★Last Visible Dog
We Shall Overtone
Long overdue second release by Renato for LVD. As with Horse Frenzy and his contributions to the Invisible Pyramid and Crows of the World comp, Renato shows his unique vision for what music can be; drawing comparisons to virtually nothing else out there. More varied that his previous Hoarse Frenzy, WSO integrates elements of folk, pure electronic experimentation, and even elements of jazz--building at times into highly satisfying complex structures, ebbing away creating new patterns. For thos…
Book of Beyond
"Ben Reynolds is one of the newer voices from the same UK scene that includes Ashtray Navigations and many of the VHF celebrities (Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Richard Youngs, etc.) It should be of little surprise then that Book of Beyond fits very nicely among the recordings of those other artists -- noise/junk drone. As in his previous recordings, this at times dissolves into more acoustic offerings, but the Fahey influence appears to be mostly gone, and what remains in the quie…
Invisible Pyramid: Last Elegy Box
Enormous 7-1/2 hour 6 CD compilation featuring almost everyone from the label roster along with plenty of new faces. Each artist has contributed an EP's worth of exclusive material (10-20 mins) specifically recorded for this release (not the normal throw away material that appears on other comps.) Feat. BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA, BARDO POND, BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, FURSAXA, URDOG, AVARUS, members of DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, HALA STRANA, THUJA, CIRLCE, & many, many others.
Monsters & Miasmas
Brian Cook (TERMINALS) & wife Maryrose make up this long-running project who's releases on Ajax/3 Beads of Sweat & Siltbreeze have continued to tread a line between haunting country-esque ballads & the brand of noise-rock for which the Terminals is known.
The Cosmological Eye Trilogy
They call their home studio the Space Room; they name their pieces after galaxies and nebulas; and their cat appears to be an alien. Please act surprised when you learn that this duo from Torino, Italy, plays space music -- not your ordinary brand, though: experimental space music. Maurizio Opalio and Roberto Opalio are exploring the cosmos through epic improvised journeys involving astral percussion, electric astral guitar drones, and space toys. Their territory is somewhere past the fringes of…
Traffics + Discoveries
If you picked up Last Visible Dog's recent six-disc Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box, you were treated to a 19-minute exercise in drone poetics, courtesy of Providence, R.I.'s Area C. His track, 'Chain Bridge,' led off the final disc of the set and proved that this relatively new voice in the drone scene was definitely worthy to sit alongside the likes of Ben Reynolds, Ashtray Navigations and My Cat is an Alien. As great as Eric Carlson's contribution was to the compilation, it was just a tease, pre…
Haunt
Haunt is a swirl of Farfisa organs, loops, stretched-out guitar, and the fragmented, fractured beats of an analog drum machine and tube amplifier static. The album was recorded by Erik Carlson & Jeff Knoch late 2005. What began as a plan to record a dual-Farfisa album (both Erik & Jeff are Farfisa aficionados) quickly and organically turned into much more. The two musicians convened and over the course of two brief sessions, spun out a sequence of songs whose repetitions and details hold much mo…
Conference of the Aquarians
Brand new, this makes some very pleasing nods to Henry Cow/Fred Frith & a few others; but these are take off points only. Ultimately the album explores a broad swath of musical possibilities, & certainly the release goes a long way in establishing Cosi as someone to pay close attention to.
