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previous artist: rob millis		there are 9 titles featuring antony milton in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: ilhan mimaroglu

$14.28

new to stock as of
february 8th, 2012

threads:
modern-psych
lo-fi
minimalism-drones

emerald cocoon (usa) #ec 002 lp

sunken “new zealand eels” long playing record

eelman 003
census
the evidence
eel meal
pint

october 2010 release ; ... third release (after a couple of outings for pseudoarcana) from this collaborative project between antony “mrtyu”, “nether dawn” milton & stefan “pumice” neville ...

... groaning held-chord sawtooth buzz with stefan’s unmistakeable mumble-vox ...

emerald cocoon press release...

sunken
new zealand eels lp [ec002]

sunken's previous two albums on pseudo arcana were long form chord-organ driven flights into the heart of the ecstatic blaring sun. despite antony milton (the nether dawn, glory fckn sun etc.) and stefan neville's (pumice) lovecraftian attempts to posit sunken as sea-shanties sung by sailors lost to cthulhu at the bottom of the deepest darkest ocean, somehow their surging reed driven organs and vocal streams broadcast via cracked electronics seemed to suggest sailors breaking free of the weeds and swimming towards the light, and even, occasionally, breaking the surface.

their first vinyl release new zealand eels however, is a tentacle shot from the abyss to drag the sailors back down into the service of the lurker in the deep. bleak, black and completely drowned, new zealand eels beams five submarine tracks from the lost to the lost through the milky darkness. with the vocal melodies pushed to the foreground and the instrumental origins of the music obscured as never before by damaged baby monitors, power starved dictaphones, tape saturation and spring reverb, sunken are now finally, truly lost to the abyss. two drowned sailors invite you to breathe in the water, forget about life on the surface and lay down with the kraken amidst the curling weeds.

what has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

- h p lovecraft

edition of 300. thick reverseboard sleeves with art by stefan neville.

$17.71

new to stock as of
july 30th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
new-zealand
minimalism-drones

ikuisuus (finland) #iku 005 cd

a.m. “orla” compact disc

as the rain comes down (6:26)
sky voltage (reeds) (8:46)
ribscraper (7:24)
some dreams must (12:40)
chamber lull (8:21)

killer batch of organ-derived drone-pieces from antony milton; indebted to charlemagne palestine inasmuchas sheer electrical force/will itself. fans of brendan murray’s recent work take note...

ikuisuus press release...

a.m.: orla - cd (ikuisuus, 2006)

5 tracks - total 43:40

one day in early 2004 i arrived home to find the biggest parcel i had ever received sitting on my doorstep, it was crudely wrapped and covered in stamps. i was amazed that anyone would post something like this through the regular mail system.

i brought it inside and cut away the packaging. to my astonishment i found that it contained a large old 'orla' chord organ and a letter from marcel bear (empirical) saying that he had noted my recent enthusiasm for organ tones (see also with throats as fine as needles and sunken...).

he had found this one at a garage sale and thought that i might like it. my interest in organs had been at least in part inspired by my reading about charlemagne palestine and his concept of the "golden music". his idea of a stream of sound that may facilitate an ecstatic bliss of religious intensity has been hugely influential to me (in much the same way as haino's 'sound of the universe'...).

i decided pretty much straight away that i would record an album using this organ as the predominant sound source (the only other sound sources are the field recordings of rain on the 1st track and scaffolding pipes on the 2nd).

as the recordings progressed from the straight ahead drone of the 1st track i stripped away more and more unnecessary components of the machine until on the last track i was bowing and plucking the spring pegs of the keys. one of my favourite sounds was that of the fan motor itself.

anthony milton

$11.27

new to stock as of
june 21st, 2005

file under:
lo-fi
sound-research
site-specific
guitar-themed

last visible dog (usa) #lvd 060 cd

the nether dawn “whiskey mute-down” compact disc

evensong pt. one
routes through grey lands
passing (aloft)
if we left in a high storm
icycle porn
evensong pt. two

“mass-market” reissue of a fantastic july 2003 cdr by antony milton, a highly prolific artist with scads of releases on his pseudo-arcana label as well as wire bridge, foxglove, pink skulls, humbug, apoplexy, and celebrate-psi-phenomenon. this disc is anthony working in “sound art” mode; some it sounds like a cassette-bound rafael toral, other recordings inhabit a distant morricone-esque space, while others still come across a tape-hiss laden “cinema pour l’oreille” of ghost-voices and scraped string noise. highly evocative...

