Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2008

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the new MV/EE record, "Gettin Gone" is spectacular. Lots of Neil Young-isms and J Mascis on drums for a good chunk of it.

I FINALLY heard teh Charalambides record, days before the end of the year. It is lovely.

the thing about MV/EE... man that guy has a shitty voice. music's good, though, and when the lady sings it's a treat.

Anyone checking out the stuff on the Guerrssen label out of Spain? Two amazing new private press reissues - one called Carol of Harvest (crazy prog w/ heavy folk vibes) and the Yves, Serge and Victor LP (like Frenchies doing Neil Young with lots of fuzz) - pretty essential, I'd say!

I typed ESP-DISK into Search at the Amazon MP3 Store: six pages of results. I've got a lot of the jazz, and some others, like Fugs, Godz, Rounders, MIJ, Manson--but how are Randy Burns, Ed Askew,Patty Waters, Erika Pomerance, and what used to be billed as Emerson's Old Timey Custard-Suckin' Band, but now is called something shorter and less crass (mellow, evocative proto-country-rock, judging by the Boots & Roots sampler, from when ESP was released by ZYX--but that was only one track).Oh yeah, and what about Octupus, Cromagnon, other rock? What should I start with?

Patty Waters two albums are 100% absolutely ESSENTIAL.

Erica Pomerance's You Used To Think is a strange record - poppy, proggy, a little obtuse but certainly worth $12 or whatever

Ed Askew's stuff is all worthwhile. Also check out the Little Eyes LP on the DeStijl label

Cromagnon is like an electric Godz with proto-death metal vocals in places. Seriously.

The rest are curiosities at best. Some here may argue.

Buy the Patty Waters albums. She's a genius.

Patty Waters does some vocal acrobatics, kind of like Linda Sharrock, some of Yoko's forays, right? Intriguing...

Yves, Serge and Victor LP (like Frenchies doing Neil Young with lots of fuzz)

^^^ THIS IS 100% AWESOME.

Also, Fugs are not a curiosity, and I like the Rounders ESP record as well. Pomerance, Askew and Waters = all awesome as well.

amon, do you know, is that bcm album similar sounding to birds call home their dead? that's the last one i got by him, and i love it. plush half hour drones

Yves, Serge and Victor LP (like Frenchies doing Neil Young with lots of fuzz)

this does sound great, ashame this label is so ripoff-priced.

if assholes could fly OTM about the esp-disk stuff. forgot "folky" for the perhacs album though.

Looking forward to the LSD Pond album that's due on Archive.

what's that? LSD March and Bardo Pond collab>?

Yes

LSD POND Double CD archive36. Two nights of improvised recordings from the Lemur House in Philadelphia tracked during off nights of the eastern US tour of LSD March, Masami Kawaguchi’s New Rock Syndicate and Bardp Pond. Each disc represents one night’s worth of material edited by Michael Gibbons, but without any overdubs. Personal from each night vary and thus present different types of material.

DISC 1 recorded Oct11, 2006
SHINSUKE MICHISHITA- guitar, bass, drums
MASMAI KAWAGUCHI- guitar, bass
IKURO TAKAHASHI percussion, drums
MICHAEL GIBBONS- guitar
JOHN GIBBONS- guitar
JASON KOURKOUNIS- drums, percussion
SHIBATA NAO- percussion
KIKUCHI AKIRA- Bass

DISC 2 recorded Oct14, 2006
SHINSUKE MICHISHITA- guitar, bass, drums
IKURO TAKAHASHI percussion, drums
MICHAEL GIBBONS- guitar
JOHN GIBBONS- guitar
JASON KOURKOUNIS- drums, percussion
CLINT TAKEDA- bass
ISOBEL SOLLENBERGER- vocals flute
AARON IGLER- electronics

Comes packaged in a ½ fold letterpress sleeve with silver foil stamped front and rear covers with 8 page photo booklet saddle stitched inside that hopefully conveys the mode and energy of the recording sessions. CD’s are in black hand stamped envelopes bound together with letterpress obi bands. All hand made and hand assembled. Design and graphic work all executed by old friend, and label owner, Keith Utech. single pressing of 1000 copies

amon, do you know, is that bcm album similar sounding to birds call home their dead? that's the last one i got by him, and i love it. plush half hour drones

there's no drums like track 1 of birds, but plenty of beautiful drones with guitar and whatever else supplied by matthew bower

glad to see some Charalambides love finally, their last record Likeness was really really good. i'm looking forward to hearing MV/EE as i liked their last one.

i also just picked up (a couple weeks ago) Boris + Michio Kurihara's Rainbow, finally found the damn thing in a used bin. and it is great. lots of great guitar work from Kurihara. track 8 is going to be on my best-of-2007 mix.

LOVE the new Charalambides. didnt really like A Vintage Burden but love every other album they ever did, so very happy they still have the magic

AWESOME bardo lsd collab! great artwork as well....not very practical that Archive packaging style though

looking forward to the Emeralds LP on Hanson, Suishou No Fune and Sachiko albums on my own little label thing, whoo

The Stars of the Lid tour EP is excellent, unsurprisingly -- and quiet even for them. Which is saying something.

Your own little label thing, Rizzx? I've missed something here!

i also need to post in this thread more often, i love these genres, my wallet doesn;t though. but you know what's awesome too? TRADES!

xp - how could you have missed my marketing campaign?!

www.cuthands.net

ps. i know cemetary isn't spelled like that

i post updates on the Foxy Digi blog all the time, i know you read foxy digi!

i like the seventh sons LP on ESP-disk

you can join my mailing list if you'd like

i post updates on the Foxy Digi blog all the time, i know you read foxy digi!

Less often than I need to, clearly...

Hey Ned, did you see on the Laser Pace thread, that Anthology will indeed re-release Granfalloon this year? Whoo-hoo! Some good acid (and other) folkies can be streamed, downloaded and read about on PTW today:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1294

wow this Sapat CD on "new" Siltbreeze is really good! I picked it up as a cheap promo and am giving it a thorough listen for the first time tonight. Several times I caught myself wondering what I was listening to, in a good way.

What's it like? (yet more on PTW: sort of ESP-DISK tribal "pop music for teenage girls," they call it, under thee fire escape:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1208

Sapat = Krautrock + Blonde Redhead + free jazz + Royal Trux

3 outta four ain't bad! And the song that reminds me of Blonde Redhead is actually one of the best songs on the album. Tom L needs to be signing more bands like this and less like Psychedelic Horseshit.

i love that psychedelic horseshit album!

and it's totally a siltbreeze record!

Got the LSD POND cd in the mail today.

i raved:

http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1213

see, don isn't the only one who can provide links to mod indie rock websites.

speaking of raving and tom lax, he's been raving about sic alps so much that i finally bought one of their records and it's growing on me. i got pleasures and treasures. although, apparently, all their stuff sounds different. i don't know if i like it enough yet to go get the newest single/ep i saw at the record store.

the single w the walker bros on the cover all blacked out? its v v good! i gotta get the alb

report back on the LSD Pond album asap please!

8 long tracks on 2cds of heavy psychedelic jamming I should think!

Korperschwache ruled my week, Scott should like them I think

and the Cadaver In Drag album is just a wonderful disaster, i love this kind of caveman noiserock

xp - haha yeah, i can paint that picture in my head. should order it

"Korperschwache ruled my week, Scott should like them I think"

just listening last night! two CDs. i got them courtesy of filthy phil freeman. he wants me to review them. i only got through one cd so far though. very groovy.

