Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2007

so far in 2007 my fave of this ilk is the Dead C/Hi God People split LP.

http://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/100.htm

The Dead C side is two cuts from their Los Angeles ATP performance. ("LA Blues" and "LA Confidential.") Some really PRETTY stuff in there, before the sheets of fuzz.

dude, i think that's it.

Dusted (USA):

"His buddy Fennesz gets all the ink as the next generation of guitar, but Ambarchi is the more nuanced and tactile player, still physically invoking that instrument, but making it sound like an abstract noisemaker without the help of a Powerbook. His ‘tone’ is somewhere between gamelan gong and an ungrounded wire, with subterranean throbs bristling with static and shorted-out crackle. You can feel every touch of his finger, every gesture of his body coming through the strings. The four pieces here created a timeless space much like Morton Feldman or Alvin Lucier. While Fennesz basically treaded water for Venice, Ambarchi further expounded on his ideas and actually went in a more accessible direction for his third album for Touch. The key is in how Oren alchemically altered his telltale sound, so that his guitar could slyly be pulled out of the mix and replaced with piano, bells, ride cymbals, Hammond, or nylon-string, cycling, sustaining, and mutating even as it retained its hypnotic effect on listeners. A favorite DJ tool for SUNN O)))) for its potent rumble, it could’ve also been sold to indie kids who like their post-rock crisp and melodic, all the while retaining its poetic, effervescent quality."

http://www.allegro-music.com/sku_images/IPT1108.JPG

limited-edition hand-crafted linocut cover motherfucker! but i think you can still buy it out there.

Ned. Alela Diana is playing here in Eugene tomorrow night! I'm gonna drag some folks out to see her.

:-)

best jewelled antler moment, for me, was seeing Blithe Sons play in a drainage pipe running under a dirt road on a farm in Wisconsin.

I bought it a year ago on ebay, but it's actually quite old.

http://www.lastvisibledog.com/008_small1.jpg
Quartet that includes Campbell Kneale as well as Stefan Neville of Pumice. With live drone and drum improv of the highest order, Ohm create a wistfully psychedelic feel.

From AQ:
More spaced out free noise racket from the amazing Last Visible Dog. OHM are a New Zealand free rock outfit treading similar territory as the Dead C, but the sound is more sparse and spread out. Sputtering drums and droning guitars, warm feedback and dreamy peals of high end squeal. Warble guitars and shuffly jazzy drums, played in the middle of a huge empty hall while sharp bolts of guitar hum and amp buzz are deflected by gentle strumming and whispery melodies and multiplied into occasional walls of bzzzzzbrrrrrghhhhh. This single 40 minute track basically documents the entire existence of the band OHM. Gorgeous and spare. Campbell Kneale (Mr. Birchville Cat Motel) guests. Features a hilarious cover spoof of the Who's maximum R+B logo!

(also didn't know there was a courtis/rlw collaboration, whoo.)

i only know the one i got yesterday, Psychic Secession. I think that's the most recent. I really like it. very groovy grooves.

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Psychic Secession is a great album, lots of creepy groovin going on. i got some stuff coming up on my new label freewebs.com/cuthands

can i get 2nd opinions on the recent matt valentine discs on ecstatic peace?

-- vahid (vfoz...), January 7th, 2007.

It's like when Fonzie on Happy Days tried to control his temper and smile through his anger,and I think he wore some different clothes so he wouldn't ID as juvenile delinquent.

btw, this is either the awesomest or cweepiest thing ever: Dripping w blood has a 10 yr old drummer who writes most of th songs and her mom sings with her.

is there any news about new stuff from them? i know the nnck are planning stuff soon enough, but i want more side-project action, like the awesome metal band that Dave plays with once in a while that channels Iron Maiden like no other band i've seen in recent memory.

ps the new mv is eye gougingly, teeth gnashingly brilliant, and yes, there are some Trux-y moments, bless their hearts

caught the Cocaine live experience tonight, playing with Lamb's Bread.. both awesome. Speaking of awesome, the band Awesome Color played and they were not all that great. Lose the singer.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! i love their first one, can't wait to hear more!

crazy fucking landlady's son's acid-damaged funky backwoods psych

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shit, dude, i didn't even know you had a label until you posted about the egyptisthemagick# thing, so no harm done. and i paypal'd you for one.

w/r/t the Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession is like their current pinnacle, but they just keep getting better every time out. really, just get everything you can find from 2003 or so onward - it isn't all the same, but it's all great. i'd say more but i'm sick of gushing about these guys.
-- Raymond Cummings (gracefulas...), January 11th, 2007.

it's not at all what i expected from the text on the packaging. it's kind of folksy psychedelic rock, reminds me of neil young and crazy horse. some instrumental guitar-based jams here and there, swooping wailing lyrics. i'm terrible at describing music, but anyways it's good and from early 2003. wonder what happened to them.

have you guys heard pink reason? the single will be repressed soon, and the LP out in a few months on siltbreeze. it's crazy. it's hard to describe. the instrumental reminds me of the shadow ring and the vocal stuff sounds like some psychedelic death rock band from 82 or something.

...more likely a direct homage to pussy.

Deerhunter are really lame.

a.c.: coils (on 1, 3), guitar (on 2), argentinian violin (on 4), stuff in a plastic bag (on 3, 5), sampler (on 6).
r.l.w.: coils (on 1, 3), guitar (on 1, 2), cambodian violin (on 4), kalimba & cappuccino shaker (on 5), cd-scratch (on 6). # 6 is dedicated to the frozen antheil.
Recorded quasi-live november 5th 2005 in eggenstein, germany. no sound-transformations ex post facto. all pieces but # 3 are to be heard as played by a.c. & r.l.w. in real-time. #3 constructed from 2 real-time recordings, layered. edits, mix, post-production & mastering by rlw, november 2005 – march 2006

"coils"???

I like it. It's literally half an album of Flying Saucer Attack type FX whoosh and then half an album of MBVJAMC noise pop type things. Made me sort of nostalgic for 1996 or so, which is something

Their first album for Southern Lord will be recorded this summer at Electrical Audio studios with Steve Albini at the controls. Album title and release date forthcoming. Please stay tuned for more info!

"stuff in a plastic bag" is exactly the kind of thing that keeps me away from Reynols stuff. I think Anla is an amazing guitarist when he wants to be (like on that LP with Kawabata from last year) but the 'dada' aspect of that band really bums me out. I put out a CDR of theirs about ten years ago that was great, and the stuff with Pauline Oliveros was awesome, but then they just got goofy. Anyone ever get that 7" where it's just them 'playing' the rejection form they got when they were denied entry into the US? Not to get all 'Dad stares at a Jackson Pollock in disgust and disbelief' about it, but really, even I have my limits.

i'll never forget seeing Reynols live, they were awesome

it's pretty fun stuff. a full length is being released on Holy Mountain Records in the veyr near future.

psych, noise stuff. saw them play their first show the other day at Cafe Du Nord. free, too!

cool, thanks dude.

wooden shjips sound pretty great, too.

man, i need money. and a record player.

http://www.vhfrecords.com/images/100.gif

it's excellent

I JUST PLAYED THEM ON TEH RAIDIO! they're alright. too much of the psychjammin i hear these days is like "HEY WE'RE JAMMING! FUCKIN A!" and doesn't do much in the way of personality. but they're getting there.

i am torn. should i go to the upcoming MV/EE show or the Dick Dale one?

