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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
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."
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.
7/10/2008	Paavoharju	Yhä hämärää	LP	$22.99	Fonal	"LP version. This is the debut full-length release from Finland's Paavoharju. CD originally released in 2005. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. The sound is something between Bollywood music, church hymns, beautiful pop tunes and ambient esoteric noises. The lyrics are very spiritual in sound and text. Paavoharju sing of branches touching the surface of the water and walking down a black street to an old inn."
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.
10/30/2002	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
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
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
11/17/2007	Painting Petals on Planet Ghost	Painting Petals on Planet Ghost	CD	$15.99	Time-Lag Records	"Digital version of the out-of-print LP. 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."
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
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
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.
9/17/2006	Panopticon	Tractor Beans	CDR	$11.99	Our Mouth	"Brand new French-Canadian bad acid/thug rock monster jams in the keg-butting style of lurch orchestras like Violent Students, Pissed Jeans and primo Texan meat-raunch of the calibre of Josefus-plays-Buttholes. On the Mouthus label."- Volcanic Tongue
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.
7/11/2008	Pantaleimon	Tall Trees	CDR	$9.99	Abaton Book Company	"A beautiful and otherwordly 10 minute vignette, an exacting purification of her artform. This CDR consists of four new tracks, recorded by the artist, with Michael Tanner (Plinth) and Nick Palmer (Directorsound). All the tracks were especially created for this project. 1st edition 100 copies."
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.
4/16/2007	Paradox	#2	Zine	$5.99	American Tapes	"Paradox was originally an art only punk zine outta Mass in the early 80's...killer youth anarchy scrawl... decided to bite the name and style..so here's Paradox #2 with color covers, hand sewn bound sleeve, 12 pages of visual eye inzanity. More to come..."
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!!"
	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."
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."
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."
8/22/2008	Paul, Ashley	'd.o.l'	CD	$11.99	REL Records	"'d.o.l' is the CD/full length debut release by Ashley Paul. What makes Ashley Paul's music so special is her completely individual approach that leaves one wide eyed with a wonderful type of confusion. At first 'd.o.l' sounds like a minimalist sound experiment, sustained horns, with subtle shifts of tone color swell with sustaining bowed bells and percussion. Yet it seems rough and aggressive, with ample bow sound and crackling electronic hiss. It shortly becomes something very different as her whispering singing, guitars and field recordings enter. She sings something resembling a song, in her understated vocal style, but a song that you have certainly never heard before. She glides along, on with a odd lop-sided sense of timing, from section to section. 'd.o.l' sounds more a product of Ashley's experience then anything else. Playing this year with Loren Connors, Aki Onda, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris and Greg Kelley in addition to recording saxophone for a new piece by Phill Niblock along with Eli Keszler. 'd.o.l' is a true testament to Ashley's unique music and vision. It is packaged in a hand painted arigato pak with a silver embossed image, with hand stamped label and a unique 'glue and diamond' seal on the back with a vellum insert. Pressed in a one time edition of 500 CD's."
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."
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)
8/2/2008	Peaking Lights	Clearvoiant	cassette	$6.99	Night People	"Peaking Lights is Aaron and Indra (also of Numbers) from Rah Dunes new duo project recently relocated to rural Wisconsin from the Bay Area. Floating electronic pulses, controlled feedback, tape loops, organ, snyth, guitar, and vocal harmonies layered into waves of four track noise pop goodness. The perfect soundtrack to walking in mysterious places, haunted neighborhoods, lost river banks, and bike rides at night. This release really glows and grows. Silkscreened artwork by SDREED."
10/25/2008	Peaking Lights	Two Songs For Ceremony	cassette	$5.99	Aldebaran Record Farm	"This is an adventure in mystical sonic tune-age. Laden with swirling ensembles of harmonies and melodies, whilst being sugar coated with plenty of tape hiss and psychedelic wanderings. 'Two Songs for Ceremony" has an uncompromising feel for the lover of sound-scapes as much as for the lover of noise, or folk, or rock, the two songs remain fairly indistinguishable by genre, though surely distinguishable by radness. Great music to travel with, to be still with, to be chill with, to put on mixtapes for friends and just get into!" Limited edition of 100 copies - second release for label.
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."
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."
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."
9/17/2006	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.
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."
7/14/2007	Pefkin	Lie On The Ground and Breathe	3" CDR	$7.99	Cook an Egg	"Yet another slab of pure magic from Gayle Brogan. After her acclaimed releases on Foxglove, PseudoArcana and Students of Decay, Gayle delivers one 20-minute track which begins with a few scattered improvisations on the dulcimer before shifting into one of the most blissed-out ambient folk reveries to date. It all ends on a particularly intimate note as Gayle's highly delicate soundworld is able to suspend time in one breath. Should appeals to fans of Christina Carter and My Cat Is An Alien alike."
