| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 8/20/2011 | Pacchu, Fricara | Faces Faces Everywhere | c40 cassette | $7.99 | Ikuisuus | "Faces Faces Everywhere was recorded while Mr Fricara Pacchu was in a coma which he fell into after hearing 'Car Ride' by american hardcore band Drunks With Guns. This incident ended a 16-month-long worldwide tour celebrating the success of his previous releases 'Midnight Pyre' and 'Lucy'. The sounds on this cassette were created with the help of swiss engineer Ms Apita Pipiti and her computer, which Pacchu was connected to with brain sensors. The doctors did various stimulations in order to crack his mental shell. The response from his brain was driven through Pipiti's machine and the results were analyzed by norwegian conductor Mr Blorsen. On 21.5.2010 the patient woke up after a nurse accidentally threw a metal vase at his head. The raw material was given to him as a compensation for the wrong treatment. So now, buy this tape and give Mr Pacchu a reason for another party marathon." - DPM Rafael Finningston Bologna, 16.5.2011 |
| 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." |
| 5/13/2011 | Pain Jerk & John Wiese | Vague Maze | 7" | $9.99 | A Dear Girl Called Wendy | "Pain Jerk and John Wiese are the two titans of noise. Their collaborations are not a new. This is the stunning prologue, the first one, dated 2005. 7 minutes of synthesizers, electronics, noise. This is what a 7inch must be. Fast, violent, harsh. Play it at 45rpm as loud as possible you can. You know you need it. Artwork by John Wiese. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies, one time pressing." |
| 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) |
| 5/17/2011 | Paine, Andrew | Lift Into My Hands | cassette | $9.99 | Sonic Oyster Cassettes | Three pieces for piano. Strictly limited (numbered) edition of 50. Andrew Paine builds on last year's 'The Haunts of Ancient Peace'; his farewell to a fallen traveller, with this new solo work. Three pieces explore the themes of emergence and resurrection: 'Lift Into My Hands' serving as the perfect counterpoint between 'The Seeds of Intention' and 'Of Rabbits & Horses': slow, unfolding, sparse, low-volume music. |
| 7/24/2010 | Paine, Andrew | The Haunts of Ancient Peace | CDR | $10.99 | 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." |
| 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 |
| 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." |
| 10/20/2011 | Painting Petals On Planet Ghost | Transparent Winter | LP | $21.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Transparent Winter follows on from the debut release on the always excellent Time-Lag label and releases on the equally great PSF, Opax and A Silent Place. Painting Petals On Planet Ghost is the trio of Ramona Ponzini with Roberto & Maurizio Opalio (aka My Cat Is An Alien). Here they return for a new full length vinyl release on Blackest Rainbow. PPOPG create some wonderfully fragile and unusual experiments that fall somewhere between folk, psychedelia and drone. Ramono Ponzini sings in Japanese as well as contributing 'furin, metal and wooden japanese wind chimes'. These are combined with Maurizio Opalio on acoustic guitar, and Roberto Opalio on 'mini keyboard, bodhran, alientronics, and wordless vocalizations'. The trio's eclectic setup helps them create some truly luscious and mysterious music that is perfectly fragile, strange, distant and delicate. 'Mars Appears' is a hazy dream piece with layered guitars, strange electronics and Ramono's perfectly delivered Japanese vocals drawing the listener in surrounded by a strange but perfect fitting created by the Opalio brothers musical output. 'The Mountain' is equally as otherworldy as the previous sides track, with swirling strings and out of this world electronics created by Roberto and Maurizio. Whilst Ramona's vocal are almost delivered in a trance like state. A extremely beautiful record with a gorgeous organic feel to it. The record is housed in a sleeve featuring film photographs of flowers. Edition of 250 copies pressed on 140gram virgin vinyl." |
| 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." |
| 4/27/2011 | Paintings for Animals | Kristeater | CDR | $7.49 | Debacle Records | "Pearson Wallace-Hoyt has already carved out his place in the PNW experimental scene, whether it is working with all manner of artists, dancers, and musicians or co-directing the Seattle Occultural Music Festival. Recently, Pearson has begun taking over the rest of the world, dropping a 3" CDR on Kim Dawn and now releasing his doom opus Kristeater.' |
| 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 | 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." |
| 9/25/2010 | Palestine, Charlemagne & Simone Forti | Illuminations | LP | $22.99 | Alga Marghen | "alga marghen proudly presents the first ever release of Illuminatios, or Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti duo interactions, illuminated with dim red lights. In early 1970 Mort Subotnick asked Charlemagne Palestine to join his soon to be created Media Department at the new 'Dream School of the Future' endowed by the Disneys to be called the California Institute of the Arts. Charlemagne and Simone Forti met there in 1970, when La Monte Young asked them to arrange a California concert for Pandit Pran Nath. They decided to try an improvisation session together and Charlemagne invited Simone the first time to the electronic music studio where he worked regularly. Their medium blended as a play of interacting sound waves and solid matter in motion as Charlemagne and Simone shared energy and focus. The three previously unreleased recordings on this LP were made between October and December 1971. The first take, titled 'Illumination,' is for two voices moving in the space with small bells and crystal glasses while Simone Forti plays the molimo, a corrugated tube meant for connecting the gas stove. The second take titled, 'Wed Oct 13th 1971,' has Simone and Charlemagne in a song dialogue as animals do. It was also at Cal Arts that Charlemagne Palestine first encountered a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano of Vienna. He played it often as Simone danced during their 'Illuminations'. Take three is a song sang in falsetto while playing the Bosendorfer Imperial in an arpeggiated style that predates the 'strummings'. Listening to these 'three takes' 40 years later, they ooze a timeless, carefree mystical, magical, dreamy atmosphere that evoked the times of the late 60s to early 70s in Charlemagne and Simone part of the California Art Scene. 'Illuminations' were a unique open spontaneous form of performance, ritual and prayer. Edition limited to 365 copies with an essay by both Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti, as well photos of the performances reproduced on the LP front sleeve." |
| 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)." |
| 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 |
