mountainhood - death pod - blackest rainbow –lp -20$
Brand new one sided LP from Michael Curtis Hilde following his recent LPs on Time Lag's Red Records sub division, as well as a string of ultra limited self released CDRs and releases for Yod and Reverb Worship. This is a far gone trip, thats totally out there and very hard to pin down, the closest categorization for this beast would be folk, but its like some total mutated, distorted lurker mirror image. Wild psychedelic strings and heavy bedroom vibes run throughout this delicate beauty. Limited to 300 in pro-printed black and white wraparound sleeve featuring amazing artwork by Michael.
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aritomo - fearful sunshine filtering through foliages - blackest rainbow –lp -18$
"Reissue of this hard to find debut from Japanese musician and artist Aritomo. This was recorded between 2003 and 2004. This was previously self-released on his own Hakanairo label back in 2005 in an edition of only 200 copies. Superb psychedelic folk with drifting acoustic and electric guitars layered with percussion, bamboo flute, bass, field recordings and Aritomo's beautifully fragile vocals. Another chance to get a hold of this hard to find gem on wax, probably not for too long! Limited to 300 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with colour labels. Pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands."
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cairo gang - twyxt wyrd - blackest rainbow –lp -18$
This was actually the first ever LP I asked someone to do for Blackest Rainbow, way back in early 2007... The Cairo Gang previously had a CD released several years ago on Narnack Records, and the main man behind The Cairo Gang, Emmett Kelly, came over and toured with John Dwyer's OCS (now currently known as Thee Oh Sees), which was actually the first ever show I put on... After meeting Emmett back then he made several reappearances in the UK playing guitar for Beth Orton and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. This new record was recorded back in 2007, and in some ways is a slight departure for the roster on Blackest Rainbow. The record features 8 proper songs of loose relaxed Chicago style songs, if you're into the trademark sounds of labels like of Thrill Jockey you'll definitely dig this. The line-up for the release is also pretty damn sweet, featuring Rob Lowe (Lichens, 90 Day Men), Ben Vida and Joshua Abrams (both of Town & Country, Vida also performs solo as Bird Show). Limited to only 300 copies, with paste in covers and insert.
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cam deas - blind chance - blackest rainbow –lp -18$
Fantastic new LP from Cam Deas, which was issued in a tiny run CDR for his recent euro tour with Jack Allett earlier this year. This is a slightly different release from the previous LP and split LP with Spoono, essentially this one long improvised acoustic freak-out. Loose frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger shredding plucking. This still retains Cam's signature traditional playing somehow, especially the more intense heavier moments. A solid recording. Limited to 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with photography by Cam and printed labels. Pressed at the superb Record Industry in the Netherlands.
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guanaco - sky burials - blackest rainbow –lp -18$
Debut LP from England's Lex Panayi who also plays in Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan, this however is his solo project, which focuses on psychedelic acid drenched folk and dark grey area drones for a monolith landscape. The whole records blends beautifully together to create an excellent album from a relatively unknown artist. This is one fine example of current underground UK music which I'm really pleased to be releasing. This is a must for fans of early Six Organs of Admittance, Cam Deas, Voice of the Seven Woods and such... Paste on cover and insert, edition of only 300.
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isengrind - modlitewnik - blackest rainbow –lp -22$
"Debut vinyl release from Natural Snow Buildings' Solange Gularte's solo project, Isengrind. Modlitewnik continues Solange's fantastically far-out occult psych-folk-drone trip outs, 12 tracks across the length of this LP, considerably shorter pieces in comparison to her work with Mehdi in Natural Snow Buildings, Isengrind retains a certain amount of the sound of the duo, but it is a whole other beast, in many ways much stranger and darker, but still hauntingly beautiful with some fantastic blissed-out vocal drones, dreamy guitars, and psyche soaked dark drone zones. Heavyweight vinyl, housed in a pro-printed full colour fold over sleeve with all 4 panels featuring stunning artwork by Solange, the inside of the cover is especially spectacular. One time pressing of 640 copies."
