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( arbor )
justin meyers “the amplitude of neighbors” c20 cassette ($6.72)
cloaked light “plain curtain” c15 cassette ($6.72)
gregg kowalsky “tapes chants: early experiments” c30 cassette ($6.72)
lazy magnet / social junk “split” c60 cassette ($6.72)

( autumn )
chris weisman “fresh sip” c62 cassette ($8.41)
kurt weisman “orange” compact disc ($11.76)

( beniffer editions )
wasted nymph “urlapse” cassette ($7.56)
max eisenballz / dj dog dick “from place to place” cassette ($7.56)
matthew dunn “peace be your rider” cassette ($7.56)
monopolka “massive ejaculation” book and seven inch single record set ($13.44)
cubic susuration / jakob olausson “split” lathe cut seven inch single record ($50.41)
ayal senior “hebrew lips” cassette ($7.56)
thee gnostics “archival” double cassette and booklet set ($23.52)
andrew zukerman “don't dress the petal near the void” one-sided lathe-cut seven inch single record and cassette and poster set ($33.61)
brian ruryk “cycle of fords” sextuple compact disc recordable boxed set ($23.52)
blood stereo / pod blotz “split” book and cassette set ($15.12)
bad boy butch batson “bad boy butch batson” long playing record ($13.44)
archaic women “the hit sixties” cassette ($9.24)

( blossoming noise )
z'ev / bryan lewis saunders / kommissar hjuler / mama bär “der muter objekt fur die hunde” cassette ($8.41)
justice yeldham / dave phillips “two thousand-five” long playing record ($16.81)

( de stijl )
michael & the mumbles “michael & the mumbles” long playing record ($16.81)
pens “hey friends” long playing record ($16.81)
pens “hey friends” compact disc ($11.76)
king darves “the sun splits for .. the blind swimmer” long playing record ($13.44)

( family vineyard )
alan licht / loren connors “into the night sky” compact disc ($13.44)
jailbreak “the rocker” long playing record ($15.12)
akira sakata / chikamorachi “friendly pants” compact disc ($13.44)
human skab “thunder hips & saddle bags” long playing record ($15.12)
human skab “thunder hips & saddle bags” compact disc ($13.44)
darin gray / loren connors “the lost mariner • at the old factory” long playing record and seven inch single record set ($18.48)

( hospital productions )
cold cave / prurient “stars explode” long playing record ($15.12)
prurient “the history of aids” long playing record ($16.81)

( monorail trespassing )
emuul “. . . on the origin of motion” c28 cassette ($6.72)
larval hairs “aedes flashback” double c45 cassette set ($15.12)
wether “human parka” c20 cassette ($6.72)
copper glove “dead space / no power” c25 cassette ($6.72)
vestigial limb “now, voyager” c30 cassette ($6.72)

( pica disk )
jazkamer “musica non grata” compact disc ($13.44)

( rainbow body )
robert a.a. lowe “fazo iv: la kvalito de speguloj” compact disc ($11.76)

( rainforest productions )
bil vermette “katha visions” long playing record ($33.61)

( rel )
nmperign / jake meginsky “selected occasions of handsome deceit” one-sided long playing record ($16.81)
usurper “let's just see what happens” long playing record ($16.81)

( siren )
robert haigh “notes and crossings” compact disc ($18.85)

( sloow tapes )
the doozer “error engerumong” c30 cassette ($8.37)
these wonderful evils “vermilion sands” c40 cassette ($8.37)
cybele collins “book” book ($6.01)

( two thousand tapes )
social junk “somebody should've told you ” c47 cassette ($6.72)
core of the coalman “2/3(r4) ” c47 cassette ($6.72)

( utech )
the skull defekts / the sons of god “received in studio dental, gothenburg” compact disc ($14.04)
architeuthis rex “dark as the sea” compact disc ($14.04)
ural umbo “ural umbo” compact disc ($14.04)
horseback “the invisible mountain” compact disc ($14.04)
olivier dumont “living in holes and disused shafts” compact disc ($14.04)
gog “mist from the random more” compact disc ($14.04)
hasegawa-shizuo “lift” compact disc ($14.04)
vagusnerve “lo pan” compact disc ($14.04)
guillaume gargaud “she” compact disc ($14.04)
calcination “calcination” compact disc ($14.04)
sum of r “sum of r” compact disc ($14.04)
blood fountains “floods” compact disc ($14.04)
aluk todolo “finsternis” compact disc ($14.04)
final “dead air” compact disc ($14.04)
rst “tomorrow's void” compact disc ($14.04)

( vin du select qualitite )
chris brokaw “vdsq • solo acoustic volume three” long playing record ($16.81)

( wagon )
mark mcguire “language barrier” compact disc recordable ($10.08)
mark mcguire “guitar meditations • vol. ii” double compact disc recordable set ($16.81)

