| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/11/2003 | >3 (Greater than 3) | Untitled | CD | $6.99 | Maritime Fist Glee Club | "The concept of synergy posits, as the late, great Buckminster Fuller wrote, 'behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems (are) unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole.' In other words, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Whether this is what Christian Asplund, Michael Lee & Jon Haek had in mind when they named their trio >3 is open to speculation. In the time since, >3 have crafted a sound that incorporates elements of improv with classical and modern composition, utilizing everything from contrabass, violin, viola, pianos, harmonium, flute and piccolo to found objects, depending on time and setting. The music, itself, defies comparison; at times cacophonous and searing, at others, droney subdued, and soothing. Perhaps a cross between Kronos Quartet and John Zorn’s “elegy” (such a lame comparison will have to suffice)." |
| 4/10/2005 | G55 | 1 | CDR | $10.99 | Kindling | "New boy band featuring three renegade Lost Domain pin ups. A healthy brew of kraut beats and no wave primitivism mixed with a dash of “I can play louder” hijinks. Mr Ellaby’s string action and amp smoke will rekindle the flame for more than one retired air guitarist. Keeping the faith." |
| 2/26/2006 | G55 | 2 | CDR | $10.99 | Kindling | "Northgate's favourite sons return with casiotone beats propelling saxophone/gtr duals. Features bar mitzvah tunes, an ecstatic blow-out, two-note pile-drivers and the dancefloor hit '2.6'" |
| 8/8/2009 | Galactic Zoo Dossier | #8 | zine with CD | $15.99 | Drag City | "'The world's greatest psychedelic underground hand drawn pro-zine'. Two years in the making, this just might be the most action-packed issue of the magazine lauded by the likes of Mojo, Fader, Julian Cope, Pitchfork, Spin & Heads Galore! Featuring: Interviews with elemental folk goddess Vashti Bunyan, L.A. tribal-cult axman Djin Aquarian of Ya Ho Wha 13, raga guitar god Peter Walker, Krautrock visionary Mani Neumeier Guru Guru, light show pioneer Bill Ham. Features on: Del Shannon, The Blue Things, Eddie Hazel, The George-Edwards Group, Hoyt Axton, MV & EE, Kim Fowley, Skip James vs. Cream, Turned-On Superheroes, Brewer & Shipley. Plus: More sweet full-color damaged guitar god & astral folk maiden trading cards! And: A CD compilation of totally unreleased magical sounds by Ya Ho Wha 13, Vashti Bunyan, Peter Walker, Monster Magnet, La Otracina, Naked Death, Christina Carter, Ruthann Friedman, Samara Lubelski & way more!" |
| 7/14/2007 | Galax | Never ending Space Trackin | CD | $13.99 | Archive | "Three extended freeform space freakouts from my friend HIROSHI HASEGAWA (CCCC, ASTRAL TRAVELING UNITY, ASTRO) on synth and ring modulator and KEICHI MIYASHITA (MANDOG) on guitar and tape echo with a 1 track guest from HIROSHI HIGASHI (ACID MOTHER TEMPLE) on synth. all live content from mid to late 2006 in Japan pressing of 600 copies." |
| 1/1/2008 | Galbraith, Alastair | Orb | CD | $14.99 | Next Best Way | "Not since 2000s CRY has Alastair Galbraith delivered an album of song-based material. here are 20 new tracks, all hiss and bones raw hurt and high wonder. familiar backwards folk "here not there", barely-there ballad-fragments "one direction","tumbling" ,"homesick" "Short Dream For Fire Organ" where alastairs home-made gas-powered instrument booms away in a tunnel (pictured on the back cover) while disembodied whisperers come and go with you trapped down there under a bad drug "cut" a very short track of what sounds like 3 frogs 2 locusts and several clockwork motors recorded in a pigskin bladder. "Head Down" a hypnotic lullaby with swelling rolls of delayed guitar and tidal washes of vocals. "Cloth Master" which punches you repeatedly,while screaming in your face favourites would have to include the rock-bottom alt-country resignation of "something happened" and the mirror-imaged "your lilt" which ends with you waltzing with a skating cello round heaven." |
| Galbraith, Alastair | Rivulets | 7" | $5.99 | Camera Obscura | 4 track EP from 1997. | |
| Galbraith, Alastair | Talisman | CD | $14.99 | Next Best Way | First solo cd from 1995 on Alastair's own label | |
| 10/28/2003 | Galbraith, Alastair / Constantine Karlis | Radiant | CD | $12.99 | Emperor Jones | "A monstrous collaboration between two of New Zealand's most vital underground musicians Alastair Galbraith and Constantine Karlis (High Depebdency Unit), and another chapter in Galbraith's quest for pure beauty. Includes the 35-minute title track - a blend of Galbraith's trance-state guitar loops and violin with Karlis' metronymic drum bursts - backed with the cut 'Four Orbits' - a haunting collage of varying moods and intensity." |
| 4/24/2006 | Galbraith, Alastair / Matt De Gennaro | Long Wires in Dark Museums Vol. 2 | CD | $13.99 | Table of the Elements | "Multi-talented ALASTAIR GALBRAITH is the glue that binds the New Zealand underground. His work ranges from achingly lyrical violin for artists as disparate as PETER JEFFERIES and the BATS, to the feedback squalls he conjures as member of A HANDFUL OF DUST, to the otherworldly miniatures he crafts for his own solo albums. However, in recent years, Galbraith, along with American MATT DE GENNARO, has developed another remarkable performance idiom, one that is positioned closer to the sounding sculpture of HARRY BERTOIA. In "Long Wires in Dark Museums," architectural idiosyncrasies are transformed into nuanced and hypnotic audio. Wires -- some as long as 100 feet -- are affixed throughout a building. When the wires are taught and stroked with rosined hands or a piece of leather, longitudinal vibrations are sent to the points of attachment, creating a natural resonator. It is not the wires that make the sound, but the wall, railing or window frames at their end; wire length and room acoustics determine the pitch. The result, achieved in a veil of total darkness, is a beautiful and eerie confluence of chance and accident, architecture and improvisation. As Galbraith himself puts it, "There is some quite magical feeling of communion turning the lights off and making the building sing." |
| 3/3/2004 | Gamelan Son of Lion | New Gamelan / New York | CD | $12.99 | Gamelan Son of Lion | "Strange vibes this way comes! Privately issued cd of strangely beautiful contemporary tunes cut for Gamelan instruments by this legendary out ensemble. Songs are Brighton Beach, Piece for Peace in the Middle East, Sixties, Four Dances for Balinese Angklung, Kebyar Leyak, Slendro Clarinet, Mostly Slendro Passacaglia. Chants and snaky melodies make this disc as mystifying as their two Folkways discs but with an occasional swinging feeling reminiscent of late Moondog sides." Released in 1995. |
| 3/3/2004 | Gamelan Son of Lion, The | Bending the Gending | CD | $12.99 | Gamelan Son of Lion | "Wiggy stuff by the Gamelan Son of Lion crew. Featuring 11 compositions by as many performers. You’ll be as inclined to think of Bat Chain Puller era Beefheart and the strange world of Harry Partch as you would the traditional rhythmic strokes of the Indonesian Gamelan." Released in 2002. |
| 3/27/2004 | Gandalf | Gandalf | LP | $14.99 | Radioactive | “With spellbinding, atmospheric songs which spin from soft dreamscapes into blistering fuzz guitar breaks, Gandalf casts a powerful spell. Led by singer/guitarist Peter Sando, the group was signed by Lovin' Spoonful producers Charlie Koppelman and Don Rubin and conjured their sole, self-titled album for Capitol in late 1967. One of the rarest major label psychedelic releases, Gandalf features swirls of Hammond B3 organ, caressing vibraphone runs and electric sitar on Sando's originals as well as imaginative recastings of songs by Tim Hardin, Gary Bonner/Alan Gordon, and Eden Ahbez.” Now available a stunning picture disc, limited edition of 500 copies.” |
| 11/9/2004 | Gandalf | Gandalf | LP | $15.99 | Capitol | “With spellbinding, atmospheric songs which spin from soft dreamscapes into blistering fuzz guitar breaks, Gandalf casts a powerful spell. Led by singer/guitarist Peter Sando, the group was signed by Lovin' Spoonful producers Charlie Koppelman and Don Rubin and conjured their sole, self-titled album for Capitol in late 1967. One of the rarest major label psychedelic releases, Gandalf features swirls of Hammond B3 organ, caressing vibraphone runs and electric sitar on Sando's originals as well as imaginative recastings of songs by Tim Hardin, Gary Bonner/Alan Gordon, and Eden Ahbez.” 180 gram vinyl reissue of 1969 LP – recommended! |
| 10/25/2008 | Gang Gang Dance | Saint Dymphna | LP | $12.99 | The Social Registry | "Gang Gang Dance continue to push the musical envelope with "Saint Dymphna", the first proper studio recorded follow up to the bands 2005 critically acclaimed break through album "God's Money". Tempering the finer elements of Pop, Dance, Ambient and Experimental music; "Saint Dymphna" is both the bands most challenging and forward thinking release to date." |
| 3/20/2007 | Gang Wizard | Atlas of Cancer | LP | $12.99 | Deathbomb Arc | "Ten years of Gang Wizard has seen the band/collective take on many forms. For the US and European tours in support of their album on Load, Byzantine Headache, Gang Wizard locked down their lineup, cast off their "fight club the band" cocoon, and emerged as an angelic force, delivering a unique thrash-bliss sound to the world. This is the first vinyl document of that new lineup. Sparkling synths and homemade glitter electronics are combined with whirlwind drums, screaming vocals, and aluminum spring guitars. A fantasy of blindness cycling through your lungs. Features members of Dynasty, Yuma Nora, Foot Village, Kevin Shields, and Unicorn Hard-On. |
| 9/30/2008 | Gang Wizard | God-Time-Man Universal Continuum Calibration | LP | $12.99 | Lost Treasures of the Underworld / Green Tape / Tanzprocesz | "Follow-up album to 2007's "Byzantine Headache" on Load Records. What really sets this Gang Wizard album apart is that it was recorded in an actual studio. The load album and albums on Ecstatic Peace were all recorded at home through one mic into a 4track. So, after 10 years of being a band, Gang Wizard breaks tradition. The results are a dense network of sparkling electronics, brittle guitars, and intense vocals that will surprise even the most well-listened GW fan. A landmark." Black Vinyl w/ pro-printed covers (artwork by Zeloot) |
| 6/11/2006 | Gang Wizard | Young Money | CDR | $9.99 | Imvated | "21st century Harry Pussy. you know the drill.." |
| Gang Wizard / Blodeuedd | split | 7" | $9.99 | Oggum | Edition of 300 copies with stamped sleeve and painted label. | |
| 5/11/2009 | Ganglians | Ganglians | LP | $14.99 | Woodsist | "Sacramento's Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. It's not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four it's a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where it's going. First and foremost it's about uncertain pleasures. It's a bit like choose your own adventure. There's 'codeine balladry'; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment you're in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island they've built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you." Recommeded! Each lp jacket has a bumped, dented corner courtesy of UPS. |
| 6/27/2009 | Ganglians | Monster Head Room | LP + 7" | $15.99 | Weird Forest | "Sacramento's Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. It's not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four it's a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where it's going. First and foremost it's about uncertain pleasures. It's a bit like choose your own adventure. There's "Codeine Balladry" a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment you're in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island they've built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you." - Revolver. "All completely new songs. This album is pure naive headphone acid pop to drive to, at least that's what was going through our heads."-Ganglians. Limited edition vinyl (500 copies) includes a bonus 7-inch. |
| 6/11/2006 | Gaping Maw | Two Improvisations | CD | $9.99 | Archive | "Kurt Johnson most notable I suppose would be his stint as the bassist for the Chicago based FLYING LUTTENBACHERS. Anyway Kurt is a fellow haino'phile and someone I've corresponded with over the years. He bought one of the Haino double discs from me and when I shipped in his package I threw in the Dikeman CD, as I knew he circulated a little amongst some of the folks on that disc. Kurt emailed back and mentioned that he had played some gigs with Tatsuya Nakatani and that he'd send them out for me to check out. Cool, totally liked Tatsuya percussion work on the handful of discs I have of him. Mail comes like a week or so later I drop the disc in the tray and wholly shit this infernal racket comes slamming out the speakers fantastic I thought sounds like the whole damn band kicked down a flight of stairs over and over. I was def. expecting some light noodling or polite improv. Work but I suppose with Kurt's background I should have known better. After a few listens I pitched him on the idea and we squared away the details and we had a release!! Here's the line-up: KURT JOHNSON - bass guitar, double bass, electronics KYLE BRUCKMANN- minimoog, electronics, suona TATSUYA NAKATANI- drums percussion Def. a low-end thundering herd monster of a release. Kind of old material that had been kicking around awhile. Two different live sets one from late 01, the other from 02, but I think it's cool they get to see the light of day." - Slimm |
| 12/24/2005 | Garage Indians | Hot Drugs and Cold Women Live Surprise @ the School House | cassette | $6.99 | Skullfucking Tapes | "Deep rural school house squatters the Garage Indians in full effect inpromtu jam. The sickest beefblues retching from these castaways yet." |
| 3/29/2005 | Garbageman y Toiletman | Remixtro Super Wolf Eyes | CDR | $10.99 | This is similar packaging and label to the Nautical Almanac ‘Live in Montreal Feat Weird Al Wolf Eyes’ offered here a few months ago. | |
| 9/23/2003 | Garland, J. | I Was Born & I Was Dead | 7" | $3.99 | 1997 4-track recordings of guitar psychedelia along the lines of My Bloody Valentine / Flying Saucer Attack. Lo-fi sounds using guitar, organ, and drums. Edition of 200 copies. | |
| 10/14/2004 | Garlic Yarg | Great Magnetic Wolves | CDR | $19.99 | Nokahoma | “Garlic Yarg recorded outdoors. They start out playing the main riff from Black Sabbath's ‘Iron Man’ so slowly it's completely unrecognizable and it takes them two minutes to play it just once. Then they go on to sound like they might be the Blithe Sons' ornery cousins. Smolken even plays some ukulele and still sounds as evil as always.” |
| 2/12/2008 | Gas Sheperds | Gas Sheperds | cassette | $8.99 | Bread and Animals | "English autodidacts and 'musique concrète' sources Gas Shepherds. Two Birmingham druids that speak their language with an odd dialect. the usual "disability" remark is not that far away, when checking in on this universe of the Gas. these nutters communicate strange bubbles and sweaty fidelics in wheelchairs. recently used as an alternative soundtrack for multi-media vision Arcade. this bag of hash mysteries is about to send your life in new directions....-- factory dubbed tapes. full color artwork." |
| 9/17/2006 | Gas Sheperds | Gas Sheperds | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "These uk primitives are drooling. Salivating some wild liquids, most probably brought on from licking a finish mushroom, or toad. Bedroom plucking, strange clank and paranoid electricity. Its enough to send you back to the cave, asshole." |
| 1/24/2009 | Gas Sheperds / Gryn Brvs | split | cassette | $7.99 | Archivo De Sangre De Dios | "Long lost Gas track from originally made for Curor Recordings finally surfaces, head to head with Gryn Brvs from Brighton/Ireland/Guilford/Nepal.Gas druids deep psyche commotion,i'll use the word primitive but only because you made me. Gryn Brvs meet again in Ireland with 3 summit meet/jams, giant drone, guitar almost riff, electronic skree leaves chiming." Edition of 50 copies. |
| Gastr Del Hemp | Revenge | CD | $8.99 | vhf | "Back in 1993 or 1994, I had an idea for a new supergroup 'The Three Laptops.' Not b/c I thought people actually wanted to see/hear a bunch of guys fiddling around with @*&^!* laptops, but b/c I thought it would be funny - like the then big 'Three Tenors' but with 3 laptops in front of music stands instead of 3 big fat guys. It was stupid then, and seems even stupider now, I know. Anyway, in the interim between then and a lot of people have actually been cranking out records and kicking out the jams in public with laptops. Meanwhile, out of the proposed original lineup for The Three Laptops, only I've got one, and heck, I just got it and it's WINDOWS based, for crying out loud!!! So much for beating anyone to market with that idea....So it was left to the VHF A&R staff to find someone worthy or our grand idea, even if it's so dated by this point that maybe we should just forget it and get started on 'The Three PDA's.' Mahavishnu Arthur Crawshay (Laptop), Earl Kuck (Laptop), and El Bobo Del'Amour (Laptop) probably don't consider themselves an influence on today's big laptop scene anymore than they consider themselves the front office staff for the Sacramento Kings - if you follow me - but for a moment in time dear readers, they were truly giants. You can clearly hear the very nuanced evidence on this sole document of their work. Licensed from Laptop Recordings, Chicago. 1 track, 27 mins." vhf | |
| 2/13/2003 | Gastr del Sol / Tony Conrad | The Japanese Room at La Pagode / May | 7" | $19.99 | Table of the Elements | "This split Gastr del Sol/Tony Conrad record was originally released in 1995. The Gastr side features one of their earliest efforts at intensive multi-track recording; instrumental passages segue through the faint murmur of a thousand voices. Conrad's contribution is excerpted from an unreleased version of Early Minimalism: May 1965, recorded at Steve Albini's studio with Jim O'Rourke and Bob Weston (Shellac). The packaging is, arguably, the most lavish of any Table of the Elements release: the sleeve unfurls into a 21" x 29" poster, displaying texts by the artists in metallic plum and copper inks." |
