| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/28/2007 | W!77iN6 | Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake | CD | $10.99 | Evolving Ear | "Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake, the new CD release from the visionary and sorely under-documented late 90's duo W!77iN6 (that's "Willing," kids), is out now in an edition of 300 on Evolving Ear. W!77iN6 are now dormant as a performing entity, having ceased to exist seven years ago after a few cassette releases, a U.S. West Coast tour with kindred spirits Harry Pussy, and scattered shows with Deerhoof, Gavin + Delia, and some long-haired guy with a SunnO))) amp who used to design Burzum album covers. Since then, members Fritz Welch and Ian Christe have gone on to such illustrious and profitable endeavors as (respectively) forming The Peeesseye and writing Sound of the Beast, that "definitive" history of heavy metal that you got for Christmas a couple of years ago. Recorded and shelved in Bushwick, Brooklyn back in 2000 when any number of Bushwick denizens of today's (or was it yesterday's?) New No Fun America were still taking driving lessons, Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake is like a time capsule of detuned, metal-tinged guitar, guileless synth blurts, splattering faux gamelan percussion, and disembodied voices. At the very least, it certainly points the way to Welch's more layered work with Peeesseye. But it's really just about the best record Evolving Ear has ever put out, and it's contemporary relevance is ever more apparent as the days of our lives pass like the sands of the proverbial hourglass." |
| 9/29/2005 | W-S Burn | Candy Striper | CDR | $10.99 | "First self-released cdr by W-S Burn. All songs recorded in the van during the hot/homeless summer of 2004 in and around Knoxville, TN. Pixie singing and moaning, her heart drenched and beating past the blood of the non-believers while Steve Gigante keeps the thread stitched and then cut with an acoustic guitar. An intimately vital affair/offering. Serene nightmare music of otherworldly beauty. Closing with two a cappela songs. Hand-painted discs wrapped in paper with pictures and lyrics written/drawn by Pixie, wrapped in a gold sparkle bow." | |
| 3/21/2007 | W-S Burn | Peek-A-Boo | CDR | $6.99 | Abaton Book Company | "This release is a one track - fifteen minute musical journey with absolutely gorgeous and heartbreaking vocals which float on an instrumental architecture of guitar and harmonium. W-S Burn suspend time, allowing the listener to be transported to that rarefied space (called by writer Donald Keller as the "still point") where pure musical vibration envelopes the listener in deep bliss. W-S Burn have released 5 collections of songs so far and have shared stages with Xiu Xiu, Faun Fables, Wooden Wand, Jana Hunter, Marissa Nadler, The Weird Weeds and many others. Their music has been described as "simultaneously stark, intense, warm, and involving" (WNYC), "hauntingly beautiful" (Metro Pulse), and "...simply the most appropriate and honest sound to capture a feeling of exile, desolation, and repeated heartbreak" (Stylus Magazine). |
| 12/17/2003 | Walking Owl | Fa-Sol | LP | $24.99 | Orpheus | "Modern psych folk, but happy. A singer, an acoustic guitar, tablas, fender rhodes and sounds of nature combined with complex songstructures. Jefferson Airplane, John Fahey and Bob Trimble are lurking in the corners. Spiritual fairytale music from a world reaching from the deepest roots beyond the stars. The lyrics, the singing and the overall beauty of the 17 songs on his first official release take your breath away." |
| 5/1/2009 | Wallace, Zach | Glass Armonica | CD | $12.99 | Root Strata | "Glass Armonica is the first solo CD by musician Zach Wallace. When not counting fauna in the Montana wilderness, Zach can be seen performing across the incense sticks from Greg Davis in their stoic long form drone duo Sun Circle. Zach's Armonica, Based loosely on Benjamin Franklin's 1761 design, is built entirely from thrift store bought wine glasses and has been modified to handle multiple players. The performances captured here were recorded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the Spring of 2007. The results are not too far off from what you might imagine if you've ever coxed sound waves from the rim of a wine glass with your finger. Now just imagine multiplying that sound a few times over until you arrive at a dense fog of resonant tones that hover in mid air while concurrently penetrating your pituitary glad. That's getting close. Edition of 500 in an offset white case with silver ink." |
| 6/3/2009 | Wand | Hard Knox | CD | $10.99 | Ecstatic Peace | "To quickly address the elephant in the room -- certainly, collections of demos, outtakes and home recordings are mostly bogus, but obviously you're reading this, so obviously I've somehow been coerced into releasing this batch of tunes, and you've bought it or stolen it or borrowed it or gotten a promo or whatever, so let's cut to the chase. In my defense, all of the cuts contained herein are 'songs' in the traditional western sense -- my experiments in 'surf harmonica' and 'doom zydeco' will not be chronicled here, deep and plentiful as those archives may be. Everything here was recorded by me on either a Roland BR-8 digital 8-track or it's flashier, more cosmopolitan cousin, the BR- 1600, with incalculable assistance from Jexie Lynn, who accompanies me on many of these songs and who's encouragement and creativity allowed many of them to be. Most of the recordings were done at my then-home in beautiful Knoxville, TN between October 2002 and January of 2007, just prior to the retirement of the Wooden Wand name. You've already pardoned the narcissism, now pardon the cliché: I stand behind these songs as snapshots and enjoy them despite their many flaws. I hope you do, too." -- The Wand |
| 7/30/2006 | Wander | Wander | CD | $12.99 | Small Voices | "Wander are Freek Kinkelaar and Frans de Waard, aka Beequeen. In Wander they explore drone music in its widest possible form, with each new release exploring a specific concept. Wander release their music on various formats, but every format only once. Each release is called Wander, and there is a total absence of any information on the cover. The material was recorded in the analogue studio Geluidswerkplaats Extrapool in late 2004 and early 2005, using a wide variety of vintage synthesizers and a Philicordia organ. The four long pieces breath an atmospheric, pastoral sound of slow and deep evolving drones. Released in a special cardboard wallet with spot varnishing. Strictly limited edition of 600 copies only." |
| 9/23/2004 | Warburton, Dan / Reynols | I Am Not Sitting in A Room With Reynols | CDR | $9.99 | Absurd | “When in March '03 Dan was interviewing Reynols and was wondering of how to use the recorded tape, Alan suggested he put the tape recorder in the washing machine & tape the result. No matter that finally he didn't he managed however to surface w/ a new idea & under the great influence of Alvin Lucier's 'I Am Sitting in A Room' contemporary classic he started scratching, taping, editing, pasting the interview into a completely different and new thing, adding also in the mix Reynols's live from lile the result turned to be a thrilling broken psych electroacoustic recording that stands for me one Absurd's 'out' weirdos!!! You can can get more infos on it at www.paristransatlantic.com/warburton/reynols.html. Comes in a limited edition of 166 copies.” |
| 8/4/2007 | Warhammer48k | An Ethereal Oracle | LP | $17.99 | Permanent Records | "The record starts off with a long scary radio broadcast track, you know, like one of those Emergency Broadcast System things warning you about "the big storm approaching", and just when you start feeling REALLY nervous, you start to get dizzy, everything becomes blurry, your head is spinning, your ears are ringing, you feel flush, you start to sweat, goosebumps, the hairs on the back of your neck standing on end, you try to resist, fight it off, but it's too much, you are completely under its spell.You let the jagged guitar lines, birds chirping in the distance, strange what-the-fuck acoustic folk fuckery, drugged out laid-back droned-out blissful warmness and full on red-line space jam experi-mental shredding pummelry drag you into the dark-ness. Before you know it, you're bruised and bloody, naked and tied up with broken guitar strings, ears ringing and bleeding, you have strange WH48K images burned into your flesh, laying atop a pile of blood- stained broken drumsticks, surrounded by a Stonehenge like circle of towering totem like amps, in front of which stand the mysterious members of Warhammer, smiling wickedly as they prepare to do it all over again.And that's only the first half of the cd!" - Southern Records. LImited 180g vinyl gatefold with 6 panel insert. |
| 12/24/2005 | Warheads Return! | Warheads Return! | CDR | $9.99 | Spirit of Orr | "WARHEADS RETURNS is a noise duo whose members were both born on May 15 in Northern Maine (in the upper right corner of these United States.) That the two birthdays happened exactly 20 years apart, one in 1962, the other in 1982, may or may not have any relevance to the creation of these recordings perhaps as much relevance as any other coincidence. Regardless of these questions, there is no doubt that this effort is a blistering, harsh, multi-generational-yet common purposed, all out attack on the crippling effects of paternalism in our culture. Cover art by Ruth Garbus of the hippe clan known as FEATHERS. Limited to 100 hand assembled CDRs." |
