tulasi– maa autaa –sloow tapes – cass –11$
Ethereal recordings by the duo of Kulkija (Uton, Keijo & The Free Players, Vapaa…) and Kutomo. Waves of flutes, voices and bubbling ambience drifting away on a soft whispered breeze blowing it out into thin cool air. Artwork by the band in an edition of 90 copies.
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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.
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area c - darkens the mind – sloow tapes – cass – 11$
A fountain of sounds opening a gateway beyond the mist of time and most likely not going to bring you back home before dark. 100 copies.
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andy futreal - wrack: oud improvisations,reactions and abstractions– sloow tapes – cass – 11$
The transmutation of El Din and Jansch into the boiling earth waves of Ogdoad. The light shines on the other side of the spectrum. No raga. 70 copies.
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eric de jesus - cult of the moon – sloow tapes – zine – 7$
Drawings, photo’s and lunar stories by Eric de Jesus. Half black & white, half full-color. Let your moustache grow easy. Bound together by the hand.
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we have heaven - s/t – sloow tapes – cass – 11$
Dreamy music for lazy hot summer afternoons flowing down weaving paths through the forest while laughing hyenas take a shortcut through the valley. 70 copies.
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stefano pilia - haikustrings – sloow tapes – cass – 12$
Haikustrings is a "work in progress" diary composition began in 2004. The tape consists of 111 sound miniatures divided into 3 sequences, at once random and simultaneous. On side a and side b are recorded 2 of the possible cycles of the 3 sequences and of the infinitely possible versions of this piece. This was presented earlier this year at Turin's Silence festival as a sound installation. Paste-on cover art by Andrew Hooker. 100 copies.
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various - a great magazine – sloow tapes – cass –11$
Interviews with Book Of Am, Ed Yazijian, Geoff Mullen, Ghosting. Art and words by Ilyas Ahmed, Juan Arkotxa, Tara Burke, Darrell Buxton, Tom Carter, Cybele Collins, Sara Czerny, Bart De Paepe, Paul Grimes, Jani Hirvonen, Phil Legard, Samara Lubelski, Leslie Mackenzie, Marja Mikkonen, Thurston Moore, Roberto Opalio, Zachery Reno, Matt Valentine. Silkscreened coverfrogs by Colleen Kinsella.
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slurp dogs - postal licks – sloow tapes – one sided cass –11$
Echo-dyed space chanteys dwelling into cosmic generosity, homebrewed by high sky couriers Willie Lane (Golden Road) and Grant Acker (Un). Have another sip of the lion’s head and get with the beam. Silkscreened visions in 101 copies.
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mike tamburo and matt mcdowell - are we not drawn onward to new era? – sloow tapes – cass –12$
Vibratory energy forms dropping out with molecular and cellular guitar phrases in trance-like babble. Two pot-smoking guitarists harvesting their daily supply. Edition of 70 copies.
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spiral joy band –the dreams of david crosby– sloow tapes – cass –12$
Spiral Joy Band adventures farther into epic rolling drone percussion clang, resonating it’s way through meditative and psychedelic tones and drones. Featuring Pelt’s Mikel Dimmick and Mike Gangloff. Artwork by Emily Keown. 150 copies.
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jaakko pallasvuo – the history of the world– sloow tapes – book/zine –11$
Drawings, paintings and photographs by Finnish artist Jaakko Pallasvuo. Black & white xerox on paper of different colors and very nice silkscreened cover. 66 pages.
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starbird – nanook of the north – sloow tapes – cass –11$
Anthropological aural envisioning to Flaherty’s real fiction cinema Inuit epos by Starbird’s Carson Arnold. Lonesome drifting icebergs of frozen guitars, distant percussion and cold midnight dog howls from another time and place. 80 copies.
geoff mullen – dog daze of summer –sloow tapes – cass –11$
Fuzz and buzz improvisations tuning in with the higher forms of New England reverb. Turning deep, lonesome abstract guitar feedback modulations upside down into mad psych blues of the dog. Edition of 100 copies.
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antti tolvi - s/t - sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
Winds of tape-hiss moving deep into white plains of delicate sounds, blowing softly through quiet improvisations on all things small by Antti Tolvi (Lauhkeat Lampaat, Rauhan Orkestri, Taikuri Tali etc.). Natural edition of 100 copies with almost invisible silkscreened insert.
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cahier- che me ne importa - sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
A new collection of haunting abstract songs by one of Tampere’s best kept secrets, combining a wide variety of instruments into carefully crafted other-dimensional miniature worlds. Dreamlike magic carpets of colourful sounds drifting across the dark deep blue hues of shimmering skies, floating on dizzying winds of ever-changing psychedelic disorientation. Long edition of 70 copies.
