caboladies - psychic birthmark - smooth tapes - cdr - 6$
caethua - queenly women crowned and uncrowned -abandon ship records – cass - 5$
Cold marriages of growing up in the snow covered cornfields of upstate New York, moldy nylon-stringed guitars, a hissing blend of flea market electronics, rusted pots and pans, field recordings of a doomed boat trip down the St. Lawrence River, birds in the ice covered trees, the groan of an overheating diesel engine, shortwave radio in the middle of nowhere, busted cars sliding in the sleet of Indiana, the soft hum of a dusty living room, bugs and reptiles singing from Florida swamps, and a sorrowful voice leading us into the frozen ground.
Recorded, written, produced and mixed by Clare Hubbard, featuring the accompanying sounds of Justin Clifford Rhody and friends. Queenly Women Crowned and Uncrowned is Caethua's 3rd release. A split LP of Caethua and Shep and Me will be coming soon, as well as a cassette release on Nightpeople Records. Caethua is also the alto saxophonist of Indiana free noise junk jazz band DBH and solo lyricist of disgusting rap project SPORTS. Visit www.saxwand.com, www.friendsandrelativesrecords.com, www.myspace.com/caethua, and www.bluesanct.com for other releases.
-asr
cahier orchestra – ciudad – phantom limb recordings - cdr - 6$
Marko of FInland has been making music for a long time (with releases on Foxglove,
Cut Hand and Sloow Tapes) But he has never made a collection of sounds as brutal
and intense at this yet.
Phantom Limb is honored to release this truly epic set of sonic mayhem,
blasted rhythms and blurred soundscapes. Glitched out bliss from across the sea!
-phantom limb
cahier - jour ouvrable ii - foxglove - cdr - 8$
finland's marko neumann aka cahier returns with his second blast of warm air straight from the arctic. lilting drones that are conjured from a variety of sources, some electronic, some acoustic, dance like magical lights just out of reach, but close enough to feel. this sequel to cahier's first foxglove offering puts the puzzle pieces in place so that the listener can hear the full scope of his range. the short bursts are like chance meetings in the street; like a place of refuge from the cold. cahier's latest continues neumann's quest to touch the sun
-digitalis
cahier –höyryveturi – cut hands - cdr - 10$
Cahier is shaping up to be a grandmaster of contrast, dude’s got a thorough vision of how to soundtrack his growingly fucked up mind. This new joint collects some of his most extremely damaged psycho thoughts. Broken guitar amps singing through layers and layers of grey noise, piercing feedback symphonies which he actually manages to shape into melodic weirdo jams and a cold and wasted feeling throughout the whole thing. A fucked up fairytale for society’s lepers. We all know we’ll end up dead anyway. Edition of 50, black and white photo art, tragic.
-cut hands
caldera lakes - untitled - blackest rainbow – cass - 10$
Slick new project featuring Eva of Kevin Sheilds and Brittany of Married In Berdichev!... swamp and hive noise laced with lulling vocal drones.. bleeding to full obliteration. Almost two insane opposites making one very cool new vibe... Totally wild! Edition of 80 in full colour sleeves.
-br
caldera lakes - s/t - 905 tapes - cass - 6$
new born duo of eva aguila (kevin shields / gang wizard) and brittany gould (married in berdichev) lay down some of the most beautiful / hideous / beautiful again experimental music around. the two create juxtopositions of gently sung vocals with scrapyard convulsions layered overtop of each other with results that are next level hypnotic. covers printed on vellum paper.
-905
cam deas - for the silver waters, sing! - blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$
Second CDR from Cam on BR... this time around Cam focuses on 12 string guitar compositions (kinda like a tribute to Robbie Basho) rather than the more far out folk drone of 'Five Bells' (also reissued this month!). The kid has got some sweet finger picking going on... and at times almost has this kinda weird post folk aggro grunge twang to it, which I guess makes no sense, but check it out and you'll get me (maybe?). Closing track 'Raag Of The Sillver Waters' builds from the previous two 12 stringers, but Cam brings his own far out qualities to it with vocal drones, reverse looping, and bizarre bubbling bleeps. A definite for any fans of James Blackshaw, Robbie Basho... Edition of 98 hand numbered copies on pastel paper.
-br
cam deas - five bells - blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$
2nd edition with different artwork to the first run... The initial 2 seconds of the opener on this 6 track blazer from Cam are screeching electronics which vanish instantly into a seance of a doomed village, with the leader strumming out some bleak herbal drug folk ritual/haze. Track two, 'Where We've Been' blurs into an intense dronescape, smearing into a lighter, more psychedelic, drone piece 'Where We're Going'. 'The Days Are Over' has a floating drone back, layered on top with guitar ala Jack Rose, Blackshaw etc. Title track 'Five Bells' follows burning the guitar into a flaming rage, with a few remaining strum yelps struggling through the flames. The disc closes with a sweet guitar piece entitled 'Two More Days', again similar to Blackshaw and Rose. Cam just moved up for the smoke to the steel city and a bunch of us just discovered his musical vibes. He has a bunch of things dropping soon, and had a split release with Sindre Bjerga not so long ago. The dude has the skills. Limited to 60.
-br
neil campbell & john clyde evans - live at transmission gallery, glasgow - chocolate monk - cdr - 10$
Recorded 22 November 1998 this is a bliss blister of cello, violin, tapes and voice. Like some shortwave radio broadcast straight from the porch, the duo conjuer up Sticky Foster as a 'ghost presence'. Karen Constance done did the artwork. You needs it.
-cm
For me this is the ultimate Can't LP. Its a sound cornucopia of everything Jessica Rylan does so beautifully... amazing scraped and destroyed analog synth-laden vocals, lovely singer/songwriter stylings with acoustic guitar, and Shaggs-style garage gusto! This record features Jessica's own homemade synthesizers including the Little Boy Blue! One of my favorite Weird Forest releases to date! Beautiful color covers by Abide Visuals and a fabulous inner sleeve with artwork by Jessica.
-wf
jefre cantu-ledesma - shining skull breath- students of decay – cdr –8$
"Shining Skull Breath" documents the latest solo recordings by Root
Strata label head and founding Tarentel member Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Those familiar with Jefre's recent solo outings, such as "The Garden
of Forking Paths" and"Floating Weeds," will recognize the stunning,
wistful, barely-there melodies which abound on those albums. However,
this time around these slow orbits of somber, evocative tone are
submerged in boiling vats of molten fuzz and static making for an
increasingly dynamic and bewitching listen. This truly is brilliant, potent,
deep listening of the highest order.
-studentsofdecay
capricorn wings - precenc - abandon ship records – cass - 5$
"The Capricorn Wings project is the same duo as Ghost Brâmes of the Cerf 's Florian Tositti and Jacob Garret from Angers, France. A different perception of style, where they play to construct similar sounds and to manipulate a dark atmosphere. In a little bit more acoustic/soft way, these two long improvisations were played during the latest procession of the duo in May 2007.
car commercials - judy's dust-cenotaph – lp – 21$
Judy’s Dust is the debut full-length LP by Car Commercials of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Here, the duo of David Sutton (Friends and Family, Current Amnesia, Ladderwoe) and Daniel DiMaggio (Home Blitz) expand on the rock/mumble strategies from the self-released Jar 7” (Leaf Leaf, 2006) and a couple cassettes kicked around the New Jersey underpasses. Contains twelve songs of missing spaces, too much Center Ice, drums and wires, varispeed recording techniques, and facing backwards – all from the other side of the E Street. Limited to 300 copies including 25 with handmade cover art.
-cenotaph
car commercials – black 93 – fuck it tapes – cass – 8$
New Jersey no rock junk jams from David Sutton(Friends and Family, Current Amnesia) and Daniel DiMaggio(Home Blitz)
8 tracks in 25 min. limited to 100. what a mess!
-fit
eric carbonara - This May Be The End/Long Hallway, Three Slightly Open Doors - new american folk hero – 3" cdr – 7$
This May Be The End is a tapestry of intricately repeating guitar
phrases woven into layers of interlocking, syncopated, phase in/phase
out patterns...a melodic rhythm that will keep your head bobbing as
much as spinning. Melodic lines (often expressed through layered
ebows) enter as quickly as they depart, leaving no central theme
except the interlocking Reichian pattern. This may be the end feels
almost like two pieces of music with a bridge of synthesized waves
between the two patterns, the latter being a more subtle come down to
the vortex of chaotic bliss in the first section.
Long Hallway, Three Slightly Open Doors is a step in a different
direction, without a central rhythmic or melodic theme, the piece is a
beautifully meandering stumble of notes falling from the guitar. A
perfect counterpart to the first piece's tenseness, Long Hallway is
loose, patient and indirect about it's objectives, causing the
listener to react more than anticipate.
Recorded in his home studio, Nada Sound Studio, from 2003 to 2006,
both pieces are a far cry from Carbonara's solo guitar work, showing
his depth as an arranger/composer in the studio beyond that of a solo
improviser.
cars - rayon records – cdr – 6$
Attacking Drumset/percussion duo of Patrick Farmer(Good Anna) and Pascal Nichols
walter carson - weighted ghost - nurse ettiquete - cass - 6$
Epic follow-up/companion piece to the notably outstanding "Recalcitrants" Gods of Tundra LP, as well as possibly the final addition in the infamous WEIGHTED GHOST series; available for complete public consumption. and argueably, one of the best in the thick mystery series. oddly calls to mind some assorted Pierre Henry & Allan Bryant composistions. W.C. claims to record his works in various bedrooms; can only imagine how the colours must melt and the walls shake around him in resonance to his psychedelic madness. the carson man continues to shake minds and stir souls. edition of 88 hand-numbered copies.
-ne
tom carter & christian kiefer - a rather solemn promise - the great pop supplement - cd - 12.50$
"But what is revealed on tape from those few hours is simply remarkable: a
musical landscape that is intense, searching, and emotionally resonant in
ways that are unexpected and relevatory.
