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previous record label: faithways international		there are 42 titles on family vineyard in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: fang bomb

$13.26

new to stock as of
july 30th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
folk

family vineyard (usa) #fv 60 cd

john terrill “frowny frown” compact disc

the worst (that comes out of me)
forgive & forget
angeline
faces of my past
blind
i-65
melancholy mary
keep it here
squeaky wheel
ain’t no folk singer
heart in mind
floyd
church bus blues
rotten old
shack
stoney mansion
i’ll follow in time
locked in your heart
lazy day
i fell [bonus track]

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "i-65"

july 2008 release ; 60s-leaning bedroom pop from former dancing cigarette john terrill ...

family vineyard press release...

john terrill
frowny frown
fv60 cd

between 1988 and 1998, john terrill (co-founder of the late '70s new/no wave dancing cigarettes) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. in another era it could have stood next to scott walker or michael hurley's early albums or even randy burns' lps on esp disk. it's an out-of-time classic that mixes honey baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop-psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. now reissued for all and remastered with a bonus track from 1984.

"i feel this album is a little gem. lyrically--a man up against it (frowny frown) as opposed to (smiley smile), but still leaning towards humor, kindheartedness, and no bitterness within the adversity. a very feeling album and all kinds of sonically interesting things. the kind of direction brian wilson might even have taken himself if his own circumstances had been different. beach boys meet mothers of invention. it has, then, the simplicity, innocence, and at the same time the musical innovation of the beach boys, plus the other side of the coin, the innovation of the mothers of invention. sometimes almost like the shadows or the tornadoes performing at a 1960 wedding reception, and then sonic blasts and great instrumentation and arrangements peppered throughout. a musician who seems to have absorbed all kinds of previous things, and then created his own very original and absorbing album." -- bill fay, march 2008

the transparent velum packaging mirrors the handful of homemade copies john originally issued.

released july 22, 2008.

$12.48

back in stock as of
july 30th, 2008

first in stock on
may 13th, 2008

threads:
guitar-themed
free-improvisation
plunder-phonic
electro-acoustic-improvisation
field-recordings

family vineyard (usa) #fv 58 cd

alan licht / aki onda “everydays” compact disc

tick tock (6:42)
ship shape (7:12)
tiptoe (13:50)
chitchat (7:28)
be bop (14:28)

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

may 2008 release ; the debut release from the long-running nyc-based duo of aki onda (tapes, mainly) and alan licht (guitar, ditto) ... five pieces working an inspired spell of improv-magic ; results vary from studied, gestural interplay rife with pointillist interjections to noise-walls & tape-hiss addled drones ... alan’s playing is, typically, top-notch & onda’s pause-button antics & interjected snatches of plunderphonic audio keep the pace brisk. the room-fidelity throughout gives it an in-situ feel, regardless of whether these are live-recordings or in-studio constructs (if there’s one area i love; it’s a gray one ...) - excellent stuff.

family vineyard press release...

alan licht & aki onda everydays

debut collaboration of new york artists and long-time duo partners alan licht and aki onda, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds, including fennesz, loren connors, takemura nobukazu, lee ranaldo, and toriko nujiko.

in the past decade their montage-inspired solo work—licht's permutational guitar and tape pieces on rabbi sky and a new york minute, onda's field recording recontextualizations on bon voyage! and ancient & modern—has co-existed with their experimental sound/visual projects text of light (licht) and cinemage (onda).

everydays is five grandly formed soundscapes that mix onda's poetic/textural cassette sounds and the rhythmic/lyrical pull of licht's guitar. morphing from recognizable structures to dissonant hammered chunks and rapid cut-ups, the album perfectly weaves their signature applications of sound diaries, minimalism, grainy fidelity, looping and free blues into a dynamic and ambitious statement.

$15.61

new to stock as of
july 17th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
folk
guitar-themed

family vineyard (usa) #fv 56 cd

dredd foole “kissing the contemporary bliss” double compact disc set

dog star waltz (10:14)
above ground friend (7:01)
i wuz born (3:07)
lay lady lay (be) (7:16)
walk right in (11:24)
lips (3:51)
once i was not (3:04)
raga moderne #1 (1:27)
light at the ditch of a spoonful (8:48)
jungle nigh high (3:37)
the jug is glowin' (4:53)
boom boom (for willie alexander) (7:55)
girl from the north country (6:37)
stones in my passway (6:05)
aquarian wind (3:28)
raga moderne #2 (1:25)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "lay lady lay (be)"

july 2008 release ; reissue of dan’s long-gone child of microtones disc ... dredd foole has long been @ the pinnacle of contemporary free-associative psychedelia ; this disc pretty much covers him at his free-zonked best, with aid/abet from the mv/ee duo ...

family vineyard press release...

dredd foole kissing the contemporary bliss

for over 30 years troubadour wailer dan ireton, aka dredd foole, has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic stooges n' velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. whether solo or leading mass, foole hints at the classic forms of dylan’s blood on the tracks, buckley’s starsailor and the celestial fug of sun ra’s third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: six organs of admittance, sunburned hand of the man).

produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by matt “mv” valentine (bummer road, tower recordings), kissing the contemporary bliss spans 50 miles of elbow room (it’s a double cd) and kicks up the most outward bound and staggering approaches to gus cannon's "walk right in" and robert johnson's "stones in my passway" while offering ear-popping originals colored by erika elder’s jug blowin’ and coot moon’s ecstatic, reverb dosed banjo. you’ll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. packaged in a mini-lp-styled gatefold book with full color photos of the foole in action.

