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ECLIPSE RECORDS

Date Added Artist Title Format Price Label a Details DateAdded Artist Title Format Price Label Description Details Details "Vintage 70+ minutes 15 piece A Band session, recorded straight to 2-track cassette in 1992. Performers include A-stalwarts like Sticky Foster, Stewart Walden, Neil Campbell, Jim Plaistow and Vince Earimal alongside some less familiar names. The session opens w/ a driving rock piece in tutti, then devolves into a series of solo, then duo, then trio, quartet, etc pieces, w/ performers and their respective instruments drawn out of a hat. Then to close, a 35 minute concert-style piece called "Just past not-too-boring" where performers started playing one at a time, entering the recording room a minute each apart (order was again decided by pulling names out of a hat), and then once everyone was in there, departing in the order they entered. During this last piece, Will Irvine was obviously bored by playing music, so decided he'd try to undress and grope as many people as possible, as a kind of disruptive element. Sounds like the beginnings of a comedy gay sex orgy on the tape, w/ Sticky commentating in his own inimitable style." 8/30/2009 A Band April Twelfth Nineteen Ninety-Two CDR $10.99 Details Strictly limited (numbered) edition of 50 on 3" CDR Simon Murphy Karl M V Waugh Alasdair Willis Recorded live 18th November 2010 @ The Iron Duke. The A-Band deliver a righteous ritual of 'primitive', over 22 glorious minutes: fucked up free jazz: unfettered avant-abuse. It is a beautiful thing. 5/17/2011 A Band, The Abstruse 3" CDR $9.99 Sonic Oyster Records Details "Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury is a double-disc re-issue of two limited and long out-of-print works by this obscure enigma. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion and chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting and engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, and other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, and Hijokaidan. A Handful of Dust are a group consisting of a core duo of Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1990." 11/2/2008 A Handful of Dust Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards / The Philosophik Mercury Double CD $15.99 No Fun Details “Since we just released what we did on 4.6 of this year, we felt it only right to put last year's 4.6 jam out too, as it is no less interesting. This jam features a line up of 9 or more folks in a fusion/improv blast. This release is especially dear to us, as this lineup of AME includes the late Lyx Ish contributing on percussion, Rhodes, sax, and voice. Her tremendous presence put the AME collective over the edge for this jam, and we are happy to have it documented and available.” Edition of 48 copies. 9/23/2004 A Mercury Ensemble Keep Children Out of School CDR $9.99 23 Productions Details "A Story Of Rats is back on Eiderdown after his killer LP from last year. More synth creep wizardy and this time Garek Druss’ synths and vocals are accompanied on the journey by Mr. James Woodhead (Elemental Chrysalis/At The Head OF The Woods) on guitar, voice, and bells. “The Chariot and The Wooden Spear” is an emotional tractor beam of sound, pulling the listener with slight drum pulses along a meandering path thru vales of both beauty and grimnitude. An amazing collaboration by two treasures of the Pacific Northwest’s deep vibes scene. Hellvete is Glen Steenkiste’s solo gig, when not on the job destroying minds and Duvel bottles as a principal member of Belgian psych-improv rockers Silvester Anfang II. Over the course of an outstanding LP on KRAAK and multiple label outings on various formats, Hellvete has distilled his psychotropic ur-folk sound into tasty slabs of acoustic/electric drone. Alternately comforting and suffocating, these pieces created with bowed banjo, harmonium, tampura, and Casio leave the listener with the experience of shaking hands with the ghost of Angus MacLise at the crossroads of Annapurna and some nearly-forgotten Flemish forest." Two color double-sided screen-printed J-cards courtesy of Broken Press with eye popping visuals conjured by Max Clotfelter. 11/3/2012 A Story Of Rats / Hellvete split c44 cassette $6.99 Eiderdown Details Three-way split CD featuring 20 minutes by each of these three acts. A Warm Palindrome you should know from our Betley LP. The tracks here are a lot more cohesive and direct than the stuff on that record (despite being recorded over a 12 month plus period). Feverdreams is a solo electronic/guitar project from California, playing miniature, textural and heavily-processed pieces. Badgerlore is a duo featuring an ex-Deerhoof and Ben Chasny a.k.a. Six Organs of Admittance. They play raw string/pick-up improvisation which magically transforms itself into song form by the end. A Warm Palindrome / Feverdreams / Badgerlore Three Owls Six Ears CD $7.99 Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers Details "Mallard Lake presents a split release with finnish A Way and british Jazzfinger, sharing the space on this release. A Way stir up a sound from the soil they are standing on, sounding as an old and lonely farmer, living in the city, remembering his youth, playing drums and guitars buried five feet down in the ground, when the memories have become corrupted by wind and electric fog. This is rural, rustic and disintegrated rock'n'roll drone. Jazzfinger conjures a gritty execution of the all mighty powerdrone. Their contribution sounds as an extended roar with shifting moods, from nasty to grim to the invasion of battle hawks, slowly creating a numbing feeling as the sun goes down. 5" cd-r. gray speckled paper with black color. edition of 100." 9/30/2005 A Way / Jazzfinger The Sun Is Your Enemy, The Wind Is Your Friend CDR $9.99 Mallard Lake Details Edition of 116 copies on black vinyl & X rated cover art. "Brutal electronics & mangled junk metal abuse fome Wyatt Howland & Andrew Coltrane. sick alcoholic sound damage & nasty frequencies decomposed in a total work of hatred & disgust. recorded on 4 track cassette in Mi. & mixed by Wyatt in Cleveland." 11/6/2010 A.C. / Skin Graft Dirty Pussy LP $13.99 Hermitage Tapes Details "This release brings together the sister albums’ from Antony Miltons 'A.M' project recorded in 2003. Recorded simultaneously (and released on Haamumaa and Humbug records respectively) these 2 disks document a particularly productive year. Ranging from ecstatic tape noise works through gestural instrumental pieces, field recordings, drone works and live tracks this is a great introduction to the work of A.M." 3/26/2006 A.M Yet Marvellous Stasis / Strata double CDR $15.99 Pseudo Arcana Details “Antony Milton becomes the first interloper to enter the Transient camp. Described by A.M. as ‘autistic’, at times this is challenging almost in the way that Sachiko M. can be. It’s also pretty damn engrossing and …. entertaining. This sounds somewhat like what you might have produced with that electronic junk you found in the basement as a teenager (if only you’d had a lot more experience, flair and skill).” 11/16/2004 A.M. Small Engine Funk Tantra CDR $11.99 Transient Recordings Details "I found a small box of these when I was packing down my music room. This is a full length album containing 3 tracks of noisy psychedelic drone. At the time I thought it was the best ever A.M album, and I still think it's a pretty good record. (Its weird that I forgot all about it for so long...!)" - Antony Milton 3/5/2009 A.M. Tour Disk 2006 CDR $8.99 Pseudo Arcana Details “As if it wasn't enough that these two hiss-enthusiasts are situated firmly in the drivers seat of their own esteemed empires, the propect of hearing them cross swords simultaneously on the same piece of tape seemed unbearably exciting. Such is the nightlife in my part of the world. Mesmerising, multi-hemispheric, slumber-punk of a calibre well beyond garden-variety dronesters and dime-a-dozen noodlers. Have you ever noticed that if you stare for too long at green fuzz pedals, you can make yourself seasick?” 9/4/2004 A.M. / Uton 'NTH nth STH sth' CDR $14.99 Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon Details "A.M. Salad is the solo project of Keith Childress who has worked in various other projects, most recently the free-noise improv mock rock libation sponges Algebrassiere. The tracks on ‘Lo-Fi For Hi-Fi’ range from cut-up collage to drone to noise, though a noise of a more trance inducing nature rather than an assaultive angle... though some abrasive moments are certainly present. Sounds from electric tools, hygiene and vanity devices, and various other gadgets of the home and office are teamed with tones from faulty keyboards and various other rickety instruments, as well as a hearty portion of turntable manipulation done with damaged record players playing scratchy old thrift store records. All tracks on this CD were originally recorded in the mid 1990's... some of which were originally released on E.F. Tapes, one of the premier noise-taper labels of the time period, operated by Emil Hagstrom of Cock E.S.P. The work on Lo-Fi For Hi-Fi was all recorded on a crappy karaoke machine; so many sound sources were run directly into the karaoke machine that some sessions actually ended wiht the sing-along-party-box emitting smoke before completely shutting off. All tracks for this CD release, however, have been digitally remastered by Rat Bastard of The Laundryroom Squelchers and To Live And Shave In L.A." 1/28/2005 A.M. Salad Lo-Fi For Hi-Fi CD $10.99 Sloth Jinni Details Edition of 50 copies. 4/27/2011 Abate, Maurizio Travis B cassette $8.99 Tulip Details "Longtime collaborators Abbott (prepared electric guitar + electronics) and Dadge (percussion + electronics) release their first album together. There's a lot of movement in these two tracks, but there's a similarity in their approaches that streamlines the proceedings. The duo tosses a dizzying array of ideas and sounds at one another, and they are caught, tossed back, and(/or) sidestepped entirely, as only a duo can do. Abbott's playing occasionally recalls a handful of his predecessors (Frith, Kaiser, Rowe, Chadbourne, et al) in the guitar mangling tradition, but we are mostly exposed to his own rapidly developing voice on the instrument, further evidenced on his recent solo album, Zebra Wood, and the wonderful Lamp Chops album (bim-24). Dadge (fresh of a year of playing with the likes of Mats Gustafsson, Eugene Chadbourne, and Eric Chenaux) is in full kaleidoscopic mode, adding bags of junk and amplification to his drums & cymbals. Recorded by Brad Hawkins at the monthly Bug Incision concert series in the summer of 2009. color covers in plastic sleeves, edition of 65." 3/22/2010 Abbott, Simeon + Chris Dadge A Menu Isn't A Meal CDR $8.99 Bug Incision Details "The remaining chunk of music from this trio's collaboration in Aaron Leaney's old apartment on Bloor street. See bim-32 for more info. b&w photocopy covers in plastic sleeves, 3" cdr, edition of 34." 3/22/2010 Abbott, Simeon with Bent Spoon Duo untitled 3" CDR $5.99 Bug Incision Details "non-stop assault from demon duo of Andrew Coltrane (hermitage tapes) and David Payne. "hells bells" was constructed by Doc Payne in the mjc lab December '08 with source tapes from A.C.'s deep basement being spun-out in blizzard wind whirls on the highway between Hamilton, Ontario and Redford, Michigan. side A starts with a weird sax loop morphing into an intense drum decay thickening further into some sick,sweet&sour soup....side B is a dumb-dumb drum on drugs spaced-out in outer space. limited to 33." 3/21/2009 AC/DP Hells Bells cassette $7.99 Middle James Co. Details "Well, the new album is there, just between 2007 and 2008, just nowhere. The title means nothing but 'éduquons les sales cons' (Educate the bastards) but if you can think about it, it just means 'we can't change nothing after all'. Twelve new tracks exept 'Definition of fall' re-recorded 10 years after we made it and recorded in few instants almost 10 years ago. We love that song. We have new tracks now and always ready to play. You can say that we don't mind, you're right but after 10 years how can you say that? You can say that we don't know how to use our guitars, you're deadly right but after 3 chords of 'wooden ride', we're just laughing. Nobody's right and you can't change nothing after all." From Paris, France. 3/24/2008 Acetate Zero Civilize the Satanists CD $13.99 Arbouse Details 16 live and unreleased tracks. Limited edition of 250 copies. 10/6/2007 Acetate Zero We Deny This CDR $8.99 Arbouse Details "Acid Mothers Guru Guru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's holy Acid Mothers Temple. The result is a fiery fantasy filled, loud/soft, colorful trans-generational psychedelic collaboration. The Acid Mothers Guru Guru started in a spontaneous session in March of 2006 in Nagoya, Japan. When the improvisation commenced, the passionate excitement was clear to all in the room and it was then that this special psychedelic trio began. A Japanese tour was planned, an album was recorded and this recording is the fruits of this mutual musical admiration. While all involved will admit that this is a dream collaboration, it was the Acid Mothers Temple guys who were worshipping Guru Guru in their teens. The Acid Mothers Guru Guru is two generations of psychedelic rock joining forces for the 21st century." 10/6/2007 Acid Mothers Guru Guru Psychedelic Navigator CD $13.99 Important Records Details This is the live footage of the full concert of AMT Fest. vol.5 (Dec.2006) in Nagoya Japan featuring Mani Neumeier (drums, percussion, voice: Guru Guru), Kuriyama Jun (voice: ex.Ox) as well as Tsuyama Atsushi (monster bass, voice, recorder, guitar), Higashi Hiroshi (synth, guitar, voice), Kawabata Makoto (guitar, voice), Kitagawa Hao (voice), and Tabata Mitsuru (freak out). Region free - limited one time pressing of 1000 copies. Recommended! 1/1/2008 Acid Mothers Temple Acid Mothers Temple Festival Volume 5 DVD $14.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "A new incarnation of Acid MothersTemple fame called The Cosmic Inferno and their CD Demons From Nipples is just out on Vivo Records. 2 tracks, 52 minutes of hard / psychedelic / guitar-driven trance! Recorded at Acid Mothers Temple, March - May 05." Polish label release. 9/30/2005 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Demons From Nipples CD $15.99 Vivo Records Details Complete version of the 2005 gig played by Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno in Zagreb. The gig was filmed with three cameras by the genius Croatian film artist Niko Potocnjak (Seven That Spells), who also edited the double DVD "History of Acid Mothers Temple" due to be released this autumn. The sound was recorded to sixteen-channel digital and mixed by Kawabata himself to create an astoundingly high-quality live package. Tracks include "Trigger in Trigger Out", "Pink Lady Lemonade", "OM Riff", etc. The lineup of Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno at the time of this gig was: Tabata Mitsuru : bass, vocals. (Zeni Geva, ex Boredoms, Leningrad Blues Machine), Higashi Hiroshi : synth, guitar, chorus. (Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.), Shimura Koji : drums. (Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Miminokoto, ex High Rise, ex Mainliner, ex Nagisa Nite, ex White Heaven), Okano Futoshi : drums. (ex Ghost, ex Subvert Blaze, Andromelos), Kawabata Makoto : guitar, chorus. (Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Gong, ex Mainliner). NTSC format, region free. Limited edition of 1000. This will be in stock Monday. 7/14/2007 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Hardcore Uncle Meat - Live in Croatia 2005 DVD $16.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "Recorded live at Counter Action, Sapporo, Japan, 29 June 2008 2 tracks: 1. Master Of The Cosmic Inferno ~ Heart Of Earth 2. Pink Lady Lemonade ~including Doobie Wonder Land. Time 72:26 AMT are: Tabata Mitsuru (bass, voice, malatab), Higashi Hiroshi ( synthesizer, guitar, dancin'king), Shimura Koji (drums, latino cool), Pikachu (drums, voice, cosmic shaman), Kawabata Makoto (guitar, speed guru)." 8/22/2008 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Hotter Than Inferno / Live in Sapporo 2008 CD $15.99 Vivo Records Details A complete document of the final Osaka date on the summer 2007 "Hotter Than Inferno Western Japan Tour " by Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno's (featuring Pikachu from Afrirampo). The miraculous injection of power provided by the addition of grenade-girl Pikachu to the ranks, and the special guest appearance by Yamazaki Maso (AKA Masonna) meant that this date at Bears was insanity on an unprecedented scale. By the end of the group's set there was so little oxygen left in the venue that no one's lighter would work! This date became an instant legend - and here's your chance to witness it on DVD!! Edition of 500 copies. NTSC / Region Free 8/2/2008 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Hotter Than Inferno ~ Live in Osaka 2007 DVD $15.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "Debut release on our new Blackest Bootleg labels releasing live recordings. The bootleg was recorded back in August 2008 at The Shakespeare in Sheffield, a great venue that played host to Acid Mothers first show in Sheffield, and it was so packed, the floor was literally moving underneath the crowd, the room was like a sauna, every single person dripping with sweat, it was one of the busiest shows I'd been too in Sheffield in a long time. I remember there being some total hippies down the front going so nuts, it was like their dream come true to see Acid Mothers. And, of course, it was INSANELY loud. This release captures that, the sheer volume AMT were playing at for the size of the room was crazy. I remember several months after, a guy I know said he'd heard there was a recording of it, and then a few months from then he said he'd managed to get a hold of it and he'd got a copy for me. After months I managed to get it, it was on DVD as it was too long to fit on a CD, so the guy had said he'd literally said he'd sat in front of the TV and listened to the 80+ minutes staring at a blank screen. That must've been a hell of an experience. I managed to get a hold of it in the end, and edit to a perfect 79 minute release just cutting of a few minutes of the encore. This double LP collects those 79 minutes of the recording, 6 tracks including two awesome versions of Pink Lady Lemonade, and other classics like Heart of Earth and Space Disco. The line up for the show was Pika (Afrirampo), Tabata Mitsuru, Hugashi Hiroshi, Shimura Koji, and Kawabata Makoto. Both Pika and Shimura played drums, so the set was seriously heavy as you will find out when you get this spinning... Be warned there are a couple of points in this where the sound goes a little crackly and distorted, but only very, very briefly, and it does get pretty loud at a few points. Just like a true bootleg should be! Edition of 250 copies on printed card sleeves featuring cover shot of the band. Pressed on 140gram virgin vinyl." 10/20/2011 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Shakespeare From The Cosmic Inferno 2008 double LP $32.99 Blackest Bootleg Details "While this album is certainly a tribute record it doesn't consist of straight-up Sabbath worship in the simple sense of covers. The band sounds as if they are simultaneously paying respect to other Sabbath-influenced projects such as Melvins or Zeni Geva, the later being the former home of Tabata, one of the Temple's latest recruits. Starless and Bible Black Sabbath consists of two tracks, the first being an epic thirty four minute blowout titled 'Lady from Hell.' The opening cut begins in a similar fashion to Black Sabbath's eponymous open albeit much less dramatic. The second track relates more to the band's obsession with Kraut rock, sounding like the more pop-oriented period of Hawkwind." 2/26/2006 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Starless and Bible Black Sabbath CD $14.99 Alien8 Details One vinyl black / one vinyl dark red. Original pressing from 2001. Great album! Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!) double LP $59.99 Static Caravan / Resonant Details "Now firmly fixed to a solid four-piece (TSUYAMA ATUSHI, HIGASHI HIROSHI, SHIMURA KOJI and KAWABATA MAKOTO) with added guest vocalists, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. return to their spiritual home of the UK Riot Season for yet another out-there ride through their weird and psychedelic world. Guitars howl, riffs grow bigger with each minute and brains get fried along the way. Recorded under falling ash and burning roof tiles, Acid Motherly Love features every dimension of their legendary underground sound-from wild riff heavy jams, to quieter acoustic passages and spoken monologues, all capped by the trance inducing 15-minute-plus epic "Santa Sanrodriguez." Artwork features the obligatory naked Japanese babes in all their finery. God Bless AMT." 11/17/2007 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Acid Motherly Love CD $19.99 Riot Season Details "First release for the 'freak-out trip' group led by Makoto Kawabata, long-haired guitar monster of Musica Transonic, Mainliner, Toho Sara etc. notoriety. Some of the other members may be familiar too - Koizumi is ex-Mainliner, Yasuda is ex-Toho Sara, Casino is from Mardi Gras Blue Heaven. Musically this record is going to moisten a few gussets around the globe. Deep-space synth-float signaling, cosmic voices, drugged trickery, and whirlpools of churning percussion topped with Kawabata`s trademark speed psycho guitar, all recorded with at speaker-destroying fuzz level. Track titles like 'Zen Feedbacker', 'Amphetamine A GoGo', 'Satori LSD', and the 20 minute 'Speed Guru' should tell the cognoscenti all they need to know. Recorded under the influence of the teachings of the Acid Mothers Temple, and of internalized psychedelic states." Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. CD $15.99 PSF Details Includes "Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky (aka Dark Star Blues), Pink Lady Lemonade, La Le Lo and improv track. This is the tour cd of US & Canadian tour 2008. Limited 1000 copies only. 3/25/2008 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Acid Mothership Live CD $14.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "Japan's Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO return from the cosmos with this brand new album, "Are We Experimental?" The world's premier psychedelic warriors have blasted out an album that distills their weird world into 11 tracks of sonic mayhem. Hawkwind style guitar overload meets ethnic folk music from around the globe as a UFO crashes in the midst of it all. "Are We Experimental?" (a la Jimi Hendrix) is one of the easiest AMT albums for a new fan to digest. All of the songs clock in under 8 minutes (this, from a band known for 30+ minute jams!) and feature all of the realms of sound AMT utilize regularly as well as new influences and techniques for the old heads. Prog rock meets Sun Ra style freedom mixed in with space noises and absolutely leveling guitar riffs. Plus a whole bunch of submerged weirdness and "acid folk" that can only come from Acid Mothers Temple. God and Hair, indeed!" Recommended! 7/16/2009 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Are We Experimental? CD $15.99 Prophase Details "Limited to 500 ultra-cool multi-colored double vinyl gatefold. The world's premier psychedelic warriors have blasted out an album that distills their weird world into 11 tracks of sonic mayhem. Hawkwind-style guitar overload meets ethnic folk music from around the globe as a UFO crashes in the midst of it all. Are We Experimental? (a la Jimi Hendrix) is one of the easiest AMT albums for a new fan to digest. All of the songs clock in under 8 minutes (this, from a band known for 30+ minute jams!) and feature all of the realms of sound AMT utilize regularly as well as new influences and techniques for the old heads. Prog rock meets Sun Ra style freedom mixed in with space noises and absolutely leveling guitar riffs. Plus a whole bunch of submerged weirdness and 'acid folk' that can only come from Acid Mothers Temple. God and Hair, indeed." 4/3/2010 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Are We Experimental? double LP $30.99 Prophase Music Details "In the year 2000, Japan's psychedelic rock masters, The Acid Mothers Temple, hit the road on an endless journey. That journey has taken them to many far and strange places. While braving their way through the wilds of the American venue, they were captured...on tape. That tape surfaced a year later as the much sought after 'Born To Be Wild In The USA' LP. It looked like one of those classic dubious "live" records from the seventies in the vein of the Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Kiss. Photo copied image on plain white sleeve with black labels. Apparently there were 1000 pressed. Not much more was known except the fact that it disappeared very quickly. That LP has been remastered for this one time CD release. Contains the original five long tracks: 1) Acid Tokion 2000 2) La Novia 3) Pink Lady Lemonade 4) Speed Guru 5) God Bless AMT. Packaged in a generic looking purple Digipak except with a lone 'Skull' on the back cover. The front cover has the original LP cover art affixed in the form of a sticker." 5/11/2004 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Born To Be Wild In The U.S.A. 2000 CD $12.99 Wabana Details "This seems to be a live LP recorded during their tour of 2000 but it looks like one of those classic dubious live records from the seventies in the vein of the Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Kiss. Photo copied image on plain white sleeve with black labels. Apparently there were 1000 pressed. Not much more to be said." Tracks include Acid Tokion 2000, La Novia, Pink Lady Lemonade & Speed Guru. This is a one time pressing with no chance of reissue. Highly recommended so grab a copy now before they are gone! Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Born To Be Wild In The USA 2000 LP $18.99 Details "Brand new full length album from the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO featuring their recent addition, female vocalist Kitagawa Hao. Recorded over a period of four months at The Acid Mothers Temple this is a very clean sounding and polished AMT. Frontman Kawabata Makoto admitted, only half joking, that this has the 'cleanest sound in AMT history!' More controlled than many of their speaker destroying fuzz blasted speed guru jams, Crystal Rainbow Pyramid is focused on mystic ambient passages leading into Kawabata's head-heavy echo-riffs. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid is clearly one of the new classic AMT recordings. Prepare to have your mind blown slowly with evolving heavyweight jams and climactic peaks of exquisite ecstasy." 6/19/2007 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars CD $13.99 Important Records Details "Brand new full-length recording from Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Proggy psych sounds mix Pink Floyd with fuzzy wah guitars and cosmic sounds. Focused riffing, super fidelity recording, and packaging designed by Seldon Hunt." Double vinyl issue coming later. 6/3/2009 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Dark Side of the Black Moon: What Planet Are We On? CD $12.99 Important Details "Electric Heavy Land is one of the most over top releases to come out of the Temple so far, and is perhaps Kawabata Makoto's heaviest groove-oriented material since the classic Mainliner debut Mellow Out. The recording is made of three tracks that at times will have listeners reminiscing over the likes of early Mudhoney and Monster Magnet's ‘Spine of God’-era sound. It's the one of the catchiest records from the incredibly prolific psych unit in recent times and can be best compared to the heavier tracks on Absolutely Freak Out Zap Your Mind the bordering-on-metal sound the band often seems to take on in live situations." 10/21/2002 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Electric Heavyland CD $14.99 Alien8 Recordings Details "Limited edition of 1000 copies. Acid Mothers Temple's Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata and company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks and freaked out pitched up vocals. Cover art by Seldon Hunt." 5/1/2009 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Glorify Astrological Martyrdom LP $16.99 Important Details "7" made for 2001 US tour. Limited to only 500 copies and features two exclusive tracks, 'Grateful Head' & 'Whopping Wild Freaks.' It's pressed on yellow-ish vinyl, and there are several slight variations in the vinyl color between various copies." Great record! Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Grateful Head 7" $19.99 Wabana Details "Acid Mothers Temple return with an expanded Melting Paraiso U.F.O. line-up, featuring the added guitar skills of Japan underground legend and new full-time member Tabata Mitsuru (Boredoms, Zeni Gava, Leningrad Blues Machine, etc.). IAO Chant from the Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out finds the band revisiting the past and once again taking Gong's infamous "Om Riff/Master Builder" to soaring new heights. This is a completely new studio version recorded in a new Japan, one that's still coming to terms with recent catastrophic events. Split into two almost equal parts, "OM Riff from the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Parts 1 & 2," this is the sound of a reinvigorated AMT playing some of their most up-tempo and groove-based music for some time. The laidback nature of acclaimed previous album The Ripper at the Heaven's Gates of Dark (REPOSE 030CD) opus is put firmly aside in favor of some heads-down riff-heavy freakouts. Taking the original classic "OM Riff" as its backbone, stretching it out to new highs and taking on an almost Krautrock sense of repetition and sonic attack. This is definitely more akin to the much-loved AMT live sound, and should appeal not only to long-time converts but pot-headed pixies and new kids rediscovering what guitar-based music is all about too. CD packaged in a gatefold card sleeve (first edition only)." 1/5/2013 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. IAO Chant from the Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out CD $17.99 Riot Season Details "Acid Mothers Temple return with an expanded Melting Paraiso U.F.O. line-up, featuring the added guitar skills of Japan underground legend and new full-time member Tabata Mitsuru (Boredoms, Zeni Gava, Leningrad Blues Machine, etc.). IAO Chant from the Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out finds the band revisiting the past and once again taking Gong's infamous "Om Riff/Master Builder" to soaring new heights. This is a completely new studio version recorded in a new Japan, one that's still coming to terms with recent catastrophic events. Split into two almost equal parts, "OM Riff from the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Parts 1 & 2," this is the sound of a reinvigorated AMT playing some of their most up-tempo and groove-based music for some time. The laidback nature of acclaimed previous album The Ripper at the Heaven's Gates of Dark (REPOSE 030CD) opus is put firmly aside in favor of some heads-down riff-heavy freakouts. Taking the original classic "OM Riff" as its backbone, stretching it out to new highs and taking on an almost Krautrock sense of repetition and sonic attack. This is definitely more akin to the much-loved AMT live sound, and should appeal not only to long-time converts but pot-headed pixies and new kids rediscovering what guitar-based music is all about too. Limited to 500 copies worldwide. On red/blue-swirl colored vinyl." 1/5/2013 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. IAO Chant from the Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out LP $24.99 Riot Season Details "Originally released on LP by the Eclipse label, In C is the latest inspirational work by the Japanese avant- psychedelic collective the Acid Mothers Temple. This CD reissue includes all of the music featured on the original Eclipse LP, including the title track, a reinterpretation of minimalist composer Terry Riley's monumental composition from 1964, and ‘In E’, which the band performed frequently during their 2001 US and UK tours. The CD version of the album also includes the 19 minute bonus track ‘In D’." Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. In C CD $24.99 Squealer Details This LP features two side long tracks. In C is a cosmic krautrock version of the Terry Riley composition and In E is a heavyweight freakout jam! In E was performed every night on the Acid Mothers Temple US tour in September 2001. Features Kawabata Makoto (electric guitars, violin, zuruna, synthesizer), Tsuyama Atsushi (monster bass), Higashi Hiroshi (electric guitar, synthesizer), Cotton Casino (voice), Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums), and Terukina Noriko (vibraphone, glockenspiel). Second edition of 1000 copies pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a full color gatefold sleeve. This second edition has superior gatefold jackets than the original pressing. 2/16/2002 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. In C / In E LP $24.99 Eclipse Details "The most prolific and widely-known of the various Acid Mothers Temple collectives. Psychedelic, space-rock music, free-form and experimental. An experience you can't miss! "Interstellar Guru And Zero" is one of the most chaotic albums by AMT & TMP U.F.O. In the AMT imaginary Guru And Zero means Ground Zero. The album is only two tracks long and gives form to this concept and represents a lucid hallucination which will blow away the listener in one of the weirdest trips ever. "Astral Projection From Holy Shangrila" is the first part of this trip, twenty minutes of cosmic explosion intense and highly unforgettable. Then it starts up again with the infinite "Interstellar Guru and Zero" . This represents the moment after the explosion, described by the band like the "loop of the universe". What will you see after "Interstellar Ground Zero"?" 4/10/2009 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Interstellar Guru and Zero CD $16.99 Homeopathic Details "The sprawling 40 minute title track is based on an Occitanian folk tune, and the unearthly acoustic opening with its overtone singing sounds like something that might have made its way on to a Werner Herzog soundtrack. Indeed once the guitars come in and the band stoke up their mighty drone, the effect is that of an amped up Popul Vuh, the German band who soundtracked many Herzog films. Ashra Tempel or Amon Duul are other reference points. At times, it's impossible to believe that this wasn't recorded in Berlin in 1972, such is the authenticity of the enterprise. But Kawabata's crew aren't merely K-tel Krautrockers; La Novia shows a deep respect for the traditional folk form and integrates it completely with the long forays into deep space that the leader's fuzz." Reissue of one of my favorite Eclipse lp's. Limited Pressing of 1000 in four different color combinations. 6/24/2012 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. La Novia LP $18.99 Prophase Details Recorded live at Mandala2 in Tokyo on February 15, 1999, "this gig was also Tsuyama Atsushi's first with AMT after officially joining the group, and it took place about a month before the release of 'Pataphisical Freak Out MU!!'. In spite of the fact that this was our third gig in Tokyo, less than thirty people showed up at the venue. AMT has not played in Tokyo since and understandably they have little intention of doing so in the future. AMT's line-up at this period in the group's life has long been whispered of amongst the cognoscenti as the best ever. For various reasons Koizumi stopped playing live in autumn 2000, but this line-up is still frequently reconvened for AMT recording sessions. This year (2003) Koizumi has finally been persuaded to return to playing live, and so once AMT returns to full-scale live activities next year (2004) it will be at max strength once more." Lineup for this recording was: Cotton Casino (voice, synthesizer), Tsuyama Atsushi (monster bass), Higashi Hiroshi (synthesizer, guitar), Koizumi Hajime (drums), & Kawabata Makoto (guitar). The four songs on this cd are: Astro 69, Golden Bat Blues Dead, Satori LSD 1999, and Speed Guru. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Highly recommended! 12/23/2003 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Last Concert in Tokyo CD $14.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details An Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. live album entitled 'Live in Japan' has released on the AMT label. The album was recorded last December on digital 16 track, and features the twin-drum line-up of Koizumi Hajime and Ichiraku Yoshimitsu. This is the document of Acid Mothers Explosion 2001!!!! Tracks included are: cosmic introduction ~ untitled space (08:25), In E (13:06), La Novia ~ Speed Guru (41:40) Acid Mothers Temple at this live recording : Cotton Casino (vocal, synthesizer, beer & cigarette), Tsuyama Atsushi (monster bass, vocal, cosmic joker), Higashi Hiroshi (guitar, synthesizer, vocal, Dancin' king), Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums {L} kendo master), Koizumi Hajime (drums {R}, sleeping monk), Kawabata Makoto (guitar, speed guru). Recorded live at Tokuzo (Nagoya) 9th Dec.2001. Engineered by Usui Yasuhiro (Tokuzo), mixed by Kawabata Makoto. Art work by sachiko@ELF 11/2/2002 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Live In Japan CD $14.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "This is a document of their 1999 Fall tour of Europe and America. Live recordings were originated on DAT or MD and remixed by Kawabata. Loud, heavy and fast at times, their '70's' psychedelic sound is hard to mistake. The original core group participated in this tour including Kawabata, Higashi, Cotton Casino [ex-Mady Gula-Blue Heaven] and Tsuyama. Purple vinyl - 4 color gatefold jacket." This is the second pressing in an edition of 294 copies which is almost sold out at source already. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Live In Occident double LP $44.99 Detector Details "Mantra Of Love is destined to be a classic release in the expanding catalog of one of today's most exciting psychedelic ensembles. It is beautifully recorded, featuring AMT's cleanest production to date. Cotton Casino's vocals are captured fabulously, rivalling the Univers Zen ou de Zere a Zero release on France's Fractal label. The recording is composed of two tracks. 'La Le Lo,' a traditional Occitan piece, is somewhat similar to the classic La Novia release. It is largely based around the melodic vocals of Cotton Casino. Halfway through the track, speed guru Kawabata Makoto lets the thunder roll, giving the feeling of an entirely new song until it becomes melodic again toward the end. Mantra Of Love is the perfect release for those who enjoy the more melodic, droned out hippy elements of Acid Temple Mothers but also want the piece to let loose from time to time." Highly recommended! 5/7/2004 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Mantra of Love CD $14.99 Alien8 Recordings Details "Myth Of The Love Electrique is the second Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. album released by Riot Season, following the relatively laid back Minstrel In The Galaxy in 2004. Musically sitting somewhere between their 1997 self-titled debut album and the classic 'out-there' double album Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!!), Myth Of The Love Electrique explores the many shades of the AMT sound, managing to be both wild and beautiful at the same time. From the 'in the red' guitar driven album opener 'The Man From Giacobinid Meteor Comet,' to some quieter acoustic passages during 'Five Dimensional Nightmare,' to the total meltdown felt halfway through the 20 minute 'Love Electrique,' Myth Of The Love Electrique fully explores the whole AMT sound for the first time in years. Live favourite 'Pink Lady Lemonade (May I Drink You Once Again?)', a staple of any AMT live show, is included here on an AMT album for the first time in its normal length, complete with added space whispers from new AMT girl Kitagawa Hao, who fills the now departed Cotton Casino's tiny shoes elegantly." 2/4/2007 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Myth Of The Love Electrique CD $19.99 Riot Season Details First in a series of four reissues from Nagoya, Japan’s Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. on Eclipse Records. This has been licensed from PSF Records in Japan as will the forthcoming Troubadours From Another Heavenly World and the self-titled release. Eclipse will also be reissuing Wild Gals A Go Go licensed from the Acid Mothers Temple label. These four reissues should all be released before the end of 2002. Pataphisical Freak Out MU!! was the second release on PSF from AMT and was originally released in 1999. This double vinyl reissue includes all the tracks from the original cd release except that ‘Blue Velvet Blues’ has been restored to its original 40 minute version for this reissue that spans sides C & D. This is a beautiful album to behold! With new artwork, a heavy duty gatefold sleeve, two records pressed on HQ 180 gram vinyl…this is the way AMT should be heard and seen! "Announcing the long-awaited 2nd album from Makoto Kawabata's millennial hippy-group Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO! The band slip even further into cosmic overdrive with the addition of Atsushi Tsuyama (Omoide Hatoba) on bass and Haco (ex-After Dinner) on vocals!! Core-meltdown is guaranteed with their raging psychedelic acid-trip, spacey hard rock!" Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Pataphisical Freak Out MU!! double LP $29.99 Eclipse Details Limited edition 2006 US Tour CD featuring recordings from 2004. 'Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky (aka Dark Star Blues) was recorded at Spaceland on June 6, 2004 - a great show I was there for. And the other track is Pink Lady Lemonade recorded in Gloucester on October 30, 2004 - another killer version of this song. For these recordings, AMT was: Tsuyama Atsushi (monster bass, vocal, cosmic joker), Higashi Hiroshi (synthesizer, guitar, chorus, dancin' king), Koizume Hajime (drums, sleeping monk), and Kawabata Makoto (guitar, chorus, speed guru). 6/11/2006 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Power House of Holy CD $14.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness is by far the heaviest Acid Mothers Temple record yet. So heavy, in fact, that Kawabata Makoto jokingly said 'the album is really heavy, maybe a bit like Sunn O))). hahahaha.'" 4/30/2008 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Recurring Dream and Apocalypse Of Darkness CD $14.99 Important Details "The limited edition double LP version of Recurring Dream... is packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on heavy duty jacket and contains two bonus tracks rounding out the double LP set. Featuring remarkable art work by Seldon Hunt. LP is limited to 1000." 4/30/2008 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Recurring Dream and Apocalypse Of Darkness double LP $29.99 Important Details "Acid muthas make a new brain-blitzing psychedelic brew out of Miles Davis's 32-yr-old original bastard fusion for freeks by reheating the spirit of the August '69 session, creating a cacophonous-yet-funky, mind-melting homage for modern psychonauts wishing to either levitate to a plateau somewhere Out There, or explore the depths of Inner Space, wherein after listening to 'Water Babies Kill Kill Kill' cosmic nirvana will be reached as stereo panning reaches a pinnacle of hallucinatory audio ecstasy in the form of densely interwoven guitar, drum, saxophone and synthesizer collectively creating both sonic assault and blissful ascension in the name of molecular restructuring resulting from this off-world transmission through time and space." - Include Me Out blog 9/17/2012 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Son Of A Bitches Brew CD $14.99 Important Details "Acid muthas make a new brain-blitzing psychedelic brew out of Miles Davis's 32-yr-old original bastard fusion for freeks by reheating the spirit of the August '69 session, creating a cacophonous-yet-funky, mind-melting homage for modern psychonauts wishing to either levitate to a plateau somewhere Out There, or explore the depths of Inner Space, wherein after listening to 'Water Babies Kill Kill Kill' cosmic nirvana will be reached as stereo panning reaches a pinnacle of hallucinatory audio ecstasy in the form of densely interwoven guitar, drum, saxophone and synthesizer collectively creating both sonic assault and blissful ascension in the name of molecular restructuring resulting from this off-world transmission through time and space." - Include Me Out blog 9/6/2012 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Son Of A Bitches Brew double LP $25.99 Important Details 47 minute performance recorded at Reckless Records in Chicago on September 10, 2001. Features the 'classic' lineup of Cotton Casino (synth), Tsuyama Atsushi (bass, voice, acoustic guitar), Hiroshi Higashi (synth, electric guitar), Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums), and Kawabata Makoto (electric guitar) playing 2 long tracks: Space Age Ballad / La Novia (including In E) and La Novia - Speed Guru. Excellent performance / recording - limited edition of 1000 copies. Also features the artwork of Plastic Crimewave. "The sold out LP "The Day Before the Sky Fell in" released a few years back by GZDisk/Eclipse is at last on CD! Recorded the day before the cataclysm at a Reckless records in-store in Chicago, this finds another side of the Mothers, as they lay down a spacious acoustic bed before taking off into the stratosphere, with Tsuyama blissfully strumming a Martin for perhaps the most cosmic and dynamic version of "La Novia" ever. Even Makoto was caught off guard by the uniqueness of this performance, and believe you me, the walls shook and records tumbled down before the show was done. Cleaned up from the original master by Makoto, this also features all new kraut-indebted artwork by Plastic Crimewave, and the actual credits not allowed on the original bootleg-type release.............." 7/16/2006 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. The Day Before the Sky Fell In CD $12.99 Galactic Zoo Disk / Eclipse Details Second in a series of four reissues from Nagoya, Japan’s Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. on Eclipse Records. This has been licensed from PSF Records in Japan as will the forthcoming self-titled release slated for a late 2003 or early 2004 release. Eclipse will also be reissuing Wild Gals A Go Go licensed from the Acid Mothers Temple label. This reissue should be released by Summer 2003. Troubadours From Another Heavenly World was the third release on PSF from AMT and was originally released in October 2000. This double vinyl reissue includes all the tracks from the original cd release and also includes another track (which shares the same title as the album) which has not been available previously. This is a beautiful album to behold! Featuring new artwork, a heavy duty gatefold sleeve, two records pressed on HQ 180 gram vinyl…this is the way AMT should be heard and seen! "Third PSF album from the Nagoya-based (but always heavenly-bound) Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., led by Japan's current king of the long-hairs and mystic rock-guitar guru Makoto Kawabata (also of Musica Transonic, Mainliner, Toho Sara). Their previous releases were delirious communal Gong/Hawkwind patchouli collisions, colorful as a Life with the Hippie Jetsons cartoon, but with an acid punch that proved their music was beyond any idea of pastiche or irony. For this flight though, the Acid Mothers have stepped back off the delirium pedal, and bumped up the luminous folk-mysticism faders. To be sure, the space synths, guitar supernovas, and stoned cosmic mumble are still present. It's just that now they're deployed to entirely different effect - this is no longer the soundtrack to your first highschool acid 'n' beer party, it's more like a solitary roadtrip seeking enlightenment, a hermit's cell halfway up Magic Mountain, the cosmic butterfly gently enfolding its pan-dimensional wings over your bruised psyche. It's a slowly hypnotic, deeply meditational platter of god-honest real-time wonder." - Alan Cummings on the PSF cd release of Troubadours 2/4/2003 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Troubadours From Another Heavenly World double LP $29.99 Eclipse Details Reissue of 1999 cd released on the bands own Acid Mothers Temple label which has been out of print for several years. This double vinyl issue has been pressed on HQ 180 gram vinyl and is housed in a thick, sturdy gatefold sleeve which makes this a beautiful piece to hear and hold. There has been an additional piece added to this reissue that was not included on the original cd release. This is a one-time pressing of 1000 copies. Following is a review of the cd version by Forestter Cobalt that was taken from supersphere.com: "Makoto Kawabata is the notorious guitarist leader of Acid Mothers Temple, a dexterously fingered member of Musica Transonic, Mainliner, and Toho Sara. Together with Mainliner member Koizumi Hjime, Mardi Gras Blue Heaven member Cotton Casino, and ten other musicians, Kawabata has created the third release of the psyche rock freak out system by Acid Mothers Temple that will burn holes in your ears. Ow! Ow is this good, and it just keeps getting better. Acid Mothers Temple fuse krautrock, psychedelia, now sound, folk, pop, noise, soft vocals, soaring melting wails, dissolving tablas, crunchy sitars, twinkling synthesizers, obsessive channel to channel panning, thundering guitars, and drone outs to end all drone outs. The effect is as difficult to imagine as it is to describe. Sometimes the overall effect of the album sounds like a repetitious, brain wrinkling drone out of a Terry Riley record. Sometimes there are moments that pass like a soft, sexy romp with Gainsbourg and Bardot. Sometimes there are moments that sound like Blue Cheer colliding with Ike and Tina Turner, wiping out a small village in Vietnam. Sometimes there are moments that sound like Gong meets Nurse With Wound meets Tangerine Dream takes an interstellar voyage. This is an amazing soundtrack that is never-ending, and incredibly successful at driving all the best elements of psychedelia and noise forward to heretofore unseen dimensions. No drugs necessary to lose your mind." 8/13/2004 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Wild Gals A Go-Go double LP $29.99 Eclipse Details Limited edition of 500 copies on colored vinyl. AMT's 'My Guitar Wants To Kiss Your Mama' was recorded in July 2001 by Cotton Casino, Tsuyama Atsushi, Higashi Hiroshi, Koizume Hajime, Kawabata Makoto. Nishinihon's 'Super Station: The Hell In A Cell Version' features Kawabata (guitar), Tsuyama (vocal, bass), and Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums) recorded live in Nagoya on Valentine's Day 2001. Killer!! 1/1/2009 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. / Nishinihon We Are Here - UK Tour Single October 2001 7" $19.99 Resonant / Static Caravan Details "By now Japan's notorious freak-rockers need no introduction - they've conquered the world with relentless touring, an endless number of releases, and countless side-projects. Ther's even quite a few live recordings at this point, but I will insist that this is unique. The in-store at Reckless (yes, the day before the cataclysm) was simply magical with perhaps the greatest dynamics I've yet witnessed (and I've seen over a dozen AMT shows) with pin-drop quiet acoustic passages to wall-shaking bombast." - Steve Krakow. This is a one time pressing of 1000 copies. 11/10/2003 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO The Day Before the Sky Fell In America 9/10/01 LP $17.99 Galactic Zoo Disk / Eclipse Details "WARNING : Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues is a different group than the well-knows Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO and Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno. This new japanese band was created in April 2005 by Magic Aum Gigi (ex-Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO). His main works with the "Melting Paraiso UFO" can be found on the album "AbsolutelyFreak-Out" (2001), the compialtion "Do whatever you want, don't do whatever you don't want !!" (2002), and has released his own solo album "MMMM - My Metal Machine Music" (2004). Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues is an underground punk blues trio composed by two guitarists(Tsuchy, Magic Aum Gigi) with one drum (Mai Mai). Their first album : "Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder" is a deep raw trip and a wild transgression of the mother nature filtred by the occult powers ! This love potion is made by thunder guitars, power drums, plus various electronics and acoustics sounds, and vocals. If reviewers have often compared the sound of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO closed to Amon Düül 2, so, Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues sounds close to Amon Düül 1. A surprising and an impressive first recording in this beginning of new century that you should hear to believe it!" Recommended! 4/24/2006 Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder untitled CD $17.99 Fractal Details "WARNING : Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues is a different group than the well-knows Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO and Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno. This new japanese band was created in April 2005 by Magic Aum Gigi (ex-Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO). His main works with the "Melting Paraiso UFO" can be found on the album "AbsolutelyFreak-Out" (2001), the compialtion "Do whatever you want, don't do whatever you don't want !!" (2002), and has released his own solo album "MMMM - My Metal Machine Music" (2004). Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues is an underground punk blues trio composed by two guitarists(Tsuchy, Magic Aum Gigi) with one drum (Mai Mai). Their first album : "Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder" is a deep raw trip and a wild transgression of the mother nature filtred by the occult powers ! This love potion is made by thunder guitars, power drums, plus various electronics and acoustics sounds, and vocals. If reviewers have often compared the sound of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO closed to Amon Düül 2, so, Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues sounds close to Amon Düül 1. A surprising and an impressive first recording in this beginning of new century that you should hear to believe it! Limited edition of only 300 copies - recommended! 3/26/2006 Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder untitled double LP $38.99 Fractal Details Live recording from AMT Festival vol. 6 on December 8, 2007. This is dbl CD set with 6 panel card board jacket limited to 1000 copies. Recorded on digital 16 track multi recording system. Features: Yamamoto Seiichi : guitar, voice (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rovo, etc) -- Tsuyama Atsushi : bass, voice (Omoide Hatoba, AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT SWR, etc) -- Shimura Koji : drums (AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT & TCI, Miminokoto, ex.High Rise, ex.Mainliner, ex.Nagisa Nite, ex.White Heaven, etc) -- Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer (AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT & TCI, Galax, Cosmic Dew) -- Tabata Mitsuru : freak out, voice (AMT & TCI, Zeni Geva, ex,Boredoms, Leningrad Blues Machine, etc) -- Kawabata Makoto : guitar (AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT & TCI, AMT SWR, Gong, ex.Mainliner, etc) with Kuriyama Jun : voice (Jiyujigen, ex.Ox) 12/2/2008 Acid Mothers Temple & Yamamoto Seiichi Giant Psychedelia double CD $18.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "A four-song split release from Kinski and their friends Acid Mothers Temple, limited to 5000 copies on CD and 1000 on double-LP. The album includes two versions of a track taped at Higashi Hiroshi's old house when Kinski toured Japan in December 2001. One of the takes was mixed by Kinski, the other adds overdubs by AMT to the mixed take. The album includes one new track by each band. The AMT track is a 25 minute monster-piece called ‘Virginal Plane 5:23’. The CD and LP versions of this track are slightly different." 10/9/2003 Acid Mothers Temple / Kinski untitled CD $9.99 Sub Pop Details "Ichiraku Yoshimitsu, who drummed with Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. in 2001 (also he played on many AMT's albums, "In C", "New Geocentric World", "Absolutely Freak Out" and more...) and then went on to gain fame in the media-art world with his Doravideo project, is back once more with AMT! So, set the dials for magnitude 100 twin-drum churn! Get blown away all over again by this shocking live show, recorded in 16 track digital!!" 11/21/2009 Acid Mothers Temple with Ichiraku Yoshimitsu Acid Mothers Temple Festival Vol.7 CD $14.99 Acid Mothers Temple Details "One sided, bootleg-style twelve inch that may very well be Brookylns own Woods, caught live in Europe. No listed record label, no B-side, no repress. Weve seen these for sale at Woods shows so they may be legit, although the world is ripe with mystery. Very limited." 6/4/2010 Acoustic Family Creeps Acoustic Family Creeps one-sided LP $15.99 Acoustic Family Creeps Details 2 song 7inch pressed on white vinyl. Ultra minimalist hand screened yellow and white jackets. "A shield of air / Born of light" is a direct challenge to the limitations and concept of a drone "single", as the music Acre creates normally takes time and space to unfold. Acre extends his pallet of sounds to push the listener head on in the midst of his signature daze out Phil Niblock / Spacemen 3 seances. "Side A's "A Shield Of Air" is a moonbus ride to the Clavius crater. Slap on the phones, close your eyes and you can almost see the Monolith slowly spinning beside you. Flip over to side B and imagine yourself a .300 Winchester Magnum bullet being fired in slow motion into the heart of an iceberg." -plague haus 7/30/2010 Acre A Shield Of Air / Born Of Light 7" $5.99 Eolian Records Details "After years of painfully limited cassette and CD-R releases, Aaron Davis has created his most definitive and ambitious work as ACRE to date. "Isolationist" is the first official full-length from one of Portland's most enigmatic and respected figures of the Northwest's fervent experimental music underground. The album features a new track recorded during the Summer of 2009, exhibiting the slow yet subtle and highly-detailed electronic undulations that has largely characterized Davis' work as ACRE. Alongside this new piece are two completely remastered tracks from the original "Painless" CD-R released on the Students of Decay label in a criminally limited edition of 75 copies in 2008. A record which unequivocally celebrates Davis' years of painstaking effort mastering the minimalism of room crushing frequencies, this album represents the most essential and first widely available ACRE release. Recorded by Aaron Davis in Portland, Oregon, Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios in August 2009. Graphic design and artwork by Brandon Nickell. Printed on spot-varnish fluroescent orange matte jackets; limited edition of 500 copies on compact disc." 10/21/2009 Acre Isolationist CD $11.99 Isounderscore Details "This album has been a long, long time coming but the wait has most certainly been worth it. Aaron Davis has been firing missile after missile as ACRE for some years now, but nothing else stands out as his defining moment quite like "Sacrifice." This opus was in the pipeline for years, being etched out of silver and rising from pile of ash after pile of ash. It's absolutely monumental, totally epic in scope. Each thick slab of heavy droning sibilance is a testament to Davis' vision and attention to detail. It will suck you in immediately and stick to you like glue. Notably there are no synthesizers or guitars anywhere on "Sacrifice." When you hear the density of sound and variety in the sonic textures blowing out your speakers, that seems utterly impossible. Yet, here we are. As the opening blasts of "Badlands" echo through your skull at 100 mph, the horizon seems lost in a thick, white haze. Everything else stops and shuts down. Subtle shifts in trajectory are barely noticeable at first, but by the end of the journey you've landed on a completely different plane. Surface to air, infinite flight; all achieved just over 14 minutes. It's not all a blown-out, straight-to-the-skull masterpiece. "Live Take" feels positively smooth and silky in comparison. Reverberating tones drenched in pure light bleed nothing but efferevesence and life. Everything feels exactly in the spot it should be, there's no detritus or collateral damage to speak of. Davis runs a tight ship, only letting things bolt for the door and scream over the edge when its absolutely necessary. In the end, the biggest thing about "Sacrifice" is just how massive it feels. From the beginning, its string of endless symphonic hypnosis. There are lingering connections to David Tudor and Norman McLaren fighting their way to the surface throughout. ACRE's compositions are as precise as ever here, each note and each path carefully chosen and dropped into place. No synths. No guitars. No laptops. No looping. Yeah. It's time to start dropping bombs. Edition of 500 in neon-green gatefold jackets printed by Stumptown." 3/20/2010 Acre Sacrifice CD $12.99 Digitalis Details "This Acre tape is the first installment of a year long series on Wiseblood media. All of the sounds on this tape were created using minidisk loops of eq feedback that were mixed and reprocessed with various tremolo, flange, and gate effects. Utilizing techniques inspired by the work of Norman McLaren,Steve Reich, and David Tudor. In an edition of 100 chrome tapes in hand carved linoleum printed packages." 4/3/2010 Acre Selected Demos cassette $5.99 Wiseblood Media Details "New Zealand's resident noise-merchant Matt Middleton and his 'rock' assembly The Aesthetics, bring us the aptly titled Off. As the follow-up to The Aesthetics earth-ringing 1999 Ecstatic Peace LP 'My Right to Riches', Off plays somewhat like a 'My Right to Riches Part II', though this one as Mr. Middleton fondly puts it, is notably 'more psycho'. Think LaMonte Young hosting a NYC brown-out party with both The Velvet Underground (White Light/White Heat era) and Chrome playing (simultaneously) as the house band. Yeh, it's that good. Metal Machine Music meets Metal Machine Operator." Aesthetics, The Off CD $11.99 Mental Telemetry Details "AETHENOR is comprised of STEPHEN O'MALLEY (SUNN0))), KTL), DANIEL O'SULLIVAN (ULVER, MOTHLITE, GUAPO), KRISTOFFER RYGG (ULVER) and STEVE NOBLE (N.E.W., COMPANY, etc.). En Form For Bla documents the continued evolution of this unlikely collective, a collision of players from various avant, improv, metal, and "other" threads who together make a unique and arresting sound. Documenting three gigs in Oslo recorded in 2010, the album is deep and weird, with liquid sounds juddering around the occasionally identifiable percussion or Rhodes motif. In the evolution from a side project / studio group to a frequently working live act, Aethenor kept their sound intact, taking the musique-concrete-style transitions and "what's that sound" ethos of their three previous efforts directly to the stage. Noble, having spent a couple of decades playing drums with Derek Bailey and other well-known UK improvisers, moves the music along subtly, keeping much of the focus on the burbling sound mass. O'Malley's guitar, an instrument of extreme viscera in Sunn0))), is used with restraint, providing occasional low menace but mostly mixing it up with O'Sullivan's thematic lines and Rygg's sound treatments. The overall effect is atmospheric rather than sedate-something like a modern, small group version of Miles Davis' classic "He Loved Him Madly" or Nurse with Wound's Spiral Insana. Other than perhaps Supersilent, no one else is working this sonic vocabulary today. Designed by O'Malley, the deluxe double-LP version is pressed on white vinyl and packaged with printed inner sleeves; the CD is in a card folio. Live dates planned to follow album's release." 