( zum )
mincemeat or tenspeed “strange gods” compact disc ($10.08)
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january 26th, 2010

threads:
modern-psych
live-electronic
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
free-improvisation

amish (usa) #ami 041 lp

bird show band “bird show band” long playing record

  • quintet one (9:09)
  • little song (2:02)
  • quartet (2:57)
  • bsb synthesizer solo (2:36)

  • quintet two (8:06)
  • quintet three (5:55)
  • quintet four (5:35)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bsb synthesizer solo"
january 2010 release ; just 10 days after ben vida’s masterful tape of solo moog pieces landed, so did this collection by the bird show band - a new aggregate pitting ben’s newly-forged live-synth chops against an a-list of chicago’s rock & jazz players , including tortoise’s john herndon & dan bitney, jim baker (battling ben on on arp 2600) and and josh abrams ...

think a more “herky jerky” version of herbie hancock’s “sextant” (not a knock ; seriously one of my top-ten all-time favorite records) sans the epic ostinatos and you’re close ... ben of course sounds majestic all over this piece & steps out for a few fine solos (listen to the sound-sample) before rejoining the group for extended throwdowns... it’s especially great to hear a capable hands-on version of the synth-freakout approach when the sun is being all but blotted out by tapes of slow-lfo-sweeps as master-concept ... this is the real shit !!!
amish press release...
ami 041
bird show band
s/t lp

bird show band documents bird show's new collaborative spirit and stands as the culmination of ben vida's chicago-based work, featuring a who's who of the city's improvisational luminaries, including josh abrams, jim baker, dan bitney and john herndon.

the improvisatory feel of the bird show band sessions function as vida's paean to the windy city. rather than another bird show release that involves guest accompaniment on select tracks, vida conceived of these recordings as a foray into session playing, tracking the entire album over just two days. while herndon and bitney's percussion invokes german psych, progressive rock, and jazz idioms, vida's synth-based experiments, here accompanied by jim baker's arp 2600, provide the first indication of his recent musical preoccupations, an interest that relies heavily on the moog and his own fluid, lyrical melodic lines.

if you have had the luck of catching bird show or ben vida perform live over the last few years, you have witnessed the centrality he now gives to the moog and one-touch patchwork, experimental forays that point to europe and the mid-century avant-garde, especially the cologne-based innovations of stockhausen and his many students during the late 1960s and early 1970s. regardless of this description, bird show band is more than a mere intellectual exercise and the sessions balance brain with musical brawn in ways that vida has yet to achieve on his previous outings.

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$13.44

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january 26th, 2010

threads:
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electro-acoustic-improvisation
modern-psych
analogue-synth
free-improvisation

amish (usa) #ami 041 cd

bird show band “bird show band” compact disc

  • quintet one (9:09)
  • little song (2:02)
  • quartet (2:57)
  • bsb synthesizer solo (2:36)
  • quintet two (8:06)
  • quintet three (5:55)
  • quintet four (5:35)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "quintet two"
january 2010 release ; just 10 days after ben vida’s masterful tape of solo moog pieces landed, so did this collection by the bird show band - a new aggregate pitting ben’s newly-forged live-synth chops against an a-list of chicago’s rock & jazz players , including tortoise’s john herndon & dan bitney, jim baker (battling ben on on arp 2600) and and josh abrams ...

think a more “herky jerky” version of herbie hancock’s “sextant” (not a knock ; seriously one of my top-ten all-time favorite records) sans the epic ostinatos and you’re close ... ben of course sounds majestic all over this piece & steps out for a few fine solos before rejoining the group for extended throwdowns (listen to the sound-sample) ... it’s especially great to hear a capable hands-on version of the synth-freakout approach when the sun is being all but blotted out by tapes of slow-lfo-sweeps as master-concept ... this is the real shit !!!
amish press release...

ami 041
bird show band
s/t lp

bird show band documents bird show's new collaborative spirit and stands as the culmination of ben vida's chicago-based work, featuring a who's who of the city's improvisational luminaries, including josh abrams, jim baker, dan bitney and john herndon.

the improvisatory feel of the bird show band sessions function as vida's paean to the windy city. rather than another bird show release that involves guest accompaniment on select tracks, vida conceived of these recordings as a foray into session playing, tracking the entire album over just two days. while herndon and bitney's percussion invokes german psych, progressive rock, and jazz idioms, vida's synth-based experiments, here accompanied by jim baker's arp 2600, provide the first indication of his recent musical preoccupations, an interest that relies heavily on the moog and his own fluid, lyrical melodic lines.

if you have had the luck of catching bird show or ben vida perform live over the last few years, you have witnessed the centrality he now gives to the moog and one-touch patchwork, experimental forays that point to europe and the mid-century avant-garde, especially the cologne-based innovations of stockhausen and his many students during the late 1960s and early 1970s. regardless of this description, bird show band is more than a mere intellectual exercise and the sessions balance brain with musical brawn in ways that vida has yet to achieve on his previous outings.