| 3/2/2007 | Warm Climate | Agnomen 1 | CDR | $7.99 | Obsolete Units | "Warm Climate are an L.A. duo whose improvised cacophony is of the kind usually afforded to much larger ensembles. These two make a lot of alternately intimidating and gorgeous noise for such small numbers; think Jackie-O Motherfucker becoming a host for the late, great Sun Ra while Skullflower bumrushes the stage for a night of paranormal merriment. Don't know if the fire marshall would shut that down. Let's hope not! Quixotical hallucinations aside, this one's not to be missed! Two album covers as well! Regarding Agnomen 1: One day an old shepherd said to the effendi, "Nasreddin, I have raised many sheep in my life, but sooner or later most of them were eaten by wolves. According to you, are there any wolves in the world that do not eat sheep?" "Certainly," replied the effendi. "Which ones? Tell me quickly!" "The dead ones," answered the effendi. Edition of 50." |
| 1/1/2008 | Warmer Milks | Let Your Friends In | CD | $12.99 | Release the Bats | "The current line up of Warmer Milks is probably not what it was yesterday or what it is today. Hell, there is talk of it changing up for next month. Blame this on schizophrenia or an urge to not run in circles but it's how things have always been for the loose group. Founder Michael Turner started Warmer Milks in 2003 and has refused to go backwards regardless of outside (or in house) opinions since it's inception. Warmer Milks have toured by themselves throughout the United States as well with the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, Bonnie Prince Billy, Arbouretum, Howlin' Rain and others The band did an extensive tour throughout Europe winter of 2007 and will be back on said continent Summer 2008. Let Your Friends In is another chapter in the more brash, aggressive side of Warmer Milks catalog. Leaning more towards skate punk and black metal, the group touched on intensities left behind from nerd critically acclaimed Radish On Light (Troubleman Unlimited 2006) but with a more street rock cum vomitorium feel. The flipside to the first track is a spook gang romper, drumless yet still punching the walls with a force no other rock can manage. The "Let Your Friends In" sessions went down in Shelbyville, Kentuckee at Rove Studios home to engineer Paul Oldham (Speed To Roam, Bonnie Prince Billy Band, ex-Broadcast Choir and Royal Trux) where various members present during the "Soft Walks" sessions (coming March 2008, Animal Disguise) took time to record this scorcher. Featuring usual WM attendees Michael Turner and Greg Backus the two lengthy cuts on "Let Your Friends In" also boasts the addition of Shawn David McMillen (Austin, TX solo artist, Iron Kite member and former member of Ash Castles) on guitar and Paul O. on dead wah guitar. Where the group has flirted with heavy rock in the past, it is easy to say that group now owns heavy rock." |
| 9/30/2008 | Warmer Milks | Lonesome Drifter | cassette | $9.99 | Animal Disguise | "The audio on this release was a novelty recording by Michael Turner that was given to Gary Beauvais (Mammal), and was directly inspired by looking at the artwork/lyrics to Mammal's 'Lonesome Drifter' album. The songs on this release are not cover songs, but interpretations of what Turner believed the songs would sound like. Edition of approximately 35 copies." |
| 11/4/2006 | Warmer Milks | Radish on Light | CD | $11.99 | Troubleman | "A brand new release from this Lexington, Kentucky group who take no prisoners. “There is an economy of perfect guitars, breezes of synth, and minimalist, emphatic drumming. This is a symphony of delicate, harmonious impressionism. And kudos to these guys for sculpting such a compelling arrangement.” - Travis Johnson |
| 9/30/2008 | Warmer Milks | Slave To Suicide | cassette | $6.99 | Animal Disguise | "Solo Michael Turner recordings made right after the Soft Walks sessions find him in a psychedelic haze of scraping soundscapes and buried rock. For fans of the weird shit. Limited edition." |
| 2/20/2008 | Warmer Milks / Collection of the Late Howell Bend | split | LP | $11.99 | Begonia Society | "Are you kidding me? The amount of paganism oozing out of this cut is completely obscene. I'm not being coy or allegorical here either. When I finished the first side of this LP, from the Collection of the Late Howell Bend, a palpable pagan energy was floating around the room in the physical. Seriously menacing residuals... the experience was so strong, I nearly moved to the woods with some ancient books that teach you how to turn unsuspecting people into pawns for evil. Come to think of it, the books probably contained the very same nefarious riddle speak lyrics chanted by Irene Moon and her cohorts on this record. Luckily I keep a crucifix at hand when I'm nearby albums that have such bestial artwork. So, the musical troop's indoctrination attempts were blocked… at least this time. On the flip, expecting a bit of recovery (?), I found one of biggest industrial drool puddles the Warmer Milks have put to the public. If these sets weren't so unique then I'd recommend a mass LP burning for the sake of humanity, but… well… you pay twelve dollars and… moving on. From what I do know about the erstwhile Kentucky collaborative, the Collection of the Late Howell Bend is basically the musical component of the Auk Theater. If that's not ringing any bells, then get your webvideo search going and familiarize yourself with Nen Valentine or the Auk of Two Sisters… I'd say it nears transcendence. No joke. If you've been lucky enough to check the live set out then you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, Irene Moon, Sara O'Keffe, and Ellen Mole are the players on this record and the territory they sketch out would sound a lot less otherworldly had the analog sythtesizer been a mainstay in the medieval court music scene. Lovely cadences rise and fall in a cycle of carefully placed piano rhythms, violin strokes, and clarinet vibes. Then, before you've gotten completely comfortable, the blessed sounds drop out and some seriously cryptic poetry chants start happening. This is the point where I'm pretty sure I'm being indoctrinated, but I'm so caught up in the melodies that I barely notice. This is beautiful and dangerous stuff. Of course, when you get hypnotized you don't remember it. These might not be my words man. The Warmer Milks side of the cut cultivates a similarly pagan, and hypnotic, effect from a much more barbarous angle. If the Howell Bend contingent wielded an unassuming supernatural threat, then the Milks are much more overt with their menace. MT starts out with a confusion inspiring missive about love or something like that before unleashing a completely feral set of howls for the better remainder. Lyrics as a weapon? Maybe a worn out pair of bolt cutters or something, but I'm not so sure that's the right description either. Anyway, it's got to be as intense as any of the Radish on Light moments. By the end of the exegesis he's completely spent, you can just hear it. The drum line sets a primitive sort of lowest common denominator tone for the course with an unforgivingly repetitive and eventually mesmerizing repetition. One time WM electronicist and current don of the Pax Titania moniker, Chris Cprek lends some home crafted electronic stabs in the murk too. If they weren't on a Milks record I say they're surprisingly tortuous… but you know… For those who fell victim to the steadily restrained cruelty of the Radish on Light LP, then this WM cut is totally recommended. As a package, this could be the split LP of the year. Yes, I actually get to make that call. 9/10" - Chris Bush (12 September, 2007) - Foxy Digitalis |
| 7/14/2007 | Warmth | Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun | CD | $12.99 | Digitalis | "Warmth has undergrone plastic surgery since this album was originally released as a criminally limited CDR on Belgium's best scuzz label, Audiobot. Back then Warmth was known as Roxanne Jean Polise. The name may have changed, but the sounds are still the same dense electronic forest fog that set Michigan-native Steev Thompson's music apart from most of his compatriots. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" is Warmth's finest hour. It's his hypnotic, marrow-sucking opus. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" is a thick blanket of unsettling doom. The smell of death is in the air, floating in-and-out of range like a black cloud. Warmth's mixture of distorted, haunted synth loops, hijacked guitar frequenices, and various injections of dirt-soaked piano fuzz. Thompson's drones are reminiscent of Andrew Chalk and Mirror in the way they lure the listener in during the early stages with his quiet and methodic approach. They're soothing and soft, but totally misleading. Once the eyelids start to get heavy, Thompson runs you down with discordant, often abrasive, missives. He plays this dichotomy up to perfection, and shows an amazing understanding of composition and layering. As each electronic swirl draws you in closer, like a moth to a buzzing streetlight, you get lost in this aural concrete labryinth. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" will bury your mind under piles of dust. Warmth is painting the town with a gang of spectres on his back, sandblasting diseased tones through everyone's eardrums. For fans of Double Leopards, Hive Mind, and that ilk, it is only once you're destroyed that you'll be totally satisfied. Includes two unreleased bonus tracks, not included on the original album." |