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."
11/29/2007	Pefkin / The Circle and the Point	Sunblinded Visions by a Silver Sea / Say Goodnight to the Evangelist	CDR	$8.99	Deep Water	"Our second split CD features 45 minutes of complementary drone bliss by two prime proponents of contemporary underground drift. Glasgow's Pefkin (Gayle Brogan of the Boa Melody Bar mailorder) offers up one extended track in which discrete, often acoustic sounds glisten and overlap like light on a rolling ocean; while the Circle and the Point (a duo of Buffalo-based Adam Richards [House of Alchemy records] and LA denizen Grant Capes [of (VxPxC) and the Phantom Limb label]) bring us four tracks that drag simple Eno-esque melodies through an unpredictable filter of urban noise. Sea air to city clatter, electronically bridged; plug in anywhere."
7/10/2008	Pelt	Dauphin Elegies	CD	$13.99	VHF	"The first new studio recordings from Pelt in three years picks up where 2005's Untitled CD leaves off--delivering massive slabs of heavy, all-acoustic drone action. "Waning Crescent" is an ominous workout for three large gongs, rich with overtones and subsonic rumble. "Fire Signs Along the Field" offers a slightly jarring quartet of spare string noise, with Nathan Bowles (Black Twigs, Spiral Joy Band) sitting in on double bass. "Cast Out to Deep Waters" is an immense 30-minute epic in the vein of Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky and Untitled's "I" that fits into the archetypical classics in the Pelt canon. The all-too-brief "Crown of Comets" closes the CD with the chiming, overlapping ring of bells recorded in Virginia's Falls Ridge caves."
7/16/2006	Pelt	Heraldic Beast	DBL LP	$17.99	Eclipse	"Intense 2 LP survey of Pelt geography around the turn of the century, compiling live recordings the band issued on cdrs in tiny editions or on comps plus some unreleased material. Combines the most all-out electric attacks Pelt's ever deigned to release, plus some of the growling drone float that preceded/coincided with the band's jump into acoustic material. Off the hook gatefold packaging that maybe offers hints of sources, etc. Full list of recording dates/locations/prior releases is supposed to be posted on www.klang.org soon." This dbl lp set is sure to blow some minds - especially those who have come to know Pelt in the past 2-3 years. These early recordings (1998-2003) are heavy and sure to please those who have been waiting patiently for this. The packaging is incredible, too - with beautiful artwork and a very sturdy gatefold sleeve. Dig it.
	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!"
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."
	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."
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.
	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."
11/17/2007	Pewt'r jjjjj	Byens Lys 061217	CDR	$12.99	There Is No Trouble In Denmark	"Pewt'r jjjjj is jørgen teller, ron joel schneiderman, jonas munk, jakob skøtt and jess kahr - the joint forces of 3/4 of local stone rock favourites causa sui (jonas (manual), jakob (syntaks), and jess), also local, high-spirited avant-gardist jørgen teller (Š & the empty stairs) and loud folk classicist ron joel schneidermann (sunburned hand of the man, aethr myth'd et al) is pewt'r jjjjj. they played a one-time-only show at the magical christiania venue byens lys 06-12-17 and, luckily, it was recorded. though, for reasons still mysterious, the soundboard recording only contained jørgen and ron's guitars. an audience recording was done, too, which captured everything, but lacked the sound quality of a proper soundboard recording. many a sleepless night were spent brooding over how this fine material could best be presented to the public. renowned electronica artist manual took it upon himself to tie a knot, wherein the loose ends could meet. in addition to re-editing the entire audience recording, he threw a few drones and spacey sounds that he created from playing around with the recording of ron and jørgen's guitars into the mix. a bit of extra guitar was laid down as well. the result is an interesting combination of 'dirty' stereo recording and post-production. it bears some resemblance to the way miles davis made records in the early 1970s or the early grateful dead's more acidy records. byens lys 061217 is an imposing mixture of mind-altering, trippy, instrumental, psych, spacerock, freakout, fuzz guitar mayhem. a hawkwind circa 'brainstorm' groove with avant-garde overlayering á la early sunburned hand turned into an amon düül ii/can krautrock kinda feel."
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."
8/22/2008	Phantom Buffalo	Take To the Trees	CD	$12.99	Time-Lag	"digital version of red records #3...