messages “mirage” long playing record

• cockroach
  
• snake
  
  
• foodshaker
  
• magaraga

sean mccann “prelusion” long playing record

• our silhouette
  
  
• port
  
• have i forgotten?

richard youngs “core to the brave” long playing record

• sweet field of life
  
• the sea of providence
  
• we are the messengers
  
• forever hills of everyday
  
  
• sun bounty
  
• open ray
  
• the healing of everyone

maggi payne “ahh-ahh • music for ed tannenbaum's technological feets 1984-1987” long playing record

• flights of fancy
  
• gamelan
  
• shimmer
  
• back to forth
  
  
• ahh-ahh (ver 2.1)
  
• hikari

vestals “forever falling toward the sky” long playing record

• forever falling
  
• into night
  
• between worlds
  
  
• of ripples
  
• in waking dreams

golden retriever “light cones” long playing record

• light cones
  
  
• observer

common eider, king eider “worn” long playing record

• the rabbits will come again
  
• when we sewed skins
  
• ennui
  
  
• they want to dig for gold but all they will find is blood (cell phone mix)
  
• puppies
  
• earth liver

root strata press release...

common eider, king eider worn rs72 now expanded to a four piece, common eider, king eider have crafted yet another blast of high end wind chill that whips threw the empty spaces in your skull.. more stories of flora & fauna that hang beautifully in dynamic rooms of piano, strings, voices and stargazing guitar explosions born of layer after layer of feedback. this ghost world is all gray and black, with a high condensation of loss penetrating throughout. moonlight occasionally lights the path, but for the most part prepare to be lost in the woods. liz harris (grouper) and tom carter (charalambides) on the tracks ‘ennui’ and ‘earth liver’ add to the overall sense of dread.

duane pitre “origin” compact disc

• mvmnt i. sun am
  
• mvmnt ii. the carpenter
  
• mvmnt iii. yahweh
  
• mvmnt iv. koan
  
• mvmnt v. sun pm

hisato higuchi / zelienople “tsuki no seika • volume four” seven inch single record

• hisato higuchi - untitled
  
  
• zelienople - hold the strays

valet / richard youngs “tsuki no seika • volume two” seven inch single record

• valet - touch me im sick (5:50)
  
  
• richard youngs - fen flowers (2:25)

zach wallace “glass armonica” compact disc

• 2 (19:07)
  
• 5 (21:16)
  
• 7 (3:09)

metal rouge “three for malachi ritscher” compact disc

• anger, awaken (10:29)
  
• love, awaken (7:57)
  
• sorrow, awaken (21:42)

barn owl “the conjurer” compact disc

• into the red horizon (5:11)
  
• across the deserts of ash (16:59)
  
• procession of golden bones (3:51)
  
• ancient of days (14:42)

root strata press release...

barn owl "the conjurer" rs-45 cd edition of 1000 the conjurer is the latest offering by bay area duo barn owl. this new long player finds evan caminiti & jon porras finally (by way of an actual recording studio) documenting something that is a bit closer to their very heavy live sets, with expanded peaks of white light distortion and enormous valleys of bottom end. each side opens with a brief funeral dirge to set the mood, a precession of bare bones drum beats and bell like guitar statements that bridge the gap to the wider open spaces of the almost side long 'across the desert of ash' and 'ancient of days''. it may seem obvious, or even a little overwrought, but it has to be said that these guys really do evoke all kinds of cinematic drama with their music. apocalyptic westerns, bleak melodramas, mother nature fever dreams, it all seems to come to mind amid the evening guitar passages, incantations, flute tones, and finally, the solo piano that emerges lost among the electric mayhem to close the album. considering the amount of terrain, the conjurer is far from being scattered or rushed sounding. the record as a whole moves at a crafted even rhythm, slowly merging from one scene of violence to the next of almost silent recovery, then back up the mountain again.

common eider, king eider “figs, wasps, and monotremes” compact disc

• wasp tunnels (intro) (3:00)
  
• monotreme mom (for jamie & andrew) (5:21)
  
• brown trumps white (harry's mix) (5:55)
  
