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anakrid - ceaselessly out of a cloudless sky - black horizons – cass - 7$
The third and final tape for Anakrid on Black Horizons. As per Mr. Bickel's usual unexpected style, expect to be surprised. The a-side is what I would come to expect from this project, an impressively composed piece of deep analogue dark ambiance, while the flip is a bit of a change up, where this project's often latent violent underpinning is fully exposed in a 15 minute piece entitled acidpianoharp, consisting of a harsh acoustic assault on the ears, thousands of tiny sounds strung together to form a swarm. Packaged in the Anakrid for BH tape style, consisting of a color transparency layered on top of various marbled pieces of paper. This time with the addition of a vertical transparent floating OBI, all held in place with rivets. Edition of 100 copies on BLACK hi bias chrome tapes. Silver labels with the Black Horizons color touch.
-black horizons
anaon - an harar hag ar stered - faunasabbatha– 3" cdr -7$
Early recordings by Sorc’henn, Ronan Le Deroff and Pierre Durand. The ancestral trio tells and lives its country, Brittany. With myths and legends from the mists of time, Anaon pulls us to our celtic roots; Recorded at Black Legions studio in age-old times by Wladd & Vorlock Drakkstein (Vlad Tepes).
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angels in america - cunt tree grammar - ecstatic peace - cass -8$
We encountered this tape when it was first issued by the band a year or so ago in a way micro edition. What we could figure out is that it’s two people, Rob Rhombus and Moppy Pont, who bop equally thru the environs of Montreal and NYC. It was definitely one of those out of nowhere experiences where you encounter something with no reference or connection to any of the noise, punk, no wave, junk, skuzz musix you’ve been soaking in and it completely grips yr mind and purrs against yr sweet spot. Weird, sultry, damaged and almost always falling apart with lyrics spun from some poet head zone, Angels In America are a goddamned curiosity. We contacted them and asked to release Cunt Tree Grammar in an easier to grip edition which is what this is.
Monsieur Rhombus elucidates thus: “Bataille and Goosebumps; American Gladiators and Episode I; the Virgin of Guadelupe and Helen Mirren’s nude body. Out of regard for these and other cultural values already achieved, ANGELS IN AMERICA stands not athwart but rather lays down arms peaceable-like and promptly forgets earthliness as earthliness does it. Instead, its CUNT TREE GRAMMER tape grips some of those heavenly-minded proscriptions. B-but wait—Rules, grand formal ones, for imposition on proud freeform? ones rewarding wilful acts of daimonic genre subversion and interdicting some of those tropier impulses? Rationalizations of songy decadence coming alongside nods at creeping entropic noise? Some kind of light out there, vouchsafed from above amidst this darkest of dark? For if, as Alexander Theroux writes, one must love paradox to love life, CUNT TREE GRAMMER’s oozey guitar leak and unintelligible, but rest assured, perverted lyrics find purpose in the disunity.”
If you heat missile towards UT, Magik Markers, Confusion is Sex, Talk Normal, No New York etc you might wanna do yrself a favor and jam this kassette in whatever sound portals you employ. We’ve heard some brand newness from these cats and the tunage is as awesome as we hoped/feared. So stay in touch. #d edition of 100, clear tapes.
-ep
animals + men - never bought never sold: singles + demos 1979-83 - mississippi - lp -11$
"Animals + Men -- named after a song by Adam and the Ants -- started life around the winter of 1978-1979 when Susan Wells took over vocal duties in what was a three piece called Psychotic Reaction. Based in Frome Somerset, their first release Don't Misbehave in the New Age (1980) was an indie hit. When the band split in '81, Susan and Ralph formed the Terraplanes. A & M/Terraplanes released three vinyl 45s. A few years ago, demos by the band surfaced on the Messthetics/Hyped 2 Death label. Recently, the band have reformed and performed the odd gig and are releasing an EP of new songs soon on Convulsive Records. Mississippi Records is proud to be the first to release an entire LP containing the three 45s and early demos, all recorded between 1979-1983. For fans of early UK DIY."
-mississippi
arizona jaguar - 1993-2009 - white circle - cass - 6$sold out
glistening in the sun.
-daren ho, mike pollard, and peter friel-
limited to 48
-white circle
ashtray navigations - johnny fuckoff minotaur (easter exit 2) -memoirs of an aesthete - cdr - 8$ sold out
CD-R....limited to 100 copies
....and a new one from easter 2009. Believe it or not, these are the first 2009 Ashtray Navigations recordings to be released, so there. And this is quite definitely the last in the "painted clamshells" series of CDRs (this time they are mostly yellow, fact fans).
Sort of a response to a review which described Ash Nav as "obviously Heldon-influenced"...news to me, but I decided to Go For It and prove the reviewer right.
But imagine a bunch of early 70s frenchmen playing all of their psychedelic records, all of their Ocora records and all their prog/fusion at once whilst angry drum machines beamed in against their will from an alternate future blast out very mutated hip-hop beats. Apparently Mr. R.Pinhas was an attendee at a Paris Ash Nav gig and is said to have remarked "I thought they only had pop music in England these days". This release may prove him right also.
This is also the first Ashtray release to be almost all digitally recorded....and you'll be surprised how fucked up it sounds - gawd bless technology for giving us so many options. Our most fun-packed CDR for a while.
-m of a
ashtray navigations - dirt mummies and bloody amps - gold soundz – cass – 9$
two stellar sides from Phill Todd & co. Kind of the sister release to the "Blood Mummies and Dirty Amps" LP released a few years back... Intense and headstrong guitar/synth drones that gets you "there" pretty quickly, and believe me, you want to stay "there"... Black C-30 tapes in double-sided wraparound A4 paper cover.
First edition of 50.
-gs
ashtray navigations - caeduceus and black sal -memoirs of an aesthete - lp - 14$
The latest in Ashtray Navigations' ongoing vinylization of our out-of-print CDR catalogue has this amped-up mindbender from 2007... yes, the one with the cute little doggies on the cover. Except now they're on the label and the vinyl is pink. And there is no cover, just a PVC bag so it matches the Red Culture reissue.
One side featuring a thick dinner of swirling tambouras, electric sitars and synths blasting out of tiny battery amp speakers wrapped in buzzing tinfoil (a description of the methodology here and not just the sound!). One side of clubfooted samba rhythms and twin guitar sustain overload which offers a key as to why Ashtray Navigations' set at Thurston's ATP a few years ago was roundly condemned as "Santana" in certain circles. Ashtray at its heaviest and most monolithic, though those words are often apply, I guess.
