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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
12/17/2003	J. Bone Cro	Late Nite Songs	LP	$24.99	Womb Tunes	"Second psychedelic experience by J. Bone Cro. Weird very twisted psychedelic Texan band. This, already their 2nd very krautrock inspired album is limited vinyl only 400 copies. Last copies available." Long out of print.
4/20/2008	J. Spaceman / Sun City Girls	Music From a Film by Harmony Korine	CD	$14.99	Drag City	"The all-new soundtrack album from Harmony Korine's film, Mister Lonely, featuring Jason Spaceman (Spacemen 3) and the Sun City Girls. The soundtrack is deceptively minimal-a guitar or piano line that blinks past repetition and blushes into something grander; a motif reappearing under new auspices; link pieces that become spotlight moments, densely worked-out, stars in their own right. Working independently and never collaborating, Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls employ an instrumental approach for the sounds here, with one or two chanted exceptions. Without knowing what the other was doing, they've each brought half a body to the film, supplying the apparitional and austere sounds of a world in which everyone is something they're not, i.e., the people they dream of being."
4/30/2008	J. Spaceman / Sun City Girls	Music From a Film by Harmony Korine	LP	$18.99	Drag City	"The all-new soundtrack album from Harmony Korine's film, Mister Lonely, featuring Jason Spaceman (Spacemen 3) and the Sun City Girls. The soundtrack is deceptively minimal-a guitar or piano line that blinks past repetition and blushes into something grander; a motif reappearing under new auspices; link pieces that become spotlight moments, densely worked-out, stars in their own right. Working independently and never collaborating, Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls employ an instrumental approach for the sounds here, with one or two chanted exceptions. Without knowing what the other was doing, they've each brought half a body to the film, supplying the apparitional and austere sounds of a world in which everyone is something they're not, i.e., the people they dream of being." Gatefold sleeve.
12/12/2009	Jackie-O Motherfucker	Ballads Of The Revolution	CD	$15.99	Fire	"Beginning in Portland, OR in 1994 as a duo, Tom Greenwood and Nester Bucket began Jackie-O Motherfucker as a conceptual/musical project exploring the possibilities of combining tape collage, free improvisation, and folk song structures. Both had played in many bands, and wanted to form a group that could be flexible enough to withstand the failure, and challenges they knew would be coming their way in the future if they were to keep the project alive long enough to achieve their goals. True to their early imaginings, JOMF became the mutable feast of psychedelic art, far exceeding the visions of either of them. Nester departed from the band and Greenwood carried on with JOMF, now functioning as a collective. Ballads Of The Revolution is the band's tenth studio record, and the culmination of 15 years spent defining their unique take on American music. The record begins with an arrangement of a traditional ballad -- "Nightingale" features Greenwood's vocals and guitar with the lush, open accompaniment of Bob Jones' double bass and the pedal steel guitar of Lewi Longmire. "Dark Falcon" is an improvisation and remix of a song written and recorded by the Lucky Dragons. It's built on samples and loops of the original recording, including vocals by Honey Owens. Side one closes with a JOMF original, "Skylight," which has been a part of the band's live set for a few years, and has been beautifully rendered in the studio. "The Corner" begins with the pulsing bass of a Roland keyboard, accompanied by turntable manipulations and the sparse sting of Owens' guitar, its dark minimalism a new classic moment for the band. "The Cryin' Sea" was written in Arhus, Denmark during an amazing live set where an enthusiastic audience pushed the band to bonkersville. Featuring incredible guitar work by Nick Bindeman, and special guest Michael Dustdevil, who fills out the recording with raw fuzz guitar. The closing track, "A Mania," is a rare radio friendly track by the band that perfectly finishes the album."
12/19/2002	Jackie-O Motherfucker	Change	LP	$29.99	Textile	"Jackie-O Motherfucker have been operating since 1994, based around the core saxophonist Nester Bucket and guitarist manipulator Tom Greenwood releasing records for Road Cone and Ecstatic Peace. After cranking out five full-length LPs (two of them double sets), one split 12" and two CDs, the group has grown to encompass as many as twenty rotating members in three US cities - Portland, New York and Baltimore. Inspiration is drawn from an impossibly diverse array of sound and vision: free jazz, noise rock, graffiti, space rock, folk music, Xeroxed art, the list goes on. It's safe to say, however, that the underground experiments of the 60s are a key touchstone - musically, especially the NY loft avant-garde; visually, including Harry Smith's film loops; socially, in their grubby, seat-of-the-pants approach to life and personal politics. The amazing quality of Jackie-O Motherfucker is their ability to color experimental music and noise with more candor and emotional sophistication than most turtlenecked troubadours. The fresh creative input and enthusiasm for experimentation and sound exploration combined with strong roots in Americana has created a vital records. 'Change' is organic, an emotionally cohesive path that starts with ecstatic disorientation and ends with an elevated calm. JOMF are indisputably self-aware and muse at length upon their process and goals, but in the end, instinct overrules calculation. The yield is a rich, multivalent music that reflects and refracts the larger world." The LP version is now out of print at source.
11/21/2008	Jackie-O Motherfucker	Cryin' Sea	12"	$15.99	Awesome Vistas	"A four-song live recording on Awesome Vistas Records from this multidirectional improv-out unit based around the core of saxophonist Nester Bucket and guitarist/manipulator Tom Greenwood, and featuring a revolving membership of up to twenty musicians. LImited to 400 copies." - Revolver
7/19/2011	Jackie-O Motherfucker	Earth Sound System	CD	$19.99	Fire Records	"Jackie-O Motherfucker's new album Earth Sound System is released on Fire Records. The physical releases feature artwork by artist Chris Johanson. You never quite know what you're going to get from the cult Portland, Oregon psychedelicists, Jackie-O Motherfucker. Are you going to be in for some deep brain thrombosis space rock? Are they going to prescribe you a dose of some heavily medicated camp fire drone? Will they be hitting you with some improvisational and angular free jazz? Will they be traversing the entire planet to bring you some previously unexplored global frequencies? Well, on Earth Sound System, JOMF's 15th album since Alchemy...Shit To Gold in 1995, it's a case of all of this and a lot, lot more."
9/30/2008	Jackie-O Motherfucker	Freedomland	CD	$18.99	Very Friendly	"This is a collection of live-recorded improvised material by Portland, Oregon's Jackie-O Motherfucker. Compiled by founding member Tom Greenwood, this music captures the sound of a reconfigured Jackie-O during the late summer of 2006, with vocalist Eva Salens (Inca Ore), Tom Greenwood, Danny Sasaki, and Nick Bindeman. Their first stop was at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, where the group were scheduled for their first appearance supporting the Dirty Three. There they would begin -- unrehearsed in this formation, and in front of a large audience. The plans to perform material from their newest release Flags of the Sacred Harp were scrapped, and the band launched into a free-form set of improvised, trance-inducing, punk-inspired, psychedelic rock, which became the framework of the new music they would develop together over the next few years. Freedomland is the document of this trip through America. The record consists of location recordings, captured live, and mastered in the United Kingdom. The songs were created from the spirit of improvisation, and honed by performing nightly in dive bars, music halls, and art galleries across America. Salens' vocal delivery is raw and honest, the words flow from conversations, to streams-of-sub-conscious conjuring, and prayer. Guitars alternately soar into cloud-scapes, and battle like free-jazz saxophones, propelling the group into new terrain nightly, while the percussion of Danny Sasaki alternates between exploratory and dead-solid motoric. The collection was edited by Tom Greenwood, from dozens of live recordings, and captures a rare moment in the band's long and confusing history. As Greenwood himself describes, this is "truly the music of everyday life -- birthed each night in a new form, from musicians who put great faith in each other, under awesome strain at times, to project modern music, with soul."
12/24/2005	Jackie-O Motherfucker	Live Radio	CDR	$12.99	U-Sound Records	Live radio performances from 2002 / 2003 in London, Paris, and WFMU in Hoboken, NJ. Handpainted silkscreened covers.
4/3/2010	Jackie-O Motherfucker	The Blood Of Life	CD	$15.99	Fire	"2008 release. This is the first album by Jackie-O Motherfucker on Fire Records. Recorded live in the studios of VPRO Radio in Amsterdam in 2007, The Blood Of Life contains two completely new versions of Jackie-O Motherfucker classics, "Hey! Mr. Sky," (an opus from Flags of the Sacred Harp) and "The Grave," as well as a reworking of "Valley Of Fire," all produced in a very minimal but powerful style. In addition, the record also features a traditional ballad, "The Lost Jimmy Walen," and a brand-new track, "The Blood Of Life," which marks a new direction for the band in a 18-minute exploration of free-jazz and drone-infused experimentation. Housed in a beautiful 6-panel digipack CD."
4/3/2010	Jackie-O Motherfucker	The Blood Of Life	LP	$20.99	Fire	"Gatefold LP version. 2008 release. This is the first album by Jackie-O Motherfucker on Fire Records. Recorded live in the studios of VPRO Radio in Amsterdam in 2007, The Blood Of Life contains two completely new versions of Jackie-O Motherfucker classics, "Hey! Mr. Sky," (an opus from Flags of the Sacred Harp) and "The Grave," as well as a reworking of "Valley Of Fire," all produced in a very minimal but powerful style. In addition, the record also features a traditional ballad, "The Lost Jimmy Walen," and a brand-new track, "The Blood Of Life," which marks a new direction for the band in a 18-minute exploration of free-jazz and drone-infused experimentation."
9/30/2005	Jackie-O-Motherfucker	Liberation	CD	$15.99	ATP	"Reissue of Jackie-O-Motherfucker's 2001 Liberation, originally released on Road Cone. This album was highly acclaimed for its superior production, and marks the band's slow move towards more song-oriented and loosely-composed material. It's a dreamier, organic, more transitional record that proudly displays Jackie-O's emotional sophistication and ever-expansive chops. Multi-intrumentalists Tom Greenwood and Jef Brown and various Jackie-O collective members use vibraphone, fiddle, organ, turntables, sitar and reed to augment and illustrate a variant cacaphony, even dipping into free-jazz territory. Liberation picks up where Fig. 5 left off, except with more lone, anthemic post-rock simultaneously invoking elements of Spaceman 3, Can, Dirty Three, Derek Bailey, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Amon Düül. Far more hazy than their previous releases, Liberation cemented the band as an ever-revolving cast of collaborators willing to participate in a free-flowing experiment in free-jazz, folk, psych-rock, post-rock, and distorted Americana."
1/15/2005	Jackman, David	Edge of Nothing	10"	$19.99	Die Stadt	"The re-release of yet another classic work by David Jackman. Edge Of Nothing was recorded in 1983 and was originally released on the legendary The Elephant Table Album compilation (also feat. among many others Nurse With Wound whose Steven Stapleton got in touch with Jackman after hearing 'Edge Of Nothing' stating that the track was 'a cherry on a pile of vomit'). Soon afterwards Jackman and Stapleton would work together on several projects - Stapleton released two albums by Organum Submission and the split NWW/Organum A Missing Sense/Rasa LP on his own United Dairies label. Both tracks are new mixes of the original material made in January 2003."
7/30/2003	Jacks, The	Super Session	CD	$21.99	Toshiba / EMI - Japan	"1998 official reissue of the Jacks' 2nd album, originally released in 1968, after Vacant World. Focusing more on the softer, melancholic side of the Jacks, this is a lesser album than Vacant World, but still something that fans would want to hear." - FE
9/29/2005	Jacobs, Henry	The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs	CD & DVD	$16.99	Important	"Henry Jacobs is a sound artist and improviser par excellence. His influential recordings as well as collaborative projects resonate with an irreverent sense of humor and a love for musics of the world. >From the early 1950s into the 1970s, Jacobs experimented with tape music, staged the early surround sound and visual spectacle Vortex (with artist Jordan Belson), and developed an array of absurd characters that would pop up as crank callers, relaxation coaches, or upside-down smiling instructors. A contemporary of Ken Nordine and Lenny Bruce, Jacobs honed an individual style that was droll and laid-back but winked at you at the same time. On his recordings for Folkways, World Pacific, and Fantasy, as well as on his private label MEA, the world of Jacobs is an audio collage that embraces many cultures and sensibilities. This CD/DVD collection pays homage to Jacobs' creative play, presenting recovered and restored audio as well as rare animated films that will give you a taste of this man's special talents."
