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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
	K-Group / Omit	Storage	LP	$12.99	Fusetron	“Not a split release by these two New Zealand artists, but a collaboration, carrying on from their 1997 single on Colorful Clouds for Acoustics. The weapons of choice are analogue synthesizers and the approach is slowly unfolding drones and drifting veils of sound that part and close across the listener's third ear like storms on the surface of Jupiter.K-Group is Paul Toohey, previously of noted NZ geological drone ensemble Surface of the Earth, who also has a solo album under this name on Corpus Hermeticum. Omit is Clinton Williams, who has also recorded for that notorious NZ 'un-easy listening' label, as well as extensively on his own Deep Skin imprint. During 2000 and 2001, having failed to bring down the global economy with their now-forgotten Y2K scam [remember Y2K? - I thought not], this pair of Hidden Masters turned their efforts towards late-night kitchen jam sessions during their holiday moments. In these each would fire up an antiquated analogue synth and the resulting aural collisions would be recorded on a handy hard drive, then tweaked, inverted, eq'd and edited to produce the immaculate slabs of sound contained within the tiny grooves of this ludicrously out-dated analogue sound-reproducing format. These seven tracks simulate the calm of the newly sedated patient about to undergo a surgical procedure, just as he or she is starting to slip into unconsciousness. You can listen, but just when you think you're hearing something, you realise that 12 hours have gone by and you have a new and inexplicable scar on some unlikely part of your anatomy. Too late you realise that the sound you can hear at the very edge of audition is not this recording, but the sound of forty metal robotic insects starting to eat their way out through your still-sedated navel. Waking with a start in time to flip the album over on your turntable, you notice that subsonic frequencies have begun to rearrange the contents of your mantlepiece into a veritable Morris Dance of inanimate objects, when you thought the audio had not yet begun to play back. A vestigial bass throb starts up in the back of your cranium, as very slow-moving if not actually stationary spacecraft begin to land in the garden. Three days later they are still hovering as the seventh and final track of the album begins to play, and infinitesimally subtle stereo effects start panning in impossible permutations audible only between your shoulder blades. Apparent suspension of time, delirious interludes, interference with the basic laws of physics, all of these effects are possible results of listening to the beautifully poised, finely polished and unutterably beautiful sounds contained in this simultaneously forbidding and inviting artifact. If, like me, these are all the things you look for in a sound recording, then look no further. If its merely music you require, then I suggest you meddle not in the affairs of your betters and proceed directly to the nearest chain CD store and stock up big time.” -Bruce Russell [Noise Legend], Lyttelton, NZ, May 2002.
4/24/2006	K.K. Rampage	Sides E & F	7"	$5.99	Rococo	"Limited to 300 copies on various colors of vinyl. Who is KK Rampage? They're the band that crashes your favorite bands' show, throws powdered sugar everywhere, pukes on it and then rolls around in the disgusting puke paste. They're the band that knows what high school girls were made for. They are the holocaust. What is the Side E & F 7inch? Their first true sell-out effort. Recorded by the man they call "The Next Steve Albini", Sides E & F is the heaviest record this side of 1977. It not only continues the amazing growth KK has shown since replacing the original drummer, but also takes it to a startling new level. Louder than sound and brighter than the sun, this record will blast you through the gates of Valhalla. Imagine Sun Ra crossed with a gasoline fire, imagine The Beatles... actually in a gasoline fire. This record shows you that just becauseit's violent, misogynistic and heavily drugged, that doesn't mean it can't be overwhelmingly beautiful. "They're seriously a bunch of no talent hacks." ---Liz Armstrong (Chicago Reader) "America has run out of ideas. Anyone whose heard KK Rampage will agree with me." ---Tony Herrington (Wire)
	Ka-spel, Edward	Needles Three	CD	$21.99	Beta-lactam Ring/Terminal Kaleidoscope	Tracks from 'Perhaps We'll Only See a Thin Blue Line' LP plus additional material. Track listing: Moments / Chasing The Carrion / Splash/ The Colour Xhine / Mosquito Munch Full Glory / The Unspeakable Revenge Of The Killer Grapefruit / Fuse / Charlotte! Stop Climbing The Curtains.
4/16/2003	Ka-Spel, Edward	Share the Day b/w Dream Stealer	7"	$9.99	Brainwashed	"Edward Ka-spel’s Share The Day 7" features 2 exclusive tracks. The title track is a somber tale of a loveless life, with a Edward’s beautifully creative music as it’s soundtrack; while the second side features Dream Stealer, an equally melancholy track showing Edward’s more delicate musical side, and his empathy for the Dreamstealer...Translucent gold coloured vinyl packaged with a postcard and sticker."
	Kable	Tardy All The Time	CD	$10.99	Fleece Records	"Second album of basement folk/psych haze from the muse of Miss Kay Bonya. Tweaked and blissful, an excellent follow-up to her debut. 'Some of the record's best moments occur when she stacks finger-picked acoustic guitars over rustic banjos; tosses in some toy piano, an incomprehensible chant and a drum machine that sounds like it's going into cough syrup withdrawal.'"
8/31/2008	Kaezm	Hydrogen Falls	cassette	$6.99	Arbor	"Denmark is a place teeming with half fried organic drone crews such as Sarah's Charity and Family Underground. Kaezm is the solo output for Nicolas Kauffmann of FU; here he channels electricity through criss-crossing patterns creating a midrange din full of lament. Nic's drones move with static builds from a variety of sources and multiple levels of echoing chorus: airy, buzzing mantras tinged with Middle Eastern vibes and a deepening sense of time beat down like an incessant rainfall in a storm of hiss. In an edition of 100 labeled tapes with full color art by Nic."
11/29/2007	Kæzm	Loom	CDR	$12.99	into the lunar night	"Limited self-released debut full-length solo album from Nicolas Felix Kauffmann of Family Underground. Hoovering Hototogisu-esque power drones with ritual percussion and dense electricity adding to the overall heavy cultic vibe. - Volcanic Tongue. First full length solo from Nicolas of Family Underground. Two tracks."
11/9/2004	Kak	Kak	LP	$15.99	Epic	“None of the plodding riffs, histrionic vocal stylings, or blues posturing that plagued many similar groups of this era mar this collection of melodic, tasteful progressive hard rock (as well as some mellower country-rock songs). Leader and main songwriter Gary Yoder would eventually join Blue Cheer and add his distinctive stamp to that band's sound.” 180 gram vinyl reissue of their only LP from 1968.
	Kakashi	Mountain Love	CD	$14.99	Captain Trip	2nd release - one available.
12/10/2004	Kaleidoscope	Kaleidoscope	LP	$22.99	La Ciruela	"Heavy vinyl reissue comes in a new sleeve that is an exact repro of the original. This monster psych classic from Mexico City c.1968/69 is one of the rarest and most desired psychedelic albums of all time! A great album, with all songs in English—heavy grooves, super fuzzified guitar and a raving, ranting, drooling savage garage sound." - Lion Productions
3/21/2007	Kalorifeur	Within the Hermitage	CDR	$7.99	editions_zero	"Bizarre lo-fi and bedroom experimentation from this obscure greek duoŠ" Edition of 199 copies.
3/2/2007	Kamerman, Richard	Open Your Windows And Play These Discs Loudly (You're Exempt Mr. Pinnell)	DBL 3" CDR	$7.99	Obsolete Units	"Richard Kamerman is a sound artist/composer who manipulates various instruments and devices into constant transmissions of sound that are alternately as minimal and subtle as they are harsh and blusterous. Open Your Windows... is a double mini-CD-R package of three pieces: two for percussion and one for guitar, all of them ranging from abstract ruminations on space and silence to alarming detours into cacophonous uproar. Described by Erstwhile proprietor Jon Abbey as "the Michael J Fox of downtown," Kamerman has also released material with UK-based labels Curor and Ancient Records, David Kirby's netlabel HOMOPHONI, and his own Sub Commander Frequencies. Both CD-R's come packaged in a dual DVD case. Edition of 50."
2/28/2006	Kamerman, Richard	Prophethead	CDR	$8.99	Curor Recordings	"Richard Kamerman revels in the liminal, creating music that is acutely aware of the moment of its performance, music which is focused, as he explains, 'on that which has not been before and that which shortly will not be again.' It exists at the threshold of composition and improvisation, neither wholly structured nor wholly organic. Often employing dissonance and feedback, Richard's music can convey the visceral thrill of harsh noise while retaining also a gently meditative quality. This undoing of binary oppositions is demonstrated on Prophethead’s long opening track, 'For Sarah Schwartz', which begins with 10-minutes plus of synaptic machine feedback before underpinning this with a queasy, circulatory, pulsation that left us feeling as sick as the first time we heard Throbbing Gristle's 'Hamburger Lady.' 'Freedback 1 (Waverley Place)' the 19-minute second track, reveals Richard's affection for the small, incidental sounds generated by the equipment itself, or within the environment of the performance, that without meticulous miking and amplification might otherwise have fallen below the threshold of audibility. Edition of 30."
