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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
12/2/2008	P.A.R.A.	Mermalien	LP	$19.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"P. A. R. A. represents Pre-Atlantean Ritual Artifacts. It was channeled in deep sea space by Labanna Bly, in the celestial summer of 2008. Dedicated to my knight, James Ferraro. Mermalien is a three-part suite for Three Deaths to Supreme Consciousness: 'mercury overdose,' 'abyss retreat,' & 'seaspace chrysalis.' Limited edition of 200 copies. Paste-on covers."
2/20/2010	P.G. Six	Live At VPRO Amsterdam	CDR	$7.99	Perhaps Transparent	"In 2001 Amish Records (CD) and Perhaps Transparent Records (LP) released P.G. Six's acclaimed debut full length "Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites". The album which reflects the pastoral sounds of late sixties and early seventies British folk groups like The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention was mixed by Tim Barnes and was received with great reviews. Besides mixing the album, Tim also added his flavor of percussion on tracks like 'When I Was A Young Man", "The Divine Invasion", "Go Your Way" and "The Shepard" - all of which are also featured on this Live recording from VPRO radio in Amsterdam. Since "Parlor Tricks..", the collaborations between P.G. Six and Tim Barnes were frequent but rarely fully documented. This Live CDr is one of those rare moments."
3/26/2006	P.G. Six	Live Tonic 6-11-00	CDR	$19.99	Perhaps Transparent	"On an early storming evening during June of 2000, Pat Gubler performed a memorable show that marked the beginning of the PG Six experience. With lightning and torrential downpours... It was a feast of weeks. This is the first in a series of PG Six live performances."
9/17/2006	P.G. Six	Music from the Sherman Box Series and Other Works	CD	$12.99	Amish	"The Sherman Box Series was an exhibition of visual artist Christine Krol at Abaton Gallery, Jersey City, NJ in August/September 2005. She showed an ongoing series of collages constructed in Nat Sherman cigarette boxes, as well as small paintings on wood panels. P.G. Six's contribution to the show was seven pieces for folk harps and electronic processing that played on a loop in the space. These pieces explore some of the sonic possibilities of the wirestrung harp with its long sustaining tones, and the bray harp, with its sitar-like buzzing."
	P.G. Six	Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites	CD	$12.99	Amish	"This record mixes late 60's / early 70's pastoral English folk influences, rural American blues, and Appalachian mountain music. Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites recalls the finer moments of the Incredible String Band's The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter and the beautiful weirdness of Kevin Ayers' Shooting At the Moon. The record also contains a cover of 60's English folkie Anne Briggs' 'Go Your Way.' PG Six is Pat Gubler, founding member of New York's enigmatic musical collective Tower Recordings. Tim Barnes (Quakebasket Records, Tower Recordings, Jim O'Rourke) plays percussion and engineers the record."
2/23/2007	P.G. Six	Slightly Sorry	CD	$14.99	Drag City	"Pat Gubler (aka P.G. Six) came on the scene in 1994, as a member of Memphis Luxure, a noise/rock band from Port Chester, NY. That band morphed into Tower Recordings, a musically omnivorous ensemble that released several albums on the Siltbreeze and Communion labels over the past decade. Pat's first solo album, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites saw the light of day in 2001, followed by The Well of Memory in 2004. Music from the Sherman Box Series, a collection of instrumentals, arrived in late 2006. His music fuses an unlikely range of influences including '60s British folk, country rock, & experimental music. On Slightly Sorry, in addition to the Anglo-Irish quasi-folk influences, you get some Garth Hudson attempts, some Roger McGuinn-izations, the odd Crazy Horse-ism and a pretty nifty cover of a song by Youngbloods pal Jeffrey Cain (note there is a near-approximation of some Dave Schramm-ittude on that Cain number - not really but kinda. Okay, maybe not). After all influences have been calculated, the roots-informed, detail-obsessed, defiantly handspun sound - and the transcendently glossy results of such alchemy, make the truth about P.G. Six."
2/23/2007	P.G. Six	Slightly Sorry	LP	$14.99	Drag City	"Pat Gubler (aka P.G. Six) came on the scene in 1994, as a member of Memphis Luxure, a noise/rock band from Port Chester, NY. That band morphed into Tower Recordings, a musically omnivorous ensemble that released several albums on the Siltbreeze and Communion labels over the past decade. Pat's first solo album, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites saw the light of day in 2001, followed by The Well of Memory in 2004. Music from the Sherman Box Series, a collection of instrumentals, arrived in late 2006. His music fuses an unlikely range of influences including '60s British folk, country rock, & experimental music. On Slightly Sorry, in addition to the Anglo-Irish quasi-folk influences, you get some Garth Hudson attempts, some Roger McGuinn-izations, the odd Crazy Horse-ism and a pretty nifty cover of a song by Youngbloods pal Jeffrey Cain (note there is a near-approximation of some Dave Schramm-ittude on that Cain number - not really but kinda. Okay, maybe not). After all influences have been calculated, the roots-informed, detail-obsessed, defiantly handspun sound - and the transcendently glossy results of such alchemy, make the truth about P.G. Six."
4/1/2004	P.G. Six	The Well of Memory	CD	$12.99	Amish Records	“Amish Records is pleased to announce the release of PG Six’s second full-length album, The Well of Memory. Continuing many of the themes introduced on Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, PG Six’s well-received first record, The Well Of Memory makes nods towards 60’s folk artists like Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, and John Fahey, while also fitting in with contemporary musicians like New York psych folk poster-boy Devendra Banhardt, Anglo-folk traditionalist Alasdair Roberts, and West Coast psych guitarist Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. Pat’s lyrics draw on narrative force, spinning mythology in abstract patterns that stretch moments of clarity between dreamlike sequences. His music, composed away from the bustle of the city in upstate New York, breathes as solemn spirituals. With The Well of Memory, P.G. Six transcends mere revival carving a permanent spot amongst contemporary singer/songwriters.”
6/5/2005	Paavi	Paavi	LP	$17.99	Lal Lal Lal	"Lal Lal Lal presents Paavi, a LP of piano ecstasy recorded on the roof of Luola Studios in Tampere. In the featured three original compositions Paavi explores the movement in static sound – stasis in moving sound duality. This onetime Puke Eater and Munuaissymposium 1960 member's frankfurters dance on the ivories and the piano sings a song of a very long and free fall. Complete with song titles like 'Healthy Body, Healthy Cosmos' and a beautiful color print insert with a nude picture of Paavi's sister. Edition of 525."
5/29/2008	Paavoharju	Laulu Laakson Kukista	CD	$19.99	Fonal	"This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers — Lauri and Olli Ainaila and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests."
5/29/2008	Paavoharju	Laulu Laakson Kukista	LP	$22.99	Fonal	"This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers — Lauri and Olli Ainaila and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests."
12/24/2005	Paavoharju	Yhä Hämärää	CD	$18.99	Fonal Records	"Paavoharju is a new band and this their first full length release. Amazing in the way it sounds as well in it's beauty. "We created this record during 2001-2005. Also many other things happened. Mostly Yhä hämärää is trying to reflect inner landscapes. Of course concrete places are forming and partly creating those inner views. Some highly inspiring places: Durde, densis, my home, Pöllänlahti, toilet, graveyard, sewers, disco, the beach at redpoint, rooftops at night, alcoholic's home, churches, Uukuniemi, foggy fields, sauna, my bed. Everything the light touches (and doesn't touch) is our kingdom. We like Yhä hämärää very much." - Lauri Ainala / Paavoharju.
10/31/2009	Pacchu, Fricara	Just Giggin' / Massimo's Mega Mix	cassette	$9.99	Tanzprocesz	"Side A is what you could expect or not from Fricara Pacchu : keyboards, rythm boxes etc. Laser sounds and machines from outerspace. Side B is just clashing your brain with yr teenager discography. This is THE cut-up of yr golden years. Pro-duplicated tapes. 50 copies."
1/17/2010	Pacchu, Fricara	Lucy	7" EP	$7.99	Vauva	"Fricara Pacchu is a man whose quest is the 'real'. The same quest that made him quit his profession as a photographer and become a welder. This Maniacs Dream member's sixth solo release 'Lucy' contains five tracks recorded on his four tracker, using electronic keyboards, presets, guitar, stylophone and effects. Hard driving psychedelic synthesizer music." "Finnish four-track madness from Maniacs Dream member Fricara Pacchu, all the way from Finland (and on a label, run by members of Kemialliset Ystävät, that hasn't released anything in six years). Miles away from what we commonly dismiss as low fidelity here, Pacchu revels in crunchy, martial, lo-res beatwork, synth basslines, electronic squigglery, galvanized klang, and folk twiddling on stylophone, dark and monolithic but driven and determined to make you break a sweat. It has that warbling, overclocked quality of that SID synth comp from some years back called Input 64, a collection of songs cribbed from Commodore 64 games. All instrumental, and better for it - these are b-boy anthems from a parallel 1983, pulled inside out and soaked in battery acid for extra crunch. I really missed receiving genuinely oddball records like this that run on their own logic, instead of trying to play someone else's game, and hope that things of similar quality keep coming in. Really cool." - Doug Mosurock / Still Single
1/1/2008	Pacchu, Fricara	Stories of the Old	7" + Book	$14.99	Fonal	"Fricara Pacchu started out his musical career as a rapper (Imukoira Koiruli) in The Backdoor Funkers. The BF managed to get one album ready just before they never saw each other again, causing changes in all members. This might be the reason why Pacchu has only been able to work with instrumental sounds ever since. A chain of collabo-rationalizing was to follow in groups such as The Anaksimandros, Slow Convulsion, Rorererot, Avarus, Multi-Spatial Love BandŠ but not until the birth of techno-rock-trio Maniacs Dream was Pacchu able to find all the fundamental particles of his shattered inner plectrum. Hence, the music on this 7" is the consequence of using a plectrum. It is pretty good for doing parkour but it can also help you forgive and respect (if you want to). The second track was recorded after having a conversation with a man and a girl. "Stories of the Old" also contains 42 pages packed with Pacchu's visual scribblings that might make you fall asleep after every page (because it's soo beautiful). Pacchu has previously released three cassettes. A cd titled "Snow and Wind" will follow soon on Finnish label Lal Lal Lal along with a near 80-minute demolition of sound from Maniacs Dream. Here is a glimpse of what has been said about Pacchu's second cassette: "Where do you go after you've single-handedly destroyed the entire canon of recorded psychedelic musics? Into techno, apparently."
	Pacebreaker	Mormon Lullabyes	7"	$5.99	Superlux	"Ltd. press of 200 beautiful hand dyed sleeves. Four tracks of "way, way post Flaherty/Colbourne and reminiscent of the 1st Pearls Before Swine LP." From 1995.
10/22/2009	Pacific Rat Temple Band	Tan Kim (Boa Paradise)	CDR	$12.99	New Age Tapes	"Pacific Rat Temple Band is a new devotional-exotica outfit birthed from the brainwaves of Mr James Ferraro of The Skaters. Parts of this sound like Martin Denny plays Martian folk music, with cyborg-sad Hawaiian melodies given helium overhauls while what sounds like speedy zips of modal fuzz, waterfalls of hand-drums and endlessly beaming keyboard melodies slowly recede into the distance. There's a heavy initiatory feel to the overall arc of the music that recalls Don Cherry's Holy Mountain soundtrack, that same mix of confusion, obfuscatory ritual and brain-erasing cosmological energy. Truly otherworldly beauty, profoundly affecting."" - Volcanic Tongue. Recommended."
12/30/2002	Padden, The One Ensemble of Daniel	The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden	CD	$14.99	Catsup Plate	"As a member of the U.K.'s Volcano the Bear since 1995, Daniel Padden has been involved in the creation of some of the most compelling and challenging music in recent memory. Drawing on the work of Robert Wyatt, Faust, This Heat, and the like, Volcano the Bear quickly developed a strong and devoted following. All of this, however, cannot prepare one for the revelation that is Padden's other project, The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden. As an album, ‘The One Ensemble’ is pretty difficult to pin down. In much the same way as Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith, or the early Third Ear Band, Padden uses traditional folk structures as the basis for much of songs here. But other, even more esoteric, influences are at work here as well: Southeast Asian traditional musics, acoustic jazz flourishes, perhaps even the mystical minimalism of Terry Riley. So what does all this mean for the listener? A strange and beautiful amalgam of (mostly) wordless vocals, stumbling piano, scurrying cello, mournful kazoo interludes, deranged waltzes, and stuff that's totally unidentifiable combined into Padden's skewed and wayward outsider music. Edition of 500 copies packaged in silkscreened, handmade digipaks."
11/21/2009	Padna	Metal Hurlant / Farmer’s Hearth	CDR	$7.99	Stunned	"Nat Hawks from Padna reports: “Last winter I went home with no music equipment and when I arrived was invited to play a show the next week. So I went into my closet at my folks' house and found all manner of old, broken sound toys. This is an elaborate recreation of the set I did for that show. Also, at the time, my father was getting heart surgery, which resulted in the conflicting emotions of holiday brightness (Metal Hurlant) and dark contemplations (Farmer's Hearth).” Limited edition of 111 stamped cdrs with color cover and double-sided insert in vinyl jacket."
8/4/2007	Paekong Mae	Paekong Mae	LP	$15.99	Giardia	Live recording from Minneapolis, 1997 featuring Neil Campbell, John Olson of Wolf Eyes, Gretchen Gonzales of Universal Indians, Emil Hagstrom of Cock ESP and another three of four players. It's the original vinyl in a new sleeve. Last copies.
10/30/2002	Paik	Corridors	CD	$13.99	Beyonder Records	“Paik is a Michigan space rock band if I've ever heard one! This once great mecca of the drone was home to such luminaries as Mahogany, Transient Waves, Grimble Grumble, and Star Phase 23 to name a few. Nowadays most of these bands are either dead or relocated, and the fort is held down by the always excellent Windy & Carl and the formerly great Füxa. Corridors is the type of album that any fan of space rock should be dying over. The guitars are fuzzy and loud, the drums are repetitive, and the bass lines are trance inducing. Listening to Paik is akin to listening to Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Kinski, Yume Bitsu, and Tristeza duke it out in a battle royale. None of these bands wins out. Instead, they are thrown into a giant blender and mixed together, forming a wonderful ambient rock opus. In all seriousness, Paik has gotten the formula right. Everything sounds so huge and resounding (I think the song ‘Strange Familiar’ sets a new benchmark for hugeness). The only thing that could keep any fan of the genre from totally loving these guys is the fact that they don't have a vocalist. I must admit that at first I was thrown off by the lack of vocals because in every other band that sounds anything like this, there are wispy vocals leading me out into the ether. Eventually I came around to the realization that the lack of vocals make the songs more interesting because everything takes on an added weight when there is no singing to subconsciously latch onto. This album is exciting and vibrant and would be a worthy addition to anyone's record collection. In a sea of space rock/shoegaze wannabes, Paik is the real thing."
9/16/2004	Paik	Hugo Strange	CD	$13.99	Beyonder	"A ten-song collection of orchestral shoegaze from Detroit's sound and space expanders Paik. These are instrumental gems delivered lush, swirling, layered and textured. Recent Satin Black album (Strange Attractors Audio House) is wowing worldwide. Recorded at Ghetto Studio by Jim Diamond."
6/11/2006	Paik	Monster of the Absolute	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"The abandonment and subsequent plight of America's many major urban centers is well documented, but nowhere else is this manifest to its extremity as in Detroit, Michigan. Although there have been hints of a resurgence, downtown Detroit exists in an advanced state of decay and has for many years, its blue-collar past and collection of pre-Depression skyscrapers often referred to as an American Acropolis. For Paik, the very epicenter of this deterioration is precisely where they call home. From the erosion of concrete and steel comes a certain inspiration, a parable that has fueled Paik's ongoing quest for beauty amongst ugliness and chaos. Since their inception in 1997 and across four full-length albums and a smattering of singles and compilations, Paik have studiously advanced and mutated their sound. Evolving from their embryonic shoegaze-inspired melee into sprawling, heavy stoner/psych/drone hybrids as evidenced on 2003's epic Satin Black, Paik have an uncanny ability to completely shred the atmosphere while coaxing out blissfully sonorous melodies from their thunderous caterwaul. Pulling back the reins just a bit, Paik funnel their supersonic cyclones into a tightly focused box of thunder with Monster of the Absolute, their greatest balancing act of melody and dissonance to date."
6/11/2006	Paik	Monster of the Absolute	LP	$13.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"The abandonment and subsequent plight of America's many major urban centers is well documented, but nowhere else is this manifest to its extremity as in Detroit, Michigan. Although there have been hints of a resurgence, downtown Detroit exists in an advanced state of decay and has for many years, its blue-collar past and collection of pre-Depression skyscrapers often referred to as an American Acropolis. For Paik, the very epicenter of this deterioration is precisely where they call home. From the erosion of concrete and steel comes a certain inspiration, a parable that has fueled Paik's ongoing quest for beauty amongst ugliness and chaos. Since their inception in 1997 and across four full-length albums and a smattering of singles and compilations, Paik have studiously advanced and mutated their sound. Evolving from their embryonic shoegaze-inspired melee into sprawling, heavy stoner/psych/drone hybrids as evidenced on 2003's epic Satin Black, Paik have an uncanny ability to completely shred the atmosphere while coaxing out blissfully sonorous melodies from their thunderous caterwaul. Pulling back the reins just a bit, Paik funnel their supersonic cyclones into a tightly focused box of thunder with Monster of the Absolute, their greatest balancing act of melody and dissonance to date."
7/1/2004	Paik	Satin Black	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Paik are wicked conjurers of a seriously delirious thunder, unleashing a maelstrom of sound that is as lilting as it is crushing. A power trio of guitar/bass/drums, the band first streaked across the Michigan space-gaze scene in 1997, seeking to chart out new aural frontiers within a rock format. Evoking the roaring resonance of Kevin Sheilds' levitating guitar innovations and the minimalist weight of a band like Earth, Paik are a heady force on the avant rock map. Satin Black is truly a beautiful noise."
3/21/2007	Paine, Andrew	After Solstice Days	CDR	$11.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New limited edition self-released electric guitar album from long-term Richard Youngs collaborator and Ilk member, Andrew Paine, packaged in art card paper with hand-drawn art. Some very heavy proto-Japanese string fluxing here, from stinging acid-peak leads through watery, sub-aqueous tones and full-on amp humping, this is a thrilling ride from start to finish. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
2/20/2010	Paine, Andrew	Functions of Hedgerow	CDR	$10.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Limited edition of 50 copies solo CD-R from frequent Richard Youngs collaborator Andrew Paine. Functions Of Hedgerow is intended as the third installment in the trilogy that includes Five Perspectives and Weekend World. Here Paine uses spoken word and drone to conjure the kind of pastoral violence of early Flying Saucer Attack while modulating and distorting vocals to macabre effect." (Volcanic Tongue)
7/24/2010	Paine, Andrew	The Haunts of Ancient Peace	CDR	$9.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"'The Haunts of Ancient Peace' (SOR40) is the result of a one hour session at my piano, recorded directly onto an iphone mic. Free and indeterminate in nature, these simple compositions chart loss and friendship through quiet, slowly evolving patterns. The album is dedicated to AKN 1963 - 2010. The piano needs tuning :-) Limited edition of 50 copies."
8/28/2007	Paine, Andrew	The Starling Post	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New limited self-released album from Andrew Paine, Ilk member and long-term Richard Youngs collaborator. This one looks back to his first ever release with a set of traditional folk songs given a psychedelic overhaul using shortwave radio, harmonica, singing bowl, kazoo and electric guitar. Features deep, tranced takes on material like "God Bless The Master", "The Unquiet Grave", "The Whitby Lad", "Bonny Cuckoo" and more. Dedicated to Richard Youngs." - Volcanic Tongue
1/24/2009	Paine, Andrew	Weekend World	CDR	$12.99	Bells Hill	"Robot voices mumble inebriated hymns in dazed prose of minimal foil-laden compression. Singing electric guitar is blurred within constricting drones nodding towards the silken backdrops of Fursaxa. Paine juxtaposes these sounds alongside repeated vocal manipulation musings. This creates a schizophrenic album of track-by-track personality shift, one moment absorbing and spewing electric guitar tones, the next quiet robot rambling. The electric guitar is looped with single resonant melodies that play elongated chords akin to Harold Budd's output on the wonderfully introverted 'By the Dawns Early Light' LP. This technique is especially successful on 'Lord of the Fishes', which utilises wavering tones and simple melodies to hypnotic and delirious effect. For just over half an hour Paine delivers a personal and successfully disjointed journey of two interlocking stories. From his many collaborative efforts (Ilk/Richard Youngs) and a number of mesmerising solo projects, Paine has definitely produced a career highlight, achieving a little magic through some gorgeous compositions. The abandonment of solidity adds a welcome flux to a multi-terrain sound pallet. The singing guitar really soothes and sits outside of most of the coarse sounds of 2008. The CDR comes housed in simple packaging with a new age cover illustration from Devotional Hooligan, illustrating some kind of alien eclipse. This is the second release from a new label, which is helmed by music journalist/ enthusiast Scott McKeating. This is another success from the hive of activity, which is Glasgow, and a key side from Paine away from his Sonic Oyster label. As the album closes with ring modulator tuning in alien poetry, I am left suitably awestruck. 8/10 " - Foxy Digitalis
3/21/2007	Paine, Andrew & Alistair Crosbie	Phosphorous	CDR	$11.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Extended drone omnitones from the new duo of Andrew Paine (regular Richard Youngs collaborator) and Alistair Crosbie (with connections to Kylie Minoise et al), with Crosbie re-working Paine's original Farfisa organs with overdubbed computerised organ. Sounds most like the early, luminous drone opening to Nurse With Wound's Spiral Insana extended to oblivion. With paste-on sleeves in hard plastic sleeves ala the usual Sonic Oyster set-up." - Volcanic Tongue
4/3/2010	Paine, Andrew and Richard Youngs	The Horizon Project	3" CDR	$7.99	La Station Radar	Part of Fake Tape Series - limited edition of 50 copies.
2/21/2009	Painting Petals On Planet Ghost	Fallen Camellias	CD	$12.99	A Silent Place	"Second full-lenght album from Italy's Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, aka brothers Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and vocalist Ramona Ponzini (also involved in the duo Praxinoscope, as well as a new project with Z'EV). 'Fallen Camellias' is a tribute to one of the greatest poetess ever, Japanese Yosano Akiko, whose work in literature in the early 1900's is considered as manifesto of the Japanese Romanticism. Imagine a Vashti Bunyan or a early Marianne Faithful singing sweet melodies in Japanese language, and you can have an idea of the musical and poetical universe of Painting Petals On Planet Ghost. Here Ramona Ponzini's singing comes from the use of Akiko's selected original poems in Japanese along with Ponzini's own typical soft and enchanting wordless vocals style, a out of time muse-like chant hypnotizing the ears and the minds of the listeners. The songs of 'Fallen Camellias' are built on acoustic guitar melodies composed by Maurizio Opalio,and are made of the same pure, melancholic essentiality of the legendary Nick Drake; while, after contributing arrangements of the most ecstatic nature, the other brother Roberto Opalio has played the role of producer of the whole album, searching for not only an aesthetic, but especially an emotional ideal of perfection. In the heart of winter covered by snow, let 'Fallen Camellias' be your warm blanket, as well as the promise of a new future spring. Here's a special Painting Petals On Planet Ghost's dedication: 'For those who drink the wine of love springtime is forever'. Comes in a deluxe 3 panels digipak."
9/1/2009	Painting Petals On Planet Ghost	Haru no omoi	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Haru No Omoi is the third full length release from Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, the project of My Cat Is An Alien's Maurizio and Roberto Opalio featuring Ramona Ponzini (Black Magic Disco, Praxinoscope) on vocals. The MCIAA duo provide expertly restrained accompaniment with guitar, keyboard, and percussion of the spacious gong/cymbal/bell variety to create a minimalist realm for Ponzini's Japanese singing and spoken word that is all together captivating. This is an album of sparse, hypnotic folk and subtle drone, but it inhabits a galaxy containing a warmth and richness in detail quite unlike anything else the Opalios have laid their hands on. Track two, 'Sakura No Hana No Oto Ga Kikoeru,' is a variation (or maybe the same exact version?) of the same song featured on the band's stunning 2005 self-titled debut release on Time-Lag. Housed in a heavy mini-gatefold sleeve. "Every track recorded in a different mystic location of the Western Alps, Piedmont, Italy between winter 2004, early fall 2006 and January 2009." - FE
5/1/2009	Painting Petals On Planet Ghost / Mykel Boyd	split	7"	$13.99	Somnimage	"The Opalio Brothers (My Cat Is An Alien) with Ramona Ponzini bring the mellow on the Painting Petals On Planet Ghost side with ambient noise and bells. Mykel Boyd's sweet ride consists of processed field recordings. White vinyl in opaque wrap-over sleeve. Limited to 200 copies." - Revolver
12/27/2005	Painting Petals on the Planet Ghost	Painting Petals on the Planet Ghost	LP	$29.99	Time-Lag Records	"Debut recording from italy's Opalio brothers (my cat is an alien) and Ramona Ponzini. An esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism, and emotion. Each track recorded at a different mystical location in the western alps, and centered around ramona's beautiful vocals, all of which are sung in traditional japanese. Maurizio & Roberto add sparse accompaniment by means of toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. the whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted, depending on your attention & mood. Silence, space & ritual are hugely important here, with notes & words hovering frozen in time... while the my cat is alien moniker might leave some folks scratching their heads, here the painting petals on plant ghost name nails it : fragile, beautiful, cosmically isolationist, and totally spooked... pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl, and lushly packaged with letterpress printed cover & insert. Printed with copper ink on exquisite & massively thick handmade ivory art paper, each sheet cast one at a time & air dried. Hand numbered edition of 560 copies."
12/31/2003	Painting Solidiers	Horizon Falls	12" EP	$7.99	The Social Registry	"Andrea Hansen steps outside of the epic-like dyanamics of of Icewater Scandal with this record; the debut of her side project Painting Soldiers. Recorded on four track over two years in a tiny cramped apartment in soho above a gunshop and behind a police station (for real) the material for this record has been culled from a library of cassettes which were then remixed, edited and mastered by Lee Ranaldo & Chris Griffen; dark lo-fo recordings which bring to mind the musings of Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett or Nico. The Third edition in our 12" Series; a one sided LP with an etching on the B Side in an edition of 600."
9/29/2005	Päivänsäde	2	Cassette	$12.99	POK	"This is for everybody who hasn't got the Päivänsäde double cassette released by POK earlier! It's basically a re-release of the songs that you won't find on the LP Puhalluspelto, released by Eclipse. Berry good! Quality stuff!" "Managed to get our hands on this very rare cassette release from one of the best Finnish groups, Päivänsäde. This cassette is drawn from the same sessions that produced their world-beating Eclipse LP and features more free jazz-inspired thought rendered with plenty of eerie, otherworldly atmosphere, making the whole deal sound impossibly ancient. Lau Naukkarinen actually rates this one higher than the LP. Features Niko-Matti Ahti (of Kiila), Avaruuskatti, Pauliina Haasjoki, Pekko Käppi, Lau Naukkarinen, Sun Pa and Antti Tolvi. Comes on Lau and Antti’s own POK imprint with hand-coloured covers." - Volcanic Tongue
3/20/2010	Pale Blue Sky	Shades Of Grey	12" EP	$10.99	Arbor	"Pale Blue Sky is the new project from Mike Pollard (formerly Treetops). Shades Of Grey is the project's genesis; a long considered transition uniting the organic drone-work of the former project with compositional structures. The recordings embody a delicate sense of distance; staring out at the moving landscape obscured by the mediation of the window. Through blurred fidelity the origin of melody is placed under microscopic inquiry; an exploration into the moment of tonal interaction. Pale Blue Sky utilizes repetition and non-linear movements, attempting to reconcile simplicity, form, and sentiment through modes of difference. Placing focus on spatial concerns, as well as emotive potential, the five songs contained within are each different embodiments of the possibility of the transformative decay of remembrance. An ephemeral glimpse; the moment has already passed. For quiet, distanced listening. In an edition of 400 copies with full color glossy jackets, printed inner sleeves, and printed labels."
