artist:
BEN NASH & SOPHIE COOPER
title: Alchemy
price: $10
num: BRR130
label: Blackest Rainbow
format: CD
Recorded over a weekend back in the early months of 2009, here are 2 tracks of multi instrumental composition from Ben Nash and Sophie Cooper (CooperJones). The music here is truly beautiful, personally I think this is some of the best work to come from both Ben and Sophie so far. Total late night guitar meanderings blurred with a haze of deep churning scrapes from various instruments and layered drone bliss, creating 2 totally immersive and beautiful psychedelic drone. Some of the guitar playing here has a beautiful Loren Connors mets Ry Cooder Paris Texas era sound, and then when both Ben and Sophie reach for the gee-tars you have the beautiful mix of Ben's reflective electric blues and Sophie's purely relaxed acoustic musings, totally fantastic. This really has it down for me as something truly different, lets hope that they continue to record as this duo. I certainly cannot wait for more... Glass mastered pro pressed CD (not cdr) in pro printed full colour card wallet, one time pressing of 1000. Co-released with Ben's own Recollections of Knulp label. ecorded over a weekend l.
artist:
The Division
title: Mantras
price: $15
num: LENS0104
label: Lens Records
format: CD
Matthew Schultz has unveiled his newest endeavor, The Division. This sound project is a reconstruction of ancient spells and rituals reinterpreted aurally by one of the leading dark ambient artists of our time.
With this newest disc - Mantras - Schultz has delved into the esoteric and ancient fraternal order of The Division. He has reinterpreted the traditional texts and scores of the order to create a beautifully dynamic and sometimes disturbing disc that synthesizes world music, dark ambient and magick or Matgick. Mantras is the first in a trilogy of discs that express all the aspects of The Division.
artist:
Encomiast
title: s/t
price: $13
num: LENS0016
label: Lens Records
format: CD
Encomiast have been harvesting an audience of enthusiastic music fans for almost a decade now. With six full-length releases, 2 EP’s and half a dozen compilation appearances, Encomiast are one of the most highly regarded and prolific artists in the dark ambient/drone genre. For this Self-titled CD - Encomiast mined their extensive early recordings and un-released material to compile, edit and re-master six tracks that give a glimpse into where it all started. Lens Records released Encomiast’s Winter's End CD in 2001 - a release recently described as ‘a delirious blend of dark dreamy blackened drones and shimmering cinematic ambience’ - the tracks on Self-titled revisit much of the same sonic territory.
artist:
Damiano Mercuri
title: European Music And Ballads From Renaissance And Baroque Era
price: $17
num: Folk 001
label: The Eastern Front
format: CD
Damiano Mercuri (Rose Rovine E Amanti) plays Renaissance and Baroque epoch ballads and courtesy music. Damiano Mercuri is known as neofolk artist but being a professional classical musician Damiano virtuously played and recorded famous in Renaissance and early Baroque era ballads and classical pieces.
artist:
Gregorio Bardini / Thierry Jolif
title: Kantalon
price: $17
num: Folk 002
label: The Eastern Front
format: CD
Kantalon is an ancient Gaelic word, it refers, in this old Celtic tongue, to the «chant» but also to the lessons that the druids were teaching to their pupils. This name has been found engraved on a votive pillar, so we could see a symbolical link traced between the knowledge the druids were transmitting through the oral, and often singing, courses and the pillar rooted deeply in the soil and with his peak touching to the skies, sacred domain of the invisible. By the years has been transmitted in the old Celtic land of Brittany, many popular song in the Celtic local tongue. Of course those songs they had nothing to do (or so far) with the teachings of the ancient druids, but often they are also «lessons». Lessons about events of the past times, mainly sad events, stories of crimes, of battles, of losing ... Sometimes the exact subject of the story is not so easy to recognize, sometimes the words are quite obscure in their meaning but most of the times, with a little feeling of what really means symbolism, we are able to find the real and concrete spiritual meaning of the song. As the Kantalon is rooted into a particular soil so we are, and those songs are too, they belong to us because we belong to this particular ground and country even if we are living in a time far away from the time in which they were created. So we took those songs not «as they were», but as they could be now, with all the musical background we had inside of us. We had worked on this distance between their origin and us as a real musical matter. Our aim was not to try to do a kind of mix between medieval music and modern one but to express the spiritual reality and complexity of those lyrics and melodies into our own musical field as if those songs made a travel through time and had to pass through the filters of modern music (experimental, concrete, classical, free-jazz, industrial ... and so on) to reach our brains and our instruments.