| 11/17/2007 | Warmth | Warmth | LP | $12.99 | Arbor | "Even though Warmth main man Steev Thompson still appears to be incommunicado totally epic recordings continue to surface. Before Roxanne Jean Police was officially over and Steev still lived in Chicago, he joined up with another then Chicago resident Branden Diven of Quilts/American Grizzly Records. The jams that were created filled a couple of cdrs and the Warmth side of the split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun. This LP consists of a remixed and edited version of the original cdr running at just under 45 minutes. Forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. A complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge to create the sounds contained within; a loss of individual existence. Completely serene. In an edition of 300 LPs on creamy yellow vinyl with hand stamped labels in pro-printed and screened fold over sleeves with art by Roy Tatum and an insert by Steev." |
| 12/1/2004 | Wascovich, Matthew | Apartment 36E | Book | $5.99 | Slow Toe | 8.5” x 11” page ‘book’ – it’s stapled not binded – featuring cover art by Dylan Nyoukis. |
| 1/24/2009 | Washing, The | Red Tape | cassette | $4.99 | Celebrity Sex Tapes | "The Washing is Kevin Nebula of Out There Dudes / Eagle Nebula. 60 minute piece featuring new age power ambient drones, crackling dissipation, and strobe light shit blasts. Minimal passive aggressive tourture. Edition of 25." "The best noise tape I have right now" - Nicolas Murur (France) |
| 3/21/2009 | Wasteland Jazz Unit | Barren Sect | CDR | $9.99 | Cut Hands | "Here's a record that doesn't waste time blasting your testicles up your throat! Wasteland Jazz Unit have been sandblasting ears throughout 2008 and it certainly feels like a privilige to kickstart a new WJU year with some of their most putrid Fried Jazz tracks to date. Saxophonist Jon Lorenz and clarinettist John Rich delve deeper into the Great Borbetomagus Saga than anyone else these days but add some extra k's of Noise crudeness to it to make it sound like freejazz for sewage rat biker gangs. The three tracks on this album feel like huge bolts of reed feedback sandblasting the grease out of your ears. A highlight in their discography so far and, let me quote Jon Lorenz here: "definitely some of the best stuff we've recorded yet". 70 copies in plastic sleeves with art by Jason Rohm. |
| 1/24/2009 | Wasteland Jazz Unit | Casting Of Heights | cassette | $11.99 | Chironex | Limited to 30 different, hand-painted covers. |
| 12/13/2008 | Wasteland Jazz Unit | Ordained Solace | cassette | $8.99 | Middle James Co. | "Wasteland Jazz Unit are John Rich and Jon Lorenz from Ohio on clarinets and saxophones respectively. if you ain't familiar with their recent assault on labels like American Tapes, Deep Fried Tapes, ExBx etc. etc. this horn duo sounds like their name suggests - Wasteland Jazz Unit - but doesn't some anything like a horn duo at all... "Ordained Solace" is a total holocaust absolute Hell feedback frier~ just burn! limited to 50 copies." |
| 1/24/2009 | Wasteland Jazz Unit / Eagle Nebula | Nebula Wasteland | cassette | $4.99 | Celebrity Sex Tapes | "Eagle Nebula: Johnny, Tommy and Kevin Nebula of Columbus, OH holding down Skylab and terrorizing locals with cosmic freak outs. A ghostly guitar/reverb unit/guitar drone trash monstrosity reaching the dark realms. Wasteland Jazz Unit: Jon Lorenz and John Rich of Cincinnati, holding down Art Damage Lodge and bringing the chaos with a dual sax and clarinet overblown shit storm. High-Fi Trash at it's best.40 Minutes, Ed. of 75, Hand numbered/labeled, Photocopied cover" |
| 2/23/2004 | Watts, Alan | Haiku | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "During his lifetime, Alan Watts (1915-1973) became, and remains, one of the most beloved interpreters of Eastern thought. For more than forty years, Alan Watts introduced the Western world to the full range of eastern philosophies and arts all filtered through his buoyant personality and charm. His life and work reflect an astonishing adventure. There remain few treats as wonderful and lively as this, one of three records originally put out on the Sausalito based MEA label. Haiku and its companion release, Zen and Senryu, hold the truly unique position of documenting a poetic form (Haiku) or philosophy (Zen) and Satire (Senryu) through both lecture and stunning performance. Both discs feature the instantaneous Japanese translations by Sumire Hasegawa Jacobs to the spare musical accompaniment of Vince Delgado, Robert Garfias and Henry Jacobs. This brilliant tension between Alan Watts' self assured delivery and Sumire's urgent cries, makes both Haiku and Zen and Senryu two of the most essential documents for admirerers of Watts' rich personality, eastern thought, and the heavy ways of 1960s counterculture." |
| 2/23/2004 | Watts, Alan and Friends | This is IT | CD | $12.99 | Locust | "A psychedelic holy grail re-issued. This is it!¸originally cut in 1962, is regarded by many of the who’s who of psych fanatics as the first aural document of psychedelia. It is a plundering, blistering, free form freakout of totally unselfconscious group sonic exploration. What’s more: it’s a great, great album that stands the test of time. Legendary Zen guru Alan Watts led a cadre of musicians and non-musicians alike through communal chant, primitive choogle and raw American tribalism that features many of the same Bay Area Heads that appeared earlier on Locust’s Electronic Kabuki Mambo – the inimitable satirist and collage whiz Henry Jacobs, genius percussionist William Loughborough (early performer with Chet Baker/Harry Partch) among many others. This is where the so-called ‘Weird America’ begins and if you don’t find yourself with that rare facial twitch of awe, befuddlement and unbridled glee, then surely you need your head checked." |
| 4/16/2007 | Waves | 12 | CDR | $12.99 | American Tapes | "Newest installment of Terror Tones Unit. Hated by many, even some noise dudes aint down. High pitch, let the tone do the work style. Unlistenable tone work, no jamming involved, sound system diseaserz. Best Mediation Headphones jamz around. Look out of the West Coast Romero/Wiese version!! Color Cover, edition of 100." |
| 9/17/2006 | Waves | Eight | CDR | $12.99 | American Tapes | "First really available recordings from this totally unlistenable granite rock unmoving slice - toner project. The highest, most horrible clean tones stacked together and un-messed with for a frozen ear-clearing mediation experience. Killer on the headphones, terrible all around. Color Cover features mangled pic of Irma Glenn in all her peaceful beauty. Three static pieces, around 60 minutes of needle thru the ear drum non-action." |
| 12/13/2008 | Wavves | Wavves | LP | $14.99 | Woodsist | "As of today, it's officially crispy in New York, so we are seeking one last summer solace with the California crust-pop of San Diego's Wavves. As you might expect from a SoCal band named after ocean motion, this shit sounds like a living version of Thrilla Gorilla & Da' Boys. As you might not expect, it is made by one kid named Nathan who has a classic rap blog called Ghost Ramp. Wavves has a follow-up coming in 2009 on De Stijl which will include 'So Bored' and 'Wavves' which is also ridiculously great and streaming on his MySpace." -The Fader |
| 8/22/2008 | Wax Ghost | Adze | CDR | $13.99 | Cook An Egg | "Following her first two solo releases on Foxglove, here is the brand new cdr by Eden Hemming Rose who, in addition to co-running the Digitalis label & webzine with her husband Brad Rose, is also a member of Corsican Paintbrush and Eastern Fox Squirrels (with CD/ cdr releases on Digitalis, Last Visible Dog and Rural Faune amongst others). Using a great variety of acoustic instruments (auto-harp, piano, bells, flute, guitars, violin, etc.), Eden conjures up a very delicate and intimate atmosphere that is constantly changing shapes from one track to the other. Overall, the music is very introspective, demanding a special attention from the listener.Using every tool available (including her own voice) in a painter-like manner, she carves out a series of very fragile songs, blending them with more abstract sound sculptures. With each gesture, it's as if all the instrument were to come alive... for the fist time. Those who have been enjoying the music of Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Pefkin or Painting Petals On Planet Ghost will love this. Enchanting and mysterious. First series of 100 copies." |
