| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/15/2005 | 13 Gauge / Klatzker Corsano Duo | 3. . .2. . .1. . .Zero | LP | $8.99 | Hot Cars Warp | "Three-way split LP w/ 13 Gauge, Klatzker/Corsano Duo, Dieter Henkel. Three separate, but very related, musical entities share 40 minutes of yr time, which has been proportioned according to number of band members (3. . .2. . .1). Packaged in very special hand-made, individually designed covers, no less. 13 Gauge dedicate a side of the LP to alto legend Marion Brown and give their rendition of a post-core, Chick Corea-less Afternoon of a Georgia Faun. Their third and final piece is 'Montana Fix', a very loose tribute to mushroom legend John Cage. The Klatzker-Corsano duo (cello and drums, respectively) follow w/ a slightly more melodic, but no less frazzled approach to that which makes 'Free' Willy Montgomery's teeth rot: 'uncritical reverence for pure energy and the thrill factor of dissonance.' Sounds great. Where do I sign up? 13 Gauge-ist Dieter Henkel abandons his main instrument (drums) to jam guitar, trumpet, and twiddled knobs into the works, bringing things to a screeching halt." - Byron Coley. 1997 release. |
| 1/28/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | Bull of the Woods | CD | $16.99 | Spalax | "Digipak edition of 3rd and final studio album for the original Elevators, from 1969. More dominated by Stacy Sutherland's songs than ever before, this is a subtly-tranced masterpiece of lo-key psychedelics, and cruelly neglected in today's 'private-pressing = god = $ = my ass' universe." - FE Totally underrated classic! |
| 12/21/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | Bull Of The Woods | LP | $10.99 | Get Back | "Originally released in 1968 by the International Artists label. An incomplete album tentatively titled The Beauty And The Beast that was released with a changed title after the band's demise. Its finest moments are 'Never Another' (one of the best and most demented tracks ever recorded and the only one on the album written by the usual songwriting duo of Roky Erickson and Tommy Hall) and 'May The Circle Remain Unbroken' (a haunting Roky's composition that may be the strangest thing this great band ever cut). Original artwork." 140 gram red vinyl version. |
| 13th Floor Elevators | Bull of the Woods | LP | $17.99 | 3rd release. Sometimes overlooked, this is an excellent LP! | ||
| 7/30/2002 | 13th Floor Elevators | Bull of the Woods | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "Originally released in 1968 by the International Artists label. An incomplete album tentatively titled The Beauty And The Beast that was released with a changed title after the band's demise. Its finest moments are 'Never Another' (one of the best and most demented tracks ever recorded and the only one on the album written by the usual songwriting duo of Roky Erickson and Tommy Hall) and 'May The Circle Remain Unbroken' (a haunting Roky's composition that may be the strangest thing this great band ever cut). Original artwork. 180 gram HQ vinyl." |
| 1/23/2003 | 13th Floor Elevators | Demos Everywhere | LP | $17.99 | Side one of this LP is fantastic! It features outtakes from the 1st LP – Don’t Fall Down, Monkey Island, Roller Coaster, Thru The Rhythm, and You Don’t Know. Side 2 is live material recorded in New Orleans from 1966 and features two Beatles songs – The Word & I’m Down, plus another cover ‘Gloria’ as well as Monkey Island and Roller Coaster. | |
| 13th Floor Elevators | Live | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "Originally released in 1968 on the International Artists label. This is their 3rd album which is not a live album at all. The tracks were studio outtakes with fake applause added. Along with versions of the band's classics 'You're Gonna Miss Me' and 'Roller Coaster' this album contains 5 songs not included on their previous two studio albums: Bo Diddley's 'Before You Accuse Me', Buddy Holly's 'I'm Gonna Love You Too', Solomon Burke's classic 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love' and two original compositions ('You Gotta Take That Girl' and 'You Can't Hurt Me Anymore'). 10 tracks. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl." | |
| 5/7/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds of | CD | $16.99 | Spalax | "Their magnificent and visionary debut album is their best. Originally released in 1966 by International Artists, this is the album that contains most of the classics of Roky Erickson's band: their hit 'You're Gonna Miss Me', plus 'Fire Engine', 'Reverberation' and 'Roller Coaster'." |
| 8/13/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds Of | LP | $11.99 | Get Back | "Their magnificent and visionary debut album originally released in 1966 by International Artists. This is the album that contains most of the classics of Roky Erickson's band: their hit 'You're Gonna Miss Me', plus 'Fire Engine', 'Reverberation' and 'Roller Coaster'. 140 gram red vinyl version. |
| 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators | LP | $17.99 | Reissue of debut LP from 1966. This is an exact reproduction of the original mono version. | ||
| 2/21/2007 | 2% Majesty | Color / Ice Lights | 7" | $5.99 | 2% Records | "This is the first vinyl release from the much travelled duo 2% Majesty. The music is sparse, simple and above all beautiful. It is not the run-of-the-mill new folk record. 2% Majesty has as much in common with Mi and Lau as they do with the older duos such as Fraser and Debolt. The 7-inch shows a very promising group with much to do in the future, however, both songs are strong on their own leaving nothing more to be desired. They both split lead vocal duties and the songs come across as if they were created with mutual care and love. The songs suggest that they were created in an environment outside of a musical climate (be it new folk or anything else)." Formed in Portland, OR in 2004 - now residing in Chicago, 2% Majesty's music is (psych)-folk-rock with boy/girl harmony. |
| 12/2/2008 | 20 Guilders | 20 Guilders | CDR | $11.99 | Plunk's Plan | "20 Guilders is psychedelic duet by Tabata Mitsuru (ZENI GAVA/AMT&TCI etc) and Suzuki Junzo. Two electric guitars are as sometimes quiet as ice, and as sometimes loud as rising flames. Vocals like men who love somebody madly. 6 tracks included. This item is limited edition CDR." |
| 11/21/2009 | 20 Guilders | Wrong Songs For Patricia | c40 cassette | $8.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Guitar duo of Tokyo underground regulars Tabata Mitsuru (Zeni Geva) and Suzuki Junzo (Miminokoto, Astral Travelling Unit), with a cameo appearance by Acid Mothers Temple Hiroshi Higashi on synth. Illuminating acid blues straight from the pinal gland. 70 copies." |
| 10/23/2003 | 3 Hur-El | 3 Hur-El | CD | $17.99 | World Psychedelia | "Their first LP, another masterpiece of Turkish psychedelic delight, culled from singles by the three very talented Hur El brothers, and released in 1972 in small quantities on Diskotur (originals sell for $1000 and up nowdays); some of the very best Turkish psych songs‹less Western in some ways than their great ‘Arsivi’ LP, but still with the same excellent guitar, empassioned vocals and Eastern percussion that makes for memorable listening and a long-term connection with the music; a triumph that belongs in every record collection." |
| 7/29/2003 | 3 Hur-El | Hurel Arsivi | CD | $17.99 | World Psychedelia | "A masterpiece of Turkish ethno-psychedelic delight, recorded between 1970 and 1975 by the three very talented Hur El brothers, and released in small quantities on Diskotur (originals sell for $1000 and up nowdays); their second album has the heavy hashish sound - fuzz guitar, empassioned vocals and Eastern percussion - that makes Turkish psych so savoury to the rest of the world; very possibly as good as anything recorded by countryman Erkin Koray." |
| 2/11/2006 | 3 Speed Automatic | Villa Rocka | LP | $22.99 | Nasoni | "3piece band from The Netherlands with a pretty intense brew of stoner rock, raunchy wah-wah propelled biker rock, sleazy hard rock and psychedelics. The A-side collects tracks from their recent CD. The B-side features the exclusively recorded soundtrack of the Dutch cult movie 'Horizonica'... heavy soundscapes, accentuated by some flamenco-blend accoustic guitars, organ and spaced-out effects which brings Groep 1850's "Agemo's trip to mother earth" in mind." Edition of 500 copies - 100 on gray vinyl which these copies are. |
| 9/17/2009 | 39 Clocks | Pain It Dark | CD | $17.99 | Bureau B | "The Bureau B label reissues the first album by Hannover, Germany duo 39 Clocks, originally released in 1981 by No Fun Records. Many a wild tale has enriched the history of 39 Clocks. For example, the time they went on stage with vacuum cleaners and circular saws instead of guitars, the LSD inside their heads having erased all memory of how to play their songs. Or the time when they were expelled from the Documenta, because Joseph Beuys was aggravated by their music. Then there was the angry member of the audience who attacked one of the band members with a knife on stage. Not forgetting the concert in a cavernous aircraft hangar where the amps were turned up so loud that by the end of the show, not a single spectator was left. Sounds music magazine duly confirmed it the "Concert of the Month." The great thing is that every one of these stories is true. Christian Henjes (aka C.H. 39) and Jürgen Gleue (aka J.G. 39) as 39 Clocks were one of the most provocative bands Germany has ever produced; pop scholar Diedrich Diederichsen described them as the best German band of the '80s. The Clocks took shape in 1979, turning their backs on punk and inventing "Psycho Beat," the self-styled counterpoint to the burgeoning German new wave scene, the NDW. Their music can be seen as a futuristic, definitively urban, German form of U.S. '60s garage punk, with a referential nod to New York's Suicide and The Velvet Underground -- sparse and gritty garage chord progressions, hypnotic rhythms (invariably emanating from the beatbox) and deadpan English lyrics delivered with the heaviest of German accents. The 39 Clocks pushed back the borders of experimentation with their barely-tolerable live improvisation and atonal meanderings, lower than lo-fi, with a tinny beatbox that tested the resilience of their listeners to the full. Despite some shaky success, geographical and mental shifts brought about their eventual split in 1983. This CD reissue contains a previously-unreleased bonus track and a 12-page booklet illustrated with a wealth by ZickZack record label founder Alfred Hilsberg." - FE |
| 2/26/2006 | 3i(s) | 3i(s) | CDR | $10.99 | Features Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand of the Man), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers), and Ela Orleans - nice! Limited stock. | |
| 7/1/2004 | Moth Masque | Moth Masque | CDR | $8.99 | Hand/Eye | "Timothy, Revelator and Alicia have worked together in the past (Mourning Cloak, Breathe Stone), but never so extensively. Moth Masque finds them with room to stretch out, explore, and experiment over the course of an entire album. Moth Masque was conceived from the beginning as an experiment. After completing work on Stone Breath’s ‘The Silver Skein Unwound’ CD, on which Timothy plays a large variety of Eastern, western and home-made instruments, Timothy decided to focus and create something using only one instrument and vocals. This was, however, the only rule. All of the music on Moth Masque is played on a Joseph Rickett banjo from 1880. It was played in the clawhammer, 2-finger, and 3-finger styles. It was played with a slide; a bow; it was beat like a drum; strummed; and sung through. Alicia and Timothy added vocals to this musical bed, and the entire album was then processed via aetheric engineering creating a true mix of sounds culled from the 1800s through today. Moth Masque is an album of love songs through the eyes of moths. Or, perhaps, moth songs through the eyes of love. It features 11 all new compositions by Alicia and Timothy as well as a new version of ‘Wisdom on the Moth’s Wing,’ which originally appeared on Stone Breath’s first CD, ‘Songs of Moonlight and Rain’ (out of print)." Limited edition – housed in a hand-stenciled digipack. |
| 9/29/2004 | Tadpoles | Whirlaway | CD | $10.99 | Camera Obscura | "After releasing three studio albums, one EP, and a live album on their own Bakery Records label, Hoboken, NJ psych-rock group, Tadpoles have teamed up with Camera Obscura Records, to release their fourth studio album. The epic Whirlaway is possibly the finest achievement by the enigmatic Tadpoles, who eschew live performance for prolonged rehearsal followed by periods of creativity in the studio. Ironically, for a group that rarely performs live, Whirlaway is closer to the band's heavier live sound than any of their previous studio efforts. Whirlaway is typical of the cross section of the sound that Tadpoles have developed throughout their career: from the Butthole Surfers-ish heavy rock of 'Lyman Bostock', and the punchy Flaming Lips style psych-pop of both 'Dusty Baker' and 'Crash of The Bug' to the hypnotic New Order bass grooves of the title track and the Spacemen 3-influenced 'Jimmy Colored Glasses'. The album also contains two instrumental excursions: the trippy, tape-loop filled 'Smile If You've Crossed Over', and 'Horse And Buggy' - the first real psychedelic jam song that the band has ever committed to tape. A laid back, psych rock take on Dylan's 1967 Basement Tapes, traditionally country-tinged, classic, 'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere', offers variety and a glimpse at another side of the band. This is the band's first album without their long time producer Kramer (Shimmy Disc/Bongwater); although, he did record 'Horse And Buggy' at the new Knit Noise studios in New York for the group. Although the album was self-produced, the band enlisted the help of Hobokenite producer Gene Holder (the dBs) to assist with overdubs and mixing on a few of the tracks. The bulk of the record was recorded in the heart of downtown Youngstown, Ohio, in an out of the way, warehouse studio called Ampreon Recorder where engineer Pete Drivere (the Infidels) gave the recording the warm, analog sound the group was looking for." 1999 release. |
| 4/16/2007 | Taiga Remains | Crushed Radiant Deities | CD | $12.99 | Students of Decay | "Luminescent, wrecked shards of overtone drones merged with zoned and disembodied choral whispers and ribbons of pure white electricity. "Crushed Radiant Deities" is the first widely available Taiga Remains release, bundling remastered versions of the two tracks from the long out-of-print "Paper Lanterns" EP with two new longform works to form a dense, polyphonic fugue of dynamic collisions and endless collapses. Artwork by Justin Meyers." |
| 5/29/2008 | Taiga Remains | Ribbons Of Dust | CD | $12.99 | Root Strata | "Already released as a series of 3" CD-R's, we're proud to finally drop Taiga Remains' blazing white-out guitar suite "Ribbons Of Dust". Although originally conceived as stand-alone pieces, the four tracks that make up this hour long disc can easily be seen as one continuous meditation on total delay emptiness as channeled through the electric six-string drone worship of Flying Saucer Attack and Andrew Chalk. Not at all the overtone distortion that Mr. Cobb usually trips in, these verses seem to have been written during heavy snowed in nights that lapsed into early morning. Vibrating, soothing, disturbing, and completely built for headphone trips to the stratosphere. Comes in a chipboard pack with black ink letterpressed artwork." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 11/4/2006 | Taiga Remains | Ribbons of Dust Pt. 2 | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Students of Decay | "angel thin tones crushing ink black nights" Edition of 100 copies. |
| 8/30/2009 | Taiga Remains | Wax Canopy | CD + 3" CDR | $16.99 | Digitalis Arts & Crafts | "Taiga Remains is the brainchild of Cincinnati's Alex Cobb. Over the past few years he has developed a signature sound that blurs the line between blissed-out guitar work and atonal, blown-out dirges. Cobb never sits still; Taiga Remains is always moving forward, searching out new ideas and sounds. His label, Students of Decay, is clearing house for all things drone. This year he's been spotted on Root Strata, Callow God, Arbor and more. In the world of vinification, it's been a damn good year. On "Wax Canopy," Cobb pushes the line he's scratched in the pavement further than before. His soothing, six-string sorcery still dot the horizon on this album, but there's also a more angular, blown-out monster at work here. It's like he's channeling the angry spirits of the world into a fuzzed elegiac strains. This is powerful music built to shake the foundation and rattle your crystal bones. These diamonds are forever. Limited to 500 copies. Cover art by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma." This special edition with the bonus 3" CDR is sold out at source. |
| 5/31/2009 | Taiga Remains / RV Paintings | split | LP | $17.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Two of America's finest drone acts come together for this split LP. Taiga Remains is Student of Decay's master mind Alex Cobb project, if you ain't picked up his new disc on Digitalis 'Wax Canopy' yet, go get it, it is one of the best drone releases I have heard in a long time! The 15 minute track on this is new split LP is entitled 'Mengku From Mengsa'. Opening with far off chimes upon chimes, this leads to pure bliss dream zones, rather than the more intense material on the aforementioned Wax Canopy. This is a fantastic piece of drone work, layered to create some beautiful zoning out in the mind. RV Paintings is the project of Brian Pyle of the almighty psychedelia legends Starving Weirdos, along with his brother Jon Pyle, and Spencer Doran, who also plays under the name of Cloaks. This is an amazing track, kinda darker and bleaker than the Weirdos vibe, with some totally awesome free percussion playing central to the piece, this is hard to top in the drone game. A totally solid slab of sound from both acts. Limited to 400 copies." |
| 5/1/2009 | Taj Mahal Travellers | Live Stockholm July, 1971 | double CD | $17.99 | Drone Syndicate | "Led by infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, Tokyo's Taj Mahal Travellers were one of the prime examples of a band more heard-of than actually heard. Their vinyl legacy (the 1972 LP July 15, 1972 released on CBS/Sony Japan; the 1974 2LP August 1974 released on Columbia Japan and recently reissued by P-Vine as a 2CD; one side of the mythical Oz Days Live 2LP compilation released on Oz in 1973 and recently bootlegged as a single LP) could dig a hole in your wallet deeper than the Grand Canyon. However, the recent reissues have spread the gospel and so here is the chance to hear the young Taj Mahal Travellers live in Stockholm during their 'tour' through Europe in 1971. It's one 2-hour long improvised track. Enough free-floating higher key bliss to keep every grown-up space cadet happy for a lot longer.." From Julian Cope's Japrocksampler: "This album is a discorporated, cerebral dance whose rhythm sounds like six weather Gods emulating the cover of Deep Purple's Fireball by zooming around Silverstone circuit just inches above the track, each urging himself on by making engine noises: 'Eee-oww-urghh-ow!!!!!!!' Opening with Ryo Koike's horizontally played bowed double bass, it's my fave of Taj Mahal Travellers' three releases, better even than the obstinate medication of the first official LP JULY 15, 1972, because there's twice as much of it. Meditatively, it's extremely useful too: at the entrance portals of this live record, Ryo Koike uses his bass to invoke phlegm phantoms and cranny demons from the butt walls of Cronosian caverns; conjuring a sound as Biblical as Conrad Schnitzler's bizarre bowed cello on T. Dream's Electronic Meditation. Gradually, hesitatingly, almost imperceptibly, a violin theme installs itself, establishing over the next quarter of an hour clop-clopping hooves of hollow rhythm that conjure up the image of frustrated pastoralists driving their reluctant donkeys around the highest and most precipitous cliff edges, as their valuable cargoes sway and shud threaten to come untied at any moment. Recorded a full year before their first official LP, I think this in concert album is a far better and more confident shamanic statement, for this Stockholm recording melded together all six group members in such a way that no single musician rises from the primal soup long enough to establish his singular muse. The vocal effects are truly stunning, evoking everything from comb-and-paper voices playing Zeus in the sixty-metre deep Dhikhtean Antron to braying cartoon coyotes laughing to their deaths." Repress from 2008. |
