| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/8/2003 | 1929 | Last But Not Leased | CD | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Brother JT sideman leads his own away-team to the planet's surface, and returns drunk. The sonic, slurring, instrumental tonic they have decided to bottle up and pass off as their own is a dab of Hawkwind, a pinch of Dead C., and a sprinkle of any number of desert rock's heaviest comancheros. You could say it's the finest non-vocal release to pass through the turnstiles since the Smashchords' 12". Or if you weren't born then, how about Earth 2? Say whatever you like. So long as it's not Gone III." |
| 9/17/2006 | N.A.D.M.A. | Paura | CD | $17.99 | Alga Marghen | "N.A.D.M.A. was officially born between August and the beginning of September 1972 during the time spent in a little village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The identity and musical orientation of the collective centered on the convergence of heterogeneous interests and sensibilities coming from avant-garde jazz experiences liberated by post-free currents, from classical studies, or from musicians also active as visual artists, who had cultivated an instrumental practice utilising spontaneous expression. All the group members assimilated and creatively incorporated the most progressive influences of Afro-American music and the contemporary neo-avant-garde, but shifted noticeably in the direction of the contemplative and ecstatic vitality of non-European, especially African, musical cultures. The Natural Arkestra Da Maya Alta was, and still is, known to a limited group of devoted listeners on the merits of the only record released by RCA in 1973. The group, which represented one of the most innovative entities among the collectives of improvisers active in those years, perfectly expressed its musical virtues in a limited number of periodic live events. The concerts took place mostly in Milan during 1973-74. The CD starting this series, Paura, is named after the first track of the N.A.D.M.A. concert at Circolo Lepetit in Milan in March 1973, presented here in its entirety. In this concert, the very first live concert preserved on tape, N.A.D.M.A. already performs a well-established repertoire, integrating and expanding upon the material of the RCA LP. Davide Mosconi himself documents the aesthetic and existential horizons of N.A.D.M.A. in a typed text and handwritten notes presented here, which also include biographical data about all members of the group. The 16-page booklet also includes an essay by Gabriele Bonomo as well as original documents and photos." |
| 3/8/2008 | Nackt Insecten | Live At Inner Rainbow | one sided cassette | $10.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Brand new fuzz drone from my Scottish bro Sanachan, both recorded live. Some real psychedelic shit, the man's sound is developing with every release... wobbling drones, sheets of shattering aluminium, and hyperactive yelps. Colour covers, limited to 40 copies." |
| 3/8/2008 | Nackt Insecten | Mysterious Ceremonial Disc | CDR | $12.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Another new blast from NA. Space psyche drone whirring back and forth with slashes of metal feedback guitar from Gavin Will. 3 outer limit tracks. Black and white covers in classic BR style, limited to 70 copies." |
| 2/16/2005 | Nada | Yadaki Mind Tree | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "Nada combines the ancient tones of the didgeridoo with spoken word and sparse percussion to create a meditative atmosphere soaked in natural ambiance." |
| 12/24/2005 | Nada Baba | Ambient Time Arm | CDR | $10.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "Centered around the ancient Didgeridoo this second CD from NaDa BaBa features more than 14 instruments, field recordings, spoken word, effects and samples over a dizzy 60 minutes. Forget about New Age, this is speed didge as inner fractal flight portal. Trance ON!!!" |
| 1/1/2008 | Nadja | Guilted By The Sun | CD | $9.99 | Elevation | "This 22-minute EP is Nadja at their finest. Here they explore a little more of their heavier side and delve into the more metallic elements, even coming close to some hardcore musings as they deliver some of, if not their strongest work to date. This EP will be limited to 2,000 CDs and will not be reprinted. Four tracks." |
| 4/30/2008 | Nadja | Long Dark Twenties | 7" | $6.99 | Anthem | "An unusual turn for Nadja, which culminated via a chance meeting of AIDAN BAKER and JON AD of Anthem in NYC, This recording (on a single sided 7-inch) demonstrates Nadja's ability to fuse their sound to the construct of the pop cover, with the cover in question being "Long Dark Twenties," which was written by PAUL BELLINI of THE KIDS IN THE HALL, and was first widely heard in their film Brain Candy! In doing so, Nadja displays traits rarely exhibited in their music, like full vocals, drumming, even the good old classic pop chorus, all in such a remarkable way this it shows all that the possibilities for reinvention with this group are far from exhausted. One sided single with hand letterpressed covers (both inside and out)." |
| 9/30/2008 | Nadja | Trembled | CD | $13.99 | Utech Records | "Trembled has returned, triumphantly. Released by Utech Records [046] in the summer of 2006 on limited cdr. The principal live recordings from Toronto have been remixed/remastered and include a rare performance of Swans "No Cure for the Lonely." The core of the release, though, is "Tremble", a cascading improvisation of drift and atmospherics revealed to audiences on an occasional basis. The track is telling of the fluidity with which Nadja create and why the band has become so highly regarded. "Breakpoint" and "Corrasion" complete the set. Exclusive material has been added in "Stays Demons" and a second version of "Tremble" recorded by Scott Slimm in Philadelphia. Illustration by Justin Bartlett. The ultimate document of Nadja at their most electric and empyreal. Edition of 900." |
| 8/4/2007 | Nadler, Marissa | Songs III: Bird on the Water | CD | $13.99 | Kemado Records | "At first, Marissa Nadler's Songs III: Bird on the Water doesn't seem especially notable. It's a 12-track breakup album detailing Nadler's pervasive loneliness, her gentle finger-style guitar augmented with cello, percussion, mandolin, synthesizers, and electric guitars. Her voice is remarkable from the outset -- a sad, husky air that climbs to perfect grace notes with ease -- but by the time Nadler sings, "Oh my lonely diamond heart/ It misses you so well," 100 seconds into opener "Diamond Heart", you're pretty sure you've heard this one before. Not so fast: As Nadler and her gorgeous, incredibly isolated Songs III would have it, there's plenty worth waiting for. Nadler doesn't want empathy for the hurt that caused her to write "Diamond Heart" in a hotel room bathtub in New Jersey or "Bird on Your Grave" for a friend who died mysteriously; she's just trying to ease some of that monumental pain into the next space. And-- though its micro-payoffs may come in the form of a solitary harmony here, a hushed mandolin chord there, or the eerie bells lending a richer atmosphere to the beautiful "Dying Breed"-- such a feeling makes Songs III one of the most focused and engaging singer-songwriter releases so far this year. Of course, that can be a tough sell for folks accustomed to concentrated emotional whomp. Aside from its presiding atmosphere of pain, little about Songs III feels direct. It peels free in slow, steady layers, Nadler's sorrow ensconced in impressionistic phrases and careful musicianship. As a songwriter, she's still painting relationship trauma in grayscale sadness, occasionally calling on stunning images-- "eyes as deep as brandy wine," "red-painted lips and a jezebel crown," "breaking on the daylight"-- to better realize sullen torment. But that latter layer makes Songs III much more effective than Nadler's 2005 debut, The Saga of Mayflower May (wrong - Ballads of Living and Dying from 2004 was Marissa's debut - Ed). Nadler's a bandleader now: With acoustic wonderment still in place, she brings most of Philadelphia's Espers to bear here. They augment without distracting, building on her gravitas with quietly breathtaking nuance: A cymbal-scrape pallor from Otto Hauser, or Jesse Sparhawk's weeping mandolin; like Helena Espvall's doubled cello parts smeared over Nadler's "rose-colored dreams" on "Thinking of You", these sounds highlight the words. Even the album's loudest moment, Greg Weeks' piercing electric lead on "Bird on Your Grave", won't wow you from afar, but it will pull you close enough to identify with Nadler's pain. As a vocalist, Nadler stretches this environment towards infinity: By doubling and tripling her vocals and lacing several distinct interpretations of one melody, she implies that her despair is now as it was then as it always will be. During a splendid, organ-and-guitar take on Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat", for instance, the narrator's desolation comes doubled in verses, tripled in the chorus, and chased consistently by the organ. Doom follows her like a rain cloud, it seems, soaking her feelings but powering this, her best set of songs yet. Sure, that's a mundane thing to say about an artist, but on Songs III, it's notable after all." - Grayson Currin, March 07, 200. Pitchfork rated the album 8.1 - high praise indeed. Also, the CD includes a download card to get four previously unreleased bonus tracks. The 4 tracks are: Conjuring Spirit Worlds, Daisy and Violet, Honey Bear, Cortez the Killer (yes, a Neil Young cover). It's a great album - I wish I could have released this. Highly recommended! |
