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de stijl (usa) #ind 062 cd

hototogisu “chimärendämmerung” compact disc

  • untitled (1) (6:48)
  • untitled (2) (18:37)
  • untitled (3) (15:22)
  • untitled (4) (13:41)
  • untitled (5) (5:59)
october 2006 release ; ... and the hits keep on coming! here’s a mass-market hototogisu full-length album, released on the destijl label ... yet further pungent extrapolations considering the divine in terms of earthly means (read: lo-fi, howling twin-guitar wail) ...
de stijl press release...
hototogisu
chimärendämmerung
062 cd

hototogisu are marcia bassett and matthew bower, and they dwell upon two continents (marcia in brooklyn ny and matthew in leeds uk). both share rich discographical heritage. marcia has recorded with numerous labels (siltbreeze, time-lag, eclipse, troubleman unlimited, etc.) with un, ghq and the double leopards, and matthew with total, skullflower, sunroof!, vibracathedral orchestra and more.

a wikipedia entry in his name clearly (sic) illustrates his cultural heft: "bower's huge discography of visceral, free drone-rock is probably the most formidable of its kind and he was rightly considered in 2005 by the wire to be one of the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk uk underground during most of the 80s and 90s" (issue 259) .

chimarendammerung is the 3rd hototogisu release on destijl and the 5 untitled walls of vertical viola drone / overtone, lapped by shifting electronic waves of feedback, blackened guitars, rhinegold cast deep into dying rivers, an instrumental cycle of conflict, of the birth of a supreme aristocratic beauty into a fallen world, and its inevitable conflagration, then a glimmer of hope of escape from the cycle, in tune w/ the breath of the cosmos, like a glacial reimagining of van der graafs 'a plague of lighthouse keepers', and it represents a current plateau for the duo.

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first in stock on
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free-improvisation
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise

 best of 2006 !!! 
dronedisco (usa) #fig. 87 cd

hototogisu / burning star core “volume one” compact disc

  • (five untitled pieces)
finally, back in stock !!

october 2006 release; a massive whir of krautrock-inspired doom-drones & psychedelic noise from the hototogisu duo and the full trio lineup of burning star core. a surprisingly varied/dynamic set, encompassing passages that sound not unlike amon düül, closely followed by ones that sound like a lightning bolt bootleg... hell, the last piece even sounds like the lost billy bang/david tudor mind-meld we’ve all been dreaming about...

of the recent invasion of hototo/bxc-related gelt, i’m feeling this one the most... highly recommended.
dronedisco press release...
"live in-person" collaborations between hototogisu and the bxc. hototogisu, as you know, are the time-defying duo of matthew bower (skullflower, ramleh, sunroof!, total, etc.) and marcia bassett (double leopards, ghq, zaimph, etc.). for these sessions, burning star core was c. spencer yeh, robert beatty, and trevor tremaine (the latter two being of hair police, eyes and arms of smoke, sick hour, etc.). note that the music on this disc is different material from the heavy blossom companion volume "hg/bxc ii" released earlier this year.

five tracks, totalling approximately fifty minutes. packed into the small horrible room (rip) inside the cedar house (rip) down in lexington ky (still alive), individuals huddled in every corner, painting the room in colored cables, glossy wood and metal boxes. deafness and disorientation was administered through the afternoon on into the night. summoning over two hours of recorded tape, it was decided to cut the baby in half for adoption between two imprints. heavy blossom ferried away the long thick sides of torso, and dronedisco seized the hooves, antlers, and jaw. the disc starts off with an appropriate invocation; from there punches blindly through one stone cloud after another, coughs and gasps from exhaustion, stumbles and lies motionless. the ritual concludes with a moment of naked acoustic/instinctual spasm, then a cut-off of

originally released in a very small quantity on cd-r as merchandise during various us and uk spring tours, the dronedisco half of these sessions has been edited and resequenced for this release in the autumn. the pro-pressed disc comes in a black polycase with black and white inserts and a special randomly-selected 1" button (there are five button variations in all).

