Tiromancy
New recordings and a couple of their unreleased tracks. Another Japanese CD from 1997 by this oblique improv collective. In some ways, just as traditional as a bunch of Sun Ra acolytes, in others more bent than actual acid casualties, Tiromancy splas…
Pilgrimage
Three new songs featuring OM’s unique use of riff, cadence and chant comprise the duo’s new album Pilgrimage. Lyrical themes address the processes of mind, psychic reality, astral and causal planes of being, and the nature of the soul.
Live at Jerusalem
In December of 2007 the mighty duo that is OM made a pilgrimage to Israel to play for its people. Their pinnacle performance unfolded at 4 Aristobolus Street in Jerusalem the site of Uganda Records. The band played for over 4 hours on this evening! T…
Gettin\' Gone
Still riding high on the glorious steed that was Green Blues (heads are still processing its smoked grooves and wild-at-heart paeans to love and kosmiche carnality), Matt Valentine and Erika Elder entered a Western Mass studio armed with enough fresh…
Boss
From the clatter of the White Stripes to the dream-pop of Beach House, there have been plenty of duos to please divergent tastes. Perhaps the appeal of the twofer is that it requires a minimalism that mothers interesting combinations, and the Magik M…
s/t
Simply put, Jeremy Kelly s an incredible artist and musician. There's a few things you should know -- first, he's an effects-building wizard. He makes a lot of his own stuff, giving his music unique sounds and textures. Also, he's one hell of a guita…
Zamuro
Limited edition of 300 copies in a heavy stock screen printed jacket. Numbered. A Zamuro is a dark South American vulture of great size. Zamuro is also a solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter. Side A on this LP is a live realiza…
From a Window to a Stone
Striking work by this Israeli singer-songwriter, possessing a willowy, chilling voice and milky lower register, delicately accented in the style of a femme Nick Drake channeling Nico, that lends a spectral presence to this gorgeously arranged set. Or…
Beyond the Black Crack
Beyond the Black Crack was the concept of Reverend Dwight Frizzell, a musician, film maker, Doctor of Metaphysics and minister in the Universal Church of Life. It remains a little known classic, and one of the most unique listening experiences in mod…
In the Great Abbey of Clement VI
RESTOCKED: one of the real 'drone masterpiece'...The very first note is the loudest, and should be overpowering. This single first note, after I stop playing, continues for 14 seconds into silence just before the next note. You will eventually learn …
The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977 to 1978
The complete recordings of Mars -- one of the lesser-known groups of the New York no wave scene, but a razor-sharp combo with some especially great guitars! The CD pulls together material from the group's first single, their following EP, and the fam…
Will Make You Ill
Alga Marghen presents Modern Shit, a very singular chapter in the Amos/It's War Boys / Milk From Cheltenham / Homosexuals history. Directly taken from the original It's War Boys catalog, here is one of the most obscure sonic works of the early 1980s…
The Viking of 6th Avenue - The Authorized Biography
Here is one of the most improbable lives of the 20th century: a blind and homeless man who became a famous eccentric in New York, and who rose to prominence as an internationally respected music presence. Born Louis Thomas Hardin in 1916, Moondog fir…
Sickness Report
Atrax Morgue was the nom de plume of Italian noisy type Marco Corbelli. This album from '96 is a blood and thunder, bass heavy assault on the senses. Cold and surgical powerelectronics inspired by sickness, diseases and forensic pathology.
Necessary Discomforts
Premature Ejaculation is Williams' long-running collaboration with performance artist Chuck Collision. (The two worked as a street performance team called the Happiest Place on Earth). Necessary Discomforts, the duo's first widely available release, …
Advanced Alchemy of Music
Peter Frohmader released so many albums (some are only on cassette) during his long musical career that it's almost impossible to count them up accurately. The 75-minute "Advanced Alchemy of Music" is from 1994. It consists of six long tracks, and th…
Stoneface
Nigel Ayers’ most accessible emission? The glut of his ‘band’s prolific history has generally been a full-scale assault upon the senses, via either dingy slabs of noise or near-pretty industrial musique concrete. Stoneface operates on many levels, a …
Zombie Bloodbath on the Isle of Dogs
The Recedents (Lol Coxhill, Roger Turner, Mike Cooper) demonstrate that you can be avant-garde and have fun at the same time. This is the soundtrack for a "yet-to-be-made" film about a conflict between zombies and a new housing tract. The plot is s…
Das Wunden
Not only a collaborator with various producers on a Wales/Bavaria/Catalonia axis, but also member of Hardcore band Mass, Robert Merdzo is also seem to be a bit of a musical magpie, dipping into various genres for source material, ideas and a few lift…
Uno Es El Cubo
With this work Eduardo Polonio has shown us that the electroacoustic music proves to be an excellent base in an opera performance. And more than that: in this way, the possibilities which remain open are relevant.