Ears') and two excellent albums (the lushly orchestrated Bill Fay and the rawer, more rock-oriented Time Of The Last Persecution). Bill's fantastic songs have touched and inspired many - his fans include country rockers Wilco, songwriter/producer Jim O'Rourke, Ben Chasny of Six Organs Of Admittance and David Michael of Current 93." 'His first two albums are incredibly emotionally complex: haunted, harrowing, holy and hopeful. Rather than shying away from these contradictions, Fay made it a note to embrace them. The flamboyantly bitter and cinematic orchestral flourishes on Fay's self-titled album and the ferocious guitar wail of free jazz heavyweight Ray Russell on Time of the Last Persecution, are both met by Fay's conversational, modest vocal inflection that is unquestionable in its sheer honesty and vulnerability.' -Matt Wellins, Dusted. Reissue of 1st LP from 1970 on Deram with 2 bonus tracks from his 1967 single as well as liner notes by Fay. |
| 11/21/2009 | Fazzini, Tom | Neck To Neck | LP | $15.99 | Locust | "The record was made with the backdrop of recovery - a new place to live and a chance at renewal -quite on the edge, lots of anger and the absurdity of life all swirling around. Remember believing at the time that I would probably have a short life, so that desperation fed into the album. First and last chance to maybe say something on record. It took several months to record and each session was a short burst. Towards the end of the recording a welcome sense of levity crept in, spurred on by the ludicrous casio pre-sets. That felt good, given the whole Industrial scene, in the broad sense, was a bit earnest and po-faced. The album title came to me from being familiar with a bar called 'the swan with two necks'. I imagined Lyn and myself as two separate swans , damaged, their necks entwined and in my mind that poetically offset the industrial harshness within the grooves." - Tom Fazzini. "Neck To Neck is a head scratching slab of warped primitive synth punk cut by a young Tom Fazzini in exile from a madness inducing tenure as a London postal carrier at Paul Dillon's Complex studios. Originally released in 1984 on Gordon A. Hope's short lived A-mission label (which also counted releases by Asmus Tietchens & O Yuki Conjugate), Tom Fazzini's combination of minimal synth and brutalist /absurdist industrial songs had more in line with the broader discomforts of the early 80s international tape network, Family Fodder, LAFMS, Flying Lizards and Ralph records than the agit pop that dominated the Leeds music scene at the time. Once an outsider, always an outsider. Features new liner notes by Tom Fazzini & previously unpublished photos. Remastered and pressed up on 180 gram virgin vinyl. one time edition of 500." |
| 12/24/2005 | Fe-mail | Voluptuous Vultures | 10" | $13.99 | PsychForm | "Fe-mail is a electronics/noise duo consisting of Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, both known from the anarchistic improv quartet SPUNK. This release is limited to 400 copies on black vinyl." |
| 2/12/2008 | Fear Falls Burning / Birchville Cat Motel | Fear Falls Burning / Birchville Cat Motel | CD | $14.99 | Conspiracy | "Belgium's Fear Falls Burning teams up with New Zealand's Birchville Cat Motel for one long track that displays the group's fascination for the metallic, slow expanding drone. Made with guitars, amps, processing, and subtle percussion, this album brought out the best in each group and is a lively, pulsating, moody, and intense drone manifest." Limited edition of 1000 copies. |
| 2/21/2009 | Feathered Totem / The Big Drum In The Sky Religion | split | CDR | $9.99 | Reverb Worship | "A split cd from Feathered Totem and The Big Drum In The Sky Religion released in a numbered handmade edition of only 40 copies.The cd featurees three tracks and clocks in at over forty minutes. The first two tracks are by the mysterious Feathered Totem. The music takes the form of spooky haunting medievil sounding gregorian drone. The third track is by The Big Drum In The Sky Religion.These guys are influenced by shamanic rituals and the music is a tribal psychedelic stew of manta-esque hand percussion,acoustic and electric guitars and noises." |
| 9/30/2005 | Felipe & Forté | Shaggy Black | CD | $11.99 | Soft Abuse | "A certain amount of sublime unease fills Shaggy Black, the debut from the ad hoc duo of Miami's Dino Felipe and Brooklyn's Nick Forté, captured under the moniker Felipe & Forté. Strange sounds, with sources unknown, permeate throughout the disc. It's deeply processed and yet presents an undeniably organic presence, a unique anomaly of both resplendent and savage textures. The union of man-made and machine-based sounds creates a truly fucked, purely psychedelic atmosphere of sonic scrawl and blistering fuzz. It's equal parts Oval, Boredoms, Alvin Lucier and Excepter." |
| 7/10/2008 | Felipe, Dino | No Fun Demo | CD | $10.99 | No Fun Productions | "Previously know for his electronic work with Miami's Schematic label and his experimental records on his own and with others (Old Bombs, Fukktron,etc) this time Dino stares right at the ghost of his MTV dreams childhood years and comes out of it with the most beautiful record of well put together songs you'll hear this year. A full instrumented record of pop rock, ballads, psychedelia, no-wave, rock noise and total mutations injected with Dino's own unique approach. This is the pop music of the present, and a recording shooting to change the future." |
| 2/11/2006 | Fell | Fell | CD | $12.99 | Camera Obscura | "Fell is a new project by Josh Wambeke of the Denver, Colorado psychedelic pop duo Phineas Gage (last heard in 2000 on their Camera Obscura CD "Reconsidered"). The band began life as a series of four-track tapes culled from a backlog of Josh Wambeke's demos - experimental odds and ends deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the Phineas Gage repertoire due to their heavy usage of electronics and drum machines. When Wambeke's colleague in Gage, Patrick Porter, embarked on an extensive globe-trot and started on a series of solo releases, Wambeke set out to combine the existing electro-ambient feel of these demo tracks with the heavily-reverbed space guitars and layered, subterranean vocals that had comprised the Phineas Gage sound. Recruiting local drummer Josh Cedillo and friends Zac Hilman, and Mike Dewey, Wambeke purchased home recording equipment and spent the next year in his grandmother's basement recording the songs for a first Fell album. Heavy influences during the recordings included Joy Division and the Cure's "Disintegration". As sessions for the album progressed, Wambeke took on more and more of the recording himself, the creation of the songs becoming a kind of therapy during a time of uncertainty and depression. A year's worth of basement sessions gave birth to this CD. A number of shows were played, but eventually Hilman and Dewey left the band for other ventures. Currently the group consists of Wambeke and Cedillo, who are continuing to record new songs for future releases. The Fell CD runs the gamut from psych to space to post-rock with nods in the direction of early new wave and ambient electronics but in the end it is the band's effortless song craft and precise arrangements that propel tracks like the hypnotic "Data-Backspace =Error", the melancholy "End Forever", the haunting "Vacant Song" and the sublime acoustic closer "Cause of Cancer" into hearts and stratospheres." |
| 1/1/2008 | Fern Knight | Music For Witches and Alchemists | LP | $16.99 | Eclipse | "Like so much contemporary US psychedelic folk, Fern Knight takes its cues from the dark underground UK folk of the late 60s and early 70s. Opening track 'Song for Ireland' could be from a lost Stone Angel recording or an outtake from Loudest Whisper's touchstone LP 'Children of Lir'. Dark magic is here, the kind that is celebrated by ritual gatherings in hidden glades. 'Awake, Angel Snake' is given an Espers-like sheen courtesy of Week's screaming acid lead guitar, but the results somehow recall doomed Transatlantic folk rock outfit Mr. Fox than anything from this millennium, which is laudable, because how often does one get to compare something to that benighted but magnificent project?" -- Tony Dale, Ptolemaic Terrascope. "VHF Records released the second full-length CD in November 2006, Music for Witches and Alchemists. M4W&A is a dark and beguiling collection of neo-psychedelic songs. Beautifully recorded at Hexham Head by Espers' Greg Weeks, the songs are cast in rich, detailed arrangements featuring Alec K. Redfearn, Greg Weeks, Jesse Sparhawk on harp, Otto Hauser (Espers, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver) and other Philadelphia-area luminaries contributing to the sweeping sound. At the heart are Margie's strong voice, cello/string arrangements, and guitar, leading the tunes with feeling and subtlety. Music for Witches and Alchemists was released on vinyl on Eclipse Records in December 2007, with hand-screened covers by Monoroid." Numbered edition of 800 copies - beautifully screenprinted jackets (inside and out) by Neil Burke - and vinyl pressed by RTI. |
| 10/3/2009 | Ferraro, James | Body Fusion 2 | CDR | $12.99 | Summer Headrush | "Fourth installment in a new series of releases from Ferraro, part of his Summer Headrush 2009 Series vision. Inspired by "Visualisations that came to mind while receiving self-induced hypocapnia or as it's commonly called 'free fall', the albums being representative of the free fall head space." This second volume of Body Fusion continues the first's theme of body transformation, she-males and temples to the sex urge by combining massed keyboard drones, modal takes on 80s soundtrack melodies and disturbing, modulated phone sex voices where 1-800-Shemale callers are offered dial-in fantasises over ascensions of percussion, cartoon voices and fleets of orchestrated dogs (!?). Ferraro makes particularly profound use of samples of wordless vocals played on a keyboard, creating a form of sci-fi chorale that paralelles the themes of surgical transformation, hypnagogic implants and the desire to exceed and confuse the limits of the body in a form of human/alien communion. It genuinely sounds like nothing else. Titles include "Genitalia Eclipse", "Data Implant", "De Ja Vu Axis" and "Clown Fish Prayer". Full colour covers. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 8/17/2009 | Ferraro, James | Citrac | Double LP | $21.99 | Arbor | "The CITRAC collection presents one of James Ferraro's most cinematic visions; showing his recent mode of soundworld creation in top form. By shying away from pure musical creation and opting towards the organic birth of sonic universes James finds a new way to tell a story. Evoking vastly imaginative imagery, this 80+ minute suite spanning two LPs, contains the previously released "Postremo Techno Mundus Symposium", excerpts and alternative edits from Liquid Metal's Alternative Soundtrack to "Digital Overdrive", and the all new "Digital Tribe". Presenting deep-nightmarish atmospheres of surveillance and captivity on through the rush of the open road; the hypnotic, lo-fi result is one that could only come from Ferraro's alien mind, eternally stuck in a 1980s vision of an impossibly archaic future. In an edition of 400 double LPs with full color printed inner-sleeves in pro-printed black and white cardboard sleeves and printed labels by James." |
| 5/9/2009 | Ferraro, James | Clear | LP | $13.99 | Holy Mountain | "Clear and Discovery were originally released as two companion CDRs by James Ferraro (of the whole Skaters / Lamborghini Crystal / 90120 / Splash / Nirvana axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. Clear bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punk's album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room. These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from Revenge of the Nerds--or is it "Wonderwall"--into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download. "Ferraro creates a new age for the new agers. You know that crazy Pillsbury commercial where the dough boy lies back and drifts across this white background with ecstatic floating music sweeping him along? Well it's not far off, at least in effect. It all meets somewhere between Arvo Part, Terry Riley, and the Healing Sounds of Crystal Bowls, only as interpreted through immense draperies of washed-out production." - Ear-Conditioned Nightmare |
| 5/9/2009 | Ferraro, James | Discovery | LP | $13.99 | Holy Mountain | "Clear and Discovery were originally released as two companion CDRs by James Ferraro (of the whole Skaters / Lamborghini Crystal / 90120 / Splash / Nirvana axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. Clear bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punk's album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room. These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from Revenge of the Nerds--or is it "Wonderwall"--into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download. "Ferraro creates a new age for the new agers. You know that crazy Pillsbury commercial where the dough boy lies back and drifts across this white background with ecstatic floating music sweeping him along? Well it's not far off, at least in effect. It all meets somewhere between Arvo Part, Terry Riley, and the Healing Sounds of Crystal Bowls, only as interpreted through immense draperies of washed-out production." - Ear-Conditioned Nightmare |
| 10/22/2009 | Ferraro, James | Genie Head Gas In The Tower Of Dreams | CDR | $12.99 | New Age Tapes | "Beautiful new limited edition album from James Ferraro of The Skaters. Subtitled “Jesters Midnight Toys”, this one expands on the occult significance of The Fool by positing avatar-styled jester/genie archetypes capable of reporting back from various dreamstates and visioned alter-realities via a coded series of symbolic forms that collide traditional Tarot imagery with Ferraro’s uniquely irradiated personal pantheon of 1980s god-forms. Five tracks of gorgeous bell tones, sudden jump-cuts into dense jungles of poly-rhythms populated by laughing cartoons, looped hypnotic anchors and the kind of complex, crude minimalism that’s perfect for usurping subconscious patterns and handing the controls to the dream-image of yourself. A profoundly transformative occult tool in the guise of a new age cartoon, highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/12/2009 | Ferraro, James | Hacker Track | CDR | $11.99 | Summer Headrush | "Part of the second limited batch of Summer Headrush 2009 releases from James Ferraro of The Skaters with full-colour pro-printed sleeves. Warning: Hacker Track is an eXtremely addictive cyber drug downloadable online into your brain. Hacker Track is a deprogramming/reprogramming tool created by Ferraro that uses auto-suggestion, hypnotism and sonic download technology in order to re-boot your mind. Hacker Track features some of Ferraro's most obsessive loop constructs set within haunted laminal structures. The first piece is a murky fog of wave tones and modulated barbarous vocals that aims to by-pass the brain's rational/language centers and effect complete organic/cyber communion. As the repeat-phrases become more alien and insistent the piece moves into a zone of 'meaningless' sound that works as an unsettling transport. The second piece deals in euphoric sonic boom stylings that somehow combine the wartime machinery of the David Jackman field recordings with triumphal organ tones and the expressway sounds of kundalini take-off. A beautiful brain eraser." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/12/2009 | Ferraro, James | iAsia | CDR | $11.99 | Summer Headrush | "Part of the second limited batch of Summer Headrush 2009 releases from James Ferraro of The Skaters with full-colour pro-printed sleeves. iAsia as in iPhone, iAsia presents a future-primitive vision of cyber Asia as broadcast via 107.7 XM Radio Mars, a Sublime Frequencies-style covert vision of a continent plugged into the grid and mutating via endlessly refracted and digitally morphed images of itself. Or if you're a dumbo it's a series of keyboard, loops and sample jams that sez future Bollywood Multitopia. Melodies are devoured and reconfigured from around the world, further confusing the geographical focus as a digitized one world. There are hints of Ferraro's Polynesian obsession on the second track, "Happy HD Bengal/Casino Neptune", with tumbling percussive melodies and swells of synth while distant clouds of heavenly vocals bob on the horizon. The rest of the music is threaded with 80s-inflected modal melodies that might have soundtracked a Bollywood space cops drama that visioned 2012 as 1982 with more neon and a power synth backing. Some of Ferraro's more dramatic Hypnagogic pop inventions." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/2/2008 | Ferraro, James | K2 - Chameleon Ballet | LP | $15.99 | Olde English Spelling Bee | "'In Chameleon Ballet, I wanted to create a work of magic that simulates a dream atmosphere of post-industrial landscapes, with the waking memory of a romantic alien encounter occurring in the dream. Dedicated to the mystery of night and the magic of dreams' --James Ferraro. 'Debut limited edition album by this new sci-fi synth project by James Ferraro of The Skaters et al., with 1980s minimal wave moves bisected by the kinda keyboard patterns you might've found on an Edgar Froese solo album or post-Body Love Klaus Schulze, then exploded with barbarous invocations, syruped-vocals and some black drone atmospherics. Or, as the cover art suggests, urban landscapes as visioned by showroom dummies illuminated under 3 a.m. neon. Another killer.' --David Keenan. Remastered and expanded version of the CD-R release on New Age Discs -- this has an additional previously-unreleased track. Limited edition of 425 copies. Black & white printed covers." |