2/21/2009	Jalan Jalan	Traditional Music Recordings by Jerry Lloyd	CD	$7.99	Urck Records	"Jerry Lloyd's indigenous music recordings documenting 10 years of travel (1998-2008) through Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, India, Morocco, Egypt, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sumatra & Bali. Includes detailed liner notes for each track. The title "Jalan Jalan" is Indonesian. It literally means "road road". It is used when asked "Where are you going?", which is quite common in Indonesia and not considered rude or intrusive. However, if you don't want to give the details, you just respond with "Jalan Jalan" which amounts to something close to "here and there". 35 tracks, Running Time 79:40
1/20/2002	Jaloppy	Walkin Off Naked	CD	$12.99	Womb Tunes	1999 release from J. Bone Cro, Wes Cummings, David Gardner and others.
11/15/2008	James Bloodbeard	James Bloodbeard	3" CDR	$9.99	Ruralfaune	"We hadn't been in the same room for a decade. The Shitty Listener arrived with his travel pack of bells. A keyboard and guitar materialized by way of Madrid. SR Smith chimed in. OME walked in from Costa Mesa. Darren Ankerman hovered with mic nearby. A committee of Czech, Thai, and Spanish women reclined on sofas. Sycamore Street, Los Angeles, August 2007." Features Mark Williams (Father Beard), Jason Honea (Child Readers, The Shitty Listener), Brian Lucas (Father Beard), and Steven R Smith (Thuja, Ulaan Kohl, Hala Strana). Edition of 101 copies.
3/21/2007	Jandek	Austin Sunday	DBL CD	$11.99	Corwood Industries	"48th Jandek release, and 5th of 2006! Pictured on front: French doors slightly ajar, revealing a placid, grey sea. This 2CD contains such revealing track titles as "Wine You Devil" and "You Just About Killed Me." Recorded live: Scottish Rite Theatre, Austin, Texas, August 28, 2005." - FE
6/30/2010	Jandek	Camber Sands Sunday	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Recorded live at Camber Sands Holiday Park, England on May 14, 2006. Continues the Corwood representative's "Mannequin series" of album covers, started in 2003 with The Place (COR 0772) and The Gone Wait (COR 0773)." - FE
10/21/2002	Jandek	Follow Your Footsteps	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Reissue of the 13th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1986. ‘A song like 'For Today', w/its sparsely-plunked notes and melancholically assertive vocals, could almost be an out-take from one of Michael Hurley's classic albums on Racoon... As the soul of individualism is being destroyed by the forces of evil, Jandek's flame is an especially bright beacon in the dark.’" - Byron Coley.
6/26/2002	Jandek	Foreign Keys	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	Reissue of 11th LP from 1985 featuring singing from Nancy.
	Jandek	Glad To Get Away	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	From 1994 - with nice use of echo effects.
3/21/2007	Jandek	Glasgow Monday	DBL CD	$11.99	Corwood Industries	"47th Jandek release, and the 4th of 2006! Features wandering piano strains, and whispered forlorn vocals. Pictured on the front, a stone cottage surrounded by hills. 10 tracks divided into parts, recorded live at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow on May 23, 2005." - FE
7/14/2007	Jandek	Glasgow Sunday	DVD	$18.99	Corwood Industries	"Jandek played his first ever live set at the Instal festival in Glasgow, Scotland on October 17, 2004. He sang and played guitar, joined by Richard Youngs on bass and Alexander Neilson on drums. The performance was not publicized beforehand or even identified as it happened. Many of the people in the room didnt know until later what they had witnessed. You can choose to watch Camera 1, Camera 2, or a 2 camera mix edit."
8/21/2003	Jandek	Graven Image	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Jandek is an obscured Texan who has been privately releasing beautiful documents of fractured, internalized song de-con, since the very late 70s. There have been no tours, no interviews, no public appearances but the representation of individualistic creation has never been more perfectly rendered than via the Corwood discography. Utilizing guitars (one at time, both acoustic or electric), voice and percussion, this is music from the ultimate void - vaguely related to genres like folk, blues and avant-garde, but in the end it can only be the sound of Jandek. And there's never been anything else quite like it. There were 22 LPs released by Corwood in the LP era (all reissued on CD now). With Graven Image Corwood moved into the CD era for the first time. Haunting, eternal genius, continued." 1994 release.
9/24/2009	Jandek	Hasselt Saturday	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	'The Places You Left Me' Parts One - Eight. Recorded live at Kunstencentrum Belgie in Hasselt, Belgium, November 12, 2005.
8/8/2009	Jandek	Helsinki Saturday	CD	$7.99	Corwood Industries	"Recorded live on November 19, 2005 at Gloria Kulttuuriareena in Helsinki, Finland. One 60+ minute track entitled "Sleeping In The Dawn." No vocals -- the first entirely instrumental Corwood release! Jandek's fragile piano playing is joined by Iro Haarla on harp. On the cover: the suave representative stands on a pier. Destined to be a Corwood classic." - FE
11/6/2002	Jandek	I Threw You Away	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"New, return to form album. Cover features controversial photo of a street in Europe(!), rumored to be from Cork City in Ireland, with the St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral church featured in the background. On this album, the Blues turn Black." - FE
	Jandek	I Woke Up	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	1997 release - 26th release overall.
12/15/2001	Jandek	Interstellar Discussion	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Mostly electric. Jandek really cuts loose vocally on 'I Ain't Got None' (he is quite adamant about not having any whatsoever). 'Hey' has two overdubbed {???} vocal tracks (both Jandek, I think) and the title is also the lyrics (like the Butthole Surfers song of the same name - it must be in the air in Texas). The name of the next song after 'Hey' is 'Why Did I Change a Word in the Last Song'. The lyrics of 'Rifle in the Closet' have nothing to do with the title until the very end of the song, which runs, 'The Rifle in the Closet' is just the name of this song.' There is a phone number in this same song: 'The theater's been dripping/ The movie's 3-D/ There's two rides to Texas/ 547-3668/ I hate John...'" Reissue of 9th Jandek LP from 1984.
11/9/2004	Jandek	Jandek on Corwood	DVD	$18.99	Unicorn Stencil	“Documentary/Music, 2003, 89 minutes, Region-free NTSC, 16:9 Color, Stereo. ‘The longest-running, weirdest, loneliest enigma is popular music is a guy from Texas who calls himself Jandek.’ (Douglas Wolk, Providence Phoenix) ‘25 years, 35 albums and not a single live show or public appearance. The documentary film Jandek on Corwood definitively explores the most intriguing mystery in modern music. Featuring revealing interviews, evocative imagery and one of the most bizarre and compelling soundtracks in film history, Jandek on Corwood will challenge the viewer's conception of music, Art and the nature of celebrity. Contains selections from Jandek's albums. Extended audio interviews with Jandek scholars Byron Coley, Irwin Chusid & Phil Milstein. Articles by Katy Vine & Richie Unterberger." - FE
2/26/2006	Jandek	Khartoum Variations	CD	$7.99	Corwood Industries	"44th Jandek album, the 1st in 2006. A riveting, stark cover features a man in black standing in front of a castle. Bent, acoustic guitar grapples with signature fractured howls of later releases. Best song title: 'In A Chair I Stare'." - FE
	Jandek	Later On	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	Reissue of 1981 LP - 3rd Jandek release.
	Jandek	Living In A Moon So Blue	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Another LP of atonal guitar with moaning vocals that reminds me of the delta blues played by a member of the Godz." - Op magazine
7/11/2008	Jandek	Manhattan Tuesday	DVD	$15.99	Corwood Industries	"DVD version. Filmed live at the Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan New York, September 6, 2005. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio: 16:9. The music and artwork is the same as the Manhattan Tuesday 2CD, released in 2007. The representative from Corwood plays Korg synthesizers (set to organ-like sounds) and sings; he is accompanied by Loren Connors (electric guitar), Matt Heyner (bass), and Chris Corsano (drums)." - FE
10/21/2002	Jandek	Modern Dances	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Almost a comedy album, and certainly a lot fuller, noisier (than Blue Corpse). Slow and desperately filthy rusty percussive beats, electric guitar played by 2 rats fighting, making up, and fucking on the fretboard, noisy fuzzyhowl male vocals joined by that anonymous femme and yet another he-throat in places…" Reissue of the 14th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1987.
	Jandek	New Town	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	1998 release - 27th release overall.
2/28/2006	Jandek	Newcastle Sunday	DBL CD	$11.99	Corwood Industries	"45th Jandek release, and the 2nd of 2006! This is a 1.5 hour live performance recorded at The Sage Gateshead England, May 22, 2005. First ever Corwood double CD, as well!" - FE
7/14/2007	Jandek	Newcastle Sunday	DVD	$18.99	Corwood Industries	"Jandek played his second and third live shows ever in the U.K. in May 2005. Unlike his first show in 2004, these were publicized in advance, though it wasnt announced whether the performances would be solo, trio again, or what. The first show (documented on this DVD) was at the Music Lovers Field Companion festival at The Sage Gateshead on Sunday, May 22 2005. (Gateshead is in the far north of England, across the River Tyne from Newcastle.) Jandek played electric guitar and sang. He was accompanied by Richard Youngs on electric bass and Alex Neilson on drum kit. You can choose to watch Camera 1 or Camera 2; there is no 2 camera mix edit this time."
12/15/2001	Jandek	Nine-Thirty	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	Reissue of 10th LP from 1985. Richie Unterberger says "...with that trademark out-of-tune guitar that owes equal debts to Texas blues and the background music you hear in a lot of Asian restaurants... his phrasing is better than ever... I also dug the lyrical swipes from Jimmy Reed's 'Honest I Do' in 'Faye'... Even us fans concede that the same out-of-tune chord he uses 90% of the time gets a little wearing."
2/18/2003	Jandek	On The Way	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"17th album, originally issued in 1988. Features a darkly obscured color photograph of a drum kit barely illuminated at dusk through a window shade. I'm not sure it really translates on CD, but in original LP form it rated as one of the more staggeringly oblique jackets of all time. Working within blues-rock realms this one features ‘real’ drums, bass, dual electric guitars, a possible guest vocalist on some tracks, etc. ‘I'll Sit Alone and Think A Lot About You’ isn't far from Skip Spence-like detachment." - FE "The most varied and easily-accessed Corwoodian brain-scrambler in a while... Of course, if you pay close attention you discover that the central core is as explosively cathartic as any of Jandek's previous recs." - Byron Coley.
5/12/2003	Jandek	One Foot In The North	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Electric guitar (sometimes one, sometimes two) and vocals, no woman singer, no acoustic guitar, drums about a third of the time. 'Yellow Pages' is a kind of cousin to 'European Jewel'. 'Alehouse Blues' is a pretty straight electric blues. 'Upon the Grandeur' is built around a very beautiful winding figure on the guitar; there's also a second guitarist and someone thumping along throughout on a kettle drum (?). (At the end you can hear two male voices speaking to each other, off-mike: I can't pick out any words except when one of them says ?What??)." - Seth Tisue. This is a reissue of Jandek’s 20th LP, originally issued in 1991.
8/21/2003	Jandek	Put My Dream On This Planet	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	“It’s certainly a head-scratcher. No guitar, no drums, no piano, just him rambling on for a small eternity in a sort of song/speech mode... all of it sounding kind of like it was recorded though a 15 watt Peavey Bandit amp with a broken reverb spring and a noise-gate pedal. Eerie (some might say annoying or god awful), almost bluesy hiss bathed vocals are separated by some rather lengthy periods of complete silence, covering some of the places and ‘feelings’ that populate his other records so vividly. Reading into it a bit (for in this place everything means something), we see that his last record ended with ‘The Beginning’ (!) — a 15+ vocal-less (!) piano ‘meditation’ which certainly clouded the waters when it dropped — which can now be viewed as an intro to this new acapella recording...you get the idea. So then, as concrete poetry it’s not so hot, and as some kind of Out Blues piece, it’s actually rather dire, but viewed in the microscope of the Jandekian Canon, it’s pretty massive, and that’s saying something too.”
