This week's update contains releases by:
23 Skidoo * A Certain Ratio * Achim Reichel * Aids Wolf * Alex * Aliens
*
Alison Statton & Spike * Angela Desveaux * Anna Domino * ANTIchildLEAGUE *
Arthur Russell * Asad Qizilbash * Bad Sector * Bang! Bang! * Bart Davenport
* Bernard Szajner * Berntholer * Betty Botox * Beyond Things * Biting
Tongues * Blaine L. Reininger & Steven Brown * Blaine Reininger * Blue
Orchids * Boston Spaceships * Bound Stems * Brant Bjork & The Bros * Bruce
Gilbert, Graham Lewis and Russell Mills * Brume * Calexico * Callers * Cath
Carroll * Charles Bukowski * Charlie Louvin * Chris Wood * Conifer *
Crawling Chaos * Crispy Ambulance * Dad's Army * Damien Jurado * Dan Le Sac
Vs. Scroobius Pip * Dave Aju * De Salvo * Dead Cowboys * Dean & Britta *
Department S * Devine & Statton * Don Chambers and Goat * Donkeys * Eddy
Current Suppression Ring * Edith Sitwell/William Walton/Lord Berners * Ergs
* Eric Ayotte * Expo 70 * Field Mice, The * Format:B * Franco Tamponi *
Frankie Dymon Jr. * French Impressionists, The * Gaslight Anthem * Gasman *
Generic * Giant Sand * Gina X * Gina X Performance * Girls * Git Some *
Gordon Mumma * Hacienda * Hardin and York * Home & Garden * Horse Feathers
* Howling Hex * Illusion Of Safety * Isabelle Antena * Ishikawa Akira &
Count Buffalo * Jam * Jeanne Moreau * Joe Maneri & Peter Dolger * John
Watermann * Josef K * Joy Division * Kalima * Kattoo * Keplers Odd * Kimya
Dawson * Klangmutationen * Klangwart * Kraftwerk and the Electronic
Revolution * Little Teeth * Liz Durrett * Low Lows * Ludus * Magazine *
Marine * Mariola Brillowska & Felix Kubin * Miaow * Michael Anton And Amok
* Michael Byron * Michna * Milosh * Minami Masato (w/Mizutani Of Hadaka No
Rallizes) * Minimal Man * Minny Pops * Mirror Mirror * Mitch Ryder * Momus
* Nadja * Names, The * New Year * Nightmares On Wax * Northern Picture
Library * Northside * Occasional Keepers, The * Okkervil River * Orchids,
The * Original Cast * Osman Arabi * Parenthetical Girls * Passage, The *
Paul Haig * Paul Kossoff with Black Cat Bones * Pedal * Peter Principle *
Pidgeon * Piero Piccioni * Pivot * Plinth/Textile Ranch * Quando Quango *
Quintessence * Rafter * Rahim * Revenge * Richard Jobson * Robert Haigh *
Room, The * Roots Manuva * Royal Family & The Poor * Sascha Funke * Section
25 * Severed Heads * Sex Pistols * Shaky Hands * Shop Assistants *
Siegfried Sasoon * Stargazer's Assistant, The * Steven Brown * Stockholm
Monsters * Stomu Yamash'ta * Swamp Children * Symptoms * Teenage Jesus And
The Jerks * Terayama Shuji * Terminal11 * The Red Shoes * Thick Pigeon *
Thomas Lehn/Marcus Schmickler * Tom Carter * Trader Horne * Tunnelvision *
Ultra Milkmaids * Ultramarine * Volcano! * Wake, The * Wax Museums *
Winston Tong * Woven Hand * Yoshie Fruchter * Young Widows
[ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ]
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me CD (Audika Records)
[AU1010CD] $15.00
"Four years ago, Audika Records began releasing the exceptionally
varied,
long sought-after music of Arthur Russell, and in the process has succeeded
at helping the beloved, late artist find the broader audience he always
believed he would reach. A new generation of listeners and critics has come
to appreciate Russell as a visionary and an influence upon a broad range of
today's most compelling musical artists. On October 28, Audika will bring
to light an as-yet-unavailable side of Russell's body of work-the most rare
and, at the same time, arguably the most accessible part-in Love Is
Overtaking Me, which comprises 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased
pop, folk and country songs from his vast catalog. While much critical and
popular affection for Russell's music has come about well after his
untimely death from AIDS in 1992, many fellow artists believed in his
genius and were drawn to collaborate with him during his lifetime. The
legendary producer John Hammond (Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bruce
Springsteen) recorded Russell on several occasions; a number of these
recordings will finally heard on Love Is Overtaking Me. So, too, will songs
recorded with various incarnations of The Flying Hearts, a group formed by
Russell and Brooks whose shifting lineup included, by turns, Jerry
Harrison, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo as well as
larry Saltzman and David Van Tieghem. Several other Russell projects are
represented on Love Is Overtaking Me, including The Sailboats, Turbo Sporty
and Bright & Early. Compiled from over eight hours of material, three years
in the making, Love Is Overtaking Me reaches back further to Russell's
first compositions from the early '70s and spans forward to his very last
recordings, made at home in 1991. Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear contributed
mixing, restoration and editing to the album, whose tracks were selected by
Audika's Steve Knutson, Ernie Brooks and Russell's companion, Tom Lee. A
number of the songs feature prominently in Wild Combination: A Portrait of
Arthur Russell, Matt Wolf's film, which had its world premiere this year at
the Berlin International Film Festival and will be released theatrically
and on DVD this fall by Plexifilm. Love Is Overtaking Me is the fifth
release of Russell's material by Audika Records, whose work has proven that
the music remains as contemporary today as when it was first recorded. The
label launched with the disco/new wave collection Calling Out Of Context
(2004) and continued with a reissue of the cello-and-voice masterpiece
World Of Echo (200S); the instrumental compositions double-disc First
Thought Best Thought (2006); and the hip-hop-inspired Springfield EP
(2006), which includes a DFA remix of the title track. Extensive Love Is
Overtaking Me liner notes by Tom Lee provide an intimate perspective on
Russell's diverse catalog, which spanned an extraordinary diversity of
styles and won the love of artistic communities that would seem utterly
disparate, from Philip Glass, John Cage and Allen Ginsberg to rock bands
like The Talking Heads and The Modern lovers; the pre-Studio 54 disco-party
scene of Nicky Siano's Gallery and David Mancuso's loft; and DJ-producers
like Francois Kevorkian and Larry Levan, among others."
Asad Qizilbash - Sarod Recital/Live In Peshawar CD (Sub Rosa)
[SR283CD] $14.75
Asad Qizilbash has been the only master of the sarod in Pakistan since
1992, keeping this traditional instrument and its music alive. Asad was
born in 1963 to the famous violinist K.H. Qizilbash, who was responsible
for closing the gap between Western and Eastern classical music. After
attending a concert performed by his future Master, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan,
Asad decided to devote himself to the instrument. Today, Asad Qizilbash has
the honor to perform regularly at his President's house where Head of State
Representatives, monarchs, diplomats and guests from all around the world
have witnessed and appreciated his unique style of classical narration.
Peshawar is the capital of the Northwest Frontier Province in Pakistan. The
city, once called Purushapura, "City Of Flowers," was the capital of the
ancient Greco-Buddhist center of Gandhara. Over the centuries, it has been
the entry-point to invaders, conquerors and refugees. It remains an
important military crossroad today. This, Asad Qizilbash's sarod recital in
Peshawar, was carried out under extremely perilous and rather singular
circumstances. An outstanding performance -- a moment of freedom from war.
Asad Qizilbash (sarod), Mustafa Khan (tabla).
Joy
Division - In The Studio With Martin Hannett 2CD (Interstate)
[INTERSTATE10798] $18.75
Signifying one of the most important JOY DIVISION discoveries to date,
Cargo Records is, with the approval of his family, releasing MARTIN
HANNETT's mix tapes of the 1978 and 1979 Cargo Studios, Rochdale sessions,
plus Hannett's other mixes of songs and sound effects from Strawberry and
Britannia Row. Hannett had a habit of running quarter-inch tape machines
throughout all Joy Division recording sessions and had an agreement with
the band to create his own versions of the recording sessions. He went with
the band to various studios and continually remixed what he recorded and
experimented feeding what he had recorded through his AMS delays while
playing around with synthesizers. It is Hannett's use of these weird and
wonderful sounds that makes Joy Division's records stand out above any
other punk or post-punk band, and this CD provides unprecedented insight
into the process of the man who made it all possible.
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution - Kraftwerk And The
Electronic Revolution DVD (Sexy Intellectual) [SIDVD541] $17.75
This DVD reviews the career and music of KRAFTWERK, from their
inception in
the late 1960s (as pre-Kraftwerk ensemble ORGANIZATION), through their most
celebrated period in the mid 1970s, and culminating with their resurgence
during the 1980s with the popularity of synth-pop and techno. The film
further explores how Kraftwerk both fitted in and pulled away from the
electronic wing of what is often lazily referred to as 'Krautrock'. Sparing
time also for many of the groups' contemporaries from the same field, and
tracing the unfolding of electronics in German contemporary music
generally, this program presents a fascinating story previously untold on
film. It features rarely seen live and performance footage of Kraftwerk and
of other Electronic and 'Krautrock' bands-much from private collections,
rare photographs of Kraftwerk and others, exclusive and extensive
Interviews with ex-Kraftwerk members and other German ambient and
electronic musicians, contributions and enlightenment from German
academics, writers and journalists, live and studio recordings of many of
Kraftwerk's pivotal tracks, plus live and studio recordings of many other
bands form the 'Krautrock' movement.
Osman Arabi - Burning Sigils CD (Fractured Spaces) [09874]
$18.25
The third release on FracturedSpacesRecords is Osman Arabi's "Burning
Sigils", a single 38-minute track of deeply hypnotic ethno-ambience tinged
with a cold darkness; a forgotten text written in the blood of generations,
a story of long-buried secrets and civilisations that worshipped dark gods
in the hidden kingdoms, lost to time and memory, becoming covered by both
sand and the unforgiving ravages of time. This languid and hip-swayingly
sinister piece builds slowly, unfolding its narrative unhurriedly, in the
same way that the ages-old deserts themselves have been around forever, in
the process resurrecting the shades of aeons-dead peoples and blowing cold
winds across the heat-ridden sandy wastes. Delve with us into the black
heart of a now-vanished civilisation and visit the incense-filled temples
of the gods of the arid places.
[ . . . ]
Aids Wolf - Cities Of Glass CD (Skin Graft) [GR91] $13.25
Produced by WEASEL WALTER (Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX, Arab on Radar),
Cities of Glass is the second album from the most hated band in the world!
Just votes short of being banned from Canadian radio, and prevented from
entering the USA numerous times, AIDS WOLF are globally confounding and
universally profound. With Cities of Glass, AIDS Wolf return to what they
do best: embracing the hate and bumming out the masses. Packaged in swank
gatefold sleeves. "There is a distinct discipline at work here, a crafted
sense of composition that unexpectedly rears out of the sonic wreckage"-The
Wire
Aliens - Head First CD (Misc Music) [MISL010] $11.75
After a string of successful single releases ALIENS release their first
album, Head First. The album represents the culmination of more than a year
of recording and mixing at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis. Aliens is
the musical entity created by BLAKE SANDBERG, featuring Blake on guitars
and vocals with drummer RAANEN BOZZIO. Head First brings together musicians
and talent from around the world including guest drummers TAMAKI UI from
Japan, Raanen Bozzio, son of Frank Zappa's drummer Terry Bozzio, and even
Iggy Pop and David Bowie drummer, HUNT SALES. The bulk of the album was
recorded in Austin with engineer MARK YOUNGER-SMITH. The Head First album
proves that Aliens are not afraid, and not afraid to rock! Head First is
an expansive album with each song adding a different sound or mood and
feeling. Each song is simple, stripped down, but each unique. The songs are
direct and catchy. These are songs you will remember the next day.
Angela Desveaux - Mighty Ship CD (Thrill Jockey) [THRILL203]
$14.00
The follow up release to Montreal country chanteuse ANGELA DESVEAUX's
2006's Wandering Eyes album. Joined by her road-tested band THE MIGHTY
SHIP, Desveaux tells stories of strength in the face of adversity,
including the story of her grandmother on the album's title track, a young
girl struggling to define herself on "For Design," and her own
self-affirmation on "Red Alert." The songs are decorated with her beloved
country flavors of pedal steel, piano and viola, but new to the mix are
flourishes of horns, and a bolder interaction between rhythm and lead
guitar. Also striking are Angela's vocal harmonies with FEUERSTACK, whose
voice is familiar to many from his Juno Award-winning work in WOODEN STARS.
