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this list encompasses all new releases from the last 3 months. call or email if there is an item you are interested in. if we still have it in stock, you can do mailorder OR have the item held for you. thanks!!


june 2012


Windy and Carl items available through stormy records

INTROSPECTION - 3 x cd $16.99 ** comes with bonus free cd "Through The Square Window" compilation featuring W&C 'Dream Of Blue' (alt mix), E.A.R. 'Death Of A Robot' (diff mix) + more

DEPTHS - cd $13.99

CONSCIOUSNESS - cd $13.99

WE WILL ALWAYS BE - cd $13.99 / double lp $17.99

SONGS FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED - cd $13.99 / double lp $19.99

THE DREAMHOUSE/DEDICATIONS TO FLEA - cd $13.99

WINDY WEBER - I Hate People cd $9.99 / lp $11.99






and the newest stock items

Cohen, Alice cd Pink Keys on Olde English $14.99
Draws from her roots in 70's Philly Soul/disco, 80's new wave, & cosmic electronic music Spelling Bee

Cohen, Alice lp Pink Keys on Olde English $18.99
Draws from her roots in 70's Philly Soul/disco, 80's new wave, & cosmic electronic music. LP w/ downloadSpelling Bee

LANDING lp Plays Landing on Geographic North $19.99
brand new lp - first new music in years! they have added a drum machine and all the aspects of current music that pitchfork loves - echoes of beach house, cold wave, the cure, ect! don't miss it!!

Galactic Zoo Dossier #9 Magazine+CD on Drag City $21.99
112 pages, a CD & trading cards! GZD #9 also includes interviews with Arthur Brown, Black Widow, Rodriguez & more!

Girls 7" My Ma on True Panther $8.99


Ono, Yoko/Kim Gordon/ Early In The Morning 12" on Chimera $14.99
HYPER LIMITED EDITION VINYL ONLY 10" of 1000 ONLY with one side of music & one side featuring an etching. An extradorinary powerful recording from an extraordinary trio - YOKO ONO, KIM GORDON & THURSTON MOORE. Proceeds to benefit ASHINAGA Tokyo Rainbow House for orphans of the Japanese tsunami.

Silver Jews lp Early Times on Drag City $18.99
"Early Times" presents all the early Silver Jews songs remastered. If you know what this stuff sounds like, you gotta laugh at that one. But the vinyl sounds really great - seriously!

Silver Jews cd Early Times on Drag City $14.99
Just a few guys in a room, that what makes these recordings: muppet baby versions of the David Berman, Stephen Malkmus & Bob Nastanovich (the latter 2, of PAVEMENT) that we know today. "Early Times" contains all the songs from "Dime Map of the Reef" 7" & "The Arizona Record". Consider yourself educated. Class dismissed!

PICHE, JEAN: Heliograms LP $21.99
In 1982, a small Canadian record label specializing mostly in classical music released Heliograms. This was the first record by Canadian composer and video artist Jean Piché, and it was also one of the first albums to feature music produced almost entirely with digital synthesizers. But, due to an unfortunate turn of events, the label went bankrupt as soon as Heliograms was released, therefore relegating this essential piece of electronic music to obscurity. Jean Piché recorded Heliograms between the years 1977-1980 during his time at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. The music on the LP consists of works for computer, digital synthesis and acoustic instruments, and most of it was composed using the POD Interactive Compositional System that Barry Truax had developed at SFU. The four compositions that make up Heliograms are often dense, harmonically-rich pieces that slowly evolve through time. There is a strong use of tonality throughout which characterizes Piché's work during this period. It echoes a fascination with the music of Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Lou Harrison, placing it firmly in a minimalist approach to electronic music, alongside the contemporary work of American composer Laurie Spiegel, then working at Bell Labs. The initial sounds that would end up constituting the bulk of "Ange," the first piece on the LP, were created on the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer, also known as the Samson Box, during a residency at Stanford University, California, in the CCRMA facilities. The Samson Box was a powerful machine and the first of its kind. It was designed to synthesize complex musical events in real time using FM synthesis. As soon as Piché returned to SFU, he mixed all the tracks in a traditional analog studio and then proceeded to record the voice of Joanna Anonychuk, as well as his own voice, carefully blending these with the sounds generated with the Samson Box. The result is a striking oceanic drone of microtonal frequency waves shifting in and out of focus. Remastered by James Plotkin from the original tapes and cut to vinyl by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

WHITMAN, KEITH FULLERTON: Occlusions; Real-Time Music For Hybrid Digital-Analogue... LP $21.99
...Modular Synthesizer. "'Occlusion' is a loose framework for a multi-channel, freely- improvised piece of live electronic music, performed without the aid or consent of pre- recorded or even pre-arranged materials of any kind. A given realization will last between 10 and 30 minutes; time is elastic. Every effort has been made to avoid divisible rhythms (although mistakes are occasionally made). Still, I consider it a 'kind' of dance music. These two realizations, recorded a week apart at festivals in France and The Netherlands during February 2012, capture the piece (much like those on the Generators LP) in two entirely different iterations, in states of (A) a mildly inebriated bliss & (B) an arbitrarily triggered blind rage. Both recordings were made at 24-bit, 96khz through the absolute cheapest means available to the consumer to do so. They sound fantastic. Occlusions is a companion piece to Generators in that they share the same tool-set; however, it is the free jazz yang to Generator's minimalist yin. It is not recommended to those seeking meter, melody, cleanliness, or a clearly-outlined organizational sense."

BISHOP, SIR RICHARD: Intermezzo LP $21.99
"I met Richard in 2004 on a crazy tour in Australia (Oren Ambarchi's last 'What Is Music?'). He was a founding member of The Sun City Girls but he came out to play solo. Instantly we were entranced by his playing, so many beautiful elements of why I love guitar come through in his music and presence, without floating around in genre space at all. Here on the road with Kevin Drumm, Dead C, Residents, Gang Gang Dance, Black Dice, etc., amongst this insane line-up, Richard ended up supporting Pan Sonic and really held it down, as a soloist. A few years later, Peter Rehberg and I (as KTL) were invited to join a tour Richard was doing with Earth. His incredible communication of atmosphere and texture was even more fluid than I remembered -- a real pleasure. If the reason to start a record label is to release the music you are truly enamored by, this is a true example of that philosophy." --Stephen O'Malley, Paris 2012; All songs composed & recorded by Sir Richard Bishop. Master & vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, April 2012.



MUM: Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK 2LP $21.99
2012 repress, originally released in 2005. Double LP version of the first Múm album. Deluxe gatefold sleeve.

MUM: Early Birds 2LP $23.99
Gatefold double LP version. múm presents a compilation of 15 tracks, all of them recorded between 1998-2000 and long-lost or extremely rare, taken from demo tapes or limited edition vinyl releases. It is the year 1998: what might have been the first decade in the history of pop music that was characterized by an overwhelming sense of fragmentation is drawing to a close. Gunnar Ã-rn Tynes and Ã-rvar Ãzóreyjarson Smárason have been making music together as múm for about a year at this point -- though it's not like anyone really took note of them or cared back in 1998. The two bandmates are basically nomadic drifters: they are constantly moving from one basement studio to the next, traveling through Europe, recording anything and everything that comes to mind, sampling, playing around, mixing, recombining things, and ultimately marveling at the results. And then, at a theater production, Gunnar and Ã-rvar meet twin sisters Kristín and Gyða. And then there were four. Early Birds is all about those days: It's a compilation of 15 tracks, all of them recorded between 1998-2000 and long- lost or extremely rare, taken from demo tapes or limited edition vinyl releases. Accordingly, you'll find not only a track from the aforementioned theater production, but also the yet- unreleased "Hvernig Ã? Að Særa Vini Sína," a fan favorite ever since, that was included on the soundtrack to the movie The Exploding Girl. múm had a trademark even back in the earliest days: their compositions were all about melodies. Yet, that's about the only thing these 15 songs have in common. Especially the first half of the compilation focuses more on the playful, "full of beans"-type of experimental tracks: pastiche and experimentation are key, and it's anything-goes indeed: they go from hyped-up pre-electronica to jazzy drum & bass, and they aren't even afraid to present a double-neck guitar solo à la Hair Metal done kiddie-style. However, the second half of the album is comprised of those quieter, rather massive múm tracks, with only a few analog layers, harmonious and blissful, revolving around each other for minutes. These tracks are somehow reminiscent of minimal music, but then again, they are simply too charming, too wistful and clearly not made for academics. Early Birds ends with a contemplative piece that's 10 minutes long and comprised of field recordings, harmonica, accordion, and lots of room for reverb. This final track ultimately became the "Ballad Of The Broken String" on múm's debut album Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK (MORR 058CD), though this early version is indeed quite different. When the debut dropped, múm had found their sound. The rest is history: The band was hailed as a key exponent of "electronic," and with every release, they sounded more and more unique and complete -- only to become what might be Iceland's most original band today. Features nostalgic artwork by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, who experienced the early days of múm first- hand. Also includes a 16-page full-size booklet that explains how each of the 15 (mostly instrumental) tracks came about. Includes download code.

REIBEL, GUY: Granulations-Sillages/Franges Du Signe LP $23.99
Franges Du Signe, the third part of an electroacoustic triptych completed in 1973-1974, is the first major "purely acousmatic" work composed by Guy Reibel. Franges Du Signe explores the mathematical idea of the limit by translating it musically, searching for unstable states of equilibrium. Thus, several conflicting tendencies or logics act upon the sounds. They overlap and fight, each one seeking to assert its trace on the phenomenon in progress, generating de facto an ambiguity that is unique to all phenomena that obey the "logic of the living." Granulations-Sillages (1976) develops an idea glimpsed at in Franges Du Signe: the existence of extreme times at the edge of our faculties of perception, which only the electroacoustic music tools allow us to realize. Two natures of phenomena, opposed in all respects (the "Granulations-Trails" and the "Tutti"), alternate through seven movements that constitute the piece. The work is designed for six channels diffused in concert on a main stereo system facing the public and two auxiliary stereos (group of crossing speakers: front-back and left- right in the room). Featuring bi-lingual (French/English) texts, with translation by Valérie Vivancos. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012. Layout: Stephen O'Malley. Executive Production: Peter Rehberg.

CHAPMAN, MICHAEL: Plaindealer LP $17.99
Reissue of one of Michael Chapman's self-released CDRs -- a studio album from '05. Hand- made sleeves with insert. "Long stretches of clawing, flipping digits from one burning line to the next, all the while kinda hooting vocally along with a snort and a smile...each jam more deadly then the next. Which TURNED ME THE FUCK ON as much as any holy shit..." -- thurston moore.

HEAVY BLANKET: Heavy Blanket LP $19.99
"With a thriving solo career and a busy touring schedule with Dinosaur Jr, one would think that J Mascis has enough on his plate musically, but when he gets back home to Western Massachusetts the first thing he likes to do is head down to his home studio, grab the guitar, stomp on the muff pedal and wail! Rounding up longtime friends Johnny Pancake and Pete Cougar, a rhythm section cloaked in mystery, J decided to put together a full album of screaming tunes under the name Heavy Blanket. Ever wondered what would happen if Blue Cheer and the most blistering of Dinosaur Jr leads were wedded together in an instrumental heavy psych band? J answers that question with Heavy Blanket." On white vinyl.

Blanche Blanche Blanche lp Wink With Both Eyes on Night People $17.99
Weirdo synth pop. Retained from prior releases is the urgent jazzy retro synth feel, catchy monotone vocals & minimalist post punk references

Crocodiles cd Endless Flowers on French Kiss $14.99
Adds a refined cohesion & unmistakable sunny-ness to their glorious noise & echo-cloaked pop

Eccentric Soul V/A- A RBG Production lp on Numero $23.99
Vinyl version. The ultimate fantasy low-rider collection. 19 tracks cruise through soaring falsettos, muminous harmonies, & sweeping strings, all cultivated from pristine original master tapes. Tracked in Silver Springs, Maryland studio by the ears behind 70s soul staples Gil Scott-Heron, Soul Searchers, Van McCoy, & Hugh Masekela, Red, Black & Green Productions compiles the best of producer R. Hosea Williams' most personal work

Electric Wizard double lp Black Masses on Metal Blade $36.99
2LP. The legendary UK bong smokers delve deeper into the dark world of the occult & narco- satanism. A mind melting hallucinogenic nightmare of drug paranoia & misantrhopic death wishes.

Liars cd WIXIW on Mute $16.99
6th album. Simultaneously the most accessible & the most challenging release from this iconoclastic band

Peak Twins/Scott & Charlene's Wedding split lp on Night People $17.99
Split LP by little known Australian bands. PEAK TWINS ride the jams w/ well played pop hooks, somber subtle psychedelics, & a general downer disposition that never gets too heavy but lets the light shine through onto the 60's psych pop flavored jangle & shamble of their great songs. SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING have a distinct punky jangly guitar pop aesthetic going. Where Twerps keep it a bit more chill & mopey, S&CW let the angst & grit stick out more

Superchunk 7" This Summer/Cruel Summer on Merge $6.99
1st new single since the 2010 release of Majesty Shredding. B-side features the band's own take on Bananarama's '80s hit "Cruel Summer." Includes download for both tracks, plus an acoustic version of "This Summer." White vinyl, ltd to 1300.

JK FLESH: Posthuman CD $16.99
The best thing from Justin Broadrick since Godflesh. Posthuman certainly resembles the darker side of Broadrick's sound (circa Techno Animal, Godflesh and Greymachine) but simultaneously contextualizes this within the unfamiliar turf of the post-dubstep/industrial canon pushed by 3by3, finding a fitting home in the process. The result is an album of soul- crushingly dark beats and bass, layered with Broadrick's inimitable guitar and vocal fuzz, providing a stark contrast to 2010's Palesketcher output, that will resonate with fans of Godflesh and the post-dubstep landscape alike. Recorded in Broadrick's newly-built studio in the secluded countryside of Northern Wales, Posthuman's clear reference to his upbringing in the harsh industrial sprawl of Birmingham would at first seem ironic. However, given his recent collaborations with Techno Animal co-conspirator and long-time collaborator Kevin Martin (The Bug/King Midas Sound), it would seem Broadrick is once again happy to explore his more depraved sonic tendencies. Across nine monolithic slabs of pure carnage, JK Flesh is established as a project in its own right; showcasing a clear but dynamic sound that flows seamlessly from the pumping basslines of "Earthmover," through the cavernous drone of "Underfoot" to the melodic, live musicianship of "Walk Away," all via the balls-out distortion of "Punchdrunk." JK Flesh arrives in 2012 to show how proper dark side pressure is done -- with authenticity and regard.

