| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/9/2002 | L. Stinkbug | The Allure of Roadside Curios | CD | $12.99 | Starlight Furniture Co. | "Formed in 1997 by guitarist G.E. Stinson with bassist Steuart Liebig and guitarist Nels Cline, L.Stinkbug consciously chose to complete their line-up with a drummer who could groove - percussionist Scott Amendola. Both Stinson and Cline prepare their guitars with an assortment of springs, toys, paint brushes, an electric drink stirrer, enough clips to make a beautician queasy, an egg whisk (that's right - an egg whisk) and numerous other custom-made objects, and run them through a variety of effects, harmonizers and looping devices; same goes for Liebig - chopsticks between the strings, looping devices, extended technique, the works. L.Stinkbug traffics in 'instant compositions' packed with dynamics, textures and virtuosity. The Allure of Roadside Curios opens with an electro-orchestral prelude worthy of Sonic Youth on an exceptional night, building to a roaring, Boredoms-like overture that capsizes into some heavy grind familiar to fans of Lark's Tongue in Aspic-era King Crimson. Yet throughout the album's four tracks (plus a secret fifth one), all recorded live at Bruno's in San Francisco, the quartet's unpitched, heavily electronically altered wakajawaka sprawls like a spacy, permafrost delta in which an electric Miles Davis influence lurks at all times. Because everyone in L.Stinkbug is involved with numerous other groups, they play together in this configuration infrequently and never tour (their handful of live appearances to date have occurred solely in California - Los Angeles, Ventura, San Francisco, and Berkeley). The Allure of Roadside Curios is a rare opportunity to hear world-class improvisors together at their best." |
| 7/10/2008 | La Banda's | La Banda's | LP | $23.99 | Pastabase | "In 1996 in Santiago de Chile some friends started jamming at Diego's - one of the members of the group - workshop as a way of doing music by non musicians, absolutely free with any goals in mind like releasing music and even forming a band. They just recorded these jams a pile of cassettes in an old four tracks tape recorder. In the early 2000's La Banda's were reduced to members Diego, Salmón and JM. They did their first concert at an independent festival hosted by Hoffmans's House Art Gallery. In 2006 Álvaro joined the group that met the duo The Cindy Sisters with whom they played several sessions and now also belong to La Banda's, a seven piece band nowadays. But I would say that there is an occasional member who is soul support for the group, Mr Hugo Chávez, a well known music fan and promoter of underground Chilean bands. This Chilean psychedelic improv collective just released their first self titled album on the Pastabase label based in Santiago and New York. 'La Banda's' album consists in seven tracks that combine psychedelia, noise and folk. The sound is dirty and with the hiss of a cassette and taken just as it came out of the tape recorder. The first song which is recorded in backwards recalls the sound of Sonic Boom, deep and hypnothic. It is the only track of the album that has a more electronic sound On 'La Banda's' there is a permanent clatter percussion, melodic keyboards, guitar and analogue synthesizer alongside some voices in the background as well, a real improv session with no direction of what's coming next. The tracks are unpredictable and evolves to a fresh sound that this band unfolds." - Guillermo Escudero, April 2008 - www.loop.cl |
| La Gloria | Jeremiad | CD | $12.99 | Furry Bear/Freedom From | "Eleven tracks of Marcel Bear (Empirical, ex-Thela) and David Coventry (ex-Clay, ex-Cattle) playing a variety of experimental instruments and guitar respectively. Very 'nice' clean recording, and similar to Coventry's engineering of the Thela debut makes it more easy to access the music without betraying its intent." | |
| 2/7/2009 | La Otracina | Blood Moon Riders | LP | $14.99 | Holy Mountain | "Don't be fooled by the King Diamond-style logo. This liberation of inverted progressive surf rock from psychedelic epithets plays like a fan-fiction account of Dick Dale's meeting with Sonny Sharrock at Amon Dueuel II's rehearsal space to discuss the "post-rock" epidemic. Unlike so many other instrumental soundtrack bands who employ ho-hum, choose-your-own-adventure tactics, La Otracina sticks to the rails of their own twisting corkscrews and spine-snapping dives. This work does not lend itself to the standard-fare apathy of background music. Blood Moon Raiders is its own ride, with its own ticket, and the doors are locked after take-off. Pinch some headphones to your dome and situate the rest of your form into a beanbag as you navigate the fibrous landscape of a black-light poster. The tracks flow from a subtle new-age contingency to violent bouts with Laotian street gangs. Remember to pack a sack lunch and strap on a machete before mounting this electric buck-bot. Don't fret-the intention has always been to crack open your skull or drown you. Includes a free MP3 download." |
| 2/12/2008 | La Otracina | Crystal Wizards of the Cosmic Weird (Live in Bologna) | CDR | $11.99 | Ski-Fi | "It all began with some kind of lunar roadhouse kosmische showdown scene on some rickety bar on the moon, with all kinds of fucked up looking creatures, with scales or tails and multiple eyes and all that, all lookin grimey, just making a stop on their way to proxima centauri, coming down off a fistful of Benzedrine, tired and disgruntled, chainsmoking and drinking neon green booze, spurs on their space boots and all that. You know, cacophony and then some jiving band of lizards was taking the stage and laying down a sick cosmic sludge, from a skronk ruckus, into the depths of some eerie zero gravity subconscious neu transmutations, to some sonification of sun ra nightmares. la otracina live in Bologna, Italy November 10.2007. absolutely drunk and stoned to an absolutely oblivious and nearly empty room, save the fellow who walked into the microphone during the recording. First release from Sky-Fi". Edition of 100 copies. |
| 11/15/2008 | La Otracina | Gardens of Blackness | cassette | $8.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Pretty stoked to finally be dropping a bomb from la otracina, one of my absolute faves from the past few years. these brooklynites know how to bring in it in all forms from all directions. "gardens of blackness" is everything you'd hope it was: heady dark drones that flirt with the world of metal more than ever. drummer/vocalist adam kriney let's go on the a-side, hollering and wailing like tomorrow's nothing but a distant dream. other times you end up dredging up some serious murk from the bottom of the pool. hints of tape collage come out of nowhere and eventually it mellows out for a pretty even high. it's cohesive and all over the map all at the same time, definitely showcasing their new direction since their last record on holy mountain. limited to 55 blackest black copies." |
| 11/17/2007 | La Otracina | Love Love Love | DBL CDR | $14.99 | Colur Sound Recordings | "Fresh off the heals of the recent "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD on Holy Mountain, the La Otracina back catalog is now fully available again! Now in its 4th pressing, "Love Love Love" is a crushing 2xCD-R of blissed psychedelic rock overload, scorching freak improvisations, prog/jazz/rock sorcery, and all sortsa space-rock hybrid magic all led by Colour Sounds Recordings label-head and Owl Xounds drummer Adam Kriney. Features over two hours of early jams, basement tapes, and epic live recordings. Features early members now playing in Titan (on Tee Pee Records)." |
| 7/10/2008 | La Otracina | The Risk Of Gravitation | CDR | $7.99 | Colour Sound Recordings | "The Risk Of Gravitation" is the stunning new Summer 08 Tour mini-album by Brooklyn's La Otracina, who have long wandered and forged sounds in the hidden lands of heavy psychedelia and progressive space music. This 7 track 32+ minute excursion is a major paradigm shift for the group as drummer Adam Kriney is now on vocal duties as well, adding yet another layer of epic intensity to the swirling chaos of Evan Sobel's Fender Bass VI low-end destruction and new guitarist Philippe Ortanez's ecstatically angular bliss-out. This disc shifts between tracks of classic La Otracina free-form freakout brilliance and their current vocal-heavy jams, which put the progressive psych back into early heavy metal while exploring realms of dark doom-sludge thunder and the graceful complexity of early Canterbury jazz-rock. Refusing to be quantified, it is clear that La Otracina remain in an orbit of their own, seeking out the cosmic weird and channeling it through hard rock power! First press limited edition of 100 numbered copies." |
| 3/21/2007 | La Planete Sauvage | Original Soundtrack | LP | $18.99 | Fan Club | "Loving fan club limited vinyl release of the film soundtrack from 1973 (released in the US as Fantastic Planet). The album creates an interesting marijuana-induced sci-fi floating mood, blending psychedelia, jazz and funk, and as recently been sampled by quite a few hip hop acts." |
| 12/24/2005 | La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata | Hoy | LP | $29.99 | Hoy | "Exact repro of the legendary 2nd album by this Mexican crew. Fuzzy psychedelia, one of the most desired South American albums, originally released in 1971. Gatefold cover like the original, 500 copies." |
| Labradford | A Stable Reference | CD | $12.99 | Kranky | 2nd release featuring bass guitar. Recommended | |
| Laconic Chamber | A History Of Epidemics | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Camera Obscura is proud to announce the second new act on the label this year, Laconic Chamber, who hail from Washington, DC and specialise in a particularly compelling brand of haunted, post-everything chamber rock. Aside from a single track ('Ink-Blots') on a 7" compilation via local DC indie label Nightshade, this is their first release. Throughout the twelve tracks there is plenty to captivate lovers of The Raincoats, Mazzy Star, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and the whole Drag City post-rock contingent." | |
| 11/26/2003 | Lacy, Steve | Plays Monk | LP | $16.99 | Get Back | "Recorded on September 23, 1969 and originally released on BYG as Epistrophy, this classic Lacy LP - featuring Jean Francois Jenny-Clark (bass), Aldo Romano (drums) and Michel Graillier (piano) - was Lacy's first recording in Paris (his newly adopted city). Here Lacy, a longtime Monk disciple, takes listeners on a journey through some of Monk's most complex compositions, leaving his own inspired and instantly recognizable thumbprint on these timeless originals." |
| Lacy, Steve | The Forest And The Zoo | LP | $15.99 | Get Back / ESP Disk | "Lacy's profound influence on the avant-garde can be traced back to this phenomenal session with Enrico Rava (trumpet), Johnny Dyani (bass), and Louis T. Moholo (drums) which is a pivotal recording in the career of the master soprano saxophonist. Steve Lacy's involvement in avant garde jazz began with this historical recording date for ESP-Disk' recorded live in Buenos Aires in 1966. Original artwork... 180 gram HQ vinyl." | |
| 11/23/2004 | Laghonia | EtCetera | LP + 7" | $49.99 | World in Sound | "Both Laghonia albums, Glue and EtCetera belong to most legendary and best South American psychedelic collectors albums, besides La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata, Modulo 1000, Toncho Pilatos, Traffic Sound. The core of Laghonia, post 'New Juggler Sound' is a combination of Peruvian and US members, Saul Cornejo Vocals, Guitar, Manuel Cornejo on Drums, and David Levene on Lead Guitar and Vocals. The sound is catchy psychedelic Rock´n´Roll stuff, with English vocals, intense Fuzz Wah-Wah Guitars, and Hammond B-2 Organ.” “The EtCetera album originally released in 1971, one of South Americas greatest. It comes with outstanding original artwork, a true psychedelic painting by M. Cornejo, in a foldout cover, and extra 7" 4 track EP with 2 never released songs.” |
| 3/3/2005 | Laghonia | Glue | LP + 7" | $36.99 | World In Sound | "Both Laghonia albums, Glue and EtCetera belong to most legendary and best South American psychedelic collectors albums, besides La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata, Modulo 1000, Toncho Pilatos, Traffic Sound. The core of Laghonia, post 'New Juggler Sound' is a combination of Peruvian and US members, Saul Cornejo Vocals, Guitar, Manuel Cornejo on Drums, and David Levene on Lead Guitar and Vocals. All eight album tunes are catchy psychedelic Rock´n´Roll stuff, with English vocals, intense Fuzz Wah-Wah Guitars, Hammond B-2 Organ and a massive, variative percussion set. The songwriting is Beatles/Yardbirds-influenced and the music goes into Santana, Cream, Hendrix and other different directions. The original artwork used, is by M. Cornejo, a 7" 4 track EP and a poster includes bio rounds this masterpiece perfectly off." |
| 7/30/2006 | Lambs Gamble | Memory Collapse | CDR | $8.99 | Evolving Ear | "Dub impov? Lowercase doom? Total garbage? Lambs Gamble is peeesseye founder and scraper and pounder of objects Fritz Welch and veteran Bay Area double bassist George Cremaschi. This is what happens when people aim beyond the horizon of free improvisation, both as a practice and as a style, in order to take a hacksaw to serious music with their sounds." - label |
| 6/11/2006 | Lambsbread | Coptic Crusade | CDR | $8.99 | Main & Disfigure | "Coptic Crusade = live show and a few home recordings.... has a bit more balance between total blown out blue humans style shredding to really scratchy clean guitar but still wasted sounding improv" |
| 2/4/2007 | Lambsbread | Drowned at the Harbor | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "2 live shows and one home recording all from handheld tapedeck..... ltd to 60" |
| 6/11/2006 | Lambsbread | Greasy Channel | CDR | $8.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "Greasy Channel = first release from us, 6 songs, 20 minutes.... a bit more straightforward / "hardcore" then the rest of the stuff, but not really.... real blown out recording, lots of free guitars and drums.... someone said it sounds like 3 people running as fast as they can in totally different directions." Limited to 60 copies. |
