| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/30/2006 | 1/3 Octave Band | Navigation By Light | CDR | $12.99 | Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon | "Another step toward the infinite nothingness. Having solidified once-and-for-all as a duo and on the eve of their Australian tour, 1/3 Octave Band present perhaps their finest recorded moments. As the title would have you believe, this is a dark ride through a vast landscape with only the merest shreds of light to guide you through to the other side. Point by painstaking point is mapped out across the ever-nothing of the southern sky. The danger is not so much the uncertainty of your destination, but in the knowledge that you have completely forgotten how you got in here in the first place. Lost, aimless, wandering, and going back is no longer an option." |
| 10/9/2003 | 100% Storms Ensemble | A Symphonic Dance for the 1939 World’s Fair | 12" mini LP | $10.99 | Emperor Jones | "A rare vinyl-only offering from Emperor Jones courtesy of the 100% Storms Ensemble, the bedroom symphony project of one Eric Morrison (Home, Leels). Symphonic Dance for the 1939 World's Fair is a new post-facto musical piece meant to capture the dizzy elation of America fishtailing on a wet highway just before careening headlong into WWII. Various strings, french horn, clarinet, and flute combine with more basic rock elements to sweep you into its pomp and circumstance. The B-side features an eighteen-minute epic rock collage in the vein of Home. Numbered edition of 300 packaged in black glow-in-the-dark sleeves" |
| 4/22/2009 | O Voids | O Voids | LP | $13.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "O Voids is probably the 1st band outta Montreal I've heard this year. Their approach & sound seems pulled right outta 82-83 American post punk, not all that dissimilar to Mission Of Burma. I've no doubt there are certain masonic like devotees who believe that NO ONE could EVER deliver like MOB & that a mere comparison to Boston's most hallowed band of all time are the words of a heretic. Guilty as charged, bub. What can I say? O Voids remind me of Mission Of Burma & sometimes that's a good thing. Even on here." -Siltblog. "Recorded on, 2" tape, at Treatment Room, Montreal, by Gilles Castilloux. Chris: Guitar, Peter: Bass, Nick: Drums. Montreal's best band. Some of the nicest people ever as well, and that's whats really important! Think Wipers, Mission Of Burma, Unwound, Wire, Rough Trade Records 1981...You know the best music ever. Edition of 500 vinyl only." |
| 7/16/2006 | O'Rourke, Jim | 6 Oscillators 1987 / Guitar 1988 | LP | $16.99 | No Fun | "A lost piece in time from 1987 and a lost piece in time from 1988. 6 oscillators announces destruction and the future thats today, as giganntic synthetic sound bounces your brain to to total meltdown, only dust remains. 6 guitars rebuilds you and prepares you to face the reality of life. thet time for battle is now. unreleased until today, limited to 500 no fun style artwork. Jim rules." - No Fun. |
| 4/22/2009 | Oaxacan | Oaxland | CDR | $6.99 | Majmua Music | "Oaxland is the new offering from Oaxacan. Perhaps the title can be read as an homage to Oakland, California - their hometown and a center for the creative "out-rock" explosion for a number of years now. Oaxacan successfully taps into that rich creative vein yet here has produced a disc that stands on it's own six feet, unbowed and untamed. Oaxacan are Amy Friebertshauser: Vocals, electronics, percussion; Mike Guarino: drums, percussion, electronics, various stringed instruments and Derek Monypeny: Guitar. Subverting the predominant free-rock paradigm, Oaxacan seems to draw equally from chaos and ritual, creating a work whose intensity often lies in its' restraint. They aren't afraid of cutting loose by any means, but comprehend that tension arises in the spaces between. "Unlike a lotta so-described "free-rock" bands, Oakland's Oaxacan takes a pulsing, clattering, chittering, hammering, groaning, barfing, tapping rainstorm of noise and organizes it into head-nodding, tribal-ish, hypnotic rhythm. While the drums free-jazz themselves into the cosmos, guitars rasp all dry like grasshopper wings, and vocals make whale songs and wolf cries, an invisible conductor snatches everything from space and structures it into dance music. Or more so, freak-the-fuck-out music. Or lie-on-the-club-floor-and-convulse-and-reenact-your- birth music. Even if you haven't heard of this band, don't let it stop you. Break free from the shackles of your comfort zone!" - Adam Gnade, Portland Mercury |
| 9/17/2009 | Ocelocelot | Spandex Booze Hound | CDR | $8.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Following CDRs and cassettes for Smokers Gifts and Kovorox Sound, and a track on an Idwal Fisher comp, Melanie Delaney gulps down some fermented plantain extract, squares her shoulders, embarks on another temporary exile from Ashtray Navigations, and takes her rightful place atop the Chocolate Monk bully pulpit. The musical spastasms of her solo project Ocelocelot goink in tandem with Jovial Bowel Syndrome, that Midlands medical condish afflicting those with diets high in pig’s milk and sausage muke. Ring modulator abounds on the CD, attaching itself to every decibel like a Louisiana eyeworm, leaving pockmarks across landscapes defined by cornball menses tutorials and cloudy waters from the snout of the matriarch. Delaney charms plasmagnetics and electrosputum with the deftness of the Janitorial Custodians of Jajouka. As Ocelocelot splays her space nuptials across a skyline smeared with mushy peas, and junked Vespas limp across the tarmac at Dragonfly refueling stations, orphans gaze away from the mysterious metal chambers it is their duty to scrub with steel wool. Gawk, urchins." - S.Glass |
| Octagon Church | Lost in the Kelp | CD | $6.99 | Outer Orbit | "Well over half an hour of sound makes up the debut release from the nomadic Octagon Church. Lost in the Kelp was hatched and put to tape in 2000 by Octagon in the green pastures of Alden, New York. Recorded in a basement using guitar, and two string detuned mandolin, Lost in the Kelp is both subtle and demanding. Guitar and mandolin weave and seer among one another till you are merging into one with your sofa. This is head music for your pot. At times Lost in the Kelp seems to have you sitting in neverland then you're being transported to the planet Cragnail (or insert favorite planet here). Includes the infamous pot jam of summer 2000 from Holiday Hills. Edition of 50." | |
| 2/11/2006 | Octopus Syng | Beyond the Karmadelic Coldness, There's the Lovadelic Warmth | LP | $24.99 | Nasoni | "Vinyl edition of the first full length album by psychedelic wizard from Finland. It spends love, romanticism and good vibes via sitar driven rock, psych pop, garage psychedelia, hippie folk, reminiscent of Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd." Limited edition of 500 copies - these are black vinyl copies. |
| 11/4/2006 | Odal | Odal | cassette | $7.99 | Dutch Beer | "space cassette by a real human genius. DR BIBBER (a Dutch guy going strong from 1985, releasing ENEMA SYRINGE in 1987!!!) delivers 60 minutes of space and noise. welcome in his head." |
| 8/23/2009 | Odd Clouds | Deceiving Illusion | LP | $14.99 | Not Not Fun | "A thousand years ago, in 2006, Michigan moonlighters Odd Clouds drizzled down their LP opus, The Cavernous End. Within the sphere of open-eyed freeform organized psych-jazz sprawl, nothing compared. Years later that album still kills, but not much has followed in its wake (there have been some loose tapes but those are more in the crude basement fuckaround vein). So we are personally xxtremely pleased to be able to finally offer up the band's latest album-length affair, Deceiving Illusion. A six-song spelunk into the deranged group brain responsible for noise scene mainstays like Fag Tapes and Tasty Soil Records, Illusion rumbles through a hall of mirrors of zones/styles, from freaky garbage punk to robot throat games to motorik brass meditations to unhinged '70s German commune beardo psych-blazers. The journey is the destination and all that. Abuse yr Illusion. Black vinyl LPs in 3-color pro-silkscreened jackets with artwork by Chris Pottinger and Jamie Easter, plus a double-sided photocopied insert. Edition of 400." |
| 10/25/2008 | Odd Clouds | Odd Clouds | picture disc LP | $24.99 | QBICO | Picture disk, with artwork by Chris Pottinger & Jamie Easter. Recorded between 2004-2007 in Detroit, Ferndale, and Hamtramck, Michigan. Performers: Chris Pottinger, Jamie Easter, Heath Moerland, Glen Morren, Chris Sprague, Matt Smith, Noah Eikhoff & Free Wade. "Their 1st LP that came out a couple of years ago, was among the best thing I heard and see in the last few years. So I didn't hesitate to get in touch with them... they kindly bring some odd clouds at the Qbico u-nite I did in Det in 2007, along with some special gifts... so I immediately liked them! The music is simply one of the most exciting ever released on qbico, as well as the artworks. Hear, see and feel to believe in some mighty clouds." Out of print. |
| 8/28/2004 | Odd Job | Macro Made Session | CDR | $8.99 | Deserted Village | “A single half-hour piece which unfolds gradually taking the listener through a varied terrain yet still completely self-contained in it's own stark atmosphere. Odd Job hails from Lille in France. He answered the call for music for a Brane compilation on the web and sent us the 28 minutes of otherness that is the Macro-Made session. It was a bit long for a compilation, but we loved it so much we just had to put it out. It uses all manner of sound sources yet has it's own distinct atmosphere and is popular night time listening around these parts. Realised by Chou Sebastien / October 2002 recorded at the Sfumato Studio in Lille using sampler, sequencer, field recordings and additional instruments.” |
| 3/3/2005 | Odyssey | Setting Forth | CD | $15.99 | Pacemaker / Lion Productions | "Once upon a time, when the music business was more music than business (but only just), there was a band that created a quintessential dose of New York sixties psychedelia—strong harmonic vocals, heavy swirling organ, and fuzz guitar riffs of the greatest ferocity. Finally, their lone album—one of the ten rarest and most sought after US psychedelic albums—is available again: painstakingly remastered, repackaged, and ready for true psych fans to devour. This is truly one of the cornerstones of underground psychedelic music, recorded in 1969, released in an edition of fewer than 100 copies, and impossible to find as it only came in a plain white cardboard sleeve. An album that jumps right out of the speakers at you, from it’s opening 'In-a-gadda-da-vida' riffs right to the very end. Twelve-page booklet has part one of a band history by Odyssey leader Vinny Kusy, as well as rare photos from his own archive. LP version in heavy cardboard gatefold jacket will be available in June." |
| 7/30/2006 | Of | The Awful Cloud | CDR | $12.99 | Jyrk | "I think I've mentioned previously that we decided a bit ago to invite a few more established folks to drop some of their own particular breed of trouble under the JYRK moniker.. We got to drop that Spiderwebs deal awhile back and now... we've got OF.. A.K.A. Loren Chasse.. I don't know if anyone else spent last year being haunted by this dude, but both "the Air In The Sand" and Thuja's "Pine Cone Temples" spent serious time in my disc player and on my brain. I HAD to ask Loren to kick something down.. So.. We have The Awful Cloud.. possibly the darkest piece of music I've heard from Loren.. It's all instruments... organs, guitar, bells and field recordings collaged into one beautiful and dark cloud. edition of 150." - label |
| 8/28/2004 | Óg, Sean | Very Little Is Weightless | CDR | $9.99 | Deserted Village | “Some of you have heard Seán play sax and flute in United Bible Studies and Murmansk and his jazz band Orpheus. Originally schooled as a jazz performer and composer, multi-instrumentalist, Seán creates improvised tracks where treated autoharp, mechanical noise, woodwinds and structures are coaxed together in an ethereal, shimmering soundworld.” Features trumpophone, glockenspiel, tenor and soprano saxophones, autoharp, synthesisers, guitar, percussion, no-input-desk, piano, flute, unexpected songforms and the beautiful vocals of Martina Evers. |
| 9/29/2009 | Oh Sees, Thee | Hounds of Foggy Notion | LP+DVD | $20.99 | HBSP | "A brilliant live performance collaboration between Thee Oh Sees and video director Brian Lee Hughes. Filmed and recorded, not on stages, but at a variety of hauntingly scenic sites in and around San Francisco. The LP features the audio recordings, the DVD features the performances along with dozens of stories, jokes and whatnots filmed during their four-day filming adventure." - Revolver |
| 5/21/2009 | Oh Sees, Thee | Tidal Wave | 7" | $5.99 | Woodsist | "Thee Oh Sees continue their recent run of hot new releases with a two-track burner on the equally hot Woodsist label. You get the tunes "Tidal Wave" and "Heart Sweats." Already in repress, so don't sleep on it." - Revolver. |
| 5/9/2009 | Oh Sees, Thee | Zork's Tape Bruise | LP + CD | $19.99 | Kill Shaman | "The LP contains home recordings, demos and crazy noise sounds. This is unlike any other OH SEES you've ever heard. It's biting, noisy and badass. Songs are catchy and dragged through a pile of distortion, tape manipulation and random instrument collisions. The CD piece contains everything they ever released on vinyl only (Intellignce split, Peanut Butter Over, etc.). They come together in one weird package that doesn't make sense. Initial pressing of 500 copies." |
| 3/21/2007 | Oh, Birds! | ŠOf Grief and Satellites | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Cook an Egg | "Blending sparse field recordings with eerie, otherworldly sounds, the music of Oh, Birds! carves out a series of internal landscapes that are as much discreet as they remain troubled and slightly out of reach. Tackling the lines between sound and silence, there's a subdued musicality there that should appeal to fans of Coelacanth, Steve Roden and Olivia Block. Oh, Birds! is a sound-artist from Clichy, France and this 3" cdr is his debut mini-album." |
