This week's update contains releases by:
Adamkosky * Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi * Alexis Gideon *
Anti-Pop Consortium * Antye Greie (aka AGF) * Art Guys, The *
Asobi Seksu * Billy Gomberg * Black Cobra * Black Heart
Procession, The * Black Tape For A Blue Girl * Black To Comm *
Blurt * Bo Marley vs. Disrupt * Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
* Califone * Carlos Giffoni/Keith Fullerton Whitman * Cassy *
Castanets * Celer * Chris Robison * Cluster * Connie
Acher * Curse Ov Dialect * Digital Leather * Disrupt * Early
Day Miners * Eddie Hinton * Embassadors, The * Fink * Fran
Gayo * Freiband/Bass Communion * Furt * Gods Gift *
Grutronic * Gunda Gottschalk/Xu Fengxia * Haruki * Hornet Leg
* Hudson Mohawke * Isolation Ward * Jimi Hendrix & The Cry Of
Love Band * John Blum * Josh Lay * Justine D * Kath Bloom &
Loren Connors * Kim Doo Soo * King Cannibal * Kink Gong *
Larry Conklin & Jochen Blum * Los Yetis * Luna City Express *
Marek Hemmann * Matthew Friedberger * Midaircondo * Mikkel
Meyer * Moebius Plank Neumeier * Morton Feldman * Mountain Goats
* Mum * Music Go Music * Neon Indian * Nils Frahm *
Noma/Rejectamenta * Non Toxique Lost * Norscq * offthesky *
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou * Owen * Parade * Paul
Rutherford * Pens * Peter Weibel * Raydios * RFD, The *
Rose Melberg * RSD * Rui Costa and Friends * Satyajit Ray *
Seventh Dawn, The * Simon Whetham * Spiracle * Starless &
Bible Black * Stellari String Quartet * Steve Roach * Stripmall
Architecture * Sufjan Stevens/Osso * Supercluster * Sven
Weisemann * Tangerine Dream * Thomas Köner * Three Mile Pilot
* Tormentors, The * Turbo Fruits * Twilight Sad * Tyondai
Braxton * Urichipangoon * Vic Chesnutt * Volcano Choir *
Vom * White Out (with Spencer Yeh And Carlos Giffoni) * White Out
with Jim O'Rourke & Thurston Moore * Z'ev
[ F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ]
Billy Gomberg - Days CD (Land of) [LND007] $13.50
Days collects five studio pieces drawn from acoustic recordings
of
piano and voice, treated, amplified, and arranged. The arrangements
are simple: long passages of sound material lay next to each other, their
closeness and distance outlining a structure. The impressions of sound, and
upon sound, color through the window influencing the acoustics.
Transparency and a sense of architecture. Materials, once unique, begin to
reflect each other, and that can be enough. Anne recorded herself
singing a old folk song in both Swedish and English. She took the
recordings and mixed them together in software. She liked the result and
suggested that I work with these recordings. The piano recordings are of my
own improvisations. On "exposures," I've done some singing as well.
Haruki - To Humble a Nest CD (land of) [LND008] $13.50
Haruki aka Boris Snauwaert lives and makes music in Gent, Belgium. "For
this album I wanted to create a raw, free-floating, and amorphous kind of
music where all kinds of sounds (acoustic and digital, dirty and clean,
sweet and irritating) cling together to make up an abstract but somehow
organic tangle. There's quite a bit of walking, breathing and ticking in
these tracks. To me, the album feels like a walk through different types of
spaces (be it cities, suburbs, non-spaces between countryside and the city,
parks, houses or other kinds of buildings) with sounds floating in and out
of hearing. Listening with headphones is recommended." — BS
offthesky - Creek Caught Fire CD (Land of) [LND006] $13.50
CREEK CAUGHT FIRE is the full-length follow up to the 12k.term ep
'Creek
Studies'. It expands upon the popular idea of extracting
subjective/objective inspiration and creative abstraction from vast natural
space; but specifically that of the Appalachian (red river) area. The use
of an EEG system served to drive different sonic dynamics on the record. A
heart rate monitor captured an essence of loose time. Temperature sensors
left out for days shaped volume levels. Through articulate consciousness
cataloging on numerous media the compositions eventually followed suit over
several seasons. A series of drawings, photographs, field recordings, and
writings about the smells, weather patterns, and cultural climate all
became source material for this release.
Thomas Köner - La Barca CD (Fario) [FARIOCD09] $19.12
German media artist Thomas Köner has been absent from the music scene
for 5
years. For his numerous audio-visual performances and installations, he has
travelled the world and crossed many flows of sound. La barca, named from
one of his latest performances, is a record of brand new pieces where we
can hear the landmarks of the unchallenged master of arctic soundscapes:
rumbling basses and drapes of melancholic harmonics. La barca is also a
world-crossing drift where Thomas Köner adds the experience of the blurred
sounds he collected all over the continents (each track has a longitude /
latitude title which refers to a different town): voices and field
recordings are integrated from place to place, mirroring and disappearing,
born from a dream or a souvenir. "In a barque she sails across the high
lands of the past. The barque heads shimmer and glow at stern and bow, And
that lights her unseeable passage. She calls to the spirits of this hour,
and that is how we come to even hear her voice."
Various Artists - Warp20 (Recreated) 2CD (Warp Records)
[WARP201CD] $21.25
"Double CD album, 2xCDs featuring twenty brand new cover versions of
Warp
songs by Warp artists past and present; including tracks by Autechre,
Harmonic 313, Jamie Lidell, Plaid, Clark, Maximo Park, Leila, Seefeel, Luke
Vibert and more. Packaged in deluxe case-bound 10" folder exclusive to this
box set. Disc 1: 01.Born Ruffians 'Milkman/To Cure A Weakling Child'
(Originals by Aphex Twin) 02.Jimi Tenor 'Japanese Electronics' (Original by
Elecktroids) 03.Maximo Park 'When' (Original by Vincent Gallo) 04.Tim Exile
'A Little Bit More' (Original by Jamie Lidell) 05.Rustie 'Midnight Drive'
(Original by Elecktroids) 06.Luke Vibert 'LFO' (Original by LFO)
07.Autechre 'What Is House? (LFO Remix)' (Original by LFO) 08.Russell
Haswell 'Cabasa Cabasa' (Original by Wild Planet) 09.Clark 'So Malleable'
(Original by Milanese) 10.Diamond Watch Wrists 'Fool In Rain' (Original by
Pivot) 11.Hudson Mohawke ft. Wednesday Nite 'Paint The Stars' (Original by
Jimi Tenor). Disc 2: 11.Mark Pritchard '3/4 Heart' (Original by Balil-Black
Dog Productions) 12.Mira Calix with Oliver Coates 'In A Beautiful Place Out
In The Country' (Original by Boards Of Canada) 13.Pivot 'Colorado'
(Original by Grizzly Bear) 14.Bibio 'Kaini Industries' (Original by Boards
of Canada) 15.Jamie Lidell 'Little Brother' (Original by Grizzly Bear)
16.Leila 'Vordhosbn' (Original by Aphex Twin) 17.John Callaghan
'Phylactery' (Based on Tilapia by Autechre) 18.Gravenhurst 'I Found The F'
(Original by Broadcast) 19.Plaid 'On My Bus' Original by Plone) 20.Seefeel
'Acrobat' (Original by Maximo Park)."
Various Artists - Warp20 2CD (Warp Records) [WARP202CD]
$19.00
"Double CD album. The definitive best of Warp on 2xCDs. Ten songs
chosen by
you (Warp20.net), ten songs chosen by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett.
Packaged in deluxe case-bound 10" folder, exclusive to this box set. Your
personal messages and memories from Warp20.net featured on pullout poster.
Disc 1 (Chosen by fans on Warp20.net): 01.Aphex Twin 'Windowlicker'
02.Boards Of Canada 'Roygbiv' 03.Squarepusher 'My Red Hot Car' 04.Battles
'Atlas' 05.LFO 'LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)' 06.Plaid 'Eyen' 07.Luke Vibert
'I Love Acid' 08.Autechre 'Gantz Graf' 09.Jimmy Edgar 'I Wanna Be Your STD'
10.Clark 'Herzog.' Disc 2 (Chosen by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett):
01.Broadcast 'Tender Buttons' 02.Grizzly Bear 'Colorado' 03.Squarepusher
'My Sound' 04.Boards Of Canada 'Amo Bishop Roden' 05.Battles 'Race: Out'
06.Flying Lotus 'GNG BNG' 07.Black Dog Productions - Xeper 'Carceres Ex
Novum' 08.Nightmares On Wax 'I'm For Real' 09.Mike InkAphex Twin
'Bucephalus Bouncing Ball' 09. 'Paroles (Original)' 10. 'Daddy's Car'
11.Jamie Lidell 'Daddy's Car' 12. Squarepusher/AFX 'Freeman Hardy & Willis
Acid' 13.Seefeel 'Spangle' 14. Autechre 'Drane.'"
[ T A N G E R I N E D R E A M ]
I decided to clean up the Tangerine Dream entries in our database and add
everything I could find. Only problem is that I couldn't get descriptions
when I exported the distributor's info. Too time-consuming to look up each
one by hand and enter the descriptions by hand, I'm afraid.
Tangerine Dream - Atem CD (Castle) [822076] $12.25
2002 reissue of this quintessential Krautrock album, originally
released in
1973, it's remastered from original tapes & repackaged with a slipcase &
insightful sleeve notes.
Tangerine Dream - 220 Volt Live CD (Document) [1640312]
$18.75
CD reissue of this title from the innovative German Electronica
outfit, one
of the most influential instrumental outfits of the 20th century.
Tangerine
Dream has never produced anything calculated to make the masses jump off
their chairs and start screaming Top 40 tunes, but they have managed to
have an immense impact in the world of Electronic and soundtrack music.
Their 107 (and counting) studio, live and soundtrack releases have their
own driving hypnotic pieces that might differ from release to release,
but
they are all uniquely Tangerine Dream.
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri CD (Sanctuary) [821107]
$12.25
2002 reissue of 1971 album that's unavailable domestically. Includes
the
bonus track 'Ultima Thule Part 1 (single)'. Slipcase.
Tangerine Dream - 35th Anniversary Phaedra Concert DVD (USOD)
[1528926] $18.25
For thirty-five years electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream have
been
creating music that is both challenging and hypnotic. In this release of
a
concert staged at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire to celebrate the band's
thirty-fifth anniversary, Tangerine Dream performs twenty-six songs from
various points throughout their enduring career. In addition to featured
material from their landmark 1974 release Phaedra, the band also performs
such tracks as "Rubycon, Part I" and "Force Majeure" before closing the
show with a stunning rendition of the Jimi Hendrix classic "Purple Haze".
~
Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Tangerine Dream, German-based purveyors
of
imaginative Electronic music, are known for their impressive live
reputation. The band continues performing today led by founding member
Edgar Froese. This DVD features the 35th anniversary concert where the
band
celebrated the recording of the landmark album "Phaedra." The concert was
performed in front of a sell out audience and featured material from
"Phaedra" alongside new material.
Tangerine Dream - Ambient Monkeys CD (Membrane) [232628]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Anthology-Journey Through CD (Sanctuary)
[905982] $30.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Arizona CD (Membrane) [232658] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Atlantic Bridges CD (Membrane) [636359]
$10.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Atlantic Walls CD (Membrane) [636354]
$10.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Autumn In Hiroshima CD (Membrane) [232609]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Axiat CD (Membrane) [232663] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Booster 2CD (Cleopatra) [2412] $19.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Canyon Cazuma CD (Membrane) [232620]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Canyon Dreams CD (Membrane) [232653]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Cyberjam Collection CD (Membrane) [232611]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Cyclone CD (Virgin) [8402512] $10.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Dante Arias Collection CD (Membrane)
[232612] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Dante Song Collection CD (Membrane)
[232613] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Dream Encores CD (Membrane) [232638]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Dream Remixes 2.1 CD (Moonpop) [707]
$23.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Dream Sequence CD (Virgin) [1132890]
$13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - East CD (Membrane) [232660] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Magic Of Tangerine Dream-The
Anthology CD (Cleopatra) [2413] $20.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation CD (Sanctuary)
[915872] $13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (Mini LP Sleeve) CD
(Disk Union) [656069] $46.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Encore-Tangerine Dream Live CD (Emm/Virgin)
[39443] $10.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Essential Collection CD (Metro Music) [586]
$13.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Exit CD (Wea2) [557] $7.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure CD (Virgin) [8402592]
$10.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Goblins Club CD (Membrane) [232657]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Great Wall Of China CD (Nuntak) [858606]
$44.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Green Desert CD (Castle Records) [36144]
$14.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - High Voltage (4 Cd Set) CD (Membrane)
[6293] $35.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Hollywood Lightning CD (Membrane) [232622]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea CD (Virgin) [39446] $10.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea 2008 CD (Membrane) [232634]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Independent Years CD (Membrane) [232621]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Inferno CD (Membrane) [232655] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Introduction To Tangerine Dream CD (Castle
Records) [36194] $14.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Jeanne D'arc CD (Membrane) [232659]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Journey Through A Burning Brain CD (Castle
Records) [36145] $23.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Kyoto CD (Membrane) [232614] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Lamb With Radar Eyes CD (Membrane) [676487]
$20.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Le Parc CD (Castle Records) [36146]
$14.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Le Parc CD (Sanctuary) [666298] $13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Lily On The Beach CD (Membrane) [232616]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Live In Detroit-March 1977 CD (USOD) [959]
$23.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Live Miles CD (Castle Records) [36147]
$14.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Logos-(Live At The Dominion '84) CD
(Virgin) [39445] $10.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Madcap's Flaming Duty CD (Membrane)
[232623] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Mars Mission Counter CD (Membrane) [232617]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Mars Polaris CD (Membrane) [232648]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Melrose-The Re-Recordings 2003 CD
(Membrane) [232662] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Miracle Mile CD (Camden) [771902]
$14.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Mota Atma CD (Membrane) [232618] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Nebulous Dawn-Early Years CD (Sanctuary)
[626501] $31.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Oasis CD (Membrane) [232643] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Ocean Waves Collection CD (Membrane)
[232604] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Optical Race CD (Membrane) [232615]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Paper Sleeve Box CD (Disk Union) [836856]
$293.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Paradiso CD (Membrane) [232619] $27.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra CD (Virgin) [8400622] $10.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Mini LP Sleeve) CD (Virgin)
[649838] $25.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Poland CD (Sanctuary) [666256] $12.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Private Music Of Tangerine Dream CD
(Sony/BMG) [803161] $19.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Purgatorio CD (Membrane) [232656]
$27.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Quinoa CD (Membrane) [232644] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet CD (Virgin) [8400642] $13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Rockface-Live At Berkley/San Francisco 1988
CD (Membrane) [232601] $27.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Rocking Mars 2CD (Membrane) [232661]
$27.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Rockoon CD (Membrane) [232649] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon CD (Virgin) [8400632] $13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Seven Letters From Tibet CD (Membrane)
[232602] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Silver Siren Collection CD (Membrane)
[232603] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Softdream Decade CD (Membrane) [232630]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer-OST CD (Spectrum) [10842]
$10.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Springtime In Nagasaki CD (Membrane)
[232607] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Starbound Collection CD (Membrane) [232629]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear CD (Virgin) [8400652]
$13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Summer In Nagasaki CD (Membrane) [232608]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tang-Go-Best Of Tangerine Dream CD
(Membrane) [232654] $27.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tangerine Dream CD (Disky) [272122]
$13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tangerines Scales CD (Membrane) [232627]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tangram CD (EMM/Caroline) [1805] $10.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tangram 2008 CD (Membrane) [232635]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - TD Plays TD CD (Membrane) [232605]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Thief-OST CD (Virgin) [8405202] $12.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Time Square-Dream Mixes Ii CD (Membrane)
[232640] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tornado-Live In Europe CD (Membrane)
[636358] $10.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tournado CD (Membrane) [232645] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Transsiberia CD (Membrane) [232606]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Turn Of The Tides CD (Membrane) [232651]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tyger CD (Castle Records) [36149]
$14.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Tyranny Of Beauty CD (Membrane) [232652]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight CD (Sanctuary) [666254]
$13.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Valentine Wheels CD (Membrane) [232646]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Views From A Red Train CD (Membrane)
[232633] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Vintage Vanguard CD (Membrane) [232664]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Vol. 1-Anthology Decades CD (Membrane)
[232631] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Vol. 1-Dream Mixes CD (Membrane) [232639]
$27.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Vol. 1-Hollywood Years CD (Membrane)
[232641] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Vol. 2-Hollywood Years CD (Membrane)
[232642] $18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - What A Blast CD (Membrane) [232647]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - White Eagle CD (Virgin) [39444] $10.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Winter In Hiroshima CD (Membrane) [232610]
$18.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Zeit CD (Sanctuary) [937522] $12.00
No description available at this time.
[ . . . ]
Adamkosky - In Your Eye CD (Riverman Music) [BTR033CD]
$16.00
First time CD-release for this rare, obscure and expensive private
press
album, now remastered in a 24-bit remaster. Adamkosky's In Your Eye is
lonely, melodic folk that was recorded in an 11-hour recording session with
no second takes. Laid-back but ethereal low-fi sound with vocals; some solo
tracks, some with further instrumentation. Comes from a folk-blues
tradition, but sometimes sounds like a '70s singer-songwriter channeled by
a 19-year-old who can't afford to hire a band. Comes in a handsome paper
sleeve that precisely reproduces the original LP sleeve in miniature form.
Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi - Friendly Pants CD (Family
Vineyard) [FV66] $13.25
Friendly Pants is the first American release by legendary Japanese
saxophonist AKIRA SAKATA in more than 20 years. It pairs the 65-year-old
traveler alongside CHIKAMORACHI, the bombast rhythm section of drummer
CHRIS CORSANO and acoustic bassist DARIN GRAY. Since the late 1960s, Sakata
has been a constant figure in jazz and creative music scenes as an ever
evolving and adventurous, multi-instrumentalist, and member of many classic
groups. He has recorded with Chris Cosey, Peter Broetzmann in Last Exit, DJ
Krush, Yoshimio, and others. Since 2005 Sakata has been aligned with
Corsano and Gray-a duo equally informed by underground American rock, noise
& free jazz. Sakata deliverers ferocious / highly lyrical approaches to the
post-bop field and with Chikamorachi's recalls late-period John Coltrane or
Pharoah Sanders during the early 1970s at times. While the three smear and
tear at the edges, Sakata's massive tone and melodic sense reins in the
chaos to create beauty and awe. Originally issued on producer JIM
O'ROURKE's Japanese imprint Shakaijin Records.
Anti-Pop Consortium - Flourescent Black CD (Big Dada) [BD150CD]
$14.00
"Fluorescent Black represents the group's best work yet, a seventeen
track
masterpiece that moves through moods, concepts, beats and rhymes with the
mind-bending ease which has always characterized their output, but expands
their work out further in every direction."
Antye Greie (aka AGF) - Einzelkämpfer (Lone Warrior) CD (AGF
Producktion) [AGF011CD] $16.00
This is the sixth solo album by East German software musician,
producer,
label-owner and e-poet, AGF (aka Antye Greie), who is now based in
Hailuoto, Finland. The artist herself on Einzelkämpfer: "As the title
suggests, the work investigates lone warriors -- from the deep sea
creatures to the human individuals, the woods, our earth, achievements
through solitary action and considerations about this. I based my thoughts
and research on scientific papers, ancient and recent literature, personal
emotion and created poetry in my audio-composing technique, called 'poem
producing.' While my recent releases were based around beats, the new album
misses beats for most of it and turns its attention to ambient, noise,
poetry and singing on experimental ground. This work is solely created and
released on my own label. By doing so, I underline the concept of a lone
warrior." Warning: contains irregular beats, noise and low frequencies
(speaker system required).
Art
Guys, The - Home on the Range 2xDVD (Microcinema) [MC989DVD] $32.00
"The Art Guys: Home On The Range is a DVD anthology of The Art Guys'
performance and video works spanning their 25 years of collaboration from
1983-2008. Included in this 2DVD box set are selections from the The Art
Guys' live stage performances, conceptual events in public, video works,
and the ZenFilm documentary of Nothing To It: The Art Guys in Concert,
filmed before a live audience at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the Arts. This is the first such compilation of The Art
Guys' video and performance works."
Asobi Seksu - Rewolf CD (Polyvinyl) [PRC-190-2] $8.50
RELEASE DATE: 11-10-2009
One of the last albums ever recorded at London's renowned Olympic
Studios
(The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who), Rewolf finds Asobi
Seksu's core duo -- vocalist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna --
affording listeners a new glimpse into songs spanning the band's entire
career. Here, Asobi Seksu replaces its sonic layer of guitars with
beautiful new arrangements achieved through the use of mostly acoustic
instruments.
Black Cobra - Chronomega CD (Southern Lord) [LORD109]
$14.00
RELEASE DATE: 09-29-2009
***Smashing up from the Bay Area underground, BLACK COBRA is ready to
take
the heavy music world by storm! Formed in 2002 by RAFA MARTINEZ (ACID KING,
16) and JASON LANDRIAN (ex-CAVITY), this duo has been laying waste to
audiences, taking on all comers, and leaving the remains to rot in their
wake. Their sound is a crushing mix of High On Fire-tinged stoner metal and
Buzzov*en's Southern-fried sludge, with a heaping dash of Melvins-style
drone to wash it all down. Their first Southern Lord release, Chronomega,
finds them treading in familiar territory; working with the sound that won
them raves from fans and critics alike, while refining it to its sharpest
point. No longer just another blunt object, Black Cobra's music is now a
razor-sharp weapon and a true force to be reckoned with. Produced by BILLY
ANDERSON (Melvins, Neurosis, Sleep, High on Fire), Chronomega is one of the
heaviest records of 2009 or, for that matter, any year! It is a raging slab
of pure, unadulterated heaviness.
Black Heart Procession, The - Six CD (Temporary Residence
Limited) [TRR157CD] $14.50
"More than just a return to numerical album titles, Six is The Black
Heart
Procession's first album to be written and recorded simultaneously with a
new Three Mile Pilot album. As both bands now coexist for the first time
ever, co-conspirators Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel have steered The
Black Heart Procession into a darker, more adventurous direction. Produced
and recorded by the band over the past couple years, Six is without a doubt
the group's most emotionally resonant album since Three. Brimming with
pitch-black ballads of discarded loves and forgotten souls, the album
paints a bleak yet strangely comforting portrait of heartbreak,
self-destruction and religious allegory over some of their most inspired
songs to date, drawing a clear line from here to soul-stirring visionaries
such as Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash and Tom Waits."
Black Tape For A Blue Girl - 10 Neurotics CD (Projekt) [10627]
$14.50
Originally released when Star Wars was just hitting the cinemas first
time
round, this collaboration between Brian Eno and "German synth pastoralists"
Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (aka Cluster) shares a similarily
imperialistic view of the opportunities afforded us by technology; couched
throughout by a distinct human touch. With Cluster's signature sound of
intricate yet broad analogue treatise, it's no real surprise Eno sought a
collaboration and it's also no real surprise that it works a treat; fusing
both parties strengths into a formidably singular entity. With more than a
hint of Vangelis in the likes of 'Fur Louse' and some bubbling synth
jauntiness on 'Die Bunge', Cluster and Eno display the forming of a sound
which would come to characterise the electronic fringes for decades to come
whilst retaining a tacit link to the past which Eno explains in the sleeve
notes as being "a sort of European alternative to the African route that
most other pop music had taken". A brave new world...
Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968 CD (Type) [TYPE053CD] $14.00
This is the debut full-length for Marc Richter aka Black To Comm for
the
Type label. Richter is no newcomer to the experimental music scene. As the
figurehead of the Hamburg-based Dekorder label, the musician and designer
has brought countless oddities to the attention of rabid music fans in the
last few years, but it is with his own compositions that he has made the
biggest splash. Releasing for a plethora of labels including Digitalis,
Trensmat, and of course, his own imprint, he has pioneered a new, organic
drone sub-genre using tape loops, vintage organs and an inexhaustible swamp
of found sounds. With this latest album however, it was Richter's intention
to move away from the epic drones he had made his own and into something
more "classic." The mission statement for Alphabet 1968 was to write an
album of "songs" for want of a better word. Short tracks which represented
genre points, the milestones which stuck in Richter's mind when he thought
back to his favorite records. What we arrive at is a breathtaking 10-track
album which, over the course of 45 minutes, explores world music, techno,
noise, avant-garde, ambient music and even exotica. Each track is linked
with a loose thread of radio static or environmental sound, dragging you
through the album, as if tuning in to a stray broadcast or a particularly
adventurous mix. Richter has pieced the album together from hours of
recordings made at his studio with home made gamelan, small instruments and
loops gathered from a collection of ancient vinyl and 78 records. The scope
of the album is admirable, but ignoring this, it is simply a shockingly
arresting collection of experimental oddities, with references ranging from
Moondog to Basic Channel by way of Bernard Herrmann. It's not hard to fall
in love with Alphabet 1968, far harder would be to place exactly where the
record should fit into your collection.
Bo
Marley vs. Disrupt - Bo Marley vs. Disrupt CD (Jahtari) [JTR002CD]
$18.00
"Following on from their hit Bauhelm/Fleisch, get ready for the full
length
18 track Bo Marley vs Disrupt masterpiece! A concept album filled up to its
plastic rim with the craziest bass tunes, puzzling fun lyrics, Space Echo
madness, overheated analogue gear basslines, Amiga tracker niceness, and
flashing, detail-packed dub burners from end to end. The four Bo Marley
boys create a highly unique style of dub and reggae, using battered
analogue synths, weird drum machines, horns, African drums and the
legendary Roland Space Echo machine, resulting in a very special sound not
heard in this line of music before. On top of all that, crazy
northern-German slang vocals and brilliant harmonic background choirs make
for amazing tunes with haunting hit qualities."
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers CD (Dead Oceans)
[DOC028CD] $13.50
"In an underground music landscape where 140 characters equals
'journalism'
and lone MP3s propel bands to momentary internet stardom, bands are here
today and gone tomorrow. Califone is a band that defies this blueprint.
Their albums are full of layers and textures, offering endless depth,
entire universes to lose yourself in - and beyond the thick spectrum of
sound, they do something even more important: They write great songs.
Califone is a band that will stand the test of time. The band is at the
peak of its powers on All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, its sixth
song-based album. The long-awaited follow-up to 2006's acclaimed Roots And
Crowns, the album is the strongest collection of songs in a career with no
shortage of strength. The subtlety and detail of Califone's previous work
is present here - the atmospheres are carefully nuanced, the percussion is
both rattling and melodic, the melodies are rich and soulful, interspersed
throughout softly strummed folk and electrified blues. All My Friends Are
Funeral Singers is a dense collage of sounds, expertly formed into fully
realized pop songs."
Carlos Giffoni/Keith Fullerton Whitman - Techno B/W 070207 CD
(No Fun Productions) [NFP52] $12.25
RELEASE DATE: 10-05-2009
Two very active modern electronic musicians who enjoy 20th century
analog
equipment deliver a document of mind expanding electronics with very
different approaches. Giffoni's track 'Techno' is full of layered and
perfectly synched synthetic rhythms matched with some very adhesive
evolving sounds; Creating something that somehow ends up being a homage to
both early techno and harsh Japanese electronics. Whitman's track is a
beautiful exploration of synthetic tonality and space, like a sudden
massage to several areas of the brain one by one but also all at once with
a little spice of musique concrete . Both of these recordings share an
expansive and psychedelic nature, as well as a nod to the past while
moving into the future. Artwork by Maya Miller. Limited to 400.
Cassy - Simply Devotion - Cassy In The Mix CD (Cocoon)
[CORMIX026CD] $16.00
Like hardly any other contemporary DJ, Berlin-based Catherine Britton
aka
Cassy is living at the interfaces between reduction and soul, jazzy deep
house and geometrically-structured techno. In Berlin, she quickly gained a
residency at the Panorama Bar, worked as a producer with such renowned
musicians as Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Mathew Jonson and Swayzak, and
has released her music on labels such as Perlon and Ostgut Ton as well as
on her own imprint, Cassy. Simply Devotion is Cassy's second mix CD after
the highly-acclaimed Panorama Bar 01 (OSTGUT 002CD) compilation, and it is
proof of her love for deep house of a different kind, which has -- despite
occasional flashes of soul vocals -- nothing to do with garage house. With
unhurried charm and a secure sense of the seductive power of house music,
Cassy enchants us with more than 70 minutes of sensual sound hypnosis and
she starts with an exclamation mark: together with his Ifach buddy Ian
Loveday aka Minimal Man, Baby Ford beguiles the listener with mantra house
with hints of Italo-pop. Anton Zap recalls, with his purified form of
percussive dub house, the best days of Chez Damier, and Danny Howells makes
you speechless with "September," a breathtaking stringed furioso in the
best tradition of Detroit trance, remixed by Future Beat Alliance. Cassy's
own unreleased track "Magnificent Cat Won't Do" is powered by the kind of
electrically-charged minimal dub soul that is so typical for her. The final
track comes from Miami's house institution and Murk legend Ralph Falcon
with his house mix of "Whateva," which sits somewhere in between R'n'B
vocals and acid reminiscences. Other artists include: Trus'me, Jitterbug,
DJ Qu, Kai Alce, Azulu Phantom, STL, Taho, Quince, Kassem Mosse, Linkwood,
Inland Knights, Kezym, Pierre LX, and Alan T and Alex K.
Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw And The Beasts CD (Asthmatic
Kitty) [AKR66] $13.25
With Texas Rose, The Thaw, and The Beasts CASTANETS' RAYMOND RAPOSA
keeps
one foot in the rustic country, folk, and blues of past records while
taking it to the next level. Straddling the line between "out" and
accessible, the RAFTER ROBERTS-produced Texas Rose is a full-band affair, a
bent noise-country terrain of dissolving interludes and spaced-out
electronic pop tracks up against songs that wouldn't be out of place on a
Merle or Willie record.