artist:
BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD
title: Grass Openings
price: $15
num: iku-014 / PacificSoma 001
label: PacificSoma / Ikuisuus
format: CD
After numerous CDs, CDRs, cassettes and LPs, Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood have established themselves as one of the many lights in modern improvised outsider music. Their latest offering, ‘Grass Openings’ sees them continue down this winding path of intoxicated trance derangement. Drawing heavily from psychedelic, jazz and weirdo traditions to create a unique form of mutant sound.
artist:
Century Plants
title: Inversions
price: $12
num: IS-024
label: Ikuisuus
format: CDR
Latest from Albany guitar duo whose six string damaging has often shred the guitar beyond recognition. For this outing, however, Century Plants plug in, and allow their guitars to be guitars. Psych raga, melting icebergs of roaring drone, metallic strum and clang, oceanic melody and even a helping of pastoral song melody separate this from previous smash ups. Hardiman and Hare create these hypnotic states from the ground up, building their sound out of pure improvisation.
artist:
Atomine Elektrine
title: Nebulous
price: $17
num: ESS007
label: Essence Music
format: CD
The trancey beats and sacral atmosphere of Binomial Fusion are past and widely replaced by a truly out-of-body, deeply layered and dynamic cosmic experience in form of a masterful ambience filled with energy outbursts, synthetic movements and algorithmical rhythms. An aural projection for a detailed exploration of nebulas, black holes, exploding stars and unknown deep corners of the cosmos.
Very much influenced by the electronic side of the kraut scene and with the ability of imposing his very own classic trademark, Andersson sets a new stone and makes Nebulous one of the greatest albums related to this genre since the early 70's.
artist:
Alvk Todolo
title: Finsternis
price: $15
num: URCD022, URSK8
label: Utech Records
format: CD
Aluk Todolo are a recondite creature. Part okkult black
metal fiend and part snide kraut menace. Somehow the doppelganger
works and Finsternis proves for a second time there is
brilliance in the absence of light. Dry, spare percussion
grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated
guitar and bass. Finsternis is the German word for eclipse,
mimetic of cyclic elements, phases and unphases, endless
rebeginnings, broken circles and perfect circles. A dangerous,
noxious coil of all things black.
artist:
Blood Fovntains
title: Floods
price: $15
num: URCD023, URSK9
label: Utech Records
format: CD
There is no beginning, there is no end, only perpetual
oscillation between experience, memory and gravity. Emotion
propels our lives, connected to one another and all things
through infinity. Floods reaches inward, to the icy depths
of the heart to touch and to return with ancient elements
unfolding in spectral bliss and horror. Reality of pain
and agony is equally married with yearning, dreaming and
joyous exaltation. Stephen Kasner evokes a fully-realized
painting-to-music translation, with collaborations by
David Beaver, Mat Woods, Cheryl Pyle and the vexing vocals
of Yoshiko Ohara (Bloody Panda). Floods calls forth a
remarkable section of time and feeling, simultaneously
compressed and unfurling. A frozen monster of memories,
hope and love, and a constant reminder of death's door.