Yeah, now having played it, it sounds exactly how you would expect. It's great.

Hmm, I like the name.

scott, I dislike that Psychedelic Horseshit record pretty much BECAUSE it sounds like it's trying to be a 'quintessential' Siltbreeze record. All I hear is Times New Viking without the tunes.

sic alps on the othr hand - genius. That LP you have isn't their best - the new single is amazing and you MUST see them live

I'm been hammering the For Barry Ray album lately, it's great. And John Chantler seems like a total bro as well.

Also want to hear psychedelic horseshiiit gear.

knew you'd dig them Scott, Korperschwache release on my own label this year har har harrrr

I dislike that Psychedelic Horseshit record pretty much BECAUSE it sounds like it's trying to be a 'quintessential' Siltbreeze record.

...or the quintessential Columbus record, which I don't think is a bad thing at all.

quintessential columbus record is Ego Summit, surely?

from last visible dog:

The Renderizors are a hybrid of The Renderers and Sandoz Lab
Technicians. When I first heard about the mix I thought that it
probably wasn't that good--but I couldn't have been more wrong. With
SLT in control of the noise and drift, this becomes a giant, spacious
love affair with the Renderers beautiful song-writing talents. These
turn into something more than songs, but the songs are still in there.
I can't help think this feels like the soundtrack to some new Lynch
movie--drifting in and out, occasionally coming into focus for a ballad.

Anyway, enough of that, this album is called Submarine, and is usual,
the asking price is $10.

Also just out is a reissue of The Terminals 'Touch' album. Brian
Crook has lovingly remastered the album which doesn't make it sound
clean or in any way 'messed with'. Rather (if you recall the sound of
the original) it just sounds like a couple pillows have been removed
from your speakers. There's also a couple bonus tracks: 'In and out
of my mind' which shouldn't be new if you've heard the old CD issue,
but was not on the vinyl. Also a live Terminals recording of Native
Waiter (originally a Victor Dimisch band song).

As to Touch itself--this is actually one of my favorite NZ noisy/rock
album that doesn't seem to have a weak track but still captures all
the energy of the live shows and lets things really get out of
control. Definitely gives 'Last Days of the Sun' a run for its money.

For those noting the Terminals reissue program, I am working on the
reissue of 'Little Things' as well, but it isn't ready yet.

Oh, and of course, Touch, like the new Renderizors CD is only $10 (cheap!)

i am panting with anticipation. i don't know that i'll rush out to buy the "touch" reissue, but anyone who doesn't have it is missing out on one of the best post-60s psych rock albums.

Nice to see the mention of the Victor Dimisch Band too -- that's a wonderful disc, and I drag it out every so often.

"My name is K...but you can call me Claude..."

that is, indeed, a great disc. couple that with the scorched earth policy anthology also on medication and you've got some of the best 80s NZ stuff that no one really seemed to like at the time.

(isn't it actually dimisich? i remember getting the name wrong for a long time...)

it is! huh.

international postage sucks ass!

What can people tell me about Ecstatic Sunshine? I'm loving "Perrier" on their myspace page. Sounds like chimy guitar stuff meets something on a Kompakt Pop Ambient comp.

haha i wrote a dumb review of their lp here

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=1759

Hmm, new to me...the Baltimore wing can say more, likely enough. Does sound nice!

they're from b-more. they just broke up or one guy left at least and i think they were a duo

ok i'm wrong, one guy left and two other guys joined

I don't much like their two-pronged guitar attack stuff, for what it's work rizzx. This version of "Perrier" is post-line-up-change, and whatever nasty shit went down it seems to have been for the best.

haha i don't doubt it

yeah i was gonna say they sound a lot mellower now

it's an '07 record but the anemones lp 'come down like a cloud' is top hole.. the 'vicious attacks' 45 is even better, total garagey spacemen 3 moves

new MV/EE tape out on Fuckit Tapes--"The Ground Ain't Dirty." After the extreme contrast beween Gettin' Gone and the Uranian Ray re-ish, I wonder what vintage this is. I picked it up yesterday but haven't listened yet. Credited to MV/EE alone and not any varation on their band name(s).

Last track A-side is... "love in mind!" jeeze, now i feel like i have to listen to this right away to the validate its status as a neil young cover. Will report back.

Some stuff I'm loving so far:

Shit and Shine - Cherry
More noisey goodness. Seems a lot more varied and off the wall than previous releases.

Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi

An incredible focused and formidable fifty something min. single track solo electric guitar wall of noise work from new face from the Chinese music scene. A release that will be sure to make more then a few people scramble to dig up Li’s back catalog of work on his own 2pi imprint

All I hear is Times New Viking without the tunes.
But Psychedelic Horseshit is more ecstatic, more fun. For such a mess, they're strangely catchy. Both are good.

I dislike that Psychedelic Horseshit record pretty much BECAUSE it sounds like it's trying to be a 'quintessential' Siltbreeze record.
?
Who cares. You conveniently omit that they pull it off.

The Renderizors...
That sample on LVD is beautiful.

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demons “infinity mirror” lathe-cut record

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wau

Demons are a good bunch.

I kinda jumped ship on the Wolf Eyes set in the last year or so, but some of these Aryan Asshole lathes are just... so.... desirable....

the lathe box is awesome as well, it's just a shame there ain't that much music on them

Valet - Naked Acid

^^I will get this.

I haven't really been listening to much new stuff -- a few of the MV/EE ones and the LSD Pond. Might check out some of the gear mentioned upthread. Any other new noteworthy stuff?

New Valet is pretty good, i think i like it more than the previous one

there's this album on Archive by a Chinese guitarist whose name I can't remember at the moment. But it's fucking awesome...blissed out over the top guitar, a bit like Yellow Swans' latest, or Fushitsusha meets My Bloody Valentine

Li Jianhong? I stumbled across that today on teh internet.

yeah! maybe the album is a bit on the long side but the sound is just MASSIVE

Name sounds familiar. Do I have that around somewhere?

New Steven R. Smith incarnation Ulaan Khol is good stuff -- VERY much a Roy Montgomery/Dave Pearce tribute, I think, in a positive way.

Anyone into Belong? They have a new ep of covers coming out on St Ives.
Here's the write-up from Other Music

New Orleans-based Belong's October Language album from 2006 went largely unnoticed, which is a real shame since it is a great drone/shoegaze record. In a genre that is plagued by dull Fennesz rip offs and mediocre My Bloody Valentine clones, October Language stood out because of the meticulous crafting and precise attention to detail -- original yet not afraid to show its influences. Belong return here with Colorloss Record (a super-limited vinyl pressing, which is available in download form only on Other Music Digital), an EP of '60s psych covers. Even though the duo throw vocals into the mix, you'd be hard pressed to guess the originals since these versions sound weathered, like the musical equivalent of a faded photograph, and all that remains is a gorgeous, melodic core. The four tracks ("Late Night" by Syd Barrett, "Beeside" by Tintern Abbey, Billy Nicholls' "Girl From New York," and the July classic "My Clown") echo Basinski and, sure, MBV at times, but the sheer originality of these interpretations again prove that Belong are at the top of the drone heap.

dull Fennesz rip offs and mediocre My Bloody Valentine clones

really? i'd like a list of at least 10 artists that fit either or both of these descriptions, mr. other music word-pusher.

