artist:
SubArachnoid Space
title: Eight Bells
price: $15
num: CBR81
label: Crucial Blast
format: CD
Eight Bells is the first new release from Subarachnoid
Space in four years (following 2005's The Red Veil on
Strange Attractors). Featuring the recording lineup of
Daniel Barone, Melynda Jackson, Lauren K. Newman, Daniel
Osborne and Steven Wray Lobdell, the music of Eight Bells
continues in the heavy lysergic vein as their last couple
of post-Release albums, fusing wicked metallic crunch
with ethereal fx-laden guitar freakouts and some of the
band's most narcotized jamming yet.
Their last couple of records pointed towards a heavier
direction for the band, and this new material continues
on that trajectory, combining blazing luminous axe-howl
over hypnotic heavy acid riffage and dense squalls of
fx-stacked sound. The album comes in at just under 40
minutes, and is packaged in another one of Crucial Blast's
high quality visual presentations with stunning new artwork
from Stephen Kasner.
artist:
THEME
title: Valentine (Lost) Forever
price: $15
num: HCB 023
label: Heart & Crossbone
format: CD
The third album from Theme, a band comprised of Stuart
Carter, Jeanne Boyer and Richard Johnson (from'90s influential
industrial-experimental band Splintered and head of the
Lumberton Trading Company label), is a hallucinogenic
intersection, where the exploration of twilight spaces,
dreams, bitter reflections and hopes collide with a sense
of escape (to better places?) or an abandoned 'self',
either lost or searching for much needed identity. More 'song'-based than their previous
album, on Valentine (Lost) Forever Theme often witnesses
barbed yet oblique words cut-up and formed into mantras
over a mesh of cascading drones, textures, blissed-out
guitar strums, submerged tamboura, metallic sheets of
electronic frah, occasional drum pounds and chilling swells
'n' flecks of musique concrete. Overall, it catches the
group exploring their environment, in more senses than
one, with renewed vigour and nothing but questions left
either open-ended or vying for interpretation. It's a
world of rubble, dust and sprawling collapse, psychological
or otherwise, screaming for meaning and purpose in a world
gone mad where inner conflicts, vulnerability and regret
are drowned in vast existential pools... With an additional
remix by ex-Siouxsie & the Banshees bass player Steven
Severin, this genuine album offers an apocalyptic sound
mirage that recalls the experimental and post industrial
works of :Zoviet*France, Throbbing Gristle and Coil, as
well as the occult-like numbness of Current 93, the bleak
avant-electronica of Andrew Liles and the psychedelic
drones furrowed by the group's own previous work in both
Splintered and Theme. In that sense, Valentine (Lost)
Forever is a definite masterpiece in the ever-evolving
legacy of the U.K. industrial scene, and if this is the
end, then it's time to burn the truth.
artist:
Raxinasky
title: The Anti-apopathodiaphulatophobicoustical Days
price: $15
num: HCB 019, SKRR003, CORRUPTION 8, none, SH54, none,
none, NPR002
label: Heart & Crossbone, Skyr Records, Amertume Records,
Ocinatas Industries, Shifty Records, Obscuresombre Records,
Amanita, Nothing Positive Records
format: CD
A brutal slap in the face coming your way from Belgium's
Raxinasky. With six tracks, representing six cathartic
days in less than 45 minutes, Raxinasky are taking their
multi-ultra-anti-musical and hateful attitude one step
further into a sonic battlefield of nihilist prog-core,
slanted death metal, deranged NO-WAVE and mutant grindcore
revolts.
artist:
Sum Of R
title: S/T
price: $16
num: URCD025
label: Utech Records
format: CD
Switzerland’s Sum of R is Reto Ma¨der (RM74) and Christoph
Hess and Roger Ziegler (Herpes O¨ Deluxe) constructing/deconstructing
sound in ways that infest and cloud the interior of the
mind. The implements: electronics, bass guitar, piano,
drums, harmonium and Lenco turntables. The science: deep
pulsations, organic drones, melodic feedback accompaniment,
vinyl loops, analog sound sources, reversed audio, haunting
vocal treatments. The sum: a living, breathing organism
that sustains varied levels of function without ever losing
its holistic unity. Presented in a heavy black matte sleeve
printed with silver ink. Includes silver/black fold out
insert. Photography by Rik Garrett
artist:
Ur
title: Trieb
price:$15
num: TP017
label: Topheth Prophet
format: CD
artist:
SACHIKO
title: zUnya
price:$15
num: MA006
label: MUSIK ATLACH
format: CD
Sachiko
is voice performer with psychedelic drone (ex Kousokuya,
Overhang Party). This album is live recording played in
summer, 2008.
