Island: Eine Sinfonie In 10 Sätzen
Four cds of intense, grinding drones. Beautiful, but intense and cacophonous. "Like a musical bloodletting" says Andee. Hermann Nitsch is perhaps the most renowned artist spawned from the Austrian Wiener Aktionismus movement producing some of the most brutal and violent art and performance ever. Nitsch always accompanied his Orgien-Mysterien-Theatre performances with walls off orchestral drones--and here they are. Beautiful packaging with performance photos and liner notes by Günter Brus.
live 1977-1978
Limited edition of 3000, 6CD set. Audio verité recordings (mastered by the incomparable Denis Blackham) of Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978. These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, plus their first-ever tour across Europe and the UK, these being their dates outside the USA. As you will hear, a crucial year in Suicide's development as both musicians and performers and their mission to stretch the label of punk rock to the very limit.…
The Ann Steel Album
Lucky restock, latest few copies around - "The Ann Steel" album was the pop project of Italian Avant-garde musician Roberto Cacciapaglia in 1979. It's a surprising mix between experimetal synths and cheesy pop melodies. Unfortunately, it didn't turn into a massive success. It should have.
Dove Dormono gli Autobus
In 1995, the cd “Dove Dormono gli Autobus” is produced by Erosha, presented in the space Audiobox (Rai radio 3) and awarded with a segnalation in the contemporary music competition Iceberg '96.
The Principles of Intrusive Relationships
With this album, Brazils Tropicalia has launched full throttle into the new millennium, where melody metamorphoses into a new medium of expression. The planetary dragons have breathed new life into their free smaba, thus creating a juxtaposition of texture, rhythm and psychedelia. Drums and horns collide at a new crossroads, and this newly created beast decided never to look back. To describe the music the quartet of Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara, Guilherme Granado, and Richard 'Hollywood' Ribeir…
The Door
Religious Knives is comprised of Maya Miller and Michael Bernstein, formerly of industrial drone group Double Leopards, Nate Nelson of the similarly noisy Mouthus, and Todd Cavallo rounding the group out on bass. After a string of twelve inches, singles, and an LP, they're set to release their proper sophomore effort, The Door. It was co-produced by Thurston Moore, and will see release on his Ecstatic Peace imprint. Don't be intimidated by the band member's pedigree and the noisy reputation of t…
AR5 - Autovision
From 1974. A.R.'s fifth excursion with echo-guitar, a collection of group and solo recordings, would be his last studio album in the mind-blowing style. Available again with improved packaging.
Temper - Precis
The double LP vinyl version of Benoit Pioulard's new album Temper also includes the Precis album, issued on vinyl for the first time.
Of Wondrous Legend
To the few who have heard it, it has earned comparisons to Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine, and '60s British prog-folk. O.W.L was founded in 1968 on Chicago's north side by Stephen Titra. A founding member of the beloved Midwestern hippie jam band Mountain Bus, Titra left that band just as their Dead-inspired, bluesy jams gained serious regional traction in order to fully devote himself to the inward-looking, singular vision of O.W.L. Of Wondrous Legends was recorded at Chicago's Universal Stu…
Split
New split album from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth/Northampton Wools/Dream Aktion Unit et al and Graham Moore of To Live And Shave In LA/Black Meat/Blossoming Noise et al. Edition of 500 copies on marbled, coloured 140g vinyl with pro-pressed sleeves. Thurston's side is a torrent of guitar noise that scales almost Prurient levels of electronic barbarism cut-up with plateaus of achingly-extended feedback, one of his most flat-out damaged conceptions to date. Graham's side is more based around tap…
Uretakumo Nakunarutorika
The LSD March hare hops its winding way through another Wonderland of its own making with a brand new kraut influenced album "Uretakumo Nakunarutorika". These ever indefinable Japanese psych monsters have coughed up a syrup-soaked album of broken tribal psychedelia. Their distended view of plunderphonic percussion gurgles like a drum'n'base-jump into a vat of psilocybin wine. And then things get weird.
s/t
Keith Wood, along with constant foil Leon Dufficy, is Hush Arbors, and while his self-titled Ecstatic Peace! debut is not his first album by any means - he's been at this almost ten years - it does provide the perfect introductory point to Hush Arbor's distinctive take on psych folk. Combining the pensive songwriting of John Phillips circa Wolfking, the plaintive honesty of Neil Young, and the fishtank-gazing cacophony of Six Organs of Admittance (Wood is a frequent collaborator), Wood writes cl…
Pale Fatal Sister
Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three-day period of hermetic isolation, while snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more …
This Coming Gladness
This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electr…
The great learning
Long out of print, very rare nowadays - The Great Learning was one of British composer Cornelius Cardew's most important works, a series of seven "paragraphs" with text from the writings of Confucius and scored for generally large numbers of both trained and untrained performers. The original productions of this piece, in fact, served as the genesis of the legendary pro-amateur Scratch Orchestra. This 2000 release includes three of the paragraphs, two from the 1971 Deutsche Grammophon album that…
Summer Salt & Subway Sun
The expanded / re-issued version of "Summer Salt & Subway Sun" Ltd. edition of 400 in beautiful box with bonus-album "Wildcat Fights." The first 400 copies are packaged in a deluxe full color book bound box, 16 page lyric booklet , full color book bound cd cases and the bonus album "Wildcat Fights". Eyeless are an earful. Messrs Bates et Becker have miraculously come trembling through the decades musically unscathed. And yay though it is within the office of many bands to have precedents in…
Let It Out: Poems In Words And Music
Gray-area reissue. From 1971. Incredible Kraut/funk meeting of U.S. expatriate and the cream of the German rock scene: Achim Reichel, Conny Plank, Wolfgang 'Zabba' Lindner (drums, ex-Wind), Peter Hecht (piano, from Lucifer's Friend) and many others. Dymon, probably better known for his role as 'Black Power Militant' in Godard's Sympathy For The Devil and as director of the super-obscure Death May Be Your Santa Claus, mellifluously rants on subjects such as past sexual conquests, racial injustice…
Weapons of Ass Destruction
With a set of puns that would have even The Sun blushing, Diskaholics Anonymous' new album 'Weapons Of Ass Destruction' (quiet at the back!) sees the leftfield super-group of Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rouke and Mats Gustafsson reforming for some avant/jazz/improv/punk/noise/kitchen-sink buisness. Ear-plugs, as ever, are optional... Comprised of two XXXtended tracks, the handily titled 'Weapons Of Ass Destruction Part 1 & 2' revel in their free-wheeling jazz roots; with Sweden's Gustafsson belligeren…
Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
Includes a bonus disc containing an entire second album recorded a few months after Microcastle, entitled Weird Era Continued. Here it is, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album, which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Whether or not that was or is deserved is entirely subjective. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of this year. The album was recorded as a four-piece consi…
Original Darkness
The latest album from the longtime Charalambides mainstay follows her Electrice album from late 2006 on Kranky as well as a split album with Pocahaunted from early in 2008. Christina Carter has a gift. In a world where most people shy away from the truth, from honesty in emotion, Christina has the strength to address those feelings head on through her music. Within the songs of Original Darkness, she confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy and desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes…