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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
9/30/2005	Ya Ho Wha	Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony	CD	$18.99	Swordfish	"Official reissue of this album from 1974 - one of the heaviest albums from Father Yod and crew. Along with I'm Gonna Take You Home, it's just the best - one of the finest sacred space cadet acid-mantra psychedelic death trips of all time, for sure. Captain Father Yod moans & groans a perfect vocal chime over the top of the searing guitar rip of "Djin" and a massive cloak of tribal percussion and general peaked whatsis. Touched & tipped by higher forces you can only dream of - this contain the most intense passages created by the band Ya Ho Wa 13. One of the best album covers of all time, too. 'This was called an 'Aquarian Symphony' back in 1974 to herald through music, the coming of the Aquarian Age, September 17th, 2003. It was ahead of it's time. Now it's time has come!'" - Djin Aquarian, (guitarist), May, 2003.
4/21/2008	Ya Ho Wha 13	God And Hair	13xCD Box	$129.99	Captain Trip	"2nd edition now available. No longer comes w/ the original oversize box or booklet, but priced at a much lower price. This 13 CD box set collects the complete available recordings of '70s cult rockers from CA, Ya Ho Wha 13. Led by the late Father Yod, who supposedly died in a hang-gliding accident in the late '70s(?), Ya Ho Wha 13 released numerous LPs (and at least one 8-Track) on their own Higher Key label in the mid-'70s. Only distributed locally at the time, some of these have been reissued in psuedo-legit (or outright bootleg) fashion in the UK over the last decade (although more recent Swordfish releases are fully authorized), but have never been widely available. These records epitomize the insanity of highly-personalized psychedelic exploration via the fringes of rock music and it's subsequent private documentation better than anything else produced by the human race to date. Tribal-acid pound from the family's key group members (Djinn, guitar; Sunflower, bass; Octavius, drums) and freakish vocal output from Yod himself, wailing away on top like the king of the universe. The exact number of of Ya Ho Wha albums has never been clearly specified until now, but this incredible box set appears to put them all in place, plus a few CDs worth of unreleased material. This new edition features a wooden box with wax seal, with the 13 discs contained in 3 plastic cases. It's not as deluxe as the original packaging (which had 13 separate jewel case editions - but that was for "then," this is for "now." The music still represents the ultimate in the weird & insane world of private press psychedelic documentation, not to be missed. Contains the following albums: 1) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF '76: Kohoutek (the debut release on Higher Key from 1973). 2) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF '76: Contraction (1974). 3) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRT OF '76: Expansion (1974). 4) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF '76:All Or Nothing At All (1974, with 4 bonus 7" tracks). 5) YAHOWA 13 (1974, with two bonus 7" tracks). 6) YAHOWA 13: Savage Sons of Yahowa (1974). 7) YAHOWA 13: Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony (1974, the masterpiece, one of the 25 most destroyed rock records of all time for sure!). 8) YAHOWHA 13: I'm Gonna Take You Home (1974, again! & and another monster record; let's not forget Gregg Breth's words from the past - after all, his copies were handed to him by 'wisdom': 'The ultimate acid album there is. Insane vocals and screaming, 100% twisted guitar and total permeated feeling of being completely fucked up! This album is the epitome of the term acid.'). 9) YAHOWA 13: To The Principles For The Children (1974-75). 10) FIRE, WATER, AIR: Golden Sunrise (1977, the 8-track only release). 11) YODSHIP (undated, showed up as a UK boot/legit issue a few years ago; classic acid-folk floatation/chant from Osirus & Sunlight with the brothers and sisters). 12) VA: Related Singles (featuring Sky Saxon on most tracks). 13): VA: Unreleased Materials (jamming post-Yod psych from Djinn, Sunflower, Octavius, etc., with Sky Saxon on some tracks)." - Forced Exposure
5/7/2004	Ya Ho Wha 13	I'm Gonna Take You Home	CD	$18.99	Swordfish	"New reissue of this all-time classic from 1974, licensed directly from Father Yod's Source Foundation in Hawaii. Previously only available as a long gone bootleg or as part of the 13CD Capt. Trip box, now readily available. This is one of deepest Ya Ho Wha albums, right up there with Penetration. 'The ultimate acid album ever! These seminal west coast weirdsters are rumoured to have had members of the 13th Floor Elevators and Sky Saxon involved and perform with them. True or not, this album is extremely rare and musically very, very weird! This mystical and drug-influenced collection of lysergic acid heads created some of the scariest sounds ever, definitely NOT for the faint hearted. After you light the blue touch paper, stand well back, because this toxic concoction will liquidize any cerebral matter within a 10 metre radius! Manic, screamed vocals are accompanied by relentless 100% twisted guitar on this mega rare platter. Presented in its original and totally authentic gatefold sleeve with the 'lovers and the chariot' tarot card cover and the proclamation 'divine communion time is here, little kitties -- YA HO WA 009 --Licensed to give life!' 'I could write a book on the cover. It is an absolute masterpiece of design, and probably the greatest cover in music history. Suffice it to say if you were to fully grasp the meaning and symbology of it, you would have the keys to magically transform your person and environment into your hearts desire and ride the chariot of god into the future of your own will, one with god.' -- Djin Aquarian (Guitar) on I'm Gonna Take You Home.'" – FE
9/30/2005	Ya Ho Wha 13	Re-Visiting Father and the Source Family	DVD	$27.99	Swordfish	"This 2 1/2 hour documentary traces the history of the Source Family, Father Yod/Ya Ho Wha/the man formally known as Jim Baker. Going back to the Beatnik era of the late '50s when Baker ran a sandal shop in Hollywood it goes through the origins of the Family in Los Angeles in 1967 to the dispersal in the mid '70s. Many of the original members of the Family are interviewed and the new and extensive footage from the '70s is featured throughout. For anyone who has been fascinated by this mysterious cult/commune, this documentary should provide the answers to most questions and allow you to make up your own mind as to who Father Yod / Ya Ho Wha / Jim Baker was. 'A story that not even Hollywood could have scripted to be more entertaining.'" NTSC format DVD, Region 0.