| 11/15/2008 | Ferraro, James | Last American Hero / Adrenaline's End | cassette | $8.99 | Taped Sounds | "Amnesia smoke out & prototype James Ferraro makes his big goodbye america statement. side a is an "in memoriam" for the last american hero. a lost full moon features on the rise and decay of a man of honor and honesty. "twisted" ecstacy for the double thinkers out there. mic fleetwoods mindframe after the decay and abandonment of the survivors of the coked out mac. side b is the sound of clear, of adrenaline's end. a tackle for all your engrams. a broad view on how it feels to be uplifted into infinity. uplifted into a vast clear sky of self fullfillment and a deep metaprogrammed brain activity radius." |
| 7/16/2009 | Ferraro, James | Multitopia | CDR | $9.99 | New Age Tapes | "Limited Europe-only album from James Ferraro of The Skaters/Lamborghini Crystal et al, the first run ever presented under his own name. "Multitopia is our reality system," James writes in the liner notes. "A post 9/11 reality technology in between the frames of data reception. A cross wire into 'new head' and necessary evolution upon the impact of the towers". It feels like a major work from James, the first fully-conceived album to go beyond his initial brain-fried 1980s nightmare culture documentation, reconciling both dystopian and utopian mindsets in a vision of Pan as Multitopia. Body modification, the blurring of sexual persona (via cracked images of James on the back with a modified pair of breasts chilling next to an arcade game) and cyborg intelligences are all recurrent tropes in James's work but here he explodes them all, with some of the most aggressively nuanced keyboard and drum work of his entire career, kicking off with a full kit sound that sits somewhere between Industrial steel drums and chaos pads then building to an evocative peak that then dissolves into wave after wave of fluxing keyboard drone and oddly looped vocal fragments. The gravity of the music is truly omnivorous, devouring drone, punk, new wave, Industrial and minimal synth modes and spitting them back out as intensely detailed black and white visions of the future now. James somehow manages to interweave vacuous TV announcements and cheap anchor man quips alongside the lucid, microtone rich keyboard work, situating the whole deal in a virtual, godless netherworld with each track a further descent into hell. It is both beautiful and horrifying. A major work from James - no one is doing anything remotely like him. Due for a vinyl reissue soon (yes - already happened now), but this is the first edition that you will soon be eating rocks to afford. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/2/2008 | Ferraro, James | Multitopia | LP | $15.99 | Olde English Spelling Bee | "New album from James Ferraro of The Skaters/Lamborghini Crystal et al., the first run ever presented under his own name. 'Multitopia is our reality system,' James writes in the liner notes. 'A post-9/11 reality technology in between the frames of data reception. A cross wire into 'new head' and necessary evolution upon the impact of the towers.' It feels like a major work from James, the first fully-conceived album to go beyond his initial brain-fried 1980s nightmare culture documentation, reconciling both dystopian and utopian mindsets in a vision of Pan as Multitopia. Body modification, the blurring of sexual persona (via cracked images of James on the back with a modified pair of breasts chilling next to an arcade game) and cyborg intelligences are all recurrent tropes in James' work, but here he explodes them all, with some of the most aggressively-nuanced keyboard and drum work of his entire career, kicking off with a full kit sound that sits somewhere between industrial steel drums and Kaoss pads, then building to an evocative peak that then dissolves into wave after wave of fluxing keyboard drone and oddly-looped vocal fragments. The gravity of the music is truly omnivorous, devouring drone, punk, new wave, industrial and minimal synth modes and spitting them back out as intensely detailed black and white visions of the future-now. James somehow manages to interweave vacuous TV announcements and cheap anchor man quips alongside the lucid, microtone-rich keyboard work, situating the whole deal in a virtual, godless netherworld with each track a further descent into hell. It is both beautiful and horrifying. A major work from James -- no one is doing anything remotely like him. Highly recommended.' -- David Keenan. Remastered version of the CD-R release on New Age Discs. Limited edition of 425 copies. Color printed covers. Dedicated to Zac Davis." |
| 12/12/2009 | Ferraro, James | Son Of Dracula | CDR | $11.99 | Summer Headrush | "Part of the second limited batch of Summer Headrush 2009 releases from James Ferraro of The Skaters with full-colour pro-printed sleeves. One of the most minimal, spaced-out and transcendentally beautiful of Ferraro's recent releases, Son Of Dracula is the sound of waves lapping at the furthest edges of space while someone on a distant planet plays a ghostly Hawaiian guitar and the stars twinkle in high-frequency song. Aspects of Scorces at their most translucent give way to a weird Sun Ra plays the incidental music to a Hall Of Mirrors scene from Scooby Doo feel and an incredible cover version of Elvis's most spooked recording "Blue Moon" into a haunted, pitch-shift Elvis medley. The pink Cadillac on the front pretty much gives the game away. Totally bewitching." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/12/2009 | Ferraro, James | Wild World | CDR | $11.99 | Summer Headrush | "Part of the second limited batch of Summer Headrush 2009 releases from James Ferraro of The Skaters with full-colour pro-printed sleeves. Wild World is Edward Flex visits Multitopia, one of the bleakest and darkest of Ferraro's recordings thus far, as he ties up fantasies of body modification and Hollywood stardom with terrible eschatological visions and cut-ups of recorded testimonies of members of the Heaven's Gate mass-suicide cult on their hopes for a transport to heaven. His use of minimal musical fragments looped to infinity is at its most twisted and wrong, with obsessive vocal figures played out over leery keyboard parts and snippets of vocal that conflate plastic surgery with pre-lapsarian and post-UFO powers of transformation. There's often a lurid, cartoon aspect to Ferraro's amplification of the various desires that contemporary popular culture works as a cipher for but this one feels less technicolour and more desperate, charting the apocalyptic fantasies (via Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson) that find their apotheosis in California's end-of-land culture through a series of black magical workings. Also features some of Ferraro's most shredding 80s/90s metal guitar. An extremely heavy installment." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 2/4/2007 | Ferveur Noire | Dissillusionment | 3" CDR | $5.99 | American Grizzly | "Technical, dynamic, relentless death. This dude's one of our new harsh noise favorites." |
| 2/16/2005 | Ffehro | Gon | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "Ffehro is an experimental outfit drawing inspiration from the long and twisted history of international underground art music. These particular recordings are drawn from a vast reservoir of material recorded in the now abandoned 'Forks For Eyes' art space during the fading years of last century." |
| 12/24/2005 | Ffehro | The 17 Voting Cardinals | CDR | $10.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "recorded during the last days of the reign of pope whoever the whatsit...one epic search for the sound that will undo the universe" |
| 12/19/2002 | Fibo-trespo | 8.01% Action | CDR | $8.99 | Humbug | "...It is a lo-fi collage the main elements are a soft slow piano solo which ranges through most of the track, coming in and out of focus, sometimes disappearing completely. Over this is the next layer, a variable series of field recodings crowds, machinery. And finally noises inappropriate to call it music but a range including tones, processed piano samples, oscilloscope whirrs, drill, guitar (acoustic & electric), scraping of strings, taps, a phone, stretched metal tones, toys, melodian, accordion, vibrations, clatters this has taken most of the track, ebbing and flowing, dropping out at times to allow a focus on the other elements. There is a shapelessness to it all that has the feel of a live construct, or of something laid down and then worked on in the studio. But the track ends with a focus an extended delicate tonal section that fades to a gentle ambience of hiss and tapping then silence. A space at 37 minutes tricks you into thinking the piece was recorded onto one side of a c90 minute cassette and then dubbed direct to the cd (which is 45 minutes long). But no, after a couple of minutes another work building from harmonium and or accordion it adds radio, scrabbles, a bit of distortion and drum to create a nicely focussed shorter track. The sonic quality of the cassette have been carried over to the cd lofi, but the layering and rhythms that the track develop hold and centre the listening." (Jeremy Keens, Ampersand etcetera) . This is a reissue of Kjetil D. Brandsdal & Sindre Bjerga's second cassette from '96. Nice cardboard cover and insert." |
| Fibo-Trespo | Fibo-Trespo | CDR | $12.99 | 4 tracks - 43 minutes of improv. Their best release to date! | ||
| 8/20/2004 | Fibo-Trespo | Mexican Air Pollution | CDR | $8.99 | Imvated | "Garbagetronica from the hand of Sindre Bjerga. Dabbling and whistling sounds. Crystal clear tunes and sinewaves. Dense and disturbing atmospheres. And, oh my, even some glitches for good measure. Two breathtaking lengthy tracks presenting one damn alienating peace of sound. Ever got paralysed by listening to a record?" |
| 2/23/2004 | Fibo-Trespo | Middle-Class Slobs Play Improv | CDR | $8.99 | Humbug | "Fibo-Trespo's third cassette, from 1997, first time rendered on flat shiny digital format. Glorious! Sindre Bjerga (1st violin) & Kjetil D. Brandsdal (2nd violin) cranks some surprisingly groovy fluff-hop avant-'something'. Red wine & slippers music?" |
| 4/1/2003 | Fibo-trespo / Anders Gjerde | A hoax. A scam. A phony | 7" | $6.99 | Tonschacht | "Fibo-Trespo is the project of DJ/multi-instrumentalist Sindre Bjerga from Stavanger/Norway (owner of the Gold Soundz label and zine), mainly as a duo with Kjetil D. Brandsdal. Together they explored different subgenres of experimental music, from field recordings via music concrète to improv and back, on several tapes and 7''s and a very special sort of rock-deconstruction on their first LP (on Smalltown Supersound), which at the same time contained already less improvisation, more electronics, samples, electric toys. This direction which is further developed on this 7". A hoax. A scam. A phony is the first Fibo-Trespo record Bjerga released together with Andres Gjerde (owner of the Humbug label). Side A contains a more ambient piece which consists of melancholic organ melodies mixed with miniatures on a toy-piano and a wild oscilloscope sounds like a homemade scifi-soundtrack in the vein of Forbidden Planet. Side B begins as a thick, multi-layered and heavily distorted drone piece - which lets you know how a jam-session between the vibracathedral orchestra with Tony Conrad could sound like - and ends in abstract, celestial reverb. Those two very different sides illustrates the eclecticism inside the cosmos of Fibo-Trespo's homemade weirdness which sometimes isn't that far away from the genius of early Royal Trux." |
| 1/30/2010 | Field of Hats | Shem to the Stars | c20 cassette | $7.99 | Pizza Night | "Field of Hats releases provide a chance to step into a multi-colored abyss of tense cosmic peace. Like early tangerine dream, there is a heavily intoxicating uneasiness to the explorations but a rare sophistication to the approach and manipulations of the compositions. His always intriguing synthesizer based works are rich with earthly shifting plates of sound and electronic squelches from the cosmos. Field of Hats is Jeff Hatfield who also performs in Fragments and Outer Space.Pro dubbed. Edition of 60." |
| 4/10/2009 | Field of Hats / Relentless Corpse | split | cassette | $6.99 | Tusco Embassy | "Dynamic pairing of cleveland industrial noise group (feat. tooth, david russell, zack troxell, and wyatt howland) and solo synth droneby jeff hatfield (half of fragments)" |
| Fifty Miles of Elbow Room | #2 | zine | $5.99 | 112 pages of text + image in a perfect-bound 8" x 8" format. Articles / interviews with Hamid Drake, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Louis Moholo, Otha Turner + The Rising Fife and Drum Band, June Tyson, & Robert Pete Williams. | ||
| Final | 2 | CD | $18.99 | Sentrex | Material from 1993-1995 from Justin Broadrick (Godflesh | |
| 12/12/2009 | Fine, Milo / Paul Metzger / Davu Seru | Medusa's Lair | LP | $17.99 | Locust | "Filleted over two sides of wax, here we have a rare meet up of three of the brightest lights in the twin cities' musical orbit. On March 21, 2009, Paul Metzger - best known for his transcendental gypsy raga guitar and banjo meditations - jumped in the ring with percussionist Davu Seru and veteran multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine for an evening of uncompromising spontaneous composition. Medusa's Lair is stunning, inscrutably wily, living music. One time edition of 300 lps pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl." |
| 7/16/2006 | Finkbeiner | Dedicated to Rochester Charles | one-sided LP | $24.99 | American Tapes | "UPS HARDCORE...or at least thats what the grooves say... THAT's ROCHESTER CHARLES!...Fave drummer/UPS dude... Pengo's Jason Finkbeiner rips some SERIOUS one handed guitar flurry... NO EFFECTS but psychedelic as fuck eastern tinged solo guitar... all snorted out for the man w/ the plan ROCHESTER CHARLES... my favorite Royal Trux fan...'NOW THERE WAS A FUCKIN BAND!'.... AM Tapes one-sider LP with glued art b-side..includes photocopied letter from Rochester Charles to myself regarding a conversation we had about favorite drummers....Dude forgot Charlie Ondras, but that's cool...he remembered the dude from MOXY... HAIL & KILL!!!!" |
| 9/29/2005 | Finn, Simon | Magic Moments | CD | $14.99 | Durtro/Jnana | "The first collection of new material from legendary psych-folk giant SIMON FINN since the release of his seminal album Pass The Distance. Recorded in a more personal and stripped-down style and featuring JULIE WOOD from CURRENT 93 on violin. Twelve tracks in all. Will play select North American dates with Current 93 and Six Organs Of Admittance, Summer 2005." |
| 8/31/2008 | Finn, Simon | Pass the Distance | LP | $32.99 | Mayfair Music | "One of the rarest LPs from the exclusive Mushroom-Label finally gets its official release on vinyl! Often labeled as folk, Simon Finn's debut album from 1970 is actually more in the singer/songwriter vein but totally different to everything else you can find in this genre. With a couple of guest musicians (e.g. Kenny Elliot from Second Hand) Simon Finn created ten songs of an eerie, angry, unsettling and, if you hear the track 'Jerusalem', even disturbing nature. Shortly withdrawn after its release, this demanding album is nearly impossible to find these days so finally here is your chance to listen to this fascinating music. Limited edition of 500." |
| 9/30/2005 | Finn, Simon | Subjunctive Mood | CD | $14.99 | Durtro / Jnana | "Perhaps as a little addendum to his full-length, Simon Finn simultaneously released this five-song CDEP, for sale at the recent Toronto shows. It's very much in the same vein as Magic Moments, just Finn and his guitar, more musings about the frustrations attendant to love, human communication, sadness and joy, longing for life and death. The title track tells the story of a man who has passed away his existence as a stranger in his own life - forever living in the subjective, the hypothetical, the plane of dreams and ideals - the verb tense suggested by the title: "Most of his life, it seems/Has passed in the subjunctive mood/The imagined, wished and dreamed for but/He must learn how not to brood on all the/Were it nots, and were she theres/The be that as it mays/and God help him." On all of these songs, Finn accompanies himself, strumming or fingerpicking simply melodies that bolster his lyrics, which are the real attraction here. I thought at first that "Rich Girl With No Trousers" might be a declaration of love for the slutty heiress Paris Hilton, but judging by the sad, reflective lyrics, it's more likely about a woman from Finn's half-remembered past. The high lonesome blues sound of "Lingering" recalls Chris Thomas King's haunting versions of Skip James songs, connecting Finn's traditional Brit folk leanings with early American folk and blues. I have nothing but respect for Simon Finn, who has jumped back into writing and recording after a more than thirty-year absence, with all the aplomb and poise of a seasoned veteran." - Jonathan Dean |
| 2/26/2006 | Fire in the Head | Come Closer Cut Deeper | CD | $11.99 | Nihilist | "Hostile electronics, gnawing & ripping vocals with dark ambient undertones. Newcomer & frontrunner on the US Noise scene. This is a ripping experience, like being chewed in a turbine at 24 RPMS in pitch black! At the same time, it sustains a subliminal level of beauty & grace, unparallelled by any other artists in the genre. Vicious attacks by one M. Page (USA) the visionary behind Come Closer, Cut Deeper. Hostile extreme electronics slice through organs like sharpened blades through ripened veal. Truly a masterpiece to be reckoned with! I cannot recommend this release enough!" - label |
| 12/24/2005 | Fireball | Blessed Be | 12" | $11.99 | High Roller Society Records | "Fireball is five ladies with a mutual love for psychedelic, prog, garage and all things heavy. Jennifer Black (vox), Lisa Garrett (guitar), Rebecca Ross (guitar), Etain Fitzpatrick (bass), and Sue Pieschalski (drums). A raw, intentionally cacophonous experiment with a heavy psychedelic concept thanks to some 4 track trickery. On this debut, Fireball has sewn together scraps from the likes of Black Sabbath, Spacemen 3, Edgar Broughton Band, and Amon Duül to create a tapestry unlike any other. The speaker-shredding sound has been described as 'like hot tar being poured onto the Go-Gos' and 'gun-blazing like a 77 Chevy Nova with a cracked radiator and a motor low on oil.' Hand-screened, double sided folded cover with insert 180 gram vinyl. Limited pressing of 500." |