| 2/26/2006 | Gastric Female Reflex | Lovers In The Midst Of Eating Fries | LP | $16.99 | Beniffer Editions | "co-released with Absurd, Humbug and Gold Soundz. - intensively assembled between two pieces of thick chipboard - double screened and marbled uniquely with pseudo-op screened innards this is a slab of arbitrary blips, psychedelic vocal coaxings and collage insanity culled from the reflex archive." - Bennifer Editions. |
| 6/10/2004 | Gastric Female Reflex | Moments | CDR | $9.99 | Gold Soundz | “Gold Soundz proudly presents 2 new works by Canadian psych / noise group Gastric Female Reflex. The music is generally rather low-key with some wonderful bursts of noise...All kinds of weird instruments are being amplified and recorded through different devices, there's a bit of tape manipulation and electroaccoustic clatter and rumble... on the second album even some voice loops... All mashed together and whipped up for your listening pleasure... You get flashbacks of ‘classic’ NZ noise (Surface of the Earth, Sandoz Lab Tech etc...) and perhaps some of that Dylan Nyoukis or American Tapes madness.... Both CDRs come in numbered editions of 50 copies, the actual discs are beautifully handpainted and the covers are individually made.” |
| 12/24/2005 | Gate to Gate | I Turn Black Keys | CD | $9.99 | Troniks | "Confused like a two-headed snake trying to bite its own non-existant tail, Gate to Gate churn through gross tones, bass shudder and worst of all - vocals - with exactly the maladroit precision you'd expect from such a beast. This release presents one new 38 minute mess of blackened clatter and clunk, as well as collects their two extremely limited cassettes BANE and HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS in remastered form. Heavy-handed and heavy-footed industrial noise by all accounts. from the blackened minds of Greh (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound) and Mike Connelly (Hair Police, Wolf Eyes, Gods of Tundra). nearly 80 minutes of PURE SLUDGE." |
| 4/11/2008 | GazHeart (Rita Ackermann / Dave Nuss) | GazHeart | LP | $18.99 | Locust | "With GazHeart, celebrated visual artist Rita Ackermann (voice) & the No Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss (found percussion) created a playful spontaneous sound that seemingly bridged the gap between the broken pop sounds of certain strains of the no wave movement, sound poetry and catchy, otherworldly art folk using the barest of resources available to them. One time pressing of this special edition one-sided LP features an original etching by visual artist Rita Ackermann on the flip side. GazHeart is housed in a plain jacket with two opposing drawings for front & back by Ackermann." |
| 8/2/2008 | Geerken, Harmut | Mappa #9 | one sided LP | $33.99 | Troglosound | "Hartmut Geerken is an incredible and misterious writer, filmaker, musician, composer and big traveller coming from the south of Germany. His musical work is unfortunately not well-known by the mosts; during the years he was working stablely with Famodou Don Moye, Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Tchicai and many others, and in 1971 he invited Sun Ra and the Arkestra in Egypt, where Hartmut was living at the time, being also the founder of the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble. On this live recording from 1989, he's performing on prepared piano and short waves receiver, with the collaboration of Grace Yoon dancing and playing percussions. "Mappa" was a series of long performances (lasting usually around 4 hours each) the duo was acting on those years, and "Mappa #9" is the first released witness of this experience. The sound is a burning and explosive vortex of fire, without a single moment of breath." Limited edition of 117 copies pressed on pink vinyl. Each lp jacket is unique - artwork by Troglosound. |
| 6/11/2006 | Gelsomina | Nostalghia | CD | $15.99 | Cipher Productions | "painful, multi-edged ambientisharshfuckingnoise with a bonus Grunt collab" - edition of 500 copies. |
| 6/27/2009 | Generals & Such | Quixote | c73 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "This is a first for digitalis & friends... this baby is produced from a painted score. yep, painted scores. how fucking cool is that? well, based on the results from this trio of californians: christian kiefer, timothy rowan, & erik werner - it's pretty damn cool. here's a little background... generals & such, this is what they do. they play painted/graphic scores. this one is produced by werner (don't know if they all are) and this one is a 15 ft painting based on the first eight chapters of don quixote. i feel like i don't need to say anything else because that is simply incredible. but i won't taunt you... what do you get with a 15 ft painted score? scattershot percussion anchoring acoustic & electric guitars making skronks and waves. werner's acoustic playing at times reminds me of akiyama. rowan offsets this frenetic playing with calm and cool reverb-drenched spirals. it's an awesome contrast. the music progresses and unfolds slowly. kiefer's drumming guides the trio through the valleys and deserts, avoiding pitfalls unless necessary. the whole thing just feels monumental. tape is 73 minutes long, but each side is exactly the same. so it's basically a 1-sided c38, but i hate tapes with a blank side. pro-dubbed to boot." |
| 1/17/2010 | Gengras, Cyrus / M. Geddes Gengras | Family | double CDR | $12.99 | Ruralfaune | "A family split. Two brothers, two musical visions, different but so complementary to understand the subtlety of this family apart from the standards. Cyrus incarnates a folkier side while M. Geddes shows an analogic and more experimental side." Edition of 72 copies. |
| 11/21/2009 | Gengras, M. Geddes | Aural Mimesis | c60 cassette | $7.99 | Tape Drift | "You may know him as half of the Antique Brothers, a quarter of Pocahaunted, or a third of Robedoor, but however you slice things up, they're always better when Ged's involved. Following great releases on Stunned and Digitalis, this tape is the heaviest and most fully realized piece of music Ged has made yet. Topping all expectations by a few thousand miles, We have yet to hear a better record this year. Ged works an alchemical magic here, using modular synth and more traditional instruments to carry us to dizzying new levels of bliss. Undeniably heavy and dark, but also subtle, melodic, and sonically rich. Two complex 30-minute pieces designed for maximum hypnosis that will have you addicted in no time flat. Essential in every sense. Edition of 100, pro-dubbed on purple cassettes." |
| 1/17/2010 | Gengras, M. Geddes / A.M. Shiner | The Blue Push/The Red Kush | c46 cassette | $6.99 | Stunned | "A dazed high-5 thrown between two dudes celebrating the good leaf & west coast living. MGG curls his dense smoke signals into hypnotized pythons the hue of purest sativa on ‘The Blue Push’. This uber focused A-side arrives at dawn after some heavy out-of-body wandering over a diverse nightscape. It’s breakfast time and AMS orders an indica off the menu, proceeding to side B with bong lit brightly. Seven hiccups and a big long belch. Wha’ happened? ‘The Red Kush’ might have something to do with it. Or maybe it was ‘The Blue Push’ we had earlier? Whew… what’s that you said? Pass the tape again? Have at it. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c46 tapes with double-sided color jcard." |
| 10/31/2009 | Genta, Virginia / Chris Corsano | The Live in Lisbon | LP | $29.99 | 8mm Records | "What happens when two stars collide? An interstellar collaboration out of this galaxy! Here in this new fantastic LP from Virginia Genta (of Jooklo fame) and Chris Corsano (arguably considered 'the last drummer on earth'), both musicians put blood, sweat, and lots of muscle into three new wildly charged cuts!!!! The album begins at sunset on a terrace in Lisbon (Summer 2008) with ferocious sax and drums escalating as the sun sets with Chris' incredible drum solo leaving everyone in a trance, while Virginia's vocals evoke the spirits of the birds who join this bizarre duo hypnotized, creating some of the weirdest sounds ever listened! Turn to B side and you are in the streets of Marrakesh, with cobras spitting at you from baskets, donkeys staggering past under the weight of gigantic loads, men crowding around cock fights, yelling at their bets under the din. Then the final moment, with Genta blowing like a volcano in eruption, and Chris' hyperkinetic drumming collapsing into pure maniacal machine-gun destruction! Terrific!" - label. Numbered edition of 300 copies. |
| 5/21/2009 | George-Edwards Group, The | 38:38 | LP | $15.99 | Drag City | "38:38 is the lone release of The George-Edwards Group, an autumnal alien soundtrack that, over thirty years after being recorded (but not really released) defies time and categorization. If you've never heard of it before, that just means it's rare, right? This makes The George-Edwards Group's 38:38 one of the rarest private press albums of all time. 38:38 departs from the norm of the genre: instead of a low-fi demo-quality outing elevated mainly by dealer hype, it's a haunting piece of music that offers an unusually highbrow take on the archetypal Midwestern rock n roll existentialism usually addressed with a solid beat and sneering vocal. Crafting their sound out of the many influences of the day, Edward Balian and Ray George (aka, The George-Edwards Group) created pop music with acoustic guitars and harmonies, heavily-reverberant piano riffs, cold sheets of synthesizer, bells and chimes. Operating amidst the factory-charred grime of late 1960s Detroit, Balian and George's first group was the garage-rock obscurity Andromeda, regularly sharing bills with local heroes like The Frost, Rationals, and Amboy Dukes. Unlike these groups, Balian and George spiked their guitar blowouts with incongruous sound-on-sound experiments whose strangeness recalled lounge/exotica records of the 1950s. Too heady for the Motor City hard rock scene, they gradually lost interest in the restriction of playing all-covers gigs and turned to the basement, powered with multi-track tape recorders, processors and Moog synthesizers, flanging and phasing heavily with space effects and backwards loops, leaving a fair share of destroyed microphones and tape machines in their experimental wake. They first called themselves The Sorrento Steel Band to emphasize their metalloid leanings, but in 1974, Balian and George renamed their duo The George-Edwards Group (a la Pink Floyd, but using their own names) and began working on 38:38. Like other fascinating basement loners (Bobb Trimble or brain-fried Youngstown, OH scuzzers Stone Harbour), like The Beach Boys, Mamas and the Papas and Lovin' Spoonful. Their use of synthesizers to fill out the sounds created a melodic yet freakish hybrid. Listening to 38:38 one would assume that the George-Edwards Group were copping moves from Krautrock records (with a disheveled Arthur Lee-inflected singer/songwriter tinge), but those records were not sold at local mall outlets -- the guys had never heard them. All original artwork is included plus one more equally rare 45 track!" Repressed. |
| 9/30/2008 | German | Bunker | CDR | $6.99 | Killertree Records | "Some trusta-irie chump sprawls his curry n' cloves apartment scent out in to the alley, jammin' Marley's "Could you be loved" and ready to give "great and good love" to some skinny-minnie broad (yeah, dreads) when the vibe gets reamed by trash can arguements and a scattered transmission (car), hurling down this sweaty purgatory. The doors/windows get locked and the trustas don't emerge for days from fear. Fear from music, man. German (Julian from skull-crushin' The Pope/L.A.) Give some unsettling electronic scabage - kinda like when The Residents were cutting their teeth on homemade sound devices, toss in some undanceable New Wave Hookers styled revelry, pull the plug on vision and fuck off to the rest of the kingdom. Limited to 45 copies." |
| 9/29/2005 | Gew-gaw | Issue #1 | zine with CD | $5.99 | Interviews with Steppes, St. Mikael, Fantasyy Factoryy, Translucent, Will-O-The Wisp plus articles and reviews. CD features: Meanie Geanies, Cardinals, Yesterday's Thoughts, Purple Overdose, Will-o-The Wisp. | |
| 9/29/2005 | Gew-gaw | Issue #2 | zine with CD | $5.99 | Interviews with Into The Abyss, Mother Superior, Carrots, Grass Harp, Mandra Gora Lightshow Society plus articles and reviews. CD features: The Voyage Limpid Sound, Burnt Noodle, Into The Abyss, Morte Macabre, Carrots, Harvest Moon, Liquid Zoo, Trip Hill, Jack Of All Trades, Quarkspace, Translucent, Mandra Gora Lightshow Society, The Aarwells. | |
| Ghost | Ghost | CD | $13.99 | Drag City | “This is primitive early Ghost, psychedelic in the bell-bottomed way, sort of like a German Os Mutantes (or perhaps a Brazilian Amon Duul), mixing ethnic sounds in with the groovy beats, guitars, and the haunting wail of a recorder to create (rather than recreate) and ultimately define (rather than redefine) a completely modern psychedelic sound! With titles like 'Guru in the Echo,' and 'I've Been Flying,' the young psych side of Ghost is much on display here.” Debut from 1990. | |
| 1/27/2004 | Ghost | Hypnotic Underworld | CD | $13.99 | Drag City | "For the first time in many moons, the tribes of Earth have real call to celebrate - the return of Ghost. Their new offering, Hypnotic Underworld, is their best album ever - more colorful than Ghost, heavier than Temple Stone, deeper and wider than Lama Rabi Rabi, more psyched and folked than Snuffbox Immanence and Second Time Around and with a more mountainous jam than Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet. Believe it. Yes, Hypnotic Underworld is heavy with highlights, ranging the continents in quicksilver fashion, adding 70 minutes of Ghost sounds to this world, all streamlined to an ultimate intensity." |
| 3/20/2007 | Ghost | In Stormy Nights | DBL LP | $16.99 | Drag City | "Over the hour's-worth of music and sound that makes In Stormy Nights, Ghost apply their folk sounds, improvisations and avant-garde constructions to a savage evocation. In the world we live in today, we can only imagine what this means. And we agree. Throughout In Stormy Nights there are a variety of sounds and songs, ranging from pop-folk numbers to hard rock to outré concepts held together by Ghost's diverse musical personality. The essence of Ghost is the epic 'Hemicyclic Anthelion.' Nearly thirty minutes of free improvisation from several live shows are strung together into a seamless progression. This piece is a cornerstone of In Stormy Nights and a representation of the original approach of Ghost - pure improvisation. Ghost are forever looking for themselves in the music they make. To make ordinary beauty is easy, but Ghost are listening beyond that. Even the acid-folky songs are based in improvisation. Over the years, Ghost have never had the same lineup twice on any of their album sessions - until now. The In Stormy Nights Ghost is the same Ghost that recorded Hypnotic Underworld and the same group that thundered across the U.S. in 2004. They display intense power on these new recordings, incorporating frame drums and tympanis and the 'springer' (a device made by Batoh that contains metal springs, a resonance box, plasma ball (light) and rotating machine to create a heavy yet Theremin-like sound) into their already-diverse orchestra. The center of the album is a series of tympani-driven songs that rock with a fury, mirroring the martial mood of our governments - a mood that musicians and artists may not share in beyond reflecting it. This powerful section concludes with an absolutely blasting cover of Cromagnon's 'Caledonia' - a favorite band of Ghost's that they are delighted to share with listeners in this fashion." Double LP version housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket. |
| Ghost | Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet | CD | $13.99 | Drag City | "A series of dense, somber, acoustic compositions. Each of these songs turns a new page in the eternal book of Ghost. An atmosphere of morning pervades, as Ghost gives their undying respect to the nonviolent resistance of the people of Tibet." | |
| 8/28/2007 | Ghost Brâmes | Eagle Arpegi | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "Florian Tositti and Jacob Garret's ghost brames brings a handful of magic mushrooms to the party. it is woozy music, as patterned as an acid high. simultaneously breaking apart and sewing itself back together again, "eagle arpegi" encapsulates the infinitism of the universe. slowly, the leviathan raises its head and sinks in its teeth, without alarming its prey. this is the true measure of great music. your blood will boil and your skull crack at its base, but in the end you're better for it. because really, how can you actually free your mind when it's trapped inside a bony prison? 100 copies" |
| 12/31/2003 | Ghost Exits | Cincinnati Riot Blues | 12 "EP | $7.99 | The Social Registry | "Destined to be the most played underground record of the summer" - Joshua Gabriele, Artrocker. "We are proud to present the debut offering from NYC two piece Ghost Exits; a four song 12" EP. Ghost Exits have seen incarnations as a free jazz combo & rock band but it was late in 2001 when the current incarnation began to take shape. Trading in their drums & guitars for a sequencer and some out moded analog synths Christopher Exit & Ivan Sunshine began looking to the British post-punk aesthetic and early 80s hip-hop for inspiration to create a new starting point from which to deliver their sound. Fast forward two years and you find the fully realized sound of Ghost Exits taking shape as they created a new beast to be reckoned with. It didn’t take long for the rest of the NYC population to catch up with these two; and it wasn’t long before they began playing shows with the likes of James Chance & The Warlocks. These four songs serve up but a taste of the raw animal magnetism that this band delivers. This is the inaugural edition of our 12" series, limited to 600 copies." |
| 9/17/2009 | Ghost Hand | Ghost Hand | cassette | $5.00 | Pool Party | "Debut release. Dark ambient folk noise that hovers between awake and asleep. echoes sift up from the floor boards, voices delay in a dream." |