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$6.72

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january 26th, 2010

threads:
plunder-phonic
lo-fi
beat-research

cherried-out merch (usa) #yo-yo dormant cs

dj yo-yo dieting “dormant mirrors” c88 cassette

  • dormant mirrors (1)

  • dormant mirrors (2)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "dormant mirrors (2)"
... here & below are a series of releases from the mind of “glamorous” pat “sisprum vish” maher(r) ; member of shitty vibe smasher (along with daryl “pulse emitter” groetsch), the portland bike ensemble, moms who chop (well that one’s just him solo), alien zoner ape, etc ...

pat’s newest guise, dj yo-yo dieting, came to my attention through an enthused message-board rant (see ; i do occasionally go onto the internet ... for fun ...) likening his approach here to the “traditional” chopped & screwed (aka: slowed & throwed) approach (popularized by houston-ite dj screw ca. 1990) meshing with contemporary “noise dude” sensibilities (lo-fi tape-collage, guitar-pedal processing) ... needless to say my interest was immediately piqued ...

thanks to a chance encounter with mr. maher (yes, it involved pizza) mms is now in possession of a decent quantity of these fine tapes, including this 90-minute behemoth ... each contains a continuous mix of c&s-style cut-ups, covering pretty much the last 25 years’ worth of “urban music” (earliest thing i hear is prince - listen to the sound-sample - but it gets as recent as usher et.al) all run through a blender of gain & time-based effects, slowed down to mush, then duped hot ...
cherried-out merch press release...

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lo-fi
beat-research

cherried-out merch (usa) #yo-yo birth cs

dj yo-yo dieting “regurgitation as birth” c92 cassette

  • regurgitation as birth (1)

  • regurgitation as birth (2)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "regurgitation as birth (1)"
october 2009 release ; possibly the most recent dj yo-yo dieting set, again an epic 90-minute blurst of throwed & slowed hits, replete with a title ripped straight from the american tapes catalogue ...

what wolfgang voigt did to classical music w/ his gas project, pat is doing to “hip hop, r&b, and today’s hottest music™” ... incredible stuff !!!
cherried-out merch press release...

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threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation
electro-acoustic-improvisation
sound-poetry
lo-fi

cherried-out merch (usa) #sisprum twizzlerr cs

sisprum vish “twizzlerr” c30 cassette

  • untitled (1)
  • untitled (2)
  • untitled (3)
  • untitled (4)
  • untitled (5)
  • untitled (6)

  • untitled (7)
  • untitled (8)
  • untitled (9)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "untitled (2)"
... here’s a tape from glamorous pat’s “noise” project sisprum vish, full of full-on sound-poetry / tape-mangle antics that hover closer to the whole chocolate monk omniverse than anything else ...
cherried-out merch press release...

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january 26th, 2010

cherried-out merch (usa) #portland herpes cs

kelvin pittman / whitney woolf / pat maherr “the herpes of crafts” c22 cassette

  • the herpes of crafts (1)

  • the herpes of crafts (2)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the herpes of crafts (1)"
... this one’s by the aforementioned trio ; something of an offshoot of the portland bike ensemble (several lps on olde english spelling bee) - i.e. the pbe w/o craig burgardt or tim reynolds ...

keeps in line with the pbe’s “all sounds made with bikes, contact mics, and implements” modus, yielding a thick morass of grinding, clicking sound ... fans of richard lerman’s “travelon gamelon” wishing a more visceral outcome ; this is your jam ...
cherried-out merch press release...

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january 26th, 2010

threads:
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machine-music

gods of tundra (usa) #got sea cs

human liberation technology “sea organization” cassette

  • get ethics

  • we come back
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "we come back"
january 2010 release ; ah yes, i was wondering when someone from this crowd would get around to emptily referencing scientology’s hush-hush “sea org” as subject matter ... the tenuous link between said and the contained sonics aside, this is a tape of “hands off” (i.e. “automatic” - human liberation technology, get it ???) music, presumably created by some automatic process that slowly modulates the feedback pitch in slight increments ... heavy seasickness vibes ...
gods of tundra press release...

--human liberation technology "sea organization" cass.

the elite of scientology's workers, at least 3,000 of them, belong to a zealous faction known as the sea organization and are given room, board and a small weekly allowance. they sign contracts to serve scientology in this and future lifetimes -- for a billion years. their motto is: 'we come back.' dressed in mock navy uniforms adorned with ribbons, they bark orders with a clipped, military cadence. they hold ranks such as captain, lieutenant and ensign. officers, including women, are addressed as 'sir.'