One of the two, Tom Carter, has spent his entire career in the world of
improvisational music, with his regular group Charalambides, as a solo
performer, and as a member of various other groups devoted to free
improvisation and psych-folk. The other, Christian Kiefer, is primarily
known for three releases on Australia’s legendary experimental music label,
Extreme, albums that waffle between folk-ambience soundscapes and
singer-songwriter material"
-gps
tom carter - skyline grinder - oscillation III series – three lobed – cd - 10$
tom carter and shawn david mcmillen - legless mother and the spotted lamb vs the great american cocksucker bird - blackest rainbow – cassette - 9$
Collaboration between two awesome forces in psychedelic music and new weird America scenes, Tom Carter plays in Charalambides, and Texas based Shawn David McMillen played/plays in Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast and The Friday Group. This is out there, guitar pluckery, vocal insanity and field recordings... collaboration from way back in 1999. This is one of the strangest and surrealest Blackest Rainbow releases so far, solely for Side B's bursts of laughter with flowing water in the background... truly bizarre. Sleeve by McMillen, with handnumbered insert. Handnumbered edition of only 77 copies.
-br
christina carter / pocahaunted - nnf - lp -12$
Been beautifully blissed on this pairing for months now and we’re amped it’s finally public unveiling time. Christina Carter has trekked around this country (and planet) countless times in the past decade plus, both by herself and with Tom Carter in Charalambides, and the constant gypsy-drifting has weathered her song-stories down into spare, spiral reflections on life, death, and afterlife. Here she lays down four perfect vignettes of acoustic guitar pattern, softly sung desperation, and dangerous intimacy. A beatific bring-down. Sisters-with-voices Pocahaunted handle the B side wax, and their two tracks span the psych-ward spectrum from doomy warpath exile (“Sweat Lodge”) to octave-climbing estrogen ecstasy cloud-tripping (“Silk Fog Traveler”). Both were recorded by Bobb Bruno at Eagle Rock HQ across summer ’07 and cling like cotton to the memory banks. Edition of 500.
-black vinyl-
-nnf
cave titans - s/t - american grizzly – cdr – 7$
"Journey through a frenzy of energetic rock n' roll fuzz guitar and drum machine stoner-psych."
century plants – sounds system sound – tape drift – cdr – 7$
sound system sound" CDR - Windswept noise, hidden melodies, amp rumble, scraping, and utterly beautiful droned out bliss. Starts off sparse and spooky, but by the end of the journey, it's a noise/drone/ecstatic freedom fest.
-tape drift
century plants – fingers – phantom limb recordings - cdr - 6$
Another upstate New York free-form group (must be something in the water?), Century Plants' two members hail from
Albany and lay down some heavily crazed guitar action on this release (their second one). Featuring members of
Burnt Hills, Century Plants have crafted a diverse world out of just three tracks, showing a complexity only outweighed
by the passion that created it.
-phantom limb
century plants - without mercury - abandon ship records – cass - 5$
Taking time off from their psych guitar strangling duties in Burnt Hills, Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare's Century Plants offer their 5th release, a near hour of Zen space, drone, noise and drift.
"In every CP release, the room is the organizing instrument. This is no exception as the clicks, hums, bumps, shuffles, and scrapes of the CP bunker echo the textural guitar passages, industrial clang and FX loop and skreech. A more meditative and psychedelic excursion than previous releases, this is a HEAVY exploratory trip, perfect for maximum zone-out.", how would it sound? Probably a lot like this release-- gritty, droney, and mysterious."
- Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare
century plants – bloodrise - peasant magik - 3" cdr -5$
Howling monolithic massive live set from this explosive duo. Nightmarish fog cutter sonics ebb and throb with a dark sinister undertow... unlike anything else you’ve heard from them. This one documents them opening for Dead Machines in summer 07. Molten lava inspiration was flowing down into the basement that night, and the proof is right here. Total power focus. Echoes of Robedoor, Throbbing Gristle, Birchville Cat Motel, and countless other sonic terrorists can be heard, but Century Plants stir things up into their own unique brand of madness. The 3" cdr is painted black and wrapped in a foldout sleeve held. 3" CDR Edition of 100
-pm
century plants - inversions – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
Latest from Albany guitar duo whose six string damaging has often shred the guitar beyond recognition. For this outing, however, Century Plants plug in, and allow their guitars to be guitars. Psych raga, melting icebergs of roaring drone, metallic strum and clang, oceanic melody and even a helping of pastoral song melody separate this from previous smash ups. Hardiman and Hare create these hypnotic states from the ground up, building their sound out of pure improvisation. Oh yeah, the guitars don't always sound like guitars!
-ikuisuus
ceylon mange - the maiming path - hp cycle – lp -$15
Ceylon Mange is the trio of Dylan Nyoukis (Chocolate Monk proprietor and sound molder in Blood Stereo, Decaer Pinga), Karen Constance (Blood Stereo, Smack Music 7) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt). The Maiming Path extends from the group's previous mind melts with two side long (de)constructions that are assembled from a variety of mangled loops and electronics, guitar feedback/slaughter and cromagnon vocals. The results are a murky stew, as each emerging sound creeps upon the listener like a blackened sloth nightmare. It's the type of organic brain tangle that is rarely unleashed by the spirits these days. The LP is pressed in an edition of 650 and housed in a full-colour printed sleeve featuring Karen's outsider artwork.
- hp cycle
changeling & nackt insecten - trans atlantice mindmelt vol 1 -sick head - cass – 9$
Noisedroners from the USA & Scotland unite via the modern technological wonders of cassette tape and snail mail.
-sickhead
changeling - on the other side of you - monorail trespassing - cass - 6$
changeling - into great peace - nnf - cass - 5$
Ex-Texan Roy Tatum has been holing up in un-air conditioned apartments mumbling out his bleak loner blues drift for the past couple years, but his most recent-ish outpourings have found him plumbing even foggier inner vistas (see Five Thousand Nights, On The Other Side Of You, etc), and Into Great Peace may be the ultimate Changeling surrendering to date. A pair of blurry, beautiful guitar meditations that tread water in the sky, rippling with murmurs and weird waves, cycling through a lost, narcoleptic wash of reverb atmospherics and mirage vibrations. A slow-motion migration from new age depths to ancient heights. Let go. Pro-manufactured aqua cassettes with seaweed-green shell art in a Tatum-designed J-card. Hand-numbered edition of 200.
-nnf
chaob - s/t - foxglove - cdr - 8$
this supergroup of sorts recorded this, their first album, in october of 2005 in portland, oregon. consisting of mike tamburo, matt mcdowell, and world's honey owens and adam forkner. the results are monolithic. two sprawling jams that illuminate the night sky with their own vivid lightshow. these massive drones are dense and subtle, with each hypnotic change commanding the listener's full attention. on their own, each of these artists are major league talents, but put them in a room together and they're a different monster. just one listen to chaob and you'll feel the electricity in the air.
-digitalis
charles ball - love affair with lieven's sweaters - bread and animals –cass – 8$
in love with my garderobe. a weird collection of space sounds, tape
slime and nonsense thrills. like three brains making music in several
directions. this dude is the best, co-runs the best label (BENNIFER
EDITIONS), does the best artwork, and he knows it. the tape comes with
sports trading cards. it's the collectors choice!
-breadandanimals
chartreuse- summit - thor's rubber hammer - 3" cdr - 4$
Drew Smith, drummer for the righteous, dirty noise-thrash/stoner-punk band Gasmask & Matchsticks, reveals something less brash. Multiple waves of electric guitar worshiping the sunrise, reflective organ drones on codeine, and graceful textures that muddle the area between ambience and melody. Artwork by Drew Smith.
-trh
cherry blossoms – s/t –black velvet fuckere* - lp -11$out of stock
"At long last, here is the debut LP from The Cherry Blossoms, who describe themselves as "Middle-Tennessee's finest anarchic post neo-skiffle collective specializing in kazoo-exotica." They are the musical heirs of Dock Boggs' visceral holler; they share the true gut-sung honesty of Bosavi guitar band music; they are a Dixie-fried Arkestra with out-of-tune acoustic guitars replacing every saxophone and a kazoo in place of Sun Ra's mellotron. This LP finally brings to proper format their most celebrated and celebratory songs, from interstellar boogie ("Rockin' Rocket Ship") to agitational architectural conservation anthem ("Golden Windows"), The Cherry Blossoms offer the OTHER Nashville Sound, the one that a multi-million dollar industry and a million pairs of snakeskin boots will never notice and can never corrupt. With only handmade releases and limited touring, the band has made fans and friends of the likes of Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), Will Oldham, Josephine Foster, and David Tibet (Current 93). That's an extremely short list – few who have heard the songs and voices of Peggy Snow, John Allingham, and the legion other Cherry Blossoms past and present have been immune to the contagious sound of the most honest band in America."
*coreleased by SIX labels
Apostasy Recordings AP022
blackvelvetfuckererecordings
Breaking World Records #100
Consanguineous Records
Hank the Herald Angel Recordings hank007
Yeay! 017
child bride - the bell witch - american grizzly – cdr - 7$
chiliad - wilderness of mirrors - sick head - cdr – 8$
This was all set for C60 before I realised the reflective properties of the master disc were integral to Chiliad's realisation as he rested among the mirrors. Organ elation from John Cromar, overtone city.
-sh
chora and lanterns - baron grooner – blackest rainbow – cdr - 10$
Brand new collaboration from the UK blurters... 3 jams of fuzzy drug psychedelia and shake 'n' noise featuring the Sheffield legend that is ROB FROM CHORA who has now fled for the big city itself. Laser printed yellow sleeves,
limited to 60 hand number
chora - baptist grip - singing knives – cd - 10$
post-noise gamelan blues
chora / on fire - split - curor - cdr - 9$
Primitive ritualistic freakouts from Chora coupled with On Fire's extended semi-improvisatory song forms. Edition of 50 in elegant oversized card wallets.