Other Music make Pitchfork look like wide eyed optimists

Pitchfork ARE wide eyed optimists!

That Belong EP really is fantastic, like ghosts singing in a huge cathedral. "Beeside" in particular. Probably some of the best omphaloskepsis I've heard in a while.

(I just took over hosting a psych/kraut/drone radio show on WREK so I'm really digging this stuff heavily at the moment)

Triclops - strange math-rock noisey psychedelic freaks

Punknews.org | Alternative Tentacles Signs Triclops!

The long-running Bay area label Alternative Tentacles has signed Triclops! with a release date of March 25th for their debut full length album, Out of Africa. The group features members of Bottles and Skulls, Fleshies, Victims Family, and Lower Forty-Eight. The album was scheduled to be released on Gold Standard labs before that labeled closed its doors last fall

MySpace.com - TRICLOPS! - SAN FRANCISCO, California - Psychedelic / Grunge / Progressive - www.myspace.com/triclopsband

track Freedom Trickler: sounds like vintage Jane's Addiction

where have this band come from ?

answer

Triclops! began in 2005 as an experiment in trans Bay friendship. Christian Beaulieu from San Francisco's Bottles and Skulls bravely chose to collaborate with cross town rival/would-be-ally Johnny from Oakland's Fleshies. They made a tape with echo-laden guitars and drums, the vocals run through broken solid state amps with phaser explosion. The duo attacked noise pedals/tape loops/randomly modified guitars and began to realize the band required a rhythm section.

Finding their native punk scene poached dry of experimental-friendly comrades, they randomly responded to a Craigslist ad and struck gold in a brutally talented drummer named Phil from the defunct band Lower Forty-Eight. By January of 2006 they called out to megaveteran bass player Larry Boothroyd (of Victim's Family/Hellworms/Saturn's Flea Collar fame) and Triclops! was born, a mutation of this hybrid gene pool.

In August 2006, Triclops! recorded the Cafeteria Brutalia EP (w/ engineer Phil Manley of Trans Am, Fucking Champs, Golden) for renowned Chicago indie label SickRoom. It was also released on picture disc format on with a 12" Picture Disc version on Missing Finger Records from Brooklyn. On September 9th, 2007 Gold Standard Labs (original home of Mars Volta, the Locust, !!!, and many others) ended its long run as an active label with the Triclops! picture disc 7 inch "Too Many Humans".

In this short but productive existence, Triclops! Has shared the stage on some exciting and diverse show bills with bands such as Acid Mother's Temple, Don Caballero, Big Business, Pinhead Gunpowder, and Circle. The group has toured with 400 Blows, QUI (David Yow of The Jesus Lizard) Federation X, Burning Brides, played the GSL showcase at SXSW 2007 to a packed house at Emo's. Fall 2007 had the quartet in NYC for the CMJ Music Marathon and then to Gainesville, Florida for the No Idea Fest 6. Triclops! are now playing select shows and prepping the March 25 release of the new full-length Out of Africa, recorded with Melvins engineer Kurt Schlegel at his Lucky Cat Studio. Jello Biafra personally chased them down to secure the album's release on Alternative Tentacles Recordings.

meh. no thanks

Psychedelic grunge progressive? Great, the return of Rusted Root.

Triclops are actually pretty cool, but why have they released so many picture discs?!

Gotta have a gimmick, I guess.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZriJfgv0I_Q

there are a lot of bands that sound like that

I love that dj martian c&ps the title bar for his links

on soulseek some guy had a folder for all his psychedelic stuff that he listed as "this music isn't very good... PSYCH!" I just thought that should be shared

15 Degrees Below Zero - New Travel

^^ good psyched out ambient

In the 'I don't know where else to put them so maybe here' category I got a promo of this UK act called the Sian Alice Group -- the PR fluff made them out to be a junior Spiritualized but in listening to the album I dunno, a different sort of thing going. I wouldn't call them top flight but it's a good listen anyway:

http://www.myspace.com/sianalicegroup

the new <a href="http://www.studentsofdecay.com/homepage.htm";>students of decay</a> cd-r batch sounds fine. can't imagine that nsb one will be around more than a few days.

i'll never get used to this thing being bbcode now....

students of decay

I'm listening to the new Goslings album for the first time and I'm listening to the second song, it's a reasonably long song and it's been playing for about 3 minutes. I just know that something mindblowing is going to happen in mebbe 2 minutes :D:D

so?

Ha, I was drunk when I did this. Yes, it was more like the 7 minute mark though :^]

Am listening to an album that seems to be called A F C G T by a band that is definitely called A F C G T. Basically the remains of the A Frames jamming w/ Climax Golden Twins? No personel credits, bought it off Jeffery @ Wall of Sound on Saturday. Fucking awesome. Sounds like a stoned, instrumental-psyche version of the A Frames, with piles of CGT kitchen-sink noize piled all over everything. Said to be a "bootleg" of practice space jamz, and there's a definite lack of focus, but it bodes well for official stuff in the future.

Last tune, "Return to Thundernest" really nailing it to the sky.

Aquarius Records are giving the Cave lp some love. Warms my heart.

Plus also the AGCGT thing, too, as it turns out. See third pitch down. Disagree in that I never minded the vocals in teh A Frames and kinda miss 'em here, but otherwise OTM. (Though I'm not sure where/how Oxbow figures in.)

I'd LOVE to hear that AGCGT jam.

Ian, sent u mssg.

Could you send me a mssg too, please?? :D

Has anyone heard the Ulaan Khol? It's by the same guy who does Hala Strana.

It's all right enough. My review here.

I haven't heard it, his newish one on Digitalis is great.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/silt_sxsw_2008.jpg

if you are going to that I am jealous

Bring it all to me plz.

BCM's Gunpowder Temple of Heaven is gorgeous. I like it more than most of his other recent stuff.

People going to that Siltbreeze show should definitely check out Naked on the Vague. They're better on record, but worth seeing anyway. I think Siltbreeze are releasing the LP of their debut full-length 'The Blood Pressure Sessions'.

Oh and xNOBBQx are good as well. Both bands are from Australia.

otm re: notv. love love love that cd. they're on some early 80s sy/monitor/synthpunk trip, creepy and trippy. they play as220 with wolf eyes in april and I am jazzed.

and yes siltbreeze is doing the blood pressure vinyl.

That new dude from Quilts has an AMAZING track on his myspace.

Here http://www.myspace.com/samgillespiesound

....

i saw most of sion alice do an acoustic show last summer (w/out bass player) and it was wonderful (also perfect setting and weather). chatted with them after and was made psyched on them. missed them the next day (electric), but i think theres clips on the sr site.

hearing the promo, i was kind of let down. i can't quite pinpoint where things went awry. the set i saw had a lovely urban rustic feel, but swathed in a non-opiate haze (ie: not spiritualizedy, but no sunshine pop/fairport in the big city either), but the record has no real feel to it. no real guts. its pretty, but i don't feel like the vocalist comes across as i've seen/heard her do.

that said, its still a nice record. wish i'd seen them at the same venue the sat after valentines day, but got the email too late. think they're still in hte midst of a us tour...

been digging the brethren of the free spirit: All Things are from Him, through Him and in Him (j blackshaw and Josef Van Wissem) and heavey winged's mojito

New Cloudland Canyon = VERY good. Best yet.