COHRAN & THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE, KELAN PHILIP: Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble CD $16.99
Approaching his eighty?fifth birthday, legendary jazz musicianPhil Cohran lives a couple of blocks from the lake on the north side of Chicago. His modest apartment is filled with a palpable richness. His cornet and trumpets, zithers, French horn, harp and frankiphones (an electric kalimba of his own invention); his beloved telescope; African art; a mural of the Chinese monastery where Muslim monks bestowed on him the name "Kelan" ("holy scripture"); hand?printed posters from the culture wars of 1960s Chicago; all reflect a life dedicated not just to music, but also to science and astronomy, to history and activism. In its range of subject matter, the track?list of Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble embodies this invigorating and all?embracing curiosity: a Mexican hill?town filled with perfume and flowers, an Illinois state prison where Cohran taught inmates in the 1960s, heavenly dancers in the temples of Cambodia, a tribute to a 16th?century Venetian musicologist. Welcome to the musical world of Kelan Philip Cohran. Cohran was born in Mississippi and grew up in St Louis. In the immediate postwar years, St. Louis was a jazz heartland, home of stalwarts like Clark Terry and Oliver Nelson (both of whom he played with), not to mention Miles Davis. In 1950, Cohran moved to Kansas City, where he played trumpet in one of the hardest swinging swing?groups, led by Jay McShann (who famously had given Charlie Parker his first job). With McShann he toured as far as Mexico and played proto?rock'n'roll in Texas with the likes of Big Mama Thornton on vocals. Back in St. Louis, Cohran led his own group, the Rajas Of Swing. Then in the mid?'50s he moved to Chicago. He had a small group with a friend, the legendary tenor saxophonist John Gilmore. And in 1959, through Gilmore, he was invited to join Sun Ra's Arkestra, at a crucial period in the evolution of that extraordinary group. Effortlessly wrapping traditions as divergent as boogie?woogie and electronica in an Afro?centric, intergalactic mythology of his own making, Sun Ra casts a huge shadow across conventional narratives of jazz history. You can hear the emergence of Cohan's artistic voice on the LP Angels And Demons At Play, recorded in 1960 -? Sun Ra's masterpiece from the period. On the track "Music From The World Tomorrow," against the urgent, whipped and chopped percussion of the Arkestra, it is Cohran's zither, initially bowed and then plucked and strummed, which is the track's magic ingredient. More profoundly, it was Sun Ra's example -- his defiant self?confidence and sense of purpose -- that set Cohran on his own "pathway to unknown worlds." Indeed, this spirit of self?belief led Cohran to turn down the invitation to accompany the Arkestra when Sun Ra moved east in 1961. Staying in Chicago, Cohran founded the Affro?Arts Theater and performed with the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, recording the group for his own Zulu Records imprint. The AACM, a musicians' collective of immense influence and importance, had its first meeting in Cohran's front room. He taught music tirelessly in schools and prisons. His studies into music theory and history led him to the discovery of a key book in his life, Gioseffo Zarlino's treatise on harmony, published in Venice in 1558. Astronomy is another passion and another area of expertise. One of the gems of the Cohran discography is African Skies, with its lovely harp playing, commissioned by the Chicago Planetarium in 1993. In Chicago he also raised a large family. Many of his children have gone on to become professional musicians; eight of them are the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. For the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, the voyage to where they are now -- whether tearing up festivals from Glastonbury to Melbourne, or touring with Gorillaz, or recording their first album on Honest Jon's -- has involved a necessary stepping away from their father's shadow. Phil Cohran is the first to recognize this, happily allowing their sound -- heavy on the funk, with the urgency of hip-hop never far away -- to blossom. But likewise this album is for all of them a natural step. Recorded in Chicago in June 2011, the idea was beautifully simple -- "my music and their band." This is music that plumbs the depths and rings with joy.

COHRAN & THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE, KELAN PHILIP: Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 2LP $21.99
Double LP version.

DNTEL: Aimlessness CD $16.99
Dntel releases his long-awaited new album on DJ Koze's legendary Pampa Records label. Dntel aka Jimmy Tamborello is also a member of The Postal Service. Pop and electronica eye each with mutual curiosity: the latter longs to get stuck in a listener's head like a pop song, the former longs to incorporate the exuberant sonic richness of electronic sounds. From his home-base in Los Angeles, Jimmy Tamborello aka Dntel has transformed this mutual desire into an inexhaustible love affair. The magical, unforgettable melodies and strange, outlandish sounds of his music generate an intimate, unique universe. As part of the band Figurine, Jimmy developed a charmingly bewitching, at times absurdly silly electro-pop sound. Together with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie, he started The Postal Service, whose song "Such Great Heights" was featured on Rolling Stone's "100 Best Songs Of The Past Decade." Aimlessness transports the listener to the middle of the Dntel universe. Inexorable electronic sounds breathe life into a body, an emotional world. The album explores the way childish naivety can evolve into presumption, how helplessness and implacability work together. Meditative dub groove, Steve-Reich-like chords, Nite Jewel's voice, Wolfgang Voigt's Love Inc. productions evocation and a pensive mood that dissolves into an optimistic, light-flooded house beat, the album fades away with graceful, sublime fanfare sounds sampled from Krautrock heroes Popol Vuh. One wonders how this so very otherworldly music fits into one's idea of L.A. As it turns out, it is not just about endless freeways, perpetually good weather and, lately, mainstream dubstep. From Van Dyke Parks to Pavement, from the Dead Kennedys to Dr. Dre, California pop music has long fascinated listeners with its emotional depth. In much the same way, Dntel pulls us into an improbable maelstrom of beautiful, iridescent melodies and never-before-heard electronic sounds. CD housed in a digipak.

DNTEL: Aimlessness LP+CD $19.99
LP version with CD. Dntel releases his long-awaited new album on DJ Koze's legendary Pampa Records label. Dntel aka Jimmy Tamborello is also a member of The Postal Service. Pop and electronica eye each with mutual curiosity: the latter longs to get stuck in a listener's head like a pop song, the former longs to incorporate the exuberant sonic richness of electronic sounds. From his home-base in Los Angeles, Jimmy Tamborello aka Dntel has transformed this mutual desire into an inexhaustible love affair. The magical, unforgettable melodies and strange, outlandish sounds of his music generate an intimate, unique universe. As part of the band Figurine, Jimmy developed a charmingly bewitching, at times absurdly silly electro-pop sound. Together with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie, he started The Postal Service, whose song "Such Great Heights" was featured on Rolling Stone's "100 Best Songs Of The Past Decade." Aimlessness transports the listener to the middle of the Dntel universe. Inexorable electronic sounds breathe life into a body, an emotional world. The album explores the way childish naivety can evolve into presumption, how helplessness and implacability work together. Meditative dub groove, Steve-Reich-like chords, Nite Jewel's voice, Wolfgang Voigt's Love Inc. productions evocation and a pensive mood that dissolves into an optimistic, light- flooded house beat, the album fades away with graceful, sublime fanfare sounds sampled from Krautrock heroes Popol Vuh. One wonders how this so very otherworldly music fits into one's idea of L.A. As it turns out, it is not just about endless freeways, perpetually good weather and, lately, mainstream dubstep. From Van Dyke Parks to Pavement, from the Dead Kennedys to Dr. Dre, California pop music has long fascinated listeners with its emotional depth. In much the same way, Dntel pulls us into an improbable maelstrom of beautiful, iridescent melodies and never-before-heard electronic sounds.

SCHAEFFER, PIERRE: Le Triedre Fertile LP $24.99
Recollection GRM is one more label within the Editions Mego family of labels. Its aim is to make available on vinyl the vast archives of Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM). Being released in batches of two every three months, it will present both known and lesser-known works. All releases will be re-cut at Dubplates & Mastering and packaged in new artwork by Stephen O'Malley, featuring bi-lingual (French/English) texts. Some of these pioneering works have been out-of-print in this format for over 30 years, and would be a valuable addition to any serious collection of electronic music. It is worth pointing out that this series is neither a re-run of the original Collection INA-GRM series or the Phillips Prospective 21e Siècle series, but something new altogether. This is Pierre Schaeffer's Le Trièdre Fertile, full version 1975- 1976, with the participation of Bernard Dürr. This trihedron, Schaeffer's last piece, echoes the physicists "reference trihedron," linked to the three fundamental measurements of sound: frequency, duration and intensity. The basic signs of traditional sol-fa that enable the transcribing of pitches, rhythms and nuances also correspond to these three measurements. However, it is precisely outside or beyond these parameters that, all through his life, Schaeffer researched music. Hence, qualifying this trihedron as "fertile" is the confession "of a late repentance." On the other hand, and against all odds, this piece was only composed from synthetic sounds, developed by Bernard Dürr. It is Pierre Schaeffer's only purely electronic music work. Here, the synthesizer is rather monitored by sensitivity than by computation principles, thus letting uncanny structures emerge. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012. Layout: Stephen O'Malley.

FIRE! WITH OREN AMBARCHI: In The Mouth - A Hand 2LP $27.99
2LP version, featuring one track not on the CD. Rune Grammofon presents the third album from Swedish trio Fire! -- something of a supergroup with members from already well-known projects. And again, it's a collaboration, this time with the extraordinary and prolific guitarist Oren Ambarchi. With their heavy, hypnotic, psychedelic rock'n'jazz explorations, they have carved out a different sound than any of the groups they are normally associated with. Sax player, improviser, composer and fervent record collector Mats Gustafsson is probably best- known from power-jazz trio The Thing, he has also played more than 1,500 concerts and participated on around 150 records with musicians such as Peter Brötzmann, Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Ken Vandermark, Hamid Drake, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Joe McPhee and a host of others. Johan Berthling has worked freelance with jazz, improvised music, pop, folk and more. He is a founding member of the great trio Tape and founded Häpna. Among his current groups are Animes with David Stackenäs and Raymond Strid and Sten Sandell Trio with pianist Sten Sandell and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Andreas Werliin, drummer extraordinaire in Wildbirds & Peacedrums, is Fire!'s youngest member and one of the most interesting and acclaimed new percussionists in the creative music scene of Scandinavia. He has developed an exceptionally personal way of playing and is known for his strength and creativity. Oren Ambarchi is a true explorer of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it's no longer easily identifiable as itself" as The Wire once wrote. Born in Sydney, Australia, Oren started out as a drummer playing free jazz before starting to experiment with a guitar laying about in the rehearsal room, one thing leading to another. He has a number of albums to his name on labels like Tzadik, Touch, Hà ¤pna, Southern Lord and Black Truffle and has collaborated with Fennesz, Keiji Haino, John Zorn, Jim O'Rourke, Keith Rowe, Evan Parker, Merzbow and Sunn 0))), to mention just a few.

CHANCE, BOB: It's Broken CD $16.99
"There's no one quite like Bob Chance. He's a California man who makes his own music. And here he is, on fire. It's a privately-pressed album that has become a cult item in recent years. DJ Shadow calls it 'hairy forearm disco,' I think it walks a fine line between the dancefloor and the asylum. Originally recorded and issued by himself in 1980, It's Broken represents Bob Chance's creative juices flowing and then possibly overflowing all over the place. He's a multi- talented multi-instrumentalist who writes his own songs. Trunk first came across the album in the USA, and decided to feature it as one of the strange slabs of vinyl I write about for my 'weird record' column in Mojo. I described it as the musical equivalent of Curry House DIY, an unusual and unexpected flow of ideas that maybe shouldn't work together but actually do in a most unorthodox and functional way. And if I have to describe the album musically to people I explain it has a touch of Giorgio Moroder, a bit of the Beach Boys and a sprinkle of Glen Campbell as a serial killer. How can you not love a nine-minute post-disco oddity called 'It's Broken?' Why would you not want to thrill at a five minute instrumental journey into Bob's jungle? And how about a short trip inside a stalker's van? Exactly, it's all irresistible. And now, thanks to this reissue, more of us can enjoy the genius that is Bob Chance and his very unique music." --Jonny Trunk

CHANCE, BOB: It's Broken LP $17.99
LP version.

HIGGINS, GARY: Red Hash LP + 7" $20.99
2012 repress, first reissued in 2008. LP version with bonus 7". "1973: Connecticut native Gary Higgins and his friends record Red Hash and release it on Gary's own Nufusmoon Records. Following the release, legal issues halt all promotion and sales, rendering the small pressing of Red Hash a hotly-rumored and much sought-after 'lost' album of rock and roll lore. 2005: Drag City is honored to present the first-ever authorized reissue of Gary Higgins' acid-folk gem Red Hash -- mastered from the original master tapes with two previously unheard bonus tracks. The reviews are glowing: the haunting sound of Gary's meticulously arranged folk-pop is a sound that everyone can relate to, and Red Hash makes many year-end lists around the world as Top Reissue. And so, after thirty-five years, Red Hash vinyl is back in stock, with a limited- edition LP that includes a 7" single featuring the first-ever vinyl pressing of the CD bonus songs 'Don't Ya Know' and 'Last Great Sperm Whale.' This is your chance to grab at a letter- perfect reproduction of a folk-rock classic from the early 1970s."

LIARS: WIXIW LP+CD $19.99
Deluxe LP version with a free CD copy.

WHITE RAINBOW - Making Of Thriller 7" on Dub Narcotic $5.99
hmmmm, what to think - have not played it yet, but it's White Rainbow - how could it be wrong?

SPIRITUALIZED - Sweet Heart Sweet Light lp on Fat Possum $27.99
new j spaceman release -

Dear, Matthew 12" Her Fantasy on Ghostly $9.99
"Her Fantasy" is the 2nd single to drop & lead single from "Beams" (due in SeptembeInr t2e0rn12a)t.i o"Dnao lI feel love like all of the others or is this feeling only mine?" Dear is growing up - reluctantly, maybe - & he wears his newfound lyrical maturity with grace.