12/24/2005	Jandek	Raining Down Diamonds	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"42nd Jandek album, 3rd new release of 2005. Like some sort of spirit photography, the cover photo features the ghostly image of a bearded man wearing a startling piece of haberdashery. Perhaps some sort of prayer cap? The darker side of Jandek, with deep, rumbling bass and despairing vocals, i.e. "Jesus take my will/take mine and make it yours."
7/11/2008	Jandek	Ready For The House	LP	$22.99	Corwood Industries	"The 1978 release of Corwood Industries #0739, "Ready For the House", began one of the most compelling, disturbed, and singular legacies in musical history. In the 30 years since this unique debut, Jandek has released 53 albums of mournful, atonal music that continues to defy classification and accessibility. And while the past three decades of intense productivity have yielded a depth of discussion, a handful of legendary live performances and even a film documentary, no amount of time or experience can prepare a listener for the experience of "Ready For the House." Beyond stark, beyond oblique, beyond outsider, the first Jandek LP (originally credited to The Units) explores musical territories no one even knew existed, with just a hollowed-out voice and a lonely, detuned guitar. In 1985 it had infamously sold less than ten of the 1000 copies originally pressed, however by 1999, when it was issued on CD, the vinyl had completely disappeared, with original copies changing hands for hundreds of dollars. This exact vinyl repress on Corwood Industries, is the first time "Ready For the House" has been available on vinyl for nearly 20 years, finally giving collectors and fans the opportunity to own one of the most peculiar, solitary, and strangely magnetic records of all time."
7/23/2004	Jandek	Shadow of Leaves	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Jandek plays bass again, claims to 'no longer exist,' sings about drinking ‘mechanically produced beverages,’ and announces plans to 'think about breathing.' Recently he took a walk. The music seems improvised but is satisfyingly varied and tracks the varying moods of the vocals closely. During the long piece, moments of abjection or desperation occur, but they pass; mostly the voice we hear is lucid. He's leveling with us. When he sings 'I won't drive my car for the rest of the day,' it's a fact. The most harrowing moment comes during the last track, a love song that turns threatening: 'please take my bait... I want to eat you up... you'll never get away, you won't want to... you don't have a life, you live in me.' The music plunges down to the bottom of the bass's range, but by the last line, the point of view has pulled back again to encompass 'the grand scheme of things.'" - Seth Tisue. 36th release from 2004.
	Jandek	Six and Six	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Perhaps the most catatonic, monochromatic, non-melodic Jandek LP - music on the edge of sleep, or death..." Second Jandek release from 1981 - 3 years after Ready For The House.
8/8/2009	Jandek	Six And Six	LP	$21.99	Jackpot	"Originally released in 1981, following a three year gap between the release of debut LP Ready For The House, Jandek's second album Six And Six stands as an incredible document of the formative stages of his cracked genius. Following the astonishingly bleak tone of the first LP, the musical elements are almost catatonic. 9 songs drift by as a series of slight variations on several desolate, untuned acoustic guitar phrases. The meditative, steady music forms a dark backdrop for some of Jandek's more vivid and poetic lyrical thoughts. Universal doom, loner dirges and sea-themed ruminations are all present. This is far and away the core of what was to come, in it's most succinct and coincidentally most haunted form. This album was also the first to incorporate an image of Jandek on the cover, both giving a face to the sounds and hinting at what would become a prolific series of incredible, disturbed albums. Vinyl for this album has been unavailable since the initial pressing ran out, and has been sought ravenously by collectors ever since. Working in direct collaboration with Corwood Industries, we're thrilled to offer this exact repress, heavyweight-vinyl edition. An astonishingly ghostly album, unlike anything else and also unique to this particular phase in Jandek's evolution, Six And Six is a crucial piece of the puzzle that we can only hope never gets solved completely."
2/18/2003	Jandek	Somebody In The Snow	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	Reissue of 19th album from 1990. "Rounded up into one big heap, all the Jandek records at once amount to an almost impenetrable thing... A demanding, invigorating, tragic, visionary work."
7/30/2002	Jandek	Telegraph Melts	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"In 'You Painted Your Teeth', Jandek frenziedly harangues an unknown second person: "'Don't paint your teeth! You painted your teeth! DON'T PAINT YOUR TEETH!' The title 'Governor Rhodes' may refer to James A. Rhodes, the Ohio governor who ordered the National Guard into Kent State; the song itself is a sort of incantation with Jandek and 'Nancy' repeating after each other 'Celebrate our love, celebrate our magic, chant with love, chant always,' etc., in endless variations." 12th release from 1986.
	Jandek	The Beginning	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	1999 release. I have been listening to this one a lot lately (after not being interested in Jandek since my one and only listening to him a few years ago). Anyhow, after 'writing him off' I have found his recordings grow on me after each listen. Features 16 minute piano solo.
11/23/2004	Jandek	The Door Behind	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	“38th Jandek album, third to be released in 2004. Guitar & vocals. Recently, Jandek played a show in Scotland and now we see that ‘his representative’ once had a beard, as shown on this stunning new album cover. The world truly is square and we're all about to fall off the edge.” - FE
9/23/2004	Jandek	The End of It All	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	“37th Jandek album, from 2004. 4 tracks, including the 20 minute ‘One of Those Moments’. Vocals, electric guitar, in what one would think of as the ‘contemporary Jandek style'.” - FE
3/9/2004	Jandek	The Gone Wait	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"35th Jandek album. 'The Gone Wait' was a track on 1993's The Twelvth Apostle album, now it's an album title. This has happened before, and will happen again. Five tracks, good titles: 'I Went To Hell', 'I See The Open Door', 'I Was A King', 'I Just Might Go Now', 'I Found The Right Change'. Cover photos features a continuation of the Cork window shopping theme that has developed through the 770 series of Corwood releases. This time: sale pricing. Musically, a new style: acoustic guitar and electric bass duos, with Jandek's vocals teetering into almost-Steve Martin territory." - FE
4/9/2003	Jandek	The Humility of Pain	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Sounds similar to the last one (‘I Threw You Away’). They definitely are a pair that stand apart from the others. But: shorter (though still long-ish) songs, no harmonica this time, and the guitar is more jangly and dissonant, lots of clashing ringing high frequencies. It’s lower on the lulling melancholy, higher on the in-your-face suffering. In the vocals Jandek will draw out the last word of a line into a long wounded moan, letting the pitch of his voice wander up and down, hitting all the most pained-sounding cracks between the notes, pulling the listener into his head with him. Other times he pushes the listener away again with lyrics delivered in a lazy sarcastic you-wouldn’t-understand drawl. This one hurts you as much as it hurt Jandek."
2/18/2003	Jandek	The Living End	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	Reissue of 18th album from 1989. "Janitor's Dead is sequel to ‘The Janitor’ from Later On. Female vocals reappear on this LP (Nancy, or someone new?)."
	Jandek	The Narrow Road	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	The 30th Jandek release and is similar to the 29th release 'Put My Dreams On This Planet' as it is another acapella release. 12 tracks with the first being the longest clocking in at just under 30 minutes.
8/21/2003	Jandek	The Place	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"New Jandek album, return to music (a form of music, anyway). Guitar & vocal." 34th release from 2003.
	Jandek	The Rocks Crumble	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"Jandek goes electric! Contains three eccentrically numbered (613, II, 501) versions of 'European Jewel' and two versions of the rock anthem 'Message to the Clerk' (refrain: 'Take a message to the clerk/ Tell him not to work'). 'Birthday' is a new version of the same song previously recorded as 'Nancy Sings' and 'John Plays Drums'. Reissue of 8th LP from 1983.
7/30/2003	Jandek	Twelfth Apostle	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"The most 'pure' Jandek album since Blue Corpse - rock and/or blues overtones are basically absent. All-acoustic, one guitar only, no drums, three to four minute songs. Uniquely, a heavy echo effect is added to the guitar on several songs on side two. Mood is thorny, ambivalent, a little impersonal, serious but not depressed like Blue Corpse. This is the first album in Jandek's 'late period'; stylistically, it resembles the CD's that follow, not the LP's that came before." - Seth Tisue. Reissue of Jandek's 22st album, originally issued in 1993.
7/16/2006	Jandek	What Else Does the Time Mean?	CD	$7.99	Corwood Industries	"46th Jandek release, and the 3rd of 2006! Features strangled, tinny guitar and even a harmonica! Pictured on the front, a young man in winter, sitting on a bench, holding an axe." - FE
12/12/2009	Jandek	What Was Out There Disappeared	CD	$7.99	Corwood Industries	"The title of track three, "Will There Be No More Photos," prompts an interesting question: just how many photos does this guy have of himself throughout the different stages of his life? What will happen when he runs out? Miraculously, after all these years, this album cover is another winner: just in time for the fall season, we are treated to a handsome young Corwood representative standing in a yard covered in beautiful fall foliage. Looking sharp in a suit and tie, he looks ready for the prom -- or a funeral... And the music? Well, Jandek is Jandek. World-weariness, isolation and some harmonica." - FE
5/8/2005	Jandek	When I Took That Train	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"40th Jandek album, first new release of 2005. Cover features a guy on the street, wearing 'that hat' (last seen on 0777: A Kingdom He Likes, the synchronicity might kill you). Looks like Cork again, but then again, every photo with cars on the wrong side of the road looks the same to me. 11 tracks, 7 of them with the word 'you' in the title." - FE
	Jandek	White Box Requiem	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	From 1996. "It seemed that after the two 1994 CDs Jandek had buried his guitar for good... Like his last few, this is an all-acoustic affair. He doesn't play full chords a lot this time around and concentrates on his famed extraterrestrial single-string melodies..."
2/24/2002	Jandek	Worthless Recluse	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"The 31st Jandek album, this is the third document in Jandek's new solo-vocal style, following Put My Dream On This Planet & This Narrow Road. The cover photo depicts our man wearing a sweater I wouldn't be got dead in, standing in front of a red barn."
10/21/2002	Jandek	You Walk Alone	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	"A celebratory exorcism... His most hard-rockin', conventional record... The progression of the guitar playing is astounding... It recalls the savage beauty of Mr. Howling Wolf... A masterpiece." Reissue of the 16th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1988.
	Jandek	Your Turn To Fall	CD	$6.99	Corwood Industries	Reissue of 7th Jandek LP from 1983. "Title of 'Liquids Flow to the Sea' reiterates river theme. 'John Plays Drums' is the first appearance of an outside instrumentalist on a Jandek record."
2/10/2004	Jango	First s/t	LP	$24.99	Fast Music	Edition of 200 copies - now sold out. "One man experimental project by an Israeli rocker who decided to explore the electro/kraut/psych realms of the seventies. This instrumental LP is the first in a series of six releases of Jango's musical retrospective...loads of fuzz and primitive drumming with gibbering vocals."
	Jango	Second	LP	$24.99	Fast Music	"One man experimental project by an Israeli rocker and Falafel Avangard's guitarist who decided to explore the electro/kraut/psych realms of the seventies. This instrumental LP is the first in a series of six releases of Jango's musical retrospective...loads of fuzz and primitive drumming with gibbering vocals." Edition of 200 copies.