WHERE?!? I don't see anything new on Strange Attractors website...

anybody heard the Dead Raven Choir box? I am intrigued but it's expensive.

Promos are going out. I know because I have one and I'm about to listen to it here.

-- mcd (srmcd...), January 23rd, 2007. (mcd)

yeah i gotta say, mother of thousands doesnt do much for me

x-post

really good and recent, narcoleptic drones come from Taiga Remains. Check his Ribbons of Dust 3" trilogy. It rules

they have a new CD due this year on Taiga Remain's label (Students Of Decay) which is apparently even better. sample etc. second the Ribbons of Dust love, getting a CD reissue on Root Strata sometime...

Been meaning to get that Draheim LP, anyone heard it?

AMG compares them to Jefferson Airplane, which overstates things

don't sleep on the new earth. the more I play it the more I'm liking it.

only by the grace of AMG this field will get the recognition you think it deserves

caught raccoo-oo-oon the other night. definitely check 'em out if they come around! I was under the impression that their stuff was totally freeform improv, but they played material from behold secret kingdom near verbatim. impressive.

garrett called the recent stuff "doom-laden" above and I've called it "sinister" elsewhere. but neither of those terms are really accurate. they're definitely way more aggresive + direct than the average psych band, more intense + distressed than their quasi-woodland-freakfolk image would have you believe. but I'm having a hard time pinning down their exact bent (which is a good thing). punky space rock?

all I know for sure is behold secret kingdom is one of the best things I've heard this year.

The first time I met adam of owl xounds/la otracina, i was buying jazz & finnish prog records from him on the street.

Hahahaa you crazy Brooklynites. All I buy on the street is homemade jerky and moonshine.

Yall heard Big Blood yet? You should. Colleen and Caleb of Cerberus Shoal - some incredibly beautiful stuff.

Even when people refuse for an hour or more to deliver him the same pizza, Bimble is STILL not a goddamn new wave whore.

I should say the RIGHT Pizza, for the wrong one was delivered originally.

Rock and Roll. I've got a cold. I need Vitamin C. I hope you're happy.

CAN RULEZ, and I TRUMP YOUR ARSE WITH EGE BAMYASI

Honey, you better smack your skull against the hollywood stars pavement, when Can are in town. CAN, I said fucking CAN. Get out of your John Cougar Mellencamp disease, and surrener to CAN.

Jerusalem and the Starbaskets are wonderful...I still can't get over the harmonies on "Nico's Wings" or the DUH DAH DUH! DUSH !!-ness of "I Cannot Radiato With You"

raccoo-oo-oon tour dates, don't repeat brooklyn ilxors mistakes and clear yr calendars

5/20 Breinngsville, PA@Shannonsylvania Fursaxa, We Have Heaven near Allentown & Kutztown. 6pm.
5/21 Philadelphia, PA@Big Jar Books Rafi Bookstaber, Muntjac 55 N 2nd St
5/22 Baltimore@Floristree Wzt Hearts, R. Mexico, and one more 405 W Franklin, 6th fl
5/23 Washington, D.C@The Black Cat Hugh McElroy, Civilians
5/24 Richmond, VA@Nara Sushi Gull, Erin Tobey Sushi Restaurant
5/25 Norfolk, VA@Relative Theory Records TBA 271 Granby St #200, 8pm Doors
5/26 Chapel Hill, NC@The Night Light TBA 405 1/2 Rosemary St.
5/27 Harrisonburg, VA@Artworks Gallery TBA
5/28 Asheville, NC@TBA Dig Shovel Dig
5/29 Lexington, KY@The Frowny Bear Birds of Delay, Emeralds 208 Forrest Park, The Charles Mansion
5/30 Bloomington, IN@Landlocked TBA 314 S. Washington St.
5/31 Cincinnati, OH@The Skull Lab Birds of Delay, Emeralds, C. Spencer Yeh 271 McMicken Ave
6/01 St. Louis, MO@Spooky Action Palace Skarekrau Radio 1106 Art Hill Pl
6/02 Iowa City, IA@TBA TBA

WEST COAST SUMMER 2007 TOUR WITH BINGES

6/22 Omaha, NE@The Magic Theater TBA
6/23 Witchita, KS@TBA TBA
6/24 Oklahoma City, OK@The Conservatory Anvil Salute
6/26 Flagstaff, AZ@TBA TBA
6/27 Phoenix, AZ@TBA TBA
6/28 San Diego, CA@TBA
6/29 Los Angeles, CA@The Smell Tent City, Deep Jew (mem. Men Who Can't Love, Rainbow Blanket), Foot Village (mem. Rose For Bohdan, Friends Forever)
6/30 Los Angeles, CA@TBA TBA
7/01 San Luis Obispo, CA@TBA TBA
7/02 Oakland, CA@TBA TBA
7/03 San Francisco, CA@TBA TBA
7/04 Davis, CA@TBA TBA
7/05 Arcata, CA@TBA TBA
7/06 Portland, OR@TBA D Yellow Swans, Old Time Relijun
7/08 Seattle, WA@TBA TBA
7/09 Olympia, WA@TBA TBA
7/10 Missoula, MT@TBA TBA
7/12 Fargo, ND@TBA TBA
7/13 Minneapolis, MN@The Church Peace Creeps, Skoal Kodiak, Neglected Receptors

Two LA dates, handy...

Random recommendation for the Flowers of Hell here, a good post-Spacemen 3 bunch on Earworm. Not the end of the world but enjoyable listening.

Meantime the Holy Mountain bods were kind enough to send some niceties along and I'll hopefully be reviewing a slew of things in the AMG soonish. Also arriving was the new compilation on RROOPP by Amp, All Of Yesterday Tomorrow -- 3 CDs, all the rarities and one-offs and the like, including everything from Passe Present. And I'm scrounging through other goods...

And adding some links:

Raccoo-oo-oon

Big Blood

Downloaded a couple of Big Blood mp3's. I was definitely impressed. Has anyone heard the new Blackshaw yet?

(gotta gotta get to that J.D. Blackfoot re-reissue, soon's I get through with Silver Monk Time for Voice). Somebody's doing racoo-oo-oon for PaperThinWalls, and speaking of our Overlords, I've got this new Meat Pups review/interview on there today (you can listen to their new rolling drone too):http://www.paperthinwalls.com/Singlefile/item?id=802
Also today: Burning Brides, The Icarus Line.

The Patron Saints reissue on Time-Lag's a treat -- low-key rural/acoustic psych with a bit of spark. I can see why there's a little cult around it, and the main dude Eric is a friendly guy, having spoken with him today on e-mail.

loving the new Meg Baird LP (Dear Companion, on Drag City). direct/stripped, mostly covers (two originals), guitar and vocals (oft double tracked). beautiful.

Links, dear friends. :-)

Meg Baird

Also:

Burning Brides

So yeah, La Octarina's some good, good stuff. Reminds me of the earliest Ash Ra Tempel records with more guitars and a bit of classic rock anthemics.

burning brides? what is this -- the bar rock thread? ;)

Ya got me! Talk to dow upthread.

if if wasn't for dow's post, i wouldn't know about that new J.D. Blackfoot reissue.

is this the same j.d. blackfoot thing that was reissued a year or two ago on radioactive?

