la otracina - therisk of gravitation – colour sounds recordings -cdr - 8$
Description: “The Risk Of Gravitation” is the stunning new Summer 08 Tour mini-album by Brooklyn’s LA OTRACINA, who have long wandered and forged sounds in the hidden lands of heavy psychedelia and progressive space music. This 7 track 32+ minute excursion is a major paradigm shift for the group as drummer Adam Kriney is now on vocal duties as well, adding yet another layer of epic intensity to the swirling chaos of Evan Sobel’s Fender Bass VI low-end destruction and new guitarist Philippe Ortanez’s ecstatically angular bliss-out. This disc shifts between tracks of classic LA OTRACINA free-form freakout brilliance and their current vocal-heavy jams, which put the progressive psych back into early heavy metal while exploring realms of dark doom-sludge thunder and the graceful complexity of early Canterbury jazz-rock. Refusing to be quantified, it is clear that LA OTRACINA remain in an orbit of their own, seeking out the cosmic weird and channeling it through hard rock power! First press limited edition of 100 numbered copies.
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la otracina - the silence dimension – colour sounds recordings -cdr - 8$
When their recent "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD came out on Holy Mountain, the boys hit the road and created this limited tour EP to bathe the masses in astral jelly! Three tracks featuring extensive collage work and new music by new bassist Evan Sobel. Source material includes new/unreleased recordings of trio improvisations during the Adam Kriney/Ninni Morgia/Jordon Schranz period as well as some material from earlier out-of-print EPs. A brilliant mix of acid-rock blowout, early electronic Kraut innovations, and lush drones/tones.
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la otracina - the avocado sunbeam tapes – colour sounds recordings -cdr - 8$
owl xounds - teenagers from mars – mad monk / colour sounds recordings - lp - 11$
same lp as issued by mad monk with a little bit different artwork
owl xounds - teenagers from mars – mad monk / colour sounds recordings - lp -11$
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e here at Mad Monk have been fans of Adam Kriney's many projects over the past few years and feel deeply honored to offer the vinyl debut of his long-running fucked-jazz unit Owl Xounds (formerly OWL SOUNDS).
Taking their psychedelic rhyhmic core of drummer Kriney (LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/RUST IONICS/CASTANETS/THE PLACES) and upright bassist Gene Janas (Screamin Jaw Hawkins/Bern Nix's SEDITION ENSEMBLE) to any reedsman up for the challenge, the boys explode it all with Austrian sax-ist Mario Rechtern, who has been invlolved with free-music since the late 60's playing in the REFORM ART UNIT (with Sunny Murray, Linda Sharrock, & Leena Conquest) and more recently as a guest in the Weasel Walter QUARTET/SEXTET/TRIO.
Truly and honorably a post-ESP expression, it is much a post-SST expression. While the instrumentation and framework are a staple of the jazz/improvisaion tradition, the directions and velocities at which OWL
XOUNDS exist are just as informed of the worlds of hardcore/punk and experimental noise.
Citing the MISFITS as the most important band in his musical education, drummer/leader Kriney always felt the connection between the punk he grew up on and the free-jazz he became aware of later in life, the energy, the volume, the commitment, and most importantly the UNDENIABILITY of them both! And similarly the ostracism of the two is not to be ignored, being an outsider, the alienation from popular music, from popular culture, and from everyone around who just 'didn't get it' were also of significance. It is with these considerations that this LP was named, for after all, from Albert Ayler to Thurston Moore to Glenn Danzig to Kawabata Makoto to Peter Brotzmann, 'they' and 'we' are all Teenagers From Mars, and we don't care
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rust ionics - moving / pictures – colour sounds recordings - lp - 8$ sold out
"Moving/Pictures" marks the first vinyl release on Colour Sounds Recordings, and drummer Adam Kriney declares "This is the most insane record I've ever recorded", nuff said? A black sheet of improvised sonic skull-fuckery from the depths of the most mind-splitting free-noise/brutal-jazz movement, brought to you by the ad-hoc first/only recording of RUST IONICS, the trio of freak drummer Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/CASTANETS), electric guitar wizard Doug Theriault (OFFICE PRODUCTS/DUAL, collab-er with Wally Shoup/Jeph Jerman/Brian Eubanks), and extreme sax-ist Ed Chang (DUAL/SPIN-17/AGENTS At MIDNIGHT, collab-er with Marshall Allen/Ravi Padmanabha). Full on grindcore/metal scapes clashed with fiercely extended saxaphone use and a dynamic whirl of free-improvisational magic, all together a blinding force, a drugged memory, and a leave-no-survivors presense. Comes on transparent blue vinyl in a limited edition of 311 copies in a clear picture disc sleeve. Recommended for fans of BORBETOMAGUS, Keiji Haino, PA
owl xounds - stoned and zoned – Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions - 2x3" - 8$ sold out
One of NYC's most aggressive fire-jazz units, Owl Xounds, continues to link ESP'Disk and the Misfits, but here also approaches beautiful noise on two 20+ minute pieces. Mainstays Adam Kriney (drums) and Gene Janas (upright bass) are augmented by Bonnie Kane on amplified flute and sax with electronics. Kane's contributions bring the unit to its most psychedelic paramount, her feedback-sax worshipping at the gates of guitar gods like Les Rallizes Denudes and Blue Cheer, yet affectionately rooted in Ayler. Kriney (La Otracina, Rust Ionics, Castanets) moves the action forward, ravaging without destroying, and Janas (Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bern Nix's Sedition Ensemble) practically rips the strings off his bass, yet both know when to let textures form on their own. Packaged in mini-LP plastic sleeve with insert and spray-painted stencil work by Lars Gotrich. Edition of 99. Released on the Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions label.
la otracina - love love love – colour sounds recordings - 2xcdr -11$ sold out
Devastating and essential collection of psychedelic out-rock soniks from Brooklyn, NY based moon-spirits LA OTRACINA. Piloted by freak-drummer Adam Kriney (OWL SOUNDS/DEAD GIRLS/LUST IONICS/CASTANETS/THE PLACES), LA OTRACINA have been warping the sonic flux since 2003, with several different formations, exploring the depths of sludged-out psychedelic improv and the wizardly science of astral-space-prog. This 2xCD-R covers totally insane unreleased live performances, basement tapes, collage cut-ups, and secret sessions, all blazing forth with a tidal wave of rainbow powers. With well over two hours of blissed-out soundz, this collection shows the array of directions the group has taken over the years, fueled as much by their psychedelic forefathers KING CRIMSON, GURU GURU, FAUST, CAN, FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND, SOFT MACHINE, HELDON, and BLUE CHEER, as by modern composers Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich, and improvising legends such as the early ESP-Disk/BYG Actuel free-jazz artists and AMM & the European schools of free-music. This set comes packaged in completely over-the-top lush and colourful packaging, as much a collectible art piece as a celestially-sweet bang of other-worldly psyched-cosmik-music exploration! Limited edition, every one hand constructed, painted, sewn, art-ed up, etc! For fans of heavy/experimental psychedelia!
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la otracina - dawn haze / early daze – colour sounds recordings - 2xcdr -11$ sold out
A collection of the first 4 out-of-print LA OTRACINA CD-R eps, "Fauna & Animated Floral Arrangements", "Spatial", "Trinomy", and "Aren't It Spectral". Lovingly and neatly repackaged across 2 CD-Rs and all remastered for your aural pleasure. Featuring early line-ups of the group, swirling through various abstract sound worlds, collaged synth workouts, freeform acid jams, free-jazz heavy blow outs, and all sorts of psychedelic gestures and Kraut-inspirations! As essential as "Love Love Love" yet completely different!
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