| 8/2/2008 | Paper Wings | Ash Field | CD | $14.99 | PseudoArcana / Black Petal | "Paper Wings is the electric guitar duo of Australian Anthony Guerra and New Zealander Antony Milton. Recorded in a small room on a winters day in Sydney in 2005, their full-length debut drifts through beautiful bowed drones, tender melodic excursions and harsher sonic adventures. Four pieces that find these two guitarists at the top of their game. Paper Wings previously appeared on the Last Visible Dog compilation 'Crows of the World (Volume 1)' with the track "Horse Lattitudes'. Reviews said: ".. The real reason to pick this [compilation] up, though, is to hear Paper Wings' "Horse Lattitudes", an extended twin guitar dirge layered with whispered and wailing vocals. Beginning slowly and chaotically, it unfolds into a colossal mesh of The Velvet Underground at their most primal and Earth at 16rpm. Just when it threatens to peak, the duo fall back into another bout of feedback induced guitar meltdown, wringing every amplified note out of their instruments until the bones of the piece have been picked clean" Edwin Pouncey, The Wire "A masterclass in free improv that is even better at ear-splitting volume" Simon Lewis, Terrascope. This new CD has hand painted covers. Very nice! |
| 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. |
| 8/20/2011 | Paradox 14 | Paradox 14 | zine + CDR | $11.99 | American Tapes | "Oh funky boy. Been working hard on the SUMMER INZANITY PAINTING & COLOR DRAWING collection to hit the streets in mid july. Will be about roughly 40 + pieces for sale. In the meantime, here's some b & w crawling chaos for you to dive into or dive from with audio accomp. for the ears and eye globes. Handsewn spines. Numbered edition of 40." AM 905 |
| 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." |
| 4/4/2011 | Parashi | Troika c54 | cassette | $5.99 | Stunned | "Using guitar, synthesizers, metal objects, pieces of wood, kalimba and contact mics, Parashi summons eerie shadows and drops anchor in the underworld. Here, crumbling circuitry hums alongside lone wolf cries and whispers from subterranean ruins. With masterful focus and deliberation, 'Troika' finds New York's Parashi in top form after an impressive three album run-up on his home label Skell LLC. Few are willing to align their ship straight into the gritty unknown, but Parashi does just that with an array of entropic frequencies as his travel companions. When the hammer comes down during Side B's 18-minute long apex, watch for the white-hot sparks emitting from your electronics. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c54 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." |
| 10/1/2011 | Parasites Of The Western World, The | Politico / Zytol Automation | 7" | $5.99 | DeStijl | "De Stijl's excavation of The Parasites Of The Western World turns up the lead single for their second album in the form of an exact reissue. Originally released circa 1980-81, 'Politico' opened the B-side to Substrata with a rippin' New Wave roller full of glam stomp, proggy arrangement and punky attitude. The synth-fuelled instrumental B-side was exclusive to the single, and as tradition dictates, far more interesting, featuring Terry Censky and Patrick Burke in an ebullient symphony of synths, drums and guitar." |
| 8/31/2010 | Parasites Of The Western World, The | The Parasites Of The Western World | LP | $15.99 | DeStijl | "The Parasites Of The Western World are a band from Portland OR who released their recorded debut in 1978. It's a fascinating spin, a galactic ramble across the otherworldly themes of alienation and paranoia, seemingly inspired by LSD and Philip Dick. Primarily the creation of Patrick Burke and Terry Censky, the Parasites were limitless with invention and completely DIY. This is a record that was recorded in an apartment, by a crew thoughtful enough to curtail its loud excursions for the daylight hours. Its rockist moves are surprisingly informed by the typical institutions of this era : Pink Floyd, the Beatles and Hawkwind and it's many electronic flourishes are an above ground sound that would presage the likes of Vertical Slit, F/I and Vertigo. The Parasites remain to be light years ahead of a time that has yet to come. This swank, one time vinyl pressing of 1000 copies will contain a digital download coupon so you'll be pleased if that's yr thing." |
| 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." |
| 7/31/2011 | Parr, Charlie & The Black Twig Pickers | Glory In The Meeting House | LP | $19.99 | Klang Industries | "At the end of May in 2010, Charlie Parr and the Black Twig Pickers holed themselves up in a shed in rural Ironto, Virginia and recorded the album that would become "Glory in the Meeting House." Part country, part gospel and completely old-time, this session sounds ancient and new simultaneously. Parr's haunting and gritty vocals combines with the fiddling, strumming and plucking of the Black Twig Pickers to bring the listener right into the shed with them. "Glory in the Meeting House" pulls together popular country gospel numbers like "Jesus on the Mainline" and "What a Friend We Have" to rarer numbers like "They Whupped Him Up the Hill" and Parr's new composition "Where You Gonna Be (When the Good Lord Calls You Home)?" Charlie Parr plays original and traditional folk and Piedmont-style blues, accompanying himself on National resonator guitars, 12-string guitar and sometimes a banjo. Based in Duluth, Minnesota, Charlie has played all over the USA and Europe and Australia and released six acclaimed albums. The Black Twig Pickers got their start in a dark alley between the campers at the 1999 Galax Old Fiddlers Convention, choosing their name from an archaic apple variety in founding fiddler Ralph Berrier Jr.'s family orchard. Since then, the Black Twig Pickers' fiddle-banjo-guitar-washboard sound has been heard in dives, barns, streets and dances from Amsterdam to Atlanta, yet remains solidly rooted in a corner of Southwest Virginia where four other states are closer than the Virginia capital." - CD review. "Our own Klang Industries heavy-duty vinyl version of Charlie Parr & the Black Twig Pickers bluesy gospel opus, with Patrick Best-designed packaging (scans here don't do it justice) and photos by Scot reso madman Dave Arcari from a Parr/Twig gig in Loch Lomond. Content is the same as the House of Mercy cd edition that David Morris described as 'floods the fallow land, irrigates my soul.' A full-length nearly-all-one-evening collection from Duluth blues shouter/singer-songsmith/resonator killer Charlie Parr and Virginia-West Virginia old-timey thugs Black Twig Pickers plus Amy Shea. Sanctified set includes group shout-alongs, solo resonator and solo fiddle musings, and all manner of string/washboard/harmonica/tambourine/whatsis combinations. Now on LP!" - Klang. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl by RTI - edition of 500 copies. |
| 10/8/2010 | Parr, Charlie & The Black Twig Pickers | Where You Gonna' Be | 7" | $7.99 | Great Pop Supplement | "This one's a beauty. The last time the Black Twigs toured the UK was just prior to the tragic passing of the late, great Jack Rose. The Twigs provided epic backing on several tours with Jack, and it's an honour that they came calling to The GPS for a tour 45 this time round. The band release their incredible full length "Ironto Special" shortly for Thrill Jockey. Their UK tour this year is partly in collaboration with the mighty Charlie Parr. From Duluth, Minnesota, Charlie's incredible (resonator) guitar playing and picking, in accompaniment with his beautifully timeless blues led songwriting make this a dream pairing and this single won't hang around long. pressing of 400 in silver hammer fine art sleeves." |
