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Afternoon Penis
Rarity: Debut solo splat from Nate Nelson, on e half of Mouthus and semi-regular shadow with White Rock and Religious Knives. One of the most startlingly original percussionist/pugilists on the planet, In The Evening presents more of the kind of bandstand trashing rhythms he's renowned for, with conceptions scored for electronically destroyed skins, vocals and general atmospheric scorch, at points sounding something like Abner Jay's one-man band plays the songs of James Chance beneath a slab of heavy form-scuppering concrete. Totally deformed/mush-mouthed vocals, skipping, caveman rhythms, a candy-thick atmosphere: a whole planet of unknown tongue. Edition circa 200 in full-colour printed sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and bonus sticker. Highly recommended. |
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Avarus
Rarity: OOP 2004 release, limited to 400 copies, from this Finnish behemoth featuring Islaja. |
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C. Joynes
Rarity: Limited to 200 hand-numbered copies vinyl upgrade for what was originally a self-released CD-R on Joynes’ own label. Joynes’ tongue-in-cheek description of his music as Anglo-naïve/contemporary parlour guitar is actually pretty much on the mark in that he obviously comes out a of a tradition where both Bert Jansch and Davey Graham stand tall but there’s a magical, untutored quality to his playing that generates a hell of a lot more atmosphere and actual substance than a whole bunch of his bigger-name peers. Indeed, there are moments of such elusive beauty on this great side that a track like “Grey Eyes” almost feels like the first genuine follow-up to the beautiful sonic portraiture of Loren Mazzacane’s Hell’s Kitchen Park . A collection of cover versions, traditionals, improvisations and hill-top recordings, this tops even the recent Bo’Weavil disc. Recommended. |
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Christina Carter
Rarity: original first edition with hand-written inners and hand-numbered 30/100 copies, this is a stunning live recording from Christina Carter of Charalambides/Scorces etc, recorded at Sound Exchange Houston in 2003. Very rare. In sprayed cases with individually handmade sleeves. |
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Ex-Cocaine
Totally beautiful psychedelic fuzz monster from this Montana duo that features Bryan Ramirez, John Olson of Wolf Eyes’ old sparring partner in Universal Indians, Plants et al. Limited edition with full-colour art from Maya Miller of Double Leopards in the usual suave Heavy Tapes style. |
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Failing Lights
Rarity: Brand new solo radiation from Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes, Hair Police et al on Mike Bernstein of Double Leopards' imprint. Looped conveyor belts of tiny metal tracks are punctured by rattlesnake tones and steel blades of stumpy Morse code while fleets of black, tattooed helicopters come to a sticky halt in clouds of thick, flashing boo. Comes with a great full-colour printed cover by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and bonus sticker. Edition circa 200. |
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Henry Flynt & The Insurrectionists
Rarity: Recorded in 1966, I Don’t Wanna is one of the most remarkable archival unearthings yet to emerge from the camp of minimalist composer, conceptual artist and sub-cultural bulwark Henry Flynt, nine primitive blues refusals cut by a basement cell led by Flynt on guitar and vocals and featuring keyboardist Art Murphy, Paul Breslin on acoustic bass (always the most protesting of instruments) and sculptor Walter De Maria on drums. 1966 was also the year of Flynt’s remarkable Raga Electric and the associative moonshiner vocals and feral, untutored guitar style that illuminated that particular solo session provides the basic map co-ordinates for much of I Don’t Wanna. Flynt reputedly took guitar lessons from Lou Reed round about this time and while his style is a little more enervated than Reed’s amphetamine force chord solos, there’s plenty of “I Heard Her Call My Name” type ostrich guitar here, with Flynt’s open-tunings allowing him to dig deep into the most barbed tonalities of instrument, matching skeletal solo shapes with droning metal hoedowns and scrabbly rags that most resemble the idiot-avant attack of prime Half Japanese. Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies. OOP. |
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Hijokaidan
