Limited to 250 hand-numbered-copies from the band formerly known as Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice. This one features four 'phases' across one long 30 minute track that sees the whole cultus broke down into its constituent parts. First up we get a sumptuously stoned and minimal Diehl/Taveniere jam that then segues into a great "Dark Star -esque Crane/Toth face-off which in turn morphs into a Nolan/Toth jam before the whole group kick in with a fanfare of heavy psychedelic electricity. Recorded live at Strange Maine, Portland, Maine April 2007. Comes with tour diary extract on double sided A4 sheet on the inside of the package. Both the insert and the sleeve are printed on a very thing paper (kinda like newsprint) with tiny red flecks built into the paper.

“Vinyl debut for long term Blackest Rainbow brother Ben... I'm extremely happy with this one. 8 tracks, 34 minutes. Opening with a reworking of 'KUAD 9873' from his Blackest Rainbow debut cassette... bleak drones smothered in vocal lulling, and finishing with a sweet guitar piece swirling in a lake of percussion, vocal and drone. 'Nightcall' shows a more middle eastern psychedelic droning, bowing, wailing, and satanic mutterings. Track 3 is the title track 'The Seventh Goodbye', and is the most 'full band' approach of Ben's acoustic psychedelic folk jams, but this blurs into sax blurts, waves of melancholic vocal drone and writhing riffery. Perhaps similar to Voice of the Seven Woods or Six Organs of Admittance. Side B opener 'Smoke and Flattery' is the most experimental - multi percussion, echoes of whispers, finger grating guitars. 'Magnetophon Pt IV' is not Ben's recent Sloow Tape of a similar name, but a bluesy haze LSD dream, building into a drenched ecstatic guitar drone. Following this is 'What Will Always Be Pt.II' which is reminiscent of Jack Rose, or James Blackshaw, the most beautiful composition on the LP. This bleeds into the final surrealness of 'Angel No. 7' field recordings, bleak, fearful and empty. I'm honoured to release this gem. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies on virgin vinyl, with black, white and red pasted on covers, plus a black and white insert. All artwork designed by Darryl Norsen who designed our (VxPxC) sleeve, and done a few beauties for Important records, as well as posters for Sunburned, Six Organs, Hush Arbors, Magik Markers and more.” – BRR.

Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies from the duo of James and Jessica Toth (aka Chazz Improv and Norma Bates) with Max ‘Mev’ Wicker, their first release outside of Toth’s own Mad Monk imprint. Some classically bleak Kraut-inspired dirge bombs cut-up with the kind of blues breakdowns and deranged avant-gardisms that best defined Toth’s previous Hassara outings.

Limited edition split LP in a run of 350 copies, each sleeve featuring a unique postcard fixed to the front. Two sides of post-Fahey/Rose instrumental guitar, one from Cam Deas, the other from Spoono aka Jack Allett of Towering Breaker.

New limited LP featuring two members of Jazzfinger, Ben Jones and Sarah Sullivan. Based around the application of broken keyboards to extended noise logic, this is a harsher sound than Jazzfinger, with high, screaming circuitry minimally deployed in a way that would bridge the hysterical sound of early Whitehouse with Charlemagne Palestine’s oscillator and electronics work. Paste-on sleeves, edition of 300 copies, with insert.

Limited album from Starving Weirdos in an edition of 500 copies. Very different from their last few screwed and chopped drone sides, B/P/M is mostly based around the transportive potential of various piano strategies, with the opening track possessed of an aggressive avant garde edge that combines splinters of ivory with sudden percussive thunks. Further strategies include deep-sea key soundings, with haunted melodies bubbling up through an ocean of F/X and some fast, strumming piano minimalism somewhere between John Cale and Charlemagne Palestine before we arrive in more familiar territory with the extended electronic tones of the closer. OOP.

“Our very first one sided LP, which is a bizarre trip from Michael Curtis Hilde's Mountainhood project. This one follows on from the two LPs on Time Lag's Red Records label a few months back which vanished super fast, as well as other releases on Reverb Worships and Yod. Total outsider midnight missions into weirdness... strange strings twang and rattle into the darkness, a very strange experience spread across one side of black wax. Limited to 320 copies in pro-printed wrap around sleeve featuring art by Michael.” – BRR.

