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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 →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
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1985 sophomore album, back in print! LP + download card add four bonus tracks.Visit product page →
Features 'Death Valley '69' with Lydia Lunch.
EVOL, Sister and Confusion Is Sex reissues will follow this release. Sonic Youth's second full-length LP Bad Moon Rising was originally released on Homestead and Blast First in 1985.
The album is a fascinating examination of 'the junction where hippie idealism [meets] the cold hard world,' says guitarist Lee Ranaldo, 'where Woodstock [meets] Altamont'Death Valley, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, musicians, murderers, heroes and villains.' Its original eight-song tapestry of droning guitar feedback, distant clattering percussion, and sullen vocals, all held together with interstitial noise loops and shadowy haze, ambles through a long, dark night before the feverish 'Death Valley '69,' driven by runaway guitar riffs and a frantic
Thurston Moore / Lydia Lunch vocal duet, pounds the capstone into place. Sonic Youth's big leap forward from Confusion Is Sex and Kill Yr Idols 'reflects the spirit of the time,' to quote All Music Guide. Bad Moon Rising views 'American gothic through the glassy eyes of wilful moonlit paranoia.'
Back in print on Goofin'Records, this reissue includes bonus tracks 'Flower' and 'Halloween,' both from a 12'single of the same era.
The sound collage morsels 'Satan Is Boring' and 'Echo Canyon' are your cue to begin moving toward the exit and get out while you can.
Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Brave Men Run (In My Family)
3. Society Is a Hole
4. I Love Her All the Time
5. Ghost Bitch
6. I'm Insane
7. Justice Is Might
8. Death Valley '69
Bonus Tracks on Digital Download:
9. Satan Is Boring
10. Flower
11. Halloween
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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
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Sold outVisit product page →The seventh installment in Sonic Youth's series of experimental and sometimes instrumental releases on the band's own SYR label features on the A-side a previously unreleased 22-minute drone piece recorded at the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK in April of 2001.
At ATP, the band previewed instrumental and early versions of songs from the then soon-to-be recorded NYC Ghosts & Flowers album, and this exclusive performance was the premiere of J'Accuse Ted Hughes. The B-side is a soundtrack-style piece recorded at the band's Murray Street Studio in 2003 for a never-realized collaboration with French clothing designer Agnes B.
The 18-minute-long song was recorded by a five-piece version of the band-the four members of Sonic Youth plus Jim O'Rourke, who also mixed Agnes B Musique.
This LP will be soon followed by a CD-only release of the band's Another Side of Sonic Youth Roskilde Festival performance, where the five-piece Sonic Youth line-up was joined by saxophonist/reed player Mats Gustaffson and electronic noise legend Merzbow for an hour of improvised music.
Tracklisting:
Side A:J'accuse Ted HughesSide B:
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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 →Includes download card.
Side A:Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
Side B:
1. Stil2. Herinneringen -
Sold outVisit 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 -
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Sonic Youth Med Mats Gustafsson Og Merzbow 'Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth'
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Sonic Youth Med Mats Gustafsson Og Merzbow 'Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth'
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Visit product page →This disk presents the complete 'Other Sides of Sonic Youth' improvised live performance from the 2005 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, featuring Sonic Youth (with Jim O'Rourke) and guests Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, and Japanese sound artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow).
The single piece performed was a structured improvisation which for 60 minutes added and subtracted musicians one by one until only Masami was left on stage. Black Sabbath followed. -
Visit product page →The sixth edition of the SYR series is a live recording of the April 12, 2003 benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised
instrumental collaboration with silent BrakhageÕs films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews). Part of the proceeds of this CD will again benefit the Anthology. This is a 61 minute recording
Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui consists of a live recording from a benefit show held at New York's Anthology Film Archives on April 12 2003 where the quintet line-up was bolstered by the addition of percussionist Tim Barnes (Tower Recordings et al).The performance is one of their most fully-dilated navigations of zoned free improvisation, with extended breaths of silence cut up with explosive string action and clusters of magnetic silhouette. Last track is one of the most ferociously locomotive slow-burners of their entire career, with an almost Charalambides level of heavy gravity cut up with tortuous peaks of Evol-style grime while Shelley and Barnes harvest huge snowballs of rhythm.