| 4/7/2011 | Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides | Low Fired Clay Escape | LP | $19.99 | Carnivals | "Much-anticipated new album from the greatest live band in the UK right now, Manchester's Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides. Percussionist Pascal Nichols and flautist Kelly Jones have minted a profound new form of improvisation that carves spectral shapes from silence and creates free music with a spare orchestral beauty and deep psychedelic atmosphere. Augmenting their instruments with electronics, tapes and old military communication systems, they expand the basic free jazz format with drones, feedback and zoned vocals, taking the Cherry/Blackwell duets and relocating them upwind of the alien soundtracks generated by Japan's Taj Mahal Travellers. This latest album presents five tracks of sublime, infinitely nuanced duo exchange. Nichols kit is so tonal, so expressive of melody, that at points it sounds like he's playing acoustic bass lines with it, shadowing Jones's flute as it ascends through heavenly stratas of pure tone. At points the hand-drums and scuttering vocal chants bring to mind Sun City Girls' ethno-forgeries but there's also aspects of Angus MacLise and Amon Duul in their cultic depth. Unlike so many improvisers who suffer from attention-deficit Nichols and Jones are capable of incredible subtlety and of painstaking minimalist tension, using silence and single notes to dissolve both space and time. And when Jones plays those incredible sighing runs that sound somewhere between Roland Kirk and Sabu Orimo, dissolving like pink clouds, and Nichols makes one simple movement of his hands and then the next, the effect is overwhelming. We've said it before but there's no one else that can touch them right now. Their combination of inspired musicianship and refusal of received technique makes them the most exciting psychedelic free jazz ritualists of their time. And this is a stunning document of a group at the peak of their powers. Edition of 530 copies. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 6/25/2011 | Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides | Sixth Samovar | CD | $14.99 | Rayon | "This duo of drums and flute played starkly in a cinema in Bristol. Unaided by electricity due to a dramatic power-cut that swept across Bristol on 12th June 2010. Determined to play in a darkened porch hole, Nichols and Jones performed a deluge rite with carbonised instinct and with particular attention paid to the poetry of footsteps, words and interruptions. This recording engraves an experience of unadorned heed and progresses. Pro-pressed CD in riso-printed fold-out paper sleeve." |
| 1/30/2010 | Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides / Saboteuse | split | c48 cassette | $15.99 | Bumtapes | "PWHMOBS side opens with percussive floatations leading astray into warm haunted passages, orbiting tones chop and knead into clustered leaf fallen gluey patch bird songs over spools of glistening feedback and fluid rhythms. Meandering flutes rest upon a creaking and cracking muffled voice splashing light and tranquillity builds wrapped within a possessed freak-out trance. The Saboteuse side begins by peaking into limits of screeched out feedback and pounding metallic percussion, like a bunch of dustbins hurling in an almighty tornadoŠ. rainbows breakout of the cracked piercings, deep rich tones over grow, almost as though this music / experience in its boundlessness cannot be held on a format. Followed with a track of warm muffled humming, scraped strings and singing flutes in some faraway cassette spooled woodland.." |
| 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." |
| 8/1/2011 | Pathways | Above the Floodplain | CDR | $6.99 | Seagrass | "Oak Creek flows south from the narrow channel it has carved through the red sandstone cliffs at the edge of the Kaibab Plateau, and empties into the Verde Valley of central Arizona. This second album by Pathways was inspired by the views from a hillside overlooking the green pastures and cottonwood trees that line the river's banks as it winds its way across the dusty desert. The flowers sparkling "In the Summer Garden" might have grown from seeds planted on a sunny day by Virgina Astley, while the murky hums and dragonfly buzzes "By the Pond" drift through still, hot air, and hint at what might lie hidden among the reeds. And then a wind rises, dark clouds drift overhead, thunder echoes against the red rock cliffs, and a cool rain falls "Under Monsoon Skies." These melodic electric guitar improvisations evoke the calm beauty of the rural Southwest with no trace of twangy regionalism or new age cliche; the music glows and shimmers with multitracked harmonies, deep reverberation and ringing distortion." |
| 8/1/2011 | Pathways | To the Sea | CDR | $6.99 | Seagrass | "Michael Scholtz has lived by the ocean since he was a child. As Pathways, he has created an album inspired by its capricious beauty and vast force. These eight melodic solo electric guitar improvisations flow from calm and fragile delicacy to a dense, cataclysmic roar, from airy sparkles to ominous rumbling, on their way "To the Sea." Four variant covers feature verses from Byron, Coleridge, Keats and Christina Rossetti." |
| 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." |
| 2/2/2011 | Patterson, Ben | Born In The State Of FLUX/us | double CD | $44.99 | Alga Marghen | "Published for the opening of Ben Patterson first large retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, this double CD anthology includes both historical recordings taken from the Early Works (issued some years ago by alga marghen), from 370 Flies CDs (an art multiple also issued by alga marghen and long sold out) as well as the first digital version of the no longer available LP titled A Fluxus Elegy and a previously unpublished track. The first CD starts with the first ever recording of 'Ants' (1960), one of Ben Patterson first graphic scores, pre-dating the Fluxus group. Also included in this CD are two essential 1961 documents: 'Duo For Voice And A String Instrument' and 'Variations for Double-bass', both recorded in concert at the Galerie Parnass in 1962; this event has special historic significance in that it included the first public presentation by George Maciunas of his Fluxus manifesto and plans for the Wiesbaden Fluxus Festival. Two more tracks titled 'Paper Piece'(1960), the work that cut the umbilical cord to all of the author's previous classical and contemporary musical training and experience, and 'Pond' (1962), a piece that reminds of Richard Maxfield's electronic music with voice collage, see the collaboration of Philip Corner, Walter Marchetti and Davide Mosconi. The second CD includes more recent works as 'A Simple Opera' (1995), a repetitive hommage to Emmett Willons on his 70th birthday, also recorded in collaboration with Philip Corner, Walter Marchetti and Davide Mosconi; '370 Flies' (2003) for electronic loops and voice; as well as 'A Fluxus Elegy' (2006), previously issued on Alga Marghen's VocSon LP series and based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa, applied to the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties, through encoding them in basic International Morse Code. Starting as a virtuoso double-bass performer of classical music, Ben Patterson was one of the very first founders of the Fluxus Group in Wiesban. This digipak CD will introduce you to some American neo-avantgarde music classics, a crossover between John Cage exploding influences and the experimental art atmosphere of the early 1960s in Europe. Edition limited to 200 copies in silkscreened digipack sleeve, including a 4 page folded insert with liner notes, original score as well as performance photos and program from the 1962 concert at Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal." |