• the last 4 years of the bees (5:20)
  
• goodnight, your legs (part 1) (3:05)
  
• cell towers, birds, and the twins that try (3:03)
  
• smell of gulls and grass (2:37)
  
• talking ravens, rotting figs (4:16)

root strata press release...

common eider, king eider "figs, wasps, and monotremes" rs-37 cd edition of 1000 "figs, wasps, and monotremes" is the second common eider, king eider disc by rob fisk (badgerlore, free porcupine society). recorded last winter in fairbanks, alaska, it's full of the kind of bedroom isolation you might expect from a place where during that time of year the sun rises for only about two hours a day. using mostly violin, guitar and his lovely falsetto, fisk has crafted a bewitching set of soundtracks for being utterly lost. these passages ring out into the night and last until the moments just before waking. songs on the brink of implosion, born of soft small movements that billow upwards but still cast an eye towards the occasional outbursts of bleak distortion. comes in an 3 panel, offset printed folder with silver on white.

christina carter “lace heart” double long playing record set

• dream long (7:50)
  
• i am seen (7:53)
  
  
• to surrender (2:29)
  
• walking on the sand (11:20)
  
  
• intentions (6:01)
  
• long last breaths (15:38)

good stuff house “endless bummer” compact disc

• endless bummer (1) (10:20)
  
• endless bummer (2) (7:46)
  
• endless bummer (3) (12:24)
  
• endless bummer (4) (15:25)

john davis “the gold hooped nature” compact disc

• before & since (2:53)
  
• hudibras (5:50)
  
• queen mab's chariot (7:11)
  
• moral frost (2:11)
  
• difficulty climbing (5:49)
  
• half consumed (1:29)
  
• blood rust (5:21)
  
• the forlorn bookworm (1:09)
  
• naumkeag (3:37)

ilyas ahmed “goner” compact disc

• earn your blood
  
• love after love
  
• some of none
  
• enter a shadow
  
• out again
  
• as another
  
• two breaths
  
• exit twilight

root strata press release...

artist: ilyas ahmed title: goner cd edition of 1000 portland, or. bedroom wanderer ilyas ahmed emerges from the shadows and offers up his first new batch of songs in some time. over a year in the making, ‘goner’ sees ahmed telescoping his previous acoustic wanderings into fuzzed out rockers and a hypnotic set of beautifully tight knit nocturnes. the whole things kicks off with a massive rush to the head called ‘earn your blood’ which has ilyas effortlessly channeling any number of stoned out trajectories found in a topanga canyon ditch circa mid 70’s. massive waves of hiss still penetrate the mix, and so do the smeared vocal trails, it’s just that it’s all a little more in focus this time around. the comedown into ‘exit twilight’ with grouper at the helm is a haunting broadcast that will for sure knock around in your skull for days. edition of 1000 cd's in an offset buff case with maroon ink.

steven r. smith “the anchorite” compact disc

• stars heaped up like grain (3:52)
  
• procession (3:22)
  
• paths in the bower (3:34)
  
• the anchorite (2:41)
  
• vine (4:35)
  
• ampulla (2:50)
  
• moss landing (3:13)
  
• anastasis (4:02)
  
• closing (3:40)
  
• ascension (5:52)

brothers of the occult sisterhood “preying in circles” compact disc

• ornamentum dust raga (3:50)
  
• they're riding a cross hare (5:51)
  
• thought flickering eyes swallow the forest (6:32)
  
• harp fragments drank syrupy blue blood (3:50)
  
• insect orbiting shadows (6:34)
  
• april (3:22)
  
• ragged pyres in the night (11:33)

rv paintings “trinity rivers” compact disc

• river one (11:37)
  
• mad river (13:35)
  
• river two (16:16)

starving weirdos “shrine of the post-hypnotic” compact disc

• crewell (8:50)
  
• droned and poned (16:04)
  
• shrine of the post-hypnotic (10:35)
  
• from the northwest swells (6:52)
  
• wartime sunrise (17:51)

bonus “on earth” compact disc

• untitled (12:55)
  
• untitled (9:10)
  
• untitled (15:17)