| 11/15/2002 | Nagisa Ni te | On The Love Beach | CD | $12.99 | Jagjaguwar | "Shinji Shibayama recorded and released On The Love Beach, a beautiful, slow and entrancing work pulling equally from American and British rock traditions. Thus was born Nagisa Ni te, which means 'on the beach' in Japanese, an homage of sorts to Neil Young's 1975 masterpiece. Their psych folk tendencies notwithstanding, Nagisa Ni te also did well to take cues from the avant rock world around them at the time, comfortably implementing the minimalist credo 'less is more' throughout this record. Though On the Love Beach was Nagisa Ni te's debut, it is the second Nagisa Ni te record brought to the United States and Europe by Jagjaguwar. And like Feel, it does bring to mind the very best of sixties' and seventies' psychedelic, progressive and folk rock (i.e. early to middle-era Pink Floyd, George Harrison, Crazy Horse, and Roxy Music). Maher Shalal Hash Baz's Tori Kudo may describe Nagisa Ni te best when he says: 'Nagisa Ni te's naked Progressive rock-based worldly songs, which are sung not so much deliberately as seriously, on their love beach, now fill a blank somewhere between underground hi-fi and overground lo-fi.'" |
| 11/20/2003 | Nagoski, Ian | Effortless Battle | CD | $11.99 | Recorded | "In an interview I recently read, Baltimore musician Ian Nagoski cites electrical transformers and cicadas as strong musical influences on his work, two sound making entities that people come in contact with almost daily during some periods of life, but objects that most people wouldn't be willing to concentrate on for anything more than a few minutes. This information in indispensable when examining Nagoski's music, as its ambient, slowly developing nature makes works like this disc's second track, 'Ripped Steam Hinterland' a similar listening experience. One might say it's too quiet, too static, or just not worth the focus with which one must approach it, but, to a listener who's willing to dedicate their ears to the sound, the track, and the album as a whole, is a rewarding and transporting listen. Effortless Battle begins with the disc's thirty-one minute title track, the soundtrack to a Catherine Pancake film of the same name. It begins with a very subdued, but dense fluttering, but nearly five minutes in, Nagoski utilizes a buzz which pans from left to right so vigorously that its circular motion seems almost baroque (by Nagoski's standards, of course). Slowly, though, a more constant tone takes control, a sound that makes up the majority of the rest of the track. Vaporous sounds slowly emerge from below, and the music swells in intensity. What follows is a gelatinous ebb and flow of tones, a woven ribbon of sound in constant, but subtle, movement. For upwards of twenty minutes, "Effortless Battle" twists and turns ever so slightly, shifting the focus smoothly from one thread of sound to another. As the end of the track nears, the music becomes a cloudy haze that only relents as the end of the track nears and a more placid tone returns, one with the hidden vestiges of a melody of which only hints can be heard through the rest of the viscous mass. 'Ripped Steam Hinterland,' the CD's second track, is a product of Daniel Conrad's Wild Wave. Conrad, usually known as a purveyor of light-based visual art, created the Wild Wave by building tone generators which, when activated, set the instruments' metal plates to vibrating. Fifteen minutes long, the track slowly swells from near silence to an insistent but unobtrusive, thickly layered, hum. Almost completely static at first listen, it's easily comparable to the surprisingly ornate ambient sounds created by appliances or the aforementioned transformers. What sounds like a constant hum contains, like an anthill, a great deal of unseen activity, and close listening reveals undulations and ghostly vibrations that might otherwise go unnoticed. There's a whole world of organic warmth, buzzing activity, and ethereal beauty in Effortless Battle, one must simply be willing to immerse themselves deep enough into the music to experience it fully. Those who do will be well rewarded." - Adam Strohm, fakejazz.com |
| 3/24/2008 | Naked on the Vague | Blood Pressure Sessions | LP | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Lucy Phelan and M.P. Hopkins hail from Sydney, Australia. Behind a basic framework of keyboard, bass, and vocals (and all manner of tinkered-with percussion) Naked on the Vague's distinct aggregate of sound calls to mind everything from SPK to Mars and beyond. Or, as they're fond of calling them in Philly, "the Death Star version of Times New Viking." Originally released in 2007 on CD by the fearless Australian Dual Plover label, The Blood Pressure Sessions ventures into a darker realm than their debut 7-inch (also on Dual Plover) had erroneously suggested. Propelled by the sharp, rhythmic snare drum beat and anchored by thunderous, fuzzed bass-lines and stinging, swinging organ and synth fills, Phelan and Hopkins take turns rounding out the vocal duties, giving the whole of their sound a sonorous curtain of ecstatic foreboding. Betraying a gallows wit, the band refers to their music as "apocalyptic pop," which could be construed as both drowning and waving." |
| 5/29/2008 | Nalle | The Siren's Wave | LP | $16.99 | Locust | "Imagine for a moment the Wicker Man manned by the late Teiji Ito — resident avant composer for Harry Smith & Maya Deren — with psych-folk giants Comus sitting in for good measure and you've got some idea of what Glasgow avant folk trio Nalle have put together on their mesmerizing sophomore effort, The Siren's Wave." 180 gram vinyl / housed in gatefold sleeve. |
| 7/9/2004 | Nanjo, Asahito Group Musica | Contemporary Kagura-Metaphysics | CD | $17.99 | Fractal | "A work of contemporary music performed in the rock idiom by Japanese underground rock legend, Asahito Nanjo. Nanjo is active in a wide variety of rock groups, but Group Musica exits in order to pursue a more universal musical vibration. Group Musica is an ensemble that pursues the free use of every type of Western and Eastern musical instrument, is propelled by the vibrations of very subtle rhythms, and that has internalized the methodology of minimalism. The concept behind this album is transform KAGURA, an ancient form of Japanese music and dance that was performed for the gods, and is to convert the ideas of Secret teachings and ancient Chinese methods of divination (the I-Ching) into a metaphysics of musical vibrations. The concept of KAGURA allows Group Musica to create a unique work that is an experimental symphonic composition, which nonetheless has many rich improvisatory elements. In this unique work, the symbolic/philosophical nature of ancient esotericism is incorporated as improvisation, while the I-Ching is related to avant-garde symphonics. These are then fused into a total concept. Many different musicians from various genres participate in Group Musica, but their contributions are filtered through Nanjo's musical sense and thus altered, fused and structured. It is for this reason they remain anonymous - Group Musica exists as a total entity. Recorded in 1993 & 1994, this album is a colossal long studio work which has necessitated more than 400 overdubbings. An extraordinary adventure in sounds and the most astonishing musical project by High Rise's leader!" |
| 5/24/2003 | Nar, Hiroshi | Koi No Karakuri | 3: CD | $10.99 | Hello Good-bye Studio | This is referred to as another s/t cd in the Wire: Recorded in 1977 while he was a member of Les Rallizes Denudes. This is the “most overtly psychedelic. The lazy lollop of his basslines is immediately recognisable from his Rallizes recordings, and the tracks sound similarly dislocated.” - David Keenan, Wire May 2003 |
| 5/24/2003 | Nar, Hiroshi | School Days (1965-1970) | 3" CD | $10.99 | Hello Good-bye Studio | “School Days draws on Nar’s earliest recordings, primitive blues-based cassette sketches that are every bit as revelatory and personal as Syd Barrett’s solo recordings or Loren MazzaCane’s work as Guitar Roberts, albeit much more formally degenerate.” – David Keenan, Wire May 2003 |
| 5/24/2003 | Nar, Hiroshi | Wanted Dead or Alive $5000 | 3" CD | $10.99 | Hello Good-bye Studio | “Wanted Dead or Alive $5000 gathers more home recordings, this time from 1974, cut during his tenure with Toshiaki Ishizuka’s proto-punk Zuno Keisatsu. This is one of his wildest discs, especially the last two tracks: pop songs assembled with a concréte-punk sensibility that splices snatches of electric guitar, Beefheart-styled horn abuseand a hilarious fast rapping baby with doo-wopping rock ‘n’ roll and frayed folk guitar.” – David Keenan, Wire May 2003 |