| 10/31/2009 | Takis | Pendules magnétiques / Le siècle de Kafka | LP | $22.99 | Alga Marghen | "Alga Marghen proudly presents one of the highlights of his catalogue, an exclusive LP edition with the recordings of Takis electro-magnetic sculptures. Takis is the originator of this new approach to the musicality of sound, which consists in laying bare the repetitious structure of musical form and its functional derivation, thus rejecting the symbolism of representation.Takis was born in 1925 in Athens. Preferring, as a matter of principle, to teach himself rather study in a institution, he left Greece in 1954 and lived as a citizen of the world, traveling through Europe and the USA. Some of his earliest manifestations in the 1940s consisted of explosions carried out in open places. His first "Signals" date from 1954: they were rods consisting of piano wires which created musical vibrations as they stuck against each other in the wind. In fact they constituted the first appearance in his work and in contemporary art history of a form of musical expression in which sounds are called forth in an un-programmed way, owing to the action of natural forces. In 1961 Takis meets Marcel Duchamp in New York. Duchamp's perpetual moving bicycle wheels inspired Takis' hydromagnetic sculptures.In the period between 1964 and 1965 Takis conceives his "Pendules magnètiques" and constructs his first Sound Sculptures. After the exhibition of Takis titled "Electro-musical relief" at Indica Gallery in London in 1966, the New Scientist magazine in an article entitled "The sounds of tomorrow" commented that Takis, Iannis Xenakis and John Cage are the most promising musicians of the century. Takis' "Pendules magnétiques" are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds: the latter are to be heard every time a needle strikes a string, when attracted by a magnet. The sounds reproduced in this edition were recorded in 1993 by Samon Takahashi at Takis' retrospective at Jeu de Paume in Paris. Takis participates in 1984 at the exhibition titled "The Century of Kafka" at Centre Pompidou in Paris and sound work with the same title is also reproduced on this LP edition. As an artist he seeks a natural origin for the construction of sound, and in particular that origin which is furthest removed from the artist's arbitrary decision. For about forty years now, it has been Takis's purpose to investigate language as a natural function, conceiving function as a form of work. Furthermore, he has broken down the frontiers between sculpture and music in a number of pieces which can only be read by identifying their functionalism as structured units, with their morphological, visual and acoustic aspects. Edition limited to 380 copies with full-color sleeve, printed inner-sleeve reproducing a testimony by Marcel Duchamp and insert with photos of the "Pendules magnètiques" and a testimony by William Burroughs." |
| 6/27/2009 | Talibam! | Boogie In The Breeze Blocks | CD | $11.99 | ESP-DISK' | "The Brooklyn duo Talibam!'s first ESP Disk release, Boogie In The Breeze Blocks, is a narrative earful as warped and wonderful as spicy pasta, fresh grapes and caramel crunch. An ensemble record joining 2008's Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute winner, Jon Irabagon (tenor sax); Peter Evans of Sparks (trumpet); guitarists Chris Forsyth from Peeesseye, Anders Nilson and Chin Chin's Jeremy Wilms; along with Mostly Other People Do the Killing's Moppa Elliot on upright bass; all filtered through Talibam! To make music of one voice and cohesion. It is ensemble playing that goes beyond personal choice to capture a mood and the deep anthropology of the strange beauty of contemporary opposing and debt-maxed-out stimuli." |
| 12/25/2005 | Talibam! | Talibam! | CDR | $10.99 | Evolving Ear | "Evolving Ear presents the first 'official' release by New York City’s Talibam! Think Media Dream-vintage Sun Ra organ blow-outs locking in with saxophone feedback and a single Plunderphonic-ed Keith Moon drum fill for 40 minutes. Or, imagine Andy Kaufman sitting in on keyboards with Borbetomagus at next year’s ABC No Rio benefit. Whoa. Each of the 200 copies of Talibam! is packaged in a cut up recycled LP cover with a vinyl insert and a photo of a lone Silver Apples fan taken in Union Square in 1969." "Agro-improv troupe Talibam! will surely harsh your mellow. A cross between noise-rock, free-jazz and unabashad fuckeduppedness, Talibam! is audio terrorism at its most playful...drummer Kevin Shea and the hideous gurgles of what might be Speak & Spells (Matt Mottel, synth) suffocating under distortion pedals (Ed Bear, feedbacksaphone)." - Chris Weingarten, Village Voice |
| 4/22/2009 | Talibam! with Daniel Carter | The New Nixon Tapes | LP | $13.99 | Roaratorio | "Since 2003, NYC's Talibam! have been charting a course through the improv waters in a way that few other groups can pull off. Rock, jazz, noise and all stops in between collide in an aggressive mix that defines free music in the best sense of the term: nothing is deemed out of bounds. Too much fun to be a po-faced postmodern exercise, and too expertly played to be sunk in a morass of good intentions, The New Nixon Tapes hurtles through two side-long pieces in an agile cascade of rhythmic and melodic ideas. Kevin Shea (drums) and Matt Mottel (synthesizer) have worked with Cooper-Moore and Rhys Chatham, among others; here they're joined by master saxophonist/trumpeter/flautist Daniel Carter. Recorded live in the WFMU studios. MP3 download coupon included." |
| 2/21/2007 | Taliban / Paranoid Time | Air Lice | split 10" | $9.99 | SNSE / Tapeworm Tapes | "TALIBAN is the free noise duo of Miles Haney and Joel Rakowski. Miles also runs the label Tapeworm Tapes and has a recording project called Evenings. Taliban has prior releases on: American Tapes, Gods Of Tundra, Fag Tapes, and Tapeworm Tapes, among others. PARANOID TIME is the harsh noise project of Pat Yankee, operator of the SNSE record label. Paranoid Time has past releases on: Animal Disguise Recordings, PacRec/Troniks, Militant Walls, Harsh Head Rituals, Tapeworm Tapes, and Gaping Hole, among others. Air Lice is co-released by Tapeworm Tapes and SNSE and is the vinyl debut for both bands." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 1/30/2010 | Talugung | Adelosa Glare | c30 cassette | $5.99 | Housecraft | "Ryan Waldron has a keen sense for the ethereal. The sounds he conjures from household glasses to rickety old strung things reflect a fair and balanced illustration of the nature of our reality. Minors and majors gently twist and curl in organic harmonics. No attempt is made to beautify or perfect the output for the objects resound in their own subtle inherited vibration, harmonious even in dissonance." |
| 11/15/2008 | Talugung | Distant Flying-apart | cassette | $8.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Mystical trip from Canada, heading for deep exotic zone and ethnic space. Acoustic improvisations and clouded forest rhytms on various instruments, including homemade ones. Ideal companion to your morning meditation. 70 copies." |
| 4/22/2009 | Tamaryn | Led Astray, Washed Ashore | LP | $13.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Somber and seductive, brooding and atmospheric, Tamaryn's debut EP is filled with the kind of shimmering songs that alto chanteuses like Nico and Siouxsie Sioux offered us in years past. Her voice is both a weight against the current of reverb-drenched guitars and a floating ornament atop the driving drums that underpin her songs. The music hovers between dark, tribal minimalism and lush post-punk grandiosity, infusing the familiar with the unexpected. Led Astray, Washed Ashore is an intriguing release to say the least." insanely awesome gold foil packaging. edition of 500. vinyl only." |
| 9/30/2005 | Tamburo, Mike | Beating of the Rewound Son | CD | $12.99 | Music Fellowship | "Mike Tamburo (6 string acoustic guitar, organ, keyboard, electronics, tibetan bowl, alarm clock, accordion, piano, ebow, bowed guitar, mandolin, percussive guitar, electric piano, effects, engineering) has created a pristine document of new american ethnic guitar music channeling years of influence and energies similar to the likes of Fahey, Windy and Carl, Six Organs of Admittance, Gastr del Sol, Charlemagne Palesestine, Loren Connors, and Tower Recordings. Tamburo approaches music with the constant joy of discovering new sounds and techniques for himself. As one of the main players behind Meisha and Arco Flute Foundation, Tamburo has dedicated himself to exploring the nuances of his instruments in a group setting. Beating of the Rewound Son at last allows us a glimpse into the sole vision of his exploratory, trance inducing ideas and sounds." |
| 4/5/2008 | Tamburo, Mike & Matt McDowell | At Bohemian Grove | CDR | $11.99 | Ruralfaune | "A long dark, bleak ode to Moloch, the God of the SSupreme Power. Heavy and noisy, more than everything else - Pro printed cover & insert – exclusive artwork." Limited edition of 66 copies. |
| 1/25/2004 | Tan As Fuck | Tan As Fuck | CDR | $12.99 | U-Sound | “Springwaters in Nashville TN Fall '03- JOMF/Dave Cloud/Tiawan Deth/Laundryroom Squelchers, in a dive where Townes van Zant used to play...an evening of glitter and toast. boy/girl duo tiawan deth, +(1) more...is, Tan As Fuck. Scorch and rip guitar ala Chrome with drums and damaged electronics/ voice. Tracks 1-2 recorded live- 3-6 recorded at Viva La Fuzz in Nashville. Studio tracks rock the beat/sequencer. dat potitics cop suey. Golden! Glorious!” |
| 2/4/2007 | Tanakh | Saunders Hollow | CD | $13.99 | Camera Obscura | "Recorded the week before Ardent Fevers (already being hailed by critics as one of the best releases of 2006), in the same studio, with the same engineer (Bryan Hoffa), and with the same cast of musicians, Saunders Hollow, is not a collection of out-takes from those sessions, but a fully realised sister record to Ardent Fevers. Growing out of the song-writing explorations of Michele Poulos and Jesse Poe, Saunders Hollow is a record focusing on the songs of Poulos, who gave them to Poe in the form of thumb-strummed singer/songwriter demos. The results form a female Yin to the male Yang of recent Tanakh work. From the opening seconds of Poe's tortured guitar squalling to the final seconds of fading footsteps, bowed bass and saw that seal the record, the listener is treated to a million sounds all gently gelling into the world of sonic beauty we have come to expect from Tanakh, except for one thing…Tanakh in their ever changing exploration of sound have placed the lead vocals and songwriting in the ladybird hands of bassist and erstwhile backing vocalist Michele Poulos, leaving Poe in the musician/producer seat, dividing Poulos' previous backing vocal duties between himself and Isobel Campbell. What results is warm bouquet of songs that range from poppy-jazz, through renaissance remembrances, sweet folk, to dark drones and dreamy electronics and even straight up raunchy blues. Saunders Hollow is a place full of inviting mystery and rich texture, with musical twists and turns of every type, leaving the listener in a state of remembrance of all things past, like a stroll amongst Proustian Gardens. Gentle bass, scorching electric guitars, lilting tablas, Asian-strummed ukuleles, swirling electronics, lamenting violins, pulsing vibes, regal harpsichords, gospel organs and juke-joint pianos, sex-driven saxophones, folky acoustic guitars, sound-scaped lap steels, pulsing drums, and honeyed vocals grow together in an immense garden of sound and color that populates the dream landscape of Saunders Hollow." |
| 8/13/2003 | Tangerine Dream | Electronic Meditation | LP | $18.99 | Earmark | "One of the first electronic punk albums in history, When TD´s debut ‘Electronic Meditation’ was recorded, there was virtually no electronic music equipment available at all and yet the band managed to make unusual sounds by using everyday objects, such as a sieve filled with dried peas, an old office calculator, 2 old iron bars and parchment paper. These were recorded with a microphone and then run through reverbs and delays. The results were not always very tonal and miles apart from a commercial pop sound. Furthermore, the studio equipment they had at their disposal was by best means very sparse and everything was recorded directly onto a Revox 1/4" tape machine during one of the band's rehearsals at an old factory in Oct. 1969 in Berlin. This album was also the only TD album to feature electronic musician Klaus Schulze on drums. 180 gram HQ vinyl with PVC audiophile dustsleeve." |
| 3/26/2006 | Tape Salad | Each Banana Is Unique | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Anders Artentoft (Bohman Family/Bimbo Sons) squats and lays a super Copenhagen retard style egg. Full on special needs anti-music with tiny face melt." |
| 11/4/2006 | Tapio, Jorma & Terje Isungset | Aihki | CD | $14.99 | Ektro Records | "Duo's music is thoroughly improvised and its spirit rises from the untameable virgin wilderness of the North. The performance works like an authentic soul trip to the heart of nature. Isungset's unusual and primitive drumset consists of natural materials, like wood and stones. He also plays jaw harp and uses his voice as an instrument. Tapio's repertoire goes from a variety of flutes and clarinets to kantele and all sorts of little instruments...After many years of collaboration, they eventually publish a common album. When listening to this "Aihki" (Ektro-records -released September 2006) you feel that there are no boundaries to their music shamanism, and their deep humanity. Terje Isungset (b. 1964) is one of Europe's most accomplished and innovative percussionists. With over two decades of experience in jazz and ethnic scandinavian music, he is taking these types of music far beyond their traditional boundaries. He has crafted his own instruments from Norwegian natural elements, arctic birch, granite, slate, sheep bells, and even ice. "Yes, Terje Isungset is a drummer; in fact he is one of Norway's most creative percussionists, but this solo set presents him more like a cross between a sound artist and a shaman." François Couture / www.allmusic.com Jorma Tapio tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, bass flute, etc. Jorma Tapio (b.1957) is one of the most emotionally powerful, inventive and original woodwind players in Finland. He is really going his own way to fully express himself and expand his personality through music." |
| 10/6/2007 | Tarp | Tarp | 7" | $5.99 | Apostasy Recordings/Breaking World Records | "Synth-duo Tarp is made up of Joshua Burkett (Vermonster, Believers, solo, etc.) and Conrad Capistran (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sephiroths Knot). Two tightly edited masterstrokes flank the sides of this 7", taking Tarp out of their familiar live setting and thrusting them under a sonic microscope. Neat and polished, yet still utterly unconstrained. Amazing journeys packed into each four-minute track. Tarp effortlessly glide through a full spectrum of atmospheres: 'call-and-response' conversation, brooding ambience, rhythmic pulses, and melodic lullabies. Full color sleeve art by George W. Myers." |
| 2/17/2003 | Tart | Bring In The Admiral | LP | $11.99 | Swill Radio | "Tart (Graham Lambkin, Karla Borecky, and Scott Foust) presents the world with their second LP, Bring In The Admiral. Using the same minimal instrumentation as the live shows (two small casios, guitar, and a shortwave/cassette boombox plus a few studio effects and The Anti-Naturals trademark: tight, subtle, and yet powerful editing), Tart produces a dazzling array of scenarios, a testament to deranged beauty. Tart is a band that truly does not sound like anyone else." |
| 2/17/2003 | Tart | Live Volume 1 2001-2002 | C90 cassette | $6.99 | Pineapple Tapes | 6 tracks recorded live from Tart (Shadow Ring’s Graham Lambkin, Swill Radio’s Scott Foust & Karla Borecky). |
| Tart | Radio Orange | LP | $9.99 | Swill Radio | "The debut LP from the trio of: Karla Borecky, Graham Lambkin, and Scott Foust, recorded and assembled over 8 months between 1999 and 2000. Tart is an exquisite combination of three distinct minds, much like the skillful structure of diverse, yet subtle, ingredients in a piquant and nostalgic recipe: The Past as well as The Future. Tart blends together these strange elements in an organic yet totally disciplined style that renders many of their contemporaries as either flabby or boring." | |
| 8/4/2007 | Tasos Stamou | Infant | CD | $9.99 | editions_zero | "october 06, while seeking a name who would fancy to join valerio tricoli's thessaloniki live date during his short mini tour in north greece, kostis (absurd site's 'curator') drops the name of tasos stamou... 'a close pal who makes bizarre almost toy like sounds using modified toy instruments, loops, tapes & live electronics'. description sounded cool so the set was done. being in xanthi at the moment we missed the set but we drove back home in amphissa carrying a couple of super limited cdrs of tasos works which we listened totally aficionated w/ his incredible fresh & lovely sounds!!! being back home impressed from the super dark psych electronics set valerio had done w/ little children during amaryllis's 3rd birthday party we found ourselves in a pure exhilarating mood listening to such awesome crafted beautiful childlike toy sounds. from bizarre electronica, to a couple of kinda klimperei tunes and improvised toylike (kinda 'plastic') sounds we thought it would be such a pitty not to share the enthusiasm and those lovely litle sounds w/ the rest of our pals around so here are documented some of his most awesome sounds culled from obscure super limited cdr releases, archive material, plus new specially recorded for the release material, of one of the most promising names of the obscure greek electronica scene!" |
| 2/21/2008 | Tau Emerald | Travellers Two | CD | $13.99 | Important | "Travellers Two is a full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Sharron Kraus. Together Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic. Tara Burke and Sharron Kraus were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together and Travellers Two is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds, and then coming back to Sharron's home studio to work. They had played previously together and done some recording but this is the first time an album was conceived." |
| 8/28/2007 | Taurpis Tula | Cadillac Sitting Like a Ton of Lead | LP | $22.99 | Ikuisuus | "Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead, the brand new album from the Taurpis Tula trio of David Keenan (Tight Meat Duo), Heather Leigh (Scorces/Dream Aktion Unit/Jandek) and Alex Neilson (Tight Meat Duo / Directing Hand / Jandek / Richard Youngs et al), represents the absolute apex of their twin guitar/drums incarnation, with two side-long improvised psychedelic blues that combine the kind of epic string-muscle of Fushitsusha, Ohkami No Jikan, Kousokuya and Rallizes Denudes with a sublime avant-garage sensibility and massive pockets of time-killing freedom. Further amplifying the malevolent narcosis of their debut LP on Eclipse, Cadillac... is a full blown rock record that full delivers on their vision of Yoko jamming with Red Transistor in a world where the conventional middle-brow canon’ is pretty much upended in favour of primitive avant garde brut. There are grooves here that are as magnetic and future-visioned as The Magic Band circa 'Big Eyed Beans From Venus' or the final seconds of amplifier meltdown on Mainliner's Mellow Out while the playing is at an all-time ESP-channelled high, with the group generating glorious metal-inflected simultaneities without the slightest whiff of dialogue’ or even listening with ears.This is a profound statement of the kind of freak-out freedoms inherent in the most primal blues/rock forms and a revitalising connection to the source of *it*, further building on the kind of form the group were packing during their monstrous jam at Thurston Moore's Nightmare Before Christmas. Features Heather Leigh on vocals, harmonica and pedal steel, David Keenan on electric guitar and Alex Neilson on drums. Packaged in individually silkscreened sleeves by disobedient Belgian artist Jelle Crama and featuring all-original artwork by Heather Leigh on the front, the insert and the labels, Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead comes in a limited edition of 440 copies." - Douglas Gully. |