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lo-fi
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

gods of tundra (usa) #got ghosts cs

failing lights “the ghosts of navigators” c45 cassette

  • carried forward

  • navigator’s sun
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "carried forward"
january 2010 release ; holy jesus, this one’s just creepy ... over a backing track of ... “uplifting” sing-songing, mike connelly lays a squall of detuned feedback and clanking, echoing the ship’s lone navigator’s descent into madness at the loss of the north star’s bearing ...

super depressing, “sinking of the titantic” vibes throughout ; score !!!
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--failing lights "the ghosts of navigators" cass.

new sounds with old things for the winter that is falling over the land.

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minimalism-drones
lo-fi

gods of tundra (usa) #got gates cs

jazzfinger “gates of failure” c50 cassette

  • pursue the voice

  • brink of infinity
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "pursue the voice"
january 2010 release ; two slabs of coruscating anti-everything from newcastle’s finest ...
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--jazzfinger "gates of failure" cass.

haze drenched rotten rumblings from these long running brits.
descending from high above, in the cradle of success, straight on thru the gates of failure.

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threads:
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plunder-phonic
playback-music
lo-fi

gods of tundra (usa) #got ancient cs

stoning “ancient music for irish harp” c20 cassette

  • the fair hared ...
  • a soft mild morning

  • the green woods of ...
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the green woods of ..."
january 2010 release ; ha ha, excellent ... hair police / wolf eyes’ mike connelly does it again with this set of off-kilter plunderphonics, using only recordings of the titular instrumentation as source material ...
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--stoning "ancient music for irish harp" cass.

music to hide with.
ancient music for irish harp...
exactly what it is.

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january 26th, 2010

threads:
harsh-noise
field-recordings
minimalism-drones
lo-fi

gods of tundra (usa) #got absolute cs

virgin spring “absolute decline” c20 cassette

  • to corrupt

  • at the helm
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "at the helm"
january 2010 release ; odd collection of field-recording-laced power electronics & assorted electronic drone-pieces from this mystery artist ...
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--virgin spring "absolute decline" cass.

alert. new project. first tape made public. alert. virgin spring recalls the great days of noise when anything could and did happen on a noise tape. a truly mysterious journey reaching many highs, lows, empty planes and shifting grounds. the most excited i've been about a new jammer in a long time. and by the way, virgin spring is one half of k.p., who just released an incredible tape on hospital. new noise now.

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$18.33

new to stock as of
january 26th, 2010

threads:
doom
modern-psych
guitar-themed
harsh-noise
minimalism-drones

neurot (usa) #nr 067 cd

skullflower “strange keys to untune gods' firmament” double compact disc set

  • shivering aurora (9:19)
  • starlit mire (9:27)
  • enochian tapestries (8:09)
  • city of dis (8:07)
  • gateway to blasphemous light (14:20)
  • basement of an impure universe (11:07)

  • nibelungen (7:38)
  • blood mirror streams (7:02)
  • blackened angelwings scythe the billowing void (8:37)
  • chaotic demons fly in to my eyes (8:41)
  • skar konstellation (9:14)
  • rheingold (7:33)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "rheingold"
february 2010 release ; entirely impressive double-disc wall of ür-drone from matthew bower, trading in hototogisu’s black-metal leaning excesses for a pure exploration of tonal voids sourced back only to bower’s guitar/amp wail ...

makes just so many anemic “safety-doom” records sound like the line 6 guitar-pod utilizing “bedroom warrior” sides that they are ...

“all must bow before the pagan wall of drone..." ; highly recommended !!!
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skullflower / strange keys to untune gods' firmament
neurot recordings
2xcd

nr067
street date: february 2nd, 2010

“all must bow before the pagan wall of drone..."

 so reads the opening line of skullflower's website. hearing their tortured, distorted, and eerily shamanic sounds emanate from the stereo for the first time in the early '90s was truly a revelation. iiird gatekeeper and obsidian shaking codex are two of my all-time favorite albums and have been extremely influential on the way my brothers and i approach guitar-based heavy music. to grab an instrument, drive a loud amplifier to its physical limit, and ride the drone into oblivion is ecstasy, and matthew bower has been showing us all how it is done for 20-odd years.

 strange keys to untune gods' firmament evokes wagnerian sonic bombast, a nietzchean worldview, and a warlike cry of rebellion against the false, encased in a whirlwind both psychotropic and psychoacoustic. each spin brings new themes to the forefront. not easy listening by anyone's standards, strange keys is not for the faint of heart--but those willing to submit and immerse themselves in the deep, thick waters of self-transformation will be greatly rewarded.