$12.48

new to stock as of
june 12th, 2008

threads:
free-jazz

family vineyard (usa) #fv 55 cd

paul flaherty / randall colbourne “bridge out!” compact disc

scorched onslaught (8:18)
marauding toxic fungus (17:28)
ice spike (2:00)
rhubarb (9:38)
gilded plague (14:05)
thirsty thorns (11:53)
more lasting than bronze (5:25)
spiders in her hair (5:02)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "ice spike"

june 2008 release ; tub-heavy duo exchange between long-time partners-in-crime paul flaherty & randall colbourne ... gets into some heady, ferocious zones (as can be expected) but leaves room for more plaintive exercises (listen to the sound-sample for a particularly nice, short bit of bowed-cymbal introspection ...)

family vineyard press release...

paul flaherty & randall colbourne
brige out!
fv55 cd

don't call it a comeback. bridge out!, the first release in almost a decade by the duo of saxophonist paul flaherty and percussionist randall colbourne, is better thought of as a renewal, a reawakening of a collaboration which has lain dormant for too long. joining forces in the late 1980s, these two new englanders released over a dozen uncompromising and outlaw styled albums of avant garde jazz on their own and other labels that have since vanished into legend. since then, flaherty has expanded across the world stage in improv, out-rock and noise (with chris corsano, thurston moore, sunburned hand of the man, etc.) while colbourne pursued private study. together again, they've created eight instant compositions of coiling sax lines and polyrhythmic patterns that commemorates the past celebrates the new. includes liner notes by nick cain.

$16.88

back in stock as of
february 15th, 2008

first in stock on
november 7th, 2007

threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych
bedroom
lo-fi

family vineyard (usa) #fv 54 cd

loren mazzacane connors “as roses bow: collected airs 1992-2002” double compact disc set

an air (1:22)
child (1:46)
sorrow in the house (2:33)
st. brigid's air (1:36)
moonyean no. 3 (1:30)
moonyean no. 7 (1:52)
o'connor's last air (2:56)
moonyean no. 9 (2:10)
onora's kid (3:14)
moonyean no. 13 (2:01)
frozen star (1:56)
o'carolan's air (2:54)
little shoes (2:28)
brigid's air (1:58)
no way home (1:42)
air for bobby sands and the huger stikers (3:51)
evangeline (1:10)
dance acadia (1:18)
a boy's day at the fair (1:08)
the cart ride (1:15)
airs no. 1 (1:43)
airs no. 2 (1:53)
moonyean (2:18)
airs no. 4 (2:16)
airs no. 5 (2:00)
airs no. 6 (3:21)
airs no. 7 (2:05)
airs no. 8 (1:42)
airs no. 9 (1:59)
airs no. 10 (1:47)
airs no. 11 (2:04)
airs no. 12 (3:22)
airs no. 13 (1:48 )
airs no. 17 (2:25)
airs no. 18 (1:17)
death of shelley (1:53)
on patrick hill (2:00)
o'connaira's air (1:19)
silent in the soul (1:43)
at the playground (2:41)
stephen foster's air (1:49)
the kiss - a moment at the door (3:32)
as roses bow (3:00)

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

double-disc collection of “airs” by loren (mazzacane) connors; a series of short, interrelated pieces recorded throughout the 90s & strewn out like grains of sand over several releases during his most prolific years... very nice to have it all in one place, primed for continuous listening...

family vineyard press release...

loren connors
as roses bow: collected airs 1992-2002
fv54 2xcd

as roses bow: collected airs 1992-2002 is loren connors' assembly of his most melodically rich and stunning miniature compositions. inspired by o'carolan's airs and other irish airs of the past, these works, recorded during a ten year period, are melded with the distinctly personal and iconoclast adaptation of connors' blues.

these 43 pieces are connors' complete airs, culled from 10 albums (eight of which are out of print) and one single, including his groundbreaking hell's kitchen park (black label, 1993), moonyean (road cone, 1994), as well as obscure titles like st. vincent's newsboy home (item recordings, 1998) and lullaby (carbon, 2001) plus four unreleased airs. nearly the entire critically heralded airs (road cone 1999) is remastered and included as well. a timeless collection of the most gorgeous and accessible work from one of america's most iconoclast artists.

also includes pieces from five points ep (table of the elements, 1994), 9th avenue (black label 1995), calloden harvest (road cone, 1997), evangeline (road cone, 1998), standing upright on a curve (1998), and sails (table of the elements, 2006). remastered by jim o'rourke.

released november 5, 2007

$13.67

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
november 7th, 2007

threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych
folk
bedroom

family vineyard (usa) #fv 53 cd

hisato higuchi “butterfly horse street” compact disc

a hundred signs of light (5:47)
grow (3:06)
blood and leaves (4:10)
melody in the mud (1:39)
electric guitar light (3:16)
monster on the street (2:13)
in the mud (2:44)
kind line (3:05)
guitar six (2:36)
dawn (2:12)
cry baby flowers (4:17)

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

second album by this young japanese “bedroom” guitarist; continues on in the trajectory laid out on the debut (moaning vocals, quietly strummed chords) with a few detours into louder territories (see the sound-clip) ...

family vineyard press release...

hisato higuchi
butterfly horse street
fv53 cd

tokyo-based guitarist/singer hisato higuchi has shaped an inimitable sound sphere of solitary electric notes that drape across his unearthly moan during the course of two full-lengths and an ep. channeling loneliness and desires as elegant six-string tone poems, higuchi has reached the heights of fellow travelers from meredith monk to charalambides.

though butterfly horse street adds an unexpected snarl as higuchi erupts into free/noise, wall of sound guitar style that echoes the most ecstatic string manipulation of masayuki takayanagi or donald miller (borbetomagus). ferocious and howling, higuchi still paints desolation whether bleeding into the red or as hushed beauty.