| 1/25/2004 | Old Bombs | Audios | CD | $10.99 | Soft Abuse | "We are on the edge of a genre that has no name. We've been compared to Rowe's work with radio, Cage, Merzbow, Organum, V/VM, Pita, Christian Marclay. All those references are fine but don't really define what we were/are doing here. Dino and Vanessa were my first really good friends in the US with whom I shared a similar musical outlook. After moving from Miami, we kept sending original creations to each other and mutilating, layering, recombining, re-sampling and recursionizing them until they felt complete. In this way we have maintained our own dialogue about music. Equipment has changed, abilities have evolved, and now after six years comes Audios, our first 'official' CD. Dig in or dig out." - Carlos Giffoni |
| 5/23/2009 | Old Rig, The | Trembling Static Sky | c26 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Lost under a blanket of overgrown weeds and fallen branches is the remains of the old rig. this duo of patrack singleton and frank baugh (sparkling wide pressure) create organic webs of sonic detritus and sew its roots into the fertile, tennessee soil. black as night and sullen under a metric ton of fuzz, "trembling static sky" has washed out all the glitz and glam and taken these stellar drones into their mossy core. utilizing a variety of field recordings, these pieces are like a warm, flowing river of molasses. epic in scope and persistence, add the old rig to the list of growing concerns in tennessee. baugh & singleton are in it to win it. incredible artwork by bob vore. edition of 65, pro-dubbed and ready to go." Out of print. |
| 9/30/2005 | Olive, Tim & Fritz Welch | Sun Reverse the Footpedal | CD | $11.99 | Evolving Ear | "Tightly wound non-maximalism combining borrowed electric guitar, percussion, and snow. Artwork by Matt Bua." "Despite the musicians' marked preference for tiny sounds and gestures, the music they make - provided you give it the time and attention it demands - creates and sustains a sense of tension often absent from lowercase improv...another compelling and uncompromising outing from the Evolving Ear label."- Dan Warburton, www.paristransatlantic.com. "This barn recording from Brooklyn drummer Fritz Welch and Canadian/Japanese guitarist Tim Olive is a beautifully conceived minimalistic collaboration... Obviously affected by their surroundings, the duo sympathetically respond to the creaking timbers of the 19th century barn they are using as a recording studio, with much clattering, scraping, and bumping around in the dead of night. Olive mostly concentrates on plucking a the pickups of his guitar, while Welch's shuffling percussion is economical to say the least. The sounds they make together, however, eventually resemble those of the insects and other nocturnal creatures that inhabit the barn, until the two musicians gradually become a part of the building's environment, construction, and history." - Edwin Pouncey, the Wire |
| 10/19/2003 | Oliveros, Pauline / Reynols | The Minexcio Connection: Live! At The Rosendale Café | LP | $12.99 | Roartorio | "One of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships of recent years: in the mid-1990s, Pauline Oliveros, electronic music pioneer and sage of the environmental drone, began working with Reynols, the prolific and resolutely undefinable Argentinian group. Their first joint effort sent Oliveros' music through the rigours of Reynols' heavily processed studio treatments; The Minexcio Connection: Live! At The Rosendale Cafe finds them collaborating on-stage in real time. Recorded in August 2000 during Reynols' first trek through North America, they offered up a version of 'Six For New Time' (originally composed by Oliveros for Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century LP), along with idiosyncratic throat-singing and hypnotic dream/dronescapes. The venue may have been a small cafe in rustic upstate New York, but the sonic results sound like emanations from the deepest of Deep Listening caves under the earth." |
| 8/7/2002 | Olneyville Sound System | Efforts in Freedumb | CD | $12.99 | Last Visble Dog / Hospital | "Fans of Lightning Bolt may do well to take heed to this other Providence -monster- band. Layers of hyper-dense percussion and base lay the foundation for the OSS sound; chunky beyond comprehension or at other times pounding out driving marches that will shake the dishes off their shelves! Accompanied by sax, flute and some fried electronic improvisations." |
| 9/17/2006 | Olson, John + Spencer Yeh | Live at Kathy's Birthday | one-sided LP | $15.99 | Rococo Records | Limited edition of 200 copies - out of print. |
| 9/17/2006 | Olson, Tovah & The Dead Machines | I'll Be Back | CDR | $12.99 | Tovinater | "New label, first release. Two tracks, one solo Tovinater which consists of intense stereo recordings of a bug swamp near the Cove and a long Dead Machines track which is a string abuse jammer working out ideas for the Lansing and Natti gigs last month. Color cover with weirdo alien drawings. Edition of 100." |
| 2/20/2008 | Olyvetty | Im Leerin | 7" | $13.99 | Hundebiss | "We are very proud to introduce you our first release, the amazing assault of the power-duo Olyvetty! Olyvetty was formed by Claudio Rocchetti (3/4HadBeenEliminated and many many more) and Riccardo Benassi (visual artist and italian experimental underground agitator). The project was born in Berlin in 2006, it immediately results as a melting of minimal techno driftes and power-noise fury. They performed in many european festivals like Sonambiente, Flora and Netmage. After their first release 'as all-encompassing as a hole' - a double 12' hand-engraved picture disc - they approached Hundebiss Records who release the seven inch Im Leeren, an assault of noise freakerie packed in a d.i.y. gatefold pop-up." Beautiful packaging! |
| 4/24/2006 | Om | Conference of the Birds | CD | $14.99 | Holy Mountain | "Comprised of two songs that build on OM's- (AL CISNEROS and CHRIS HAKIUS, rhythm section of legendary sludge and stoner rock pioneers, Sleep)-use of cyclical rhythm, riff, and vocal intonation, the duo's new album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub, and psychedelia. The band's lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by BILLY ANDERSON and produced by the band, Conference of the Birds progresses beyond their debut, Variations on a Theme, with more fully realized songwriting and production. LP version to follow shortly." |
| 9/29/2009 | Om | God Is Good | CD | $14.99 | Drag City | 'God Is Good' is the fourth album from the indomitable OM since their formation in 2001. It is their first new record in two years. OM albums are rituals, personal convictions transcripted into verse. Playing the music is visceral, emotional, a catharsis of soul and spirit. As ever, dynamic relationships and the slow building of mood are attenuations that shape the structures of 'God Is Good'. With careful microscopic increase, the energy grows through the four songs, leading towards moments that one could interpret as… Revelation? Oblivion? Awakening? OM are part of a community of musicians and thinkers whose influence only grows: Current 93, Six Organs Of Admittance, Lichens, Sir Richard Bishop, Alpha & Omega and Grails." |
| 9/29/2009 | Om | God Is Good | LP | $17.99 | Drag City | 'God Is Good' is the fourth album from the indomitable OM since their formation in 2001. It is their first new record in two years. OM albums are rituals, personal convictions transcripted into verse. Playing the music is visceral, emotional, a catharsis of soul and spirit. As ever, dynamic relationships and the slow building of mood are attenuations that shape the structures of 'God Is Good'. With careful microscopic increase, the energy grows through the four songs, leading towards moments that one could interpret as… Revelation? Oblivion? Awakening? OM are part of a community of musicians and thinkers whose influence only grows: Current 93, Six Organs Of Admittance, Lichens, Sir Richard Bishop, Alpha & Omega and Grails." |
| 8/30/2009 | Om | Live Conference | LP | $16.99 | Important | "Live Conference was recorded on 24-track remote audio and pressed at RTI in order to achieve the highest possible quality. Die-cut super heavy duty tip-on style jackets by Stoughton. On this night Om performed their seminal album Conference Of The Birds live in its entirety. Newly invoked energy resonates in the sound of the band. The dynamics between Emil Amos and Al Cisneros have rendered these songs and Om's sound into a higher evolution. Here we are given a proper documentation of Conference-era Om." |
| 10/6/2007 | Om | Pilgrimage | CD | $15.99 | Southern Lord | "Three songs featuring Om's (Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius of the legendary Sleep) unique use of riff, cadence and chant comprise the duo's new album Pilgrimage. Lyrical themes address the processes of mind, psychic reality, astral and casual planes of being, and the nature of the soul. Engineered by Steve Albini and produced by the band, the motifs that were initiated on their previous two album are continued here unabated." |
| 3/2/2005 | Om | Variations on a Theme | CD | $13.99 | Holy Mountain | "Om reunites one of the most powerful rhythm sections in rock music: Al Cisneros [bass, vocals] and Chris Hakius [drums], both ex-members of the legendary Sleep. Variations on a Theme is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The album's numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space. Variations on a Theme is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track,'On The Mountain at Dawn' is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. 'Kapil's Theme' furthers the motif while the closer 'Annapurna' breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite." |
| Omit / K-Group | Storage | LP | $12.99 | Fusetron | “Not a split release by these two New Zealand artists, but a collaboration, carrying on from their 1997 single on Colorful Clouds for Acoustics. The weapons of choice are analogue synthesizers and the approach is slowly unfolding drones and drifting veils of sound that part and close across the listener's third ear like storms on the surface of Jupiter.K-Group is Paul Toohey, previously of noted NZ geological drone ensemble Surface of the Earth, who also has a solo album under this name on Corpus Hermeticum. Omit is Clinton Williams, who has also recorded for that notorious NZ 'un-easy listening' label, as well as extensively on his own Deep Skin imprint. During 2000 and 2001, having failed to bring down the global economy with their now-forgotten Y2K scam [remember Y2K? - I thought not], this pair of Hidden Masters turned their efforts towards late-night kitchen jam sessions during their holiday moments. In these each would fire up an antiquated analogue synth and the resulting aural collisions would be recorded on a handy hard drive, then tweaked, inverted, eq'd and edited to produce the immaculate slabs of sound contained within the tiny grooves of this ludicrously out-dated analogue sound-reproducing format. These seven tracks simulate the calm of the newly sedated patient about to undergo a surgical procedure, just as he or she is starting to slip into unconsciousness. You can listen, but just when you think you're hearing something, you realise that 12 hours have gone by and you have a new and inexplicable scar on some unlikely part of your anatomy. Too late you realise that the sound you can hear at the very edge of audition is not this recording, but the sound of forty metal robotic insects starting to eat their way out through your still-sedated navel. Waking with a start in time to flip the album over on your turntable, you notice that subsonic frequencies have begun to rearrange the contents of your mantlepiece into a veritable Morris Dance of inanimate objects, when you thought the audio had not yet begun to play back. A vestigial bass throb starts up in the back of your cranium, as very slow-moving if not actually stationary spacecraft begin to land in the garden. Three days later they are still hovering as the seventh and final track of the album begins to play, and infinitesimally subtle stereo effects start panning in impossible permutations audible only between your shoulder blades. Apparent suspension of time, delirious interludes, interference with the basic laws of physics, all of these effects are possible results of listening to the beautifully poised, finely polished and unutterably beautiful sounds contained in this simultaneously forbidding and inviting artifact. If, like me, these are all the things you look for in a sound recording, then look no further. If its merely music you require, then I suggest you meddle not in the affairs of your betters and proceed directly to the nearest chain CD store and stock up big time.” -Bruce Russell [Noise Legend], Lyttelton, NZ, May 2002. | |
| 7/23/2003 | Omnid | Thermo | CD | $4.99 | The Shadow Puppet Recording Co. | "My work varies between untreated field recordings and heavily treated compositions which utilize field recordings as source material. This particular disc is composed of captures made in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York City. The source sounds were then manipulated in a custom software application made in Max/Msp." - Albert Casais |
| 6/11/2006 | On | On | CD | $14.99 | Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon | "Remember when punk was dangerous? When you had no idea whether you (or the band) was gonna make it out of the venue without an impressive set of scars? Nah... me neither. But hey... I read Black Flags 'Get In The Van' and it sounded cool... and it sounded really, really dangerous. Enter On... a full throttle blur of utterly wasted heaviness clinging to a two-chord, droning, punk rock core. Hell hath no fury like this infuriated mess and the threat of serious physical harm hangs in the air like a half-landed drunken chick-punch. Two monsterously distorted basses, and a guitar tone like a broken windscreen mean the poor drummer has to pound his cheapo kit into near-nirvana just to be heard above the gargantuan din. Primal, sexual, pre-menstrual, very drunk, and very, very dangerous. The best possible distillation of The Germs unhinged self-mutilation, the paralysing narcoleptic sludge of The Cherubs 'Herione Man', the profoundly aimless bloodletting of early Skullflower, all wrapped up in a tattered 'Zen Arcade' poster. Get-me-the-feck-outta-here!" |