| 8/22/2008 | Taussig, Harry | Fate Is Only Once | LP | $13.99 | Tompkins Square | "Harry Taussig's Fate Is Only Once was originally self-released in 1965. Taussig's only other recordings appear on a deleted 1967 Takoma Records sampler LP entitled Contemporary Guitar Spring '67, which also featured John Fahey, Bukka White, Max Ochs and Robbie Basho. Fate Is Only Once has long been a coveted collectible among American Primitive guitar enthusiasts." |
| 9/11/2003 | Taylor, Terry Earl | Another Time | CD | $10.99 | Dark Holler | "Terry Earl Taylor plays a Fender Allegro five-string banjo in the two-finger picking style. He draws from the folksong traditions of the UK and Appalachia , and like all the great banjo songsters, he adds much of his own style to the music. A comparison might be Clive Palmer (though Terry has never heard Clive’s music!), or perhaps Dock Boggs if he was from Edwardian England. But really, Terry is his own man, playing his own music, timeless and original. Another Time is a collection of songs that range from originals, to the partly traditional (with additional lyrics by Terry), to the wholly traditional. This music resides in the lonely back roads, haunted dark hollers, and graveyards of the rural traditions that bore it. One listen to the spine-chilling ‘Go Make another Grave’ will make it apparent why we felt this Dark Holler was the right home for Terry Earl Taylor." |
| 2/11/2004 | Team Discovery Channel | Nocturnes | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Yet another wondrous offshoot of the Deserted Village 'Collective' out of Ireland (see Murmansk, The Cosmic Nanou, United Bible Studies etc), T.D.C present a collection of improvisations as evocative of trad melancholy folk as discreet contemporary 'noise'. Acoustic guitars and harmonium (?) brush up against controlled feedback and electric guitars. Loud, quiet, warm, cold. Makes sense to my 'N.Z' ears - even though its somewhat better recorded...!" |
| Tear Garden | For those who would walk with the gods | CD | $16.99 | Brudenia | "An anthology made for the Russian market collecting tracks from all of their CDs, plus two previously unreleased tracks. Numbered edition of 2000 copies. Since all the text on the disc is in cyrillic, here is the track listing: Circles In The Sand, In Search Of My Rose, Sheila Liked The Rodeo, Ascension Day, White Coats And Haloes, Isis Veiled, You And Me And Rainbows, A Ship Named 'despair', The Running Man, Malice Through The Looking Glass, Good Evening Houston, and Good Night Little Lights (the last two being the unreleased tracks). | |
| 1/1/2008 | Tecumseh | Crossing Divides | LP | $12.99 | Black Horizons / Anarchymoon Recordings | "Co-released between Black Horizons and Anarchymoon Recordings, this is the first release from this Portland (OR) group that creates drone metal of the heaviest variety, although with more forward movement than some of their peers, and the addition of cold space electronic hiss. Using 2 basses and electronics, the recording captures them in fine form in their less-abusive sonic range with all the power that their carefully crafted sound conveys live. Limited to 384 on black vinyl, with amazing fold-out covers printed in metallic blue ink on charcoal linen paper by the inimitable Seizure Palace, with resealable polyclear outer sleeves and poly-lined-paper inner sleeves." |
| 8/8/2009 | Teenage Pankerkorps | Teenage Pankerkorps | 7" | $6.99 | Captured Tracks | "Icy post-punky songs with barked Germanic vocals. Three great tracks. Freaky color insert. These guys (also known as DER TPK) have also put out killer records on Stiltbreeze." |
| 12/12/2009 | Teepee | Morals | LP | $13.99 | Senzei Records | "Edition of 500 copies self-released private press LP from a Miami area weirdo who also plays in Electric Bunnies and Melted Sunglasses. The sound is psychedelic basement synth/guitar pop but with none of the austerity of the more cold-wave focussed groups. The drum machines are kind of ginchy and the guitars are straight out of the early Clean sound, specifically "Getting Older". Indeed, there's such a great art-pop/edge of the world feel to this that in my brain it somehow slots in alongside Richard Youngs & Simon Wickham-Smith's Ceausescu and The Clean's Oddities comp as a perfectly realised blend of avant smarts and beautifully odd songs. There's also a magical acoustic guitar and vocals cover of the mysterious "Japan", a track that both Pharaoh Sanders (on Tauhid w/Sonny Sharrock) and Albert Ayler (on some of the Euro '66 dates) recorded gorgeous versions of. I dunno, this is such an ambitious record, devouring aspects of lucid free jazz, basement weirdo synth and motorik avant rock. We've been playing it pretty much non-stop at VT. An immaculate private press side. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 11/2/2008 | Teeth Collection | Ojo | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Cut Hands | "Matt Reis is one of the few guys able to create a piece that's both dynamic and dense while being haunting and flat out nightmarish at the same time. Just think of the soundtrack to your teenage years, this is the one that will haunt you when you're gone. Negatives of cruel nightmares raging through long forgotten parts of wasted brain. Minimal blurts of metal clatter, reverb, echo chambers, face down in junkyards, cheeks rubbing metal while your ears fill up with rust. The definite final countdown." Edition of 40 copies, black and white artwork and insert. |
| 5/20/2009 | Teeth Collection | Purtridity and Liquescence | c60 cassette | $6.99 | Black Horizons | "Three extended tracks of cosmic feedback, haunting percussion and dense oscillation, bathed in glorious analogue reverb, Teeth Collection's trademark sound. Presented in a raw manner to compliment the sound, hi-quality digital printing on metallic paper in random silver or black, contains an envelope with insert and paste-on, silver foil labels with the Black Horizons touch. Edition of 90, hi-bias chrome forever." |
| 8/22/2008 | Teeth Collection | The Herdsman | CDR | $13.99 | Reverb Worship | "Teeth Collection deliver two excellent untitled creepy tracks of drone inspired noise clocking in at over thirty minutes.The first track is a real monster which slowly pulses along from quietly menacing background noises to gradually increasing reverb soaked swaying washes of noise which stop abruptly at the end.The second track is a less intense gentle affair with what sounds like processed gurgling animal cries calling through an ambient industrial humming backdrop of eeriness. Available in an edition of 50 numbered copies with a very odd looking cover showing four weapon laiden tribesmen." |
| 5/29/2008 | Teeth Collection & Plasmic Formations | Collaboration | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Former yes, collapsers and current dayton house mates serve up two helpings of zoned-out, reverb packed activity. these are the sounds that come out of the basements you don't go into, or the small town graveyards that are half paved over. organic and unearthly with freights of gelatinous tones and vocal black magic." |
| 5/20/2009 | Teeth Mountain | Live On | LP | $14.99 | Not Not Fun | "One our current favorite bands, on tour right now w/Dan Deacon all over the planet. 7-piece drum/drone army with an amazing whirlwind approach to rhythmic teleportation. saw them live recently and was floored. this is the follow-up to their sick LP that came out on SHDWPLY last year." "Follow-up to last year's well-received full-length of collaged live performances released on SHDWPLY. This is another half hour-plus of the Baltimore drum/drone collective at their most zoned and loose-limbed." |
| 1/20/2002 | Tele | Tele | LP | $12.99 | Womb Tunes | "The fantastic debut by this Texas based band. Moves from warm, mostly acoustic folk psych songs to relaxed space rock to relaxed space rock soundscapes into some improv electronica beauty." |
| 4/10/2009 | Telecult Powers | A Beginners Guide to Hoodotronix | cassette | $7.99 | Pizza Night | "Two spectacular zones of homemade synth exploration from the best new act in NYC. Although, they have been performing for years and years (much of which spent in Cleveland,OH), they are just now entering a full realization of the sonic partnership between Matt and Stephen of TP. The well deserved acclaim they are currently receiving on the east coast comes as no surprise to the Cleveland crew. Sit close to the speakers and let your wildest imaginations come to life. Art by the one and only, Witchbeam." |
| 5/1/2009 | Telecult Powers | Kiss The Viper's Fang | c30 cassette | $4.99 | Obsolete Units | "The occult-drenched fog of this transcendental duo hangs high on Fang. In the midst of generating a lauded trajectory of constant performance and resoundingly impenetrable mythology, the homemade boilings of analog-generated dread forage forward in the midst of perplexing discomfort and lo-fi tape ambiance. Some of the richest minimal synth work you're likely to hear; a must for Cluster and Demons fanatics. Bleak, bizarre, and entrancing." |
| 8/2/2008 | Telescopes, The | Infinite Suns | LP | $24.99 | Textile | "Infinite Suns begins a new era of change in the Telescopes music field. This LP is very much number one, the introduction to a series of releases (2 new albums and one live recording) out on the french label Textile. This new LP is a selection of analogue tape recordings taken between 2006 and 2007, using a multi-directional mic to capture environmental response. Recording levels were set close to saturation, allowing for interaction with the tape machine itself. Side one closes with a piece centered around a lock-groove from the run-out of The Telescopes first album and is lock-grooved again to play endlessly. The recording took place in a room used by a deep trance medium to hold investigative seances. The album ends with The Telescopes channelling out on each others instruments. The sound of earthquakes dreaming, where black holes reveal infinite suns. The Telescopes have been mining a unique anti-myopian seam of drone/dream psych for 20 years. Expertly bolting gritty blocks of noise, rich with fossil and sediment, onto minimal songs and melodies which are miles apart and miles beyond the reams of drone/ambience out there. In 2006 The Telescopes became a collaboration between Bridget Hayden and founder member Stephen Lawrie. Bridget was an original member of Vibracathedral Orchestra. The two met briefly when The Telescopes and VCO shared the bill at Audioscope festival in 2004, where The Telescopes finished their set by drilling through gtr pickups. Following a narrow escape from a burning wreck on their UK tour in 2005, The Telescopes 5th line up disintegrated. And In 2006 Bridget left VCO to explore new ventures. Bridget had already been working with Stephen on the Dream Frequencies artwork for The Telescopes Antenna label. Both were shocked by the intensity of their first session together. As a volcanic two piece scythe spent 2006 spreading free noise around England, Scotland, Ireland, The Canary Islands, West Coast of America, Italy and Austria, recording all the time. Their first release for the Trensmat label sold out within an hour. Their second release for the label sold out a month in advance. Copies of the releases have been known to exchange hands for over 25 pounds. Together they harness a primeval drone, rich in texture, and build it beautifully in unison with soaring feedback, guitar manipulation & viola which forever spiral outward, fractal and hypnotic - a bed of noise percolating at the edges of audition." |
| 9/14/2004 | Telstar Ponies | Hares on the Mountain | 10" | $9.99 | Static Caravan / Obelisk | "The new (2003) self-titled ep from Scotland's Telstar Ponies opens with radiant interpretations of two timeless pieces of music. The first, a supple reworking of the traditional Scottish song, 'Hares on the Mountain', has a beautiful split vocal structure with singer Rachel Devine's devilishly sweet voice set against guitarist (and Wire contributor) David Keenan's deep, steady counterpart. 'One Hand, One Heart', taken from Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim's score for 'West Side Story', is reduced to an undressed simplicity on piano, but is no less effective.'Terrible Night' and 'Athanasius K', meanwhile, display the ponies at their neo-psych-folk best, as scream-pitch feedback plays around a fierce, shattered valley of erratic trumpet and crashing drums." – The Wire. |
| 1/17/2010 | Temperatures | Eksra | LP | $14.99 | Ultramarine | "Temperatures are a London-based duo formed by Peter Blundell (bass, voice) and James Dunn (drums, synth). Blundell's rumbling delayed bass runs against Dunn's bursting drums that simultaneously trigger an unruly ARP 2600. Vocals are both muffled and shouting at times and eventually end up getting buried under a (controlled) landslide of sounds. Thanks to their instinctive but thoughtful approach to noise, Temperatures can express a suffocating sense of alienation and mal de vivre, as well as today's over-communication resulting in a helpless lack of communication; but "Eksra" strikes most for its original and refreshing sound, far from the stale cliche that noise so often falls into. They can be compared to other bands like: early Throbbing Gristle, Lighting Bolt and the Dead C." “One of London’s most spasmodically captivating outfits” (Byron Coley - Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine) |
| 3/6/2008 | Temple Defectors, The / Claypipe | split | 10" | $37.99 | Humbug | "The Temple Defectors is James Ferraro & Spencer Clark, presenting here a fine slab of vintage violence (from around the time they did "Dark Rye Bread" and "Gambling in Ohpa's Shadow" (as the Skaters)) - essential. On the flip is some fine itinerant heavy lidded psych by Claypipe - that's Antony Milton and Clayton Noone from New Zealand. Limited lathe cut 10" to 120 copies in proper hand assembled covers, with a poster insert and resealable sleeve." Killer - recommended! |
| 1/1/2008 | Temple of Bon Matin | Flower Footed Ghost | CD | $17.99 | Ruby Red | "New set of "deep south psychedelia" from one of the loudest/freest band in America, led by powerhouse drummer Ed Wilcox and featuring saxophonist Vinnie Paternostro, bassist Eric Bayles, violinist Jim Flagg, and percussion/synth/guitar from Jay Reeve. Alongside a bunch of guests the group conjure up the kinda apocalyptic free-form jam logic that would reconcile oracular F/X soaked vox, dunting percussive grooves ala Wilcox's work with Arthur Doyle in the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and some almost Hawkwind-esque electrified urban guerrilla mainlining." - David Keenan |
| 9/17/2006 | Temple of Bon Matin | Monkeys Straw Raincoat | CDR | $12.99 | Spirit of Orr | "How can it be that every time we turn around, ED WILCOX, and his Temple of Bon Matin have squeezed out a new record, and each record takes us (by that I mean the 'world') closer to the nexus. Okay, this record is simply the most psychedelically mannered BON MATIN yet, and it is also the most soulful, and the most vocal, and most pre-cussive, and most acoustic. MONKEYS STRAW RAINCOAT takes the direction of the CABIN IN THE SKY release and turns it back into itself, it propels like BULLET INTO MESMER'S BRAIN, but it is a space capsule without any fuselage. What the hell am I talking about? Limited to 300 hand assembled copies." |
| 5/29/2008 | Temples | Murk | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "With the advent of September 11, 2001 the musical underground found itself ripe once more for a rejuvenation of beards and acoustic guitars. And who am I to complain- I have a beard and like a bit of a finger pick myself.. Temples is Kevin Richards . He hails from Denver, Colorado, in the good old USA. 'Murk' is an acoustic guitar album. I'm not sure if Kevin has a beard. What is refreshing to these ears about this record is that its an acoustic guitar album wherein the guitar itself is subsumed within the glorious phenomena of the recording media itself, and in this case one of my personal favourites- TAPE! Building up layer after layer of distant and hissy strummed and picked guitars Temples creates a kaleidoscopic miasma which shifts and drifts through vast caverns and tiny rooms, the various rhythms in and out of phase as patterns collide and repel. There's a deceptive ease and simplicity to the way Murk breathes. I know for a fact that Richards spent many months shaping these pieces into the ramshackle atmospheric drone works they have become. If you were after a comparison I would suggest that Temples does for the guitar what Dialing In does for keyboards and shruti boxes. I'm often worn down by long pieces, and especially long albums. Just because one can fit 70 minutes on a cdr doesn't mean one should. 'Murk' however is an album that benefits from the extended room that the individual tracks are given to roam an evolve. This is a murk I'm more than happy to lose myself in for an hour." |
| Ten Second Dynasty / Ms. Bliss | split | 7" | $3.99 | Burnt Hair | Ten Second Dynasty must love Spacemen 3! A nice find! | |
| 12/1/2007 | Ten Thousand Things, The | The Ten Thousand Things | CDR | $10.99 | The Lotus Sound | "Following two self-released CD-Rs which scraped the underbelly of the avant-garde, The Ten Thousand Things return with their third blast of blackened folk. Released as part of The Lotus Sound's Handmade Series, The Ten Thousand Things continues along the band's path across the tangled terrain of the droneworld. Recently relocated to Athens, Georgia, multi-instrumentalist Wes Covey is this time joined by Savannah, Georgia's psychedelic dreamstress Jessica Calleiro (uncle owen aunt beru), who blesses 'The Song' with vocals, drums and weather. Ben Peck, a native of Covey's birthplace deep in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom adds scorching vocals to a retelling of the traditional 'Who's Gonna Be Your Man?' On the remaining six songs, Covey utilizes his palate of guitars, bass, samples and various percussive instruments to create a series of compositions that face the light more than previous releases, while still holding the darkness at their backs. Those who've had their ears perked by the sounds of Six Organs of Admittance, Pelt, Hala Strana and likeminded folk destroyers will want to set aside some time to give this slab a spin. Mostly, though, anyone interested in blending folk forms with drone experimentalism and the shivering blackness of doom will find want to free their minds to the sound of The Ten Thousand Things." |
| 12/12/2009 | Terminal Lovers | As Eyes Burn Clean | LP | $18.99 | Public Guilt | "We've been big fans of the Terminal Lovers for years and are super excited to finally be working with them. "As Eyes Burn Clean" is pure Cleveland; heavy, rocking and straight out of left field. Terminal Lovers fuse kraut, dub, improv, drone, and pop influences to create a sound that is dense, diverse, and difficult to pin down, yet it all feels fluid and effortless. "As Eyes Burn Clean" is a visceral, guitar-heavy trek filled with pop hooks, spaced out psychedelia, and surreal, Jodorowsky-esque lyrics. Limited to 500 copies on yellow/black "a-side, b-side" vinyl." "As Eyes Burn Clean is the band's latest and greatest... It has an air of immediacy in its delivery, causing one to remember parts of the songs after the very first listen, but there's plenty of depth for further, more rewarding spins down the line. A sign of a truly gripping psych record! By far, this album is the psychedelic mindfuck of the year, beaconing both as a glorious nod to the old guard and a raised fist to the new breed of noiseants." -Hellride Music |