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mv & ee - live road - blackest rainbow –lp -18$
Collection of very recent live excursions with MV & EE, all high quality recordings from shows in November 2009. The A side opens with a MV/EE duo perfromance of 'Mine All Troubled Blues' from Art Damage Lodge, Cinncinnatti, OH on 20/11/09. This heads straight into two interprations of 'Environments', one from Project Lodge, Madison, WI which again is just raw MV/EE action, but the second features an enhanced line up with Muskox and Doc Dunn. The two versions are blurred together into one log blazing 11 minute space jam. The flip side opens with the classic blues soaked 'Tea Devil' with Erika's laid back vocals backed with MV's rippling guitar shreds, Rongoose's (Ron Schneidermann of Sunburned/Spirit of Orr/Pewt'r) heavy bass bliss outs, and Chris Corsano's showcasing a slow moving stoned out drum kit. Straight from hear we head into a completely trance inducing psychedelic haze of wild jamming with a totally different version of 'Environments'. The whole of the Bside was recorded with Chris and Ron at Bank Row, Greenfield, MA. Edition of 400 pressed on heavyweight vinyl with hand stamped labels in black and white pro printed wrap around jackets with cover art by Jeremy Earl of Woods/Woodsist Records.
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tom carter, shawn mcmillen & starving weirdos - blackest rainbow –lp -18$
Crazy 3-way collaboration from some of America's best underground musicians... Charalambides Tom Carter is joined by Shawn McMillen, sometimes member of Warmer Milks and Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, with he added power of Starving Weirdos. This two tracked collaboration has been around since 2007 and it landed in my mailbox a few months back, and man, its a real beauty. Side A is a total hypnotic slice of ravaged drone, the four musicians seamlessly blend their own styles of underground bliss outs to sheer perfection. Side B opens with a crazy loop of applause, waving back and forth with a growing repetative plug-in to new opening it up to create new levels of total sonic weirdness. Slow shimmering black chasms engulf the positivity until its awash with lo-fi scrapes and buzzing electrical nightmare. The loop eventually drops back in with total far gone chimes, jingling away at acid burnt psychedelic keys and a thundering bass loop. A totally bizarre jam, which just opens more potential ventures up for these artists, hopefully we'll see more from this collaborative team soon... Limited to 400 in pro-printed wraparound sleeves.
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sylvester anfang II- commune cassetten - blackest rainbow –lp -18$
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A new slab of wax of tranced out psychotic psychedelic-ness from the occult loving Belgium based clan. This new incarnation being SYLVESTER ANFANG II (as opposed to Silvester Anfang) reached a new level of sheer awesomeness last year with the incredible double LP on Aurora Borealis, on Commume Cassetten they continue their bizarre trip into the darker - but somehow super psychedelic - realm of the occult obsessed mind. There's a real fucked up krautrock boogie vibe throughout but retaining some of the doomed funeral folk qualities of the original Anfang guise, as well as some loose as hell, total stoned out ritualistic baked grooves. The LP comes housed in a techni-colour collaged artwork with a black and white image of a lady, which we can presume is a witch, with a dagger and chalice... a sleeve that really sums up the music enclosed. The sleeves are pro-printed and wrap around the deep black wax which has some sweet full colour labels. This is one hell of a 40 minute trip...
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cam deas - my guitar is alive and it's singing - blackest rainbow –lp - 15$
I am very pleased to be releasing the debut LP from Sheffield-London-Brighton guitar master, Cam Deas. This follows his two long sold out CDRs on Blackest Rainbow, and proves once again that he is off the chain! OK, so there's always gonna be the immediate comparison to James Blackshaw, but the sound is different, more aggressive almost and raw... this guitar playing has an edge, its deep and its powerful. The LP consists of three tracks, the A side is an epic almost 20 minute piece entitled 'The Waters Of Kvaloya' recorded by Ben Nash. The B sides and albums title track begins with almost a minute of near silence distant drone, that develops with stomach wrenching string twangs. The closing piece is 'As Spring Fell From The Leaves', which was originally issued on 'For The Silver Waters, Sing!' CDR last year on BR, but has been considered by people who've bought his releases and seen Cam live as possibly one of the best things he has composed, total genius, with a real blissful, but eventually dark, vibe. This track definitely deserved to be put on wax. Mastered by Ben Nash. Limited to 300 copies.