2/8/2011 Aethenor En Form For Bla double LP $20.99 Vhf Details "Third earth shattering outing for Vincent De Roguin (Shora), Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0))), KTL) and Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo). For Faking Gold and Murder, the core trio is joined by percussionists Nicolas Field and Alex Babel, as well as renown guitarist Alexander Tucker and the inimitable David Tibet. Faking Gold is Æ's heaviest outing, driven by a weighty low end and the full fury of Babel and Field's free-wheeling drums. The trio's electronics, guitar, Rhodes, and organ ride the waves of sound in a tightly-controlled blare, leaving plenty of space for Tibet's declarations of the mystical and supernatural. Tibet is on top form here, rising out of the tempest at just the right moment, almost plain-spoken in places - grounding the squall at times, voicing the apocalypse at others. "Brooding, primeval, dark alchemical epics are full of a ferocious intensity, sounding more like a starlit night being ripped open by lightning than a musical group. Intelligent and primal, like a dæmonic workshop, battering up Pandemoniums and dreaming of gold and murder, Æthenor are spectacular."- David Tibet. Cover design by Nicola Todeschini and Vincent De Roguin. Deluxe LP is 180 gram, pressed at RTI, in letterpress cover on heavy black art stock by Stumptown, with custom gold on black inner. Cut by John Golden. A fantastic sounding and looking item." 2/7/2009 Æthenor Faking Gold & Murder LP $21.99 VHF Details "A new collection of material culled from recordings made in 2004 through 2007, mostly at the Blueberry Studio space in Brattleboro VT. Aethr Myth'd members and some local guests in a sprawling unformed free process. This disc was made to be available on the band's recent east coast usa 'tour', limited to 200 hand assembled copies. Next planned shows will be at various random stops in Europe." 9/16/2007 Aethr Myth'd The Eight CDR $12.99 Spirit of Orr Details "Aika by Af Ursin (the moniker that enshrouds musical maverick Timo Van Luijk) completely took me by surprise, blind-sighted me and filled my juvenile musical eagerness with hope beyond belief. Finally a record that had originality, addictive tonal colorizations and above all a sound that resembled no other. Right from its first crackly loops, "Aika" casted a spell on me and sucked me into an abyss filled with cinematographic visions, ritualistic mood swings and sacred pulsating vibrations. Built up out of an intuitive approach and injected with a crackling dusty approach to the overall sound, the minimal slowly building animated strive adds to the enhancement of the music and gives it already skeletal nature undercurrents of depth that keep on sucking you in. Bestowed with occasional haunting echoes of winter-beating polar plains, Af Ursin's musical wonderland is deceptively casual yet intense in its feeling and meticulous in its musical detail and its lyrical economy. It offers an austere intimacy, which jacks in directly and gives access to the artist's pulsing brain. And although the music seems to be superficially drenched in a dilapidated past, it is nevertheless the most viperous statement of how sounds should be commenting on this very moment. This is without a doubt the best disc to seep out of 2008. Mark my words, this one will skyrocket in the months to come once some daring and adventurous minds will unlock its sonic mysteries and start howling at the moon." - Tiliqua Records. Repressed - 2nd edition of 200 copies housed in jackets with off set printing. 5/16/2011 Af Ursin Aika LP $24.99 La Scie Dorée Details "Another exciting unit out of the infamous Osaka underground rock scene. Close friends with the Boredoms and Acid Mother's Temple, Afrirampo is a bizarre duo of two twenty year-old girls who sing and play guitar and drums like no one else. Scantily clad in outrageous costumes, alternately kicking, screaming and caressing their instruments with an animalistic passion, this extreme and original band is the natural inheritor of the Boredoms legacy. Eleven songs about love, sex and death. This is poison." 9/30/2005 Afrirampo Kore Ga Mayaku Da CD $16.99 Tzadik Details Celestial Habitat was recorded late 2011 in Brooklyn, NY with synths, electronics and tape Mastered for vinyl for Lawrence English at 158, January 2012 Artwork and design by Grant Evans, February 2012. "Afterlife is Ryan McGill (Cliffsides) and Franklin Teagle (Cenote Glow), two Georgia natives currently residing in New York. They've put out some amazing tapes over the years but on this, their debut vinyl, they left no crevice of their past oeuvre unexplored while continuing to press onward and upward. Field recordings and percolating electronics merge into a rich tapestry of crystal clear transcendence, hitting you straight in the third eye. This is a portrait of two artists at the top of their game. While there's certainly no shortage of synth jammers out there, these guys are operating in a world of their own and this album is a stunning testament to that fact." Edition of 300 copies. -- 6/24/2012 Afterlife Celestial Habitat LP $14.99 Hooker Vision Details "Yes, the blood-brain barrier has been penetrated. Relax. It's the Afterlife kicking in. Though familiar to many of us, this particular strain produced by the Teagle/McGill duo is a most potent dose. Patiently drawing us far from the shoreline for its first few minutes, soon we are enveloped in a powerful scalar field where beautiful synth alchemy is being conducted. Everything is jettisoned except for the most medicinal bits, concentrated here in this essential half-hour of analog bliss. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes w/ double-sided color card." 4/4/2011 Afterlife Hypnautic Rinse c30 cassette $5.99 Stunned Details "Nate from MOUTHUS / RELIGIOUS KNIVES. this cassette is a two sided scenario. side a is the seeker, about to discover a new path. side b is the thinker, about to interact with new information. this is the smoked out entity of an encounter...." 4/21/2008 Afternoon Penis I Want You to Write cassette $8.99 Bread and Animals Details "Nate Nelson is the Afternoon Penis and "In The Evening" is his solo debut. Nate also pounds in Mouthus, White Rock, and Religious Knives, and brings a truly homemade vision that has managed to sustain several haircuts. Don't ask us to explain that. A truly "in-house" affair, with mysterious false start B-side and classic REAL REAL REAL zone -- grunts, unts, stunts, pounds, drounds and blown out sounds." 2/11/2006 Afternoon Penis In The Evening cassette $9.99 Heavy Tapes Details "The three-sided LP "The Shirley Jangle" is a unique collaboration by some extraordinary talents, working under the moniker of The Afternoon Saints, better known individually as Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Günter Müller and David Watson. "The Shirley Jangle" is an intimate and subtle meeting place of noise, sound art, and experimental improvisation. Three sides of bubbling audio biosphere and a fourth-side etching by Lee Ranaldo, made specifically for the project. The Afternoon Saints have worked together in many combinations over a long period of time. "The Shirley Jangle" was recorded in the famed Echo Canyon Studio, on Murray Street in downtown New York, mixed and edited by Jim O'Rourke. Shirley. Surely we've met some place before? LEE RANALDO, guitar. The legendary guitarist from Sonic Youth, amongst these Saints in a different light. In addition he works as a solo artist, writer, performer and visual artist. DAVID WATSON, bagpipes, guitar. A major figure in the development of New Zealand's experimental scene, and guitar player in New York's downtown, Watson switched to bagpipes in the early nineties. He has had an ongoing collaboration with Lee Ranaldo for more than ten years. CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, turntables. As performer and sound artist Christian Marclay has been experimenting and performing with phonograph records and turntables since the late '70's. Marclay creates universes, theaters of found sound and dada hi-jinks. No other artist has so masterfully erased the borders between the sonic and the visual arts. GÜNTER MÜLLER, percussion, electronics. Extraordinary Swiss musician Günter Müller played a pivotal role in The Shirley Jangle. His subtle, spare, and meditative playing turning sound into liquid textures. This unique collectors item with exclusive art work by Leah Singer is limited to 500 copies." 3/6/2010 Afternoon Saints The Shirley Jangle double LP $24.99 Kraak Details "Hippie group from Madrid, this is no doubt the most acid psychedelic rock album recorded in Spain in the '70s. It is their sole album, originally released in 1975 on the Explosion label and a very rare and collectable item. No one knew anything about the group members until now, it had been even rumored to be some Argentinian guys living in Spain...but no, the group was formed by two Spanish females and four males and the brainhead was Carlos Garcia, who sadly passed away not long ago and to whom this reissue is dedicated. Ten tracks, eight of them in English and two in Spanish, all originals and fantastic; there's lots of heavy acid fuzz guitar here, probably the wildest fuzz recorded in Spain ('Todos Rien de Mi,' 'Send Me' or 'I Need Money'), and also some great sunshine psych-pop ('Cuco Go Fly,' 'Al Salir el Sol'), and it's all very well packed with some of the best multi-vocal harmonies you can find in a Spanish record ever." 2/26/2006 Agamenon Todos Rien de Mi LP $28.99 Guerssen Details This is a cd reissue of the first Agape LP from 1971 (original LP’s go for about $150 nowadays). Not too freaked out musically, this is hard rock / bluesy with some psychedelic guitar work. These guys were at the forefront of the Jesus Movement – dubbed Jesus freaks – ‘once high on acid, the Jesus freaks are now high on Jesus.’ “Their debut, recorded at Abbey Sound in Hollywood, is a heavy blues psych cooker with a chunky Blue Cheer sound. Very preachy lyrics and subliminal bible verses!” 10/16/2003 Agape Gospel Hard Rock CD $15.99 Agape Communications Details "Jesus rock at its crustiest’ wrote Paul Baker in his book Contemporary Christian Music describing California's hard-rocking Agape. Hendrix fans should take note here as the style is very similar, from the music right down to Fred Caban's vocals. Mostly blues rock - the high-quality turn-of-the-decade FM radio kind. Not just a three-chord bash - these songs have mood and texture to them. You'll find quiet understated passages here as well as the hard-driving guitar solos. Atmosphere, too, as on the eerie 'Rejoice' which narrates tribulation prophesies against a panoply of guitar-induced missiles, earthquakes, and whatnot. Slow blues rockers ala Clapton ('Choose' and 'Blind') and fast ones ('Happy'). 'Freedom' is a psych number, featuring layers of effect-laden guitars darting in and out like hornets over a constant throbbing two-note bass beat, marching snare drums, and Fred singing a hymn in a different key. Weird! Cover is an abstract image of the face of Christ - reportedly a photograph of a natural image of melting snow against a black background." This is a reissue - not an original LP. 10/16/2003 Agape Gospel Hard Rock LP $29.99 Details Nine track release with 4 of the tracks recorded live and previously only available on 8-track tape! Needless to say this is a very rare release and it also includes 5 unreleased tracks. 10/16/2003 Agape The Problem Is Sin: Live & Unreleased CD $13.99 Hidden Vision Details "Agape's second album is a very different but equally good work. More complex in the song structure than Gospel Hard Rock More of a progressive feel with keyboards playing a bigger role, delving into jazz fusion on several songs. 'Wouldn't It Be A Drag' is my favorite here: a lengthy 7-minute outing including a 2-minute drum solo, as well as bass, guitar, and electric piano solos before culminating in cacophonous bursts of noise. 'The King Is Christ' is a beautiful predominantly acoustic piece - almost sounds like the guitar solo was recorded backwards. As with Gospel Hard Rock this is lyrically very evangelistic. Not just God-loves-you slogans - these guys present the gospel. Much rarer than their debut and thus selling for mucho dinero these days. Classic cover photo of the band playing their instruments in a graveyard. Not many lps around that sound this unique, creative, and on fire. Classic rock indeed." 10/16/2003 Agape Victims of Tradition CD $15.99 Agape Communications Details "Headquartered in Newcastle, England, this worldly trio is the meeting of three tremendously-accomplished musical minds. Featuring Peter Nicholson on cello, Neil Davidson on guitar, and Jamie Allen (whose circuitMusic we released in 2008) on electronics, Música de ir ao o cu puts forth two masterful slabs of improvisation. Subtlety is the name of the game, with each piece constantly teetering on edge. Still, each player finds perfect moments to go shine through as hacksawed strings, motorik rhythms, and cyborg voices erupt into expertly calculated chaos. The end result is a work that’s utterly freeing, soulful, and downright exhilarating to behold. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 60." 11/21/2009 Age of Wire and String Música de ir ao o cu c23 cassette $4.99 Anathema Sound Details "The full-length debut of noise-jazz duo Agents At Midnight, and a real pro-pressed CD in an edition of 500 copies, the first on Fargone! Meticulously constructed from hours and hours of recording sessions, this album is a distillation of all the many sounds and styles explored by this duo. Rumbling bassy drones, unflinchingly ear-piercing examinations of feedback tones, dizzyingly fast sample-based pieces, musique concrete-inspired collage. And on all of it, sax and electronics flow subtly into one another, bleeding over until the authorship of sounds is often uncertain. Agents At Midnight inhabits a weird hybrid territory somewhere between abstract modern improv, harsh noise, and free jazz, sometimes blending these styles, sometimes veering between them. Limited to 500 pro-pressed CDs." 7/16/2006 Agents At Midnight Agents At Midnight CD $9.99 Fargone Records Details "When the band Agitation Free came together in 1967 as a result of the merging of two Berlin rock groups, one of the most interesting groups in a dawning independent German music scene was created. With their improvisations between rock, jazz and new music, Agitation Free - soon relegated to the not so flattering category of "Krautrock" - made musical forays into areas that few of their fellow German musicians had ever penetrated." 11/3/2012 Agitation Free 2nd LP $16.99 Made In Germany Details A vinyl Rerelease of of the debut-album by legendary Krautrock avantgarde band Agitation Free, starring Lutz "Lüül" Graf-Ulbrich on guitar, who late became part of Ashra with Manuel Goettsching. 11/3/2012 Agitation Free Malesch LP $16.99 Made In Germany Details Drunken 15-minute noise gig, recorded live at Forum Box, La-Bas festival 20.9.2002. "it says 'featuring more or less unintentional drunken pyrotechnics and some persons missing': befuzzed electronic mishaps, records at the wrong speed type shenanigans and extreme drunken ranting - scary!" Boa Melody Bar. "Agnosia's debut cdr Ignorance Is Your Religion from 2001 was an excellent noise album, but unfortunately the band hasn't been able to reach the same level later on, and this disc is no exception to that. This is a recording of a live show (surprise!). It's one 15-minute track and I'm not sure if it's the whole show or just an excerpt of it. Not that it matters much since this is crap. There's records being played at wrong speed, drum machine and keyboards with distortion, a drunken guy shouting and some noise bursts. You could make this kind of material sound crazy in a good insane way, but here it's just stupid, irritating and useless." Pekka PT, Dilettante's Digest Agnosia 20.09.02 3" CDR $6.99 267 Lattajjaa Details "More 'rising talents' of Finnish experimental field. Agnosia cdr is great mixture of rhythms, experimental manipulations and drones. 7 tracks and 55 minutes of totally entertaining sound art. Great b/w cover art." 6/17/2004 Agnosia The Six Plus One Cardinals (Live From the Lost Continent) CDR $8.99 Hammasratas Details "Funeral dark drone project by Naomi Hoca which plays sound to dedicate to the dead based on old sacred songs and religion music. She dedicated mass at church and devoted herself to religion ancient music of the Renaissance deeply in the Middle Ages of West Europe. She is affected by the works of mysticism artists and she tries expression of the new religion music that went over the east and west from Christian faith and the point of view of the pagan. Her sound consists of drone, quotation, sacred song and her vocalization, condolence to a victim forgotten by war is dedicated to the sound." 10/17/2009 Agnus Dei Paternostertitle CD $14.99 Musik Atlach Details "Since 2005 Ilyas Ahmed has been blurring the folk/drone/raga/rock realms into a sound that is uniquely his own. A string of self-released CDrs in 2005/2006 brought Ahmed immediate attention and he soon released landmark albums on Time-Lag, Digitalis, and Root Strata. In 2010 Immune began working with Ahmed first giving his first two albums Between Two Skies & Towards The Night a deluxe 2xLP vinyl release and then in 2011 releasing a split 7" between Ahmed and Steve Gunn for Record Store Day. Ahmed's brand new album With Endless Fire was entirely written, performed and recorded direct to analog tape by Ilyas Ahmed in Portland, OR. It is Ahmed's first album since his 2009 release Goner (Root Strata) and continues the much fuller sound presented there, giving us his unmistakable voice with a mix of acoustic and electric guitars, harmonium, organ, and drums. With Endless Fire was mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk in Portland, OR and cut to vinyl by Roger Seibel at SAE in Phoenix, AZ. The album is housed in a heavy- duty old-style tip-on gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton and includes a free download coupon. The LP is limited to only 1,000 copies." 3/23/2012 Ahmed, Ilyas With Endless Fire cassette $6.49 Immune Details Improvised guitar & drums racket. "freeform tumbling-down-a-staricase splurges of guitar and drums" - Boa Melody Bar 4/24/2006 Aineettomaksi Temperamentin Narsk CDR $9.99 267 Lattajjaa Details "When reminiscing on the unsung champions of Los Angeles' underground arts community (and trust us - there are many), one of the figures that most consistently springs to our mind is Justin McInteer. Founder of the seminal Echo Curio performance space, accomplished visual artist & gallery installation wiz, urban gardening expert, and heart-wrenching bard of the harmonium: this is a mere sample of the many roles the guy slips into with equal ease. His debut here under the Air Sign name is a relatively new endeavor in McInteer's extensive home recording lineage, as he turns to multiple keyboards, drum machines, and samples of nature and pop music ephemera. A thing of complexity springs forth as Air Sign's altered instrumentation helps him braid nostalgia, catharsis, and celebration into a single alluring strand. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c38 tapes w/ double sided jcard and insert." 4/4/2011 Air Sign Our Galactic Covered Wagons to the Stars c38 cassette $5.99 Stunned Details "Out of the 'long lost' box. Freshly edited 1995 recordings from the VERY wayward guitar/ electronics duo that eventually gave birth to Birchville Cat Motel. Beguiling atonal plonkery and profound multi-stringed shingle slides by two irrepressible young guns utterly oblivious to the fact that most people wanted to stone them to death with spare change. I can't believe we did this in public. Magnificent!" Airport Crest95 CD $12.99 Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon Details "Sometimes it's primitive and baked in the clay-infested dirt that sucks most of the life out of the dust bowl that is Western Oklahoma. Sometimes it's drenched in caustic rain in Green Country, out near the foothills of the Ozarks. But the obscured rhythms, the sludge, and the decaying bits of black magic wisdom that suckle the young ones dying on the vine? Fuck 'em. They never were of this world anyway." Edition of 100 copies. 1/24/2009 Ajilvsga Last of the White Buffalo cassette $5.99 Abandon Ship Records Details "Brighter, shinier, more blissed out - more stars lighting the sky. Named for the toughest Indian encampment in the world. B-side is the A-side in reverse. Think of it as the Earth spinning backwards - because it is. Totally cryptic Pawnee star gazer art." Edition of 100 copies on C20 Pro-dubbed and imprinted Chrome High Bias Type II Tapes 4/22/2009 Ajilvsga Little Earth cassette $7.99 Peyote Tapes Details "With their third release for Peasant Magik, Ajilvsga push their sound even further. Huge slabs of densely layered scum continuously churn while Rose and Young summon shards of electricity from the high heavens." Edition of 100 2/7/2009 Ajilvsga Three Heaps of Skulls cassette $5.99 Peasant Magik Details "The consistently mind numbing crushing noise project from Nathan Young and Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis) tears apart this cassette release, a black swarm of god knows what tearing your mind apart. If you dug the North Sea cassette we released last year, you should def check this shit out. Limited to 100." 4/10/2009 Ajilvsga White Crow cassette $7.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "Two twenty minute side long tracks. easily their heaviest yet. Packaged with full color 4 panel j card and obi, dubbed on high bias chrome tapes. Limited to 100 hand numbered copies." 7/10/2008 Ajilvsga White Path / Red Path cassette $7.99 Peasant Magik Details "The second release highlights the improvisatory aspect of Van Wissem's activity, but as is always the case with him, the approach is not so easy to categorize. Hymn for a Fallen Angel pairs Van Wissem with another rigorously iconoclastic artist, Japanese guitarist and Off-Site alum, Tetuzi Akiyama. Van Wissem improvised to a recording of Akiyama that he had entered into Garageband, a program which allowed him to "see Akiyama's notes coming." The result is something like a duo improvisation in which the participants are separated in time, with one player given the benefit (or burden) of precognition. This is austere, yet open music that unfolds slowly and laterally, with Van Wissem's lute and Akiyama's bottleneck guitar tightly echoing one another or sounding together in strange clusters of tones that are allowed to decay slowly into deep chasms of silence. Full of spectral chords, microtonal glissandi, and iron concentration, Hymn draws firmly from the work of both artists in forging a sound world that is as barren as it is deep. [CC] Minimal Classical Contemporary Folk Blues played by Japanese Rising Improv Star guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama and Dutch/American Lute player/composer Jozef van Wissem, Their second cd as a duo. "The music is gradual and contemplative, unfolding like an unhurried chess game, edging forward in a shared yet adaptable and accommodating language. Courtly arpeggios, blues slurs and other pointers beyond the frame don't disrupt the Feldmanesque autonomy of their continually mutating, freely paterned flow." The Wire, UK 8/22/2008 Akiyama, Tetuzi & Jozef Van Wissem Hymn for a Fallen Angel CD $13.99 Incunabulum Details "Akke Phallus Duo is the one-year-old configuration of Jon marshall (The Hunter Gracchus, Le Drapeau Noir, Singing Knives Records, Vampire Blues) and Ben Morris (Chora, Le Drapeau Noir). Since meeting in 2005, their sonic paths have crossed most notably in the octet Le Drapeau Noir. Apart from guesting in each other's mainstay projects they had yet to play as a duo. AP Started as a process of exchange and abandonment of authorship, they swapped recordings, the only rule being the recipient can do whatever the sound inspires in them to do. The gathering of material has taken them through many solo improvisations with broken instruments (subsequently deconstructed and reconstructed), on acousmatic poaching trips to Italy and Croatia, vocal/running/recording endurances through Peckham at night, and absurdly basking in the heat/sonic waves of an upturned US military tank in static motionŠ They have since communally honed a series of recorded compositions. Terroir pissoir is their first release...the first Phase." Edition of 100 copies on pro printed and produced cdr 3/11/2012 Akke Phallus Duo Terroir / Pissoir CDR $11.99 Apollolaan Details "Al Qaeda's shimmering digital pulses, floating guitar and manipulated ambient sounds drift the listener into a state of total sci-fi meditationŠ" 5/16/2010 Al Qaeda Hundreds of Wives Only a Few are Dead c38 cassette $7.99 Bumtapes Details "really excited to present this long coming mail collab between brad rose and myself. two side long tracks of dark thunderous synth compositions. a heavy expedition jelly green tapes w/ two-sided full-color j-card. edition of 40." 8/20/2011 Albino Groupie and The North Sea Albino Groupie and The North Sea c30 cassette $8.99 D'Artagnan Details “A previously unreleased collection of acoustic songs recorded by Gong mainman Daevid Allen between 1985 and 2000, and a companion to the Dreaming A Dream album. Twelve tracks of Allen's cosmic, acid-folk vibrations, completely remastered, and presented for your meditative pleasure. And such a pleasure it is.” 9/4/2004 Allen, Daevid Gentle Genie CD $14.99 Mister E Details "Jamie Allen is a Canadian artist currently residing in the UK. With circuitMusic, he uses raw op amp components with minimal effects to experiment and revel in the sound of pure, electric signals. Allen's compositions are streamlined, yet remarkably varied with harsh walls of static, dense drones, and playful rhythms all vying for the listener's headspace. This piece has been performed at venues throughout North America including Tonic (NYC), Galapagos (NYC), Eyebeam (NYC), SAT (MTL), and the S.S. Marie Antoinette (WA). Be prepared to turn this one up extra loud and get lost in it. Full color artwork, glossy inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub." Edition of 50 copies. 9/30/2008 Allen, Jamie circuitMusic cassette $5.99 Anathema Sound Details "Debut full length vinyl release from Jack Allett, formerly known as Spoono, who previously had a CDR on Blackest Rainbow followed by a split LP with Cam Deas, and a 7" on The Great Pop Supplement. Jack also plays with Ben Knight (Helhesten) in the duo Towering Breaker. This debut waxer is a fine introduction to one of the UK's most interesting solo guitarists. Jack blends sublime finger picking with swirling drones and psychedelic static to create a sound that is very much his own. A must for fans of acoustic guitar music from the past few years, Jack could well be one of the most interesting players there is at the moment. CD edition house in a 4 panel moonpack." 5/4/2011 Allett, Jack The Collapsing Middle CD $15.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "Michael Hilde is Almaden, he kindly sent a copy of his CD-R release on the Finnish label Lattajjaa. And also provided the longest title of any musical release that I'm aware of. A dozen mysteriously melancholic tracks in the snow. Some drone-based instrumentals, some fragile lo-fi song-like creations humming and overflowing with varying degrees of folk-based confessional insularity. Personal folk songs spun from acoustic guitar and trebly male vocal layered song/talk, stomping distortion and flutes. Late night possessions, deep depression, desperation, obsessive attachment, visions, hallucinations, spirit dances in the dark, and fleeting glimpses of bliss." George Parsons, Dream Magazine. The full title of this cdr is The Dream Continues in 1,000,000 Roads as the Journeyman Slumbers to be Awoken by the Berries of Air and Forest, a Dawn Pre-Imagined and so Owned in Footstep and Deed as Our Lovely Sojourner of Unabysmal Light Sojourns 4th into Willowy and Totally Purple Dawning, Day is Upon r Hero and the Golden Rd. of Infinitudinous Blessedhood 10/6/2007 Almaden The Dream Continues in 1,000,000 Roads CDR $8.99 267 Lattajjaa Details "Alphane Moon is Dafydd of Our glassie Azoth and his partner Ruth making music that complements the howlingly great OgA stuff with something more structured. This beautifully wrought disc of shimmering rural psychedelia was originally released on various tape labels in a small run of circa 100." Alphane Moon The Echoing Groove CD $11.99 Camera Obscura Details “Defect Analysts split release presents here latest music efforts of alphonse de montfroyd and nihil est excellence. First half of release brings calm and composure, serial music (#2), and ancient japan music (#3) in terms of processed digital sound. Second half comes with persistent events and occasionally droning torrent of processed environmental sounds. Everything flows, everything changes.” 3” cd with full color printings on transparent/dull sleeves. From Ukraine. Alphonse de Montfroyd + Nihil Est eXcellence Defect Analysts 3" CD $6.99 Nexsound Records Details "One of two excellent self-released solo (mostly) recordings from Mattias Gustafsson released on his own Hästen & Korset imprint. Artwork and layout by Mattias Frisk on two panel colour folder in vinyl case. Dark and scary ambient-like soundscapes, heavy outbursts of feedback, buried monstrous screams and really fucked up witch-like vocals, samplings... All over the place insanity. Bleak and disgusting music. 6 songs, 23 minutes. Highest Recommendations!" 7/30/2006 Altar of Flies As The Years Went On, That Dream Ended... CDR $11.99 Hästen & Korset Details "Second of two excellent self-released solo recordings from Mattias Gustafsson released on his own Hästen & Korset imprint. Artwork and layout by Mattias Frisk on two panel colour folder in vinyl case. Dark and scary ambient-like soundscapes, heavy outbursts of feedback... All over the place insanity. Bleak and disgusting music. 4 songs, 24 minutes. Highest Recommendations!" 7/30/2006 Altar of Flies How Many Times Can We Be Born Again? CDR $11.99 Hästen & Korset Details "Debut release on PussyGutt's private imprint Wolvserpent - a solo work by Blake Green of PussyGutt -- limited to 300 hand-numbered copies in wraparound silkscreened sleeves. A seriously epic doom-pop masterwork here." "In the mist a bell is tolling and the crow sounds his dire warning. The funeral shroud adorns its lifeless bearer. Alter creeps like the fog of a thousand weeping brides, a serenade of gothic tragedy consumed by loss and battered by countless defeats. Alter, one half of the bleak doom ghosts Pussygutt, sings a lament of sorrow under a cold full moon. A mystical tale of dark, dreary sadness told by candlelight in the graveyard of centuries past. Succumb to despair and taste thy grief everlasting." -- Dave Adelson 1/17/2010 Alter Dusk-Dawn LP $16.99 Wolverserpent Details "First Solo-record by well-known artist and musican Kai Althoff (Cologne). Melancholic Synth-compositions reminiscent to early Schlammpeitziger and experimental, electronic music of the 70s (Conrad Schnitzler). Edited by Berlin-based Galerie Neu and limited to 500 copies." 5/10/2004 Althoff, Kai Fanal LP $20.99 Neu Details 1998 release in gatefold sleeve - still sealed. Alvarius B Alvarius B double LP $199.99 Abduction Details "A much-needed CD issue of an LP, released this last February in microquantities. The dastardly minds behind this project, a first spurt from the reactivated Poon Village label, have collaborated on the new package as well. And it is a deluxe eye-swim through various forms of feminine beauty, its 32-page booklet displaying images that look as though they were found in a smoky catacomb carved into the hills of Charlestown. By my count, Baroque Primitiva is the sixth album by Alvarius B. and is, like its predecessors, a deep dive through mysterious waters. The 11 tracks here were recorded at various sessions over the course of several years and range from 'Humor Police' (a track imagining what Syd Barrett might have sounded like had he been a devotee of Rembetika) to a trippily Beatles-damaged version of 'You Only Live Twice' (the sole surviving shard of the aborted Alvarius B. Plays The Bond Songbook project). Baroque Primitiva is the first long-format telegram from Alvarius B. since he lost his mothership (the Sun City Girls, with whom he employed his slave name, Alan Bishop) and it also feels like his most consistently non-acerbic -- perhaps even most beauty-oriented -- work. The songs often have a meditative pace, filled with gorgeous lo-fi blends of vocals, guitar, bass and keys. Eyvind Kang guests on several tracks, but the bulk of the material was broadcast direct from the naked soul of Alvarius B., which turns out to be a warmer, sweeter place than you might imagine. And while this CD will be available for a tad longer than the 30 seconds the LP lasted, a set as thoroughly gorgeous as this will not linger. Take a deep breath of its magic and go for it. Why deny yourself such bountiful pleasures?" --Byron Coley 5/6/2011 Alvarius B Baroque Primitiva CD/BOOK $17.99 Abduction Details "It's been seven years since we heard the last Alvarius B record (Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls), and Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset is the third released thus far. This is a collection of songs seemingly based on actual, but unnamed shady characters of the global underworld past and present, according to the brief statement on the insert. Regardless of intent, this is cryptic folk music of the highest order, with several tracks employing folk/rock/psych orchestrations featuring the talents of Eyvind Kang, Tim Young, Richard Bishop, Andrew McGinnis and Randall Dunn. Twisted Americana folklore breeds with baroque Italian cinematic pop, dark ballads, and vagrant story lines. Eleven unique and varied tracks and the most "produced" Alvarius B record to date. This is a limited edition one-time pressing of 1000 vinyl LPs with lyric sheet insert." 12/24/2005 Alvarius B Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset LP $39.99 Abduction Details "Sugar: the Other White Meat brings together two of the central figures of underground sound-whatzit and general audio curiosities: Alvarius B (of Sun City Girls fame) and Dylan Nyoukis (one-half of the UK’s Decaer Pinga/Prick Decay). Side A of the LP features each of the two in solo mode: Alvarius with five songs of varying length and Dylan with one twelve minute piece. The B side of the LP is a side-long collaborative track. Sugar was originally conceived by Harmony Korine to be a four-way split between Alvarius, Nyoukis, Will Oldham, and Absalom (Korine’s ‘White Metal’ band). But Korine went MIA and Oldham hadn’t heard of the project when Dylan asked him about it later. By this point, Alvarius and Dylan had already finished their respective contributions and, rather than scrap the project altogether, decided to create a collaborative piece to take up the missing second side of the LP. Dylan sent over source material, which Alvarius cut, spliced and mixed in with his own sound sources (including some drunken answering machine messages from Mr. Korine). So what’s the listener to expect from this stew? Those familiar with Alvarius B will find much of his range represented in his five songs: quasi-ethnic ramblings, wordless vocal ramblings (w/the TV on in the background), Django-esque guitar runs, and the absolutely amazing and unclassifiable ‘DJ South Bitch,’ which is sort of all of the above. Dylan’s solo contribution continues in the vein of his Shield That Pierces the Earth album, with a simple banjo (?) underpinning that eventually gives way to subtle tape manipulation, musique concrete, and generally engaging, but head scratching sounds of all sorts. The collaborative piece runs the gamut over its 24+ minute duration: broken electronics, field recordings near a gas ‘n’ sip (or some such), shortwave radio, actual songs (!), the aforementioned answering machine rant, ambient cafeteria noise, thunderstorms — you know, pretty much everything. Edition of 500 copies. Hand silkscreened sleeves with two-color silkscreened insert printed by the kind and able folks at Parallel Lines Press. Nude cover rounds out the deal." 10/16/2003 Alvarius B & Dylan Nyoukis Sugar: The Other White Meat LP $49.99 Catsup Plate Details "Originally released in 1998 as a limited edition vinyl 2LP -- the second Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) full-length release. Perhaps the most deranged collection of original folk songs ever cut to wax. Dark, twisted & apocalyptic with razor twang acoustic guitar & vocal delivery, this epic lo-fi cassette deconstruction/demolition of everything "folk-singer-songwriter" slipped under the radar to a few lucky souls who grabbed the original pressing of this when it showed up 14 years ago. Here is your chance to get it again as a 2CD reissue. The tri-fold digipak includes six bonus tracks, a booklet with lyrics to all 45 songs, and liner notes by Trey Spruance." - FE. "I think it's fair to say that in AB we have the most inspiring and wholesome, cussing, violent and truthful musical interpenetrator of the psychic Realities that has probably ever graced this fair and fucked land." - Trey Spruance 9/11/2012 Alvarius B. Alvarius B. double CD $15.99 Abduction Details "Originally released in 1998 as a limited edition vinyl 2LP -- the second Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) full-length release. Perhaps the most deranged collection of original folk songs ever cut to wax. Dark, twisted & apocalyptic with razor twang acoustic guitar & vocal delivery, this epic lo-fi cassette deconstruction/demolition of everything "folk-singer-songwriter" slipped under the radar to a few lucky souls who grabbed the original pressing of this when it showed up 14 years ago. Here is your chance to get it again as a 2CD reissue. The tri-fold digipak includes six bonus tracks, a booklet with lyrics to all 45 songs, and liner notes by Trey Spruance." - FE. "I think it's fair to say that in AB we have the most inspiring and wholesome, cussing, violent and truthful musical interpenetrator of the psychic Realities that has probably ever graced this fair and fucked land." - Trey Spruance. Edition of 400 copies. Not sure how many I'll be able to get so first come, first served on this. Limit of 1 copy per person, please. 9/11/2012 Alvarius B. Alvarius B. double LP $32.99 Abduction Details First vinyl release from this project comprised of Julian Gulyas and Emeralds' Mark McGuire. 8/20/2011 Amazing Births, The Younger Moon LP $16.99 Cylindrical Habitat Modules Details "The Amazing make up two existing members of the well known Swedish band, Dungen. Like their fellow labelmates, they continue to make far out psych grooves, but this time around the singer signs in English making the song a bit more transferable across the continent." Edition of 500 copies. 1/17/2010 Amazing, The Code 2 / To Ska and Back 10" $17.99 Mexican Summer Details "Who would have thought a relaxed sunny afternoon, newfound friendships and some spur-of-the-moment would have resulted in what's been described as 'one of the most compelling documents of both free improvisation and electronic'?" -- All Music Guide. "It's the people involved in Afternoon Tea -- originally released in 2000 on German label Ritornell and now available on vinyl for the first time with a new master, bonus tracks and newly discovered live recordings -- that ensured it as more than a happy accident. The twin guitar presence of AMM's Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi and kindred spirits of the laptop -- Sydney's Pimmon, Vienna's Christian Fennesz and Peter Rehberg -- made it a momentous day. With all the players coming together during the 2000 What Is Music? Festival, Afternoon Tea stands as a highpoint of the then-emerging intersection between Powerbook performance and guitar improvisation. All subtlety, nuance and detail, it is a revelation of restraint. Built on a steadying flow of burbling rhythm, the quintet slowly weave around each others' sonics in layers to create a tonal palette immersive in its atmosphere and magnetic in its compulsion. Hindsight clearly reveals the heart of these pieces -- important to note, considering they were recorded at a time when laptop performance was an alien concept to many in experimental music, suffering controversy and backlash as well as an over-abundance of pale approaches from many who took it on as novelty as opposed to serious musical pursuit. Those involved in the Afternoon Tea session left their Australian tour inspired, citing their merry time in the country eating, drinking and hanging out at the beach as well as their performances as a direct influence on their following work. Afternoon Tea remains one of the quiet and real achievers for experimental music of the past decade. Remastered in May 2009 and packaged in deluxe Stoughton gatefold jacket with artwork designed by Stephen O'Malley. Vinyl edition of the CD reissue from Black Truffle Records, includes the same bonus tracks. First time ever available on vinyl." 8/31/2010 Ambarchi / Fennesz / Pimmon / Rehberg / Rowe Afternoon Tea double LP $23.99 Weird Forest Details "Formerly orthodox Hasidic students of Talmud and Tanya, these two members of the Australian punk unit Phlegm have brought together influences from Boredoms and the Japanese noise scene, traditional Jewish Nigunim and Yiddish theatre, Marc Ribot, Ornette Coleman and countless others to create a new world of twisted dreams and startling sonorities. A must for all lovers of weirdness." Part of Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series. Ambarchi, Oren / Robbie Avenaim Alter Rebbe's Nigun CD $14.99 Tzadik Details "The mystic worlds of Valerio Cosi and The Solo Joint collide as Amber Lions......one long track navigates through a dreamworld of saxophone, synth, strings and more strings all glazed in a mercurial fog. Magnificent." Edition of 123 copies. 9/16/2007 Amber Lions Pink Panther Blood 3" CDR $5.99 House of Alchemy Details "Now this, THIS is a junkyard i want to get lost in. america reads was another killer discovery of 2009 and another one to expect some seriously great damage from. "towers open fire" takes the cake so far. solar explorations taken to their prismatic core like drone diamonds shimmering underneath the constant glare. the side-long tracks slowly unfold, puncturing the crystal divide with their metallic sheen. it's definitely in the hypnotic realm. at times, america reads plays on the more subtle side using delicate sounds that pulse and fall like feathers floating in the air after an attack. it feels a little uneasy, but it's all the better for it. distorted cracks infiltrate adding a layer of harshness to the mess. it's like hearing the synapses of your brain all going off at once, desperately searching for equilibrium. stunning. once you reach the summit, though, you find there's nothing left but ruins. it's an absolute revelation. edition of 72, pro-dubbed." 1/30/2010 America Reads Towers Open Fire c30 cassette $7.99 Digitalis Limited Details "A psychedelic collage, sounds a bit like Tomutonttu." 7/11/2008 Amigo Result Vid Baljan CDR $8.99 267 Lattajjaa Details "Akiko Terashima (Doodles) and Masayuki Toshimitsu letting loose some classic mindbending baked goods. Part psychedelic guitar duets, part guitar/drums duels: these melodies are ripping the high mountain of vocal buzz apart. Artwork by the band, edition of 70." 4/10/2009 Aminome Blue Fishes cassette $8.99 Sloow Tapes Details "Second volume of neo-raga exotica featuring three live solo improvisations from July 2005 and a mega-trip meta-alap recorded as a special introduction. All tracks were completely created and improvised in the moment. Whereas classical raga uses a complex tradition to set mood, scale, and melodic structure, Amlee, as an unschooled Western adept, approaches it from the other side, tuning in to the unique time, place and emotion of the performance, allowing the music to flow outward and sing its own song. Deeply zoned cosmic drone and tone. 4 tracks / 45 min." 12/25/2005 Amlee, Erik Sitar 2 CDR $10.99 Mandragora Records Details "This is the debut recording by Ammonites and called "33.3".The band comes from Whitby in North Yorkshire.They have created five tracks of wonderful music which shows off how truly talented and creative they are. The music has a meandering ambient drone like quality which utilizes field recordings of streams,childrens voices and what sounds like a marching band playing in a procession. The cdr is available in a limited edition of 50 copies with hand numbered insert." 8/2/2008 Ammonites 33.3 CDR $13.99 Reverb Worship Details "Amolvacy is Aaron Moore from Volcano the Bear, Dave Nuss from No-Neck Blues Band, and Sheila 16 of the Laboratory Theater Group, NYC. The band creates compositions from its improvisations centered around strong elemental percussion, radical theatrical vocals, and classical acoustic instruments, reminding of Holy Modal Rounders, Moondog, The Fugs. Recurring themes in Amolvacy's texts are the pain of relationships, the affirmation of the feminine in myth, the hero's journey, and continuous need to flame the passions of the heart. "A La Lu La" specifically addresses the gap of language in facilitating accurate communication, a gap that only music at its most primal can fill. The back of the album features text by Jose da Fonseca & Pedro Carolino, two Portugese who in 1855 created an English phrasebook titled "English As She is Spoke," but who faced just one problem: they didn't know any English. The linguistic train wreck that ensues mirrors the play of language, sound, and unintentional humor on "A La Lu La." Pressed on clear vinyl and housed in die-cut sleeve. 10/17/2009 Amolvacy A La Lu La LP $14.99 Ultramarine Details Nice! Only a few left. 1/30/2010 Amon Dude / Nuslux split 7" $5.99 no label Details 5th Amon Duul album, a collection of outtakes Amon Düül Experimente CD $17.99 Captain Trip Details Includes Eternal Flow/Parachemical World single Amon Düül Paradisewarts Düül CD $15.99 Captain Trip Details "Phallus Dei is the first ADII album. As with all 3 CDs in this series, it has been 'Restored and remastered by EROC at The Ranch'. Amon Duul II were one of the leading German underground commune-psych bands from the early 70s. Split apart from the more politicized fraction that would go on to record as Amon Duul I (Psychedelic Underground, etc.), ADII emerged in 1969 when they released this fantastic debut album. It's a masterwork of drug-dazed guitar psych, long tracks, middle eastern influence, churning trance rock, etc. With the same four bonus tracks as found the prior Gammarock version: 'Freak Out Requiem I', 'Freak Out Requiem II', 'Freak Out Requiem III', & 'Cymbals In The End'." – FE 2/24/2002 Amon Düül II Phallus Dei CD $15.99 Repertiore Details Out of print - 1st Amon Düül II release from 1969. 10/30/2002 Amon Düül II Phallus Dei CD $15.99 Captain Trip Details "Definitive 2002 reissue. The 5th ADII album, from 1972. Restored and digitally remastered by Eroc, no bonus tracks. 'Rather than focusing on standout virtuosity, AD2 sought to create a hybrid of progressive and psychedelic styles in which mood and texture were the most important features - to this end, the presence of various guests serves them remarkably well. The seven tracks on Wolf City are all imbued with a certain brilliance that transcends individual contribution - the perfect sort of music for psychedelic dungeons of any description...The obvious standout is 'Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse', an early excursion into world-music fusion featuring drones, sitar and tabla in accompaniment with the psychedelia proffered by the other musicians." 1/16/2003 Amon Düül II Wolf City CD $15.99 Repertoire Details "Rather than focusing on standout virtuosity, AD2 sought to create a hybrid of progressive and psychedelic styles in which mood and texture were the most important features - to this end, the presence of various guests serves them remarkably well. The seven tracks on Wolf City are all imbued with a certain brilliance that transcends individual contribution - the perfect sort of music for psychedelic dungeons of any description...The obvious standout is 'Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse', an early excursion into world-music fusion featuring drones, sitar and tabla in accompaniment with the psychedelia proffered by the other musicians." 4/23/2003 Amon Düül II Wolf City CD $12.99 Captain Trip Details "This opus is the result of a collaboration between two artists : one English (Among The Bones) the other French (Henryspenncer), both having composed one track for the release. Henryspenncer's "The Amazon" is a vast voyage, as epic as it's hypnotic and Among The Bones' "Pyramid of Sacrifice", a long and droning tribal ritual, both form two chapters of the same story. A mystical journey through an unexplored and alien jungle." Heavy digifile + insert card. Edition of 150 copies. 5/28/2011 Among The Bones / Henryspencer split EP CDR $12.99 Bookmaker Records Details “The sixth release from Deserted Village is an unedited recording of the first meeting of a truly odd and exciting line-up: Dave Carroll (The Wormholes) on percussion, Fergus Cullen (Papercop) on guitar, Gavin Prior (Murmansk) on percussion and electronics and Paul Roe (Concorde Ensemble) on Bass clarinet. This unplanned hour of improv arose from two overlapping sessions in the Deserted Studio and was an enjoyable departure for everyone involved. It is an extremely fluid set with frenetic grooves twisting and turning before dissolving back into sonic sludge. Paul Roe draws on his contemporary music background, exploiting a wealth of extended technique. His humming and clicking blends in and out of whatever noise or groove comes his way. He is met half-way by the non-academic musicians in a stew, stranger than the sum of its parts.” 59 minute jam of the first meeting of this 4tet. A bit like a mangled Bitches Brew. You might call it free jazz but the rhythmic parts hold a foot tapping groove. “.....wandering drone clatter and abrasive noise masquerading as free jazz.” - Lee Jackson, The Broken Face 8/28/2004 Amygdala Amygdala CDR $9.99 Deserted Village Details "Anahita is Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and cellist Helena Espvall (Espers). Tara recently showed up on Important as part of the duo of Tau Emerald with Sharron Kraus while Helena contributed a beautiful piece to the James Blackshaw curated Garden Of Forking Paths compilation. Anahita is a beautiful, laboriously created and floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing and subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment conjuring up a natural woodland romp and stomp." 2/7/2009 Anahita Matricaria CD $14.99 Important Details "A first vinyl edition fully remixed for wax from the cd masters that first appeared on a ltd cdr from deserted village in 2006. plaintive semi abstract vocals strain and wind over ecclesiastical notes held so long that your head becomes the organist's domain. Rarely have vocal harmonies been this ethereal or perfectly held. Not the glottal gymnastics of joan la Barbara but rather the complementary visions of two unique artists in absolute accord. Much of side B feels more improvised but throughout the whole there is an economy of note, a tension of control and an element of perfection to the detail of performance. Housed in an ultra heavy card sleeve with cover art by Paul Santoleri and labels by Helena Espvall." Ltd edition of 400 copies. Housed in uber thick sleeve and pressed onto deluxe virgin 180gm vinyl. 1/22/2011 Anahita (Helena Espvall and Tara Burke) Arcana en Cantos LP $22.99 Alt Vinyl Details "The third and final tape for Anakrid on Black Horizons. As per Mr. Bickel's usual unexpected style, expect to be surprised. The a-side is what I would come to expect from this project, an impressively composed piece of deep analogue dark ambiance, while the flip is a bit of a change up, where this project's often latent violent underpinning is fully exposed in a 15 minute piece entitled acidpianoharp, consisting of a harsh acoustic assault on the ears, thousands of tiny sounds strung together to form a swarm. Packaged in the Anakrid for BH tape style, consisting of a color transparency layered on top of various marbled pieces of paper. This time with the addition of a vertical transparent floating OBI, all held in place with rivets. Edition of 100 copies on BLACK hi bias chrome tapes. Silver labels with the Black Horizons color touch." 5/20/2009 Anakrid Ceaselessly out of a Cloudless Sky c31 cassette $6.99 Black Horizons Details "Psych-o-path Records is proud to present Falling Air the new acid-folk inspired singer songwriter album by Brendon Anderegg. Anderegg's two previous releases on the Brooklyn based label Apestaartje, Anomia and When Rectangles Roll Under Cities, combine field recordings, electronics and acoustic instruments to create a strong sense of environmental space and structure. While there is definitely a thread of isolation and strong sense of experimental music apparent in Falling Air this album is an entirely different affair. Elements such as voice, acoustic guitar, banjo, violin, Rhodes, organ, piano, accordion, computer and various small instruments are interwoven into subtle yet complex arrangements at once defining a very personal style." 3/29/2005 Anderegg, Brendon Falling Air CD $12.99 Psych-o-Path Records Details Recorded live in one take by Martin Bisi in New-York on November 23, 2010. "Ron Anderson is a multi-instrumentalist intuitive music maker who plays traditional instruments like the electric guitar, but will also use anything that can make a sound - including the recording studio. He has 57 recordings to his credit (with such acts as Molecules - Ruins - Guapo - Steve Buchanan...) and has performed in 16 different countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The new PAK album is released on Tzadik as part of their composer series. PAS started in 1995 out of Brooklyn, NY, USA, driven by the creative talents of Robert L. Pepper working in the mediums of sound and video. Since then PAS has evolved into a collective including featuring guests such as ZEV!, Hati, Steve Beresford, Vultures Qt.... PAS have released 7 cd's and have been on various compilations + have toured extensively throughout Europe ad the United States. PAS curate events in New York such as Experi-MENTAL nights and the yearly Experi-MENTAL Festival. David Tamura is a Multi-instrumentalist/Improvisor who performs on Tenor/Alto/Soprano saxophones/EWI/Guitar/Various Synths (Virus/Kawai K5000/Bent circuits). He has recorded with Charles K.Noyes, Von LMO, Ray Gallon, Boots Malleson, Maria Gil, and appears on numerous Experimental Jazz/Metal and Noise Bands. He is currently playing with "The JazzFakers", Zilmrah, Cloud Cloud, Ethereal, Espirit 220, and the Chonto/Brown/Tamura Trio. Philippe Petit is interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer. PETIT uses a computer and synths to build up electronic layers, process acoustic and field recordings. To second the machine he likes to move various glasses, or percussive objects, and take advantage of vinyl material to fondle released sounds. A journalist for various magazines and radio as well as a musical activist, PETIT has celebrated his 25th year of sharing his musical passions as the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp. PETIT has assembled what people call a dream-team of collaborators, often joining Lydia Lunch or Faust onstage, and worked with: Foetus, Edward Ka-Spel, Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), Kumo, Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Cosey Fanni Tutti, My Brightest Diamond, Sybarite, Pantaleimon, Graham Lewis (Wire), Barry Adamson, Scanner, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Guapo, Leafcutter John, Simon Fisher Turner, Jarboe and many more... Aside his solo works, PETIT is active in Strings Of Consciousness, does a duo with Lydia Lunch, and his collabs with Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) + the CD with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk/Bad Seeds/Faust) appeared on Dirter Promotions. These days he is working on duets with Eugene Robinson (from Oxbow) and Murcof... " 3/25/2012 Anderson, Ron / Robert L. Pepper / David Tamura / Philippe Petit Closed Encounters of the 4 Minds (live @ BC Studio) CD $9.99 Public Eyesore Details "Andromelos is a psychedelic supergroup formed by Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple, Nishinihon, Musica Transonic, Mainliner, Gong...), Yamazaki Maso (Masonna, Space Machine) and Okano Futoshi (Nishinihon, ex Subert Blaze, ex Ghost)." 6/6/2009 Andromelos Andromelos CD $14.99 Ektro Records Details "Having lost a member since the initial Anemone Lodge sessions of 2006, the now-trio'd version of Chris Miller (Golden Sores, Number None), Gwyneth Merner (Byssus) and Matt Erickson (Radiant Husk, Sudden Oak) decided to bunker down in Chicago once again, this time in the sweltering July heat of 2009. Using myriad instruments to minimal affect, the trio attempted to navigate the continuum between magnifying slight gestures and constraining more expansive swaths of clatter. Would it be agreeable to claim their intentions to be akin to those of the East Bionic Symphonia, though with only a third of the members and with much of the rough-hewn edges snipped away, only to be gathered and polished into mirror form? Perhaps. Or could one state that what was once a three-hour session of assembly-defined, free-sound troubleshooting has now been condensed, groomed and catalogued into a set of auditory star charts? Indeed. Or could it be that the borders between spontaneous composition, elastic cosmos-echo and the fluid passage of long-tone regeneration were blurred, if only for a temporary moment in a cool basement on a muggy Illinois night?" 5/18/2011 Anemone Lodge II cassette $5.99 Bezoar Formations Details "Imagine an old craftsman bungalow in Pasadena, with a dusty back courtyard shaded by the branches of orange trees; a place where the air is warm, still and scented with citrus, where cats stalk insects across the bricks, and the reflection of flowers shimmers on the surface of a small fountain. Imagine the rocky coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, where cold water surges through tide pools filled with primitive, tentacled creatures, and the chill ocean breeze tastes of salt. On Anemone Pool's debut album, Mackenzie Michael Owen (Coup Pigeons) and Michael Scholtz (Faraday Trippers, Pathways) have imbued the three lengthy tracks with more than a hint of the atmosphere of their native southern California. Using guitar, theremin, electronics, voice and homemade instruments, they explore a sound world that lies just below the surface of consciousness, touching the tension, suspense and mystery that slips, almost unnoticed, through our daily experience." 8/1/2011 Anemone Pool Afternoon Long Ago CDR $6.99 Seagrass Details "On Angelblood’s new CD, Labia Minora, musical styles and influences mesh and collide in a simultaneously jarring and hypnotic sonic netherworld of hope and despair. Gnarled chants and incantations alternate with ethereal floating singing, conjuring the images and emotions of pagan ritual, blood sacrifice and the quest for redemption. Crunching rhythm guitars and bass pierced by screaming leads form the dark heavy metal undertow of the album’s sound. This is set to repetitive melodies with something of an earthy folk bent, creating a unique, swaying, dirge-like atmosphere – only to be disrupted by the blistering drums and the chainsaw drill of the speed metal reprise, the growl of the hunter-wolf, the bellow of the slain beast. The epic final cut balances on the edge of dissonance and noise, the croon of the sister-brethren, the blood of the slaughtered pig. Angleblood is Lizzi Bougatsos (vocals), Rita Ackermann (vocals), Brian DeGraw (bass), Dave Nuss (drums) and Anders Nilssen (guitar). On Labia Minora special guest Mick Barr (of Orthrelm and Chromtech) plays guitar. Angelblood was formed in the year 2000, and has played internationally in both music and art venues. Labia Minora is their third CD. In addition to being a band, Angelblood is also a performance art group, whose dark motifs and ritualized actions match the concerns of the band. Finally, Angelblood also creates collaborative art works, distinguished by a combination of distinctive drawing and edgy collage. In all of its various incarnations, Angelblood is characterized by a raw, almost desperate approach to art and life, realms which, in the Angleblood ethos, are indistinguishable. It is this rebellious attitude of refusal and iconoclasm, coupled incongruously, yet sincerely, with a sense of pathos and reverence, that sets Angleblood apart from the monotonous drone of monolithic culture." 2/19/2004 Angelblood Labia Minora CD $15.99 Printed Matter Details "Unearthed recordings from 1994/1995 featuring Theo solo except for a few sampled answering machine messages. Recorded before Theo was in Hall ofFame/Jackie O Motherfucker. Lost first solo recordings that have not been distributed in any way prior to this release (the only other person, other than myself and Theo, to hear them has since passed away). Program repeats on both sides. Creepy how contemporary this sounds." 2/21/2009 Angell, Theo First Recordings cassette $5.99 Really Coastal Details "Check it out. Late 1980s Texas metal hardcore featuring Dave Nuss (of NNCK) on drums. Stamp collectors only, please." - Dave Sweetapple 5/8/2005 Angkor Wat When Obscenity Becomes the Norm LP $13.99 Death Records Details "This ode to the cassette format marks the entry of Angkor What? into the orifice of recorded improvised psychedelic music. Popul Huh? is a project spanning two years of 4 track tape experiments and captured dual electric guitar jams in addition to samj esrever. Comprised of Liam who studies Indian musics in India indeed, and the eponymous Lukeman who does stuff as well as things, you know? Describable by description only in desperate decisions made by purchasing this derelict item. Artworks are hand painted in psychedelic water color inks and silver metallic and feature Ancient Mayan Space Ships (AMSSs)." 