6/30/2010	Palestine, Charlemagne	Four Manifestations On Six Elements	CD	$16.99	Alga Marghen	"Four Manifestations On Six Elements, one of Charlemagne Palestine most well-known works, has now finally been included in the Alga Marghen Golden Research series of CD editions presenting the composer's relevant historical recordings. In 1973 Charlemagne Palestine was commissioned to make Four Manifestations On Six Elements by the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. As the gallery was well known for its presentation of conceptual art Palestine decided to create a record similar to an exhibition space with four walls to expose on, each wall corresponding to a side on a double LP record. 'Two Perfect Fifths, A Major Third Apart, Reinforced Twice' (1973) is an electronic piece that deals with the search for the essence of timbre, sound color, through exploration of the inert chemical activity in the overtone series of tone fundamentals. In this genre of his work Palestine feels akin to a kind of sound alchemy - blending elements over and over again through the years searching for the Golden Sound - the essence of the chord or harmonic structure itself. In 'One + Two + Three Perfect Fifths, In The Rhythm 3 Against 2, for Piano' (1973) the elements introduced are now elaborated upon on the piano. The resonant Bösendorfer allows Palestine to create a more lively and complex variation of tones, intervals, overtones and rhythms. 'One Fifth' evolves by reinforcing the fundamentals of a fifth with their higher octave. Each performance of this work is different as Palestine reinterprets these simple elements, listening within them for variations of amplitude, mixture and inertia at the moment of the performance. 'One + Two Fifths' deals with the way a rhythmic sonority sounds when the sustain pedal of the piano is not used, thus focusing on its rhythmic aspect. Gradually by adding the sustain pedal the external rhythmic pattern begins to internalize, becoming an inert part of the whole tymbral fabric - a piece expressing the battle of rhythm versus timbre for dominance. In 'One + Two + Three' a third fifth is added - vari rhythmic deceleration process ending the work. 'Sliding Fifths for Piano' (1972) is an impressionistic version of the three fifths used in the entire work. The continuous liquid waterfall of pure romantic piano sound and color is a homage to Debussy, Ravel and Monet. 'Three Perfect Fifths, A Major Second Apart, Reinforced Twice' (1973) is the complexification and continuation of wall one. A pure and sonorous phenomenon. First pressing limited to 500 copies in digipack sleeve, with a full color 12-page booklet including two essays, originals score and visual material related to these composition."
6/30/2010	Palestine, Charlemagne	Relationship Studies	LP	$24.99	Alga Marghen	"Relationship Studies LP includes 2 seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine, or 'Relationship Study No. 1' (1967) and the generally titled 'Electronic' from the same year. Sounds in motion like race cars, motor cycles, war planes, rocket ships excited Charlemagne sonic imagination when we was still a young teenager. Then came the experience of listening to the electronic music of Tod Dockstader, Alwyn Nikolais, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaffer, Xenakis and Poème Electronique by Edgar Varese. Immediately fascinated, Charlemagne Palestine bought primitive electronic equipment and started to experiment, creating his original electronic-esque language. The two previously unreleased 18 minute masterpieces presented here directly come from this early period of intense experimentations in a fluid, ever-changing mix of adding and filtering white noise and simple sine tone generators. Both pieces are late night compositions created at the electronic music studio of the New York N.Y.U. Intermedia Center using Buchla 100 and Buchla 200 systems. Even if dating back from the mid-1960s, these intense sonorities might very much recall the best early power electronic scene from the late 1970s, in particular to the first brut music works created by Maurizio Bianchi. For sure they represent a very unique and inspiring approach to electronic creation, sounding more and more actual and surprising nowadays. Edition limited to 350 copies."
4/25/2008	Palestine, Charlemagne	Sharing A Sonority	CD	$24.99	Alga Marghen	"Alga Marghen proudly presents a new chapter in the documentation series of Charlemagne Palestine's historical works. This CD of previously unavailable recordings not only presents you Charlemagne Palestine activities in 1974, collaborating with some of most important experimental artists and composers from either the New York loft scene and Cal Arts, but also features world premiere recordings of Terry Jennings and The Fundamental D Flat Group. 'Short & Sweet' is the title of a breathtaking duo for piano and sax performed on April 24th by Charlemagne Palestine and Terry Jennings.This CD featured a very special duo by Palestine and Bob Feldman playing electronics and flute. This CD is housed in a beautiful digipack with a full color sleeve with photos and liner notes. The edition presents some of the best recordings ever issued by Charlemagne Palestine, a highlight in the Alga Marghen catalog and a unique chance to listen to the core of Charlemagne Palestine."
4/25/2008	Palestine, Charlemagne	Voice Studies	LP	$29.99	Alga Marghen	"The VocSon series presents on limited edition LPs the most advanced international vocal experiments and is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. This series includes now the new LP record by Charlemagne Palestine titled Voice Studies. Charlemagne Palestine's introduction to music or sound was first with his own voice. He began at four years old to sing versions of popular songs and operas in his own way. Using a Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder and discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone and immediately pulling it out, creating an interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, changing and distorting. No other electronic sound manipulation techniques were used. 'Voice + Piano Study I & II' are short and beautiful piano improvisation with tape superimposition of accelerated voice pieces. Recorded at Cal Arts on September 29th, 1971. Edition limited to 385 copies."
	Pan American	Pan American	CD	$12.99	kranky	Solo record from Labradford's guitarist and vocalist Mark Nelson
4/10/2009	Pan to Scratch	The Sourcerer	cassette	$5.99	Earjerk	"Daily, solitary, outdoor rituals documented over two months time in the Fall of 2008. Field recordings and multi-layer melodica musings crumble and decay over the 15 meditative minutes comprising side A of the latest Object Tapes release. Side B is a version on this number, with the drifting melodica drone having a bit more presence this time and taking on a pensive contemplative mood, punctuated with bells and minimal instrumentation. As with the release on Cabin Floor Esoterica, this is dedicated to the great Olivier Messiaen."
12/10/2004	Pan Y Regaliz / Evolution / Cerebrum	untitled	DBL CD	$29.99	RamaLama	"Reissue of not one, but three of the rarest psych/prog albums released in Spain in the early seventies. Pan Y Regaliz is a world class item featuring spaced vocals, effects, astonishing guitar work, and flute; Evolution were a German band residing in Spain, who mixed soul music with progressive and jazz, the result being this album full of Hammond grooves and psychedelic fuzz guitars; Cerebrum is a heavy psych EP of epic proportions, that is only available on CD on this collection. Buy this collection now, as it is out of print!" - Lion Productions
3/23/2007	Panda Bear	Person Pitch	CD	$15.99	Paw Tracks	"ANIMAL COLLECTIVE member PANDA BEAR (aka NOAH LENNOX) boldly returns with his long-awaited third solo album Person Pitch. Years in the making, the album marks a dramatic departure from Panda Bear's previous work. The acoustic instruments have been replaced with samplers and electronics, and his toe-tappin pop sounds have more of a techno feel. Eight tracks."
7/23/2004	Panicsville	Perverse	CD (Enhanced)	$10.99	Liquid Death / Hello Pussy Records	"Panicsville are certainly one of the most notorious noise groups of late, demanding your full attention or none at all. Forging even deeper into the uncharted territories of underground music, Panicsville (headed by Andy Ortmannn) create a world entirely their own, utilizing a range of electronic devices and their usual level of unparalled experimentalism. On 'Perverse' (the groups 24th official release), Panicsville expand their unique style of music into the realms of battle hymns and and rock n' roll. This already sonically destructive duo is aided by the talents of Weasel Walter (the Flying Luttenbachers), Thymme Jones (Cheer Accident), Kevin Drumm, and M.V. Carbon (Metalux) on this album. Keeping in line with their uncanny discography which includes anti-records, 8 track cassettes, 5", 7", 8", 12" records, cd's, reel to reels, etc., Panicsville present an enhanced cd featuring a new film by controversial Chicago underground filmmaker Usama Alsahibi. The soundtrack was composed by Ortmann; this film is both beautiful and grotesque. Absolutely their finest work to date!"
2/26/2006	Panicsville / Inflatable Alterboys	split	LP	$12.99	Nihilist	"New Panicsville, a thought that always gets my panties in a bunch. I never know what to expect. Sometimes the sounds are utterly abstract, sometimes they're more ambient and sometimes there's even a melody. On its side of the slab, Panicsville dishes out three songs. And each of these of the concepts is represented. The first piece is utterly ambient, an understated noise soundscape. Simply entrancing. The second song has almost a traditional construction, complete with melody and all. The third song, while still playing around with a keyboard, is much less structured. Most intriguing. Inflatable Alterboys fills its side with one song, Superior Twelve Inch Finger" (One of the greatest titles I've ever seen). It kinda sounds like the Panicsville, except instead of separating the three distinct approaches to electronic noise, everything gets thrown into a single pot. Not like a mishmash, but more of a bouillabaisse. The pieces are distinct within the whole. There is a consistent rhythmic idea that travels throughout most of the piece, and everything else kinda hangs off those beats at odd angles. Truly wonderful. This piece of vinyl is everything I expected (I did have high hopes) and much more. Big smiles." 2001 release.
9/29/2005	Panicsville / Lovely Little Girls	split	7"	$5.99	Nihilist	Panicsville spew witch doctor vibrations with cauldrons bubbling over full of baby parts & psychedelic mayhem. Lovely Little Girls are the nasty gnarly creatures chanting & banging hits of the helplessly retarded; somewhere betwixt NERVOUS GENDER & the SCREAMERS. Housed in a multi-colored silk screened sleeve, all artwork by Gregory Jacobsen (see www.gregoryjacobsen.com for more amazing examples of his work). Limited edition of 400 copies pressed on marbled vinyl.
2/26/2006	Panicsville / Rubber-O-Cement	split	LP	$12.99	Nihilist	"One can't help but embrace Rubber-O-Cement's love affair with the two-dimensional on their split LP with Panicsville (Nihilist). Deciphering the duo's cardboard computer and ramshackle Witchypoo costuming is hardly a vexing conundrum, although it would be nice if such grammar school thetrics were genuine attempts to deceive the audience into believing that a pair of six-foot-tall third-graders might actually be creating electronic noise at the Clitstop on a school night after 11:30. Playing Peabody to Rubber-O's Sherman, Panicsville set the Wayback Machine for the Columbia University of Electronic Music Center, 1953. Among the bachelor pad birdcalls, space jingles, random blips and bleeps (when the computer's thinking), certain anachronisms are noticeable, such as Andy Ortmann's familiarity with deep noise (the bifocals and necktie idea of noise being flat, hissy static with no presence). One welcome absence is the insecurity that unless all these gizmos can be trained to blip and bleep "Bicycle Built For Two", no one's going to accept electronics as a viable method of commodity production (excuse me, music making)."
8/28/2007	Panicsville and Prurient	Rubber Baron	8"	$12.99	Rococo Records	Collaboration 8" on opaque red vinyl with screened black on black chipboard, limited to 300 copies. Out of print.
3/21/2007	Pantaleimon	Cloudburst	CD	$10.99	Durtro Jnana	"Pantaleimon (pronounced "Pan-ta-lay-mon") is the adopted moniker of vocalist and composer Andria Degens. Sometimes collaborating with friends, though often alone, she creates beautifully haunting and meditative music. Cloudburst, her first recording as Pantaleimon since 2002's Change My World, features four tracks of hypnotic vocal passages that together form a long conceptual piece, which, Degens says, "... is symbolic of the journey every human being makes in a lifetime ... the transformation, transfiguration, the state of being, the space between heaven and Earth." Initially packaged with a limited, hand-printed edition of Degens's poetry and drawings, Cloudburst is now available as a proper CD release. None of the material on the EP will appear on the upcoming Pantaleimon full-length, due later this year.
2/21/2007	Panther Skull	Slothwave	CD	$7.99	SNSE	"Spoiled gunk tape roll with the organ heave and moan. The howl. This is bleak and this is zoned. Might as well plug and blow out your nose as hard as you can for 25 minutes straight. Panther Skull is Justin C Meyers (Devillock, Tone Filth label). Slothwave is Panther Skull's debut CD." Edition of 446 copies, pro-printed on textured cardstock, in clear jewel case. "Panther Skull is the invention of Justin C. Meyers, whose other activites include involvement with Tone Filth, Devillock and others. Under this new pseudonym, however, Meyers comes up with a more foreboding approach. Here he uses tapes, organ and electronics to produce a quartet of sinister sounding moanings that echo and reverberate in some dark, dripping sonic cave of his own design. Sloth Wave has distinct elements of Mirror drifting through it, as supernatural gusts of electronic fog roll in and out of the mix and traces of feedback suddenly rise up like tiny voices trying to be heard through the ensuing gloom of Meyer's bleak blanket of electronic murk." - The Wire, Dec. 2005
12/21/2004	Papercop	A Lifetime Over Dublin	CDR	$6.99	Psychic Dice	"Kick out the yams Melonfarmers!; The debut album from Dublin's most confused (and often confusing) Rock band was recording Live at the Capsule (RIP) in Thomas House. It rocks, it grooves, it moves, let it kick yr hole today. Papercop are one of the best live bands we've ever seen and we've seen loads. Few bands these days manage (or want to) rock like fuck and still improvise wildly. This is not nerdy noodlecore, each Papercop gig is different as they are restless in their search for The One. Bible studies like this band so much that they even stole their drummer Bryan after a midge-bitten jam in the woods at the Mór festival. A Lifetime over Dublin documents a damaged live set recorded at the now defunct Capsule night in Thomas House in February 2003."
8/7/2002	Paradise Camp 23	Bar-BQ Dungeon	CD	$9.99	Mandragora Records	"Paradise Camp 23 is a space-core project headed up by Mandragora label pres Erik Amlee. This is psychedelia of the harshest sort and not for the fainthearted. Amlee does an impressive job of incorporating all the elements of classic acid psych and electronic space into a mind shattering noise and industrial stew. Imagine a collaboration between F/i, early Alien Planetscapes, and The Residents, with dashes of the earliest Pink Floyd, and you might get something like Paradise Camp 23. While the sounds are seriously aggressive, there's actually a lot of activity for the attentive listener to explore. All the sounds are distinct and have an identity rather than being a huge senseless assault that serves no purpose but to lobotomize the listener. Loads of cool freaky space tones come together with various strange samples of voices and other sounds to create a sonic landscape that can be as dark as it is cosmic. Paradise Camp 23 also has it's lighter moments consisting of relatively ambient noise excursions. And if you've made it through the first three tracks and are still enjoying the ride, then tighten your safety harness for the lengthy 47 minute title track. Fans of the 80's space/noise artists who took meditative space and didn't so much turn it on its ear as they did rip it out will want to give Paradise Camp 23 a listen." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations "The debut album by Paradise Camp 23 crawls deep into the Vault for source material transformed into Mandragora DNA. Chunks of noise, crawling meat guitar, rancid waves of feedback, insect opera, dead voices swirl in a thick hallucinatory stew. Musique garbage with a cast of thousands."
12/29/2002	Paradise Camp 23	Solitaire	CD	$8.99	Mandragora Records	"Single epic length track of HEAVY neutron star spacedoom, ear-splitting electronics, nauseating noise, and subliminal hypnosis. Essential preparation for the next full-length installment. Puts a firecracker in your licorice, straight gangsta mack." One 46 minute track.
12/19/2002	Paradise Camp 23	Teonanacatl	CD	$8.99	Mandragora Records	"The Live Sound of Paradise Camp 23. Four improvised performances captured on stereo cassette, then merged into a single work with a minimum of edits or cuts. The unexpected results of this random process blend into an intense psychedelic ceremony, with spontaneously created tones and sounds reacting and harmonizing across Time. Listening through speakers in a darkened room suggested for best effect and comfort in travelling." Recorded on July 10, August 5, September 13 and October 9, 2002. Reconstructed at Studio Weird October 2002 by Erik Amlee.
11/3/2004	Parallels, The	The Parallels	CDR	$15.99		“First official release by this new free/improvisation unit spearheaded by Mauro Pawlowksi with assistance of Cassini Division mainman Miguel Sosa. Totally out there jam sessions that sacrifice mummified heads and razorsharp sounds to the weather gods, highly energetic almost restless intensity that demands concentrated listening. A wide range of instruments gets tweaked and tormented so abstract carpets can be smoked. Packaged in handsilkscreened fold-out cover featuring artwork by Antwerp artist Romeo. Limited edition of only 150 copies are moving fast... Highly recommended!”
6/9/2003	Paraquat Earth Band	If You Ain't With Us You're Against Us	CD	$9.99	Flipped Out Records	"Re-mastered compact disc reissue of the out of print vinyl LP originally released in 1996...full on twin guitar wrangling meets collapsing cracked kit for fuzz busting forty five minutes...relentless riff stomping draped through a weave of blaktinson."
7/23/2003	Pardons	Charlie’s Pardons	CD	$16.99	Acid Mothers Temple	February 2003 recordings from Pardon Uno (aka Higashi Hiroshi on synthesizer and guitar) and Pardon Dos (aka Cotton Casino on voice and synthesizer) featuring 6 tracks with a running time of about 56 minutes. This is a limited edition of 500 copies. "Finally the 2nd album of Pardons (by Cotton Casino and Higashi Hiroshi, the synth-playing frontline dance brigade of AMT) has come out!!"
5/16/2010	Parker, Evan & John Wiese	C-Section	LP	$29.99	Pan	"British free jazz phenomenon Evan Parker with electronic and tape noise artist John Wiese in a set of real-time evolving improvisations intended for maximum volume. Vinyl version of the CD released earlier this year, but slightly different containing all the final mixes and edits of the sessions with a new and more intense mastering for the maximum listening experience. C-Section finds density in scarcity - deep, glacial muck bubbles emerge beneath Parker's inhuman circular breathing, only to plunge into an incessant clatter of industrial landscape. Evan Parker is a free sax legend, best known for his work with Keith Rowe (AMM), Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann (including on his epochal 'Machine Gun'), Derek Bailey, and for his inspired, individualistic take on musical freedom. Being the UK's equivalent of Peter Brotzmann means that as far as free jazz saxophonists go, Evan Parker has very few equals. Hugely respected with a rich and varied back catalogue, Parker has graced the cream of the free jazz racks for the last forty years. John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His recent works have a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering the US, UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He is also a founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek. The Lp is mastered by Diane Maroney, cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas."
	Parker, Evan / Frank Perry	For The Love Of…	LP	$19.99	Qbico	"Unreleased recording, available here for the first time after little more than 30 years. Evan Parker- soprano saxophone / Frank Perry- percussion. Recorded live Feb. 11, 1972 at the Royal Commonwealth Society, London, UK." "... Evan and Frank played a duo which was recorded by Frank on a primitive cassette recorder for a personal record. It has been decided that the improvisation was significant enough to warrant a release. Despite the unsophisticated recording equipment the quality was astoundingly good. Frank and Evan had met and played together as a duo only once a couple of years before as a blow." - Frank Perry
10/14/2004	Parkins, Zeena	Nightmare Alley	CD	$18.99	Table of the Elements	"Step right up and meet the astounding Zeena Parkins, the world's greatest electric harpist. Forget about angelic choirs; Zeena cites Jimi Hendrix as a major inspiration, and her harp work is similarly explosive, often blurring into fuzz-distorted terrain. Parkins is a lightning bolt of a performer, and a much sought after collaborator; she works frequently with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Jim O'Rourke, and has recorded and toured with Courtney Love and Hole, Yoko Ono and Bjork. Recorded in 1992, Nightmare Alley was Zeena's first solo release and the first CD on Table of the Elements. An hypnotic classic, it lures the listener into a parallel world of sensations, one that is disorienting and surreal, strangely pleasurable and more than a little dangerous. Step inside if you dare - you won't believe your ears! Lavishly packaged in a wood box, with new artwork and liner-notes by journalist Steve Dollar."
	Parlane, Rosy & R S W Lundon	The Last Resort of the Gambling Man	7"	$6.99	Imperial	"Two vastly different tracks taken from a series of collaborations between Lundon (Pit viper) and Parlane (ex-Thela). one side locked grooves and looped phase interference, the other guitar and drums. an infamous writeoff and a legendary Vodka fiend meet in the gutter to gaze at the stars." Edition of 100 copies.
6/30/2010	Pärson Sound	Pärson Sound	3LP BOX	$52.99	Subliminal Sounds	"Deluxe triple LP box set in a limited edition of 1,000 copies worldwide. A spectacular archival package of primitive drone and minimalist rock/trance/psych from the Swedish underground -- believe the hype as follows; one of the most memorable audio documents ever. After years of research, Subliminal Sounds is proud to present the nucleus of the Swedish 1960s-'70s underground psych rock scene: the legendary Pärson Sound. This deluxe 3LP box set presents the most remarkable Swedish underground band, known in a later incarnation and continuation as International Harvester and Träd, Gräs och Stenar (trans. "Trees, Grass and Stones"), and features both intricate studio recordings and orgiastic live performances. Pärson Sound never released any records in their time and that is why very few have heard about them at all. The recordings date from 1967-1968 while the band explored unknown musical territory as well as inner- and outer space. In 1968, they were invited by Andy Warhol to play at the opening of his exhibition: "Screens, Films, Boxes, Clouds and a Book" at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and they also opened for The Doors. Influenced by the musical concepts of Terry Riley, Pärson Sound worked at discovering and perfecting their own unique approach towards the mixing of rock and minimalism, creating some of the most remarkable psych- trance-drone-pre-noise music-rock sounds ever recorded. Pärson Sound's music described contexts, interplay and organic growth and shaped a conception of the world in opposition to fragmentation, individual achievements and intellectual construction. This world was to be perceived as one body, a whole of inviolable parts. Their minimalist repetition with slight changes renders associations with slow growth, cyclic process, breathing, pulse, life, movement and machines. This persistent repetition also gives the listener an opportunity to discover the sounds, to meditate, to go into the music and join the same journey. Many times, one can discover a relationship with music of other cultures, and in comparison, the music of the Western world can feel cursory, unreliable -- as a fear of entering deep into feeling. Pärson Sound's compositions often consist of harsh structures -- rhythm patterns with ostinato bass, a melodic figure which forms a base for improvisation. Other songs have a more thoroughly-elaborated structure that still leaves room for variation. The moment, the audience, the location formed their music. Their key phrase was "We, Here and Now!" and with time, the music came to have an increasingly religious or shamanistic streak, with more intensity, presence and warmth, striving for euphoria and ecstasy. The band's psychedelic approach is so fresh and vital that it transcends time. Listen to it now! A 3LP with informative, revised liner notes in English and lots of photos." - FE
6/11/2006	Passing Star Solar Filament	untitled	CDR	$10.99		"Two demented 'rock' tracks, recorded live in the Astral Social Club, April 2006, presumably by the usual suspects. Bozo riffs, wayward drums/machines, robot vox, dunderhead fx - like a timeslipped Hawkwind on a bum trip? Yeah, right. Nineteen minutes, that's enough." - Astral Social Club.
8/28/2004	Patchen, Kenneth	Reads with Jazz in Canada	CD	$12.99	Locust	"This modern-day minstrel is as fascinating and interesting as any swing or blues singer - phrases and thoughts so beautifully woven into the jazz background, and so expertly phrased and timed, that it is a revelation to the ear and mind." - Los Angeles Examiner. "On a single October evening in 1959, fabled people's poet Kenneth Patchen and Vancouver's Alan Neil Quartet made a little bit of history. Together, they cut one of the first jazz-and poetry recordings to disc -- fiery, spontaneous and free of pretensions, where hard bop playing wailed neck-and-neck with Patchen's scathing, slurred, rabid vocalizations. Today, many see Jazz In Canada as among the very first truly beat documents on record - preceding efforts by Kerouac, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg. This new edition features original notes by Alan Neil & new retrospective notes by rock'n'roll poet of the San Francisco renaissance David Meltzer."
9/17/2006	Path Of Destruction	Path Of Destruction	CDR	$6.99	Lost Treasures Of The Underworld/No Coast Records	"This is the follow up to Greenhouse. McAuley and Derwent bring you more craziness and this time it sounds even more fucked up than ever. Path Of Destruction takes you to a brand new place that your ears have never been to."
12/12/2009	Patriotic Window Klings	Double Tiger	c31 cassette	$7.99	Bumtapes	"Second release from the North Carolina duo. Nine tracks of loose but incised guitar meandering and vivacious electronic clamor punctuated by the occasional vocal flourish. Hammering their stake into the same ground as Blues Control, Aaron Dilloway and even late 80s Buttholes. Limited to 25 copies."
2/7/2009	Patriotic Window Klings	Patriotic Window Klings	CDR	$5.99	Abandon Ship Records	"Ankle deep in effluent and reverb, these southern hermits keep it realer than real, (unrealer than unreal?). The Patriotic Window Klings are definitely plotting their own course through the yellow pine dust, dragging an ostentatious tail through the whole shebang, and spitting out some pretty brutal shards. Is that the sound of a broken Casio being dragged by a 1987 mustang cougar down 2 miles of gravel road, or are my ears hallucinating? Did TS Mc Phee break a couple of his fingers,get together with Graham Lambkin, and record some blasted out soundscapes on a Vicodin jag? If you're hip to Blues Control, Sun Araw and some of the other more hazy, dirt encrusted psych explorers currently practicing the Art - you will definitely get something out of the Klings." Edition of 50
7/14/2007	Patron Saints, The	Fohhohh Bohob	CD	$17.99	Time-Lag Records	"The full original lp plus the two extra tracks from the 7inch, as well and 4 previously unreleased bonus tracks from private demos and live recordings, as well as an alternate version of the lp's closing track. heavy miniature lp style gatefold cover with all original lp art, plus notes inside from founding member eric bergman. cd sized version of the original booklet insert complete with metallic printed covers. woven japanese inner sleeves."
7/14/2007	Patron Saints, The	Fohhohh Bohob	LP + 7"	$27.99	Time-Lag Records	"Deluxe and exact official reissue of one of the rarest & most unique gems of the 60s private press psychedelic underground. home recorded in a suburban new york living room over just a couple weeks in 1969 by three enthused teenagers, and then self released by the band in an edition of only 100 copies complete with hand assembled covers and booklet insert. dreams of rock stardom may have faded quickly, but from such humble beginnings these kids totally transcended their limited resources... an album overflowing with naive creativity, huge ideas, deep bedroom mysticism, and more then a hint of stoned teenage humor, not to mention a rather unusual assortment of instruments and some very unconventional but brilliant "studio" maneuvering. two singers/songwriters both with wonderfully deep, poetic & introspective lyrics and unique voices, chiming 12 string & electric guitars, unusually cool use of piano, crude drum kit, autoharp, banjo, tambourine, subtle bursts of fuzz bass, off kilter unison vocals, washes of reverb modulation, weird tape edits, and a seriously one-of-a-kind vibration. there's truly been nothing like it before or since... highest quality production throughout with better then ever master tape sounds and warm analog mastering, audiophile 180gm vinyl, exact reproduction of the original heavy weight cover with front & back mind-blowingly cool crude black & white art just like the original, exact reproduction of the thick insert booklet with gold printed covers on multiple colors of construction paper. plus a bonus 7inch of two essential tracks intended for the original lp but left off due to time restrictions, complete with colored construction paper picture sleeve and lyric insert. without a doubt, the definitive reissue of this lost masterpiece. released in full cooperation with founding member eric bergman. strictly limited to 1000 copies."
9/17/2006	Patterson, Ben	A Fluxus Elegy	one-sided LP	$21.99	Alga Marghen	"The new Ben Patterson piece, issued as a one-sided LP on alga marghen's VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa: First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitchs or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic patterns as a foundation. Third principle: community particiption...non specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of duple and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family "ownership" of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family "Owns" and is reposible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones "owned" by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of astists listed in "Fluxus: the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties" and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These "dots and dashes" were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score. Edition limited to 345 copies."