ANTIchildLEAGUE - The Father CD (Hagshadow) [09870] $15.50
ANTIchildLEAGUE AKA Gaya Donadio The premier promoter of Noise-
Industrial
and Neo-Folk in London via Hinoeuma the Malediction for more than the last
decade. The Father An eclectic work that journey's from dark experimental
ambient music to harsh noise, combined with both spoken word and hostile
vocalizations. The musical or backing structures are derived from field
recordings, self created loops, both classical analogue and software synth
and rhythms. The Father is an exploration into the world of society
control, over population, religions and physiological trauma. This is the
first complete album work from ACL in its ten years history of sporadic
collaborations. Recorded both in London and in sight of the Italian Chapel
Orkney between 1998 to 2008. Mixed by godlesstate aka Patrick Leagas
6comm/Death in June
Bad
Sector - Storage Disk 2 CD (Waystyx) [09888] $16.25
NEW Limited to 500 copies absolutely new CD edition with booklet.
Second
part of 2CD project, revealing interest of Massimo Magrini in history of
soviet computer technics and presenting ten years of Bad Sector creative
activity. It includes as remastered WAYSTYX
Bang! Bang! - Industry CD Box (Morphius) [DFM089] $26.00
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-2008
***An anthology release from frenzied Chicago new wave powerhouse
BANG!
BANG! Includes forty-two studio tracks taken from the band's previous three
releases-Electric Sex, Decked Out, and The Dirty That Makes You Drown-plus
a slew of unreleased cuts and remixes, including SPANK ROCK's mix of
"Something More." For fans of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blondie, Rezillos, Hot Hot
Heat, The Argument, and Ravonettes. Includes two videos.
Bart Davenport - Palaces CD (Antenna Farm) [ANT526] $11.75
After years as a pillar of the Bay Area scene, BART DAVENPORT is ready
to
break out into the national conscience. After his self-described "studio
side project" HONEYCUT exploded with their album The Day I Turned to Glass,
Davenport's soulful singing and ear for amazing melodies are reaching their
biggest audience yet with his fourth solo album, Palaces. On Palaces,
Davenport's singing is rich, deep and nuanced, while his lyrics sparkle
with plainspoken poetry that offers telling insights into the minds and
hearts of his subjects. The classic songs of artists like Arthur Lee, Emitt
Rhodes, Harry Nilsson, and Paul McCartney are touchstones. The album
balances a sunny vibe with a streak of melancholy and subtly echoes the
sound of yesterday's AM radio hits while offering its own bright vision of
future pop. Produced by Davenport with more than a little help from his
friend KELLEY STOLTZ and features stellar contributions from some of the
San Francisco Bay Area's top musicians, including Stoltz, ANGELINA MOYSOV
(PERSEPHONE'S BEES), TONY SEVENER, and HERVE SALTERS (Honeycut).
Betty Botox - Mmm, Betty! CD (Endless Flight) [EF002CD]
$15.25
Betty Botox is the re-edit project of JD Twitch of Optimo, and this is
his
first full-length release. Inspired by his sets with JG Wilkes at Glasgow's
Sub Club, Mmm, Betty! compiles hard-to-find proto-"classics" of nu-disco,
dub, Kraut, industrial, and electronic. This release starts off with The
Jellies, and their track "Jive Baby On A Saturday Night," which is a
slanted, bouncy bass-driven and handclap number that is virtually
impossible to find anywhere else but here. Next is the Love Of Life
Orchestra -- after James Murphy used the original version to begin his own
mix CD, many people looked for this record, but the original 12" is
mega-rare. This Betty Botox version is mixed with another song, "Don't
Don't" from the same 12". A very funny but very interesting re-edit.
There's a track by The Residents -- their music is always amusing and
difficult to understand. However, after you listen to this re-edit, you
will know why JD Twitch picked this song -- it's like an original song by
Optimo! Severed Heads are early Australian progenitors of avant
garde/industrial from the late '70s, and Pankow are pioneers of
EBM/industrial in Italy. Their edited track "Girls And Boys" was taken from
their first album produced by Adrian Sherwood. Carlos Peron was a member of
'80s Swiss electronic/synth-pop band Yello, and "Et" was taken from a
mega-rare limited 12", Frigorex. The UK's Hawkwind are one of the most
popular and nameable space-rock bands in the world. Their music has been
used on mix CDs by disco dub artists such as Prins Thomas, and the track
presented and edited here is a whirling, cosmic, guitar and synth-driven
maelstrom. Flying Rhythms is a very well-known jam band in Japan and their
track is transformed into a no/disco shaker, driven by bongos. Zed is the
project of Bernard Szajner, a progressive/industrial/electronic rock
pioneer and inventor of the Laser Harp. His two albums Visions Of Dune and
Some Deaths Take Forever have been described by Carl Craig as his all-time
favorite electronic records. "Framen" is taken from Visions Of Dune and has
been edited by Naum Gabo (Jonnie Wilkes of Optimo). Betty Botox is bound to
leave you spaced-out, musically schooled and transformed.
Beyond Things - Our Call Outs CD (Plan-It-X) [PIX076] $9.00
Featuring members of the oldest Plan-It-X band, THE TED DANCIN' MACHINE
and
Hannah Jones of GHOST MICE, this album is hard to define sound wise. Spooky
melodies, acoustic instruments, drums and violin. Three of the members were
also in Bloomington's best indy/art band, THE PANOPLY ACADEMY GLEE CLUB (on
Secretly Canadian Records).
Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine CD (GBV Inc) [GBVI03]
$13.25
Though one will notice some subtle prog flourishes and acoustic strums,
Brown Submarines is a pop punk album, made by and for kids who've worn out
the grooves on their Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, Wire, and dBs records.
While ROBERT POLLARD has stretched out post-GBV, experimenting on each of
his diverse and unique solo records, BOSTON SPACESHIPS rock hard, have fun,
and drink Miller Lite. Without undue hyperbole, Pollard is penning
fantastic pop songs in a style no longer fashionable-perhaps never
fashionable. Makes no difference; on Brown Submarine, Pollard's charged up
and sings his ass off. He was so enthusiastic about this album that he's
decided to play his first proper club tour in two years. This from a guy
who hates flying, goes bananas sitting in the van, and has turned down
tours with Radiohead and The Strokes. Give Brown Submarine a spin or
two-it'll make you feel like a kid again, too. Features former members of
GBV, TAKEOVERS, DECEMBERISTS, JICKS, etc.
Bound Stems - Family Afloat CD (Flameshovel) [DIG044]
$13.25
Feels like high stakes these days, doesn't it? BOUND STEMS' version of
this
feeling is called The Family Afloat. It collects the time spent since the
release of their last album, 2006's Appreciation Night, and refracts it
through dozens of characters, viewpoints, voices, instruments and sounds.
The Family Afloat expresses a crucial personal transition and a collective
one. While Bound Stems quit their day-jobs to tour relentlessly throughout
2006 in support of Appreciation Night (an album that garnered praise from
the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Alternative Press, URB and
Chicago Tribune), the band returned home ready for new challenges, and made
the communal decision to return to the more stable life of work weeks and
strong roots. It was a choice that also ultimately made the concept of home
central to The Family Afloat. The songs sound like preparation: the family
has grown now, to include new ones being formed in Chicago. But there's no
settling down in these songs: family life is raw and confusing, as
uncomfortable and unexpected and rewarding as crucial.
Brant Bjork & The Bros - Somera Sol Reissue CD (Low Desert
Punk) [LDP1974] $14.00
REISSUED!!! The Somera Sol album from desert rock boogie man and former
KYUSS and QOTSA member BRANT BJORK and THE BROS-DYLAN ROCHE, CORTEZ, and
former bandmate ALFREDO HERNANDEZ-now reissued on Bjork's own Low Desert
Punk label. Musically speaking The Bros bring it organic style, the record
grooves, flows, is tough, beautiful, and and psychedelic.
Brume - Schiluuk Part 3 CD (Waystyx) [09875] $16.25
NEW 3CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Stable Part 4 CD (Waystyx) [09876] $16.25
NEW 4CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Electrocoagulation Tapes Part 5 CD (Waystyx) [09877]
$16.25
NEW 5CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Les Victimes Sont Dangereusses Part 6 CD (Waystyx)
[09878] $16.25
NEW 6CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Moll Part 7 CD (Waystyx) [09879] $16.25
NEW 7CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Lost in Karrack Part 8 CD (Waystyx) [09880] $16.25
NEW 8CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Early Tracks A compilation of very first recordings
1981-1986 Part 9 CD (Waystyx) [09881] $16.25
NEW 9CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Live With or Without Audience Part 10 CD (Waystyx)
[09882] $16.25
NEW 10CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - In Death We Trust (Extract) Program 4 (extract) Part 11
CD (Waystyx) [09883] $16.25
NEW 11CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - Drug Part 12 CD (Waystyx) [09884] $16.25
NEW 12CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Brume - The Prehistoric Tapes Part 13 CD (Waystyx) [09885]
$16.25
NEW 13CD of 13CD Brume Anthology. Limited to 375 numbered copies
Calexico - Carried To Dust CD (Quarterstick) [QS108] $13.75
For Carried To Dust, CALEXICO called on a rotating cast of musicians
and
friends to help them create what is arguably their most varied and
strongest work to date. Carried To Dust is a shining example of the band's
commitment to constantly molting and redefining who they are and also
reflects the band's amazing live shows, as well as underscoring their
restraint and beauty.
Callers - Fortune CD (Western Vinyl) [WV052] $13.25
"Throughout their debut Fortune SARA LUCAS' voice and RYAN SEATON's
guitar
are seamlessly interwoven, creating a haunting and soulful kind of magic.
With the wounded perseverance of Karen Carpenter and the vulnerable,
tough-as-nails courage and acceptance of Heart's Ann Wilson, Sara Lucas'
voice is rich and unforgettable. Seaton's guitar work is equally engaging,
using beautiful unusual chords, gritty distortion, and intricate
flourishes."
Charlie Louvin - Steps To Heaven CD (Tompkins Square)
[TSQ2059CD] $12.75
"Features 10 traditional gospel classics including 2 Louvin Brothers
songs.
The release will be followed by Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads &
Disaster Songs. Both albums were produced, recorded and mixed by Mark
Nevers (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Andrew Bird, Bobby Bare Sr.). Instead of
hanging back at age 81, Charlie has instead chosen to challenge himself.
Steps To Heaven was recorded live with a gospel choir comprised of three
sisters, journeyman gospel pianist Derrick Lee, and Chris Scruggs, adding
doghouse bass and electric guitar. Louvin had never recorded with black
gospel musicians before, and in doing so discovered a new musical path.
Charlie remarks, 'I did things on the gospel record I had no idea I could
do. I'd be thinking along the way, 'How can I do things I've never done
before?' And I did it.' 2007 saw Louvin celebrate his 80th birthday amidst
a swirl of activity around the release of his first studio album in ten
years, Charlie Louvin. Grammy-nominated for 'Best Traditional Folk Album,'
the disc features George Jones, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Will Oldham, and Elvis
Costello, among others. Charlie toured and recorded with Lucinda Williams,
made a video for the song 'Ira,' released a field recording of one of his
many in-store performances, Live at Shake It Records, played over 100
concert dates sharing stages with Ryan Adams and Neko Case, appeared on
giant festivals like Bonnaroo and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and placed a
medallion around Emmylou Harris' neck inducting her into the Country Music
Hall of Fame. Charlie's self-titled album earned 4 out of 5 stars in Uncut
and MOJO magazines, and sparked a bevy of great press and renewed interest
in his fascinating career."
Conifer - Crown Fire CD (Important) [IMPREC209] $13.00
Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise they've
somehow
managed to live off the grid for the past six years. With Crown Fire
Conifer is finally getting the exposure they deserve. Mixing post-rock,
kraut-rock, metal and pschychedlia they have created this relentlessly
driving and hypnotic masterpiece. Crown Fire's only vocals are from Oxbow's
Eugene Robinson fronting the albums final 13 minute epic. LP version
limited to 500 copies with 200 on color vinyl. Conifer has been writing
primarily instrumental music with a lawless take on the styles from which
they've taken cue. New content is found by way of augmenting brutality and
suspense with time. Conifer seems to reckon with the notions of bands like
Enemymine, Mogwai, or Grails while taking an approach toward their music
that's entirely meditative (as opposed to premeditated). Minimal, ethereal
passages are narcotically lengthened and crescendos of distortion are
sustained well beyond the boundaries adhered to by many of their peers.
"Heavy" by way of being beat/repetition heavy in not only a Shellac/Helmet
sense but in a way that is practically reminiscent of electronic
discipline. Crushing riffs amidst the most ethereal, minimal moments. Six
years in, Conifer has emerged from their mind forest into the clearing that
is the future and past. Band members have come and gone and come again.
Crown Fire is the latest battle that Conifer has fought in the war of
obtuse movement. Welcoming dense riffage washes over the listener for the
first half of the record, referencing pan Asian themes and musical manifest
destiny. The bombast that is their live show comes through loud and clear,
intertwined with moments of delicate reflection. Without warning it all
goes wrong, the mainframe explodes, the ships crash, the tide of despair
and denial rises never to recede. Hailing from the capital of the heavy
state of Maine, Conifer has an extremely close relationship with fellow
travellers Ocean. These two groups have shared a lot over the years
including members, tour transportation, practice spaces and members of the
two groups grew up together in rural costal towns. Though different in
sound they're quite kindred in spirit and obviously Conifer is essential
for anyone who loved Ocean's Here Where Nothing Grows.
Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees CD (Secretly Canadian)
[SC175] $13.25
DAMIEN JURADO just keeps plugging away, creating some of the best
folky,
singer-songwriter music out there right now, even as acts that mine a
similar sound, like Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, attract more blog buzz.
Plenty of input on Caught in the Trees came from Jurado's longtime tour
backers, JENNA CONRAD and ERIC FISHER. Jurado took a year to craft the
album, the longest he's ever worked on one LP. Some of the songs here ramp
up to a rocking level Jurado hasn't been at since his 2002 album I Break
Chairs, which he recorded with the backing band Gathered in Song.
Production assistance came from CASEY FOUBERT, who has played in Pedro the
Lion, Seldom, and Crystal Skulls.
Dan
Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles CD (Strange Famous) [SFR020] $13.25
No description available at this time.
Dave Aju - Open Wide CD (Circus Company) [CCi005CD] $16.00
This is San Francisco producer Dave Aju's debut full-length release,
including a bonus remix by Luciano. After three amazing EPs on Circus
Company, including the underground hit "Be Like The Sun," he has really
outdone himself this time with his most conceptual and personal, yet
accessible work to date. The album was made entirely with sounds from his
mouth, but it's no novelty affair -- these are all wonderful pieces of
music, covering a variety of styles. "Roundabout" starts things off with
fat, shuffling drums, an infectious bass line, and a vocal refrain that
builds into a "horn-section" crescendo -- straight from Chicago via Aju's
mouth. "Bump" is a fun and futuristic approach to hip-hop storytelling with
a "bumpity-bump" bass. "Crazy Place" is an homage to disco, pop, and wave
styles, but Aju's version takes it to the next level -- pulsing LFOs,
"live" mouth percussion, and a chorus and breakdown guaranteed to melt
hearts and dancefloors worldwide. Next up is "First Love," a super-deep and
soulful house track with spoken word connecting Aju's personal music
history, referencing song titles up to this moment -- pure class. "Tapatio"
shifts back to his raw party side with huge sub-bass, sick bleepy synth
hits, and playful vocal cut-ups. The title track follows, bringing a crazy
broken reggaeton-style groove, complete with clattering teeth percussion,
squeaky funk synth riffs, and a dark and lovely chorus. "Anyway" is Aju's
take on an uplifting house music anthem, recalling Lil'Louis with Sun Ra
Arkestra vocals. "With You" closes the album on a slow and sweet note,
bubbling over with smooth synths, warm bass, and some of the most tasteful
vocoder work around, on a 21st century Roger and Zapp love tip. Open Wide,
friends -- Dave Aju has arrived.
Dave Aju - Open Wide 2x12 inch (Circus Company) [CCS032LP]
$19.00
This is San Francisco producer Dave Aju's debut full-length release,
including a bonus remix by Luciano. After three amazing EPs on Circus
Company, including the underground hit "Be Like The Sun," he has really
outdone himself this time with his most conceptual and personal, yet
accessible work to date. The album was made entirely with sounds from his
mouth, but it's no novelty affair -- these are all wonderful pieces of
music, covering a variety of styles. "Roundabout" starts things off with
fat, shuffling drums, an infectious bass line, and a vocal refrain that
builds into a "horn-section" crescendo -- straight from Chicago via Aju's
mouth. "Bump" is a fun and futuristic approach to hip-hop storytelling with
a "bumpity-bump" bass. "Crazy Place" is an homage to disco, pop, and wave
styles, but Aju's version takes it to the next level -- pulsing LFOs,
"live" mouth percussion, and a chorus and breakdown guaranteed to melt
hearts and dancefloors worldwide. Next up is "First Love," a super-deep and
soulful house track with spoken word connecting Aju's personal music
history, referencing song titles up to this moment -- pure class. "Tapatio"
shifts back to his raw party side with huge sub-bass, sick bleepy synth
hits, and playful vocal cut-ups. The title track follows, bringing a crazy
broken reggaeton-style groove, complete with clattering teeth percussion,
squeaky funk synth riffs, and a dark and lovely chorus. "Anyway" is Aju's
take on an uplifting house music anthem, recalling Lil'Louis with Sun Ra
Arkestra vocals. "With You" closes the album on a slow and sweet note,
bubbling over with smooth synths, warm bass, and some of the most tasteful
vocoder work around, on a 21st century Roger and Zapp love tip. Open Wide,
friends -- Dave Aju has arrived.
De
Salvo - Mood Poisoner CD (Rock Action Records) [ROCKACT038CD] $17.75
"Based in Glasgow, Scotland and featuring members of Stretchheads and
Idlewild, De Salvo twist the influence of hardcore and metal to demand your
total sensual attention. This is incendiary, visceral and genuinely
perverse music. Assimilating the sounds of traditional hardcore like
Converge, Mastodon and Black Flag with the psychedelic madness of Butthole
Surfers, De Salvo have gained a reputation as one of the best live bands in
the UK. They are both confrontational and memorable but influence only
tells half the story. Put simply De Salvo are not a band it is easy to
categorize. Their music is filthy, it's dirty, it's in your face, it leaves
you feeling moist, aroused and slightly guilty. Recorded in early 2008 at
Chem19 Studios with producer Paul Savage (whose credits include; Mogwai,
Arab Strap & Malcolm Middleton) Mood Poisoner emerges as one of the
hardcore albums of the year. De Salvo's debut album is a punishing ride for
sure but it's an exhilarating experience all the same. F*** the
destination, welcome aboard 'cos it's time to strap-in and strap-on to
truly experience this."
Dean & Britta - L'avventura CD (Double Feature) [CD-DBL0001]
$13.75
Originally released in 2003, but unavailable for two years now due to
label
issues, L'Avventura was conceived as a side project for LUNA bandmates (now
husband & wife) DEAN WAREHAM abnd BRITTA PHILLIPS. Produced by legend TONY
VISCONTI, the album is a mix of duets, originals and covers (songs by Opal,
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Madonna, The Doors, and Silver Jews). Includes four
remixed tracks by SONIC BOOM, originally released on the Sonic Souvenirs
EP.
Don
Chambers and Goat - Zebulon CD (Warm Electronic Recordings) [WRM119]
$11.50
"These are adventure songs, instructional and subjective, throw out the
map
and drive, the joy is in the journey. Moses said the tribe of Zebulon would
suck of the abundance of the seas and of treasures hidden in the sand.
That's what we are going for here, the pirates dream of buried treasure.
Another Zebulon was Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr., for which the Georgian
town and county was named. He was an American soldier and explorer for whom
Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. Oddly, he never actually made it to the
top of the mountain now famously named after him. These songs came out of
travel and adventure, being away from home and coming back. Feeling stuck
and feeling like your floating, untethered and strange. Waiting to feel
homesick, while you are living in the mercury present."-Don Chambers
Donkeys - Living On The Other Side CD (Dead Oceans) [DOC014]
$13.25
THE DOBKEYS are four dudes from San Diego. They like making music
together.
Sometimes their music is loud, and sometimes it's quiet, but always it is
awesome. The Donkeys basically just write ruling songs. Living on the Other
Side is about rolling down the windows, cranking up the stereo, and hitting
the open road. Maybe you're running away, and maybe you're not, but either
way, everything's going to be alright.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours CD (Goner)
[41GONE] $11.00
Goner Records is proud to present the second album from Melbourne,
Australia's EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING. Primary Colours was released to
rave reviews and sold out shows Down Under, with the first week sales
putting the record at number six on the Australian national charts. Eddy
says, "musically, to me it sounds a bit more '82ish than the '76ish sound
of our first LP, slightly less frantic and maybe a bit more palatable."
Ergs - Hindsight Is 20/20, My Friend CD (Dirtnap) [ZZZ77]
$12.25
You don't want to listen to the same type of music all the time, so why
would a band want to drone through songs that all sound the same? THE ERS
have the talent to play outside the lines. The New Jersey-based trio draws
influences from the strongest sections of the SST catalog, pop punk in the
vein of both Ramones and Descendents, country, and even jazz. When
listening to The Ergs, prepare to have your definition of pop punk
challenged. As a band, everything goes; As listeners, everyone wins.
Eric Ayotte - Remnants Of Storytown CD (Plan-I-X) [PIX075]
$9.00
At last ERIC AYOTTE has released an album of the songs he has been
touring
with for the last few years. If you have ever seen him play a show you will
recognize the hits on this indie-acoustic full-length. Eric is also the
singer of another Plan-It-X band, HALO FAUNA.
Expo 70 - Animism CD (Kill Shaman) [CDEXPOANIM] $12.00
NOW AVAILABLE!!! EXPO 70's 2007 Animism album is the form of a living
being, driving deep, dark drones that resonate in the embodiment of life.
Animism is a collection of improvisations made mostly out of heavily
effected guitar, recorded and performed by JUSTIN WRIGHT.
Format:B - Steam Circuit CD (Highgrade) [HIGH054CD] $16.00
This is the first full-length release by Berlin's Format:B. Steam
Circuit
comes with a lot of pressure and fun, but by all means is so much more than
just a load of hot air. Franziskus Sell and Jakob Hildenbrand always stand
out on the Highgrade label with their highly energetic tracks, which are
strongly club-oriented without losing musical sense, funkiness or the joy
of playing around. Their EP releases Like A Techmachine or the extremely
successful Bronson Road are little milestones in Highgrade's label history.
Steam Circuit presents new work, plus some of their most successful tracks
so far, presented in the form of a DJ mix that demonstrates their whole
spectrum: from the dark, bouncing "Edding 850" to trips into more acid-like
areas with "Boot Cut" or the easy-rollin' stuff like "Like A Techmachine."
When vocals are in the game, Format:B goes one step further "Si Pero No"
has the clear potential to hit the scene like Pier Bucci's "Hay Consuelo"
did. In cooperation with Jake The Rapper on "Something Suitable," they
combine their trademark sub-bass lines with hypnotic sounds and deliver in
combination with Jake's vocals the perfect instant-club-banger. All in all,
it's a wild ride on the zeitgeist of club sound -- powerful tracks which
seem to never lose their breath.
Gaslight Anthem - Sen Or And The Queen CDEP (Sabot Productions)
[ACT021] $8.25
FEATURED THIS WEEK ON NPR!!! In the brief span of two years, New
Brunswick,
New Jersey's THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM have accomplished more than most bands
will in a career's worth of existence. Despite the fact that they only have
one full-length to their name (2007's Sink Or Swim), the band have written
songs that are dripping with so much authenticity it seems they would take
decades of hard living to craft. The four-song EP, Senor and the Queen,
recorded during a rare few days off in Austin, Texas, last year, shows the
progression the band have made in the last year from literally every waking
moment on the road. The result is a collection of songs that are remarkably
varied, with the only unifying characteristic being their timelessness and
authenticity. Anthemic punkers, upbeat rockers, and even a soulful
country-esque ballad.
Gasman - Superlife CD (Planet Mu) [ZIQ208] $13.25
It's been a busy year for Portsmouth's GASMAN, what with playing live
and
starting his own label, and one can hear the influence of his support tour
with The Cardiacs on Superlife, his ninth album. The record is full of
beatless electronic lullabies such as "RXG3," which unsettles in all the
best ways, and "Helpline," with its distinct sense of the uncanny just
around the corner. Opener "Ruter" is a majestic, synth-led carousel of
notes where the Blackpool Pier meets '90s trance. It's another winner from
The Gasman's trademark "Gaylord" sound. No exports to the UK, Europe, or
Australia.
Generic - Torture CD (Fractured Spaces) [09873] $18.25
For its second release, FracturedSpacesRecords couldn't have chosen a
better one: Generic's "Torture"¬ù, a long and deeply unsettling journey
into the beating black heart, and Antarctic iciness of the collective
shattered psyche, of a shattered mankind. Created using "foley tracks" and
sound effects (used for both film and television), as well as the
occasional guitars, bass, and found sounds, it all combines to produce a
haunting, nerve-shredding, ghostly and schizophrenic soundtrack, guaranteed
to simultaneously freeze the heart and mind, and induce cold sweat to bead
the forehead and shivers to wrack the body. Six mid to long tracks of bleak
mindscapes totalling just over 50 minutes and wrapped in beautiful full
colour digipak with artwork by new German digital artist THAMUS.
Giant Sand - Provisions CD (Yep Roc) [YEP2188] $14.50
"GIANT SAND is a mood," says HOWE GELB. The creative force behind the
extended family that has comprised Giant Sand over the years speaks of
happy accidents and musical auras that arise to inspire the soundscape that
is Giant Sand. The musical family tree of the Tucson, AZ group is long and
illustrious, spawning bands like Calexico and The Friends of Dean Martinez.
Gelb has steadily amassed a prolific catalog of Giant Sand and solo
material that spans the wealth of southwestern roots and lo-fi. Giant
Sand's new album proVISIONS is cinematic Americana at its most aching, an
album of tremolo soaked guitars, moody piano and secrets whispered over
desert winds. Recorded partly in Tucson and Denmark, this version of Giant
Sand is comprised of Danish musicians and features talented
friends/collaborators such as NEKO CASE, M. WARD and ISOBELL CAMPBELL. A
creeping cruise down a dark desert highway, these proVISIONS provide for
the furthering ride of Giant Sand's completely unique musical legacy.