| 2/24/2007 | Lambsbread | Live From Yard | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "Some live shows and a bunch of home shit recorded in the early weeks of december.... ... recorded straight to handheld, sounds totally raw.... edition of 75." |
| 2/24/2007 | Lambsbread | Moving Units | cassette | $7.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "On this one shane fell asleep in 4 out of the 5 songs.... this one is a bit different than any previous releases, shorter songs, all kind of revolve around one remote sort of part that is also completely ignored... some slow ones, some fast ones.... whatever.... ltd to 50." |
| 2/24/2007 | Lambsbread | Rodney King Was on PCP That Night | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "CD of newest lambsbread recordings, going deeper into sub-sab repeition territory, holding off for a long time before the blast..... willie d says "fuck rodney king", and while i dont agree, its cool he was dusted.... edition of 100." |
| 2/24/2007 | Lambsbread | Sugar Tits | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "When mel gibson got arrested this summer, it all started with him saying to a female cop staring at him "what are you looking at sugar tits?"..... through all the controversy mel is still a hero..... best movie star ever.... classics include: lethal weapon 4, what women want, bird on a wire, ransom, payback etc...... the cover of this has real sugar on it.... that fun dip crap..... edition of 60." |
| 1/24/2009 | Lambsbread / Sword Heaven | split | CDR | $7.99 | Lost Treasures of the Underworld | CDR reissue of LP that's now out of print. Edition of 75 copies housed in mini LP cardboard jackets with paste on covers. |
| 2/4/2007 | Lamp of the Universe | From the Mystic Rays of Astrological Light | CD | $13.99 | Astral Projection | "Great follow up to the 'Earth, Spirit & Sky' album. A more 70's cosmic psychedelic jam. Lamp Of the Universe is the solo project from Datura Bassist and vocalist Craig Williamson. It is a formidable modern mix of pysch "raga" folk with spacey rock elements. In its great variety the music offers astonishing acoustic guitar parts, exotic sitar "raga" scales, "tabla" percussions and "acid" heavy, bluesy rock guitars. Minimal "drone" bass lines alternate with fuzzy, sometimes aggressive psychedelic waves. This rather "cosmic" musical ensemble is without moderation a nice discover. It is a must for fans of Amon Duul II, Pink Floyd and classical raga style. The combination between the genres is well defined, providing a freak out journey throw eastern vibes." "Following on from previous release 'Heru' on the UK Barl Fire Records, "From the Mystic Rays of Astrological Light" is another instrumental drone-acid-jam from Craig Williamsons' Lamp of the Universe. Improvisations using bowed guitars, Sarangi, electronics, hand percussion, recorder, singing bowl & the usual acid rock styled jamming that was present on earlier albums. Released on the new Astral projection label from New Zealand." |
| 11/17/2007 | Lamp of the Universe | Heru | CD | $13.99 | Astral Projection | "Opening with the eastern drone of the sitar, this is a beautiful and mesmerising album filled with gentle and drifting music that relaxes and energises the listener simultaneously. Split into seven sections, that gently merge together, the album is an hour long trip into a state of bliss sounding like a long lost kraut rock dream sequence, or some of the finer moments from Quintessence. After the sublime opening drone, the music is filled out with softly pulsing tabla and bird-like synthesisers, which add a hypnotic tinge to the piece, something that is reinforced as more and more layers of sound are introduced until everything else becomes irrelevant, the drones shaping time itself. Heru is the follow up to Echo In Light, itself a fine album, on which you can hear the seeds of Heru being sown. As the album moves forward, the guitar takes over leading us through the landscape with some exquisite playing that complements the atmospheric backdrop perfectly, and is as relaxing as it is emotional, creating some truly psychedelic music that is essential headphone listening. In these stress filled times, this album offers sanctuary, a place to hide when life is too much. One man sonic universe, Craig Williamson employs: electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, tablas, choir-like layers of voice, sitar, bowed guitar & sitar, tamboura, tapes, rain pipe, effects, and keyboards to weave the single piece that is Heru. Though it is discreetly divided into seven tracks (Heru parts 1-7) , they all flow into one another so as not to interupt the dream or the dreamer." - Simon Lewis |
| 12/24/2005 | Landing | Brocade | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Dreamcore vets Landing have come back to roost at Strange Attractors after a couple of amazing space-gaze albums on K Records. Since the release of 2004's somnolent pop masterpiece Sphere, a shift in personnel occurred when founding member Dick Baldwin moved on. Recruiting longtime friend and frequent tour mate Peter Baumann to fill the gap on synthesizer, the shift in chemistry incited a turn in the band's overall perspective and approach to their music. Eschewing their time-tested songwriting method, Landing allowed a confluence of textures and influences to flow outward from each member, and after many rehearsals, a common interplay previously forged in the studio was left to blossom organically on its own accord. Compositionally, the end result is elaborately textured, patient, and hypnotic music of profound intimacy. Their seventh full length album in seven years, Brocade is a turning point for Landing, one that simultaneously harkens back to their roots as hushed drone rockers while journeying onwards into starkly minimalist, utterly cosmic terrain. Reverting inward after some of their sunny travels into headspace, Brocade touches on early Krautrock rhythms while delving into traditional psychedelic ambient music. Barring a few instrumental overdubs, Brocade was performed live in the studio, resulting in an airy sort of freedom not felt since the gauzy bliss-out improvisation captured on Fade In/Fade Out or moments from their second album Oceanless. In every manifestation, it is a tour-de-force of minimalism, utilizing repeating patters that slowly and steadily develop shape as they float in and out of a barbiturate fog. In the early moments of the album, as fireballs of feedback and effects unfurl into the exquisitely Faust-like drum and bass repetitions of opener "Loft", it would seem that rock and roll would prevail even as the tune winds through increasingly lush terrain, swelling in size as more instrumental streams enter the flow. Placid waters emerge, however, as the drums drop out and Brocade turns into a study in atmospherics with the swelling pulse-and-drone of "Yon" and the shimmering, wispy ripples of "Spiral Arms". After the hazy overdrive of "How to Be Clear", Landing immerse themselves in sparse ambience as conjured by Eno's On Land or Harold Budd's glistening works, floating away with the aptly-named closer "Music For Three Synthesizer". With five compositions stretching out to form 54 minutes of music, Brocade is an elegiac lament for Landing's past, and an introspective yearning towards a glistening new phase in their career." |
| 10/1/2002 | Landing | Fade In / Fade Out | CDEP | $9.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Stretching 5 songs over 37 minutes, Fade In/Fade Out encapsulates all points possible along Landing's glistening trajectory of beauty. Bridging their droned-immaculate works (Oceanless) and concise tunesmith shimmer (Seasons, Circuit) with mystifying exactitude, the scope of the EP is immense, complex and composed... astonishing, when you learn that the music on Fade In/Fade Out was completely improvised on the spot!" |
| Landing | Oceanless | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Landing is a truly vibrant, celestial-minded quartet of sound painters from Connecticut (via-Utah!). Oceanless, their simply amazing second full length CD, is a dense canvas capturing graceful instrumental brushstrokes, lush audio pigments, and vivid surrealist portraits. Featuring six compositions and clocking in at over 63 minutes, Oceanless is absolutely the most dazzling prism of sound Landing has produced thus far. Inebriating and intricately textured, the plodding mallet driven rhythms, keyboard oscillations, wavering guitar afterburn and distant reverb-drenched vocals could be likened to a Prazison LP-era Labradford that has melted all over the easel." | |
| Landing | Seasons | CD | $12.99 | Ba Da Bing | “While Landing is one of the country's top drone groups, creating long ambient instrumentals with sudden eruptions of intensity, Seasons shows off their previously unexplored songwriting flair. The record conceives of movement through four seasons with a breathtaking beauty and sincerity (Vivaldi would no doubt smile, then say something incoherent but pleasing in his archaic native tongue). For the first time, the band sings, and the soft fluidity of their voices perfectly matches their trademark delicate playing. The drama unfolds with a gentle minimalism, striking at beauty through impressionism, and reaching their goal with a whisper.” | |
| 9/4/2004 | Landing | Sphere | CD | $12.99 | K Records | “Cycling past the deep trips of previous Landing outings, Sphere settles into a gently rock-y world. Landing are known for dishing up a mildly psychedelic mindscape; with their new album they have reconfigured their oeuvre to include the traditional tools of psychedelic rock: more drums, more rhythm, more ‘songs’. Recorded at their own Hi Mid studio, Landing have crafted a softly vacillating sound, a rippling set of tones, a feeling that is akin to their Vessyl brethren Yume Bitsu, Version and Surface of Eceon. The Vessyl is a loose collection of abstract collaborations between like-minded psychedelic legionnaires. Landing has been the flagship combo of the Vessyl, a champion launching uncounted voyages through light.” |
| 9/4/2004 | Landing | Sphere | LP | $11.99 | K Records | “Cycling past the deep trips of previous Landing outings, Sphere settles into a gently rock-y world. Landing are known for dishing up a mildly psychedelic mindscape; with their new album they have reconfigured their oeuvre to include the traditional tools of psychedelic rock: more drums, more rhythm, more ‘songs’. Recorded at their own Hi Mid studio, Landing have crafted a softly vacillating sound, a rippling set of tones, a feeling that is akin to their Vessyl brethren Yume Bitsu, Version and Surface of Eceon. The Vessyl is a loose collection of abstract collaborations between like-minded psychedelic legionnaires. Landing has been the flagship combo of the Vessyl, a champion launching uncounted voyages through light.” |
| 4/22/2009 | Landon, Brent | Transition into a Phantom State | CDR | $5.99 | Debacle Records | "I have been following Brent Landon's musical career for 8 years now, and this new CD is his most unexpected turn thus far. "Transition into a Phantom State" is a white-metal psychnoise record about loss and terror. Musically it's somewhere between Mouthus and Pig Destroyer. Thematically it could be filed right next to Poe and PK Dick. CD-R's in pro-press mini-jackets with inserts." |
| 7/16/2004 | Langtry | As Upon The Road Thereto | CD | $10.99 | Soft Abuse | "Patrick McKinney has chosen the moniker Langtry for his solo work, based in part on his fascination with the folklore and legend surrounding the Texas town of the same name. On his solo debut, Patrick is alone with his guitar, cranking out loose, yet mind bogglingly technical instrumentals that are equally rooted in American musics of the past (folk blues & jazz, mainly) and avant sounds of the present (Sun City Girls, Pelt). In this fashion he's sure to garner comparisons to the Takoma Records heydey; Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke and especially John Fahey are all valid points of reference. Aside from his solo work, Patrick can also be seen and heard as a member of Iron & Wine (to which he contributes guitar and banjo)." |
| 2/4/2007 | Larkin Grimm | The Last Tree | CD | $12.99 | Secret Eye | "Larkin Grimm abducts you into her dreamscape/homeland, hidden behind veils of kudzu and falling water, populated by old friends and deadly monsters. Urgently direct, she is offering us a New World couched in old Georgia sounds: thunderstorms, dulcimers, footstomps, handclaps, and pleading soul-blues. This is not precious forest-pixie music; this is the beautifully flawed sound of the force of Nature, a Siren call to bind all souls and draw them into the deep Woods." |
| Last Days Of May | Radiant Black Mind | CD | $11.99 | Squealer | "This is the second album from Last Days of May, the augmented 'power trio' led by legendary guitarist Karl Precoda. An instrumental combo of stately depth, LDOM react to each other with astounding musical telepathy: the 'ghost' notes and splintered synaptic abstractions slowly develop into musical storm systems, frosted with peaks of intensity. Theirs is a soulful and menacing monolith of sound; a seismic wave of low-end rumble and high-end concentration. The band rides the crests like high desert surfers, channeling the currents atop a ten foot Dick Brewer. Brand new music soon to become timeless." | |
| late / Reynols | Live in Houston | CD | $10.99 | Freedom From | l"Well, if you were there, we of course know we’ll be hearing from you immediately. Yes, this epic night of the Reynols/late US Tour 00 is now available. Get it before were told to stop making anymore copies. The most rocking late set ever. The most ‘other-wordly’ Reynols set ever. See why Reynols loves Houston so much." | |
| 2/21/2009 | Lateral Hyetography | Some Girlzzz | cassette | $5.99 | Really Coastal | "Many positive reviews have littered the web of this cassingle. Bruno from Ruralfaune calls this his "song of the year." Recorded in early 2006, the first side sounds eerily contemporary. Dense, layered experimental pop music from the stratigraphic future. Second edition of 95 copies." |