| 7/16/2004 | Nar, Hiroshi with Nishinihon | Hiroshi Nar with Nishinihon | CD | $14.99 | Lexicon Devil | "Acid Mothers Temple / Les Rallizes Denudes members Kick Out the Jams on Lexicon Devil! That's right, Lexicon Devil is proud to announce the release of this special one-time-only CD, limited to a pressing of 500, of a rare meeting of minds: power trio Nishinihon (featuring Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple) and Hiroshi Nar of the legendary collector-scum/'60s/'70s Japanese uber-psych/garage destruction unit, Les Rallizes Denudes. Now that you've swallowed that sentence, there's more… Nishinihon are the amazing scorch 'n' burn three-man unit who've scarred eardrums for several years now. Featuring Kawabata and Tsuyama Atsushi from the Acid Mothers gang, they're the kind of acid-rock meltdown outfit the Japanese seem to excel at. Hiroshi Nar is one of the more mysterious figures of the Japanese underground. Guitarist for Les Rallizes Denudes - the type of band that makes socially-challenged record collectors break out in sweats at the mere mention of their name - until his departure in 1978, Hiroshi has kept himself amazingly busy with a myriad projects running the scope of No Wave, garage punk, dada-rock and the occasional guest playing on an Acid Mothers disc. Suffice to say, his discography is as long as your arm and much more interesting. Hiroshi Nar with Nishinihon (which said 5 times with a belly of booze can be a great game) celebrates exactly that: a one-off live meeting in December 2001 between these musical titans. With Hiroshi penning three of the four songs present, there's definitely a heavy musical similarity to Les Rallizes; both ‘20 Yen For Each Additional’ and ‘Machiko’ possess that crawling, stumbling vibe of his previous band's best '70s work, the combination of his guitar twang and stuttering garage stomp resulting in a kind of Crazy Horse/Quicksilver hybrid. Even more explosive are the furious guitar explosions of ‘Are You Lady?’ (gotta love that broken English) and ‘Peep Up’, two short(er) ditties that get straight to the point and drive it home in a most Stoogely manner. You know what I mean. It's out, it's about. You need it." |
| 9/17/2006 | Narita Munehiro | Ether | CD | $13.99 | Archive | "With High Rise being basically an in-active band the last few years Narita Munehiro has been keeping his electric guitar skills sharp with gigging around Tokyo in varies duo's and other small groupings. (As evidenced by the fantastic CD between Narita and drummer Hano on PSF) This archive release documents 2 live sets from Narita recorded in Late 2005 and the summer of 2006 that put on display the recent solo works of the man who the term Psychedelic Speed Freaks was really captured from. Running time of around 40mins one time pressing of 600 copies. Packed In an extra glossy 2.5 panel sleeve with appropriately chemically treated photographic work from the live dates." |
| 12/29/2001 | Narita, Munehiro / Shoji Hano | Kyoaku No Intention | CD | $16.99 | PSF | "Kyoaku no Intention (which translates as Worst Intention) were a legendary no-wave psych group led by wunder-guitarist Munehiro Narita at the beginning of the eighties. Usually consisting just of Narita and drummer Hiroshi Yokoyama, they blended tighter-than-tight Neu drumming with lengthy and harsh guitar soloing. Documentation was minimal, and the group seem to have split up in late 1982. However, Narita revived the concept during the 1998 High Rise tour of the US and Europe. He and lucky drumseat occupant at the time, Shoji Hano, would sometimes kick of the shows with intense instrumental duo blasts that not just reanimated the long rotten corpse of Kyoaku no Intention, but got it up and dancing too. The three extended studio pieces here see Narita smearing his heavily-effected guitar much wider than he ever could in High Rise. Hano constructs the perfect solid wall for just such a smearing in his usual resourceful and intensely, sweatily physical fashion. Together, Narita and Hano have zero qualms about incorporating a seriously ROCK vocabulary distortion, fuzz, emphatic string bends, lightning fast runs, pummelling forward motion into a full free improv context. In a field with few reference points between Gary Smith and Snyder & Thompson's Daily Dance, this one stands proud and tall. And at appropriate volume, it'll clear your sinuses better than Vicks." |
| 4/24/2006 | Nath Family | Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer | CD | $11.99 | Hanson Records | Originally released as an LP in a limited edtion of 500 copies. This is available now in CD format. "For the first half of 2005, I lived with my wife Erika in Kirtipur, Nepal. During our days, while she was studying at the Kathmandu Association For The Deaf, I was roaming the streets and villages of the Kathmandu Valley in search of sounds and music. While kickin' round the tourist district of Thamel picking up cassettes, I met a family of Snake Charmers from Haryana, India. An old man probably in his 70s or 80s, his 2 grandsons, and one of the grandson's sons. They asked if I wanted to see a show....I said Hell YES!! They gave me a show...a KILLER show... we're talkin 3 fuckin' king cobras dancing at once, while a giant boa chilled at the side and few other random lil' snake dudes are wigglin around here and there. I became obsessed. I had met my new best friends... Though the kind of best friends you have to pay to hang out with. They were hustlers, yes.. But that's their job... The money was well worth the shows. I spent about 3-4 days a week for the next 2 months, recording their music and their snake shows on mini-disc and videotape. I drank alot of chiyaa with them, smoked alot of cigarettes and bidis. They taught me how to make reeds out of bamboo, and I traded them some clothes for a snake charming horn. They call them Beens, they are also known as Pungis. These guys were the best. At the end of April they left Kathmandu, heading to Pokhara, after that it was time for them to head back home with their earnings. Man...I missed them. This LP is the best of the best of the recordings I made of them. There are some classic Bollywood tracks, a Nepali folk song, and side 2 is a 19 minute drone journey into the head of the King Cobra. The recordings were done in stereo. A been on the left, a been on the right. A premtal (stringed percussion instrument) on the left, a premtal on the right. The stereo recording of the charmers sway creates a very disorienting stereo tremelo effect. It's almost as if you are the snake! These tracks were recorded in an alley. There is the occasional rumble of a car passing by, and the low murmur of the locals checkin out the white kid with the fancy gadget hangin' with the snake dudes." - Aaron Dilloway, May 2005 |
| 4/24/2006 | Nath Family | Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer Vol. 2 | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson Records | "Outtakes from the SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER lp/cd. Full band tracks as heard on the LP, but also a couple DUO tracks from the 2 brothers. More Volumes to come." |
| 11/21/2008 | Natural Snow Buildings | The Dance of the Moon and the Sun | double CD | $24.99 | Students of Decay | "This might sound like hyperbole, but I'm not exaggerating when I say that "The Dance of the Moon & the Sun" was the greatest CDR release of all-time. The packaging, the music, the overarching feel of the whole release was nothing short of perfection. It was criminally limited (though understandably so with the intricate packaging & booklet) and eventually found its way onto various mp3 blogs and other file-sharing resources online, and it became the stuff of legend. But what of the music? It's the rarest of cases that one would want to listen to 2.5 hours of music by a single band in a single sitting, but Natural Snow Buildings is that rare exception. There is no filler on this monumental masterpiece. It is the history of all things. It is an epic poem. It is a love letter to the world. NSB find their way through dense forests and towering peaks using every weapon in their arsenal. The aching beauty of "Wisconsin" is the perfect piece of ambience in the tradition of Windy & Carl. "John Carpenter" is loose and subdued, washed in reverb with a nod to The Dirty Three. The title track flickers in the night sky like the North Star, beckoning those who hear it's heady call. The 25 minute stunner, "Felt Presence, GhostlyHumming" takes flight and never returns to earth, losing you in the darkness. It's desolation will rip your heart out, while putting much drone-based music to shame. In the end, though, words can't do something this special, this important justice. It is perfection defined. Packaged with all new artwork in arigato packs from Stumptown Printers with 6-panel insert, featuring new liner notes from Time-Lag's Nemo Bidstrup. Limited to 500 copies." Out of print. |
