| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/17/2007 | H.E.R. | Songs About the Mysteries of Housework and Nature | CD | $12.99 | Persian Cardinal Recordings | "Songstress Yvette Perez (songwriter/vocalist for the NYC avant-garde quintet Birdbrain) plays keyboards and sings about the conflicts of domestic habits with the outer world while trombonist Peter Zummo (who's worked with Arthur Russell, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Teo Macero) rambles through a thicket of electronic ambience in an experiment of memory and obsession. Vibraphonist / percussionist Danny Tunick (who has recorded for Ecstatic Peace, Tzadik and Bang On a Can All Stars) adds delicate vibes and sensuous beats. The beautiful and haunting songs of H.E.R. blend pop and minimalism while blurring the line between improv and song; between prismatic recollection and blighted reality." |
| 7/1/2004 | H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft II | LP | $25.99 | Radioactive Records | "Having relocated to Marin County in Northern California in the spring of 1968, H.P. Lovecraft's second, and it must be said, superior album, appeared later that same year. Moving south to LA later that year, the band recorded their 2nd eponymous album that contained some fine moments of sheer artistry. The sleepiness of tracks like 'Spin, Spin, Spin,' 'Mobius Trip' and 'Electrallentando' was reminiscent of It's A Beautiful Day's first album, and there was a fine version of 'High Flying Bird', a song which had become a favourite amongst West Coast groups and At The Mountains Of Madness captured the band's outstanding vocal style, very much the hallmark of their first album, to perfection. H.P. Lovecraft II was reputedly the first major label album (both records were originally released on the Philips label) where all those involved in the recording were actually high on acid!" Nice full color gatefold sleeve houses this record. |
| 3/24/2008 | Habitat Sound System | Zebras in the Dubhall | 7" | $4.99 | Gematria Records | "'Zebras in the Dancehall' is Habitat Sound's take on the classic 'Diseases' rhythm complete with carnaval whistles, hand percussion, and ecstatic dubbed out vocals. HSS takes this dancehall anthem and turns it on its head with a fresh twist. 'Zebras in the Dubhall' is Dub Traffik Control's fresh and grimy B-side re-fix of the tune with a hard-edged dancefloor beat and irresistible flavor turned out by General Poeta and Captain Turbo. Prince Zohar gives it 2 big spliffs up! The whole package is designed in a popping old-skool style with deluxe artwork on thick jackets by RE:UP magazine creative director Joshua Lynne; check the big hole 45rpm vinyl with the largest sound!" |
| 10/25/2008 | Haemorrhaging Fetus | Procreation: A Disease / Tangled Desires | LP | $14.99 | SNSE | "There are just a handful of newer, contemporary harsh noise artists in this day and age that have a firm grasp of the structures within the genre and how that can be manipulated to exert force upon the listener.... Anthony Shaw has a firm grasp of the harsh noise canvas and knows how to manipulate the listener with different bombardments and heavily timed lines of crashing, crunching, feed backing, and crumbling. All classic staples of the harsh noise entity, but not always executed today with such power and force; ultimately defining thunderous 'harsh noise' for the avid listener." - Sam McKinlay (excerpt from liner notes). Haemorrhaging Fetus' first LP is a fresh working on the rough stylings of classic acts such as Incapacitants and OVMN and compares favorably to contemporary peers The Cherry Point and The Rita. Transcending the staid boundaries of contemporary "wall" noise, this record offers a deftly layered construction of harsh, considered composition. An edition of 250 copies reissuing two now out-of-print Gaping Hole cassettes." |
| Hagstrom, Emil | cs wks 87-97 vol. I | CD | $10.99 | Freedom From | "Reworkings and old cassette material by the guy who does Cock E.S.P. Droning, fluttering guitar and ambiguous computer effects spindled with non-time collaborations. Features Erik Wivinus (Salamander/Skye Klad), Jeremy Day (Energy Park) Paul Hammerlinck (Cock E.S.P.) Matt St-Germain (late, New Port) and more." | |
| 3/25/2008 | Haino Keiji & Yoshida Tatsuya | Houenfiomiume | CD | $17.99 | Magaibutsu Limited | "The controversial work which stepped into the forbidden territory of editing of the performance of Haino Keiji. Yoshida breaks up their studio session boldly, and restructures it from The unacceptable tune reproduced by extreme editing to The pop song thing that it is surprised. From the Irregular hard core to Heavy tune. From the modern music short piece, to the lyricism acoustic number.This album shows new possibility with union/condensing the music of Haino & Yoshida. this time they made 2 different (but similar) albums and another one will be released on TZADIK in May." 16 tracks 50 min. |
| 5/31/2004 | Haino, Keiji | Black Blues (DSA 54088) | CD | $16.99 | (DSA 54088) | "Entitled BLACK BLUES, both albums belong to Haino’s project Aihiyo which material features ‘sad and secret songs’. Black Blues (DSA 54087) features 6 songs which Haino plays and sings in a quiet and almost acoustic way. Black Blues (DSA 54088) features the same 6 songs (in the same order) which Haino plays and sings in a violent and noisy way! Track listing for both recordings: Black petal, Black eyes, Town in black frog, I don’t want to know, Drifting, See that my grave is kept clean. Although Haino’s production is quite huge, this is the first time the Man in Black works on an exclusive conceptual project.. DSA is proud to be involved in this unplugged/plugged concept which Haino will play live during his French tour (end of may/early june).” Please refer to this as DSA 54088 when ordering. |
| Haino, Keiji | Execration That Accept To Acknowledge | CD | $12.99 | Forced Exposure | "The first domestic release by Japan's leading underground guitarist. Haino's emergence over the last few years, via an avalanche of material on the Japanese PSF label, both with his amazing rock trio Fushitsusha and in solo format, has been one the major events of the new decade. This CD is a live solo recording, with just guitar and vocals, and like all other Haino material (they're all different and yet in some ways the 'same') touches emotional transcendence with unidentifiable power." – FE | |
| 1/27/2004 | Haino, Keiji | Hikari yami uchitokeaishi kono hibiki | CD | $16.99 | PSF | "First album of solo guitar by Keiji Haino in quite some time, but very much a departure from the mountain-levelling, continent-sundering, weather-system huge electric guitar releases of years past. Hikari yami... is played just on acoustic, gut-strung guitar, entirely forsaking the effects and extreme amplification characteristic of his electric work. Over three lengthy improvised pieces, recorded in clothes-rustling close-up, Haino explores the full dynamic range of the instrument, working abyss deep into his eternal preoccupations of duration, decay, sustain and resonance. Vast spectrums of reference, from Bailey and Fahey to flamenco, oud music and bluegrass are invoked in single notes and brief phrases, only to be dismissed with confident authority. Another masterful piece of work from Haino, as replete with mystery and the sadness of existence as ever. The title roughly translates as 'Light darkness melting into one this vibration'. Haino advises the listener to play as loud as possible - surely a first on an album of acoustic guitar." - Alan Cummings. |
| 2/16/2005 | Haino, Keiji | Next, Let's Try Changing the Shape | DBL LP | $37.99 | Swordfish | "2 LP set limited to 500 copies in beautiful hand crafted cover. Featuring 6 pieces, featuring Haino's voice, guitar and sampled guitar. It sees him developing themes on from his last PSF release." |
| 6/19/2002 | Haino, Keiji | Percussion Solo Video | Video | $37.99 | PSF | "Solo performances for percussion have always been at the centre of Keiji Haino's art. In them, Haino deploys a huge variety of handheld percussion, from tiny cymbals, bells and gongs, to tambourines, jagged pieces of metal and Harry Bertoia-esque specially-made resonating sculptures. These performances, legendarily intense present the crystallization of the physicality of Haino’s music, his attitude to rhythm, to the persistence of sound itself. Though relatively rare now, these solo percussion concerts always have a special hushed atmosphere of concentration, silent communion, and mystery. Although several releases in Haino's extensive discography have already showcased elements from these percussion performances, the intensely visual nature of what occurs has rendered them little more than shadowy traces of the actual event. Haino has long talked about releasing one of these performances on video, and now that wish has become reality. Coming a week after Haino's 50th birthday, this is a unique and new chapter in the continuing documentation of one of the most compelling and unique performers of our, or any other, age." Only 1 copy available. |