Gates, Rebecca & the The Float lp on Consortium $16.99
1st album from SPINANES founder since 2001's Ruby Series. Featuring members of CALIFONE, GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR, THE JICKS, IRON & WINE, LOS LOBOS, TORTOISE, SILVER MT. ZION, THE SEA & CAKE, WILD FLAG, ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, THE DECEMBERISTS, BLUE CRANES & PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT - (geez.) - this is by far, Gates' most ambitious work & an early best-of-2012 candidate. Includes download

Gold Panda 7" Mountain / Financial District on Ghostly $7.49
1st official release since 2010's uber successful album, "Lucky Shiner". Gold Panda continues to forge forward & explore new sounds within the style we come to love.

King Tuff cd S/ T on Sub Pop $14.99
His second full-length. A visceral underground rock n' roll experience.

King Tuff lp S/ T on Sub Pop $18.99
Vinyl version. Incld download.

Monochrome Set cd Strange Boutique on Water $16.99
Classic debut from English post-punk outfit, originally released in 1980.

Monochrome Set cd Love Zombies on Water $16.99
2nd long player from English post-punk group, originally released in 1980. Featuring a slightly less jarring, more accessible sound than the debut.

Padang Food Tigers lp Ready Country Nimbus on Bathetic $17.99
Ex-drone folk heroes, RAMESES III. Is an emotional sepia-tinged blend of tones, gospel, & spirit, bent & focused through the necks of guitars, banjos & nature. For fans of Scott Tuma, Derek Bailey, Loren Connors, Tetuzi Akiyama

R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country book published by Harry N. Abrams $19.99
Packaged together for the 1st time in book form, along w/an exclusive 21 track CD of music selected & compiled by Crumb himself (feat. original recordings by Charlie Patton, "Dock" Boggs, "Jelly Roll" Morton, & others). A bio of each musician is provided, along w/a full color original illustration by the cartoonist. A characteristically idiosyncratic tribute by an underground icon to the musical innovators who helped inspire him.

Summer Girlfriends lp Shockwaves on Addenda Records $14.99
LIMITED EDITION OF 500 LAVENDER COLORED VINYL (with download code)

Summer Girlfriends Shockwaves Addenda Records $9.99
LIMITED EDITION OF 300. They're the kind of girl you spot across the lake at summer camp, & maybe you never quite have the guts to go meet, but then you tell all your friends at school about them the next year, & maybe even you pretend you had the guts to go meet them & sneak a kiss. Sure, maybe you never did, but that doesn't mean you can?t pretend

CIANI, SUZANNE: Voices Of Packaged Souls LP $27.99
The inquisitive minds behind Pre-Cert Home Entertainment and Finders Keepers combine to bring you the results of some of their most subaqueous vinyl, tape and film excavations yet for this brand-new label: Dead-Cert. Taking the combined obsessions of all its collaborators and applying it to an intensive research model investigating vintage outsider music, sound sculpture, spoken word, ethnological documents, Art-Trash, early computer music, Neotantrik music, tape manipulation, non-pop and vinyl voyeurism, the label aims to investigate and recontextualize previously un-heard recordings from sources that transcend and eclipse the limitations of the record-collecting trend and the commercial music industry. All scheduled recordings are pressed on vinyl LPs mastered in accordance with the original creators' instructions and cut at the most relevant volume and playing speed, duplicated in modest quantities and housed in a variety of bespoke or homemade packaging, faithful to the original pressings. The first archival release on the label is a new pressing of an original vinyl run of around 50 copies only made in 1970 for an art gallery exhibition in Brussels documenting a sound sculpture collaboration between hard material artist Harold Paris and fledgling electronic composer Susan (Suzanne) Ciani. This original limited gift/art-artifact is officially the rarest tangible recording of Ciani's music, who is now recognized in the press as "The Delia Derbyshire Of The Atari Generation" on account of her groundbreaking developments in the commercial evolution of synthesizer music as one of a small number of female composers in the field. Paris created an original Mylar cover for the album, which is now an almost impossible-to-find collector's item. Ciani produced this, her first album, at radio station KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where she was given access to the tape machines from midnight until 6 AM, gratis. She owns only one copy of this work in its original vinyl form. Vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering and made in an edition of 1,000 copies only, housed in individually screen-printed silver foil sleeves faithful to the original pressing.

SPECTRUM - SOUL KISS lp $27.99


BABIES, THE: My Name/The War 7" $8.99
"Recorded in the summer of 2009, 'My Name' and 'The War' were two of the first songs ever written and recorded by The Babies (Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls and Kevin Morby of Woods). Capturing the band's raw energy and honest, direct sound, the single also marks the first 7 inch release for fledging UK label, Bad Paintings. Indebted to classic '60s song writing and garage rock by the likes of The Creation, this single shows The Babies at their most open and organic."

PEACOCK, ANNETTE: I'm The One CD $16.99
"'I'm The One, you don't have to look any further. I'm The One. I'm here, right here for you,' oozes jazz, rock, and electronic music pioneer Annette Peacock on the leadoff title track of her solo debut LP. The album's wide range of vocal emotions and diverse sonic palette (featuring Robert Moog's early modular synthesizers, which the singer actually transmitted her voice through to wild effect) places it firmly at the forefront of the pop avant-garde. Originally released by RCA Victor in 1972 to widespread critical acclaim, I'm The One found itself amongst good company. Both Lou Reed and David Bowie had recently signed to the label--Bowie in particular was enamored with Annette--and artists ranging from ex-husband and jazz great Paul Bley, along with notable Brazilian percussionists Airto Moreira and Dom Um Romao, guested on the album itself. Writing and arranging I'm The One's nine passionate tracks--bar a unique cover of Elvis Presley's 'Love Me Tender'-- the disc grooves easily from free jazz freak-outs and rough and rugged blues-funk to gently pulsing synthesized bliss. The second release on our Future Days Recordings imprint, I'm The One is returning to better record shops on CD and LP formats, re-mastered from the original tapes with an insert containing beautiful unseen photos from the vaults of Sony Music and extensive liner notes from NYC-based writer and musician, Mikey 'IQ' Jones. An extension of Annette's late 1960s work with her Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show combo, I'm The One is filled with strength and power, as well as a tender, sensual, and seductive side, born of a life surrounded with music and culture. Composing by age four, Peacock's mother was a professional violinist. By the early 1960s, Annette had also collaborated with first husband, jazz bassist Gary Peacock and toured with legendary saxophone player Albert Ayler. Studying under Zen macrobiotics educator Michio Kushi and a confidant to Timothy Leary at the Millbrook psychedelic center, Peacock later worked, post-I'm The One, with rock stalwarts like guitarists Mick Ronson and Chris Spedding, Yes/King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford, as well as surrealist artist Salvador Dali. Light years ahead of her early 1970s contemporaries in terms of individuality and uncompromising vision, the album makes today's major label computer generated fabrications an embarrassment to listeners worldwide. Still to this day, Annette remains a passionate advocate, an enigma caught between the peace and love vibrations of a hippy counterculture and the more worldly intelligence of the modern age. Her records continue to influence and inspire, and with I'm The One finally back on the shelves, countless new jacks on the scene can scope its liner notes and bear witness to its brilliance."

RAAJMAHAL: Raajmahal LP $19.99
"It's a mournful processional as guitar notes and gentle echo match the timbre of weeping voices. This is cast-your-body-on-the-casket shades of slobbery meditation, though the Eastern influence finds Raajmahal resembling the overcrowded Ganges rather than a stuff funeral plot. You'll bathe in it alongside floating bodies, as they wade in centuries of bones, flesh and sacrifice. I want to turn to ash with Raajmahal guiding me to eternal light. -- Justin Spicer, Tiny Mix Tapes. Edition of 300 in jackets silk screened by Phil Franklin and Christine Shields at Bright Spot Ink. Raajmahal is Carla Baker (Baba Yaga, Flower Orgy), Pat Murano (NNCK, Decimus) and Santa Wolanczyk (Flower Orgy).

ASHRA: Ashra/Ashra 2 2CD $23.99
"Recorded during the first Japanese tour of the band in Osaka and Tokyo in February 1997, this double album is a rare document of the late Ashra with Manuel Gottsching, Lutz Ulbrich, Harald Grosskopf with the new signing Steve Baltes, who has since been in Goettsching's band. A perfectly oiled blend of ambient, techno and innovative beats was presented to the enthusiastic Japanese audience, determined by the wonderful, mutually looping guitar playing from Goettsching and Ulbrich, and the powerfully rhythmic interplay of Grosskopf and Baltes."

VA: Studio One Sound 2LP $25.99
Gatefold double LP version.

VA: Oh Michael, Look What You've Done CD $16.99
Subtitled: Friends Play Michael Chapman. "Legendary UK singer/songwriter Michael Chapman gets the full tribute treatment with contemporaries and disciples paying their respects: D Charles Speer, Bridget St. John, Black Twig Pickers, Rick Kemp, Maddy Prior, Thurston Moore, Hiss Golden Messengers, Meg Baird, William Tyler, Nick Jonah Davis, Two Wings and Lucinda Williams. Oh Michael, Look What You've Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman, compiled by Michael's wife Andru and Tompkins Square's Josh Rosenthal features artists who have shared a stage with Michael, or share a personal connection. These include some of his contemporaries like Bridget St. John, Maddy Prior, and longtime cohort Rick Kemp (Steely Span), as well as young guns inspired by Michael's legacy.

DRUID PERFUME - S/T record on Urinal Cake records from Detroit $13.99
brand new music from the art rockers who remind you of Exuma mixed with avant jazz. art by jimbo easter, of course! commes with complimentary download!

English Singles 7" Backstreet Pages on Slumberland $5.99
Debut release from indie pop/power pop band lead by Sacramento scene lynchpin Scott Miller (THE BANANAS, SKI INSTRUCTORS, BRIGHT IDEAS, NAR). Basic elemental pop in the Television Personalities/McTells/Buzzcocks tradition

Nadler, Marissa lp The Sister on Box of Cedar $14.99
VINYL VERSION comes with complimentary download coupon

Picnic 7" We've Only Just Begun on Shelflife $9.99
VINYL HYPER-LIMITED TO 100 QTY IN NORTH AMERICA. 7-inch features covers of "We've Only Just Begun" by Roger Nichols & "Say A Little Prayer" by Burt Bacharach & Hal David. Estonia's own Picnic formed in 2006 by Marju Taukar, Andres Soosaar (DREAMPHISH) & Rivo Jaervsoo (BAD APPLES). They are clearly influenced by classic shoegaze & dreampop & while there is something vastly familar about their sound, it never feels overly nostalgic in any way. They add their own soaring signatures with unconventional instrumentation & modern uses of electronics, all while standing firmly grounded to pure pop structure & melody.

Tortoise lp Millions Now Living on Thrill Jockey $17.99
LP reissue of landmark 2nd album from 1996. Includes download.

Ulaan Markhor lp S/ T on Soft Abuse $13.99
LIMITED EDITION VINYL version of the debut from the latest incarnation of revered psychedelic guitarist STEVEN R. SMITH comes with gratis download code

Ulaan Markhor cd S/ T on Soft Abuse $9.99
Ulaan Markhor is a new solo vision from Californian STEVEN R. SMITH; as with his former veils (HALA STRANA & ULAAN KHOL most recently), this new epithet brings about a wholly new origin for creation: rhythmic throb. Smith's heavy percussive clout has rarely surfaced on his records, & has heretofore never served as the focal point. Smith's singular guitar playing is present throughout, rendering fuzzed & buzzing melodies & subtly interlocking lines that swirl amongst the percussive nexus with an ENO-like sound

Under The Radar Issue #41 $4.50
Yeasayer on the cover. Beach House, Liars, Hot Chip, Sigur Ros, Father John Misty vs. Aubrey Plaza and more!

White Mystery 7" People Power on Perpetrator $8.99
New tracks from Chicago's infamous garage-stomp 'n roll duo featuring Miss Alex White & brother Francis WhRietec.o Nrdews Zealand import. Ltd to 666 world wide

LA VAMPIRES BY OCTO OCTA: Freedom 2K 12" $14.99
"Octo Octa adds the melancholy to LA Vampires infinite fadness on Freedom 2K, their reachin'/preachin' 50/50 collaboration on 100% Silk. Here LaVamps has traded her cheap n' chic booty-budget grooves for sleek n' chic haunted house. With lyrical references to Minnie Riperton, Arthur Russell, and Evelyn Champagne King, vocalist Amanda Brown reappropriates realms of romance, skewing them into fresh sonic moods. Her wash n' rinse sing/speak is backed by Nick Malkin's keys-like-skippin'-stones, Britt Brown's Tex-Mix dub-bumps, and Brian Foote's sense and sexpertise, which are all just spit and shine for Octo Octa's moonlit piano naïve melodies. Gloss and glow design by aesthetic-elevator Bobby Houlihan, with silver and pink toned drop-of-androgyny photography by Ashley Anthony, will push your candy buttons. Freedom 2K provides dance-or-be-danced-on anthems for the 21st Century, with a diagonal devotion to our generation's gay nineties."

LIPSCOMB, MANCE: Texas Sharecropper And Songster LP $19.99
"The very first release on the legendary Arhoolie label, from way back in 1960, is also the first for Texas acoustic blues great Mance Lipscomb who was a mere 65 years old at the time of its release. Prior to being discovered by the label's founder, Chris Strachwitz, Lipscomb had spent his life as a sharecropper in his hometown of Navasota, Texas. Lipscomb's discovery was one of the greatest by-products of the blues and folk revival of the late '50s and early '60s as this fantastic vinyl reissue of his first album will attest. Classic country-blues from a master." Includes download card.

LIL SON JACKSON: Lil Son Jackson LP $19.99
"Texan bluesman Melvin Lil Son Jackson was a contemporary of Lightnin' Hopkins who originally recorded for the Gold Star and Imperial labels in the '40s and '50s. A car accident in the mid-'50s led to Jackson giving up the music career and returning to work as a mechanic. Arhoolie's Chris Strachwitz pulled him out of retirement in 1960, convincing him to record this classic and rare Texas blues LP. Reissued in all its original glory." Includes download card.


