sissy spacek - dash - gilgongo records - lp - 12$
Sissy Spacek is the long running project of JOHN WIESE and CORYDON RONNAU. On DASH,
their second release for Gilgongo following the Fortune b/w The Eyes Of Men 7", they are
joined by Norway's Lasse Marhaug (JAZKAMER) and Will Stangeland (TEARIST, SILVER
DAGGERS). 41 tracks of scathing sound, cautiously partitioned into short bursts of truly
obliterated hardcore, redefining "raw punk", and an even more destructive force than the
already harsh and damaged tone of recent output. "The same vein" in a sense, but ruptured
and bleeding out, heavily.
-gilgongo
racoo-oo-oon - s/t - gilgongo records - 7"- 5$
Released along side their newest full length, "Behold Secret Kingdom", Iowa City's Raccoo-oo-oon's self
titled 7" has three new and exclusive songs, going from dark, erie broken layers of cello, vocals and
percussion (Mud Mound), to the precise, triumphant and uplifting, post-everything feelings of the actual song,
"Behold Secret Kingdom".
-gilgongo
hell-kite - i am your cabin, live in me - gilgongo records - 7" - 5$
Though usually a guitar/vocals style project, featuring heavy / gloomy (but beautiful) songwriting by recent Tempe
transplant Ann Marie Philipp, "I Am Your Cabin..." features drums and vocals-only versions of four songs, conjuring
a Scout Niblett or Young People vibe, very minimal but sedative and uplifting. Features Soft Shoulder / Tent/City skinner,
John Ryan on drums. Keep an eye out for a full length and tons of touring in 2009.
-gilgongo
married in berdichev - s/t - gilgongo records - 7" - 5$
MARRIED IN BERDICHEV is Brittany Gould, and is a vocal-based sound / noise project that spans the terrain between
soft and soothing and jagged and abrasive. Voices and organic sounds are looped and layered over each other,
sometimes providing the back bone of a GROUPER or INCA ORE type piece, but at other times, ricocheting into scathing
movements that tear through speakers and pierce ear drums, simultaneously beautiful and powerful
This two song 7” is MARRIED IN BERDICHEV’s first release outside of several self-released CDrs and an appearance
on the 2008 DEATHBOMB ARC TAPE CLUB (w/ Lucky Dragons, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Hawnay Troof and more), and features
art created by and hand-screened by Brittany herself, is released alongside an October 2008 European tour
with KEVIN SHIELDS, and is limited to 300 copies.
Brittany is a former member of TRANSISTOR RADIO SOUND and has played a huge role in the Denver collective venue /
space RHINOCEROPOLIS and as MARRIED IN BERDICHEV, she has collaborated with other artists such as JANDEK (live),
KEVIN SHEILDS (as a duo called CALDERA LAKES), GLOCHIDS (live) and JAMES FELLA (of TENT/CITY, SOFT SHOULDER).
She has done various album and poster art for artists such as FRENCH QUARTER and FOOT VILLAGE.
-gilgongo
bri white / james fella - split - gilgongo records - 7" - 5$
Split 7" from two busy-bodies from Arizona. BRI WHITE (Flux Conquistador, Foot Ox), who usually creates pretty
piano based singer-songwriter music, offers a six minute piece which is both beautiful and haunting (primarily
using a weird piano / violin hybrid instrument called a pianolin, which is obscure enough to not even have an
article on wikidpedia about it), and falls somewhere between the blurry lines of Spires That in the Sunset Rise and
White Magic. (She is currently up in Portland)! JAMES FELLA (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City) offers layers of clarinet, guitar,
vocal-based sound and noise in a piece that is much more calm and quiet than the majoirty of his usual sound / noise /
splice work. Full color covers enveloping thick blue (w/ splashes of white) vinyl.
-gilgongo
gang wizard - atlas of cancer - gilgongo records - lp- 9$
wasteland jazz unit / tiger hatchery - split - gilgongo records - 7" - 5$ .