| 3/3/2005 | Naturaliste | Gold | CDR | $8.99 | Imvated | "Omaha's noise pioneers and avant hope deliver 45 minutes of faboulous live recordings. 4 years (1999-2003) ranging from tearing junknoise, rough edits, lonely drones, lonesome stories and intense improv." |
| 3/26/2006 | Nautical Almanac | Cover The Earth | LP | $16.99 | Heresee | "CARLY PTAK, TWIG JOHNSON and MAX EISENBURG marshal in the era of The New Electronics, which, get this, works without electricity. For reals, man. Eight tracks, maybe nine-c'mon, you don't still believe in numbers-that swizzle the Baltimore trio's unfathomable home-made chaos into uneven blasts of ravaging ping-pong "beats," distorted, rack-stretched taunts and/or pleas for mercy, and rapidly exfoliating cries of outrage. Whether aiming for that rising blister on your psyche or just stumbling like dazed Muppets in a frequency-and-perspective-gone-haywire blizzard, Cover the Earth removes NAUTICAL ALMANAC from the fascinating curios section and files them under "noise force to be reckoned with." - Revolver |
| 5/8/2005 | Nautical Almanac | Rejerks 4 | CDR | $12.99 | Heresee | "First release of newest sounds styles of nautikilyal almindtik... Continuing in the theme of REJERKS: A smokey rusty fried vibe with inert soundmanship scattered thjru yer speakerst, a total brain spliced tape technique with bunk electronics, bass, vox, drums. Large on the Confusing + Awesome content, this document reaaches as back far to first LP! Edition of 200 copies." |
| 1/21/2005 | Nautical Almanac | Rejerks Vol 3 | CDR | $12.99 | Heresee | "3rd installment of this series. Rejerks=rejerks. 3 rejerks/ Max, Ptak and Harper. Triple mixing board chain line share/feedback with inputs of room mics, tape loops, goatickens throat boxes, junk and tape loops, processed and then reprocessed.chained and direct. Blown out, sloppy, nasty shit.... inaudible transcriptions of a contact miked cat in heat, tossed in water of course. 5 tracks. 48:09 minutes . cdr. limited 100 . photocopied . damaged." |
| 11/23/2004 | Nautical Almanac | We're Stupid, and So Are You | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Fargone Records | “Nautical Almanac provided the absolutely craziest performance at this year's No Fun Fest, and this raw, ferocious recording captures the phenomenal noise outfit at their live peak. Even equipment difficulties can't stop them, as evidenced by the stunning ‘acoustic’ performance they deliver at the end of this brief but powerful set. NA is the noise duo of Carly Ptak and Twig Harper, and on this set they're joined by regular collaborator Max Eisenberg. The group has consistently been one of the most fun noise bands around, and earlier this year they released one of their finest albums yet, ‘Rooting For the Microbes’ on Load Records. Ptak and Harper also run their own HereSee Records label.” Limited edition of 100 copies. |
| 7/23/2004 | Nautical Almanac / Vertonen | split | LP | $10.99 | SNSE | “Nautical’s side could be considered a potential sound documentary of an army of cats in ice skates crashing through a recycling center. How carefully those felines climb the mountainous pile of aluminum cans before fate sends them slipping down, down, down into glassware and truck springs. Vertonen’s side sputters, lurches, and drones until reaching an inevitable hallelujah to 60’s female vocalists. The aural pleasure is akin to that reached when an incandescent strobe light is aimed at your eyes while you are restrained on a decrepit merry-go-round.” |
| 2/25/2008 | Nautilus | Assateague | CDR | $8.99 | "New electric and acoustic space music from Heidi Diehl of Vanishing Voice and Time Life, inspired by 400 mile bike trip through Atlantic coast marshland and Ocean City, Maryland's concrete beach saturation zone. Four out of five dime bags. Limited edition with vibrant color packaging." | |
| 2/12/2008 | Nazi Knife | Issue #4 | graphic zine | $24.99 | Nazi Knife is a graphic zine edited in France by Hendrik Hegray and Jonas Delaborde. "The fourth issue was released in late 2007 and limited to 1000 copies - features artwork from Jonas Delaborde, Hendrik Hegray, Julien Carreyn, Heath Moerland, John Olson, Pat Maherr, Ryan Riehle, Sebastien Joly, Anthony Prouteau, Christopher Forgues, Antoine Marquis, Romain Perrot, Dominick Fernow, Jeanne Kiesgen, Mat Brinkman, Andrew Zukerman, Stumead, Andy Bolus, Laurent Plessiet, Stephane Prigent, Sylvie P, Benjamin Bergman, Andres Ramirez, Pauliina Mäkelä, Carlos Gonzales, Jacques Noël. Check it out at http://nkzine.free.fr/ | |
| 9/30/2003 | Need New Body | UFO | CD | $12.99 | File 13 | "Featuring ex-members of BENT LEG FATIMA, this Philly collective are not afraid to mix folk, electronic, free jazz, skronk, overdriven keyboards, banjos, bicycle wheels, new wave, punk and bluegrass into a hybrid reminiscent of acts like CAN, SUN CITY GIRLS, FAUST, Tom Waits, and BEEFHEART. But the individuality is there between the layers of this brain-bending cake." |
| 9/30/2003 | Need New Body | UFO | LP | $10.99 | Get Back | "Featuring ex-members of BENT LEG FATIMA, this Philly collective are not afraid to mix folk, electronic, free jazz, skronk, overdriven keyboards, banjos, bicycle wheels, new wave, punk and bluegrass into a hybrid reminiscent of acts like CAN, SUN CITY GIRLS, FAUST, Tom Waits, and BEEFHEART. But the individuality is there between the layers of this brain-bending cake." |
| 3/21/2007 | Neg-Fi | -1 and Other Big Numbers | CDR | $11.99 | "CDR release of material culled from their early cassettes, etc. Highlights include the 2006 La Superette theme song... "In the '50s, a time of postwar optimism and faith in science, there was Hi-Fi. In the '90s, an era of slackers and diminished expectations, there was Lo-Fi. In the '00s, a time of neanderthal government and outright contempt for the arts, there is Neg-Fi. A watershed moment in the history of art and music--some might say sub-nadir..." - Tom Moody | |
| 3/21/2007 | Neg-Fi | Listen-OK | CDR | $11.99 | "First LP release from this punishingly adorable Brooklyn duo of sometimes Branca ensemblists. Minimalist post no-wave noise bursts mix with walkie talkie feedback and sparse melodies. Hand-numbered LP - limited edition of 200. | |
| 3/21/2007 | Neg-Fi | Listen-OK | LP | $12.99 | "First LP release from this punishingly adorable Brooklyn duo of sometimes Branca ensemblists. Minimalist post no-wave noise bursts mix with walkie talkie feedback and sparse melodies. Hand-numbered LP - limited edition of 200. | |
| 12/24/2005 | Negative Entropy | MS Stubnitz Stockholm 9.7.98 | CD | $12.99 | Absurd | "recorded back in 98, edited by michael prime this is the 2nd release of negative entropy (hence the extract featured on michael's flabbergasting "requiem" lp on die stadt), the brainchild of michael prime (morphogenesis)& geert feytons (noise maker's fifes) who offers us some of their finest obscure and adventurous live & raw dronescapes through this amazing delirium! the recording/offer that actually started the what absurd calls its 'mark II' era and also the idea that gave birth to editions_zero's scandinavian branch under the 'utan titel' moniker." Edition of 488 copies. |
| 2/12/2008 | Nemoi | Untitled EP | 3" CDR | $6.99 | Something on the Road | "This EP comprises of one long track that was picked from a few improvised sessions recorded between May - August 2007. The music was played to an old tape recorder with only an unplugged electric guitar at hand. The sessions took place mostly at the end of the day, around sunset time, at a city center apartment in Jerusalem. The creation process of this EP - bare guitar playing combined with random "field-recordings"/ noises captured from the street outside the room - aimed to birth authentic 'Jerusalem folk.'" Limited edition / 40 numbered copies in a special postcard sleeve. |
| 8/2/2008 | Neon Death Slittes | Grim War of Chaos Magick | 3" CDR | $6.99 | First Person | "Incredible new set from Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Ashtray Navigations, Larkfall label) dredged and presented in accordance with his peerless and undisputed knowledge of subterranean rock of the last 30 years. Track one lets you know what to expect kicking off with an unholy marriage of Cosi Fanni Tutti guitar scrabble and Bob Calvert sci fi paranoia before the dam breaks and the whole mess is filtered through a broken Watkins Copicat manhandled by Joe Meek on a bad hair day. 60's garage scuzz crashes head on with overheated and badly wired analogue synths all combined with an innate knowledge and respect for today's current noise practitioners. A breathtaking release made all the more incredible by Legard's accompanying artwork." |
| 4/24/2006 | Neon Death Slittes, The Birds of Delay | The Slack Angel's Death Bong | CDR | $12.99 | Memoirs of an Aesthete | "Death-defiling split disc of zodzoric psychedelia from these hot Leeds zombies! NEON DEATH SLITTES is the axle-greased alterego of Phil 'Xenis Emputae Travelling Band' Legard who contributes four tracks of greasy blues amphetamuck that will have fans of Pink Fairies/Deviants/Gong/Third World War choking on their wet dentures. Recent American Tapes/No Fun stars BIRDS OF DELAY occupy the other half with a knob-scorching oscillation/voice seizure recorded live in sunny Edinburgh. Ltd.100 in tracing paper sleeves with on-disc gocco print." |