Rarity: original edition of one of the key Japanese noise LPs, Hijokiadan's 1983 Viva Angel LP, their second official album. Viva Angel is a classic primitive noise/rock rite from an early trio line-up featuring Jojo Hiroshige, T.Mikawa and Naoto Hayashi. Hysterical vocals ala Sun City Girls/Oshiri Pen Penz, totally squelchy levels of feedback destruction, formless rock gush at its most ecstatically overdriven, heavy psychedelic rock and moments of almost Lynchian body-horror sonics. Comes with the elusive insert. Vinyl: EX+/Sleeve EX +. |
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Matt ‘MV’ Valentine
Rarity: “A-side is a dusty gem of a solo track, unearthed on a mysterious Space Shanties-era tape reel last new years day, and now presented to the masses after quite a time lapse. A prime slice seeped in the lo-fi analog glow of Tower Recordings, with MV spilling some lucid lyrics & smokey vibes. B-side is a more recent counterpoint, a bit more bent on the rural/spectra solo wandering of his most zoned & serene acoustic/electric back porch pickings. Sweet vibrations, folks... packaged in a two tone heavy textured art paper cover, with silver/blue/black offset printing & silver/blue labels. Edition of 550 copies.” – TL. |
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Mike Shiflet
Rarity: Hand-numbered limited to 100 double cassette set with full-colour sleeve by Maya Miller, released on the Double Leopards own Heavy Tape imprint. Three sides of extended synthesised noise/drone flux and a fourth Workbench/‘stasis style' remix that takes you all the way there from this key Columbus-based thinker. Packaged in a chunky double-cassette box. Volcanic Tongue is the exclusive European outlet for all Heavy Tapes product. |
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Moon Duo
New 1st edition limited black vinyl self-released EP from the Wooden Shjips crew, this time a solo off-shoot from Ripley Johnson. This EP has kind of a similar feel to those great, early 12”s from Spacemen 3 where they would extend a single riff to infinity. The A side here is a classic Velvets/Spacemen repeat-o jam with flares of ostrich guitar while the flip lifts a muzzy teen-stoopid organ riff ala The Seeds/Music Machine that heads-out into the kind of eternal brain-floating mode of “Up In Her Room”. Very limited supply. |
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Painting Petals On Planet Ghost
1-sided 12" lathe + DVD-R hand-cut by Peter King in New Zealand and pressed in a hand-numbered edition of only 50 copies, with an original gold-ink drawing by Ramona Ponzini on the flip and a silent short film by Roberto Opalio on the DVD, inspired by the music and art, playable together or separately. "This 15 minutes song is the key-work follow up to their acclaimed debut album on Time-Lag Records. Here Roberto and Maurizio Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, act in the darkness of the outer space, while Ramona Ponzini lights up the autumnal air with her enchanting voice, along with her Japanese percussions and wind chimes; by reitering one only Japanese word (whose meaning is 'Ocean'), she creates a universe of pure magic. Radical minimalism, folk, psychedelia are the main terms that rule this mysterious chant and intimate prayer; but what you'll find here is extremely far from any unuseful relation with what you already know, representing 'Oounabara' a totally still unknown dimension of what the music of today should be: a window on Tomorrow.” – Opax. |
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Peter Brotzmann
Rarity: Beautiful copy of the original second volume of this wild FMP set led by Peter Brotzmann and featuring pianist Fred Van Hove and percussionist Han Bennink. Massive. From 1974. Vinyl: Ex++/Sleeve: Ex++. |
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Peter Brotzmann
Rarity: Beautiful copy of the original first volume of this wild FMP set led by Peter Brotzmann and featuring pianist Fred Van Hove, trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff and percussionist Han Bennink. Massive. From 1974. Vinyl: Ex++/Sleeve: Ex++. |
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Predator Vision
Rarity: Second installment of extended psych rock bliss from this pro-guitar Ducktails offshoot. The level of third eye-focused six string action and pulsing monochord structure would immediately align them with the whole Ash Ra Tempel/Cosmic Couriers school of brain-blot but the way they handle a wah-wah pedal, not to say the dense, murky production style also gives the nod to the whole Twisted Village vision of psych rock freed from structural constraints and fully liberated by the formal lessons of punk. This is great, unpolished psych hunch that should appeal to anyone who digs the Spectator label, heavy Kraut, modern psych et al… limited release on the Ducktails imprint. |