| 1/19/2004 | Terminal Lovers | Drama Pit and Loan | CD | $11.99 | Biological Records | Currently this is Julian Cope’s Album of the Month. He wrote: “Immediately this motherfucker dropped on to the stereo, I knew I was in the presence of True Heads with One Eye fixed on the lunations of the heavens. That the album etched its way directly into my brain on first hearing is startling, for I listen to shitloads of new stuff and mainly wait for their turgid meandering self-obsessions to struggle to locate any dignified conclusion. And after the deep art-rock invention of Terminal Lovers, most of the so-called stoner rock gathering in their masses is just so much novelty compost.” “.......guitar genius Dave Cintron’s mini-supergroup acid rocks squarely in the chaotic Cuyahoga axe-drone tradition, though now and then you might hear Funhouse filtered through the Birthday Party and/or Get Your Wings.....” - Chuck Eddy, Village Voice. |
| 3/2/2008 | Terracid | 2023 | CDR | $8.99 | Students of Decay | "2023 marks the latest interplanetary excursions by Michael Donnelly (mymwly/Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood) and it's a diverse platter of headtripping psych-drone-clatter-rock if ever I've heard one. In fact, each of the album's twelve tracks finds Donnelly mining different territory, channeling the psychedelic ghosts of Japan and Germany through the lens of the sonic traditions of planets light years further away from the Sun than our own." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 4/24/2006 | Terracid | Abraxas | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | soil then fatness of thinking although the top of the skull is better letting the light out. "Michael Donnelly sure has a knack for harnessing the throbbing, magickal energy that flows beneath the surface of objective reality. Listening to any of his work - either solo as Terracid, or in any of his many collaborations under the Musicyourmindwillloveyou umbrella - you can almost imagine him communing with entities long-forgotten by today's accelerated civilization. On "Abraxas" we find Donnelly exploring the duality associated with the Gnostic deity with which this album shares a name. Scholars are divided as to whether the aforementioned entity is a god, or actually a demon. On this particular release, Donnelly has harnessed both the benevolent bliss associated with the former and the dissonant mayhem often attributed to the latter. Opener "Her Shadow Ate the Ground" treads deeply, if slowly, through acid-laced waters. A plodding bass and drum framework is dutifully decorated with gurgling analog synth sounds and otherworldly howling. Donnelly builds intricate textures of sound, only to destroy them once they've served their dark purposes. "Ur" continues down the same path, but is considerably more unsettling. We've entered a cavern peopled with creatures that are unseen but have otherwise made their ghastly presence known - do we make our escape slowly or do we immediately flee the scene?? Donnelly doesn't give us time to choose, as we're immediately attacked on all sides by the amazing drum inferno that is "Ra." With pummelling drums and overdriven synth and guitar building into an intense blanket of fuzzy static, our minds are veritably melted then and there. Just when it seems like we're done for, the wall of sound topples and a chiming guitar is all that remains. This is what I love best about Donnelly's work - his ability to suddenly shift gears, often in mid-song. Soothing analog melodies introduce "Sunrim" before we once again delve into darker territory as a deep bass line and some light percussive clatter carry us onward. The album ends with the relatively short drum assault "Hoof," which indeed gives the impression of being trampled by a stampede of wild horses. The briskness of this final song almost makes the album seem to end to soon. Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be an end to the amazing stream of releases sprouting forth from the Musicyourmindwillloveyou camp, so it won't be long before Donnelly's back to claim our souls again.- Bryon Hayes |
| 4/24/2006 | Terracid | Fortress of Eternal Smells | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | more scifi lofi mind fry. "Michael Donnelly of the Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood: the zoned tribal folk of Botos in a head-on collision with lo-fi electronics. This is a sort-of reissue of a cdr that was supposed to come out on Hiulcity but didn't and comes in a hand-painted sleeve." - Boa Melody Bar |
| 4/11/2008 | Terracid | Skies | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "An eightball of swallowed volumes and hippy rockwork for the wingless . spiraling drift thread thin like minute spider webs until the floor becomes the sky." |
| 6/19/2007 | Terraplane | Into the Unknown | DBL LP | $42.99 | Nasoni | "Remastered and enhanced edition of last year's self-released album by psychedelic heavy rock riff-meisters from Wernigerode, Germany. Very cool down'n'dirty heavy acid rock with lots of stoner friendly vibes, but also some very nice mellow and moody psychedelic pieces under the hood. Everything centers around the eponymous 15 minutes 'Into The Unknown', a slowly unfolding psychedelic epos with laid-back guitars, arabesque sitar passages and spacey organ along the way before cranking up the gain and fuzzing its way into the unknown. Dig it!" Gatefold sleeve, edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - all copies in stock are colored vinyl. |
| 3/29/2005 | Terrestrial Tones | Blasted | CD | $12.99 | Psych-o-Path Records | "Terrestrial Tones is the home recorded project of roommates Dave Portner (Avey Tare of Animal Collective) and Eric Copeland of Black Dice, published by an emerging label in the underground noise scene, Psych-o-Path records." |
| 9/23/2004 | Terrestrial Tones | Blasted | LP | $15.99 | Psych-O-Path | "Terrestrial Tones is the home recorded project of roommates Dave Portner (Avey Tare of Animal Collective) and Eric Copeland of Black Dice, published by an emerging label in the underground noise scene, Psych-o-Path records. Blasted, their debut record combines a creepy parade of burlesque musicalia with the underwater travels of a submarine 20,000 leagues under the sea. Deep almost unrecognizable vocals hidden in layers of sub-bass warbles are reminiscent of work on the Charhizma Label, particularly Christof Kurzmann and his collaborations with Dafeldecker and dieb13. Likewise there are nods to the diverse almost pop-twitch of Dat Politics and the polyrhythmic patterns of the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction projects. It's a dance music record (microtonal future extremely abstract dance) for people who like to wiggle to shoes tumbling in washing machines with monkey cymbals and puppet shows. It is serious yet unpretentious, even whimsical, and will appeal to fans of experimental electronics, IDM, Throbbing Gristle and related, the drones and squeals of Black Dice and the nouveau pop psychedelia of Animal Collective." |
| 4/24/2006 | Terrestrial Tones | Dead Drunk | CD | $13.99 | Paw Tracks | "Brooklyn's Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective). Over the years the two have been quietly making music in between Animal Collective and Black Dice commitments. Recorded in their apartment while living in Paris last summer, Terrestrial Tones' third record Dead Drunk sounds like the duo spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea markets. African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics, they all come together into something highly disconcerting, curiously pleasurable, and beyond new." |
| 4/24/2006 | Terrestrial Tones | Dead Drunk | LP | $12.99 | Paw Tracks | "Brooklyn's Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective). Over the years the two have been quietly making music in between Animal Collective and Black Dice commitments. Recorded in their apartment while living in Paris last summer, Terrestrial Tones' third record Dead Drunk sounds like the duo spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea markets. African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics, they all come together into something highly disconcerting, curiously pleasurable, and beyond new." |
| 4/2/2004 | Terrifying Experience, The | Magnetic Breakthrough | CD | $9.99 | Mental Telemetry | "Mitch Mitchell and his Terrifying Experience tear apart the rock paradigm, bringing all of its raw eccentricities into full view: garage, psychedelia, punk and the cosmic spaces in between. Mitch Mitchell played guitar in the 'classic line-up' of Guided By Voices, while other TEX members have played in semi-legendary Ohio underground bands such as: The Method, Pica Huss, Vibralux and Monster Truck 005. Psych damaged, full-on, rock 'n roll - make no mistake." |
| 11/2/2008 | Terrill, John | Frowny Frown | CD | $12.99 | Family Vineyard | "Between 1988 and 1998, John Terrill (co-founder of the late '70s new/no wave Dancing Cigarettes) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. In another era it could have stood next to Scott Walker or Michael Hurley's early albums or even Randy Burns' LPs on ESP Disk. It's an out-of-time classic that mixes honey baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop-psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. Now reissued for all and remastered with a bonus track from 1984. "I feel this album is a little gem. Lyrically--a man up against it (Frowny Frown) as opposed to (Smiley Smile), but still leaning towards humor, kindheartedness, and no bitterness within the adversity. A very feeling album and all kinds of sonically interesting things. The kind of direction Brian Wilson might even have taken himself if his own circumstances had been different. Beach Boys meet Mothers of Invention. It has, then, the simplicity, innocence, and at the same time the musical innovation of the Beach Boys, plus the other side of the coin, the innovation of the Mothers of Invention. Sometimes almost like The Shadows or The Tornadoes performing at a 1960 wedding reception, and then sonic blasts and great instrumentation and arrangements peppered throughout. A musician who seems to have absorbed all kinds of previous things, and then created his own very original and absorbing album." - Bill Fay, March 2008. The transparent velum packaging mirrors the handful of homemade copies John originally issued. |
| 11/2/2002 | Terroade, Kenneth | Love Rejoice | LP | $15.99 | BYG / Actuel / Get Back | "Recorded on June 10, 1969 at BYG's Studio Saravah in Paris. Jamaican born tenor saxophonist Kenneth Terroade appears here with Ronnie Beer, Evan Chandley, Francois Tusques, Bob Guerin, Earl Freeman and Claude Delcloo." |
| 6/3/2009 | The Jaguar | Primal Dimension | cassette | $5.99 | Ski-Fi | "The Jaguar", aka Troy Hanson, gives us 10 tracks of damaged trash blues. Comparisons are difficult. Think Jandek / Legendary Stardust Cowboy / Wild Man Fisher / Roky stoned out of their minds playing Gate covers. For a more learned review see what tom lax says about his last record: "One more dude what deserves some spoutin off is a gent what goes by the moniker of The Jaguar. Hailin from Wisconsin his ouvre come to my attention by way of Mr. Pink Reason who embellished the Jaguar's plight by claimin he had "zero fans". Hey, what about me? I can't says I know a whole lot about Jaguar, meaning, outside of this cdr called 'Trash Blues Bucket' I have no idea how many other releases he has packed away. Pink Reason says he's been doin "this" since the 80's so I would imagine there's a hefty back catalog lyin in wait. That said, on the surface he reminds me of another upper midwestern loner, Skidd Freeman. But Skidd relishes & shines in garage Punk rock idiom while Jaguar seems-literally-conjured out of a trash Blues bucket. At times his edifice recalls structures similar to Jandek, then you come across a high lonesome hamonica 'n yelp that sounds like the Legendary Stardust Cowboy has invited himself over, when suddendly-wham!- your buried in an electric murk of post, post, post Dead C (okay, Ashtray Navigations. ding!) detuned distemper. So he's never in one place for long. It's hard not to appreciate the guy's dedication & intent. If this was a cassette on Fuck It, Drone Disco or some label of that ilk, Jaguar might be more well known among the ecstatically erudite, but as it is, he is an island not yet chartered among the cognesceti. But fortune's change all the time. And don't I know it!" - label |
| 5/1/2009 | These Wonderful Evils | Parade Room | LP | $14.99 | Sparrow & Wires | "Home cooked post-PSF TKOP FSA X/Way solo joint. Mixed geography in orange. Close mic-ed and creaking chair. Magazine Love. Song for Bobby Neuwirth. Exquisite Fucking Happy Televised Thompson Trails. Sola Sound Mk 5. Sunn and Silvertone. Still the Spirit of '66. For Ron Asheton. For John Martyn." Numbered edition of 500 copies. 2nd release by band - The Wire magazine had this to say about their debut lp/cd Regine Flory (still available here at Eclipse): Taking their name from a compilation of Swedish garage and psych groups, These Wonderful Evils are actually based in Minneapolis and provide cover for the solo experiments of one Zak Boerger. Boerger's combination of fuzz, acoustic guitar and extended downer ballads most immediately aligns him with the New Zealand scene centered around Peter Jefferies and Alastair Galbraith as well as associated international satellites like Flying Saucer Attack and the Twisted Village roster, but there's a lonesome edge to the music that would situate it outside of any particular historical tradition and closer to the mystery school of regional private press obscurities. The acoustic tracks skirt the fringes of American primitive without particularly sounding like anyone else, but it's the elegiac fuzz settings that really make the album stand out." - The Wire, Oct. 2008. |
| 7/10/2008 | These Wonderful Evils | Regine Flory | CD | $11.99 | Sparrows & Wires | "The debut album from Chicago's These Wonderful Evils is a dark, psychedelic meditation, echoing Richard Youngs & Nico, as well as the more experimental side of the Velvet Underground. Voices & guitars buried deep in the forest are both familiar and chilling at the same time, from the drowning drone of the opener "North Atlantic" through the drifting, forlorn closer "St.Jo." This is one of the strongest releases of 2008 thus far. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!" - Reckless Records |
| 8/2/2008 | These Wonderful Evils | Regine Flory | LP | $17.99 | Sparrows & Wires | "The debut album from Chicago's These Wonderful Evils is a dark, psychedelic meditation, echoing Richard Youngs & Nico, as well as the more experimental side of the Velvet Underground. Voices & guitars buried deep in the forest are both familiar and chilling at the same time, from the drowning drone of the opener "North Atlantic" through the drifting, forlorn closer "St.Jo." This is one of the strongest releases of 2008 thus far. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!" - Reckless Records. 2nd pressing - numbered edition of 208 copies. |
| 4/16/2007 | Thin Ensemble, The | Free East Lansing Flashblacks | one sided 7" & CD | $12.99 | American Tapes | "Old East Lansing Free Crew featuring Randy Sutherland (in SF now) and John Coorz with various other jammerz circa 94-97. TE started as an Abbot Road house band of Sutherlands and after seeing 'em play an amazing set at the Otherwise gallery in April of 94, I asked to join em. After that, we played house parities where we got paid to stop, Highway overpasses, bridges, train tracks, streets, porches, music practice rooms on MSU campus, everywhere in the city. Randy played drums, alto sax and various percussion things and I jammed alto, handmade horns and electronics. We busted a few early AM tapes, had a killer collection of getting busted tracks (cops, music school students, other haterz) slanted for an early EF release, and that was about it. The Alt Country scene was big in EL there, so we opened for those bands a million times and bummed everyone out. Didn't have a single fan, tons of freedom to explore. The 7" and CD contains various live gigs and other oddities, some with trumpet and other jammerz but the sounds are pure primitive rambling barely organized free sounds. Good youth crew times indeed!!! Edition of 200, color vinyl, color art." |
| Think | The Drift | CDR | $3.99 | Last Visible Dog | "The past has found Lincoln, Nebraska's free-est rock band all over the map, going from sloppy Ornette Coleman tributes to noisy King Crimson destructions. Now, with The Drift, Think get focused. Side One is 30 minutes of wind-swept all-instrumental trance-jamming, like a lickless Carlos Santana recording a trio date for ESP-Disk. Side Two is Think's skewed idea of a pop album, featuring their legendary live staple, the 12-minute 'Fucked Up By The Sun'; the eerie 'Lucie'; a folk-stumble; a found-sound collage; a nude Morricone tribute; and an inexplicable gust of Borbetomagian squall." | |
| 3/26/2006 | Think | Variety | LP | $27.99 | Amber Soundroom | "Think came from Marl, Germany and its members had already experiences in some other bands. Progressive rock was played with guitar, flutes, piano, organ, violin, bass, drums and vocals. The name of the band is its leitmotif. The music is a joint effort showing the band´s conformity. The English lyrics, full of images and metaphors, are musically arranged in such a way that everyday problems become apparent through symbols. In 1972 the only LP was recorded at the small Menga-studio at Gelsenkirchen in an edition of 500 copies. The reissue, which is presented here, is also available in an edition of 500 LPs and includes a nice colour printed fold-out insert and has a poster, too. 180 gram vinyl." |
| 7/10/2008 | This Is My Condition | Cut Loose | LP | $13.99 | "This Is My Condition is a one man band in which Craig Comstock plays guitar, drums and sings all at the same time. In the tradition of noise rock this music is heavy, tough and intense, while at other times very free and unstructured. This Is My Condition deals in power, spontaneity and passionate lyrics. Coming from a background of experimentation, repetition and angst in Many Series and Black Calvin, Craig takes things in a new direction by going solo and performing on-the-spot improvisations of the same ilk." 13 songs. Around 35 minutes total. Recorded live with David Moore at Merriam Shoals Studio in Merriam, KS. | |
| 11/2/2008 | Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments / Fat Day | split | 7" | $3.99 | Wabana | "Yeah, both bands on this split and it makes sense if you consider they both fuck with the preconceived punk form. One tuneful ditty and a noisier freak-out from the Slave Apartments that conjures up the na- scent 70s Cleveland onslaught. Fat Day mangle their way through short, thorny creative compositions. Rough-hewn minimalism." - |
| 9/6/2002 | Thomas, Carei Feel Free Ensemble | Mining Our Bid'ness | CD | $12.99 | Roartorio | "A revelatory debut album by a 64 year old pianist/composer may beg the question: where has Carei Thomas been all this time? Born in a culturally diverse neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Thomas cut his musical teeth in Chicago during a particularly fertile period for that city: gigging with Sun Ra as an improvising vocalist in 1959-60, joining up with the AACM for one hot minute in 1966, co-founding a group called The Light with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (which also included Jerome Cooper and Wadada Leo Smith), and forming the compositional concepts that would provide a springboard for tireless exploration in the ensuing decades. Thomas moved to Minneapolis in 1972, where, in the mode of Horace Tapscott, he eschewed the industry-driven career path, choosing instead to work within the Twin Cities' community. Recorded live with a group that features, most notably, the unfettered talents of Curlew saxophonist George Cartwright, Mining Our Bid'ness represents the range of Thomas' no-boundaries Feel Free Ensemble, running the gamut from gorgeous Ellingtonian ballads to combustible free jazz testifying." |
| 11/9/2004 | Thompson, Nathan | Bell | CDR | $14.99 | Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon | “Deep, lonesome, and becalming. The good Mr Thompson usually constitutes one third of shapeshifting Dunedin-ites Sandoz Lab Technicians and upon his recent relocation to Sydney, Australia stumbled into delightful solace in the quicksand of the digital realm. A warm, chunky, broth of free-form, lo-fi, loop-soup that suffers not-a-bit from the fact that it was created entirely within the four cold walls of a hard drive. A beautiful baby in the Sandoz family.” |