| 7/23/2004 | Neon Hunk / My Name Is Rar Rar | split | 7" | $4.99 | Liquid Death / Hello Pussy Records | "Milwaukee's dynamic duo Neon Hunk are back with their brand of cartoon voiced lazer keyboard n' beats oddity! Fresh from the mutation tanks, the Hunks remain untouched with this follow up to their 11 song 'Abra Cadaver' 7" on LDR/HPR and bring you 5 more tracks of all out 'Puke-e-mon' styled no wave fun. To make things even crazier, we've paired them up with Chicago's no wave synth-freak band, My Name Is Rar Rar!! Consisting of ex-members of such notorious acts as Xerobot, The Hex, and The Flying Luttenbachers, this act serves up a herky jerky ride to the mental ward via a no wave all star line-up of sorts! This is the first of many things to come for this amazing band of sideshow freaks, but for now we tease you with 2 tracks of musical genius! Weird man, weird..." Edition of 500 copies on clear vinyl. |
| 4/20/2004 | Neon Pearl | 1967 | CD | $13.99 | Acme / Lion | "First time on CD for these incredible sessions from the year of psychedelia’s apex. Top notch floating underground psych with organ and harmonium, featuring members of PLEASE and THE FLIES who were later in legendary band T2 (the notes in the eight-page booklet try to make the convoluted band history clear). This edition is taken from the master tapes, and comes complete with two bonus tracks not on the limited LP edition!" |
| 12/4/2003 | Neon Pearl | 1967 Recordings | LP | $25.99 | Acme | "First time issue for the earliest of the Peter Dunton (Please, Gun, T2, Infinity) bands, here with Bernard Jinks and Nick Spenser, the same line-up as the second version of Please from 1969; the band had been playing these tracks in German clubs from June to November of 1967, providing the first psychedelic experience for the Berlin audiences they blew away night after night; upon their return to the UK, they were given studio time to record as many tracks as they could - this LP includes two acoustic demos, and six tracks from these recording sessions; since the peripatetic Dunton moved on to four other projects in the next two years after these recordings were made, it is no surprise that they have been completely overlooked (especially as no one had heard them!); but it is a happy day for fans of British psychedelia that this tasty platter has been unearthed at last- all trippy originals, with no filler. A significant event.” |
| 10/25/2008 | Neon Tempal | 2 | CDR | $9.99 | Rayon Recs | "41 minutes of live, meditative , percussion-based compositions / improvisations by Pascal Nichols. Cover design by Dean Sullivan/AEIOU , Time & Space insert by rebel theorist Glen Jones.70 numbered copies available (5 Euros). "Sounding like a Post skunk rehab version of The Skaters, albeit sweated down to one man, "Glandulord" rattles the roof. Refusing to balance on the raw seesaw of sounds used, bowed drones and looped vocals might reveal a few similarities to other underground acts but Neon Tempal aren't easily pigeonholed. "Magnator" covers all the bases with textures, explosions and actual rhythms all generating energy. Some of the bell and metal pieces resemble a kind of urban dawn chorus with the sparks as dew. The aluminium rattle moving between wild eyed battery and a musical swell. 2 features a number of brief musical interludes that are heavy on light bell work and unidentified rustle. In their length they reveal an artist not stuck on the idea of twenty minute jams to get something across to the audience." (brainwashed.com) "Definitely, another fascinating gem from the creative mind of Pascal Nichols (also of Towering Breaker) who is joined here on a few tracks by Kelly Jayne. Frictional scrapers and a-rhythmic free-clattertraps form into a ritualistic din of Zen with Nichols channeling ghostspeak-tongues deep in the Neon Tempal. Breath intertwines itself with soundscapes combined with chiming bells, cyclical loops of om, and guttural evocations. These are trance-inducing compositions shaped as by a mystic dreammaker in a peyote desert twilight; a poet-drummer of the sickest order. Always primitive and spiritually attuned, Nichols brings the right balance of junk aesthetics to his transcendental pieces and gives us yet another gleaming collection of tracks. The sounds are released on a hand-painted cdr with artwork by the always brilliant Dean Sullivan (AEIOU) and an insert by Glen Jones. Edition of 70. A terrific release that comes highly recommended. 8/10" -- Todd Brooks (20 August, 2008) foxy digitalis |
| 11/21/2008 | Neon Tempal | Midnight Moods | cassette | $6.99 | Night People | "Neon Tempal is Pascal Nicholas solo project, currently centered in Lyon France, this central England transplant spent times in groups like Stuckometer, Cars etc. Midnight Moods is centered around Pascal's intimate, intense, and immediate drumming, and improvised percussion generated soundscapes. Occasional vocals and an assortment of other instruments come into the mix, but the feeling of live immediate playing is always at the forefront. Fans of the Actual Series of BYG LP's take note." |
| 2/11/2006 | Nervoid | How to Pull the Wool Over Your Own Eyes | cassette | $5.99 | Black Velvet Fuckere | Originally listed here with the title of 'Helpful Hints when Travelling Down the Path Your Parents Warned Against'. "One of the very first Black Velvet Fuckere releases (1997) is now again available. Imagine your favorite Very Good Recordings artists covering Twin Infinitives armed with only two microcassettes and a tape deck. Recorded 1995-97." |
| 2/11/2006 | Nether Dawn | Outer Dark | CD | $15.99 | Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon | "Filthy, ragged, drone-damage from the mastermind behind A.M, Mrtyu, the insanely credible Pseudoarcana label, and recently crowned third member of Black Boned Angel. Crackle and fuzz turn over and over on itself until everything within its gravitational pull turns to delicious brown goo. A gigantic evolutionary leap forward into near-annihilation from their debut, with vastly greater quantities of dark energy sucking the universe outwards." |
| 3/26/2006 | Nettelbeck, F.A. | Killing Jar | CDR | $11.99 | Manhand | "Manhand cdr reissue of the F.A. Nettelbeck cassette ///KILLING JAR/// Featuring live readings, radio broadcasts & tape experiments from 1975-1987. Includes selections from BUG DEATH - one track featuring Robin Holcomb & Wayne Horvitz. Original cassette artwork included as well as new liner notes from Fred. "Against a triple heart thump pulse and clustery piano track by Robin Holcomb, Nettelbeck--like a monotone robot--made the cosmos vanish in readings from his Bug Death. Like a 'good' psychotic he passed through the voices of someone reading a novel, a policeman, a Viet vet, victim, court judge, psychotherapist and folk singer (Bob Dylan '65). With mercurial and dehumanizing outrage, the poet-survivor stood to condemn anyone who carries 'daisies to the slums'. Listeners were stunned, seemed guilty, and cheered accordingly." (Santa Cruz Express, November 19th, 1981.) |
| 3/26/2006 | Nettelbeck, F.A. | The More I Drink the Better You Look | CDR | $11.99 | Manhand | "Manhand cdr reissue of the F.A. Nettelbeck cassette THE MORE I DRINK THE BETTER YOU LOOK. Featuring live readings, radio broadcasts & tape experiments from 1972-1989. Wayne Horvitz is featured on one track. Original cassette artwork included as well as new liner notes from Fred. "Wilderness prophet and maverick progressive outrider on the bus-station Zen-motorcycle jazz fringes of our literature, the apocalyptic-erotic realist poet F.A. Nettelbeck...as ever an unsettling voice from the far shore of the contemporary Sleep of Reason..." - San Francisco Chronicle |
| 12/24/2005 | Neung Phak | Fucking USA | 7" | $8.99 | Abduction | "Oakland, CA-based Neung Phak are hit-playing Southeast Asian psych-pop fusion artpranksters. Their exotic alter ego Mono Pause shares members with absurdist cut-and-paste legends Negativland. When Pyongyang Airlines flight 009 from North Korea landed at San Francisco International Airport, the members of Neung Phak stepped defiantly onto the tarmac - clutching the master tapes of their compelling new single Fucking USA, which were rushed to Abduction records for immediate release. This is the first recording ever made by "Americans" in Pyongyang's Kim Studios - and it shows! The extended play B-side features a new version of the Thai classic "Tui Tui Tui" and a journey into experimental pop balladry that is second to none - a radio friendly "Far King USA." This vibrant explosion of color and hatred comes dressed to kill in a beautiful package on the thickest vinyl there is. Neung Phak backsides the forefront once again! Edition of 300 copies, thick vinyl, and full-color picture sleeve!" |
| 11/8/2003 | Neung Phak (Mono Pause) | Neung Phak | CD | $13.99 | Abduction | "Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how you'll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great 'Career move' where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: some roots 'Molarm beat' from the Lao countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase!" Highly recommended! |