MF DOOM: Operation: Doomsday 2LP $33.99
"This special edition 2LP package comes housed in an all new exclusive jacket featuring Doom's infamous metal mask icon ebbossed out of a metallic silver foil. Each record is pressed on special 'gun metal' colored vinyl. An absolute must have for the Doom completist. The long awaited reissue of Doom's first solo gem, Operation: Doomsday. Remastered from the original Fondle 'Em 1999 issue. Side A is listed as 'Side Zero'. Side B is 'Side One'. And so forth. Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF DOOM hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD (his first group)'s 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was shelved by Elektra in 1994 and his blood brother Subroc (one half of the sibling rap duo) passed away, surviving frontman Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF DOOM and the Rap world is better for it. This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol' Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable."

VA: Eccentric Soul: A RBG Production CD $18.99
"The ultimate fantasy low-rider soul collection. Nineteen tracks cruise through soaring falsettos, luminous harmonies, and sweeping strings, all cultivated from pristine original master tapes. Tracked in Silver Springs, Maryland studio by the ears behind '70s soul staples Gil Scott- Heron, Soul Searchers, Van McCoy, and Hugh Masekela, Red, Black & Green Productions compiles the best of producer R. Hosea Williams' most personal work. Featuring Skip Mahoaney & the Casuals, the Summits, Promise, Dyson's Faces, East Coast Connection, and the Exceptions featuring Mark Greene. Teardrop tattoo not included."

UPSETTERS, THE: Return Of Django LP $26.99
"Classic 1969 album from Lee Perry's Upsetters featuring the top 5 UK hit 'Return of Django' plus 6 other singles; 'Eight for Eight', 'Ten to Twelve', 'Night Doctor', 'Man From M15', 'Live Injection' and 'Cold Sweat'. Now released on 180 gram 12' vinyl in the original gatefold sleeve, and double sided colour insert with track by track breakdown, liner notes and rare pictures."

UGLY THINGS: #33 MAG $9.95
"With Love as our major cover story, this issue is sure to fly off the shelves. In an extensive, soul-baring interview, guitarist Johnny Echols (Arthur Lee's right-hand man throughout Love's classic period) tears down the mystery and the myth to reveal the true story of this seminal band. We also have a pile of other amazing stories: Dutch psychedelic freaks Group 1850, destructive Ohio proto-punks The Electric Eels, English freakbeat giants Wimple Winch and The Craig, plus The Leopards, The Syndicate, The Reekers, The Hangmen, Barrence Whitfield, Wildwood, Illes and more. Also, The San Francisco Beat, a brand new column by Cyril Jordan of the Flamin' Groovies, and of course our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rock'n'roll books and DVDs." 176 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. Cover price: $9.95.

BEST COAST - The Only Place lp on Mexican Summer $16.99
comes with free 7" single!! their version of a fleetwood mac song!! new full length lp from these summery songsters

OBITS - $5.99 colored vinyl on SUB POP
2 new songs on pretty vinyl!!!

Black Tambourine OneTwoThreeFour 2x7” on Slumberland $11.99
2x7”. Four-song EP of Ramones covers is a one-off reunion recording from beloved & influential noise-pop pioneers. Includes download

Violens lp TRUE on Slumberland $17.99
LP w/ download. A wash of '90s sonic pop blending percussive guitar work & silky vocal harmonies. NO JAPAN

Ward, M. lp Duets for Guitars #2 on Jealous Butcher $16.99
REPRESSED IN A LIMITED RUN OF 300 on BLACK VINYL. Coming on the heels of his 6 year stint in the indie rock/folk trio Rodriguez, M. Ward crafted these tunes on his travels between San Luis, Chicago & finally Portland. The voices are hushed & whispered. The guitars are subtle yet precise, hinting at the virtuosity that would rear its head on future releases & collaborations. Taking pages from the book of Fahey & w/nods to Leadbelly & Woody Guthrie, this album is the perfect starting point in your obsession w/M. Ward

Father Yod & The Source Family lp Thought Adjusters on Drag City $21.99
2xLP VINYL ONLY RELEASE. With "The Thought Adjusters", the focus is on extended rhythms created not only by YaHoWha13 but all the family musicians. The focus is on extended rhythms created in support of Father as he made his teachings, with all the jams integrating both aspects; music & wisdom. Truly, a family vibe can be felt in the recordings here, as impromptu teachings from Father are augmented by improvised riffs which blossom into lengthy mind-&-soul-excursions, heavy with communal rock & blistering thoughts from the band and Father.

Lowbrow Reader book The Lowbrow Reader on Drag City $18.99
297 page BOOK. The Lowbrow Reader is a lushly illustrated comedy zine conceived in 2001 by editor Jay Ruttenberg while he was working as a music critic at Time Out New York, & features the work of moonlighting professionals from the hallowed worlds of journalism, rock music, cartooning, & television. Features contributions from Shelly Berman (LARRY DAVID SHOW), JOHN WATERS, PATTON OSWALT, MO'NIQUE, NEIL HAGERTY, DAVID BERMAN, CARSON ELLIS, & OL' DIRTY BASTARD in one of his final interviews. Writing on The New York Times website, Dwight Garner proclaimed the Lowbrow "a smart little journal about what's sometimes perceived as dumb humor," adding that "it feels like a steal."

Maribel cd Reveries on Splendour $14.99
Critically acclaimed Oslo 4 piece Maribel have resurfaced with the release of 2nd album "Reveries". Blending shoegaze & dream-pop with cinematic influences, Maribel create dark, distorted pop. The tracks are guided by the breathy siren call of their newly added East- German lead singer Rebekka Markstein. As female vocals intertwine with those of songwriter & lead guitarist Pal Espen Kapelrud, one is likely to recall the oft-referenced My Bloody Valentine or The Raveonettes. String arrangements & recorded by Emil Nikolaisen of SERENA-MANEESH.

Maribel lp Reveries on Splendour $14.99
VINYL version. "Norwegian outfit Maribel could soundtrack the most hallucinogenic dream or hellish nightmare at the flick of a switch." - Drowned In Sound.

MV & EE cd Space Homestead on Woodsist $15.99
These are sonics in motion, the satiate plural perfect supply of the hunger unusual, the picturesque in sound

MV & EE lp Space Homestead on Woodsist $17.99
Vinyl version. These are sonics in motion, the satiate plural perfect supply of the hunger unusual, the picturesque in sound

O'Neil, Tara Jane 7" Rainbow Connection/Sirena on K Records $5.99
Contains the underwater-song "Sirena," a tribute to a Spanish folktale, & "The Rainbow Connection," ONeil's tender rendition of the classic children's song.

Palestine, Charlemagne & Day of the Demons lp on Desire Path $18.99
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE, writhing in uncontrollable terror, moves to ward off the demons for the sake of the listener by howling through the void. JANEK SCAEFER bellies a haven, a cocoon for the listener to hide in, to grasp some semblance of life that remains & hold on to it dearly. Bells chime ominously to help dispel the haunting & are yet another stark reminder of the impending doom. Ltd to 500 on flame-red vinyl

ORCHESTRE SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU: The Bariba Sound 1970-1976 2LP $27.99
Deluxe gatefold double LP version. Lost sounds are the archives of a forgotten history. The raucously raw, Vodoun-inspired rhythms of Cotonou have confirmed Benin as a mecca of '70s Afro sounds and revived the story of its people, but the unopened vaults housing the country's catacombs of musical riches are endless. With this as a compass, Analog Africa charters its fifth expedition to Benin, traveling far north to delve deeper into the obscured repertoires and tales of the Bariba and Dendi people. Originating from the Kwara state of northwest Nigeria, the Bariba -- a predominantly Islamic people -- now dominate the Borgou department of Benin with the market city of Parakou at its heart. The rhythms of their culture constitute just one domain of the Islamic Funk Belt -- a distinct musical swath of land encompassing northern Ghana, Togo and Benin. Once frequented by Muslim merchants and traders, the belt has yielded a rich harvest of talent. The most powerful band from Parakou is Orchestre Super Borgou, who were first introduced to the West via Analog Africa's defining release, African Scream Contest (AACD 063CD/AALP 063LP). The birth of modern African music in Parakou is inextricably linked to Super Borgou. The progressive-minded father of the band's founder, Moussa Mama, imported modern music -- which he learned while working as a goldsmith in Accra, Ghana -- to the region in the '50s. His return to Borgou and subsequent teachings spawned countless bands from villages across the department. Super Borgou developed their own musical identity by reinventing traditional songs and rhythms. With Benin's foremost drummer, Bori Borro, in their ranks, Bariba and Dendi linguistic folklore -- alongside melodies of an Islamic ilk -- fused with soul, pachanga, breakbeats, rumba and Afro-Beat, Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou manufactured a sound of penetrating and unpolished directness, blurring the line between the erstwhile rhythms of the devout village and the modern grooves infecting the forward-thinking city. Their reinvention redefines what contemporary audiences classify as the "Afro" genre. Performing live at the bar Congolaise, the high-octane live performances of Parakou's finest troupe also captured the imagination of Celestin Houenou Sezan, co-founder of Albarika Store (Benin's most important music label), and Super Borgou were, in fact, the legendary label's very first EP release. Apart from Albarika, Discadam -- and its sub-labels Impressions Sonores du Nord and Echos Sonores du Borgou -- were the band's major backers who helped galvanize the sound of northern Benin. Armed with a keen sense of philosophical observation, multi-instrumentalist Moussa Mama and rhythm guitarist Menou Roch, through their lyrics, reported on the socio-economic ills of their time -- the rampant inequalities they saw around them -- which established the band as noteworthy commentators on top of their gift of unique rhythm. Analog Africa's Orchestre Super Borgou anthology opens an entirely new chapter of lost and resurrected Afro sounds. Remastered to recreate the energy of their legendary live performances and accompanied by a stunning a full-color gatefold sleeve, the story of this remarkable ensemble and the traditions of the people of Northern Benin are set to be revealed and documented like never before.

ILAIYARAAJA: Fire Star: Synth-Pop And Electro-Funk From Tamil Films CD $17.99
...1985-1989. Indian film music invariably manages to take you by surprise, time and time again. Hard electro-funk and sweet synth-pop are not genres you would expect from India. Yet, in the late '80s, electronic beats and synths were eagerly embraced by the film industry of South India along with kung fu fights, aerobics, sunglasses and jogging outfits. The rich and funky Tamil grooves of the early '80s transformed into stripped electronic synthesizer music. Composer Ilaiyaraaja aka "The Maestro" used minimal beats and synthetic arrangements to create an addictive and captivating electro synth-pop sound. His experimental mind, unfailing pop instinct and advanced harmonics make the songs a feast for the ears that will grow with every listen. CD includes a 30-page booklet with info on the featured films. Total Play Time: 65 mins.

EGG, EGGS: The Cleansing Power Of Fruit LP $18.99
Despite Matt Krefting's resistance to all things fruity, there is little doubt that these friendly non-mineral, non-animal products of nature have the capacity to flush poisons through our internal trails far better than 'most anything else. Especially eggs. Still, it is an egg that remains Dave "Mr. E. Candy" Russell's muse as he fumbles his way through a vocal universe that is collapsing around his French ears. Something like a cross between Crocus Behemoth, Little Lulu and Colonel Bruce Hampton, Russell is on fire here, his vocals emerging from fruit- caked lips as though they were pearls shot from the buttocks of an all-seeing vizier. What Russell does exactly is hard to say, but its slow-kid, sing-song quality is bizarrely captivating. And the band here is a goddamn all-star Valley ensemble -- Tim Sheldon, Andy Crespo, Brett Robinson, Ted Lee, Vanessa Brewster, John Moloney, Jack Callahan, Ian St. George and special guests -- Matt Valentine, Jeff Hartford, Conrad Capistran and Lisette Lopez. Recorded over the last couple of years in various places around Western Massachusetts, it makes a strong case for Egg Eggs as the most discordian combo in this part of the universe. The comparison your brain will keep returning to is the Hampton Grease Band, updated to shine stylishly in a post- noise-rock milieu. It shares the same mix of brilliance, annoyingness and sheer what-the- fuckery as Music To Eat. And that ain't hay. Nor is it fruit. Hurray!

ORPHAN, DAVID: Songs For Hannah Henley LP $21.99
David Orphan's Devon Folklore Tapes is a research and cultural heritage-based community label in the vein of Smithsonian Records, founded by Finders Keepers' David Orphan. Although the label has been releasing music on special edition/customized books and cassettes for some time, this contribution to the Pre Cert Home Entertainment label sees Orphan deliver his long-awaited vinyl debut. The soundtrack to Hannah Henley sees a mechanical hybrid of old Soviet electronic organs, looped field recordings and found vocals lost in an immediate and tensely hypnotic narrative to an account of opposing forces that is as unsettling as it is captivating. Field recordings were utilized and integrated within these pieces, adding more flesh and providing a sense of place. The LP becomes a sound portrait blurring the lines between documentary, music, and artefact. The cover art features an inverted letter-press coded graphic using the text from the story of Hannah Henley as its visual source along with a bone found and utilized within the recording itself. The words to the tale are included in the accompanying sleeve notes, for those interested in those dark details. Cut at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering, limited to 500 copies only.

NURSE WITH WOUND/GRAHAM BOWERS: Rupture 2LP $32.99
The first collaboration of Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound and composer/sculptor Graham Bowers is now available as a very limited double vinyl LP in a special edition for Record Store day 2012 (well, it was pressed a couple weeks late, sorry). Rupture is an attempt to create a musical illustration of the "goings-on" in the brain during the last hour and three minutes of life after suffering a major stroke. It is multi-layered and is primarily concerned with the internal chaos caused by the loss of control of thought processes, responses and consequential actions, with all types of incoherent disjointed memories and present real-time events -- as well as moments of lucidity, panic and fear -- clashing, merging and evolving. Expertly mastered for vinyl and cut by Noel Summerville at 3345 Mastering. Packaged in a beautiful gloss laminated gatefold sleeve, featuring artwork from both Babs Santini and Graham Bowers, plus a full-color insert. Limited to 500 copies

WIRE, THE: #340 June 2012 MAG $9.50
"On the cover: R Stevie Moore (Matthew Ingram charts the remarkable life of the lo-fi pioneer through 35 years and over 400 releases of homemade radio rock and warped power pop). Features: Annea Lockwood (Julian Cowley hears about protest, process and psychoacoustics); Bass Clef. Invisible Jukebox: Jan Jelinek (Which of the many aliases of the Berlin based electronic music polymath will respond to The Wire's mystery record selection?)"