4/25/2008	Ya Ho Wha 13	The Feather of Wisdom	LP	$20.99	Phoenix	"Sound at One is pleased to present the first Yahowa 13 album in 33 years on a new subsidiary, "Phoenix Records," releasing music specifically oriented towards the elevation of consciousness. This is a recording of the Yahowa 13 reunion show in San Francisco, November 2007. This live document reveals that the band's music remains completely burnt. Hand silk-screened, edition of 500, full color fold-out poster insert designed by Arik Moonhawk Roper."
10/26/2004	Ya Ho Wha 13	The Operetta	CD	$18.99	Swordfish	"The psychedelic find of the decade-their long-lost final magnum opus. Rumoured to exist for years-often put down as just rumour though. Here it is, unearthed from tapes thought lost forever but now found after nearly 30 years. The first thing to be released from Ya Ho Wha 13 since 1975. In the spring of 1975 the Family was homeless and was travelling on the West Coast after having been driven out of Hawaii by local laws (they would return later that year for what would be the final time with Father). Ya Ho Wha had taken a spontaneous journey to the East which had culminated in his initiation in the Great Pyramid of Egypt on Easter Sunday. Upon his return to the San Francisco area a warehouse in Corte Madeira was rented for the Family to gather for their Aquarian style morning meditations and meetings to greet the dawn. This is where The Operetta came down. It represents the first musical channelling from the time after Ya Ho Wha's Easter Ressurrection in the Great Pyramid (returning transformed) and the last total musical recording he would make with the band. The 6 pieces which make up The Operetta form the culmination of all the YaHoWhan recordings -- thunderous percussion, massive psychedelic guitar swirlings are all vying for space with Ya Ho Wha's spontaneous chanting in this intense journey into inner self. The final and most awesome of all their creations." 1975 recordings that was issued (and still available) as a double vinyl lp earlier in 2004.
8/13/2004	Ya Ho Wha 13	The Operetta	DBL LP	$44.99	Swordfish	"The psychedelic find of the decade-their long-lost final magnum opus. Rumoured to exist for years-often put down as just rumour though. Here it is, unearthed from tapes thought lost forever but now found after nearly 30 years. The first thing to be released from Ya Ho Wha 13 since 1975. In the spring of 1975 the Family was homeless and was travelling on the West Coast after having been driven out of Hawaii by local laws (they would return later that year for what would be the final time with Father). Ya Ho Wha had taken a spontaneous journey to the East which had culminated in his initiation in the Great Pyramid of Egypt on Easter Sunday. Upon his return to the San Francisco area a warehouse in Corte Madeira was rented for the Family to gather for their Aquarian style morning meditations and meetings to greet the dawn. This is where The Operetta came down. It represents the first musical channeling from the time after Ya Ho Wha's Easter Ressurrection in the Great Pyramid (returning transformed) and the last total musical recording he would make with the band. The 6 pieces which make up The Operetta form the culmination of all the YaHoWha recordings - thunderous percussion, massive psychedelic guitar swirlings are all vying for space with Ya Ho Wha's spontaneous chanting in this intense journey into inner self. The final and most awesome of all their creations. A strictly limited edition 2 LP set presented in a gatefold cover featuring previously unseen photographs from the Family's personal archives, it comes with an insert featuring a transcription of Ya Ho Wha's thoughts and comments on the piece when he heard the tapes played back to him shortly after they were recorded. One off pressing - this is destined to become as rare as the Higherkey originals."
6/19/2007	Ya Ho Wha 13	To The Principles For The Children	LP	$29.99	Swordfish	"This was the legendary cult/commune's penultimate album-thunderous native American Indian drums mixed with acid drenched feedback guitar, twisted vocals and a childrens song make for one of the most mind-altering albums ever. Comes with an insert of reflections on the record from the family. "At the end of 1974 The Source sold their restaurant and moved to Hawaii. There they went looking for paradise only to encounter hostile locals, who were reluctant to rent out a pad for Yahowa and his 13 wives, forcing them to temporarily retreat to Northern California. But they eventually reconfigured themselves and returned to Hawaii for a final fractious stand. "To the Principles, for the children" dates from this period and the tension shows. Its two long tracks are broken into untitled fragments, one of them an ode to "woman power" worthy of Helen Reddy. More frequently Yahowa locks into heaven chant mode, surrounded by instrumental rings that recall The Magic Band of "Abba Zabba". Very possibly, this album explains a great deal of the Father's philosophy-that is, if you can make out the words, of which there are many. By way of compensation the ensemble seamlessly blends effects and percussion, and when the kids' chorus of "Yahowa" starts up at the end you'll know you've already been somewhere." - Byron Coley A more personalized painfully vulnerable album style of songs. Odd.