released november 5, 2007

$13.67

back in stock as of
july 30th, 2008

first in stock on
february 29th, 2008

threads:
free-improvisation
sound-art

family vineyard (usa) #fv 51 lp

chris corsano “the young cricketer” long playing record

what do we mean by coaching? (0:36)
how should you pick up the ball and throw it? (1:56)
what do people mean when they say, "he played cricket"? (1:34)
what do we get from cricket that we don't get from other games? (4:01)
if you want to succeed at cricket what attitude should you adopt towards the game? (1:57)
how may your parents and your emplyer help you in your cricket career? (7:58)
what's the correct way to stop a ball? (0:36)
how do you know that you have taken your eyes off the ball when you attempt to catch it? (1:41)
why are some cricket coaches better than others? (4:28)
how will you learn more successfully from your coach than by just looking and listening? (2:46)
what movement helps you when you are trying to run out a batsman? (1:53)
why should you watch the striker's bat? (2:35)
how do you know where to throw the ball? (1:55)
when should you throw the ball at top speed? (2:07)
how should you throw it on other occasions? (1:47)
are you going to keep alive the spirit of cricket? (2:39)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "what do we mean by coaching? / how should you pick up the ball and throw it?"

march 2008 release ; vinyl issue of the first chris corsano solo record ... some of you might remember that i had chris’ home-burnt editions on his hot cars warp recordslabel for a good while & that i raved somewhat endlessly about them, so not only having this music available again, but on vinyl (c/o eric weddle’s spot-on as-of-recent family vineyard) is a real treat. of course this material absolutely sings, again, oscillating between propulsive kit-work and squealing home-brew instrument studies ...

i have the sinking feeling that this planned-obsolescence-lineage edition will go the way of the loren mazzacane connors lp from a few months back ; if you like chris & his music & want to own a copy of this, please go ahead and pick one up as soon as possible (before the ebay vultures come-a-calling - damn were they ferocious w/that lmc record ...)

here’s the blurb i wrote for the cdr edition (all tracks are present here, albeit in a different running order) ::

spring 2006 solo “tour” artifact from mr. corsano, he-drummer of they-groups from sunburned hand of the man to six organs of admittance and on and on...

in the last 3-odd years, corsano has edged bonham out of my drummer-elite inner-circle/top-5 (his new neighbors: jaki, zigaboo, han, hayward ...) something about the never-ending source of energy and the sound-exploration ethos he lays down... i’m becoming more and more convinced that he’s a musician first and a “hitter-of-object(s)” second... case in point, this set, which alternates between popcorn-machine tap-tap and weird, almost sound-art bits of amplified kit and feedback-snare-horn-electronic-mystery-exploration... truly the fruit of a gifted and restless mind at work.

this disc is limited; not something you’re going to find at yr local wal-mart... hand-burnt by the man himself. pretty damn special...

family vineyard press release...

chris corsano
the young cricketer
fv51 lp

the young cricketer is chris corsano’s debut of frankenstein/gamelan skin detail. it’s a monster and a babe all wrapped under the guise of the solo drum album. corsano’s fleamarket kit of cast-iron pot lids, super-bouncy-balls on sticks, butter knives, and even a sax mouthpiece jammed-in-a-hose conjures a part rhythmic maelstrom, like a milford graves drip painting, and the sweet metallic ice drones of tony conrad and keiji haino rubbing sticks together until end days.

globally known for a dozen scorched/power jazz sessions with sax blower paul flaherty, ongoing work with michael flower, the vampire belt duo with bill nace and a cadre of collaborators (jandek, bjork, jim o’rourke, dream/aktion unit, death unit, dredd foole, etc.), corsano’s drumming has leapt from post-hardcore explorations into outrageous, primeval and outright futuristic depth during his past 10 years of recorded documentation.

this lp is a field recording of wire, skin, metal and soul -- not tunes for yr neighbor's bongo party. originally issued on corsano's own hot cars warp label as a cdr, this lp is remastered and issued in a 600 edition.

$12.85

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
july 19th, 2007

threads:
folk

family vineyard (usa) #fv 49 cd

david garland “noise in you” compact disc

prelude 1 (1:09)
diorama (5:00)
my contraption (3:25)
every bird (3:22)
xs for eyes (5:05)
the past (7:18)
prelude 2 (0:24)
damn dreams (2:37)
cumulonimbus (3:52)
oh my god (4:37)
i don’t want to know (6:07)
the intention to relax and think about things (3:44)
drop by drop (6:16)
noise in you (5:30)
this time (4:07)
postlude (3:34)

family vineyard press release...

david garland
noise in you
fv49 cd

noise in you is an album of gorgeous music about noisy emotions: our desires and distractions, anxieties and passions, love and loss, and the living hum of our bodies. it is david garland's 8th album since entering new york city's downtown scene in the 1980s, and it's the first to receive the wide distribution and attention his music deserves.

garland is a multi-instrumentalist currently exploring the sumptuous jangle of a 12-string guitar; he sings with a voice that's deep, honest, and intimate. noise in you is unclassifiable: pop music that's both experimental and accessible, and is rich with intricate layered harmonies and startling colors and textures. it features the beautiful, sometimes mystical voices of a younger generation of musicians together with guitars, flute, piano, clarinet, sarode, oboe, and more. noise in you unfolds into a wondrous, subtly interconnected song cycle that sweeps you up in its imaginativeness, drama, and sensual pleasure.

released july 24, 2007

$13.67

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
june 14th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
free-jazz

family vineyard (usa) #fv 45 cd

tigersmilk “android love cry” compact disc

poured over waves ecstatic charge
falling signals rising
the last moments after death
spirit spore flash
stillness among mercury trees
love into earths shadow-liquid
before a blinded spirit light planet
already crippled by water and wind
minimal distress code
to the face of beauty concealed in shadow-wire
the city conducted conducted
night and falling tears
circuit overlord demise