| 10/25/2008 | Way of the Cross | Mind of the Dolphin | LP | $13.99 | Phoenix | "In the Spring of 2007 a tour commenced from Latvia to Holland called "Way Of The Cross: On The Path Of The Ninefold Muse", titled from Robert Graves' book The White Goddess. The tour spanned Polish clubs, Dutch radio, Berlin galleries, and the Latvian beach; "Mind of the Dolphin" documents the music spawned at these stops. WOTC members include Dave Nuss (NNCK), Stellar OM Source, The Skaters, Jan Anderzen (Kemialliset Ystavat), Kuupuu, Mik Quantius (Embryo), and Tiitus Petajaniemi and Jari Koho (Uton, Keijo). "The White Goddess is far more than a long-discredited pagan deity. She is still alive, and her worship takes many strange forms both inside an outside the conventions of Western morality. In particular, she continues as the Ninefold Muse, patroness of the white magic of poetry." Recommended! |
| 9/17/2006 | We Have Heaven | 2 | CDR | $12.99 | Easy Subculture | "Opening with some delicate eastern sounding violin, the second album from We Have Heaven is an intriguing blend of sounds and speech that is experimental and surreal in equal measure. Definitely improvised and defiantly lo-fi, the tunes have a Phillip Glass meets the Velvets feel to them with the violin adding a droning undertow as the guitars gently weave between, sometimes harmonising, occasionally becoming harsher, creating an album that could be defined as uneasy listening, the background noises and sound of the band talking to each other only adding to the homespun charm." - Terrascope Rumbles, August 2006. |
| 7/30/2006 | We Have Heaven | Demo #1 | CDR | $10.99 | Easy Subculture | "A lot of the time, I get tired of menace and pretense. I mean, there's only so much doom metal or harsh noise you can listen to. Sometimes, I get parking tickets, and I don't hate anyone for it. When I just want good dreams, I turn to posi-trippers like Yume Bitsu, Howard Hello, and some lighter Boredoms, but especially Landing, Windy & Carl, and, now, We Have Heaven. I tested it, and the strummy, loopy psych on this simply adorned CDr fits comfortably and perfectly alongside tracks by any of the aforementioned bands. Featuring members of xplanetandbethx and the Photon Band, and former classmates of Fursaxa's, We Have Heaven, for lack of a better phrase, totally takes me there. It doesn't matter where. Maybe the rain is just stopping or the ice is beginning to melt. Maybe things are All Right. I don't know, wherever you like to go when you imagine a nice place. Don't let the new age-y description or the fact that this is a demo scare you off, though. Granted I'm a sucker for tape hiss and ambient buzz, and these tracks seem to have been recorded on room mics, but the mid-fidelity only adds to the overall atmosphere. Tracks cut-off abruptly, bandmates whisper to each other, you can hear equipment being moved around- it's almost as if these are field recordings documenting the environmental sounds of the place I like to go to. I can't wait to hear more." - Nadav Carmel, Foxy Digitalis. |
| 8/28/2004 | Weapons of Mass Destruction | Weapons of Mass Destruction | CDR | $9.99 | Deserted Village | “While everyone else was at the bloated corporate shitfest Witness, half of Papercop and 1/6 of Murmansk played this thrilling mangled free punk, psychobilly set to a tiny traumatised / thrilled crowd. This power trio playing drums, amplified steel sheets / electronics and Guitar / Zombie vocals will rock yr world.” "...these folks play a warped noise/free punk/rockabilly concoction that hits the skull like a bucket of bricks on opener ‘Here We are Over There’ with big punishing percussion and strangled guitar wankery that somehow sounds genius, even though all logic suggests otherwise.” - Lee Jackson, The Broken Face |
| 7/16/2006 | Weaver, Wes | untitled | CDR | $9.99 | Fag Tapes | "Mysterious solo project from Wes Weaver (half of Really Depressing FT-033, a duo with Heath of Sick Llama, also plays in Full Meat Jacket and Human Loop). Totally wired cut-up destructo-dunt guitar and pinned feedback that sounds like Rudolph Grey stepping up to the plate in the wake of the Fag Tapes/Maim & Disfigure assault on form. Comes in sprayed slim-line jewel case with art and minimal info. Hand-numbered edition of 77 copies." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 1/24/2009 | Weird Weeds | Hold Me | LP | $13.99 | Zum | "The Weird Weeds debut album from 2004 only existed in CDR form on Edition Manifold and Digitalis recordings. For the past five years the Austin, TX band has toured extensively and released three albums. Lovingly reissued by Zum, "Hold Me" is now available in a limited pressing on black vinyl, packaged in a screened chipboard cover with all new artwork by Lauren Pakradooni. "Hold Me" is also unique in that it's the only recorded document of The Weird Weeds' original 4-piece lineup that included Kurt Newman on lead guitar. The album is evidence that very early in their existence The Weird Weeds had developed a unique approach to songwriting that they've been honing and refining ever since. The core trio is Aaron Russell (Nitre Pit), Sandy Ewen (collaborator with Tom Carter in Spiderwebs), and Nick Hennies (percussionist who has performed with Jandek and Arnold Dreyblatt). Recently featured as a cover story in the Austin Chronicle, Weird Weeds have garnered much love from sources such as Drowned In Sound and Stereogum." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 5/1/2009 | Wellins, Matt / Zach Wallace | split | one-sided LP | $11.99 | What The..? | "'Split' as in the side of record is split between two artists - one work each from two individuals Matt Wellins and one Zach Wallace (of such group Sun Circle). Two drone work from old 90's -- Wellins has "Dedicated to Lovely Music, Ltd." and indeed lovely one of our favorites from many years. We are excited to bring this to the vinyl format, finally. A saxophone and compyuter lovely patterns and just skitters and dances over delicate bed; just beautiful and simply. Zach Wallace offers an earlier work, "We Are Here" with viola, modified harmonica, sing saw, many other earthen soundmaker objects blending into a simple but deep and ever growing. We have edition of 111 copies, eye-catching silkscreen artwork and design by artist Paul Coors." |
| Wellwater Conspiracy | Compellor | 7" | $4.99 | Super Electro | 1998 single featurin John McBain (ex-Monster Magnet) & Matt Cameron (Soundgarden | |
| 3/21/2009 | Wereju | Under the Receding Wave | cassette | $7.99 | Middle James Co. | "Wereju is Irish droner Cathal Rodgers. His great tape on Anathema Sound sent me quickly in his direction and I got washed in waves of Wereju."under the receding wave" is four pieces of icy water imagery. these are dark and moody with an intense burn. so just close yr eyes & drift a while in the alien surf Rodgers unveils. with each swell, get pulled farther out to sea... limited to 33." |
| 2/11/2006 | Werren, Phillip | Electronic Music (1968-1971) | DBL CD | $17.99 | Cast Exotic Archives | "Brand new reissue of a impossible to find early Canadian electronic 4 Lp box by composer Phillip Werren. Only 100 copies where ever pressed of his early electronic work. It was recorded at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), McGill University (Montreal) & Radio Warzawa (Poland). It was recorded between 1967 and 1971. The LP has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthesis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla System 100, the first of their modular synthesizers. Original cover artwork was created by local Vancouver Artist JAS Felter. The Album was created for the most part at the height of the late 60's at Simon Fraser University. "1968 was a year of great upheaval: at SFU, Canada's Berkeley, 114 people were arrested for their part in the protest over the firing of the entire faculty of the Political Science and Anthropology department. Marcuse, Baba Ram Dass and others came to speak to us at peril to themselves; acid and mescaline abounded and apocalypse seemed to fairly shout out at us in the rarified atmosphere of Burnaby Mountain. The neo-fascist architecture of the university seemed to beg for anarchy and chaos and linear thought itself seemed doomed to extinction." "The electronic music studio at SFU was at that time probably the most sophisticated studio in Canada. After working in studios at Columbia and Radio Warsaw, both of which were small and somewhat limiting, I found it impossible to continue composing with the Princetonian precision in which I had been schooled. The SFU studio contained the most recent synthesizer designed by Don Buchla. I only vaguely understood what "it" did and realized that I would have to put aside my rigid preconceptions of how one sound should follow another. The sequencer, a device which can generate a sequence of sound events in a more-or-less random pattern and at times seemed to have a life of its own, became for me a sort-of window through which I could see/hear a universe of sound I had never imagined possible. It was necessary for me to "step back" from these sequences of sound-events, to control them in some other way: through the mix of one sequence with another in time and space." This album is a nugget of Canadian Psychedelic Avant-Garde history, up there with the early works of Bill Bissett, The Nihilist Spasm Band, and Intersystems. Also in line with early America works by Robert Ashley, Tod Dockstader, and Gordon Mumma. More currently, this would site nicely with a oddball release by Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards or Excepter." |