| 2/15/2005 | Lau Nau | Kuutarha | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "Last year saw an explosion & all too welcome interest in a vital, tightly knit scene of artists from Finland. Out of the communal circle of prodigious Finnish musicians comes this lovely 10 song debut solo outing of abstract folk, stray kiss lullaby & plucked blues by Laura Naukkarinen (vocalist in Kiila, Päivänsäde, The Anaksimandros). Sung in her native tongue, Kuutarha intimates a secret language outside traditional word speak into something utterly beautiful & unrestrained. Melody is suggested through the contours of voice, guitar & violin and arrangement has less to do with the placement of things than with Lau's comfort in letting sounds fall where they may. Line up: Laura Naukkarinen (acoustic bass, bass recorder, five-stringed kantele, acoustic guitar, tenor recorder, violin, bamboo flute, colorful juice glasses, mortar, mandolin, witch laugh megaphone, baby's rattle, bike bells, banjo, cowbells, electric guitar, organ, willow whistle, tablas, percussion, cymbals, comb, beer cans); Pekko Käppi (tamboura, jouhikko).” Highly recommended! I love this album so much that I wanted to release it myself but I was too late. Very limited vinyl version (300 copies) due in a few weeks. |
| 5/29/2008 | Lau Nau | Nukkuu | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "Naukkarinen manages to take a million-and-one risks while keeping things subtle, understated, aesthetically intriguing, and emotionally resonant." —Pitchfork (8.0). "Nukkuu (Finnish for 'Sleeps') is the long-awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave, Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract and emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new-found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics and vacant dens on off-hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately-crafted nine-song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness." |
| 3/2/2004 | Lauhkeat Lampaat | Lauhkeat Lampaat | 7" | $7.99 | Pohjoisten Kukkaiten Äänet | It's a duo of bass recorder and tablas plus small percussion.. Music is like very mystic and quite free. You can feel the mother earth, and smell the fog of deep, green forest......yes. The brothers Tolvi, Antti and Jaako, from Rauhan Orkesteri, weave a meditative tapestry that blends their passions: free jazz and Eastern musics. On the B-side Jaako first lays down a bubbling tabla groove while Antti uses the deep tones of his bass recorder as both rhythm and melody, until they culminate in a free, cluttered dialogue of vocal spasms, shakers and tiny tabla bursts. They stay reflective on the A-side, Anti blowing long, vocalized tones over bells, slides on the tabla?s bass drum and rapid comments from the treble. LL refracts world music through the brothers? own ecstatic, idiosyncratic communication. - Matthew Wuethrich. Recommended! |
| 9/16/2007 | Lauhkeat Lampaat | Taikaa takataskussa | CD | $16.99 | Peippo | "Once upon a time there was a world famous free jazz band Rauhan Orkesteri. All their instruments and half of the players were taken away, leaving only two peasant brothers and a pile of garbage. They abandoned melody, rhythm and the shine of chrome and started to build from the garbage the Stormy Temple of All Miniatures, which they open for You right now. This is the top peak of Lauhkeat Lampaat's work." |
| 6/11/2006 | Lauhkeat Lampaat | The Most Pollo | LP | $21.99 | QBICO | black vinyl, cover by Jaakko Tolvi. Features Antti Tolvi, Jaakko Tolvi + special guest Lau Nau on side A. Recorded March 2006 in Kiila, Finland. "focus on sound, very delicate and alien improvisations... see you in the weird forest with never heards before little birds/little creatures..." |
| 3/2/2007 | Lawler, Keenan | A Ghost of A Plane of Air | CD | $12.99 | Music Fellowship | "R.Keenan Lawler has spent the last 25 years developing his own personal sound world, constantly pushing himself in new directions and developing new techniques, while remaining completely focused on his vision. His experiments on 1930 National Resonator guitar are the stuff of legend you sometimes hear from town to town by someone who may have had the good fortune to witness one of his performances. In 1999 he self released The Ghost of a Plane of Air, it quickly went out of print and has since been heralded by many as a minimalist masterpiece. It is now available for a larger audience. Lawler here pushes the bounds and very definition of the resonator guitar: bowing, picking, scraping, knocking and combining it with electro-acoustic manipulations and on site recordings. The sound that pours from the speakers is dense, affecting, cavernous and like no other, often delving from delicate picking into a flurry of notes and ecstatic drones. A Ghost of a Plane of Air is the sound of a man looking deep into his soul and coming out the other side changed, scarred and poetic. This reissue has been remastered, and includes one new additional track recorded during the same time period. Co-Released with New American Folk Hero." |
| 10/25/2008 | Lay, Josh | Asphyxiation Worship | 7" | $6.99 | Black Horizons | "Half of Candaver in Drag gets his first shot at vinyl by way of a single. Two tracks, rather different from each other, and much of the artist's other releases. Overall a cleaner, and more realized sound. Vocals come to the front, with lyrical structure on the first track, the b-side is a journey into the darkest of swamps, yet it still retains the feeling of being a beautiful yet frightening collage of sound with a higher degree of fidelity than what is usually associated with similar efforts. Black vinyl with an offset printed 3-panel sleeve, copper ink on either black or cream stock, printed in roughly a 50/50 ratio, pick which color you like more! Edition of 350 copies." |
| Lazerboy | A Scan For Life | 7" | $3.99 | Vespertine | Sort of Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev hybrid | |
| Le Forte Four | Boris The Spider/Priceless | CD+7" | $33.99 | Cortical Foundation | "This edit of Le-Forte Four is wedged between their former incarnation as The Patients and their debut LP that was put together in the electronic music studio at Cal Arts in 1974. Edited by Rick Potts in 1973. All the references made in their debut Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, from Speed Racer to Zappa to Looneytoons to the Moog, is very clearly foretold in the 'Boris The Spider/Priceless' edit. Includes Extended Grunge and Arguments From The Patients reworking of The Who's 'Boris The Spider' that was later submitted to the Norwegian Electronic Music Festival and rejected. First time available. The release includes: a 7" repro of the very rare Slimey Adenoid and the Pablums 'The Residents' b/w Joe Potts 'Mother Daughter', CD of Le Forte Four Boris The Spider/Priceless. Hand numbered edition of 700 copies." This is a reissue of extremely rare and unreleased material from original LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society). Comes in a heavy duty full color gatefold 7" jacket, with inserts, etc. | |
| 12/21/2004 | Le Ton Mité | We Need to Grow to Giant Size | CD | $9.99 | Yik Yak / Zicmuse | "Baptized in the flames of the music world as openers for the likes of Deerhoof, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and Calvin Johnson, Le Ton Mite’s ‘off hand influences simmer amid a mire of Morse-code tones resulting in the spirit of the guitar being thrown to the ground if not the actual instrument itself’ (LA Weekly). Based in Olympia, Washington, Le Ton Mité takes its cues from broken folk to reinvent the wheels of rock. The trio of vocalists, duo of guitars and solo keyboard play songs based on group improvisation and the boiled down compositions of ringleader McCloud Zicmuse. ‘We Need to Grow to Giant Size’ documents the seed from which the band has indeed grown. This recording is a limited edition of 500 numbered copies in handmade letterpressed packaging designed and printed by Zicmuse." |
| 3/21/2007 | Leafy Green | Songs | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Ten songs from an American summer, stripped down and slowed down to the bare bones. Ten pieces about lost friends, angels, ghosts, and mountain gods. Recorded in a cool room during a hot week in a southern town." |
| 7/10/2008 | Leavenworth | Retention, Reunion | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Leavenworth, one of the most under-worshiped noize headz around, has been laying tracks of poison for a couple of years now in virtual secret. hailing from fly over country usa, this dude hovers blankets of paint stripping, bong ripping clamor on top of you until a rush of warmth and awkwardness flows through your veins. utilizing a blend of mixer feedback, pedal tickling, and radio transmissions, leavenworth blazes the room thoroughly." |
| 7/16/2006 | LeBrecque, Paul & Valerie Webb | Trees, Chants and Hollers | LP | $12.99 | Eclipse | "Duo weaves a cautious, dreamy folk spell, reminiscent of the vocal impressionism and effected acoustic sonics of Charalambides, beautiful stuff charged with a sense of desperation and love lingering on the edge of loss. Ties to Sunburned Hand of the Man and other Boston area ensembles, like Bright." - Lee Jackson. "Cold nights roll in during the early parts of spring, reminding us that we're not quite out of the woods yet; there is still work to be done. The contrast of warm, sun-filled days and nights where you can still see your breath is a microcosm for what we all consistently feel in our lives. It's the temporary gratification and beauty that keeps us hopeful, but the desolate darkness that keeps us honest. Valerie Webb and Paul Lebrecque offer up ten meditations on this consciousness divided. 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers' is a magical ride through thick and thin. It's the culmination of knowing that in order to reach the place you long for, you have to do the dirty work first. Webb's angelic voice lifts the spirits of the record, offering a delicate balance to some of the more workmanlike music. These two forces work as a brilliant partnership as a banjo that finds itself high in the leaves of majestic oaks, searching for the haunted flute squeals that float overhead. This is embodied perfectly in 'High Country Jig,' where Webb's voice seems just out of reach, but always present. It reminds me of the days when I was a kid and I would spend the entire day, dawn until dusk, outside in the warmth of Mother Nature's arms. But these moments don't last forever. This much we should have learned by now. On 'The Valley,' the warmhearted kindness is replaced with fear and despair. Lebrecque joins Webb on vocal duties, and in conjunction with his great banjo playing, I am reminded of the mighty Timothy, Revelator. There is a distinct connection between Timothy, Revelator's music and Paul and Valerie's. 'The Valley' is like the journey down; down to where exactly, remains to be seen. But with recorder notes changing from pleasant to disdainful, and the pace of the song seemingly getting more rapid, it is like an aural snowball effect. By the time you realize the downward velocity, it's too late to stop. As you continue picking up speed, the skies darken and you fall directly into the 7 1/2 minute rumination, 'An Acre of Stone (for Rachel Corrie).' 'An Acre of Stone' is the highlight of 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers.' Dense, low-end drones for the basic foundation of the track, while a solemn drum keeps a slow, steady beat. Spiritual graces flicker in the distance, but this night will be spent fending off your own personal demons. This track is the full embrace of the above prescribed scenario: hope trying to abstain from being done in by darkness. Lebrecque and Webb are in full-flight on 'An Acre of Stone,' and it segues into 'Amish Nights' wonderfully. That is a reoccurring theme on 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers': all of these songs melt perfectly into each other. 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers' has cohesion that most albums only dream of. By the time you reach the lost edges of 'Swift River Blues,' you are spent. You've been on a long journey, searching for yourself within the confines of light and dark. 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers' offers up a spiritual journey intended to explore differences within a strict set of confines. Like Timothy, Revelator, this album uses banjo as its main instrument of choice. That gives it an organic feeling that pervades each rift and crevice. This is a beautiful, dense album in so many ways; it offers up something new with every listen.- Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis. Originally self-released in a deluxe edition of 100 copies. |
| 5/29/2008 | Ledergerber, Alan George | The Young Invincibles | CDR | $11.99 | The Lotus Sound | "Alan George Ledergerber (www.myspace.com/alangeorgeledergerber) just recently celebrated the release of his first full-length CD, The Young Invincibles, on The Lotus Sound. He works almost exclusively with effects pedals and other electronic gadgets strung together, though he's been incorporating guitar back into the mix lately. Hunched over this gear with his back to the crowd like some mad scientist, Alan produces a series of "spacey" and "trippy" sounds interspersed with disorienting noise. "The AGL", as he is also known, is definitely part of a new wave of modern electronic psychedelia." Limited edition of 100 copies. |
| 9/29/2005 | Lee Miller | The Futility of Language | CD | $14.99 | Musically Incorrect Records | Late November 2004: After working on assignment in Helsinki, New York-based journalist Jordan Mamone traveled to the village of Inari, Lapland, to clear his head and to write some song lyrics. During his time in the Arctic, he hiked for 14 km. in ˆ30 degree weather, slept in a roadhouse full of wasted truckers and reindeer herders, fraternized with mysterious women and criminals, and tore apart a tendon in his left hand. Nice vacation. Armed with a notebook full of strange riffs and words, he returned to southern Finland and recovered in the musically fertile city of Pori. This was the backdrop for The Futility of Language, the first proper CD release from Turku's Musically Incorrect Records and the remarkable debut by the Finnish-American power trio Lee Miller. Named for one of the Twentieth Century‚s sexiest photographers, Lee Miller formed several years after Mamone first met Jyrki Laiho and Janne Peltomäki, both of whom played in the acclaimed hypno-rock group Circle before founding the harder, even more explosive Stalwart. Produced by local legend Aki Peltonen, the Futility of Language sessions were even stronger than anyone expected: repetitive Pori-style riffs crash into untamed New York noise rock with enough sideways metal swagger and angst-ridden melody to keep the cute, fashionable girls interested. Peltomäki's crisp, steady drumbeats immaculately anchor grinding, atonal chords topped by Laiho's berserk, psychedelic solos. As a comment on the limits of verbal communication, Mamone keeps his vocals to a minimum, occasionally muttering or screaming cryptic abstractions inspired by his experiences in Lapland. Equal parts brutal cock rock and cerebral avant-garde, this music speaks for itself. You‚ve been warned." |
