nick grey and the random orchestra – candlelight eyes ep –barl fire - cdr - 11$
Nick Grey and his Random Orchestra return with what, in recording terms, is the prequel to their critically acclaimed and Julian Cope endorsed "Thieves Among Thorns" album from 2006. Clocking-in at just over 40 minutes, the five-track "Candlelight Eyes EP" showcases the signature heartbreaking and brooding melancholy of its aforementioned sister-album, and at times incorporates intimate chamber folk arrangements, all of which draw more from the musical heritage of the mid-1970's German electronic underground, that inspired Bowie's Berlin trilogy, than the pastoral musings of 1970's psychedelic folk. "The Candlelight Eyes EP" features cover-art by Scapegott, is packaged in jewel cases and limited to 200 copies.
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nihilist project - plough plays - barl fire - cdr - 11$
The Nihil Project is an open collective devoted to psychedelia, musical experimentation and artistic avantgarde who have released two albums to date. They are based on a core duo of Antonello Cresti and Andrea Gianessi from Italy. They collaborate with a wide range of artists and on this album have worked with a number of musicians from Britain such as the ex-Blossom Toes Brian Godding, Sedayne, The Anvil, Gav Dunn, The Kitchen Cynics, Orph and LSD from Electronic Voice Phenomena and Simon Lewis of The Phoenix Cube. The album title comes from our shared love of the informal, rough plough plays in January still performed in the East Midlands. Performers drawn from the population, hidden by guises telling ancient scripts they cannot know the primitive sources of. We couldn't imagine a more fitting concept. On this album they focus on British folk music and folklore interweaving their own songs and lyrics with traditional sources. The band is fascinated by folklore and folk customs, Antonello visits the UK regularly and has written a book about England and Wales. So they are well placed to make an album almost custom designed to appeal to all psychedelic folk fans.
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phoenix cube - walking the shore - barl fire - cdr - 11$
With the enviable role as the reviews editor for The Ptolemaic Terrascope online, it's not surprising that Simon Lewis aka The Phoenix Cube has spent the last few years soaking up a multitude of influences from the cream of the current psychedelic underground. His passion for electronica, space rock and psychedelia from the likes of Gong and the Aphex Twin, that were notable on his previous albums as The Phoenix Cube and as part of his band Phorum, although evident on "Walking The Shore", this time round place the emphasis on bedroom recorded psych-folk and dronescapes. The album features cover art by Lewis himself, is housed in vinyl slip cases, contains an insert and is limited to 100 copies.
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mike tamburo - dance enis dance - barl fire - cdr - 11$ sold out
Mike Tamburo returns with an epic 32 minute suite of Basho-esque fingerpicking and psychedelic drones, that are exhilarating yet meditative and clearly an expression of deep catharsis. The album is packaged in full colour sleeves featuring cover art by Pete Spynda, housed in vinyl slip cases, contains an insert and is limited to 100 copies.
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ville moskiitto - retkikertomuksia - barl fire - cdr - 11$
Ville Forss' Moskiitto alter-ego returns with his most acoustic based opus to date. Out go the prepared electric-guitar and cavernous organ drones, to be replaced by creaking bowed and scraped strings, taking the listener out of the caves and into dark snow-clad forests, with a sawing and clattering free-folk sound closer in spirit to his fellow countrymen Anaksimandros and Vapaa. The album features cover art by Forss himself, is housed in vinyl slip cases and is limited to 100 copies.
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bjerga/iversen - earth pit- barl fire - cdr - 11$
After their six volume "Lighthouse Tapes" series the Norwegian noise/drone duo Bjerga/Iversen head inland to offer up this mud-spattered sonic dichotomy that blurs the boundaries between what is considered organic- and machine-driven music. Metallic squeal, electronic collages and earthy drones sit side by side and find their co-resonant frequencies lending "Earth Pit" a life-pulse to its soiled and rusted tones. "Earth Pit" comes housed in vinyl slipcases with coverart featuring the mudpools at Rotorua New Zealand by Richard Seaman, and is limited to 100 copies(barl fire)
kitchen cynics - tunnels - barl fire - cdr - 11$ sold out
In a recording career encompassing three decades, and with a prolific back-catalogue of cassette, CD and CDR releases, The Kitchen Cynics' brand of hushed lo-fi bedroom recorded psychedelic folk has captured the hearts of many, including such luminaries as the late great John Peel. Recorded live at Tunnels in Aberdeen over two nights in summer 2005 "Tunnels" is a perfectly executed live show-case on home-turf for Davidson's poetic tales of eccentric historical figures and real-life "kitchen sink" drama. The set is delivered with equal measures of Davidson's wit and sensitivity. In the past, Davidson's work has been compared favourably to that of Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, Ivor Cutler and Pearls Before Swine. "Tunnels" features some new material, re-workings of traditional pieces and some old Kitchen Cynic favourites. "Tunnels" comes housed in black digipacks with inserts and modern landscape artist Eilidh Crumlish's "Aberdeen Pink" painting on the front cover, and is limited to 94 copies.(barl fire)
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the north sea – underneath the jesus tree – barl fire – cdr –11$ sold out
Recorded in the summer and autumn of 2004 in various locations around Tulsa, Oklahoma, "Underneath The Jesus Tree" is the latest addition to a prolific string of CDR releases from Digitalis Industries main-man Brad Rose's solo improvisational psych-folk project The North Sea. Drawing from an arsenal of bouzouki, guitar, melodica, maracas, sleigh bells, violin, bongos, oud, tin flute, recorder, piano, kalimba, wine glasses, glockenspiel, bowed guitar and field recordings, Rose holds court to the woodland dawn chorus and channels nature's mystic forces through the leaves and feathers of his botanic and avian subjects. Johann Wlight contributes a recording of North Sea waves crashing on Dunwich Beach, featured on the track "High Tide". The album is limited to 200 copies, packaged in white digipacks featuring stunning cover-art by George Parsons of Dream Magazine, contains a full colour insert,
james reid - like a buzzard chasing crows - barl fire - cdr - 11$ sold out
Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows" is the debut album from the Fife based singer-songwriter James Reid. With a love for the Autumnal pastoralia of Nick Drake, forays into the woods, homemade wine, and the legendary Wickerman soundtrack, Reid combines these passions to deliver his own lo-fi folk sketches of the beautiful, and sometimes strange, rural landscapes and hedgerow habitats of his native Scotland. Armed with acoustic guitar, mandolin, a broken-down dictaphone, some demijohns and blessed with a golden larynx, Reid weaves melodies and atmospheres that draw favourable comparison to contempories like Greg Weeks and classics such as Drake's "Pink Moon" and David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name". "Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows" features cover-art by Reid himself, is packaged in jewel cases and limited to 200 copies.
taiga remains – obelia –barl fire - cdr -11$ sold out
Alex Cobb's Taiga Remains returns with "Obelia", two long pieces and one short that juxtapose the warm drift of a harmonic-laden minimal acoustic blues raga with dense droning machine noise.
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