	Yamada, Chisato	Fantastic World	CD	$16.99	PSF	"Here Yamada's amazingly vibrant, percussive attack and spirit power are featured in two avant settings. Two tracks recorded late last year feature Keiji Haino on guitar and percussion, amply fulfilling Kan Mikami's prediction that these two masters would create a fuckin' immense music if they ever met. The other three tracks are a suite for contemporary flute/percussion trio and tsugaru-jamisen, composed by Ken'ei Sasamori, recorded in 1978 and promptly lost for the next 17 years. Yamada is a true out-on-the-edge innovator, and these classic recordings prove that his experimental leanings have a long history. Yamada's age (he's now in his sixties) has only served to increase his unique power 7and authority. An essential, and too little known voice!"
4/16/2007	Yeh, C. Spencer	Solo Violin 1-10	LP	$15.99	Tone Filth	"Minimal & tense recordings from the man behind Burning Star Core. Made up of 10 unproccessed live to tape violin experiments edited from the original tapes issued on Spencer's Drone Disco imprint. The sounds on this record range from tense scrapes to minimal textural drones. A beautiful statement. Edition of 400 copies with 2 color screen print on front, one color on back."
1/1/2008	Yellow Swans	At All Ends	LP	$16.99	Weird Forest	"At All Ends is the third major record in the Yellow Swans vast body of work. This record is an assured record of chiming drone and heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the Yellow Swans camp that are more hushed, and whisper with the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission with dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink oxycontin. Guitar lines sketch out a melodic vision that stupifies with hypnotic repetition with layer upon layer of rich and dense guitar chug build into multi-orgasm songscapes that leave the loins sore and the mind spent. An exhausting journey into pleasure and single-mindedness. Elements of lush drone stretch the proceedings in vast strokes. Yellow Swans veer towards krautrock territory with this new record, and it will go down in the big books as their most beautiful and vibrant record thus far. Limited to 1000 copies with beautiful single pocket gatefold jackets with art by Jamie Potter."
5/14/2007	Yellow Swans	Descension Yellow Swans	LP	$21.99	Three Lobed Recordings	"The Yellow Swans have presented Three Lobed with some wonderfully dark and brooding drones for release as "Descension Yellow Swans." Taking a slightly different direction from their recent work, here Swanson and Saloman go and totally lay a psychedelic YS trip on all of your asses. Don't say we didn't warn you. Recorded by peter swanson and gabe s. in late 2006. from a one-time pressing of 489 hand-numbered copies. heavy 180g vinyl. housed within sleeves that were individually silk-screened by alan sherry (SIWA)."
11/4/2006	Yellow Swans	Psychic Secession	DBL LP	$17.99	Weird Forest	"This is the third Yellow Swans vinyl release on Weird Forest and they've really tattooed it out of the ballpark on this one. It's a pulse-pounding, synapse-blasting expedition straight to the cacophonous pleasure points of your innards. It must also be known that it's one of the most grooving releases I've heard all year, dig? Makes me shake it maniacal. Yellow Swans? Yeah, they do all these things, baby. Their ultimate release — simply phenomenal — features a treasure-trove of guests including Christina Carter, Inca Ore, Axolotl, The Dead Science, Gerritt, Silentist, The Cherry Point, Leif Sundstrom, White Rainbow, and Jeremy Romagna. Includes a side-long bonus track not on the CD versions! This is the vinyl edition of the CD release on Load Records."
4/24/2006	Yellow Swans	Psychic Sessions	CD	$13.99	Load	"Beaming down from the sky like a ray of white-hot light intent on saving us from ourselves, the Yellow Swans come up with their second studio record. Psychic Secession is a work of uncompromising vision, weaving together all sides of this duo's 20-sided die. Moments of quiet hum but up against crunchy speaker burners to make this record essential listening. The last few years have seen the Yellow Swans coat the planet with live dates in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Songs on this record were road tested in front of this planet's hungry eyes... you might have heard 'True Union,' which has been a staple of many of these live sets. This record was originally released in Australia by the Numerical Thief label, and comes to you on Load in a remastered format."
2/14/2008	Yellow Swans & Mouthus	Conan Island	LP	$15.99	Weird Forest	"An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin' it out in the primordial mulch and all the gods are cowering in their presence. The dual intertwining guitar-attack impacts and fragments into the dense concrete percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing caterwauling skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic & heavy proportions..just like you want it to be. Play loud for optimum effect! Cover art by Brian Sullivan." Limited edition of 500 copies.
12/26/2005	Yellow Swans (aka D Yellow Swans) and Jim Altieri	Drowning Yellow Swans	CDR	$9.99	Carbon Records	"28+min of swelling and dro(w)ning guitar, glitched up blips and beeps, and ghostly vocal fragments. another amazing installment from D Yellow Swans, with help, this time, from Jim Altieri. connecting, connecting, connecting, click............."
12/24/2005	Yellow Swans (aka Declawed Yellow Swans)	Declawed Yellow Swans	cassette	$7.99	Tone Filth	"Two slow burners from this Bay Area apocolypse unit. Burns so slow you'll never feel it completely engulf you. Comes in an edition of 200 with hand screened tape cases and bands."
2/11/2006	Yellow Swans (aka Doorendoorslechte Yellow Swans)	s/t	3" CD	$15.99	Ultra Eczema	"Dark depressed dest doast danger done dis done, pissed purple doom tones, dark dronischhhhhhhhh blur heavy beeps, fucking horrific sirup this is, pure gelatin with mayonnaise waiting in the sun for 3 weeks!!!!!!! 2 tracks getting you ready to blow up buildings and steal cars, piss on the rich and feed the poor, yelling oi oi oi in reverse and 345 times slower then the original working class heroes did it.. this 3" comes in the biggest cover design i did to date, 70 by 50 cm fold out purple, black and white lines and finally NO CARACTERS.., its pretty hard to find the cd in this one. and oh it's the first REAL cd on ultra eczema, not a cdr. limited to 300 copies."