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "falling signals rising"

family vineyard press release...

tigersmilk
android love cry
fv45 cd

it gets nasty at times -- feedback laden, meters in the red -- even psychedelic as tigersmilk pour it on thick, straight from some cosmic mind's eye teat. android love cry is the third album from the voodoo concrete jazz crew of rob mazurek (chicago underground, mandarin movie, exploding star orchestra) on cornet, laptop/synth (and banjo), acoustic/electric bassist jason roebke (rapid croche, fred lonberg-holm trio), and percussionist dylan van der schyff (talking pictures).

it's a dynamically gorgeous and dissonant thirteen part cycle that delves into obscure conditions of wilderness and transformation backed by a pulsing and often volatile syncopation not far from max neuhaus' electro-acoustics or even cluster's space 'n' rhythm glow. even with engorged synthesizer and percussive fields tigersmilk's heart is the post-bop flare of bill dixon's late-60s orchestra and the oceanic pull of minimalist cool. tradition is deep in these abstractions--it's the unshakable bond of these three travelers who've created an album even a dark prince would love.

$13.67

back in stock as of
may 13th, 2008

first in stock on
october 24th, 2006

threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych

family vineyard (usa) #fv 44 cd

hisato higuchi “dialogue” compact disc

himitsu
guitar #4
manazashi no saki e
watashi wa asa o matteita
guitar #2
hajimari no bamen
guitar #5
ai no tanjo
kizuato
breath #2
guitar #3
mitsumeau sekai ni
borei no ude

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

superb, aching guitar & vocal pieces from hisato higuchi, very much in the vein of loren mazzacane connors (w/o biting his oeuvre too much.) this is higuchi’s first american release after a few sought-after discs on his own ghost box label...

family vineyard press release...

hisato higuchi
dialogue
fv44 cd

dialogue is the first american release by tokyo's new rising power hisato higuchi. originally a puppeteer, higuchi has transformed his glacial, shadow-box inspired hand movements to the twlight theater of electric guitar. flickering between beautiful melodic/melancholic space-blues to haunting verbal aches, higuchi's six-string tones and hushed vocals fan out from the haunted torch songs of patty waters and the burning embers of keiji haino's quieter, introspective work. his seemingly wordless japanese croon is a smoky, after-hours call of loss or spectral interspection. higuchi's music manifests itself in a unique and singular conception that seeps into your mind and soul. the songs of dialogue breathe slowly, almost to the point of stillness, with eerie voice and flinty guitar searching for quiet revelation that carries the deep trance/grace of charalamabides or even mazzy star. the perfect introduction for stateside listeners.

higuchi released two previous albums she ep (2003) and 2004 11 20054 (2005) on his own ghost disc imprint. both continue to garner praise from all corners of the globe. higuchi has also contributed tracks to psf's fith volume of its famed tokyo flasbback series and wfmu's twenty years/one second compilation. israel's fact records reissued she as a 3-inch cd in 2005.

$13.66

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
october 24th, 2006

threads:
free-jazz

family vineyard (usa) #fv 43 cd

paul flaherty “whirl of nothingness” compact disc

compassion lost and found again
blankets wear the naked fear
firetrance lonely heartache still
shattered scenes of blinding burst
sweetly danced in times of hurtful pleasure
if you step back far enough
it'll be all right
monsters hide in plain sight dark
waiting to be lifted onto the flames

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "compassion lost and found again"

guttural solo alto & soprano improvs from mr. flaherty; long one of new england’s unsung free jazz flame-keepers ...

family vineyard press release...

paul flaherty
whirl of nothingness
fv43 cd

saxophonist paul flaherty is new england's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. even before his 1978 record debut flaherty remained unshakable in the pursuit of soul healing and demon dashing through freedom music. whirl of nothingness, flaherty's second solo album, is eight pieces of alto and tenor saxophone steeped in the theme of loss and channeled through blasting improvisations that showcase his fabulous wailing and inferno of sound to stark bluesy melodies. in the slim cannon of solo horn records (alongside anthony braxton, coleman hawkins, kaoru abe, peter brotzmann, arthur doyle), whirl of nothingness stands triumphantly strong and wholly distinct as a shifting sphere of sound poetry and spiritual tongue. features liner notes and poem by flaherty as well as fantastic and stoic front/back cover portraits by john rogers.

released august 22, 2006

$13.66

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

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october 24th, 2006

threads:
modern-psych

family vineyard (usa) #fv 42 cd

rope “heresy, and then nothing but tears” compact disc

she the assassin
heresy
blood stained lust
the financial imperative
our beast
this is love
grand humiliation of misery

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "she the assassin"

family vineyard press release...

rope
heresy, and then nothing but tears
fv42 cd

rope formed in poland as a guitar/bass duo in 1998. since relocating to chicago in 2000 they have become one of the city's most flummoxing avant rock groups. heresy, and then nothing but tears is their second full-length album. robert iwanik (bass, vocals), przemyslaw krzysztof drazek (guitar) and michael j. kendrick (trap set, percussion, electronics) blend deconstructed strains of swans' emotional weight and last exit's fury with propelling grooves and krzysztof komeda's classical suspense into lush and often uncompromising no wave abrasion. rope's constantly evolving ocean of impossible rhythms, screaming guitar and iwanik's hissing voice adds up to an ultra-dynamic group force of cryptic awe. features guest vocals from grazyna auguscik and songwriting/vocal collaboration by oxbow's eugene robinson on four songs. cover art by famed polish fringe painter stanislaw ignacy "witkacy" witkiewicz.