8/28/2007	Janiurek, Frank	Electric Sex Goddess	CDR	$15.99		"New limited edition self-released CD-R from one-half of the already-legendary brother/sister UK psych outfit Red Kites. Electric Sex Goddess has that same lonesome, nowhere feel as the Red Kites debut with tough, almost percussive solo electric guitar manipulated into glorious psychedelic madrigals that sound somewhere between SF ballroom style solo blitzing and the more lugubriously extended electric Loren Mazzacane/Hisato Higuchi style. The use of feedback is particularly mesmeric, with dense globs of tonal machine noise oscillating like great clouds of lava and illuminating the endlessly re-stated six-string mandalas. Other tracks have such a great feel for commanding feedback and the movement of electricity through space that the only thing remotely comparable would be the non-Euclidean beauty of Derek Bailey's String Theory recording or aspects of the Fripp/Eno albums. Either way this is another hypnotically-charged broadcast from the edge of the world and a near-p erfect solo guitar record. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
12/24/2005	Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment, The	The Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment	3" CDR	$12.99	Audiobot	"If you dig spastic beats that flutter around in a distorted no-wave manner. sweaty armpits and bringing back the 'mosh' to experimental music. this drums/synth duo shits on your front porch with a vicious smile on their face. Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment is everything their name promises. It is an experiment in music. orchestrated dance noise music. skits. masquerading personas that speak for themselves. involving you like a dirty psychedelic soap opera. the party. the good times.They've been often described as sounding like an overheated robot malfunction. a gruesome fact that ain't far from the truth either. Someone mumbles They make Lightning Bolt look like The Clientele! - Yeah and for the record they're from Providence and they do wear masks... Packaged in full color stencil-printed oversized jackets by enfant terrible Dennis Tyfus. Limited to only 150 copies and flaming hot."
7/10/2008	Jarvis, A.	She Is Also Phasing	cassette	$7.99	Peasant Magik	"Three tracks of total John Carpenter worship. Sweeping synths, pulsing bass lines, and Kurt Russell. Jarvis takes hints from Carpenter's classic sound and manages to incorporate elements from all of his previous work: swells of feedback, analog shimmer, and subtle, but damaged, percussion. Like all of his previous work, this is absolutely perfect. High bias chrome tapes, pro-printed covers." Edition of 100 copies.
6/11/2006	Jarvis, A.	The Widow Myth	3"" CDR	$6.99	Firstperson	"Andy Jarvis (A Warm Palindrome/Anna Planeta) takes you on four meanders by moonlight. Shimmering summery squallings are pounced on by dirty scrape monsters. A walk across the fields mutates into a superb free scrap-metal bustup. The body snatchers and Willow the Wisp are closing in, but you just about make it. Shy fairground organs retreat into the trees to escape the final onslaught.. These four tracks lead you far into the backwoods and leave you there. Dark, beautiful and quite exceptional." (Mel Delaney). "New solo cdr from Andy Jarvis (A Warm Palindrome / Helvetica is the Perfume of the City / Sculptress) opening with fuzzed guitar burrowing its way into gently throbbing drones. Rumbling drum / percussion mayhem ensues, then its back to a hypnotic drone throb of organ and vocals before more distorto-guitar channelling." - Gayle Brogan, Boa Melody Bar
3/2/2005	Jarvis, A.	Thread (Uproot & Scatter)	3" CDR	$7.99	Firstperson	"Reissue of 'Thread (Uproot & Scatter)'. Recordings from 1996-99. Previously released in 2001 by fencing flatworm.(RIP)." 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other.
3/2/2005	Jarvis, M. / A. Jarvis	untitled	3" CDR	$7.99	Firstperson	"Former members of A Warm Palindrome & current members of Sculptress, sister/brother duo Mikarla & Andy Jarvis present 6 beautiful tracks featuring cello, flute, acoustic gtr, organ, koto and the female voice." 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other.
2/14/2008	Jasons, The	Live on Fryday the 13th	one-sided LP	$13.99	Tovinator	"Another PE PAUL/GSPOT specialty. This is Tovah Olson= synth, tapes, can/Haunted Dan (Haunted Castle, Uneven Universe) = electronics / & PE PAUL on ?????? Screams, strangeness, raw house party Michigan ambiance. Recorded in the dark over the summer on Friday the 13th. Tovah got busted cause she wore a Freddy K shirt with a Jason mask...what a clash! Hear the air frizzle & fry with buzzing electronics while Paul screams and gags for some reason or another. One-sided black vinyl LP with handpainted art by the TOVINATER herself. Edition of 90."
3/21/2009	Jay, Abner	True Story Of Abner Jay	LP	$14.99	Mississippi Records	"Compilation culled from Abners' self released LPs & 7"s featuring hits such as 'I'm So Depressed,' 'Cocaine', 'Vietnam,' & 'The Reason Young People Do Drugs.' Abner Jay was a one-man band singer/songwriter deserving of a wider listening audience than he received in his day. This is the first vinyl release of his material since the 1970s. Great soulful folk & R&B music. Most (but not all) copies of the LP include a press photo of Abner, transcriptions of his spoken word pieces, a reproduction of an informative pamphlet about Abner & a press statement penned by Abner himself. Tip on jacket." Repressed - 2nd edition.
5/9/2009	Jaycock, David A.	A New Love Song	7"	$6.99	Great Pop Supplement	"2 beautifully haunting, acoustic pieces from mancunian singer songwriter David A. Jaycock, following cdr outings on red deer club and early winter recordings and member of 'big eyes family players'. "a new love song" on side a, with it's almost droning vocal line and fahey-esque picking features a formidable, spine tingling banjo line- it's a jaw dropper of a piece. the same can be said of the flip "that warm feeling in my belly" where this time it's a violin line that gets those pimples down yr spine going. awesome single fabulously packaged in sealed, hand stamped envelope packs that are leaf cut by hand and numbered! limited to 300. utterly beautiful on the ear and the eye."
9/1/2010	Jaycock, David A.	Presets	LP	$20.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Debut vinyl LP from Manchester's David A. Jaycock (who is also a member of Big Eye Family Players), David recently had a 7" on the excellent Great Pop Supplement and 'Presets' follows on from that fine release. 'Presets' features 12 tracks of melancholic folk almost entirely performed by David on a variety of instruments, and its a real step forward to darker areas than his previous releases on Great Pop Supplement, Early Winter Recordings and The Red Deer Club. The record retains some of the more haunting vocal and guitar moments from afformentioned excursions, and at times is comparable to Ben Chasny's Six Organs of Admittance, but it has a much stranger and hard to place approach and sound, with some fantastic dark creepy tracks, blurring creaking, clunking objects with something that sounds like guitar, transformed into something far more sinister... but somehow at the same time retains a feeling that everything isn't quite as bleak as it seems. Edition of 250 with pro printed sleeves. Pressed on virgin vinyl."
4/25/2008	Jazkamer / Mark Durgan	split	7"	$7.99	No-Fi	"Another instalment in No-Fi's vinyl catalogue, this 7" sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the European noise circuit. Norway's Jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, best known for their 'Metal Machine Music' death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. For this release, they also recruit fellow Norwegian and multi-tasking guitar-mangling prodigy Anders Hana (Noxagt, MoHa!) - as if they needed any help to kick out the jams on this jawdroppingly raucous live recording. In contrast, the flip side is significantly more serene from Mark Durgan (who you may also know as Putrefier and who is rumoured to have been part of the mystery line-up of The New Blockaders at Thurston Moore's All Tomorrows Parties). Subsonic rumbles and birdsong dominate the surface of this track, but the devil's in the detail – poke your attention through the thin surface ice and you'll easily fall through to hidden depths."
7/14/2007	Jazkamer / Smegma	Endless Coast	CD	$10.99	No Fun Productions	"A collaboration between American underground psychedelic/noise pioneers (and still kicking hard now for over 30 years) Smegma and Norweigan noise/metal masters Jazkamer. From two totally different worlds and approaches to sound a totally original abstract language is born creating an imaginary coast that extends from the brutality of the Scandinavian frozen seas to the dark and mysterious rock filled beaches of the American northwest - a landscape full of strange creatures and beings, an eternal and endless coast. Recorded and mixed at Smegma's legendary home base Portland studio. Carlos Giffoni guests on bass and synth."
9/17/2006	Jazzfinger	Autumn Engines	CD	$12.99	Rebis	"A slab of lo-fi netherworld drones from Newcastle-based Hasan Gaylani and Ben Jones, aka the mysterious Jazzfinger. With help from Ben Wilkinson and Sarah Sullivan, these guys have been summoning up hypnotic smolder-patterns for a decade now, documented mostly on a stream of European CD-Rs, cassette- and vinyl-only releases. If you've been unable to track these things down, or turned off by the esoteric formats, Autumn Engines (their debut stateside CD release) should work as a great introduction to a band that Wire journalist David Keenan calls "one of the best free / avant / drone / primitive groups in the UK."
11/2/2008	Jazzfinger	Mole and the Morning Dew	LP	$17.99	Spirit of Orr	"It is with deep honor and wonder that we announce the release of this magical splaying of deep sound by NEWCASTLE's mighty JAZZFINGER. Truly Mr Jones and his crew are the bringers, the full cup, part of the GOOD that balances our lives against dark evils. Without hesitation, the people who hold the world together. Feel their power, and be comforted. Limited to 600, purple vinyl."
8/4/2007	Jazzfinger	Orange Sauce / Peace Factor Fashion	8" lathe	$25.99	Alt.Vinyl	"Brand new release from the Jazzfinger duo of Hasan Gaylani and Ben Jones. Part of Alt Vinyl's limited lathe cut series. Manufactured in New Zealand by Peter King and issued in a limited hand-numbered edition of only 150 copies. Two completely deformed dooms of drone, recorded with cardboard microphones somewhere on the other side of a windtunnel. Great New Zealand destroyed rock feel cut with a heavy UK industrial vibe." - Volcanic Tongue
7/10/2008	Jazzfinger	The Golden State	CDR	$8.99	Turgid Animal	"Early Jazzfinger recordings from 1997 finally seeing the light of day! Near 30 mins of perfect nothern improv drone that this duo is well known for. Comes in Turgid Animal style oversized bag with large artwork and printed CD-r."
9/17/2006	Jazzfinger	The Little Girl On The Plane Who Turned Her Doll's Head Around To Look At Me	CD	$12.99	Muzamuza	"A band with a line in snappy titles and a penchant for annoying the police with their lo-fi improvisations. Primitive electric emanations from behind closed doors, fragments of warped minds directly produced by their homemade soundlab. Eerie mechanics that claw at the imagination that wouldn't sound out of place in the film 'Eraserhead'. Disturbing ambiences of inhuman proportions dwellin the psyche, who knows what lurks beyond." Recordings from 1996-1997 by Hasan Gaylani (fuckhorn) and Ben Jones (harpsichord).
4/16/2007	Jazzfinger	Tour of the Moors Volume 1	cassette	$9.99	Heavy Tapes	"Jazzfinger have managed to span chronology and geography with their destructive path of sonic dedication and abandon. This tape collects two live performances where the group floats recorders, voices, and electricity through the channels and pipes of a true clutch of old school heads -- a very worthwhile picture indeed."
9/30/2005	Jazzfinger	Ugly For A Living	CDR	$10.99	Gold Soundz	"Brand new full-length CD-R from one of the best free/avant/drone/primitive groups in the UK. This one is as fuzzy and electronically lurid as you could've hoped, stepping up the action levels from the dead-static drone of their recent self-released lathe-cut LP to new levels of teeth-grinding fury. At points this sounds like it could've come out on Scratch tapes back in the day, at others it sounds like they've recruited Neil Campbell for a tribute to the Third Ear Band recorded direct to ZX Spectrum. Nine tracks, with conceptions of the quality of "Icy Bloody Lies, We Hardly Knew You" and "Ascent Through Degradation". This duo walk the line like no-one else and Ugly For A Living makes for a beautiful ticket to oblivion." - Volcanic Tongue
7/10/2008	Jazzfinger / Culver and Fordell Research Unit	split	LP	$18.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Brand new split LP featuring heavy hitting UK bleak dudes... A-Side is Jazzfinger's 'Killed In A Clear Sky', one solid slab of fucked up tapped guitar drone and distant errie whir... like a storm of electric feedback, slashes and cuts. Far out, and a real killer 20 odd minutes to make you lull out. B-Side is a collaboration between Culver and Fordell Research Unit, another side long piece, that starts off with some bassed up doom chugs and slogs that sound like fucking something that could lay down by some Southern Lord brutality, but then it punches you in the face with its distorted churning hell. Limited to 280 white label LPs in black sleeves with hideous brutal artwork by French."