Girls - Yes No Yes No Yes No CD (Dirtnap) [ZZZ76] $12.25
Seattle's THE GIRLS play brisk, well-constructed synth-punk that splits
the
difference between the hookiness of British new wave, the slick
professionalism of the Cars, and the weirder strains of synth-punk. Ten
tracks of twitchy, keyboard driven poppy post punk.
Git
Some - Cosmic Rock CD (1-2-3-4 Go) [GO32] $12.00
GIT SOME is a band from Denver, Colorado consisting of four dudes
(including CHUCK and NEIL from PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS) who grew up on
80's punk rock, Reagan-era America, and shitty weed, discharging cathartic
bursts of noise that shatter angst and inhibitions. Cosmic Rock was born of
wild abandon, loud-ass guitar, bass and drums, and an explosive singer.
It's all the good things about hardcore stripped of the agenda, all the
great things about metal and hard rock stripped of the unnecessary
machismo. Vinyl comes in a full color gatefold sleeve and includes a coupon
for a one-time download of high quality MP3's of the entire album! First
pressing is limited to 500 copies on red vinyl.
Hacienda - Loud Is The Night CD (Alive) [ALIVE0089] $14.00
San Antonio's HACIENDA are Mexican-Americans who are obsessed with the
Beach Boys, and the buzz surrounding the band may signal a rebirth of young
rock'n'roll-with emphasis on the roll. Formed by cousins ABRAHAM VILLANUEVA
(piano/vocals) and DANTE SCHWEBEL (guitar/vocals), together with Abraham's
brothers JAIME (drums/vocals) and RENE (bass/vocals), this Mexican-American
quartet blends a raw yet sophisticated style of pop music with harmonies
reminiscent of the Beatles and Beach Boys.
Home & Garden - Domesticated CD (Om) [OM298] $14.00
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-2008
***When writing, composing and performing the music on their debut
album
Domesticated, TIM KVASNOSKY and TIMOTHY SHUMAKER (collectively known as
HOME & GARDEN) knew it would be very close to their hearts. Their work
behind the scenes (as studio composers, musicians) for other dance artists
have garnered numerous #1 Billboard dance hits. Some of these notable
artists that have worked with the Home & Garden hit machine include: LUCY
WOODWARD, COLETTE, ESTHERO, and DEBI NOVA. It only seemed fit that they
bring in a few of these accomplices and others to contribute to their album
such as DERRICK CARTER, MIC MURPHY, LISA SHAW, JENNIFER KARR and CHEZ
DAMIER.
Horse Feathers - House With No Home CD (Kill Rock Stars)
[KRS495] $13.25
Born and raised in Lewiston, Idaho, JUSTIN RINGLE has a natural
affinity
with the West. Its space, beauty, and nonconformity seem to be reflected in
the music of his band HORSE FEATHERS, named after an expression he heard
his grandfather use. In Ringle's hands, the common meaning of this
expression comes to life: two things that can't possibly exist together are
spun into a gossamer delicacy of music shot through with lyrical weight.
Moving from Idaho to Portland, Oregon in 2004, Justin recorded some demos,
one of which found its way to PETER BRODERICK (Norfolk & Western, Dolorean,
and Loch Lomond), who offered to help record them properly. Later Peter's
sister HEATHER BRODERICK joined the band on cello and backing vocals.
Justin and Peter worked together to polish the material that became the
group's first album, Words Are Dead, which was released on the local Lucky
Madison label in 2006. After a year of touring the US in various
incarnations, Horse Feathers signed to Kill Rock Stars and proceeded to
record this, their second album. On it they have distilled their sound into
a brilliant statement of minimalist Americana. Peter and Heather's
precisely arranged strings step cautiously in and around Justin's haunting
vocal lines, and the economy of music is also reflected in the lyrics-a few
evocative phrases tell rich stories, each word weighted and delivered with
careful purpose.
Howling Hex - Earth Junk CD (Drag City) [DC372] $13.25
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-2008
***The sixth new version of NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY's (ROYAL TRUX)
HOWLING
HEX. Recorded in the late winter of early 2008, Earth Junk is a ramble in
the dappled sunlight of the American Southwest, twisted metallic folk-art
in the ever-changing breeze, an offering to all nations. Throw Earth Junk
in your sound trunk and keep on rolling. The Howling Hex will be there to
greet you whenever-and wherever-you arrive.
Illusion Of Safety - In Session CD (Waystyx) [09886] $16.25
NEW 500 copies CD edition
John Watermann - 1935-2002 CD (Waystyx) [09889] $16.25
No description available at this time.
Kattoo - Places CD (Hymen) [Y740] $15.00
No description available at this time.
Keplers Odd - Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula CD (Fractured
Spaces) [09872] $18.25
From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as
Keplers Odd, and FracturedSpacesRecords is pleased to announce that "Strena
Seu de Nive Sexangula", their third CD album, is the first official release
on the UK's newest quality underground music label. Featuring seven tracks
of noisy yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of
the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout
Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths
& legends told around campfires over countless generations. Indeed, Keplers
Odd have themselves spawned a monster of an album, creating textures and
ambiences far beyond the normal run of over-driven guitar noisefests - yes,
there is unalloyed power here, but there is also quiet subtlety, sinister
atmospherics, and deeply dark occult moods. Ancient abandoned buildings,
dark musty corridors, sinister forces at play - it's all here in stonking
quantities!!
Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt LP (K Records) [KLP193] $13.25
A new album of children's music from "Juno-ized" folk star KIMYA
DAWSON.
Song titles include "The Alphabutt Song," "Seven Hungry Tigers," "Little
Monster Babies," "Wiggle My Tooth" and "Pee Pee in the Potty," and
collaborators include former Third Eye Blind guitarist Kevin Cadogan and a
number of Dawson's other musical friends and their children. She has also
been invited to participate in the Sesame Street television program.[3]
Klangmutationen - Schwarshagel CD (Utech Records) [UR019CD]
$15.25
"Klangmutationen are a mystery. More could be said about what their
music
isn't than what it is. Hailing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the underground
experimentalists pierce the veils of Eastern and Western music. Recalling
early sets on FMP as well as the Takayanagi/Abe axis of Japanese free
music, Schwarzhagel is the sound of a spirit falling past its own life
after death, forever."
Klangwart - Stadtlandfluss CD (Staubgold) [STAUB080CD]
$16.00
After an eight year long studio hiatus, the Cologne- and Berlin-based
electronic duo Klangwart (Markus Detmer and Timo Reuber) present
Stadtlandfluss. Since 1999, Klangwart have been experimenting at their
concerts with a limited pool of sounds and loops (developed and compiled by
Timo). From this, the two generated the concert piece Stadtlandfluss in
real-time, which they have been (re-)creating as a continuous experiment
for many years. Thus, Stadtlandfluss is a "work in progress." Little of
what's happening within the piece is determined. Dynamics range from "very
quiet" (minimal, subtle, harmonious, finely-honed) to "extremely loud"
(harsh, raw, pure energy). The piece is in a state of permanent flux, it
changes from performance to performance depending on the acoustics of the
place and the physical and mental state of Klangwart and the audience. No
two concerts sound the same. With this piece, Klangwart allowed themselves
the luxury of a long gestation. In 2007, Markus and Timo decided to capture
the piece in their Cologne-based Inkiek-Studio and release it on an album
of the same title. Although the music is split into seven tracks, it is
still one continuous piece. Droning soundscapes mixed with restless
electronics that envigorate the very act of listening.
Little Teeth - Child Bearing Man CD (Absolutely Kosher) [AK074]
$12.75
Can a band be simultaneoulsy punk as it is folk? It would seem a
contradiction in terms. If you think not, San Francisco's LITTLE TEETH will
prove you wrong. The group, renowned for their energetic, often spastic
live performances, equip themselves with instruments a plenty - everything
from a banjo to the kitchen pot - yet bring little sense of self
consciousness. Child Bearing Man is the kind of debut album you yearn for
and recognize instantly once you find it. It's a record of growls, squeaks,
complex wordplay, and melodic cascades, tied together with mandolin, banjo,
accordion, rock and roll drums, cello, guitar and DANNIE MURRAY's (Vocals,
Mandolin, Guitar, Accordion) wildcat snarl. Amazingly, out of a semblance
of chaos comes harmony and raw beauty. Dannie's voice draws you in. It is a
little scary, full of pain and world weariness. But what is most
mesmerizing about this trio, rounded out by AMMO EISU (Vocals, Drums,
Cello, Violin) and ANDY TISDALL (Vocals, Bass, Banjo, Electronics), is
their transcendent synergy on stage. These three natural eccentrics lead
the listener through tracks like "Japanese Candy" with desperate wails and
"Between My Ears" with lyrical jabs, "you could cut your face six different
ways but they'd all look the same to me". Together, Little Teeth's Child
Bearing Man is commanding, emotionally and musically conflicted, utterly
moving and shockingly original.
Liz
Durrett - Outside Our Gates CD (Warm Electronic Recordings) [WRM120]
$12.50
Produced and arranged by indie rock icon, ERIC BACHMANN (ARCHERS OF
LOAD,
FROOKED FINGERS, AZURE RAY), Outside Our Gates, represents a sonic leap
forward for LIZ DURRETT. With Bachmann on board, Durrett's once spare,
acoustic downbeats have been supplanted by a more textured and diverse
orchestra of sounds. A virtual cacophony of instruments are here, including
(but not limited to) tiny nylon-string guitars, backwards electric feedback
loops, pizzicato violins, plucky cellos, upright bass, Wurlitzers,
accordions, grand space pianos and marching drums. Bachmann's score somehow
harmonizes these elements seamlessly to provide the perfect setting for
Durrett's near dream-state writings and softly unsettling voice. Additional
performances by VIC CHESNUTT, BIRAN CAUSEY (MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?), AMANDA
KAPOUSOUZ (TIN CUP PHROPHETTE) and members of HAM1.
Low
Lows - Shining Violence CD (Misra) [MSR049] $12.75
THE LOW LOWS (ex-PARLER & LILY) follow up their majestic 2006 debut
album,
Fire On The Bright Sky, with Shining Violence, an album of leaner, more
hook-laden songs, which combines slow, dreamlike balladry with melodically
distorted guitar, smashing, trashy drums, pedal steel, three-part vocal
harmony and gospel-tinged, explosive climaxes. Highlights include a
rousingly twangy cover of The Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Modern Romance" and "Five
Ways I Didn't Die," which was a hugely popular radio session track last
year ("absolutely beautiful... one of my favorite sessions of the year.
Marvelous."- Mark Coles, 'The Beat', BBC Radio).
Magazine - Play CD (Virgin) [EMI87347CD] $11.50
"Formed by original Buzzcocks lead singer Howard Devoto, Magazine
featured
a line-up that included Robin Simon of Ultravox, and Barry Adamson, who
became a key member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds before launching a critically
praised solo career. Magazine's combination of punk rock's nervous energy
and art rock's experimentalism pushed the boundaries of music. Little
wonder that this top post-punk group has been cited by today's top
post-rock group, Radiohead, as an influence, with Radiohead even paying
tribute by performing Magazine's 'Shot By Both Sides' during their Kid A
live shows. But Magazine's influence doesn't stop there. It also includes
fans like U2's The Edge, Blur, Maxïmo Park, Manus, Manic Street Preachers,
Elastica, Morrissey (who covered 'A Song From Under The Floorboards'), and
both Ministry and Peter Murphy who each covered 'The Light Pours Out Of
Me.' Play is the only live document ever released by this legendary band.
Recorded in Melbourne in 1980, it is a veritable live hits collection that
also includes tasty extras such as their broodingly sinister cover version
of the Sly & The Family Stone classic 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf
Agin).'"
Mariola Brillowska & Felix Kubin - H.O.N.D. CD (A-musik)
[A033CD] $14.50
"The first joint release of Hamburg-based all-around artists Felix
Kubin
(music, sounds) and Mariola Brillowska (lyrics, vocals). For Brillowska's
2006 theatre play of the same title, Kubin composed a soundtrack in order
to mess up this infamous musical by twirling colorful little building
bricks around in it. This then became an album in its own right, where
constructivist orchestra- and plunderphonics-collages meet Gameboy-disco
while melancholy-laden chansons rub against Weill/Eisler-like hymns."
