Noise dudes, gimme a Tower Recordings primer

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What albums are in print? Which are best? Where do I get zemm? I've gawt Folk Scene & The Futuristic Folk Of... but I know next to nothing abt this band, except that I've seen MV/EE, PGSix and Samara Lubelski live/solo. I tend to dig the stuff with vokills more, but even the instrumental stuff avoids the boring trap by leaning more towards short exerpts than epic jams.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to repeatedly listen to that MV Holoscanner record called ego synchronicity something until i lost it about 5 years ago. i should try to find it again.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

it was his pop (haha) album fwiw.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i got if you no find. me can burn since it OP.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fraternity of Moonwalkers is a masterpiece, one of my favorite records EVER. REQUIRED!

After that, I've always been very partial to the Planet TR record, Let The Cosmos Ring, on Spirit of Orr. It's TR but each member leads his or her own track - Spanish Wolfman's track is GENIUS.

Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles on Siltbreeze, the two 7"s next.

That's all you need.

Their first album, Rehearsals For Roseland, is OK in a lo-fi indie kinda way, but ultimately disposable. You'd never find a copy of it now anyway.

They also seemed to save their tossed-off stuff for 10"s and comp tracks, so I'd avoid those too (again, it's not like you'll find them anywhere.)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax!, I'll give you my copy of Ego Synchronicity Music, if you want it.

Roger adultery pretty much otm. Altho I have Rehearsals for Roseland, got one of the last copies.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fraternity of Moonwalkers is a good time, it's all i've really ever heard...aside from odds and ends here and there.

I saw Tower open for TEH Pavement (HI GYGAX!) and they were TEH SUCK.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil, would you entertain a trade?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, I'll just give it to you, unless you think you have something that I'd want.

I saw Tower open for TEH Pavement (HI GYGAX!) and they were TEH SUCK.

was that at CBGBs, February 1997? If so, I WAS THERE.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

BROTALLY!!!!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, that is BROTASTIC!!!!! I was there, bought one of the last copies of Rehearsals from Roseland, and made some contacts w/ 'em for booking!!!!

One of the best shows I ever did book, even (though hardly anyone was there):

The Warmers
The Monorchid
Harry Pussy
Tower Recordings

YA!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I WOULD RECOMMEND 2ND AND 3RD INCREDIBLE STRING BAND ALBUMS, FIRST FOUR TYRANNOSAURUS REX ALBUMS, C.O.B., ETC. INSTEAD!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

8:00 THE SATURDAY NIGHT RUB @ Anthology Film Archives
curated by child of microtones
Readings from: “Small as Life; Infinitesimally as Pure” Two Films: THE TEMPTATION TO ZOOLOGY and CICATRIX BLASTODISC, THE 68 TRICKS OF CICADA
Music from: Taurpis Tula, Fursaxa, P.G. Six and The MV/EE Medicine Show “Small As Life, Infinitesimally As Pure” – a parallel world word maze by Matt Valentine concerning whether you should go toward the light, away from the light or inside the sound with hair. An analog fable of crystal powder trips to rare 78 hunts for food, from sacrilegious pagan idolatry to amorous love-ins all in search of the mighty essence of grail overfloweth. Doc Caligari the record store casualty sips the Moretti, eats the Valdostana, snorts the white, leans hard left and makes all the scenes in a cosmic journey to the Psychic Commune. Fasten yr seatbelts.
THE TEMPTATION TO ZOOLOGY
2003, 20 minutes.
A film by Matt Valentine, Erika Elder and Gabriel Walsh of an incredible myth of things seen in the skysea concerning an animal so human and its transfiguration during a journey to the trysting place of an aeon.
Starring Dredd Foole, pi, mv, ee, Samara Lubelski, P.G. Six, Barry Weisblat, Alan Licht, Greg Anderson, Joshua Burkett, Noah Wall, Cynthia Meadows, Nouri Zander, Gabe Walsh, Pegasus, Boletus; Richy Midnight.
CICATRIX BLASTODISC, THE 68 TRICKS OF CICADA, (Theo Angell/14 Minutes/2004)
THE YOLK OF THE BLASTODISC IS MANNA CREAM FILLING THE GOLDEN SUN OF PREBIRTH SUSTAINENCE EXISTENCE IS A WOUND IN THE GREAT SILENCE CICATRIX IS LIFE AS WE KNOW IT A WONDERFILLED DONUT
Taurpis Tula - Heather Leigh Murray, David Keenan duo exchange of hidden reverse boar hog blues filtered thru a backward salute of boot black love riot loop. Charalambides / Ash Castles Of The Gold Coast / Telstar Ponies neon brambles. Fursaxa - Tara Burke's one woman last mile sideshow wonderama of free magic devils in the lions den - not to be missed, but kissed, and seen to be believed.
P.G. Six - Famous folk hokum and blue medley black cat rags from this string king with the golden sings.
The MV/EE Medicine Show - Earth love/magic in bottomless raga jug parlor social stomp of very ex village thing orbit.
Extensive merchandise table featuring artifacts from all the above artists, Child Of Microtones ephemera and beyond. Collect 'em all... Rejoice.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax! I can bring that CD out for you next month!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

okay thanks! what would you like in return?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

HUGS

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yes!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

hugs not drugs!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

I had one of the early 7" and the Furniture Music Etc. album on Siltbreeze and sold them. Ian sez "the instrumental stuff avoids the boring trap by leaning more towards short exerpts than epic jams." That's part of what I DIDN'T like about them, actually. Not to say that I want to hear them go for doing "epic jams," but it seemed to me that doing "excerpts," for them, was an attempted substitution for writing strong compositions.

Maybe, as Roger suggests upthread, the Fraternity of Moonwalkers album is better.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The new one is actual real songs, not chopped up and varying in length. Very very very good!

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yah, da new one rulz. i like samara's solo album too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i realize that samara is an unofficial member of tower recordings, but whatever. she's on the new TR and i bought them on the same day. and they are both pretty records to look at.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax! do you still wanna that cd? mebbe if I go to sf I'll leave it for you?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Scawt, what do you think about Hall of Fame? I think they are good, but the new album isn't really varied enough for me.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

any TR doubters need to get thyselves the Fraternity of Moonwalkers album, which, I'll say again, is pure genius. Probably the only record in my all time top ten that was recorded after I was born.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

O and i kinda agree with Ian about the new HOF. From what I remember of it, it was way too heavy on Samara's songs (which I like very much) and not nearly enough Theo and Dan (who are both obscenely underrated) - seems to me what a lot of yall need is a Polyamory fix (we've put out two releases by HOF and one Theo solo thing over the years, all great)

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yo rog: you & jessica coming up to play next month with p.g. six @ free103?

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only seen hall of fame live. i don't have any of their records. saw them in philly a couple times. once with wayne & kate and ghost and, um,once with other people. they were a-ok. (they didn't blow me away but i was probably really drunk and yelling for Masaki anyhow at the ghost show. i don't rember much about the other time. maybe a high rise show? or a fieldhands show?)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8FNwe12s_mI

this thread is funnnnnnnny to me now

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:49 (thirteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

me in chat with ian

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so this new Wet Tuna is the first time I have really "gotten" MV's worldview even after trying with lotsa records and seeing MV/EE once. digging it.
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it's like if Ariel Pink was actually cool (ducks)

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Saturday, 7 March 2026 02:01 (one month ago)

I hosted shows for a bunch of those people lol … and … well considering Ariel’s politics… true.

― sarahell, Saturday, 7 March 2026 03:13 (one month ago)

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