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Visit product page →released in 1986, was a blistering affair - establishing their love of the two-chord song and also expressing their admiration for the likes of MC5, The 13th Floor Elevators and The Stooges.
Sound of Confusion was 7 tracks of overdriven assault, with a strange bleakness and despair creeping through the hypnotic sprawl. R Hunter Gibson would later say: "It boosts the value of unlit rooms, unpaid debts and unfeigned terror and it would rather tackle the gradients than settle for level best.
Tracklisting
Side A:
1. Losing Touch With My Mind
2. Hey Man
3. Rollercoaster
4. Mary AnneSide B:
1. Little Doll
2. 2-35
3. O.D. Catastrophe -
Visit product page →Remarkable departure from the band's 1986 debut, SOUND OF CONFUSION.
Reduced to a trio (guitarists / keyboardists Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember, Jason "Spaceman" Pierce, and bassist Pete Bassman) following the departure of the first album's drummer, Spacemen 3 makes an asset out of the newfound lack of percussion, giving THE PERFECT PRESCRIPTION a considerably less rock-oriented sound with much more open space in its varied, subtle arrangements.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Take Me To The Other Side
2. Walkin' With Jesus
3. Ode To Street Hassle
4. Ecstasy SymphonySide B:
1. Feel So Good
2. Things'll Never Be The Same
3. Come Down Easy
4. Call The Doctor -
Visit product page →Brendan Finn, Joe Galarraga, Amar Lal, and Carlos Salguero Jr. met whilst learning about specifications of Cat 5 cables in New York City. Shortly after, they formed a band.
Big Ups blend punk, post-punk, metal, and indie rock into a salty mash that gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. At their brightest, they have been likened to The Descendents, but at their sludgiest, they call to mind bands like Pissed Jeans and The Jesus Lizard, albeit with an Albini-esque metallic clang.Their debut album, Eighteen Hours of Static, was recorded by Charles DeChants in the rock 'n' roll labyrinth known as Excello Recording in Brooklyn over three days.
The album is one characterised by aggressive mood swings. The band slows their usual frantic pace on the burner Wool ' a song about dealing with suffering. They toy with dynamics on white-knuckle grip of TMI, Little Kid, and Fresh Meat. But not to worry ' the mania is still there; first single Goes Black and Atheist Self-Help demand attention with their searing guitars and colossal drums.
Lyrically, the album is a meditation on truth, faith, and science (the record's title is a reference to Carl Sagan's Contact), but like all the best bands, Big Ups don't necessarily have all of the answers, but they'll keep asking the right questions¦Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Body Parts
2. Goes Black
3. Justice
4. Grin
5. WoolSide B:
1. TMI
2. Little Kid
3. Atheist Self-Help
4. Disposer
5. Fresh Meat
6. Fine Line -
Visit product page →Side A:
1. Auto Neutron
2. Is It Raining In Your Mouth?
3. Who Shot Lee Oswald?
4. With Out Consent
5. Special Ape!
6. Cream Of The YoungSide B:
1. Wild American Prairie
2. Borderline
3. Heaven On Earth
4. Bomb Disneyland
5. Garden Of The Numb -
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Infinite Light / Vibracathedral Orchestra 'Baptised By Intuition / Get It?'
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Visit product page →Vibracathedral drop straight into a heads down fully tranced narco-dust trail, with guitar-born fireflies leading the way through a never-changing backdrop heat haze of low-lying smoke-mist and earth-veined throb.
Fx tweets and rattlesnake percussion shakes as mystic keyboard spirits blow in a weightless drift. The first cut from Infinite Light is a section lifted from a show featuring Barry Dean on guitar, Mick Flower on guitar and organ and Pete Nolan jamming the traps, and its a full, free-rock, psych-out captured through a heavy veil of no-fi smog.
