Five track album from the Sunburned line-up of Moloney, Bohill, MJK, Thomas and Franklin, recorded live at the Sunburned loft in 2005. Classic SBHOTM outer space percussion, electronics, Xhol-style rhythms and caveman visions. Edition of 100 copies with full colour sleeves in plastic cases.

Two-way face off between two modern riff monsters, Sunburned Hand Of The Man and Finland's Circle. Sunburned Hand line-up features Mick Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra on guitar, reed horn and percussion alongside Phil Franklin, Rob Thomas, Ron Schneiderman, John Moloney and Michael K. Both bands play together as one and the results span fluttering psychedelic blues, Silence-style monolithic rock, ritualistic trump and moan and a whole ton of motorik metal. The limited LP version comes with a fold-out poster.

New solo album from Matt Krefting, a member of Duck, Idea Fire Company, Face/Ass, Son Of Earth, The Believers et al. All cover versions, with tracks by Richard Thompson, Jerry Garcia, Rick Danko and more cut with the help of J. Masics and members of Sunburned Hand Of The Man and The Believers. "My "career" in music is about to enter its 13th year. Lucky 13! I've performed in at least 15 groups (probably more on the order of 20 if you count guest spots) over the years, the most prominent being the long-running "quiet music" combo Son of Earth and the short-lived-but-much hyped Believers. Historically more of an experimental man, the Believers project showcased my always right-below-the-surface interest and passion for all things rock, and so, a couple of years after the demise of that group, I was approached by Ecstatic Peace, who asked me to produce a solo record. For the better part of a year I conceptualized, recruited, and eventually came up with I Couldn't Love You More. An early attempt to marry electronics, field recordings, and song was scrapped in favor of the personal and perhaps obvious choice of producing a covers record. It was the perfect idea, the realization of a dream. Years of singing in the shower and on long car trips had given way to the stuff of fantasy. Why stick to what you know when you can reach for what you've always desired? I asked friends to help with the realization. John Moloney, Phil Franklin, Ron Schneiderman, and Rob Thomas (all of Sunburned Hand of the Man), I've known for years. Same with J Mascis. Old friends John Shaw (who I've done more music with than anyone) and Lynn Myers provide some vocals here and there, as does my wife, Jamie Jo Oltmans. The Wild Card here is John Townsend. Andrew Kesin of Ecstatic Peace introduced me to him, and he was a jack-of-all-trades. He plays on most of the tracks, sometimes exclusively, and co-produced. I chose songs from all over the map, from Rick Danko to John Martyn to the great Bill Fay. Not exactly lightweights, and quite intimidating when their full historical weight is taken into account. However, I attacked each piece with the intensity of one who truly loves these songs. I didn't concern myself with being overly arty or inventive in my interpretations (there are no truly radical re-workings of anything here), instead allowing my own emotional investment in the material to guide me and inform the other players. These are songs of love and longing. The themes are eternal. It's an honor to have had the chance to play them. Enjoy the music." - Matt Krefting, December 2008

Self-released hand-numbered edition of 100 copies, with an audio collage of a 2008 Birmingham show, a blow-out from Mick Flower’s house, a London gig and a set from Greenfield, MA. Features a buncha heads: Moloney, Thomas, Schneiderman, Sarah O' Shea, Paul Labrecque, Mick Flower, Conrad Capistran, Phil Franklin, Taylor Richardson, and Adam Nodelman (Borbetomagus).

Deluxe 180g vinyl in heavy Stoughton gatefold sleeves from this offshoot from the No-Neck mothership led by David Shuford and featuring Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand Of The Man), Hans Chew (Jack Rose et al) and Rob Gregory (The Suntanama). Distillation is an even deeper countrified pass through classic Americana given the kind of psychedelic nudie suit edge of The Byrds circa Sweetheart/Notorious or the first Flying Burrito Brothers album. Shuford’s vocals have an uncommon weigh that gives the songs a Biblical/basement tapes feel while the arrangements are weirdly sophisticated in a way that rewards repeated deep listening. Edition of 891 copies, bundled with a bonus CD that features a live set from the group and an MP3 download coupon.

New instalment of Wabana's limited to 200 CD-R series is a big band collaborative shot from these two North American psych/drug units, with Kohoutek go up against a Soil Sing Through Me line-up that features Paul Labrecque and Ron Schneiderman of Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Some of the backwoods garage style of the attack has a nice Crazy Horse/Savage Sons Of Ya Ho Wha meets ballroom Kosmiche feel, with plenty of serpentine string action and upper atmosphere analogue tweaking. There's even some shots of Miles 70s electro/brass confusion, albeit transmuted in a similar style to Sunburned Hand's acid funk. All laid down with a great recorded-through-a-cheap-stereo feel.

