| 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)." |
| 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')." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 6/11/2006 | F/i | Paradise Out Here | CD | $14.99 | Lexicon Devil | "Originally released on the Human Wrechords label out of the East Coast in 1989, Paradise Out Here has long been the most elusive and sought-after recordings from Milwaukee's space-rock giants, F/i. Having once again gained a substantial cult following the other F/i reissues Lexicon Devil has released over the last 5 years (sheez, let's see, that's Space Mantra, Why Not Now!...Alan?, Blue Star and The Past Darkly/The Future Brightly), the band is back together and released an album of all new material on LD in 2005, Blanga. The time is right to now complete the mission and get the one non-RRRecords LP from the '80s back into the public eye, and since the LP was only released in an edition of 300 copies (hell, I've never even owned or seen one!), there'll be some folks hankerin' to finally get their hands on the thing and hear it. And what an album it is! Recorded between the Why NotŠ and Blue Star LPs, it captures the band in peak form. The opener, "From Poppy With Love" (also available as a 7" at one point many years ago), is one of the band's strongest ever numbers, a surging collision of '80s punk rock energy dosed in clouds of cosmic guitar fuzz. It slays. The drive of the following two songs, "The House of the Pharaoh's Daughter" and "The Ninth Corner", never lets up until the band sets the controls for the heart of the sun with the nigh-on-20-minutes tribal dirge of "Om 21". The holy combination of amp-destroying guitar noise, anchored, low-end bass, rock-steady drumming and other-worldly synth whoops and bleeps is a beauty to experience. To finish it off, the band has whacked on two bonus tracks, "Satellite Surfer" (would you laugh if I was to say "Dick Dale meets Chrome"? I thought so) and "Five Crowns of the Saxon King", both recorded around the same period, as a taster for the bounties they have sitting around in dusty tape boxes. Paradise Out Here could just be F/i's best ever recorded work, and Lexicon Devil is pleased as punch to get it out and about once again for the whole new generation of fans F/i has won in the 21st century. Fully remastered by the band with all new artwork, I'm pretty sure it'll float a boat somewhere in your neighbourhood." |
| 10/25/2008 | Face Plant | Full Frontal Nudity | cassette | $5.99 | Aldebaran Record Farm | "The cassette "Full Frontal Nudity" by 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! Let the Face Plant space organ be the command center in the helmet that is your head and drift away into the ether!!! GREAT FOR PARTY'S!!!" Limited edition of 100 copies - debut release for label. |
| 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. |
| 7/11/2008 | Factums | Future Primitive OST | LP | $13.99 | Assophon Records | "Primitive Future indeed! Its 4000 a.d. and human kind's fate from a binge of manifest destiny has finally collapsed on itself. Now we're back to the basics. The jungle is in charge again. The Factums have crafted a soundtrack to this dark and mysterious place. A world where the listener is the prey and this record is the hunter. This is exploratory music, a melding of rusted out kraut debris, dead c. carnage and lost in time sci-fi rock moves." Edition of 400 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." |
| 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." |
| 5/29/2008 | Failing Lights | Shining Depth | cassette | $7.99 | Chondritic Sound | "Long-lost failing lights organ storm, starting rather serene but fulfilling its own prophecy complete with eventual thunder and lightning brought with wrought iron ferocity. color cover." Edition of 80 copies. |
| 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. |
| 2/14/2008 | Failing Lights / Sick Llama | Scared From the Crypt *remixxx* | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Sick Llama remixxx of fag tapes 121. upgrade style. you might throw the other one in th garbage! stickers, hand-stamped color covers. edition 20." |
| 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. |
| 1/13/2004 | Faktura | Faktura | CDR | $9.99 | Absurd | "Mark Wastell (amplified textures) & Graham Halliwell (sax feedback) - a superb ‘reductionist’ thing." Edition of 199 copies. |
| 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." |
| 4/16/2007 | Family Battle Snake and Datashock | Family Battle Snake and Datashock | one-sided cassette | $9.99 | Tape Tektoniks | "Collab recorded live in a shut down train in stuttgart during their tour in 2006. beware! this jam resurrects dead train conductors. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| 6/11/2006 | Family Underground | Risen Under Altar Souls | cassette | $9.99 | Heavy Tapes | |