| Haino, Keiji | The 21st Century Hard-y-Guide-y Man | CD | $16.99 | PSF | “The dark magus of flaming noise guitar trio Fushitsusha and Vajra not to mention any number of free-improvisation sessions in the Tokyo experimental music underground sets the world aflame again with this release. An incredibly diverse artist who approaches his recordings with frightening dedication, it was only a matter of time before the concept of a solo hurdy-gurdy recording would be committed to disk. His music has always sat somewhere in the inter-zone between ancient and modern, sounding as if it grew out of the earth and the Tokyo subway system in equal measures. The album is an intense and electrified drone that sounds like a swarm of electric guitars and/or the orchestral intensity of heavy microtonal minimalist music - Tony Conrad and Phill Niblock come to mind. This album is an awesome standout in the Keiji Haino cannon that exhibits literally hundreds of recordings and nearly as many diversions in terms of his approach. Solo hurdy-gurdy is a forte for such a cerebral and abrasive aesthetic as Keiji Haino's." - Skip Jansen, All Music Guide | |
| Haino, Keiji / Barre Phillips | Etchings In The Air | CD | $16.99 | PSF | Haino (vocals) and Phillips (bass and vocals). "Haino's vocal work, as opposed to his actual singing of identifiable 'words' hasn't had that much recorded exposure of late, but here given the space and a collaborator of Barre's canniness he shows just how wild a field of sound he can summon up and control. Phillips is always a joy to hear in the relatively unconfined solo and duo space, where his technique can be given full room to flourish. This is just a beautiful release, lots of room for both performers to move, nonstop inventiveness, emotional communication beyond works (even some humour!). Oh yeah, and the recorded debut of Barre's vocal technique." - Alan Cummings | |
| Haino, Keiji / Kan Mikami / Moto Yoshizawa | Live In The First Year of Heisei Vol II | CD | $16.99 | PSF | Kan Mikami (guitar, vocal), Moto Yoshizawa (bass), & Keiji Haino (guitar). | |
| 2/12/2008 | Haino, Keiji / My Cat Is An Alien | Cosmic Debris Vol III | CD | $14.99 | A Silent Place | "CD reissue of the third installment in the Cosmic Debris split art/LP series set up by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio, a.k.a. My Cat Is An Alien, on Opax Records. Volume three sees the two space brothers from Torino alongside Japanese cult musician and dark shaman Keiji Haino. Imagine a cosmic bomb exploding in your brain, and you'll have an approximate idea of this collaborative release. With two long tracks recorded during live performances in their hometowns, MCIAA and Haino conspire to offer you totally uncompromising music. Haino's track is one of the highlights of his long career, and MCIAA's track is one of the brothers' most ass-kicking for sure. Comes in a special textured cardboard digi-sleeve." |
| Haino, Keiji with Gerry Miles and Alan Licht | Gerry Miles | CD | $14.99 | Atavistic | Live improv performance featuring Haino's vocals and Licht on pipe organ. | |
| 6/19/2007 | Hair Police | Blind Kingdom | one sided LP | $24.99 | Ultra Eczema | "Odd coloured carpet of bizar 3d fields dominate the bright and lurid psychedelic forests u'll have to run thrue to grib a mug a brew at the end of the trip! hop on the back of a giant pink elephant and let go, eventually follow his tiny dick- like tail if u are to small to climb up this pink turt in space! but do give it a try and check out whats left, thats right; nothing! just a puddle of restless throbbing poop in different colours. the elephant turns out to be a puddle as well and the sounds you're hearing are all on the most psychedelic hiar police lp so far! this is definitely way different then any of their other recordings, way more high bliss, blown out delayed voice and hardly any harshness. originally recorded as a hair police radio special for radio centraal in antwerp! thick black and neon blue eye destructive cover design and a psychic laser etch on the b side of this 180 grams wax! 600 copies made." |
| 6/5/2005 | Hair Police | Constantly Terrified | CD | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "The latest from Kentucky overpower trio Hair Police. Four tracks of all-consuming sensory attack that can run from absolute crushing destruction to subtle beauty at the drop of an axe. For fans of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Animal Collective, Lightening Bolt, etc." Recommended! |
| 6/5/2005 | Hair Police | Constantly Terrified | LP | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "The latest from Kentucky overpower trio Hair Police. Four tracks of all-consuming sensory attack that can run from absolute crushing destruction to subtle beauty at the drop of an axe. For fans of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Animal Collective, Lightening Bolt, etc." Recommended! |
| 5/8/2005 | Hair Police | Drawn Dead | CD | $12.99 | Hanson | "Drawn Dead is the sound of a burning human body. The sound of a boiling kneecap microwave marshmallow popping and then sliding down the leg like jellied pulp. This record is so dark, you can smell the burning flesh and will have to shake the human ash from your clothes after each listen. From the second this record starts, you're in for total oppressive heaviness, a slow suffocation of sick tones and blunt shrapnel. Hair Police have taken sound to the sickest realms possible, with guitar, drums, and electronics. With serious overwhelming grit, and shadowy fuzz, the four untitled pieces on this downer disc never reach a rock pace, instead choosing to lumber through some of the meanest tones ever laid down. Industrial in the truest sense - factory ambience and disembodied moans in absolute darkness. This is the time for America to burn its face, and Hair Police know it. They are handing you the torch." |
| 6/19/2007 | Hair Police | Empty Quarter | CD | $13.99 | Harbinger Sound | "Recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, Jan/March 2007 by MIKE CONNELLY (WOLF EYES), TREVOR TREMAINE (DEATH UNIT) AND ROBERT BEATTY (BURNING STAR CORE). No drums. All electronics. Gristle-esque walls of sound and normality-disrupting electronic oscillations for fans of Wolf Eyes, and early Black Dice. Limited edition of 1,000 copies." |
| 5/8/2005 | Hair Police | Hair Police | CD | $10.99 | Hospital Productions | "Newest release collecting the s/t cassette on Hospital Productions, the oop Morturary Servants 7" EP on Freedom From, and unreleased noise/dirge from the Drawn Dead sessions." Killer! |
| 11/17/2007 | Hair Police | Live at the Asylum Inn | one-sided 7" & CDR | $13.99 | American Tapes | "Yeah man...that Lex/Ypsi killer crew, Midwest locals. Them mugs came up for the killer Lansing Noise fest this winter and tried a new Rad style, apartment electronic lurk, late night style, no drums. They stayed up all night and jammed, sounded completely weird and ace. I joined 'em on some sessions with downtown reeds and flute. This release contains completely grim moments from those sessions and the live gig that night. A new horrible dawn of sound from the Police. Look out when they bust this drumm-less style live....will be flipping it like a dolphin trapped in pudding and barbwire. This is downer-sound big time. Could have been recorded 78 at the Air Gallery. Stoked. Same deal, Edition of 200, color vinyl/art, and speed homey." |
| 2/4/2007 | Hair Police | Prescribed Burning | LP | $15.99 | Hospital Productions | "Arising from the smoldering ashes of early morning fallout settles six reverberated blackened altars settled in the embers of industrial noise. slow motion feedback dissolve and dance macabre with raped guitar entanglement and roving percussive loops. scathing hard noise eruptions like drool through the hounds teeth that hold tight and lets loose the bizarre ordeal that is hair police. prescribed burning worships wet atmosphere and tape cut obsessive noise with raw chaos! always away from the pack yet defines the cult. limited to 600 copies with the traditional silk screened 2 sided fold out cover." |
| 7/10/2008 | Hair Police | The Empty Quarter | LP | $12.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "2007 recordings from this fearsome/fearless trio: mike connelly (wolf eyes), trevor tremaine (death unit) and robert beatty (burning star core, amongst others..) 750 copies only. 'the empty quarter' is a maelstrom of gristle-esque walls of sound electronic oscillation to disrupt normality and shredded shards of rock to dislodge mountains.... for fans of wolf eyes, early black dice, etc" |