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cursillistas / love cult - split - blackest rainbow – cass - 8$
Brand new split cassette from Portland, Maine based Cursillistas, who recently had superb LPs on Time-Lag and Digitalis, and Love Cult from Petrozavodsk, Russia. First up is Cursillistas' epic 23 minute 'Great Salt Desert', a superb weirded out blues drenched, desert dried, psychedelic mirage. A real fine side summing up how awesome Cursillistas are, if you haven't checked them yet, don't miss this side! The b side opens with Love Cult's 'Breadcrumb Pony Tail', a swirling blissful distortion dripping psyche dream, a really beautiful 11 minute wonder. This is followed by 'Somn' a more crushing electrifying piece with tinkering and rattling from unrecognizable objects, distorted feedback blurts and what sounds like then objects trying to communicate. Limited to 100 copies with parchment paper (either gold or ivory) cover with black and white print.
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basillica - rotting desert queen and black isolator strip - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
Second CDR from Mike Vest's (BONG) solo project of hazy lo-fi ritualistic temple drone for smoked out fried brains. One long beast of a track at over 35 minutes. Limited to 100. Pro-manufactured CDRs with on disc print.
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mark bradley - eternal - blackest rainbow – cdr - 9$
New CDR from this American experimentalist who's had previous releases on Reverb Worship and Basses Frequences. Six tracks across only 19 minutes, totally far out dream tone keys blending into one another pushing you into an almost nightmarish state of mind. Eternal could almost work as a 70s Italian horror soundtrack with its minimal blurred humming almost reminiscent of some kind of devil organ. Limited to 100 copies. Pro-manufactured CDRs with on disc print.-br
natural snow buildings - shadow kingdoms - blackest rainbow -2xcd – 17$
twinsistermoon - the hollow mountain - blackest rainbow – cd -14$
"Twinsistermoon is the solo project of Mehdi Ameziane of Natural Snow Buildings. The Hollow Mountain was originally issued by Dull Knife Records in 2009 as an LP limited to only 105 copies -- unsurprisingly it sold out in a matter of hours. Widely regarded by many Natural Snow Buildings fans as one of the best releases from their camp, this reissue has been remastered by Ben Nash, includes new artwork, and brand new unreleased material. The album has a beautiful earthy lo-fi feeling throughout which perfectly compliments its short and sweet folk songs, and occasional wanderings into psychedelic drone ambience. This is an album that really is totally beautiful and probably one of my favorites from Mehdi. The CD is packaged in a square artwork booklet and a pro-printed card wallet showcasing the superb original artwork from the LP sleeve. Limited to 1000 copies."
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vakhchav - birth to a point it comes - blackest rainbow – cdr - 9$
New release from New York based Nickolas Mohanna, following some fine releases on Abandon Ship and Super Minerals/Magic Lantern's Phil French consistently excellent Stunned Records imprint. Mohanna creates Vakhchav through a hazed blur of synth, guitar, electronics and computer, giving this, his first non-US label release, a real nice ambient quality throughout. 'Sequels' opens the disc with a star-gaze wavering drone, washing in from multiple directions for full immersed bliss. 'Line In Motion' has a deep bass working your brain from the distance with a purely electric droning riff fading in from some unknown source. 'Passage' is brief with barely audible voices being subjected to pure static destruction, before heading into 'Of a Curvature', which returns to the blissed out multi drones of the opening track. This fine disc finished on 'The Take (at Dusk)' which is a 7 minute piece which somehow seems to blur all the elements of Birth To A Point's frenzied dizzying bursts and the euphoric dream like moments.-br
spill - where you aren't - blackest rainbow – cdr - 9$
robert horton and sindre bjerga - can't go fast enough to get there early - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
Wild and eclectic mail collaborations from one of America's most recently on fire jammers Robert Horton, and Norway's drone master Sindre Bjerga. Both have incredibly solid resumes of collaborations and releases, what with Sindre's ongoing collaboration with Jan Iversen, and Robert's collaborations with Tom Carter and the Mudsuckers crew of Pete and Gabe (of Yellow Swans), which also includes Carter. 'Can't Go Faster Enough to Get There Early' features a massive range of instruments and sounds, from multiple instrument based layered drone to down right weirdness, and total outsider vibes. Also features Hal Hughes, Lisa Graves and Jan Iversen. Glass mastered CDs (not CDR!), limited to 500 in white digipaks with stickered covers and a small 4 page insert of liner notes.