12/26/2005	Patterson, Ben	Liverpool Soundworks - Volume One	CD	$18.99	Alga Marghen	"The Liverpool Song Lines (22'57"): for many year Ben Patterson have been fascinated by the so-called "song lines" of the Australian Aborigine. Musically, theses songs for solo voice, sometimes accompanied by "beating-sticks", are not especially stirring for Western ears. Rather, for the artist, it is the concept underlying the text which is remarkable. These songs describe flora, fauna and places which are sacred in the mythology of the Aborigine. But these birds and trees and rivers and rocks are not imaginary or mythological inventions. Thus, if the set of songs is sung in the correct sequence, they link a series of landmarks in such a way as to provide an aural map, guiding the traveller from here to there in a trackless Australian "out-back". "The River Mersey" (23'14"): from Ellesmere Port to Bootle; or, from Bootle to Ellesmere Port; or, in both directions in the same time. The graphic score of this piece is a site-inspired, adaptation of Ben Patterson erly work, "Duo-1961, for Voice and String Player" (issued by Alga Marghen in Ben Patteron "Early Works" CD) for the performance with the Frakture Big Band at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, Tuesday 29 October 2002. Compact disc packaged in mini-LP style card sleeve and full colour inner wallet."
12/26/2005	Patterson, Ben	Liverpool Soundworks - Volume Two	CD	$18.99	Alga Marghen	"Surveying Western Philosophy using China Tools" (33'45"): Western philosophy is thought to have begun along the Ionian coast of Asia Minor in the sixth century BC. Chinese astrology is thought to have begun in China in the thirtieth century BC. Would a survey using the tools of an ancient Chinese imperial science give us new and fresh reading of Western philosophy? The year in which a person was born is of singular importance in Chinese astrology as each year is governed by an animal sign. In total there are twelve such animal signs, beginning with the Rat and ending with the Pig. "Art as Thinking - Thinking as Art" (37'26"): a lecture by Ben Patterson at Liverpool School of Art and Design, 25 November 2003. Compact disc packaged in mini-LP style card sleeve and full colour inner wallet."
3/28/2010	Paul, Ashley	To Much Togethers	CD	$12.99	REL	"Over 2 years in the making, To Much Togethers is the follow up album to Ashley’s 2008 ‘D.O.L’ release. Patiently crafted and paced To Much Togethers continues on Ashley’s unique path of ‘song’ style. Combining clattering strings, (her custom green-box string set up), psycho acoustic sustain and decay, bowed metal, expressive saxophone, subtle and ear grabbing sense of color and distant voice all slowly creating mood and thought provoking miniatures, that succeed in fitting into no known forms. Lyrically focusing on surreal and repetitive images contrasted by both harsh aggressive textures with quite moving and spacious moments. Conflicting and deep energies and spaces seem to co-exist in Ashley’ world. To Much Togethers is a unique creation as Ashley moves deeper into her own individual realm, where she is truly on her own. As much as an audible experience as a visual. To Much Togethers is remarkably packaged featuring drawings by Gayle Paul (Ashley’s mother), whose intuitive creations compliment the feeling of the music. Custom assembled, and printed by Ashley Paul the striking ‘LP style’ red cover features multi layers of screening with a screen-printed black obi wrapped around the spine of the fold out cover. The inside features another screened drawing by Gayle Paul with a green w/ black over-layed CD hub. The left side features a glued black folder containing 2 more inserts with screen printed drawings w/ liner notes, a metallic paper insert in addition to a oval ‘wagtail’ sticker, with full color on CD printing. To Much Togethers is a limited edition of 300 copies and marks the 2nd full length album in REL’s limited CD series."
	Paul, Atton	Soundtracks For Animated Super-8 Films Vol. 1	7"	$4.99	dying bird	Lo-fi ambient drones. Superior packaging from this new label's debut release.
1/13/2004	Pawlowski, Mauro Antonio	Secret Guitar	LP	$17.99	Robo Records	"Refusing the comfortable pillars of notation and structure, as much as swimming against the stream, will take a little while to wrestle to the ground. Deeply rooted in honesty and rubber gloves touching the inner most soul experience, the seven non-amplified semi-acoustic guitar improvisations may be difficult to wrap your head around. Almost pastoral in their ethereal beauty and brimming with spontaneous energy. Never in search for lost chords you will hear the strings squeak, detailing the darker sides of life. His definite choice for independence offers ample proof that self reliance can be made to work in your favour, as this is by far his most intricately personal and spiritual work yet. Strongly focused excorsism, the kind that seeks surrealist heaven in armpits. Secret Guitar toughens into a diamond resonating pool of choking enchantments, no bedtime lullabies or sandman campfire songs but discordant exhausted emotion exploring similar mindsets, not unlike Derek Bailey or the late great John Fahey. Infusing those weirdly unhinged strings with ethnic lightning excursions and tuning structures in the vein of Seattle’s mystic torch carriers Sun City Girls. Punches in the face are hard to resist for anyone wondering along the shores of fire music. Painstaking underground hocus pocus from the alien giant of belgique pop culture. God help us."
2/7/2009	Payne, Adam	Organ	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Were you one of those kids who was distraught after discovering Black Flag was more influenced by ZZ Top and The Grateful Dead than The MC5 or Stooges? Well, you might wanna strap on a stronger carabiner before scaling these cliffs because you're more likely to discover pop gems than a stoned mystic in a cave. Organ is an anthem of Southern California patriotism with all the thrills of dragging in Lodi and peyote-munched soul-wandering in Silver Lake. This album is power-pop perfection, the Paisley Underground finally done right. There's a big difference between playing every instrument and being a one-man band. Suffice it to say that Adam Payne (Residual Echoes) is a one-man band akin to Emitt Rhodes broadcast over solid-state transmitters. Maybe Grant Hart has the better voice while Bob Mould churned out better lyrics. What if the Kirkwoods melded into a creature that couldn't punch itself? Adam Payne, as one band, has made an LP that matches the chops and hooks of Captain Trundlow's Sky Company or the bits of The Only Ones that are consistently lifted. The rumors that Payne was asked to produce the next Mudcrutch album have yet to be confirmed. Organ opens like Up The Academy but ends like Zabriskie Point in frustrated abandon that only leaves the listener wiser."
2/7/2009	Payne, Adam	Organ	LP	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"Were you one of those kids who was distraught after discovering Black Flag was more influenced by ZZ Top and The Grateful Dead than The MC5 or Stooges? Well, you might wanna strap on a stronger carabiner before scaling these cliffs because you're more likely to discover pop gems than a stoned mystic in a cave. Organ is an anthem of Southern California patriotism with all the thrills of dragging in Lodi and peyote-munched soul-wandering in Silver Lake. This album is power-pop perfection, the Paisley Underground finally done right. There's a big difference between playing every instrument and being a one-man band. Suffice it to say that Adam Payne (Residual Echoes) is a one-man band akin to Emitt Rhodes broadcast over solid-state transmitters. Maybe Grant Hart has the better voice while Bob Mould churned out better lyrics. What if the Kirkwoods melded into a creature that couldn't punch itself? Adam Payne, as one band, has made an LP that matches the chops and hooks of Captain Trundlow's Sky Company or the bits of The Only Ones that are consistently lifted. The rumors that Payne was asked to produce the next Mudcrutch album have yet to be confirmed. Organ opens like Up The Academy but ends like Zabriskie Point in frustrated abandon that only leaves the listener wiser. Includes a free MP3 download."
3/2/2007	PBK & BMG (Brent Gutzeit)	1	CDR	$8.99	Gameboy	"The guy who's been holding down Michigan longer than anyone and TV Pow's Kranky man vixen team up for a diverse collaboration. Perfect example of how to go all over the map without ever losing focus."
9/23/2004	PD	Inweglos	CD	$12.99	Absurd	“Little by little, the musical career of Ralf Wehowsky is unfolded on CD, either his work with P16.D4 or it's predecessor PD. Some of these works were released as 'EaRLyW', simple because Wehowsky (aka RLW) was the main man behind P16.D4 and PD, but here as PD. The band included members such as RLW, Jochen Pense, Joachim Stender and Achim Szepanski. PD recorded 'Inweglos' LP, but also a 7" and a flexidisc - the latter are not included in this release, for reasons I don't know. In some of these tracks PD is shown as a typical Neue Deutsche Welle band: finding their own form within rock music based on punk and new wave but in a more alternative form and as always with German lyrics. PD use to quite an extensive part synthesizers and rhythmboxes, along with bass guitars, guitars and vocals. At times they sound like a very free form improv band and at other times a more rock version of the early Der Plan, but without so much of humour involved in Der Plan. PD is much more political (see 'Ayatollah Carter') and also more dark in their lyrics - save for some hints towards disco in 'Progressive Disco'. Some of the material forecasts the later P16.D4 work, such as in the semi cut-up of 'Kurzzug Nach Frankfurt', but in general fits the 1980 sound very well: distorted, free form music, taking punk and new wave in a much wider field of music. Maybe I didn't play the LP in many years, but the renewed appearance is for sure a good one. It was indeed one of those more obscure classics waiting to be re-issued.” - FdW
9/29/2005	Peace Frog	#1	zine with CD	$10.99		Interviews with Yesterday's Thoughts, Nick Bensen, Cactus Cooper, Thee Hands Of Tyme, John Frankovic, Action records plus articles and reviews. CD features Sky Sunlight Saxon, Cactus Cooper, Mandra Gora Lightshow Society, Quarkspace, Desperate Friends, Fantasyy Factoryy, Cosmic Gardeners, John Francovic, Psychedelic Avengers and more.
5/29/2008	Peace Frog	Issue #2	zine with CD	$10.99		"Peace Frog is a 60 page, digest sized, English language Psychedelic music zine published in Greece by George Markou, who also published the now defunct Gew Gaw magazine. Nothing fancy or glossy here but the CONTENT is first rate, and that's what it's all about. We've got interviews with Vibravoid, Peter Lindhal of In the Labyrinth, Laughing Soup Dish, Gerry Alvarez, The Dolly Rocker Movement, Drug Free Youth, plus some bands I'd not heard of before, including Me of Curse, The 1-2-5, Jamie Laboz, and The Flow. The interviews are detailed and great reads. There's also a bunch of reviews AND a 70 minute compilation CD… 24 tracks, many of which are unreleased. If you like the more garage oriented point on the Psychedelic axis you should check this out. An amazing effort George! Not lots of printed mags of this sort these days so do yourself a favor and snag a copy." - From Aural Innovations 39 (May 2008)
3/21/2009	Peaking Lights	Imaginary Falcons	LP	$15.99	Night People	"This is the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin's Peaking Lights. Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes) created a stunner that's full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and Indra's warm drifting vocals. This record is all its own, everything it needs to be, and it won't disappoint any expectations of its harmony and beauty. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and silkscreen by Shawn Reed."
7/8/2010	Pearl Drills	untitled	c30 cassette	$8.99	Wagon	"New set of nightmares from Pearl Drills, with a mystery lineup of tape and synth explorers recorded in 2008. alarming bursts of metallic energy carefully crafted into what sounds like the last seconds of life on earth, a dying shriek out of the sinking tarpit which has already swallowed everything else. pro-dubbed, color artwork. edition of 100."
12/12/2009	Pearl Harbor	Something About The Chaparrals	12" EP	$17.99	Mexican Summer	"Piper and Skylar (and live member Cody) make up the dreamy, peace-loving Los Angeles fuzz-pop band Pearl Harbor. They have a four-song 12" forthcoming on Mexican Summer, the label that also recently brought you releases by the similarly sandy Washed Out, Real Estate, etc. That's actually a nice place to start: Think about Washed Out's hazier ambiance combined with Real Estate's margarita-sipping Galaxie 500-isms. Or, take a listen to the collection's second track "Luv Goon." It opens with warm arpeggios and a tinny drum machine: When the vocals and a slippery guitar enter the picture, the bedroom's transformed into a wave pool." Edition of 500 copies.
5/1/2009	Pearls Before Swine	One Nation Underground	LP	$16.99	ESP-DISK	"Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock, Thomas D. Rapp (and the first of his ever-changing Swine). Although the songs here lack some cohesion, this is still a stunning piece of work, from the nightmarish sleeve art -- the "Hell Panel" from Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century painting "Garden of Delights" -- to the strange yet powerful songs." - Peter Kurtz. Pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl in the United States with original artwork restored. Hand numbered 1-1000, limited edition - Digital download included.
11/2/2008	Pearson, A.S.	9 Lives, 9 Ghosts	cassette	$7.99	Archivo de Sangre de Dios	"Second solo modular synth release from D/A A/D, Snapped in Half kingpin. Heavy,mimimal and claustophic almost sub-bass motion, like wrapping your head in black cotton wool, similar sound world too Hive Mind, astounding."
6/11/2006	Peasandpopoff	Palimpsest	3" CDR	$6.99	Firstperson	"PUFF splinters into PEASANDPOPOFF (+ soon PALLIATIVES, PALIMPSEST, PUPPYJUMPUP ad infnt.) Beaming from the brain of Joincey (COITS / INCA EYEBALL / WAGSTAFF / TARGET SHOPPERS ETC ETC) = SLOW GLOOP ELECTRONICS / MUFFLED MURK, MOANING GHOST VOX, BRASSY TRANCE/l oop vortex, Pop Music/ PINK WATCH."
12/12/2009	Peat Raamur	Arkose Screes	c20 cassette	$5.99	Housecraft	"Fresh project out of Gainesville (Rotifer, Antigua Ibis), loop-motion emanation/radiation of the disintigrated order. Edition of 48." Out of print.
11/21/2009	Peat Raamur / Perspectives	split	c18 cassette	$5.99	Rotifier Cassettes	Edition of 50. "Peat and Perspectives' first appearance."
9/30/2008	Pederson, db	Live in Madison	cassette	$6.99	Earjerk	"One of Madisons most skilled improvisers lays it all on the table. Captured in a live setting, db really gets to shine. This guy feeds off of his audience, be they attentive or not, and the spontaneous energies flowing forth from these three live shows will astonish. The vocal range of some mutant offspring of a blue whale and a field cricket. Live @ Mofos Aug (?) 2005, Live @ Glass Nickel Aug 9th 2004 and Live @ Mofos May 5th 2007. Pro dubbed, red, c40 cassette with matching case and artwork. Limited series of 45."
7/16/2009	Pedestrian Deposit	Austere	CD	$11.99	Monorail Trespassing	"Five years in the making, and the first duo recordings -- a very, very calculated and controlled effort. moving past the harsh noise cutups but not eschewing them entirely; rather, moving forward to areas of sound collage, music-concrete, field recording and electroacoustic. to be heard as one long piece. the progression continues. 1000 copies, pro-printed covers."
4/24/2006	Pedestrian Deposit	Fatale	CD	$11.99	Hanson Records / Hospital Productions	"Man... this kid is a force to rekon with. Jon Borges made his live debut at age 14 at Canada's 1999 NO MUSIC festival curated by the NIHILIST SPASM BAND. He has a control and focus that most in the underground noise comminuty lack. Can sooth and destroy you with washes of white noise, intensly edited cut up abrasive electronics and junk sound and completeley depress you with passages of truly dismal piano, tape manipulations and drones. This is his second mass produced full length cd and it's about FUCKING TIME!! Finally this stellar work from Jon Borges' PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT is released! passages of truly dismal piano, tape manipulations and drones. I am proud to have co-released this w/ Prurient's HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS."
2/4/2007	Pedestrian Deposit	Vestige	LP	$15.99	Hospital Productions	"The first full length vinyl effort from this infamous california abrasive electronics unit. following the cult 'volatile' and 'fatale' albums 'vestige' trolls deeper into the looping, tonal, drone whirlpool of parking garages, vacant lots, and highway. one side heavy and abusive nail noise bursts with hammering loops left for scraps. one side urban noir wrought with nostalgic melancholy. limited to 300 copies with the traditional silk screened 2 sided fold out cover."
9/17/2009	Pedromonkeyfinger	Eye Day Rabbit	CDR	$9.99	Bug Incision	"Surreal slabs of processed sound float by each other in brilliant high fidelity from the man behind much of the documentation of Bug Incision's live activites (hear his recording prowess on the forthcoming Bent Spoon Trio +3 album). First solo recording. Edition of 50 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves." - label.
9/17/2006	Pee In My Face With Surgery	Damnation Road	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"The hi-brows reckon PIMFWS is a "live performance duo that explores the liberation of the definitions of emptiness and the clogged distribution of aural quantity.", while us garbage-brow types just reckon this is a joyous ear rot riot. New York based hoodlums Jaime Fennelly & Fritz Welch emit some brain blackness via vocals and electronic crack. Recommended for those who enjoy a 'swissotic' type of tickle.
6/5/2009	Peeesseye	I Woke Up and Drank a Bottle of Cheap Kojak	CDR	$9.99	Golden Lab Records	"Peeesseye made the scene at Dylan Nyoukis's Colour Out of Space festival last summer and hopped over to Manchester to play a show at the Town Hall Tavern, the recording of which forms the content of this incredible slab of dense droning harmonium, scraping, buzzing, subtly soloing guitar and pulse-free, scatter-drumming. We can't recommend this enough. Ltd to 80 copies, sleeves printed on recycled card w/soya based ink, no less."
11/17/2007	Peeesseye, The	Mayhem in the Mansions, Shivers in the Shack	CD	$10.99	Evolving Ear	"Mayhem in the Mansion, Shivers in the Shack simultaneously represents the loosest and most concise aspects of The Peeesseye, featuring more vocals, a wider range of instrumentation and richer production than past releases while still retaining the unclassifiable esotericism of their catalogue. Maintaining their collection of folk curses and with healthy doses of rude fuzz, The Peeesseye, with the great assistance of engineer/mixer Bob Drake, has produced a collection of beautifully elegiac songs, damp funeral marches, razor sharp improvisation, and molten feedback throw downs. On this record, their combination of anarchic inspiration and sheer musical rigor (anarchy without the rigor usually sucks) is presented in its most impressive form yet. Prior comparisons to This Heat, Nurse With Wound, and AMM as well as allusions to Minimalism, Black Metal, and all manner of folk musics seem logical, but don't tell the whole story."
3/26/2006	Pefkin	Pingle Pangle	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"Pefkin is the Scotland based solo project of Gayle Brogan (ex Electroscope member and owner/operator of the amazing Boa Melody Bar mailorder). Pingle Pangle is the 2nd album for this project and picks up where the similarly astonishing "Asa Nisi Masa" (Foxglove CDR) left off. Pefkins music flows easily between swirling melodic psychedelic 'almost-pop' songs, tonal electronic experimentation through to eerie whispered ancient forest folk. Melodica, violin, percussion, guitar and voice are built up with a crystal clear use of delay and other effects to produce a fragile beautiful whole. Pefkin has been compared favouably with Nico and Alastair Galbraith. These comparisons are well deserved."
	Pelt	Max Meadows	CD	$13.99	vhf	"Max Meadows is the third full-length release by Virginia trio Pelt. Recorded all over the place in studio, rehearsal, and live settings, Max Meadows combines the jaw-dropping downer song-craft heard on the Brown Cyclopaedia CD with the free-formisms heard on the follow-up Burning/Filament/Rockets CD (on Econogold). Using a wide variety of unusual instruments, including those of their own design, Pelt create soundscapes that are a step removed from the current generation of 'post-rockers.' 'Outside Listening' and 'Sun Is Standing' send out lengthy waves of bliss via electric guitar, proving that music can be both ethereal and gritty at the same time. 'Hippy War Machine' organizes the mass percussion heard on those old Amon Duul LP's (that everyone seems to suddenly 'like') and backs it with a powerful drone. 'Dismal Falls' serves as a fitting coda to such an exhaustive listen, with its eerie, melodic banjo and bowed cymbals. 7 tracks, 74 Minutes."
10/9/2003	Pelt	Pearls From the River	CD	$13.99	vhf	"First new music in a couple of years from the trio, focusing entirely on their acoustic side. Recorded in a single March 2003 session in VA by Mikel Dimmick, this is a superb distillation of their recent musical forays (both alone and together). ‘Up the North Fork’ is a trio for banjo, baritone banjo, and cello - after the snakey bowed introduction, the fast thwacking of the banjos and forcefully strummed cello take over and whip up a storm. The other two tracks are lengthy ragas (one in C, one in D) with the virtuosic modal guitar of Jack Rose front and center. ‘Pearls From The River’ features Jack on 12 string, dueling with Mike Gangloff on Esraj. Pat Best's thick, sonorous double bass bowing anchors the duet between the lightning thrumming/plucking of Jack's guitar and mike's arcing, sharply bowed half-time melody. ‘Road To Catawba’ has Jack on 6 string, with Mike moving to tamboura, for a full exploration of the D lydian mode. Best's bass is again the foundation, with whistling overtones rising from his bow over the low drone. Liner notes by Byron Coley. 3 tracks, 45 mins." Highly recommended!
6/11/2006	Pelt	Skullfuck / Bestio Tergum Degero	CD	$15.99	vhf	"Limited edition live CD released for the band to sell on their 2006 European tour. Contrary to the Grateful Dead reference in the title, "Skullfuck" is a tight recording of a single, intense November 2005 performance from NYC's Knitting Factory. The set begins with an epic group arrangement of Jack Rose's "Calais To Dover," (from his Kensington Blues LP) with Jack's 12 string shadowed by Mike Gangloff's fiddle, and the thick drone of Mikel Dimmick and Pat Best's Harmonium and Sruti's. The three part "Bestio" suite follows, with the group moving to Tibetan bowls and gongs, building up a huge sheet of sound which peaks in a brief "encore" of wild gong smashing. In gatefold "eco-wallet."
9/30/2005	Pelt	Untitled	CD	$13.99	vhf	"(untitled) is a devastating set of almost pure white light from the newly upgraded Pelt lineup. The intense drone music on (untitled) represents a return to "sonic-ism" for the quartet of Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, Patrick Best, and Mikel Dimmick. Like Pelt's 2003 effort Pearls from the River, (untitled) is an all-acoustic affair. On (untitled) the group concentrates on producing dense clouds of overtones from guitar, cello, tibetan bowls, gongs, sruti, and esraj. Track 1 is an overpowering straight line ala the Theatre of Eternal Music, an atmosphere of stasis with gong and bowl flickering subtly over the massive track bed. Track 2 is a 32 minute epic that begins with the soft strains of Jack Rose's 12 string, picks up dueling cello and esraj and gradually builds in intensity with the sounds of gongs and other unusual percussion. Track 3 is the live staple "Sundogs," where Rose's Weissenborn lap guitar and Gangloff's resonator guitar produce a stream of unearthly high, singing overtones in an uncanny acoustic impression of electric feedback. The final track is an epilogue of Best's keening cello, again ignoring the usual technique associated with the instrument in the pursuit of pure weirdness. Housed in card folio printed by Stumptown. 4 tracks, 62 mins."
12/26/2005	Pengo	Alchemy and Bullshit	DBL CDR	$12.99	Carbon Records	"A double CDR document of Pengo's migration from a 3-piece out-spazz-noise group to 4-piece drone-psych-noise-rock group. recordings ranging from the 2001 Phi-Tour series, 2002 live and "studio" pieces (including a show with guests Dave Cross of Coffee, Ed Wilcox of Temple Bon Matin and Charles Leport of Hinkley/Finkbeiner/etc), thru pounding live 2003/2004 sets, much in the vein of current configuration. 2 black-bottom cdrs, glossy print insert, sealed in a 6"x8" silkscreened and spray painted chipboard mailer."
2/19/2007	Pengo	Toadstools Amongst the Tombstones	LP	$21.99	QBICO	"Pengo is: John Schoen, Jason Finkbeiner, R. Nuuja. Pengo comes from Rochester, NY and are simply a dark-bright beacon of madness in the subterranean swamp of psychedelic junk collectors. They're kind of elusive, having issued only an LP prior to this release (it had been a year since we're working on this album) + a few CD-Rs and tapes. Got affiliations with Coffee & the Doyle EAE... wild stuff/weird vibes!"
6/4/2010	Pens	Love Rules	7"	$4.99	DeStijl	"Pens are three girls that take an old-school approach to a hum and riff and add their own who-gives-a-fuck homemade panache. Tuck yrself into bed with some warm milk and cookies and throw this new single on the platter in repeat mode. Nighty night! What more is there to say? It's better than most of the shit that gets the rave up."
10/25/2008	Pentemple	O))) Presents	LP	$20.99	Southern Lord	"In May of 2007 thee mighty SUNN 0))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that included performances in Australia and Japan. The lineup for this tour included the core Sunn 0))) duo: GREG ANDERSON and STEPHEN O'MALLEY, plus T.O.S. (Moog), OREN AMBARCHI (analog effects and supplemental guitar) and vokillist ATTILA CSIHAR. Upon arrival in Sydney, Australia, Sunn 0))) invited one of their favorite black metal artists: STRIBORG over from Tasmania (!!!) to collaborate with them during their show. This unholy meeting went over very well and the inaugural ritual was a warm up gig at the Toft in Town club one evening before the larger gig at the Hi-Fi Bar (w/brethren: Boris). The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio and visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Ambarchi edited, sequenced and overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. This blackened low-end psychedelic war is not for the faint of heart!"
10/25/2008	Peonies	Infinity Has No Exits	cassette	$9.99	Sloow Tapes	"Continuous fascinating and mysterious vocal harmonies unfolding into raw infinity. This acid-soaked haunting psychedelia truly has no exits. 100 copies."
12/12/2009	People	Ceremony - Buddha Meet Rock	LP	$22.99	Phoenix	"Digitally remastered 180 gram virgin vinyl, this is People's sole album, the legendary Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock, originally released in 1971 in Japan. Nobody's sure if the musicians on this recording ever performed as a group or whether Ceremony was simply a studio super-project. Certainly, guitarist Kimio Mizutani had already enjoyed a certain amount of critical exposure following stints with Love Live Life + One and Masahiko Satoh's Sound Brakers, and it is Satoh's jazzy fuzz guitar licks that help to lift this album to a higher level. Unfortunately, this was the ensemble's only output, but this conceptual album is an absolute classic of hypnotic, psychedelic prog rock."
	People	Ceremony ~ Buddah Meets Rock	CD	$18.99	P-Vine	This is a really great psychedelic recording! The second track in a 12 minute guitar freakout (not real manic but just very stoned) that really got my attention and what followed did not disappoint. This was originally issued in 1971 and features the guitar work of Kimio Mizutani (Love Live Life).
	People Like Us	Beware The Whim Reaper	CD	$17.99	Staalplaat	Hilarious collage music
3/29/2005	Per & Oystein	Evil Noise	cassette	$4.99	Funeral Folk	"Morbid improv by the two troubadours of the devil. Rambling free folk minstels lull you into the quick of their creaking and creeping doom with various strings, air, tapes, organ, melodica. Beautiful collage art, as it is with all FF releases."
12/24/2005	Per & Öystein	Evil Noise II	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Reissue of cdr. Follow up to the horrible 'Evil Noise' cassette on Funeral Folk. More shrill atrocities by the ultimate blood drenched Belgian troubadour duo from hell."
7/23/2010	Perales / Milton	Cuartos Azule	CDR	$10.99	Pseudoarcana	"Scorching prepared guitar pieces recorded in Buenos Aires in November 2009. Ex-boxing coach Fernando Perales was one of the original Reynols and currently tours and plays regularly with his solo table guitar project Viva la Muerte. Antony Milton is a guitarist and sound artist from New Zealand perhaps best known for the gestural drone blues project The Nether Dawn. Documenting a meeting of the concrete improv of Perales's steel-on-strings guitar and Miltons almost melodic drones this release discovers a sublime cohesion in both its moments of harsh noise and blissed out drone. This cdr presents the highlights from a series of recording sessions and culminates with a 30 minute live session that took place at the opening of a gallery installation by Perales."
2/26/2006	Pererin	Teithgan	LP	$24.99	Guerssen	"Awesome second longplayer by Welsh psychedelic folk-rockers Pererin. Traditional Welsh folk meets rock with psychedelic guitar leads, flute, male/female vocals... This was originally released in 1981 on the Gwerin label and for many it is their best work, and it's definitely its rarest one. Exact repro of the original, including the insert. Definitely one of the best albums of the genre, another superb rarity brought to you with a legit reissue by Guerssen."