4/1/2003	Jazzkammer	Knitter	7"	$6.99	Tonschacht	"Knitter is the first 7" from this Norwegian duo -- guitarist, improviser and composer John Hegre (also in Der Brief) and Lasse Marhaug, one of the most productive musicians in the international noise/experimental underground of the last 10 years. Jazzkammer combines timbre sound textures, drones, chrashing noise, digitalia, field recordings, turntables, static electric atmospheres, samplers sine waves and location recordings, all used in free improvisation to create fragmented, eclectic and relentless yet focused and massive collages. 'A-sia' might remind you of mixture between the hi-speed electronics of Belgian irregularities scratch pet land and the microsound-turntablism alà Otomo Yoshihide or Martin Tétreault, 'b-sia' begins like 'Pop' defined by the Tochnit Aleph crew, but slowly between layers of distortions there rise sweet, Fenneszian melody as if they were re-arranged by Rudolf E.ber."
3/21/2007	Jazzkammer & Howard Stelzer	Tomorrow No One Will Be Safe	CD	$6.99	PACrec	"Ever wonder what would happen if two Norwegian Noisemen travelled across the USA with an obsessed tape improviser? Tomorrow No One Will Be Safe documents the 2004 Jazzkammer / Howard Stelzer US tour, featuring a track each (Jazzkammer: Richmond, Virginia / Stelzer: Columbus, Ohio), as well as a collosal collaboration between the two (Bloomington, Indiana). Live compositions of space & silence punctuated with feedback screech and tape squeals, always threatening to self destruct but somehow maintaining its sense of tense exploration. Edition of 500."
5/7/2004	Jazzkammer & Sir Duperman	Duperkammer	CD	$15.99	Smalltown Supersound	"A collaborative album from two Norwegian electronic giants sparked when Jazzkammer's Lasse Marhaug couldn't make a gig in Singapore and Sir Duperman went in his stead. A clash-of-the-titans electro explosion with each group remixing each others' material."
3/2/2007	Jazzkammer / Opec	split	LP	$21.99	Reverse	"Jazzkammer makes a turntable buzz, Opec a montage of the most fucked frequencies you'll ever hear on a vinyl record." Limited edition of 323 copies on transparent vinyl and housed in a transparent silkscreened plastic sleeve.
1/25/2011	Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier	Gravity's Rainbow	CDR	$9.99	Ruralfaune	"Some fine tropical and tranced out transmissions from these Belgian ladies. Fluid melodies and ambient drift with subtle evolving, brittle soundscapes. Both calming and cosmic they fit somewhere in between fellow Belgians High Wolf and Dolphins Into The Future. There's some really delicate and understated synth work here with distant whispered exotic vocals. A few tacks are underpinned by very simple functional rhythms that work well. All very chilled and tranquil vibes... Edition of 60 copies in lovely A5 artwork." - Norman Records
7/29/2004	Jelly Bean Bandits, The	The Jelly Bean Bandits	LP	$17.99		“This all-time classic US '60s garage psych album includes the monster mind-bender ‘Generation,’ and a whole host of other snotty and deranged acid-punk gems. Originally released on Mainstream. 170 gram vinyl, heavy gloss cover, Euro import.”
9/29/2009	Jen Paul with Jeans Wilder	split	LP	$21.99	La Station Radar	"Jen Paul (New Jersey) - beautiful ghost song crossed by guitars, drones and remote voices, mix of shouts and mumurs. one goes down and one loses oneself in a fog of melodious sounds. Jeans Wilder (San Diego) - it seems that his dizzy songs are abyss in the ocean. Astonishing mixt between lofi pop, scrambled with a melancholic voice."
10/25/2008	Jendon, Neil	Invisibility	CD	$10.99	BloodLust!	"Neil Jendon is a fixture in the Chicago music scene, who has shifted between roles as a psychedelically-driven guitarist in the indie/alternative band Catherine [TVT Records], a more experimentally-minded guitarist in the avant-garde group Zelienople, and as half of the group Abduction [with Michael Miley], through which I first witnessed Neil's vivid modular synthesizer playing. I originally came to know Neil in the early 1990's, and if I recall correctly, we bonded over the U.K. band, Loop. But maybe that was his band mate, Jerome? In any case, after losing touch with each other for a long measure of time, I have seen and heard much more of Neil's work in the last two years - and more recently - after seeing him destroy a small local venue with a live solo modular synth set - I knew that it was time to talk to him about a release for BloodLust! Neil's skill as an improviser may come into play on "Invisibility," but at the core of these recordings there is what seems to be a familiarity with the palette of early industrial music, be it Maurizio Bianchi, Lustmord, instrumental Throbbing Gristle [grittier than "After Cease to Exist," certainly], etc. Neil recently played an excellent set, opening up for Consumer Electronics, in Chicago, and it struck me how well his flavor of synth sits with other types of noise and experimental music, even if I know that on one hand, he comes from a more psychedelic, shoe-gazer-aware place. Now if I could only get around to seeing his post-Catherine, dream-pop band Buglette play live... Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color artwork; in jewel box with shrink-wrap."
3/21/2007	Jennifer Gentle	A New Astronomy	CD	$13.99	A Silent Place	Dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius. He was born in 1871 and made a living out of peddling sweets and ice-creams around Northern Italy's towns and villages. In his free time, he developed his own, revolutionary astronomical theories: the Earth is flat, surrounded on every corner by perennial glaciers; the sun is nothing more than a small silver ball with a 2 meter diameter and a weight of approximately 14 kilos; Copernicus was wrong: the entire official astronomical science is just a bunch of lies; planets don't move, stars are just little fires hung in the sky, the universe doesn't exist . He also invented a new solar compass based on his "extraordinary discoveries". In his unstoppable attempts to promote the truth, Paneroni tried everything and suffered countless humiliations: he stalked professors, was arrested and became a well known character in many Italian universities. After some years spent in a mental institution, he died in 1950. Thousands of people from all over the country attended his funeral. "A new astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release to date. Recorded mostly in Marco Fasolo's bedroom on a 4-track cassette machine, the album has been conceived as the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a hommage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included.
2/21/2009	Jennifer Gentle	Live in the House of God	one-sided LP	$12.99	A Silent Place	"Recorded in an empty, deconsacrated church sometime in summer 2003, this LP is another installment in an on-going series of records documenting the weird life of Jennifer Gentle in the foggy plains of Northern Italy. Basically the sound of JG's mainman Marco Fasolo going wild with an old, battered electronic piano and a bunch of sound effects, "Live at the House of God" is a side-long improvisation sharing the same spirit of those 20-minutes keyboard freak-outs Sun Ra used to record in the late Sixties. Alternatively spacey and noisy, the piece is a dark, often unnerving exploration in sound, shimmering all the way through with a distinct Krautrock / early Cluster vibe. The new owners of the church were horrified and outraged by the sheer loudness of the performance, but God liked it a lot. Record comes in a deluxe heavy cardboard sleeve, including one insert...Strictly limited to 300 copies only!"
1/28/2005	Jennifer Gentle	Valende	CD	$12.99	Sub Pop	"Hailing from Padova, Italy, Jennifer Gentle is not a girl. Jennifer Gentle is, in fact, a band made up of singer/guitarist Marco Fasolo and drummer Alessio Gastaldello (joined by various accomplices when they play live). Valende is their third full-length, and first for Sub Pop (their first two albums, I Am You Are and Funny Creatures Lane were released individually on Italy's Sillyboy Entertainment, and together as a double CD under the name Ectoplasmic Garden Party by Australia's Lexicon Devil label). The record was, like its predecessors, home-recorded by Marco and Alessio and it's a psych pop charmer, drawing on the band's own brand of musical dementia: an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty, drawing judiciously on the band's long-term fascination with Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators, and Joe Meek production techniques. Jennifer Gentle is also the first Italian band Sub Pop has ever signed (such is our deep affection for the band). But, again, Jennifer Gentle is not a girl."
11/2/2002	Jennifer Gentle & Kawabata Makoto	The Wrong Cage	CD	$29.99	Sillyboy Entertainment	"Recorded during his first Italian tour last May, The Wrong Cage witnesses Kawabata Makoto's (leader of the much praised psychedelic ensemble Acid Mothers Temple) curious meeting with pop oddballs Jennifer Gentle, one of the most important bands from the Italian underground scene."
2/21/2009	Jennifer Gentle & Kawabata Makoto	The Wrong Cage	CD	$12.99	A Silent Place	"Finally it is here, the long-awaited re-release of "The Wrong Cage", the superfreaky , acid rock album that introduced Italian psych-pop mavericks Jennifer Gentle to the rest of the world, leading to their subsequent Sub Pop signing. Originally self-released in late 2002 on their own imprint Sillyboy Records, "The Wrong Cage" saw the young Italian quartet (who had already home-recorded a couple of eccentric albums) join forces with Kawabata Makoto, the legendary Japanese guitar-god leader of Acid Mothers Temple and zillion other projects, for a live album that captured the band at it's most ferocious. The result was over 30 minutes of wonderful loud sonic carnage: two long, ultra-heavy guitar freakouts plus a eerily beautiful solo sarongi track played by Kawabata - all in all, a must for all fans of heavy, guitar-driven psychedelic avant-rock. Long out of print, "The Wrong Cage" is available again, now with the addition of a lo-fi BONUS TRACK, 18-minute long version of "Bring Them" cut on the another night of that tour and burning with even more fire and primal power than the original album. Comes in elegant digipak."
11/4/2006	Jens	If You've Seen Me Lately, Please Tell Me Where I've Been	CD	$19.99	Goddamn I'm A Countryman	"2006 brings the second solo effort by Spacious mind's JENS, it's music for loners, mystics and organic farmers. It's music for softspoken revolutionaries, drop-outs and daydreaming mountain-climbers. It's music that speaks of other values and other places. But above all it's more PSYCHEDELIC then you can handle with cosmic vocals from Jens and female singer Linnea, sitars, some lovely electric guitar work throughout.Beautiful mini LP gatefold card sleeve."
11/21/2002	Jens	Standing in the trees I get lifted by the leaves	CD	$19.99	Goddamn I’m A Countryman Records	"Stunning solo album by Jens of Swedish Space Psych band The Spacious Mind. A haunting late '60's/early '70's styled rural west coast, psych rock/folk album that is reminiscent of Skip Spence with flashes of Euphoria. With sitars, some beautiful electric guitar work and dreamy whispered vocals this is a gem of an album. Mesmerizingly beautiful from start to finish! Triple fold digi pak."
2/15/2005	Jerman, Jeph / Albert Casias	Add This To That	CDR	$7.99	Shadow Puppet Recording Co.	“The first time collaboration between long time sound artist of natural objects and field recordings, Jeph Jerman, and sound artist / phonographer Albert Casias (aka Omnid). The list od sound sources is very long, but contains among other things, a bowed pine cone, singing crystals, horse hair, deer antler, and petrified wood. Packaged in a protective sleeve with an insert and photographs of the objects used in the recordings and covered with a natural heavy fiber paper.” – excerpt of review by Jerry Kranitz or Aural Innovations.
3/6/2010	Jerusalem and the Starbaskets	Battle of the Orchids	LP	$16.99	Great Pop Supplement	"Formidable full length of utterly whacked out, psych blues where the ferocity of The Sonics meets the tenderness of Galaxie 500, where the Velvets meet The Modern Lovers via the scuzz of first album Neutral Milk Hotel. A beguiling mix of beautifully tender pop which often descends into fuzz drenched, freakout mayhem courtesy of the most out there, incendiary guitar vibe presently doing the rounds. JATS core duo consists of Kim and Jeremy from Columbia, MO. Kim's Moe style drums lending perfectly to Jeremy's riotous, devastating guitar mash up. Infectious, unforgettable tunes that you will return to over and over. Previous GPS releases with the band were shared 45s with longterm Missouri friends Hush Arbors, and Wooden Wand, and both disappeared in the blink of an eye. 320 copies on numbered, split duo tone coloured wax. Packaged as ever with a loving GPS eye. It truly stands alone. Get on it!"