Celer - In Escaping Lakes CD (Slow Flow) [WW1001] $13.50
RELEASE DATE: 11-09-2009
'In Escaping Lakes' is the sequel to 'Cursory Asperses', previously
released on Slow Flow. Where 'Cursory Asperses' focused on the slow
movement primarily of streams, and other field recordings, 'In Escaping
Lakes' continues this pathway to expand into a deeper subject, of lakes and
their surroundings. Inspired by a painting by Anthony Feyer, 'In Escaping
Lakes' was made to demonstrate enclosure, depth, and closeness in still
places.
Will & Danielle: Piano, Strings, Gong, Tingshas, Voice,
Electronics, Hydrophone, Flute.
Connie Acher - Spray Me Down CD (Flipped Out Records)
[FOR023CD] $9.00
"Amazing grace and beauty abounds on this fourth full length recording
by
Connie Acher. This time around Strawberry is the foil and he sweetens her
stew with precise production and virtuosic instrumentation. Connie gushes
forth streams of magic honey that slide right down to the sweet spot of the
soul. Full cover covers, edition of 500 copies."
Curse Ov Dialect - Crisis Tales CD (Staubgold) [STAUB096CD]
$16.00
This is the first full-length by Australian hip-hop mavericks Curse ov
Dialect for Staubgold -- a dizzying, multi-dimensional carnival of
conscious hip-hop. Inspired by surrealistic grappling with questions of
identity and evolution, Curse ov Dialect have collectively created Crisis
Tales: a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic scrawl of mercurial rage and spasmodic
humor, flowing freely into the void of consumer culture. The alien yet
familiar sounds of Crisis Tales reflect the psychological and geographical
adventures of the five-strong Melbourne crew (MCs Raceless and Vulk
Makedonski, vocalists August the 2nd and Aturungi, and DJ/producer Paso
Bionic). This is the most impressive product yet of the band's restless
creativity and degenerate mindscape. A hybrid gumbo of musical mutations
and bending of genres and cultures, the album climaxes with an epic,
11-minute transnational posse track featuring guest rappers from Macedonia,
Germany, Poland, Indonesia, Switzerland and the United States. Produced by
Curse ov Dialect and mixed by DJ/producer Danielsan (Koolism), Crisis Tales
sprawls a wide-spectrum, organic sonic palette with a solid hip-hop
foundation. Special guests include Joelistics, Elf Tranzporter, Kaigen,
RKS, Hugo 1, Eytan Messiah, and Trillion. Equal parts empathy and
theatricality, Crisis Tales is at once a strident call to arms, challenging
society's restraints of conformity, oppression and religion, and a dreamy
contemplation of all things metaphorical and metaphysical. With an armory
of lyrics both sharp and thoughtful, inscrutable and existential, and a
mindblowing, hyper-authentic musicality, Curse ov Dialect is conclusive
proof that Australian hip-hop is worth infiltrating and subverting.
Digital Leather - Warm Brother CD (Fat Possum) [FP1188]
$12.00
RELEASE DATE: 09-29-2009
***SHAWN FOREE, better known as DIGITAL LEATHER, grew up on a Baha'i
hippie commune in southern Arizona. As soon as he could, he left and
started college to buy a 4-track tape recorder with some of his student
loan money. Pretty soon after, he lost interest in school and opted instead
to mess with synthesizers and old guitars. In his second year of school, he
only left his apartment to go to class, the rest of of the time was spent
taking acid and recording. Warm Brother is Digital Leather's first proper
studio recording even though they self-released on Goner, FDH and Tic Tac
Totally. The album was recorded with vintage synths and vintage guitars in
a house converted into a studio.
Disrupt - The Bass Has Left The Building CD (Jahtari)
[JTR003CD] $18.00
"The Bass Has Left The Building is the long-awaited sequel to Disrupt's
debut album Foundation Bit, which appeared on the wonderful Werk Discs in
2007 and quickly became one of the classic works of modern bass culture. On
this new epic voyage, Disrupt pushes the genre boundaries of 8Bit-ChipHop,
roots dub and old-school gaming soundtracks into one big swirling black
hole of low end mayhem. Raw, ultra-shuffling drum machine action and
re-wired skanks create the gateway for a mind bending reference network of
retro-SciFi movies, arcade classics and dub soundscapes in infinite loop
mode. All riding on a non-stop wave of subsonic bass blasts to ensure an
intense outah space blip-trip for all the 21st Century Planet Smashas out
there."
Early Day Miners - Treatment CD (Secretly Canadian) [SC171]
$13.25
When EARLY DAY MINERS loosen up, it's almost a different band. The
complex
layers and atmospherics are still there, but front-and-center on The
Treatment are insistent basslines and straightforward melodies on multiple
organs and guitars. One of the poppiest here, "So Slowly", manages to
combine a buoyant Cure bassline, a wah-wah solo worthy of Robert Fripp, and
yet still conveys the lazy drift of summer. You can even hear an echo of
"Sympathy for the Devil" on the album's centerpiece "How to Fall." In some
respects their most personal, subjective, and emotional album, The
Treatment starts like every pop album should, with an invitation to join
the band in enjoying The Treatment.
Embassadors, The - Coptic Dub CD (Nonplace) [NON027CD]
$16.00
This is the second full-length album from The Embassadors, an
international
music collective formed by reed player/producer/collaborator, Hayden
Chisholm. The artist himself elaborates on the creation of Coptic Dub this
way: "...the instrumental sounds and mixing processes on this album have
undergone so many levels of refinement they can easily defend themselves
without the justification of the creators ... I believe the discussion of
timbre and its degree of refinement, be it acoustic or electronic, is the
only semi-objective criteria when it comes to judging music. How do I
define refinement? I would say the gradual and careful removal of
impurities. Mixed in with this, and complicating the process even more, is
an aspect which has always been a part of my creations: the Japanese
aesthetic of wabi-sabi which views certain impurities, especially those
occurring in nature, as beautiful. A good example of this is the saxophone
sound itself with its strong air component when listened to or recorded up
close. This aesthetic element is crucial in setting such works from the
digital polishing applied in regular high end pop or even jazz productions.
Burnt Friedman's style of applying dubs and effects is another way of
breathing more life into the sounds. What is happening here is a complex
layering upon layering within which the listener can find countless points
of reference to navigate her way through the works. None of the sound
sources are processed for the sake of it and there are deep metaphysical
truths behind a simple space echo in the way our hallowed master "time" is
played with and re-evoked. Sometimes it will approach the feeling of
listening to music while in a dream, when individual elements are blurred
in the passage of time which is no longer a simple arrow moving forward but
rather an evolving and pliable cloud, inextricably linked to the
perceiver." The follow-up to the acclaimed Healing The Music debut, Coptic
Dub is pure lightness of deftly-executed jazz and dub, curling and twining
in on itself in new forms and structures. Chisholm's tenor sax, Hammond
organ, and steel drums are supported by Jochen Rueckert (drums) and Matt
Penman (bass).
Fink - Sort Of Revolution CD (Ninja Tune) [ZEN146CD] $15.25
"Following the 2006 release of debut LP Biscuits for Breakfast, and
2007's
Distance and Time, singer songwriter Fin Greenall, aka Fink, returns in
2009 with the self-produced Sort of Revolution. A beautiful fusion of jazz,
blues and soulful acoustic rhythms."
Fran Gayo - Las Próximas Cosechas CD (Acuarela) [nois1094]
$13.50
RELEASE DATE: 10-05-2009
Fran Gayo is Gijón's Film Festival programmer since 1997, writes
articles
in music and film magazines like Cahiers du Cinéma or Rockdelux, and is
Público's newspaper official correspondent in Cannes and Venice Film
Festivals. He used to combine this job with his work as a writer and
musician in the band Mus until they split up in 2008. Now he comes back
with a new identity, with a project under his own name and with his own
voice, in a more intimate state of mind reminiscent of Leonard Cohen,
Barzin, Serge Gainsbourg, Harry Nilsson or Randy Newman.
Las próximas cosechas [The next harvests] is the starting point of a renewed expression mode filled with clarity, candor and a renewed intimacy. The story of a second chance with which Fran Gayo has learned to look within to find the singer that was hidden inside, the owner of an unknown voice that now lightens everything he writes. Looking for a different way to discover music, Fran Gayo has now the courage to sing the songs he writes. And he sings in Spanish (not Asturian), turning the social issues that invaded almost everything in Mus into a more intimate, domestic, inner mood. A closeness reflected in an album recorded at home.
"Finding a way of singing is like looking into a mirror for ten minutes watching carefully each and every one of your features. This situation is embarrassing and you end up not even knowing who you are", explains Fran. "In that sense, the advice a friend gave me was key to the process. He recommended that I start thinking like a singer and not as a musician. That gave me an entirely different vision of how to face the recording of an album ".
So, these
songs leave room to Fran's voice, which is given scope and illumination
with a soft and clean music approach. They pass from fragility—"En 20
minutos me voy"-to tension and power ~V"El invierno sera bueno (o no
sera)"; from the afternoon light—"En la siesta clara"- to a hidden
world—"En las copas de los árboles"-in just one jump. It is a raw
testimony, a tenderness impossible to fake, put on the lips of someone who
sings in first person because he could not do otherwise. "Las próximas
cosechas" is a record that draws the listener in its first notes, it
soothes and balances, with the focus on melody and voice, the voice of Fran
Gayo.
Freiband/Bass Communion - Headwind/Tailwind CD3 (Moll) [10620]
$9.75
RELEASE DATE: 09-29-2009
EXPECTED TO ARRIVE LATE SEPTEMBER, 2009. PRE-ORDER A COPY TODAY. Any
regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart)
will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment.
Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the
items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately,
or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here,
rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge
your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card's
number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the
check-out process.
Last year My Own Little Label released 'Haze
Shrapnel', a new piece by Bass Communion and a remix of that by Freiband as
a 3"CDR. Already back then it was agreed that there should also be a
release by Freiband with a remix by Bass Communion. Due to the immense
success of that 3"CDR, the new one is now released as a factory pressed
3"CD. For 'Headwind' Freiband returns to the guitar playing by Martin
Luiten (Pick-up, Uw Hyoptheekadvies) and produces a spacious computerized
remix of his elaborate playing. Bass Communion takes matters further up the
line in a likewise sizzling remix.
Furt - Sense CD (PSI) [PSI0908CD] $17.75
"Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer (electronics) perform a
semi-composed
extended suite, plus an improvised tribute to Stockhausen. (2008/9). 'Too
often, critics make an automatic separation between 'emotion' and
'intellect', a framework which will get one nowhere with Furt. Instead,
their music shows graphically how fused, how inseparable are the two. As
Richard Barrett puts it: 'The music is motivated by emotional and sensual
considerations as much as by anything else. Without wishing to sound too
pretentious I think it's concerned with finding and exploring (musical)
states of consciousness to which the word 'ecstasy' might well be
completely appropriate (at least in an etymological sense).'' -- >From the
notes by David Grundy."
Grutronic - Essex Foam Party CD (PSI) [PSI0907CD] $17.75
Stephen Grew (keyboard, processing), Richard Scott (buchla lightning,
analogue synthesizer, sampler, processing), Nick Grew (transduction,
processing) & David Ross (drosscillator) + special guests Orphy Robinson
(vibraphone) & Paul Obermayer (sampler). (2006-8) "Grutronic are a
collective of free improvisers -- all have a past/present as acoustic
ensemble players. In Grutronic they are re-incarnated as electronic
musicians, extending technique through the development of personalised
systems of sound production and control. Current intuitive and
performance-oriented technologies put tools and techniques, once the
preserve of the electronic music studio, into the hands of the players.
Grutronic take on these new challenges with glee, aiming to surprise and
delight the listener and themselves with unheard forms and
sound-relationships, fixed during the act of performance."
Gunda Gottschalk/Xu Fengxia - You Lan CD (Victo) [VICTO117CD]
$14.00
Gunda Gottschalk: violon, voix; Xu Fengxia: guzheng, voix. Enregistré
au
25e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 18 mai
2008. "'Impressive in its own way was the duo of violinist Gunda Gottschalk
and guzheng virtuoso Xu Fengxia, in whose hands contrasting roots in
Western and Eastern classical musics stretched to become a common fabric,
an expressionist ground in which strings and voices could move from
song-like repose to chattering, screaming nightmare.' - Stuart Broomer,
Musicworks."
Hornet Leg - Ribbon Of Fear CD (K Records) [KLP209] $13.25
HORNET LEG has had many manifestations as both a bedroom and live
project
for CHRIS SUTTON (of C.O.C.O. and DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM). In the past,
Hornet Leg has been a solo acoustic guitar project, an electro-dance
undertaking, a crushing two-person art noise assault, a melancholy pop
outfit and a personal four-track recording enterprise. Now with Ribbon of
Fear, the long-coming full-length debut, Hornet Leg is solidified as a
three-man punk-blues powerhouse. Ribbon of Fear is heightened with a
polyrhythmic jamboree of tambourine, piano keys, ghoulish laughter and
female voice accompaniment. Punky twang meets doo-wop.
Hudson Mohawke - Butter CD (Warp Records) [WARP188CD]
$15.25
"Megawatt R'n'B stars won't be the only ones to take note of Butter, as
the
ever-growing global network of bass-craving music fans have been clamoring
for new material since Hudson Mohwake's lauded Polyfolk Dance EP earlier
this year. On that record, HudMo's hyper melodic drum-and-synth sidewinders
only hinted at the panoramic pop magic that was to come and with it he
found himself name checked by the likes of Rihanna, Goldie, Sa Ra, Busy P,
Flying Lotus, Mars Volta & Crookers."
John Blum - In The Shade Of Sun CD (Ecstatic Peace) [E#5D]
$10.25
Featuring John Blum (piano), William Parker (bass) and Sunny Murray
(drums); recorded May 14, 2008. "John Blum was born in New York City, April
15, 1968 and has been a mainstay of the free-jazz community there for over
15 years. 'I first heard John at Bennington (where I teach part-time in the
college's Writing Seminars), affectionately kicking around some bebop and
Thelonious Monk tunes with a bassist and a drummer. His chops,
inventiveness and taste -- how many pianists would think to pull out Monk's
'Pannonica'? -- caught my attention immediately, but I didn't hear the real
John Blum until he sent me the CD you now have in your hands. Not only is
he a master musician -- if a pitcher were this fast and pinpoint-precise,
he'd be out-earning Johan Santana and C.C. Sabathia combined -- but his
playing seems to encapsulate the whole history of jazz piano: if you listen
hard, you'll catch bits of Harlem stride, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Monk and
Taylor, all recombined in a flow almost -- but not quite -- too rapid for
the ear to absorb and the mind to process. Like every great jazz
improviser, from Louis Armstrong on, he's a self-portraitist, registering
the play of his own thoughts and intuitions as they arise. His abundance of
ideas -- and ideas springing from those ideas and morphing into yet other
ideas -- suggests a teeming, almost Joyceian inner world. The titles of his
pieces allude to the context of struggle in which this world exists; but
the music itself, sometimes majestic, sometimes frightening, sometimes
witty, many-colored and ceaselessly inventive, is an ideal universe of
freedom. John Blum and his collaborators [William Parker and Sunny Murray]
have created work of enduring value and endless fascination. As many times
as I listen to these pieces, I always hear something fresh and surprising:
further revelations, deeper interconnections. It's a gift from generous
spirits, straight from their hearts and minds to yours.' -- David Gates,
Senior Writer Newsweek"
Josh Lay - True Mask CD (Small Doses) [DOSE66] $11.75
The first compact disc release by CADAVER IN DRAG and SWAMP HORSEadaver
in
Drag and Swamp Horse dude. Four tracks, nearly 40 minutes, elements of
black metal, harsh noise, power electronics and dark ambient. Twisted
environments built from electronics, guitar, and guttural vocals. Handmade
art work.
Justine D - RVNG Prsnts MX5 feat. Justine D CD (Metatronix)
[MX005CD] $8.75
"Recorded during a summer visit to Optimo's Glasgow studio with Twitch
watching the wavelengths, Justine opens her set with a sound bite from a
Francis Bacon BBC interview (a freak obsession while studying Art History
at FIT) while Eno & Fripp appregiate into an era of electronic music that
The Orb, Nitzer Ebb, and producers like Andrew Wetherall would all align.
Elegantly accented by a sample from Paris is Burning (a movie that perhaps
best explains Justine's love of her work), the Turntablerocker and Daniel
Wang house anthems turn synthetic 'pop' of then - Ministry, The Cars - and
now - Hot Chip, Glass Candy. After the 808s & 909s, Delia & Gavin sedate
the Chic Strings before exposing Visconti's on Bowie's 1984. It goes from
dark to darkest when Justine builds the Crass Walls into crucial Death In
June and Christian Death tracks and a full cut of Goblin's Suspiria. You
can almost feel the glass breaking in said movie's opening sequence before
Justine rescues us with a Madcap love song and The Zombies fade into a the
end score from Truffaut's 400 Blows. This is the story Justine D: the
starry-eyed teenager, the after hour wanderer, the bleeding heart of a
community, and the constant believer in good music. If you believe in good
music too, this life and mix are for you."
Kim
Doo Soo - Free Spirit CD (Riverman Music) [RM001CD] $16.00
This is the 2002 fourth album by Korea's true cult
folk/singer-songwriter
hero, Kim Doo Soo. Kim Doo Soo is perhaps the deepest and most
introspective of Korea's acid folk singers. Legends surround his songs --
political oppression, alcoholism, suicide, a 10-year period of mountain
seclusion. In spite of four acclaimed albums in Korea, most Western
listeners only became aware of Kim through his tracks on Damon & Naomi's
compilation International Sad Hits Volume One: Altaic Language Group. On
Free Spirit he mines productive veins of profound melancholy, animistic
nature, and unfathomable, hermetic affection. These songs are couched in a
veil of gorgeous, still melodicism, Kim's quavering vocals and guitar
shaded with subtle accordion, cello, organ and harmonica. A reflective and
unearthly masterpiece. Housed in a digipak, including a 19-page booklet
with lyrics in Korean and photos.
King Cannibal - Let The Night Roar CD (Ninja Tune) [ZEN151CD]
$15.25
"A warm welcome please for Ninja Tune's latest signing King Cannibal
aka
Zilla aka Dylan Richards. Coming through with a hard-edged, utterly
uncompromising industrial mash-up of sounds and rhythms from dancehall to
drum & bass."
Kink Gong - Electronic World CD (Atavistic) [ALP194] $15.00
After recording the indigenous music of countless Asian villages and
releasing over 50 CDRs of these documents on his own label, LAURENT
JEANNEAU debuts his own KINK GONG electro project on Atavistic. "Since 1995
I am involvedd in 2 complementary activities-first recording ethnic
minority music, mostly in southeast Asia (India, Tanzania, Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam, China); and second, composing electronic music that includes or
transforms those recordings. Every country has a different context, so also
my approach is different-depending on how much time I spend, how close I am
with the people, the degree of acculturation, how easy it is to find
musicians, the political situation, who I am working with. In many cases, I
seem to be the first one to record those musicians; I am aware of this
exclusive dimension, but this is not essential. I won't pretend that I'm
doing it for saving endangered cultures, nowadays everyone is using those
words..."-LJ, 2009.
Luna City Express - Hello From Planet Earth! CD (Moon Harbour)
[MHR011CD] $16.00
This is the debut full-length release from Berlin's Luna City Express.
For
10 years now, Norman Weber and Marco Resmann have been living out their
love for house together both at the turntables and in the studio as Luna
City Express. At 14, Weber heard his first Chicago house mix on tape -- a
musical revelation and the beginning of his subsequent career. Resmann
discovered electronic music in the early '90s in a friend's basement studio
where he first started delving into drum machines and synthesizers. In 1999
he set up his Audiogain studio and established himself as a producer,
producing as a solo artist under the pseudonym Phage and also in projects
like Pan/Pot or Phage & Daniel Dreier, releasing on labels like Mobilee,
Klang Elektronik and Highgrade. In 2007, he founded the label Upon You with
Marcus Meinhardt and Hawks Grunert. At a millennium party in Italy, Norman
and Marco crossed paths for the first time and clicked immediately -- two
house nerds had found each other. When Norman moved from Jena to Berlin,
they began to play as a DJ team, organizing their own parties and producing
their first tracks together, a mixture of downbeat, trip-hop and deep
house. Beside remixes and releasing on labels like Justified Cause and
Enliven Music, Moon Harbour has truly become the home of Luna City Express,
and at the same time, they've played an essential part in developing the
label's sound. Hello From Planet Earth! brings together 13 outstanding
tracks -- from techno to experimental, going from euphoric to quiet
moments. It's an eclectic album that isn't just for the club, all held
together by the unique Luna City Express house vibe.
Marek Hemmann - In Between CD (Freude Am Tanzen) [FREUDE004CD]
$14.75
This is the debut full-length album from Germany's Marek Hemmann, as
well
as the first CD long-player from the house of Freude-Am-Tanzen. Hemmann has
long been one-half of the duo Hemmann & Kaden, who for years have been the
pillars of the new house & techno scene, both as producers and as a live
act. Hemmann has also been responsible for innumerable remixes, from Dirt
Novitzky to Chopstick & Johnjon to Dusty Kid. In Between is pure technoid
material in an eclectic house-world, which offers a new discovery at every
turn. From classic deep-droning dub epos over frizzy house with shots of
bossa nova and demanding horn-action, up to highly complex sample tone-art,
this is a long, rewarding trip through techno-land. With a round of wholly
comprehensive melancholy and hypnotic bass lines, the tracks bathe you in a
type of beauty that will come over you like a sunrise.
Matthew Friedberger - Winter Women & Holy Ghost Language 2CD
(Thrill Jockey) [THRILL223] $11.00
RELEASE DATE: 09-29-2009
***REISSUED!!! The debut solo release from one-half of the
brother/sister
duo FIERY FURNACES. The first disc, Winter Women, showcases MATTHEW
FRIEDBERGER's strength as a songwriter, and features some of the most
accessible and infectious pop songs he's ever written. The second disc,
Holy Ghost Language School, is more experimental-a 46-minute sonic novel
with the requisite backwards guitars and strange samples that make his work
so original. Includes guest drumming by JOHN McENTIRE (TORTOISE). Includes
four new bonus tracks and new artwork.
Midaircondo - Curtain Call CD (Twin Seed Recordings)
[TWINS001CD] $14.75
This is the second full-length album by Swedish duo Midaircondo, and
the
first release on their own Twin Seed Recordings label. The follow-up to
their celebrated 2005 release Shopping For Images (TYPE 008CD/LP), Curtain
Call is an exceptional pop record -- and make no mistake, this is a pop
record; a heady mix of unexpected arrangements, acoustic and electronic
sound sources, experimental music fused with the pair's undeniable pop
sensibilities, that makes for an album which draws the listener in
instantly. Reborn as a duo, Midaircondo's wonderful, original
improvisational skills and innovative compositions have been developed into
a new and more solemn sound. Classical instruments and delicate deliveries
of poetic lyrics marry in Midaircondo's electronic world. Quirky field
recordings from the band's travels around the world create backdrops that
invite you to enter Midaircondo's unique musical sphere. From the
shimmering opening moments of its title track, Curtain Call has such a
peculiar pull, familiar in the most unique of ways. It's hard to categorize
these songs -- equal measures of dark and light haunt the listener
throughout. Delicate passages of recognizable instruments are suddenly
thrown into unexpected territories, often revealing the duo at their most
catchy. Midaircondo's evocative arrangements, plus their ability to gel the
compositional and the improvisational, result in an album of incredibly
forward-thinking music -- challenging but accessible to all. Making a guest
appearance is The Soundtrack Of Our Lives' frontman Ebbot Lundberg, sharing
vocal duties on standout track "Silk, Silver And Stone," a dark, layered
song cycle with hazy, descending vocal layers and strings. Reminiscent of
the best of Blonde Redhead, Björk's "All Is Full Of Love," and the electro
allure of Bat For Lashes, Midaircondo's dark vision of electronic pop makes
Curtain Call an album to return to time and time again.
Mikkel Meyer - Bacon CD (Statler & Waldorf) [S&W015CD]
$16.00
This is the second release on Statler & Waldorf by Denmark's Mikkel
Meyer.
Since his debut, Meyer has moved from introverted jazzy electronica over
spoken-word, to hard upfront dubstep. This is a solid meal, where freshness
has beaten the jazzy flavors characterizing his previous work. The working
method has become faster, and you can feel that time has been reduced
dramatically from when the ingredient leaves the chopping board to when the
dishes are served. Mikkel Meyer has put together a 9-course menu with
inspiration from his grandmother's cookbooks, dating 40 years back to a
time when you had to see a pharmacist to buy anything else than the three
Danish standard spices: salt, pepper and bacon. With immigration in the
'70s came exotic foods and spices, and Danish cuisine was never the same.
In much the same way, Meyers' music has been spiced up with contributions
from the USA and Tanzania. He has, so to speak, brought the world to his
Danish melting pot, by inviting some of the greatest in the field to flavor
this album: American Non from Shadowhuntaz in Chicago, who has been awarded
numerous stars in the world's guidebook, and Lufu and Chidi Benz from
Tanzania, who both deliver Swahilian herbs to the table. This is
home-ccoked Danish dub, with a heavy dollop of thick techno, and sprinkled
with grime and grit.
Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston CD Box (Bridge Records)
[BRIDGE9078CD] $46.50
1997 release. Performed by the California EAR Unit (flutes, percussion,
piano, celeste). "Here is the California EAR Unit's recording of the late
Morton Feldman's monumental, four hour long For Philip Guston (1984).
Included in this discount priced, four disc set is an enhanced multimedia
track, which includes Feldman's remarks as well as a photo montage of the
composer. Morton Feldman stands as one of our century's darkest and
quietest musical poets. His music seems a muffled yet spiritually inspired
reaction to the speed, noise and horror of the events of the 20th century
-- much as in the work of the painter, Mark Rothko. For Philip Guston, a
composition from Feldman's last years, is music that attempts to suspend
time, but without the nervous 'sequenced' energy that dominates so much of
today's 'process art.' In For Philip Guston, the gigantism of Feldman's
time-scale is offset by the extreme intimacy and seductiveness of the
composer's expression. As Bridge Records' annotato Alan Rich puts it: 'This
is music of an outward immobility and inward irresistible propulsion,
random yet purposeful-its construction, intricate and precise.' Four disc
set includes an enhanced CD track, and Feldman in conversation."
Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry 2CD (Bridge Records)
[BRIDGE9092CD] $14.00
1999 release. Performed by The California EAR Unit (Dorothy Stone,
flutes;
Arthur Jarvinen, percussion; Vicky Ray, piano/celeste). "Morton Feldman's
music continues to exert its fascination on listeners and record companies
alike. After releasing its highly successful recording of the more than
three-hour-long For Philip Guston, Bridge once again returns to the
California EAR Unit for Crippled Symmetry, at only 87 minutes a mere
bagatelle in terms of Feldman's late output. Well, maybe not. Scored for
flutes, mallet percussion, and piano/celeste, Crippled Symmetry does
exactly what the title says: it toys with not quite exact repetitions of
short melodic and rhythmic shapes. As each pattern exhausts itself, a new
one takes its place. All of this happens at a slow tempo, at the lowest
possible dynamic level. Only the composer's own exquisite sense of sonority
and timing determines how the various musical patterns are organized, and
how long they persist. What makes Feldman's music so fascinating is its
complete honesty: it truly does create a series of sonic shapes moving
through space, allowing the listener to literally 'see' with his ears the
slowly changing patterns of sound. It's sort of like watching a mobile turn
almost imperceptibly in a gentle breeze. And much as it may outrage the
faithful, this is great music to fall asleep to -- the perfect cure for
insomnia, in fact, not because it's dull, but because it's so hypnotic...
Bridge's sonics are exactly as they should be: transferred at a high level
so that you can set the volume low, relax, and watch the music." --
Classics Today
Morton Feldman - For Christian Wolff 3CD (Bridge Records)
[BRIDGE9279CD] $46.50
2008 release. Performed by the California EAR Unit (Dorothy Stone,
flute;
Vicki Ray, piano, celesta). "For Christian Wolff is one of Morton Feldman's
final compositions, and stands alongside the four-hours-plus For Philip
Guston, the 70-minute For John Cage, and the six-hour String Quartet II.
Writing about hearing this work, Christian Wolff says that 'I found the
experience of listening to it beautiful and interesting -- it moves away
partly from our (Morty's, John Cage's and mine) original preoccupation with
just sound and sonority into areas of self-awareness about listening, being
a listener, as such, because there's so much time to be thinking of this
and that as well as just listening.' The California EAR Unit's performances
of Feldman's For Philip Guston (BRIDGE 9078CD) and Crippled Symmetry
(BRIDGE 9092CD) have received high praise from the international musical
press."
Mountain Goats - Bitter Melon Farm CD (3 Beads of Sweat)
[3BOS1002.2] $11.00
second in a series of three compilations of non-album Mountain Goats
tracks. Includes all the songs from their Transmissions to Horace cassette,
the Songs for Petronius and Songs for Peter Hughes 7-inches, as well as
their tracks from a handful of compilation records on the Walt, Sing
Eunuchs, Glitterhouse, Slowball, Union Pole, Pottery, WPRB, and Box Dog
Sound labels.