7/16/2006	Perhacs, Linda	Parallelograms	LP	$25.99	Guerssen	"Linda's sole album, originally released on Kapp in 1970, has gained its deserved fame and reputation in the folk-psych scene in the last years after the NY label Wild Places released it on CD format some few years ago. We could talk about Joni Mitchell and the likes if we had to compare with anything, but fans of folk music in all its variety must be delighted with this amazing album, a truly hippie psychedelic folk masterpiece and without any doubt one of the top albums of the genre." Recommended!
	Perry, Mojo	Bookmaker	CD	$15.99		Not a typical item I carry. This is blues rock with some psychedelic leanings (think Hendrix and Cream) from Mojo Perry (guitar), Dove Dewey (bass) and Shawn Badanjek (drums) hailing from Appleton, Wisconsin. The lyrics are personal but it does not detract from the release in my opinion. Anyhow, if you are into blues-based rock with some guitar psych on occasion, I would recommend this to you.
2/21/2009	Pestrepeller / My Cat Is An Alien	As Wolf / Solar Anarchy	LP	$12.99	A Silent Place	"My Cat Is An Alien are the brothers Roberto and Maurizio Opalio, who have been spreading their unique brand of mysterious guitarnoise improv across the globe for ten years. Pestrepeller are a barely-existing band of part-time musicians from the UK. The core trio is Harley Richardson, Ed Pinsent and Savage Pencil, occasionally joined by guest musicians. The band started life as Ultrasonic Attack Wave Pestrepeller around 1995 or 1996, and made Rodent and Insect Eliminator for Sympathy For The Record Industry. Sonic Boom, the genius behind Spaceman 3, remade this early record by processing it through his VCS3. Apparently he liked its complete lack of musicianship. A second LP Nug Yar was a limited press LP for Gary Ramon's Prescription label and sold out instantly, because only 99 copies of it existed and the print run was pre-sold to Coil fans. The trio played live in London precisely three times. Soon the band split up in acrimonious circumstances due to artistic disagreements, but reformed about two years later, met in the studio and recorded what became Isle of Dark Magick with Peter Hope-Evans, the blues harmonica player who used to be in Medicine Head in the 1970s. This session was released on CD by Important Records in 2006. Pestrepeller meet, play and record very infrequently, because they don't have enough time outside of their other pursuits in work, life, and art."
	Petersen, Jesse	I Just Collided With a Tricky Shade of Dark	LP	$13.99	Freedom From	"This LP is coreleased with SunShip and Asymmetry by local guitarist Jesse Petersen, (who you may know from either the Entrance CDR on Last Visible Dog with Matthew St. Germain, J Wodarz, and Eric Wivinus (of Salamander + Skye Klad) and/or the Barlow(of Pins)/Petersen/Wivinus disc on Stick It To The Man/Asymmetry). As with these two prior excursions by Petersen, you'll get droned out guitars/feedback (not too piercing though!), however JP fancies himself somewhat of a guitarist who does more than twiddle knobs (his tunings prior to performance sometimes go for 45 minutes to 2-3 hours) and here presents beautifully tamed percussive sonics via string massaging. This is a limited edition of 200 (RTI pressed), silkscreened silver on thick black Italian stock."
9/30/2008	Pewtr	Always Heavy	cassette	$8.99	Yodtapes	"Pewtr is Sunburned's Ron Schneiderman taking a solo electric guitar and spoken word trip to parts unknown. on the mazzacane tip."
5/31/2009	Pewtr	Whichever Was	cassette	$10.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Pretty psyched to be releasing this beauty from long time friend of mine Ron Schneiderman, I think Ron was the first person I ever bought stuff from for the Blackest Rainbow distro years back in Nottingham... Ron is the man behind Spirit of Orr, as well as being a member of Sunburned Hand of the Man... busy guy to say the least! Here you have some awesome solo outing of post Loren Connors / Sandy Bull styling, with a blend of pure outsider blues, americana and psychedelia. Limited to 100 copies."
8/22/2008	Phantom Buffalo	Take To the Trees	CD	$12.99	Time-Lag	"digital version of red records #3... same music and art as the lp, but packaged in a mini lp style gatefold cover, with folded insert & woven japanese inner sleeve. edition of 1000..."
8/22/2008	Phantom Buffalo	Take To the Trees	LP	$29.99	Time-Lag	"red records #3... well, its been a damn long time since we released their debut album, "shishimumu", back when they were called THE PONYS, but we sure are happy there's finally a proper follow-up, even if it took six years to happen. if anything, the long wait says something to the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. in fact, "take to the trees" picks up just about right where "shishimumu" left off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic pop perfection. of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth to the songwriting here, but there's still plenty of slightly naive & youthful charm... and to be certain, the world these guys create is just as surreal now as its always been... musically, things come together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones. vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and layering heavenly. the mood of the album floats through drifting fragile melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups, often all within the same track. beautifully recorded, but never over polished... just the way a great pop record should be. so forget all pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for kill rock stars ain't such a bad thing at all... packaged in a lovely heavy weight 60s style gatefold cover with elaborate full color art by the band, plus an insert. pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies..."
11/17/2007	Phantom Limb & Bison	Phantom Limb & Bison	CD	$10.99	Evolving Ear	"Following their Utech CDR and collaboration with Tetuzi Akiyama on Archive, Jaime Fennelly, Chris Forsyth, Shawn Edward Hansen, and Chris Heenan state their case with this: an 80 minute, half studio/half live release veering from staring-into-the-sun contemplativeness to ecstatically unhinged jet engine intensity."
11/4/2006	Pharaoh Overlord	#1	CD	$14.99	Ektro Records	"Circle's Jussi Lehtisalo's Stoner Rock side project. This is a set of hypnotic improvised stoner rock, a perfect cross between Circle and Natas! Super heavy in places, repetitive and psychedelic in others, this is top draw Stoner Rock."
	Phéromone	Disparlure	CD	$16.99	Corpus Hermeticum	“Disparlure is the first release by French trio Phéromone. Comprised of Pascal Battus, Eric Cordier and Jean-Luc Guionnet, the trio have been together for some three years performing improvised music using guitar, hurdy gurdy, electronics and various electro-acoustic devices involving sundry objects with contact mics. Cordier and Guionnet have played together since the mid-80s in various settings, most recently in Schams and Synapses and also as a duo (discs on Shambala and Selektion). Battus is a new collaborator for them, a guitar player with an extended technique, recently praised in the Wire by no less an authority than Keith Rowe as one of the younger guitarists worth watching out for. This disc consists of a continuous piece (indexed as two tracks) edited from home recordings of the group by long-time collaborators Eric La Casa and Pierre-Henri Thiebaut. Their favoured concert set up is to occupy three corners of the performance space and seat the audience in the middle. The analogy is with the functioning of the eponymous insect hormones, which transmit messages to other insects at a distance. The audible messages of the three musicians transmit signals from one player to the next, with the audience hearing the interaction of the signals in 'surround sound'. This is particularly apt as the overall effect of the music on this disc is of a darkened environment full of animal calls, as unseen predators stalk small mechanical prey and flocks of metal birds perch in the tinfoil trees. Actual sound sources are impossible to identify with certainty as the various stringed and amplified instruments surge and recede in a dazzling display of alternating synchronicity and conflict. The variety of sounds, the virtuosity of the interplay and the obvious mix of both seriousness and humour in their approach mark Phéromone out as a trio to keep an eye on in the future.”
7/16/2006	Phi Ta Khon	Ghosts of ISAN	DVD	$21.99	Sublime Frequencies	"Masks and outfits made of coconut husks, rice steamers, shredded rags and clanging bells transform participants of Thailand's Phi Ta Khon festival into ghosts, devils, demons, and spirits unleashed for a bacchanal. Outrageous wooden phalluses and plenty of rice whiskey heighten licentious behavior as Mo Lam - Thai country groove music - blasts from makeshift bands in the back of pickup trucks. Described as "The Mardi Gras from Hell" and "Thai Halloween," Phi Ta Khon is a ghost festival that takes place every year in the Isan province of Northern Thailand. Meaning "ghosts with human eyes" or "ghosts follow people," Phi Ta Khon features magnificent costumes, ornate masks, decorative phallic icons, strange ceremonies, drinking, dancing, and endless addictive Mo Lam music in higher doses than most souls can process. A mind-blowing and obscure tradition hidden within the Indochine peninsula. Filmed on location by Robert Millis and Richard Bishop in June 2004, Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan, is shot from the perspective of a participant, ensuring an intense and immersive experience for the viewer. The DVD includes an 8-page insert with extensive liner notes, full color images and a short bonus film of Thai spirit house details (spirit houses are everywhere in Thailand and are said to be the abodes of departed loved ones, relatives and guardian spirits). Robert Millis is a member of Climax Golden Twins and also created the Harmika Yab Yum: Folk Sounds of Nepal CD for Sublime Frequencies in 2005." NTSC format for North America, all regions, color, 75 minutes."
	Philosopher's Stone	Preparation	LP	$8.99	Kranky	Solo recordings from Gareth Mitchell
2/21/2007	Phoenix Cube, The	Walking the Shore	CDR	$11.99	Barl Fire	"With the enviable role as the reviews editor for The Ptolemaic Terrascope online, it's not surprising that Simon Lewis aka The Phoenix Cube has spent the last few years soaking up a multitude of influences from the cream of the current psychedelic underground. His passion for electronica, space rock and psychedelia from the likes of Gong and the Aphex Twin, that were notable on his previous albums as The Phoenix Cube and as part of his band Phorum, although evident on "Walking The Shore", this time round place the emphasis on bedroom recorded psych-folk and dronescapes. The album features cover art by Lewis himself, is housed in vinyl slip cases, contains an insert and is limited to 100 copies."
6/4/2010	Physical Demon	Hyperdrift	CDR	$5.99	Debacle Records	"A long lost industrial/noise document circa 1983 finally reissued! This synthesizer trio toiled in obscurity in their day but Debacle Records has unearthed their masterpiece "Hyperdrift" for those who missed it the first time around. This is pure cyberpunk-noise-horror, influenced by Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Cabaret Voltaire, Klaus Schulze and early Cluster. If it were released today you would probably call it an unholy union of Wolf Eyes and Oneohtrix Point Never. 125 CDRs in eco-wallets."
7/31/2006	Picadilly Line	Huge World of Emily Small	LP	$24.99	Lightning Tree Records	"This is one of those albums that seems to have slipped under the radar of UK pop psych collectors. The result-it has never been re-issued before now in any form! the band was essentially a duo, led by Rod Edwards (later of Jade) and Roger Hand (who would later record as Edwards Hand) that flourished briefly in the late 60's, resulting in the release of this one album. The cream of UK session men assist on this album, including Danny Thompson (bass), Alan Hawkshaw (keys), Herbie Flowers (bass) and Harold McNair (flute). Classic English '60's pop psych comparable to the World Of Oz, early Bee Gees, Kaleidoscope (UK), and Tinkerbell's Fairydust. An album filled with dreamy vocal harmonies and elaborate electric and acoustic arrangements that make this a real flower-power pop-art trip. This limited edition 180 gram vinyl pressing is housed in the beautiful original, flower power pop-art sleeve; released with full consent of the producer and band, and as such, is taken from the original master tapes." - Lion Productions
3/27/2004	Pickle Factory, The	Our Pledge	CD	$7.99	Swill Radio	"The CD package is a manila envelope with stickers on the front and back, and a printed card insert. Some (in the U.S.) have suggested that the package is crap, although people overseas don't seem to think so. The truth is the I just hate jewel boxes."
	Pickle Factory, The	Our Pledge	LP	$10.99	Swill Radio	"The Pickle Factory is Karla Borecky and Scott Foust from IFCO plus long-time collaborator Mike Popovich. The sound is somewhat similar to the Idea Fire Company, although within at least sort of a song structure. Many think this is our finest work yet. The LP comes with a photograph on the cover and a booklet. Edition of 500."
	Pieters / Russell / Stapleton	Last Glass	CD	$16.99	Corpus Hermeticum	Kim Pieters (bass, organ, synthesizer), Bruce Russell (guitar, percussion, synth) and Peter Stapleton (drums, synth, guitar) performing six instrumental improvisations.
	Pieters / Russell / Stapleton	Sex/Machine	CD	$15.99	Metonymic	"Only the second release in four years by this meeting of New Zealand free-noise like minds. Sex/Machine was recorded at Purakaunui through 1996-8 and is more sonically diverse than their 1995 Corpus Hermeticum debut; it features Bruce Russell's saturating guitar in layered interaction with Kim Pieters's articulate bass and Peter Stapleton's percussion and radio sorties."
9/17/2009	Pigeons	Lunettes	7"	$4.99	Soft Abuse	"Pigeons make sublimely blasted / incredibly hallucinogenic songs from their base up in Bronx, NY. The trio of Wednesday Knudsen (in disguise on the sleeve), Clark Griffin and Carter Thornton have been active for a few years, releasing miniture-run cassettes and lathe cuts for Griffin's sub-underground Moran Tape Label that dealt in skronk, warp & mystery. Their wayward song-based creations are just as ambitious, melding dissonance, crude electronics & chanson pop . The pop element in their tunes, fully introduced on their brilliant Virgin Spectacle LP, firmly rests as the oddest element in the mix. Connections to the No Neck / Sound @ 1 crew & The Sea Donkeys exist, but Pigeons are wholly on their own plane. Lunettes, their first release since Virgin Spectacle, features four new song creations, arrives in lieu of their forthcoming LP Si Faustine (to be released by Olde English Spelling Bee), and provides a notion of what they're moving towards." - label.
7/15/2010	Pigeons	Si Faustine	LP	$16.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"Pigeons is the psychedelic pop project of married couple Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin. They met in Seattle and, while living there, were part of The Sea Donkeys -- a shambling anti-folk collective of freaks which also featured Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies label. The Sea Donkeys released an LP on the Sun City Girl's Abduction label in 2005. Pigeons formed later that same year when Wednesday and Clark relocated to New York. After releasing a string of micro-run cassettes and lathe-cut vinyls that explored noise and free jazz modes they turned their energies towards writing structured songs. The first widely available release of their song-oriented material was the 'Virgin Spectacle' lp that came out on Black Dirt in 2008. That was followed by a 7" single on Soft Abuse in 2009. Si Faustine is their second album and, like Virgin Spectacle, was recorded at Jason Meagher's Black Dirt Studio. Also featured on the album are contributions from Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, Gnaw, Zashiki-Warashi, Izititiz), Jason Meagher (NNCK, D. Charles Speer, Coach Fingers), and Rene Blume-Meagher. Pigeons are currently living in Paris, France. Housed in full-color 'tip-on' style jackets featuring artwork by Melodie Provenzano and also includes an mp3 download coupon."
2/21/2008	Pigeons	Virgin Spectacle	LP	$18.99	Black Dirt Records	"Pigeons and doves are so closely related, they are practically interchangeable in the minds of the people who classify such fowl. But in the eyes of the general public, the dove is a beautiful bird symbolizing freedom and peace while the pigeon is a dirty rat with wings that eats our city's garbage and craps on our cars. But maybe the pigeon is a crafty bird, content with its own beauty and happy to obscure it to avoid the glare of our ever intrusive public eye. Virgin Spectacle is a distorted, hungover, and elusive statement. And it's in French. Except one word at the end. Or more, if you are to believe those responsible. Regardless, amongst all the fog and feathers is a collection of comely pop and sonic excursions guaranteed to lodge itself in your waking subconscious. Hell, you might even dream of a few of these songs. The fine people who constitute the band named Pigeons would like you to believe that they have stumbled incidentally upon such charm, like a diamond in the mine. Don't believe it. Take yourself out of your particular urban situation. Look toward the skies, and see the besmirched bird for what it really is. They have laid out a sonic journey meant to disorient on the surface, but if you follow their flight you'll find yourself cruising along and singing in a language you may not understand." Recorded at Black Dirt Studio in Westtown, NY. Pressed on to 180 gram vinyl by RTI in Camarillo, CA. The covers were screened by VGKids in Ypsilanti, MI. Edition of 500 copies.
8/17/2009	Pilcher, John & Martin McKelvey	A Bun Dance	CD	$15.99	Dungeon Taxis	"The Eagle Has Strayed in this 48-minute opus of lunar musique concrete right out of the late 60's in Hastings, NZ. These squiggly, prescient jams emerge on the very 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's inaugural moonlanding, having originally sampled and plunged that stuttering, televized transmission into another sea of tranquility and magnificent desolation right out here in an even more remote solar system. Pilcher's periperal figure hangs ghostlike out on the edge of the front cover next to a poster of The Beatles' HELP! semaphore (they're not even spelling HELP by the way), It's a revealing allusion to the radically warped jams that were already taking place Out Here, a preamble for the winding genealogy of the country's later musical lab tests. Stellar tapezones joyously light years ahead of time."
1/1/2008	Pilia, Stefano	Haikustrings	cassette	$10.99	Sloow Tapes	"Haikustrings is a 'work in progress' diary composition began in 2004. The tape consists of 111 sound miniatures divided into 3 sequences, at once random and simultaneous. On side a and side b are recorded 2 of the possible cycles of the 3 sequences and of the infinitely possible versions of this piece. This was presented earlier this year at Turin's Silence festival as a sound installation. Paste-on cover art by Andrew Hooker. 100 copies."
3/31/2008	Pillars and Tongues	Sacred Architecture	CDR	$11.99	The Lotus Sound	"The Lotus Sound, based out of Albuquerque, NM, will be releasing a new and as of right now exclusive version of the previously self-released record "Sacred Architecture". It should be noted that the version of the record which is being released by the Lotus Sound varies from the version which Pillars and Tongues has been selling at performances over the past year, although the two releases share a title and have several tracks in common. This exclusive version of "Sacred Architecture" is part of the Lotus Sounds’ handmade series, limited to 100 copies." - www.myspace.com/pillarsandtongues
7/11/2008	Pillars of Heaven	Breeding Moths	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Light bending, guitar gush from philadelphia peasant magician salvatore giorgi. side a, "the old ways", plays like newton's law of reciprocal actions laid onto magnetic tape. like levitating above overgrown fields until the skies fill with ash and everything is laid baron. side b, "gallows weed", is a (impressively recorded) live track from a house show in 2007. this should prove for once and all that even socially awkward, home-schooled hermits can emit feeling."
11/21/2009	Pimmon	Steered In Smash Ascent	c46 cassette	$7.99	Stunned	"It is our great honor to work with a musician whose reputation stretches out far before him — Australia’s Paul Gough and his dazzling work as Pimmon, a name now over ten years in operation. It’s also a name that has been trusted to consistently trace an arc far outside of any conventional tastes & trends as they vacillate (and evaporate) over the years. Since early releases on seminal labels like Staalplaat, Freedom From, Tigerbeat6 and FatCat, Pimmon’s priority has been not only to push buttons, but to push precisely the right ones that activate zones of minimal & maximal electronic ecstasy. From cosmic backstrokes of bass tone to the atomic intensity of the high register, each level exemplifies a foundational gesture from the start. ‘Steered In Smash Ascent’ carries through this crackling range of delirium with the bold intent of an artist who is steering ship far beyond the imagination’s current capacity. Our hope is that Pimmon sails on like this yet another decade, returning with aural booty us landlubbers can only dream about. Hand-numbered limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c46 tapes with double-sided color jcard."
6/30/2010	Pine Smoke Lodge	El-Ahrairah	c68 cassette	$5.99	Sweat Lodge Guru	"Conceived in fire, wreathed in smoke and wrought from the charred and blackened bones - 68 minutes of nocturnal textures and arboreal emissions from the enigmatic free-drone duo known only as Pine Smoke Lodge. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes."
2/7/2009	Pink Buffalo	Bearded Tooth	double cassette	$8.99	Housecraft	"Squids and skins shine in battery powered sub-atomic fusion, stewed electric under a darkened sun." Edition of 50
5/16/2010	Pink Buffalo	Made In The Shade	c50 cassette	$7.99	Taped Sounds	"More old school subdued tape works, sound effects, and synth patterns by Eric Fry. the guy is responsible for the Scumbag imprint, with which he keeps dazzling or ears with all kinds of sound. "made in ..." is a very nice and loose view of the seeker."
6/27/2009	Pink Buffalo	Meridian	c45 cassette	$5.99	Scumbag Relations	"Two sides of relaxing haze." "It is an explainable "unexplainable". Inflatable knowledge from a world that was presumed far beyond our 3-D structure. A page of mystery...." - Cetacean Nation Communications. Assorted full color covers featuring a water color collab by both members of Pink Buffalo."
12/12/2009	Pink Desert	Neither Here Nor In This World	c28 cassette	$5.99	Housecraft	"A crystalline night sky fills with smoke and amorphic cloud cover, strange shapes pulsing. Edition of 50." Out of print.
2/12/2008	Pink Floyd	Brain Damage	LP	$19.99		"With a wide range of rare tracks, this includes 2 outtake versions of "Love Scene" from the "Zabriskie Point" sessions, a 1968 single version of "Point Me at the Sky," a 1972 demo version of "Money," a 1976 quadrophonic mix of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," and a 1981 dance remix of "Money" by James Guthrie. Euro import."
10/25/2008	Pink Floyd	British Winter Tour 1974	LP	$19.99		"A reissue of a true collectors' classic from many years back, this features an early, 22-minute version of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" that pre-dates the version on "Wish You Were Here" by almost a year, plus early and very different versions of "Dogs" and "Sheep" (here called "You Gotta be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling"), that remained unreleased until 1977. The full original lyrics are printed on the back. Very good sound, full color art, Euro import."
11/4/2006	Pink Floyd	Doll's House Darkness	LP	$19.99		"Three complete radio performances from 1967, all featuring Syd Barrett! These transcriptions of BBC broadcasts include the announcers' comments (including John Peel), plus an interview with Syd and Roger by completely out-of-it music critic Hans Keller. Songs include "Astronomy Domine," "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," "Reaction in G," "Flaming," "The Gnome, "The Scarecrow," "Matilda Mother," "Vegetable Man," "Scream Thy Last Scream," "Jugband Blues," and "Pow R. Toc H." The final session, from Dec. 1967, is one of the last for Syd before leaving the band. Nice full color cover, Euro import."
7/29/2004	Pink Floyd	Flowers and Vegetables	LP	$20.99	Art of Music	“Twelve early tracks from the Syd Barrett era, this includes a long 1966 studio version of ‘Interstellar Overdrive,’ a 1967 studio outtake of ‘Silas Lane,’ 2 very early R&B tracks (‘Lucy Leave’ and ‘I'm a King Bee’), plus 8 tracks from 2 different BBC sessions in the Fall of 1967: ‘Flaming,’ ‘The Gnome,’ ‘Matilda Mother,’ ‘The Scarecrow,’ ‘Vegetable Man,’ ‘Pow R Toc H,’ ‘Scream Thy Last Scream,’ and ‘Jugband Blues.’ Sound quality ranges from very good to not-so-great, with 1-color artwork. Very limited pressing, color vinyl, Euro import.”
7/10/2008	Pink Floyd	Obscured by Clouds	LP	$20.99		"A reissue of their 1972 soundtrack LP to the cult French film "La Vallee," this features a series of shorter songs that include the hit "Free Four" and the hypnotic title track. 150 gram blue vinyl pressing, original full color artwork, Euro import."
3/5/2009	Pink Floyd	One of These Demos	LP	$17.99		"Another collection of rarities from 1967 through 1972, this EMI France promotional release includes studio outtakes, demo versions, and special promo releases, as well as a couple of broadcast tracks. Three of these include Syd Barrett. The songs are "Free Four," "Late Night" (a Syd Barrett instrumental version),"Fearless," "Rain in the Country," "Candy," "Scarecrow," "Corporal Clegg," and Syd Barrett's "Bob Dylan Blues," plus two studio-goofing-around tracks of "One of These Days," and two tracks of even goofier studio banter prefacing short snips of "Brain Damage." With very nice full color artwork. French import."
12/24/2005	Pink Floyd	Piper at the Gates of Dawn: The Mono Version	LP	$20.99		"A reissue of the beyond-mega-rare mono mix of their first album!! Original copies change hands for completely absurd prices when in good condition, and even the 30th anniversary edition has disappeared completely! Cognoscenti proclaim this to be substantially different than the common stereo mix. Euro import."
7/10/2008	Pink Floyd	Projected Sounds	LP	$20.99		"Another fine collection of early demo tracks, this leads off with "Lucy Leave" from 1965, plus 11 more from 1967: "See Emily Play," "In the Beachwoods," "Remember a Day," "Corporal Clegg," "Interstellar Overdrive," "Scream Thy Last Scream," "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," "Vegetable Man," and "Jugband Blues," plus 2 untitled instrumentals and an untitled vocal track! UK import."
3/5/2009	Pink Floyd	Return of the Sons of Nothing	LP	$17.99		"This crystal clear, professionally recorded live performance from Nov. 1971 features 3 long tracks: "One of These Days," "Careful with That Axe, Eugene," and "Looking Through the Knotholes in Granny's Wooden Leg," and features the band in full-on, heavy freak-out acid rock mode! Euro import."
5/16/2010	Pink Floyd	Shine On Tour 1977	LP	$19.99		"Five songs recorded in July 1977 in New York: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part 1," "Welcome to the Machine," "Have a Cigar," "Wish You Were Here," and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part 2." Details to come. Euro import."
2/12/2008	Pink Floyd	Studio Archives and Other Dreams	LP	$19.99		"This collects studio demos and outtakes from 1970 and 1972, plus 2 tracks from the BBC's "Top Gear" program from 1968 and 1970. Songs include "Breathe in the Air," "On the Run" (2 versions), "Time," "Money" (a rare acoustic demo), "Us & Them," "Brain Damage/Eclipse," "Embryo," and "Point Me at the Sky." Euro import."
10/26/2004	Pink Floyd	The Best of Pink Floyd	LP	$18.99		A reissue of a rare 1970 Dutch-only collection, this great new version includes bonus tracks to include all their 7" releases from 1967-1969. Tracks include "Arnold Layne," "Candy and a Currant Bun," "See Emily Play," "The Scarecrow," "Apples and Oranges," "Paintbox," "It Would Be So Nice," "Julia Dream," "Let There Be More Light," "Remember a Day," "Point Me at the Sky," "Careful with That Axe Eugene," "The Nile Song," and "Ibiza Bar." *Euro import*
10/31/2009	Pink Floyd & The Orb	Wish You Were Here: Trance Remixes	LP	$20.99		"Ravers everywhere will dig this one: all of the songs on the original 1975 PINK FLOYD album are given the trance treatment by THE ORB, taking them into new and unexpected levels of atmospheric chill-out and heartbeat rhythm. Cover art uses the same images as the original, but altered for a darker and trippier effect. Limited edition, UK import."
5/31/2008	Pink Luminous Invocation	The Pink Sea	cassette	$10.99	Sloow Tapes	"Riding high on the lazy waves of pink twilight, this journey sets off with an illuminated chorus of exotic northern sounds before inhaling a nasty smoke of dark feedback. 100 copies."
4/3/2010	Pink Priest	Honeysuckle	LP	$19.99	La Station Radar	"We are particularly amazed by Pink Priest, who slip effortlessly between deconstructed drone, and industrial pounding and tearing. Some of the former in 'Those Paws', which could have soundtracked Valerie's first menstruation and subsequent hallucinations, if she had been born in the post-apocalyptic landscapes that Cormac McCarthy described in The Road." - 20 jazz funk greats
2/23/2007	Pink Reason	Cleaning The Mirror	CD	$13.99	Siltbreeze	"Pink Reason is always Kevin DeBroux and practically never anyone else. The self-released Pink Reason debut seven-inch from 2006 was an itch of such beguiling psychic ache that all the inhabitants of Siltbreeze Island scratched it until they bled. On this first full length, the resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin, continues to ooze muzzy melancholia by the bucket, ably and formidably clearing house in Sanguine Manor, whose previous tenants include Royal Trux, The Jacobites, Phantom Payne, Black Vial, and other marginal inhabitants whose sticky fingers glimmer in stoned adulation. Dominated by creeping synths, stark strums and rickety percussive splats that complement De Broux's heartscraping vocal catharsis, Cleaning The Mirror journeys far beyond any known perspective, practically insinuating an alternate otherworld where Tim Buckley's Lorca and Jandek's Ready For The House have been hybridized into a ripe-for-plucking masterpiece. Or, shunning hyperbole in favor of acronym, Pink Reason's modern day DIY is very FYI that you should check out PDQ."