6/30/2010 Angkor What? Popul Huh? c90 cassette $7.99 Feathered Spirit of Mother Details "Recorded largely on a screened-in porch in rural Maryland, Campfire Songs represents a significant change in sound and technique for the Animal Collective. Acoustic guitars have replaced the electronic effects of previous releases like Danse Manatee and Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, captured live on three strategically placed mini-disc recorders (with field recordings added to two tracks at a later point). Though the sound is radically different from the digital processing and sound manipulation previously employed, the results are clearly of a piece with the percussive, almost incantatory feel of their earlier records. From there, the trio (3/4 of the Collective appears on this recording) knits together threads of guitar strum and pluck; chanted, nearly wistful vocal harmonies; and often a pulsing rhythm that seems like it might break apart at any moment, and sometimes does. The melodies are simple and repetitive, recalling the early work of the Third Ear Band, '70s German commune-music, and similar folk-psychedelic explorers. But these are all mere starting points: here, there is real insight into notions of 'natural' sound, a retreat from technology and a return to traditional instrumentation, and conventional song structures broken down, drawn out, and reassembled. The resulting record is beautiful, heartfelt, mournful, and brimming with spontaneous energy." 7/23/2003 Animal Collective Campfire Songs CD $14.99 Catsup Plate Details "Following the widespread acclaim of last year's Feels album, Animal Collective return with a new release. Includes the song "Grass" from a UK-only single, along with two exclusive cuts, "Must Be Treeman" and "Fickle Cycle." DVD includes videos for "Grass," "Who Could Win A Rabbit?," and "Fickle Cycle," along with a six-minute video and sound collage by BRIAN DeGAW of GANG GANG DANCE." 3/26/2006 Animal Collective Grass CD + DVD $9.99 Fat Cat Details With 5 records and 2 tours (including one with BLACK DICE) since their inception, this outfit takes the freak-psyche of CAROLINER and SUN CITY GIRLS, bursts of punk, minimal techno, and the sounds of AMON DUUL and CAN and combines them into an organic, loose hybrid." 4/1/2004 Animal Collective Here Comes the Indian CD $13.99 Paw Tracks Details "Despite the evident appeal of their deliciously skewed songs and deep pop sensibilities, Animal Collective is clearly not a simple or stable ‘band’ proposition, it is instead an umbrella name now used for a grouping of four people – Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deaken – who play together under different names and in different configurations, and whose releases are prone to continual musical change: from beautifully skewed pop ballads to fiercely ruptured noise-squalls to tribal rhythmic work-outs to simple folk songs; from fully orchestrated group freak-outs to a the intimacy of an acoustic duo. This double album serves well as an introduction point to the group, repackaging their first two releases which, whilst gathering a certain amount of critical acclaim in the US, had little or no distribution elsewhere. As far as peers and influences go, Animal Collective’s sprawl could also be located alongside fellow American contemporaries such as Black Dice, Lightning Bolt or Jewelled Antler Collective; the digital texturings of the Mego label; the freak-outs of ‘90s west coast isolationists like Caroliner and Sun City Girls; the minimalist post-techno of Kompakt; or back to ‘70’s European commune-music utopians like Amon Duül, Harvester, Can, and similar folk-psychedelic explorers. But despite this, it is Animal Collective’s natural affinity with pop music that makes up the crux of their sound. Whilst they may recall the likes of Barrett, early Bowie, Ray Davies or Arthur Lee, it’s without ever aping them or sounding retro. And most of all, in whatever guise they assume, Animal Collective always manage to sound like no one but themselves 10/28/2003 Animal Collective Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished / Danse Manatee double CD $15.99 Fat Cat Details "Animals and Men - named after a song by Adam and the Ants - started life around the winter of 1978/9 when Susan Wells took over vocal duties in what was a three piece called Psychotic Reaction. Based in Frome Somerset their first release Don't Misbehave in the New Age (1980) was an indie hit. When the band split in '81 Susan and Ralph formed the Terraplanes. A & M/Terraplanes released three vinyl 45s. A few years ago demos by the band surfaced on the Messthetics/Hyped 2 Death label. Recently the band have reformed and performed the odd gig and are releasing an EP of new songs soon on Convulsive Records. Mississippi Records is proud to be the first to release an entire LP containing the three 45's and early demos, all recorded between 1979-83. For fans of early UK DIY." 3/21/2009 Animals & Men Never Bought Never Sold LP $11.99 Mississippi Records Details "This is a band made up of Anthony Guerra, Nick Dan (xNoBBQx), Matt Earle (xNoBBQx, Muura, etc) and Sumugan Sivanesan, playing rough, primitive rock music. Our previous LP was rated as 41st best release of 2006 by Thurston Moore & Byron Coley (not quite #1, but hey, they liked it!!!)." 10/8/2010 Antipan Antipan CDR $10.99 Black Petal Details "Following their acclaimed debut here on -house of alchemy- and two stellar discs on Phantom Limb (Vol.5) and Foxglove (Vol. 3) comes Volume 2 in their mangled and distorted un-series. This air is thick this time around, musty even. Prisoner children run the castle halls making these strange sounds, deranged echoes, lost in a maze. Electricity flows through this one, via frayed cords. Percussion jars you from stasis, leaving you only to gasp for cool crisp air. And then things really get unwound." Edition of 123 copies. 8/2/2008 Antique Brothers Beneath the Dead Castle CDR $8.99 House of Alchemy Details "'Hot Shit' is two long form tracks, charting the development of Antique Brothers from insular, tape-scuzz-coated two-piece to the current phase of the Antique Brothers big band, which saw it's birthing at the Bottled Smoke festival (hosted by Digitalis Industries and Phantom Limb Recordings), a November Reign tour with Sleepwalkers Local, Stone Baby, Century Plants, and Rafi Bookstaber; and at this years Neon Commune (hosted by Not Not Fun).Hot Side was recorded on a break from their 2007 East Coast Tour. The BROs set up in a snow-crusted Hudson, NY apartment and laid tracks with Jeremy Kelly (best known for his solo CD on Digitalis, recorded and played on by Bro Ged) and Kyle Clements (of Hudson super group Sleepy Demons). Mostly acoustic, with heavy percussion, lap steel aquatics and tiny-amp feedback. A good but icy bridge between the original Antique Bros. sound and who they are today. Shit Side - Part of a marathon series of sessions in Los Angeles in summer 2008, this jam (recorded in Ged's Green Machines studio) features Kelly on drums, Caitlin C. Mitchell (of Thousands) on Hammond, and Seth Kasselman (of Warm Climate and the Seth Kasselman/Ged Gengras duo) on clarinet and keys. The brothers hoist electric guitars, vibe on global moods, and oddly enough, approach quasi-jazz historical layers dense with stratagraphic memories and partial objects. Edition of 125 with full color cardstock J-Cards with images from "a trip" to Lappland." 2/21/2009 Antique Brothers Hot Shit cassette $5.99 Really Coastal Details "Seoul, Korea, is currently home to Alfred 23 Harth, formerly of Cassiber but now gainfully employed in Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble. Another improviser based there is young New Zealander Sam Stephens, who runs the Postmoderncore label and performs under a flurry of aliases. As Tangent, here he engages in a live free electronica trio with local boys Choi Joon Yong and Jin Sang Tae. Harth contributes the cover photo of the Antler Juice trio gearing up to play at the Iri Café - it's here that a bimonthly series of concerts goes by the name of Relay. Visual work is strongly featured alongside sound experiment. Along the lines of Derek Bailey's Company Week, organiser Ryu Hankil grouped the three youngsters together at a few minutes notice during last September's "Relay 03" event, and the album contains their 26 minute set. This is a gritty, ill at ease music, where conflicted signals seem to be struggling to get through, a kind of audio dogfight in the ether. The clear intensity of purpose, however, means that it's an engaging listen. Voices start to layer up in a radio collage, people cheerfully discussing pain and limits of endurance. The ominous mood dissolves into a slurry of looped fragments, snipped from Korean traditional vocal recordings. There's a sprinkling of chopped-up rapper. Eventually a fast, flapping rhythm drives us into a climax of distorted live vocals, ending with a sort of peace, sounds flickering across drones. Antler Juice has a satisfying arc of development, and the musicality of its structure contrasts nicely with the dirt and rough edges of the sound itself. All the more impressive for a first meeting, and it's clear why Postmoderncore, till now a web based label, felt this set was worth releasing as their first proper CD." - Clive Bell, Wire 6/11/2006 Antler Juice Live at Relay 03 CD $13.99 Postmoderncore Details "Anyone who read our Deep Water interview with Norman, OK's Anvil Salute knows what big fans we are of the group. And lucky for us, they've returned to the Acres to grace us with their ironically titled fourth full-length disc, a full hour of gloriously unwinding instrumental great plains folk rock. Both their most focused and most varied work to date, it takes in everything from angular modal epics to sweetly melodic miniatures to ethnic-infused psychedelic drones, all seemingly rendered live via lovely you-are-there room-fi acoustics. Heed that rooster's crow. . . ." 11/29/2007 Anvil Salute This is the Voice of Doom Calling CDR $8.99 Deep Water Details "Psychedelic ambient trip in sound to the abyssian wonders. Teleportal holes and dive to the other dimensions of time and focus in the free space with surreal and dreamy odd creatures. Like a soundtrack of some mysterious low-budget sci-fi movie from 23rd century "new cinema". c-60, edition of 100 copies." 5/31/2009 Aosuke / Uton split cassette $6.99 Ikuisuus Details "I REALLY like that Peace Squad CD, it sounds like the Pan-African Festival meets Brion Jones' Joujouka." – uncredited quote! Featuring Matt Krefting, Aaron Rosenblum, & John Shaw of Son of Earth, Flesh on Bone as well as Willie Lane, Anna Klein, Jessica Swanson & Matt Weston. “On Sunday, April 20, 2003 (Easter Sunday), a small but determined group took to the town commons of Amherst, MA armed with piles of instruments and sound-making devices in order to make a racket in favor of peaceful living. The group performed under the banner of Apostasy Peace Squad. We were occasionally joined by passers-by, and drew small crowds of onlookers. The results are documented on this cd.” – Aaron Rosenblum. 5/30/2003 Apostasy Peace Squad Apostasy Peace Squad CDR $8.99 Apostasy Details "With a treasure trove of analogue, swirling effects, arch songcraft and a sweet yet assured vocal delivery, Trowel & Era brings to the table the epic debut long player by the one man band Apothecary Hymns (AKA Alex Stimmel). Stimmel has made a collection with one foot in kaleidoscopic coastal loner psych that floats on a musical bed of whimsical levity and another foot rooted firmly in the grand ethos of east village troubadours of the mid 60s." Alex Stimmel: acoustic & electric guitars 6 & 12 string guitars, banjo, bass, drums, wurlitzer, analog synth, organ, flute, recorder, kalimba (African finger piano), autoharp, etc. 5/8/2005 Apothecary Hymns Trowel & Era CD $12.99 Locust Details "We're not generally inclined to include reviews of folk-oriented singer-songwriters but Apples & Milk's six-song EP Master of Disguise is just too pretty to be denied. Conceived in 2003, Apples & Milk is the brainchild of wunderkind Magnus Reiten, originally from Stavanger, Norway but now residing in Bergen. Though Reiten lists Madonna, Beach Boys, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor among his favourites, his assured debut has more in common with the winsome style of Sufjan Stevens than any of those three. "Up & Away" instantly appeals with its relaxed acoustic strums and Reiten's crystal clear, pure vocalizing. Peals of electric guitar swoop through the background in "Remembering 06:45 AM" before Reiten's voice, lower this time, enters backed by acoustic picking and bass. A graceful piano line guides a multi-tracked vocal line through the melancholy title song ("One can barely see / See that I'm a master of disguise") while the carefree mood established by a lightly romping rhythm in "Starry Eyes" is belied by lyrics like "Foolish little dreams make starry eyes" and "Everybody seems to disappear"; ultimately, however, Reiten's acoustic folk-pop songs sound less melancholic than reflective and more summery than wintry. Enhancing Master of Disguise's appeal, Reiten opts for uncluttered arrangements, and exudes confidence without being strident or overbearing." - Textura 1/1/2008 Apples & Milk Master of Disguise CD $18.99 Interregnum Details "Aqua Nebula Oscillator may be the most obscure of all psych bands to ever emerge from the french underground. Who’s familiar with these parisians will know that there’s nothing to expect but pure acid! This is loud, tripped-out and hypnotic psych rock of the highest order. What you get on this vinyl-only release are two archival recordings dating back to 2004 and 2009 with each having a slightly different line-up and unique musical approach. While “Om Na Mio” is a mantra-like 60s psych jam on Side A, the B-Side simply called “Freak Out” shows the reverse face of the coin with it’s downright in-the-red intensity that crawls and meanders in the loudest and most seething way. This may be the last ever release of archival material from the vaults of the ANO caves, but what you get here is a living and pulsating document of the authenticity this band is known for." Released in an edition of 500 copies on black vinyl. Listen to a track from 'Om Na Mio / Freak Out' here: http://whocanyoutrustrec.bandcamp.com/album/om-na-mio-freak-out 2/9/2013 Aqua Nebula Oscillator Om Na Mio / Freak Out 7" $7.99 Who Can You Trust? Details "Describing the music of Aquarelle's Ryan Potts is a difficult task indeed. It's related to the hazy, heavily treated output of musicians such as Fennesz and Tim Hecker, but one would be remiss to locate it solely within the realm of electronic ambient or drone, as there are often strong organic, rhythmic and composerly elements to Potts' work. In fact, the title of his last record, Slow Circles, might offer the best point of access into the Aquarelle aesthetic, in which compositional tropes such as cyclicality and accretion are woven together with surging, bright overtones, fragmented acoustic guitar melodies, and monumental distortion. Another point of distinction between Potts' guitar-based compositions and that of the laptop-wielding contemporaries and forebears amongst whom one would be tempted to locate his sound is the fact that he largely eschews digital, 'in-the-box' processing. A self proclaimed 'FX pedal fetishist,' his compositions carry with them a boldness, depth and grit that is all but impossible to cultivate through DSP alone and aligns some elements of his sound with that of Scott Cortez/Lovesliescrushing and late-period Yellow Swans. Using a palette of electric and acoustic guitars, vintage and boutique effects pedals and various percussion sources, Potts crafts highly detailed, slowly evolving soundscapes which beg for repeat listens so that one might get inside their myriad layers. 'With Verticals' opens the record, blooming suddenly into a startlingly propulsive edifice replete with crackling, distorted guitar sounds married to quasi-Reichian percussion. Later, 'Origin' sizzles and hisses its way into a staggeringly detailed drone opus before opening up into a veritable vista of acoustic guitar, cymbal and cello histrionics. A cohesive and fully immersive collection, Sung in Broken Symmetry is an assured statement from a young musician who is equally comfortable navigating frailty and violence. Mastered by James Plotkin. Edition of 300." 10/20/2011 Aquarelle Sung in Broken Symmetry LP $15.99 Students of Decay Details "The stay-blazed team up of conneticut's chris donofrio and donovan fazzino get up in them guts with some comatose low blows spread out over twenty minutes. tones get deep in the earth, take a nap in the crust, and are discovered years later when they forget to wake up. bring a blanket and maybe a few coffin nails." 8/22/2008 Arabian Blade Arabian Blade cassette $5.99 905 Tapes Details "Stuttering synth sludge..… ........mushrooms+chemdawg=AB....." Painted tapes. 1/24/2009 Arabian Blade Horned Moon cassette $6.99 Morbid Tapes Details Two tracks, each about 30 minutes made using double bass, drum, zither, santoor, shakuhachi, rainmaker, turntable, violin, atabaque, berimbau, bells and viola. 4/27/2011 Aranos In Snow On Ice Cabbage Dances c63 cassette $8.99 Sangoplasmo Records Details "Arborea was formed in Maine in 2005 from the midnight ramblings and deep woods mischief making of Buck and Shanti Curran. Soon the summer moved on to autumn, and the lovers took their banjo and guitars to the warmer confines of their cottage, beginning in earnest, the creation of their debut recording. In October of 2006 the duo released their first cd 'Wayfaring Summer'. Equal parts psychedelia, Smithsonian field recordings, and backwater folk, Arborea succeeds in creating a new folk form of breathtaking originality." Colourful shades with berries, calmy sitting down in a protected area, where there's nothing to prove, this duo succeeds to create music and a new folk form in their environment in the same way like the Appalachian music was developed in a social and traditional form. This is much sweet-moodier. While aware of what's happening in the world (wars, misunderstandings about differences of populations,..) Arborea provides peaceful wishes from the spring muze deep-in-the-woods. Musically we hear acid-folk visions with tiny melodic improvisations based upon evolutions of looped melodic tunes made from sweet folk guitar pickings mostly, or rhythm guitars, banjo, and a bit of slide guitar..with a few handclap-like rhythms (1,2), and songs, which are completely in balance with the soft freedom aspect of the mood improvisations. Singer Shanti has a very beautiful delicate folk/singer-songwriter voice, which also in duet, harmonizes perfectly. The album succeeds in creating its own unique atmosphere that is nature and human friendly. Recommended!" - http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview16.html#anchor_369 7/14/2007 Arborea Wayfaring Summer CD $11.99 Summer Street Details "Glassine I was recorded live at the Ambient Ping in Toronto on 03/07/2006; and can be easily described as an organic space ambient, with very strong references to Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Popol Vuh, Ashra Temple, Jackie-O Motherfucker, O Yuki Conjugate, AMP and Flying Saucer Attack or "Fourth World" ambient music! Four tracks of pure vibrant multi-layered psychedelic drone music! Now, close your eyes, listening to "Glassine I" and start for your trip even without the intake of any substances...waiting for ...Glassine II (coming soon on A Silent Place)." 2/21/2009 Arc Glassine I CD $12.99 A Silent Place Details "Anyone with a interest in the more psychedelic hard rock sounds from recent years will be already be aware of the body of work created in a large part from Craig Williamson. His work in Datura and Lamp of the Universe is well known in the underground for its remarkable space rock grooves and other worldly qualities. The multi-instrumentalist who plays bass guitar, keyboards, Synthesizer and Sitar also handles the vocals on Arc Of Ascent's full-length debut, "Circle of the Sun". The lead and rhythm guitar is handled by Matt Cole-Baker while John Strange takes up the drums and percussion position. Datura to this day still remain extremely underrated while Lamp Of The Universe is still largely unknown despite the fact that they have recorded some 6 or 7 albums. The psychedelic musical exploration's that they have done isn't that far removed from what can be found on "Circle Of The Sun" expect Arc Of Ascent take on a heavier, more riff driven approach. The riffs from Matt Cole-Baker are thick and full of sonic groove that push the songs into space rock overdrive and its all helped by the incredible, professional production which is one of the best recordings i have heard in the last year. Opening track "Universal Form" is a perfect blending of monster riffing and various spacey sounds and instrumentation, the sound is massive while remaining very organic. The Eastern influences that are a big part of the sound of Lamp Of The Universe make a appearance here too but they sound ever bigger and fuller here. The arrangement of this song and the following "Cosmic Eye" are big and spacious allowing every instrument to not only be heard but have a equal dominant role within the songs. The vocals have some real power behind them also and while the song structures are kind of straight-forward, they also have a hypnotic groove with musical hook lines that are infectious. Track three titled "The Inner Sign" is a 9 minute space rock journey that also supplies a heavy, thick riff and to add to the hefty groove you have the solid drumming of Strange that pounds away with hypnotic repetition. The floaty lead guitar notes ring out sending the track into a cosmic sensory experience that is a real trip to listen to, a great track and a major highlight. "Absolution In Light" continues in the same vibe, a twisting, churning riff circles around the vocal melody which is catchy without sounding cliche. "Godhead" begins with some trippy guitar strangulation's before another monster riff kicks in and while its true the album kind of repeats itself with similar grooves and vibes, it just adds to the overall hypnotic, trance-like feel of the album. "Godhead" has a killer tempo shift at around the 4 minute mark when a powerhouse riff kicks in, catapulting the track into a higher state of cosmic grooviness. Maybe the best example of Arc Of Ascent's space rock professionalism can be found on the final track, "Master Of Serpents". Everything this band projects musically can be found all in this one track, big churning riffs, vocals that soar and hypnotic repetition that keeps the song turning and evolving. Even though the songs on Circle Of The Sun are pretty long, they never drag or get bogged down by tired or overused ideas. Its the concise and precise playing by this trio that keeps the tracks interesting and the band's song arrangements are rich in classic rock atmosphere. That might sound predictable but this band has all those qualities that set those 70's rock gods apart from a lot of modern-day stuff. To sum all this up, Arc Of Ascent's debut is a perfect blend of psychedelic rock from the 70's mixed with the power of modern day retro riff rock. I don't know if this is one-time project or a band that will continue to make more albums but judging by the massive sounds, great songs and the overall professional results of this recording, i can only hope we will hear a lot more from this band in the future. A classic debut. 9/10" 7/8/2010 Arc of Ascent Circle of the Sun CD $13.99 Astral Projection Details "Originally released in the UK in 1969 and perhaps most closely aligned with the heavier side of psychedelia, this obscure LP, is a standard fixture on many a collector's 'most wanted' list. The intense 12-minute guitar and organ-driven opening track, 'On My Way', sets the album's slow-burning epic tone. The whole album is high quality, with no stale moments, but highlights include 'Poor Lady', the 7 minute 'Walk On the Bad Side', and the 10-minute 'Birth, Life and Death'. This reissue also includes two rare bonus tracks: 'Sing My Song' and 'Riding Alone'." 4/9/2003 Arcadium Breathe Awhile LP $19.99 Akarma Details "Papaaver Records (run by Bart of Sloow Tapes and Willem of Funeral Folk) is proud to present the first vinyl reissue of this privately pressed hard to find sinister zeuhl masterpiece that ended up on the Nurse With Wound list. Michel Munier and Pierrick Le Bras formed Archaïa in 1976 and recorded this album – their sole effort – one year later. Although influenced by bands like Heldon, Archanoid and of course Magma, their music is unique and not easy to categorise. A dark and brooding mixture of eerie synth and bass rhythms, occult lyrics, percussion, phased fuzz guitar, serene – almost medieval – chanting and a bunch of effects. Everything is here, from free-form drones and weird freak-outs to epic and cosmic songs. Completely remastered from the original tapes by the band themselves, this reissue reproduces the sound of the original vinyl, unlike the cd reissue that was released in the mid nineties which added different mixes. Limited to 500 copies on 180gr vinyl, includes insert with French liner notes." This is an incredible reissue - and comes very highly recommended!! 11/3/2012 Archaïa Archaïa LP $35.99 Papaaver Details "New cassette from Vincent of "V" and The Pistol Cosmos, we previously released "V"s The Chanting Path a few years ago to some great reviews, so its a pleasure to be working with Vincent once again with this new project. Five untitled pieces opening with a mediative guitar meandering, leading into more powerful heavy distorted pieces and right back through to a superb final track of layered instrumentation with beautiful distant vocal flowing in and out of the hypnotic sounds laid across the almost 16 minute finale. Full colour covers, limited to 100." 2/20/2010 Archers By The Sea Eagle Kiss cassette $9.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "Sun faded guitar loops, chiming electronic pulses, synths and vocal echoes drift around each other, building and dropping over distant bass drum rhythms, filling both sides of this tape with beautifully constructed and imaginative songs." 5/28/2011 Archers By The Sea Paper Light c43 cassette $7.49 Bumtapes Details "Vincent Caylet has kept us on our toes the last three years, steadily morphing his inscrutable sound and sidestepping any expectation as to where it may lead next. When this Monks of the Balhill member flies solo as "V", The Pistil Cosmos, or Archers by the Sea as he does here, he consistently summons huge atmospheres of perplexing, unpredictable beauty. Riddled with infectious cycles of surf guitar, stoned beats, and vocal ellipses, 'Sometimes We Should Dance' is similar in spirit to V's lineage of weird. And yet it can be perceived that something has also recently changed within the Archers by the Sea multiverse, and much for the better. Whether its Vincent's recent fatherhood, the onset of a new summer in Italy, or the combo of both, this cassette is guided toward ecstatically dazed ends by elevating every moment into the sunlight. If ever there was a time to dance, it would be now. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c48 tapes with double-sided jcard and insert." 6/4/2010 Archers by the Sea Sometimes We Should Dance c48 cassette $6.99 Stunned Details "the arco flute foundation formed in 1999 when two-thirds of pittsburgh's minimalist drumless rock trio meisha moved to edinboro, pa to attend the small state university located there. with little else to do in this sleepy farm town, mike tamburo and pete spynda devoted themselves to this new band with matt mcdowell and jeff komara. komara provided the drums meisha always purposefully lacked, giving the new band a distinct identity, both leading the sound into massive rock bombast (like mogwai or kinski) and into expansive, earthy drone and clatter (like no-neck blues band or franciscan hobbies) while never straying from the crystalline, hypnotic guitar interplay that so identified meisha. over the next four years, the arco flute foundation toured the united states several times and released three full length albums (the second lesson in new era time as well as the third and everything after the bomb is sci-fi, all three on cenotaph audio). live performances were usually against a film backdrop, with tamburo's hand-painted films covering the band. their improvised moments included guitar, electronics, bells, and various inventive percussive elements. while the band grew tremendously during those four years, increasing their use of experimentation both in composition and musicianship, reaching their peak in creativity, this peak also coincided with graduation and separation. tamburo currently lives is between homes, and is actively making solo recordings, while much of the rest of the band has relocated to pittsburgh and has begun again as air guitar magazine. everything after everything after the bomb is sci-fi is exactly what the title states: all of arco flute foundations best recordings - both live and in their home studio - since their third album was recorded, documenting the most creative moments of this artistic collaboration." Arco Flute Foundation Everything After Everything After The Bomb Is Sci-Fi CD $11.99 Music Fellowship Details "A fountain of sounds opening a gateway beyond the mist of time and most likely not going to bring you back home before dark. 100 copies." "A sound to slowly immerse yourself in. Eric Carlson creates molten soundscapes from looped guitar gloop and tremulous delay shiver." - Boa Melody Bar 7/10/2008 Area C Darkens The Mind cassette $10.99 Sloow Tapes Details "MHA is a french novelist, poet & philosophy teacher. A musical project exploring the mystery of the world in connection to perception, emotion and its metaphysic enigma. A journey through french avant-garde and synthetic minimalism. File under GRM (Groupe de recherche musicale, founded by Pierre Henry)." Edition of 100 copies. 5/16/2010 Arfeux, Marc-Henri Blossom CDR $8.99 Synth / Ruralfaune Details "Continuing on from last years reissue of the first Aritomo LP, here we have Aritomo's second LP, 'Blooming The Ena' which was previously issued on his own private Hakanairo label in 2007. It was housed in a brown card sleeve with paste on artwork on the front and back with an insert in an edition of only 200 copies. This original pressing is impossible to find now. This reissue has a pro printed cover reproducing the original cover art as the private press edition and a 4 page insert printed onto parchment art paper reproducing the original insert that came with the LP. Aritomo's music continues to be a beautifully laid back as his first record, with gorgeous acoustic guitar playing and dreamy vocals backed with bamboo flute, piano, chimes, and occasional electric guitar bursts. Japanese folk at its best! Pressed on black virgin vinyl." 5/4/2011 Aritomo Blooming The Ena LP $21.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "Revolving feverishly around their own dark-matter, escaping Armpits unbelievable gravitational pull borders on the mathematically-impossible. Utterly impenetrable 'songs' coupled to unfathomable blankness (sometimes I swear they've packed up and gone home!), makes 'Butta Daze' one of the most fearfully disorienting, and supremely damaged recordings ever allowed out into daylight. Imagine your frontal lobe being sandwiched between a two king sized mattresses, and then subjected to the entire Gate discography, backwards, on 16rpm. Yep... Its THAT good!" 4/1/2003 Armpit Butta Daze CD $14.99 Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon Details No info on this one - ordered it 17 months ago - finally showed up. 9/30/2005 Armpit Gallows CDR $12.99 Root Don Lonie For Cash Details "The return of the endless nameless ever-dissolving rock experience. CJA and Sugar Jon have spent the past decade treating rock as malleable material; from the post-Dead C. sprawl of early cassettes, the aesthetic-defining 'Sun's Movement Across Darkening Skies' 7", and the subsequent Rubik's Cubes of trashed, defiled instruments ('Thee Praying Mantis', 'Butta Daze', etc.) - the Armpit world is hermetic, cloaked, 'full of' absence and disappearance. Containing recordings that date back over half a decade, 'Mano O Mano' was touched up in recent times, and is one of many 'apexes' of this outfit's singular and indefinable (non-)rock output. The first Rhizome transmission from the Armpit heart..." 9/14/2004 Armpit Mano O Mano CDR $10.99 Rhizome Details Edition of 50 copies - released back in 2004. 9/17/2006 Armpit / Cock E.S.P. His Cocks Too Big For His Pants / After Everything Now Shit lathe cut 7" $12.99 Root Don Lonie For Cash Details "Eric & Vanessa Arn's new cd-r 'y/y Live in Vienna: 1/18/07' is ready for order from the miraculously and happily resurrected Lotus Sound label. This disc is the second release in the limited edition Handmade Series, with only 100 copies made. Get 'em while you can. Featuring a complete live concert from the Amann Studios in Vienna, with the meticulous sound quality associated with that great studio. Featuring solo and duo excurisions by Vanessa - electronic sound generation, struck percussion and Eric - guitar, bowed percussion. Mixed and mastered by the unstoppable Douglas Ferguson, at the Still in Austin. Cover photograph by Vanessa. Environmentally friendly hand-assembled packaging. Cures depression and acne. Don't wait around too long and miss out....." 8/28/2007 Arn, Eric & Vanessa y/y Live In Vienna 1/18/07 CDR $11.99 The Lotus Sound Details "Those who heard the RAW THUG CD-R on U-Sound will be chomping at the bit over this recording from the same mind (though different handle). Known little beyond the Kentucky-Indiana state line, though even those close with in that line aren't sure who Arsenio actually is? It is a fact that while attending high school he did convince his entire class for 2 years that his name was Arsenio (though it is not). A bare foot Napoleon & Josephine wonderer through out Louisville who talks in nonsequitor guruisms, sets up one man junkyard gamelan performances to no one in abandoned parking lots and drives a car whose front windshield is covered in stickers revealing a view hole no larger than a little green apple wrapped in Kentucky-chrome (duct-tape). Known as Arsenio, Alan the Egpytian, Raw Thug, Arthur Kalow, Pewitisha, the Whistler, etc., No one is quite sure what is printed on his birth certificate.... or if one exists? Evidence suggests this recording was created in 2000 while channelling surfing American Intuitive Esoterica." 2/11/2006 Arsenio '00 iii cassette $5.99 Black Velvet Fuckere Details "The classic line-up recorded during a magical moment. Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, and freaky-deaky Malachai Flavors recorded in June '69 in Paris during their economic exile from the beast. This doesn't so much blast down the walls as glide effortlessly over and away. About a zillion times better than most anything else you bought this week." Art Ensemble Of Chicago A Jackson in Your House / Message to Our Folks CD $15.99 Charly Details "First of the 2 landmark albums originally released on the Atlantic label by one of most significant avantgarde jazz groups (and the most famous band to come out of the AACM). A particularly inspired AEC recorded live at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival on September 9, 1972.. A radical and outrageous performance ranging from driving percussions jams to exaggerated poetic narration adding spare tenor solos and rhythm explorations to chaingang R&B. Contains new and detailed liner notes by MC5 manager John Sinclair and a rare photo from the band's archives. Audiophile remastering from the original master tapes. 180 gram HQ vinyl. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve." Art Ensemble Of Chicago Bap-Tizum LP $16.99 4 Men With Beards Details "Recorded in Paris on Oct. 5, 1969, after the Art Ensemble (Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman and Malachi Favors) has headed to Europe to find work and recording opportunities. Regarding the Art Ensemble's trip to France, trumpet player Lester Bowie said, 'I sold everything that I had and bought the tickets...we had to leave Chicago to let people know what was happening....you can't stay regional, not if you have something the world wants to hear...’" 11/15/2002 Art Ensemble of Chicago Live In Paris double LP $21.99 Get Back Details "The Social Registry 12" series continues with this groove infected barnstormer from Artankers Convoy. This four track EP is sure to get feet moving and hips swiveling with their catchy and irresistible flow (people who have tried resisting have ended up with severe muscle cramps). The six piece convoy continue to come up with new songs that demand being put onto vinyl making it a golden opportunity to start your own dance party wherever you want. Organic Grooves remixes one of the pieces shooting AT into an even higher orbit. But this EP is not only for the floorcutting set. It is layered with a multitude of different influences that set this group apart from the typical club ravers, they compose pieces that allow them to really stretch out. You can sit back and just enjoy this, but your body might have different ideas. Released in an edition of 600 one sided 12" EPs with aAn etching on the B side." 12/31/2003 Artanker Convy Ocean Parkway 12" EP $7.99 The Social Registry Details "Field recordings / whut th hell ? recordings of th arts. a disher, a cat, a camera, window guy, organ + more. edition 50." 2/14/2008 Arts and Crafts Building Vol. II cassette $7.99 Fag Tapes Details "Even with the presence of special guest Timothy Leary, Seven Up sticks to its predecessor's penchant for bizarre, bluesy psychedelia on the first side while the second takes off into the deepest realms of space rock. Fans of Leary may be a bit surprised, since he's but one of the five voices sprinkled throughout the album and sounds more like a poor man's Eric Burdon than an acid visionary might on tracks like ‘Right Hand Lover,’ ‘Downtown,’ and ‘Power Drive.’ Side two consists of three drawn-out space jams that conclude with a rushing of air quite close to a vacuum cleaner. Except for the last bit, Seven Up is not quite the meeting of minds that acid and Kraut fans expected." 8/8/2002 Ash Ra Tempel Seven Up CD $14.99 Spalax Details "Latest basement clacker from The Nav. Blown tape levels, idiot rock n roll (with moron mantra drumming) and the shimmering of a sexy mile-long windchime in space. It’s a bit like smearing sugar all round the inside of your mouth and going into the park to hand out fireworks. And its not even Xmas yet! Holy fuck." 9/30/2005 Ashtray Navigations Aurora Grease Sweetrocket 3" CDR $8.99 Memoirs Of An Aesthete Details "The latest in Ashtray Navigations' ongoing vinylization of our out-of-print CDR catalogue has this amped-up mindbender from 2007... yes, the one with the cute little doggies on the cover. Except now they're on the label and the vinyl is pink. And there is no cover, just a PVC bag so it matches the Red Culture reissue. One side featuring a thick dinner of swirling tambouras, electric sitars and synths blasting out of tiny battery amp speakers wrapped in buzzing tinfoil (a description of the methodology here and not just the sound!). One side of clubfooted samba rhythms and twin guitar sustain overload which offers a key as to why Ashtray Navigations' set at Thurston's ATP a few years ago was roundly condemned as "Santana" in certain circles. Ashtray at its heaviest and most monolithic, though those words are often apply, I guess." Edition of 250 copies. 6/27/2009 Ashtray Navigations Caeduceus And Black Sal LP $18.99 Memoirs Of An Aesthete Details "The Jodido triangular live sound of Ashtray Navigations (...lamf) caught upstairs in one of Leeds' very most exotic wallpaper dens. The walls dripped honey and yet we did not make too much of a mess. Features Melanie Delaney (Sculptress) and Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band) as well as "the usual". Very 'eavy, very 'umblin'." (Phil Todd) 6/11/2006 Ashtray Navigations Cante Jodido Lookalike Contest 3" CDR $6.99 Firstperson Details "Much in the world of music appreciation is irreducibly subjective. The opinions you hold with such granite resolution, the opinions that cause you to slam your pint down on the pub table and insist: "NO!", are nothing more than an oil slick, millimetres thick, on a roiling, bottomless sea. They are nothing. However, one crucial question can be settled by science and that question is 'what is your favourite band?' As far as I am concerned this is a purely empirical matter: your favourite band is the band you choose to spend the most time listening to. Now don't give me any shit about how your favourite band is Nurse With Wound but, as they are hardly suitable for everyday consumption, you end up listening to that Rolling Stones compilation more often. I won't have it. Every time you choose to listen to something make a note of the band name and the minutes spent in their company, gather the data, do some arithmetic and out will pop the unarguably correct answer. When I did my own calculations the resulting punch card contained two words, strangely hand-scripted in a copper-plate font: Ashtray Navigations. Should you be unfamiliar with the magisterial pedigree of this act and their triumph-heavy back catalogue then I suggest you make a sandwich and settle down in front of the exhaustive account offered by Bang the Bore. To catch up on the latest stuff you should then bookmark the Ashtray blog itself. Then you should come back here and read the next paragraph. OK, see you in an hour. The rest of you don't need to wait - they'll catch up. Right then, I'd like to pick up on a comment made by Neil Campbell in the BtB article which echoes a thought I voice further down that same page: the latest stuff is the best. The more synth-led, cosmiche direction they've been exploring for the last couple of years has produced a run of third-eye opening releases, grin-inducing in their quality. 'Cinderella Stamps' is the latest, a four track CD-r released in a run of 100 on Phil's own Memoirs of an Aesthete label, and it is almost comical to me how perfectly it ensures that I get my groove on. Pretty much every musical element I dig is there, distilled and combined. One finger piano? Check. Expansively tangerine wob-wob synths? Check. Red-hot tropical guitar? Check. And so on. It's all great but 'Outside Air' is my favourite track. Imagine Phil and Mel soundtracking the adventures of an interstellar Buddha, preaching the eternal truths to bewildered alien races on Chris Foss style space-arks. Or, if you like, it is Ashtray's 'Within You Without You'. What next, eh? What next?" - http://radiofreemidwich.wordpress.com/ Edition of 100 numbered copies. 9/16/2011 Ashtray Navigations Cinderella Stamps CDR $11.99 Memoirs Of An Aesthete Details "long awaited (by some...) box set reissue of the very earliest ashtray recordings! ten very filled CDRs packaged in recycled film cans includes the following early cassette releases - A SEISMOGRAPHIC RESEQUENCING OF THE HUMAN BRAIN PARTICLES, DRAIN'D, BEAUTY MYTH, A SPIKE THROUGH THE HEART OF JELLY, BICYCLE GLUE BLUES, THE TRIAL OF DOCTOR SPOCK, DESTALINISATION CASSETTE, EASTER-EXIT, PLEASE STOP BREATING, NIGHTMARISH VISIONS GLIMPSED BEHIND SEALED EYELIDS, BLEACHED BONES - MOVING COIL, THE MESSAGE IS PURE, LAST SONG OF THE DEAD WOLF, PLASTIC, QUARTZ, FAUVIST (DISTASTE)...all remastered but thankfully not de-hissed! 12 HOURS PLUS OF SIZZLING FUN! " the earliest things were done in the perfect environment of nowheresville, not Tokyo, NYC or even Leeds but a small industrial town in the middle of England, for an audience of pretty much myself - you could forget about gigs or a release on a local label unless you played "normal" punk/metal or covers or what have you. I had very few instruments, mostly junk, and a rotting four track bought off the legendary Al Monger for about thirty quid I think. There was nobody else I knew back then doing this sort of thing. I had never done this kind of thing before. There were a lot of bongos and ukeleles put through analogue echo boxes. Later a stylophone and an antique moog. The guitar eventually fell apart and I never had an amp. Someone taped me some early power electronics things and some home-made folk/psych records and they sounded like the kind of things I could do with the gear and "technique" in my possession back then. Since then all of those things have been reissued on CD or on Mutant Sounds now, but sometimes I prefer the sound of the nth generation cassette copies I had back then. Early Ashtray Navigations always sounded like the nth generation cassette copies I had back then. There was a burgeoning cassette underground back then in the mid-90s but I don't know if too many people were paying attention other than us. Nearly everything here precedes the first Betley 7 inch and the Siltbreeze LP and it was a strange joy to hear it hiss once more..." edition of only 48 copies. Only one copy available. 8/22/2008 Ashtray Navigations Early Years / Tape Muck 1994-1997 10 x CDR $84.99 Details "Now into his l0th year operating under the ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS moniker & with releases on such esteemed labels as MENLO PARK, JEWELLED ANTLER, SILTBREEZE, AMERICAN TAPES, CELEBRATE PSI PHENOMENON etc, PHIL TODD continues to conjure up his own unique brand of rural psychedelic folk musik. With his prolific output under various guises (ANNA PLANETA, A WARM PALINDROME, INCA EYEBALL, TARGET SHOPPERS, DOGLIVEROIL, GREEN MONKEY, TEA CULTURE etc etc...) not to mention his previously longrunning label & distro - BETLEY WELCOMES CAREFULDRIVERS, PHIL TODD has been a tireless champion & exponent of fucked-up rock, avant-folk, mangled pop, allout noise, indeed 'outsider' art in all its forms. For 'ELECTRIC COINTELPRO' we are treated to 4 superb tracks of organic drone & inspired electric gtr aktion. An excellent addition to an ever-expanding resume." All released are 3" cdr's housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other. 2/16/2005 Ashtray Navigations Electric Cointelpro 3" CDR $6.99 Firstperson Details "Reissue of the first CD by UK psychedelic noise/drone/blues one-man operation Ashtray Navigations. Originally released in 1997 by Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers and long unavailable (not to be confused with the recent Four More Raga Moods CD on Ikuisuus which has completely different material). Everything from junkyard metal raga to disorientating field recordings of electraic holler to tapehiss drenched third ear static. In other words, what you'd usually expect from Ashtray but, dig, done much earlier. CDR edition of 100." 6/19/2007 Ashtray Navigations Four Raga Moods CDR $12.99 Revival Records Details "New recordings from july 2008 in which the fuzzbottle is shaken by several fathoms full of swirling psych guitar oscillations. tremelo spit and scouring grit fuzz. Who left it on top of the amp then? don't do that you'll stain the carpet...edition of 100 copies in screenprinted wallets - first new release in donkeys years from the revitalised Memoirs Of An Aesthete label! 8/22/2008 Ashtray Navigations Fuzzbottle Phenomena CDR $13.99 Memoirs Of An Aesthete Details "Vintage recordings dug up from 1995-97, including material for the 1st ashtray navigations LP which was never issued plus a track which never made the final cut of FOUR RAGA MOODS because it sounded too much like the work of someone else (can you guess who?) back in the mid-90s when YOU were listening to Pearl Jam, Ashtray Navigations sounded like this. numbered edition of 100" 4/20/2008 Ashtray Navigations Hands Under Water Reaching For Nothing 1995-1997 CDR $12.99 Revival Details "Two new numbers indicating a few new tricks in the ashtray bag, a rendition of a very obscure Spanish folk tune to start things off (so obscure nobody else in history has ever heard it!) and a slowly transforming live blast recorded at the beautiful Second Layer record shop in London a couple of months ago. Limited to 99 copies in an inscrutable red-on-black cover design which I would guess is dedicated to White Light/White Heat." 5/31/2008 Ashtray Navigations In Liquid Bravado CDR $12.99 Details "....and a new one from easter 2009. Believe it or not, these are the first 2009 Ashtray Navigations recordings to be released, so there. And this is quite definitely the last in the "painted clamshells" series of CDRs (this time they are mostly yellow, fact fans). Sort of a response to a review which described Ash Nav as "obviously Heldon-influenced"...news to me, but I decided to Go For It and prove the reviewer right. But imagine a bunch of early 70s frenchmen playing all of their psychedelic records, all of their Ocora records and all their prog/fusion at once whilst angry drum machines beamed in against their will from an alternate future blast out very mutated hip-hop beats. Apparently Mr. R.Pinhas was an attendee at a Paris Ash Nav gig and is said to have remarked "I thought they only had pop music in England these days". This release may prove him right also. This is also the first Ashtray release to be almost all digitally recorded....and you'll be surprised how fucked up it sounds - gawd bless technology for giving us so many options. Our most fun-packed CDR for a while." Edition of 100 copies. 6/27/2009 Ashtray Navigations Johnny Fuckoff Minotaur (Easter Exit 2) CDR $12.99 Memoirs Of An Aesthete Details "This newest candle burning outing from the long going UK Psych project headed by Mr. Phil Todd continues the quest for the farthest possible cosmic frequencies through FX, guitar, synth, and saz on a bed of field recordings. Some tracks in here almost enter the pantheon of NEW AGE MUSIC! Edition of 240 copies." 12/12/2009 Ashtray Navigations Six Imaginary Scenes From The Life Of Muhammad Al Aqil LP $29.99 Nashazphone Details "Reissue of a long oop release featruring a trio of Phil Todd, Mel Crowley and Arttu of AVARUS / AMON DUDE / HETERO SKELETON. Field recordings of a very dramatic thunderstorm overlaid with free psych jamming and electronic pulsations." 11/15/2008 Ashtray Navigations Skewered By Clouds CDR $11.99 Memoirs of an Aesthete Details "Three new tunes and a piece of shiny cardboard. Two short and mildly melodic solo Phil Todd numbers to start you off then a headlong rush into the murky junkyard of dreams which also features Phil Legard of the almighty Xenis Emputae Travelling Band. Dedicated to the inaudible sound of the whining sky. Sound never dies, it’s up there all the time – just press 'play' to tune into it." 2/11/2006 Ashtray Navigations Sky Whine CDR $12.99 Memoirs of an Aesthete Details “Six interweaving tracks recorded Leeds Easter 2004. Dictophone cut-up while catsitting, tabla volley, junkyard folk, bare wall howl and fast musical chairs with the legs falling off. Ideal for any witches jukebox, provided it runs at 33. Ten years of Ashtray Navigating spawns a lost kitty instead of a monster. You may have been king of the jungle back in Africa, but in this circus you're just another bozo. Edition of 170 copies.” 2/1/2005 Ashtray Navigations Some Cat Lost In His Own Picture 7" $8.99 Memoirs Of An Aesthete Details "More hot orbit action from Mr Todd. Perfectly formed fog sounds via guitar, violin, electronics and who knows what else, all drenched in fx spit. Gloaming smoke rings float high, man." 9/17/2006 Ashtray Navigations Sweet Iron Feet CDR $9.99 Chocolate Monk Details "Ten short pieces with the accent on brevity, for a change. Recorded in late '08, runs the usual Ashtray gamut - psych guitar flourishes, chugging synthesis and hard compresso-rock and all the rest, but in a less rambling timeframe....could possibly be described as "coming attractions" disc with a few sidelong glances in the rear view mirror.....limited to 100 copies on green vinyl CDRs." 2/21/2009 Ashtray Navigations Ten Layer Terror CDR $9.99 Memoirs of an Aesthete Details Reissue of two 3" cdr's originally released in early 2005. Numbered edition of 100 copies. 4/20/2008 Ashtray Navigations The Beast Series / Ssssnares CDR $12.99 Memoirs of an Aesthete Details "Packing 3 tracks onto their first piece of vinyl for Trensmat, the ultra-prolific Ashtray Navigations bring 20 years of recording experience to the table for you, the discerning listener. A-side 'Monkey Music/Throw Money At The Monkeys' marries gentle melodic guitar twanging to intense trebly arpeggios and ascending/descending sweeps of synth. An effect at once calming and unnerving, the ride lasts for almost six minutes, giving ample time to get lost before snapping back to reality long enough to turn the record over. 'Dinshan P Ghadali' the shorter of the two tracks on the B, is a seemingly momentary snapshot where melancholic pads and fretwork intertwine beneath a slow electronic pulse. 'Rocket Dust Slipping Out Of Your Mouth Some Afternoon' begins with a clean analogue synth line that is soon accompanied by multiple layers of soaring guitars and white noise - all of which is held together for a time with sparse electronic percussion before the layers are eventually peeled back to a serene finale...and the rocket dust settles. Of course we wouldn't just leave you hanging like that - on the sleeve is a URL to take you to an exclusive digital extra piece, 'War Is Like A Cake'. This near 20-minute blowout features soothing ambient waves throughout, though it does contrast with the relative calm of the vinyl tracks - the noise war begins 55 seconds in and is served slice by slice for much of the remaining duration. VERY limited edition 7" in full colour wraparound picture sleeve (+ 3 downloads)." 8/23/2011 Ashtray Navigations Three Rockets Thicken 7" + download $6.49 Trensmat Details "45 minutes of new music from Ashtray Navigations is always something to celebrate. 7 pieces spread over 2 discs that play out something like a meditation on the interlocking dreamscapes of the time crystal of the universe part 8, eternal re-burn. Seriously peels your lid. Comes with a 10x16inch two-color silk-screen poster by head-mind telepath Phil Todd." Edition of 50 copies. 9/11/2012 Ashtray Navigations Three Spots Two Circles double 3" CDR & Poster $16.99 Medusa Details "The Rock Album. Ashtray Navigations commiserates ten years of broken equipment action by recording a CD of blasted soaring guitar psych. The drummer and second guitarist fail to turn up to the recording sessions but hey thats OK we'll just turn the amps up instead. You may think there's lots of effects pedals utilised for this one, but no no no it is just the sounds of rusty circuit boards corroded tape and the pain what's in yo' heart. Ashtray Navigations have been recording artistes for siltbreeze, celebrate psi phenomenon, american tapes, betley welcomes careful drivers, menlo park, gameboy, jewelled antler, staalplaat and countless others. Ashtray Navigations will not be stopping at any time soon. Goodnight fuck you. Hope you sleep easy." - Phil Todd 9/16/2004 Ashtray Navigations To Your Fucking Feather'd Wings CD $12.99 Gold Soundz / Absurd Details “Showing just how far ahead of the game he is, Mr Todd presents a classic 25mins from the vaults... At 1st I didn't realise that this music is 6-7 years old, it sounds so damn CURRENT! Wonderful dronings and guitar scrabblings from the litter strewn glades of the forest of the plastic trees. Very very good indeed! 4/29/2004 Ashtray Navigations Yesterdays Teeth Cast in Gold CDR $13.99 Pseudo Arcana Details "Scioto's first release, a split single featuring outsider folk from THE BLACK SWANS and ED ASKEW. Ed's first album was released in 1967 on the legendary ESP-Disk label. Earlier this year, Drag City released his new album, Imperfection. The Black Swans released their fourth full-length album, Don't Blame the Stars, in May of this year on Misra Records. The two artists are touring together for the first half of June 2011." 6/25/2011 Askew, Ed / Black Swans split 7" $5.99 Scioto Details "In stride with the no-fi key fidelities established on an earlier summer split c19 with Josh Burke - densely packed and deeply hypnotic, all flows." 1/30/2010 Astin, Jeffry Stray Dreams Zodiac c20 cassette $5.99 Housecraft Details "Alcor is the debut LP by a new voice from the Australian wilderness. Hailing from Ferntree Gully, Victoria, the music of Astor has thus far been appreciated only via a string of barely-distributed CD-Rs. Alcor gathers together the prime of these micro-editions and presents the material as a seductive and puzzling new whole. Field recordings of humble organic activity bend against a foundation of discreetly processed electronics/piano, creating sonorities that are as indefinable as they are unforgettable. Alcor is the ideal LP for fans of fringe position electro-acoustic study, Delphic audio confusion, or anyone who pines for the days when Small Cruel Party still roamed the earth. Mastered by Graham Lambkin, Alcor arrives in a full-color high gloss sleeve, in an edition of 350 copies." 9/15/2012 Astor Astor LP $14.99 Kye Details "One disk containing 256kbps MP3 rips of the entire first seven CDR installments in the ongoing ASC research process/saga. Check the source material for the vhf100 CD, plus a whole other wad of long-unavailable sound. Original single CDR versions of each of the volumes were available in editions of 100 - this is an unlimited edition. 57 tracks, 316 minutes." 3/20/2007 Astral Social Club #1-7 MP3 CDR $10.99 Details "Recording of the ASC power trio, live at Subcurrent festival in Glasgow, April 2006. Neil Campbell and Tirath Singh Nirmala throw down string/wind/electro action which is then mangled by Richard Youngs' brutal FX. Heavy liquid 35 minute suite in four movements." 9/17/2006 Astral Social Club #10 CDR $10.99 Details "Content this time around is highly nitrous, with much overloaded top-end twinkle. Check for some particularly screwy (and often barely-recognisable) versions of tracks set for release on QBICO and Important Records later this year, taking the demented recent ASC live persona and twisting it further with heavy collage / layering techniques. Offset this with remedial drumbox stumble and mysterious processed tracks and you know there's only one hotel you can be checking into. Edition of 150 in colour ASC corporate house-style. 7 tracks, 42 minutes." 3/20/2007 Astral Social Club #11 CDR $10.99 Details "More jams culled from sessions both live in the field and at home, again sometimes touching on alternate-universe takes on tracks destined for LP and CD issue. Huge chord swathes, babbling ectoplasm rituals, crunching delay unit swing, weird time tricks, scattershot beats, all propped up with shards of the patented ASC heavy tonal foundation. Edition of 150 in colour ASC corporate house-style. 8 tracks 44 minutes." 3/20/2007 Astral Social Club #12 CDR $10.99 Details Recorded live in Paris and London, May 2007. John Clyde-Evans - sampler. Astral Social Club #14 CDR $10.99 Details "Edited from 2 live performances in London, 2008/09 - Neil Campbell, Spider Stacy, John Clyde-Evans, Stewart Keith and the massed ranks of the A Band chorale. 6 tracks, 34 minutes." 7/16/2009 Astral Social Club #19 CDR $10.99 Details "Seven more slabs from the basement lab, recorded 2008-10 - ersatz birdsong, scalpel electronics, super-trem strings, blunt instrument digital mutations, fried static constructions, throbs, clicks, choirs of angels + the sound of haywire. Edition of 100. 7 tracks, 37 minutes." 3/6/2010 Astral Social Club #21 CDR $9.99 Details "New collection running the astral gamut, and bookended by skewed takes on the Temptations' "Get Ready" riff, although Berry Gordy's gonna have to have good ears and lawyers if he wants to sue. 10 tracks, 44 minutes." 2/11/2006 Astral Social Club #6 CDR $12.99 Details "Kicks off kinda new age, sampling a Mick Flower blissed-out groove pretty early on, before taking a dive into total alien territory, only to be brought back to earth by a homely pop number before the last 4 tracks twist it all over the shop again, comprising as they do mash-ups/remixes by the enigmatic Tirath Singh Nirmala (aka "the artist formerly known as John Clyde-Evans). 10 tracks, 47 minutes." 2/11/2006 Astral Social Club #7 CDR $12.99 Details "After a winter spent with new baby, jamming aphex/theo parrish (dazed daytimes) and axolotl/dead machines (graveyard shift), comes the new Astral Social disk. In here, there's a mix of recent obsessions = raw reel-to-reel edits, steamrollered riffing, garage dream music, splattered eurodisco, FX madness all culminating in a deep wallow in beatless birdsong ecstacy. Respendent in full-colour artwork for the first time. 5 tracks, 40+ mins." 6/11/2006 Astral Social Club #8 CDR $10.99 Details Numbered edition of 150 copies. Features live recordings of Neil Campbell (Vibracathedral Orchestra) and Arttu Partinen (Avarus). 2/4/2007 Astral Social Club MCR Blast square lathe cut 8" $25.99 Alt.Vinyl Details "Model Town in a field of Mud is the result of a collaboration between Neil Cambell and John Clyde Evans. This album was recorded largely thru the post during John's year long stay in India. (although the very last few minutes are the duo live in Sheffield right after he returned). This album is a 50/50 collaboration, hopefully the first of many! John Clyde Evans has a lenghty career, even if he did "disappear" for a few years. John was in the band Hood (Domino Recordings) then cut a couple of great solo records, then disapeared, reappearing using his Sikh name of Tirath Singh Nirmala, cutting an LP with Richard Yuongs, then reverting his original name and droping the magnificent "Apetal Thunderfall" CD on us earlier this year!! Neil Campbell is a cornerstone of the UK underground and played in Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof, A Band, with Richard Youngs, Damo Susuki and many many other artists. Despite some esoteric path, Model Town in a field of mud reconfirm John and Neil intentions to blast techno into the Stratosphere." 2/25/2008 Astral Social Club Model Town In a Field of Mudd LP $19.99 Textile Details "New single by Neil Campbell's ever-evolving solo project, Astral Social Club. Neil (A Band, Vibracathedral Orchestra) with assistance from Karl Bauer (Axolotl) unleashes two electronic psychedelic noise jams with distorted loops, cascading feedback, and the sound of hypnotic drones recorded in space. 500 pressed." 7/10/2008 Astral Social Club Monster Mittens 7" $4.99 Dirty Knobby Industries Details "Astral Social Club is the current project of Neil Campbell, formerly of Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof!, A Band and many more. Campbell has been active since the early '80s, and The Wire magazine has said that, along with his friends Richard Youngs and Matthew Bower, he 'provided the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the '80s and '90s.' Campbell's approach as Astral Social Club could be seen as both a continuation and a refutal of his work with Vibracathedral Orchestra - a continuation in that it continues the quest into the unknown stellar regions of improvised drone-based music, and a refutal in its espousal of most of the elemental organic rock modes that made that band so special. The focus here is more on alien electronics and overloaded loop disorientation." 