Edition of 120 copies CD-R documenting a live performance from Paul Labrecque (Sunburned Hand Of The Man/Trees Chants And Hollers/The Other Method et al). Labrecque’s string work makes reference to the lonesome sound of Sandy Bull and John Fahey while connecting with the experiments in contemporary American Primitive drone of Paul Metzger and Matthew Valentine. Quietly psychedelic and spellbindingly intimate. In full colour gatefold card sleeve. 

New duo project from Tom Carter of Charalambides and Marc Orleans of Sunburned Hand Of The Man. If you’ve caught any of the recent solo blats from Tom Carter since his relocation to NYC then you’ll know that that these days his guitar is fully set to shred and this is a stunning document of two string-thinkers working with maximal freedom and organic rhythms. The opening “Eyes Of Jewels, Mirrored Bodies” marries Orleans great fingerpicking style – which comes from a similar place to Glenn Jones – to Tom’s wild west coast style. Later tracks explode the blueprint even further, marring a 90s underground feel for squeal with an immolating post-Sonny Sharrock aesthetic. Easily one of the wildest sides either of these guys have cut and if you’re into bloodied six string euphoria then you’ll even be able to forgive them their ‘poem’ to Jack Rose. Stick to the string-slinging, brothers! 150g vinyl with download. 

New duo project from Tom Carter of Charalambides and Marc Orleans of Sunburned Hand Of The Man. If you’ve caught any of the recent solo blats from Tom Carter since his relocation to NYC then you’ll know that that these days his guitar is fully set to shred and this is a stunning document of two string-thinkers working with maximal freedom and organic rhythms. The opening “Eyes Of Jewels, Mirrored Bodies” marries Orleans great fingerpicking style – which comes from a similar place to Glenn Jones – to Tom’s wild west coast style. Later tracks explode the blueprint even further, marring a 90s underground feel for squeal with an immolating post-Sonny Sharrock aesthetic. Easily one of the wildest sides either of these guys have cut and if you’re into bloodied six string euphoria then you’ll even be able to forgive them their ‘poem’ to Jack Rose. Stick to the string-slinging, brothers!

Second release from the label that brought us the phenomenally popular Trees, Chants & Hollers from Valerie Webb and Paul Labrecque. The Other Method is that duo’s electric/horns group and No Bridges No Walls gathers recordings that date from the same time as their previous release, One Eye Love Is and also features Michael Kay from Sunburned Hand Of The Man. This is electronics, horns, vocals and drums bent with the same kind of elastic ferocity as yr favourite brass-devouring free jazz duo. Also touches on some nice zones of chattering delay that summon up visions of small constellations melting into slow blobs of tone somewhere in the throat of Marshall Allen midway through Phil Niblock’s Sun Ra film The Magic Sun as well as some subtle, almost modal trance pieces that will please fans of Trees, Chants…Limited to only 150 copies.

Original vinyl copies of their long-gone 2003 Eclipse LP, which many rate as their best. It's certainly their most form destroying, a whole other vibration from most of the Manhand CDs.

Cool archival release that bundles a bunch of peak-period jams from Sunburned Hand Of The Man, al recorded across 2006. Features a bunch of radically expanded line-ups, with the core group joined by Chris Corsano, Mick Flower, Bridget Hayden and Keith Wood. Weird, detourned, almost Magic Band scale jams go up against vocal goofs, string drones, Ubu-styled garage and all-out Xhol worship. Cassettes come in screened cloth cases with insert. 

Follow-up to the great Time And Relative Dimensions In Space compilation with a two CD set once again dedicated to long-form drone works. Exclusive tracks from Birds Of Delay, Bruce Russell, Son Of Earth, The Opera Glove Sinks In The Sea, White/Light, Keenan Lawler, Bird Show/Lichens, Of…Ohv, The Zoo Wheel and The Gray Field Recordings.