| 3/26/2006 | On Trial | Blinded By the Sun | CD | $12.99 | Molten Records | "After a gap of a couple of years here is the stunning 2002 album by the best kept Scandinavian secret since Rumplestiltskin. Sounding like a cross between Love and The Sound Track Of Our Lives the band blend an emotional west coast flavoured sound with powerful acid guitar and melodic sensibilities. Intricate arrangements and sweeping acid psych that's both achingly ragged and beautifully realised. This album grows on you with every listen just like a classic album should. Highly recommended." |
| 3/26/2006 | On Trial | Head | CD | $12.99 | Molten Records | "Here's the 2003 full length CD album version of the now rare 10" issued a few years back by the great Danish psych band. On Trial update and interpret a selection of '60s psychedelic classics, including gems by Love, The Third Bardo, Macbre, Roky Erickson and others. The CD version is expanded to include superb covers of The Rolling Stones 'Citadel' Blues Cheer's Parchment Farm, The Stooges TV Eye, Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" and The MC5's "Starship". Blistering acid wah wah fuzz guitar work, trippy effects, exquisite vocals and multicoloured psychedelic abandon are the order of the day. New artwork and remastered sound. A real trip." |
| 3/26/2006 | On Trial | Live | CD | $12.99 | Molten Records | "Live! Tonight!... Tripped Out in 2003! Our men in Denmark are notorious for tearing it up on stage but this takes the mushroom-flavoured biscuit. Not only did they manage to get out alive from a storming performance in Christiana, they escaped with the tape too! 'Live' features some of the awesome 60's psych classics that adorned 'Head' mixed up with numbers from previous albums, 'Blinded By The Sun' and 'New Day Rising'. With an impressive catalogue behind them, On Trial continue to deliver the goods and this is no exception. All hail the greatest Danish export since Carlsberg!" |
| 12/1/2004 | Once and Future Herds, The | Lion-Colored Hills | 3" CDR | $9.99 | Pseudoarcana | “The Once and Future Herds are a Jewelled Antler offshoot made up of Glenn Donaldson, Donovon Quinn and Loren Chasse. Lion-coloured Hills documents a journey to said hills as manifested through bowed and plucked strings, drones and utterences.” |
| 1/1/2008 | Onde | Onde | LP | $29.99 | Ondemusic | "The core members of ONDE, (Timo Van Luijk, Marc Wroblewski and Greg Jacobs) are all former participants of now defunct Noise-Maker's Fifes. Timo Van Luijk took an active part in various musical projects: Asra with Raymond Dijkstra, In camera with Christoph Heemann, with Kris Vanderstraeten, No Neck Blues Band and Noise-Maker's Fifes. Besides that he has played with Mirror and produced several solo releases as Af Ursin. Greg Jacobs and Marc Wroblewski cooperated with Noise-Makers Fifes for years. During 20 years of its lifetime Noise-Maker's Fifes - often labelled as an isolationist band - gained a strong reputation of a live band. With the death of founding member Geert Feytons Noise-Maker's Fifes was buried and ONDE created. Marcelo Aguirre recently joined ONDE. Marcelo is a self-taught percussionist and vocalist. He plays music in a highly distinctive manner manifesting a wide spectrum of influences ranging from spacious, delicate pulsation, to bursts of pure tone colour into free music or charged noise, with a focus on continuous sound and changing dynamics. He worked with such artists as Michael John Fink, John Duncan, Z'EV and Ulrich Krieger. Whereas Noise-Maker's Fifes often experimented with multi media, ONDE is a pure musicians collective, were improvisation takes a central role. ONDE could be labelled as a "free musicians' collective", where the musicians can play whatever they want, whenever they want. Although no rules, conventions or limits are imposed, the music ONDE produces could be clearly labelled as experimental, and ranging from psychedelic to drone music, sometimes even minimal, with regular outbursts of pure noise. As with all improvisational music, the direction of the music is guided by the energy of the moment itself and is, therefore, by definition unpredictable. ONDE uses acoustic (sometimes prepared) as well as electronic and self-made instruments." "First post-Noise Maker's Fifes release. Sinister psych, semi-acoustic noise." Edition of 400 copies. |
| 2/7/2009 | Ondo | 654 65 - 694 33 | cassette | $5.99 | Peasant Magik | "Obsessively composed guitarscapes. Industry stretched to the point of total collapse. Bleak and without redemption. Look out for more Ondo on Peasant Magik in '09." Edition of 100 |
| 3/11/2004 | One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden, The | The Owl of Fives | CD | $16.99 | Textile | "The Owl Of Fives goes further into the strangely minimal, wayward world inhabited by The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden. The Owl Of Fives is weird and earthy. The Owl Of Fives is skewed folk music from a country that never existed. As a member of the U.K.'s Volcano the Bear since 1995, Daniel Padden has been involved in the creation of some of the most compelling and challenging music in recent memory. Drawing on the work of Robert Wyatt, Faust, This Heat, and the like, Volcano the Bear quickly developed a strong and devoted following and released record on such notable labels as United Dairies, Misra, Beta-Lactam Ring. All of this, however, cannot prepare one for the revelation that is Padden's other project, The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden. While there are obvious connections with his Volcano the Bear work (and VTB members make appearances from time to time), The Owl of fives is really in a universe all its own, strange and beautiful and unique. As an album, The Owl of fives is pretty difficult to pin down. In much the same way as Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith, or the early Third Ear Band, Padden uses traditional folk structures as the basis for much of songs here. But other, even more esoteric, influences are at work here as well: Southeast Asian traditional musics, acoustic jazz flourishes, perhaps even the mystical minimalism of Terry Riley. So what does all this mean for the listener? A strange and beautiful amalgam of (mostly) wordless vocals, stumbling piano, scurrying cello, mournful kazoo interludes, deranged waltzes, and stuff that's totally unidentifiable combined into Padden's skewed and wayward outsider music. What's most important about The Owl of Fives - at least to these ears - is the truly epic mournfulness that permeates it all. This is about mood, folks, and Padden emotes like few can. This song cycle plays at times like a funeral dirge, at others like a carnivalesque choir of gypsies, but whatever the mood, this music is intimate, beautiful, and deeply-felt." |
| 3/21/2007 | One Ensemble, The | Wayward the Fourth | CD | $10.99 | Secret Eye | "The heir apparant to Moondog and Zoltan Kodaly, The One Ensemble blend European folk, narrative, popular and chamber forms to create modern compositions that provide attention-grabbing hooks and thought-provoking challenges. At times formal and at others improvisational, it is difficult to pin down the One Ensemble sound. Influences range from the classic pop-psychedelia of Robert Wyatt to the deep experimental drone of Third Ear Band. Blissful free jazz, delicate acoustic out-folk, tape collages, Eastern raga and mystical modern minimalism all peacefully coexist in the One Ensemble's uniquely beautiful universe." - label. "Intoxicating folk from Eastern Europe is an element that's visible throughout, but this Glasgow-based quartet approaches the style in as many different ways as there are tracks. You'll find psychedelia, free jazz, chamber music, drones and general sonic goofiness riding the melodic waves of this equally joyous and saddening aural journey. The one looking will likely find a whole range of different influences but the outcome still holds together amazingly well and strikes me as the perfect soundtrack for a script yet to be written by Emir Kusturica's unknown cousin. Dreamy haunted carnival songs that are surprisingly danceable and catchy." - Mats Gustafsson, Terrascope |
| 4/1/2004 | One Inch Of Shadow | Bring the Alchemy to School | CDR | $9.99 | Cat Sun | "One Inch Of Shadow playing their slow-motion psychedelic songs live at a locale whose name means 'Goat Song Theater'. Plenty of droning atmosphere with vintage Soviet Bloc synthesizers which sound quite different from vintage Western synths. Limited to 90 copies." - Fossil Dungeon |
| 7/24/2002 | Oneida | Anthem of the Moon | CD | $11.99 | Jagjaguwar | "There's an awful lot of ‘psychedelic’ music around these days, mostly of the gentle, sprightly, cosmic nature. It has seemed to Oneida for the past couple years that the world has forgotten a huge part of the critical essence of the psychedelic experience: anxiety, dislocation, alienation and half-formed terror. With Anthem of the Moon, they're out to remind the world why psychedelia matters. Over the course of thirteen months, Oneida made repeated journeys to an array of Colonial-era ruins in the woods of western New England, where they had set up a small mobile recording unit in the midst of the stones. They recorded each of these trips, ending up with a massive trove of tape reels, from which the bulk of this album was distilled. Sounds of the stones and the night woods saturate the recorded music (including the ghostly screech of a barred owl on ‘Almagest’), literally and emotionally; the naked, anxious exhaustion, ecstasy, and paranoia that the listener hears are the real thing. Anthem of the Moon is a literal and figurative field recording - of voices: animal and human, real and imagined, whimpers, moans, screams and incantations. Their trip is no fucking picnic in the meadow - it's a journey into the stones." |
| 9/18/2003 | Oneida | Anthem of the Moon | LP | $27.99 | Rocket Recordings | "Oneida's masterpiece Anthem of the Moon finally gets released on the format is was made for. Anthem of the Moon was originally released on CD by incredibly hip US label Jagjaguwar at the end of 2001. Now this amazing album has been resurrected by Rocket Recordings for a limited run on vinyl. With this album Oneida created the first truly heavy psychedelic rock record of the new millennium. The first album that truly captured the raw essence of the psychedelic experience: anxiety, dislocation, alienation and half-formed terror. With Anthem of the Moon,they're out to remind the world why psychedelia matters. Since it's release Oneida unleashed another critically acclaimed album Each One Teach One, which took off exactly where Anthem of the Moon left off." |
| 4/1/2004 | Oneida | Caesar's Column (remixes) | 12" | $6.99 | Rough Trade | “Oneida are a fascinating and frighteningly intense band, mixing distorted electronics with a fluent, dynamic rhythm section. They were formed in 1997 in Brooklyn, New York, and have been a mainstay of the underground scene there ever since, recording numerous cult records over the years, constantly touring America and Europe with their various line ups. The band like to be compared to ESG, Moondog and The Incredible String band, but have actually been compared to Faust, Pere Ubu, the Boredoms, the Butthole Surfers. This 12" remix album on Rough Trade includes the original album version (from Secret Wars) and four remixes by their NYC underground compadres, including hip NYC producer Nicolas Vernhes (of Fischerspooner, Black Dice, Fiery Furnaces fame), Phil Manley (of Trans Am) and The Liars (Mute Records).” |
| 9/6/2002 | Oneida | Come On Everybody Let’s Rock | CD | $11.99 | Jagjaguwar | "We will concede this to the latte-sipping coffee table theorists of the world. When it comes to the small slice of pop culture called American rock music over the last three decades, a profound shift did occur when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was signed into law on July 17, 1984 by Ronald Reagan. The rock farm leagues (traditional rock and roll venues) took a big hit in the nose, and ever since rock music has been less ‘substance-tial.’ Well, thank God for Oneida. With their third full-length record Come On Everybody Let’s Rock (their first full-length record for Jagjaguwar), Oneida conjure up the spirit of a forgotten past - from the heaviosity of Deep Purple and Blue Cheer to the hooks of Humble Pie and Foghat to the attitude and dirty swagger of early Alice Cooper Band. The Brooklyn rock band also lives up to the tale of the tape, hands down being the best live band in New York City at this very moment. So infamous are their live performances that even overseas the British press makes it their business to hail Oneida as purveyors of the burgeoning New York City ‘Loft Party’ scene (the new rock farm league?). Best of all, Oneida are smart and are as rooted in the present as they are informed by the past. Stand clear of the mirror and get away from mom and dad's robitussin. This is the great rock record by Oneida we all have been waiting for." |
| 12/11/2002 | Oneida | Each One, Teach One | DBL CD | $13.99 | Jagjaguwar | "This is the double CD version of Oneida's already legendary double LP Each One Teach One, the first truly heavy psychedelic rock record of the new millennium, originally limited to 500 vinyl copies packaged in individually hand-screened packaging (released by Version City). Oneida, responsible for last year's unstoppable rock opus Anthem of the Moon, have dropped on the Earth nine extended, blown out new songs that reach far beyond the fairly concise bursts of noise and melody found on previous records. On the two CDs that form the CD version of Each One Teach One, Oneida are given the chance to stretch their rock to their breaking point and beyond, offering up enormous, dripping wet slabs of extended, linear noise mayhem, hollowed out hulls where ghosts of America sing songs that few will ever hear, and longer takes on the sort of speed-fueled manic garage grot that's graced the band's songbook from the start. Recorded at Tarquin Studios and outdoors in the Stones (the band's personal retreat, located near the New Hampshire border), the ten songs on Each One Teach One find Oneida at the peak of their all-out-rock phase, sounding more like their incomparable live shows than any of their previous records. Put the first CD on and lie down on your floor with your eyes closed. Have a friend around to put in the second disc when it is time and to guide you on the trip it'll take you on. Headphones or loudspeakers recommended for playback. Discover the miracles of your Third Eye with Each One Teach One." |