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gorman - the railroad earth - blackest rainbow – cass -8$
J-Bone of Cabin Floor Esoterica busts some serious stark and dark, slow moving drones, that gives the feeling that you're about to reach some kinda of joy, but the creeps just keep creeping in, and the lightness continues to move into darkness. Limited to 60.
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pewtr - whichever was - blackest rainbow – cass - 8$
Pretty psyched to be releasing this beauty from long time friend of mine Ron Schneiderman, I think Ron was the first person I ever bought stuff from for the Blackest Rainbow distro years back in Nottingham... Ron is the man behind Spirit of Orr, as well as being a member of Sunburned Hand of the Man... busy guy to say the least! Here you have some awesome solo outing of post Loren Connors / Sandy Bull styling, with a blend of pure outsider blues, americana and psychedelia. Limited to 100 copies.-blackest rainbow
electric omen - abandon all hope - blackest rainbow – cass -8$
Electric Omen is possibly some of my favorite work of Sindre Bjerga, rumbling darkness, like an earthquake at night, this is unexpected and terrifying. Bleak black and white covers. Limited to 60.
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spoils and relics - alabaster silk - blackest rainbow – cass -8$
Spoils and Relics 'Alabastor Silk' is a threes up (Kieron Piercy, Gary Myles and Johnny Scarr [occasional Fossil member]) improvisation on found objects, tapes and electronics - recorded in in a red lit Leeds basement, and then pieced together in Mantile studio, Nottingham. This release focuses on a reinvention of found artifacts, applied as tools to further explorations of prehistoric futures present. Limited to 60 copies.
'Alabaster silt - The reinvention of found artifacts are pieced together to form tools which enable a dig to the earth's inner crust to
further explorations into prehistoric future. below the cavernous murk dwell bubbling furuncle
streams in which manged carniverous matter bathe. Above the swelling, many mechanical wings gather creaking as they swoop in on the feeding, picking off the sores and gliding into the fog leaving only lose screws behind.. evidence is gathered and filtered through the silt parts of the beak are recovered strange resin is collected from the wreckage..
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mechanical children - i rise to cover all - blackest rainbow –lp -17$
Debut vinyl release from this new duo that makes up two thirds of Jazzfinger (Ben Jones and Sarah Sullivan). Based around the idea of used broken keyboards, Ben and Sarah make some totally fucked and pretty heavy noise jams, there's some searing moments in this beast, particularly across the two part 'Burning of the Light Fields' which spans all side A, and most of side B... the closer is 'Planatary Wasp', which pretty much would be what Jeff Goldblum would have sounded like if he'd turned into some kind of rancid badass wasp instead of that pussy fly! Turn it up and get ready for your neighbors to come knocking with an ASBO for ya. Limited to 300.
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aidan baker - thoughtspan - blackest rainbow –lp -17$
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.
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various - menagerie compilation cd - blackest rainbow / menagerie – cd - 12$
Compilation complied by my brother Jake that collects a bunch of new tracks fromWinter Drones (members of Hush Arbors),
Cam Deas
Ben Nash,
Rivulets,
Skygreen Leopards,
Jerusalem & the Starbaskets
Spoono
live tracks from
Hush Arbors,
MV+EE with The Golden Road
Beequeen
.Limited to 500, cream card sleeves with baby blue print, and REAL CDs!
Follow-up to last years CDR on Stunned and cassette on DNT from Dewey of Eternal Tapestry/Jackie-O Motherfucker/Bloodbiker... Opening with some very nice guitar layered with relaxed vocal bursts, the following tracks have a super nice guitar vibe to them. 'In the Realm of Magic and Death' has a more distorted dark aspect to it with an almost tribal ritual drum layering. The disc climaxes with an almighty piece entitled 'Transfiguration of Infinite Nature', wailing guitars, pounding drums, droning vocals... Expect more from the Wat on BR later in the year! Limited to 200. Pro duplicated with on disc print.