| 9/16/2004 | Legendary Pink Dots | All The King's Men | CD | $15.99 | Roir | "The first of two new albums inspired and affected by the events of September 11th from these long-running whimsical psych madcaps led by Edward Ka-Spel. Ten tracks done in classic LPD form, using a nursery rhyme to evoke both the apocalyptic events of a year ago, and the hope that has arisen from them. Paradoxical and provocative." |
| Legendary Pink Dots | Ancient Daze | CD | $21.99 | Beta-lactam Ring/Terminal Kaleidoscope | Recordings from 1980-1981. Track listing: Violence / Thursday Night Fever / O(ri)fice / The Chemical Playschool / Voices / Break Day / Only Dreaming / It Rots Your Liver / Black Highway / Phallus Dei / Game / Guess the Politician / Dolls' House / Louder After 6 / Spaced Out / Amphitheatre | |
| Legendary Pink Dots | Live '85-'88 | CD | $21.99 | Beta-lactam Ring/Terminal Kaleidoscope | Track listing: Regression / True Love / A Strychnine Kiss / Neon Mariners / A Lust For Powder / MMMMMMMMMMMMM / The Gallery / Curious Guy / I Am The Way, The Truth, The Light / Neon Gladiators / Mezhanyne (extract | |
| Legendary Pink Dots | Live '89 | CD | $21.99 | Beta-lactam Ring/Terminal Kaleidoscope | Track listing: Intro / Casting the Runes / Maniac / Black Zone / The Talent Contest / 8 Minutes to Live / Blacklist / Princess Coldheart / Pleasure Palace / Der Schrei / I Dream of Jeannie | |
| Legendary Pink Dots with friends and relations | Kollabris | CD | $21.99 | Beta-lactam Ring/TeKa | Unreleased tracks from LPD and related bands. Track listing: 1.Artwork (LPD plus Jochen Schoberth on acoustic guitar -Bring the rain 2.Karolinek (Edward Ka-spel plus Karolina Rozycka)- A small swan song 3. The Tear Garden - Bump (version 2) 4. The Tear Garden Georgie (version 2) 5. The Tear Garden - Extract from the Empathy session 6. The Legendary Pink Dots - Super 7. Lydia Tomkiw (Lydia w/ LPD) Pretty Something 8. Mimir Catchy tune 9. The Tear Garden Message 3 10. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Bomb bomb Loopapa tribe go to Swansea (and eat it | |
| 4/20/2008 | Lemieux, Thomas James | Wake Up, Dead Man | CDR | $8.99 | Elyk | "An album of unrelenting sorrow and beauty, "Wake Up, Dead Man" is a eulogy for the living. Thomas James Lemieux's bold, smooth voice compliments his folk/country guitar picking skills which delivers an album that both taunts and seduces you down the dark, dusty alley of the soul. Produced by Samuel Banuelos and Thomas James Lemieux. Mixed by Tom Biller (Jon Brion, Elliott Smith, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Vertically oriented, gatefold packaging made from 100% recycled material. Limited to 100 hand numbered/assembled copies." |
| 5/8/2005 | Leprechaun Catering | Kumquats and Lychees | LP | $12.99 | Heresee | "'Kumquats and Lychees' by Baltimore, Maryland's Leprechaun Catering, a.k.a. Tom Boram and Jason Willett, is a much-welcomed blast of trout-masked madness. This shameless and unrestrained duo whip up an improvisational whirlwind of ramshackle rhythms, chunky be-bopped chops, and wild electronic spasms. Their music convokes a kind of chaos that always sounds as if it's about to reel out of control. The two abuse their electronic gadgets and stab at their instruments the way hyenas tear into a fresh-killed fawn. If Leon Theremin knew how Boram defiled his electromagnetic invention he'd breakdance and backspin in his grave. In a live setting, the duo is a tornado of flailing limbs and twisting torsos, projectile drumsticks and flying fingers. 'Lychees' - a vinyl-only release - is the sound of band struggling to stay one step ahead of its craft. In this time of tight-lipped talk and repressed dissent, Leprechaun Catering's debut release of untangled tension and slippery slobber is sure to unleash a primal scream from even the most rigid of hipsters." - John Rickman |
| 3/21/2007 | Leprechaun Catering | Male Plummage | LP | $12.99 | White Denim | "Limited to 326 copies with pasted-on sleeves of the full color cover art. Orange splattered vinyl, recommended for fans of Mammal, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nautical Almanac, Harry Partsch, etc." |
| 9/30/2008 | Les Beyond | Privacy Act | CDR | $13.99 | Reverb Worship | "Les Beyond is the solo guise of Erin Ward from the US band Shearing Pinx.Her latest solo recording is entitled "Privacy Act" and recorded specially for Reverb Worship. Erin has created six lovely instrumental solo pieces for electric guitar. Her technique involves looped repetative guitar passages which evoke the solitary thought provoking feel of drifting. This feel is continued in the cover design which depicts sand dunes from high above. This cd is available in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies with an insert." |
| 3/4/2005 | Lescaleet, Jason | Pilgrim | picture disc LP & CD | $38.99 | Glistening Examples | "An audio documentation of this electronics-and-tape artists coming to terms with the death of his father. The LP documents a performance Jason Lescaleet gave after discovering his father had terminal cancer; its floor-rattling flux of abrasive, low tones invokes the purr of a Chevys engine Lescalleets father discusses in a letter reproduced on the record jacket. A snippet of the final conversation he had with his father is buried in a heat-haze of tape hiss and air conditioner hum. The CD further extrapolates on Lescalleets fathers email; its 74 minutes move from dreamlike bell tones, through abraded, metallic hum, escalating into fierce, brutalizing waves of noise which then cut to a recording of Lescalleets daughter singing the Irish folk song "Molly Malone" at her grandfathers request. The book in which the CD is mounted has plenty more text and images. If you arent staggered by The Pilgrim, theres something wrong with you." |
| 7/10/2008 | Leukers, Antonia | Hasenlove | picture disc LP | $24.99 | Dekorder | "Hasenlove" is the debut musical release of Hamburg visual artist Antonia Leukers. She's a founding member of "Institut Hasenbart", a 10-piece artist collective dedicated to a meta-scientific research of hares and related social, zoological and aesthetical phenomena in reference to the art world and pop culture. Leukers has previously created stitched, sewed and animated sculptures while casually growing cucumbers, working for a local in-vitro fertilization hospital and advising young people on erotic issues as a German Dr. Ruth for a popular Online magazine. Inspired by a journey to Island, hearing local travel guides spontaneously interweaving their narrations with sudden outbursts of folklore chanting and an encounter with Wolfgang Müller's (Die Tödliche Doris) strategy of transforming and combining his (pseudo-)scientific, documentary and social research into a musical and artistic performance she started to elaborate her fellow artist's lectures with musical renditions. As a passionate DIY home-recording artist she has soldered her own microphones, used cheap toy instruments, gameboys and minidisc recordings of kitchen sounds to create her very own bricolage comic universe. By recycling corny AOR mainstream Rock/Pop songs into some oddly disturbing and wonderfully weird rabbit love songs with newly-made German lyrics and combining these with some truly strange original compositions (ranging from freeform collage to distorted techno to deranged singer/songwriter stuff), she has created a musical love story in 7 parts. Spiritually influenced by (though not really sounding alike) German "Neue Deutsche Welle" artists such as Der Plan and theatrical and surreal performance bands like The Residents her versions of popular love songs sound like a teenage/female Andrew Lloyd Webber on bad acid. This 1-sided vinyl-only picture-disc LP is a strictly limited edtion of 300 copies. Both the gorgeous design and ornamental etching on the b-side have been done by fellow Hasenbart founding member Renate Nikolaus." |
| 2/3/2005 | LHD | Hotel Fire | 7" | $7.99 | P Tapes | "One sided single (John Wiese & Phil Blankenship harsh noise project)." Edition of 110 copies. |
| 2/12/2008 | Li Jiahong | San Sheng Shi | CD | $13.99 | Archive | "An incredible focused and formidable fifty something min. single track solo electric guitar wall of noise work from new face from the Chinese music scene. A release that will be sure to make more then a few people scramble to dig up Li's back catalog of work on his own 2pi imprint. Comes packed in a double sleeve with the outer sleeve being a semi transparent vellum fold around. Graphic work by Chase Middaugh. Single pressing of 500 copies." |
| 4/22/2009 | Libellula | (2) | CDR | $6.99 | Majmua Music | "Individually, some of the members of Libellula have been active in the world of electro-environmental music for over 15 years. Collectively, the Libellula collaboration is a fascinating document which immerses the listener into an welcoming mélange of sound. The dragonflies of the night ended up once in a little shack on an Etruscan hill top - where did they come from - could it have been Japan, or some place in southern Utah, maybe they were gnomes lost south from their home an edge of an alpine lake, or perhaps they just appeared from nowhere. It isn't certain and probably doesn't matter. This album entitled (2) was just what happened when the master was out of the workshop and the mice came out to play... now what exactly is it? Four years ago Sebastian Clinger, Hitoshi Kojo and Michael Northam did this single take 66min improvisation in the studio of Johannes Dimpflmeier. Libellula was what they called this spontaneous gathering in 2004. Numbers (1) & (3) exist as well - but that is best left kept for another day." |
| 12/24/2005 | Lichens | Psychic Nature of Being | LP | $16.99 | Holy Mountain | "Lichens is Rob Lowe's (90 Day Men, TV on the Radio) vehicle for performance and recording solo and with collaborators. Lichens is a transfixing experience that loops wordless vocals into curtains of ghostly drone which Lowe makes witchier with the addition of both acoustic and electric guitars, percussion and other effects. Recorded live as a one-time improvisation without overdubs, the three tracks on The Psychic Nature of Being reveal and extend already mesmerizing Lichens live performances. Holy Mountain's deluxe vinyl edition of The Psychic Nature of Being comes housed in a sturdy old-style tip-on jacket that features original artwork by Mr. Lowe not available on the CD version. Catch it!" |
| 5/29/2008 | Licht, Alan & Aki Onda | Everydays | CD | $12.99 | Family Vineyard | "Debut collaboration of New York artists and long-time duo partners Alan Licht and Aki Onda, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds, including Fennesz, Loren Connors, Takemura Nobukazu, Lee Ranaldo, and Toriko Nujiko. In the past decade their montage-inspired solo work—Licht's permutational guitar and tape pieces on Rabbi Sky and A New York Minute, Onda's field recording recontextualizations on Bon Voyage! and Ancient & Modern—has co-existed with their experimental sound/visual projects Text of Light (Licht) and Cinemage (Onda). Everydays is five grandly formed soundscapes that mix Onda's poetic/textural cassette sounds and the rhythmic/lyrical pull of Licht's guitar. Morphing from recognizable structures to dissonant hammered chunks and rapid cut-ups, the album perfectly weaves their signature applications of sound diaries, minimalism, grainy fidelity, looping and free blues into a dynamic and ambitious statement." |
| 5/1/2009 | Lieberman, Justin & C. Spencer Yeh | Object Lessons | picture disc LP | $24.99 | What The..? | "Object Lessons" and what of this ten-song collaboration between artist Lieberman and Yeh ? Perhaps the influenced musically discussed is somewhere starting between mutual love of various artistic and musical genres certainly -- sound poetry, psychedelic rock, Japanese scum noise, Japanese psychedelic rock, listy lists, but certainly embodies more the present-time sensibilities and whims of both between the two artists to combine for something perhaps neither strictly adhering to any imitation. Perhaps to this record appropriately let's step back to New York artist Justin Lieberman's 2009 sculptural and multimedea work "The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House" -- a description from the debuting gallery follows -- "The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House is inspired by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown's 1972 book, Learning From Las Vegas, which provides an in depth examination of what they call 'the decorated shed,' a simple structure with elaborate signage. Using the urban sprawl of Las Vegas as an example, they posit this architectural style as a means to enrich the symbolic content of post-modern architecture. The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House is a steel dwelling covered with a multitude of objects including a 1970s snowmobile, a life sized Jolly Green Giant, foam filled inflatable toys, an illuminated Fedex sign, and a 7 foot shark. Accompanying the house is a sculpture of the 'Corrector,' a character inspired by the fictional figure, Nobusuke Tagomi, from Philip K Dick's novel, The Man in the High Castle. The novel follows Tagomi in a fictional future fifty years after Germany and Japan defeat the Allied forces in World War II. Lieberman's interpretation of Taogmi is that of an avid collector of all things pop culture, whose collecting habits extend to the exterior of his home. Within the house, there is a computer equipped with a program that enables the 'Corrector' to archive each object with an informational text about the object's history, which is then projected onto the adjacent wall of the gallery. Created in the style of a Katamari video game, the program features texts on each object taking various forms such as objective accounts, plagiarized product descriptions, aesthetic meditations, poetry, short fiction, satire, and prose. The program is available to play at www.thecorrector.org. These texts were then transformed into the record, Object Lessons, a musical collaboration between Justin Lieberman and C Spencer Yeh. The record is a spoken rendition of select object descriptions that were reworked into an ... musical format." Full-color gatefold jacket, depicting abovementioned objects piled up in a grassy field, and the empty dome waiting for occupancy, and inside special ullistrations for both ten tracks -- with fullcolor picture disc LP showing the Corrector statue's head in both sketch and final form. Manufacture stopped around 250 copies." |