12/24/2005	Yellow Swans (aka Dove Yellow Swans)	Live During War Crimes	CD	$13.99	Release The Bats	"live during war crimes is a collection with the best parts from various older releases, all remastered and edited to work as a new fullenght album. the result is a epic mayhem. 6 songs in about 47 minutes. a industrial wasteland of futuristic electronics, hypnotic feedback assaults and atmospheric drones - a beautiful, yet grim, sonic bliss. the material is taken from the dusk tape (released on jyrk, the bands own imprint), the demonic cdr (hung like a horse) and the drill cdr (snse). everything was recorded live between may and june 2004. comes packaged in a special dual plover styled fullcolor digipack. cover drawings by devendra banhart."
9/18/2006	Yellow Swans (aka Dove Yellow Swans)	Live During War Crimes #2	CD	$13.99	Release the Bats!	"The second volume, this time a collection of darker and more sinister live recordings taken from their tour in Europe early 2006. 42 black minutes of creepy soundscapes painting a depressive picture of a world going down in dust and ashes. The 5 songs all has a weird desperate and dense apocalyptic feel to them, making this a haunting and very bleak experience. Trashy dark rumblings and total coldness. Again very well-edited stuff by Pete Swanson, works more like a full proper album than just a collection of random recordings. Amazing! Comes packaged in a Dual Plover full color sleeve with black felt. Cover drawings by Liz Harris of Grouper. 1000 copies."
2/12/2008	Yellow Swans (Drowner Yellow Swans)	Drowner Yellow Swans	CDR	$8.99	Tape Room	"CDR version of out-of-print cassette. Excellent lo-fi and grimey jams that benefit greatly by being heard in digital due to the density of the sound. Recommended." - Second Layer
1/23/2003	Yellow6 / Rothko / Landing	New Found Land	CD	$11.99	Music Fellowship	"The Music Fellowship is excited to announce a series of Tryyptychs - three-way split CDs containing three 20+ minute ‘tryyps’ by three individual but complementary artists. The first in the series, New Found Land, is where Yellow6, the ambient journey of Leicestershire guitarist Jon Attwood, Rothko, the impressionistic bass odyssey charted by London’s Mark Beazley, and the many musical byways traveled by Connecticut-based Landing finally meet. Constructed in a digital studio, Yellow6’s looped, cut, and pasted compositions are layered and elegant, uniting bliss-out drone, airy rhythms, and melodic inflections. Attwood’s contribution to New Found Land is on the more structured side of his sonic spectrum, revealing facets perhaps not seen on his previous releases (for such labels as Ochre, Rocket Racer, Jonathon Whiskey, and Enraptured). His music has also been featured in several BBC projects. Rothko began in 1997 with a unique three-bass lineup. Founding member Beazley has since expanded Rothko’s sound with additional instrumentation. Recorded solo during the project’s early years, the intensely atmospheric ‘Halftones and Metatones’ continues Beazley’s patient exploration of the infinite possibilities of four strings. While it’s classic Rothko, as heard on Lo Recordings, (K-RAA-K) 3 and Bella Union, ‘Halftones’ anticipates the new directions Beazley is pursing on Too Pure. Over the past three years, Landing has retained a lush, hypnotic aura while spanning pure improvisation and gentle songcraft. The band’s contribution to New Found Land presents a new chapter of the quartet’s ongoing adventures in sound and texture. This is Landing’s fourth release on the Music Fellowship, and other recent releases are available on BaDaBing! and Strange Attractor’s Audio House. Their forthcoming 2003 album is being released on Olympia’s K Records."
2/11/2006	Yeti	#3	Book with CD	$12.99		"Book + CD: 244 page 6" by 9" matte gloss journal (gorgeous metallic cover), comes with a packed-as-possible CD of unreleased/ rare music fastened to inside back cover. CD CONTENTS: Unreleased music by Devendra Banhart (3 songs), Henry Flynt, Steffen Basho-Junghans, the Mad Scene, the Lights, Dan Melchior, Ian Nagoski, World, Birdbrain, the Apes, Dead Science, the Robot Ate Me, the Blues Goblins, KRMTX,the Postal Service, Iron & Wine, Jolie Holland, Colin Meloy from the Decemberists (a Morrissey cover), Haley Bonar, the Dream Lovers and Timesbold, plus rare tracks by Washington Phillips and the Fruit Bats (during their incarnation as I, Rowboat). BOOK CONTENTS: Unpublished interview with William S. Burroughs conducted in 1997 by Alan "Love in Vain" Greenberg; R.J. Smith's discovery of a hard-boiled anonymous crime scene reporter from 1940s African-American Los Angeles; rad felt-tip drawings by Mark Dwinell from Bright; Erik Davis on "West Coast art and spiritual collage"; Naomi Yang on her design work; comics by Jeffrey Brown, Jason Miles, Souther Salazar and Carson Ellis; diaristic photo letters by Michael Galinsky; a selection of BloodNinja's finest AIM conversations; a 'lost' manifesto by Henry Flynt; many pages of photos of modern Vietnam by Charles Peterson; the editor's interview with a discharged marine who may or may not be conning him; the 9-page "Apes Guide to Apes" (where the band the Apes tells in picture form what it is like to be the Apes); Nate Lippens on Eileen Myles; a parable by Steve Arntson; interviews with Neko Case, Schneider TM, Devendra Banhart and Timesbold; plus Goldcard in conversation with the Blues Goblins (Sam from Quasi). Full page illustrations by some of today's most excellent graphic artists--Sammy Harkham, Carson Ellis, Jeffrey Brown, Jordan Crane, Eric Reynolds, Gregg Einhorn and E*Rock--accompany each article."