-curor
Christian Family Underground - for the depth of your union… - woodsist - lp -14$
Summer 06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at
Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as
characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic
sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However
also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken
song, electric guitar/conga “rock,” and an odd ghostly sheen coating
the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: “I remember when
we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into
the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from
this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording,
which was like… humankind’s natural state. And then thinking about
Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he
resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents no man
can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for
us some fantasy of fulfillment that would carry us through the weekend
like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed
in the deepest bluest sea….” Jacket by designer Susan Cianciolo and
screened inserts by Stellar, NL.
-woodsist
christian science minotaur -map 1 of 9 - little fury things - cdr - 3$
over the last seven years xsm have been horrifying the local science/sound community in their vain attempt to turn gold into straw. this is the first of a series of nine "map" eps that will chronicle their progress and eventual messianic downfal
-lft
the circle and the point - and so on forever - house of alchemy – cdr – 9$
Post-Terrastock 6, two weary travelers holed up in a spare bedroom with a random cache of instruments and various noisemakers in an attempt to unleash some of the beer-fueled steam that had built up over the previous weekend. The music here comes from two delirious afternoons, still weary from a lack of sleep, minds still overloaded from a weekend of mania- both music related and beyond. Floating acoustic guitars buried in the murk of distorted electric guitars. Featuring Grant Capes from (VxPxC), these are ideas six years in the making, now just starting to unwind. Adorned with major cover art by Darryl Norsen.
limited to 123
-house of alchemy
circle brothers - the dream ends when the phone rings -morc records -cassette -5$
probably the last instrumental release by this singer-improviser. might be of interest for fans of azusa plane, windy and carl, growing, drekka, karina esp and roy montgomery.
-morc
circle brothers / zent one - split -almost halloween time / morc records - lp - 8$
The first morc 12" brings you the finest recordings by both zent one and circle brothers yet. it is a split release with the italian label almost halloween.
Zent one brings their sound very close to perfection: better melodies, a tighter songs, a more coherent collection of songs, all with piano and guitar, and one has a beautiful vocal part as well. The proof that zent one is a very talented band.
Circle brothers is also a lot tighter than on the previous output. songs are more controlled than ever, which results in a sound more leaning towards roy montgommery.
-morc
cja & lee noyes – the dark pool – root don lonie for cash– 3" cdr – 6$
cja - metalwork – root don lonie for cash– 3" cdr – 6$
Industrial pioneers and avant-garde musical geniuses!
-rdlfc
cja - vintermånederne - celestial jars –cdr –8$
ltd to 50
claudio two – sniper at the gates of dawn - self –cdr – 10$
Some folks may claim that improvisation is all about LISTENING, but Claudio Two – a new project starring partners Chazz Improv and Norma Bates (aka James and Jessica Toth, formerly of WWVV), and featuring the first appearance in over ten years by former Golden Calves vocalist Max “Mev” Wicker – is all about the opposite. Recorded in various spurts over the fall of 2007, Sniper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut CDR by Claudio Two, on which the band layers individual single tracks recorded solo and combines them unheard (a la Durian Durian), and, elsewhere, uses this source material to try to recreate this accidental music while in a group setting. Mixed in glorious mono. 150 copies, no reissues. $10
-mm
claudio two – contemporary suicide music - mad monk–cdr – 14$
Brand new dead end carpetbagger blues by these born losers. This third Claudio Two album (following the unreleased and indefinitely shelved Jazz Improve CDR) finds the crew flexing their muscles a bit - from wasted bedroom metal riffs carelessly layered over each other to create a zit cream vortex, to synth / occult pieces inspired by John Carpenter soundtracks and Ritalin snorting, to atmospheric black metal frightmares, and decrepid blooz rock, it's all here on this brief CD, which may or may not include the band's first actual cover song, by French geniuses Vietnam Veterans. Full color collage covers by local college radio personality (actually he just steals CDs from the station) Blake Conley. Only 150 copies of this one, hurry!
-mm
claudio two - the corpse - blackest rainbow – one sided cass - 10$
New band featuring Chazz Improv and Norma Bates (aka James and Jessica Toth aka Wooden Wand and Satya Sai), and Max "Mev" Wicker, so far this little crew has just had two jams out on Toth's own Mad Monk label... Here you got two tracks of weirdo psyche drone blues, compared by James to some of the Hassara jams, pretty damn slick, I played this in my local record and book store and they compared it to the an old skool German loner, although the name slips my mind. Limited to 100 hand numbered copies with black printed pastel paper sleeves.
-br
claudio 2 – hot lead -mad monk – cdr – 12$
Latest and best from this mysterious tribe finds them in full synthesizer horror mode. Taking cues from the soundtracks of John Carpenter, the mutant space techno of Allan Bryant, the time-lapse mesmerism of Robert Fripp, and the intrepid synthesizer experiments of Ruth White, Hot Lead deals in nightmarish arpeggios, shapeshifting noise and ominous melodic variations. Recorded direct to 8 track - no boring, sterile microhouse polish here - and comprised of mostly solo tracks by individual members. Complete with dreamy Sisters of Mercy fanboy cover art. Limited to 150 copies,
-mm
the clear spots - princetown air - ruralfaune – cdr - 11$
First ever recording by the Pennsylvanian quartet outside the Deep Water Acres camp. A live session of rural noise that builds a massive freestyle edifice. An intense & experimental work made of guitarz and heavy drums.
The Clear Spots are so amazing that they were on the top of my favorite releases of 2006 ; sorry but I love ‘em !
-ruralfaune
cloudland canyon / mythical beast - split - nnf - 12" - 12$
This fair pairing has been in the wings for a few years now by our count, but tripped things come to those who wait, so better late-as-shit than never. Cloudland Canyon have been spanning geographies (Brooklyn, Germany, Memphis) and genres (krautrock, drone, psych-pop) since at least 2002, but only recently has their technological studio-sorcery began to gather steam and affect the more far-flung populations (powered in no small part by their partnership with Kranky Records). Anyone who's gotten lost in CC's latest, Lie In Light, knows this duo is currently at the pinnacle of their potency, and their offering here ("Harvest Hunt") is a fantastic mechanical motorik ascent into symphonic hypnosis. Comparisons to classic Teutonic psych outfits of yesteryear are warranted but inadequate: this is music of today, for tomorrow. On the flip, beloved Not Not Fun in-laws Mythical Beast return to the vinyl spotlight with two luminous soul meditations conjured during the past winter's grey maze of days. Both ballads burn with Corinne's voice-for-the-voiceless defiance, wind-draped and incensed by Jeremiah and Aaron's subtle electric string energies. Naked music for open spaces, empty skies, endless nights. High-audio 45 RPM LPs (NNF's first!) in matte-jackets with cloud-skull artwork by Blackblack beauty Diva Dompe. Edition of 415.
-nnf
daniel clough - stories - reverb worship – cdr –11$
This is my latest Reverb Worship release.Its by Daniel Clough and
called "Stories".Daniel is a tremendous experimental electoacoustic
noise musician formerly known as bricksKILL.The album features five
tracks of shimmering drones,sound sources,noise and bristling ambient
textures.The cd comes in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies with
stencilled paper sleeves and cd labels.
-reverb worship
coachfingers - one for the road – sound@one – cdr – 18$
Tour only CDR Spring US tour 07
members of nnck
coal hook - s/t - there is no trouble in denmark – cd - 12.50$
a bi-continental, willing-to-travel duo hailing from somewhere close to the eye of the storm with news from beyond instant satisfaction.
in the heat of copenhagen’s post-millennium christiania, ron schneiderman (sunburned hand of the man, aethr myth’d et al) and experimental madman & truth-teller jørgen teller (… & the empty stairs) discovered the vibe for coal hook during a one-time performance in december, 2006, with causa sui under the moniker pewt’r jjjjj.
the famed venue byens lys and it’s fire-heated wood-house cult-ambience went straight into the blood of this new being. from there the duo met at teller’s city studio a couple of days later for this session of blistering music that proved there was a newly formed bond merely at it’s inauguration. the course has been set for this string to be untied and the story to be opened.
the music of coal hook has all the nerve of today’s free rock movement at hands. both contributors have long lasting relationships with the music of free spirits in both improv, alt rock, psychedelica, dub, noise and folk music.
coal hook’s autonymous debut offers glances into dark places of insane beauty lighted by flashes of white sonic bolts spewed from two guitars’ glowing strings. odds are thurston moore will like this.
-tintid
Charles Cohen & Ed Wilcox "Those Are Pearls That Were
His Eyes - ruby red - cd – 12.50$
Real CD from magic duo CC&EW. Super beautifully dense
all percussion/synth set. While listening, the sound
will fill different gaps of space on your room that
never before were filled. Unbelievable stuff!
turner cody - recording 1 - bye records – cdr - 8$
turner cody - this springtime and others - bye records – cdr - 8$
turner cody - the cody choir - bye records – cdr - 8$
turner cody - 60 seasons -by records –cd – 14$
compilation of early tracks
turner cody - buds of may - digitalis arts and crafts - cd -12$
‘Buds of May’ was originally self-released on cdr back in 2004 but has now been lovingly re-mastered and re-packaged by Digitalis so those of you who didn’t manage to track down the original issue will finally get to hear this exemplary work. Turner Cody may not yet be a name familiar to many, but thanks to extensive touring of the US and Europe he is causing quite a stir on the underground. Indeed the Herman Dune bassist was spotted by none other than Wooden Wand himself James Toth (who has recently signed to the Nonesuch imprint) who proceeded to bag a full LP for his own Mad Monk imprint. With this buzz around him it comes as perfect timing that Digitalis launch ‘Buds of May’, an album which in many ways is Cody’s most complete and most accessible.