Edition of 400 copies live album from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder, joined by Ron Schneidermann (Sunburned et al), Doc Dunn and Chris Corsano. Live Road focuses on the more extended Environments style of MV & EE and makes for one of their most psychedelic and otherworldly sides, pitched somewhere between ’72 Dead, Alan Silva’s Skillfulness LP, the early lunar COM style and some of the wilder of the recent Heroine sets. The version of “Mine All Troubled Blues” that opens the set features some of Valentine’s most wayward guitar picking, a beautiful demonstration of how far-reaching his re-think of the possibilities of country-blues guitar has become. Takayanagi couldn’t have phrased it better. Then there are two versions of “Environments” spliced together to generate a hallucinatory headspace that combines plumes of outside strings with peacock drones and visions of melting steel. The B side sees Corsano piloting the group into a tear-it-up power stomp through “Tea Devil” before they dissolve back into another “Environments”. One of the MV and EE’s furthest orbits of form, beautifully realized by Blackest Rainbow with wraparound jackets featuring cover art by Jeremy Earl of Woods. Highly recommended.

More communal jams from the Funeral Folk collective, with a sound that moves from macabre forest folk through full-tilt monolithic freak rock ala Trad Gras Och Stenar/International Harvester et al. Edition of 550 copies, full colour sleeves, already sold out at source.

Necessary vinyl reissue of the debut album from Japanese acid folk loner Aritomo. Originally self-released on vinyl in 2005, the album was recorded between 2003-2004. It’s a magical side, recalling aspects of Go Hirano, the Org catalogue and early Ghost. Aritomo’s vocals have a slurred/alien tongue feel that is nicely drugged and the music moves from avalanching acoustic downers ala Leonard Cohen through weird flute and field recordings that reflect on the more ‘environmental’ aspects of Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and fragile/lucid folk songs that combine gentle ritualistic atmospheres, Hallelujahs-style melodies and a vocal that’s way beyond the blank. A classic side of PSF-styled acid folk. Edition of only 300 copies. Highly recommended.

“Fantastic new LP from Cam Deas, which was issued in a tiny run CDR for his recent euro tour with Jack Allett earlier this year. This is a slightly different release from the previous LP and split LP with Spoono, essentially this is one long improvised acoustic freak-out. Loose frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger shredding plucking. This still retains Cam's signature traditional playing somehow, especially the more intense heavier moments. A solid recording. Limited to 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with photography by Cam and printed labels. Pressed at the superb Record Industry in the Netherlands.” – BRR.

“Dwell in Possibility, is the debut vinyl LP by the formerly active American husband and wife duo Celer, and is also their first release for Blackest Rainbow. Consisting of 15 different sections sprayed across two sides of vinyl, with little if any distinctions, 'Dwell in Possibility' is arranged as a muted patchwork of keyless voices blinded by sunlight, hollow echoes from unlit interiors, and scrolls of unrolled piano tunes. Enclosed in empty shadows, with vague slides of unanswered prayers, these two sides etch a dateless form into weak ends, and pyrrhic dells. Everydays are left empty-handed, and enjoyed only then. Positions change, and rely only on your imagination to wake from this, to sleep, in hope to feel again. Full colour fold over pro printed covers featuring vintage photography. Limited to approx 400 copies.” – BR.