| 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." |
| 11/6/2010 | Paul & Maurey (Ashley Paul and Sakiko Mori) | Satellite | c30 cassette | $6.99 | Wagtail | "Wagtail's second release, Paul & Maurey's "Satellite", is a unique mix of songs that teeter on the edge between fact and and fiction. Ashley's floating vocals, slow turning guitar, screeching clarinets and string clatter are held together by Sakiko's drumistic attack, simplified rhythm and half motion texture. All while Mori manages to double on keyboards in realtime, giving a sense of tonal weight and precisely timed melodic gesture to the music. Satellite is a unique and oddly addictive sound, adding to the slowly but carefully growing catalogue of wagtail releases." |
| 7/28/2011 | Paul, Ashley | Hidden Face / Leave Mine (Alone Together #2) | 7" | $7.99 | Emerald Cocoon | "Ashley Paul's music is the intersection of so many different facets of late 20th century art music that sometimes I'm surprised that the vinyl can still spin under the weight of all the ideas contained within. Modern composition, euro free clatter and textural psychedelia converge as stilted song forms on the verge of careering off the very face of form on thin lines of carefully controlled reed-skree. Amazing that a music so loaded with ideas could feel so hand crafted and warm. Guitar, vocals, crotales and saxophone stitched together and moving in a constant slow peristalsis, never quite coalescing, never quite drifting apart. Equal parts alien unease and folkish charm, these slowly tangled tones drift prismatic and high in the late afternoon light. Ashley is also one half of Aster (with artist of equal genius and partner in life/crime Eli Keszler) and Paul & Maurey (with Sakiko Mori). Mastered by Pete Swanson. Edition of 300." |
| 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." |
| Payne, David | Feedback #20: For Good | CDR | $12.99 | Middle James Co. | Edition of 12 copies - this is #2 | |
| 4/13/2011 | Payne, David | Nirvana Unplugged | CDR | $8.99 | Bug Incision | "There's an album called Futuro, a trio date which features Tetuzi Akiyama on what sounds like an amplified acoustic or resonator guitar. The music is extremely taut, with long silences and subtle gestures. A short blow of breath is released through a trumpet, a drumhead is rubbed, that kind of thing. Akiyama's playing is the most deliciously tense of the trio, sounding like he's moving a slide underneath the strings every couple minutes; very controlled, very focused work. David Payne's (Hamilton, Ontario's main man behind Fossils, Slut Mouth, and the mighty Middle James Co.) latest solo slab offers a rowdy, wasted take on this approach, minus the silences and the playing partners. His acoustic guitar is mangled and scraped, rubbed, fingered, and bent, and is subjected to a variety of preparations. The results are unlike his work in Fossils, whose lightly abrasive approach is much more inscrutable. It's possibly more akin to an unplugged and halved version of Slut Mouth, or if you've ever heard some of his solo tapes, you might be on the right track. But, as with all of Payne's work, there's an air of unpretentious seriousness to the proceedings, no fat, all business. Recorded late 2010 in Hamilton." Edition of 75, color covers in plastic sleeves |
| 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 |
| 4/4/2011 | Peaking Lights | 936 | CD | $10.99 | Not Not Fun | "Sometimes it feels so simple: two of our favorite people in one of our favorite bands release one of our favorite records of all time. 2009's Imaginary Falcons was its own genius slushpile of tape-hissy drift-dub haze anthems, no question, but 936 takes every facet of the Peaking Lights mighty diamond and shines it to fluorescent perfection. The songwriting is insane; "All The Sun That Shines," "Amazing & Wonderful," "Tiger Eyes (Laid Back)," etc, all seep into yr mindstream and float there like melodic gold dust. Indra Dunis' silky soul-jazz keys and tranced vocals have never sounded so exquisite, and Aaron Coyes busts out the best bass/drum loops and sneaky dub guitar of his musical lifetime. Recorded by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios in Iowa City (where both the NNF Wet Hair LPs were tracked) and mastered in Berlin, 936 retains the cool crate-digger grit of their earlier highlights, but within a much more vivid spectrum of sound. Could not be more jazzed and honored to unveil this total groove-wave classic. CD version includes two bonus tracks from the same recording sessions not chosen for inclusion on the LP. CD digipaks with vintage art by the band, plus some stills from their "All The Sun That Shines" video." |
| 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. |
| 4/27/2011 | Peat Raamur | Currants | c33 cassette | $5.99 | Rotifer | Join Peat on his hunt for elated energy renewal. ~for optimal listening, use dolby B~ " Edition of 100, duplicated on type II, chrome cassettes |
| 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." | |
| 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 | 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 | |
| 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. | ||
| 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..." |
| 2/26/2011 | Phantom Family Halo | Music From Italian T.V. | LP | $13.99 | Sophomore Lounge | "In spite of its minimalistic appearance, is a most intricate light work which, in its scope and originality, defines its own aesthetic. The number of persons involved may vary. Although thirteen has been suggested as the optimum number, two would usually be referred to as a working couple (in any combination of sexes.) Within the community, many believe that a number larger than thirteen is unwieldy, citing unwieldy group dynamics and an unfair burden on the leadership. When this has grown too large to be manageable, it may split, or "hive". Most often utilizing electronic instruments or electronic processing of acoustic instruments, they typically create dense, unmoving harmonies and a stilled or "hovering" sense of time." Edition of 250 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." |