Listening to new Blue Sabbath Black Cheer LP on Gnarled Forest: To the Sickly Weaklings. Awesome graveyard noize. Side A = scream & clang "hc" garbage, B side = haunted/ambient monsterism (still shrieky). Punk as fuck.

posted on the vinyl thread, but some new releases worth a minute or two:

pigeons s/t on black dirt (carter thornton w members of sea donkey. lovely pastoral psychedelia for a sunday morning. reminiscent of charalambides and os mutantes, both. femme vox in french and english.)

bruce russell - 21st century field hollers & prison songs

new hototogisu on heavy blossom, for the bower devotees.

<I>Yves, Serge and Victor LP (like Frenchies doing Neil Young with lots of fuzz)</I>

FINALLY got this back in stock and picked up a copy. This record has lived in my mind & heart since it was recorded in, what, 1978 or something?

blue sabbath black cheer are fucked UP in all the good ways. I love their shit, need to see if i can find that LP

Anybody else way into TV Ghost?

I got some pals who love that band. Me, not so much. Sounds like a slightly more lo-fi update of all the mediocre no wave style groups from 10 years ago. Somewhere between the punker end of Skin Graft and like, GSL or something. Not for me.

Anyone think buying the Blue Sabbath Black Cheer LP would be an investment? Since they're only pressing 327 and everything...

uh what

blue sabbath black cheer lps trading up this morning, should close above market value

tv ghost trends downward, street advises STRONG SELL

Ha.
You guys make jokes, but Valerio Cosi posted this on myspace:

OK - Sometimes i feel like i want to stop making music because people are very weird.

You might ask... Why?!

Read here (and see what a shame...):

Uton & Valerio Cosi LP edition of the Fire Museum records CD called "Kaarmeenkaantopiiri " is a long awaiting release (fixed as a vinyl LP in 2006) and it never came out on Kaleidoscope Gang, a greek label run by Alex Damianos who decided to make a ridicolously tiny press of only 150 copies.

We (me and Jani Hirvonen, the man behind Uton) have been pushing the guy for knowing some exact release times of this vinyl since 2 years. The guy called Alex was like falling down the clouds everytime we made questions...Jani also helped the label guy with burocracy practices realized in Finland (!!).
Weird? uh?! ...

Now it’s nearly half of 2008 and we artists never saw copies of the vinyls, neither particular emails about this incredible loooong delay.

So, the fact is that me and Jani discovered this today (on the Ebay site) [auction is not still closed yet!]:

Uton & Valerio LP selling for US $101. 45
(and I’m just asking...why so much? Pretty insane...)

Description of the product says:
"UTON + VALERIO COSI "Kaarmeenkaantopiiri" Super Rare Vinyl Lp on Kaleidoscope Gang from 2007. Released in 150 Blue Color Vinyl copies and immediately disappeared! Vinyl is EX+ and comes in a 2 sided silkscreened cloth Cover which is NearMINT!

Seems like someone is trying to make some big money in the psych/drone/freak underground.

like every dude with 1+ year old vinyl and an ebay account

i just now (finally) got around to ordering the LSD Pond double live album from the archive shop, $19 shipped. looking forward to receiving that one. but, can someone tell me if it's any good?

new Boris isn't half bad. solid overall, if not spectacular. but it could be a grower. that aside, been listening to a lot of Charalambides lately. oh and Sir Richard Bishop, While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (thanks Mark for the recommendation, love it so so much).

how y'all doing?

LSD Pond album is really really good yeah. Raw shit, good mixture of Bardo Out Thereness and LSD Psych

The Terminals' "Touch" is sooooo good

anyone heard this ilyas ahmed person that aquarius records is going nuts over?

also, the new james blackshaw is greeeeeeat. maybe not quite as good as the last one, but close.

anyone heard that ice music thing AQ is going nuts over?

ilyas ahmed record on time-lag is pretty cool. i wish it were a little more straightforward, though.

anyone heard this ilyas ahmed person that aquarius records is going nuts over?

That would understate. Been a fan for a couple of years now, interviewed him for the latest issue of Dream. Great live performer as well.

the Up-Tight album on Archive is a scorcher as well, i just love those japsych dudes

The Terminals' "Touch" is sooooo good

oh yeah. LVD put out that renderizors cd (w/brian crook of terminals/renderers, his wife and two sandoz lab technicians) at the same time. it's pretty weird. like acousmatic country music or something.

also:
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/1871/

i was surprised that cope reviewed this (crow tongue's "ghost eye seeker"), and surprised as hell at how noisy and drony it was. it's totally outside of anything tim did with stone breath or any of his other projects.

I dunno exactly where to put this Gnaw Their Tongues thing, 'An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood', but I guess this place wins out over rolling metal and non-indie underground. I really like it though. Hella messed up doom riffs and horrible clangy pianos and general crypto-industrial atmos. I think maybe it's what I wanted the admittedly small sampling of Wolfmangler stuff I've heard to sound like. Crucial Blast are putting a reissue of the original release, which came out in December on Burning World, out about now.

NP: Ben Nash 'The Seventh Goodbye' on Aurora Borealis - very whacked out drone-folk from Britisher, not sure what I think yet. Before that: Christina Carter 'Texas Working Blues' tape on Blackest Rainbow, which is pretty lush. Good washing up/coffee-making music.

since you brought up wolfmangler, the dead raven choir covers album should be on this thread. or maybe it was on last year's thread. *My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind*. it's great. especially if you ever wondered what cole porter would sound like as black metal. smolken is doing a new covers album too AS WE SPEAK. track-listing:

Folsom Prison Blues
I Wish I Was Eighteen Again
Fallen Angel
The Green Leaves Of Summer
The Long Black Veil
When The Tingle Becomes A Chill
Furnace Room Lullaby
Is Anybody Going To San Antone?
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
Wine Colored Roses
Field Behind The Plow

That's a damn good tracklist! What a mix.

here's the track-list for Firstborn - which you should still be able to find pretty easily - came out on aurora borealis - more trad folk kinda stuff:

Kigi Wa Haru
Our Mother The Mountain
A Rosebud In June
Genesis Hall
Sheep-crook, Black Dog
It's All Right With Me
The Trees They Grow So High
Favorite
Bluenose
From The Stars

I had no idea they were covers until maybe the fourth or fifth time I listened to Firstborn. I finally looked at the tracklist. LOLs ensued.

they could really be almost anything the way they are played.

did you hear the townes van zandt cover on the Folk Spectre record? That's a really cool record.

i don't know what a folk spectre is.

i still wanna hear the vetiver covers album.

vetiver track-list:

01 Houses [Elyse Weinberg]
02 Roll on Babe [Derroll Adams]
03 Sleep a Million Years [Dia Joyce]
04 Hook & Ladder [Norman Greenbaum]
05 To Baby [Biff Rose]
06 Road to Ronderlin [Ian Matthews]
07 Lon Chaney [Garland Jeffreys]
08 Hurry on Sundown [Dave Brock, Hawkwind]
09 Swimming Song [Loudon Wainwright III]
10 Blue Driver [Michael Hurley]
11 Standing [Towns Van Zandt]
12 I Must Be in a Good Place Now [Bobby Charles]

i still think you gave vetiver that track-list, ian.

i read that michael hurley and vashti bunyan are on the vetiver album. singing and stuff.

yeah, they are. i wanna hear that record too. a couple of my friends play with vetiver on occasion; not sure how much they're on the album. vetiver also just released an EP with a fleetwood mac cover--"Save Me A Place."

god vetiver are a dull band. why the hell would you cover "swimming song" by doing it in the exact same style/delivery as the original? as if loudon's would be the one made redundant? gah.

i really liked the last vetiver album! but that's all i have by them.

okay, this is getting ridiculous. that was ME. the perils of one computer.

i've really been enjoying not having my own computer though. psychologically freeing. plus, been playing a ton more records as a result. and playing with my children! who would have thought!