”Meeting of melted minds on this split LP featuring Sheffield based long time local buddies Hunter Gracchus and Germany based performance and musicial duo of Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau (aka Mama Baer). The Hunter Gracchus have released an ever growing catalogue of super well received releases for the likes of Chironex, Golden Lab, Recollections of Knulp and Chocolate Monk. They also collaborated with Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and Chora as Le Drapeau Noir, as well as performing solo and in other fantastic far out acts such as Vampire Blues, Harappian Night Recordings and Blue Yodel, as well as two thirds of the trio running the excellent Singing Knives label and all working full time. I have to admit, I have no idea how they can manage to do all this, pretty damn impressive. Their side is an amazing live recording from La Planta, Argentina entitled 'Mujeres De La Boca', and if you've ever been to their Furniture Makers practice space, it sounds like Hunter Gracchus somehow managed to transport its entire contents of obscure musical objects over there with their perculiar brains to record some of the best live shit they've produced so far... a really great side long free playing improvised weird out with screwed up voices, skronky blurts and freestyle tribal percussion. Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau have been releasing material for quite some time on their own Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond label, including a host of obscenely limited CDRs, cassettes and records. On top of that they've found the time release some truly astounding genre blending avant craziness on Ultra Eczema, Scumbag and Blossoming Noise. For this split LP KHJ & F's 'Zwei Einenperson (Pt. 2)', is a manic 22 minute side of avant garde experi-mentalism, with Kommissar Hjuler shredding electric guitar strings and destroying tapes while Mama Baer's insane vocal fluctuate between the erotic and pure demonic screaming. This recording of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau was made in March 2009 when working on the set for the performance of Zwei Eineperson. This was presented live at the vernissage of Mama Baer's and Kommissar Hjuler's exhibition Geteilter Raum at Kunstraum Winterthur, Switzerland on 2nd April 2009. A CD-R with several parts from their work on this set was previously released on their SHMF label in a very small edition. This is the re-issue of part 2 from their recordings, live in their living room. The full performance has been released as a CD-R and DVD in small edition as well. Edition of 500 on heavyweight vinyl with pro printed jackets, and insert.” – BRR. 

Beautifully assembled eight cassette box set in the mode of the earlier Road Trips box with live recordings from the April 2010 No Floor Tour featuring Matthew Valentine, Erika Elder, Mick Flower, John Moloney and Zuma with guest spots from J.Mascis and Doc Dunn. In moulded plastic case with a full-colour booklet featuring liners and pics. Jams from Grey Matter Book, Hadley MA 4/9/09, Silent Barn, Ridgewood NY 4/10/10, Fairfield Chapel, Oberlin OH 4/11/10, PJ’s Lager House, Detroit MI 4/12/10, The Boat, Toronto ON 4/13/10, La Sala Rossa, Montreal QC 4/14/10, Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs NY 4/15/2010, Nom D’Artiste Loft, Boston MA 4/16/10. Here’s Andrew’s review of the Montreal set to get you salivating: “Another stunning set, this time from the quintet of Matthew Valentine and Erika Elders with Golden Road cohorts in tow of Mick Flower, Doc Dunn and John Moloney recorded in Montreal, Canada as part of the 'No floor tour' in April 2010. This is simply blues rock jams at their finest and less psychedelic in places than some previous Golden Road shows. The playing is completely capable of rivaling the marathon blues infused rock workouts of the Allman Brothers Band or Led Zeppelin at their peak with a big dose of Sonny Boy Williamson's 'Nobody's Fault But Mine' thrown in. Throughout the set John Moloney lays down a simple 4/4 rock beat but with the same type of swing, feel and control afforded by Buddy Miles to Hendrix's Band of Gyspys. The result being a set which charges along but with a real sense of groove layered over the top with blues wailing guitar and mouth harp. The set starts with a slow psychedelic workout around "Satisfied" but keeping the blues theme before charging into a set which runs "Get Right Church", "Canned Happiness” and a closing jam of "Environments" into "Feelin' Fine".  There are many highlights to choose but clocking in at over 14 minutes this is the finest version of "Get Right Church" I have heard, a relentless blues jam which obliterates the recent studio version on Barn Nova. As a grown adult I find myself listening to this with the same giant grin I first encountered at the age of 13 when I was handed a copy of AC/DC's High Voltage or Canned Heat's Fried Hockey Boogie and thinking - can rock music be this much fun? So if your musical tastes allow you enjoy the rock of AC/DC at the same time as the musicianship of Jandek then you have got to hear this! Highest possible recommendation.” – Andrew Ross. Edition of only 150 copies.

Edition of 500 copies compilation LP with exclusive tracks from Akron/Family, Joanne Robertson & Matthew Ashworth, Wand, Natural Snow Buildings, Married In Berdichev, Moon Duo, The See See and Seadog. Comes with a full colour zine featuring artwork by Jake Blanchard, Pete Fowler, Andrew Rae, Will Sweeney, Sarah King, Olange Gularte, James Trimmer/Mirt and Mat Pringle.

