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twisted village (usa) #tw 1061 lp

wayne rogers “blues-ul alb” long playing record

  • come inside (4:02)
  • see (2:55)
  • chessboard (5:25)
  • waterside (6:36)

  • all time has gone (3:10)
  • broken promises broken heads (8:35)
  • nature (2:30)
  • after the night (5:03)
archival collection of drippings from wayne rogers’ brain-pan, executed between 1999 and 2003, released to a growing public in 2007 due largely to major stars recent ass-kicking (they jumped from twisted village, first to important, now to drag city...)
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"...one of his most blazing inventions in a while. unconstrained by anyone else's opinion, wayne lays down a mix of fully-blown guitar-psych-vom-spew, delicately angloid songs, his own skewed sorta rock-maxism." -byron coley

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1059 cd

major stars “4” compact disc

  • how to be (4:35)
  • song for turner (13:36)
  • all or half the time (4:20)
  • phantom #1 (15:20)
twisted village press release...
4 is the fourth full length release from cambridge, ma-based major stars. this release was recorded in summer '03, after an intense period of touring (which also resulted in the major stars/comets on fire live split lp) and just before an intense period of reflection (read: inactivity). somewhere during the latter they realized they had made a record, and finally we bring it to you. calls for increased fidelity have not fallen on deaf ears: 4 brings them to the world of 24-track recording for the first time, finally getting their studio sound close to their live onslaught. musically they continue to hit all points a little harder each time,

with open-stringed folk melodies getting pummeled on the who/cream/hendrix anvil 'til you think modal and heavy have always coexisted. their best yet? you bet. should they go deaf, it was all for you.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1057 cd

life partners “life partners” compact disc

  • darrow & santana
  • new socks
  • life partners
  • you’re my dad
  • small faces
  • no-car drummer
  • donkey kong
  • chinese aids
  • the monkey
  • i dream of my wet dreams
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there are some stories where every girl has a movie star face and a dirty book body. there are some stories where every guy can be god if he has the balls to stand there with 30 friends and strut around. the lives of the life partners are as lurid and unwitting as their music is gaudy and crude.

two boys, one blond and one brunette, went on a road trip to texas with 250 dollars all in ones. they listened to the same marty robbins record over and over all the way across the state. they saw a pig get shot. they visited a hall covered in mirrors and commemorating the fame of oral roberts. by the time they came home they knew their american experience had made them partners for life, so they called themselves the life partners.

the first thing they decided to do was start a fake band that would pass its recordings off as improvisations by 1970s jamaican teen punks whose dads. all worked at an army base. they recruited a girl who was obsessed with classical pianist glenn gould and wanted the brunette to marry her. then they met a fantastic canadian metal guitarist who was also the champ of his roller-hockey team, even though his dream was to play ice-hockey. the boys asked him to play drums, and the band was complete.

an instant hit among the happening music scenesters around town, they play in the basements, the record stores, the abandoned warehouses, and the dive bars all over boston. their fans include dope-fiends who sell stolen vcrs out of the backs of cars, record collectors with restraining orders against them, art-school dropouts with misgivings about hygiene, and more.

the life partners now have a record which conjures the ghosts of james chance, the collins kids, and the electric eels, but ultimately sounds not quite like anyone else.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1053 lp

wayne rogers “at home” long playing record

  • song for two broken teisco del rey’s
  • no motion

  • autopia
  • zero freedom now
  • out
twisted village press release...
mr. rogers turns his back on 8-track & pulls out the cassette 4-track in an attempt to find new anti-structures in which to frame electric guitar music. four long monotone no-chord instrumentals and a postscript.

inspired by/dedicated to kaoru abe and cough syrup.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1052 lp

wayne rogers / kate village “quits.” long playing record

  • at twisted village studios january 2001

  • live at the zeitgeist gallery cambridge january 2001
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wayne & kate have been dueling with their electric guitars for most of their adult lives, usually in the context of crystalized movements, magic hour, major stars, or one of the many imaginary ensembles they've been a part of over the past 15 years. here they cut out the rhythm section and go head-to-head.

one side studio, one side live, both sides loud and free.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1051 lp

tono-bungay “kluge” long playing record

  • ode to pujol (12:00)

