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previous record label: opal tapes		there are 5 titles on open mouth in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: oph sound

$16.81

back in stock as of
march 5th, 2013

first in stock on
january 6th, 2013

threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation
guitar-themed

open mouth (usa) #om #31 lp

body / head “lp/ep” long playing record

turn me on
be there soon
take it down
where did you go?

january 2013 release ; ... debut lp from the duo of bill nace & kim gordon, centering around kim’s pulsing string-work & distant vocalry, bill’s gated guitar scrape (occasionally veering into tonal, modal zones ... listen to the sound-sample) ...

... given that this is kim’s first post-sonic youth music venture, the levels of shrouded context & sheer difficulty are laudable ; bill’s playing is as strident and nuanced here as anything he’s issued under his own name & kim’s adherence to largely textural vortices of gained amp-sizzle is entirely impressive ...

open mouth press release...

body/head lp/ep

so much more than a ‘likely pairing,’ this is a group which manages to illuminate the best of both players while simultaneously pushing them into fresh territory. live shows have been accompanied by slowed films, and the pair’s obsession with cinema comes across in the music itself. the pieces exist as vignettes in and of themselves, all the while presenting a full-bodied emotional narrative over the course of the record’s 20 minutes.

it’s fascinating to hear nace and gordon develop these ideas, to hear relatively simple pulses, stabs, moans, and calls take shape as something almost like songs. there is a strange terror to this music. electric shards punch through and shatter the air. there is agonizing pain living in the guitars and genuine anguish in gordon’s voice. it is some of the most courageous and emotive singing of her career. this is some of the most fantastically elastic music currently being produced, shifting form and formlessness without batting an eye.

like the best art, it exists out beyond the limits of what we can easily define. it’s as pained as it is curious, as free as it is claustrophobic, full of spellbinding tension throughout, from the sparse opening of ‘turn me on’ to the intensely moving and breathtakingly sad closer, ‘where did you go?,’ a track that’s as good as anything either player has ever put to tape. it’s so scary and so sad, so tender and so angry, a consummate example of what both musicians are capable of, the capstone to a sequence so satisfying one wants to just play it again. the music changes shape with each listen, behind each shadow lives another melting perspective.

beautifully pressed at 45rpm, the fullness and depth of sound and feeling come through loud and clear. this record is a complete picture, a blurry pool at night, a short story to revisit over and over again.

- matt krefting

$15.12

back in stock as of
march 5th, 2013

first in stock on
september 2nd, 2010

threads:
modern-composition
modern-psych

best of 2010 !!!

open mouth (usa) #om #27 lp
ecstatic peace! (usa) #e# 212e lp

fat worm of error “broods” long playing record

re: jh-168
return of the thin white dook
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shunt creek
mashed potentate
lichen like me
upsmanschmuck
feted corps
broods
fleagod
ratzong

september 2010 release ; .. god, has it really been four years since “pregnant babies pregnant with pregnant babies” ??? it has, hasn’t it ... damn ...

well, in those four years i’ve seen fwoe play about 8 times, always incredible, never redundant, always resplendent, never “piled up” ; always dealing in a peculiar sort of economy wherein each member of the band strikes individually, at preordained moments, all hashed out via some collective “hive mind” system that, despite having witnessed it in action so many times, i don’t think i’ll ever fully understand ...

four years is a long time, and from the sound of things here they’ve spent it well, playing these 11 pieces over & over again, “trout mask” style, hammering down the bent nails until each stray element has landed in it’s own temporal / spectral space ... it’s truly a beautiful thing to behold ; no one else out there is working in anywhere near this level of organized aleatoricism & doing it with such panache (singer jess godard’s costume-changes have been known to get up to double-digits ; drummer neeeeel young has found a new poly-rhythm between 5/17 & 3/15 ; guitarist chris cooper’s moustache is long & finely hewn) ...

lp comes coated in mark beyer artwork (extremely apropos choice guys !!!) with a lyric-sheet allowing you to follow along at home ( “crush the placid tubers! potato dentata vagina errata tomato stigmata on flaccid pubescent blah blah blah” ) ; entirely incredible & well worth the wait ...

open mouth press release...

fat worm of error
broods lp
cat: om #27 / e#212e

maybe its something in the raw cows milk one can so fortuitously procure here in western massachusetts, or maybe it’s that lysergic haze of berkshire foothill emanation, but whatever it may be, it is most definitely in manifestation as the five-headed rock n’ noise n’ bleet n’ zzrrp n’ roll n’ weirdcore phenomenon known only as fat worm of error.

after more than six years of live gig decimation and confusion and a smattering of cassettes, cdrs, “legit” lp releases (on labels as swank as load and ultra eczema), fwoe has become, along with noise nomads and dinosaur jr, as one of the most astounding musical whatsis factors in the pioneer valley.

it was after being stunned into melted delight one evening at our local hang (the flywheel ‘natch) by the dead battery guitar, silent psycho-killer bass, drums punked beyond the free thump joy of john stevens n’ drumbo, and the supremely swinging costume-cuhraziness of the freekwency singer…well, we wanted to do a, ahem, “proper” lp.

put this genius fringe into the studio with justin pizzoferrato (that’s right, the guy who helps engineer j mascis and t moore sides) and capture the delirious magic of fwoe in their inimitable prime. and we did! and mark beyer did the cover art! and the drummers name is neel young! and this lp rules hard, and if you happened to be in the same room as the live fwoe this last summer than you know: fat worm of error has got the coolest moustache in town. case closed.