By the sounds of this they must have blasted open the trans-dimensional portal to some out-of-time temple rituals. Part two is the opposite, exchanging blasted group workout for a solo piece of harmonic guitar vignettes wrapped around a falsetto vocal cadence fluctuating at the point of saturation. Art by Barry Dean, design by Mick Flower.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Infinite Light – Baptised By Intuition
Side B:
Vibracathedral Orchestra – Get It? -
Visit product page →Beautifully self recorded heavy psych formally known as the Nackt Insecten Trio.
Featuring members of Lanterns, Eye Shaking Kingdom and the Sick Head Tapes decision maker.
Art by Zeloot, 180g vinyl.
Top flight three man cosmic research team further investigations on galactic flux and refraction with two transmissions of synesthetic mind-fold. Lift off with skyward string stasis cutting through buffeted drum-clouds and synthesiser atmosphere, cosmic forever vision peaks at warp-speed rocket drone, anti-gravity percussion accents and star scraping rainbow universes.
Saturating feedback zones spread webs of dimension amidst asteroid belt orbits, where two-way trips initiate zero g shimmer into the outer limit of the space ritual via ancient totems to the three moon cycles and the internal black hole smoke sacrifice.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Internal Future
Side B:
No Money No Nothing -
Visit product page →Perri made highly acclaimed electronic/drone music as Polmo Polpo in the early 2000s; played lap steel in Great Lake Swimmers; produces and engineers at his own Honey Pot studio in Toronto. As a producer, engineer and re-mixer Perri has worked for/with Owen Pallett & Grizzly Bear, Stephen Malkmus, Devon Sproule. Sandro Perri returns with his new full-length Impossible Spaces, four years after his previous (and criminally overlooked) album Tiny Mirrors.
The new record is a work of adventurous, progressive, playful and thoughtful songcraft ' expertly recorded, wonderfully fluid in its complexity, continually oscillating between catchy and elusive, and guided throughout by Perri's golden voice. Ronen Givony, the NYC-based music writer and curator offered to contribute an essay about Impossible Spaces and we were happy to oblige. Excerpts below: By definition, every music lover is also, inevitably, an evangelist.
That is to say: beyond the tiny group of artists that everyone more or less agrees on, there exists a perpetually overflowing pool of musicians who, for whatever reason, never quite manage to earn the audience and attention the evangelist believes them to deserve. It remains an open question, this thorny subject of art as oligarchy or meritocracy: whether deserving artists, regardless of resources, eventually do reach the audience they "deserve" '? whether it is in fact true, as the old saying goes, that the cream does ultimately rise to the top '? or if certain artists are unjustly consigned by the fates to recognition only late in their careers, or posthumously, if at all.
The very top of my own personal evangelical list is the Toronto songwriter Sandro Perri. Happily, Sandro's new album, Impossible Spaces '? his first release since 2007, and, not coincidentally, his most accomplished to date '? will, with any justice, achieve the work of proselytizing far better than me. Among the lively artistic community of Toronto, Sandro Perri, whose other musical projects include Polmo Polpo and Glissandro 70, is all but universally beloved as a musical treasure. Indeed, unprompted, many Toronto musicians will tell you that Sandro is the true best exemplar of that unique intersection that characterizes the city's omnivorous musical scene: partly improvised, partly composed, and roughly equal parts acoustic, electronic, melodic, noisy, rock, jazz, folk, classical, psychedelic, and experimental. On first listen, Impossible Spaces seems to position itself self-consciously as a collection of music about other music. In this sense, we can think of the album as one listener's personal map of music history, with various voices, phrases, and personalities materializing to guide a song for an instant before disappearing again.
Upon further listening, however, and true to its title, the album reveals itself as something more conflicted, and seemingly contradictory: a six-part meditation on the binaries of absence and presence, the possible and impossible, with a symmetrical internal structure reflecting this back-and-forth dialogue from one song to the next, and an emotional push-and-pull within the personality of the singer and songwriter himself...
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Love & Light (Panamyx By Larry Gus)
2. Wolfman (Sky Mix By Le Revelateur)Side B:
1. How Will I? (Outlook Mix By Imugem Orihasam) -
Visit product page →Includes a poster and a digital download code.