released october 10, 2006

$13.66

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
april 19th, 2007

threads:
free-jazz

family vineyard (usa) #fv 41 cd

cold bleak heat “simitu” compact disc

the voice of the people is the voice of god (12:37)
should we destroy the hubble? (5:59)
mugged by a glacier (21:35)
pound cake (6:15)
a white bandaged head in the shadow of death (15:03)
to understand all is to forgive all (8:00)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "pound cake"

april 2007 release; the second on family vineyard by the quartet of paul flaherty, chris corsano, greg kelley, and matt heyner; arguably the finest practitioners of energy music working current circuits/belts.

these four roughnecks have independently flogged their share of dry-walrus over the past few years; combining their corrosive properties into one sound makes perfect sense; yields a suite of high-test free jazz blat that compares to listening to your cotw frank wright sides on 45. great stuff.

family vineyard press release...

cold bleak heat
simitu
fv41 cd

cold bleak heat is the dream team, east coast avant jazz line up of alto/tenor saxophonist paul flaherty (dream/aktion unit), drummer chris corsano (sunburned hand of the man, vampire belt), trumpeter greg kelley (nmperign, heathen shame), and acoustic bassist matt heyner (no neck blues band, test).

while explosive as their 2005 debut, simitu brings a melancholic, even sensitive feel to these improvisations. yet, no need to worry about these four wipin' tears on their sleeves. cbh wages between the melodic centers/ghostly solos of flaherty/kelley and loose, downhill, free blow outs you'd expect, all while mainting the grand swell of a hardcore jazz symphony. even as complex and multi-paced beats sink into bowed-drones and vocal hollers, focused lyricism remains the returning leader. features liner notes and drawings by christina carter (charalambides).

$13.66

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
october 24th, 2006

threads:
free-jazz

family vineyard (usa) #fv 39 cd

paul flaherty / chris corsano “the beloved music” compact disc

the great pine tar scandal (11:20)
a lean and tortured heart (18:12)
what do you mean this is a dry county? (13:0&)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the great pine tar scandal"

blistering energy-void tandemned by mssr.s flaherty & corsano, in-situ and in real time ...

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paul flaherty - chris corsano
the beloved music
fv39 cd

the beloved music is the most thoroughly realized blueprint for a post-hardcore take on improvised jazz to date from the duo of legendarily long-serving new england saxophonist paul flaherty and young firebrand drummer chris corsano. forsaking the call and response modes of countless improvising ensembles, the duo deal more in a simultaneity of sound, an elemental non-stop gush of ideas, rhythms and epiglottal forms that at points feels like a small-group response to the orchestral conceptions of the peter brotzmann and john coltrane big-bands as much as epochal duo deals like the rashied ali/frank lowe and muhammad ali/frank wright sides. between studio collaborations and tours with wolf eyes, nels cline, six organs of admittance, and cold bleak heat (their quartet with greg kelley and no neck blues band's matt heyner), flaherty and corsano have coalesced and elated serious jazzbos alongside noise fans and freak-folk followers. liner notes by david keenan (volcanic tongue/the wire).

released march 7, 2006

$13.66

new to stock as of
january 17th, 2008

threads:
guitar-themed
free-improvisation

family vineyard (usa) #fv 38 cd

philip gayle “mommy row” compact disc

gyo, gyo, gyo, gyo
zoomly zoomly
kanojo no pan
the payphone
koyangi sesu
certificate
cow people
high
april warp
flat tire
yagamo

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

... i’ll come clean; in my various family-vineyard catalogue sorties thusfar i’ve been avoiding this one - mainly based on the cover (which, agreed, is hair-raising) - turns out i’ve been doing a real dis-service to not only this record (which, agreed, is pretty great in a post davey williams / chadbourne kinda way) but to gayle’s whole oeuvre/thing ... apologies where due ...

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philip gayle
the mommy row
fv38 cd

the mommy row is guitarist philip gayle's monstrous, magma opus; the biggest, jaw-popping swallow one can now take in the upper/outer echelon of free thinking acoustic voyagers. this gent's three previous solo records collected smitten global praise yet held no clues this would be next. recorded in pristine audiophile splendor, the nyc-via-houston-based gayle multi-tracked himself in duo, trio, hell -- sextet catacombs of 12-string guitar, aluminum egg bar, prepared toy piano, baritone ukulele, hand held cymbals, classical guitar, gongs plus an isle more of stringed wood and tempered metals. at its core, gayle locks these spatial clusters, subtracting adding or multiplying the bent themes that pass between, into a cohesive oft melodic form that shows itself in genius flashes. orbiting an overtly damaged sphere risen from eugene chadbourne, sun city girls, thelonius monk, christopher tree, harry bertoia, and years of bedroom perfection, these pieces owe most to the moment of recording. gayle's style remains totally unique, crossing itself with oriental motifs, classical, humor, flamenco and free improv leanings.

released august 16, 2005

$12.85

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
august 19th, 2005

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

family vineyard (usa) #fv 37 cd

unstable ensemble “embers” compact disc

everything vibrates 18:47
better up north 5:47
bone 6:13
black wings 6:11
sphere 13:07
embers 2:27

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "black wings"

third album from this free improv ensemble, including in its ranks family vineyard label boss eric weddle (who was nice enough to let greg, ben, and i stay @ his place when we dashed through chapel hill/carrboro/raleigh-durham a few years back...), a fine mix of contemporary eai stylings with more “classic” sounding/challenged-fidelity zonk and some fine, exploratory guitar passages ...