  • jack fell down (11:11)
twisted village press release...
new 24-minute 12" from one of america's longest-running free rock outfits. new york city's tono bungay features ace string picker bob bannister, who has lent his guitar talents to projects as diverse as cat power and glenn branca's recent 100-guitar orchestra as well as releasing two solo lp's on twisted village. one could nary guess he was weaned on finnish prog in finland, no less!

drummer tony cenicola is content to lay down a solid backbeat for a few seconds before erupting into pure freedom, then throwing drumsticks at the kit (and audience), then whipping his drums with chains and whatever else is handy. dada master robert dennis manipulates his masterfully planned auto-destruct labyrinth of bass, tape machines, and electronics, which is so beautifully planned by it's creator that it often self-destructs long before robert pushes that big red button.

kluge is sonically closer to the two-track squall of their 1993 debut lp rough music than the careful ambiance of wunderkammer with their focus sharpened by nearly a decade of dedicated work on their unique approach to sound.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1048 cd

major stars “space/time” compact disc

  • apples to grapes (14:18)
  • runout (2:54)
  • it's a blessing, brother, i cannot lie (3:21)
  • getting air from a stone (6:04)
  • dream of the accidental bird (10:45)
twisted village press release...
space/time is the major stars second full length attempt to explode the boundaries of rock-with-a-capital-r.

side one features two songs with pickin' and singin': 'apples to grapes' is a moody folk rock number that gets blown apart in a hurry & subjected to several improvisational deconstructions in the course of it's 14+ minutes, and 'runout' is done up short 'n' pretty to set you up for the all-instrumental side two.

'getting air from a stone' is a riff heavy cruncher, while 'dream of the accidental bird' follows it's brief opening revolving door with a massive & exhilarating one chord jam that'll twist your insides just right.

the cd adds one track from their now out-of-print debut 12" rock sounds of people -- the pounding 'it's a blessing, brother, i cannot lie', a song so relentlessly single minded that the band was asked daily who the hell it was a cover of (wayne, in fact, wrote it...in far less time than it took to play it).

major stars aim to take higher-key improvisational wizardry and clobber you on the head with it while simultaneously caressing your mind. space/time does just that.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1047 lp

wayne rogers “constant displacement” long playing record

  • far
  • oh (ah)
  • dead & rising
  • everything’s real
  • something in the air

  • wonder
  • lives
  • around
  • as of yesterday
lp version of wayne’s fifth solo record; cd on drag city ...
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the album in the words of it's creator: 'it's rather like minimalism, except within one tone there is a thousand, and then several layers of a thousand, piled high like blankets of snow on a volcano. actually, i didn't mean to say minimalist, i meant to say obnoxious. it's rather like obnoxiousism.'

constant displacement began as a series of experiments in song form, mainly to satisfy the whims of the artist himself, who never intended it to be issued. how else to explain the wispy balladry, the balls-to-the-wall rock 'n' roll, or the six-minute version of a lousy thunderclap newman song? constant displacement is his fifth solo album, a tribute to rock formalism based on traditions no loftier than danish and south asian renditions of 'stepping stone,' though he is apparently hearing something in them that no one else is.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1043 cd

tono-bungay “wunderkammer” compact disc

  • (no tracklisting)
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tono bungay, the name appropriated from a title of an h.g. wells novel, have been being densely realized in new york city for five years now. their first lp was released by twisted village in 1993 setting off a reverberation that continues to effect many of the newer rock bands leaning towards more improvisation. during the past year, the band has been in full swing, touring the northeast and releasing two ten inchers, one a split with tower recordings.

tono bungay is composed of bob bannister on guitar and robert dennis on guitar and electronics and kept in constant forward motion by drummer tony cenicola. wunderkammer opens with their first ever 'song' (with vocals even!), and then careens through 7 purely improvised pieces of brooding psychedelic ecstasy. there's no passage unfilled here; bannister's guitar navigates the often hazardous free rock river with a confidence of a captain that's got something to say. the cd, (no vinyl this time), and booklet are accompanied by tony's lovely, surreal photographs, each signifying a song title.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1041 lp

wayne rogers “infraction” long playing record

  • infraction (side one) (19:06)

  • infraction (side two) (21:30)
twisted village press release...
written, played and produced by wayne rogers, december '95 -- july '96. wayne's fourth solo work finds him deep in the basement at twisted village, moving on after his last band, magic hour, parted ways. infraction is forty minutes and forty seconds of instrumental bliss. within the forty-forty dwells eleven distinct movements, strung taut with guitar heaviness and organ overdrive. as the liner notes say, 'surprise dumping in the lake for next year...four strong winds from the balcony...'