| 11/17/2007 | Ghost Moth | Sealand Fortress | CDR | $7.99 | House of Alchemy | "A rally cry of twisted horns, mangled junk-tronics and guitar peals through the air. A declaration on intent to march for the freedom of Sealand! Improv titan Daniel Carter blows loud and hard with two mysterious NY noise peddlers and rolls broken marbles down your spine. Just when you think its time to start head-banging, it's over. So, you hit play again and wait for that urge to surge, let it wash over you. Whole brains can be lost in this record. Stick your lunch in a burlap sack and come join the majesty." Limited to 123 copies, with handmade wax paper 'stained glass' inserts. |
| 3/1/2007 | Ghosting | Fox Glove | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "The seismic ripplies that ghostings drones are sending through the rose city are taking flight and planting seeds all over the globe. this group of sonic harbingers haunt the cracks and crevices of a world that seemingly only exists deep under water where life is a barely-there flicker amongst the murk. but ghosting's haunted aural landscapes are a beacon, like a lighthouse sunk below miles of the icy ocean, offering a glimmer of warmth in hostile waters. this trio continues its journey through the fuzz and static, and once again emerges with wings unscathed and silver skin." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 2/4/2007 | Ghosting | Live / Oakland + | cassette | $6.99 | Arbor | "This Portland drone duo manages to create lengthy tracks with a psychedelic precision that makes you forget what time is/was/will be. This tape contains a track from a live show in Oakland with bustling airy drones and the dinging of bells luring the ears to go to places they have not been before. The track progresses thoughtfully with exact subtleties building to a climax only to come tumbling down with that exact progression. The B-side is a deja-vu conjugated burner starting where the other side ended. In a numbered edition of 100 copies with individually inked and sprayed tape labels in a silver sprayed case and ink drawn cloudscapes." |
| 9/17/2006 | GHQ | Heavy Elements | CD | $12.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "Following on the heels of their fantastic 2006 release cosmology of the eye, GHQ and three lobed recordings are proud to release the aptly titled heavy elements. culled together from a live performance in brooklyn (january 2006), the trio continues to explore the intricacies of electric/acoustic drones and ragas in what is their most intense set of recordings to date. for this recording the band consisted of marcia bassett (double leopards, hototogisu, zaimph), steve gunn and pete nolan (magik markers, spectre folk, the vanishing voice, etc). heavy elements churns with the deeply layered drones that marked previous GHQ releases. while these sounds are present, this album differentiates itself from the band's prior outings through the addition of nearly-tribal drums and a more intense overall aural atmosphere. this is music that, while blissfully transcendent and beautiful, is not for the faint of heart. from a one-time pressing of 1000 copies." Recommended! |
| 3/20/2007 | Giant Skyflower Band | Blood of the Sunworm | CD | $11.99 | Soft Abuse | "During a sabbatical from regular duties in The Skygreen Leopards, Glenn Donaldson (never one to rest) dreamt of Giant Skyflower Band, an exotic, flowery and crumbling new recording project with nods to fruity new age, psych, prog, folk, and pop songwriting. Donaldson quickly invited multi-instrumentalist Shayde Sartin to "smoke marijuana & make up strange pop songs, " and thus the band was born. With Gong's seminal Magick Brother as a starting point and a sitar close at hand, the duo created a dark, peregrine pop transmission from their shoddy analog recording studio in San Francisco. Blood of the Sunworm is the duo's debut offering. Giant Skyflower's purpose is to examine in detail the idiom of Bummer Psych; the strain of damaged Anglo-pop music pioneered by Syd Barrett that arguably reached its apex with The Television Personalities' Painted Word LP in the mid-80's, but found new life in Japan via the genius of Tori Kudo and like-minded acts such as Nagisa Ni te and Tenniscoats. Indeed, Blood of the Sunworm consists of depressing pop songs and damaged instrumentals - teeth bared and falling apart as they are cobbled together - on a hazy, cryptic journey through a busted kaleidoscope, behind a dusty mirror & up through the rafters." |
| 11/2/2008 | Giffoni, Carlos | Adult life | CD | $10.99 | No Fun | "This is shining and pure electronic music. Adult Life continues Carlos Giffoni's work in slow-building drones and prickly, trebly peaks, but he also imbues these new compositions with subtle structure and blind-siding rhythmic pulses which recall the many pioneers of electronic composition, among them Cluster, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream.The caustic melding of foreboding abstraction and lively pulse raises Adult Life to a paradigm of the breathing and the immaculate, a strange set of dichotomies finding a shocking common ground. Carlos Giffoni describes this as some of his most musical work to date, a pure electronic excursion into more grounded troupes which almost paradoxically work out completely new sonic concepts and ideas. Original Illustrations for this full length by Megan Ellis." |
| 3/20/2007 | Giffoni, Carlos | Assassin's Faith | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Chondritic Sound | "Bushwick electronics. laptop and oscillator jams from this nuker, best known for his band Monotract and being proprieter of the fine No Fun Fest. recorded hot on the heels of his recent US tour and in a similar vein, harsh synth bleat and laptop mangling are to be found here. color art, quality paper and painted CDr." |
| 12/24/2005 | Giffoni, Carlos | I Am Real | LP | $16.99 | No Fun | "Something breaks. but not completely, it reshapes itself into giant bacteria, it has the ability of creating infinite heat and starts melting your record player. it becomes liquid but the speakers still work so you can hear perfectly every milisecond of the melting process. finallly it becomes a cannon and shuts the sun down. planets loose their orbit. earth becomes a giant mass crashing trough space. everything dies. you try to wake up but It is real. No Fun Rotten LP series, Photocopy punk as fuck artwork, No Fun style artist, limited to only 300 with no repressing." - No Fun. Artwork by Aida Ruilova. |
| 5/31/2004 | Giffoni, Carlos | Raw Files | CDR | $10.99 | Piussant | 86 tracks recorded in 2003 by Carlos’ computer. Edition of 60 copies on Soft Abuse’s new cdr label ‘Piussant’. Hand-assembled and housed in a lovely vellum envelope. |
| 11/21/2008 | Giffoni, Carlos | The Absence of Essence | double 7" | $11.99 | Arbor | "Carlos Giffoni's heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the 7" format does not harm Giffoni's work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of grey industrial zones. As the person responsible for No Fun Productions and the No Fun Fest, this Brooklyn transplants presence in the current progression of the genre is undeniable. In an edition of 400 2x7"(one on white vinyl and one on black) sets in gatefold sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives." |
| 9/30/2005 | Giffoni, Carlos | The Beauty of Skylines | 3" CD | $11.99 | Feld Records | A live recording 3" cd coming in a special cardboard box from the European bushwick psycho tour stop in Frankfurt last year contains a 20:57 minutes long, carefully edited piece of improvised electronic sound mangling. You'll hear a wide variety of sound textures reaching from brusque tones, walls of feedback and noise mayhem to softer, almost ambient sounding passages. |
| 3/26/2006 | Giffoni, Carlos | The Last Analogue Sessions | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Mr Monotracts final analogue throw up is a Chimo paste dripping brain tangle. Recorded in Bushwick in 2002, here we hear Carlos stumble into broken electronic/radio confussion, and emerge the other end with some kind of sonic afro." |
| 1/17/2010 | Giffoni, Carlos & Hive Mind | Claustrophobic Wreck | LP | $29.99 | Ultra Eczema | "Although it's better than prison, it still isn't easy to live with two guys wearing an ankle bracelet, in the smallest possible wooden cabin somewhere in between new york and detroit. there's no food anymore, tab water is not drinkable, and eating each other's intestines seems to be the last enjoyable possibilty. The thick dense sound of synth throbbing bubbles up from these hungry bowels. 2 synths fighting their ways to better times, though right now everything looks pretty dark, gnarly and industrial, classic heavy synth waves, rhythmic madness and electronic sadness. comes in a collage sleeve by dt, limited to 300 copies." |
| 3/2/2004 | Giffoni, Carlos / Dylan Nyoukis | Chewing Smoke | CD | $9.99 | Imvated | “Long awaited collab from these two fine chaps. Carlos is known for his work in Monotract and Old Bombs and his various collabs with artist like Thurston Moore and Jorge Castro. Dylan plays in Decaer Pinga / Prick Decay and has recently assisted Kemialliset Ystävät, making a better album. Chewing Smoke is compiled sending bits and crap to each other through the mail. In the end Carlos decided to end the thing, and took care of the final mixdown. And what a result that is. A superb clash between digital and analogue sounds, hums and cracks. Like a demented Pierre Henry on crack. Or your best friend, playing with alarm systems. Really. And what about the packaging. Cool drawings from the Nyoukis-dude silkscreened by a local hardcorekid. Silver prints on shiny colors. That kind of shit.” Numbered edition of 500 copies. |
| 10/3/2009 | Giffoni, Carlos / Keith Fullerton Whitman | Techno B/W 070207 | LP | $15.99 | No Fun | "Two very active modern electronic musicians who enjoy 20th century analog equipment deliver a document of mind expanding electronics with very different approaches. Giffoni's track 'Techno' is full of layered and perfectly synched synthetic rhythms matched with some very adhesive evolving sounds; Creating something that somehow ends up being a homage to both early techno and harsh Japanese electronics. Whitman's track is a beautiful exploration of synthetic tonality and space, like a sudden massage to several areas of the brain one by one but also all at once with a little spice of musique concrete . Both of these recordings share an expansive and psychedelic nature, as well as a nod to the past while moving into the future. Artwork by Maya Miller. Limited to 400." |
| 2/4/2007 | Giffoni, Carlos / Prurient | Heavy Rain Returns | CD | $12.99 | Ideal | "Heavy Rain Returns is a truly monumental album. Recorded in Bushwick, New York City - it's an intense trip into harsh noise and electronic sickness. Carlos Giffoni is maybe best known for his great "Welcome Home" record for Important and his curator skills are infamous through his No Fun Fest in Brooklyn which is the world's most extreme music festival. Prurient is Dominick Fernow who is operating the Hospital Productions label and shop out of a basement in New York. His albums "Black Vase" and the latest "Pleasure Ground" for Load Records are both highly recommended and loved. Here we hear two of the US-noise scene's absolutely most important creators together - and man, it's pure energy hitting you hard." |
| 4/10/2009 | Giffoni, Carlos / THE RITA | Two on a Match | double LP | $21.99 | No Fun | "The ongoing study and execution of harsh noise by driven artists constantly reinstates the medium via different techniques, concepts, and different artist amalgamations for a collaborative work. For myself, working with the different 'warbling' and generative moving lines of modular synth from Carlos Giffoni offered me a chance to investigate many different 'spaces' of tone and line manipulation. Manipulating and playing with escalating and dying tones that all the while keep a throbbing pace was something that I always wanted to work with being a fan of the jutting and tremolo-like rough 'wave' tones of harsh noise artists from Aaron Dilloway/Spine Scavenger to Atrax Morgue. The opportunity of working with the sources of Carlos Giffoni was exciting as I got to manipulate 'dirty' and constantly moving cutting modular synth electronics, the challenge being making the lines articulate with something of THE RITA's hiss and pedal driven nature. The examination and crossing of the different LINES slowly become their own parallel entity as the adjoined and wavy synth lines are further dirtied, cut repeatedly, and joined with the knife of 'gated' and cutting HN pedal work. Not unlike the manipulation of the textural, rough, and linear landscape pieces of Richard Longs mixed with the 'chopping', yet smooth lines of Donald Judd's installations. Both exude the same amount of power, but via very different textural 'lines' of installation. To further manipulate and display the different lines and HN stylizations, Giffoni had the opportunity to heavily edit the textural work of THE RITA to exude the constantly moving and jutting sense of Giffoni's own pulsing and driving synth decay via the dirtied analog source material of THE RITA. Modular snyth and pedal work have been long standing tools in the world of harsh noise, but not often are they crossed over with such investigative and crackling tendencies - a virtual criss-crossing of the different technical lines. - Sam McKinlay(THE RITA) - Limited to 300 copies" |
| 11/25/2004 | Gilmore, Andy | Lord, Hold My Hand While I Run This Race | CDR | $8.99 | Carbon Records | "The eighth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. A truly magnificant collection of guitar and piano pieces from one of the nicest and most creative people I know. Andy creates, whether it be with guitar or piano, pencil or ink, word or thought. Clocking in at over 44min, this release contains 13 tracks, one of which is a 14min live piece, each of which exudes the level of emotion and delicateness that we've come to expect from Andy." |
| 3/21/2009 | Ginnungagap | Return to Nothing | LP | $23.99 | Misanthropic Agenda | "Live recording and remix of a collaboration between: Gerritt Wittmer, Stephen O'Malley, and Tim Wyskida. Recorded March 10th, 2004 at the Flux Factory in Queens. Remastered and edited live recording, with all new remix. Finally! This sought after release gets a re-issue. Limited edition of 500, pressed on color vinyl." |
| 11/21/2009 | Girls At Dawn | Girls At Dawn | 12" | $12.99 | Captured Tracks | "Right on the the heels of their debut 7-inch on HoZac comes this four-song 12-inch EP. Drawing from post-punk, psychedelic and ‘60s pop influences, these three girls from Brooklyn make haunting melodies bridged with there/not-there ghostly arrangements. |
| 1/30/2010 | Gitche-Anahmi-Bezheu / Jugu | split | c24 cassette | $5.99 | Housecraft | "Incredible carousel-like sprawl from Ian Najdzionek's latest brain-child Gitche-Anahmi-Bezheu - expertly crafted meditative vibes. Jugu is a new emerging beast, with two mighty sets of industrious Gainesville hands at play : Royallen + Evan Galbicka (Antigua Ibis, head of Vanishing Hour)." |
| 1/17/2010 | Gitchi-anahmi-bezheu | Wonder | cassette | $6.99 | Earjerk | "We have said it before and we'll say it again... Earjerk is not a drone label... exclusively. But when something beautiful graces our ears we can't resist packaging that beauty up! (no matter what pigeon hole you want to stuff it into). I got to hang out with this cat and do a few live shows with him out on the East Coast, and man... I gotta say, dude delivers! I actually saw Ian perform as Dream Safari but, if anything, this new incarnation just turns everything up a notch... or down...however you wanna look at it! I guess down would be more appropriate. Cause this is deep, deep stuff! Fantastic Underwater Panther Music! The two times I saw Ian play live (and on all the cassette releases I have encountered) there is a definite progression that his pieces live through. This is something that is missing in many (MANY!) drone projects you might encounter, in which most finished pieces sound like they were chopped out of some large sprawling jam. *Snip! Snip! There' s the best chunk.* Not with Gitche. You can tell these pieces were self contained. A definite beginning, middle and end, you know? You can easily imagine these creations as living things as you listen to them originate, grow and die. Fleshy pink tapes. Individually hand-stamped covers on beautiful vintage paper. Limited to 99 copies." |
| 4/16/2007 | Glass Organ | Our | CD | $12.99 | Students of Decay | "Glass Organ is the Minnesota duo of Justin Meyers (Devillock/Tone Filth) and Tom Helgerson. "Our" is their third release, following tapes on Tone Filth and Twonicorn (which have recently been released together as the "Two Tapes" LP), and constitutes a formal peak for their unmistakable sound. Helgerson's utterly blasted guitar spurts smoldering static drones which are stalked and devoured by Meyers' rumbling tapes and electronics. Broken plumes of charred, oceanic rumbling, and gorgeous vistas of saturated analog gliss." |
| 4/16/2007 | Glass Organ | Two Tapes | LP | $15.99 | Tone Filth | "A reissue of the two out of print Glass Organ tapes. Building blown out desolate guitar and saturated tape. Co-Released with Twonicorn. Edition of 365 with hand screen white matte covers. New Glass Organ "Our" CD out now on Students of Decay." |
| 7/14/2007 | Glass Organ | Untitled II | cassette | $6.99 | Black Horizons | "Now 3 tapes in the duo of Glass Organ continues on from previous efforts creating a sound their own. Crackling prisms of guitar drone flow forward, carried by minimal tape loops and a penchant for abrupt editing. Dreamy and dreary at the same time. These tracks were both caught live in the fall of 2006. Color cover on white gold cardstock, individualized clear color labels. Hi-bias chrome tapes in an edition of 130." |
