Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2009

Steady as she goes. Anything new been bubbling up this month?

The double disc Six Organs comp of older stuff, RTX, is very nice -- I think it comes out later this month ...

That is indeed very great, I'll be interviewing Ben shortly.

These threads include noise stuff, I guess, no? Noise is fairly ambiguous anyway, but there's enough crossover to justify it. I just wanted to post somewhere about the GX Jupiter Larsen car crash LP. Sounds neat.

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

― da cryypiä (DJ Mencap), Saturday, December 27, 2008 5:34 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh shi how good does this sound??

HEAVY WINGED/WINDY+CARL "MONOLITH: EARTH" LP+CD

The Monolith series combines two artists on the same one-sided, reverse-cut LP by hard-panning one recording to the right and the other recording to the left. By adjusting the panning controls on his or her turntable, the listener is free to control the degree to which the two recordings melt into one. Each edition in the series is limited to a one-time pressing of 500 picture disc LPs featuring a Monolith inspired painting by Ned Clayton and includes a CD with stereo mixes, extended versions, and bonus tracks.

Monolith: Earth is the oxymoronic pairing of dreamcore drone legends Windy and Carl and new school leaders of free rock Heavy Winged. Heavy Winged contribute one of their darkest, most oppressive tracks yet. The addition of Windy and Carl's purity creates something entirely different. It's no longer the sound of three bros busting out dark drone metal in some shed in snowy Vermont; it's now the sound of some communal artists busting out epic krautjams in the German hinterland. Primitive, vicious early man meets colossal pristine symbol of higher thought - could there be any better pairing for this Monolith?

This is #2 in the Monolith series. Monolith: Jupiter features Bark Haze (Thurston Moore and Gown) paired with Traum (Ben Hall of Graveyards and Zac Davis of Lamsbread). You can get both for $30 or individually for $17 at
http://www.musicfellowship.com/catalog.html

dummmb. a regular split would be way better. also overpriced.

If the two tracks are actually in tune and in time and fit together then that sounds pretty cool. If not then making it mono and complicated to listen to = bad. (Oh, but I see you get the stereo mixes on the CD, so I suppose in the latter case you're really getting a CD to listen to with a hopefully rad-looking collectible LP you pay through the nose for and never play.)

I would totally go for their "CD 3pack" sale thing at the top of the catalog page if I could work out how you get it to work with the Paypal cart system.

(Also, a link for a free Landing CD with any order, and I think it's one I don't have, so I'm tempted by that. Don't forget to add that to yr cart if you order. If you want one, I mean...)

Yeah I'd have more reservations if there wasn't a CD as well but... there is. (I don't love pic discs either but the photos of these look hell of pritty.)

i... i didn't see the cd part and am a bad reader and dumb person.

from a friend of mine that runs the label mutant music...great dude, great label, you guyses might want to check this!

I'm very excited about this. The vinyl sounds fantastic, and officially "drops" on February 2nd, I've been told. My favorite rock band ever! This LP was originally released in an edition of 200 copies (this reissue is an edition of 500) and originals have always been way out of my price range until now. VERY pleased to see this coming out on Mutant Music!

MUTANT MUSIC

The website will be updated soon with info and photos, but for now I will simply cut and paste my promotional ramblings below:

Japan's Overhang Party were always one of their country's most interesting, multifaceted and imaginative musical units, and we at Mutant Music are honored to be able to make their long out-of-print debut LP available once more.
Overhang Party and its members, which revolve around founder Rinji Fukuoka, have always shown a wide range of musical interest and ability, and this LP shows them all at their formative nucleus, offering a glimpse into what would come in later years in addition to enormous immediate aural gratification.

Initially released privately by the group in 1993 (prior to Rinji's formation of his Pataphysique imprint, which would release the rest of the group's output in addition to many other interesting recordings), this LP was limited to just 200 copies and has long been sought-after by aficionados of the Japanese underground. Needless to say, until now, if one were to be lucky enough to find a copy of this LP, it would come with a suitably enormous price tag; we offer it once again in the vinyl format with its original presentation for those of us for whom the depth of our fanaticism may not always equal that of our bank accounts.