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Massively epic new release from this American duo of stark echoing multi-instrumental drone, layers of charcoal to black emptiness that has gathered pretty solid sound throughout the releases they've unleashed last year, this is bleak, not harsh, just dark, and unrelenting for it's immense near 80 minute duration... Fans of Sunn O))), Robedoor, and occult ritual nightmares will zone into this. Limited to 150. Pro duplicated with on disc print.
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Long time coming release from this Towering Breaker offshoot. Like some total weirdo bluesy jams - in the most loose possible. Most recently these guys were seen on the incredible 4x3" CDR set on Psykick Dancehall, and also a split LP last year on Upset The Rhythm. Limited to 100 with colour sleeve by the band. Limited to 100. Pro duplicated with on disc print.
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sasqrotch - slipping the reaper tongue - blackest rainbow –cdr -8$
This one has been on the cards for a long time, and after over a year of waiting the master dropped through my mail box. These dudes have had releases on BR label buddies Not Not Fun and DNT, and this is a steady paced doom tinged rock out beast, there's no joy found here. Two tracks, one studio, and a nasty live piece recorded at LA's Echo Curio, lined with sax blurts, guitar shreds, psychedelic swirls, and smouldering drums. Limited to 75 copies in bleak black envelopes with paste on japanese art paper and packaged with a skeletal leave and a hand numbered insert.
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vampire blues - turkish petroleum company - blackest rainbow – cass -8$
Swirling drones smothered in pure electric guitar anthems from two Jon's, one being Jon of The Hunter Gracchus / Singing Knives, and the other being Jon from Serfs. This is their debut release and is a real beauty, psyched out blues for a dark back room in hut out in the woods. Limited 100 hand numbered copies.
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eyeballs / gareth hardwick - blackest rainbow – cass -8$
Gareth Hardwick's steady stream of quality releases is gathering to be one of the UK's best current minimal drone catalogues around... here he gives us a 3 part trip of pure slow motions... Flip the tape and you have Richard Dawson's Eyeballs project, whose debut on Blackest Rainbow caused a stir with the few people who managed to lay their hands on it. Here Dawson's side is bleaker and darker than expected, gives me the full on feel of the Twin Peaks woods... feels like the vast emptiness of that claustrophobic wooded area. Low and lulling. Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 150 copies.
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spoils and relics with johnny scarr - pack horse overview - blackest rainbow – cass - 8$
New release from these Nottingham based dudes, Scarr is an occasional member of Fossils, and has also collaborated with Luke Younger of Birds of Delay/Helm. This newbie is a minimal electronics weirdo... Like some kinda insane prehistoric midnight insect war... churning bleeps, scratching, fuzzed drenched buzzes.... Sleeve by Patrick Milsom, hand numbered edition of 60.-br
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beach fuzz - hole of hellos - blackest rainbow – one sided cass - 8$
Manchester has some crazy scene going on, so many bands/artists keep coming out of there its insane... so here's a nearly 20 minute document from one of these bands, Beach Fuzz. This trio features members of Stuckometer, Axis Mundi, EYEHAI, and Manccc's Golden Lab Records head honcho himself, Nick Mitchell. Wild shit goes on here, kinda space drone rock or something. Double sided artwork, for a one sided tape... first time we jammed that, looks real sweet though. Limited to 64 copies.-br
ryan jewell - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
New - very short - piece from this Ohio based percussionist experimentalist whose collabed with a buncha folks recently (C.Spencer Yeh, Fossils...). One extremely minimal piece of drone using a snare, totally acoustic with an insane ending... n Ryans words 'it's all acoustic. Supersonic acoustic sine waves interfering with one another making audible sweeps, etc. It's all just a floor tom. Secret fuckin' ninja jedi mind moves and shit'... Edition of 80 in gold sprayed and stickered sleeves of painted and stamped sleeves, everyone individual in either marron, black or white papers...