9/16/2007 Astral Social Club Neon Pibroch CD $13.99 Important Records Details "Dancing Wayang Records are proud to present the new studio-recorded, full-length album by Neil Campbell's ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB. Featuring two tracks of fearless sonic bliss and two long journeys to a state of sustained ecstasy "Plug Music Ramoon" was recorded in one day on analogue 2" tape. This limited edition 12" comes housed in a gorgeous hand-printed silkscreen sleeve. Sequenced in chronological order on the LP as the tracks were recorded in the studio, the opener 'Flamingo Moon' takes off into outer space. It's a gentle start to the impending Astral chaos as the rambunctious 'Punk Rocker / Mug Cracker' noisily propels itself and its passengers forwards. This 14 minute showdown is divided into two parts with the loose, drum-led Punk Rocker submerging into the swooping sonics of the Mug Cracker. Side 2 introduces a playful element into the spiral density with percussive sticks and bells providing a tribal backdrop for resonant electronics, keyboard odysseys and some experimental vocal work from helmsman Neil Campbell. After a wild solar adventure, the album culminates in 'Ramoon Ramoon', a considered and tight improvisation that steers the Club homeward. Whilst Club member John Clyde-Evans's laptop contributions provide much of the backbone groove of the album, Stewart Keith adds light and shade on a variety of keyboards and toys. But it's Campbell's dense guitars that thicken the very stem of these four tracks and leads his Astral Social Club to conjure up his dreams and visions. Neil Campbell is a stalwart of the UK experimental music scene who began making music in the early 1980s. Originally a member of loose improvisational collective A-Band, he established himself more firmly in the 90s as a founding member of Vibracathedral Orchestra. Campbell utilizes guitars, electronics, vocals and laptop generated and manipulated sounds in his freeform improvisations. In 2005 he embarked on his solo project Astral Social Club often drawing on the talents of kindred spirits. Stewart Keith is a long-time friend and collaborator of Neil Campbell and one of the main members of Nottingham's the A-Band playing free drone and high-energy rock music and championing an un-tutored, elemental and almost primitive approach to music making. John Clyde-Evans, aka Tirath Singh Nirmala , has played with artists such as Richard Youngs and Vibracathedral Orchestra contributing computer generated sounds, electronics and violin." Edition of 500 copies. 1/24/2009 Astral Social Club Plug Music Ramoon LP $20.99 Dancing Wayang Details "Wheezing skyward born machine groans and gasped tremolo root to a kinetic pulse, while distant melody zones ascend to circulate around the bass flex on this face chewer by Neil Campbell. On the flip is the first vinyl cut by Glockenspiel, flocculent tones weave with tom rub and bowed metal harmonics, drifting on the back of a drum dub to the heart of a snow-blind haze of feedback, amplified string scrape and analogue electronics. Spin at 45. Art by Noah Campbell." 1/17/2010 Astral Social Club / Glockensiel split 7" $9.99 Krayon Recordings Details "Two of Europe's finest collide on a 12" 45 RPM platter loosely inspired by the club single. On "Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel," Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-god body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that the flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzén of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre's neon shimmer and linear logic. "Syvät Svyät" overflows with cuckoo loops that briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. One must focus to follow the train of musical thought, but Anderzén's humor and intuition reward the effort. Issued in an edition of 300 hand-stamped, 150-gram lavender LPs in matte sleeves screened with consummate skills by Alan Sherry of Siwa." 7/28/2011 Astral Social Club / Tomutonttu Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel b/w Syvät Svyät LP $15.99 Tipped Bowler Details "The 2nd album from the Japanese noise artist ASTRO aka Hiroshi Hasegawa member of legendary CCCC in our label is called Fracture Composition. In this new apperance ASTRO offers to us three cold tracks within the most raw japanese noise, it sounds sometimes a variety of dense atmospheres mixtured with deep textures. Recorded for your ears bleed. Source material got from ASTRO live performances and decomposed by the master Hiroshi Hasegawa at Shirakaba Studio. Cover design by Lasse Marhaug. Limited to 295 copies, full color artwork. Tracks list: 1. Fracture Composition 2. Live At Ufo Factory 3. Japanese Royal Blue Part 3 Time: 53:28 8/31/2010 ASTRO / Hiroshi Hasegawa Fracture Composition CD $16.99 Rape Art Productions Details "Since founding C.C.C.C. in the early nineties Hiroshi Hasegawa has been exploring the psychedelic edges of the worldwide noise underground to become one of the godfathers of the current noise scene. Cut Hands is extremely proud to release Strata, which to me stands as one of his most out there sets to date. Here Hasegawa manages to use his loud, psychedelic experience to launch a bold cosmic journey into the darkest corners of space. Perfect synthesizer build ups to crushing episodes of oscillating synth, pulsating into infinity. 75 copies, in slimline dvd cases. Artwerk by fartjerk." 9/30/2008 Astro / Hiroshi Hasegawa Strata CDR $13.99 Cut Hands Details "A completely violent little disc documenting this live 2007 Tokyo performance pitting some really heavyweights in the underground world of "noise" on stage together. (Lasse Marhaug, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masaya Nakahara, and John Hegre). Housed in center opening heavy stock sleeve with circular diecut adorned with graphic work from Mr. Lasse himself. Pressing of 600 copies." 11/17/2007 Astro Jazkamer Hairstylistics Motorcycle Fuck with the Ghostrider CD $13.99 Archive Details "INNER MIND MELT. A double cd Hiroshi Hasegawa / Damion Romero collaboration recorded between 1995-2005. Hasegawa began ASTRO in 1993 to explore his analog synthesizer work and was also a founding member of the legendary psychedelic noise act C.C.C.C. Damion Romero has been exploring the possibilities of power acoustics since the early '90s, also recording as SPECULUM FIGHT and head of the P-Tapes label. Disc one recorded by mail & in person, on the second C.C.C.C. tour of the USA and on Romero's journey in Japan. Disc two was made from two different live show recordings in Tokyo 2002. TEN YEARS in the making!" 6/7/2005 Astromero Astromero double CD $12.99 P Tapes / Troniks Details "Astromero is the psychedelic synth / noise project of Japanese pioneer Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro,CCCC), and LA's Damion Romero (Speculum Fight). Side A is a live show in San Francisco, a total scorcher with an immense level of energy where shifting walls of synthetic sound produced by Hasegawa are complemented by the signature rumbling low end frequencies coming from Damion's custom electronics. Side B is a new studio track, full of brain melting tones and showing the more compositional side of this sick ongoing collaboration. Limited to 350." 8/8/2009 Astromero Live In San Francisco LP $15.99 No Fun Details "New York City and London are both total fucking meccas. in those meccas lurk the glorious electronic madness that are astronaut and family battle snake, and honestly i don't know if i can think of a better pairing for this split. Astronaut is the duo of daniel lopatin (oneohtrix point never) and andy plovnick (healing feeling) who conjure a whole host of mystic spirits on their side, "empty pyramids." this sprawling piece of synth maximalism finds it's diamond through the sonic looking glass underneath a river of sea ice. this is hypnotic music that whisks you away on a cumulus cloud. Family Battle Snake is the greek god himself, bill kouligas. fbs arches over the analog plane on "parallel prime/eye river." synth squalls bathe in liquid reverb, eventually falling through an emerald hourglass until you realize you're floating on a rocket to the moon. kouligas is on some kind of heavily tripped journey these days, and i'm glad on this fucken ride. limited to 86 copies with geometic-inspired art & labels." Out of print - last copies available here. 1/24/2009 Astronaut / Family Battle Snake split cassette $7.99 Digitalis Limited Details After a long absence, Jon Dale’s Astronauts zine is back! This new issue features articles / interviews with Tower Recordings, Hall of Fame, Shirley Collins, Tim Barnes, Bill Wells, David Behrman and the Sonic Arts Union, loads of reviews and much more! 3/27/2004 Astronauts Issue #4 zine $6.99 Details "Vibrational string theory in an inner cosmos. hand stamped and embossed art paper covers with hand lettered text. numbered ed. of 160." Features ex-Death Chant duo. 5/31/2009 Aswara Aswara CDR $9.99 Azriel Details "A vision artifact of ancient future harmonies and inner cosmosis. supreme inner cranial reverberational reflections of where you are. unspoken language and incorporeal communion. recorded by jason meagher at black dirt studio, vinyl pressed at rti, housed in custom stoughton gatefold jackets lovingly adorned with screen printing, color photo, stamping and hand drawing. hand numbered ed. of 320." 7/16/2009 Aswara Aswara LP $25.99 Azriel Details "At Waugh With Gieles is the alter ego of the youthful Camryn Rothenbury, resident of Perth, Western Australia. In his first outing for the Brothers imprint, Rothernbury delivers 3 tracks of slow-burning guitar drone. Tense shimmering waves of tonal layerings and feedback squall slowly build and retreat with a harkening to such comparitive predecessors as Thela or early Fushitsusha. Occassional bursts of other oblique fragments of instrumentation build upon a solid core of late night meanderings." 8/4/2007 At Waugh With Gieles Cautious Movements CDR $7.99 Brothers Details "Having toured extensively in the UK with both SUNN O))) and Khanate around 2004 - 2006, the band were stalwarts of the growing extreme doom scene, and were widely hailed as the next great UK hope. The self-titled debut album was one of its kind: picture every negative emotion ever conceived, set to some of the most crawling, painful, polarizing, and mesmerizing atmospheric blackened sludge doom ever, and you'll get a glimpse of the blackened heart of Atavist. The band's second album, II:Ruined, is a massive, monolithic, introverted chapter of audial suffering and torment. It sees Atavist plunge further into the audial abyss by incorporating more layers and substance to their art (not unlike the way Japan's Corrupted portray their immaculate aesthetic). Heavier, more diverse, intricate, and melodic, II:Ruined is just that; an unforgiving observation of self-reflection, repentance, and desperation. With guest performances from Justin Greaves, (ex-Iron Monkey, Crippled Black Phoenix), and dark folk/rock/doomster Rose Kemp, (who's 'Unholy Majesty' LP saw release in 2008 on Aurora Borealis ), II:Ruined is a decidedly darker beast, lurking in the shadows, evading the casual listener and rewarding the devotee. It is interesting to note that this was the final album for this line up of the band, one can only wonder at the self-fulfilling prophecy of such and immense and bleak work. Perhaps its a wonder they are all still alive. This double vinyl edition of II:Ruined on Aurora Borealis marks a long overdue vinyl release for this important milestone of extreme doom in the UK, and stands in monolithic testament to their achievement." Limited edition of 500 copies housed in a gatefold sleeve. 6/27/2009 Atavist II: Ruined double LP $17.99 Aurora Borealis Details "The complete output from the prime era of this epochal band, taken for the very first time from the original master tapes—a fact which no other issue of this music can boast! fifteen tracks of essential UK freakbeat/psych, with hard-edged, sitar-esque guitar, great vocals and prominent organ; includes both sides of their five recorded singles (four were released), plus five additional tracks; Alan Whithead left the group to form Marmalade; Davey O’List joined the Nice, and the rest of the band evolved into the great Andromeda." - Lion Productions 4/10/2005 Attack Complete Recordings 1967-1969 CD $14.99 Acme / Lion Details "We hit up our fourth vinyl release with this beauty which was originally intended to be a cassette only release (it still will be available on cassette, but only in a tiny run). This Maine based crew features a host of psychedelic jam talent... Nemo of Drona Parva and head honcho of Time-Lag Records, Sparrow WIldchild of The Bummer Road, and the three members of Visitations, whose record on Time-Lag last year was one of 2007's best! So this is the second recording from this crew, the first being last years Sloow Tape. This beast is different to the Sloow vibe, still with a super nice jam band sound, but projecting to a maybe more 'song' (in the loosest possible way) based plane, a little like Visitations. Limited to 300 copies with zero info and stickered black sleeves." 8/22/2008 Attar Cups untitled LP $21.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "Northern Europe 1867: A winter so harsh, a spring so cold and a summer so late. A dead harvest. The failure of the crop meant starvation and thousands and thousands of people died. Bark bread, lichen gruel and families slowly fading away. This bleak period, ended in 1869, resulted in that more Swedes than ever emigrated to Northern America and other places for a better life. Based around those years, Gothenburg's Ättestupa here creates an absolutely terrific soundtrack to this misery with their new 3-song EP. Exploring the dark past of their native country Sweden, this is a well-executed journey into the neverending well of hopelessness. Into the struggle of nature and mankind. You'll recognize the sound from the RTB LP from last year and the Abisko tape, but here they are taking everything up a notch. The unique production is getting close to perfection, a raw and disgusting thick sonic bliss with a continuous crunch. A sharpened blend of noise, kraut and black metal with a crude melancholic atmosphere. Vocals buried deep under the soil and guitars being more prominent. Organs, screeching metal junk, tape loops. Pounding drums. The recording reeks of bad times and tremendous coldness and it's hard to grasp for air. No hope and definitely no joy. Recorded during the first three months of 2009. Limited to 330 copies on black vinyl." 12/12/2009 Ättestupa 1867 12" $10.99 DNT Details "North of the church, only the worst of mankind was buried. Under the dark soil you could find people who had ended their own lives. Murderers. Thieves. Here in the shadow, the poor souls were gathered for their last rest. Begraven Mot Norr, the second album from Ättestupa, is themed around funeral customs and death processions in the past centuries of rural Sweden. The first LP was described as a mix of folk tones, 70's German prog, noise and black metal, and via the Att Korsa Den Flod Som Kommer Dränka Oss Alla tape (Abisko) and 1867 12" (DNT), that mixture was refined. With Begraven Mot Norr, Ättestupa returns with their most accomplished and complex recording so far, a natural progression from Änglamakerskan (their praised contribution to the Utmarken compilation 10"). Opening with an eerie violin over a rushing river, the bleak tone is immediately set. Set to a backbone of monotonous drumming, guitars and organs take the freezing lead. Abrasive electronics interesects with field recordings and a sparse and elegant use of acoustic instruments. The chant-like vocals lure somewhere in the background, working as an instrument on it's own. Often based on scrap metal junk abuse and tape loops, the droning interludes from their recent live sets are incorporated and work as perfect passages between the sinister arrangements. The overall atmosphere is more melancholic, paving itself through different shades of grey with a calmer and more distinct sound than before. Recorded between summer 2009 and spring 2010. 2 tracks, 35 minutes. Mastered by Viktor Ottosson. Comes with a A1 poster. 521 copies. Covers printed on 350gsm paper with black-printed inside. Black innersleeves." 6/4/2010 Ättestupa Begraven Mot Norr LP $23.99 Release The Bats Details "hailing from the lowlands of the netherlands, au create rich soundscapes with enough density to trap waves of light. three massive tracks of blissed-out drones that push the lilies through the soil. you'll go in expecting something desolate, and come out bathed in the sun's glow. calling to mind varying aspects of birchville cat motel and the softer side of double leopards, this duo keeps soaring through the fog, endlessly searching for a way to the stars.100 copies" 12/24/2005 AU (aux) CDR $7.99 Foxglove Details "The untitled tracks on this CD by the duo of artist / musician Jan Borchers and Paul Klaui were recorded in various living rooms ( presumably in the Hague where AU is based) over the last year and a half. They're all live improvisations, which might explain the documentary feel permeating the album, and there's a textural depth of field to the sounds and drones that AU favour throughout. Rather than focus on conventional melodies as such, the structures here concentrate on sculpting dense, emotive, shifting clouds of ambience and sustained analogue notes, around which heavily reverbed events circle and disperse. Snatched moments of overheard conversations whispering to themselves, soft electronic flutters and drifting piano chords create a ghostly, grainy, sombre mood, alternately soothing and unnerving." – The Wire 2/27/2003 AU Non-Existing Input CD $12.99 Grond Records Details "Alchemy limited edition series 'Inner Mind Music' 2nd release. Source material: monophonic analog sequence synth: Firstman SQ 01. New recordings. This CD is dedicated to Klaus Schulze." Aube Timemind CD $21.99 Alchemy Details "First release from the label of famed writer Takuya Sakaguchi (famous for making L.A.F.M.S. known in Japan and now writing for G-Modern), published in conjunction with a benefit concert for supporting people suffered from the Hanshin Awaji earthquake in 1995. Included is 'Sonority Area' by Aube (which is over 25 minutes) and two tracks each by cosmic folk bands Nagisa Ni Te and Naoki Zushi (former member of Hijokaidan). Aube / Nagisa Ni Te / Naoki Zushi Orbital Confluence-Benefit 200 CD $17.99 Neurec Details "First in a series of several long form / wave / drone studies. No processing, feedback or effects used on this installment. Recorded in real time. Use of headphones and/or increased/decreased volume recommended to aid in various listening possibilities. Packaged in clear slim-line cases with double sided laser print covers and glossy labels. (In order to achieve the highest possible fidelity, we have decided to issue this recording as a cd-r)." 3/6/2010 Audial Weavings Vol. 1 CDR $8.99 Scumbag Relations Details "Second in a series of several long form / wave / drone studies. Minimal processing was used on this installment. Recorded in real time.Examinations of the correlation of various wave and tonal forms which, when placed side by side, create the illusion of something more intricate and engaging than when left to function on their own. Packaged in clear slim-line cases with double sided laser print covers and glossy labels. (In order to achieve the highest possible fidelity, we have decided to issue this recording as a cd-r)." 3/6/2010 Audial Weavings Vol. 2 CDR $8.99 Scumbag Relations Details "Third CD release from Riot Season and the third album from the newly shortened monikered Aufgehoben (previously Aufgehoben No Process). Anno Fauve sees the band collaborate once again with stereo guitar virtuoso Gary Smith (Mass, Glass Cage, Powerfield etc). Anno Fauve is an album for those who like their music difficult with the density, dynamics and bludgeoning distortion levels that have become the hallmarks of an Aufgehoben release. Anno Fauve contains 6 tracks spread over 50 minutes and comes in a wonderfully weird designed sleeve." 10/5/2004 Aufgehoben Anno Fauve CD $19.99 Riot Season Details "Limited to 524 copies. Comes in a real cardstock sleeve, not just a polybag, recommended for fans of Hijokaidan, Air Conditioning, Seven Minutes of Nausea, Hamid Drake, Mainliner, etc." 3/20/2007 Aufgehoben Axiologue / Thermidor One Five picture disc 7" $6.99 White Denim Details "August Born is a collaboration between Japan's Hiroyuki Usui and Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny. Well versed 'heads already know Hiroyuki under his alias of L, in which he recorded the subtle psychedelic gem, Holy Letters. Along with spending time in Marble Sheep, he also played drums for Fushitsusha for six years and played in an early incarnation of Ghost, which can be seen on the live DVD, Metamorphosis. Holy Letters was an early template for Six Organs when it was released nearly ten years ago. August Born started off as a game that was based on the idea of 'fortuitous mistranslation.' That is: even if they didn't understand exactly what the other wanted to do or where to go with the song, the songs themselves would find their own direction. The project started with the scraping sounds of a bird being buried. As improbable as it seemed, these sounds eventually created music. August Born is a mellow work seamlessly blending Hiroyuki's guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, and didgeridoo with Chasny's unmistakable voice and guitar. The tunes found here hold rewards that will only grow with patience and time." 12/24/2005 August Born August Born CD $14.99 Drag City Details "August Born is a collaboration between Japan's Hiroyuki Usui and Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny. Well versed 'heads already know Hiroyuki under his alias of L, in which he recorded the subtle psychedelic gem, Holy Letters. Along with spending time in Marble Sheep, he also played drums for Fushitsusha for six years and played in an early incarnation of Ghost, which can be seen on the live DVD, Metamorphosis. Holy Letters was an early template for Six Organs when it was released nearly ten years ago. August Born started off as a game that was based on the idea of 'fortuitous mistranslation.' That is: even if they didn't understand exactly what the other wanted to do or where to go with the song, the songs themselves would find their own direction. The project started with the scraping sounds of a bird being buried. As improbable as it seemed, these sounds eventually created music. August Born is a mellow work seamlessly blending Hiroyuki's guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, and didgeridoo with Chasny's unmistakable voice and guitar. The tunes found here hold rewards that will only grow with patience and time." 12/24/2005 August Born August Born LP $15.99 Drag City Details "An expanded listening session that breaths towards visions of KORLA PANDIT, TOM DISSEVELT, and early 1900's fair / carnival folklore. two tracks contain the aural documentation of the wanderers of the AUK THEATRE. check out their beautiful visions of the parallel continent on the Ubu Web archives (http://www.ubuweb.com/film/moon.html). two tracks from the COLLECTION, another project of Auk Theatre mind IRENE MOON. a beautiful blend of organ tunes and more introspective signals." 4/21/2008 Auk Theatre / The Collection of the Late Howell Bend Auk Theatre / The Collection of the Late Howell Bend cassette $8.99 Bread and Animals Details "The reincarnation of the in-the-red psych aesthetics of early High Rise. One of the biggest underground psych/noise rock discoveries was Tokyo-based Aural Fit. A heavy, bludgeoning cudgel of a band, all distorted grime and redlined aggression, their 2004 self-released first album burst over the scene like a big bag of heavy spanners. They followed up with a track on Tokyo Flashback 5, but then line-up changes seemed to sideline their juddering, thundering rock juggernaut. Leader Mondo Bohachi has gone about reassembling the group from the ground up, and these are the first recorded results. If anything, it's even scarier, noisier and more rock than last time. 'Loud' and 'psychedelic' are still the watchwords, needles in the red all the way, and all the Stooges, Blue Cheer, TG, etc., references you might require are present and correct." - Alan Cummings. 5/20/2009 Aural Fit II CD $15.99 PSF Details "A dirty, yet simmering atmosphere surrounds these free noise improvisations built out of lo-fi guitar feedback, siren like modulations of analog electronics, theremin, clarinet, accordian, organs, etc. Wouldn’t be out of place on Ecstatic Peace or Siltbreeze." – Aquarius. Aurora Plastics Company is Anne Heller and Lars Nielsen. 9/6/2002 Aurora Plastics Company Low Noise CD $10.99 Bobby J Records / Crunchy Food Organization Details "Secret Eye is very happy to release the debut full-length from the fabulous Auto Da Fe! "The Spectre" spans a wide range of sounds from trad-flavored freak-folk to Middle Eastern raga to 80's gothic minimalist rock. Guest appearances include Joel Connell, Aaron Kenyon and Henry Barnes from Man is the Bastard. Fans of Amps For Christ will revel in its unique beauty." - label. "Martin Kvisvic and Tara Tavi of Amps for Christ teamed up in Auto Da Fe to mess up with the geopolitics of our planet. Using a brilliantly mismatched arsenal of traditional instruments, the two of them shatter cultural and political frontiers. Through the course of the 18 tracks, the listener is treated to guzheng (a Chinese zither), Tibetan cymbals, tambur, balalaika (a Russian lute), bouzouki, and various bowed instruments, in addition to Gothic harp and tablas (performed by guest musicians), and more conventional (i.e. Western) instruments. The songs -- all original, it seems, but there are no songwriting credits -- mimic folk styles to add to the cultural confusion. For instance, 'Past Times' sounds very much like an old English song, except that Tara's voice is backed by guzheng. Following a similar logic, 'Ne'er Do will' could be a skiprope rhyme, 'Huar Weishenme' would be a Jewish lament, and 'The Spectre' might be a frantic East-European instrumental tune. But the instrumentation always sends such issues out the window. What is left is this duo's unbridled creativity, their knowledgeable disregard toward tradition, and Tara Tavi's voice, at times charming, haunting or scary ('Undun'). Several guests contribute to the sound palette, including members of Man is the Bastard. The overall attitude is definitely that of the underground folk scene, but ignores its improvisational/jam aspect; The Spectre is thoroughly composed and focuses on catchy -- if unpredictably arranged -- tunes. A find to treasure and one of the truly surprising albums of 2006." - François Couture in All-Music Guide 3/20/2007 Auto Da Fe The Spectre CD $12.99 Secret Eye Details “Heavy ambient trance from one man and a massed army of guitars fed through miles of effects and set to slow-motion, minimalist beats. Sprawling, dense, hypnotic and psychedelic. This is the first Autodidact cd after years of cassette-only releases.” Autodidact Welcome to the Dissonance Engine CD $14.99 Monotremata Details "Debut LP by ANV. Co-release with Upstairs CD-R -- the label run by Dan Lopatin (of Oneohtrix Point Never / Games). Mixed by Chris Coady at DNA Downtown, NYC." "Autre Ne Veut ('I want no other') was inscribed on the back of a gold and garnet hat ornament (ca. 1475) found at Hanley Castle in Worcestershire. It is rumored to be the gift of an English Duke to his French mistress, but this is simply conjecture." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art / The Cloisters, New York City "Olde English Spelling Bee is one of those labels you can implicitly trust to provide you with the most brilliantly weird music. Their latest missive is a self titled shocker from Autre Ne Veut, a moocher from the same circles as Oneohtrix Point Never and all those weirdo Brooklyn types with an uncanny line in subtly skewed pop queerness. Seriously, this is one of the strangest, most jarringly unique records of the year, and we love it. At heart it's an incredible pop album with traces of Prince, Prefab Sprout and Erasure at its core, but each melody and harmony is delivered with an off-key sleight of hand that really plays on your preconceptions and experience of classic synth pop. There's definite nods to the soundtracks of John Hughes movies and the like, but it's perhaps more like The Breakfast Club score remade by the Troma company for some secret pay-per-view internet channel. Autre Ne Veut has possibly made one of our favourite albums this year and we urge you to investigate without delay. Essential!" -- Boomkat 10/13/2010 Autre Ne Veut Autre Ne Veut LP $15.99 Olde English Spelling Bee Details "Autumn Shade is the nom de plume of Jes Lenee', a stunning young songstress brimming with unbridled talent. Toting a satchelful of pensively beautiful tunes, Lenee' possesses a voice as pristine as any your ears have heard in this lifetime. A classically trained piano prodigy, Lenee' was penning songs at the age of eleven, many of which won award recognition. Ultimately seduced by the craft of songwriting, Autumn Shade is a marriage of her piano prowess and folk-inspired guitar strumming. Set to splash with their full-length debut Ezra Moon, Autumn Shade has concocted a fascinating foray into an ethereal yet emotionally raw netherworld. Ezra Moon is a unique sepia-toned microcosm that intertwines folk, chamber music, psychedelia, rock, and indie singer/songwriter. With additional instrumentation of violin, hammer dulcimer, and percussion-as well as a healthy penchant for sonic experimentation-the sound is reminiscent of the female artists that helped define the 4AD sound. Jes Lenee's classical roots and compositional sense invoke the avant-chamber feel of Rachel's, if they were enveloped in the hazy folk atmosphere in which Marissa Nadler resides." 3/1/2007 Autumn Shade Ezra Moon CD $12.99 Strange Attractors Audio House Details "23 minutes of coolest psychedelia, one long piece recorded live in Pori last april and slightly mixed afterwards. Line-up on this record: Roope Eronen, Janne Laurila, Lars Mattila, Markus Mäki, Tero Niskanen, Arttu Partinen and Kevin Regan. Released January 8, 2003. Hand-coloured sleeves, limited edition of 150 copies." 2/6/2003 Avarus A-V-P CDR $19.99 267 lattajjaa Details "Here is your introduction to phase two. While there is a certain degree of continuity in the approach, II is a noticeable extrapolation of the Avarus SOUND. The album's six tracks span collage-esque pieces of audio junk to deconstructed song forms to subtly dense instrumentals. Waves of stretched electronics, distorted clank and warbling bass throb create layers of chaotic wreckage until a sudden collapse reveals an underlying stasis. Unnoticed patterns now conscious pull the listener into another time/mind continuum. Step into the g-a-p. The LP is presented in a full cover printed sleeve with suitable "found" photo art...for you to figure out what it's all about." Highly recommended! 7/30/2006 Avarus II LP $15.99 HP Cycle Details "The first full-length vinyl outing, following a couple of very limited self-released gems on the band's Lal Lal Lal imprint, by this Finnish collective (associated with Kemiallisett Ystavat and the Anaksimandros via their shared membership / mindset). The Avarus brand of psychedelia is a blend of mesmerising noise and clatter and shimmering beauty. The album's fourteen tracks stagger through acoustic folk strums and free psych explorations, flailing and falling around, yet are thoughtfully pieced together and end up making total sense. Pressed in an edition of 550 (first edition 330, second edition 220). Cover artwork by the band, which is bound to leave a few people scratching their heads." 2/24/2003 Avarus III LP $27.99 HP Cycle Details "All-new exclusive Avarus! Fourth Secret Eye full-length and tenth release overall from this incredible Finnish band that pretty much defines modern psychedelic kraut improv. Primitive, primal and tribal, desolate and mournful, dreamy and pastoral, motorik and hypnotic. Buzzing, clattery, droning, stumbling Krautrock flecked with shimmering free-noise, avant ambience, delicate folk fuckery, and chaotic caveman psychedelic space rock. Avarus IV starts where the Rasvaaja LP ended. The IV, too, consists of Tomas Regan's careful high-quality recordings. On the IV Avarus makes and even longer dive in the warm and clear pond, into which the water is poured from both kraut and space rock, and from micro music and slapstick. The recording was made after the US tour, which guarantees the firm harmony satisfying the most demanding listeners. The delicate talent and the hilarious team spirit guarantee a recordful of heart-warming harmonies and surprising turns delighting an unprejudiced mind. The wondrous adult rock of Avarus is born from an uncompromising love for music. The finished recording deserved a fantastic cover, too. This in mind, the graphic visionaries Amanda Vähämäki and Pauliina Mäkelä spent their summer holidays swimming, drinking beer, and drawing their kaleidoscopic Davy Crockett epos inspired by music. LP only - 160 gram virgin vinyl, pressed in Czech Republic, direct metal mastering, full-color labels and jackets, all-exclusive new jams." Limited edition of 200 copies. Highly recommended! 5/1/2009 Avarus IV LP $21.99 Secret Eye Details "The burgeoning Finnish free-folk movement has been garnering much praise and attention over the past year. From the same circle of psychos who bring us Kemialliset Ystävät, Maniac’s Dream, Pylon and the Anaksimandros comes this, the first full-length CD release by Avarus. These Finns play a left-field blend of noise, folk and, could it be... free jazz!?! Packed with aural mayhem and musical non-sequiturs, this is backward, dirt-eating freak folk that makes The Animal Collective sound like Judy Collins." Recommended! 12/1/2004 Avarus Jättiläisrotta CD $12.99 Secret Eye Details "Long touted as the forefathers of Finnish freeform psychedlic music, Avarus, a collective bearing members from The Anaksimadros, Kemialliset Ystävät, Maniacs Dream, and more, document their first tour of the United States on "Kirppujen Saari". The sounds contained show a departure and growth from typical Avarus recordings. The A side long track begins with a psychrock romper complete with full "band" instrumentation, slowly it deconstructs itself into the abstract electric/acoustic stylings and sonic spattering familiar to their previous work. Slowness builds into full on clatter filled walls of vocals, toy keyboards, horns, strums, and other acoustic junk, creating a unique and massive drone. The opposing side is pure acoustic drones composed of vocals, horns, and tribal beats. Room filling ambiance, corner clatter, and morphing silence also find a way to unobtrusively build themselves into the piece. In an edition of 350 LPs on coke bottle clear vinyl with printed labels by Bart of Sloow Tapes and proprinted full color foldover art by the band." 2/20/2008 Avarus Kirppujen Saari LP $24.99 Arbor Details "When you go to finland, a country where 95% of the population is inbreed, chances are that you will meet at least 7 members of the avarus family! you can smell them from a mile away, they're the adults raising their kids on homebrew white spirit, continuously producing the kind of farts you can't hear though the stench is worse than the ones that sound like a brassband. behind every finnish tree there is a member of avarus humping another avarus member, and rarely a kemialliset ystavat member (the other 5% of finns). the governement of finland is not proud of this sick family, they try to keep it silent, rarely give interviews to press from other countries and make sure planes hardly fly out. though for some reason ARTTU PARTINEN, ROOPE ERONEN and TERO NISKANEN made it as a trio in a small boat to the usa. the only instruments that made it were a few balloons and a crappy casio. on arrival they found a microphone, a drum and more toys, climbed the WFMU building and played the craziest session ever! like a bunch of children discovering the 50's euro avant garde scene, the 60's psychedelic free jazz and pre-punk scene, the 70's sound poetry and punk scene and the 80's disco scene in one afternoon!! this lp sounds like a mix of all of that i guess. limited to 300 copies, comes in a psychedelic duo coloured cover by dt." 7/19/2009 Avarus Toosassa LP $28.99 Ultra Eczema Details "49 minutes of gooey new goodness from Avarus - spread over just three tracks! From the same tattered coven of piss drinkers who alternately refer to themselves as Kemialliset Ystävät, Lau Nau, Pylon, Islaja, Es, Kiila or the Anaksimandros comes this, another Secret Eye release and a follow-up to last year's Jättiläisrotta.These fumbling Finns conjure a smoky, shit-drunk forest of noise, folk and unsurpassable tribal improvŠa delicious Yahowha soup with a spicy, burnt Amon Düül crust. Oh so highly recommended. Features guest vocals and noise from Tara Burke a.k.a. FURSAXA (Eclipse Records, ATP Recordings, Ecstatic Peace). Avarus have received extensive coverage in both The Wire and Pitchforkmedia. In 2005, Avarus played The Wire's Subcurrent Festival (Glasgow). In 2006 they are scheduled to perform at Dramarama (Belgium) and the Terrastock 6 festival in Providence (which will mark their first-ever U.S. performance) "Using a muse found deep in the woods, this collective base their sound on fumbling lurches of folkrock drug groove interspersed with weevilly keyboard stuff and quite extraordinary, persistent yowling." - The Wire. Recommended! 4/24/2006 Avarus Vesikansi CD $12.99 Secret Eye Details "Psych-garage-noise purveyors Awesome Color coalesced after Michigan skater/musos Michael Troutman and Allison Busch hooked up with fellow Great Lake State expat Derek Stanton in Brooklyn, NY, in 2004. Tired of the same old, same old that was passing for NYC underground punk at the time, the trio set out to inject a little Detroit rock know-how into the scene. Succeeding marvelously at channeling the grit and free abandon of the Stooges and MC5 into a propulsive, riff-based, Black Sabbath-informed mule-kick of a live show, the group soon caught the ear of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore who wasted no time in snatching up the band for his Ecstatic Peace! label. Their self-titled debut hit the racks in 2006 and was followed up by Electric Aborigines in 2008. The wake of that second release found the group touring the world in support of Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. In 2010, the band plans to release Massa Hypnos on Ecstatic Peace! and jump back in the minivan to play every rock club, basement, and skate park they can, leaving a trail of broken guitars and pizza crusts from Michigan to Mars." 4/10/2010 Awesome Color Mass Hypnos CD $10.99 Ecstatic Peace Details "Brand new hand-numbered edition of 552 12" EP from this great new European label that also just released the Vanishing Voice Nordic Visions set. Here Karl Bauer uses violin, vocals, electronics and percussion to assemble huge fields of strafing white light that somehow reconcile the all-night flights of Terry Riley and the clouds of lung generated by Yoshi Wada with flickers of microdot vision and stoned oblivion poems. His set at Subcurrent was absolutely outstanding, accelerating Partch-like percussive miniatures into huge vertical architectures and this is another great blat of rigorously thought-out modern American sound. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue 6/11/2006 Axolotl Chemical Theatre 12" $16.99 Gipsy Sphinx Details "collab. muddy industrial" 2/7/2009 Axolotl + Eskimo King untitled CDR $9.99 Our Mouth Details "Originally released in 2005 as a limited edition CD-R on Yellow Swans' JYRK label, this three-way collab now gets a proper run on wax. Recorded in Oakland at the Huffin House before the Swans made the retreat back to Portland. Despite the weight of these players when they rock alone, this jam really never gets into full on white out territory. Instead, it's loaded to the brim with wavy neon distortion and soothing low end that occasional drops out into huge washes of emptiness. The opening passage of GMS guitar flecks sympathizing with Karl's string wash is alone worth the price of admission." Red vinyl with lime green splatter. Edition of 500. 11/17/2007 Axolotl / D Yellow Swans / Gerritt split LP $15.99 Root Strata Details "Karl Bauer and Eva Saelens (Axolotl and Inca Ore respectively) are two like minded Bay area psychers operating on two opposing levels. Axolotl marks the A side with skyward streaking drones and ethereal loops tinged and focused, ringing with the joyous bliss of upward passage. An endless array of vocals, electronics, and violin looping and looping, building and growing: stasis. Inca Ore makes her craft from an Earth bound level. Oneness with her surroundings, roots firmly planted. Eerie incantations and meandering harp play foreground to layer upon layer of looped vocals and murky ambience, charting your way towards forever. In an edition of 450 white purity colored 7"s in black and white pro-printed collage fold-over sleeves by Eva with a numbered insert." 11/17/2007 Axolotl / Inca Ore split 7" $6.99 Arbor Details "Now we're talking. Native Music sounds like a hi-fidelity bootleg of magnetic tapes rescued from the sunken star-ship of an unidentified race. The last entry in the Captain's log translates "Totally fried. Heading back home, need to stop by Planet Earth to pick up batteries." Time-warped rhythms from a botched wormhole road-trip. Limited to 85 pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes." 4/3/2011 Aygeetee Native Music c40 cassette $4.99 Sweat Lodge Guru Details "If you haven't heard this record, you've missed out on one of the most profound artistic statements of the 20th century." Originally recorded July 10, 1964, in the tiny Variety Arts Recording Studio. 2/20/2010 Ayler Trio, Albert Spiritual Unity CD $11.99 ESP-Disk Details "Final (and somehow a new debut) release from Jason D'Emilio under the name Azusa Plane. Closing down an area of dozens of 7"'s, lp's, tapes, cd's, in great style. And what a goodbye it is! Gone are all structures, nuances or softly waving sounds. Two lengthy tracks: 28 minutes and 14 minutes long. The longest track contains freebased guitar strumming with microphones hesitating to pick up some tones, crashing taperecorders refusing to record any longer, and molecules breaking down earplugs. Pretty abstract but very bewildering... The short track is somehow a bit calmer... Quite loopy in a Philip Jeck way, almost ambient without falling into a gap called 'emptiness'. Jason just proves he is an excellent guitar player. He deals with his guitar like life is meant to be: going from fondling the strings to pure mutilation. 'love=hate' is a clich‚ often misused, but that is the closest you'll come after the silence hits you when the final seconds from this remarkable cd is over." Azusa Plane The Highway's Jammed With Broken Heroes CD $16.99 Kraak Details "Cult trip document by Father Moo and his handmaidens. Demonic scriptures of dubious eroticism and cultism, performed by the heretical guru Father Moo and his female disciples. Minimal acoustic works using just female chanting and drones." Reissue of the original CDr edition on Acid Mothers Temple. Limited edition of 500 handnumbered copies with Obi strip. Gatefold sleeve. Father Moo & The Black Sheep Father Moo & The Black Sheep LP $49.99 Swordfish b Details DateAdded Artist Title Format Price Label Description Details Details “Baby Woodrose is Lorenzo, drummer from Danish heavy stoner/psych rockers, On Trial. Here, he plays all the instruments (guitars, drums, organ & electric piano), performing songs very much in the retro-garage blazing fuzz-psych tradition, more 1966 than either later-60s acid rock psychedelia, or the 70s heavy rock that inspired today's ‘stoner’ scene. The influences of that era are abundant and pretty readily apparent, referencing everything from the Thirteenth Floor Elevators to the Strawberry Alarm Clock, by way of the Yardbirds, Electric Prunes, Seeds, Chocolate Watchband; even the Stooges and Sonics. The guitars are either twangy & reverb-drenched or maximally fuzzed, the vocals snarl in your face or ooze from the murk deep in the back of the reverb chamber; all of the expected period nuances are there. Not much in the way of ‘space’ (nice seagull screams on ‘Living A Dream’, though) or ‘progressive’ (it's far too greasy) music here, but fans of earlier ‘head’ music ought to get into this album. After all, how can you argue with a song like ‘Right To Get High’?” – Aural Innovations 4/17/2003 Baby Woodrose Blows Your Mind! CD $18.99 Bad Afro Details "The Danish music scene is finally getting somewhere and Baby Woodrose is the latest proof. They create a unique sound that takes them to the 60's and back leaving the music being influenced by many shades of rock'n'roll and psych but played with heartfelt punk attitude. ‘Disconnected’ is the first single from the new album ‘Money For Soul’ and is backed with the exclusive ‘Too Far Gone’." 1/13/2004 Baby Woodrose Disconnected 7" $6.99 Bad Afro Details "The Danish music scene is finally getting somewhere and Baby Woodrose is the latest proof. They create a unique sound that takes them to the 60's and back leaving the music being influenced by many shades of rock'n'roll and psych but played with heartfelt punk attitude. Baby Woodrose are: Lorenzo Woodrose alias Guf Lorenzen on guitar/vocals (ex-drummer for OnTrial and main man behind side projects like Disconnected Flowers, Pandemonica, Spids Nøgenhat a.o.) Riky Woodrose alias Anders Skjødt on bass (ex-guitar player in On Trial) Rocco Woodrose alias Anders Grøn on drums (drummer in an early incarnation of The Raveonettes). Baby Woodrose received quite a lot of attention outside Denmark with their self-released debut album ‘Blows Your Mind’ from 2001. In reality a one-man operation by Lorenzo Woodrose who wrote the songs, played all the instruments, produced the record and put it out on his own Pan Records. Baby Woodrose is now a real band and the next album is quite different. Baby Woodrose have only been playing live for 2 years but they already have a reputation of being a sweaty, jaw-dropping live experience. During the summer 2002 they played festivals like Roskilde Festival, Gutter Island, Barbarella, By:Larm, Swamp Room Happening and a showcase at Popkomm with Flaming Sideburns and Sweatmaster. In 2003 they have toured in Norway twice and in Germany with Sweatmaster, played SXSW in Texas and New York and in June they opened the main stage at the biggest festival in Northern Europe: Roskilde Festival." 1/13/2004 Baby Woodrose Money For Soul CD $18.99 Bad Afro Details "The Danish music scene is finally getting somewhere and Baby Woodrose is the latest proof. They create a unique sound that takes them to the 60's and back leaving the music being influenced by many shades of rock'n'roll and psych but played with heartfelt punk attitude. Baby Woodrose are: Lorenzo Woodrose alias Guf Lorenzen on guitar/vocals (ex-drummer for OnTrial and main man behind side projects like Disconnected Flowers, Pandemonica, Spids Nøgenhat a.o.) Riky Woodrose alias Anders Skjødt on bass (ex-guitar player in On Trial) Rocco Woodrose alias Anders Grøn on drums (drummer in an early incarnation of The Raveonettes). Baby Woodrose received quite a lot of attention outside Denmark with their self-released debut album ‘Blows Your Mind’ from 2001. In reality a one-man operation by Lorenzo Woodrose who wrote the songs, played all the instruments, produced the record and put it out on his own Pan Records. Baby Woodrose is now a real band and the next album is quite different. Baby Woodrose have only been playing live for 2 years but they already have a reputation of being a sweaty, jaw-dropping live experience. During the summer 2002 they played festivals like Roskilde Festival, Gutter Island, Barbarella, By:Larm, Swamp Room Happening and a showcase at Popkomm with Flaming Sideburns and Sweatmaster. In 2003 they have toured in Norway twice and in Germany with Sweatmaster, played SXSW in Texas and New York and in June they opened the main stage at the biggest festival in Northern Europe: Roskilde Festival." 1/13/2004 Baby Woodrose Money For Soul LP $18.99 Bad Afro Details Limited edition one time pressing of 500 copies. "This is the second full length LP by steel string guitarist Daniel Bachman (who formerly recorded and performed as Sacred Harp). Though young in years, he plays with a technical facility and emotional depth equal to that of the greatest fingerstylists. His discography is already full of strong releases, but this new recording is the first I've heard to fully capture the intimate beauty that many have witnessed in his live acoustic performances across the country. Authenticity has been a issue that has plagued folk music for much of the 20th century and these days anyone can pick up a style that was previously known only to a few mountainfolk. While Bachman's playing is surely reminiscent of the spiritual searching sound of Robbie Basho, and indeed the spectre of Fahey looms large, he is no Johnny-come-lately. The distinct sound you will hear on this record is inspired by the traditions and lore unique to Fredericksberg, Virginia, also the hometown of Jack Rose (may God watch over his soul)." 4/30/2012 Bachman, Daniel Oh Be Joyful LP $13.99 One Kind Favor Details Culled from footage filmed over the course of three days at CBGB's legendary Hardcore Festival, this stunning performance from punk/reggae pioneers Bad Brains showcases their unique sound and unforgettable stage presence. Songs include "Big Takeover," "Attitude," "Right Brigade," "Riot Squad," "At the Movies," "Redbone in the City," "Pay to Cum," and more. 11/4/2006 Bad Brains Live At CBGB 1982 DVD $16.99 MVD Details "The 24 minute opening track is born of a clear deep stream. Once ashore, its pulsating sighs feedback languidly over the faintly brittle sounds of its kaleidoscopically hardening shell. Track 2 arrives with the rains, swelling and exploding all that has gone before, and imparting upon the listener the vaguely disturbing impression of Bootsy horse-whipping an instrumental version of "Do What You Like" out of a nude and wasted Terry Riley." "Bad Drumlin Grass is the first release on Milvia Son Records, a nascent label which exists to document the personal expression of a two discrete musicians who stumbled through years of post-adolescence under the influence of acid, beer and analog feedback. In the beginning, BDG limited itself to performance art pieces before small unwilling audiences (e.g., playing frisbee stoned in the front of one member's apartment complex as the strains of Revolution Number 9 blasted out of his bedroom window). Later pieces in a similar vein included the endless playing of the choicest and most sublime Grateful Dead bootlegs for two of Black Flag's ugliest fans who happened upon BDG's hotel suite. Now, at last, their self-titled CDR presents Bad Drumlin Grass doing what they were born to do: mutually destroying and recreating their egos via the deliberate or accidental contact of acoustic and electrical musical instruments with their hands, feet and lips." Numbered edition of 175 copies. 9/30/2005 Bad Drumlin Grass Bad Drumlin Grass CDR $8.99 Milvia Son Records Details "The second Bad Drumlin Grass record is the first vinyl release on Milvia Son Records. Way back in July of 2006, Sensei Rebel chose the band's schizophrenic inaugural CDR (Birth/Afterbirth) as his 'Ambient Pick of the Week.' Forsaking the drone (at least temporarily), Bad Drumlin Grass presents two solid sides of junk 'n' roll instrumental freakouts that careen into the void like cigarette cherries dropping into the fake beard of a paranoid neo-folkie where, like Sonny Bono, they just sit there and *burn*. These are not the lost Hams rehearsals tapes. Imagine Richard Thompson and Garth Hudson rehearsing for 10,000 hours and touring with This Heat. This record is the exact opposite of that, except for being recorded live without overdubs. 300 copies for the world." 10/6/2007 Bad Drumlin Grass The Invigorating Scent of… LP $9.99 Milvia Son Records Details "Unauthorized Recordings is the collected recordings from a series of improvisational sessions between Mike Khoury (Entropy Stereo. violin), Ben Bracken (Flashpaper. guitar, organ), and Michigan experimenter Wade Kergan. A widely varying series of unsettling recordings from eerie frigid electronic pieces to crunchy minimalism to dizzying start/stop interplays approaching free jazz." 1/29/2003 Bad Girls Unauthorized Recordings CD $8.99 Public Eyesore Details "On the follow up to last years debut "Static" LP ((Kr-aa-k)3) The Bad Statistics have set about laying waste to the New Zealand suburban dream with this album, a much darker and heavier affair than their debut. Led by a bald suit clad psychopath named Thebis Mutante who chants and howls and grunts throughout their doom laden droning rock mantra the closest comparison I have been able to come up with is some sort of hybrid of The Birthday Party, Circle, and The Reynols. If the debut LP were to be regarded as the Mission Statement of Bad Statistics Great Annual Report in the Sky, "Lucky Town Gone" is not the Business Highlights chapter to be expected next, but a sideways lurch straight to Appendix 17: Corrupted Data. Recorded onto degraded old cassette tape, "Lucky Town Gone" is a collection of mean-spirited practice room jams that sees the core four-piece of Bad Statistics further embracing the stoner doom drone rock that already defined large parts of "Static". The seven tracks of "Lucky Town Gone" are again spearheaded by the abrasive, sense-eluding vocal emissions of Thebis Mutante. Critical response to Mutante's contributions on "Static" was deeply divided, and the new album is expected to further polarise opinions. Mutante is backed by Mark Williams (Marineville, Idle Suite, Cookie Brooklyn) on guitar, Justin Barr (Raskolnikovs, Users, Wrongdoings, Delaney Ghost Orchestra) on bass, and Johannes Contag (Jay Clarkson, Cloudboy, Sleepytime) on drums and production." 8/22/2008 Bad Statistics, The Lucky Town Gone CD $12.99 Pseudo Arcana Details "New duo outing from Pascal Nichols (Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides) and Julien Dupont. Out jazz, drone, freeform clang. Hypnotic, attention-grabbing sounds. Crucial stuff. Art by Faye Coral Johnson." 9/17/2011 Bad Trip Beat Is Murder cassette $6.99 House of Alchemy Details The second full-length release from psychedelic bread bakers and bird whisperers Badgerlore -- represented on this release by beard-core ambassadors Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On Fire), Tom Carter (Charalambides), Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), and Rob Fisk (7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) -- Stories For Owls features six beautifully lush, organic pieces that rise and fall with the group's broke-down, burned-up improv and the interplay of piano, vocals, and dual guitars. The music is organized around the conceptual theme of birds constructing nests, and each track explores this idea differently. Stories For Owls also showcases the talents of two newcomers; Tom Carter, whose playing seems beamed in from some entirely off-kilter universe; and Pete Swanson, who by grabbing and processing live sound, both in real time and through tape-delay, gives the already rickety skeletons of these songs an even greater fragility and tenderness. Beautiful and devastating." 12/24/2005 Badgerlore Stories for Owls LP $12.99 Yik Yak Details "The band first emerged from Austin's psychic inner ear in July, 2000. A year later they'd finalized their lineup and were honing what was becoming a very distinct approach to postpunk's high-strung musical palette. The foursome has the net effect of a carload of grad students (with great record collections), who've picked up instruments and marched forward to slay the dumbed-down cartoon that pop has become. It's been a quick year. The results are showing and the rewards are there for the hearing. Singer Scott Telles (ST 37) has a vocal range not heard since the days of David Byrne and Feargal Sharkey. T. helms the keyboards but also plays bass: this in combination with bassist / backing vocalist Colleen G. makes for a deep, rich, undulating groove. Drummer Melissa J. adds the substantial (read: heavy) underpinning for the emergent, hypnotic bedrock. Guitarist Doug B. has plenty of room to further punch up the song's lick or skitter over its top, wild-eyed, and create plenty of nice, jagged spaces. He's the counterweight, wearing away his frets for the cause." - Dave Bottoms 11/23/2004 Bahrain Bahrain CDR $12.99 Blue Circle Details "Aidan Baker is one of the most interesting genre defying solo experimentalists around right now... Aidan also plays in the mind melting shoegaze doom duo of Nadja. This release reissues two tracks from a very limited CDR release entitled Thoughtforms, the original issue was on Tosom and is now long sold out, the LP collects two tracks from this release Thoughtspan and Thought Climate... Two long form tracks of genre blending shoegaze, post rock, krautrock and almost free jazz clatter at times... this is some very beautifully crafted music. Limited to 350 copies." 4/10/2009 Baker, Aidan Thoughtspan LP $21.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "This was a CDR release on This Quiet Army in 2006, and remains one of our favorites by Aidan Baker . Originally limited to 200 copies, it sold out. We are re-releasing "Orange" on LP with four unreleased tracks from the collaboration. Doing a limited run of 500, with 200 on orange wax. Sleeves will be screen printed with velum insert." 5/6/2011 Baker, Aidan & This Quiet Army Orange LP $12.99 Orange Milk Details "Sleepwalking in lost memories, a hairy goblin processes ambient lo-fi nightmarish tales on keyboard, flute, found objects and percussion. Recalling images from childhood days in the Bavarian woods, these Madeleines taste like cold sweat; dark, romantic and surreal elegies for a past never experienced, only imagined. Some call it "Hauntology", we call it Bavarian Gothic. Schatten & Lichter provides ten sonic stillborn changelings at midnight, preserved and presented here on tape. -Holger Adam, Phantom Limbo. Hand numbered edition of 100." 5/6/2011 Balduin Schatten & Lichter c31 cassette $5.99 //cae-sur-a// Details "BambiKill and Joey Chainsaw's split tape collaboration is born screaming from all basements of weathered rented city houses. Joe and Christelle have been making Art and Music as a duo in Bristol for some while now, and are finally captured here together for the first time. Subterranean amps rumble and strain under the shifting earth-tones channelled by their guitars, a real unity can be heard as both musicians lay down tracks of personal psychedelic beauty, Joey's bowed rusted guitar strings carefully sing alongside Christelle's haunting vocals and stripped down fuzzed out guitarŠHuge riffs are held down and restrained as metal strings scrape and echo into drifting delicate song structures, reminiscent of charalambides etc.." 1/30/2010 BambiKill / Joey Chainshaw split c51 cassette $7.99 Bumtapes Details “The final issue of this long-running haven for avant-garde mavericks of all flavors checks in with in depth features on artist, musican DAVID LESTER (MECCA NORMAL); NYC acid-headed improv tour guides MONOTRACT (interviewed by DYLAN NYOUKIS); avant violin/electronics/voice iconoclast and author BURNING STAR CORE (aka C. SPENCER YEH); lost and overlooked Argentinean psychospatial composer NELSON GASTALDI (found and restored by South American sideshow barkers REYNOLS); CRAWL UNIT noise mumbler JOE COLLEY; and experimental writer, visual poet, xtant editor and Juxta publisher JIM LEFTWICH. Packaged with a CD featuring exclusive music from all the above. Bye-bye, Miss American Piehole.” 11/18/2004 Bananafish Issue #18 Magazine + CD $10.99 Tedium House Details "A brand new 7-inch split between two unique songwriting talents. DEVENDRA BANHART delivers a revivalist hymn version of XIU XIU's "Support Out Troops! OH!," backed by Xiu Xiu's deconstructed/dance-blipped version of Banhart's "The Body Breaks," complete with signature freak-out vocals." 12/24/2005 Banhart, Devendra / Xiu Xiu split 7" $6.99 5 Rue Christine Details "Barbed is the London based duo Alex McKechnie and Alex Burrow. They've appeared on numerous compilations (and most recently on the People Like Us Hate People Like Us remix project) and have released a full-length on These Records, but this is the first I have heard from them. These two tracks are teeming with intensity and energy, defined by their strong rhythms, heavy loops, bizarre vocal manipulations, feedback and lots of sound interference. These tracks impel me to turn the volume way up to fully experience these cathartic and energetic sounds, but this is especially so in the case of "Pocket Reminders" on side A, my favourite of the two tracks. Barbed has produced a wonderful and impactful little single, and makes me very glad to see that Elevator Bath seems to be committed to presenting records that are high on quality and short on duration (thus far their catalogue is composed of 7, 10 and 12" records). This edition is limited to 800." - Richard di Santo 9/29/2003 Barbed Pocket Reminders 7" $4.99 Elevator Bath Details "In Search of the Mystery, Gato Barbieri's debut album as leader, was recorded March 15, 1967, on the heels of his work on Don Cherry's famed Blue Note recordings: Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers. This avant-jazz masterpiece from the Argentine tenor saxophonist shows off his volatile, shrieking sound to full and unrelenting affect, fueled by the twin interweaving strings of cellist Calo Scott and bassist Norris Jones (Sirone) and Bobby Kapp's impressionistic drum splatter. Recorded in one day, the session exemplifies the spirited energy of the times and remains distinctive and inspiring today." "In Search of the Mystery is one of Gato Barbieri's early fiery sets. It was released on the ESP label and follows that tradition of stunningly chaotic jazz. This hit-and-run date consists of four tracks, all recorded on March 15, 1967. It is relentless, with Barbieri screaming on tenor throughout, backed by an interesting instrumental array of Sirone on bass, Calo Scott on cello, and Bobby Kapp on drums. Like most ESP dates, this is intense early cutting-edge free jazz, so much so that it continues to be in the early 21st century." - Al Campbell. Housed in digipak with liner notes. 6/27/2009 Barbieri, Gato In Search of the Mystery CD $11.99 ESP-DISK' Details "Batholith is a collection of six tracks that are near and dear to Bardo Pond but, for some reason or another, have never previously been released. That one-sentence description might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material - neither conclusion could be further from the truth. The tracks included on "Batholith" range from previous live staples ("A Tune," one made ’famous’ by opening Bardo’s set at Terrastock II in San Francisco as joined by Roy Montgomery [and a recording of which was featured on the KFJC compilation "Live from the Devil’s Triangle, Volume 2"]) to tracks the band recorded in John Peel sessions ("Slip Away"). Collected as a whole, these tracks form a fluid and cohesive album. "Batholith" is not just an exciting moment for long time Bardo Pond fans, but a great jumping on point for folks who are relatively new to their craft. As per the Three Lobed standard, "Batholith" is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. It will be housed within heavy "old-style" one-pocket Stoughton gatefold jackets bearing new artwork by John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger. The record will be from an edition of close to 1000 copies and, and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax." These copies here also are accompanied by a bonus CD (TLR-044) of previously unreleased Bardo Pond material that is unavailable to order elsewhere outside of this release. 3/27/2008 Bardo Pond Batholith LP + CD plus bonus CD $39.99 Three Lobed Recordings Details "They may no longer name their records after psychedelic toads and Indian magic mushrooms, but when it comes to locating the lysergic mainline to the soul, Bardo Pond have few peers. The Philadelphia quartet's sixth album achieves the noble feat of heightening the charred intensity of 1997's 'Lapsed' while evincing a peculiar clarity at the eye of their slo-mo distortion hurricane. Bardo Pond have long since given up on merely making noise for its own sake. 