| 7/23/2004 | Hair Police / Crystal Fantasy | split | 10" | $11.99 | Liquid Death / Hello Pussy Records | "Lexington, Kentucky's Hair Police are one of the most progressive and productive noisy thrash bands out there. If you've experienced them live, then you know that already! With their constant releasing of head banging noise rawk on tons of various labels (Gods of Tundra, Animal Disguise, Load, Freedom From, etc), Hair Police have been secretly carving a niche into your brain! Being the witness to one Chicago ride, we watched in absolute amusement as Hair Police took the stage and one by one destroyed everyone in the room, as well as themselves...being torn limb from limb after walking on the hands of the crowd like clouds then dropping the doom storm from above. Totally out of control and totally rad! On their split 10" with Crystal Fantasy, Hair Police contribute one nasty track on their side of the of this big ten inch fucker titled 'Straps and Straps'! Mike Connelly had this to say about it: 'It's gnarly fucked up. No drums. Just a really sick searing drip of the inside of a carcass.' We agree! This sick pile will whip and beat your skull upon each repeated listen. Do yourself a favor and get abused! Let the gnarly times roll...The members of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Crystal Fantasy are not new players to the game, just a new project with a new name. When asked what kind of description should accompany the news about this split 10", this is what we were told: 'Crystal Fantasy is another glimmering aspect of Neon Hunk, illuminated by and sparkling under one thousand iridescent suns.' Oh yes, take it back to the days when you were just too high to reach, the sky was filled with watercolored waves of cloudy blues and the sun shined like a billion crystals reflecting off of the watery sky. 'Crystal Fantasy are crystal, and they are fantasy' Instant cult classic." |
| 2/4/2007 | Hair Police / Pengo | Virus Thoughts | one sided LP | $11.99 | Gods of Tundra | "The most rotten collaboration. A murderous endeavor that took place a few years ago, the tapes were burned, raped, spit on, mocked and ridiculed. What we have now is the tattered results. And they are not pretty....at all. Full color front and back." |
| 2/11/2006 | Hair Police / Viki | split | CD | $9.99 | Load | "Number Three in the Load Split Series. A standoff match up between Dearborn, Michigan's pride Viki and Lexington, Kentucky's offspring, Hair Police. Viki brings a free range roving donkey ride with squeaky beats, microphones up mouths and zooming crunch. Prepare to be astounded with sounds that make the goose loose. Viki's dates with Adult., are proof that she brings the cars with boom. Think Viki in the same fresh breath as lo-fi speaker technicians like Suicide and Wolf Eyes' minimal electronic splurt. For those not afraid to get their sneakers dirty. Hair Police are another side of this silver coin that channel classic crunch climbers like Throbbing Gristle. Hair Police have been known to expend thousands of calories during their live sets, amounts not seen since Black Flag's heydey." |
| 10/28/2003 | Hair Police / Viki | split | LP | $11.99 | SNSE | "On this split, Viki continues to forge new sonic ground by battering her clattering buzzboxes of noize into submission, resulting in her most hott and raw trax to date. Hair Police are embarking down a darker, though no less harshly compelling, path than their previous releases. Beats are chopped and fragmented, pulverized to dust under the raw, scraping, undefineable vocals and squeal-sqwuall electronics - most definitely a journey for the sonically adventurous." |
| 4/20/2008 | Hala Strana | Heave the Gambrel Roof | CD | $12.99 | Music Fellowship | "Steven R. Smith began recording music under the Hala Strana moniker in 2002 as a way to further explore his interest in traditional Eastern European folk music, apart from his solo releases under his own name and collaborative work in Thuja, Mirza, and other Jewelled Antler creations. Heave the Gambrel Roof is Smith's fourth full length album under the Hala Strana name. The album is a return to the shorter, more song-based form of Fielding and Hala Strana and includes reworks of four traditional Albanian tunes as well as seven original tracks. As with all Hala Strana releases, Heave the Gambrel Roof contains a wide variety of instruments (many built by Smith himself) such as the hurdy gurdy, spike fiddle, gourd guitar, bowed baritone psaltery, bouzouki, xaphoon, and the more common electric guitar, organ, cello, and harmonium. The album includes musical contributions from Loren Chasse (Blithe Sons, Franciscan Hobbies, Of) on one track." |
| 4/20/2008 | Hala Strana | Heave the Gambrel Roof | LP | $16.99 | Music Fellowship | "Steven R. Smith began recording music under the Hala Strana moniker in 2002 as a way to further explore his interest in traditional Eastern European folk music, apart from his solo releases under his own name and collaborative work in Thuja, Mirza, and other Jewelled Antler creations. Heave the Gambrel Roof is Smith's fourth full length album under the Hala Strana name. The album is a return to the shorter, more song-based form of Fielding and Hala Strana and includes reworks of four traditional Albanian tunes as well as seven original tracks. As with all Hala Strana releases, Heave the Gambrel Roof contains a wide variety of instruments (many built by Smith himself) such as the hurdy gurdy, spike fiddle, gourd guitar, bowed baritone psaltery, bouzouki, xaphoon, and the more common electric guitar, organ, cello, and harmonium. The album includes musical contributions from Loren Chasse (Blithe Sons, Franciscan Hobbies, Of) on one track. This second, and last pressing of the LP is limited to 250 copies. The cover is 12x24 natural fiberboard cardstock hand silkscreened with the same cover art - screen printing on both sides." |
| 11/16/2004 | Hala Strana | These Villages | CD | $11.99 | Soft Abuse | “Steven R. Smith's third album as Hala Strana presents the culmination of his musical interests throughout his rather prolific career. These Villages is clearly Smith's grandest effort yet; a seamless whole built on layers of sustained drone & delicately plucked and bowed strings. It's a dark record, a definite work of beauty, and a perfect soundtrack for Autumn's changing leaves and howling winds.” Recommended! |
| 5/14/2007 | Halibet Tin Metal Sewage Band | Halibet Tin Metal Sewage Band | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "man! amazing all male/female vocal group. jamie easter [of the parahnas] a.k.a. germaine shepard pulled together a bunch of wierdos along with his main shorty to create this.....recorded in a huge, freazing dark hall by warren defever yo. amazing sounds!" |
| 6/5/2005 | Hall of Fame | Cannibal / Superstring Theory | 7" | $6.99 | Lal Lal Lal | "Two gems by the amazing and magical Hall of Fame (Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown and Theo Angell), both recorded as early as 1997. 'Cannibal' presents a fluent storm of electric aces and aural snakes. It offers a short moment in the galaxy of fantastic rainbows of sound. 'Superstring Theory' is definitely among the most danceable free folk pieces ever. It's a marriage of repetitive acoustic groove and a fan of colorful strong noises. Edition of 525." |
| 6/1/2002 | Hall of Fame | Hall of Fame | CD | $12.99 | Amish Records | This is their first CD not to be confused with the self-titled third CD on Siltbreeze. “New York City’s Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of ’78 Expansion’ which randomly juxtaposes live and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set (‘Sunset Spiral’ and ‘I Woke Up Today’). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel.” |
| 11/3/2004 | Hall Of Fame | Paradise Now | CD | $12.99 | The Social Registry | “Hall Of Fame is a trio out of NYC comprised of Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown & Theo Angel. Paradise Now is their fourth full length album since their inception in 1995. Carefully sculpting not only the inherent energies of the compositions but also drawing every audible element into the fold whether it be a slow drawn violin scrap, fluttering percussion or the slow echo of a vintage Ampeg Amplifier. This record exemplifies the kind of precision and subtle craftsmanship that exemplifies the honing of their abilities and the furthering of their artistic vision. Members of Hall Of Fame have collaborated with the likes of, The Sonora Pine, Jackie O-Motherfucker, Tower Recordings, Tara Jane O'Neil, Thalia Zedek, David Grubbs, Tony Conrad, Metabolismus,…the list goes on and on.” Recommended! |
| 11/3/2004 | Hall Of Fame | Paradise Now | LP | $12.99 | The Social Registry | “Hall Of Fame is a trio out of NYC comprised of Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown & Theo Angel. Paradise Now is their fourth full length album since their inception in 1995. Carefully sculpting not only the inherent energies of the compositions but also drawing every audible element into the fold whether it be a slow drawn violin scrap, fluttering percussion or the slow echo of a vintage Ampeg Amplifier. This record exemplifies the kind of precision and subtle craftsmanship that exemplifies the honing of their abilities and the furthering of their artistic vision. Members of Hall Of Fame have collaborated with the likes of, The Sonora Pine, Jackie O-Motherfucker, Tower Recordings, Tara Jane O'Neil, Thalia Zedek, David Grubbs, Tony Conrad, Metabolismus,…the list goes on and on.” Recommended! |