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april 15th, 2011

threads:
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analogue-synth
minimalism-drones
lo-fi
live-electronic
concert-recordings

gel (usa) #gel09 cs

sdm “s/t” c26 cassette

  • untitled (1)

  • untitled (2)
2010 release ; neat one-off set by the trio of hototogisu’s marcia “zaïmph” bassett, suzy “pod blotz” poling, and driphouse / gel’s daren ho ...

one continuous tonal wash coated in errant electronics & stray vocal cadence , split across two medium-length sides ; the perfect bath to soak in on a particularly cold weekday night ...
gel press release...

gel09 sdm "s/t" c26

recorded during the early winter of 2010, this is a document of three unique individuals combing their skill and experience into a improvisational piece. the personnel for this recording is daren ho of driphouse, suzy poling of pod blotz, and marcia bassett of zaimph. the result is a heavy and slow meditating movement of electronics.

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 best of 2010 !!! 
headlights (portugal) #headlights lph 14 lp

marcia bassett / margarida garcia “the well” long playing record

  • the well (a) (16:10)

  • the well (b) (14:45)
august 2010 release ; first release from this new duo configuration involving storied euro-improv bassist margarida garcia & marcia bassett ...

marcia’s zaïmph-lineage grimy phase-patterns remain intact, & margarida meets her halfway with a series of low, bowed foghorn blasts ; things generally stay in the monolithic, with the preeminent hiss of pedal-effects acting as an ostinato throughout ...

comes in a hand-silkscreened sleeve w/ an over-sized insert (nice to see an actual 12” x 12” insert these days ; almost feels excessive, hard to get back in) ; very well done ...
headlights press release...

marcia bassett & margardia garcia
the well
headlights lph14

hand-numbered edition of 200 copies lp on manuel mota’s private headlights imprint documenting a heavyweight duo set from marcia bassett of zaimph, hototogisu, double leopards, ghq et al and improvising portuguese bassist and guitarist margardia garcia. garcia is one of the major new generation european free players, coming out of the same scene as mota, and she’s just as capable of generating swans-style industrial entropy as she is playing explosive fire music. here bassett uses keyboard and guitar to create austere arcs of industrial-strength drone that garcia anchors with tactile, questing strings, giving the whole thing an odd avant-classical backbone. 

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heavy blossom (uk) #hb 15 cd

hototogisu “sculpture built upon the graves” compact disc-recordable

  • storm (7:42)
  • tropical malady (13:09)
  • paris, no harm (13:43)
  • vanished beams (9:37)
... essentially a tour-only disc (i picked one up myself last year when they hit pa’s lounge on a particularly cold/unfriendly night ...) by the hototogisu duo of matt bower & marcia bassett ... the instants chavires live track is particularly mist-worn ; their guitar signals barely breaking the surface ...
heavy blossom press release...
2006 cdr, recorded in bradford england, except for live track paris, noharm recorded at instants chavires, paris, spring 2006. a four movement midnight symphony of haunted electricity.

one of the most evocative and strange hototogisu recordings.

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heavy blossom (uk) #hb 09 cd

hototogisu “prayer rug exorcism” compact disc

  • untitled (1) (18:01)
  • untitled (2) (7:49)
  • untitled (3) (15:23)
  • untitled (4) (18:52
december 2005 cd release from hototogisu ; the last properly replicated one (housed in a nice full-color gatefold / pocket-sleeve - detail below) before they switched to cdr-only shortly thereafter ... four extended blowouts, recorded in leeds & glasgow as the lights went out o’er the land ... dusted.
heavy blossom press release...

most barbaric installment yet in the blood n groan saga initiated with ghost from the sun; prayer rug exorcism is a monolithic single disc in four parts.

opening with a brooding nocturnal labyrinth, and ascending through a dark power-drone into sky-high ribbons of blasphemous feedback traceries, and the annihilating ghostly machine clank of part 4, like tgs old analog set up, running freeform and haunted in a hermetically sealed bunker. 

recorded: the black chapel, leeds; cca, glasgow; holy trinity church, leeds, and brudenell social club, leeds in 2005. 

full color deluxe artwork delineates the unusual arcana, and some new clues for the pictorially fetishistic.  edition of 1000 copies.