| 2/21/2007 | Neuntöter Der Plage | Last Wish / Acid Reign | LP | $11.99 | SNSE | "Extremely cold and minimalistic terror drones accompanied by ghastly, inimitable vocalizations. NEUNTÖTER DER PLAGE is the long-running project of Ryan Opperman, aka Redrot / Xombie / Post Mortem Junkie, and operator of the Skeletone label. After many cdr and cassette releases on labels such as Truculent Recordings and Slaughter Productions, among others, this is the vinyl debut of the project." Edition of 306 copies. |
| 9/16/2007 | Nevari Butchers, The | The Herbst Silo | one-sided 7" | $5.99 | Hanson | "New recordings from myself (Aaron Dilloway) & Michael Travis, recorded in the Herbst Silo, resulting in 2 horrible cases of poison ivy. Abstract junk percussion and cassette taped organ drones recorded on my father's killer pump organ. Limited editon of 150 copies on Red vinyl w/ red inner sleeves." |
| 11/4/2006 | New Blockaders, The / Thurston Moore / Jim O'Rourke | The Voloptulist | CD | $12.99 | Hospital Productions | "Dream-team hook-up between a trio of the most important free-noise theorists of the modern age, the UK's New Blockaders and Thurston and Jim of Sonic Youth et al. Hard to work out who is doing exactly what here - though the presence of drummer Chris Corsano on the second track is pretty unmistakable - but the overall feel is of one of TNB's early Symphonie X works populated by thin strings of feedback, the crackle of electronic jack-to-jack friction and a subtle ring of bone. Beautifully eerie and a little more pro-drone than the bulk of TNB's work. Second track is just unbelievable, with a slow hiss of feedback torn apart by Corsano's triumphal, spirit/energy scattershots, marching a legion of ghosts all the way over the horizon. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 2/21/2005 | New Blockaders, The with The Haters | Zero Is The Journey | CD | $15.99 | PsychForm Records | "The 1st ever collaboration between these 2 noise legends...this one has a surprise, a new dimension in nihilism, the sound of chaos imploding in on itself. Limited edition of 500, CD only." |
| 6/2/2004 | New Tweedy Bros!, The | s/t | CD | $15.99 | Shadoks | “Reissue of the lone album this SF-based psych band, originally issued in 1966. This band was contempoary with the Grateful Dead, Them, Beach Boys and 13th Floor Elevators, etc. One of the best regarded Shakoks titles.” - FE |
| 7/10/2008 | New Tweedy Bros!, The | The New Tweedy Bros! | LP | $34.99 | Akarma | "A quality vinyl LP reissue of the very rare sole album by this very obscure late-'60s San Francisco psychedelic band (who were closely associated with some of the central figures of that scene), with sounds and songs freely mixing influences from folk and folk-rock, British invasion and San Francisco sound psych. This comes packed in the original hexagonal "acid cube" sleeve, pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Italian import." |
| 2/15/2005 | Newman, Harris | Accidents with Nature and Each Other | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Experiments with the raw sounds of the naked steel string and a wider palette of instrumentation augment beautifully his particular brand of guitar soli. The result is a rather diverse array of sounds and structures, all centered on the acoustic guitar. Languid, gorgeous melodies and hefty fingerpicking workouts bump up against ghostly harmonics and acoustic drones. A trio of solo workouts mark the beginning of the album, harkening both the aggressive trajectory of Leo Kottke and pastoral terrain of Robbie Basho." |
| 10/6/2007 | Newman, Harris | Decorated | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Of the players involved in the recent resurgence of fingerstyle guitar, Harris Newman has established himself as a primary envoy on the modern day steel-stringer shortlist. As with the case of his brothers-in-arms Jack Rose, Glenn Jones and Steffen Basho-Junghans, each of whom borrow from the past traditions of mavericks Fahey, Basho et al but have re-invented the sound and style with fresh perspectives, Newman distinguishes his music even further with a very idiosyncratic sound. In contrast to the name of the album, Harris Newman opts for a somewhat stripped-down, almost minimalist approach to Decorated." |
| 10/6/2007 | Newman, Harris | Decorated | LP | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "A new album from one of the leading players in the finger-style guitar playing movement. In contrast to the name of the album, Harris Newman opts for a somewhat stripped-down, almost minimalist approach to Decorated. Subtle and introspective, the first half of the album showcase's Newman's brand of solo acoustic guitar, while the second half showcases his electric guitar work with Eric Craven accompanying on drums. |
| 10/19/2003 | Newman, Harris | Non-Sequiturs | CD | $12.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Newman is a finger-style steel-string acoustic guitarist possessing a remarkably detailed and lush sound, and he is creating some of the most lyrical compositions for the instrument to be heard anywhere. Non-Sequiturs his debut release, a fabulous album of alternately effervescent and deeply mysterious acoustic guitar grandeur. Newman's acoustic finger-picking dances and swaggers, creating a sunny expanse of tunes that are augmented by stark, introspective passages. Much like Faheys classic 1967 album The Yellow Princess, Non-Sequiturs juxtaposes giddy, pastoral songs against heady, experimental sound excursions." |
| 2/4/2007 | Niagara Falls / The Clear Spots | Plays Spiral Isles / Smokehouse Debris | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "Our first split CD, two complementary mini-albums merged into one mind-altering whole. Philadelphia-based Niagara Falls follow up two fine CDs on their own Honeymoon Music label with perhaps their most evocative electro-acoustic drones to date, an aural tour of a misty archipelago located just off the coast of dreamland; 3 tracks, 30 minutes. Meanwhile, the Clear Spots roll up one of their most fried rural noise fatties yet, assembling various wreckage from last year's successful orbital barn launch into an imposing edifice that towers over the scree on the far side of the ridge; 1 25-minute track in 4 parts." |
| Nico | Abscheid | LP | $17.99 | Nico Appreciation Society | "A wonderful collection of rarities by the chanteuse of the morbid! Her unmistakable, disturbingly ice-cold voice is in perfect tension to the lush, haunting musical backdrop on songs such as 'Irreversible Neural Damage,' 'La Notte Delle Fiabe,' 'Genghis Khan,' 'Vegas,' and others. White vinyl. Dutch import." | |
| 6/26/2003 | Nico | Chelsea Girl | LP | $16.99 | "A vinyl re-issue of the chanteuse's first solo album after leaving The Velvet Underground, this is black widow noir folk-baroque, yet wistful and beautiful with classical overtones, featuring Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and a then-unknown Jackson Browne providing instrumental backup. Euro import." This LP is fantastic and comes highly recommended! |
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| Nico | Death and the Maiden | LP | $17.99 | Nico Appreciation Society of Holland | “A treasury of rarities from this amazing performer dating from 1965 to 1987, including a Velvet Underground improvisation, various collaborations with Lou Reed and/or John Cale, and many other gems. Nice blue and yellow jacket with striking photos. Issued by the Nico Appreciation Society of Holland. Numbered edition of 500 on blue vinyl, Dutch import.” | |
| 10/5/2004 | Nico | Minnesang | CD | $24.99 | Toccata | 16 tracks – mostly live and unreleased studio recordings from 1978 – 1985. |
| 10/5/2004 | Nico | Reich Der Traume (Rariten und Konzerte – Teil I) | CD | $24.99 | Faust | 16 tracks – 79+ minutes featuring 11 live tracks from 1980, 1982, 1985, & 1986 plus studio tracks, demos, and one cut from a John Peel session from September 1981. |
| 10/5/2004 | Nico | Walpurgisnacht (Raritaten und Konzerte – Teil II) | CD | $24.99 | Faust | 12 tracks – 76+ minutes featuring 8 live tracks from 1985-1986 and one live track with John Cale from 1970. Also features studio tracks with Kevin Ayers (1974), studio collaboration with Neuronium (1978) plus one other track. |
| 3/10/2003 | Nicodemus | Antannae Moonlite | LP | $27.99 | Zedikiah | "It's almost like renaissance man Nicodemus & his trusty companion, Matchez, never really went away. It's more like they just fell asleep inside a warm log & woke up a few years later when they smelled smoke. These are songs from the vault and they carry as thick a stoned-biker-skiff-whatsis whiff as any air these guys have ever released. Genuinely stupid, extremely fucked up, and loaded with late-night nine-bong-logic, this is (so called) street person psych of a very high caliber." - Byron Coley. Nicodemus is a homegrown outlaw folk artist who has sporadically released LPs going back to the 70s (take your pick between the number 5 & 50). A big favorite with dealers like Paul Major, responsible for the following quote: ‘Legendary biker messiah of hedonism who has tombstones in his living room and rainbows tattooed on his forehead...he has an overall bent thing to his music & is into drugs & booze heavily, having a whole mythology & fantasy world on the edge he must inhabit.’" |