If Organum hadda been a buncha drunks who could tell good jokes and knew how to dress, they might well have turned out like Son Of Earth. While Jackman’s crew followed AMM’s lead into bleak, essentially personality-less zones of electro-acoustic improvisation, Son Of Earth took minimal sound art into a new world of glam, a form of garage band art praxis that involved hovering down beers while digging Gil Wolman LPs or cruising to the car park with Brian Gysin’s tape experiments on repeat and then going home to dig the hell out of David Bowie’s appearance in Labyrinth. There was a band dynamic there that was as smart as it was stoopid and this trio always made for interesting, irreverent and genuinely deep performances. People moved away, members got involved in other projects and it seemed like besides a scattering of good CD-Rs and an LP or two the definitive Son Of Earth experience was gonna be gifted, ultimately, to the select band of friends and followers that caught them ‘in action’ over the years. Then Improvements appears, the very title flagging up the fact that these guys have decided to dust down their legacy and finally get together the studio album they always threatened to release. Over six tracks there’s the classic unidentifiable scraping sound that lurks somewhere on all their discs, the weird almost-drones generated by who knows what, the feel of the immediate specifics of the environment put to work in the first way that makes sense… but there’s an injection of their selves too, their good-time, smartass selves. A track like “Muttering Triumph” is as weird as it’s funny, funny-weird, with what sounds like a three-way goof-off vocal that The Fugs might’ve extended into a smut-fest going way beyond a joke and into the zone of spontaneous poetics and body soundings even while it still sounds like they’re just trying to talk funny to each other. And the whole record keeps that feel, a feel of accidental grandeur, of avant garage, with minimal zone-out tracks where barely anything happens yet that ‘anything’ seems to capture so precisely the interaction of the three players – Matt Krefting, Aaron Rosenblum and John Shaw – that it may as well be Crosby, Stills and fucking Young. And when was the last time you listened to a ‘drone’ record with that kind of personality? LP comes wrapped in a letterpressed obi-strip with a 16-page art book by Rick Myers.

Debut album from this Louisville big band that features Kris Abplanalp of Valley Of Ashes/Virgin Eye alongside Aaron Rosenblum of Son Of Earth, bassist David Sauter, guitarist/organist Lowe Sutherland, Rawsenio aka The Raw Thug on percussion, synth, electronics and violin, Dominic Cipolla on drums and Steve Good on reeds. The instrumental tracks pitch Silence-scale dirge muscle and a nodding backwoods psych style that slouches through constellations of string huzz with alla the anti-gravity grace of late Tower Recordings or Fairport Convention circa "A Sailor's Life" with a touch of the Palace Brothers/Dirty Three swamp style while the vocal/song pieces sound more like the kind of hysterical glam thud of UK festival satellites like Alex Harvey, T. Rex and Edgar Broughton, albeit executed with a post-Rock mindset.

Debut LP from the trio of Scott Foust, Karla Borecky and Graham Lambkin (The Shadow Ring) consists of radically hand-sculpted home recordings broadcast straight to tape between the years 1999 and 2000. Moves from concrete miniatures to full-blown drone/throat rituals. Recommended.

Big sounding set from the quintet of Matthew Valentine, Erika Elder, Doc Dunn, Muskox and J.Mascis.  Bit of an archival release with a set recorded at Club Soda, Montreal, QC from back in January 2010 with a 800 capacity venue support slot for Dinosaur Jr. Quite a short set at 35 minutes which given the nature of the set does not have quite the same level of experimentation as a full-on MV&EE show but some great extended psychedelic jams on this one. The set opens with a great version of "Cold Rain" which probably sounds closest to some classic 1969-era "Dark Star" from the Grateful Dead. Some great weaving and intertwined guitar between the various players including some delightful melodic bass. Towards the end the songs picks up building into an almost kosmische vibe or even Neu! type groove. Next is the set's highlight which is a fantastic jam on "Get Right Church" with the rhythm section really coming into its own providing that classic 70s tight but loose feel. Some great lazy drums fills mixed with some crashing symbols and the bass playing sounding somewhere between Larry "The Mole" Taylor of Canned Heat and Bill Cox from the various Hendrix outfits.  In fact the Band of Gypsys is quite a close comparison here with a real groove to some of the jams which sound so effortless and fluid. Over the top there is some tremendous psychedelic blues jam guitar from MV - my kinda stuff that I would happily listen to for hours. This segues into quite a different version of "Environments" which has a real space rock or kosmische jam feel to it. Long, mellow drawn out feedback with J.Mascis playing lots of cymbal work and snare-brushing over the top. The set closes with a 'big-sounding' version of "Summer Magic". I really like the massively amplified whispered vocals from Erika during the chorus which is quite different from previous live versions and gives it quite a haunting feel. Towards the end this breaks into another extended electric guitar jam - if this is your kind of stuff then you should check this set out. Overall a set which runs: "Cold Rain", "Get Right Church" into "Environments" into "Summer Magic".  A real 70s-vibe classic guitar jam based around a solid rhythm section in the style of Canned Heat, Hendrix and The Allman Brothers Band with some space rock thrown in the mix.  Also love the classic 70s rock double-live album cover shot with the full stage lights behind all the guitarists. It's recommended. – Andrew Ross.