david grubbs / susan howe “souls of the labadie tract” compact disc

• souls of the labadie tract (1)
  
• souls of the labadie tract (2)
  
• souls of the labadie tract (3)
  
• souls of the labadie tract (4)

bastro “antlers: live 1991” compact disc

• antlers (7:56)
  
• hirscheneck (3:09)
  
• educated fool (4:20)
  
• metal legs (2:58)
  
• sleepy taste (3:53)
  
• beatlenacht (7:28)
  
• glistery (8:36)
  
  
• video: glistery / jefferson-in-drag (9:29)
  
• video: floating home / noise/star / hirschenbeck (10:47)

david grubbs / mats gustafsson “off-road” compact disc

• rendezvous up north (12:11)
  
• dystopian turboprop (5:53)
  
• pumpkin creek (3:26)
  
• three if by train (1:56)
  
• skiing + shooting (4:58)
  
• back off (4:54)

david grubbs “act five, scene one” compact disc

• act five scene one (1) (15:01)
  
• act five scene one (2) (14:58)
  
• act five scene one (3) (14:59)
  
• act five scene one (4) (14:59)

david grubbs “the coxcomb • avocado orange” compact disc

• the coxcomb (16:59)
  
• avocado orange (10:28)

david grubbs / mats gustafsson “apertura” compact disc

• apertura part 1 (39:42)
  
• apertura part 2 (25:28)

tv pow “burned bridges and lost loves” double compact disc set

• rotten milk - music and drinxxx
  
• junkroc - low baller
  
• tarentel - kung pow
  
• tim hecker - whiteout
  
• kotarou fukui - kyoto ben mix
  
• michael hartman - blue eyed devil’s music
  
• heimir björgúlfsson - once window through
  
• zbigniew karkowski - corrupted
  
• twin - twin remix tv poop
  
• ben vida - tv pow or country
  
• sachiko m - she is shopping now
  
• illusion of safety - power down
  
• brent gutzeit - milkblood
  
• wolf eyes - olson mix
  
• todd carter - i am listening to you
  
• alva noto - television (for tv pow)
  
  
• stephan mathieu - hi
  
• david grubbs - sepulture north
  
• tiny hairs - alsation troll
  
• rob ray - despite sweeping
  
• cornucopia - gentle bumps n beats
  
• molecu - cabala de fjord longly ho
  
• francisco lópez - untitled #143
  
• ben bracken - hours devoured
  
• jason soliday - will you stop if we ask nicely?
  
• ronald simmons / gene mcdonald - quite luod (in a funny british accent)
  
• kuwayama kiyoharu - hand of glory
  
• jeff snyder - televisor
  
• xabier erkizia - bitartean
  
• philips von zweck - 3x for the short attention span
  
• alva noto - destroy tv

squirrel bait “skag heaven” compact disc

• kid dynamite (3:10)
  
• virgil's return (2:26)
  
• black light poster child (1:55)
  
• choose your poison (2:29)
  
• short straw wins (2:51)
  
• kick the cat (2:42)
  
• too lose to the fire (1:56)
  
• slake train coming (2:32)
  
• rose island road (2:44)
  
• tape from california (3:00)

squirrel bait “squirrel bait” compact disc

• hammering so hard (2:56)
  
• thursday (2:12)
  
• sun god (2:47)
  
• when i fall (2:12)
  
• the final chapter (2:15)
  
• mixed blessing (2:04)
  
• disguise (1:18)
  
• perfect (1:59)

david grubbs “an optimist notes the dusk” long playing record

• gethsemani night
  
• an optimist declines
  
• holy fool music
  
• storm sequence
  
• eyeglasses of kentucky
  
• the not-so-distant

drag city press release...