Mum
- Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know CD (Euphono) [EUPH01] $13.25
Two years (almost to the day) after their previous release, Iceland's
eccentric pop maestros MUM have returned with their fifth studio album,
Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know. Sing Along... recalls sand running
through fingers or ripples on a lake; it's an ode to the light in its
different shapes, from a fading bulb to the blinding sun. Alternately sunny
and melancholy, Sing Along... flows like the tides: now ebullient, now
brooding, cacophony resolving into tight melody. For Sing Along..., Mum
work with their trademark variegated instrumental palette, this time
including a lightly prepared piano, hammered dulcimer, a string quartet,
marimbas, guitars, ukuleles-and in the background of a few tracks, a
parent's pet parakeet singing along with the piano. Mum will embark on a
worldwide tour to herald the release of Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know,
with North American shows starting October 23.
Music Go Music - Expressions CD (Secretly Canadian) [SC186CD]
$13.50
"'When people talk about the rebirth of disco, this is how it should
be,
manic zombifications reanimated from the Abba songbook, wired with Philip
K. Dick paranoia and Donna Summer euphoria,' says the NME on Music Go
Music's debut full-length Expressions. The Los Angeles trio recorded the
album over the course of a year-and-a-half. They make pop music but,
fortunately, the term means very little these days. What kind of pop music
is it? Rock and Roll, disco, metal, boogie, trans-hand, psychedelic? Fader
magazine perhaps put it best when they said, 'They begin with a bright-eyed
Scandinavian sashay and end with a ten-minute Mediterranean disco romp
featuring programmed drums, making detours along the way into rainy day
ballads and guitar infernos. The cumulative effect plays like the greatest
hits of dance saviors that never existed - and indeed, they probably should
only be performed from inside an aquadome at the bottom of the Caspian Sea,
or at least during a summer-long residency in Ibiza.' Indeed."
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms CD (Lefse) [LEFSE001CD] $13.75
"An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo (VEGA). Neon Indian
delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, dream-pop lullabies, and grinding
guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. Forged
after a hazy winter gathering in Texas, this initial batch of tracks were
the result of field recordings, record samples, a collection of bizarre
synth sounds. Soliciting the visual acrobatics of video artist Alicia
Scardetta, this project is setting out to be a multi-media maelstrom.
Orbiting around the themes of drug induced heart-break, weary afternoons,
and lost chances, this music provides a lush soundtrack to the deadbeat
exploits of teenage ennui. Neon Indian's bedroom ballads have already
forged Psychic Chasms. They've been compared to New Order, Future Bible
Heroes, and most recently said to sound like a saw-wave cutting a Doobie
Brothers' song in half. Expect much racket to be had from this fresh faced
crew."
Nils Frahm - Wintermusik CD (Sonic Pieces) [SONICPIE004CD]
$18.50
"'I remember thinking to myself as I lay there stunned, that I could
spend
ten years trying to write an amazing piece of piano music, and still it
would never be half as good as these improvisations!' -- Peter Broderick on
Nils Frahm's demo piano improvisations. Limited to 333 beautifully
handmade, hand numbered copies, Nils Frahm's Wintermusik was an album
originally created as a Christmas gift to his friends and family. Recorded
over two days in December, Wintermusik is an album of such incredible depth
and beauty, that to limit its initial exposure in such a way, could seem
now, almost criminal. Nils Frahm, born in 1982, had an early approach to
music. During the younger years of his life he was taught piano by Nahum
Brodski, and through this he began to immerse himself in the stylings of
the classical pianists before him as well as the ECM-influenced modern
composition. Nils is an accomplished pianist, composer and studio engineer
-- these qualities are entirely apparent on Wintermusik. The three
instrumentals which make up Wintermusik are piano led pieces, coloured with
occasional celeste and reed organ parts. Perhaps the most stunning aspect
of what appears on the surface to be an entirely pre-planned, composed and
realized body of work, comes with the discovery that these pieces were in
fact improvised. Frahm's fragile, haunting motifs rise and develop in ways
reminiscent at times of the piano compositions of Rachel Grimes, in
particular the stripped down Rachel's score for 'Music For Egon Schiele.'
Wintermusik's equal measures of sorrowful refrains and uplifting passages,
combined with an awesome production, make for an album that you'll want to
return to again and again. Peter Broderick requested Nils to record an
album of solo piano recently -- the result was The Bells, which was
recently released on Kning disk, as part of a series of solo piano releases
being curated by Broderick. These two friends share a common affinity in
that they both possess an absolute mastery of melody, composition and
performance, able to deliver with devastating effect. For a musician this
early in his career, Frahm displays an incredibly developed sense of
control and restraint in his work. As the praise continues to grow for The
Bells, we are please to be able to offer a very limited number of copies of
its predecessor Wintermusik, an equally incredible album, and one which
will likely be much sought after in years to come."
Noma/Rejectamenta - Split CD (At War With False Noise)
[ATWAR052] $12.25
Two long tracks of minimal drone (achieved by running household
appliances
through guitar pick ups) from NOMA, and one of full-on bizarre electronics
from REJECTA. How do they do it? Circuit bent instruments and toys,
horribly de-tuned guitars, feedback, and occasional outbursts of throat.
Limited quantities available.
Non
Toxique Lost - Z.O.R.N.: Live in Scheer 2008 CD (Klanggalerie) [10623]
$16.25
A perfect companion to our "Wanton" CD-re-issue, this album is a
recording
of the whole NTL gig at last year's Klangbad Festival in Scheer hosted by
Faust. Line up: Sea Wanton, Achim Wollscheid, Steffen Schütze and Christian
Reichelt. If you've missed this extremely rare opportunity to see this band
on stage, then grab this very limited album... like "Wanton", it comes in a
hand-made sleeve with an original photograph of the band on stage. The
songs the band played range from old to new, from noise to electronic
beats. Mixing desk recording in perfect audio quality.
CD-R in a
limited edition of only 100 copies.
Norscq - Gelatinosa Substancia CD (Staubgold) [STAUBDIG003CD]
$12.25
Norscq, a Paris-based electronic musician, has been one of the key
instigators of the French underground scene for more than 25 years. He
founded the iconoclastic cult group The Grief in 1984, producing 10
exceptional releases. Norscq is a prolific artist with a fine ear for
electronica that moves from ambient to rhythmically explosive with a sonic
continuity uniting the extremes. His solo album on Staubgold is also the
soundtrack to a movie directed by Véronique Ruggia. Gelatinosa Substancia
is a strange curiosity. Firstly, the sound feels as though it had been
recorded over a 50 year time span. The quality and sharpness of the
recording fluctuates and evolves, seemingly improving along with the
emergence of the newer recording equipment of the era. We sense that the
musicians are always the same despite the radical changes in quality. As
the artist describes, "They will play while they move, whether it be on a
merry-go-round or a boat ... by way of this, the music will create the
sensation of a voyage, that we are actually moving, even if the rhythm is
slow and ebbing, or the drones leave us floating in space... the audience
will rise to an unknown place. Out to the stars, as they watch the film." A
decidedly French amalgam of musique concrète, found sounds, digital
f***ery, sample collages, and electro-acoustic absurdist theater.
Owen - New Leaves CD (Polyvinyl) [PRC183] $10.50
Much has changed for MIKE KINSELLA (AMERICAN FOOTBALL, JOAN OF ARC,
CAP'N
JAZZ) since 2006's solo album At Home with Owen. As he began writing his
fifth album, Kinsella became a husband and a father. New Leaves, like the
title suggests, is a new beginning and retains elements of earlier OWEN
material-but here, instead of lamenting failed relationships, Kinsella
focuses on the new beginnings they allowed.
Parade - La Fortaleza De La Soledad CD (Jabalina) [JAB-2047]
$18.50
Parade is back. In fact, he didn't really go at all, or even think
about
retiring to his Fortress Of Solitude, just like his favourite hero
Superman, because he doesn't live there anymore-- Antonio Galvañ, the man
behind the stage name Parade, is back for good with a brilliant new album,
unusually original, an instant classic which will be officially released
next 21st September under the title "La fortaleza de la soledad". This
music teacher from Yecla, Murcia (Spain) has produced his fifth album, the
first one for Jabalina, and undoubtedly his strongest outing so far, which
showcases his music at its most rich and diverse.
"La fortaleza de la soledad" reveals itself from the first listen as an impressive display of sensitivity and brilliant compositions full of small and great stories (check out the "Rainbows Avenue" trilogy), with multicoloured arrangements which are just perfect for the rich variety of styles that the imagination and talent of Antonio Galvañ has created. This astonishing exhibition of talent should end the clichéd idea that Parade is an electronic pop artist and be evidence that, after a 10-year career, he has reached top form.
Parade's very particular way of understanding pop music is interweaved with the rich influences of many styles and artists that fall into this category. Thus, Parade sounds like piano-pop (Ben Folds Five or the best moments of Elton John...), like 60s and 70s soft-pop ("El desfile terminó", a Carpenters cover version, the album closer, is the perfect example) and like classics such as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Hollies, The Zombies or singer-songwriters like Jimmy Webb or Paul Williams. But he's also indebted to country ("El aerolito Dylan"), to sunshine pop, to the sound of Curt Boettcher (The Association, Millenium, Sagittarius) --and many more which we probably haven't noticed yet! What is important is that Parade is still the same, but at the same time he sounds different on "La fortaleza de la soledad"—he doesn't hide his soft spot for 70s comic heroes, or for Phil Spector (as on the wonderful "Astrónomo melancólico") or even for classics like The Electric Light Orchestra, Todd Rundgren, The High Llamas, Solera or Vainica Doble, a set of influences that make his music even greater.
Further evidence of the fact that this is still our good old Parade are the lyrics, which maintain their usual magical and surprising spirit, avoiding the usual worn-out sci-fi clichés in favour of the unusual, interspersed among rock n'roll references (as on "El aerolito Dylan" where he retells the story of the Bob Dylan incident at Newport in 1965) and scientific mythology (vindicating Stephen Hawking and planning his own "Proyecto Genoma" from a brand new perspective). In any case, the songs tell day to day stories like the one which develops as the different parts of "Rainbows Avenue" unfold.
In short, "La fortaleza de la
soledad" confirms that Antonio Galvañ is one of the greatest talents of the
Spanish pop scene, as a composer, arranger and producer. We had been warned
in his first promotional letter-- 'we didn't know this could be done until
we listened to it-- they say genius is rare, but you can always find it -
you just have to look for it in Yecla'. We can only add that reality
usually beats fiction.
Pens - Hey Friend, What You Doing? CD (DeStijl) [CDPENSHEY]
$13.75
NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! PENS live sets last about 14 minutes. The girls
swap
instruments in between tunes mainly because it appears none of them really
know what they are doing. The whole shambolic thing seems on the verge of
falling apart; it's swathed in so much static and reverb that it's like
watching the YouTube clip of the kid kicking through the granite wall and
snapping his ankle snapped in half. They also do a cover of "Sex Beat" by
The Gun Club that sounds like The Germs trying to be The Shangri-Las
through a gauze of early K Records fuzz.
Raydios - Now CD (Mangrove) [DQC75] $12.00
"Our first release from a Japanese band, and we couldn't really ask for
a
better one than this. For those not in the know, THE RAYDIOS is FINK from
the legendary TEENGENERATE and current member of FIRESTARTER. This is their
2nd album, coming about 10 years (!) after their Demo LP on Screaming
Apple. The CD version of Now is released by Japan's Mangrove Records last
year (and is being distributed by Dirtnap in the USA), and is just now
seeing the light of day on vinyl. It's been remastered for vinyl and
remixed by Fink himself, and sounds GREAT. Musically this is no frills,
crunchy, mid tempo rock n roll. Less trashy than Teengenerate, but not
quite as 'pop' as Firestarter, this is kinda a middle ground between the
two. Total dream release for Dirtnap. Pinch us."
Rose Melberg - Homemade Ship CD (K Records) [KLP211] $13.25
The songs of ROSE MELBERG belong to her voice; its stark stillness is
as
hauntingly playful and familiar as the first days of fall. Similar to her
work with previous bands TIGER TRAP and THE SOFTIES, her approach is always
tender and hushed. Homemade Ship is a small masterpiece. Melberg uses just
a guitar and vocals on Homemade Ship (with occasional harmony vocal and
piano work provided by LARISSA LOYVA of THE CHOIR PRACTICE and P:ANO),
offering helpful and insightfully delicate lyrics to perfectly ease out of
sorrow and into contentment. At the forefront, her voice holds a warmth and
generosity that adds strength and hopefulness to her aching lyrics. Set a
table for two.
RSD
- Good Energy (A Singles Collection) CD (Punch Drunk) [DRUNK001CD]
$12.75
"RSD, perhaps better known as Bristol bass and drum music stalwart
Rob
Smith (one half of respected production duo Smith and Mighty), has been
pushing bass heavy rhythms for more than two decades. He remains firmly
at
the forefront of Bristol's endlessly inventive music scene, with a
staggering discography and a range of projects encompassing dub, jungle,
2-step and dubstep. >From his musical beginnings playing guitar in local
roots reggae band Restriction, Rob's music has always had a strong dub
aesthetic. Forming the now legendary production duo Smith and Mighty with
collaborator Ray Mighty in 1987, the pair's early releases on the Three
Stripe label were influential in laying the groundwork for both the trip
hop and jungle scenes for which Bristol would become renowned. A period
of
chart success and major label involvement in the early nineties was
followed by a return to their underground roots for Smith and Mighty.
During this time Rob also worked with Peter D. Rose to release
groundbreaking music on their More Rockers imprint. Rob Smith also went
on
to collaborate with local roots reggae producers Henry & Louis. This
fruitful relationship culminated in 2001 with the release of the
fantastic
Time Will Tell LP. More recently, Rob Smith has found a new home as RSD,
comfortably adapting to the rolling, sub-heavy rhythms of dubstep. With
releases on internationally respected labels such as Punch Drunk,
Tectonic
and Earwax, RSD's sound is typified by impossibly heavy sound system
testing sub-lines and junglist dub breaks. The irresistible energy of
tunes
such as 2007's infectious junglist roller 'Pretty Bright Lights' and
2008's
speaker destroying dread-fuelled steppers 'Over It' & 'Jah Way' has
rapidly
cemented them as anthems. This Punch Drunk CD collection compiles tracks
from many of the 12"s released in the past two years under the RSD
moniker."
Rui Costa and Friends - Sightseeing For The Blind CD
(1000Fussler) [10625] $16.25
The idea for the piece first came to me in 2005, when I was invited
to
develop a sound project with the city of Lisbon as its theme. I decided
to
wander through the city, making a series of sound recordings using a pair
of binaural microphones. What I concluded from these recordings was that,
more than capturing the sound of the place or its "atmosphere", they
reflected a lot about me: my decisions of where to go, what places to
avoid, how fast to walk, how long to linger in one place... preconceived
ideas of what I wanted to be captured on tape. Later I followed up on
this
idea by introducing an element of "sonic sightseeing". I grabbed a
tourist
guide of Lisbon, walked along the recommended hiking routes and made
recordings with binaural and shotgun microphones. I wrote down my
impressions, states of mind, mental associations and decisions and then
mapped the recorded sounds against these notes, considering them as
"instructions" or "cues" for a sound composition. I suppose that the
experience that tourists get from a city is in great measure determined
by
the randomness of these almost unconscious impressions, of a permanent
mapping out of what they see against their desires, preconceived ideas,
memories, etc. All in all, my intention was to convert this process into
a
method for sound composition using field recordings. (Rui Costa, 2009)
Satyajit Ray - The Masterworks Of Satyajit Ray CD (Navras)
[NRCD1002CD] $17.75
2002 release. "Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) is known to the world as one
of the
greatest filmmakers of all time. He was a man with many facets and was
hailed by the cognoscenti as the 'Last Sentinel of the Bengal
Renaissance'...One of the greatest pleasure Satyajit Ray's films give his
audience is the beautiful music they contain. This has been true from the
very beginning of his career, when he asked classical Indian musicians
Pandit Ravi Shankar (The Apu Trilogy), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (Devi and
Ustad
Vilayat Khan (The Music Room) to compose and perform the music for his
soundtracks. These great maestros always worked within the framework of
Indian classical music, that is, music based upon ragas. However, light
classical and folk songs, as well as folk tunes, were also drawn upon and
provide much intoxicating rhythm and lively orchestration for Ray's
scores.
Pather Panchali is unusually rich in such folk music. On the other hand,
'The Music Room' (Jalsaghar) is all about Indian classical music and
dance;
it is what the proud Zamindar played by Chabi Biswas lives and dies for.
When Ray, the consummate cosmopolitan where any music was concerned, took
to writing his own music for his films, he not only drew from the riches
of
Indian classical and vernacular music, of which he was a connoisseur, but
from the Western musical tradition as well.. No other film composer in
India ever quite attained his effects, or gave us film music so
satisfying
to the Western ear."
Simon Whetham - D/R CD (1000Fussler) [10624] $20.50
'October 2008, I join a group of UK based performance artists in
Tallinn,
Estonia, to produce new collaborative works as guests of Non Grata. The
project, Co-LAB'08, is organised and run by Orion Maxted and protopPLAY.
The theme of the project is ?Deconstruction/Reconstruction', appropriate
as
this reflects my composing using field recordings. The first performances
are solo, showcasing existing work. I spend two days recording and
composing in Tallinn, performing a 30 minute sound piece for the group.
The
second performance has barely begun when the power is cut and a hole is
smashed in the wall of the performance space with a sledgehammer. The
third
performance is a group reaction to this, starting loud and intense,
gradually becoming calm and peaceful. Throughout the fourth performance,
individuals reacted to artists actions during the previous performance.
My
subject, Yoko Ishiguro, carried out the following: smoking, cooking,
washing her hair, eating a banana, attempting all simultaneously. (Simon
Whetham, 2009) 100 copies
Spiracle - Ananta 2CD (Helen Scarsdale Agency) [HMS017CD]
$15.25
"Hitoshi Kojo (aka Spiracle) professes to have some difficulties in
falling
asleep. When sleep comes to him, it can often arrive at dawn, when the
colors of the sun begin to break through the darkness of night and when
some are just rising after their own good night's sleep. Ananta is a twin
set of compositions that urge the listener toward a dreamless
sleep-state,
while reflecting the glowing warmth of a blossoming sunrise. In
constructing the two variations of Ananta, Kojo began with finely tuned
drones extracted from a Dilruba and a Sarangi, and applied a process of
merging sympathetic field recordings and other tonal interferences
alongside those instrumental sounds. The resulting pieces are
elliptically
static drone compositions that brightly shimmer with hues of gold,
crimson,
and aquamarine. One of the two variations of Ananta was published back in
2006 as a micro-edition CDR through Mystery Sea. In composing the Mystery
Sea version, Kojo purposefully eschewed the representational sounds of
the
'Night Ocean Drones' espoused by the label, opting for these
aforementioned
concepts. On this piece of tiny churning textures streaming along a
linear
path, Kojo's piece nearly achieves infinity, which happens to be the
translation from Sanskrit of "Ananta." While other works from Kojo enjoy
the darkly elegant arches found in select recordings from Organum and
Lawrence English, the Mystery Sea Version of Ananta fits more of the
tradition of the Roland Kayn, Yoshi Wada, and Charlemagne Palestine in
constructing pieces which require endurance, lest you succumb to Kojo's
audio hypnosis. The Strato Version of Ananta is a previously unreleased
composition, that bends and undulates around a fundamental drone, all the
while still maintaining the sun-flecked glints magnified in the Mystery
Sea
version."
Starless & Bible Black - Shape Of The Shape CD (Static
Caravan) [VAN192CD] $16.00
RELEASE DATE: 10-12-2009
Female voice, guitars, synths and rhythm section meld to make dark
folk
rock with hooks and melodies. Moving on from their well-received
eponymous
debut, Starless & Bible Black have drawn together the sounds of '70s
Topanga Canyon country-rock, '80s Mancunian jangle, and space-age
psychedelic drones to make this dynamic, warm and woodsy second album.
Gone
are the dulcimers and banjos of the first record, replaced by an
electrifying wall of Telecaster and Moog, and standing in the centre of
this bold, widescreen sound resides the earthy and husky voice of Hélène
Gautier. Recorded at Bryn Derwen within the wilds of the Snowdonian
mountains, and during all night sessions in the relative tranquillity of
their local village hall, Shape Of The Shape is an album of contrasting
styles, themes and approaches that coheres beautifully into a seamless
entity. We get guided through verses and choruses of swamp rock, gothic
bluesy chanson and smoky acoustic ballads, as well as a jazz-folk tinged
instrumental—after all the band take their name from the classic 1965
Stan Tracey cut—but the apogee of this collection is the driving
drone-choral opus, Les Furies - sung in French, this is a very Gallic
observation of after hours culture. And while this album traverses all
these different styles, the band never deny the importance of a fine tune
and a fine song. Starless & Bible Black were formed in Manchester in 2005
when Hélène Gautier, guitarist Peter Philipson and synth man Raz Ullah
started performing live together and they were soon joined by Paul
Blakesley on double bass and Brian Edwards on drums. Drum duties on
recent
recordings were performed courtesy of Karl Penney, another friend of the
band. Their first record was released in 2006 to unanimous critical
acclaim
most notably from Pitchfork, Wire, CMJ and The New York Times and a
seven-inch single Up With The Orcadian Tide was pressed up in summer
2007.
Live shows have included playing alongside Vetiver, James Yorkston,
Espers
and The Earlies as well as performing at the Green Man and Moseley Folk
Festivals. What they said about the first album--. "Starless & Bible
Black
perform each of their stylistic shifts with an effortless agility,
resulting in a collection that captivates primarily through its graceful,
almost nonchalant simplicity----idiosyncratic electronic drones, tape
loops, and samples supply these songs with a crucial undercurrent of
drama
and dissonance" Pitchfork "they accomplish all this with a firm
perception
of their own powers, drawing on such varied sources without succumbing to
self conscious classicism, and stamping their own personality on their
material" Wire Magazine "reminds us of darker chanteuses such as Nico or
Marianne Faithfull" Amazon
Stellari String Quartet - Gocce Stellari CD (Emanem)
[EMANEM5006CD] $17.75
Philipp Wachsmann (violin), Charlotte Hug (viola), Marcio Mattos
(cello),
John Edwards (double bass). "If there were stars in the world of free
improvisation, then the members of this quartet would surely be among
them
-- four very distinctive and fluent musicians, who also have the talent
to
work together to produce a fifth distinctive and fluent entity, namely an
improvising string quartet. The whole of their performance at the 2007
Uncool Festival in Switzerland is included, as well as some studio
recordings made near London the previous year. These unamplified
performances prove that here is still plenty of life in the violin
family.
69 minutes."
Steve Roach - Destination Beyond CD (Projekt) [10626]
$14.50
Blending the two core aspects of his work, Steve ramps up for the
fall of
2009 with the stunningly expansive Destination Beyond. This all-new
release
combines immersive atmospheric harmonic zones (like those recently
experienced on Dynamic Stillness) into the setting of spiraling patterns
and hypnotic rhythms (similar to those found on Arc Of Passion).
Perfectly
blending these two sonic qualities over the course of the continuous
71-minute piece, the flowing soundscapes on Destination Beyond propel the
mood to a mesmerizing state which is unique from any of Steve's pure
rhythmless immersive work while achieving a similar sensation that works
perfectly in repeat playback mode.
Destination Beyond pushes electronic music to its highest level, living and breathing in the immediacy in which it was created. The album flows along an organic continuum. Clocked, synced and performed in unison within Steve's desert studio, it showcases his mastery of a life-long devotion to hands-on performance. Utilizing real analog synthesizers with knobs and sliders, a mixing console and real-time processing as an additional instrument results in soundscapes infused with a pure natural flow. It is an artisan approach to sound that is quite rare in today's cut and paste approach to electronic music.
Within an impressive body of work that spans nearly 30 years, certain stylistic forms evolve and reappear as significant signposts, as touchstones for both the listener and the artist. This release clearly draws from the heart and soul of Steve's sonic vision.
Destination Beyond is infused with breaths of life and forward momentum which draws the listener into a serene sense of physical and mental travel. The sound ebbs and flows in constant movement; the meditation of emotion in the music is a yearning for what is over the next rise. As Steve explains in the liner notes, "When the Destination Beyond calls the heart must go... The magnetic pull and drive towards the point on the horizon, towards the Destination Beyond. Never reaching this point - but always seeing it just ahead - remains a constant theme and impetus in my life."
This piece was recorded in Steve's new desert
studio, not far from where the cover image was taken.
Stripmall Architecture - We Were Flying Kites 2CD (Stripmall
Architecture) [SMA4] $12.25
RELEASE DATE: 09-28-2009
Last we checked in with Rebecca and Ryan Coseboom they had released
albums
under their R/R Coseboom project in 2007 as well as put their Halou
project
(with Count) to rest via a posthumous self titled album in 2008. Now the
couple have created the new umbrella project Stripmall Architecture.
Their
debut album "We were Flying Kites" finds the duo enlisting help from
Patrick Harte (the Rosemarys), Tim Hingston (Niles Lannon) , Roberto
Burgos
(Sweet Trip), and Erica Mulkey (unwoman) to create something far more
organic, affecting and more refreshingly more rough edged than their
previous efforts. The album which really could be seen more as a indie
guitar album than the duo's previous efforts but We Were Flying Kites has
an undercurrent of sheen and opacity that fans of their previous work
will
recognize and find comfort in. This limited 2 CD set also features a
bonus
CD "Object 3" which features alternative versions, outtakes and remixes
from Near The Parenthesis and Bitcrush.
Sufjan Stevens/Osso - Run Rabbit Run CD (Asthmatic Kitty)
[AKR049CD] $13.50
"In 2001, Sufjan Stevens followed up his debut album, A Sun Came,
with
Enjoy Your Rabbit, a series of fourteen instrumentals programmatically
inspired by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Much later, in 2006, Bryce
Dessner (The National, Dark Was the Night compilation, Clogs) suggested
that Sufjan re-arrange the entirety of Enjoy Your Rabbit for Osso, a
string
quartet that had previously contributed strings to Sufjan's Illinois and
My
Brightest Diamond's Bring Me The Workhorse. The result is Run Rabbit
Run."
Supercluster - Waves CD (Cloud Recordings) [CLD012CD]
$13.50
"Supercluster is an Athens super-group featuring members of Pylon,
The
Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, Deerhunter, Casper & The
Cookies, The New Sound of Numbers/Sound Houses, Instruments, Bob Hay &
The
Jolly Beggars, and The Squalls. It has been described as 'Appalachian
Wave'
because of the combination of an eclectic mix of elements - three female
vocalists, upbeat rhythms, violin, cello, mandolin, clarinets, acoustic
guitar, keyboard, and angular electric guitar. Bringing together many
generations of Athens music, they have been developing their sound over
the
last couple of years through consistent practicing and live shows. They
are
going to be doing more shows in support of the album including a show
opening up for the B-52s. This is also one of the last documents of the
guitar skills of Randy Bewley (Pylon), who passed away earlier this year.
Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, a longtime fan of Pylon, stepped in to help
Supercluster in the studio after Randy passed away. Heather McIntosh of
Instruments/Gnarls Barkley/Lil' Wayne also appears on the record and is
playing live with the group now as well."
Sven Weisemann - Xine CD (Wandering) [1STVOYAGE] $21.25
This is the debut full-length release by Berlin's Sven Weisemann on
Wandering, a sub-label of the seminal Mojuba Records. Weisemann's debut
album is a true highlight. After some serious underground club-hits of
Detroit minimal and deep tech house, Xine shows how wide his musical
works
really are, for the first time. After the early steps on labels like
Mojuba, a.r.t.less, Meanwhile, Styrax and Essays, this album marks a new
horizon for the artist, featuring various pieces with layered pianos,
violins and breathtaking atmospheres comparable to the soundtrack of a
film
that hasn't been produced yet. Prepare yourself for a wonderful, harmonic
and timeless musical journey through 20 different soundscapes that brush
on
epic orchestral mood pieces, to modern classical, to piano jazz, and even
lounge music. Housed in deluxe, hand-made packaging.
Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid CD (Fat Possum) [FP1201] $12.00
RELEASE DATE: 09-29-2009
***From 2004 to 2008, JONAS, singer/guitar player for TURBO FRUITS,
was
the guitarist in the late, great BE YOUR OWN PET. The first Turbo Fruits
album came out as a side project in August 2007 on Ecstatic Peace.
Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead CD (Fat Cat) [FAT0077]
$13.25
THE TWILIGHT SAD's much-anticipated follow-up to 2007's Fourteen
Autumns &
Fifteen Winters is a dark and tumultuous listen. Produced by guitarist
ANDY
MCFARLANE with PAUL SAVAGE (of Delgados) at Glasgow's famed Chem 19
studios, Forget The Night Ahead retains the guitar-washed drama of their
previous effort, with an added complexity both sonic and thematic. While
lyrically darker than previous outings, Forget The Night Ahead retains
vocalist JAMES GRAHAM's portentous knack for unsettling lines, forcefully
delivered in his Caledonian burr. Musically, the new record is no less
compelling: Andy MacFarlane's distinctive tremelo'd guitar creates
seismic
shifts between melancholic introspection and explosive release, the
cacophony broadening to accommodate the band's most melodic and yet most
thrillingly discordant moments to date.
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market CD (Warp Records)
[WARP184CD] $15.25
"For more than a decade, Tyondai Braxton has fine-tuned his unique
approach
as 'quite literally' a solo artist. Working by himself on stage and in
the
studio, he employed guitar, voice, looping and delay pedals plus various
found objects to create work that simulates the sound of a large
ensemble.
His live performances are as technically astonishing as they are
sonically
mesmerizing. However, on his Warp Records debut and second full-length
solo
album, Central Market, Braxton takes a radically different course from
the
'orchestrated loops' that had become his trademark: For the first time in
his solo career, he's composed for a real orchestra. The result is an
exhilarating mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation; surprisingly
pastoral moments give way to more clangorous passages that will
immediately
appeal to fans of avant-rock quartet, Battles, of which Braxton is a
member. There are plenty of ominous, unsettling sounds, particularly in
its
later tracks, but the sheer ambition of Central Market gives the album an
uplifting, almost joyful quality. The spirit of the playing and the
inventiveness of the arrangements make the entire experience exciting and
fun, a word Braxton often employs when describing the process of bringing
Central Market to fruition."