“Debut LP from this American artist formally known as Outrage Is A Hat. Yantis fuses guitar mediations with a multitude of instruments and noises creating a truly individual sound of the outer limits of American primitive sound... Yantis blurs modern noise experimentation with almost classical musicianship at times. The heavy and minimal are laid to together to create one of the most interesting sounds I’ve heard from a new artist, definitely worth keeping your ear to the ground for more material from Yantis over the course of 2011... Mastered by Pete Swanson. Pressed on virgin vinyl. Issued in an edition of only 100 copies with paste on covers and insert, stamped labels and pressed on heavyweight black virgin vinyl.” – BRR. 

“Brand new full length CD album from Natural Snow Buildings, made especially for Record Store Day. Following on from January 2011's Waves of the Random Sea, this is the most recent recordings from the duo of Mehdi and Solange, recorded over the first three months of 2011. Epicly dark and brooding folk blurred with psychedelic and ritualistic overtones, this album sounds as good as any other Natural Snow Buildings/Twinsistermoon/Isengrind release, retaining the sound that only this duo can conjure up. Opener 'Chants of Niflheim Part 1' is a dark reflection upon the concept of its title, followed by 'Templars Ritual', a psychedelic meandering 17 minutes of ritual head nodding zone outs. 'Chants of Niflheim Part 2' builds ethereal levitation to new forms, from dark to light, blurring heavy riffs with almost vocal instrument sounds to create a mist of unknown. Album closer, 'H. Scudder', opens with Mehdi's softly sung lyrics layered with percussion and string, heading straight into a deep ritualistic swirling drone section. 'Cants of Niflheim' again concretes Natural Snow Buildings as an essential contemporary duo, crossing the lines of folk drone experimentalism, traditional folk craftsmanship and post rock aesthetic. Again, another essential record from this French duo. Released for Record Store Day, April 16th 2011, with thanks to supporters across the globe from Blackest Rainbow and Natural Snow Buildings. Limited to 500 copies in full colour 4 panel card sleeves.” – BRR.

Vinyl reissue of Japanese folk spirit Aritomo’s second LP, originally released on his own Hakanairo imprint in a long-gone edition of 200 copies. This edition comes with pro-printed sleeves reproducing the original artwork and a four page booklet on parchment paper. Blooming The Ena sails closer to the soft breeze coming out of the whole Org stable, with weightless acid folk arrangements combining acoustic guitar, bamboo flute, piano and chimes with vocals that come out of the Tori Kudo/Go Hirano/Shinji Shibayama approach to naive psych. Some of the arrangements have the same strange free-floating folk feel as Richard Young’s Jagjaguwar sides, albeit with a more overtly stoned/zoned appeal. If a track from this hadda turned up on one of the early Tokyo Flashback sides this guy would already have been canonised. Recommended.

Been a awhile since we checked in with Owl Xounds and this is a great place to re-connect. Here Owl Xounds feature two double bassist, Gene Janas and Shayna Duzberger, alongside Adam Kriney on drums and Mario Rechtern on saxophone and electronics and the resultant omni-directional tonal/rhythmic weave is fairly mind-boggling. Rechtern can really wail on the saxophone with an attack that is almost of Brotzmann dimensions while Kriney’s cracking snare work gives the music a pugilistic edge that allow both bassists to bend way the hell out of shape. This is classic punk primitive free jazz that’s not afraid to get its head bloodied. “BR worked with Adam Kriney of La Otracina and Owl Xounds on the Owl Xounds/Family Battle Snake split cassette back in May 2007, and its great to have this raging free jazz improv psyche out bunch back on Blackest Rainbow again for this awesome LP. 'Splintered Visions' was recorded back in February 2007, and has been torn from the archives of some of the wildest jams put to tape. This time round the group is in a quartet zone with Kriney on drums, Gene Janas on upright bass, Mario Rechtern on saxophones, electronics and devices, and Shayna Dulberger on upright bass. That's right, TWO upright bass shredders! All the wild instrumentation laid down blazes to the sky, getting mightier and mightier, everything wildly bright and energetic, this LP will rage through your psychosis like nothing else!  Housed in equally insane psychedelic hippy techi-colour sleeves designed by the one and only Jefferson Mayday Mayday Vimana. The vision on this one (both visually and sonically) is outta this world! Pressed on virgin vinyl and limited to 250 copies.” – BRR. 