| West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band | Part One | LP | $19.99 | Reissue (legit?) of 2nd LP from 1967. Features Shifting Sands, I Won't Hurt You, 1906, Help, I'm A Rock, Will You Walk With Me, Transparent Day, Leiyla, Here's Where You Belong, If You Want This Love, 'Scuse Me, Miss Rose & High Coin. Recommended. | ||
| West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band | Volume Two | LP | $19.99 | Reissue (legit?) of 3rd LP from 1967. Features In The Arena, Suppose They Give A War And No One Comes, Buddha, Smell Of Incense, Overture / Wcpaeb Part II, Queen Nymphet, Unfree Child, Carte Blanche, Delicate Fawn, Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday. Recommended. | ||
| West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band | Where's My Daddy | LP | $15.99 | Amos | 4th LP from the band recorded in 1969. Reissue. | |
| 8/2/2008 | Wet Hair | Wet Hair | one-sided 12" silkscreened picture disc LP | $12.99 | Night People | "This is the first solo work of Shawn Reed as Wet Hair, recorded during late fall of 07. On this LP we find Wet Hair discovering its attitude, its approach, its dark underworld aesthetic, of cult zone dub, blasted vocal purge, trance snyth uneasiness. More direct, focused, and eclectic then the Irifi cass. this one burns blown out and electric, amplified to the point of breaking and then subtle and brooding once more. Play it loud. Ultra deluxe silkscreened artwork by SDREED. As much of a visual artifact as a medium of sound." |
| 11/15/2008 | Wether | Complete Loss | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Bent. your allergic to the sun and the moon is the only one you can talk to. *dub-style Ham Studios Production. straight outa the 905 TAPES represent ! hand-numbered edition 50." |
| 1/24/2009 | Wether | Options | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Neon black vibes from the 905 house band. you could call these stowaways, because they are always stowing away. but when the world is a race to the finish, all the muck will eventually find it's way out. even if it has to seep through the cracks and slide down the walls. what are the other options?" |
| 5/29/2008 | Wether | Post-Cave Music | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "The first Wether material to arise from the new homestead. side a is one looping burner focusing mainly on a steady cycle of decaying loops. the b side is split up into two feedback laden, rotten drone plagues. everything was recorded straight to tape with no "post-production" taking place." |
| 8/22/2008 | Wether + A Snake In The Garden | split | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Head to head harshness from two solo east coasters. this split is kind of like a replay of a show in hartford, ct many moons ago. snake killed the dining room, then wether immediatly brawled the living quarters. if i could remember anything from that night, i would share it here, but it's all pretty much a brain musher. one burner a piece, both 10 minutes of steady pedal pummeling. three different covers." |
| 4/10/2009 | Wetterling, Jacob | Shit Fuck Bleed & Feed | cassette | $5.99 | "horror film sound clips, Swans like pounding, and childhood abduction. Motivated by anger! Made by "sometimes" mbv contributor." | |
| 7/14/2007 | Wexler, Mike | Sun Wheel | CD | $12.99 | Amish Records | "The next big name on the new-folk scene is a deeply engaging singer-songwriter free of affectations... with the most gorgeously sandy-textured voice we've heard in ages" -Time Out NY. "Sun Wheel is Mike Wexler's debut full-length and marks the arrival of an important new voice poised to be one of stars of tomorrow's underground. Crafted slowly over more than a year, this recording evidences Wexler's careful attention to detail and his affinities for progressive rock and the Canterbury scene of the late sixties and early seventies. Wexler is joined on Sun Wheel by Jordi Wheeler and Charles Burst of The Occasion and Brian Tamborello of Psychic Ills, all of whom also contribute to the arrangement and instrumentation throughout this recording. Though there are hints of the Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt is a professed and revered influence), Quiet Sun, and Meddle-ear Pink Floyd, Wexler's voice is completely contemporary and completely his own." |
| 2/14/2008 | Weyes Bluhd | Evacuating Zombie Milk | CDR | $6.99 | "Live blown out grunge excursions." | |
| 4/10/2009 | Weyes Bluhd | Liquor Castle / Shattered Mirror | cassette | $5.99 | "originally made for tour. soon to be a 7"? Bucks County, Pennsylvania's dank songstress has played in axolotl & jackie-o motherfucker." | |
| 2/14/2008 | Weyes Bluhd | Strange Chalices Of Seeing | CDR | $9.99 | "Ex-Jackie-O Motherfucker bass player Natalie Mering (18years old? 19?), from Philadelphia, releases her solo efforts under the Weyes Bluhd moniker. Also known as 'Nathalie Wiseblood', hence the name. Raga inspired, drone music in a lovecraftian mood, using guitar strings as basic sound material and sound effects as an instrument. Home-made one string bass stick (see b&w picture) used to produce low bell-like sounds out of an horror movie. The bleak 'Ballad Of The Broken Skull' sounds like a classic gothic song. Most tracks have vocals, usually strangely deformed through effect pedals. Track editing and cueing is kept to a minimum in the DIY, abrupt tradition, giving freshness to the music – check the very strange 'Raga Of The Spine', for instance. There is even a chance, odd as it might seem, that the album was actually recorded on cassette. This all stems from a creative, inspired mind." - http://continuo.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/weyes-bluhd-strange-chalices-of-seeing/ | |
| 2/11/2006 | Where The Moon Came From | Twin of Pangaea | LP | $22.99 | Nasoni | "Superb debut album by this quartet from Cleveland, OH. In a very clever way they know how to fuse late 60's and early 70's prog and art rock, middle eastern vibes and celtic moods, as well as indie rock influences from the 80's and 90's to develop their unique and mystic sound. The album includes rock songs of epic proportions based on a formidable rhythm section switching from martial attacks to swinging calypso beats anchored by hypnotic guitar riffs swirling between sitar-like hooks to hard hitting heavy riffs complimented by intense and powerful vocals." Limited edition of 500 copies - 100 pressed on blue vinyl which is what is available here. |
| 12/24/2005 | White / Light | White / Light | CD | $9.99 | Rebis | "Debut recording from Chicago-area duo. Punishing highs, earth-shaking lows: a must for lovers of transcendental drone guitar." "From time to time a friend of mine confronts me with what he calls the limitations of the drone scene and the fact that everything sounds the same. It goes without saying that he's way off base on this one but as to illustrate this I think I'll play him White/Light the next time he's around, because I don't think I've heard as many drone styles present on a single recording in quite some time. The opening '05:57' displays darkly contemplative drone webs while '01:43' is almost inaudible if you don't turn it up loud. '28:43' is a minimal tone excursion that kicks off with high-end frequencies and sustained drones that slowly shift and eventually build into a storm of sound whistling through a narrow tunnel of claustrophobic beauty. Other tracks maintain the magically resonating damaged soundscapery but at the same time pirouettes into something a whole lot more minimal and surprisingly organic. The last track even has a distant folk feel to it, which comes as a big surprise given the rest of the album. Despite the fact that White/Light covers such a wide range of drone terrain the duo manages to nicely hold things together. It's a challenging but also very rewarding listening excursion these Chicago residents invite us to attend."-Mats Gustafson, Broken Face, July 2005 |
| 3/29/2005 | White Magic | Through the Sun Door | CD | $10.99 | Drag City | “White Magic is influenced by Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Karen Dalton, Love, Great Society, Sun Ra, Eric Satie, The Fugs, The Zombies and all good music of the world." |
| 9/30/2005 | White Mountains | This Timbered Choir Will Sing Our Collapse | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "From the fruited plain and the rusted carcasses of ohio's industrial sea comes the fresh-faced, doe-eyed white mountains. "this timbered choir will sing our collapse" is a pinecone-laden excursion through the soft underbelly of decaying forests and greying thickets. white mountains employs washes of feedback and hum to navigate through the dense tangles of acoustic scree. cool blasts of treated field recordings fill in the gaps. by the end of the albums 41+ minutes, your leaf-covered body will feel all at once exhausted and rested. oh, to be 15 again.." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 9/30/2005 | White Rock | Tarpit | LP | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Collaboration between members of Double Leopards and Mouthus. These songs are perplexing to say the least. Deep down, below the harsh sounds lies a subtle beauty- a hint of melody perhaps? If you close your eyes you can hear it trying to escape. This is sounds only these 4 people could make. Very odd mixture. The insanity of the more insane Mouthus stuff and the beauty of the more mellow Double Leopards stuff makes for one of the more intense listening experiences of recent memory. Limited edition of 700 copies." One-time pressing. |
