| 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 |
| 12/3/2010 | Obsidian Pond | Symvols | c39 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Obsidian Pond is the brainchild of the uk's alesandre jong and he must feel like i do after i've only slept 3 hours and have to slog through an entire workday half-conscious. "symvols" is filled with molasses-thick beats slowed to a crawl and colored in with endlessly-sleepy guitars and codeine synth notes. there's something really unsettling about jong's compositions. they're like twisted fairy tales that hypnotize you until you end up face down in the mud. it's a total bummer but with killer beats. edition of 75, chrome tapes." |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 2/11/2006 | Olausson, Jakob | Moonlight Farm | LP | $17.99 | DeStijl | "If Skip Spence were somehow, instead of finding his white-frocked self stuck in the rat-infested hole that was Bellvue, transplanted to the pine forests north of Duluth in a sonic nest of gimbri, bells, shakers and clothed in Tibetan silk, one would come slightly closer to the reality of Jakob Olausson's migratory whims. To be sure, that foggy and only slightly inland empire of synapse-twisters like Ben Chasny offers a step on the trodden trail, but this isn't the same road we've traveled before. Olausson's huge ears protect him from the cold and keep the sun from turning his face to a series of desert crags, as his compositions slowly fade down the walls of four-track bedroom artistry into atemporal suites that shrink huge expanses and are a bellows to the microcosmic. Enter the Moonlight Farm." |
| 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 |
| 11/25/2010 | Old Time Relijun | Songbook, Volume One | CD | $11.99 | Northern Spy | "The Old Time Relijun, has been quiet for awhile, as frontman Arrington de Dionyso has been pursuing his Indonesian language avant-rock combo, Malaikat Dan Singa and bassist Aaron Hartman is further afield in the Holy Land with Girls in Trouble. But coming out of the dessert after what seems like 40 years, their first effort, Songbook, Vol. 1, is re-released as NSCD #2. Still a personal fav in the band's oeuvre, it's wild and raw and sweaty as their live shows, and now mastered for the first time and made widely available. Oh, this lion's ready to roar." |
| 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." |
| 11/6/2010 | Olympus | Bold Mould | LP + download | $16.99 | Soft Abuse | "Olympus is the banner under which Stefan Neville (Pumice) and Kraus (ex-Futurians, The Aesthetics) clang, pound, and collaborate. The obscure duo - each has a revered, dodgy presence in the contempo New Zealand sub-underground - built their reputations on unique one-man-band visions of mutant pop songforms, crafted with modified / manipulated instrumentation. As Olympus, Neville and Kraus have managed to step outside their comfort zones without sacrificing any signature moves. Recorded and assembled over the past few years by exchanging tapes in the mail, Bold Mould is the first fruit of their collaboration, the duo's debut offering. Bold Mould surfs along a warbled, technicolor path lined with basement kraut grooves, blasted tape manipulation, fuzzed-out homemade electronics, explosive drumming, minimal synth dervishes and melancholy pop instrumentals. Olypmus' playful experimentation, deluge of ideas & cracked sense of humor aligns Bold Mould with such like-minded spins as Oddities (The Clean), A Trip to Marineville (Swell Maps), On the Way to the Peak of Normal (Holger Czukay) and Deceit (This Heat). Bold Mould also features an alternate version of the Pumice tune Heavy Punter, which initially appeared on Quo. Co-released with Stefan Neville's own Stabbies, Etc imprint. 500 pressed, includes a free DL." |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 5/16/2011 | Onde | Purple | LP | $24.99 | Ondemusic | "The second album by Onde sees Van Luijk however doing something different. Onde's three members were all once part of Noise Maker's Fifes and consist of Van Luijk on trumpet, guitar and electronics, Greg Jacobs on violin, organ, electronics and Marc Wroblewski on strings, metal and accordion. They sort of play live in the studio and then further process/post produce the material a bit. This is, as said, far away from Van Luijk solo music or duo improvisation. The tides are the central thematic approach to both sides and the music sounds like. Flowing likes waves, breaking the shore, both sides have a great drive to them (does sound like a rhythm machine on 'Vloed' actually). Onde here sounds a bit like Troum: lots of regular instruments feeding through quite an amount of sound effects, but Onde sounds a bit more opened up than Troum (which seem to be hermetically closed at times). Onde seems to be going for that similar kind of trance like music. Drone with a drive. A fine record, topped in a great fold out sleeve." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly. Edition of 500 copies housed in a gatefold sleeve - 2009 release. |