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new to stock as of
february 18th, 2009

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heavy blossom (uk) #hb 04 cd

hototogisu “green” compact disc

  • hellebore (6:52)
  • crimson streams (7:02)
  • run into the woods (4:11)
  • ascend on blackened wings (9:49)
  • shewstone (4:51)
  • crucified forest (6:36)
  • heavy blossom (5:43) (drums - mick flower)
  • arboreal slumber (8:25)
heavy blossom press release...
marcia bassett: -oooowwwhh-
matthew bower: -rrrggghh-

green metal music, decanted collage of fuzzy scream vocal loops and mangled buried riffing, bursting w/ vivid colour power electronics and chilly black metal soundscaping. studio prototyping of the hg signature sound, shorter pieces than the usual jams, even denser than the live version, with blatant referencing of the black metal / tibetan devotional strands that run like veins of lightning through the dense mesh of noise.

edition of 1000 copies with 8 page booklet.

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back in stock as of
june 22nd, 2011

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hospital productions (usa) #hos 159 cd

hototogisu / prurient “snail on a razor” compact disc

  • flashing like the void (37:29)
  • snail on a razor (15:37)
  • this is now (16:46)
collaborative full-length from the trio of matt bower, marcia bassett, and dominick fernow. somewhere, in a distant cave, all three have their amps on full bore... but you wouldn’t know it from here...
hospital productions press release...
annihilating euphoria

live in person collaboration of mid ranged feedback hell laden with raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence. features matt bower, marcia bassett and dominick fernow.

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back in stock as of
november 23rd, 2009

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important (usa) #imprec 210 lp

hototogisu “pale fatal sister” double long playing record set

  • untitled (1)

  • untitled (2)

  • untitled (3)

  • untitled (4)
october 2008 release ; nice-looking double-lp with four side-length slabs of distant guitar wash & drum-machine antics from matt bower & marcia bassett ...
important press release...

hototogisu - pale fatal sister - 2xlp
imprec210 - double lp

double lp pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. being a nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. the sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds.

recorded at black dirt studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous hototogisu release.

limited edition of 700 copies.

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back in stock as of
december 4th, 2007

first in stock on
february 2nd, 2007

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important (usa) #imprec 106 cd

hototogisu “some blood will stick” compact disc

  • some blood will stick 1 (8:47)
  • some blood will stick 2 (7:55)
  • some blood will stick 3 (18:39)
  • some blood will stick 4 (7:32)
  • some blood will stick 5 (7:11)
  • some blood will stick 6 (22:16)
important press release...
hototogisu is matthew bower (skullflower/sunroof!) and marcia bassett (double leopards). they've been laying down billowing sheets of tetonic guitar drone-noise since 2003 with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics.

some blood will stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label heavy blossom. songs were taken from swoon scream (2004) and awful symmetry (2005) with one additional track.

what makes this disc more than a simple re-release is the extraordinary scalpel re-editing by matthew bower and the crushing and invigorating mastering by scott hull at visceral sound making this one of the heaviest and most beautiful hototogisu releases.

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back in stock as of
january 12th, 2008

first in stock on
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black-metal

nashazphone (egypt) #np 03 lp

hototogisu “robed in verdigris” long playing record

  • (no tracklisting)
january 2007; remaining few copies (corners of the sleeves are slightly munged, but are otherwise in mint condition) of this o/p lp now available at a considerably marked-down price thanks to the kindness of the nashazphone accounting department ...

september 2007 vinyl-only release; the 16th (jesus christ!) overall from the duo of marcia bassett & matthew bower (well; i guess the first few were matt solo... but even still...) - a near-impenetrable wall of sustained guitar-feedback/excess, barely audible shrieking, and a cave-bed of electronic zombie fuzz. the best...
nashazphone press release...
hototogisu / robed in verdigris / np-03

hototogisu is the duo of marcia bassett (double leopards, ghq, un) and matthew bower (skullflower, sunroof!, total). for the past few years, they have been delivering intense guitar / electronics based drones of gargantuesque scales. robed in verdigris is their 16th release and only the third on vinyl. 3 tracks spread over both sides of extreme sunshine and ecstasy. a total assault of metaphysical vibrations.

limited to 500. sold out at source.

