★Carbon Records
9th Avenue
*300 copies limited edition* Nod invites you to Fly, Fly, Fly with their latest release, the brand new offering from the long-running Rochester, New York-based trio Nod. Equal parts jazz, groove, lo-fi, raw psychedelia, and driving VU-inspired rock, Nod’s 8th full-length release adds some rock grit to the previous Band Room Janitors. This set of fresh experiments from Nod’s laboratory create a new casserole from their ad lib cookbook. So dig in to the new Nod.
Aloha From Beastview Maul
*300 copies limited edition* "Like the Kolea (aka The Pacific Golden Plover) that migrates from the harsh winter tundra of Alaska & Siberia to the sunny climate of the Hawaiian Islands, Beastview Maul travels to warm & exotic lands not by wing but by sound waves. Hear the cascading waterfalls splash against the rocks below. Is that water or static? The distance between exotic lounge music and avant garde noise is not as far as you might think. Both allow the listener to be transported out of the…
Amoskeag
Every song on this album taps into raw, rich veins of sound that are simultaneously dense but easy to enjoy; vintage and modern; new yet timeless. The album kicks off with a monster track entitled "Stratton-Eustis" - one of those complex yet flowing tunes that makes you think overdubs were involved or the player has grown an extra set of limbs. Then there's "Kenduskeag,” a raga-esque group recording in an abandoned New England Conservatory building with Ethan WL and the long standing anonymous d…
Il Vaticano II è stato un errore!
*2023 stock. 20 copies limited edition* ""I repeat, My children, as I have told you in the past, that the great Council of Vatican II was manipulated by satan. He sat there among you and he worked you like a chessboard. What can you do now to recover? It is simple, My children: turn back and start over with the foundation given to you. You must bring respect back to your priesthood. You must bring respect back to your Holy Father...!" - Our Lady of the Roses, May 15, 1976 "
High Life
*330 copies limited edition* High Life is like a mini-album, a short journey or guide. The perfect use of the 7" format, showcasing the range of this inventive duo with each playing their core instruments of violin (Krausbauer) and saxophone (Shiroishi), along with some organ drones and singing.
On the a-side, Bird’s Song starts things off with John’s beautiful pulsing organ swells, while Patrick comes in blustering and quick with a cacophony of notes. The world is waking up. They then set off t…
Alan Licht & John Krausbauer
*363 copies limited edition* Alan Licht (electric guitar) and John Krausbauer (amplified violin/oscillators) have created two compositions on their new 7” that seemingly reside on opposite ends of the experimental/free-noise spectrum. Superstizione (Italian for "superstition") is a maximalist free-noise blast, seemingly chaotic, but with an intentional forward movement and flow. Licht's guitar playing starts off with a low end, thick fuzz, but quickly moves to an over-blown, frenetic pattern, al…
Escape To Never (Program For Melting)
*2023 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Pengo enters it’s 24th year of existence with a new full-length recording, their 18th. A CD called Escape To Never (Program For Melting). This CD was recorded all in one night this past June in Pengo’s long time headquarters The Bunker in Rochester New York. Pengo exists in it’s own sonic reality. Slowly snaking it’s way through multiple deep international undergrounds, yet always remaining distinctively a singular odd beast.
This CD sounds like a 10 foot…
Lido Scuffle
*2023 stock. 50 copies limited edition* "Lido Scuffle is the first recorded evidence of the Rochester New York based duo Beastview Maul. Beastview Maul is composed of Joe Tunis & John Schoen. Both members of long running (24 years and counting) psychedelic noise weirdo unit Pengo.
After about 10 years of lurking around and playing gigs in the deep underground of Western New York, Beastview deliver their first official release. A woozy attack on the dullards and creeps gumming up the World. The s…
Willfully Ceased to Exist
*2023 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Ankylosaurus' tracks on this split CD were all improvised, each in one take. No edits or overdubs. One amp, cab, a couple pedals and a franken-bass. These are seriously thick and heavy slabs of low-end meditations. Think Earth 2. More of an Awareness thuds along, fuzz drenched, with subtle phaser, like walking thru a blizzard, or a sun-drenched highway, ever searching for a reprieve from the onslaught. Ceased to Exist, steady and crunching, gets interrupt…
Vinegar Baths
*2023 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Vinegar Baths, the latest from Albany based sonic-master Parashi (aka Mike Griffin), is a collection of tracks ranging from free-noise experiments such as Styled As Nemesis and Don't Talk To Fascists, to the fuzz-drenched swells of The Questioning Kind, to a sinister yet catchy composed song like Winding Song (originally released on a lathe cut on Radical Documents, with the b-side, The Merry Oaf, also showing up here). The songs here all originated from …
Polaroids
Tip! *2023 stock* Polaroids is the latest from Italian musician and sound artist Angelo Bignamini. Its not everyday that I get a demo submission which grabs my attention like Polaroids did. A perfect combination of field recording/sound art/radio and guitar work. A free-noise gem. Angelo Bignamini is a musician and sound artist from Italy. He is interested in the relationship between music and failure, especially the relationship between sound and its deterioration. His works are published by La…
Tolin Asumer
*2023 stock. 300 copies lmited release* With over 150 releases under their belt, Tolin Asumer is their first proper US release in almost 20 years. Recorded in Buenos Aires in 2018-2019, and then mixed in 2021, the record opens with Coliso Atomro, an echo-drenched Can-esque excursion into the other-world, with Tomasin taking the role of travel-guide. The use of a bouncing stereo echo-effect mesmerized the listener into a chaotic rock head-nod. The 2nd half of side A features the track Etrol Rene …
9th Avenue
*2023 stock* For me, this is the blues. Utterly wailing "solos" over a base of thick distorted guitars, Loren Connors' music conjures up scenes of lonely streets, dark nights, but also hopeful and joyful mornings. 9th Avenue is the first vinyl reissue of a CD Loren released on his Black Label in 1995, a view into his mid-90's heavier electric guitar era, back when he was going by his Loren Mazzacane Connors moniker.
9th Avenue fits right alongside releases from that same time period, such as Lon…