| 9/17/2006 | Fit & Limo | A Garland of Flowers and A Bunch of Herbs | LP + CD | $29.99 | September Gurls | "5th release on September Gurls by adventurous psych folk duo from Altdorf, Bavaria is an LP+CD set featuring new songs, alternate takes and previously released (but unavailable in the respective formats) material. Tracklist of LP and CD is completely different.nThe LP contains a selected collection of pre-SG stuff, focusing on their more psychedelic, song-orientated, British 60ies folk influenced face. An excellent psych/folk LP. The CD contains rare tracks from 7"es & compilations, an alternate take of the brilliant "Christian Alchemy" and 5 previously unreleased songs. The CD presents Fit & Limo's diversity and playfulness, encompassing US West Coast loner folk, wyrd folk, experimental, psychedelia, art. CD includes cover versions of Tom Rapp and Syd Barrett songs and features Miriam Goldberg (Black Forest Black Sea) on cello on one track. Both LP and CD come in silkscreened sleeves. The LP+CD set is a limited edition of 318 copies. The LP and CD will only be available as separate editions afterwards." |
| 8/28/2007 | Fit & Limo | Astralis | CD | $21.99 | September Gurls | "New studies on strange folk conducted by the Franconian institute of applied psychedelic sciences have resulted in a fine album entitled Astralis. 18 new refined psychedelic folk songs, which remind of Fit & Limo's mid-90ies releases, but also include progressive/wyrd/mystic folk elements of their more recent work. British folk of traditional and late 60's/early 70's style is combined with 60's US flower power harmonies/West Coast acid rock and Fit & Limo's own special brand of Kraut/space folk playfulness. Influences of Incredible String Band and Pearls Before Swine are more distinct again; Beau Brummels, Beatles, Witthuser & Westrup come to mind, as well. Included are three excellent versions of British traditional songs based on recordings by Shirley & Dolly Collins ("The moon shines bright", "Down in yon forest", "The snow it melts the soonest") and a cover of Alex Campbell's "Been on the road so long"." |
| 9/17/2006 | Flaherty / Corsano / Yeh | A Rock In the Snow | CD | $13.99 | Important Records | "Together Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty have re-written the concept of modern free-jazz with their post-hardcore punk style approach of euphoric togetherness. Ferocious, spontaneous, explosive and aggressively lyric they've established their groundbreaking duo with loads of shows and a host of tremendous recordings." Liner notes by John Olson (aka Johnny Coorz!). |
| 9/19/2006 | Flaherty / Corsano / Yeh | Snow Blind Avalanche | LP | $13.99 | Important Records | "Snow Blind Avalanche is a completely different album than A Rock In The Snow also being released on Important though the two records were made during the same sessions. Snow Blind Avalanche finds the Flaherty/Corsano/Yeh in more abstract free dimensions with Yeh's presence in the sound even more firmly established. Recorded as the snow fell. 'No overdubs. Live in studio. Free-noise-punk-jazz with bent-sick-burning vocals. Amen.' -- Paul Flaherty. |
| 12/13/2008 | Flaherty, Paul | Aria Nativa | LP | $13.99 | Family Vineyard | "Aria Nativa is more than Paul Flaherty's third solo saxophone album; it merges rhapsodic avant garde music, patriotic dream verse, and mortality into a frighteningly pure work of audio, visual and literary sledge. Recorded during a pair of 2007 performances, its four pieces capture lifeblood in stunning detail from foot stomps to gut hollers and crowd roars as Flaherty's free power blues dips into the well of wretchedness and raises with fists of mirth. It's the sorta record that splays naked the artist for all: equal parts wise ass and universal vision. From his early 1970s woodshedding through a dozen plus albums each with drum buddies Randall Colburne and Chris Corsano, and collaborators Bill Nace, Wally Shoup and Sunburned Man of the Hand, Flaherty remains a total wildcat -- on and off the alto/tenor horns. For this LP his massive tonal craft is equally matched by Ken Hill's gorgeous cover shot of a snow blown grave and "No More America" -- Ken DelPonte's epic poem that spans nearly five decades and fills the back jacket, framing the atmosphere the music was recorded under. Each of the 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album that includes a bonus track of "No More America" read by the author." |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul | Voices | CD | $12.99 | Wet Paint Music | “In the past thirty years, the scope of free improvisation has widened significantly, and it’s now common for improvisers to look to modern classical music, electronic music, environmental sounds and non-western music for inspiration. Performers like Joe Maneri have developed new ways of using microtones, while others, like nmperign, have moved away from free improv’s usual line-based approach to phrasing by emphasizing texture and space. Spunk and others have played improv with electronics and punk rock attitude, while George Lewis has developed programs that allow live improvisers to interact with his computer. Paul Flaherty couldn’t care less about any of that. His screaming saxophone playing recalls the loudest, craziest-sounding free jazz musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s, including Frank Wright, Noah Howard and Albert Ayler, without much of a whiff of any of the new ideas in free improv since then. Flaherty’s music sounds like the last thirty years never happened. While Flaherty might not be especially forward-thinking, though, he’s definitely thinking – his music is so perfectly executed, so packed with compelling ideas and smooth transitions, that it’s easy to ignore the fact that his music is so unabashedly retro. On Flaherty’s excellent last two records, The Hated Music with Chris Corsano and Sannyasi with Corsano and Greg Kelley, Flaherty provided a center of gravity around which the other musicians revolved – Corsano and Kelley often played stuttering flourishes that contrasted with Flaherty’s sustained howls. On Voices, Flaherty’s new solo album, his approach is similar, though the effect is different. Voices features some reflective bluesy playing and aggressive low-register honking, but much of the album consists of tangled high-pitched runs and screaming multiphonics. Without any other musicians to create the sort of interaction that drove The Hated Music and Sannyasi, much of Voices feels like a single sound rather than a collection of related ones. Listening to Voices is like an unexpected blast of cold water during a hot shower, only more pleasant – it’s an overwhelming and shocking feeling that’s impossible to ignore until it’s over. So in a way, Voices is even more similar to early-1970s over-the-top ecstatic jazz than Flaherty’s previous work. The Hated Music was hectic and aggressive, but Flaherty and Corsano also played very sensitively, listening to each other closely and reacting quickly. On the other hand, Dave Burrell’s ‘Echo’ and Alan Silva’s The Seasons (two free jazz pieces from 1969 and 1970 to which Flaherty has undoubtedly listened closely) depend not on careful interaction, but on sheer force. Both are so dense that it’s best to stop trying to pick out individual voices and just let the music punish you. Flaherty doesn’t have the sheer numbers that Burrell or Silva had, but when I turn up the volume on Voices, Flaherty destroys me in a similar way.” - Charlie Wilmoth, Dusted Magazine |
| 11/4/2006 | Flaherty, Paul | Whirl of Nothingness | CD | $12.99 | Family Vineyard | "Saxophonist PAUL FLAHERTY is New England's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. Even before his 1978 debut Flaherty remained unshakable in the pursuit of soul healing and demon dashing through freedom music. "Whirl of Nothingness," Flaherty's second solo album, is eight pieces of alto and soprano saxophone steeped in the theme of loss channeled through blasting improvisations that showcase his fabulous wailing and inferno of sound to stark bluesy melodies. Even without drum buddies CHRIS CORSANO or RANDALL COLBOURNE, Flaherty's horn shudders and roars in gargantuan ways. In the slim cannon of solo horn records (alongside ANTHONY BRAXTON, COLEMAN HAWKINS, PETER BRöTZMANN, ARTHUR DOYLE), "Whirl of Nothingness" stands triumphantly strong and wholly distinct as a shifting sphere of sound poetry and spiritual tongue." |
| 4/29/2004 | Flaherty, Paul & Randall Colbourne | Anahad | CD | $12.99 | Cadence | "It takes guts to walk into the studio without any preconceived notions and just blow, but that is what saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Randall Colbourne have been doing for years - usually with strikingly exciting results. Joined here by trumpeter James 'Chumley' Hunt, bassist Richard Downs, and electric guitarist Mike Murray, there is a rawness to the music that proves exhilarating, surprising, and even refreshing, but it is certain to raise eyebrows and be disconcerting to some listeners. Not only is there not any melody, but the four pieces (ranging from eight to 28 minutes) embrace chaos and absolute freedom. These fellows know each other's moves, so they make room for individual statements. Flaherty stands out as a monster improviser, letting loose with flame-throwing barrages of sound. Everyone gets into the act, and rarely does any moment disappoint.” - Steven Loewy |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul & Randall Colbourne | Endangered Species | LP | $8.99 | Cadence | "Recorded at Real Artways in Hartford in December 1988, this album is the first recorded by this powerful pair of New England improvisers. Flaherty doubles on alto and soprano here - at times producing sounds that start off like Art Pepper in heat then burst like that big sac of tumor that Art had around his middle the last few yrs of his life. Colbourne’s drumming is a fantastic combination of simmering restraint and aggressive outburst, heeding a kind of internal logic in which the ego is consumed by the sound. Anyone who has heard these two play together live or on record knows that their partnership embodied a very special kind of chemistry. They approached every situation open to the winds of chance and created their music inside blink of a moment. The music on this album gives birth to its own incredible force, pulling anyone w/ the ears to hear it right into its whirling center. Although it’s not quite as over the top as the Tulpa albums, ‘Endangered Species’ is still a massive effort of mammalian creation. Everything these guys touched is worth owning. In duplicate." – Byron Coley |
| 11/2/2008 | Flaherty, Paul & Weasel Walter | Particles | LP | $27.99 | 8mm | "Imagine the moment before the origin of the Universe, when nothing yet existed. According to the standard theory, our universe sprang into existence as 'singularity', a zone of infinite density, which is also what is thought to exist at the core of the 'black hole'. The result of its expansion is what we call the 'Universe' and it is also what this album is all about. The gate was opened one night in May, in a basement of Northampton, Ma. by Paul Flaherty on saxophone and Weasel Walter on drums and percussions. 'Particles' sounded to me exactly like the Big Bang of music. An origin, a passage of energy that you can feel, not only listen. There is a shiverig tension throughout the whole album, as if everything was ready to collapse from one moment to another. Of course there is no real explosion, but a sense of constant vibration that has his apex on the final cut, with Flaherty and Walter joined by the incredible voice of Laila Maria Salins. Then, silence and back into the darkness. As someone said that night: Music is the key. We couldn't agree more. 140 grams vynil, first press of 157 numbered copies. Silkscreened." |
| 3/26/2006 | Flaherty, Paul / Chris Corsano | The Beloved Music | CD | $12.99 | Family Vineyard | "The Beloved Music" is the most thoroughly realized blueprint for a post-hardcore take on improvised jazz to date from the duo of legendarily long-serving New England saxophonist PAUL FLAHERTY and young firebrand drummer CHRIS CORSANO. Forsaking the call and response modes of countless improvising ensembles, the duo deal more in a simultaneity of sound, an elemental non-stop gush of ideas, rhythms and epiglottal forms that at points feels like a small-group response to the orchestral conceptions of the PETER BROTZMANN and JOHN COLTRANE big-bands as much as epochal duo deals like the RASHIED ALI/FRANK LOWE and MUHAMMAD ALI/FRANK WRIGHT sides. Between studio collaborations and tours with WOLF EYES, NELS CLINE, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, and COLD BLEAK HEAT (their quartet with GREG KELLEY and NO NECK BLUES BAND's MATT HEYNER), Flaherty and Corsano have coalesced and elated serious jazzbos alongside noise fans and freak-folk followers. Liner notes by THE WIRE's DAVID KEENAN." - SC Distribution |
| 2/24/2002 | Flaherty, Paul / Chris Corsano | The Hated Music | CD | $11.99 | Ecstatic Yod | "Paul Flaherty and his saxophones are a subterranean legend in the kingdoms of the north. Since the 'In the Midst of Chaos' LP was recorded, back in the mid '70s, Paul has been a persistent roar in the distance pervading the aura of the region's improvisational underground, whilst eschewing its spotlights. His playing and spontaneous compositions have always been a trip and a half, but he seems to have risen to a whole new level on The Hated Music, combing purity of spirit w/ ferocity of lyricism in a whole new way. Chris Corsano is one of the most immensely talented drummers to have emerged from the recent past. Those who have witnessed the giganticism of his formal leaps in the jaws of post-avant-garde power surging, have been left slack w/ the wonder & hilarity of it all. On The Hated Music he offers all listeners evidence of the potency and imagination of his air-fucking vision. The Hated Music, packed as it is, in the lovely artwork of freedom-loving artist, Gary Panter, throws down the gauntlet to all other players, all other thinkers, all other worlds. If you are listening w/ all yr holes open, it may well gobble yr soul. Alright!" - Byron Coley |
| 1/28/2005 | Flaherty, Paul / Greg Kelley / Jon Voight / Laurence Cook | The Ilya Tree | CD | $12.99 | Boxholder | "This CD was recorded in November 1999, but released by Boxholder Records almost two years later. By mid-2001, trumpeter Greg Kelley was foraying deep into free improv of the lowercase kind. It came as something of a surprise to hear him in a much more extroverted quartet, playing with a sound closer to Herb Robertson than Axel Dörner. Even though this is saxophonist Paul Flaherty's project, both horns share the stage. The interaction between these two players is simply something to rave about. The instantaneous compositions they sculpt have a lot more melodic material than what can be heard elsewhere, without resorting to more standard jazz tricks. Sadly, the rhythm section of John Voigt (bass) and Laurence Cook (drums) is a lot less participative. Both stick to an immutable free jazz frame, filling space when the two horns stop, retracting when they resume playing. They develop patterns with each other, but rarely interact with the quartet's other half. There is still much to enjoy on The Ilya Tree. Highlights include the fire music-tinged 'Glimmer of Hope,' the 18-minute 'Space in Which We Live,' which includes Voigt's best playing in this session, and the more opened, atmospheric 'Dragon in the Sand.' - François Couture, All Music Guide |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne | Ottawa | CD | $12.99 | Zaabway | "Why, when faced with the prospect of reviewing work by my favourite long-running jazz heroes do I feel so compelled to revert to 'primer mode' and provide some kind of goddamn life story of the artist in question? Perhaps it's the feeling that by this time, any recommendation to those already familiar with their work is preaching to the converted, while those unfamiliar with these guys needs to get it together and wise on up, and I'm happy to provide the friendly introduction to prod such slow learners in the right direction - thus: Over the years saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Randall Colbourne have existed at the margins of the free jazz world, honing their remarkable duet and group improvisations to an exquisite degree of empathic symbiosis. The last decade has seen the pair produce a series of consistently excellent releases, highlighting their intensive, near-telepathic interplay, and wide ranging expressive armoury. This new disk presents a storming live performance at the Ottawa International Jazz festival back in '91 (placing it chronologically between the Primal Burn and The Fourth Way LPs for we admiring completists). It's a solidly convincing set, showing the pair equally as capable of a tender (albeit, often short-lived) lyricism and delicacy, as of a more barn-storming freneticism. Flaherty's alto warbles like an Evan Parker, preaches like an Ayler, or croons like a subdued Sanders, while Colbourne remains one of the most sensitive and creative drummers to introduce wood to skin. Anybody already familiar with the oeuvre of these to great-uncles of freedom will definitely know what to expect, and will not be disappointed. All you others (to whom this diatribe has been addressed) are brusquely pointed in the direction of Nick Cain's comprehensive interview in Opprobrium #3, and strongly advised to progress directly to the nearest discerning audio retailer, and exchange Momma's birthday gift voucher for this, or indeed any, Flaherty/Colbourne release. Thank you for your time." -Tim Cornelius, Opprobrium. |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne | Razor Blue | LP | $8.99 | Tulpa | "Recorded in Connecticut in November 1992, this is third of four LPs these guys cut for Joe Malinowski’s Tulpa