 -- steve von till (neurosis / neurot recordings)
  • new double-album features some of the band's most intensely dark music to date
  • follows up where orange canyon mind and tribulation leave off
  • mastering by james plotkin brings psychoacoustics into three-dimensional experience

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january 26th, 2010

threads:
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lo-fi
harsh-noise

pizza night (usa) #pn 41 cs

dead peasant insurance “cleveland scum skulls” c35 cassette

  • something’s wrong
  • meth mouth

  • starbuss starpus
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "starbuss starpus"
january 2010 release ; neat tape of noise-rock antics from wyatt “skin graft” howland, amanda davidson, tusco terror’s ben osborne, ryan kuehn, and j guy laughlin, jr. ...
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pn 41: "cleveland scum skulls" c35 dead peasant insurance

dpi is one of cleveland's most long standing noise-rock bands. young sibling veterans of ohio sludge, amanda and wyatt howland shred guitars in the same no rules exploratory fashion as they have been since the 1995. in fact, wyatt explained that they didn't even begin "tuning" until 2001 (which i don't believe they really do at all to this day). amanda also provides stream of conciousness vocal battering which rounds out the full blasting quartet. the guitar's pair up against walls of electronics from ryan kuehn (dr. quinn, hot air balloon ride, jesus kills) and j guy laughlin's one man blasted free-jazz drum olympiad style. absolutely head-spinning gunk. this tape features recordings with collaborator, ben osborne (rot ton bone, silver pearl and tusco terror).

pro dubbed. edition of 60.

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new to stock as of
january 26th, 2010

threads:
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folk
guitar-themed
lo-fi

pizza night (usa) #pn 38 cs

metacomet “depression ceremony” c21 cassette

  • long time coming
  • dead man

  • warm winds
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "warm winds"
january 2010 release ; pleasant, rather poppy guitar / guitar / vocals (occasionally, drums) from this young ohio-ioian trio ... reminds me a bit of houston, tx ca. 1994 (see: charalambides, etc.) but there’s also a bit of the loren mazzacane / suzanne langille thing happening ...
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pn 38: "depression ceremony" c21 metacomet

metacomet exemplify the beauty of the dark. their songs emit a glowing melancholy bleakness that rings with euphoria. mesmerising vocals from christina boyd weave beautiful melodies through tunnels of illuminating guitar. their sound melts with an evocative resonant reverb that creates a space of heavenly haze. within the haze, guitarists max gardner and ian staub pair up in a precise aural unity that seems like they've been playing together for many years. their chiming compositions are spacious and the guitars' controlled playfulness at moments are reminiscent of the guitar teasing styles of ennio morricone or wilburn burchette. haunting and warm, this trio is bound for big things as this is only their debut release from this new project.

pro dubbed. edition of 80.

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$14.98

new to stock as of
january 26th, 2010

threads:
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guitar-themed
analogue-synth
electro-acoustic-composition

united jnana (usa) #uj 2003 cd

nurse with wound “chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella” compact disc

  • two mock projections (6:21)
  • the six buttons of sex appeal (13:14)
  • blank capsules of embroidered cellophane (29:17)
  • strain, crack, break (15:16)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "two mock projections"
january 2010 release ; new edition of nurse with wound’s 1979 debut album (yes, the one with “the list”) ...

i feel that ; as much as “the list” gets constantly referenced around here, few of you seem to know much about nurse with wound other than their affiliations with what would ultimately become the 80s “industrial” wave ...

back when this album was being forged, the trio of heman pathak, john fothergill, and steven stapleton were far more in debt to the wave of european prog & psych dotting “the list’s” entrants (certainly the opening track’s acid-guitar orgies & bleeping synth owe a great deal to richard pinhas / heldon - listen to the sound-sample) ...

... this version (again) adds the track “strain, crack, break” ; originally issued with the album on 2001’s united dairies cd edition & featuring colin potter & david “michael” tibet ... despite the topic, it’s a bit of an anachronism (as it was recorded that year) ; but really your focus should be on the album proper’s continuous flow of screeching guitar skrag and primal electronic overlays ...

no home should be without a copy in some form ; this edition comes with a 12-page booklet covering all of the affiliated texts, images, and “clues” ; highly recommended !!!
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nurse with wound / chance meeting (reissue / special edition)
united jnana
cd 2003
street date: january 19th, 2010

united jnana is pleased to reissue the debut album from nurse with wound, chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella, originally released on united dairies in 1979.

 this special edition cd features a digipack with the original artwork restored and an expanded booklet with archival material chosen by steven stapleton. the disc has been remastered from the original analog tapes and features bonus material.

 chance meeting enjoys a reputation as one of the most singular debuts of all time.