| Hall of Fame | s/t | CD | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Hall of Fame's third full-length album finds these NYC indoor miners forgingeven deeper into their secret cave of gems (financed with new picks'n'shovelson the Siltbreeze tab). Like their previous output on the Amish label, this one'sa melange of tribal thump, eastern drone, raga concrete and melodiousmelancholia. Hall of Fame's unique, not easily identifiable sound has beencompared to revered oufits such as Flies Inside the Sun and The Shadow Ring." | |
| 1/15/2005 | Halliwell, Graham / Matt Davis | untitled | CDR | $10.99 | Absurd | “Utilizing amplified sax, sax feedback, trumpet and field recordings Matt Davis and Graham Halliwell create a unique atmosphere, utilising stuctures which give you the feeling that you are inside a silent universe wherebizzare worlds of activity are woven around you.” Edition of 111 copies. |
| 8/1/2006 | Hamilton Yarns | The Show-Boat, Over | LP | $19.99 | Hark! | "This sixth release from Hamilton Yarns is a musical story set somewhere between town and countryside, told through the sounds of piano, cornet, balophone, violin, triangle, accordion, metronome and narrator, this cycle of parlour folk fables takes the listener through scenes of windy hillsides, unlit footpaths and sheer drops to traffic jams, bus rumbles and the hypnotic chatter of the pavement. Carried along by an array of clunking, clattering percussion, minimal melodic lines, field recordings, dead pan vocals and campfire choirs, Hamilton Yarns create a two-sided journey that is spooky, comic and hypnotically compelling." - Strange Attractor. "Distressed parlour music" - The Wire |
| 9/17/2006 | Hamilton, Sam | The Borders of the Garden Paths Are Overgrown | CDR | $9.99 | Transient Recordings | "The unofficial Mayor of Auckland City has created a real pleasure garden of the mind with this new work (co-released with the artist's own Tumbling Strain label). Sam is one of the most gifted sound artists working in New Zealand today and this is yet another fascinating example of the eclectic, restless approach and extraordinary sense of structure that made the "Low Hill" 3" such a stunner. At once highly personal and earth-bound, yet totally out of its skull in the most magical way, at times this sounds as if the guitar, piano and electronics are gently playing themselves while the composer is off sleeping under a tree somewhere. Dreamy and joyous!" |
| 1/1/2008 | Hamilton, Sam | Tropics | lathe cut 7" | $13.99 | CMR | "two lovely looping tracks made from electric guitar, sampler pedal, spring reverb, computer and lathe. Music that's perfectly suited to the format, loops that shift and change over the 4 mins or so per side. When the records came back I wasn't sure if my old Garrard was sticking on a groove or playing the piece. It was playing, nice..." Edition of 45 copies. |
| 1/1/2008 | Hanage Youchien | The Children of Ganja | CDR | $9.99 | Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recordings | "Uton meets the young couple from Osaka, Japan in Laxman Jhula, Rishikesh, next to the holy river Ganga, playing together in the roof of the hotel, in the room and in the rocks next to the river (and one confused young saddhu watching this rattle). Childish psychedelic folk improv using violin, ravanhattha (trad Rajasthani instrument), frame drum, maracas, mouth-organ, flutes and voices." First edition of 40 copies on Jani's/Uton label. |
| 11/10/2003 | Hancock, Herbie | Blow Up (Original Sound Track) | LP | $14.99 | 4 Men With Beards | "In late 1966, Herbie Hancock with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette entered a New York studio to capture the vibe of 'swinging London' in a jazz mode - with grooves that create effective bluesy moods on the slow pieces and funky ones on the up-tempo tracks. Meanwhile in London, the Yardbirds (with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) were recording additional material for use in the Blow-Up movie soundtrack. Liner notes by maverick journalist Steve Dollar. Superb audiophile remastering. 180 gram HQ vinyl. Gatefold sleeve." |
| 5/14/2007 | Handicapper Horns | Handicapper Horns | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "Weird as shit older Olson project resurrected. Handicap - Retard - Slow - Horns..... Slow Bassy Horns... Rules. Alien music made on Saxophone." |
| 8/7/2003 | Happy Hour Band, The | Happy Now | CD | $17.99 | Splash 2 Records | 2003 release from the band fronted by Sky Sunlight Saxon (Seeds) and featuring Djin Aquarian (YaHoWha). Featuring the sixteen minute ‘In The Cradle Of Love/Freeway’ as well as the hypnotic Seeds-y ‘Dogs Cruisin/Wild Child’. Long spacey jams with guitars and psychedelic keyboard sounds battling it out over hypnotic rhythms/chants. Strictly limited to 500 copies. "If you are down with the Sky/Djin vibe, these songs are great! Nice long jams...in fact the last song reminded me a lot of Djin and Sky (and band) covering a lost song from the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat album." – Andy Perseponko |
| 11/15/2008 | Hardwick, Gareth / Eyeballs | split | cassette | $9.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Gareth Hardwick's steady stream of quality releases is gathering to be one of the UK's best current minimal drone catalogues around... here he gives us a 3 part trip of pure slow motions... Flip the tape and you have Richard Dawson's Eyeballs project, whose debut on Blackest Rainbow caused a stir with the few people who managed to lay their hands on it. Here Dawson's side is bleaker and darker than expected, gives me the full on feel of the Twin Peaks woods... feels like the vast emptiness of that claustrophobic wooded area. Low and lulling. Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 150 copies." |
| 11/4/2006 | Harmonia | Musik von Harmonia | LP | $17.99 | Lilith | "The first album by this very influential but short-lived Krautrock supergroup consisting of Michael Rother of NEU! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of CLUSTER. This 1974 release was known for a minimalism somewhere between ambience and noise, as the styles of the 3 instrumentalists melded into one coherent sound. LP in gatefold sleeve. Russian import." |
| 8/1/2006 | Harper, T. | The Hitcher | cassette | $8.99 | AA Records | "Twig Harper's house burns down so he decides to hitchhike across the US. He gets as far as Michigan, records a little, and then heads to the Badlands to star in a western as a shaman - no shit. Field recordings from Baltimore thru Michigan to the Badlands and back." - label |
| 1/23/2003 | Harvest Flight | One Way | LP | $15.99 | Dodo | "Christian-oriented psychsploitation recorded in 1971 by a trio with other musicians stepping in on many tracks. It's psychedelic rock with interesting electro-acoustic passages, alternating with more aggressive moments and underlined by Evan Williams' fuzz guitar. Reissued for the first time on vinyl with lyric sheet. 180 gram vinyl, Italian import." |
| 7/14/2007 | Hassara | Backyard I-III | CD | $12.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "Originally issued as a series of three micro-edition CDRs by Wooden Wand Hassara, "Backyard I-III" presents the majority of this scarce material in one easily handled package. Since no more than 100 copies exist of any of the individual original issue CDRs, there are a lot of folks who have not yet been blown away by Hassara's largely instrumental electric guitar blues drone. Spin this disc, grab a cold one and let the good times flow. This CD is from a one-time pressing of 500 copies and features some super-intense new artwork by Robert Beatty (Hair Police)." |
| Hat City Intuitive | They Must Be Clapping For...Me! | CD | $10.99 | Crank Automotive | "Sifted from a phalanx of searing live performances, They Must Be Clapping For...Me! is the band's second album, a cell-rearranging collection of free-form sun-chasing. Exploding the walls between rhythm and chaos, texture and blare, and repetition and invention, the HCI mix horn-shaped fire-breathing, blurry-handed guitar-strangling, rubber-wristed drum-shining, and continent-sized noise-scapes into a mind-stirring stew that, while not without some worthy referents, really has no current equivalent. At times sounding like the Sun City Girls covering the ESP-Disk catalogue, at others like the Dead C. auditioning for a role in Space Is The Place, They Must Be Clapping For...Me! is a pulse-enhancing experience - a place where sliding beats, ambient waves, religious honks, and electric burps are simply different ways of saying one amazing Truth." | |