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spoono - the divers private revelations of - blackest rainbow – cdr - 9$
Solo guitar tunes from Jack of Towering Breaker, which sound has really developed vastly since I heard material back in 2006. Smooth, and very well produced indeed, blew me away when I first sat and listened to it... some serious fast finger picking goes on here. People who dug last months Cam Deas 'Silver Waters' CDR will probably dig this... Black and white sleeves with artwork by Paul Sammut. Limited to 130 copies.-br
claudio two - the corpse - blackest rainbow – one sided cass -8$
New band featuring Chazz Improv and Norma Bates (aka James and Jessica Toth aka Wooden Wand and Satya Sai), and Max "Mev" Wicker, so far this little crew has just had two jams out on Toth's own Mad Monk label... Here you got two tracks of weirdo psyche drone blues, compared by James to some of the Hassara jams, pretty damn slick, I played this in my local record and book store and they compared it to the an old skool German loner, although the name slips my mind. Limited to 100 hand numbered copies with black printed pastel paper sleeves.
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stefan kushima - don't touch the walls - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
Kushima is a nearly 23 year old experimental visual and audio artist from Linz, Austria. On his debut release for Blackest Rainbow he creates minimal bliss wavering drones with minimal metallic vibes and fuzzed glows washing in and out. Sounds like Stefan was making these sounds somewhere in space or deep in the ocean and somehow it got recorded far away from the actual source. Its a real blissful nice gem from yet another unknown artist out there in the ether. Comes in classic BR sleeve designed by Stefan.
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quttinirpaaq - dragged throught the streets - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
Quttinirpaaq is multi instrumentalist Texan Matt Turner, and Dragged Through The Streets sounds to me like what last years weak ass Transformers movie should have looked like... Doom ridden feedback and thundering percussion, weirdo electronics with walls of harsh feedback, screech and squelch lined crust invested sludge, bleak tribal drums with repetetive piano and metallic feedback shuffles, all across 6 tracks. Further releases will soon be seen on Ruralfaune, Reverb Worship, Epicene ESR and more!
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slow listener - i'm not afriad of the dark; i'm afraid of what it conceals - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
New 3 track bass shuffling feedback drone from this Brighton home slice... Ultra zoned out feedbacked layers, taking you on a visit to meet all those weirdo Twilight Zone creeps from both the original series and the 80s series (not the 2002 whack revamp with credit music by some dude from Korn - actually true). I noticed whilst listening to this that it's pretty loud on my system at 5 and the loudest my stereo goes to is 40, pretty nuts... I'd hit up 40, but I gotta be careful cos of the old guy next door is cool and he lends me screwdrivers, do wanna lose that hook up. Anyways, this is a mindblowing - kinda almost minimal but kinda 'full' at the same time - trip. You ain't heard feedback til your heard this. Limited to 50 copies in hand inked sleeves with stamped credits, each sleeve is entirely individual.
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divine coils - coadjutor - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
Brand new CDR from UK duo of Joe and Harry. Far out scratchy textural sounds that lie somewhere between Usurper and Jazzfinger perhaps... real nice, real minimal, with classy and sassy traditional BR style double fold sleeve. Limited to 50 copies.
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terrestrial - wrapped in a shawl - blackest rainbow – one sided cass -8$
This dual guitar quartet from Sacramento have their debut release out in the UK, pretty transatlantic hey?! Cymbal rumbling clatters, reverbing off dual guitar spazz, and crazy gnome vocals... real wild. You can feeeeel these dudes just playing right off of each other to create this insane fucked up version of something like Raccoo-oo-oon, Night Wounds, Liars, Black Dice and Animal Collective... pissed off kids are back and playing some of the best shit around right now! Edition of 40 copies, pink tapes, 30 minutes of tribal jive.
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forest creature / ryan garbes and gerre hancock - blackest rainbow – cass -8$
Forest Creature are an insane duo that emerged out of the brief Blackout Band sessions. Duo of Ben (former BR store employee) and Richard. Total nutso weirdo noise shit, dumb electronics and self taught drums clatters... thrown in some scrapes, fights and pure dense noise with the odd barely recognizable vocal and you got Forest Creature... one flowing blurted nightmare. Ryan Garbes is the drummer from Iowa's Raccoo-oo-oon, and on this release he is joined by organist Gerre Hancock. Inititially the opening to this sounds like your in the big top surrouned by some chirpy clowns, elephants hand standing on balls, and dudes in big hats taming tigers... But then the psychedelia hits in, and man is it a trip! Far out smoky drones with elephants getting high - Dumbo style. Clowns becoming some kinda Nosferatu blood suckers - Tom Cruise Interview with a Vampire style. Grooving stoned lions dancing reeaaaallll slow, kicking the tamers asses whilst giggling away. one hell of a far out experience. Cassette = 70 copies.