| 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 |
| 3/21/2007 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 11/30/2011 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica | CD | $12.99 | Software | "Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed "ghost vocals" which serve as narration for Lopatin's signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatin's Juno-60 is still prominent, but Returnal's placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin's use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain." Housed in gatefold wallet. |
| 11/30/2011 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica | LP | $15.99 | Software | "Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed "ghost vocals" which serve as narration for Lopatin's signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatin's Juno-60 is still prominent, but Returnal's placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin's use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain." 1000 pressed - hand-numbered LIMITED EDITION spot varnished. |
| 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." |
| 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) | |
| 5/16/2011 | Oosterlynck, Baudouin | 1975-1978 | 4xLP Box | $147.99 | Metaphon | "Recordings of prepared piano, voice and objects of which most material previously unreleased. hardboard linen lp box contains 4 lp's with separate covers and a 34 page booklet with notes and photos from b.o. signed and numbered edition of 300 copies. There are times when you collect material, ideas, and emotions without being able to combine them. you feel as if you are laying the foundations of a work without knowing its form and you wait, feeling curious. you let the sounds rest until the evening when birth resembles death. the fruit is ripe for an instant only, the time it takes to fall. like the virgin's veil. bold wine, austere lineage. since 1978, baudouin oosterlynck has been introducing his music in the floor, the walls, the windows, etc ... thereby creating his first musical installations and sound installations. the music no longer goes towards the listener's ears but it is the listener's ears that go towards the music. all of this happens in silence. he did musical performances in function of acoustic phenomena particular to specific architectures. he completed 15,000 km on foot and by bicycle in europe, looking for variations of silence. for the past fifteen years he has been producing listening prostheses and special instruments played by the listener in silence! there are more than 180 opuses to date." - label. "All recorded in Oosterlynck's private studio between 1975 and 1978, with prepared piano being the main sound-source (also voice - often slown-down using tape-manipulation ala henri chopin - as well as saw, mallet, guitar, cane, tuner's key, etc ...) - the pieces have an almost zen-like palette - simple gestures are repeated in regular intervals, creating an ominous sound-field in whichever space you choose to listen Š" - Keith Whitman. 2008 release. |
| 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." |
| 9/3/2010 | Opalio, Roberto | The Hexagram on Grace | CD | $7.99 | Elliptical Noise | "Third soloist album by Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope). During the same period of self isolation in the Westrn Alps that brought to life MCIAA's 'Photoelectric Season' double album, Roberto conceived the creation of his new full-lenght album, inspired by the mystic aura of the nature surrounding himself. Focusing himself on his peculiar wordless vocalizations, and using simply a mini-keyboard and his prepared 'alientronics' as instruments, Roberto has built soundscapes of sublime abstract expressionism around the 'heliocentricity' of his voice. This is a true 'hexagram on grace' indeed. Professionally pressed compact disc recordables. Cardboard jacket with paste-on artwork, with insert. Roberto Opalio: vocals, mini-keyboard, alientronix. Featuring Maurizio Opalio on acoustic guitar at the beginning of 'Like an empty glass'" 1 - 'The Hexagram on Grace, part one' (11:06) 2 - 'The Hexagram on Grace, part two' (8:04) 3 - 'Like an empty glass' (18:06) |