david grubbs an optimist notes the dusk dc373 lp/cd a step into the void is how david grubbs describes an optimist notes the dusk, his first solo album since 2004’s a guess at the riddle. much the same way that each of gastr del sol’s albums sought to avoid precedent and to model a world in which nothing should be taken for granted, an optimist notes the dusk steps into the void. nothing necessitates its all built from the ground up, and at each step of the way it could have been built differently. david grubbs’ previous solo albums have tended to divide cleanly between pop records (the thicket, the spectrum between, rickets & scurvy, and a guess at the riddle) and more experimental, instrumental records that investigate solo performance, drones, and hypnotic repetition. grubbs’ pop records stand in a series of increasing refinement. here, the cards have been shuffled (is he dealing with a full deck?). an optimist notes the dusk presents five longish songs and one eleven-minute instrumental floor rumbler, and the album cant be said to fall into either of the previously staked camps. much like gastr del sol’s recordings, arrangements take their own sweet, otherworldly time to unfold, and you’re likely to discover that the undertow is stronger than you reckoned, and that you wind up a disorienting distance from where you began. that describes the associative flow of individual songs and of the album as a whole. how do you get from the exquisitely unraveling song-skein of gethsemani night to the analog-synth sleeping bag of the not-so-distant? the band left the building a long time ago. much continues to be written about the end of the album and its splintering into the mp3dom of individual songs. an optimist notes the dusk is at one and the same time an album and a collection of splinters. there is no contradiction. do we dare suggest that it feels very playlist? the electric guitar is central to an optimist notes the dusk. in grubbs’ hands the guitar can be as languid and liquid as loren mazzacane connors (gethsemani night), as spikily anthemic as the pretty things (holy fool music), or as obsessively patterned as your favorite banjo eccentric (eyeglasses of kentucky). speaking (singing) of kentucky, bluegrass-native but brooklyn-residing grubbs seems to have lyrically reconstructed the kentucky of his dreams, with songs about thomas merton’s hermitage at the abbey of gethsemani and lexington photographer ralph meatyard’s trick of turning the waiting room of his eyeglasses of kentucky store into an exhibition space. optometrist, optimist note the changing sky. two sonic secret weapons have been brought in: drummer and percussionist michael evans and trumpeter nate wooley, both of whom ride musical divides like theyve never heard of such divisions. its all in making the right sound at the right time, what could be easier?

david grubbs “an optimist notes the dusk” compact disc

• gethsemani night
  
• an optimist declines
  
• holy fool music
  
• storm sequence
  
• eyeglasses of kentucky
  
• the not-so-distant

drag city press release...

david grubbs an optimist notes the dusk dc373 lp/cd a step into the void is how david grubbs describes an optimist notes the dusk, his first solo album since 2004’s a guess at the riddle. much the same way that each of gastr del sol’s albums sought to avoid precedent and to model a world in which nothing should be taken for granted, an optimist notes the dusk steps into the void. nothing necessitates its all built from the ground up, and at each step of the way it could have been built differently. david grubbs’ previous solo albums have tended to divide cleanly between pop records (the thicket, the spectrum between, rickets & scurvy, and a guess at the riddle) and more experimental, instrumental records that investigate solo performance, drones, and hypnotic repetition. grubbs’ pop records stand in a series of increasing refinement. here, the cards have been shuffled (is he dealing with a full deck?). an optimist notes the dusk presents five longish songs and one eleven-minute instrumental floor rumbler, and the album cant be said to fall into either of the previously staked camps. much like gastr del sol’s recordings, arrangements take their own sweet, otherworldly time to unfold, and you’re likely to discover that the undertow is stronger than you reckoned, and that you wind up a disorienting distance from where you began. that describes the associative flow of individual songs and of the album as a whole. how do you get from the exquisitely unraveling song-skein of gethsemani night to the analog-synth sleeping bag of the not-so-distant? the band left the building a long time ago. much continues to be written about the end of the album and its splintering into the mp3dom of individual songs. an optimist notes the dusk is at one and the same time an album and a collection of splinters. there is no contradiction. do we dare suggest that it feels very playlist? the electric guitar is central to an optimist notes the dusk. in grubbs’ hands the guitar can be as languid and liquid as loren mazzacane connors (gethsemani night), as spikily anthemic as the pretty things (holy fool music), or as obsessively patterned as your favorite banjo eccentric (eyeglasses of kentucky). speaking (singing) of kentucky, bluegrass-native but brooklyn-residing grubbs seems to have lyrically reconstructed the kentucky of his dreams, with songs about thomas merton’s hermitage at the abbey of gethsemani and lexington photographer ralph meatyard’s trick of turning the waiting room of his eyeglasses of kentucky store into an exhibition space. optometrist, optimist note the changing sky. two sonic secret weapons have been brought in: drummer and percussionist michael evans and trumpeter nate wooley, both of whom ride musical divides like theyve never heard of such divisions. its all in making the right sound at the right time, what could be easier?

david grubbs “rickets & scurvy” long playing record

• transom
  
• don't think
  
• a dream to help me sleep
  
• the nearer by and by
  
  
• i did no such roaming
  
• aloft
  
• precipice
  
• crevasse
  
• kentucky karaoke

drag city press release...