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unstable ensemble
embers
fv37 cd

unstable ensemble's third full-length is their most finely honed improvisational gesture. embers is a menage of sax/guitar melody slivers shifting amongst crackling electronic tones and bowed percussion. existing amongst the shadowy fringes of north american improvisation since 1999, unstable ensemble's driftage has carried itself vast miles toward border crossings and large/no audiences to bestow ephemeral sound demonstrations as anti-placates to jazzbo tokers and noise-junkies. encapsulating many forces, embers surges with titanic electronic gale and absolute stillness while inner lyrical intricacies summon forlorn memories.

released august 16, 2005

$13.66

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

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august 19th, 2005

family vineyard (usa) #fv 35 cd

cold bleak heat “it’s magnificent, but it isn’t war” compact disc

never give ‘em what they want (7:45)
the blue dabs of varicose veins (5:10)
bloodshot blink (vanquished teeth) (12:46)
raising the dead (freezer fight) (10:45)
love conquers all motherfucker (15:51)
you only live for infinity (9:14)
is that all you got? (3:33)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "never give ‘em what they want "

full-on blast of acoustic power-free improv sonics from this all-star supergroup, featuring members of nmperign, no-neck blues band, vampire belt, etc... super-inspired playing throughout... blasted like only the finest byg/shandar side ...

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cold bleak heat
it's magnificent, but it isn't war
fv35 cd

the debut from a subterranean assembly of today's most active: connecticut's prevailing operator of the alto/ tenor saxophones, paul flaherty; the seemingly ten-handed/ footed drummer chris corsano (sunburned hand of the man), definitely today's leading light in pure spectrum propulsion; sound sculpting trumpeter greg kelley (nmperign), who opens into full-force gales during this session; and earth-boom grounding acoustic bassist matt heyner (no neck blues band), whose tone/shape-shifting agility wrangles all these wild horses into one field. these four actioners embody a cosmic shuffle of unresolved parallel. cold bleak heat is a wake up call to the evolving life of the avant garde. and on the inside dredd foole lays a verse-based telling of the cbh story as only he can.

released march 5, 2005

$13.66

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
september 13th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed

family vineyard (usa) #fv 34 cd

loren mazzacane connors “the departing of a dream vol. iii: juliet” compact disc

her love
her fate
her death
juliet
in lovers eyes

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "her death"

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loren connors
the departing of a dream vol. iii: juliet
fv34 cd

"you can't hold on to things," loren connors says. "with great happiness comes great sorrow." so brings us to the spectrum that is departing of a dream vol. iii: juliet. like the previous volumes, juliet is a tribute of sorts; and here the focus is clearly love, the kind of love willing to face desolation and ultimately death.

recorded in connors's brooklyn apartment, his electric guitar emits a pulsing web of blues notes that settle against the utterly intimate human ambience of a creaking chair, tumbling objects, smoke curled absence and his signature canvas of tape hiss. the story of juliet and her romeo is told in a lyrical outpouring that connors has rarely shown in recent years, a style associated which his rooms (1990) and evangeline (1999) albums. though the 20-minute album opener contains a devastating core of mire and foreboding that only connors can create.

released may 2004

$21.64

back in stock as of
may 13th, 2008

first in stock on
august 1st, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed

family vineyard (usa) #fv 32 cd

o-type “new edge” quintuple compact disc and digital versatile disc recordable set

strict (disc #1)
balkana: brutality: ii (disc #2)
medication (disc #3)
lugubrious (disc #4)
western classic (disc #5)
godawful (dvd-r)

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

family vineyard’s handmade box-edition of their 5 o-type releases (contemporary psych/rock/improv band led by mx-80’s bruce anderson) with a bonus dvd-r of film/footage shot and scored by the band in 2001.

i’ve always thought they were under-rated; this is a great chance to get pretty much their entire oeuvre for a little more than the cost of any one of their discs ...

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o-type
the new edge
fv32 5cd + dvdr box

the new edge is a stunning and absolute collection of the 1999-2005 releases by o-type, a 20-plus year collective morphed from the bay area hard-art genius that is mx-80, featuring the nucleus of guitar hero bruce anderson and sonic sage dale sophiea with jim hrabetin (guitar, bass) and percussionists mark weinstein and dave mahoney.

often surpassing levels of full-on abstraction, in terms of structure and melody, o-type blend fields of ambient distillation and jagged, electroid rhythm fragments into sprawling narratives, composed in real time, that evoke movie soundtracks, musique concrete, minimalism, and guitar psychedelia with references spanning from morton feldman to pete cosey.

the new edge is a limited edition, handmade box with wrap around, hand screened cover art and printed inner cards containing all of o-type's family vineyard releases: strict (fv1); brutality ii: balkana (fv4); medication (fv8); lugubrious (fv10) and western classics (fv31).

exclusive to this set is godawful a dvdr of unprocessed and trance-like nature scenes accompanied by unreleased improvisations. this body of work stands above and without association with any current musical trends or scenes. the video was shot by sophiea in berkeley, forest glenn, and monterey, california and the zagori mountains in epirus, greece. the o-type music was recorded in september 2001.

limited edition.

$13.26

back in stock as of
june 12th, 2008

first in stock on
january 17th, 2008

threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych

family vineyard (usa) #fv 31 cd

o-type “western classics” compact disc

the searchers (6:02)
the manchurian candidate (6:11)
3 faces of eve (7:26)
point blank (5:16)
mean streets (7:03)
out of the past (5:05)
mccabe & mrs. miller (with deleted scenes) (31:31)

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o-type
western classics
fv31 cd

western classics, the sixth overall album by o-type (members of legendary bay area hard-art genius mx-80 sans singer rich stim), facilitates a tightly guided, dark venture into the heavy, multi-rhythm electronic tendencies within a six-string framework that references the sustained tones of morton feldman to ennio morricone to pete cosey.

this is not a tribute per se to the films represented as song titles ("mean streets," "the searchers," "out of the past") though each musical venture takes a nod to the cinematic view before remorphing and adding layers of abstraction. the pieces follow everything from minimal melodic patterns to fractured beats to concrete outtakes that seem ripped from miles davis's on the corner.