'Set And Setting' is an aural travel documentary featuring four people and how far they can get without moving from behind their amps. Opener 'Walking Stick Man' sucks its cheeks for 11 minutes, sluicing around the whacked-out slivers of John and Michael Gibbons' black-hole guitar tracings until, exhausted and delirious, it collapses into a wheezy harmonica outro and, finally, the next track. Which is called 'This Time (So Fucked)'. Jesus, it's heavy. Meanwhile, Isobel Sollenberger has been groaning like a feral Kim Gordon about, oh y'know, stuff that comes down. Never hitherto properly audible, her voice is crucial in humanising Pond life." - NME Bardo Pond Set and Setting LP $29.99 Matador Details "Three Lobed Recordings is exceptionally proud to bring the landmark 2004 drone epic 4/23/03 from Bardo Pond and Tom Carter to vinyl for the very first time. While both of these artists have spent decades carving out corners of the American underground, the album collects the output of a single magical day nearly a decade ago when these stalwart voices shared a lengthy day cranking out a unique set of psych excursions. Simply stated, 4/23/03 is a special moment in both artists' vast catalogs. Originally released on CD in 2004, this new edition of 4/23/03 is now pressed on two slabs of American vinyl pressed by United Record Pressing and housed within a handsome two color silkscreened gatefold jacket bearing artwork repli- cating that from the album's CD incarnation. The album, from an edition of approximately 700 copies, presents the entire contents of the original CD version plus a "new" additional track from the original recording sessions. All copies of the 4/23/03 2xLP are accompanied by the hour long 4/25/03 CD presenting a blistering collab- orative live set from Bardo Pond and Tom Carter recorded at Philadelphia's Tritone two days following the album's studio sessions and gloriously exploring like-minded sonic territory." 3/23/2012 Bardo Pond & Tom Carter 4/23/03 double LP + bonus CD $26.99 Three Lobed Recordings Details "A brand new album of total sonic brainwash from two psych masters. Philly's monstrous BARDO POND's side-long, 18-minute track "Bog" blows up next to Detroit ex-pat BUCK PACO's Earth-meets-Skullflower "Six Months to the Day" and "Pushed Out Into The Sun (Parts 1 and 2)." All songs are exclusive and pressed on 140-gram virgin vinyl in an edition of 600 copies with silk-screened covers." 12/24/2005 Bardo Pond / Buck Paco split LP $29.99 Black September Details "sick llama presents : more ancient tongues unforgotten as they rise through th ground up from the grave. edition 77." 9/17/2006 Barf Thoth Dark Speech cassette $8.99 Fag Tapes Details "sick llama presents more from behind the scab curtain. the elevator lights went out and the only other dude in there w/ me kept complaining about the silence. said at his crib 13 televisions and radios would be on all the time 25 / 8, all set to different stations. he busted me this tape. edition 77." 7/16/2006 Barf Thoth Peep Roky cassette $8.99 Fag Tapes Details "Well, i can't say that this tape is boring, that's fer sure. edition 77." 3/20/2007 Barf Thoth / The Cases split cassette $8.99 Fag Tapes Details "After Dave shuts down HAL and finds the true objective of their mission to Jupiter, he boards a pod and descends towards a monolith in search of the destination of the transmission mankind discovered on the Moon. As he reaches the Jupiter monolith, he begins to travel through a tunnel of lights, projected through space and time until he ends up in an ornately decorated bedroom with Renaissance artwork and molding. In the bedroom, Dave starts to rapidly age. As he lies in his deathbed another monolith appears. Just as the apes did in the opening sequence, he reaches out to it, echoing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and is evolved; the starchild is born. The Monolith series combines two like-minded artists on the same one-sided, reverse-cut LP by hard-panning one recording to the right and the other recording to the left. By adjusting the panning controls on his or her turntable, the listener is free to control the degree to which the two recordings melt into one. Each edition in the series is limited to a one-time pressing of 500 picture disc LPs featuring a Monolith inspired painting by Ned Clayton and includes a CD with stereo mixes. Monolith: Jupiter is realized by two fre(e/ak)-jazz duos: Traum and Bark Haze. On the right is Bark Haze, the duo of Gown (Andrew MacGregor) and Thurston Moore. Bark Haze explores the interplay between two unbridled electric guitars. This recording focuses on restraint: an intimate melding of the minds through careful abuse of the strings. On the left is Traum, in this recording the duo of Hell Hall (Graveyards) and Zac Davis (Lambsbread). The project is Hall's continuation of Graveyards' from the gutter ode to jazz's influence on noise. This recording combines Hall's creative and controlled drumwork and percussion with Davis' schizophrenic/ADHD guitar hallucinations. The combination of the two recordings is either interstellar kismet or pure trash or at least interstellar trash." 10/25/2008 Bark Haze / Traum Monolith: Jupiter LP + CD $19.99 Music Fellowship Details "This limited edition LP is pressed in an edition of 1000. These are completely different recordings than The Bark Haze compact disc, also on Important Records. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera). Auxiliary members have been know to include Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Cops, et al). Their name came from a mis-hearing of the radical early '70s R+B group the Bar-Kays and from that moment the concept of mis-hearing and allegiance to presenting the mis-hearing as some open-ended musical course became The Bark Haze's identity." 3/20/2007 Bark Haze, The The Bark Haze LP $15.99 Important Records Details "In April of 2004 Flaneur Productions presented ‘Black Diamond Baby,’ a new play by Jim Bovino. The soundtrack was written and recorded by Rich Barlow (The Pins, Barlow / Petersen / Wivinus, Molloy) and features theme music and dronescapes for Hammond organ and electric guitar, as well as spoken word and music interludes from the play." More info at http://www.geocities.com/flaneur_productions 6/4/2004 Barlow, Rich Black Diamond Baby CD $9.99 Stick It To the Man Records Details “In October of 2001 Flaneur Productions presented the world premiere of ‘Inventory’, a new play by playwright John O’Donoghue at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. The soundtrack was recorded by Rich Barlow (The Pins, Molloy, Barlow/Petersen/Wivinius) and is now available as limited edition cdr from Stick It To The Man. The soundtracks creepy ambience perfectly matches the subject matter of the play, a psychiatric ward where it’s unclear who is the doctor and who is the patient, or whether the building itself is making the inhabitants sick. It was recorded using almost exclusively non-traditional sound sources: fluorescent lights, motors, ground hum and feedback.” Barlow, Rich Inventory CD $8.99 Stick It To The Man Records Details Solo disc from Tim Barnes (Tower Recordings and lots of other projects including the great Quakebasket label). These two improvisations were performed on July 18, 2001 at Lost Planet Editorial, between 9pm and 11pm. There has been no editing or overdubbing done to these performances. “All Acoustics is now pressed as a full-on CD and contains additional art from the original release. However, the music is the same - two lengthy percussion improvisation - cut live with no overdubbing or editing. Barnes attack (and restraint) in line with Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, or Toru Takemitsu. But as Tony Oxley, Milford Graves, and Paul Lovins did before him, Barnes searches out all the possible sounds of any object he chooses to play. A recording for non-cynical people everywhere.” Barnes, Tim All Acoustics CD $12.99 Quakebasket Details "Insanely killer terminator meets escape from ny synthesizer.... truly carpenter'esque but still very brooding and wandering like good tangerine dream, pro dubbed with art designed by alex himself." 11/6/2010 Barnett, Alex Section: 4 c20 cassette $6.99 Pizza Night Details Originally issued on cassette on the R.E.P. label in the 80's in very limited quantities, then re-issued on a 10 CD-R box set entitled "Makoto Kawabata Early Works 1978-1981" (ltd. ed. 100 copies only, numbered, sold out). "This is a music that i originally composed for a play called Alice in Nakedland. The play was some erotic expressionist nonsense, sort of like Alice in Wonderland and Dr. Caligari's Crime added together then divided by two. My script was used, but my music was rejected by the other staff members" M. Kawabata. These are recordings from 1980 pressed on light blue clear vinyl. 12/24/2005 Baroque Bordello Abnormal Songs LP $22.99 QBICO Details CD issue of Syd Barrett’s 2nd and last official release from 1970. This reissue features 6 bonus tracks in addition to the 12 on the original recording. "On his second solo album, Barrett was joined by Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley and Pink Floyd members Rick Wright (organ) and Dave Gilmour (guitar). Gilmour and Wright acted as producers as well. Instrumentally, the result is a bit fuller and smoother than the first album, although it's since been revealed that Gilmour and Wright embellished these songs as best they could without much involvement from Barrett, who was often unable or unwilling to perfect his performance. The songs, however, are just as fractured as on his debut, if not more so. 'Baby Lemonade,' 'Gigolo Aunt,' and the nursery rhyming 'Effervescing Elephant' rank among his peppiest and best-loved tunes. Elsewhere, the tone is darker and more meandering. It was regarded as something of a charming but unfocused throwaway at the time of its release, but Barrett's singularly whimsical and unsettling vision holds up well." – Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide 1/15/2005 Barrett, Syd Barrett CD $13.99 Harvest Details "What is it about depravity that demands attention? From disaster porn to Lifetime movies, our culture loves to vicariously exorcise their diminutive traumas through those whose lives have been wrought with pain. This carries over to the world of music where the dynamic between tragedy and reverence is exalted, rather than critiqued, and personified by such talents as Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, Johnny Ace and, more recently, Mark Sandman. The macabre tales and images of their self-destruction are indelibly linked to the bodies of work they left behind, forever blurring the lines that separate an impartial assessment of their talents from the content of their character. The truth is that the music of those who burn out isn't necessarily judged by a different set of standards so much as it's judged by the standards the artists set for themselves during their creative zeniths. After all, these modern legends posthumously govern a world where rumors and hearsay reach mythical proportions and idolaters devote their entire lives to collecting every shred of sound their own personal God/Goddess ever committed to tape. 'Syd' Roger Barrett is one of those golden calves, though fashioned by a much different maker. The infamous story of his rise to the forefront of the burgeoning British psychedelic scene in the late 60s - for those of you not up on your Syd, he was the premier singer/songwriter of Pink Floyd that fell into a drug-induced mania catalyzed by already-prevalent schizophrenic conditions - has been reiterated, exaggerated, invoked, and novelized so many times that it's arguably overshadowed his seminal contributions to popular music. These contributions - his two solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, both released in 1970 - transcend his work with late-60s Pink Floyd and make for haunting aural documents of a prolific talent's dilapidating psyche while paradoxically managing to retain a rich charm and hooks sharp enough to make Peter Pan wet his tights. Discounting a few independently distributed releases and Cleopatra's Octopus, no serious attempt has ever been made to compile the 'best of' Syd Barrett, let alone to confine the content to his solo material. This may be partially due to the Herculean nature of the task. Though the Madcap's output as a solo artist only adds up to roughly 45 songs (22 of which are contained here), it would be easy for the compiler to fail in their intention, given Syd's penchant for an enduring arrangement and melody. The release of Wouldn't You Miss Me, which draws from every facet of Barrett's available recorded output, is certainly no exception, notably omitting 'No Man's Land,' a common fan favorite, and the stark acoustic demo of 'Rats,' which is home to some of Barrett's most self-effacing (and successful) stream-of-consciousness, and was originally released with fuller instrumentation on Barrett before finding its way onto Opel, a collection of rarities and outtakes. Regardless, the collection itself is a long overdue acknowledgment of the disarming beauty found in Syd's work outside the psychedelic stratum." - Kevin Adickes, February 13th, 2002, Pitchfork Magazine. It is also worth noting that this cd includes 'Bob Dylan Blues'which has not been released anywhere before or since. 1/15/2005 Barrett, Syd Wouldn’t You Miss Me?: The Best of Syd Barrett CD $15.99 Harvest Details "With over two hours of music spread across two discs, 7 Books finds Basho-Junghans stretching way out, mutating the steel string tradition into the most elaborate excursion into sound and composition that has ever fluttered from his fingertips. Basho-Junghans' experimental works are microcosms of his chance discoveries with the acoustic steel string guitar, focusing in on a particular aspect of his epiphanies; 7 Books gathers all of these microcosms into one Big Bang, erupting into a vast universe of subtle and complex sound galaxies. Six-string guitar provides the template for Disc One, and each 'book' (composition) opens and closes with a deep array of chapters and passages. Chiming tones, pulsating percussive runs, finger scrapes and dazzling finger techniques build and build in raga-like fashion. Disc Two focuses on music composed with slide guitar, and Basho-Junghans' particular alien glissandos dance like refracted light, a gloriously disorienting sound broadcast seemingly from a foreign land. Minimalism, Eastern raga, trance-inducing repetition, Spectralist tonal investigations, folk and American fingerstyle steel-string tradition coalesce into one astounding epic for the solo acoustic guitar. Steffen Basho-Junghans follows his instincts above everything else and discovers a myriad of universes within a solitary instrument, inventing a new language in the process." 3/27/2004 Basho-Junghans, Steffen 7 Books double CD $16.99 Strange Attractors Audio House Details "Evolving amorphously from the New Folk tradition inspired by Takoma Records artists John Fahey, Peter Lang and especially Robbie Basho, Berlin's most enigmatic steel-string guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans exorcises radically new voices and perspectives out of the acoustic steel string guitar. Possessing an impeccable instinct and insatiable curiosity, this innovative guitar master is on a constant search to discover new possibilities for the instrument. Conceptually, Inside is a metaphysical excursion exploring the idea 'inside the outside'. Using 'wrong' playing techniques as the basic launching point, Inside casts aside the inhibitive shackles of theory and develops the basic idea via a meditative and utterly minimalist approach. Hypnotizing soundscapes emerge from the depths, enveloping and distorting any semblance of time to the point of blissful disorientation. Broken into three movements, '1st Movement' establishes the very essence of the piece as a subtly shifting meander through space, building in a somewhat percussive, raga-like manner. '2nd Movement, Part 1, 2 & 3' seem to hit a sojourn in the trip, dancing around a universe where Derek Bailey and Rod Poole incessantly debate the merits of John Fahey's America album. '3rd Movement' moves back into the saturating theme, galloping through various minute manifestations, ebbing and flowing effortlessly. An astonishing array of sounds are coaxed out of his acoustic steel string, remarkable considering Inside was recorded solo, with no overdubs whatsoever. Standing uniquely apart as a singular suite of minimal-trance for solo acoustic guitar, Inside sets folk standards collectively on it's ear. With this record, Steffen Basho-Junghans makes a radical statement on the potential of acoustic guitar music. His ultimate achievement, however, is the creation of absolute beauty." Basho-Junghans, Steffen Inside CD $12.99 Strange Attractors Audio House Details "Much in the vein of his pastorale epic Rivers and Bridges, Steffen Basho-Junghans harkens back to the heyday of American Primitive guitar, as defined by John Fahey circa Fare Forward Voyagers and America, and the American raga structures of Robbie Basho. 'Late Summer Morning,' the title track, is an unabashedly beautiful extended composition for 6-string guitar, stretching out languidly and effortlessly like a morning raga saturated in crisp, warming hues. With the steel string tradition as a steadfast reference point, Basho-Junghans utilizes unorthodox pacing, picking and rhythms as Late Summer Morning progresses. 'Woodland Orchestra' discreetly harkens to themes of tone and minimalism as found on 7 Books or any one of his experimental albums, while 'Azure No. 3' wraps glistening guitar lines into circular patterns to create lovely trance-inducing color wheels. A key component to Late Summer Morning, however, is Basho-Junghans' ability to strike out into the unknown while keeping the sounds and tones grounded, something that is evident as multiple sound forms hit the ear with calming bliss. American folk and classical, East Indian raga, Native American linearity, the resonance of Middle Eastern folk and melodic minimalism (i.e. Steve Reich) meld together in a fashion that is tremendously cinematic and allegorically vivid." 11/4/2006 Basho-Junghans, Steffen Late Summer Morning CD $12.99 Strange Attractors Audio House Details "'Alien Letter is the 1st project of a series of guitar 'excursions into the Unknown', most of them dialogues with one guitar, recorded live and pure (in my living room) to dat and edited gently. Into this one I came deep at night, when I took a guitar to close the 'day' with some sounds. The channel characteristics are those of the player position. No overdubs or reverb have been added.' - SBJ, Berlin, August 2004. This is how Steffen describes his brand new album, the first one for Sillyboy Records. For us, Alien Letter is another fascinating chapter in Junghans' outstanding musical career - and one of the most mysteriously intriguing. This time, the Berlin-based acoustic guitarist is really mapping uncharted territories and the result is this dense, massive album, linked to the tradition of both Derek Bailey and John Fahey, but also one step forward, out in the unknown. Quite literally beyond description, spiritual and out-there, Alien Letter has probably more in common with the healing power of Albert Ayler and surely it is a deeply personal missive from one of today's greatest acoustic guitarists." 4/10/2005 Basho-Junghans, Steffen Unknown Music 1: Alien Letter CD $14.99 Sillyboy Details "The Preservation label presents Unknown Music II - Transwarp Meditation, from Steffen Basho-Junghans. The passion for exploratory acoustic music currently in grip has been with Steffen Basho-Junghans for a long time. Based in Berlin, Steffen has been one of the most searching artists in the ever-increasingly loose folk idiom for over two decades. His work on the six and twelve-string guitar makes him a modern-day counterpart to great trailblazers John Fahey and Robbie Basho, from who he takes his name as a creative talisman. Unknown Music II is much more than just a set of psychedelic overtures. It's a work of deep spiritual vision that comes from having travelled far down an exceptionally individual path. 9/30/2005 Basho-Junghans, Steffen Unknown Music II CD $14.99 Preservation Details "Totally seamless electric/acoustic mindmeld from the duo of Jacob Heule (Ettrick) and Tony Dryer. Double bass, floor tom and cymbals trigger electronics, which are processed to create spontaneous compositions ranging from articulate harsh noise to quiet moments reminiscent of Comus, U.S Maple and Brigitte Fontaine." 3/6/2010 Basshaters Harsh Lovers Sick Zoo c40 cassette $4.99 Yik Yak Details "The works that Collected Works collects are A Ghost From The Darkened Sea and Kikaokubeshi, two albums recorded and released in 1995 and 1996, during the final period of conceptualization for Ghost's Lama Rabi Rabi album. These two solo records allowed Batoh to explore musics and textures in an entirely free space from the already quite free (and rapidly morphing) Ghost. This is a solo record in a very complete sense: acoustic guitar, marimba, harmonium, voodoo drum, bells, hurdy gurdy, organ, drums, horns, duff, Moog synthesizer and the mysterious 'giri giri pee' are all played by Batoh. In addition, field recordings done by Batoh are in the mix - birds, seashore, winds on a bluff, industrial noise, metro, mountains, etc. The two works are fundamentally different: A Ghost From The Darkened Sea being an earthy collection of folk-songs; Kikaokubeshi composed almost entirely of a dreamy ambience." 10/5/2004 Batoh, Masaki Collected Works 1995-1996 CD $14.99 Drag City Details "The works that Collected Works collects are A Ghost From The Darkened Sea and Kikaokubeshi, two albums recorded and released in 1995 and 1996, during the final period of conceptualization for Ghost's Lama Rabi Rabi album. These two solo records allowed Batoh to explore musics and textures in an entirely free space from the already quite free (and rapidly morphing) Ghost. This is a solo record in a very complete sense: acoustic guitar, marimba, harmonium, voodoo drum, bells, hurdy gurdy, organ, drums, horns, duff, Moog synthesizer and the mysterious 'giri giri pee' are all played by Batoh. In addition, field recordings done by Batoh are in the mix - birds, seashore, winds on a bluff, industrial noise, metro, mountains, etc. The two works are fundamentally different: A Ghost From The Darkened Sea being an earthy collection of folk-songs; Kikaokubeshi composed almost entirely of a dreamy ambience." 10/5/2004 Batoh, Masaki Collected Works 1995-1996 LP $19.99 Drag City Details "This is "An Island" by saxophonist Matt Baumann. Over the summer months we talked about releasing an album. Matt's response was to send me this wonderful solo recording. The cd is split into eight tracks.Imagine the waves breaking on the beach of some remote deserted island with echoing calls of a lyrical,mournful and lonely saxophone crying from a inner soul. I wanted to combine the release with a recollection from my past. I always loved the music of saxophonist Jan Garbarek and cover designs of the german ECM record label he was on. So this is the result." 10/25/2008 Baumann, Matt An Island CDR $12.99 Reverb Worship Details "Beautiful debut 45 from London singer songwriter Tom Baxendale. Ace blend of alt. country, folk and Americana, with an 'A' side rush of acoustic guitar and mandolin recalling atmospheric odes to love and loss. The 'B' side lowers the tempo and is way more gentle, recalling perhaps, 'Gosdin Brothers' era Gene Clark. Regular gigging partner to previous GPS debutant Pete Greenwood. A pressing of 300 copies in gorgeously cool orange and green tracing paper booklets, again, not expected to sit around for longŠ" 12/13/2008 Baxendale, Tom Her Ghost 7" $6.99 Great Pop Supplement Details "John Boyle and Aya Onishi (of Nihilist Spasm Band) play an arsenal of drums, modified thumb pianos & kazoos, with guest Arnaud Riviere (of Textile Orchestra, among other things) on destroyed turntables. The music was recorded live in France, documenting their set at Sonic Protest from a few years back. It consists of a half hour of unrelenting primal improvisation, underpinned by some early-man-style drumming and skittering cascades of feedback and heavily amplified, tactile interplay. Limited edition of 100, with b&w photo-print." 5/23/2009 Bayal with Arnaud Riviere First Contact CDR $10.99 Bug Incision Details "Imagine if an ant the size of a golden retriever and an elephant the size of an ant haunted you at night in an effort to get you to smear your naked body with electricity and deli mustard in the stratosphere, only to be directly transported to a very dark place. You fumble around and find a doorknob. Won't open. Your vision adjusts to the darkness and you slowly realize you are in your own closet. Whose idea was it to lock the closet anyway?" Handmade jackets. Lot of inserts. A strange record. Edition of 200 copies. 1/13/2004 Baz / Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit Insurance split LP $8.99 Nauscopy Records Details "A great collection of unreleased outtakes and demos from their psychedelic "Smiley Smile" period: "Prayer," "Heroes & Villains," "Barnyard," "Do You Like Worms," "The Old Masterpainter / You are My Sunshine," "He Gives Speeches," "Wonderful," Child is Father of the Man," "Cabin Essence," "Look," "Good Vibrations," "I Wanna Be Around/Friday Night," "Vega-Tables," "Wind Chimes," "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow," "I Love to Say DaDa," "You're Welcome," and "Surf's Up." Very informative liner notes on each track, and a nice full color cover. UK import." 1/1/2008 Beach Boys Smile LP $20.99 Details Bootleg reissue with nicely done paste-on covers. "New England low-key psych. harmonies, keys, some fuzz. The ‘Baptism’ material was recorded in 1970." 11/5/2002 Bead Game Baptism LP $27.99 Details "An entire year after they were initially pressed, the Beak Full Of Rubies one-sided LPs are finally finished, printed, amazing and ready for the world. There were only 100 copies made, and they'll be gone in a lot less than a year! If you have no idea who BFOR are, don't worry, they're kinda under the radar. It's Scott Deroche, Chuck Sipperly & Chandan Narayan, three sweet dudes who improvise and rustle in an elctro-acoustic via sampled noise and prepared instruments style." 11/17/2007 Beak Full of Rubies Beak Full of Rubies one sided LP $12.99 Ypsilanti Records Details "Dark spaced-out basement hash jams courtesy of Bear Bones Lay Low, Sylvester Anfang II's greatest stoner. About high fucking time. All synth on this one, and it all sounds pretty wasted too. Think wobbly slowmo melodies oozing green day-glo aura's over demented kraut tapestries. 90 copies." 2/16/2011 Bear Bones Lay Low Smoked The Whole Thing c40 cassette $8.99 Sloow Tapes Details "DVDr reissue of THE BEAST PEOPLE vhs video released in 1999. This contains the entire video, plus commentary by drunk college girls! Also in the extras are the 1996 & 1997 HANSON promotional videos with clips from ISIS & WEREWOLVES, AWK, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, and more...1997 promo can also be played backwards! DVD authored by C. Spencer Yeh." 12/25/2005 Beast People, The Special Edition DVD-R $12.99 Hanson Details Recorded in 1999. One-sided 10" in generic green sleeve. No other information available. Ltd. to 300 copies only. 2/26/2006 Beast People, The The Beast People 10" $8.99 Hanson Details "10 Years ago, Ian Read's (Fire + Ice) Fremdheit label released two Neofolk/Experimental compilations under the name "The Pact". The second of these compilations contained an unforgettable track from an Australian outfit called Beastianity. Curious about the band and eager to hear more, we tried to dig up as much information as possible - but very little (if any) information was readily available. We were able to find the band shortly after the creation of Dais in 2007, and are proud to announce, along with Praise Dog Publishing, the first ever vinyl release of Beastianity's first and only album "Root", originally released in 1999 on CD and in Australia only. This record is hands down one of the rawest and most unrelenting albums in the neofolk genre. A purely pagan classic. Renown for their wild (and often violent) performances, Beastianity somehow managed to capture that energy in 12 tracks of Dog-Blessed glory." Edition of 300 copies. 8/31/2010 Beastianity Root LP $17.99 Dais Details "Properly, "Preconscious Makaveli, Volume 1." But before I venture any further, allow me to clear this up: I'm making nothing in the way of an implicit argument that Julian Jaynes is in the same kettle of fish as...really, where could I even be headed with this sentence? Enclosed, please find sick undulation of the gossamer tape measure/verbed-out, unexpectedly wooly nighttime cloudsit plus obese quasi-prog extrusion into unrealizable pastel aviary, old-fashioned radio telescope filter rust, hovering garden, disintegrating cliffs, et al, and ascent to who the fuck knows where, complete with maybe three or four marauding entities and a nagging suspicion that DMT hyperspace is actually the trunk of someone's car - not that it matters for practical purposes or anything..."where we're going we don't need etc etc." Tranquility Base burble systems and odd concluding neolithic ritual postscript, the lot of it contemporaneous with and not unrelated to the angle worked on tour with Harpoon Pole Vault a few months back and essentially from the same cobwebbed/cheesecloth'd headspace as Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico. Hand-numbered edition of 150." 11/6/2010 Bee Mask From a Will-Less Gigolo of a Divinity to the Gore-Spattered Lion on His Own Hearth, Odysseus Becomes "Odysseus" c22 cassette $7.99 Deception Island Details “Beequeen planned to celebrate their tenth anniversary in 1999 with two releases. The first was 'Do Be Do - an anthology of live recordings', which was released as a limited 2LP set on Plinkity Plonk in 1999 (now available as a CDR). The second one was an anthology of recordings that were hard to get and/or previously unreleased - a CD called 'A Touch Of Brimstone'. 'Brimstone' was sent to various labels who expressed their interest in releasing it, but somehow and somewhere lost interest. So merely three years in the process of making, it's now finally available. 'A Touch of Brimstone' features many unreleased recordings from 1989 to1995, aswell as a one cut from the now long-deleted Scala Destillans LP. This release comes with a 32-page booklet, with many exclusive flyers from concerts and hilarious, not seen before, photographs of the band and a fully updated discography. The texts in this booklet are by Till Kniola (Auf Abwegen magazine), Baraka[H] (Troum), Terry Bennett (Beequeen's webmaster), Elenka Freikkar (longest dedicated fan) and Seward D. Faran (Institute for Electrical Music).” 3/27/2004 Beequeen A Touch of Brimstone CD $14.99 Staalplaat Details "Nobody fools mother nature...well, almost nobody. The opening scherzo of Beequeen's latest opus includes such well recorded sounds of seagulls that my dog started barking at the speakers! In fact, the entire first movement of the symphonie is nothing but mother nature captured at work by some immaculate recording geniuses (see also Chris Watson's BBC field recordings). In typical unpredictable Beequeen style, a humming drone sneaks up on and then duets with the natural sounds, and then breaks into an illbient triphop. The shifts continue until the aural journey from nature to manmade finished product is realized with echoed metallic splendor." Edition of 120 copies pressed on 220 gram yellow vinyl. Few copies available. 12/24/2003 Beequeen Natursymphonie LP $24.99 Beta-Lactam Ring Records Details "After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song-based, this album features new vocals by Olga Wallis solely (with some backing by Freek Kinkelaar). Well rounded pop songs in some places, but Beequeen never forgets to put in some strange element, without leaping in the dark alley of pointless experiment." 8/22/2008 Beequeen Sandancing CD $13.99 Important Details 1996 release of industrial veterans Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar is inspired by and dedicated to Joseph Beuys, the German visual artist whose unconventional and transitory works of art were an attempt to break through society's rationality. This third, Beequeen album is conceptually very much in line with Beuys' philosophy. Coveting the titles of some of their favourite Frank Sinatra, Nell Diamond and Presley songs they start from a commonly known theme, but the great thing about it is they allow a whole new world of musical forms and matters to flourish from it in a composition that radiates positive ambiences from beginning to end. 'Sugarbush' is one huge organic flow of constantly shifting moods, with music that ranges from softer ambiental textures with a quiet rhythmic undercurrent, over more extreme metallic noise acoustics and semi-melodic collages of recuperated and manipulated sounds. Beautiful soundscapes for your cold winter evenings, and - in my opinion - the best Beequeen album to date. An experience that is not to be missed...” - GR - from Tanz Der Rozen No. 4 3/27/2004 Beequeen Sugarbush CD $14.99 Raum 312 Details "It took Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar two years to complete the recordings for The Bodyshop, the successor to their much-acclaimed CD Ownliness from 2002. The Bodyshop continues where Ownliness left off. Ownliness marked a distinct break with Beequeen's past. The ambient-industrial drone music of yesteryear was said goodbye and the Beequeen's love of pop music returned. The instruments changed from organs, synthesizers and sound effects to guitars, drums, bass and guest musicians on cello and even vocals (a distinctive first for Beequeen). The Bodyshop features two of these remarkable vocals tracks; a cover of Nick Drake's 'Black Eyed Dog' (sung by Antenne's Marie-Louise Munck) and the indeed very sad track 'Sad Sheep'. Although Beequeen never cites influences, it's easy spot their interest in the Beatles' psychedelic period and latter day Talk Talk in combination with a love for krautrock and microsound - not the most likely of combinations, but somehow it all makes sense on The Bodyshop." 3/11/2005 Beequeen The Bodyshop CD $10.99 Important Records Details "Time Waits For No One's material isn't new, having been recorded in Nijmegen in 1992-93 and originally released in 1994 on Staalplaat, but the genre of experimental drone-based exploration is one of those most capable of transcending time. Beequeen members Freek Kinkelaar (Brunnen) and Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Goem) use electronics, voices, and unidentified instruments to scatter two long tracks (ten and twenty minutes) amongst seven more modest settings. Whether long or short, the pieces are largely hazy meditations whose industrial churn is speckled with string plucks, percussive patterns, and electronic effects. Not surprisingly, the long tracks make the strongest impression: in the episodic "Six Notes on Blank Tape," bowed scrapes of string instruments groan over a throbbing bass drone and the simulated roar of a train clatters along its tracks, and in the album's most fully-realized piece, the a doomscape "Rupert Writes a Rainbow," a '50s sci-fi synthesizer floats atop a droning unfurl of whooshes and gaseous emissions. The album's material unfurls organically in subtle strokes, sometimes so quietly it verges on microsound, and the generally relaxed feel suggests the collaborators had ample studio time with which to pursue their playful explorations." - textura.org 8/22/2008 Beequeen Time Waits For No One CD $13.99 Herbal Details "A six-part suite by Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger, "Peacemaker" attempts to offer hope and a break from the violence of the day through introspection, while at the same time stretching out his musical horizons with electronics. "Long Story" feeds off the tender, Arabic-tinged interplay between Beger's soprano and the plaintive minimal guitar of Ido Buckelman. Its tone is hypnotic and eternal, as if a restatement of an ancient message of peace. On "Long Story," Beger breaks out the tenor, which offers a mellow intro before Dan Benedikt's drums kick in a frantic, almost Free break before settling back in to a more structured drone. Assaf Hakimi's bass guides "Facing You," which meanders into a bop-like din. The title track reveals the laptop electronics of Avi Elbaz at its most persuasive, blending with the themes that Beger and Buckelman have woven thus far in the set. The electronics add an ethereal background to Beger's lofty soloing. "Long Story (The End)" follows, and seems redundant as a closer to the set, given the power and resolutions offered in the title track. "Peacemaker" is as lyrical as it is forceful While Albert Beger's effort speaks to a desire for inner peace rather than address any political division, it nevertheless covers a range of honest, hermetic emotions suitable for meditation or for manifesto." - Mike Wood, Foxy Digitalis 1/22/2011 Beger Electroacoustic Band, Albert Peacemaker CD $13.99 Anova Music Details "Recorded live to tape in two days, after a sleep deprived month of Beefheart style creative lockdown, Begushkin -- Dan Smith's 8-headed hydra -- lay to rest the twilight folk of 2007's Nightly Things and re-emerge with the wicked and strange hard rock gypsy shake of King's Curse. Smith yells and carries on like a man possessed with tales of the damnation of a robber king and the band plays it ultra tight and ultra heavy. King's Curse is higher-tier creep-rock." 180 gram vinyl. 1/24/2009 Begushkin King's Curse LP $15.99 Locust Details "German composer and sound artist Marc Behrens has put forth a beautiful installment of sound work for cmr's second CD release, entitled Architectural Commentaries. Marc has been working with sound (in one form or another) since 1986 and is probably most recognised for his digitally re-worked field material and composition. With a long history of installation work and live performance, he has exhibited alone and in group exhibitions; and performed live internationally in locations such as Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. He has completed tours with fellow sound artists Francisco Lopez, Bernhard Gunter and John Duncan and has had notable CD releases on Gunter's label Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Digital Narcis (Japan), Raster Music (Germany) and Intransitive Recordings (USA). Architectural Commentaries is comprised of five tracks. The first three pieces, entitled Architectural Commentaries 1-3', are some of Marc's most recent compositions arranged in 2001 using basic material recorded from 1990- 2000 in various global locations. Taking title, sleeve images and sound together we are left with new audible environments for architectural structures; jets of forced air and amplified nothing, distant machinery and tiny bites of frequency, faded and cut together to create beautifully atmospheric soundscapes. Track 4 was previously released on RLW's 'Tulpas' 5 CD set (Selektion 024) and was constructed using source material from Ralf Wehowsky. Track 5 was composed in 1992 as a soundtrack to accompany the video Der Raum by Torsten Grosch - stills of which feature on the CD sleeve. The album permits a smooth flow between Marc's earlier and more recent work and shows the artists' continuing exploration into the depth and dimensions of sound recording." 6/26/2002 Behrens, M. Architectural Commentaries CD $10.99 CMR Details From Hadley, Massachusetts we have a new six track cdr from The Believers (Anna Klein, Jessi Swanson, and from both Son of Earth and Shackamaxon Matt Krefting and John Shaw). "Packaged in handmade, elongated cardstock envelopes; with hand-stamped cover and informative insert." 2/15/2005 Believers, The Brontoursaurus CDR $8.99 Apostasy Recordings Details "A long three track CDR collecting a particularly insulated and homespun era of the BELIEVERS development. Especially the longer-than-album-side rendition of their standard, ëThe Lakeí. Step inside, take a breath, get to know this album. Perhaps you will glimpse the reasons why so many in the valley are holding their breath for the BELIEVERS debut LP. Features members of SON OF EARTH, SHACKAMAXON, DUCK, IDEA FIRE COMPANY, SAPAT, so many other spins, the whole meatball is here. Packaged in simple xerox folded jackets, origami style." 7/16/2006 Believers, The Forgotten Tracks CDR $9.99 Blueberry Honey Details "A lost journey to unknown planets, defective machinery, dead pilots at the controls. recorded in late 2006, in the waning light of the Il Corral, when free pianos roamed the wild west. Jarrett Silberman is the lone gunsliger of downtown LA, a founding constituent of the Smell, formerly in Young People, tours with Liars and others. Bob Bellerue is the harbinger of Halfnormal / Redglaer / Anarchymoon, plays with KILT / Purple Pansy. both have solo amplified piano pieces, and getting together seemed like the perfect idear. Each album comes with a 1-sided 12" of the essential set of the session, as well as a CDR of all the recordings. Edition of 200, paste-on xerox covers (ultra orange!!)." 5/20/2009 Bellerue, Bob & Jarrett Silberman Amplified Piano Duets one-sided 12" + CDR $10.99 Anarchymoon Recordings Details "Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti, two musicians from Italy with an extensive solo activity, started the Bellows project together in 2006 and released their first CD in 2007. Their second release, an LP available now on PLANAM, was recorded in november 2009 in Tübingen, Germany. Quite different from the first, this new project was developed around the simple technique of cutting/destroying and amplifying vinyl records with contact microphones, creating new grooves and physical loops while capturing the sounds on a Revox tape machine with long tape loops. No further transformations or processing were applied even if a couple of effect pedals and simple sine waves were sometimes used too. The result is a sort of very atmospheric and modern-electronic music as if these sonorities were recorded at the beginning of the last century on 78rpm shellac records. The sleeve features the original artwork by Italian artist Amedeo Martegani. Edition limited to 250 copies." 8/31/2010 Bellows Handcut LP $22.99 PLANAM Details "BeMyDelay is the solo project of Marcella Riccardi (Blake/e/e/e, Franklin Delano, Massimo Volume), singer and guitarist. Her interest in archaic blues and adventurous music is the ground for building a song collection which tastes of experimental blues, vocal drones, acoustic pareidolia. BeMyDelay takes the listener to a soft voyage, letting the mind flow gently, a cosmic singalong where melodies come and go circularly, immersed in a muffled and ethereal atmosphere. Voice is used as an instrument, following the guitar loops and delays. Entitled 'ToTheOtherSide' the albums is another piece of the puzzle of that female psychedelia that goes from Grouper to US Girls, Valet and many more. The sound here is more shaped and definite than Liz Harris' or Honey Owens', sounding less narcoleptic and more acoustically psychedelic, even using a large array of effects." 5/19/2011 BeMyDelay ToTheOtherSide CD $12.99 Boring Machines Details "The San Francisco iconoclast is back to settle old scores and forge new directions on his second solo CD. More straight psychedelic rock than the first album, No Resistance also ventures further into uncharted territory. 'I listened to a lot of music by the Dipsomaniacs, Lucky Bishops, Motorpsycho and Spirit while recording the album. Those of you familiar with these groups may detect their influences in my work. As always, my usual favorites The Bevis Frond, Guided by Voices and Pavement, and lifelong musical heroes John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix were never far from my consciousness. At any rate, this CD is a labor of love and I hope it blows your mind.'" Bensen, Nick No Resistance CD $12.99 Free City Media Details "Nick Bensen is a San Francisco-based musician and composer originally from New York, and a veteran of the New England jam scene. His first album, Psychedelic Juggernaut, released on the Free City Media label, is definitely worth checking out. The album is, in Bensen's words, a 10-track exploration of 'the acid rock thread running through Britpop, heavy blues, progressive, alternative and techno.' As 1960's acid-rock bands mined the catalogues of blues musicians and interpreted their music through a modern, psychedelic sound, so Bensen, using entirely original songs, has interpreted 'the acid rock' in an entirely contemporary mode, combining electronica and indie sounds to create something new. What results is a progressive fusion of today's 'science fiction' techno with 60's psychedelia, a sound reminiscent of Beck, or the British artists The Bevis Frond and The Lucky Bishops." Bensen, Nick Psychedelic Juggernaut CD $12.99 Free City Media Details "The definitive document of 2008's midnight tunnel shows. Features the trio in a mode with is more easily aligned with the recent Dadge/Munro BSD music. Laing's sax playing is extremely spacious and restrained. Dadge and Munro play violin, viola, trumpet, cuatro, trombone, and sparse percussion. Limited edition of 50, with insert." 5/23/2009 Bent Spoon Trio More Experienced Filthier CDR $10.99 Bug Incision Details "Two prime BST tracks, complete with string+sax sexctions, vocals, and some fine straight-up trio moments. Third track adds Thom Golub on the double bass. The final cut is a quintet, adding Jay Crocker on guitar and pink dolphin, and Dan Meichel on tenor sax. Recorded by Brad Hawkins, culled from the monthly series at Theatre Junction. Limited edition of 50, with insert." 5/23/2009 Bent Spoon Trio + 3 Dead Salems Danced In Their Ashtrays CDR $10.99 Bug Incision Details "Monster heavy psych ultra-rarity from 1969 (Trend Records)—a volcanic dose of intense fuzz guitar, the perfect complement to the band’s sloppy garage ambience, and chugging beat; a strange case here, as the music on 'Sussex' is often overshadowed by the album’s reputation as a one of the rarest collectible LPs in the world—a pity, as the music is as psychedelic as they come, a veritable fuzz guitar inferno! three bonus tracks—two singles tracks (alternate versions of LP tracks), plus a mellow nineteen-minute band rehearsal jam (fragments of two or three non-LP songs) that’s really pretty amazing, once it gets going." - Lion Productions 4/10/2005 Bent Wind Sussex CD $17.99 World Psychedelia Details "David Rutledge of Berber Ox hails from Australia and crafts some of the most alluring compositions we've encountered in quite a while. Deftly playing with perceptions of space and resonance, Berber Ox guides 'Minor Tranquiliser' toward a candid interface between man and machine. Macro-sized drones flow and then eddy around micro-moments of time. Field recordings of chattering public spaces and eerily familiar human environments crisp into focus amidst the tide of artificial intelligence, and then swirl away again in gentle deference. A multi-faceted gem of patience and pacing, 'Minor Tranquiliser' yields much to the involved listener upon every return. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c56 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." 11/27/2010 Berber Ox Minor Tranquiliser c56 cassette $6.99 Stunned Details "Heavy Tapes & GMBY co-sponsored wrestling match. Recorded live at the ErstQuake Festival at Tonic., this one's a set of heavy and focused modulation. The improv crowd hated it, maybe you will too." 3/2/2007 Bernstein, Michael R. & Mike Shiftlet Live, New York CDR $8.99 Gameboy Details "A chemist by training, Philippe Besombes was engaged in the French avant-garde music scene from the early 1970s. Abandoning his doctoral degree for his groundbreaking work with new electronics in a variety of musical contexts, he supported himself through the seventies creating and composing the sounds for theater and ballet. Besombes was also well-known as an audio engineer in the French contemporary concert scene. Perhaps best known for his group Hydravion, Besombes still records and releases music at his studio in Versailles. Conceived as the soundtrack (and, in fact, the ONLY sound in the movie) for the avant-garde film Libra, the music on this 1973 album ranges in style from electronic pop mixed with music concrete ala Parmegiani/Henry to psychedelic exercises, progressive rock, sitar raga, and fusion. By including a mix of rock musicians and electronic treatments, Besombes was a pioneer in a very new way of working. Bonus tracks will include three cuts from the Libra sessions that have never been released, and a lengthy, experimental minimalist prepared-piano composition will also be included. From the Nurse With Wound list. Libra is the first in a trilogy of Besombes's albums MIO will release." 7/31/2006 Besombes, Philippe Libra CD $13.99 Mio Records Details "Former Pocahaunted member Bethany Cosentino (aka Best Coast) embodies California. Her songs are effortlessly ramshackle, layers of fuzzed guitar and a voice with enough heft and soul that it brings to mind 1950s girl soul groups or even a female-centric Beach Boys. There's also a sense of permanent longing, an inescapable melancholy that can only come from living near the beach, perpetually sunny but a little sad too.Features the songs "The Sun Was High (So Was I)," "So Gone" and "That's the Way Boys." Repress. 3/20/2010 Best Coast She Was High (So Was I) 7" $7.99 Art Fag Details "Reissue of the long sold out cassette only debut from Bethany Cosentino (formerly of Pocahaunted). These five tracks were released in an edition of only 200 copies on cassette back in the Summer of 2009 on Blackest Rainbow. Here these 5 tracks clocking in at a total of 14 sweet minutes are reissued just in time for Bethany's first visit to the UK and Europe. Copies of the cassette have been extremely hard to come by with Best Coast's growing popularity following a series of excellent 7"s on PPM, Group Tightener, Art Fag, Black Iris and Atelier Ciseaux, so the time definitely seemed right for this reissue. This will be the very first Best Coast CD! Glass mastered CD edition of only 1000 copies packaged in pro-printed CD wallet with new artwork featuring beach loving 80s kids." 5/16/2010 Best Coast Where The Boys Are CDEP $8.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "Our past is irrelevant. We have fused into one dancing body. Synth popwaves by Matt Weiner (Twins) and Elise Tippins." Edition of 80 copies. 1/25/2011 Best Hits Fantastic lands and Other Songs CDR $9.99 Synth / Ruralfaune Details "3 piece from barcelona Bèstia Ferida (means "wounded beast" in catalan)....Arnau Sala of OZONOKIDS and Adrian De Alfonso with Marc Cunningham of MARS...playing something that simultaneously touches on past/current free mind melt and focused blistering stumble and then shreds all of that for crackling-pure sound...This release is a compilation of different live acts around Barcelona, all of them during year 2008 at places like la Pedrera, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Convent de Sant Agustí, Sala Apolo or Sala Big Bang." 6/27/2009 Bestia Ferida Live Wounded cassette $5.99 Scumbag Relations Details "Under a churning haze of harrowing vocals, buzzing synths, and fitful drumming, Los Angeles based Bestial Mouths create a unique sonic space that is at once dissonant and engaging. Drawing from a large base of influences including industrial sound collage, obscure early electronic pieces, and experimental works, Bestial Mouths came together in 2009 from a desire to create original music that is foreboding without relying on cliché. Christopher Myrick (Synths) and Ebrahim Saleh (Drums) create an unpredictable ground for singer Lynette Cerezo to walk on. Hovering above the clamor, Lynette's haunting, atypical vocal delivery transforms cryptic nightmarish imagery into tightly wound, barely controlled pop. Early in their career, frantic live performances combined with a self-released demo captured the attention of DAIS Records, whose catalog includes Cold Cave, COUM Transmissions, Robert Turman, aTelecine and Iceage. Bestial Mouths divided their time in 2010 between the road and the studio, recording a split with Blessure Grave and sharing stages with Former Ghost, Soft Kill, Water Borders, Nervous Gender, The Delta Mirror, Soft Metals and Jewels of the Nile. Hissing Veil, Bestial Mouths debut full length available this July on DAIS Records is 40 minutes of intense gloom. A meditation on the relationship between transgressor and victim conceived in a flurry of automatic writing, Hissing Veil is an urgent declaration revealed in a barrage of primitive rhythms and feral calls. Bestial Mouths will be touring extensively this summer in support of Hissing Veil. Yes, a great silence is waiting. Prepare yourself. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies on clear vinyl." 9/10/2011 Bestial Mouths Hissing Veil LP $16.99 Dais Details "A CD reissue of the Bevis Frond's 1987 double-LP odds'n'sods album, originally released as a private press item in an edition of 500. Thirteen tracks in all, including 'Alistair Jones' - which Nick Saloman recorded in 1967 at the tender age of 14 - and the epic lysergic workouts 'The Shrine,' '1970 Home Improvements' and 'Purple Shine.'" Nice collection to finally be available again! 1/21/2005 Bevis Frond Through The Looking Glass CD $14.99 Rubric Details Music & text by Markos Zografos. "Time stops. Everything disappears except for the sensation of infinity..." Phase 3 & 4 from the longer piece "Four Phases of Emanation of Light". Xenakis inspired, slow building noise drone intensity. 11/20/2010 Bfffth Two Phases of Emanation of Light LP $16.99 Heard Worse Details "This release is quite special as it has given us the opportunity to work with one of our all-time favorite artists (and one of the true all-time greats), Maurizio Bianchi. "Erimos" is the first in a series of works about the spaces "between the elements." This album contains a single, 40+ minute exploration. Heavy on electronics, the amazing thing is how warm the whole piece feels. Bianchi is joined by two of the next generation of Italian sound sculptors, Hue (aka Matteo Uggeri) and Fhievel (aka Luca Bergero). The two have breathed new life into Bianchi's music, showing that the future of the Italian underground is brighter than ever. Bianchi began producing music almost 30 years ago in 1979, and since 1980 has used electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence." His best known work, "Symphony for a Genocide" was recently reissued by New York-based Hospital Productions. This seminal work proved what a pioneer in electronic music he was. On "Erimos," we find Bianchi stretching time and manipulating sound as ever. Over the course of this monster performence, the trio weaves intricate circles around one another, nearly colliding at every point. But the success comes from their abilities to play off each other, resulting in original and captivating sounds and textures. It is electronic drones unlike any other. "Erimos" is captivating and beautiful, even if it's main inspiration comes from something as desolate and isolated as the deserts on its cover." 2/12/2008 Bianchi, Maurizio / Fhievel / Hue Erimos CD $12.99 Digitalis Details "Have you ever looked into the abyss? Man, it's scary! An infinite void of the blackest black where not even a gleam of light can escape its dark talons. Needless to say, it's not the most popular destination, but hey, it is there. And believe me, sooner or later that day will come when you will sit on the cusp and fix your eyes on the vast nothingness that is everything. But until that hour beckons, you may as well prepare yourself by spinning Das Platinzeitalter by Maurizio Bianchi. 'Dark ambient' barely captures what is engraved in these grooves. Loops from the history of dust, ancient as the catacombs and spectral like the last rays of hope. There's an eerie calmness to all four sides of this LP. Timeless and inevitable as the setting sun, as if this music has always been here. Which it has. It was up to Bianchi to find it. This recording captures the never-ending decay of beauty at the point when it is realized that resistance is futile and the metamorphosis has begun. There are not many musicians who can distill this essence: early Zoviet France, Nature Unveiled-era Current 93, Lustmord and Andrew Chalk/Mirror to name a few, but Das Platinzeitalter sounds like it comes from hallowed grounds, the once sacred is now profane. It forces your head to turn toward the abyss. It's up to you to open your eyes and look. Then the next thing you know, it's over. It's all over. Limited to 500 copies on silkscreen foldover covers and hand-numbered in silver ink." 1/17/2010 Bianchi, Maurizio / M.B. Das Platinzeitalter double LP $17.99 Weird Forest Details "Drew Nelson continues to bless us with his wavering tenor voice, plinky banjo and old world balladry on this EP, a follow-up to The Big Huge's 2004 Secret Eye debut, Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown Your Heart With Joy. Brought up on American folk and British psychedelic pop music, The Big Huge wears its influences on its sleeve, while being sure not to recreate the past. After the split of Sonna, a Baltimore-based instrumental ambient group with releases on Temporary Residence (two of which were recorded by Steve Albini), The Big Huge (Drew Nelson) decided to revert back to his love of acoustic instrumentation. After a few solo shows, he decided to recruit fellow Baltimore-based musician, Michael Lambright, to help with accordion, ukulele, glockenspiel, and banjo. Recorded by Micah Blue Smaldone at Cerberus Shoal's house in Portland, Maine, the record has a hazy vibe with lyrics harking back to a time of Welsh communes during the summer of love. The American answer to Alasdair Roberts... but without the brogue." 4/24/2006 Big Huge, The A Woven Page of Silver Light CD $10.99 Secret Eye Details "Brought up on American folk and British psychedelic pop music, Sonna (Temporary Residence) member Drew Nelson has forged out on his own to record this new album as The Big Huge. Drew’s simple acoustic arrangements, traditional influences and reedy tenor have earned comparisons to Alasdair Roberts and Will Oldham, with whom Drew has toured while playing with Sonna." 12/1/2004 Big Huge, The Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown Your Heart With Joy CD $12.99 Secret Eye Details 33 rpm clear flexi disc - one side - one song - handmade clear screenprinted cover on holographic paper. "tastes like pressure, SCRUMDIDDLYUMSIOUS!" 5/16/2012 Big Muff Hold My Hand flexi disc $8.99 Key Lime High Details Debut killer release from Tennessee's Big Nurse. Hard for me to describe exactly what this sounds like but its got elements of noise, psychedelia, experimental and punk - I love this! They've listed their influences as Bad Brains, Acid Mothers Temple, Flipper, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Godz, Oneida, Nihlist Spasm Band, Melvins and Faust and they describe their sound as "the world collasping in on itself or something like the end of the entire social structure and the liberation of body and mind". Check it out! 12/26/2005 Big Nurse American Waste LP $11.99 High Density Headache Records Details "The newest spew from Big Nurse finds the guys scraping the depths of their faux-talent to stir their songs, (some old, some new, at least a couple totally indecipherable covers) into churningly dizzy anthems, concealed chaos crooning, and rose tinted dirges for the post-pubescent scout crowd. I don't necessarily know what that means, but somehow: it means you." 4/24/2006 Big Nurse Back To Basics CDR $8.99 High Density Headache Records Details 2nd and final lp from Big Nurse. These are the last copies of their 2007 release - comes in a real nice silkscreen sleeve. 4/10/2009 Big Nurse Temporarily Unavailable LP $14.99 High Density Headache Details "Take a trip thru the ages with us, recorded over three years and three different cities. special collaboration with Zack Kouns, ex-Social Junk, etc. plus the extended family. we just kept growing!!!?" 2008 release. 4/10/2009 Big Nurse Time Trip CDR $6.99 High Density Headache Details "A live document of the first Big Nurse tour in March of '05. Includes a collaboration with Robert Inhuman (Realicide), Jim Swill and Nina Wright (Divine Pile) and Lara Dempsey (Grinning Evil Death), material from the best show we've ever played and from one of the worst, a spirited cover of the Batman theme with a homeless guy on vocals, and at least one drunken dis: 'I'm not gonna name any names, butŠ'" 2/26/2006 Big Nurse Very Professional cassette $5.99 High Density Records / Dementoid Tapes Details "One original (death). One cover (sex). All static." 2/26/2006 Big Nurse Who Wants to Kill the President? / Electrocute Your Cock 7" $5.99 High Density Records Details "Kicking off the new OESB 7" series with a 4 track single by Big Troubles. International playboy Matt Mondanile (Real Estate, Ducktails) discovered Big Troubles and urged Olde English Spelling Bee to sign these guys on the spot for their fresh 'industrial shoegaze pop' sound. Done and done. Features home recordings by Alex Craig and Ian Drennan who split songwriting and vocal duties down the middle. They are joined live by Luka Usmiani (No Demons Here) on bass and Sam Franklin (Fluffy Lumbers) on drums. Their debut full-length album, Worry, will be out on OESB in July." 7/15/2010 Big Troubles Drastic & Difficult 7" $5.99 Olde English Spelling Bee Details "The very premise of this musical -- executives borrowing an apartment to cheat on their wives -- makes this show entertainment for grown-ups. If you're cool with your older children being exposed to infidelity to the nth degree, they will likely enjoy the wit of the dialogue and the bouncy score. But take note: there is a suicide attempt and a drunk scene -- not exactly fare for young ones. Debut LP by Ridgewood, NJ shoegazers Big Troubles. It's pretty good. Parental advisory stickers not included." "This immense new album from Big Troubles follows on from a great four-song EP for the Olde English Spelling Bee singles club, featuring the New Jersey fuzz-pop project bejewelled with pop hooks and spurts of brain-scorching noise. There's an abundance of blistering C86-style pop nuggets on here, from the distortion-surfing 'Bite Yr Tongue' to the euphorically hooked-up 'Freudian Slips'. There's an overwhelmingly fizzy, treble-some recording style here which imbues the whole thing with a hazy, nostalgic quality that reminds us of everything from My Bloody Valentine to The Jesus and Mary Chain to Dinosaur Jr at their very peak -- making for one of the standout lo-fi pop records of the year bar none. Very highly recommended." -- Boomkat 10/13/2010 Big Troubles Worry LP $15.99 Olde English Spelling Bee Details "It's definitely time to throw a party and bigger insides is your guest dj for the night. we first met chris thorne many moons ago when he appeared on "gold leaf branches" (as snake oil) and then reconnected recently as his new band, tan dollar, and new solo project (THIS) were spreading their collective wings. so what's the skinny? minimal beats and insanely catchy casios and synths battling it out in a neon pit of doom. except there's really not any doom, but sun-specked skies and silver streams. as it hops along, you feel as though you're being whisked away on a hot air balloon ride toward the pink horizon. thorne's ability to create songs that are full of pop hooks yet disjointed and feel as though they could fall apart at any second is a gift. bigger insides: ready to throw down. edition of 70, pro-dubbed." 12/12/2009 Bigger Insides Hunters Gathering c27 cassette $7.99 Digitalis Limited Details "The crops aren't doing so well this year. The outlook of the harvest is looking less than pitiful. There is not even enough food to feed the laborers working the fields. The water supply has become diseased. One by one they drop like flies under the sweltering sun and the plantation owner and family have no choice but to resort to cannibalism. Forced to keep working and live, unable to scale the fortress walls, the alternative is to be found on the table in the dining room. Live recordings from the duo of Dog Lady and Tar Pit sourced from the Hell Ride To Texas Tour May/June 2011. Violin mutation manipulations, punk mutilations guitar and tapes. Hand-numbered edition 45." 