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.

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

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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.