| 4/20/2008 | Hatred | Sciatica | CD | $9.99 | Aryan Asshole | "The last couple weeks I've had a hard time walking. This tape represents sciatic nerve problems: the inability to walk, numbness of the limbs, sharp pain and the realization that you can damage yourself without even moving. Not a light topic, not an easy listen. Four tracks of slow, traumatic movements made with a UHER 4200." - Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) |
| Haugan, Dag-Are | s/t | 7" | $4.99 | Myke Droner | "Side one is a long mysterious ambient-drone-outer limit work with layers of guitars and tapes(?), that reminds of a very deep sound from the icy north, but still warm inside. Side 2 is collaboration with Espen Sommer Eide (who also form the duo ALOG with Dag-Are). Fit well in the new Norwegian improv scene, and also familiar to the New Zealand scene we like so well. Nice full-colour sleeve picture from the Northern Sea." | |
| 3/23/2007 | Haunted Castle | Void Lake | CDR | $8.99 | Arbor | "This is the debut full length by Detroit's Haunted Castle. These are the first recordings from the infamous Half-Crypt (which was recently vacated due to frequent car break-ins and mail stealing). At the time these tracks were recorded the basement had black mold hanging from the ceilings in some areas. It turned out that that shit was totally toxic and needed to be removed pronto. There is heavy black mold influence running through these tracks. Abrasive and lo-fi drones that sound like they are seeping from swamped out electronics. Vocals heavy like elephant calls coupled crunching guitar and molded basement ambience. There are even a few fist pumping moments! Guaranteed to be an instant classic. In a numbered edition of 100 copies in hallucinogenic tripped out linen bags and cardstock sleeves screened by Jelle Crama." |
| 12/2/2008 | Haunting, The | Canine Blues | double cassette box | $22.99 | Gods of Tundra | "So dudes, our dog..Steve Perry..had to have emergency surgery last week. She (yes, shes a girl) ate a macadamia nut..which is poison to dogs, unbeknownst to us. Anyway, shes doing great now, but this set was recorded and worked on while she was away (for 4 days) and we all had some serious Canine Blues. This set encompasses all aspects of Haunting...live workouts, studio manipulations, fall creep, winter avalanche, isolation on top of mount blanc. Packaged in cool boxes that Scara scored from her job...both tapes in cases with full covers, the whole deal. Proceeds from this tape set will help offest the INSANE vet bill..most expensive macadamia nut ever! Strict edition of 41." |
| 4/16/2007 | Haunting, The | Feeding Chamber | cassette | $6.99 | Gods of Tundra | "Maybe the roughest Haunt jam to date. Sounds come and go like gashes on skin. This tape is like living under ice for 60 years, then dying. |
| 9/29/2003 | Havergal | Trash | 10" | $7.99 | Elevator Bath | "The five instrumental compositions, which comprise this EP from 1999, are contemplative and melodic sound experiments. Traditional instrumentation (guitar, percussion, etc.) mixes with found sounds and samples to create wisely restrained, yet emotional music. The material occasionally approaches ‘post rock,’ but, instead, opts for something far more relevant. On transparent vinyl with clear plastic sleeves, in an edition of 550 copies." |
| 10/19/2003 | Hawk, Gerald | King of River Canoe | CD | $11.99 | Abduction | "Debut release by this obscure filmmaker (?). The last non-member of the Sun City Girls to release something on their Abduction label (Hal Russell) didn't live long to tell about it, but Gerald evidently thinks he's made of tougher stuff. This recording features acoustic muddle and the whispered rants of somebody with no fear of waking up in a bunker. A certain amount of Jandekian idolation/emulation/ass-ination raises the intrigue and as for the wind, it continues to blow. Don't be afraid to jump, straight down."- FE |
| 2/10/2004 | Hawk, Gerald | The Honey Guide Bird | CD | $12.99 | Abduction | "The second CD from obscure artist Gerald Hawk, The Honey Guide, is the music of opposites: laughter and misery, crazy and the grim, toytown and the city of fear. This curious recording is filled with hypnotic sound-fields and a queer feeling of humility. Stories of giants and witches are embedded in an outerworldly atmosphere. The music betrays an ability to enter into the supernatural space of abstract hoverings. Is he communicating with the dead, performing underwater rituals, or sketching a lush photographic awareness of the world?" |
| 1/1/2008 | Hawkwind | Hawkwind | LP | $20.99 | "A reissue of their 1970 classic first album, this is where the long interplanetary journey began. Sometimes compared to early PINK FLOYD, it's bluesy spacerock defined by a unique, sci-fi approach to guitar, sax and electronics. Original artwork, Euro import." | |
| 4/24/2006 | Hay, Emily / Marcos Fernandes | We Are | CD | $10.99 | Public Eyesore | "Folks, I couldn't begin to know how to properly express what I think is going on with this album. Marcos Fernandes is the percussion, field recordings, and electronic noise man. Emily Hay is the voice artist, flute, piccolo, piano, and electronic noise lady. Now that information came by easy with help from the album booklet. What is a bit more difficult is knowing how to explain what you will hear on We Are. There are quiet moments, the noisy moments, and then there are the what exactly am I listening to moments. Ok, ... I am aware that this review isn't shedding too much light on the album. You know that funny sound when you twiddle your lips with your fingers and go bbbvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv? Well, nobody does it better than Emily Hay." - Cameron Deyhle |
| 2/5/2004 | He 6 | Beautiful Doll | LP | $24.99 | Beatball | "In the late 60s Korea, many groups or so-called the 'Group Sound(s)' had expanded their territories from the stages of the 8th U.S. Army that was a sort of 'their own private league' to 'general public'. The album showing us clearly that the occidental rock music style has already established its own places and territories in Korean music scene in 70's, and this phenomenon is contemporary with its 'original' ones (like those of the U.S.A or the U.K). To be short, while the recently reissued or rediscovered albums of Shin Joong-Hyun show the extremely 'Koreanized' rock music, the music on this album of the He 6 show a real 'occidental' one, in an orthodox meaning of the word. This album shows an excellent mixture of GS beat, psychedelic, funky rhythm based brass-rock that consisted all the main elements of the time in occident. This album must be an 'amazing discovery' for collectors. All the more, these long-piece of 'Get Ready!' even in a pure improvisational form. Although it was already well known that already in 70s there existed the 'spontaneous native' rock music in Korea." Really great stuff! If you like Shin Joong Hyun this is definitely going to appeal to you. |
| 3/29/2005 | Heads, The | 33 | LP | $19.99 | Invada | "A vinyl reissue of the insanely limited 33 CD (released in an edition of 33 copies) from British rock power chargers The Heads. A stellar Faust Tapes-style sonic exploration of drums, bass, and guitar, which sees the band taking their sound to new and surprising heights. Twenty tracks of elevated riff-driven rock formed from an assortment of edited jams and studio experiments. UK import." |
| 12/24/2005 | Heathen Shame | Speed The Parting Guest | CD | $12.99 | Twisted Village | "The second album from Cambridge, MA-based Heathen Shame. The trio of Greg Kelley, Wayne Rogers, and Kate Village formed under the banner Heathen Shame in the fall of 1999. After a handful of one-off shows they recorded their self-titled debut LP in May of 2002, which caught them just as their sound was starting to gel. They then embarked on a three week tour of America's heartland with Double Leopards (including at least one outdoor show that could be termed a "gathering") in an attempt to share their unique brand of high decibel improvisation. Although they drove away as many people as they converted (OK, maybe a lot more than they converted), the steady gigging continued upon their return and soon the Heathen Shame were playing as one mind rather than three. Speed The Parting Guest is a carefully paced but blazing affair that shows how seamless a unit they've become. In contrast to the abstract feel of their debut, Speed The Parting Guest finds them swinging large blocks of sound around their heads for hours before launching them at you. Their wall of sound is now a sonic universe that they can manipulate with slow malice or lightning precision. Heathen Shame are destined to be THE most talked about two-guitar-and-trumpet combo of 2005 and beyond." |
| 9/17/2006 | Heather Leigh | Jailrouse Rock | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "w0w........drugs fer th ears. false euphoria bliss floating down into yer basement. its all in yer head and you dont need drugs just listen to this tape. edition 90." |