Pariahs Sing Om
Three CD retrospective collecting two complete albums (Pariahs Sing Om, Catch a Spear As It Flies'), significant excerpts from Duna and A Tiny Camp In the Wilderness and various unreleased tracks. None of this material has ever been available outside of small CD-R runs. The finest in underground free noise / drone...mostly from New Zealand but all around the world as well. For those of you new to the CpsiP label, imagine classic Siltbreeze (Dead C, etc.) mixed with Jewelled Antler (Thuja, Blithe…
Fielding
Hala Strana, is a project of LA-based multi-instrumentalist (and multi-instrument builder) Steven R. Smith, who is a member of Jewelled Antler flagship improv psych group Thuja and a solo artist in his own right. Hala Strana is his vehicle for instrumental droned-out Eastern European folk music appreciation/interpretation, and really represents some of his finest work to date. Multitracking turns Steven R. Smith into a one-man village orchestra, playing everything from violin to optigan, bul bul…
Tron (+ Anaru EP)
Armpit is another Clayton Noone project (along with CJA and the Futurians), this one being (I assume) the oldest of the three. Back when LVD was in its first year or so, Clayton suggested we do a release, but something terrible went wrong and it never happened. Here at long last--at least seven years after the last piece of music was recorded for this album--we finally have a real CD of armpit. Like so many of the people way out in front in the NZ experimental music scene, this is definitely …
Kristallivirta
What happens when you bring together not just two but THREE of the strangest bands ever (Kulkija, Uton, Eyes Like Saucers), allowing them to record by their own (lack of) rules an album that sounds about like nothing else that's ever been recorded? Well, Kristallvirta would be it--and while moments DO sound like an even more far-out Angus MacLise, that's where about any comparison ends. To be certain, this is among the most challenging releases on the label; certainly not for beginners of any …
Audio For Lovers
Fabio Orsi (collaborator on last year's 'Wildflower's under the sofa') returns with a double disc effort that is at once a highly satisfying 2 hour entry in the ambient genre. Although LVD's catalog often leans toward noiser, less melodic works, Audio for lovers shows both the same modernistic and minimal sensibilities that we've heard from Fabio in the past, while also drawing on the earlier, atmospheric work by Eno, which is to say that the album does precisely what most of us would like out o…
Curved Surface Destroyer
3CD live retrospective covering '98-2006 & incl. shows in New Zealand, Japan, Denmark & Scotland. Shows the evolution of sound from the mid 90's slowly emerging drone-fields to the more dynamic sound. He's assembled the best possible overview of his work under one title, w/out rehashing any material from previous releases
Maariv: Four Pieces Of Electroacoustic Music
Maariv is a collection of electroacoustic solo works composed and produced by San Diego-based musician, Preston Swirnoff. This collection was recorded at his studio, The Habitat, in 2004-2005. Swirnoff also collaborates with Ilya Monosov in primal rock unit The Shining Path and as Monosov Swirnoff, as well as producing heavy analog dub music as Habitat Sound System. Taking 20th century minimalism, ritual drone music, and early electronic and tape experiments as launching points, Swirnoff uses a …
Ironclad
This is the same Clayton Noone who isn't (but will soon be) a legend; the same man behind the art-punk Futurians and junk-noise Armpit. Nevermind his super obscure CD-R- only collaborations with Last Visible Dog label-mate Antony Milton, going under the name 'Claypipe.' Ironclad however differs from so much of Noone's output in that it is both more personal and more accessible. While none of the trappings of the low-fi New Zealand noise aesthetic are gone, this is more gentle, more melodic; a fo…
Wildflowers Under the Sofa
The third release by Italian duo consisting of sound artist legend Becuzzi along with relative newbie Fabio Orsi, “Wildflowers” is a surprisingly passionate mix of found sounds, acoustic and electronic, along with some guitars to flesh out the vision.There are three fairly long pieces, which offer the duo the opportunity to develop the tracks through various moods and pitches; here, the traditional and the experimental dance around each other, with rhythms both borrowed from and suggested by an …
Distant Bombs
Peter Wright's music has a warm, organic quality to it, and he even manages a short song here to close the cd. Recorded august 2001-april 2002, Sumner, New Zealand. Guitars, violin, bowed gas bottle, supsended bottles, electronics and voices. Originally issued on cd-r by Peter's own Apoplexy label.'
crows of the world vol 1
The first in an apparent series of ten (!) compilations on the wonderfully eclectic Last Visible Dog labe,l this sees the musical behemoths of the free folk scene come together in delicious harmony to create music which forms (apparently) a study on the bird family Corvidae. Okay that could very easily be slightly untrue considering these tracks have about as much to do with birds as, well, I have to do with thug-life, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a stunning collection of tunes. Th…
Hoarse Frenzy
Indescribable Italian artist who has had previous releases on Fringes, Fusetron and Public Eyesore. Hoarse Frenzy is like Faust doing a folk album; terribly beautiful and weird. Incredible use of sound space and field recordings. "Last Visible Dog keeps up the fast releasing rate with this album by an Italian called Renato Rinaldi. The album was recoded in Vienna and many places in Italy near the Slovenian border. In addition to Rinaldi himself, there are also some guests involved, at least on…