these are powers - silver lung / funeral xylophone / crows of troy - elsie and jack – 7" –-6$
na barie (knife skills, fxxxing lion)
ted mcgrath (fmold, foods)
pat noecker (n0 things, liars)
these are powers =
ghost-punk
ghost-punk = ghost punk
our world < war < our spirtual world
-eandj
birchville cat motel - summers seething pulse - elsie and jack – cd –- 10$
"I can hear things.
"Late at night, if not sufficiently drained from the day, I hear things. Walking to work I hear them too. Increasingly I find that in the fragments of existence that aren't filled to capacity resides a sound, a noise, or perhaps a sensation, and if you can tune out the myriad of competing frequencies, you'll hear it too.
"To describe this sound is a fearsome task indeed. It can rattle like a dish-rack before an approaching earthquake, it buzzes similar to your annoying refridgerator, and sometimes it's the frail squeals of amplifier-damaged ears. But inevitably, its lithe form shifts and avoids apprehension leaving me with a heart-bursting sense of having not quite grasped something of great interest."
>> campbell kneale >> birchville cat motel
tabata - la vie electrique: last exit to brainsville - elsie and jack – cd –-10$
the second solo cd from tabata mitsuru / founding member of the Boredoms, guitarist in Zeni Geva and now bassist/vocalist in Acid Mothers Temple among others
Tabata has once again sprinkled his own brand of moondust all over these recordings. Heavily influenced by memories of Ultraman, this is a trip inside the speeding mind of a 70’s child.
Not that this is an exercise in charming nostalgia! Tabata strikes a delicate balance between instrumental technique + raw sound manipulation to exorcise the sounds of his past.
-eandj
tabata - brainsville - elsie and jack – cd –-10$
Emerging from the darkness of Zeni Geva comes Brainsville - the first solo full-length exploration in both new and traditional sounds by Mitsuru Tabata.
Expressive otherworldly blues that will appeal to the right side of the brain and fans of Loren Mazzacane.This expansive music will defy all expectations. Monumental abstract rural eastern psych.An exotic transmission - graceful, shimmering, like the birth of a million suns.
-eandj
various - elsie and jack – 2xcd – 14$
aube | brume | coeurl | disco operating system | drekka | flutter | fm synthesis | hood | brian lavelle | monera | merzbow | outerdrive | pefkin [ex-electroscope] | persona | phosphene [ex-electroscope] | princess dragonmom | the remote viewer | sirconical | steward | supermassive | totemplow | v/vm | vir | volcano the bear | wheaton research [brent gutzeit]
REWRITING THE BOOK a double cd monster that contains many genre defining moments within its 154 minute, 28 track lifespan. 2 years in the making, it encompasses an eclectic array of artists from around the world, all contributing recordings exclusively made for this release.
for the previous elsie and jack release, PAGES FROM THE BOOK, akifumi nakajima (aube) created 61 sounds, ranging from 10 second loops to 4 minute drones, using a copy of the King James bible. these source sounds, in conjunction with the original concept, were open to so many different interpretations that they were then sent to a number of artists to create their own music. some of the artists used nothing but the source sounds; some in a very minimal way, some in a more complex manner. others used the sounds as a starting point to build their own music around, so that the samples become an integral part of their own particular vision. A few drekka, hood and volcano the bear - introduce a more obvious if unconventional song structure to the proceedings.the differing approaches create an eclectic sound, bound cohesively into a whole by the continuing theme of the pages from the book
-eandj