8/31/2008	Pink Reason	Winona	7"	$4.99	Woodsist	"During a show with hardcore punks Hatefuck, DeBroux and company traveled to Winona, Minnesota. After a five-hour drive to the town, wasted locals, angry punks and gnarled three-legged dogs greeted them by leading them into a commandeered park. Inside the park, DeBroux found "the ultimate punk rock experience" with townies huffing rubber glue and mohawk-brandishing kids starting fights with crusties. The show ended and the locals gave the band three dollars for their troubles. A few kids asked DeBroux and company to chip in the three dollars on a keg. Soon, the crowd dispersed and left the band with no money or place to stay. The band wound up sleeping on an island between Minnesota and Wisconsin and breaking up soon thereafter. He wrote the first Pink Reason song, "Winona," about this experience." - Steve Kobak from Blastitude #25. Edition of 500 copies on red vinyl.
	Pins, The	All The Night Sky	CD	$9.99	stick it to the man records	Latest release - nice psychedelic pop
	Pins, The	Five Song EP	CD	$8.99	Stick It To The Man Records	“At long last, a new release by the Pins! The five songs on this new ep were recorded by the band in their warehouse sudio space during 2001, and feature new member Nate Cutlan on drums. The tracks range from the freakbeat pop of ‘Near’ to the grooving and sunny psychedelia of ‘Hope (the bastard)’ to the delicate instrumental ‘Morning’, the Eno-esque ‘Coming Undone’ and the epic closing track ‘Hear Me’. With its extended krautrock ending. This ep is a limited edition of 100 copies and features a hand silk-screened cover by keyboardist Steve Shaskan.”
	Pins, The	Radar	CD	$8.99	stick it to the man records	From 1997 - psychedelic pop that drones a bit
12/2/2008	Pipeline Alpha	Darking Lights of Mazil	cassette	$5.99	DNT	"Dark chills from Germany's Marcel Seeck aka Pipeline Alpha. Who has been under the radar for a few years now, with past releases on the Ruralfaune label and his own label Amid the Waves and here is his American debut. A forgotten dream of an archaic astral bardo. Boggy whisperings like an unfurled book of spells embeds you. Edition of 55 pro-dubbed cassettes with spraypainted/stenciled cases."
8/28/2004	Pirate Tom Gribbins, The	The Pirate Tom Gribbins	3" CDR	$6.99	Deserted Village	“The latest Deserted Village release is the debut CDR from The Pirate Tom Gribbins. Its a 3" CDR of abstract (i.e. no beats, not much melody) electronic instrumentals about school and almost forgotten summer holidays. Every copy comes with a different picture.”
3/2/2005	Piss Superstition, The / Culver	There Is Space in the Clinch	3" CDR	$7.99	Firstperson	"The Piss Superstition is none other than Julian Bradley, more commonly known for his solo work as "A Companion as Glamourous as Sleeping on Wheels, duo recordings with Neil Campbell & group compositions with The Negative Kite & more recently The Vibracathedral Orchestra. The piece offered here - There Is Space in the Clinch - is a study of differing pitches, seemingly appearing & disappearing at will, all cloaked in a warm analogue blanket. the careful listener will be aware of the appearance of some wonderful melancholic phrases, revealing a humanistic & fragile undercurrent. Culver is the prolific recording project of Lee Stokoe, horror movie aficionado & head honcho of the long-running (over 100 releases & counting) tape/cd label Matching Head. 'Glass Doll' contains the characteristics to be found in the best Culver material - an attention to microscopic internal deviations within a single pitch, a relentless devotion to "sound" as object & the ability to leave an indelible & unique fingerprint on all his work." 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other.
1/24/2009	Pistil Cosmos, The	The Praying Eyes	CDR	$8.99	267 Lattajjaa	"Two long psychedelic drone rituals from this talented french artist who also records as "V". "Long tracks. The Red Hand Ritual, is about hands and rituals, and screams, and broken violin. If you watch very carefully in the deepest dark side of your hand, you will be able to distinguish what the Red Hand Ritual is supposed to be. The Silver Moon Ritual is about Sea Lions. And a guitar. And maybe a piano keyboard. Those tracks were recorded before the snow and when the 12th moon was on the east of the hill."
	Pit Viper	s/t	7"	$5.99	Imperial Records	1 sided record limited to 150 copies features Robert Lundon & Rosy Parlane
	Pit Viper	Wheku/Weku	8"	$12.99	Crawlspace	"Two live tracks one from a performance at the "Fiat Lux " gallery & the other is their legendary support of Sonic Youth at the Auckland Town Hall in September 1998 (its has been brutally remixed just to make your ears bleed).Members are from Thela, Celine, Empercial, Paramentier, Garbage and the Flowers etc. Features awesome 2 sided cover artwork beautifully reproduced from their "fourth member" Daniel Malone."
11/15/2008	Pitre, Duane	For Loud / For Quiet	cassette	$8.99	NNA Tapes	"Side long work of prepared guitar via a motor of some sort that despite the metallic leanings is really a rather pleasant wash of soft focused sustained BUZZ. I think I dig how this is a little more in your face than his CD on Important from last year, not that I minded the distant glow of that disc though. The second side is a rather dreamy field recording suite."
6/30/2010	Pitre, Duane	Origin	LP	$15.99	Root Strata	"The entirety of Origin's musical material is comprised of the vibrating strings of Pitre's ensemble of bowed "harmonic-guitars," which are unconventionally strung electric guitars (utilizing multi-unisons) tuned to intervals corresponding with the Harmonic Series, a.k.a. Just Intonation. No effects processing (pre or post) was used in this recording. All effect- like qualities result from the multi-unison strings (phasing), sympathetic vibrations, combination/ difference tones (of the chosen just tuning), and natural acoustic phenomena as such. Pitre has releases on labels such as Important Records, Trome Records, NNA, and Quiet Design. In 2010 Pitre will have multiple releases of his work on Root Strata. Origin is limited to 300 copies in full color LP jackets with a download coupon. Pitre has presented his works in NYC at such spaces as Roulette, The Stone, MoMA's P.S.1, Phillips de Pury & Co., St. Marks Church, The Knitting Factory, and ISSUE Project Room (where he was the Spring 2009 Artist in Residence)."
12/25/2005	Plagne, Francis	Idle Bones	CD	$14.99	Synaesthesia	"These 16 bedroom recordings by 17-year-old local wunderkind Francis Plagne constitute an amazing debut. Plagne has the sensibility of a middle-aged musicologist and the free-form enthusiasm of a teenage music nerd. Recalling such 1960s odd bods as Syd Barrett, Ray Davies and Roky Erickson, he has assembled a strange, dreamlike mixture of gorgeous pop fragments interspersed with found sounds and clunky mechanical interludes. Lush, playful singalongs are interrupted by mad Toy Story episodes in which Plagne makes a racket with various clattering play things and bicycle bells, then lets the chaos subside as another miniature pop masterpiece takes shape. The album is divided into a three-part narrative with mythic song chapters such as Idle Bones and Sinking Ships and The Ballad of the Boars. Reaching deep into a grab bag of field recordings, lush experimental vistas and untrammelled imagination, Plagne has reassembled them to create something that is considerably more than the sum of its parts. Idle Bones is a marvellous flight of fancy." - Sophie Best, theage.com.au
6/11/2006	Plains	Into Tone	CD	$7.99	Scarcelight	"NZ group quietly paint a beautiful, yet desolate landscape. As lonely as a night in the desert, as peaceful as falling through space........you decide. Recorded live 8/12/04 at Version Festival, Kenneth Myers Centre, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Plains is: Tim Coster: field recordings Richard Francis: computer Rosy Parlane: guitar, computer Mark Sadgrove: feedback, linuxCsound Clinton Watkins: guitar Paul Winstanley: electric bass, digital feedback + housed in a letterpressed sleeve by Star Shaped Press"
3/21/2007	Plains	Underground	3" CDR	$8.99	Claudia	Plains live at the Underground Bar, Auckland, New Zealand, 5th June 2006. Recorded opening a show for Birchville Cat Motel and Sam Hamilton. This was Plains last performance before Mark moved to Tokyo, and it turns out quite a bit more energetic than the first album "Into Tone" on Scarcelight. Here the improvised soundscapes are a bit more fragmented, with melodic rumbles through the background, and a surface bubbling of psychedelic noise. Plains is: Tim Coster (Field recordings, Computer), Richard Francis (Computer), Rosy Parlane (Computer), Mark Sadgrove (Feedback, Linux Csound), Clinton Watkins (Samples), and Paul Winstanley (Feedback). First edition of 150 with thick cardboard sleeve.
	Planetarium Music	Traditional Psychedelic Electronic Music (Planet 2)	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	“Alex Bundy from San Francisco, CA-via-Portland, OR is the man in question steering the spacecraft of Planetarium Music. Many of you may know Mr. Bundy as a member of drone-rock-scrapers Yume Bitsu, for whom he has performed the duties of keyboards and electronic sound generation since their onset. Through his Planetarium Music project, Bundy explores a style of electronic music that originated with predominantly German artists in the early 70's such as Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Klaus Schulz, and carried through the 80's by artists such as Robert Rich, Steve Roach and Jeff Greinke. In the process of mining this oft-maligned, almost-forgotten style of experimental electronic music, Planetarium Music has constructed an absolute gem of lush drone-and-drift with the almost Smithsonian Folkways-ian titled _Traditional Psychedelic Electronic Music (Planet 2)_. Using digital synthesizers, processing software and computers as sonic arsenal, Planetarium Music seeks to reclaim the modern Music of the Spheres, while updating it with a modern edge and purpose. As cosmic tides ripple throughout, shimmering modulations envelop and a multitude of discreet drones burble just below the surface. Although the synth-laden tone washes ebb and flow majestically in truly stellar 70's German reminiscence, some music hints at Mille Plateaux-style static-pulse glitch and others dissect Metal Machine Music type sound abrasion. This is deep listening music, threatening to seep into every fabric of your being with subtle insistence. Cosmic, textured, transcendent: a truly heavenly tonic to bathe your tender senses and awaken your tired chakras.”
6/4/2010	Planets Around The Sun	Gold	c46 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"back the fuck up and freak the fuck out. planets around the sun are another epic cog in the music vistas of portland, maine. made up from members of cursillistas/herbcraft, tempera, white light and others in the l'animaux tryst family, planets' sonics feel like religious offerings to a long-forgotten stellar godforms. it's huge, sprawling and absolutely magickal. acoustic drones flicker like organic spires in the distance. the group's combined voices singing through heavy rays like sirens beckoning you home. the build-up is incredible. minimal, nearly-tribal drums push the movement to another level entirely as it enters into its cathartic, critical mass before breaking down and decaying back into the earth. left behind are the strums of guitars and industrial, percussive blasts that couldn't be contained in the fallout. edition of 80."
7/16/2009	Plankton Wat	Dawn of the Golden Eternity	LP	$12.99	DNT	"Debut solo LP by Dewey Mahood of Portland psych-jammers Eternal Tapestry. Ten songs recorded at the Owl House basement last winter on cassette 4-track. The LP encompasses a vast array of sounds and moods, from blissed-out drone punk rippers to super chill deep space folk. Total late night stoney textures, and radiant sun anthems. Acoustic and electric guitar, drums, banjo, mbira, and some singing, all mega tripped with syrupy analogy delay. Really beautiful heavy zoners. Hand drawn covers and insert by Dewmah. Edition of 500 on marbled red vinyl."
6/9/2010	Plankton Wat	Shadows	c34 cassette	$7.99	Sloow Tapes	"Late-night brooding acoustic guitar arpeggios by Eternal Tapestry's Dewey Mahood. Cosmic raga's moonlit by deep earthmagic awareness, invoking the spirits of Jack Rose, Robbie Basho, Sandy Bull etc. 70 copies.."
4/10/2009	Plankton Wat	Visions of Otherness	CDR	$7.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Follow-up to last years CDR on Stunned and cassette on DNT from Dewey of Eternal Tapestry/Jackie-O Motherfucker/Bloodbiker... Opening with some very nice guitar layered with relaxed vocal bursts, the following tracks have a super nice guitar vibe to them. 'In the Realm of Magic and Death' has a more distorted dark aspect to it with an almost tribal ritual drum layering. The disc climaxes with an almighty piece entitled 'Transfiguration of Infinite Nature', wailing guitars, pounding drums, droning vocals... Expect more from the Wat on BR later in the year! Limited to 200."
6/30/2010	Plante	Temples On High	c40 cassette	$5.99	Sweat Lodge Guru	"Andrew Plante lays down a thick set of amplified guitar drones with support from Breathing Flowers' McKinley Jones on synth. A 40 minute slow-motion drift that ends in a field of white light - it's amazing what you can find in Kansas City these days. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes."
4/24/2006	Plants	12/15/93	CDR	$8.99	Killertree Records	"Not much to remember about 1993 – other than discovering Dead C and several seasons of meeting up with Jeff Dunn and John Olson at 1610 Kalamazoo St in Lansing MI – in the rocket room (upstairs, middle room) and the attempt to fill every floating atom with solid sound. We firstly prepared with weed – from the pipe to the 2 liter gravity bong to the milk jug gravity bong then graduating to the road cone gravity bong. Jeff would play guitar, Olson would play drums, sax, or perhaps guitar, Ramirez usually played guitar but on this session, keyboards and tapes. It would always be a solid blowout, no escape from the sound with everything always colliding and creating languages, stories or whatever. It was pointless to play live (we did once – in a pitch black basement days after Cobain tapped out, with only one person in attendance who was tripping hard). It was a good self-indulgence figuring that no one would get it or give a shit so Plants was a Gents Club for weirdos and destructos. This particular splot happened on 12/15/93 at around 6am in the morning (I had a morning flight to catch). The session creeped out of the shingles and into the ears of passerby schoolchildren who looked at the house as if it were levitating. This session was messed up and bent as usual, full on vintage scree manipulation of our instruments the only unordinary thing was that it was in daylight. No songs, just attempting fill every corner and crack with sonic abuse and then when the session ends – we just stare at each other with creeper grins like we just built an orb and sent it out in to space in hopes of other life forces intercepting it instead of whatever NASA sends into space to reach out to other worlds. Our orb holds truer – reflecting chaos in our world. Plants reflects some messed up shit, but it’s good shit. Note* This is not the same two-piece current band "Plants" from Portland, OR" - Bryan Ramirez
11/25/2007	Plants	Dunn / Olson / Ramirez - 12/15/93	LP	$15.99	Killertree	"1993 - we got our cherries busted with youth noise and desperate freedom. It was a call for musical separation from everything that plugged in and we fuckin’ got it. We (Jeff Dunn, John Olson & Bryan Ramirez) met many evenings per week for over a year solid, most likely cranked around 200 sessions all recorded on 90 minute tapes - roughly 9000 minutes - all ground into dust, gone. Shit was molded in the walls of 1610 Kzoo St. Lansing, MI, or ransacked by noise bums, or recorded over. But, there was one that got away from the doomhole - a second generation cassette. The recording was at 6am before Ramirez was to catch a flight to Florida - road cone gravity bongs sent this fucker into sleepy-eyed wee-mugs that filed along towards school - periodically glancing at the house to hear this horrendous alien arguement thundering from sax / drums / guitar / keys all aligned in the rocket room. The recording is shattering. Minced analog skreedom recklessly curing informal ills and breaking windows from pure soundwave pressure. Free sound from the early years all innocent-like. Pure and demented is pure demented freedom. Screened covers - killer liners/history lesson by John Olson - limited run." Recommended!
5/14/2007	Plants	Photosynthesis	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Reaching deep within, Plants unfurl Photosynthesis, a haunting foray into gently rippling netherworlds. Aptly named, Photosynthesis illustrates the subtle skill in which Plants extract and blend a variety of sounds to concoct a heady elixir of minimalist psychedelia. A rotating cast of support for the husband and wife core offers a diverse array of instrumentation, including acoustic/electric guitars, cello, singing saw, organ, electric tones, and a guest appearance from Jason Buehler of the band Nice Nice on banjo and 'piano box.' Gently swirled together, Plants invoke images of a quiet solstice ritual involving early Popol Vuh, the fusion-folk of C.O.B., and a flower-powered, V.U.-era John Cale. Haunting and ethereal, Photosynthesis is a fresh new perspective from the West Coast folk-psych scene."
6/7/2005	Plastic Crimewave	Black Rust Loops	CDR	$7.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	"Dark analog meditations from the solo Crimewave vaults-1995-2005...calls to higher consciousness from handheld cassette to your boxed ears. occult drippings and kraut dirges smeared in red and gold fuzz and zoned through armies of effects pedals. Burn something for this one."
8/13/2004	Plastic Crimewave	Blinding Pink Sun	CDR	$6.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	4 long tracks recorded live in 2003 & 2004 in California. Yeah!
2/11/2006	Plastic Crimewave	Burning Phoenix Rise!	CDR	$7.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	"A well recorded show at the Trunk Space in Phoenix, AZ, featuring PCW taking on some PCWSound rockers solo, as well as some folkier pieces stretched into freaked out loops and drones. Pure experimentation, krautdirges and some rural ragas all thrown in for good measure...limited in a snazzy sleeve designed by PCW."
2/11/2006	Plastic Crimewave	Collapserations II	CDR	$7.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	"Lo-fi blasts of sound and crackly blisses, with collaborators like members of Comets on Fire, Michael Yonkers, Oneida, Fursaxa and Bunnybrains. Blazing guitar jamz, rippling electronics, and Silver Apples covered into warping oblivion...not for the faint of heart or anal audiophiles. also limited in a PCW designed sleeve."
4/16/2003	Plastic Crimewave	Crescent Forms A Horned Mountain	CDR	$6.99		"Experimental guitar workouts not for the faint of heart! EP of two long tracks. Think Keiji Haino, Dead C, Masonna…"
12/12/2009	Plastic Crimewave	Fire In The Hole	CDR	$11.99	Apollolaan	"If you have been following carefully then you will already know the name Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow). Plastic Crimewave Expanse was the very first release on apollolaan recordings, and Steve has since appeared on apollolaan as part of DRMWPN and Folk and Violence. This latest 13 track album is Plastic Crimewave in solo song mode, and this is pure Plastic Crimewave at its very best. The album is called Fire In The Whole and comes in an edition of 100 copies on cdr. Each and every cover is individually hand painted and unique. Each copy is hand numbered and the package is completed with an insert with the cover art from the original tape from PCW's private collection. "Recorded on a 4 track in thee bedroom (of course) of one Plastic Crimewave over a decade ago, these tracks were intended as a demo for a PCW solo album that only ever sort-of materialized. The cuts here ended up having a charm and distinct sound of their own, as PCW played all instruments and tweaked all knobs and sounds. Backwards guitars, broke-ass sitar, and even a crude human beatbox all were employed to convey these songs, which were largely transcribed from dreams or written on the creaking steel streets of Chicago, Illinois. Inspired by all from Syd, Eno, Ayers, Simon Finn, Alastair Galbraith, Daniel Johnston and the gooiest of shoegazes, this document captures a certain dystopian bliss not present in the later sanistized studio versions of these tracks with a full band--which would in fact lead to Plastic Crimewave Sound being formed. Some of these songs were not even attempted again, so what materialized was in fact a nice lil album of lo-fi snapshots of the moods of 1999..." - Steve Krakow. Steve is probably best known for the band Plastic Crimewave Sound, the Chicago spacepunk unit in operation since 2001, which has been lauded in Mojo, Wire, Julian Cope's Head Heritage, etc. PCWS delivers blasts of motor-city acid-rock, Japanese-style psychedelic scree, yet touching on cosmic krautrock and eastern folk-blues at times. Plastic Crimewave also does the Galactic Zoo Dossier mag, Secret History of Chicago Music newspaper strip and radio show, Million Tongues Festivals, and plays with DRMWPN and Moonrises.....and did we mention he is also known in some circles as Pythagoras, after being inducted into the Source family. "Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies CD-R that bundles a bunch of demos cut solo by Steve Krakow aka Plastic Crimewave of Plastic Crimewave Sound. The sound is primitive straight-to-tape nada fidelity psych, with Krakow's vocals barely decipherable outside of tonal mumps and uh-huh yeahs. The backing ranges from fuzz guitar through pirouetting acoustic and doomy synth. The feel is a mile away from the lurid comic book psych appeal of his big band records and closer to a damaged real people/loner psych broadcast from out of nowhere. Hand-painted sleeves, every one unique." - David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue.
	Plastic Crimewave	Gradually Darkens	CDR	$6.99		“Lo-fi drugged meditations ala Skip Spence, Alastair Galbraith, Syd Barrett, etc. From quiet to loud. Full length + single tracks."
11/3/2004	Plastic Crimewave	Heavy Acid Rocks	CDR	$6.99		A DJ set from Plastic Crimewave of loud acid rock sounds. All on one track….
11/3/2004	Plastic Crimewave	Projection	CDR	$6.99		“Studio recorded solo release, with a conceptual song cycle on loss, traitors, and drug addled sex. Features most of AMT, Spires, Fur saxa, and Chris Connelly of Ministry and Revolting Cocks??! folk,lysergic pop, evil electronics, psych ragers, and a human beatbox??? yes.”
3/26/2006	Plastic Crimewave	The Howling Light / I'll Be Back in Your Days Again	7"	$4.99	Loud Device	Killer new slab of vinyl from Steve Krakow! Features Crimewave on acoustic guitar, sitar, vocals, and of course the stellar art work on the picture sleeve. Recommended!
12/29/2001	Plastic Crimewave & The Fake	Live At The Hideout	CDR	$6.99		“Blown-out post-punk / psych rock live n’ raw from 1st band lineup. Tour cd from Acid Mothers Temple 2002 tour. 40 minutes of soaring!”
4/16/2003	Plastic Crimewave & The Fake	Rising Anger EP	CDR	$6.99		"One 30+ minute track of satanic psychedelia performed live to Kenneth Anger’s ‘Lucifer Rising’. Blown out Syd-Floyd attacked by Rudolph Grey & ‘White Light / White Heat’ scuzz…"
8/13/2004	Plastic Crimewave and Heady Friends	Collapserations	CDR	$6.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	Mainly 2003 recordings with the exception of one track from 2002 in Tokyo (with Shimura Koji, Tabata, & Ngo Shibata) and one track from 2004 in Chicago. The 2003 recordings feature Plastic Crimewave with folks like Mike Gibbons, Ethan Miller, Ben Chasny, Oneida, etc with lots of strange live collaborations.
12/13/2008	Plastic Crimewave Sound	Dark Debris	double CDR	$13.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	"A disc of live recordings / demos of unreleased songs, and a disc of studio stuff -- compilation appearances and other rarities (some unreleased)." 25 tracks. Nice!
6/7/2005	Plastic Crimewave Sound	Limited Tour Live EP	CDR	$7.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	"Limited cdr of a smokingly hot recorded show from Philadelphia 04 - acid punk blastathon and the beginnings of the blissed songs which will appear on the new PCWS DLP. In a hot red sleeve by PCW."
1/13/2004	Plastic Crimewave Sound	Live Boombox Explosions	CDR	$6.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	10 track cdr of blistering live recordings (2002-2003) from Chicago’s finest acid punk unit! "Sonic debris taped only ye old handheld of fierce noisy jammage and some one-offers never to be replicated in a studio----is this the real sound of acid punk fiends Plastic Crimewave Sound? this will gear you up for some hot new releases coming this year! trapdoor fucking hawkwinds? sits nice next to your Mars and Rallies boots. feel the boomboxed POWER!"
2/12/2008	Plastic Crimewave Sound	No Wonderland	CD	$13.99	Prophase	"The more I dig into this newest Plastic Crimewave Sound double LP, Steve Krakow's second proper album in this guise, the more I hesitate to describe it using that popular appellation with the silent P. Oh yeah, it can be pretty loud, much of the music submerged in shockwaves of feedback and delay, but how organized and lucid it all is. Levels of timbral, even orchestral, detail emerge in ways only glimpsed in earlier releases. The brutally chilling "Into the Future" deposits layers of the most transparent guitar mud, twangy and fuzzed out, over some sort of punchy post-punk bass groove, soaked with the clear-and-present danger of distantly shrill synth jittering. Vocoded mantras, most contoured to end on the same droning pitch, add to the tune's cliché but effective gestalt of mechanized fear. It works similarly to Gary Numan's "Down in the Park" until the end, where a brilliantly obscure flash of vaguely Latin percussion infringes, ala Santana's "Soul Sacrifice." (Or was it really always there?) It's a strangely iconic historical vision; PCS doesn't go for pure studio experimentation in a pop frame; you won't find anything here like Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle," with its tape flips and ahead-of-their-time manufactured beats. The drums are usually wet but hot, almost early 1980s in presentation. There's plenty of scree on tracks like "Far In/Out," but the album is equally full of beautiful Eastern waftiness - acoustic guitars, miasmic stretches of tabla and sitar, even orchestral strings! It's as if Krakow has constructed a loosely defined musical in honor of the '60s and what followed, each side of the album prefaced by some spoken poetry courtesy of high-powered guests like Tara Burke and Devendra Banhart. The effect is enhanced by bits of musique concrete, like the hugely disproportionate and industrial door-slamming and footsteps, manipulated almost out of recognition, that usher in the first instrumental track. The whole thing is really fantastic, best absorbed in one sitting, as PCS fosters his uniquely inclusive take on rock's recent history." - Marc Medwin, Dusted Magazine - review of vinyl issue. This is a newly issued cd version.
2/21/2009	Plastic Crimewave Sound	Painted Shadows	CD	$12.99	A Silent Place	"The latest Plastic Crimewave Sound album 'Painted Shadows' (the title inspired by a practice used in german expressionist films) has a more cosmically devotional vibe than past LPs, touching on eastern folk-blues and elongated kraut-like soundscapes, with new elements of banjo, violin and female voice added to the stew. However, there is still some trademark PCWS rocking, as they still deliver blasts of motor city-type acid-punk, japanese-style skree, and waves of tension and release. This is the last PCWS album to feature ace leadsman Nick D'vyne, with the always-solid backbone of PCW(guitars, chants/howls) Mark Lux (bass, electronix) and Lawrence 'Skog Device' Peters (drums). Features rarely seen fully painted artwork by Plastic Crimewave."
12/13/2008	Plastic Crimewave Sound	Plastic Crimewave Sound	CD	$12.99	Prophase	"New release on CD from the masters of American psych punk. This one finds Chicago's Plastic Crimewave Sound taking a more song oriented take on psychedelia after their double album adventure, No Wonderland. Mind burning guitars mix with throbbing bass and a propulsive drummer. A very 21st century mix of psych, krautrock, acid folk and prog rock that pushes all of those genres forward in technicolor." Originally issued on vinyl by Eclipse Records.
8/2/2008	Plastic Crimewave Sound	Plastic Crimewave Sound	LP	$15.99	Eclipse	At last, a new LP from Chicago's spacepunk purveyors--! Following 06's sprawling double concept LP, 'No Wonderland," this is perhaps their most consistent and paint peeling statement yet. These tracks were captured with little studio trickery, in a live-type fashion--a set of bellowing free-fest scuzzrock, biker boogie, kraut-style dirges, cosmic communal jams, and fist pumping no-anthems. This is easily the most seriously rocking Plastic Crimewave Sound line-up yet, with hot new leads courtesy of Nick D'vyne, and the solid backbone of PCW (guitarscrawl, yelps) Mark Lux (bass rumblage, electronix) and Lawrence (Skog Device) Peters-(drum). Folks have actually been clamoring for this line-up to lay it down to wax (especially the aforementioned anthemic cut "Shockwave Rider") for some time, so get ready to explode into space. Limited edition - one time pressing.
11/21/2009	Plastic Crimewave Sound	Shockwave Rider	7"	$5.99	Horizontal Action	"For years, this Chicago scuzz-punk psychedelic prog machine has been turning heads as the Midwest's answer to Hawkwind, Can and other mind-expanding primordial brain-fryers. At long last, and after years of preparation, HoZac is proud to unleash the quintessential 7-inch single from PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND as they obliterate the blistering biker-psych formula, blasting the shrapnel deep into the innerspace of your mind. Presented here is their epic "Shockwave Rider," edited down from its 6-plus-minute format for maximum loudness and divinity. Featuring a lead guitar line from VEE DEE's NICK D'VYNE that will turn your hair white and stir up your endorphins before it even hits the first chorus, all while displaying the gnarly heaviness that PCWS have made all their own."