BROOKS & THE ARTISTIC TRUTH, ROY: Black Survival CD $23.99
"Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth's Black Survival album is a true holy-grail for deep and spritual jazz collectors around the world. Black Survival is reissued here, digitally remastered and cased in bespoke original artwork exact reproduction on hardboard Japanese-style box case CD. This album was originally independently released to raise funds to combat the ongoing drought in the Sahel region of Africa (an area covering parts of Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Darfur, Sudan and Ethiopia). In his long and distinguished career, the legendary Detroit-born drummer Brooks played with everyone from Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Max Roach, Charles Mingus. From 1959-64 he was in the Horace Silver Quintet performing on classic Blue Note albums such as Song For My Father. During his lifetime Brooks released precious few solo albums. His debut, Beat, was released in 1963 on Motown's then new off-shoot jazz label Jazz Workshop. His connection with his hometown label dated back to his time working with The Four Tops. In 1972, Brooks formed the Artistic Truth. Black Survival, the Sahel Concert at the Town Hall was originally released on the small independent Im-Hotep Records in Harlem in 1974 (which also released Brook's earlier Ethnic Expressions). After many years on the New York jazz scene, Brooks returned to Detroit in 1975, where he continued to perform with the Artistic Truth as well as forming the collective Musicians United to Save Indigenous Culture (MUSIC) along with Strata founder Kenny Cox and members of the Tribe collective, Wendell Harrison and Harold McKinney."

LED ER EST lp on Sacred Bones $17.99


SCAVENGER QUARTET - Hats cd on acidsoxx $9.99
brand new music from these detroit iazzy improv worldy music guys. this disc follows the same paths as the previous release - gentle, rolling, european country side songs that are light and perfect for summer!

SUN ARAW AND GEDDES GENGRAS
cd & dvd $15.99
lp + dvd version is $18.99
CD+DVD. A music & film series pairing contemporary artists w/ those that may have preceded them in style &/or approach. SUN ARAW & M. GEDDES GENGRAS meet legendary dub reggae group THE CONGOS in St. Catherine, Jamaica & create the full-length album, ICON GIVE THANK. In conjunction, RVNG will release ICON EYE, a feature film documenting the young musicians' time spent living & learning THE CONGOS way. An album of Stallones & Gengras's melodically experimental meditations ornamented w/ the Congos' soulful vocal leads & four- part harmonies.

APHEX TWIN - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2 triple lp $39.99
3LP. Richard D. James' masterpiece originally released in 1994

FELA KUTI AND EGYPT 80 - triple cd of Live In Detroit 1986 $26.99
1st new material to be issued since his final studio album in 1992. 3CD set, over 2 hours of music. The tracks featured in the concert would appear on studio albums: Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense, Beasts Of No Nation & O.D.O.O. in 1989. Often overlooked in favour of the punchier sound of Fela's recordings w/ Africa 70, these later recordings are deeply soulful affairs, at times melancholy, marked by lengthy, complex & freeform arrangements

Bachman, Daniel lp Oh Be Joyful on One Kind Favor $17.99
2nd full length by steel string guitarist (formerly SACRED HARP). While Bachman's playing is surely reminiscent of the spiritual searching sound of Robbie Basho, & indeed the spectre of John Fahey looms large, he is no Johnny-come-lately. Inspired by the traditions & lore unique to Fredericksberg, Virginia, also the hometown of Jack Rose (may God watch over his soul)

Bizarros lp on Windian $18.99
Akron, Ohio's BIZARROS were around only long enough to release one LP & a couple singles before disbanding in 1980, but what they did in that short time is remarkable. Post-punk before term was common place. The band combined influences from the Velvet Underground to the Stooges & ended up bringing to the table well crafted & performed songs easily ahead of their time. Includes rare live recordings & demos from their never-released 2nd LP

Black Music Disaster cd S/ T on Thirsty Ear $14.99
Super indie group featuring SPIRITUALIZED's legendary J SPACEMAN, SPRING HEEL JACK's John Coxon, jazz icon MATTHEW SHIPP & drummer STEVE NOBLE

Caminiti, Evan lp Night Dust on Immune $21.99
Caminiti (BARN OWL) shifts the focus away from amplifier worship & the desert themes his work is often associated w/ to focus on texture, fractured dub techniques, & spacious electric guitar compositions.

KTL lp V on Editions Mego $36.99
2LP

Sleep cd Dopesmoker on Southern Lord $16.99
The 63 minute long ode to weed, available once again on CD! Still unrivaled in the annals of (stoner) metal. Remastered w/ unreleased live track Holy Mountain (Live @ I-Beam SF, CA, 1994)

GOETTSCHING, MANUEL: Inventions For Electric Guitar CD $17.99
"With his first solo album, which was originally released in 1974, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel) laid the foundation for many other upcoming works. In fact, the guitar was invented here, for his play on the three epic tracks are years ahead of its time: Circular, flat, layered loops and improvisations create a compelling, hypnotic atmosphere and make this album in retrospect a landmark of new guitar culture. The album was completely remastered by Manuel Gottsching himself and is finally available in superb quality."

SONIC BOOM - SPECTRUM LP $26.99
Reissue of Sonic Boom's first solo album, recorded between 1988 and 1989 while Spacemen 3 were still active and with the participation of its band members. A captivating, gentle space- rock masterpiece, which includes amazing covers of Doc Pomus' "Lonely Avenue" and Suicide's "Rock'n'Roll Is Killing My Life." Reissued on vinyl for the first time. The beautiful gatefold sleeve is an op-art wonder with two swirly plastic discs. Limited edition of 1,000 copies.

WITCH GARDENS: R-I-P 7" $6.99
"Witch Gardens are the Seattle-based project of Beth Corry, Sara Beabout, Karolyn Kukoski and Casey Catherwood. After a handful of cassettes and seven inches on a variety of labels, R-I-P is the newest chapter in the Witch Gardens narrative. Each of the EP's three songs of love, friendship and identity are articulated through their trademark dreamy melodies, buoyant rhythms, resonant guitar/autoharp, and endlessly infectious charm. Recorded at The Pool with Alex Yusimov and mastered by Tim Stollenwerk, R-I-P showcases these young pop savants' best songwriting to date. Featuring gorgeous cover art by the Witches' own Sara Beabout & Casey Catherwood. Digital download included; limited to 500 copies."

PSYCHIC FELINE: White Walls/Non Dot 7" $6.99
"Psychic Feline consists of Bob Desaulniers, Sydney Roth and Curtis Muenze. Arising from the ashes of The Caldonias, Psychic Feline is quickly rising to the top of Portland Oregon's prolific music scene. Words like psychedelic don't even scratch the surface in this bass-less trio. With Sydney's primal percussive stomp as the platform for the guitars of Bob and Curtis, the trio create knock-out hooks, savage fuzz and soul-vibrating feedback Vocals are a tasteful additive in this 50% instrumental outfit. So it's appropriate that their newest offering and first for Water Wing contains a blistering fuzzed out rocker on the A side,'White Walls' and an instrumental on the flip,'Non Dot'. Recorded by Alex Yusimov, mastered by Tim Stollenwerk and artwork by Nucular Animals' Wiley Hickson. Digital download included. Limited to 500 copies."

SPIDERWEBS: Brighton Beach LP $19.99
"Spiderwebs is the duo of Tom Carter (Charalambides, etc.) and Houston improvising guitarist Sandy Ewen. Starting from the sparse and sometimes pastoral base of Spiderwebs' two previous releases, Strands Formerly Braided (Music Fellowship) and Away Away (Collective Jyrk), Brighton Beach constructs towers of fuzz, electronics, and naked scrape from which the duo launch deep into the inarticulate heart of sonic maximalism. Since Spiderwebs' 2003 inception, Carter's guitar playing has traveled a long, strange road from his spacious improvisations with Heather Leigh-era Charalambides to the immersive pyrotechnics of his current solo playbook. Ewen's mangled percussive explosions, high-harmonic shrieks, and Bailey-esque realtime stereo panning echo the aesthetic terrorism of electric Donald Miller, and provide a perfect foil to Carter's damaged looping psychedelia. Both push their sound to improbable extremes to launch Spiderwebs into the upper realms of higher-key incandescence. Edition of 255 hand-numbered & hand-titled copies with 2-color silkscreen covers and photo/ text inserts."

Blackshaw, James cd Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death on Important $14.99
vinyl also for $18.99
The 6 pieces are based alternately around nylon-string classical guitar & grand piano, w/ spare & subtle vibraphone & B3 organ parts overdubbed by Blackshaw LP ltd to 1,000

Father John Misty cd Fear Fun on Sub Pop $14.99
Nom-de-plume of Josh Tillman, who's been recording & releasing solo albums under his own name since '03.

Moon Duo 12" Mazes Remixed on Sacred Bones $17.99
6 re-workings of tracks off Mazes by SONIC BOOM, PSYCHIC ILLS, GARY WAR, PURLING HISS & CAVE.

Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 cd V/A on Numero $19.99
double lp back in $25.99 This collection presents the unheard underground of the self-produced, often solo, electronic soul world of the 70s & early 80s, offering a view into an ocean of sound that is in turn peaceful, funky, & often humbly ahead of its time.

Rivers, Boyd lp You Can't Make Me Doubt on Mississippi $16.99
1st full-length from this talented, but little known gospel blues singer. Fans of Charlie Jackson will feel right at home. The A-side is electric & the B-side is acoustic. All tracks are previously unreleased except for “Fire In My Bones” the title track to the 3CD compilation of gospel blues on Tompkins Square.

Sticks Over My Shoulder lp on Mississippi $16.99
A compilation of Georgia bluesmen recorded by George Mitchell between 1979-81. Features the hypnotic sounds of John Lee Ziegler, the rockin' drum & guitar music of James Davis, William Robertson (aka Cecil Barfield), Jimmy Lee Williams, & Jim Bunkley.

Bed of Pain lp V/A on Mississippi $16.99
Compilation of Greek Rembetika/Folk/Mortika music. Dark & beautiful 78s about love, crime, death, drugs, & life. All never before released on LP. Old school tip on cover. Co-release w/ Canary

Hazlewood, Lee cd on Light in the Attic $16.99
Best of Lee's solo songs & duets from his LHI (Lee Hazlewood Industries) imprint. Cuts from essential albums like Cowboy In Sweden. Features duets w/ SUZI JANE HOKOM, ANN- MARGRET & NINA LIZELL

Heavy Blanket cd S/ T on Outer Battery $14.99
vinyl delayed until 6-5-12
You know J. MASCIS (DINOSAUR JR.) likes it loud, but did you ever wonder what Hendrix's "Band of Gypsies" would sound like if you mixed it up w/ Japanese hard psych & smoked it through a giant power bong? Shredding into infinity

Led Er Est cd Diver on Sacred Bones $14.99
A thick wall of atmospheric soundscapes using vintage analog recording devices, samplers, & synths using sci-fi soundtracks & cold wave as reference points. For fans of OMD, Giorgio Moroder, Savage Republic.

O'MALLEY & STEVE NOBLE, STEPHEN: St. Francis Duo CD $18.99
Having played together in Æthenor for the last couple of years, Steve Noble and Stephen O'Malley came together to play as a duo at Café OTO in 2011. These recordings are the result of these two hot and sticky nights in East London. Noble is a regular at Bo' Weavil Recordings, having appeared on over nine recordings for the label, and a linch pin in London's improvising community. So it was bound to be a memorable night of music to see these two meet. Steve Noble studied with Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde in the early 1980s and over the last 20 years has played with most of the great players from all four corners of the globe. Stephen O'Malley is predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer who has been at the center of avant-garde/drone metal, best known for his group Sunn0))), and also a prolific collaborator with many of the finest improvisers. Noble sets the recording off with a full tribal charge, while Stephen, instead of firing off a shard of ecstatic notes and chords, coaxes his guitar into singing a slow, ever-growing roar. But soon the two are off into some wild, creative rampages -- exciting drum and guitar territory sounding at times not too dissimilar to Haino's Fushitsusha, brutally beautiful, shredded riffs from O'Malley meet with Noble's exuberant rhythmic force . On St. Francis Duo, the memory of these two nights can be heard in full violent sonic attack.

ARCHETTI, LUIGI: Null II/Null III 2CD $21.99
Null II and Null III are the second and third part of Italian/Swiss composer Luigi Archetti's massive electronic work on the theme of "nothing" ("Null"), whose first part saw the light with the 2010 Die Schachtel "Null" edition in the ZeitComposers series (ZEITC 003CD). Within these pieces, Archetti's thick sound-drones border on the edge of tonality as their many layers develop with a sort of "geological" pace. The work is in fact intended as musical research on the "interior" of sound, obtained by large masses of sound punctuated by seemingly minimalistic details. The mastery of Luigi Archetti conducts the listener deeply inside the musical event, while at the same time introducing a model, just like the traces of a gold seam in rocks, which the listener can follow and frequently re-encounter over the 140 minutes in which the music unfolds. The result is a trance-inducing sense of slow-motion and even stillness, alternating with subtle changes often obtained only by tiny, almost "invisible" variables. Null is a vast and profound place where perception is confronted with a stream of slow-developing, sometime "still" sound. Null II and Null III will certainly appeal to fans of Eliane Radigue, Thomas Köner and long and sustained drone electronic music in general.