| 9/6/2002 | Oneida | Enemy Hogs | CD | $11.99 | Jagjaguwar | "This is a reissue of Oneida's landmark second full-length, which was first issued on the now defunct Turnbuckle label. It was with this record's original release that this motley crew of spinmeisters first made a name for themselves. Just when everyone had thought that there was yet another band in the world with the sole intention of devoting itself to the indulgent pursuit of the endless permutations of ‘noise exploration’, we got instead a ‘slippery’ masterpiece that, according to Mojo (for which this record garnered Rock Album of the Month honors), melded ‘rock'n'roll, garage punk and New Wave [with] Hammond organ arpeggios [bumping] into parping jazz trumpets and MC5-inspired riffs, while a discordant Suicide-spooked backdrop keeps the paranoia levels up.’ Hopefully, you get the picture and understand why we deemed it necessary to reintroduce this to the masses, with the added bonus of a previously unreleased track to boot." |
| 11/4/2006 | Oneida | Happy New Year | LP | $12.99 | Jagjaguwar | "No band has been so praised for such a wide range of music over the last ten years than Brooklyn's ONEIDA. Nobody has come close to matching their output of dazzlingly creative, uncategorizable music. Psychedelia, minimalism, maximalism, one-step, infinitewave, blah blah blah blah…it's all there, all the time; and "Happy New Year," the band's ten billionth album, is Oneida's zenith. Simultaneously the most eclectic and most coherent album they have yet released, "Happy New Year" flows flawlessly from a traditional hymn of grim beauty ("Distress") through hypnotic rounds, thunderous kraut grooves, severe ballads, and other, indescribable music. PHIL MANLEY of TRANS AM and the FUCKING CHAMPS and experimental pianist EMILY MANZO return for encores of their guest appearances on 2005's "The Wedding;" they are joined by SHAHIN MOTIA of EX MODELS, BRAD TRUAX of HOME, and frequent Oneida collaborator BARRY LONDON." |
| 8/31/2008 | Oneida | Preteen Weaponry | LP | $18.99 | Jagjaguwar | "Preteen Weaponry is part one of the Thank Your Parents triptych of Oneida releases. Oneida members past, present and future all contributed to this project. It reminds Oneida of what a live performance might sound like. It contains captured improvisational moments married with craft. You can consider it an introduction to their forthcoming triple album Rated O, which is part two of the forementioned triptych." Nice packaging - gatefold sleeve. |
| 1/19/2004 | Oneida | Secret Wars | CD | $11.99 | Jagjaguwar | "Oneida's Secret Wars is a Pacific summerjam. It's got Balinese gongs, Hawaiian ukuleles, red wine, injuries, glee, and a song called 'Wild Horses' that's written by Oneida. It's also got a lot of good advice. With their new full-length record, Brooklyn sons Oneida simply start where they left off with Each One Teach One. Their trademark iterated and psych-tinged noise attack is still fully intact, both nervous and subdued at the same time - like what happens when you give meditative children trained in the ways of yoga an excessive amount of caffeine. If there are any new wrinkles to be discovered, it is perhaps that, even more so than on Each One Teach One (Oneida's Tago Mago), Oneida seem to be mining the same fertile ground as Kraut-rock visionaries Can, effortlessly shedding the constraints of pop forms and structures while still remaining soulful and spiritually centered all along. Like spazzing out in the Lotus position." |
| 2/25/2004 | Oneida | Steel Rod | CD EP | $7.99 | Jagjaguwar | "Oneida - called a whole lot of names - 'the organic Kraftwerk', 'bastard prodigal sons of Afrika Bambaataa,' 'Brooklyn's electro nightmares unleashed' ...and it's all true. Claims of jazz refuted here. Oneida is all rock, all beat, all the time. This record is our nametag. Break your door, steal the shutters, dear landlord: there's a price on your head and Oneida's new STEEL ROD EP is embedded six inches into the back of your skull. All you old men, handing out religious brochures and telling the youth that they've lost to the devil, take a look into your own asshole. We think you just might find our new CD, the god you've lost and a nice little piece of pipe. Give or take five screaming cuts about new identities, new visions and civil war -- Oneida's Steel Rod lays down another testament to bein' free like we want it to be. Remember Watson and Crick? Well, we think that Nobel Prize needs to be recalled and delivered to the real innovators of genetics: us. Ever wonder what an 'XXY' baby looks like? Listen up. I think you'll hear its fragile egg shell mind crying out on track one. Some say our 'Steel Rod' is discriminate. Not so - we smash it all up - but ask questions later. The board rooms are still talking about the event described above. Suits and casual Friday types keep Oneida in the minutes these days. This Steel Rod we keep talking about -- look at it as our scale of justice. Eyes wide open, next stop 'Tennessee.' The Union presence is keeping the good people down, disguised as police. But we're not heartless. We shed a tear on this track... for the dead men in blue, piled up in our wake. Climb onto our 'Hell Train' headed for the promised land. Paranoia, beer, and trucker's speed fueling the next binge on the devil's consciousness. We think it's all damn sinister. That there's an end coming. It'll get your ass. Listen up. It's knocking on your door. It won't stop here." Year 2000 release. |
| 2/11/2006 | Oneida / Plastic Crimewave Sound | split | LP | $10.99 | Jagjaguwar | "Oneida, one hopes, needs less introduction than other bands. Nearly eight years of idiocy that has earned them the grudgingly accepted title of "that old Brooklyn band that all the other bands like"; at least seven albums and countless ancillary releases full of manic delight and spastic paranoia; an army of crazed preadolescent children poised at the ready to do their unearthly bidding; Oneida is living the dream, and that dream has finally taken shape as Brah Records. Brah will be all things to all men, as long as those men - yes, and women - are searching only for the overlooked and the underthought. The Oneida hivemind will brook no fashionable diversions, no studied insolence - only pure music with no hope of escape will see the light of day on Brah's watch. So welcome to step one in the program: a vinyl-only split record that will leave the speakers weeping. Oneida's contribution, "Prehistoric Maze" was recorded at Rare Book Room in 2004, during the original and now legendary "Thank Your Parents" sessions. A small hardwood fire was kindled in the studio brazier on Friday as recording commenced, and with periodic attention it had become a heaping mound of coals and ash by late Saturday night. Sometime in the smallest, stillest part of that night, it was deemed appropriate to sing a hymn to the coals, saluting the passage of the flames into memory. Just before dawn on Sunday, "Prehistoric Maze" was tracked in a flurry of ukuleles, hexoleles, and homemade drums. Studio tyrant Nicolas Vernhes joined the band in their unsettling ceremony, contributing an outstanding familiarity with pre-Christian celtic and druidic rites, and by the time a rainy, cold dawn arrived, the song was completed. Oneida felt that the sound of "Prehistoric Maze" and the singularity of its genesis were reason enough to release it standing apart from the rest of their work; the Plastic Crimewave Sound's "End of Cloud" was deemed a perfect counterpart, and so Oneida is proud to inaugurate Brah Records with this haunting piece of blasphemy. Their first major release in over a year, Plastic Crimewave Sound's 18+ minute uber-krautpunk dirge "End of Cloud" is a fuzz-soaked dusseldorf drone-rock opus, and the epitaph of departed guitarist Cat Chow, who lends space-vixen vocals to the fray. Studio fuckery, motorik drumming, blasts of electronics, rolling bass waves, and wig-flipping fried guitar duels, "End of Cloud" is guaranteed to cause devotional nirvana, or at least the rolling of multiple blunts. Chicago's premier acid-punk primitivists Plastic Crimewave Sound have been lauded by MOJO, Wire, Julian Cope, Arthur, etc., have toured with Acid Mothers Temple, Comets on Fire, Oneida, the Ponys, Gris Gris and others, and often garner comparisons to Chrome, Can, Yo Ho Wha 13, Sonic Youth, Hawkwind, High Rise and even the Cramps - and all that is just fine by them! They have a full length LP on Eclipse Records (released in the UK by Rocket Recordings, home to Oneida's "Anthem of the Moon" LP), a split 7" with 60's MN fuzzgod Michael Yonkers (with a full LP due soon), and a double LP conceptual dark opus that will see daylight on Eclipse this fall. Crimewave also does the hand-drawn underground psych mag Galactic Zoo Dossier for Drag City (expect a new double sized issue this summer), and sets up the international avant-psych Million Tongues festival; bassist Mark Lux was part of the embryonic Temple of Bon Matin line-up; electronics guru Andy Ortmann heads up the fine Nihilist label and noise miscreants Panicsville; and Lawrence Peters is also a fine country singer and washboard genius, playing in numerous noise rock and country combos over the years. The 12" features art by Plastic Crimewave, who has also done record covers for Drag City, Birdman, locust, Eclipse, and others." - Jagjaguwar |
| 6/30/2010 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Returnal | CD | $15.99 | Editions Mego | "Returnal is the fourth album from Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never project, after Betrayed In The Octagon (Deception Island, 2007), Zones Without People (Arbor, 2009) and Russian Mind (No Fun, 2009). All 3 albums being superbly compiled on the Rifts double CD set (No Fun, 2009). It sees Lopatin fine-tune his craft for the creation of deep atmospheres and textures even further. Starting off with the mind-blowing triptych of "Nil Admiari"/"Describing Bodies"/"Stress Waves," which fires off into a noise/rhythm excess before entering a zone of relative calm, building to the melancholy of the final part. This sets the tone perfectly for the album's title track, a stunning, out-of-this-world ballad featuring Lopatin's near-desperate vocal delivery, ending what could be seen as one of his most chilling and thought-provoking sides to-date. The atmosphere is slightly lifted as the darkened sun comes up over the ruins on "Pelham Island Road" and "Where Does Time Go," with the album closing with edgy broken beats and the fourth-world possible landscapes of "Preyouandi," which fades into the distance with echoes of the "Returnal" chorus closing the loop. What's burnt into memory here is Lopatin's love affair with the long, slow path back home... the cycle... the hypnotic sector... the ghost in the machine... and whether people are making dance music or hip-hop or space head-music or metal, the ouroboros is present in every sector -- as it was in Bach's study, and in the elephant songs of the Ituri forests. Available on CD in digipack and LP in a gatefold cover. Instrumentation: Akai AX-60, Roland Juno-60, Roland MSQ-700, Korg Electribe ES-1, Voice. Recorded using a personal computer. Mastered by James Plotkin. Tape-op & additional engineering by Al Carlson. Design by Stephen O'Malley." |
| 6/4/2010 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Returnal | LP | $19.99 | Editions Mego | Gatefold LP version. "Returnal is the fourth album from Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never project, after Betrayed In The Octagon (Deception Island, 2007), Zones Without People (Arbor, 2009) and Russian Mind (No Fun, 2009). All 3 albums being superbly compiled on the Rifts double CD set (No Fun, 2009). It sees Lopatin fine-tune his craft for the creation of deep atmospheres and textures even further. Starting off with the mind-blowing triptych of "Nil Admiari"/"Describing Bodies"/"Stress Waves," which fires off into a noise/rhythm excess before entering a zone of relative calm, building to the melancholy of the final part. This sets the tone perfectly for the album's title track, a stunning, out-of-this-world ballad featuring Lopatin's near-desperate vocal delivery, ending what could be seen as one of his most chilling and thought-provoking sides to-date. The atmosphere is slightly lifted as the darkened sun comes up over the ruins on "Pelham Island Road" and "Where Does Time Go," with the album closing with edgy broken beats and the fourth-world possible landscapes of "Preyouandi," which fades into the distance with echoes of the "Returnal" chorus closing the loop. What's burnt into memory here is Lopatin's love affair with the long, slow path back home... the cycle... the hypnotic sector... the ghost in the machine... and whether people are making dance music or hip-hop or space head-music or metal, the ouroboros is present in every sector -- as it was in Bach's study, and in the elephant songs of the Ituri forests. Available on CD in digipack and LP in a gatefold cover. Instrumentation: Akai AX-60, Roland Juno-60, Roland MSQ-700, Korg Electribe ES-1, Voice. Recorded using a personal computer. Mastered by James Plotkin. Tape-op & additional engineering by Al Carlson. Design by Stephen O'Malley." |