| 3/26/2006 | Lied Music vs Boy-Band Tax Returns | Lied Music vs Boy-Band Tax Returns | LP | $22.99 | Ultra Eczema | "Lied Music is the strange musique concrète improv project of the us neurotic sound artist JOHN FAIL and the glasgow based trash film maker LUKE FOWLER, they had a tape on trevor tremaine's RAMPART label, but i actually found out about them through the great 4x tape box that SPENCER YEH did on his DRONE DISCO imprint, i was immediately blown away by the beauty of this electro acoustic clean noise styled turbulence, the dudes also build up a long time colab scene of glasgow inprov colaborations with people like daniel padden of volcano the bear and ben reynolds! this lp is a colab with BOY-BAND TAX RETURNS from glasgow, who did a great lp as VERNON AND BURNS on FELIX KUBINS GAGARIN records, pfff, what a strange name dropping round is this actually.. this music is fucking beautiful, strangest combination of musique concrète and sampled field recordings. crude use of the indian string instrument esraj and violin, a lot of tascam tape machine cuttings, keyboards, home built instruments, samples etc.. very weird rhythmic stuff (spazz dancing is possible, straight dancing will be hard..), brutal drunk english hooligans, ambiental soundscapes, heavy frequencies.. as with a lot of ultra eczema releases i feel this music tastes very much like early nurse with wound, the new blockaders and other collage related soundart. the cover design is a drawing of a puking linx and a drawing of a dog on a shaved pukish body form by dennis tyfus." |
| 9/29/2005 | Liettterschpich | Quasi | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Fact Records (Israel) | "There's nothing more subhuman than taking things out of their original context. Lietterschpich manage to turn this natural weakness into a visionary and breathtaking framework of noisy doom ? dub ? drone. On Quasi,they confront noise reductions with a handful of buzz and frantic fury,giving Pixies' classic Monkey Gone to Heaven the fanatic boost it never had,deliver a sound that brings to mind the sinister power electronics of Whitehouse, the apocalyptic delusions of Khanate and the viscid anxiety of Wolf Eyes. Quasi will saturate savage ears and leave them puzzled and confused. Released in collaboration with Woolwung Records." |
| 12/5/2002 | Life | Spring | CD | $17.99 | Long Hair | "Original album was released on German CBS 1971, produced by Julius Schittenhelm (worked also for OHR Records). Two of the musicians were American Germans, the other 2 guys came from Munich. They sound between jamming Westcoast and raw Krautrock, with a bit of Edgar Boughton. Spacey flute, trippy guitars and very mystical long tracks - a great experience with an unknown album on a high level of proficiency. Informative booklet and 3 bonus tracks (59 mins)." |
| 10/6/2007 | Life Pardoner / Sick Llama | split | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Side A. = prov. RI Life Pardoner ??? bunch of trax. def. not ham studios style recording. this actually sounds mastered. a fag tapes first! strings, vocals, reeds who knows??? soundtrack style, not boring, hands-on drone, percussion. tonz of sounds, mug just handed me this tape at a gig, then sent th artwork. side B. = Sick Llama. sick llama style. mess of trax. black hole speakers. die-cut, printed, stickered sleeves. cool as a dawg edition 47." |
| 11/15/2008 | Life Partners | Aids of Spades / Teenager In Trouble | 7" | $4.99 | Ride The Snake | "Simultaneously vulgar and compelling. Naughty yet persuasive. Catchy! Etc! At its core, this record contains various takes on CLASSIC ROCK as performed by four freaks with an affinity for punk, metal riffs and 60s soul /R&B.To be more specific, Aids of Spades and Teenager In Trouble are two patently offensive, back to back bangers that defy genre while also undeniably expressing the best facets of noisy Rock N' Roll. This is music spawned from the mind of a questionably-heterosexual Jew from New Jersey, as refined through the company of a Flying V-wielding platonic life mate, an internationally acclaimed avant-garde trumpeter, and a polyester-clad stoner pounding his drums in good time to keep it all together. If it helps, you can think of this as a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot played by disgruntled, bi-curious aliens. On the right day, it could also be a cross between The Electric Eels and Eddie Money dished out as fun propaganda to an eager crowd of closeted maniacs looking to be saved from Bostons nightlife.Whatever works. Offered here is a truly unique experience: the opportunity to live through a beautifully tragic and serendipitous series of events over and over again without having to get too personally involved. Based out of Somerville, MA,The Life Partners have existed in various forms since the dawn of the new millennium. Dave and Mike first began to take themselves seriously as both a novelty punk act and a musical couple after making a post-collegiate Thelma and Louise style journey to Americas Southwest in 2002.Though line-ups and likenesses have come and gone out the window over the years, the band solidified itself as the current quartet after adding Greg Kelley and Paul Guercio in 2006. Its casual! Their official releases include Partners Forever (CD,Twisted Village, 2003) and Back 2 Life(LP, Partnership Records, 2005).This new single (Ride The Snake, 2008) marks the recorded debut of the ensemble listed below. A full length LP is scheduled to drop in the spring of 2009." Features: Dave Dougan (Major Stars) - Vocals, Keyboards, Cowbell, Bass -- Mike Pedals Dupuy (XTHESWEATERX) - Flying V Guitars, Keyboards -- Greg Kelley (nmperign, Heathen Shame) - Trumpet -- Paul Guercio (ex-Ganja, ex-LA Drugs) - Drums |
| Light | Turning | LP | $14.99 | Wurlitzer Jukebox | Much confusion about this - is Dave (FSA) on this or not? | |
| 2/1/2005 | Lilburn, Douglas | Complete Electro Acoustic Works | 3xCD + DVD | $71.99 | Atoll | "Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) is considered 'the father of New Zealand music'. After considerable success, he rejected composing for acoustic musical instruments and turned wholly to the creation of electronic works because he felt they would more accurately portray New Zealand in its own right, without reference to European musical forms. Some works are purely electronic; others were inspired by the natural sounds of the sea or bush, or the writings of leading New Zealand writers such as Allen Curnow, Denis Glover and Alistair Campbell. The works, dating from 1963-1975, have been restored to a high sonic standard for digital release at Atoll's Auckland facility. The set includes a DVD containing two 4-channel works by Lilburn, with all extant film material of the composer, plus an informative sound interviews and photographs." – label. "I am now more than ever convinced that Douglas Lilburn was the real deal. Because he was willing, as an established composer, to leap into the unknown realm of electronic sound, to learn a new language, a new way of working, he produced a body of music capable of inspiring listeners as diverse as his academic contemporaries and self-taught, anti-compositional philistines such as me. Now hopefully the rest of the world has the chance to be inspired, and to be thankful, as I am, that Douglas Lilburn heeded the call. To paraphrase Mark E Smith again: Composer, heal thyself!" – Bruce Russell. Very limited stock. |
| 2/11/2006 | Limburger 64 | Ergot Fetus | CDR | $7.99 | Nauscopy | "Maybe if the Residents and the Screamers got ahold of some really really bad drugs. Like some PCP with a "best used by" date of 1907. More of a fucking illness than a band. Pat Yankee of SNSE said "reminiscent of 'Machine Cuisine'-era Six Finger Satellite". |
| 11/17/2007 | Liquid Turtle | Ocean Phenomena | CDR | $13.99 | Alcoholic Narcolepsy | "New jams from Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay's newly-minted 'fake psychedelic group' Liquid Turtle. Limited pressing on his own label." - Volcanic Tongue. "Composed of three meditations of water /dream refraction. water being akin to dreaming states of floating. deep sea trickles, swirling current and fear of the deep. influenced by summer dipping and not being able to see your feet. Joined by Bram "Miles" Devens, Amy Backler and Rowan." |
| 11/17/2007 | Liquid Turtle | Plays "Cool Breeze" | CDR | $13.99 | Alcoholic Narcolepsy | "Second installment of hallucinated psychedelic ritual from Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay's imaginary rock group. Limited pressing on his own label." - Volcanic Tongue. "Is composed of five meditations influenced by sinotey (sic) programmes of passing through different deep sea waters passing through different gaseous exchanges and a hallucination from a forest viewing tower of magic eye forest. the silver birches played with my senses. based on a dream of 'Ocean Phenomena'" |
| 6/19/2007 | Liquid Visions | The Lost Recordings | DBL LP | $40.99 | Nasoni | "Great collection of prev. unreleased live and studio recordings from 2000. Follow the Liquid Visions' journey from the shores of deeply 60's influenced Garage Fuzz'n'Psych Rock to the endless skies of long, spaced out soundscapes with loads of great sound effects and beautiful patches of eastern vibes. The entire album is full of incredible guitar works that ranges from sometimes soulful wah-wah grooves to acid-drippin' heaviness, backed by a virtuous and skillful rhythm section. A great legacy this is!" Edition of 500 copies - all copies here are on black vinyl. |
| 4/10/2005 | Living Breathing Music | Happiness Is Fabulous | CDR | $8.99 | Weird Forest | "What would the soil say? A fair speculation from the land's oldest apostle...'God made the Earth and the Earth was round and the Earth stood still in it's roundness... thus gave rise to 'the color green'...the amorphic quality of this color sprang life ... the first sounds involved gurggling 'Cro-magnon' hemorages ... the rest is adequate history ... hamburgers hotdogs hermaphrodites haunted house huge hard hair ... this is my recollection, I am soil!' A true testament of Northern Californian 4:20-vibe/freak-out unfurled for the rest of the world ... a live non-stop excavation of classic Impulse! ether fused a la' Cro-Magnon(artists alone decide ...) with a utilitarian nod to 'New Weird-ness' and Finnish-psych-spooge... recorded in Davis, CA 'Live in Studio A' Sept. 2004 ... 4 colors, 500 copies, collaborative artwork... why does acid cost so much? Features members of Klondike & York, Antennas Erupt, My Whole Hand Was Wet, Tally Band, and Black Bottles." |
| 9/23/2004 | Lobdell, Steven Wray | Live At Club Donut | LP | $14.99 | Holy Mountain | “Steven Wray Lobdell's second full-length solo album for Holy Mountain was recorded live in December in a small Portland, Oregon, donut shop (actually on a loft above the toilet), Live at Club Donut unleashes some of Lobdell's most over-the-top torrents of Echoplexed guitar frenzy. Elliptical, psychedelic rhythms merge with his trademark fat guitar signal to produce intense leads that demand comparison to an ocean on fire or planet-sized sunspots. John McLaughlin meets Wolf Eyes. Amazing stuff.” |
| 10/25/2008 | Locrian | Exhuming the Carnival / Burying the Carnival | cassette | $5.99 | "Like a raven perched on an electrical transformer, Locrian summon elemental human dread, the type hinted at in medieval passion plays and Shakespearean dramatic interludes, but do so electrically, without the pretense of ancient wisdom or nostalgia-laden "spectral folk." The duo of Andre Foisy and Terrence Hannum stalk the vacant drossscapes with delay-laden guitars and round, full, low-end synth textures. On this cassette outing, in an edition of 200, they present a single idea modulated two different ways in a live radio setting, "Exhuming the Carnival" is a throbbing tense journey through fields of guitar and analogue synth punctuated by howling haunted vocals. On the other side of the tape, "Burying the Carnival" brandishes an icepick through the ear that owes more to their metal and power-electronics influences utilizing searing feedback, massive crumbling synths, and blistering guitars." | |
| 4/10/2009 | Locrian / Katchmare | split | 7" | $6.99 | Pilgrim Talk | "First release from Pilgrim Talk (Normal, IL.). One side of spiraling drone from Locrian and one side of headfuck from Katchmare. Edition of 100 copies on colored vinyl." |
| 6/5/2005 | Long Live Death | Bound to the Wheel | CD | $12.99 | Secret Eye | This is the follow-up to Long Live Death's 2003 Secret Eye debut, 'To do more than god... To die.' "Mesmerising and psychedelic throughout, this is an album for full-moon nights, which has immense power and a fragile beauty in equal measures and will transport you into the timeless realms of the imagination." - Simon Lewis for the Ptolemaic Terrascope |
| 9/23/2003 | Long Live Death | To Do More Than God...To Die | CD | $12.99 | Secret Eye | "Psych, folk and twisted dark spirituals from this communal Baltimore outfit who recently toured as the opening band for Will Oldham in 2003 (Mr. Oldham says ‘thank you to the incantation factory that is LONG LIVE DEATH’). Gong, musical saw and cello figure prominently in these spooky, gospel flavored hymns. Let your freak flag fly! Two of the members of LLD are also in the popular Baltimore band OXES. ‘Whether it's the kitchen-sink surrealism inspired by the Fernando Arrabal movie from which it stole its name or the ebb-and-flow psych of Father Yod and the Yahowa 13 that it seems poised to become, Baltimore's Long Live Death is an obtuse band that seamlessly intertwines its own bizarro-world ideas with folk-rock's crusty musk. Onstage the band unrolls a long and winding goad that isn't going to be every longhair's bag, but anybody who ever held even the slightest of thangs for love beads and nudie pics shouldn't miss.’" Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper |
| 6/5/2005 | Loop Retard | Mom Say I Make Special Music + Dad Says Keep the Bass Turned Down | DBL CDR + mini comic book | $12.99 | 23 Productions | "After two incredible and dynamic 3" cdrs and a slew of highly limited cassette, Loop Retard finally throws down his first full length, readily availabe to the masses. This is noise loop pool of filth. Broken hip beats, snot nosed electronics and ackward delirium make up each disc, one dedicated to Mom and the other to Dad. Each disc has it's own special message and reward. Includes and screwed up comic by the master retard himself. Limited edition of 106." |
| 11/3/2004 | Looper | Squarehorse | CD | $9.99 | Absurd / Utan Titel | “When Nikos Veliotis (cello) forwarded the mail around the first Looper Scandinavian tour back in 2003 w/ Ingar Zach (percussion) & Martin Kuechen (sax) I was expecting them to sound more like a 'classic' free improv combo... however things worked completely different this time, ... this trio turned to a very minimal (& dense) drone like one and 'squarehorse' is the point where their sonic dialogues are crafted into soundscapes of sheer beauty where each of the trio adds his own colours (in a trully superb way!) in order to make a picturesque sonic canvas that will appeal to all the lovers of minimal improvised musics but also to all those who seek soundscapes in the vein of obscure dense musics projects as well, as is a record hard to be scored under any label... co-produced w/ the Swedish 'utan titel' project which is run by members of the Greek collective 'editions_zero' and work under the flag of 'research center for the definition of happiness's Scandinavian branch...” |
| 9/17/2006 | Loopool | Useless Unless | CDR | $8.99 | Arbor | "jean-paul garnier does it again. this ever changing artists comes at us with a lagrely vocal oriented album. free rock guitar jams and synth explorations. sewer pipe drones with beutifully placed vocals. this is another album that has been in the works for far too long, but it is finally here for you to hear. every song sounds differents as this urban chamelon of an artist approaches new terrain. some of these songs totally rock(in the rock and roll type of way), some of these songsrock(in the garage punk type of way), and some of these songs rock(in the noise drone type of way). these lyrics are there to make you think. think about your friends and think about the world. the lyrics are collected in a scrawled out sheet which folded up fits like a nice book in the purple clam shell case. the clam shell case is then put in a full color sike-out drawn custom envelope. in a numbered edition of 50 copies." |
| 1/1/2008 | Loosers | Logic on it's Head | 10" | $10.99 | Not Not Fun / Woodsist | "Portuguese sidelights seekers finally unveil this thick black dinner plate of drums and mosque smoke. 2-color silkscreen of a jeremy earl drawing on a textile-photocopied sleeve. edition of 340." Recommended! |
| 9/30/2008 | Loosers | Love Has Come Around | one sided LP | $29.99 | Troglosound | Tracklist: 1. Love has come around 2. Don't let go 3. The moment Total time: 24'50" - handmade collage artwork by Troglosound. "This new record of the restless Loosers present the band in a surprising and mind-blowing rock shape. Three long trippy songs spacing from the hypnotic guitars and supergroovy bass and drum riffs of "Love has come around", to the mysterious mediterranean atmospheres of "The Moment", passing through the almost psychedelic beat sound of "Don't let go"... Travelling the ways of love." Limited edition of 180 copies. |
| 10/25/2008 | Loosers | Natives Are Restless | Double LP | $36.99 | QBICO | "Recorded in 2005/2006 in Portugal and Europe... and they like to dance to the sound of tribal music!" |
| 11/4/2006 | Loosers | Otha Goat Head | DBL CDR | $16.99 | Ruby Red | "New double set from these new weird Portugese jammers in a cool gatefold digipak. Moves from cacophonous almost Church Of Anthrax style rolling minimalism through levels of tonally awry guitar twonk that resemble Toru Kudo jamming with Faust as well as the usual dub-destroyed post-Sunburned splayed rock." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 9/30/2008 | Loosers / Owl Xounds | split | 7" | $6.99 | Release the Bats | "Loosers from Portugal continues with their psychedelic free noise jams after releases on labels such as Qbico, Ruby Red, Meudiademorte and Woodsist. A quiet and subtle guitar-driven piece, feels like a slooow and hot Sunday afternoon. The flipside has more crude and dirty out there jazz madness from Brooklyn's Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy, featuring Adam from Holy Mountains La Otracina." Edition of 420 copies on black vinyl. |
| 8/2/2008 | Lord, Harvey & Dave George | Static | CDR | $13.99 | Reverb Worship | "You will know Harvey Lord from his excellent debut "Weighted Down" cdr on Reverb Worship.This time Harvey has recorded a superb ambient style piece of music with Dave George as a duo entitled "Static". Harvey and Dave are members of the band Electric Free Time Machine."Static" is one long sixty minute track recorded in a caravan on a hot day in May 2008, and is an improvisation based loosely on the process of dreaming.The track contains some lovely acoustic guitar playing which morphs in an and out of ethereal ambient drones and looped found sounds. The covers are all hand made and are printed in four different sparkly colours in red, blue,silver and gold on white card." Edition of 60 copies. |
| Los Brincos | Mundo Demiono Y Carne | CD | $19.99 | Si-Wan Records | “Highly regarded Spanish psych reissue of 1970 LP. They started as a beat group then graduated to this album which is their most accomplished. Includes mellotron, organ, and flute to the strange brew. This LP was clearly indebted to the Pretty Things ‘S.F. Sorrow’ LP.” |
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| 6/19/2007 | Los Natas | El Hombre Montana | LP | $24.99 | Nasoni | "El Hombre Montaña (Mountain Man) comes from ashes to change again the sound and life of Los Natas: With a rawer, more compact and harder sound, writing songs with a traditional shape and much more lyrics and vocals, this new album is stunning and completely different to the previous works without losing Los Natas charateristic feel. The change is not only for new productor Billy Anderson (Melvins, among many more) who has been responsible and author of Corsario Negro sound, but also because Los Natas deal deeply inside men's nature, feelings, deficiencys, identity as human being. That's the reason why as we listen to the songs, thrills and feelings vary constantly, although the sound in each and every one of the songs is hard & mighty. No rest for the wicked!" Edition of 500 copies - 400 on black vinyl - all copies in stock are black vinyl. |
| 1/1/2008 | Los Natas | El Universo Perdido de Los Natas Vol. I + II | DBL LP | $38.99 | Nasoni | "This double album's mission is to rescue many old songs cut by the trio, which didn't make it onto any of the band's official discography. Also included are cover versions of classic tracks by Pescado Rabioso, Black Sabbath, and other long lost gems and rarities." Edition of 500 copies - black vinyl in stock. |
| 4/1/2003 | Los Natas | Toba-Trance | CD | $16.99 | Ektro | "Lovely new album of peace pipe trance drone by these normally Sabbathian Argentineans. Previous releases on Man's Ruin, Beard of Stars, Small Stone, etc have brought thunder to the hordes, now it's time to chill. ‘Three songs, 60 minutes of non-gained continuous experience thru Indian music, meditation, flutes, charango, bombo leguero and rock.’" |
| 10/25/2008 | Lost & Found | Everybody's Here | LP | $17.99 | International Artists | "Originally released in 1968 on International Artists, the Houston-based Lost And Found were able to land a deal with the label thanks to their friendship with Roky Erickson (to whom they pay homage on the album with a cover of the 13th Floor Elevators' Don't Fall Down). This debut album, released just prior to their 30 day tour with the Music Machine, features great fuzz guitars and a healthy dose of psychedelic weirdness." 180g vinyl - exact repro. |
| 6/19/2002 | Lost Aaraaff | Lost Aaraaff | CD | $15.99 | PSF | Keiji Haino’s first group from 1971! Features vocals, percussion and piano. |
| 1/24/2009 | Lost Anchor | A Process Group | CDR | $9.99 | American Tapes - AM-795 | "New mysterious lurk un drag sound collage group, already with a couple of compilation tracks milling about. Klanging electronic strangeness, completely lost anchor jam style. Music for a soundtrack of a void First Responder. Opposition WITH flow..Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." |
| 7/30/2006 | Lost Domain, The | An Unnatural Act | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "This is where it all began. way back in 1990, the lost domain was the invisible empire. the early days showed true signs of greatness, and this is finally the definitive version of this lost masterpiece. underneath the scorching australian sun, these sonic explorers use any means necessary to extract gold from the rocky cliffs. with the smell of the ocean at their backs, the lost domain unleash an absolute typhoon. thick guitar masses break the waves with all the dust and dirt they can muster. "an unnatural act" creates more questions than answers, but weaves more magic than mystery." - label |
| 7/16/2006 | Lost Domain, The | Palace | CD | $13.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Brisbane avant-blues practitioners The Lost Domain have been stalwarts of the Australian underground for nearly 20 years. Formed around the core duo of guitarist David MacKinnon and organist/vocalist Simon Ellaby they have released a consistently inspiring but all too rare trickle of cdr's and have only recently begun to get the attention that they deserve (via the "Sailor Home From the Sea" CD (Broken Face/Digitalis 2004 (who incidentally promise a follow up "White Man at the Door" later this year)), and some choice compilation slots and magazine interviews). One of the most intense and engaging live bands I have ever seen their sound is something like a gritty cross between the spacious psychedelic ambient improv noise of New Zealand's Sandoz Lab Technicians, and the weirder swampier blues-stomp of Captain Beefheart. 'Palace' presents a remarkably restrained series of subtle movements and moods that were recorded over a few weekends in the ballroom of 'The Pink Palace', an old and virtually abandoned hall in Brisbane. This is The Lost Domain in full band mode with a line up that includes Leighton Craig, Eugene Carchesio and Rick Neville. Organs and plaintive feedbacking guitars call to each other through the reverberant emptiness. There are dream like peaks and lulls as the dynamic slowly intensifies into a deep deep blues howl before the whole band once more drifts away into the ether." |
| 12/4/2003 | Lost Domain, The | Something Is… | CDR | $10.99 | Rhizome | "Long awaited first non-self-released (& therefore slightly 'available') title from legendary yet mysterious Brisbane outfit. Forming as the Invisible Empire in the late 1980s, this band -circling around the figures of David McKinnon and Simon Ellaby- has slowly refined their muse over the following 15 years until recently reaching a peak form of non-linear, startlingly original folk-drone templature. While existing parallel to spirits like Jackie-O Motherfucker and the No Neck Blues Band, The Lost Domain both predate and supercede those outfits. The slow ring of guitars drenched in blues and rock form, little toy instruments as sidereal presences, organ hum and splutter, Kraut propulsed percussion, and wasted mumble vocals - the new sound of Australia, defined and redefined. Collects together two titles previously micro-released: ‘Alain-Fournier's Dream’ and ‘Malcolm Mooney For President.’" |
| 7/11/2008 | Lost Domain, The | The Mystery of the Lost Domain | CDR | $13.99 | Cook an Egg | "Three long muddy blues from the other side. Howlin' wolves in the dead of night, subterranean homesick wails, ballroom dancing ghosts shaking out the dust from their long-gone sleeves...Or as Mats Gustfasson wrote (about their "Something Is..." cdr on Rhizome and which could very well be applied here), it all sounds '[as if] the muted wailing of the desolate wind over some abandoned cabin in the forest would turn into a haunted piece of music'. For the already initiated, the music is situated at the crossroads (ah, ah!) between the more minimal soundscapes of 'Palace' (PseudoArcana) and the more abstract/ sparser blues reveries featured on 'Sailor, Home From The Sea' (Broken Face/ Digitalis). Featuring special artwork/ insert by Eugene Carchesio. First series of 100 copies." |
| 9/17/2006 | Lost Domain, The | White Man at the Door | CD | $12.99 | Digitalis | Brisbane's improvisor extraordinaires, The Lost Domain, have been launching sonic missives into the stratosphere for almost 20 years now. These guys were blitzing the path well-travelled by Jackie-O Motherfucker and No Neck Blues Band, before either group even existed. In Australia, they know how to play the blues. Maybe it's in the water, or maybe it blows in from the ocean, but one listen to The Lost Domain's "White Man at the Door," and there's no denying it: these motherfuckers can play the blues. "White Man at the Door" follows the legendary Shytone "Dead Set," a compendium of pre-war inspired clssics compiled by Lost Domain mainman, John Henry Calvinist (aka David Mac Kinnon), and much beloved by none other than John Fahey. These six tracks are like nothing else the group has released. Ragtime Frank (aka Simon Ellaby) puts in the vocal performance of a lifetime as he extracts songs like "In My Time of Dying" and "Frankie & Albert" from deep inside his bones. Over an archaic bed of acoustic instrumentation and junkyard percussion, Ellaby belts out gut-wrenching line after gut-wrenching line. It will bring listeners to their knees. The pre-war inspirations behind these tracks are obvious, but the execution and emotion is 100% authentic. "White Man at the Door" is a lost relic. It's like something found in a dusty corner of the Library of Congress, begging to be rediscovered. This is the kind of album that most bands only dream of making. It is pure, whiskey-addled perfection." |
| Lost In Translation | Consume EP | DBL 7" | $5.99 | Burnt Hair | "tripped out, fucked up noise" from Minneapolis. | |