-memoirs
bee mask-colony collapse - tusco/embassy - cass - 7$
chris madak has been away from cleveland for a long time now it seems and thinking back to the first time i saw him perform seems like it was in a different lifetime.... nonetheless i have never been disappointed by any of bee masks' work... chris has an enthusiasm and fresh approach to sound that i feel transcends any comparisons between him and his contemporaries. no idea what he used to generate the amazing spaced out sound on this tape. but wow!!!!!!!! such an amazing chunk of electronic music by the first dude that ever inspired me release music by people other than myself ,, haha... essential shit
-tt
bee mask - folie à plusieurs - temple of pei - cass - 6$
bee mask - frozen versioning (hyperborean return) - trilogy tapes - cass - 10$
Cassette, limited to 50 copies
sir richard bishop - the freak of araby - drag city - lp - 15$
"Another album of acoustic guitar music from Sir Richard Bishop-- are you 'freakin' nuts? The Freak Of Araby is a new direction for our distinguished gentleman, and just in the nick of time as well. Sir Rick's had it up to here with solo acoustic guitar records! The Freak Of Araby isn't even a solo record! And there's no acoustic guitar on it! So let's have no more of this kind of talk. Over his years with Sun City Girls, Richard Bishop threw a wide variety of music and sound against the wall -- and all of it stuck. Among those who know, he's reasonably fluent in any number of international music traditions, playing them for (mostly) fun and (sometimes) profit all over the place. The Freak Of Araby is the debut of Sir Richard Bishop and his Freak of Araby Ensemble, a talented quartet of players getting deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it captured with depth, detail and sympathy for the eternal enigma by engineer Scott Colburn. But a Sir Richard Bishop album with a backing band -- how did this happen? After recording a cover of 'Ka'an Azzaman,' written by Elias Rahbani, one of Lebanon's finest songwriters, something dawned on Sir Richard. Half-Lebanese by birth (it didn't just occur to him later), he found himself suddenly possessed to really dig into Middle Eastern sounds. A pair of original melodies not fully developed at a prior recording session had the Arabic inspiration, so these were reattacked and finished in short order. Soon, Sir Richard's head was flooded with some of the classic sounds spun for him by his grandfather back in his (way) younger days, like Farid Al-Atrache, Oum Kalthoum and Fairuz, along with other personal favorites, such as the guitarists Omar Khorshid and Mike Hegazi. In addition to the studio improvisation, 'Taqasim For Omar,' the whole of The Freak Of Araby is dedicated to these inspiring players. Check 'em out. In addition to his soul-stirring electric guitar playing, Sir Richard grabbed a couple of Moroccan chanters and blew the house down on 'Blood-Stained Sands,' providing an epic (not to mention epochal, heh heh) finish to this journey to the center of one-half of the family tree. This is music meant to be played live, and Sir Richard's Freak Of Araby Ensemble intends to play it everywhere there's interest in hearing it. So get your Freak on."
-drag city
the blithe sone - the great orthochromatic wheel - family vineyard - lp - 15$
"The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons' first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly they've remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine nature's melodic pull and minimalist song forms summoned by a miniature backyard orchestra of acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonium, drums, and a whispering sea breeze. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside; one organic slow-motion folk and the other a thick honeycomb drone. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version
-fv
blue sabbath black cheer / dried up corpse - split - gnarled forest – 10" - 11$
Originally released as a c16 on What We Do Is Secret in an edition of 50 copies. Two bleak and desolate trips to despairsville are what await you here, BSBC take a more minimulist approach to horror than the usual roar, sure to make you a bit uneasy as your led into the fog. DUC ride a slow drone of death into the winds of the end. Comes housed in a screen printed jacket, front and back, with a double sided insert.
-gf
dead machines / blue sabbath black cheer - gnarled forest – cass - 6$
Dead Machines, live at the 2006 Wooden Octopus Skull Experimental Musick pFestival in Seattle Wa, shrieking feedback and horror sounds. BSBC offer up a band new shitball of noise and terror designed for an empty sinking feeling. Edition 100.
-gf
bong / quttinirpaaq - split - blackest rainbow –lp - 17$
Bong are Newcastle's finest doom stoner band, as you'd expect you got distant vocals, totally wild psych guitar, heavy solid drums, but the thing with Bong that gives them a totally different vibe from all the weak band is they got a damn sitar in there, and it sounds so damn killer. On the flip we got a slice of Quttinirpaaq, we released a CDR by this dude last year to some damn good reviews, its hard to understand how so few people know this dude. It's basically the one man band of Texan Matt Turner who definitely doesn't bust out the Texas blues or country styles... this isn't no straight up doom though, opening with totally weirdo keys and feedback, with what sounds like some droning vocals and bizarre clicks, this is pretty out there. That is until three minutes in when Matt plugs in and then trashes a drum kit, whilst all this other crazy shit is going on. This is a fucking killer act, as far as I am concerned this is genius, not like any other drone doom vibes going on out there right now. Limited to 300 copies.
-br
brain transplant - turn your shit off - pegasus farms - cdr - 6$
free improve/free noise group with long history here in the lou. chris smentkowski is the man. brain transplant is his band. here we have chris on guitar, dave stone on sax, danny mcclain on drums and raglani on modular synth. recorded on 4 track tape by raglani in his basement. printed sleeves and inserts. still available in limited numbers.
-pf
bryter layter- imprinted season – arbor - cass –6$sold out
The debut release from this collaborative project between Joseph Raglani (Kranky) and Mike Pollard (Arbor) was conceived during Summer 2008 upon a chance meeting and mutual inspiration. The project exists on its own, filling a space removed from either artists regular mode. “Imprinted Season” consists of six songs, cohesive and focus; a presentation of a modern take on electronic music and traditional pop structure. An attempt to reconcile the conception of the synthesizer as a drone machine and reconnect it to music’s roots, filling the circuits with life and emotion. The melancholy of early morning, dew on the blossoming flowers glistening in the sun’s haze. The future is bright no matter how bleak the present. In an edition of 125 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels.
-arbor
c.s.k.a - tapesong -low point– 3" cdr – 7 $
Format: 3" cdr packaged between two sheets of clear acetate
Following on from remixes completed for Spartak and Austin Bejamin Trio, ‘Tapesong’ is the first recorded output by c.s.k.a, a mysterious Australian musical project formed upon the notion of utilising acoustic and apparently non-musical sources within the compositional process.
Using only a Bengali folk song cassette as source material, this was then subjected to live computer manipulation to create the material for this release, a 15 minute, three song suite of bell tones, flickering sirens and sleeping patterns.
Whilst the choice of source material may initially seem like an obstruction, the processing applied extracts previously unheard tones and melodies hidden from inside the magnetic tape, the cassette presented as an instrument within itself.
-lp
cartoon bros & friends - swamp - donkey cassette - cass - 5.50$
warm and warbling full-bodied drone
-donkey
the cherry point / dried up corpse - gnarled forest – cass - 6$
The Cherry Point, also live from the 2006 Wooden Octopus Skull Experimental Musick pFestival with special guest The Rita joining in to make it extra crunchy and extra noisey. DUC give you a live one as well, recorded at the DisEaster Massturbation Sermon 2009 at ChickenHed Church in Seattle Wa. Edition 100.
-gf
cloaked light - neither this - white circle - cass & zine - 10$sold out
c41 + b&w zine
in white sheets
-peter friel-
limited to 20
cold turkey - bypassing birth - hermitage - cass - 7$
tripped out solo sax/electronics. color covers, ltd.to 35 copys
andrew coltrane - refuse - hermitage - boxset - 65$
10th year boxset
9 tapes(1-c97 1-c20 1-c45 6-c32) +poster +3 inserts
completely damaged recordings .severe manipulations /mashups/ etc/
mixed with rewired&hand cranked(?!)tape players. tons of weird styles&sounds .pizza box packaging=stuck on art/painted. Limited!
-hermitage
andrew coltrane - forgotten surgeries - hermitage - cass - 7$
processed field recordings/tape loops/industrial environments/ etc.
b&w art ,edition of 50
-hermitage
andrew coltrane - synth tapes vol. 6 - hermitage - cass - 7$
latest installment of this ongoing series of all analog synthesizer
tapes. color covers,edition of 40
compassing - old woes new hopes - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Theres a hell of a lot going on in this new 10 track cassette by the two guys who make up the band Compassing.
A microcosm of sounds, tiny little experimentations click into view then whirl away, an orchestra of warped instruments throb and groove against each other only to be joined together by the occasional chugging krautrock pulse and scattered free form drumming, kind of like Faust jamming with Taj Mahal Travellers and being produced by Louis & Bebe Barron.
Limited to 20.
-bum
cornucopia - balance of power - ruido horrible - 3" cdr - 6.50$
Literally after years in the making, BALANCE OF POWER finally comes to life in an edition of 60 copies. This release sees CORNUCOPIA in their deepest, heaviest mood, producing a piece of dark industrial sounds that border on noise. Dense and toxic atmospheric sounds. Each cover was painted individually and is therefore unique. It includes insert and disc sleeve.