Taking influence from the world of classic singer songwriters, from Bob Dylan to Townes Van Zandt with maybe a little of Will Oldham thrown in for good measure, Cody proceeds over the course of the epic ‘Buds of May’ to vocalize his own views on life. He is firstly a storyteller, and in a world where mainstream lyrical content is more banal than it has ever been, Cody comes as a breath of fresh air. Simply produced with guitar and bass underpinning the tracks, it is Cody’s distinctive singing voice which carries each piece as he creates distinctive melodies that stay with you for some time after the record has reached a close. Right now with artists such as Jose Gonzales haunting the mainstream airwaves it seems almost impossible not to stumble across new singer-songwriters whenever you flick through the racks of a high street store, but what Turner Cody offers is a unique voice in a crowd of copyists. Cody is at once cynical and hopeful and should offer an antidote to a tired, apathetic world. Unforgettable music
-digitalis
turner cody - who went west - self released – cdr -8$
turner cody - suzannah -boy scout recordings – 7" – 5$
coldstream - self titled -amp tower recordings – cd – 6$
Using computers, guitars and field recordings amongst other sound sources, Coldstream presents 4 tracks of drones, and dark atmospheres
http://www.myspace.com/amptowerrecordings
cold turkey - transmission - blackest rainbow – cass - 10$
Cold Turkey is a altar ego for Michigan's Andrew Coltrane, who's had a stack of stuff coming out on labels like Sound Holes, John Olson of Wolf Eyes American Tapes, and his own killer Hemitage Tapes print, he's a fine as fuck example of the noise leaking from that part of the US. Searing sludge electronics and tapes, minimal bleep moments leading into junk jazz sax spillage. Limited to 50 copies, blackened swooshed and splattered gold textured paper, again each individual with hand numbered stamped backs. This release is on insane reel to reel style vintage 80s cassettes, pretty damn fresh... F'real.
-br
cold turkey -shorty #5- mjc - cass - 7$
andrew coltrane blows ssax from the bowels of hell
andrew coltrane - other side of your face - chondritic - cass - 7$
andrew coltrane - gongs of violence - hanson - cass - 6$
andrew coltrane - symphony of black holes - cut hands - 3" cdr - 9$
New entry into the vastly expanding discography of this Michigan basement wrecker. Check out his brutal burners on American Tapes, RRR and Middle James Co., come right back if you’re man enough and try this one right here. Symphony of Black Holes delivers crude streams of skullcracking sewer noise. Not a ray of light to be found in this putrid dirthole, all black, no joy. 50 copies in mini dvd cases. Artwerk by fartjerk.
-ch
andrew coltrane and mike khoury - 1000 basements -detroit improvisation – cdr – 7$
cut up tape work and violin
AC/DP - high voltage- mjc - 12 inch - 14$
andrew coltrane & david payne
AC busts weird slow string reverb that vibrates vertebrae
while Payne layers acoustic guitar scraped stretched screeched
for a spaced out creeper weed that continues to haunt ~
side b=
warbles feedback waste & tape disgust decay
insect hum & rumble fish.
limited to 150
totally analogue in production
play at any speed
mastered for vinyl by Aardvark on 4/20
guarenteed to get you stoned locked in the groove~
-mjc
artbook#3 ac/dp - mjc - zine - 4$
more xerox draggin of Andrew Coltrane collages
remix'd recollaged reanimated retarded by Paynehead
5 8x10" folded/stapled pgs; b/w + green cover
limited to 23
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common eider, king eider - how to build a cabin- yik yak – cd – 10$
With raw viola, haunting vocals, and noise guitar, Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) has created an exquisite album that sounds perfectly at home in the natural world between dusk and dawn. Packaged in a hand-sewn book of drawings by Fisk entitled "How to Build a Cabin.
-yikyak
concern - s/t - students of decay – cdr –8$
This self-titled release is the debut by Concern, a
solo endeavor by Gordon Ashworth, who is perhaps
best known for issuing complex harsh noise missives
as Oscillating Innards. That said, Concern is an entirely
different affair. Here, Ashworth's principal focus is on
the drone - shimmering, multi-layered and dynamic,
he stretches loooong tones into gorgeous sonic tendrils
which dissolve or implode into impossibly nostalgic
field recordings and static. Recorded throughout the
years 2004 - 2007 and, surely, not to be missed.
-sod
cones –ice skating elephants– ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
Cones features Marcel Turkowsky and Ulf Schutte both members of Datashock and involved in other projects/labels like Aosuke, Tapetektoniks, UUHUU, Hui Tales Collection, Leo Mars and more. Their "Iceskating Elephants" shows four different cosmic soundtravels taken from their March Recording Sessions. When they are not parading into burlesque musicalia of beautyful underwater storiedrones read in muddy submarines floating to Kurosawa´s spiderwebcastle, they are visiting more concrete places like walking along howling swamps and forestlike playgrounds. And at the end we are still iceskating with Elephants on floating morellas to achieve a new freedom. Their Debut for Ikuisuus. In the mix: Contact Mics, Tapeloops and Goes, Memorytapes, Fieldrecordings and Electronics.
New sound from the land of kraut!
- ikuisuus
cones - die zacken - insult recordings - 3" cdr - 8$
"Die Zacken" documents a live performance by Marcel Turkowsky and Ulf Schutte as Cones. The last show on their European Tour with the collective Datashock which they are part of. The show happened to be in the legendary Zakk Club Bremen in the north of Germany. Marcel Turkowsky focusing on the use of his personal memory tapes played in prepared walkmen. He blends layers of fieldrecordings from broken icelakes and attack and tone tapesignals as he calls them and transforms it into a vibrante soundsculpture. Joined by Ulf Schuttes pulsating feedbacksystem it becomes a 20min piece in duration. It might recall the experience of a heavy walk through an harsh icestorm along with elephantines or horncreatures - howling and rumbling around your frozen summer ears. Cones are recapturing a hazy, time worn memory and you might have the feeling the recording machine emotionally plays along. Recorded straight to the Turkowsky Tape Recorder. Music removed from prescribed aesthetics that floods you with the beauty of life its ambivalence . A hallucinatory trip. Moore Kegel.
-majmua
cooper jones - never dirty - blackest rainbow – cdr - 12$
Third release on our own label. CooperJones is the Manchester based duo of Sophie Cooper and Kelly Jones. Five tracks of experimental folk fight outs and one blast of improvised jam noise featuring Pascal of Stuckometer. Comes in folded printed pastel paper jackets with artwork by Patrick Milsom, limited to 100 hand numbered copies.
-blackest rainbow
cooper jones / cars - split - is night people – cass - 5$
This split cassette captures just a little slice of the Manchester/Nottingham/Sheffield area young improv scene. Got the pleasure of meeting and performing on the same bill with some of these folks back in March and recognized right away that something interesting was brewing there. Total duo action going on with this release, Sophie and Kelly kick out some epic intricate folky guitar action as Cooper Jones, and on the flip side Patrick and Pascal break on some sprawling percussion and drum storms as Cars. Lots of movement here, this is a long document, capturing the flow of what these two groups do. Silkscreened artwork by Ryan Garbage.
-inp
corsican paintbrush - lichens and moss - mymwly –cdr - $10
reissue of the first corsican paintbrush album , originaly released on foxglove . gorgeous , fragile assemblages of folk bones and murmers , whispers of minds without bodies , but never far from the earth, the soil, the realms under leaf and stone...beautiful
-mymwly
corsican paintbrush - twilight blue skies - mymwly –cdr - 10$ sold out
gorgeous ethnological forgeries from the husband and wife duo of brad rose and eden hemming rose. these gentle , free improvisations set the lister gently down amidst the dappled sunlight and sweet scents of a long forgotten time.truly beautiful , honest music for the tired ears of a dying civilization
-mymwly
corsican paintbrush - under bent limbs - digitalis - cd -12$
Tulsa, Oklahoma is probably one place you would not expect to find a bouzouki or a person who can play one. But thankfully for the spirit of international culture, husband and wife team Brad and Eden Rose live in that very city. They make music under many names (most notably the North Sea but also Wax Ghost, Golden Oaks, and Agilvsga), and with many friends (from Michael Donnelly of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood to Robert Horton (as Eastern Fox Squirrels)), but Corsican Paintbrush is purely their creation, their musical offspring. Combining lush instrumentation with clattering percussion and ramshackle beats, Corsican Paintbrush creates a new world of sound out of old world technology.
corsican paintbrush –diamonds –ruralfaune– cdr -10$
ltd85
my cat is an alien / valerio cosi - stories from the vacuum- black horizons – 7" - 7$
A truly ethereal pairing from Italy. While MCIAA has already established a massive offering in all formats, this 7"is Valerio's first vinyl appearance proper. His side is dominated by free jazz sax loops and trance vocals, with moments of twinkling percussion and electronic euphoria. An amalgamation of improv styles pulled off in a way only Valerio can. On the flip is a beautiful example of the lush guitar ambiance, wordless vocals, and alien space toy sound effects that the Opalio brothers are known for. Gold ink offset printing on metallic vellum, clear vinyl with gold ink on white pro-printed labels. Edition of 500.
-bh
tim coster – holding plants – ruralfaune – 3"cdr - 9$
From New-Zealand comes this fragile piece of Nature. This impressing audio work made of field recordings, environmental sounds and granular drones carry us to the microvegetal world where you can hear the plants grow.
This subtle journey on the ground of the Earth lets appear some mysterious textured sounds. Beautiful and cerebral
tim coster & nigel wright - CLaudia - 3" cdr - 10$
One seventeen minute long hit-single of slowly growing drone and hiss. Wispy layers build up and up and up, not into a noisy fury as such, but more along the lines of 90's shoegaze bands, or haunted lavender-smoked cathedral ambience.
This is a complete live set, recorded at the Wine Cellar, Auckland, NZ, 6th May 2007.