Side A:
1. Tower
2. Hero Brother
3. Dirt
4. You Are The Field
5. Breathing Black GroundSide B:
1. They Live On
2. Wrong Thought
3. Right Thought
4. Sprinter Fire
5. Forcelessness
6. Below -
Visit product page →CD digi /LP(180 gram).
COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile is the much-anticipated new installment of Matana Roberts' unique and forward-looking project and it finds Roberts conjuring some of the most nuanced, thoughtful and substantial American liberation music of the 21st century.
Mississippi Moonchile was developed for an intimately woven New York jazz sextet and represents the next leap forward in Roberts' iconoclastic and complex project of memory and recuperation, where historical and contemporary musical tropes, fragmentary spoken and sung narratives, and Matana's cascading alto saxophone are supported by prodigiously talented players.
Chapter Two unfolds as a cohesive album-length piece, playing with notions of dignity, rarefaction and restraint. The six players are in a perpetual motion of coalescence and divergence, where melodic themes, occasional ostinato passages, and variously deployed literal voices serve to rally the overriding theme of individual narratives and personal expressions as struggles with, celebrations of and threads within collective history.
The contortions of empowerment, pride, shame, suffering, eulogy, empathy, liberation and transcendence are Matana's raw material in the broadest and most specific senses; she has given this raw material another beautiful and compelling shape in the second chapter of the COIN COIN story.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Invocation
2. Humility Draws Down Blue
3. All Nations
4. Twelve Sighed
5. Spares Of The World
6. Secret Covens
7. River Ruby Dues
8. Confessor Haste
9. Amma Jerusalem School
10. For This IsSide B:
1. Responsory
2. The Labor Of Their Lips
3. Was The Sacred Day
4. Lesson
5. Woman Red Racked
6. Thanks Be You
7. Humility Draws Down New
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Sold outVisit product page →Limited edition of 500 on Green Vinyl!
DJ Sardena is a major player in the current Electro-Shaabi wave that has taken over Egypt in the past few years. Better known locally as Mahragan, Electro-shaabi is characterized by heavy auto-tuned loud vocals and beats featuring synthesizers and various electronic effects. Studio Sardena, located in the Matariya disctrict of Cairo, is home to a number of singers and produces dozens of tracks every month. This LP compiles 5 tracks representing Sardena's very special, stripped down and minimal Mahragan style featuring an array of major MC's such as Salsa El-Ageeb and Halabessa.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Baheya (DJ Sardena / Mic: Salsa El-Ageeb / Commentary: Esha El-Shawaly)
2. Baheya II (DJ Sardena / Mic: Salsa El-Ageeb)Side B:
1. El-Malaab (DJ Sardena / Mic: Salsa El-Ageeb / Commentary: Esha El-Shawaly)
2. Matestaghrabsh (DJ Sardena / Mic: Salsa El-Ageeb / Commentary: Halabessa)
3. Ayn Ashya'y (DJ Sardena & Figo / Mic: Salsa El-Ageeb & Ghandi)
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Sold outVisit product page →Reissue of an extremely rare and essential Sunroof! CDr released during a European Tour in 2003 on Matthew Bower's own imprint; Rural Electrification Program (REP).
On this LP, Bower is joined on guitar by Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra and Flower-Corsano Duo) and the result was once qualified as Sunroof's Rock record and its tribute to Neil Young and AC/DC (hence the title).
Rock Power is a very singular record because it documents a very short time period in the M. Bower / Sunroof! Evolution; between the dreamlike psychedelia of releases such as Cloudz or early Hototogisu, and the brutal sonic assault of later records such as Panzer Division Lou Reed, Spitting Gold Zebras or the more recent Skullflower outtings.