Follow-up to this great trio’s Sagittarius A-Star LP: Acid Birds features Charles Waters on alto sax, bass clarinet and clarinet, Jaime Fennelly on harmonium and electronics and Andrew Barker on drums, percussion and cello. The sound takes elements of wall-destroying free jazz and welds it to a black backbone that mixes tar-thick electronics, enormous bottom end drones and heavenly harmonium to conjure the kind of ritualistic wipe-out of the Hermann Nitsch Orchestra. Elsewhere the vertical take-offs of shredded reed and singing circuitry mirrors the arc of Steve Lacy’s collaborations with MEV while minting a form of improvisation that is as dense as it is fleet and ferocious. Pretty fantastic. 500 copies on 140g vinyl. 

Edition of 300 copies collaboration LP between avant English Primitive guitarist Cam Deas and Jack Allett of Towering Breaker. Here Deas further expands on the radical guitar deconstruction of Quadtych, playing in a fractured, extended style while falling back on snatches of baroque folk melody while Allett works with live processing. The sound moves from weird allusive shadowplay through heavy feedback drones to explosive, triumphal electronics with vertically ascending sunburst tones illuminating the very insides of the guitar. Pretty great. 

Much-anticipated deluxe reissue of the most talked-about and terminally unavailable release from Mehdi Amezianes of Natural Snow Buildings’ solo Twinsistermoon project. Originally released as a handmade self-released CD-R in an edition of approximately nada in 2007, originals now change hands for big money and it has gathered a reputation as *the* Twinsistermoon release. It’s hard to argue. The set ranges from the stunning opener, “I Wish I Could Drown The World In Reverberation” that marries Rossi-era Ash Ra Tempel-isms to breathless vox and huge walls of shimmering soft-focus F/X through classic space whisper-style acid folk w/depth enough to drown in complete with classic acoustic/guitar shape shifting ala your favourite pastoral late-60s/early-70s stone and imagery that would make Jean Rollin blush. Additionally, this set comes with a whole other side of new material. Edition of 600 copies with all-new art from Solange Gularte in heavy gatefold sleeves. Recommended. 

Much-anticipated deluxe reissue of the most talked-about and terminally unavailable release from Mehdi Amezianes of Natural Snow Buildings’ solo Twinsistermoon project. Originally released as a handmade self-released CD-R in an edition of approximately nada in 2007, originals now change hands for big money and it has gathered a reputation as *the* Twinsistermoon release. It’s hard to argue. The set ranges from the stunning opener, “I Wish I Could Drown The World In Reverberation” that marries Rossi-era Ash Ra Tempel-isms to breathless vox and huge walls of shimmering soft-focus F/X through classic space whisper-style acid folk w/depth enough to drown in complete with classic acoustic/guitar shape shifting ala your favourite pastoral late-60s/early-70s stone and imagery that would make Jean Rollin blush. Additionally, this issue comes with a bonus track exclusive to the CD edition. Run of 500 copies. Recommended. 

New duo jams from Chris Forsyth of Peeesseye and Koen Holtcamp of Mountains. Guitar/synth jams that comes across like a more sci-fi addled Rother/Dinger face-off, with flat-lined motorik grooves, cosmo synth and the kind of progressive avant/garage string burn previously favoured by Heldon. Edition of 500 copies. 

Bewitching new solo LP from Solange Gularte aka one half of French acid folk experimentalists Natural Snow Buildings. Night Of Raining Fire comes adorned with Solange’s weird post-Darger cartoon artwork that serves to underlines the overall “Lost Girls” atmosphere. The sonics are beautiful, somewhere between Hosianna Mantra-era Popol Vuh, the sunbleached acid folk of Linda Perhacs and the haunted European exploitation soundtracks of the late Jean Rollin, with an impossibly ancient and otherworldly atmosphere. Plus the album really *sounds* great, with lush raga/drones hovering over distant blurs of reverb and singing up-front strings while Solange’s vocals melt all over them. Gorgeous. Edition of 500 copies. 

A co-release with Tor Press, Menagerie #3 presents a compilation and zine put together by Jake Blanchard with the concept that the artists make music inspired by the visuals and vice-versa. This one features exclusive new tracks from Ben Nash, Isengrind, C.Joynes and Twinsistermoon and the A5 12 page litho-printed booklet features visuals from Jim Stoten, Simon Fowler, Adrianne Neal and Jake Blanchard. Edition of 500 copies.