This is different from studio albums which is rich in
the variety, her voice is modest expression and she concentrates
into performance of drone, she develops psychedelic sound
concerning the organic and the hypnosis.
artist: To Blacken The Pages
title: North price: $15 num: C005 label: Colony Records
format: CD Building on from To Blacken the Pages’ relentless
creative output, ‘NORTH’ sees the band step forward
in a major way − significantly progressing the development
of their sound. NORTH is TBTP’s most ferocious work
to date, focusing on the dynamics of pure guitar overdriven
sounds, while also witnessing a greater space and dynamic
in the work. Give
to the sea’ sees McAree singing for the first time on
a TBTP release, relaying a tender fear of the ocean,
while backed up by a furious and ever rising swell of
guitars. 'To be Dead', the title inspired by a Patrick
Kavanagh poem, sees a deep drum machine and crushing
bass knock out a deep pulse in the background while
the guitars lock head to head in a 15 minute exploration
of screaming harmonics, while 'I am screes on her escarpments'
features a title borrowed from another Irish poet, Seamus
Heaney. 'Night Drive' begins the ride out on this intense
record, slowing the pace down but never once letting
go of the ferocity within. Locked within this cacophony
of noise is a beauty and tenderness which at once compliments
and negates the other.
artist: Suishou No Fune
title: Phantom of the Eternal Night price: $13 num: TRCD-07 label: there
artist: Suishou No Fune
title: The Gold Labyrinth price: $19.7 num: BN041CD label: Blossoming Noise
format: CD Tokyo's
Suishou no Fune deliver their latest masterpiece, The
Gold Labyrinth. Featuring the four piece of Pirako Kurenai,
Kageo, Takuya Nishimura, & Kiyasu. Edition of 300
in gold digipaks.
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artist: Suishou No Fune
title: Live / Jam Session At Lemur House price: $21 num: archiveDVD6 label: aRCHIVE
format:
DVD Pictured
above and to left Suishounofune DVD. A collection of
material filmed and edited by James Plotkin from 2007
US east coast dates from NYC, and Philadelphia. Also
includes a short clip of a jam session from the Lemur
house with Bardo Pond guys and Harmonica Dan. Total
run time of about an hour. Comes housed in a large four
panel foldout cover slipped inside a custom sized 10mil
PVC sleeve. Pressing of 600.
artist: ROMA AMOR
title: S/T price: $19 num: OECD 106 label: OLD EUROPA CAFE
format: CD Charming
Italian Neo Cabaret’n’Folk band with intense deep female
voice, poignant accordion, essential guitar, tough bass
and velvety percussions.
An eleven-cut debut including an amazing cover version
of Jacques Brel’s Next !
Romantic songs with a taste of Italian folk tradition
and rough cabaret stuff from nostalgia up to present.
format: CD Poochlatz debut CD from Israel.- a limited edition
of only 999 copies. Ultra
noise distortion with; Maor Appelbaum: bass and production,
Rani Zager: distorted vox
format: 2CD From Tokyo's urban wasteland comes a full-frequency
onslaught of overdriven saxophone, guitar, hurdy-gurdy
and drums, hurtling in real time towards a gleaming
mass of free-rock gumbo. Images of mescaline-coated
landscapes, gigantic bumblebees and tambouras crashing
in outer space swoop down to lick the shamanic brainstem...