| 8/17/2009 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Zones Without People | LP | $13.99 | Arbor | "Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never represents a rift in time; an isolationist expedition into the archaeology of sound, notably the analog polysynth as a means of organic creation. "Zones Without People" is the second record in the OPN trilogy; acting as a bridge between the drifting, alien compositions of "Betrayed in The Octagon" and a music more rooted in melody and introspective nostalgia as a search for self. An exercise in 'in between-ness': reconciling noise and melodicism, the stasis of drone and the spasomadic nature of concret, the historical narrative of 70s Kraut synth music and 80s techno. Arpeggios and sequencers play a key role in this amalgamation, as these forms of repetition create an attachment to a certain sentiment neither human nor machine. The record reflects this transformation; the A Side has distinct emotional flourishes, while the majority of the B Side seems to be overtaken in cold, mechanized melodies (like attempts at teaching a machine to feel). The final track "Hyperdawn" is a solution to these two disparate modes of interpreting stimuli: a pure union of veins and patch cables. In an edition of 500 copies in proprinted cardboard sleeves with printed labels and an insert by Christelle Gualdi." |
| 6/27/2009 | Onna | Onna | CD | $13.99 | Holy Mountain | "Underground cartoonist Keizo Miyanishi left behind one of the greatest documents from the 1980s. Self-released on his own Cupid & Psyche label, the single contains two songs, "Cortigiana dal velo" and "Mune o tutunde," which pair guitars and bass over some of the most tripped-out drum programming of all time. This psychedelic masterpiece ranks alongside the first White Stains 7-inch as one of the all-time greatest from the era. There is an outtake from these sessions, "Haha nareba koso," which is just as amazing, and the three songs would fit in a Terminal Boredom discussion about acid punk classics from Crawling Chaos to Chrome. In 2007, ONNA reappeared and released a double-CDR with his partner, dancer BARAE. A track appeared on PSF's Tokyo Flashback 6, and the label also released an album titled Katawa in 2008. In addition to the studio material from the 7-inch, this CD includes two outtakes from Katawa, a solo piece from an obscure cassette release, and four live tracks from 1983 featuring a young Michio Kurihara (White Heaven, Ghost, Boris) on second guitar. These are the first Kurihara recordings and come from a long-deleted double live Onna CD released in the early 1990s. This CD is packaged in a mini-LP sleeve with a booklet reproducing flyers, photos and posters from the era. Miyanishi and Onna have made significant but largely unnoticed contributions to the Japanese underground. Hopefully this release will vastly expand their profile worldwide." |
| Onnyk | Private Idioms | CD | $8.99 | Public Eyesore | “A bit clueless here as to Onnyk is, except that his real name is Kinno Yoshiaki is and that plays improvisations on the guitar. The two lengthy pieces on this release are from 1995 and 1997. Also a bit clueless why they are released now. It's not that they are not nice or anything, but it seems a bit long overdue. Onnyk scratches, plucks and prepares his way on the guitar in a free playing mood. Unlike many other Japanese musicians, Onnyk doesn't go all the noise way, but on the other hand it's also not the same sort of silence as Taku Sagimoto. Wonderful free music, played with great pace.” -Frans de Waard (Vital Weekly) | |
| 3/26/2006 | Opalio, Maurizio | Way up to Enfer | CDR | $15.99 | Opax Records | "Special handmade limited edition of 100 copies; handnumbered, look-like-vinyl black-bottom cd-r in nice-textured cardboard tri-fold sleeve, with charcoal drawing by Maurizio Opalio. First soloist release by one-half of My Cat Is An Alien, space brother Maurizio Opalio. "Way up to Enfer" is the entire recording of an acoustic, totally improvised session performed on December 31th, 2005 at My Cat Is An Alien's new Alien Zone headquarters, located somewhere in the Italian Western Alps. Along the two tracks featured in "Way up to Enfer", Maurizio's acoustic guitar notes create subtle killer tunes woven in a richly textured harp-like fingerpicked style, like the charming sound of a lyre emerging from a spinning maelstrom in the sea. There are no space sounds here, but clearly emotional rises, an acoustic resistance to the falling darkness, or maybe just the right way up to Enfer." (Opax) |
| 2/23/2007 | Opalio, Roberto | Chants From Isolated Ghosts | CD | $14.99 | Important Records | "Roberto Opalio is half of the Italian space duo My Cat Is An Alien. Roberto Opalio is a visual and sound artist from Torino, Italy. His work includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, poetry, glass art, film/video, sound installation, and performance. Since 1998, Roberto Opalio acts as musician (together with his brother Maurizio) in the avant-garde improv duo My Cat Is An Alien. His special works of art represent the trademarked style of all the limited art-edition releases issued on their own Opax Records imprint. This aesthetic is described by Opalio as 'space art.' The extra-terrestrial nature of his work claims its ontological status in the act of creating a non-finished, otherworldly dimension - a proper alien dimension." |
| 9/24/2009 | Opalio, Roberto | My Alien Notes (Escaping the Void?) | art-book + CDR | $21.99 | Opax Press | "New handmade art-book by Roberto Opalio, that presents for the first time 13 pages taken from his own private notebook. The work consists in visionary sketches, drafts, personal notes, poems, projects, and other obscure stuff. Completely handmade packaging by Maurizio Opalio in heavy black cardboard with diecut cover. CD features a previously unreleased soloist piece by Roberto Opalio. 99 copies signed by the artist." |
| 3/21/2007 | Opalio, Roberto | The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I & II | DBL CD | $17.99 | A Silent Place | Double CD set reissuing the acclaimed "The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I", original soundtrack to the omonimous film by Roberto Opalio (released on the long-out-of-print DVD-R/CD-R set by Foxglove, USA), plus the totally previously unreleased "Vol.II" (entire disc 2), representing the second half of a unique recording session. The work here available for the first time in its entire and remastered version was recorded by the artist himself at home in Torino, Italy, on November 1st 2005, while his camera, set on the balcony, was filming Opalio's glass-art creation (the Angel) animated by the soft light of a candle under a blackened sky. Here are the words by the artist himself, reported as liner notes inside the 6-panels gatefold sleeve featuring stills taken from the film: 'my voice/ my astral guitar/ instants of life/ home/ window of memories/ blue afternoon/ winter 2005/ cold burning flame/ torino/ whispers of glass/ suspended/ between/ day & night/ before black falls'. Strictly limited edition of 600 copies housed in an elegant deluxe folded digi-sleeve matt varnished. "There is no other cosmic traveller like Roberto Opalio. Best known for his work with his brother as My Cat Is An Alien, this feline twin is slowly building an equally impressive body of solo works. Opalio is on another plane entirely with "The last night of the Angel of Glass." Bypassing the cosmos completely and directing his aim straight to heaven. Using nothing but his guitar and his voice, Opalio sears the stratosphere into orbit. As his voice floats like a ghost into the empty celestial crevices, his guitar falls from the sky like a melted star. This is haunting and magnificent. Roberto Opalio at his best." (Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis) |
| 12/24/2005 | Opalio, Roberto | Voice with No Guitar/ Guitar with Go Voice | cassette | $9.99 | Opax Records | "The first analog cassette release on Opax Tapes, new division of My Cat Is An Alien's Opax Records, features a new work by brother Roberto Opalio. On side A, a 10-minutes-long solo-voice piece in Roberto's typical wordless-vocals style; on side B a 10-minutes-long solo-guitar piece of pure space drones. Recorded at home September 9th, 2005, in Torino, Italy. Special handmade ltd. ed. of 69, in Japanese-paper envelope, hand-sewn with string, handnumbered and drawn by Roberto Opalio." |
| 9/17/2006 | Opalio, Roberto | Whispers of the last Light | DVD-R | $18.99 | Opax Records | Special handmade ltd. ed. of 100; in nice-textured cardboard tri-fold sleeve, with silver ink drawing by Roberto Opalio; handnumbered. "New short film by visual artist / musician Roberto Opalio, one half of My Cat Is An Alien. Filmed on March 21st, 2006, the video represents a visionary, introspective view of the empty spaces over the city, Torino. Through a unique, hand-manipulated shot made in real-time, Roberto Opalio's poetic fragmentation and distortion of real objects recalls early film experiments by Man Ray, as well as a certain Warholian psychedelia in the use of filtered light as a main principle of creation / perception of one's own reality. The soundtrack, recorded the same day appositely, leads to a further estrangement with the use of Opalio's looped wordless vocals and electronics merging into a heavy, ecstatic stream of sounds." |
| Open City | L.A. We Revise Your Neglect | LP | $10.99 | Thin Wrist | “Avoiding the shiftless drift & drone and residual jazz vernacular that characterizes most free energy music, Open City pursues an aggressive abstraction, full of risky contrasts and improbable maneuvers. Like Fluxus restaging the breakup of the continental ice sheet or the Home Depot after-hours, dreaming of itself as industrial Webern, this group demonstrates that sound and silence, like most ideas, are best when their half-lives are short. Open City refuses entertainment and the tyranny of the beat in favor of multiplicity and unrepeatability: the live event! Second full length, from Los Angeles, two electric guitars, one drumkit, heavy gatefold, 180 gram vinyl.” | |
| 12/9/2003 | Open City | The Birth of Cruel | CD | $10.99 | Thin Wrist | "A gorgeous record of free sound: Through three unsettled pieces, Open City breaks down the formalism of the avant garde, noise and free improvisation to reveal one of today's most distinctive and intense group dynamics. The group use a constant flow of deep drone, pointilistic cut ups, rich texture and silence to create Alpha music. Unrepeatable and unpredictable, aggressively abstract, time-stamped, adaptive, actionist, attentionist, fun. Open City aims for a moment before music, the unsettled pause before a devastating blow. The Birth of Cruel is a generational X-flare, a sound proposition, a coronal mass ejection of propulsive and audible means. .............................Enjoy!" – label description. “These guys can melt plastic from a block away, and are capable of producing equally delicate traceries of sound a the drop of the proverbial hat. Listen and weep.” - Bruce Russell |
| 12/9/2003 | Open City | The Birth of Cruel | LP | $10.99 | Thin Wrist | "A gorgeous record of free sound: Through three unsettled pieces, Open City breaks down the formalism of the avant garde, noise and free improvisation to reveal one of today's most distinctive and intense group dynamics. The group use a constant flow of deep drone, pointilistic cut ups, rich texture and silence to create Alpha music. Unrepeatable and unpredictable, aggressively abstract, time-stamped, adaptive, actionist, attentionist, fun. Open City aims for a moment before music, the unsettled pause before a devastating blow. The Birth of Cruel is a generational X-flare, a sound proposition, a coronal mass ejection of propulsive and audible means. ..........................Enjoy!" – label description. “These guys can melt plastic from a block away, and are capable of producing equally delicate traceries of sound a the drop of the proverbial hat. Listen and weep.” - Bruce Russell. LP comes in beautiful full color heavy duty gatefold sleeve and the vinyl pressed by the unparalleled RTI. |
| 1/30/2010 | Ophibre | Basil Forests | c45 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Ophibre is the main project of benjamin rossignol and "basil forests" is another impressive chapter in an ever-growing collection of killer releases. baseline electronics permeate your skull, ripping open a seam just wide enough for the shimmering guitar drones to sink in. it starts of slow and methodic, but eventually builds into a spiralling mess of sound. this sucker gets pretty fucken heavy even with the high frequencies peeling all that rust off yr brain. thick slabs of molasses will salve your wounds, but rossignol has no interest in letting you off that easy. big, meaty drones bring it all back home and settle you in for a long night of hell. aw yeah. edition of 70, pro-dubbed." |
| 3/21/2009 | Ophibre / Katchmare | Divided Transmissions | cassette | $7.99 | Tape Drift | "A perfectly matched split tape. First side is Ophibre from Boston. Usually known for his buzzing drone masterpieces, this one delves more into the electroacoustic vein, and finds rich treasures there. A live performance entitled "rowboat for laptop", it's a very very compelling listen, accumulating power as it goes along to its final conclusion. Second side is Katchmare, solo project of Nick Hoffman from Normal, Illinois. Anything but normal, this is a beautiful set of ghostly tones, haunted space, and electroacoustic invention. Very minimal yet very addictive." |
| 1/24/2009 | Ophibre / Rambutan | split | cassette | $7.99 | Archivo De Sangre De Dios | "Perfectly matched split. Ophibre insect buddhist monk swarm drone is huge. Rambutan is Eric Hardiman of Century Plants/Tape Drift mashing keys into vertigo heavy vortex. Listen." Edition of 50 copies. |
| 1/15/2005 | Ora | Morgendammerung | 10" | $19.99 | Die Stadt | "This 10inch vinyl only release by Ora, a group project which mainly consisted of Andrew Chalk, Colin Potter and Darren Tate - who both later moved on to become Monos - active between 1991-1998 features two hauntingly atmospheric tracks from their rare New Movements In G CDR (150 copies) originally released on Darren Tate's own Gnome Records label in 1998, and were not included on the two Ora retrospective CD compilations Final and After The Rainfall (both on Colin Potter's own ICR label). For these recordings Ora were: Darren Tate, Colin Potter, Lol Coxhill, Daisuke Suzuki on the A-Side 'The Sun Sheds A Golden Tear', and Darren Tate & Colin Potter on the B-Side 'The Impregnable'." |
