Studio Rehearsal 1979
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases. Were not sure why, how or whatever. This one is limited to 200 copies. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.
Live May 25 1975 Yaneura
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases (not CD-Rs). Were not sure why, how or whatever. What was the question again? This first one was apparently originally released in 2006. Live @ Yaneura May 25, 1975. Long out of print, 1 copy only available.
Woman From the Warm Grass
When Robin Scott's electro anthem "Pop Muzik" hit no.1 in the US in 1979, few could have guessed that his debut had appeared on an obscure English underground label, Head Records a whole decade earlier, with backing from psychedelic legends Mighty Baby. Now, with vinyl copies changing hands for hundreds of pounds, it's finally available on CD for the first time, featuring bonus tracks, rare photographs and comprehensive liner notes and showing itself to be a lost gem of British acid folk.
The Legendary Me
Long prayed-for reissue of this classic 1970 UK folk stunner that's a missing link both in the Wizz Jones oeuvre and in the guitar-freedom music of the prime era. The Legendary Me was Wizz Jones' second studio album, originally released by the obscure but vital Village Thing label (following his self-titled debut on United Artists). Cosmically figuring somewhere between the non-trad radical expressions of the Mike Cooper/Roy Harper axis and Clive Palmer's post-ISB journey, Jones' terrestrial pos…
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A collection of impro recorded in A Spirale basement studio, consisting in Maurizio Argenziano (guitars), Mario Gabola (reeds), SEC_(synth, elettronics), Emilio Barone (plastics, voice).Possible directions, new relations, from spastic and destructured funk to free folk, to avant-noise...A music that is like a desert, yes, but swarming, crossed by fluxes, teeming crowd in it; a swarm of bees, a rumble of soccer players, or a group of Tuareg. Myriad of lines dripping from any side, unpredictable m…
Gariga
A new album by A Sprirale produced by Italian impro music network Setola di Maiale, consisting in Massimo Spezzaferro (drums) Maurizio Argenziano (guitars) Mario Gabola (reeds). Gariga is low, soft-leaved scrubland and represents a regressive stage derived from the degradation of Mediterranean Basin after dryness, soil erosion, pasture with excessive loads, fires, deforestation. So intimate, whispered, music freely expressed, from elettroacustic to radical impro music, centered in the Mediterra…
Faust IV
Faust IV’ is widely acknowledged as being the finest album in the bands expansive catalogue, so it seems highly relevant that EMI have chosen this gem to re-issue. The full album is included here in it’s original form and is generously packaged up with 2 previously unreleased tracks and 3 tracks from a 1973 Peel session. Kicking off with the title that had journalists weeping – the tongue-in-cheek ‘Krautrock’ we’re firmly in the land of Faust. Billowing noise and seas of bleeps and burps envelop…
Inroads : New And Collected Works
Divided into 2 discs, "Paved" contains his more peaceful & ambient pieces & "Unpaved" which represents his noisier, psychedelic side. The tracks that comprise of this DCD confirm Montgomery's place is the canons of drone rock & avant folk while also serving as an introduction to his diverse palette of musical creation.
Fantasma Parastasie
Vinyl Format. Fantasma Parastasie sees the pairing of Aidan Baker, of the Ambient Doom band Nadja, and Tim Hecker, two of Canada's brightest musicians in the world of abstract electronic music. This release, divided in seven movements, blends together to form a fluid example of a collaboration that works. Unlike those collaborations where artists throw some sound files back and forth via the internet, this release is the fruit of various real-time recording and mixing sessions the two artists wo…
thirty thirty
The second release on Presto!? is a fascinating work from Greg Davis (who seems to have been remarkably quiet in recent times) along with Steven Hess. I have absolutely no idea of the background of the piece at the moment, but I can tell you it's a real voyage through field and environmental recordings. Their talent lies in gently manipulating the already beautifully varied sounds and then conjuring up a compelling narrative with them. From naturaistic moments through to more abrasive textures a…
Spectral Hand
John Wiese is one half of Bastard Noise, Sissy Spacek and frequent collaborator with the likes of Sunn 0))), Wolf Eyes and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). Two new tracks between his more "pure" harsh noise work and an ambient space drone sound. Limited to 500 copies.
Complexion
It's been doing the rounds as a CDR for yonks now, but Sunburned Hand of the Man's 'Complexion' has now got itself a full-fat release that'll bring its odd-ball charm to a much wider audience. On the back of 2002's debut LP 'Headdress', 'Complexion' is the latest missive from Sunburned Hand of Man and was recorded in its ENTIRETY from a small public garden outside of Union Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. Where?! Wrapped in John Jagel artwork, 'Complexion' is an almost impenetrable miasma of…
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Studio collaboration recorded and mixed by DR. ID. himself at Smegma's Portland studio during Metalux - Giffoni summer tour. Total weirdness full on psychedelic improvisation in the classic smegma style, amplified by giffoni's arsenal of unmatched apocalyptic precission machinery and Metalux's own arsenal of strangeness electronic sound and vocals from the next dimension. Already a total American classic before it even existed. Enjoy the Present. The Eternal Sound is now and forever. Coreleased …
Cacophony: 1979-1981
Double CD archival overview of this obscure Australian band from the late 70s. They released 2 7" in 1979, including the legendary debut Instant Classic, which was a strange combo of primitive punk and dub. Those singles, plus the later LP from 1981 Transformational Salts make up the first disc. A small piece of near forgotten history, comprehensively recalled for consumption. The two discs contain both the scarce 7"s, the album, and two live sets. All digitally mastered by The Slugfuckers. It's…
Primitive Calculators And Friends 1979-82
Originally released by Chapter Music in 2007. After reissuing the landmark 1979 live album by Melbourne's ferocious synth-punk snarlers Primitive Calculators in late 2004, Chapter Music follows up with a crucial compilation of tracks by Primitive Calculators and their friends from the legendary Melbourne Little Band scene. Including the Calculators' only studio recording, the single "I Can't Stop It" b/w "Do That Dance," plus the Little Bands compilation EP (both originally released in 197…
Troubled
The sole output from Vancouver, British Columbia's all-but-forgotten Jesus rock trio, the New Creation. Originally pressed in 1970 in the vinyl LP format in a very limited run, this album never quite made it out of its hometown borders. We think this album is an extraordinary example of "outsider" rock and roll and produced this CD so that it can be shared by more than just a few isolated music fans. The CD was transferred from one of the surviving copies of the original album (master tapes are …
Some Blood Will Stick
Hototogisu is Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). They've been laying down billowing sheets of Teutonic guitar drone-noise since 2003 with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics. Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label Heavy Blossom. Songs were taken from Swoon Scream (2004) and Awful Symmetry (2005) with one additional track. What makes this disc more than a simple re-release is the ext…
Volume 1
Live in-person' collaborations between Hototogisu and the BxC. Hototogisu, as you know, are the time-defying duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Ramleh, Sunroof!, Total, etc.) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, Zaimph, etc.). For these sessions, Burning Star Core was C. Spencer Yeh, Robert Beatty, and Trevor Tremaine (the latter two being of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Sick Hour, etc.). Note that the music on this disc is different material from the Heavy Blossom companion volume …
Crippled Rosebud Binding
This fifth installment in the Music Fellowship’s triptych series brings together two Brooklyn bands, Mouthus and Double Leopards, and the sonically entwined Sunroof! From the UK. While each band contributes a side to this two-LP set, the artists are brought together not just figuratively on wax, but literally, as the fourth side features all seven musicians playing together. Double Leopards are Mike Bernstein, Maya Miller, Chris Gray, and Marcia Bassett. Like Taj Mahal Travellers before them, th…