-rh
lula cortes -rosa de sangue - time lag - red
records - lp -25$ / cd - 15$
deluxe first ever reissue of this brazilian private press monster rarity. originally custom pressed in 1980, ‘rosa de sangue’ is the closing chapter of the amazing recife psychedelic movement that flourished & centered around the work of lula cortes, beginning in 1973 with the release of satwa, and the creation of ‘abracadabra’, lula’s loose art/music/design collective. leading up to 1980 lula had produced & privately released satwa in 1973 (brazil’s first private press lp) as well as marconi notaro’s ‘no sub reino dos metazoarios’ lp that same year (featuring the recording debut of ze ramalho). he then started the legendary but incredibly short lived ‘solar’ label, releasing only two albums: 1975’s ‘paebiru’ double album, and a year later the lone album by flaviola. as if that wasn’t enough, he was also heavily involved in other productions and performed on many seminal albums coming out of the region, including many collaborations with alceu valenca... by the close of the 70s the heavily utilized rozemblit recording studio / pressing plant had been destroyed by repeated floods, abracadabra had run its course, and along with lula’s marriage, the solar label was no more. so ‘rosa de sangue’ was conceived as a bookend & tribute to this closing era; as lula himself states “i want to close all of this with a golden key”... and a golden key it is. entering a small local studio with a head full of songs and his freshly road tested ‘mountains band’, lula created an album simply overflowing with ideas. along with his power trio backing, he was further assisted by many old friends dropping in, including, among many others : alceu valenca, flaviola, ze de flauta & paulo rafael. with hints of the past era and of things to come, it is a truly wild audio experience, covering many styles & moods. from crazed ethno folkrock, to magical, gentle, jungle folk psych zones, to hard hitting, coke dusted fuzz rock, to insane mutant disco dance floor groove, to tweaked americana, to acid vocal raga trance, and way beyond... all throughout lula’s beautiful tricordio work pins things down, and for the first time he is the main vocalist (this is, after all, his first “solo” album!) his is a smoke & booze steeped voice darting between crazed abandon, deep sadness, and glowing soulful humor. when things are mellow, you could easily imagine you’re hearing an outtake from marconi notaro or paebiru, but the next moment you’re dropped into a raging street party or dimly lit booze drenched bar scene vibe... frenzied guitars all over, including some tough fuzz, as well as powerful rolling bass groove, soaring violin, moog weirdness, dusted backup vocals, and great drum kit / regional percussion interplay. psychedelic at heart, but brimming with flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, and pure hot blooded rock & roll... a bizarre & amazing album. but of course, the story doesn’t end there... at some point while the album was being recorded & pressed lula signed a major label contact which would produce 1981’s far tamer ‘o gosto novo da vida’ lp. when his new label got wind of ‘rosa de sangue’s eminent release, they were displeased to say the least. as soon as the pressing was complete, the entire small edition was seized & destroyed, making this album by far brazil’s rarest. so rare, in fact, that even among the most hardcore brazilian collectors the original lp is often only rumored to exist, often cited as ‘unreleased’... a few copies did however survive, and now, 29 years later, the world can finally hear this “golden key” from a truly visionary artist... packaged in a heavy vintage style cover with exact reproduction original artwork, including the huge full color, double sided, foldout poster insert, plus an extra insert featuring new liner notes from lula cortes as well as translated song titles. 180gm audiophile virgin vinyl pressing with exact repro label art. limited edition one time pressing of 1000 copies.
-time lag
crazy dreams band - basement tapes - ecstatic peace - cass -8$
Crazy Dreams Band were tagged Best New Band by the Baltimore City paper in 2008 which is an accolade any local rock n roll outfit would be flattered by but CDB are not your normal everyday band. They are a freak bed of underground Baltimore wildness comprised of the cloud gobbling vocals of Lexie Mountain and Chiara Giovando (also a way wicked violinist) and the artful percussion/amp Mouthus member Nate Nelson and two dudes named Nick Becker and Jake Freeman. The Holy Mountain label released a CDB LP last year which Tom Lax on his Siltblog referred to, and we paraphrase, as “genuine osmosis that I'm just about this far from buyin completely into their neo-psychedelic glublub. The real highlight is Lexie Mountain. I reckon she conjures up all sorta diva's, from Sumac to Joplin to Linda Sharrock .. be afraid, be very afraid.”
And Stereogum: "Crazy Dreams Band create loose, at times manic vocally rich music with enough tuneful elements I can imagine people not usually given to fucked-up sounds getting into them.”
And WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: “a tribe of clamoring sounds instead of free-association voices, and while many people are pointing to Royal Trux as a reference, it all sounds like a less-Euro, mudpit-wallowing Catherine Ribiero fronting a proggier Torch of the Mystics-era Sun City Girls. With someone totally unfraid to put the keyboard settings on "80's". Lexie's croon is magnificent in its melodic setting; there's still a lot of improvisation within the band that allows her to take some flights of fancy, but hearing a much more "composed" element to her singing is a great thing I hope we have some more of in the future. "
This tape is a full on snake twist of a basement blow out that will eat thru yr cranum and suck yr tongue for desert. 100 copies, purple tapes, with awesome Chiara Giovando art layout
-ep
dark barbarians - I & II - temple of pei - cass & poster - 9$
Poster and tape compilations, featuring Grasshopper, Skin Graft, Fluxmonkey, Outer Space, JFR as SETH, Fragments, and a bunch of other great acts. You may want to contact me to reserve yours, ridiculously limited. I drops soon, II soonish.
-templeofpei
drafted by minotaurs - aversion therapy - infraction - lp- 23$
Finally, our first vinyl release! Release date Tuesday, May 26th!! "Drafted by Minotaurs mainstays are guitarist Ryan Wilson and Ian Fulcher, who contributes trumpet and glockenspiel. Meanwhile members of a floating cast chip in with added textures from cello and violin. Opener "Blueprints for Sunbuilding" spools out a hail of plucked and bowed strings, webs of sound solidifying then melting into steely flow, stall set out somewhere around cultivated Constellation post-rockeries, a mood and sound that may feel familiar to those acquainted with the new backwoods chamberisms and neo-folk drone of UK cottage industrialites such as Richard Skelton (aka A Broken Consort/Clouwbeck) and Seasons (Pre-din). "Sault Locks" proposes cyclical patterns of stringed things that seem to hover shyly apart, before swarming to swell and billow over the listener - not so much a Storm of Drones as a squall of tones. "Skin the Night and Fog," a more veiled sister of the previous pluckings and bowings, plays out a psych-infused dream sequence. These three tracks forming Side A work with their own distinct harmonic and textural patterns, while seeming like movements of something overarching. Miasmic minor chord tidal flow abounds, the music's motion determined by languorous bow-strokes, its textures by warm-prickly needles of guitar pizzicatos. Side B's single extended track, "Sunday's Morning Ghost," is wrought from similar materials, but aspires to more transcendant levels, led by the celestial harmonics of Fulcher's treated trumpet. It takes on atavistic echoes redolent of some distant Miles Davis or Jon Hassell blowback, as if viewing In a Silent Way through a post-Kosmische kaleidoscope, or channeled through Eno/Budd cathedrals to meet today's psych-drone and ambient trajectories. Overall, Aversion Therapy thrives on such productive tensions between genres and eras, as it does between live and recorded, spontaneous and pre-structured, making for engaging, at times thrillingly psychotropic, listening." - alan lockett
I recognize the cost factor. The details...the outer sleeve is a Stoughton printing tip-on style gatefold. 'Tip-on' is a separate matte sheet that is applied to thick board stock. Like LPs from the '70's, only thicker. Or 'old school' if you prefer. There is also a sort of OBI strip, or j-card that lies on the spine of the gatefold sleeves. Similar to the Japanese import vinyls - which is a nice touch (I'm biased) that gives some additional info. Then there is the vinyl itself - a slab of 180 gram virgin vinyl pressed at the vinyl pressing mecca that is RTI. The inner sleeves are audiophile grade anti-static triple layer sleeves. Lastly, the outer sleeves are resealable 4 mil plastic sleeves with flap...and they actually reseal. This LP pressing is limited to 489 copies.