Seamless, endless, connected energy. These are fragments
of hauntings within us all. We must always remember.
artist:
Black Leather Jesus
title: Yes, Sir (Filth Play)
price: $14
num: MS-020
label: Mask Of The Slave
format: CD
The great new album from the legendary Texas based noise
band formed in 1989! The 20th Anniversary album! The band
was founded by Richard Ramirez. Currently, it also includes
Kevin Novak (TEF), Sean Matzus (The Secret Geography/ITLOA),
Scott Houston(Respirator/S.P.I.T.), Vance Osborne (Murex/ITLOA),
with occasional assistance by Jovan Hernandez (ze'r0-sum/Anatomy
of a Blackout). Pro CD in normal jewel case limited to
500 copies.
artist:
D9
title: S/T
price: $15
num: HCB 021, UDR 003
label: Heart & Crossbone, Urban Decay
format: CD
Named after one of the most imaginative and infamous key
roles in the Israeli occupation, D9 is as merciless as
this monstrous bulldozer, ramming reality in its' forehead
with their post apocalyptic hectic predictions, directed
towards the Israeli state and the worlds' systematic moral
corruption, fueling their fury with an offensive portion
of old school hardcore punk, and generating this boiling
wrath into an original crushing blend of sly grindcore
and bare boned power violence hostility, with a fair amount
of devastating sludgy riffage and obscure electronic noise
intervals to make their squashing sound even more quirky
and disturbing.
artist:
Gnaw Their Tongues
title: All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity
price: $15
num: CBR78
label: Crucial Blast
format: CD
Picking up where 2008's An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood
left off, Gnaw Their Tongues is back with nine new tracks
of fearsome blackened orchestral chaos and abstract horror
that still sounds like little else out there. On Dread,
we're feeling an even heavier bass-assault compared to
the other releases, and this is easily the heaviest Gnaw
Their Tongues release yet. This monstrous, noxious bottom-end
roar that skulks and slithers throughout the album suggests
a foul fusion of Abruptum (which is still the closest
reference point to Gnaw Their Tongue's black chaos) and
Leonard Rosenman's most nightmarish film scores, piled
in towering heaps of sadistic noise, warped orchestral
strings, degraded samples, shrieking voices, and punishing
lurching doom draped in suffocating atrmosphere.
artist:
Grey Daturas
title: Dead In The Woods
price: $15
num: CBR62
label: Crucial Blast
format: CD
A re-issue of the out-of-print 2004 monsterpiece from
the Melbourne, Australian trio Grey Daturas. Originally
released through the band's own Crashing Jets imprint,
Dead In The Woods is a massive exhortation of lumbering
metallic sludge rock, freely improvised amplifier noise
and crushing riff splatter, and massive, sky-streaking
psychedelic corrosion. The Crucial Blast re-issue of Dead
In The Woods features a full remastering by Scott Hull
at Visceral Sound, and will also come with a brand new
packaging design via a 4-panel case printed by Stumptown
Printers.
artist:
Agnus Dei
title: Paternoster
price:$15
num: CBR62
label: MUSIK ATLACH
format: CD
Funeral dark drone project by Naomi Hoca which plays sound
to dedicate to the dead based on old sacred songs and
religion music.
She dedicated mass at church and devoted herself to religion
ancient music of the Renaissance deeply in the Middle
Ages of West Europe.
She is affected by the works of mysticism artists and
she tries expression of the new religion music that went
over the east and west from Khristian faith and the point
of view of the pagan.
Her sound consists of drone, quotation, sacred song and
her vocalization, condolence to a victim forgotten by
war is dedicated to the sound.
TRACKS:
1. Paternoster
2. Holocaust missa
artist: BLACK TO COMM / DATASHOCK
title: Collaboration price: $12 num: IS-020 label: Ikuisuus
format: CDR "Incredible,
spooky-spiritual-drone masterpiece by the most hip German
experimentalists Black to Comm (Mark Richter) and the
free-noise group Datashock companied by new member Marcel
Tu¨rkowsky. Here all together creating a flavor of blissen
alien soundscapes, whirling on, changing and evolving
all the time, generating hyperzonic tensions inside
the crown-chakra so long that the eyes start to see
pulsating flames inside and outside your imagination.