8/23/2011 Bile and Horseman Starved Farm cassette $7.99 Fag Tapes Details "3 instrumental tracks, 1 for solo guitar (22:51) - like echoey sheets of sound. 1 for synth, ,theremin, and organ (15:39) - very cosmic and 1 collage piece featuring guitar, bass, synth, organ, and found sounds (36:58) - a conceptual trippy journey." Bill has toured with Cotton Casino in the US in August and the duo will tour again in September & October ’03 as well as release a cdr (at least). 9/10/2003 Billawtm Solo 03 CDR $9.99 Details "Minimalist music for human holograms and living statues. An all analog synth affair made mechanical by tape delay loop rhythms. Cut live straight from source. Not too far from the loner synth chamber music of Mark Anthony Heide or the early 80s home taper compositions on the ICR label..." 6/30/2010 Binning, Ravi In the City of Mimes cassette $7.99 Future Sound Index Details "Oh dear Lord... NO! The EVIL twin to 'Birds Call Home Their Dead's good son, released simultaneously for maximum destruction. Just when the heavy meds were kicking in and I was beginning to think there might be some kinda universal point to all this working and eating and sleeping, Birchville Cat Motel re-adjusts the good/evil ratio back. Thanks. No really, thanks a lot. You'll no doubt be as delighted as I am to hear this is NOT the new Black Boned Angel album, in fact Mr Cat Motel himself told me this has "more to with W.A.S.P, 'Kill Em All' styled too-tight denim, and big white sneakers than the ceremonial pre-historicism of the current neo-doom movement". PRE-HISTORICISM?! What a dick. These prowling, growling eruptions of frantic thrash'o'delia will surely attract babes like a burning tyre scented aftershave. Is that a twin guitar solo in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?" 7/14/2007 Birchville Cat Motel Birds Sister Blasphemy CD $13.99 Battlecruiser Details "New York is pretty different from Lower Hutt. In a lot of ways. But that doesn't mean New York is BAD... its just 'different', y'know? I was down the Lower East Side recently with the guy from Sonic Youth. He was as cool as he looked in Rip It Up magazine! We tuned our guitars and bagpipes, the lights sunk in anticipation, and we buried the audience in a cloud of fairy-dust so thick you could eat it with chopsticks and people with shovels tried to dig their way out of it but it just got deeper and deeper and when the sound couldn't get any louder my soul gnawed a hole in the roof with its teeth and the cast of Friends descended on angel-wings, urinating in ecstacy on the assembled masses in what looked like a tornado of golden glitter. WOW! Afterwards we cleaned up the mess and I got Phill Niblocks mobile phone-number on a napkin. Yeah... New York is just 'different'." 12/24/2005 Birchville Cat Motel with Lee Ranaldo 30th December 2004 CD $15.99 Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon Details "Now to you Universe, we present “Industrial Collapse,” in celebration and preparation for the dawning age of enlightenment. We (Gnome Life Records) give to you, objects verbose and handmade, giving ourselves over to our cells, and to the messages within them. This record is two sides of total existential rebirth! Placental for you and Bird By Snow, a 7 inch baby of the cosmos, belching new sounds, and visions. Replete with new-metal guitar tones, falsetto cave paintings, and gasoline-riot guitar solos (think Blue Cheer in Thunderdome). “No Beard Now” is an epic navigation through grunge, totem magic. Teetering, at all times, on the line that separates creation and destruction. The wild call of “No beard now!” could just as easily be sung: “No more disguises!” While the rumble of the guitar through the shredded amplifier is akin to the tireless marching of a man, naked and always new, in a life of energetic surrender, and present-moment-living. “Chew Your Fucking Legs Off (if you have to)” is quite simply a call to arms, or armlessness (or leglessness as the case may be.) A hyperbolic request of humankind to set itself free in this world of infinite everything. The sounds beyond the title reveal the world itself, wonderfilled and wet, sparkling in the cave of creation, thumping with a heart-beat of growth and giving. Beyond this there is another layer of personal narrative, a depiction of individual growth and awakening in the world. The records themselves are limited to 300 in this vinyl form, while the covers are handmade, and touched by human work and time. Each cover was printed by Fletcher Tucker (of this band, Bird By Snow) from a linoleum block, in an edition of 300, and numbered accordingly." 2/4/2007 Bird By Snow Industrial Collapse 7" $4.99 Gnome Life Records Details "The most fertile Bird By Snow record (so far) each side of this album has its own name, in order to give the tunes more mind-space to flourish and expandŠ Side A is "Songbread" and side B is "Another Ocean." In this record-world we find BBS harvesting perspectives in an old-growth forest of ontology & swimming joyfully in wide-wonder-waters of multi-instrumentalism. Cellos, drones, pianos, field-recordings, tape-collage & all manner of drumming, strumming & singing confer and conspire to create Bird By Snow's 3rd long-playerŠ 42 minutes; 2 years in the making. Ten free-pop-mantras, ancient-babies of modern song. "Songbread/Another Ocean" is also some of Gnome Life's most beautiful and ambitious packaging! The cover is a color lithograph poster and d the LP also includes a deluxe hand-made book of literature, lyrics, ideas, and points of entry. AND a second semi-transparent poster of poetry called: "SLOW POEMS" by Fletcher Tucker (a.k.a. Bird By Snow)." This edition is limited to 550 copies, and is on completely clear vinyl and comes with a CD. 3/21/2009 Bird By Snow Songbread/Another Ocean LP $14.99 Gnome Life Details "The latest release by the fringe pop outfit Bird Names is another bright star in their galaxy of offerings. The album, Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun, was created meticulously over the course of many moons and spiritual awakenings in sunny Chicago, IL. The band is a duo, of sorts, comprised of Phelan LaVelle & David Lineal, though a cast of good souls have helped them along their travels. Recently making Athens, GA their home, they explore a pop sound that touches as much on the naïve as it does the borders of avant-experimentation. Their new album, mastered by Griffin Rodriguez (Icy Demons, Beirut, Band of Horses), is a lo-fi, boundary-pushing, pop experiment in the vein of the Beach Boys' Smile. It is a fully-realized reflection on the sun and the fount of organic energy, or human energies, as the speech of the sun." 6/27/2011 Bird Names Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun LP $15.99 Northern Spy Details "Everybody likes a bit of tension now and then, and I Fly, the debut release from New York quartet Birdbrain, provides plenty. Consisting of just two saxophones, trombone and vocals, the group's music features spirited horn battles and a singer (Yvette Perez) who treats the notes of the standard diatonic scale as if they were merely rough guides to be tweaked as needed. Obvious reference points for I Fly are The World Saxophone Quartet or Rova Saxophone Quartet, though Birdbrain are less selfconciously avant garde - more poppy, in fact. The ten songs here are short and savoury rather than sweet. They're epigrammatic mini-stories, like the haiku-ish 'Sea Cow': 'Sea cow/Swims in our tow/Sea cow/Kinda like you now/Oh, manatee in tow/Ahoy ahoy/Sea cow.' Perez's breathless punk jazz vocalising, half spoken/half sung, owes much to No Wave. Time and again she almost hits the expected note but veers away at the last moment, twisting short of her presumed target. With no rhythm section as such, Birdbrain's three horn players (Don Trubey on alto, Tim Noe on tenor, and downtown avant garde legend Peter Zummo on trombone) fill multiple roles. Most tracks feature pulsing pedal bass figures on alto sax, laying a foundation for rhythmically complex call and response duels between tenor and trombone. The horn interplay resolves from time to time into harmonic cadences that are surprisingly lush for such a small group. In its less restrained moments, the horn section almost evokes the crazed French jazz rock outfit Etron Fou Leloublan. At its punkiest, it comes close to the naive, atonal wailing of Lora Logic." - Dave Mandl, THE WIRE, Issue 251, January 2005 3/2/2005 Birdbrain I Fly CD $10.99 Persian Cardinal Details Ultra limited art edition of 20 copies with the LP in its pro-printed jacket and insert. Each copy comes wrapped in a 90x30 cm canvas, featuring an original black&silver ink painting by Roberto Opalio, signed and individually numbered by the artist. Ready to hang it on your wall? See picture here: <http://www.mycatisanalien.com/view-gramofonuART.htm>http://www.mycatisanalien.com/view-gramofonuART.htm 4/15/2011 Birds Build Nests Underground & My Cat Is An Alien GRAMOFONU = Voice of the Universe ART EDITION LP $79.99 Opax Records / Love Nest Details GRAMOFONU = voice of the Universe is the first meeting of two improvising acts, Prague-based turntable & 8mm band Birds Build Nests Underground and Italian psychedelic trubadours My Cat Is An Alien. Two different approaches to music make a sound that takes both from the unknown realms of the outer space and from the somehow-well-known world of old cracking records and the music and sounds on them. Birds Build Nests Underground provided some of their live improvisations, My Cat Is An Alien then chose those close to their hearts and laced them with sounds of guitars, space toys & ray guns, wordless singing and alientronics. Never has music of the spheres crackled so nicely. As if the whole galaxy lies on a giant turntableŠThe record starts with an exciting, extatic and excellent improvised speech by a Czech avantgarde poet Vít?zslav Nezval who sees the whole world through his glass and the glass in the window of a recording studio. Limited edition of 300 in pro-printed jackets, with exclusive cover art by Roberto Opalio. 90 copies come with an insert." 4/15/2011 Birds Build Nests Underground & My Cat Is An Alien GRAMOFONU = Voice of the Universe LP $17.99 Opax Records / Love Nest Details "one track each: Birds of Delay offer up a maze of bird calls in a fog of synth drone / noise. Goldblood is Plastic Crimewave and Amy Cargill, psych guitar spiralling into delay feedback and ominous organ" 6/11/2006 Birds of Delay / Goldblood split CDR $9.99 267 Lattajjaa Details "Death-defiling split disc of zodzoric psychedelia from these hot Leeds zombies! NEON DEATH SLITTES is the axle-greased alterego of Phil 'Xenis Emputae Travelling Band' Legard who contributes four tracks of greasy blues amphetamuck that will have fans of Pink Fairies/Deviants/Gong/Third World War choking on their wet dentures. Recent American Tapes/No Fun stars BIRDS OF DELAY occupy the other half with a knob-scorching oscillation/voice seizure recorded live in sunny Edinburgh. Ltd.100 in tracing paper sleeves with on-disc gocco print." 4/24/2006 Birds of Delay, The / Neon Death Slittes` The Slack Angel's Death Bong CDR $12.99 Memoirs of an Aesthete Details "The first full length from the Japanese/Norweigan super-group The Birds. Comprised of Cotton Casino of The Acid Mothers Temple and Per Gisle Galaen of Slowburn, The Birds are reminiscent of other Norwegian groups like Deathprod, Supersilent and Alog though their unmistakeable and unpredictable meld of psychedelic melodies, guitar noise, Eno-esque synth dirge, Cale-drone, musique concrete and rock sets them apart. Birds Birds Birds In The World was produced by Kai Mikalsen of Sketch, Jazzkammer/Del member Lasse Marhaug and mastered by Supersilent/Deathprod producer Helge Sten. Artwork by the world famous graphic artist/collectible figurine designer Pete Fowler. The first 1000 will be packaged in deluxe 3-D artwork." 9/30/2005 Birds, The Birds Birds Birds In the World CD $13.99 Important Records Details "Bruiser and Kid, separated physically (not emotionally) by about ten feet in the shadowz of Schooner Cove, lay down the first vinyl outing by this "wives at work = the boyz will jam" afternoon electronic harsh noise project. The upcoming BR lp on Troniks was threatened not to be cut by the mastering dude due to horrible clean tones, and you tell on this they were struggling as well. Black hole sound, terrible textures. Ruff & Raw. Color wax, color cover, lock groove, and tape collab CD round this mutha out. Edition of 200." 4/16/2007 Birth Refusal Cove Core one sided 7" & CD $12.99 American Tapes Details "Schooner Cove H X C . Jeff Olson and Mike Corvette of Wolf Eyes / Hair Police ect... the music of thrown away souls forced to die in slow motion painfully. hardcore fucking waste zone of rotting death. spectacular sounds! edtion 77." 3/20/2007 Birth Refusal Phantom of the Sewer cassette $8.99 Fag Tapes Details "During the last euro tour of wolf eyes, john olson (of american tapes, spykes, guam river etc..) and mike connelly (of gods of tundra, hair police, failing lights etc..) decided it was enough! they screamed "IM NOT GOING TO BED!!! I NEVER WANNE SLEEP AGAIN!!!", they missed their flights and stayed in antwerp with the ultra audiobored horror crew for 7 more weeks without food and drinks, just dry weed and cancerbags to suck on! after that intense test to see if they could adapt to the antwerp life style, they finally met up with legendary belgian eccentric cacti and hat collector CASSIS CORNUTA, this psychadelic caracter brought his whole space synth and tape lab over to radio centraal to record an intense last gasp jam with the hardly breathing olson and connelly, the end result is an amazing trip to space and back to the mental hospital! like pouring lighter fluid and tabasco up your genitals or like olson states it so beautifully; like pissing on your own hand, freezing it and then using it as a lollypop for 5 days! comes in a gross 6 panel cover design and with an etch on the b side!" 2/6/2007 Birth Refusal / Cassis Cornuta Collaboration one-sided LP $26.99 Ultra Eczema Details "I met Richard in 2004 on a crazy tour in Australia (Oren Ambarchi's last 'What Is Music?'). He was a founding member of The Sun City Girls but he came out to play solo. Instantly we were entranced by his playing, so many beautiful elements of why I love guitar come through in his music and presence, without floating around in genre space at all. Here on the road with Kevin Drumm, Dead C, Residents, Gang Gang Dance, Black Dice, etc., amongst this insane line-up, Richard ended up supporting Pan Sonic and really held it down, as a soloist. A few years later, Peter Rehberg and I (as KTL) were invited to join a tour Richard was doing with Earth. His incredible communication of atmosphere and texture was even more fluid than I remembered -- a real pleasure. If the reason to start a record label is to release the music you are truly enamored by, this is a true example of that philosophy." --Stephen O'Malley, Paris 2012; All songs composed & recorded by Sir Richard Bishop. Master & vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, April 2012. 6/24/2012 Bishop, Sir Richard Intermezzo LP $23.99 Ideologic Organ Details "Another album of acoustic guitar music from Sir Richard Bishop?are you 'freakin' nuts? The Freak Of Araby is a new direction for our distinguished gentleman, and just in the nick of time as well. Sir Rick's had it up to here with solo acoustic guitar records! The Freak Of Araby isn't even a solo record! And there's no acoustic guitar on it! So let's have no more of this kind of talk. Over his years with Sun City Girls, Richard Bishop threw a wide variety of music and sound against the wall -- and all of it stuck. Among those who know, he's reasonably fluent in any number of international music traditions, playing them for (mostly) fun and (sometimes) profit all over the place. The Freak Of Araby is the debut of Sir Richard Bishop and his Freak of Araby Ensemble, a talented quartet of players getting deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it captured with depth, detail and sympathy for the eternal enigma by engineer Scott Colburn. But a Sir Richard Bishop album with a backing band -- how did this happen? After recording a cover of 'Ka'an Azzaman,' written by Elias Rahbani, one of Lebanon's finest songwriters, something dawned on Sir Richard. Half-Lebanese by birth (it didn't just occur to him later), he found himself suddenly possessed to really dig into Middle Eastern sounds. A pair of original melodies not fully developed at a prior recording session had the Arabic inspiration, so these were reattacked and finished in short order. Soon, Sir Richard's head was flooded with some of the classic sounds spun for him by his grandfather back in his (way) younger days, like Farid Al-Atrache, Oum Kalthoum and Fairuz, along with other personal favorites, such as the guitarists Omar Khorshid and Mike Hegazi. In addition to the studio improvisation, 'Taqasim For Omar,' the whole of The Freak Of Araby is dedicated to these inspiring players. Check 'em out. In addition to his soul-stirring electric guitar playing, Sir Richard grabbed a couple of Moroccan chanters and blew the house down on 'Blood-Stained Sands,' providing an epic (not to mention epochal, heh heh) finish to this journey to the center of one-half of the family tree. This is music meant to be played live, and Sir Richard's Freak Of Araby Ensemble intends to play it everywhere there's interest in hearing it. So get your Freak on." 5/21/2009 Bishop, Sir Richard The Freak Of Araby CD $14.99 Drag City Details "This CD is the first in a series from Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant. It was composed and recorded live in the studio in Phoenix, AZ in December of 2011. The sonic landscapes presented here find their origins in Tibet, and are heavily inspired by Tibetan Buddhism -- specifically the body of teachings known as Dzogchen. Many of the musical ideas for this project were literally derived from dreams the night before they were created. The remaining ideas were formed centuries ago. Sir Richard Bishop plays acoustic guitar throughout. Often detuned, bowed, and beaten, the guitar was "treated" by Oliphant during the live recording process. SRB also provided audio from field recordings he captured in India. WDO used a variety of computer software with a midi controller to create all the other sounds. All tracks were captured in real-time, direct to disk." 2/2/2013 Bishop, Sir Richard & W. David Oliphant Beyond All Defects CD $15.99 Chodpa Media Details “...Kang's punkish energy meshes gloriously with Bisio's merciless, yet versatile bass sprawl. Throughout, Kang's scintillating violin flashes every possible color in the tonal spectrum, his maniacal mewl and screech on the last half of 'After The Break' diminishing to introspective plucking on 'JGLag.' On their absolutely beautiful rendering of Coltrane's 'Seraphic Light,' Kang amazes with his anguished, keening high notes screaming and swirling with unearthly fervor while Bisio's rugged, relentless bass gravity fulfills its earthbound duty of anchoring the whole blistering sermon by tugging and pushing Kang's burning rainbow. Sessions like this can be slippery propositions in the quality department, but it's obvious that both players' ears were open to each other's ideas and spontaneous creativity, alternately tussling and locking it in as the situation demanded." - Kevin Lian-Anderson, One Final Note 11/19/2003 Bisio, Michael / Eyvind Kang MBEK CD $14.99 Meniscus Details "YUPPIES' mix of fuzzed-out garage rock and late 70's punk, combined with a distinctly lo-fi aesthetic - in fact once described as "Psychedelic Horseshit fucking Thomas Function while Times New Viking plays on the stereo and TV Ghost hide in the closet and watch." But Yuppies are too enthusiastically awkward to be pigeon-holed into any one scene and on their side for our split, they navigate everything from sprawling post-punk to stumbling anti-folk, often within the same song. BITCHES have been known to call their music "thug-pop," while others have chosen "anti-love songs," "chaotic sonic can-vases" with comparisons made to Minor Threat and Black Flag, Huggy Bear, and Lightning Bolt's more riffy material. Never mind the tags and kooky descriptions, the power of Bitches' music lies in Blake Ivinson's screams and ultra-fuzzed bass & in Stacey Owen's chaotic, heart-in-mouth drumming and agit-yelping; all throughout their sardonic and punked-out songs about vampires, R. Kelly, and losing one's wallet." 8/20/2011 Bitches / Yuppies split 12" $13.99 Palmist / Fat Cat Details "The Bitters are Aerin Fogel and Ben Cook (Fucked Up, Young Governor). Formed in the east end of Toronto, The Bitters write and record their self-proclaimed Cave Pop from their studio, an artistic cooperative shared with Toronto's most creative musicians. Their debut 12" EP, Wooden Glove, was released last spring on Captured Tracks and sold out shortly after, having been instantly well-received among tough critics and keen listeners alike. The band is a result of Cook and Fogel's prolific efforts and their ability to construct songs ranging from 50's melodies atop dark post-punk instrumentals, to 90's throwback alternative and grunge, which stems from their unique dynamic as friends and partners. Their collaborative work appears live with the help of drummer Jonah Falco (Fucked Up) and a rotation of starry guest bassists. Cassette edition of 250 copies. 11 tracks." 5/16/2010 Bitters, The East General cassette $8.99 Release The Bats Details "Issue 5 is out now and includes: The No-Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss recalls his time with The Source Family which led to the first Yahowa 13 performance in New York City and their new LP. As much about Dave's experiences throughout this and how it brought him into the Family, as about discovering the wealth of their archives and continuing energy - An extensive interview with reformed Vancouver noise band Tunnel Canary by Allan MacInnis. Allan speaks not only to the leader of the group, Nathan Holiday, but also Tunnel Canary members past and present Mya Mayhem, Ebra Ziron, and Dave Sheftel about their intense performances, early influences, their specially altered instruments, life and musical philosophy, and the different reactions in the early 1980s and now, matched with photos from their recent live shows and one from the archives. - A remembrance of Noggin violin player Michael Griffen by his friend Aaron Gorseth. - A feature on the Belgian group Onde featuring former members of Noise-Maker's Fifes; supplemented by photographs taken on tour by Dan Burke of Illusion of Safety - A feature on the new label Assophon, home to The Sea Donkeys, Spider Trio and Factums with photographs by Mark Sullo. - Rob Millis, waxing on about the preciousness of shellac while discussing the drive to recycle that raw material in the war years and the price that artifacts from that time can command. - Eric Lanzillotta's reviews of vinyl, compacts discs, and books, both new and old by Bill Bissett, Bob Cobbing, Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh, Malcolm Goldstein, The Howling Hex, Dieter Schnebel, and "Radio Mynamar (Burma)". - Patrick Marley's column Nickels and Dimes focusing on American Tapes and Drunjus." 11/2/2008 Bixobal #5 zine $1.99 Details "Bjerga/Iversen offer a set of improvocations recorded live at Stavanger Public Library one chilly saturday afternoon last winter.. No singer/songwriter this saturday, the casual library visitors were treated to a lumpy gravy of bubbling frozen electronic transmissions and spacey metallic rust, being sucked into a veritable vertigo of clank! and skronk! Kinda like turning on the air-conditioning mistaking it for the intergalactic, gravity-smashing vacuum-cleaner... No, not really, but anyway - a surprising number of people didn't mind a saturday afternoon with no singer/songwriter..." Recorded live at Stavanger Public Library, Stavanger, Norway, January 17th 2009. 11/21/2009 Bjerga / Iversen Amplified Crystal Rust CDR $11.99 Striate Cortex Details "chronis petras, called in the middle of the night.. our printer's in malmo had done an important mistake and a couple of upcoming releases were badly printed. we had lots of sleeves of releases to use and why not recycle. it was back in late december that did costas & tiina been accidentally in oslo had encountered a great almost industrialish nightmare show of the sindre bjerga on electronics, amplified objects & j m iversen on electronics and were totally into it so the chance was great a special 'recycled' cover on the 'utan titel' not only to remind us of our mistakes but also some of some trully impressive moments our friends had lived back then watching our norwegian freaks em 'playing'. limited to some 110 copies or so." 12/24/2005 Bjerga / Iversen Play the Oslo Groove Machine CDR $12.99 Absurd Details "Sindre Bjerga and Jan Iversen (GoldSoundz and TIBProd respectively) leave the rat race and hole up in a cabin near a lighhthouse and emerge with hours of inspired clangNthrum. Other volumes available on FoxyDigitalis and Kabukikore." 9/30/2005 Bjerga / Iversen The Lighthouse Tapes Vol 2 3" CDR $7.99 Firstperson Details "another haunted earthy drone vortex from this ultra-prolific norwegian duo. one extended & arching track. dusty electronics flutter and moan, crackle, and drone their way through some sort of underground cavernous dirge of rippling sound decay. the beauty lays in its blankness... fold-over art paper cover with paste-on art & hand stamped text. silver rimmed all black cdrs. numbered edition of 88." 11/4/2006 Bjerga / Iversen There's a Ghost in the Dream Machine CDR $11.99 Time-Lag Details "Sinde Bjerga has been touring the UK every October for the last 5 years, as well as mainland Europe and even Russia, with his cassette player drones and kitchen sink psychedelia... armed with an array of tape players, dictaphones and a pile of less-than-glamourous sound debris from the sonic junkyards, as he tries to juxtapose and melt sound ghosts hidden deep in the molten magnetic tapes, sometimes forcefeeding them with sheets of feedback from dying amps, always aiming for that mind-altering head trip... He has released over a 100 records as a solo artist and in a variety of collaborations, most notably with Jan Iversen. Recently most of his releases have been live recordings taken from his many concerts and tours around Europe: 'nowhereandnowhereelse' is taken from a performance in the Art Academy in Warsaw, 2010. For further information about Sindre visit him at www.myspace.com/sindrebjerga STRICTLY limited to 50 copies." 1/31/2011 Bjerga, Sinde nowhereandnowhereelse CDR $10.99 Sonic Oyster Records Details “Sister release to the Fibo-Trespo disc on Imvated. Garbagetronica and electronic dogpoop and whatnot in a hazy mix... Edition of 100 copies.” 6/25/2004 Bjerga, Sindre Broken Hearted and Cardiac Arrested CDR $10.99 Audiobot Details "Solo live blurt from 25 June 2008 from Sindre Bjerga, one half of Bjerga/Iversen. Background drones hit in immediatley accompanied with some minimal scrapes and sputtering kinda growth aura from aforementioned drone, there's a real static vibe cruising through this. Occasional clunk and taps blur away as the heavy dense drone consumes the lot like an electric mist, with feedback clots clogging up your lungs, and creepy terror sounds. Limited to 50 hand numbered copies, each with indvidual handmade weird paper and an insert, everyone looking entirely different." 8/22/2008 Bjerga, Sindre Crystal Cranium, Diamond Head cassette $12.99 Blackest Rainbow Details “It seems Absurd enjoys getting sucked in obscure electronics sounds otherwise I doubt if I would have issued it. Instead thanks to Sindre materialized an idea that was collecting dust in my mind's corridors for sometime, a cheap series of home made sounds housed in home made 'suits' crafted in my little cottage industry. so under the name of 'peripsima' (a greek word for rubbish, shit, etc) comes the first volume Sindre Bjerga's obscure nightmarish (ridiculous) electronics (obscure electronica perhaps?) visions housed in 'mazes' xeroxes & a nice toy to play with while listening to the cdr. Limited to 93.” 9/23/2004 Bjerga, Sindre Getting Jiggy with It CDR $9.99 Absurd Details "Very limited disc of raw live records from Norway's Sindre Bjerga. Two tracks recorded earlier this year in the Czech Republic, Prague 25/2/09, and Varnsdorf 26/2/09." 10/17/2009 Bjerga, Sindre UK Tour CDR $9.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "while translating/editing archive material for upcoming fanzine issues at the editions_zero central, started accidentally as an idea the creation of a zine which will focus each time on certain topic(s) /artist(s) / project(s), or in other words how ‘playground’s idea was born. for its premier issue (#0) sindre bjerga & anders gjerde who both have in common besides their diy cdr labels (gold sounds & humbug) & friendship the fact that they live in the city of stavanger (norway's 4th largest city), were invited to host an ‘audioguide’ to stavanger (or to perceive their town as a ‘playground’). so both spent some time doing field recordings on their minidiscs which later they either edited or reworked offering us 6 tracks of various moods & atmospheres...either abstract, or 'ambient', or pure field recordings, even w/ noisy touches at times, making it overall a bizarre view of stavanger the way our norwegian friends perceive their city. housed in a (almost) transparent xerox of stavanger map's greek version, just for this time won't be a supplement to the issue (which will come out later as a diy pocket size map edition) but as a separate release as both our friends (anders/sindre) & we (editions_zero) consider it as a bizarre introduction to the ‘playgound’. limited to 150." 7/12/2003 Bjerga, Sindre / Anders Gjerde Stavanger CD $9.99 Absurd Details Strange tape / voice poetry by this wonderful Antwerp Radioplay duo. 6/25/2011 Blaastaal t is de pel alleen die rot / de beer gaat uitschachten c42 cassette $9.99 Cetacean Nation Communications Details "A pure and focused collaboration from OSCILLATING INNARDS, PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT, and THE RITA. to call this recording 'brutal', 'unforgiving', or 'punishing', would only belittle the finesse, poise, and obsession with which it was executed. RUNDOWNSUN exclusive special edition includes one-sided 12" LP with silk screened b-side, silk screened cover on heavy paper, and high quality glossy black and white 11"x17" poster of album art and label info." 5/14/2007 Black Air Plague Ritual one-sided LP $11.99 rundownsun Details "Described by Rock-A-Rolla magazine as the bands "most sombre and realised work to date", and who are we to argue? Sharing a similarly bleak ground to Corrupted, Sunn 0))) and Earth, New Zealand's Black Boned Angel return with their fourth full length album 'Verdun', and perhaps their most sombre and fully-realised work to date. The Battle of Verdun was fought between the German and French armies, and was one of the critical battles during World War 1 on the Western Front. It resulted in more than a quarter of a million battlefield deaths and at least half a million wounded. Verdun was the longest battle and one of the most devastating in World War 1 and indeed in history. Over the course of 50 minutes, BBA soundtrack that brutal conflict with their trademark dark ambient drones and doom-laden riffs. Available on CD in a card gatefold sleeve (limited to 1000 copies) and limited edition 500 only vinyl LP. The CD version contains an exclusive extra extra short piece called 'Tears Strike The Mile High Gong'. 5/13/2011 Black Boned Angel Verdun LP $19.99 Riot Season Details "A 4 song 45 rpm rager by Providece and Somervilles first and only rock n roll band, the Black Clouds! For fans of Cheater Slicks, Link Wray, Thee Headcoats and raw garage rock. A future classic. Recorded by the Acid King of New England, Wayne Rogers on his legendary 8 track." 6/30/2010 Black Clouds Black Clouds 7" $4.99 Ride The Snake Details "It's a miracle the record you are holding in your hands ever happened. Josh Graham and I had been discussing the possibility of Red Sparowes recording a Latitudes session before they came over to tour the UK in the Autumn of 2006, and the studio time was duly booked. I got fleeting messages and missed calls as the shows progressed and began to get the feeling it just wasn't going to happen. For the first time in the history of the Latitudes series, we were going to have to scrap a proposed session. Ever the optimist, I carried on discussing it with Josh, and a new idea coalesced. Greg Burns and he were eager to fulfill the commitment and still set on entering the studio to improvise their own soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shining, particularly concentrating on the last half of the film where Jack Torrance slowly loses his fragile grip on reality and the inevitable conclusion draws in. At this stage, I must say, I wasn't confident of them being able to pull off such an endeavour with no preparation time and in the midst of a big tour with their 'day job' band. I needn't have worried. Listening to the crystalline melodies, ominous drones and confident ringing peals the duo composed on that day, I am sure that you, the immersed listener, would have received no clue as to the fraught, hurried and hanging-in-the-balance nature of the session in question. Without the benefit of these notes to explain the situation, you would just have ten tracks of gloriously evocative, cinematic soundscape to enjoy. And like the best of this ongoing series, a never-to-be-repeated masterpiece." - Tony Sylvester, February 2008. 3/21/2009 Black Deer, The (Fallen) Requiem LP $13.99 Latitudes Details "The anticipated debut full-length album from Brooklyn sound manipulation specialists Black Dice. A fluid, swelling and blissed-out frenzy of chaotic and orchestrated electronics, percussion, vocals and treated guitars that beg your brain to search for recognizable patterns, while your body yearns to find a beat. Meditative, emotional and lovely." 12/11/2002 Black Dice Beaches & Canyons CD $14.99 DFA Details "Brooklyn-based ear-splitters and thermonuclear speaker-blowers Black Dice return with another vicious attack on the senses. Beheading into new realms of improvisation, the band unmercifully adds new experiments in noise to their already über-violent hardcore to create some of the most painful music in punk." 10/30/2002 Black Dice Cold Hands CD $11.99 Troubleman Unlimited Details “Black Dice venture further into their own psychedelic, increasingly electronic world with Creature Comforts, mixing in a new sense of playfulness and accessibility, and not-quite-steady rhythms with their trademark expansive, experimental and structurally unique sound. Though still hazy and dreamy, Black Dice emerge as a band on untouchably original terrain, where dub, tropicalia, and the entire history of psychedelic rock swirl in a heady concoction. Eight tracks in all.” 6/25/2004 Black Dice Creature Comforts CD $14.99 DFA Details "Debut vinyl release for both of these great artists who collectively have had releases on a host of excellent underground labels such as Stunned Records, Housecraft, Sturmundrugs Records and Digitalis. Black Eagle Child is the musical project of Michael Jantz, and this release is his second outing for Blackest Rainbow following his excellent Kite Excursions CDR a while back. Here he presents us with 4 tracks of skillful guitar finger picking layered with glockenspeil, accordian and some perfectly timed field recordings giving the music a real autumnal glow. Donato Eprio's side is made up of three tracks of superbly crafted guitar work recorded between winter 2008 and winter 2010 at various destinations in Italy. I think the second track is particularily impressive, 'Il Primo Cerchio' is an intense piece with a variety of guitar sounds and techniques used... loose string twangs, repetitive layered plucking and deep raga meditations, at times layered with whirring drones. Pressed on virgin vinyl and housed in a pro-printed high gloss sleeve featuring cover photography by Joe Blanchard, pressed in an edition of 250 copies." 11/20/2010 Black Eagle Child / Donato Eprio split LP $19.99 Blackest Rainbow Details "BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA is the Providence duo of Jeffrey Alexander (mostly guitar) and Miriam Goldberg (mostly cello). They play free-form music that draws from folk traditions. The have toured extensively in the US and Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to Reykjavik and Portland to Portland. This is the fourth BF/BS full-length - recorded in Providence, RI, Portland, ME and Montague, MA with guest performances by Italian sound sculptor Stefano Pilia (guitar, tiny sounds) and Miriam's sister Margot Goldberg (phonorgan). Yet another sister - Gillian Goldberg - provides lyrics. Miriam and Jeffrey also incorporate voice, ur-pedal, casio, bul bul tarang and omnichord. "...a half-improvised framework of guitar, cello and sundry accented glitches...a magnificent patchwork tent of bark, calico fabric, twisted vines, and fallen stars...a gorgeous snapshot of the free psych underground, one of the purest spaces of otherworldly terrain in the current musical landscape." - Pitchfork 3/2/2007 Black Forest / Black Sea Black Forest / Black Sea CD $12.99 Music Fellowship Details "Black Forest / Black Sea is the Providence duo of Jeffrey Alexander (mostly guitar) and Miriam Goldberg (mostly cello). They play free-form music that draws from folk traditions. The have toured extensively in the US and Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to Reykjavik and Portland to Portland. This is the fourth BF/BS full-length, and the 2nd self-titled album - recorded in Providence, RI, Portland, ME and Montague, MA with guest performances by Italian sound sculptor Stefano Pilia (guitar, tiny sounds) and Miriam's sister Margot Goldberg (phonorgan). Yet another sister - Gillian Goldberg - provides lyrics. Miriam and Jeffrey also incorporate voice, ur-pedal, casio, bul bul tarang and omnichord. The pressing of the BFBS LP is limited to 500 copies and are on 12x24 white stock. The covers are hand-silkscreened with the same artwork as is represented on the CDs." 4/20/2008 Black Forest / Black Sea Black Forest / Black Sea LP $16.99 Music Fellowship Details "From the ashes of The Iditarod comes Black Forest / Black Sea. Backwards backwoods playing, electronic effects, a shortwave radio and some knob twiddling are all incorporated into their sound, which twists from traditional folk Americana to beatbox improv and back again. Nothing, however, is quite what it seems, and this constant sound shifting gives Alexander and Goldberg's musically metamorphic contribution to the New Weird America cult an edge over the competition. 'Forecefields and Constellations' is their second album as BF/BS, following 2003¹s critically acclaimed self-titled debut on Last Visible Dog. This new CD features guest appearances by Christina Carter (Charalambides - Kranky Records), Glenn Donaldson (Blithe Sons - Jewelled Antler Collective, Family Vineyard), and Fursaxa (Ecstatic Yod, Eclipse).” 4/1/2004 Black Forest / Black Sea Forcefields and Constellations CD $12.99 Blue Sanct Details "For this new 10", the duo is joined by guests Margot Goldberg and Joe Grimm (a.k.a. The Wind Up Bird). This quartet version of BF/BS is the very same lineup that performed at Terrastock 6. 10" vinyl-only release limited to 500 copies worldwide. Silkscreened metallic silver covers by Mike Taylor (Lungfish, Avarus, Dan Higgs). 21 minutes of music - all exclusive material." 2/12/2008 Black Forest / Black Sea Portmanteau 10" $9.99 Secret Eye Details "Now faux liberals around the world can feel better about their white, upper class lifestyles with the help of one simple and inspired drone cassette. you'll be all the rage at that next mixer or cocktail party when you can tell everyone about how some of your best friends are... black guys! little will they know that you're talking about this new mexico duo of alan george ledergerber and raven chacon (kilt, cobra//group, etc). "some of my best friends are..." stretches time out ad infinitum with piles of crusty drones and scabbed-over electronics that can only dream of breaking the skin. you may not know black guys yet, but once you do, you're definitely going to love them. limited to 50 copies." 3/5/2009 Black Guys Some Of My Best Friends Are.. cassette $7.99 Digitalis Limited Details "Alex Neilson has released solo recordings under the name THE DIRECTING HAND and also played with the likes of Jandek, Richard Youngs, Alasdair Roberts, Ashtray Navigations, Mirror etc etc caught here in duo form with Frank Janiurek." Review by Scott Mckeating from Brainwashed.com: "From a steady rhythmic bum Casio organ note, which might just even be the tight circling of reverberating tones, the song begins. The slowly layering tones regularly break cover to reveal a digital starlight twinkle. The hilltop woodwind, scoured cymbal and drained/bleached feedback rise as if lit by the slow slide of slinking daylight. Many times on The Perfect Beauty of Venus the music takes deep dips into descending noisy slides but always seems to settle on a rhythm or melody. Instead of creating a straightforward common montage of sounds, the sounds here have a life of their own; the music is organic and evolving as it progresses. Instead of a linear movement of layering sound after sound, the music seems to spin and consume itself, revolving spirograph style as opposed to horizontally. Conventional melodies are found in the higher / lower vocal parts which wordlessly talk about melancholy through, what are perhaps, lost-and-found traditional tunes. Even when a passage of (probably percussion sourced) digitally messed-with vinyl scratch sounds takes centre stage and tumbles down into straighter high speed crackling noise, the vocal remains as desolately dominant. But better, stronger and more emotive stirrings are sourced straight from the dipped tab hits of high percussive sounds dancing over the music. Proof, if still needed, that the drum has a stronger emotive pulse than merely playing the part of the time-honoured rock band's heartbeat. The confluence of these gorgeous stretches of percussion and smooth thousand sided tones is what makes this release such a beautiful beginning to The Black Hands." 6/11/2006 Black Hands, The The Perfect Beauty of Venus 3" CDR $6.99 Firstperson Details "The electro-punk stylings of Suicide, Caberet Voltaire Sparks, Factory Records bands, The Screamers, etc. along with a need for an edgier, noisier, grittier ‘synth pop’ – yet cold, calculating and sleek, with our energy directed towards subverting faceless technology." Features Plastic Crimewave (guitar, vocals, synths, electronics, tapes, drum machines) and Rebecca Crawford (formerly of The Puta-Pons – currently of The Dials) on vocals, guitar, synths, drum machines. 7/16/2004 Black Hole Black Hole CDR $6.99 Details "New project of Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap/Monopoly Child et al. Spencer himself describes this as being more drone-focussed and with faster percussion than the recent Monopoly Child sets. The percussion is up-front, with arcs of criss-crossing time signatures generating plenty of phantom space and the combination of trance-informed momentum and bubbling electronic sci-fi tones sounds closest to one of the Sun Ra Arkestra's most future-visioned takes on "Ancient Aethiopia" while expanding on the classic post-Angus MacLise feel of all of the best Skaters material." - Volcanic Tongue. Comes with liner notes from Charles Berlitz. Recommended! 1/24/2009 Black Joker Watch Out! CDR $11.99 Pacific City Details "Black Magic Disco is a new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien), and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope). The project was born when Greenwood invited the Opalio brothers and Ponzini to perform with him for two months, touring throughout Europe, in May/June 2005. As one can imagine, the result was killer. The music that came out of these live performances was totally explosive, combining Ponzini's Japanese vocals and hypnotic chimes with Greenwood's psych-blues guitar attitude and wild turntablism, all layered over MCIAA's alien cosmic flux of electric guitars, space toys, and percussion. This debut release represents a unique chance to experience almost eighty minutes of that pure, magical live action, divided into four long tracks taken from the original live recordings." Limited edition of 500 copies on colored vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with poster. 2/12/2008 Black Magic Disco Black Magic Disco double LP $19.99 A Silent Place Details "Two brand new, exclusive cuts from a revitalized Black Moth Super Rainbow, presented on an eye-searing picture disk. Both tracks take cues from both German synth/ambient pioneers like Cluster and Harmonia, as well as Italian soundtrack legends Ennio Morricone and Fabio Frizzi, effectively building off of the hazy, Technicolor acid dreamcoat this Pittsburgh-area group has been weaving from the get-go. Essential!" Edition of 1000 copies. 5/9/2009 Black Moth Super Rainbow Don't You Want To Be In A Cult b/w Feel the Drip picture disc LP $15.99 Mexican Summer Details "Black Past is the musical solo vision of Cleveland based musician Gregory Boyd and "Pitch Black" is his debut statement and Dangerous Age 001. Alternatively titled "A Soundtrack for a Deranged Motorcyclist", "Pitch Black" is a bleak narrative pulling no punches. Utilizing an array of drums, percussion, synthesizers, guitars, and other various sound making devices, Boyd creates a damaged repertoire of haunted motorik songs and ghosted void stasis. There is an intensity and mystery buried in these tracks that keep you hooked throughout and coming back for more as you peel back each hidden layer to find new messages and meanings not obvious upon your first encounter. "Blown Out Mind" kicks the record off with it's repetitive, drum clatter on the fringes of disaster and in-the-red synth leads. The track snow balls and collapses into "Brain Trouble", a blitzing and disarming hypnotic grey cloud. "EG&S" (Mood Ring) will launch you into the heart of the "Pitch Black" concept while "A Dark Ride Into the Sun" rounds out the record with heavy analog riffing and dusty light waves. Bizzare fidelities resonate throughout which perplex with old school, truly D.I.Y., private basement session sound. Housed in a thick reverse matte finish jacket on 150 gram vinyl in a limited edition of 300 copies." 9/6/2012 Black Past Pitch Black LP $13.99 Dangerous Age Details "Including the tracks from their split cassette released last year on DBA, this 12" adds 1 Foot Village bonus track and 2 Black Pus bonus tracks. This music is raw, distorted, and totally fucked up drum rock. Each 12" includes a 16" x 22" poster that is a full color animal photo with art by Brian Chippendale screened on top. Brian is the dude behind Black Pus and he is the drummer of Lightning Bolt. This release is all about drums being punk as fuck. Edition of 300. Co-released with Deathbomb Arc." 10/25/2008 Black Pus / Foot Village split LP $12.99 DNT / Deathbomb Arc Details "After the Gematria debut, Maya Miller returns with her second solo effort, the highly anticipated "Sodomy ESP." Recorded in one take in deep-afternoon haze deer-skull-on-the-table statement style, Maya closes her eyes, rocks back and forth, and blasts a magnetic mono hymn with organ and tone-vox. Like trying to figure out how the hell "Nelil" Young plays guitar and harmonica at the same time, on the same beach, circa the invention of the honey slide. At 4 RPM. Last round of warmup jams before the Ecstatic Peace LP drops. First black and white HT cover since the first few tapes -- feel free to color "it" in." 2/11/2006 Black Quarter Sodomy ESP cassette $14.99 Heavy Tapes Details "Mattias Gustafsson is an early 905-cohort, with his altar of flies project filling the 905.4 slot. black river error band is another one of gustafsson's solo endeavors. b.r.e.b. brings the same complex crunch as a.o.f. but includes some black reed magic by way of alien sax vibes for a neurotic-cosmic mash. illuminated fluttering gripping onto dark sounds like mold on a butterfly. cosmic battles phantom workshops." 2/7/2009 Black River Error Band Cosmic Battles cassette $5.99 905 Tapes Details "This full length 4 track LP (1 Original and 3 Remakes) is Defective Record's 32nd release and the 2nd in its "Defective Experiments" side project. Deeply underground, presumed dead, during the dormant years the label's roots crept into uncharted ground with "Fungus of Terror", and the 1st shared release "Cambodian Psych-Out". Going beyond their 90's electronic mutations into electro/acoustic realms, this release of original material, its first from the 21st century, is an exploration in alien soundscapes of psychotropic tempos, murky hypnotic beats, distorted guitars, space funk and cinematic atmospheres. After 6 years of gathering remixes from definitive artists in their genre, Defective Records (the first electronic music label in Baltimore, est. 1994) succeeds in producing a platter that brilliantly reflects their ever expanding tastes. The remixes explore new worlds of weirdness from Tipsy's (Asphodel, Ipecac) lush exotic electronika voyage thru the fungus, Solar X's (Worm Interface, Hymen, Art-Tek, Defective) mushroom cloud of hyper ballistic brain melting beats to Snakeoiler's (Billawtm and Cotton Casino, Acid Mothers Temple) soaring, spore filled, spacerock supermix. Put all this on green wax and slip it in a tripped out sleeve with original cover art by Bobby BeauSoliel (Lucifer Rising) and you have a truly unique piece of vinyl designed to enhance your perception and delight your senses." 1/1/2008 Black Sash Fungus of Terror LP $12.99 Defective Records Details "This is Black Serama's "Rough Wood" album. Black Serama are a brother and sister duo comprising Jonny and Bel. Musically these two have a similar sound and sonic timbre to Charalambides using guitars, keyboards, percussion, bells and objects. "Rough Wood" is the bands second release.It contains twelve excellent tracks and clocks in at over sixty minutes. The cd comes in a hand numbered edition of 40 copies in a white card cover with paste on artwork,insert and sprayed cd label." 3/5/2009 Black Serama Rough Wood CDR $9.99 Reverb Worship Details "Black Sparrow is from UK and is also known for his works as Slow Listener, Hereharehere and so. These lo-fi drone works are spiced (and done) with voices, loops and voices again. Comes with beautiful hand assembled b/w covers drawn by the Duuser collective from Finland. All this, a great wood stick holds together." 1/1/2008 Black Sparrow Black Sparrow CDR $9.99 Peippo Details "Starlight' follows up 2002's consolidating release Hymn of the Master with a set of recordings that showcase a band that has found a place for itself in the early 21st Century. The previous paradigm of mixing rearranged old material with new material has been shattered, and replaced by a completely new set of compositions that represent a launching pad for the band to enter an entirely new phase of its existence. It is now more than just a conduit for Acedo's guitar epiphanies. 'Starlight', like Hymn of the Master, was recorded and mixed at Tucson's SlowBurn recording studio. The release was mastered by John Axtell at Tucson's Cranky Jesus Studio. The album features not only the visionary compositions of Acedo's but also songwriting contributions from Tucson's Sun Zoom Spark leader, Eric Johnson; saxophonist, Brian Maloney and Tucson's Infinite Beauties front-man, Joseph Graves. Starlight also marks the return of long-time BSE collaborator, Duane Norman. Alchemy is performed everywhere, from the dazzling undulations and North African atmospheres of the opening instrumental 'Jewel of the Seven Stars', to the stygian jazz-metal of 'Loki's Monstrous Brood' and 'The Lycian' to the pyramid moon shadows of the cross-cultural 'Arabic Satori' (added intrigue given via Joseph Graves' stream-of-consciousness intonations over the top of it all), to the exquisite classical guitar piece 'Tralaine'. And for perhaps the first time, really successful vocals are added to the dynamic instrumental work. Eric Johnson's vocals make sure that the pop credentials of 'I Am I Was' are such that in a sane world it should be a hit single and he lists 'Sunbeam Angel' to another realm, and Jesus Acedo gives you a clear idea of some of the places he's been on the stormy 'Angel of Light'. Needless to say, there is extraordinary instrumental work everywhere, not just by Acedo, but also by Duane Norman on guitar, clarinet and sax, Brian Maloney on sax and baritone guitar, Eric Johnson on bass, guitar and keys, and the appropriately named Otto Terrorist on drums and percussion." 7/30/2003 Black Sun Ensemble Starlight CD $14.99 Camera Obscura Details "Marc Richter's new Black to Comm offering "Charlemagne & Pippin" churns out a slowly, methodically building single-tone battleship, that somehow manages to become more powerful, hopeful, and grandiose as it oscillates. Richter's characteristic organ noise is rounded off beautifully with various electronics, bells, metal percussion, toys, water, and violins, provided by band members Renate Nikolaus and Ulf Schütte ,which grow around the central note yet slowly move to the center themselves. The Bursting electronics, white noise, and buzzes become more frequent and attempt to overpower the mighty organ. Together, these three musicians bring about a musical pairing that suits the title. A pairing of power and play, father and son, age and youth. Its probably best to turn the lights off and the speakers up for this meditative 35 minute slab of drone excellence." 7/16/2009 Black To Comm Charlemagne & Pippin CD $11.99 Digitalis Arts & Crafts Details "According to Marc Richter, most of his 7th LP as Black to Comm, EARTH, was composed under the influence of heavy painkillers while recovering from a broken leg. It's unfortunate to have to blow those on actual physical pain, but EARTH - music composed for the art film of the same name (Singapore, 2009, dir. Ho Tzu Nyen) - was built on broken bones. The music (like the film) is about slowness and decay, states of unconsciousness, sleeping and waking up, dying and being reborn. The film is basically a post-apocalyptic collage based on paintings by classical European painters (Caravaggio, Delacroix, Rembrandt, Géricault); the music tries to translate that concept employing similar collage-based sampling techniques using loops made from vintage vinyl and shellac records combined with acoustic and electronic instrumentation and voice. EARTH puts me in a mindset similar to that evoked by Gifts-era Loren Connors and Scott Walker's Tilt, and we're as excited to be working with Marc as you will be to spin EARTH." 5/5/2012 Black To Comm Earth LP $15.99 De Stijl Details "This vinyl-only split-LP release is a meeting of two of the most interesting bands coming out of Hamburg, Germany at this moment, both continuing the long tradition of both challenging and explorative music coming from this city in the last decades. From Krautrock to the origins of the so-called Neue Deutsche Welle from experimental sound artists to some of the finest Pop Ambient, Hamburg is regularly spitting out some of the most singular artists on this planet. Both Aosuke and Black To Comm have absorbed influences from all these sources (and a million others) while working towards their very own individual vision The two brand new tracks by Black To Comm are continuing the massive organ/voice drone alchemy of the last double-LP while refining and personalizing his sound, reaching new heights of blazing sonic mysticism. Aosuke have decided to home-record their new material, continuing their loop-oriented, monotone yet highly melodic ambient journeys. Working with repetition and small abstractions, all instrumental "loops" are played by hand and recorded live without overdubs (one of the main principles of the guitar/electronics duo), creating surprisingly concrete dormant and somnambulistic soundscapes while fortunately completely lacking the washy and drowsy effects of most ambient music. Black To Comm is the one-man project of Marc Richter who is the brain behind the Dekorder label as well. So far he has released two albums on his own label ("Rückwärts Backwards" and "Wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun..."). Aosuke is the duo of Tobert Knopp and Ulf Schütte, the latter being a label head as well (Tape Tektoniks). Last year they have released their debut "Monotone Spirits" album co-released by Hamburgs Audiolith label and South Germanys Meudiademorte label." 8/4/2007 Black To Comm / Aosuke split LP $18.99 Dekorder Details "Banjos and fiddles, boards and bones in hand, The Black Twig Pickers dove into a living tradition of old-time music that surrounds their homes in southwest Virginia and never looked back. Both scholars of the regional sounds and advocates of an ecstatic and highly personal approach to the music, the Twigs hold down local dance and bar gigs, play all manner of celebrations, and, every so often, hit the road. Along the way, Isak Howell, Nathan Bowles and Mike Gangloff kept company with some of underground America's heavyweights and haunted the doorsteps of Appalachian fiddle and banjo masters. Ironto Special is an album of traditional Appalachian old-time tunes (and two originals) that they've learned through study of both local old-time musicians and old-time records and field recordings. The instrumentation is all-acoustic and features some of the old-time usuals -- fiddle, banjo, guitar -- and some implements less routinely heard in today's old-time scene like washboard, bones, fiddlesticks, mouth harp and jaw harp. Plus (on one song) a one-of-a-kind baritone resonator 12-string guitar. Old-time music served, and continues to serve, a variety of functions in Appalachian life: from dance music to somber solo performance, to raggier blues and everything in between. Ironto Special is an attempt to celebrate this variety in the old-time tradition through the band's process of learning and growth as they explore the music's many facets." 9/25/2010 Black Twig Pickers Ironto Special CD $13.99 Thrill Jockey Details LP version. Includes download coupon. "Banjos and fiddles, boards and bones in hand, The Black Twig Pickers dove into a living tradition of old-time music that surrounds their homes in southwest Virginia and never looked back. Both scholars of the regional sounds and advocates of an ecstatic and highly personal approach to the music, the Twigs hold down local dance and bar gigs, play all manner of celebrations, and, every so often, hit the road. Along the way, Isak Howell, Nathan Bowles and Mike Gangloff kept company with some of underground America's heavyweights and haunted the doorsteps of Appalachian fiddle and banjo masters. Ironto Special is an album of traditional Appalachian old-time tunes (and two originals) that they've learned through study of both local old-time musicians and old-time records and field recordings. The instrumentation is all-acoustic and features some of the old-time usuals -- fiddle, banjo, guitar -- and some implements less routinely heard in today's old-time scene like washboard, bones, fiddlesticks, mouth harp and jaw harp. Plus (on one song) a one-of-a-kind baritone resonator 12-string guitar. Old-time music served, and continues to serve, a variety of functions in Appalachian life: from dance music to somber solo performance, to raggier blues and everything in between. Ironto Special is an attempt to celebrate this variety in the old-time tradition through the band's process of learning and growth as they explore the music's many facets." 9/25/2010 Black Twig Pickers Ironto Special LP $13.99 Thrill Jockey Details "U.S.A. old-time string-stompers Black Twig Pickers take listeners on an all-too-brief fiddle-and-banjo tour of some of their favorite places with "Night Sounds Vol. 2," a new, 15-minute cassette. Recorded early this year, "Night Sounds" starts with a chorus of spring frogs, an ongoing obsession with the Twigs and a signature sound around their Virginia-West Virginia homes. Over the next quarter-hour, the Twigs move through some of the sparse fiddle and banjo numbers that are regional traditions, offer an eerie fireside slide incantation, accompany passing trains (another usual sound around their homes) and bring listeners into the monthly dance they play at the Floyd Country Store, where a caller exhorts the crowd to "couple up four." Very literally a field recording, with most of the material recorded out of doors and all of it very much in the moment.. Comes in hand made lino printed sleeves by Jake Blanchard." Edition of 65 copies. 5/15/2012 Black Twig Pickers Night Sounds Volume 2 c15 cassette $8.99 Tor Press Details "Banjos and fiddles, boards and bones in hand, the Black Twig Pickers dove into a living tradition of old-time music that surrounds their homes along the Virginia/West Virginia line and never looked back. Both scholars of the regional sounds and advocates of an ecstatic and highly personal approach to the music, the Twigs hold down local dance and bar gigs, play all manner of celebrations and every so often, hit the road. Along the way, Isak Howell, Nathan Bowles and Mike Gangloff kept company with some of underground America's heavyweights and haunted the doorsteps of Appalachian fiddle and banjo masters. They've played for the National Council for the Traditional Arts and for audiences overseas. The trio have toured the UK in the company of both Jack Rose and Charlie Parr, accompanying Rose on a series of raucous UK shows to celebrate the Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers album released in 2009. Rose and Gangloff were of course longtime band mates in drone masters Pelt, symbolizing the band's emergence into traditional music from a more experimental background (Bowles is also now a member of Pelt and both he and Gangloff perform as part of Spiral Joy Band). They also followed Rose onto Thrill Jockey's books, releasing Ironto Special, an album of traditional Appalachian old-time tunes (and two originals) in 2010. That same year they also released an album of traditional gospel music, Glory in the Meeting House, with Parr contributing his trademark sturdy-but- sweet vocals and resonator guitar. In 2011, the Twigs collaborated with Parr on a Record Store Day split LP for Thrill Jockey, with the flip side featuring recordings from Cambridge, MA based guitarist Glenn Jones. Through study of both local old-time musicians and old-time records and field recordings, the trio have literally come to old-time from leftfield, purely through their love of the music, and found they can hold their own with the old-timers, constantly tearing up the Virginian highways to keep commitments at bars, country fairs and parties, while simultaneously turning on their more avant listeners too. Bowles has also become a powerhouse banjo player of growing repute, with his first solo album in the works. New Black Twig Pickers recordings are on the way as well, first among them this Yellow Cat b/w You'll Never Miss Your Mama 7", with longer collections to follow in 2012." Edition of 800 copies includes download coupon. 