This LP shows the group's long-standing interest in the avant garde and improvisation, featuring some amazing soundscapes which find their way through both the beautiful and the abrasive; they definitely explore some far-out territory, but there are also glimpses into the beautiful saturation of their more "rock" side on occasion, with some particularly expressionistic guitar work from Rinji within the context of a slow-burning psych blowout. This LP features the initial lineup of Rinji Fukuoka (guitar, voice), Iwao Yamazaki (drums), Kouji Nishino (bass) and Kunukunu as guest on VCS3 synthesizer during the track "Air."

Overhang Party ceased in January of 2008, and its members continue on with their new efforts as Majutsu no Niwa. As we honor their early forays with this re-issue, we also eagerly anticipate what the future will being.

reverb worship has been reissuing the long-gone Tranko EPs.. HIGHLY recommended, though the best one (III) is still on the way.. my favourite japanese psych band by far

whoa cool on the overhang party. i've always wanted to hear that one!

everyone in nyc should go see metal mountains.
they've been playing around a bit i guess, but i saw them for the first time tonight and they were really excellent, really great. pg six, helen rush, samara lubelski on guitar, guitar, and violin/bass respectively. holy jeepers was it a good show. Helen does all the singing as far as I can tell. pat plays two guitars incl a nice elecric twelve sorung. some great richard thompson-esque barbs & a pleasing variety of lead-guitar techniques (picked, e-bow, slide. nice. not boring to watch.) sounds sort of like you'd imagine it would--like the helen-sung tower recordings songs with a droned-out hall of fame meets fairport meets charalambides-playing-the-dead type vibe. you know what i mean. composed songs with nice instrumental parts, nice dynamics. i was expecting them to be quiet, but they were pretty rock & roll. so anyway, fucking great great set.

oh man i absolutely loove hall of fame/tower recordings, i need to check it out somehow even though i am far from nyc

Anyone seen Emeralds live? All I've heard is the tape collab with Dilloway, which was good, but it might be his input which keeps it from being otherwise unremarkable. And they're on a bill with Pain Jerk, who is probably headlining and therefore playing afterwards, which seems counterintuitive. Pamper then pummel? Or vice versa??

GO! i heard they're even better live. and LOUD

gonna see em next weekend in Belgium

Probably seeing them on Tuesday, will try and note anything notable

how come nobody on ILX has posted about anla courtis, seiichi yamamoto and yoshimi?

SO DOPE

it's like the minute or so on VCN before eye goes all "NEEEEEWWWWWWW SSSUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN" ... stretched out to 45 minutes

i keep waiting for it to turn into super roots 5 but it don't

Well I'm intrigued! What label?

http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=110

track 1: cross between nels cline and house of sun. maybe not unlike what sonny sharrock vs brotzmann would sound like if sharrock were missing the bass strings and brotzmann were playing a broken transistor radio.

track 2: ecstatic wordless vocals give way to free folk guitar fuckery. sort of NNCK / JOMF vibe but less predictable

track 3: starts out like house of sun but turns into spare guitar explorations in the vein of the quiet parts of VCN

track 4: dubby free percussion workout followed by a stripped-down guitar jam in a sort of sunroof! style followed by a freakout combination of tracks 1,2 and 3.

heard this recently, pretty crazy for a one-man band
http://www.klicktrack.com/subliminal/releases/s-t-mikael/in-harmony/1?cp=185

Might drag myself out of the tomb and check out the Dylan Nyoukis and Phil Minton collaboration tonight. Bohman Brothers playing too, although I seem to have lost my drive for the improv side of things recently.

Will check out Anla Courtis's in-store at Second Layer though.