| 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 |
| 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." |
| FAQT | Vol. 3, No. 3 | magazine with CD | $8.99 | "A magazine on 'electronic culture' which also happens to carry Timothy Renner's 'Wyrdfolk' column on acoustic, experimental, and psychedelic music. This was the Christina Ricci tribute issue. This issue comes with a compilation CD of bands doing songs for/about Christina Ricci. Mourning Cloak recorded a new song specifically for this CD. Other bands featured are Kid606, Tranquil, KK Null, Burning Rome, Puppy, and more." | ||
| 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]" | |
| 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 |
| 7/30/2006 | Fathmount | 6-string Renderings (two) | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "Wasting time looking for the perfect sound or drone will take forever. as you spread your wings toward eternity, consider the majesty that is fathmount. this solo project from hong kong's wilson lee (of new fairfield parks & recreation) is a barren sonic landscape. it pushes the acid rain back behind the city walls and cuts through the thick smog like a knife. minimal guitar soundscapes that float above the upper crust of psychedelic glory, only to leave you abandoned in their hypnotic wake. beautiful." - label |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| 4/24/2006 | Fe-Mail | Blixter Toad | DBL CD | $15.99 | Asphodel | "Fe-mail, Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, have crafted a site-specific survey of the chaparrals of noise music. As half of the Scandinavian female improv quartet, Spunk, they began to adapt their mediums of French horn and voice to multiple formats for musical arrangements. In working for film, installation, studio, and performance they began to evolve their musical process to a compulsive physical act, opposing their classically trained standards. Exposure to distorted live sampling and field recordings allowed Maja and Hild to grab the limit and make it their instrument. Through synched communication and developed improvisation, their project further evolved into their newest release for Asphodel, Blixter Toad. This two disc set is best described as the taxonomic designation of feminine conviction through gadgetry and acoustic archaeology." |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 5/29/2008 | Fern Knight | Fern Knight | CD | $13.99 | VHF | "This is the third CD of beautiful music from Philadelphia quartet Fern Knight, led by the crystal voice, guitar, and cello of Margaret Wienk. Drawing from diverse influences such as '70s Krautrock, UK folk, and baroque and renaissance music, the band's eponymous recording juxtaposes the calm surface of harp, cello, and violin against the perfectly timed distorted squalls of a Flying V and a dark undercurrent of lyrical and vocal mystery. The overall effect is a lush, pastoral, and warm ode to all things green and living, a running theme that winds through the songs' post-apocalyptic landscape. The album's cohesion rests upon the core quartet's combination of acoustic and electronic instruments. Fern Knight has toured extensively and features members of The Valerie Project (Drag City)." Recommended! |
| 2/23/2007 | Fern Knight | Music for Witches and Alchemists | CD | $13.99 | Vhf | "Music for Witches and Alchemists is a dark and beguiling collection of songs by Fern Knight, the primary cover for Margaret Wienk's singing and songwriting. Beautifully recorded by Greg Weeks, the songs are cast in rich, detailed arrangements with Alec K. Redfearn (The Eyesores), Greg Weeks and Meg Baird (the Espers), and several other Philadelphia-area luminaries contributing to the sweeping sound. At the heart is Margie's strong voice, cello, and guitar, leading the tunes with feeling and subtlety. While in the tradition of electric-trad legends such as Pentangle and Trees, Fern Knight's music rings of the intensely personal and is delivered with crystal clarity, not the hipster-fuzz obfuscation of some contempo "folk." M4W&A is Fern Knight's first domestic release, following their barely available debut on the German Normal label. In card folio printed by Stumptown." Features: Margie Wienk (Guitar, Vox, Cello, Triangle, Bells), Alec K. Redfearn (Accordion), Otto Hauser (Percussion, Drums), Jesse Sparhawk (Harp), Orion Rigel Dommisse (Synth, Harmonium), Greg Weeks (Vox, Acid Leads), Meg Baird (Vox), Chris Saraullo (Bowed Saw) |
| 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." |
| Feverdreams / Lefthandeddecision | split | 7" | $4.99 | Troniks | Edition of 202 copies. | |