5/13/2011	Jerusalem And The Starbaskets	Dost	LP	$15.99	De Stijl	"Jeremy Freeze is a Memphis born songwriter who has spent the last few years in Columbia, Missouri playing and recording with Kim Sherman as Jerusalem and the Starbaskets. Before your preconceived notions of Missouri make things cloudy, consider the Black Artist Group, Screamin' Mee Mees, Drunks with Guns, Gene Clark and a whole lot of other shit that you don't know about get in the way. Lest there be other confusion, my friend Oliver, this 65-year-old dude from Kashmir, told me 'DOST' means 'brother man.' So basically, DOST is 'friend' but a more familiar way of the word. Just so happens that it's the phonetic same as 'dosed.' One crystalline thing herein is the jams. Freeze has reached that point where he's saying more by saying less and that's a level that many songwriters never reach. After a few years of playing gigs with Times New Viking, Wooden Wand and a short list of more or less limited releases, DOST is the band's first readily available release and we're going to do our best to get it everywhere."
2/20/2010	Jerusalem and the Starbaskets	Room 8 / Swingin' Vine	7"	$4.99	DeStijl	"The great Rock Writer James Jackson Toth has regarded Jerusalem and the Starbaskets as being on the verge of sounding like the third Velvets LP as played by The Terminals. We couldn't agree more, but this could be twisted around rightfully if anyone feels like it to provide an analogy that would make the Terminals feel pretty good abt playing the Velvets third to sound like what the Starbaskets just might be on the verge of sounding like. First, there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. Crypto rock illiteration, like fear over Columbia Regional."
11/21/2009	Jescos, The	Topless Cowgirl	7"	$5.99	People In A Position To Know	"The debut recording from the new Tennessee "supergroup" featuring James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand), Tim Bracy (Mendoza Line), and Bingham Barnes (Glossary) amongst several other local players. Two great songs on colored vinyl, in hand-screened covers. Limited to 500 copies."
	Jessamine	Another Fictionalized History	CD	$12.99	Histrionic	Excellent compilation of singles and other recordings in nice packaging
	Jessamine	Long Arm of Coincidence	CD	$12.99	Kranky	Has more extended jams/freakouts than previous LP
12/24/2005	Jesus Balls	Yellow	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Reissue of cdr. Filthy children committing invocations to electronic spirits and beating their heads on the dusty temple floor."
12/24/2005	Jesus Balls / Clay's Festering Lungs	split	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Intense workouts by both of these folk noise units. Jesus Balls is christ cult noise freaks, Clay's Festering Lungs is one man band revivalist. Each spin around your head for about 20 minutes and then sink back into the muck."
3/29/2005	Jesus With Me	Jesus With Me	CD	$12.99	Psych-o-Path Records	"Sometime in late 1990's four Russians met in NYC and began to jam together. They wanted to reach to the Higher Spirit, so they called their band 'Jesus With Me.' Jesus With Me played heavy psychedelic freakout rock, influenced by Amon Duul I, Faust, Can, High Rise, Keiji Haino and YaHoWha 13."
8/2/2008	Jewell, Ryan	Ryan Jewell	CDR	$9.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Short (12minutes) new piece from this Ohio based experimental percussionist who's collaborated with Fossils, Burning Star Core, Graveyards dudes, and Patrick Farmer to name a few. In Ryans words 'it's all acoustic. Supersonic acoustic sine waves interfering with one another making audible sweeps, etc. It's all just a floor tom. Secret fuckin' ninja jedi mind moves and shit'... really minimal and bleak, with an insane climax that'll blow your speakers away! All in hand sprayed, hand inked, hand stamped or stickered sleeves... all entirely individual."
6/27/2009	Jewell, Ryan / Face Place	split	7"	$3.99	Out There Records	"Still don't know if this is 45 rpm or 33 rpm ???? Both sound right to me! Ryan Jewell kicks things off on the A side with a twisting and turning assortment of totally weird and cool sounds . Don't know if this is live Jewell or what ? Sounds like a studio jam or some kind of manipulated sound collage . Ryan is always awesome on stage because you never know what kind of awesome shit he's gonna do , his tapes and CDs are the same way and this 7" is no exception. Flip the record and you got the husband/wife duo of Face Place (Jen Burton of American Jobs / Birds of Hair - and Mark Van Fleet of Sword Heaven ) . This is a live recording and after hearing it I now know what speed the record is because of the crowd noise. Pretty sure I was at this show but I don't remember it being so intense! On record I can turn it up until my brain hurts! Long-overdue vinyl debut from both of these aces! Second release on Out There Home Entertainment . Amazing see-through covers w/ killer clear vinyl ! Nice! " - Tommy Nebula
10/27/2003	JGrzinich / Seth Nehil	Confluence	CD	$13.99	Intransitive	"In 1998, American composers John Grzinich and Seth Nehil initiated a process of recording and experimentation that would result in a pair of full-length CDs. The seed of the project originated in Austin, Texas with acoustic recordings of found objects played by large groups. By the end, it had expanded into a three-year, transcontinental exchange of intensive interaction, questioning and dialogue. These works further the artists' interest in physical materials and natural acoustics which are consequently composed into imbedded, altered and engaging structures. Taking form with the integrity of a living organism, these pieces invite the listener to find his way through the reticulated and stratified development of a subtly unfolding, organic sound-body. The first part of this project, ‘Stria’, was published by the Erewhon label (Belgium) earlier this year. Intransitive is now proud to present part two, ‘Confluence’. The exploratory focus of ‘Stria/Confluence’ is the idea of resonance; the phenomenon of natural vibrations that give rise to intensified or stable structures within sound bodies and fields. In the production of these works, the composers' approach to resonance encompassed not only acoustical behavior but also included analogies of the phenomenon in group interaction and/or participation within the social context of sound generating activities. It was again applied to the studio in the use of massive multiplications and layerings, resulting in deeply transformed, evolutionary sound fields. Seemingly infinite layers of minute actions accumulate into a deep wash of sound, not unlike the similarly-minded Jonathan Coleclough or mnortham. Repeated listening reveals more and more subtle details so that the piece appears to change each time it is experienced. Seth Nehil's work with layered acoustic recordings has been heard on his previous releases published by KAON, Alluvial and 20City. Both artists, whose previous duo recordings used the band name Alial Straa, have collaborated extensively with mnortham and Olivia Block as part of Austin's Orogenetics group."
8/20/2011	JLK	Empty Spaces	c20 cassette + download	$6.99	Los Discos Enfantasmes	"Starting from the last place jim sullivan's car was found, jlk trails the deserts for any trace of the alien-ballad crooner. trying to channel the desert's extreme moods into 60's influenced melodies, only using her voice and guitar. mixing sun filled songs with a dose of distortionned funk, the last part of the b-side transports us to a dark and empty space of a somewhat eternal floating arid landscape." Edition of 75. Includes a download code. c-20 premium BASF - Emtec Chrome tape, grey shell. Home-dubbed on Nad, Denon and Marantz tape decks, in real time. Professionally printed j-card with front die-cut.
2/26/2003	JMJ Trio	In the Absence of the Third	LP	$12.99	Ontological Records	"The JMJ trio considers their music to be a part of the rich tradition of ambient music and trace their influences back to Erik Satie's 'furniture music' and John Cage's ideas of inclusiveness. The environmental re-structuring found in the tape works of Luc Ferrari and Pierre Schaefer also contributed to the work in both sound and process. Contemporaries who have inspired the JMJ trio include such artists as Helen Said This-era Dead C, K-Group / Surface of the Earth, Omit, Dean Roberts, and Rafael Toral." - Ontological. Hand-painted, limited edition of 250.
	Joe+N	introducing something to the system	CD	$9.99	Carbon Records	"5 tracks of field recordings and ultra-harsh electronics. no instruments were used on this recording. constructed entirely using a portable MiniDisc recorder, contact mics, Behringer mixer and patch cords. [limited edition of 50, each packaged in a kraft envelope with unique artwork on each. hand numbered]"
6/4/2010	Johansson, Sven-Ake	Cymbals In The Night	LP	$17.99	Brokenresearch	"Heavy solo release from deep as Marianas Trench Swedish drummer Sven-Ake Johansson. Johansson is primarily known in the US as the drummer on the two hugely influential Brotzmann recordings: For Adolphe Sax and Machine Gun. However, the Berlin-based percussionist/composer/filmmaker/performance artist/painter -- all of which he is remarkably adept at -- also has numerous FMP releases and a well documented relationship with Alexander Schlippenbach. Notable contributions to the canon of experimental music include his Concert for 12 Tractors and performance piece for movement performed with Neubauten singer Nick Cave guitarist Blixa Bargeld. Johansson's mode here is pure clarity in terms of form, technique and content. Quiet as a kitten on clouds in social settings, this recording ranges from pure Krupa swing on corrugated cardboard *cymbals* to dirty styrofoam shrieks and then even further out to close-mic'd cymbal investigations of tone and vibration. In performance, he's a pro and even in a recorded situation he manages to engage the listener with humor and experiment. Pro printed sleeve/edition of 300."
9/18/2003	Johnny Hash	Beyond Rome	7"	$5.99	Rocket Recordings	"Johnny Hash features members of Royal Trux, 68 Comeback and The Screws. After releasing records on the ultra-hip In The Red Records in L.A we are proud to unleash this formidable duo on the UK for the first time. This 4 track single of psycho blues is the bastard child of Pussy Galore and Spacemen 3!"
3/29/2005	Johnston, Caleb	untitled	10"	$12.99	no label / self-released	"Twig's (Nautical Almanac) brother lays down a scorcher worthy of the family name from breathtaking highs to gut-trembling lows this electronic journey will clear your soul and mind."
9/30/2005	Johnston, Caleb	untitled	12"	$12.99		Caleb Johnston's new 12". This more textural follow up to last years 10" really queefters. Baltimore's DM is back from tour with shinth madicians Sejayno and this time brings sawed strings and gargled vocals along for the party. this is twig from nautical almanac's brother and has a similar sound. this one has similarly nameless packaging to the 10" but this one instead of the abstract b+w paintprint is silkscreened in fluorescent green."
7/23/2010	Johnston, Daniel	The Story Of An Artist	6LP BOX	$119.99	Munster Records	"Limited edition 6CD/6LP box set of the very early recordings by Daniel Johnston, one of the most gifted American songwriters of the last three decades. Includes Daniel's six cassette-only albums recorded between 1980 and 1983, packaged in individual sleeves, plus a 64-page booklet with Daniel's artwork from those years and extensive notes by music journalist Everett True. "When I first met Daniel in 1985, he was already quite well known. He had been giving away homemade cassettes for months and his live performances were attracting enthusiastic crowds. He had even been on MTV. The cassettes were his business cards and he used them well, with Hi, How Are You, Yip/Jump Music, Retired Boxer, Respect and Continued Story finding their way into the hands of seemingly every band in town. As the attention increased, so did the need to keep making and handing out cassettes. It reached a point where much of his paycheck from McDonald's would be spent on blank tapes, so I began talking to him about ways to at least break even. By the time Daniel left Austin a year later, things had changed considerably. I was finding national distribution for the tapes, but he wasn't well, and didn't wish to continue in the music business. He gave me a couple of tapes I hadn't heard before throwing most of his remaining possessions into a dumpster. By the time I found out about the dumpster incident and frantically dug through it, trying to salvage any tapes that I could find, it was too late. What was lost in that dumpster is something we'll never know. The two unreleased tapes he had given me were More Songs Of Pain and Don't Be Scared (ironically misspelled Don't Be Scarred). Both were unlike anything I had previously heard. Recorded in the semi-privacy of his parents' basement in the early 1980s, before he'd moved to Texas, the sound was slightly better than the tapes I was already distributing, and the material so strong that I knew he deserved a place among the all-time great songwriters. Both were and are fully realized masterpieces to my ears ... I was able to borrow a tape he had given Glass Eye's Kathy McCarty titled The Joker -- it turned out to be one of several versions of the Songs Of Pain tape that he had given out to his friends in West Virginia before moving to Austin. I knew it had to be the first of the 'new' releases, so I began distributing Songs Of Pain in 1987. A few months later, I borrowed another tape he had given to one of his friends. This led to the release of The What Of Whom. In 1988, I released More Songs Of Pain and in 1989 Don't Be Scared. In 1990, Daniel found some tapes under his bed (!) called The Lost Recordings, and these were released in 1991. Most of Daniel's early recordings were done on a $59 Sanyo jam box using the cheapest tape he could find. The term 'lo-fi' was still a few years away and I never gave the low fidelity of these recordings a second thought. It was about the music and the story of an artist. Songs Of Pain, More Songs Of Pain, The What Of Whom, Don't Be Scared and The Lost Recordings tell the story of that artist. They may have been 'just' cassettes, but Daniel owned his own publishing and these releases led to more songs being published, and ultimately more songs being covered by other bands. I'm very grateful that Munster Records has chosen to package the recordings from Daniel's West Virginia years as a box set. I hope you enjoy it." --Jeff Tartakov, Stress Records. Edition of 1000 copies.