How dare you be a good father! Oh wait. :-D

i really liked that last vetiver album and the last espers album a bunch and i am more than willing to hate almost all new music that i hear to make life easier for myself. i didn't buy espersface's covers album though. though when she played a set here at the record store with her sister i thought she sounded great and she played one of the best new riders of the purple sage covers i've ever heard.

... the question is, how many have you heard?

the ex-cocaine side of their split on not not fun is so good that I haven't flipped it over to see what yellow swans did.

the new? scott tuma cd is excellent... nice guitar stuff.

shadow music of thailand on sublime frequencies is interesting, but not something i could listen to all the time.

haven't gotten around to the new directing hand thing or the lula cortes elements double lp thing

the lula cortes is an ultrawinner. the CD reissue a few years back got some fairly high profile raves. and yeah, ex-cocaine are a band to look out for. do they tour? do they even play live in... missoula? would love to see that shit and experience it at high volume.

I saw this amazing psych freakout/early sabbath/crazy organ solos outfit live the other day called Lady Strangelove. I dont know anything much about them except they're from Adelaide but check them out, they were pretty good fun live.

http://www.fonal.com/shop/img_upload/_es_sateenkaarisuudelma_2x12-record.jpg

loved the last espers album too, but that don't change my vetiver pov. And the solo Meg Baird album is lovely and well worth getting.

Curious about the Ex-Cocaine/Yellow Swans split. LOVED the first Ex-Cocaine I heard, the Keep America Mellow" LP on Killertree. But bored by the follow up on Siltbreeze (?). Does the split thing lean more towards psychedelic folk blues, or "avant" randomness?

And really did the Dead Raven Choir LP Scott mentioned above, Surely My Firstborn Must be Blind. Neko Case cover is especially great.

Does the split thing lean more towards psychedelic folk blues, or "avant" randomness?

I share contenderizer's opinions on Ex Cocaine and also await an answer to this question

i have it at home but only played it once, i like the YS side more is what I remember

I love the first Ex-Cocaine LP on Killertree as well and I think they never topped that. Check out Poor School, one of their sideprojects for some skronky freerock that is really satisfying. Ecstatic Peace just rereleased their killer debut LP The Holy Master

Sun. May 25 in B-more
KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT
AXOLOTL
THE SKATERS

ask Skater James Ferraro if he brought his catalogues full of shite

what does that mean

so i got that ilyas ahmed reissue (from aquarius, natch). I dig! Between Two Skies sounds kinda like Jandek if Jandek listened to Davy Graham or something. Towards the Night is a bit more straightforward, it seems, but very very nice. I do have a little problem with the liner notes, which fall into the "dude makes creepy, mysterious music, dude must be creepy/mysterious" trap. I mean, I think that's Ahmed's email address printed below the notes. It's a Yahoo address, which I guess is sort of creepy, but not that much.

Haha, Ilyas is so not creepy. Liner notes are simply David Keenan going 'I must keep him MYSTERIOUS, I won't even read interviews!' where I'm all 'dude, not only have I interviewed him we've hung out a few times now and have mutual friends, he's chill and very friendly.'

If anything the e-mail address is part of him not being creepy -- he's really not entirely one for the Web and has said so, though he's pondered the idea of a fuller presence (I almost want to say he did set up a Myspace site at last but I don't think he's publicized it much). He's got a couple more records he's just finished -- one for De Stijl, I forget the other label.

OMG I love this Windy Weber. The world needs more GOTH NOISE.

or GOTH DRONE or whatever this is

yeah i kind of figured that about ahmed. i do LIKE that mysterious vibe in the music/packaging -- that's all in good fun. but it's easy to take it too far for sure. this reissue does have a scary cover, no doubt. wait, where is your interview with him, ned?
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BigLurks, Windy will be very pleased to hear that! If you've not met her remind me to introduce you at Terrastock 7.

Yeah, Ilyas is very much his own spirit and he does focus on sometimes darker corners in his music -- he's mentioned that there are a couple of earlier efforts he finds it hard to listen to because of where he was at at the time, which I totally understand -- but he's not a prince of darkness or anything! Just passionate and interested in performance and composition, on his own and with others. My interview is not online; instead it's in the latest issue of Dream magazine, which I recommend ordering:

http://www.dreamgeo.com/order.html

Issue number eight -- $12, comes with a good CD as do all the other issues, really. Well worth it!

Thanks Ned!

The one issue of Dream Magazine I have (the green one in which Henry Flynt calls post-modernism the "permission to be a scoundrel" or something) is super good.

fuck me, just got the Sic Alps comp, A Long Way Around To A Shortcut. Never got a chance to hear these dudes. I like this a lot.

I broke down and bought that Ex Cocaine / Yellow Swans split, and I'm in the same boat as T0dd Sw!ss upthread, in that I haven't been able to flip over to the Swans side because Ex Cocaine's two jams are so good. Track one veers a little close to 'avant randomness' (but better than the siltbreeze LP) but the second track - a Meat Puppets cover -is is total fucking gold. The 2008 downer jam to beat

Be sure to flip it around though cos the Yellow Swans track is a blast as well. Rawer than At All Ends but a similar melodic style

othermusic review of the ilyas ahmed 2cd:

While taking the subway in to work this morning I was reading a collection of poems by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, and alighted on the following lines from her poem Darkness Spoken:

Like Orpheus I play
death on the strings of life,
and to the beauty of Earth
and your eyes, which administer heaven,
I can only speak of darkness.

Settling in to review Ilyas Ahmed's two CD rumination on night, sky, and silence it occurred to me that his music sounds exactly like that. These are songs as empty vessels, formlessness defined, a Byzantine route to mood. And I think of Bachmann again, from Songs in Flight:

Only the sinking of stars. Silence and reflection.
Yet the song beyond the dust
Will overcome our own.

REALLY.

ask Skater James Ferraro if he brought his catalogues full of shite

-- rizzx, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:17 (4 days ago) Link

what does that mean

-- am0n, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:06 (3 days ago) Link

Maybe it has to do with one of them little noise boards out there. A bunch of folks claimed James takes their money and doesn't send them goods.

i had no idea about that or who he is but google brought up a thread on it pretty easily

That's the one. Like, four people have e-mailed me that thread. I wish they would stop!

I just read some of those threads. Zac Davis too, huh?

I can't believe people would send off for $100 of the same stuff. How many Skaters records/tapes/etc can anybody need?

Personally I think James F is a really nice guy and I've never had any problems getting releases from him; granted it's never via mail, but he's never failed to follow through on anything within my experiences with the guy.

I can't believe people would send off for $100 of the same stuff. How many Skaters records/tapes/etc can anybody need?