| 2/5/2004 | Oral Phase | Live Under the Bed of Primadonna | CDR | $7.99 | Haamumaa | "Second full length album by this Finnish freak-out duo (or / and trio). Free 'rock' improvisations, cosmic sound collages and acoustic weirdness..." |
| 7/23/2003 | Oral Phase | Next Stop Now Here | CDR | $7.99 | Haamumaa | "Some more seriously fuckin' weird shit from Finland… Snippets of 'almost' songs mixed up with classic vodka noise. All recorded in-the-red onto 4trk. So you get bedroom-bass rumbles, prickly overdriven harmonicas, lots of slidey guitars and what sounds like a Finn Tom Waits on sometimes vocals and junk percussion. Pretty cool really." - Pseudo Arcana |
| Orange Cake Mix | Rivers & Trees | 7" | $4.99 | The Bus Stop | Another record you must have | |
| Orange Cake Mix | Silver Lining Underwater | CD | $13.99 | Darla | Part 3 of Bliss Out Series. LP is limited to 500 copies | |
| 12/17/2003 | Orange Manifold | Honey Gown, Hairy Bulb | CDR | $7.99 | Disposable Thumb | "Honey Gown, Hairy Bulb is different all together with a complex guitarless sounding moving things forward at an almost glacial pace. After a quick glance it might seem like it's less dark and scary, but the more the slowly evolving bowed instrumentation bends around itself and the chosen effects, the more you'll find yourself looking over your shoulder. In a nerve-racking way this is absolutely beautiful stuff that achieves a resonance that lingers long after the music fades. It's a ride of oscillating, tone-bending, modulated drones, which is fascinating from the beginning to the end, but it wouldn't work nearly as well without the maximum psychic transportation that comes with every single note and flowing tone. It might take a certain type of person to enjoy this sort of filmic, ambient and downright scary music, and I happen to be one of them." – Mats Gustafsson, BF #16 |
| 12/17/2003 | Orange Manifold | Orange Manifold | CDR | $7.99 | Disposable Thumb | "New Broken Face contributor Kelly Burnette is not only one hell of a music journalist but also a talented and fascinating musician. OM takes cues from the metal scrapings of Organum and the claustrophobia of Omit but adds a substantial dose of minimalist, kaleidespopic patterns that in an odd way somehow manages to groove. It's rather difficult to know exactly where the different sound fragments come from, but it sounds like a mixture of heavily treated feedback, effects and a flowing river of electronics. This ltd. CD-R includes four epic pieces of music and the more I think about it, the less I tend to think that it sounds quite like anything I've heard before. It's a dark, alienating and cavernous listen, but turn this one up loud and the sound mantra will built up and explode right in front of your eyes like some giant fireball crashing into a meteor stuck in endless orbit around a distant star." – Mats Gustafsson, BF #16 |
| 12/17/2003 | Orange Manifold | Requiem For the Good We Knew / Airborne Orgasm | CDR | $7.99 | Disposable Thumb | "Combined sounds of a requiem of what at times appears to be a farce, and the soundtrack to a Utopia, to an airborne orgasm, to eternal return, seems to be a contradictory, excessive and absurd signification for some sort of cusp on nadir. Two long churning pieces (where one might point to Nitsch for inspiration), only blatantly religious, are rife with subliminals, organs, box springs, timestretched rodents, wound down vocals gliding along a spiral with no end in sight (nor care for one), is what populates the bitter expanse between the beginning and end of this recording. It sounds like the dismantling of paradigms, and is as cruel and risible as you might imagine that being. Is it a joke? Packaged in cardboard and wrapped in trash bags, it's the only packaging by OMR/Disposable Thumb which isn't necessarily lovingly assembled. Why? The purveyors simply hope that by minute 22 of the first track you're so out of your mind the question doesn't cross it. Edition of 47." |
| 12/17/2003 | Orange Sunshine | Love=Acid, Space=Hell | CD | $21.99 | Motorwolf | "Since 1999 Holland's wildest power blues trio. Here is the follow up to their highly acclaimed debut 'Homo Erectus'. Raw and intense hi-volume psychedelic motor blues rock with the real late 60's proto-hardrock/acidfuzz sound of Blue Cheer. Quite some Hendrix-style guitar freak-outs and raw bluesy vocals, but with more catchy 60's pop song structures. Swinging and thumping bass under howling and 'singing' guitar solos mixed with heavy garage punk riffs and dirty psychedelic stoner / hard rock outbursts! An explosive and yet soulful trip." |
| 7/16/2006 | Oranzada | Drzewa w Sadzie Zdzikty | CD | $12.99 | Micro Fon Records | Psychedelic rock from Warsaw, Poland. Also has elements of progressive and electronic - 2005 release - nice. |
| 7/16/2006 | Oranzada | Oranzada | CD | $12.99 | Ars Mundi | "Oranzada originated between the years 2001 and 2002 thus artistically defining the long-lasting (not only musical) relationship of three friends. For over three years the band was touring with concerts throughout Poland gathering positive reviews. Oranzada took part in such events as the II. Festival of Alternative Musik OFF in Zak Club (with.: Lech Janerka, Scianka, Marcin Dymiter, Tymon Tymanski, Von Zeit, Pudelsi, Lodz Kaliska) or the peculiar "Festiwal w Krajobrazie" 2004 in Inowlodz (with: Pathman, One Inch Of Shadow, Hati, The Band Of Endless Noise). In December 2005 Oranzada played their first international show a the G-Day in Berlin along with one of Germany`s best know psychedelic rock outfits, the Vibravoid. At the same time, for the last two years the band has been working on the debut album "Oranzada". Most of the material was recorded in September 2003 and reflects the band's musical achievement until that time. The basic, very classical instrumentation used by the band (guitar, bass, percussions and vocals) was enriched with the sound of synthesizers, organs, vibraphone, flute, as well as real sounds on the album. The music oscillates around psychedelic sounds, whether the means of expression are rock-like, kraut-rock, avant-garde or pop themes. Significant elements of the compositions are transce, noise, and improvisation. What is most attractive about the album and Orazada's music as a whole is its freshness and authentic emotional expression. The debut album was recorded and mixed at the Rogalów Analogowy Studio of Wojtek Czern with the use of vintage equipment and instruments without the use of a computer. This audibly "shows through" in the analogue and singular quality of sound and is the clear advantage of this album. Oranzada's debut album was released on the Warsaw Ars Mundi Label, which has been since years releasing Polish progressive music." |
| 3/2/2005 | Orbit Service | Twilight | CD | $10.99 | Helmet Room Recordings | “Constantly pushing the membrane of the musical norm, this Denver-based quartet defies definition, as well as Denver's musical reputation. Four diverse musicians converge to produce an innovative, yet hauntingly familiar resonance. Never banal, never predictable, the music of Orbit Service blends exploratory electronica with traditional instruments, ranging from acoustic guitar to accordion to Tibetan singing bowl.” "The experimental Denver quartet creates a mournful, decaying soundscape out of a series of musical vignettes: gently plucked acoustic guitars tangling with their distorted, plugged-in counterparts; squalls of feedback brushing up against a simple, almost rote piano figure; and skin-crawling basslines swimming beneath jazzy high-hats and chiming guitars." - Matt Sebastion, Boulder Daily Camera |
| 9/29/2009 | Orcutt, Bill | A New Way To Pay Old Debts | LP | $11.99 | Palilalia Records | "When guitarist Bill Orcutt dropped off the edge of the world after his band, Harry Pussy, imploded sometime in the late-90s, a buncha people were really fucking sorry. His guitar playing in that group, alongside Adris Hoyos’s phenomenal drums and vocals, pretty much established a whole new blueprint for post-hardcore avant rock destruction. The fact that there isn’t a Harry Pussy tribute band in every fucking suburban town the world over is only down to that fact that Orcutt and Hoyos’s playing was so far beyond technique that no one could hope to even ape em, so in their absence everyone went back to jamming drones, triggering loops and gargling random alphabets. And while Hoyos fell in with the whole Swill Radio cabal for a while, Orcutt’s lack of a profile led to a buncha rumours, the most popular one being something to do with how he had jacked in music cause the underground was strictly for jerks and he was now working on some experimental movie in the wilds of nowhere. So it was as shocking as a power electronics fan turning up with a girlfriend when a solo 7” from Orcutt came out of nowhere earlier this year before being hoovered up by lovers of the good stuff and locked away in secure record vaults the world over. Then came the news that he was only going to be jamming at Nyoukis’s Colour Out Of Space with the best free jazz drummer in the UK, Mr Paul Hession and then - now (!) -- comes this motherfucker, a full-length solo album privately issued by Orcutt himself with virtually nada in terms of inside info. On A New Way To Pay Old Debts Orcutt is playing a four-string acoustic guitar – and he is fucking *playing* it. Like the “High-Waisted” 7”, the material picks up where Sonny Sharrock left the instrument hanging on Black Woman’s “Blind Willie”, with an amphetamine-blues style that combines feral vocal grunts and squeals (almost in the style of early Mazzacane), the kind of aggressive raga form of Roger McGuinn’s furthest navigations of “Eight Miles High”, the formally staggering, postcard-from-another-world feel of Joseph Spence’s Folkways recordings and a spike of hardcore adrenaline. The music retains the incredible dynamism of Harry Pussy, from the dive-bombing bass strings that resound like sprung traps through the lightning flash of the treble. Like Derek Bailey, a player that Orcutt has a lot in common with, Orcutt’s technique comes from the inside, it’s not about F/X or loops or fuzz or any kind of extended technique, it’s one man wrestling with the idea of guitar as sonic reducer. His approach is so tactile, so monomaniacal in its blunt physicality, like when he obsesses over the same screaming single note again and again, shadowing it with the same vocal cry before dropping into sagging barbed-wire repeats, that it feels like the most exciting free/rock/jazz/blues of your lifetime. Indeed, this LP shows up alla the solo acoustic guitar artists of the past whenever as a buncha dull furniture polishers. The ultimate solo guitar record form the greatest rock guitarist of the ‘noise’ era. A no-brainer for album of the year. Comes with pro-printed sleeves, self-released on Orcutt’s own private press. Highest possible recommendation." - Volcanic Tongue. 2nd edition of 500 copies. |
| 6/11/2006 | Organorganorganorgan | Organorganorganorgan | CDR | $10.99 | Seedy R! | "Sam Hamilton, Stefan Neville, Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton bring along their fan driven chord organs for a live performance at Wellingtons Enjoy Gallery. Ranging from the holy through to the burlesque over the course ofb the performance (hear Neville lift his rather cumbersome organ over his head to play it with his teeth, witness Kneale face plant into his thus creating the extended comatose outro...), this is a drone epic that gets to the heart of these perennial, but somewhat ridiculous instruments..." |
| Original Sins | Suburban Primitive | CD | $11.99 | Blood Red | Garage-psych from Brother JT and pals | |
| 12/12/2009 | Orimo, Sabu | Wind Songs | LP | $19.99 | Siwa | "Following a number of small run releases (and an appearance on a recent volume of PSF 's Tokyo Flashback series) here's a vinyl only set of Sabu Orimo's solo shakuhachi work. Recorded by Orimo in 2007-2008 and played on unlacquered natural bamboo flutes. With an approach to his instrument described as "Japanese old stone age style" (or the somewhat misleading term 'noise shakuhachi') Orimo might be said to be working on the fringes (of the fringes) of Japan's broadly defined 'psychedelic' scene. That said one could ask if Siwa's motives here might not just be a case of trying to peddle 'the hated music' behind a veil of blatant exoticism. Yes that does mean that after a number of rock/folk moves we're dishing up some more exquisite 'improv'. And you deserve it. Heavy weight vinyl only edition of 299 in five color handpulled screen printed sleeves." |
| 2/20/2010 | Orkustra, The | Adventures In Experimental Electric Orchestra From The San Francisco Psychedelic Underground | double LP + booklet | $35.99 | Mexican Summer | "Greetings to everyone who craves an authentic Haight-Ashbury experience. Bobby BeauSoleil now has the pleasure of offering you the opportunity to hear these uncommon recordings from his past band. This will be the definitive Orkustra release, compiling almost all of the recordings the band made (on a 4 track in their rehearsal space) and will feature paintings and liner notes from composer of Lucifer Rising Soundtrack, Bobby BeauSoleil." Edition of 1000 copies. |
| 2/12/2008 | Orsi, Fabio | 1000Days Red | 3" CDR | $16.99 | "Limited edition 50 copies hand painted and numbered with tea flower insert and cd card (2007) Self Released" | |
| 3/2/2008 | Orsi, Fabio | Before Long, Before Anyone, The Stars Will Be Walls In My Mind | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Students of Decay | "The final installment in the Orsi SOD trilogy, "BeforeLong..." is as a slow-moving star in orbit, all evanescent low-register drones and scintillating harmonics. Orsi's deft hands and painterly approach have once again concocted a beautiful, expansive space for your mind to roam about. Music for telescope nights." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 6/4/2010 | Orsi, Fabio | Little True Things Under The Sun | 7" lathe cut | $19.99 | Root Don Lonie For Cash | "A very very very nice little disk of drifting (northern) summer drone!" Two copies available |