label. It’s the last pure duo recording they made, and it’s also one of the first spots where Flaherty drops his alto a few times in order to pick up a tenor or to just howl. Flaherty’s tenor work has the same wild upwards thrust as he does on alto - splitting the ends of his tones like they were static bursts from a big Tesla Coil. By this point Paul & Randy had really worked their fingers deep inside each other’s heads and their brains really sound as though they’d been woven together. The horn moves in & out of known fabrics of space, and the drums pile up & spread out like a multi-car accident on I-91." – Byron Coley. Recorded November 29, 1992 at Hole In The Wall Studio in Amston, CT. |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne / Froc / Richard Downs | Prana | CD | $12.99 | Zaabway Music | “Good things are worth waiting for. ‘Prana’ was recorded back in 1989, and features Manchester Connecticut's Paul Flaherty on alto sax, with a keening tone at times reminiscent of Byard Lancaster. This is supple and lyrical free jazz, the enigmatically-named Froc studiously avoiding wild extended guitar techniques à la Sharrock, instead anchoring Flaherty's most extreme blowing with choppy comping and occasional Joe Morris-like flurries of notes. Bassist Richard Downs and drummer Randall Colbourne seem more than happy to take off into high speed bop on ‘Across a Great Distance’, while Flaherty waits for the tempo to slacken before soaring in with long lyrical lines worthy of Noah Howard. One gets the impression that the rhythm section doesn't always know what strategy to adopt behind Flaherty's endless arabesques (specifically on ‘Decending (sic) into Matter’), but group unity isn't in doubt on the final pastoral - in both senses of the word – ‘Everything is Forgiven’, which rounds off the album most satisfactorily.” |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne / Richard Downs | Third Rail | CD | $12.99 | Zaabway Music | "Flaherty, Colbourne and Downs marshall their arsenal of advanced techniques into a texturally varied yet high energy program. So many resources, so much shifting, that it's really impossible to generalize. So, for further reference, listen!" - Cadence |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne / Stephen Scholz | Impact | LP | $8.99 | Cadence | "5 sax and drum duos by Connecticut free-burners Flaherty (alto & soprano sax) & Colbourne (drums) plus 4 tracks with violinist Stephen Scholz." – Byron Coley. Recorded January 21, 1990. |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne / Stephen Scholz / Mike Murray | Cydonia | LP | $8.99 | Tulpa | "For their final album for Joe Malinowski’s Tulpa label, saxophonist Flaherty and drummer Colbourne recruited violinist Scholz and guitarist Murray to make a quartet of it. Recorded in Connecticut in January 1993, this album is named after a region of the Martian surface which some people claim as a repository of evidence that Mars once had a human-esque civilization. The three tracks are named after features of the region. So, you’d sorta figure that this album would be, uh, spacier than other ones recorded by these prolific improvisers. But you wouldn’t really be right. Although the presence of clucking strings (which I assume are what’s making the very balafon-like sounds at times) gives this set a strange continuous mid-range, the tracks are all filled w/ the combination of earth and fire that one you expect from Paul & Randy. The tone is extremely hot & free throughout, messing w/ atmospherics just for the sheer pleasure of it, and skedaddling into all kinds of magnificently cluttered corners. I might recommend that you ingest some of the Flaherty/Colbourne duo recordings prior to this, but once you’ve made those a part of yr molecular system this is the next place to turn." – Byron Coley |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne Quartet | Visitants | CD | $12.99 | Zaabway Music | Flaherty (alto & tenor sax) & Colbourne (drums) featuring Richard Downs (bass, baritone horn) and Mike Murray (guitar) recorded live at Hole In The Wall Studio in Amston, CT on March 6, 1994. "A mix that is wonderfully dense, full of rich tonal and rhythmic interplay. ...each pulling every bit of energy out of the tension they derive from their constant hovering on the edge." - Halana |
| 1/28/2005 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne Sextet | Fat Onions | CD | $12.99 | Cadence | "Past Flaherty/Colbourne records have required so few players to pack such a wallop that the idea of any lineup larger than a quartet, had it ever even come close to entering my head, would have seemed somewhat unnatural. Now that they've gone ahead and done a sextet, it of course all makes perfect sense, and I'm happy to feel quite foolish for ever not thinking it wouldn't work. Trumpeter Jim Hunt injects an impressively broad palette, and the baton is regularly passed with giddy speed, skipping only guitarist Mike Murray, who, for reasons known only to himself, stays stuck on Sharrock-lite auto-pilot, completely oblivious to proceedings. Otherwise, this is classic collective improv heavy colour-splurge blast, ably chaperoned by this stellar duo." – Nick Cain, Opprobrium 3 |
| 2/26/2003 | Flaherty, Paul / Randall Colbourne Sextet | Ringtaw | CD | $12.99 | Zaabway Music | Features Paul Flaherty (alto, tenor sax), Randall Colbourne (drums, alto clarinet), James "Chumly" Hunt (trumpet, plastic castanets), Matt Moran (vibes, percussion), Mike Murray (guitar) and Richard Downs (bass). Free improvisations recorded live in the studio on September 8, 1996. "More than anyone else playing free jazz today, Flaherty and Colbourne capture the sheer joyful exuberance that is the greatest pleasure of this music." - Opprobrium |
| 9/18/2006 | Flaming Lips | A Beautiful Accident | LP | $16.99 | Future Fun | Recorded live in Calgary in 1987 for radio broadcast, this has versions of "One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning," "Charlie Manson Blues," "Unplugged," "With You," "Just Like Before," "Prescription" and more, with good sound and '60s style psychedelic artwork in the style of a Wes Wilson concert poster. Limited pressing of only 500 copies, 150 gram vinyl, Euro import. |
| 2/12/2008 | Flautas Del Chigüire | Flautas Del Chigüire | cassette | $5.99 | Funeral Folk | "Free ethno retardism from Caracas, Venezuela. This is what it sounds like when a skeleton falls apart! Old school funeral folk bronseling! 55 copies." You can check one track on: http://www.myspace.com/eatthesunhormigonrecords " |
| 2/7/2009 | Flea Apparitions | Severed Hands | cassette | $5.99 | Anathema Sound | "Pittsburgh's Lorne Zeman contorts and electrifies his noise like no other. Utilizing a wide array of gear and tapes that sound mangled to perfection, Severed Hands is a bizarre and enthralling foray into an alternate dimension. Percussive walls of feedback, obscured vocals, and lo-fi synth blasts are your guide through a land of mass-dismemberment, primitive rituals, and more creepy crawlies than you can handle. With full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub." Edition of 50 copies. |
| 11/21/2009 | Flea Apparitions | Transparent Black | c50 cassette | $4.99 | Anathema Sound | "Lorne Zeman is back with his lengthiest and most complex work to date. Transparent Black features eight separate pieces that showcase different approaches to what Zeman does best: warp your mind and distort your senses with sound. Voices whisper unintelligible phrases in your ear, creeping synths and guitars tell the tales of specters and lost in the night, tapes spew forth the sounds of the damned, and unholy feedback rears its ugly head to destroy any and all nuances in the mix. It all amounts to a twisted, post-apocalyptic fever dream that could only come out of a Rust Belt city like Pittsburgh. Features a full color artwork collaboration by Zeman and Matt Yacoub. Edition of 60." |
| 6/27/2009 | Fleeced Crew | Fleeced Crew | CDR | $4.99 | Lost Treasures of the Underworld | |
| 9/15/2002 | Floating Cloud | Indispensable Utensils | CD | $11.99 | into the lunar night | "Pretty harsh floating noise if I may say so. Recorded on a forty year old reel-to-reel that tries the best it can to make it sound 'crummy' and by golly it succeeds. Instruments at hand includes guitar, organ, turntable, bass and a whole bunch of stuff lying around." From Denmark. |
| 7/16/2006 | Floating Flower | 1st + 2nd | CD | $15.99 | Feathered Spirit of Mother | "Features both Floating Flower releases originally issued on the Acid Mothers Temple label (with the 1st Floating Flower LP also reissued as a lathe LP on Eclipse). "Floating Flower is an acid folk unit comprising me (Kawabata Makoto), Yuki, and Tetsuya Kaneko. The other two are always travelling around India, and I've forgotten where I first met them, but the group started when I suggested creating a folk unit that featured Yuki's vocals. But in the end we just spent all our time improvising these really long minimal pieces and they became our first album. Yuki starts singing and slips into a trance and flies off somewhere." Highly recommended! |
| Flowchart | Spirit of Kenny G | 12" | $8.99 | Black Bean &Placenta | New 4 track EP - Stereolab fans may dig this one | |
| 11/21/2009 | Flower of Flesh and Blood | Awesome Vistas #5 | LP + CD | $14.99 | Awesome Vistas | "This is the first release of music project by New York writer/musician SEAN KENNERLY. Eight songs of slow rock that has pop energy somewhere in it, it also sounds like the music itself has taken some type of pills, some sedatives, some mellowing downer of some kind. Musicians on recording are; Sean Kennerly singing, guitar; JEFF KISH guitar; HISHAM BHAROOCHA (BLACK DICE) drums; CHRIS JOHANSON bass. Recorded, mixed, and produced by CHRIS MOORE at Stay Gold and Headgear. Features art by Chris Johanson and JOHANNA JACKSON, silkscreened by NEIL BURKE at Monoroid." |
| 3/25/2008 | Flower, Michael / Eoin Shea | Syrian Rue | DVD-R | $18.99 | "Limited self-released DVD that bundles the hallucinatory full-colour experimental short films of UK avantist Eoin Shea (in a style that combines psychedelically altered real world footage and over the top technicolour visual fluctuations ala Kenneth Anger’s Magik Lantern Cycle) with unreleased music by Michael Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra. The sonics here are drawn from what would have been Flower’s first solo album, with long tracks of warped electric strings extended into aggressively amplified ragas. An inspired collaboration." - Volcanic Tongue. "Hand coloured / degraded / overlayed found super-8 footage. Four films made to recordings of Michael Flower shows from the Fall Brawl tour with Sunburned Hand of the Man and the Magik Markers in September 2005." - label. NTSC copies available - no PAL. | |
| 3/21/2009 | Flower-Corsano Duo | Four Aims | CD | $12.99 | Vhf | "The Four Aims is the much-anticipated second full-length by the long-running duo of MICK FLOWER (VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA, SUNROOF, MICHAEL FLOWER BAND) and CHRIS CORSANO (FLAHERTY/CORSANO, JANDEK, BJORK, SUNBURNED). In the couple years since their debut, The Radiant Mirror (Textile), the two have toured and recorded frequently, expanding their range to include a mind-boggling array of free sound. "I, Brute Force" kicks off the record with their signature-one of the most original in rock/free/whatever music-the electrifying sound of Flower's virtuosic, heavily amplified Japan Banjo (also known as a Shaahi Baaja) over Corsano's free-wheeling percussion. Other tracks show off subtle improv moves, with both players using extended techniques to generate a wide range of unusual sounds. Corsano's technical mastery is almost without peer in his generation (Alex Neilson, maybe)-his ability to take the lessons of nearly five decades of free playing and extend them into new ranges is startling and exciting. Rather than play backup, Corsano meets Flower's strings and organ head-on with his own drum-bowing, cello, and circular-breathing-fired melodica." |
| 12/12/2009 | Flower-Corsano Duo | The Chocolate Cities | CDR | $6.99 | "5 live cuts from Cambridge, UK & Geneva in 2009. Originally available on the Flower-Corsano U.S. Fall tour. Cover done in loving tribute to The Co-op's (UK grocery store) chocolate bar packaging." | |
| Flying Saucer Attack / Roy Montgomery | Goodbye | CDEP | $10.99 | Vhf | New collaboration comes on red vinyl - also on 12" | |
| 10/31/2009 | Flying Sutra | Glowering and Glowing Red | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Philadelphia's most dangerous free-rock duo thunders back with their second disc for Deep Water, more than confirming the promise of 2007's Levitate and Dissolve. Not content to merely reproduce their strengths, Glowering and Glowing Red (its title taken from a rave review of their first disc) expands the extremes in all directions - track lengths range from 38 seconds to 10+ minutes, the sonics get even broader and more exploratory via a wider sound palette and a growing mastery of real-time looping and effects, and the mood ranges from the monumental to the absurdist. Basically, these guys continue to ride a tectonic divide between art-punk skronk and heavy-duty free energy music with the kind of untamed precision that one usually expects only from your Japanese underground masters. Serious stuff here. Pro-pressed CDr, 14 tracks, 66 minutes." |
| 11/29/2007 | Flying Sutra | Levitate and Dissolve | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Flying Sutra is the new Philadelphia-based drums-guitar duo of Bob Cozzolino and George Draguns. While both men have long and varied musical resumes - from film scores to indie rock to avant-jazz - Levitate and Dissolve is their first release in this configuration, and it's a doozy: Nearly an hour of wild, urban-elemental art-punk/free-jazz that pitches tensely unwinding klang against whirlwind percussion to highly electric effect. We recommend you remain seated with safety belt fastened while listening." Opening for Bardo Pond soon in Philly. |
| 11/24/2003 | Flying Sweetie Dog | Songs About Men | CDR | $12.99 | Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon | "Chihuahua! A London-based, Danish/Japanese drunk-junk improv duo that gave me recurring nightmares of having raspberry jelly and sprinkles poured through a funnel into my ear. Sacchirine-addled, dement-o-phonics that surely falls well outside the parameters of normal behaviour. Highly recommended squeak’n’squeal!" |
| 4/10/2009 | Flynt, Henry | Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2 | LP | $14.99 | Locust | 180 gram vinyl. "Here we find ourselves hot on the skidmarks of Henry's brawl with sonic self invention documented on last summer's splendid Raga Electric with two complementary volumes emerging from the same physical time but a very different head space continuum indeed. On BPHB Volume 2, avant-hillbilly master fiddler Henry Flynt scuffles through a most peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches circa early to mid 1960s. From the enviable opening 'echo rock', in which Flynt does his best to compete with the electroecho buzz of a Jorgen Ingmann or Link Wray to the beauteous instrumental glow of the extended modal country jam of 'Jamboree,' Flynt proves once again that his is not a music simply rooted in the taut belt of New York-isms, schisms and jisms. This is music that howls from a unique voice whose love for the folk songbook (known and imagined) is as resonant as a cowbell and as deep as a freshwater well." Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. |
| 11/15/2008 | Flynt, Henry | C Tune | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "Back in print for the first time since it's 2002 release. Henry Flynt is a seasoned tourist of The World Of The Other Ear and C Tune is his ringing, psychedelic meditation on/from the cosmos. Call it a sonic postcard or call it late night head music or even call it ecstatic Minimalism if you have to. On this forty seven + minute foray, our man Flynt takes his electrified fiddle and blends his droning sonic calisthenics with lonesome swing melodies and high decibel screech to the somnambulistic playing of his expat mathematician pal C.C. Hennix on Pran Nath Tamboura. Recorded in 1980 in an undisclosed pocket of the galaxy and now available for blissful consumption." |
| 11/15/2008 | Flynt, Henry | Dharma Warriors | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "The Dharma Warriors was the elemental guitar / drum rock concoction of Henry Flynt & C.C. Hennix. In 1983, the pair hooked up in Woodstock at Hennix's rented house and let freedom ring with two lengthy boombox recordings. "Warriors of the Dharma" and "Mount Fuji on My Mind" are classics of unrefined blues boogie & unhemmed stoner rock." |
| 1/24/2009 | Flynt, Henry | Dharma Warriors | LP | $15.99 | Locust | "The Dharma Warriors was the elemental guitar/drum rock concoction of Henry Flynt & C.C. Hennix. In 1983, the pair hooked up in Woodstock at Hennix's rented house and let freedom ring with two lengthy boombox recordings. 'Warriors of the Dharma' and 'Mount Fuji on My Mind' are classics of unrefined blues boogie and unhemmed stoner rock." |
| 11/16/2004 | Flynt, Henry | I Don’t Wanna | LP | $25.99 | Bo' Weavil Recordings | “This is the limited (500 copies) vinyl pressing of Henry Flynt’s ‘I Don’t Wanna” originally released on CD on Locust. He's made his mark with his brand of ecstatic North Indian Raga inspired minimalism on C Tune, the full bodied experimentalism anthologized on Raga Electric and the avante-hillbilly bumpkin fiddle joyride on last year's Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1 & 2. Now it's time to make a place in your heart for I Don't Wanna! in which Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short lived 1966 basement rock protest band, The Insurrections. Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind: Flynt's version of protest music isn't your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. It's agro punk & Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium induced vox and electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed). Imagine a mix of Sky Saxon (of Seeds fame) with a dash of Roky Erickson on vocals, a little bit of the Cramps' scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage Pussy Galore and you get an idea what Flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. Features legendary sculptor Walter De Maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist there's a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. Photos by George Maciunas.” |