Split 7" from two mid-west units with a slew of releases on American Tapes, 905 Tapes,
5nakefork, Nashazphone, Fag Tapes, etc. Wasteland Jazz Unit bring on an onslaught of
overblown reeds / electronics, a wall of scathing noise, while Tiger Hatchery offer a more
traditional serving of dynamic and abrasive free jazz.
woods - ram - gilgongo records - 7" white vinyl - 6$
james fella - salvaged tape - c-salt - cdr - 5$
(collage of recordings found on various personal tapes from 2003-2007, after unpacking from a recent move. one long 21
minute piece: hushed field recordings, layered violin, guitar loops, oscillation destruction, speaker damage and birds).
-gilgongo
little women - teeth - gilgongo records - lp - 10$
“Official BIO”: Brooklyn quartet Little Women formed two years ago to create music that blurs the line between structure
and spontaneity. The group’s sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from classic Chicago free jazz
thru pop music, punk rock, math metal, and harsh noise. Little Women never stop pushing into new sonic territory: splitting
overtones to create ghost notes, violently disassembling their instruments onstage, and attacking written and improvised
material with equal ferocity. During performances band members often experience side-effects more commonly
associated with prescription drugs such as nausea, dizziness, and internal bleeding. Little Women stomp all over
genres, creating some of the most adventurous, in-the-moment, wrenchingly honest music of their generation.
"Teeth" is 20 minute piece, recorded in one long, single take, covering an impressive range of sound, and is an intense
and dynamic presentation of what they are doing as a band. Art work by MICK BARR (Orthrelm, Crom-Tech, Ocrilim, etc).
Also: Members of Little Women have recorded and/or performed with some of the top names in jazz/improvised music such
as: Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Mark Dresser, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Garzone,
Chad Hugo (The Neptunes), Gerry Hemingway, Joe Morris, Matt Wilson, Michael Formanek, Mat Maneri, and Dave Koz.
Members of Little Women also play in bands such as Zs, Extra Life, Cutter, Period, Archaeopteryx.
-gil
foot village - frirndship nation - gilgongo records - lp - 10$
NEW FULL LENGTH LP from Los Angeles "post apocalyptic / electricity free hardcore" band, consisting of four drummers /
vocalists unleashing primal and brutally catchy scream-alongs. Members of destruction jam/van band FRIENDS FOREVER
(Load), free noise unit GANG WIZARD (Load/Ecstatic Peace/Gilgongo) and DEATHBOMB ARC mastermind Brian Miller. CD
version released in Europe on TOME. Alternate decription: "Foot Village is the first nation built after the apocalypse. Foot
Village have a duty to rebuild the world, a new nation out of the ruins of civilization atop the ruins of Hell, after the oceans
have all evaporated. All we know so far is revealed on their first album World Fantasy, a collection of songs about other
countries. Now Foot Village have created their own country and the songs on Friendship Nation, recorded by Jonathan
Snipes of Captain Ahab".
-gilgongo
zs - arms - gilgongo records - lp - 10$
Simultaneously complex and minimal, avant-garde
post-jazz compositionists, ZS new full length "Arms" offers nearly 50 minutes of insane new studio recordings.
"Brooklyn quartet Zs play the real hard, real minimal, real painstakingly worked-out rock etudes that kids with beards
and concentrated stares prick up their ears for. However, the real news is, this stuff actually does rock, though
perhaps not as ragingly as bands to who they're likely to be compared (Orthrelm, Don Caballero, Flying Luttenbachers).
It helps that I first heard Zs live: four guys (drums, guitar, guitar+keyboard, saxophone) seated facing each other,
sheet music and stand-lights illuminating some very focused faces, and playing stuff that pounded a lot more than you
might think given the monkish air of the room". - Dominique Leone / pitchforkmedia.com. Vinyl version of the new full
length studio recording, an initial run of 500 on opaque white.
