Format: lp

Wizard Prison - Next Cycle ()

LP Edition of 500 $12 Wizard Prison is a Seattle-based trio comprised of Scott Colburn (producer/engineer/frequent collaborator of the Sun City Girls, decade long member of Climax Golden Twins and audio genius for Sublime Frequencies), John Vallier (an early member of CGT) and Ben McAlister (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble). Wizard Prison’s music flirts with stoner metal riffery, kosmiche electronics and field recordings, usually at the same time. An intellectual might say their sound is in a state of constant “becoming.” Chiming, churning guitar/bass/drums give way to pulsating synths and pitch-shifted foreign voices chanting to open the door to an alternate dimension. Each side long suite supposdly illustrates the details of the cracked narrative detailed on the insert, but it… Read more »

Spielgusher - Spielgusher ()

Spielgusher “Spielgusher” 2LP Edition of 500. Cover By Raymond Pettibon $25 Spielgusher represents the meeting of two of America’s great artists, Richard Meltzer and Mike Watt. There is additional musical accompaniment by guitarist Hirotaka Shimizu and drummer Yuko Araki, but the basic semiotic brunt of this meeting is shouldered by Richard and Mike. A collaboration between the two had been postulated back when the Minutemen still walked the Earth, but that dream was canceled with D. Boon met his tragic fate in December 1985. Still, Meltzer and Watt kept in touch and tried to think of what they might do together. Around 2011 they arrived at solution. Richard had recorded a bunch of material for Mike, and Watt finally decided to… Read more »

Elkhorn - Sun Cycle / Elk Jam ( / )

Sun Cycle / Elk Jam 2LP Edition of 500. with download code. Cover art By Turner Williams. 1st Pressing Out Of Print!  –  2nd Pressing – $30 Raven Sings the Blues – To See Darkness Graded On A Curve Brokedown Podcast Magnet Magazine Two mind-bending slabs of acoustic and electric guitars, wandering into corners of acid-logic only accessible to bravest explorers. Elkhorn is a duo — Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner — from NYC. Their earlier records (Elkhorn on Beyond Is Beyond, The Black River on Debacle) would have blown us away, even if we didn’t know Jesse from his work as a film-maker (he directed the Glenn Jones/Jack Rose doc, The Things That We Used to Do) and organizer… Read more »

Justice Yeldham - Fresh Books ()

Tour LP Edition of 200. Includes Download Slip. Buy on his June Tour or here. $18 You probably already know of Lucas Abela, aka Justice Yeldham by reputation alone. Years of touring across the globe, performing with random shards of glass to countless bewildered people, awestruck by the humour, sheer physicality and sometimes bloodshed, that it has cemented the show into legend. That said you probably don’t know any of his recordings, as what does exist from a 27-year performance career are mostly poorly recorded live documents and a scattering of studio improvisations. You see recording never was a priority for Lucas, as a free noise performer he was always far more interested in creating pure stream of consciousness improvisations…. Read more »

Frank Hurricane and Hurricanes of Love - Life Is Spiritual ()

LP with Download / Booklet Edition of 1000. Co-Released Crash Symbols $20 Sneelville Blues Music Video  Susquenhanna Blues Music Video  Raven Sings The Blues Psychedelic Baby Magazine NPR The Vinyl District TinyMixTapes – Chocalate Grinder It’s fair to say that what the world needs now is love. And not just a drop here or there. Enter the Hurricane. This latest offering is a high point in a career that is all about being high and impossible to put a point on.  Life is Spiritual – it’s an evocation, a flowering of a singular vision.  There is nothing static in Hurricane’s world, even if he is drawing on more recognizable forms than in the past. He’s mastered the elusive art of… Read more »

Sophie Dickinson Lp

Sophie Dickinson - Cucanandy ()

Sophie Dickinson “Cucanandy” LP with Download Code Edition of 300 Cover Art by Nancy Dickinson $16 First LP New England’s favorite dream-harpist, Sophie Dickinson. Previously know for her work in the context of Boston’s Whitehaus Family, Cucanandy represents a mind-blowing excursion into the mists of the heretofore unknown universe of acorn people, detourned Scottish balladry and backseat singalong dynamism. Sophie’s is music that lives in a hollow tree, emerging like a salvia-soaked squirrel to jibber and skip around your room in a way that will drive you crazy with deviously antic moves. There’s a delicious aroma that hovers over the session, smelling of grandmotherly pies baking in huge underground ovens, mixed with chipmunk fur washed in morning dew. There have been… Read more »

Spiral Wave Nomads - Spiral Wave Nomads ()

LP Edition of 250. Co-Released with Twin Lakes Records Raven Sings The Blues The Vinyl District 13th Track  Brainwashed  Trailer OUT OF PRINT The debut LP by Spiral Wave Nomads introduces a new psych duo comprised of two musicians with active histories inside the New England sub underground. Guitarist Eric Hardiman is one of the many hardened string wranglers for Albany’s legendary Burnt Hills, as well as the proprietor of the Tape Drift label and half of the prolific experimental unit, Century Plants. Drummer Michael Kiefer is best known as a member of Myty Konkeror and the exquisite trio that emerged from them — More Klementines, whose eponymous album (FTR 428/TLR 026) has made brains tingle all around the globe…. Read more »

Ned Collette - Old Chestnut ()

2LP Edition of 300. Insert/ DL Included. Co-Released with It Records (Australia) OUT OF PRINT 2nd Pressing. Pressed in Bottle Green and BlueBell Color Vinyl edition of 500 Co-Released with It Records (Australia) OUT OF PRINT  Grant’s Farm Music Video  June Music Video We were introduced to the music of Ned Collette by guitarist Julia Reidy, another Melbourne ex-pat currently based in Europe. Julia’s word is good as gravy around here, so we checked out Ned’s new work and were blown clean out of our socks. Old Chestnut is a haunting prog-folk song cycle for the ages. Ned’s approach to voice and guitar resemble various models at various times. You’ll hear smatterings of Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Pip Proud in lyrics and… Read more »

Dire Wolves - Oceans of Green ()

LP Edition of 300 OUT OF PRINT From the timbers of Fennario, which are located on some low ground near the Presidio, come Dire Wolves. The two members of this Bay Area sextet with whom I’m most familiar are guitarist, etceteraist, Jeffrey Alexander, a tireless exponent of sub-underground psychedelia when he was based in Providence. Mr. Alexander was previously involved with such protean volk-psych ensembles at the Iditarod and Black Forest/Black Sea, and was an early proponent of the deep Finnish underground, releasing several Avarus albums on his Secret Eye label, and touring with the band in the States. The other familiar name is Lau Nau, a Finnish vocalist/composer whose discography is as long as it is weird. Dire Wolves’… Read more »

ruth garbus rendezvous with rama

Ruth Garbus - Rendezvous with Rama ()

LP Edition of 500 $20 Ruth Garbus, of Brattleboro VT, is a force of nature in the Upper Valley. Her visual art and musical work are always imbued with the magic of a crisp fall evening, suggesting the shifting mystery of the seasons, rooted in the granite of the White Mountains. Rendezvous with Rama was originally issued on CD (Autumn Records) in 2010, around the same time she was working in the quartet, Happy Birthday. This followed her work with the Feathers Family collective, who were responsible for some of the first progressive-folk-smoke to drift from Southern Vermont. But this here is what she sounded like solo back in those days, and it’s great. These days, Ruth’s voice and topics… Read more »