david grubbs rickets & scurvy dc224 lp rickets & scurvy is a ten-song recording, the follow-up to david grubbs’ acclaimed the spectrum between album. and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! this sales sheet can only hope to begin to communicate on what rickets & scurvy really is. a ten-song recording, true; yet something more than the sum of the songs. a follow-up album; yet still, a record standing completely on its own. these things and much more make up rickets & scurvy. three albums into his solo adventure, david has clearly learned how to make records work as records, filling them start to finish with entertainment, moments, insight. rickets & scurvy is a very complete, start-to-finish kind of beast. the songs kick ass, rocking harder than david’s songs have in ages. the process goes further as a result. rickets & scurvy’s best moments are presented with disarming directness, an ability to plunge to great depth, with abandon. full-band electrical arrangements are a featured part of the album, which includes contributions and collaborators both old and new. the assembled cast for rickets & scurvy includes john mcentire, matmos, noël akchoté, dan brown and nicolas vernhes. rick moody, author of the ice storm and demonology, collaborated on lyrics for two songs. this diverse and talented group provided support and unexpected challenge to the songs and proceedings on rickets & scurvy. grubbsian electric guitar stylings step to the fore on rickets & scurvy, replacing the acoustic at the core of the arrangements. the camoufleur era of gastr del sol is evoked by grubbs’ most confident use to date of electronics on his solo recordings. in the resultant fray, we find david grubbs — right in the thick of things, reclaiming moments of youth, shouting, straining for more. get rickets & scurvy into your life soon — it’s all about changes. and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

david grubbs “rickets & scurvy” compact disc

• transom
  
• don't think
  
• a dream to help me sleep
  
• the nearer by and by
  
• i did no such roaming
  
• aloft
  
• precipice
  
• crevasse
  
• kentucky karaoke

the red krayola “japan in paris in l.a.” compact disc

• generique (2:08)
  
• japan in paris in l.a. (1:10)
  
• trip to paris (0:52)
  
• cafe ... boudoir (2:10)
  
• i saw a photograph (3:50)
  
• the surrealist dream no.1 (5:08)
  
• the surrealist dream no.2 (4:48)
  
• storm sequence (2:16)
  
• the green sun (6:43)
  
• death of a painter (2:44)

david grubbs “the thicket” long playing record

• the thicket (4:35)
  
• two shades of blue (4:15)
  
• fool summons train (6:30)
  
• orange disaster (2:01)
  
  
• amleth's gambit (5:30)
  
• 40 words on "worship" (1:42)
  
• swami vivekananda way (1:25)
  
• buried in the wall (3:34)
  
• on "worship" (5:24)

drag city press release...

david grubbs' first pop proper solo lp. there's a proud equilibrium to the thicket. the arrangements are consistent (and consistently colorful) throughout the record. when you first hear a banjo or a trumpet or a tony conrad, you can bet your bottom dollar that you'll hear it again. thus, the record is purged of exoticisms. the thicket is many things, and elusive is not among them. it's a straight-40-to-the-head album of pop sonic lucidity.

red krayola “fingerpainting” long playing record

• george iii
  
• bad medicine
  
• a hybrid creature of greed, ignorance and powers of comprehension plays a vaulted drum kit. the playing corresponds completely to the event. there are entrances and exits. and there is gravitation, where it is needed - tears for example
  
• there there betty betty
  
• the greed of a clarinet that is puffy from crying gets tossed in butter and spread by notes. this process depresses the entire orchestra so much that it only plays behind a golden partition. the partition is decorated with semi-precious attractive diamonds
  
• vile vile grass
  
• a sow with an abbess's bonnet is sitting on four rock-objects and singing along with them. the song sounds like a cheater, and is imprisoned in a striped toy box because its aims are not recognizable. on top of the box is a head that could be elvis's, if he had survived this
  
• mother
  
• out of a trombone that is divided lengthways by a partition of gold sound seven violins of dynamite that are cut sideways into thin slices. they are played by the thrown out ex-members of a very bad band and blown up
  
• in my baby's ruth, sandy's drums with david & shadwell, filthy lucre

drag city press release...

now we have the red krayola's state-of-the-states address 1999, presented to one and all in grand red krayola style, going all the way back to the days when they spelled it with a c instead of a k (c. 1967). back then, the world was hearing it's first of this now legendary outfit. having never tried to do anything the same twice, the red krayola, manage in a way not to again on fingerpainting, although this time, in a way, they tried. fingerpainting features unreleased songs from the distant days of 1966. the 90s red krayola shuffles these ancient pre-arable red crayola songs with the sounds of neo-freakouts, live on the world's stage -- free, familiar, ugly, for a whole bunch of new generations. fingerpainting features both the latter day krayola and the original red crayola, from thirty years back, bringing it all full circle. and thus allowing another circle to be formed as soon as possible.

red krayola “fingerpainting • come on down” double compact disc set

• george iii
  
• bad medicine
  
• a hybrid creature of greed, ignorance and powers of comprehension plays a vaulted drum kit. the playing corresponds completely to the event. there are entrances and exits. and there is gravitation, where it is needed - tears for example
  
• there there betty betty
  
• the greed of a clarinet that is puffy from crying gets tossed in butter and spread by notes. this process depresses the entire orchestra so much that it only plays behind a golden partition. the partition is decorated with semi-precious attractive diamonds
  