$13.66

back in stock as of
february 15th, 2008

first in stock on
january 17th, 2008

family vineyard (usa) #fv 30 cd

mx-80 “we’re an american band” compact disc

no brainer
we’re an american band
mr. watson
hell
susan
don’t hate the french
you turned my head around
give it up
cry uncle
so clear
christmas with the devil
lights out
(i’m) flying

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mx-80
we're an american band
fv30 cd

mx-80's first studio album in over a decade -- is both hilariously depressing and morosely upbeat. the ground-breaking bay area quartet, known for its searing guitar work -- founder bruce anderson was labeled as one of america's "unknown greats" by guitar player magazine - and deadpan commentary of vocalist rich stim, has managed to combine the worst of the digital and analog worlds to create a masterwork that mixes satan, howard hughes and current theories on brain transplants. in a bit of musical cannibalism, "we're an american band," includes samples from the cinematic tapestries of o-type, the musical side excursion guided by mx founders dale sophiea and anderson. claimed as an inspiration by many underground stars, mx-80's 30 year career is crowned by this tract on the modern american, living up to its moniker as the "the most arty heavy metal band in the world."

released november 2005

$13.66

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
december 2nd, 2004

threads:
jewelled-antler
minimalism-drones
modern-psych

family vineyard (usa) #fv 29 cd

the blithe sons “arm of the starfish” compact disc

sparkling diatoms
sun anenome
animals of the seashore
foam
sea-glass

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "sun anenome"

second release by the blithe sons on family vineyard (i’m suspecting the other 3 the writeup below refers to are cdr-only editions that never real-ly existed). as wasted and primordial as it’s predecessor(s)...

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the blithe sons
the arm of the starfish
fv29 cd

fifth full-length release from the outdoor wandering the blithe sons, the jewelled antler-related duo of loren chasse (of, thuja) and glenn donaldson (skygreen leopards, thuja). performed mostly in coastal california environs on acoustic and battery-powered instruments, the sound of waves, wind, tide pools, seabirds and shifting sand plays an active role in these minimalist folk atmospheres. incorporating 12-string cuatro, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, banjo, harmonium, percussion, toy amplifiers, wood flutes, thai mouthorgan, violin-uke, casio and donaldson's mysterious vocal utterances, arm evokes haunted shorelines, windswept cliffs and vast undersea caverns.

released march 15, 2004

$13.66

new to stock as of
january 17th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
concert-recordings

family vineyard (usa) #fv 28 cd

tigersmilk “from the bottle” compact disc

(11:49)
(6:22)
(15:25)
(12:53)
(1:57)
(18:51)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "from the bottle pt. 2"

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tigersmilk
from the bottle
fv28 cd

second album by cornetist/ electronicist/ laptop manipulator rob mazurek (chicago underground, isotope 217, solo releases on mego, delmark and moikai), chicago-centered acoustic bassist jason roebke (rapid croche, fred lonberg-holm trio, terminal 4) and vancouver percussionist dylan van der schyff (talking pitctures, john butcher). without overplaying or extending any instrument, the three eloquently display deep orchestral colors and momentum that can shift from chattering avant garde interplay to ambient suspensions. mazurek's cornet runs create sensuousness and melancholy that find an equal standing next to roebke's wobbly lines and the tumbling pro/anti-beat of van der schyff. whereas electronics and sonic depth charges were a mere accent on the first album, here they are riding up front, propelling a bright force of abstraction and connecting stasis and activity.

released march 5, 2005

$12.85

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
september 13th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed

family vineyard (usa) #fv 25 cd

rope “widow's first dawn” compact disc

love without the illusion of permanence
widow's first dusk
routine mood swings
confusing heritage
wordless conversation
rubicon

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "love without the illusion of permanence"

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rope
widow's first dawn
fv25 cd

rope -- robert iwanik (bass/vocals), przemyslaw chris drazek (guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar) and illinois native michael j. kendrick (trap set, household percussion) -- have forced a thousand years of oppression, seething and lost chance into a cascading and ultra-dynamic group sound.

widow's first dawn is an epic six-part song-cycle about a life buried by its surrounding loss and failure, rope transcends modern influence and looks back to the staggering explorations of polish composer komeda and other romantic greats. iwanik's whispered, near vocal hissing confessions shape the music's cinematic swell equally as near-smeared scat bellows of guest vocalist and polish jazz legend grazyna auguscik. drazek's crystallized guitar sheen pushes rope's sound beyond musical similarities. features grand ulena's darin gray on piano and unstable ensemble's marty belcher on soprano saxophone.

released october 2003

$12.85

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
december 4th, 2006

threads:
minimalism-drones
sound-art
electro-acoustic-composition

family vineyard (usa) #fv 24 cd

lovely midget “north head” compact disc

north head
squall
fading
heavy weather
raudive rain
swollen dusk
dolphin

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "swollen dusk"

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lovely midget
north head
fv24 enhanced cd

lovely midget is rachel shearer, an integral player in the new zealand underground. since becoming lovely midget in 1995, rachel has created a transcendent world of shivering ambient sounds, distant ruptures and warm washes of analog sheen. building pieces around aching tube equipment, and delicate strokes of guitar, bass, percussion and vocal hum, lovely midget's international appeal has far surpassed her meager output. somehow crossing the paths of elanie radigue to francois bayle with a personal intimacy and the lovingly woven aural tapestries new zealand has become known for. north head brings together two years of recording to reinstate lovely midget as a sublime aural architect of a new order. contains a video for "north head," directed by shearer.

released november 4, 2003

$8.03

new to stock as of
january 17th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych

family vineyard (usa) #fv 23 cd

grand ulena “neosho” compact disc single

flyer (11:57)
neosho (6:11)
lemp (6:21)