5/24/2003	Kaneko, Jutok / Takahisa Kikukawa	Wedged Night	LP	$17.99	SIWA	"October 2002 recording of improvisations and songs by Jutok Kaneko (guitar) and Takahisa Kikukawa (drums). Kaneko should be familiar to some as the man behind the heavy psychedelia of Kousokuya (whose much sought after debut LP from 1989 has finally resurfaced on PSF). Kikukawa's name on the other hand will likely not ring too many bells outside of his home country but he did supply some sublimely spaced drumming to the dreamy Che-Shizu for a while and he plays percussion and piano in UZU. Both in Kousokuya and in Kaneko's solo work the line between composition and improvisation is a very blurry one so it's only in the loosest of terms that we say side one of this album is an ‘improvisation’ and side two consists of a couple of ‘songs’. The LP comes in an appropriately black and black on black silkscreened cover with two screened inserts."
3/9/2004	Kang Tae Hwan Trio	Love Time	CD	$13.99	vhf	“Debut release by the trio of Kang Tae Hwan, Makoto Kawabata, and Ichiraku Yoshimitsu. Group leader Hwan is an under-documented alto player from Korea who has recorded for Japanese Victor and DIW, played at Moers, toured Japan a few times, and collaborated with Gerry Hemingway and Otomo Yoshihide, among others. Active since the 70's, Hwan's discography also includes several CD's of solo alto improvisations and a duo CD with Tuvan vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak. More recently he has been collaborating with Alfred Harth during Harth's residency in Seoul. Percussionist Yoshimitsu is well-traveled in both improv and rock circles, having been a member of Omoide Hatoba and a frequent collaborator with heavyweights like Otomo Yoshide and Haco. The inescapable Makoto Kawabata is best known for his Deep Purple-style rock as a member of Acid Mothers Temple, but on his own he has produced a string of subtle, elegica solo CD's, performing on guitar, organ, electronics, etc. More minimalist than free jazz, Love Time centers on Hwan's long circular tones, avoiding common free-alto styles in favor of a roughly-hewn clarion approach. Kawabata and Yoshimitsu shadow Hwan subtly on sarangi and bowed percussion. The music gradually builds to a crescendo, with Kawabata swtiching to guitar and Yoshimitsu moving to the drum kit. An atmospheric and understated work. 1 Track, 50 Minutes. In letterpress mini-gatefold.” Recommended!
7/24/2002	Kang, Eyvind	Live Low To The Earth, In The Iron Age	CD	$13.99	Abduction	"Gifted avant violinist Eyvind Kang returns with a beautiful new album composed and performed with the Neti Neti Band (Sun City Girls?). Four gorgeous, extended tracks of gently layered drones, textures, dynamics, and melodies. Recorded and mixed at Aleph by Randall Dunn."
5/12/2004	Kang, Eyvind	Virginal Co-Ordinates	CD	$19.99	Ipecac Recordings	"Virginal Co-Ordinates is Kang's fifth record - an excursion into minimalist territory that nods to Steven Reich, Henryk Gorecki, Terry Riley and Tony Conrad. Recorded live in Bologna, Italy in 2000 at the Angelica Festival, the compositions combine a written musical score with subtle improvisation. The glide of Kang's smooth violin presides over a 22-member orchestra (The Playground Ensemble - a loose collection of European musicians who performed a variety of works at the festival), which includes Mike Patton on vocals and electronics. The compositions work as full-bodied excursions, parsed out in minimal doses that glide towards stunning emotional grandiosity."
	Kangaroo Note	Soundness	CD	$7.99	Public Eyesore	"From remote Sapporo, Japan comes a post-jazz improv trio featuring Aso Takashi on electronics, Ando Kunihiro on contrabass, and Kimura Masaya on tenor saxophone and 'breath controlled synthesizer.' 12 shorter tracks that mix rather traditionally 'smoky' jazz sounds with alien rumblings and frightening wailings."
	Kant	Non Plus Ultra	7"	$4.99	MykeDroner	Droney guitars and loops from Norway on transparent vinyl
9/17/2006	Kantopa	The Temples of Maharashtra	CDR	$10.99	Haunted Trail	"Manipulated field recordings = organic drone tunnels ravelled in faulty electronics that gently melt into your thoughts and grow and grow and grow and grow......and eventually wither...2 tracks - 57 minutes . Music against form and for headphones in a quiet private space...50 copies....each comes with 1 of a kind handmade art made by the artist constructed using candlewax, wire and paint in addition to the oversized uniform package." Out of print - limited stock.
12/24/2005	Kapotte Muziek	Praag / Rotterdam	CD	$9.99	Chondritic Sound / Troniks	"The two live performances on this disc portray the sound of a microphone passing through antimatter - the haunting atmosphere of a slow drone, a glimpse of captured transmissions, the grinding crackle and crunch of a machine eating itself alive only to finally collapse in a sea of manipulated feedback ripe with wooden electronics running low on batteries.. recorded in '95 and '98, these two pieces both feature the line-up of Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks & Frans de Waard. nearly 80 minutes of DEEP SOUND."
	Kapotte Muziek	The Use of Recycling	CD	$12.99	Intransitive	"Kapotte Muziek (aka Frans De Waard, Beequeen, Goem, Shifts) obsessive reworking of previous pieces means no project is ever trult finished. Here his materials are his own earlier experimental recordings and two reel-to-reel tapes given to him by Yeast Culture. Intense blocks of distorto-noise and worn tape hiss are his favored methods of attack. What comes out the other end sounds like a tiny windworn landscape, gradually overwhelmed by dust and heat."
2/4/2007	Kark	The Hermit	LP	$15.99	HP Cycle	"Debut album from this massive free ensemble from Louisville which features a revolving cast of over 50 musicians including members of Sapat, Valley of Ashes, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Son of Earth, Taiwan Death and the Belgian Waffles. The Hermit consists of three extended pieces that offer spaciously abstract atmospheres as well as moments of righteous cacophony. Utilizing a multitude of brass, reeds and percussion the album careens through numerous passages where intricate harmonics are created from the densely layered sounds. When the full force of the ensemble is unleashed individual elements appear and quickly recede into the squall. As the music nearly becomes unhinged, the sound disintegrates into a godzilla-like rockist thud propelled by the rhythm section and soaring horns before drifting to a sparse conclusion. The LP comes in a full colour jacket with homespun artifacts gracing the cover."
	Kate Village & Wayne Rogers	Quits	LP	$12.99	Twisted Village	"Wayne & Kate have been dueling with their electric guitars for most of their adult lives, usually in the context of Crystalized Movements, Magic Hour, Major Stars, or one of the many imaginary ensembles they've been a part of over the past 15 years. Here they cut out the rhythm section and go head-to-head. One side studio, one side live, both sides loud and free."
7/30/2006	Kauffman, Nicolas Felix and Stefan Geoffrey Neville	Owl Low	CDR	$10.99	Carbon Records	"46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive percussion, patented Pumice-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard, drone-vocals and more from Stefan Neville (aka Pumice) and Nicolas Kauffman (part of Family Underground - Denmark) . recorded 2005 in a giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to Stefan and Nicolas' other recordings on various other labels such as Last Visible Dog, Soft Abuse, Audiobot, Chocolate Monk, QBICO, Into the Lunar Night). [packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in various colors]" - label. Highly recommended!
7/16/2006	Kawabata Makoto	111	CDR	$12.99	Acid Mothers Temple	Limited edition of 200 copies. This recording features one long track (electric & acoustic guitar) recorded in January 2004. The first release "111" in Kawabata Makoto's new CDR series has been released by the AMT label. The series itself is called Private Sound Drawing with each disk containing an individual drawing by Kawabata.
	Kawabata Makoto	Inui 2	CD	$13.99	vhf	"Inui 2 is the first widely available solo cd by this prolific Japanese guitarist/composer/bearded guru. Known primarily for his recent work with oddballs Acid Mothers Temple, Kawabata's career actually goes back to the late '70s and spans many styles, including solo guitar improv, electronics, folk, and, of course, the deranged acid mayhem associated with the PSF scene. Performed entirely solo on violin, kemenje, zurna, electronics, sarangi, taiko, gong, water, bouzouki, cello, vibes, organ, and sitar, the four tracks that make up Inui 2 are perfectly executed dream-music, equal parts delicately floating and heavily droning. There's also one all-too-short modal essay for bouzouki that is amazingly beautiful." Recommended!