Dunno. This is The Ultimate Phrophecy, now on Fallout, with singles, A- and B-sides, from '69-'71, as bonus tracks: "Who's Nuts Alfred?"; "Epitaph For A Head"; "Wonderin' Where You Are"; "It Don't Mean A Thing"; "Savage"; "Almost Another Day"; "Every Day--Every Night"; and "Save This World." Fallout usually has very good sound, but I still haven't had time to listen. Back to the homework.(check Forced Exposure for this.)

religious knives 12" is super.
heavytapes.com

has a new york drone psych dude gone to the show at printed matter? contemporary cassette culture & historical exhibition of tapes & shit. ends this weekend, on saturday i think. i'm going this afternoon.

ok... that's the same blackfoot album (plus extras, i guess). fallout probably being run by the same dude as radioactive.

Worth checking out White/Light, who have just released a collaboration album called White/Lichens -- it was one of the albums that came from Holy Mountain, and dang, good drone stuff there, suited my morning mood v. nicely.

Have you guys heard Black Moth Super Rainbow?
I dunno, I'm not that big on it. It seems kind of bullshit. Like psych for psych's sake or sunfink. That's just my initial reaction though.

White/Light is great stuff; sounds like a more aggressive Windy & Carl.

Okay, so yay the Bottling Smoke fest, as I said elsewhere (and to promote my photos one more time). First time I'd seen Adam Forkner in the White Rainbow guise -- set of the weekend by my mark.

Black Moth Super Rainbow are kind of suburban hippies with a sack of tapes, wayyy back in the woods, good to listen to while drought and distant fires make an indian summer of late Spring '07, motorcycles zooming through occasionally (lost flowerpicker gets spirited awaaaay, oh babe). Reviewed a couple times on Paper Thin Walls, still streaming tracks (and a link stream of their more consistently energized collab with The Octopus Project, House Of Apples And Eyeballs, from my PTW review of BMSR's "Sun Lips") The Ultimate Prophecy so far seems pretty disappoining, due to J.D.'s dominance as ultrabland local yokel crooner on the LP tracks---so thank Od for the bonus single tracks, still erratic, but instantly way more engaging, as J.D. suddenly reveals much more raunch-pop appeal. Ohio, '69!

Zodiacs, which features our own Roger Fidelity, has a great one out on Holy Mountain called Gone. Power trio fucked-up desert psychedelic RRARRRRGH, essentially.

-- Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:22 (2 months ago) Link

tried to order blues control CD a couple weeks ago from midheaven, and just got zodiacs by mistake in the mail. im gonna buy the BC cd, but UH this zodiacs cd kicks some fucking ass, too. way to go, rog. is he banned or something?

Worth checking out White/Light, who have just released a collaboration album called White/Lichens -- it was one of the albums that came from Holy Mountain, and dang, good drone stuff there, suited my morning mood v. nicely.

-- Ned Raggett, Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:02 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

i (intentionally) got this in the holy mtn shipment too! also the OM/6org split finally.

goddamn this zodiacs cd rules. also, makes me think: come back, endless boogie!

Rock rock rock rock rock'n'roll boogie.

Yeah, I'm still digging the Zodiacs album. Does the Manalishi still post? or was he banned or whatever?

Apparently the new Wooden Wand album's meant to be magick, anyone heard it?

Finally got around to listening to the Giant Skyflower Band album. I knew I was going to like it as soon as I saw the dedication to Grant McLennan. The cover of 'Builds the Bone' is surprisingly nice too.

Also some my friends are probably going to be playing in B0T0S's last ever live performances coming up in June I think.

Last ever live performances? What happened now?

Posted this on the shoegaze thread but the Voices are pretty great -- this one song "You Broke A Heart I Gave To You" is some of the best zoned-stoned desert acid rock feedback in years. It ain't original, it's just perfect.

Roger/Manalishi got banned.

Yeah I think he's going to continue recording under the name, but not play live. Plus he's got the "new and improved" record label to deal with.

This is all second hand, btw.

Roger/Manalishi got banned.

whhhhhaaa...?

Roger/Manalishi got banned.

-- Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

you've got to be kidding me

The moderator request forum thread in question on the matter.

lame. somebody email him with proxy info.

i guess i missed the race/immigration threads in question?

I saw the thread early on but didn't realise until the other day he was banned. So I didn't see what had happened.

Link to him saying racist things?

Sri Ned, you spoke favorably of Monotract upthread; me too now (listen here yall): http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?=764

:-D

(listen to "Cafu y Kaka," that is, not to me, godz forbid)

Is it just me or is that Burning Star Core track on PTW really fucking great?

Monotract I liked. Do they sing about football aswell?

Sure!

triple-live birchville cat motel cd on last visible dog - so far pretty good. (new terminals album, too, if anyone other than me gives a shit.)

New Terminals! I didn't know they were still around. So, yes I give a shit. If the track sample is any indication the rest of the CD should be good.
Just got a hold of the Valerio Cosi from Digitalis/Foxglove and I really like it. Cool sax playing mixed with drones and krautrock.

Anyone heard the Valet album on Kranky yet?

Also, really excited about RENEGADE SCANNNERS - Jakob Olausson's new band on Lal Lal Lal. Haven't heard it yet though

MV/EE and Religious Knives in Brooklyn tonight at Don Pedro's.

ALSO: RFI Diamond Days festival? I see listings on individual band pages, but haven't seen a full line-up.

I've got the Renegade Scanners record and the Ray Pacino Ensemble 2lp ordered from Lal Lal Lal but they haven't shown up yet.

http://www.archivecd.com/image/IMG_0154261.jpg

just ordered this last night solely based on how the can looks :)

knowing absolutely nothing about them,& after checking out the myspace for troum i ordered tjukurrpa pt 1 because i think the track 'mada shaunda' sounded really nice. anyone feel i will need to hear the other 2 discs in the tjukurrpa series?

thought Troum/All Sides was really meh. they've both done better. Tjukurrpa 1 >>>>>>>>> 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3. the third is flat-out annoying. the 2nd is nothing special. the Troum/Martyn Bates was also a huge letdown. they peaked with Sigqan, and it has been diminishing returns ever since. unless their Mystery Sea cdr is spectacular. who knows? we'll never hear it.

triple-live birchville cat motel cd on last visible dog - so far pretty good.

-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, June 10, 2007 5:27 AM (11 hours ago)

are those recordings from u.s. tour? i wonder if the show i attended is on there.

just got a birchville/anla courtis cd on...? (that label that puts out those cardstock covers with what looks like wallpaper print designs on them?) its really good, as is the new vibracathedral orchestra cd

the triple birchville album are recordings from throughout his live career. absolutely essential stuff if you ask me...really exciting to witness his progress

that label you're talking of is Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Birchville's Campbell Kneale's own label

i'm waiting anxiously on the new religious knives wax to arrive in the mail, Remains is one of my top albums of the year and i've heard this is a whole new chapter and they got a bassplayer in, supposed to be playing some ghostly dub jammers now...awesome

the new liars song is kinda psych freakout

reminds me of Oneida

Where can one hear that new Liars track ?

listening to disc one crows of the world on last visible dog... two cds of freeness. the north sea's track was pretty good sub-george stavis/sandy bull banjo twang and drums. monosov/swirnoff track was aiight, simple beat frequencies between 'air organ' (harmonium, i guess) and regular organ, pretty well done. andrea belfi track was cool electro-acoustic drizzones, the way the double bassist would occasionally drop a couple of notes made me think a beat would kick in. and anthony milton/anthony guerra (as paper wings) track is real tasty two-guitar stuff blah blah dead c yadda keiji haino. there were two other tracks that didn't stick with me, not to be too chuck eddy.