5/8/2005	Jones Gang, The	High Eye: Live in Nashville	CDR	$7.99	Polyamory	"Fresh collaboration before a captive audience between Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke), C Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Derek de Soleil (Tan As Fuck, Taiwan Deth), Wand Jehovah (Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice) and Satya Sai Jehovah (Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice). Imagine this collection of art noise freakazoids and psychedelic wise-apples under the Nuits de la Fondation Maeght spell, complete with double drum attack, bleating sax, crazed vocals, and stoned guitar."
3/1/2007	Jones, Glenn	Against Which the Sea Continually Beats	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Since 1989, Glenn Jones has led Boston's "avant-garage" instrumental rock band Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date. A thirty+-year devotee of the so-called "Takoma school," Jones has written extensively on two of the steel-string guitar's leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly twenty-five years, and Robbie Basho. In 2004, Jones stepped out of the long shadow cast by Takoma's guitar visionaries and offered his own "new possibility"-This Is the Wind That Blows It Out, an impeccable album of acoustic 6 & 12-string beauty released to rave review. Against Which the Sea Continually Beats, Jones's second album, is an indisputable triumph of acoustic guitar composition, a reverential and innovative melding of sound and form. The eleven tunes on Against Which the Sea Continually Beats travel from Delta to Appalachia, from classical to a cinematic sort of folk sound in a language that is purely imbued in the artist's own dialect. Graceful and subtle, resonating with confidence and power, Against Which the Sea Continually Beats is a masterpiece of "guitar soli" by a truly singular talent."
7/1/2004	Jones, Glenn	This is the Wind that Blows it Out (Solos for 6 & 12 String Guitar)	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Most folks know Glenn Jones as guitarist extraordinaire for Cul de Sac, in which his idiosyncratic blend of surf, Middle Eastern, Americana and acid guitar innovations are a signature of the band's much-ballyhooed sound. In the spirit of the great Takoma Records releases of the 60's and early 70's, This is the Wind that Blows it Out winds its way through rich expanses of varied stylistic terrain, charting a rich and unique course. 'American Primitive' folk and blues, Spanish guitar, slack-key, rustic Mississippi Delta slide and classical forms cozy up fluently to one another, sometimes within the same tune. Glenn Jones' fingerstyle and slide technique is on dazzling display, guiding the music across scenic vistas of mood and color. As interest in the old guard of steel-string innovators John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke and Peter Lang has been renewed with earnest, a new fraternity of Guitar Soli tunesmiths has come to the fore - Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, Harris Newman and Glenn Jones. Along with his guitar-slinging brethren, Jones steps out of the long shadow cast by the Takoma stable and offers up 'A New Possibility'."
11/23/2004	Jones, Joe	Fluxus Ain't Dead	LP	$14.99		"The music machines of legendary Fluxus artist Joe Jones are a paradox of prepared sounds voicing astoundingly human bursts of free-flight sonic caterwaul. Why is it that a roomful of musicians can't muster the sound of these music machines? The sounds herein could make tears flow like rivers from countless communal bangs. The sounds from this tape are so rare that many historians claim they don't exist. Jone's orchestras were debuted on Yoko Ono's 'Fly' and he was a curio to the Beatles. 'Joe Jones left his home in Tucson Arizona, bought some California grass.' Not him? Who cares. Bring the Noise."
4/3/2011	Jooklo Quartet	Where Has Jazz Gone?	LP	$26.99	Troglosound	"New Jooklo finnish formation, this time with great guitarist Topias Tiheasalo joining the compact trio of saxophonist Virginia Genta, drummer David Vanzan and bassist Tero Kemppainen, whom have been working together for the past three years now. The first time that the four played together was for a live concert in Turku, Finland, in 2009: meeting up just few minutes before the show started, and immediately throwing out a mighty jam of superfast free jazz. After one year, they met again for a short tour in Italy and for recording this album, which turned out to be a crazy transformation of jazz tradition into a futuristic and original view of time! " Pressed on black vinyl, ltd edition of 300 numbered copies.
2/24/2002	Joshua	Gold Cosmos	CD	$14.99	Feather One's Nest Records	"Based in Western Massachusetts, Joshua plays occasional live shows that never fail to stir the spirit-pot. Whether beaming layered vocals and effects-trammeled whistling (whistling!) into the anticipatorily puckered o-minds of the audience, paying tribute to the great Jansch, or rambling down forgotten paths w/ archaic stringed instruments, the guy never fails to heat up brain coils that I'd forgotten I have. In many ways, however, his most potent material is crafted in dark singularity, late at night, w/ tape rolling and moist nodes of fever pulsing gently in the dark, soft air. On this album, helped by kindred souls from Tower Recordings, Six Organs of Admittance, and Dredd Foole, Joshua achieves a kind of dream-loaded perfection that is the purview of very few. As the fools in the mainstream underground rush towards a platonic ideal that dehumanizes the process of creation, Joshua embraces the quivering meat wheel that rotates in the center of all humankind. It is nothing less than a pinnacle of splendor. Subtlely acknowledging influences that range from C.O.B. to the Guild of Temporal Adventurers, it moves through the fair like a wraith." - Byron Coley.
4/19/2004	Joshua	Life Less Lost	CD	$14.99	Spirit of Orr	"The beloved second album from a quiet pillar of western Massachusetts free music community, now available in an easy-to shelve jewel case. Mr Burkett sits as core to the western Massachusetts homemade psych-folk movement and pot lucks as any of the other friends From his work with prime movers such as Shrin, Vermonster, Wormdoom, Parrotprobe, and Borb to sit-ins with Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance, Tower Recordings and Crystalized Movements. 2001's 'Gold Cosmos' album was critically adored (the Wire, Mojo) and a mail order favorite." Recommended!
6/2/2003	Joshua Jugband 5	Joshua Jugband 5	CDR	$10.99	Slippy Town	"30 minutes of pure grade-‘L’ instrumental psych-out + low-key wall-rumblin' groove + heavy livin'-room glow from Landskrona, Sweden. JJ5 = Jakob Olausson (Screamin' Mee-Mees fan!). This is Jakob's first (not last!) recording to be made available to you lucky humans. Edition of 113. Released April 2002." Nice stuff – he sent me a cdr recently which was really cool, too.
5/16/2010	Jouurney	Dancers In The Time-Flux	c24 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"Synthetic dreams blossom underneath perfect french skies, offering arpeggiated gifts to a sun god that never even existed in the first place. each step is liquid and melodic to a degree, looking for another avenue to paint in electric blue. on this debut our french explorer wants to cruise the high seas on a blast of square waves. this time-flux is a warm place to be. jouurney's quixotic sounds have you floating in and out of consciousness, submerged beneath nobody drones and pink sunsets. of course, everything gets thrown out of whack for the last two minutes and the blitzed out beats and cacaphonic synth mayhem that ensues. it's an exclamation point for sure. edition of 72, pro-dubbed & imprinted."
5/16/2011	Jovontaes	The Thief of Baghdad	cassette	$5.99	DNT	"Named after 90s street skater Jovontae Turner, Jovontaes are a group of kids from the Lexington, KY community, tearing up both the psych and skateboarding scenes. Not doing what you'd expect from a bunch of skaters, these dudes are making caveman psych rock (with hints of surf and kraut) like a scaled down Eternal Tapestry yet still sounding way weirder than the standard psych-jam band trying to live in the past of the 60s. Not too detached from last year's rad tape on Eggy, on this one you get almost 50 minutes of songs, closing out the second side with a sprawling free-form musique-concrete jam piece. Recorded late 2010 in their Void Skateshop, (which apparently is right around the corner from Caboladies' old recording space). Hand-numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed clear tapes (with a lil' skatebuddy imprinting) and absolutely stunning full-color psychedelic artwork by the equally beautiful young artist Camille Bryant."
9/14/2004	Joy Division	Warsaw: The Original Version	LP	$17.99		“A bit of confusion here, since there are 2 somewhat different versions of this around, with the same title. Both are essentially their first LP as JOY DIVISION, recorded in 1978 for RCA but stupidly rejected by the label. This particular version, however, finally gets all the songs in the correct order exactly as originally intended, does not include any extraneous material, and is mastered from original tapes provided allegedly by the band itself. Artwork is very similar to ‘Unknown Pleasures.’ Euro import.”
11/23/2004	Joyner, Simon and Dennis Callaci	Stranger Blues	one-sided LP	$9.99	Catsup Plate	“Dennis Callaci and Simon Joyner are two of the foremost channelers of ‘the song.’ Simon is known for his solo recordings, with releases on Jagjaguwar, Truckstop, Shrimper, and Sing Eunuchs!, among others. Dennis plays in Refrigerator and was the sole voice behind the criminally underheard Paste. They are singer-songwriters in that they write songs and sing them, but that appellation dumbs down and sanitizes what they do. I think it is more accurate to say that both have a way of tapping into the stream of collective creativity that flows from God-knows-when through to the present and beyond. Their songs have a gravity to them, an ‘old soul,’ as it were, that cannot be mistaken. There are a few stylistic precursors to their work - precursors that have been well-documented previously - but the songs they write and sing tap into something more ineffable, timeless, and grave. The set comprises three of Simon's songs and two by Dennis, all recorded live in the Callaci living room to what seems to be a single microphone. The nontraditional (or better: non-studio) setting adds a palpable sensation of space to the recordings - by space I do not simply mean the warmth of the room tone, but actual space: backing vocals and spare piano or guitar lines arise in such a way that you are aware of the physical geography of the room. You can hear Simon singing along with Dennis from an actual distance away; his voice is (literally) distant and all the more forlorn. The guitar lines that Dennis adds to flesh-out Simon's songs have the same eerie effect. This sense of space underscores two seemingly contradictory strengths about these recordings. On one hand, these songs are beautifully lonely and spare, highlighted by the echoes and distance in the room. At the same time, it is clear that two songwriters who know and love the other's work, who are very much working in tandem to build upon each others strengths. Single edition of 500 one-sided LPs. Silkscreened and hand assembled chipboard jackets in a ‘traditional’ Catsup Plate brown butchers tape design scheme.”
