cursillistas - les biches - time lag
records / l'animaux tryst recordings - lp - 20$
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lula cortes -rosa de sangue- time lag - red
records - cd - 15$
deluxe first ever reissue of this brazilian private press monster rarity. originally custom pressed in 1980, ‘rosa de sangue’ is the closing chapter of the amazing recife psychedelic movement that flourished & centered around the work of lula cortes, beginning in 1973 with the release of satwa, and the creation of ‘abracadabra’, lula’s loose art/music/design collective. leading up to 1980 lula had produced & privately released satwa in 1973 (brazil’s first private press lp) as well as marconi notaro’s ‘no sub reino dos metazoarios’ lp that same year (featuring the recording debut of ze ramalho). he then started the legendary but incredibly short lived ‘solar’ label, releasing only two albums: 1975’s ‘paebiru’ double album, and a year later the lone album by flaviola. as if that wasn’t enough, he was also heavily involved in other productions and performed on many seminal albums coming out of the region, including many collaborations with alceu valenca... by the close of the 70s the heavily utilized rozemblit recording studio / pressing plant had been destroyed by repeated floods, abracadabra had run its course, and along with lula’s marriage, the solar label was no more. so ‘rosa de sangue’ was conceived as a bookend & tribute to this closing era; as lula himself states “i want to close all of this with a golden key”... and a golden key it is. entering a small local studio with a head full of songs and his freshly road tested ‘mountains band’, lula created an album simply overflowing with ideas. along with his power trio backing, he was further assisted by many old friends dropping in, including, among many others : alceu valenca, flaviola, ze de flauta & paulo rafael. with hints of the past era and of things to come, it is a truly wild audio experience, covering many styles & moods. from crazed ethno folkrock, to magical, gentle, jungle folk psych zones, to hard hitting, coke dusted fuzz rock, to insane mutant disco dance floor groove, to tweaked americana, to acid vocal raga trance, and way beyond... all throughout lula’s beautiful tricordio work pins things down, and for the first time he is the main vocalist (this is, after all, his first “solo” album!) his is a smoke & booze steeped voice darting between crazed abandon, deep sadness, and glowing soulful humor. when things are mellow, you could easily imagine you’re hearing an outtake from marconi notaro or paebiru, but the next moment you’re dropped into a raging street party or dimly lit booze drenched bar scene vibe... frenzied guitars all over, including some tough fuzz, as well as powerful rolling bass groove, soaring violin, moog weirdness, dusted backup vocals, and great drum kit / regional percussion interplay. psychedelic at heart, but brimming with flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, and pure hot blooded rock & roll... a bizarre & amazing album. but of course, the story doesn’t end there... at some point while the album was being recorded & pressed lula signed a major label contact which would produce 1981’s far tamer ‘o gosto novo da vida’ lp. when his new label got wind of ‘rosa de sangue’s eminent release, they were displeased to say the least. as soon as the pressing was complete, the entire small edition was seized & destroyed, making this album by far brazil’s rarest. so rare, in fact, that even among the most hardcore brazilian collectors the original lp is often only rumored to exist, often cited as ‘unreleased’... a few copies did however survive, and now, 29 years later, the world can finally hear this “golden key” from a truly visionary artist... packaged in a heavy vintage style cover with exact reproduction original artwork, including the huge full color, double sided, foldout poster insert, plus an extra insert featuring new liner notes from lula cortes as well as translated song titles. 180gm audiophile virgin vinyl pressing with exact repro label art. limited edition one time pressing of 1000 copies.
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phantom buffalo - take to the trees - time lag records - cd - 12$
digital version of red records #3... same music and art as the lp, but packaged in a mini lp style gatefold cover, with folded insert & woven japanese inner sleeve. edition of 1000... first 80 copies or so come with a special BONUS CDR SINGLE featuring two outtakes deemed by the band "too downer” for the album. packaged in a color offset printed tri-fold cover with hand stamped disc art. numbered edition of 230 copies.
silvercords - divergence eye - time lag records -cdr -11$
sweet danish drone psych degeneration from sara & nicolas of the mighty family underground. im pretty sure these sweeties made this album by burying all their synths, pedals and microphones deep underground in the woods, then recorded everything rusting, rotting, and writhing with insects for hundreds of years while the forest turned into some fucking industrial complex overhead... then they compressed those thousands of hours of tape into 46 minutes and sent it to us with a picture of a dolphin. really. i think... tri-fold heavy black art paper cover with b&w and color paste-on art. hand stamped cover & disc. numbered/limited edition of 123 copies.
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GHQ - cosmology of eye - time lag
records - cd - 9$
LP sold out at label
cd
digital version. packaged in a miniature tri-fold version of the lp cover, with photo insert and woven japanese inner sleeves. limited edition of 1000 copies.(time-lag)
zelienople - enemy chorus - time lag records -cdr - 11$
chicago reverb dripping song stretchers with much overlap into the lovely 'good stuff house' project. something like acid folk being played back at half speed from a cavern in the desert… a gentle sound wash of acoustic strumming, tranced vocals, buried percussion, and harmonica shivers floating on layers and layers of echo & drone, but with enough pop sense to keep it a 'song'… two looong tracks. packaged in a thick tri-fold moss green art board cover with full color paste-on art & full color insert, stamping, green top disc, etc. numbered edition of 140 copies. the last time-lag cdr!
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sala arhimo -pelko pois - time lag
records -cdr - 12$
second solo release from finland's jukka, half of the live incarnation of islaja, and a real groovy guy in general. jukka made a handful of these discs for last summers usa tour, but they pretty much slipped under the radar, so now we've got a new edition for all of you who missed it... extremely trance inducing stuff here. think a pack of tiny woodland creatures gobbling mushrooms and trying to play terry riley's 'a rainbow in curved air' over and over till the sun comes up and everyone turns back into moss. oh, and half way through they put down their organs & saxes and pick up guitars & hand drums to lay down a killer acid folk groover, just for fun.... really, i think that's what happened. very good stuff... packaged in a tri-fold art paper cover with sweet white on black 'phantom girl' paste-on art by merja (islaja), heavy stock gloss insert & stamped black bottom cdr. numbered edition of 180 copies.(time-lag)