4/1/2003	Plastic Crimewave Sound	What Goes Up	7"	$4.99	Capt. Spazz	"At last! Chicago’s premiere psych-punk group is committed to wax! 3 scorchers (one at 6 minutes) of fuzzed out mayhem, delayed shouts & blasting electronics. They’ve toured with the Acid Mothers and shared bills with The Bardos, Charalambides, Black Dice, Sonic Boom, etc. Comparisons have ranged from Hawkwind, MC5, High Rise, Pink Fairies to Loop and Jesus & Mary Chain. Upcoming LP on Eclipse that’ll shake further foundations. Leader Crimewave has collaborated with many Japanese psychsters and does the Galactic Zoo Dossier, bass player Lux did time in Temple of Bon Matin. Swirly grey vinyl limited to 800 copies with fancy full color art by Crimewave & lyric sheet." Recommended!
5/31/2009	Plastic Crimewave Vision Celestial Guitarkestra	I and IV	CDR	$8.99	Galactic Zoo Disk	"Massive sheets of guitars (over 60 per concert!) create furious walls of devotional sound at windy city happenings conducted by plastic crimewave. 20 minute long tracks to get lost in...." Recordings from 2/27/07 and 2/21/08.
2/2/2002	Plasticland	Mink Dress and Other Cats	CD	$11.99	Timothy's Brain	"Record Collector magazine in England calls this 'a superb compilation of one of the true pioneers of post-punk psychedelia.' An amazing collection of ultra-rare early singles, with award-winning packaging that includes a lively history of the band and a detailed discography. Hear where paisley underground bands like Rain Parade (and thus by extension Opal, and more recently Mazzy Star), Mercury Rev, Spiritualized, etc. took their psychedelic licks from. To buy all this music on vinyl would cost you around $400, but why bother when the CD is here."
9/17/2006	Plateau	Plateau	CDR	$8.99	Jyrk	"Uncle JYRK aka Rocket aka Robert Horton has been one of the busiest jammers in the freak scene in the last few years.. no small fact especially since the dude just had his 50th birthday! A great, ripe age to drop in on the experimental music world.. Actually.. Robert's been up to tons of trouble for FOREVER.. He's the best.. always stoked and always adventureous.. Since Robert's been more active, he's been going thru his old vaults of recordings and reissuing various things... Plateau is possibly the most important of all his archival releases. Robert had been involved in the whole Subterranean post-punk anarchy mess in this group, The Appliances... This was back when Flipper was just getting going well.. long story short... the appliances broke up, some other things happened and Rocket started working on these compositions with some buddies that were inspired by folks like Lamonte Young and Tony Conrad... So.. these post-punk instrument inventor minimalist freaks got down to some SERIOUS drones in 1985.. this stuff touches on all the classic minimalist recordings and predicts future freak-folkist zone outs.. It's totally mind-blowing that these actions were happening when I was 6.. he's to the UNC! CHEERS! Edition of 150"
4/24/2006	Plotkin / Wysida	8 Improvs	CD	$13.99	Archive	"70+min recording of 8 wandering improvisations for guitar and drums tracked over the course of two days. Content ranges from ambient soundscapes to almost electric jazz. Probably differs a bit from others releases of this nature as both players have backgrounds in the fine art of heavy music. All packed up in a 2.5 panel full color 120lb sleeve with locking disc hub on the inside comes in 500 in blue and 500 in red cover version one time pressing of you guessed it a1000 copies!!"
4/10/2009	Pod Blotz	Goat Rack	cassette	$8.99	Dreamtime Taped Sounds	"Golden State member and dream encyclopedia Suzy Poling creates a novella of marble textures. at the center of a mystical place called Goat Rock, Suzy created radiant marble textures with a team of reel to reel tapes and electronics. creating a full album with both lush vortex dreams, concrete sounds and more crude abstract patterns, Goat Rock is a complete, sparkling liquid mercury bath into a higher level of clean."
4/16/2007	POG	Mitote	CDR	$8.99	Flipped Out Records	"69 hallucinatory, ghostly and otherworldly minutes of solo freak from this burnt hills member, recorded with bongos, floor drum, triola, acoustic guitar, kiddie accordion, broken kiddie electric guitar, cello, piano, electric guitar, kick drum, electric mandolin, wah wah, giant metal tweezers, pocket rocket and little big muff on a variety of boom boxes, tape decks and dictaphones with hand decorated mini lp gatefold jackets and "vinyl" cdrs in an edition of 99 copies."
8/28/2007	Polka Dot Sunflower Bed Orchestra, The / Body Odour	split	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Two finnish groups that on the surface are very different, but in the end actually find themselves to be distant cousins connected through the mighty cahier. the polka dot clan's half of this split is a sprawling piece of magic. it's the blood running through your veins, bringing life to everything it touches. mountainous drones and pulsating walls of guitars fill your arteries and pour out through open sores. but in some odd and unexplained way, this track is showered in ultraviolet warmth. body odour, on the other hand, is salt in the wounds. thick rivers of sludge doom and riot-worthy drums. this tepid cocktail is steeped in metal and it's heavy-handedness will stuck all the air out of the room. you're going to wanna die. 100 copies"
2/21/2005	Polly Shang Kuan Band	Eye Of Horus	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"The second PSKB release, and the first to feature the three piece line-up of the last year. Really full on screamer of crunked up live recordings, non-fidelity satanic ear blister.”
2/23/2004	Polly Shang Kuan Band	Polly Shang Kuan Band	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Karen Lollypop's ever changing female outsider puff. Two live pieces here by the first line up from 2001, a 5 piece which featured Japanese writer Akira Kuroda. This release gave Aaron Dilloway flame in his teeth."
3/26/2006	Polly Shang Kuan Band, The	For The Blood	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Latest hookum from the outsider aural ugsters. Joyous, hysterical, broken, fucked up primitive, drunken speaker invasion. PSKB laugh in Deaths face and spit into the eye sockets of skulls."
6/19/2007	Polytoxicomane Philharmonie	Drosophila Road	LP	$33.99	Nasoni	"More psychedelic brainfood by these german underground wizards. With ease, crafty perfection and improvised kakophonic craziness they mix up loads of clever ideas and musical styles to generate their pretty spacey polyphonic soundscapes with Zappa-esque fragments. The booklet tells the story of Ned Busckii, the drosophila (...)" Embossed gatefold sleeve, edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - all copies in stock are colored vinyl with 4 page booklet.
2/11/2006	Polytoxicomane Philharmonie	Plays Psycho Erectus	LP	$24.99	Nasoni	"Very remarkable first sign of life by this German underground psychedelic tribe, living and rehearsing in a secret hideout deep in the woods near Frankfurt. Polyphonic spaced-out soundscapes build of mushroom-fed psychedelia and space rock (not so far away from Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream or Gong) fused with jazzrock, Zappa-esque fragments and some oriental vibes. Eccentric here, Curious and wayward there, and a whole dump of clever ideas in all - psycho brainfood, indeed." Edition of 500 copies housed in a gatefold sleeve - copies here are on black vinyl.
5/1/2009	Pomerance, Erica	You Used To Think	CD	$10.99	ESP-DISK	"Erica Pomerance is a Canadian documentary film maker, poet and singer songwriter. In December, 1968, she assembled a diverse group of musicians to record her debut album, with engineering by Onno Scholtze. The late Trevor Koehler played alto sax. Gail Pollard, now also deceased, played flute. Dion Grody, Lanny Brooks and Craig Justen, of Octopus fame, assisted. Billy Mitchel, the legendary guitar virtuoso, Don Coopersmith, Ron Price on lead guitar, Richie Heissler on rhythm guitar, and Tom Moore on flute, an eclectic mix of classical, improvisational, folk and rock musicians." "You Used To Think is one of those rarities of pure inspiration that rates up there with first platters by the MC5, Stooges, Fugs, Velvet Underground, Silver Apples, Godz, Pearls Before Swine, etc... a classic '68 underground album: a collage of fucked-up eastern ragas, jazz, and atonal folk rock, delivered in a beautiful, raspy, feverish, drug-induced howl, featuring the poetry and singular voice of Erica Pomerance. ESP produced more than its share of outsider visions and here was an album more like a situation, that peeked inside and outside the bullcrap of the music world and the various genres it endlessly pumps out." - DIMMU BORGHILD.
9/6/2002	Pomerance, Erica	You Used To Think	LP	$18.99	Get Back	"Recorded at the tail end of 1968, this densely packed album, rooted in blues-laden acid folk, is gradually dominated by a more free-form, jazz-influenced style of vocal innovation which brings the album to its frantic climax. While remaining firmly linked to a lyrical base, Pomerance's primitive wails and shrieks shatter the traditional acid folk mold. Singing in French on 'The Slippery Morning', the versatile vocalist is also responsible for the rhythm guitar and hand drumming heard on the eastern influenced 'We Came Via'. Original artwork. Digitally remastered from the original tapes."
7/16/2009	Pool Water	Live at Warm & Covering	CDR	$9.99	American Tapes	"The new power trio of Connelly, Ol' Zone One, and Massive Mike Collino. Recorded snug in the shadowed corner of the sacred Cove, three twisting and grossly vacant narratives to the torrid ambient static between your ears! Violin, cardboard percussion, flute, tapes: a smorgasbord of wicked ingredients/instruments to force your day into a magic-fueled vessel!! Captured in high inzane-fidelty with the new portable Inzane Zone Traveling Four Trick (IZTF). Good vibes inside means seriously jam business within the Jason/Freddy adorned walls of the Conn Artist's COMFORT ZONE. We would met up at the cove, bust some "launcher" recs., drink, get loose and head to the studio for SERIOUS concentration into the void. Hours later Collino would bounce and me and the Conner would play chess in total silence until the wee hours. Goodtimes.com. Beyond stokered on this new troupe, more lurking sounds down the pipeline, below the streets, creeping/movin inward!!! The lone Michigan unit with two Mikes in it? No whoops, The Underwear Heads had THREE "zany" Mikes involved, sorry. Color Covers, numbered edition of 60."
5/14/2007	Poor School	Voor niets in zijn	CDR	$13.99	Cut Hands	"Brand new improvised trash from Killertree label boss/guitarist Bryan Ramirez (also known as one half of Ex-Cocaine) with his peers Nathan Hoyme on sax and John Niekrasz on drums. Poor School got that mean mug fistfight thing going on. With Hoyme's sax skronking deeply and uncomforting throughout the trio unleash a uncompromising wave of freerock/freejazz/no wave/impro sludge. Last Exit style. Comes in a square dvd box with black and white cover art and glossy insert, all by Jason Rohm. 62 made."
12/31/2003	Pop	Work Hard Play Harder	CDR	$9.99	Absurd	"Documentation of the superb live set the amazing duo of Zbigniew Karkowski & Pita did at Athens's Electrograph 02 festival in November 02. Plus a remix of the show by Karkowski & its remix by Pita. Limited edition of 199 copies."
1/30/2003	Popol Vuh	Aguirre	LP	$29.99	Think Progressive	"180 gram vinyl edition of the classic Hertzog soundtrack, recorded over the years 1972-74, by the trio of Florian Fricke, Daniel Fichelscher and Djong Yun."
8/8/2002	Popol Vuh	Die Nacht Der Seele (Tantric Songs)	CD	$14.99	Spalax	"13th album, from 1979, (‘The Night Of The Spirit’). Djong Yun and Amon Duul II's Renate Knaup reappear beside the steady duo of Fricke/Fichelscher, and more oboe/sitar embellishment." - FE
8/8/2002	Popol Vuh	Einsjäger & Siebenjäger	LP	$29.99	Spalax	"5th album, from 1975, (‘A Soldier And Seven Soldiers’). Down to a trio of Fricke, Fichelscher (electric/acoustic guitar) and Yun (vocals again), they started to make headways toward a heavy cosmic rock sound, that would soon peak with Letzte Tage. Powerful flows of weaving guitar/keyboard lines built up into psychedelic crescendos. Good one."
8/8/2002	Popol Vuh	Fitzcarraldo	CD	$14.99	Spalax	"First CD issue of the original soundtrack to the Hertzog masterpiece (not to be confused with soundtrack compilation also issued under this name). Cosmic Popol Vuh tracks, mixed in with opera, classical and traditional musics." - FE
8/8/2002	Popol Vuh	Nosferatu	CD	$14.99	Spalax	Reissue of 1978 LP soundtrack to Werner Herzog film.
11/16/2004	Popol Vuh	Nosferatu - Original Soundtrack	CD	$17.99	SPV	"This album contains more than 20 min. more compared to the further release of the legendary Nosferatu soundtrack. For the first time you get the complete soundtrack and the songs of the album Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts which have been used of the film together on one album, and this for the first time." 1978 release.
7/24/2002	Popol Vuh	Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin	CD	$14.99	Spalax	"14th album, from 1980 (‘Be Quiet, You Know I Am’). Originally a one-off for Klaus Schulze's Innovative Communications label, the opening moments contain a massive ritual chant, with some of Fichelscher's heaviest guitar playing pushing choral ensemble multi-voices to spectacular heights. ‘...deep mantric release. In addition to Florian's weaving keys & Danny's awesome guitar & percussives, they added a choral of over 100 voices & used them as a mantric/phonetic foundation over which their beautiful kaleidoscope sound paintings take you way inside yourself! Probably their most demanding album, also one of their finest." - G.B. Was used in the soundtrack to Fitzcarraldo.
11/16/2004	Popol Vuh	Seligpreisung	CD	$17.99	SPV	"The bonus track 'Be In Love' performance enhanced with violin and oboe with the same line up as for Hosianna Mantra in 1973 seams to come from a strange and wonderful world of very special beauty. 'Be In Love' und 'Maria (Ave Maria)' were meant to be released as singles." Released in 1973, this was Popol Vuh’s 4th album.
1/30/2003	Popol Vuh	Seligpreisung	LP	$29.99	Think Progressive	"180 gram LP reissue of this classic Cosmic Couriers album. 4th Popol Vuh album, from 1973 (‘Songs of Praise’). Following a period when Fricke and Veit became involved with a reformed Gila (recording Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee), they returned as Popol Vuh for this album, adding the additional psychedelicized guitar of Daniel Fichelscher (who would become a key central figure throughout the history of the group) and oboe, konga, tamboura accompaniment. Florian takes over on vocals for once, and within the context of softly flowing/lightly trancing rock this is masterful work." - FE
7/24/2002	Popol Vuh	Yoga	CD	$14.99	Spalax	"9th album; this was another uncommon one on vinyl, only pressed by Italian PDU in 1976. An odd item, it consists of two Indian ragas composed and produced by Fricke, but performed by Indian musicians only (on sitar/tamboura/tabla). A curious example of Florian's interest/insight into the mystical, and a pretty cool item." - FE
3/26/2006	Porest	Mood Noose	CD	$10.99	Resipiscent	"The Resipiscent catalogue only gets better! Here it is, the eagerly anticipated third release from Mono Pause, Sublime Frequencies maker, Mark Gergis. Lethal 14th c. field recordings cuddle with razor-scored melodies, swirled radio psychedelia, flatline drunken domesticity, and circuit murder to summon a festive, fertile melancholy. Unguessable, peerless. A scrubber for the bloody stuff past your ears."
4/10/2005	Porter, Patrick	Lisha Kill	CD	$13.99	Camera Obscura	"Denver, Colorado singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Patrick Porter (Phineas Gage, solo CD 'Reverb Saved My Life') recorded 'Lisha Kill' while on sabbatical in New York State. Having set up with girlfriend in part of one of those East Coast industrial town two-family houses made into flats, he discovered that the downstairs neighbors didn't mind if he made a ruckus. So, prompted by the loan of some rudimentary recording equipment, he started messing around with guitars after a long period of abstinence. The new 'Porter Studio' was down the street from a Salvation Army depot and every Sunday folks would illegally dump their junk in the parking lot. Picking through the wreckage with a stick proved fruitful: all sorts of instruments surfaced - Casios, mandolins, toy pianos, an accordion and the Queen Mama of all finds, a working two-tiered Kimball organ. A new arsenal of instruments was thus was incorporated into the new recordings, and as Porter says: 'I started getting interested in the idea of creating something beautiful out of a bunch of stuff that people had thrown into the bin'. Once the aesthetic was established, Porter went to work, writing and recording songs on the fly, piling take after take into an amorphous, organically spreading quilt of sound elements which would eventually form into songs like 'Window Seat' and the title track. Despite technical limitations, some complex pieces were attempted, like 'Hospital', 'Good People with Bad Credit' and the remarkable 'Slow Torpedo'. These 'took a lot of time and killed three computers' says Patrick. 'These sessions were like a womb, I just sat in a tiny corner crammed with instruments and made my fun', explains Porter. Real world sounds - sirens, grocery checkout squawks, someone doing the dishes - would occasionally intrude and get included. A hit and run death outside the house informed the mood of the song 'Hospital'. 'End Badly' was recorded on the porch, first thing in the morning with the birds still chirping and morning traffic going by. 'Lisha Kill' is a ghetto of stories like that; ghost whispers of AM, broken stuff, hidden junk drawers. The sounds of an old man bumbling around in the barn, enjoying loneliness but knowing he can't stay there. It's a loner's loose-woven fabric of deconstructed space folk, taking Porter beyond the footwear introspection of earlier recordings into a more experimental territory, both lyrically and sonically. Porter says: 'These are my favorite recordings. I feel like 'Lisha Kill' is my first album - like the other ones were pre-season football games or soccer friendlies. It's not perfect, but it's the first one that I feel came from the genuine, where I wasn't trying to pull the wool at all. So I have a soft spot for her. Now she finally gets tattooed with a bar code and sent out into the world to sit in the bins with the rest of 'em. Be kind to her, she's a fragile one'".
	Porter, Patrick	Reverb Saved My Life	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"Patrick Porter was one half of space-pop duo Phineas Gage, now renamed Raining on Vivian St. ‘Reverb Saved My Life’ takes a series of home recordings made by the 18 year old Porter in 1996-97 (prior to the Phineas Gage's ‘Reconsidered’ CD) as raw material, and adds, thickens, ferments, remixes and remasters them into hypnotic stream of interstellar pop that transcends all limitations of the original recordings. Awakened with layers of guitar bliss and new drum tracks replacing electronic percussion, this is a treat for lovers of both psychedelic folk rock and dream-pop."
2/7/2009	Portland Bike Ensemble	Live In Japan	LP	$15.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"In late November & early December of 2006 the Portland Bike Ensemble played a series of concerts in Japan -- ten shows in seven different cities. This record features highlights from that tour. Side A is the complete performance from a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, and on the flip are excerpts from shows in Fukuoka, Kitakyushu, and Kyoto. Limited edition of 200 copies, spraymounted covers."
12/26/2005	Postage	Mail-hook	3" CDR	$5.99	Object Tapes	"Postage rumble through a dense environmental fog with gentle hands-on musings...this is a scrapyard scramble with slide guitar/locomotive...
	Prairie Dog Flesh	Take The Green Over The Red	CD	$11.99	Three Lobed Recordings	"Prairie Dog Flesh has once been called the 'primitive lizard brain behind Bardo Pond,' a chance to remind yourself what life more than likely sounded like as it crawled forth from the primordial soup millions of years ago. Take the basic Bardo Pond lineup, remove Isobel Sollenberger's flute and vocals, and move Clint Takeda to the front. Think back to some of the earlier Bardo material and you'll have a frame of reference. Prairie Dog Flesh has existed for years and years in and around Philadelphia as a live band, more than happy to work their chops as performers. Take The Green Over The Red represents the first time they have felt comfortable letting the world listen to their studio work. Clocking in right at an hour, this is an album to kick back with and just lose your mind within its many folds. Recorded between 10/98 and 1/01 at the Lemur House in Philadelphia."
2/27/2003	Pran Nath, Pandit	Midnight / Raga Malkauns	DBL CD	$40.99	Just Dreams	“New 2-CD Release from Just Dreams, Inc. Two full-CD recordings of Raga Malkauns by Pandit Pran Nath, accompanied by booklet with texts of the vocal compositions presented in Devanagri script, phonetic English, word-by-word translation, and poetic interpretation by Sri Karunamayee, a longtime senior disciple of the Master.” Recommended. Few copies available.
2/23/2007	Pran Nath, Pandit	The Raga Cycle, Palace Theatre, 1972	CD	$16.99	Sri Moonshine	"The Raga Cycle at the Palace Theatre in Paris, 1972 showcased Pandit Pran Nath at the peak of his powers. The Raga Cycle took place over three consecutive days. Friday, May 28th night ragas, Saturday May 29th, late afternoon ragas and Sunday, May 30th morning and mid-day ragas. These three concerts stand as a truly awe-inspiring monument, an example of perfection of the high Art of Hindustani music by one of the greatest masters of the Kirana Gharana. Kirana, a small village north of New Delhi, produced many of the giants of Indian classical vocal music. Among them, Ustad Abdul Waheed Khansahib, Pran Nath-ji's guru, and the immensely popular Ustad Abdul Kareem Khan. One of the undeniable beauties of Indian Classical Music is its strong connection to nature and especially the binding relationship of Raga melodies to their appropriate time of day. An elegant curve of melody, a subtle lowering of pitch, or an assertiveness attached to a particular note helps to define the effect of a Raga. There are Ragas for all the times of day and night as well as seasons, and when they are sung at their appropriate time their effectiveness is noticeably enhanced. Pandit Pran Nath's knowledge of this musical science was extraordinary and he made it his life's work to probe deeply with his expressive voice the true character of each raga using his matchless pitch discrimination and compelling emotional range. Accompanying Pran Nath in these Palace Theatre Concerts are his American disciples La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, tambouras, and Terry Riley, tabla."
3/21/2007	Praxinoscope	Epocsonixarp	CDR	$16.99	Opax Records	"'Epocsonixarp' is the second full-lenght album of the Praxinoscope duo formed by Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost). This work is even more lyrical and ecstatic than the debut; here Roberto's use of a mini-keyboard and astral effects collides with Ramona's hypnotic use of several handmade wood percussions and her Japanese wind chimes and bells, creating such an infinite and intimate 'space' so that you cannot but loose yourself inside. A whirlpool of Roberto's whispered wordless vocals will live till the evening dies, and the black of the night will come to surround everything. As the duo asks, 'Play it in the dark!'." "Praxinoscope are proof that you don't need any instruments to make amazing sounds. This is wonderful, wonderful music. [Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis, editor]" Special private press edition of only 130 copies, with heavy textured cardboard sleeve + sticked art on cover, individually numbered.
9/24/2009	Praxinoscope	For the Tears of the Land_Prayers From the Outer Space - Vol.2	CD	$7.99	Elliptical Noise	Elliptical Noise is proud to present this ambitious two-volume concept album; Vol.1 by cosmic brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio aka My Cat Is An Alien, and Vol.2 by Praxinoscope, Roberto's side project with long-time collaborator Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Black Magic Disco, Z'ev). Here the introduction to both CDs by Roberto himself: "This work shows an apparently new side of My Cat Is An Alien, but be careful not to be deceived. I just believe that what was already inborn appeared more vivid and explicit at a certain point. One day we realized it was no more possible to discern archaic art and post-modern art in our palette; it was clear that they were both reflected in the same hall of mirrors, which our whole aesthetics has always been inclined to, continuosly escaping from and returning to it, everytime re-confirming its own essence. In other words, alien art and archaic art are the same thing. Volume 1 starts with an acoustic blues performed by myself, dedicated to the pioneers of the American primitive music and in particular to the spirit of Charley Patton, which was psychically obsessing me at the moment of creation - Charley, this is for you! - And Volume 2 ends with a Praxinoscope's piece of total cosmic blast... and of archaic transcendence. In fact all archaic art deals with death, sex, transcendence and Eternity. Anyone who does not look from this perspective cannot understand and appreciate contemporary art, even less pretend to use the term 'avant-garde' without exposing oneself to ridicule. We're all living days suspended in the Void. The difference is in consciousness: this is real artists' duty. Beyond and other than this, only oblivion." (Roberto Opalio - May 18th, 2007, Torino - Italy). Cardboard jacket with paste-on artwork.
12/24/2005	Praxinoscope	Praxinoscope	CDR	$16.99	Opax Records	"Praxinoscope is a new project which sees the duo Roberto Opalio (one-half of My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (close collaborator of the Italian space-brothers). While in the debut album as Painting Petals On Planet Ghost (out in 2005 on Time-Lag Records) Ramona will focus on her Japanese vocals alongside both brothers' acoustic tunes, here she plays little Japanese percussions and wind chimes, creating a resonant texture over Roberto's alien wordless vocals and space electronics. The material comes from a whole session recorded in a mysterious location of the Western Alps, directly transferred to cd using neither overdubs nor outtakes, practice which the Opalio bros have made us addicted to. For the entire lenght of its 40 minutes, the piece will stifle you the breath because of its so pure essence and intimate mood; a mystic, suffocated chant reminding the silence of ancient rituals, the ultimate exorcism to avert the Infinite Pain. Limited edition of 125 hand-numbered copies; look-like-vinyl black-bottom cd-r in special heavy paper folder sleeve."
7/30/2006	Praxinoscope	Praxinoscope	LP	$12.99	A Silent Place	"Praxinoscope is a new project which sees the duo Roberto Opalio (one-half of My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (close collaborator of the Italian space-brothers). While in the debut album as Painting Petals On Planet Ghost (out in early September 2005 on Time-Lag Records) Ramona will focus on her Japanese vocals alongside both brothers' acoustic tunes, here she plays little Japanese percussions and wind chimes, creating a resonant texture over Roberto's alien wordless vocals and space electronics. The material comes from a whole session recorded in a mysterious location of the Western Alps, directly transferred to cd using neither overdubs nor outtakes, practice which the Opalio bros have made us addicted to. For the entire lenght of its 40 minutes, the piece will stifle you the breath because of its so pure essence and intimate mood; a mystic, suffocated chant reminding the silence of ancient rituals, the ultimate exorcism to avert the Infinite Pain. Limited edition of 500 copies only as vinyl picture disc 12" LP with psychedelic artwork!"
10/25/2008	Praxinoscope	Untitled #6	cassette	$15.99	Opax Records	"New ultra-limited cassette from the obscure project of Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Z'ev), featuring a previously unreleased 10-minute late-night-mantra piece made of Opalio's hypnotic vocalising along with Ponzini's Japanese mystic percussions."
1/17/2010	Preggy Peggy and The Lazy Babymakers	Get An Ace Case of The Measles	LP	$29.99	Ultra Eczema	"While my face drips with pus, yellow soup, manjuice and morning youghurt, i finally got an injection against measles, which i also suffered from until i found out about preggy peggy and the lazy babymakers (both thru a cdr on the great CHOCOLATE MONK and on preggy's own "being weird isn't enough records"!), i thought they deserved it more then i did. as a "price" i could release their record inspired by the subject matter. which became a beautiful audiobook like a madman's guide to alienville! the medicine these chaps have to use makes em sing in different colours and add styles to eachother that never heard of eachother's existence. PREGGY PEGGY AND THE LAZY BABYMAKERS basicly got started because of ANGELA SAWYER's (boston based psycho recordcollector and owner of the great WEIRDO RECORDS store!) compulsive need to overdub a mountain of voices over a mountain of strange instruments played by JA, the other PREGGY who aparantly "lives on one of new england's gray shabby beaches with a couple of miniature fluffy dogs"! they never play live, it is probably pretty impossible to do live anyway, and style wars it sort of comes near SUN CITY GIRLS jams with FRANCOIS DUFRENE, remixed by a texas hill billy.. both members were in a mountain of bands noone ever heard of, such as; Pig Sex, The Pie Plate Band, The Cool Breeze, Jet Jaguar Backing Band, Phenomenological Boys, Stick a Fork In It, Laser Laser Laser Laser, The White People, Cough Syrup, The Saliva Sisters, Giacinto Scelsi Tribute Band, White Cocaine, My Son's Coloring Book, The Whoop Whoop Girls, Jimmy & the Waffles, N. Soseki/T. Hatsuro, The Kantian Project, Instant Distance Mental Powers, The Whistle Band, Byron, Jimmy & Gerard, Les Garcons Sur La Plage, Life Partners, The A Minor Project, Moshi Moshi I Am the Decider, Goils Goils & Fripped, Swastika Niggers, Sun Shine Sanitarium, The Cloud Club, Scarcity of Tanks, The Depressed Horns, Fleetwood Sac & the Sex-Havers, Human Hairs, Grizzler Big Band Exusamwa, Duck That, etc.. comes in a collaged cover with a new born baby on it and prince charles and an insert."