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back in stock as of
june 7th, 2011

first in stock on
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threads:
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black-metal
guitar-themed
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
lo-fi

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 45 lp

zaïmph “death blooming pleasure” long playing record

  • great are the riches hidden in tribulation
  • of hildegardes

  • as well in death
april 2009 release ; winter 2007 recordings of blackened guitar-wash and (a first?) coffin-scratch vocals from hototogisu’s marcia bassett ...
no fun productions press release...

45 zaimph 'death blooming pleasure' lp

when spinning this dark velvet cloak a door opens to clouds of smoke shooting out the windows sills of the shell of old library like ink plumes while smokes leaps like black cats between the curtains. stone and concrete crumble and fill the air with gray gas showering the the maze of shrubs in the courtyard with a dark veil of soot. marcia bassett has tread the waters of noise pysch drone and continues to defy the categories. a dark psychadelic guitar wash peaks its head out of the smoldering coals that could have been released on the mighty slaughter productions death industrial temple from italy. further morbidity croaks from the slicing vocals of a distraught entity being ripped from one dimension to the other... and rather enjoying her ordeal. light the candles and burn the incense....

limited to 300 copies.

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back in stock as of
january 26th, 2010

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 best of 2008 !!! 
vhf (usa) #vhf 105 cd

sunroof! “panzer division lou reed” compact disc

  • slew plateaus #1 (19:16)
  • etoile sauvage (7:20)
  • slew plateaus #2 (17:08)
  • stairways and terraces descending one beyond another in a stupefying state of exhaustion (8:39)
vhf press release...
vhf#105 sunroof! panzer division lou reed cd

beneath the usual lovely psychedelic artwork on the cover of panzer division lou reed lurks sunroof’s most explosive and assaultive record ever. the key track here in the sunroof! evolution is the opening “slew plateaus #1,” with mick flower (vibracathedral orchestra) on guitar and john moloney (sunburned hand of the man) on drums. this live shot of electricity gradually ramps up from matt bower and mick flower’s dueling guitars to when moloney’s drums come crashing in after about six minutes, leading to a furious crescendo that lasts for the remainder of the 19 minute track.

“slew plateaus #2” is a lengthy collaboration with underground gadabout mattin, whose previous collabs with tony conrad, bruce russell, eddie prevost et al hopefully prepared him for the mb wrecking ball which is delivered here. the other two cuts are absolutely blistering demolition work, which in spite of their visceral impact, reach a state of zen-like stasis after a couple of minutes, ala the best of mb’s work with hototogisu.

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january 26th, 2010

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vhf (usa) #vhf 072 cd

youngsbower “relayer” compact disc

  • eagle like a fly (5:59)
  • pink sky blossom (3:17)
  • iridescent hosedown (5:49)
  • welding the sea (3:23)
  • moonlight ice rink (4:29)
  • stream entrant (3:29)
  • new martian sun tunnel (5:10)
  • helicopter kachina (3:39)
  • hoedown modulation (2:32)
  • opaline retrieval (3:17)
  • fly like an eagle (7:26)
vhf press release...
vhf#72 youngsbower relayer cd

second collaboration between these two stalwart titans of the true uk underground, coming 8 years after their first pairing on the site/realm lp. relayer (the title no doubt a nod to the odd resemblance of 7 year old rosalie bower's cover art to another lp of the same title) throws out the live methodology of the lp for a dense set of layered studio recordings.

like the music of bower's sunroof! group, the tracks are rainbows of colors and textures with string drone, percussion, bleeps, and the unidentifiable competing in a mix devoid of the traditional "lead with backing" schema. many tracks have the kind of welcoming electronic bed seldom heard since the demise of harmonia, with ring modulated fuzz bleeping away over a chugging, but non-oppressive beat. elsewhere, there's youngs' riley-style organ ping-pong, a little virtuoso kalimba, thick wads of analog synth....you know where this is going.

so tightly edited and accessible that this would be the perfect summer top-down cd, but what with it being released in november, you'll have to keep it safe until the thaw.

10 tracks, 48 minutes.

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