-infraction
dreamcolour - spiritual celebration - nnf - cass - 6$
There’s currently a glut of bands dog-paddling around the trans-continental psych-pond with names involving words like ‘color,’ ‘dream,’ and ‘infinity,’ and Ventura County brass-groove arkestra Dreamcolour are smack thick in the middle of this ’08-‘09 nomenclatorial zeitgeist (though to their credit they use the British spelling). Yet, semi-ironically, the mood of the zones they explore on Spiritual Celebration are wonderfully vintage, with a strange, reverential “out of time” quality that seems decidedly non-NOW. Hand-drums beat along with a steady, easy lope, saxes are crooned (not skronked) smoothly up towards the sun, Farfisa trills further brighten the corners. There’s no damaged FX-abuse or lo-fi freakouts; all minds are fused into one gently simmering open-air spiritual jazz homage. Echoes of Don Cherry abound. The tape is split into three chapters: a stunning 20-minute A-side hayride (“Spiritual Celebration”), a briefer horn flurry piece (“Sun Ritual”), and a gorgeous lunar meditation chamber (“Moon Ritual”). A great West Coast force with an exotic back catalogue and a killer live vibe, worth keeping tabs on. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with full-color marker/collage J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 100.
-nnf
dream safari - journey to sky beach - gold soundz – cdr – 10$
Sounds to me like all vocal loops, heavily looped from here to ohm-finity... Choir music from the astral plane, it almost takes on a blissful religious overtone after a while.. If this doesn't open your mind's third eye, you don't have one I'm afraid. Edition of 30.
-gs
drunk elk - s/t - inverted crux -cassette - 6$
Some Dark pop wanderings from this Tasmanian AU. group, remanisant of some of the more out there australian post-punk from the 70's, bred with their own isolated weirdness.
-ic
echtra - burn it all away - faunasabbatha– cdr - 10$
Meditative journey into a structureless world, using the foundational sonics of Black Metal to loosen the hold of civilized consciousness. Eschewing songwriting as entertainment in favor of a monochromatic, trance-inducing march, Echtra hand-drills a spark that will purify both the interior spirals and the chthonic paradisal fields. A friction fire of the Soul. An opportunity for the reclamation of Truth and a rekindling of the bright flame now dormant in the heart of the People, an invitation to lay waste to the landscapes of despair. Created at the onset of Echtra's life, in the year MMIII, utilized in ritual performance in the wilds of Cascadia that same year, then self-released in an edition of 76 in MMIV, now reborn by Faunasabbatha as dictated by the spirits and for the benefit of all beings. Features one half of FAUNA
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.
-br
emaciator - appease - monorail trespassing - cass - 6$
most recent solo recordings of interweaving guitar and synth patterns. very delicate work, mixed as such. recorded in a storm, focused as ever; scars to prove. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels.
-mt
expo 70 - psychosis - peasant magik - lp - 16$
Random alien noises drift in and out, distracting you from the hellish static brewing. Melodies begin to creep out of the murk, still covered in filth, trying desperately to escape, forever being pulled back down. Guitars lament for their fallen brothers, and the battle begins. Standard edition consists of 180 gram black vinyl, silk screened 12" x 24" insert, and pro-printed covers and OBI.
-pm
family treasures - black totality - temple of pei - cass - 6$
fleece crew - lost treasures of the underworld - cdr - 5$
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.
-blackest rainbow
hail - crimson madrigal - faunasabbatha– cdr - 10$
recorded during the Marshal era of Hail, around the turn of the century. The membership included Set Sothis Nox Law (L’Acephale), Markus Wolff (Waldteufel) and Carl Annala (Blasphematherion)..."Our lighthouse was the black hole. And then we devolved…”
Hail!
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high wolf - gabon - winged sun - cass - 9$ sold out
Following debut tape released on Not Not Fun records, this cassette shows High Wolf looking at Africa from his native Amazonia...What's the difference between Amazonian and African jungles? When we live in the wild, with percussions and tribal singing, we're all the same...
-wingedsun
high wolf - gabon - winged sun - cdr - 8$
High Wolf- s/t Winged Sun Records WS01 First Winged Sun record to be released, first cdr from High Wolf, following tapes on Not Not Fun and Stunned records from California...Various tracks celebrating the birth of High Wolf and worshiping the jaguar. Mixing percussions, guitar, synth, drum machine and voice this should become your best friend during the summer. This record contains oldest High Wolf tracks ever made.
-winged sun
jeff host - disillusioned by grandeur - tusco/embassy - cass - 6$
one perfect 20 minute organ drone split between two sides. great work by this kent rep... one of my favorite performers. i hesitate to call him "new" b/c he has been in and around the ne ohio scene for a long time doing great things... BUT i think his first release,, so for the most part he's new to anybody who doesn't know better..... and you should know this dude!!!!!!!!!!
-tt
howland/russell - distortion crimes - tusco/embassy - cass - 6$
the last recording session by the pairing of wyatt howland (skin graft/dead peasant insurance) and david russell (dying live/jerk).. before david moved to chicago , these two decided to get together and hash out their distinctive sound together ... starts out surprisingly melodic.!?? then disintegrates into crusty spastic clatter and scuzz ... really hits the spot....... so happy that TE has the honor of releasing this amazing fucked up shit...
-tt
hunting rituals - hunting rituals - faunasabbatha– cdr - 10$
Horn, crap junk and electronics forming a canvas of broken bones and barbed wire. Wait until the creeping drone gets louder, to become increasingly distorted until swallowed up into the rising fires of the magical ritual
Hunting Rituals
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infinite body / emaciator - split - monorail trespassing - lp - 12$
saturated harsh melodicism from ib; two tracks bridged by a solo voice recording. synth driven by the human voice; screaming to make beautiful tones. emaciator side is a dense, dense drone of older / early style throb getting submerged by layers upon layers of guitar drones and keyboard melodies -- finally wearing down to an optimistic close. edition of 500, pro-printed sleeves.
-mt
ryan jewell / face place - out there records - 7" - 4$
“Still don’t know if this is 45 rpm or 33 rpm ???? Both sound right to me!
Ryan Jewell kicks things off on the A side with a twisting and turning assortment of totally weird and cool sounds . Don’t know if this is live Jewell or what ? Sounds like a studio jam or some kind of manipulated sound collage . Ryan is always awesome on stage because you never know what kind of awesome shit he’s gonna do , his tapes and CDs are the same way and this 7” is no exception.
Flip the record and you got the husband/wife duo of Face Place (Jen Burton of American Jobs / Birds of Hair - and Mark Van Fleet of Sword Heaven ) . This is a live recording and after hearing it I now know what speed the record is because of the crowd noise. Pretty sure I was at this show but I don’t remember it being so intense! On record I can turn it up until my brain hurts!
Long-overdue vinyl debut from both of these aces ! Second release on Out There Home Entertainment . Amazing see-through covers w/ killer clear vinyl ! Nice! “
- Tommy Nebula
joshooa and the (7th/13th) moon - the hundred monkey effect - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Murky underwater tape collages, haunted siren feedback, ghostly vocals, ancient lumbering figures sifting through the rubble. Joshua McAbee creates the most incredible experimental soundscapes, sounding like the perfect field recording beamed back from a crumbling futuristic Babylon.