10/25/2008	Pregnant	Spirit Of Being	3" CDR	$9.99	Reverb Worship	"This is my first release on a 3" cdr. It is by Sacremento,California based musician and artist Daniel Trudeau aka Pregnant.The 3" Cdr is called "Spirit Of Being". Daniel has recorded a sweet and lovely four track ep of electronica which is superb. As part of the experience Daniel wanted to provide artwork for the project as well with a contribution from myself. It's available now in an edition of 50 copies with various different coloured inserts."
8/8/2009	Prehistoric Blackout	Stone Reaper	c20 cassette	$8.99	Pizza Night	"Taylor Richardson of Infinity Window shares his love for twisted pop thru channeling what sounds like mostly bizzare keyboard, vocal and guitar zones ... weeird pop vibe sorta, it's hyper slow and disgusting , all with some strange element of drunken melodies that tie it nicely into a cohesive batch of psych loner zones."
7/17/2010	Prehistoric Fuckin' Moron	They look Alike / Mainly Around The Head	cassette	$7.99	Spanish Magic	"Giza before there was GZA, the moron has been creating a stir since '92 with his music (constantly evolving but always jumping the fence instead of walking around it) and his attitude towards others who have an attitude. This new document here is PFM playing the Arkestra (late 50's), playing Henri Chopin, playing Prince Paul if that makes sense. He'd tell me i am a wanker...and he wouldn't be far off. Whatever. That's why he makes the music and i get stuck with writing this shit. Tape manipulation, vinyl, synth, woodwind & vocal spats and bursts of mania behind the drum-kit? Nah. Modern jazz for techno kids? Maybe. "you can't have me" says Alex Chilton..."what?" replies the moron. Yup."
	Prevost / Organum	Crux/Flayed	CD	$19.99	Matchless Recordings	Eddie Prevost and David Jackman on one side/Jackman & Stapleton (NWW) other
	Prick Decay & Thurston Moore	Electricity vs Insects	7"	$5.99	Chocolate Monk	"The ooze of PD is sweet as the fresh mucoid pilque which descends from the mist-bound cactus fields of Atlanta in plastic bags with dead-fruit-fly-float. Thurston blesses the grit upon which he met them, on the 3 mile crawl of the bi-annual padrotes pilgrimage to the old glue yards of Nezahualcoyolt."
11/4/2006	Prime, Michael / Max Eastley	Hydrophony for Dagon	CD	$10.99	Absurd	Recorded live at "The Four Elements", Skraep Copenhagen 1996. Michael Prime (hydroarc, bubble machine, motors, tapes, objects) - Max Eastley (hydroarc, tubing, fans, tapes, objects).
1/28/2005	Primitive Calculators	Primitive Calculators	CD	$16.99	Chapter Music	"Melbournes Primitive Calculators met as teenagers in the early 70s, growing up in the grim outer suburb of Springvale. An older friend who lived in a bungalow behind his parents house provided an oasis of culture, and there they were introduced to music of a kind rarely heard in their neighbourhood. The Velvet Underground and The MC5 were obvious heroes, but they were also inspired by lesser known bands like The Fugs, The 13th Floor Elevators, and The Godz (they went on to dedicate their album to Godz singer Jim McCarthy) as well as the writing of obsessive rock journalist Lester Bangs. By 1977, they had deserted Springvale for the more musically liberated environs of St. Kilda, sharing a house in Park St and forming a band called The Moths. But they were a couple of years older than most of the punk bands starting up around them, and their uncultured accents clashed with the inner city, private school values of their so-called peers. Well-known figures like Nick Cave (The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party) and Ollie Olsen (Whirlywirld) would often come by to listen to borrow records, but the Primitive Calculators were always outsiders in Melbournes punk scene. A move to Fitzroy in 1978 helped Primitive Calculators cement their own identity and develop a network of likeminded friends. The band set up a series of gigs called Little Band nights, where up to ten hastily-formed bands, with names like Too Fat To Fit Through The Door and Thrush & The Cunts, would play sets of fifteen minutes each. Their own debut single was also released that year, featuring the songs 'I Cant Stop It' and 'Do That Dance'. Pressed with plain black labels and stark monochrome sleeve, the single introduced many to the impassioned, atonal, electronic chaos that was the Primitive Calculators trademark, and it has gone on to become a highly collectable classic of Australian post-punk. The following year the band attempted to relocate to London, but seeing how difficult life was for fellow expats the Birthday Party and Whirlywirld, hey decided instead to take an indefinite break. A 1979 live recording of a gig supporting The Boys Next Door turned out to be the Primitive Calculators swansong. Released by friend and supporter Alan Bamford in the early 1980s, Primitive Calculators is a crucial document of a band whose originality, power and humorously belligerent Australian mindset has never since been duplicated. But the story didnt end there, as the Primitive Calculators had an unexpected renaissance in 1986, when filmmaker Richard Lowenstein included them in his feature Dogs In Space (starring a young Michael Hutchence). The Primitive Calculators reformed to appear in the movie and recorded their song 'Pumping Ugly Muscle' for the soundtrack (the song was also released as a 12" with some original late 70s recordings on the B-side). The Primitive Calculators revival continued a good fifteen years later when Chapter Music released the pioneering Cant Stop It! compilation CD of Australian late 70s/early 80s post-punk. The CD took its name from the Primitive Calculators track 'I Cant Stop It!' and included an original 1979 recording of 'Pumping Ugly Muscle'. Chapter Musics reissue of the Primitive Calculators album, twenty-five years after its original release, includes six bonus tracks (four by the Primitive Calculators, one by the Moths and one by a nameless Primitive Calculators / Whirlywirld hybrid band, recorded in the UK) plus a rarely seen video made for the 'I Cant Stop It' single by band friend Janis Lesinskis." - Chapter Music.
2/4/2007	Primordial Undermind	Loss of Affect	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Eric Arn and his Primordial Undermind have tirelessly mined the nether regions of avant psych-rock for the past 15 years, resulting in a sonically fertile body of work. Arn cut his teeth in the legendary Crystallized Movements throughout the 1980's, the Twisted Village flagship band which, in its wake, also spawned Magic Hour and Major Stars (Wayne Rogers & Kate Village). With a wealth of 7" singles and a number of compilation appearances throughout the 1990's, plus albums for September Gurls, Camera Obscura and Emperor Jones, the Primordial Undermind trajectory has grown and evolved with each outing. A rotating membership came to typify the band, and a restlessness to stay put in one sound form denotes a steady progression from distorted, psychedelic Nuggets-esque overload as found on You and Me and The Continuum (Camera Obscura, 1997) to full blown free instrumental rock exemplified on Beings of Game P-U (starring Tom Carter of Charalambides; Camera Obscura, 2001), and everything in between (Thin Shells of Revolution, Emperor Jones, 2003). Just before relocating from Austin, Texas to Vienna, Austria in late 2004, Arn engaged in a furious series of studio sessions with his Austin crew. The results have been honed down to a fantastic new album entitled Loss of Affect, the most outré document of the Primordial Undermind sound to date. Even with a history of taking left turns, it is evident from the get-go that Loss of Affect is a departure for Primordial Undermind. Oozing into consciousness with "Intercessor", the band bellows forth a full collective cosmic ethno-drone mantra, utilizing space and interplay to coax ritualistic swirls of sound, reminiscent of what Ghost achieved on Temple Stone. Flowing into "Breathe Deep", a solo avant acoustic excursion exploring odd tunings and tonal colors, shifting and heaving as it winds ever forward. From here, the band unleashes the volume and Loss of Affect continues further out, as full-blown, free acid-rock magma surges in molten explosions, intertwined with an expanded palate of instrumentation that includes bass clarinet and various other woodwinds, shakers, electronics and who knows what else. All disparate sounds are tethered to a common point, synthesized with stunning results. Loss of Affect is a deliriously colorful feather in the Primordial Undermind cap, ushering rock music outside for some truly deep meditations in sound."
	Primordial Undermind	Universe I've Got	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"'Universe I've Got' paints giant riffs and multiple intertwining guitars and violin explorations on a huge psychedelic art rock canvas. Lots of long involving tracks, with a cumulative impact on yer skull akin to the splash you might expect from an angry god hurling a burning asteroid into a boiling ocean."
6/18/2002	Primordial Undermind	You and Me and the Continuum	CD	$12.99	Camera Obscura	"Primordial Undermind's second full-length blast of psychedelic freakout guitar bliss evolves the sonics found on their critically-acclaimed September Gurls debut into freer, more expansive territory, while retaining plenty of the finely-honed song craft familiar to those lucky enough to have grabbed any of their unfailingly excellent singles. Long modal excursions into the heart of free guitar darkness like ‘Device’, ‘Turning of the Worm’ and ‘Persistence of Trinity’, are counterbalanced by definitive versions of single a- sides ‘Ache’ and ‘Anaesthetic Revelations’ as well as great newer songs like ‘Fall and Break’ and ‘All Night Movie’. Essential 90s US psych! Primordial Undermind is headed up by Eric Arn (ex-Crystallized Movements), and is presently located in Austin."
5/8/2003	Prince Kraus	Emily	CD	$12.99	Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon	"Summoning all the power of the Masonic illuminati, New Zealands Prince Kraus channels his blinding vision through a synthesized 'all-seeing-eye' laying waste to planet earth and burying its memory in the billowing sands of time. Er... wow man. A scorching masterpiece of squarking organ, hooting bird orchestras, and war movie beats. Are these the rawest, unreleased demos of The Residents (unmade) remake of Lawrence of Arabia? Or perhaps evidence of an ancient Egyptian 'outsider-scene'?"
4/20/2004	Pritchard, David	Nocturnal Earthworm Stew	CD	$13.99	Lion Productions / Pacemaker	"An incredible pioneering electronic album recorded in the early 1970’s, from the first Canadian artist signed to Island Records. Serious headphone music made under the influence of Stockhausen, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Charles Ives and others—and with a sound that’s often compared to that of early Eno and the first two Kraftwerk albums. Indefinable compositions integrate the earliest of portable synthsizers (ARP 2600 and EMS AKS) with acoustic instruments (violin, cello, dulcimer, electric violin, electric guitar), found sounds (short-wave radio transmissions and a summer thunderstorm) and random objects (instant coffee jar, scissors, chopsticks, among others)—they also have special contributions from Nash the Slash (a.k.a. Jeff Plewman) and Martin Deller of famed Canadian band FM. Sixteen-page booklet has an abundance of photos, track by track information, and the odd history of these seminal recordings told by David Pritchard himself. Includes four bonus tracks not on the original 1976 Island LP release."
6/15/2003	Project Grimm	Huge Beings	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"If ever a band is going to make a sign-off record, it should have the comprehensive sweep and confidence of ‘Huge Beings’. As John Cramer puts it ‘this is a record created the way we wanted to create one, in a comfortable environment, with a talented engineer who understood what we had in mind, and with the time to do it right. Sure I would change things but generally I would say I am fairly proud of it’. The band has clear influences - vintage heavy metal, the legacy of Texas psychedelia and the feel of desert expanses provide a cohesive framework that is filtered through Cramer's vision in the same way that imbues it with the feel of a personal journey for him and his compadres. There are extraordinary slabs of spine-tingling rock throughout, from slavering beasts that would be at home on ‘Houses of the Holy’ to ballads that recall the best of The Mike Gunn circa ‘Almaron’. Again from John Cramer ‘we never really cared what anyone else thought and stayed true to our own skewed ethic. Huge Beings is the last gasp of a uniquely idiosyncratic rock band with qualities similar to but also quite unlike those that surrounded us in this great western wasteland’. Huge Beings is Project Grimm as they should be remembered - intensely personal, melodic, dynamic, subtle and bloody-minded all at the same time."
1/24/2009	Pronounced "Sex"	XXX	CD	$14.99	Interregnum	"Once again I find myself reviewing a dark ambient CD emanating from Scandinavia, this time a Finnish duo (Zweizz & Kim Sølve) on a Norwegian label. And if the theme is sex, which, judging from some of the song titles, seems to be the case, then it's not a species of sex that I (or anybody else for that matter) would find in the least appealing. But, then, quite honestly, we all know that sex does have a degrading and seamier side to it, one that tends to be swept under rather large societal carpets and kept behind closed doors. We all know it goes on, from the shy couple experimenting with a little light bondage, to the organised gangs trafficking sex slaves around the world. Whatever inspirations shaped this particular work, the darker side has flavoured its musings to a very large degree. If either William Burroughs or HP Lovecraft hadn't turned their hands to the written word and had taken up music instead, this is how their strange missives from inhuman dimensions most probably would have sounded. Darkly shimmering rumblings, deeply reminiscent of equally dark passages, nasty bodily fluids the constitution of which one can't be entirely sure of, surreal shapes melting and spilling in disturbing parodies of human coital union, along with a large dose of the unnatural and alien mixed in as well; here you have a disturbing exploration of the outer reaches of inhuman sexual possibilities, probably going further than even the most adventurous soul has ever gone. I would venture to state that even the Marquis de Sade would have baulked at what it hints at. Having said that, it isn't a parade of smut and vaguely disgusting sounds, rather it's a haunting, icy-cold, hellish journey through the filthy underbelly, an appraisal of how things are and not the luridly sordid media-sensationalised portrayal of 'dirty' sex. Everything here is glossed with a varnish of palpable menace, a dismissive sneer and fierce glint from a monocled eye. 'Necrodisiac', far from arousing, instead blows a coldly dark wind and invites cold chilly, sweat to garland the forehead. Punctuated by the croaking of some infernal amphibious hybrid à la Lovecraft's Deep Ones, the aura of twisted sexualities and desires takes on a solid form. 'Blizzard Beach' physically takes us to those dark shores of the diseased mind, those purgatorial regions where thought becomes awful actuality, where flesh, scale and fur mingle, where bodies hungrily absorb, secrete slimily, reform and disintegrate in unholy union. Here desires are self-destructive and simultaneously carnivorous, devouring like cankers and cancers, despoiling the flesh and ravaging the mind. 'Taog eht fo remmus lanrefni' (or for those of you who haven't quite clocked it yet - it's 'Infernal Summer of the Goat' reversed), drags us like unwitting and unwilling witnesses into some subterranean rite, where anonymous worshippers sanctify the forbidden and occult in hideous ritual, the aphrodisiac of the commingling of menstrual blood and semen urging on the celebrants to new depths. Finally, 'No Such Symphony' is the outer darkness, perhaps the ultimate destination for those who have 'sinned' so completely, an emptiness where even the darkest of souls freeze and recoil in unalloyed terror. This is the ultimate price for a lifetime of untamed and unrestrained pleasure, the blood-price that must be exacted for those who would indulge unashamedly and sin against nature herself. There's no redemption here, just oblivion. Make no mistake, this is a deeply disturbing and terrifying album, one which plumbs Stygian depths that very few other dark ambient albums get down to. One is reminded in parts of Tenhornedbeast and Kerovnian, especially in the evocation of black atmospheres and spine-shiveringly malicious menace and darkness. Admittedly it's not the best dark ambient offering I have ever heard, but it's one that can withstand many repeated visitations and ranks a great deal higher than a lot of entries in the field. As such, it comes endorsed with the SMJ63 seal of approval and recommendation." - Heathen Harvest
1/24/2009	Prurient	And Still Wanting	LP	$22.99	No Fun	"This is the picture disc LP version of the now classic and out of print Prurient release. Limited to 500 copies. Original description: A tale of lost love and desperation, this is Prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still,Wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life."
8/4/2007	Prurient	Outside The World	8" lathe	$25.99	Alt.Vinyl	"Brand new release from Dominik Fernow's infernal power electronics project. Part of Alt Vinyl's limited lathe cut series. Manufactured in New Zealand by Peter King and issued in a limited hand-numbered edition of only 150 copies. Features two emotionally explosive tracks, "Forever" and "Orange Flames Ravage The Apartment". Recorded winter 2006, NYC." - Volcanic Tongue
9/29/2005	Prurient	The Baron's Chamber	CD	$11.99	Nihilist	"Dominick Fernow commands waves of heavy sick death by way of destructive measures. The one who makes babes ears bleed is here to send a clear message; AIDS. This disc is that message. As far as the presentation, There are no glossy ambiguous photographs waiting to be interpreted. Just hard-core graphic images, simply a glimpse into 'The Baron's Chamber'.
5/8/2005	Prurient	The History of Aids	CD	$10.99	Hospital Productions	"Massive, textural, throbbing, destructive, electronic, feedback drenched, power electronics and industrial noise with heavily processed vocals and field recordings dealing with vulnerability. uses some of the thirteenth century love poems of persian poet rumi as lyrics. professionally duplicated in jewel case with matte printing and shrink wrap. First official full length CD from Prurient. Split label release with Dropdead's Armageddon label and Hospital Productions."
3/6/2010	Prurient	The History Of Aids	LP	$17.99	Hospital	"Massive, textural, throbbing, destructive, electronic, feedback-drenched power electronics and industrial noise with heavily processed vocals and field recordings dealing with vulnerability. Uses some of the thirteenth century love poems of the Persian poet Rumi as lyrics. Originally created in 2000 on CD with the Armageddon label, this was the first widely distributed prurient full length and appears on vinyl for the first time now."
2/11/2006	Prurient / Akitsa	split	CD	$10.99	Hospital	"Long awaited split release going on almost 3 years. AKITSA is masterful, desperate, and relentless raw mid-paced canadian black metal in the vein of early burzum, ildjarn, and perhaps a slower bone awl. atmospheric yet shredded minimal and monolithic guitar and drum mantras with inhumane, spiritual vocal abandon. complete with bombed out morbid organ and noise intro wrought with anxious anticipation of the primitive natural vortex that follows. PRURIENT presents a massively decayed, fetid sound collage titled 'fossil' recorded live on the radio with 3 man line up of kris lapke and jvibg of viodre, a day after the recording of the 'fossil' full length. patient, miserable, synth wails and howls under churning field recordings, tapes, electronic distortion and the inevitable vocal fallout. roughly 30 min from each band creating a long and drizzly haze for isolated depressives."
10/31/2009	Psalm Alarm	Like Machine, Like Voice	CDR	$9.99	Brokenresearch	"Psalm Alarm is Zac Wallace of Sun Circle and Memorize the Sky, Hell and Bunny of Graveyards, Melee et al. and this go around Chris Riggs is marking territory on most of the cuts. Whereas previous PA recordings were acoustic drone, lost-in-the desert, snowblind white-outs this is a more interactive and relative approach. Though the direction towards static Michigan ragas is totally the first priority the shift of their once yearly meeting makes for an interesting look at how a group who are dedicated to each other’s vocab can change their own by virtue of time and new interests and how that new interaction takes place. The change is substantial and what comes out is something much more beautiful and less noticeably aggressive in terms forcefulness of sound." Edition of 100 copies.
9/30/2005	psi	Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators	CD	$12.99	Evolving Ear	"Captured live and in the studio over the past two years, Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators is the definitive pee-ess-eye blast of true and pure sacrificial brain-rot. A fifty-minute collection of densely cultivated mitherings from the unforeseen masters of complete silence. Featuring beautiful full color gatefold cover art and poster by Fritz Welch and Stephen O'Malley." "(psi) use any kind of noise to show their fangs to a common acceptance of the role of "musicians": one understands their capabilities from lots of elements, mastery of dynamics and sound placement on top of everything, but the whole package brims with repressed rage on the verge of explosion - the definitive farewell to that "beauty" that Jaime, Chris and Fritz consider as enemy but is actually redefined, in raw clothing, by themselves." - Touching Extremes
9/30/2005	psi	Black American Flag	CD	$11.99	Evolving Ear	"Two long form pieces of cathartic, hermetic, meditative noise that slowly evolve into nothing while exploring delicate interplay and a coarse, uneven stasis. Fire through a needle eye. And great cover artwork by Fritz Welch." "psi have that rare gift of a keen capability of holding their horses at the right moment, using their instruments just like nail-files: a unique touch here, an overlap there, and the majority of this genre's habituals gets outmoded all at once. Follow them." - Massimo Ricci, www.touchingextremes.org. "This is the sort of stuff that could sterilize cockroaches from 50 yards." - Aiding and Abetting
3/26/2006	psi	oo-ee-oo (burnt offering)	CDR	$8.99	Evolving Ear	"This live recording was made while the group was locked blindfolded and incapable of compassionate intolerance in a dank and noise-damaged basement in central New Jersey, USA. Harmonium, unamplified guitar, percussion and voice amass into a nekrocoustic forcefield of reiterated intensions. This ceremonial music demonstrates the simultaneous collision of utter apathy and the assertion of infernal humanity. Each copy is packaged in a black Digipak with hand-glued and hand-stamped artwork by the band."
10/25/2008	Psychatrone Rhonedakk	American Primitive Electronics (Music for Synthesizer, Microphone, and Low Budget Effects Pedals)	CD	$6.99	Black Plastic Sound	"An anthology and celebration of a decade of making music as Psychatrone Rhonedakk; two brand new songs, and four previously unreleased tracks. Fifteen tracks that range from a one-man Spacemen 3, pulsing neo-krautrock anthems, oscillating spectral haze and woozy perspectives, primitive droning cybernetics, robotic electronics, more fun on the autobahn, haunting microscopic loops, a nineteen minute suite entitled SPACE, chugging sci-fi romaticism, a sort of regurgiated blues fourteen minute freakout and tribute to Tangerine Dream entitled Tangerine Nightmare (with Guitar), and a very nice Velvet Underground cover with the ending I'm Set Free." - George Parsons, Dream Magazine. From the artist: "After releasing his tribute to psychedelic pioneers old and new on his "Keep On Psychedelic Mind" CD, then working with the Acid Mothers' Cotton Casino , and finally going into deep inner/outer space with his previous release "Disturbs The Air" - Psychatrone Rhonedakk's new CD comes hot on the heels of his sold-out QBICO LP,"Early Free-Form Waveforms". This new CD is a collection of tracks that is influenced by classic electronics musicians from the 1960's and 1970's. From Lucifer's "A Black Mass" (by Mort Garson),Tonto's Expanding Headband, and the Dr. Who soundtrack, - all the way to Brian Eno ,and early 1970's Tangerine Dream, this CD is a compilation of cuts from Psychatrone's early cassette and CD-R releases that filters all of those influences into a psychedelics tinged , sci-fi, fun house mirror of looping and overdriven warm analog sounds. This 10 Year Anniversary CD has been professionally remastered ,and features two new tracks plus a handfull of remixed cuts and newly found rarities too. It is a distillation of the best of Psychatrone Rhonedakk's early years with enough new and previously unreleased material to tempt old fans and new acquaintances alike. The package is made complete by the booklet artwork featuring a "take-off" on the classic Nonesuch LP "Silver Apples Of The Moon" by Morton Subotnick."
9/30/2005	Psychatrone Rhonedakk	Disturbs The Air	CD	$9.99	Black Plastic Sound	"This is the fifth album by PSYCHATRONE RHONEDAKK coming just one year after his collaboration with Cotton Casino(of the AMT) this Cd finds Psychatrone experimenting more in sound! Here you will find a totally acappella ,multi-tracked song,one track totally played with children's toys,and a few MOOG synth excursions. The whole album is a bit 'darker' in feeling than his last release,while Mr.Rhonedakk certainly hopes that hope is evident in the mix here too. After setting the controls for the crystal sun in 2004 with Cotton Casino on 'Baron Von Rhonedakk...' where else but into the blackness of the void could Psychatrone go? So off he went....into the darkness. This album takes the listener on a journey through that darkness, inner and outer! The original pieces here are instrumental drone-psych, guitar themes, and 'weird-spaces' while the album also features three cover songs... 'Can You Travel In The Dark Alone' was by single-album psychsters GANDALF who wrote one beautiful set of lyrics that are here stripped of their original arrangement so that they might make more of an impact on your mind. 'They Moved The Moon' originally written by Warren Zevon is here given a claustrophobic/space arrangement reflecting some of the feelings Mr. Rhonedakk had while hearing this song for the first time. Ahhh yes, some 'glissiando' guitar adds some shimmer to the song's dark aspect. Finally ,'Earth Anthem' signs-off this CD with a deep-space 'broadcast' version of a song most famous for being on the TURTLES' "Battle of The Bands" LP. Not a 'stoner-rock' album,but a collection of soundwaves to disturb the air in your personal space! You might consider this to be the closing of the album trillogy that started with Psychatrone Rhonedakk's 'Keep On Psychedelic Mind' CD. This is a dark journey of an album,full of twists and passage-ways,...come on along with Psychatrone,if you please...or dare. Besides ,'don't you ever wonder,...could you travel in the dark alone?'"
2/14/2008	Psychatrone Rhonedakk	Early Free-Form Waveforms	LP	$21.99	QBICO	Deep blue sea 180gr. vinyl, cover by QBICO. "One side is a synth/guitar duo with WFMU's boss Brian Turner, while side side B is a solo synth. Both tracks recorded in the mid 90's. Psychedelic waveforms with a free-form sound that grows on you... subtle and mesmerizing."
7/16/2004	Psychatrone Rhonedakk with Cotton Casino	Baron Von Rhonedakk and The Crystal Sun	CD	$12.99	Black Plastic Sound	"Three years ago prolific home taper, international Tall Dwarf, and psych-enthusiast Mr. Psychatrone Rhonedakk released his first CD on Summersteps / Black Plastic Sound Records titled ‘Keep On Psychedelic Mind!!!’ The cd was a blast of private pressed synapse-frying wonderment which caught the ear of Acid Mothers Temple’s Cotton Casino. She was struck by Mr. Rhonedakk’s vocal interpretations of classics by Hawkwind, The Godz, & Roky Erickson. She was also equally blown away by his ability to drone, pulse, and rock out on his own originals. So it came to pass, that they decided to collaborate on some new material together. Despite language and distance barriers, the duo succeeded in creating a new cd of music. ‘Baron Von Rhonedakk and The Crystal Sun’ is the sound of deeply spaced out originals and interpretations of songs by Pink Floyd (‘Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun’), Nazareth (‘Night Woman’), and Neu (‘Lilac Angel’). Cotton’s influence on Psychatrone’s work is profound as we can hear Psychatrone getting deeper into the groove. Even on the tracks on which Cotton does not appear, Psychatrone seems to be deeply under her spell. For those who are fans of Acid Mothers Temple, Psychatrone Rhonedakk or neo-psych, this one is a can’t miss!"
11/23/2004	Psychedelic Avengers, The	And The Curse Of The Universe	CD	$13.99	Fuenfunvierzig	“Psychedelic Avengers is a collaboration project very much like the Desert Sessions but with a psychedelic rock meets electronica bent. Features members of Colour Haze, Mandra Gora Lightshow Society, On Trial, Liquid Sound Company, Vibravoid, Sula Bassana and many, many more! The individual tracks on this CD differ from each other rather radically, given the fact that there is everything from stoner rock to ambient and from traditional psychedelic rock to dance beats, but the end result works surprisingly well. The unifying key factor is that everything is psychedelic. The album is very well constructed, and various parts have been woven together with weird sound effects. This CD is over 76 minutes long and has been divided into three different parts that can be listened to separately, but if it's heard from beginning to the end with complete concentration and dedication, it takes the listener to a very interesting trip. I recommend this to all the space heads who want to experience a film with only music." - Psychotropic Zone
7/16/2009	Psychedelic Horseshit	Golden Oldies	LP	$18.99	Wasted Vinyl	Twenty tracks of Psychedelic Horseshit's earliest 4-track recordings culled from the band's personal vaults. Includes liner notes by Rob from Eat Skull. Includes an insert.
