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abduction (usa) #abdt 040 cd

sun city girls “you’re never alone with a cigarette • sun city girls singles volume 1” compact disc

  • 100 pounds of black olives (5:10)
  • sev acher (3:12)
  • souvenirs from jangare (4:20)
  • plaster cupids falling from the ceiling (6:47)
  • amazon one (2:56)
  • the beauty of benghazi (1:32)
  • wild world of animals (2:33)
  • harmful little armful (for will shatter) (0:45)
  • the fine-tuned machines of lemuria (12:00)
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... and this is the set a bunch of us have been waiting for ; a collection of sun city girls singles, all recorded during the “torch of the mystics” sessions & released originally on majora (hopefully reissues of “torch” & “valentines from matahari” aren’t far behind ...)

instrumental “power trio” histrionics for the most part, with the guitars way up front (rick & alan’s snaking lines really define this stuff...) & the tunes short & sweet ... if you’ve been following rick’s recent solo career & have been baffled thusfar by your random dips into the scg catalogue, this could be a great bringer-up-to-speed as it offers a very nice cross-section of their early short-form highpoints ...

this is easily the most listened-to disc around these parts over the last week ; highly recommended !!!
abduction press release...
you're never alone with a cigarette (sun city girls singles volume 1)
2008: cd (abduction: abdt-040)

recorded in july of 1988 during the sessions that produced sun city girl's most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2-lp demo version of 'torch of the mystics' for placebo records in 1989. the sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became 'torch'. placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2-lp idea was presented to them but majora records quickly stepped-in to begin releasing most of the material.

included here are 5 tracks from early majora singles: '100 pounds of black olives' and 'the fine-tuned machines of lemuria' (the complete unreleased 12 minute version) from the single 'you're never alone with a cigarette' and all three tracks from record #1 of the double seven-inch 'three fake female orgasms' --'plaster cupids falling from the ceiling', 'the beauty of benghazi', and 'souvenirs from jangare'. the short piece 'harmful little armful' is from the triple seven-inch box set 'bruce lee, heroin, and the punk scene' (from a bay area label-'massacre at central high') and rounding out the set are 3 unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the 'torch' lp: never before heard versions of 'amazon one', 'sev acher', and 'wild world of animals'.

this is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. vinyl editions may also appear in time.

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abduction (usa) #abdt 010 cd

sun city girls “dulce (original soundtrack recording)” compact disc

  • dulce (main title) (3:52)
  • electric bovine method (6:08)
  • deception reception (4:24)
  • descent to level 7 (1:38)
  • i won't come home (realization) (2:49)
  • dark business as usual (2:33)
  • sweet fatal reflections (2:03)
  • the victory biological (3:59)
  • whirley in the noose (1:11)
  • dulce (guitar theme) (2:00)
  • bobbing the bloody vats (3:10)
  • unwind your dna (12:44)
abduction press release...
originally released as a limited edition lp of 1000 copies in 1998, this is another mysterious soundtrack work by sun city girls, featuring guest appearances by eyvind kang, the ruins and jesse paul miller. the music flips back and forth from melodic and reflective themes to shards of noise and collective improvisation. throw in some clarinet lounge music and spooked-out drama and you have the backdrop to a film that was never completed, explained further here from the original liner notes by alan bishop:

"a nervous, stuttering japanese gentleman phones me in the fall of 1995 requesting soundtrack services from sun city girls for his new film project about a secret underground alien base in new mexico most commonly referred to as 'dulce.' the real kick for us came when our new japanese friend finally announced his allegiance to the esoteric aum shinrikyo group most famous for the sarin gas poisoning in a tokyo subway not long ago. he also professed to be a former associate of aum technical minister hideo murai who was killed by a korean hitman in april of 1995. murai joined the aum priesthood in 1986, becoming the head of its science unit focusing on the current state of electromagnetic weapons development including em beams using lasers and plasma.

we flew to japan to perform a few shows in april of 1996 and a clandestine meeting was arranged with our mysterious director friend on one of our days off in the electronics district of osaka which happened to be less than a mile from where we were staying. so doctor gocher and i pretended to take a souvenir-gathering stroll down the hill and met 'hachiro maki' (a pseudonym, i'm sure) nearby in a temple courtyard. after thirty minutes of reviewing rough cuts on his swivel-screen hi-8 camera and discussing the necessity of anonymity in today's international fast lane, we were one million yen richer with an 8mm tape in my back pocket. haven't heard from him since..." -- alan bishop, 1998