Tracklisting:
1. Rock Power Part 1
2. Rock Power Part 2
3. Rock Power Part 3
4. Rock Power Part 4
5. Rcok Power Part 5
6. Rock Power Part 6
7. Rock Power Part 7X -
Visit product page →Includes a poster and digital download code. CD digi /LP(180 gram).
Following several visits to the city over the years, Osama (Sam) Shalabi moved to Cairo in 2011, arriving at an apartment one block from Tahrir Square, in the midst of Egypt's 'Arab Spring'.
Shalabi describes The Big Mango, his new and phenomenal work for his Land Of Kush big-band, as "a love letter to Cairo" framed by "the beautiful, surreal madness of the city¦as joyous, horrific, historical events were unfolding".
The opening six minutes, a slowly brewing stew of free-improvised instrumentation, electronics, wordless vocalizations and oblique sexuality/sensuality, are an inimitable destabilizing strategy of Shalabi's that serves to introduce most of the instrumental voices and the montage of genres that will form the rest of the work, while also invoking the album's deeper conceptual preoccupations: gender, sexuality and the status of women as a culture unleashes seismic/revolutionary energies with the real possibility of attendant shifts in civil society and political structure.
In combination with the peaking intensity and electricity of Shalabi's compositional vision, The Big Mango coheres, sparkles and soars: a distillation of the sonic trajectory Land Of Kush has been charting for the past five years.
Tracklisting:
?Side A:
1. Faint Praise
2. Second Skin
3. The Pit
4. Sharm El BangoSide B:1. Mobil Nil2. St Stefano3. Drift Beguine4. The Big Mango -
Visit product page →Vinyl includes Download Card.
Fourth Album From Modern Contemporary / Instrumental Rock Ensemble Led By Percussionist Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) & Cellist Rebecca Foon (Silver Mt Zion, Saltland, Set Fire To Flames). Partly Recorded In Istanbul With Four Turkish Guest Players. Mixed By Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes, Wolf Parade, Suuns). When Esmerine surfaced with La Lechuza in 2011, the album signaled many things: the band's first new recordings in six years, an expanded line-up, and a song cycle inspired by and dedicated to the life and untimely death of a dear friend and fellow musician.
What wasn't immediately clear was whether this acclaimed record would mark the opening of a new chapter for the band, or stand alone as a singular work of eulogy and homage driven by emotion and circumstance.Esmerine's new album Dalmak emphatically confirms that the group has indeed continued writing, exploring and collaborating ' definitively extending its horizons in this new iteration of the band's trajectory.
Bruce Cawdron (marimba) resigned from his seat as drummer for Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2012, allowing him to focus more fully on Esmerine alongside co-founder and cellist Rebecca Foon (Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire To Flames); the two principals also recruited percussionist Jamie Thompson (Unicorns, Islands) and multiinstrumentalist Brian Sanderson as full-time members to solidify the group as a writing and performing quartet.
European tours in 2011-2012 brought Esmerine to Istanbul, where the group's enthusiastic reception led to an invitation for an artist residency in the city. Dalmak is the fruit of that visit: the majority of the album was recorded in Istanbul, where compositions by the band's four Canadian musicians were augmented by a number of Turkish guest players. "Dalmak" is a Turkish verb with many connotations: to be absorbed in, to dive into, to bathe in, to contemplate, to plummet. As a title for Esmerine's new album, dalmak" refers in a literal sense to immersion in the culture and music of Istanbul but also appropriately evokes the range of music that emerged from this immersion: a collection of songs that shift between meditative pulsing and enveloping restraint to headlong flights into rhythm and groove.
With Dalmak, Esmerine presents some of its most richly minimal and intimate music alongside what is surely its most explosive, energized and ornate. The album is a tour-de-force of cross-cultural music-making, emotive but unsentimental, deeply textured and detailed but never precious or pedantic, superbly guided throughout by a balance of DIY rock, new folk and modern classical / contemporary sensibilities.