3/2/2005	Kawabata Makoto	Inui 3	CD	$13.99	vhf	“The third volume in the acclaimed Inui series from Acid Mothers Temple Kawabata Makoto. Focusing on Makoto's highly personal brand of epic instrumental drone, INUI 3 features Makoto performing on bouzouki, sarangi, electric guitar, viola, and ECS-101, with an emphasis on the gradual build of monumental sound structures. Three extended tracks, including the forty-seven-minute ‘Fuku,’ based on a hypnotic arpeggio plucked out on bouzouki over which Gong-style glissando guitar and other zonked sounds are carefully layered.” Recommended!
9/16/2007	Kawabata Makoto	INUI 4	CD	$13.99	vhf	"INUI 4 is the fourth volume in Makoto's series of occasional solo releases for VHF. While widely and rightly known for ear-splitting Deep Purple style guitar demolition with Acid Mothers Temple, Gong, etc, Kawabata's INUI works are highly personal and introspective, with lots of room given to cosmic atmosphere and acoustic instruments. INUI 4 is a single 68 minute track, a slow building and evolving multi-layered swath of acoustic & electric guitars, electronics, and hurdy gurdy. The final 20 minutes of the track features prominent "glissando" guitar, ala Daevid Allen, a very fine sound to be lost in. Like the other INUI volumes, this includes great pix and design by Makoto and Kawabata Sachiko.
9/30/2005	Kawabata Makoto	Jellyfish Rising	CD	$13.99	Fuenfundvierzif	"Kawabata Makoto is guitarist with the Japanese psychedelic rock legend Acid Mothers Temple. He is also their mastermind. One does not have to make a big fuss over the ingenuity of Acid Mothers Temple (who are seen by many as the Japanese answer to Hawkwind, Motörhead and Grateful Dead combined). Big and important magazines like for example The Wire have amply celebrated their music in the past years. The connection to Acid Mothers Temple alone will provide sufficient reason for many listeners to want to own their copy of Jellyfish Rising, because AMT are to be found on the must have-list of many record buyers (complete with the tag "related releases also"). But Kawabata's musical activities go back way before the beginnings of AMT. Already at the end of the 70s, he was the leader of Ankoku Kakumei Kyodotai, a band who through their albums of wild synthesizer noise collages in a style reminiscent of Morton Subotnik received some attention. These records and Jellyfish Rising are directly linked. On the present album, Kawabata distances himself from the drones which dominated much of his earlier solo output. This album is comprised of two long minimalist compositions for (and on) guitar, which were realized with the help of reverb and delay units. The music thus created reminds one in many ways of the synthesizer experiments from early Krautrock-days (Klaus Schulze, Neu!, but also Brian Eno are the names to be dropped in this context). Another possible influence to be discerned here are the minimalist compositions of Terry Riley, especially his piece "In C" (which AMT interpreted on their homonymous album). In both tracks, Kawabata heaps layers of guitar sounds upon each other, which - similar to Riley - have a small but perpetually changing motif at their core. This gets modified in such small nuances, that the listener cannot but be totally absorbed by the resulting music - one almost gets sucked into it. Listening to this album is a bit being under like hypnosis - after having listened to the first two to three minutes, one simply becomes incapable of doing anything else besides listening to those slight changes in Kawabata's music. He puts his listeners into a trance. Jellyfish Rising is acoustic LSD. But without any negative side effects, that much I can guarantee you. Have fun on this trip of the extraordinary kind."
8/20/2004	Kawabata Makoto	O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas Umbras?	CD	$12.99	Important Records	"Kawabata Makoto (leader of Japanese collective The Acid Mothers Temple) has created O Si Amos A Essere Duas Umbras? in tribute to Sardegna where Kawabata's creative life recently achieved a highly influencial spiritual climax. According to Kawabata, these recordings represent one of the most important moments in his life. While in Sardegna he found his 'cosmos.' At some point on his trip, a new cosmos opened for him and he received 'many wonderful vibrations' from these cosmos. These are the very first of his works created after this transcendental experience. Hearing and feeling these tracks it is apparent that Kawabata has been deeply spiritually affected since his last solo outing. O Si Amos A Essere Duas Umbras? is comprised of two epic, deeply meditative, spiritual and transcendental compositions. Track one, titled Ses Aintro ‘e mene finzas Si Ses In S'Atter'Ala E Su Mundu is the very first solo track Kawabata has ever recorded on an acoustic guitar. Filtered through 3 reverb units and a single delay this epic acoustic track starts off droning but quickly builds with reverb drenched and finger picked momentum light years away from any of Kawabata's solo guitar work. The second major composition is the album's namesake. This deeply spiritual electric guitar drone was also played through 3 reverb units and a single delay machine. Drawing the listner in, these drones resonate deeply and numbly seduce the active listener into a meditative state capable of understanding what Kawabata Makoto means when he says he found his 'cosmos.' If you're having trouble actualizing your cosmos, or even understanding Kawabata's spiritual experience, take this home and put on your headphones. The skies will open and you'll be full of vibrations."
8/22/2008	Kawabata Makoto	We Don't Know Where We Came From	LP	$22.99	Important	"Limited edition of 500 copies in a letterpress jacket by 43rd Parallel Press. We Don't Know Where We Came From features Acid Mothers Temple leader Kawabata Makoto on both electric and acoustic guitars. Recorded at Kaccho-Buu Matsuzaka by Takayama Manabu. Live recordings."
12/26/2005	Kawabata Makoto	Your Voice From the Moon	CD	$15.99	Vivo Records	"A new solo CD (November 2005 release) by Acid Mothers Temple mastermind Kawabata Makoto. Musique Cosmique Electro-Acoustique2. 3 tracks full of modulated analogue synthesizer sound. Spacious and hypnotic improvisations."
8/31/2008	Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke	Basement Echo	CD	$15.99	Important	"Basement Echo is the historical meeting point of two generations of the Japanese underground. Kawabata Makoto, leader of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke, leader of LSD March, are together here for the first time in a guitar duo. Though Kawabata and Michishita are from the same scene the fact that they are from different generation means that they bring different energy to the collaborations. This fact is extremely exciting for Kawabata who refers to Michishita as "one of the most promising musicians in the Japanese Underground." Both artists agree that Basement Echo was a step into the unknown with neither really knowing what the resulting sounds would be. For Michishita the collaborations have been a dream come true. He describes Kawabata as having a "soul of rock that never burns out." After the recordings were complete the two friends sat down and raised a triumphant toast. Recorded at Snowflake Sound in Sapporo in October of 2007. Totally improvised with no editing/overdubbing."
11/2/2008	Kawabata Makoto & Michisita Shinsuke	Sex, Voyage, and Echo Chamber	CD	$18.99	BLR	"Acid. Meet LSD. LSD. Meet Acid. The reigning lords of the new psychedelic church cross guitars for a super-electric cosmic jam that causes even hurricanes to don ear plugs. More like the paintings of crazed banshees than songs, this shape-shifting set's loud-quiet-loud transforms the spaciousness of the axe duel into a growling canvas of thunder. Walls of feedback and distortion moan like sinking U-boats. Fuzzed tones collide into cavernous micro black holes that seem to engulf the Earth. Bigger bangs birth savage suns of massive noise. A fierce metallic martini, best taken shaken AND stirred! Play loud!" Highly recommended!
9/17/2006	Kawabata Makoto & The Mothers of Invasion	Hot Rattlesnakes	CD	$16.99	Prophase Music	"Hot Rattlesnakes is a reissue of a classic out of print Acid Mothers Temple-related CD. Pressed in a limited quantity in the UK, it sold out almost immediately and currently commands high prices on ebay and is whispered about in hushed tones from those who have actually heard it. Guitarist Kawabata Makoto brings along Acid Mothers Temple cohorts Tsuyama Atsushi (Zoffy, Omoide Hatoba) and Ichiraku Yoshimitsu for one of the most out there power trio recordings ever. While certainly close to Acid Mothers Temple in sound and feeling, Hot Rattlesnakes certainly exists in its own little corner of the Acid Mothers Temple galaxy." Recommended!
6/11/2006	Kawabata Makoto / Anla Courtis & Rokugenkin	Kokura	LP	$16.99	Riot Season	"Kokura was recorded under dark skies and howling winds, deep in the bowels of a Japanese club as the country shook outside. Kokura is the fruits of a collaboration between ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE / MAINLINER main man KAWABATA MAKOTO, Argentinean guitarist ANLA COURTIS (REYNOLS) and Japanese underground musician ROKUGENKIN. Based around hushed, mellow guitar drones and hypnotic, yet restrained guitar wails, Kokura is the first fruits of their labors and captures the sound of life beneath a hurricane. Like Sunn O))) on half volume! Limited edition one-off pressing of 400 copies worldwide. Packaged in black and metallic silver ink shrink-wrapped sleeves." Recommended!