-claudia
cotton museum - no face in the bog – qbico - lp - 22$
"Far out electronic music for the third millenium ! the track on side A is side long and totally insane (don't know but i hear echoes of Kawabata's solo on qbico #11, could be a new step/continuation ?!), my amplifier's pointers never went so schizo-frenic ! side B start with a short electronic meditation thinned out by pure acid... the middle piece is long and it's grow on you, deeper and deeper... this futuristic rocket ends with a mezmerizing short track that was broadcasted as a loop on a pirate radio station for 8 consecutive months ! all in tune: the cover, the vinyl color, the music AND the creatures ! an exhibition (curated by Thurston Moore) of Chris Pottinger's fine artworks at been recently displayed at the latest No Fun Fest."
-qbico
courtis - (the name of this drone is hidden in your DNA) - ikuisuus – cdr – 8$
One long hypnotic drone by ex-Reynols member Anla Courtis.
anla courtis –live in christiania – beyond repair records – cass - 9$
Two live pieces recorded in Christiania free town, Denmark February 07. Immensely mind melting repeato-madness from ex-Reynols sound thinker playing mouth harp on one side and bursting deep psychedelic mutant tones on homemade violin on the other. Edition of 50, with full color artwork
-beyond repair
cousins of reggae - summah slamma/bowlcano - ohnonoise - lp -9$
debut from this montreal based 2 man mind fuck
utilizing guitar,drums, turntables and voice, the cousins pound out sweat drenched dirty rock
from under a sickening haze of overdriven everything.
imagine the classic rock stylings of fleetwood mac
mixed with the power and grit of noise rockers air conditioning or sightings, and you're just starting to get the picture.
This first edition of 300 records are housed in beautiful hand painted one of a kind jackets.
cousins of reggae / lubriphikatttor - split - galerie pache - lp - 15$
Brand new lp with dirty sounds from Cousins Of Reggae, Montreal based 2 man mind fuck. utilizing guitar, drums, turntables and voice. ( featuring Blake Hargreaves of dreamcatcher, Fluorescent Friends...& liam Thurston of Orphanage...) Go for a trip via 2 different pieces, heavy, loud, hit electric noise & fatal attack.
First vinyl release for parisian noise anti brutal pro violence
Lubriphikatttor (with members of Zaraz wam Zagram, TG, Napalm Jazz, Ero BABAa...) long tune ‘babypute’ / death of flowers & elaborated destruction.
split LP / edition of 319 /silkscreen cover / different colours & papers [Printomania]
artwork : Guillaume Constantin
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galerie pache
crank sturgeon - basement ape / dupe,terse, mashacoustic - faux paux recordings -2x 3"cdr - 7$
The prolific icthy has a new specimen, and this one's a whopper. Two EPs nearly lost to the depths of time packaged in a handmade booklet with color inserts, tightly wrapped in fishy fabric. Come'n get it, Huso.
-fp
Crappy Nightmareville –Neutron Dracula–black velvet fuckere - 7' - 5 $
13 gestating years past and CRAPPY NIGHTMAREVILLE's pod unfolds in full color via this 7" single which is not just their debut but also birth marks the first of a four part vinyl single series: an engraved introduction by way of alien-forcept exacavation of their Old Kentucky Womb. Prior stages spiraled from Public-Prank to Outer-Earth Music-Concret to Scaling-the-Scaur of Bavarian-Salt-Licks. Side A, "NEUTRON DRACULA", imagines the scene from gypsy classic Latcho Drom when children sing "We are the bloody nail in the foot of Jesus on the cross", only reinterpreted as a Saturday morning cartoon. Side B, "BLACK BEAM DUB", is smoke from a wounded nurse surrealing Sun Ra into a new form of dub music that will have you and your headphones installing a seatbelt into your couch for endless round trips. Crappy Nightmareville is one of Louisville's longest running aural magnetic-bananimals and shares drinking water with a huge cast of bands including The Web, Evergreen, The Belgian Waffles, Sapat and Kark. Beautiful post-nuclear fall-out full-color sleeve. Edition of 350
-bvf
crawlspace - rears its head - bread and animals –cdr – 8$
a space trip by these rock / no-rock heroes. relationships with other cool bands, including my favorite punkrock band THE GIZMOS (with killer tunes like HUMAN GARBAGE DISPOSAL, among others). the recent CRAWLSPACE cd on GULCHER is again a trip in the 70's rockvibe of the western coast. on the other hand, this cdr is two long cuts (one dating from late 90's, one from 2004), both very weird, spaced-out and utterly abstract. another nice view in the head of some ongoing, strong, clear heads of rockhistory. comes in shiny plastic and with full color artwork by the band.
-breadandanimals
alistair crosbie / bm / divine coils / family battle snake - soundholes – 2xcass – 10$
A = ALISTAIR CROSBIE
B = BM
C = DIVINE COILS
D = FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE
4 approaches to destroying time... ALISTAIR CROSBIE hits with a mammoth drone fuzz out / BM serve up a soup of slow moving industirial static / DIVINE COILS play it minimal squeezing the air out of your lungs / FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE destroy with a thug life side that pins you to the wall then leaves......... NO EXPLANATION.
Edition of 101.... black & white covers.... black & white tapes.....black & white spray
-soundholes
crow feathers / ville moskiitto - soundholes – cass – 8$
CF hits with one side long piece of electronic weirdness and blown guitar playing.... totally hard to pin down whats going on next.....
VM drops 2 pieces of beautiful tones generated in the far out reaches of Finland.....
edition of 98..... black, white and grey covers / b/w gold painted tape labels PURPLE tapes
crow feathers - imaginary scores- abandon ship records – 2x 3"cdr - 6$
"Pre-dawn bedroom synthesizer and guitar compositions from a North Carolina ex-pat currently exiled to Central Michigan. Imaginary Scores never stagnates in effortless emotionalism; instead melancholy passages trace the horizon for glints of hope, seeking resolution and solace. This collection exhibits my favorite long-form recordings from the past year. While these pieces were not created with the intent to function together as a cohesive album, when paired together in this manner, I found that they illuminate an ethereal, radiant quality for which I always strive."
- Brandon Miller
crystal stilts – s/t – woodsist – cd – 10$
Crystal Stilts started in Brooklyn in 2003 as Brad Hargett and JB Townsend. Not really trying to be a "band" they recorded and self-released their single "Shattered Shine" on their Feathery Tongue label in '04 with friend Sean Mafucci (producer of Gang Gang Dance, Psychic Ills, Kid Congo Powers etc.) With no shortage of lazy Jesus and Mary Chain and Factory records comparisons, (more like VU, Felt, and Blue Orchids) in 2005-06 they continued to play in New York with bands such as the Long Blondes, 1990s and The Monochrome Set and recorded a 4 song ep. Kyle Forrester (Ladybug Transistor etc. etc.) joined them at gigs playing organ as well. After a brief hiatus to record there back catalogue for upcoming LP (Slumberland) they adopted Andy Adler (who played bass on Eric Copeland of Black Dice fuzzpop outfit Ninjas) to rock the bass. After opening for the Clean in November, Frankie Rose (Vivian Girls) waltzed into their life to play the stand-up drums and complete the equation.
culver - she had blue eyes filled with blood - gold soundz – cdr – 10$
Another mind-numbing piece of black hole fuzz from the ever-reliable Culver.
Grabs you tight by the ankles and shakes you like a leaf...
-gold soundz
culver - house of black flowers -sick head - cass–8$
Two twenty++ min pieces on C60 from solo minimal drone maestro/ Marzuraan member/ Recent Sunroof! collaborator Lee Stokoe.
Ebbs, flows and evolves lk a warm slo-mo rush down yr spine. "The Corpse Wore Red" pulses hypnotically and sends subtle technicolour overtones to clarify yr vision. Flipside "Seina" enters and leaves with haunting delicate guitar lines centred around a dead-weight tone like the moment yr consciousness peaks being drawn out for all eternity!! Wonderful!
-sickhead
jazzfinger/culver & fordell research unit - split - blackest rainbow – lp - 20$
Brand new split LP featuring heavy hitting UK bleak dudes... A-Side is Jazzfinger's 'Killed In A Clear Sky', one solid slab of fucked up tapped guitar drone and distant errie whir... like a storm of electric feedback, slashes and cuts. Far out, and a real killer 20 odd minutes to make you lull out. B-Side is a collaboration between Culver and Fordell Research Unit, another side long piece, that starts off with some bassed up doom chugs and slogs that sound like fucking something that could lay down by some Southern Lord brutality, but then it punches you in the face with its distorted churning hell. Limited to 280 white label LPs in black sleeves with hideous brutal artwork by French.
-br
culver - the psychic - firstperson – 3" cdr -6$
Like an imaginary out-take from Alan Splet's work on the Eraserhead soundtrack, Lee Stokoe lays down some serious monochord drone. Dark, atmospheric and filled with glorious hidden tonalities, the jewels are buried way deep for those willing to take the plunge.
-frstprsn
culver - the witches ladder - small doses -3" cdr - 4$
The prolific Culver is Lee Stokoe, the bass player of Marzuraan. There have been several Culver releases on Lee’s own Matching Head Tapes label and most recently, an incredible full length composition called The Black Telephone Wire was released on At War With False Noise. I can’t recommend his work more highly. The Witches Ladder is a minimal, 17-minute, pulsating, mesmerizing drone composition. The cd comes packaged in a tri-fold vellum cover with insert card and vinyl sleeve. Limited, numbered edition of 131.
