.home..artists..labels..new..restocks..best..faq.
.blog.
previous artist:
 embryo 
there are 6 titles featuring emeralds in stock.
they are listed below.
next artist:
 emil beaulieau 
click the image above to
add this item to your
shopping cart

$16.81

new to stock as of
november 18th, 2009


threads:
analogue-synth
modern-psych
minimalism-drones

amethyst sunset (usa) #as-002 lp

mistmist” long playing record

  • taking the mist

  • dusk
  • heaven mist
  • rope
  • l.a.
  • overdose
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "taking the mist"
november 2009 release ; first music i’ve heard from the duo configuration of emeralds’ “bigjohn elliot & pizza night tapessam goldberg ...

sequencer-heavy patternage coated in fizzing, upper-register automation(s), often involving multiple clocks (listen to the sound-sample) to yield a certain variable-pulse miasma ...

one of the better emeralds side-projects ; highly recommended !!!
amethyst sunset press release...
as-002

mist mist lp

vinyl debut from the ohio duo of mist (john elliot and sam goldberg). following up their "certain expansion" and "stole colors" cassette releases on pizza wagon, mist offer up two full sides of their best material yet. electric organs. beautiful and dreamy progressive synths, kosmik string synth zone.

mastered for vinyl by james plotkin. limited to 500. pro printed covers. front cover photo by ashley krantz.

click the image above to
add this item to your
shopping cart

$11.76

back in stock as of
december 4th, 2009

first in stock on
june 28th, 2008


threads:
analogue-synth
modern-psych
minimalism-drones

hanson (usa) #hn 183 cd

emeraldssolar bridge” compact disc

  • magic (12:34)
  • the quaking mess (14:14)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "magic"
june 2008 release ; here’s the album a whole bunch of us have been waiting for since this was announced this past spring - new music from ohioan synth / guitar trio emeralds ; prob. their first real mass-marketed album after a series of miniscule-editions for american tapes (always loved the title ; “bullshit boring drone band”), hanson, gods of tundra, and their own gneiss things & wagon imprints ...

the two pieces herein deliver on a bunch of levels ; thick swarms of buzzing sawtooth-waves build into huge swaths of sound, with tonalities reminiscent of the “berlin school,” albeit constructed of far more visceral components ... this isn’t your average stock-in-trade synth-droning ; there’s always a swell of activity bubbling under the surface of the tonal overlay, inspection on a micro-level yields all manner of sequenced/gated/pulse-oriented details that flutter in increasingly wide trajectories as the pieces progress ...

one of my albums of the year thusfar, hands down. don’t let the band’s emergence from the harsh-noise / no-fun scenes fool you ; this is as fine a summoning of the electronic ür-sound as you’re likely to come across these days - on par w/ the long-form explorations of eliane radigue, jean-claude eloy, foke rabe, roland kayn, et.al. it is, of course, highly recommended !!!
hanson press release...

emeralds solar bridge digipak cd

starting out in 2005 performing live sets using only television sets as sound sources, emeralds has grown in recent years into a monster of heavy improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. born out of the midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the intense heaviness of their midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. they have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers w/ a very different though equally intense blast of cosmic drone power!

hanson records is proud to announce emeralds - solar bridge, the trio's first full-length album after numerous cassette and cd-r releases on such labels as american tapes, chondritic sound, and the bands own imprints wagon and gneiss things. the album opens with the side long "magic" where the band builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick sawblade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. the flip is yet another sidelong journey titled "the quaking mess", a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a göttschingesque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. fans of the smooth tones of 'new age of earth' era ash ra tempel and the buzzing thick drones of throbbing gristle's 'heathen earth' should take note, as emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs.

cd pressed in 1000 digipak copies.

click the image above to
add this item to your
shopping cart

$13.44

back in stock as of
december 4th, 2009

first in stock on
january 29th, 2009


threads:
analogue-synth
harsh-noise
minimalism-drones
modern-psych
lo-fi
schimpfluch-gruppe

no-fi (uk) #neu 015 cd

emeralds / pain jerkeuropean tour 2009” compact disc

  • emeralds - landlocked (29:19)
  • pain jerk - berserker (18:42)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "landlocked"
february 2009 release ; tour-support edition for a winter 2009 jaunt by the unlikely pairing of cleveland’s ultimo-new age synth darlings emeralds (whose half-hour “landlocked” here is something of a master-class in brownian motion as applied to delay-time calculations) & kohei gomi’s harsh noise onslaught (featuring vocal “input” - output is more like it - from schimpfluch’s rudolfrunzlestirn & gurgelstockeb.er) ...

the transition between emeralds’ extended love-vibes and gomi’s trachea-grip is one of the most violently offensive things i’ve heard this year ; like being woken up from a deep dream about a unicorn-infested miracle-zone by thousands of fire alarms simultaneously going off at once ...

but seriously ; great split (esp. as the emeralds piece is pretty much an album unto itself) ...
no-fi press release...

emeralds / pain jerk – ‘european tour 2009’ cd
release date 2.2.09

to celebrate their european tour together this month, the astoundingly prodigious trio from ohio and the punishing japanese noise legend take a track each on this 500-copies only cd. emeralds’ track ‘landlocked’ journeys further through the planet they share with popol vuh and terry riley, then is violently usurped by pain jerk’s aptly titled ‘berserker’, which features rudolf eb.er and mai sau in a noise/voice/aktion showdown.