| White Winged Moth | I Can See Inside Your House | CD | $12.99 | Poon Village | Debut solo release from Dean Roberts (Thela | |
| 10/25/2008 | White, Ralph | Narasota River Devil Squirrel | LP | $15.99 | Mystra / Spirit of Orr | "Ralph White of Austin TX has been a part of the more forward moving country-blues activities of this planet for quite some time. From his work & endless touring with BAD LIVERS to his duets with Amy Annelle in the outfit PRECIOUS BLOOD, Mr White has shown that he is of the intuitive and insightful ilk that can 'pick n' shred' beyond the earthly. As you may suspect few documents have appeared that demonstrate his powers and poetries as a soloist, where he is only peered with the most revered. Armed with fiddle, fretless banjo, kalimba, & button accordion, and his subtle and magnificent 'new high lonesome' croon, we are brought to a rare mirror. Yet another place where borders are erased and music is the only language. An intense & visionary outsider for sure. This record is a reissue of his first cd-r. It should surprise and win over even the most cynical record-hording ogre. A co-operative effort by MYSTRA & SPIRIT OF ORR, 600 copies total, hand glued cover art." |
| 4/20/2008 | Whitman | White Sunrise | LP | $17.99 | Folktale/Shrimper | "Upon listening to White Sunrise, you might ask, what kind of bizarre world does Whitman come from? You would be right to assume it's bizarre. Whitman grew up in Beaumont, CA, on the edge of the Mojave, as well as in a variety of camps for problem children in places like Provo, UT and rural Idaho. The sounds you hear on this album; rusted, dusted and forlorn, are much like the places he's resided. While Whitman plays songs about the age old topics of love, loss and guilt he does so in a fashion all his own, with disintegrated instruments, scraps of metal trash and guitars that would have been relegate to the garbage heap by anyone else. His withered plucking sounds something like the soundtrack to your brain being fried by the blistering sun; it is both intriguing and memorable. The albums intrigue is only added to by a slew of guest of guest musicians, a list that includes some of the most interesting players in Southern California. Including herein are shreds of oscillator sound courtesy of the enigmatic HENRY BARNES of AMPS FOR CHRIST, drums by COREY FOGEL of the MOUNTAIN GOATS and the MAE-SHI, vocals by ERIKA ANDERSON of the GOWNS, cello by JESSICA CATRON of CARLA BOZULICH'S NIGHT PORTER and clatter by JOHN THILL of AUM RIFLE. In a way the album is a representative of a burgeoning completely off-the-grid folk/noise music scene in Los Angeles, CA based around vacant lots, crumbling slumlord rentals and a variety of illegal spaces. Whitman's music is infused with the same sort of joy and brutality as the neighborhood in Pomona he calls home, where weeds sprout and couches get left on street corners." |
| 3/21/2009 | Wicked King Wicker | Wicked King Wicker | LP | $12.99 | Noiseville | "The debut album from New York's WKW quickly jumped on the radar of noise, experimental, drone, and doom metal fans around the world. Brutal drone noise that as Nick Cave said is "blacker then the chambers of a dead nun's heart". Fans of Skullflower, Sunn, Whitehouse, Boris, Nortt and Wolf Eyes love WKW, and for good reason. The LP is a numbered edition of 490 copies." |
| 5/23/2009 | Wickham-Smith, Simon | A Seventh Persimmon | CDR | $7.99 | Tape Drift | "Words are tough when it comes to describing music this astoundingly beautiful. A leading figure in the worldwide experimental music community since the early 90s, Simon Wickham-Smith adds to his sizable body of work with this masterpiece. Three tracks clocking in at almost 60 minutes, Simon's new work is the result of years spent honing his craft. His influences are drawn from sources far and wide, but the music that results is uniquely his own. Transcending genre altogether but most clearly informed by minimalism, this release is hypnotic, mysterious, and gorgeous. If you've followed the arc of his career, you'll be pleased to see how mature and powerfully focused his musical vision has become. If you're new to his world, it's an excellent introduction. To say that it's an honor for us to be releasing his music would be a massive understatement. A true classic." |
| 9/15/2002 | Wickham-Smith, Simon | dyrø | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "New release from doyen of English bedroom 'underground' scene. Two epic tracks, the first a very skewed take on religious chant which retains a genuine and relevant reverence at the same time as it forges a whole new path through both laptop electronica and devotional music. The second is a huge track characterised by ripping great digitally distorted drones which seem intent on tearing through the bullshit (Maya?) to reveal a clearer world beyond... All recorded on a small island off the coast of Scotland..." |
| 3/27/2004 | Wickham-Smith, Simon | Rapt | CD | $11.99 | Disposable Thumb | "On his latest release, with beautiful hand-printed foldover jackets of his own design, Simon continues to explore his obsessions and fascinations with reverence, wry wit and a skillful ear. Aesthetically similar to 2002's dyrø (PseudoArcana), the CD is an exercise in ‘wonderment and rapture’ via the friendly conduits of electronic drone, cut and paste minimalism and mischievous white noise. Oftentimes a confluence of contrasting disciplines and perspectives, the document is a rich work of intricate spells merging tension and release. Says Simon of Meiji13: ‘It's a very uncharacteristic foray into program music: the fuzz over the top is like a patina of age, like hearing Caruso singing I Pagliacci.’” |
| Wickham-Smith, Simon and Richard Youngs | Asthma and Diabetes | LP | $19.99 | Majora | Recorded on June 3 & 4, 1993. Experimental drone using a few dozen different instruments. | |
| 4/22/2009 | Wiese, John | Circle Snare | CD | $10.99 | No Fun | "Consider "Circle Snare" a hard-wrought souvenir. Composed and realized in the midst of a comprehensive Scandinavian/European tour in 2008, John Wiese found himself tangled deep in dialogue with his instruments and ideas. Wiese increasingly scrutinized his native tongue and vocabulary, seeking new forms of grammar and cadence, as only extensive dives in unfamiliar waters can inspire. His given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, and MSP folded out of their hard accustomed formations, breaking out into a more cogent and vital arsenal. "Circle Snare" is the cumulative result -- a finely detailed and dimensional evolution of an already unique voice. Those who have been stalking Wiese all along -- through the landmark statement "Soft Punk," to the recent "Dramatic Accessories" LP -- will find "Circle Snare" to be a revelatory work. As Wiese continues to travel and work relentlessly and restlessly, we have no choice but to keep up; the circle is a spiral from the side, and the greatest trap is standing still." |
| 9/30/2008 | Wiese, John | Dramatic Accessories | LP | $27.99 | Ultra Eczema | "Luckily wiese doesn't need no introduction, mang did 1234's of colabs, released tons of beauties on his own helicopter label, played with sunn o)), and is a great graphic designer! this record is painfully harsh at times and even more painfully sensitive at times! less a wall of nuttery and buckets full of zist and garbage thrown at your head, more of an aural test to see how much teasing your insides and your flappy ears can stand. a collection of cut-ups from his european tour last year, using guitar, drums, voice, tape, misc.. the perfect soundtrack for cutting your toenails out with a knife. comes in a silkscreened fold open cover design by dennis tyfus. numbered and limited to 300 copies." |
| 3/29/2005 | Wiese, John | Magical Crystal Blah Volume 2 | CD | $8.99 | Helicopter / Kitty Play | “Volume two of a recycling music project. All tracks created in 2004 using John Wiese's original Magical Crystal Blah as source material." Limited edition of 500 copies. |
| 5/14/2007 | Wiese, John | Soft Punk | LP | $12.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "After almost 10 years of performing solo and over 50 releases in every conceivable format, John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, et al.) finally unleashes his debut full-length. Thirteen songs of harsh yet beautiful soundscapes that explore the realm of piercing cut-n-paste assemblage and harsh noise." |
