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burnt hills - morning glory - ruby red – cd - 14$
Psych trip genius, Burnt Hills drop a 57 min wild wild ride to the best possible place. Truly Albanys greatest! Play it loud and you will find all sorts of lost zones there. Play it very loud and you will be re-born."
Charles Cohen & Ed Wilcox "Those Are Pearls That Were
His Eyes - ruby red - cd –12$ sold out
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!
loosers - otha goat head - ruby red - 2xcdr -15$ sold out
valeri cosi - freedom meditation series vol. 3 - ruby red - cdr -12$ sold out
"The record presented here is the third and final installment of Valerio Cosi's Freedom Meditation Series, one of the many ventures Valerio has been participating in in recent times. Contrary to the collective movements of new and younger generations working with the jazz lexicon in the saxophone, Cosi does not focus on the more extreme free manifestations as put to tape by Kaoru Abe, Albert Ayler or Peter Brotzmann. Though obviously informed by that vocabulary (and using it too, but in other projects), his wonderful horn playing here seems more connected with the heroic, more traditionally melodic phrasing of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders - that realm of tone, that grandiouseness (and at 22!!). But even though he already is an accomplished jazz player, everything else on the record seems even more bordering on the positively ridiculous. Playing all the instruments (from several electronics, sax overdubs, keyboards & what have you) apart from the drums - his regular collaborator Enzo Franchini is responsible for that -, Cosi has meticulously thought out & orchestrated everything on this record. Utilizing various recordings from several settings, he's cut up and pasted them up in his own skewed and purposeful compositional logic. The agglomeration of idioms and genres he touches base with is immense. Coming from what he describes as a devotion of "jazz, improvisation, ultra-psychedelia and kraut renaissance", his love for many forms of marginal &/or universal expression totally shines through with knowledge & fire, using everything from raga/drone sound beds as platform for some heavy duty horn lyricism, to some old good vibed chanting, to some straight up spaced out synth jamming. CD-R comes with hard case digipack with Valerio's artwork. Some of the first public giant steps from one of Europe's new generation finest free thinking, free feeling, true originals."
- Pedro Gomes.
tropa macaca - marfim - ruby red - lp -17$ sold out
"Hailing from small town Santo Tirso in northern Portugal, Tropa Macaca are the duo of Andre Abel/Si mio Superior and Ju-Undo/Joana da Conceiáao. After a couple of splits with like-minded brethren Fish & Sheep and CAVEIRA, "Marfim" ("Ivory") is their first full-length album. Utilizing various electronics (keyboards, assorted rhythm generators, processing tools) and employing supremely fucked guitar voicings, theirs is an improvised music, of its own school & therefore of complete danger. While you can draw parallels between Tropa_s sound and kraut stuff from the 70s (some Schulze, Gottsching), its been informed by various other music of old and recent times (see Black Dice_s new sound forms, Wolf Eyes homemade noise communication, grime/dubstep, raw house stuff) to create its own breed of psychedelic logics that are cultured by improvisation's progresses. These three pieces possess a fluid, narrative line driven by pure abstract intuition. Short loops of beats and bass as well as keyboard phrases continually and slowly mutate in texture, harmony and rhythm, with the guitar inhabiting them, birthing some very particular intensifications of the feeling and form that live hidden in these jams. While the flow of it is trance-like, the way its drawn up is concerned mainly with forward motion, creation, integration, disintegration & destruction of itself, the hypnosis in this process its only constant element. Dark ritual psychosis existing inside the domain of the electronic and the outlandish, super intimate, totally on its own. Andre Abel has played in out-rock trio Dance Damage (R.I.P.) and has a keys/drums duo with Pedro Magina called Aquaparque. Joana da Conceiáao has been developing a big body of work in visual arts (& is also responsible for the artwork on this record). Limited to 300 copies, "Marfim" has been pressed on white vinyl."
- Pedro Gomes.
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– 15$sers - for all the round suns - ruby red - lp – 12$ sold out