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wayne rogers “infraction” compact disc

  • infraction (40:40)
twisted village press release...
written, played and produced by wayne rogers, december '95 -- july '96. wayne's fourth solo work finds him deep in the basement at twisted village, moving on after his last band, magic hour, parted ways. infraction is forty minutes and forty seconds of instrumental bliss. within the forty-forty dwells eleven distinct movements, strung taut with guitar heaviness and organ overdrive. as the liner notes say, 'surprise dumping in the lake for next year...four strong winds from the balcony...'

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1038 cd

wayne rogers “all good works” compact disc

  • january 1st (1:39)
  • the gateway and the stars (3:10)
  • so gone (2:50)
  • seventy (2:21)
  • what sense (2:40)
  • still smiling at the end (3:19)
  • the point of no life (2:50)
  • you have to see (2:19)
  • i’ve turned away (2:44)
  • all good works (3:35)
  • the missing part (7:35)
twisted village press release...
whilst his latest quartet, magic hour, has been grazing on 20 minute instrumental pastures, wayne has been recording tightly constructed songs at twisted village's studios. all good works, his 3rd solo endeavor, highlights his unique mastery of the three-minute mark. nothing wayne touches would be whole without pushing the limits of guitar shamanism. those seeking to be healed will take comfort in the 8 1/2 minute title track where wayne trades eights with himself, pied pipering his guitar demons in the mere business of saving the world.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1036 cd

b.o.r.b. “in orbit” compact disc

  • phase one (5:00)
  • phase two (5:39)
  • phase three (9:10)
  • phase four (17:00)
  • phase five (3:39)
free-form album from b.o.r.b. (a moniker expanding to yield “bongloads of righteous boo”) - essentially wayne & kate village, tom “luxurious bags” leonard, and assorted on-hand dealers & pimps both mythic and actual...

this paved the way for later full-on feedback/drone-psych units as heathen shame & could be seen as the first gateway between twisted village’s trademark song-based psych and the sort of avant-gardes wayne & kate push via their record shop... tons of great organ-doom, guitar-on-amp squeal, damaged synths, etc... an unheralded classic of “private” 90s zombie-lurch...
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the all improv trio of wayne, kate, and tom gets lost in space with only their electronic gadgets to help pass the time. one track features venusian blood-curdling vocalizations, but the rest of the disc will guide you on a gentle late night trip.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1034 cd

luxurious bags “frayed knots” compact disc

  • all the time in the world / movie mind
  • woolite
  • lost wallet
  • 12 miles back
  • this won’t help a bit
  • eyes tell me, hands tell me
third album by tom leonard...
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mr. luxurious d. bags jr. pulled together three years worth of whatnot from this on-again off-again final project and now it can be heard. pure craft applied to low oxide: the results are monumental. phenomenal bedroom rock.

...

written, produced, and directed by luxurious d. bags jr. recorded sporadically between 1992 and 1994 at twisted village and the masonic temples throughout the northeast. to be used with under pillow speaker for most effectiveness.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1033 cd

wayne rogers “absent sounds” compact disc

  • starting out (3:16)
  • into my knowing (3:02)
  • bright for awhile (2:40)
  • look into the world (3:01)
  • the mechanical switch (6:18)
  • it makes no matter (2:12)
  • sun in their way (2:29)
  • sunday is soon (3:39)
  • red dust (2:38)
  • broken path (2:45)
  • forget your life (6:04)
  • ego awake (3:58)
  • surrounding (2:47)
  • their own way (2:51)
  • salvation song (8:46)
  • the miracle of doubt (2:06)
  • in another moment (3:01)
  • down ego river (2:53)
  • safe (3:59)
  • the will to distort (2:18)
  • untitled (2:34)
combo disc covering wayne’s prior lp-only titles “ego river” (1992) and “the seven arms of the sun” (1994) - two fine, fine surges of one-man-band (in the joe meek “studio” sense rather than the hasil adkins “gimmick” sense...) psych, rife with acidic guitar & a hazy outerlay...
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both of his long deleted solo lp's on one disc. perfect mood music when you've had too much of human kind.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1029 lp