| 9/3/2010 | Opalio, Roberto | The Hexagram on Grace ART EDITION | CD | $29.99 | Opax Records | Special limited art edition of 20 copies of the cd issued by Elliptical Noise. Same disc in nice-textured cardboard gatefold sleeve with original ink drawings by Roberto Opalio on front and back; numbered and signed by the artist. With insert. "Third soloist album by Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope). During the same period of self isolation in the Westrn Alps that brought to life MCIAA's 'Photoelectric Season' double album, Roberto conceived the creation of his new full-lenght album, inspired by the mystic aura of the nature surrounding himself. Focusing himself on his peculiar wordless vocalizations, and using simply a mini-keyboard and his prepared 'alientronics' as instruments, Roberto has built soundscapes of sublime abstract expressionism around the 'heliocentricity' of his voice. This is a true 'hexagram on grace' indeed. Professionally pressed compact disc recordables. Cardboard jacket with paste-on artwork, with insert. Roberto Opalio: vocals, mini-keyboard, alientronix. Featuring Maurizio Opalio on acoustic guitar at the beginning of 'Like an empty glass'" 1 - 'The Hexagram on Grace, part one' (11:06) 2 - 'The Hexagram on Grace, part two' (8:04) 3 - 'Like an empty glass' (18:06) |
| 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. |
| 3/24/2008 | Oper'azione Nafta | Cavuru | LP | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "Located within the Trapani Province of Sicily, Oper'azione Nafta considers their self-described "un-rock" as "a blowjob from Luigi Russolo." There's little doubt the great Futurist author of the The Art Of Noises manifesto would be anything but chuffed by such salacious bravado. Indeed, the trio pours on the racket and sounds like they were hatched in a custom-built Russolo intonarumori. Successfully putting the on back in bonkers, Oper'azione Nafta doles out only The Berserk, which might be why, at any given time, their unstoppable onslaught taps into rock / improv fizz a la Sun City Girls, Etron Fou Leloublan or the Butthole Surfers, various FMP blat, and MEV-like electronic scramble. When they claim "We are Oper'azione Nafta and we kill Bambi!" who among us would question it? Besides, a nice bowl of Sicilian-styled venison ragout would really hit the spot. Released in a vinyl-only, one-time edition of 500, Cavuru is the band's debut release." |
| 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'." |
| 5/16/2010 | Oracle | Nataraja Da Nada | LP | $24.99 | Paradise Lost | "It sounds like the missing link between Sky Saxon & James Brown, with a thick redneck accent to boot. The lyrics are obscure, but what I pick up spells 'L'-'S'-'D'. About halfway through the track the trio takes off for the Andromeda Galaxy, a 10-minute space guitar jam with echoes of Manuel Gottsching and Terry Brooks, before Rameshwar the vocalist reappears to send a final transmission back to the Solar system. Whew! No coincidence they called their recording shack 'The Sponge' - there must have been liquid acid running down the walls in there. Over on the reverse side is 'The oracle speaks', another 24-minute trip which I'm pretty certain was recorded in a lysergic state - there's no other way to explain the strange wave-like in/out-of synch drumming. Beginning with ghostly whispers of Sanskrit the piercing Voice appears again to intone the LP title, before setting off on a bizarre imitation of rootsy garage rock interspersed with crude acid guitar leads.... A conceptual tribal basement acid space guitar trip that is as good as anything I've heard from a modern - as I believe them to be - psych band... heads who enjoy Ya Ho Wha 13 LPs can find comfort in the fact that there were freaks as flipped out as Yod's guys 15 years later, right in the middle of the Reagan-Bush American heartland." -- Acid Archives |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 11/30/2011 | Orcutt, Bill | A King or Something | 7" | $8.99 | Palilalia | 'A King or Something'/'Crossroads'/'The Man in the Mirror' b/w 'Sad Michael'/'Solitary Habits'/'Die Then Come Back To Life.' |