11/21/2009	Joynes, C	Revenants, Prodigies And The Restless Dead	LP	$15.99	Immune	"Immune is proud to present a deluxe and limited edition vinyl version of the brand new album from British guitarist C Joynes. This is the second widely available album from Joynes (after last year's God Feeds The Ravens) and is being released simultaneously on CD by Bo'Weavil Recordings. C Joynes is a musician whose playing has consistently invoked a broad and shifting stream of inspirations. As a guitarist, there is no doubt that Joynes has been influenced by some of the most idiosyncratic finger-pickers of the last 40 years and beyond, but his music goes far beyond simply this. His recordings have always offered many dimensions for the listener to explore, be it through solo acoustic pieces, larger ensemble work, or the intimate use of improvisations and hill recordings. Building on previous albums, Revenants, Prodigies & The Restless Dead is a more expansive affair. Joined on a number of these tunes by an assortment of friends and collaborators, a range of acoustic and vintage electronic instruments all make appearances, gradually fleshing out some of the ideas and direction that Joynes clearly has imprinted in his mind's eye, adding colour and hue to some of these beautiful compositions. While Joynes remains at home with English and American forms of folk music, the twelve pieces on this album continue to demonstrate the extent to which other traditions, both eastern and western, have an equal and instinctive pull on his music. Listen to the detuned and prepared guitar of 'Nyambai Sawmill', which seems equally drawn out of late 60s classical experimentalism as it does to sounds from the Western Sahara. The LP is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl at RTI in a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies for the world. Included is an insert and free MP3 download coupon
7/30/2006	JRP	JRP	3" DVD-R	$8.99	Jyrk	"Yeah.. NEW SERIES OF RELEASES.. all 3" DVDRs.. the first one is the inspiration for the series.. we've got TONS of stuff lined up.. probably will be Eric Ostrowski next and then william sabiston or something... anyway.. I set up a show for BONUS at ATA in SF awhile back and Jamie Potter from Bonus scraped together this vid before their show.. all concertgoers were absolutely stunned by their piece of totally unflinching pristine minimalism... The DVD is an AMAZING work of video feedback.. Basically, the visuals are this constantly evolving feedback mandala..... it rolls on and on for 20 minutes and is totally alive. Jamie's soundtrack is equally stunning and not dissimilar to his work in Bonus, except possibly slowed down... This one's perfect for a night of cough syrup and tons of weed.. I can't even verbalize how stoked I am on this film. absolutely top notch work from Mr. Potter. Edition of 90." - label
2/21/2009	JS666	Freerave Manifesto	CDR	$7.99	267 Lattajjaa	"JS666 is just one man, but his powers of musical destruction are limitless. this time it's not just frantic drill'n'bass mash-up anthems but js666 goes back to his more experimental arty roots, and this means art with a capitol F."
11/15/2008	Ju-Sei	Taigun-Yuei	CDR	$10.99	Black Petal	"A japanese duo (1 boy/1 girl) - weird but catchy pop music.. very great band! i guess fans of Tenniscoats, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, etc will like them, although they sound pretty different to that.."
8/28/2007	Julie Mittens, The	April/June	LP	$14.99	Rococo Records	"April/June...recorded in our rehearsal room first part of 2006 in Leiden, The Netherlands. The tracks are from two different sessions hence April/June (we like to keep our titles simple). The idea was to make a cyclical work (round like an lp) so there's no side A or B. The listener can start anywhere. The tracks are just there...they do not really start or end and they seem to add to each other somehow after a while (at least that's my experience)... Although the tracks feel like a relaxed ride at times, they where recorded at the usual intense volume levels...really, really loud! Don't know how they came out this way... All four tracks had this same 'relaxed' feeling about them so that's why we decided to put them together. Our tracks have no name, no number, they are what they are..."
1/24/2009	Julie Mittens, The	Featuring Lexie Mountain	CDR	$5.99	Abandon Ship Records	"The Julie Mittens were among the first groups that I asked to do a release for Abandon Ship Records. It's been nearly a year now, and well worth the wait. They've made some treacherous waves over the past few years, from their Sloow tape to their latest Holy Mountain release. This one is no exception. Fresh off their US tour, the Julie Mittens decided to properly document it with sister releases on ASR and the Netherland's own Cut Hands label, respectively. Not only are the two releases completely different from each other, but each CDr is housed in it's own one-of-a-kind sleeve which boasts a unique photo taken on their US tour. That's 200 different sleeves in total, with screenprinting on each taboot! Recorded by Steve Sanford at the Golden West Cafe in Baltimore on September 10th, and features Baltimore's own Lexie Mountain on vocals for the 2nd track." Edition of 100 copies.
4/20/2008	Julie Mittens, The	Julie Mittens	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"The Julie Mittens are a Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltrane's The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording and the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do with Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, guitarist AART-JAN SCHAKENBOS, bassist MICHAEL VAN DAM, and drummer LEO FABRIEK consistently wreak havoc with lavish, textural, speaker-blowing meltdown jams; they surge with psychedelic power and a stellar rhythm section on the four studio recordings here. "A kind of spiritual anarchy surfaces through the distorted bedlam, illuminating a full spectrum of frequencies which gives their most feverish moments the effect of coma-inducing psychical bliss landing somewhere between head banging and catatonia. These guys take it to edge and then push further out until there is literally no physical place left to go. Intense and just brilliant." - Todd Brooks, Foxy Digitalis. Features one of the founders of the WOT NXT collective, and members of the SUGAR COATED MIND BOMBS and TENUZU NO CHIIZU.
2/21/2009	Julie's Haircut & Sonic Boom	N-Waves / U-Waves	10"	$12.99	A Silent Place	"In late September 2005, Sonic Boom (a.k.a. Pete Kember, founding member of Spacemen 3, Spectrum, and Experimental Audio Research) met Julie's Haircut at Studio Alpha in Bologna to cooperate with the final editing of their new album. This was a new starting point for Julie's Haircut in the field of music research-only a small portion of the three days of studio recordings were released on that album. N-Waves/U-Waves contains, for the first time, two takes from that session. "Gemini Pt. 1 & Pt. 2" is here in its first take, while "Scarfo Spanks DC" is a completely unreleased improvisation. Limited edition pressing of 524 copies in deluxe cover with foil stamping."
	July	July	CD	$19.99	Aftermath	"One of the all-time great psych albums originally issued on the Major Minor label in the UK, and on Epic in the USA in 1968. There's no way to overstate the excellence of the album, with it's eerie psych style (check out, for example, 'Dandelion Seeds' and 'Hallo to Me'), Indian-influenced chord sequences, heavily reverbed vocals, plus expert studio trickery (tape loops / phasing, etc.) of uncommon brilliance from producer/solo artist Tom Newman, and Jade Warriors Tony Duhig and John Field."
5/6/2011	July	July	LP	$29.99	Guerssen	"Guerssen Records is proud to release on vinyl nothing less than an essential album to anyone with a minimum interest in psychedelic music. This very rare 1968 UK album, originally released on the Major Minor label, features essential psych classics such as "Dandelion Seeds" and "My Clown." This is the definitive vinyl reissue of this beauty, pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a high-quality carton cover with old-style backflaps and a fantastic 4-page insert with photos and extensive liner notes by UK psych authority David Wells. Also included is a full-color reproduction of the rare-as-hell original promo poster."
9/23/2004	Jumala	Jumala	CDR	$12.99	Raivo Productions	“Jumala plays improvised music, you can call free jazz or free improvisation, it don't care. Jumala doesn't hate melody, but doesn't necessarily need it either. It moves in the mystical realms between the glorious lands of FMP and BYG, ESP and Incus, but does occasionally find it self in the overcrowded folky forests of Finland (oh my god!). While residing in the woods, though, it tries to stick some sticks and punch some punches at the regular inhabitants (yeah!). The CDr will be released as an ultra unlimited issue of some initial copies, + n repressings (with some changes in artwork, naturally!). So, you'll probably get your copy, but you shouldn't sleep on you heels either.” “’Rarely have I heard worse music (quality of the sound left aside). The piece consists of amateurish fooling around and radiates unintelligence and nasty atmosphere’. This is how Jumala’s selftitled cd-r –release has been reviewed at the Suomijazz (Finnish jazz) forum. I’ll admit it: that’s how it pretty much sounds like if you listen to the mp3-samples provided by the Raivo & Rypäs -recordlabel at their website. Luckily I’ve learned ages ago that there’s two things you shouldn’t trust: 1) music samples found in the Internet and 2) music reviews made by jazzpeople. The band itself defines it’s music as either free jazz or free improvisation. I myself would rather choose the latter, since in jazz, no matter how free or not, there’s a musical agreement of sorts to be followed. I reckon that the reason why misters W. J. Joutsenkanerva and V.Sänki have decided to call Jumala’s music jazz, has just mostly been to provoke. This is backed by the way how they have frequently commented in some of the forums in the Internet (among others the previously mentioned Suomijazz-forum). This I do not mean as a negative point. On the contrary, in my opinion, sometimes certain parties are to be deliberately provoked. Jumala’s record consists of eight tracks taking up to 46 minutes. As the basic structure there’s a more or less freely jolting percussion backing, on top of which various recorders or harmonica scream and howl. There’s also a bit of human voice included that sounds like the evening prayers of a 15 or something year old school boy before passing out. I must admit, the tracks mostly do the trick. They manage to create an atmosphere, sometimes surprisingly tight, and isn’t that just what music should essentially be about? In addition the compositions (or improvisations) function specifically in the album context, which I always appreciate. Jumala’s album has been logically compiled and it’s high points are evenly in the beginning, the middle and the end. That way there’s no lapse in the listeners interest and attention. From the whole the first and the last track stand out because of their different style and feeling. The first track ‘Nousemus’ (Ascension) is like a demented church hymn, that nevertheless manages to increase it’s tension to the very end. Ending track ‘Vaaleiden impien kirmaus’ (The prance of the fair maidens) is downright funny and sounds just like the title suggests. All in all Jumala is a positive surprise and I wait eagerly, will the duo be releasing more material. It seems you can listen to these fellows live at Forum Box in Helsinki, visit if you are willing and able.” - Jaakob Karhu.
7/14/2011	Junko & Masayoshi Urabe	Swing Low, Sweet Silence	CD	$17.99	An'Archives	Duo recording from the 2004 Alchemy/PSF 20th anniversary concert featuring Masayoshi Urabe on alto saxophone/chain and the voice of Junko (Hijokaidan) "Here, on this record, the screamer and the whisperer sail away toward the worst, expelling from their bodies shredded songs whereon our senses shatter. Such a poetic extremity is not drawn from the cultural landscape, but from the breath of the living world. Raw poetry or a poetic racket made of copper whispers and screams of terror, erotic glossolalia and ramshackle choirs. They stand like two narrators, burnt in the hullabaloo of an infinitely melancholic melody, dislocating in great devouring rests, tuning back to an unheard of pitch, swirling in close combat. Tightrope walkers dancing above our inner abyss. lovers call and respond in the electric night. Masayoshi Urabe. Lips split in two by the alto sax. Bag full of burning air blowing into brass. Dancing hysterically in the sound. When he plays the heavens are forced to lie at his feet, our listening experience swinging, spitting sticky melodies until beauty lies exhausted. He walks on the wild side to reach asphyxia, ending breathless, as testified by the recording. A brother only to Kaoru Abe and Albert Ayler. The same tragedian, the same single jealous chord to go swinging in sound. His art is reminiscent of a sonic Seppuku, splitting his body in half as well as our understanding. Sublime and tragic, with a murky erotic charge. Nothing remains after the music fades but a burning fire. Junko is like a white shade after Hiroshima. Her overexposed diaphanous body, her scream, miles away from the hysteria of other yellers in the noise music landscape. It is just terror, or call it beauty. She almost appears disconnected from herself, as if her voice were detached from her body, each evolving in a separate space. Her punctured tongue giving access to the unutterable and unspeakable. Dyslexic, monstrous voice, rising to inhuman high pitches, held on the threshold of auditory pain, almost endlessly. Junko's scream recalls the phrasing of free music saxophonists, a common musical naivety devoid of academicism and technique. Her voice is her own erotic body, her "music", to quote Mishima. Voice and alto sax magnetically unite under the white lights of the stage, abolishing space and time like lovers do. Bound to one another in a beautiful confusion of timbres, whispers, phrases and stories. A story of noise and fury told by two idiots." - Michel Henritzi. Limited edition of 300 copies in silkscreened three panel fold out sleeve with insert and obi. Printed by Alan Sherry / SIWA.
11/21/2008	Junko / Aya Onishi /Rinji Fukuoka / Michel Henritzi	Live at Penguin House	CDR	$12.99	An'archives	"Recorded Live at Penguin House, 2007. Edition of 125 copies with full color artwork on heavy textured paper. Japanese format with insert."LIVE AT PENGUIN HOUSE 2007