Rich in Colour of sound and for sure not a restless
headfuck, but a stony stoned psychedelic vibration of
something spiritually exciting, something which reminds
the outer inner worlds, and how close they are. The
fog of the lake & the ghosts of the forgotten old
new days. Recorded nearby Berlin's Goldmund festival
in August 2007, in a place which used to be a summercamp
for kids in the times of GDR the point which alone may
cause the climbing in such a mystical level. Peaceful
& strange at the same time. Includes
9 minute Quicktime video by Renate Nikolaus.
artist: BOOK OF SHADOWS
title: 777 price: $14 num: none label: Ikuisuus
format: CD The
Book of Shadows CD 777 on the label Ikuisuus is the
bands seventh release. The band was formed in 1999 when
ST 37 founder Carlton Crutcher and his wife Sharon began
seeking a magical, improvisational musical outlet. The
band has stayed true to this vision for 9 years of live
shows, studio recordings and numerous musicians. All
of the recordings on 777 were recorded in 2007 and represent
a peak for Book of Shadows as a live band as well as
a studio band. For this CD, Sharon on vocals and Carlton
on keys, are joined by Eric Archer (Numbers on the Mast)
on guitar/electronics, long time Book of Shadows guitarist/composer
Aaron Bennack, guitarist Jonathan Horne (Plutonium Farmers),
Johnny McCollom (Primordial Undermind) on percussion,
Matt Thies (Numbers on the Mast) on keys/electronics,
Greg Elliott (Spagirus) on dulcimer, and Vanessa Rossetto
(The Mighty Acts of God, Bright Duplex, Pulga, etc...)
on viola, bowls and bells!!!....You are the magic that
you make....
artist: FOLKSTORM
title: The Forgotten Tapes [Archive Series 4 / 1997-2000] price: $19 num: OECD 114 label: OLD EUROPA CAFE
format: CD After
searching for an old Folkstorm recording in his vaults,
Nordvargr discovered more unreleased material than he
was looking for: old recordings from 1997 and 1998,
all previously unreleased !
Now, after more than 10 years, these old recordings
see the the light (?) of day.
This is all harsh gritty oldschool Folkstorm (the one
we like the more !), served up fresh and carefully remastered
from the original analogue tapes.
Also included are the four tracks that was intended
to be released as a spilt CD with LHD.
format: CD Like
demented twins in crime, Burmese (tUMULt / Load Records)
& Cadaver Eyes rephrase Doom, Grindcore and Power
Electronics by using an agonizing mechanism of plain
brutal aesthetics, ascending these genres to a higher
level of cognitive surge. This split CD is difficult
and pungent, a warm spew in the face and an endless
buzz in the eardrum that fiercely occupies the brain
and treats the grey cells as if they were an ashtray.
A crude awakening and a classic case of ponderous self
indulgence.
artist: GRAVE IN THE SKY
title: Cutlery Hits China price: $15 num: HCB - 015 label: Heart & Crossbone
format: CD The
Sludge-core scene is injected with a poison: Horror
movies DVD subtitles are being gargled and forced into
song lyrics, backed up by heavy poundings and black
metallic space-rock dirges, on this new release from
Rani Zager (Poochlatz /Lietterschpich), Maor Appelbaum
(Poochlatz/Sleepless/Screening) and Matan Shmuelly (Armilos).