| 2/7/2009 | Wiese, John & C. Spencer Yeh | Cincinnati | CD | $13.99 | Dronedisco | "The cooperative of composer/improvisers John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) reveals itself again, presenting a collection of new works titled "Cincinnati." So far Wiese & Yeh's previous full-length documents have been culled from live performance situations and one could site "Cincinnati" as the duo's first studio album. Recorded face-to-face in late 2007 at Ashworth Tap Room in Cincinnati OH, "Cincinnati" reveals further unexpected developments and strategies of this ongoing partnership. Familiar machineries were primed, but an increasingly alien attitude was fed through and processed into churning and bewildering shapes. The results of these sessions were catalogued and surgically isolated into specimens by Yeh; a little editing employed to carve the forms somewhat presentable, but no "studio trickery" to mask the organic nature. Mastered by Saff Mastering to sharpen the bulbs and polish the blades, the whole of the fourteen tracks form a monumentally intimate body touched by indeterminate intuition, instant composition, and interior logic. Wiese and Yeh first joined together on a stage in Columbus OH, and since then have participated in the No-FI/CMN "Free Noise" 2007 tour in the UK, as well as fireworks-laden travels through coastal, midwest, and southern USA. With many finished missives yet to be issued, and many ideas discussed but not yet realized, the combined restlessness and curiousity of the team insures that "Cincinnati" gestures not only towards the past and present, but the future as well. "Cincinnati" is available in an edition of 500 copies in the increasingly alienated compact disc format. The included 8-page booklet contains a pictoral documenting the typical meeting between the two players." |
| 1/1/2008 | Wiese, John / Andy Ortmann | Grux One | LP | $24.99 | Rococo Records | "Collaboration with Panicsville's Ortmann & Wiese who has been a member of both Sunn0))) & Merzbow. Limited to 200 copies. Blue Vinyl. Screened Silver on Blue Card stock 2-sided inner sleeve with 12"x12" Metal Laser cut covers." |
| 9/30/2008 | Wiggwaum / Poor School | split | LP + CDR | $15.99 | Killertree Records | "There's no reason for Jazz not to attack - a split for all seasonz - SF's Wiggwaum terrorize the fuck outta sensibility and give no ga-damned reason for the scars - free sound IS supposed to make it feel not so right and this particular declaration is just the shit bomb hurled from many stories from above. Sometimes it's a Manson orgy audio buried in Death Valley, other times it's blissful fuckin' peaches falling from a Krishna tree. SF/Stereomother's Randy Lee Sutherland heads this one into the back alleys w/ some pals and lose sense of time and practicality in the best way possible. Poor School on the other hand are just trying to make money by "righting" hit records, but they fuck up every time they pick up an instrument - but y'know, when you hear drummer Niekrasz pound out this morse code in "mean method" and the sax/gtr combo add to the arguement - just back off and let 'em justify their "ambitions". Jazz wreckage and difficulties throughout. 300 lps - screened covers by Randy Lee - bonus CDR of lp w/ 2 xtra tracks." |
| 8/2/2008 | Wild Gunmen | End Ov The World | CDR | $12.99 | Mad Monk | "We're pretty thrilled to offer up the third volume in this series of CDRs by Wild Gunmen. End Ov the World is our favorite of the bunch, because it offers the expected - chaotic wastoid jams, cacaphonous raging, and crude acoustic punk ditties - along with the entirely unexpected - essentially, the album's untitled 12 minute closer, which is by far the best thing the band has ever done. "12" is a monstrous piece of low bass tones, disembodied vocal samples, ominous cascading noise, spooky backward effects, and singer Kristy's deadpan voice (sample lyric: "I hate being raped every day / every day that I live I am raped / Everybody rapes me every day / do you know what it's like to be raped every day?"). Scary shit. This track is unlike anything else in the WG discography, sounding like a cross between Consumer Electronics' Teenage Nuremberg and "Revolution 9" for a post-Mullholland Drive world. There are other highlights as well, like the Godz-style punk of "Up Your Ass" (featuring rare lead vocals by either Ron or Witt), and a nearly lucid cover of "Folsom Prison Blues," complete with train whistle sound effects. Elsewhere, banjos collide with saxophones, guitars feed back mercilessly against found audio, chaos reigns. If you're new to Wild Gunmen, this is the place to start." |
| 3/31/2008 | Wild Gunmen | Volume One | CDR | $15.99 | Mad Monk | "I was introduced to the music of Wild Gunmen by Russ Waterhouse, who handed me a tape wrapped in silver foil and told me I’d love it. He was right, and I immediately wrote to main Gunman Witt, just telling him how much I liked his band. He wrote me back immediately, promising "years" of more music, and telling me I’d better get ready, because this was some serious shit. He explained that the band - a trio - were ’bad on the biz end’ because they were all saddled with being drug addicts and had also been dealt the unfortunate blow of all being born under the sign of Libra (???). He also told me that two of the members were former FM radio DJs on Cincinnati’s WAIF. A few days later, a package arrived containing three unmarked 90 minute cassettes, and a handwritten letter. The letter featured color copies of a sexy drummer who, Witt explained, was dead now, and another photo of a very young girl who Witt claimed to have taken to see GG Allin. The letter, rife with more references to the copious amount of drugs the band takes, quotes from South Park, and casual boasting, was still not enough to prepare me for the amazingly twisted sounds contained on the tape. Eerie acoustic blues, with oscillator and other various noises, super confessional lyrics sung by what sounds like the demon spawn of Jandek’s gal Nancy and Niagara, and the unmistakable sound of several fucked up adults getting together to rock out in a self-described ’drug infested nut house.’ This one is hard to explain, and frankly, I’m at a loss - a very authentic psychedelic nightmare that may be a little too ’real people’ for it’s own good. Of all the amazing shit coming out of Cowtown lately (and there is a LOT!) this is some of the most fried by far. Some of it maybe sounds a little like Sam Esh? I don’t know, man. Anyway, this is the first of what we hope will be many releases of Wild Gunmen material on Mad Monk. We are super excited to share this with the world! I asked Witt to send me cover art and song titles, and he told me to "just make them up, cause no one here can ever agree on them...our singer Kristy is a drug addict...half the time I just want to kill her. And surprise us and cook up your own design for a CD cover - title it anything you want." Okay, then! Only 150 copies, hurry!" |
| 5/29/2008 | Wild Gunmen | Volume Two: Cocain Spyders | CDR | $12.99 | Mad Monk | "The second volume in this exciting series by this wastoid troupe from the buckeye state is even better than the first. While the highly popular Volume One introduced the band as the parole board's answer to the Cherry Blossoms, Volume Two: Cocain Spyders (the misspelling is the band's) finds the group more stoned, introspective and deliberate, with oscillators, delay drones, horns, and high pitched feedback squeals taking the place of more 'traditional' instruments. Singer Kristy is, as ever, center stage, singing beautifully harrowing misfit tales of lonely strangers, train wrecks and dreams fading away. Volume Two also features what is perhaps, in our opinion, the quintessential Wild Gunmen track thus far - an untitled jam near the middle of the disc begins like any other paranormal WG track, until Kristy nonchalantly takes a break from singing to audibly converse with her captive party guests about sex and cocain(e), while Witt and Ron, undaunted, lock into a supremely fucked clarinet / guitar duet that sounds like a moonlight meeting between Rafael Toral and Little Howlin' Wolf. When Kristy decides to begin singing again, the track only gets weirder, stretching out over several parts and nearly fifteen minutes like a lost ESP side or perhaps the music the guy who left the desperate answering machine message at the beginning of Charalambides Market Square might have made. As if all of this weren't enough, Volume Two also includes the soon-to-be-punk-classic "(I've Got A) Washboard (For A Stomach)." This is the second in what we hope will be a long running series of releases by Wild Gunmen on Mad Monk, but each one could be the last - word has it a few of the band members are dead set against these releases - so treasure and cherish every minute while it lasts!" |
| 3/21/2009 | Wilder, Jeans | Jeans Wilder | cassette | $5.99 | Night People | "Jeans Wilder is new loner fuzz under the rug bedroom pop from San Diego that sits both on the sunny side and under the night time. Nostalgic, hazy, real pretty and low key, this one shines when it needs to for sure. Hushed melodies abound and peak through the weird fog for a little bit of glory in the sun when the feeling is suited. Play at night on your headphones, thinking about lost love, abandoned dreams, and what's next. Artwork by SDREED." |