Members and multi-instrumentalists TOMO (hurdy gurdy,
saxophone, electronics), Cal Lyall (guitar, electronics)
and Nobunaga Ken (drums) are stalwarts of the Tokyo
free noise scene, and bring their collective grit to
their new CD, Elegy for Native Tongues, a double CD
set featuring one live disc and one studio disc.
artist:TOMO(Transcendental
Organic Magical Objective)
title: dance suite (rondo)/music for butoh dance price: $10 num: label:self-release
format: CDR
The suite was produced for actual performance of Butoh
dance in 2006, consists 4 parts of theme. Overall, it
is electro-acoustic work with using electronics and
many of ethnic folk instruments. Also, the voice performer,
Keiko Higuchi is featured in first and second tracks.
format: CDR
The CD-R contains 3 tracks. “white dwarf”, the cosmic
minimal work of hurdy gurdy with massive analogue tape
delay and loop machine. “the esoteric conversation”
shows dark image of sound with enigmatic mantra and
metal percussion. And, “sunflowers under the curved
rainbow” is the ambient and emotional piece of work.
format: CDR
Electro-acoustic work with voice, acoustic guitar, and
ethnic folk instruments, contains 5 tracks and was produced
in year of 2006
artist:Silvester
Anfang
title: Levend Op De Brandstapel price: $9.5 num: label:Skulls
of Heaven
format: CDR
Belgium's premier house-band of the post-apocalyptic
hellfire club known as Funeral Folk. This particular
installment in their ongoing macabre musico-theatre
finds Silvester Anfang tripping over the bloated corpse
of Acid Rock. Conjuring the zombie spirits of Jimi Hendrix,
Phil Lynott, Pigpen and John Bonham, Silvester Anfang
transform into a supergroup acid hex, pumping out murky
clouds murky cloud of fuzz-wah and terribly damaged
atmosphere. In some ways this is the most heavy and
sickening manifestation of SA yet.. Bitter and short,
simple and sick, is this the new means to an end for
our favorite Funeral Folks?
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OF STOCK
artist:Siegmer
Fricke
title: Subdural Space price: $11.5 num:S;E;X59-031CDR label:Kubitsuri
Tapes
format: CD
artist:The
Stargazer's Assistant
title: Shivers and Voids price: $14 num:URCD018
/ URSK4 label:Utech
Records
format: CD David J. Smith (Guapo, Miasma & The Carousel
Of Dead Horses) releases a second set of recordings
as The Stargazer's Assistant. Following The Other Side
of the Island on Aurora Borealis, Shivers and Voids
is a union of instrument, voice and tape. A soundtrack
left waiting for th e
right film to accompany it through the dark. Sweeping,
intricate, sometimes ominous, yet always exuding a warmth
of emotion. Ancient forests, vast plains, billowing
clouds, rusted metal hulks, wet rock walls, lights flickering
in darkness. The Stargazer's Assistant reveals all this
to us.
artist:SOUTH
SATURN DELTA
title: experience the concreteness price: $18 num:CSR80CD label: Cold Spring
format: CD This is South Saturn Delta's debut album, featuring
their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005,
in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup,
formed in 2003, with guitar and voice from Maso Yamazaki
(Masonna), synth and voice from Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro,
C.C.C.C.) and drums from Nobuko Emi (Tsurubami). An
extreme psychedelic noise trip over 4 lengthy tracks.
artist:The
Rita & Wilt
title: Werewolf In The Black Space price: $14 num:sic
44 label: Cipher Productions
format: CD murderous rampaging The Rita material shaped, shrouded
and clouded by Wilt
format: CD Japanese vocalist and instrumentalist Sachiko (Overhang
Party, Vava Kitora, Kosokuya) looses a second, white-hot
solo release. Her brilliant debut You Never Atone For
on There/Musik Atlach rode gilded wings straight to
the heart of the psych sun. The journey continues with
Kunado. A tincture of Taj Mahal Travellers, wispy oscillations
and lysergic vocals bathes the recording in delicate
atmosphere as Sachiko's sonic attack leaves vicious
and harrowing results. A listen not soon forgotten.
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OF STOCK
artist:Suishou No Fune
title: Writhing Underground Flowers price: $15 num:TLS
202 label: The Lotus Sound
format: CD
artist:Suishou No Fune
title: The Light Of Dark Night price: $15 num:archive39 label: aRCHIVE
format: CD
artist:OVERHANG PARTY
title: Live Before and After 2004-2006 price: $21 num: TRCD-MA002-003 label: there-MUSIK ATLACH
format: 2CD
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OF STOCK
artist:OVERHANG PARTY/Michel+Rinji+Kumiko
title: Live at U.F.O. CLUB May 20, 2006 price: $14 num: TRDVD-MA001
label: there-MUSIK ATLACH
format: DVD
Compilation live DVD Overhang Party and Michel Henritzi+Fukuoka
Rinji duo with projectionist Kumiko Karino.