| 11/30/2011 | Orcutt, Bill | All Tongues/Tender Bottoms | 7" | $8.99 | Palilalia | Small repress of limited tour-only 7 inches. |
| 10/1/2011 | Orcutt, Bill | How The Thing Sings | CD | $15.99 | Editions Mego | "Yet another essential, cracking new set of songs from Bill Orcutt, showcasing a further development of his unique, visceral acoustic style. The language that Orcutt uses looks familiar at first glance, but cuts deeper and it's a myriad of twisted audio that's both full-on and drenched in melancholy, usually in the same gasping breath. While a lot of it is the classic face-melting style, some quieter segments counter balance on the title track as well the epic closer "A Line From Ol'Man River" and "Heaven Is Closed To Me Now." Recorded Spring 2011 in the Living Room, San Francisco." |
| 9/10/2011 | Orcutt, Bill | How The Thing Sings | LP | $18.99 | Editions Mego | "Yet another essential, cracking new set of songs from Bill Orcutt, showcasing a further development of his unique, visceral acoustic style. The language that Orcutt uses looks familiar at first glance, but cuts deeper and it's a myriad of twisted audio that's both full-on and drenched in melancholy, usually in the same gasping breath. While a lot of it is the classic face-melting style, some quieter segments counter balance on the title track as well the epic closer "A Line From Ol'Man River" and "Heaven Is Closed To Me Now." Recorded Spring 2011 in the Living Room, San Francisco." 2nd edition - repressed. |
| 11/30/2011 | Orcutt, Bill | Tic Fit/Bored with the Moon | 7" | $8.99 | Palilalia | 'Tic Fit' b/w 'Bored with the Moon.' |
| 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." |
| 2/11/2006 | Orkustra | Orkustra | LP | $39.99 | RD | "First release of these legendary recordings, from 1967! Produced in association with Bobby Beausoleil (who wrote all the music and plays electric guitar and electrified bouzouki). "Here is what we would name some of the best, most important, unreleased at the time, historical and lost West coast psychedelic recordings ever. This legendary band includes none other that the famed Kenneth Anger soundtrack Creator Bobby Beausoleil as well as a very young David La Flamme, before starting his legendary band It's A Beautiful Day. As for the music, we are talking waaaaayyy out tunes here! The complete B-side features a single long tune which can best be described as Theatre of Eternal Music (the famed Pre-Velvet Underground La Monte Young/ John Cale Drone Band) meets It's A Beautiful Day. This is the missing link between the drone avant-garde and the hippie scene symbolized by two people that couldn't be further apart. On the other side you will find Middle Eastern influenced hippie psychedelic jams that will remind you of bands like the Beat Of The Earth. No gimmicks, just a true slice of pure acid psychedelia. Sit back and enjoy a very bizarre ride." Extensive liner notes by Bobby as well." |
| 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. |
| 9/30/2008 | Orphan Fairytale | Satellites That Serve Us | one sided cassette | $10.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "After a long wait... the tale finally arrives, one insane trip of moon safari keyz from Belgian Frozen Corpser Eva. One side of pink cassette acid fuelled child like far outness that only the OF can jam so well. One of the most psychedelic-ly far out surreal trips to come out on the label so far, each one comes in individual space covers with a hand numbered black and white insert of crackle screen space weirdness. Limited to 100." |
| 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. |
| 7/5/2011 | Ortmann, Andy | Occultronics | c50 cassette | $15.99 | Beniffer Editions | "Follow up to PAN lp Provocative Electronics. Analog synth extraordinaire. Comes in a 4x5x4" box - completely screenprinted in Optical linear patterns, with tape and more optical prints in the box. Edition of 100." |
| 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!" |
| 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). |