A new LVD comp? I must look into that...

The Hellers:Singers...Talkers...Players...Swingers...& Doers from '68, Hugh Heller's a jingle writer on a funny cigarette break at workplace, with arranger Dick Hamilton, and other friends like Bob Moog. Bob Newhart was the Dylan of buttoned-down mynds,entering clear light on the escalator to the copy room, and why's that stapler looking at me funny? Tiny tracks, doing like it says in the title; trackstoo tiny for development sometimes (despite brevity being the soul of wit, not all there is to it) or context as alibi for standard elevator music/vocals in some cases, but still some good zingers passing through the office. RIYL: Ken Nordine, Smothers Brothers, Newhart, Nilsson when he was still Harry Nelson, bank worker, by day. Reissued on Fallout, so you know the sound is okay, check Forced Exposure.

Just got the SRC self titled on vinyl and it's mind blowing how good this is. Apparently Iggy considered joining the band and I'm glad he didn't because Scott Richardson has a great voice. Pink Floyd/ Zombies I even hear some early 70's drum bits. Anyone heard their later stuff, worth digging out ?

Wow. I never heard that Iggy/SRC story. That would've been an awful match. I've always dug how SRC didn't sound like any other Detroit band -- great, heavy acid-pop. Their debut is classic, and the second LP is good but uneven. In my opinion, SRC never matched its debut. But, if you are crazy for the band, definitely venture on.

The new Jack Rose LP on tequila sunrise: pedal steel, gorgeous packaging, and mind blowing music. the b-side has sections of utter brilliance: compostions turn into pure fluid. he closes the record with "Dark Was the Night."

I think I'll check their second, but yeah I doubt they could match this. Some amazing drum breakdowns and some of the guitar work is pretty brilliant.

Speaking of Racoo-oo-oon, you can hear and read about them today, via Jessica Suarez's take (also: Jess on Yeasayer, me on Thee Oh Sees), on:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com

Brooklynites and other New Yorkes:
Blues Control this sunday, free, at 6:30pm at Academy Records in williamsbug,

The new Jack Rose is the vinyl version of the cd that was out on Archive.

that jack rose album sure does look pretty. a might too pricey though. (says the idiot who paid way too much money for time-lag's patron saints reissue)

anyway, just thought you guys should know that the new Pulsefear album on profound lore is right up yer droney alley. very cool stuff. yes, profound lore is a metal label. no, this isn't metal. you can hear some of it here, but you kinda need to hear the whole thing to get the full effect:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=93070924

and speaking of profound lore, ned, i really think you would like the new angelic process album. nice gazer/drone stuff. and heavy too at times. you can hear one song from the new album:

http://www.myspace.com/theangelicprocess

Ned would like the new Alcest album too.
Angelic Process are great. I have the cd that was out on Paradigms.

Thank you all. :-) I have been getting into the Hop-Frog stuff here lately, plus Fantastic Ego.

Xcited abt seeing Boris in Glasgow tomorrow, and Boredoms playing the Arches in Oct

(says the idiot who paid way too much money for time-lag's patron saints reissue)

Yeaaaaah. We have this at the shop, but I've resisted taking it home. It doesn't seem ALL that exciting, honestly. Rather listen to Virgin Insanity or somethin.

I'm seeing Boris too. Someone posted this on the Southern Lord forum they were at the gig in Vienna

Playlist:

1. Farewell
2. Rainbow
3. Pink
4. (something in Japanese)
5. Ibistu
6. Sun Flower Rain
7. Just Abondoned My-Self
8. over 30 minutes of Flood
-----
+ 2 or 3 songs from Heavy Rocks as an encore.

We have this at the shop, but I've resisted taking it home. It doesn't seem ALL that exciting, honestly.

I liked it well enough -- similarly with some more archival stuff and the reunion. End of the world, no, but enjoyable all around, definitely!

i justified my purchase by figuring i could at least make my money back if i ever decided to get rid of it on ebay someday. it is a nice artifact.

Yeaaaaah. We have this at the shop, but I've resisted taking it home. It doesn't seem ALL that exciting, honestly. Rather listen to Virgin Insanity or somethin.

depressingly, OTM. i was really hoping it'd be something special, too.

also, dudes, there's a new henry flynt cd. "new american ethnic music volume 4: ascent to the sun" or just "the one with two violins on it" as it will be known henceforth. a little scattered at times but the last part of it gets into a really nice sawing fiddle loop thing.

I was actually a little underwhelmed by Virgin Insanity. Or the Maintenance Man LP anyway. Just didn't hit me. Was the other reissue (twofer CD, was it?) much the same?

pretty much. a little more rockin' in parts. maybe like two parts, i don't remember.

Meantime this Cyrus Gengras album I'm listening to is enjoyably spare acoustic jam/drone. Kinda Pelt-like.

the hcb records stuff that i got yesterday would probably appeal to people here too, but i'll just link to where i talked about them a little:

the occasional thread for mean, nasty, ugly, evil metal that doesn't smell good and that takes itself way too seriously

Great summer psychish, but with a brain for more than eating (Eye think) is Life On Earth!'s Look! There Is Life On Earth!!,Mattias & others Dungen-related (incl Gustav o violin), also Mia Doi Todd, folk from The Works, Town & Country, etc, hear and read about (also today, I'm re-united with Jess and Jessica, on Blues Control and Jennifer Gentle, respectively): http://paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=840

speaking of Dungen, I also compare Look!! to Tio Bitar; kinda prefer the former, but both are worth checking out.

The Arthur benefit show last night had some v. good stuff, will upload photos tonight. Erika from the Magik Markers and Ben Chasny, both on guitar and vocals, made for a great way to end the evening.

Erika = elisa?

Sorry, brainfart -- yes, Elisa. Still waking up.

anyone heard the new broom dusters LP on siwa? want, but it's $22, loved their cd on purifiva but don't know how similar this stuff is.

(yes, i'm cheap. it still seems totally wrong to me that new vinyl regularly costs more than $10.)

it IS totally wrong. And double albums should be, like, $18.50.

I do like the Broom Dusters record. Listened to it for the first time yesserday. Haven't heard the CD so I don't know how similar it is, but it's full of screechy fuzz guitars, jazzy drummin', moaning vocals, and the occasional heavy riff buried beneath piles of fuzz and noise.

And yeah, I also hate paying a lot for new records. The worst are some of those euro psych boots-Tapestry of Delights label stuff, for example, regularly retails for $27-30. And it's almost all single LPs. and it's fuckin BOOTLEGS! And they're all the same price, regardless of packaging--like, the 2nd Kaleidoscope record with the gatefold costs as much as the first one, without, costs as much as Pink Fairies "Never Never Land" with its extra fancy heavy-plastic repro sleeve. AWFUL. I think the only one I've broken down to buy was the first COB record. I just listen to the rest at work

I laid down $$$ for Mighty Baby's Jug of Love. I also want that Country Weather LP but that's like $40!!!