4/18/2012 Black Twig Pickers Yellow Cat 7" + download $6.99 Thrill Jockey Details "Black Unicorn is the solo synth project of Akron, Ohio based Curt Brown (Cane Swords, Rubber City Noise). "Rediscovering Infinity" is a debut on wax and compiles 5 killer, evocative synth pieces, acting perfectly as an introduction to his work. 3 tunes here previously seeing the light of day on tiny run cassette and cdr releases, whilst the monumental title track (recorded especially for this project) is constructed as a 5 part movement that reinterprets an earlier theme as a story of cosmic awakening and redemption. Black Unicorn's music is both contemplative and exploratory- ranging from subtle drone to melodic outburst and is created on both analogue and digital synthesizers, sequencers and effects. Basic electronic building blocks are treated as analogous to alphabet characters- another way of telling a story that is both in harmony and supplement to the written word. Each piece on the LP has it's own special insert that expands upon the music through textual fragments and icon- detailing both instrumentation and basic meaning. The larger insert features an illustration by Matt Horak, whose drawings are scattered throughout. The second release on 'Deep Distance' -a synth / kraut themed side project to The Great Pop Supplement, and a wonderful album in beautiful black embossed sleeves released as a numbered edition of 250 copies on vinyl only." 7/5/2012 Black Unicorn Rediscovering Infinity LP $15.99 Deep Distance Details Limited edition of 120 copies in plexi frame. Reissue of LP with 7 bonus tracks. "That Liebfried Loch has been making his found sound/voice/guitar/organ recordings more or less unnoticed since the late 70s is a real shocker. And he has played amongst and with the bigger names of a DIY, Velvets / Barrett / Drake inspired 'scene' in and around Berlin, with connections to 39 clocks, Phantom Payne, Beauty Contest, etc. But his method is decidedly more 'avant-garde' than most. Loch has no patience for a melody, choosing to layer sounds unwittingly. That method has been used to some very tiresome results by a great many artists, but for whatever reason, is much kinder to Herr Loch. If you got ahold of his '95 debut Frozen Morning you were one of the lucky few probably to be taken with its freshness. That Loch was pushing 60 was that much more enticing." 4/22/2009 Black Vial Noise Frequency PWM CDR $17.99 Impulsy Stetoskopu Details "Debut release from the duo of US guitarist Andrew Weeks and Ben Spiers. Black Window formed following a late night acoustic busking session at Wellington Railway Station, 'Gunwales' couldn't be much further from those beginnings as a bed of garage doom explodes into punked-up mass projection guitar, then collapses into tape warble. 3" CDR housed in an oversized gatefold sleeve with pro-printed outer and hand-painted inner. Edition of 60 copies." 7/10/2008 Black Window Gunwales CDR $14.99 Transient Recordings Details "the only living vinyl testament to the awesome "quirkadelica" that was the short lived (2004-2006) LA based blackblack. This cult band comprised diva dompe (bass/ vocals) later to feature in west coast dub noiseniks pocahaunted, sister lola dompe (drums) and bizarrely alex greenwald's schizoid alter ego clark schadelkopf (guitar). He of course went on to form phantom planet, collaborate with mark ronson on a cover of radiohead's "just" and other improbable antics. As for this LP and the band's general soundŠthink off kilter early cure meets the lighter end of velvet underground or joy division. Fantastical, sci-fi, exotic birds draped in sonic colour..you'll get a good feel from the inspired videos for "emerald forest" and "Sophia" to be found on youtube.." Edition of 250 copies on 180 gram vinyl 6/24/2012 Blackblack Blackblack LP $22.99 Alt Vinyl Details "Blackout Beach is the solo vehicle for Carey Mercer, the head howler and songwriter for the criminally under-appreciated Frog Eyes. Like his work with Frog Eyes, these Blackout Beach songs are intense, miniature epics filled with decadent imagery and dark paths. Some might fence Mercer into the 'new weird folk' movement, but his songs are filled with more conviction, agitation and true sonic experimentation than all of those other folkies combined. Light Flows The Putrid Dawn is an atmospheric song cycle (in fourteen parts) that touches on a wide range of emotions, and an even wider range of song structure and arrangements." 7/16/2004 Blackout Beach Light Flows The Putrid Dawn CD $10.99 Soft Abuse Records Details "I'm extremely pleased to announce that James Blackshaw will now be releasing his absolutely spellbinding music via Young God Records. He has received attention as a 12-string guitar prodigy / virtuoso. He used to be in punk bands in England, but then he started listening to people like John Fahey, Robbie Basho, etc., and I assume locked himself in a room for 12 hours a day for several years and just played constantly. It takes intense discipline and a religious commitment to get to the place where he's at with his instrument. But his music isn't about his "skill." It's not showy. It's deeply meditative--the secret language of a pre-thought, pre-dream place. "Blackshaw plays soulful and kaleidoscopic, ever-shifting mantra cycles of incredible beauty. Just his guitar by itself, with its swirling overtones, cascading notes, and a thousand points of light, resembles an orchestra, but with further orchestration--piano, strings, wind, and vocals--the music is positively cinematic and mesmerizing. "The 18-minute-plus gem on this record is 'Arc,' performed on piano with the sustain pedal on full throttle. The rush of sound created by the overtones from Heaven, augmented by strings and wind, when played at proper (full) volume, is one of the most thrilling pieces of music I've heard in years. It takes a rare and single-minded courage and commitment to make music with such a powerfully positive force at its heart, especially in these troubled times. This is healing music that reaches for what's possible, just beyond our grasp. It is stellar..."Blackshaw is joined on this record by Joolie Wood (Current 93, Simon Finn) on violin, clarinet, and flute, and John Contreras (Baby Dee and Current 93) on cello. Lavinia Blackwall (Directing Hand) is a classically trained singer and contributed vocals." --Michael Gira/Young God Records 5/21/2009 Blackshaw, James Glass Bead Game CD $13.99 Young God Details "I'm extremely pleased to announce that James Blackshaw will now be releasing his absolutely spellbinding music via Young God Records. He has received attention as a 12-string guitar prodigy / virtuoso. He used to be in punk bands in England, but then he started listening to people like John Fahey, Robbie Basho, etc., and I assume locked himself in a room for 12 hours a day for several years and just played constantly. It takes intense discipline and a religious commitment to get to the place where he's at with his instrument. But his music isn't about his 'skill.' It's not showy. It's deeply meditative--the secret language of a pre-thought, pre-dream place. Blackshaw plays soulful and kaleidoscopic, ever-shifting mantra cycles of incredible beauty. Just his guitar by itself, with its swirling overtones, cascading notes, and a thousand points of light, resembles an orchestra, but with further orchestration-piano, strings, wind, and vocals-the music is positively cinematic and mesmerizing. The 18-minute-plus gem on this record is 'Arc,' performed on piano with the sustain pedal on full throttle. Blackshaw is joined on this record by JOOLIE WOOD (CURRENT 93, SIMON FINN), and JOHN CONTRERAS (BABY DEE and CURRENT 93) on cello. LAVINIA BLACKWALL (DIRECTING HAND) is a classically trained singer and contributed vocals."-Michael Gira/Young God Records. Beautiful six-panel fold-out digipack with art by NICOLE BOITOS. LP includes bonus CD version." 8/8/2009 Blackshaw, James Glass Bead Game LP + CD $15.99 Young God Details "When UK native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string, something spiritual takes place. This unassuming 23 year-old is transformed into a guitar god whose name belongs alongside the likes of Jack Rose, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and Glenn Jones. Making instrumental, solo, acoustic music that remains consistently interesting and moving is a difficult task. Yet, time after time, Blackshaw hits out of the park, constantly breaking boundaries in what could be conceived as a somewhat limited medium. O True Believers is the latest in a string of impressive releases, all with their own mood and inspiration. An untrained musician living in the isolated suburban environs of Greater London, Blackshaw draws inspiration not only from the early Takoma Records roster, but from sources as varied as the sublime film-work of Werner Herzog, the books of Richard Brautigan and an endless amount of music: free-jazz, '60s psych, drone, ethnic music and modern-day composers, to name a few." 2/28/2006 Blackshaw, James O True Believers CD $13.99 Important Records Details "Reissue of this November 2005 release (originally issued on Digitalis and Bo Weavil). "...Blackshaw has already mustered up enough talent on the guitar to put many more renowned acts to shame. His gorgeous finger picked melodies on 12-string guitar are incredibly affecting and a stark contrast to the ragas and ragtimes of peer Jack Rose. Instead of concentrating on replicating a specific era of music or showing his technical prowess, Blackshaw aims straight for the heart and listening to these two extended pieces is enough for you to be transported into another realm entirely. One of the standout releases in the now slightly bloated folk revival movement, Sunshrine is a real pleasure to listen to and should be wedged firmly into any self-respecting folk follower's CD shelf." - Boomkat 4/5/2008 Blackshaw, James Sunshrine CD $12.99 Tompkins Square Details "When UK-native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string guitar, something spiritual takes place. Performing and recording since 2003, his name is frequently mentioned as one of the foremost modern solo acoustic guitarists. Now at the age of 25, Blackshaw, an untrained musician born and still residing in the suburban environs of Greater London, draws as much inspiration from early religious music, South-Asian folk music and composers such as Arvo Part, Simeon Ten Holt, Steve Reich and Charlemagne Palestine as he does from John Fahey, Robbie Basho and the early Takoma Records roster, constantly breaking boundaries in what could be conceived as a somewhat limited medium. In his part improvised and part written songs, Blackshaw makes expert use of Eastern and Western scales, chord changes reminiscent of European classical music and incredibly intricate fingerpicking patterns to make a sound that is both challengingly minimalist, yet warm and approachable to anybody who might hear it, with a rare sensitivity that conveys immense beauty, hope and sadness." 7/14/2007 Blackshaw, James The Cloud of Unknowing CD $12.99 Tompkins Square Details "Two warped pop hits by the most perfectly matched couple in Brattleboro VT: Sarah Smith and Zach Phillips. This warrants repeated back to back flipping on your turntable. As a keyboard and vocal duo they create a complete sound-picture, but they've also got a great live band called Easy Street. Hey, their heads fly around and stuff!!!! They've got a tape and an LP coming out on Night People later this year (yeah!) and their video for this single was featured on Pitchfork (ick!)." 3/3/2011 Blanche Blanche Blanche Talk Out Loud b/w Water To Wine 7" $6.49 Feeding Tube Records Details "Four new tracks self-released on a 12-inch by Blank Dogs' own Captured Tracks label. Limited edition silkscreened sleeves, not to be reissued." - Revolver 5/21/2009 Blank Dogs Seconds 12" $14.99 Captured Tracks Details "Blank Dogs are actually singular: it's the insanely prolific one-man Brooklyn-based band of Mr. Blank Dog. We don't know too much about the biography of the guy behind the bedroom new-wave pop/punk and he's usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads, but that's fine. The aura of anonymity allows you to focus on the sounds -- and, really, he might be releasing a ton of things, but there's definitely a higher jam-to-crap ratio. It's like Joy Division vocal lines with The Cure's synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. And that voice? All the feedback in the world can't hide his knack for melody. Blank Dogs have been making plenty of rumbles in the noisier and more secretive outposts of the underground (half his discography's sold out), but Troubleman Unlimited's just repressed his very recommended full-length On Two Sides (on yellow vinyl in an edition of 500) and In The Red's releasing a 20-song double LP (or single CD) called Under And Under . It's all new material. He's also playing his first shows in NYC, so if you want to take a peek, you can. All this to say: seems like Blank Dogs is on his way out of the basement." --Stereogum 12/13/2008 Blank Dogs The Fields LP $14.99 Woodsist Details "For the past several years, a slew of 12-inches, 7-inches, and cassettes have been released by the mysterious Brooklyn artist known as Blank Dogs. Blank Dogs is actually singular-it's the insanely prolific one-man band of Mr. Blank Dog. Not too much is known about the guy behind the bedroom new wave / pop / punk act and he's usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads. The sound is Joy Division vocal lines with The Cure's synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient, submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. Under and Under is Blank Dogs' latest and most massive release to date-a double-album housing twenty brand new songs (fifteen on the CD and digital versions) that show off his pop chops to a greater extent than any of his previous releases. Also, for the first time, Blank Dogs has incorporated the assistance of outside musicians to lend a hand, including members of the Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls, among others. contribute this time around." - Revolver 7/16/2009 Blank Dogs Under and Under double LP $15.99 In The Red Details Scottish single features Roy Montgomery with Darryl Anthony Blanking Machine A Flock Of Fish 7" $4.99 Details "This listener's prediction: the muffled voice of Blaster Al Ackerman reading his "Pepper Young" translations with a presumed bar of soap in his mouth followed by tree frog belches will replace the sound of a passing steam locomotive as the poetic sounds of indescribable mystery and high lonesomeness. This audio icon of the 21st Century can be found on Ehse Records' LP release of Blaster Al Ackerman's "I Am Drunk". And indeed at times he does sound drunk, but not just on booze, also on language and human absurdity. Featuring live as well as "studio" recordings, "I Am Drunk" also has two Blaster classics that raise the humdrum world of the workplace to the giddy heights of Philip K. Dick in Munchkinland - "The John Eaton Recommendations" and "The Crab". Another prediction: copies of this album with its linguistic hijinks and squat and thrusts will be played far more times and enjoyed much more than any mothball enshrined Caedmon LP of T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost intoning. Original artwork for LP front cover by Blaster Al Ackerman. Edition of 500." 6/11/2006 Blaster Al Ackerman I Am Drunk LP $13.99 Ehse Details "Drums & Bass madness from NY's noise duo Blastocyst (members of Paper Legs, George Steeltoe Ensemble, Cakes Of Light, et al). True patriots, indeed, they praise the true beast of the American Beast w/ low frequency cluttering and brain damaged percussion. Total chaos! Handpainted w/ acrylic stains heavy covers w/ paste-on photography and inners." 7/14/2007 Blastocyst True Tales For A New American Century CDR $8.99 Phase Details "A new voice in the Ragtime and American Primitive guitar-playing lineage, Blatchley offers a unique interpretation of both new and traditional compositions. Blatchley performs in the band Mountain Home with Marissa Nadler and Greg Weeks of Espers." The series will be released on high quality LP with letterpressed sleeves, each with a picture of the guitar used to record the albums. Track-by-track liner notes will also be included. Edition of 500 copies. 10/3/2009 Blatchley, Joshua Emery Solo Acoustic Volume One LP $15.99 Vin Du Select Qualitite Details "Founded as a duo by T. Graves and Reyna Kay in September 2008, Blessure Grave blurs the lines between the goth, postpunk and neofolk genres. The pair has since developed the project into a full band while building a cult-like following, scattering various vinyl and tape releases on boutique labels around the globe. Citing Killing Joke, Death in June, March Violets and The Cure as influences, Blessure Grave injects a pop sensibility into songs otherwise doomed to dreariness, creating an interesting mix of old and new but dark all around. The music initially appears rather simple, but quickly reveals the fact that the songs are fully fleshed-out and genuinely memorable. The album provides the perfect soundtrack for contemplating today's troubled times or for simply being swept away with the nostalgic 80's vibe that permeates much of the recording. The band does not waste a lot a time allowing tracks to drone on: the songs are short and to the point, with the average track approximately three minutes in length. 12 tracks. Vinyl edition of 500 copies, mastered by Viktor Ottosson, while the CD will be released on Alien 8 Recordings (CD-version will also include the tracks from the Captured Tracks 12"). Previous releases out on Night People, Captured Tracks and Holidays." 3/6/2010 Blessure Grave Judged By 12, Carried By 6 LP $18.99 Release The Bats Details "Avant-garde pianist Paul Bley (recorded here at RCA Studios in Rome on July 1st, 1966) has been able to use melody and space in inventive ways while performing fairly free improvisations. Barry Altschul is spectacular on drums, with effective polyrhythmic support, and bassist Mark Levinson fits perfectly into the mix. 6 tracks. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl." 8/8/2002 Bley, Paul Ramblin' LP $15.99 Get Back / BYG Actuel Details "This historic album, originally released on ESP-Disk in 1965 (featuring drummer Barry Altschul and bassist Steve Swallow), is one of Canadian-born pianist Paul Bley's most adventurous albums of the period. Bley helped spearhead the 1960s free jazz movement, standing shoulder to shoulder with men like Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry." 3/20/2003 Bley, Paul Quintet Closer LP $15.99 Get Back Details "Following several low-run self-releases, this is Swiss group Bliscappen Van Maria's debut album proper, comprised of two sides of frazzled electronic swirl, drones, ethereal hums, guitars, percussion, banjo and the overall hue of the imaginary psychedelic Western movie soundtrack. This comes highly recommended for all lovers of interstellar minimalism and the likes of Circle, early Pink Floyd, Ash Ra Tempel, Taj Mahal Travellers et al. A blissful debut by this group with roots in a number of others to have emanated from Switzerland's '90s post-hardcore punk/noise/post-rock scene (Equus, Montevideo, Forceed, Knut, etc.). Lavishly packaged in a reversed card sleeve and limited to 500 copies only." 1/5/2013 Bliscappen Van Maria Bliscepen LP $21.99 Fourth Dimension Details "Blissed Out hails from NYC, but his beats are as cold as the Arctic wastes. “ICE to meet you” they say as they march over your corpse. Somewhere between the grim chug of witched-out industrial, the ghetto gothery of hip-hop, and the paranoid highs of trance sits I, the latest EP from the young producer. It’s the perfect thing for your next Halloween rave; just be sure to have plenty of acid." 2/9/2013 Blissed Out I cassette $5.99 Living Tapes Details "The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly they've remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse ) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canyon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine nature's melodic pull and minimalist songs forms summoned by a miniature orchestra of eclectic instruments. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside. The indoor set consists of slow-motion ballads built on hymn-like organ, nylon string guitar, analog drum machine & stark percussion. The outdoor side offers a web of exotic wind-instruments & battery-powered electronics reverberating in cavernous hall cut in the side of a sea-cliff." Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album. 11/2/2008 Blithe Sons, The The Great Orthochromatic Wheel LP $14.99 Family Vineyard Details Edition of 300 copies with stamped sleeve and painted label. Blodeudd / Gang Wizard split 7" $9.99 Oggum Details "This split presents a meeting of two stellar, young ambient projects that deserve your ears. Texas’ Blood on Tape is a duo comprised of Kevin O’Sullivan and David Gonzalez. Inspired by distant and peaceful lands in Bolivia, their composition combines melancholy synths, reverb-drenched guitars, and pastoral field recordings for an experience that coasts gently and sooths unequivocally. Indiana’s Pet Coffins is the solo work of Philip Egierski. His piece begins with jarring, dissonant chimes that eventually give way to a dense and melodic sound world full of whispering acoustic guitar strums and ethereal vocal drones. Both acts iterate that there is mystery in beauty and vice versa. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 75." 11/21/2009 Blood on Tape / Pet Coffins split c38 cassette $4.99 Anathema Sound Details "Some more low brow head tangle, this time in a smoky late night vein. Two tape mulch pieces of magnetic creep and two live joints (1 recorded in front of an audience of 6 one summer night in Cambridge. The other to a packed house in Brighton). A nice slow labotomy." 4/16/2007 Blood Stereo Enfold The Hiss CDR $9.99 Chocolate Monk Details “10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brother's Harley. Kicks ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis].” 12/10/2004 Blood Stereo Hymn for the Crippled Mulato CDR $8.99 Carbon Records Details "New cassette from my UK pals Blood Stereo. Lo-fi musique concrete, field recordings, percussion, electronics, and voice masterfully mixed into a poisonous hobo stew." 5/16/2011 Blood Stereo Into Aquatic Maze cassette $5.99 Hanson Details “Blood Stereo featuring Professor Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and Milche Grand invaded the stage and spat a half-hour of pure sonic bliss. They offered an onslaught of ‘hydrostatic’ sounds that made both my constipation and blood circulation problems avoid the need for any form of homeopathy.” - Hicham Chadly, Blastitude.com. Joined by Milche Grand (Chrome Hoof), this is a mangled/remixed recording of the Blood Stereo show at Sonic Protest Festival in Paris in 2004. 2/21/2005 Blood Stereo Live at Sonic Protest CDR $9.99 Chocolate Monk Details "To celebrate their upcoming US tour, Feeding Tube Records is releasing a spooky little c30 by Blood Stereo, the Scottish duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance. Any one familiar with their previous work will know that Tape Hiss For Brainwash is not to be missed. A heady mix of tape collage, minimal instrumentation and other-worldly vocals. We only made 100." 4/16/2011 Blood Stereo Tape Hiss For Brainwash c30 cassette $7.99 Feeding Tube Records Details “A late night whiskey jam with brain bent serenades. Nyoukis & Constance joined by Caroline Lewis (PSKB) and southern ladies man Billy Taylor (ex-Melted Men, ex-TL&SiLA).” 2/21/2005 Blood Stereo The Trunk Is Flexed CDR $9.99 Chocolate Monk Details "Super split. Belgian learning disabilites duo Moysk en Chimyser produce some wondrous low brow scum/shit noise, elbow deep in patch cords and cheap beer. Blood Stereo get all bent out of shape and try to explain the sounds of tape machines dying. This is xerox psychedelia. " 3/26/2006 Blood Stereo / Moysk en Chimyser split CDR $9.99 Chocolate Monk Details "Gift Givers is the third full-length release from Bloodyminded, and it follows their late-2003 single, 'Mothercare,' and their previous album, 'True Crime' (2002). Moving on from 'crime,' this time the group has placed its focus on numerous other types of obsessive behaviors. A recurring theme, initiated on 'Mothercare' (if not hinted at on their first CD, 'Trophy'), is self-destructive behavior - particular, but certainly not exclusive to - teenage girls. As the album title hints, such dangerous behavior cuts across both sexes and all ages. Gift Givers takes some of its cues from True Crime, such as that album's deep layering of vocals. This time, however, the band takes things a step further by utilizing its international depth - creating a multi-lingual recording with English, French, and Spanish vocals. Hearkening back to Trophy, this album mixes 10 songs in the four- to six-minute range with several of the band's trademark blast songs. An likely unexpected introductory track starts things off, while a middle passage, based on new recordings by special guest Pierpaolo Zoppo (previously of the pioneering Italian project, Mauthausen Orchestra), acts as a curious segue between the central Pro-Ana/Pro-Mia suite. Another special guest, Michael D. Williams (EyeHateGod/Outlaw Order), adds lead vocals to the key track, Ten Suicides, which incorporates a number of true successes and near misses, and which carries the album's prevalent theme/question. Brian Gaynor, who has worked on numerous BloodLust! recording projects, engineered the majority of the recording sessions and the ultramaximized master, and he co-produced the album with Mark Solotroff, at Alien Soundscapes, Inc., Chicago. Additional recording was completed by the band, as well as by Amadou Sall (Collapse/Treponem Pal). Veteran BloodLust! designer and former Bloodyminded member Megan Emish executed the exquisite packaging design." 6/5/2005 Bloodyminded Gift Givers CD $10.99 BloodLust! Details One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. 4/24/2006 Bloodyminded untitled 7" $25.99 AA Records Details "Talented, ignored and legendary band's second album (1969, for the Marmelade label) is heavier and more dramatic than their pop/psych debut; lots of crunching guitars and a more power rock approach, but still with the same imagination that sets both of the band's albums apart from most others of the same era; booklet comes with original UK art as well as lyrics." - Lion Productions 11/16/2004 Blossom Toes If Only For a Moment CD $17.99 Polydor Details "Stylish reissue replicates original cover art and includes the lyrics to this top-notch UK psychedelic album, the band's quirky 1967 Marmalade label debut; truly one of the finest stabs at pop/psychedelia produced in the heady era, which is saying quite a lot, since the year belonged to the pop/psych of the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper's; cellos, trumpets, and full-blown orchestra meant the band could not perform this material live, which ultimately left them high and dry despite the legions of devoted listeners which grows with each passing year; and why not? Hard to find many songs from that era catchier than 'Telegram Tuesday'." - Lion Productions 11/16/2004 Blossom Toes We Are Ever So Clean CD $17.99 Polydor Details "Third 905 effort to date. recorded a month ago while rains came down outside. walls melted and all the paint was lead. connolly's strings and effects played his fingers and vocal chords while haley 360'd the synths and delay. got diseased and mutated into moisture." Edition of 33. 3/21/2009 Blown Doors Crystal Myths / Crystal Paths cassette $4.99 905 Tapes Details "Sean and i lived together for a year, and within that time we recorded exactly zero seconds of blown doors material. maybe it was the cramped, suburban townhousery that kept the jams contained, that I don't know. either way, now that we are separated by a few miles the tones are blooming. the latest is this barn burner, a 92 minute cassette loaded from start to finish with heaps of static infused scorchers. recorded direct to tape in two back to back sessions. punishment. mics, electronics, and cell phones." 9/30/2008 Blown Doors Drug Punishment cassette $5.99 905 Tapes Details "Blue Cheer's debut album, Vincebus Eruptum, was widely and accurately described as "the loudest record ever made" when it first appeared in early 1968, and the band seemingly had the good sense to realize that for sheer brutal impact, there was little chance they could top it. So for their second LP, Outsideinside (which appeared a mere seven months later), rather than aim for something bigger and more decibel intensive, Blue Cheer decided to see how much polish they could add to their formula without blunting the skull-crushing force of their live attack. While Vincebus Eruptum was cut in simple and straightforward form with minimal overdubs, Outsideinside found Blue Cheer embracing the possibilities of the recording studio; Leigh Stephens overdubbed multiple guitar parts on several tunes, while the mix sends his leads flying around the room, though aggressive use of panning and the monstrous, fuzzy growl of his tone gets cleaned up on some tunes (check out the wah-wah solos on "Gypsy Ball"), though the results are still as gentle as a chainsaw. The engineering is friendlier to Paul Whaley's drumming; his traps don't sound as much like trash cans on these sessions, though the crude, phase shifting on "Just a Little Bit" remains gloriously amateurish. And if Dickie Peterson's bass sounds just about the same, he got to spend more time on his vocals here, and his blustery howl communicates better this time. The opening cut, "Feathers from Your Tree," also added a piano to the mix (which is somehow audible through the dozens of amps), while "Babylon" is almost funky in its lead-footed approximation of an R&B groove, and "The Hunter" is a broad but playful exercise in sexual swagger that, if nothing else, provided a lyrical conceit Kiss could use to more profitable effect nine years later. But if Outsideinside is cleaner, tighter, and more ambitious than Vincebus Eruptum, it's still clearly the work of the same band, and Blue Cheer sound every bit as thunderous on their sophomore effort. If anything, this LP captures the psychedelic side of their musical personality with greater clarity than the blunt approach of the debut; Outsideinside doesn't sound trippy so much as righteously buzzed, and the speedy roar of this the music is big enough that the legend that parts of this were so loud they had to be recorded outside seems not just plausible, but perfectly reasonable. " - AllMusicGuide. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl - long out of print. 4/15/2011 Blue Cheer Outside Inside LP $29.99 Akarma Details "Rock & roll had grown louder and wilder by leaps and bounds during the '60s, but when Blue Cheer emerged from San Francisco onto the national rock scene in 1968 with their debut album, Vincebus Eruptum, they crossed a line which most musicians and fans hadn't even thought to draw yet. Vincebus Eruptum sounds monolithically loud and primal today, but it must have seemed like some sort of frontal assault upon first release; Blue Cheer are often cited as the first genuine heavy metal band, but that in itself doesn't quite sum up the true impact of this music, which even at a low volume sounds crushingly forceful. Though Blue Cheer's songs were primarily rooted in the blues, what set them apart from blues-rock progenitors such as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds was the massive physical force of their musical attack. Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and the MC5 may have anticipated the sound and fury of this music, but Blue Cheer's secret was not just being louder than anyone else, but staying simple enough to give each member the space to do damage both as individuals and as a group. Paul Whaley's drumming combined a crashing dustbin tone with a constant, rolling pummel that suggested Ginger Baker with less finesse and more bludgeoning velocity. Dickie Peterson's basslines were as thick as tar and bubbled like primordial ooze as he bellowed out his lyrics with a fire and attitude that compensated for his lack of vocal range. And guitarist Leigh Stephens may have been the first genius of noise rock; Lester Bangs once wrote that Stephens' "sub-sub-sub-sub-Hendrix guitar overdubs stumbled around each other so ineptly they verged on a truly bracing atonality," and though that doesn't sound like a compliment, the lumbering chaos of his roaring, feedback-laden leads birthed a more glorious monster than many more skillful players could conjure. Put them together, and Blue Cheer's primal din was an ideal corrective for anyone who wondered if full-on rock & roll was going to have a place in the psychedelic revolution. From the opening rampage through Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" (which miraculously became a hit single), to the final one-two punch of "Parchment Farm" and "Second Time Around," Vincebus Eruptum is a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army; only a few of Blue Cheer's peers could come up with anything remotely this heavy (the MC5's Kick Out the Jams and side two of the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat were its closest rivals back in the day), and no one could summon so much thunder with just three people. If you want to wake the neighbors, this is still the album to get, and it was Blue Cheer's simplest and most forceful musical statement." - AllMusicGuide. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl - long out of print. 4/15/2011 Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum LP $29.99 Akarma Details "Blue Collar is experimental jazz power trio. Wooley teams up with two of the finest musicians to be found in any style - the peerless trombonist Steve Swell and Tatsuya Nakatani, a dazzlingly innovative percussionist - and the result is smart and winsome chaos. Here, Wooley's expanding quiver of sounds is profoundly multiplied by those of his veteran comrades. Lovely Hazel seems almost easy listening after Wooley's solo disc, but a similar caveat applies: it's not for the sweet of tooth. You won't encounter anything further from top 40 pop, or more rewarding to your patience." - Ty Cumbie 4/24/2006 Blue Collar Lovely Hazel CD $12.99 Public Eyesore Details "Blue Sabbath Black Cheer tear us a new one on their latest slab of sublime filth "DDTTNB" (Destructively Dedicated to the New Blockaders). This surly one-sided 12" delivers 15 minutes of unyielding harsh beauty, using amplified cement mixers as well as source material from the New Blockaders' Rupenus brothers, roiling and thrashing about within BSBC's trademark "dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise" sound machine. Released in an edition of 200, this deluxe package includes 2-tone screen-print covers by the inimitable Seizure Palace, with the record screen-printed on the blank side. Get them before they get you." 5/20/2009 Blue Sabbath Black Cheer DDTTNB one-sided 12" $21.99 Anarchymoon Recordings Details "Side A features 2 live tracks originally released on the "Dead" c20 on Scumbag Tapes, a live version of 'Borre Fen' recorded at the Baltic Room in Seattle Washington on September 26th, 2006 & 'Black Acid' recorded live at the Funhouse in Seattle Washington on October 22nd, 2006. Side B features 'Victim' recorded live at the Rebar in Seattle Washington on December 23rd, 2006, originally released on the "Feral Debris Vol. 2" CDr compilation + zine & a previously unreleased track recorded and mixed back in 2007. Black vinyl, black hand stamped labels, comes housed in a pro-printed jacket with a gruesome spot varnished photograph by Stan Reed on the front. Includes an 11x11" insert." Edition of 500 copies. 8/24/2009 Blue Sabbath Black Cheer Dead Death, Death Dead LP $15.99 Gnarled Forest / Troubleman Details "This new BSBC LP reissues 3 tracks from some older out of print BSBC Gnarled Forest cassette releases, "The Sense of Violence", "Funeral Rehersal" & "The Endless Blockade". Raw, black and nasty crunch presented to you in it's proper fomat. Features Geoff Walker of Gravitar and John Lukeman of Drowner. Cover art by Crystal Perez. A side plays at 33rpm, B side at 45rpm. Edition of 400 copies on Black Vinyl." 12/13/2008 Blue Sabbath Black Cheer The Endless Blockade LP $15.99 Gnarled Forest Details "Originally released as a c16 on What We Do Is Secret in an edition of 50 copies. Two bleak and desolate trips to despairsville are what await you here, BSBC take a more minimulist approach to horror than the usual roar, sure to make you a bit uneasy as your led into the fog. DUC ride a slow drone of death into the winds of the end. Comes housed in a screen printed jacket, front and back, with a double sided insert." Edition of 300 copies. 6/3/2009 Blue Sabbath Black Cheer / Dried Up Corpse split 10" $11.99 Gnarled Forest Details "Here's a 2007 JK Tapes repress of this Parisian duo doing what they do best...making loud, raucous, guitar-driven noise. Skull-crushing, gut-wrenching, and face-melting will all take place while listening to this. And then, after some reconstructive surgery, you'll come crawling back for more. Get it while it's hot." Edition of 50 copies. 7/10/2008 Blue Sabbath Black Fiji Lazer Saber CDR $5.99 Abandon Ship Records Details Shudder, zoom, stopf, click freezing frozen Tim(e) like a paint smallbrushstrok. condensd spare squace ni mouvmountain near 'ounds. Look, knot meat it at. Tory(s) for brainsml brainthnk write bak atya relate/shun. Instruments played on this recording are guitar: acoustic/electric (prepared and otherwise), flute, dulcimer, field recordings, loops, bass, some percussion, glass, etc. Please visit www.jerryblue.org for more info. 3/3/2002 Blue, Jerry Flowers of Urban Decay CD $10.99 Details "There's a new muse at the house of Blues Control. Yes, mother nature! Now located in the Woodstock of east Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, Blues Control conceived Valley Tangents far from the madding crowds they'd previously swarmed with and composed among. Could this be the reason for the homegrown, natural feel of the music, with the metronomical hissing of summer mosquito-bots behind their signature Debussy via Guaraldi qua Bley qua Hornsby pianisms, and the playful juxtapositions of a full spectrum of rock colors' stadium, industrial, psych and prog (to name just a few)... As with each of their earlier efforts, Valley Tangents is a full (r)evolution ahead of what came before, at times an unrecognizable new blend of sounds to call Blues Control. Closer listens will bring into focus the continuities that make the band who they are and have been. It ultimately doesn't matter where on earth this was conceived and laid down and mixed, it came from two minds alone, and nobody else but Blues Control are in control of doing it quite like this." 6/27/2012 Blues Control Valley Tangents LP $15.99 Drag City Details "Two of Normal, Illinois' strangest bands thwart expectations on this limited cassette. Bo Knows with guitar and drums, Katchmare with an overdriven computer." 4/10/2009 Bo Knows / Katchmare split cassette $5.99 Scissor Death Details "One of the earliest cdr's on ultra eczema was a Bob & Lou cdr, which were also recordings from the early 90's, and which, together with discovering the insane recorded archive of cassis cornuta, sparked the idea of publishing and collecting these lost recordings of belgian weirdo's! Bob & Lou is the pseudonym for the duo field recording / synth project Peter De Ceulaer and Luther Vanhoof started in the late 80's. They never played live as Bob & Lou although both of them also played in SPACECACTUS, a loose collective that would play live and build side specific installations. A lot of the Bob & lou recordings were used in radioplays they would construct for Radio Centraal in Antwerp. Bob would also record most jingles for the radio and was the chairman there until he sadly passed away on october 30 of last year, therfore this record carries a incredibly typical "centraal sound", since i got obsessed with this insane radio station this strange combination of library space music, radical satire, fassbinder, klaus schulze and percise field recording styles has not left me ever! The obsession of hunting down the right microphones, synthesizers and self build metal instruments in combination with the ability to build, cut and paste and change any existing format resulted in a amazing recorded archive and a giant studio where no one but Bobby Colombo could find his way around.. This record comes with a "real" photo, developed at the colunst house, a fold open space poster and a sleeve with more archival photography on it. limited to only 200 copies, no reissues!" 7/28/2011 Bob & Lou Five Tracks 1991 - 1993 LP $27.99 Ultra Eczema Details “Here comes another great surprise from absurd's vaults. Being delayed for lots of reasons (financial being the most important of all) for sometime during which it was totally reworked & remixed 'mansdoof' stands for me as a great documentation of the Dutch electroacoustic network that I've came across the last few years. For those unfamiliar with the project, Boca Raton is the vehicle of Martijn Tellinga (the person behind the dutch 'mixer' label) who offers us here 10 pieces (or 1 piece divided in 10 tracks if you wish) of an adventurous electroacoustic nature that will definitely appeal to all those who seek obscure creative soundscapes to stimulate their bodyand mind.” Edition of 131 copies. 5/19/2004 Boca Raton Mansdoof CDR $9.99 absurd Details "Boduf Songs is the name taken by Mat Sweet. Boduf Songs was Sweet's first attempt at recording himself playing his own songs, using a sparse variety of instruments. Mostly vocal and guitar oriented, it would be easy to confuse him with singer-songwriters. But Sweet’s compositions are way more bleak and abrasive than what most people associate with the genre. This limited 10” is the first release by Boduf Songs that was entirely created since Mat Sweet moved from the UK to Toledo, OH. 200 copies were made, in beautiful jackets, designed by Sweet himself, and printed in lush silver ink on black paper by Druckwerkstatt in Aachen, Germany." 6/24/2012 Boduf Songs Internal Memo 10" $16.99 Morc Records Details "Bluesanct announces the fourth release in our art vinyl series will be Boduf Songs. Like it's predecessors, this will be a beautiful single, with an exclusive recording on one side, and a screenprinted image of the song on the other side, housed with a letterpressed sleeve. Boduf Songs is primarily the work of Mat Sweet, minstrels of misery from the United Kingdom. They have released three incredible albums on Kranky Records, as well a devastating EP on Southern Records as part of their special Latitudes series. Mat gave us an exclusive 12 minute epic entitled 'Inviolate Projection, Blood From Rome (Blankets)' which not only gives us the drones and hushed guitar they are known for, but also ventures into their (partially) suppressed doom underpinnings. The record is accompanied by gorgeous specially commissioned artwork by Norwegian artist, Johannes Hoie, whose apocalyptic scenes perfectly embody the yearning for the black sun that is Boduf Songs." 8/8/2009 Boduf Songs Inviolate Projection, Blood From Rome (Blankets) 10" $16.99 Bluesanct Details "Dan Dlugosielski (of Uneven Universe, Mossy Throats, etc) has kept his Body Morph project relatively wrapped up until recently with only a few limited releases on his own Excitebike as well as stellar appearances American Tapes and Gods of Tundra. Body Morph finds Dan at his simplest; a minimal take on strange-fidelity. Smooth saxophone waves wash over a dense bed of electronic warmth, mirroring the ambience of the ocean. Sonic contortions from a willing pallet; a fresh sense of control. In an edition of 100 tapes with textured cardstock covers and printed labels." 5/9/2009 Body Morph Negative Face c30 cassette $6.99 Arbor Details "Rencently I recieved a package from Russia neatly wrapped in twine with just a single CDr inside marked "BODYVEHICLE". Here are the best moments, "Amplified Voices of Crystals". Very Kosugi / Taj Mahal Travellers - esque. Edition of 100 with hand screened cases, inserts, and tapes. 6/11/2006 Bodyvehicle Amplified Voices of Crystals cassette $7.99 Tone Filth Details "This is a document. Two collaborative sets recorded live @ Yvonne Ruvé in late 2005. The first set includes a performance by Jim Currin (Ray Off), Jon Chapman (ex-Double Leopard) and Eamon Sprod (Tarab). Side two features the same three musicians with the addition of 5 members from Castings. - SUPER LIMITED." 5/14/2007 Bogan Dust Tonight I Present My Back To The Future cassette $7.99 Spanish Magic Details "Bolide deliver three slabs of spontaneous accept-and-build with an album that celebrates the notion of 'mind and breath', albeit with a lysergic acid diethylamide chaser and a pint of speckled hen. Every wrinkle, squank and poot is accepted with the kind of feral energy early 'Mothers' once gorged on before squandering it all on 'titties and beer' with Eddie and that annoying Phlorescent Leech." STRICTLY limited to 50 copies. 10/8/2010 Boldie The Mighty Hand CDR $10.99 Sonic Oyster Records Details "Considering that this is the first release from Ryan McGill's Bones of Seabirds, the level of craft and maturity is astounding. Rich and densly textured, improvised drones unfold over 8 tracks in 49 minutes. For fans of older Sunn0))) material and Birchville Cat Motel. Edition of 138 numbered copies in a folded cardstock cover with hand cut vellum overlay and insert." 5/20/2009 Bones of Seabirds Sacrament CDR $6.99 Small Doses Details "It seems that ryan mcgill is completey unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed. packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies." 5/20/2009 Bones of Seabirds Subterranean Lightsource CDR $6.99 Small Doses Details "Amazing new live jams from Newcastle's BONG. Two long tracks of stoned slow motion drums, guitar, bass and sitar... This is a great follow up to their previous split LP we put out earlier in the year, edition of 1000 copies is bleak pro-printed card sleeve with cover artwork by Chris from Gnod and back artwork by the band." 1/30/2010 Bong Gilgamesh Lives CD $14.99 Blackest Rainbow Details Bonus: Jamie Potter, Scott Goodwin and Matt Carlson. Recorded at the SS Marie Antoinette by Bonus. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Artwork by Jamie Potter. Bonus Double Odyssey CDR $8.99 Father CDR Details "On Earth , is the first studio document created by the group, recorded with Marcelo Spinna at the Space in May 2006 with production assistance from Pete Swanson (D. YELLOW SWANS). While previous CD-R releases were entirely improvised, On Earth is comprised of three untitled pieces composed by the group with elements of restrained improvisation. Musically, each piece has a specific concern, ranging from extremely subtle microtonal shifts to distorted crashes of intervals against one another. On Earth captures the reductive BONUS sound with all the sustained tones and sparkling textures, but with a more focused and succinct delivery." Edition of 500 copies. 11/4/2006 Bonus On Earth CD $12.99 Root Strata Details "Turns out this is one of the guys (or more) who was in Big Nurse which i guess is now broke up, i saw them play a pretty good set here in western mass at mystery train records. This tape shares sentiments with the now defunct BN but takes a different route. Definitely a home-recorded affair, awkward mixing choices, overdriven signals, lost moments, zero engineering and tape hiss are all worn proudly on the sleeve, and i think to their benefit. While it does have a feel to it that it's thrown together at parts it still reveals awesome moments of guitar damage and wiggly drums all woven together, though not without the corresponding moments of clean guitar wires woven through clattering drums. It definitely feels like these guys know how to play underneath the mush and smoosh of their blownout recordings, it's nice they leave it as a suggestion and don't focus too much on showmanship. The second side has a slight detour into sliding, glazed fields of slowed down tapes, loops and a really nice patterned keyboard that repeats until heading back into the guitar/drum duo where more of their skill sets are revealed definitely suggesting some sort of guitar scales and jazz inflections underneath a wall of spaced out jitters and noisy critters." - cassettegods.blogspot.com/2008/11/bonus-beast-1-c30-high-density-headache.html 4/10/2009 Bonus Beast #1 cassette $4.99 High Density Headache Details "No, but in this case, if you own this tape, he's guaranteed to track you down , and extrapilate your consciousness via bone drill bullseyes. This album presents a dense, meticulously crafted psychoatropic landscape of bulging eyeballs which see only the bleakest snakes of history, chattering teeth which will gnaw at your spine, and ears that leak brain grey radiation into your desk, ampliÞed through the skillful destruction of magnetic tape, brainwave oscillation studies, and readymade sonic tragedies. There's no point to Þght it,just jack in and achieve enlightment, because its more peaceful when you don't have to think, and can just fucking listen. Vertigo/insanity pretty much guaranteed if listened to with headphones/proper stereo Þeld.Comes with real XRay of the artist's teeth...grosss....Ltd to 120 chrome cassettes." 11/27/2010 Bonus Beast Just Because You're Paranoid... Doesn't Mean They're Not Out To Get You c24 cassette $6.99 Ratskin Details Most recent recordings featuring Ryan King who played in Big Nurse. First release on Ryan's new label. 4/10/2009 Bonus Beast Set Your Hair On Fire cassette $5.99 Serious Hype Details "These three LPs were originally privately pressed by the artist(s) in minuscule editions sometime in this new century. It appears that very few copies were circulated outside a close circle of acquaintances and it was only by chance/luck that they found their way to us. Each LP contained no information whatsoever, the only hint was the name stamped on the plain white jacket. Clouding matters even further was the fact that each of the three albums bore a different moniker. Musically the LPs share a consistent solitary vision, one that treads an inward-looking path that leads to far-reaching psychedelic excursions. "Boots" is a prime example of the range of these albums. Side one features five tracks of acoustic guitar and raw vocal accompaniment heavy on the loner vibes. The flip changes directions entirely, offering a wild ride of percussion and electronics. Likewise, "C.C - Live at Rainbows End" follows a similar course, although the mood is somewhat less solemn (though no less introspective) on the tracks featuring voice and guitar. The counterpoint here is the near side-long track of barely audible field recordings from an unrecognizable location. "Snake & Remus - No Tape Outside" is a continuation of sound and thought. Interchangeably piano, electronics and percussion supplement the songwriter, adding a haunting layer to the already subdued mood. The final side contains instrumental passages of processed guitar strum that weave delicate waves. The LPs are presented in a box, its own cryptic coffin perhaps, with individual stamped jackets consistent with the original LPs. As it says, "It's just a box man"." 9/17/2006 Boots / C.C. / Snake & Remus Box 3xLP $35.99 HP Cycle Details Last copies of this out of print 7" featuring 1992 and 1993 recordings featuring the trio of Don Dietrich (saxophones), Jim Sauter (saxophones), and Donald Miller (electric guitar). 12/1/2004 Borbetomagus Coelacanth 7" $6.99 Butt Rag Details Recorded at La Mama on June 16, 1996 and features the 43+ minute track Pachinko Cadaver! 1/27/2004 Borbetomagus Live In Tokyo CD $21.99 Alchemy Details Reissue of cassette recorded live 11.27.82 featuring Jim Sauter (sax), Don Dietrich (sax), Brian Doherty (live electronics) and Donald Miller (guitar). Borbetomagus Live At Inroads CD $15.99 PSF Details "Reissue of the group's first recordings with the legendary Swiss duo of Moslang & Guhl (aka Voice Crack), on ‘cracked everyday electronics’. Adam Nodelman plays bass to give Borbeto the full quartet sound." - FE 11/5/2003 Borbetomagus / Voice Crack Fish That Sparkling Bubble CD $15.99 Agaric Details "I had the pleasure to invite this xholfull trio back in 1998 (same period of this rec.) and to me is still the best and most exciting jazz trio i had ever seen/heard live ! i remember that it was organized in a famous squat place here in town, but 1st time for a jazz concert... people went crazy, can't forget the total silence during Denis' solos (du doooom) and everybody was around him after it ended, offering this & that, such a charismatic figure... few weeks after that tour Denis left this planet peacefully, during sleep... i think that all of them are such fine and totally underrated musicians, it was NOT easy to find a decent photo on the whole web of Denis & Wilber, absurd !? can't imagine my joy, this Summer (strange enough i was in Ukraina, near Poland border when i got his mail), when Thomas wrote me, saying that a magical old rec. had arrived... that's a dream come true for me ! a later version of this trio (rec. in 2000) had been already documented on qbico (#86), with Reggie Nicholson on drums instead of Denis. the music: powerful and full of passion... it surely rained fire that night @ Pinokio and audience seemed to appreciate that... this is JAZZ, man !" - ep. Recorded on March 9. 1998. Pressed on 160 or 170 gram black vinyl - edition of 150 copies. 1/26/2011 Borgmann, Thomas / Wilber Morris / Denis "Jazz" Charles Live In Poland double LP $49.99 Sagittarius A-Star Details Recorded early 2006 in Pakkala, Finland. Robin Ellis, Juho Hotanen, Juuso Paaso, Taneli Tuominen, Jukka Vallisto and Hermanni Yli-Tepsa. "When I went in Finland for the first Qbico u-nite in Turku, I met Taneli (sax player) who gave me this strong recording of his group Boris Morgana... after hearing a few seconds of it, I immediately thought that it alone was worth the trip up North: heavy stuff and pretty unique in its kind!" Pressed on chocolate brown vinyl. 2/14/2008 Boris Morgana Liquid Child LP $24.99 QBICO Details "I gave a kiss to a giant leech. It sucked me in. With a little effort, I wriggled to its opposite end and out into a different world, but I can't say how it differed from the one before. Likewise, all the atoms and other bits of matter that pass through us - that we swallow and transform - bear more or less fresh fruit, as they are reborn through us. Boris Morgana's Rotti Frutti is not just an oral delight, it's aimed at the whole organism. It percolates, hisses, comes and goes: gently as well. Furtively it infiltrates the brain through the ears and causes reactions. And maybe these inner oscillations move on to the hands, feet and other organs: maybe they carry the germ of a wholly new fruit. When it comes about, it's too late: everything has changed and one can't but accept it - allow the rotten fruit to issue forth." 10/25/2008 Boris Morgana Rotti Frutti CDR $8.99 Ikuisuus Details Heavy free rock from Boris Morgana and hypo trash boogie from new band Htanec Hrac 6/25/2011 Boris Morgana / Htanec Hrac split c40 cassette $7.99 267 Lattajjaa Details "Two sides of Northern drunken reindeer swings balancing between controlled breathing and total insanity. Boris Morgana get some vibrant explorations of the inner and outer musical sides going, expanding their minds on a steady diet of outsider free/jazz/folk/improv/psych jams. The B-side melts in a smoke of deranged riffs and blackened buzz of oozing turntables by the madmen of Hetero Skeleton. This tape even has two covers, each designed by a band and glued on a painted homemade cardboard box. 100 sticky copies." 6/11/2006 Boris Morgana / Hetero Skeleton split cassette $9.99 Sloow Tapes Details Josephine Foster: (harp, mandolin, guitar); Jason Ajemian: (stand up bass). "Born Heller are the earthen folk duo of Josephine Foster (Children's Hour) & Jason Ajemian and one of the better kept secrets to emerge out of Chicago's clandestine campfires and music dens. Their sound captures an Appalachian- transatlantic folk tradition so effortlessly that if it didn't already exist, they would have had to invent it themselves. Foster's spine tingling vocal delivery has been rightly compared to the likes of British folk legend and current hipster fave, Shirley Collins. On their debut, that voice is finally given full justice by the spare rhythmic arrangements of Ajemian on strings. Recorded by Paul Oldham in Louisville Kentucky." 4/19/2004 Born Heller Born Heller CD $12.99 Locust Details Andre Bourgeois / tenor & soprano saxes; Chris Dadge / drumset & percussion "This disc accompanies bim-55, which also took place during Dadge's small tour of eastern Canada in fall of 2010. Following a bus ride, a fine meal at a local vegetarian restaurant, and a solo set of his own, Dadge had the good fortune of being paired with Moncton's Andre Bourgeois for two excellent sets of sax & drums. It's clear from the start of this recording that these two will have little difficulty finding common ground, not least because they seem to be operating along a similar plane of pacing and approach to density. There are a lot of notes played, but the ideas have fairly regular contours that move consistently throughout the shape of each piece. The majority of the playing falls into the free jazz territory, and while the odd extended technique surfaces here or these, the instruments themselves are mostly taken at face value, putting the emphasis on the playing itself. Reminds me a little of the stuff Eddie Prevost did with Alan Wilkinson a few years back. [A quick note on the final track - the recorder ran out just as the last track was ending, but what was there was deemed good enough to allow for the somewhat less than ideal presnetation.] Notes by Benoit Hughes." edition of 51, cdr, color covers in plastic sleeves 6/27/2012 Bourgeois, Andre & Chris Dadge Spaces Are The Place CDR $8.99 Bug Incision Details "Hard to believe our planet had not yet been graced with Nathan Bowles solo recordings until now, but such is the case. After years of playing in celebrated ensembles, touring the world, and honing his skill on a host of instruments, Bowles unveils his first solo effort: A Bottle, A Buckeye. The spacious, rollicking, meditative, and above all powerful record bridges the methods and constructs of his two most notable groups – Black Twig Pickers (old-time) and Pelt (outer limits) – while inhabiting a space all its own. Armed only with a 5-string openback banjo (built by Nathan's neighbor Greg Galbreath at the Buckeye Banjos workshop) and a bottle of Elmer T. Lee, Bowles recorded and mixed the record with Jason Meagher at Black Dirt Studio over two days in December 2011. Bowles' recent focus on the instrument's various possibilities is on full display – bowed & drummed textures, clawhammer boogie, and banjo soli sidewinding. With a mixture of traditional folk tunes, original compositions, and reinterpretations of material from players who've passed on, this is a varied ride with a serious player at the helm." - label. “Armed with an instrument built by a friend (the Buckeye of the title) and a bottle of bourbon, these recordings have an intimate intensity that keeps the production austere. That means uptempo pieces like “Charlie’s Pontoon” or “Craig Street Hop” demand an attentive (and happy) ear instead of footstomping thoughtlessness. When Bowles bows or slides (as on “Beans”) and brings the tempo down for the traditional “Elk River Blues” or "Uttararama”, the virtues of a serious banjo album are clearer still: inventive, distinctive, tuneful. In a world with too many solo guitar players,Bowles shows the banjo to be a valid riposte.” – Nick Southgate, The Wire 2/2/2013 Bowles, Nathan A Bottle, A Buckeye LP + download $13.99 Soft Abuse Details "The Bowles were a briefly extant Australian trio of Matthew P. Hopkins, Christopher Schueler (R.I.P.) and Mary MacDougal. They came together in 2009 and plied their craft across the patchwork of warehouses, attics and D.I.Y. artspaces connecting the Blue Mountains of New South Wales to inner city Sydney before imploding later that same year. Although their time with us was short, the Bowles' creative bloom was towering and unforgettable. The Bowles EP presents a six track overview of the group's modus operandi, recorded live to dictophone in Sydney. Murky cassette montages, strung out 3am ballads and exquisite corpse-style constructs unify and define an original voice that few have heard, until now. The Bowles EP arrives in a pro-printed full color sleeve sporting Mary MacDougal's painting 'Getting Together', and includes a full color Bowles postcard, in a limited edition of 350 copies." 9/15/2012 Bowles, The The Bowles 7" $9.99 Kye Details "Milwaukee's Boy Dirt Car were their good city's preeminent punk-noise-industrial outfit who roamed the state and country from roughly 1981 'til 1989. Formed by the disgruntled duo of Eric Lunde and Darren Brown after being inspired by a local cacophonous Glen Branca gig, they decided to gather a group of fellow miscreants from the Milwaukee punk scene with a mission to create a truly inspired, ungodly, riot-inducing racket. Roping in, amongst others, Dan Kubinski and Keith Brammer from local hardcore kings, Die Kreuzen (whose Touch & Go albums are some of the finest albums of their time), they formed Boy Dirt Car. With a sound approximating some sort of bizarre stew of Throbbing Gristle, early Sonic Youth, Birthday Party, AMM and Einsterzunde Neubauten, they set about documenting themselves through a slew of self-released cassettes. Playing the circuit with everyone from Fred Frith to Flipper to Shockabilly to Screamin' Jay Hawkins(!), BDC caught the ear of noise aficionado, Ron Lessard, of the famed RRR label out of Massachusetts, who released the 1986 split LP with fellow Milwaukee space-rockers, F/i. Winning praise from the hipsters and running through a few pressings for its troubles, the band went and did it again in 1987 with their debut full-length, Winter. Both have these have been out of print for almost 15 years and never been given the CD treatment, until now. So why bother with Boy Dirt Car? For the simple reason that they are one of the great missing links in '80s US punk-noise underground culture. Listening to the CD is like revisiting a time in history that really drew a line in the sand: are you with us or not? It was a time when 'getting in the van' was all a 'challenging band' could do to survive; a time when Whitehouse and Black Flag were one and the same; a time when 'industrial' meant more than some New Romantic reject churning out z-grade speed-metal riffs with a drum machine. It's all part of a link to a puzzle, and Boy Dirt Car, as obscure as they may seem, were truly one of those great links that need reinvestigating." 2/10/2004 Boy Dirt Car Winter / F/i Split CD $12.99 Lexicon Devil Details "Bassist Ronnie Boykins is perhaps best known for his work in Sun Ra's Arkestra, of which he was an intrinsic member for nearly a decade. His inimitable bass style can be heard on all of Ra's most significant recordings, and Ra had a difficult time finding someone to fill Boykins' shoes when he left the Arkestra in 1966. His 1975 self-titled release, featuring all original material, is from his post Ra period and represents one of the last great releases in the ESP-Disk catalogue. Featuring Joe Ferguson on tenor sax and flute, Monty Waters and James Vass on alto and soprano sax, Daoud Haroom on trombone, and Art Lewisand George Avaloz on percussion. Also includes various bells and hand shaken instruments played by all musicians." 12/19/2002 Boykins, Ronnie The Will Come, Is Now LP $15.99 Get Back Details "Long time chapel hill noisers Boyzone in two shades of low light. one disc is a lo-fi recording of a short live performance from winter solstice a few years back, and the other disc features seven tracks of Boyzone's 'cleaner' harsh material. edition of 15 in hand made cardboard / xerox packages." 