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ian w - oslo solo - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
Ian W is Ian Wadley. He was in an Austrailian band that came over here and played shows a few years ago, total gutter garage rock. Here Ian perfroms in Oslo solo, hence the title, improvisational guitar, bluesy and bleaky soundtrack music, this reminds me of a ton of stuff, even Haino, at his most pluckery. Limited to 60 copies.
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fossils - scarface - blackest rainbow -cass -8$
Al (David) Payne, (Johnny) Scarr Pacino, and Tony (Scott) Johnson jam it out like true gang starrrz. Recorded in September '07. Strum, hum and squeak... chalk board screech etched with bling bling, guns, drugs, and all things old skool unfuckablewith y'know? Total weirderess. Blue tapes, and fucking weird ass black and white cover star Scarr Pacino, totally murked on da booze in Shotingham... Limited to 50 copies, and dat's dat.
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(vxpxc) - struggling with heavy clouds - blackest rainbow – cdr - 9$
Brand new CDR from the trio of Grant Capes, Justin McInteer and Tim
Goodwillie recorded in LA. Wavering multi instrumental
folk-psyche-drone-blues lulling jams/songs across 4 tracks, total
bliss-heaven-hell-blurgh. Comes in the same lightweight paper as the
WWVV with fold out all over artwork by Darryl Norsen. Limited to 110
handnumbered copies.
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fossils – steel forest – blackest rainbow – cass- 8$
Limited edition of only 50 copies, a brand new slab of squelch and crush from Canada's Fossils. Duel sides of metal scrunching nightmares with fucked up words and speech. Comes with sleeves designed by Pascal of Stuckometer and a handnumbered crubby insert by myself.
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johnny scar - untitled – blackest rainbow – cass- 8$
Johnny is from Nottingham, England and has been making weird noise for all the time i've known him, as well as pretty much single handedly trying to keep the small Nottingham noise scene going with countless shows... This release follows his two recent releases on MJC and collaborative release with Luke Younger of Birds of Delay on Audiobot. A trip into the squelching, droney, scratchy world of Scarr's soggy brain... Comes in case with lame insert by me and amazing eye pulsating sleeve by Pascal of Stuckometer, Cars etc.. Edition of 29 copies
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cooper jones - never dirty - blackest rainbow – cdr - 9$
Third release on our own label. CooperJones is the Manchester based duo of Sophie Cooper and Kelly Jones. Five tracks of experimental folk fight outs and one blast of improvised jam noise featuring Pascal of Stuckometer. Comes in folded printed pastel paper jackets with artwork by Patrick Milsom, limited to 100 hand numbered copies.
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jazzfinger - grief to grind the fire - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
We released this monster to almost instant sell out status back in Jan 08, and here's a second chance for all you 'Finger fans that missed out first time round. 150 copies, same artwork as the original editon but this time printed on ivory parchment paper. Pro duplicated with on disc print. Here's what we originally said about it: 'Most people should know these dudes, noisy drone from Newcastle, they've had releases on Heavy Tapes, Rebis, Gold Soundz, Alt Vinyl, Gareth Hardwicks Low Point, and a load more... It's called 'Grief to Grind the Fire' and has two new tracks totalling in at just under 65 minutes... a real brutal beauty. Bleak black and white sleeves in old school Blackest Rainbow style... 'Legs in the River' is like a swarm of black crows ascending on the earth, causing eternal darkness, and 'Burnt Hole' is like the radio transmission fucked-ness of the aftermath of this crow desolated earth'.
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child bride - reflections on prism city - blackest rainbow – cdr -9$
OK, so I don't support any kids getting married to old dudes, its not cool... but then this is a new recording by THE Child Bride! Spooked vocals, weird clunks, cut up surreal vibes, this one is a real slayer, almost like some kinda fucked up singer songwriter noise styles. The killer gem here has gotta be 'Rabbit Moon', some far out repetitive churns, some how blurring supremely with some thudding rumbling, and then some killer trance drugged vocal, that'll hypnotize your mind man! Limited to 60 copies with pasted art on envelopes.
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