| 3/20/2010 | Orsi, Fabio | Winterreise | CD | $12.99 | Slow Flow Rec | "With an entrance that displays the cold reaches of a surrounding, creeping fog, Fabio Orsi's 'Winterreise' is an immediate, enchanting production, reaching with the building swells of instrumental openness, and climactic ascendance. Fabio Orsi is an Italian electronic musician, reknowned for his work in the combination of the languages of popular tradition, and the avant-garde, while using field recordings, found sounds, guitar, piano, and synthesizer. After releasing on such labels as Digitalis Industries, A Silent Place, Last Visible Dog, Preservation, Low Point, Small Voices, and Ruralfaune, Orsi contributes his new work here to the Japanese label Slow Flow, for their second CD release. Throughout the nearly 50-minute release, 'Winterreise' proceeds through hollows of inward movement, amounting in sonorous reaches to the realism of the field recordings of the natural world within, soundtracked by a delicate, free richness. With no less than mythical symbolism leaning in through the natural above, there is little left without a nonplussed pacification, while still proceeding to the far limits of overcoming interference. Orsi's 'Winterreise' breathes just as easily as it gives way, in ultra exception of impressionism into the listeners' ears, not only, but into their surroundings, and resting there within them, with unembellished grandeur." - Will Long [Celer] |
| 3/29/2005 | Ortho / Irene Moon | split | 7" | $5.99 | Ignivomous | "Though the term musical theater often conjures up horrific images of over-acting and life’s foibles resolved in song form, there’s no inherent evil in the concept of combining the two. Lexington, Kentucky’s Auk Theater offer simple pantomimes with cartoonish props, set to a soundtrack that combines a warped aural accompaniment with diegetic effects that act as guides for the narrative. Irene Moon, the group’s founder, takes everyday activities and social interactions (in this case, a visit to the dentist), magnifying the absurd and surreal, to create her otherworldly scenes. On her side of this 7”, a split picture disc with New York’s Ortho, one must imagine the visual aspects of 'Auk Dentist' as clued by the music, though, with Moon’s penchant for the weaving of samples, electronic noises, and isolated vocal recordings, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what could be happening. A ringing phone, the ominous sound of the drill, and a voice-over from what was probably a high school psychology filmstrip offer clues, but, in the end, the music needn’t rely on the story, and Moon’s psychedelic pastiche remains just as hypnotic in it’s purely aural form. Ortho, capitalizes, it seems, on Moon’s love of entomology, with their contribution to the disc, with plenty of buzzing and flittering sound. It’s not hard to imagine the music as the magnified sounds of insects, with the rapid flapping of wings, scurrying feet, and probing antennae.'Ortho demonstrates how humans would benefit by behaving more like insects' is a title that’s almost longer than the group’s side of the slab, but it’s a useful guide when it comes to listening to Ortho’s buggy noise." - Adam Strohm 2005 jan 17, fakejazz.com |
| 9/29/2005 | Ortmann, Andy | Nightmania | CD | $11.99 | Nihilist | "The first full-length album from founding member of Panicsville, as well as the Nihilist label. This project began as a series of new drawings, then audio soundtracks were composed to compliment each drawing. The results are both haunting and disturbing. The sounds here, range from ambient, musique-concrete, collage to power electronics. This project was funded in part by a Grant from the City of Chicago. |
| 12/10/2004 | Os Brazoes | Os Brazoes | CD | $21.99 | "Rare and super psychedelic Brazilian album from 1969, with lots of fuzz guitar, wah-wah and some bossa influences!!! This group was the backing group for Gal Costa in her early psychedelic days!!! If you dig Mutantes first works, check this out you'll be so satisfied!!! Includes covers of Gilberto Gil 'Volkswagen blue', Jorge Ben 'Carolina'." - Lion Productions | |
| 10/25/2008 | Ospreys + Wilde Stallions | split | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "These two pennsylvania units bookended a tour i did a couple of years ago and both mesmerized me with some profuse vocal/guitar drone mantras. both of these hypnotist mix up lush and thick styles, blending chants with subway rhythms that cause waves of dust and light to ricochet around the room. this is demon dirg turned up to shred. extra bonus with the stallions covering the subhumans!" |
| 6/30/2010 | Ossining | I Will Be Missed | LP | $16.99 | Digitalis | "I Will Be Missed collects three synth-driven underwater vision quests. Crystal sequences are force-fed through strings of filters resulting in flourescent, smoldering towers of muddy ambience. The idea is to make something inherently beautiful that sucks the air from your lungs resulting in a wobbly, unclear treatise. With the cracks smoothed over, each sharp jolt takes on a life of its own turning up the temperature and morphing into a pure white heaven. It's all hands-on-deck if you don't want to get dropped into the boiling seas below. The flipside brings the lightshow to its peak, taking things positively solar. Backed by walls of bloop-infested waters and arpeggiated madness, the duo let the vocals fly. Each run through exudes an underlying tension searching for any hole to escape. As melodies loop and feedback on top of each other, the beginnings are consumed by the ends. Nothing is left to chance and nobody is hoping for perfection. In the end, Ossining deliver two sides of silver-soaked dreams blasted in a holographic glow. Mad men, the lot of them. Vinyl only edition of 111 copies. Silkscreened covers." |
| 1/17/2010 | Ossining / Afterlife | split | c52 cassette | $6.99 | Stunned | "This split is a convergence of forty fingers and four heads belonging to 2 crews who are no strangers to the school of modern synthesizer work — Kevin Danchisko (Sovetskaya Gone), Brad Rose (Digitalis/The North Sea), Ryan McGill (Bones of Seabirds/Cliffsides) and Franklin Teagle (Anathema Sound/Meditations). To say that each of these members has had a helluva ’09 is total understatement. Dudes have burned it up on all levels audile & visual. Case in point: the opening side’s all-hands-on-deck approach of Ossining. Kevin & Brad launch laterally in warm g-force tones for the remainder of Side A’s high-altitude analog cruising. There’s no need to come down from such birdflight bliss with Afterlife’s B-Side, offering a bounty of dilated-eye synth trance. Here Ryan & Franklin reach for the gooier forms which emerge at dusk on the horizon. Crisply telepathic in their chemical trailblazing, they dare to chisel flashing arpeggios down to quark level. Ladies and gentlemen, we have drift off. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c52 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert." |
| 2/21/2007 | Ostrowski, Eric | Cyanonide | 3" DVDR | $7.99 | Jyrk | "Eric is probably best known for being half of Noggin.. He also dropped the "E" CD/DVD in 2005, which is quite a heavy load.... Cyanonide is four short film pieces of beautiful bright blue takes in his usual painted film/organic matter exposure techniques. These films cover a great breadth despite their singular spectral focus.. some are static blasts with other colors consuming the various washes of blues, approaching the most abstract hypercolor visionsof the paper-rad sect.. Other pieces are meditative drifts featuring suspended plant matter in crystal blue.. limited to 90 copies." |
| 7/29/2004 | Other Half, The | The Other Half | LP | $17.99 | “A vinyl re-issue of this 1968 garage-psych album that featured guitarist Randy Holden of Blue Cheer and Sons of Adam. Includes the song ‘Feathered Fish,’ penned by Arthur Lee but never recorded by Love, as well as eight other slices of heavy acid garage rock with plenty of wild guitar work. Sometimes compared to early, pre-Janis Big Brother & The Holding Co. With its beautiful psychedelic cover, this is a gem of the SF acid rock era. Includes the legendary Nuggets track ‘Mr. Pharmacist’ as a bonus track. 170 gram vinyl, heavy gloss cover, Euro import.” | |
| 6/5/2005 | Other Method, The | No Bridges No Walls | CDR | $12.99 | Wooden Finger | "Second release from the label that brought us the phenomenally popular Trees, Chants & Hollers from Valerie Webb and Paul Labrecque. The Other Method is that duo's electric/horns group and No Bridges No Walls gathers recordings that date from the same time as their previous release, One Eye Love Is and also features Michael Kay from Sunburned Hand Of The Man. This is electronics, horns, vocals and drums bent with the same kind of elastic ferocity as yr favourite brass-devouring free jazz duo. Also touches on some nice zones of chattering delay that summon up visions of small constellations melting into slow blobs of tone somewhere in the throat of Marshall Allen midway through Phil Niblock's Sun Ra film The Magic Sun as well as some subtle, almost modal trance pieces that will please fans of Trees, Chants…Limited to only 150 copies." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 5/14/2007 | Oubliette | A Grey Clyo Winter | CDR | $13.99 | Cut Hands | "Obscenely criminal excercitions of harsh evil trapped in ten tracks. Oubliette knows how to make your nightmares seem like fairytales. Trying to pin down this set of harsh noise sculptures will get your limbs cut and put to sleep. Don't fucking try it. Might wanna check if all of your ribs are still in place after listening. Edition of 40 ravaging copies, housed in creepy chalk paper sleeves with insert." |
| 1/24/2009 | Oubliette | Eugénie de Franval | CDR | $8.99 | Oh No, More Tapes! | "This one is in homage of the Marquis de Sade's novel Incest, capturing the feel of fucking your daughter/dad and facing consequences; harsh, brutal and relentlessly crude barn-style Georgia noise from mr oubliette himself. Has lust no bounds or is the rule of thumb to not fuck people of your own blood a thing to mull over while listening to this jammer? You decide... embrace your libertine objectives. Edition 50" |
| 9/17/2006 | Oubliette | Tape Fuckery | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "Georgia Scum Splicing....GSS... Killer cassette of randomly and crudely spliced cassettes of crude noise... Flows like grease and pissy water making it's way from the bottom of a toilet to the drainage hole in some scumbags nasty basement bathroom. Ultra HISS, Ultra CRUNCH, Ultra GROSS and ULTRA!!!" |
| OuldPack | #1 | $22.99 | Ould Records | Limited edition of 30. Packs include a great cassette full of long psych pieces, some improv, two songs by The Swine (an art damage group), and some electroaccoustic work. Also includes a written play and photographs. Very nice. | ||
| OuldPack | #2 | $35.99 | Ould Records | "Cassette features Marc Schulz Sound Machines (30 minutes of beautiful machine driven drone) machines built out of beaters, motors, and certain metal bars. Matt De Gennaro contributes a long and beautiful composition; not like anything he has done yet. Ilya Monosov / Makoto Kawabata collaboration features Kawabata's sarangi solo with Ilya adding drones to it. Ilya Monosov's track is him playing 2 mixing boards with no inputs, and an organ drone. Makoto Kawabata contributes a piece that sounds much more like Reich, Phillip Glass, or Terry Riley via organ, violin, and drones. Also included are visual contributions from Marc Schulz, Ilya Monosov's scores based on the punnet square, and Matt De Gennaro's short text / visual contribution. All housed in a plastic envelope, hand numbered...and limited to 50 copies." | ||
| Our Glassie Azoth | Euterpe Sequence | CD | $10.99 | Camera Obscura | "A tape came our way in 1997, put together by Dafydd and Ruth from Welsh rural psychedelicists Alphane Moon under the name of Our Glassie Azoth. We were sufficiently impressed to commission our very own OGA release. OGA are more overtly pure drone and a bit less songic than Alphane Moon, but they are clearly and mystically related. Dafydd explains the names, 'Alphane is Arabic and means the temple and moon is obviously that which might take us to OGA which is a Lullian [and others] signifier for the first principal, constituent of the whole fabrick of nature, the prime material the philosophic[k] mercury." | |
| 11/21/2009 | Our Love Will Destroy The World | Beautiful Monolith Two | 7" | $7.99 | Quasi Pop | "It seems as Campbell Kneale (within his Love Will Destroy The World project) aims to discover any darkest and most dangerous corners of the modern experimental music. As an experienced and dedicated hunter, he doesn't walk the empty tracks, rather he's interested much more in rich bushes and impassable thickets. The A side's track is "Glittery Skin", it shows Merzbow-like pulsating electronic noises, but the main energy-giver is obscure and doomy heavy guitar riff. Sick, anarchic, trancesending violent stuff. And also there's a piece on B side that may fit better to Wolf Eyes and Co…Imagine the surrealistic soundtrack for 70s horror/trash movie: muddy, intense sound canvas full of ghostly distorted voices, weird loops, dirty tape echoes, spring-reverberating noises and metal scraping, that's it. Our Love Will Destroy The World is for sure one of the most original, distinct and integral projects on contemporary radical music scene." Limited edition (500 copies: 150 in blue, 350 in black colour). |
| 5/23/2009 | Our Love Will Destroy the World | Broken Spine Fantasia | c30 cassette | $7.99 | Tape Drift | "Following an initial LP and a few singles on other labels, we present two thrilling live sides documenting recent shows in Australia and New Zealand from Campbell Kneale's new project post-Bircvhille Cat Motel. Kneale's been a massive personal favorite here at Tape Drift since he first hit the scene in 1997. Reborn in this new guise, he's taking no prisoners and leaving audiences stunned by the majestic power of his noisy epics. It's hard to imagine Campbell topping the peaks of his vast BCM catalog, but these two tracks are a dream come true and suggest he may just have done it. Massively brutal sound here - perhaps one of his noisiest yet, but of course it's got all the hidden melodic elements and attention to detail that you've come to know and love. A psychedelic noise master work that works amazingly well with the oxide of tape." |