Limited 20 copies
-bum
kane pour - wand in the beak of the yellow bird - housecraft - cass - 6$
Some impromptu kane-to-tape dirges recorded at the LiteHouse, Gainesville in late March '09. These are the first solo recordings released in almost 20 months (see Pospulenn). Following a steady stream of Tricorn and Queue cassettes, this is falling right in stride, expanding evermore on his signature ultra-saturated poly-rhythmic stream melodics. Warm as wool.
Variant covers--painted shells, cases, and inserts
numbered edition of 50
-housecraft
lanterns / gultskra artikler - split - other electricities - lp - 12$
Second in a series of vinyl only releases, Other Electricities presents Berezka/Monkey Lament by Russian avant-folk artist Gultskra Artikler and the UK drone outfit Lanterns. Complementary by nature of thoughtful experimentation, kindred by their undeniably enveloping output, Berezka/Monkey Lament brings the creations of Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns together in a familiar format, with unique contributions from each. Exclusive tracks and artwork dawn each side of a limited edition LP, displaying the artists' visions for their side of this entrancing combination record.
-other
le scrambled debutante - symmetrical stupidity- ruido horrible - cass - 6$
The group/project of Allan Zane, Sid Riedlin and Joey Day offer a 30-minute track pletoric of absurdism, using samples, sinthesizers and all kinds of mysterious gadgets to create an ever-mutating, demented sound projection. The B-Side is -more than literally, its counter. Full color artwork by Sid Riedlin. Edition of 101 copies.
-rh
lilypad - island ice - wagon - cass - 8.50$
recordings from early 06, and the first
actual lilypad recordings! a comp of short tracks from the early days, with
weird stereo offset phasing or separated channel weirdness. super old and
bizzare and ltd to only 60 copies with quad fold out color art.
-wagon
matrix metals - flamingo breeze - nnf - cass - 6$
The Southern California mythology glints in the irises of certain dreamers more radiantly than it does in others, and few crews have begun capturing the imaginary high life of neon Corvette rides, Ray-Bans at night, and sea-breeze mind-surfing better than the Outer Limits Recordings collective. They operate under most radars but their output is a radical Rubik’s Cube of riddles, tape hiss, and tranced pop utopias. Matrix Metals is casually referred to as an “alien lounge music” project, but that’s not even the half of it. A hotwired collection of fringe-vision vignettes that roves from ghost club beats to astral 80s TV theme songs to loopy interdimensional dub-funk and beyond, Flamingo Breeze is a capitalized question mark in the NNF canon, and a recent obsession of ours. Anonymous pro-dubbed white tapes in cases with full-color “VHS box collage” J-cards designed by the artist, plus an insert and 2 tickets to a Matrix Metals performance at a fictional club in the future. Edition of 125.
-nnf
joseph mcnulty - for warm fire & earth - cabin floor esoterica - cass - 7$
"When he's not teaching kids saxophone, Joseph McNulty lays down a string of guitars, tosses them into a pile of drums and noises, and occasionally drops a few words on top. A pure garden of back porch folk without the downer. A good time to be had just laying back on the tree-trunk and reading a book. Bright and coasting with the wind, droning into melodies to BBQ to and spinning it all back home to the melodies first handed to you. Spring time tunes at their finest. Edition of 50 tapes in wrap-around collage art tied closed with twine with two cardstock inserts and a piece of a local map."
-cfe
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.
-br
menstruation sisters - samantha, my wack panther - ecstatic peace - lp -12$
“Unlike anything book or animal, the Menstruation Sisters destroy wholly" - Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth.
Menstruation Sisters hail from Sydney, Australia. Basically a duo comprised of wildboy poet ululationist and guitar strangler Nick Kamiussis (aka Rizili aka Riz) and OZ wonderkid Oren Ambarchi (Sunn 0)), Burial Chamber, Grave Temple, John Zorn etc etc), and sometimes aided by Brendan Walls and others. Their first LP, Ma, was in an edition of 100 copies, all of which had razor blades, balloons and hypodermic needles applied to one side. As an objet d’art it became a highly desirable item for noise believers (and was recently reissued – sans appliqués – by No Fun Productions). Every once in a while an LP drops out of nowhere only to further confuse whomever is fortunate enough to grip it. 2005 saw the Holy Africa 7” on White Denim, in 2001 the infamous Goog LP on Saucerlike, in 1999 the Dead At Slugs LP on Menlo Park and in 1998 the Triple Bogey On A Ma Par Hole 3 X 7”. All of these are essential documents of one of the most bizarre, genuinely inspired free time outfits working the avant-mind body love/noise worship axis today. This newest LP has been patiently waiting to be released for the last few years, initially a multi-label project instigated by Menlo Park and now fully realized by Ecstatic Peace. Long a champion of Menstruation Sisters after witnessing an out-of–nowhere set at NYC’s legendary lost underground experimental oasis The Cooler in the late 90s, Thurston Moore invited the Sisters to open for Sonic Youth in Sydney shortly thereafter and, as inspired and weird as the NYC set was, the Sonic Youth gig was perhaps one of the most astounding question marks of music the seasoned Moore had ever experienced. So we present you Samantha, My Wack Panther – a new and beautiful peek into the edge of musical menstruation.
-ep
merzbow - hiranya - noiseville - lp - 15$
"The Noiseville's second Merzbow LP in about 6 months (the first one, Protean World, is just about sold out) and once again Masami does not disappoint. This album also features his interpretation of the 'Aqualung' cover painting, but instead of a scaliwag, we have a proud cock (the bird you friggin' perv). Like the previous vinyl release, only 1000 made. Merzbow sounds better on vinyl folks."
-noiseville
mossy throats - grave of light and bones - ecstatic peace - cass -8$
Solo psyche-noise project of Detroit, Michigan’s awesome Dan Dlugosielski. Dan runs the Excitebike tapes label releasing amazing spoo from likeminded bizarros, usually with Dan’s own dripping brain fry art. The dude had a duo called Haunted Castle for a while that ruled and lately has been slaying everywhere with Holly Young in their Uneven Universe project (who just happen to have an LP coming out this year on Ecstatic Peace.) Grave Of Light And Bones is a sizzling, squirming stasis of hallucinatory Midwest mung and will aid you in whatever darkness you currently are drawn to. Numbered edition of 100 on sick purple cassettes with artwork by Coco.
-ep
moth cock/thursday club - split - tusco/embassy - cass - 6$
a great new T/e split featuring another new kent act and an o.g cleveland troupe... moth cock is one of the newest and greatest odd ball noise groups i have seen around here in a long time, they have a great outside approach to improvising and this recording is an excellent introduction to their stuff. thursday club have been a staple in the cleveland noise scene for as long as anyone here =can remember. so happy ryan could dig this amazing track out of the vaults... pulsating electronic atmosphere .. great dynamic work from this prolific duo as well///////!!!!!!!!!!!!
-te
mouthus - divisionals - ecstatic peace - lp - 12$
After releasing the first Mouthus LP years back Ecstatic Peace returns to unleash another beast by this always amazing duo. Brian Sullivan (gtr/vox) and Nate Nelson (perc) connect here with a focused, thematic hayride through long tone static and fried mind amp terror. Anyone following the arc and molten flow of Mouthus’ last few LPs and CDs (on Our Mouth, Troubleman Unlimited, Olde English Spelling Bee, Music Fellowship, Important, Three Lobed, Weird Forest and the exemplary Saw A Halo on Load) will be surely intrigued by Divisionals as it is Mouthus at their sweetest. Almost. Just when you’re drifting through the electric skies you find the Earth reaching into your soul pulling you back to a primordial foreverness. A charming action.
