Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Family Underground
Nightflight To Venuses

U-Sound Vol 15

CD-R
£8.99


Great set of austere fug-trumping slow-mo assault from this European electronics/guitar/vocals heavy drone unit. Recorded in 2003 this is a great example of their early claustrophobic wormhole style. Comes in the usual U-Sound wraparound sleeve package. Recommended.

The Christian Family Underground
For The Depth Of Your Union...

Woodsist 008

LP
£11.99


Excellent new collaboration LP from Denmark's VU-obsessives Family Underground and Mr David Nuss of The No-Neck Blues Band et al. "Summer 06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken song, electric guitar/conga 'rock' and an odd ghostly sheen coating the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: 'I remember when we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording, which was like... humankind's natural state. And then thinking about Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents no man can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for us some fantasy of fulfilment that would carry us through the weekend like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed in the deepest bluest sea....' Jacket by designer Susan Cianciolo and screened inserts by Stellar, NL." - Woodsist.

Family Underground
Candle Fingers 1 + 2

Into The Lunar Night #21

CD-R
£7.99


Limited UK tour CD from Family Underground, with two tracks that really crank-up the electricity quotient and removes the spine altogether until all you're left with is a cross-hatch of intense beams of light, the crackle of electricity and some extended drones driven to earth with some padding percussion.

Family Underground/My Cat Is An Alien
Mysterious Invaders/Extraterrestrial Call

Reverse No Cat

LP
£12.99


Limited (only 356 copies) split LP on Christian of Sarah's Charity's private label, with silkscreen printing and transparent vinyl. MCIAA side recorded live in Portugal. Family Underground side is a beautiful spike of heavy Velvets drone.

Silvercords
Sapphire Staircase

Into The Lunar Night #19

CD-R
£8.99


New limited self-released album from the duo of Nicolas and Sara of Family Underground, with two long tracks recorded in October 2007. This expands on the weird Euro avant/Industrial time-stilling moves of their earlier releases with a doomy use of tolling fuzz and some harsh Xpressway styled destroyed rockisms.

Family Underground
Commiseration

Quasi Pop Rec-04

7”
£7.99


Edition of 500 copies 7” from this Danish drone/rock trio. A side is a heavy, malevolent dirge for crude electric guitar and oscillating electronics. Flip is all bursts of dead foghorn tones and the klang of metal-on-metal.