| 1/17/2010 | Glass Rock | Tall Firs Meet Soft Location | LP + Download | $13.99 | Ecstatic Peace | "Glass Rock is a song, is a band, is a way of life. Glass Rock is the crystallized movement formed by the molten lava makeout of the two bands of the album title: Tall Firs meet Soft Location. It's a werewolf and a rhino on a first-date rampage of Korean Food and poppers, doing the Cabbage Patch on the boardwalk, kissing babies with beer breath, all with truthful love in their hearts. The core elements of the Soft Location sound are Kathy Leisen's haunting voice and boneyard guitar, and Matt Kantor's slo-mo jet fuel bass jamminating. Add Tall Firs: Ryan Sawyer's could-blow-your-pants-off-but-prefer-to-slowly-work-them-over-your-hips drumming and Dave Mies and Aaron Mullan's creamy dual-savant guitar stylings: two dudes who don't even know how the other guy's guitar is tuned but nonetheless have brought the tandem knockout reverb dropkick since 1991. The band actively refuses to discuss influences, even with one another. With two pairs of childhood friends in the band, the music just happens and the listener is left to speculate. The dilettante thinks Chan Marshall or an Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison caught an extra-rad time machine ride and now inhabits every moment from 1955-2013 simultaneously. The serious aficionado is thinking Martha Reeves, Amon Dull II, the Gories, Otis Redding. But Heads know: This thing is wigs, Pepsi commercials, Sam Cooke, hardcore festivals, and free stuff on craigslist. In reality, Glass Rock are a prisonyard football team: a motley collection of wizened lifers, small-time pimps, and the wrongly convicted. Leisen is their Burt Reynolds. A painter on the Outside, she woke up back in the huskau of a recording studio after Awesome Michael ratted her and Kantor out to Ecstatic Peace. In the yard Tall Firs were hanging around bench-pressing twice their body weight. This record documents their crushing and dramatic defeat of the prison guards, and their harrowing escape during the ensuing melee. There is nothing contrived about this band. Neither derivative nor hybridized, GnR II are truly shark / half alligator sung of in days of yore, with inflatable Sasquatch feet and one popsicle arm. This thing will get bestial with you on the dancefloor, and will hold you tight on a pre-dawn canoe ride; staring at the stars crying at the wonder and terror of it all." LP comes with: Download card of full release |
| 7/16/2006 | GLÖMP8 | GLÖMP8 | Book | $25.99 | Boing Being | "232 pages of new Finnish comics in full colour featuring Sami Aho, Benjamin Bergman, Roope Eronen, Jyrki Heikkinen, Ina Kallis, Anna-Kaisa Laine, Jan Konsin, Reijo Kärkkäinen, Jarno Latva-Nikkola, Ville Loponen, Piirustuskerho, Hanneriina Moisseinen, Tommi Musturi, Pauliina Mäkelä, Jyrki Nissinen, Henna Raitala, Katri Sipiläinen, Kasper Strömman, Janne Tervamäki, Jari Vaara and Amanda Vähämäki. Edition of 800." Beautiful / stunning artwork - recommended! |
| 8/2/2008 | Glory Fckn Sun | Spectra | LP | $17.99 | Tipped Bowler Tapes | "The sky done clouded over after Glory Fckn Sun's debut album, yielding this brooding and corrosive follow-up. The New Zealand sorta-super group of Antony Milton , Ben Spiers, and Simon O'Rorke concoct a slow-burning behemoth of metallic shivers and distortion churn, dark enough to invoke the dread name Haino. Spectra is an unsettling mind-meld: Spiers desolate soundscapes bleed into Milton's heavy drones, which are complemented perfectly by O'Rorke's restless percussion. Group improvisation is the natural language of these three; even listing their solo and collaborative albums over the past decade would take way more effort than I can muster. Suffice to say this is a stellar and unique record to add to their massive discographies. In an edition of 300 red 160 gm. vinyl records, housed in silk-screened, heavy-gauge recycled stock jackets." Recommended! |
| 11/15/2008 | Glory Fckn Sun | Vision Scorched | CD | $10.99 | Pseudoarcana | Reissue in new packaging! Formed in 2003 as a conduit for intense ritualistic sonic exploration Glory Fckn Sun is the ecstatic psyche-noise trio of Antony Milton (guitar/electronics), Ben Spiers (guitar/violin/electronic) and improv percussionist Simon O'Rorke (gongs/percussion). 'Vision Scorched' collects together one studio track and two live pieces. These range through long form rumbling distorted deep space explorations (complete with supernova and the odd blackhole), intense yet ethereal harsh noise to close with a droning metaphysical raga-esque paean to the great cosmic inevitable of the collapse of the sun, And of light itself. Glory Fckn Sun have been described as having a sound that is like a cross between Flies Inside the Sun and Keiji Haino. The 1st edition of this release sold out in a matter of weeks and gained rave reviews. This 2nd edition is also limited. There are 250 copies." |
| 8/28/2007 | Glory Fckn Sun | Vision Scorched | CD w/ 72 page Book | $17.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Formed in 2003 as a conduit for intense ritualistic sonic exploration Glory Fckn Sun is the ecstatic psyche-noise trio of Antony Milton (guitar/electronics), Ben Spiers (guitar/violin/electronic) and improv percussionist Simon O'Rorke (gongs/percussion). 'Vision Scorched' collects together one studio track and two live pieces. These range through long form rumbling distorted deep space explorations (complete with supernova and the odd blackhole), intense yet ethereal harsh noise to close with a droning metaphysical raga-esque paean to the great cosmic inevitable of the collapse of the sun; of light itself. Glory Fckn Sun have been described as having a sound that is like a cross between Flies Inside the Sun and Keiji Haino. Nearly 2 years in the making and continuing in the PseudoArcana tradition of fantastical over-the-top packaging (...) 'Vision Scorched' is presented in a professionally bound 72 page picture book of sun related imagery with hand printed covers. This is a 'real' CD (not a CDR) in a limited numbered edition of 200 copies." |
| 10/25/2008 | Gnod | The Somnambulist's Tale | one-sided cassette | $9.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Kosmische Musik from Manchester speaking through hypnotic percussion grooves and splashes of synth delayed into eternity. Cover by Fliss Horrocks, 90 copies." |
| 6/19/2007 | Goatreign | Goatreign | CDR | $14.99 | Wabana | "A pummeling collection of gut wrenching Metal from Mike Hickey, guitarist of extreme metal acts VENOM, CARCASS, CRONOS and CATHEDRAL. Crushing rhythms, searing lead guitar, wrapped up with a deadly production make GOATREIGN a solid slab of classic metal! This has been an underground classic circulated amongst metal bands and fans alike. Goatreign features Mike handling guitar, bass AND vocal duties with longtime collaborator Shawn Progen on the drumkit. Recorded at The legendary Slaughterhouse with production by Mike and Mark Alan Miller. Another in the Wabana skull and cross bones purple digipaks. Limited to 300 copies." |
| 12/25/2005 | Goblin Market | Haunted | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Camera Obscura Records is pleased to announce the long-awaited second release by Goblin Market, a side project of Green Pajamas' members Jeff Kelly and Laura Weller. Their 2001 debut release "Ghostland" garnered lavish praise for musically rendering the morbid and occult sexuality of the pre-Raphaelite movement, and their new release examines a current analog of this milieu for another mind-bending excursion into the themes of gothic literature. Titled Haunted, it features songs inspired by the novels and poetry of celebrated American author Joyce Carol Oates. The musicians' mutual fascination with this prolific and masterful author and her uniquely dark vision resulted in this collection of songs, the source material for which mines a broad range of her work including lesser-known short stories, a novel under Oates' nom de plume, and poetry. The musical style blends alternative and folk-rock sensibilities with rich vocal harmonies. Exploding into flames with Weller's burning Green Pajamas-like rocker 'Dark Days', 'Haunted' again showcases the versatile songwriting and performance skills of Weller and Kelly, running the gamut from epic piano-driven psychodramas to delicate, perfectly-formed ballads, to sultry gothic (as opposed to 'goth') rock. Most strikingly, the near nine minute opus 'The Model' takes Kelly into new territory; icy electronics perfectly mapping out Oates' dark themes. As elsewhere on the release, prior exposure to Oates' work is not required for appreciation of what Kelly and Weller have achieved." |
| 12/24/2005 | God | Anti-Sex, Anti-Wiretapping (Made In Taiwan) | CD | $7.99 | Jyrk | "FINALLY. The first CD release on JYRK. Brought to you also by Gameboy and Little Enjoyer. For those familiar with the label, you'll know that GOD is a favorite of us at JYRK. We've gone on and on about their odd ways and majestic sounds. GOD could be compared to folks like AMM or the Improvised Music From Japan crew due to the meticulous attention paid to the construction of even the most minute sounds in their pieces. Instead of rambling on about how they busted Gabe's eardrum at low volumes or how Bryan isn't interested in editing music at all (it HAS to be good from start to finish), I should let the dudes speak for themselves about WHAT they do (this little bit was stolen from W. Week and was written by James Squeaky) Sundstrom: I use old record players and various types of records (vinyl, tin, graphite, drum cymbals, etc.) to produce different frequencies of feedback. Everything from temperature to arrangements within a room can change the type of resonance of the frequencies. This resonant feedback is attenuated with a parametric equalizer in order to arrange specific beating tone patterns. The grooves of the records are rarely used. The speakers and how the room is shared amongst the people in it dictate the end result. A positive attention is what really generates a positive outsource. Eubanks: I have designed an open-circuit board instrument composed of four former guitar effects pedals that were digital delay/sampling pedals. They have power modulation I installed, and they feed back directly into their circuit boards and each other with wire and alligator clips. It is much simpler than it sounds, sort of a very basic modular synth, with patches created each time I play. It is very dependent upon my physical interaction with the instrument. There are no button-pushing or static effects and/or outcomes. I also use pure sine-wave samples I have created that are stored on various CDs and mixed together, and sometimes field recordings." |
| 9/29/2005 | God on our side | OST | 3" CD | $7.99 | Fact Records (Israel) | "Inspired by Picasso's Guernica (1937), 'God on our side' is fundamentally about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the name of God, people are infused with rage and violence. Fear leads to brutality and vengeance follows. What hope is there for a child born into this circle of loss? The music was composed by Uri Kranot (a member of Hapuritanim Hatze'irim ) and recorded live (with members of Yuppies With Jeeps ) while screening the film, during August 2004 in Jerusalem." |
| 1/24/2009 | God Willing / Privy Seals | split | LP | $12.99 | Arbor | "God Willing and Privy Seals are two of the prime purveyors of meditative harsh tones. God Willing's guitar and oscillatior drone has been reaching epic levels of hypnosis lately and this piece is a great example. The repetitive nature of textured signals act like the swaying charm of the pocket watch: onward march. Matthew Sullivan has been crafting his Earn project recently, and this, one of the final Privy Seals recordings acts as a logical bridge. Heavy, hi-end guitar and tape interlacing: a harsh movement, but possessing transcendently soothing qualities buried under the deprivation of distorted tones. At the end of the hallway a door lies open. A long overdue document of the LA Diaspora. In an edition of 300 LPs with silkscreened chipboard covers by Ren Schofield." |
| 4/10/2009 | God-Eater | God-Eater | CDR | $6.99 | Scissor Death | "About God-Eater: Anonymous noise collective scattered through the mid-west. 1-10 members depending on the circumstances. This is their first release. Prominently features a distortion pedal "treated" with frog urine. Their only live performance resulted in the sound system exploding. The whole room smelled like burnt rubberŠ yeeeccchhh" |
| 2/11/2006 | Godman | GOD >><< DOG | CD | $15.99 | Acid Mothers Temple | Godman is Miyashita Keiichij (guitar), Enomoto Takayuki (bass), Watanabe Yasuyuki (drums), Higashi Hiroshi (electronics), and Kawabata Makoto (guitars). The two tracks were recorded on August 10, 2005 in Tokyo and was produced by Kawabata Makoto and mastered by Yoshida Tatsuya. Comes in a jewel case with full color artwork. Limited edition of 1000 copies. |
| Gold Soundz | #4 | zine | $3.99 | Interviews with Pan Sonic, Scott Foust of Swill Radio, and lots of reviews. Very nice zine written and put together by Sindre Bjerga. | ||
| 6/1/2002 | Gold Sparkle Band | Fugues And Flowers | CD | $12.99 | Squealer | “There's a palpable sense of adventure at play over the course of the four magnificent pieces on Fugues and Flowers, recorded at various venues during the band's tour of the Midwest in the late spring of 2000. The southern astro-funk of their previous album Nu*Soul Zodiac gets transmogrified into something deeper and more complex, as new ideas inform the music and allow it to expand outward. The band was always solid and well-rehearsed, but now the rhythm section has that rare intuitive quality, the compositions are complex, yet memorable, and the ensemble playing is exciting. GSB is capable of a driving muscularity, as they demonstrate on the powerful opener ‘Zodiac Attack’, but they are just as comfortable with a gentle, melodic lyricism, as their excellent version of William Parker's ‘Holiday For Flowers’ proves. The band reworks their older material with vigor, and attack the challenging new material with verve. Fugues and Flowers feels like a transitional recording, yet it's a powerful statement in its own right; if there's a transition taking place it's from excellence to transcendence.” |
| 10/26/2004 | Gold Sparkle Trio / Ken Vandermark | Brooklyn Cantos | CD | $12.99 | Squealer | “With one foot firmly planted in the avant tradition and the other boldly stepping into the future, the Gold Sparkle Band’s newest recording, Brooklyn Cantos, unites them with kindred spirit Ken Vandermark for one of the first important jazz recordings of the new decade. Vandermark and the GSB members share similar sensibilities and influences, and their sympathetic interplay exemplify the heroic conviction present in the heart of the finest jazz recordings. This is the third full length Gold Sparkle release on Squealer, following Nu*Soul Zodiac in 2000 and Fugues and Flowers in 2002. Liner notes are by Bill Meyer.” |
| 1/17/2010 | Goldberg, Sam | Current | LP | $12.99 | Weird Forest | "Sam Goldberg is a Cleveland, Ohio multi-instrumentalist/ composer who has been running in the garage rock/electronic underground circles for the last half of the ’00s. He also curates and operates the Pizza Night cassette label, one of the most beloved underground cassette headquarters of the midwest as of late. Unique, timeless, and clever constructions of sound created with many instruments like synthesizers, rhythm boxes, and electric guitars provide a wide scope of varied colored tones from release to release. This debut record, Current, is an early document of Sam’s solo guitar work. Side A consists of a hazy and humid melodic stasis that may be known from the Emeralds/Sam Goldberg 2007 tour cassette. An untitled piece that evokes a sense of longing and discontent while simultaneously hitting the deep and raw channels of the subconscious past that bring an understanding to the spaces between experience and memory. A gorgeous wash of clouded, ringing guitar not unlike Glenn Branca’s “Symphony No. 2.” On the flip side another phantom composition played only a few times live and recorded over a year ago in a similar weightless, sky guitar fashion rounds out the double side long debut. “Carol” is a great example of massive tone landscapes that can be born with minimal processing and careful compositional dynamic. Indeed, the sound of the instrument remains quite impressive throughout the album. The universal longevity of this record, however, will lie in the perfect placement of simple musical practices like chord changes, timbre and dynamics. Current has a style quality all it ’s own from the avant garde to pop rock with everything in between. No pretentions, no exponentiating contemporary concerns. Current stands as a pure and unwaivering document of self-expression, a characteristic that the all-time best albums have. It’s a rare case when a music with no lyrics or vocals can pave a path to an extraordinary understanding to one ’s own augmented reality. Outstanding debut album that defies the past and future and only breathes in the present moment." — John Elliott, 12/01/09, Cleveland. Limited to 300 copies Unique clear silkscreen-on-offset design by Aaron Winters. |
| 4/10/2009 | Goldberg, Sam | Live | cassette | $7.99 | Pizza Night | "Three live cuts, two recorded live on Ryan (Dr Quinn) Keuhn's Radio show, the other at 75 Blake Street in New Haven. The first side, "Wanderjahr" is particularly different than most of my live sets. Recorded using a synth and a record player rather than reverberated guitar. Art by John Elliot." |
| 4/10/2009 | Goldberg, Sam | Winter Hallucinations | CDR | $7.99 | Pizza Night | "A cdr that contains all three out of print Winter Hallucinations tapes. 30 minutes total of wintery melancholy guitar tracks. Spring is coming but the reflectiveness of the dark, icey months in the midwest can always be at your fingertips." |
| 2/7/2009 | Goldberg, Sam | Winter Hallucinations: II | cassette | $8.99 | Pizza Night | "The second of three tapes featuring improvized guitar jamming and on the fly layering and manipulations ..." Edition of 50. |
| 3/5/2009 | Goldberg, Sam | Winter Hallucinations: III | cassette | $7.99 | Pizza Night | "The third of four tapes in the series. Cold psychedelic reverberating guitar. Limited to 50." |