| 2/21/2008 | Thornton, Carter | Ten Fingers for Forefathers | LP | $14.99 | Black Dirt Records | "If you are a fan of the archaic format of music storage and delivery known as vinyl then you are also probably experienced in the art of search and rescue when faced with a pre-auction era, dusty, moldy shop filled to the rafters with such blasts from the past. Every now and then one comes upon a platter in one of these fading outposts, marked at about $3.99. Cover seams split, maybe some radio call letters scrawled in marker, maybe a booze-coffee-bongwater spill splayed like a Rorschach on the back. Perhaps it is the cover art itself that draws your attentionŠ black and white photos seemingly from another time in content and message. Or perhaps it is the title of the albumŠthe way it rolls off the tongue, its playfulness marked by a seemingly obscure reference. The fact that there are no song titles may pique your interestŠ why is this? Are there even songs on there? You can see the gaps in the grooves so there is some sound being broken up with seconds of silence. You wipe the grime off the grooves with your shirtsleeve and take the disc over to the crappy player up by the register. You pop it on, slip the needle in the groove, and immediately you have the thoughtŠ "What the hell is this?!?!?" You're hearing one of those rare recordings of a singular and personal vision. A solo guitar performance that not only operates outside any current or previous fashions, but one that seems to render the idea of recorded music as commerce a nonreality. Although you are carried away with delight by the sounds you are hearing, you can't help but wonder why this person recorded this music. His intent is as elusive as the music he is presenting. It seems as though you are there with the player, this audio mirage helped by sounds of his chair creaking, his arm brushing against the side of his instrument, his fingers scraping across the strings. You purchase the item straightaway, as determined to figure out the history of the recording as you are to wear out its grooves with repeated listenings. With Ten Fingers for Forefathers the proverbial chase has been cut right to. Take a listen and see if you can crack the sonic code contained therein." 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. |
| Thornton, Clifford | Ketchaoua | LP | $16.99 | Get Back | "This album was recorded in Paris on August 18, 1969 by Clifford Thornton (cornet and conga drums) with Grachan Moncur III (trombone), Archie Shepp (soprano saxophone), Arthur Jones (alto saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), Sunny Murray (drums), Beb Guerin (bass), Earl Freeman (bass) and Claude Delcloo (drums). 'Clifford Thornton was a player and a composer whose obscurity was offset by the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow musicians... like Shepp, Thornton was actively involved in advancing the ideology of the black nationalist movement... and all of his recordings are intense and important about those matters that were close to his heart - liberation, communication and unity'. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl." | |
| 8/28/2007 | Thousands | Overflow'd & Gush'd Out | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "When the curtain opens on the lone figure at the head of the stage as he blows his harmonica, hoping to conjure spirits from the layers of dust on the floor. wailing vocals light the balconies and waft their way toward the smoky heavens of the lushly decorated ceiling. thousands is the sister of the mighty (VxPxC), but this extended family vision is a much larger beast. on "overflow'd & gush'd out," thousands are six. disjointed melodies reclaim the horizon from fractured guitar lines and sporadic drum blasts. thousands move like a machine across the landscape, sucking up everything in their path, inviting it all in to join in their revolt. rebelling against what? that's not all that important when it sounds so damn good. 100 copies" |
| 3/5/2009 | Thrash, Jr | All Throttle, No Bottle | CDR | $12.99 | Mad Monk Annex | "Thrash, Jr, named after Houston Mazda (RX-7) Cup driver Thomas Thrash Jr, is yet another guise of James Jackson Toth, and released on Toth's new MAD MONK ANNEX CDR imprint. This racing-themed album comprises three extended pieces of bleak and visceral solo guitar cacophony / catharsis. If Hassara was "boogie," Thrash, Jr is "bombardment." From the artist: "Like most American kids my age, my life was changed irrevocably by the music of bands like Courtesy Flush, Army Nightmares, Lil Johnny Eightball & the Secret Society Dildos, and The Canker Sores. This premeditated and unprovoked attack on my electric guitar is in tribute to those bands and their myriad imitators." "Lux Interior" is a duet for raging rainstorm and goat hoof-guitar, "Victory Is Hers" is a naughty little respite of delay blast and Toth's patented "animal-tapping" fuckitude, and "Militant Walls (Is Poser Noise For Pussy Emo Fags)" finds Toth turning up the gain on his solid state amplifier and proceeding to audibly pull his Stratocaster apart - you can literally hear the entire tremolo system being slowly removed. Ouch! "Makes Rudolph Grey sound like Steve Vai" - William Blake Cobblestone, local television personality. "The best guitar noise album of the year" - The Other Dude in Claudio Two, Claudio Two. Improvised and recorded entirely live over two stormy Nashville nights, with nothing added post production. For fans of guitar disembowlment pioneers like Stefan Jaworzyn, Donald Miller, et al. Proper jewel cases, no more slim case bullshit." |
| 12/25/2005 | Three Forks | Seven Layer Ape | CD | $12.99 | United Fairy Moons | "This collection of 2002-04 recordings by the recently deceased Dunedin trio Three Forks is the first widely available disc to feature guitarist Donald McPherson since 2001's solo effort 'Bramble' (metonymic), praised for it's originality and McPherson's obvious mastery of guitar picking, His longstanding weekend duo with Sandoz Lab Technician Tim Cornelius was expanded early in 2002 to include James Currin, and although they didn't play out for over a year they setttled down to regular jamming and recording, initially concentrating on shortish improv power-trio jams, on guitar, drums and cello respectively. This first phase is represented here by two tracks, 'Ums and Ahs' and 'Peru', with McPherson way out front on electric guitar, his extraordinary improvising imagination leading the group down a line somewhere between rock and a giddy free-jazz cuckoo-fest. By the time of their first shows in 2003, the balance had spread out with Currin and Cornelius contributing on a wide variety of instuments, and McPherson mainly on acoustic. In this year they recorded 'Baby Ives', released as one half (with Eye) of a lathe-cut 10", which veered wildly in mood between the hideous and the gorgeous, with vocals, radio and drum machine used in addition to the acoustic arsenal - it was a pointer towards the strange, rickety beast that is represented on the '03/'04 recordings here. The opener 'Dust Tea' is a quiet beauty, simple violin and cello framing McPherson's entrancing home-made-guitar plucks. 'Otaru Vision' and 'Trimming The Verge' drone and saw, playing elevation against irritation with strong noise elements, while 'Page 99' and 'Drunken Traffic' achieve a level of melodic layering that is extraordinary for a purely improvising group. The last in particular, a complete 15-minute jam recorded live at Dunedin's Community Gallery, points out where this group's head was at when they were at their best - a near-wallowing in melodic intensities that never caramelizes, and never, ever heads in the direction you expect it to. Indeed like this track, almost every track on 'Seven Layer Ape' is a complete, unedited, un-fucked-with performance (only 'Otaru Vision' is an excerpt) with just their fronts and ends tidied up; and while the Community Gallery recording is a little cavernous, replete with the sounds of car alarms, engines, and passing late-night-shoppers, the rest of the disc features exceptionally clear and present sound, unusual in a band mining this area of the improv universe. James Robinson, who drew the cover art, is known NZ-wide for his massive, completely insane graphomaniac canvases, and each cover is handscreened and partially hand-painted by Currin and Cornelius. We're very happy to be able to present this band's work and in particular to present another side of Donald McPherson's world-class guitar playing. This label got its' start with his 'Liquified' lathe LP (a recording of a 2001 gig), and both Cornelius and Currin contributed to that record; and so it is that our first real CD release should be this impressive and singular album." |
| 2/11/2006 | Three Legged Race | Living Order | cassette | $8.99 | Tone Filth | "Sick deeply layered tones from solo Robo of Hair Police. Layers and layers of hearing test tones and subtle drones. Edition of 121 with hand screened covers and tapes." |
| 2/7/2009 | Three Legged Race | Living Order / Mourning Order | LP | $15.99 | Tone Filth | "Robert Beatty, who may be better known as a member of Hair Police, Eyes & Arms of Smoke & a contributor to Burning Star Core, has been creating some of his most interesting material under the name Three Legged Race. Living Order / Mourning Order is a reissue of a pair of releases from 2006, Living Order primarily focusing on micro-tonal shifts and movement & Mourning Order setting aside most (but not all) of the tones for composition. A lesson in the beauty of modern electronics. Edition of 335 with 3 color screen print and artwork by Robert Beatty." |
| 6/5/2005 | Three Outpourings, The | Organic Evacuation | CDR | $10.99 | Manhand | "The death of the animal will be typified by pouring back the water from the glass into the bucket, when the coloring matter will at once spread through the whole of the water, tinting it faintly. In exactly the same way, whatever qualities have been developed during the life of the separated animal will be distri<caron>buted through the whole group-soul after his death." Limited edition of 225 copies from Sunburned's Chad Cooper & Mike K with Donald Harney. Recommended! |
| 1/15/2005 | Throbbing Gristle | Final Muzak | CD | $12.99 | Dressed to Kill | Re-packaged version of First Annual Report - Throbbing Gristles first album originally recorded in 1979. Housed in a slipcase with 8 page booklet including pictures and sleeve notes. A review of First Annual Report: "Rock and roll is supposed to be all about rebellion. Elvis' pelvis, the Who's guitar-smashing excess, Twisted Sister's hideous makeup and perms - it's all about distancing yourself from the generation that came before you and doing something daring and new. The old adage goes that if your parents hate it, it must be good. Suffice to say your parents will hate Throbbing Gristle. The only problem is, you might not be that into it, either. Consider that First Annual Report begins with the 18-minute 'Very Friendly,' a sustained blast of pulsing static and grating noise that seems designed to flatten your eardrums. As if this sonic caning weren't enough, vocalist Genesis P-Orridge rambles for the first 14 or so minutes about a would-be sexual encounter that degenerates into a brutal axe murder. P-Orridge's intonation of, 'Ian Brady, very friendly,' is creepy as all hell, especially when tape manipulator Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson loops it for three minutes at the end, alternating it with P-Orridge's demented cry: 'there's been a murder.' Now consider that First Annual Report was recorded in 1975, with little precedent for this kind of recording. The Velvet Underground had toyed with twisted narratives on 'The Gift,' but they'd never taken their music this far outside the pop realm. The other great noise opus of 1975, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, though more abstract, never went so far as Throbbing Gristle did toward open confrontation with the listener. And yet, the band, known for being highly confrontational, held back the release of this album until now, opting instead to release Second Annual Report as their debut full-length in 1977. This record is essentially the birth of industrial music, packed with samples, abrasive, irregular beats, manipulated loops, and Cosey Fanni Tutti's often unrecognizable guitar. Nurse with Wound, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Controlled Bleeding, and Acid Bath are just a few of the outfits that owe a huge debt to Throbbing Gristle's unrelenting assault. First Annual Report sonically chronicles the decay of Industrial Revolution Britain. Chris Carter's programmed beats are the rhythms of broken machinery - glitch before it was cool. The music is gray and sooty, and revels in crime and horrifying imagery. So 'Final Muzak' is hardly the kind of thing you'd want playing in elevators or fine eating establishments. You'd be hard pressed even to call it a song - or anything else here, for that matter - as it has no form, melody or even a discernable rhythm. Throbbing Gristle's later albums are definitely better places to start if you want to get to the roots of industrial music (20 Jazz Funk Greats is a personal favorite), featuring more variety, and a more penetrable sound, but their first effort is nearly unparalleled in terms of shear visceral content. If pummeling noise for its own sake and direct confrontation between band and listener is your bag, then the gristle throbs for thee. But if you're anyone else, you're quite likely to despise this, and it's debatable whether or not you'll be able to sit through the whole thing even once." - Joe Tangari, Pitchfork |
| 1/15/2005 | Throbbing Gristle | Grief | CD | $12.99 | Yeahh | "One of the more strange entries in the Throbbing Gristle catalog, though not one of their best, Grief offers two LP-side-long collages of various rumblings and tweakings and other electronic noises, even half a minute of ‘Subhuman,’ with several interviews with Throbbing Gristle's leader, Genesis P-Orridge, and occasional interjections from other bandmembers. Most of the interviews are put though various effects boxes, lots of echoing, and other distortions that make them quite difficult to follow, and other times two different dialogues are going on at once. It's too bad, because at times what P-Orridge has to say is quite fascinating, like when he talks about censorship and his troubles of mailing pornographic postcards or going through William S. Burroughs' archives of old tape experiments. A bit less on the effects and sounds would have been an improvement. Everything is piled on top of each other haphazardly for one chaotic soup of noise that is really too confusing to be effective. This comes off too much like the work of stoned college sophomores with a multi-track and too much time on their hands.” - Rolf Semprebon, All Music Guide. Maybe so, but I still like it! |
| 10/31/2009 | Throbbing Gristle | United: The 7" Singles | picture disc LP | $38.99 | "It shouldn't be any secret that the founders of modern industrial music did their best recordings on their early 7" releases, and here they are on one appropriately grim picture disc: "United" and "Zyklon B Zombie" from their 1978 single on their own Industrial Records label, "We Hate You (Little Girls)" and "Five Knuckle Shuffle" from their 1979 Sordide Sentimental 7", "Adrenalin" and "Distant Dreams (Part 2)" from their 1980 on Industrial, "Subhuman" and "Something Came Over Me" from another 1980 release on Industrial, and "Discipline" from a 1984 flexidisc on Flexipop. Limited pressing of only 500 copies, UK import. | |
| 9/30/2005 | Thuja | Pine Cone Temples | DBL CD | $16.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Much has been said about The Jewelled Antler Collective, the fertile womb from which Thuja emits its primordial ooze, and of Thuja itself. A loose-knit assembly of like-minded sound ecologists who study the connections between their immediate environment and the music created by its players, Jewelled Antler claims a multitude of music makers in its orbit - Blithe Sons, Skygreen Leopards, Franciscan Hobbies being just a mere cross-section. Thuja, however, remains one of the earliest and best-known incarnations. Steven R. Smith, Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chase, and Rob Reger coalesce interests in field recordings, found sound, experimentalism, folk and psychedelic rock (among others) to weave seriously detailed and immense journeys into pure sound. By incorporating real-time recordings of natural sounds from their particular surroundings, the four members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with impeccable instinct, succeeding in creating eerie yet strikingly melodic compositions. The end result is a total immersion of the senses, for both the player and the listener. Across the grand expanse of Pine Cone Temple's two discs, implements such as piano, guitars, percussion, and well-placed contact mics are blended like pigments to conjure the subtlest of sonics, pulling every lost drop of their immediate universe into floating and buzzing cinematics. Minimalist hues are brush-stroked into being and slowly unfurl into the atmosphere. Improvised clouds of sound softly erupt to form compositions of such immense and precise detail, it would seem the music was written out rather than spontaneously developed. Such is the magic of Thuja and their uncanny ability to sculpt microscopic psychedelia from their immediate environment and collective consciousness." |
| 2/21/2008 | Thuja | Thuja | LP | $17.99 | Important | "Improvisational Bay Area quartet Thuja create aural landscapes that capture the reverberations of wood and wire, the sounds of breaking sticks and scraping stones, and the ambience of their surroundings into a shifting, dynamic musical framework. The members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with a natural instinct, succeeding in conjuring spectral compositions which are at once abstract yet inviting. For this self-titled release, their sixth full-length and first for Important Records, Thuja have assembled recordings from various live performance spaces (the Hemlock, the Oaklandish Gallery, Pehr Space, Kains Greenhouse) and have welcomed a variety of guests into the fold to help assist and expand their microscopic psychedelia toward a new plateau. After eight years, the semi-annual gathering of the members of Thuja is almost traditional, but new clearings are still to be discovered in its thickets of sound. This self-titled release is yet another essential artifact from Thuja's ongoing explorations." Edition of 500 copies. |
| 8/4/2007 | Tight Meat Duo | Creaming The Gutterpunk | 8" lathe | $25.99 | Alt.Vinyl | "Brand new release from the punk primitive free jazz duo of David Keenan (Taurpis Tula) on alto sax and Alex Neilson (Directing Hand/Motor Ghost/Jandek et al) on drums. 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 three tracks that explode the post-Blue Humans/Sonny Simmons action jazz style with vocalised horn work, time-killing drums and a ton of bloodied flesh. Features three dense tracks: "Creaming The Gutterpunk", "Dedicated To Smell & Quim But They Weren't Listening" and "Nobody Loves The Hulk". Recorded live in the studio, Govan, Glasgow." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 1/1/2008 | Time Life | Drumlins | 7" | $5.99 | Not Not Fun | "Diehl / Crane duo drops its long-overdue vinyl debut and it's great news. memory bank robbing and mechanized appalachian comedowns. manda collage artwork with loopy eyes added. edition of 250." |
| 11/17/2007 | Time Life | I Am Just To Myself | cassette | $6.99 | Arbor | "By now this duo should be far from a mystery though their psychic audio mythos has been continually deepening, growing, and transcending. Comprised of Vanishing Voice members G. Lucas Crane(Non-Horse) and Heidi Diehl, these New Yorkers flee the trappings of the fashion capital of the world for the land of home grown psychedelia. Non-Horse plays a crate of cassette tapes and a chain of delay. Wrapping sounds from various sources into a concocted aural remedy from reality, a psychedelic blanket sheltering you from the outside world. Heidi lends her voice and dripping dream guitar work to the powers at hand, juxtaposing heavy bass with light whispers and shimmering strings with deep murmurs. On the B side fellow spirit forcer Steve Gunn of GHQ brings a new element to the group, percussion. A natural oneness is developed between all players, creating earth music with a deeply rooted sense of calmness and serenity. In an edition of 100 numbered tapes with printed labels." |