| Flynt, Henry | New American Ethnic Music Volume 2: Spindizzy | CD | $16.99 | Recorded | “This is an amazing document of the nihilist father of concept art and inventor of electronic Hillbilly music (see http://www.henryflynt.org). The record shows more than ever Flynt's musical genius, the audacity of his compositions (which seek to exalt rural southern music to a level beyond this civilization) and the strange qualitative fluidity of his playing. The record also has a much clearer hillbilly/bluegrass quality than his previous releases, including some fiddle solos that can be mistaken for field recordings of inspired musicians from the heyday of traditional bluegrass music. At the same time, the record is also full of surprises and some very strange compositional ideas, all tightly unified within Flynt's ineffable singular vision.” | |
| 4/10/2009 | Flynt, Henry | Raga Electric | LP | $14.99 | Locust | "In the early '60s, fresh from his clean behind the ears years at Harvard, Henry was undergoing rapid ideological shifts: cavorting with Maciunas and the whole Fluxus bit, doing performances at Yoko Ono's loft and recording with La Monte Young; having it out with his Stalinist cohorts over the relative merits of a good blues run and searching for a new musical language outside of the various generic artistic restrictions before him at the time. What he arrived at was an expressive practice he dubbed audact (auditory acognitive cultural activity) and that is what you will hear on this collection. Collecting key material from 1963 to 1971, Raga Electric is a 7 piece distillation of some of Henry's most adventurous, audactatious, outsider musical endeavors. The record begins with, of all things, a hybrid, off the wall treatment of the traditional supranationalist anthem The Marine's Hymn sung in a thick tongued, fully untudored Hindustani vocalese to brilliantly sun drenched, lightly strummed acoustic guitar accompaniment. The title cut, 'Raga Electric', is a twisted, howling fake hindustani rag with staccato untuned guitar and bleating screams recorded at his home just a few short hours after catching Pandit Pran Nath at a downtown morning concert. The howling orgasmic yodel of a visionary's self-posession and certain surrender on this 1966 cut puts Henry somewhere at the epicenter of the folk isolationist world of Jandek and the ethnodislocation of the Sun City Girls, to name but a few. The side long closer, 'Free Alto', is a monstrous exploration of the ins and outs of the tenor saxophone which, upon hearing it, Terry Riley referred to as 'a very articulated musical program'. Though it remains Henry's single meeting with the instrument, over the course of some 13 odd minutes, he finds out everything he needs to know about the horn and gets into some pretty hairy free squelch and squeal territory in the process. 'I was just pulling sounds out of a hat and just stringing them one should fit the heads of today's listeners just fine." - Dawson Prater. Limited edition 180 gram vinyl version. |
| 1/25/2004 | Flynt, Henry & The Insurrections | I Don't Wanna | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "Our man Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short lived basement rock protest band, The Insurrections, from 1966. Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind: Flynt's version of protest music isn't your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. It's agro and Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium induced vox and the electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed). Imagine a mix of Sky Saxon (of Seeds fame) with a dash of Roky Erickson thrown in on vocals, a little bit of the Cramps' scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage Pussy Galore and you get an idea what Flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. Features legendary sculptor Walter De Maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist there's a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. Photos by George Maciunas." |
| 5/9/2009 | FNU Ronnies | Golem | one-sided 12" silkscreened picture disc | $12.99 | Night People | "This record has been in the works for a little while now and we couldn't be more happy to see it finally out. FNU Ronnies find home turf in both Philly and Oakland and have a previous 7inch on Richie Records. This 12" contains the same material as the recent cassette/CD on Denmark's Skrot Up label but we think you'll find the reissue well worth it. Deluxe art work by band member Jim Vail with silkscreening by Shawn Reed, FNU Ronnies are a weird almost indescribable mix of fucked up hardcore propulsion, industrial heaviness, electronics thrashing, and punked out cyborg nihilism. Aesthetic themes elude to psychedelic nightmares, Middle Earth monsters, and generally dark times. Seeing this band live last summer was a revelation into how musical genres could be mutated into something truly unpredictable and inspiring." |
| 8/8/2009 | Foldhead | Drugs, Paint, Alcohol | CDR | $10.99 | Music Mundane | "After many many years in the wilderness (last heard of in the mid-90s), Music Mundane are proud to prise some of the most recent private recordings from the over-protective hands of Paul "Nonnen" Walsh, original other half of Smell & Quim. Spread over 40 minutes, these three tracks grow exponentially and repetitively as the disk progresses, smashing raw analogue electronics and digital processing into a huge hallucinatory wall of confusion. Welcome back!" |
| 7/19/2009 | Foldhead | Drugs, Paint, Alcohol | CDR | $10.99 | Music Mundane | "After many many years in the wilderness (last heard of in the mid-90s), Music Mundane are proud to prise some of the most recent private recordings from the over-protective hands of Paul "Nonnen" Walsh, original other half of Smell & Quim. Spread over 40 minutes, these three tracks grow exponentially and repetitively as the disk progresses, smashing raw analogue electronics and digital processing into a huge hallucinatory wall of confusion. Welcome back!" |
| 11/2/2008 | Foothills | The Sun is Fueled by the Fossil of Creation | cassette | $8.99 | Pizza Night | "If you have paid any attention to the music coming out of Lexington,KY in the past year or so, then you are no stranger to the cosmic sounds of Caboladies, a new'ish trio that explores the psych galaxies between ferocious electronics and mind stretching synth collage. Caboladies' tallest member, Eric Lanham has broken off two choice cuts of his own for this release, one live and one recorded at home. The live cut swells with strange synth patches that evolve with uncertainty until the rug is swept out from under you and the jam decays into sparse electronics thatll make you say "what????" and as the emptiness between clinks and clonks start to bubble over, there it is... THE GLORY!!! Flipside is a tightly focused piece thats like a refined 2077 version of the detroit fry zone. Debut tape for this mug. NEW HORIZONS." |
| 2/28/2006 | For Harlow's Monkeys | For Harlow's Monkeys | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Curor Recordings | "First audio document from this anarchist ramblers’ music group including Mel Delaney (Sculptress/Ashtray Navigations), Andrew Truth (Plane Truth zine), and Simon Morris and Kate Fear (Ceramic Hobs). Recorded at dawn while trespassing in privately owned woodland near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, July 2005. 12 minutes of chant/howl/recorders/violin/primitive rhythmic thump, spooked into gales of billowing roar. Sometimes the wood at 5 a.m. is a scary place to be. Watch out for their second EP on Phil Todd’s Memoirs of an Aesthete imprint. Edition of 50." |
| 12/17/2003 | Ford's Imaginary Inferno | Summer Breeze and Magic Trees | LP | $22.99 | Slavetrader | "Amsterdam formation rooted in the 60's west coast psych/folk/pop tradition, with a great album full of stunning melodies. Their songs are charactarized by a mellow, mystic atmosphere wth beautifull multi-layered harmony vocals and subtile arrangments. 10 Psychedelic pop songs in the tradition of BRIAN WILSON, CURT BOETTCHER, bringing to mind bands like SAGITTARIUS / MILLENIUM, STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK or LOVE's 'Forever Changes'. Limited edition of only 300 copies, VINYL ONLY!!!" |
| 8/2/2008 | Fordell Research Unit | The Shape of Rage | 3" CDR | $6.99 | First Person | "Fraser Burnett has quietly built up an assured reputation for consistent and solid releases for labels such as Lee Stokoe’s Matching Head, Blackest Rainbow (recently sharing a split LP with Culver) and his own Pjorn imprint. In an overcrowded genre, sitting through another slab of 'drone' music can sometimes feel like a laborious and thankless task, however, what works for me in this instance is the utter sincerity with which each release arrives. I get the impression that none of this music is forced, no hip references or longing to be part of 'it'’ (whatever the fuck 'it' is). Seven tracks of subtle brain melt that could easily stretch to an hour each, a canny tactic that has you reaching for the PLAY button as soon as it's over." First edition of 50 copies. |
| 10/31/2009 | Fordell Research Unit / Culver | split | 10" | $19.99 | "I love FRU & Culvers sounds, so to show my appreciation and love for their musik, ive been lucky enough to get to put this wee installment of a 10" record out to add to their already vast, impressive and brilliant cosmik catalogue of releases on labels of awesomenesses such as matching head, pjorn 72, basses frequences, dead sea liner, kovorox sound, turgid animal, dead pilot, sick head, at war with false noise, small doses and blackest rainbow to name but only a few. packaged in plain white disco jacket and paper inner with info card insert plus attached photos & art by Pete Burn and t. split 10" on black vinyl limited to 100 copies. one side each, one new track from each: Fordell Research Unit 'Nairac' (11:03) / Culver 'Before The Devils Came' (10:42)." - t | |
| 10/31/2009 | Fordell Research Unit / Culver | split | CDR | $9.99 | "There's also a wee run cdr with other different new tracks from each FRU and Culver - this also comes with artwork by Pete Burn. Tracks on the CDR: Culver 'Black Peacock' (18:16) / Fordell Research Unit (18:42) 1a) Nude Descending A Pole* For Duchamp And Richter ~ 1b) This Library Has No Fuck-Books ~ 1c) La Casa, L'Assassino ~ 1d) Saltwell" Edition of 50 copies. | |
| 5/8/2005 | Forest | Forest | CD | $18.99 | Radioactive Records | New, official reissue (previous version on BGO is long gone). Like their C.O.B. reissue, this is a stepped up quality remaster from Radioactive. Originally issued by Harvest in 1969, this is one of the definite debut folk albums of all time. "As the 1960s progressed, almost every musical genre was affected by the psychedelic boom - and folk was no exception. Artists such as Bert Jansch, Davy Graham and Donovan had introduced elements of world music into their repertoires by 1965, and in 1966 the Incredible String Band's debut kicked the door wide open for a generation of young musicians to follow. Forest, whose two Harvest albums have long elated listeners and eluded collectors, featured prominently among them, and have become synonymous with so-called 'acid folk', inspiring - alongside Vashti Bunyan, COB and a handful of others - the current wave of successful underground folk acts. Originally called The Foresters Of Walesby the band abbreviated their name to Forest and were fortunate enough to meet John Peel at a local gig and he encouraged them to play in London. After a triumphant gig in Notting Hill's All Saints Hall at Christmastime 1968, Forest were offered a management deal with Blackhill Enterprises, home to amongst others, Pink Floyd and Roy Harper. It wasn't long before offers of record contracts came their way and the band eventually signed to EMI's nascent Harvest label. This, their debut album was recorded at Abbey Road early in 1969 and featured completely original material, with their strangely-sculptured melodies and partially improvised accompaniment. The playing is often inspired and the album's recording quality excellent. Mastered at Abbey Road by NickWebb from the original analogue tapes. Featuring full participation from founding band member Martin Welham." |
| 8/23/2009 | Forest Creature | Frustrated Analogue | CD | $13.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Very pleased to announce the first 'proper' release from this local duo of Ben Moon and Richard Sides, and a very new sound for Blackest Rainbow. Forest Creature has been through many different sounds, starting as a fairly harsh noise experience opening for bands like Wolf Eyes and Jazkamer back when we did shows, they later on incorporated live drums and screwed up vocals, and a purely animal live experience. The duo's sound has progressed more and more over the last year, with more and more different sounds collating to make Forest Creature reach a point where they have their very own sound. Their previous sound would've fitted nicely into the Load Records roster, and then building to sound more like some kind of blend of Black Dice, early Animal Collective and Fuck Buttons. But now over the last few months I've experienced some of their best live performances yet (performed in near total darkness with flickering TV screen and bulbs) they pummel their audience with thumping beats, raging psychedelic synth, broken glitches and clicks, they seemed to have found a definite place that seems to be right for them. Strangely enough some of this material even reminds me of the supreme days of Sheffield's techno and IDM music boom back in the late 80s and early 90s with legends like Autechre, Black Dog, and the hay day of my favourites on Warp Records. If you're into Black Dice, Warp Records, Animal Collective and aren't afraid of a little beat here and there then I suggest you check out Forest Creature! Glass mastered pro pressed CD (not CDR) in full colour pro printed CD wallet." |
| 3/24/2008 | Forest Creature / Ryan Garbes and Gerre Hancock | split | cassette | $9.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Forest Creature are an insane duo that emerged out of the brief Blackout Band sessions. Duo of Ben (former BR store employee) and Richard. Total nutso weirdo noise shit, dumb electronics and self taught drums clatters... thrown in some scrapes, fights and pure dense noise with the odd barely recognizable vocal and you got Forest Creature... one flowing blurted nightmare. Ryan Garbes is the drummer from Iowa's Raccoo-oo-oon, and on this release he is joined by organist Gerre Hancock. Inititially the opening to this sounds like your in the big top surrouned by some chirpy clowns, elephants hand standing on balls, and dudes in big hats taming tigers... But then the psychedelia hits in, and man is it a trip! Far out smoky drones with elephants getting high - Dumbo style. Clowns becoming some kinda Nosferatu blood suckers - Tom Cruise Interview with a Vampire style. Grooving stoned lions dancing reeaaaallll slow, kicking the tamers asses whilst giggling away. one hell of a far out experience. Limited to 70." |
| 10/22/2009 | Forest Swords | Miarches | cassingle | $5.99 | Leftist Nautical Antiques | "The one that really started it all. A dramatic trudge on the British coast filled with pulsing dubsoul and swampy bogged down peninsular drone feelings. Complete with slicing guitars and room filling swamp beats. I'm not really sure what any of that means, but this tape is some of the freshest dank around. Next level jams. There will also soon be a FS 12" EP released by the splendid Olde English Spelling Bee. Pro-dubbed opaque yellow CS in legit o-card packaging designed by Matt Barnes (a.k.a. Forest Swords) in an edition of 125." |
| 8/28/2007 | Formatt | Minor Curations | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Pseudoarcana | "I first heard Peter Smeekens Formatt project on a 3" CD put out by RoboRecords and was an overnight devotee. In fact I was such a fan that I've been harassing him for a release ever since and I'm excited to be able to say that my dream has come true and that its finally available. Formatt is resolutely a digital artist. He creates his pieces from heavily processed glitches, chimings, loops and drones, the original sound sources virtually impossible to discern. In an over-crowded genre Smeekens manages to transcend the clichés of his umpteen thousand peers. Somehow simply bathing in the complexity of the not-quite abstract rhythmic patterns of his music makes one feel SMARTER, like one could sit down and pluck radical new mathematical theorem out of the air. The intuitive patterns created are as electrically stimulating as a cluster of synaptic sparks. Minor Curations’ is a single 17.55min piece that hums and rings and glips through 2 short movements. Your room will vibrate with atomic activity and your pictures rearrange themselves on your wall." |
| 8/9/2003 | Forms of Things Unknown | Cross Purposes | CD | $9.99 | Panaxis Records | “Cross Purposes marks the recording debut of Forms of Things Unknown: a five-track / 30-minute EP of music ranging from dark ambient dirge to medieval pilgrim song to jazz-inflected art rock - Forms of Things Unknown being the delinquent brainchild of San Francisco multi-instrumentalist Ferrara Brain Pan. Ferrara Brain Pan's checkered musical career includes early collaborations with noise music pioneer BOYD RICE a/k/a NON (1970s), ambient dub project 23 DEGREES (early 90s), and a fortuitous uncredited appearance on 1994's Rien by Krautrock legends FAUST (produced by JIM O'ROURKE). More recently the artist was co-founder (with URE THRALL) of dark ambient duo DARMSTADT PHARMACY. Cross Purposes was mixed and produced from material played entirely by Ferrara Brain Pan, excepting vocal performances by Bob Ayres and Shannon Wolfe and a cameo guest appearance by 'Babs Santini' a/k/a STEVEN STAPLETON of renowned musical subversives NURSE WITH WOUND. A study in contradictions, the album features a 16-minute original instrumental doomscape entitled ‘Black Candles & Pentagrams 'n Shit’, paired off against a 14th Century devotional Christian song and a cover of the morally ambiguous ‘Stupid Blood’, penned by UK punk legend HOWARD DEVOTO.” |