| 1/17/2010 | Our Love Will Destroy The World | Fucking Dracula Clouds | LP | $21.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Stunning new LP from Campbell Knele's post Birchville Cat Motel project. Continues with the vibes set on his superb LP for Dekorder, total psychedelic filth noise. Two side long heavy pieces of gushing electric destruction, one sound lurches in and tears down another one, which it rebuilds an even more ferocious version of the original sound. Limited to 400 copies in pro printed wrap around sleeve on 400gsm silk card." |
| 3/21/2009 | Our Love Will Destroy The World | Stillborn Plague Angels | LP | $19.99 | Dekorder | "The gates of Birchville Cat Motel crack, creak wide, and crash, unleashing a gush of soul-fried bleakness and love-damage stained with a defiantly metallic pose. Thats 'METALLIC... as in, has the surface qualities of metal' not 'METAL... as in, has the surface qualities of Metallica'... step back you fucking freaks. Although the broken bricks of BCM are still plain to see amid the burning wreck and ruin, 'Stillborn Plague Angels' represents the first fully formed sentence in a new chapter of Campbell Kneale's ongoing tome of star-spangled, psychedelic, noise-OM. Cholesterol-shaving guitar peeks over the trench to survey an adrenalised landscape of endless roaring catastrophy... Everything louder than everything else! Our Love Will Destroy The World is the new one-man project by New Zealander Campbell Kneale after disbanding BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL. In the past Kneale has released albums on Ecstatic Peace, Corpus Hermeticum, Last Visible Dog, Conspiracy and his own Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. He has colllaborated with Lee Ranaldo, Neil Campbell, Bruce Russel, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Yellow Swans, has toured throughout Japan, Europe, America and Australia and also records und the names Black Boned Angel and Ming. "Stillborn Plague Angels" is the debut LP by this new project." |
| 10/30/2002 | Ousia | Face The Robot | CD | $12.99 | Mutant Music | "A hybrid collection of ambient soundscapes and manually altered rhythms complimented by extreme manipulation of sound. Created with heart felt knob tweaking and an extraterrestrial sensibility of aesthetics and virtuosity. ‘Trippy, surreal, and often hypnotic...Ousia tunes are the stuff that dreams are truly made of.’ - babysue" |
| Out Of Focus | Not Too Late | LP | $24.99 | Tripkick | Unreleased album recorded in 1974 Germany by some stoned freaks. Features electric & acoustic guitar, tenor, baritone & soprano sax, bass, drums, flute, and vocals. | |
| 12/13/2008 | Out There Dudes / Biff Boff Barf | split | 7" | $4.99 | Out There Records | "Two Columbus , OH bands .... Biff Boff Barf play erratic improv party puke shit rock....Out There Dudes spontaneously blast off to another galaxy." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 10/21/2009 | Outer Space | 0000278928993 | c10 cassette | $7.99 | Pizza Night | Edition of 60 copies - sold out from label. |
| 2/20/2010 | Outer Space | Lightyear Demonstrations | double c60 cassette | $15.99 | Deception Island | "So, there's this site in the New Mexico desert where they apparently store the worst kind of radioactive waste there is, the mindbending half-life of which is such that it's moved the US government to commission a series of massive granite obelisks, intended, no matter what might intervene between now and 14010 AD, to communicate in no uncertain terms, "You're fucked!" Per Julia Bryan-Wilson, who wrote on the topic in October last year: "Each will be inscribed with messages in seven languages about the poisonous waste underneath; they are meant to withstand any climate changes, as well as the likely evolution of the written word over the next ten centuries. Room has been left on the surface of each tower for future viewers to translate the warning into their own language and chisel it into the rock, with the anticipation that it will become a sort of Rosetta stone. ...on the right, an image from a textbook on human ethology showing the 'universal' facial registration of disgust or nausea." The phonographic equivalent of these tablets, "Lightyear Demonstrations" is a collection of four massive pieces the cumulative effect of which forms some sort of Library of Babel of generative synth churn and sputter, like you just brought your own case of shitty beers, a couple stiff doses, some rusted-out lawn chairs, and a busted sequencer (John has requested that I note that so many releases promise a broken sequencer, while this one actually delivers. I've seen it, and it is indeed pretty mangled, so there you have it.) to some celestial casino. There are no clocks and endless refelctive surfaces at every point of entry as DI mainstays and veteran Cleveland jammers John Elliott of Emeralds and Jeff Hatfield of Fragments lock into deep memory loss territory and fry dual Moog burble and splatter for two hours without interruption. Essential for devotees of any of Elliott and Hatfield's numerous other endeavors, the work of like-minded precursors from Conrad Schnitzler to C.C.C.C., and the general possibility of records that sound like timestretched bong hits." Hand-numbered edition of 200. |
| 4/6/2010 | Outer Space | Timespace Projection | c60 cassette | $7.99 | Wagon | 1st in a series of 4 c60s based on loop quantum gravity recorded past midnight til early morning in duo formation with Jeff Hatfield of Fragments. Numbered edition of 130 copies. |
| 7/23/2010 | Outer Space | Wrecked Math | CDR | $10.99 | High Spirits | |
| 5/14/2007 | Ov | Nocilucent Valleys | CD | $12.99 | Soft Abuse | "There exists a sense of optimism in Ov's humming analog drones, a floating light within a pack of ominous clouds. Building from their brilliant debut CDR, Nocilucent Valleys takes Ov's expansive palette, blurrs and disguises instrumental thresholds, and presents sheer sound augmented by mysterious and mesmerizing gentle clamor. Initial impressions slowly morph into demonstrative bliss, synthesizing the organic and the unknown. Ov is the new project from prolific, longtime collaborators (and recent newlyweds) Christine Boepple and Jewelled Antler's Loren Chasse, both of San Francisco. Ov pushes the duo's established scopic pallette further into the void. Touching upon traditional minimalism and psychedelic free-form folk music, Nocilucent Valleys plays like the soundtrack to an otherworldly fairy tale, with foggy oscillations guiding the extrinsic myth. Abstract in presentation yet concrete in execution, the limitless creations that form Nocilucent Valleys harken to the amorphous eternal music of Angus Maclise, William Basinski's wondrous expanses, the sounds synthesis of Richard Pinhas or Francisco Lopez, Alastair Galbraith's Ur-drones, and Markus Popp or Matthew Bower at their most transcendental." |
| Overhang Party | Otherside Of | DBL CD + 7" | $44.99 | Pataphysique | Numbered edition of 1000 copies features Rinji Fukuoka (vocals, guitar), Akira Yamanouchi (guitar), with guests Michio Kurihara (guitar) & Ikurou Takahashi (ex-Fushitsusha; drums) recorded live in Japan. The 7", however, has tracks recorded in the US on their 1999 tour. Recommended! | |
| 2/21/2009 | Overhang Party | Overhang Party | LP | $12.99 | Mutant Music | "Japan's Overhang Party were always one of their country's most interesting, multifaceted and imaginative musical units, and we at Mutant Music are honored to be able to make their long out-of-print debut LP available once more. Overhang Party and its members, who revolve around founder Rinji Fukuoka, have always shown a wide range of musical interest and ability, and this LP shows them all at their formative nucleus, offering a glimpse into what would come in later years in addition to enormous immediate aural gratification. Initially released privately by the group in 1993 (prior to Rinji's formation of his Pataphysique imprint, which would release the rest of the group's output in addition to many other interesting recordings), this LP was limited to just 200 copies and has long been sought-after by aficionados of the Japanese underground. Needless to say, until now, if one were to be lucky enough to find a copy of this LP, it would come with a somewhat prohibitive price tag; we offer it once again in the vinyl format with its original presentation for those of us for whom the depth of our fanaticism may not always equal that of our bank accounts. This LP shows the group's long-standing interest in the avant-garde and improvisation, featuring some amazing soundscapes which find their way through both the beautiful and the abrasive; they definitely explore some far-out territory, but there are also glimpses into the beautiful saturation of their more "rock" side on occasion, with some particularly expressionistic guitar work from Rinji within the context of a slow-burning psych blowout. This LP features the initial lineup of Rinji Fukuoka (guitar, voice), Iwao Yamazaki (drums), Kouji Nishino (bass) and Kunukunu as guest on VCS3 synthesizer during the track "Air." Overhang Party ceased in January of 2008, and its members continue on with their new efforts as Majutsu no Niwa. As we honor their early forays with this re-issue, we also eagerly anticipate what the future will bring. This vinyl reissue is limited to 500 copies and it is presented with its original artwork which features a stark plain white jacket with Overhang Party simply printed on the front." A most welcome reissue that comes highly recommended. |
| 11/4/2006 | Overhang Party / Michel + Rinji + Kumiko | Live at UFO Club May 20, 2006 | DVD | $15.99 | There | 6 tracks recorded live earlier this year - it runs about 110 min and is NTSC only. |
| 2/20/2010 | Overstreet, Rev. Louis | His Guitar, His Four Sons, and the Congregation of St. Luke Powerhouse Church of God in Christ | LP | $15.99 | Mississippi Records | "Reissue of the Arhoolie LP recorded in 1962 at Overstreet's church in Phoenix, Arizona with a slightly altered track listing. Includes two tracks previously unissued on vinyl. Recorded very live during a church service. Rev. Overstreet plays electric guitar and bass drum in his own driving & intense style while his four sons and the congregation take care of tambourine, backup singing and hand claps. A powerful record of gospel energy and testament. Packaged in an old-style tip-on sleeve." |
| 11/17/2007 | Owl Xounds | Gypsy Monks on Holiday | cassette | $9.99 | Curor Recordings | "For those spirited heads who like their free-jazz with a touch of the cosmic, and their feet dipped wet with infinity, Owl Xounds' exuberant outer-space jams are as awesomely pleasing as they are wildly unpredictable. On "Gypsy Monks On Holiday," the usual Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy duo of Adam Kriney (drums) and Gene Janas (upright bass) are joined by Mario Rechtern (saxophones, electronics) and Gene Moore (electric guitar). This high-bias C-30 boasts three sprawling live improvisations from two separate performances. The bombastic and wild-eyed "Sambs Samosa And The Circular Saw" and the brief attack of "We Are But Three Small Faces" were both recorded live at SUNY Purchase , NY on 2/19/7, while the organic mutant jazz "Are Those Your Graham Crackers From The Wiccan Ceremony Last Week?" was cut live one day earlier at the Flywheel in Easthampton, MA on 2/18/7. Mario Rechtern's saxophone threatens a savage mutiny on "Gypsy Monks..," but Adam Kriney is so at the top of this game on this one he's shot straight through Maslow's pyramid of needs and wants and wound up blasting somewhere through a stratosphere of technical wizardry. Keep an eye on Owl Xounds, these space-jazz cadets are headed somewhere brilliant, sparkling, and totally uncharted. Edition of 51." |
| 4/16/2007 | Owl Xounds | Teenagers From Mars | LP | $13.99 | Colour Sounds Recordings / Mad Monk | "We here at Mad Monk have been fans of Adam Kriney's many projects over the past few years and feel deeply honored to offer the vinyl debut of his long-running fucked-jazz unit Owl Xounds (formerly OWL SOUNDS). Taking their psychedelic rhyhmic core of drummer Kriney (LA OTRACINA / BLIZZARDS / RUST IONICS / CASTANETS / THE PLACES) and upright bassist Gene Janas (Screamin Jaw Hawkins/Bern Nix's SEDITION ENSEMBLE) to any reedsman up for the challenge, the boys explode it all with Austrian sax-ist Mario Rechtern, who has been invlolved with free-music since the late 60's playing in the REFORM ART UNIT (with Sunny Murray, Linda Sharrock, & Leena Conquest) and more recently as a guest in the Weasel Walter QUARTET/SEXTET/TRIO. Truly and honorably a post-ESP expression, it is much a post-SST expression. While the instrumentation and framework are a staple of the jazz/improvisaion tradition, the directions and velocities at which OWL XOUNDS exist are just as informed of the worlds of hardcore/punk and experimental noise. Citing the MISFITS as the most important band in his musical education, drummer/leader Kriney always felt the connection between the punk he grew up on and the free-jazz he became aware of later in life, the energy, the volume, the commitment, and most importantly the UNDENIABILITY of them both! And similarly the ostracism of the two is not to be ignored, being an outsider, the alienation from popular music, from popular culture, and from everyone around who just 'didn't get it' were also of significance. It is with these considerations that this LP was named, for after all, from Albert Ayler to Thurston Moore to Glenn Danzig to Kawabata Makoto to Peter Brotzmann, 'they' and 'we' are all Teenagers From Mars, and we don't care!" |
| 2/26/2006 | Ozone Layer | Formidable Circle | CDR | $11.99 | Manhand | Killer solo release from Marc Orleans of Sunburned Hand of the Man - recommended! |