| 9/25/2010 | Our Love Will Destroy The World | Blue Eyes Are My Reward | LP | $21.99 | Krayon Recordings | "Jawdropping new collection of crop circles etched in sonic candy-floss by New Zealand's beardsmith/noise-farmer CAMPBELL KNEALE (BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL). Rated by the horses mouth as the best thing he ever made, EVER, 'Blue Eyes Are My Reward' shimmers like an icicle-clad forest resplendent in its own crystalline magnificence. Snakecharming groove, dublike boomph, and bleary eyed strum blast the path out of a decidedly greying world of so-so metalized-myspace-drone, into a miniaturized drone-prairie of superpowered starshine and dazzling stellar- commotion. Beyond the tyrannous clutches of omnipresent zeroes and ones, the macro and micro merge into an all encompassing nowhere of sound, each expansion checked by equal contraction like Messaens 'modes of limited transportation' scrambled by the Large Hadron Collider and replayed by one of those little twinkly watch reflections that occasionally dance around on the roof. Beautiful. 180-gram vinyl, everything by Campbell Kneale." |
| 5/13/2011 | Our Love Will Destroy The World | Cursegoback | picture disc lathe LP | $49.99 | Don't Fuck With Magic | Issued in a two-color screen-printed cover with full-color 3-mm-thick lathed picture disc. Edition of 100 copies. |
| 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." |
| 11/6/2010 | Our Love Will Destroy The World | I Hate Even Numbers | LP | $17.99 | Dekorder | *"Parallel universes mangle and mash into a superheated cloud of galactic debris and non-recyclable plastic. After a slew of genre-confounding 7" releases, Our Love Will Destroy The World unravels his own history of nearly everything in this, the mere third full length offering under his world destroying moniker. Smearing the already dotty line between twinkle-toed rave music and excoriating drone cacophony, "I Hate Even Numbers" weighs in like a three-legged gargantuan in a one-man morris dance. Blessed with a deep conviction that 'nowhere' is somewhere definitely worth going to, crippled, hobbling, clunkbeats and bubblepulses contest every frequency to the death underscored (overscored?) by mega-electrified guitar tuning exercises, shattering a passage to a brand new India. Everything louder than everything else, everything dissolving in the powerful acid of the sound next to itŠ a frybrained avalanche of audio M&Ms. Profound, elevating, and mercilessly, relentlessly UP! 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. "I Hate Even Numbers" is the 2nd LP by this new project for the Dekorder label (his 4th altogether) after last year's monolithic "Stillborn Plague Angels" album. Limited edition of 400 copies!" |
| 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. |
| 11/20/2010 | Outer Space | Outer Space | LP | $15.99 | Arbor | "John Elliott's Outer Space project is a laboratory for electronic investigation. Acting as a continuance of the studies of mid 20th century electronic music composers such as Nik Pascal and Laurie Spiegel, Elliott's music is deeply indebted to the inner workings of the electric signal. Acting almost as a meditation, through the simple gesture of translation Elliott's process begins to reveal itself as electricity is converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics. The six recordings on the album are each a microcosmic view into Elliott's practice; a keystone, illuminating his solo practice as well as his work as a member of Emeralds. Composed and recorded over the past three years without the use of digital synthesizers and arpeggiation; a record closely connected to a personal path, attempting to make sense, to understand one's journey. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman; pressed in an edition of 650 copies on clear vinyl with full color gloss covers and heavy stock printed euro-style inner sleeves." 2nd edition - 2011 repress. |
| 7/6/2011 | Outer Space / Alterity Problem | split | c26 cassette | $6.99 | Deception Island | "Bonkers split concept: Alterity Problem, the Montreal-based duo of lifer oddballs Alex Moskos (also of AIDS Wolf, Drainolith, Thames, and The Medicine Rocks) and cryptic associate Joel Taylor turn in a suite of extra-damaged jams about kids, heaters, and problems, these titular concerns reflecting a certain noirish surrealism and a slightly outre pose--both very much present in the audible payload--that distinguish Alterity Problem from their most obvious contemporaries. Sometimes it's like a Matra 12" heard through a wheelbarrow of pills and six miles of bulletproof glass; other times it's like spinning d-beat recs under general anaesthesia. Sometimes there are oddly, immensely satisfying syndrums in all the right/wrong places. The flip finds John Elliott (of Emeralds, Mist, and many others) back on DI with a fresh side