| 9/17/2009 | Forsyth, Chris & Nate Wooley | The Duchess Is Dead, Long Live The Duchess | CDR | $8.99 | Chocolate Monk | “Global navigation satellite sytsems have made the old surveying process of triangulation unnecessary. That is to say, when you want to make a map these days, you just take a big cosmic snapshot & draw it. Guess it beats working out your scale of reference from a few points on the ground with some string & pencils. However, these two polite, mannered gentlemen are old fashioned. And old fashioned is the kind of guys the world needs, because they're the kind you would let babysit your kids. So instead of downloading the Buddha app to a fucking iphone, the pair go Euclidean by laying down lines across each other's playing, quietly looking for fixed angles. Little bubbles & abrasions from Wooley's trumpet mouthpiece. Planes of wavering tone from Forsyth's guitar. Live at Zorn's club in NYC.” - Angela Sawyer, Weirdo Records |
| 5/23/2009 | Fosco, Pete | Autumn Fire Blues | cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Our man in ohio knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em cuz on "autumn fire blues," he's burning the whole thing into a pile of silken ash. fosco just plain rules. his skill in crafting soaring guitar drones is up there with the best of 'em. "autumn fire blues" takes what he started on last year's "dust, american dust" and pushes it over the edge and into the abyss. anchors of bleed drip from the ceiling coating everything in a thick layer or crimson bliss. this is music for the last season. music for the last days, to see us off into the heavens as they crumble. pure magic. pete fosco. for life. look for a digi lp later this year. edition of 85 copies, pro-dubbed like solid fucken gold." |
| 9/17/2009 | Fossils | A Common Confusion | CDR | $9.99 | Bug Incision | "Another slab of basement strangeness from this Hamilton, Ontario-based trio/duo. The consistent element is David Payne, and he's joined by a mixture of Steve Smith and Daniel Farr. The sound quality here is out of step with the majority of Fossils' boombox-recorded catalogue, but the relatively crisp, bright recording yields a new attention to detail and smaller sounds. The enhanced fidelity dones't, however, make it any easier to tell what the fuck is happening. Another basement baffler. Recorded in early 2009, at mjc HQ. Edition of 50 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves." - label. |
| 10/6/2007 | Fossils | Action Zombie | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "More from the mind bent, rusty tape deck motor slow mist keyes of Hamilton, Ontario. th darkness unfolds as th keyes are bent. far out edition of 50." |
| 7/10/2008 | Fossils | Airport Journals | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "The first time i saw fossils i was sitting far to stoned on a piano bench in ontario and they fucking killed it. i like to think that is exactly how they recorded "airport journals" - superfluously blazed on some canadian piano furniture. the boughner / smith / payne trio bring it here with thirty minutes of circuit crunching, mind numbing, limb twitching junk. shit that makes you grind your teeth and then fall over. these are some serious bottom of the ocean sounds. everything was recorded live, straight to tape, making for some raw crawls into the gutter." |
| 4/10/2009 | Fossils | Die Job | cassette | $4.99 | Anathema Sound | "The stoned saga of Ontario 's relentless destroyers continues. With tapes, electronics, guitars, reeds, and perhaps even the kitchen sink as their tools, you can always count on Fossils to deliver heavy batches of cathartic clatter and downright WTF. Die Job is certainly no exception. Side A teams regulars Steve Smith, Daniel Farr, and David Payne with Detroit bruiser Andrew Coltrane for a session that gradually builds and claws itself to fucking pieces. Side B finds the core duo of Smith and Payne administering the dosage much slower, but still burning all the way down. Bleached scalps and rattled bones may result from listening to these recordings. With full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub." Edition of 50 copies. |
| 3/26/2006 | Fossils | Fossils | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "weird band. weird band from Can. drum signals in an elevator, sounds like a bunch of live sets cut-up or is it??? then you get of the bus and your at the zoo??? coOol boombox something. members of offensive orange. fills the tape full of ???. edition 50." |
| 4/16/2007 | Fossils | Get | cassette | $9.99 | Tape Tektoniks | "Confused canadian feedback unit bending things that are meant to break." |
| 6/11/2006 | Fossils | Illuminations | CDR | $12.99 | long long chaney | "Full-length disc from this Offensive Orange offshoot piloted to nada by Mr David Payne of Fag Tapes infamy. Beautifully confused shovel of electric threat with massive machine melodies, bells, cut-up tapes, conveyor belts of noise in classic American hobbyist/LAFMS scientific freak style." |
| 9/17/2009 | Fossils | Import | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Well it's another one! versatile! check check! minimal cycles. creepy fossils parts. swarms of insect sounds and mysterious tape un-earthed from tombs. hand-numbered / painted edition 25." |
| 7/16/2006 | Fossils | untitled | CDR | $9.99 | Fag Tapes | "Songs go all over the place. Canadian wreckage from elephant security breach alarm to garbage brass and guitar. digi-bit alien encounter and stoned coal truck corn husker." |
| 3/20/2007 | Fossils | Void For Rent | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "More decrepit bug covered tape slime from Hamilton Ontario fuckin' Canada! magnetic scratch drags in the purple night. edition 77." |
| 11/4/2006 | Fossils / Altar of Flies | untitled | CDR | $10.99 | Hasten & Korset | "The altar of flies/Fossils cd-r on "hästen & korset" are out today, amazing artwork by www.mattiasfrisk.com. 2 panel folded pro-printed color covers in vinyl jacket and with a exclusive vinyl sticker specially made for the split cd-r. 63 minutes playtime, First press 66 copies..." |
| 2/4/2007 | Fossils / Evenings / Sick Llama | Poison yer mind, harden yer Fears | CDR | $9.99 | Fag Tapes | "colab. organ, electronics,tapes, etc. some of us were in the kitchen and some of us were in the adjoining room. foggy wierd straight to tape jam style. edition 50." |
| 9/30/2008 | Fossils From The Sun | Associate Of Mercy | CDR | $13.99 | Reverb Worship | "Fossils From The Sun (Ffrthesun) is Raymond Hare who is one half of the Century Plants duo.The cd contains eight superb tracks. Ray's music conjures up organic industrial rhythms, drones, strange muffled oblique vocal stylings and guitars.The cd is available in an edition of 55 copies with covers with a design of namibian face masks printed on flourescent orange card." |
| 11/15/2008 | Fossils From the Sun | Somebody's Gotta Lose | 3" CDR | $5.99 | Abandon Ship Records | "The latest release from Ray Hare's (Century Plants, Burnt Hills) Fossils From the Sun is a 19 minute sonic geography where fuzzed guitar propulsion buckles into static beats and shaken vox damage. Think Omit's desolation, Spacemen 3's nod and Alan Vega's terrorism. Refract that through the brutality of Century Plants Bloodrise and Somebody's Gotta Lose appears on the horizon - a dub of the sun." Edition of 50 copies. |
| 11/2/2008 | Fossils From The Sun | The Living Mixer | cassette | $6.99 | Peasant Magik | "Ever wonder what is happening underneath all of murk and distortion that is Century Plants? This might end up confusing you even more. Number three in the leftover cassette series." Edition of 39 copies. |
| 4/24/2006 | Foster, Josephine | A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "Over the course of just a few years, Josephine Foster has captivated audiences & critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry (BORN HELLER), fiery psych rock gestalt (ALL THE LEAVES ARE GONE) to the voice of an outsider folk siren (HAZEL EYES, I WILL LEAD YOU). The two constants are the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice & the bravery of her iconoclastic spirit. For anyone else, what lies inside her latest offering, "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," might be a freakish turn but for Josephine Foster this is a grand part of a continual movement. And so it goes, "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" is a deeply absorbing, magical reconstruction of 19th century miniature German art song - the intimate sibling to operatic arias customarily performed in the parlor . The album floats in a wash of blissed out voice and electric guitar in an almost dreamlike fashion through a salon of her own invention. In a music where sacred cows roam the pastures a plenty, Foster pays tribute - on her own terms - and in the process makes a case for German as a new found romance language." |
| 12/12/2009 | Foster, Josephine | Graphic As A Star | LP | $22.99 | Fire | "This is the first record from U.S. minstrel-folk chanteuse Josephine Foster on Fire Records. Graphic As A Star is based upon the poems of the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson. Josephine lays stair-steppy melodies beneath a collection of Dickinson gems and sings them with a burnished soulfulness like the purple sunsets so often described in the poems. Massachusetts mountains, pearled spider-webs and folk hero William Tell, are all present in this unforgettable meeting of Dickinson's poesy and Foster's music, making a natural and inevitable whole. Ms. Foster is a Colorado-born artist whose songwriting draws from far corners of the musical spectrum to form a truly singular body of work. Her voice is sometimes compared to singers as disparate as Grace Slick, Shirley Collins or Tiny Tim, and it's certainly difficult to pigeonhole her varied music. She says her craft is strongly shaped by "Tin Pan Alley on my maternal side, rock and roll on the paternal side, Western folk music by birth, art-song and classical music via my adolescent passions." A personal introduction to Graphic As A Star from Josephine herself: "As to the source of these interludes, I wrote them this past winter while living in this remote, half-abandoned Spanish mountain village, a deadly quiet place with occasional interruptions of goats' bells, donkey brays, and the church bell announcing the passing of another old neighbor every day or so. I had just a few books with me, and one was the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Her poems proved such good company, that in a few short weeks appeared this 'song cycle.' Whether for the irony of distance and homesickness being 3 years away, or through inevitable kinship with this long-dead lady, these songs seem to veer more towards America than ever before. Back in music school, I heard a few musical settings of Dickinson made by classical composers, but it's my hope to unite some of her poems into more intimate and intuitive musical settings, being so lyrical and transparent as they are.'" |
| 10/25/2008 | Foster, Josephine | This Coming Gladness | LP | $24.99 | Bo' Weavil | "Previously released on CD by Bo' Weavil Recordings, now available on vinyl. This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labelling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson." |
| 9/29/2004 | Foster, Josephine & The Supposed | All the Leaves are Gone | CD | $12.99 | Locust | “Last Spring, you may have gotten a dose of opera school dropout Josephine Foster's startling mixture of avant arrangements & acoustic mountain folk as ½ of the spare twisted up Appalachian duo, Born Heller. To many, the effect of her voice - on record and in concert - has been nothing short of chilling since the duo's locust debut. After a 180 degree shift in style only, Josephine Foster & the Supposed offer up a 12 cut blow out that's exuberant and hard hitting. On All the Leaves Are Gone, Josephine embraces her rock and roll heart and intuitively summons up the mojo of legendary songstress Patti Smith as she rides the crest of a fluid and angular rhythm section that's as triumphant as the sound of classic Television and trebly west coast psychedelia from decades gone by. Lyrically, stylistically and musically, this is a fearless, soon to be classic post-punk rock and roll record that delivers the goods from start to finish. All the Leaves are Gone was originally dreamed up as a rock opera. Before visions of Jesus Christ Superstar start dancing in your head, play this record - just for a minute - and you'll know there is something happening here that's unlike anything else you've ever heard.” – label. “This album utilises a traditional group format but the results are no less disquieting. This is disturbing, inward-looking stuff, reminiscent of west coast psych if Fly Agaric had been the drug of choice. Patti Smith is a very loose starting point but Foster also appears to be channeling the aforementioned Galas, K.U.K.L period Bjork and hippy folk visionary Tom Rapp. Opener Well Heeled Man could well be Shirley Collins picnicking with the Manson family.” - Peter Redmond, Mojo |
| 2/4/2007 | Foster, Sticky & Neil Campbell | Live at RRRecords / Long Distance Moan | square lathe cut 8" | $25.99 | Alt.Vinyl | Features John Olson (Dead Machines, Wolf Eyes...) on one side - numbered edition of 150 copies. |
| 2/17/2003 | Foust, Scott | The Fighting Sensualist | C90 cassette | $8.99 | Swill Radio | "A retrospective of my career that was supposed to (or has) come out on Freedom From. I never got any copies. Thanks. Copies have been seen, but without the booklet. And the two Freedom From copies I did hear were 60's! The actual tape is a 90. I really do expect a bit more than this. I worked very hard compiling the music and even harder writing and collecting photographs for the booklet. So, I'm going to release it myself. It isn't quite ready yet, and I don't know the price, but don't buy the one on Freedom From. Almost all unreleased material. Y Front, Red Light, Stabat Mater, XX Committee, Story of Failure, Anschluss, IFCO, The Red Disk, New Peculiars, Tart, The Motor of History. I still can't be stopped." Nicely packaged. |
| 6/26/2003 | Fox, The | For Fox Sake | LP | $15.99 | RPM | "Rare and much sought after, the amusingly titled ‘For Fox Sake,’ originally released in 1970, was the first and only release by this obscure British psychedelic band. Characterized by the dizzying Hammond organ of the talented Alex Lane, original copies of the album are hot items on the collector's auction block. Original artwork, gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl, UK import." |
| 5/1/2009 | Fraction | Moon Blood | LP | $27.99 | Phoenix Records | "Los Angeles-based Fraction's heavy psych classic Moon Blood was originally released on the Angelus record label in 1971. Only 200 copies were pressed, so originals are currently worth a small fortune. Fraction, with vocalist Jim Beach, bearing an uncanny vocal resemblance to Jim Morrison (although he was singing on Sunset Strip long before Morrison took to the stage), were often compared favorably with The Doors, although their quasi-religious message would probably not have found favor with the recently-departed Morrison. Indeed, this rather fine record was once famously described as the album The Doors probably wished they'd made! Underpinned by guitarist Don Swanson's superb Ritchie Blackmore-style guitar work, this is an album full of beautiful psychedelia, acid and hard rock, at once emblematic of the era, but not dated by its association. The five original compositions are consistently of the highest quality and the contribution of Beach's now legendary vocals places a stamp of originality on the recording that endures from beginning to end. Monstrously heavy, howling, epic psych that is basically a must-own. A truly excellent album. Featuring the original die-cut cover with colored cellophane, and pressed on 180 gram vinyl." - FE |
| 4/10/2005 | Fractions | Barometer | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Kindling | "Deep water sonar explorations from Mssrs Busby and Craig, recorded in a house perched over the ocean on a rainy weekend at the beach. Trumpet loops and synth gurgle garnished with micro scrapings of rock and shell collected on walks around the headland. From the mirrored eye of the bottomless rock pool..." |
| 7/16/2009 | Fragments | Kinetic Sphere | c20 cassette | $7.99 | Deception Island | "Those of you who've spent any serious time in Cleveland know that it's barely possible to leave your house without getting pancaked by some anvil or other of phenomenally damaged tapes. Jeff Hatfield and Zach Troxell, aka Fragments, were responsible for the last such anvil to have my name on it before I split for Philly last year, and their self-titled debut left me scratching my head at the point of impact for months, trying to fathom what the hell they could possibly be THINKING. Then again, as Hatfield confided in me at the bar after Fragments turned in a tense and gnarled basement set at the Champagne of Fests III this past March, "I'm not even really sure that I have a head right now," so perhaps I'm overanalyzing it and the crux of the project is in fact the very billion-yard stare amply documented on the "Synthetic Spremulli" dvdr and made more than audible on a slew of subsequent releases for Hanson, Pizza Night, A Sounddesign, and Tusco Embassy. Regardless, I can think of few contemporary synth projects as genuinely weird as this one, and "Kinetic Sphere" is incredibly gnarled stuff, kicking off like a steel door opening onto the gentle throb of miniature worlds under glass and staging it's first crescendo as the inhabitants discover space travel, summoning a great purring of afterburners and flashing of lasers, then hanging out around the rafters in a cloud of acrid smoke. Side two begins with a wonderful settled/unsettled "Drift Studies"-esque detuned test tone that gradually accumulates filigree before blindsiding the listener with a split-second glimpse into the abyss, a pendulum that only swings farther and farther, and an ending reminiscent of the coda of Schnitzler's "Meditation," in which dub space, once appropriated, becomes literal, carceral, and oppressive, and our heroes keep on throttling the cosmic slot machine amid a beery haze, in a vain attempt to escape the tape itself." Hand-numbered edition of 150. |