| 11/17/2007 | Heatsick | Muddy Paw | CDR | $12.99 | Trans-Dimensional Sushi | "New solo jams from Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay, with eternally singing reeds and alien breath tones combined in forests of wonked tape and DIY bedroom hypnosis. Three tracks. Edition of 100 copies." - Volcanic Tongue. "This, the first in a trilogy of dewy perfume sunrise, waking up naked in wet grass and the smile of a deer. consciously pop, day after memory distortion. overloading the senses in drunk ecstasy tracks progress to casual blur into cruise down the river densities. Dedicated to Oliver Reed and Tess..." |
| 5/14/2007 | Heatsick | Pre-Cum Fog Ballet | cassette | $14.99 | Alcoholic Narcolepsy | "Although this Heatsick release starts out nice and normal, it doesn't take that long before it gets taken over by the warped half of sole member Steven Warwick's brain; melodic acoustic guitar work gets layered and then drowned. This c30 release (in vampiric black and red) layers acoustic details on top of each other, all the while preparing the listener for the inevitable absorption into Heatsick world. These simply layered parts keep their backbone for a while, refusing to urn to liquid, landing in clockwork patterns of strums. The magic of this single piece is the way the mechanical mouse organ styled build of notes begins to take on a sort of halo. The chimes set in motion droney moving rings which in turn heralds circling whistles appear along with freer pitches around the song. This other world begins to try and steal the song's focus creating an intentionally glorious coming together of two teased-out worlds. When the second side picks up the hard to hold thread of "Pre-Cum Fog Ballet," the guitar parts have been lost. The mazes of drones have guzzled this instrument down in murmuring hums, a disintegrating swarm of Möbius Strips. Listening to the second side of this cassette is like arriving at the fairground on expensive glue and having to choose which half-broken fairground attraction to ride on. The sounds spin just below the point of overwhelming, like a séance that only attracts pissed-up drunken spirits that all want to talking at the same time. The gap between side one and two feels like a part of this buckled metamorphosis has been lost, but that's probably partially my fault for having equipment that requires me to get up to flip the tape. Despite the sometime insanity of the music, Heatsick's explorations are never mentally wearing; god only knows what it's doing to my ears though." - Scott McKeating, Brainwashed |
| 5/14/2007 | Heatsick | Searing Light Of Glue Prisms | cassette | $14.99 | Alcoholic Narcolepsy | "New jams recorded over the last few months. Yellow tar visions... more trickly... cavernous. Honey comb like fly visions slow motion ascent flying into a candle..." Heatsick is Steven Warwick of Birds of Delay. Edition of 100 copies. |
| 5/14/2007 | Heatsick | Total Afternoon Sundae | cassette | $14.99 | Alcoholic Narcolepsy | "Steven Warwick, half of the up-and-coming sound abusers Birds of Delay, has been using his own Alcoholic Narcolepsy label to spread his solo Heatsick project. Any more releases like this one and it's only a matter of time before the bigger underground indies come calling. This cassette might look like the label's most professional looking release yet, but the project's roots still sound resolutely lo-fidelity. But where in the past Heatsick required some effort on the listeners behalf, meeting the music halfway, Total Afternoon Sundae comes running with open arms and a doped-up grin. As good as those previous efforts have been, this one feels like it's cleared out some blockage between the music and listener, the hurdle of formlessness, hurtling it up to the next level. The opening piece, which takes up the whole first side, is thick and sweetly queasy, like too much lukewarm ice cream. Its tides of short-wave radio rise and fall on top of other sounds, melting into each other like a gelatinous mass of sugar. There's a dash of arresting Spacemen 3 style drone laid in there too, swirling like tangible energy at the piece's edges. The pulpy mash of organ and synth guts seems to be rotting and blossoming at the same time within the magnetic tape. There are touches of beauty on the rest of the tape, too, a little less thick perhaps, but no less explicit. Even the bent pitches of "Later Mirror" and its broken game show vibe can't hide the song's silvery splendour. "Exactly, Exactly" takes this idea further again, creating a ever-moving rush of gorgeous sounds, the constantly rolling and peripatetic blooming tones reproducing without assistance. The closing "Unspent Realisation of Dawning Release" sees Warwick performing the same kind of magic that Richard D. James did with soldering irons on Selected Ambient Works II. The cut-price ambience of the keyboard's melody is easy to get lost in; the sound quality and tape hiss just adds to the charm. The cassette format is endearing, but when you run into a great release like, the inadequacies become more inconvenience than charm. It's very probable that each listen to Total Afternoon Sundae is minutely degrading this recording; its brilliance, and the need for repeated listens, gradually destroying the music. This is a release already in dire need of a CD reissue." - Scott McKeating, Dusted Magazine |
| 4/21/2008 | Heavy Eye of the Sun | III | CDR | $8.99 | Digitalis Limited | "I've been wanting to put out something by heavy eye of the sun for years and now, nearly two years after their last self-released cd-r, "III" is locked & loaded. this montreal-based duo create sprawling, monolithic landscapes of sound, barely held together by the flickering of their voices. this is their most involved and evocative work yet. sparse forests of acoustic instrumentation conjure up ancient spirits that the duo channel without abandon. the hypnotic nature of their collective vocals lull you into a trance. bowed zithers and guitars drone and creak into oblivion. heavy eye of the sun suck you into their world and don't let go until they are good and ready. this is enchanted music. limited to 80 handnumbered copies, packaged in oversized hand-stamped envelopes w/ two inserts & handstamped cd-rs." |
| 7/11/2008 | Heavy Winged | Alive In My Mouth | LP + CD | $21.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "Last summers CD release for Heavy Winged, Blacc Lust, flew out of here and really seemed to find a good home with folks. Following up on that response comes the massive and dense blowout that is Alive In My Mouth. Comprised of two of the bands dirtiest and, quite simply, heaviest tracks, it is music for tearing down physical walls. Each copy includes a complete CD that features both of the album tracks in addition to a "bonus" 17 minute track. Edition of 647 copies pressed on 180-gram RTI vinyl, housed in heavy art sleeves bearing new artwork by Michael Canich and letterpressed by Dexterity Press." |
| 9/17/2006 | Heavy Winged | Echoes of Silence | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Across their first 3 full-length releases (plus several compilation appearances), the ex-NYC trio Heavy Winged have garnered a reputation for blowing out tuned-in eardrums with their urban retro-futurist DIY rampaging-giant-lizard noise rock. And deservedly so. Without giving up any raw power, Echoes of Silence focuses on another side of the group, one that works as much like a giant magnetic vortex as a nuclear-gargantua footstomp - hypnotically pulsating forward-motion drone drawing the listener inexorably further and deeper until they're left, floating in space, whirrs of buzzing wattage their only living companion. Three tracks, 39 minutes." |
| 11/17/2007 | Heavy Winged | Feel Inside | CD | $13.99 | Archive | "Brand new three trax release from Portland/ Brooklyn based unit which comes on the heels of the bands recently re-issue disc, and highly excellent three lobed release "blacc lust", comes three long playing journeys into psych noise dronedom. I'm not a huge fan of the press release description game where the label goes on to babble and make absurd quotes like "sounds like every band that has sold a shit load of records this past month if you combine sunno))) with your mamma then you know exactly how great this record is". I'd just like to humbly state to me it comes off like the Bardo Pond brothers recording in the lo-fi high fuzz induced kitchen of the Goslings. All label claims aside listen to the clip!! PACKAGE comes packed in a double cover center opening sleeves with the outer shell being a vellum overlay wonderfully executed graphically by Chase Middaugh. Single pressing of 600 copies." |
| Heazlewood | Introducing the Ron Asheton Club | 7" | $5.99 | Crawlspace | "Chris Heazlewood (Sferic Experiment, Olla, King Loser) is one of New Zealand's best & most innovative guitarists & this is his personal tribute to the Stooges' best guitarist. Four tracks of layered riffs, samples, bass & backwards guitar." | |