| 9/16/2007 | Lotus Eaters | Wurmwulv | CD | $11.99 | Troubleman | The third record from the Lotus Eaters. 3 songs recorded between 2000 and 2003 - clocking in at over 50 minutes. Ambient, gutwrenching beauty. The Band: Stephen O'Malley: Khanate, Sunn O))), Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer, etc etc etc - James Plotkin: Atomsmasher/Phantomsmasher, Khanate, OLD, Flux, Namanax, Solarus, Romance, and collaborations with Michael Gira, Mick Harris, Mark Spybey, Brent Gutzeit, and Fenech - Aaron Turner: Isis, Old Man Gloom, House of Low Culture, Hydra Head Records co-owner, etc etc etc |
| 1/1/2008 | Lotus Group, The | The Lotus Group | CDR | $9.99 | Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recordings | "European hippies jamming their minds to the walls in hotel room, in the holy city of Pushkar early 2007, using violin, frame drum, maracas, mouth organ, flute and sounds from the throat and lungs. Noisy rattle racket free imrov." First edition of 40 copies on Jani's/Uton label. |
| 12/21/2004 | Loudest Whisper | 2 | CD | $24.99 | Kissing Spell | "The second album from the band consist of some of the singles from the mid seventies. This album was released in the early eighties. More rocked out, west coast sounding than their first, got a killer version of 'She moved through the Fair'." - Malesch Records |
| 12/21/2004 | Loudest Whisper | Maiden of Sorrow | CD | $24.99 | Kissing Spell | "Hailing from Fermoy, Co Cork, Loudest Whisper proved their originality with their first folk rock musical, 'The Children of Lir'. That was back in 1973. Today after two more successful musicals, 'Perseus' and 'Maiden of Sorrow' and some of the hit singles on this album, Loudest Whisper have established their own recording studio in Fermoy, Studio Fiona. Brain O'Reilly, founder of the group and his brother Paul write all their own material, drawing on influences from both American and European sources." |
| 2/16/2002 | Love | Da Capo | LP | $16.99 | Sundazed | "Their second album, from November 1966, featuring the explosive '7 And 7 Is', a Top 40 hit in 1966 and an all-time garage-punk classic. Exact repro from the analog masters!" Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Highly recommended! |
| 2/16/2002 | Love | Forever Changes | LP | $20.99 | Sundazed | "...the greatest rock album ever made...' -Mojo. Forever Changes has remained high atop critic's Top 10 lists since its original 1968 release, and its influence today can be felt stronger than ever. A masterpiece of psychedelia. Exact repro on 180 gram vinyl, with original art and liner notes. All-analog mastering from the original master tapes." This is a top 5 all-time record for me! Love-Love LP $15.99 (Sundazed) "The May, 1966 debut from this legendary L.A. group bristles with energy; includes their punky hit cover of Hal David / Burt Bacharach's 'My Little Red Book' and Arthur Lee's harrowing 'Signed D.C.'". Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Highly recommended! |
| 1/19/2004 | Love | Forever Changes Concert | DVD | $19.99 | "A longtime favorite of psychedelic, punk and ‘pure pop’ fanatics, the ’60s band Love is the stuff of legend. The original lineup made only three albums, they never toured and drug troubles caused them to break up just as their labelmates, the Doors, soared to superstardom. Music critics have dubbed Love the greatest lost rock group of its era and proclaimed its third album, Forever Changes, to be the band’s greatest legacy. In 2002, Lee made a triumphant return to performing with the ‘Forever Changes’ tour, in which he performed the classic LP in its entirety, backed by a talented young band and an ensemble of horns and strings. A performance of the show at the Royal Festival Hall in London is documented in detail on this DVD, which contains five extra Love classics, including the aggressive, pre-punk nugget ‘7 and 7 Is.’ Lee is seen relaxing and reminiscing in an interview supplement, but on stage, he’s all business, clearly taking the task of reproducing the studio-crafted album quite seriously. As for the music, it’s every bit as magical, eclectic and lyrically strange as it was back in 1967. Flamenco guitars, Tijuana Brass-style horns, lush ‘orchestral pop’ strings, raunchy guitar riffs and seriously catchy hooks demonstrate how Lee and his bandmates wedded the elegance of Bacharach bubblegum pop (Love’s first hit was a cover of Burt’s ‘Little Red Book’) with the harder-edged sound and subject matter of the psychedelic scene. The musicians do an excellent job of bringing the album to life, but no one is more impressive than Lee himself. Now 58 and past a run of personal problems, he still possesses a remarkably melodic and emotional singing voice. Shelve next to titles featuring established such ’60s icons as Jim Morrison and Hendrix, and introduce viewers to the great ‘lost’ genius of Love." – Ed Grant. | |
| Love | Love | LP | $16.99 | Sundazed | "The May, 1966 debut from this legendary L.A. group bristles with energy; includes their punky hit cover of Hal David / Burt Bacharach’s ‘My Little Red Book’ and Arthur Lee’s harrowing ‘Signed D.C.’". Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Highly recommended! | |
| 12/17/2003 | Love | Third Coming of Love | LP | $29.99 | Gazebo | "Euro release. 500 Copies. Collection of 13 alternate/early mixes/demos, and studio rarities '66-'68. Comes with great sound and fantastic sleeve artwork. Tracks include 'My Little Red Book', 'Wonder People', 'Hummingbirds', 'Robert Montgomery', 'Singing Cowboy', etc." |
| 9/29/2004 | Love and Death | Can-Opened Mind | CD | $10.99 | Camera Obscura | "Nic Dalton of The Plunderers, Godstar, The Lemonheads and Half-a-Cow records has recorded an experimental psych album for us under the name Love and Death, the title of the experimental fourth side of the vinyl version of Godstar's 'Coastal' album. It is a along the same lines, fairground keyboards, backwards guitars, tape effects, acoustic balladry, et al, but the concepts introduced on the 'Love and Death' side of 'Coastal' are now explored over the course of a mighty 50 minute sonic collage. As on that previous outing, Nic's partner in oddness is keyboardist John Encarnacao. pressed for a reference point, I guess we could tell you that it is like the Black Swan Network alter ego to Nic Dalton's rock stuff, but that really doesn't do it justice, as it is entirely its own creature." 1998 release. |
| 12/13/2008 | Love Is So Fast | Love Is So Fast | LP | $15.99 | Siltbreeze | "Exact details on the origins of The Love Is So Fast are vague; essentially, it was a project created by Danyhell and Estrella (currently in Los Llamarada) intended to flesh out bedroom improvisations and act as an inner search for a sense of skeletal (pop) structure amid the morass of postmodern rock effluvium. Performed live and recorded in one take, the five hazy, languorous tracks certainly charge the ions with positive, crystalline zip, creating an electron hole that sounds like alien transmissions from a long-ago Mars. Not the band, friend, the planet! Fans of the debut LP by Los Llamarada (S-S Records) will be downright giddy with the Precambrian narco-menace that comes carbonating off The Love Is So Fast's archival recordings. Or, as the band says themselves: "This is the music we dreamed of but couldn't play." Grab the peyote, I think I'm Frida Kahlo." |
| 5/1/2009 | Love Live Life + One | Love Will Make A Better You | CD | $17.99 | Drone Syndicate | "Number six on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade!" "Commencing with singer Akira Fuse's goggle-eyed one-day-old-baby innocence, Love Live Life + 1's album opener 'The Question Mark' escorts us through an eighteen-minute free-rock R&B adventure like nothing before or since. Clanking harsher than even the title track of Funkadelic's Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow, and twice as long; cosmic as the Cosmic Joker's Galactic Supermarket, and gnarly as John McLaughlin's out-there-a-minute axe excursions on Miles's 'Right Off'' or his own Devotion solo LP, do these guys fight for their right to party! The mellower second side includes the insanely brilliant eight-minute epic 'Shadows Of My Mind,' in which Akira Fuse sings like some drunken Italian baritone, while atonal swooping strings and crazy brass support/undermine him; then it's off into a juggernaut bass-heavy clatterthon with duel-axe outrage of the highest level. And how about that title track whose catchy bastard licks unashamedly rip Sly's 'I Want To Take You Higher,' but still have you singing along with Fuse? The record closes brilliantly with the demented 'Facts About It All,' which opens like Fuse laying a grunting 6/8 James Brown/Eric Burdon ballad on us. But no, this miniature R&B opera says in 2 minutes and 56 seconds what prog bands took a whole side to say. All hail visionary genius Ikuzo Orita for uniting his fave guitarist Kimio Mizutani with the errant free-jazz Gibson 335 of Takao Naoi, whose brittle spittle pops permanent wheelies around these slippery rhythm tracks. Also hail Orita for recognizing the genius of these songs of sax player Kei Ichihara, for trusting Akira Fuse's professionalism and open-mindedness, and for seeing this 33-minute-long classic to its unlikely conclusion." -- Japrocksampler |
| 5/8/2003 | Low End Lars | Crystal Arcade Supertsar | 7" | $3.99 | Bobby J Records / Crunchy Food Records | "I spent the whole chicken songs of flight of day... about the arcades make me the guitar solo... I then synthesize... certifies to me!!!" What?! |
| 9/30/2005 | Lowdown | Y Is a Crooked Letter | CD | $9.99 | Zum | "The Lowdown from Santa Cruz, CA, follow up their much beloved Revolver II with the sandblast sounds of "Y is a crooked letter." Recorded by the band and slightly tinkered with by Jamie Stewart (xiu xiu), this sophomore album is chock full of the unstable psychedelic sounds and dance punk that have become the calling card of the Bay Area family, a dysfunctional unit that counts amongst its familiars Erase Errata, Numbers, Total Shutdown, and Deerhoof. Kindred spirits these, the Lowdown has the distinction of being in existence since 1997, combining woodland magic and busted electronics. Other band affiliations include St. Joseph and the Abandoned Food, Whysp, Leprachaun, and Comets on Fire. " |
| Lowdown, The | Revolver II | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Revolver II regurgitates raw sound through a complete deconstruction of the musical process. By utilizing whatever instrument that happens to be available, no matter how rudimentary, a necessary window into The Lowdown's decidedly tongue-in-cheek creative genius is opened wide. The band is propelled by the relatively standard dueling guitars-and-drums punk rock blueprint; but The Lowdown's equipment happens to be tainted, handicapped, pummeled, weathered. Pushed to the limit, a typically rock format now treads in a wholly other realm of primitive sound. The musical mess The Lowdown creates becomes further perverted through a smattering of drum machines, saxophones, casio keyboards, samples, and a feedbacking tuner. Each song stumbles ahead with frayed volume, sewn together by intermittent bursts of noise, studio tweaks, and general tomfoolery. Kindered spirits like Deerhoof or Half Japanese would seemingly gyrate freely with undaunted respect to their unbridled cacophony." | |
| 3/20/2003 | Lowe, Frank | Black Beings | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "This historical session, recorded in 1973 for ESP-Disk, was tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe's debut as leader and is one of his most electrifying earlier efforts. Black Beings features all original Lowe material, with Joseph Jarman on alto and soprano sax and Leroy Jenkins on violin. Lowe participated in the New York free jazz revolution, first gaining notoriety in the mid-sixties playing with Sun Ra, and later, Alice Coltrane, Rashied Ali, Don Cherry and violinist Billy Bang." |
| Löwenbrück, Daniel / Jürgen Eckloff | Betley Composers Series Volume One East Berlin | CD | $12.99 | Betley | "Two extremely minimal tape compositions." | |
| 4/20/2008 | Lryeas | Lryeas | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Slow and grinding black ambient metal ... with added trumpet!" Boa Melody Bar |
| 8/28/2007 | LSD March | Bigjar Solo Sets | DVD | $18.99 | Archive | "As the title would suggest represents footage James filmed of all three members of LSD March (Shinsuke Michishita, Ikuro Takahashi, Masami Kawaguchi) performing solo sets at Philly's best book store, BigJar, while on a short US tour in the fall of 2006. Shinsuke and Masami's renderings represent a Japanese working of psychy folk for guitar and vocals. Ikuro offers a contrasted short piece of oscillator assemble that is firmly rooted in the avant-garde, with overtones of conceptualist art, found sound, and experimentalism. The release comes packaged in a fold heavy stock cover with a pressing size of 550 copies design and silkscreen by Jason Killinger from Birds of Maya." |
| 2/11/2006 | LSD March | Empty Rubious Red | CD | $19.99 | White Elephant | "New limited self-released CD (edition of only 250 copies) from Japan's LSD-March, current heirs to that country‚s post-Rallizes void-gobbling crown. Empty Rubious Red reconciles a bunch of strains that have been orbiting their back catalogue for a while now, combining pale, Velvets-style dead flower blues with the kind of clipped, evocatively staggered guitar dunt pioneered by Jutok Kaneko of Kousokuya as well as long, nerve-shredding passages of fully illuminated electric guitar immolation that push post-Hendrix rock logic a few stones closer to the sun. Highest recommendation." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 4/24/2006 | LSD March | Empty Rubious Red | CD | $13.99 | Archive | "A re-issue of the microscopic self released CD. a mix of studio tracks that range from really sweet electric folk almost solo tunes mixed with some of the psych freakout you'd expect, but overall a much different sounding release then the live disc and some of the other material out there. Re-issue contains an extra take of the title trax dropped on the front of the disc, some light mastering work by James Plotkin, and a new package and layout which has a minimal acetate overlay and more of hair graphic work from Joe Denardo of Growing. A one time pressing of 600 copies." |