Michael Byron - Dreamers Of Pearl CD (New World Records)
[NW80679CD] $14.50
Performed by Joseph Kubera, piano. If youâ?Tve ever been to a strip
club
with Willie Winant, you must buy this CD! "Michael Byron (b. 1953) was a
pupil of James Tenney, and later, of Richard Teitelbaum. The body of music
he has composed over the past thirty years has been harmonically rich,
rhythmically detailed, and increasingly virtuosic. Dreamers Of Pearl
(2004-2005) evinces a sensitivity for the sound of the piano, a sensibility
of extended playing/listening, and an interest in repetition and change
through gradual and seemingly clandestine processes that transform and
extend what we hear. Despite the lyrical (and, one might assume,
programmatic) titles of the three movements ('Enchanting the Stars,' 'A
Bird Revealing the Unknown to the Stars,' 'It Is the Night and Dawn of
Constellations Irradiated'), Dreamers Of Pearl is a self-contained piece of
pure ('absolute') music without obvious quotation or extra-musical
references. Dreamers makes its case within a classically-balanced
architectural design: three extended 'fast-slow-fast' movements of roughly
equal length (263, 199, and 226 measures, respectively). The notation is
meticulous, specific, precise. Much of the work's texture could be
characterized as baroque, given the perpetual motion of the consistent
two-voiced polyphonic layering -- some of it cryptically and distortedly
imitative. Dreamers belongs to a rare class of recent piano music
--monumental compositions of great length, beauty, and depth -- all
self-consciously bound to tradition-oriented genres and their deeply
ingrained structures, yet inventive and thrilling in ways that inspire a
few brave pianists to dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to these often
mercilessly difficult pieces. Joseph Kubera, the tremendously gifted
pianist for whom Dreamers Of Pearl was written, is one of those brave few."
Michna - Magic Monday CD (Ghostly International) [GI73]
$10.75
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-2008
***NYC producer MICHNA (SFC, Bonde Do Role, Diplo) comes correct with
skullsnap bets and playful electronics by the pound. "With each song,
Michna pumps city grit into the watery graves of mixtapes past. Post-bass,
ambient, whispers of acid jazz, it's all there. Magic Monday is an
international biopic, but one that is both timeless and genreless."-Fader
Milosh - III CD (Plug Research) [PLG89] $10.75
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-2008
***MILOSH (Toronto, Canada) makes music for the mind, body and spirit.
Introspective, intimate, sensual electro-folk steeped in perfumed
melancholy and luscious romance. Combining beats, samples, guitars, strings
and the most silken falsetto voice since prime-time Smokey Robinson, the
third Milosh album III takes the listener on an emotional journey through
an exquisitely beautiful musical landscape. A classically trained cellist,
jazz aficionado, Neil Young fan and devotee of left-field electronica, the
Toronto-based MICHAEL MILOSH does not fit conventional pop categories-and
nor does his music.
Mirror Mirror - Society For The Advancement Of Inflammatory
Consciousness CD (Cochon) [COCH032] $13.00
Brooklyn-based MIRROR MIRROR's first full-length album is a
schizophrenic
exploration into the multiple personalities and points of views of the
(fictional?) Society, as well as aspiring followers, runaways, hustlers,
partygoers, and music producers. The compositions are lush and complex,
blending folky sing-alongs, sinister rock songs, cult lullabies, robotic
choral pieces, and meditative interludes. Mirror Mirror has earned a
reputation for its curious blend of music and performance, as well as its
polymorphous membership. Chief songwriters DAVID RILEY and RYAN LUCERO met
in 2003 and quickly recruited percussionist MATT BAGDANOFF, guitarist JILL
KAUFMAN, and a rotating cast of friends, performers and guest musicians.
Their unpredictable live shows incorporate theater, visual art, video,
design, and even food.
Momus - Joemus CD (American Patchwork) [AMPATCH08] $12.25
RELEASE DATE: 11-17-2008
The new Momus album, Joemus, is a collaboration between the veteran
electronic vaudevillian and Joe Howe, a young Glasgow breakcore musician
known for his work with Gay Against You and Germlin. Asked, back in 2007,
to do a cover version for a limited edition box set called Recovery, Momus
called on the young Scot's services to make a cover of David Bowie's Ashes
to Ashes, which turned out "not so much a pop song as a ping pong match
between Coco the Clown and Major Tom... a series of satistfying thwack and
plock and boiiiiiing noises," according to Momus. The Bowie cover isn't on
Joemus, but the Nintendo Glam Rock feel -- and the odd noises -- persist.
The pair worked over the internet, then spent several weeks together in
Berlin fine-tuning the results. The Joemus album sounds like the hits of
70s Scottish glam rock sensations The Bay City Rollers played on 80s
amusement arcade equipment. Joe's frenetic, ADD-addled jams get turned by
Momus into folk jigs, but the fast numbers alternate with tenderly morose
slowies, covers of Cliff Richard ballads and Ryuichi Sakamoto croons. Then
it's back to the beats-and-edits frenzy, and tales of horror, from Dracula
(a duet with Groopie Kyoka Kyoka) to Ichabod Crane. The result may be the
most satisfying pop album Momus has ever made -- but only if your
definition of pop tends to the edgy, jumpy, fresh, and weird.
Nadja - Trembled CD (Utech Records) [UR024CD] $15.25
"Trembled has returned, triumphantly. Released by Utech Records [046]
in
the summer of 2006 on limited CD-R. The principal live recordings from
Toronto have been remixed/remastered and include a rare performance of
Swans 'No Cure for the Lonely.' The core of the release, though, is
'Tremble,' a cascading improvisation of drift and atmospherics revealed to
audiences on an occasional basis. The track is telling of the fluidity with
which Nadja create and why the band has become so highly regarded.
'Breakpoint' and 'Corrasion' complete the set. Exclusive material has been
added in 'Stays Demons' and a second version of 'Tremble' recorded by Scott
Slimm in Philadelphia. Illustration by Justin Bartlett. The ultimate
document of Nadja at their most electric and empyreal. Edition of 900."
New
Year - New Year CD (Touch And Go) [TG324] $13.75
Over the last seventeen years, in the 1990s with BEDHEAD and for the
last
decade with THE NEW YEAR, MATT and BUBBA KADANE have done all they could to
avoid feeling rushed in making a record. Records need time to be coherent,
and coherence-even thin thematic coherence-is what makes records worth more
than a mere collection of songs. The most recent payoff of this approach is
The New Year's newest self-titled release, the culmination of four years of
song-writing and a year of recording. Lyrically, these ten songs address
the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for
others. Although musically these may be the band's most varied songs-for a
band that made innovative use of three guitars, almost half the songs here
are built around the piano-it is the careful sequence of these songs that
brings the story the lyrics tell together. Even the lack of a record title
seems deliberate in suggesting that this is the culmination of everything
this band has tried to achieve.
Nightmares On Wax - Thought So... CD (Warp) [WRP159] $13.25
The venerable NIGHTMARES ON WAX return with Thought So..., a
sun-drenched
collection of dub and heavy drums arriving just in time to wrap up summer
madness. After paving the way for soul-minded beat-smiths like Madlib and
Flying Lotus, this latest LP is another important step in an already iconic
career. Buoyant and supremely catchy, Thought So... is another skillful
combo of advanced production and vintage groove. In short, the record gives
fans everything they have come to expect from Nightmares On Wax.
Okkervil River - Stand Ins CD (Jagjaguwar) [JAG124] $13.25
The band's fifth full-length, The Stand-Ins is another stunner of a
record.
As the skeletal cover art suggests this new collection of songs connects us
to its predecessor while continuing, echoing, and extending the OKKERVIL
story.
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements CD (Tomlab) [TOM120]
$14.00
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS' third album and first for Tomlab is an eleven song
linear narrative of moral ambiguities, set to an elaborately orchestrated
olio of modern classical and timeworn, traditional American pop forms. They
borrow from the string swept sentimentality of Van Dyke Parks, Scott
Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, then introduce the influence of
more formidable strains of modern classical composers such as Krzysztof
Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars. The result is a confluence of
cerebral and sentimental disparities; sensually unsettling. Orchestral pop,
crooned and cooed in falsetto.
Pedal - Pedal CD (Staubgold) [STAUB083CD] $16.00
Pedal is comprised of duo improvisations for two pianos by Australians
Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Simon James Phillips. While Abrahams is
inspired by jazz, be-bop, hard-bop, free-jazz, rock 'n roll, Thelonious
Monk, Bill Evans, improvisation, Terry Riley, and dare I say... Little
Richard, Phillips feels much more at home with the concert hall, opera
house, chamber works, Grieg, Janacek, Feldman, Ives, old-school,
new-school, classically-trained pianist, conductor, pedagogue. The music:
What are they thinking? These guys are doing a recording of acoustic piano
music in this day and age?! Just when you think two grand pianos and four
hands have nothing to say in this 21st century, you're wrong, because these
are two brilliant minds. Every single piece of music on this recording was
fully improvised. To borrow a phrase from Ornette Coleman in relation to
his view about the state of music in general: "Beauty is a rare thing.
Well, here is that rare thing.
Pidgeon - Might As Well Go Eat Worms CD (Absolutely Kosher)
[AK059] $12.75
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-2008
***Four years after their From Gutter With Love debut, the San
Francisco
outfit return from the underground with their sophomore release, Might as
Well Go Eat Worms, an album which showcases the bands undeniable maturation
in sound. PIDGEON has since perfected upon their loud, quiet, loud
signature form, finding balance between beauty and destruction. "California
is for F**kers" opens with catchy, rhythmic riffs and precision drumming
before giving way to an onslaught of distorted, crunching, sludgy guitars
offset with semi-sweet pop vocals. Throughout the record MICHA FOLEY's
(former member of Bay Area hardcore legends USED NAKED BLOODY) bone
rattling screams are assuaged by VAL IWAMASA's angelic voice (think Ninna
Person of The Cardigans meets Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead). On Might As
Well Eat Worms Pidgeon has shed all remaining sense of innocence and
emerged leaner, stronger, and ready to devour you whole.
Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart CD (Warp) [WRPCD166] $14.00
PIVOT are an Australian trio made up of DAVE MILLER and brothers
RICAHRD
and LAURENZ PIKE. If that last name is in any way familiar, it may well be
for his membership of pioneering jazz/electronica trio TRIOSK (who broke up
last year), though it might also be for his contributions to SAVATH +
SAVALAS and FLANGER. O Soundtrack My Heart is Pivot's debut album though
it's the result of a lengthy maturation as the band formed back in the late
'90s.
Plinth/Textile Ranch - The Rest, I Leave To The Poor CD (Make
Mine Music) [MMM051] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 10-20-2008
A postal collaboration between Plinth (Mike Tanner) and Textile Ranch
(Glen Johnson of Piano Magic). This 44 minute piece may structurally
resemble a classical composition - divided as it is into several
interlocking stanzas - but it's difficult to place it comfortably within
the realm of modern music. If anything, 'The Rest....' evokes the
otherwordly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear,
Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated
instrumentation, samples and voice. Plinth, of course, is no stranger to
Victoriana. In 2007, the Dorset-based multi-instrumentalist and founder of
the Dorset Paeans record label released, 'Plays Victorian Machine Music' -
an EP made up entirely from sounds generated by antiquated parlor machines
and music boxes. A further full-length Plinth album, 'Music For Smalls
Lighthouse' will be released on the Current 93-associated, Durtro Jnana
label by the end of this year. Tanner has also played as a member of
Pantaleimon, Directorsound, United Bible Studies and with Sharron Kraus
live. Glen Johnson founded the Anglo-French "ghost-rock" unit, Piano Magic,
in 1996 and since then has released over 30 records on a multitude of
different labels, from 4AD to Morr Music to Important Records, including
collaborations with Low, Vashti Bunyan, Cornershop and Tarwater. In 2004,
his debut album as Textile Ranch, 'Bird Heart In Wool,' a portfolio of
abstract, melodic electronica, was released on the Very Friendly label. A
further Textile Ranch album will see the light of day in Spring 2009.
Tanner and Johnson may have met on the internet but their collaboration
here relied greatly on Her Majesty's Royal Mail service, swapping files by
post, adding, subtracting, remoulding, magnifying found sounds and home
recordings. The overall effect could be imagined as the sonic depiction of
the life and times of an impoverished Victorian clerk, from birth to death.
Clattering typewriter keys are sewn into this rich tapestry amongst the
lolloping waves of the grimy Thames, divine voices, rusty acoustic guitars,
wheezing harmoniums, boiling kettles, mocking crows, funeral drums, penny
arcades and much, much more. Angele David-Guillou, a regular contributor to
Piano Magic recordings and chanteuse with her own project, Klima (s/t album
on Peacefrog, 2007) generously guests on vocals and other instruments here,
whilst the mysterious Ms Autumn Grieve adds further voicings. This one-off
collaboration marks the 51st release for Make Mine Music, the pioneering
British independent label that is owned, financed and maintained by its
artists. A special label compilation and selective concerts around the UK
will litter the next few months. 'The Rest, I Leave To The Poor' comes as a
strictly ltd edition (1000 copies), letter-pressed sleeve of recycled
chipboard with red metallic ink finish.
Quintessence - Indweller CD (Esoteric Recordings) [ECLEC2089CD]
$18.50
"Esoteric Recordings add to their recent reissue of Quintessence's
first
album for RCA Records with this, their final vinyl outing from 1972.
Hailing from the heart of London's 'alternative underground' society in
Notting Hill, Quintessence were inspired by Eastern philosophy and
spiritual teachings creating a unique fusion of psychedelia, jazz and
ethnic rock. Indweller saw them continue their musical explorations in this
vein, creating a classic of the Progressive / Acid Rock genre. The Esoteric
remastered edition was produced from the original analogue master tapes and
features a booklet with liner notes and new essay."