Urichipangoon - Sen CD (Okimi) [OKIMI-O14] $16.00
Urichipangoon a band whose second album released last year was
hailed as
the best pop album of the 2000s in Japan and who is also favored by the
band Beirut. This is their first album, which is considered to be their
origin. It is a masterpiece which the band prides itself on. Although the
album was recorded entirely at home, it is a distorted mixture of various
elements such as classical and ethnic music, sampling and live
performance,
computer and analog tapes, fairy tales and hums, contemporary and pop
music, all contributing to a vast and unique world of Urichipangoon.
However, such songs are all friendly to the ear, charming, and not at all
difficult.This album is sure to re-configure the world's conventional
music
ecological system, broaden the form of pop music and invite listeners to
a
utopia they have never known before. It may well be a futuristic folklore
music that crosses its path with the school of free-folk centered around
Animal Collective's label Paw Track. I am now certain that primeval times
and the future are an ouroboros. This music is like carefully digging up
the Mongoloid's layers of history and reading the patterns of its
earthenware. I hope Urichipangoon will solve the mystery of the bronze
vessel. This is wonderful music. -Seiichi Yamamoto (The Boredoms, ROVO)
Various Artists - Music For Mentalists: Unexpected Sounds For
The Connoisseur CD (Psychic Circle) [PC7034CD] $16.00
Perhaps the first question should be why? For what warped reason did
some
misguided record executive think that any of the music contained within
this compilation was worth releasing on a commercial basis? Whose twisted
vision saw these tracks racing up the charts? In fact, who thought that
anybody, apart from those with an equally cracked view of the world,
would
rush to their local record shop to snap up even one of these bizarre
items?
But then again, perhaps it doesn't really matter at all, and we should
just
be grateful that these skewed slices of strangeness were pressed up and
are
still to be found lurking in dark corners of dust-shrouded record racks,
thrift stores and flea markets. Mick Dillingham has devoted many years of
vinyl hunting to unearthing the obscure, the peculiar, and in some cases,
the downright disturbing. Here, Psychic Circle is delighted to present a
selection of his personal favorites. Thrill to a Yiddish version of "Rock
Around The Clock," groove to a song about aliens landing in Northampton,
shimmy to a disco-ball version of Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne," sit
open-mouthed at the late Michael Elphick's deeply worrying paean to
kidnap
and date-rape (it can't be, can it?), weep along with the moving tribute
to
Sefton, the cavalry horse blown up by the IRA. Emotions you never knew
you
had will be brought to the surface. Will it change your life? Probably
not,
but it will bring some unusual and welcome color into it. Please join the
Psychic Circle label in thanking Mr. Dillingham for his tireless
endeavors
in seeking out hidden gems that would otherwise have remained
undiscovered.
Artists include: Max Bygraves, Bali, Il Pirata, Laura Huxley, Linda
Jardim,
Balsara & His Singing Sitars, Reginald Bosanquet, Cadbury's Singers,
David
McCallum, Mickey Katz, Swingin' Thorn, Rusty Goffe, Rosebud, Martin
Harvey,
Al Hirt, Steve Bowley, Rene & Renata, Jim Bowen, Hylda Baker, Xaviera
Hollander, Mavin James, Edd Byrnes, David Carradine, Paul Damian, Paul
Frees, John Collier, Peter Anthony, Joe Loss, Michael Elphick, Tina
Harvey,
Bert Landers, The Barclay Supergroup, and Cathy Berberian.
Various Artists - Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 1 CD (Jahtari)
[JTR001CD] $18.00
"Featuring seven brand new tunes and three new artists, this 10 track
selection catches the very spirit of Jahtarian deepness. Their site
receives an insane amount of hits and downloads and is not only home to
some of the freshest music around (free or not), but also hosts a library
of information on reggae, digital synthesis and computers. And now
they've
decided to get with the physical release program too. Introducing masters
like Julien Neto aka John Frum with his organ-driven, bass-heavy delay
soundscapes. Or the mighty Afrikan Simba himself, who gives a stunning
glimpse of his appearance on the kicking Rootah EP. Or dig Illyah & Ltd.
Candy's new electrifying vocal killah, a fresh version of Disrupt's
'Selassi I Continually,' Pete Muder Tone's infinite Casio-Dub slammer, a
re-worked version of Rootah's 'Holy Mount,' and Blue Vitriol's
NET-classic
'Cryovolcano' in unknown quality. Repesenting low end pressure in all its
forms, from the rootical to the digital, from 8-bit chip sounds to
spacious
techno delay, Jahtarian Dubbers defines new levels of dubness and offers
higher learning for even the most advanced soundsystem students."
Various Artists - Geometry CD (Touchin' Bass) [TB039CD]
$12.75
"It's been a while, since we've heard anything from the Touchin' Bass
camp,
but hopefully this nine track compilation of various artists will make up
for the wait. Starting the compilation, is Berlin-based artist Bogger,
who
runs the Digital Gadget imprint. He also features on the Underscan
Records
compilation series. 'Mineral' is the perfect opening track to set the
mood;
with drawn out tones that insinuate themselves into the environment. An
intense, sustained, melodic piece of brilliance. Portland-based producer
Ben Milstein is up next. He has recorded for labels such as Outside,
Pyramid Transmissions and Satamile. Bitstream have already recorded two
killer EPs for Touchin' Bass. The two brothers from Northampton-shire
have
decided to go their separate ways now, so this compilation will feature
their last two tracks. Two slices of electronic madness in the truest
form.
Back to Ben Milstein again, this time as his other alias Doctor Evil.
'Zissle' is an electro assault, with an arsenal of drums, analogue
sounds,
deep atmospheric synths and bowel bothering bass. Next is another new
artist to appear on Touchin' Bass, but already known in the electro and
IDM
scene - b0t23, part of the Portland family who has been playing at
electro
jams for many years, flying the flag. Track six comes from Alpha 606 and
Sync 24, a debut release for Armando Martinez and Phil Bolland as a duo.
Their track 'Warped Juice' is a great crossover of dark moody electro
with
native Cuban influences and percussive sounds. Dave Paton a.k.a weedjs
returns to the label again with his monster of a track. And to finish off
we have yet another newcomer as mentioned already above, but this time
going under the name of Jeff Pils with his uncompromising Berlin beats."
Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut CD (Constellation) [CST060]
$15.50
At The Cut picks up where North Star Deserter left off, with the
explosive
opening tune "Coward" displaying all the epic soaring thrust this band is
capable of. VIC CHESNUTT debuted this song as part of JEM COHEN's 'film
hallucination' Empires Of Tin when it was performed live with the touring
band at the 2007 Vienna Film Festival. Re-recorded for At The Cut, it
certainly does cut to the chase, as Vic bellows "I am a coward" to
trigger
a massive unison instrumental line, reinforcing the tune's double-edged
opening lyric (and Frank Norris quote) "The courage of the coward-greater
than all others." From this bracing beginning, however, At The Cut
quickly
changes temperature and temperament, settling into what is arguably the
most intimate, pensive and heartbreaking work of Vic Chesnutt's career.
Cowardice, courage, mortality, tenacity, defiance, mourning and memory
are
its themes. Throughout the album, and even on the two tracks that blister
and blast with this rocking band-"Coward" and "Philip Guston"-there is a
lyrical intimacy and directness, a searing raw honesty to Vic's voice and
words, that finds no parallel in his body of work to date.
Volcano Choir - Unmap CD (Jagjaguwar) [JAG156] $13.25
VOLCANO CHOIR is an assembly of Wisconsinites who also serve time in
COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES and BON IVER. The collaboration predates
the meteoric rise of JUSTIN VERNON's Bon Iver, with original songwriting
dating back to the summer of 2005, right around the time the Bees first
toured with Vernon's previous band DEYAMOND EDISON. Unmap ultimately came
together over a weekend in November 2008 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, at
Justin and Nate Vernon's recording studio. And while it is at its heart a
record about the allure of being with people you need and making
something
with them, it is also a document created by musicians with rare gifts
getting together to exorcise their ideas about beauty. This scaffolding
of
loops and off grid tempos for choral style vocals offers a state of
continual surprise, call it unexpectation.
Vom - Primitive Arts CD (At War With False Noise) [ATWAR069]
$12.25
A dark fusion of Siousxie And The Banshees, Killing joke and Ramleh.
A
loud, repetitive racket. Limited quantities available.
White Out (with Spencer Yeh And Carlos Giffoni) - Live at No
Fun CD (No Fun Productions) [NFP48] $12.25
RELEASE DATE: 10-05-2009
Recorded live at No Fun Fest 2008. White Out(Tom Surgal and Lin
Culbertson)
are true pursuers of the mythical everlasting improvisational fire. With
a
style thats both oblique and right to the point Tom's dynamic
poly-rhythmic
percussion and Lin's dynamic electronics and voice are augmented in this
scorching live recording by C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) on violin
and Carlos Giffoni on analog synth. This was their first collaboration
and
is full of amazing interplay that covers a wide spectrum of sound, From
other-world evolving sounds to furious free improvisation to thick
layers
of dense drones, this is a totally bombastic and essential document of
ageless modern improvisation. Limited to 350.
White Out with Jim O'Rourke & Thurston Moore - Senso 2CD
(Ecstatic Peace) [E#96C] $16.50
"White Out are indeed 'white' and, in transcendence of such inherent
nothingness, most definitely 'out'. Linn Culbertson and Tom Surgal met in
the still wild mania of 1986 New York City in front of CBGB during a Big
Black show (Steve Albini's notorious Chicago trio of miscreant
salutation).
They were introduced by ex-Sonic Youth drummer Richard Edson and, after
discovering mutual fascinations with the avant-garde marginalia of no
wave,
free jazz, noise rock etc., began to play music in a secret location on
the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Surgal had been playing drums his entire
life
informed by the majestic energy of Elvin Jones, as well as the primal
insolence of Bradley Field (of Teenage Jesus & The Jerks 'fame'). Linn
had
come out of modern 20th XX composition studies in Madison, Wisconsin. By
the mid-90s, White Out had become one of the more interesting and
increasingly stunning lights on a downtown scene that had grown a keen
and
critical eye on contemporary moves in improvised music. (Early on in this
scheme, Thurston Moore had introduced Tom to no wave guitar legend
Rudolph
Grey and the two men re-established Mr. Grey's incendiary Blue Humans
project, incorporating Thurston on intermittent second guitar, alongside
a
young Alan Licht.) Ecstatic Peace released the first White Out CD Red
Shift
in 1995, and in 2001 released Drunken Little Mass, an amazing recording
with acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and music theoretician (and, at the
time, Sonic Youth member/ secret weapon) Jim O'Rourke. The UK based ATP
(All Tomorrows Parties) label released the China Is Near CD in 2005, also
with O'Rourke and employing the wizardry of William Winant, an acclaimed
percussionist who has worked with John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, and Cecil
Taylor as well as being involved in an infamous trio with Surgal and
Moore,
which rears its head when the demons beckon. Senso is a live recording
from
two shows at the heralded and, sadly shut, Tonic club in NYC December 18,
2004. It was a lovely evening when O'Rourke and Moore, both of whom had
played with White Out, but never together, would set the controls for the
heart of the universe. Each set was its own distinct drama and captured
the
four players in a unified mind meld bringing the audience with them on a
spirit-high journey."
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Alexis Gideon - Video Musics DVD+CD (Sickroom) [SRR055]
$15.25
After his first two releases Welcome Song and Flight of the Liophant,
ALEXIS GIDEON has broadened his already expansive musical vision with the
creation of his genre-busting animated/claymated video opera Video
Musics.
A couple years ago, Gideon discovered that six of his eight
great-grandparents were Hungarian. He soon was researching Hungarian
Mythology and folk tales with a musical video piece in mind. The result
is
the CD+DVD release of Video Musics. Video Musics is a twenty-minute
multimedia video opera based on Hungarian Mythology and Folk Tales. It
consists of six individual songs/videos, each offering its own compact
narrative while interlocking to form a larger whole: a mystical allegory
that draws searing parallels to our own times. The music draws on
influences as wide-ranging as Outkast, Brian Eno, Prince, The Residents,
and Beck. The eerie, childlike animation recalls the work of Pee Wee's
Playhouse, William Kentridge and Stan Brakhage.
Peter Weibel - Rewriter DVD (Microcinema) [MC1002DVD]
$24.25
Subtitled: Early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body)
videos
and (contextual) works, 1964-1975. "This video archive with accompanying
essays traces internationally-renowned media and conceptual artist Peter
Weibel's artistic developments from his beginnings through 1979. Weibel
started out in 1964 as a visual poet, and was soon transferring the
structures of the visual culture from the page to the screen, while still
retaining the model of language as one of perception. Later, he developed
a
critical impulse that turned not only against art but also against
society
and the media itself. This specific development from the page via the
screen to gallery space - all happening as early as the 1960s -
anticipated
many of the trends that were later to be described as conceptual art,
context art, institutional criticism, and intervention. With an
accompanying booklet featuring contributions by Boris Groys, Gnther
Holler-Schuster, Aaron Levy, Osvaldo Romberg, and Christa Steinle."
Tangerine Dream - Dantes Inferno DVD (Membrane) [232691]
$34.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Epsilon Journey DVD (Membrane) [232688]
$34.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Inferno DVD (SNAPPER (UK)) [513] $12.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Live At Coventry Cathedral 1975 DVD (Music
Video Distributors) [86964] $17.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Live At The Tempodrome Berlin DVD
(Membrane) [232687] $34.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Live In America 1992 DVD (Eagle Vision)
[30087] $17.75
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Madcap's Flaming Duty DVD (Membrane)
[232686] $34.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - One Night In Space DVD (Membrane) [232689]
$34.00
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Orange Odyssey DVD (Membrane) [232690]
$34.00
No description available at this time.
Various Artists - Another Tomorrow DVD (Microcinema)
[MC952DVD] $24.25
Subtitled: Young Video Art from the Collection of the Neue Galerie
Graz am
Landesmuseum Joanneum. "This exhibition is an attempt by the Neue Galerie
Graz to provide a key outline of an important segment of its extensive
video collection. The young and very youngest positions in Austrian video
art have been brought together here in an exemplary summation of the work
now being done in the field. The exhibition provides insights into the
mechanisms of image perception today against the backdrop of film. The
separate positions here exhibited speak for themselves by each posing
their
own detailed questions. They are inseparable from the developments of
technological progress and are closely linked to the development of
social
power structures. This has found clear expression in very recent times
through various strategies for dealing with the visual. While the
exhibition Another Tomorrow makes formal reference to both TV (monitor
presentation) and cinema (with projections on a large scale), the
individual positions extend far beyond this limiting framework in being
committed to the post medium condition. The curatorial approach of the
Neue
Galerie explores regional, national and international contemporary art
production by means of exhibitions and symposia. Its program includes
large
thematic group exhibitions (e.g. Kontextkunst, 1993; Pittura Immedia:
Painting from the 1990s in the USA and Europe, 1995; Beyond Art,
1996/97/98; Der anagrammatische Krper, 1999; Im Buchstabenfeld - The
Future
of Literature, 2001; In Search of Balkania, 2002) as well as focused
individual exhibitions, such as Gianni Colombo: Ambienti, a retrospective
of the late artist's work, on display through August 2008. Through a
series
of public programs and symposia, the curatorial program of the Neue
Galerie
has also created a discursive forum for national and international
artists
and critics about contemporary developments in media such as painting,
sculpture, photography, digital media, video and film, object art,
installations and architecture, providing focused positions amidst the
arbitrariness of contemporary art production. Many artists who are today
amongst the stars of the international art scene, such as Pipilotti Rist,
Sylvie Fleury, and Olafur Eliasson, had their first exhibitions at the
Neue
Galerie."
[ H I S T O R I C A L ]
Blurt - Blurt + Singles CD (LTM) [LTM2543] $14.75
RELEASE DATE: 11-02-2009
LTM is pleased to present the first CD release of the first album and
singles by cult band Blurt, the unclassifiable punk-jazz trio led by Ted
Milton.
Formed in Stroud in 1979, Blurt consisted of Ted Milton (sax, vocals), brother Jake Milton (drums) and guitarist Pete Creese. Following a brief period with Factory Records (one side of A Factory Quartet), the group moved on, releasing live album In Berlin and frenetic single The Fish Needs A Bike in 1981. Debut studio album Blurt followed in 1982, together with single The Ruminant Plinth.
Digitally remastered, Blurt + Singles combines all tracks from the Blurt album as well as rare singles My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People, The Fish Needs A Bike, The Ruminant Plinth and White Line Fever. The booklet features revised artwork, archive images and detailed sleevenotes. The CD runs for 79 minutes.
Ted
Milton
and Blurt still perform regularly in both Britain and Europe , and remain
an undervalued national treasure.
Brian Jonestown Massacre, The - This Is Why You Love Me CD (A
Records) [AUK018CD] $9.25
"Originally released on vinyl in 1997 now reissued on A Records,
Anton
Newcombe's own record label. This four track EP is available for the
first
time on CD and on 180 gram vinyl. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a
psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by
guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre
has released numerous albums. BJM has been essential in the development
of
the modern US garage scene, and many L.A. and S.F. musicians got their
start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club."
Brian Jonestown Massacre, The - Love CD (A Records)
[AUK019CD] $9.25
"Originally released on vinyl in 1997 and now reissued on A Records,
Anton
Newcombe's own record label. This six track EP is available for the first
time on CD and on 180 gram vinyl. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a
psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by
guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre
has released numerous albums. BJM has been essential in the development
of
the modern US garage scene, and many L.A. and S.F. musicians got their
start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club."
Chris Robison - Chris Robison And His Many Hand Band CD
(Chapter Music) [CH067CD] $14.75
Chris Robison And His Many Hand Band, released privately in 1973 and
reissued now on CD for the first time, was one of the world's first
records
by an openly gay songwriter. Coming just a few years after the Stonewall
Riots of 1969, Many Hand Band is a dazzling feat of musical daring. But
Chris Robison is not just a pioneering gay musician, he has been an
all-pervasive presence in New York rock from the late-'60s onwards,
having
played with everyone from Elephant's Memory and Steam to Kiss, the New
York
Dolls, John Phillips and Bob Dylan. Not only that, Many Hand Band is a
totally freewheeling and unique album, coalescing all the sensory
overload
of downtown New York City life in the early-'70s. It touches on folk,
psychedelic rock, Latin funk and more, all filtered through Robison's sly
and cheeky personality. There is no "woe is me" self-pity here, just an
uplifting sense of fun and natural self-expression. Recorded almost
totally
by Chris himself late at night in a cut-rate studio, Many Hand Band is
one
of the few remaining undiscovered classics from the period, gay or
otherwise. It's difficult to appreciate now, more than 35 years later,
how
daring and how groundbreaking songs like "Looking For A Boy Tonight" and
"Italian Boy" were upon their release. In the album's comprehensive liner
notes, filled with rare photos and a frank interview with Chris, he talks
of RCA records turning him down because they didn't want another "faggot"
on their roster (aside from Lou Reed and David Bowie). Meanwhile, he
became
a poster boy for the burgeoning gay lib movement, playing Washington
Square
Park with Bette Midler in front of thousands in 1973. Chris would go on
to
play with pre-Kiss group Wicked Lester, as well as join the New York
Dolls
for their Japanese tour of 1975. His later band Stumblebunny toured
Europe
supporting the Hollies and wrote their later hit "Stormy Waters." Bonus
tracks come from a rare single released in 1974 on Buddah Records,
featuring the all-time shoulda-beena classic "I'm Gonna Stay With My Baby
Tonight," subsequently covered by Ronnie Spector and George McCrae. It's
a
wild and fascinating story, but Many Hand Band contains the seeds of it
all
-- all the hedonism, passion and beauty of Chris Robison's life condensed
into one incredible record.
Cluster - Curiosum CD (Bureau B) [BB038CD] $16.00
Originally released on Sky Records in 1981, Bureau B reissues
Cluster's
Curiosum -- the sixth duo collaboration between Dieter Moebius and
Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Curiosum was to mark a departure to pastures new.
Little did they know that this would be their last release for the next
nine years. Curiosum was launched into an atmosphere of musical
turbulence.
Electronic sounds had become commonplace in pop music and the voice of
Cluster could barely be heard through the noise of a new generation of
music. Curiosum is a decidedly tranquil, almost melancholy album -- quiet
being the operative word, as Cluster slipped out of the limelight. It was
recorded in rudimentary fashion in Austria, now home to Roedelius. This
is
Cluster music at its most serene, a sense of profound humility running
through the seven tracks of the LP. It says a lot about the state of mind
of the two musicians, allied to the fact that this was the first time
they
chose to mix outside of Conny Plank's studio where, in the past, the
finishing touches had been applied. Roedelius and Moebius laid their
cards
on the table for all to see, offering up Curiosum as an honest, unadorned
selection of tracks, free of artifice and preconception. The album
represented a return to the virtues of their early work (when Cluster was
written with a "K"), random and spontaneous. Curiosum is nothing if not a
curiosity, wholly resistant to the cacophonous zeitgeist of the early
'80s,
stripped down and keenly focused on perfect shapes. This is Cluster's
swan-song to the past.
Cluster - Sowiesoso CD (Bureau B) [BB039CD] $14.00
Bureau B reissues the fourth full-length album by legendary German
electronic music duo, Cluster -- originally released on Sky Records in
1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album,
Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the
latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under the
name
of Harmonia. 1976 saw the duo looking for new musical forms. More than
any
other Cluster album, Sowiesoso represents the utopian vision of
Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Mobius, its mellow transparency evoking
the landscape of the Weser Uplands where the two musicians lived at the
time. Sowiesoso is not the work of fanatic dreamers who have fled the
metropolis, but the reward for their tenacious search for a new musical
language. The LP's seven cuts were recorded in their own studio with
modest
equipment -- a four-track tape machine, two Revox A77 stereo tape-decks
and
a simple 8-channel mixer. Cluster were thus completely independent, able
to
work where and when they wanted, at their own pace. With no guest
musicians, sound engineers or producers to accommodate, Cluster thrived
on
their new-found autonomous freedom. Sowiesoso captures them at the peak
of
their creative development, with the limited range of recording equipment
enhancing the clarity of their vision, allowing them to concentrate on
the
music without drifting into narcissistic muso territory. Minimalist, yet
neither formulaic nor automated, the album is a rhythmic tapestry of
otherworldly electronic and acoustic elements -- relaxed, organic and
gentle ambience. This could only be Cluster music; its harmonies reaffirm
the quality of song, in spite of eluding song structure as such.
Eddie Hinton - Very Extremely Dangerous CD (Reel Music)
[REEL78016] $15.25
EDDIE HINTON is the stuff of which music legends are made. A prolific
session guitarist and part of the Muscle Shoals Swampers, he played on
countless hit records, including those from soul legends Percy Sledge,
Wilson Pickett and Joe Tex along with artists as varied as Boz Scaggs,
Herbie Mann and The Staple Singers. As a writer he scored major hits with
"Choo Choo Train" by The Box Tops and "Breakfast In Bed," first a hit for
Dusty Springfield and later covered by reggae band UB40. This, his first
solo album, was originally released in 1978 and recorded at Muscle Shoals
Sound with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and legendary producer Barry
Beckett at the helm. It has been remastered in 24 bit and features a
16-page color booklet with essays from John D. Wyker and Peter Thompson,
along with a personal contribution from David Hood.
Gods Gift - Pathology: Manchester 1979-84 CD (Messthetics)
[MSS218CD] $12.00
"From 1979 to 1984 other bands on the Manchester scene played larger
roles,
but sooner or later almost everyone who was there mentions Gods Gift --
in
tones of awe or amazement. Here's where the rest of the world finds out
what all the racket was about. The early Manchester scene was anchored by
The Fall, Joy Division, a few straightahead punks, and the more
idiosyncratic denizens of the Manchester Musicians Collective. And Gods
Gift out-did them all -- in diffidence, darkness, pure feral energy and
gleeful musical anarchy. Their successes were epic, but their failures,
too, left indelible impressions. Guitarist Steve Murphy: 'If things were
going wrong, we'd make them go more wrong...' Singer Steven Edwards once
shouted out to a baffled London crowd, 'Wotcha dancing for? -- it's
tuneless, you pillock!' This was no pose. As much as can be said of any
band in rock history, Gods Gift were the product of their day jobs:
Murphy,
Edwards, and at least five others who played in GG all worked 'inside' at
Prestwich Asylum -- then the largest psychiatric hospital in the U.K. The
hospital's grayness, hopelessness, and constant menace permeated not just
GG's tunes and lyrics, but their very stage-presence -- Edwards in
work-clothes, and Murphy playing (always!) with his back turned to some
of
the U.K.'s least cuddly audiences. GG recorded a fight onstage and used
it
in place of lyrics for their self-released first 45, 'People.' Gods Gift
found a champion in New Hormones' owner, Richard Boon, who booked the
band
and put out the 12" Gods Gift EP and their landmark 'Discipline' single,
but unfortunately, as New Hormones' finances crumbled, Boon's favorite
track, 'Clamour Club,' remained unreleased. Messthetics' 17-song CD,
Pathology, spans GG's career from 1979 to 1984, drawing material from
their
records, a Manchester Musicians Collective compilation, several demos and
two full-length cassette albums. 12-page booklet with photos and
extensive
bio; 75 minutes of pounding, insistent, magnificent noise."
Isolation Ward - Point Final CD (LTM) [LTM2545] $14.75
RELEASE DATE: 11-17-2009
LTM is pleased to present the first CD release by cult Belgian cold
wave
band Isolation Ward, featuring classic song Lamina Christus.
Formed in Brussels in 1979, Isolation Ward centred around musicians Stéphane Willocq and Jean-Pierre Everaerts. Following gigs at venues such as Plan K, the sextet recorded haunting classic Lamina Christus as their first single, produced by Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon, and released by Les Disques du Crépuscule in April 1982. Following live dates with diverse artists including The Birthday Party, Antena, 23 Skidoo and Siouxsie and the Banshees, the band released their second Crépuscule single Absent Heart a year later. However line-up changes always troubled the band, and Isolation Ward played their final gig in May 1983.
Point Final features all
tracks from the Crépuscule singles as well as tracks from the cassette
album Point de Départ. The booklet features archive images and detailed
sleevenotes. The CD runs for 71 minutes.
Jimi Hendrix & The Cry Of Love Band - Enjoy Jimi Hendrix 2CD
(Audio Archive) [AA6928CD] $21.50
"Live at the Los Angeles Inglewood Forum, April 25th, 1970. 2 CD
paper
gatefold set. Originally on the legendary Rubber Dubber label. Original
'70s album artwork. Numbered edition limited to 1000 copies only.
Licensed
from the estate of Hendrix's former manager, Michael Jeffery." Track
listing: CD1: 01. Introduction 2:04 02. Spanish Castle Magic 4:19 03.
Foxy
Lady 4:22 04. Getting His Brother's Shoes Together (Here Comes Your Lover
Man) 5:00 05. Getting My Heart Back Together Again (Hear My Train A'
Comin') 10:00 06. Message To Love 5:18 07. Ezy Rider 4:40 08. Machine Gun
10:14 CD2: 01. Room Full Of Mirrors / 3:52 02. Hey Baby (The Land Of The
New Rising Sun) / 4:53 03. Villanova Junction / Drum Solo / 6:40 04.
Freedom 5:54 05. Star Spangled Banner / 3:03 06. Purple Haze 6:33 07.
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 9:07
Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - Restless Faithful
Desperate/Moonlight 2CD (Chapter Music) [CH065CD] $16.00
Restless Faithful Desperate/Moonlight is the second of Chapter
Music's
double disc reissues by extraordinary early-'80s folk duo Kath Bloom and
Loren Connors. Meeting in 1976 in their hometown of New Haven, CT, Kath
Bloom and Loren Connors formed a creative partnership that has haunted
psych-folk fans ever since, releasing six albums of fragile, avant-garde
folk-blues in miniscule quantities, all of which now change hands for
huge
sums. At first, Kath would act out monologues while Loren played his
free-form guitar, extrapolated from Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues,
but gradually he and Kath's performances became more song-based. Kath
began
practicing guitar among the headstones of New Haven's Grove Street
cemetery, while Loren's idiosyncratic style had been developing since the
1960s. After self-releasing two limited edition live albums, the duo
recorded Sing The Children Over for tiny Boston label Ambiguous Records
in
1982, and then in 1983, self-released fourth album Sand In My Shoe. Early
on, their albums mixed traditional folk and blues songs with a handful of
Kath's vulnerable, moving originals. But by the later albums, the songs
were all Kath's -- her fragile voice and subdued finger-picked guitar set
against Loren's abstract playing: skittering, sometimes atonal but always
intuitively supportive. Together the duo created a sound almost
impossibly
emotional and haunting, unlike anything created before or since. Their
last
two albums Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight both emerged in
1984,
in editions of 200-300 copies on Loren's St. Joan label. As her
creativity
accelerated, so Kath's songs became looser, more intuitive, with a
darkening of tone and an eventual abandonment of intent to shape the
music.
The songs were still there, however -- Restless... contains one of her
most
gorgeous compositions, "Look At Me," while Moonlight includes an early
version of Kath's signature tune "Come Here." After a quarter of a
century,
Kath Bloom and Loren Connors' incredible recordings are finally available
again. The reissue includes extensive liner notes, original photos and
artwork, and six bonus tracks taken from a rare 1982 compilation and an
unreleased 1984 live session.
