Format: lp

Dead Sea Apes, The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol - Pantheon Of Fuckery ()

LP  Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz $20 A long time in the making but good things always come to astral travellers as transatlantic soul mates Dead Sea Apes and The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol are joined together on black vinyl for the first time. Two artists that for over the last ten years (& longer) have spent their lives creating music that defies easy categorizations – psych rock / kraut rock /minimal / maximal /avant /free are phrases that only give you fleeting glimpses of what each artist represents. What we do know is that via a sprawling range of sound that is always uncompromising these two artists have pushed each other into a stunning realm of alchemy. The… Read more »

Myriam Gendron-Not So Deep As A Well

Myriam Gendron - Not So Deep As A Well ()

LP (US PRESSING with the original 9 tracks) Clear Yellow Vinyl – OUT OF STOCK Black Vinyl – $22 Solace Music Video Digital Distribution by  Mama Bird Recording Co. The debut LP by Montreal’s Myrian Gendron is one of this year’s signature releases. We had previously been made aware of Myriam when she performed at the Michael Hurley cover tune showcase at the Casa del Popolo. That event, tied to l’Oie de Cravan’s publication of The Words to the Songs of Michael Hurley, introduced Myriam as a wonderful if spectral guitarist and singer, whose signature sound was as light as it was intoxicating. Her next performance was an event including the American poet Charles Plymell, and she debuted a set… Read more »

Blood Quartet - Root 7 ()

LP Co-Release with Foehn Records (Spain) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK). $20 Pioneer of the New York No Wave with the bands Mars and Don King, Mark Cunningham has been part of the Barcelona music underground for almost 30 years, performing solo, with his own groups Raeo, Convolution, Aleatory Grammar and Bèstia Ferida, as a member of Pascal Comelade´s Bel Canto Orchestra and Superelvis, and in countless local and international collaborations. Blood Quartet was formed in early 2015 in Barcelona from a fortuitous collaboration between Cunningham and Catalan underground rock trio Murnau B An outstanding musical treat that starts from the instrumental base of the modern jazz quartet and takes it to the territory of experimentation and electronics. Blood Quartet sound… Read more »

Spiral Joy Band - In The River ()

LP Edition of 440. Available on bandcamp  $20 Spiral Joy Band are one of the descendents of Richmond VA’s legendary musical juggernaut, Pelt. Active and mutating for nearly 20 years, the iteration of the Spiral Joy Band who recorded this session in Madison Wisconsin in 2011 was a trio. Troy Schafer, Patrick Best and Mikel Dimmick play an array of instruments — violin, viola, harmonium — to produce lush taspetries of the multiphonic drones for which they are known. I remember Pelt getting called “The Hillbilly Theatre of Eternal Music” at the ’98 Terrastock Festival in San Francisco. And indeed, that was a definite part of Pelt’s sound at that point in their evolution. But since 2004, Spiral Joy Band… Read more »

Alison Cotton - The Portrait You Painted of Me ()

LP Edition of 400. FTR Orange Vinyl Edition. Co-Released with Rocket Recordings $27 Here we have the third solo LP by London’s Alison Cotton, following on previous successes, All Quiet at the Ancient Theatre and Only Darkness Now. And as with each of Cotton’s projects it is a stylistic advance as well as another example of her dark signature sound. Alison’s work with bands is well documented by recordings with Saloon, 18th Day of May, Trimdon Grange Explosion, and her current, ecstatic folk/psych duo, The Left Outsides. But her solo recordings always seem a bit more experimental in terms of song structure and musical texture, as the six tracks on The Portrait You Painted of Me clearly demonstrate. The touchstones… Read more »

Spiral Wave Nomads - Magnetic Sky ()

LP Edition of 250.  200 Black Vinyl. 50 White Vinyl. Bandcamp Black Vinyl – $23 / White Vinyl OUT OF STOCK  We are happy to inform you that the hotly anticipated third LP by the NY/CT duo, Spiral Wave Nomads, is ready to roll straight through your skull.  Like its predecessors, 2019’s Spiral Wave Nomads (FTR 455) and First Encounters (FTR 577), Magnetic Sky is a deliriously enthralling set of expanding improvisations. Employing the strings of Albany’s Eric Hardiman and the drums of New Haven’s Michael Kiefer, along with electronic tone generation from the both of them, the music here flows like a torrent of highly charged particles. The duo creates massive sonic width and depth by piling up instrumental… Read more »

Jon Collin - Water & Rock Music Volumes 5-6 ()

LP Edition of 200. $30 Another wonderful album by this Swedish-based guitarist/carpenter.  This is the fourth (and I believe final, at least for now) addition to Collin’s series of site-based outdoor recordings. The first three (FTR 399, FTR 418 & FTR 534) were stellar examples of Jon’s finger-thinking, and this one is as well. He seems to have embraced a romantic form of melodicism over the course of these albums, contrasting with some of the harsher blues evocations he’s explored recently. And as much as I enjoy everything Jon plays, there is something very special and satisfying about his more overt beauty-motion. There are four compact pieces on the first side. These have a certain hint of John Renbourn’s attack,… Read more »

Byron Coley, Ted Lee - As Seen In Your Wildest Dreams ()

LP Edition of 500. Co-Release with Lost Treasures Of The Underworld. $19 If Coley can do anything and, I assure you, he can do a few things, some very well indeed – cooking, drinking, smoking, chortling, collecting, dissecting, inspecting, sniffing, gassing, pranking – to name but a few, he can, without a beat gone by, make you wanna listen to the goddman records he’s criteeking whether it be in old ishes of Forced Exposure, Boston Rock, New York Rocker, or the LA Weekly or his nugget column in Wire. For many his obscurant references to what is already an obscure contempo side can be so layered – as if the review is some kind of lit cuz to Jodorowsky’s spiraling… Read more »

Gunslingers - Supreme Asphalt Doser ()

LP Co-release with Opaque Dynamo & Cardinal Fuzz $20 Twelve year’s after this French trio’s last LP (the mind-ripping Manifesto Zero), guitarist Gregory (GR) Raimo, bassist Matthieu Canaguier and drummer Antoine Hadjioannou have released an album of material recorded back in 2012 (from the sessions as the Massacre-Rock Deviant Inquisitors EP). And it is another wild brew of destructo rock madness played with a timeless ferocity that lends it the sort of proto-punk MASS that defies its actual date of creation. GR has released other nutsloid records in the interim — The GR Record Head (Cardinal Fuzz) and the mysterious Electric Rockin’ Chair LP (FTR507) by Hôpital De La Conception — but there’s a special, uniquely strange grit to the way the Gunslingers put… Read more »

Human Hand - Tremor ()

LP Edition of 500. Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz. – $2o The Human Hand live combo comprises Joe Hollick (Wolf People – Jagjaguwar Records, solo), Karl Eden (John Peel favourites tRANSELEMENt) and Jonathan Dickin (MUMS, Honey Spider, Bleak) Joe and Karl met at an Acid Mothers Temple show in 2012 before realising they both lived minutes away from each other in neighbouring sleepy Lancashire Pennine villages. They performed a number of shows together as a wig-out loose improv duo channelling heavy motorik grooves, Anatolian suffused lead lines, a general layer of Northern skuzz tied together with Joe’s signature guitar work. Early HH recordings were juxtaposed by being captured at extremely low volume due to necessity as the only available opportunity was… Read more »