11/17/2007	Psychedelic Horseshit	Magic Flowers Droned	LP	$13.99	Siltbreeze	"Considered by the Columbus cognoscenti as the "little brother band" (Stooges-style) to Times New Viking (MC5-style), Psychedelic Horseshit first came about as three buds determined to crash a hippie fest and jam retardo. When asked for their name, singer/guitarist Matt Whitehurst replied, "Just call us Psychedelic Horseshit." The band killed, the name stuck, and thus the die was ignominiously cast. Since then, they played with the Urinals, Country Teasers, Dan Melchior, Blues Control, toured with Pink Reason and Times New Viking, ruled a couple showcases at the 2007 SXSW, basically doing what they can to lay the foundation for the release of this debut LP (a previous 7-inch on the Columbus Discount label made many 2006 Best Of lists, too). Distempered, jaded, harmonious, and ramshackle, Psychedelic Horseshit keeps the glass half full; the question is, do you have the courage to drink their wry and wizened brew? Sure you do, it's the tonic of champions! Shades of early Fall, Swell Maps, and Pavement."
5/21/2009	Psychedelic Horseshit	Shitgaze Anthems	LP	$14.99	Woodsist	"After about a 2 year absence, Psychedelic Horseshit is back with an EP of alleged B-sides from an upcoming full length. And what has happened since we last peeked in on these 'shitgaze' innovators? Well, in parts all over the world that famous 'distorto-lo-fi-sound' has been popping up in quite open spaces. No Age has become the new Brittany Spears, Wavves crashed in outta nowhere like a mid-nineties major label grunge signing, and cute and sweet Vivian Girls are playing on the speakers in Target stores nationwide. What does this have to do with the new Psychedelic Horseshit EP? Well, nothing really, except that if you expect to hear that tried and true lo-fi sound, that is now so en vouge, you might be a little disappointed cause these boys have cleaned up a little bit, and from the sound of things this might only be the beginning. 'I only listen to OK Computer and Cranes. The Fall sucks, DIY sucks, we suck, you suck.' said Matt Horseshit in a recent interview. 'Why should anyone listen to you then?' replied the reporter. 'Because we're FUN, duh.' And even though you wanna hate 'em, you gotta admit, they kinda are fun. Matt is a dick, of course, and Rich is hilariously clueless mostly, and by all means most of the stuff on this Shitgaze Anthems EP shouldn't work, whether it be the white-boy dub section, the cliche acoustic ballad with backwards guitar, the blatant Dylan rips or the overall amateur playing, but for some reason these elements that usually reek of pretention and failure actually endear you to the band and their songs. Yes, they're called Psychedelic Horseshit. Yes, they do suck, but I'll be damned if they aren't one of my favorite bands in the world, and they're only getting better, but if I tried to tell you why it'd only make 'em sound worse. So it goes."
7/21/2010	Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane, The	The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane	LP	$14.99	Pastabase	"The sounds of the modern Chilean psych underground are slowly making their way to North America with some vinyl and CDRs and a word-of-mouth assist from Pink Reason's tour of the country and the reports brought back from Kevin Failure. Apparently Spacemen 3 are as big as Led Zep down there or something, which is fantastic and shows on what releases I've heard so far. The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane (you should just pause here for a moment to think about and enjoy this band name) are a loose experimental psychedelic jam band, including some members of the previously reviewed La Banda's and they really stretch out and relax on seven lengthy instrumental explorations. And not really jammy in the rocking sense, more like wandering about in cloudy headspaces and losing themselves in the song. You get dedications to Sandy Bull and La Banda's themselves and a couple of unexpected references to David Icke/reptoids, all recorded live on 8-track tape without any digital tinkering. "Grio's Wisom" is exotic drone with vintage synth tone, hypnotizing percussion from bongos and lo-fi drum machine/gong and a bit of sitar-like guit noodle with the added oddity of supposedly being recorded next to a construction site with the sounds of jackhammers and other industrial machines melding into the cut seamlessly and without any manipulation if I'm deciphering the liner notes accurately. The Sandy Bull trib, "No Return Blues" has two or three guitar lines intertwining for a relaxed, yet not lazy, zone out. "Hey (Bring Us Another Drink)" has the only semblance of vocals (just a chant of "Hey." a few times) with a fantastic harmonica intro and total Sixties drop out vibing. Then we get into two reptilian/Icke jams with more harmonica, bongos, backwards Eastern-inflected guitar work for even more nod-out mushroom drones. Definite music to take drugs and stare at your lava lamp to, totally organic and heavy on the mellow and certainly a bit more interesting due to the locale the music is emanating from. A fried egg for sure, but one that's not spitting grease all over the place either." RK, Terminal-Boredom.com
7/10/2008	Psychic Fare	The Slow Drag	CDR	$9.99	Damaged Restrooms	"Blazing living room budget psych from this mysterious mid-90s Humboldt County trio, with ties to the Plague Lounge, who released one LP, The Wicker Image on Holy Mountain in 1996. This release is steeped in 'old weird America' monsters like Vertical Slit and Half Machine Lip Moves, as well as great NZ jams like Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Dead C's Runway cassette and other "we've smoked as much as we possibly can" basement classics. It was easy, it was cheap, so they went and did it."
2/20/2010	Psychic Reality / LA Vampires	split	LP	$11.99	Not Not Fun	"Every day's as new as you want it to be so take up the torch and light something unlit. Definite off-the-grid mentalities prevail on this genre-dissolving split 12" between San Fran anima soul voyager Leyna Noel aka Psychic Reality and So-Cal acid-jazz crate-digger LA Vampires. Noel's toured the states coast-to-coast and dropped a couple potent tape/CDR effigies, but this is her vinyl debut and it captures everything searing and singular about her live alchemy in glowing, glorious detail. Four inter-flowing songs of tone-float piano keys, bedroom drum machines, and white light amplifier vox. Trance-damaged and truth-seeking. LA Vampires' side madlibs through a more mercurial matrix, using slowed/screwed tapes, boombox Casio FX, low end theories, and bleached voice patterns to conjure a reverb chamber's worth of dance floor mirages. Future collabs with Zola Jesus and Sun Araw should expound her rhythm method mission. Abuse yr illusion. Black vinyl LPs in glossy jackets with a boldly disrobed duo cover portrait by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 450."
4/5/2010	Psychotic Quartet	Gilomas	3" CDR	$4.99	Majmua Music	"With backgrounds in improvised music, jazz, klezmer, Greek, Turkish, modernist classical, punk, jazz, outsider pop, noise, industrial and other musics, the Psychotic Quartet brings many varied approaches to their collaboration, creating a sound that is uniquely psychotic. Conjuring up a sound that serves as a type of commentary on their varied musical pursuits, Psychotic Quartet ivites you to listen in on their sonic séance." Edition of 75 copies.
3/9/2004	Ptolemaic Terrascope	Issue #34	zine with CD	$11.99		January 2004 issue features articles / interviews with: Comets on Fire, Electric Prunes, Lazily Spun, United States of America, Jennifer Gentle, Steve Wynn/Dream Syndicate, Eleventh Dream Day, Kaleidoscope (US), Jade, the Ill Wind, Steven Wray Lobdell, Clive Palmer, Verdure, Country Weather, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The cd, titled ‘IT'S GONNA BE HOT IN THE CANNIBAL POT TONIGHT’ features The Lazily Spun - Lipse of the Marchpane / In Gowan Ring - Caught Within the Tendrils of the Vine / Verdure - Albatross Times / Country Weather - Confusion / Country Weather - Ride With Me / Country Weather - I Am Getting Closer / Jennifer Gentle - Verde Mostro / Steve Wynn - Amphetamine / Jade - September Song / The Davis Redford Triad - Targets Of Opportunity / Steven Wray Lobdell - Montecore's Revenge / Pothole Skinny - Harnessed In the Catacombs / The Bevis Frond - Lifelike / The Bevis Frond - I Can't get It Out Of My Mind
2/21/2005	Ptolemaic Terrascope	Issue #35	magazine with CD	$10.99		“Get your psychedelia on tight with the thirty-fifth issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope. Includes features on MOVIETONE, NICK NICELY, SHARON KRAUS, IN GOWAN RING, STEVE MACKAY, JACK ROSE, TARENTEL, and more, along with a CD featuring many of the above, as well as SAINT JOAN, ONE ENSEMBLE OF DANIEL PADDEN, GREEN PAJAMAS, and BEVIS FROND.”
9/29/2003	Public Works	Numbers	9"	$10.99	Elevator Bath	"Numbers was released four years after Ralph Johnson and Lloyd Dunn's debut CD as Public Works (Matter, on Staalplaat). This is a 9" EP pressed on clear vinyl with a color sleeve, limited to 800 copies. The project takes the music of Tape Beatles (of which both members take part) to more ethereal domains. Not that the two suites are ambient in any way, but they tend to be less referential (with explicit quotes) and techno-driven, more subtle and textural. Some of the rhythms conjure up images of primitive civilizations, especially on side B. That and the use of samples of speaking voices attract comparisons to Z'eV's works like Face the Wound, but bearing a lighter program closer to Realistic or Negativland. Recommended, plus the odd size and nice sleeve make it an interesting collector's item." - François Couture
5/20/2009	Puddle Parade, The	Origami	CD	$12.99	Morc	"One-girl band, bringing frail lullabies with vague melodies and distorted, fading voices a minimalistic crackling toy orchestra in slow motion. member: ellen evers. tools: guitar, voice, melodica alto, melodica soprano, music boxes, children's accordion, tooth brush, analog 4-track recorder, distortion pedals, loop station, xylophon, zither, dictaphone, and many more stuff. worked with: annelies monseré, tara jane o'neil and machinefabriek... in one way or another. born and raised in: eastern germany, and with good childhood memories in mind. moved to: utrecht, the netherlands about 6 years ago. This is the debut album of The Puddle Parade. 35 minutes of very minimal, hissy and adventurous popsongs. Influences ranging from experimental analog electronics to mid-nineties lofi. Melodic sound-sketches put together as an audio-notebook. the sounds of birds whistling translated via instruments and vocals. pressed on cd, housed in a brown cardboard packaging, with lovely two- colour silkscreened print. recommended if you like: Colleen, Lau Nau, Mt Eerie, Vollmar, Iditarod, Machinefabriek, Tara Jane O'Neil, new school lofi, analog sounds, toys, anything on morc records really."
4/24/2006	Puff	Plain	3" CDR	$9.99	Memoirs of an Aesthete	"New astral mystique from Witchfynder Joincey (ex- WAGSTAFF, INCA EYEBALL, COITS, SCULPTRESS et al). Primitive psych-folk clonk and voices treated so heavily they sound like huge sheets of tinfoil cracking. 'Research suggests that Puff is the current working nomenclature of Joincey, one of the most unfairly unheralded artists of the English Underground (the greatest visionary-outsider slabs since Jandek)...confusing.'" Jon Dale (The Wire)
6/4/2010	Puffy Areolas	In The Army 1981	LP	$15.99	Siltbreeze	"For the past few years, Puffy Areolas have been fritzing synapses and scorching the landscape with their corroded psych / hardcore scree. Enlightened by the most unhinged charters of Acid Archives and Killed by Death alumnus, the Puffies' sound might best be described as embodying the Stooges' Raw Power if your pretty face had gone to hell. There, it would have encountered (among others) White Boy and The Average Rat Band, Tampax, Opus and Mag Amplitude for an eternal damnation of scarred depravity, the excesses of which would be legendary even by Hades standards. In The Army 1981 is its own sadistic brand of plastic surgery, heavy on the anesthetic, short any bedside manner. Rude and ready for action, Puffy Areolas will forever be the bull in the china shop. And if that's China White you're talkin' about -- well, friend, meet your new Daddy."
2/23/2004	Puke Eaters, The	God is Free	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"The sound of Finnish caveman finding musical soul through fungi eating. Includes the tracks ‘castle rising from the sea of sour milk’, ‘baptism of shit’, and ‘juice of satan’. Superbly bent and damaged, featuring rogue elements of KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT."
1/24/2009	Puke Eaters, The	Hello Valhalla	LP	$15.99	Skulls of Heaven / Lalalal	"Does anyone remember a remarkable piece of psych-styled rubbish called "God is Free", released on Chocolate Monk back in 2004? Of all the odd wonders and incestuous secrets to emerge from Finland in the last 20 years, the Puke Eaters could be thee greatest. "Hello Walhalla" is the first long playing record by this anti-prolific group. The applied methods range from accidental to free and from psycho-motorik to ritual. For any points of reference think of the swamp into which Fille qui mousse, Cromagnon and 'Jesus Christ' era Smell & Quim were dumped. After years of tireless experimentation in the cynical utopian ruinscape of their collective butterfly mind, The Puke Eaters have loosened their belts and finally unleashed their deadliest recordings for thee future caveman. Endless volcano-brain spewing on the ur-limits of limitless psycho-dynamic sound clash, totally high on Scandinavian pussy juice." Limited edition of 500 pressed 140g black vinyl.
1/17/2010	Puke Eaters, The	Y.M.I.Dead? / Flesh Descending	7"	$7.99	Vauva	"Two tracks by the Puke Eaters, the A side was originally conceived as a theme for an album dealing with Deihoma, the man who wandered inside "the Worm that ate the world" in order to slay it. Strictly Steen & Rusty, as inept as ever. B side has Rusty involved in the act of synthesizer desecration with some nameless slave. Steen Guru vocals were added later via the method of overdubbing." - Ralf Normaali
6/30/2010	Pulse Emitter	Above Clouds	cassette	$8.99	Root Strata	"Lovely set from Portland based Darly Groetsch that falls nicely into the realms created in his Meditative Music series. Two long sides of analog drift, punctuated by occasional bright harmonics and sparse florescent rhythms. Soundtrack to Carl Sagan's visions of other worlds in 'Cosmos'. Edition of 100 dubbed cassettes with offset printed covers."
8/30/2009	Pulse Emitter	Decaying Ships	LP	$28.99	Ultra Eczema	"The road is long, sweaty and tense when your shoes are made of metal and you have to walk through a labyrinth with a magnetic floor to reach a brown sea full of hungry lobsters. the ship is waiting though, and the tension is building up heavily with every spin of this record, heavy meditative aircraft static blurr slowing down your usual codeine rhythm! modular synth carpets at its nastiest! you'll be purring when you're on the actual boat.. thick like your mommy's wallet, yet sparse droning that'll get you more "out there" than bob marley at his vaguest. 2 pieces pushing your brains to one side if the volume is right. limited to 300 copies, comes in a neon green and black sleeve by ulf f faefs."
7/14/2007	Pulse Emitter	Progression to Desolation	LP	$13.99	Black Horizons	"Finally Pulse Emitter gets the treatment he deserves, a full 12" of vinyl to lay down two prog flavoured tracks of synth drone. Created using homebuilt synth modules, and meticulously contructed into a sci fi storyline, this could be a soundtrack. Suffocating layered heavyness, dry synth hiss, oscillator click terror meets equally with beauty, a quality rare among Pulse Emitter's peers. Each cover and insert is a unique paint marbled design, silkscreened / designed over by Nick of Seizure Palace. Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl."
7/16/2006	Pumice	Pipi's / Onion Union	lathe cut 7"	$13.99	CMR	"Two fantastic live tracks by Stefan Neville recorded in 2005 at two of New Zealands best bars. Sits in the noisier spectrum of the Pumice career which spans probably 15 years or so. Collectable and probably already gone." Edition of 60 copies housed in a blue textured paper outer sleeve, brown paper inner sleeve.
4/5/2008	Pumice	Punches	3" CDR	$9.99	Ruralfaune	"To celebrate his successful world tour, here it is a very limited 6 songs ep, included covers of Black Flag, Twinkeyz, Adolescents and the legendary Gfrenzy. Act fast ! - Oversized sleeve & exclusive artwork by Stefan." Limited edition of 60 copies.
7/10/2008	Pumice	Quo	CD	$11.99	Soft Abuse	"As the title self-effacingly implies, Quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past Pumice-isms: uncertain progressions, anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy and distorted vocals (crooned, spoken and moaned). Quo once more finds Pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk and noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. Sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting and tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of the Kilgours or Chris Knox, and woozy synth blurts and drones thread the patchwork patterns with Hulk-like grace.
12/24/2005	Pumice	Worldwide Skull	CDR	$12.99	Audiobot	"Pumice truly emerged last year as one of New Zealand's finest with the absolutely stunning, 'Raft.' Pumice is the brainchild of Stefan Neville. His disjointed compositions often feel held together with masking tape and plaster, decaying at the core and frayed at the seams. There's an instrinsic beauty in the fractured nature of these songs and an inherent intimacy that comes along with them. But Neville's gimmicks are few and far between. What you hear with Pumice is what you get. Luckily, what we get is nothing short of magical. 'Worldwide Skull' is collection of various radio performances Neville has done across the globe over the years. Since these are all live to air, the amount of layering and studio trickery that Neville often employs on his recordings are stripped away. This is what Pumice sounds like with only the most bare essentials. I have to admit, I was reticent to hear this; I was worried the results would be less than what I've grown to expect from Neville's recordings. However, I was simply blown away. These are beautiful songs. They mostly consist of Neville playing acoustic guitar or piano and singing. There are various rattles and synthetic screes, but at their heart, they are simple folk songs with a decidedly Kiwi bend. The set opens with the dark-infused "Weird Crab Holy Soldier." As Neville plods through various minor chords and wails at the top of his lungs, he manages to mix in an undercurrent of distortion that heightens the tension in the song. Listening to this, I imagine myself in the corner of a smoke-filled bar in Dunedin watching a local legend at his height. This is spellbinding stuff. The real treat on "Worldwide Skull," however, comes in the form of "Poin" and "29/Ridge." These two tracks clock in at a collective 12+ minutes. The jagged longing tone of "Poin" is magnificent. "You're one of the greats, I'm icing on a cake," Neville croons with his obvious Kiwi accent. This song feels intensely personal with references to the mighty CJA and lyrics like "If I was there, I'd sing right into your belly." All this is happily dropped over a clumsily plucked and strummed acoustic guitar. It's irresistable and easily one of the year's best songs. Neville really hit it out of the park with this. "29/Ridge" is similar, though the guitar is replaced with piano and vocals are distorted. It's a shambolic piece of history. Every aspect of this song feels like it's from another time - from the feedback and distortion to the slow, gentle howl of the piano. Neville's voice sounds tired and worn, but it adds to the archaic feeling of the music. It's spotless. It really is. You can't help but lean back in your chair, close your eyes, and let out of a big sigh of relief because really, life's not so bad. I really had no idea what to expect from "Worldwide Skull," but on first listen was pleasantly surprised. Then, as the days passed and I found myself listening to it more and more, it dawned on me how special of a release this is. Housed in Audiobot's typical beautiful and awesome packaging, "Worldwide Skull" shows another side of Neville's project and one that I hope will make more appearances in the years to come. This whole thing feels like a happy accident. But it's a marvellous one and after listening to this CD-R nearly 100 times, I can safely say it's one of 2005's absolute best. Simple, stunning, and honest... you really can't ask for much more than that.- Brad Rose
6/11/2006	Pumice	Yeohnahvienna	CD	$12.99	Soft Abuse	"Recorded direct to DAT while temporarily living in Vienna, Austria, Yeohnahvienna is yet another grand sonic leap forward for our man Stefan Neville. Don't fret - there's still plenty of sludge and goop to mask his beautiful, melancholic musings. Another stellar feather in the cap after years and years of quality releasesŠ."
9/17/2006	Pumice / Ghosting / Bonus / GMS	tour	CDR	$8.99	Onomato	"Stefan/Pumice, from New Zealand, contributes four tracks of disassembled noise-pop. Ghosting contributes a drum/dub drone piece. Bonus minimal drones that slowly de-tune over time. And GMS, Gabe solo - of yellow Swans, two tracks of guitar noise/bliss. This is to document the week we will all be spending together while doing a short batch of shows together from Portland to the Bay Area. Edition of 150 - screen printed covers - inserts - heavy vinyl sleeves."
11/21/2009	Pummeler	Jungle Olympics	c32 cassette	$4.99	Anathema Sound	"After a string of releases on Small Doses, Digitalis Ltd., and Stunned, Denmark’s Mikkel Valentin Dunkerley adds another dead soldier to his arsenal of scorchers. Dunkerley considers Jungle Olympics to be his harshest work to date and he’s not kidding. Layer upon layer of heavily distorted guitar, electronics, field recordings, and effected vocals collide, compete, and ultimately envelop one another in a wild, frenzied fashion perfectly befitting the release title. Yet, through all the racket and clamor, a subtle, droning melody permeates and anchors each piece—leaving you hypnotized and begging for more. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 60."
5/23/2009	Pummeler	Pummeler	c22 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"I don't know if there's a more aptly named project around than denmark's pummeler. mikkel dunkerley is bounding around down in the murkiest depths. this stuff feels like it's been stripped bare by vultures, the bones left to freeze in the scandinavian air. distant metallic pings call you to your grave. these are heavy, black masses you can't avoid without being swalloed whole. dunkerley's use of varying textures is exceptional. his work is minimal yet enthralling. each piece, no matter how long or short, feels like an expansive wasteland of sound. listen once, you hear one thing, listen again and it's something else entirely. it's time you rolled it all downhill. 60 copies, pro-dubbed & erupted." Out of print.
9/17/2006	Pump Kinn	Aunte Donne	3" CD	$8.99	Weird Forest	"Pump Kinn is Michelle. Whether gliding on the diamond lakes on a porcelan swan or herding the wild equestrian hordes on top the tenebrous mountains she molds the loveliest concoctions of throat plumage confection and the most crepuscular cacophonous caterwauling of a thousand shrill stallions. Admirers of Diamanda and Fursaxa rejoice. Limited to 500 copies housed in a custom, full-color, 6-panel fold-out cover."
4/8/2010	Purple Haze	Perpetual Shopping	cassette	$7.99	Heavy Blossom	"Duo of Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph) and Taylor Richardson (Infinity Window, Prehistoric Blackout). Side a features dark rhythmic spaces filled in with tortured female vox and industrial synth stylings; while side b lightens the mood up a bit but is no less damaged in spirit. bright tones float like chem-trails only to submerge into jmz train-esque gunk.Recorded August/September 2009. Edition of 70 copies."
1/17/2010	PussyGutt	Gathering Strengths	LP	$16.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"Third full-length release from this Boise, Idaho duo following two critically acclaimed efforts - the Sea Of Sand double-LP on OESB and She Hid Behind Her Veil CD on 20 Buck Spin. PussyGutt continue to develop their unique brand of doom soundtrack heaviness on Gathering Strengths, which features two side-long compositions titled 'Silence Within' & 'Spirit Walker'. Clarinets, violin, and cello are all prominent - lending this album even more of an avant-classical feel than previous efforts. The band calls this album 'an esoteric meditation on soul and nature' and they cite Alvin Lucier, Henry Gorecki, and Arvo Part as primary influences for these recordings - along with the funeral doom of groups like Nortt, Catacombs, and Celestiial. Aquarius Records sums it up best in their review of the CD: 'This is some seriously sinister shit, sweeping and darkly cinematic, the soundtrack to the eventual collapse of the universe, the sound of dying stars, or of some long slumbering beast awakening after millennia... infused with a deep otherworldly beauty.' Packaged in heavy duty covers silkscreened by Monoroid, limited and numbered edition of 550 copies." With glossy insert.
11/17/2007	PussyGutt and Story of Rats	Sea of Sand	DBL LP	$24.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"Pussygut" is an old western slang term for the violin or fiddle - as the strings used to be made from cat intestines. "PussyGutt" is the duo of Blake Green and Brittany McConnell from Boise, Idaho. They have created a distinctive flavor of outsider "doom" with unique instrumentation that coincidentally features LOTS of violin (Brittany is a classically trained violinist), along with synths, gongs, bowed cymbals, crystal goblets, organ, drums, clay pots, forest sounds, ducks, various electronics, tons of feedback and humming bass-amp, and as if all that's not enough there's a secret weapon up their collective sleeve - the TRACTOR!!. The group holed up for nine months in their studio experimenting and composing the four side-long pieces for this double album. They are joined on Sea of Sand by Seattle's Garek Druss (of A Story of Rats and Ear Venom) as collaborator/3rd member. Garek contributed his experiments with field recordings, repetition, electronics, and sound-collage to the proceedings. Also appearing is Chad Lefler of Seattle legends Old Cloud throwing down some heavy-duty amplifier worship. The music? Extremely HEAVY. Deeply WEIRD. A friend of the band coined the term "soundtrack aficianarcoleptics" to describe who this album will most appeal to and indeed the entire album is largely cinematic in its approach. The "riffs" & drums mostly stay hidden in their caves, venturing outside on a few brief excursions to catch some moonlight and provide puncuation to the drones and other assimilated madness. Limited edition of 550 hand-assembled copies. Packaged in heavy-duty gatefold sleeves with four spraymounted panels that were custom offset-printed on silver stock with two coats of black ink for extra darkness. Full size inserts printed on vellum paper. Specially mastered for maximum bass presence on vinyl by Mell Dettmer who has mastered projects for SUNN 0))/Boris, Earth, Asva, etc."
7/23/2010	PW / AM	AM / PW	10" lathe cut	$27.99	Pseudoarcana	"More rocking ecstatic psyche/noise from the South Island of New Zealand this is the first collaboration work to appear from Peter Wright and Antony Milton. Previous recording sessions exist somewhere on tape but who knows what box those are in?? This current record was recorded over one afternoon in Christchurch. The following day a pilgrimage was made down to Peter Kings lathe factory (read back blocks shack constructed of the same plastic from which he makes his records..!) to see the magic of sound being etched into acetate in person. And the music? You will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that this release contains guitar drones- and noisy clattery bits, but then theres even a little singing.."
4/10/2009	Pyramids, The	Birth/Speed/Merging	LP	$14.99	Ikef	"A psychedelic afrojazz stunner that capped off a feverish diaspora from the Midwest to the Bay Area by way of Africa. Cut in 1975, Birth/Speed/Merging was the band's highest end production to date and their final recorded act. The mood was celebratory, carnivalesque and wholly in the groove. Features the burning classic "black man & woman of the nile". Remastered from the original source tapes. 180 gram virgin vinyl pressing."
4/10/2009	Pyramids, The	King Of Kings	LP	$14.99	Ikef	"'There were spirits in that recording studio! I remember a feeling of spiritual strength while we were recording! Images and sounds reverberating off the walls!' - Idris Ackamoor. Though only a year had passed in the time between the fierce abandon of Lalibela and 1974's King Of Kings, it signaled a monumental shift for the band. By 1974, the core Pyramids continued their musical odyssey with their Lalibela collaborators -- percussionists Hekaptah, Marcel Lytle and saxophonist Masai -- while welcoming drummer-in-exile Donald Robinson back to the Pyramids' Midwestern American family. Inspired, the group set to shape a set of compositions that most fully realized -- in form, feel & reflection -- their African passage. On a spring day in 1974, the Pyramids went into a remote 16 track studio called Appalachia Sound Recording hours from Antioch in Chillicothe,Ohio -- the site of ancient native Indian burial mounds ? and, with no less intensity than before, cut a warm and infectious spiritual jazz masterpiece -- King of Kings -- in a day and headed back to Antioch that night. Exact repro of the ultra-rare private issue LP on the band's Pyramid Records label. Remastered from the original source tapes. 180 gram virgin vinyl pressing."
4/10/2009	Pyramids, The	Lalibela	LP	$14.99	Ikef	"'We were playing music to burst out of our bodies. Extremely free! Extremely intense!' -- Idris Ackamoor. The Pyramids came together in the feverish expat climate of Paris & Amsterdam in 1971 where the three Antioch classmates -- Idris Ackamoor, Margot Ackamoor and Kimathi Asante -- hooked up with drummer Donald Robinson and began to flesh out their own brand of musical freedom, but it was the subsequent pilgrimage back to Africa that proved to be the young musicians' creative awakening & truly set their brand of spiritual jazz apart from pack. Cut just months after their return to Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1973 with kindred players jumping in on the session, Lalibela is an urgent, beautiful & massive two track suite of propulsive Afrodelic cosmic earth groove. Exact repro of the ultra-rare private issue LP on the band's Pyramid Records label. Remastered from the original source tapes. 180 gram virgin vinyl pressing."