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vhf (usa) #vhf 121 lp

vibracathedral orchestra “smoke song” long playing record

  • smoke song
  • cholita maria

  • get it? got it… good!
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "smoke song / cholita maria"
february 2010 release ; third & final entrant to this contemporary trilogy - starts out with a fantastically “hot” tabla / flute droner with tons of detuned string playing & a constant drone backing that doesn’t quit for a good 10 minutes ; eventually leading into a more “mellow” farfisa / pedal steel / hand-drum burner ... the b-side is a non-stop thrill ride of tremolo guitar, moloney’s krautrock-pulse & layers of sparkling electronics that remind of ... well ... faust’s “krautrock” (played at 78rpm) ...

any single piece within these three lps contains enough in the way of unique ideas / executions to fuel the entire discography of a lesser act ... they should be investigated upon with the fullest of your attention/energy ; highly recommended !!!
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vibracathedral orchestra / smoke song
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lp • vhf 121
street date: february 2nd, 2010

the ever-mysterious vibracathedral orchestra returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition lps. slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts mick flower and adam davenport with frequent collaborators john godbert (total) and john moloney (sunburned hand of the man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides.

smoke song's more gentle exposition starts with davenport's santoor (a type of hammered dulcimer) leading the band into a lengthy mid-tempo groove on "smoke song," followed on the second half of the side by the short, quiet "cholita maria." the second side's 17-minute "get it?" lays down the tremolo and phase in a manner reminiscent of the best spacemen 3 comedowns, taking a pulse and riding it into organ- and percussion-fueled bliss.

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vhf (usa) #vhf 120 lp

vibracathedral orchestra “the secret base” long playing record

  • the secret base
  • if you can’t smoke ‘em, sell ‘em

  • eyes of wood
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february 2010 release ; second in the trilogy - starts out with a wild bit of michael’s shaahi-baaja (listen to the first past of the sound-sample) before segueing into an almost honky-tonk / later zeppelin-feeling “mystical” jam with bits of laser-zap electronics & a constant harmonic pulse ... the flip offers a continuous flitting romp through a bunch of different, mainly vocal-led styles rife with errant bells & shakers creating one hell of a mood ...

these guys haven’t sounded this good in years ; highly recommended !!!
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vibracathedral orchestra / the secret base
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lp • vhf 120
street date: february 2nd, 2010

the ever-mysterious vibracathedral orchestra returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition lps. slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts mick flower and adam davenport with frequent collaborators john godbert (total) and john moloney (sunburned hand of the man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides.

the secret base starts up at full throttle, straight into a raw-sounding live outing, with flower's overdriven guitar occupying the same sonic space that gives his japan banjo / shaahi baaja workouts with chris corsano their urgency. the sound is dark and rough, almost xpressway-like in its claustrophobic atmosphere. the percolating krautrock stylings of "if you can't smoke 'em" chugs along hypnotically for over 13 minutes to close out the side. the entire b-side's 20+ minutes are devoted to the clanging free sound of "eyes of wood," where gamelan-like metal percussion dominates the proceedings.

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vibracathedral orchestra “joka baya” long playing record

  • the bad serpent
  • a mirrored pyramid (for js)
  • es inaceptable para mí
  • rich witch
  • natterjack

  • rag alap iv
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february 2010 release ; first of three concurrently-released lps from a scaled-back lineup of vco (michael “mick” flower & adam davenport, plus john godbert & sunburned’s john moloney) ...

here they launch into a bunch of divergent modes on the a-side - a (cleanly recorded ; in fact most of the side sounds “studio quality”) percussion-led incantation into a rainbow-dome floater, then into some fine beausoleil-esque acid guitar spew, then a great flutes, organs, & hand-drums bit (first part of the sound-sample), then an almost deep-purple-ian “metallic” tone cluster (the second) ... on the flip there’s a side-length “in the red” style raga highlighting moloney’s overmodulated drum-kit work alongside some static tanpura & fizzing synths ...

all amazing stuff ; a very auspicious start to the trilogy ... highly recommended !!!
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vibracathedral orchestra / joka baya
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lp • vhf 119
street date: february 2nd, 2010

the ever-mysterious vibracathedral orchestra returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition lps. slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts mick flower and adam davenport with frequent collaborators john godbert (total) and john moloney (sunburned hand of the man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides.

joka baya offers up a set of shorter pieces on the a-side in a high-fidelity style that contrasts the dark, smoky sound of the rest of the tracks. the percussive grooves are overlaid with sunroof!-like shimmer, stabbing electric leads, gentle acoustic rain, and droning organ peeking through at opportune moments. the roaring side-long epic on the flip is a droning, phasing slice of psychedelia with moloney's drums battering the tape in between long stretches of humming stasis.