| 4/16/2007 | Hell & Bunny | Better Eulogies Are On Their Way | cassette | $9.99 | Tape Tektoniks | "30 minutes of creepy and jazzy improvisations by ben (percussion) and hans (cello) of graveyards and melee fame." |
| 5/31/2008 | Hell and Bunny with Greg Kelley | Burn It For The Nails | CDR | $9.99 | Brokenresearch | "After a garish trio-supposed to be a Melee plus Kelley---date in Western Mass it was only a matter time before this trio got together to do the scrape and crunch. It's interesting to see how Kelley approaches the 1/4 speed lurch. In comparison with Olson and Wooley it's a bit more fireworks oriented but there are plenty of glacial exhalation, abrasions and slow wallops to extend the gravenights vocab. Also where Wooley and Olson are fully complicit Kelley is a bit more argumentative--in the best way possible--in doling out his own formal demolitions that end up with almost downtown moments of cross-pollination and genre car crashes." Edition of 100 copies in art sleeve with printed sandpaper. |
| 2/14/2008 | Hell Hall | Mystery One - Red Blue Blk Soon Come | CDR | $9.99 | American Tapes | "You gotta love this Hell Hall dude. Can make a mean Rueben, juggle inzane daily soups, play with rope and steaming water as drums, deal with inzane attorneys at the Russell St. Deli, and hustle private press soul 45's. And he jams with total outsider weirdo's, hands me cryptic cds from sessions and forgets about em. So here is one em'...more comin! Color cover dvd case." |
| Hell Mach Four | Hell Mach Four | 12" EP | $8.99 | Mood Swing Records | Chaotic guitar driven psych | |
| 4/21/2008 | Hell Raiders, The | The Hell Raiders | cassette | $5.99 | Bread and Animals | "Spaced out synth tunes. electronic grooves. gunshots. mood setting ambience. and random conversations about freedom and beyond. THE HELL RAIDERS is a tribute to nature, freedom, sweet synth sounds, vhs messages and photoshop thinkers. this is part of our ongoing CULTURAL SERIES." |
| 5/29/2008 | Hello, Blue Roses | The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty | LP | $16.99 | Locust | "The sweetheart duo of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) & Sydney Vermont (visual artist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) have tied the knot around an infectious readymade classic with their 14-track self-titled debut. The Portrait Is Finished folds the last few decades of pop music together, drawing on everything from an unabashed love of '80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) to the cheery mysticism of young Scotland (Orange Juice & Felt) to prime Aquarian age femme folk of the '60s & '70s." Pressed on blue vinyl. |
| 2/12/2008 | Hellvete | Een Duvelse Zak Is Nooit Gevuld | cassette | $10.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Evil Silvester Anfang boggart passing the gate to the Other World, sucking Lilith's breasts on stones of fire while conjuring peacocks of pure form. Flowerpower romance of 80 copies." "Hellvete is a member of Belgian satanic psych-folksters Silvester Anfang. Gorgeous acoustic guitar drifts wreathed in a haunting occult fog with occasional wordless chants. Side 2 also features a lovely piece of wheezy organ / violin droney sea shanty." - Boa Melody Bar |
| 8/22/2008 | Helm | Chrysalis | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Three solo offerings from half of the birds of delay unit, luke younger. everything comes together in a sort of calming yet virulent way, like rivers of red and black filled with dead birds falling from the sky. chrysalis is sort of like a anodynic end to all things. one quick bite of the apocolypse that makes everything feel good. black on black covers." |
| Henderson, Jeff / Nick Hodgson / Richard Neave | 'Live At The Shirley Community Centre | CD | $12.99 | CMP | Jeff Henderson (alto sax), Nick Hodgson (drums), and Richard Neave (guitars) recorded live on August 21, 1998. | |
| 12/11/2004 | Heron, Mike | Smiling Men With Bad Reputations | CD | $16.99 | Fledgling | "2003 reissue of this album, originally issued by Elektra in 1971. Mike Heron was a founding member of the Incredible String Band, along with Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer. 'Smiling Men With Bad Reputations is Mike Heron's remarkable debut solo album from 1971. An eclectic masterpiece that blends rock, folk and world music into an atmospheric whole. Guest musicians include Pete Townshend, Elton John, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, John Cale, Keith Moon, Dr. Strangely Strange & Steve Winwood. Remastered and fully annotated with two rare bonus tracks and a new sleevenote by producer Joe Boyd." |
| 2/23/2007 | Hetero Skeleton | En La Sombra Del Pajaro Velludo | CD | $14.99 | Load | "Five unholy speaker cone movers from Finland choke up a hairball of churning sax-driven mayhem. In between the notes, crinkle-cut sax spuzz links rude-itude of the highest order. Fans of Avarus will find the same disconnected fuckery pulsing through this disc. For fans of Flying Luttenbachers, Fat Worm Of Error, Butthole Surfers, and Blue Humans." |
| 11/17/2007 | Hetero Skeleton | Kryptos Orchis | cassette | $5.99 | American Grizzly | "noisy free jazz punk wankery, load records...members of avarus." |
| 9/23/2004 | Heule, Jacob Felix | Dog Days | CDR | $9.99 | 23 Productions | “Stuttering lo fi noise madness from Jacob Felix Huele on his cdr debut. Plenty of shredding noise sections with fucked up tape edits, looped rhythms, and mangled song parts in between. Highly recommended!” |
| 7/10/2008 | Hevoset | Hevoset | LP | $17.99 | Dekorder | "Hevoset is the duo of two of the most enigmatic individuals of the Finnish Underground, namely Jan Anderzen and Jani Hirvonen, both hailing from Tampere. Anderzen is ringleader of a mysterious multitudinous beast known as Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal Records), a part-time member of Avarus and Islaja and records solo as Tomutonttu (Ultra Exzema, Beta-Lactam Ring Records) with a new album coming out on Dekorder this year (hopefully). Hirvonen is best-known under his Uton monicker with two LP's on Dekorder and a stream of releases on Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna, Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana and his own Ikuisuus label. While most one-off meetings between so-called experimental and improvising musicians often sound like bad excuses for a few beers and endless jams this is quite the opposite - a heavy weight championship finale of two like-minded whizkids cross-fertilizing each other with idea after idea, leading to some of the weirdest and quixotic recordings you will have heard of the two. Everything you loved about Kemialliset Ystävät, Uton and Tomutonttu is contained in Hevoset.....and more. Rural psychedelia, out-of-tune plucked and strummed strings, overloaded organs and effect pedals, Jani Hirvonen's sweet wordless vocals, ecstatic improvised drone collages, bells, backward loops, jungle percussion and tons of unidentifiable sounds and noises shaped into tight 4 - 6 minute tracks. Extracts from a Foxy Digitalis review by Brad Rose: "This is the music of people removed from civilization. It's like this is some kind of ancient artifact. It grinds on your skull, but feels so right. (Š) There are moments when the things that make Kemialliset Ystävät and Uton great on their own come together in forested harmony. In particular, on side A when Anderzén is droning away on a keyboard and Uton is massaging your spinal cord with masochistic feedback scrawl - it's hypnotic. These two artists are in a trance here, channelling the sounds in their head. It's so fucking good. (Š.)This is definitely a case where the sum is greater than the parts. Anderzén and Uton are in top form here and fans of either solo project will chew this up and consume it for months." |