Rafter - Sweaty Magic CD (Asthmatic Kitty) [AKR043] $6.50
Inspired by influences as diverse as Guided By Voices, R Stevie Moore,
Fela
Kuti, Lightning Bolt, Fushitsusha, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, and Cody
Chestnutt. "It's all about the overwhelming rad feeling of going out
dancing with my hot fiancee-- techno, Prince, electro, hip-hop-- sweating
and smiling on the dance floor!" --Rafter Roberts.
Rahim - Laughter CD (Pretty Activity) [PA010] $13.25
RAHIM have always existed with one foot in and one foot out of New York
City. While the provinciality of their Long Island roots allowed for a
unique musical direction, their proximity and relevance to New York City
added an appropriate dose of urbane awareness and ambition. That
combination of sound and vision produced their debut, Ideal Lives, to
strong critical praise from publications like Pitchfork and Spin and a slew
of national touring. Their long-cultivated and irreproducible musical
vision is on full display on their second full-length Laughter-a record of
tense melodies, expansive synth textures and restless percussive energy
that comes off like the soundtrack to urban living on the brink of
apocalypse. Received a 7.6 rating in Pitchfork.
Robert Haigh - Written on Water CD (Crouton) [09871] $14.75
In the early 80s, Robert Haigh released a handful of recordings under
his
own name, as well as the monikers Sema, Fote, and Truth Club. His
atmospheric piano, guitar and sound arrangements were in a class of their
own, but ranked among the quality level of other experimentalists such as
Nurse With Wound, Current 93, and The Hafler Trio; coincidentally with whom
he also collaborated with. These recordings quickly developed a cult
following and even today are scarce, some fetching high prices on the
collector's market.
Haigh departed this work in the 90s, moving into an entirely different sound under the moniker Omni Trio. Signing with the esteemed electronic label Moving Shadow, Haigh became highly regarded as one of the originators of drum and bass music, although his style during this time continued to reflect his use of fluid melody and space.
And
now, Crouton is absolutely delighted to present his newest work, Written on
Water. Within these songs, listeners will hear nods to the distinct
melodicism of his early Valentine Out of Season-era solo piano work, while
also referencing like-minded composers such as Eric Satie, Steve Reich, and
Harold Budd. Gone are the drum machines of his 90s work, yet this new music
is as much about rhythm as it is about melody.
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep (regular) CD (Big Dada) [BDCD72]
$9.50
No description available at this time.
Sascha Funke - Watergate 02 CD (Watergate Records) [WG002CD]
$16.00
This is the second Watergate mix CD installment. Situated by the river
Spree, known for its first-rate line-ups of international talent and, of
course, its famous wall-to-wall LED dancefloor installation, the Watergate
Club in Berlin has quickly become one of the world's leading dance music
clubs. Only five years after its official opening, the club now goes a step
further and releases a mix CD series delivering only the finest DJ mixes by
some of club's most exiting residents and guests. With the focus being put
not only on the music but also on the packaging and design, this series
will quickly become a truly sought-after collector's item and will surely
stand out in the flood of mediocre music and mixes that often dilute the
market. Sascha Funke is an honest-to-goodness Berliner, and he has played a
significant role in molding and forming the Berlin techno scene since the
mid-'90s. Now, after various stops along the way, he has found his home and
a residency at Watergate. Sascha delivers a mix that is second to none in
its musical diversity. At the same time, his personality shines throughout
the entire project and reflects his self-perception as a DJ. In addition to
current tracks and remixes, the mix is interlaced with carefully-chosen
jewels and rarities from years past. The mix was recorded at the Watergate
Club on a warm August night, using records of various ages. Any and all
cracklings and sounds from the needle touching down come from the use of
vinyl records, and are deliberate and desired -- an integral part of the
sound of an authentic DJ mix. Including artists such as Nathan Fake, Four
Tet, Ellen Allien, Miss Kittin, Maus & Stolle, Zander VT, Minilogue & KAB,
Wighnomy Brothers, Dave Aju, Sten, Modal, The Mole, Sascha Funke, Tobias
Thomas & Superpitcher, DJ Koze, Closer Musik, Patrice Scott, Milch, and
Acid Jesus.
Shaky Hands - Lunglit CD (Kill Rock Stars) [KRS498] $13.25
In their hometown of Portland, Oregon, THE SHAKY HANDS are the one band
that virtually everyone agrees on. Respected throughout the underground for
their basement show origins and complete lack of ego, critically adored for
their instantly recognizable, earthy-meets-explosive sound and loved by the
general populace for putting on really, really good shows-they represent
Portland, one of America's best music cities, as well as any contemporary
indie rock act. NICK DELFFS' vibrato-infused, homespun vocals and bobbing
acoustic guitar strums complement COLIN ANDERSON's organic, driving
percussion while JEFF LEHMAN's own guitar rockouts remind listeners that
The Shaky Hands were, after all, a rock band.
Stargazer's Assistant, The - Shivers And Voids CD (Utech
Records) [UR018CD] $15.25
"David J. Smith (Guapo, Miasma & The Carousel Of Dead Horses) releases
a
second set of recordings as The Stargazer's Assistant. Following The Other
Side of the Island on Aurora Borealis, Shivers and Voids is a union of
instrument, voice and tape. A soundtrack left waiting for the right film to
accompany it through the dark. Sweeping, intricate, sometimes ominous, yet
always exuding a warmth of emotion. Ancient forests, vast plains, billowing
clouds, rusted metal hulks, wet rock walls, lights flickering in darkness.
The Stargazer's Assistant reveals all this to us."
Terminal11 - Fractured Sunshine CD (Hymen) [Y755] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Thomas Lehn/Marcus Schmickler - Navigation im Hypertext CD
(A-musik) [A034CD] $14.50
"Lehn and Schmickler 's 1st recording BART is considered one of the
best
synth improv albums ever made. Since BART, dating back to 2000, the duo has
toured frequently through Europe, Japan and the USA.This double-release
features some of the best performances the duo recorded over the course of
15 live concerts. A brilliant amalgam of the two musicians' strengths,
Navigation im Hypertext utilizes both improvisation and studio
post-production techniques to create a lasting work, combining the feel of
a classic composed electronic music record with the raw, crackling energy
of a free improv-session. Exciting and destabilizing, Navigation im
Hypertext will surprise even the most hardcore Lehn fan: intertwined with
Schmickler's, his art never sounded this rich. If anything, Navigation im
Hypertext takes electronic improvisation one step further. The arrangements
range in tone from softer clusters of sound to more abrasive movements.
Comes in digipack, CD-only release."
Tom
Carter - Shots At Infinity CD (Important) [IMPREC202] $13.00
No description available at this time.
Trader Horne - Morning Way CD (Esoteric Recordings)
[ECLEC2088CD] $18.50
"Esoteric Recordings are pleased to add to their catalogue this classic
Acid Folk album from 1970. Morning Way by Trader Horne has achieved
legendary status alongside other classic examples of the genre such as the
album by Mellow Candle (also available on Esoteric). Featuring original
Fairport Convention vocalist Judy Dyble and singer-songwriter Jackie
McAuley, Morning Way was an early release on Pye Records' progressive
imprint Dawn. Although selling limited numbers upon release, the album has
acquired mythical status over the years, thanks to the album's masterful
compositions and arrangements."
Ultra Milkmaids - Pretty Day CDEP (Waystyx) [09887] $16.25
NEW 313 copies CD edition
Various Artists - Dark Was The Night CD (Deep Sea) [SEAD8002CD]
$16.00
...A Tribute To The Music Of Blind Willie Johnson. Originally released
in
2003. Sometimes it seems that the world is filling up with tribute and
compilation records, yet the folk tradition reminds us that songs wither
and die if they're not performed, and that songs from the past constantly
surprise us with their relevance for our contemporary world. Blind Willie
Johnson, the great Texas gospel slide guitarist, produced a remarkably
intense body of spiritual music. He was born 100 years ago. Before the
Great Depression, he recorded many sides for Columbia Records, but by the
end of his life, was performing on street corners and at church benefits.
This collection of specially-commissioned performances is drawn from a wide
variety of the world's finest contemporary roots performers: Jody Stecher &
Kate Brislin, Martin Simpson, 3 Mississippistaphas 3, Helen Watson &
Heather Greenbank, Julie Murphy & Richard Llewellyn, Mike Seeger & Alexia
Smith, The Henrys with Mary Margaret O'Hara, Ginny Clee, Bob Copper & the
Latest English Country Blues Band, The Positively Testcard, Peter Stampfel
& Gary Lucas, and Mike Cooper. Each musician has taken a piece from
Johnson's repertoire and added their own signature interpretation. All
profits are being donated to schools and charities working with
disadvantaged children.
Various Artists - Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol. 1 CD (Eskimo)
[ESK502410] $16.00
The Eskimo label presents the first volume in a series dedicated to
cosmic
Balearic beats. This trans-global intergalactic funk odyssey starts with
Stratus' disco-fied, cowbell ringin'. The duo is comprised of Mat Anthony
and Martin Jenkins, respected producers and remixers who have re-worked the
music of Serge Gainsbourg, Kylie, Playgroup and Calexico, amongst others.
We then hook up with Phoreski aka Neil Dunn who also runs his own Fat Fuk
Records while having his disco-cake and eating it as Richard Gateaux.
Coyote then get in on the action as veteran DJs Timm Sure and Ampo, right
before Solar Disco label-head Maelstrom presents his exclusive cosmic disco
vision. Homerun sees the guitar-playing, electronic producer Laurent
Grauwels hark to his '80s roots, while Bottin takes it back with his blend
of '70s disco, early '80s electro, and horror-disco. Rubber Room (aka Disco
Devil label runners Skinny Joey and Ferre) deliver one of the standout
tracks on the compilation with the superb Italo-infected "Cockroach" and
Massimiliano Pagliara continues the strong Italo influence with his
collection of analogue synths and drum machines. Spektrum are one of the
more well-known names popping up on this exclusive compilation and here we
see DJ Cosmo get to grips with the gorgeous vocal refrain of "Fit
Together." Then we have Lullabies In The Dark get their lips around an ice
cold, staccato funk-filled number while Igor Skafar aka Ichisan gets his
retro-futuristic-space-funk together. Things round off in fine style as the
fast-rising duo of Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor aka In Flagranti present
some rolling disco-funk against the stunning, slo-mo, chord-laden funk of
Lovelock. Roll down the windows, turn the stereo up and let the cosmic
Balearic beats flood in.
Volcano! - Paperwork CD (Leaf) [BAY63] $13.25
Arriving in 2005 with an exclamatory bang, sporting an electrifying
live
set and an audacious debut album in Beautiful Seizure, VOLCANO! cast an eye
over the parameters of rock and exponentially expanded them into unknown
regions. After a two-year hiatus, the Chicago trio strides onward with a
new bounce in their step, and a new cohesive flow to their songs. Paperwork
is leaner and more considered than before; nearly everything begins with
simple pop structures which are subsequently torn apart. The ragged,
feverish dissonance and bright spaciousness of AARON WITH's guitar has much
in common with Deerhoof or Dirty Projectors, but this time, more attention
is focused on the beats and rhythms. Lead-off single "Africa Just Wants To
Have Fun" displays much of this febrile energy within a razor-sharp satire
of certain rock stars who purport to save the world with dubious,
self-serving rhetoric. On the self-deprecating "Slow Jam," With's vocals
are more deliberate, more soulful than before, with echoes of classic
Stevie Wonder surfacing. "Fairy Tale" describes his disillusionment with
his experience of the non-profit sector, while "Sweet Tooth" tackles his
conscience on the ambiguous issue of consumerism and promoting social and
environmental responsibility. No exports outside the US.
Wax
Museums - Wax Museums CD (Douchemaster) [DMR022] $12.00
NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Apparently there is absolutely nothing to do in
Denton, Texas but write songs. Douchemaster Records feels privileged to
bring you the first full-length album from the extraordinarily prolific WAX
MUSEUMS. You know what to expect at this point and The Wax Museums deliver.
Fourteen tracks of killer Educational Punk.
Woven Hand - Ten Stones CD (Sounds Familyre) [SF20] $13.25
"Sounds Familyre Records is quite the comfy home for unique musicians.
The
label was founded by Daniel Smith of Danielson/Danielson Famile fame, and
Sufjan Stevens has released music on the imprint. David Eugene Edwards, the
musical force at the center of Wovenhand (and formerly 16 Horsepower),
shares a lot of traits with Smith and Stevens. His music mines deeply
emotional territory that sometimes delves into religious matters, and
sounds lush and gorgeous. Ten Stones is made up of, yes, ten songs of such
singular-minded musicality."
Yoshie Fruchter - Pitom CD (Tzadik) [TZ8128] $14.50
"Avant-garde rock meets the Jewish tradition in Pitom, a shredding
Jewish
instrumental band led by Yoshie Fruchter. Born in D.C. and now living in
Brooklyn, Yoshie combines influences from Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth and
Masada into a rocking band performing catchy, hooky compositions that both
pay tribute to and challenge its heritage. Recorded and mixed at the studio
of legendary musical terrorist Bill Laswell, Pitom is a hard-edged new
addition to the legacy of Radical Jewish Culture."