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hummingbird productions (usa) #ch105 cs
yoga (usa) #ch105 cs

joanna brouk “the healing touch” c48 cassette

  • the healing touch

  • alpine bells
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the healing touch"
1985 release ; here’s something we don’t often get here @ mms - original, sealed copies of this string of self-released cassette releases from composer joanna brouk ...

quite different from her 70s music (documented in a 1972 broadcast on charles amirkhanian’s “other minds” radio program - largely involving her “playing” of a moog synthesizer with only her voice as a “trigger” to yield some fine interference-patternage) these tapes are in & of the new age spec, all “dripping with inner calm” (to quote amirkhanian) & quite concerned with the time/movement’s key components (the sea, swans, healing, etc ...)

this is the fifth and final tape, covering two side-length piano & yamaha dx improvs ...
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hummingbird productions (usa) #ch103 cs
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joanna brouk “sounds of the sea” c45 cassette

  • atavesta

    invocation
    atavesta
    playing in the water
    aurora
    diving deeper, remembering love
    going to sleep.

  • the sailor and the nymph

    the reminder of long ago
    the nymph rising
    calling the sailor
    first meeting
    touching the sky
    the sounding
    return to the deep
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the reminder of long ago"
1990 release ; third tape in the hummingbird series (released out-of-sequence, chronologically at least) with joanna providing some fine synth-drones over which a series of conch-shell like flute patterns & field recordings (of dolphins, natch) are overlaid ...

... gets into some great pandit pran-nath-esque vocal melisma in the second half, delivers on a bunch of different fronts ... if you had to narrow it down to only two of these to get ; this & the first make a fine pair ...
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hummingbird productions (usa) #ch101 cs
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joanna brouk “healing music” c50 cassette

  • lifting off
  • mary’s watch

  • healing music
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1981 release ; earliest tape in the hummingbird series, featuring the flute of maggi payne (the entire a-side) as well as brouk’s own piano, moog synthesizer, and “sound mix” ...
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mexican summer (usa) #mex 017/19 lp

bobby beausoleil / the orkustra “adventures in experimental electric orchestra from the san francisco psychedelic underground” double long playing record and seven inch single record set

  • bousaki blues experiment
  • bombay calling
  • punjab's barber
  • freeform improvisation (while watching an experimental underground film)

  • flash gordon
  • hungarian stomp
  • flash gordon (a practice session)

  • flute player audition (practice jam session)
  • dancing in the park
  • gypsy odyssey (practice session)

  • gypsy odyssey (performed live at st. john's church christmas eve, 1966)
bonus 7” single
  • flash gordon

  • bombay calling
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "freeform improvisation"
january 2010 release ; hot on the heels of the (already, o/p ; major grip flare-out) ajna-label “lucifer rising” box comes this staggeringly deluxe set, covering all of the extant recordings of bobby beausoleil’s sf-based orkustra, recorded in the mid-late 60s prior to his involvement with kenneth anger and/or his incarceration ...

while not the most far-out thing you’ve ever heard, this certainly paints a darker picture of those early haight-ashbury times, with bobby’s orkustra (a small, rag-tag band merging rock & jazz instrumentation) firing through a series of through-composed charts in a huge, resonant space ...

ps. note that all of mms’ copies come complete with the bonus “white-label” single, containing a shorter, “radio-friendly” runthrough of “flash gordon” along with an exclusive cut called “bombay calling” ...
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the orkustra
adventures in experimental electric orchestra from the san francisco psychedelic underground

2 x lp + 18 page booklet + hand written liner notes from bobby beausoleil + unreleased material.

includes the white label orkustra 7" "flash gordon" b/w "bombay calling".

i had recently arrived in san francisco when, in the fall of 1965, i conceived of assembling what i described then as "the first electrified symphony orchestra." my 18th birthday had just passed and i possessed only modest abilities as a musician, but, being prone to such crazy notions, the concept seemed perfectly reasonable - this was the haight-ashbury of the mid-sixties, after all! a few months later a stable musical ensemble somewhat resembling my original conception had come into existence.

 what i had imagined would be an "orchestra" of a dozen-or-so musicians proved in practice to be unmanageable. instead, a coalition of five instrumentalists from various musical traditions — rock, classical, jazz, folk and blues—emerged as the core group. for what was essentially a reconceived rock band, the instrumentation was extremely unusual, comprising some combination of violin, oboe, standup bass, guitar, bouzouki, flute, organ, drums and percussion. all of the melodic instruments were modified for electric amplification.

the orkustra's brief day in the sun did not allow an opportunity to record a formal album. however, some recordings of the band's practice sessions and live performances were made. these precious few artifacts have been carefully restored and compiled by mexican summer into a comprehensive double lp album.

bobby beausoleil
summer 2009


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perdition plastics (usa) #per 012 cd

illusion of safety “probe” compact disc

  • probe (1) (18:18)
  • probe (2) (25:30)
  • probe (3) (9:23)
  • probe (4) (4:59)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "probe (1)"
january 2010 release ; notable as one of jim o’rourke’s first recorded outings (predated only by a batch of regional cassette releases, the “ground below above our heads” lp & the “tamper” & “disengage” disc/sets) it’s also (in my mind at least) the finest ios outing, due to the meshing of jim’s nascent musique concrète leanings (the pacing belies a great love of luc ferrari, certainly) and dan’s more visceral / event-oriented sensibilites & humor (at times bordering on inaudibility, the predominance of sudden, jarring transitions by the end becomes the piece’s reigning leitmotif) ...