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

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grand ulena
neosho
fv23 cd ep

anyone who thought grand ulena's m.o. was a solid rush of melted melodies and discombobulated rhythms enforced with rapidity, needs to rethink with neosho. these three extended pieces show a different side of the band than is heard on gateway to dignity (fv18). a searing minimalism is at the core here a result of the spontaneity and immediacy of the session. ranging from the push/pull of vicious volume to near silences.

released november 4, 2003

$12.85

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
january 24th, 2006

threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych

family vineyard (usa) #fv 22 cd

loren mazzacane connors “departing of a dream volume 2” compact disc

the departing of a dream vol. ii, 1 (10:51)
the departing of a dream vol. ii, 2 (1:44)
the departing of a dream vol. ii, 3 (1:29)
the departing of a dream vol. ii, 4 (1:54)
the departing of a dream vol. ii, 5 (1:10)
the departing of a dream vol. ii, 6 (1:39)
the departing of a dream vol. ii, 7 (10:15)
the departing of a dream vol. ii, 8 (2:24)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the departing of a dream vol. ii"

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loren connors
the departing of a dream vol. ii
fv22 cd

loren connors (aka loren mazzacane connors) returns with the sequel to 2002's critically acclaimed the departing of a dream. the nyc blues guitarist, who has been recording and releasing albums since 1978, extends the theme (which was a loose tribute to miles davis' "he loved him madly") into a fragile and floating eight-part piece of acoustic/electric/ and bass guitar mixed with field recordings and the unsettling menage of found sounds and ambient hiss.

whereas the first volume smoldered into a dark meditation with hardly a glimpse of light, departing ii offers notes of hope in the form of lifting melodic airs and distant bird calls. replicating the sound of davis' muted trumpet through extended guitar and recording techniques, loren has created another startling and unique album of despair and awakening that can stand next to previous classics in pittsburgh or hell's kitchen park.

released april 22, 2003

$12.85

back in stock as of
february 15th, 2008

first in stock on
december 2nd, 2004

threads:
jewelled-antler
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
folk

family vineyard (usa) #fv 21 cd

the blithe sons “we walk the young earth” compact disc

the book of names (10:45)
green patterns (7:25)
all children´s faces looking upwards (11:28)
the oldest living things (18:04)
we walk the young earth (5:16)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the book of names"

it was suggested some time ago (around the time that i started mms actually) that i start carrying (essentially: collecting) the various releases by the various ensembles affiliated with the mythic jewelled antler collective (which, afaict, mainly consists of only 3 people: glenn donaldson, steven smith, and loren chasse). it wasn’t until i happened upon this disc that everything clicked...

this both promises and delivers everything that is holy and sacred at the crossroads of acoustic instrumentation / distant outsider songcraft and droning / site-specific sound research. it would be neither clever nor accurate to lump the blithe sons in with sea-level dwellers from the “new weird americana” set (to me, their music has more in common with the distant, clanging in an empty water-passageway tunnel of david jackman’s long-running organum project). clearly this is a band of troglodytes, as these transcriptions were apparently made by dipping a single large-diaphragm condenser microphone into the uppermost chamber of their lair, hovering 60 feet above the band, as in rehearsal-preparation of pending equinox.

i’m deriving a certain grand (and frankly, voyeuristic) pleasure out of these wayfaring oddities, which are unlike just about anything i’ve heard from the contemporary sound-spectrum.

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the blithe sons
we walk the young earth
fv21 cd

the third full-length release from the blithe sons, the duo of loren chasse (coelacanth, thuja, of) and glenn donaldson (skygreen leopards, the birdtree, thuja). compiled from performances that took place under a creek bridge in san gregorio and inside wwii-era bunkers on sea cliffs in the marin headlands, california. with acoustic guitar, harps, bells, harmonium, toy-amplifiers, gongs submerged in a creek, cymbals, battery-powered keyboards, vocals, banjo, birds, pipes, bell-blocks, drums, branches and the location itself as an instrument, these album weaves minimalist hymns with stark drones. the blithe sons conjure an imaginary wilderness through the sounds made within these mysterious locales, combining chasse's leanings towards tones and percussive textures with donaldson's folk-inflected melodies.

released april 22, 2003

$12.85

new to stock as of
january 17th, 2008

threads:
guitar-themed
free-jazz
modern-psych

family vineyard (usa) #fv 20 cd

jason bivins / ian davis “benthic” compact disc

diving bell (5:27)
cuskeel (3:29)
cold seep (6:05)
bathysphere (11:29)
idiottfish (2:16)
sipunculid (8:49)
eelpout (9:33)
priapulid (7:27)
blob sculpin (5:47)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "cold sleep"

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jason bivins - ian davis
benthic
fv20 cd

an old fashioned duet with no rules: electric guitarist jason bivins (unstable ensemble) and percussionist ian davis (micro-east collective, andrew voight, unstable ensemble) at the crossroads of american underground improvisation. outside the near blazing solos and stuttering riffery, there are the clusters of shiny metal, the rattles of trappings that poke out like shrapnel. imagine the entire incus roster growing up on dc hardcore (bivins) and the south carolina "chittlin' circuit" (davis). using few tricks and slight of hand movements, these two players take their instruments at the base level, volume and technique are pushed back and forth.

released february 4, 2003

$12.48

back in stock as of
june 12th, 2008

first in stock on
september 13th, 2007

threads:
free-jazz
electro-acoustic-improvisation

family vineyard (usa) #fv 19 cd

tigersmilk “tigersmilk” compact disc

frequency location (5:49)
long to win (4:01)
the soft releases (5:09)
little pleasures (1:55)
right on agatite (5:13)
there are ghosts (5:47)
secret masks (9:52)
waiting on ferrari (4:49)
long, past, time (5:13)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "right on agatite"

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