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hellvete – een duvelse zak is nooit gevuld– sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
Evil Silvester Anfang boggart passing the gate to the Other World, sucking Lilith’s breasts on stones of fire while conjuring peacocks of pure form. Flowerpower romance of 80 copies.
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V/A - Graag Traag – Verjaardagstape - sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
Yellow birthday release with contributions by a couple Belgian bands. Featuring psych casio drones by Orphan Fairytale, Gart & Seekatze’s rooster
minimalism, cool guitar cactuses by Ignatz, Silvester Anfang’s evil improv, happy toy rhythms by Buffle, Shattered Minds’ radioactive guitarnoise, vocal acid weirdness
by Hardline Elephants and Benjamin Franklin’s genius
Edition of 80 copies with very sloow drawings by Eva Van Deuren.
samara lubelski quartet - sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
Meditative violin drones dissolving time into wide open space of home recorded cosmic ambience. A universal consciousness of hypnotizing star gazing sounds
that melts right into the centre of the mind’s eye. Artwork by Samara.
Reflecting edition of 148 copies.
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attar cups – s/t – sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
Dreaming collaboration between Visitations, A Sparrow and Drona Parva, wandering in the depths of Strange Maine. Blossoming brainfood for those mellow minds traveling down the bummer road. Moonlit found art by the band, 120 copies.
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Robert Horton - Moving Along One Line To Vastness - Sloow Tapes - cassette - 11$ sold out
Archival recordings from the mid eighties originally released in a tiny private edition of 10 copies. Using a wide variety of homemade instruments Robert Horton’s droning just intonation soundscapes recall the secret gatherings of possessed Balinese sects dancing to looped flute rituals giving way to ecstatic illumination of the soul with the true magickal universe. Some angular high mountain-style boot-plucking going on here as well. All artwork by Mr Horton himself. Edition of 95 copies.
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6majik9 - your friends are a photograph of your future - sloow tapes – cass – 11$ sold out
Lost in between heaven and hell, sprawling psychedelic grooves picture Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Terracid and friends painting spirals of red dust on snake dancing bodies in front of a new golden dawn.
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frozen corpse - dance of the insects - sloow tapes – cass – 11$ sold out
Homegrown insect smoke and far out grooves by Orphan Fairytale and Audiobot labelhead duo.
Totally grim. 60 stoned copies.
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Slow Bart - sloow drawings - sloow tapes - book/zine - 5$sold out
Full-colour collection of 12 pages filled with drawings by Bart De Sloow Head Paepe. Retro edition of 20 copies.
Silvester Anfang - Het Orkest Van Scheuten en Speugen - sloow tapes – cass – 11$ sold out
Psyched hippie freaks dancing barefoot to stoned chants of untuned guitars, clattering percussion and looped vocals. A strange brew of Flemish medieval traditionals, surreal black metal obsessions and lots of heavy Belgian Trippel beer. Comes in two-sided silkscreened devilish cover in an evil edition of 66 copies
Boris Morgana/Hetero Skeleton – split – sloow tapes – cass - 11$ sold out
Two sides of Northern drunken reindeer swings balancing between controlled breathing and total insanity. Boris Morgana get some vibrant explorations of the inner and outer musical sides going, expanding their minds on a steady diet of outsider free/jazz/folk/improv/psych jams. The B-side melts in a smoke of deranged riffs and blackened buzz of oozing turntables by the madmen of Hetero Skeleton. This tape even has two covers, each designed by a band and glued on a painted homemade cardboard box. 100 sticky copies.
various - my favorite magazine - Sloow Tapes - zine - 10$sold out
Old school paper magazine featuring extensive interviews with Julie Mittens, Samara Lubelski, Fabio Orsi, Plastic Crimewave and Wally Shoup. Writings and drawings by Nemo Bidstrup, Tara Burke, Sara Czerny, Bart De Paepe, Bram Devens, Bridget Hayden, Jani Hirvonen, Robert Horton, Jonna Karanka, Steve Krakow, Lieven Martens, Chris Miller, Maurizio Opalio, Roberto Opalio, Andy Ortmann, Stefano Pilia, Eva Van Deuren and Ronny Van Hee. Comes in eye popping two-sided silkscreened cover by Jelle Crama. (sloow tapes)
voice of the seven woods – black morning –sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
One long track captivating the true spirit of green. UK guitarist Rick Tomlinson turns Bert Jansch’s wooden instrumentals outside into flowering cobwebs of droning Bull-esque trance and electric fantasies. Edition of 100 copies.