	Kawabata Makoto / Richard Youngs	s/t	CD	$13.99	vhf	"The untitled CD of duets by the nowadays unavoidable Acid Mothers Temple leader Kawabata Makoto and the somewhat less available Glasgow librarian Richard Youngs shows the pair in a relaxed, yet psychedelic mood. The five untitled tracks here play simple modal melodies performed on acoustic guitar, autoharp, organ, voice etc against swirling production and layers of shifting audio haze. Track 1 has Richard's immediately identifiable voice, guitar, and autoharp against Kawabata's spacey echo treatments - track 3 reverses the process with Richard's minor key picking cutting against Kawabata's thick, visceral bowed drones. Tracks 2, 4, and 5 all use a base of lovely fingerpicked guitar melodies, layering on organ, synth, tape effects, and echo until a suitably mellow cosmic vibe is achieved. All in all, some of the most beautiful sounds ever issued by either of these two gents, best known for their edgy experimental work - and support of pro wrestling and antique hunting, respectively." Highly recommended!
12/5/2002	Kawani, Hiroshi	Flashback	CD	$16.99	PSF	"Hiroshi Kawani is a little known figure in the West, but he has been crucially central to the Tokyo avant-garde scene since the fifties as performer, commentator, theorist, organiser, and agitator. He was part of the sixties experimental art nexus that included Takehisa Kosugi and Yasunao Tone as well as radical artists like Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Genpei Akasegawa (in the greatest cause célèbre of the 60s Japanese art world, the latter was prosecuted by the Japanese state for creating one-sided simulacra of bank notes). Later, as an editor at publishers Gendai Shichosha Kawani was responsible for bringing out Japanese translations of work by Artaud, Bataille, Derrida and others ­ works that galvanised a new generation of radicals. Kawani has been active as a solo voice performer since the early 80s, and though now in a wheelchair he still performs regularly. The private home recordings presented here have been unearthed by alto terrorist Masayoshi Urabe from a mountain of cassettes of unknown provenance, and would seem to date from around 1983. There¹s the unmistakable feel of low-level mania throughout, as Kawani moans, jabbers and obsesses wordlessly into a microphone over an patterned tapestry of feedback and amped everyday objects (rubber bands, cans, bottles, knives, steel pipes, shoes, chopsticks etc). This touches on all kinds of synapse-warping art bases from Robert Ashley to the Nurse With Wound in a gloriously messy, unacademic (and yes, psychedelic) way. Includes English linernotes." - Alan Cummings
3/24/2008	Keffer, Leslie	Whoreny 4U	cassette	$8.99	Tusco Embassy	"two side long tracks. both recorded at home directly to stereo. these newer recordings are great. taken from the same session that produced her side of the skin graft/keffer split (now sold out) pretty blown out. weird loops. dissonant and lulling at times. screened, wrap around inserts printed on recycled lp sleeves. artwork by delina. awesome."
5/14/2007	Keffer, Leslie + Rodger Stella	Live In Nashville April 6, 2007	cassette	$7.99	Action Claw Records	"New live collaboration between Leslie and Mt Stella with a distant, wind tunnel fidelity shot full of tiny holes with the aid of what sounds like hair driers sharpened to tiny dart-like points and used as projectiles while Leslie flashes in and out of corporeal form in explosions of vocal smoke. Comes in hand-sewn paper sleeves with Madonna-reverent artwork." - Volcanic Tongue
9/30/2008	Keffer, Leslie + Val Martino	Prissywillow	7"	$6.99	I Just Live Here	"Collaborative effort between Leslie Keffer and Val Martino (Unicorn Hard-On). Totally demented stumbling beats and clutters of sound. Spraypainted and silkscreened covers. Edition of 300."
5/14/2007	Keffer, Leslie / White Album	split	cassette	$7.99	Action Claw Records	"white album from athens,ohio can be compared to bands like nirvana, flipper, and black flag." These recordings were captured live in Athens, Ohio on January 27, 2007.
3/26/2006	Keffer, Leslie and and Jason Zeh	Dodder / Like Trees	7"	$5.99	Eye Wish Arts	"Leslie Keffer "Dodder"+Noise Queen, Leslie Keffer of Athens, Ohio, conjurs harsh incantations of radio static and electronic tones producing haunting, psychic, future-scapes that tap into the dreams and desires of all those who surround her. "Dodder" is a throbbing, sonic manifestation of the collective unconscious; a masterful evocation of forces which are elusive to most; a betrayal to conventional reality. Jason Zeh "Like Trees Growing Around Fences Long Gone, Places Bare the Imprint of Past Emotional Distress."+Xerox artist and tape mangler, Jason Zeh of Bowling Green Ohio, utilizes the limitations of analog reproduction technologies, showcasing the imperfections and degenerative tendencies inherent in the process of duplication. "Like Trees..." is an attempt to unlock the emotional character of a physical space. It is a symbiotic relationship between human, machine and place resulting in a slowly escalating tension and an emergence of nearly human voices from the seemingly lifeless walls." - label description
8/22/2008	Keijo	Carry On With Us	CDR / Book	$15.99	Pseudoarcana	"Latest missive from Finlands motorcycle crazed improvising drone shaman. 'Carry On With Us' features extended percussion rites and long sections of uber-blues guitar. In some ways this is a challenging record with Keijo veering into Jandek like atonality at times. But there are also moments of lush sublime beauty. Overall it reflects honesty and frankness. Sure signs of 'true' magic.. Packaged in a high quality 12 page book of photos and collage works by Keijo."
3/1/2007	Keijo	Flying Over	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"The godfather of the Finnish Underground is back with his most complete album to date. Keijo Virtanen's far-reaching hands can be felt throughout the Nordic peninsula from his home in Jyväskylä. While he often performs in numerous groups such as The Free Players and Kheta Hotem, it is in his solo work that he is most accomplished. Virtanen is not just a talented and prolific musician, but also and artist and published author. His inspiration and creativity know no bounds. At 54 years-old, Virtanen still rides his motorcycle all over the country and shows no signs of letting up. Virtanen finally took his show on the road this past autumn, touring with members of Uton and Vapaa throughout Northern Europe. He also released two CDs on the much heralded Last Visible Dog imprint. "Flying Over" is the culmination of a landmark year for this troubadour. These nine tracks run the gambit of all of Keijo's talents, from the rattling blues transgressions of "On the Edge," to the throatsinging-laced organic drone of "Late Night Here & Far Away," and completed with the harmonium-laced " Virtanen's range is pure magic. While the bulk of "Flying Over" is entirely Virtanen's creation, he is joined by two of his closest collaborators on two tracks: Sami Virtanen and Jussi Karsikas, two extremely talented Finns in their own right. Whatever the moment calls for, though, Virtanen fills the void and the empty space with exactly what is needed. He is a wizard of sound and a seemingly endless well of magnificent music. It shouldn't be surprising for someone who makes their home at the center of the universe."
7/30/2006	Keijo	For A While	CD	$12.99	Last Visible Dog	"Keijo hails from Jyväskylä, Finland -- a small town in the north that claims to be the center of the universe. In the sprawling Finnish underground, Keijo is the wise sage who everyone admires. He has worked and collaborated with Finnish acts such as Vapaa, Avarus, and Kheta Hotem, while seeing cd-r releases on the ultra-hip pseudoArcana and Lal lal lal labels. Keijo broke through the wall of cd-r obscurity on our 6 CD Invisible Pyramid comp last year, and has subsequently seen several excellent CD releases on Foxy Digitalis. "for a while" picks up the reins where Brad left off, but even we're a bit surprised with this one! While using all acoustic sources, 'for a while' is flat out weird. I mean weird even for Keijo. Essentially the structure utilized here is folk, but somewhere way beyond the analogy of Buckley's Lorca dream-structure being used to break down reality subconsciously. It isn't even easy to listen to. Unsettling minimalist guitar riffs drift under sheets of detuned/stretched-out bell samples. No, this isn't the sort of weirdness that grabs you by the collar and shakes you around a bit. This is another, more insidious weirdness that isn't apparent right away, but rather you wake up one morning and realize you weren't the person you were before." - label
10/25/2008	Keijo	Neverending Blues	CD	$14.99	Ikuisuus	"According to Indian mythology everything was born and will be born with vibration, sound. What Western civilization calls music, is narrow, nothing but strictly controlled thread in that vibrating area. Other kind of threads have been mastered elsewhere. Inevitably these threads will also face each other and become one. Basic note chimes in blues, raga and mantra. I dreamt of musics and players who can modulate with music, no matter which cultural background they come from... I felt I understood something about the sounds I sometimes heard in the evening just before falling into sleep and in the morning when I woke up." Keijo Virtanen (Kheta Hotem, Free Players, Rambling Boys) makes his long distance walk into the stream of folk/countryblues continuum. These marvellously rusty and dusty tracks have been cooking with tender flame in Keijo?s mind&soul for a good while: "When I was just a little boy, I used to just lay down under the blanket (just before falling to sleep) randomly switching the channels of our transistor radio. Under the crunches and washes I also found the new pirate radio stations and there, among the speeches came out the echoing, rhythmic, electric guitar music. Eventually under rock music and British pop music I discovered the sounds of the black people of North America. I felt like those deep singing voices and wailing guitars would somehow also belong to this kind of environment, to rural, middle-of-nowhere Finland, surrounded by wildlife and physical work with our own hands and whatever we may get grown from the land. Blues was burning onto recordings in Jyväskylä and Kuusankoski, Finland 2006-2007."