Young Widows - Old Wounds CD (Temporary Residence) [TRR138]
$13.25
The three members of YOUNG WIDOWS emerged from the dissolution of
BREATHER
RESIST with a new vision steeped in dark, brooding grooves and moody
post-punk. From the reverb-drenched inspiration of Regulator Watts/Hoover
to the bass and drums lock-groove perfected by Shellac and the Jesus
Lizard, Young Widows gladly wears influences on its sleeve without sounding
dated.
[ D V D ]
Jam
- Transglobal Unity Express DVD (Pinnacle) [PPCR004] $17.75
On the 21st of March 1982, a Sunday night at the Bingley Hall in
Birmingham, five cameramen wisely anchored their cameras to pillars to
avoid the crush of 5,000 fans, and waited in mounting and nervous
excitement to capture the power of THE JAM. This DVD shows the raw power,
emotion and atmosphere of early gigs from a band that changed a legion of
young people. This concert presentation was originally released on VHS in
1985 but never available on DVD. It includes UK number one single "Town
Called Malice," a cover of Curtis Mayfield classic "Move On Up" and several
performances of rare Jam material not available elsewhere.
Section 25 - So Far DVD (LTM) [LTMDVD2429] $20.75
No description available at this time.
Various Artists - Umbrellas In The Sun DVD (LTM) [LTM2400]
$20.75
No description available at this time.
Wake, The - Live at the Hacienda DVD (LTM) [LTM2422] $20.75
No description available at this time.
[ H I S T O R I C A L ]
23
Skidoo - Just Like Everybody 2CD (LTM) [LTM2532] $17.25
RELEASE DATE: 11-10-2008
LTM is proud to announce a series of expanded reissues on CD and
download
by seminal post-punk group 23 Skidoo. Initially active between 1979 and
1986, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing
post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Their classic singles
include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include
Seven Songs (an indie chart #1), The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan.
In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain
hugely influential. Just Like Everybody (disc one) is a compilation
covering 1980 to 1986, and includes the full 12" versions of Skidoo's
signature singles such as Last Words, Coup, Language and Assassin, as well
as key album tracks, and both sides of rare debut Ethics from 1980. The
second disc, Just Like Everybody (Part Two), gathers together 17 tracks
recorded by the group during the 1990s, and was originally released on the
band's own Ronin label in 2002. Digitally remastered, most of the tracks
and mixes on this double CD set are exclusive, and are not repeated on the
other 23 Skidoo CDs in LTM's reissue program. The booklet also features a
detailed history of the group, with contributions from Skidoo members past
and present. Also available: Seven Songs (LTMCD 2528), Urban Gamelan (LTMCD
2530), The Culling Is Coming (BOUCD 6604).
23
Skidoo - The Culling is Coming CD (Boutique) [BOU6604] $16.50
No description available at this time.
A
Certain Ratio - Live 1980 CD (LTM) [LTM2443] $16.50
No description available at this time.
A
Certain Ratio - I'd Like to See You Again CD (LTM) [LTM2438] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Achim Reichel - AR5 - Autovision CD (Fachmann) [GERMAN941079]
$16.50
"From 1974. A.R.'s fifth excursion with echo-guitar, a collection of
group
and solo recordings, would be his last studio album in the mind-blowing
style. Available again with improved packaging."
Alex - Alex + That's The Deal CD (Fachmann) [GERMAN941151]
$16.50
"His first two LP's from 1974 and 1976 on one CD, complete and with all
original jacket artwork and lyrics. Now performs as Alex Oriental
Experience. 'A singer and multi-instrumentalist from Cologne who released
several albums which were strongly influenced by the ethnic music of
Turkey. His first two albums are now eagerly hunted by collectors, as they
featured a unique style of 'Turk-Rock' with stunning baglama solos (this is
a kind of three-stringed Turkish guitar)! They were recorded with the help
of Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit (possibly adding bass and drums on
certain tracks?) at Can's Inner Space studio, so take note all you Can
collectors!' - Cosmic Dreams At Play"
Alison Statton & Spike - Tidal Blues/Weekend In Wales CD (LTM)
[LTM2393] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Alison Statton & Spike - The Shady Tree CD (LTM) [LTM2395]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Anna Domino - Mysteries of America/Colouring in the Edge and
the Ouline CD (LTM) [LTM2410] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Anna Domino - Dreamback: Best Of CD (LTM) [LTM2418] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Anna Domino - East & West CD (LTM) [LTM2383] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Anna Domino - This Time CD (LTM) [LTM2399] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Anna Domino - Anna Domino CD (LTM) [LTM2397] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Bernard Szajner - Superficial Music CD (Boutique) [BOUCD6618]
$16.50
RELEASE DATE: 01-12-2009
LTM presents the first in a series of expanded CD reissues by
visionary
French electronic composer Bernard Szajner. Originally released in late
1981, Superficial Music incorporates elements of his previous album Visions
of Dune played backwards at half speed and treated digitally, as well as
the three part suite Oswiecim, an imagining of the Holocaust informed by
the experience of his own family. Sometimes harmonious, sometimes
unsettling, Szajner's music is never less than extraordinary. Reviews rated
the album highly: 'Superficial? No, superlative music! If you care at all
for soundscapes that eschew cheap escapes, this album will do far more than
tickle the surface of you mind' (NME); 'A significant success - a wholly
involving and frequently disturbing blanket of continually contorting
synthetic sound' (Melody Maker). The expanded 65 minute CD features three
previously unreleased bonus tracks, recorded in 1982. Bernard Szajner
biography: Born in Grenoble in 1944, Szajner first made his name as a
lighting designer for Magma, Gong and the Who. Having invented new
instruments such as the laser harp used by Jean-Michel Jarre, Szajner began
to record experimental, conceptual albums of his own, including Visions of
Dune (1979), Some Deaths Take Forever (1980), Superficial Music (1981) and
Brute Reason (1983). He has also recorded as Zed, and was one half of The
(Hypothetical) Prophets. Since the mid 80s, polymath Szajner has worked as
a painter, film maker and theatre director. Also available: Some Deaths
Take Forever (BOUCD 6620).
Berntholer - Merry Lines in the Sky CD (LTM) [LTM2403]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Biting Tongues - Compressed CD (LTM) [LTM2373] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Biting Tongues - Recharge CD (LTM) [LTM2376] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Biting Tongues - After the Click (Retrospective 1980-89) CD
(LTM) [LTM2371] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine L. Reininger & Steven Brown - Live in Lisbon 1989 CD
(LTM) [LTM2431] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine Reininger - Book of Hours CD (LTM) [LTM2417] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine Reininger - Night Air v.2 CD (LTM) [LTM2414] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine Reininger - Byzantium CD (LTM) [LTM2385] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine Reininger - Live in Brussels Bis CD (LTM) [LTM2358]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine Reininger - Broken Fingers CD (LTM) [LTM2355] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine Reininger - Night Air CD (LTM) [LTM2339] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blaine Reininger - Instrumentals CD (LTM) [LTM2341] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blue Orchids - Mystic Bud CD (LTM) [LTM2374] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blue Orchids - The Greatest Hit CD (LTM) [LTM2367] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blue Orchids - The Sleeper CD (LTM) [LTM2340] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Blue Orchids - From Severe to Serene CD (LTM) [LTM2354]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Blue Orchids - A Darker Bloom CD (Cherry Red) [CDMRED203CD]
$15.00
"A keenly awaited re-press for this definitive collection of the highly
acclaimed combo, Blue Orchids, and features their material that was
originally released on the Rough Trade label. The Blue Orchids were formed
by two members of The Fall and went on to produce more mainstream and
melodic pop songs than that made by their previous employers. The band
enjoyed widespread indie chart success with a high profile in the serious
music press. The CD features 19 original tracks dating from 1980 to their
demise in 1991. Tracks featured include the singles Disney Boys , The
Flood, Work, Agents Of Change, Sleepy Town and Diamond Age all of which
enjoyed a high profile in the indie charts. The CD booklet includes liner
notes written by band members Una Baines and Martin Bramah and ex Fall
member and Radio 1 DJ, Marc Riley. Also included is a complete discography
of the band incorporating some of the band's original sleeves which are now
rare items."
Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis and Russell Mills - Mzui CD
(Boutique) [BOU6602] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Cath Carroll - The Gondoliers of Ghost Lake CD (LTM) [LTM2350]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Cath Carroll - England Made Me CD (LTM) [LTM2348] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Charles Bukowski - Underwater Poetry Festival CD (Roman Photo)
[TEMCD010CD] $12.00
Recorded in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 5, 1974; produced for
release
by Charles Potts. "This never-before released recording of a 1974 poetry
reading by world famous 20th century American poet Charles Bukowski
(1922-1993) is one you'll have to stuff in your CD player as soon as you
get it. In 1974, the intrepid Bukowski journeyed from Los Angeles to Salt
Lake City to give a featured reading at the Underwater Poetry Festival,
along with Alta, Ricardo Sanchez, and Andy Clausen. The recording of the
reading given in the social work auditorium of the University of Utah
survived in the archives of the Reverend Sherm W. Clow, President at the
time of the renowned Litmus Inc., producer of the festival. It includes
more than 20 poems with a table of contents, some introductory and closing
patter by MC Charles Potts, and a reproduction of the poster from the UPF
is the menu on the CD. Bukowski was just beginning to achieve the lasting
fame that would come to him in the next two decades. Hear the man at his
droll and noteworthy best."
Chris Wood - Vulcan CD (Esoteric Recordings) [ECLEC2079CD]
$18.50
"Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of the album
Vulcan
by the late Chris Wood, founder member of the legendary Traffic and
flautist and saxophonist extraordinaire. Recorded just after the demise of
Traffic in 1974, Vulcan was begun for Island Records but shelved in 1978.
The sessions featured contributions from Steve Winwood and members of The
Wailers, along with a live recording of Traffic performing the title track
in 1974, but due to a change in musical fashion with the advent of Punk,
the album failed to see the light of day. Island boss Chris Blackwell
returned the tapes to Chris Wood in the late 1970's. Following Chris'
untimely death in 1983 the tapes were passed on to his sister, Stephanie.
Now, 25 years later, and after three years of research and preparation,
Esoteric have pieced together the sessions in co-operation with Stephanie
Wood to bring you Vulcan."
Crawling Chaos - Homunculus Equinox CD (Boutique) [BOU6606]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Crawling Chaos - The Gas Chair CD (Boutique) [BOU6601]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Crispy Ambulance - Frozen Blood CD (LTM) [LTM2327] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Crispy Ambulance - Accessory After The Fact CD (LTM) [LTM2317]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Crispy Ambulance - Fin: Live 1980-82 CD (LTM) [LTM2302]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Crispy Ambulance - The Plateau Phase CD (LTM) [LTM2315]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Dad's Army - Music from the Television Series CD (CD41)
[CD41-010] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Dead Cowboys - Twin Evil Stars CD (Boutique) [BOU6610]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Department S - Sub-Stance CD (LTM) [LTM2349] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Devine & Statton - Cardiffians CD (LTM) [LTM2435] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Devine & Statton - The Prince of Wales CD (LTM) [LTM2433]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Edith Sitwell/William Walton/Lord Berners - Follies & Façades
CD (El Records) [ACMEM157CD] $15.00
"Edith Sitwell and Lord Berners did more than most to dispel the
nationalistic insularity that dominated so much English literature and
music in the decade that followed the First World War. The work that
brought the Sitwells their greatest fame -- and notoriety -- was Façade, an
entertainment that combined Edith's idiosyncratic verse with the music of
the young William Walton. With Cocteau s Parade the obvious precedent, the
family delighted in creating a first-class scandal in literature and music
. Here, the 1929 premiere recording with Constant Lambert appears alongside
that made in 1954 with Peter Pears; by all accounts, the only performances
of which Edith really approved. Façade owed its existence to the support
and encouragement of, among others, Lord Berners. Considered by Stravinsky
to be the most gifted composer of his generation, Berners was famously
eccentric (A fine biography Lord Berners -The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory
was recently published), a diplomat, an accomplished writer, painter,
composer and missionary of the arts. As with the Sitwell's, his idealism,
openness to new ideas and willingness to embrace humor made for a
peculiarly British avant garde. The Berners piece featured in this edition
is one of his most widely regarded; the suite from the ballet The Triumph
of Neptune which was commissioned by Serge Diagilev in 1926."
Field Mice, The - Snowball + Singles CD (LTM) [LTM2419]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Field Mice, The - Skywriting + Singles 2CD (LTM) [LTM2421]
$17.25
No description available at this time.
Field Mice, The - For Keeps + Singles CD (LTM) [LTM2423]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Franco Tamponi - Mondo Sexy Di Notte CD (Dagored) [RED184]
$17.00
FRANCO TAMPONI's splendid soundtrack to Mino Loy's (aka Donan J. Lee)
1962
original 'shock-u-mentary' Mondo Sexy di Notte (aka Mondo Sexuality), which
portrayed cabaret shows from all over the world (although many of the
locations are thought to have been reconstructed in the studio), presenting
an exotic sensuality that once upon a time represented a form of
transgression in the film world, reserved for an adult audience only. Also,
for the younger listeners perhaps it will be surprising not to hear the
sound of any electronic instrument here-but this was the era when the
orchestra reigned supreme. Lovingly restored from the original session
tapes recorded in studios in Rome and Milan, where music written by the
legends of the Italian film industry became the soundtracks to the great
Italian films of the day.