-sd
curlew - gussie - roartorio - lp - 16$
On a hot Minneapolis night in the summer of 2001, the legendary avant/jazz group Curlew played a scorching gig at the now-defunct Gus Lucky's Gallery. GUSSIE documents that evening: the veteran improvising group dispensed with their compositions altogether and took an eminently successful walk along the free-improv tightrope. The ever-evolving lineup featured George Cartwright (saxophones), Davey Williams (guitar), Chris Parker (piano), Fred Chalenor (bass), and Bruce Golden (percussion). A limited edition of 436 copies, with hand-drawn covers by Anne Elias (roaratorio)
cursillistas - wasp stings the last bitter flavor - digitalis recordings - cd - 12$
"Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor" marks the first widely available release from this Portland, Maine troubadour. The brains behind the project is Matt Lajoie and he is perhaps best known for his enchanted album on Time-Lag Records. His folk-inspired psychedelia reaches new heights on "Wasp Stings" as he puts together an album of lost songs, found hiding in a dank and dusty cellar. Lajoie's approach here is different. It's as if he's taken the negative space of his previous works and hashed them out and spruced them up until they've become epic, flowing songs whitewashed with a basketfull of analog hiss. The whole thing flows together like magic poured straight from the sky. It's haunting, beautiful music.
Cursillistas' music is often densely populated with a variety of instrumentation and textures. Lajoie is a master at molding sounds from a variety of sources into a cohesive, organic whole. This music, as with past efforts, sounds like an intimate secret whispered in the listener's ear. You feel as though you're being led into a world where very few lucky souls find their way. Lajoie's distinctive voice is the true weapon here, weaving hypnotic melodies over rivers of delicately strummed acoustic guitars. "Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor" is his message in a bottle. It's a love letter to everyone and no one, and there's a lot to love here, that is for damn sure.
Lajoie is joined by the inimitable Nemo Bidstrup (Time-lag Records figurehead and the brains behind Drona Parva) and sometime-MV & EE collaborator, Sparrow Wildchild.
Housed in sturdy, white-on-black gatefold jackets.
-digitalis
d. charles speer and the helix - past or beyond / canaanite builder – sound@one – 7" – 5$
Seeking refuge in songcraft, D. Charles Speer and the Helix spin tales of mental instability and institutional exploitation into a thick, heady, groove laden brew. The professorial attack of the ivories, the sear of the strings, the pounding of drum skins amass into a righteous storm bound to overwhelm those uncoverted. This is an unholy mix of heart ripped vocal, Longhair piano, and guitar work drawing from both Mike Bloomfield and Norman Westberg. Featuring silk screened covers and hand stamped interiors, these retro-radicals propose the final alignment of Khnum with the phoenix.
-s@1
darkhorse - ep - 1/5 songs - self released - cdr - 7$
EP of ambient/aleatoric guitar compositions
All pieces written and recorded between October 2007 - May 2008. All pieces are performed by Adam Bosse on the guitar, minus "Hearing Piece 2" which features samples from a variety of instrumentalists who were recorded during their practice sessions at UMASS Amherst.
samples here
decaer pinga / runzestirn&gurgelstock - omitting the troll - chocolate monk - cdr - 10$
damno te - red rain - dead sea liner – cdr – 4$
datashock - vol iv - textile - lp -17$
There is no constant line-up, as the group is joined by new members every now and then.
Their music is defined almost entirely by psychedelic multidimensional live-improvisations stemming from 70ies Kraut-rock influenced by contemporary electronic music and psychotic dronescapes. As a result we find complex layers of sultry muffled vibrations met by heavy waves of electronic sound experiments and strangely disfigured images. Here and there reality-distorting bits of whispers and cut-up voices are woven into the texture of these alien patterns of sound. Every step here is like nervously stumbling through the swampy ground of a jungle. Here every look is like a secret glimpse at a hidden ghost-train world.
If, however, you would want to use other bands from past and present as a reference, names like Tangerine Dream or Sunburned might come to mind. Datashock’s music has a similarly warm and organic feel to it. Labels like ‘spooky Psychedelic-Post-Krautfolk’ are at the same time graphic description as well as missing the point altogether.
During the band’s four-year history one of the highlights has been this year’s (2007) release of a live-collaboration picture-LP with Nadja, also known as Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff.
-textile
datashock - tipped bowler tapes - cass - 6$
Two years of end-of-winter recordings from Germany's greatest electronic commune, Datashock. A dreary 2006 produced the A-side, a cabin-feverish piece of ascending space shimmers, suffocating fog, and anxious percussion, punctuated by a brisk, paranoid coda. Psychedelic candied death. B-side was born the following year and finds our friends lost in a funhouse of echo and delay. A macabre carnival made groaning radio ghost. No faces in the mirror. Now it's 2008 and spring has sprung for Datashock, bringing forth this c48 along with LPs on Qbico and Textile. A gruesome bouquet; NOT FOR LOVERS.Full-color glossy foldover prints with insert and hand-painted tapes.
-tbt
datashock – qbico - lp - 22$
"Last year i was particulary impressed by their 1st LP as Datashock and Shivers, this is a very promising and young collective from Germany. the music got some affinities with Double Leopards, Family Underground and The SB... deep"
180gr. clear olive vinyl, photo by Marion Meilgen
-qbico
de magia veterum - verus diuinus magus - faunasabbatha– cdr - 11$
emblematic bm, the epic side of gnaw their tongues. is even more intense and chaotic - the remaining instruments all work together to create a rough gritty atmosphere - originally released as 'spike through eyes' self-released cdr in 2005, two bonus tracks included !
-faunasabbatha
dead traveller - never a dull moment - phase!– cdr – 7$
Northern Greece live document of Dr. Nicolas Malevitsis (Absurd, Aux, Old Fashioned Donkeys) spreading the tape cut-up virus. No cure, no mercy. Voyaging electrified nostalgia bathed in black spit. CD also has a bonus track w/ a live jam from that night! Dictaphone screams, gosh!
Ultra filthy hand-stamped covers + color numbered insert. Limited to 60.
-phase
deep jew - ugliest man / dog blood - self released – cass - 6$
hockeyfrilla / deepkiss - split - archivo de sangre de dios - cass - 10$
demons / vertonen- split - snse - lp - 15 $
LAST COPIES. The Demons duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes, Hatred) and Steve Kenney contribute a side recorded live in Chicago in the late winter of '07. Psychedelic and grey like a Tangerine Dream underwater. Vertonen's track is aggressive and harsh synth noise, not unlike the works of Inhalant or the extreme side of M.B.
-snse
tom derwent - solo renegades 3" series - lost treasures of the underworld - 3" cdr - 3$
devillock - these graves- snse - cd - 8$
“Devillock is Justin Chris Meyers on organ, tapes and electronics. He also runs the Tone Filth label and also plays as Panther Skull. 'These Graves' is his debut on a real CD, but he has released handmade tapes and CDRs. He offers four tracks of densely layered sound, knitting all the sounds he can find together. Slowing down old reel to reel tapes on the title track provide another dark gesture in this music. Devillock doesn't play harsh noise as such, but he provides a pretty noise related drone sound. Minimal piercing sounds, mainly the lower region of the sound spectrum, making this quite a menacing affair. Noise as it's supposed to be: menacing, not by the harshness of it's sound, but by the content of what its sound has to offer. Despite it's title and bandname, I think it's a much more serious affair than the average noise attack. Great stuff.” – Frans DeWard, Vital Weekly No. 494
devillock - these graves-tone filth -lp -12$
This will hurt your feelings. Edition of 333 with hand screened and inked textured cardstock covers. CD Version on SNSE/PACrec.
-tonefilth
yellow swans / devillock - split - modern radio – 7" – 6$
diamond lemonade - ghost light blankets - taped sounds –cass – 8$
solo outing by the head behind the Tape Tektoniks imprint. DL offers strange readings straight from across the German borders. this cassette contains rebirthed tapeloops and other analog environments of the past (and probably future, but this i cannot decipher), resonating between 420 to 450 MHz. Ghost Light Blankets is a certified valid ticket that will give you access to enter the porthole that man calls "the hangover". by the way, i think this guy might have been secretly reading EXCALIBUR, the deadly and locked away L R Hubbard book about the facts, secrets & reason of life. so think twice before you listen....
-taped sounds
diaphragm + migrations in rust - framed of remission- peasant magik - cdr - 7$
The first time I saw these two play I was sitting, totally sober, in the back of a warehouse in Purchase, NY. Maybe it was the hours of Simpson's arcade game I had just finished, but it was one of the most focused and engaging shows I had seen in ages. Later that night I approached MIR about working together, and 9 month later this finally sees the light of day. Both Diaphragm and Migrations In Rust contribute one slow burner each, with a collaborative track to finish things off. Somewhere between the space of Andrew Chalk, layers of Birchville Cat Motel, and the sinister atmosphere of Abruptum.
-pm
diabel- soundtrack by Andrezj Kerzynski - lsd otb records - cass - 6$
Back by popular demand, the second edition of this hyperdelic free-jazz/early bog-tronics masterpiece, ripped straight from Zulawski's mind-melting 1972 classic. Very harsh tokes.
-lsd otb
dig that body up, it's alive - a corpse is forever - rock is hell records - lp - 18$
John Dwyer (Oh Sees aka OCS, Pink & Brown, Coachwhips,...) + Oran Canfield (Child Abuse) + Nate Denver (Total Shutdown, Nate Denver's Neck).
DTB... IA! existed for less than a year. Tthe band was formed in San Francisco by JOHN DWYER (guitar) and ORAN CANFIELD (drums). they played about three shows before i joined as the singer. we played ferocious death metal for a few months and then the band went to sleep, forever. our record was supposed to be released by tUMULt records, but it never came out. i need to ask andee about that, i'm not sure why didn't come out. oran played on a small jazz drum kit and john played guitar through a gigantic bass cabinet and a guitar amp. the shows were deafening and i wore ear plugs so i'd be able to sleep after shows and practice. john and oran's musicianship was incredible, creative and fun to listen to. we had a great time in this band, and even though practices were plagued by arguments, afterwards we'd almost always ride our bikes a few blocks together, in good spirits, before parting ways to retire to our loving homes.
limited to 333 copies
-rockishell
directing hand - an old soul at the helm - chocolate monk - cdr - 10$
directing hand - songs for the red house - singing knives – lp - 27$
Brand new, William Morris inspired, lp called 'Songs From The Red House' out now. Four live songs and two studio songs with full colour artwork by Lavinia Blackwall.