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abduction (usa) #abdt 006 cd

sun city girls “jacks creek” compact disc

  • gurnam (11:43)
  • bubblin' greenery (6:38)
  • useless stillborn (2:45)
  • pork floozle (1:22)
  • fact the business (2:31)
  • double suicide over a saddle (2:51)
  • jazz music of the civil war (3:56)
  • a chase through sweet lips (3:21)
  • jacks creek (3:17)
abduction press release...
the sun city girls' jacks creek was originally released in 1995, now reissued here on cd for the first time since the limited edition vinyl original went out-of-print 12 years ago. as robert dayton reviewed the lp version:

"this album was reviled by the more avant-hipster snob crowd. as time passes, its reputation surely grows to put it right up there with the finest of the sun city girls' diverse canon. and that is saying something!

being an act that can already alienate the unready, what caused this record to alienate their more uptight fans? maybe it's because it was their hillbilly album. maybe it's because the album opens during a still evening on a back porch with them talking about a mysteriously colored smell that predates an indian burial ground and moaning 'he wore red to keep the devil away' and distant howling and warnings that get more and more spooked out, gradually turning into a disfigured, slackjaw, downhoe preying on urban fears over its thirteen-plus minutes running time. then follows a percussive piano-based swamp chase led by a gnarled stick shaker which turns over into improperly distilled moonshine chants.

side two contains lots of little musically inventive snapshots and curios. a good time jamboree on termite wood called "useless stillborn." a civil war call to arms for people way too rot gut broken down to ever pass the draft. and oh so much more to offer from this trio who go above and beyond the call of duty of what could have been (but not in their hands) a one (or thirty) joke premise. i take it that you are already musically adventurous, well, give this a try! feels like they're shrinking (expanding) your head and preserving it in a jug."

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abduction (usa) #abdt 004 cd

alvarius b “alvarius b” compact disc

  • the mighty bufo
  • gloomy june
  • day-glo joe
  • mystery altitude
  • 70 mile house
  • the waxing
  • blue west
  • cold piece capsule
  • mosquito
  • phantom green light
  • el mirage
  • outside steppes
  • jet nicholson murder
  • bleak
  • 66 miles north of vegas
  • bad moves of distinction
  • wreckage the julip
  • mouth pacific
  • jackalope
  • deputy piano-wired
  • vongco texa
  • mesarchuleta
  • incident in your hair
  • flaming stagecoach
  • bloody whiteshirt handshake
  • missing from pasture
  • mr. lonely
  • cupid's crossbow

  • black-eyed shrubbery
  • cancer to capricorn
  • missing trombone
  • sky realty
abduction press release...
alvarius b
(abduction 004, 2006)
alvarius b

cd reissue of the first alvarius b record. 32 instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird lo-fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of several folk guitar styles, some which may never have existed before. from abrasive to delicate, these lucid antique paintings with acoustic guitar employ appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash, alien tunings, pseudo eastern drones, cinematic backroad twang, and other hybrid ideas not easily described.

this record is a folk drifter classic and is now available again for the first time in a decade. originally released as 1000 copies (vinyl only) in 1994 on abduction. recorded from 1981-1989 by alvarius b (aka alan bishop/sun city girls) onto various portable cassette decks and includes the original 28 tracks from the lp plus 4 unreleased bonus tracks.

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abduction (usa) #abdt 002 cd

sun city girls “juggernaut (original soundtrack recording)” compact disc

  • gravelhead (7:04)
  • outskirts of the possible (6:19)
  • my friend nothing (main title) (2:36)
  • bird in a grave (3:48)
  • life expectancy of a fly (1:10)
  • expendable city (5:47)
  • spatial retreat (3:28)
  • cloudbuster (2:43)
  • the darkest look (2:19)
  • among all flat (7:15)
abduction press release...
juggernaut
(abduction, 2007)
sun city girls

originally released as a limited edition lp by abduction records in 1994, and released on cd for the first time ever, this is an essential yet overlooked sun city girls recording consisting of various electric and acoustic tracks with a few compositional ideas rarely heard or revisited in their immense back catalog. and when we say compositional, we mean improvisation as composition which was basically the scg method of operation in the studio.

the record opens with two patented scg stretched electric guitar/bass/drum works of dark beauty and then things become weirder as odd keyboards, acoustic instrumental and percussive pieces, and strange vocals start to dominate the rest of the album, setting the mood for piasa... devourer of men - which was recorded directly after juggernaut.

these tracks were exclusively created for a short film project by mark roman bodnar and kyrill kazemirovitch protsenko (a ukraine/usa co-production) which resulted in a limited promo vhs release and a few festival screenings before the film was buried and forgotten. segments from many of the ten tracks were actually used in the film, although there is much more to hear on the original full-length cuts found here.

some of the most unusual scg studio recordings are contained on juggernaut, all recorded live to 4-track cassette in 1993 in seattle by scott colburn.

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