| 9/16/2007 | Night Movie | $40 Oz. | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "from the heat bent mind melt of San Marcos, Texas the mad brain of Glen Morren (Cygnus, Odd Clouds) brings you morose, stoned soundtrack of the night. the Sun is pure evil. can only function at night. guitar and organ solo debut! amazing moody stuff! edition 50." |
| 2/4/2007 | Night Wounds | Allergic to Heat | LP | $10.99 | Fuck It Tapes | "Night Wounds has existed in Maine, New Hampshire and Los Angeles before deciding on the Pacific Northwest (Portland). Constantly changing and falling part, pulling itself together to tour and release a EP, several limited cassettes and a split 7" with Coughs on labels like Gilgongo, Fuck It Tapes, Not Not Fun, etc. Too many ex-members to list, so why try? Compared to New York circa '81 and early 90's Chicago, but louder. Self-described as "Art Gunk". Touring constantly. "Allergic to Heat" was recorded in early 2006 in a downtown LA practice space by the band. 8 songs just shy of 30 minutes, mostly recorded live. Everything from angular post punk to primitive no wave and free experimentation, rarely covering the same ground twice." - label. "..the sound of some infernal machine harvesting the souls of the wicked" - The Boston Phoenix. |
| 1/1/2008 | Nightstalker | Use | DBL LP | $42.99 | Nasoni | "Band form Greece, Use is a Vinyl Release of an Album that was orginally released of in CD in 1996. Double Vinyl with 3 live bonus Tracks. We are pretty sure this fits the bill of 'forgotten gem'." Edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - all copies in stock are colored vinyl. |
| Nihilist Spasm Band | No Record | LP | $38.99 | Cortical Foundation | "With printed insert circa 1968 (Arts Canada) A companion release to the Intersystems Number OneLP; both originally on Allied records, and both of these groups representing extremes in art bands in Canada 1960's. A proto-dada assault, No Record heralds a do it yourself punk aesthetic with unrestrained humor and noise performed on largely home-made instruments. Electric charged and indispensable to anyone interested in Sonic Youth, the LAFMS, Japanese Noise, and anarchistic music in general. 220 Gram Vinyl. DMM Quality Pressing. Limited Edition 700 copies." | |
| 5/7/2004 | Nilssen-Love, Paal & Hakon Kornstaed | Schlinger | CD | $15.99 | Smalltown Supersound | "More spontaneous and free music from Smalltown Supersound, this time from Norway's very own Paal Nilssen-Love and Hakon Kornstaed. Schlinger is an exercise in acoustic free styling that boosts with pure and raw energy, as Kornstad and Nilssen-Love lean not only to the great American free-jazz tradition, but also to the sounds of '60s garage rock, modern electronica, funk and soul. Schlinger is cutting edge jazz, Scandinavian style. Wild, beautiful and obsessive." |
| 7/16/2004 | Nimbus 2000 | Kettle of Fish Walking: Complete Recordings 1999-2003 | CD | $6.99 | Octane Grammophon | "Nimbus 2000 is another of Daf Roberts' (Alphane Moon, Our Glassie Azoth, Blodeuedd) projects and again his musical offerings give us something that is really worthy of investigation. ‘Kettle of fish walking - compete recordings 1999-2003’ contains every Nimbus 2000 track Daf Roberts has recorded and released on his own Oggum label. Some of these recordings originally came out on a series of split 7" eps. Further Nimbus 2000 tracks were released (two to be precise) on a charity compilation CD Oggum released featuring Magic Carpathians, Electroscope and Flying Saucer Attack, to name a few. ‘Kettle of Fish Walking’ includes all of these tracks with two brand new songs exclusive to this compilation. And the music...? Deep-space exlporing. picture yourself voyaging somewhere between a time and an unknown. from somewhere you hear a softly spoken voice reading children's fairytales. All this is realised within a totally rich, colorful, unique and warm soundscape which recalls the sound of 70's german synth-wizards Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Magical. Have a flow and go. Note that this is a MiniCD of 20 minutes." |
| Niplets | Dorobo Gokko | CD | $15.99 | Horen | "2nd album from Hiroshi (ex-Les Rallizes Denudes) & his company. Lyrically psychedelic love letter with fragrance of flower to you." | |
| 5/7/2004 | Niplets | The Lecture Hall Boogie | CD | $15.99 | Horen | 3rd album from Hiroshi Nar. "It's all so indelibly stamped with Hiroshi Nar's slightly damaged personality that it transcends its flimsy, flung together feel and even the huffiest breakdown feels weirdly revealing." - David Keenan,The Wire. |
| 4/1/2004 | Nirvana | Bleach Sessions | LP | $18.99 | Outtakes and alternate versions from the studio sessions for their first album, released in 1989: "Beeswax," "Mexican Seafood," "Pen Cap Chew," "Mr. Moustache," "Blandest," "Downer," "Floyd the Barber," "Paper Cuts," "Spanks Thru," and "Afro Zepplin." Same artwork as "Bleach." Euro import. Two copies available. | |
| Nishibori, Yu & Landon Thorpe | Muno Radiation | CD | $8.99 | Public Eyesore | "We will sum it up all in a big lump. sparse sound collages ala the tightening of acoustic guitar strings, and washboard stomachs. strange computer jibberish that is not rubbish, but ruffed. the beatings of drain pipes and the like, oh, and a life source, of course. - Chris Fischer | |
| 5/19/2004 | nixilx.nijilx | nixilx.nijilx | CDR | $9.99 | absurd | “When I received an e-mail a couple of months ago from the guy behind nixilx.nijilx project I couldn't imagine I was to come across some of the most impressive soundscapes I've heard from the Greek underground for a long time. Initially proposed a beautiful 20min track which just before adding it to absurd's expanded audio diary, was reconstructed/transformed to a completely new piece that could barely bring in mind something of the one I had heard. with the addition of 2 more tracks (1 of which was used as soundscape to a recent installation which took place during the events of chondros / katsiani's 'hyperdwthe' events in thessaloniki (north greece) the 19 year old person behind the nixilx.nijilx disguise crafts a delicate universe of intense electroacoustic sounds & lowercase drones that speaking of Greece particularly I doubt if lots of the 'composers' of the local Greek electroacoustic intelligentsia can ever achieve. Comes in a very beautiful 'infant' like artwork of nixilx.nijilx and stands as one of my beloved absurds as it reflects some truly intense moments of the last months' audio diary.” – absurd. Edition of 137 copies. |
| 10/22/2003 | Nmperign | We Devote Every Effort To Offer You The Best That You Deserve To Have for Your Enjoyment | DBL LP | $20.99 | SIWA | "Nmperign is Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey. The first LP of this 2LP set consists of the title track which was recorded in Mhere, France. The music on the second LP is from a performance at Wesleyan University and is entitled 'I Am Sitting In A Fucking Room'. Instrument credits are given as 'marantz pmd 130, sony micro20002, horns'. In the past Nmperign has collaborated with Le Quan Ninh, Günter Müller, Jason Lescalleet, Jerome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, Axel Dörner and many others. Their previous recordings have appeared on labels such as Selektion, Rossbin, Twisted Village and Intransitive. Limited vinyl only edition with 5 color screenprinted cover." As usual, Alan Sherry of SIWA has created a document just that is beautiful to hold and listen to. |
| 9/16/2004 | No Doctors | ERP Saints | CD | $8.99 | No Sides | “A new EP from no-everything noise rock combo No Doctors. A tribute to Chicago's East Rogers Park neighborhood, where the band recently performed two years of active service, ERP Saints finds the Doctors in peak form, launching their anti-rock deep into the cosmos.” |
| 3/27/2004 | No Doctors | Hunting Season | CD | $12.99 | Go Johnny Go | NO DOCTORS was founded by three in 1999; highschool, Minneapolis, MN USA. Before releasing their first proper LP, the teens released approx 100 recordings of 'avant-garde sounds' by a diverse cavalcade of international artists through their FREEDOM FROM label, then spent a month touring and studying beneath Argentine visionaries REYNOLS. Relocating to Chicago, new members were added to the band during the lengthy sessions that came to comprise their debut self-titled LP; upon close scrutiny, this record has revealed itself to be two distinct LPs. Solidifying into a 5/6 man lineup, NO DOCTORS traveled to Baltimore and recorded HUNTING SEASON with the help of NAUTICAL ALMANAC's Twig Harper. This recording is now available on CD from GO JOHNNY GO. Fellow music lover: as we find ourselves but the faintest fluttering beyond the great temporal breach, our dizzying locale of vanguard scampering slyly, feigning negligience (a solar nipple flare; a relaxed tension) any number of scented oilwheels solicit our auspices, bird in hand, rifle cocked. NO DOCTORS second full-length effort HUNTING SEASON emerges above and beyond the din with sight locked on target. We recommend imbibing with or without adult super-vision, as needed. Press 'play' and lavishly simulate sensation ‘hair trigger’.” |