I don't care how nice the packaging is, that's ridiculous.

That Mighty Baby album isn't THAT worth it...

also, part of the cost issue with the Broom Dusters is cuz it's an edition of 315, and it's costly to press vinyl in low quantities. i think the whole intentionally collectible/micro-edition thing is pretty lame, honestly. i'd rather you just make a thousand of em and sell em a lot cheaper.

I'm looking forward to Circle and Om touring together. They don't have updated dates on the Eclipse booking site, but I know they are doing two shows together in chicago in September. My friends in Warhammer 48k may get to play one of them. Avarus is on a tour in the US right now, I think.

Still haven't gotten the Ray Pacino Ensmeble 2lp and Renegade Scanners lp I ordered from lal lal lal. Bummer.

all those bo weavil reissues. sheeeeeeesh. i stare at those shirley collins rekkerds at the record store, but i would have to become a stockbroker to justify buying them.

that free london double album on bo weavil looked really cool too.

That Mighty Baby album isn't THAT worth it...

Comparisons to the Band and the Dead made me take the plunge. In retrospect, a download would have been sufficient. But I didn't type that.

a good example of reasonable vinyl is the stephen r. smith album i'm playing right now. limited to 500. on important records. handmade linocut cover. sounds great. but it was only 15 bucks. not 30. you know?

i like the first mighty baby album way more. and i always want to buy an original copy, but never feel like paying 50+ for one. i want one cuz then along with the harvey matusow album i will have the entire head records discography.

man some of those shirley collins sets on bo weavil are great. there are three out, right? or more? when is osmeone gonna reissue anthems in eden on LP? i never picked up the anne briggs double on bo weavil cuz it was fortyfrickindollars, but now it's OOP and i kind of regret it.

Been listening to a lot of the Hop-Frog related albums lately -- all over the place, which is a good thing.

they still have the anne briggs here and i keep thinking that i will just trade crappy CDs for it, but then i always end up getting something else. i do want it though.

there are exceptions. those reissues i got on Finders Keepers - the selda album, the mustafa ozkent album, and the jean claude vannier album - were pricey and totally worth it.

a good example of reasonable vinyl is the stephen r. smith album i'm playing right now. limited to 500. on important records.

is that new?!? I didn't even know he was still putting out stuff - I knew him in college and have a couple of early LPs.

came out a year or two ago.

I didn't even know he was still putting out stuff - I knew him in college and have a couple of early LPs.
He started releasing stuff under the name Hala Strana for a few years, he seems to use both that name and his own name now.

Those Bo Weavil records are even expensive for UK prices. But they sure are purdy. I forked out for the Shirley Collins 'Power of True Love Knot' and the latest Anne Briggs. Think that was only £13, which really isn't too bad here.

And, yeah, I like the self-titled Mighty Baby. It's all about Egyptian Tomb!

AVARUS
6/29/07 - Brooklyn, NY - Silent Barn w/Manbeard, Fursaxa
6/30/07 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's w/Manbeard, Bardo Pond
7/1/07 - Baltimore, MD - Floristree w/Manbeard
7/2/07 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records w/Manbeard
7/3/07 - Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light w/Manbeard
7/5/07 - Nashville, TN - The Springwater w/Manbeard
7/6/07 - Louisville, KY - Lisa's Oak Street Lounge w/Manbeard
7/7/07 - Cleveland, OH - Parish Hall w/Manbeard
7/8/07 - Chicago, IL - The Hideout w/Manbeard, Spires
7/9/07 - Cincinnati, OH - Skull Lab w/Manbeard
7/10/07 - Pittsburgh, PA - Belvedere's w/Manbeard
7/11/07 - Washington, DC - Velvet Lounge w/Manbeard
7/12/07 - Point Pleasant, NJ - Om Baby Yoga Studio w/Manbeard
7/13/07 - North Adams, MA - Contemporary Artist Center w/Manbeard,

avarus were pretty good at the gig i attended despite the venue's atrociously awful sound. they didn't even mic the drum set ffs. i don't know what to say about the opener on tour with them except that it was goofy and i wasn't into it. avarus opened with some random spazz noise then hit a nice drone groove for awhile then got loud and heavy. also this scenester biatch and her douchey friend talked all throughout avarus set. it's like are u here to see a rare live appearance of an overseas band or just here to draw attention to yourself

the broom dusters lp is only (!) 18 bucks at fusetron.

avarus playing providence this saturday.

also blues control tonight in nyc with special guest brian turner(!) on gtr.

ned did you catch raccoo-oo-oon on their west coast swing?

Alas no. :-/

I should've reminded you...

avarus playing point pleasant tomorrow wtf? my wife was born there.

it's not exactly a hotbed of droneshow action

avarus ruled cleveland -- hypnotic transformation from possessed free-noise intro to neo-krautrock primitivism. awesome.

i cant wait to hear the new visitations record out on time-lag. it just has to come in the mail!

Arrived for me today! Will give it an ear tomorrow.

yo, I was looking at the Bardo Pond section at my local store, and was wondering if anyone has a take on these side project releases:

Baikal - Baikal
Alasehir - Sharing the Sacred
Alasehir - Stone Sentinels

are any of them really really great and what do they sound like?

Kerr has the most thorough take but I enjoyed them all. If you like Bardo Pond you'll like them.

word. maybe I'll get the Stone Sentinels since it's a more limited release. Who are the other guys playing on them that aren't Bardo Pond members? I don't have the names in front of me right now, but each group has a name I didn't recognize.

the Baikal record is awesome. totally zoned out psych jammerz, heavy, maniac vocal style

Yeah, I like the Baikal album too. Get it inya.

I was up in SF last week and caught the Magik Markers / Axolotl show and again I gotta give it to Axolotl who were just terrrific.

Not surprisingly, I love the new Visitations LP on time-lag. It's definitely in the same vein as their previous time-lag cd-r, FYI

I've been getting into this label lately. I know it's been around for some time, but, The Alphane Moon album in particular is awesome. Ancient sounding and eery as.

The dude who runs it, Tony, seems a really nice chap too.

it's a shame alphane moon never really seemd to do anything after that. 'our glassie azoth' side project is pretty good, file between harry oldfield and the first ian nagoski record. or between "tinnitus" and "advanced tinnitus."

Heheh, Drooone, might this be the person you were referring to on the other thread yesterday? Because Tony's posted here before, as has his brother, and we've known each other for some years. :-)

Hey, there's an Our Glassie Azoth/Alphane Moon split cd on their label Oggum. Their site seems to be down, but they're up as mp3s at Woven Wheat Whispers... It's brilliant, one of my favorite 'noise' records ever... dig the bass flute synth against the sheets of processed static....

4 tracks on myspace plus free album download ! from this Portuguese progressive experimental band

Almuadem
http://www.myspace.com/almuadem

Almuadem are a Portuguese progressive experimental band by Andre Pousadas, Gustavo Marques and Thomas Belpalme that is earning recognition as pioneers of Hyper-sensibility music. Almuadem are known for the philosophical terms, keyboards, guitars and drums experimentation, pos-caos music and innovative cover art.
Andre Pousadas, once commented: "You can label us as you want ... but be aware of a thing in the right of Father there are two chairs, one mine and another one of Gustavo. We do not "use" anything. We "create" everything"

Anyone heard the Cherry Blossoms LP? I'm thinking that they'd be a great live show...