Frankie Dymon Jr. - Let It Out: Poems In Word And Music CD
(Fachmann) [GERMAN941153] $16.50
"From 1971. Incredible Kraut/funk meeting of US expatriate and the
cream of
the German Rock scene: Achim Reichel, Conny Plank, Wolfgang 'Zabba' Lindner
(drums, ex-Wind), Peter Hecht (piano, from Lucifer's Friend) and many
others. Dymon, probably better known for his role as 'Black Power Militant'
in Godard's Sympathy For The Devil and as director of the super-obscure
Death May Be Your Santa Claus, mellifluously rants on subjects such as past
sexual conquests, racial injustice, and pot-smoking etiquette. First-ever
reissue, lyric booklet included."
French Impressionists, The - A Selection of Songs CD (LTM)
[LTM2415] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Gina X - Yinglish + Remixes CD (LTM) [LTM2455] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Gina X Performance - Voyeur CD (LTM) [LTM2447] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Gina X Performance - Nice Mover CD (LTM) [LTM2450] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Gina X Performance - X-traordinaire CD (LTM) [LTM2453]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Gordon Mumma - Music For Solo Piano (1960-2001) 2CD (New World
Records) [NW80686CD] $27.75
Performed by Daan Vandewalle, piano. "Gordon Mumma (b. 1935) is best
known
for his pioneering role in the development and evolution of electronic and
live-electronic music. The piano has played a significant if underestimated
role in his career. With a few notable exceptions, this collection by
pianist Daan Vandewalle marks the first commercial recordings of Mumma's
music for solo piano composed over more than forty years. It provides an
important new perspective on his work as a composer. The spare textures,
irregular rhythms, and pungent dissonances of Bartók's Mikrokosmos echo in
Mumma's piano music. The keyboard music of Bach and Haydn, of Schoenberg,
Webern, Ives, Ernst Krenek, Carl Ruggles, and Ruth Crawford also shaped his
early piano ideal, as did the experience of superb recitalists in Detroit
and Ann Arbor, including Walter Gieseking, Dame Myra Hess, and Glenn Gould.
The works of the early 1960s were written for the concert hall, but much of
the later piano music is more personal -- the solitary dreams of a long
musical life. And like dreams it filters memories -- of music of the
distant and recent past, of artistic friendships and loved ones living or
dead -- to create a uniquely contemporary approach to the piano. In
contrast to Mumma's epic electronic works, his keyboard music is
predominantly poetic in its brevity, concentration, and psychological
depth. It is music of high specific gravity, each piece a microcosm of
finely etched ideas that unfold without literal repetition. For Daan
Vandewalle, it is also 'music of dialogue' that communicates -- both with
the listener and within itself -- through its deep concern with sound,
phrasing, color, dynamic range, and rhetorical nuance."
Hardin and York - The World's Smallest Big Band CD (Esoteric
Recordings) [ECLEC2090CD] $18.50
"Keyboard player and vocalist Eddie Hardin and drummer Pete York had
first
played together in the second incarnation of the Spencer Davis Group,
following Steve Winwood's departure to form Traffic. In 1969 Hardin & York
struck out on their own to form a highly unique duo utilizing powerful
Hammond Organ work and percussion to record a series of wonderful albums in
the Progressive / Jazz Rock vein. The World's Smallest Big Band was their
second album and featured recordings made at Olympic Studios and material
recorded live at De Lane Lea studios in front of a small audience. A
popular attraction in Europe, the record remains a noted highlight of their
career. This Esoteric Recordings reissue includes two bonus tracks."
Isabelle Antena - On A Warm Summer Night (Tous Mes Caprices) CD
(LTM) [LTM2448] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Isabelle Antena - L'Alphabet Du Plaisir: Best of 1982 - 2005 CD
(LTM) [LTM2452] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Isabelle Antena - Easy Does It 2CD (LTM) [LTM2420] $17.25
No description available at this time.
Isabelle Antena - En Cavale CD (LTM) [LTM2432] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Isabelle Antena - Hoping For Love CD (LTM) [LTM2434] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Ishikawa Akira & Count Buffalo - Uganda: Afurikan Rokku no
Yoake CD (Tiliqua) [TILAR5012CD] $28.25
"The start of a new series focusing on lost and obscure sonic treasures
birthed out of the underbelly of Japan's New Rock revolution during the
period 1969-1978 is spearheaded by the long announced reissue of one of the
rarest discs to seep out of that seedy incestuous scene. Ishikawa Akira &
Count Buffalo's Uganda - Afurikan Rokku no Yoake originally saw the light
of day on February 5th, 1972 on Toshiba Records as part of their '4 Channel
Q.M. Sound' series but quickly sank into the depths obscurity, making that
only a handful of copies were actually sold while the remaining stock was
withdrawn due to very depressing sales and eventually melted down and
destroyed. The disc remained a well kept secret for all these years and
only a small circle of die-hard music lovers have ever seen an actual
original copy, making it these days one of the most treasured and hunted
down Japanese rock artifacts. A couple of years ago a bootleg LP edition of
the LP came out, sadly sounding quite mediocre but nevertheless
rejuvenating a new awareness for the album. Still rumors as to who were the
actual performers on the album floated around freely since the group was
simply listed as Count Buffalo with no detailed breakdown of who actually
played on the album, and as a result there has been much fevered
speculation over the years. Therefore, Tiliqua Records thought it wise to
release this sonic gem properly, hunt down the license, unraveled the legal
entanglements, acquired access to the original mastertapes and subsequently
also taking on the quest to track down the actual players involved. So now,
with this fully authorized reissue we can finally reveal the full line-up
or the key players involved and add some insight into the record's
background thanks to the kind participation of Uganda's composer Mr.
Muraoka Takeru. Musically speaking, Ishikawa Akira & Count Buffalo's Uganda
- Afurikan Rokku no Yoake is vicious psychedelic whirlwind monster of a
disc where primitive Afro-spiritual and tribal ethnic percussive blow-outs
cross-pollinate with lysergic New Rock fuzz-a-delic dementia and stirring
up enough dust and boulders like two-barreled guns coming out of the demon
hole. Still, Uganda is more than just that and although it is deceptively
intense, it is simultaneously casual in feel yet meticulous in its musical
detail and lyrical economy. And seen in retrospect I can now proclaim that
this album stands shoulder to shoulder with the best records of that golden
era and it was one of Japan's 1970's underground scene's defining moments.
In short it is a totally lethal slide that does not fail to create an
arresting listening experience. As is the case with all of Tiliqua Record's
releases, this one is also crafted out with meticulous care and eye for
detail. The CD comes housed in a miniature version of the actual slim cased
LP box set, complete with obi and extensive 8-paged Japanese/ English liner
notes, illustrated with some archival footage. One time only very limited
press, housed in a sturdy hard card mini-LP styled slim box set styled
gatefold jacket. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes and
graced with faithfully reproduced artwork (although slightly adapted for
the single CD box set version) and obi. One time limited press due to the
nature of the box set jacket."
Jeanne Moreau - The Immortal CD (El Records) [ACMEM156CD]
$15.00
"If there was a single actor who captured the very essence of the
French
New Wave, it was Jeanne Moreau. In Truffaut's groundbreaking Jules et Jim
she achieved global recognition, giving a performance of spellbinding
intensity as the mercurial Catherine, who becomes tragically entwined in
the lives of two friends who both love her. During the film, she was
required to perform the song, 'Tourbillon de la Vie' ('Whirlpool of Life'),
which Truffaut felt encapsulated the spirit of his masterpiece. Her
recording went on to become a massive radio hit and prompted the idea of
recording a full LP under the auspices of producer Jacques Canetti. The
award-winning albums that transpired in 1963 and 1966 comprise this edition
and feature songs written by Cyrus Bassiak (Serge Rezvani). The debut in
collaboration with George Delerue and the legendary Ward Swingle, its
elaborate orchestrations giving way on the sequel to more intimate and
sensuous settings with guitar and bass. Jules & Jim apart, cinematic
highlights include Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story for Orson
Welles; Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel) and for Louis Malle The Lift
to The Scaffold and Viva Maria in which she co-starred with Brigitte
Bardot."
Joe
Maneri & Peter Dolger - Peace Concert (1964) CD (Atavistic) [ALP267]
$13.75
A long-lost '60s treasure from the East Coas rescued and produced by
KEN
VANDERMARK's father, STU! The Peace Concert, as performed in 1964 by
living legend JOE MANERI (alto) and PETER DOLGER (drums) has finally been
exhumed and properly buffed for public consumption. This never-before
released recording has been mastered from the original tapes, and includes
an in-depth interview with Boston's elder statesman of improv, conducted by
Stu Vandermark. For those caught unawares, Mr. Maneri is the father of
violinist MAT MANERI, and is highly regarded as one of the true pioneers of
the "language" of the alto saxophone.
Josef K - Crazy To Exist (Live) CD (LTM) [LTM2319] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Kalima - Feeling Fine + Singles CD (LTM) [LTM2449] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Kalima - Kalima! + Singles CD (LTM) [LTM2407] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Kalima - Night Time Shadows + Singles CD (LTM) [LTM2379]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Ludus - The Damage CD (LTM) [LTM2328] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Ludus - The Visit / The Seduction CD (LTM) [LTM2333] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Ludus - Pickpocket / Danger Came Smiling CD (LTM) [LTM2338]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Marine - Life In Reverse CD (LTM) [LTM2396] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Miaow - When It All Comes Down CD (LTM) [LTM2346] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Michael Anton And Amok - Jesus Makes You High CD (Fachmann)
[GERMAN941152] $16.50
"From 1971. A very strange 'paycheck' project for Conny Plank and Achim
Reichel's Gorilla Musik production company. Wonderland-esque German rock
with heavy Christian lyrics! A.R. is nowhere to be seen on the sleevenotes
but his fingerabdrücke are everywhere. You can make up your own punchline
for the album title. First-ever reissue includes full lyrics and two bonus
tracks from their only 7" release."
Minami Masato (w/Mizutani Of Hadaka No Rallizes) - The Tropics
CD (Showboat/sky Station) [SWAX080CD] $25.75
"This is a second pressing of 1975. First pressing came out in 1971 and
is
twice as expensive. The Tropics was Minami Masato's first record on which
he got assisted by Mizutani Takeshi of the Rallizes Denudes, his only
appearance on record ever. Minami Masato was one of Japan's first beatnik
hippie scum singers, who before venturing into the music world, spent some
time in Mexico where he indulged himself in the narcotic goodies the
country had to offer, went to America and witnessed in 1964 the rise of the
beatnik movement and saw one of Bob Dylan's early performances. Minami's
life would never be the same again. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean,
criss-crossed through Europe and returned to Tokyo in 1966. He participated
at the 1968 Kyoto Folk Jamboree Festival. However, his debut single did not
appear until October 1969, followed by a second single in 1970. This album,
his debut appeared in July 1971 for which he got assisted by a loose
collective of fan musicians and befriended artists. Hadaka no Rallizes'
Mizutani Takeshi was such a fan collaborator since he was quite in awe for
what Minami stood for, being the unattached beatnik and drugged
singer-songwriter he was. He let loose some ear shattering electric guitar
on the album's closing track. This is the sole recorded output of Mizutani
on disc. At least officially, if one ignores the dozen bootlegs and
unofficially released music of his (like the Arthur Doyle-Mizutani 2LP set
that was released without his consent). An unbelievably valuable document
of the early Japanese underground. Hyper rare and demented all the way. For
lovers of Hadaka no Rallizes, Tomokawa Kazuki, Acid folk, Jandek, and just
obscure and psyched out sounds."
Minimal Man - The Shroud of CD (Boutique) [BOU6609] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Minny Pops - Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement CD (LTM)
[LTM2384] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Minny Pops - Sparks in a Dark Room CD (LTM) [LTM2351]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Minny Pops - Secret Stories CD (LTM) [LTM2353] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Mitch Ryder - Sings The Hits CD (DBK Works) [DBK542] $17.00
Not a greatest hits record but instead a collection by the unsung hero
of
Detroit rock'n'roll and blue-eyed soul blowing through cover after cover,
giving his own unique treatment to everyone from The Supremes to The
Drifters, Allen Toussaint to Rufus Thomas. This is no Pat Boone clean up
for the refined upper middle class honky set, no sir, this is rough and
tough balls-to-the-wall R&B that rocks as hard or harder than the originals
with Ryder's signature guttural howl leading the way. A classic on CD for
the first time from Detroit's greatest R&B howler.
Names, The - Spectators of Life CD (LTM) [LTM2320] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Names, The - Swimming + Singles CD (LTM) [LTM2324] $16.50
No description available at this time.
Northern Picture Library - Postscript CD (LTM) [LTM2388]
$16.50
No description available at this time.
Northern P