| 9/25/2010 | Phantom Payn Days | Phantom Payn Days | LP | $15.99 | DeStijl | "Since the late 70s, while in the widely neglected 39 Clocks, he made records that never sold and played gigs that few ever saw, Juergen Gleue has arguably been the most important exponent of electrified German sound. Phantom Payn Days was made in the mid to late 90s and has never been released. It's his final LP and is overflowing with all the elements that romanticized, loner / stoner music claims, an encoded expression of highly private feelings, an ambiguous, emotional quotient, and a dark, murkily melodic vibe. It's a record that first and foremost lives and breathes with an endless stream of great songs. But perhaps it's most curious component is it's amazingly prescient sound, a precursor to so many of today's lo fi acts, all wrapped up in their San Francisco hair." Highly recommended! |
| 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.” | |
| 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." |
| Phosphene | Long Meadow Felt Company | CD | $14.99 | Oggum | "The album starts with a soft pinging, like sonar. A high, delicate melody swirls through washes of gurgling space sounds and deep humming drones. The first track, Luminous Spots, reminded me a little of some of the works of the German space explorers like Klaus Schulze, or early Tangerine Dream. I sat back, ready for more of the same cosmic explorations, but Long Meadow Felt Company surprises with a far wider canvas than that. Phosphene is John Cavanaugh, one half of the Scottish space rock duo Electroscope. His mostly instrumental debut solo effort is painted with an abundance of electronic colors, augmented occasionally by acoustic sounds. From the pastoral, impressionistic melodies of Chouchou (named after Claude Debussy's daughter) to the harsher, ringing drones and clicking glitches of Curve the Turbulence, there is a broad diversity of fascinating sonic textures to hear. One of the album's real surprises is the brilliantly psychedelic At the End of the Day, with Cavanaugh's subtle vocals almost whispering over gently hammering bass notes, echoing, early Dave Gilmour style guitar, droning organ, and space sounds. Phosphenes are those multi-colored splotches and patterns of lines that appear when you close your eyes tightly. It's the brain, deprived suddenly of light, trying to make sense of the darkness by creating its own light. And that's a perfect description of Long Meadow Felt Company." - Aural Innovations | |
| 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." | |
| 10/13/2010 | Pigeons | Hearts | 7" | $5.99 | Olde English Spelling Bee | "Second single from Pigeons following a debut 7" on Soft Abuse and LP's on Black Dirt and OESB. Features two songs -- 'The Paradise' and 'Radio Souvenir' both recorded 2009 in The Bronx. Produced by Tooth at Reggaetown Deluxe Studios." |
| 11/25/2010 | Pigeons | Liasons | CD | $10.99 | Soft Abuse | "Bronx, NY sweetheart duo Pigeons wade closer to the edge of ambitious pop provocations with their third LP, Liasons. Liasons finds the band in the midst of an enormous creative leap; the psychedelic chanson moves of previous releases now cohabit with spacious westcoast art-blues & wistful cosmic folk tunes, casually invoking Catherine Ribeiro, Brigitte Fontaine, Grim and Opal, and at times reminiscent of a crude take on Rock in Opposition. Pigeons' singular approach to structure, arrangements & production techniques - mirrored by the disruptive spelling of Liasons - culminate with Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin lacing their songs with flute, saxophone, echo, drum machines and languid guitar lines. Liasons also includes two songs in French, one of which is a brilliant a take on Laisse Tomber les Filles by Serge Gainsbourg. Artwork from Mary Nicholson appears throughout. Liasons arrives on the heels of two acclaimed releases for Olde English Spelling Bee." |
| 11/25/2010 | Pigeons | Liasons | LP + download | $13.99 | Soft Abuse | "Bronx, NY sweetheart duo Pigeons wade closer to the edge of ambitious pop provocations with their third LP, Liasons. Liasons finds the band in the midst of an enormous creative leap; the psychedelic chanson moves of previous releases now cohabit with spacious westcoast art-blues & wistful cosmic folk tunes, casually invoking Catherine Ribeiro, Brigitte Fontaine, Grim and Opal, and at times reminiscent of a crude take on Rock in Opposition. Pigeons' singular approach to structure, arrangements & production techniques - mirrored by the disruptive spelling of Liasons - culminate with Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin lacing their songs with flute, saxophone, echo, drum machines and languid guitar lines. Liasons also includes two songs in French, one of which is a brilliant a take on Laisse Tomber les Filles by Serge Gainsbourg. Artwork from Mary Nicholson appears throughout. Liasons arrives on the heels of two acclaimed releases for Olde English Spelling Bee." |
| 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." |
| 11/30/2011 | Pigeons | They Sweetheartstammers | LP + download | $13.99 | Soft Abuse | "Pigeons is Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin, from Bronx, NY. After flirting with lo-fi psychedelic-leaning Francophile pop on their two previous full-lengths, Liasons and Si Faustine (both from 2010), the pair have shifted into more dense, heady modes for their new record, They Sweetheartstammers. Heavy doses of melody & dissonance carry free-form songs like "Lauren" and "Behind the Reeds" into Broadcast and Meddle-era Floyd territory. The more-straightforward "Red Friend" and "Tournoi" offer differing ends of the pop spectrum, with (unconscious) nods to Opal's Happy Nightmare Baby, Galaxie 500 and Brigitte Fontaine. The sole constant throughout the twists & turns of They Sweetheartstammers is Wednesday Knudsen's stunning guitar work and distant, plaintive voice. With the new record comes a new line-up: Pigeons have expanded to a four-piece for performances, anchored by Jason Meagher on bass and Nathan Bowles on drums. You'll know Meagher as the bass player with No Neck Blues Band and owner of Black Dirt Studios (where Knudsen and Clark have recorded much of their material), and Bowles as part of the Black Twig Pickers and latterday Pelt. Features artwork from filmmaker / archivist Yuji Agematsu and lettering by Keith Connolly." |
| 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. |
| 11/6/2010 | Pigeons | Visions of the Valley | 7" | $7.99 | Soft Abuse | "The two songs on Visions of the Valley find Pigeons pushing further into tripped-out pop songwriting, narrowly clinging to their inner art-rock / Majora leanings. Both were recorded by Clark and Wednesday at home in Bronx, NY and in Paris (during their brief relocation), and both are exclusive to this release. Visions of the Valley arrives in conjunction with their 2010 US tour (with Fabulous Diamonds), in an edition of 200 with hand-printed sleeves." |
| 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." |