The Renegade Scanners record finally arrived yesterday and it slays. The obvious point of reference is Chrome but I get a lot of George Brigman out of it, too. Maybe I've just been listening to Jungle Rot too much.

The Ray Pacino Ensemble 2lp that came with it, while designed beautifully by Jelle Crama, is unplayable without fucking CENTER HOLES for the SPINDLE.
What to do???

everybody is super hyped about that Cherry Blossoms deal, I cant get into it at all.

Hi guys. Forget to check back..re Our Glassie Azoth/Alphane Moon T0ny reckons something along the lines of Daf keeps promising new stuff, "but I'll believe it when I see it."

Also I haven't heard that Cherry Blossoms lp, but yuh everyone r8s the shit.

anyone here like omit? been getting back into his stuff in a major way lately.

i like omit. most of the stuff i've got is from the old black-and-white obsessive cover art period, but rejector was pretty killer.

yeah i listened to that tonight. i've got that, "interior desolation," "quad" and "tracer." is there anything else?

I've got interior desolation and rejector. He did that split with the K-Group on Fusetron too. 10" maybe. think there's some discussion about it elsewhere.

I really like Omit though. It's cold. Can't remember if it's on Rejector or Interior Desolation where he uses what sounds like old printer calculators. Works really well.

oh the k-group/omit thing isn't a split, and it's an lp. apparently there's some left, i'll have to ask about 'em.

i've got that, "interior desolation," "quad" and "tracer." is there anything else?

buncha tapes (at least 10), collaboration with (a handful of) dust, k-group collab LP and a 7" from '98, lathe cuts, etc, etc. also, apparently, a double cd from 2005 that i never heard about.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Omit

"With The Aid Of An Automatic Weapon I Gun Down My Values"
Percussion (44-gallon Drum, Watering Can), Guitar, Effects (Tape Echo), Synthesizer (Three)

I forgot about this awesome track from the Bananfish comp. Post-apocalyptic dub. And how great is that title? there was also an Omit track on the first Invisible Pyramid comp, which is missing from that Discogs page.

the double cd is tracer.

yeah. i shouldn't post when i'm half asleep and unable to read.

best release of 2k7 is out

http://importantrecords.com/images/content/155_neon_pibroch.jpg

c ya next year!

I think i'll buy that.

..But I've had numerous problems with 1mp0rtant.
Fucking up my orders..

released with a companion album on vinyl called "super grease". anyone heard that yet?

also is the new kemialliset ystavat good?

Listening to a half LP by Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. S'called "Borre Fen". Anyone else heard or know anything? Their myspace lists TONS of shit, deleted or upcoming.

Anyways, it's one-sided, w/ screen on flip. Dried up corpse face. Haunted graveyard drone for a few, building to thugg machine chug, eventually w/ slowed beast shriek on top. Sludge doom tarpit noise, but kinda metalpunk - not rock music though. Over in < ten minutes. Really, really fucking good. Like Dread-era Wolf Eyes, where you could still hear the HC in the noise.

Sounds even more punk @ 45. Guessing it's all been slowed about a third? Like they pressed a 45, decided it'd be cooler @ 33. True, but it's fun to mess around with. Anyways, cheap and cool for $10. Lots of nice corpse face insert pics, too.

Woah, so this is a totally different band from Blue Sabbath Black Fiji? Crazy - the description of the music even sounds the same!

... Obviously I'll now have to form a band called Blue Sabbath Black Oyster Cult.

(Blue Sabbath Black Aeroplanes... doesn't sounds quite as rawking though...)

Got BCM's Bird Sister Blasphemy. fukn rocks.

i saw a birchville cd called "birds call their dead home"(?). almost got it but i think it was like 20 bux!

I just received the Jessica Rylan cd from, ahem, 1mp0rtant. She's cool.

Got ASCs Super Grease today, ultra lush, wet sounding record, really really good. First side builds all blissful to 4/4 & machine gun drums and then spirals off all rubbery. A dessert album. Pretty blue vinyl too. Really looking forward to hearing Neon Pibroch.

This guy's voice can get surreal; comparing him to Roky etc(approximately) even on this song, which is closer to pop than most of his, but fried ice cream etc:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=974

the one-sided Blue Sabbath Black Cheer is ace, extremely trashy harsh electronics with some amazing cold vocals. awesome skull etch on the b side as well.

further tips
EMERALDS - Allegory of Allergies [stoned Tangerine Dream stylez]
SUISHOU NO FUNE - Writhing Underground Flowers [bluesy riffs, deep Japanese vocals, harmonica]
HAIR POLICE - The Empty Quarter [depressive electronics, a nice change of style but still very HP, awesome band]

gee lots more but I doubt you'd check them out...the TERMINALS album on Last Visible Dog is also pretty great, but hardly drone etc

New Yellow Swans album roolz, dudettes/dudes. Best Flying Saucer Attack album in years.

So far, some reverberating hits of sunshine(cymbals, whatever the plural of theramin is are) on new October Project, Hello Avalanche: faves tonight are "An Evening with Rthrtha," "Exloding Snowhorse," "Queen."

That Blue Sabbath Black Cheer 1/2 LP was the innagural release of a label called What We Do Is Secret. Their follow up is another mysterious one-sided LP, this one by an outfit called At Jenny Richie. It's abstract and somewhat noisy, but otherwise not at all similar to BSBC's punk attack. Starts out with a pounding, stereo-demonstrational rhythm track, super simple like early Cab Voltaire loops, back and forth from right to left. Deep whooshing and creaking noises worm their way in, until the beat drops out about halfway through. After that, it's the haunted railway yard, all spooky and atmospheric, with occasional traces of the industrial boom-bap passing like freights in the night. Serious Nurse With Wound worship. Totally fucking awesome. With Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, some of the most enjoyable, addictive "noise" I've heard in ages.

Oh yeah, another nice screen print on the flip. This one a hairy, curly, black metal style band logo, printed in soothing bluish white. Arty inserts too, though not as generous in this regard as BSBC.

also is the new kemialliset ystavat good?

-- am0n, Sunday, August 19, 2007 9:56 PM (3 weeks ago)

i was at a festival they were playing at the other day, but i had to leave before they came on :( :(

their pedal set up was AWESOMES though

what festival was that?

Got ASCs Super Grease today, ultra lush, wet sounding record, really really good. First side builds all blissful to 4/4 & machine gun drums and then spirals off all rubbery. A dessert album. Pretty blue vinyl too. Really looking forward to hearing Neon Pibroch.

-- ogmor, Monday, August 20, 2007 8:50 PM (3 weeks ago)

don't have a record player so i d'led it. upon first listen i think the neon pibroch is the better of the two so far. also found a couple of the ltd. editions, one called star guzzlers?

www.palimpsest-festival.co.uk

did u catch vibracathedral??