8/2/2008	Keijo	What All Whom Slowly	CDR	$10.99	Bumtapes	"Finland's Keijo offers up another collection of Fractured Guitar explorations and Droning Forest JamsŠ. Bumtapes is proud to present a Limited to 50 CDR with Twelve Tracks of beautiful music with full colour pasted photo covers...."
2/12/2008	Keijo	Whose Dream We Live In	CD	$9.99	Fire Museum Records	"Finland's master of psychfolkdroneblues music emerges with what may well be his most engaging release yet! Considered by many to be the forefather of the much lauded Finnish musical underground, "Whose Dream We Live In" serves as Keijo's sonic calling card - bringing together many of the diverse elements that his music has been celebrated for into a joyous whole. From blues (by way of Jyväskylä) meditations to spaceship lullabyes to psychedelic rave ups and beyond, Keijo has opened the door into his musical universe for all to enter. Don't miss your chance, accept his invitation or it's your loss, friendŠ For the most part a solo outing (although he is assisted by Leila on four of the eleven tracks here) "Whose Dream We Live In" assuredly answers the question it poses. For the duration of the disc, enjoy living in the dream that Keijo has conjured up for you. We will not be held liable if, upon awakening, your world never looks the same again." - label. "(Keijo) compares the way the way he builds his pieces to Wittgenstein's conceptual rope, where no one strand is continuous: Instead, all strands overlap to express a whole. His music, then, becomes a negotiation between seemingly opposed elements - the organic and the 'artificial', the acoustic and the electronic - the goal being to expose the common roots and mutable nature of all sound" - Matthew Wuethrich, The Wire
6/11/2006	Keijo & the Free Players	After at Once	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Once again, Finnish-native Keijo Virtanen unloads another dirt-stained masterpiece. Over the past few years he has assembled a group of artists that have become known as the Free Players. Their collaborative efforts are like a clinic in improvisation. The interplay and spontaneity between them is epic. The Free Players often include members of Finnish free-jazz pawnpins Vapaa, as well as Kheta Hotem, Kundalini Snakes, and others. "After at Once" is the ensemble's first non-CDR release and finds them in top form. The members of Vapaa play an integral role on "After at Once." Tiitus Petäjäniemi is especially key with his vocal wailings and incantantions. Tribal percussion and chromatic whimsy often puncuate Keijo's sarod-laden excursions through the mist. There's a heavy Indian influence on these recordings, stemming from Keijo's many trips its sub-continental shores. Musically, "After at Once" is spacious, but cohesive. With the addition of the sarod on these recordings, the music takes on a life of its own. As always, Keijo's hand guides the magic and in the end, it's still his world we're living in."
2/11/2006	Keijo & The Free Players	Passing On	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"it is hard to know what else there is to say about keijo and his free players. over the past two years, the wise sage of finland his band of merrymen have unleashed a discography as impressive as it is imposing. as gayle brogan of the unimitable boa melody bar said (about a previous release), "keijo may be incredibly prolific but each release really is essential." this is certainly the case with "passing on." this is an album full of reverberating space. acoustic guitar improvisations with nothing to hide, clattered by chromatic percussion split the stars. methodic drones with flickering wind instruments keep everything grounded. "passing on" is everything you've come to expect from keijo and is nothing short of brilliant. 100 copies."
2/4/2007	Keijo and The Free Players	Endless Clouds	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"On this outing the freeplayers move with gentle grace through realms of hazy free flowing rock and psyche spiked jammage . deeply meditative , cyclical and dreamy , perfect for the human nomind."
6/5/2005	Keijo and the Free Players	Untitled	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"Wonderfully dreamy and spatious recordings by Finnish ambient-mystic Keijo Virtanen, joined on these sessions by members of the band Vapaa. Synth and reed-instrument drones are married to discreet plucked strings, abstract percussion, and Keijos harmonic singing. A 45 minute series of beautiful slow moments."
11/9/2004	Keller, Yann & Vilbjørg	Riddles	CDR	$14.99	Holispolis	“A duo from the squatting scene in Amsterdam, consisting of Yann Keller on her selfmade electronics and metal bass and Vilbjørg on voice. They have been playing together as a duo for five years and occasionally work together with other people, such as the notorious Dead Fish Fuck. The four pieces on this release were generated through means of improvisation, but these two incorporate many different musical styles into their work. Occasionally inspired by techno and noise likewise, which mostly accounts for the music played on the electronics, the used vocal techniques by Vilbjørg seem to have one origin: improvisation. Not meant as a negative qualification, as I think her range is quite wide. From more 'regular' singing she goes out to a strong voice abuse, kinda Diamanda Galas meeting Jaap Blonk, merging together into one person. Despite these references to more popular tunes, this is by no means an easy disc. It's demanding throughout it's length, and will leave the listener breathless after it stops after it's 46 minutes. Difficult stuff but rewarding.” – FdW, Vital
9/17/2006	Kelley, Greg	1 Hour As Something That Didn't Turn Out The Way I Intended It To	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Another exercise in failure. Spring 2003: With assistance from Vic Rawlings, I fill my room at Club Awesome in Somerville MA w/ electric keyboards, synth, a small organ and set them all for drone. A radio plays static. Record to MD, output MD through my stereo for low feedback. An electric fan is aimed at the microphone for the distorted vintage 78 effect (rpm, not the year). Vic bowed a single cello note at some point and a cymbal was scraped. The intent: record in mono for 2 hours, communicate with the dead. After 1 hour, I couldn't take it any more. My intended "Two hours as..." is now "One hour as..." I fussed over it for a while. It's kind of boring. I like boring, but... Late Winter 2004: I must do something with this recording. I decide to look backwards into the archives... January 8, 2000: I send out a call to arms: Meet me at Twisted Village Records, Cambridge MA at 8pm. It's Scelsi's birthday and we will play a memorial drone for him. The call was met by Oliver Alden, Mike Bullock, James Baumgartner, Seth Cluett, James Coleman, David Dougan, David Gross, Tatsuya Nakatani, Howard Stelzer, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings. Some automatic instruments played themselves. Others may have been there, but I don't remember. And you can't really hear them anyway. Back to Late Winter 2004: I record a new track onto my 4 track in my bedroom in Allston MA. Trumpet and radio static. (DJ Screw's ghost inhabited my 4 track near the end of this track.) Then I record a burning guitar solo for the end of my new and improved "One hour as..." The mono drone, the Scelsi tribute band, the trumpet/radio track and the HOTT guitar track are all mixed down from 4 track to MD under the influence of Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout. A vocal intro and headphone feedback interruptions are then added. The task is complete. It's a bloodbath. What have I done?"
5/8/2005	Kelley, Greg	I Don't Want to Live Forever	CD	$10.99	Gameboy	"This ain't your mama's trumpet-recorded-through-microcassette-and-then-chopped-the-fuck-up record. Oh no. Kelley's taking that genre places, son. Recognize. Brutallyl spliced, severed, destroyed, and chopped, but oddly not so screwed. This is how Greg entertains himself when not practicing his world-renowned stage dives. Co-released with the brand new Little Enjoyer label."
8/22/2008	Kelley, Greg	Religious Electronics	LP	$15.99	No Fun Productions	"Two sides of melting electronics from Greg. This is not Jazz. limited to 350 copies."