last visible dog press release...

antony milton is one of the new important voices to appear from new zealand in the wake of the dead c and the mid-90's 'free noise' scene. milton is at all times an intelligent interpreter of what's come in the last two decades--this is after all the same islands that brought us xpressway records and the clean.

nether dawn is arguably milton's take on free noise, though it feels less abstract (and off-putting) than the likes of handful of dust and flies inside the sun, utilizing instead a warm, broken drone not unlike 'wreck small speakers on expensive stereos" (ajax); that is to say, this is a more mellow, intimate drone experience for one and guest. there may also be a hint of influence from finish collaborator uton (who is the modern master of shortwave-drone-bliss.)

"slow motion atmospheric improvised electric drone 'blues' recorded after midnight in the midst of winter. the nether dawn is the newest of antony milton's solo projects. electronics and field recordings (of rain swept streets) mix with 'gestural' instrumentation and amp rumble. evening music."

$11.27

new to stock as of
june 21st, 2005

file under:
lo-fi
rock-etc...
sound-research
guitar-themed

last visible dog (usa) #lvd 059 cd

antony milton “sirens / and where the coloured planes are rafts” compact disc

“sirens” (clyde nz 1997)
pulsing
a valley
almost killed
windscreen
sirens
frayed binds
palisades
breezeless
“and where the coloured planes are rafts” (nth stradbroke is. australia 1998)
and where the coloured planes...
not far now
dream (lame)
a majoun airtl (on the death of wsb)
(worded) instrumental
optical distortions = sweet pillows
out the window & away

reissue of two late 90s albums by antony milton, both originally released as cassettes on wirebridge, then cdrs on pseudoarcana. these mostly consist of close-breath songs, often whispered in the same runaway tenor as david “michael” tibet. mic stands are kicked to produce kick drums, microphones are bitten to produce snares; it’s all perfectly laden with that “can’t do” spirit that makes most of the nz-scene so “real.”

last visible dog press release...

an essential cd for those into the outsider nz 'pop' scene--you know, the one that includes the likes of this kind of punishment, pin group, victor dimisich band/terminals, wreck small speakers on expensive stereos...in fact, if you know the xpressway sound (that label bruce russell ran back in the day) you should know what to expect here. that should translate for most of you as: really fucking great. buy now. add to cart. etc. but not everyone thinks like i do. milton's music comes just half a decade too late to be part of the classic xpressway sound, but it is totally there. in my world this is what pop music would sound like!

here's a short write-up from antony about the origins of sirens:

sirens was recorded in an old cobb-cottage on an orchard in central otago. i was working there and would record after picking and on rainy days (which were quite frequent that season). i spent most of my teenage years in central otago and had returned there because it loomed so large in my own personal mythology that it felt as though the place was somehow hardwired into my identity. despite all the rain central otago is renowned for being dry and hot. its like a mini arizona or something (i'm guessing having never been to arizona...)- a high plateau in amongst the mountains of the south island. the whole place is a golden colour from the tussoch, with turquoise blue rivers threading through rugged hills and weird rock formations like the bones of the land exposed.

at the time of recording sirens i had been living in christchuch, the largest city in the south island, playing and recording music, working for a potter. i'd also been reading too much and going to too many art galleries. i was ready for one of those hard swings back toward a kind of feral mysticism (a terrible pendulum to be caught up on) and that was one of the reasons why i had chosen to go work on the orchard. i cycled there with my 4 trk and violin in my pannier bags and my guitar on my back.

one (sunny) day-off i went for a bike ride away up into the hills. there had been an intense edge to the day from the moment i'd awoken. for some time i'd been trying to address the issue of 'faith', faith in self, faith in the appropriateness of unfolding reality- whatever... that day in the hills was one of only 2 times in my life that i have succeeded in 'surrendering to the moment' in anything even approaching a complete way. i stepped off my bike and walked without questioning wherever 'impulse' dictated. i climbed rocky bluffs crawled through thorny briars. the 1st thing i found was a hawk feather that had somehow imbedded itself to grow like a flower out of the dusty ground. the next thing i found was a ring of psilocybe mushrooms that i collected (but didn't consume..). it was very hot and the sun was glaring down. i was out there for hours and it was only when a hunter opened fire on me as i was crawling on hands and knees through a rosehip briar that i really came back to myself. he had thought that i was a (big..?) rabbit and got as much of a shock when i yelled out and stood up as i had when he started shooting at me. we were miles from anywhere and such a meeting was remarkably unlikely. after that i 'came back to myself' (got sane?) and climbed on my bike for a speedy descent back toward the orchard. when i got there i went straight into my room and recorded the trk 'i was almost killed'. so thats kind of the (psychogeographical) context for the sirens release. 'and where the coloured planes are rafts' was recorded a year or so later on stradbroke island in australia. a lot of that is about dreams of new zealand, but some of its about australia as well.