| 2/12/2008 | Wildlife | Six | CD | $12.99 | Crucial Blast | "A couple months ago (we're talking mid-Spring '07, here), I received an email from Robotic Empire boss Andy Low commanding me to check out a couple of songs that a band from San Francisco called Wildildlife had posted online, immediately. I knew that the dude has a solid idea of what kind of sounds I'm into, so I pulled up the link immediately and was totally blown away by the two Wildildlife tunes that I heard. Heavy, crunchy riffage rolling over celestial FX freakout and gang choral voices, part pop, part neo-psychedelic noisiness, part metalloid skullcrush. Super melodic and catchy but vaguely menacing and dark all at the same time. The band toured through here about a month later, and I was even more floored by their manic live energy; the band summoned up a wicked whirlpool of dense distorto crunch and freaky singing, raging metallic percussive pummel, tribal rhythms and crushing effects-soaked guitars, subdued floatational drones and ecstatically gorgeous melodies, all let loose in a series of sky-streaking eruptions of psychedelic lowcore and swirling, cosmic sludge. Going back to a review that Terrascope Magazine wrote about one of the band's earlier CD-R releases, this sounds vaguely like Black Sabbath and Butthole Surfers jamming together with ancient forest mystics, an experience both brutal and beautiful, and which proves that Wildildlife have already established themselves as serious purveyors of blown-out psych heaviness.These guys have become one of my favorite new bands, and I'm MEGA excited to be presenting their first full length Six through Crucial Blast. The CD version of Six comes in a posh, full-color 4-panel gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton Printers, which houses the disc and a full-color 8-page booklet filled with amazing, surreal photographs by Sabina Holber." |
| 10/1/2002 | William Switzer | The Illusion Of Technique | CD | $10.99 | Fleece Records | "Improv shenanigans from the duo of Mike Switzer (Slight Surface Noise/Avijit) and Jason Bill (ex-Charalambides / currently Migrantes). Think Incus meets Portsmouth Sinfonia. Kind of like the music that seeps from the moonshine-addled brain of my Uncle Stumpy as he steps in a fire ant mound on the way to the bayou to check the muskrat traps. Ltd. edition of 500 copies." |
| 12/11/2002 | Williams, Julian | leaf rain: 1995-2000 | CD | $12.99 | Rhizome | "A compilation of solo studies from Mr. Williams - leader of Solids, Above Ground Pool, Bamboo Sel, and the mighty, mighty Hi-God People. Whereas in band format Williams goes for all-in group-mind, solo sees the great JW expanding singular vision, with a series of oracular noise and drone masterpieces which touch on Suicide, Gate, outsider rock hermeticism, and so forth. Drawn from self-released titles including 'Makara Dhwaja', 'Effecting Pylons and Medallions' and 'Invisible Soundtracks for Kinetic LSA Lands', this is the premiere document of JW's post-song solo sprawl - guts and all." Edition of 60 copies. |
| Windy & Carl / Hopewell | Green/Jim Laffin | 7" | $5.99 | Burnt Hair | Out of print record from 1996 | |
| 1/28/2004 | Winter, The | Parataxes | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "The Winter are a Wellington based improvising trio, and Parataxes is their 1st release. It documents both acoustic and electric live sets that drift from eastern sounding cello led pieces to fairly extreme feed-backy noise. A key member of the group is Wellingtons master of pseudo-autistic intensity, Dave Edwards, whose guitar and harmonica work definitely moves the whole into a fairly edgy sphere. Over such a duration this can make pretty harrowing listening, but sometimes such immersions are worth it." |
| 5/14/2007 | Wire Thicket | Dust, Static | 3'' CDR | $7.99 | Students of Decay | "In describing the debut Wire Thicket album, released on Pseudoarcana in 2006, Antony Milton applied to the duo the term "power-drone." On their second outing, the pair have fully embraced this label and taken it to new, delirious peaks. The title track is a fifteen minute blast of singing, celestial metal; an impassioned, deeply meditative flight into the starry night conjured from guitar, electronics and field recordings. Characteristic of the duo's prior work together, the piece is an excercise in accretion -- with layers and layers of meticulously detailed sound arranged into a furious, beautiful blanket of howling drone. Emerging from the tonal rubble is a second, shorter piece: a reworking of Taiga Remains' "Brilliant Dead Highways" (a piece featured previously on a split 7'' with CJA) - akin to a delicate, drifting calm at the end of an immense storm." |
| 5/7/2004 | Wire, The | April 2004 Issue | magazine | $7.99 | On the cover: Ghost; Features: Rammellzee, Jack Rose; The Primer: Cecil Taylor; Invisible Jukebox: Luc Ferrari; Dean Roberts, Cocorosie, Pelican. | |
| 9/30/2005 | Wire, The | August 2005 Issue | Magazine | $8.50 | On the cover: Mayo Thompson (The Red Krayola: Since 1967, this Texan guitarist has been pulverising the art and language of rock). Features: Marissa Nadler (The Boston artist and singer owes more to American Gothic than free folk's drifts); Ikuro Takahashi (The ex-Fushitsusha drummer on his switch to rape alarms and mechanical toys); The Skaters (Karaoke machines were never intended for the vocal experiments this Frisco duo put them through); Carla Bozulich's Invisible Jukebox; Musique Actuelle (Byron Coley reports from the Victoriaville Festival); Once upon a time in Brixton: (The first in a new series revisiting significant musical sites: the story of London's Cold Storage studio); Pierre Schaeffer (Goran Vejvoda and Rob Young reappraise the life and work of France's founding father of musique concrète). | |
| 12/26/2005 | Wire, The | December 2005 Issue | magazine with CD | $8.99 | "On the cover: Lightning Bolt (Alan Licht visits the Rhode Island duo who are reconfiguring US Hardcore with their breakneck drum and bass thrash). Features: Tujiko Noriko (The Japanese electronic musician and film maker's naive charm belies a touch of steel); Kang Tae Hwan (The pioneering Korean sax improvisor recalls the tribulations of blowing free under martial law); Susanne Brokesch (Since moving to Brooklyn, the Austrian artist matches her electronica to the paintings of Paula Brook); Invisible Jukebox: Ray Russell; Vashti Bunyan (Rob Young meets the forgotten 60s pop star turned singer-songwriter now championed by the free folk generation); Ken Hyder (Will Montgomery follows the Scottish percussionist's quest for the link between Improv and shamanic trance); The Primer: Jamaican deejays (Brian Marley toasts the titans of talkover, including I-Roy, U-Roy, Big Youth, Dr Alimantado, Dillinger, Trinity and more. All copies of the December issue will come complete with an exclusive free 16 track CD, The Wire Tapper 14. The Wire Tapper 14 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be given away free with every copy of the December issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks that together will span the spectrum of the kind of new, underground music that gets featured in the magazine each month, from electronic music, avant rock and new jazz, to dub, hiphop, traditional musics and beyond." | |
| 2/5/2004 | Wire, The | February 2004 Issue | magazine | $7.50 | On the cover: Einstürzende Neubauten in Berlin. Features: Sun City Girls, Primer: Mingus (25th anniversary of death), Joe Boyd, Steven Wray Lobdell, Greg Tate: Invisible Jukebox, Portable, Anthony Pateras. Really cool article/interview with Sun City Girls. Also features Eclipse in the label lore section | |
| 2/16/2005 | Wire, The | February 2005 Issue | Magazine | $7.99 | On the cover: Anthony Braxton ("the grandmaster's apocalyptic new music is informed by a panoramic take on ancient civilizations"). Features: Mike Ladd (American Rapper in Paris), The Primer: Underground Metal (by Edwin Pouncey), Invisible Jukebox: Soft Pink Truth, Dylan Nyoukis (Prick Decay), Gang Gang Dance ("NY's shit-hottest spontaneous rock quartet") Oki (Ainu dubmeister), Hugh Davies (obituary by David Toop). | |
| 1/28/2004 | Wire, The | January 2004 Issue | magazine | $7.50 | On the cover: 2003 rewind, our annual survey of the best underground and outsider music of the last 12 months, including records of the year, writers' pros & cons and musicians' reflections. Features: Arthur Russell, Jerome Noetinger, Basil Kirchin, Matt Rogalsky, Paal Nilssen-Love. Invisible Jukebox: Damon & Naomi. | |
| 7/23/2004 | Wire, The | July 2004 Issue | Magazine | $7.99 | On the Cover: Alvin Lucier. Features: Damo Suzuki, Devendra Banhart, Ellen Fullman, Bark Psychosis, Dylan Nyoukis, Dengue Fever. Invisible Jukebox: Sunn O))). | |
| 3/27/2004 | Wire, The | March 2004 Issue | magazine | $7.50 | On the cover: Clouddead. Features: Double Leopards, Mars, Gyorgy Ligeti, Art Bears, Bernhard Gal, Olga Neuwirth. Invisible Jukebox: Four Tet. Epiphany: David Stubbs on Faust. | |
| 5/10/2004 | Wire, The | May 2004 Issue | magazine | $7.99 | Cover story: The state of song: a major survey of alternative, underground and outsider music that offers an idiosyncratic take on the songwriting tradition in rock, pop, jazz and beyond, from David Sylvian writing songs that incorporate the tone and character of collaborators like Jon Hassell, Derek Bailey and Fennesz to Jamie Liddell deconstructing soul to Patti Smith's wordscrees on the legendary Horses album to Diamanda Galas's dirges, elegies and covers, and on. Features: The Hafler Trio; Takehisa Kosugi; Buck 65's invisible jukebox; Nautical Almanac; Steve Hubback; Laurie Spiegel. | |
| 5/8/2005 | Wire, The |