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Larkin Grimm/The Beautiful Babes In Springtime Brainwave Band Featuring Earl Monster -
After You Men Explode The World We Women Will Sing It To Sleep
sloow tapes - cassette - 11$sold out
Holding on to the thick rain smelling black and white striped hairs of a wild cat these psychedelic prayer songs ride you all the way down a shadowy world of haunted forests and deep ice-cold lakes in which powerful otherworldly voices seduce you with some sweet melodies. Handmade cover with lots of drawings in a black edition of 100 copies.
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suishou no fune - i throw a stone in the endless depths - sloow tapes – cass –11$ sold out
Damaged Japanese psychedelic acid guitar freak-outs bringing early Fushitsusha down with laid-back spacious dreamy Miminokoto and LSD March melodies, all descending into a lonesome blues abyss. Heavy silkscreened fold-out cover and lyric sheets, total black edition of 150 copies.
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lanterns - blue beads - sloow tapes – cass – 10$sold out
Meandering drones resonating in eerie Taj Mahal-like mushrooms stuffed with chimes, ebowed strings, subtle electronics and other shimmering nightly meditation tools. Edition of 70.
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bart sloow / family thinkers - bread and animals – book & cass –8$sold out
tender drawings and tender sounds. personal and sincere visions by BART DE PAEPE, the cloudy head of SLOOW TAPES. 16 pages, part full color and part b/w. and a short cassette of recent FAMILY THINKERS sounds. one part is jams, other part is strange tape collage.
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anna kallio / rokkiryhmä– balladi neidosta joka rakasti varjoritaria/sinenmaa – sloow tapes – cass –11$sold out
This side are sweet and innocent ballads about Baader-Meinhof and Atari Teenage Riot by Anna R.J. Kallio, a seventeen year old girl from rural Finland. Other side is one long distance spacejam by crude teenage rockband Rokkiryhmä, youngsters getting things done with the outsideness of casio aficionado’s Kuupuu and Kulkiya. 70 copies.
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ghq – square growth sessions – sloow tapes – cass –11$sold out
Three extended celestial hymns of acid smoked vibrations spiraling right into the labyrinth of the third eye, connecting profoundly with the psychedelic freeflow of the earth’s and body’s four fluids. Mirage healing powers as played by the boundless trio of Steve Gunn, Marcia Bassett and Pete Nolan. Elongated and shadowy-lit edition of 150 copies.
Friday Group Universal Illumination Orchestra Meat Science- twilight time - sloow tapes – cass – 11$ sold out
Extended late-night improvisations of passed-out fuzz, coughing, sneezing and the occasional slow motion drone. Line-up includes Tom Carter, Shawn McMillen, Brian Smith, Sandy Ewen, Glen Nuckolls, Stephanie Demopolus and Jonathan Home. Edition of 100.
death chants -I have seen a thousand swim through water darker than these -sloow tapes –cass –11$ sold out
Follow-up to their self-titled cd-r which appeared on Time-Lag earlier this year. Closed eyes and minds getting lost into more of those sweet twirling folk/psych jams drifting away in late-night bedroom psychedelic atmospheres. Sleepscapes of haunting melancholic blue melodies. Comes with wonderful cover art by Paul Grimes. Numbered edition of 100 copies.
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hildegard - masterik - sloow tapes – cass – 11$sold out
Two sweating side-long jams along the itching lines of fellow mind-travellers Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Astral Blessing and Dredd Foole. Recorded smack in the middle of bible belt country, inspired by the wicked deeds of psyched Master Rick and his friends who used to be giving voluntary castrations in their own private creepy SM dungeon. Personnel: Daniel Presnell (pedal steel guitar, voice, drums), Jenni Pace (organ, flute, vocals, harmonica), Ed Yazijian (fiddle, drums), Bert Bacchus (guitar, drums), Wyatt Nicholson (bass, manipulation), Patrick Mulcahy (drums). Edition of 100 copies.
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john clyde evans – the smell of the burning empire –sloow tapes – cass –11$sold out
Tirath Singh Nirmala returns as his former moniker John Clyde-Evans, bowing transcendental Asian instruments and Indian thought back to the mysterious groove of manipulated drone. 100 copies.
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pink luminous invocation- the pink sea – sloow tapes – one sided cass – 11$sold out
Riding high on the lazy waves of pink twilight, this journey sets off with an illuminated chorus of exotic northern sounds before inhaling a nasty smoke of dark feedback. 100 copies.
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hisato higuchi - wind chimes in the head – sloow tapes – cass – 11$sold out
Guitar-moanings from the Otherworld drifting away through the clouds of a black Japanese night, dissolving into silence. Cover art by Ritsuko Ozeki - 'Netting F'. 100 copies.
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ben nash - magneto phone – sloow tapes – cass –11$sold out
Subterranean substances flipping over into parallel visions of increased awareness. Bringing the aura of inspired nakedness to fruition. Exposing percussion by Brett Womersley. 70 copies.
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