-ep
nackt insecten - a site specific piece of avant-garde sound art, nothing to be worried about / corridor voyager (quantum odyssey ii) -memoirs of an aesthete - cd & 7"- 16$
Mr. Ruaradidh Sanachen has been getting a name for himself recently with his one man kosmische metal space ritual project Nackt Insecten, releasing plenty of limited edition "stuff" on a whole bunch of labels. In February 2008, as part of Glasgow's wonderful Instal festival, he was seen cradling a suitcase full of howling drone/noise aboard Glasgow's tube trains, and what a show it was - check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V5nrb6NLlo for a glimpse of the fun.
As Nackt Insecten's relentless sounds meshed in perfectly with the locomotive rumblings, I thought to myself what a fine 7 inch single it would make. And sure enough, over a year later, here it is. An explanation made by a member of the "audience" to a worried fellow traveller provides the title.
This package also contains a CD of new Nackt Insecten studio concoctions, a conceptual sequel to the recent LP on Blackest Rainbow Records. A real CD too, not a CDR! Cover art by Goldenlab's Fliss Horrocks and the inclusion of a genuine Glasgow tube train ticket completes this handsome package.
-m of a
the north sea - sweet boxing - teosinte - cass - 7$
Brad Rose plays some beautiful analog synthesizer mindfuck games and makes it purr, spit, and fight. The engine revs but doesn't turn over. A siren begins to sound. There are beetles in a soft red coffin - beetles in soft red cotton. Space age stones are thrown. The car idles and bugs clog the gears. Turn to gum, churn with the rest. A flying saucer comes to pick up the mess.
X: "The last thing I remember is bright lights and a strange noise."
Y: "There's blood coming out of your ears."
-teosinte
oaxacan - force of will -self released - cdr - 9$
"Force Of Will" (OAX-001) is a raw, intense live recording.
-oaxaca
oaxacan - immolation -self released - cdr - 9$ sold out
"Immolation" (OAX-002) is a much more varied and eclectic group of Oaxacan recordings, highlighting many of the different things we do. 2 of the tracks from this CD-R are also currently on our page ("Ballast" and Tundra").
-oaxaca
p. grimes - donkey cassette - cass - 5.50$
low harmonic analog synth meditation
(muntjac, aswara, ex death chants)
pan to scratch - the stratified course - cabin floor esoterica - cass - 7$
"Endless (perveyor of the wonderful Earjerk, member of Drunjus and Second Family Band) really knows how to scratch up a tape. The sounds of a tape recorder left on long after the music has ended. The whip of the wind over a built-in-mic, the pocket rustle and the panning hum of a car passing by. A walk through the woods picking up trash and banging out rythms on rust and paper cups. Riffing in a melodica found under the moss. Edition of 50 tapes in sewn burlap pouches with a cardstock insert."
-cfe
pedestrian deposit - austere - monorail trespassing - cd -12$
five years in the making, and the first duo recordings -- a very, very calculated and controlled effort. moving past the harsh noise cutups but not eschewing them entirely; rather, moving forward to areas of sound collage, music-concrete, field recording and electroacoustic. to be heard as one long piece. the progression continues. 1000 copies, pro-printed covers.
-mt
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
poldr - roaming daylight - faunasabbatha– 3" cdr - 7$
Cassettes, guitars, collages, found sounds. Two intense noise experiments. Drawing equally from a contemporary droned madness and a hypnotizing minimalism. A dense and harrowing musical experience
Poldr
quiet light water gap - paint - wagon - cass -8.50$sold out
c20 - ltd to 13 copies w/hand made collage...no info!
quiet light water gap - not enough sunlight - wagon - cass - 8.50$sold out
c20 - same styled mystery
drone as "paint" maybe a little more aggressive...ltd to 13 copies w/hand
made collage...no info!! killer!
-wagon
quiet light water gap - attic ghost - wagon - cass -8.50$sold out
c60 - wild field recordings, crude
and shitty stoned fluxus styled stuff..like if axcx put on a tux or
something??? great new sound world from this new delaware crew...hand made
collage w/yesss no info!!! ltd to 14
-wagon
raglani - man myth magic - pegasus farms - cdr - 8$
steve hauschildt / raglani - tour may 2009 - pegasus farms - cdr - -10$sold out
very limited stock
raglani - living room - pegasus farms - cdr - 8$
raglani - web of light - kvist - lp - 18$
description: noise and field recordings. the a side is comprised of a 12 minute monster with a guitar line, eerie chorus, and a fog of psychedelic folk noise. side b is spit into two tracks. the first track starts off loud and swirling before finding its peace at the end. track 2 is campfire concrète.
-kvist
raglani / scenic railroads - split - pegasus farms / gameboy - cd - 8$
raglani: sine/square wave generator, electrics and places. dave stone plays saxophone on track 2
scenic railroads is joe panzner and mike shiflet
after both putting in the cdr dues, joe raglani and scenic railroads decided it was time to take it to the pro-pressed level.
raglani's 3 ambient compositions and scenic's 4 digital improvisations play excellently off each other creating a disc with a consistent, organic flow. 52 minutes of noise underground's prettier, lusher underbelly. if these dudes were european they'd be getting 1,000 euro guarantees by now.
an edition of 500. co-released with raglani's pegasus farms records and printed at the infamous thumbprint press.
raglani - oneism - ides - cass - 7$
rahdunes - drink and drive or smoke and fly - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Totally blown away with this new release by the mighty Rahdunes,
Two full sides of thick smoke driven grooves and swirling, zoned out synths that grow, collapse and fold in on each other, only to be washed clean by waves of some of the most earth shattering drums I’ve heard on tape for a long time!
Edition of 40
-bum
reviver - total load shed - temple of pei - cass - 6$
We are extremelly proud that Reviver is our first non Telecult related release on Temple of Pei. We met Chris at the Noise Axis fest in Lowell last summer and immediately thought he was fucking great. The guy is probably the hardest partying guy in noise, and the way he parties just oozes class. I close my eyes and listen to this tape and see oceans of electricity drowning anyone stupid enough to fuck it. What if Nicola Tesla smoked DMT and it opened up his third eye? This tape sounds like the visual conversation he would have with the machine elves.
- Witchbeam
christopher riggs - draco - hanson - cass - 6$
An excellent cassette to make you feel sea sick from the guitarist of TRAUM. The A side sounds more like a thick metal cable fluttering in the wind than a guitar. Nauseating low end fluttering waves interrupted by occasional high end frantic scratches which sounds like amplified birds cleaning themselves on the wire. The B side is a barrage of high end squeals and squeaks, metallic whistles, flapping insects, stabbing needles, knife sharpening, baby animals crying, wild boar breathing, paper ripping, and more… all made with a guitar! A truly FUCKED UP recording!
-hanson
robedoor - exorcist blues - monorail trespassing - cass - -6$ sold out
transitional release that sees the group expanding on their previous incarnation with more control and composition. a peak effort of scorched amps and raw hands, voices still wailing in a desert somewhere. 150 copies, full color covers and glossy labels.
-mt
sadastor - herald of confusion - faunasabbatha / tavarnkeben – cdr - 10$
"a hallucinatory journey into blood, spirit, nature, the runes and the god Pan. Released March 1998 it also represents a staggering, landmark predecessor to many currents in today’s extreme metal. Absolutely essential for those who walk the path less traveled" Set Sothis Nox Law (L’Acephale)
Sadastor's book
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second family band - winged stomp house - cabin floor esoterica - cass - 7$
"Winged Stomp House indeed, the Second Family Band - a rag tag Wisconsin crew risen from the ashes of the Davenport Family - coast through airy yowls and yelps, stomping the floor in unison, synths blurting, flutes screaming, a swirling mess of a bonfire party. Stay out of the field if you can't handle to riffs. Lovingly captured by Endless to handheld cassette on the first of March, featuring a full on line-up of Dave 3000, Ol'Son, Iam Lee Ian, Woodman, Clay Ruby, Nico Kain, Ivan Mairesse, and Endless himself. This one's a burner.. Edition of 50 ember-orange pro-dubbed tapes in fire singed wrap around sleeves with pine-tree stamp burnt windows and an insert."