| 1/24/2009 | Goldberg, Sam / Color Dream | Cultivating a Sound Garden | cassette | $8.99 | Pizza Night | "Color Dream creates a lush blanket of gentle and peristent quivering radiance which represents to me some of the best sounds coming out of these kewl comrads. The collaboration vibes from Mike P. and Peter F. seem to have no trouble channeling heavy zones for what is only there fourth release. They use the constraints of a 7 minute side to there absolute fullest potential. a perfect balance of fuzzy ambients and weirdo key collage. The b-side is new jams from Sam G. Heavily influenced by Cybertracker and the films of Paul Wynne, his side offers more short "cycles" -esque synth pieces. This time introducing sequencing and vocals to the mix. Extended full color inserts and hand painted cassettes." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 7/16/2004 | Goldblood | Live | Cassette | $5.99 | "Goldblood is a C60 cassette-only project with Plastic Crimewave & film director Amy Carghill, in which the duo take the melody ‘As Long As He Needs Me,’ that mawkishly peon paeon to patriarchal wife-beating from Lionel Bart’s ‘Oliver’, and subsume it under a barrage of arthymical industrial suffering in a Raw & Alive stylee redolent of Fripp & Eno’s magnificent ‘Swastika Girls.’ Carghill’s jagged Vox Jaguar organ transcends even Martin Rev’s ROIR-period Half Alive-period Suicide for sheer heart attack, and I’d love a split-screen video of the two to go along with it!" – Julian Cope | |
| 3/30/2005 | Goldblood | Mere Glowing Embers EP | CDR | $7.99 | Galactic Zoo Disk | 2004 recording (one 22 minute track) featuring Plastic Crimewave (treated guitar, electronics) and Amy Cargill (vox jaguar). |
| 5/31/2009 | Golden Jooklo Age | Ritual | one-sided LP | $24.99 | Troglosound | "Second press (the first was an ultra-ltd edition of 12 copies) of this obscure live recording, an ethereal vortex of electric moon-sounding mandolin and slow bass (Luca Massolin), spacey keyboards (David Vanzan), primitive astral soprano sax and voice (Virginia Genta). Atmospheres for the end of the earthly." Edition of 280 copies with handmade collage artwork by Troglosound. |
| 2/21/2009 | Golden Oaks, The | Autumn Testament | CD | $12.99 | A Silent Place | "Comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea) and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors), The Golden Oaks features road show magicians springing forth candles from wooded sanctuaries. Composed via the postal system, Autumn Testament is a hymn to the season of red, gold, and orange. A canopy of leaves shelters the proceedings from the fog that threatens to obscure these sounds. This is a glorious combination of organic grace, blessed by the forests of past centuries and those still in their infant stages. The trees will put tears in your eyes!" |
| 4/20/2008 | Golden Oaks, The | Paradise | CD | $12.99 | Music Fellowship | "Paradise is free form Applachain abstraction from the folk/minimalist duo of Keith Wood and Brad Rose. Originally released in a here today, gone tomorrow CDR edition on UK label Barl Fire, this batch finds these autumn alchemists offering seven soul-soothing hymnals to the wind and the trees and the sky and the leaves. Tranced-out falsetto drifts atop supple strumming to create traditional backwoods folk, stressed and compressed by the walls around them (or lack thereof), making it softer and airier. Their fractured take on folk is complimented by multi-layered bowed string and harmonium drones, created from that same soft and airy palette. As the smokey reverb of the drones reaches resonance, the spectrum fills and amplitudes peak in spaced-out bliss. While this collaboration shows Wood and Rose at their most experimental, the two are likely better known for their original solo projects. Wood's Hush Arbors project has lurked around the edges of public consciousness, soliciting raves from fucked folk figureheads Ben Chasny (Six Organs) and James Toth (Wooden Wand), which led to touring and recording with both. Wood's first supporter - like so many underground folk acts - was Rose, releasing many of Wood's early recordings on his Foxglove CDR label, and then rereleasing them in fuller runs on his proper CD label Digitalis. Rose's solo project, The North Sea, holds an equal underground significance with understated forest folk recordings released on almost every folk friendly CDR label. The most prolific and interesting of his many collaborations is this project, The Golden Oaks, as these two friends trade ideas and expand on each other's vision. This reissue of Paradise is remastered and extended." |
| 4/24/2006 | Goldoolins | Songs of the Turly Crio | CD | $12.99 | "A great thing for acid folk lovers about this second album is that the style of the group has a stronger consistent focus on an acoustic fundament, with the same Trader Horne/Sallyangie association as before and beyond. All songs but one are sung in English. The arrangements are wonderful, and the vocal harmonies have a love driven happiness, even in the lament styles. The few brass instrument arrangements, much more than the previous album, are better adapted into a folk / perhaps slight old music flavour. A bit different is the humorous blues song, "Country Traveller", still with the stringed instruments playing like troubadours having lost their time perspective and making fun of it. And "Dusty", equally fine, is more like an on the road songwriter expression. A great album with integrity, which will surely appeal to those liking the fundamental 70's more than the periods with different interests after this." | |
| Golowin, Sergius | Lord Krishna von Goloka | CD | $17.99 | Spalax | Spaced out psychedelia from 1973 featuring Cosmic Jokers and others | |
| 1/30/2010 | Goner, The | Behold A New Traveler | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Behold A New Traveler is the second Deep Water entry from Sweden's The Goner (after H.H. , last year's 2-disc reissue of super-limited self-releases), and it marks a confident move forward on all fronts. In contrast to earlier work, most of the new Goner material is song-based (just a pair of instrumentals on hand here) and full-band powered, making for an album that's both thematically unified and stylistically varied, from solo acoustic melancholy to wailing psych-rock. While it is still possible to draw lines from BeholdŠ to the music of other contemporary folk-derived artists such as Six Organs of Admittance, Palace Brothers, and Stone Breath, at the same time the overall feel owes as much to Westerlund's own cultural roots (recall that Sweden produced some legendary psychedelic rock & folk back in the 1970s), and the Goner's creative voice continues to develop with a clarity of purpose that offers much and suggests more. Pro-pressed CDr; seven tracks, 37 minutes." |
| 4/10/2009 | Goner, The | H.H. | double CDR | $11.99 | Deep Water | "H.H. reissues a pair of wonderful 2008 folk-psychedelic-experimental discs by a Swedish artist called the Goner. We first heard about him from our friend Mats Gustafsson, who wrote that the Goner "delivers spiritual music that accompanies dreams, as it organically flows across the sky when you're walking to work and creeps up on you when you least expect it to. It's tempting to place his work along the lines of Hush Arbors and Six Organs of Admittance and although that's true you can also hear his background in the lo-fi scene", not to mention subliminal influences ranging from Swedish folk songs to the trippier end of technoid electronics, all processed via a sonic template that's both richly layered and authentically "there". Of the two discs, Hind Hand works as a flowing instrumental psychedelic journey, while Haven experiments a bit more broadly with style and instrumentation (including vocals), and together the two tell a story that's as deep as it is wide. Seventeen tracks across two discs, around ninety minutes of music." |
| 3/27/2004 | Gong | Acid Motherhood | CD | $14.99 | Mister E | "When the standard-bearers of 21st Century psychedelia Acid Mothers Temple merge with experimental originators like the maverick Anglo/French collective Gong, it's total music - post-industrial nu-psychedelia at its most intense and beguiling. Gong return to the creative fire once more - to be reborn. From the crucible comes the glorious chaos that had to happen. In February 2003, Kawabata Makoto and Cotton Casino (both of Acid Mothers Temple), with guitarist Josh Pollock (of University of Errors) joined Gong originators Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth, plus drummer-son Orlando Allen and Indonesian bassist Dharmawan Bradbridge in Byron Bay, Australia, to record a new Gong CD together - an album is like no other in the band's 35-year history. For the first time there are three wildly different guitarists, no sax and, on half the tracks, no bass player." Recommended! |
| 12/11/2002 | Gong | Magick Brother | CD | $17.99 | Victor Japan | Japanese reissue of classic 1969 LP originally released on the French BYG label. "This CD reissue beautifully replicates the original's artwork on a nice mini gatefold sleeve and thankfully rescues this work into public visibility. Led by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth, Gong's debut album presented their spiked vision of ‘The Kingdom of the Pothead Pixies’ into truly illustrious fashion. The spiritual heirs to the fractured throne of Syd's Pink Floyd, this is space-whisper genius from the peak days of the psychedelic dream." - FE |
| 3/5/2003 | Gong | Magick Brother | LP | $16.99 | Get Back / BYG | "This is where it all began. Before Camembert Electrique, there was Magick Brother, originally released on the French BYG label in 1970. Here Daevid Allen and his wife Gilli Smyth (who wrote most of the material on the album) are still finding themselves on the straighter, more pop-oriented side of psychedelia. 12 tracks including the 'Gong Song' where Allen first introduces his pothead pixies. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram vinyl." |
| 8/13/2004 | Gonzalez, Wally | On The Road / Tunog Pinoy | DBL LP | $59.99 | Shadoks | "For the first time both rare LP's reissued as a double album. Those 2 albums are the rarest and best LP´s beside Juan De La Cruz Up In Arms. Wally Gonzalez is the amazing heavy fuzz guitarist on all Juan De La Cruz albums. If you like heavy fuzz guitar / prog music similar to Shinki Chen and Speed Glue and Shinki, you will love those 2 albums by Wally. These days Wally is still on the road playing clubs in the Philippines." |
| 3/26/2006 | Gonzo | Gonzo | t-shirt | $15.99 | Xero Ink | Really cool t-shirt with the Hunter S Thompson Gonzo 'logo' on it. Go here to see what the Gonzo design looks like (http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=6428). These shirts were made by Sunburned Hand of the Man's Phil Franklin and are available in sizes XL (this is a cream colored shirt with red Gonzo design), L (one is a black shirt with white Gonzo design and the other size L shirt is red with white Gonzo design), and size M (these are all red shirts with white Gonzo design). Killer shirt - I'm wearing mine now! |
| 7/16/2006 | Good Anna, The | Full of Beans | CDR | $8.99 | Sharks & Pfennigs | "The Good Anna are Patrick Farmer and Graham Jones. Based in Nottingham, the duo has been performing everywhere lately, from late-night improv blowouts in the Midlands to North America (where they are embarking on a lengthy tour this summer). Instrumentally focused around Jones' guitar and Farmer's percussion, Full of Beans explores space both acoustic and physical, moving from quietly bowed ringing tones to spastic, clattering explosions." |
| 11/15/2008 | Good Band | Good Band | cassette | $8.99 | Lal Lal Lal | "Good Band was founded in 2005 by Aapo Rapi (8 Bits High, Verticals, Sunnuntaiorkesteri) and Benjamin Bergman (Vectors, The Torsors). The result is strongly good wibes party band: lots of funny minimal synths and some junk yard instruments. This tape compiles the best tracks of a huge mountain of tapes they have recorded during the past thousand nights, and it's all you need for a Good Party." |
| 12/25/2005 | Good Good, The | A Fer Era | LP | $12.99 | Harlan | "17 songs of loud, jubilant theatre punk from these three fine Brooklyn folks. feels like late 80's sonic youth, the slits, tom tom club, and deerhoof in similar spaces. folks were also in Boomfancy, Cobra Kai, and Cha Cha Cha." |
| 2/12/2008 | Gore Orphanage | Two Day Songs | CDR | $8.99 | "Gore Orphanage is Kris D' Agostino, synth player from Brooklyn based psych prog outfit Titan. All sounds on Two Day Songs were created by Kris using a variety of instruments and recorded onto his laptop in a tiny Greenpoint space over the course of 2005-2007. Dark synth drones." | |
| 6/11/2006 | Goslings, The | Spaceheater / Perfect Interior | CD | $12.99 | Crucial Blast | "Spaceheater/Perfect Interior collects the first two EP's from husband-and-wife duo the GOSLINGS, originally released as short-run CD-Rs on low-fi/indie noise imprint Asaurus Records in 2003-2004. Working with a signature palette of melted,low-fi indie pop and muggy/smeared psych-drone ambience ground through overdriven amplifiers and shot out into pools of swirling basement shudder, The GOSLINGS adorn their gorgeous powermurk with eerie field recordings, ghostly subterranean vocals, and crackling cable buzz.If SUNN O))) had, in actuality, been a psych-addled late-80's dreampop outfit on 4AD Records, or if cult shoegazers MEDICINE had ever collaborated with drone-axe sorcerers EARTH, the resulting fug may have been similiar to this avalanche of mystic black sugar. Simultaneously ethereal and blown-out,angelic strains of four-track mud-majesty shaking the walls of the ancient well it's buried beneath." |
| Goucher, Charles | Pint Sized Spartacus | CD | $12.99 | Gravelvoice | "This is the Charles Gocher (Sun City Girls) solo project with the help of Elaine DiFalco, Terry Nelson, Mike Bisio, Eyvind Kang, Michael and Cynda. This is more radio drama than music. You really have to know your history to appreciate the melding of historical event that this disc presents." | |
| 12/24/2005 | Gown | Early Works | CDR | $8.99 | Solo recordings from Andrew Macgregor (Amarillo Stars) who also performs with Christina Carter these days. Limited. | |
| 2/12/2008 | Gown | For the Maples | LP + CD | $20.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "Gown (aka Andrew MacGregor and otherwise known as one-half of the Bark Haze with Thurston Moore) moved from western Massachusetts to Nova Scotia earlier in the year. Before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember some grand old MA times. With that goal in mind, Gown went into the studio with the Sunburned Hand of the Man gang (represented this time out by John Moloney, Sarah O'Shea, Ron Schneiderman and Taylor Richardson) to melt some audio consoles. "For the Maples" represents a portion of that recorded output and believe us, it's some massive stuff. Sunburned's thick funk presents the perfect background for Gown's shredding guitar-play. Extremely hot stuff, especially the massive side-long "Bending Close." As per the Three Lobed standard, "For the Maples" is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. It will be housed within silkscreened jackets (screen work by Alan Sherry / SIWA) bearing new artwork by Gown. The record will be from an edition of 693 copies and, similar to the Basalt Fingers LP and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax." |
| 8/2/2008 | Gown | On the River | CDR | $8.99 | House of Alchemy | "Gown is Gown is Gown. We love it. 3 tracks of earthquake balladeering. Packaged in a double sided 11x17 3-color poster folded to hold the Gown sounds in mothering fashion. Darryl Norsen has created something both lush and arresting in his art for this release, ideal and deserving housing for this magisterial music. The guitar doesn't weep, it sobs." Edition of 130. |
| 6/27/2009 | Gown | The Old Line | LP | $14.99 | Divorce | "Andrew MacGregor may be most known for his otherworldly guitar collaboration with Thurston Moore in Bark Haze, but his solo work as Gown is equally cosmic. The Old Line is avant-garde guitar music for deep listening and coming undone. A weird meditation. Sprawling webs of guitar ambience and outsider mantras capture an ethereal solitude- the sparse Nova Scotian landscapes that Gown now calls home reflected in the texture of his music. This is noise that sounds like a sky of birds settling into the trees for a night away from the wind. Limited to 500 copies." |
| 11/21/2009 | Gowns | Broken Bones | LP | $15.99 | Latitudes | "GOWNS are a band as haunting as they are haunted. Searching for salvation amongst the clutter of our everyday existence they tell us stories of never-ending summers, broken lives and shining revelation, all soaked in the dirty realism of a wilderness America. Revolving around the partnership of Erika Anderson - previously the guitar wrangler in Amps For Christ - and Ezra Buchla - ex-horror show vocalist and programmer for The Mae Shi - Gowns cast an apocalyptic net over a broad church of influences, hauling in their fractured folk songs with cracked electronics, lending their confessional lyrics the directness of a spooked grunge approach, whilst embracing their smart oscillating pop with troubled atmospherics. The GOWNS' Latitudes session was recorded during our first experience of a winter in England. We had just come off a full tour of the US and Italy. With the addition of a bassist to form a real rhythm "section", we found our fuzzy little folk songs had blown up into something huge. During those 2 weeks in the UK the set reached a new level of brutality. Being asked to do a Latitudes session was a surprise and an honor, and we decided to use the opportunity to document what we were doing live. This session was recorded all in one long day, and Harvey was a saint. One million thanks to him, Allison, Chris T., and to the kind souls in Hull who took us in sick and shivering and gave me a sweater. Listening to this recording evokes a time when we were barely holding on by our fingernails. Ezra had broken bones in his foot, which the cold and rain didn't help. There were points during that tour where I just kind of lost my mind, and during the recording of "HEAVEN" there was a moment where I completely forgot where I was, who I was, and what I was doing. Can you hear it?" - EMA 2009. Edition of 1000 copies. |