| 4/16/2007 | Time Life / Lil Dusty | split | cassete | $7.99 | Vanishing Voice | "Limited edition of 100 (with handmade cloth covered cases) split cassette between the new duo of Lucas Crane and Heidi Dahl of Vanishing Voice aka Time Life and the Bushwick-based Lil Dusty. Time Life play beautiful childlike trance chants, phased F/X and stunted/plunked acoustic strings fed through massive bone megaphones and loops of entropy that would transport you straight to the kind of desolate alien landscapes previously peopled by solitary souls like Angus MacLise, Harry Partch and Graham Lambkin. Lil Dusty plays damaged casio hymns to some kind of Kosmiche toytown utopia." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 4/24/2006 | Timothy, Revelator with Shane Speal and Sarada | Hoofbeat, Caw, & Thunder | CDR | $10.99 | Hand / Eye | "On Old Christmas Eve and Old Christmas Day, January 2006, Timothy, Revelator, having had on his mind thoughts of the death of Time; and in his ears and eyes, great gatherings of crows wherever he went; and in his heart his twin children; sat down, put pen to paper, and wrote "Hoofbeat, Caw, & Thunder." In two days' and two nights' time, thoughts and hopes and fears began to spin together like a spider's web, and he produced what is perhaps his most personal work to date. Biblical and personal revelation blend as animist apocrypha is reconciled to Catholic Apocalypse, disappointment to hope, past to future. All these thoughts of ENDING blending with the demise of Stone Breath (Timothy's now defunct band), and the fact that he has not released an album in well over eighteen months' time, lent this material a sense of urgency and he began to put it to music immediately (perhaps, in his mind, before The End). With a host of instruments at hand (guitars, banjos, dulcimers, harmonium, lute, and something Timothy calls the motheart), he began to compose songs and drones to marry to his text. Besides bowed strings and blown harmonium reeds, Timothy created drones from field recordings he made of steam engines and whistles from various antique engine shows (another anachronistic interest of Timothy's); as well as recordings of the loudest instrument in the world, the factory steam whistle in York, PA, which is played every Christmas at midnight and heard for many miles around. He recruited friends Sarada, whose silvery vocals have graced many of Timothy's previous albums, and Shane Speal, the King of the Cigar Box Guitar, to help. Sarada sang with Timothy while Shane played a double-necked bass/guitar cigar box and a fretless electric bass. "Hoofbeat, Caw, & Thunder" was meant to be taken as one piece (though divided into tracks for the convenience of the listener) and the sound weaves elements of Timothy's past with hints at his future musical direction. Not steampunk, but steamdrone and folk (wyrd or otherwise), sometimes with distorted dissonance, and other times in quieter, acoustic lead settings. In this, Time has turned in on itself; where sounds of medieval lutes meet 1970's tube-driven recording equipment, and 1880's steam whistles are sampled, reconstructed, and looped by modern devices. "Hoofbeat, Caw, & Thunder," with sonic leaps back and forth through Time, becomes a meditation on the end of all things, or perhaps of just one man, and on love, and family, and what we leave behind. 9 tracks, 58 minutes." |
| Tinsel | The Lead Shoes | CD | $13.99 | Keyhole/The Broken Face | "The first full-length album from Wisconsin-based Michael Hopkins' solo project Tinsel finds him improving and honing his fractured folk arrangements, diversifying instrumentation (i.e. less guitar, more samples), resulting in a whispering, submerged sound totally unlike your regular one man sonic experience. The songs were in large part recorded in an old abandoned stone building located in a former lead mining town, and the isolation and sadness within its walls seeps right into the music. Tinsel has formulated the musical equivalent of this dark deserted town. Old signs hang loosely from their creaky hinges. Most of the windows have been smashed out, and the wind seems to blow more harshly than normal. That this ugly reality and the withering honesty hangs in the air like distant echoes in the clear night of a hidden valley all through the record's 51 minutes of droning melancholia is nothing less than stunning." | |
| 9/17/2006 | Tirath Singh Nirmala | Bluster, Cragg, & Awe | CD | $12.99 | Digitalis | "Not too long ago, John Clyde-Evans made a huge splash with his phenomenal solo LP on England's Fisheye imprint. He also performed as an collaborator with the seminal UK group, Hood. After taking a seven year hiatus and committing to the path of Sikhism, he returned as Tirath Singh Nirmala. His continually unfolding backstory is interesting enough, but it's his music where the real magic and mystery stretch their silver wings. Nirmala returned to making music after his close friend and collaborator, Vibracathedral Orchestra's Neil Campbell, gave him some free software and set him on his way. Nirmala responded with nearly a dozen self-released, highly limited CDRs. The releases were filled to the brim with Eastern-influenced, transcendental drones and uplifting spiritual sound explorations. His manipulation of sine waves and use of obscure Asian instruments creates a wholly original and unique sound. As on his solo LP as John Clyde-Evans, Nirmala's ability to concoct sprawling, majestic drones using such simple terms is unmatched. "Bluster, Cragg, & Awe," Nirmala's first non-CDR release, is the perfect beginning. It collects the best tracks from those now impossible-to-find releases and adds one new song and one collaborative piece with Scottish guitar guru, Richard Youngs. It is a journey that lasts less than an hour, but contains a lifetime of aural experience, wrapped into one, shimmering golden package. Oh yes, Tirath Singh Nirmala has returned." |
| 8/2/2008 | Tirath Singh Nirmala | Growing Into the Wind | CDR | $12.99 | Rhizome | "From elevated drones to gut-spit vocal edits, blown woodwinds and heavy electronics, this is one of the finest summations of music made in 'the Tirath era' - English artist John Clyde-Evans has retired his Tirath Singh Nirmala name and now flies under the JCE banner. Tirath/John has also recently worked with Neil Campbell in Astral Social Club, released a collaborative LP with Richard Youngs, and was previously a member of the Hood crew." |
| 9/17/2006 | Tirath Singh Nirmala | Slimp Tench Depth | CDR | $10.99 | "Brand new limited private press CD-R from Tirath Singh-Nirmala, ex-John Clyde-Evans, and reputedly his last full-length for a while due to his temporary re-location to the Indian sub-continent. Heavier, fuller sound to this one, with drums, tons of bells, shivers of breath and tone and a feel that is somewhere between Vibracathedral Orchestra's more widescreen work, Tibetan liturgy, Sun City Girls and the more percussive, long-distance Steve Reich compositions. Already sold-out at source." - Volcanic Tongue | |
| 10/25/2008 | Titan | Pilzmarmelade | LP | $19.99 | Wakusei Records | "The Titan - Pilzmarmelade LP is finally out, almost two years in the making! Re-press of the early cdr only release, remixed by Jesse Cannon (Bad Wizard, Dalek, Dillinger Escape Plan, Oneida) and remastered by Steve Moore of Zombi. 500 copies all on clear/orange vinyl." Beautiful album to hold with killer artwork on both front & back sleeve as well as nice artwork on inner sleeve. |
| 12/24/2005 | Tivol | Early Teeth | LP | $15.99 | Holy Mountain | "While the "free folk" music boom from Finland has recently grabbed the ears of many of this planet's less ape-eared, Holy Mountain is more than pleased to extend a hand to the darker-- not to mention-more rocking-- side of this contemporaneous scene. Tivol plays a throbbing, violent and aggressive strain of acid rock that has nothing to do with subtlety. Their already hypnotic material is further enhanced by screamed vocals that do not seem to emanate from this earth. Comprised of four tracks from two extremely limited edition CDRs released on the 267 Lattajjaaa and Time-Lag labels, Holy Mountain redelivers this material on vinyl with vastly improved sound quality and charming new artwork silkscreened by the talented hands and mind of the Free Porcupine Society's Robert Fisk." |
| 2/15/2005 | Tivol | Teema: Läskipää | CDR | $9.99 | Tibprod | Very limited cdr release from Norwegian label. |
| To Live And Shave In L.A. | Tonal Harmony`` | CD | $11.99 | Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers | Insanity from Tom Smith, Rat Bastard, Ben Wolcott, John Morton (Electric Eels), Simeon (Silver Apples) on oscillators, Bill Orcutt (ex-Harry Pussy) on guitar. | |
| Toemass | The Hydro-Triad | LP | $12.99 | Violet Glass Oracle | Very limited LP of strange electronics | |
| 2/23/2004 | Toft, Sten Ove | Landmark | CDR | $9.99 | Humbug | “Sten Ove Toft cut his teeth operating heavy machinery with prizewinning duo Waffelpung and is also playing in several other frightful noise duos (non-prizewinning ones as far as I know) like Ryfylke (look out for their debut CD, out before you can say ‘bevaremegvel’), Röyskatt, Devold and Nuvel, and probably a few I'm forgetting too. Under his own name he goes for a massive & bad-tempered thrust of full-on roarage and heavy throbbing electronics. This is at 29 minutes a quite focussed live recording (from Bergen's superb Landmark venue), if not in terms of fidelity (a one mic room recording) then certainly in the way it sees Toft haul cracked dynamics as well as big clustering swells of hollowness out of his set-up (being a laptop, dictaphone and thrashed cutlery & plates). Great flowery artwork and unmistakable niceness all around. Edition of 80 copies.” |
| 12/29/2001 | Toho Sara | Eastern Most 1-7 | CD | $15.99 | PSF | Japanese underground shamanistic avant-garde music from Kawabata Makoto playing tabla, bass, piri, oboe, harmonium, cello, flute, bass recorder, china gong, vibes, kei, biwa, shakujo, viola, violin, hansho, etc. Nanjo may have played some of the above, as well, but I think this is mainly Kawabata's music sent to Nanjo and he did 'the production'. Anyhow, it's great more along the lines of Kawabata's solo release Inui LP than say the freakout Acid Mothers Temple music. |
| 12/26/2005 | Toitu Séance | Toitu Séance | CDR | $12.99 | Seedy R! | "Featuring Tim Cornelius, Nathan Thompson, James Kirk, Peter Stapleton, Campbell Kneale, Richard Francis, Zoe Drayton, Antony Milton and Clinton Williams. In October of 2004 during the biannual Lines of Flight festival in Dunedin the band Sandoz Lab Technicians organised the usage of a recording studio so as to work toward their new album. Unfortunately for them they had innocently told other participants in the festival of their plan and whats more had invited them up to sit and listen as they played... In hindsight it was of course inevitable that said musicians would not be able to resist the temptation to join in the fun and Toitu Seance is the recording that resulted from this NZ noise 'all-star' event. Restrained and controlled feedback hovers and shifts, organs groan, spontaneous drum circles erupt... Great stuff that will appeal to fans of the Metonymic label." |
| 2/6/2007 | Tolvi, Antti | Antti Tolvi | cassette | $10.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Winds of tape-hiss moving deep into white plains of delicate sounds, blowing softly through quiet improvisations on all things small by Antti Tolvi (Lauhkeat Lampaat, Rauhan Orkestri, Taikuri Tali etc.). Natural edition of 100 copies with almost invisible silkscreened insert." One sided CS 60. |
| 1/1/2008 | Tolvi, Antti | Tänän | CDR | $9.99 | Peippo | "Antti Tolvi is known for his work in Rauhan Orkesteri, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Lau Nau live band, Päivänsäde and Taikuri Tali. Here Antti plays one long sound from harmonium. Hand assembled silk paper sleeves." |
| 8/22/2008 | Tom Tom Lamas | Rohayhu | CDR | $13.99 | Reverb Worship | "Tom Tom Lamas are a trio from Buenos Aires,Argentina.There are four tracks here dating from between 2004 & 2006.All recorded live direct to channel using one microphone.The music can be described as instrumental hypnotically played psychedelic tinged post rock.The cd is available now in an edition of 50 numbered copies in a printed and flourescent orange sprayed cover." |
| 5/14/2007 | Tombi | Black Humid Mist | CDR | $8.99 | Students of Decay | "Tombi is the solo moniker of Ry Wharton (who runs the great Twonicorn tape label). Over the course of several limited edition cassettes, including the simply fantastic "Forest of Three Trees" released on Tone Filth midway through 2006, Wharton has sculpted subterranean synth and electronics into obsessive basement hymns. "Black Humid Mist" begins with a calming tide pool of ringing bell tones, which open up into the hypnotic riptide static of the title track - an enchanting live feed from some bleak and beautiful valley far beneath earth's surface." |
| 6/11/2006 | Tombi | Forest of Three Trees | cassette | $7.99 | Tone Filth | "Ry from the Twonicorn tape label delivers some synth murk from a distant basement down the block. Beautiful and engulfing, sometimes almost seems like too much, but it's perfect really. Edition of 103 with hand screened inserts and tapes." |
| 6/19/2002 | Tomokawa, Kazuki | Live Manda-la Special | CD | $15.99 | PSF | 3rd PSF release features a collection of live performances. |
| 3/26/2006 | Tomokawa, Kazuki | Satoru | LP | $49.99 | Tiliqua Records | "Limited LP set of 450 numbered copies. "Satoru" is Tomokawa Kazukis first ever LP release in over 20 years time and Tiliqua Records is proud to be able to release this sonic gem. "Satoru" was previously only available as part of the 13 CD Box set that PSF Records put out some years ago and has never been available outside of the set. Now "Satoru" is finally available apart from the illustrious box and is been rebirthed as an LP, housed in sturdy and heavy jacket adorned with Tomokawa's artwork. Coming with the LP is a two-paged insert printed on high quality glossy paper. It contains liner notes penned down by Alan Cummings and Johan Wellens, notes that shed some clarity on Tomokawa's universe, historical background, poetic qualities and the position he takes in within a long line of historical Japanese poets. In order to get a glimpse of the aural regions this album will steer into, this is an as close a comparison one can have using plain words. "There is a raw immediacy to Tomokawa's performances that effortlessly hurdles many linguistic barriers, speaking direct to the listeners nerves and emotions...Tomokawa's voice constantly storms against the confines of his own vaguely symbolist words, harshly screaming or melodically moaning, the emotional voltage that courses through his delivery constantly threatening to melt their neural circuitry." (AC) and "Tomokawa succeeds in triggering apocalyptic waves of emotionalism through the tiniest gestures exhorted from his guttural howls and fevered guitar strummings. Keeping a razor-sharp balance between self-tormenting pained gloominess and soul-searching poetic lyricism he manages tocreate a tense and innovative acoustic music, sounding simultaneously ancient and contemporaneously authentic. And it is here that his especial strength resides, a music fully drenched in the past, yet so attuned to the present moment. His snarling howl and single syllable guttural moans seem to bridge time and space, epoch and eras; hermetic yowls recalling Enka crooners, circus sideshow barkers, carnival callers, Nikkatsu movie gangsters and soft-hearted balladeers, all embodied in the persona of Tomokawa Kazuki" (JW) (From the liner notes) A truly exquisite release, housed in a heavy full color jacket. One time only press of 450 copies." |
| 8/8/2009 | Tomutonttu | Tomutonto | CD | $16.99 | Fonal Records | "Fonal re-releases Tomutonto, a long sold-out gem by Finland's Tomutonttu (Jan Anderzén), previously released on LP in 2006 by the Ultra Eczema label. Anderzén is a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde group Kemialliset Ystävät, whose primitivism and tribal noise inclinations are reflected in these recordings. Echoed, chanting vocals, ethnic flutes, droning or rushing electronics, ritualistic mantras, low intonations, oscillations, ululations, sped-up tape squiggle, blistered bass tones and thudded percussion are just some of what you'll encounter here, creating a pastiche of sound of that will accompany you as you delve further and further into the neon cave." - FE |
| 8/8/2009 | Tomutonttu | Tomutonttu | CD | $16.99 | Fonal Records | "Fonal Recods re-releases this long sold-out debut by Tomutonttu, originally released in 2007 by Beta-lactam Ring and previously only available in a 400 copies-only 220 gram vinyl format. Tomutonttu ("Dust Gnome") is a human called Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colors used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confused and confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom-flow -- a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own. Harkening early electronic experimenters and avant composers of the past such as early Die Tödliche Doris and Meredith Monk, this album is like listening to 500 library records all at once, or walking through a labyrinth of motherboards, or laying on a scientist's table with electrodes attached to your body while you are exposed to every noise, light, and color in their various range of spectrums. Tomutonttu has collaborated live with Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards, Religious Knives), Joshua Burkett, Tara Burke (Fursaxa), The Skaters, Glenn Donaldson (Jewelled Antler), Sami Sänpäkkilä (Es) and Clay Ruby (Davenport), and has recently played a series of concerts for school kids at the planetarium in his home town of Tampere, Finland." - FE |
| 7/30/2006 | Tonalamotl | Tonalamotl | LP | $15.99 | Bobby J | "San Antonio mystery improv troupe. Early recordings of living-room blast-offs and AMM/ESP inspired wanderings..." - label |
| Tone Float | Musik von Tone Float | CD | $13.99 | Timothy's Brain | Psychedelic Texans (Mazinga Phaser/Vas Deferens Organization) play kosmische musik! | |
| 12/12/2009 | Topaz Rags | Capricorn Born Again | LP | $12.99 | Not Not Fun | "Debut full-length by this sour times lurker trio. Recorded across four months in a time consuming 4-track/boombox assemblage style, this one leaks shadows and rainy piano riffs and faded heartbreak. Edition of 400." |
| 1/30/2010 | Topping Bottoms | Tower Of Spines | cassette | $6.99 | Not Not Fun | "Killer weirdo tokyo crew drop a block of PSF-damaged warehouse guitar strobe light sludge. in insane art-packing by Create Evil chief Ryo." |
| Tortoise | Millions Now Living Will Never Die | CD | $12.99 | Thrill Jockey | "Cool" Chicago band | |
| 3/2/2007 | Total Life | Total Life | LP | $11.99 | Animal Disguise | "Total Life is the solo project of Kevin Doria who is also a member of the atmospheric/noise/drone group, Growing. This is his debut release that we originally released as a limited edition cassette in 2005. This album displays an obsessive sense of composition and an absolute mastery of harnessing chaos to create a solid masterpiece. Heavy electronic washes, multiple layers of feedback and shifting harmonics create a powerful wall of sound that at first seems overtly harsh, but repeated listenings reveal a hidden beauty and natural soothing effect. Fans of Growing shouldn't be disappointed, but to make the comparisons to them would be much too easy. Total Life stands on its own, and walks its own path." |
| 9/30/2008 | Total System Failure | One of Many Eyes | CDR | $10.99 | Chironex | "Total System Failure is the solo/collaborative project of Vinnie Paternostro. Total System Failure explores sonic landscape / improvisations with saxophone, effects and synths. The recording features Sam Lohman on Space drum. Vinnie used to play in numerous bands/projects (Temple Of Bon Matin, Arthur Doyle Electro Acoustic Ensemble, Sonic Suicide Squad, Blue Prostitutes, Go Gun...) 6 tracks, 120 copies." |