• vile vile grass
  
• a sow with an abbess's bonnet is sitting on four rock-objects and singing along with them. the song sounds like a cheater, and is imprisoned in a striped toy box because its aims are not recognizable. on top of the box is a head that could be elvis's, if he had survived this
  
• mother
  
• out of a trombone that is divided lengthways by a partition of gold sound seven violins of dynamite that are cut sideways into thin slices. they are played by the thrown out ex-members of a very bad band and blown up
  
• in my baby's ruth, sandy's drums with david & shadwell, filthy lucre
  
  
• come on down (music by the red krayola)

stephen prina “push comes to love” compact disc

• cums for shove
  
• the devil, probably
  
• too strong
  
• the sobriquet
  
• no one calls me a friend
  
• trevor
  
• the achiever
  
• little lips
  
• community
  
• this is not it
  
• hand in glove

gastr del sol “camofleur” long playing record

• the seasons reverse
  
• blues subtitled no sense of wonder
  
• black horse
  
• each dream is an example
  
• mouth canyon
  
• a puff of dew
  
• bauchredner

gastr del sol “camofleur” compact disc

• the seasons reverse
  
• blues subtitled no sense of wonder
  
• black horse
  
• each dream is an example
  
• mouth canyon
  
• a puff of dew
  
• bauchredner

the red krayola “amor and language” compact disc single

• hard on through the summer (2:29)
  
• the ballad of younis and sofia (4:33)
  
• luster (2:21)
  
• ai (2:43)
  
• t (i,ii) (5:48)
  
• a-a-allegories (2:03)
  
• the wind (3:14)
  
• stil de grain brun (2:09)
  
• the letter (3:23)

the red krayola “the red krayola” cassette

• jimmy silk / supper be ready medley (1:57)
  
• pride (1:06)
  
• book of kings (2:40)
  
• pessimisty (2:50)
  
• worms, worms, thirst (1:38)
  
• people get ready (the train's not coming) (3:22)
  
• if "s" is (2:06)
  
• miss x (2:37)
  
  
• raspierre (2:44)
  
• stand-up (2:42)
  
• art-dog (1:09)
  
• i knew it (1:54)
  
• st (2:09)
  
• (why) i'm so blase (2:07)
  
• the big macumba (2:42)
  
• voodoo child (1:47)
  
• suddenly (1:51)

the red krayola “the red krayola” compact disc

• jimmy silk / supper be ready medley (1:57)
  
• pride (1:06)
  
• book of kings (2:40)
  
• pessimisty (2:50)
  
• worms, worms, thirst (1:38)
  
• people get ready (the train's not coming) (3:22)
  
• if "s" is (2:06)
  
• miss x (2:37)
  
• raspierre (2:44)
  
• stand-up (2:42)
  
• art-dog (1:09)
  
• i knew it (1:54)
  
• st (2:09)
  
• (why) i'm so blase (2:07)
  
• the big macumba (2:42)
  
• voodoo child (1:47)
  
• suddenly (1:51)

gastr del sol “crookt, crackt or fly” long playing record

• wedding in the park
  
• work from smoke
  
• parenthetically
  
• every five miles
  
  
• thos.dudley ah! old must dye
  
• is that a rifle when it rains?
  
• the c in cake
  
• the wrong soundings

gastr del sol “crookt, crackt or fly” cassette

• wedding in the park
  
• work from smoke
  
• parenthetically
  
• every five miles
  
  
• thos.dudley ah! old must dye
  
• is that a rifle when it rains?
  
• the c in cake
  
• the wrong soundings

gastr del sol “crookt, crackt or fly” compact disc

• wedding in the park (1:02)
  
• work from smoke (12:30)
  
• parenthetically (1:20)
  
• every five miles (7:49)
  
• thos.dudley ah! old must dye (2:40)
  
• is that a rifle when it rains? (1:29)
  
• the c in cake (3:36)
  
• the wrong soundings (14:49)

åke hodell / david grubbs “igevår/yellow sky” long playing record

• åke hodell - igevär [08:03]
  
• åke hodell - general bussig [06:37]
  
• david grubbs - yellow sky [05:43]

gastr del sol “twenty songs less” seven inch single record

• twenty songs less side one
  
  
• twenty songs less side two

david grubbs “thirty-minute raven” compact disc

• thirty-minute raven (30:00)

david grubbs “two soundtracks for angela bulloch” compact disc

• z point (8:14)
  
• horizontal technicolour (13:12)

brise-glace “when in vanitas ...” compact disc

• neither yield nor reap (7:03)
  
• host of latecomers (4:00)
  
• stump of a drowner (3:58)
  
• restrained from do and will not (leave) (10:52)
  
• one syntactical unit (24:12)

pauline oliveros “primordial lift” compact disc

• primordial (14:05)
  
• lift (30:31)