| 3/2/2008 | GR | Xperiments Within the Tentacular | LP | $21.99 | Lesdisques Blasphematoires Du Palatin | "As the needle first hits the vinyl you would be forgiven for thinking you had been sold the soundtrack to an obscure sci-fi film as metallic sequencers, alien synths and driving percussion flood from the speakers. You can almost see the men wrapped in bacofoil, trying to take over the world as a barrel of psychedelic effects render the film almost impossible to watch. The one thing you will remember is the soundtrack, the electronic feel now overtaken, by crazy guitar playing, exploding across the universe, as a weird cacophony of sound melts your brain into soft goo. After this fantastical opening, the music takes another sharp turn with the warped Electro-Pop madness of "Berlin Corpse Is The Sister Damage", the sinister electronic pulses causing you nerve-endings to dance across your skin. Finally for side one, the aliens attack again, a resolute march, the tension wound up tight, as creature climb through the air vents and the lights flicker…..After a brief alien lullaby, side two picks up where it left off with "Deviation No. 1), a powerful tsunami of noise, beautifully constructed, raw and untamed. This is an album that benefits from high-volume as it invades you home destroying all in its path. Featuring vast amounts of guitar, overdriven wah usage, and some dextrous fingers to put it all together, it is a relentless attack, maybe in this movie the aliens really do succeed in wiping the puny humans from the earth. Just as it all become too much, the haunting grace of "The Phantom Suite" offers quiet reflection amongst its grooves, Perhaps salvation is at hand after all, the aliens weakspot has been discovered. Finally the long guitar overload of "Bullets for People" unites the rebel forces for the final battle, the instrument singing a hymn for freedom, as the people take control of their destiny. Strange, ragged and glorious, this slab of vinyl should be snapped up by everyone, the spirit of the individual burns brightly throughout its sonic grooves." - Simon Lewis, Terrascope Online Reviews |
| 2/7/2009 | GR and Full-Blown Expansion | GR and Full-Blown Expansion | LP | $24.99 | Lesdisques Blasphematoires Du Palatin | "How does one man jamming with himself sound? GR & Full-Blown Expansion is the incarnation of one Gregory Raimo's various alter egos come together for a psychedelic freak out in the vein of Ash Ra Tempel, performed with Neu!'s proto-punk crudeness, and dragged through a gallery of effects, manipulated beyond musical recognition. I ought to weave in some clever reference to Pessoa's toying around with heteronyms, interacting with each other and employed to express different aspects of their author's emotions, but this French one-man-band is way too acid-drenched to even consider not being one, if it's just one with, well, one-self. And falling apart, over and over again, throughout the 43 mins of this ridiculously limited vinyl only release. Who be he, this GR? He's the French singer and guitarist in Gunslingers, he's wont to fool around with old organs, and he knows enough about drums to completely fuck up anything approaching a steady beat, even though opener "Descent Along the An-Ti-Fohn-Nul" reminds me of this mid-90's UK group The Invisible Pair of Hands, if it that serves as a reference to anyone out there? No? Thought so." Edition of 300 copies pressed on white vinyl. |
| 10/25/2008 | Grails | Doomsdayer's Holiday | LP | $16.99 | Temporary Residence Ltd. | "Following up last year's "Burning Off Impurities" and their recent "Take Refuge In Clean Living" EP, GRAILS return with their darkest, heaviest record yet. Written and recorded over the last 18 months, "Doomsdayer's Holiday" delivers on the promises made by their previous albums, taking equal pride in smoky psychedelics and mountain-ascending riffs. With Faust, Earth and Sunn O))) collaborators acting as engineers - not to mention drummer Emil Amos having recently become the new other half of Om - Grails' avant-metal leanings are evident as always. But "Doomsdayer's Holiday" finds their already-broad palette continually expanding with 70s European film noir and cosmic free jazz explorations complimenting the Middle Eastern psychedelic folk-metal the group is already known for. After a wildly prolific three-year streak that saw the band ceaselessly pushing forward, Grails have finally made an album that pushes back." |
| 3/21/2007 | Grand Hotel, The | The Upper Reaches of Wind River | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Another unknown name and another winner from the eclectic 267 Lattajjaa label: this opens with soporific layers of blissed-out folk - minor-key guitar arpeggios and murmurred vocals, then deviates into a more ritualistic sound of pounding percussion with psych-guitar trying to tunnel its way through the smothering thunder. The last track delves deeper into abstract noise: guitar-based drone / repeptition and vaguely industrial clunking." - Boa Melody Bar |
| 12/24/2005 | Grass Magic, The | The Grass Magic | cassette | $6.99 | Skullfucking Tapes | "This is mystery school freak folk orchestra involving elements of the Skaters, Davenport, the Mudslide Family, Jewelled Antler Collective, and Craig Microcassette System. Recorded in ancient barn temple site and around campfires in the pastures of Wisconsin." |
| 2/14/2008 | Grass Magic, The | The Grass Magic | LP | $19.99 | Earjerk | "This LP features members of the Skaters, Jewelled Antler Collective and Davenport, all kicking up dust in a rickety old barn. A spontaneous happening, the few hazy nights leading up to PastureFest 2004 may not be easily recalled, but the christening sounds, emanating from a ramshackle farm in the vales of southeast Wisconsin, are imprinted here on this unassuming LP. Featuring an alternate B-side jam (of music pulled from the same session) not found on the cassette version. Otherworldly and just down right cosmic!" - label. The "Grass Magic LP comes from Wisconsin and the 23 Productions scene (label is Earjerk)... it's a one-off jam that was recorded the night before the legendary Pasture Festival and Jubilee in August 2004, by a 10-person lineup that features most key members of The Davenport Family, both of The Skaters, Glenn Donaldson of Jewelled Antler.... it's a total jam and it sounds like it, but once Side A gets going it picks up a nice walloping head of steam and one thing that distinguishes both sides from the general mid-00s moanwave onslaught is the crafty psychedelic rhythms that snake underneath. Anyway, I'm glad they pressed this thing up (the cover is a thrift-store LP jacket turned inside out and silkscreened with stoner artwork, and some brief liners that name the lineup and include a rad quote from Rabindranath Tagore, stuff like that)." - Larry Dolman, Blogstitude - http://blastitude.blogspot.com/ |
| 2/4/2007 | Grateful Dregs | Red River | CDR | $7.99 | American Grizzly | "New project from half of Quilts and Sleeping Babies. Tape-looped gutter-dub and psychedelic electronics." |
| 7/14/2007 | Grave in the Sky | Cutlery Hits China: English for the Hearing Impaired | CD | $11.99 | Heart & Crossbone | "Grave in The Sky is a new incarnation of Poochlatz members Rani Zager (also the vocalist of Lietterschpich) & Maor Appelbaum (Screening/Vectorscope/Thy Mesmerized) with metal drummer Matan Shmuely (Armilos / Distorted). On their debut album titled "Cutlery HIts China: English for the Hearing Impaired" they use DVD subtitles of horror / thriller / crime / drama films as lyrics, molesting and dragging them down a boiling hot lava of a stoner-rock dirge, in order to create new aesthetics of doomed, heavy and hectic music. And it's beautiful one hour earlier." Check this out if you're into Hey Colossus, Corrupted, Boris, Gravitar, Darkthrone and Electric Wizard. |
| 8/4/2007 | Graveyards | Black Paintings Vol. 3 | one-sided LP | $13.99 | Lost Treasures of the Underworld | "This is volume 3 of their Black Paintings series .The LP etched on one side and has some intense sounds you can zone out to on the other side . Comes inside a clear picture disc jacket w/ full color 8.5 x 11inch mini poster . Etching and poster by Olson!!!!!! Numbered edition of 300 copies." |
| 11/17/2007 | Graveyards | Enlightening Minds, Enriching Souls, Extending Hands | CDR | $12.99 | American Tapes | "Another oddity/this is pre Wire fest recordings with Grave core Bunny, Hell, Coorz, & Zac Davis on guitar. Strange slombo, impossible to tell any instruments, could be just a recorded meeting with rusty fans and sharp cutlery clanging around under black waters. 4 tracks. Lonely sounds pitched in the forgotten corners of your memory. In a clear dvd case with whacked color cover." |
| 8/4/2007 | Graveyards | Harmm's Way | CDR | $11.99 | The Lotus Sound | "This '07 recording represents the darkest smolders of Feldman meetsThreadgill meets cacophonic church bells performed in a manufacturing plant in the Graveyards catalog. Rather than filling every possible space with the common horror vacui free jazz attacks the duo's riposte lets the sky open unto the bleakest corners they can find. A return to the early, pre-Wolf Eyes Olson-Hall duet square-offs, this 'cello-less document finds Olson grasping with the Braxton-Teitlebaum sides and Hall running the push-pull linearity of Xenakis circa Psappha and addition to the Milford Graves poly-metered rewirings of flash card rudiments. The hiatus of Buetow's 'cello in the forum alleviates much of the homage to contemporary classical phraseology and architecture. What it lacks in mock-intellectuality brains it makes up for in the post-fire music brawn of any reasonably raucous energy." - Ben Hall. Edition of 100. |
| 4/24/2006 | Graveyards | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 5/31/2008 | Graveyards and Dead Machines | Machineyard in Soundworld | one-sided LP | $12.99 | Brokenresearch | "Olson pulls 2xduty on this low-level lurk meltdown. The dream time goes 2 vs. 2 for a 1/8 speed that sounds. Like contact mic'd drifts of glaciers that make reverb seem like a concept developed by inuits this sound moves slower than slow and spotlight the intricacies of interaction afforded only between people have that particular Michigan approach. Tovah D-Day is in particularly rare form on this one processing everyone in the group and serving as the Lee Perry on this one." Edition of 200 copies. |
| Gravity Wax | Toma Coast EP | 7" | $4.99 | Burnt Hair | Out of print on blue vinyl. | |
| 8/30/2009 | Green Blossoms, The | Whiskey Leaves | CD + 3" CDR | $16.99 | Digitalis | "It was important we get this out in the heart of summer because "Whiskey Leaves" its familiar melodies and breezy instrumentation are the perfect accompaniment to your hot, humid nights. The duo of Aiko Koa and Anthony Guerra first made their presence known on a micro-edition CDR from New Zealand's Pseudoarcana. "Whiskey Leaves," though, is a different beast entirely. While on the surface these compositions feel simple, once you dig a little deeper you realize the care put into each song. This is intimate music. Guerra sets the pace with layers of makeshift percussion and guitar. Koga also plays ukelele, but it's her voice that is the real focal point of the album. Soft and restrained, even when you can't understand her words (some of the lyrics are in Japanese), you are hooked from the get-go. Hours later, you find yourself humming her melodies whilte her ghostly incantations are stuck in the back of your mind. This is fractured pop perfection. "Whiskey Leaves" will be a welcome addition to fans of Tujiko Noriko, Tenniscoats and the like. Beautiful. Limited to 500 copies. Special edition limited to 75 copies and includes 3" CDR w/ handmade artwork and two exclusive, extended tracks." |
| 7/24/2002 | Green Groceries | Issue #1 | magazine | $12.99 | Beautiful 32 page full color glossy zine which includes a 72 minute cd featuring Angus Maclise, Monster Island, Chris Kennedy, LP, P.S. Krishnan, Just, I’m Sore, & Joyous Lake. Zine has features on (and incredible photos of) Angus Maclise, Monster Island, Baigneuse, Saraswati, Adwaita, Captain Proteus and more | |
| 5/14/2007 | Green Mist | Drinkin' Lighter Fuel | cassette | $6.99 | rundownsun | "There's something wrong with your tape deck dude! total cassette tape-melt-down! high-volume walkman abuse and gross, vomit electronics from ex-cunuck dallas K! absolutely disgusting puke-noise, barf-tape hiss, and sputter. following up two nasty cds for UK label chocolate monk. this shit empties a room like an unpleasant odor. touring and recording member of decaer pinga. releases on chocolate monk. hand numbered and stamped, colour printed, chipboard covers. crummy xeroxed insert. spray painted cases. spray painted high-bias tapes. edition of 100." |
| 11/21/2002 | Green Pajamas | All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Following on from their 1997 ‘return from the wilderness’ album ‘Strung Behind the Sun’, the Green Pajamas return with arguably their strongest album to date in ‘All Clues Lead to Meagan's Bed’. If it wasn't already self-evident from earlier releases, there should be no doubt after this one that Jeff Kelly is the finest practitioner of the mid-period Beatles influenced psychedelic pop song around today. 12 of the 15 songs on ‘All Clues Lead to Meagan's Bed’ are his, characterised by heart-stopping melodies, swirling harmonies, and sinewy guitar lines. Mere replication of the codes of the psychedelic era is not the point here, though. Kelly has a poet's soul, and the songs are a potent medium for lyrical expression. There is no innocence here, the concerns are as often dark and ambiguous as they are elevated and joyous. On the flip side of delirious, celebratory treats like ‘The Secret of Her Smile’ and ‘Queen of Sunshine’ you'll find tales of obsession, psychic disturbance, madness and addiction like ‘Death By Poisoning’, ‘Rattlesnake Kiss’ and ‘The Laughing Horseman’. This dialectic is underlined by some extraordinary and unexpected musical delights. The folk-rock lyricism of ‘Dear Jane’ (characteristically about the Brontes) is shattered by a chorus of atonal blasts of guitar noise and distorted vocals - a direct product of Kelly listening to King Crimson's ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’ just prior to recording of the track. Joe Ross's ‘Pastel Summer’ throws the whole bag of ‘I Am the Walrus’ jiggery-pokery into a collapsing star with the aid of the most remarkable descending chord sequence we can ever remember hearing. And the glowing mysticism of ‘Morning in Myra's Room’ rises in the East like a pole star, eyes focussed inwards as infinity wheels around it, a drone symphony of guitars, keys, sitar and tabla, and yet another signifier of quiet greatness." |
| 10/30/2002 | Green Pajamas | Lust Never Sleeps | CD | $14.99 | End Game Records | Live recording from March 14, 1996 at the Tractor Tavern, Seattle. One copy available. |
| 8/7/2002 | Green Pajamas | Narcotic Kisses | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "In November 2000, Camera Obscura released an LP of Green Pajamas rarities in a tiny pressing of 300 that sold out on pre-order. We promised the band's many fans that a redux version on CD would come eventually, and here it is. The original was an ‘Odds'n'Sods’ style selection of rare and unreleased tracks from the PJ's vaults. ‘These are the Best Times’ and ‘Vampire Crush’ were released on a limited lathe- cut Camera Obscura single in January 1999. ‘Song for Christina/A Nightmare’ was given away as an MP3 single-of-the-month; ‘The Fall’ was on our 1998 compilation ‘Serotonin Ronin’. The other tracks were previously unreleased. This CD version adds six more tracks - more than 30 minutes - of equal coolness and rarity. ‘Dim Phantoms of an Unknown Ill’ only previous appeared on the cover CD for an issue of UK freakzine Ptolemaic Terrascope, and is a Cohenesque early template for the sound that would later evolve into the well-received Goblin Market project. ‘Deadly Nightshade’ appeared on the Terrascope benefit CD ‘Succour’, and is much revered among fans as possibly the finest Green Pajamas track ever. ‘If He Should Go Away’ is a fine album session outtake that appeared first on a Chunklet magazine CD. ‘The Night Wind’ and ‘Highgate’ are outtakes that were later reworked as Goblin Market tracks. ‘Just Another Perfect Day’ is another previously unreleased recording, made for a film but not used, and is a perfect closer. Far from being second rate or disposable, this is material right up with the Pajamas' best work, and will have their legion of fans astonished all over again." |
| 11/21/2002 | Green Pajamas | Northern Gothic | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Camera Obscura welcomes the Green Pajamas back where they belong for a new full-length studio release after several outings for the Woronzow/Rubric axis over the last two years. ‘Northern Gothic’ is the Green Pajamas strongest work since 1998's ‘All Clues Lead to Meagan's Bed’, containing their darkest and most atmospheric recordings to date, as well as the maximum safe dose of Kelly's psychedelic guitar work, superb contributions from other voices within the band, and an intricate thematic integrity that rescues the idea of the "concept album" from bad progressive rock hell. The title comes from the band's desire to evoke the geography of the USA's Pacific Northwest. As Jeff explains ‘It describes the feel and sound of a song like ‘Lost Girls Song,’; itself inspired by the novel Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper which, though modern, has a very gothic sort of feel and takes place in northern Canada. Living here, you have a certain landscape, a certain weather etched into your psyche. The trees, lakes, rain, the way the sky looks - they all combine into a very gothic sort of scene.’ The opening track ‘In the Darkness’ encapsulates this, sounding almost like collaboration between The Walkabouts and Neil Young. This album finally breaks the nexus between the band and its roots in Beatlesque psychedelia. ‘With the Pajamas records I've certainly been interested in influences, The Beatles being the most obvious’, says Jeff, ‘but we've done our I Am The Walrus parody ending for fun, and needed to move on. If you look at all of the releases since ‘Strung Behind the Sun’, there has been a progression and evolution of the music away from the obviously psychedelic towards a more unique place.’ The often extended and very live sounding tracks on ‘Northern Gothic’ mark the Green Pajamas hitting their own, distinctly American style; finding their own unique place. Beauty and darkness co-exist, no more so than on the keynote track ‘First Love’, where delicate piano and vocal sections are interposed with the heaviest guitar work in the band's oeuvre. Add strong contrasting song contributions by fellow band members Eric Lichter and Laura Weller to Kelly's compositions, and you have a landmark record to add to this band's already formidable body-of-work." |