6/11/2006	Kelley, Greg	The Conditions Of The Past Cannot Be Retrieved	CDR	$10.99	8MM	"Title makes this one seem like an old-school lesson in Industrial dissection but while there's enough devolved man/machine strategies here to please your average tattooed occultist, the bulk of this fantastic disc is drawn squarely from the mutant solar modes that orbit Kelley's (Nmperign, Cold Bleak Heat et al) own brain. Five tracks, all born of extensive four track experimentation and all working scales of low-fi fug into tortuous new ends ala a more wiped-out take on Kelley's last, killing Gameboy side. First track moves hoovering drones into small pools of single-note synth and sets up the initial mood of degraded repeats that fuels the first four tracks, somewhere between the concrete logic of Nurse With Wound circa Homotopy To Marie and a Fluxus machine orchestra. Last track is a massive 30 minute composition for metal, piezo mics, bow, tape machine and auto-destructive violence. Totally great. Comes in an oversize 5" x 7" silkscreened cover in a hand-numbered edition of 205 copies with another chance to own that great snap of Kelley preaching to the unconverted in shirt and tie. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
9/17/2006	Kelley, Greg / Alex Neilson	Graveside Doles	LP	$24.99	Ultra Eczema	"Two of the most intense young "free" dudes from different parts of the globe (kelley from boston, neilson from leeds) unite for this completely weird record, taking free music to a different level, recorded on top of eachother via mail. this sounds like moving the heaviest metal closet on a little rubber boat from brighton to the east coast of the united states, kicking off with a heavy free jazzy tune full of retarded trumpets stuffed with little babies screaming for a change slightly changing into ice cold acoustic metal scraping ambience. tons of different sounds to discover and very unclear whether they came out of a trumpet, a drumset, a mouth or a whale. comes in a black and silver fine line drawn cover by dennis tyfus - limited to 400 copies"
2/25/2004	Kelley, Mike	Silver Ball (Light and Color, Mostly)	one-sided LP	$14.99	Table of the Elements	"Table of the Elements presents the Lanthanides, a series of 14 single-sided, limited edition LPs. Each disk is pressed on clear or transparent vinyl, silk-screened on the reverse in glow-in-the-dark ink, and packaged in a clear vinyl sleeve. As one of this country¹s most prominent visual artists, Mike Kelley twists common colloquial forms - like signs, stuffed animals and felt banners - and infuses them with the dark psychologies and hidden undercurrents (sexual, metaphysical, and otherwise) of middle-class American culture, assaulting everything that society holds dear. From his first rambling performances in the early 1980s, he has appealed to a cult audience because his work is too complex, aggressive, and willfully contradictory to be considered mainstream. Yet in the early '90s, his soft sculptures made from filthy thrift store animals garnered international art world attention, landing him a 1993 exhibition at the Whitney Museum (they also appear on the cover of Sonic Youth's classic Dirty album). Kelley has an even deeper background as a sound artist: he is co-founder of the seminal trash-noise collective Destroy All Monsters, whose anti-aesthetic marauded throughout the 1970s with a membership that included artist Jim Shaw, Ron Asheton (Iggy and the Stooges) and Mike Davis (MC5). The composition Silver Ball (Light and Color, Mostly) is one channel from Kelley¹s eight channel audio sculpture 'Silver Ball' (1994)."
6/17/2004	Kemialliset Ystävät	Alkuhärkä	CD	$18.99	Fonal Records	"After recovering from a long illness I started searching through the shores and woods. I finally managed to locate Mr. Anderzén in the middle of an arctic desert. He sat there cross legged, eyes closed, calm as if on top of a mountain or in the bottom of the sea. No trees nor any other objects apart from ourselves interrupted the plain white landscape. Sun dragged itself slowly over the horizon. The air was still. 'My retreat will soon be over.' His husky voice seemed to emerge from the field of snow itself. I didn't see his lips moving. As I asked about the last nine months he had been away he mumbled something about contemplation. 'Remember what Cocteau wrote in Opium about revealing the essence of plants? - I have gained sights of that different kind of speed of vegetation and I have heard the screams of plants he talked about.' After six long days of silence spent mostly eating drought reindeer's meat Mr A. talked again: 'I had this strangest of dreams. There was no space, no people, no traces of action, just this plasmoid machine out of which erupted sounds. And then as I was receiving those aural secretions of an ultra physical automaton from the seventh uppermost world, I woke up due to a butterfly itching in my ear. There I was all covered with sweat, heart beating furiously, yet the ear was empty. It took a long time to be able to sleep after that night.' Heed my words dear friends; that butterfly preserved to the ears of ours which weren't there is Alkuhärkä." - Ralf Normaali. Highly recommended!
6/19/2002	Kemialliset Ystävät	Kellari Juniversumi	CD	$18.99	Fonal Records	Reissue of this album, originally released in 2002. Kellari Juniversumi has been hailed as a masterpiece and has been out of print for a long time. Reprint includes a new 24-page booklet. "Many are the rumors that revolve round the Tamperean tribe called Kemialliset Ystävät (Chemical Friends), regarding for instance the recipe for their brand of magic potion and their ethnic background. Contradicting the common beliefs, this group, which is now, depending on how you count, releasing its first or tenth album, does not consist of elves, gnomes or some lesser-known folk of the forest, but is mainly the product of one human risen from the rotten ditch of Nekala (a Tampere suburb). With his vast set of allies he has by the power of his spirit carved a whole multitude of caves into the cellar of an otherwise unsuspect looking house. From that Cellar Yuniversum (a rough translation of the disc's name) originates this record, which I myself regard rather as the first, as its many predecessors have been either halves of a long player, virtually unobtainable or partial rereleases. Now, at last, as we venture deeper into the cellar than ever before, we see the aforementioned elves and gnomes in their festivities, as the urbanization process has cut down the Tampere backwoods and has thus forced them to flee into the caves of Kemialliset Ystävät, who naturally are in good terms with all tiny earthlings with pointed ears." - Ralf Normaali, a lowlife from the capital area.
12/24/2005	Kemialliset Ystävät	Lumottu Karkkipurkki (Vapaa Systeemi)	CD	$18.99	Fonal Records	"Originally Lumottu Karkkipurkki was released on cassette on Huutomerkki label, re-released on double 8 inch lathe cut on the Celebrate Psi Phenomenom label. Now finally available on CD remastered and remixed."
6/19/2007	Kemialliset Ystävät	untitled	CD	$18.99	Fonal	"Please receive this carefully cooked porridge, the new untitled Kemialliset Ystävät full length album. Pulsating, radiant and turbocharged this music shares the groove of a junk pile AND a wild foal. It comes with the lovely smell of the chemical they spray on apple trees. It's a highly ambitious effort originally planned to become a defying message in a bottle, limited edition of one, addressed to the Man. Kemialliset Ystävät has been rocking OUT for some time now and there is no end in sight. Without all the experiments of the past this record would not exist while there's still plenty of fresh perspective in the mix too. Listen to Roope drum his belly, Laura play tambura and Jaakko go berserk on a Chinese flute. Listen carefully. Lot of energy went into the mixing: million voices from friends are twisted into one hypnotic over-the-top sound textile that vibrates and grows to every direction resembling a living organism, a merry beast. Give it a hug and you will gain power, it is like shooting up Echinacea. Wrap it around you and tune in to the blizzard. Sit down and blast as loud as possible!" Recommended!
12/24/2005	Kemiälliset Ystävät	Latvasta Laho	CD	$17.99	Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon	"Goodness gracious. Them freaky Finns that got the whole Finnish thing a-rollin, roll on in with this warm pool of clatter-bash, strum-n-clunk, and electro-forest ya-ya. There ain't many acts sharp enough to go whittlin' with this gang and 'Latvasta Laho' (literally 'rotten in the head') shows just why you shouldn't go foolin' with what you dont know nuthin' about. Monophonic wood goblins wiggle trees and a retarded werewolf banjo orchestra leaves cute piles of stones outside your tent. Comes complete with fleeting hip-hop stomp-a-tronics, and freefallin' spookified blast-athons... huh?. Quite possibly the most fascinating/frightening night of 2005. Cuppa tea anyone?"