tono-bungay “rough music” long playing record

  • introit
  • carillon
  • the undeveloped photograph
  • slope

  • "...heavy and warm"
  • banshee
  • steamshovel
  • secretion army
1993 debut album by this psych-trio led by bob bannister, named after h.g. wells’ turn-of-the-century cure-all/wonder drug...
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debut vinyl of bob bannister's progish, handsome trio. an all instrumental lp with plenty to please the rock fan and the freak in you. get it now before having to buy your copy at the wfmu record fair for the price of the bus ticket to new jersey.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1026 cd

luxurious bags “quarantine heaven” compact disc

  • bury my heart (4:44)
  • unseen (2:13)
  • dry blazing sky (2:47)
  • stranger (4:03)
  • it's raining alphabet soup and spelling insults at my feet (4:43)
  • love letter (4:42)
  • broken locks and rotten luck (2:32)
  • heir of defeat (3:05)
  • fist in pocket (2:15)
  • fragile bubbles of static floating in my attic (3:48)

  • freefloating - 50 feet ove (6:33)
  • medley: my imaginary friend, the drifter, road bible (4:30)
  • carry on, carrion (4:30)
  • i wanna be your god (3:38)
  • this pipework leads nowhere (5:40)
  • hell is other people (6:58)
  • powerline (4:24)
  • abandoned - 50 feet under (3:30)
combo disc of both the “from heaven to my mind” and “voluntary lifelong quarantine” lps by luxurious bags, aka major stars bassist & now “third guitarist” tom leonard... entirely under-rated slices of 90s bedroom psych weirdness...

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1025 ep

st. johnny “gilligan b/w live at the sports page cafe...” seven inch single record

  • gilligan

  • live at the sports page cafe...
early single by this connecticut band (signed to geffen briefly in the wake of nirvana in the mid-90s) featuring a young tom leonard (later integral to so many twisted village projects he’s practically wayne & kate’s “third arm” ...)
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alternative rockers st. johnny formed in hartford, ct, in 1991. the quartet -- bill whitten (guitar, vocals), jim elliott (bass), wayne letitia (drums), tom leonard (guitar) -- released a 7" record on their own label, asthma records, which gained enough attention to have chicago's ajax records put out another single.

the two singles of noisily melodic dirty punk rock led to a minor bidding war in late 1992, with dgc records emerging as the winner. caroline records put out a compilation of the two independent singles (plus four unreleased tracks) in 1993 before the 1994 release of the band's full-length debut, 1994's speed is dreaming.

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twisted village (usa) #tw 1001 cd

crystallized movements “mind disaster” compact disc

  • overture (3:20)
  • stone cathedral (4:35)
  • communal storybook (7:18)
  • sandy roy (2:26)
  • the hymn (3:54)
  • orange acid orange (3:10)
  • close your eyes (9:11)
  • psychotical delusion (8:49)
reissue of the record that launched the twisted village empire; wayne rogers’ 1983 “mind disaster” lp - one of the absolute highlights of the bedroom-psych underground and an unheralded percursor to just so much home-recorded genius over the past 25-odd years (25 years !!!)
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at long, long last, we are happy to announce the reissue of our very first record, mind disaster. the crystalized movements were formed in 1980 by wayne rogers and ed boyden, two tolland high school freshmen brought together by a mutual love of no wave & 60's psychedelia. after 3 years of experimenting (and countless versions of 'gloria'), they decided in early 1983 that it was time to make an lp. they recorded loose duo versions of some of wayne's songs, and then promptly split up after graduating from high school in june of 1983. wayne, under the spell of the plastic cloud and randy holden, then spent the summer piling on mounds of guitar overdubs.

the results were issued as mind disaster at the end of that year in a bank-breaking edition of 130 (as twisted village #1001). after a minor stir in collectors' circles, it was reissued on the uk psycho label with a new cover in 1984. it was received by the 'psychedelic revival' community with universal horror and quickly went out of print. wayne, meanwhile, added new members to the band and it treaded on as a little-known connecticut institution until 1992....

the years have been kind to mind disaster, and it's wah-wah and fuzz overload have made it a much sought after lp. after uncountable requests from our adoring public, we are finally reissuing mind disaster, with it's original cover. it is perhaps the last teenage garage-psych lp to be made in our time. hope you like it.

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