-cfe
secret abuse - the immeasurable gift – arbor - lp – 12$
“The Immeasurable Gift” is a testament to cathartic possibilities and the role of creation/release as a means of understanding. Recorded throughout the past three years in a variety of locations and personal moments; encapsulated by a common, unrelenting concern. Beautifully delicate, elegiac melodies concealed within curtains of dense electronic ambiance reveal themselves like the light at the end of the tunnel; a signifier of the temporary vessel form. Balancing recklessness with care and coming to terms with the inevitable; encountering the man on the shoulder, reminding us that we are all just weary travelers. In an edition of 425 records in full color proprinted cardboard jackets with printed labels and an insert; all design by Jeff Witscher.
-arbor
secret colors- infinite wandering - bum tapes - cass - -7$ sold out
Secret Colors is the solo project for Seattle’s Matt Lawson, who has conjured up an incredible album of carefully crafted blissful songs, Keys and Guitars are washed clean with effects, bubbling then overflowing with layers of slow burning grooves melting into deep reflective rhythms, all executed in full on dub mode. Cassettes are housed in hand-cut high quality paper collage covers. If you’re currently digging the sounds of Ducktails, Sun Araw et al, this one is not to be missed!
limited 30 copies
-bum
sharper capes - lost treasures of the underworld - cdr - 5$
silk fountain - walk through me - tusco/embassy - cass - 6$
totally mysterious, dissonant sounds and tape hiss from this new project... you could listen to this recording over and over again and still be hard pressed to identify any part of what you are hearing. haunting, melodic, superimposed. excellent!!!!
-tt
skullflower -vile veil - noiseville - lp - 15$
A special mini LP of recently recorded guitar torturing noise. Edition of 300 copies with a silk screen cover.
-noiseville
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..
-br
starving weirdos - gate gate paragate parasamgate - taping policies - one sided cass - 6$
Recorded live at the Bunker in Brussels September 26th, 2008. Liner notes by Starving Weirdos.
Edition of 100
-tapingpolicies
taiga remains / rv paintings - split - blackest rainbow –lp - 17$
Two of America's finest drone acts come together for this split LP. Taiga Remains is Student of Decay's master mind Alex Cobb project, if you ain't picked up his new disc on Digitalis 'Wax Canopy' yet, go get it, it is one of the best drone releases I have heard in a long time! The 15 minute track on this is new split LP is entitled 'Mengku From Mengsa'. Opening with far off chimes upon chimes, this leads to pure bliss dream zones, rather than the more intense material on the aforementioned Wax Canopy. This is a fantastic piece of drone work, layered to create some beautiful zoning out in the mind. RV Paintings is the project of Brian Pyle of the almighty psychedelia legends Starving Weirdos, along with his brother Jon Pyle, and Spencer Doran, who also plays under the name of Cloaks. This is an amazing track, kinda darker and bleaker than the Weirdos vibe, with some totally awesome free percussion playing central to the piece, this is hard to top in the drone game. A totally solid slab of sound from both acts. Limited to 400 copies.
-br
telecult powers double action reversible - live - temple of pei - cass - 6$
Start of the live series documenting Telecult Powers shows. We never seem to ever go past 15 minutes, so they will be C30s.
-templeofpei
telecult powers & colorguard - technicians of the divine split - temple of pei - cass - 6$
terrors - inequipoise - monorail trespassing - cass - 6$
a special release. song-based bedroom folk with occasional collage and noise. recorded to tape with a strange warmth / distance that i've never heard in anything before. reverb chamber. dark and dour songs from the window; perfect sunday morning bed music. 125 copies, full color covers and glossy labels.
-mt
treehouse people – crystal limbs - bum tapes - cass - 7$
”The second release for this new-age, keyboard driven sci-fi duo, two sides of psychedelic dream excursions, Bladerunner burnouts and synth drenched krautrock rhythms make up one of their most beautiful releases to date.Cooperation of Stefan Kushima & Iko Nori spending some nights with the Casio VL Tone. Feedback loops in minimal construction, a child’s dream in bubblevariations”. limited 25 copies.
-bum
treetops - as i gaze – arbor - cass –6$sold out
Throughout the past four years, Treetops has been a personal experience. The project has seen many forms in terms of growth and approach. “As I Gaze” documents the final Treetops recordings. This is the point where the exploration reaches it’s end; the final bridge between the past recordings and future directions. Slow tone floats and melancholic progression under a low, reflective grey sky. Ambient textures dissipate within the environment; a search for stasis, a clear head. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes.
-arbor
tulasi – huomen tuone - bum tapes - cass - 7$
”Bumtapes is proud to give you another chance to hear this incredible album, plus another previously unreleased track from the same sessions, and with all new artwork. Originally released on vinyl in an edition of 118 copies by Troglosound in 2008 (now totally sold out) Finland’s Tulasi crafted an album drenched in Eastern drones and Finnish backroad folk meditations, The two musicians who make up the band have also featured in bands such as Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players, Aan, Uton, Kulkija and Kutomo. And have also previously released a cassette on Sloow tapes. To quote the original write up for the LP "One of the most harmonic expressions of spiritual freak-folk coming out from Finland, Tulasi spreads around warm and positive feelings, created through spontaneous junctions of flute, guitar, violin, percussions, tambura and voices. So, the perfect sound to bring our Souls peacefully inside the wintertime is coming directly from the North”. limited 35 copies.
-bum
tuluum shimmering - longhouse spirits gather for fragrant island river dreams - housecraft - cass - 6$
'Transporting' comes to mind but that doesn't seem right... this is more like a living presence. It reminds me a bit of what Siddhartha might have felt sitting on that bank, hearing/seeing an endless, seamless flow of voices/faces in the river. But rather than voices come down cautiously fused reeds, percussive bells/clatter, and rising/falling synth scales which are, at times, reminiscent of Terry Riley's work on 'Shri Camel'. Regardless of how I see it, only metaphors seem right when conveying these four compositions. This project in neck-deep in the ethereal and a must-experience for the immersive listener.
Variant covers--painted shells, cases, labels, and inserts.
-housecraft
tunnels - in between dreams - peasant magik - cass - 6$
It's hard to believe that there is only one man behind Tunnels. When I first heard these recordings I thought that Nicholas, as a joke, had sent me some super rare desert psych-folk record he found. Maybe he did? I imagine him walking around one lazy afternoon, getting some coffee, and tripping over a box of moldy records someone tossed in the gutter. He looks through and finds this one stuck to the back of some mid-80s Fleetwood Mac record. The cover is a pasted on, hand drawn picture of a naked lady throwing up rainbows and laying in a field of exploding mushrooms. The band name is lost forever, half stuck to the back of the FM record. He goes home and spends the rest of the afternoon carefully scrapping off the black mold. Finally he gets enough of it off to actually play the record, and transfers it to tape, so as not to further damage his record player. The tape makes its way to his car and gets lost under his seat. Months later, he rediscovers the tape, only now it's covered in Dr. Pepper and melted Jolly Ranchers. Nick tranfers it to cdr and sends it over to me with the name In Between Dreams on it, which seems very fitting in this context. Pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes. Full color three panel, double sided j-card with artwork by Morgan Alexandra Ritter.
-pm
v/a - underwater peoples summertime showcase - underwater people records - cdr - 4.50$
A Summertime Showcase! Beautifully nuanced yet utterly carefree, this diverse group of songs is sure to brighten and relax your otherwise bothered soul. To get you in the mood, a poem...