I came to this conclusion about a lot of drone-based stuff sometime in 2007. And you know what? I actually can put away $$$ for savings now!

if i could get all of the dead c releases i'm missing, it would probably cost about $100.
if i wanted all the Gate LPs i'm missing, it would be another hundred.
and so on.

I'm so not even trying to keep up on everything, no point. Time-Lag and Foxy D releases I try and get as I can but beyond that, there's no way.

my priorities lie with Eclipse, Time-Lag, and things related to specific groups (the aforementioned Dead C, Charalambides, Pelt (but i don't even buy Jack Rose records anymore), Idea Fire Company, Shadow Ring... been into Pocahaunted lately after about a year of ignoring them cuz of the stupid name... I usually give a listen to Brooklyn-based stuff like Mouthus & Religious Knives, but they're usually not groups I obsess about.)

skaters were pretty good the one time i saw them. more excited about kemialliset ystavat, although i just found out that the venue is closing down and relocating itself inside another larger local club

you should see if axolotl has any copies left of his split 7" with skullflower.

it was one of those not not fun/bored fortress jams.

There was a decent, pretty intense thread about James F3rraro going on over at I Hate Music recently. It sounds like he's a good dude who just kinda takes a while to get to things sometimes, but people get pretty upset about it. He was ridiculously friendly the one time I met him, didn't seem too sketchy or anything.

The Skaters= pretty good, usually!

i can't take that ihm board seriously, so fucking uptight. if you think the aspies here are bad...

haha no kidding. I would never, ever post there, but they have some pretty flippin' knowledgeable posters, and they talk about Graham Lambkin more than ILX does, so it's worth the occasional lurk to me.

That's about where I am with IHM too. Especially after that John Cage thread.

I came to this conclusion about a lot of drone-based stuff sometime in 2007.

Absolutely. I had to give that entire scene a wide berth for a while. Perhaps unfairly. I dunno. I've been getting much more out of doing my homework on older stuff for the minute anyway.

In the words of Pierro Scaruffi: "the main drawback of his career is that he has diluted a few ideas over a ridiculous number of ridiculously lengthy recordings (20 in just the first five years)."

He was talking about Koji Asano, unfairly or not, but I think you could apply that to a lot of CDR psych-drone-rattlers from the past few years.

Not that I want to get into a debate about how much 'ideas' matter.

Fuck it.

It's true though. I got a bit burned out on the CDR/small-print-run drone continuum about the same time Quantum did. I don't know that ideas or diversity matter, but there's an awful lot of undifferentiated product out there that seems to exist only to fill a niche.

so i like that new grails album. it's pretty good. i just can't seem to remember if i've heard their other stuff. i think i might have theme mixed up with someone else. like thrones or something. grails had stuff on temporary residence?

oh and i mentioned this everywhere else already but i do really dig the new acid mothers. maybe i mentioned it here too. so heavy and satisfying in a way that they aren't always heavy and satisfying. and ditto the boris/merzbow live thing. i'm still listening to them. but this is all old news.

listened to this four times yesterday. probably four more times today if i get a chance. i want it to become a part of my dna:

The New Age - All Around - Patrick Kilroy - Susan Graubard - Jeffrey Stewart

yeah i like the new Grails album as well. Better than previous albums, i liked their first, Burden of Hope, as well but this one is really their best imo

scott, just added that LP to our forced exposure order. thanks for the tip.
i agree re: small run cdr & tape releases. hell i don't even buy CDs. sticking to vinyl really helps, except with labels like Last Visible Dog and Secret Eye who release tons of great stuff but very little (if any) vinyl.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drk400/k448/k44866h3au9.jpg

did this come out last year and I missed it? it's really good.

the new Julie Mittens on Holy Mountain = fooookin nice
pure fire..structured fire though, this is what i need when i get home from work

my brother at some noise festival on may 9th. lotsa lolzzzzz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7mOZRools

(20 years of bunnybrains this year. that's a lotta rolling around on dirty floors.)

I saw Burial Hex (Cl@y Ruby from Davenport) at a warehouse show this weekend. Shit was pure evil, one man occult horror noise. Are his recordings any good? His performance left me sort of disturbed.

I like 'Initiations' on Aurora Bourealis, need to pick some more of his stuff. I only last week realised he's also in Jex Thoth along with Roger Adultery

^^Those two have done a few things together (Zodiacs, Zodiac Mountain).
Haven't heard any solo stuff from Clay, but the Davenport I've heard varies from really good to completely inessential. FREE COUNTRY is my favorite.

my label has some Burial Hex cd-r's still available (only a handful left though)

www.cuthands.net

Can someone direct me to a forum that deals with newer psychedelic music or where the members have a strong knowledge of psychedelic music? I know most of the older stuff by now, but I have a hard time finding anything new other than checking this thread whenever it's updated.

Maybe you should get on some mailing lists?
http://www.eclipse-records.com/
http://www.time-lagrecords.com/
http://www.fusetronsound.com/
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/
Plus others, of course.

They send out (semi)regular emails with all their new stock.
There's no forum where all this stuff gets discussed because no one can listen to all of it.

anyone know what's up with this urthona thing? i really like it, it kind of reminds me of the last couple of skullflower albums but less shrieky and compressed, more spacious and melodic.

it's on head heritage, which is apparently a record label now too.

never heard of them but your description makes me very curious

this is apparently close to being finished
http://www.michigannoise.com/

which is inzanely awezum

the Emeralds album Solar Bridge, on Hanson, is a sweet sweet ride too.

The 'new' Black Sun Ensemble album Across the Sea of Id -- it's a mix of reworked older songs and fully new ones -- is a gentle treat. Given Tony Dale of Camera Obscura's struggle with cancer right now it's somehow appropriate he's released one of his label's best.

Just bought Linus Pauling Quartet's "All Things Are Light" vinyl off him. He's an awesome dude!!

Great album, that. Band are on a major roll right now.

yuh the vinyl is highly sexual too.

I didn't know he had cancer, that's awful.

Some more discussion of the Robedoor/Pocahaunted/Not Not Fun scene, please.
I like the Robedoor LPs I've heard, but I don't know that i'd suggest anyone NEEDS to buy them URGENTLY. they're good, but they don't stand out from each other too much, as far as my listenings have been concerned. there's definite similarities to groups like Double Leopards, Birchville, Skaters, etc. Sounds like they moan into a lot of pedals and maybe strum or ebow some guitars, again, through lots of pedals. The record I really loved was the Pocahaunted LP on Woodsist, "Peyote Road." Some kind of Operation of the Sonne-era Dead C vibes; that is, slow repeating gushes with that signature "decaying guitar" sound.

Also, some of the split LPs NNF has put out have been killing me, lately.. Cloudland Canyon/Mythical Beast, Christina Carter/Pocahaunted, Yellow Swans/Ex-Cocaine. There's a lot to love. And NNF just put out a new Scorces LP as well.

Can someone direct me to a forum that deals with newer psychedelic music or where the members have a strong knowledge of psychedelic music?

DroneOn! http://groups.google.com/group/droneon

I think i might buy that Scorces double lp. Is it good, Ian?

I'm still waiting for my copy to show up, but I have confidence that it'll be better than the Heather Murray solo LP... which isn't bad, it was just a little underwhelming compared to previous Scorces efforts. The most underrated Charalambides spin-off group is def. Migrantes. Their two LPs on Eclipse are incredible stuff, for people who can't get enough of Market Square styled astral dirge-rock.

thanx for that tip, wondered what Jason Bill was up to these days.

in case yall didn't already hear tarantula hill, run by the members of nautical almanac who also live there, is having its first show since the fire (which was what, 2006?)