| 7/10/2008 | Hexlove/Faulouah | Free Jazz From Slavery | DBL LP | $15.99 | Weird Forest | "If one were dim enough to go about explaining the new double LP from Hexlove/Faulouah by pointing up parallels between it and the future-thinking music which has surely influenced its creator, I imagine the task wouldn't be too daunting. One may first notice that Free Jazz from Slavery is awash in the sublimely complex percussion patterns of 20th century composers like Harry Partch, Eugene Kurtz, and Iannis Xenakis. Or one might wonder if Zac Nelson, the man in the cockpit of this thing, hadn't been listening to Another Green World since he was in the womb. And certainly it wouldn't be a stretch to say that the jibing spirit of early-eighties Pere Ubu experimentation is all over the more flippant efforts like Don't Say I Didn't Warm Yah and the watery blurb that opens the record, Aztec vs. Dolphin. This, though, is the wrong way to go about listening to or talking about any of Hexlove/Faulouah's work. Musical ancestors are worn proudly on Nelson's sleeve, but as eagerly as he celebrates them, he also delights in taking them, along with himself, down a peg. The snarky punning of the album's title, the faux-shamanic chanting and cooing, the deliberately murked-up and buzzing arrangements all belie an agenda that involves not only a glad embrace of the less austere reaches of avant-gardism but a pointed critique of its elitism and intellectual posturing. Tracks like the doom-laden Lots of Wings Carry Seeds, which pulses like the metabolism of some slumbering extinct beast, display a staggering sense of grey beauty but are quickly undercut when Nelson begins to take a more blithe and self-deprecating tack. This, though, is not to the record's detriment; it never falls into mere novelty or self-parody. The sheer technical brilliance, evident on every track, earns quite a big spot on Nelson's cheek to put his tongue in. The most glorious moments, though, are those in which he is able to marry these two tendencies, as on the desperate and busy Grump up the Volume, which opens the second side of the first record. And this is just the first record. All doubts that may have been lingering about Nelson's seriousness or capabilities vanish completely after even the most cursory listen to the second record. Alone it is a startlingly focused and beautiful ambient masterwork, but it shines all the more when it is coupled with the chaos of the first record. The long, breathing pieces are tranquil and meditative yet never naive or on the look-out for a place in The New Age. Under every track, however spare and delicate, lurks an anxiety that constantly threatens to swallow all delusions of well-being. Though it drones and broods, it is never without texture. Alive with the haunting organ of Exits Very Damp or the subtle xylophone flourishes of Big Happy Lotus, it manages to maintain a clean, coherent spirit without becoming sterile or devolving into massage music. The sidelong closer and centerpiece of the album, Psychopomp, though, is as sparse and heavenly as music gets, but it still attains such a raw human beauty that after you hear it, the last thing you want to do is lie down for a massage. Rather, you want to run out and find the human who created it and thank him. - Steve Rodgers. Limited to 500 copies on green and orange vinyl with full color gatefold jackets. |
| 9/30/2005 | Hey Colossus | II | LP | $15.99 | Wakuserie Records | "While hardcore rock can be restricted by the taut, angry insularity of it's own logic, and stoner rock can often be too out of it to understand the meaning of the term, London five piece Hey Colossus synthesize the best of both genres. 'Hey Colossus II', the follow up to their mini-album debut 'Hey Colossus Hates You And You And You', doesn't summon up the obliterating void of the blackest Metal (the cover is grey with delicate chalk sketching). Instead, they craft space around their monolithic assault, aiming for the precise balance of mass and space of Shellac or Fugazi. It's paradoxical that while the heaviest blackest rock relies on the primal immediacy of the riff, many of it's strongest moments emerge in the most epic symphonic works - notably Sleep's 60 minute 'Jerusalem', more or less constructed from several distinct movements. Similarly, each headlong assault on 'Hey Colossus II' is followed by an intermission of sensuous feedback. The ten minute assault of 'Take It' is a carefully calibrated exercise in electrical overload, where the warm riffage slowly begins to arc and crackle like a pylon in a storm. 'Hey Colossus II's' egalitarian interchanges between three guitarists finally resolve into the long-anticipated Sabbath hammer blows of 'Raise The Flag (This Planet's Ours)'. Hey Colossus's brand of metal attempts a restrained aggression that, over the length of an album, attains a satisfying architectural symmetry. At their zenith, in the midst of the longform workouts, they come close to touching simultaneous blisspoints of Neu!'s motorik momentum and Bardo Pond's fathomless well of distortion." - The Wire, April 2005 |
| 5/29/2008 | Hi-God People / Zond | split | LP | $21.99 | Spanish Magic | "Melbourne, Australia's experimental rock underbelly gives birth to a baby that stumbles and screams. The Hi-God People side was recorded around the same time as their recent split 12' with New Zealanders the Dead C. It has live snippets from their show at the Palace whilst supporting Sonic Youth and recordings from a radio 3CR session. Their live shows vary from cosmic rock jams to evolution performance art epics. Pop stars doing the tango with some psychedelic monk. On the flip side is Zond! Zond are a rock group from Melbourne, Australia. They are named after a satellite of the USSR. But Zond are broadcasting dark ecstasy, not from space but from a place far below. They are a Rorschach blot, or a Freudian analysis gone wrong. Their live shows vary from a screaming psychedelic car crash to ambient metal: all that can be known in advance is the intensity of the performance. Zond include members of past and present groups: On, Fong, Library Punks, Mum Smokes, Ned & the Meds, The Stabs. This is Zond's first release." Limited edition of 300 copies - the covers and labels are completely handmade utilizing multiple screenprints, stencils, and hand carved stamps. |
| 9/30/2005 | Higgins, Gary | Red Hash | CD | $13.99 | Drag City | "Red Hash features eleven haunting tracks of folk-pop played on acoustic and electric guitar and arranged with percussion, cello, flute, piano, organ, bass and mandolin. This plus Gary's transcendent vocals bring to mind the perfectly-damaged vibes found in David Crosby's masterpiece of peace, love and paranoia, If I Could Only Remember My Name and the recently re-discovered and acclaimed Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs. This is the first-ever authorized reissue of Red Hash - direct from the original master tapes. The Red Hash CD includes two unheard bonus cuts and never before seen artwork/photos. Red Hash is held in very high regard by current torch-bearers/taste-makers: Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom, WFMU, Devendra Banhart, Ben Chasny, Sunburned Hand of the Man, White Magic, and Espers." First reissue of this underground folk-psych classic, originally released in 1973 as a self-released LP. Highly recommended! |
| 11/17/2007 | Higgs, Daniel | Metempsychotic Melodies | CD | $14.99 | Holy Mountain | "Daniel Higgs returns with his second full length recording for Holy Mountain after last year's critically acclaimed Ancestral Songs and his contribution. Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot, to Thrill Jockey's series of books collecting art and music. Metempsychotic Melodies continues to document Higgs' rise as a solo performer. Raw picked acoustic guitar drones dominate Metempsychic Melodies as the instrumental "Universal Salutation" fades into the waking dream soliloquy of observation "Love Abides." "Leontocephaline Rhapsody" is a long waltzy drone with enough spooky atmosphere for one to think that it could have been recorded at Sunshine studios as there is a heavy Vogel vibe to the whole thing. Rumor has it engineer Tim Green told Higgs that he had to fade the track otherwise they were going to be arrested. Vocals return for the closing track "All Cherished Things" an epic about change, sound and transformation." |
| High Rise | Disallow | CD | $12.99 | Squealer | CD version. | |
| High Rise | Dispersion | CD | $12.99 | Squealer | "Now this is music that is meant to be played loud. Distortion flying, drums a-knockin'- This is High Rise. The sound is late sixties blues psychedelic. The basic feel has elements of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Ten Years After, and Eddie Cochran. This does not sound like a modern album. If you had to guess from listening, you would assume it is a 60's San Francisco psychedelic band. But Dispersion is the latest release from one of Japan's underground leaders. The sleeve plugs the disc as 'explosive rock music' Cybernetic wah abuse and non-stop intensity.' This did not prepare me for the rootsy feel of the album, though. The sound is definitely loose. Emphasis is on the rolling quality of the rhythm and the thunderous electric sounds ripping from the bass and guitar. The vocals are disconnected and ethereal, sounding like another electric instrument. The singing is not the emphasis, only a decoration of the rollicking distortion machine that is High Rise. The fifth track, 'Eucharist', has an early Black Sabbath feel. Slow and slithery, like a biker funeral march- menacing. Munehiro Narita rips the solo-, which showers with electric sparks. He is quite obviously the focus of High Rise, and it is with him that this album rises and falls. The seventh track, 'Deuteronomy', drips with reverb. The rhythm hitches and staggers its way at a dirge-like pace. It has a feel of dark highway driving with nightmarish imagery -Phil Simon | |
| High Rise | Psychobomb - US Tour 2000 | CD | $16.99 | PSF | "First live High Rise album on PSF since the still astounding peak of 'Live' (PSFD-48). Seven tracks, fifty-two minutes. If there's anyone that doesn't already know, High Rise were where it all started. A group that boiled down im |