2/21/2005	Ykeo	Clot Too Brown	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	“Pretty boy Daniel Mitha serves up a diamond noise goiter. Arcade game cut-up hookum meets candle lit face drill romance. Dedicated to his future ex-wives 16 Bitch Pile-Up.”
12/25/2005	Yonkers, Michael	Australian Tour	7"	$7.99	Art School Drop Out Records	"To accompany his one-off Australian appearance, the legendary Michael Yonkers put together "The Big Balloon" (1986)/ "It's You Again" (2005) for a tour 7". The Big Balloon comes from the same Michael Yonkers Band - Microminiature Love sessions of 1968 that earned him cult status. Strangely this track has never before been released and didn't even appear on the expanded Sub Pop reissue of a few years back. "When we recorded Microminiature Love, we only had enough money for one-hour of studio time. We didn't need the entire hour for Microminiature Love, so, in the time remaining we, just for the hell of it, recorded another song - The Big Balloon. This was a song that, although it was a different style than the Microminiature Love material, we did live as a big inflatable sculpture I had made was blowing up on stage..."Michael Yonkers, 2005. It's you Again is a sheer-attack buzzing psyche-noise monster which Yonkers recorded solo in the recent months. The 7" is packaged in a silk screened covers with artwork by local Melbourne artist Nathan Gray. The release is limited to 500 copies."
7/29/2004	Yonkers, Michael	It's Only Yonkers	LP	$11.99	Galactic Zoo Disk / Eclipse	So what does a NEW Michael Yonkers record sound like? I was as skeptical as anyone might be, having heard a lot of bad 30 year gap ‘comeback' and 'reunion’ lps ....but my jaw dropped on the first 2 bars of this baby! The good news is that not much has changed, Yonkers is still defiantly kicking out monster-distorto-blooz-addled ROCK. Gutsy howls with melodies underneath that stick to your ribs, and of course the trademark guitar buzz n scrape! This is savage yet stripped down pure Yonkers-recorded straight to 4-track with no overdubbing or trickery! The past 30 years are a mere blur, as this is fresh vital music that blows away the current trendy 'garage band' in an instant!!! If you enjoyed the 'Microminiature Love' record or are even the most casual fan of R n R, punk, post-punk, rockabilly, power blues, etc. you will go as nuts for this as I did. Eye-poppin cover art by Plastic Crimewave.
7/30/2003	Yonkers, Michael	Microminiature Love	CD	$13.99	Sub Pop	"Originally recorded in 1968 and slated for release on Sire Records, Microminiature Love languished unreleased until last year, when it was finally unearthed by Destijl Records (who put out a limited, vinyl-only pressing of the original album). Its creator, Michael Yonkers, is a legendary figure in Minneapolis music-lore, who, through his own modifications, created his own guitars and effects. However, Microminiature Love is no mere curiosity or feat of gadgetry. Raised on a steady diet of Link Wray and the Trashmen, Yonkers pushed the boundaries of distortion and truly transformed it into a powerful voice. The songs on Microminiature Love defy immediate categorization, but in them are shades of Pere Ubu, the howl of Iggy, the blunt primitivism of the Godz, and the seeds of countless other underground heroes. Upon its release last year, Microminiature Love immediately became a record-head favorite and Yonkers' later albums began trading for not-insignificant sums. The original seven-song album is accompanied on this CD edition by six bonus tracks recorded circa 1968."
8/20/2004	Yonkers, Michael / Plastic Crimewave Sound	Where Flowers Bloom / Hibiscus Blue	7"	$4.99	Captain Spazz Records	“Side A is two overdriven guitar attacks from Yonkers, a legendary survivor whose pre-punk genius has only recently become available in the last couple years. Both of these tracks are exclusive to vinyl and this release features an interview with Yonkers conducted by the Plastic Crimewave Sound. Side B is one massive psychedelic punk tidal wave from PCS. The overamped guitars, pained howls and rippling electronics frantically chug along like Chrome and Hawkwind. This track is completely exclusive as well. This release is also hand-numbered and limited to 500.”
9/16/2007	Yonkers, Michael with The Blind Shake	Carbohydrates Hydrocarbons	LP	$22.99	Nero's Neptune	"A chance nightclub pairing of the incomparable Michael Yonkers with Minneapolis noise rockers the Blind Shake went so exceptionally well that a studio session ensued. The result is this, one of two vinyl documents that represent by far the most exciting new work that Yonkers has recorded since his international emergence. The Blind Shake rock with a sound not unlike latter-day Hammerhead (which might be a better thing than you think), with Yonkers splattering maniacal guitar shards and impassioned vocals over the top. Add the best collection of songs (with great, skewered god-damn HOOKS even!) Yonks has come up with since at least the early '70s and you have a serious contender for rock record of the year. The beautiful, hand-numbered silk-screened sleeves were designed by Zak Sally (ex-Low) and printed by Minneapolis-based screening gods, Aesthetic Apparatus. Limited edition of 400 that only a fool would think they could live without."