Beautiful Girls, with their dirty bare feet,
patter across your mind.
While the breeze lifts and twists their simple dresses,
the Sun slyly sucks their energy away
Sprawled across your brain, wedged comfortably in the wrinkles of your gray matter;
they hum a delightful tune.
Track List...
1. Banana Jam Pt.1 - Julian Lynch
2. Beach Comber - Real Estate
3. Brosef - Frat Dad
4. Wishing Whale - Pill Wonder
5. Agua - Sad City
6. Baby Come On - Dana Jewell
7. Snow (Instrumental) - Real Estate
8. Mega Secrets - Family Portrait
9. Droplet On A Hot Stone - Julian Lynch
10. Backyard - Ducktails
11. Country Wide - Liam the Younger
12. Anchorite - Andrew Cedermark
13. This Land Pt.1 - Liam the Younger
14. Happy Still - Broken Trees
15. Wasted By The Screen - Pill Wonder
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vibes - psychic - nnf - 7" - 6$
Every family has a freak (or 2). Every deck’s got a wild card. We’ve got Vibes. Ante up. NNF’s loosest cannons return to the recording fray with, Psychic, a blown-out briar patch of basement garage fantasy masquerading as obscurist protest funk – and the band’s first vinyl statement. Recorded in Eagle Rock on a “last legs”-style 4-track, the EP’s four songs are jacked deep in the red, with fuzz bass, wah shrapnel, vocal sloganeering, and drum racket all fighting for tape room. Competition is fierce. Recent live faves like “Dead Horses” and “Night Court” appear in particularly revved-up form, as do the first two Vibes songs ever written, “Psychic” and “Prisms Of Fame.” All bases are covered. All soul trains are derailed. Here comes the judge. Black vinyl 33 RPM singles in full-color fold-over sleeves with collage artwork and lettering by Cameron Stallones, photographs by Caitlin C. Mitchell, plus a rant-y revolution scrapbook insert. Edition of 400.
-nnf
a vibrant struggle - astral bleach - gold soundz – cass – 9$
another hot jammer from the session in the fall 2007 from the trio of Steffan deTurck, Jan-M. Iversen
and Sindre Bjerga. Blissful drones, crackling electro-accoustics... This should have been out last year, but we didn't
want to flood the market haha.. Small edition on 1-sided "ecological" tapes...
-gs
wasted truth - s/t - inverted crux -cassette - 6$
Scuzzed out sludgy punk rock from this Melbourne AU. 2 piece feat, Sean Bailey (lakes, peaces etc) and Harriet Morgan(Zond)The song are blown out to the outter rims of the universe, doused in bleakness but speckled with light.
-ic
wasteland jazz unit - burrows of indication - ruido horrible - cdr - 8$
BURROWS OF INDICATION is a chaotic miasma of harsh, brutal sounds produced by both regular instruments and electronics. Limited edition of 64 copies. Disc comes housed in a ruido-horrible-style handmade digipak with full color art.
-rh
john wiese / lasse marhaug -lmjm - a dear girl called wendy - 7" - 8.50$
Beautiful new collaboration between John Wiese and Lasse Marhaug.
Two tracks of harsh and heavy noise for 10 minutes of music, recorded in Oslo in January 2008.
Tracklist:
a: Two-Hour Long Necropsy (5:04)
b: Wobbles Of Transition (4:58)
lmt to 200, one time presssing.
-adgcw
work / death - contained in proper place names - monorail trespassing - cass - 6$
reber can do no wrong. synthesizer processes that reach a near-orchestral level; a rich and multi-dimensional work of pure and emotional noise rarely seen now -- or ever. still the most unique project out there. 100 copies, full color covers and glossy labels.
-mt
worm hands - orange mound - pegasus farms - cdr - 7$
young duo of josh levi and dave gretemen. this was put together for their tour with wolf eyes. recorded in raglani's basement onto 4 track tape. hand painted and hand block printed sleeves with printed inserts. limited.
-pf
xenis emputae travelling band - the pyrognomic glass -memoirs of an aesthete - lp and chapbook -21$sold out
vinyl LP plus chapbook...limited to 250 copies
The Xenis Emputae Travelling Band is Mr. Phil Legard of the hallowe'ed borough of Yorkshire, England. He has been hard at work since 2001 making psychedelic folk-concrete inspired by the psychogeography and mythology of various secret regions of the British countryside. XETB has released plenty of CDRs and tapes over the years (all limited editions, long sold out etc etc) but, aside from one track on a Cold Spring Records CD, nothing at all in a "posh" format - something we at Memoirs thought we should do something about. We are, after all, classy folks and that.
Mr. Legard is also a writer on various occult and esoteric matters, his most recent publication being a contribution to the new translation of "The Consecrated Little Book Of Black Venus" (Waning Moon Publications). He also has several other music projects, most notably The Neon Death Slittes and Pneumonic Consort. He is also, for his many sins, a frequent collaborator in Ashtray Navigations.
"The Pyrognomic Glass" was originally released by us as a ltd. ed CDR back in 2005. By popular demand it is back, this time on vinyl, and including "Abital - or Conferences with the Genii of Nocturnal and Diurnal Dew in vii Chapters", a beautifully-printed 28 page chapbook by Mr Legard, most profitable to students of Natural Philosophy.
-memoirs
your drugs, my money - 17:31 -elyk - 3" cdr - 5$
Elyk Records is very proud to release what we believe to be the final recordings of the ever-expanding/contracting noise ritual group Your Drugs, My Money. Hailing from many coasts and countries, a more stripped down version of the group is represented on this release, featuring two tracks. Join the dROne//.<>//RiTuaL/....
Limited to 75 handmade copies.
-elyk
zashiki warashi - salamander - cabin floor esoterica - cass - 7$
"Carter Thornton is no stranger to throwing something down, weather it's his recent LP on Conduit Creations with collaborations with everyone from Burning Star Core to Zaimph, or his time spent in Enos Slaughter (with brothers from NNCK and Sunburned), Izititiz, and Piegeons, the man has made a dent in the New York shamble folk that's for sure. This tape show's a wide range of everything from his off-kilter, ringing classical guitar work to bent up mixes of swirling static, dog barks, jingled bells and jangled drums, and slowly building into the intense fuzz of the B-side only to end with a warped keyboard demo jam at the end. Strange is only the beginning. Edition of 50 tapes in full-color wrap-around 'Wappenhalter-style' sleeves laid on leaves picked from the summit of Mt. Jeez and tied shut with twine."
-cfe
killed by toth vol 1 -mad monk – cdr – 10$
65+ minute continuous mix of psych, punk and real people jams
from James Toth
v/a - inner ends of the coils - nothing out there- 2xcdr – 15$
a guitar compilation featuring :
Ashtray Navigations
Century Plants
Expo '70
Gart & Seekatze
Jeff Gburek
Guanaco
Steve Gunn & Heidi Diehl
Michel Henritzi
Melmac
Michael Northam
Nappe
Poldr
Przewalski's Horses
RST
Savage Sons Of Wallonie (Tom Carter & Paul Labrecque)
Sun Stabbed
Artwork here (handmade and numbered double gatefold).
Yeah, I know... another guitar compilation ! Of course, the purpose of n.o.t.#13 is not to present a compendium of "the best guitar players around" - the idea is more to gather a group of, though usually not linked together, akin sound artists in that they are more interested into the shadowy sides of playing, than into virtuosity. Accidents, silences, larsens, improvisation, amplifier hums, sometimes "bad" playing and wobbliness...
And all the while, the artists featured here have the unique ability, while being always open to experimentation and research, to develop a craft and an ensemble of techniques of their own, making them both experimenters and performers.
-n.o.t.
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