500 copies only.

click the image above to
add this item to your
shopping cart

$16.81

new to stock as of
october 9th, 2009


threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych
minimalism-drones

vin du select qualitite (usa) #vdsq 02 lp

mark mcguirevdsq • solo acoustic volume two” long playing record

  • at first sight
  • vitamins
  • second thoughts

  • front porch breeze
  • burning leaves
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "burning leaves"
october 2009 release ; don’t let the title fool you (as it did me) ... mark doesn’t so much drop his version of the takoma sound here inasmuch as offer a solo variant on the echoplexed guitar styles that he uses when anchoring emeralds’ time-space drift (think “e2-e4” with a bit more in the way of modal development) ... only here fretted on what sounds like an ovation run through an arsenal of time-based effects & layers upon layers of overdubbed & multi-tracked parts ...

much more linear & melodic than emeralds ever gets, just a hair away from mid-period popol vuh in it’s tonality and/or approach ... nice stuff !!!
vin du select qualitite press release...
mark mcguire vdsq - solo acoustic volume two

melodic ballads and new songs from emeralds guitarist spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. one third of the drone masters emeralds.

click the image above to
add this item to your
shopping cart

$26.02

back in stock as of
january 14th, 2010

first in stock on
april 22nd, 2009


threads:
analogue-synth
guitar-themed
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
field-recordings

weird forest (usa) #weird 037 lp

emeraldsallegory of allergies” double long playing record set

  • nereus (spirits over the lake)

  • snores
  • house of mirrors
  • mistakes

  • underwater mountain

  • arbol del tule
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "nereus (spirits over the lake)"
april 2009 release ; deluxe reissue of emeralds’ long o/p august 2007 gods of tundra tape, a production-value-heavy edition consisting of two lps (each in their own metallic-ink inner sleeve) housed inside a full-color stoughton gatefold sleeve ; yowza ...

for many the original cassette release was the one that made emeralds’ unique combination of stasis-heavy analogue synth wave-shifting stick (certainly was the one that “did it” for me) ; this majestic record-object does everything to preserve the depth(s) of their vision in a format much more suited to “classicside-length navel-gazing ... highly recommended !!!
weird forest press release...

emeralds
allegory of allergies 2xlp

about a month ago, as i watched emeralds levitate a packed house at brooklyn’s glasslands, i couldn’t help but wax a bit misty-eyed, recalling the years we all spent orbiting the basements of the upper midwest with a cabal of like-minded fuckups. this opportunity to revisit allegory of allergies isn’t exactly helping me regain my composure, and for that, i’m profoundly grateful, insofar as time, distance, and a seriously killer record can put a pretty impressive sentimental gloss on virtually anything, from spacing out and driving two hours past the gig in a thunderstorm to blasting the gods of tundra c120 on a half-dead portable deck while scrambling to dodge a sketchy eviction threat. those, apparently, were the days.

in its formal aspect, allegory shares much with the recent and justly lauded what happened, though in nearly every other sense, they're night and day. where the extended vignettes of what happened share a certain crystalline expansiveness and astral sheen, allegory offers a crumbling labyrinth that's at once humid and frigid, crammed to the gills with moss, lichen, cobwebs, brick dust, rotting boards, peeling paint, and narrow shafts of light. it’s a blurry and bleary vision, in which john elliott, steve hauschildt, and mark mcguire improvise on synths, guitar, voice, and tapes like three cats batting at an enormous calder mobile, a sound thoroughly native to the moldering interiors and indigenous dystopian/psychedelic culture of the american rust belt.

those approaching this work for the first time will have much around which to warp/wrap their heads. emeralds are possessed of a slow-burning, cluster-like sense of patience, an accompanying willingness to assume the appearance of burbling sideways in low gear while stealthily turning the universe on its edge, a rare mastery of perspective and scale, and an ability to make audible the slipperiness of the slope between harmony and timbre. just as crucially, they manage to be ambitious and sprawling without compromising their aura of raw immediacy and handmadeness. it is precisely this sort of fried grace that secures emeralds’ place in the history of vernacular experimental music and situates allegory of allergies squarely in its hallowed canon of epic double lps.

chris madak


cover art by mike connelly.
inner photography by shannon neale.
limited to 980 copies.

click the image above to
add this item to your
shopping cart
$1.85

new to stock as of
june 22nd, 2009


threads:
printed-matter
modern-psych

electric annihilation (usa) #ea #1 mag

electric annihilation • issue 1” magazine

  • electric annihilation • issue 1 (20 pages)
april 2009 publication ; first issue of this dnt records-affiliated fanzine / newspaper, offering interviews with emeralds, thurston moore, john olson, henry rollins (discussing his enthusiasm for american tapes), wet hair (aka racoo-oo-on), and sun araw ... along with drawings, scene reports (of gothenburg, iowa, and cleveland) and assorted waxings on underground music ...

comes as an over-sized, fold-out newspaper (like the comics on sundays, slightly longer) ; genuinely feels like the birth of a new thing & at < $2 it’s pretty much a steal ...
electric annihilation press release...

hello all, the first issue of electric annihilation is now available. ea is a 20-page music publication, b&w on tabloid-size (11 x 17 pages) newsprint. circulation of 5,000 copies. the first issue includes interviews with:

thurston moore
henry rollins
john olson (wolf eyes/american tapes)emeralds
sun araw
wet hair
nomen dubium

plus scene reports from gothenburg sweden (written by matthias andersson of release the bats), cleveland (by sam goldberg) and iowa city (by shawn reed). also an article by jon isaac. there's a centerfold poster too. cover artwork and border/frames by zachary fleming.

previous artist:
 embryo 
...and that's everything in stock featuring emeralds.
(why not take a look at the previous and next artists?)
next artist:
 emil beaulieau 
.home..artists..labels..new..restocks..best..faq.
.blog.
... this page was last updated on monday, february 8th, 2010 @ 4:49 pm