7/5/2011 Boyzone Boyzone / Solstice double CDR $4.99 Pool Party Details “Next to his activities with the Vibracathedral Orchestra, Julian Bradley has been recording and putting out his solo works for years now. ‘A companion as glamorous as sleeping on wheels’ compiles the best from his self released tapes from '97-'00. Primitive strings, keyboards and tapes are taken to its most glamorous. The cd comes in a smartly packaged silkscreened artwork (7” single size).” Great looking packaging! This release is also known as Ditch Us In The Doorway. Out of print – last copies available here. 1/13/2004 Bradley, Julian Ditch Us In The Doorway CDR $15.99 Audiobot Details "All new solo recordings from Julian Bradley of Vibracathedral Orchestra.. 30+ minutes of late night electric-tape loop whatsist? A subtle brain massage with hidden huh?!" 2/23/2004 Bradley, Julian Heel Intercom CDR $9.99 Chocolate Monk Details "This marks the third release for the duo of Alberto Braida and Giancarlo Locatelli, the first being the incredibly austere Diciannove Calefazioni which was our initial introduction to perhaps the premier group of purpose and restraint in improvising music. Big talk I know but the fact is that these two have developed a dialogue thru their long partnership and friendship that stands as reminder of the potential that contemporary improvisation has always held and the manifestation of many of it's myriad possibilities. Our primary regard for Diciannove Calefazioni [Nineteen Calefactions] and our recent regard for the slightly more boisterous Big Margotta is how well considered their approach to reduction is. Rather than the methodology of Berlin or of Boston, what the group did was to take Beckett's approach to language and apply it to music; that is, to reduce it right to the point of collapse. In Beckett's case language still operates within the rules of grammar and in this duo's case they still operate within the rules of harmony but sans goofball mawkishness, tropes or boring melodicism. If there were fewer notes it wouldn't work and if there were more it would be overbearing. The duo language here is so fleet and well-handled it gives the listener an opportunity to hear experimental music that fulfills both of those qualifications. Pro-printed sleeve/edition of 300." 6/4/2010 Braida, Alberto & Giancarlo Locatelli The Big Margotta LP $17.99 Brokenresearch Details LP, 300 copies, pro-printed w/hand applied offset ink, numbered. Unofficial, Live at Sonic Protest Festival 2008. 7/15/2012 Brainbombs Live In Paris LP $19.99 Details Listen to the first recordings of this LSD/Hashish/Fixy/Jointy sound. Take a trip to your inner light. See the hallucinations of reality rise out of the groove. You've got your Brainticket now! Reissue of 1971 Swiss freakout LP - recommended! 12/15/2001 Brainticket Cottonwood Hill CD $21.99 Phonag Details Minimal drones via organ, bass, electronics, tapes, voices, & microphone manipulations Brandal, Andreas Better Than Casters 7" $4.99 Polytone Details "Before we get all hyperbolic in here, let's just assert that "Into Thin Air" is (all biases aside) one of the finest cassette releases we have ever heard. A thirty-seven minute, hand-held tour through haunted parallels that have only ever before been revealed to Andreas Brandal. No noisy, screeching specters can be found here, though. Just gossamer wraiths spooling cryptic melodies off the tape reel and into the miasma. Fucking fantastic! Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes." 8/31/2010 Brandal, Andreas Into Thin Air c37 cassette $4.99 Sweat Lodge Guru Details "Established sound artist and drone/noise musician Andreas Brandal graces us with this release from deep in the heart of Norway. Dark and ominous, with deep doom-laden bass tones, powerful drones, and beautiful hints of noise lurking in every corner. Inspired by an old Norwegian crime/ghost story (translated to the "The Iron Wagon"), Brandal's command here is staggering, displaying a control over each sound, and wrapping it all up with an organic feel and sustained attention to compositional dynamics throughout. The immersive sounds are at turns soothing, frightening and probing, suggesting a journey into the abyss, but guided by the confident hands of a sheer master." 11/21/2009 Brandal, Andreas Jernvognen CDR $7.99 Tape Drift Details "Norway’s twilight traveler Andreas Brandal is a sound craftsman of the highest order, using anything and everything as his source material. Liber Null is his harrowing descent into total aural blackness inspired by occult rituals and chaos magic. Creaks of old furniture, hum of the wilderness, static from old cassettes—all of it is buried deep within a bubbling sonic stew that boils over with the slow burn of synth, guitar, and some of the most menacing trumpet drones you’ll ever hear. Listen close and repeatedly, if you dare, as bleak, new flourishes continue reveal themselves and the ancient spirits threaten to take you down even further. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 60." 11/21/2009 Brandal, Andreas Liber Null c29 cassette $4.99 Anathema Sound Details "Introspective and deep guitar drones from the Norwegian underground" Brandsdal, Kjetil D. / Fibo-Trespo split 7" EP $8.99 MykeDroner Details "Legionowo is an postindustrial soap opera which libretto is written by the housewife's longing to eldorado from TV, the fear of leaving their poky rooms, as well as mumbling of their husbands when sipping beer. Despite of it they still believe that is all right, safely and it has never been better than now. The album praises the warm slowly beating heart of the town as well as its gray, rough and squalid crust. The town perceived as dormitory. Oh, it would be fantastic to sleep through whole life, not to attract anybody's attention - lover's, boss's, terrorist's, neighbor's. Legionowo has nothing to do with morality play, it is rather a collage created by field recordings and their interpretation, snatches of memories, improvisations, melancholy and dirt straight from rubbish tip full of substitutes. Brasil and the Gallowbrothers Band is a second, after One Inch of Shadow, headquarters of t.e.r., Dominic Savio and Mirt. Since 1995 they've created music together and solo. As One Inch of Shadow, Mirt, Dominic Savio and Brasil they had recorded for numerous labels (Perun, Nefryt, MonotypeRec., Digitalis Industries, Last Visible Dog) including their own label, Cat Sun. 7/30/2006 Brasil and the Gallowbrothers Band Legionowo CD $12.99 Monotype Details "After releasing the first LPs ever published by Isidore Isou, Gil J Wolman, Hidlgo&Marchetti's ZAJ... here is another historical premiere, or the first LP ever issued by French pre-situationist Jean-Louis Brau. Jean-Louis Brau (1930-1985) at the age of 20 joined along with Gil J Wolman, Isidore Isou's Lettrist group, creating in this context (the same of Wolman's 'mégapneums', Dufrêne's 'crirythmes', Lemaître's 'hyperphonies' and Isou's 'poèmes ciselants') what he called 'instrumentations verbales'. In 1952 he recorded on a lathe the soundtrack to the unfinished film La barque de la vie courante (the first ever recording of experimental poetry). In the same year, with Debord, Berna and Wolman, he gave birth to the Internationale Lettriste, from which he was eventually rejected for his military deviation. After the Indochina war (where he ran a brothel and traded opium), Brau joined the French Army in Algeria, between 1956 and 1958. In 1963, back in Paris, Brau gave birth to a Deuxième Internationale Lettriste together with Wolman and Dufrêne. He also designed an astonishing métagraphic roman: No More. He approached everything in an explosive way, creating a body of work which is discontinuous, small and incomplete, in which he sometimes achieved some major results: for example with his sound poetry, as demonstrated by 'Turn back nightingale' (1972), in which Brau makes references to François Dufrêne, on a background of disarticulated drums and pre-punk saturations. Also included on this one-sided LP are 'Elégie Elémentaire' and 'Ataloche Roche', both recorded in 1961 during Isidore Isou's conference at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, as well as 'Instrumentation Verbale' and 'Cantate pour l'interdiction de Mandrake', both recorded in 1963 and first published in Poésie Physique, book with 3 singles (Brau, Dufrêne, Wolman), Achèle, in 1965. Edition limited to 350 copies reproducing a page from No More on the front sleeve, as well as an essay by Frederic Acquaviva." 9/25/2010 Brau, Jean-Louis Instrumentations Verbales LP $22.99 Alga Marghen Details "The first, and perhaps the dreamiest album from these famed folk/psych purveyors (Decca, 1969), who include David McNiven (he wrote all the lyrics for the amazing Human Beast 'Volume One' album), and Carolyn Davis from Looking Glass; flowery yet mournful stuff - fragile and introverted songs in minor keys reminiscent of no one - and all of high quality." - Lion Productions 11/16/2004 Bread, Love + Dreams Bread, Love + Dreams CD $17.99 Hugo-Montes Productions Details "The Does (as in female deer, pl.) play music that is dirty, dark, and hazy. Singer Carol Anne and guitar player Neddal were brought together by their shared love of sleaze, sloppy rock ´n roll, and feedback. Originally, the idea was to sound ‘something like a cross between the Rolling Stones and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.’ Things didn´t work out as planned. Carol couldn´t quite shake her goth background. (She refers to herself as a ‘recovering goth.’ Neddal says there´s no such thing.) Neddal couldn´t quite get the sludge out of his system. They wrote some songs. They went into the studio. When they came out they had three songs that didn´t sound anything the songs they´d been rehearsing. On the way to the studio they´d shanghaied Carol´s band mate Jim (Carol and Jim play in Toronto´s Nice Cat. Check them out, they are sludgilicious!) to sit in on drums. What started out as moody, minimal blues/punk ended up as a brooding, psychedelic, not-quite-so-minimal mix of Pussy Galore, ZZ Top, the Melvins, and My Bloody Valentine. Breathe Stone come with an impressive pedigree. Formed on October 31, 2002 by Mr. Timothy Renner, Breathe Stone is an extension of well-known acid/psych/wyrd-folks Stone Breath. Breathe Stone´s mandate is to take the dark, haunting, acoustic folk of Stone Breath in a more electric (literally), experimental direction. Timothy is joined on these recordings by his Stone Breath band mate Sarada, Alicia of Funeral, and guitarist RA Campbell. Using such instruments as electric banjo, slide banjo, glasstamboura, dumbek, and squeezebox, along with the electric guitar, Breathe Stone conjure images of crumbling farmhouses, empty glades, overgrown paths, and lonely silhouettes in the moonlight." Track listing: the does 1. four am 2. five over three 3. sleep deprivation blues - Breathe Stone 4. Rara Avis 5.Crow Omens 6. Maria Walks Amid The Thorn 12/14/2003 Breathe Stone / The Does Sleep Deprivation Blues split CD EP $6.99 Hand / Eye Details "Apart from a few appearances on compilations, this is my first full length encounter with the ever so oddly named Brekekekexkoaxkoax, the project with Josh Ronsen in the middle. You may recognize his name from his own Monk Mink Pink Punk magazine, or of ND Magazine (whatever happened there?) or his contributions to the Abrasion Ensemble, Frequency Curtain, the Gates Ensemble or the Austin New Music Co-op. This new release is a pretty long one, which according to Josh falls into three categories: two pieces are free improvisation quartets of Ronsen on electric guitar and clarinet and others on oboe, flute, snare drum, banjo, violin etc., one is an electro-acoustic sound collage and one is a 'piece of conceptual sound organization'. The first of the two improvisation pieces, I must admit didn't do much for me. The players move around too careful around each other, and there seems not to be much dialogue or interaction. In the other quartet piece however there is a lot of good tension between the players. The two other pieces are solo pieces and they are the best of the release. Especially 'For I.D. II', for bowed bass guitar, is an intense, minimal piece of music, that moves slowly around like a giant beast. But as said, all four pieces are a bit long and that makes this not the most easy thing to listen to. I think we could have done well enough without the first piece. That would have made a more consistent and easier to listen to release - despite the more difficult pieces." - FdW, Vital Weekly 4/24/2006 Brekekekexkoaxkoax We Used To Be Such Good Friends CDR $9.99 Hushroom Records Details "Multi-reedist Brenders is a fixture of Toronto's creative music scene. Known most prominently for his work as artistic director of the Association of Improvising Musicians in Toronto (or more managably known as AIMToronto) Orchestra, he also keeps busy with his quartet (which also features his sparring partner on this disc) and The Rent, a co-led group exploring the music of Steve Lacy. And then, as a former student of Anthony Braxton while studying at Wesleyan University, it made sense to bring the saxophonist/composer to Toronto to work with the large AIMToronto group. This meeting resulted in a duo recording from the two horn-ists, as well as a document of orchestra's work with Braxton. One doesn't have to spend long leafing through band personnel listings to find Brandon Valdivia, either. His earlier work with the trio I Have Eaten The City (their praises sung loudly by Bug Incision labelmates Aaron Leaney and Simeon Abbott) was the first time Bug Incision became familiar with his work, and it didn't take long to find his name inside of Picastro album covers, or playing in the fantastic duo Not The Wind, Not The Flag, with Colin Fisher (all their releases are essential listening, definitely part of why things are so happening in Toronto these days). Anyway, these two are no strangers to one another, and this disc is proof of that. There is an easy exchange between the two, never allowing any statement or reply to seem too overzealous or contrived. Valdivia seems to favour a variety of alternatives to drumsticks for the majority of the recording, opting for mallets, bundlesticks and the like. A new spectrum of tone and attack choices is presented when one moves away from the pinpoint clarity of the drumstick, and he covers it nobly, coaxing much more throaty, hand-drum-like voices from his tubs. This fact, combined with his inclination to leave his snares mostly in the "off" position, makes for a real drumset-as-whole-instrument feel, very Andrew Cyrille. But just as often as you're treated this whole-drumset conception, he is perfectly okay with breaking away for a second to foreground a wonderfully-executed, crescendo'd drum roll or the resonant qualities of a particular piece of metal. This all works well with Brenders, whose invitingly dry, warm sound falls somewhere between the fluffy jocularity of Tobias Delius, his old mentor Braxton's gnarled extended techniques, and the tangled tenor sax stylings of Evan Parker. In fact, the latter's duo album with Eddie Prevost, Imponderable Evidence, makes for a useful analog. Un-fussy, -hurried, and -forced. Glad to have another slice of Toronto's current crop out there." edition of 84, cdr, color covers in plastic sleeves bim-50, fall 2011 Kyle Brenders / tenor saxophone & Bb clarinet Brandon Miguel Valdivia / drums & percussion 3/11/2012 Brenders, Kyle / Brandon Valdivia CDR $7.99 Bug Incision Details Most recent full length Brian Jonestown Massacre Give It Back CD $11.99 Bomp Details “A retrospective collection of tracks recorded between 1995 and 2004 by long-running rock mess-ups Brian Jonestown Massacre. Includes all the band's tracks from Dig! - the documentary film about them and the Dandy Warhols (winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize) - along with fan-favorites and overlooked songwriting gems.” - Revolver 11/18/2004 Brian Jonestown Massacre Tepid Peppermint Wonderland double CD $19.99 Tee Pee Details "Bright have studiously erected majestic pillars of sound since their inception in Boston, MA in 1994. Gaining notoriety and a dedicated following for their trance-inducing, cascading minimalist rock, Bright have amassed a brain-flogging discography of four albums and an ep to date (on Ba Da Bing! and Darla Records). It has been a while since their last opus, 2000's Full Negative (or) Breaks, as the band went on hiatus, with guitarist/vocalist Mark Dwinell's remarkable solo Nonloc project as the only platter offered in the interim. Now relocated to Brooklyn, the duo of Dwinell and multi-instrumentalist Joe Labrecque have recharged their energies, entering the studio early in 2005 to conceive their fifth full length. Rapture and reverence shall be bestowed unto all fans of minimalist, melodic ambient rock, for leading lights Bright are back with Bells Break Their Towers, their most sonically taut and elaborately adorned recording yet. Early on, Bright tread predominantly in ecstatic instrumental rock forms. Colliding harmony and dissonance, their music clung precariously to a raw, edgy core, even as blossoming sound forms methodically unfurled outwards, like flowering vines towards the sun. By the time of Full Negative (or) Breaks, vocals became part of the mix, but largely used as more décor for their vibrant sound pools. What makes the jaw drop with a thud to the floor, however, is the realization that Bright's finely-honed music is composed entirely on the spot. Entering the studio, Bright let it fly, and with a few overdubbs of added instrumentation, the result is head-bobbing and mind-elevating all at once. Drone and ambient textures, motorik Kraut rhythms and repetitious grooves collide with a tremendously melodic, almost pop sensibility, lending Bright a unique sound. Bells Break Their Towers expands their textural palette further, as evidenced on the acoustic hypnosis of "Flood ", and with the Terry Riley-like ambient propulsions of "Secret Form of Time ", which turns keyboard lines into cartwheels while overtones exhale into space. Bright make it seem so effortless…their sonorous whirlpools erupt from improvisation but never sound overtly "jammy", while their attention to melody, form and instrumental layering buffs to a shine the circular breathing of their rhythms. This is improvised rock you can hum to while you drift into trance states. German minimalist rock as forged by Neu! melds with 70's ambient and modern underground independent rock, sculpting fresh new trajectories in sound. Impeccably recorded, Bells Break Their Towers is a triumphant return for Bright, one of psych rock's most underrated sound spinners." 12/24/2005 Bright Bells Break Their Towers CD $12.99 Strange Attractors Audio House Details "HNAS-offshoot reissue, originally issued on Dom Elchklang in 1989. Psychedelic Pig only offers up about 1 package a year, but each one is a definitive classic. "During his off hours while a member of the legendary German underground avant-garde group Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, Achim P. Li Khan kept himself busy with a number of unusual side projects. The late 80's were an especially fruitful period for Achim, and it was during this time that his group Brigitte & the Hansen Experience released their only album. Packaged in an unassuming cover, the record's two side-long tracks were a mutant space-rock hybrid assembled from distorted samples, stretches of atmospheric interference, and out-of-sync beats so profoundly damaged that the few listeners who had acquired the LP were left disoriented and amazed. Because of the LP's limited edition, it's arrival was overlooked at the time, and it has remained an elusive collectible known of by only a lucky few. Now, Psychedelic Pig has endeavored to bring forward this mind-boggling audio collage once again. Remastered from the original tapes, with additional photos and a previously unreleased 17-minute live track, this definitive re-release is set to mystify and delight a fresh population of tuned-in ears worldwide." 5/8/2005 Brigitte & the Hansen Experience Frau Hansen Am Bass CD $15.99 Psychedelic Pig Details “Andrew Broder (aka Lex Records/Ninja Tune recording artist Fog) and George Cartwright (leader of the long-running avant/jazz group Curlew, as well as the GloryLand PonyCat trio) can each lay claim to some serious barrier-crashing & genre-splicing within their respective bodies of work. Together on a Minneapolis stage in February 2004, they carried on the cross-pollination even further: utilizing an array of saxophones, laptops, turntables, keyboards, and various effects, this freely-improvised set touches on familiar territory from their pasts & points a way to future possibilities. By turns lyrical and abstract, meditative and unsettling, Broder and Cartwright create imaginary soundtracks for pirate-broadcast TV documentaries on phenomena you never knew existed. A limited edition of 500 copies on red vinyl, with hand-silkscreened covers.” 9/4/2004 Broder, Andrew & George Cartwright Andrew Broder & George Cartwright LP $13.99 Roaratorio Details "This is Heather Woods Broderick's debut album -- From The Ground is built around warm, reverberating atmospheres and familiar yet striking melodies, gently wrapping around the listener and finding magic in subtlety. Her soft voice matches the delicate neo-classical arrangements that are as light as a feather. Careful attention has been paid to the album's understated production, giving the feeling that these are lullabies pulled straight from the still morning air. Broderick's songs make the case that sometimes starting out somewhere simple is often better. At the core is Heather and her guitar and throughout From The Ground that combination is its greatest strength. Plucked and strummed chords provide the foundation from which these songs take flight. The record is populated by lyrically-engaging songs and impressive instrumentals that take the listener into a world full of Indian summers and pink sunset skies. It's inevitable that anytime From The Ground comes up, the fact that Heather Woods Broderick is, indeed, the older sister of everyone's favorite ultra-talented multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick is mentioned, but his string arrangements and production on the album cannot be overlooked. They add another layer to compositions that are already stunning, further making the case that From The Ground is an alluring yet subtle force to be reckoned with. From The Ground was originally released on CD by Preservation Records (Australia). This limited LP edition features new artwork and a previously-unreleased bonus track. Vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Includes a hidden locked groove." 6/4/2010 Broderick, Heather Woods From The Ground LP $18.99 Digitalis Details "12-String arrangements from a true master of the instrument, Brokaw shows a range from waltzes and ballads to experiments and rhythms. Member of Codeine, The NewYear,Come,Thurston Moore and the NewWave Bandits and many more ensembles." The series will be released on high quality LP with letterpressed sleeves, each with a picture of the guitar used to record the albums. Track-by-track liner notes will also be included. Edition of 500 copies. 1/30/2010 Brokaw, Chris Solo Acoustic Volume Three LP $15.99 Vin Du Select Qualitite Details "Conductor Dick Flick masterminds this long playing mind fuck. Like early Nurse With Wound serving moldy krumpets to Negativland! As heard on the ultra-limited Nurse With Wound 'absynthe box'. Dick Flick displays a wild and twisted array of sound collages that pull your ears through your brain and back again, (not unlike early Negativland or Nurse With Wound). This is the debut LP for B.P.O. and is limited to 300 copies on 150 gram black vinyl." 2/26/2006 Broken Penis Orchestra, The Testicle Difficulties LP $15.99 Nihilist Details "Dementedly abstract drumming highlights this release from Turners Falls' "hostess with the most-ess", Bromp Treb. Bleep-bloop, plink-plonk, yada-yada. Dimension is sent packing, as tiny scrapes thunder across the stereo spectrum, and cymbal crashes recede to the horizon. And here we are, locked inside the middle... as this vortex of percussive clatter swirls and gusts, this way, then that. One must plant two feet on the ground to not lose one's bearings in the chaos. Full color sleeve art by George W. Myers." 5/1/2009 Bromp Treb Twins 7" $5.99 Apostasy Recordings Details "Very skewed instrumental pop record from Norway. This is toe-tappable in a Clean-esque kind of way, while incorporating weird sounds and non-production reminiscent of the Puddle at their outer-space best. I don't think they surf in Norway, but this is what they'd listen to if they did." – Bruce Russell. 1996 recordings. 2/15/2005 Bronson Comet Lighter Gin, the Imperial Vodka 7" $4.99 Bronson Recordings Details 2001 recordings from Norway. 2/15/2005 Bronson Comet Lighter Wipes the Pipes 7" $4.99 Bronson Recordings Details "This is a self-released debut vinyl record by Zack Hay made up of music for 4 and 6 steel-stringed guitars and one piece for piano. No vocals, though if you listen close...Recorded in Ohio, New Mexico and Montana between 2007-2009. Jackets printed by Stumptown Printers. Hand-numbered; in an edition of 305 copies." "When we first heard a preview of this album a few months back, everyone at VT was floored. It came out of nowhere, the work of one Zachary Hay. He was writing out of Montana, of all places, but he seemed to have recorded most of the album in various locations dotted around Ohio and New Mexico between 2007 and 2009. The music was played on four and six string acoustic steel-string guitars as well as harp and, on one track, piano. The atmosphere was immediately striking. It spoke of empty rooms and secret lives, of the backroads of America, as eloquently as the first couple of CD-Rs from Ilyas Ahmed or Jandek's acoustic recordings. Some of the music could be vaguely described as American Primitive but it was reflected through an odd, almost Corwood-style aesthetic. In the liners Hay talks of how his recordings are often drawn from the first time he ever plays an instrument and there's a naive, slightly faltering quality to the music that is extremely affecting. He plays as if he is stumbling across the melody for the first time, obsessing over two or three notes and wringing them of emotional nuance. Then there are the ambient sounds in the recordings themselves, a car somewhere nearby, a voice, the echo of the room itself. It's an album that has a beautiful sense of space. The solo piano piece is especially poignant, the perfectly simple technique of Vikki Jackman or Christina Carter put to the service of a lonely winter hymnal. Really, this is a magical record, with an atmosphere that would stop time. If you're a fan of the real American Primitive - a tradition that includes Jandek, Charalambides, Matthew Valentine, the Tommy Roundtree/Arian Sample axis and Loren Connors as much as Jack Rose and John Fahey, then this is the perfect postcard from oblivion. It's also beautifully packaged, privately pressed by Hay himself in a hand-numbered edition of 305 copies in pro-printed sleeves with inserts and liners. A classic out of nowhere underground side. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue 5/16/2010 Bronze Horse Bronze Horse LP $15.99 Oakhill Records Details Numbered editon of 500 copies (this is #36). From 1994 Brother JT Vibrolux LP $34.99 Bedlam Details Vinyl version back in stock after long delay. 1/26/2002 Brother JT & Vibrolux Music For The Other Head LP $29.99 Siltbreeze Details "Brother JT3 is back. They've brought a new batch with them too - guaranteed to move your head around. Hang In There, Baby is a towering rock, a mighty peak in the best of all possible worlds - a record that moves and grooves yuh, but a record with an axe or two to grind and, at the end of the day, a message or two. As was said once before, music for the other head - the one inside the one - remember?" 11/11/2003 Brother JT3 Hang In There, Baby CD $14.99 Drag City Details "It’s the second Brother JT3 release on good old Drag City, the second produced by Neil Michael Hagerty, as well (Neil co-produced Way To Go as part of Adam and Eve back in ’99). Brother JT wears a more complicated coat of colors on Spirituals than on Way To Go or previous Brother JT releases. The good Brother’s got some preaching to do, but in a sweetly melodic setting, with acoustic guitars ringing, flutes and recorders riffing, with liquid leads and gentle mid-tempos...it’s full-on sandals rock. You’ll find that JT’s crafted a stoner anthem in ‘Mellow’ - an instantly compelling tune with lyrics that just keeps knocking you out. There’s a few more of them on Spirituals as well as some other things that make Brother JT great, like lots of rock and roll, heavy religious moments, a jam, two traditional songs, more melodies, cultish weirdness and an air of grooviness that just won’t blow away. All without breaking its pure pop stride." Brother JT3 Spirituals CD $13.99 Drag City Details "Brother Ong returns to Deep Water with an immersive musical exploration just hinted at on his 2011 label debut. Instrumentally, Deep Water Vibration again centers around the Indian shahi baaja, abetted occasionally by modified autoharp, both processed via live electronic effects into looping, swirling waves of sound. The music harks back to the extended kosmische trance-outs of pioneers such as Klaus Schulze, but with cosmic analog synthesizers replaced by astral meditation zithers, and diving deep in the sea rather than drifting in space. Cover photos show the Brother receiving his transmission directly from the source; we had to resist calling it Ong the Beach…"Three tracks, 40 minutes. 2/2/2013 Brother Ong Deep Water Vibration CDR $8.99 Deep Water Details "'ALIENACUSTICA' is a superb collection of works by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) as you have never heard before. Forget all MCIAA's noise records... this is a totally different affair: starting from January 2006 they have released 3 unusual, completely acoustic works, all in limited and sold-out editions: a soloist split lp, a private art edition cd-r, and an out-of-print cd. The different approach to these works shows another side of the Opalio brothers' musical universe: all of the electric guitars and electronic effects that have been characterizing My Cat Is An Alien from the beginning are here left aside to give space to classical and acoustic guitar strings, and to Roberto's "human" voice as a primordial instrument. Indeed, they decided to collect these precious gems under the pseudonym of BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER SPACE, so to point out how much these works are "alien" to the rest of their immense corpus of work. Within this triple box set it reigns the celestial harmony of the same matter their beloved Western Alps are made of, as it comes out from the recordings themselves (most of which made in Spring), sometimes hiding the surrounding nature's sounds, like birds singing through the leafy branches of the trees outside the brothers' Alien Zone studio, as well as the creaking of their HQs' wood floor echoing inside their acoustic guitar bodies, the whole creating a really unique atmosphere. DISC 1 - ROBERTO OPALIO / MAURIZIO OPALIO 'In The Middle Of The Air / Glacier Sommeiller' DISC 2 - MAURIZIO & ROBERTO OPALIO 'Liquid Spring' DISC 3 - MY CAT IS AN ALIEN 'Folclore Alieno' 11/3/2012 Brothers From Another Space ALIENACUSTICA triple CD Box Set $31.99 Elliptical Noise Details "Botos like this..flaming tunes catching with angels chants..we accept the bet for the winner!! another 9 crazy trip from the massive band from Blissland - handmade HARD cardboard limited to 116 copies." 2/12/2008 Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood Odalisque at Secret Vortex CDR $13.99 Akoustic Disease Details "Unrock the House, by Alan and Richard Bishop aka Brothers Unconnected, is a truly remarkable document and album. It's a desirable object for eyes and ears that stands completely for itself, and it is the history and legacy of the leading and legendary performance unit Sun City Girls, who served the contemporary underground/avant-scene over a period of 25 years with inspiration and influence. It is in fact a grandiose homage to Sun City Girls and their late drummer Charles Gocher. The uncut live performance from Suedbahnhof in Krefeld, Germany 2011 is recorded in brilliant quality and contains tracks from Sun City Girls and the complete spoken-word interludes which makes it a delicate performance and captures the magic of the moment in full. "Rookoobay," "Soi Cowboy," "Horse Cock Phepner," "Dreamland," and "Shining Path" are part of the set as well as "Black Orchid" from Sun City Girls' final album Funeral Mariachi. Unrock the House is housed in a gatefold sleeve and contains one black and one white vinyl album. The entire performance is more then 80 minutes long. It is a limited edition one-time vinyl pressing." 1/5/2013 Brothers Unconnected Unrock the House double LP $38.99 Unrock Details "(Joanna Brouk) was an extremely early new age type musician who had a radio show on KPFA even before Hearts of Space. She put out five tapes of music recorded between 1976 and 1982. You can hear an early interview (1972) and some of her most minimal and severe drone music via this link: http://disquiet.com/2008/02/28/joanna-brouk/ (These are) original, sealed tapes from the 80s, although she updated the dates every time she did a new pressing (Sounds of the Sea is from 1981 but says 1990)." - Douglas Mcgowan. "Two side-length pieces -- Maggis Flute and Healing Music. Maggi is Maggi Payne of Lovely Records fame, today an instructor at Mills College. This long improvisation based on Brouks directions later provided the basis for a short symphonic piece by Brouk in the mid 80s. Healing Music (1976) is one of Brouks first piano works, a self-taught rondo of deep, hypnotic power." 1/30/2010 Brouk, Joanna Healing Music cassette $9.99 Hummingbird Productions Details "New ensemble from portland, or. whose NW live performances have been unpredictable, tightrope walks of electronic interplay. committing suicide-like shards of pulsing energy amid reckless feedback-level processed tones... wallops yr ears like a cold salmon to the side of the head." 2/4/2007 Brown Brown CDR $12.99 Usound Details “Solo recordings from the percussionist from Hall of Fame and David Grubbs, made with the help of engineer Nicholas Vernhes and some additional percussive muscle by Greg Anderson of Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue. The personnel here is limited but the instrumentation is varied and open and includes traditional drum workouts, variety of bowed and struck cymbals, gongs and ceramic pots, hammered guitar, thumb piano and more. Inner Boroughs exists in a tradition which isn’t wholly jazz , rock or experimental music, but draws on a wealth of sources from ‘Suite for Toy Piano’ on John Cage’s ‘Early Works’, to Don Moye’s ‘Sun Percussion’, Hal Blaine’s Psychedelic Percussion and Art Blakey’s Holiday For Skins volume 1.” 6/1/2002 Brown, Dan Inner Boroughs CD $12.99 Amish Records Details "Presents for the first time on CD the classic experimental folk recordings with the same title first issued on LP in 1969. Anton Bruhin conceived some of the most original sonic art musiks, a double of his artistic work as an outsider painter and with the help of Stefan Wittwer on electric guitar and Cristian Koradi on bass and cello, recorded this masterpiece of far out sonorities well hidden in the Swiss mountains. Anton Bruhin sings and plays jew's harp (his favorite instrument), ch-phon (an instrument he invented constructed with a PVC tube with saxophone reed), harmonica, flute, fiddle, percussion, water. This record, surely one of the most psychedelic, experimental and private to be issued in Europe in the 1960s, should be of great influence for the actual renaissance of experimental folk music. Surely it was an important source of magick for Steven Stapleton, so no surprise to see it mentioned in the mythical list of references that Nurse With Wound included in their first LP. This CD edition also includes 5 jew's harp instrumental tracks." 4/25/2008 Bruhin, Anton Vom Goldabfischercd CD $18.99 Alga Marghen Details "Elsie and Jack are proud to present the final Brume release Zona Ventille. Layered, mood dependent music. After many successful years of running with the musique concrète baton, Zona Ventille represents the final dash for this modern french composer. More than just mere process, this is an artifact of sheer beauty, intrigue and suspense in the tradition of Pierre Henry and Luis Buñuel. Zona Ventille is a constantly mutating soundscape - nothing is static. With recordings on Ant-Zen, ND, Old Europa Café, Relapse, Staalplaat and his own Brume rec. among others, this release on Elsie and Jack marks the end of an era for Christian Renou as Brume. Elaborately packaged in a metal laser-etched stickered jewel case, featuring a duotone sleeve printed on heavy art-stock card with a vellum wrap - another precious thing courtesy of Elsie and Jack." 6/19/2002 Brume Zona Ventille CD $12.99 elsieandjack Details 4 track EP by Freek Kinkelaar who plays all the instruments and handles the vocals as well. Housed in a nice printed sleeve, this is a lathe cut record in an edition of 25 copies 2 available here. 12/24/2003 Brunnen The Honey Button 8" EP $29.99 Plinkity Plonk Details "I first saw Bobb Bruno about two years ago at The Smell in downtown LA. I had heard of him prior to the show (he also plays in Goliath Bird Eater and Knit Witch, among others) but didn't really know what to expect from him by himself, and live. He came out wearing a full bunny costume, head and all and sat down playing the coolest electronic drum pad I've ever seen. Some of his past releases have been dreamy pop, others have been heavy as nails. This tape falls somewhere in between. One minute there's beautiful synthscapes and the next it's heavy bass and pounding drums. Hand-numbered edition of 79 on purple cassettes with full-color piggie artwork by Bobb Bruno." - Tynan / DNT 10/25/2008 Bruno, Bobb Clown's Castle cassette $8.99 DNT Details Ben Bennett / drumheads Ryan Jewell / snare drum Wilson Shook / alto saxophone with guest Mara Sedlins / viola "There are those listeners who like to follow a recording by clearly tracing the path each musician is taking on a given set. Others prefer to allow the music to wash over them, disregarding individual intentions in favour of the whole. To the former group, Bug Incision presents to you a challenge. To paraphrase Derek Bailey (and a bunch of others, admittedly), the music gets really interesting when it becomes difficult to tell who is doing what. By that measure, this is supremely interesting music. Bennett and Jewell are largely indistinguishable without an intimate acquiantance with either player's work and, while it is suspected that bows play a role in these sounds, it's really tough to tell, and all the more fun for it. The way their sounds intersect with Shook's sax playing is a revelation, someone picking up where another's phrase dwindles, and sound mimicry of the first order. While some bemoan the latter aspect of improvising as pedestrian, once one considers the instrumentation at hand, it becomes a really rich and inventive listening experience. Also, this group is not so much about those classic modes of improvisation; their approach entails presenting sounds to one another and patiently figuring out how they can co-exist. Shook's playing recalls echoes of Evan Parker, but only in the most fragmented sense, and also the master of sax rudeness, Jack Wright, in his glossolalic soundings, and his ability to make the saxophone sound quite a bit like a trumpet. The lesser-known, but apparently quite wonderful Mara Sedlins adds an extra layer of quiet confusion to the second piece. A really fine piece of contemporary American improvising." Edition of 150, color covers in plastic sleeves 4/13/2011 bst.cr bst.cr CDR $8.99 Bug Incision Details "Bubblewrap Holocaust is one of these band that popping up with a more punk edge but not the spikey haired kind!!!! The band captures the primal thrust of punk and the playfullness of 60's garageŠThe Stooges meet The FallŠ an Amalgam of sloppy guitars, speedy base line and cahotic catchy tunes. The defining element of Bubblewrap is the singer's snarling voice and offensive lyrics between irony and geekery. Colin speak-sings every song in a thick Scottish brogueŠ think about Mark E SmithŠyes you can! This debut album is a great collection of short punchy songs each dynamic to sustain many repeated listen!" 4/10/2009 BubbleWrap Holocaust BubbleWrap Holocaust CD $12.99 Textile Details "Initiated as a film soundtrack and then added to and reworked, this is an unusual and fine collection of pieces featuring tenor guitar (with, variously, keyboards, violin, percussion, singing, Computer, bagpipes, Harmonica, Flutes). No comparisons help, really; a one-off." The tenor guitar is really cool. Not sure how this fits in with the usual stuff carried here but I dig it. 4/23/2003 Buchanan, Steve Tiny Grimes CD $10.99 Hanan Details “My Friend is a Mule in the Mines is the second release from Dark Holler. Subtitled ‘Old-Time Excursions,’ this CD is being praised for it’s wonderfully original approach to old-time music. Fiddle tunes, old-time country, and blues are all handled with equal skill by Bob, a multi-instrumentalist from York County, Pennsylvania. The title cut is a song his Grandfather sang for the Bishop among others when he retired from the Methodist clergy. The CD also includes a nearly lost, traditional York County Fiddle tune, called ‘Unicorn’. Bob appears regularly in the region with the Contra Rebels, the house band for the York Folk Dance Association. Fellow band members, Reed Martin and Todd Clewell join Bob on this project which includes four banjo duets with Reed. Other guests include Bob Hess and Tim Renner.” 6/1/2002 Buckingham, Bob & Friends My Friend is a Mule in the Mines CD $9.99 Dark Holler Details "BSPU are Steve Baczkowski on tenor/baritone Sax, Ravi Padmanabha on Drums / Percussion, Mike Allard on alto Sax, Michael Hermanson on Trombone, and Leif Ingvar Nicklas on contrabass. They´ve recorded this album live in Buffalo, N.Y. at Soundlab. All compositions are improvised." 1/1/2008 Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit Alive CD $17.99 Ruby Red Details "What needs to be said about a band that invents a new dance for every song they make and play flute by hanging it from a car window during their tours? The wind plays the flute like Buffle their casios, percussions and guitars. So we hear a pure feast of love and joy. Flux of funny sounds meet clumsy and naive repetition in a way that would make Holger Czukay hot of jealousy in his pool. And there's nothing better in life than to be hanging out in the breezing streets of Belgian winter and be saved by Buffle feeding you different kinds of vegetarian pizza slices." 2/26/2006 Buffle Constrictor cassette $6.99 LalLalLal Details "2 very very very HIP bands. first part in the series of split-tapes with BREAKING WORLD RECS. Ben and George sing about daddy's digweed and bad boys. Buffle has the blues." 2/4/2007 Buffle / Bengeorge7 split cassette $8.99 Dutch Beer Details "Telegraphed is the long-awaited follow-up to Adam Bugaj's debut album from 2006 which, just as expected, has been destined to a life in obscurity. It was a disc overflowed by chopped underwater ceremonies and melodic fragments that were placed against a tapestry of tape-hiss and polyrhythmic psychedelia. Imagine a rousing but still downcast sound carousel reminiscent of Wilson/Parks as much as Dreamies and you're in the right sketchy ballpark. This new disc treads over equally fragmentized terrain but at the same time it means a step sideward from the unconventional pop formula of the predecessor to something slightly more introvert. What we get is fragile song fragments interspersed with shimmering waves of warm electronic landscapes and bedroom experimentation. It all sounds like some nearly lost memory, or like being trapped inside a dream that's all about subtle and beautiful disorientation. Simple melodies are embellished with a suggestive kind of brilliance and a great sense of melancholia, which seems to be grounded in the ordinary world, yet the sounds are otherworldly to say the least. Imagine watching home movies from another world and you're getting close to what this one is all about." - Mats Gustafsson. 16 tracks, 33 minutes. 7/21/2010 Bugaj, Adam Telegraphed CDR $8.99 Deep Water Details "Adam Bugaj sometimes plays lysergic barn rock with the Clear Spots, other times vaporizes neurons with Peacefeather, but more than either he's a bedroom-studio Dr. Moreau, toiling away in his attic laboratory to bring us fragmentary new sonic life forms. If the medium is the message, this is definitely speaking in tongues: flashes of recognizable elements float by -- ghosts of Wilson/Parks sketches, malfunctioning electronica, lo-fi psychedelia, tape hiss and machine hum and the click of the edit button -- then fly off in mid-sentence just as their import begins to clarify. This is what it would feel like if Daylight Savings Time happened every day." 6/11/2006 Bugaj, Adam Waves of Tears CDR $8.99 Deep Water Details "Flashback to 1997 and in the world of underground droning weirdness, Bugskull were heavyweight champions. The revolving cast of characters always centered around Sean Byrne. He concocted buckets full of syrupy delights that encompassed everything from electronica, post-rock, dub, noise and endless pop hooks. Byrne was joined by multi-instrumentalist Brendan Bell and percussionist James Yu throughout the latter half of the '90s, taking Bugskull from bedroom wonder to full-blown magic carpet band. Bugskull released records and singles on some of the great experimental labels of the day such as Road Cone, Scratch, and Shrimper. I can safely say that as I was discovering experimental music during my mid & late teens, Bugskull were one of my all-time favorite bands. The last album Byrne released was in 2002, "The Big White Cloud," which followed-up the acclaimed "Distracted Snowflake" duology. During the late '90s, Byrne recorded a third album that extended the themes of the "Snowflake" records. Due to label issues and disputes, this third album never came out until now, almost ten years later. "Communication" is the bookend to the hypnotic reverie created by "Distracted Snowflake" volumes 1 & 2. With layers of organ and synth floating like cotton candy on top of dub and hip-hop infused beats, Byrne is in top form. "Communication" isn't so much a lost album as it is confirmation of a legacy and declaration of intent. Bugskull is back. >From the tribal beach vibes of "High Steppin' II" right down to the drenched bones of the droning, black river sonics of "Subterranean Life," this album brings everything that made Bugskull so great and concentrates it on two sides of vinyl. Upbeat, fast-moving synth lines bob and move in minimal electronic waves while violins moan on "Squeaky Bagpipe." The title track is an exercise in restraint as Byrne uses turntables and molasses-paced guitars to the listener into a false sense of serenity, only to be drowned in opiates and put to bed by "Pondlife." Whether he's created simple, deceptive trips with sparse, but effective rhythmic cues or is just wallowing in the aural beauty of sine tones and synth drones, Byrne doesn't ever let up. For those who have been as big of fans I have through the years, you probably never thought another Bugskull album would show up on the horizon. I know I didn't. But after seven years of waiting for something fresh, it's all worth it in the end to start the journey from scratch. Vinyl only and limited to 300 copies." 10/21/2009 Bugskull Communication LP $17.99 Digitalis Details "Extremely rare and sought-after album shows a very different side to the incredibly rich Turkish music scene of the late 1960’s/early 1970’s, with gravelly vocals and introspective folk rock arrangements; a mostly calm album with incredible songs and lyrics from revered songwriter Bulent Ortacgil, recorded in 1973 or 1974; regarded by Hans Pokora's Record Collector Dreams book as psych folk, where it received four stars; musical support provided by a team of dynamite musicians including Onno Tunc and Atilla Ozdemiroglu; booklet includes lyrics and photos." - Lion Productions 11/16/2004 Bulent Benimle Oynar Misin CD $17.99 World Psychedelia Details "The Anus opens wide and sprays its sonic diarrhea in a torrent of free noise and electronics. A rare public appearance from the infamous 8/02 Noise Show, the clan let loose with this brutal o-ring blowing assault. Old Bull spazzes out on aggro-synths and purple box as the Moses shreds the Sammy cassette. Short and sweet, 17 minutes that feels like days. Get ready to dance with Mr. PoopiePants." 12/19/2002 Bull Anus Anus Comes Alive CD $8.99 Mandragora Records Details "I just had to chuckle when I first caught a glimpse of this album as it came out of it's mailing package. I mean, how can you take this seriously? The band's name alone is jokey, and the big picture of a bull's rear end on the cover doesn't help matters. The truth is, though, that this is pretty serious noise music. Actually, it's not only serious - it's good. From the label that releases 'pure psychedelic noise' comes a funky batch of ear chaos that is sure to get your brain pulsating. Or at least quivering. 'Beefry,' for example, is a piece of harsh noise that's been injected with crazy broken beats; listening to it will make you want to move (even if this so-called 'movement' is actually just violent spasms). Other tracks, like 'Scar' and 'La Purga' are more atmospheric and relaxing, while 'Anus Strain' and 'Robotonk' are glitchy and complex. All around, Bull Anus has released a great selection of noise. If you like your noise abrasive, you'll totally dig this!" - Matt Shimmer, indieville.com "Harsh fucking noise. Bull Anus grabs hold and rams it home in 17 tracks of non-stop sadistic eardrum torture. Play Loud to ruin your stereo and annoy everyone. Can you pass the Anus Test?" 8/7/2002 Bull Anus Enter The Anus CD $9.99 Mandragora Records Details "transplanted from omaha to korea via minneapolis, bull's blood's quiet compositions come from the mind of charles lareau (who also records as das torpedos). stuck in a canvas bag and beaten to smithereens, bull's blood reconstructs these soggy pieces into a ramshackle house of cards. a sense of urgency plagues each of these 11 songs. armed with varying tape loops, acoustic guitars, shambolic percussion, vocals, and god knows what else, "mondyeth" is drenched in the earth's turf. it's as though lareau's spirit is singing like a masked heathen from the grave. 100 copies" 12/24/2005 Bull's Blood Mondyeth CDR $7.99 Foxglove Details "A Sense of Tokyo can get you in your sleep, attacking the klump of lung muscle not coated w cowboy french fry grease and pandowdy fritter walls. The Sense is a scent, a whiff of marooned boys all xibiting their whalebone necks, moss wrapped so nicely around their thin necks. Let it drag you to the floor and go thru your pockets, the hole in your jeans is so soft now, fingers filled w honey, Owens lil undies whacked up against the wall. If you can see itchy clearly then you may want to tear a piece of goldfish off the line for Khaya, she is a sainted pillow provider, worship is useless. Great to chat, now let's listen." -- Dan Bunny 6/11/2006 Bunny Brains, The A Sense of Tokyo CD $13.99 Lost Frog Details "Reissue of this all-time classic British folk album, from 1969. Vashti Bunyan has recently appeared dueting with Devendra Banhart, on the title track to Rejoicing In the Hands. Interest in this record seems to increase with each passing year... ‘Originally recorded in 1969 (the original vinyl sells upwards of £400). Produced by Joe Boyd and features the following amazing artists: Vashti Bunyan (vocals, guitar), Robert Kirby (strings -- played on Nick Drake's first two albums), Robin Williamson (fiddle, mandolin - of Incredible String Band), Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick (banjo, mandolin - of Fairport Convention). CD contains 4 extra tracks. The album is full of exquisitely beautiful songs about stone built farmhouses, home coming fishermen and dogs with wonky ears. Described by Mojo as 'one of the most fragile, beautiful and unique records you will ever hear.'" - FE 5/10/2004 Bunyan, Vashti Just Another Diamond Day CD $19.99 Spinney Details "Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan's recent re-emergence as an artist after an exile of over 30 years, comes the release of Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind, a comprehensive compilation of early recordings dating from the period prior to Vashti's classic Just another Diamond Day album which was originally released in 1970. Titled after Vashti's (Jagger/Richards-penned) debut single which opens the compilation, this double-album represents an attempt to both open out and draw a line under the past, and also to try to set the record straight about the disparity between how Vashti viewed (and still views) herself against the way she has been popularly perceived. Widely construed as a folk singer-a tag she fundamentally disagrees with-these recordings instead reveal Vashti as a pop singer, however 'fragile' and unique. A complete collection of Vashti's existing early recordings, the album is divided across two discs and features 25 tracks-mostly rescued from a number of old acetates and quarter-inch tapes Vashti's brother John had found in his attic a few years ago. The first disc gathers together the early singles (two of which were unreleased) and a set of taped demos recorded between 1965 -67. The second disc comprises the entire, unaltered contents of a long-forgotten tape discovered at the last minute before mastering, whilst Vashti was searching for one of the master reels for disc one. Beautifully packaged in period style and annotated for both vinyl & CD formats." DBL LP version out in late November. 11/17/2007 Bunyan, Vashti Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind double CD $14.99 DiCristina Details "Remastered reissue of the long-out-of-print tape released on Turgid Animal in 2008. An incredible example of Midwest Horror Electronics recorded live during a show at the Tomb in Madison, Wisconsin. Side A starts slow and builds to a tense and creepy crescendo of industrial devastation bringing the song to its dramatic climax aided by the metallic ring of a bell. Side B captures the unleashed rage of the performance made of crawling chains, whistling wind and metallic echoes. Amazing harsh epilogue drilled through many layers of screams of torment, rage and anguish." Edition of 150 on black vinyl. First 50 copies come with glow-in-the-dark screenprinted cover." 3/11/2012 Burial Hex Blood Between Her Lakes LP $21.99 Holidays Records Details "A twenty-minute concept by the dark ambient maestro inspired by Haitian Voodoo as portrayed in Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Growling vocals sounding like they came from the heart of a cave soaked in a creepy atmosphere slowly turn into a sinister melody influenced by dark disco. Limited edition of three-hundred copies with a frame from the movie screened on the blank side. 300 copies, one-sided silkscreened black vinyl. Artwork by Nico Vascellari." 5/13/2011 Burial Hex Hunger one-sided 12" $18.99 Holidays Records Details "12" one sided silkscreened limited edition of 300. "In psychic defense" is the last work of Clay Ruby as Burial Hex. With this record Burial Hex faces a new chapter in his music where noise, post-punk, a wise use of the rhythm, experimental wave and dark melodies match together in a perfect balance. The record is elaborated as a protection spell in psychic self-defense, and the lyrics are from an old hymn to the Archangel Michael, always been seen as a leader and protector of the faithful. This one sided also confirms the collaboration between Clay Ruby and Troy Schafer, who wrote and performed all the bass and guitar parts." 4/28/2012 Burial Hex In Psychic Defense one-sided 12" $16.99 Sound of Cobra Details "Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful." 8/22/2008 Burke, Dan / Thomas Dimuzio Upcoming Events CD $10.99 No Fun Productions Details "burke has a way of creating intensely affecting tracks with very few means. his melodies and sense of progression always struck me as very intuitive and naturally flowing which is just what he displays on 'envision'. over the span of ten minimal synth tracks he takes you way down into sweet unconsciousness and then back again. one of my favourite dudes when it comes to keyboard music. jelly red tapes w/ two-sided full-color j-card. edition of 40." 8/20/2011 Burke, Josh Envision c30 cassette $8.99 D'Artagnan Details New lp by jerk who ripped off Eclipse in 2009 - no respect for this dude at all. "Josh Burke continues his endeavor into new age. With relaxing synths, and the occasional outbreak, the man behind Sky Limousine & the illustre Midnight Star Media cassette label, takes you to space and back in just over 30 minutes. There are faster, more layered tracks varied with bare, minimal, classical new age tracks. It makes the perfect mix and relaxing listening experience. Comes with Insert." Released in an edition of 330. 6/9/2010 Burke, Josh Prana LP $18.99 Aguirre Records Details "This is the last batch of the final installment in the vinyl era of the Parasites of the Western World. Sealed copies of the original pressing of Patrick Burke's second solo outing and tho this distances itself from the rockist Parasites moves and continues on a arc that Silence and Timing might indicate, this is very much worth yr grip. Rare in any realm, and not many to go around. Last Chance!" 8/20/2011 Burke, Patrick A Black Balloon LP $17.99 Details "Originally released in a micro-run of 200 in 1996 as the first release on Joshua's own Feather One's Nest label, it is with deep honor and respect Spirit of Orr has prepared this reissue version with hopes that it will be as much a treasure to hold as the original. We have carefully used the same stampers as the original, however this edition will be pressed in colored vinyl. Also included will be a booklet containing art from Joshua, and an extensive set of liner notes with impressions of this record from several of your favorite record heads, Angela Sawyer, Clint Simonson, John Olson, Thurston Moore, Willie Lane and more... This reissue will be housed in recycled lp jackets much like the original, though this time the jackets will be reversed with taped spines and a reversal of the original art." 8/8/2009 Burkett, Joshua Owlsleavesrustling LP $14.99 Spirit of Orr Details "compositions for 9 midgets with mohawks screaming about life and harsh electronics. nastiest burnign star core release to date. Spencer continues his search for the lost kingdom,with an army of his own spencer screams to them to get them psyched: "HARSH IS NICE!!!!!" limited to 300." - No Fun. 7/16/2006 Burning Star Core 3 Sisters That Share An Eye LP $16.99 No Fun Details "Burning Star Core's first vinyl full-length and first widely available recording after numerous private releases that began surfacing in 1993. Massive layers of sustained SOUND driven thru violins and electronics direct to climax -- backed by broken organs dropped into shifting darkness and cracked Computer hypnotics. Abstract/Concrete (sensual) Satisfaction. After years of obscured operations, another question answered, another step past the cognizant few." "A really fine debut LP by a combo from the Kentucky/Ohio underground DMZ. One side has skin-destroying violin drone-dynamics, amped the hell up, and run through shards of electronic hell-dither. The other side is synth/key-based form-whackery that sounds like an out-of-control toad carnival taking place in your brain." - Byron Coley / Thurston Moore, Arthur, May 2003. "from Cincinnati, Spencer is a violin and electronics alchemist of the first water and this is a very fine debut in a mass produced edition (many previous CDR/cassette titles to track down later, kids!). You could easily lose whole days hiding under the bed with this on the turntable." - Bruce Russell, Corpus Hermeticum. Repressed. Originally released in 2002. Housed in a full color heavy duty cover - very nice! Features: CS Yeh - Violin, Electronics (Side A) Computer (Side B) Chris Rosing - Additional Climax Electronics (Side A). 8/23/2009 Burning Star Core Brighter Summer Day LP $15.99 Thin Wrist Details "Challenger is a composed work rather than his more improvised work, each piece revolving around a central melodic theme with field recordings, an audio diary bridging the gaps. It's emotions of a period of time set to tape. The sounds range from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. But what's most remarkable is the use of space, where parts come in and drop to build or recede .When the piano crashes in "Mysteries of the Organ" its almost a frustration of paradise, a rejection of perfection or maybe a jolt of inexplicable life, unable to be translated into proper 'communication. Juxtaposed with the quiet haunting of "Hopelessly Devoted" which sounds like a love letter written to outer space, it makes for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement. licensed from plastic records." - Hospital Productions 7/10/2008 Burning Star Core Challenger LP $15.99 Plastic Records Details "So why pick Burning Star Core now after all these years? Aside from the obvious, there's an amazing confluence among Spencer Yeh's own sound that he's been striving at for years and between various facets of an underground noise and improv scene that's virtually bursting at the seams. His music fits a number of certain tastes, be it catering to those raised on the tried and true avant garde-ians of yesteryear to the recent emergence of the post-hardcore set ripe for fresh sounds and new, more abstract and virulent noises. With all the attention being paid to left-field musicians at the left and right of America, now might be the time to head towards the heartland, and some of the seeds planted in Cincinnati courtesy of Burning Star Core." - Michael Crumsho. 9/30/2005 Burning Star Core Let's Play Wild Like Wildcats Do CD $12.99 Hospital Productions Details 3 tracks recorded live in 2004 by C. Spencer Yeh (violin, voice, and electronics on 3rd track) with guests Robert Beatty of Hair Police on the first 2 tracks and Mike Shiftlet on the first track. Handpainted silkscreened sleeves. 12/24/2005 Burning Star Core See You in 2004 CDR $12.99 U-Sound Records Details "On The Very Heart of the World, Burning Star Core (BXC) has created an incredibly heavy record, built on dense, layered drones, pulses, splintered vocals, and deep rhythms that euphorically build to total overload. With a line-up including the Hair Police front line and other luminaries from across the exploding Midwestern psych/noise/folk underground, BXC's C. Spencer Yeh has assembled a group that seamlessly shifts through epic movements and pushes pure electronic / concrete / physical / rock energy to undeniable, massive sound. Expanding on what was hinted at on the collaboration LP with Comets on Fire earlier this year, The Very Heart of the World is a definitive statement of the evolving Burning Star Core sound. Operating since 1993 out of Cincinnati Ohio, and emerging as one of the essential units in the American underground, Burning Star Core has always centered around C. Spencer Yeh." Repressed. 8/23/2009 Burning Star Core The Very Heart of the World CD $11.99 Thin Wrist