Friday Auguest 8, 2008 !8-8-8! 9pm. $7 NO MORE BUSH TOUR 2008. Presented by Bryon Coley, Ecstatic Yod/Peace, Arthur Magazine, Usual gang of etc......

Charles Plymell
Zaika
Jack Rose
Valerie Webber
50 Foot Women + Axolotl
Byron Coley
Roxie Powell
MV+EE

Huh! Grateful for but confused by the news that DroneOn still lives. I was a bit late in getting round to following it to Google and haven't received any new messages since resubscribing around a year ago. To be honest I just assumed it had died, as it'd been fairly quiet before the move.

I'm surpised it's still going too. I gave up a couple of years back after the nth solitary post from the Janitor from Mars.

Are Primordial Undermind any good live? They're playing in London this weekend. I've got their 'Yet More Wonders of the Invisible World' LP, but I can't remember much about it, except that I found it with a few other mid 90s psych heaviosities, like the untitled Linus Pauling Quartet LP and that Mike Gunn Almaron album. The Linus Pauling Quartet album was pretty cool. Gotta drag these out again...

To be honest I just assumed it had died, as it'd been fairly quiet before the move.

Yeah, I took it public to drum up a little more interest. It still gets some posts.

i've been getting into the Tom Carter (& often with Robert Horton) projects on Important Records lately -- the Lunar Eclipse record, Sky City, Mudsuckers... anyone else want to comment on these? i'm still trying to unravel them a bit in my head.

i dunno if it's psych, drone or freak enough but i just listened to the new hair police on no fun. hay guys they've gone kinda black metal, in case you needed some more noise dudes going black metal in your life.

it's okay.

track 2 on that Hair Police record is some srsly terrifying shit

I played it on the radio the other night at ~1:33 AM

yeah, that's one of the good parts. i love love love them when they're on the haunted rehearsal room shit.

got new Blue Sabbath Black Cheer lp on Gnarled forest in mail today.

<3ing this MIJ reissue

some crazy good records of recent times
gang gang dance - saint dympha
hair police - certainty of swarms
emaciator - reflection
ville leinonen - suudelmittar
heavy winged - alive in my mouth
wasteland jazz unit cd-r on american tapes (these guys rrrrrip)
wold - stratification (grrr)

also rediscovered headphones so playing emeralds' solar bridge is a real treat

All the stuff that's Sun Araw has been putting out is great. Really deep rumbling fuzzy psych with lots of So Cal influences. Beach Head is like dude's paean to tropical weather, really great droney and dubbed out stuff that somehow makes me realize what I found wanting in Panda Bear.

wait, is it psych or does it sound like animal collective? my downloading this for free depends on your answer!!

Sun Araw is good, download away! Sometimes the pacing seems a bit off, to me, like either they could speed things up or space them out even more? but Beach Head and Boat Trip are both enjoyable records.

yeah "beach head" has parts that sound like panda bear but dronier and druggier overall. it's still really bright and has the same sun kissed lazy vibe that panda bear has but somehow seems more low slung and has less of the quirky/happy lalalala feel that panda bear evokes. i wouldn't compare it to ac.

alright, i'm convinced.

yeah, this is pretty good. i see what you mean about the pb thing. but this isn't getting on my nerves.

wold - stratification (grrr)

I love this album. More black metal should sound like it's being played on an AM radio through cheap overloaded speakers and over the din of three vacuum cleaners.

any1 know anything about the a.m 'red rag reverie' album

I haven't listened to it much, but it's pretty good not AMAZIG.

u want me to up it?

I am Sun Araw.Thanks for the compliments.

u want me to up it?

― wilter, Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:52 AM

nah i have it, i just didn't know the who/where/when of it

I'm really enjoying the new Hush Arbors album.I like about half of the Magik Markers Gucci cd.The first & last tracks i really dig.I guess i like them at their least noisy.And the new Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat is appropriately creepy in a Current 93 kind of of way.Sometimes that pagan vibe hits the spot.

Just wanted to say thank you to anyone who mentioned Emeralds on this thread. They're probably my favourite discovery of the year, so cheers ILX.

The recent live CDR is particularly stunning. I can't recommend it enough.

Anyone heard the new Eleh releases?

Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 3.
Eleh/Pauline Oliveros split LP.

I managed to pick up a copy of Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume II which I've been digging a lot this week and just wondered how the new ones fared?

Oh, and did anyone London-based happen to be at the Charlemagne Palestine Schlingen Blangen performance at St Giles-in-the-Fields last weekend? I found it breathtaking. Had figured it on it being a bit of an endurance test, what with it being a 5 and a half hour organ drone and all, but it was actually totally engrossing and deeply rewarding. 7 hour (including rehearsals) live recording audio DVD forthcoming on Blast First (petite)!

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/7923/r14350211220461375fc7.jpg

I haven't mentioned Emeralds on here but I will now as I'm really taken with Solar Bridge. They're in the UK in January too

I got a package of stuff from Crucial Blast in the mail yesterday. I've only listened to Geisha so far, but it's pretty good. Japanese psych/drone. The last track is 30 minutes long and features vocal samples over sheer noise.

Unless I'm mistaken Geisha are from Bristol, UK...

http://www.myspace.com/geishanoiseresearchgroup

Great band though.

Yeah, need to hear new Geisha

Oh, the CD sleeve had the wrong information on it. Yeah, they're from Bristol.

I loved the last Geisha, didn't realize they had a new one out yet!

Street date was last Tuesday, and it's a limited edition of 1000 copies, so you might want to get on that.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drl700/l781/l78113kb541.jpg

Earthless's Live At Roadburn: still awesome.

The press contact at Tee Pee said he was going to send that Earthless to me, but I never got it.

just hearing this 90210 thing by james ferraro, its really catchy. almost want to say its made from samples of the theme song but i can't tell

Haven't heard much from the Skaters since their way earlier releases, but some of the recent side-projects (Lamborghini Crystal? Monopoly Child Star Searchers??) sound more intriguing. From what I gather, they're sort of big box VHS soundtrack meets Terry Riley, perhaps?

Listening to The Door by Religious Knives; they've gone a bit more post-punk, but in all the right ways.

Yeah, I like that album quite a bit, should be an AMG review up soon from yours truly.

Been a SLEW of stuff coming out and I've barely had time to catch up with it all. But I am looking forward to the Yellow6 limited edition Xmas box reissue...

I got a Lamborghini Crystal tape the other day cos various descriptions of it/them intrigued me a lot more than Skaters do. I'll have to demurr fully cos there was too much creak and hiss from my shit tape player (def wasn't the music) to give it a fair hearing, but it's fairly unique for sure

Anthony from PsuedoArcana wryly noted the other week that the collapse of the NZ dollar has meant good bargains for almost everyone else, so just a little something to pass on:

http://www.pseudoarcana.com/

anyone ordered anything from these guys? nunewage.blogspot.com.
seems pretty cool and i need some drone tapes for the car. who doesn't, really?

The new Alps album is pretty great. Sounds like early Popol Vuh and Moon Safari era Air mashed together, highly recommended.