| 12/3/2010 | Pilia, Stefano | Last Days III - Atlantic City | one sided LP | $24.99 | 8mm | "Following volume I (8mm, 2008) and II (Presto?!. 2009), and previously released in a super small cassette edition on Tulip, Stefano Pilia's Last Days III is finally available in a new remastered one sided LP edition. The intuitions of the first two chapters of this series of 'Last days' shine in 'Atlantic City' in all their beauty. Stefano's touch is so warm and gentle, always unique in creating that feeling of soft, warm nostalgia, loud, and passionate as he's strumming his strings with exceptional fervor like a howl to the sky. Pilia can create emotions out of a guitar riff like no one else around and this beautiful piece, directly inspired by the same titled Springsteen song, will make you feel shivers up your spine. Limited edition of 250 copies, with only 100 available for mail order, the other half will only be available at performances directly from the artist. Professionally printed covers with original photo artwork by Canedicoda." |
| 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." |
| 11/30/2011 | Pimmon / Yclept Dinmakers | Live @ Sound No Sound 2005 / Frootz Masheen (Parched Again) | cassette | $5.99 | Spanish Magic | "Side A of this here tape is a perfect example of Pimmon at his best in a live format. Including unreleased gems melded with a couple of old favourites from his Tigerbeat6 days. The madman set this one up perfect for strange coupling with Pure Evil Trio at the Lansdowne Hotel on a Sunday afternoon. A weird one, but he made it work! And on the FLIP (Side B) you step back to 1983 when some were boys no older than 18. That includes Mr Saxton and Masters. Founded in New South Wales, the early 1980s in the climate of Australian post-punk and industrial (influenced particularly by Severed Heads); they released a few tapes on their Stripling Bog label, such as 'Vanished Thumbs' (1981), 'Klinger the Blowies' (1981), 'Eeleemon Machine' (1982) and 'Yclept Truth' (1982?). After a period of almost thirty years of inactivity, this split with Pimmon is finally ready to hit the ears of the public! Using what they called 'the Loopola', live loops feeding back on themselves and slowly decaying. Turntable and Cassette of even younger gentleman of 8; totally mind-bending!" |
| 10/8/2010 | Pine Smoke Lodge | Deep Magic | c64 cassette | $6.99 | Sacred Phrases | "Pine Smoke Lodge takes the listener deep in the woodlands, where moon light peaks, abated, through the old-growth trees while glistening sounds of bells, chimes and percussion lead the way. the whispers help keep the listener on the path, where he quickly slips into reverie. Deep Magic keeps the ears at ease with subtle, layered hums and sounds of nature. A constant underlying whir, comes in and out of focus, providing continuity while more layers build up. ltd. 65, art by adam." |
| 1/17/2010 | Pine Smoke Lodge | Haligdaeg | CDR | $6.99 | Stunned | "Pine Smoke Lodge’s Hillary & Matt hail from Portland Maine, where Matt also runs the awesome label Existential Cloth. The timing of the arrival of their ‘Haligdaeg’ is perfect for us northern-hemisphere-huggers who are now getting hit with the full thrills and chills of winter. Together Pine Smoke Lodge summit snowy banks of acoustical drone in ever-ascendant strides of bowed & plucked strings, icicle bells & xylophone, and heat-generating vocal mantra. The trail they follow is never steep, but vista-revealing peaks are reached in good order. Bookended between two stretches of sparkling activity comes a middle passage where one feels the clock has frozen as solidly as the ground underfoot. Such moments of palpable harmonic stasis trickle throughout ‘Haligdaeg’, making the climb worth it every time. Limited edition of 111 hand-stamped cdrs with color cover in vinyl jacket." |
| 5/6/2011 | Pine Smoke Lodge | Season Above Lakes | c33 cassette | $5.99 | //cae-sur-a// | "With the sonorous bray of the hunting horn Pine Smoke Lodge transport their audience back in time to ancient primeval forests and mist-enshrouded landscapes. Season above Lakes is an earthy pagan byway where semi-identifiable sounds shimmer around the periphery creating a sense of unease and wonder. Recorded live at Sugar City in Buffalo New York, 30th of May 2010. Hand numbered edition of 100." |
| 1/22/2011 | Pine Smoke Lodge | Songs for Sucking Spirit Darts | CDR | $7.99 | House of Alchemy | "Strap in, this is gonna be one hell of a ride. 3 lengthy jams to soundtrack your dusk till dawn winter seance. Also great for summer night, fireside moon gazing, wine drinking, mushroom eating, earth worshipping or whatever it is yr into on summer nights. Gorgeous drones, vast soundscapes with layers of shimmering rusty strings and seemingly endless loops. Step in, inhabit another body for awhile. It's that kind of album." Edition of 88 copies. |
| 10/8/2010 | Pine Smoke Lodge | The Final Clear Water Nightsky | c47 cassette | $4.99 | 905 Tapes | "Recorded at the same time as the duo's (currently forthcoming) lp, pine smoke lodge deliver two ambient/ambien goose eggs of atmospheric and foggy drone-beauty. a blend of distant chants, soft bells, and vaporous tremors of sound transport your being straight into a thick mist. seriously, it's like field recordings from the amazon." |
| 9/25/2010 | Pine Smoke Lodge | Throwing New Light | c54 cassette | $4.99 | Ghetto Naturalist Series | "When i got the masters for this tape it immediately became the late night summer night sound trk here- matt and hillary (also runners of the amazing existential cloth label) dial in here with 3 mind melting pieces that are the perfect medicine for an introspective experience as well as trascending, spiritual, meditative, and beautifully dark in parts- i dare you to put this in your walkman and take a midnight walk in the woods, or the desert, or anywhere for that matter- truly psyched to release this- highly addictive edition of 40 tapes- art by thomas gerendás." |
| 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." | |
| 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." | |
| 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." | |
| 4/13/2011 | Pink Luminous Invocation | Pink Luminous Invocation | LP | $32.99 | Sagittarius A-Star | Tanja V. Jessen- absence Marie A. Jensen- vocals, synth, music box Marc Kellaway- bells, vocals, violin, toy keyboard, guitar, tin flute, music box Magnus O. Majmon- bells, vocals, kalimba, zurna, clarinet rec. 19/3 2006 live @ Litteraturhause, Copenhagen, Denmark cover artwork Marie 180gr. black vinyl, with insert; ltd ed 200 copies only "previously released as a CD-R on Foxglove label in 100 copies only: pink luminous invocation is a new quartet hailing from the nordic confines of denmark. this, their debut release, sees two guys and and one girl battling it out in a thicket of organic drones and ethereal harmonies. with hints of the irish deserted village collected, pink luminous invocation's sound is shrouded in mist. using everything from bells and toy keyboards to clarinets and zurnas, it floats around the edges of the forests, unsure of whether or not its safe to enter the magick wood. it is improvisation on a massive scale. while bowed strings lift their arms skyward, the woodwinds flicker underneath a blanket of stars, and we all listen to these three voices sing us toward the dawn" foxglove "a deep, fascinating and mysterious journey into..." ep |
| 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 |