| 2/6/2003 | Francis, Richard | Three Tracks | 3" CD | $6.99 | CMR / Stateart | "This cd contains three compositions recorded in late 2001 in Japan (where Richard formally resided) and mixed in mid 2002 in New Zealand. Source material stems from both organic and mechanical/synthetic ambient field recordings abstracted and carefully arranged into subtle sound compositions. Richard works with the smaller details of a recorded sound event or object, meaning the subtlety of this work is better appreciated with headphones, however the compositions also blend beautifully with the surrounding environment as they gently drift out of stereo speakers. Three Tracks sits well in Richard’s catalogue of field recording manipulation and follows a fabulous 7" on Drone Records, Germany." |
| 5/8/2005 | Francis, Richard / Stefan Neville / Howard Stelzer / Clinton Watkins | untitled | lathe cut 8" | $12.99 | CMR | "Side A is an improvisation recorded one evening in August 2003 by myself (Richard Francis, Eso Steel) on computer, Stefan Neville (Pumice, Stabbies Recordings etc) on drums, cartridges and buzzbox, and Clinton Watkins (Three, Doe, Whitebass etc) on guitar. Side B is piece constructed by myself and Howard Stelzer after a mail exchange using sound material recorded at the August session. Home made paper cover and insert." Edition of 60 copies. |
| 1/15/2005 | Franciscan Hobbies, The | Walls Are Stuck | CD | $12.99 | Music Fellowship | "San Francisco's The Franciscan Hobbies return with their fourth full-length album (& second proper CD) of cooperative folk-noise & abstract nature processionals. Based around Thuja-explorers Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chasse & Rob Reger, this free-form musical body also encompasses another half-dozen friends from likeminded bands such as The Muons, The Buried Civilizations, Leaf Yard & The Shitty Listeners. The title Walls are Stuck was inspired by a quote from Pandit Pran Nath: 'Inside, walls are stuck; outside, ideas fly in all directions.' The Hobbies have been known to put this into practice by taking their junk folk–instruments, boomboxes & mini-discs outside, gathering in canyons, creek beds, backyards, and on porches & beaches. The Franciscan Hobbies are part of the expansive Jewelled Antler forest of bands & projects. Jewelled Antler Co-founders Glenn Donaldson & Loren Chasse have been involved in creating over 25 CD-R’s, CD’s, records & tapes, ranging from straight field recordings to multi-layered psych-pop music to rumbling drones. Glenn Donaldson also appears as The Ivytree, The Birdtree, The Skygreen Leopards, the Blithe Sons & a dozen others, recording for such labels as Catsup Plate, Jagjaguwar, Fat Cat, Family Vineyard, Emperor Jones & 267 Lattajja. Fellow Blithe Son, Loren Chasse records as OF & is also a member of The Child Readers & Coelacanth, with releases on Anomalous, Mallard Lake, Emperor Jones & Family Vineyard." |
| Franecki, Richard | She Goes Just A Little Mad Sometimes | 7" | $5.99 | Stomach Ache | F/i member on transparent orange vinyl. | |
| 9/30/2005 | Franklin's Mint | Gold | CD | $11.99 | Sunburned | "A brand new album from this group effort led by PHIL FRANKLIN, along with fellow members of SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, KIRSTEN McCORD (REX/Ecstatic Peace recording artist), and ADAM NODELMAN (BORBETOMAGUS, CRASH WORSHIP). Fourteen tracks of laidback psych-tinged folk rock relief produced by TONY GODDESS (Papas Fritas), and packaged with fold-out 3-D silk-screened pyramid jackets with inner booklets. Limited edition pressing of 1,000 copies." |
| 2/12/2008 | Franklin's Mint | Time Bends Light | CDR | $15.99 | "New limited self-released solo album from Phil Franklin, Sunburned Hand Of The Man's wildcard stand-up man, art visionary and song and dance man. The follow-up to the excellent Gold CD, this one stretches further into the kind of saw-dust gargling American country-honk forms of players like Steve Young, Country Honk-era Stones, Flying Burrito Brothers, Skip Spence and The Grateful Dead circa Working Man's Dead. Franklin is a beautiful songwriter with a very personal take on classic song writing and private press sonics and this is an excellent collision of both that takes his vision well outside of the Sunburned cultus and into the stream of classic American songforms. Comes packaged in a wooden box with paste-on artwork. Edition of 100." - Volcanic Tongue | |
| 7/30/2006 | Free Players, The | The Free Players | CD | $12.99 | Last Visible Dog | "The Free Players are a super-group of featuring members of Finnish free-jazz pawnpins Vapaa, Kheta Hotem, Kundalini Snakes and the venerable Keijo Virtanen. While previous documents of this band exist, this is apparently the more democratic version (no longer is it 'Keijo and the Free Players'), a shift documented by the more accessible sound here. What we have here is an hour long set of jams that seems more reminiscent of Floyd and the Dead than what we've come to expect from Keijo's previous output. Wild guitar leads and wailing sax (nevermind the space-organ) reveals immediately what cloth this recording has been cut from--which is to say that 'The Free Players' is a true psychedelic album!" - label |
| 2/10/2004 | Freedom | Nerosubianco | LP | $29.99 | Merry-Go-Round | "A '60s psych classic unearthed! Featuring two ex-members of Procol Harum, Freedom sounded in places, similar to early Traffic adding a jazzy feel to their psych tinged rock. This is the soundtrack to the film ‘Nerosubianco’ recorded in 1968. Some of it, such as the opening ‘To Be Free’ is pure Rubble Psych...Limited to 1000 numbered copies." – Freak Emporium |
| 7/31/2006 | Freedom's Children | Astra | CD | $15.99 | Gallo Record Company | "Long lost reissue of the classic second LP (1970) by Freedom's Children, deemed by many to be their defining moment. Said Nic Martens, one of the engineers for Astra who also played organ on the album: 'What many are unaware of, is that Astra was recorded from a Friday night, to the Monday morningŠ on a four track Studer, eight fader Siemans valve mixer, an echo plate, with some help from a Lesley amp and a modified echo box.' Not only did the album capture for posterity the unique sounds - dubbed 'astral music' or 'acid rock' - of arguably South Africa's finest band ever, but it also caught the mood of the drug-infused culture that had taken root on the southern tip of Africa in the post Woodstock love and peace era. From the driving lead of Julian's lead guitar, a perfect match for the amphetamine and speed culture of the day, to the surreal, trippy sound of the band that tuned into the growing use of LSD, Astra captured the mood and the sounds of the early 70s South African music scene. This Gallo reissue was re-mastered by Peter Pearlson, the country's top engineer. Owing to problems of distribution, only a miniscule quantity of this superb CD reissue found its way onto the market in South Africa and almost none were seen outside of South Africa. Rumours abounded concerning what had become of the remaining copies from the small initial pressing. After a great deal of searching we finally tracked them down. The last copies of a terrific reissue." - Lion Productions |
| 12/30/2002 | French Paddleboat | Rome Loves Tan | LP | $10.99 | Catsup Plate | "Rome Loves Tan, though just now getting a vinyl release, was originally released in 1996 as a small-edition cassette on the esteemed Union Pole label. F.P. was never quite happy with some of the idiosyncrasies of the record, but later Paddleboat recordings and his work as one-half of Vote Robot commanded his attention and the songs were left as-is until now. This new version of Rome represents a more fully realized vision than the original tape did: F.P. tightened up and reworked the songs and loops. One song was replaced with a more fully realized piece (‘Indication of Motion,’ track 3, side 2). In a sense, this version offers insight into both the earlier work of French Paddleboat, as well as what he's up to now. Edition of 300 copies in ‘paint-by-number’ silkscreened jackets." |
| 3/23/2007 | French Quarter | Overpassing | CDR | $8.99 | Arbor | "The best thing about Arizona is either that it is warm(like very warm), but not humid or the burgeoning music scenes centered around the Phoenix/Tempe area. With shows going on multiple nights a week at places like Trunkspace and Modified Arts, how could a dude not be totally inspired? Stephen Steinbrink aka French Quarter is a Phoenix, AZ desert dweller with a guitar and some friends. He writes songs that will bring back the feelings of hearing that Neil Young bootleg tape in your cousin's car for the first time. He is joined by a cast of talented Arizonans from bands such as Tent City and Soft Shoulder. The tracks are wonderfully orchestrated by Steinbrink featuring a never ending array of instrumentation. New LP forthcoming on Gilgongo Records(of Tempe,AZ). In a numbered edition of 100 copies with gold stamped discs and trifold inserts in two color silkscreened chipboard arigato pack." |
| 2/11/2006 | Fresh Maggots | Fresh Maggots | LP | $29.99 | Amber Soundroom | "Fresh Maggots came from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England and recorded their only vinyl in London 1971, which was absolutely well done. Fresh Maggots were just two people, Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin. They played acid folk-rock with electric and acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, tambourine, violin, tin whistles and vocals. The original vinyl is very much sought-after today, so this reissue will help to get a vinyl of Fresh Maggots for a reasonable price today. 180-gram-vinyl and great sound-quality! Comes with an interesting insert, consisting of many personal memorabilia of Mick and Leigh like photos, articles in news-papers and tickets." |
| 2/4/2007 | Friday Group | Crystal Eunuch Reversal | CDR | $12.99 | Wholly Other/ Twilight Flight Sound | "3 chunks from the 2005 friday group west coast tour from the unashamed masters of the stoned moan (tom carter, shawn mcmillen, matt martinez, brian smith). slow motion ethno blues drawl that piles up into balls of tentacled fury, with the occasional blast of blistering fuzz thrown in. far, far away from the tranquility of the beta-lactam debut LP (still available)! handpainted/ drawn/ xeroxed covers by shawn, edition of 150 copies." - Tom Carter |
| 6/7/2005 | Friday Group | Friday Group | LP | $20.99 | Beta-Lactam Ring | "A group to end all weeks, indeed! From out of the Great Republic of Texas, and a new side project from Tom Carter (Charalambides), Brian Smith (Iron Kite), Shawn McMIllen (Ash Castles on the Ghst Coast, Iron Kite), and Blake Carlisle rises a lone star called Friday Group. In a seemingly appropriate gesture, the opening scherzo of droney solo guitar twang blows dusty debris across the speakers, as if a small sand storm in a remote part of Amarillo. With wind wrestling loose gutters and flat chimes, the first movement is almost a weird paean to Ry Cooder's desolate Paris Texas score. Axe attacks hover thick and dragging in the hazy distance, strings sounding as if played a single wind at a time. Jittery, slithery, prepared warbled tremolos flutter warm in extended notes that drip like old paint. If you've never had the pleasure, the later addition of harmonium and the further devolution of the guitar into howling halos of rusty hinges is virtually the embodiment of a drive through western Texas. Slow motion, spacious landscapes of thirsty air and lazy lizards. Perhaps The Great Republic will rise again. In the mean time, Tom Carter's Friday Group will make mincemeat out of a month of Sundays." Recommended! |
| 8/8/2009 | Friday Group | Who Wants To Look At A Bunch Of Broken Pottery When You Can Haul Ass Down The Freeway | LP | $21.99 | Wholly Other | "One-sided LP of looped/live collage action swirled up into mass gtr/ drum ritual terror. Far darker than previous FG stuff. Blank LP side is a blood-red silkscreen." Edition of 214 copies. |
| 9/30/2005 | Friday Group, The | Wet Fur | CDR | $11.99 | Wholy Other / Twilight Flight Sound | September 2001 recordings from Austin, TX featuring Tom Carter, Brian C. Smith, Shawn McMillen, and Matt Martinez. Nice! |
| 11/17/2007 | Friday the 13th | John Wiese / Dead Machines / Damion Romero | DBL LP | $24.99 | Anarchymoon Recordings | "Fierce live recording of this epic event on Jan 13, 2006. one side per set, including final side of 4-way collaboration. somehow they managed to fuse the minimal low-fi rig of Dead Machines with the maximal power cycle of Damion Romero and spatious neutron radiation of John Wiese, i was wondering how they were gonna pull it off.... it is a crunch-roaring bewilderment in sound. John Wiese - sonic landscapes that swirl and build, psychedelic even / Dead Machines - slow grind through homemade speaker-suitcase. a groovy ride on nails and steel wool / Damion Romero - physical psychic, you could feel it in the concrete floor / 4-way collab - thunder-wail with flowers and sharks. sonic hallucinations all - 2xLP black vinyl, pro labels, high-quality 3 color covers screened by Seizure Palace in the usual beyond-sick fashion on 12"x40" sheets. limited edition of 515" |
| 6/27/2009 | Frondheim Gearhart | In Elegiac Broccoli | c45 cassette | $5.99 | Scumbag Relations | "Juttering beats and airy synth discharge. Dispelling the rumor of something long forgotten. Frondheim Gearhart is this years smash sensationalist pro expo gardener with all the bells and whistles attached with a hot glue gun, certain to make you feel at home and as comfortable as humanly possible in these difficult economic times. Erik Hurtado is a collage and sound artist from Spain. This tape finds him cruising easy street in a red cadillac filled with blowup dolls and mescaline. Some songs are solo acoustic pop numbers, reminiscent of neo-crooners like Daniel Johnston or Herman Dune. Still, other tracks like Puzzle Fatal and Marinero Blanco remind me of being stuck inside a classic NES system pondering portal surfing with Sun Ra while Terry Riley bangs on a half shredded speak and spell and Syd Barret blows smoke in my face. Pro-printed covers featuring a collage by Hurtado himself." |
| Frontier | Suture | CD | $11.99 | Perishable | More explorations in the balance of rhythm, trance, chaos and noise from these inventive Chi-town sound seekers. Built using samples from a live recording session in the Spring of '99, the sounds have been manipulated & reconstructed. - also on LP | |
| Frontier | Suture | LP | $12.99 | Perishable | More explorations in the balance of rhythm, trance, chaos and noise from these inventive Chi-town sound seekers. Built using samples from a live recording session in the Spring of '99, the sounds have been manipulated & reconstructed. - also on CD | |
| 7/29/2004 | Froth & Pumice | New Comic Art & Split Record | CDR | $8.99 | Froth Industries | CDR reissue of lathe cut ep featuring 24 page 7” sized comic book. “Froth (M. Fikaris, Australia) & Pumice (S. Neville, New Zealand), conjure feelings of mystery , doubt, sentimental rubbish & the explosion with one song each.” Nice review of the lathe 7” (sold out) in the Wire’s July 2004 Size Matters review section. |
| 1/17/2010 | Frozen Corpse | I. Bright White Sand | c20 cassette | $9.99 | Why So Serious | "This brand new frozen corpse delivery comes as a massive epos of eruption spread over two 20 minute tapes. This is audiobot and Orphan Fairytale Suprême. Limited to 20 copies." One copy available. |
| 1/17/2010 | Frozen Corpse | II. The Long and Winding Path of the Righteous | c20 cassette | $9.99 | Why So Serious | "This brand new frozen corpse delivery comes as a massive epos of eruption spread over two 20 minute tapes. This is audiobot and Orphan Fairytale Suprême. Limited to 20 copies." One copy available. |
| 2/24/2007 | Frozen Corpse | Injected with Gasoline | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "Sounds like a microphone blowing for miles through a snowstorm without ever crashing to the ground..... recorded in antwerp; deep in the depths of weed and speed based psychosis and loving every minute of it.... one of those ones that at first sounds mellow and inviting, only to end up making you feel awful... like you just got a flu from walking for hours through harsh heavy winds and snow.... gross.... edition of 60." |
| 6/11/2006 | Frozen Stake | (Jon Schofield) | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Firstperson | "Psychedelic drone core from berlin/england using guitar and found sounds to create textured static and dream like pieces. de-tuned ramblings and noise improv looped through pedals and screaming amps. |
| 4/19/2004 | Fuccillo, Jeff | Disturbed Strings | LP | $12.99 | Roartorio | "In the spring of 1998, guitarist Jeff Fuccillo (Irving Klaw Trio, Wham-O, Hochenkeit) met avant-folk guru John Fahey while opening for his trio at a gig in Portland, Oregon. Fahey was sufficiently impressed, and booked studio time to record Fuccillo for his label. On the day of the session, Fuccillo arrived prepared to make a solo acoustic guitar album. To his surprise, Fahey had prepared a pile of samples - random snatches of music, all manner of sound effects - and without warning, began shooting them out into the studio room through the monitors, effecting a guerrilla collaboration of sorts. Disturbed Strings captures the highlights of that day: veering from hardscrabble stringrattling to modal melodicism, the album is ample testament to Fuccillo's wide-ranging inventiveness as an improvising guitarist, as well as a window into an aspect of Fahey's artistry not previously represented on record. An essential document of the New Weird America underground. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies, with artwork by Fahey and Judith Lindbloom." |