With initial recording by Barkin Engin and Metin Bozkurt in Istanbul, Esmerine laid down the live bed tracks for the up-tempo rhythmic songs at the album's core: "Lost River Blues", "Barn Board Fire" and "Translator's Clos". Marimba, cello, drums, tenor banjo, bass and trumpet are joined by bendir, darbuka, erbane, meh, barama, saz and electric guitar from local players for these centerpiece tracks, where extended melodic themes and short solos are passed around and woven through staccato grooves and polyrhythmic vamps in deeply satisfying fashion.
The sessions continued back in Montréal at Breakglass, where Cawdron and Foon tracked the more studied cello and marimba songs "Learning To Crawl" and "White Pine", and where the album's gorgeously saturated warmth, depth and propulsive grit was achieved courtesy of Breakglass head engineer Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes, Wolf Parade, Suuns) and Ian Ilavsky, who mixed the album alongside Rebecca and Bruce.
We're thrilled to present this new album from Esmerine and to document the continued evolution of Bruce Cawdron and Rebecca Foon, two musicians with whom Constellation has enjoyed a decade-long relationship spanning multiple projects. Dalmak is a distinct and exciting highlight in their diverse and adventurous discographies.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Learning To Crawl
2. Lost River Blues
3. Barn Board Fire
4. Hayale Dalmak
Side B:
1. Translator's Clos
2. White Pine
3. Yavri Yavri! -
Sold outVisit product page →The fifth release in Sonic Youth's SYR series does not feature Sonic Youth, but rather an avant-garde power trio of SY bassist Kim Gordon, turntablist DJ Olive, and programming electro-goddess Ikue Mori.
Side A:
1. Olive's Horn
2. International Spy
3. Paperbag / Orange LaptopSide B:
1. Neu Adult
2. Stuck On Gum
3. Fried MushroomSide C:
1. What Do You Want? (Kim)
2. Lemonade
3. We Are The PrincessesSide D:
1. Take Me Back
2. Take It To The Hit -
Visit product page →In Spring 2010 Sonic Youth gathered at their Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, New Jersey to watch the rushes of a new film, 'Simon Werner a Disparu,' by French director Fabrice Gobert.
The band spent the following few weeks recording music which was then shaped to fit the various scenes of the film. For this release it was decided to do more than present the abbreviated clips of music used in the film. Instead the band went back to the original tapes and re-organized the various pieces; sometimes montaging multiple tracks together, other times extending cues into new sonic realms.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Thème De Jérémie
2. Alice Et Simon
3. Les Anges Au Piano
4. Chez Yves (Alice Et Clara)
5. Jean-Baptiste à La Fenêtre
6. Thème De LaetitiaSide B:
1. Escapades
2. La Cabane Au Zodiac
3. Dans Les Bois / M. Rabier
4. Jean-Baptiste Et Laetitia
6. Au Café -
Visit product page →The band gets back to their roots in avant-garde classical music. 100+ minutes of Modern Compositions on Double CD or Double LP.
Music composed by John Cage, Yoko Ono, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Nicolas Slonimsky, George Maciunas, James Tenney, Pauline Oliveros and Christian Wolff.Tracklisting:
1. Edges
2. Six (3rd take)
3. Six For New Time
4. +-
5. Voice Piece For Soprano
6. Pendulum Music
7. Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
8. Six (4th take)
9. Burdocks
10. Four6
11. Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece)
12. Piece Enfantine
13. Treatise (page 183) -
Visit product page →The third Esparanto-addled SYR release documents Sonic Youth's first collaboration with Jim O'Rourke.
Three platters in and no signs of slowing; more deep swells of clang from Echo Canyon. It's starting to get a little absurd calling these things "EPs" (number three clocks in at over 50 minutes of music).
Tracklisting:
1. Invito Al Cielo
2. Hungara Vivo
3. Radio-Amatoroj -
Visit product page →The inaugural album sports a red houndstooth French language theme on the sleeve and contains 4 instrumentals.
Tracklisting:
1. Anagrama
2. Improvisation Ajoutee
3. Tremens
4. Mieux: De Corrosion