My friend told me that the Spiral Joy Band are going to be in town for the Documentary Film Festival going on at the end of the month. It's the first live music thing I've been excited about this year! I hope they get an opportunity at a decent space to stretch out and do their thing. They aren't as relevant to this thread but Black Twig Pickers are coming with them.

So, my latest OC Weekly piece is on Robedoor:

http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-02-26/music/robedoor/

This saturday night (feb 28) is the Arthurdesh gathering in brooklyn that Michael Hilde has put together to benefit Arthur (thank you, Michael)... Performances by MV & EE, Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders) and the Ether Frolic Mob, Dr Ragtime & Pals (Jack Rose Band), Jana Hunter & TJO, new ensemble called 'quad' (Helen Rush, PG Six, Samara Lubelski and Bob Bannister), Sharon Van Etten, Mountainhood, Headdress, White Hills. Readings by Louise Landis Levi, Byron Coley and Gary Panter, Wesley Eisold and Max Morton, Angela Jaeger, and Robbie Snyderman. $8-30 sliding scale, all ages, 375 capacity.

Can't wait to see Quad. That band is basically Metal Mountans + Bannister, and the last Metal Mountains show was my highlight of the year thus far.

That is indeed very great, I'll be interviewing Ben shortly.

Ned, did your interview ever run? I haven't seen it on The Quietus yet...

Should be soon!

“Robedoor is an esoteric street drug of dubious reality. You soak Doritos in Robitussin, and then smoke ’em through a bong, allegedly—hence, ‘robe-dor,’” Brown explains.

Ha, Google tells me that it's actually a sparkling wine - adding 'doritos' to the search brings up Ned's pieces as the sole relevant result

*piece

Note his use of the word 'dubious'

re: Windy & Carl / Heavy Winged thing up there

you're really getting a CD to listen to with a hopefully rad-looking collectible LP you pay through the nose for and never play.)

― a passing spacecadet, Monday, January 19, 2009 12:39 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^called it - I just put the LP on and it totally falls down as an 'experiment' due to the two bands sounding pretty much how they normally sound - HW completely obliterate W&C whose contribution is even quieter and more serene than normal. Also this is a one-sided LP but there are grooves on the other side, containing silence - weird. I have the CD on now and W&C are sounding pretty on top of their game so it's not a disaster or anything

The new Sunburned Hand of Man lp is really good.Just ordered a new TwinSisterMoon 7 inch that comes with a book.Also ordered 2 cdr's by James Jackson Toth's new band Occult Activity On Campus that's on his new label.And i'm really enjoying a couple cassettes i picked up by The Second Family Band "The Eternal Lag" & When We Are Gone".This is last years release but i just heard it for the first time & really dug it & that's Golden Jooklo Age.Also i'm really enjoying the latest 5 cassette dronefest from Natural Snow Buildings.I also ordered the new United Bible Studies on Camera Obscura.
In a couple weeks Robedoor/Pocohaunted & Magic Lantern are playing in town

Saw Robedoor the other night headlining a four band show at UCI -- had to leave pretty early into their set, alas, but they sounded pretty great. Sasqrotch were sharp too.

Can't wait to see Robedoor at SXSW. Ned's piece just made me more excited!

http://www.yahowha13.com/
Attention Yod Heads - East Coast Tour dates are as follows. We are happy to be coming back and doing it once again spontaneous as always.......
March 25 / Philadelphia, PA: Johnny Brendas - with Kohoutek + Niagra Falls / http://www.johnnybrendas.com/calendar.php?y=2009&m=3&display=1
March 26 / Baltimore, MD: Talking Head Club - with Kohoutek + Mopar Mountain Daredevils (ex Acid Mothers Temple) / http://www.sonarbaltimore.com/flash.php
March 27 / Washington, DC: / Velvet Lounge - with Kohoutek + more / http://www.velvetloungedc.com/calendar.html
March 28 / NYC: The Old Knitting Factory Main Space - with Kohoutek & others / http://ny.knittingfactory.com/calendar.php?date=2009-03-28
March 29 / New Haven, CT: Free Show TBA - with Kohoutek and Gringo Star / http://www.barnightclub.com/

So as promised sometime back, my interview with Ben from Six Organs of Admittance.