| 6/5/2005 | Fugs, The | Virgin Fugs | CD | $15.99 | ESP-Disk | First CD reissue of the third Fugs album, originally issued by ESP in 1967, with new, long liner notes by Bernard Stollman. "Considered by many to be the first underground rock band, The Fugs hit the scene hard with the release of their first LP in 1965. One year later, ESP released The Virgin Fugs, which was taken from that first wild session on Folkways titled The Village Fugs, and it is available here for the first time on CD. This third LP is equal parts biting social satire, and hilarious adolescent posturing, and helped the band build a hefty file with the FBI. Backed by the Holy Modal Rounders, Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg howl, bang, and bash their way though eleven folk/punk screamers, including the still-relevant send-up, 'CIA Man' and Allen Ginsberg's own 'I saw the best minds of my generation rot'. Digitally remastered." |
| 1/23/2003 | Fukuoka, Rinji + Akira Yamanouchi | Magical Garden | CDR | $14.99 | There | Magical Garden is Rinji Fukuoka (guitar, vocal, moog oscillator) and Akira Yamanouchi (guitar) of Overhang Party. This cd has 2 long tracks – the first is a heavy guitar psych improvised piece and the second is a composition with vocals written by Rinji. Recorded in October 2002. Recommended! |
| 4/16/2007 | Full Scales | Triple Trebles | one sided LP | $12.99 | American Tapes | "Vinyl debut of this Hammond Organ Inzanity unit, no effects or studio trickery. Total sunny winter afternoon pauser jammer. A suite in three pieces, creeping and still. Was gonna have liners by deli manager/fantasy writer M.R.Miller but she's "not into violent imagery".... Edition of 200 on color wax with full color fixed to the blank side with insert." |
| 5/1/2009 | Funkadelic | Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow | LP | $17.99 | 4 Men With Beards | "Funkadelic's second LP, originally released in 1970, is another straight up masterpiece from the stoniest, strangest funk and R&B group of all-time. Opening with the 10 minute title track complete with a shredding keyboard solo from Bernie Worrell and, of course, the six-stringed insanity of Eddie Hazel. One of George Clinton's finest sets of songs and another essential part of the Parliament-Funkadelic catalog." |
| 10/25/2008 | Funkadelic | Funkadelic | LP | $17.99 | 4 Men With Beards | "The 1970 debut from Detroit's nastiest, most shredding progenitors of funk-rock. Arising from the ashes of George Clinton's Plainfield, New Jersey led R&B group, The Parliaments, Funkadelic ormed in the late '60s and, in addition to Clinton, included the blazing guitar of Eddie Hazel, organist Mickey Atkins, rhythm guitarist Tawl Ross, and drummer Tiki Fulwood. Though firmly rooted in funk and soul, Funkadelic incorporates a dark psychedelic element, influenced by Hendrix and Sly Stone, to create a sound that was unparalleled at the time and since. Sampled by everyone from DJ Shadow to Ice Cube, De La Soul, and the Beastie Boys, Funkadelic still sounds fresh today and is the first solid example of George Clinton's eccentric genius." Pressed on 180 gram vinyl - housed in deluxe heavy sleeve. |
| 8/31/2008 | Funke, Maxine | Lace | CD | $14.99 | Next Best Way | "delicate AND strong, real AND hypnotically beautiful. the songs of maxine funke are a serious addiction I should warn you about. her past projects include albums with THE HUNDRED DOLLAR BAND and THE SNARES, and at one time she played guitar in SNAPPER. This her first solo album, was recorded over the last four years in the brief spaces as new parenthood allows, in these stolen moments she also created several hundred completely individual, arresting hand-printed images, then combined the two prodigies so you could have LACE! I'm awed by some of these songs! Spellbound when they replay themselves all day in my inner ear! Honoured to have contributed a couple of occasional whisps of sound to such a beautiful album." - ALASTAIR GALBRAITH |
| Furisubi | A dream in the eye and the dirt beneath the heel | CDR | $3.99 | Last Visible Dog | “'A dream', is the first of several installments from Kris Lapke. This side project (Furisubi) focuses on the sparse textures and rumblings that properly belong in the same school as Aube, MSBR and labels like Touch, Solielmoon and Staalplaat. The difference however is Furisubi's naive (if not feral) approach to isolationist music, at times breaking every rule in the book - WWU2 for instance becomes a wild frenzy of drums, screaming guitar(?) and electronics that should ruffle a few feathers, especially following the nearly 20 minute trance inducing opener. But Furisubi also differs in aesthetic: there's no midi banks or state-of-the-art sound processing going on here, just pure AAA, and it's that raw approach to the form which gives it an entirely different character. Lapke is probably always going to be a guitar man at heart, and his clear appreciation of ugly sounds makes 'A dream' a unique entry in the field as well as an excellent counterpart to his forthcoming Cosmic Loom album.” | |
| 8/8/2002 | Furisubi | Limb of Copernicus | CDR | $12.99 | Last Visible Dog | 4th release from August 2002. "Recorded in the summer of 2001 but sounding more like a lost improv session from the late 60's (though who would have performed it?), Furisubi (now a duo) strips its sound down to organ and guitar, creating some vocal-free drift and bliss . Super analog, super lo-fi; should only be available on 8-track but you can get it now on cd-r. Fans of old-school Kranky ought to be happy with this one." |
| 9/16/2007 | Fursaxa | Alone in the Dark Wood | CD | $15.99 | ATP | "This is the fifth full-length release from West Philly-based solo artist Tara Burke aka Fursaxa, her second for the All Tomorrow's Parties label. Boasting a fan base with the likes of Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple and Thurston Moore who released a record by her on his Ecstatic Peace! imprint years ago, Burke is now one of the epicentres and key collaborators of the North American free-folk movement, along with such luminaries as Jack Rose, Charalambides, Ben Chasny and the Jewelled Antler Collective. With her hypnotic, echo-y churchbell chanting, Burke possesses a power-filled vocal sound that harkens back not only to those other polar queens of disaffected freakout psychedelia Nico and Barbara Manning, but she is also akin to and inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century Benedictine mystical abbess. With the low drone of chord organ and farfisa, detuned ringing guitar, and endlessly looped, multiply-tracked vocals applied with heaps of delay, Fursaxa sounds like a tripped-out medievalist perched upon a poppy petal. Alone in the Dark Wood, recorded half in Pennsylvania, half in Finland, evokes pale moonlight and deep shadows, where tree limbs bend to form cathedral arches over a procession of mystics. Disembodied female voices rise like sacral fire-smoke amongst the strum of mandolin, balalaika, and the piper's call of bells and flute-whistle. At some turns mournful and stark, at others a celebratory invocation, Alone in the Dark Wood displays Burke's alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, and then into sheer psych and back again, but more importantly, her music is pure humming narcosis." LP version available on Eclipse. Highly recommended! |
| 2/6/2007 | Fursaxa | Alone in the Dark Wood | LP | $12.99 | Eclipse | Beautiful new release from Tara Burke (aka Fursaxa) features 12 tracks recorded in Philadelphia and Ulvila, Finland (recorded by Sami Sänpäkkilä). Also has Tara's cover design and artwork in a nice 12x24 inch foldout insert. Limited edition of 950 copies. |
| 12/24/2005 | Fursaxa | Amulet | CD | $12.99 | Last Visible Dog | Reissue of "self-released CD-R from Fursaxa aka Tara Burke is her best yet and the fullest document to date of her zoned loop work. Four tracks that work lush orbiting codes into choral garlands. First two live July 10, 2004 at Montague Bookmill, MA. Track three live July 25th, 2004, The Warehouse, Washington D.C. Track four live at the Cicada Festival in VT's old stomping ground, Fishtown, Philadelphia." This reissue also includes some material from the Cult of Moon Mountain cdr which is out of print. |
| 3/27/2008 | Fursaxa | Kobold Moon | CD | $13.99 | Sylph | Beautiful new release from Tara Burke - this is the first release on her new Sylph label. The new album has eight songs and each cover is hand painted by Belgian artist Alain Valet who also designed the insert. Limited edition of 500 copies - recommended! |
| 9/30/2005 | Fursaxa | Lepidoptera | CD | $15.99 | ATP | "This is the fourth full-length release from West Philly-based solo artist Tara Burke aka Fursaxa. Boasting a fan base with the likes of Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple and Thurston Moore who released a record by her on his Ecstatic Peace! imprint two years ago, Fursaxa is a new signing to ATP Recordings. A previous member of the band UN, Burke is now one of the epicentres and key collaborators of the North American free-folk movement, along with such luminaries as Jack Rose, Charalambides, Ben Chasny and the Jewelled Antler Collective. With her hypnotic, echo-y churchbell chanting, Burke possesses a power-filled vocal sound that harkens back not only to those other polar queens of disaffected freakout psychedelia Nico and Barbara Manning, but she is also akin to and inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century Benedictine mystical abbess. With the low drone of chord organ and farfisa, detuned ringing guitar, and endlessly looped, multiply-tracked vocals applied with heaps of delay, Fursaxa sounds like a tripped-out medievalist perched upon a poppy petal. Burke has an alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, and then into sheer psych and back again, but more importantly, her music is pure humming narcosis." This album is great - most highly recommended! |
| 6/5/2009 | Furusawa, Ryojiro & Kan Mikami | Buriki / Tin | CD | $15.99 | PSF | "A sparse and stripped-back yet fully impassioned meditation on time, history and freedom. Surreal folk meets free jazz. Two tracks, including a 24 minute, one-take masterpiece. Ryojiro Furusawa is one of Japan's most respected jazz drummers, having played from the late '60s with everyone from Yosuke Yamashita and Sadao Watanabe to Yuji Imamura, Maki Asakawa and Shang Shang Typhoon. He's also been a long time collaborator with Kan Mikami, appearing on Kan's Bang! album in 1974. Kan Mikami is Japan's wisest and wildest folk-poet, a surreal master of the non-sequitur blues, a worldclass howler of truth and passion. This is the duo's third album, following Shokugyo (1987) and Dereki (2007). Gatefold high-gloss papersleeve, including lyrics in Japanese and English." |
| 1/20/2002 | Fushitsusha | Origin's Hesitation | CD | $15.99 | PSF | "Expectations exploded, intentions fleetingly revealed, faith justified. A new album from Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha is always going to be a major event. And to make the release of Origin's Hesitation even more significant, it is the first new album from the group in almost two years, the first studio recordings by the new duo line-up, and the first Fushitsusha album on PSF since 1994's stunning Pathetique. The popular perception of Fushitsusha has usually been as a rock band, albeit one that pushed the definition of that term further than anyone had ever done before. While the group's approach has always been (and remains) rock to the core, the outside manifestation of those intentions have gradually moved further and further away from the rock framework. Shockingly, on this release, Haino takes the process to its natural conclusion and has decided to eschew the guitar entirely. In its place, nothing but the eerily empty hiss of overdriven amplification. Here Haino sings, plays drums, and conjures with spectres. Consequently, the sound palette is starker, and Haino's intentions plainer than they have ever been before. The no overdubs policy remains, though both Haino and bassist Ozawa work with realtime loops. The unique dynamic hallmarks of the group are preserved, the focus on individual sounds and their interaction underlined. Attack, duration, beginnings and endings all merge into one heartrending, emotionally eternal present. This is a hugely important, hauntingly insistent, spectral blast of arecord. Quite simply and beyond any doubts, one of the releases of the year." - Alan Cummings |
| Fushitsusha | Withdrawe, this sable Disclosure ere devot'd | CD | $15.99 | Victo | Recorded live at Victoriavilla on May 16, 1997 by Haino (guitar, voice), Ozawa (bass), and Takahashi (drums). "With reference to the title for the Fushitsusha album, Keiji Haino takes a lot of care and time over the selection of titles for his albums. He specifically asked that this title be translated into a type of English that would be reminiscent of medieval language. As going back that far would render the title mostly incomprehensible to the majority of listeners, we eventually came to the compromise of using Elizabethan-style (Skakespearean, etc.) grammar, spelling and diction. Within those parameters, I believe that the title makes grammatical sense and communicates both the feel and meaning of what Keiji wants to say." - Alan Cummings | |
| 8/8/2009 | Fusinato, Marco | Ripping Skies | LP | $15.99 | No Fun | "From the bowels of the southern hemisphere, guitar / electronics noise signor Marco Fusinato gives us the full F/A-18 squadron attack. One side is an inferno of mangled guitar spit, relentlessly speeding and colliding with all in its path. The flipside features a giant monochord stuck and struggling to escape from the shards of the volatile overload. Recorded live, then spliced/mixed/mastered by Oren Ambarchi. Cover artwork by Australian colonial convict / forgerer / artist Joseph Lycett. And nowŠ everything's wrong. Limited to 300 copies." |
| 2/21/2009 | Futreal, Andy | Did You Find It? | cassette | $5.99 | Earjerk | "On his first release on Sloow Tapes Andy melted minds with his oud improvisations, tape manipulations and radio freque-ing. This tape is no exception. Cassette walkman, microcassette recorder, laud, pedals and something called a postcard weevil are just some of the objects Andy employed this time around. This cassette reveals another mystery each time you listen. If you've had the pleasure of checking out his first release, the A-side of this one might surprise you; a very heavy, heady lapsteel guitar journey through steep orange and brown canyon walls with blue sky and soaring eagle.You'll want to take this journey again and again to really appreciate everything that is going on." |
| 4/20/2008 | Futreal, Andy | Wrack: Oud Improvisations, Reactions and Abstractions | cassette | $10.99 | Sloow Tapes | "The transmutation of El Din and Jansch into the boiling earth waves of Ogdoad. The light shines on the other side of the spectrum. No raga. 70 copies." |
| 1/24/2009 | Future Blondes / Indian Jewelry | split | LP | $15.99 | Dull Knife | "Houston, Texas based Indian Jewelry are on a roll. Last year's Free Gold album blew many minds and was the best document to that point of their mastery of the aural psychic-swirl. Their side-long contribution to this split EP highlights what they do best-combining uncanny songcraft with insistent, pulsing and throbbing layers of sound. Fellow Houstonians Future Blondes (DOMOKOS of RUSTED SHUT's side project) occupy the "other side" of this record in more ways than one. Their "Heartless" is a relentless piece of dark, hypnotic electro-spuzz that isn't going to fill anyone with anything resembling hope for the human race. Not so much music made for the denizens of the dance floor but more like a soundtrack for the detritus left on the dance floor after everyone has gone home. 525 copies, black vinyl." - Revolver |
| 1/27/2004 | Futurians, The | 2000 AD | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Pseudoarcana | "The Futurians zone in from some other space where Star Wars dolls not only walk and talk but, play way cooler music in way dingier bars than in the films.... Pounding drums, distorted synth, with fantastically raw vocals from Duckling, and CJA on guitar(!) these SciFi punks, having transcended all things cyber, bring you the analogue sounds of the future as it SHOULD be. Short but brutal." |
| 6/5/2005 | Futurians, The | Pimp My Tardis | CDR | $9.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | Lo-fi space punk from New Zealand! |
| 9/30/2005 | Futurians, The | Subway Songs | DBL CDR | $15.99 | Root Don Lonie For Cash | Recordings from 2002-2004 for the Faktory cd release. |
| 7/14/2007 | Futurians, The | Zenit | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Abandon Ship Records | "An unprecedented surprise from these New Zealanders. This one definitely stands out amongst the sludge-punk releases of old. Completely different approach here. The first main difference you'll notice will be the absence of any vocals. The second will be the absence of any drummer. And the third will be the absence of any common Futurianistics you've grown to know and love. Fear not, for it's just as punk-fucking-rawk as anything they've ever done...just in a different way. If you really do love them, then you will love this release. If you have yet to discover this unbelievable group, then this will definitely get you started on the wrong foot. Albeit, an unusually great one." - Nate Rulli. 3" CD-R Edition of 100. |
| Fuxa | 3 Field Rotation | CD | $11.99 | Che | Full length release from Michigan analogue space band |