Larry Conklin & Jochen Blum - Jackdaw CD (Riverman Music)
[BTR025CD] $16.00
This is the first-ever CD reissue of Larry Conklin & Jochen Blum's
great
Seattle private press album, Jackdaw, originally released in 1980, now
remastered in a 24-bit remaster. About half the album is instrumental
with
Larry Conklin on guitar and Jochen Blum on violin and 12-string guitar.
Jackdaw brings to mind Fahey, Basho, Hecht, and other great solo
guitarists, with mellow, haunting vocals that are worthy of the
loner-folk
tag. This album also spawned the regional Pacific Northwest hit "River Of
Stories." If you're on a mission to find lost, masterful acoustic guitar
records, this is definitely one you must hear. Comes in a handsome paper
sleeve that precisely reproduces the original LP sleeve in miniature
form.
Also includes biographical liner notes.
Los Yetis - Nadaismo A Go-go CD (Munster) [MRCD289]
$20.50
A compilation of the wildest moments of the best 1960 garage-pop #and
from
Columbia. Twenty-one Nadaist (revolutionary pre-punk movement) tracks
about
war, revolution and girls. In 1966, a certain go-go fever takes over
Medellin. The name of the virus: LOS YETIS. The city, one of the most
conservative in Columbia, started to feel the shakes in its foundations
as
thousands of teenagers danced to the new sound, willing to distance
themselves from the tango and bolero favored by their parents. Los Yetis
would become the new idols of thousands of teenagers infected by the
go-go
craze that The Beatles had originated a few years earlier. Los Yetis
combined covers of international hits with their own songs, which, even
if
a little tame, had a wild spirit and lyrics with attitude set to beat,
surf
and garage rhythms. 180-gram double-vinyl pressing limited to 1,000
copies.
Moebius Plank Neumeier - Zero Set CD (Bureau B) [BB037CD]
$16.00
In 1983, Dieter Moebius (Cluster) and legendary producer Conny Plank
teamed
up for the third time, resulting in the Zero Set project, originally
released on Sky Records. On this occasion, they were backed up by one of
the best drummers on the German rock scene: Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru.
Moebius had gotten to know and admire him as the live drummer for
Harmonia
(Moebius, Roedelius, Rother) and during the recording sessions for their
second album (Deluxe). Plank, usually more of a background figure as
producer, takes an equal share of the limelight alongside the musicians.
His supermodern studio is brought into play like an instrument in its own
right; Plank explores the full range of audio editing, pushing recording
techniques to the limit to achieve maximum brilliance and plasticity.
Neumeier uses all of his many years of experience as a drummer,
demonstrating the precision and stamina of a drum machine, just
infinitely
livelier and more inventive. And finally, to Moebius: always one of the
patriarchs of German electronic music, a creator of the most bizarre
sound
happenings, yet never sounding forced or arbitrary. On the contrary, he
consistently worked within the context of the tracks themselves and their
relationship to each other. The music on Zero Set flows both smoothly and
energetically. No single idea is overplayed, and none of the tracks hits
the 10-minute mark. Aural and musical structures are concentrated to the
point of askesis, yet there is no mistaking just how much the musicians
are
relishing playing together -- these are the two very different, yet
defining characteristics of the album. The trio is unsentimental in their
use of technology, exploiting it as an effective tool in pursuit of their
musical vision. Moebius Plank Neumeir are three musicians at the top of
their game and far too smart to allow their efforts to drift into
psychedelic meanderings. Infectious, tribal motorik rhythms chunder along
to dark synth squelches and squeals, that all feels exquisitely-placed
with
factory-precision. An important and mystifying chapter in the legacy of
Krautrock/Kosmische Musik and a historic moment in German electronic
music.
"Recall" features Sudanese vocals by Deuka.
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Volume Two -- Echos
Hypnotiques CD (Analog Africa) [AACD066CD] $20.50
Subtitled: From The Vaults Of Albarika Store 1969-1979. Four years in
the
making, Analog Africa finally presents the highly-anticipated second
volume
of music from Africa's funkiest band, the mythical Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
de
Cotonou. Volume One (The Vodoun Effect: Funk & Sato from Benin's Obscure
Labels, 1973-1975), released by Analog Africa at the end of 2008, was a
collection of amazing lo-fi recordings produced for various labels around
Benin. Volume Two showcases superbly recorded tracks, courtesy of the EMI
studios in Lagos, Nigeria, one of the best studios in the region. All
tracks here were recorded for the mighty Albarika Store label and its
enigmatic producer, Adissa Seidou. The idea for this compilation was born
five years ago when Samy Ben Redjeb, Analog Africa's founder and
compiler,
first heard the addictive funk track "Malin Kpon O" (included here),
which
was originally released in 1975 on Albarika Store. That discovery
triggered
the compiler's curiosity and what followed was a long journey through the
musical history of Benin and the history of its most important
ambassador,
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou. The result: approximately 100 pictures,
120 master tapes, 20 hours of interviews and a few hundred Orchestre
Poly-Rythmo vinyl records -- 500 songs in total -- some of which
previously
unreleased. Almost half of those tracks were recorded for Benin's number
one label -- Albarika Store. Fifteen out of 200 tracks were carefully
selected for this compilation which comes with a massive 44-page booklet
filled with amazing pictures of the band, a complete discography and a
biography tracing the band from its foundation as Groupe Meloclem in 1964
via Sunny Black's band (1965), Orchestre Poly-Disco (1966), El Ritmo
(1967)
and finally, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou in 1968. During the period
presented here -- 1969 to 1979 -- the mighty Orchestre was without any
doubt one of Africa's most innovative groups. Capable of playing any
style
of music, the band moved from traditional Vodoun rhythms to funk, sato,
Latin, sakpata, psychedelia and Afro-Beat seamlessly and quickly became
the
powerhouse of Benin's music scene. Some of the planet's most exciting
rhythms are related to the complex Vodoun religion born in Benin. Those
rhythms, supported by chants and dances, have been transmitted from
generation to generation and are still being performed to this day, a few
hundred years after they were created. The composers and arrangers of
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo understood that they were surrounded by a gold mine
of inspirational sounds which, if modernized and mixed in with whatever
was
in fashion at that particular moment, could have a strong impact on the
urban population. Those astonishing combinations can be heard here, all
mixed into a heavy hypnotic sound -- Les Echos Hypnotiques.
Paul Rutherford - Tetralogy 2CD (Emanem) [EMANEM5202CD]
$25.25
"A 2-CD set containing four very different settings all featuring
Paul
Rutherford (trombone & euphonium): two festival solos -- one with
electronics from 1981, and the other without from 1978; a 1981 festival
brass quartet with George Lewis (trombone), Martin Mayes (French horn) &
Melvyn Poore (tuba); and a 1982 studio trio with Paul Rogers (double
bass)
& Nigel Morris (drum set). The electronically enhanced solo and the brass
quartet are unlike anything else in Rutherford's discography. All
previously unissued. 141 minutes."
RFD, The - Lead Me Home CD (Riverman Music) [BTR018CD]
$16.00
This is the first-ever authorized reissue of this 1971 Christian
classic,
now remastered in a 24-bit remaster. Housed in an exact reproduction
paper
sleeve. Pretty intensely amazing songs of devotion couched in lazy,
laid-back, skillfully-crafted pop/country/psych tuneage, chock full of
harmonies and vibes so mellow, you won't know whether they're singing
about
God or really good weed. "The RFD stands for Russ, Fred, and Dan and
here's
the deal -- these guys (and girl) put out a record in 1971 that went onto
become universally-hailed by the thousand or so people in the world with
an
opinion on the matter as one of the five or ten best Christian records of
all time. Now if you're like me, the initial thought of good Christian
music seems like more than a joke than anything else. But then you hear
artists like The Search Party or Marj Snyder or The RFD and you realize
that these people are the real deal. Good Jesus music doesn't preach or
even really announce itself as Christian music, at all. You have to
listen
real close to hear a message, and if you do hear it, you're free to
ignore
it and go on with your sinful existence. Good Christian, or Xian as we
call
it in the record biz, is good music whether you get it or not, no matter
what you may believe. It usually has a beauty and a purity you can hear
in
secular records like Linda Perhacs or Wendy and Bonnie. But usually, as
with these albums, there's also a darkness there, lingering and undenied,
feeding the music with added complexity and gravity. This isn't
glassy-eyed
Jesus freak music, and the best records are by real people living real
lives full of pain as well as joy and love. I won't lie and say it's
anywhere as rich as the secular field, but there are some gems to be
found
and The RFD most definitely are one of them. --Douglas McGowan, Yoga
Records
Seventh Dawn, The - Dreams CD (Riverman Music) [BTR030CD]
$16.00
This is the first-ever CD release of The Seventh Dawn's Dreams,
originally
released in 1977, the follow-up to Sunrise, their 1976 debut. Now
remastered in a 24-bit remaster, including six bonus tracks. Seventh Dawn
recorded their second album at the Virginia Commonwealth University's
electronic music department. It has a more ambitious, emotionally-driven
energy that unexpectedly bursts forth on the first two tracks. Moody
amplified guitars, bits of reverb on the vocals and second guitars, the
male, female and dual vocals, the keyboard arrangements, and the minimal
use of drums. The conceptualized, fragile creativity brings to mind the
Ithaca album, and the beautiful analog, sometimes mellotron-like
synthesizer arrangements recall Emtidi's Saat. The songs on Dreams move
beyond the innocence of Sunrise, but a sense of optimism remains. Housed
in
a paper gatefold sleeve, including lyrics, original cover artwork insert,
and liner notes written by member Heff Munson.
Three Mile Pilot - 1991-1999 Box Set CD Box (Three Mile
Pilot) [CDTHREE1991] $23.75
THREE MILE PILOT unleash a six-CD collection of their entire
studio-recorded output 1991-1999. You get it all-Disc 1: Na Vucca Du
Lupu,
Disc 2: Chief Assassin to the Sinister, Disc 3: Another Desert Another
Sea,
Disc 4: Gravity EP, Disc 5: An Old Town We Once Knew- Part A, Disc 6: An
Old Town We Once Knew- Part B. These box sets were handmade by the band
(but the discs themselves are quality CDs, not CDRs), include a sticker,
and a sheet with the full track listing. Limited to 1,000 copies.
Tormentors, The - Hanging 'Round CD (Gear Fab) [GF240CD]
$12.25
"A truly experimental psych/rock/pop album from 1967. Featuring some
very
good garage, psych, and British Invasion sounds. Fuzzed out guitar, great
vocal harmonies, and some really bizarre background sounds."
Various Artists - Psych Funk 101 (1968-1975) CD (World
Psychedelic Funk Classics) [WPFC101CD] $15.25
"Funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from '60s and '70s Nigeria, Iran,
Turkey,
Russia, South Korean and other exotic countries. Psych Funk 101
introduces
students to the global phenomenon of psychedelic funk music, and covers
the
'golden years' of the movement, from approximately 1967 until 1980. This
compilation does not focus on American and British bands. Rather it
focuses
on the bands throughout the Global Village that were influenced by the
innovation of American and British bands -- that many times one upped the
heroes they sought to emulate. This compilation focuses on bands
influenced
by James Brown, The Meters, Sly and The Family Stone, Booker T and The
MGs
and The Bar Kays and unsung rhythmic forces such as drummers Bernard
Purdie, Idris Muhammad, Earl Palmer, bassists such Carol Kaye and Jimmy
Lewis. It focuses on bands who took that energy and combined it with the
flair of psychedelic-rock musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and the ensemble
known as Cream -- as well as pop-rock acts taken by the experimental side
of psychedelia such as The Beatles. But these bands added their own,
unique
cultural flourishes. The result is mind-bending. Think about it for a
second -- what musical forces were greater than that of funk and
psychedelic music in the late '60s and early '70s? These forces, combined
by bands happy to incorporate folk music and improvisational elements
from
other musical forms, lead to an amazing body of work still being
unearthed
by researchers the world over -- and still capable of inspiring new
investigations into shapes of rhythm." Artists include: Husnu Ozkartal
Orkestrasi, Kukumbas, Mulatu Astatke feat. Belaynesh Wubante And
Assegedetch Asfaw, Kim Sun, Petalouda, Mehr Pooya, Staff Carpenborg And
The
Electric Corona, The Group, Armando Sciascia, Wadih Essafi, Omar
Khorshid,
Metin H. Alatli, George Garanian With The Melodiya Jazz Ensemble and
Eskaton. Deluxe digipack with fully annotated 36-page booklet with liner
notes and rare photos.
Various Artists - Freedom, Rhythm And Sound: Revolutionary
Jazz 1965-80 CD (Soul Jazz Records) [SJR219CD] $17.75
"This album coincides with the release of the massive 200 page plus
hardback deluxe book, Freedom, Rhythm and Sound, Revolutionary Jazz
original cover art compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, released
on Soul Jazz Records featuring the cover artwork of many seminal
revolutionary jazz albums created between 1965-80. Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s loom large as
self-determination, economic power and musical freedom led to
revolutionary
jazz artists finding new paths -- both musical and economic. Concurrent
with the emergence of the counter culture and underground rock movement
in
the 1960s and years before the D-I-Y cultural revolution of punk in the
1970s, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Ornette
Coleman,
the Art Ensemble of Chicago and others 'took control' of their own work
by
recording, releasing and distributing their own music themselves. This
album that is released alongside the book features many of the major
artists who make up the book as well as many hidden gems of records made
on
very small run cottage-industry jazz labels from this period -- the
original DIY records! The album comes with extensive sleevenotes and
photos
and comes in luxurious two volumes of double vinyl."
Various Artists - Gozalo Vol. 3 CD (Vampisoul) [VAMPI113]
$20.75
Vampisoul presents the third volume in the Gozalo series of tropical
Peruvian music of the 1960s. Like the previous two volumes, this album
captures a little known but dynamic moment in Peru's musical development
that allowed the consolidation of new trends oriented towards what would
become known by the early '70s as salsa, as well as forging a vibrant
scene
that incorporated cumbia, latin soul, rock, and jazz funk. 180-gram
double
vinyl pressing in an edition of 1,000 copies.
Z'ev - The Subterranean Years 2CD (Klanggalerie) [10622]
$18.75
'We are proud to bring you a re-release of Z'ev's two albums on
Subterranean Records. "Elemental Music" was originally released in 1982
and
contains a live recording from the Savoy Tivoli, Los Angeles, 1981. "My
favourite Things" came out in 1985, but the material is partially much
older: ranging from 1979 to 1983, it collects a variety of early music by
Z'ev. Both records have never been re-issued on digital format before and
document some of Z'ev's best music from the golden age of Industrial. CD
in
a limited edition of 300 copies.
This week's VINYL update contains releases by:
[ F E A T U R E
D R E L E A S E S ]
:Take:/White/Lichens * Adam Port feat. Gigi * Af Ursin *
Akira Kiteshi * Alo Girl * Andre Popp and His Orchestra *
Anti-Pop Consortium * Asobi Seksu * Atlas Sound * Badfinger *
Basic Soul Unit/Lerosa * Bear in Heaven * Berkson & What *
Black Heart Procession, The * Black To Comm * Boris * Brian
Jonestown Massacre, The * Bubblez * Califone * Celer * Claro
Intelecto * Cloaks/Oyaarss * Cluster * Cold Cave *
Coleco/Shamaji feat. Maggie Horn * Curse Ov Dialect *
D1/Rusko * Dan Melchior and the Broke Revue * DJ T. * Dominik
Eulberg * Efdemin/crc * El-G * Embassadors, The * Emeralds *
Excepter * Falko Brocksieper * Felipe Venegas & Francisco
Allendes * Fink * F*** Buttons * Fugazi * Fun Years, The/.Cut
featuring Gibet * Gil Scott-Heron * Gil Scott-heron * Gil
Scott-Heron * Gong * Haters * Heavy, The * Horns of
Happiness, The * Hudson Mohawke * Hyetal * Indigo * Jagged *
Jaybird * John's Children * Kevin Ayers * KMA *
Korablove * Kryptic Minds * Lauhaus * Loco Dice * Los
Yetis * Low Red Center * Luciano * Markus Homm * Marlow *
Mendo * MF Doom * Michele Lombardelli * Midaircondo * Moebius
Plank Neumeier * Mountainhood * Music Go Music * Muslimgauze
* Mutant Ape * Nation of Ulysses * Neon Indian * Onde *
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou * Ost & Kjex (feat. Mung) * Panther
* Philogresz * Quest * Raincoats, The * Raydios * Reggae
Interpretation Of * Relocate * Rigas Den Andre * Roska *
Rossi B & Luca/El-B * RSD/Evergreen & Landlord * Salem *
Samara Lubelski * Seuil * Shinedoe * Shortstuff * Skatalites,
The * Skream * SSHE Retina * Steve Gurley * Stimming *
STL * Sufjan Stevens/Osso * Sully * Synkro * Synkro Faib &
Indigo * Synkro/Indigo * T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo * Tangerine
Dream * Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene * Timo van Luijk/Kris
Vanderstraeten * Tom Carter/Shawn McMillen/Starving Weirdos *
Tyondai Braxton * Unknown * Vanity Fare * Will Saul & Tam
Cooper * Yardbirds, The * Young Fresh Fellows * Zolex & Guss
Carver
Muslimgauze - Uzi Mahmood 3xLP (Soleilmoon) [10621] $39.50
RELEASE DATE: 10-19-2009
Bryn Jones died January 14, 1999. The man best known as Muslimgauze was
37
years old, and at the peak of his career. During his short life he recorded
an astonishing number of albums, some 200 at last count, a great many of
them in years immediately preceding his death. Indeed, his output was so
great that his labels couldn't keep up with the virtual flood of music he
produced. It's no wonder new material continues to surface so long after
his passing. "Uzi Mahmood" was recorded to satisfy a specific request.
Soleilmoon wanted a 12 inch single that DJs could play in nightclubs. The
idea was to introduce Muslimgauze to a potentially enormous new audience.
The request was made in the autumn of 1999, in a phone call lasting less
than five minutes; Bryn was never one for small talk. He was all business,
and he could record a complete album in three or four days, sometimes
faster. Two weeks after agreeing to record a disco album for Soleilmoon,
"Uzi Mahmood" was delivered to the label. But instead of the agreed on two
or three tracks, he sent an eleven song compact disc, followed a week later
by a 90 minute digital audio tape containing the entire CD plus two more
pieces. Four songs were eventually selected for the experiment, and in the
spring of 1998 a dirty-and-dubby 12" EP was released. Two more songs were
later used to replace a pair of corrupted tracks on the master tape for
"Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass", released on CD in 1999. The music was
well received by fans, but the hoped-for dance floor revolution never
happened, and the little record with the unconventional beats went out of
print a few years later. Fast forward to the present: The year is 2009 and
the four song EP has been out of print for more than five years, seven more
songs lie waiting in the vault, still unreleased, and the two tracks tacked
onto "Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass" are the only ones in wide
circulation. Which is why Soleilmoon is so very pleased to finally be
releasing all thirteen songs together on one record. "Uzi Mahmood" is 90
minutes of the sexiest, most booty-shakin' Muslimgauze music ever heard. It
stretches luxuriously across three LPs - two running at 33 RPM and one at
45 RPM - presented in an lavish, no-expense-spared gatefold jacket, and is
limited to 500 copies. Shocking cover art and design has been furnished by
the fine folks at Plazm, again, already, of course.
[ . . . ]
:Take:/White/Lichens - Three:Four Split Series - Volume 1 10
inch (Theory) [TFR001EP] $22.75
"The first volume of the Three:Four Records Split Series gathers two
mesmeric drone guitar lovers, the newly arrived French project :take:
coming from Paris and the Chicago based combo White/Lichens. Two different
approaches of drone music: soft and melodic for :take:, loud and unbridled
for the Chicagoans. The A-side is composed of two :take:'s tracks. 'Paysage
avec Fer' evokes desert landscapes shaped by interlaced sine tone and
minimalist guitar manipulation. It's a 5 minute abstract guitar drone and
epic effort. 'Joie de Résistance' offers another side of :take:'s work. A
bluesy guitar, melodic guitar patterns. The track ends with a repetitive
beat leading to a hypnotic trance. The B-side is a massive 10 minute piece
by White/Lichens. 'Tonight's the Night' is a growing deflagration, powerful
and loud. The intensity is magnified by a psyche reverbed guitar. Listening
to it is as fascinating as waiting for a hurricane to come." Numbered
edition of 500 copies with download postcard.
Adam Port feat. Gigi - Enoralehu 12 inch (Liebe Detail)
[LDS012EP] $11.50
"Berlin-based Adam Port, part of the Souvenir family and already a well
known name in the capital, hands in a wonderful, rejoiceful slice of future
afro-house for Liebe Detail Spezial. The tracks are based on the original
'Enoralehu,' performed by Gigi (Ejigayehu Shibabaw), which was released in
1996 on her Album Gold & Wax (produced by Bill Laswell). A: Adam Port feat.
Gigi - Enoralehu (club mix). Featuring the haunting, near-angelic vocals of
Ethiopian singer and songwriter Ejigayehu 'Gigi' Shibabaw, and a colorful
handful of original percussion borrowed from Gigi's original, 'Enoralehu'
is a richly woven treat for the senses. Uplifting, beautiful and solemn,
the track begins with a long snaking intro capturing the unmistakable vocal
hook, before unwinding and opening up into a dramatic tale of modern
ethnic-inspired club music."
Af
Ursin - Aika LP (La Scie Doree) [SCIE608LP] $94.50
"Edition of 150 signed and numbered copies in hand-assembled gatefold
sleeve with stamps and original photos. Each cover is unique."
Akira Kiteshi - Boom N Pow 12 inch (Black Acre) [ACRE014EP]
$10.25
"Edinburgh's prodigal son returns to the boards for another alchemic
fusion
of glitchy boom bap and tear out noise terror. 'Boom N Pow,' explodes out
of the starting blocks with Akira's super fresh sound aesthetic. Solid
battle hardened hip hop drums sway and tumble under the pressure of aquatic
bass and citric stabs. Just as the b-boys heads are bopping, the beats
shrink, normal gravity is restored and the barely audible rants of Akira's
imaginary Japanese self begins the wind up to point where Akira Kiteshi
justifies his new title as master of the 2nd drop. 'Boom N Pow (Raffertie
Remix)' in an attempt to win most cutting edge banger of 09 we have
employed the services of Planet Mu's hot boy Raffertie on the re-up. Here
the Brum hardcore enthusiast bring bitch slap snares, degraded synths and
his own unique brand drunken noise chaos. Keeping up the neck snapping pace
Raff flips the script on the 2nd drop into the kind of chaos best described
as Aphex Twin on a Ragga Tip. It's big and it IS clever.... Support: Mix
Master Mike, Bobby Friction, Rob Da Bank, N Type, Reso, Raffertie, Joker,
Starkey, MF GLK."
Alo
Girl - Unsane LP (Urashima) [U002] $34.00
ALO GIRL is an obscure Italian noise project. Deep roaring,
subterranean,
obsessive and paranoid tones, tinged with sleaze and an airless atmosphere.
For fans of C.C.C.C., Incapacitants and like that. Silkscreened cardboard
sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Andre Popp and His Orchestra - Presenting Popp! LP (Columbia)
[WL130LP] $10.25
Exact repro reissue of 1958's Presenting Popp! (also released as
Popped!),
an installment in Columbia's Adventures In Sound series. "...features
marvelously comic and ingenious arrangements. Popp's ability to bring
surprising new mixes of instrumentation to conventional melodies has led
some to compare him to Esquivel, but Popp's style is less other-worldly
than just plain odd." -- Space Age Pop Music
Anti-Pop Consortium - Flourescent Black 2xLP (Big Dada)
[BD150LP] $20.00
"Fluorescent Black represents the group's best work yet, a seventeen
track
masterpiece that moves through moods, concepts, beats and rhymes with the
mind-bending ease which has always characterized their output, but expands
their work out further in every direction."
Asobi Seksu - Rewolf LP (Polyvinyl) [PRC-190-1] $12.50
RELEASE DATE: 11-10-2009
180 gm LP limited to 500 copies on white vinyl. One of the last albums
ever
recorded at London's renowned Olympic Studios (The Beatles, Rolling Stones,
Led Zeppelin, The Who), Rewolf finds Asobi Seksu's core duo -- vocalist
Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna -- affording listeners a new
glimpse into songs spanning the band's entire career. Here, Asobi Seksu
replaces its sonic layer of guitars with beautiful new arrangements
achieved through the use of mostly acoustic instruments.
Atlas Sound - I'll Be Your Mirror/Unicorn Rainbow Odyssey...
2x7 inch (Audraglint) [AG118/9EP] $12.00
...Requiem For All The Lonely Teenagers With Passed Out Moms/Cobwebs.
2008
tour releases packaged together. "Bradford picked these four songs from his
blog to have us make 7"s for this year's Atlas Sound tour, and we have some
left! One 7" is opaque pink vinyl and the other is opaque orange and they
have color coordinated fabric sleeves."
Basic Soul Unit/Lerosa - Panorama Bar 02/Part 1 12 inch (Ostgut
Ton) [OSTGUT028EP] $11.50
Along with Tama Sumo's Panorama 02 mix, Ostgut Ton will release a
two-part
vinyl set, including four exclusive tracks which feature on the CD. Part
one presents a track from Basic Soul Unit with a Fingers-esque bass line --
a simple beat progressing and building into the pads and synths. Somewhere
between Chicago and Detroit deep house via Toronto. Lerosa presents
"Plesso," a fusion of eerie atmospheres created by artists like Theo
Parrish, Omar-S and Stasis.
Bear in Heaven - Wholehearted Mess 12 inch (Hometapes) [HT033]
$9.50
A classic remix 12-inch on limited edition colored vinyl, the
"Wholehearted
Mess" single features banging dance mixes of one of the standout tracks
from BEAR IN HEAVEN's upcoming album Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Oct. 13,
2009). Featuring MAX BRANNSLOKKER, PINK SKULL and ARCLIKE, this will
further define Brooklyn's Bear In Heaven, whose last album Pitchfork
described as "...a true cohesive work in an era when the album-as-art form
appears to be slowly dying. (7.8)" and who The Onion likened to "a
powerful, functional mix of This Heat, '70s soft rock, early Genesis, and
oddly, later Pink Floyd."
Berkson & What - Ghosts 12 inch (Poker Flat) [PFR107EP]
$11.50
London's Berkson & What present another excursion into deep-flowing,
hypnotic and modern house music. "Ghosts" is a strong, grooving, reduced
house track in the purest sense. Chicago-style beats flare and snap as a
mysterious synth motif dances around the funk-meets-dub bass sequence.
Vocal passages intertwine in a complex narrative that fills the room with
the ghosts of house and soul music past. Next up, they lay down a tribal
house groover, full of thick keys, richly-embellished drums and spiritual
vibes.
Black Heart Procession, The - Six 2xLP (Temporary Residence
Limited) [TRR157LP] $16.50
"More than just a return to numerical album titles, Six is The Black
Heart
Procession's first album to be written and recorded simultaneously with a
new Three Mile Pilot album. As both bands now coexist for the first time
ever, co-conspirators Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel have steered The
Black Heart Procession into a darker, more adventurous direction. Produced
and recorded by the band over the past couple years, Six is without a doubt
the group's most emotionally resonant album since Three. Brimming with
pitch-black ballads of discarded loves and forgotten souls, the album
paints a bleak yet strangely comforting portrait of heartbreak,
self-destruction and religious allegory over some of their most inspired
songs to date, drawing a clear line from here to soul-stirring visionaries
such as Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash and Tom Waits."
Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968 LP (Type) [TYPE053LP] $17.25
This is the debut full-length for Marc Richter aka Black To Comm for
the
Type label. Richter is no newcomer to the experimental music scene. As the
figurehead of the Hamburg-based Dekorder label, the musician and designer
has brought countless oddities to the attention of rabid music fans in the
last few years, but it is with his own compositions that he has made the
biggest splash. Releasing for a plethora of labels including Digitalis,
Trensmat, and of course, his own imprint, he has pioneered a new, organic
drone sub-genre using tape loops, vintage organs and an inexhaustible swamp
of found sounds. With this latest album however, it was Richter's intention
to move away from the epic drones he had made his own and into something
more "classic." The mission statement for Alphabet 1968 was to write an
album of "songs" for want of a better word. Short tracks which represented
genre points, the milestones which stuck in Richter's mind when he thought
back to his favorite records. What we arrive at is a breathtaking 10-track
album which, over the course of 45 minutes, explores world music, techno,
noise, avant-garde, ambient music and even exotica. Each track is linked
with a loose thread of radio static or environmental sound, dragging you
through the album, as if tuning in to a stray broadcast or a particularly
adventurous mix. Richter has pieced the album together from hours of
recordings made at his studio with home made gamelan, small instruments and
loops gathered from a collection of ancient vinyl and 78 records. The scope
of the album is admirable, but ignoring this, it is simply a shockingly
arresting collection of experimental oddities, with references ranging from
Moondog to Basic Channel by way of Bernard Herrmann. It's not hard to fall
in love with Alphabet 1968, far harder would be to place exactly where the
record should fit into your collection.
Boris - Japanese Heavy Rock Hits 1 7 inch (Southern Lord)
[LORD108] $6.00
RELEASE DATE: 09-29-2009
***For over 15 years BORIS has lead the charge as Japan's most
exciting
experimental rock act. This fall marks yet another first for the band as
they release Japanese Heavy Rock Hits, a series of 7-inches showcasing
their wide-reaching, genre-smashing sound. The band has been locked in the
studio over last few months and in association with Southern Lord they are
ready to bring to you their latest offerings. Over the course of the next
three months three brand new exclusive vinyl 7-inches will be released. The
first, Volume One, features two newly recorded tracks. On Side A, the
title track "8" continues the spacy hard-rock sound established on their
classic albums Pink and Smile, building from a mono, lo-fi wall of feedback
into a ripping, slab of lush vocals, crunchy guitar and thunderous drums.