March 29 / New Haven, CT: Free Show TBA - with Kohoutek and Gringo Star / http://www.barnightclub.com/

^ this is a weird ass place to have a yahowha show, looks like a fern bar

i think i'm more interested in the comus reunion than yahowha

comus=music
yahowha=freakshow

in other news

gunslingers @ SXSW do check them out

also find it really hard to believe theusaisamonster's space programs wasn't mentioned on last year's thread, it is steady rockin' 21st century prog jamz, let's talk about it now

Fantastic album, yes. As I mutter about here.

i stopped keeping up with usaisamonster circa tasheyana compost, and i always sort of regret it. they are a grade-A Good Band. It's weird--Now that I live in NYC I've seen them play maybe twice in five years; when I lived in Providence I saw them at least a dozen times between 2001-2003.

btw they absolutely BRING IT live.

I missed them when they played here last year w/ lightning bolt, they were touring as a 4 piece

I got an email from USAISAMONSTER about their last ever show coming up.

yeah, the guitarist talks about wanting to hang it up at the end of that youtube clip.

you have details tripmaker?

also i have a handful of RW's other recent releases on the way that are pertinent to this thread, will report back..

Would this also be an appropriate thread to plug the new SubArachnoid Space on Crucial Blast? It's so good.

it really is so good. i plugged it on the metal thread. it should be plugged everywhere.

i don't believe it

Believe. (It IS very good.)

Also very good is the new Rameses III disc on Type, I Could Not Love You More. I've always enjoyed them well enough but this one really feels like a keeper, a classic case of a lot of familiar approaches recombined into something more distinct. You also get a sense of how it's three people working in concert and with a (gentle) air of improvisation rather than a fully focused solo disc, say.

New Batoh/Espvall also killing it as well -- "Until Tomorrow" is my favorite so far from that.

I heard that was good, really wanna get that.

I saw Woods and SubArachnoid Space last night (and Zola Jesus).

I had no idea that Woods was related to Woods Family Creeps.

SubArachnoid Space really killed. Totally awesome live.

Zola Jesus probably doesn't belong on this thread, but she was pretty great too.

Woods was great in IA a few nights ago

Woods Family Creeps always confused me - is that the actual name of the band or is the album Family Creeps by Woods?

Woods Family Creeps still confuses me after internet research.

That being said, they were awesome nonetheless.

Woods Family Creeps is a diff line-up of Woods than is currently touring iirc, and the line-ups of said band have changed over the years. Pretty sure Family Creeps & Songs of Shame have similar if not identical personnel.

subarachnoid space are playing here with ovo and the white mice next week

On Land Festival starts today!

http://onlandfestival.com

are you going, ned? say hi to my pal W.F. Collins for me.

Haha I shall do so right this sec! We were chatting earlier.

I wanted to go to this, but I have other obligations.

You missed out... (Scott: William says hi and hopes all's well!)

Finally heard the Joyce Chamber Music on Fire Records -- surprisingly awesome.

Really enjoying this track at the minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsyrOGRxF0E

Dead Mantra - The Dead Skeletons, I'm not sure if Anton Newcombe has something to do with it?

john robb provided an overview on the dead skeletons world recently : http://johnrobb77.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/dead-skeletons/

Thanks for the link, interesting, hope it gets a physical release

My set of On Land photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/sets/72157622287782789/

And I'll pull together all the Twitter posts I made to write up something coherent tonight.

everyone be sure to come to northampton this october. we will have a very good time together. par-tay:

Saturday and Sunday October 24th and 25th @ The Elevens, two days of amazing music, featuring:

Bobb Trimble
Bill Nace / Okyung Lee duo
Ducktails
Jake Meginsky / Vic Rawlings duo
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Cellura Peptoid
Noise Nomads / Id M Theftable Duo
Fat Worm Of Error
White Crime
+ MANY MORE

Readings by: Byron Coley and Ben Hersey
Films / Projections / Loops by : Alexis Arcaro, Ted Lee and Zach Ianazzi

DJ sets by Black Sand (Jeremy Pisani and Conrad Capistran)

wowo that sounds great!

Meantime my overview of On Land is finally up and running:

http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/thoughts-on-the-on-land-festival-in-san-francisco/

scott,

what day is keith fullerton whitman playing????

this is really tempting.

yeah, don't miss KFW. he was my fave at no fun fest two years back. (of the one night I went, anyway)

Agreed. Just seeing him with his box of wires and cables and things was worth it:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3943027234_9c7d343a2c.jpg

On Land Fest looked mega-fun, Ned, thanks for the write-up. Now I need to move to San Fran.

Precisely!

And yeah it really was one of the best such fests of its kind I've attended -- everything went smoothly, times didn't overrun (which can often be a problem...), good crowd. When the only real complaint to offer is that the Swedish American Hall was a bit stuffy at points, only I felt it more because I was wearing something long-sleeved, then that's a sign. They made it sound like they were going to try for it again next year and I hope they do.

my fave dude at my fave label, utech, is selling all kinds of rad CDs for cheap if you are interested. first come, first served:

http://www.utechrecords.com/Sale.html

finally heard tracks from the Batoh/Espvall disc. Beautiful stuff.

Not new, really, but I finally heard the Heads (the British psych one). Doesn't press the Monoshock buttons I was expecting (really, what it most reminds me of is Geisha w/out all the hardcore), but it's real good.

great show tomorrow at elevens in northampton. be there or be square:

Tuesday November 3rd
EARLY SHOW
@ The Elevens

Chris Corsano / Mick Flower Duo (US/UK)
Ashtray Navigations (UK)
Jack Callahan (US / St. Louis)

21+
8pm
$7

Am finally listening to the Cheval Sombre album. This is good stuff.

^that it is

big ups to the new starless & bible black album too, a big step forward from the s/t

shows coming up at my record store. if yooo r in western mass cum say hi:

Sunday November 15th

Slasher Risk
Heavy dual guitar mangling (NYC)
Grasshopper
Trumpet duo with electronics, peaking waves of pulsating electric mire (NYC)
Cave Bears
Making Loud
Gastric Lavage
Chris Dooley

Friday November 20th

White Limousine, Impatient Truck plus Special Guest
Chris Cooper, Jess Goddard & Joshua Vrysen
Rotten Apples
members of Dreamhouse & Exusamwa
Les Des Gustor
Pioneer Valley debut
Sord
Sharp songs ultra lo-fi piano and drums from Brattleboro

Might as well use this thread to say that Blues Control and Pocahaunted were great last night at the show here at UCI.

My buddies went to KC for Blues Control and said there were maybe 12 people there. The midwest is such a psych/drone/freak wasteland.

Credit to those who try!

scott did you go to the Chris Corsano / Mick Flower Duo show

couldn't go. sad, i know. too much going on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHjkyddpLoY

^ this is a 2009 thing so I'm posting it here. Ned, you might like this I think (if you don't know it already).

Zelienople is good.

i had a Zelienople lp (His / Hers) in the post this morning, ordered along with 3 other Type Recordings lps from the boomkat sale. was £2.50. am pleasantly surprised at the whole Type discog, is all completely unknown to me.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=215072

http://typerecords.com/releases

The Black To Comm album got loads of good press this year though I haven't totally fallen for it. I think the last Grouper record (Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill) is the pick of the bunch for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSVE198yGw

thanks for the Type link - they have twenty (20) or so podcasts on their site

Think that all their stuff is on Spotify too. The Rameses III album was a fairly good soundtrack to doing some heavy paperwork the other day.