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	Cracked Mirrors	CD	$16.99	PSF	"Reissue of a fantastic solo bass album from 1975. With tracks dedicated to Steve Lacy, Barre Phillips and others, this is bowed, flowing higher-key music for the spheres and probably the most interesting Yoshizawa document to date. Not to be dismissed as a mere 'solo bass' album." - FE
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	Empty Hats	CD	$16.99	PSF	"1994 recording for solo electric vertical five strings bass, one of Yoshizawa's personal inventions, a terrain previously explored on PSF 8 & 22. The sound here is small, noisy interludes and quirky improv, very quietly recorded & tough to really get into." - FE
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	From The Faraway Nearby	CD	$16.99	PSF	Again, the five string bass that he invented plus the addition of electronics on this recording.
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	Play Unlimited	CD	$16.99	PSF	"Yoshizawa is beyond doubt one of the most important, yet unknown, giants of Japanese free improvisation. He has been playing for forty years and was a leading figure in the Japanese free jazz scene of the late sixties and early seventies, both in his own (undocumented) trio, and in groups with such groundbreakers as Masayuki Takayanagi, Masahiko Togashi, and Kaoru Abe. He ranks shoulder to shoulder with Barre Phillips as the leading bass innovator/ improvisor. Yoshizawa is perhaps best known in the West for his work on his effects-laden five string bass, which has dominated his previous releases on PSF (Gobbledygook, From the faraway nearby, Angels have passed, Uzu, and his guest spots with folk-singer Kazuki Tomokawa). However Yoshizawa started off on acoustic bass and his three solo LPs (The Cracked Mirror and the Fossil Bird has been rereleased on PSF) on that instrument from the mid-70s stand as unsurpassed monuments to his genius. Twenty years on, this CD again features Yoshizawa on acoustic contrabass, recorded live at Shibuya Appia. The beauty, invention, strength and spirit on display are truly peerless. A stunning document from a player who should be as well known as Bailey, Parker et al." - Alan Cummings
12/29/2001	Yoshizawa, Motoharu / Takehisa Kosugi / Haruna Miyake	Angels Have Passed	CD	$16.99	PSF	Recorded live in 1991 with Yoshizawa on home made 5 string bass, Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers) on violin, and Miyake on piano.
7/7/2003	Youngs, Richard	171 Used Train Tickets	10"	$12.99	Fusetron	"The Old Angel, Nottingham, 1990. It was the A-Band's third live show and we were calling ourselves Advent for the evening in honour of a local record shop who - judging by their filing system - thought they were stocking an album entitled 'Richard Youngs' by Advent rather than Advent by Richard Youngs. For reasons that escape me now, I'd hoarded 171 used train tickets. It felt like a cool idea to read them out. So I did. Not in the privacy of my own home, but to an audience. They seemed to enjoy it. As soon as I'd finished, the A-Band struck up and a good time was had by all." - Richard Youngs.
3/13/2003	Youngs, Richard	Airs of the Ear	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"Richard Youngs' impressive body of work continues to mount. It resembles, unwittingly for sure, a slow zig zag march towards some Hegelian musical ideal in the distant horizon. Youngs, the leading wizard of droney and minimal psychedelic folk, has unleashed Airs of the Ear, his new opus invoking new magic looking for new ears to ensnare. Building on his esteemed recordings Advent (1990), Sapphie (1998), Making Paper (2001) and May (2002), Airs of the Ear goes beyond merely residing in what is the essential ecology of Richard Youngs - the spiritual nexus between the oft disparate realms of traditional folk and the avant-garde; it now embodies this ecology. Acoustic instruments coexist perfectly with electric ones, while neither class of instrumentation is ever trumped by the other contraptions on the record, namely ring modulation, the square wave or the theremin. Perfect balance is almost achieved. There is harmony, true emotional resonance, even on what is Youngs' most captivating work on the record, ‘Fire Horse Rising’. Despite the ever-escalating nature of this song, where Youngs powerfully and repeatedly invokes ‘...and I don't understand, ...and I don't want to know...’, the listener is never allowed to feel overwhelmed or be pushed out of that special meditative and trance-like space. The spell is never broken. English born and bred, but residing in Glasgow, Scotland (where Airs of the Ear was recorded), Richard Youngs has remained busy over the last two years. In addition to his recent Jagjaguwar offerings, Youngs has remained a very active collaborator (releasing albums with Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, Simon Wickham-Smith, Neil Campbell, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra, as well as being featured on the latest Damon & Naomi live album Song to the Siren on the bonus DVD)."
	Youngs, Richard	Festival	CD	$14.99	Table of the Elements	"In this, his first solo CD, he fuses disparate instrumentation (homemade electronics, plaintive vocals, clock chimes and found objects) into a lengthy series of pealing, minimal compositions that owe more to the slowly evolving drones and repetitive themes of Advent than any of his subsequent works. Dense electronic squalls are juxtaposed against shimmering percussion, culminating in the marvelously hypnotic 20 minute finale, 'The Sea Is Madness.' "
	Youngs, Richard	Making Paper	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"Much like Youngs' 'Advent' or 'Sapphie', 'Making Paper' has highly emotive avant folk underpinnings. Youngs is the king of the progressive minimalists, and on this full-length he sings and plays piano."
	Youngs, Richard	May	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"May, recorded at various times in Harpenden, England, is Richard Youngs' newest solo meditation. His music is magical, but not in the sense that it merely conjures up fantastical imagery or 'transports the listener to another place'. None of that is really happening. Richard Youngs' spell lies in the transformative qualities of his music. From so little we get so much. It is minimalism without pretense, songwriting that abhors artifice. It resides in the spiritual nexus between the oft disparate realms of traditional folk and the avant-garde."
