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Zaimph
Live Hasselt
Heavy Blossom
CD-R
£6.99
Limited edition of 100 copies documenting a live solo show from Marcia Bassett that took place 6/6/06 in Hasselt. 28 minutes of thick, frozen air, slow brain-bloating highs, and thunderous ecstasy peaks. One of the darkest/densest blats from Marcia to date and highly recommended. Comes in wraparound colour pro-printed sleeves.
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John Truscinski
Ash Tree
Open Mouth No Cat
Cassette
£4.99
Limited solo cassette from Truscinski, drummer with GHQ/X.O.4/Slaughterhouse Percussion, Steve Gunn et al, touches on the detonating Industrial rhythms of Einsturzende Neubauten, Z'EV et al while incorporating great blats of liberated Afro-American fire moves, passages of bowed and scraped drone and some grimy, distorto-primitive punk stratagems. On Bill Nace of Vampire Belt's own label.
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GHQ
Heavy Elements
Three Lobed
CD
£9.99
Live album from the American Psychotropic trio of Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/Hototogisu/Zaimph), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers/Vanishing Voice/Virgin Eye) and Steve Gunn (Moongang). Recorded at Goodbye Blue Monday January 27th 2006, this one ditches the more rural/raga bent of their earlier recordings (tho still scarred with that devotional/Popol Vuh feel) for a deep smoke of eye-lolling choral vocals, heavy psychedelic guitar solo and a murk of drone. Very beautiful and possibly their best set to date.
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GHQ
Crystal Healing
Three Lobed TLR-036
LP
£16.99
Deluxe LP in full-colour gatefold sleeve from the GHQ trio of Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/Zaimph/Hototogisu et al), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers/Vanishing Voice/Spectre Folk et al) and Steve Gunn (Moongang/Magik Markers etc). A collection of inspired destructo folk/drone tracks that seem drawn from a much earlier underground paradigm than most of their contemporaries, this kind of ragged extended form has more in common with early Majora and Siltbreeze sides like Dead C, Dadamah and Flies Inside The Sun, with broken-down amplifier hymns illuminated with minimal acoustic guitar and the kind of potent acid guitar leads that circumnavigate conventional six-string speak with a logic that is impossible to fully nail down. The best GHQ release to date, this one is limited to 855 hand-numbered copies on 180g vinyl.
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Steve Gunn/Ilyas Ahmed
Split
Immune No Cat
7”
£6.99
Edition of 800 copies split 7 Record Store Day release from two of the most consistently wowing contemporary guitar slingers. Gunn’s side is a gorgeous meditation on American steel string modes that has a heady Fahey atmosphere while Ahmed’s is a little grainier and more downer/drone fixated, more focussed on the lonely aspect of his first two albums.
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