KTL: V CD $16.99
Finally the fifth KTL studio album is ready for release. Whereas their previous album IV (EMEGO 089CD) was recorded and made in a relatively short period in a more traditional rock environment, V turns full circle, takes its time and tackles the complex working processes of the European avant-garde. Rooting themselves in such legendary electronic music studios such as EMS in Stockholm and GRM in Paris, Stephen O'Malley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.) have delivered a rich set of sound experiments far removed from the harsh metal/noise blizzards of their early albums. They took a step further by inviting Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to orchestrate "Phill 2" (performed by City of Prague Philharmonic, conducted by Richard Hein), resulting in a towering storm of monumental classicism. Finally, "Last Spring: A Prequel" turns the whole album on its head with the abstract alien textures of the Gisèle Vienne installation of the same name, with text by Dennis Cooper spoken with devout intensity by long-term Vienne collaborator, Jonathan Capdevielle. With full-color artwork by Mark Fell, V is KTL's most sophisticated work to date. Produced by KTL. Photo by Estelle Hanania. Stephen O'Malley (guitar, bass, modular synthesizer, computer, contact mics), Peter Rehberg (modular synthesizer, computer). Recorded September 2010-October 2011 at EMS, Stockholm; Tinitus, Bergen; Ina GRM, Studio 116, Paris; Smecky, Prague; Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest; Twisted, Wien. Mixed at Twisted, Wien, May 2011 - January 2012.

ATOM TM: Winterreise CD $17.99
Winterreise is the audio soundtrack to a series of photographs with the same name produced by Atom TM. The series was exhibited during 2011 in Tokyo and Frankfurt (excerpts included in the packaging of the Winterreise CD edition). The Winterreise soundtrack may be considered a sequel to the Liedgut (R-N 099CD) album, in the sense that the resulting photo series was conceived as a consequence of the contextual framework which Liedgut both initiated and provided. Winterreise, though, is a far more abstract piece of work, with its accent in soundscapes and textures. With a balance between the romantic and the scientific, this album evokes, not just accompanies, the visual aspect of the Winterreise project in a perfect manner, by painting grainy sonic images that visualize the tradition and the future of the romantic subconscious.

WATSON, CHRIS: Outside The Circle Of Fire CD $15.99
2012 repress. Third edition, now with a new sandstone color version of the artwork. The purr of a leopard close up against a baobab tree, waiting. Whales surfacing, breathing in cold air. A starling imitating the noise of farm machinery from the hollow ring of a ruined bothy, an evening chorus of corncrakes across the iris beds, dry topical contact calls follow spider monkeys through the canopy, a lioness threatens, the deep roar of a red deer stag, the rattle of wood over a black stream. Chris Watson's second CD, originally released in 1998, is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of Stepping Into The Dark (TO 027CD). Featuring 22 close-up recordings of animals, birds and insect life, Outside The Circle Of Fire enlarges our awareness of the sound-universe, intimate with voices from the past. There is an intensity here that television pictures cannot conjure.

BRODERICK, PETER: Home LP $18.99
"Home is a collection of folk songs recorded at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008. Recorded in various places in various parts of the world, it is an album about finding a home. Written, performed, recorded, and produced by Peter himself and mixed with his good friend and sound wizard from Efterklang, Mads Brauer."

PALMIERI, EDDIE: Superimposition LP $13.99
Latin music band leader Eddie Palmieri and his orchestra interpret Latin standards on side 1 ("La Malanga," "Pa 'Huele," and "Bilongo"); side 2 features Palmieri's own compositions ("Que Lindo Eso, Eh!/Isn't It Pretty!", "Chocolate Ice Cream," "17.1"). Exact repro, originally released in 1969.

SWANS: The Burning World CD $16.99
"The Burning World was originally released in 1989 and marks the first and last major label record for Michael Gira's Swans. The album was produced by Bill Laswell, a pairing that Gira claims was not a good fit and was forced upon him by the label. Despite Gira's own distaste for the record, its reputation has grown over the years and is now considered a fine effort from one of the most important and longest lasting New York post-punk groups. Long out of print on CD and fetching ridiculous sums on eBay, Water is proud to bring this title back into print and allow a new generation of Swans fans to hear it for the first time."

WINDY AND CARL - S/T 12" on BlueFlea Records $18.99
4 brand new tracks on either blue or green vinyl. 250 of each color. record store day 2012 release. comes with a download card!! at close to 40 minutes, these new pieces continue the forward movement of windy and carl's sound, and bring a glimpse of what more they have in store for us all!

TIA BLAKE - Folksongs and Ballads cd on Water $16.99
Originally released by SFP in 1971. Great psych folk w/ guitars, dobro, flute & fantastically fragile female vocals.

Guided By Voices 7" Jon The Croc on Guided By Voices $6.99
B-side is a classic Tobin Sprout song

SPIRITUALIZED - HUH? cd on Fat Possum $15.99
brand new, highly lauded release from j spaceman. vinyl delayed till june 5th.

TASHI WADA - Gradient 7" on Destijl $7.99
delayed harry partch viola on 33 rpm 7" - very droney!

Veronica Falls 7" My Heart Beats on Slumberland $5.99
1st new material from London indie pop group since their well received debut album. Deliver's the band's strongest hooks & vocal harmonies to date.

Violens 7" Totally True on Slumberland $5.99
1st single from True. With a wash of '90s sonic pop via artists like Pale Saints, Cocteau Twins & McCarthy, they paint soft watercolor notes across their compositions, adding crucial emotional depth w/ layered vocal harmonies

RAGLANI: Husk 2LP $29.99
"Husk, a career-spanning double-LP retrospective marking Raglani's 'early period' (2004- 2009), is both the artist's 'Best-of' collection, as well as a document of a personal orientation within the canon of electronic music. As a devoted student of E.M. history and synthesis techniques, Joseph Raglani has spent the past decade in his St. Louis studio consuming and refiguring. While highly-informed, these tracks avoid simple derivation, the traces of influence are not easily decipherable; the common descriptors fall away. The sonic legacies orbiting the INA GRM axis cross paths with pop sensibilities more akin to the sensuous pulse of New Order. Raglani mines the expressiveness of this fertile boundary space. The compositions on Husk are dense featuring a palette of analog and digital electronic instruments as well as guitar, voice, pedal steel, organ, melodica. Disparate elements find a way to resonate to maximum emotive effect. The sonic energies are not bound to their sources, but are rather utilized for their ability to express. One fourth of the material is available here for the first time; the remainder from private-press and small run releases has been remixed by Raglani and re- mastered by Greg Davis for presentation in this collection."

INNERGAZE: Mutual Dreaming LP $25.99
Minimal Wave sub-label. "Cititrax is proud to present new music from Brooklyn based synth duo Innergaze. The Mutual Dreaming LP is a limited pressing of 999 copies on 160 gram vinyl, housed in a high quality full color printed sleeve featuring a collaborative artwork concept by Veronica Vasicka and Aurora Halal." "Innergaze drag us slightly further back into the glorious cradle of dance music. Their music, crushed and static, obscured by sound. EBM, coldwave, early techno fight it out for dominance of the drum machine. Casually brutal vocals force their way through from the Death Factory. As if Chris & Cosey's dalliances with the Eurythmics had conjured a restless pioneering demon to duet with Annie Lenox but had instead ended up consuming her. Celestial synths coexisting with the industrial landscape bellow." --20 Jazz Funk Greats

WIRE, THE: #339 May 2012 MAG $9.50
"On the cover: AtomTM (From Se??or Coconut to 19th century Romantic, Uwe Schmidt's multiple personae spring from a lifelong passion for electronic simulacra, says Dan Barrow). Features: Scott Walker (Ian Penman casts aside received rockist wisdom and asks if the singer's lost years of MOR covers and TV shows were, in fact, his most musically enchanting.); The great unlearning (What happened when Philip Clark left his compositional comfort zone and ventured into Eddie Pr??vost's improvisation workshop?); Invisible Jukebox: Mary Halvorson; The Primer: Sound poetry; Cross Platform: Benedict Drew; Laurel Halo (Adam Harper gets enjoyably lost in the electronic musician's free-roaming futurescapes); Sean McCann (David Keenan hears Renaissance choirs, American minimalism and folk in the US composer's work)."

Raised on Replicas - OMG 7" $7.99
LIMITED EDITION VINYL of 300 QTY WORLDWIDE. Raised On Replicas are 2 boys & 2 girls from Brighton who deal a discordant pop/noise that is full of the joys of hypnotic loud guitars, driving bass & really fab metronomic, motornik drums that are entwined with sharp melodies & hip, witty cutting lyrics

Bonnie Prince Billy Greatest Palace Music Drag City $19.99
In this wake of Bonnie's soul-affirming (shattering?) "Master & Everyone", the 'Prince' took a year or so to gather himself before "The Letting Go". Stock was taken & a bunch of "greatest" Palace songs were re-recorded in best classic style, with a crew of Nashville studio wreckers smoothing down the edges. The result: another 15 song journey through the past, this time squeezing through the present as well. 4 songs from the "Lost Blues" lineup confirms them as all-time greats. Also M.I.A. on vinyl since 2005 or so.

Palace Music lp Lost Blues & Other Songs on Drag City $19.99
The original cream of the singles crop from the Palace of Brothers, Songs & Music - covering the terrain from "Ohio River Boat Song" to "West Palm Beach," & adding alternate takes of "Riding" & "Trudy Dies," a live version of HOPE's "Untitled," & this album's title track, which doesn?t appear in any version anywhere else. 15 songs all-in, most of which have been out of print on 7" since the mid-90s, & all out of circulation on this 2xLP edition since the mid-aughts.

Smog lp Forgotten Foundation on Drag City $18.99
Smog's (BILL CALLAHAN) 2nd album is available again for the 1st time in 15 years. Many new Smog fans have never heard his early, home-recorded releases, which present an entirely different kind of Smog. This reissue affords a window to the artist as a young(er) man & snarling guitar hero! Early, pre-"Julius Ceasar" Smog classics such as "Your Dress," "High School Freak," & "This Insane Cop" are among the many highlights of "Forgotten Foundation".


JACK OF HEART: In Yer Mouth LP $19.99
LP version. Influenced by Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, the heritage of The Velvet Underground and the songwriting of Lee Hazlewood, Jack Of Heart transcends these influences into twisted and perverse psychedelic garage-punk pieces. For fans of Black Lips, Magnetix, BBQ and King Khan & His Shrines. A handful of 45s on labels such as Rob's House and Slovenly Recording as well as extensive world touring has ensured that France's Jack Of Heart is one of those groups ensconced in the true ghetto of rock'n'roll.

VIOLENCE CONJUGALE: Violence Conjugale LP $19.99
LP version. This is the debut release on Born Bad Records from Belgian synth wave act Violence Conjugale. Hans and André met early in highschool. Their mutual love for Bowie and Kenneth Anger pushed them to flunk school and smoke in their tiny school movie room. There they dream of an ideal future, made of space travel and industrial music. Feeling the pressure from this private institution, they eventually decide to go to Berlin and see what taste has decadence there. They meet Marianne Katza, an eccentric woman who tells them to come to an artist squat in the Mitte district. Just like Warhol's Factory, the place is an indistinct magma of ideas, music and drugs. Here, as André begins to fiddle with a Korg MS20 synth and dreams of exquisite performances, in another room, Hans tries to write his wildest nightmares to exorcise them. Marianne decides to introduce the future band to one of her lovers: Marc Berron, a young, arrogant and rich kid blessed with a perfect ear. He helps them to slow down their drug issues and take a new direction: to play a cold and personal music in pop format but with a feeling of urgency which characterized young Berliners. So, he kidnaps them in his own studio for several weeks to experiment, eventually finding Violence Conjugale's definitive sound: '80s minimal synth-wave -- the frostiest ever.

NOTHING BUT NOISE: Not Bleeding Red 2LP $32.99
2LP version. Twenty years in the making, Nothing But Noise, the trio led by Front 242 mastermind Daniel B and featuring original Front 242 member Dirk Bergen and Erwin Jadot, finally release their debut album Not Bleeding Red on Future Noise Music. Borne from a deep love of analog synthesizers and inspired by the likes of Manuel Göttsching, Tangerine Dream's early albums and Bowie's Berlin period, Not Bleeding Red is an album that fully deserves its place in the long and distinguished history of European synth acts. Created in Daniel B's studio, the album features an array of rare and vintage analog synthesizers such as the Moog Voyager, Prophet8, Juno 106 and Arp Odyssey. No nostalgia-fest though, the album also explores the possibilities afforded by today's new breed of analog synthesizers. Its lineage might be clear, but this is an album that looks forward, respectful of the past, but not in its thrall. Not Bleeding Red is an expansive affair, an album in love with sound itself and tracks such as the elegiac nearly 19-minute long "CK" are given time to evolve and develop in stately fashion, unfolding like some grand cosmic ballet. Uncompromising and haunting, this is an album that conjures up vast vistas of space, both cold and beautiful at the same time. On tracks like "Puzzle Cosmique" and "Second Seven," Nothing But Noise join the dots between the likes of electronic pioneers such as the Radiophonic Workshop through to present-day acts such as Sunn O))). Having honed the Nothing But Noise sound over the course of two decades and a series of critically-acclaimed live performances, Not Bleeding Red is the culmination of a lifetime's obsession with synthesized sound and a timeless example of how raw circuit boards can produce something stunningly beautiful. Includes free download card for the full digital album.