Directing Hand began as a corollary to drummer/vocalist Alex Neilson’s growing interest in the original folk music of the British Isles. Initially, the group was set to amplify the early experiments in form that he had undertaken as a founding member of the Scatter ensemble. But as the project grew, the connection between earlier modes and current praxis became increasingly circuitous, with Neilson joining the dots between seemingly mutually-aggressive musical strands such as dilated big-band improvisation ala Globe Unity Orchestra and Taj Mahal Travellers, the fractured experiments in time of The Shaggs and Henry Flynt & The Insurrectionists and the spontaneous vocal energies of Patty Waters and Charlie Feathers.
The current Directing Hand line-up – consisting of Vinnie Blackwall on improvised vocals, cello, harp and harmonium and Neilson on drums and psaltry – represents the group’s starkest incarnation to date.
Blackwall is a classically trained vocalist, though she rarely makes a move that could be associated with any particular school. Sure, there are moments of tongue pressure that orbit the art trance of early Meredith Monk or Julie Tippett’s work with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble circa One Two Albert Ayler but there’s also a ton of mystery in the way that she seems to incorporate snatches of mellifluous choral and early music melodies in between full-body soundings and vegetable wordage. When you first catch it, it’s as shocking as an Australian in cut-offs, but as you surrender your brain to the glorious see-sawing command with which she pilots the furthest vectors of her body into sound, it seems to have the same connection to free jazz as the divine madrigal stylings of Dolly Collins on Anthems In Eden and Love, Death & The Lady had to the triumphal melodies of the Albert Ayler Orchestra.
Neilson’s playing detonates time by exploding any notion of accompaniment, response or precognition in favour of a profound simultaneity. Drummers have always been the revolutionary agents of musical change; switch up the beat and you reconfigure time, reconfigure time and you re-draw reality. In Neilson’s playing there is truly no past or future, simply Now over and over. Just one movement of his hands and then the next. And in a historical/cultural moment as oppressively 4/4 as 2008, it feels like a fucking revolution.
Just as the traditional readings are illuminated by the advanced application of vanguard, modernist aesthetics, the improvisations feel intuitively authentic and deeply volk-ish. For a tradition to go on living, sometimes it is necessary to kill it off completely. So, Directing Hand. On your knees, sir.
-sk
disguises - meathead/friendly choking - wintage - 3" cdr – 5$
First new full-on Disguises with new skin pounder Randy Gagne(AKA: Man Made Hill) on the drums! Two tracks of utter sickness, consider this the single to the forthcoming full length lp, just recorded. Think Spasm Band meets Neubauten in the smoke filled chamber of Shapiro's bong. A total speaker-fry!
Ltd Ed. 50
-wintage
divine coils - coadjutor - blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$
Brand new CDR from UK duo of Joe and Harry. Far out scratchy textural sounds that lie somewhere between Usurper and Jazzfinger perhaps... real nice, real minimal, with classy and sassy traditional BR style double fold sleeve. Limited to 50 copies.
-br
dolphins into the future / bringers of the dawn - taped sounds –cass – 8$
BRINGERS are members of UTON and THE FREE PLAYERS. DOLPHINS are members of 3D-FREE and SAFETY DRINKERS. both sides are inspired by dolphins /
interspecies communication, and the world wide webchannel brought band one and two together. both sides are stream of consciousness / direct writing. BRINGERS do it accoustic / electric. DOLPHINS are edited tape collages from random transmissions. over.
-taped
dolphins into the future - plays themes from voyage -skulls of heaven - cass - 5$
C30 - Amazing scenes from the masters of the New Wave Of Flemish New Age music... fiery no-fi exotica and organic bio-music massage the garden society of the mind. Let go and join the oneness of pure magentic tape trance where we'll revel in the power of cosmic potencias as one.
-skulls
dona ferentes - bleargh - palustre - cass - 9$
ONE-SIDED Cassette....1st ever document by Dona Ferentes , a new-born project for ol' asshole palustre Michele Mazzani...it explores different sources of noise-generators, including hallucinatory human voices and conversations, Dante and Adorno memories,thunders, mini-okulele ebow processing, bells against chairs, kebab against MERDonald's e more...no mixing ,no editing just pure/primitive sound ! limited to bare 21 copies....
-palustre
double leopards / sunroof / mouthus – crippled rosebud binding – music fellowship – 2xlp - 24$
The 5th installment in our triptych series brings together two Brooklyn bands, Mouthus and Double Leopards, and the sonically entwined Sunroof! of England. While each band contributes a side to this two-LP set, the artists are brought together not just figuratively on wax, but literally, as the fourth side features all seven musicians playing together. Double LP Gatefold artwork and design by Mouthus.
-mf
double muslims - s/t - laboratory standard recordings – 7" – 5$
Double Muslims are marionettes made of sand, glass, and glue. Their work is a semi-organized collage of guitars, cello, and trap kit- an after-hours snapshot taken beneath the streets of the Old City. Here they offer two sides of odd beauty, coarsely ground and steeped in muddy water. The covers are silkscreened, hand letter-pressed, and wax sealed. Limited to 300 numbered copies.
dragonfrynd - smoke ring mandala - cut hands - cdr - 11$
Terrific new project by Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Owl Xounds et al) on keyboard and effects and Clinton Wilkins on electric guitar. It’s actually the first Kriney release that doesn’t feature him on drums, in fact, there’s no drums at all here. Just the thrill of entrancing guitarfeedback, kosmische tone workouts, touches of swirling Japanese psychrock and amplified Ash Ra Tempel meditations. A new and exciting direction for one of the most busy and promising talents in the NYC underground. Full colour covers, in slimline dvd cases, edition of 75.
-ch
charlie draheim - possession -tone filth -lp -14$
"Pressure. Steam. Scrapyard drainage, leaking into the corners. Mold and mildew - seepage. Cracks, crevices containing black days and red nights. The infection is spreading. False and forgotten. The Butcher, as he's known amongst friends and enemies, slices his way though flesh and bone on his first vinyl appearance and his finest moment to date. Contaminating the a-side with sick tones, nauseating hiss and whine, the rumble and wet sadism of clogged sinuses led to climax in an orgy of rotten magnetic tape. Mongrel howls and junkyard threats make up the unhealthy flip of this record - the slowest of rhythmic thump wrought in contrast to relentless clang reminding of the new, no, The OLD Blockaders. It ends the second you wake up. Throw your vacant body in the gutter."
--Greh Holger (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound) Edition of 320 with hand screened textured card stock covers.
-tonefilth
dreamcatcher - a team come true - ecstatic peace - cass - 8$
Katherine Kline and Blake Hargreaves deliver a full session of otherworldly noise/rhythm damage/improv intuition sizzling outta Montreal. As Dreamcatcher these two North of the Border experimentalists have a sweet history of cracked beat tabletop throwdowns w/ releases on American Tapes, Alien8 and NotNotFun. This is a magick machine. Black as night C100 cassette shells, full color gloss weirdo art jcard, silver ink #d edition of 100.
-ep
dreamers cloth - total descent to mind beach – sloow tapes – cass – 11$
New Age meditation dance party on tropical beach, getting one with nature under a relaxing shower of multi-colored fractals and shining keys. It’s only the dreamer who moves mountains. 70 copies.
-sloow
dreams in mirror field - S/T - ducktails- cass - 5$
Recorded in Berlin, Germany while living with Steve Warwick of Birds of Delay and drinking heavily with Spencer Clark ala Monopoly Child Star Searcher. Influenced by late night sessions at New World Hot Dog and 1 euro Doner Kebabs. This cassette blares cascading keyboard melodies mixed with percussive mbira waves. Loner recordings in the hungover early morning. 30 minutes of blissed out ecstatic drone. With beautiful artwork by Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystavat/ Tomutonttu.
-dt
drekka - howl on wind tour ep-morc records -3" cdr - 5$
5 new tracks, pretty much song oriented - including covers of damien jurado and annelies monsere. lofi folksongs, sometimes distored but at all times fractured
-morc
drenches - holy dread - cut hands - cdr - 11$
Holy Dread, man, holy SHIT. This record is fierce. Heavy nature. Electronic bullying, raining down and piercing right through your balding scalp. The title track opens this monster and when I said raining down I meant it literally like that. Amazing effects that sound like you’re in the midst of heavy heavy rainstorms….inside a tent. Ever been there? It ain’t nice! This might just be the toughest harsh noise rec you have yet to hear this year. Stay proud, play loud. Black and white cover art by Branden Divens himself, in slimline dvd cases. Edition of 60.
-ch
droppy septum - howling lands - new american folk hero – cdr – 8$
Droopy Septum is the solo project and sound creations of Edinboro
Pennsylvania's Ryan Emmett. His sonic explorations range from minimal
drones to harsh noise to carefully constructed sonic landscapes.
-nafh
droughter – beast growth – cut hands - cdr - 10$
From the dark side of San Francisco, Droughter serves up a plate of harsh noise phantasies. Inspired by cheap ass horror flicks and burnt meat, Beast Growth manages to shape harsh electronics, brutal vokills and terrifying lo-fi scuzz into engaging storylined tracks. These tunes go somewhere and they all add up to something grim and tormenting in the end. Droughter knows how to combine brutal and engaging. Sooo psyched to have this beast released, you’ll be hearing more from this guy soon, for real. Edition of 50 in polyvinyl sleeves, bleak artwerkkkk.
droughter- obscure uniforms for mammals - heretic– cdr - 7$
grimy sewer sounds never made more sense; a pilgrimage to understanding!!!
droughter / gnarly sheen - split - 905 tapes - cass - 6$
two heads of the same beast, breathing fire and shitting smoke. droughter devours minds with a vocal shredding, feedback fucked wall of power that is hope enveloping and overloaded with eruptive hysteria. gnarly sheen changes things up with a dilated dronescape utilizing layers of lethargic currents. two reasons to put the entire ward on suicide watch.
