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previous artist: patrick pulsinger		there are 7 titles featuring pumice in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: pump kinn

$9.86

new to stock as of
november 19th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones

8mm (italy) #8mm 028 cs

gang wizard / vlüba / golden cup / pumice / ducktails “split” c34 cassette

ducktails - sequence of 3 elements
vluba - untitled
gang wizard - the shed 2
golden cup - train

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "train"

september 2008 release ; finally in stock ...

a four (five, actually ; the golden cup piece is a collab w/ stefan “pumice” neville) way split ; the ducktails side was a pleasant surprise (glowing wash of bedroom guitar tones) & the vlüba matched what i’d heard about them (him? her? - regardless a grey blur of smoke) ... on the flip gang wizard’s desultory crumble-damage incited some sort of peace-riot before the golden cup bit brings us home with some dual-guitar light reminiscient of roy montgomery’s work ... as tapes go ; one of the good ones.

8mm press release...

8mm 028: gang wizard, vluba, golden cup, ducktails - split - cassette

aka: friends from all over the world united. side a opens with three new enchanting songs from matthew mondanile's ducktails, argentina's vluba provide smoke and sulphur to the same side. gang wizard's piece is called 'the shed' and it's pure claustrophobia melted on a tape, while golden cup and pumice's contribution is a romantic piece recorded live in rome, and mixed in their private houses in italy and new zealand throughout summer 2008.

4 bands, 3 continents, 2 sides, 1 spirit! 100 copies. each copy is different. numbered.

$9.86

back in stock as of
november 19th, 2008

first in stock on
february 16th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
lo-fi
bedroom

8mm (italy) #8mm 024 ep

pumice “providence” seven inch single record

awful and awesome (3:05)
fifteen inch guage railway (1:35)
we piss on their stuff (2:25)
wholehoof (2:25)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "we piss on their stuff"

astoundingly great single by stefan “pumice” neville, recorded during his residency @ as220 in providence ... the kind of mumble-vectors that stefan has been pioneering for the last few years are, in my mind, right up there with those of sterling motherfucking smith ... certainly in the sheer range of neville’s private universe / bedroom trajectories ... add to this hacked consumer electronics and casual destruction of musical logic; there’s nothing about this that i don’t like ...

highly recommended, even if it’s a bit expensive for a 7” (an italian one, at that ...)

8mm press release...

8mm 024: pumice 'providence' 7" vynil ep

new zealand based stefan neville is pumice. my first contact with his music was 'pumiceraft' (last visible dog, 2004), one of the best record of the last 10 years if you ask me. this new single ep, contains 4 songs recorded in us in 2006, during his residence at as 220, providence, ri. and it's supposed to be the new pumice classic!

tracks sound like the usual beautiful mix of fragile psyche-pop songs + near droning rock, all mixed in a lo-fi punk style! comes in a classical snobbish cover printed by ilcanedicoda, with drawings by s.neville himself. 250 copies that are supposed to not stay here forever.

$8.01

new to stock as of
july 11th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
new-zealand

carbon (usa) #cr 124 cd

nicolas felix kauffman / stefan geoffrey neville “owl low” compact disc recordable

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carbon press release...

46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive percussion, patented pumice-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard, drone-vocals and more from stefan neville (aka pumice) and nicolas kauffman (part of family underground - denmark).

recorded 2005 in a giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to stefan and nicolas' other recordings on various other labels such as last visible dog, soft abuse, audiobot, chocolate monk, qbico, into the lunar night).

[packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in various colors]

$8.01

new to stock as of
august 25th, 2006

onomato (usa) #ono pumice cd

pumice / ghosting / bonus / gms “tour split” compact disc recordable

pumice
ghosting
bonus
gms

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "pumice / ghosting"

$12.23

back in stock as of
july 6th, 2007

first in stock on
august 31st, 2006

threads:
bedroom
modern-psych
lo-fi

soft abuse (usa) #sab 014 cd

pumice “yeanahvienna” compact disc

abominable
king korny remains
worsted
wild dogs
brawl
worsted
teas tasting fair
darkpark
worsted
worsted

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "brawl"

new (summer 2006) album from stefan... his familiar-yet-alien array of broken baby monitors & toy-guitar/drum-kit being just about the best thing ever; in terms of damaged lo-fi songsmithing...

soft abuse press release...

with songs nestled halfway between xpressway's searing static and flying nun's dark jangle, pumice's stefan neville has quietly created a unique brand of fractured pop since 1991. despite (or because of) his activity in new zealand's cassette underground for the past 15 years, neville has only recently begun to crawl into the consciousness of outsider music fans.

yeahnahvienna was conceived and recorded during an artist residency in vienna in 2004. neville's precariously arranged arsenal of cassettes, chord organ, vocals, drums and guitar has yielded a fragile and fractured masterwork. a stark and melancholic affair, calling to mind alastair galbraith, sun city girls and supreme dicks. through neville's layers of hiss and murk lie beautifully stirring & shambolic downer hymns.