3/11/2004	Youngs, Richard	River Through Howling Sky	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"If the 'musical' real number line is infinitely dense, then the most recent work of Richard Youngs endeavors to fill in all of the holes on it. River Through Howling Sky is Youngs¹ latest full-length. It returns to the more meditative and drone-y side of his songcraft (circa Sapphie (1998) and Making Paper (2001)), although this is no true devolution: all of his recordings to date have some measure of these qualities. So what is it that sets River Through Howling Sky apart from its predecessors? It is the density on the recording, both intra-spatial and otherworldly. The howling guitar that points unerringly to some imagined horizon line. Throughout, Youngs is the calm and steady wolf, chanting odes to infinity. Expose the ancient Brotherhood of Pythagoras to River Through Howling Sky, and you would find knowing nods, pursed lips, and secret incantations in caves. An unwitting acceptance that not everything is rational or conceptually circumnavigable. Our western tonal system relies on ratios, i.e. strings whacked at particular intervals. Young’s howling guitar and circular chants‹with the help of a spartan amount of percussion and electronics‹ may just encompass all the possible ratios and, mystically, more."
2/11/2006	Youngs, Richard	The Naïve Shaman	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"Richard Youngs has been making music for over two decades. The Naive Shaman, released in dual format (cd and lp), is a deeply personal work. Created on a computer at home, it is a high density digital song cycle driven by heavy, heavy electric bass guitar. The opening "Life On A Beam" combines a modal vocal line with throbbing sonics and non-linear percussion. Elsewhere a plaintive voice threads itself through frosted atmospherics and we hear Richard's first recorded kazoo work since 1992's New Angloid Sound. At the core of the album is "Sonar In My Soul", a bass loop on to which are collaged strangulated guitar, singing and more singing. The track climaxes in a hollered plea for "unity". The second half of the set contrasts "Once It Was Autumn", a succintly crafted dub chant, with the epic "Summer's Edge II", whose sprawling 16+ minutes anchor a floating vocal melody and free-flowing drums with fuzzed bass octaves. At a time when he has increased his commitment to live performance, Richard has--paradoxically--produced an album that explores recording technology as an instrument, a work where song is modulated by sound. By critics and true music fans everywhere, Youngs has been deemed the king of the progressive minimalists. He has now released seven full-length records in addition to multiple collaborations with other artists such as Makoto Kawabata (of Acid Mothers Temple fame), Simon Wickham-Smith and Neil Campbell." - Jagjaguwar
2/11/2006	Youngs, Richard	The Naïve Shaman	LP	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"Richard Youngs has been making music for over two decades. The Naive Shaman, released in dual format (cd and lp), is a deeply personal work. Created on a computer at home, it is a high density digital song cycle driven by heavy, heavy electric bass guitar. The opening "Life On A Beam" combines a modal vocal line with throbbing sonics and non-linear percussion. Elsewhere a plaintive voice threads itself through frosted atmospherics and we hear Richard's first recorded kazoo work since 1992's New Angloid Sound. At the core of the album is "Sonar In My Soul", a bass loop on to which are collaged strangulated guitar, singing and more singing. The track climaxes in a hollered plea for "unity". The second half of the set contrasts "Once It Was Autumn", a succintly crafted dub chant, with the epic "Summer's Edge II", whose sprawling 16+ minutes anchor a floating vocal melody and free-flowing drums with fuzzed bass octaves. At a time when he has increased his commitment to live performance, Richard has--paradoxically--produced an album that explores recording technology as an instrument, a work where song is modulated by sound. By critics and true music fans everywhere, Youngs has been deemed the king of the progressive minimalists. He has now released seven full-length records in addition to multiple collaborations with other artists such as Makoto Kawabata (of Acid Mothers Temple fame), Simon Wickham-Smith and Neil Campbell." - Jagjaguwar
1/15/2005	Youngs, Richard & Alexander Neilson	Beating Stars	LP	$12.99	HP Cycle	“Beating Stars is the second release by Richard Youngs and Alexander Neilson and finds the duo working a celestial vibe over the album's four tracks. The LP begins with a cosmic folk interpretation of the traditional ‘Rolling In The Dew’, with Richard's voice transplanted amongst electronics, acoustic clatter and steady minimal percussion. From there the record ventures into more abstract territories where hovering electronics, searing guitar and explosive drumming all meld into a psychedelic haze. The album concludes with the side-long ‘Sent Onto The Stream’, a twenty-two minute journey of skittering percussion and sustained tones of bent frequencies. Pressed in an edition of 420.”
12/24/2005	Youngs, Richard & Alexander Neilson	Partick Rain Dance	CD	$13.99	vhf	"Follow-up to 2003's Ourselves by this Glasgow duo finds them extending the already broad range of sound heard on that stunner into new worlds. The two prolific players heard here are at the top of their game, pairing some immediately identifiable elements - Neilson's superb jazz-influenced drumming, Youngs unmistakeable voice - with a thick layer of truly psychedelic clamor. The brief 'Chamber' rips out a noise like a 60's Ra/Patrick duo, segueing into the also Ra-ish masterpiece "Music of the Lost Sun." The point in 'Lost Sun' where Young's voice and guitar emerge from the polygot sound for a beautiful melodic interlude is just too much. The second half of the record has a less layered feel, beginning with the acapella 'Noatak Beacon,' then moving into more aggro territory with Neilson's bowed cymbals taking on Youngs' guitar on 'Mountain.' The short cut-up 'Big Aeroplanes' ends the record on a final note of mystery."