-gilgongo
french quarter - s/t - gilgongo records - lp + cd - 11$
FRENCH QUARTER is Stephen Steinbrink from Phoenix, AZ. After releasing and selling out of several DIY / handmade
recordings (both done on his own and by labels such as Arbor and C-Salt), this self-titled LP, which comes with a CD
version inside, is his first properly issued recording, and comes highly anticipated by anyone who has seen him on one
of his excursions across various parts of the country. Stephen crafts memorable, vocal based folk songs using a
variety of approaches and methods while maintaining a smooth consistency in sincerity, making these 10 songs an
engaging and moving listen. Though comparable to others from past and present, (Neil Young? Woods? The
Microphones? Karl Blau?) and despite his young age, Stephen is hard at work creating his own set of unique songs
that feel like old friends upon first listen
-gilgongo
stephen steinbrink - ugly unknowns - gilgongo - cd - 7$
STEPHEN STEINBRINK makes his 11 song debut release under his own name after playing and constantly touring as
FRENCH QUARTER for the past several years. His last full length has been a personal favorite and this new one has
shaped up to be the same. Blissful and uplifting survival songs recorded throughout Arizona at various friends' homes.
Urgent, sincere and real.
-gilgongo
shearing pinx - poison hands - gilgongo - cd - 7$
french quarter - its not just kissing - gilgongo records - lp - 10$
"So, the French Quarter got "back together" and made a "follow-up" to the self-titled debut album released by Gilgongo Records in 2008. In the downtime between the 8 national tours French Quarter has embarked on since that time, (and after releasing a "solo" record Ugly Unknowns) Stephen Steinbrink wrote and recorded "It's Not Just Kissing", a collection of 15 new pop songs, culled from several tour-exclusive cd-r's and one VHS tape.
"It's Not Just Kissing" finds Stephen with an even more adept control over the pop form, blending electronic elements and rhythms that dramatically expand on the quiet, nylon-stringed intimacy and melodic freedom that has coupled his most common live performance. Lyrically, this album is a reflection of Steinbrink's life on tour, his life at home, not wanting to die and not wanting to grow up in child-like earnestness. Emotionally sincere, ever-urgent and plaintively sad, this album is released to coincide with a national tour (with a full band backing) with Married In Berdichev! of Denver, CO. Co-released by Gilgongo Records, Life's Blood, and No More Second Chances."
-gilgongo
james fella -post/ coast - gilgongo records - cdr - 5$
Amongst the earliest of TENT/CITY recordings, this disc features almost 80 minutes of sound recorded over several
months of midnight practices / jams at STINKWEEDS RECORDS in Tempe (RIP - though the Phoenix store still is going
strong)! Packaged with the disgusting rug that covered the stage, this release potentially comes with DNA from anyone
from June of 44 to Elliot Smith to Helium, and a lot of hot sauce from afternoon burritos too. Ranging from spaced out
atmospheric clatter to fairly aggressive moments and ending in two extended band pieces, including a number of area
musicians including Aaron Neber and Stephen Steinbrink / French Quarter,... this release covers a ton of improvised
ground for a band still in their early stages. Somewhere in the void between Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice,
the most abstract MV/EE moments and the free-sound works of Marion Brown.
-gilgongo
40+ minutes of slow churning drone, re-digested sax. Coinciding with a new cassette on 905 Tapes and just before a split LP with Timeload Fowl on Gilgongo, housed in "all white" dvd cases / black paint murkiness.
-gilgongo
bri white / james fella - when night comes - c-salt - cass - 6$
4 new guitar songs from Bri, one long noise / guitar layer piece from
James (me), all recorded when I was visiting Bri in Portland a few
weeks ago. On the way home from eating at Paradox, we found a ripped
apart hand-made art zine in SE PDX by Bri's house, we salvages as much
as we could and decided to pay tribute to the discarded labor of love
by collaging the apporpirate pages of the zine (leaving out personal
info, ect). Though we couldn't figure out who had made the zine, in a
perfect world, she'd be someone on this mailing list, would see this
and then get in touch. Short run of 40.
c-salt