Gotta hear that new KY, dammit.
I ordered the new Wooden Shjips album on Holy Mountain from Midheaven.
I got it on cd because the first 2000 (or something) come with a bonus disc that includes everything on the OOP 10" and 7"
I'm excited.

yep! pretty good, if anything because they started playing and didn't stop once for the following 45 minutes xpost

vibracathedral:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/1351556363_85ac4f1d37.jpg

awesome. i think matthew bower plays with them now

didn't he do stuff with Sunburned Hand of the Man too?

i don't think bower has played w/ vibra for a cpl of years now, and to the best of my 'knowledge' he's never played w/ Sunburned (tho John Maloney from Sunburned and Mick Flower from Vibra both turn up on the first track of the new Sunroof! alb on VHF, 'Panzer Division Lou Reed') - neil campbell also quit Vibra a year or so ago

the one time i saw bower playing w/vibra - abt 4 years ago now - he didn't touch the gtr - that 'Pontiac Lady' 3 CD-R set from VHF is a gd sampling of his time in the group, it collects various live shows from a US tour round abt 2003

I've got this Vibracathedral 12" "bootleg" called RAGGED AND RIGHT that features some searing lead guitar work from Matthew Bower. At least, I think it is.

and to the best of my 'knowledge' he's never played w/ Sunburned (tho John Maloney from Sunburned and Mick Flower from Vibra both turn up on the first track of the new Sunroof! alb on VHF

The trio of Bower, Moloney, and Marc Orleans (also from Sunburned) did a short tour as Sunroof! a couple years back.

i don't think bower has played w/ vibra for a cpl of years now

he appeared on the last vco cd on vhf and it was announced last year i think that bower would be joining as a member while neil campbell would be quitting (but now i can't find mention of it)

Speaking of the new Sunroof! - awesome. I was really excited about the Bower / Moloney / Flower collaboration - and it IS quite righteous - but the solo Bower tunes on this one are really, really something special. SO relentless. Such a distinctive voice among so many indistinguishable noiseniks.

jesus christ... picked up "behold secret kingdom" for 50 cents just on a whim. raccoo-oo-oon is a shite n trite name for a band that totally deserves something better. i was pretty much writing them off as another bunch of city 'hippies' doing the same old, but it's not bad and gets pretty crazed.

oh, and i got the new midnite snake album on birdman, shaving the angel. for the high rise/mainliner fans. if any.

Raccooooooooon was great live, saw them at a basement show in St Louis this summer. The songs from Behold Secret Kingdom had developed a lot. I liked the sax playing. I bought the record from them that night, but it pales in comparison to the show, imo. I feel that they are kindred spirits, midwestern psychnauts. I'm glad there's a band from Iowa City doing that, for some reason.

"also is the new kemialliset ystavat good?"

i like it! it's all over the place. lots of stuff going on. noises. fx. you know. it's cool.

Great band. Their Terrastock 6 set is a marvel.

raccoo-oo-oon is a shite n trite name for a band that totally deserves something better.

The tired name always put me off too. (Oh, and the semi-apologetic reviews)

Are they kinda Animal Collective sounding or something?

It doesn't sound like Animal Collective. Maybe their older stuff does, I don't know. They rock out. They kind of overdo the vocal delay, imo.

tyme 'n' tyde, dub-jazz dreamatics: The Drift's Ceiling Sky, out Nov. 6. With a Hebden mix, and he also does a good (if chambery) job producing new Sunburned set, Fire Escape. Also, with space cadet graduation (so toss your halo, get your nimbus on)femme vocal quest(you can stream/download):
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=984

Am I the only one going stark raving mad over this Baby Grandmothers reissue?? Terrible name - OUTSTANDING band!

Is Baby Grandmothers Parson Sound/Harvester related? Wanted to check that out....

Also that Sweet Kelly "Tape Fed Into Garbage Disposal" thing.

I'll buy anything Nicodemus related

Is Baby Grandmothers Parson Sound/Harvester related? Wanted to check that out....

i don't think it is. musically, the grandmothers are more into classic acid rock: Hendrix, Yardbirds, Cream, Who. And they totally jam. Great disc.

They ARE Swedish though, right?

yes.

the liner notes are long and packed with names, so i might have missed some connection to the world of Parson/Harvester.

Speaking of cosmic questbabes (see paperthinwalls link above), Speck Mountain's got me listening to the end-of-the-60s Laurel Canyon musings of Michele's Saturn Rings again (think I mentioned it on last year's Rolling Psych). She was queen of West Coast sessions (heavily rumored to have ghostsung for certain divas), and this is a long misty/smoggy weekend for L.A. weirdo pros, like her Millenium/Saggitarius boss Curt Boettcher, who contributes songs and backing vocals; also Lowell George (on flute and harmonica, rather than guitar, but he's good); guitar is from Elliot Ingber of Fraternity of Man/Mothers of Invention/Beefheart sessions; Bobby Notkoff (Rockets/Neil Young sideman) on eletric violin; Gordon Anderson (the Association) on backing vocals and other stuff I think; Michael Melvoin does "Eastern"arrangements on some (he did that Plastic Cow Goes Moooog LP, and was good with Judy Collins, later fathered Wendy of Wendy and Lisa, and Johnathon, who toured with Smashing Pumpkins, and pissed off Billy Corgan by ODing). Reissued by Fallout 07/11/06, with typically strong Fallout sound quality.

Trip Maker has too much integrity to talk about himself. But I think you guys need to listen to his band, Cave.

"Drum Like Devil" is blowin' my mind. It incorporates the same melody as this Krautrockish song off their debut EP (which tied w/ Warhammer 48k's "Ethereal Oracle" for 10th on my Jackin' Pop Ballot last year, fwiw (not much)).

Anyone heard this? I saw it had leaked

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN'S FIRE ESCAPE, PRODUCED BY FOUR TET, OUT THIS OCTOBER ON SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND

Sunburned Hand Of The Man's new album, Fire Escape, will be released by Smalltown Supersound on October 2, 2007. Produced by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), Fire Escape consists of an all star line up, all of whom are members of the movement which is Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Led these days by John Moloney, Sunburned Hand Of The Man is not a band in the traditional sense, Sunburned is a collection of like minded artists and musicians gathered together for the purposes of group exploration and an undying search for the 'ecstatic truth'.

Kieran Hebden's relationship with Sunburned Hand of the Man began after Hebden read an article in The Wire that touted Sunburned Hand Of The Man as leaders of the "New Weird America". The story sent Hebden on a search of Sunburned records and he's been a fan of them ever since. Sunburned supported Four Tet for a two-week tour in the spring of 2004. A couple of years later in March 2006, Hebden asked the band if they would like him to record them in a London studio (the Exchange) with the idea that he would take the recordings and construct his vision of a Sunburned record. Fire Escape is that vision.

Both Sunburned Hand of the Man and Smalltown Supersound are fans of Boredoms and they asked the band's leader, Yamatsuka Eye, to create the artwork for Fire Escape. The artwork Eye created perfectly captures the band, the album and the sound.

Sunburned Hand Of The Man on Fire Escape are:
Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) - piano, drum machine, production, mix
Robert Thomas - bass, samples
John Moloney - drums, beats, vocals
Ron Schneiderman - guitar, percussion, winds
Marc Orleans - guitar, casio, winds, percussion
Michael Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra) - trumpet, guitar, winds, percussion
Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra) - guitar, viola, winds, piano
Keith Wood - guitar, percussion, winds
Gozzy - wheels, map

wha... it's like "HAY UNDREGROUNDERS BUY THIS EYE VIBRACATHEDRAL MAYBE IT WON'T SUCK LIKE 90% OF SUNBURNED STUFFS ALSO FOUR TET"

anyone else get the new rst axes on last visible dog? i'm liking it a lot, sort of trebly haze, a couple of times i thought of the most abstract basic channel stuff for no good reason. but guitarsed.