| 7/11/2008 | LSD March | Jurando | CDR | $12.99 | Reverb Worship | "The second and final edition of the LSD March "Jurando" cdr is now available.The original issue of this sold out in mega quick fashion.This second edition contains the same music but this time has a flourescent green card cover with black and white paste on artwork. Edition of 100 copies." |
| 1/1/2008 | LSD March | Nikutai No Tubomi | DBL CD | $18.99 | BLR | "A double-CD edition of 500 numbered copies in a full-color book bound case. "It gets so lonely in the belly of a whale. But the acoustics are fantastic. The pitch and yaw of its cavernous gut lowing with a long, guttural song burst. This is met by a loud, wailing which drone swells up as millions of gallons pass through tons of ambergris. These massive internal sound collisions resonate into a monstrous feedback of even greater proportion than the beast itself. And Jonah smiles. This is the sound of LSD MARCH. Be the body of Christ and let the whale take of YOU. LSD March is a Japanese psychedelic rock group, based in the city of Himeji. It is led by singer and guitarist SHINSUKE MICHISHITA. The group is named after a track by krautrock group Guru Guru. Michishita has also played with Magura Mozart and Doodles." |
| 11/2/2008 | LSD March | Uretakumo Nakunarutorika | CD | $18.99 | BLR | "The LSD March hare hops its winding way through another Wonderland of its own making with a brand new kraut influenced album Uretakumo Nakunarutorika. These ever indefinable Japanese psych monsters have coughed up a syrup-soaked album of broken tribal psychedelia. Their distended view of plunderphonic percussion gurgles like a drum 'n' base-jump into a vat of psilocybin wine. And then things get weird." |
| 10/6/2007 | Lubelski, Samara | Parallel Suns | CD | $14.99 | The Social Registry | "With 'Parallel Suns' Samara Lubelski has flown to a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. They combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. The music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound." |
| 1/1/2008 | Lubelski, Samara | Parallel Suns | LP | $13.99 | The Social Registry | "With 'Parallel Suns' Samara Lubelski has flown to a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. They combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. The music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound." |
| 2/11/2006 | Lubelski, Samara | Spectacular of Passages | LP | $16.99 | DeStijl | "There is certainly nothing wrong with chanteuses - we are quite lucky to now have a fair few in our aural midst as some of the young'uns seem to take off - but neu-folk composer Samara Lubelski is absolutely not a chanteuse by nature. In truth to her pedigree in Metabolismus, Tower Recordings, Hall of Fame, the Sonora Pine, Pacer, Matt Valentine et al., she's a master of atmospheric textures at both juggernaut tempi and languorous sonic canvasses, her part as one of whole. Samara, with dew-flecked voice and slippery strung chords, makes that languor a tour of both honeyed breakfast plate and the midday crackle of dried grass. Third as bandleader, ten new classics of deliciously effusive songcraft, Passages joins Lubelski with The Clean's Hamish Kilgour and otherworldly luminaries Matt Heyner (NNCK), Christian Frederickson (Rachel's), and Cynthia Nelson." |
| 4/10/2009 | Luca, Gherasim | Two Poems | LP | $22.99 | Alga Marghen | "Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including two experimental sound works by Gherasim Luca, created in close connection to Sten Hanson who invited the Rumenian artist at Fylkingen in the very beginning of the 1970s and made him discover the possibilities of the advanced EMS electronic music studio of Stockholm. The two recordings presented here are quite unique as they are the only poems by Gherasim Luca created through the use of electronic manipulations. As Henri Chopin wrote some years later in his legendary Poésie Sonore Internationale book, Ghérasim Luca made a big impression at the Third Stockholm Festival in 1970. Luca was born in Bucarest in 1913. Before leaving to Israel, he had a leading role among the Roumanian Surrealist group. He eventually moved to Paris where he lived until the end of his life in 1992. Gherasim Luca's work is very personal, giving his poems a very uncommon and ironic character. Again Henri Chopin underlines that 'in his recordings, which are not many, he superimposes his very warm voice, marked by his Roumanian accent; it's a sound wonder. In fact Luca is not a sound poet. He is more a speaker who managed, without complex, to enter into the Fylkingen studio vortex. On 4 tracks and with 32 loudspeakers, thanks to his superb voice and his instinctive knowledge of the electronic studio which amplifies words, he gives great pleasure to the listener, even if the latter can not understand French.' 'Autres Secrets Du Vide Et Du Plein' (April 1971) and 'Crimes Sens Initiales' (April 1972) were both recorded one track at the time on a 4 track tape and afterwards subjected to electronic treatments. They were recorded in Sweden at EMS and first performed at the 1971 and 1972 Text-Sound Festivals of Stockholm. Edition limited to 385 copies, also including the reproduction of a wonderful drawing by Gherasim Luca on the front cover, a photo portrait of the author by Gilles Ehrmann from 1959 and an essay by Henri Chopin." |
| 9/17/2006 | Lucky Bishops, The | Unexpect the Expected | CD | $13.99 | Camera Obscura | "It's been a long time between drinks for fans of the eclectic UK psychedelic/power-pop band The Lucky Bishops, but the lads' self-produced third album 'Unexpect the Expected' is now ready to storm the planet after a lengthy gestation period in the Dorset countryside. Inspired by the experience of living together in a haunted, rat infested, coastal cottage for four years, the band have written a collection of songs drawing on power-pop ("London Lounge", "Out of the Hole"), psych-pop ("The Cake and the Crumbs", "Old Women Laugh", "The Witches"), folk-rock ("K2", "No Worries") and even Tropicalia ("Guia de Conversacion") to create the unique blend found on this album. Recording on 8-, 16- and 24-track, the band have deployed their usual psych-pop/harmony foundations but added extra dimensions to the sonic weave to create deeper, more visceral structures. Typical of past releases, the Lucky Bishops split the song writing and lead vocals four ways over an instrumental palette of Hammond organ, piano, chiming valve driven guitars, glutinous bass and flowing and tumbling drums. It's unlikely a finer psych-pop record will be released this year." |
| 6/26/2002 | Ludwig | The House of Nowhere/Norway | 7" | $4.99 | krank | "33rpm black vinyl with b/w cardboard cover. Lo-fi psych-folk-pop from Norway. Recorded on 4-track. Very intense and real. A typical dirty Krank release. Very good songwriting also." |
| 2/16/2005 | Lugosi | Dawn | CD | $12.99 | CMR | "Lugosi existed in Wellington, New Zealand from the mid to late 1990's and consisted of players Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label boss etc), Andrew Savage (Sunship) and Leon Schutz, with a guest appearance on track two by Clayton Noone (Armpit, CJA, The Strange Girls, Root Don Lonie for Cash label boss etc). Dawn is the groups only CD release to date, following a trickle of fantastic and long out of print miniature edition lathe records and cassette tapes mostly published on Kneales Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label. The six improvisations on the album were recorded in the Lower Hutt Baptist Church in 1998. With electric guitars and keyboards the group creates multiple layers of swooning feedback loops, drifting guitar notes and riffs that interweave - sculpting rich harmonic drones that fall in and out of rhythm with sprinklings of intermittent percussion. CMR is delighted to bring this set of crisp recordings out of the vaults to a wider audience of wanting ears." |
| 11/21/2008 | Luminous | Whatever The Truth Is | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Luminous is Tim Chaplin's more experimental project. Excellent, slightly psychedelic one-man jams." |
| 11/4/2006 | Lussu Ja Magneetti | Lussu Ja Magneetti | CDR | $11.99 | "Lussu and Magneetti are a Finnish-American duo from Helsinki They joined forces in early summer of 2006 and began recording in Lussu's appartment shortly thereafter. Their debut release is noisy, droney music: vignettes of drum beats laced with ethereal voices and reverbed guitar. At times, it unleashes harsh episodes of distorted rhythms and noise, other times, a dark universe of "spooked-out" earthy tones coming from either the Finnish forest or the "spin-cycle" of your washing machine. This limited editon of 150 copies is beautifully decorated with pressed leaves handpicked near the road of a main Norwegian highway. Delicate and unique, this CD-R release greets its audience with both visual and aural delights." "Edition of 150 copies with pressed leaves and art paper sleeve, released by Jonna of Kuupuu/Avarus et al on her own imprint. This documents the psychedelic nowhere moves of the duo of Lussu Ja Magneetti, who use overloaded vocals that sound like owls hovering in searchlights, repeat clawhammer fuzz guitar (some of it pretty noisy too) that pitches a tent in the same field as Paul LaBrecque and Valerie Webb's great Trees, Chants and Hollers LP, incongruous rhythmic drum machine bursts, bubbling hazy keyboard parts and drones that feel as if they're spun from nothing but crooked branches, cobwebs and spirit-drops of dew." - Volcanic Tongue. Recommended! | |
| 1/29/2003 | Luv Rokambo | Do The Glimpse | CD | $8.99 | Public Eyesore | "Morioka avant-guru Toru Yoneyama and Tokyo's Osam Kato together again with their most refined effort yet. A continuation of the themes expressed in earlier albums, Luv Rokambo continues to be one of the few truly off-beat, yet imaginative groups around. Yoneyama's possessed wails and chanting over jagged nowave slide guitar and irregular percussion. Difficult to say the least, Luv Rokambo is like no other." |
| Luv Rokambo | Luv Rokambo | CD | $7.99 | Public Eyesore | Recorded 1-4-2001 at studio Jive, Morioka. Toru Yoneyama (guitar, toys, mobile, percussion, vocals) & Osamu Kato (guitar, keyboard, vocals). | |
| Luv Rokambo | Maze | CD | $8.99 | Public Eyesore | “Recorded seven month after Luv Rokambo¹s debut album, Maze rights some wrongs. Toru Yoneyama and Osamu Kato didn¹t alter their course into freak-out free improv pastures, but they gained listening skills and some edge too. Whenever they add vocals to their dual electric guitars, it doesn¹t sound as cheesy - their primal screams and drug-induced ramblings bring an extra dimension to the music instead of bringing it down. The use of toys is also better integrated. But what strikes the most is the duo's foray into noisier domains. ‘Delay=Head’ and most of all Maze feature intense feedback guitar, building up noise like a more sedated version of Sonic Youth or Keiji Haino. ‘The Waste Land’ has a post-rock feel to it, while the three pieces titled ‘Only Shadow/Without Human’ are understated guitar duets of the lo-fi kind (think of the label Kranky’s entire roaster). Home studio production values still mar the album, but this time Luv Rokambo manages to convince us of the relevance of its own existence. This CD-R is a big step ahead for the duo and is recommendable material for fans of freeform alt-rock.” - François Couture | |
| 2/7/2009 | Lydsod | Ancient Age | LP | $17.99 | Nest | "Debut record from Brooklyn-based group LYDSOD on the Nest Recordings label. Devoted to an ideology of non-stop recording, Ancient Age is a psychedelic petri dish displaying the reassembled highlights of a year and a half's worth of group improvisations. For each session a reel of tape is loaded onto the machine and the members embark on a journey led by the core unit of JZ Barrell on drums and Patrick Hambrecht on sampling keyboard. Guest players Alice Cohen, Zach Layton and Nick Anderson reflect the resulting axis of sound back at them, only to have it sampled again into a sonic hall of mirrors. Ancient Age contains the distilled essence of these 18 months of recordings, in one potent dose. Additional guest players include Hamish Kilgour (The Clean / Mad Scene), Linda Hagood (Double U / Smack Dab), Danny Tunick and Chris Talsness. One-time limited and numbered pressing of only 115 copies with full-color spray-mounted covers. " |
| 3/26/2006 | Lye, Len | Composing Motion | CD | $18.99 | Atoll | "Very cool sound-art document, based on the unique metal sculptures of New Zealand's legendary visual artist, Len Lye. Fans of Harry Bertoia, Ellen Fullman, Bill Fontana, etc., take note! "This CD makes available for the first time modern stereo recordings of the sounds of his sculptures, and provides an introduction to Lye's fascinating soundworld. Len Lye was one of the most innovative artists of his era. Based in New York's Greenwich Village during the 1950s and '60s, Lye was a leading figure in the development of kinetic art. He designed and built a series of moving, sound-emitting sculptures that are breathtaking visually and sonically." 'Sound crazy people vibrate to sound and this disc is for them; it's got some of the sharpest astringent zings of sound that ever cut the air, maybe because it's all made with doctor's blade steel, some of it the sharpest. ... All I know is that when it's set up in motorized vibrating and shaking devices, and struck with strikers, it cuts a new sound groove.' - Len Lye (from program notes for an intended LP, which never got made) |
| Lyons, Jimmy | Other Afternoons | LP | $16.99 | Get Back | "His first outing as a leader (recorded in Paris on August 15, 1969). Jimmy Lyons (alto sax) with Lester Bowie (trumpet), Alan Silva (bass) and Andrew Cyrille (drums). 'Jimmy Lyons is regarded by every musician who played with him as an under-heralded genius. He was the one alto player to take Charlie Parker's classic bop fluidity and drive it into the fire music of first generation free jazz'. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl." | |
| 12/24/2005 | Lysergic Scum | PCP Atrocities | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Memoirs of an Aesthete | "Filthy dirty dictophone noise workout from these acid-scarred Vet vets as interpreted by Filthy Eeyow (FILTHY TURD, VOLTAGESTRESS et al) with Traumatized Baz (REEKING MUCUS, DRIED SEMEN et al) on grindcore vocals and Hanoi Phil (who he?) on alto sax. Only for the fearless." |