Things get switched up on Side B with "Hey Everyone," a chewy bit of
power-pop bubblegum that sees the band mining a much lighter source for
their sound. Gorgeous tip-on, heavyweight cardboard jacket designed by
STEPHEN O'MALLEY.
Bubblez - Ice Rink Remix/Ice Rink (Drum Ritual) 12 inch
(Devotional Dubz) [ERZULIE003EP] $12.25
"Grievous Angel steps back up to the plate, fresh from smashing the
summer
with his 'Loser' and 'Move Down Low' versions. Ripe sense of timing as well
-- revisiting the seminal grime rydim 'Ice Rink' from 2003 for rhythmic
guidance looks as dapper as Savile Row on Rascal right now. The original's
cold, arrhythmic arcade-game derived brutalism is reborn for the late 09 in
2 sensual and smart funky compatible versions . The Riko vocal lick 'pon
a-side rocks the plasticized original into a bashment style funky crossover
which will find favour with all baddaman and fill floors with gals dem. The
alien 8 bit sounds are still present floating disembodied through the mix
but are restrained and never allowed to throw the dancefloor off beam. Flip
for a true object lesson in how to unlock the dizzy rhythmic potential of
UK funky -- unlocking a Latinized carioca carnival feeling, huge
instrumental swells of drums and layered chorus, building to massive slams
of release ? 'Ice Rink (Drum Ritual)' is a giant rhythm for the scene once
more. Bit of a hit on dubplate already with: The Heatwave, Kode 9, Ben UFO,
Bok Bok, The Bug, Blackdown, Dub Boy, Steakhouse, Atki2 and lots of other
people."
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers 2xLP (Dead
Oceans) [DOC028LP] $16.50
"In an underground music landscape where 140 characters equals
'journalism'
and lone MP3s propel bands to momentary internet stardom, bands are here
today and gone tomorrow. Califone is a band that defies this blueprint.
Their albums are full of layers and textures, offering endless depth,
entire universes to lose yourself in - and beyond the thick spectrum of
sound, they do something even more important: They write great songs.
Califone is a band that will stand the test of time. The band is at the
peak of its powers on All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, its sixth
song-based album. The long-awaited follow-up to 2006's acclaimed Roots And
Crowns, the album is the strongest collection of songs in a career with no
shortage of strength. The subtlety and detail of Califone's previous work
is present here - the atmospheres are carefully nuanced, the percussion is
both rattling and melodic, the melodies are rich and soulful, interspersed
throughout softly strummed folk and electrified blues. All My Friends Are
Funeral Singers is a dense collage of sounds, expertly formed into fully
realized pop songs."
Celer - Mane Blooms 7 inch (Low Point) [LP029] $8.50
RELEASE DATE: 10-19-2009
'Mane Blooms' is the very first vinyl release by Celer, the husband and
wife duo Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long. Seen by Celer as an 'outdoor'
companion piece to 'Brittle', the duo's album recently released on Low
Point, the music on 'Mane Blooms' was created by multiple layers of cello
and piano, which were then processed and played back at differing speeds.
Also contained within the tracks are field recordings taken whilst Dani
rode horses along the Californian coastline, a weekly pursuit that acted as
a form of self-therapy and enjoyment. With the music composed specifically
with the vinyl medium in mind, the two sides of the record act as a mirror
image. For the B side, Celer approached the music of the first track in
reverse, inverting the structure and musical motifs established within the
first piece. Altering the playback speed of the vinyl brings previously
hidden textures to the fore, providing each of the tracks with a new
identity and a different reflection of memory.
Claro Intelecto - Chadderton 12 inch (Modern Love) [LOVE057EP]
$11.50
Mark Stewart aka Claro Intelecto presents three new tracks recorded in
early 2009. "Chadderton" is an astonishing slice of deep and woozy midnight
house, complete with sleazy chords and a frayed spine that's primed for
peak-time narcosis. "Above" features relentless chords and a shuffling
percussive line that never lets up, while "Great Day" closes the EP with a
cathartic spell that ends almost as soon as it begins, letting in rays of
sunshine through the dense thicket of sound.
Cloaks/Oyaarss - A La Holeage 12 inch (Abstractions)
[ABSTRACT001EP] $11.50
"The excellent Creative Space label from Greece takes an away day for
this
extra - special release on their Abstractions imprint. Oyaarss are as
broadly agreeable as their name may suggest, finding their original of 'A
la Holeage' becoming a firm unreleased favourite of Mary Ann Hobbs, and
rapidly becoming notorious amongst noise and experimental fans, not to
mention the more sonically adventurous dubsteppers. Cloaks take the
opportunity to put down their most sonically extreme material to date, as
downright nasty certainly as anything yet emitted from their studios. A
matching of like minds offers stunning and yet differing results -- where
Oyaarss occupy an obliterated post-hardcore landscape, Cloaks almost allow
you to experience the very elapsing moments of obliteration. Thoroughly
invigorating and highly recommended!"
Cold Cave - Cremations LP (Hospital Productions) [HOS248LP]
$16.50
"Cremations is a collection of early demo/live/and unreleased tracks
from
Cold Cave. From the project's isolated beginnings to the recent full band
line-up, the development of this singular musical entity is documented here
in its icy electronic glory. From Cold Cave's infancy, sexual identity and
oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and
electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so
brazenly as in 'Sex Ads.' Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from
below the surface are retold. From the demo LP Coma Potion, which featured
a rugged stripped down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour
cassette (featuring the voice of Max Morton on the track 'Heavenly
Metals'), Cold Cave has developed its own brand of genre defying electronic
music, without ever betraying its dark roots. Love and pornography,
industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together
in a hedonistic, cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings.
Cremations collects all this work for the first and last time."
Coleco/Shamaji feat. Maggie Horn - Campfire Funk/Break Your
Heart 12 inch (Soul Motive) [SMR003EP] $11.50
"Soul Motive wraps up two of the most innovative tracks you'll hear
this
year. Another storming double-A side brings you fresh distinctive tracks
from Coleco and Sharmaji, two talented emerging producers creating truly
unique music. Coleco is a fresh and more than welcome addition to the
Bristol collective whilst Sharmaji hails from Brooklyn where he has made
quite a name for himself through his work with Low Motion records and NYC's
SubSwara, despite being a relative unknown to many on other shores. Coleco
-- 'Campfire Funk': a fractured funk workout of epic proportions. Blurring
the lines between progressive funk and sub heavy dance music. Atmospheric
synths, samples and melodic guitar riffs captivate you while driving,
organic breaks build into an absolutely biblical amount of raw funk. It's
not often music this beautiful and progressive comes along so enjoy it when
it does. Sharmaji ft Maggie Horn -- 'Break Your Heart': >From Brooklyn, New
York comes a fresh and highly original take on the UK sound. Simultaneously
dark, driving yet strangely elevating. Break Your Heart fuses 2-step swing
with dynamic percussion alongside a storming, ever-shifting bassline
juxtaposed with an emotive, haunting vocal courtesy of Maggie Horn.
Sharmaji has created a deep, emotional banger that will hammer dancefloors
worldwide!"
Curse Ov Dialect - Crisis Tales LP (Staubgold) [STAUB096LP]
$16.00
This is the first full-length by Australian hip-hop mavericks Curse ov
Dialect for Staubgold -- a dizzying, multi-dimensional carnival of
conscious hip-hop. Inspired by surrealistic grappling with questions of
identity and evolution, Curse ov Dialect have collectively created Crisis
Tales: a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic scrawl of mercurial rage and spasmodic
humor, flowing freely into the void of consumer culture. The alien yet
familiar sounds of Crisis Tales reflect the psychological and geographical
adventures of the five-strong Melbourne crew (MCs Raceless and Vulk
Makedonski, vocalists August the 2nd and Aturungi, and DJ/producer Paso
Bionic). This is the most impressive product yet of the band's restless
creativity and degenerate mindscape. A hybrid gumbo of musical mutations
and bending of genres and cultures, the album climaxes with an epic,
11-minute transnational posse track featuring guest rappers from Macedonia,
Germany, Poland, Indonesia, Switzerland and the United States. Produced by
Curse ov Dialect and mixed by DJ/producer Danielsan (Koolism), Crisis Tales
sprawls a wide-spectrum, organic sonic palette with a solid hip-hop
foundation. Special guests include Joelistics, Elf Tranzporter, Kaigen,
RKS, Hugo 1, Eytan Messiah, and Trillion. Equal parts empathy and
theatricality, Crisis Tales is at once a strident call to arms, challenging
society's restraints of conformity, oppression and religion, and a dreamy
contemplation of all things metaphorical and metaphysical. With an armory
of lyrics both sharp and thoughtful, inscrutable and existential, and a
mindblowing, hyper-authentic musicality, Curse ov Dialect is conclusive
proof that Australian hip-hop is worth infiltrating and subverting.
D1/Rusko - Dubstep Warz/Get Your Cock Out 12 inch (Dub Files)
[DFVINYL001EP] $11.00
"Wicked new 12" from D1 and Rusko!!! Both tracks appeared on the
dubstep
DVD documentary produced by the Dub Police camp, Dub Files! 'Dubstep Warz'
is a deep, slo mo, haunting bass number! On the flip..Rusko..er hmm...asks
you to get 'Get Your Cock Out' ...pure hyper party dubstep shizniz and
bound to make the most timid of people shock out to this one!"
Dan
Melchior and the Broke Revue - O, Clouds Unfold 2xLP (Hook Or Crook)
[HOOK016] $28.00
Unreleased since its ill-fated recording in 2004, Hook or Crook is
proud to
announce the availability of DAN MELCHIOR AND THE BROKE REVUE's crowning
achievement, the double LP O, Clouds Unfold! Though unreleased, O, Clouds
has long been recognized as Dan's best work created during his fertile
tenure in New York City. Twenty-three songs in all. Gatefold sleeve.
DJ
T. - Shine On 12 inch (Get Physical Music) [GPM118EP] $12.25
This is the final single from DJ. T's The Inner Jukebox. T. and his
studio
cohort Thomas Schumacher aimed to create contemporary tracks that still
contained the essence of good old body-jackin' house music. "Shine On"
divulges light touches of Benelux house from the mid-'90s that only reveal
themselves as sonic silhouettes, rather than as obvious tributes. Motor
City Drum Ensemble does remix duty, with an attention to detail and soul
that will have some people reminiscing and others raving.
Dominik Eulberg - Perlmutt 12 inch (Traum) [TRAUM116EP]
$11.50
Dominik Eulberg presents two new songs on Perlmutt. "Daten
Äobertragungs-Kļsschen" is a bittersweet melody, as fairy-like and gentle
as a light snowfall. In contrast, "Schnertuppen-Regen" keeps an eye on the
clubby side of things with rectangular, sawtooth sequences, dubby rhythms
and back and forth sliding sequences that seem to stem from ancient string
instruments and show traces of popular German folk.
Efdemin/crc - Metisse 05 12 inch (Metisse) [METISSE005EP]
$11.50
Curle presents two mindblowing remixes on Metisse 05. Efdemin's "The
Pulse"
gets the remix treatment from John Beltran, and it's an ultra-funky
mega-bomb. Convextion aka E.R.P. remixed CRC's amazing take on Detroit
techno, "Vaskitsaherra," and the result ended up being nothing less than a
timeless piece of art. This record comes pressed on beautifully marbled
colored vinyl, limited to 500 pieces.
El-G - Tout Ploie LP (S.S.) [SS046LP] $13.50
"So...a couple years back, one of my favorite French labels -- Le
Villain
Chien -- released a single by a guy going by the name of él-g. I picked up
a few -- record unheard - for our mail order and when they arrived, gave
one a spin. The sound was a combination of world-weary French pop and
mellow psych. The record lived on the turntable for a few weeks. When the
Belgian label Kraak announced it was putting out an él-g album, I said sign
me up for some. I got a very small handful and offered them for sale. Of
course, one found its way to the record player and what came out of the
speakers was one of the best records I'd heard in quite a while. Like the
7" I previously dug, this album strode through French pop styles and dreamy
psychedelia, but this thing was much better than the seven inch. It had a
classic sound. I wasn't alone in liking it. David Keenan of Volcanic Tongue
called it 'Ass-flatteningly great' and said it 'combines the decadent
French ballad style of Serge Gainsbourg with warped acid folk settings,
industrial electronics and the kinda schizophrenic approach to genre that
defines much of Thierry Muller and Philippe Doray's work.' Clive Bell at
the Wire said él-g's'freak flag is exhilarating.' And the few people who
got the record from me, wrote and asked for more. After spin number 50, I
said to myself, 'Damn, there's a whole lotta people on this side of the
Atlantic that are gonna miss out on this demon, one of the best records of
the last five years, me thinks.' So I wrote él-g and Kraak and asked if I
could do an American pressing and they said 'Sure good thing' and here it
is. So what you get is all the above -- with guest performances by the
lovely Charlene Darling and Ignatz and Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations.
This edition on S.S. Records was remastered excellently by Paul Gold of
Salt Mastering and has a slightly different cover and insert. And it is
available at a domestic price."
Embassadors, The - Coptic Dub LP (Nonplace) [NON027LP]
$16.00
This is the second full-length album from The Embassadors, an
international
music collective formed by reed player/producer/collaborator, Hayden
Chisholm. The artist himself elaborates on the creation of Coptic Dub this
way: "...the instrumental sounds and mixing processes on this album have
undergone so many levels of refinement they can easily defend themselves
without the justification of the creators ... I believe the discussion of
timbre and its degree of refinement, be it acoustic or electronic, is the
only semi-objective criteria when it comes to judging music. How do I
define refinement? I would say the gradual and careful removal of
impurities. Mixed in with this, and complicating the process even more, is
an aspect which has always been a part of my creations: the Japanese
aesthetic of wabi-sabi which views certain impurities, especially those
occurring in nature, as beautiful. A good example of this is the saxophone
sound itself with its strong air component when listened to or recorded up
close. This aesthetic element is crucial in setting such works from the
digital polishing applied in regular high end pop or even jazz productions.
Burnt Friedman's style of applying dubs and effects is another way of
breathing more life into the sounds. What is happening here is a complex
layering upon layering within which the listener can find countless points
of reference to navigate her way through the works. None of the sound
sources are processed for the sake of it and there are deep metaphysical
truths behind a simple space echo in the way our hallowed master "time" is
played with and re-evoked. Sometimes it will approach the feeling of
listening to music while in a dream, when individual elements are blurred
in the passage of time which is no longer a simple arrow moving forward but
rather an evolving and pliable cloud, inextricably linked to the
perceiver." The follow-up to the acclaimed Healing The Music debut, Coptic
Dub is pure lightness of deftly-executed jazz and dub, curling and twining
in on itself in new forms and structures. Chisholm's tenor sax, Hammond
organ, and steel drums are supported by Jochen Rueckert (drums) and Matt
Penman (bass).
Emeralds - Emeralds LP (Emeralds) [LPEMERAS/T] $17.75
EMERALDS is MARK MCGUIRE, JOHN ELLIOTT and STEVE HAUSCHILDT. They are
currently based in and around Cleveland, Ohio. Direct descendants of the
history of adventurous punk, post-punk, whatever music spilling out of Ohio
the last 35 years or so from Pere Ubu, Devo, Rocket From The Tombs, The
Raspberries, The Cramps, Dead Boys, Great Plains, Fuzzhead, et al. Emeralds
is the sound of exploration of space/time conundrums utilizing vintage
synthesizer beauty and guitar experimentation. Unfolding sweet-leaf shifts
and gorgeous curves of kosmiche abandon are played with devotion and
desire. With a palpitating discography of cassettes, CDRs etc., both
self-released and on righteous labels (Hanson, Gods Of Tundra, American
Tapes, Chondritic Sound), Emeralds have already distinguished themselves as
new yet timeless, young yet ageless. Pressed on assorted colored vinyl.
Excepter - FRKWYS Vol. 2 12 inch (RVNG International)
[FRKWYS002EP] $15.25
"RVNG is proud to announce a new 12" series entitled FRKWYS. A play on
the
name of the legendary Folkways record label founded by Moses Asch in the
late '40s to document sound and movement in music from around the world,
our FRKWYS (think 'Freakways') 12" series pairs contemporary artists and
their progenitors by way of remix, reinterpretation, and original
collaboration. Like the Folkways releases, each installment in RVNG's
FRKWYS series lives under a thematic banner (albeit sometimes loose) and
explores a different facet of electronic music. The first release in the
series features collaborations from NYC avant-pranksters Excepter with
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey,
JG Thirwell of Foetus and his many alter egos, and Jack Dangers of Meat
Beat Manifesto. The result of this premiere series edition is a new and
entirely relevant industrial revolution. Chris & Cosey draw from their
early output (Heartbeat, Trance) and turn Excepter's 'Shots Ring' into a
whip smart primitive techno mix while JG Thirwell orchestrates 'Stretch' as
a wildly percussive, brassy acid track. Jack Dangers adds heavy bonus beats
with a pitched down dub and bass dance dirge of 'Kill People.' We are
housing these limited edition 12"s (900 copies / pressing) in a classic
package using heavy stock jackets applied in leatherette and tip on
adhesives, creating a truly substantial and archival feel. You have to see
/ hear this record to believe it."
Falko Brocksieper - Adobe 12 inch (Contexterrior) [CNTXT035EP]
$11.50
Falko Brocksieper brings his rich sound to Contexterrior with the Adobe
EP.
On the title track, the stomping beat barges into the room and the stacked
chords introduce a sense of mystery. "Adobe" has an impeccable sense of
build-up and resolution. "South East" follows a Detroit-ish melodic motif
as a pan flute keeps the high ends occupied as the low ends roll into the
deep wilderness. Yet another example of Brocksieper's ability to keep the
crowd lost in the groove.
Felipe Venegas & Francisco Allendes - Llovizna 12 inch
(Cadenza) [CADENZA040EP] $13.25
Cadenza returns to its Chilean roots with a new EP from Felipe Venegas
and
Francisco Allendes who combine sturdy tech-house, classical minimalism,
Chilean folk music and scads of Afro-Latin percussion into a fresh twist on
the classic Cadenza sound. "Llovizna" wraps itself in velvety arpeggios
while a muscular rhythm section gives the track its unusual power. The
percussion grows in intensity, setting the scene for the track's finale --
a tour de force of lush, tender synthesizers.
Fink - Sort Of Revolution LP (Ninja Tune) [ZEN146LP] $17.25
"Following the 2006 release of debut LP Biscuits for Breakfast, and
2007's
Distance and Time, singer songwriter Fin Greenall, aka Fink, returns in
2009 with the self-produced Sort of Revolution. A beautiful fusion of jazz,
blues and soulful acoustic rhythms."
F*** Buttons - Surf Solar 7 inch (ATP) [ATPRSP09] $9.25
The first single to be taken from the album is "Surf Solar," the
powerful
but mesmerizing opening track from Tarot Sport. It displays an attitude of
emotional urgency and striving that is prevalent in a lot of FUCK BUTTONS'
music. HUNG puts it like this; "Without a conscious effort, this track acts
as a bridge between 'Street Horrrsing' and 'Tarot Sport'.... it has an
emotion attached to it that is unique to us: one of anxiety. It's an urgent
track." As always, F*** Buttons remain faithful to the idea of hope as an
inspiration.
Fugazi - End Hits LP (Dischord) [DIS110] $12.75
REISSUED WITH A DOWNLOAD!!! Thirteen tracks of pure FUGAZI magic. Back
in
print on vinyl at last.
Fun
Years, The/.Cut featuring Gibet - Three:Four Split Series - Volume 2 10
inch (Theory) [TFR003EP] $22.75
"Here is the second volume of our split series that highlights 2
two-man
bands living in two different cities. Whereas The Fun Years live in
different parts of the United States, .cut is based in Montreal and Lyon,
where Gibet, Albérick's accomplice, lives. Musically, this record gathers
two of the most exciting laptop & guitar duets. On the A side, The Fun
Years presents a particularly interesting score. Despite the short length
of the support, their effort is presented as a real album, with an intro
('Am I Having A Stroke?') and an end ('We Don't Need No F***ing Theme
Songs'). Between these two tracks, three various songs are unfolding,
revealing The Fun Years' huge potential. On the B side, .cut featuring
Gibet offer two tracks in different formats but with equal intensity. With
their mix of meditative atmospheres leading to introspection and oppressive
and violent elements against martial sounds. The band's radical approach
glorifies the darkness, to the extent that it seems either sublime or
unendurable." Numbered edition of 489 copies with download postcard.
Haters - Haters LP (At War With False Noise) [ATWAR051]
$15.50
Recorded in 2001 but unreleased until now due to controversial content,
THIS IS NOT the noise HATERS but a brutal hardcore band, one of the most
brutal ever put to tape, formed after VOORHEES split up. Utterly
single-minded in its relentless brutality, focused, hateful, taking
influence from Brainbombs, maybe even early wave power electronics, but
channelling it through the Negative Approach wringer. The results are
utterly hideous. Artwork by RICHARD RUPENUS of THE NEW BLOCKADERS. Limited
quantities available.
Heavy, The - How You Like Me Now? 12 inch (Counter)
[COUNT026EP] $11.50
"The Heavy return with next single from their album, The House That
Dirt
Built, a widescreen funk epic, moving from JB's shuffle to crashing break,
Animals guitar and horn fanfares, a huge build which is set to bring the
house down wherever it's played. As if the original wasn't enough, The
Heavy have compiled a superb package of remixes. Fellow West Countryman
Joker, gives the original a huge dollop of Purple and comes up with
something sounding like Timberlake smoking skunk in St Paul's. Sometime
Mowgli-collaborator Solo goes more down a 4/4 route, building up the congas
etc. into a perfect example of what he calls 'midget house.' Finally, Ghost
takes the tempo down and emphasizes the mournful backing vocals for a
suitably majestic finale. As if this wasn't enough, The Heavy have also
thrown in a bonus track, 'Tell It Like It Is,' a country-fried hoe-down
which emphasizes just how good Swaby's voice is."
Horns of Happiness, The - Weathering Alterations LP (St. Ives)
[SAINT030LP] $14.50
"The Horns of Happiness return to the recorded world with their first
release since 2007's What Spills Like Thread EP. Here we find the band in
concept mode, balancing its pounding rhythms and airy melodies to create a
soundtrack piece entitled Weathering Alterations. The band's normally
speedy and structure-damaged tunes begin to stretch out, allowing
repetition and space to create new moods. Originally performed as an
accompaniment to the J. Shelley Harrison installation piece Don't Rain On
My Parade, the recording focuses on the reaction of the psyche to
unexpected changes in environment. While this is not the true follow-up to
the band's only full-length album, 2004's A Sea As A Shore, the record is a
moody, rocking, and nonsensical song cycle. As with all St. Ives releases,
this album is only available digitally and as hand-made limited edition
vinyl (only 200 copies)."
Hudson Mohawke - Butter 2xLP (Warp Records) [WARP188LP]
$20.00
"Megawatt R'n'B stars won't be the only ones to take note of Butter, as
the
ever-growing global network of bass-craving music fans have been clamoring
for new material since Hudson Mohwake's lauded Polyfolk Dance EP earlier
this year. On that record, HudMo's hyper melodic drum-and-synth sidewinders
only hinted at the panoramic pop magic that was to come and with it he
found himself name checked by the likes of Rihanna, Goldie, Sa Ra, Busy P,
Flying Lotus, Mars Volta & Crookers."
Hyetal - The Last Time We Spoke/Armour 12 inch (Formant)
[FRMNT005EP] $11.50
"Presaging some mindblowing imminent science with Peverelist on the
resurgent Reduction label out of Bristol -- Hyetal lands with aplomb at
Formant. You can trace the stylistic foundations of this music -- Scuba's
Hotflush excursions, Peverelist's wide ranging exploration, Pinch's
Tectonic aesthetic. 'Armour' is a readymade dancefloor bomb while the top
side runs it down with truly weighty low-end, deliberate sirens offset
against dubbed out benign keys -- maximum vibes -- very good indeed."
Indigo - Not Alone 12 inch (On The Edge) [OTE008EP] $11.50
"Another bomb on the cards -- south Hulme dub star Indigo, moonlighting
fom
his own Mindset recording endeavours for a welcome solo outing here. 'Not
Alone' dominates proceedings on the up side - a rigorous and deliberate
work out - future steppers and original junglist working in tandem over a
'Not Alone' dominates proceedings on the up side - a rigorous and
deliberate work out - future steppers and original junglist working in
tandem over a total epic widescreen production. And for the down stroke:
'Arcane' is wonderfully developed future dub, settling down amongst dare we
say it a certain old school balearic feeling -- poignant moving cosmic and
down right essential sundown tune. 'Exhale' matches up with S.Y.N.K.R.O.'s
'Inhale' on Smokin' Sessions elsewhere this week, taming the open road
euphoria of Joe's piece and watching it combust into a vapour space dub
trail that is as luxuriant as its tempo is easy."
Indigo - Home/Cosmos 12 inch (On The Edge) [OTE009EP]
$11.50
"A growing inspiration."
Jagged - Langenthal 12 inch (Quintessentials) [QUINTESSE009EP]
$11.50
"After their Hello Kool Nice release, the Jagged boys are back with
another
fab production. The main track 'Langenthal' is, well, we dare to say
'tech-house with a disco feel' and ready for club use! 'New York' pumps it
up even more and is more proof that Jagged are diverse. After Quarion and
Harry Swinger on QE 02, it's now up to the mighty Brother's Vibe to do the
remix - he delivered a monster mix! And let all of us know about his house
and our house!"
Jaybird - Work Dat Box 12 inch (Kraken Recordings) [KRKN010EP]
$10.25
"Kraken are rolling again and it's good to have the Denmark based don's
back! Very little is known about A-side artist and LA resident Jaybird, but
I'm sure plenty of people will be on the hunt for info after this little
number drops. Absolutely relentless, crushing dubstep music, a refreshingly
nasty little number reminiscent in atmosphere to one of Kraken's earliest
releases, 'Eye Of The Demon' by Wolfman (JSL), this tune is currently
tearing up clubs worldwide, with support from 2000F and notably featuring
on Hatcha & Crazy D's Kiss FM radio show, you're gunna love this one!
Legendary Kraken artist JSL pops up on the flip with a brand new beat, kept
relatively under wraps this one comes out of nowhere and smacks is straight
round the chops like Kimbo Slice! Act quickly on this one, it won't last."
Korablove - Pani Chacha 12 inch (Pro-tez) [PROTEZ012EP]
$10.25
"Pani Chacha is Her Highness the Duchess of the southern party.
Inspired by
the drink that is lovingly regarded from Georgia to the Balkans, Korablove
created a house tune with a drunk brass section, thus presenting an
irresistible dance tune for the Gipsy autumn. Stripped down and extended
with a SCSI-9 remix on the B-side. Bottoms up!"
Kryptic Minds - 768 12 inch (Tectonic) [TEC032EP] $10.75
With many a drum and bass producer jumping on the dubstep bandwagon
only to
get it embarrassingly wrong, it's refreshing to see darkside jungle
pioneers Kryptic Minds side-stepping such issues, delivering only the
finest quality rolling Metalheadz-vibe, dark-side, subbed-out 'steppers
with an innovative twist of their own. Kryptic Minds have tailored a sound
that makes it to the very the heart of half-step itself. Includes a Kryptic
Minds remix of Pinch & Moving Ninja's track "False."
Lauhaus - Latenights 12 inch (Intacto) [INTAC020EP] $11.50
Amsterdam's boom-shakin' top-buzz Lauhaus drops sweatin', uplifting
grooves
on the Intacto imprint. "Latenights" is a master groove with top hook
timbals. An instant hit. "Neue Welle" is deep and sleazy for the sexy ones
out there.
Loco Dice - Untitled 12 inch (Desolat) [DESOLAT004X-EP]
$11.50
Loco Dice returns to Desolat with a one-sided, vinyl-only release. This
untitled track features tribal chanting, claps, and flute sounds
accompanied by a solid, throbbing, addictive beat and hand-percussion.
Low
Red Center - Low Red Center 10 inch (S.S.) [SS040LP] $13.50
"S.S. Records is really happy to release vinyl debut of Low Red Center.
While their sound centers around electronics, to call them a minimal synth
band or electronica or post-punk is selling them short. Low Red Center not
only have a great sound, but they have great songs, and a couple of ace
singers. Originally a studio project, in 2004 Low Red Center morphed into
an improvised group. Containing members of Voxtrot, Oblong Boys,
Pataphysics, Spoon, NonoBangBang, and other Austin bands, LRC staged shows
that involved heavy costuming, theater, dance, and, of course, music.
Eventually, many of these improvised pieces were molded into songs. In the
words of Chad A., 'The object of Low Red Center is an exercise in
improvisation and communication. Surprising ourselves as musicians by
experimenting and discovering on stage, in front of an audience is of our
goals. Restraint and listening are our approach to playing. A dedication to
succinct presentation prevents unwanted jamming and convinces the audience
that what we are performing are practiced, pre-written songs. The sound we
have in mind is minimal and somewhat alien, with a vague film noir feel.
This tension is frequently broken with a faster, more jagged post-punk
approach. The recordings present a studio translation of our live
principals, but with the luxuries of production embellishment and craft.
Everything was performed (no sequencing) on analog electronic synthesizers,
acoustic instruments, and electric guitar and bass. All the drum machines
were actual individual organisms, breathing with us in the studio--nothing
was sampled and rearranged. No computers were used.' Influenced by Cluster,
John Foxx, Tuxedomoon, Bruce Haack, Crash Course in Science, Silver Apples,
Raymond Scott, and Goblin, you can also hear Relando & the Loaf, Devo, the
Plastics and others in their sound. With insert."