| 12/30/2002 | No Doctors | No Doctors | LP | $9.99 | Freedom From | "A big, heavy, blues-based skronk from this Chicago outfit, lo-fi and nasssty. Or at least mostly; they also get into some, dare we say, severely ‘acid-soaked’ territory. This is their first album." |
| 12/24/2005 | No Doctors | T-Bone Parts 1 & 2 | 7" | $4.99 | Yik Yak | "Another well-smoked slab of glorious 'what the fuck?' by visionary caterwaulers of chaos and ex-Chicago blues cruisers, No Doctors. Equal parts backwards boogie and straight skullfucking confusion, 'T-Bone Pt. 1' stomps one through hard and thick, slinging broken barn-boned riffs that collide head on with sputtering cross-eyed measures of brilliance and back again. 'T-Bone Pt. 2' ensues after a quick flip to side B as you and your square-minded notions are slapped straight in the face with a wet hose spewing talkin' box (!) snarl and ultimately delivers your blown mind on a broken piece of hobo-stew stained porcelain." - Noel Von Harmonson (Comets On Fire) |
| 5/19/2004 | No Neck Blues Band | First Kingdom of the Ghost | LP | $24.99 | S@1 / Seres | "Inaugurating what will possibly end up as a fifteen deep series, these two releases, Dutch Money and First Kingdom of the Ghost, are separate missives originating from famed Amsterdam radio studio VPRO and various points around London/New York respectively. The fidelity of these recordings speaks for itself, as do the performances contained therein. In a bid to describe the indescribable though, Dutch Money could be said to mine even further and deeper into their world explorer side, whereas First Kingdom... collates majestically their more cosmic American tendencies." - Other Music |
| 3/13/2003 | No Neck Blues Band | Intonomancy | CD | $11.99 | Sound @ One | "Yes, by God, here's another one. Rock root punch left in bloody piles of nutmeg dirt circus. Fuck the bleat. Fuck the beat. Fuck the entire fucking fleet. A return to the magnificence of spell-over-form. An end to spiel-necessity. Destructive formatting vanishes in a pfff of steam. Welcome to one future. For information on NNCK conult yr local oracle." - Byron Coley New recordings from June 2002. |
| 4/1/2003 | No Neck Blues Band | Letters From The Earth | DBL CD | $22.99 | Sound @ One | "Repress of this 1996 release, this double CD outputs 111 or so minutes worth of this group's dizzying array of sonic blattage, cable disruption, tribal tranceadelics and trip or drone aesthetic. I heard that this was largely recorded on a NYC rooftop, but you certainly can't hear any breeze - there is, however, some serious driftage going on all over the place. Out of nowhere double album magnum opuses tend to go to have genre defining significance, and it's easy to see this one having research visibility for decades to come, as the pinnacle of its contemporary scene." |
| 4/24/2006 | No Neck Blues Band | Letters From the Earth | DBL CD | $20.99 | Very Friendly | "UK reissue of this 1996 release, originally on Sound @ One/Ser. This double CD outputs 111 or so minutes worth of this group's dizzying array of sonic blattage, cable disruption, tribal tranceadelics and trip or drone aesthetic. I heard that this was largely recorded on a NYC rooftop, but you certainly can't hear any breeze -- there is, however, some serious driftage going on all over the place. Out-of-nowhere double album magnum opuses tend to go on to have genre defining significance, and it's easy to see this one having research visibility for decades to come, as the pinnacle of its contemporary scene. Packaged in a slimline jewel case (to assure those worried this thing would come wrapped in tree bark or something), with an intriguing multi-page booklet of almost Gysin-esque hieroglyphics." |
| 10/6/2007 | No Neck Blues Band | Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped...Live at Ken's Electric Lake | DBL CD | $18.99 | Locust | "Nearly ten years of swimming up stream through the sonic flotsam & jetsam, the folks have gotten freaky, noise is the 'new noise,' the chin scratchers have joined the metal circus and the No Neck Blues Band remain as relevant today as ever. Their indoor /outdoor audio assaults in upper & lower Manhattan are the stuff of legend but on 1998's Live at Ken's Electric Lake the band took a distinct turn, crossed the Canadian border, hooked up w/ some Sunburned folks and made a sudden diaspora to a rural retreat in the country for a full day's session of acid-head tribal percussion clatter that is utterly different than anything the band had put on the public record up to that time." -Dawson Prater. Reissue of 1998 release - recommended. |
| 4/16/2007 | No Neck Blues Band | Nine For Victor | CD | $12.99 | Victo | "Enregistre au 22e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 21 mai 2005." Live Victo recording; this one uses up the Sound @1 catalog #82, in case youre keeping track. |
| 12/24/2005 | No Neck Blues Band | Qvaris | CD | $15.99 | 5 Rue Christine | "The Harlem-based No-Neck Blues Band have been a well-loved if obscure fixture in the avant-folk and neo-psychedelic scenes for over a decade now, but unfortunately, the accolades thrust on the group (late folk legend John Fahey once named them as his favorite band) have been matched only by the unavailability of the vast majority of their albums. With 'Qvaris,' however, that's all about to change. The band's first release on the venerable 5RC label, 'Qvaris' finds the band's exploratory improvisation at its most lucid, combining tense and diseased grooves with primal guitar squalls and a palpable sense of modern dread. Uncompromisingly dedicated to their own fevered vision, No-Neck Blues Band both demand a close listen and reward it. Fans of Excepter (who feature ex-NNCKer John Fell Ryan), Sightings, and Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice take notice." "Improvisation, over time, yields access to substratum vistas of altogether unseen colouration. This is characteristic of a place in which our music occurs. It may be heard simultaneously here on earth, it may be heard now in the future in surround-sound, DVD audio, via light pipe, etc. But due to its place of origin, it reaches us here without translation, solely as echoes sounding from an immaterial world. Not unlike the radio dish tuned into Space, hoping to catch some intergalactic communique, we've assumed responsibility for broadcasting the atmosphere surrounding the other intelligences combined among us. There is a psychic constituency from which any hierarchy taking responsibility for the conveyance of the unseen is drawn. And much has been done to co-opt and commodify such conveyance as to deliberately mingle its allure with intentions and agendas of this world. What results is a powerful controlling current. One which, if harnessed with precision, can create personality, replace consciousness, become existence at its receiving end. This pull, this energizing current has permeated much of the imagination, establishing ever increasing common ground betwixt folksexperiencing--and beginning to recognize-unreality. NNCK follows suit. So here, undiluted and without an accompanying agenda, is Qvaris for it's own sake. A slice of life, though not necessarily human life. It is finding your mind as we speak. When a moment is hanging on the edge you must be listening. Listen now for the Difference and the Sameness. They are near." |
| 7/16/2006 | No Neck Blues Band and Embryo | EmbryoNNCK | CD | $15.99 | Staubgold | "New York mavericks No Neck Blues Band and Munich-based Krautrock band Embryo explore the indigenous urban music phenomenon on this, their debut collaborative release. The No Neck Blues Band are one of the most enigmatic, mysterious, and defiantly anti-commercial groups to emerge from the New York loft scene during the '90s. The collective was formed in 1992 around a core of multi-instrumentalists who have stubbornly and admirably insisted on individual anonymity. Incorporating elements of folk, drone, psychedelia, free jazz, noise, and just about everything else, NNCK have nevertheless carved out a distinctive sound from complementary and disparate component elements. One of the most original and innovative Krautrock bands, Embryo fused traditional ethnic music with their own jazzy space rock style. Over their 35+-year existence, during which Christian Burchard has been the only consistent member, the group has traveled the world, playing with hundreds of different musicians and releasing countless records. Melding their wildly diverse forays into experimental, blues, Middle Eastern, Turkish and African music, these two groups have since become brothers in unparalleled improvisatory spirit, and EmbryoNNCK is the fruit of that merge. To quote Christian Burchard, "The NNCK players were flying... Little melodies we never had heard, different moods, r |