of Outer Space tracks that work a polished, high-impact aesthetic angle very distinct from the decaying hyperabstraction of last year's massive "Lightyear Demonstrations" while continuing to radiate the same throughgoing trippiness and post/antihuman drive. First, "Aspartame" materializes from a glowing sandstorm of synth and vocals, coalescing into one of the most dazzling and aqueous examples of Elliott's signature endlessly unfurling klein bottle riffstyle to date. The ensuing nine minutes of this piece display a mastery of the "Dusseldorf style" of building deceptively intricate, episodic tracks on metronomic backbones, as claustrophobia and a sense of awakening to the reality of being chased by something superfucked gradually dawns, only to give way to an epic sunrise over a desert of ash and bleached bones. The finale, "USA Endless" (dark commentary?) has hung around long enough to see all inclination toward propulsion surgically removed. We're floating six inches off the ground, in the driveway with the doors open, engine running, and wheels spinning endlessly, far too fucked to do anything other than sit back and watch the dash boil while sunlight falls like iridescent jelly on the seats. Extra weird." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 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. |
| 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!" |
| 7/5/2011 | Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy | Splintered Visions | LP | $21.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "BR worked with Adam Kriney of La Otracina and Owl Xounds on the Owl Xounds/Family Battle Snake split cassette back in May 2007, and its great to have this raging free jazz improv psyche out bunch back on Blackest Rainbow again for this awesome LP. 'Splintered Visions' was recorded back in February 2007, and has been torn from the archives of some of the wildest jams put to tape. This time round the group is in a quartet zone with Kriney on drums, Gene Janas on upright bass, Mario Rechtern on saxophones, electronics and devices, and Shayna Dulberger on upright bass. That's right, TWO upright bass shredders! All the wild instrumentation laid down blazes to the sky, getting mightier and mightier, everything wildly bright and energetic, this LP will rage through your psychosis like nothing else! Housed in equally insane psychedelic hippy techi-colour sleeves designed by the one and only Jefferson Mayday Mayday Vimana. The vision on this one (both visually, and sonically) is outta this world! Pressed on virgin vinyl and limited to 250 copies." |
| 6/25/2011 | Oxtirn | Live | CD | $13.99 | REL | "Oxtirn 'live' documents a performance in new york city, by the new trio of geoff mullen, ashley paul and eli keszler. following a score by keszler, the group performs on an array of instruments, using three guitars, drums, voice, auto-motorized harps, tenor harp, bass harp, microphones, clarinet, alto saxophone, crotales, drums and cymbals. the music drifts in a unique way between a wide variety of sounds, from incredible density of clattering metal textures and string attacks, wall of sound guitars, mechanical music, high pitched saxophone bends and an oddly dim shimmering high harmonic sound. all creating together, a harsh, jagged and angular wash of ricocheting materials. in other sections, metal and vibrating strings, crotales and horns create a calmer and high contrast atmosphere. in the end, the music evolves into an area of sustained sound, space and sparse gesture, featuring one of ashley paul's songs and vocals, where the music takes on a new formation, leaving the listener with a question mark, and in some way is a new form of intuitive song. the recording itself is a low fi document with a spacious, raw and aggressive timbre to it, adding to the all ready unique feel of the music. the packaging is intricately designed with a multi-color silk screen, based on a drawing by eli keszler. the cd itself is housed in a multi panel, fold-out, metallic paper print with pictures from the concert and excerpts from the oxtirn score, with gold stamping on the outside of the metallic paper. the cd is attached to a hub which sits on top of liner notes, with an embossed design on the flip. oxtirn live is a one time special edition of 300 copies." |
| 2/26/2006 | Ozone Layer | Formidable Circle | CDR | $11.99 | Manhand | Killer solo release from Marc Orleans of Sunburned Hand of the Man - recommended! |