Luciano - Tribute To The Sun 3x12 inch (Cadenza) [CADENZA042LP]
$24.50
Previously released on CD+DVD, now available in a special 3x12"
edition,
including full-length versions. On this format, you'll have the chance to
get the full versions of "Celestial," "Conspirer," "Los Niños de Fuera,"
"Africa Sweats," and "Metodisma," which aren't available on the CD version
of this album. Cadenza presents the second official studio album by
Swiss-Chilean DJ/producer and Cadenza label-head Lucien Nicolet (aka
Luciano, Lucien-N-Luciano). Since his first record Blind Behaviour in 2004,
Luciano has earned his place among electronic dance music's most celebrated
names, and with Tribute To The Sun, Luciano delivers one of the definitive
highlights of his career. Not merely a "dance" or "electronic" record,
Tribute incorporates musical styles from around the globe with Luciano's
inimitable rhythmic sensibility. Its moods run from the heavenly grace of
"Celestial" to the outright madness of "Metodisma" in a diverse mix of
world and techno beats. Includes guest contributions from Keren Ann, Ali
Boulo Santo, Bruno Bieri, and Omri Hason.
Markus Homm - Moving Image 12 inch (Ostwind Records) [OW025EP]
$10.25
"We have been looking forward to Markus Homm's Moving Image EP for
quite
awhile. Some of you will probably remember that he celebrated with Frank
Nova at the LTD007 debut with us! Mark is an avid sound tinkerer and an
even more grandiose dancer. For this he is celebrated throughout the world.
Tango, foxtrot, etc. (world class!). He can create a symbiosis between
sound and dancing that many others never find. Mark loves the classic
tech-house, surrounded by Detroit's chords, loose grooves and a touch of
funkyness. This he shows us on the A side and during the EP in its
entirety. 'Moving Image' and 'Break Free' are two tracks that belong to the
dance floor, but also in every other genre. As a first remixer we are very
pleased to have Lauhaus. He puts 'Moving Image' in a completely different
light and structures the song into a dancefloor killer. His holländischer
charm is on display again. The second remix 'Break Free' is by the boys
from the 'Hermannstedt Collective.' What a really wonderful result!
Sensitivity and a very big heart are also served here. Even the two can
only respectfully thank you for this work. All around a very successful
record, but some will be torn from the stool!"
Marlow - Bandwagon Junglist/Back 4 More 12 inch (Boka)
[BOK021EP] $10.25
"Marlow is officially 'Back 4 More,' making his long-awaited return to
Boka
Records since 'Tremor' dropped back in 2007. Fresh from remixes on Southern
Fried Records and Skint, BOKA021 showcases Marlow's brand spanking new beat
along with arguably his most popular club tune. 'Back 4 More' has been
supported by the likes of Toddla T, who most recently showcased the tune on
a Radio 1 essential mix for Pete Tong. It's currently play listed on
Ministry of Sound radio and Rob Da Bank is also on the case with a tune
that see's Marlow on a euphoric garage tip. 'Bandwagon Junglist' is an epic
club banger that has been doing the rounds for over a year now, a highly
anticipated beat and easily the most requested tune in Marlow's ever
expanding range of artillery."
Mendo - Remember 12 inch (Cadenza) [CADENZA041EP] $13.25
Mendo's Remember EP has been highly anticipated by many DJs. Luciano
plays
it live, and it always receives mad reactions from crowds. Mendo was first
approached by producer George Morel in the late '90s, and signed a few
releases on Groove On. "Everybody I Got Him" was previously released in
2000, and is now in a new mix, and there's another club burner on the flip.
Supported by the Martinez Brothers, Luciano, Reboot, Loco Dice, Tobi
Neumann, and others.
MF
Doom - My Favorite Ladies 12 inch (Nature Sounds) [NS001] $7.25
REISSUED!!! Hip hop super villain MF DOOM (KMD) returns with a new
single
of gutter-flowing groove gold. The title track taken from High Times' THC
Volume 1 compilation, backed with an unreleased exclusive cut called "All
Outta Ale." Both are produced by DEV ONE (aka THE PROFESSOR), and are
complemented with alternate versions.
Michele Lombardelli - Broken Guitars LP (No Label) [UMA000]
$29.50
The debut recordings by this Italian visual artist. Sadness-tinged
acoustic
guitar improvisations a la Derek Bailey and John Fahey. Housed in a
spectacular multi-fold cover. Limited edition of 150 copies.
Midaircondo - Curtain Call LP (Twin Seed Recordings)
[TWINS001LP] $19.00
This is the second full-length album by Swedish duo Midaircondo, and
the
first release on their own Twin Seed Recordings label. The follow-up to
their celebrated 2005 release Shopping For Images (TYPE 008CD/LP), Curtain
Call is an exceptional pop record -- and make no mistake, this is a pop
record; a heady mix of unexpected arrangements, acoustic and electronic
sound sources, experimental music fused with the pair's undeniable pop
sensibilities, that makes for an album which draws the listener in
instantly. Reborn as a duo, Midaircondo's wonderful, original
improvisational skills and innovative compositions have been developed into
a new and more solemn sound. Classical instruments and delicate deliveries
of poetic lyrics marry in Midaircondo's electronic world. Quirky field
recordings from the band's travels around the world create backdrops that
invite you to enter Midaircondo's unique musical sphere. From the
shimmering opening moments of its title track, Curtain Call has such a
peculiar pull, familiar in the most unique of ways. It's hard to categorize
these songs -- equal measures of dark and light haunt the listener
throughout. Delicate passages of recognizable instruments are suddenly
thrown into unexpected territories, often revealing the duo at their most
catchy. Midaircondo's evocative arrangements, plus their ability to gel the
compositional and the improvisational, result in an album of incredibly
forward-thinking music -- challenging but accessible to all. Making a guest
appearance is The Soundtrack Of Our Lives' frontman Ebbot Lundberg, sharing
vocal duties on standout track "Silk, Silver And Stone," a dark, layered
song cycle with hazy, descending vocal layers and strings. Reminiscent of
the best of Blonde Redhead, Björk's "All Is Full Of Love," and the electro
allure of Bat For Lashes, Midaircondo's dark vision of electronic pop makes
Curtain Call an album to return to time and time again.
Mountainhood - Mountainhood LP (Blackest Rainbow Records)
[BRR135LP] $17.75
"Brand new one-sided LP from Michael Curtis Hilde following his recent
LPs
on Time Lag's Red Records sub division, as well as a string of ultra
limited self-released CDRs and releases for Yod and Reverb Worship. This is
a far gone trip that's totally out there and very hard to pin down. The
closest categorization for this beast would be folk, but it's like some
total mutated, distorted lurker mirror image. Wild psychedelic strings and
heavy bedroom vibes run throughout this delicate beauty. Limited to 300 in
pro-printed black and white wraparound sleeve featuring amazing artwork by
Michael."
Music Go Music - Expressions LP (Secretly Canadian) [SC186LP]
$14.50
"'When people talk about the rebirth of disco, this is how it should
be,
manic zombifications reanimated from the Abba songbook, wired with Philip
K. Dick paranoia and Donna Summer euphoria,' says the NME on Music Go
Music's debut full-length Expressions. The Los Angeles trio recorded the
album over the course of a year-and-a-half. They make pop music but,
fortunately, the term means very little these days. What kind of pop music
is it? Rock and Roll, disco, metal, boogie, trans-hand, psychedelic? Fader
magazine perhaps put it best when they said, 'They begin with a bright-eyed
Scandinavian sashay and end with a ten-minute Mediterranean disco romp
featuring programmed drums, making detours along the way into rainy day
ballads and guitar infernos. The cumulative effect plays like the greatest
hits of dance saviors that never existed - and indeed, they probably should
only be performed from inside an aquadome at the bottom of the Caspian Sea,
or at least during a summer-long residency in Ibiza.' Indeed."
Mutant Ape - Buried On't Moors LP (Urashima) [U003] $34.00
The wild noise project by Yorkshire, UK resident GEORGE PROCTOR
delivers an
intense and relentless discharge of cavemen electronics and obsessive noise
with dirty male vocal textures in the upper layers. Silkscreened cardboard
sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty For Baby LP (Dischord)
[DIS071] $12.75
REISSUED WITH A DOWNLOAD!!! The beloved Plays Pretty For Baby album
from
Washington, D.C. heavyweights THE NATION OF ULYSSES-IAN SVENONIUS, TIM
GREEN, STEVE KRONER, STEVE GAMBOA and JAMES CANTY.
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms LP (Lefse) [LEFSE001LP] $14.75
"An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo (VEGA). Neon Indian
delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, dream-pop lullabies, and grinding
guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. Forged
after a hazy winter gathering in Texas, this initial batch of tracks were
the result of field recordings, record samples, a collection of bizarre
synth sounds. Soliciting the visual acrobatics of video artist Alicia
Scardetta, this project is setting out to be a multi-media maelstrom.
Orbiting around the themes of drug induced heart-break, weary afternoons,
and lost chances, this music provides a lush soundtrack to the deadbeat
exploits of teenage ennui. Neon Indian's bedroom ballads have already
forged Psychic Chasms. They've been compared to New Order, Future Bible
Heroes, and most recently said to sound like a saw-wave cutting a Doobie
Brothers' song in half. Expect much racket to be had from this fresh faced
crew."
Onde - Purple LP (Ondemusic) [ONDE003LP] $24.25
"Vinyl only edition of 500 copies. Minimal electric psych inspired by
tidal
waves."
Ost
& Kjex (feat. Mung) - Dirty Mind 10 inch (Curle Recordings) [LUNA007EP]
$11.50
Ost & Kjex are aided by Mungolian Jet Set's Strangefruit aka Mung on a
good-natured, fun, and rather raunchy take on Prince's teen lust classic
"Dirty Mind." Already road-tested throughout the whole summer, this one
surely gets the girls going, which is essentially what this tune is about
anyway. Comes with a dub version for those who can't take the campiness of
the vocals, and only available on this limited 10" vinyl.
Panther - Entropy 12 inch (Kill Rock Stars) [KRS513EP]
$11.25
"Panther is back with Entropy, a 12" of new material from the prolific
Portland originators of 'floor dancing.' This vinyl gem features more of
the jerking rhythms and catchy hooks Panther fans remember from their 2008
full-length on KRS, 14kt God, but these new songs move in a Pinback-y way
towards more piano-driven than guitar-driven melodies. Charles Salas-Humara
and Joe Kelly create a lot of layers for a duo, building songs that allow
Charlie's vocals to float ethereally into other realms, while firmly moored
by Joe's solid drums."
Philogresz - Milestone 12 inch (Ware) [WARE082EP] $10.75
Ilker Soylu aka Philogresz is based in Dordrecht, Holland where he runs
his
label Team Records. He is a great aestheticist of the post-minimal world.
His sound is both playful and intoxicating; his incredibly melodious
tenderness corresponds with compulsory beats. The guitar and voice on "Vie"
are not sampled, but performed by Philogresz himself. His sound is moody,
melodic, jazzy and organically-composed; yet it is confidently-arranged
techno with no boundaries.
Quest - Last Days 12 inch (Deep Medi Musik) [MEDI021EP]
$10.25
"Well well....Who saw this one coming?! Brand new Quest beats on
legendary
dubstep label Deep Medi (ran by Mala - Digital Mystikz), the audio has been
kept well under wraps so no long-winded track descriptions on this one.
Suffice to say Silkie along with Quest and the rest of the Anti-Social
Entertainment crew are knocking out some of the most inspiring and groovy
dubstep on the planet right now, so this is auto-buy-on-sight business, act
quick!!"
Raydios - Now LP (Dirtnap) [ZZZ85] $13.50
"Our first release from a Japanese band, and we couldn't really ask for
a
better one than this. For those not in the know, THE RAYDIOS is FINK from
the legendary TEENGENERATE and current member of FIRESTARTER. This is their
2nd album, coming about 10 years (!) after their Demo LP on Screaming
Apple. The CD version of Now is released by Japan's Mangrove Records last
year (and is being distributed by Dirtnap in the USA), and is just now
seeing the light of day on vinyl. It's been remastered for vinyl and
remixed by Fink himself, and sounds GREAT. Musically this is no frills,
crunchy, mid tempo rock n roll. Less trashy than Teengenerate, but not
quite as 'pop' as Firestarter, this is kinda a middle ground between the
two. Total dream release for Dirtnap. Pinch us."
Relocate - Hard Boogie For Dub Swingers 2 12 inch (Iberian)
[IBR003EP] $10.25
"The new release from Lisbon/Barcelona based Iberian Records sees the
second part of Relocate's Hard Boogie For Dub Swingers EP hit wax. First up
are Lisbon's Kuduro warriors Buraka Som Sistema with a remix of Relocate's
'Dot Dot Dash.' Clever micro samples from the original rub are married to
an absolutely slamming b-line to create a full on floor-filler full of
original flava which very successfully merges UK bass to the Portuguese
sound. On the flip we have 'Origins' from Relocate; which sees their unique
stripped down sub-heavy bassline boogie to full effect. Relocate come up
trumps once again with a full on roller of a track with trademark gliding
bass dives and punchy stabs from a classic sidestepper Zed Bias sample and
a very much house meets dubstep type of vibe. Both tunes are guaranteed to
set the dance alight with their characteristic Iberian bass and groove
flow. Support has come from the likes of Bunzero, Subsound, Markle,
Blackdown, TRG, Ben UFO and Zed Bias."
Rigas Den Andre - Guilty Feet, No Rhythm LP (Flogsta Danshall)
[FD003LP] $23.25
"What's wrong with Rigas den Andre? He's young, gifted and comes from a
well-respected noble family and still his music speaks the ancient mournful
language of the rocky Swedish archipelago. Because of this, RDA could be
easily dubbed as the meister of melancholic electronic party music. Or
'blue funk' as the exact term should be in my opinion. Take my word and
dive in to the sea of emotions provided by RDA's new album Guilty Feet, No
Rhythm. I promise you confusion. Take a journey through the depressing
digital funk of 'No Heaven' or reach for the joyous synthesizer excursions
of 'W.A.S.P.' or 'Go, Rangers, Go!'.And don't forget to boogaloo to the
epic title track which sounds like Timbalandand Björn Ulvaeus had a son.
Because, in the end RDA's music is like life itself: Gloomy, mournful,
slow, but oh so funky!"
Roska - Elevated Level 12 inch (Roska Kicks & Snares) [MR004EP]
$11.50
"Amidst all the column inches expended on London's nascent 'Funky'
scene
there's been a notable shortage of quality releases to get excited about,
but with Roska's new EP all a dat should be about to change. With echoes of
the finest period Chicago house, hardcore continuum to ukg, bruk up beats
and deadly drums, this is one definitive piece - if you're outside the m25
and still wondering what all the fuss is about -- this is exactly what
we're talking about -- awesome twelve -- totally recommended."
Rossi B & Luca/El-B - Jah No Dead/Son De Cali 12 inch (Soul
Motive) [SMR004EP] $11.50
"Well received new power moves from Bristol's Soul Motive crew,
combining
the significant pedigrees of El-B -- who is clearly back, and let's hope
for good this time - and Rossi B & Luca, who've been been locking it down
for some years now. The wood-blocked percussive bump of 'Jah No Dead' takes
Winston Rodney's heart-rending beachside a capella from the Rockers movie
and shakes it over some precision low-end science, indebted to the Ghost
originator no doubt, but managing to make an entirely new flow for the 09.
Lewis Beadle turns it out for 'Son De Cali' with primed UK bass values
ramping it up under a twisted drum pattern which has got the f-u-n-k in no
uncertain terms. Don't matter what you call it, two killers in any
language."
RSD/Evergreen & Landlord - Jah Rain 12 inch (Ranking Records)
[RAN007EP] $11.50
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Salem - Frost/Legend 7 inch (Audraglint) [AG120EP] $8.75
"Two pop tracks from the unstoppable goth juke outfit, Salem. One side
sung
by Heather, the flip by John. Limited to 500 copies."
Samara Lubelski - Future Slip LP (Ecstatic Peace) [E#110LP]
$13.50
LP version with glossy insert. "Samara Lubelski's 5th solo LP Future
Slip
serves up a gorgeous and friendly collection of bittersweet melodies,
sinister basslines, gestural Polaroid lyrics, and spot-on drumming
garnished with sprigs of fuzz, paired with a guitar Riesling. It is a
record of knowledge and innocence, of truth and fairytale, of wonder and
clarity. Envision France Gall performing the songs of Sterling Morrison and
Mo Tucker with Ralph Molina on drums. The show is at a loft across Bowery
from CBGB's and the only person in the audience at soundcheck is Jandek,
cross-legged in the middle of the floor. Produced by Thurston Moore. And
here is the result: Future Slip is a worldly record, a record which offers
'a taste of the new dimension' but warns of 'guru bummers'. To a sunny day
it adds the shadows which allow the perception of depth. On a rainy day it
offers a selection of cakes. Anyone who does not dig this record deserves
our pity, as they know nothing about the joy or sadness of life."
Samara Lubelski - Did You See?/Spectacular Of Passages 7 inch
(Time-lag Records) [TLR048EP] $8.25
"Two stunning exclusive tracks finally unleashed after (too many) years
on
the shelf, just in time to coincide with Samara's wonderful new album
Future Slip on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label. A sweet little dose
of hushed and fragile melancholy folk-pop-drone fluttering. Samara's
unmistakable slow-bliss songforms are at their most stripped down and
psychedelically entwined, with thick hovering violin tones, distant
reverbed atmospheres and gentle swirls of quivering guitar feedback all
lifting things just high enough. Totally bleary-eyed and beautiful, hitting
that perfect spot just between your heart and gut. To these ears it's that
golden zone where the sound of her past in bands like Hall Of Fame, Tower
Recordings, Metabolismus, etc., merges effortlessly with her sublimely
structured solo vision. Packaged in silver and black on bright red offset
printed art paper covers, with simple hand stamped labels. Edition of 400
copies."
Seuil - Freak & Violence 12 inch (Freak n' Chic) [FNC043EP]
$12.25
Alexis Bernard aka Seuil returns to Freak N' Chic with Freak &
Violence,
which sees the Parisian leader-of-the-new school take his impeccable sound
into deeper, late-night territory. Warm synths and a spoken vocal dominate
the title track. The synths have a trippy vibe but are balanced by
ultra-groovy drums. On "Lost In The Soul Shower," sparse keys and complex
drums give way to the ebb and flow of distorted, filtered organs. A
wonderfully fresh take on deep house.
Shinedoe - No Boundaries Remixes Part 1 12 inch (Intacto)
[INTAC0211EP] $11.50
Part 1 of 2. Tracks off Shinedoe's No Boundaries get a remix treatment
by
some of the hottest names around. For this 12", producer Martin Buttrich
crafts a warm, deep, bass-y, layered groove remake of the title track,
while Innersphere (Shinedoe's alias) drops a hypnotic, subtle Chicago
dancefloor remix groover of "Bounce To This" that will bring you to a whole
different level.
Shinedoe - No Boundaries Remixes Part 2 12 inch (Intacto)
[INTAC0212EP] $11.50
Part 2 of 2. The second 12" remix package of tracks off Shinedoe's No
Boundaries features the man behind the Hamburg-based label Liebe*Detail,
Matthias Meyer, who makes a smooth percussive remix of "Finding A Balance"
and a remix by rising Dutch star DJ Madskillz of "Higher (feat.
Innersphere)."
Shortstuff - Progression 12 inch (Formant) [FRMNT006EP]
$11.50
"Killer twelve from Shortstuff, really coming into his own now with
good
form to show already for Ramp, Berkane Sol and Pollen. 'Progression'
shuffle steps in ridim wise, jittering over involving, game-derived riffage
-- pretty much spot on. 'Relapse' rides uk hardcore indebted drums and
boasting 2009 low-end values to go with -- a spry tune for mixing and
holding the listener in an agitated yet reflective state almost
simultaneously. 'A' rounds it on out with some awesome production, a rising
bass-line which just keeps on moving under agile drums and surprisingly
moving harmonics implied in the deceptivelty simple melodic refrain.
Excellent."
Skream - Burning Up/Memories Of 3rd Base 12 inch (Digital
Soundboy Records) [SBOY023EP] $9.00
"When Skream came up with his 'Lets Get Ravey' version of La Roux's 'In
For
The Kill,' he was inspired by the sound of early '80s rave days, and for
his first contribution to Shy FX's Digital Soundboy label, the Croydon
producer takes his homage further into jungle territory. 'Burnin Up' has
got it all: female vocal sample, mid tempo amen breaks, booming bassline
all combined to perfection, with an awesome switch half way. Skream has
lovingly updated the exhilarating sound of early jungle to stunning
results. If 'Burnin Up' is a tribute to jungle's debut, 'Memories of 3rd
Base' is all about the birth of dubstep. A highly potent minimalist groove
with technoid blips and mutating sub bass, it pays tribute to the club that
shaped the scene in the mid '00s. With artists like Benny Page and Breakage
constantly producing genre defying music, and high flying contributions by
Caspa and Skream, DSB offers a unique insight into the incredible talent of
the UK Urban scene."
SSHE Retina - Souls And Waltzes From The Telegraph Frontier LP
(Urashima) [U004] $34.00
SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS stretches the conceptual and methodological
framework of the Remote Aktion (Diophantine 2008) ever further; starting
from acoustic guitar as the only source input, environmental feedback
effects and real-time manipulation and sampling are applied to booze up the
outcome and create a screaming thunderstorm of delighted noise. Dense
bubbles inflate and burst like organic supernovas, exploring the forgotten
areas of apocalyptic soundscapes. Four long tracks infatuated with
repressed anachronisms as tools for liberation. Slow blasts, perpetual
wails, soothing and distressed. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert.
Limited edition to 120 copies.
Steve Gurley - Walk On By Remixes 12 inch (Groove Chronicles)
[NGC004EP] $10.25
"Fresh rinses of the Gurley classic for increasingly diverse UK
dancefloors
and beyond - this time Steve G himself drops an immaculate VIP, chopping
the vocal and re-editing the arrangement into a more oblique plate still
packed with immense power to move the floor. Leaving it to fresh faced
acolytes C J Reign and DJ Ski to stoke the UKG/ bassline fires a burnin
some more - a bona fide anthem with fresh legs."
Stimming - Stormdrum 12 inch (Diynamic) [DIYNAMIC030EP]
$11.50
"Actually, after his debut album Reflections this young man could use
some
time to relax, continue touring over the world or put his feet up during
the week. But for Mister Stimming this is impossible. He just loves
producing music too much. We have nothing to say about this and are very
happy to present you with three fantastic new tracks. Funk with me!"
STL
- Jungle Sometimes 12 inch (Something) [STL010EP] $13.50
"This four tracker comes deep and dirty. Tube amplified driven grooves
with
colorful shining percussion, unstoppable exciting melodies on top, plus the
ever appearing bonus loops makes this a very exceptional and personal
sounding twelve inch. The included dancefloor madness will shake your heads
once you are down with it. House music that will move you, but also amaze
your senses in relaxed listening situations. Play the track in moody places
and this record brings you into other orbits. Finally this again has that
typical STL vibe for which he is notorious. Buy Something - your turntable
will be grateful!
Sufjan Stevens/Osso - Run Rabbit Run 2xLP (Asthmatic Kitty)
[AKR049LP] $24.25
"In 2001, Sufjan Stevens followed up his debut album, A Sun Came, with
Enjoy Your Rabbit, a series of fourteen instrumentals programmatically
inspired by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Much later, in 2006, Bryce
Dessner (The National, Dark Was the Night compilation, Clogs) suggested
that Sufjan re-arrange the entirety of Enjoy Your Rabbit for Osso, a string
quartet that had previously contributed strings to Sufjan's Illinois and My
Brightest Diamond's Bring Me The Workhorse. The result is Run Rabbit Run."
Sully - Track Side/Duke St Dub 12 inch (Mata-syn) [MAT003EP]
$11.50
"Two further illustrations of the breadth of the dubstep parish -- here
the
man like Sully, recently dubbed by Blackdown the 'king of swing' reveals
some very different vibes from some of his previous work, foregrounding the
garage sound to righteous effect. Dark, swinging and tooled up for optimum
floor detonation -- heavy."
Synkro - Everybody Knows 12 inch (Smokin Sessions) [SMOKE004EP]
$11.50
A1. Everybody Knows B1. Dub Specialist B2. Empty
Synkro - Closer 12 inch (Synkro) [SYNKRO001EP] $10.25
A1. Closer B1. Just To See Her B2. Rooted
Synkro - Everyday/Tell Me 12 inch (Synkro) [SYNKRO002EP]
$11.50
"Brilliant record -- second on his own label for Joe Synkro -- simply a
must for all fans of the darker two step garridge 009 movement."
Synkro Faib & Indigo - Inhale 12 inch (Smokin Sessions)
[SMOKE007EP] $11.50
"Our local Mancunian heroes Joe Synkro and Liam Indigo duke it out back
to
back over a shouldering desk, following prior top rate solo and duo work
for their own labels Mindset and Synkro as well as smashing at anywhere
from Fabric to genius Strange Fruit basement parties in Manc. These guys
are truly from and of the scene, too ensconced in fashioning new directions
in music to worry about whether they are dubstep, garage, techno, house,
funky or jungle this week -- simply put -- great stuff. Joe runs it with
two cuts -- 'Inhale' matches up with Indigo's 'Exhale' for On The Edge
elsewhere this week, see what they did there -- post-Burial garage and
ain't nowt wrong with that. Where 'Fire' is some rude and open future death
steppers, someplace well away from bombast, formula or cliche. But perhaps
its the weighty lady friendly uk garage bump funk step of 'Heaven' which
typifies this twelve -- had the senior citizen types here busting a move."
Synkro/Indigo - Turning/Alabama 12 inch (On The Edge)
[OTE007EP] $11.50
""Heavyweight plate for all the 2step009/dubstep-techno crew from two
of
Manchester's favourite sons -- Indigo & Synkro. All this last 18 months the
pair have been ever so gradually producing a steady stream of quality tunes
-- dubstep perhaps but with undeniable with affinities to soul, house,
garage and techno continuums. This could be the best batch yet -- state of
the art dubbed out technical steppaz post-garage, whatsoever you call it --
a positive must 23 / 25 techno continuums."
Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene - Voile au Vent LP (La Scie
Doree) [SCIE709LP] $24.25
"Vinyl only edition of 400 copies. Extended piano improvisations
embedded
in a freely arranged instrumentation."
Timo van Luijk/Kris Vanderstraeten - High Noon LP (La Scie
Doree) [SCIE305LP] $24.25
"2nd issue of 200 copies, olive green silkscreen on white die-cut
sleeve."
Tom
Carter/Shawn McMillen/Starving Weirdos - Untitled LP (Blackest Rainbow
Records) [BRR145LP] $20.25
"Crazy 3-way collaboration from some of America's best underground
musicians. Charalambides' Tom Carter is joined by Shawn McMillen, sometime
member of Warmer Milks and Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, with the added
power of Starving Weirdos. This two track collaboration has been around
since 2007 and it landed in my mailbox a few months back, and man, it's a
real beauty. Side A is a total hypnotic slice of ravaged drone, the four
musicians seamlessly blend their own styles of underground bliss outs to
sheer perfection. Side B opens with a crazy loop of applause, waving back
and forth with a growing repetitive plug-in to then opening it up to create
new levels of total sonic weirdness. Slow shimmering black chasms engulf
the positivity until it's awash with lo-fi scrapes and buzzing electrical
nightmare. The loop eventually drops back in with total far gone chimes,
jingling away at acid burnt psychedelic keys and a thundering bass loop. A
totally bizarre jam, which just opens more potential ventures up for these
artists. Hopefully we'll see more from this collaborative team soon.
Limited to 400 in pro-printed wraparound sleeves."
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market 2xLP (Warp Records)
[WARP184LP] $32.00
"For more than a decade, Tyondai Braxton has fine-tuned his unique
approach
as 'quite literally' a solo artist. Working by himself on stage and in the
studio, he employed guitar, voice, looping and delay pedals plus various
found objects to create work that simulates the sound of a large ensemble.
His live performances are as technically astonishing as they are sonically
mesmerizing. However, on his Warp Records debut and second full-length solo
album, Central Market, Braxton takes a radically different course from the
'orchestrated loops' that had become his trademark: For the first time in
his solo career, he's composed for a real orchestra. The result is an
exhilarating mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation; surprisingly
pastoral moments give way to more clangorous passages that will immediately
appeal to fans of avant-rock quartet, Battles, of which Braxton is a
member. There are plenty of ominous, unsettling sounds, particularly in its
later tracks, but the sheer ambition of Central Market gives the album an
uplifting, almost joyful quality. The spirit of the playing and the
inventiveness of the arrangements make the entire experience exciting and
fun, a word Braxton often employs when describing the process of bringing
Central Market to fruition."
Unknown - Deleted Scenes 002 12 inch (Deleted Scenes)
[DLS002EP] $10.25
"Deleted Scenes! Deleted Scenes is the label and production name for a
new
project forged by two big name producers from the dubstep scene. Both have
released successful albums, run their own imprints as well as DJing
worldwide on a regular basis. They sort of wanted to keep their identities
secret but it hasn't been working out so far. It might be Pinch and
Distance, but then again it might be Boney M and Vanilla Ice."
Unknown - Different Tingz 12 inch (War) [WAR012EP] $10.25
"Limited white label."