amazing to think was released 18 years ago ; in many ways jim & dan’s love-letter to the whole ina-grm universe & something of a classic ; highly recommended !!!
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release date: january 2010

artist: illusion of safety
title: probe

format: full-length cd (58 minutes)
label: perdition plastics
catalogue number: per 012

this is the first re-issue of illusion of safety’s probe since its only appearance in 1992. in a limited edition of 500 copies, perdition plastics is proud to reintroduce this notable work of contemporary composition. veteran provocateurs, illusion of safety, examine an audio landscape found between youth and innocence, manufactured entertainment, and suburban complacency. using a pastiche of field recordings and suggestively composed elements, dan burke and jim o’rourke strikingly capture ambivalence and their own personal interactions within this environment.

probe was one of several early, pinnacle works to foreshadow the unique and prolific audio fingerprint of renowned producer/player, jim o’rourke, when still a compositional student in chicago. this release fits neatly into o’rourke’s recent issuing of forgotten and initial recordings.

as the constant center of illusion of safety since 1983, dan burke has consistently edited and evolved more than 20 cds from ambience to electronica, from sound collage to post-industrial noise. the complexity and restraint found within probe marked a compelling new direction for burke and a great many others influenced by his music.

illusion of safety has been released by such labels as die stadt, experimedia, silent, soleilmoon, staalplaat, tesco, and waystyx among others. collaborations include cheer-accident, thomas demuzio, kevin drumm, ben vida, and others.

probe will be of interest to those who enjoy hafler trio, throbbing gristle, luc ferrari, etc.

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no label (usa) #cloaked light sitbon cd

cloaked light / sitbon “split” compact disc recordable

  • cloaked light - untitled (7:11)
  • sitbon - untitled (11:27)
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january 2010 release ; tiny, no-label disc offering a piece each from peter friel’s cloaked light (slowly rising, organ overload/overlord) and louis sitbon (floating, echo-chalice changeling) ...
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a harmony between friends, trying to remember the man in the boat.

cloaked light is peter friel, sitbon is louis sitbon.

it's coming, trying to. aloka 666 

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petri supply (usa) #ps yeast culture cs
incubator (usa) #ps yeast culture cs

yeast culture “yeast culture” c60 cassette

  • transplant
  • dream virus
  • flagellation of the naked arteries
  • yegova into rimror
  • millning

  • the lotus eaters
  • self-suspended in gel
  • revendrig
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "flagellation of the naked arteries"
late 2009 release ; here and below are a series of new issues of titles, mostly released in the late 80s on mark schomburg’s petri supply (recently re-christened incubator), one of the premiere imprints in the u.s. documenting the then-thriving “cassette underground” scene ...

here’s a tape from petri’s in-house group yeast culture (aka abo, dave travous, virful obirs, and tad reedy) covering their first recordings, ranging from long, scraping free-improv sessions, inspired sound-poetry redactions, and a few synth extrapolations, all coming from an authentic “artist commune” type living situation that allowed for these sort(s) of free-shenanigans to occur on the regular ...

as with all of these issues ; the edition is truly inspired, with the tape housed in a baggie with all sorts of printed ephemera (the cover is a hand-cut, screen-printed card with tons of little bits glued together) and inserts and whatnot ... the levels of pure mystery and the care & detail paid to these things are stunning, making them the ultimate in outsider / underground artifacts ...
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yeast culture c60, the first 1988 tape release by my group featuring a lot of experimental vocal and synthesizer works. hand made art covers.

this tape compiles some first recordings made from 1987 when a few brave souls took the plunge into a weird new world of living in an art commune. morty was determined to be a new synth star, and was pretty occupied with hard edged electronics. he appears on two tracks. abo created some rather creepy vocal effects and lyrics (printed but not sung) which revealed a tortured soul. brad's extremely slow mystical stoned flute drones and echo techniques provide rarified atmosphere. there was a lot of neoprimitivism at that time, and it's certainly part of what made this tape.

the tape's cover is made from wallpaper leftover from the abandoned apartment building we were occupying, a building which had been gathering dust for decades - with original gas lights, which no longer worked. some of morty's synth tracks were composed in a tiny little closet in this otherwise dark and monstrous place. it's pretty gloomy sound, but considering that we were all living like rats in an unheated dark empty building on the edge of seattle's seedy dangerous international district, that's about what should be expected. only about fifty were first made. these newer copies are part of an attempt by petri supply to bring back some lost titles. back in print 2009, with original inserts and custom covers.

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