| 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" |
| 8/28/2007 | FFH | Tiocfaidh Ar La | 7" | $5.99 | Gods of Tundra | "A very unique release for both FFH and Gods of Tundra. After discovering both of us shared an interest and obsession with the Irish Republican Army and the conflicts and Troubles in Northern Ireland, we decided working together on a project based on this would be worth while. This 7" is the result. It is the most superior FFH offensive to date. Superior in sound, in lyrics, and in ideas. Artistically, it looks very little or nothing like any other GOT release, but all these things just add to the unique quality of the record. 26 +6 = 1. Editon of 250." |
| 11/15/2002 | Fibo Trespo | Fibo Trespo | CDR | $9.99 | Absurd | "Reissue of the s/t Fibo Trespo tape recorded in 96 by Kjetil D Brandsdal & Sindre Bjerga. Was out a couple of years ago on Sindre's own Gold Soundz Cdr label limited to some 50 or so copies." This edition is limited to 99 copies. |
| 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." |
| 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 | |
| Fine, Milo Free Jazz Ensemble | Another Outbreak Of Iconoclasm | LP | $8.99 | Fusetron | Milo Fine (piano, percussion, bass clarinet) and Steve Gnitka (guitar) recorded in concert at the West Bank School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Edition of 500 copies. | |
| 7/16/2006 | Finkbeiner | Dedicated to Rochester Charles | one-sided LP | $14.99 | 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." |
| Fit & Limo | As Above So Below | CD | $15.99 | September Gurls | "The serpent unrolls again and invites you to taste of the rich harvest of Fit & Limo's acid folk pastures. On 'As above so below' Fit & Limo's acid/traditional/medieval folk-rooted sound spectrum takes on new hues by transferring the emphasis on extended jam-like improvisations, playful freeform mantras, and tibetan bell-tingling & mooing. Increased use of electric guitar and psychedelic effects inspire a summer-of-love feel. Trancelike tribalistic dances shift into relaxed jazz-touched passages. Sounds from the eastern shore grace timeless psychedelic pop harmonies. Tibetan bell bowls and trumpet announce acid chamber songs of upsetting beauty or extensive (Grateful Dead influenced) mesmerizing improv jams. Freeform meanderings create an open scene and lead to a peaceful state of mind/nature/culture. Inspiration taken from Jerry Garcia, Stan Owsley, the sound of wind, grasshoppers and blackbirds. Male/female duo Fit & Limo are based in Altdorf (Bavaria, Germany). For the first time in years they are supported by friends on cello, trumpet and vocals." | |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 10/25/2008 | Flaherty, Paul / Bill Nace / Thurston Moore | Paul Flaherty/Bill Nace/Thurston Moore | CD | $11.99 | Ecstatic Peace | "Paul Flaherty has been a direct lifeline to the radical free-reed lineage of Albert Ayler, John Gilmore, Peter Brotzmann and Arthur Doyle since first coming into our vision sometime in the '80s. In the '90s he began woodshedding hard with Northampton, Massachusetts resident spirit-drummer Chris Corsano. As the contemporary free-noise-space-weird underground gathered around, minds were liberated to godhead heights. Also in the '90s a young and beautiful boy-man named Bill Nace was drawn to the region by the living art and music here and also began inter-sonic-guitar/linguistics with Corsano (as Vampire Belt). After Corsano relocated to the UK, Nace began a long-running duo with Flaherty. Sonic Youthian Thurston Moore had been tracking Flaherty's comet whilst perusing dog-eared copies of Cadence mag in the early '90s. He eventually booked the infamous Flaherty-Colbourne group for their first-ever NYC gig at the legendary now-defunct Cooler club on way West 14th Street. In '98, Moore and his family escaped to free-zone Northampton and immediately fell in with Corsano and Flaherty as a trio. (This group recorded, with the extended line-up of saxophonist Wally Shoup, for a Japanese-only CD produced by Jim O'Rourke -- which Ecstatic Peace will re-issue to the Western world soon 'nuff). Subsequently, Moore and Nace begat Northampton Wools, a basement-ritual guitar-noise duo (Ecstatic Peace CD forthcoming). From time-to-time Nace, Moore and Flaherty would collect their energies and throw down live trio sessions which still resonate through the valley's ear(s). This trio CD is a session Flaherty set up in the late winter of early 2008. There are three tracks ('Sex' 'Drugs' and 'Lavender'), one short, two looong. It is a primo example of this threesome's focus and sonic storytelling, ferocious yet pensive." |
| 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 |
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