| 3/2/2007 | Totally Dad | Dad's Fucked | CDR | $7.99 | Obsolete Units | "Skronk-prov trio Totally Dad welcome you with Obsolete Units' inaugural release! Ultra lo-fi, free-form rock that recalls perhaps Harry Pussy and The Dead C airing out their grievances in an alternate-universe duel to the death. Blown-speaker scuzz rock for all! From the desk of T.D.: Totally Dad is the sound of grown men trying, of baited strings and the poison drum. Totally Dad is the cry of brass usb and solar pipes, of having and holding, of letting you know why all the love that pulsates through this world can be taken in one measure. Totally Dad is an instant message to god from a keyboard of electric bubble wrap. "Totally Dad's "Dad's Fucked" is actually really fucken good; like a head-on collision between Grand Funk Railroad on acid and the Nihilist Spasm Band on speedballs. You can't imagine what that sounds like, can you? Ok then, out-of-control spazzy improv noise-rock jams, like three super-charged robot orangutans in a small room with large amps and a drumkit and recording everything direct to two-track cassette on a pink "Cindy" cassette-recorder that someone's little sister left behind once and got run over in the street outside when she came back to pick it up...7/10" - Foxy Digitalis. Edition of 50. |
| 9/18/2006 | Touch | Touch | LP | $21.99 | Eclectic | "A reissue of this obscure Los Angeles psychedelic band's 1969 sole album, supposedly intended to break down walls in the mind; to cause the listener to achieve an altered state of consciousness "through music." Well, whatever, the band didn't last too long (too many drugs, hmm?) despite all the hype and druggy partying. The packaging on this includes a full reproduction of one of their original posters, and the jacket is die cut to open from the front into 3 panels. 180 gram virgin vinyl in vintage '60s slick-over-board style heavy jackets. Italian import.. 180 gram vinyl in gatefold vintage '60s slick-over-board style jackets." |
| 2/9/2002 | Tower Recordings, The | Folk Scene | CD | $13.99 | Communion | "2002 release from the ever-changing ensemble known as The Tower Recordings, and a CD reissue of the nearly out-of-print LP version (originally released in an edition of 300 copies). Folk Scene presents the crew (for this recording inclusive of Matt Valentine, P.G. Six, Helen Rush, Erika Elder, Tim Barnes, S. Freyer Esq., Steve Gubler, Robert Henry Jones III, Samara Lubelski, Dean Roberts, Andre Vida, and Barry Weisblat) in a rarified state, a folksiche mood and sound hinted at in previous recordings (especially Siltbreeze's wondrous Furniture Music) but now developed in full blossom. Beauty and inspiration rain down like manna in these sessions, recordings both wonderfully focused and distilled, yet free. Features an extra fourteen tracks not on the vinyl version, along with completely new art and information." |
| 11/16/2004 | Tower Recordings, The | Galaxies' Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings | CD | $13.99 | Communion | "The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings comprises a full band expedition to an upstate New York church session around the time that songs used for the Folk Scene album were recorded. After reviewing the tapes with fellow tapenaut and Tower Recordings member Tim Barnes, Matt Valentine (MV) said 'The music is some of the finest Tower Recordings has ever produced, encompassing all our nodes and distilled toward a universal sound like no other that the band ever touched on.' We believe you will agree. These recordings find Tower Recordings in their penultimate moment, as a full ensemble breathing alternately spicy and sweet and hazy and then twinkling. There are a lot of reference points, but we'll leave those up to you to discern. You're an adult now. We trust you." Lineup for these recordings: MV, PG Six, Helen Rush, Tim Barnes, Samara Lubelski, S. Freyer, Esq., Andre Vida, Dean Roberts. |
| 11/16/2004 | Tower Recordings, The | Galaxies' Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings | LP | $13.99 | Communion | "The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings comprises a full band expedition to an upstate New York church session around the time that songs used for the Folk Scene album were recorded. After reviewing the tapes with fellow tapenaut and Tower Recordings member Tim Barnes, Matt Valentine (MV) said 'The music is some of the finest Tower Recordings has ever produced, encompassing all our nodes and distilled toward a universal sound like no other that the band ever touched on.' We believe you will agree. These recordings find Tower Recordings in their penultimate moment, as a full ensemble breathing alternately spicy and sweet and hazy and then twinkling. There are a lot of reference points, but we'll leave those up to you to discern. You're an adult now. We trust you." Lineup for these recordings: MV, PG Six, Helen Rush, Tim Barnes, Samara Lubelski, S. Freyer, Esq., Andre Vida, Dean Roberts. |
| 2/1/2005 | Tower Recordings, The | Message From The Celestial Explosions | LP | $29.99 | Holoscanner Consciousness | “Here you have the kingdom of free choice, an enclosure of life, a world of love in which the consciousness wished to be, the other side of the galaxies’. The personification in sound of ‘the tower tapes’ an unselfish alchemy of cosmic feeling strengthened by years of spectral oxide existence. The elements bring unity in weight and superterrestrial tone of the tower cycle. A glimpse into the rare electric holoscanner explosion and the return of the pastoral eternal outflow made from hemispherical mind folk and their moodclouds. One for the 5th gate, the gate 5, as he has given so much to us, one for the saturnine night, one for simply ‘the sound’ at the source. There is a message within the raw energy and true detail of this spirittone, a mystery released by the ‘consciousness’, the heavy elements of the unit of truth, whichever spirit it makes its own, to that spirit it belongs. The ones that did not turn their face away...” Edition of 400 copies housed in a beautiful screen printed gold cover with a nice gold insert, too. Highly recommended! |
| 10/25/2008 | Towering Breaker featuring Ben Morris | Like Light | cassette | $8.99 | Rayon Recs | "These recordings see TB teamed up with Chora gong/bowl hero Ben 'mad dog' morris, laying down a thick watery mass of germs, sloth and fear. cover photos by the man with the golden lense Joincey. edition of 50." "New cassette from Pascal Nichols' always interesting label, Rayon Recs. Blurbling nightmares, haunted seance-music, creeper-scuzz with mutant vocalizations. This is Towering Breaker, a trio of savage jammers creating ad hoc soundscapes and dark spontaneous musics. The trio is joined here by 'Mad Dog' Morris of Chora who brings rhythmical momentum to the diseased sound. Unconscious subliminals splut and ooze like festering open wounds from the magnetic tape demanding a cleaning of your tapeheads from all the grimey filth left behind when the music is over. Nice one! Hand-stapled packaging with photography by artist/musician Joincey. C-30, Edition of 50. 8/10" - Todd Brooks (24 September, 2008) foxy digitalis |
| 1/24/2009 | Tranko | II | CDR | $11.99 | Reverb Worship | "The follow up to the now sold out Tranko debut cd from the later part of 2008."Tranko II" is again another lovely album containing five tracks of traditional indian and ainu instrumentation and trance raga like programmed keyboards effects.This time the cover features a pink stencilled star design. Available in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies." |
| 4/24/2006 | Transkaakko | Uuni | CD | $13.99 | Zerga | "Transkaakko's "Uuni" shows the nonet on one of the fold-out panels looking for all the world like factory staff lined up during fire drill. Yet this innocuous snap (along with a snow scene, a barn, baker's oven and err, another snow scene), surrounds a great example of ethnic Esperanto. A synthesized language where initial Finnish origins are blurred by all manner of non-native instrumentation. 3rd Ear-ish oboes, recorders, ouds, bouzoukis and darboukas to create an eddying, mysterious soundscape with a sepia-tinted melancholy never too far away. If the girls from Mellow Candle could be invited to be guest vocalists for a second Orient Express album, (or even Mogollar?) - that would come 'fairly' close stylistically to the "Uuni" oeuvre." |
| 8/22/2008 | Translogic | Seven Souls | CDR | $13.99 | Reverb Worship | "The second release is by Translogic and called "Seven Souls". Translogic is one of the varied projects of Antwerp based musician and artist Kasja Noova.The cd features a cast of many superb players.Its music ranges from free form improv tinged themes to atmospheric spoken pieces and rhythmical percussive based songs.Some of Kasja's other projects and collaborations include South 33,Caprisco,Diego Mazzoleni and Jason Tacker from Baba Yaga. The cd comes in an edition of 50 numbered copies in black paint splattered white card covers with paste on artwork using a still taken from another one of Kasja's projects called "Katakuma". |
| 3/21/2009 | Trash Dog | Live In Brazil | one-sided LP | $10.99 | YNG | "unauthorized serivicing the ATM take me back to the post office. handstands at the chud opening. live show in sao paulo at el cavra chupa that felipe set up. a few drums and broken guitars mostly cable buzz and then the bus of british exchange students, wasted after liverpool beats mexico in the semifinals, storm in the gig and start taking the mic some weird void shit goin on. trash dog plays mostly just the kids taking over trash dog just a vehicle at this point for collision. recorded to walkman in dungles back pocket though the chaos getting turned on and off and somehow makes it back to the states and on wax. similiar to the environmental records popular in the 70's this is a recording of basements sounds and maybe a band plays. the crowd is loudest of all. something is happening. is this a record or just gateway drug like some dirty grass near the riverbed? the lawnmower man creeps with WD40 to grease the chain. stevie nix took the right moves." |
| 3/21/2009 | Trash Dog | Namaste | cassette | $5.99 | Night People | "Another blast of scummy low fi thrash/hardcore sludge from Iowa City's Trash Dog, definitely there best release to date. The quality on this one is an all around step up, short and brutal, with some drifting riff driven annihilation feedback purge finding its way onto the B side. Rolling with a deep lineup of Gretchen, Witscher, Garbes, and Miller, this ultra limited release from fall of 08 needed to find its way around again. Lost mind, fucked life, void gang, shit and failure anthems. Artwork by RGarbes." |
| 11/2/2008 | Traum | Tanto Impresos Como Sistemas | CDR | $10.99 | Bug Incision | "The latest installment of this Detroit-based trio finds them continuing the post-Davis mode they've occupied since guitarist Chris Riggs' arrival earlier this year. This version of the band, along with Hans Buetow and Ben Hall (Graveyards, Melee, Editions Brokenresearch) is much fleeter; lighter punches, more of them. Sounds, at times, like a sped-up AMM." CDR in clear plastic sleeves, color artwork, edition of 150. |
| 3/5/2009 | Traum Ecke | Traum Ecke | cassette | $7.99 | Goaty Tapes | "Members of Ducktails in an beachbleg billow of redwood girth. For the early surf, when you are with the sun. Throb to warm and broaden your chest, soften the tissue and clear the veins." - Valhalla. "Brand new cassette from the duo of Matt Mondanile (Ducktails) and Ben Daly (Wavehead, Barkitechture). This documents the blossoming sounds of a keyboard made of crystals and a guitar constructed out of mirrors. "Almost like being lost on the beach." One straight jam recorded in October in the basement of Skylight Horizon Studio in Northampton, Massachusetts." Edition of 100 on yellow shells imprinted with white, hand-cut inside folds and inserts. |
| 5/9/2009 | Trauma | Calming Effects Of The Ocean Vol. 3 | c30 cassette | $6.99 | Arbor | "The third chapter of Trauma's six part series (other volumes on Fag Tapes, Excite Bike, Tapeworm Tapes, Holy Cheever Church, and American Tapes) finds the Detroit duo of percussionist Ben Hall and guitarist Chris Riggs adrift in texture. Neither's role can be distinguished; a seriously strange and pure approach. Percussive guitar and melodic drums intertwine denying all points of departure. The piece constantly advances incessantly in a blur of energy; almost non-human: like a field recording of playerless instruments outside during a rainstorm. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels." |
| 11/15/2008 | Trauma | The Calming Effects At the Ocean Vol. 7 | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Straight outa the Broken Research recording booth comes this on going series between centipede hands guitar and scorpion shell drums (Hell Hall of Graveyards). rattling discussions. hand-numbered edition 50." |
| 6/5/2005 | Traveling Bell | Scatter Ways | CD | $12.99 | Secret Eye | Traveling Bell is the solo project of Kathleen Baird, member of Chicago folk group, Spires that in the Sunset Rise. "Scatter Ways is a dark, rewarding and surprisingly structured listen that comes recommended both to fans of traditional folk music and followers of the so-called 'free folk' scene." - Mats Gustafsson for the Ptolemaic Terrascope |
| 11/21/2008 | Travis, Mick | There's Nothing To Smile About | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "The Nevari Butchers nomadic member delivers 2 sides of humming, flickering, and pummelling minimalism. A side sounds like a copy machine for 15 min (it's not) ...B-side sounds like one of the MAD MEN fell asleep with his head on a synth and Christina Hendricks is walking around cleaning up the office...then the entire room gets sucked down the staircase very slowly step by step (it might even be that)." |
| 6/27/2009 | Treetops | As I Gaze | c25 cassette | $6.99 | Arbor | "Throughout the past four years, Treetops has been a personal experience. The project has seen many forms in terms of growth and approach. "As I Gaze" documents the final Treetops recordings. This is the point where the exploration reaches it's end; the final bridge between the past recordings and future directions. Slow tone floats and melancholic progression under a low, reflective grey sky. Ambient textures dissipate within the environment; a search for stasis, a clear head. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes." |
| 1/24/2009 | Treetops | Eternal Sky | cassette | $5.99 | Monorail | "Big Mike makes an important step forward; his deepest, most focused and personally regarded effort yet, first of many. slowly building tracks, with clear keyboard tones resting beneath distant background chords and textures. submerging. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels." |
| 1/24/2009 | Treetops | Shine With Youth | cassette | $8.99 | Pizza Night | "Pollard is the crowned prince of fuzzed ambients. Recorded before departure to his now chillstead NYC, Shine With Youth is a mellow fragile experience that offers a heavy relentless psychedelic headtrip at the same time. Like following the north star via walking on eggshells. Safe and scared, shaky and certain. This tape represents just one of the many sick drops from Mike P in 08. Laying it down, like he does best, durastic use of reverb, absolute tunnel zone. Reverb shifts time to a slow lul and catches what fingerwork he does into an intricate weaving of riffage and steady drawn out bliss absolutely soaked." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 3/5/2009 | Treetops / Dan Marino | split | cassette | $7.99 | Goaty Tapes | "Subterranean Midwest boys sure got some reputation, but Treetops and Dan Marino represent a novel and downright invigoratin' duality. Treetops rips through effects with overwhelmin' honesty. Scrapin' up amplifier discharge and molding passages of raw sentiment and ageless boon. Dan Marino pairs truth in field recording with a burbly gurgle and solid crystal synth. Less destructo, more dazer. Something for everybody, straight from the jabbers of our young future!" - Valhalla. Edition of 100 on imprinted shells with hand-cut inserts and inside folds. |
| 7/16/2006 | Tremors | Darkest Africa | CDR | $10.99 | Alcoholic Narcolepsy | "Edition of 50 in DVD-style cases from the Birds Of Delay imprint that features two drunk Dubliners running down the voodoo with welding torches, heavy heavy drones and globs of synth magic." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 11/21/2009 | Trevor, Ryan | Introducing | LP | $15.99 | Drag City | "Wow...we can't seem to figure out the true story of RYAN TREVOR—we're not sure he even knows it! Is he an industry guy who pitched songs to Barry Manilow, wrote songs for Sesame Street, and roadied for infamous germaphobe Robin Trower? Is he a sensitive loner-folker who lived in England and all over the globe? Is he an ex-’60s Indiana garage band kid who rocked in "The Blue Glue?" Or did he simply replace his friend Paul McCartney when he "died" in 1968? It just might be all of the above, though working closely with Trevor has shed remarkably little light on the man—even his exhaustive autobiography ends in the early ‘70s, just before he started recording music! The usually in-depth Acid Archives has a mere one sentence listed about the man. Is this a conspiracy? What we do know is that he produced one incredibly rare and homespun pop LP in 1977, Introducing: Ryan Trevor. It may have been merely a demo for a never-materialized Warner Brothers album, or a definitive concept album statement. A privately-pressed bit of psych-pop perfection, Introducing: Ryan Trevor at last answers the question on ALL of our minds: "What if R. Stevie Moore and Emitt Rhodes recorded an album with Joe Meek's ghost in the late ‘70s?" Whatever the case, what you have in your hands is a near-exact repro of an insanely catchy song cycle of Macca-melodies, subverted by copious amounts of phase, fuzz, and a bedroom production ambience that would certainly make Bob Pollard, Ariel Pink or The Godz jealous." |
| 11/21/2009 | Tricorn and Queue | Ashes Wander | c40 cassette | $7.99 | Stunned | "Jeff Astin. Kane Pour. Tricorn and Queue. Dawn of time. An eye, singular and illuminated from without. A twitch, a blink. Two eyes appear. Gaze frozen open, beholding. End of time. ‘Ashes Wander’. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes with double-sided color jcard." |
| 12/17/2003 | Trimble, Bobb | Life Beyond the Doghouse | LP | $24.99 | Orpheus | "Danish import. Unissued studio recordings by loner psych-folkie Bob Trimble from 1983-1986. Taken from the original mastertapes. Side 1 present recordings from 1986 by Bob and his old backing band from the LP 'Iron Curtain Innocence' from 1980. 6 years on and the music is still as dark and lonely as ever, desperate songs drenched in a strange 'dreamies' atmosphere and pierced by Bob's scary vocals. Side 2 has Bob and the 'Crippled Dog Band' recorded in 1983. Fuzzguitar with phazer and more punky attitude. if you dig his highly collectable albums 'Iron Curtain innocence' and 'Harvest Of Dreams', then this one is a must-have!!" |
| 6/11/2006 | Trockeneis | 5025 AD | LP | $13.99 | Ehse | "From the den of pre-scientific iniquity in which Baltimore sound actors thrive on non-planning, the stately emergence of professional harsh acousticians in five-part harmony, a brash romp through the New Frictionalism, The New Spectralism, and The New Ritualism. Bowing. Rubbing. Scraping. Squealing. Squeaking. Screeching. Moaning. Silence. Anything else. Nothing else. Sound fixations waiting to unfix in the act of observation / measurement. Go ahead, measure them. Then flip to side B and watch your numbers float away in a muddy stream of ink. All sounds were made without electricity. It's portable music. You can easily move from now to the time when there was no emotion, just its precursors of permanently lingering urgency. Paul Neidhardt, Catherine Pancake, Dan Breen, and Andy Hayleck caress their idiophones until they're lost in backporch lullabies of terror. Audrey Chen's voice also gets lost, swallowed by its mechanical half-kin and trapped into the shadow world of forbidden overtones. In the center we find a steaming hunk of dry ice, hosting the sounds of molecular frenzy at the interface of hot and cold. Metal. Wood. H2O. Larynx. Danger. Safety. They say it's built into the limbic system. Original artwork for LP front cover by Andy Hayleck, Dan Breen and others. Front and back covers all individually hand silk screened by Twig Harper and Carly Ptak. Edition of 500." |
| 10/25/2008 | Tropa Macaca | Fiteiras Suadas | LP | $24.99 | QBICO | "Clear azul vinyl, artwork by Joana Da Conceicao. For sure one of the weirdest and most unique records on Qbico, thanks to this young couple from Porto; hard to explain, no easy listening... but once you get attuned, it grows on you... deeply. Some vague similarities with the Astral Social Club LP." |