$11.76

back in stock as of
february 6th, 2012

first in stock on
march 31st, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
new-zealand
concert-recordings
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones

best of 2008 !!!

students of decay (usa) #sod 48 cd

the nether dawn “long shadow of a dream” compact disc

runs the horizon (4:58)
tent (for your health) (2:35)
the warm ribs of home (5:32)
forgotten drink (2am) (8:36)
it will find out (6:35)
long shadow of a dream (live @ aaron lawrence gallery, august 2006) (19:09)

march 2008 release ; new music from antony “a.m.” milton (with a little help from james “sandoz lab technicians” kirk) under his nether dawn guise ... five unique bedroom guitar / drum takes (coming across almost as a less-orchestrated version of some of stefan “pumice” neville’s recent work) then an awesome near-20-minute live vocal-phantasm & guitar-burn cut (the title track & the sound-sample) ...

students of decay press release...

sod-48

the nether dawn - "long shadow of a dream"

the nether dawn is arguably the most narcotic, most ethereal of the many guises of the ever-prolific and talented antony milton. for the unfamiliar few, milton runs the sainted pseudoarcana label out of his native new zealand and records as myrtu!, a.m., paintings of windows, clay man in the well, swagger jack and as a member of claypipe, with throats as fine as needles, the stumps, glory fckn sun and more. running through all of his projects is something of a dreamlike, nostalgic delirium that is concretized and distilled on "long shadow of a dream."

the recordings on "long shadow of a dream" date from 2004-2006. despite this temporal span they seem like they've emerged organically from the same eternal, humming tapestry of sound. the album's final track is, unquestionably, its apex and it contains what are perhaps the most soul-baring, cathartic moments which milton has committed to tape. here, antony's vision becomes nearly visible in its mammoth totality - howling whisps of feedback, billows of keyboard and loops conjoin with voice and throat in ecstatic communion. the aural landscape of milton's nether dawn will utterly entrance and beguile you and, in the end, it will surely devour you whole.

cd (ltd. 500)

$16.81

back in stock as of
july 19th, 2011

first in stock on
june 3rd, 2009

threads:
doom
guitar-themed
lo-fi
modern-psych
black-metal
new-zealand

tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 010 lp
faunasabbatha (france) #sab 006 lp

mrtyu “ornate shroud” long playing record

the night
bloody birth
breathes dust of the night
sacrament of blood distilled
the deeps
burning clear
dead guru sings

june 2009 release ; antony milton’s deconstructed gypsy / black / doom / bedroom-metal project mrtyu returns with this fine missive of scratchy, lo-fi guitar buzz, violin scrape, occasional drum-machine, and barely determinable vocals (at least that’s what i think that is - listen to the sound-sample) ...

leagues beyond the recent 20 buck spin “blood tantra” set in terms of its detachment from any / all contemporary modes ; highly recommended !!!

tipped bowler tapes press release...

mrtyu / ornate shroud / tbt010 and sab006

hopefully mrtyu requires little introduction, because the project evades easy description. an odd compound of vedic imagery, metal misanthropy, and violin agony, this music moves away from any particular fan base in pursuit of its distant, darkened idols. ornate shroud is mrtyu’s most potent spawn to date. hewing closer to song form than previous releases, the album conceals antony milton’s violent guitar and violin work behind mrtyu’s characteristic murk. its pieces transition from jagged riffs to eerie ambient scrapes through wooly feedback, approaching the uncanny. although the year is yet young, 2009 will likely not produce a bleaker aggraga record.

edition of 350 180 gm. lps in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and –glued by reuben little of 43rd parallel press.

available from tipped bowler in the us and faunasabbatha in france.