| Green Pajamas | Strung Behind The Sun | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Strung behind the Sun" is a dazzling ray fired into the prism of psychedelia, refracting off in all directions. Lyrically, "SBTS" sounds like product of pensive afternoons sat in Seattle coffee shops, a curtain of rain on the glass turning the street into abstract washes of colour. More songs about snow and Madonna complexes, family and Tumbledown Tess, darkness and illumination." | |
| 1/24/2009 | Green Palace (Green Mist & Spyked Coorz) | Strangled Pairs Vol Twelve | CDR | $9.99 | American Tapes - AM-780 | "WHOA!! Brighton UK cum Canada China/Lansing sound show/bro down here. Spykes gives a full working to the amazing Green Mist "Suit Case Bomb" cd he busted a couple years ago. Total tangled web of audio miasma. More rotten angles than a T Square leper rally. Just a nonlinear sound collage of ear cells plotting against an attack against brain cells. Dallas manŠ.killer dude, should change his name to LLCOOLYMD (Ladies Love Cool Yoga Master Dallas). Hear it rip across the cold ATLANTIC. The only bloke kicked out the China Olympics for sneaking a case of brew...Š.Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." |
| Greene, Burton Ensemble | Aquariana | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "A reissue of pianist Burton Greene's Aquariana album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris, June 9th 1969. Three original compositions featuring Jacques Coursil (trumpet), Arthur Jones (alto sax), Claude Delcloo (drums), Didier Malherbe (flute), and Ben Guerin & Dieter Gewissler (basses). Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with the original artwork, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl." | |
| 9/17/2006 | GreenHouse | GreenHouse | CDR | $6.99 | Lost Treasures of the Underworld/ No Coast Records | "side project from Tom Derwent and Ryan McAuley from Diguitras. A high-intensity jaw dropper featuring guitars and sax . Super-fuckin'-extreme sounds that may cause your stereo to blow up! Listen closely for subliminal messages. Comes in weird spray-painted cases." |
| 4/24/2006 | Greippi | Hankkiudun Eroon Tapeteista | CDR | $9.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "The new generation of the finnish electronica, the first official release from this 11-years old wonderkid." |
| 11/17/2007 | Grey Daturas | Dead In The Woods | CD | $10.99 | Crucial Blast | "Crucial Blast is stoked to be re-issuing the colossal, previously out-of-print 2004 monsterpiece from the Melbourne, Australian trio Grey Daturas. Originally released through the band's own Crashing Jets imprint, Dead In The Woods is a massive exhortation of lumbering metallic dirge, freely improvised amplifier noise and crushing riff splatter, and massive, sky-streaking psychedelic corrosion, travelling the speaker-shredding void between The Dead C, pulverizing sludge, and Skullflower's heaviest jams. The Crucial Blast re-issue of Dead In The Woods features a full remastering by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound, and will also come with a brand new packaging design via a 4-panel case printed by Stumptown Printers." |
| 3/30/2005 | Grey Park | 2 x Live at La-Bas | CDR | $7.99 | self-released | "Two live concerts done in August and October 2003 at Club La-Bas. Together a bit over 45 minutes of improvised electronic soundscapes." |
| 11/21/2008 | Grey Park | A Final Exam For A Agent | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Once again a mixed bag of wonderful sounds from the mighty Grey Park, from noisier drones to experimental ambient, this one includes even a sung Matti Nykänen cover! Watch out also for their next self-released new CD and some gigs in Helsinki in near future. This band is still probably the most underrated legends of the finnish UG "scene" so if you're not familiar with them yet there's no excuse..." |
| 3/26/2006 | Grey Park | Courses I-IV For Agents Abroad | 3" CDR | $6.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "i went to a psch hospit and they just diagnose me as sleep deprived because that is all that i am.. no wonder with the mentat esp of nuts that harass me because they cant get peace cause their sins are too deep in their collective unconsciousness so it is a troublesome time to be born in.." - vic bonds |
| 3/30/2005 | Grey Park | Gradient Descent of My Collective Mind | CDR | $7.99 | self-released | "palm reading the opas wilderness." From Finland. |
| 3/30/2005 | Grey Park | I am Learning to Undo the Magic Crap That Covers Up the Higher Heavens of Magical Beauty | CDR | $7.99 | self-released | 7 quite different songs, some lo-fi pop, some more experimental sounds. It was the first cdr release from Finland's Grey Park. "Probably the most diverse GP release. They start with two naivistic no wave jogs featuring some pretty blithe female vocals, and then rush into the magical heavens of electro beats and cuts, and onwards to a track that could've been in Aavikko's first vinyl ep. Not to forget the aqoustic piece nor the muffled drone track which ends this 27-minute CDR. Talk about being meandering." (self-released) |
| 3/30/2005 | Grey Park | Juri Gasolin | CDR | $7.99 | self-released | "Electro-acoustic journey into space with pilot Juri Gasolin. Packed in a used coffeebag.. This cdr is limited to 69 copies." |
| 3/1/2007 | Grey Park | Time on Wings of Spit | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "Grey Park have continued flying under the radar for the past couple of years, despite the seeming-obsession with all things finnish. that this is the case is criminal. "times on wings of spit" is their first release outside their own label in a while, and these massive drone attacks are taking the quickest route to your skull. shards of glass cut deep into your psyche while the molten-lava tones pour in. few groups can build as much tension and simply make it disappear into a wash of field recordings and japanese samples like this. it's like being thrown out of an airplane at 30,000 feet; total chaos until you pierce the cloud cover and fixate on the canopy of trees below. you know it's going to hurt, but at least you've got the best view." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 3/21/2007 | Grey Park | Travel Agent Certification Training Program: Courses I, II and III | 3" CDR | $7.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Afrobeat, typical drone and 7 minutes of worlds most un-space take on space-rock. there are probably 4 or 5 people on earth who need this record and its pretty safe to say that you´re not one of them." "Previous Grey Park releases (that I've heard) have been unsettling drones, like distant electric hums. Just one track on this 3" sounds like that. It opens strangely with a lopsided jaunt into African pop sounds (really!) and ends with an equally odd take on space-rock." Boa Melody Bar |
| 8/20/2004 | Grey Park | Words Are Little Creatures That Work For The Black Sun | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Foxglove | “20 minutes of new music from one of Finland's finest exports. Grey Park's sound manipulations strike fear into the masses. Like an iceberg crumbling in the ocean, the six tracks on this new EP descend to murky depths with little resistance. Breathe in the cold air and don't bundle up. If you've ever wanted to join the polar bear club, this is your best opportunity. Ltd to 120 in handmade covers.” |
| 2/11/2006 | Grey Skull / Haunted Castle | split | 10" | $17.99 | Not Not Fun | "Read the news: times are grave. So is this black-on-black 10-inch of wretched hallow's eve spook-noise. HAUNTED CASTLE are a suburban Detroit duo of tortured basement clatter and poltergeist attack thrash, and their song here is a cauldron of psychic evil and wraith frenzy. Easthampton's GREY SKULL are a bit more physical, starting a skeleton brawl with harsh tones, seizure shriek, and occult war drums. Packaged with insane screen printed, die-cut sleeves with faux spider webs and assorted spooky stuff." |
| 5/14/2007 | Grey, Nick & The Random Orchestra | The Candlelight Eyes EP | CDR | $12.99 | Barl Fire | "Nick Grey and his Random Orchestra return with what, in recording terms, is the prequel to their critically acclaimed and Julian Cope endorsed "Thieves Among Thorns" album from 2006. Clocking-in at just over 40 minutes, the five-track "Candlelight Eyes EP" showcases the signature heartbreaking and brooding melancholy of its aforementioned sister-album, and at times incorporates intimate chamber folk arrangements, all of which draw more from the musical heritage of the mid-1970's German electronic underground, that inspired Bowie's Berlin trilogy, than the pastoral musings of 1970's psychedelic folk. "The Candlelight Eyes EP" features cover-art by Scapegott, is packaged in jewel cases and limited to 200 copies." |
| 8/28/2004 | Greyscale | Cruel Machine | CD | $12.99 | Camera Obscura | "Cruel Machine is Melbourne trio Greyscale's debut full-length album and is an extension of the sonic tapestry of 2001's self-released 'Scientifically Rough' EP. Emotionally evocative, cinematic and forcefully beautiful; 'Cruel Machine' transports the listener into a distinctive mood zone which continually winds and weaves throughout the entire recording. From sparse to dense arrangements, 'Cruel Machine' menaces and appeases the senses. Most tracks are spirited improvisations, recorded live and subsequently built up with additional instrumentation and supplemented with atmospheric field-recordings. The results has roots in the beautiful noise of progenitors Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, and will appeal to fans of psychedelic power-merchants like Bardo Pond, Kinski and Paik. 'Cruel Machine' was entirely self-produced by Greyscale, free from the constraints of on-the-clock studio time. The long gestation period allowed the band the freedom to experiment with instrumentation such as vibraphone, acoustic guitar, congas, melodica, short wave radio, Kimbal entertainer organ, and double bass. Many field-recordings were employed such as industrial sounds captured on mini disc during a field trip to Melbourne's industrial precinct Dandenong. Of course there is the continued presence of previously explored instruments such as tamboura, vintage keyboards, and analogue synthesizers and the ever-present hum of tape echo and dirty analogue effects." |
| Grillo, Fernando | Fluvine | CD | $15.99 | Ampersand | "Originally released as part of Cramps' Diverso series in 1976, Grillo's Fluvine has long been regarded as an important and influential audio document by netherworld artists like Nurse With Wound. Karlheinz Stockhausen dubbed him the 'Buddha of the Contrabass,' and avant garde heavy hitters Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono, Klaus Huber, Henri Posseur, and Iancu Dumitrescu have all composed for him. This is the first-ever, fully re-mastered CD issue of Grillo's solo explorations of the limits of contrabass. Includes several archival photographs, schematic scores, original notes by Grillo, and retrospective notes by French composer Ana-Maria Avram. Packaged in a standard jewel box with an outer slipcase." | |
| Grimble Grumble | Grimble Grumble | CD | $14.99 | Won't Go Flat | Exploratory drones ala FSA, Windy & Carl, & Azusa Plane | |
| 4/16/2007 | Grimley, Tom | Never Mind the Abstention, Here's the Semi-Automatic | cassette | $8.99 | Heavy Tapes | "This tape is a series of recordings of an automated electronic ensemble - independent agents designed and built by Tom Grimley to perform his music for him. Side "A" includes studies for the full piece and the full recording of "Never Mind..." while side B contains "Studies for a New Trio." Both of these recordings are remarkably new and fascinating -- new and unheard voices interact and produce something that warrants close attention -- there are layers of discussion and projection, hums, creaks, whistles, throbs, and more. First in a planned series of projects with Heavy Tapes and Tom." |
| 6/7/2005 | Grimley, Tom | Rudimentary! | 3" CDR | $5.99 | P Tapes | "Tom Grimley builds 'sound bombs', or these autonomous electro mechanical boxes. See http://www.tomgrimley.com. His stuff usually sounds a lot like David Tudor (Rainforest). This disc features 2 of his sound bombs." |
| Grippe, Ragnar | Sand | CD | $15.99 | Streamline | "'Sand' found a special place among lovers of experimental and minimal music as the work crosses musical boundaries so effortlessly, yet is homogeneously afloat like an organic flow of natural sounds." From 1977. | |
| 1/17/2010 | Grippers Nother Onesers | At Slimer Beach | LP | $15.99 | Olde English Spelling Bee | "Completely remastered issue of a cult classic tape from 2004/2006. Limited to 450 copies. Pro-printed black & white covers and insert. also known as: Lamborghini Crystal 1992 Cool Runnings Holiday released 2006 on cassette on New Age Tapes. Recorded 2004 in the parking lot of the Jim Daytona Avenue 711 memorial. Dedicated to Richard Ramirez. Grippers Nother Onesers is a channeling of teenage mutant glue sniffing psycho dreams, a prelude to the psychotic beach bum depression induced by junkfood and huffing siphoned gas out of the Oscar Meyer mobile. 'After Dark Cravings' starts out with a voice saying ''hello earthlings' which is an alien mistaking a candy bar for the HIGHER LIFE FORM inhabitants of earth's soft analog air minimal lo-fi satanic ritual resinated at the bottom of a plastic bong. Ashes of the Charles Manson Family Band. A flash of memories of a Grateful Dead tape playing after you picked up a psycho hitchhiker. Jim Carrey self-consciousness about his new nose job at the Oscars, being a vessel for the voice of the omnipresent leviathan comprised of lost souls stranded naked on the shoulder of the fast lane. 'aside from the heavy Richard Ramirez zone I wanted the record to have the feeling of when you find a half empty bottle of anti-psychotics and just see the name of the owner and you wonder where that person is now'- PTC. So please enjoy this space caker from the heaven's waiting room of custom S.R.O. song booth stars." Reissue of a project from eccentric genius James Ferraro (Skaters), whose high scoring Ms. Pac-Man playing and grand mastery of all things hypnagogic has yet to be surpassed." |
| 8/8/2009 | Grouper | Cover The Windows And The Walls | CD | $11.99 | Root Strata | "First ever CD version of the LP we originally did in 2007. This one has everything you've come to expect from Portland, Or. based Liz Harris. Cyclical vocal vapors and guitar / piano shapes levitate on the surface of hissy atmospherics dense with a feedback that conjures up all sorts of latent images from the subtle body / mind. Liz's songs always seem to be perched delicately between layers of blissful fuzz and her stark, gorgeous song craft. It's a mix that more often than not leads to dazzling results. Edition of 1000 CD's in a heavy black & white offset printed cover." |
| 7/10/2008 | Grouper | Dragging A Dead Deer | CD | $17.99 | Type | "The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based Liz Harris. Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of effects. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill marks a departure of sorts for Liz, which sees her turn down the fuzz boxes which caged (and to some degree defined) her sound and allows her voice to ring out above everything else. It is an album steeped in the world of dream-pop and far from shying away from the reference, Liz has instead grabbed on with both hands, creating an album's worth of perfect, left-field pop songs. Using delicate song structures which are at once both familiar and somehow alien, her vocals cry out hauntingly over stripped-down guitar lines and looped environmental recordings. These are the future soundtracks to love, despair and ultimately, hope." |
| 7/16/2006 | Growing | Color Wheel | CD | $11.99 | Megablade/Troubleman | "There have been many words and phrases to describe the musical duo known as Growing. Anything from "destructive" to "meditative" to "hypnotic" could be used, and anyone one of those words would be correct. But no one can really describes the power of pulsating sonic waves with the written word. The music of Growing, and any of their like-minded associates, is something you need to experience to understand. You need to place the headphones on your head to really get why these guys are so loved by their fans. You need to blast your stereo to dangerous new heights to grasp why people follow this band the way they do. And while Color Wheel might not be your prototypical Growing album, it might just be the record to push the genre forward. In the past, Kevin Doria and Joe DeNardo have mainly relied on sonic swells to engulf the listener into submission. But on their fourth full-length release, the two have pushed their own boundaries to create something that bridges gaps between the trance world and the NYC experimental scene. With beat like loops showing up on the opener ("Fancy Period"), and with the playful tones bouncing around on "Cumulusless", it's as if they made a conscious decision to push things forward. Instead of being complacent and treading water in the same place, the guys have stopped doing the dead mans float and started swimming towards the horizon. The fuzzed out bliss of past efforts is still present in songs like the Fennesz-esc "Green Pasture", but the overall tone is one of (pardon the pun) growth. It's two guys reaching beyond their comfort zone, beyond the sound that has garnered them their fan base and critical praise, to do something fresh and new. Sure, for the most part it's still just ambient drone, but this time it has an added sense of warmth and depth their past efforts didn't have. It will still be common place to see people enjoying a Growing show laying flat on their back, don't think that this will somehow change their public persona. But the subtle changes they have made will be later looked upon as genre defining and influential to many artists to come. So put on the headphones and blow your ears out, you only live once anyway. - Jake Haselman, indieworkshop.com |