10/25/2008	Kemialliset Ystävät / Sunroof!	split	LP	$14.99	Fat Cat	"Another album-length release, the nineteenth 12" in our acclaimed Split Series presents two immensely vital and influential artists whose fiercely focused and highly individual music has genuinely pushed boundaries and an aesthetics of movement / excess in two very different, yet complimentary ways, creating their own distinctive sound-worlds. Led by Jan Anderzén, Kemialliset Ystävät (it translates as 'chemical friends') are a loose collective from Tampere in southern Finland. Fans for a long while, FatCat's initial hookup with Kemialliset Ystävät occurred in February 2006, when the band were invited to play at FatCat's 'Open Circuit' Festival in belgium, at which they also played a live improvised collaboration with Múm. A fantastic live unit, they will be touring the UK / Europe this Autumn. Sunroof! is the work of prolific, Bradford-based guitar-abuse legend Matthew Bower, who has been active on the experimental / post-punk / noise underground for over 25 years, releasing over 60 albums under a variety of pseudonyms. Bower's vast discography of visceral, free drone-rock is one of the most formidable of its kind - a monumental / labyrinthine effort to get your head around, with continual shifts and dynamic reverses between - and even within - his various projects rendering it virtually impossible to pin down. If anything, more wilfully diverse and leaning towards the ecstatic, Sunroof!'s trajectory has shifted from bubbling, transcendental pulse to coruscating feedback, jerky freeform soloing to sweet-shimmering dream-haze with traces of acid-damaged British folk, and brain-blitzing high-pitched psychedelic drone. Heavily layered and forming a rich, deep and fully immersive experience, the project has included collaborators like Richard Youngs, Mattin, C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Sunburned Hand Of The Man's John Moloney and Marc Orleans, Vibracathedral Orchestra's Mick Flower and Neil Campbell, and Phil Todd (whose Anna Planeta project featured on a previous FatCat split 12"). Stepping between varying pressures and weights, the three tracks provided here offer a dazzling confirmation of Sunroof!'s quality. 'Little Ornamental Lake Of Death' and 'Extinction Fantasy' blow out a beatless, fizzing, corruscating, hyper-energetic scrawl / sprawl of guitar - a swirling mass of sound that's blissfully immersive and hyper-coloured. Wedged in between, the far briefer 'Spiritual Forgery' hangs a frayed line of quavering guitar tone."
3/2/2007	Kendall, David	Triumph of Individuality	CDR	$8.99	Gameboy	"Harsh digital composition from prominent SoCal programmer and resident Heat Director. The title says it all: one of a kind. Kendall whips out six tracks of composed noise with an improviser's sensibilities."
7/11/2008	Kenji Siratori	Biomechanic Torture	CDR	$8.99	267 Lattajjaa	"More japanese cybernoise."
5/29/2008	Keszler, Eli	R.L.K.	CD	$11.99	REL Records	Long piece in 3 parts; Bowed percussion, drumset and electronics. Hand embossed/stamped and painted arigate pak with insert.
5/29/2008	Keszler, Eli	Wolver	cassette	$6.99	REL Records	"Grainey bowed crotales, nail violin, guitar and drums. Packaged in hand embossed and stamped case with embossed 'w' insert. Limited to 70 copies."
8/22/2008	Keszler, Eli / Ashley Paul	Eli Keszler / Ashley Paul (aka 1-5)	CDR	$8.99	REL Records	"REL 006 is the self titled debut by Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul. Across 5 sections, they utilize oddly resonating drums, clarinet, bowed percussion, contra-bass harmonica, saxophone, guitar, nail violin and contact microphone. Creating sounds ranging from the nearly inaudibly low resonance, to crackling high drums, piercing nail violin and rough saxophone shaping. Silk screened cover with embossed 'rel' on the inside, with a Vellum wrap around sleeve. Packaged in a hand number edition of 100."
	Khan, Ali Akbar	Signature Series/Vol. 3	CD	$12.99	AMMP	Rag Marwa, with Mahapurush Misra on tabla. Rag Misra Shivaranjani, with Shankar Ghosh on tabla. 62 minutes.
	Khan, Ali Akbar	Then And Now	DBL CD	$19.99	AMMP	Disc One: The first long playing recording of classical Indian music (1955). Rag Sindhu Bhairavi and Rag Pilu Baroowa, with Chatur Lal on tabla. Introductions by Yehudi Menuhin. Disc Two: Two selections from a 1994 U.S. concert. Rag Hemant and Rag Hindol-Hem, with Zakir Hussain on tabla. 122 minutes.
	Kheta Hotem	Live at Yläkaupungin Yö Festival	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Kheta Hotem's live gigs offer a meditative insight into the group dynamics of this keijo-led finnish ensemble. "live at yl?kaupungin y? festival" is certainly no exception. this entire performance (one 47-minute track) is a journey through our evolution from bacteria to havoc-wreaking killing machines. as this sprawling piece descends into percussion-heavy, raucous splendor, the quintet lets up just before pushing you over the limit. as always, there is room for each sound to grow, and by the time the magnetic drones fall back to earth, you've been nestled into your sweet, sonic coccoon. 100 copies."
8/28/2007	Kheta Hotem	Winter Solstice	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Better late than never (this was originally to be released in december), "winter solstice" finds kheta hotem in rare form, basking in the glow of the midnight sun. this finnish quintet featuring, among others, keijo virtanen and members of the free players and akisa, is a chaotic romp. with elements of free jazz creeping in from the margins to compliment the organic drones and shimmering percussion orchestra, these recordings are woven in solid gold. keijo's throat singing is the perfect undercurrent for jilted saxophones to dance in the metallic rain. "winter solistice" is perhaps kheta hotem's finest hour. 100 copies"
11/2/2008	Khoury + Hall	Battlefield Medicine	CDR	$10.99	Bug Incision	"In what appears to be the first entry in this duo's discography, Detroit's Mike Khoury (Andrew Coltrane, Graveyards, others) and Ben Hall create very sparse music that somehow occupies a formidable density. Impossibly long tones from strings, drums that sound like you're inside of them, enhanced percussion, bell tones that hang. This is a huge-sounding album. It will fill the room." CDR in clear plastic sleeves, color artwork, edition of 150.
11/17/2007	KHU	Flesh Lament / Phoenix Mass	DBL CDR	$10.99	American Grizzly	"extreme vocal psych-out from france w/ industrial percussive undertones. everything soaked in reverb."
6/11/2006	Kiefer, Christian	Czar Nicholas Is Dead	CD	$13.99	Camera Obscura	"Some ideas are difficult to dispense with. Were you to ask Christian Kiefer why he fixated on Russia, and on a particularly grisly period in the country's history, he would probably be unable to answer. After all, Kiefer lived (and still lives) in a quiet, unassuming, and decidedly American suburb in Northern California, a far cry from the North Asian continent of his imagination. But it was, in fact, Russia that had become the object of his curiosity and like Franza Kafka's Amerika, a novel similarly fixated upon a geographical location that the author had no firsthand knowledge of, Kiefer set out to address his interest through art. The end result of that interest is "Czar Nicholas Is Dead", a soundtrack to a tundra wasteland filled with lonely soldiers, ornate towers crumbling into ruin, and desolate, blood-soaked snowscapes. An essentially ambient project with minimal instrumentation, "Czar Nicholas Is Dead" captures Russia as a fever dream, a strange and disorienting place that lay on no map, but rather resides entirely in the author's imagination. On the one hand, the subject of Kiefer's project is a strange one to be sure, particularly since most of his recorded output-including the similarly epic and minimalist instrumental project "Exodust" (2002) -has been rooted strongly in American soil. But Kiefer's work has always also been rooted in history and in academic and intellectual pursuits. His Ph.D. work at the University of California at Davis explores the intersection of history and the arts (particularly literature) and "Czar Nicholas Is Dead" falls perfectly within his primary field of interest, even if the geographical location has shifted off the North American continent. For research, Kiefer turned to thick volumes on the assassination of the Romanoff family, the tradition of Russian folk music, and to early Russian silent film. The central musical concept, though, was not to represent a version of Russian folk material or a literal rendition of the Russian Revolution, but rather to utilize the ideas and in order to form a particular vision of Russia on the brink of revolution. Kiefer brought in a handful of his favourite musicians and asked them to improvise with him live in the studio with a handful of simple instructions. The material was then worked over further in the studio, edited, rearranged, and produced, often with additional parts being added or subtracted as the musical force of the album began to reveal itself. The end result is part collective improvisation on a conceptual and musical theme, and part constructed and composed musical work."