$15.61

new to stock as of
july 29th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych

tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 006 lp

pumice “quo” long playing record

pumice quo
world with worms
fort
thermos in the studio
pebbles
whole hoof
sick bay duvet
dog water
heavy punter
battersby
beak remedy

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "whole hoof"

july 2008 release ; vinyl version of stefan neville’s second soft abuse disc, c/o mms customer bryan berge’s tipped bowler imprint (way to go bryan ! these look / sound great !!!) ...

that gauzy “pumice effect” (caused by running the guitar signal [and possibly everything else] through a pair of baby monitors) is here in droves ; the songs are penultimately ramshackle in the now-familiar style (well, familiar to me ; i’ve spent the last year trying to track down everything i could by mr. neville) ...

there’s no denying that this music is 10 kinds of brilliant ; stefan’s just as likely to drop a ney-flute solo in the middle of a garage-rock stomper (listen to the sound-sample) as ride a single chord into oblivion ...

well-done 180-gram pressing in a 2-color vg kids sleeve. highly recommended !!!

tipped bowler tapes press release...

tbt 006
pumice
quo

180 gm. vinyl version of stefan neville' latest opus. covers are two-color silkscreens by vg kids on heavy-gauge recycled stock. edition of 300. here's what soft abuse had to say about quo:

as the title self-effacingly implies, quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past pumiceisms: uncertain progressions, anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy, and distorted vocals (crooned, spoken & moaned). quo once more finds pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk and noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting and tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of kilgour or knox, and woozy synth blurts & drones thread the patchwork patterns with hulk-like grace. with quo, neville's palette has shifted to include traces of useless hardcore, doo wop, and modern loner/lunar blues.

stefan neville, shamblin' on unhinged like a modern day hasil adkins, has been making music as pumice now for most of his life. through a steadily spewed stream of unique diy thud & ooze, mostly created on his insular own, neville has burrowed an incomparable place in the post-everything new zealand landscape, all the while making music that's his.

$13.91

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2008

first in stock on
june 14th, 2007

threads:
guitar-themed
folk
modern-psych
minimalism-drones

table of the elements (usa) #toe 091 cd

“the great koonaklaster speaks: a john fahey celebration” compact disc

jack rose "since i've been a man full grown" (11:08)
greg malcolm "spanish flang dang" 5:13
ben vida "exorcise/intone" 7:24
sir richard bishop "hood river lap dance" 4:25
michael hurley "my babe, my babe" 3:00
no neck blues band w/ john fahey and coach fingers "overcome" 3:46
lichens "escapisms in a comedic forum" 3:27
badgerlore "red apple" 5:31
r. keenan lawler "i used to strive for a tree; now i thrive on a mountain" 4:06
pumice "ceremonial knives" 4:53
david daniell "crossing the susquehanna river bridge" 11:31

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "crossing the susquehanna ..."

very nice collection of table of the elements-relatable artists & friends paying homage to john fahey in song. standout tracks by sir richard bishop (an eerie/distant psych-out with harmonizer-fx), david daniell (an 11+ minute epic that begins as a crisp travis-picked ditty, then evolves into a huge, harsh drone cloud before descending down into a memphis-tinged coda of slide guitar & ambience - awesome...)

table of the elements press release...

the great koonaklaster speaks: a john fahey celebration

john fahey's death is shrouded in confusion and camouflage. he is believed to have died in the explosion of a house during the filming of michelangelo antonioni's zabriskie point in 1969. his remains were never found, and the question remains: did fahey purposely stage his own death for his own occlusive purposes?

a collusion of folk, blues, ethnic and modern classical methods, fahey's music suggests both the trickster and the shaman, and has attracted a cult of musician followers over the years, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. his unsolved disappearance has inspired another cult that worships count saint germain, a rosicrucian adept who is said to have never died and assumed various identities over the centuries. disciples of this sect, heard on this record, believe fahey, "the great koonaklaster," to be the most recent incarnation of saint germain. they view fahey's music as a synthesis of saint germain's abilities as a classical composer and skills as an alchemist, and have absorbed his guitar style in order to pay homage to him.

there is much to be gleaned from the koonaklasterians' rites contained within; whether or not you choose to accept this "immortal motherf#cker of the 20th century" as saint germain is up to you.

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