Format: lp

Los Lichis - Dog ()

2LP with Inserts / Download PITCHFORK    SPECTRUM CULTURE    DUSTED    ROOTSWORLD This deep into the Internet Era it’s unusual to discover a weird-ass band who’ve been active and recording since the ’90s without ever appearing as a blip on any known radar screen. Yet, here are Los Lichis — a Mexican music/art collective whose recording history goes back 19 years and whose sound is as powerful and strange as any combo around. Some might suggest that Mexico is not known for its underground sonic emanations, but we’ve long dug artists like Loch Ness, Chac Mool, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Los Llamarada, and various improv-types we hear about from folks who tour down there. Some of Mexico’s punk and… Read more »

Guerilla Toss - Live in Nashville ()

LP. Edition of 800 $18 FACTMAG IMPOSEMAGAZINE Guerilla Toss Live in Nashville reminds me of the Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That Onstage Anymore series where the arrangements and delivery on the studio versions were so near impossible that they could not possibly be recreated live. Zappa and Co. gladly proved all naysayers wrong. Remember that time when Bill Graham bet the Grateful Dead they couldn’t pull off the Blues For Allah album live? Sure you do. The Dead went into the Great American Music Hall and kicked Graham’s ass. This is what G-Toss achieves here. What a band. I mean damn, what a band. Like one of the first great bands of the new century great. Who would you… Read more »

Curse Purse - Curse Purse With Gary Panter ()

12″ Edition of 37. Numbered. OUT OF PRINT! Because their debut 12” was such a marvel, Curse Purse decided revisit the format, and this time they hauled along guitarist Gary Panter for a ride in the clown car. For those who have never experienced them, Curse Purse (the basic) is a trio with Olivia Kennett on suqeedles and voice, Matt Robidoux on guitar and voice, and “Ted” Lee on drum, guitar and voice. To them, form is nothing but an obstacle to be overcome and parodied. And though he has proven himself to be a thoughtful and cunning string agent in most settings, it appears these three scalawags have subverted the approach of Mr. Panter as well. The sound they… Read more »

Son Of Salami - A Study in Eraser Headless Tape Recording ()

LP FIRST EDITION Edition of 500 Black Vinyl – Found a box of the first pressing LP SECOND EDITION Edition of 500 – BROWN VINYL! 2011 release. Twenty-one lo-fi pop gems from the true heart of Burlington, VT. All songs performed and recorded by Joey Pizza Slice on his eraser-headless portable tape machine. This device allows him to create multiple layers of audio content without the handicap of having to hear the music he’s recording over. Each overdub is a one-shot deal. THERE’S NO ERASING ALLOWED! Results are not unlike some of the lo-fi antics of today’s youth, but I actually think this is a lot better. Funny, strange and charming songs that break free from their primitive trappings, rather than fall back… Read more »

Blood Quartet - Deep Red ()

Blood Quartet “Deep Red” LP Edition of 500 BLOOD LINES OUT OF PRINT Debut LP, following a cassette, by Mark Cunningham’s latest unit, Blood Quartet. Based in Barcelona, the mostly-instrumental band plays insanely great avant garde rock music, with Mark’s electro-Miles trumpet spread across the top like brass icing. Cunningham has been based in Spain for many years now, and his groups there (Raeo, Bestia Ferida, etc.) have been excellent, but Blood Quartet seems like the apex of a musical quest he started with Don King, following the dissolution of his legendary NYC band, Mars. The music they play has a similar cinematic scope to the material Mark composed for his solo LP, Blood River Dusk (FTR 098). But where… Read more »

MX-80 Sound - So Funny ()

LP Edition of 500 Vulcher Eddie Flowers Review  Depending on how you count, So Funny is either the 9th or 10th album, MX-80 Sound has released. Regardless, it’s their first LP since the classic Crowd Control back in 1981, and it’s a pretty goddamn amazing spin. The core of the band — Bruce Anderson, Dale Sophiea and Rich Stim — has been more or less stable for the better part of the last four decades, despite the fact they’ve never had any real commercial success. They’ve all pursued various different paths during that time, but they’ve also continued the bizarre communal creation process that began back in Bloomington Indiana in 1974, and was codified once they relocated to the Bay… Read more »

Alvaro - Mums Milk Not Powder ()

LP Edition of 400. First vinyl reissue of the second LP released by Alavaro Pena originally released in 1979 following the runaway success of his debut album, Drinkin My Own Sperm. Although recorded in Germany, Alvaro again employed his regular drummer, Antonio Narvaez, with a few assists on the second side from Hilde Schneider, Alvaro’s then-wife. The first side was recorded by a german engineer, Olaf Dung, who carried his rig around with him in his briefcase. How this exactly worked is unclear, but the music is great and includes some of Alvaro’s most classically catchy tunes. Lili Dwight is a long-time fan of “Honey,” which she often sings aloud at apiary gatherings. Ted Lee does the same when crashing… Read more »

Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rocks or Cakes

Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rocks or Cakes ()

Cloud Becomes Your Hand “Rock or Cakes” LP with download FIRST PRESSING – OUT OF PRINT! Edition of 300 FOUND LAST BOX OF FIRST PRESSING  SECOND PRESSING – MYSTERY COLOR SPLATTER Edition of 213 Doggy Paddle First vinyl (the CDs on New York’s Northern Spy) by this willfully eclectic Brooklyn quintet. It’s never clear if they’re aware of it or not, but much of CBYH’s sound swings with the same way-off-center lope that marks the most enjoyable (as opposed to brittle) work of the Canterbury/RIO continuum. There are even textural similarities to some of the post-Zeuhl French chamber-prog bands of the last century, especially when the violin and synthesizer combine to set the scene. But there’s a humorous (or loopily surreal)… Read more »

Vapor Gourds - Dagger Magic

Vapor Gourds - Dagger Magic ()

LP Edition of 300 Vinylization of a classic 2008 Yeay! Cassettes release, which has cast an odd thrall over local heads since it was first issued. Vapor Gourds is the solo project of local DJ, sound guy and man-about-town, Jake Meginksy, who’s is perhaps best known for his work in X.O.4 with Bill Nace and Johnny T. For this project, Jake has opted for a bizarre pile of machine sounds, none of them overly grating, with all sorts of near-subliminal pulse work raging around inside of ‘em. Very hard to put a finger on exactly what’s going down here. As soon as you decide to categorically shorthand the sound, Dagger Magic skitters off to another corner of the room. Parts… Read more »

Hermione Johnson & Stefan Neville - Scrum ()

LP with Download Code Edition of 300. Hermione Johnson’s name is one we first noticed when she popped up playing prepared piano on the newish Pumice LP, Puddle. But a quick check through her stats reveals a more extensive background in the NZ improvised music scene She’s got a few CDRs with other free jazz types that predates the Puddle session by years. So sue us! Due to the damped quality of prepared keyboards, there’s a distinctly percussive element to Hermione’s playing. At times the effect is fully gamelanic, but for the most part her work broadcasts a feel akin to certain modern pianists of the middle 20th Century, with a tone (if not attack) that mirrors Conlon Nancarrow’s work… Read more »