2/12/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Collodion Positives: Volume 2	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"This one picks up on the more abstract fourth world free jazz and improvisation style of volume one, with Paine on acoustic guitar, electric bass, piano and keyboards and Youngs on shakuhachi, percussion, harmonica and glockenspiel. There’s still a touch of The Sea Ensemble to the way breath and small single tones are combined in subtly psychedelic patterns and some of Youngs’ shakuhachi work touches on the exploratory moves of Sabu Orimo but it’s all pretty singular, with stately, slow moving pieces that have a nicely stoned/hallucinatory Gamelan feel." - Volcanic Tongue
2/12/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Collodion Positives: Volume 3	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New 2008 third volume of this on-going collaboration series between Youngs and fellow Ilk member Andrew Paine, released in a limited run on Paine’s own Sonic Oyster Records. The sound here seems focussed more towards late-60s/early-70s electric jazz, with keyboards pushed to the fore and basslines rendered with the kind of squonk quotient that sounds most like On The Corner-era Miles Davis or some of the wiggier, plugged in Sun Ra material. Richard plays shakuhachi, electric bass guitar, percussion and keyboards. Andrew plays electric guitar, electric bass guitar and keyboards." - Volcanic Tongue
5/29/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Hot Canyon Butter	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New limited collaboration CD on Paine‚s own imprint from Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine. Nothing like anything these two have done before, this one crosses drum machines, wah-bass, stylophone, harmonica, percussion, guitar and keyboards to birth an odd electro-punk upstart, with aspects of UK DIY outfits like Storm Bugs et al alongside punk takes on 70s Miles, skewed auto-destructive keyboard shuffles and insistent minimalist motifs." - Volcanic Tongue
12/24/2005	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Mauve Dawn	LP	$14.99	Fusetron	"For the past eight years Andrew Paine and Richard Youngs have met on almost every Sunday and recorded music. Mauve Dawn is the result of ten meetings during 2004. Its nine tracks feature processed epinette des vosges, glockenspiel, vintage keyboards and guitars alongside granularly synthesised household objects hacked together with resonated voices and filtered bells in a stereo field heavy on ring modulation. One part of the Mauve trilogy, this is an instrumental album of classic length." - Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine.
8/28/2007	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Rock Traveller	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Brand new limited duo exchange from long-term collaborators Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine on Paine's own Sonic Oyster imprint. Described as their "heaviest outing yet" this one features electrocuting bass/guitar psych monoliths that are as fuzz-fixated as Sound Of Confusion-era Spacemen 3, Skullflower-esque hurricane rhythms and extended trance-inducing feedback/electronic hoverings. Features a guest appearance by Richard's son Sorley Youngs on electric guitar." - Volcanic Tongue
	Youngs, Richard / Simon Wickham-Smith	Red & Blue Bear	CD	$12.99	vhf	"Red and Blue Bear is a simple but charming children's story written by Simon and illustrated by Richard. The story is included in the 20 page color booklet. The CD is R!!! & S!!!'s demented "performance" of the story. If you like these guys, you'll like this, and if you don't know them, it's a good place to start, as it cuts a wide swath through the variety of styles that these guys indluge in. There's anglo-folky laments, bizarre improv, casio madness, found sounds, etc, etc. 3 tracks, 45 mins."
	Youngs, Richard / Stephen Todd	Georgians	CD	$12.99	vhf	"An unorthodox and lovely bunch of tracks- a theoretical version of some incredible indigenous music from a culture that doesn't exist. Exotic and beautiful sounds from a variety of instruments both acoustic and electronic. The CD's two centerpieces are "Sixteen OO," a simple melody which spirals into the ether, and "Perrannthnoe," a track with an atmosphere much like a crinkling sheet of cellophane. I have no idea what that means." - vhf website
	Your Team Ring	Homelife	CD	$9.99	Perhaps Transparent	"Homelife is an apologetically conceptual yet unabashedly fractured psych-pop album. The recording group Your Team Ring narrates a circa-era 1928, science fiction story featuring a flying brownstone apartment, homemade clones, mechanical ants and the living dead. Musically, Homelife is a rapid-fire series of densely layered garage-rock songs tinged with droning exotic instrumentation, faux tin-pan alley buffoonery and bizarre, otherworldly production tactics. This album sounds like zanier side of ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ era Beatles, the studio-centricity of Sagittarius, and the darker elements of the Elephant Six Collective with allusions to early Eno, Joe Meek and, dare it be said, New Vaudeville Band."
	Your Team Ring	Root-4/Ultra-Pop	7"	$3.99	No-Fi Records	Spaced out psychedelic pop on blue vinyl
12/24/2005	Yura Yura Teikoku	Na.Ma.Shi.Bi.Re.Na.Ma.Me.Ma.I.	CD	$12.99	Mesh Key	"Available for the first time outside Japan, this 2003 hour-plus live recording captures Japanese psych rock legends Yura Yura Teikoku at the height of their powers. Former PSF and Captain Trip recording artists, Yura Yura Teikoku have spent the last 15 years honing their experimental yet infectious, ecstatic pop-psych sound. Their studio recordings were all recorded at Soichiro Nakamura's (of Japanese psych legends White Heaven) peace studios with You Ishihara (also formerly of White Heaven) producing. Yura Yura Teikoku bass player Chiyo Kamekawa also plays in the Stars (PSF) with Ishihara. Michio Kurihara of Ghost (Drag City) plays second guitar on a number of Yura Yura Teikoku tracks as well."