| 10/17/2009 | Tropa Macaca | Sensacao Do Principio | LP | $14.99 | Siltbreeze | "Sensacao Do Principio is the third release proper from Portuguese experimental duo Tropa Macaca and their first with an American label. Their previous efforts on Ruby Red and Qbico were magnificent (though hard to find) efforts of blotted, aural sci-fi codifications somewhere between Anar Band and Blues Control. The two-track full-length continues their foray into post-psychedelic instrumental morphine, where Moolah's LP and Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" function as templates for the greater good. In other words, you gotta hear if for yourself. Limited edition of 500 copies." - Revolver |
| 2/7/2009 | Troxell, Zach | Portals and Gates | cassette | $8.99 | Pizza Night | "This is absolutely incredible, similar to Fragments but with more emotion and less synth on the fritz moments... really calculated and cool best thing to happen to synths in the cleveland since the ezmeraldas." Edition of 100. Zach plays with Fragments. |
| Truant | Zellaby's beautiful sacrifice | CD | $8.99 | fencing flatworm recordings | "Long awaited first recordings from the ffr/termite live stars. Rob Midwich and Clough Klunk provide the electronics, Phil Todd provides guitar. Together what is produced could be described as an ear-popping, sensawunda inducing, drone-prog epic. Could be." | |
| 7/14/2007 | True Primes | We Have Won | LP | $16.99 | Locust | "The Brooklyn duo of Che Chen (founder of the cool O Sirhan O Sirhan magazine) and Rolyn Hu (operatrix of the fine Glasslands performance space) disinfect disaffection with their brand of elemental buzzing unrock. Guitar, girl voice, off drum & unidentifiable noisemakers & homemade gadgets are the foundation for a sound that grafts a smiley face on the body of no wave's penchant for alienation. The unified duo are out on a mission to reverse the flow of negative energy through anthemic fractured ecstatic noise pop and feedback wash. Inspired by DNA, Henry Flynt, Sigmar Polke, Ramnad Krishnan, P.I.L., Yoko Ono, Arthur Russell, Friendship, French folding bicycles and those Eskimo girls who sing into each other's mouths to create harmonic overtones." |
| 5/29/2008 | True Primes / Black Vatican | split | LP | $15.99 | Locust | "In this arranged marriage of sorts, Brooklyn's True Primes & Iowa's Black Vatican each turn in a side of kindred primal now wave on this untitled split LP. True Primes, our beloved Shaggs of noise pop, keep it in the red, turn on the damage and deliver a side of wiggy aggro vocal moans, broken beats & confounding electro grit. It's all so very dystopian & punk but we know Che & Rolyn will get over it. Not so with Black Vatican — the duo of Andy Roche & Owen Gardner — who make their Locust debut here after a sweet cassette on the Night-People label. Over their six cuts, they take a few cues from classic Suicide & Pere Ubu sides, make utopia, mercy & perversion a playground for Roche's crooning vocalese." |
| 1/17/2010 | Tsembla | Tuplafiesta | 7" EP | $7.99 | Vauva | "Decay and copulation rites flourish around a trash raft that fish take for a coral reef. The sun blinds your eyes, but you can see a figure there... And in the desert, wind, erosion and echoes work the surroundings of Poly Styrene's ex-hang-out, an oasis filled with lively people and empty beer cans. Ornamental carpets and fresh water, too. There it is again! It's Tsembla playing her modified samples, strings, reeds, percussion and the whole range of modern psych instruments to create fiestas with strong twists of pop music. Sounds old and new and like nothing you've ever heard before. - N-M |
| 4/22/2009 | Tsukimono | Time Canvas | double LP | $24.99 | Release The Bats | "Long anticipated vinyl version of Tsukimonos grandiose Time Canvas, originally released as a limited CDR on Kning Disk spring 2007. A true gem when it comes to drone-based music, this recording still stands out as Tsukimonos finest moment. Each track is based on a sample on one specific instrument. Slow and quiet and big and brutal at the same time. Incredible beauty indeed. The deluxe 2xLP version also comes with a side-long bonus track recorded in 2008. Letterpressed silver ink on black cardboard sleeves. Liner notes by Matthias Andersson (RTB Records), PM Jönsson (Sound Of Music/Sonic), Gustav Rosengren (Kalligrammofon) and musician Viktor Sjöberg. Also comes with a coupon for a digial download of the album, which also includes The Lesson, a second bonus track. Limited to 525 copies." Beautiful to hold! |
| 3/30/2005 | Tsurubami | Shohjohkisshohtan | CD | $13.99 | C3R | "C3R is proud to release the new album by one of the most comely members of the Acid Mothers Temple extended family of projects. For years now, Tsurubami has been producing some of the most colourful cosmic improv ever heard by anyone anywhere (and we are sure of this, because we know exactly what any given person is listening to at any given time, thanks to the 'C3R Omniscience Mechanism', or 'C3ROM'). This album is no exception to Tsurubami's intensely spiritual improv tradition - it contains three tracks of swirling psych, featuring Kawabata Makoto's trademark guitar, the pounding rhythms of Emi Nobuko, and Higashi Hiroshi's combined synth and bass talents. With this album, these three formidable musicians have come one step closer to answering the question that drives the band: 'through the holy sound of Ohm, can we glimpse the eternal, escape the constraints of time (past, present, and future), and come to meet the Buddha?'" September 2004 recordings. |
| 3/20/2008 | Tsurubami | Tenrin | CD | $15.99 | Vivo Records | "Acid Mothers Temple side project. Makoto Kawabata (guitars), Nobuko Emi (drums), Hiroshi Higashi (bass). 2 tracks, over 58 minutes of unforgetable sound experience." |
| 6/9/2003 | Tsurubami | Tsukuyomi Ni | CD | $18.99 | Riot Season | "Third album proper from this Japanese trio consisting of Emi Nobuko (Drums) and Acid Mothers Temple duo Higashi Hiroshi (Bass) and Kawabata Makoto (Guitar). All the music on this four song / 66 minute album was completely improvised, and not over-dubbed. The sounds fall through different styles of head splitting walls of sonic noise, quiet introspective lulls and freeform freakouts. Comes in clear jewel case with beautiful full colour artwork." |
| 8/17/2009 | Tuluum Shimmering | River Gods Strike Tuned Bronze Flowers | CDR | $6.99 | Unverified Records | "This disc should get the prize for doing-what-it-says-on-the-tin. Come to think of it, Tuluum Simmering is a pretty apt name too... A trip right inside your skull, dribbling voodoo magic in your inner ear. Organic, fogged collective psych(e) style, well in touch with nature." |
| 5/29/2008 | Tunnels | Astral Collage | CDR | $5.99 | Abandon Ship Records | "While Tunnels has traditionally explored more meditative and atmospheric realms, on Astral Collage he penetrates a different sphere of consciousness, one of primitive song craft and musics that evolve out of momentary trance. Paying homage to Angus MacLise and Alister Crowley, with influences ranging from kalimba player Francis Bebey to the Velvet Underground, he attempts to evoke his schizophrenic musicality into a cohesive yet semi-improvised sound form." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 6/5/2009 | Tunnels | In Between Dreams | cassette | $5.99 | Peasant Magik | "It's hard to believe that there is only one man behind Tunnels. When I first heard these recordings I thought that Nicholas, as a joke, had sent me some super rare desert psych-folk record he found. Maybe he did? I imagine him walking around one lazy afternoon, getting some coffee, and tripping over a box of moldy records someone tossed in the gutter. He looks through and finds this one stuck to the back of some mid-80s Fleetwood Mac record. The cover is a pasted on, hand drawn picture of a naked lady throwing up rainbows and laying in a field of exploding mushrooms. The band name is lost forever, half stuck to the back of the FM record. He goes home and spends the rest of the afternoon carefully scrapping off the black mold. Finally he gets enough of it off to actually play the record, and transfers it to tape, so as not to further damage his record player. The tape makes its way to his car and gets lost under his seat. Months later, he rediscovers the tape, only now it's covered in Dr. Pepper and melted Jolly Ranchers. Nick tranfers it to cdr and sends it over to me with the name In Between Dreams on it, which seems very fitting in this context. Pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes. Full color three panel, double sided j-card with artwork by Morgan Alexandra Ritter." |
| 12/1/2004 | Tuomi, Janne | Approaching | CD | $16.99 | Ektro | "Another new release brought to us by Finland's Ektro, the label run by our pal Jussi of Circle. Ektro's releases are always graphically quite nice and musically quite adventurous and unpredictable, although Jussi's interest in prog and psych usually is evident. In this case, we have a percussion extravaganza from one Janne Tuomi (currently, a member of Circle and various underground Finnish improv ensembles). It's mostly percussion, anyway - the list of instruments in the cd booklet reads thusly: 'drumset, cymbals, percussion, tam-tams, opera gongs, changgo, pandiero, raagini-pro, pocket trumpet, voice'. With these implements, and 'no overdubs, no editing', Tuomi has created five instrumental pieces (not conventional songs, we mean), bridging free jazz and Finnish free-folk. Carefully constructed, rising and falling, with hazy drone and dramatic clatter, soothing bells and rattling sticks...not a noisy racket at all, but a personal sound-world quite listenable for something that falls into the 'solo percussion' category." - Aquarius Records catalog |
| 10/17/2009 | Turman, Robert & Aaron Dilloway | Blizzard | CD | $9.99 | Hanson | "Collaboration between myself and ROBERT TURMAN (ex-NON, Z.O. Voider). Recorded in January 2009 during a horrible Ohio snowstorm which delayed one of my more recent moves...I was stuck in a freezing house with everything I owned in boxes..Night before I'm about to move...INSANE SNOWSTORM HITS....(If I remember correctly it was the same one that TOTALED AND STRANDED THE HAIR POLICE!)...drunk and missing my wife and kid who had left for Michigan a week earlier, I decided to camp out over at Turman's for a few days...On my insane drive a whopping 3 blocks away... my truck breaks down... TOTAL MISERY... Once I got there I settled in for a few days of late night recording. Myself on synthesizer and tape delays and Turman on tapes and effects. Very minimal, very slow, very cold. Frozen and stuck in the snow. Jewel Case CD w/ white tray. Edition of 500 copies in jewel case w/ white tray." - Aaron Dilloway. |
| 11/4/2006 | Turner, Nik | Space Ritual | DVD | $25.99 | Cherry Red | Recorded at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco during the band's tour of America in 1994, this film truly captures the psychedelic madness of the 'Space Ritual.' NIK TURNER (HAWKWIND) is on his best and craziest form, as he fronts his most powerful line up in years including HELIOS CREED, DEL DETTMAR, GENESIS P.ORRIDGE, ALAN POWELL and members of PRESSUREHEAD. Featuring many out-there classics from his back catalogue, this DVD demonstrates exactly why the man is heralded as a major influence on psychedelic rock even today. The DVD also features a selection of previously unseen footage from Nik's private archive of material filmed on the American tour. |
| 9/16/2007 | Turnquist, Alexander | Faint at the Loudest Hour | CD | $13.99 | vhf | "Faint at the Loudest Hour" is the astonishing solo debut by guitarist Alexander Turnquist, part of a young generation of guitar players who have taken their incredible virtuosity and turned it into something actually worth listening to. Like James Blackshaw, Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, etc, this could roughly be described as "raga" guitar, with its long, modal compositions and hypnotic overtone play. Unlike most of his peers, Alex employs a variety of extended techniques ala Hans Reichel, grappling the strings with both hands and using a variety of approaches and attacks on both the steel and wood. There's also a distinct lack of audible "roots" influence here, with Alex sidestepping the Fahey-isms that dominate so much current acoustic guitar music. Along with the 6 & 12 string acoustics, Alex makes subtle use of electronic textures, such as the surprising Fennesz-like dissolve that occurs midway through "amongst a swarm of hummingbirds." The CD was recorded by Scott Solter (Mountain Goats, Liam Singer, many others) with cinematic depth and detail. In full color digipak with photos by Alex." |
| 7/14/2007 | Turnstone | Turnstone | CD | $12.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "Turnstone represents a meeting of musical minds. On August 11, 2005, Tom Carter, Robert Horton and Michael Shannon recorded a series of intense and unified improvisations. Featuring a wide range of instrumentation (guitar, lap steel, bodhran, saxophone, metal gamelans and other assorted miscellaneous items), the five tracks contained on this disc represent the true form of joyous creative freedom. Please join their exploration. This CD is from a one-time pressing of 650 hand-numbered copies. It comes packaged in a photo-adorned arigato! pak." |
| 4/29/2008 | Tusco Terror | Mapping a Burial | CDR | $13.99 | Cut Hands | "Much needed new slab of blunt stabs in the ear by these Midwest dirt junkies. The Terror squad bring the post-New Blockaders junknoise with the swagger of a couple of kids at their first coked up punkshow. They mean no harm, yet they bolster fear. If you take the most frantic parts of Wolf Eyes circa Dog Jaw, the intensity of Metgumbernone and a load of heavy machinery falling apart at the same you're getting somewhere. Mapping a Burial brims with metallic clang, anxious screams, the throbbing of broken effects and a load of shit you can't even begin to dissect. Brutal. 75 handnumbered copies in slimline dvd cases with black and white coverart and awesome b&w insert drawn by the band's own Nathan Bowers." |
| 5/29/2008 | Tusco Terror | Seventysecond Eternal | cassette | $7.99 | Chondritic Sound | "8 tracks span the two sides of this tape, from short and to the slowly, sweetly crumbled point to more solid friction wrapped in a nasty haze of thick smoke seen through dilated pupils. this ohio wrecking crew continues to tear it up and burn it down." Edition of 99 copies. |
| 3/27/2008 | Tusco Terror | Tusco Terror | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "The crudest project in the midwest... layers and layers of hiss and crackle piled at random thru broken EVERYTHING. Volume increases about 200% 3/4 thru the recording... Weird, harsh , CRUDE as FUCK." |
| 7/11/2008 | Tusco Terror + Wether | Giver | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "On new years day i made a 400+ mile trek to cleveland, oh in which moods were low, weather was shitty, and i only had one pair of socks and some canvas shoes, which don't do shit to protect your feet in mounds of snow. in a couple of hours snot was pouring out of my face and I felt like dying right where i stood. by midnight or so tusco terror was ripping it and i thought "yeah, this is exactly what should be happening right now". dudes were spilling themselves over a mess of cables and semi-functional equipment. just pure blown out destruction. not sure how long it was before i asked them to do this split, but here it is. kind of like a documentation of falling down, getting up, and stumbling through the haze. disgruntled material from both parties." |
| 1/13/2004 | Twegen Tu | Twegen Tu | CDR | $7.99 | Disposable Thumb | "Twegen Tu is a mysterious duo from the southeastern part of the United States, and whatever that equivocates in your mind is at least partially so on this release, only trumped up having restlessly scaled pine bark to the rafters of art. What you'll get here are watery recordings of guitars cranked up, guitars trying to crank up, tapes and manipulations, found sounds and vocals, vocals found inside the vocalist that don't belong to him, scarce piano talk and a vast expanse of other idioms heretofore only grunted out at the pyre. As Mats Gustafsson of Broken Face adeptly pens, it's somewhere between a Celebrate Psi Phenomenon noise outfit and the inspired organic movements of Steven R. Smith." |
| 12/12/2009 | Twinsistermoon | The Hollow Mountain | CD | $15.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Twinsistermoon is the solo project of Mehdi Ameziane of Natural Snow Buildings. The Hollow Mountain was originally issued by Dull Knife Records in 2009 as an LP limited to only 105 copies, unsurprisingly it sold out in a matter of hours. Widely regarded by many Natural Snow Buildings fans as one of the best releases from their camp, this reissue has been remastered by Ben Nash, includes new artwork, and brand new unreleased material. The album has a beautiful earthy lo-fi feeling throughout which perfectly compliments its short and sweet folk songs, and occasional wanderings into psychedelic drone ambience. This is an album that really is totally beautiful and probably one of my favorites from Mehdi. The CD is packaged in a square artwork booklet and a pro-printed card wallet showcasing the superb original artwork from the LP sleeve. Limited to 1000 copies." |
| Twist, The | Searching The White Star | CD | $14.99 | Stono Records | “The second release of Bela and Riff once upon 1985. With a small equipment recorded in a whirling and pulsing speedbeat , subversive and radical in words they hunt the white star... ah like Mr Dracula you`re smelting in the sun...the original mix but remastered in a digital version / Oct 2000 by Riff ( incl. 3 different songs from the MC > Personal Affairs In A Criminal Time < ) with 12 page booklet. Pre – Cosmic Gardeners band. | |
| 2/4/2007 | Twisted Tunnels | Twisted Tunnels | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "local columbus shredder tunnel tom takes his amp and axe to an abandoned tunnel, sounding like a bunch of accidents on toy race car track or a machine slowyly losing steam and choking itself slowly to death over an extended amount of time..... ltd to 40" |
| 3/26/2006 | Two Limited | La Mano de Dios | CDR | $10.99 | Seedy R! | "Recorded on a recent tour of Argentina La Mano De Dios captures a series of disturbing and claustrophobic improvised drone and noise pieces by the violin duo of Lasse Marhaug and Tom Løberg (also joined for one long track by Anla Courtis). The tracks range from the ritualistic sounding (low droning violin with deep reverb body knocking bass-drum like accompaniment) through to the sublime submarine drone piece that closes the disk. As seems usual with Marhaug's live recordings the recording device itself (old crusty taperecorder?) perhaps deserves a credit in itself as it adds a whole new layer of meaning to the documented events. With the raw amplified violins for the most part right up close in the mix, and with the demonically furious and powerful playing overall this is by far the most intense thing on the label so far..." |
| 4/25/2008 | Tyler, Cath & Phil | Dumb Supper | CD | $18.99 | No-Fi | "Blood n guts folk from the Anglo-American duo. The Wire says "The twining harmonies…recall the heyday of English pastoral folk song". Plan B says "Dumb Supper is one of those rare modern folk albums that will find a home both in the longstanding 'traditional' music community and among those attracted to the form's more experimental and lo-fi possibilities". Most of the tracks are re-discovered and adapted by the Tylers, their searing harmonies and sparse, vital instrumentation breathing new life into timeless tales of love, loss and death." |
| 10/17/2009 | Tyler, Charles | The Charles Tyler Ensemble | CD | $12.99 | ESP-Disk | "Charles Tyler, from Albert Ayler's band, makes a startling statement on his debut solo record. His group, featuring an unusual instrumentation of cello, bass, drums, orchestra vibes, and saxophone, plays through his original compositions and showcases some heated solos. Although primarily known as a baritone sax player, Charles Tyler is featured on alto sax, yet his sound and concept are fully evident on this record. The session is rich with imagination, and added to the dimension of musicians who would become the roster of ESP-Disk." |