Various Artists - Err On The Good Side LP (Theory) [TFR002LP]
$25.25
"Err on the Good Side is the first volume of a compilation series
devoted
to musicians, programmers, reviewers, disc sellers or whoever involved in
music activities that we love. We offer them the opportunity to share their
passion for it by curating a record. For this first volume we have asked
ali_fib, the most interesting and adventurous gig promoter in Paris, to
handle it. The result, Err on the Good Side, reflects their own musical
tastes and friendships. Except 'Chambre 1,' Ilitch's introductory track
(which was released in 2005 as part of Thierry Müller's limited-edition
picture disc, Rainy House) and Amen Dunes' contribution 'Diane' (here
offered in its extended version; an alternative take will be released by
Locust Music), this record is made of previously unreleased material and
has been compiled using a very simple idea of symmetry: most of the tracks
here have been assembled as pairs based on musical affinities." Featuring
Sir Richard Bishop, Duane Pitre, El-G, Steve Gunn, Ben Nash, Hitch, Mike
Wexler and more. Numbered edition of 504 copies with glossy insert and
download postcard.
Various Artists - Our Thing Vol.2/The Inner Circle (Part 1) 12
inch (Highgrade) [HIGH0661EP] $11.50
Highgrade brings the core group of label artists together with some
recent
newcomers on Our Thing Vol. 2/The Inner Circle. Part 1 features Marcus Homm
with a funky and impulsive number, Tom Clark with a peak-time explosion,
Asem Shama with an exhilarating rocker, and Demir & Seymen with some
powerful orchestral stabs.
Various Artists - Our Thing Vol.2/The Inner Circle (Part 2) 12
inch (Highgrade) [HIGH0662EP] $11.50
Highgrade presents the second part of their Our Thing Vol. 2/The Inner
Circle 12" series with tracks by Simon Beeston, Mihai Popoviciu, Todd
Bodine, and veterans Phage & Daniel Dreier. This is not simply a Part 2,
but a statement all its own.
Various Artists - Geometry 2xLP (Touchin' Bass) [TB039LP]
$22.75
2LP version, limited to 300 copies.
Will Saul & Tam Cooper - Teddy's Back 12 inch (Simple)
[SIMPLE943EP] $12.25
"Music partners and friends Will Saul & Tam Cooper are back
collaborating
on Simple for the second time in 2009. Will is the man behind Simple and
Aus Music, a globe trotting DJ and A&R, and known as the UK's master of
deep. Will Saul's latest project has been mixing and sequencing the latest
in the renowned compilation series Balance, Balance 015. Features the
original version of 'Teddy's Back.' He has also recently remixed the Juan
Maclean on DFA and Cortney Tidwell for his own Aus Music. Tam Cooper has
been producing for the past decade under a number of different guises.
Experimenting with analogue kits is his main passion and he is also a
talented drummer and percussionist. Once a teenage raver, Tam has found his
way back to house and techno in recent years, enthused by a new wave of
artists and sound exploration. Will and Tam went back to their roots and
dusted off the sampler for 'Teddy's Back.' Strings and vocal cuts bring the
soul and their trusty 101 delivers the bass line. As with many of their
previous tracks together all the percussion is recorded live - 'because it
sounds better and is fun to do.' They set out to achieve something that was
heavy, rolling and organic yet with memorable moments that don't disappear
into a never ending Ableton conga loop. The original is already a firm
favorite with the Wolf + Lamb crew and Gilb'R' from Chateau Flight has also
been supporting it for many months from an early version. Our Parisian
friends dOP deliver the goods on a major level with their remix. A truly
filthy yet undeniably infectious song penned after a recent gig at the
infamous Berghain is backed by a surefire rhythm track and arrangement that
is designed to move bodies. In Will's words, 'not one I'll be playing to my
Mum.' Just how we like it!"
Young Fresh Fellows - I Don't Think This Is... LP (Munster)
[MR290] $22.25
Seattle most-loved rockers and the reverends of the irreverent, YOUNG
FRESH
FELLOWS, are back with I Don't Think This Is... Young Fresh Fellows, their
first full album since 2001, and 25 years after the release of their
groundbreaking first LP, The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific Northwest. It
doesn't matter that Fellow #1 SCOTT McCAUGHEY is on permanent duty with REM
since 1994, THE BASEBALL PROJECT (since last year) and also leading his
solo project THE MINUS 5, with famous guests such as Peter Buck (REM), Ken
Stringfellow and Jon Auer (The Posies), Bill Rieflin (REM), Chris Ballew
(Presidents of the USA), his good buddies from Wilco, etc. For some
die-hard fans Scott will always be 1/4 of Young Fresh Fellows, the greatest
rock & roll band on the planet, and the most important export from the
Pacific Northwest since The Sonics. The remaining three quarters of this
explosive cocktail are TAD HUTCHINSON, KURT BLOCH (FASTBACKS), and JIM
SANGSTER.
Zolex & Guss Carver - Mr. E Is Doing Fine 12 inch
(Mbelektronics) [MBELEK052EP] $11.50
After the huge and amazing success of the Knowledge EP, the Portuguese
masters of techno, The Advent & Industrialyzer are back on MB Elektronics
-- this time, with a remix they did for two of Belgium's most legendary
producers, Zolex & Guss Carver.
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Badfinger - BBC In Concert 2xLP (Turning Point Music) [TPM201]
$33.00
A double LP of the complete BBC sessions recorded during 1972 and 1973
featuring "Better Days," "Come And Get It," "Sweet Tuesday Morning," "Love
Is Easy," "Blind Owl," and more. Fifteen tracks in all, 180-gram vinyl.
Brian Jonestown Massacre, The - This Is Why You Love Me LP (A
Records) [AUK018LP] $19.75
180 gram LP version "Originally released on vinyl in 1997 now reissued
on A
Records, Anton Newcombe's own record label. This four track EP is available
for the first time on CD and on 180 gram vinyl. The Brian Jonestown
Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco,
California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian
Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums. BJM has been essential in
the development of the modern US garage scene, and many L.A. and S.F.
musicians got their start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club."
Cluster - Curiosum LP (Bureau B) [BB038LP] $16.00
Originally released on Sky Records in 1981, Bureau B reissues Cluster's
Curiosum -- the sixth duo collaboration between Dieter Moebius and
Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Curiosum was to mark a departure to pastures new.
Little did they know that this would be their last release for the next
nine years. Curiosum was launched into an atmosphere of musical turbulence.
Electronic sounds had become commonplace in pop music and the voice of
Cluster could barely be heard through the noise of a new generation of
music. Curiosum is a decidedly tranquil, almost melancholy album -- quiet
being the operative word, as Cluster slipped out of the limelight. It was
recorded in rudimentary fashion in Austria, now home to Roedelius. This is
Cluster music at its most serene, a sense of profound humility running
through the seven tracks of the LP. It says a lot about the state of mind
of the two musicians, allied to the fact that this was the first time they
chose to mix outside of Conny Plank's studio where, in the past, the
finishing touches had been applied. Roedelius and Moebius laid their cards
on the table for all to see, offering up Curiosum as an honest, unadorned
selection of tracks, free of artifice and preconception. The album
represented a return to the virtues of their early work (when Cluster was
written with a "K"), random and spontaneous. Curiosum is nothing if not a
curiosity, wholly resistant to the cacophonous zeitgeist of the early '80s,
stripped down and keenly focused on perfect shapes. This is Cluster's
swan-song to the past.
Cluster - Sowiesoso LP (Bureau B) [BB039LP] $16.00
Bureau B reissues the fourth full-length album by legendary German
electronic music duo, Cluster -- originally released on Sky Records in
1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album,
Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the
latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under the name
of Harmonia. 1976 saw the duo looking for new musical forms. More than any
other Cluster album, Sowiesoso represents the utopian vision of
Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Mobius, its mellow transparency evoking
the landscape of the Weser Uplands where the two musicians lived at the
time. Sowiesoso is not the work of fanatic dreamers who have fled the
metropolis, but the reward for their tenacious search for a new musical
language. The LP's seven cuts were recorded in their own studio with modest
equipment -- a four-track tape machine, two Revox A77 stereo tape-decks and
a simple 8-channel mixer. Cluster were thus completely independent, able to
work where and when they wanted, at their own pace. With no guest
musicians, sound engineers or producers to accommodate, Cluster thrived on
their new-found autonomous freedom. Sowiesoso captures them at the peak of
their creative development, with the limited range of recording equipment
enhancing the clarity of their vision, allowing them to concentrate on the
music without drifting into narcissistic muso territory. Minimalist, yet
neither formulaic nor automated, the album is a rhythmic tapestry of
otherworldly electronic and acoustic elements -- relaxed, organic and
gentle ambience. This could only be Cluster music; its harmonies reaffirm
the quality of song, in spite of eluding song structure as such.
Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing LP (Dischord) [DIS060]
$12.75
REISSUED WITH A DOWNLOAD!!! The classic 1991 Steady Diet of Nothing
album
from FUGAZI. Eleven tracks.
Gil
Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised LP (BMG) [DRL11798HLP]
$12.75
Gatefold 180 gram vinyl collection of previously-released songs
highlighting Gil Scott-Heron's career. Includes the title track, "Sex
Education: Ghetto Style," "The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues," "No Knock,"
"Lady Day And John Coltrane," "Pieces Of A Man," "Home Is Where The Hatred
Is," "Brother," "Save The Children," "Whitey On The Moon" and "Did you Hear
What They Said?". Featuring Hubert Laws, Pretty Purdie, Brian Jackson, Ron
Carter, Burt Jones, David Spinozza, Eddie Knowles, Charlie Saunders and
Gerry Jemott.
Gil
Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man LP (Flying Dutchman) [FD10143HLP] $12.75
Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl of Scott-Heron's
definitive
album, originally released in 1971. "Pieces of a Man is an album of fine
songs. Because most of the accompaniment by an excellent assemblage of
musicians here calling themselves Pretty Purdie and the Playboys: (Purdie
on drums; Ron Carter, an astounding bass man; Burt Jones, guitar, Hubert
Laws, flute and sax, and Brian Jackson, Scott-Heron's collaborator, on
piano) is in a jazz style, the songs have a loose, unanchored quality that
sets them apart from both R&B and rock work. Scott-Heron sings
straight-out, with an ache in his voice that conveys pain, bitterness and
tenderness with equal grace and, in most cases, subtlety. Frequently the
nature of the jazz backing is so free that the vocals take on an
independent, almost a cappella feeling which Scott-Heron carries off
surprisingly well. But what is most surprising about the album, especially
after an exposure to the awkwardly fashionable poses of his poetry, is
Scott-Heron's assurance and directness as a songwriter. There are
occasional lines that seem to have slipped out of youthful poetry into
mature songs ('Why should I subscribe to this world's madness?') and the
long final cut, 'The Prisoner,' tends to get bogged down in its own
'heaviness.' But generally the material is tough and real, 'relevant' while
avoiding, on the one hand, empty cliche and, on the other, fierce rhetoric,
its own kind of cliché. -- Rolling Stone
Gil
Scott-Heron - Free Will LP (Flying Dutchman) [FD10153HLP] $12.75
Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl, originally released in
1972. "Gil Scott-Heron's third album is split down the middle, the first
side being a purely musical experience with a full band (including flutist
Hubert Laws and drummer Pretty Purdie), the second functioning more as a
live rap session with collaborator Brian Jackson on flute and a few friends
on percussion. For side one, although he's overly tentative on the ballad
'The Middle of Your Day,' Scott-Heron excels on the title track and the
third song, 'The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues,' one of his best, best-known
performances. The second side is more of an impromptu performance, with
Scott-Heron often explaining his tracks by way of introduction ('No Knock'
referred to a new police policy whereby knocking was no longer required
before entering a house, 'And Then He Wrote Meditations' being
Scott-Heron's tribute to John Coltrane). His first exploration of pure
music-making, Free Will functions as one of Scott-Heron's most visceral
performance, displaying a maturing artist who still draws on the raw
feeling of his youth." -- All Music Guide
Gil
Scott-Heron - Small Talk At 125th And Lenox LP (Flying Dutchman)
[FDS131HLP] $12.75
Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl of Scott-Herron's debut
album, originally released in 1970. "Disregard the understated title; Small
Talk at 125th and Lenox was a volcanic upheaval of intellectualism and
social critique, recorded live in a New York nightclub with only bongos and
conga to back the street poet. Here Scott-Heron introduced some of his most
biting material, including the landmark 'The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised' as well as his single most polemical moment: the angry race
warning 'Enough.' Still, he balances the tone and mood well, ranging from
direct broadsides to clever satire. He introduces 'Whitey on the Moon' with
a bemused air ('wanting to give credit where credit is due'), then launches
into a diatribe concerning living conditions for the neglected on earth
while those racing to the moon receive millions of taxpayer dollars." --
All Music Guide
Gong - Peel Sessions 2xLP (Turning Point Music) [TNP202]
$33.00
All the Peel Sessions recorded by DAEVID ALLEN and his group of musical
space aliens between 1971-1974 and collected on one double-LP set with
amazing BERT CAMEMBERT cover artwork.
John's Children - Smashed Blocked! LP (Vinyl Lovers)
[VL900717LP] $6.00
180 gram vinyl. "An album collecting the material Marc Bolan recorded
during his brief stint as lead singer of the short-lived (1966-68) mod
psych band John's Children, although perhaps better known for their image
and stage antics than their actual music (apparently managing to upstage
the kings of stage antics, the Who, and inspire generations of punk
rockers). Their debut single 'Smashed Blocked' was recorded by session men
due to their lack of proficiency on their instruments, but by the time
their second single 'Just What You'll Get' was released things were looking
considerably up, featuring a solo by Jeff Beck on 'But She's Mine,' the
single's B-side. Bolan joined the group soon after and recorded the single
'Desdemona' (banned by the BBC for its controversial lyrics). Of the 17
tracks present, a full 9 are either penned or performed by Marc Bolan.
Although this band may only be a footnote in the annals of British
freakbeat, original copies of the 'Midsummer's Night Scene' single have
sold for
John's Children - Smashed Blocked LP (Vinyl Lovers) [900717]
$21.75
An album collecting the material MARC BOLAN recorded during his brief
stint
as lead singer of the short-lived (1966-68) mod psych band JOHN'S CHILDREN,
although perhaps better known for their image and stage antics than their
actual music (apparently managing to upstage the kings of stage antics, the
Who, and inspire generations of punk rockers). Their debut single "Smashed
Blocked" was recorded by session men due to their lack of proficiency on
their instruments, but by the time their second single "Just What You'll
Get" was released things were looking considerably up, featuring a solo by
JEFF BECK on "But She's Mine," the single's B-side. Bolan joined the group
soon after and recorded the single "Desdemona" (banned by the BBC for its
controversial lyrics). Of the seventeen tracks present, a full nine are
either penned or performed by Marc Bolan. Although this band may only be a
footnote in the annals of British freakbeat, original copies of the
"Midsummer's Night Scene" single have sold for $4,000! Includes printed
innersleeve with liner notes. 180 gram vinyl
Kevin Ayers - Radio Sessions 2xLP (Turning Point Music)
[TPM203] $32.50
A twelve track collection featuring radio sessions from 1970 and 1972
with
help from ROBERT WYATT, MIKE RATLEDGE, MIKE OLDFIELD, LOL COXHILL, MICK
FINCHER, DAVID BEDFORD, and others. Gatefold sleeve, 180-gram vinyl.
KMA
- Cape Fear/Phantasy Trip 12 inch (Groove Chronicles) [NGC003EP] $11.50
"Noodles' impeccably credentialed Groove Chronicles imprint comes
correct
yet again with this valuable re-issue of KMA's formative underground garage
classic from 1996 'Cape Fear.' Sounding astonishingly contemporary and in
fact more relevant than ever to the 2009 funky crowd, this is something of
a must have. For fans of Burial, Kode 9, El-B, Todd Edwards -- very good
indeed."
Los
Yetis - Nadaismo A Go-go 2xLP (Munster) [MR289] $30.25
A compilation of the wildest moments of the best 1960 garage-pop #and
from
Columbia. Twenty-one Nadaist (revolutionary pre-punk movement) tracks about
war, revolution and girls. In 1966, a certain go-go fever takes over
Medellin. The name of the virus: LOS YETIS. The city, one of the most
conservative in Columbia, started to feel the shakes in its foundations as
thousands of teenagers danced to the new sound, willing to distance
themselves from the tango and bolero favored by their parents. Los Yetis
would become the new idols of thousands of teenagers infected by the go-go
craze that The Beatles had originated a few years earlier. Los Yetis
combined covers of international hits with their own songs, which, even if
a little tame, had a wild spirit and lyrics with attitude set to beat, surf
and garage rhythms. 180-gram double-vinyl pressing limited to 1,000 copies.
Moebius Plank Neumeier - Zero Set LP (Bureau B) [BB037LP]
$16.00
In 1983, Dieter Moebius (Cluster) and legendary producer Conny Plank
teamed
up for the third time, resulting in the Zero Set project, originally
released on Sky Records. On this occasion, they were backed up by one of
the best drummers on the German rock scene: Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru.
Moebius had gotten to know and admire him as the live drummer for Harmonia
(Moebius, Roedelius, Rother) and during the recording sessions for their
second album (Deluxe). Plank, usually more of a background figure as
producer, takes an equal share of the limelight alongside the musicians.
His supermodern studio is brought into play like an instrument in its own
right; Plank explores the full range of audio editing, pushing recording
techniques to the limit to achieve maximum brilliance and plasticity.
Neumeier uses all of his many years of experience as a drummer,
demonstrating the precision and stamina of a drum machine, just infinitely
livelier and more inventive. And finally, to Moebius: always one of the
patriarchs of German electronic music, a creator of the most bizarre sound
happenings, yet never sounding forced or arbitrary. On the contrary, he
consistently worked within the context of the tracks themselves and their
relationship to each other. The music on Zero Set flows both smoothly and
energetically. No single idea is overplayed, and none of the tracks hits
the 10-minute mark. Aural and musical structures are concentrated to the
point of askesis, yet there is no mistaking just how much the musicians are
relishing playing together -- these are the two very different, yet
defining characteristics of the album. The trio is unsentimental in their
use of technology, exploiting it as an effective tool in pursuit of their
musical vision. Moebius Plank Neumeir are three musicians at the top of
their game and far too smart to allow their efforts to drift into
psychedelic meanderings. Infectious, tribal motorik rhythms chunder along
to dark synth squelches and squeals, that all feels exquisitely-placed with
factory-precision. An important and mystifying chapter in the legacy of
Krautrock/Kosmische Musik and a historic moment in German electronic music.
"Recall" features Sudanese vocals by Deuka.
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Volume Two: Echos
Hypnotiques 2xLP (Analog Africa) [AALP066LP] $23.00
Subtitled: From The Vaults Of Albarika Store 1969-1979. Four years in
the
making, Analog Africa finally presents the highly-anticipated second volume
of music from Africa's funkiest band, the mythical Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de
Cotonou. Volume One (The Vodoun Effect: Funk & Sato from Benin's Obscure
Labels, 1973-1975), released by Analog Africa at the end of 2008, was a
collection of amazing lo-fi recordings produced for various labels around
Benin. Volume Two showcases superbly recorded tracks, courtesy of the EMI
studios in Lagos, Nigeria, one of the best studios in the region. All
tracks here were recorded for the mighty Albarika Store label and its
enigmatic producer, Adissa Seidou. The idea for this compilation was born
five years ago when Samy Ben Redjeb, Analog Africa's founder and compiler,
first heard the addictive funk track "Malin Kpon O" (included here), which
was originally released in 1975 on Albarika Store. That discovery triggered
the compiler's curiosity and what followed was a long journey through the
musical history of Benin and the history of its most important ambassador,
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou. The result: approximately 100 pictures,
120 master tapes, 20 hours of interviews and a few hundred Orchestre
Poly-Rythmo vinyl records -- 500 songs in total -- some of which previously
unreleased. Almost half of those tracks were recorded for Benin's number
one label -- Albarika Store. Fifteen out of 200 tracks were carefully
selected for this compilation which comes with a massive 44-page booklet
filled with amazing pictures of the band, a complete discography and a
biography tracing the band from its foundation as Groupe Meloclem in 1964
via Sunny Black's band (1965), Orchestre Poly-Disco (1966), El Ritmo (1967)
and finally, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou in 1968. During the period
presented here -- 1969 to 1979 -- the mighty Orchestre was without any
doubt one of Africa's most innovative groups. Capable of playing any style
of music, the band moved from traditional Vodoun rhythms to funk, sato,
Latin, sakpata, psychedelia and Afro-Beat seamlessly and quickly became the
powerhouse of Benin's music scene. Some of the planet's most exciting
rhythms are related to the complex Vodoun religion born in Benin. Those
rhythms, supported by chants and dances, have been transmitted from
generation to generation and are still being performed to this day, a few
hundred years after they were created. The composers and arrangers of
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo understood that they were surrounded by a gold mine
of inspirational sounds which, if modernized and mixed in with whatever was
in fashion at that particular moment, could have a strong impact on the
urban population. Those astonishing combinations can be heard here, all
mixed into a heavy hypnotic sound -- Les Echos Hypnotiques.
Raincoats, The - The Raincoats LP (Kill Rock Stars) [KRS515LP]
$15.25
"We all love our secret bands. Kurt Cobain came across a Raincoats
album,
and found there a bunch of soul mates whose honest emotions affected him so
much that he tracked down founding member Ana da Silva somewhere in Notting
Hill, persuaded DGC (Nirvana's record label) to re-issue The Raincoats back
catalogue and encouraged the band to re-form. In 1977 da Silva and Gina
Birch, inspired by the example of the Pistols and the Clash, of course, but
also by the women of the Slits and X-Ray Spex, had responded to punk's DIY
call to arms and eventually persuaded the Slit's drummer Palmolive to join
their ranks. With the addition of the classically trained violinist Vicky
Aspinall, The Raincoats were an all female band who owed nothing to male
fantasy outfits like The Runaways, and produced a primeval punk-folk sound
on original songs like 'Fairytale in the Supermarket' and 'In Love or
deconstructing the Kinks' 'Lola' with cheek, fun and a pinch of salt."
Skatalites, The - Stretching Out: Vol. Two LP (Roir)
[RUSLP8312LP] $12.00
"The heavily anticipated vinyl re-release of Volume Two of the
Skatalites
marathon ska-blowout -- Stretching Out. Come ye revelers to hear the
original Skatalites, in their prime, in long extended jam sessions,
recorded live in Jamaica in 1983 at the Blue Monk Jazz Gallery nightclub
before their friends and fellow musicians. In 1983 Herbie Miller, manager
of Peter Tosh brought the original Skatalites (minus the late Don Drummond)
back to Jamaica from all over the world to perform at the 1983 Jamaica
Sunsplash. The Skatalites had broken up 18 years earlier, after their short
career of two years (1963-1965). Personal disagreements, conflicts and
animosities had driven these inventors of ska and master musicians to seek
their own future as individual artists. Miller, who became their manager,
owned a nightclub in Kingston, Jamaica called The Blue Monk Jazz Gallery.
Here, after 18 years of separation they reconciled their differences, (for
a time), and rehearsed for Sunsplash '83 and performed live at the club
before a crowd of local fans, friends, and fellow musicians. There were no
restrictions on the length of sets, no barriers on solos or improvisational
experiments, and no recording studio limits on how long each song should
last. They stretched out, played out, and had a joyous 18th anniversary
celebration and reunion. Fortunately, Miller recorded the rehearsals and
nightclub performances and captured for history (and dance - mad ska
mavens) all the spontaneity, fire, electricity, and good fellowship of that
unique moment. ska at its best by the greatest ska musicians in the world!"
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - The Kings of Benin: Urban Groove
1972-80 2xLP (Soundway) [SNDW004LP] $18.25
2LP version. Originally released on CD by Soundway in 2005, now
available
in a double-vinyl version. From the Republic of Benin, West Africa, T.P.
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo is one of Africa's least-known big-bands outside of
their home country, despite the fact that they have released over 100 LPs
and 50 singles. This release aims to redress the balance with a collection
that reflects their many poly-rhythmic moods. A mixture of hard Afro-funk,
driving Afro-beat, deep Afro-Latin and Cuban grooves, all with a unique
flavor that ruled the dancefloors of '70s urban Benin. Includes sleeve
notes, a detailed history and reproductions of the original sleeve art
label scans.
Tangerine Dream - Autumn In Hiroshima 2xLP (Membrane) [232789]
$49.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation LP (Earmark) [42020]
$22.50
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Summer In Nagasaki 2xLP (Membrane) [232788]
$49.25
No description available at this time.
Tangerine Dream - Views From A Red Train 2xLP (Membrane)
[232787] $49.25
No description available at this time.
Vanity Fare - Early In The Morning LP (Vinyl Lovers)
[VL900649LP] $22.75
180 gram vinyl. "Formed in 1968 in Kent, England, the band is probably
best
remembered for its hit songs 'Early In the Morning' and 'Hitchin' A Ride,'
which both became gold albums in the USA and reached the Top Ten. 'Hitchin
A Ride' actually became a hippy anthem and dance craze. Going against the
heavy acid rock trend of the late sixties with their brilliant melodies and
harmonic singing, the band, still active today, is one of the true
forgotten gems of the era. This version of the album -- originally released
in 1970 -- features 10 bonus tracks from the period."
Various Artists - Psych Funk 101 (1968-1975) 2xLP (World
Psychedelic Funk Classics) [WPFC101LP] $18.00
"Funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from '60s and '70s Nigeria, Iran,
Turkey,
Russia, South Korean and other exotic countries. Psych Funk 101 introduces
students to the global phenomenon of psychedelic funk music, and covers the
'golden years' of the movement, from approximately 1967 until 1980. This
compilation does not focus on American and British bands. Rather it focuses
on the bands throughout the Global Village that were influenced by the
innovation of American and British bands -- that many times one upped the
heroes they sought to emulate. This compilation focuses on bands influenced
by James Brown, The Meters, Sly and The Family Stone, Booker T and The MGs
and The Bar Kays and unsung rhythmic forces such as drummers Bernard
Purdie, Idris Muhammad, Earl Palmer, bassists such Carol Kaye and Jimmy
Lewis. It focuses on bands who took that energy and combined it with the
flair of psychedelic-rock musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and the ensemble
known as Cream -- as well as pop-rock acts taken by the experimental side
of psychedelia such as The Beatles. But these bands added their own, unique
cultural flourishes. The result is mind-bending. Think about it for a
second -- what musical forces were greater than that of funk and
psychedelic music in the late '60s and early '70s? These forces, combined
by bands happy to incorporate folk music and improvisational elements from
other musical forms, lead to an amazing body of work still being unearthed
by researchers the world over -- and still capable of inspiring new
investigations into shapes of rhythm." Artists include: Husnu Ozkartal
Orkestrasi, Kukumbas, Mulatu Astatke feat. Belaynesh Wubante And
Assegedetch Asfaw, Kim Sun, Petalouda, Mehr Pooya, Staff Carpenborg And The
Electric Corona, The Group, Armando Sciascia, Wadih Essafi, Omar Khorshid,
Metin H. Alatli, George Garanian With The Melodiya Jazz Ensemble and
Eskaton. Deluxe digipack with fully annotated 36-page booklet with liner
notes and rare photos.
Various Artists - Ouaga Affair: Hard Won Sound Of The Upper
Volta 1974-1978 2xLP (Savannaphone) [SAV001LP] $27.75
"The third release on Savannaphone and their first vinyl outing.
Gatefold
sleeve with photos, biographical information plus a trailer load of Upper
Volta bangers."
Various Artists - Reggae Interpretation Of Kind Of Blue LP
(Secret Stash Records) [SSR266LP] $16.50
"In the spring of 1981 a group of reggae studio musicians from Jamaica
gathered in New York City under the direction of Jeremy Taylor, a music
professor at NYU at that time. The result was this Reggae Interpretation of
Kind of Blue. Though he was primarily regarded as a world-class jazz
musician and educator, Taylor had taken several trips to Jamaica to study
reggae music with some of the best performers in the world. In his 1979
book, A Space Between Taylor wrote, 'My first trip to Jamaica (May 1977)
was the most eye opening musical experience of my life. I met so many
incredible players who had been brushed off by the snobby musical
establishment at institutions such as the ones I was affiliated with. They
showed more musicality, taste, and rhythmic comprehension than some of the
most revered musicians in the states. I knew that I had to find a way to
showcase their unparalleled talent in a different medium in order for some
of my colleagues to fully understand and learn from it.' This statement
served as the basic concept behind this album. Taylor took the most loved,
well-known modern jazz album of all time and put it in the hands of reggae
musicians. It was in this context that he felt his contemporaries would be
able to fully understand what it was he saw in these players.
Unfortunately, weeks after directing the sessions Taylor passed away in his
Paris hotel room while on a speaking tour of Europe. A final mix of the
album was never made and it was never released. Collectors have long spoken
of this album and in the late '80s lo-fi cassette tapes of rough mixes
circulated. No official release was ever issued until now. In early 2009,
Secret Stash Records began working with the Taylor estate to finally
release this album. After creating final mixes, dub versions of all the
songs were also made by Secret Stash producers. Now for the first time
ever, this highly sought-after album is available. This vinyl-only release
is a must have for any record collector."
Various Artists - Freedom, Rhythm And Sound: Revolutionary Jazz
1965-80 2xLP (Soul Jazz Records) [SJR219A-LP] $20.25
2LP version, part 1.
Various Artists - Freedom, Rhythm And Sound: Revolutionary Jazz
1965-80 2xLP (Soul Jazz Records) [SJR219B-LP] $20.25
2LP version, part 2.
Yardbirds, The - Roger The Engineer LP (The Great American
Music Co.) [GA182LP] $19.00
"This limited re-release of a classic album by the band that fostered
the
careers of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page features a faithful
recreation of the original LP sleeve, original packaging, and original
liner notes. Roger the Engineer was The Yardbird's first real studio album,
cut in 1966, yet was never initially released in the U.S. in its original
form. In this album the band explores broad palettes of style, ranging from
traditional blues, neomedieval turns, strange psychedelia, and outright
pioneering fretwork. Roger also features an added download only bonus of
the band's single 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago'/'Psycho Daisies.' Don't
miss this limited re-release of such a historically important title!"