| 1/22/2011 | Pink Priest / Horders | split | c20 cassette | $6.99 | Prairie Fire | "About a week after we released the Gremlynz/Ajilvsga split tape (PF 020), the Pink Priest (William Cody Watson) contacted us with plans for another release. This time he brought with him Horders, the musical project of Houston visual artist Give Up. Pink Priest offers up a rapturous side of dark creeping menacing psychedelic drones while Horders takes on a loner folk via black metal trip. It all makes up for an awesomely dark ambient release that won't disappoint." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 4/3/2011 | Pink Priest/A Grave With No Name | Pink Grave split | c32 cassette | $4.99 | Sweat Lodge Guru | "Two sides from kindred tongues and talents. Pink Priest recites drifting sermons of drone optimized for late night broadcast and early A.M. syndication. A Grave With No Name delivers several episodic serials scripted around strings and structure; the linear complement to PP's more Lynchian motives. Limited to 70 pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes." |
| 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 | 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." | |
| 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.” | |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 8/31/2010 | Plastic Crime Wave, Sir | Into The Depths | c48 cassette | $7.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Solo recordings by Steve Krakow aka Sir Plastic Crime Wave. Loose smoke rings of heavy psychedelic guitar streams under rabbit's moon on route to the mellow side of nowhere descending into whispering raagini drone and banjo dream-mirror. 80 copies" |
| 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!!" |
| 5/16/2010 | Pocahaunted | Make It Real | LP | $17.99 | Not Not Fun | "After a six-month hiatus, a complete line-up overhaul, a trip to SXSW, a UK/EURO tour, and a full year-plus of only playing shows and writing songs and amassing totemic objects, finally Pocahaunted return to the recorded realm with their first album since 2008. Time flies when yr having not not fun and all that. Make It Real collects seven of the band's 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. Recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape at Green Machine Studio in summer '09 by M. Geddes Gengras and featuring guest bamboo sax by jazzmaster Alex Gray (of Dreamcolour/Deep Magic) and mastered by James Plotkin. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with warped LA post-Parliament utopia artwork by vision wizard Spencer Longo. Edition of 500." |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 2/15/2011 | Potage Collective, Michel | Occupé | LP | $28.99 | Alga Marghen | "alga marghen presents one of the treasures of the French avant scene of the 1970s, published now for the first time. An ideal parallel to Jac Berrocal cult LP Paralleles, the realization of these pieces recorded by Daniel Deshays and produced by d'Avantage in 1977 that also conceived a very elaborated sleeve design, was mysteriously discontinued making this record one of the lost jewels of the French underground. Together with Michel Potage (voice and various instruments) and Jac Berrocal (trumpet, valve trombone, tibetal oboe, percussions), the same ensemble that recorded Berrocal's Paralleles, or Pierre Bastien of Nu Creative Methods fame (bass, Tibetan reed instruments, trumpet, voice), the father of French free jazz Bernard Vitet (bugle, trumpet, reed instruments, violin, voice), Roger Ferlet (trumpet, slide trombone, voice), Claude Parle (accordion, reed instruments, voice), Françoise Achard (voice, chant, lao mouth organ, balano, rainstick), the legendary produced and sound engineer Daniel Deshays (voice), poet Jean-Marie Gibbal (voice) and a Ford Break (engine, speed, brakes, light, etc.), everyone is here following Michel Potage vision and enters into a magic sound territory. Michel Potage was co-founder with Berrocal of the d'Avantage label in 1976, he played in the first Catalogue band (with Jac Berrocal and Jean-François Pauvros), a performer close to Julian Beck's Living Theatre on one side and to James Change no-wave Contortions on the other, musique concrete avant-gardist and poet of destroyed lyrism. After 3 years of elaboration in close connection with the author, alga marghen conceived a new layout with original photos of the recording sessions and proudly co-released this production with d'Avantage. The sound was restored from the original masters by Daniel Deshays. Edition limited to 385 copies, including an LP-size 8-page booklet with complete lyrics and photos from the recording session." |
| 8/31/2010 | Pottinger, Chris | Moist Membrane | LP | $14.99 | Tasty Soil | "Plague ridden corpses are scavenged in the forest by a starving beast. The bodies are hidden amongst the rotting bark thats shed from the termite infested trees. Their skulls are destroyed, cracked open like freshly laid eggs exposing their throbbing brain membranes for the rancid feast. Moist Membrane is a new 12" LP from Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum / Slither) This album is a complete cellar-dweller horror soundtrack to a film that should have been made in 1974. Not quite harsh, not quite mellow, this LP could only be recorded in a depressing, moldy Michigan basement. Saxophone, analog synth, zither, and who knows what else are used to create this album. Deluxe full color LP jackets, full color center labels with a B & W poster of a mutant autopsy gone wrong. This LP plays at 45 rpm and is limited to 400 hand numbered copies." |
| 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." | |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 11/30/2011 | Primitive Motion | By Arc or Chord | cassette + download | $6.99 | Soft Abuse | "Debut full-length from the Australian free-form pop duo Primitive Motion (Sandra Selig & Leighton Craig)." Limited to 100. |
| 5/28/2011 | Primordial Undermind | Last Worldly Bond | LP + download | $15.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | Personnel: Eric Arn - Guitar, Vocals / Meaghan Burke - Cello / Lukas Schöller - Electronics, Noisemakers / Daniel Schmelz - Bass / David Schweighart - Drums, Percussion, Horn Track Listing: I Am Afraid of You - Time Being - Wer Tauben Futtert, Futtert Ratten - Never At a Loss - Mai-nyut Wasps - Not An Atom That I Can't Feel "Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds and improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen style epics...Primordial Undermind have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special" - Edwin Pouncey, The Wire. "Eric Arn is the centrifugal force behind Primordial Undermind, the band he has steadfastly navigated throughout the nether regions of avant psych-rock for the past two decades. Arn cut his teeth in the legendary Crystallized Movements throughout the 1980s, the Twisted Village flagship band that, in its wake, spawned the Wayne Rogers & Kate Village-led freakout troupes Magic Hour (with Damon Kurkowski and Naomi Yang, otherwise known as Damon & Naomi) and Major Stars. Multiple geographic relocations over the years (Arn moves around: from Pasadena CA to Boston, MA to San Francisco, CA to Austin TX and, since 2004, Vienna, Austria) and