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Ramleh
Rarity: Original copies of a beautifully destroyed 1994 side from this revered underground UK free/noise group with connections to Skullflower and the whole Broken Flag scene. Released on Hasan Gaylani of Jazzfinger’s long-defunct Format Supremacy imprint. Recommended. |
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Sandoz Lab Technicians
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Sick Llama
Rarity: Packaged in a sprayed corrugated-card slipcase with full-colour insert and limited to 77 hand-numbered copies, Empty Kingdom compiles a bunch of live-to-tape and studio creations from Heath Moerland’s face-tripping noise project. One of the most primitive, hands-on free electronics units outside of Nautical Almanac, Sick Llama make totally evocative use of broke-down media and tape rot to conjure the sound of yr brain bouncing slowly down a flight of cotton wool steps. This is another beauty, some of the most damaged and claustrophobic bad-trip psychedelia you’ll ever dose yrself with. Recommended. OOP. |
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Sick Llama
Last in the Alien Facial series from Heath Moerland's Sick Llama project, sounding more and more like a consumptive Space Machine, elbow-deep in a puddle of florescent circuit board. Watch out for the first three volumes soon on Gods Of Tundra, Heavy Tapes and American Tapes. This one is a numbered “cough syrup I.V edition” of 77 copies in full colour sleeves. |
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The No-Neck Blues Band
Rarity: OOP 2005 double LP from NNCK. Still one of their best sounding records, with plenty of minimal, creep-crawling keyboards and some of their heaviest, most hypnotic rock moves. |
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Tobias Petterson
Rarity: Warehouse find of a bunch of copies of this eye-popping book, long out of print: Anyone who has spent any amount of time immersing themselves in the recent deluge of potent Swedish psych/prog releases - the amazing Baby Grandmothers CD/LP, the Trad Gras Och Stenar DVD et al - is gonna want to put a weekend aside to wrestle with this monster. Lovingly compiled by Tobias Petterson, this huge hardback compiles every obscure psych/prog/acid folk/avant garde release to come out of Sweden in the glory years of 1967-79 and comes with full colour repros of every single sleeve, a full write-up with biographical details and a rarity scale. Scattered throughout the book are some amazing colour pictures of benign outdoors Be-Ins with beautiful hippies smoking pot in the afternoon sun and jamming on electric guitars as well as collections of memorabilia, press releases, repros of concert announcements, complete label discogs for the legendary Silence label etc. It almost looks as good as Barry Miles' amazing Hippie book! To top it all off, the book comes with a CD featuring a three-part unreleased jam by the always explosive Baby Grandmothers. Highly recommended. |
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Tony Conrad & Alexandria Gelencser/Edward Ka-Spel
Rarity: First volume of the Lactamase 10" record series from BLRR, a split 10" that sees minimalist godfather Tony Conrad in a zoned violin/cello duet with Alexandria Gelencsser on the A and solo surrealist/industrial psych from Edward Ka-Spel on the flip. Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies with insert, coupon and bookmark flier for Conrad's Texas Tour '99. OOP. |
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Walter Carson & Three Legged Race
Rarity: New wretchedly destroyed primitive rock ascension from Robert Beatty of Hair Police/Eyes And Arms Of Smoke and collaborator Walter Carson. One of the most repeat-killing Heavy Tapes blats to date, with full colour artwork by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and the usual classy HT production job. |
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White Heaven
Rarity: out of print single from this legendary Tokyo underground psych group led by You Ishihara and featuring Michio Kurihara on lead guitar, Soichiro Nakamura on rhythm guitar, Koji Shimura on bass and Ken Ishihara on drums. From 1994, on Corrupted’s label. |