6/17/2004	Kiila	Heartcore	CD	$17.99	Fonal Records	"It starts phased radio squee and blur above a looped groove, shuffle huff and alien hypnotic drone-druggy till halfway through it shifts gears to a sort of Frank Zappa/Fugs folk outtake that chugs along peculiarly to the end of track one. The 2nd; Fireburnfoot, is a particular favorite. Featuring loosely doubletracked vocals by Hanna Lehto it's a chant of the title 'fire burn foot' repeated over and over till it feels like some kind of happy stoned prank that brings a smile to my face every time I hear it. Holy Melancholy chants the title with a serious and subtle drum, drone, keyboard accompaniment. Set the Storm Aside is much more songlike, but it's still a fractured and loosely hallucinatory folkish fragment. Verbranntes Land starts as a sinister feedback drone that opens onto a fuzzy monolithic slab upon slab of primitive Bevis Frondian guitar magma. The title track is a short noisy goof on Casio. She's too Good, is a beautiful subdued guitar interaction that lead to ambient rainfall and a frail male vocalist crying out his heart to the lonely moon. Crystal Fields is a real gem, This is probably Kiila at their (Sami Sänpäkkilä and Niko-Matti Ahti) best. Just guitar, drums, textures,and atmosperics a softspoken yet intense slice of landscape, and chiming evocative mystery and energy. Thunder rolls across the sky, but it's a dry summer storm; heat lightning. Heartflowers which ends the album starts with a spastic drum stumbling and random bursts of clatter and frizz, engaging a low slinky keyboard along the way and scraping violin-like sounds while fireworks go off in the distance and some glancing echo off of Terry Riley's eternal song cycle takes us gracefully into the sunset." - George Parsons, Dream Magazine #2
4/29/2004	Kiila	Silmät Sulkaset	CD	$17.99	Fonal Records	"The music of Kiila has undergone something of a metamorphosis during the past three years. On the new album Silmät sulkaset, the band gently conjures up mildly otherworldly tunes with a peaceful air and feathered eyes. What was once free pop played by two is now free folk played by seven. The language of the songs has reverted back to Finnish, and the human voices rest on a warm texture of sounds from an array of acoustic and electronic instruments. Carefully arranged songs alternate with those improvised on the spot, all bearing the mark of a handcrafted article. The established yet highly flexible line-up has encouraged Kiila to play out considerably more often than in the past. Our area of operation has also extended well beyond our native shores: in March 2003, Kiila appeared live in Sweden, Denmark and Belgium as well as Finland. We slept little and drove lots, played some nice venues and met the nicest of people. In October, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of Kiila by recording a session for VPRO Radio and appearing at a soirée held by the station in Amsterdam alongside three notable American acts." Features members of Päivänsäde who have their debut LP out on Eclipse in a few months.
11/17/2007	Kill Devil Hills	Ex-Kill Devil Hill	one sided 7" & CDR	$13.99	American Tapes	"What the? Is it the Tom Potter/Coorz/ the? Is it the Tom Potter/Coorz circa 92? Gnaw......I was on tour with Juice (Fag Heath) and Bondo (Raven Matt) and on a late night drive one of them squirmy dudes put a KDH CD in the player, and I was like: "Yo holmes, what this?" "Kill Devil Hill" "Funny...... "Funny........seriously though "Dude....Kill Devil Hill" "C'mon man, quit messing, break me off" "Its Juice and Ben Hell's new group" "Why they gotta bust on my old jam" "What you mean player?" "That Bad Seeds Style band from Lansing...you know we had that 7" that dillo always grips copies and keeps taunting me with them" "Gnaw...i think it is just a cosmic coincidence" "Weird...... "Weird.......well I'm funna bust a 7" and have it Devil Hill" "Whatever man....do your thing......stupid reason to do it.....but.. So here it is, Sick Llama and Ben Hell...prob. the most Hi Fi thang Juice has ever been trapped in...but kool sounding Organum - styled screech & moan, Juice's clarinet sounds spot on. See if you can hear "the counterpoint. CD includes remix by EX KD called "Dedicated to Tom Potter-Playwright" but it would take a long time to explain it to him and kinda dumb at that. Part one of the "Trapped Title" with Juice. Hah. Edition of 200, color vinyl, color art, hit any speed, will take you there. No info, stark."
4/16/2003	King Hell	II	CDR	$6.99		"Blown-out dirges ala High Rise meets Neu! Features Plastic Crimewave & others. The owner of PSF Records described it as ‘like Blue Cheer’. Mixed by Nanjo of High Rise."
2/6/2003	Kinski	Airs Above Your Station	CD	$14.99	Sub Pop	"Within a mere three-album span, Seattle’s Kinski has concocted a Krautrock space brew earning them the lofty praise of comparisons to giants in the genre like Mogwai and Hovercraft. That would be accomplishment enough, if not for the fact that Kinski has actually succeeded in raising the bar and carving out a unique niche for themselves as well. On Airs Above Your Station, their third album overall and debut for Sub Pop, Kinski magnifies the extremes that define the ambient space rock genre, quelling the lows to a dramatic hush and inflating the highs to a brain-boiling maelstrom. On the near 10-minute opener, ‘Steve’s Basement,’ Kinski takes a page from Brian Eno’s book of ambience but beefs it up with plenty of raging guitars and drums as well, creating a palpable tension between the opposing ends of the sonic spectrum. On ‘Semaphore,’ the quartet blurts out a jazzy psychedelia that rocks like Red-era King Crimson, while ‘Rhode Island Freakout’ sees them steer a course toward the dense atmosphere of My Bloody Valentine, and the 11-and-a-half-minute ‘Schedule for Using Pillows & Beanbags’ utilizes all of the above in a scorching blend of indie rock simplicity and prog rock complexity. Kinski relies on both repetition and swirling chaos as the canvas for their ultimate creations, and the energy that is generated by that counterpoint is the band’s sonic fuel. The beauty of Kinski’s presentation is the subtlety with which they mix their influences and the passion with which they translate them." Double LP version available, too.
9/30/2005	Kinski	Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"In collaboration with Intellectual Drunks Records, the Strange Attractors Resurrection Series (our irregular reissue campaign of lost gems) proudly offers Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle, the critically hailed, cranium-shaking sophomore album by Seattle, Washington's premier instrumental rockers Kinski! Kinski's second full length recording, 2001's Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle, proved that the band was ready to take on the world. Upon its release, Alternative Press enthused "Šthe disc makes one of the few strong arguments against the claim that rock is dead." Their first sojourn into a "real" recording studio, Kinski seized the opportunity and crafted a spacious yet immediate rock album. With nods to forebearers past and present, Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle finds the band creating their own unique sound and sonic space. Few bands before or since have matched Kinski's ability to marry delicate and heady sonics with massive, gravity-defying heaviness. This is the album that opened many doors for the band, including snaring sets at Terrastock IV and V, tours with Acid Mothers Temple in the U.S. and Japan, great international press and a record deal with Sub Pop Records. Previously issued on the now-defunct Pacifico Recordings in the US, this crucial document of the Kinski tour-de-force has criminally been unavailable since 2004. Now back in print, Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle is a modern classic."
4/29/2004	Kinski	Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water	CD	$13.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"In their hometown of Seattle, Chris Martin, Lucy Atkinson, and Matthew Reid-Schwartz of the lysergic-punk band Kinski often play out incognito. Under the guise Herzog (film buffs should figure all these German names out pretty quickly), the goal is to experiment with mood, sound construction and interplay by channeling their chemistry into an exploration of their 'cosmic' side. These entirely improvised sets have yielded some truly heady excursions into the sonic ether. Although they may perform as Herzog, the sum of the parts is still Kinski, and while the intent is to shower the air with slow-raining space dust rather than their trademark heavy-paisley riffs, ambient drone is still very much an aspect of the overall Kinski sound. Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water is a snapshot of these experiments, 'free-ambient' sounds weaved on the spot when the guitarists subliminally dialed into one another and directed their energies into a subtle exploration of drone, texture and atmosphere."
9/30/2005	Kinski	SpaceLaunch For Frenchie	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"In collaboration with Intellectual Drunks Records, the Strange Attractors Resurrection Series proudly exhumes SpaceLauch For Frenchie, the long-lost debut album by Seattle, Washington's premier instrumental rockers Kinski! 'Spacelaunch for Frenchie serves up one of the coolest Krautrockin' dronefests this side of the second Spacemen 3 album.' - Fred Mills, Magnet. Originally self-released by the band in 1999 in a limited edition pressing, Kinski's debut album SpaceLaunch for Frenchie captures the group in their infancy. Exploring multiple sonic terrains, the album clearly illustrates Kinski's skillful melding of their love of pop with their love of the drone. Initially a 3-piece, the band recorded their debut in their rehearsal space on an Otari 8-track. Spacelauch For Frenchie contains some of the bands' favorite early tracks, namely "Staring" and "Jetstream", and a cover of the Spacemen 3 tune "Losing Touch with My Mind". Remastered and repackaged, this reissue includes Kinski's ultra-rare five song demo unearthed from the period, featuring two never-before heard songs as well as an early version of a number re-recorded for Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle and the outtake "She Always Made Us Work Like Dogs". Unavailable for years, SpaceLaunch for Frenchie is an auspicious starting point and a complete departure from their later flights of fancy." *Erkin Koray - Erkin Koray LP $29.99 "Absolutely over the top debut album by Turkish psychedelic guitar guru. At last reissued on vinyl, this is the rarest of all Erkin albums but also the rarest Turkish psych album ever. This album, originally released in 1973, is actually a compilation of singles from the previous years since 1968. You can notice the difference in time when listening to the album, with some tracks kinda pre- psychedelic and some others heavily into it, but all of them with that unique Eastern feel that the gu