a revolving door of personnel all but assured each new recording would be a different set of lysergic skree from the previous outing. A wealth of 7" singles, a number of compilation appearances throughout the 1990s, and an armful of albums for September Gurls, Camera Obscura, and Emperor Jones each documented a departure from the last, an ongoing evolution of sound and structure pointing upwards and outwards from their earliest roots as a predominantly song-based psych/punk band, culminating with the all-out experimental rock excursions displayed on 2006's Loss of Affect (Strange Attractors Audio House). Although PU sound has been in constant flux, it is Arn's frenetic guitar work and unfurling sonic vision which maintains a familiar anchor at its very core. Looking back, the seemingly innocent psych-garage sound of PU's earliest period feels like a distant echo when held up to the infrared light of their newest ozone-depleting blast Last Worldly Bond. Recorded live in December 2008 in front of a live studio audience at Amaan Studios in Vienna, Austria, Last Worldly Bond captures stunning performances with impeccable fidelity by yet another Primordial Undermind lineup primed to do some supersonic firewalking. Make no mistake, this is no mere live album recorded from the board, these are truly pro recording studio sessions capturing the band in rare form. The new lineup features soaring cello playing by Megan Burke and proto- Japanese psych-rock textures anchored by a palpitating rhythm section interwoven with electronics, and the results are mystifying. Leading off with the astral moon-scrape "I Am Afraid of You", evocative of what a collision between Einstruzende Neubauten and Guru Guru may sound like, Last Worldly Bond finds the band mining fertile lands homesteaded by what often times feels like a heady collision of Amon Duul II (circa Phallus Dei) with classic Austin TX-style garage-psych like ST37. In all, Last Worldly Bond captures Primordial Undermind in all of its consciousness-elevating glory, firmly illustrating that this enigmatic band blows the doors off of most acid/experimental/free-rock acts rattling on the cellar door today." |
| 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." |
| 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 |
| 4/3/2011 | Providien | Followed By A Wraith | LP | $15.99 | Amethyst Sunset | "The Midwest is a real Shangri-la for bohemia basement bleakness so it's not real surprising that loner tape grime duo PROVIDIEN hail from the snow-blasted state of Ohio, and have a grim grassroots aura that just feels RIGHT. Led by Sword Heaven electrician Mark Van Fleet and partner-in-crime/childhood friend Nathan Reynolds (also of weirdo goths American Jobs), PROVIDIEN's debut, "Followed By A Wraith", sprawls from disembodied horror atmospherics to no-fi sludge death marches to pure weirdo home-taper acoustic guitar meltdowns, each new zone more unsettling and brainwashed than the last. Has elements of Mammal (especially the recent drone-suicide ballads), The Shadow Ring (just replace all the British stuff with raw American sloth), and various other esoteric cassette miserablists, but that's just a roundabout way of saying this shit rules." - Britt Brown. The LP is limited to 200 copies on black vinyl with color center labels and a paste on cover |
| 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'. |
| 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." |
| 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!" |
| 5/13/2011 | Psychedelic Horseshit | Laced | LP | $13.99 | Fat Cat | "Boundary-pushing, thrilling, unique: Psychedelic Horseshit blaze with a vitality reminiscent of FatCat alumni Animal Collective and Black Dice in those bands' early, wildly creative incipience. Laced marks a forward stylistic shift for the band, delivering a coherent set of bustling, hookladen, melted outsider pop songs. Keeping a step ahead of the lo-fi scene they christened "shitgaze" , they've drawn on a broad range of influences instead of the xeroxed anorexia of many of their peers, have ruffled feathers by critically speaking out, and carved out caustic, humorous social commentary through snarky wordplay and witty titles. Says Matt, "I think the record is really about smokescreens and the interzone of a reality where everything is connected and simultaneously completely disconnected at once...and dealing with finding your face after its been pounded to a bloody pulp by digital pixel fragments. Or something like that." |
| 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." |
| 6/11/2011 | Psychic Frost | Psychic Frost | CDR | $8.99 | Deep Water | "Psychic Frost is the new duo project from Pittsburgh-based sonic insurrectionists Mike Tamburo and Matt McDowell; while both are better known for their solo work, they've also played together in various forms for over a decade. This is their first recorded outing under the PF banner, and it's a doozy - a pair of lengthy (side-long, they used to call 'em) pieces of form-extension and -destruction, the first an epic composition for two guitars and effects, with modular sections shifting from dual fingerpicking to walls of looping noise and beyond; the second a live recording for amplified hammered dulcimer and electric oud, exorcising the demons via intense improvisational interplay on a modal theme of indeterminate Eastness. Best experienced via full-body immersion, so check your short attention span at the door and get ready to, as they say, "taste the Frost". Two tracks, 43 minutes." |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 1/25/2011 | Pulse Emitter | The Palace of Love | CDR | $9.99 | Synth / Ruralfaune | "New modular release by Daryl Groetsch. A cosmo-synth-journey through the arcane world of an analogic world." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 9/16/2011 | Pumice | Pebbles | LP + download | $13.99 | Soft Abuse | Remastered LP reissue - download includes bonus tracks. "...sounds like our hero has eaten the bread of Gate & drank from the cup of Alastair Galbraith. Sometimes he even breaks out like he stole Bruce Russell's Fire Engines records! The new sheriff of Xpressway County don't shoot no blanks. Great stuff." - Siltblog |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 9/14/2011 | Pupil Wah | Pupil Wah | c40 cassette | $7.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "The myth of Pupil Wah is not yet well known, and that's not a big surprise, because now it's the first time when we hear anything about it. This album is a document of the genesis of this cosmic unit. Galactic pulses and noises in a burning cloudy stardust, leading into another parallel awareness of time and space. Heavily effected psychic Jamboree! Recorded in Bretagne, May 2011." Pupil Wah is Jani Hirvonen of Uton." |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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." |
| 1/22/2011 | Pyrrhic Thanatology Monger | Totaliterrier | c20 cassette | $5.99 | Gods of Tundra | "PTM's brain waves only operate on the frequency of noise. Noise as a life. Noise as a way to communicate. Noise as a way to figure it all out. Noise as a way to tear it all down. C-20 (repeats on both sides of a c-60)." |