Format: lp

Living Window - Astralturfing ()

LP Edition of 250. $22 Fantastic debut LP by this severely talented instrumental duo, currently based around Hampshire College unless I am much mistaken.  Living Window is comprised of drummer Cameron Mitchell and guitarist Mila Dorji, who have create an album of pile-driving avant garde hunch reminiscent of pre-Mahavishnu McLaughlin’s slow-hand recordings with Tony Williams or Billy Cox.  Mitchell drumming mixes rock and jazz attacks in equal measure, either drawing out rhythms or pounding them straight into pumice. And Dorji collects his amped notes into a huge mass before he releases them, displaying far more taste and patience than most of his contemporaries.  This kind of jazz/rock guitar/drum dueling can be traced back (more or less) to Doug Snyder &… Read more »

Liz Durette - Primordial Soup ()

LP Edition of 500. Bandcamp. $23 Another splendid album of avant hi-jinx and shreddery from keyboard whiz, Liz Durette. Primordial Soup is her fourth album (first was a cassette), and the second for Feeding Tube. It is the follow-up to 2020’s most excellent Delight (FTR 504) and heads into somewhat different stylistic turf, whilst maintaining Durette’s high levels of keyboard invention. If Delight was created while Liz was thinking about Romantic-era waltzes, then Primordial Soup owes some of its strategic approach to the delicate webs of ornamentation generated by French Baroque composers, as well as certain Eastern scales Liz was pondering. The pieces are all melodic as hell, but Liz describes them as having a “simpler tonal structure” than her… Read more »

Jordan Perry - What Do You See Everyday? ()

LP Edition of 300 Co-Release with 20/20 Records Another fantastic slab by Virginia-based guitarist Jordan Perry, whose style fuses disparate threads from the American Primitive and avant garde songbooks into a unique alloy.  For this album Primitivism has largely been eclipsed by avant urges. Still, there is one track, “Days Have Gone By Volume” where Jordan is joined by guitarist Ned Oldham for a piece evoking Fahey in more than its title. But that is the exception. Most of What Do You See Every Day? is filled with abstractions for acoustic guitar. His work has a genteel aura and pacing in which free melodies are played inside the context of graspable rhythmic structures. This simultaneously highlights their weirdness, and dials… Read more »

A Handful Of Dust - The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse ()

LP edition of 330. Co-Release with Carbon Records. Out of Print  With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, cello, piano, drums) and Bruce Russell (guitar, electronics). This new set of live-to-four-track recordings from January 2022 is the first album to be wholly recorded ‘in the studio’ since 1995’s Towards a Soundtrack to the ‘Anabase’ of St-John Perse. Committed to tape at the Rugby Hotel in Dunedin, the four-track recordings were played back in the room where they were made and recorded again, this time to Android telephone, to make a digital mono master which you hear on this record…. Read more »

Up-tight - Sweet Sister ()

LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz (UK) OUT OF STOCK Finally out – Sweet Sister – this mighty masterpiece of dark and wild psychedelia from the Japanese three-piece legends! Fuzz and reverb drenched jamming sounds from the basements of Hamamatsu evoking the always welcomed ghosts of Amon Düül and Les Rallizes Denudes. “Tokyo psych monsters Up-Tight come out of the classically wasted/drug-damaged school of excessive fuzz and reverb, giving the nod to the endless jam style of Les Rallizes Denudes while spiking their sound with dark downer ballads that owe as much to The Jacks as they do to The Velvet Underground. If you can picture Spacemen 3 circa “The Perfect Prescription” produced by Ghost circa “Temple Stone” then you’re close… Read more »

Gaute Granli - Monstersol ()

LP Edition of 350. Download included in Jacket. Available on Bandcamp.  $22  The first American release by this wonderfully strange Norwegian musician, whose previous releases have been with labels such as Kjetil Brandsdal’s Drid Machine and Dennis Tyfus’s Ultra Eczema. This is enough to tell you that Gaute is a highly regarded twirler of unusual sonic inventions, but not much else.  The music on Monstersol is a bit more focused on Granli’s own voice work than some of his earlier releases, but it shares certain elements with them. Instrumentally it’s as hard to fathom as ever exactly what’s going on. The music has a brilliant way of interweaving obvious loops with what seem like they might be real time sound… Read more »

Moon Bros. - The Wheel ( / )

12″ 45rpm Edition of 400. – 100 available – Co-Release with Armadillo Tail Recording Co. $23 Moon Bros. is more or less the solo project of guitarist “Fred” Schneider and was brought to our attention by the Queen of Colorado herself (aka Josephine Foster). Fred appears on Foster’s No Harm Done album, and she returns the favor by singing on one of the tunes here. Many of Fred’s earliest recording efforts were done with a variety of Chicago-based post-rock/jazz-flecked combos (The Exciting Trio, HIM, etc.) But for the past few years, he has used Moon Bros. to explore contours of more rurally-based sounds. Employing pedal steel, acoustic guitars, harmonica and vocals, Moon Bros. have produced five previous albums (two of… Read more »

Drew Gardner - Flowers in Space ()

LP Edition of 300. Drowned Lands Series no.5 – $24 This is the first LP (following a cassette) released under Drew Gardner’s name and it’s a doozy. Drew is a guitarist, probably best known as a founding member of Elkhorn (although his musical partnerships with Jesse Shepard go back way further than that), and his recent work with Jeffrey Alexander’s Heavy Lidders has also been noteworthy as hell. The band here is a trio with Andy Cush (Garcia Peoples) on bass, and the extremely well documented Ryan Jewell on drums. Drew’s guitar playing is jazzy without being jazzoid, and rural without being hick. The four instrumentals the trio lay down are of a piece, and share a brilliant (if understated)… Read more »

UP-TIGHT & MAKOTO KAWABATA - S/T ( / )

2LP co-release with Cardinal Fuzz OUT OF PRINT Originally released via Steve Krakow’s Galactic Zoo Dosier Label on CDr. Here via Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records is the 2xLP edition Bass – Takashi Ogata Drone, Guitar, Written-By, Producer, Mixed By – Makoto Kawabata Drums – Takashi Shirahata Guitar, Vocals – Tomoyuki Aoki Written-By – Up-Tight Dusted Magazine I won’t revamp Up-Tight’s credentials here. Their heavy but crystal-clear monster riffage and high-frequency scree has quickly become the stuff of legend, and the group’s place at the forefront of the new Japanese psych scene has been well established at least since the massive and deservedly lauded Five Psychedelic Pieces, even earlier for those in the know. Last year’s Lucretia only broadened… Read more »

Sharron Kraus - K I N ()

LP Edition of 400. Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz $22 Over the years Sharron Kraus’ musical career has pulled her in many directions and seen her collaborate with artists, poets, writers and researchers, creating soundtracks, podcasts, musical accompaniments and responses. She is an intuitive improviser, a compelling performer and a weaver of musical spells. The spine supporting this body of work is songwriting, though, and it is to this most natural combination of words and music that she always returns. If prose writing is a tool for analysis and working out what we think, because of the emotional dimension music introduces, songwriting is a tool for working out how we feel. KIN, her newest album, is a collection of songs written… Read more »