Yeah I liked it but I misplaced my copy!!! Been searching frantically.

really liking this crazy dreams band s/t album on holy mountain, keyboard-heavy psych stuff with insane hippie female freakout vocals

Got my jewelled antler box set in the mail. Damn you exchange rate!

not sure what's going on in this video

also posted on rev'd Hawkwind thread...

slightly old news but Trensmat Records has released a trilogy of 3 Hawkwind tribute 7"s called Sonic Attacks...

TR013
Mudhoney - Urban Guerilla
Mugstar - Born to Go

TR014
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Brainstorm
White Hills - Be Yourself

TR015
Kinski - Masters of the Universe
Bardo Pond - Lords of Light

This blog apparently has mp3 samples of all of the above..

http://lazybirdie.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-trensmat-singles-hawkwind-covers-by.html

Anthony from PsuedoArcana wryly noted the other week that the collapse of the NZ dollar has meant good bargains for almost everyone else, so just a little something to pass on:

http://www.pseudoarcana.com/

Hi Ned, is there anything you'd specifically recommend? I stumbled on Antony's MySpace page the other day and was certainly intrigued with the stuff he had up, strong echoes of the Dead C and A. Galbraith, but really compelling in its own right. Have seen really good reviews of the Paper stuff too.

Antony Milton

He's released so much stuff it's almost hard to say! Any releases involving seht are definitely top notch, though.

I recently renewed my sub to The Wire because they promised me a NZ noiserock comp next year.

Picked up the Aaron Dilloway/Emeralds tape while browsing instore at Second Layer. It's quite refreshing to browse an actual SHOP of this stuff for once, rather than just being hammered with press releases and high, higher, higherest and highererest recommendations.

Also... can anyone recommend either of the recent Ultra Eczema LPs by Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase or John Wiese? Wiese is someone I've not really followed due to suspicions of quantity of quality, and I'm usually dubious about whether the music matches the artwork with UE releases but the Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase record looks intriguing.

And it might be coincidence, but I wonder if perhaps I had some hand in naming Antony Milton's Seedy R label. Perhaps he can confirm!

(thanks Ned, will bear that in mind)

this is pretty serious:
http://glowingraw.blogspot.com/2008/11/masterpieces-of-minimalism.html

seven that spells - cosmoerotic dialogue with lucifer

am loving these guys right now

reverb worship seem to be putting out a lot of great psych/drone stuff. just picked up the tranko cdr, as their GPS 7" was really really good

http://reverbworship.com/

wow. thanks for that 'masterpieces of minimalism' link! sooooo many goodies!

somebody recommend some stuff from that link, because i've already downloaded way too much this week and just want some suggestions for the awesomest minimalisms.

oh hey lookie here

http://www.ubu.com/film/aether.html

Music with Roots in the Aether (1975)

Music with Roots in the Aether, an artwork by Robert Ashley, is comprised of seven two-hour programs featuring noted American experimental composers, created during the 1970's.

Each program is two hours long and consists of one part Landscape / Interview (one hour) and one part live performance (one hour).

The video files are the complete two-hour programs.

The MP3 files have been divided into two parts, one-hour each.

robert ashley, gordon mumma, terry riley, pauline oliveiros, philip glass, david behrman and alvin lucier!

yeah, 3x thx for the minimalism link

I've downloaded about 10 of the albums and listened to a couple, so far the standout has been the phil niblock, 40 minutes of sonorous trombone action.

I'm wondering if anyone has licht's original list? glowing raw seems to have nipped them from allegory of allergies, but they list different albums, allegory of allergy stops numbering them after the first post, and there are more then 30 listed (e.g. the top ten has 11 entries).

http://allegory-of-allergies.blogspot.com/2008/07/alan-lichts-minimal-top-ten_22.html
http://allegory-of-allergies.blogspot.com/2008/09/alan-lichts-next-ten.html
http://allegory-of-allergies.blogspot.com/2008/09/alan-lichts-minimalism-top-ten-iii.html

slightly old news but Trensmat Records has released a trilogy of 3 Hawkwind tribute 7"s called Sonic Attacks...

TR014
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Brainstorm
White Hills - Be Yourself

Just bought this, wil play later - was gonna get the Mudhoney one but the (inevitably hyperbolic) descriptions made this one sound better

Edward, does this help?
http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=135

somebody recommend some stuff from that link, because i've already downloaded way too much this week and just want some suggestions for the awesomest minimalisms.

I'd say the couple at the top of the post are solid picks. the lost jockey record is a really nice, relatively obscure one that I've been playing lately. similar to charlemagne palestine and steve reich in spots.

I like these a bunch too:
* Charlemagne Palestine - Four Manifestations on Six Elements (Castelli-Sonnabend, 1974)
* Terry Riley - Les Yeux Fermes / Lifespan (1972 / 2007) (Elision Fields)

I just grabbed everything, though.

Edward, does this help?
http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=135

― NickB, Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thanks, I will check that out

Bought the 3 Hawkwind covers 7-inches (mentioned by DJ Mencap, above) the other day. Cool, but not essential. Mudhoney's Peel Session "Urban Guerilla" previouly released (and not really suited to their approach), other stuff uniformly decent. White Hllls' "Be Yourself" is the real standout: raging and just BURIED in effects. Almost comical. As are the last few moments of Acid Mothers' "Brainstorm", which is otherwise a fairly standard AMT jam based on the main riff. If you had to buy one, yeah, that's the one to get. With the exception of White Hills, none of the bands ride the bass hard enough (given that it's mostly Lemmy-era stuff being covered).

also you guys should check out the awesomely awesome seven that spells.

they're from croatia, and they sound like a 21st century SST band, or like the ex's rhythm section jamming with acid mothers temple (which makes sense since kawabata's been playing with a lot).

and their album covers look like this

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/seven_that_spells-black_om_rising.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/seven_that_spells-lucifer.jpg

wait wait Kawabata´s been playing with who? The Ex? If so I really hope that makes it onto a record.

no, kawabata's been playing with seven that spells, he's cobilled on one of their records and I think they just finished a tour of japan together? srsly, I'm starting to feel like john the baptist in the desert, check these guys out so I can get an amen.

jazzy psych/prog from rise above - diagonal
http://www.riseaboverecords.com/products/view/255
anyone else heard them?

not sure where to post about this but this is pretty good. less on the experimental end of things, more akin to dungen or brightblack morning light

http://www.inflightatnight.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sleepysun_cov.jpg

also liking the new ghq

rhombus look intersting

The more I listen to Seven that Spells "Black Om Rising" the more I like it. Would like to hear more!

what's the new ghq? they released a couple things this year. guessing its mellow raga drones and not too harsh?

This is actually out next month but I'm pretty taken with it so if no-one bites I'll just repaste it in the inevitable 09 psych thread: TEETH OF THE SEA, some dudes from London who have been playing out on the DL for a couple of years. This CD I'm listening to now 'Orphaned By The Ocean' is on the Rocket label and has a bunch of stuff going on but IMO hits a peak w/ the last track which is totally RIYL that Disco Inferno/Too Pure Records circa '93 space-dub caboodle

what's the new ghq? they released a couple things this year. guessing its mellow raga drones and not too harsh?

― Alan N, Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:25 PM

seven & eight and yes mellow raga drones

Really enjoying this: http://sundogpeacehouse.com/music/

Blissout drones of the highest order.