$16.81

back in stock as of
march 5th, 2013

first in stock on
september 2nd, 2010

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
guitar-themed
free-improvisation

open mouth (usa) #om #25 lp

x.0.4 “exile” long playing record

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september 2010 release ; third lp from the trio of jake meginsky, john truscinski, and bill nace (following those for ultra eczema & ecstatic peace! ... not counting the early home-burns for audiobot & spirit of orr) ...

... originally slated for release as one of those bottrop-boy “en/of” editions, it’s nice to have this music (finally) available below the €100 price-point, instead a rather spartan b/w lp in a clue-free sleeve ... but the presentation’s not the important thing here ; the music, consisting of alternating stretches of sub-bass thrum (c/o meginsky’s excited timpani) and thin, interference-oriented minimalism (nace & truscinski, playing their guitars more as amplified wooden planks than in the traditional manner ; mostly using metallic objects to upset the delicate magnetic balance) ... the resultant tension / release scenarios outlined by the three have their roots in free improvisation, but the outcome appears fully composed, with a narrative structure that rivals even the best contemporary electro-acoustic composition ...

these guys are woefully under-documented ; this goes a great ways towards righting that wrong ...

$16.81

back in stock as of
march 5th, 2013

first in stock on
june 3rd, 2009

threads:
experimental-instruments
circuit-bending
electro-acoustic-composition
harsh-noise
lo-fi
live-electronic
machine-music

open mouth (usa) #om #22 lp

diagram a “human tissue press : vinyl removal” long playing record

human tissue press
vinyl removal

may 2009 release ; music from dan “diagram a” greenwood, using an unusual telephone-handset-coated instrument of his own devising / construction ::

that ... thing pumps out a bizarre array of crackling squawks & chirrups ; presumably controlled (at least in part) by mr. greenwood via a succession of switches and toggles (there’s a computer keyboard in their somewhere as well i believe) ... sound-wise (listen to the sound-sample) it’s not far from the recent closed feedback-loop experiments of greg kelley & bryan eubanks, yet much grimier ...

fascinating stuff, and, interestingly, the first vinyl release from bill nace’s open mouth ...

open mouth press release...

$13.44

back in stock as of
march 5th, 2013

first in stock on
april 3rd, 2008

threads:
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones
lo-fi
free-improvisation

best of 2008 !!!

open mouth (usa) #om #18 cd

daniel a.i.u. higgs “plays the mirror of the apocalypse and other songs” compact disc

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... kinda really excellent set of lo-fi soul-baring raga-guitar & found-sound / weirdness studies from the recently very prolific daniel arcus incus ululat higgs, recorded on what sounds like a 4-track cassette deck buried under hot, volcanic ash for a good decade/two ...

higgs’ playing here is confident, of the reckless-abandon variety &, frankly, quite exhilarating throughout, pausing only to flip the tape or talk to his friends (i imagine this was recorded, again, davey-graham-style, in someone’s bedroom / basement / attic, largely whilst mr. higgs was on tour ...)

possibly, to my own sensibilities at least, the best thing i’ve heard from higgs yet (been on the fence about a few of the recent ones - the “solo jew’s harp” record listed below most certainly being one of them ...) - if you’ve been feeling the woolier end of the recent “sir” richard bishop oeuvre - this meets the technical flair of that halfway with all of the chutzpah & a more pylonic sense of the eastern-guitar modus ...

highly recommended !!!

open mouth press release...

daniel higgs, of lungfish and the pupils, is one of the very few contemporary artists who we would absolutely consider a sort of modern day shaman. a musical alchemist, an artistic cypher, an abstract philosopher, a strangely charismatic, yet disarmingly humble master of any artistic endeavor he puts his mind to. a legendary (but now retired) tattoo artist, an incredible painter, whose paintings are at once hallucinatory and gorgeous (one painting adorns the cover of leviathan's tentacles of whorror record) and of course an incredible musician, whose sonic experiments range from the mesmeric riffrock of his band lungfish, to an entire record of solo jew's harp.

but in addition to being an incredible lyricist, an amazing vocalist, and a master of the jew's harp, higgs is also a seriously mean guitar player, with a style and sound as familiar as it is totally alien. a gorgeous buzzing steel string drift through the cosmos. lengthy droning ragas, that drift hypnotically from deconstructed appalachia to john cale like slow-shifting skree (joined on those tracks by violin), to moody melancholy crawls, to thick serpentine swirls of snake charmer melody and reverberating steel string shimmer. raw and lo-fi for sure, but so darkly emotional, and dreamily hypnotic. we've been listening to this non stop since we got it and it continues to unfold more and more on each listen, we're thinking seriously about grabbing a boombox, taking a ton of peyote, blasting this tape and laying in the thick grass, sprawled naked on a hilltop in the middle of nowhere, beneath a sparkling moonlit sky.

previous record label:
opal tapes

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next record label:
oph sound

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