ROZMANN, AKOS: 12 Stationer VI 2LP $32.99
"�kos Rózmann (1939-2005) studied at the Bártók conservatory in Budapest and took diplomas in both composition and organ playing at the Liszt Academy. In 1971, he was given a scholarship to study electronic music in Stockholm. His encounter with the electronic tools was a revolutionary experience for him and was to give a whole new direction to his work. Soon he abandoned composition for acoustic instruments and was later to claim that instrumental music 'had no future.' For several years, he earned his living as an organist at St. Eric's Catholic Cathedral in Stockholm, often using recordings of organ sounds made in the dead of the night as a source for his electronic works. Rózmann often preferred monumental forms and several of his most prominent works, such as '12 Stationer' (trans. '12 Stations') and 'Mässa' (trans. 'Mass'), grew side-by-side over a long period of time. With a few rare exceptions, the conflict between good and evil was the basic theme in his works. The fight went on continuously in arenas and within power relations that would suddenly change. In Rózmann's imagined world, no room was given to chance. Big powers, luminous or dark, would lie behind the most trivial everyday events. A large portion of Tibetan Buddhism gradually infiltrated his Catholic Weltanschauung, and '12 Stationer,' composed between 1978 and 2001, is a musical interpretation of the Tibetan Wheel of Life. The last part of the 12 stations, 'old age and death,' is called 'the celebrators' in Rózmann's version (completed in 2001). When asked what sort of celebration he meant he replied: 'the merriment you hear is false, it is not genuine, it is empty.' 'Dörr Med Tårar' (trans. 'Door With Tears') from 1988- 1989 is unmistakeably an homage to Pierre Henry and the title alludes to 'Variations For A Door And A Sigh.' During one of my last encounters with Rózmann, he told me in depth about how Henry's influence was significant in leading him to choose electronic music. He regarded 'Le Voyage' from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to be the most important pioneering piece in the history of electronic music. �kos Rózmann showed particular devotion to his work during more than thirty active years. During his lifetime he never sought, nor did he win any mentionable recognition. As a true modernist, he didn't compose with an audience or the critics in mind. His mission was to compose for the future. It was his conviction that the mystical energy for compositional work should derive straight from God. It is a truly great thing to witness the publication of this album." --Mats Lindström, Stockholm, February 2012; lona Maros (soprano), Miklós Maros, Viveca Servatius (voices), �kos Rózmann (piano and voice). Composed at EMS elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, by �kos Rózmann. Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin May 2011. Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by Stephen O'Malley.
VA: Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes LP $19.99
Subtitled: Post Punk, Cold Wave And Culture Növö En France, 1978-1983. This compilation, originally released in 2008, explores the French vaults of French post-punk, electro-pop and French no wave. Between the late '70s and mid-'80s, in the wake of the punk wave and in parallel to other types of music like disco, funk, ska and reggae, a prolific and chaotic music scene began to develop in France, combining the energy of rock and the nihilism of punk with electronic experimentation. The period was not, on the whole, one of optimism and joy, played out as it was against a background of economic crisis and the Cold War. The tendency was rather towards disillusion, accompanied by a clear-sighted recognition that a stalemate between the generations would be unavoidable in the short term. Paradoxically, as it would appear, a kind of hope and frenzied vitality could also be detected during these years. Both were fed by a sort of modernist utopia, which was sometimes willfully ironic. This was largely based on a certain fascination with technical progress and, by extension, on a belief, tinged with mistrust, in the infinite perspectives that the new technologies now seemed to offer. A whole section of France's youth found itself confronted by the contradictions of the times it was living in: young people were torn between the sensation of living on the edge of an abyss and hope for the dawning of a new world; they were deprived of tangible ideological landmarks but resistant to the post-hippy utopias of the previous generation. In search of an identity, they recognized themselves in the dark lyrics, the cold synthetic music and the laid- back attitude of the new groups bursting up all over the country, as much in the provinces as in Paris. Artists include: Tokow Boys, Guerre Froide, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Ruth, Kas Product, Henriette Coulouvrat, Ice, Mathématiques Modernes, Metal Boys, Visible, Mécanique Rythmique and Charles De Goal.
NOTHING BUT NOISE: Not Bleeding Red 2LP $32.99
2LP version. Twenty years in the making, Nothing But Noise, the trio led by Front 242 mastermind Daniel B and featuring original Front 242 member Dirk Bergen and Erwin Jadot, finally release their debut album Not Bleeding Red on Future Noise Music. Borne from a deep love of analog synthesizers and inspired by the likes of Manuel Göttsching, Tangerine Dream's early albums and Bowie's Berlin period, Not Bleeding Red is an album that fully deserves its place in the long and distinguished history of European synth acts. Created in Daniel B's studio, the album features an array of rare and vintage analog synthesizers such as the Moog Voyager, Prophet8, Juno 106 and Arp Odyssey. No nostalgia-fest though, the album also explores the possibilities afforded by today's new breed of analog synthesizers. Its lineage might be clear, but this is an album that looks forward, respectful of the past, but not in its thrall. Not Bleeding Red is an expansive affair, an album in love with sound itself and tracks such as the elegiac nearly 19-minute long "CK" are given time to evolve and develop in stately fashion, unfolding like some grand cosmic ballet. Uncompromising and haunting, this is an album that conjures up vast vistas of space, both cold and beautiful at the same time. On tracks like "Puzzle Cosmique" and "Second Seven," Nothing But Noise join the dots between the likes of electronic pioneers such as the Radiophonic Workshop through to present-day acts such as Sunn O))). Having honed the Nothing But Noise sound over the course of two decades and a series of critically-acclaimed live performances, Not Bleeding Red is the culmination of a lifetime's obsession with synthesized sound and a timeless example of how raw circuit boards can produce something stunningly beautiful. Includes free download card for the full digital album.
GALA DROP & BEN CHASNY 12" $16.99
"Working around their core unit of Afonso Simoes (drums), Guilherme Goncalves (electric guitar) and Nelson Gomes (synthesizers), here they find themselves cooperating for the first time with the wonderfully psychedelically vigorous bass playing of Rui Damaso (part of the legendary Loosers) and the topographically globetrotting ways of wayward adventurer conga orchestrator Jerry the Cat (formerly a part of Funkadelic/ Parliament and C.J. & Co touring bands; and later performed on records of Carl Craig, Recloose, Moodymann, Theo Parrish, and many others), both now members of the band. On Broda they're joined by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets On Fire, ETC!), truly one of the most powerful forces in US guitar soul in recent decades, and as terrific a six-string player as one of likely to find on record and onstage in this day and age, wherever that might be. Broda careers through in three passages of positively organized jamming. The fruits of a week's very intense work on freedom and democracy in the collective artistic gesture revealed in only the slightest of documentarian restraints, so as to excuse us into peeking into this cosmology of friendship and externalization of the luminous."
HOWLIN WOLF: Message To The Young LP $23.99
"1971 marked a tumultuous yet historic year for Chicago blues legend Howlin' Wolf. His health failing after suffering a second heart attack, doctors discovered his kidneys were also shutting down and he was ordered on dialysis to save his life. Wolf's doctors demanded that the legend quit performing at all costs, but the legendary blues musician did not have any quit in him. Three months after being ordered never to perform again he was headlining opening night at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival. 1971 also marked the release of Howlin' Wolf's second experimental offering, Message to the Young. Oft-considered his second attempt (after the Howlin' Wolf Album he famously shunned) at offering the masses a 'psychedelic' record, the sound on the record ranges from acid-rock, to blues, to funk, and back again."
ETTINGER, DYLAN: Lifetime Of Romance LP $14.99
LP version. "Heartland synthesist Dylan Ettinger follows up 2010's widely lauded New Age Outlaws imaginary cyber-soundtrack with a stark, dark, and intensely different collection of misshapen new wave weirdnesses, Lifetime Of Romance. Recorded at a proper studio, and written over the course of a year, the seven songs of Romance reflect a heavy influence from the fringier strains of bummed out quasi-industrial synth-pop in the vein of Fad Gadget, certain Cabaret Voltaire, early Human League, etc, but dragged through his own warped, wonky filter. The approaches vary radically, from abandoned factory dirges ('Sport And Superstion,' 'Maude') to dubbed-out man-machine paranoia ('Disparager') to bouncy sine- wave robot radio singles ('Arco Iris,' 'Blue and Blue') and general electronic workshop exploration ('18.0'). It's always to be heralded when an artist braves terrain they haven't traversed yet, so it's a kick to hear Ettinger's secret circuitry language channeled into the pop architectures of twisted synth-wave melancholia for the first time. Another engaging step by an always intriguing American original."
HAINES, GREG - Digressions cd $16.99
The Preservation label presents Digressions, the third album from British composer Greg Haines. Greg is a young composer with a small but impressive catalog and cache of appearances, including work alongside the likes of Gavin Bryars and Philip Glass on Glass' own imprint, Point Music. The genesis for Digressions began when Greg was commissioned to work with a school orchestra in Britain -- the aim to get its players thinking about different approaches to composition and sound. At the end of his time with the students, the piece they had worked on was recorded, which Greg then shaped further and added to until it eventually became Digressions. The orchestra became source material for Greg's own compositional essence of neo-classical colors and experimental contrasts. Like the work of Arvo Pärt, these pieces build and swell on graceful shapes of orchestral movements. In Greg's hands, they are rendered with nuance by processing and microtonal sounds that work like brushstrokes against their force, creating shifting harmonies, glimmers of melody and highly emotive listening. Invoking a curious beauty that also mirrors the expansive atmospheres of Christian Fennesz and the like, Digressions is sweeping and symphonic in its unfolding. Having lived in Berlin for many years now, Greg's work is also able to encompass performances from a range of talented and well-known friends also living in that city -- Digressions features composer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick, as well as recording work from Dustin O'Halloran. The album was also mixed and mastered by native resident Nils Frahm. Such contributions help engender the grandeur of Greg's work as much as its subtlety. However, it's the poignancy and spirit Greg has invested into Digressions that stands as what makes it a truly captivating work.
VOLCANO THE BEAR: Golden Rhythm/Ink Music $23.99
LP version. Rune Grammofon presents the brand-new studio album from Volcano The Bear, a calculated, hysterical melting-pot of This Heat, Robert Wyatt, Faust and The Residents, of musique concrète and ethno-folk, all seen through a prism of theatrical improvisations and unhinged set pieces. Formed in 1995, and after several self-released tapes and CD-Rs, VTB so excited Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton, that he brought his United Dairies label out of cold storage to release their first album proper, The Inhazer Decline, in 2000. Since then they've released music on such labels as Misra, Beta Lactam Ring, Textile, Digitalis, Pickled Egg, Alt Vinyl as well as their own imprints Volucan and Volfurten with the exceptional Classic Erasmus Fusion from 2006 being a possible highlight. On record, VTB offer stark and stunning absurdities in the most bizarrely beautiful way. Recycling and re-contextualizing their material is an innate habit, and the variety of recording options they might choose (be it a highly- equipped professional studio or a second-hand dictaphone) allows their craft to be formed in a myriad of different ways. VTB have toured extensively throughout Europe and North America and in concert they are the duo of Daniel Padden and Aaron Moore. Absurd humor and eclectic ways of producing sounds are characteristic of their live performances and their extensive knowledge of the traditions of experimental and folk music makes the band difficult to categorize. The band record everything they play and will often use these recordings as raw material for their albums. VTB have released a number of records since the start, often mixing studio, live and home recordings. Golden Rhythm/Ink Music is their first more or less "proper" studio album since Amidst The Noise And Twigs back in 2007. Largely based on the sonic fault-line between Aaron Moore and Daniel Padden, it's also the most focused and driven of VTB's prolific output so far, showcasing the duo's unique musicality and interplay, while retaining their trademark eccentricity and humor throughout. It presents "rock music" as seen through VTB's skewed eye, featuring more of Padden and Moore's drum/guitar combination than on previous albums. Taking the bizarre energy of their live duo performances into a studio environment, and combining it with VTB's eclectic instrumentation and Clarence Manuelo's singular audio-work, GR/IM shows VTB making their most vital work to date. Includes mp3 download code.

Rob: Make It Fast LP $16.99
LP version with download code. Soundway re-issue Rob's second album for the first time outside Ghana. Rob was an enigmatic recording artist from Ghana who cut two albums for the legendary Essiebons label in 1977. Neither of these were big domestic hits at the time and have since become prized amongst collectors in recent years. The title track from this LP was always one of the most popular on the first Soundway release Ghana Soundz, and over the years, the label has been asked many times to re-issue the LP in its entirety. A stranger, slower offering than his more dancefloor funk-laden and spartan first LP, this record sees Rob in similar territory but with the tempo switched down and the introspection turned up. Rob's trademark horns dominate and are supplied by the Mag-2, an army band founded by leader Amponsah Rockson, who named it after the army unit the band played for -- the "magnificent" second battalion. In 1977, Rob traveled to the coastal town of Takoradi in search of Mag-2, which had an entire section of its line-up dedicated to horns, with the intention of laying out his proposal to them. Luckily for Rob, the band took him up on it. With religious overtones and a broody, slightly off-key atmosphere at points, it's certainly one of the stranger Afro-funk records to come out of West Africa but with tracks like "Loose Up Yourself" and "Make It Fast, Make It Slow," he nails it for sure.

PRESTON, DON: Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes 1967-75 LP $16.99
cd also $16.99
LP version. Previously-unreleased electronic music from original The Mothers Of Invention keyboardist, Don Preston. "We're coming to the beginning of a new era wherein the development of the inner-self is the most important thing. We have to train ourselves so that we can improvise on anything: a bird, a sock, a fuming beaker. This, too, can be music. Anything can be music." --Don Preston, extracts from Uncle Meat, 1969, The Mothers Of Invention One could hardly not see in Don Preston a key musician within Frank Zappa's oeuvre. He is not only that, but his presence has marked The Mothers' major records from 1966 to 1974. His touch was already there before the arrival of Ian Underwood, and it continued after Ian left. You all remember "King Kong" (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild) from the second Uncle Meat suite. A certain form of jubilation emanates from this track, thanks to Preston's fluid style and lightly astringent tone on the Moog synthesizer -- that instrument never sounded quite like that before or after. This might have to do with his double training, his twin interests, since he had been simultaneously working with Gil Evans and listening intensely to Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Tod Dockstader. Immersed in jazz music, he was imagining secret ties with the nascent electronic music. In the mid-'60s, Preston started developing an electronic instrument, using a home-made synthesizer and a series of oscillators and filters. Out of this instrument came "Electronic Music" (1967), his first piece. Two years later, he became a close friend of Robert Moog, and their discussions gave birth to a number of applications in relation with the flexibility of the instrument. Nowadays, you can't mention the Mini-Moog without thinking of Preston. Bob Moog himself said about his solo in "Waka/Jawaka": "That's impossible. You can't do that on a Moog." Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes features the other side, the hidden side of Don Preston: the composer of purely electronic music.