| 9/30/2005 | Growing | Dry Drunk On Woman | 7" | $7.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Limited repressing of the debut Growing 7". This is a split release with Nail in the Coffin, who originally released the record. See where the magic began. 500 pressed." |
| 12/24/2005 | Growing | His Return | LP | $12.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "The latest from Earth-shattering drone lords JOE DENARDO and KEVIN DORIA. GROWING combines downtuned guitar noise, cymbal rushes and electronics to stack high their walls of crushing doom, which erupt and fall away to harmonious peace/pieces. Three tracks. LP packaged in embossed gatefold sleeves in an edition of 750 copies." |
| 9/30/2005 | Growing / Mark Evan Burden | split | CD | $7.99 | Zum | "Growing are well-known to experimental music audiences for their two albums on the venerable Kranky imprint (and forthcoming material on Animal Disguise). The duo of Kevin Doria and Joe Denardo have toured Europe and Australia and played at All Tomorrow's Parties UK. Their particular amalgam of doom metal, drone, and ambient music has been compared to the minimalist works of Birchville Cat Motel, La Monte Young, Sunn0))), and Brian Eno. This recording, "Firmament", is from a 2002 session. Mark Evan Burden's solo recording is a beautiful composition of electronics and piano. His 15 minute piece is a roiling, percussive powerhouse that conjures up John Cage, Keith Jarrett, and the player piano compositions of Conlon Nancarrow. The Portland, OR-based musician was formerly the organist for Get Hustle (31G) and drummer for Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater. He released an album under the moniker Silentist, an exploration of the heavier side of his compositional interests." |
| 7/16/2004 | Grubbs, David | A Guess At The Riddle | LP | $15.99 | Fat Cat | "The second duo recording from Swedish reed player Mats Gustafsson and American David Grubbs, and the follow-up to their 1999 Apertura release. Forsaking the glacially meditative m.o. of Apertura, the duo delivers a shower of digitally recomposed slivers of contact-mic-equipped saxophone, chiming guitars and synthesizer. Includes guest appearances from turntablist Henry Moore Selder. The first track features an amazing rendition of balloon animals blown-up real fast, the rest only gets better." - Revolver |
| 2/9/2002 | Grubbs, David | Act Five, Scene One | CD | $14.99 | Blue Chopsticks | "An hour-long instrumental piece from the trio of David Grubbs, Tony Conrad, and Dan Brown. Divided into four psychedelically digestible fifteen-minute slices, Act Five, Scene One is an electrified universe of repeat-mode rock'n'roll groove, perfect for zoning out, long solitary drives, and God only knows." |
| 9/17/2006 | Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza | Azioni | DBL CD + DVD | $55.99 | Die Schachtel | "Il Gruppo was a brilliant and prolific composer's collective exploring extended techniques and new sound sources through the medium of improvisation. Although very much a product of its time, their music remains timeless. They were instrumental in founding a radical tradition of western musical improvisation that owed little or nothing to anybody and created some of the strangest music ever made. They were utterly unique." - John Zorn liner notes, NYC 2006. "This deluxe boxed edition presents some of the most compelling improvisations of this extraordinary improv group active in the 60s and featuring such names as Ennio Morricone, Ivan Vandor, Roland Kayn, Franco Evangelisti, Walter Branchi, Mario Bertoncini and John Heineman. Spanning from free-jazz to total abstract noise and wild electronic sounds, these pieces were recorded between 1967 and 1969 are released here for the first time. The enclosed video DVD, shot in a stunning black and white, is a unique document that captures the rehearsal of the thrilling concert that the group gave in Rome in 1967. It features both english and Italian subtitles. The cloth-covered box contains three individual digipak, a 72-pages italian-english booklet and a poster. Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi." DVD is PAL format for Europe, region 0. |
| 11/15/2008 | Gryn Brvs / Siblings of Plasma | split | cassette | $8.99 | Digitalis Limited | "This one comes from the UK with all sorts of dangling gold and buckets of skronk. fresh off their chocolate monk CDR, gryn brvs continue to be at odds with themselves, creating a cacaphonous sprawl that totally works, even though it seems like it shouldn't. harshly picked acoustic guitars rattle on above waves of ramshackle, junkyard percussion. it's like the percussion is trying to destroy the melody laid down by the guitars. it's fucken great. this sidelong meltdown squirms along for days, lulling you into a state of total abandon. siblings of plasma share members and membranes with gryn brvs, but their modus is down a different rabbit hole. walls of cello squalor mourning the end of days, wailing like the death knell of god only knows. these tracks are bathed in organic, hypnotic ruin. once s.o.p. gets their claws in, you are done. 75 copies w/ spraypainted wrap around sleeves." |
| 8/22/2008 | Guapo | Black Oni | LP | $37.99 | Hlava | "Here at last, Guapo´s "Black Oni" on handnumbered limited edition 180g white vinyl. Originally released on CD by Mike Patton´s Ipecac Records in 2005, this record is the second in a recondite trilogy which began with "Five Suns" and will be concluded by the release of "Elixirs" on Neurot Recordings in February 2008. Here´s what was said about Black Oni first time round: With this, their sixth album, Guapo have conjured a harrowingly complex and unflinchingly epic piece of work. Heady and hypnotic, driving and relentless, tumultuous and visceral, sonic and serene, the odyssey that is Black Oni encompasses many paradoxes in its massively dynamic scope. Picking up where they left off from their previous Cuneiform Records release Five Suns (2002), the band continue to expand on their palette of dexterous chamber-rock anomalies, modal transcendence, and apocalyptic death marches, and like it's predecessor, Black Oni is one singular piece of music, making it the second record in a trilogy of large-scale symphonic forms. Incorporating elements of prog, avant-garde jazz, kraut-rock, minimalism and a range of folk mediums from Britain to Indonesia, Guapo take their que from a disparate array of influences including Magma, King Crimson, Boredoms, Goblin, Sun Ra, Charlemagne Palestine, Univers Zero, This Heat, Olivier Messiaen and Popol Vuh. The assembly of Dave Smith's explosive drum assaults, Matt Thompson's brazen and prowling bass throb, and Daniel O'Sullivan's ethereal keyboard reveries telepathically collide in an augury of rich and cinematic musical ceremony. Black Oni is Guapo's most monumentally unreserved offering to date. Limited to 500 copies!" Only a few available - out of print. |
| 2/21/2009 | Guerra, Anthony & Mark Sadgrove | Iron Sand | CD | $10.99 | Black Petal | "On a real CD comes the duo of Mark Sadgrove with Anthony Guerra, who plays electric and acoustic guitar, electronics and vocals and Sadgrove playing electric guitar, aluminium harp, electronics and vocals. Here more care has been used to make the recordings. Recorded in their new homeland Japan, this is the point where improvised music meets singer songwriting. This is 'easy' music, music that makes your mind wander off, into the grey sky, into the desert, or into the deep sea. Blues like emptiness, very empty. Drone like strumming, slide guitar setting the tone. Vocals don't take a big place around here and are more to underline the desolate character of the music. A fine release of sparse sounds. Minimal indeed. Great cover on this release, as usual with Black Petal." - FdW, Vital Weekly |
| 9/17/2006 | Guerra, Anthony / Matthew Nidek | untitled | CDR | $7.99 | Black Petal | It is a cdr-single (1 track, 18 mins) and is strictly limited to 50 copies. the cover is handpainted. Features Anthony on guitar and Matthew on drums. |
| 12/21/2004 | Guest Star | Guest Star | CDR | $8.99 | Haamumaa | "From Tampere, Finland comes the Guest Star, and gives you two dark & heavy atmospheric tracks from his mysterous and unorganic land, and finalize the work with nicely played delay guitar. Definetely guest star... and maybe little too scary for many. But it's here... just visiting. Would you like to now serve him a cup of tea?" |
| 11/8/2003 | Guignol | Angela, David and the Neopolitan Road Issue | CD | $12.99 | Cenotaph Audio | "Guignol is a project comprised of Jeremy Barnes, Laurence Coleman and Aaron Moore. These three members form the core of the group, and are assisted by guests Nick Mott (also of Volcano the Bear) and Korena Pang. The lone American in the group, Barnes may be most famous for his participation in Neutral Milk Hotel, but his work in Guignol bears a closer resemblance to his more recent projects, Bablicon and A Hawk and a Hacksaw. These are quite definitely 'songs,' sounding distinctly British and rather intimate, though this intimacy is offset by an outsider aesthetic. Found sounds, scraped percussion, clattery improv and a gentle humour colour these songs. The music conjures images of not only the French countryside where it was recorded, but the mysteries of motion and distance." |
| 11/21/2009 | Gunn, Steve | Boerum Palace | LP + download + bonus CD | $22.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "steve gunn's prodigous talent for fusing traditional american song structures with a raga influence is almost criminally unheralded. gunn's songcraft is so strong and his playing style so effortlessly beautiful that folks should be shouting his name from every tall building and mountaintop. it is with such high esteem for the man's work that three lobed recordings is humbled by the association and thrilled to announce the release of boerum palace by steve gunn. without any doubt, boerum palace is a staggering accomplishment and is certainly gunn's most assured and confident work to date. native philadelphian gunn has been a stalwart of the american experimental scene for closing in on a decade. he is known by many for his contributions as one half of the core duo behind GHQ (with marcia bassett) as well as for his many other affiliations with underground luminaries such as tom carter, the magik markers and marc orleans. gunn has slowly cultivated his own solo work alongside his other obligations and involvements. after a few early CDR and cassette releases under the moniker "moongang," gunn gravitated towards performing and releasing music in his own name, culminating in the exceptional sundowner (digitalis industries, 2008). sundowner was, to that point, the most potent burst of gunn's songwriting abilities and remarkable playing abilities. following sundowner, gunn bunkered down to further hone his songwriting and boerum palace represents the overwhelming products of that effort. boerum palace represents steve gunn's first full-length release on vinyl and second album. the album starts off with a headlong rush into the hypnotic "mr. franklin" (a downloadable MP3 of which can be found here). gunn's fluid playing style, especially as portrayed withing this track, provides ample space for the development of infectious musical themes. the track ends in a dextrous duel between gunn's guitar and guest marc orleans' (of d. charles speer & the helix, sunburned hand of the man) vicious pedal steel. the album mixes gunn's long-form blues / raga / psych explorations alongside briefer cuts that equally display his songcraft. these tracks, such as "variation ii" and "jadin's dream," demonstrate that gunn is equally confident with shorter or longer compositions. gunn's voice is joined by an ethereal turn from the vanishing voice's heidi diehl on the album's central and haunting "house of knowledge." the track opens with a building central guitar theme. this theme allows gunn to layer on further guitar explorations. the tone set by these musical themes builds into the duo's vocal delivery that delivers volumes despite being uttered in gentle tones. other highlights include "cryin' eyes," an inspired reworking of j.j. cale's "crying eyes" featuring backing instrumentation from marc orleans, and the richly textured album finale "mustapha's exit." boerum palace is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl and housed within an old-style stoughton sleeve bearing new original artwork from mike pare and some of gunn's photography. the album will be accompanied by a download coupon for high quality DRM-free MP3s of the album." Copies of Boerum Palace will include a glass-mastered CD (TLR-074) presenting new, scarce and previously unheard Gunn material that is not available separately. |
| 5/29/2008 | Gunn, Steve | Steve Gunn | CDR | $10.99 | Abandon Ship Records | "Steve Gunn from GHQ solo outing reissue from Onomato label, 2007. Not many people have had the chance to hear these recordings, based mostly around his acoustic guitar improvisations and inspirations from travels in Morocco. Vocal help on last track from Heidi Diehl (WWVV, Vanishing Voice, Time-Life)." Edition of 200 copies. |
| 5/10/2004 | Guru & Zero | Makoto Mango | CD | $17.99 | Swordfish | "This is the long awaited collaboration between Daevid Allen from Gong and Kawabata Makoto from Acid Mothers Temple. It is one long continuous piece featuring Daevid Allen on glissando guitar and vocals, drone and lead guitars from Kawabata and added synth from Cotton Casino." Recommended! |
| 10/26/2004 | Guru Guru | Essen 1970 | LP | $29.99 | Amber Soundroom | "Recorded live in the Essener Grugahalle, where Guru Guru performed on a minor stage twogether with Amon Düül and Frumpy. Official edition in good sound-quality, because taken directly from mixer. 180-gram vinyl and thick cover." |
| 7/16/2009 | Gus, Larry | Iasmos | CDR | $12.99 | Oko Records | "We were scratching our heads of what the hell to set up for orion's 2nd birthday... almost no idea was coming 'till accidentally chris carras dropped the name of 'larry gus' . he was doing back then his military service in xanthi and was already a name in the greek electronica scene. without 2nd thoughts we asked him for a live set at the party and mix his sounds with children's and our sounds. without hesitation agreed. did a lovely set but an evil eye managed to erase almost all of the recordings from our machines but an hour's field recording set done via another machine. the 3rd birthday was near too, any kind of magic we performed couldn't restore the erased digital files so larry spent less than 24 hours locked in his studio working on new material and using part of that field recording document of the party. the result is an 18 track cdr of fresh, joyous sounds where larry's ideas & tracks and field recordings extracts are mixed in a blend of a gorgeous electronica! taste it!" "Somewhere in the more remote area of Xanthi there is family who treat their two children with unusual birthday gifts, usually specially played recorded CDs. One Larry Gus played some music for the second birthday of Orion (who I saw being baptized, but that's another story), which seems partly based on field recordings of a children's party and, for a larger part, on electronic keyboards, loop devices and a bit of vocals. Eighteen short pieces here of highly improvised music - there is a story about the original master being and it had to be restored or recreated in a short time span, but it sounds quite nice altogether. Childlike, obviously I'd say, intimate and also at times joyous. At thirty two minutes also having the right length for such a thing." - FdW, Vital Weekly |
| 3/26/2006 | Gustafsson, Mats / Fred Longberg-Holm | untitled | 7" | $5.99 | Kning Disk | Mats Gustafsson: Baritone sax, alto fluteophone with Fred Lonberg-Holm: Nyckelharpa (key fiddle). Recorded at clava/4 deuces - recording by Jim McGranahan November 2nd 2004. Mixed by flh & jm. Titles by Erik Lindegren. Cover Drawings by Leif Elggren. Numbered edition of 300 copies. |
| 3/26/2006 | Gustafsson, Mats / Luca Tomasso Mai | untitled | one-sided 7" | $5.99 | Kning Disk | Mats Gustafsson: Baritone sax and Luca Tomasso Mai: Baritone sax. Recorded at Locomotore Recording Studio, Rome by Matteo Spinazzé November 7th 2004. Title by Erik Lindegren. Cover Drawings by Leif Elggren. Numbered edition of 300 copies. |
| 8/2/2008 | Gyanism | An Interstate Pugilist | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "From Brisbane's fertile underground flows a million glistening particles as the soundtrack to the dirge of our lives unravels our minds into a cathedral of crystal shards and wails our prayers into the void A sprawling wash of guitars, harsh electronics, percussion and processed acoustics forged into a mutant march towards oblivion made real by joel stern , yusuke akai , daiji igasashi , scott sinclairŠsweet head fuck for the children of the infinite dissolution." |
| 6/18/2002 | Gysin, Brion | Bruits du Beaubourg | LP | $39.99 | Alga Marghen | "A previously unpublished and obscure sound work by the famous artist Brion Gysin... 'Bruits du Beaubourg' or, quite literally, the concrete noises coming from the builder's yard of the Beaubourg recorded on location in June 1977. Different layers of sounds that, with the natural development of the piece, create an hypnotic soundscape. Abstract and concrete. The recording comes from the original masters that Ramuntcho Matta personally got as a gift from Gysin himself; and Matta generously offered them to Alga Marghen. After listening to the pure quality of this peculiar work it was decided to issue it in a LP edition limited to 350 copies, available now for the first time." Comes in a full color jacket with artwork by Gysin. |