Sunburned is a collection of like minded artists and musicians gathered together for the purposes of group exploration and an undying search for the 'ecstatic truth'.

http://www.itxp.ca/technology/images/headache.jpg

From Norway, Ungdomskulen will release their debut album on Ever Records on October 22nd

this could be one of the key psychedelic releases of 2007

UNGDOMSKULEN
http://www.myspace.com/ungdomskulen

ungdomskulen - cry baby
http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemID=174298

"we've also seen words like Black Sabbath, Can, Frank Zappa, The Melvins, The Jesus Lizard, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Public Image Ltd, The Fall and The Cure thrown around - but it's the best we can do right now."

New Sunburned is decent, somewhat of a departure for them - quite uh authentic sounding Kraut bits and huge ass drone parts. Ungdomskulen album is alright but doesn't really belong on here. Really liked the two Speck Mountain things I heard (on the 'Bearded Ladies' and 'A Kind of Awe And Reverence And Wonder' comps on Twisted Nerve/Finders Keepers, both of which are worth hearing generally)

another forthcoming tip, Clipd Beaks are Psychedelic Freaks !

CLIPD BEAKS
http://www.myspace.com/clipdbeaks

Q+A: Clipd Beaks
http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2007/09/25/q-a-clipd-beaks

Clipd Beaks' solid Hoarse Lords comes out on November 6th

somehow i'm not at all excited about the new Sunburned, they lost a lot of their hypnotising mysticism, though i havent heard the last one

the C.C.C.C. box on Not Fun is mega good, not harsh but extremely psychedelic, perfect vocal style between horror and sexual ecstasy, awesome metal slamming etc...i wish i had some of their older tapes

where shuold i start with sunburned? i haven't really heard all that much at all.

i've never heard any sunburned that floats my boat really...

Jaybird

yeah i'll second that. the best i've heard for sure.

I think Headdress is supposed to be in a similar vein to Jaybird. Grooves etc.

Yeah, those two definitely stand out. Magnetic Drugs is pretty good, too.
Wedlock is okay. Sunburned have a tendency to release every scrap they record.

Double Puberty is the best of their recent output. li'l bit new-style sunburned, li'l bit old-style sunburned. great place to start.

thanks, duuuuuuuuudes

What can people tell me about Voice of the Wodds. Some of their myspace stuff sounds quite nice.

I can't tell you anything but I love the name already! Will check that out in a bit.

"voice of the seven woods." good, world needed another fuckin folk-drone thing with a tedious faux-mystical hippie name. well done, lads.

coming soon on my label: whispering hickory dildo trees LP. get your copy before aquarius pre-orders all 50.

f'realz

cdr, surely?

Who are the worst offenders? Can we turn this into a destroy thread?

Rameses III - worst band I've ever seen

most insipid, anyway

Voice of The Seven Woods is/are fucking great. I've taken it upon myself to buy everything, and I normally never bother doing this with similarly prolific types

still, shitest name since "songs of green pheasant" or "hush arbours."

You just know 'Hush Arbours' is never gonna have anything on 'The Fuckin' Flyin' A-Heads'

James Ferraro from the Skaters has started doing solo releases under the name Nirvana, which is some universe-winning behaviour. (I've not heard any of them but still.)

'The Fuckin' Flyin' A-Heads'

^^^best single I own.

See, now I'm disappointed, I *really* hoped it was "Voice of the Wodds." "Voice of the Woods" is damned boring.

Sorry for gettin' yr hopes up Ned, I was tired and distracted last night.

A Mountain of One linked to them on myspace and I was hoping for something more balearic but I reckon they sound nice.

No worries. And you've reminded me I must check out A Mountain of One.

They're good, I'd be very surprised if you like them as much as Studio though to be honest.

Well now I'm even more intrigued!

I meant that as much in the "because Studio are just better generally" sense as the "knowing you, Ned" sense.

Okay that makes more sense.

Thank you guys for turning me on to Clipd Beaks! I got Horse Loads and the Preyers EP which are both fucking awesome.

They sort of remind me of Gravitar in that they're a steady drum beat with all sorts of crazy shit thrown on top but they're slightly less Sabbath slightly more industrial. This is awesome.

This reinforces my idea that the craziest music is made by guys who have pretty sane influences.

Playing a show with Clipd Beaks next saturday.

what is to be made of the new charalambides? i am still undecided, but i think i like it

Are you touring with Cave? Is that Drum Like Devil release new? Or has it been around for a while? God, I LOVE that album

i really like the new Charalambides, nice balance between delicate folkblues and sweet psych guitar

Chris Tape Store, I am not touring with Cave, but I'll play with them at Eastside on Fri Nov 30. Maybe you will come? Would they let you in? Probably.
The show with Clipd Beaks was good. They were nice guys.

What are they like live? Is it like a standard drums, guitar, bass thing? Or is it like a black dice style noise show with mixing boards and drum machines? I can't tell from their recordings.

The Clipd Beaks guitarist also has a synth set up and goes from one to the other on different songs. The singer had some effects and delay/loop devices. Bass and drums. They were very much in control of their sound.
They were on their way to Indiana to play with TV Ghost who they say are the best band they've ever played with. Cave will meet back up with them in Houston for a show with Indian Jewelry. I won't be there, though.

we don't have a "rolling bad idea" thread, so:

VALERIE PROJECT, THE: The Valerie Project CD (DC 352CD) 13.50
"Greg Weeks (of Espers) is describing the genesis of a new musical review entitled The Valerie Project. Inspired by a classic of Czech New Wave cinema, Jaromir Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), Greg, joined by members of Espers and other Philadelphia groups such as Fern Knight, Grass, Fursaxa, Timesbold, Woodwose and Rake (as well as enigmatic electronicist Charles Cohen), conceived a new soundtrack to the film. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is an allegorical coming of age film; a work populated by bewitched earrings, weasels, vampires, frisky maidens, friskier huntsmen, wicked aunts, bespectacled eagles and the handsomest moustache this side of 1970, the year the film debuted. Key to The Valerie Project's conception is how reframing the film's action with an alternate soundtrack draws new interpretations from a work of depth and changeable meaning. Lubos Fiser's original score is lovingly recalled and ambitiously targeted by the group as a sound cycle to be equalled every time they play it. The tone is dense and ornate, expansively acid-charged -- 'a symphonic version of Magma' at its zenith. In particular, the film's themes of lost innocence and pastoral living struck a chord with Weeks and his fellow players. 'There's a current movement towards responsible living... a need and desire to reorient to a world that is too chaotic, too oppressive, too technologically stifling,' says Weeks. 'It's a new version of the "back to the land" phenomenon only with lessons learned. Valerie taps into so much of that. It projects a political and cultural message that is all the more relevant today.'"

ugh.

Let me know when they do their new soundtrack for 2001.

The new Sic Alps EP is great. Been trying to figure out where they nabbed the title (and first song) "Description of the Harbor" from all week. I KNOW it's a song I've heard, but for the life of me I cannot place it. It's entirely possible I heard them do it live, but I don't think so...

Anyway, it's great.