ORCAS: Orcas LP $17.99
LP version. The courtship of ambient music and traditional songform has been a long and tenuous one, almost to the point that their differences seem irreconcilable. Spanning decades with only a few points of obscure intersections, the occasions on which the two styles have met and crossed into the pop culture lexicon have often yielded a contrary, oil-and-water form. The abstract nature of the "ambient" genre and instant gratification of the "pop" song require deft hands for successful cohabitation, thus it is little wonder that there are so few practitioners of its delicate equilibrium. Orcas -- comprised of haze-pop auteur Benoît Pioulard and post-minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri -- is an imaginative return to that narrative. Theirs is a style deeply rooted in personal variations on songform and ambient craft, and as a duo they bridge the furthest outlying aspects of their previous solo work published on Kranky, Touch, Miasmah, Room40, and Ghostly International. Here, song and abstraction become one entity, condensing the spaces between to generate an arching trajectory. This co-mingling of contrasts is even coded into their moniker; Pioulard and Irisarri have chosen an iconic symbol of the American Pacific Northwest, a methodical sea hunter that is also a totem of the open oceans' expanse. The so-called "wolf of the seas" that evokes a quiet, stately, yet powerful nature. Appropriately, their music is a careful balance of chiaroscuro elements, where pop hook and spatial ambience converge. In its environs, lyricism flows as a time-distended dynamic, rising and falling, proceeding almost antithetically to pop's typical gratification ethos. Orcas has taken an immersive, fluid vector for their passions; a resonant call, like sonar from the depths. Includes a free mp3 download, including two previously-unreleased bonus tracks.

SHIFLET, MIKE: Merciless LP $18.99
Type follow up Mike Shiflet's Sufferers with a further exposition of his individual and far- reaching sound palette. A member of C Spencer Yeh's revolving Burning Star Core unit, and a prolific collaborator with the likes of Daniel Menche, Chris Corsano, Pete Swanson and many others, Shiflet has honed an intensely visceral feel for tone and texture which makes his records so intriguing to lovers of experimental composition and music-making. With some production/audio mastering assists from fellow Columbus, Ohio-based musician Joe Panzner, on Merciless Shiflet engages with corrosive textures from the off, enticing us in with fractured small sounds on "Feeble Breaths" before weaving a lattice of quick-drying fiberglass strands over your cochlea, which become infested with scuttling, insipid rhythms and abstract noise abrasions designed by Panzner on the lloopp software for max/msp. This induction, by contrast, makes the second half piece of evolving horror drones in "Exodus And Exile" that much more affective, while the second side plays through as one longer, queasy composition veering from cacophonous noise to wheezing drone and chilly isolation with the contribution of cassette manipulation by Jason Zeh, cello by Marina Peterson and violin from C Spencer Yeh. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Limited vinyl pressing of 500 copies only.

SPINE SCAVENGER: Weighted Ghost LP $18.99
"It's no secret that Dilloway is one of the best around. Opening with some seriously demented synth growl, Weighted Ghost gets down to business in no time at all. Stoically repetitive sequences build and build until the pressure in your skull reaches the breaking point. Dilloway pushes past the point of no return, scowling all the way until each layer is sufficiently soaked in dirt and brine. This isn't pretty and it isn't meant to be. The flipside fakes you out in the beginning, but there is no breather; there is no let up. Each successive runthrough gets higher and higher - the saw-waves colliding with each other until there's nothing left but ugly, jagged edges. It's almost too much. Almost. And then, when you least expect it, the whole excursion gets buried underground by heavy, static bass filth. This is oppressive nature. The jig is up at the end, though, as the death-spiral sequences return and everything is turned to sonic black. Spine Scavenger is no laughing matter. This is the stuff of legend, the best kind of nightmares around." - Brad Rose, for Experimedia.

Blake, Tia cd Folksongs & Ballads on Water $16.99
Originally released by SFP in 1971. Great psych folk w/ guitars, dobro, flute & fantastically fragile female vocals.

Brute Heart 7" Fever on M'lady's Records $6.99
Three female vocalists lead the pack of Twin Cities avant-garde musicians w/ haunting & howling vocals, & moody instrumental landscapes. Ltd to 1000

HIGH ON FIRE - De Vermis Mysteriis double lp on E1 $26.99
Less a band than a supersonic exercise in conquest by volume & sheer heaviness

Choir of Young Believers cd Rhine Gold on Ghostly $11.99
While "This Is For The White In Your Eyes" racked up overwhelmingly positive press, it can practically be seInetne ransa ati osonfat llaunch for Choir of Young Believers' masterful new album "Rhine Gold". Now a proper band, the collaborative dynamic has imbued their sound with more authority & daring, inhabiting a wholly unique space where intimate folk, classic Krautrock, big-sky Americana, avant-garde composition & bombastic theatricality seamlessly serve the same master. Like Choir's music, Jannis Noya Makrigiannis' powerful voice unifies the ambitious scope of "Rhine Gold" by sounding at once dolorous and magisterial.

Choir of Young Believers lp Rhine Gold on Ghostly $21.99
2xLP VINYL VERSION.

Fray, Ruby cd Pi th on K Records $11.99
A string of gems that range from harmonic americana & folk to shadowy psychedelia, united in their spectral chamber arrangements.

Grouper cd A I A on kranky $16.99
This is the 1st CD issue of Grouper's (Liz Harris) 2011 self released 2 part album subtitled "Dream Loss" & "Alien Observer". Each is meant to stand solidly on it's own, & also as a satellite in the other's system. "This music feels both spacey & expansive & also oddly intimate & grounded, the work of someone who has mastered her tools & knows how to get the most out of them." - Pitchfork.

Hollows cd Vulture on Trouble in Mind $9.99
Hollows have taken the girl group influence of their debut & time warped 20 years, creating a sound that has more in common with Kate Bush than Ronnie Spector & more Go-Go's than Shangri-La's. "Vulture" finds them mining more sophisticated & nuanced sonic territories. Full of yearning throbs, swelling into a symphony of strings (literally!), Caribbean rhythms, plus the crashing drums & organ trills Hollows are known for, "Vulture" is a razor sharp musical talon.

Hollows lp Vulture on Trouble in Mind $15.99
VINYL version comes with complimentary download coupon for your digital dreams. 1st edition comes on randomly mixed COLOR VINYL.

Personal and the Pizzas - Diet, Crime and Deliquincy 7" on Oops Baby $7.99
limited run on moss green vinyl! Jersey's favorite, back in full Ramones-style, fuzzed out glory. Everything you wanted from the poster-boys of pizza punk. As a bonus, Personal's intro provides a guide on how to become "the greatest friggen band in the world"

Davilla 666 - Pa Que Vives 7" on Oops Baby $7.99
garage rockin fun time!!

Moonbell cd S/ T on Deep Space $10.99
Contains their new Parallel EP, as well as the tracks from their self-released Figurine EP. Compared to the likes of Spacemen 3, The Telescopes, Ride, early Verve & Chapterhouse

GENE CLARK - No Other lp on 4 Men With Beards $19.99
Classic 1974 solo album from BYRDS founding member. A stunning & important folk-rock record.

Porras, Jon cd Black Mesa on Thrill Jockey $15.99
lp also available $16.99
7 composed tracks of meditative electric guitar embellished w/ improvised atmopsherics & white light feedback. Musically inspired by Sandy Bull, Popol Vuh, & Neil Young, this explores the depths & expands the boundaries of ambient & drone music. Through the haze of tremelo & twang, Porras (BARN OWL) hopes to bring a dark edge to the sunny, "far out" sentiment that is usually associated w/ West Coast guitar. Also, in combining Americana w/ the gratuitous fuzz & feedback characteristic of modern Japanese psych guitar, he intends to take from the past, in order to move forward, & to create a sound that draws from the dark shadows cast under the romantic notion of California as an open expanse, the final frontier.

GREG HAINES: Digressions CD on PRESERVATION $16.99
The Preservation label presents Digressions, the third album from British composer Greg Haines. Greg is a young composer with a small but impressive catalog and cache of appearances, including work alongside the likes of Gavin Bryars and Philip Glass on Glass' own imprint, Point Music. The genesis for Digressions began when Greg was commissioned to work with a school orchestra in Britain -- the aim to get its players thinking about different approaches to composition and sound. At the end of his time with the students, the piece they had worked on was recorded, which Greg then shaped further and added to until it eventually became Digressions. The orchestra became source material for Greg's own compositional essence of neo-classical colors and experimental contrasts. Like the work of Arvo Pärt, these pieces build and swell on graceful shapes of orchestral movements. In Greg's hands, they are rendered with nuance by processing and microtonal sounds that work like brushstrokes against their force, creating shifting harmonies, glimmers of melody and highly emotive listening. Invoking a curious beauty that also mirrors the expansive atmospheres of Christian Fennesz and the like, Digressions is sweeping and symphonic in its unfolding. Having lived in Berlin for many years now, Greg's work is also able to encompass performances from a range of talented and well-known friends also living in that city -- Digressions features composer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick, as well as recording work from Dustin O'Halloran. The album was also mixed and mastered by native resident Nils Frahm. Such contributions help engender the grandeur of Greg's work as much as its subtlety. However, it's the poignancy and spirit Greg has invested into Digressions that stands as what makes it a truly captivating work.

ROB: Make It Fast, Make It Slow LP on SOUNDWAY $16.99
LP version with download code. Soundway re-issue Rob's second album for the first time outside Ghana. Rob was an enigmatic recording artist from Ghana who cut two albums for the legendary Essiebons label in 1977. Neither of these were big domestic hits at the time and have since become prized amongst collectors in recent years. The title track from this LP was always one of the most popular on the first Soundway release Ghana Soundz, and over the years, the label has been asked many times to re-issue the LP in its entirety. A stranger, slower offering than his more dancefloor funk-laden and spartan first LP, this record sees Rob in similar territory but with the tempo switched down and the introspection turned up. Rob's trademark horns dominate and are supplied by the Mag-2, an army band founded by leader Amponsah Rockson, who named it after the army unit the band played for -- the "magnificent" second battalion. In 1977, Rob traveled to the coastal town of Takoradi in search of Mag-2, which had an entire section of its line-up dedicated to horns, with the intention of laying out his proposal to them. Luckily for Rob, the band took him up on it. With religious overtones and a broody, slightly off-key atmosphere at points, it's certainly one of the stranger Afro-funk records to come out of West Africa but with tracks like "Loose Up Yourself" and "Make It Fast, Make It Slow," he nails it for sure.

LULL/BETA CLOUD/ANDREW LILES: Circadian Rhythm Disturbance Reconfigured CD $17.99
From England to the United States and back again. It all started as a simple drone project between Lull (aka Mick Harris of Scorn, ex-Napalm Death), and Beta Cloud (aka Carl Pace), based on the concept of how insomnia can affect your thought patterns. Billows of powerful bass drones set to indistinct flourishes of temporary insanity, it was released as a limited 3" CD in 2008. Now proudly presented in a deluxe digipak edition on Cold Spring, the original track is there, but also included is a fierce remix track by none other than legendary sound artist Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), with stunning new packaging and artwork. Fans of Lull and Beta Cloud will really sink their teeth into this one; what Liles has created here is not a simple remix but a raging deconstruction as only he can do. A captivating listen for dark ambient and harsh noise fans alike.

AZANYAH: The One LP $28.99
LP version. Limited, numbered edition of 1000 copies. Suffused with spiritual uplift but lacking any saccharine in either content or production values, Azanyah communicates in a language that harks back to the great message bearers of an earlier time: the musical language of Coltrane, Pharaoh and their fellow travelers, musicians who had journeyed deep into the wellsprings of the African-American and African traditions, and returned with complex, burnished artifacts that spoke of the highest truths with incandescent urgency. Its musical message underpinned by the deep pulse of the eponymous Mamaniji Azanyah's bass, The One is a document that seems somehow out of time: it comes as a surprise that this album was recorded in the '80s, although The One is not a nostalgic throwback to the revolutionary period a couple of decades earlier. Rather, it is part of a long continuum of committed visionary sound, drawing strength from the same sources that inspired its forebears, and walking on the same paths toward enlightenment. Raw, earthy, deep, spiritual jazz at its finest. All tracks fully licensed and digitally restored from the original master tapes. Includes comprehensive background and liner notes with the blessing of Mamaniji Azanyah himself. Also features loads of amazing, previously-unpublished photographs.

WIESE, JOHN: Seven Of Wands CD $17.99
As a composer, John Wiese is an elusive one. Employing a very healthy range of conceptual framework throughout his oevure, he's unmistakably recognizable, but rarely easy to predict. No matter what the sound, we find it always sounds like Wiese. Seven Of Wands contains a romanticism only hinted at previously. Comprised of pieces from a range of eras and sequenced into a narrative arc, this very unique album has a quality of being beautiful, listenable, immersive, and transportive all at once. On this latest, we find more emphasis on beauty and musical qualities, employing strategies and techniques of musique concrète and electroacoustic music throughout, all the while further emphasizing the mixing desk as a true instrument. Two of the album's central pieces were developed while touring the U.S., UK and Europe with Liars, No Age, and (in quadraphonic) Matmos, and feature source material contributed by Angus Andrew (voice, field recording) and Julian Gross (percussion) of Liars. CD is a limited edition of 1,000 copies, packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which is housed in a one-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve.

NURSE WITH WOUND/BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER Cabbalism LP $32.99
November 2007, Venice. It was cold, damp and foggy. Nurse With Wound were playing two nights at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, with Blind Cave Salamander as support act. Listening to them perform, Steven Stapleton felt that some of what they played reminded him of the classic Nurse work, Soliloquy For Lilith (1988). He suggested that the two bands should explore the possibility of playing live together, to explore that piece with a view to recording an album. Forward to September 2009 when, after rehearsals, Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter) and Blind Cave Salamander (Fabrizio Palumbo, Julia Kent and Paul Beauchamp) perform their live version of Soliloquy for the first time at the Mutamento Festival in Turin. The audience responded with great enthusiasm. The cabbalistic proceedings of that evening are contained on this recording.

SPARKLEHORSE: It's A Wonderful Life LP $19.99
"The third album from the late Mark Linkous' Sparklehorse, It's A Wonderful Life, was the first to be recorded in a commercial studio with a full band. Recorded and released in 2001, after Linkous' near-fatal overdose in a London hotel room, the album is a beautiful and fragile exploration of somber themes. Featuring guest appearances from PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, and Vic Chesnutt, It's A Wonderful Life is a singer-songwriter classic. Includes download card of the entire album."

SPARKLEHORSE: Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain LP $19.99
"Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain is the fourth and final album from Mark Linkous' Sparklehorse. Recorded over a span of five years, and produced by Danger Mouse, the album is probably Linkous' least cohesive efforts but, at the same time, contains some of his finest songs ever. A fitting swan song for a brilliant but troubled songwriter. Includes download card of the entire album." 180 gram vinyl.

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