Check this out if you're into Hey Colossus, Corrupted,
Gravitar, Darkthrone and Electric Wizard.
format: CD Juxtaposing noise-core, grind and doom, with strong
hints of black metal, it's hard to accept the fact that
Barbara's instrumental line-up is comprised only by
a drummer (David OPP A.K.A Cadaver Eyes) and a bass
player (Re-em H). Both of them also deliver the screams
and perverse whispers on their first album in four years,
a hectic and mindless anti-musical rupture. For fans
of Today Is the Day, VOG, Truman's Water, Burmese, Lightning
Bolt and Pig Destroyer. Doom Grind, 44
MIN, 999 copies.
format: CD Two
composition of "Impossible Equilibrium" and
"Contrary Trace". Endless wandering
of the extreme harsh noise which confused irregularly.
artist:The
Guilty Connector
title: Curved Dream In Town price: $18 num:S;E;X59-028CD label:Kubitsuri
Tapes
format: CD
artist:ASTRO/HIROSHI
HASEGAWA
title: echo from the purple dawn price: $18 num:imprec197 label: Important Records
format: CD The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full
length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo
project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring
modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created
an engaging and versitile album that masterfully drifts
between spaced out analog dream drone and a more extreme
form of harsher droning. As Astro Hasegawa is able to
combine some of the harsher influence of C.C.C.C. into
the world of analog space music to create the signature
sounds of Astro. Included is a live track recorded at
a festival at the Tokyo Keizai niversity organized by
Tetsuo Kogawa. Cover art designed by Important.
artist:GALAX
title: never ending space trackin' price: $18 num:archive37 label: aRCHIVE
format: CD 3 extended freeform space freakouts from Hiroshi
Hasegawa (cccc, astral traveling unity, astro) on synth
and ring modulator and Keiichi Miyashita (mandog) on
guitar and tape echo with a 1 track guest from Hiroshi
Higashi (acid mother temple) synth.all live content
from mid to late 2006 in japan.
artist: ASTRO, JAZKAMER, HAIR STYLISTICS
title: motorcycle fuck with the ghostrider price: $18 num:archive37 label: aRCHIVE
format: CD a completely violent little disc documenting this
live 2007 Tokyo performance pitting some really heavyweights
in the underground world of "noise" on stage
together. (Lasse Marhaug, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masaya Nakahara,
and John Hegre). Housed in center opening heavy stock
sleeve with circular diecut adorning with graphic work
from Mr. Lasse himself.
format: CD Psychedelic space music from Hiroshi Hasegawa of
the legendary japanese noise outfit C.C.C.C. Astral
Orange Sunshine was recorded between 2004 and 2007 using
the EMS Synthi as it's main sound generator.
format: CD painful, multi-edged ambientisharshfuckingnoise
with a bonus Grunt collab
artist: C.C.C.C.
title: chaos is the cosmos price: $18 num:CSR79CD label: Cold Spring
format: CD This cult Japanese Noise group is made up of Hiroshi
Hasegawa (Astro, South Saturn Delta), Mayuko Hino, Fumio
Kosakai (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants), and Ryuichi Nagakubo
(Tangerine Dream Syndicate). An absolutely essential
album for those with a penchant for extreme Japanoise.
Just under 45 minutes of music.
artist: C.C.C.C.
title: early works price: $46 num:NFP20 label: No Fun Productions
format: CD x 4 Box set from Japanese psychedelic noise legends
C.C.C.C. collecting unreleased live material,including
very early recordings from some of their first shows
in 1990 and their 1992 us tour, along some long unvailible
studio classics like the Phantasmagoria tape. Extensive
liner notes by original member Fumio Kosakai ( now in
Incapacitants,and many others) about the band beginings
and his take on the C.C.C.C. vision. An essential document
in the unique C.C.C.C. sound which Kosakai describes
best as "psychedelic, cosmic and erotic".
produced by C.C.C.C. founder Hiroshi Hasegawa. Extensive
audio restoration and mastering by James Plotkin. Comes
in delux slipcase box and digipack packaging.
OUT
OF STOCK
artist:ASTRO
& CORNUCOPIA title: drop out bones / shock therapy price: $14 num: RA002
label: Sonora
format: CDR
Massive collaboration from japanese psych-noise master
HIROSHI HASEGAWA (ex-C.C.C.C.) and Puerto Rico's power
drone duo Cornucopia. Two tracks, over 50 minutes.