-905
drug abuse - recovery - fag tapes - cass - 8$
druids of huge –ergotism/pure hype – arbor - cass – 5$
Chicago trio Druids of Huge rock, roll, and destroy the modern concept of a rock band. With a name that screams “hooded gods of shred”, the resulting sounds can be quite refreshing. Percussionary styles can change at any moment from Sword Heaven-esque pummeling and crash destruction to light jazz splash/tom simmering. The guitar feeds back from a massive Sunn amp and rips its way through the basement, fists pumping and beers spilling. Suitcase electronics provide a warm and massive tonal base, erupting with its own existence. Rip it real good, bro. In a numbered edition of 50 sprayed/stamped tapes in cassingle style sleeves.
-arbor
druids of huge / worm hands- split - catholic tapes - cdr - 6$
drunjus -thick winds off the saragasso sea - lattajja – 3 "cdr – 7$
Thick winds off the Sargasso" is a phase from the epic Drunjus 2xcdr (foxglove). This 3" features a live excerpt from the source material that birthed the album version. The sounds are a meditative blur of buzz tone and the seething outdoors by Woodman, Clay Ruby and Endless.
- lattajja
drunjus - enceladus - peasant magik - cdr - 7$
The sound of mud, trees, crickets, and mosquitoes in sloooow motion. Hazed out Dream Porch sessions, field recordings from Cherokee Marsh, and full on drone assaults from Woodman, Endless, and, local analog synth compatriot, Crystal Dragon. Black CDs housed in black cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art, printed transparencies, and handmade paper. Hand stamped and numbered.
-pm
dubdrip / nimby - smoke tinged perception / flotation device - cassingle - detrivore - cass - 4$
A smoke-tinged song by raccoo oo oon's main psycher, Driphouse [Daren Ho]. tribute to sleng teng which is less a genre
than a reggae casio setting.
nimby side slices a three minute flight over clouds.
-detrivore
duchess - estupet - american grizzly – cass – 5$
egghatcher – drone jazz drifts and blues– ruralfaune – cdr - 10$
limited to 72 copies. Egghatcher is the work of Bay Area free folk avant noisemaker Robert Horton, and features some of the most sublime drones we've heard created from some of the least likely sources. A helicopter flying overhead, crystal glasses, old 78's, all smeared and smoothed into soft slippery slivers of sound. So lovely. A few tracks are not as dronelike, one features vocals, chopped and reassembled into a skittery soundscapes, with occasional blasts of corrosive squeal, while another is constructed from and played on a homemade 4 string guitar constructed from wood found on the street (aquarius)
sold out at label
él-g - capitaine présent #4 – tanzprocesz – dvdr – 9$
"Capitaine Présent" is a subconscious audio-serial started in 2004 by él-g.
This Fourth episode is a film with Stolen images from google, edited in a 20 minutes long futurist didactic movie with 300 different voices, inserts and orgasmic crescendos. It talks about life, universe, teenagehood, theme parks, enterprises, synaptic links and sweet skizophrenia.
Tristan Tzara meets PizzaHut meets You.
And yeah it's french only because it's impossible to subtitle this object, no place for it.
Capitaine Présent #1-2-3 included for yr never-ending audio pleasure.
Totally queer pink plush handmade packaging.
50 copies.
ele loe - sulas mino - peippo – cdr – 10$
The record Sulas mino was born on a big island, in a mint green house surrounded by an old garden. The recordings made in the autumn bliss of 2007 and in he warm winter of 2008 have been condensed to the debut album of Ele Loe. It begins with a soft, organic song where dreamy vocals are searching for the listener. Nevertheless, the acoustic feeling of the records first half turns into an electronic bustle where the music runs around the nearest solar system, tries to be space sand and continues its journey as psychologically tense artpop. Sulas mino seeks, experiments and tries to comfort. It’s a combination of ethereal melodies and abstract lyrics.
Ele Loe is a project of Kaisa Nieminen. In addition to the music she makes videos and pictures. She lives in an old farm in the archipelago, a little bit aside, but more than anything she loves the fact of living in the middle of clean nature.
-peippo
electric omen - fortress of solitude - faunasabbatha– cdr - 11$
highly atmospheric drones played solely in the norvegian fjords. composed in solitude by the fortress under the electric arches and the deepest foggy atmospheres. a subliminal and dark desolation. funeral.
-faunasabbatha
elektronavn – songs of impermanence – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
"More instrumental goodness dripping inwardly from the Danes, specifically Elektronavn who is Magnus Olsen Majmon, one of my personal favourite CDR-releasing, one-man band, geniuses of the drone, and a fellow who also has a convincing line in subtle electro-acoustic juxtapositions. While I’m still waiting to hear anything that delivers the depth and atmospheric richness of his 2004 CDR Rationale Mystique, this newie SongsofImpermanence (EMPTY SOUNDS REC ESR 008) promises a profound meditation on the great imponderables such as death, futility, loss and despair. Besides playing a ton and a half of reed instruments, strings, percussion and keyboards, Magnus also sings on this short half-hour record - a new side to his accomplishments with which I am yet to familiarise myself. Opening seconds alone were enough to persuade me he’s created a brace of gold-lined azure-enriched canvases in sound, fit to illuminate the darkest corners of these mighty abstractions of human misery that are his chosen themes. Hand-made cover has been produced using a raw, primitive version of the ‘decalcomania’ method, which in the hands of Max Ernst was used to create gigantic forests of post-war, angst-drenched doubt and lip-biting despair. In hands of Majmon, same technique produces little more than shapeless green blobs. No matter, because even if his painterly talents are slight, his musical gifts are beyond cavil."
- Ed Pinsent. The Sound Projector www june 2007
elephant micah - embarrassment of riches - luddite rural recording cooperative – cdr – 8$
This disc features brand new recordings of six songs written around 2004, just as work was finishing up on the Time-Lag cdr series. Beyond the usual personnel, Louisville songwriter Joe Manning contributes pedal steel to three tracks. The packaging is similar to Futile Sessions, only with a built-in lyric booklet. Kind of weird, individualized artwork. 30 minute running time. Plenty of jamming - file under 'Free Country.'
-luddite rural recording cooperative
emaciator - merit – arbor - cass – 5$
Rising beyond the ether, Jonathon Borge’s (of Pedestrian Deposit and the Monorail Trespassing label) guitar based drone project floats freely in it’s own realm. Looking down on stone and earth, a feedback torrent swells. Awe-inspiring chords streak through the grey gloom like stone cutters putting everything in it’s right place; a sanctimonious harmony between the give and take of the bleak and the beautiful. Dense and serene. In an edition of 100 tapes with printed labels and art by Borges.
-arbr
embarker - an acre of glass prairies - deep fried - cass - 5$
emeralds / tusco terror - vaporizer / feral cousins - ecstatic peace - lp - 11$
EMERALDS is Mark McGuire, John Elliott & Steve Hauschildt. They are currently based in and around Cleveland, Ohio. Direct descendants of the history of adventurous punk, post-punk, whatever music spilling out of Ohio the last 35 years or so from Pere Ubu, Devo, Rocket From The Tombs, The Raspberries, The Cramps, Dead Boys, Great Plains, Fuzzhead, et al. EMERALDS is the sound of exploration of space/time conundrums utilizing vintage synthesizer beauty and guitar experimentation. Unfolding sweet-leaf shifts and gorgeous curves of kosmiche abandon are played with devotion and desire. With a palpitating discography of cassettes, cdrs etc both self-released and on righteous labels (Hanson, Gods Of Tundra, American Tapes, Chondritic Sound) EMERALDS have already distinguished themselves as new yet timeless, young yet ageless.
TUSCO TERROR was introduced to us by fellow Ohioan (at that time) Leslie Keffer, (who’s Feels Like Frenching LP we released last year) as her favorite band in Ohio. She sent us some cassette releases and we were immediately blitzed. The sound of reckless confrontation, living room shambles, chaotic slipstreams and glorious friendship noise crackled from one brain stem to another. TUSCO TERROR resides in Akron, OH when they’re not wheeling around the country setting up in any bewildered basement scene or delirious donut shop across the USA to wig out anyone fortunate enuff to be “there”.
-ep
the end springs - there lies the electric reasons - reverb worship – cdr –11$
Usually The End Springs music is acoustic based.On this cdr you get
seven new interpretations of songs played in a hazy psychedelic
electric style which adds a new twist.The covers are stencilled in
flourescent lime green on purple paper.The cds are also hand
stencilled in a matching design.
-rw
enos slaughter - béisbol– three lobed – 3 sided lp - 20$
miracle blend of spring : dirt stains from psiring
the raised cleats are flying one finger width away from eyes
shadow realm of legends - the winter refuge for vacationers and practitioners who swing the subtle club
the revolutionary's reign is unbowed
Walt Dropo answered the challenge and threw our namesake to the ground
and tore the threads from his brain - rebaste the cranial pan before swallowing
intoned in reverence - 3 sides 9 songs 4 walls 3 members 2 halves 1 inning
at last the wretch has birthed a grass laden vision; day and night for half the year
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béisbol is a three sided LP by enos slaughter. the brainchild of david shuford (no neck blues band, d. charles speer and the helix), marc orleans (sunburned hand of the man, d. charles speer and the helix) and carter thornton (izititiz, zashiki warashi), béisbol is a full-fledged continuation of the musical ideals that the band has previously set forth within on sunday, saloth sar and on the shores of jupiter. click here for a downloadable preview, "the kingdom of oscar charleston."
as per the three lobed standard, béisbol is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. it is housed within an appropriately themed jackets designed by the band and a two-sided full color photo insert. the record is from an edition of 679 copies and, and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastere