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Pickled Dawn

Second Pressing. $20 LP Edition of 300. Included DL. Cover art by Hannah Brookman No stranger to the Berkshire Mountains, Omeed Goodarzi comes at it in full on send it mode, with this yester-Moro-mobile of an album…. “Keep your eyes on the ball. Make it large make it small.” “Floating through the air, I don’t know how not to sing.” Loaded to the hilt with hard hitting session folk, Omeed’s latest offering is a roiling boiling psychedelic Partch-pop Beatleboro-Freel-Volk masterpiece from the second anyone’s flip flop even threatens to drive a rhythm into the rug. Upon arrival to the studio, Chris Weisman, Mia Friedman, Max Goldstein, Nick Bisceglia and Ruth Garbus were presented with the chord charts to Omeed’s carefully… Read more »

Lunchtime For Birdy

LP edition of 200 / Numbered / includes a download code slip with LP. Loose Leaf covers and back Risograph Printed at Looky Here in Greenfield MA. OUT OF PRINT Bandcamp  First graspable release by Leaf Peepers, a Massachusetts duo comprised of Turner Falls’ Omeed Goodzari and Worcester’s Nick Bisceglia. Omeed is well-known hereabouts as member of Donkey No No, and also for his solo recordings, which include the superb Zoltar Hid All the Locks/Minnows LP (FTR 349). Nick has recorded with his band Husks, and has also participated on sessions by Wendy Eisenberg and Chris Weisman among others. In fact, the both of them helped out on Chris’s last album, Romantics, Be that as it may, the sound of… Read more »

Chaos Isn’t Single

LP Edition of 300. Bandcamp. The eighth Feeding Tube LP by Chris Weisman vinylizes a 2015 CDR originally released by Hidden Temple Tapes. Weisman is, as always, the master of his own domain. Crafting pop tunes worthy of any sophisticated pen you can name (from Nilsson to Beck), his presentation this time is starker than usual. Lots of strummed guitar and shadows of other tastes lurking in the distance. As on his last LP, Play Sharp for Me, Chris seems to have added blue notes and hints of discord to his sweet surges. A certain jazziness from that session persists as well, giving the songs here a lilting swing that makes their hooks all the more dangerous. At times the… Read more »

Four Thing

LP Edition of 500 with Mp3 Download – Digital Download Zach Phillips was a fixture in the Brattleboro scene for a good many years. As a member of Blanche Blanch Blanche and Big French (among others), as well as the creator of many solo projects under various guises, runner of the OSR label, and all around Renaissance handyman,  Phillips moved to Brooklyn a while back. Once ensconced there he began playing as half of CE Schneider Topical, and generally stirring up the same kinds of mytery-aktion which had marked his Northern existence. Four Thing is the result of one his more oblique strategies. Ostensibly a surrealist parlor game involving four objects, four players, and four potential event sequences, Four Thing (the record),… Read more »

Play Sharp To Me

LP with Download Code Edition of 500 Bandcamp Tired of being pegged as “the Beatle of Brat,” Chris Weisman has changed gears without shifting his focus, creating a masterpiece of multi-origin pop in the process. Lyrically, the tunes on Play Sharp to Me (title nicked from James Joyce), retain their New England underground tang, rolling localisms like barrels of sweet maple syrup between the trees of heavily forested hillocks. But the sonics utilize various swathes of strange sunshine to create a unique tapestry. We’ve encountered Chris using late ’60s Beach Boys textures before, but on Play Sharp he adds something that’s weirdly jazzy and lazy, as though that first Ben Sidran album on Capitol was an ode to surrealist parlor… Read more »

Maya Properties (Volume Five)

Chris Weisman “Maya Properties (Volume 5)” LP Edition of 220 Original Art by Sarah Smith & Printed Art by Ruth Garbus Vinylization of the digital release by OSR Tapes ! Available on YOUTUBE ! This is the fifth and final vinyl volume of Chris Weisman’s massive Maya Properties project, originally a download of 88 songs, now a gorgeous set of LPs with individually hand-crafted cover art. There are a couple of extra players on this one. Chance McNiff plays sax on “Another Sphinx” and Patricia Hartland plays bass on “Love Will Live On.” But the rest is all Weisman all the time. The mood throughout is classic early folk-rock. There are snootfulls of the Liverpool docks (circa Rubber Soul), Manhattan’s bridges (circa The Sounds… Read more »

Maya Properties (Volume Four)

Chris Weisman “Maya Properties (Volume 4)” LP Edition of 220 Original Art by RAFTAR & Printed Art by Ruth Garbus Vinylization of the digital release by OSR Tapes ! Available on YOUTUBE ! The fourth vinyl volume of Chris Weisman’s extraordinary Brat-Pop download (88 songs in all) is perhaps the most aggressively eclectic in the batch. A mixed baguette of the most delicious variety. From the raw, raw, raw guitar scuzz of “Mystical Ringo” to the nicely burbling (if somewhat Beck-ian) keyboard chug of “Dear Dandy” (perhaps based on second-hand Gary Wilson form-looting?) to the sickeningly catchy “Irish Stuff,” with its hideously treated leprechuan vocals, Volume 4 touches its figurative lips to many corners of the world’s style map. But, except for the… Read more »

Maya Properties (Volume Three)

LP Edition of 220 Printed Art by Ruth Garbus Original Hand Painted Art by Alec C. McPherson Vinylization of the digital release by OSR Tapes! Available on YOUTUBE! Third volume of Chris Weisman’s epic pop core-dump of 2012 (88 songs, no waiting) is the first in which he pretty much shrugs off the shackles of Liverpudlian form-constraint. Instead, Chris asks rhetorical questions about what Sunflower/Friends-era Beach Boys might’ve sounded like, had the Wilson family shoved Mike Love out of a handy airplane door and hooked up with Van Dyke Parks instead. When there are anglo-pop inflections, they are as-heard-through the filter of late-Nazz/early-Runt Rundgren (still one of the largely under-appreciated formal giants of pop-tongue-invention of the late ’60s/early ’70s). Which is a dandy… Read more »

Lizards Of Camelot

Edition of 250 with Download code Co-Released with NNA Tapes Cover, Back & Label Designed by John Broadley  $16 “Vinylization of an extremely blopsy concept album originally released by NNA Tapes. Great Valley are (or were? not sure) a Brattleboro duo — Jo Miller-Gamble and Peter Nichols — who could be joined at times by any of various Southern Vermont locals. On Lizards, the local club includes Chris Weisman, Luke Csehak, Ruth Garbus, Zach Phillips, and others. More recently, however, Jo and Peter have decided to form a new trio withDanny Bissette (who’s been playing live with them), and that’s called Grape Room. Whether or not this supplants (or merely supplements) Great Valley’s existence is not immediately obvious, but we look forward to Grape Room’s purple spew. In the meantime, there’s Lizards of Camelot to think… Read more »

My Pillow Lava Part One: My Deaf Son

The Lentils “My Pillow Lava Part One: My Deaf Son” LP (Single Sided) with Download Code & Book Edition of 200 OUT OF PRINT! First physical evidence of the “band” that entered the room when Happy Jawbone departed. And it’s a beaut. Pressed on clear vinyl with a silkscreen on the blank side (ala Albert Ayler’s Bells on ESP), packed with a 16 page book of Luke Csehak’s notebook fragments, the record is compendium of ideas that were once lost but are now found. For live performance, the Lentils have now assumed some sort of physical presence worthy of their sound’s wide hips. But at the time of this recording, the project was solo Luke. He did the art for the vinyl,… Read more »