$16.81

back in stock as of
july 19th, 2011

first in stock on
july 29th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
lo-fi
free-improvisation
new-zealand

best of 2008 !!!

tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 005 lp

glory fckn sun “spectra” long playing record

spectra
like true wings to icarus
specificity through absence
colour of the night
glare

july 2008 release ; gorgeous, muted improv-psych extrapolations, jointly knit by antony “nether dawn” milton, ben spiers, and simon o’rorke into a batch of tight guitar / violin / percussion burners ...

takes vacillate between static “wall of sound” blur & almost amm-esque pointillist jabs. really, really nice stuff ; the first i’ve heard from this promising new nz aggregate.

colored-vinyl pressing in a 2-color vg kids sleeve. highly recommended !!!

tipped bowler tapes press release...

tbt 005
glory fckn sun
spectra

the sky done clouded over after glory fckn sun's debut album, yielding this brooding and corrosive follow-up. the new zealand sorta-super group of antony milton, ben spiers, and simon o'rorke concoct a slow-burning behemoth of metallic shivers and distortion churn, dark enough to invoke the dread name haino.

spectra is an unsettling mind-meld: spiers desolate soundscapes bleed into milton's heavy drones, which are complemented perfectly by o'rorke's restless percussion. group improvisation is the natural language of these three; even listing their solo and collaborative albums over the past decade would take way more effort than i can muster. suffice to say this is a stellar and unique record to add to their massive discographies.

in an edition of 300 red 160 gm. vinyl records, housed in silk-screened, heavy-gauge recycled stock jackets.

$10.51

new to stock as of
april 2nd, 2007

threads:
concert-recordings
electro-acoustic-improvisation
digital-musics
field-recordings

claudia (new zealand) #claudi 005 cd

“witching hour” compact disc recordable

p. westbourne dawn chorus (12:28)
un ciego korogi gate (3:00)
lau nau keskelui yota (7:40)
tim coster drop time (4:13)
richard francis night fields: for johnny osbourne (8:04)
felicity ford midnight kitchen (8:04)
paintings of windows gilgit (6:57)
phil dadson sleep trio (14:59)

claudia press release...

various artists - witching hour
cdr from claudia (claud_i05)

a collection of a wide variety of approaches to field recording (allmade at night-time); processed computer ambiences, subtle collage,free improvisation with insects singing, contact recordings of rain,silent houses, kitchen activity, exotic holidays and troubledsleeping.

with tracks by:
tim coster
phil dadson
richard francis
felicity ford (uk)
lau nau (finland)
paintings of windows (antony milton)
un ciego
p. westbourne

$14.82

back in stock as of
february 10th, 2009

first in stock on
june 14th, 2007

threads:
new-zealand
modern-psych
lo-fi
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed
doom

xeric (usa) #xer 113 cd

“need for a crossing: a new new zealand vol. i ” compact disc

birchville cat motel skies crimson tears (6:32)
blowfly saint coast road (4:37)
greg malcolm unknown rembetika (5:27)
pumice bold/old (3:06)
pumice stars (2:57)
gfrenzy mouth of bloody vengeance (1:37)
greg malcolm naima (3:01)
leighton craig hymn for agnes martin (1:49)
antony milton drawn out fighting (6:36)
peter wright another gate (6:50)

xeric press release...

need for a crossing: a new new zealand vol. i

trapped in splendid isolation on the verdant backside of the planet, the new zealand scene has evolved into as vivid and unique a beast as any you're likely to hear. thanks to recent expeditions, you can now enjoy its multifarious tweets and warbles for yourself, as the intrepid folks at xeric present need for a crossing: a new new zealand, an introduction to the latest generation of antipodal soundsmiths.

birchville cat motel takes the lead with an epic blast in the cale/conrad/sabbath vein, while the gentler ruminations of stefan neville illuminate both pumice and blowfly saint. brief appearances by leighton craig and gfrenzy are, in turn, reverential and shambolic. while making nods to both greek rembetika and raw americana, greg malcolm is the model of multi-dexterity, playing three guitars simultaneously (he uses his feet). antony milton lends a gritty and aggressive bit of soundscaping, which segues into the collection's soaring, cloud-busting finale by the outstanding peter wright.

it's a strange and exotic menagerie, and a welcome chance for the rest of us to hear what's happening in the new new zealand. exquisitely packaged with a 24-page book monographing the new zealand streets and roads of yesteryear.

previous artist:
rob millis

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