Releases

Jean-Baptiste Favory - i was thinking… ()

CD Edition of 300. Release Date – Februrary 21st, 2025 – Preorder Available – $14 What a pleasure it is to hear this new album from France’s Jean-Baptiste Favory, long-distance associate of Los Lichis, presenter of France’s longest running avant garde radio show (Epsilonia), and a goddamn great musician. I Was Thinking is the solo third album we’ve done with J-B (preceded by Things Under and Ciels), and we think it’s the most varied and fascinating one yet. Using guitars, keyboards and electronics, Favory explores the edges between avant-rock, experimental composition and free form madness, in all their dark glory. The tracks here rarely follow merely one or another of these threads. They tend to careen wildly through all of… Read more »

De Regering Van Treffelijke Zaken - Melle​-​Aan​-​Zee ()

LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz (UK) & Swarm In Peace (EU) Release Date – Feb.14th, 2025 – Preorder Available – $24 “Melle-Aan-Zee” is the latest lo-fi recorded collection of improvised pieces by Ghent-based occasional psych folk, kraut infused jam collective De Regering Van Treffelijke Zaken, which seems to continue to give birth to compositions that defy convention and exceed expectations. Just as their sporadic meet-ups seemingly cannot be planned, their enigmatic worlds of sound unfold through pure improvisation, sense of experimentation, a confluence of coincidences and reasoned skits. There’s a special kind of magic when things spontaneously align, a magic that can’t be replicated by meticulous thought. The unmistakable sound of KRAAK’s 12-string guitar advocate Venediktos Tempelboom, Ishtembashtockx’s unconventional way… Read more »

BHAJAN BHOY - Bhoy On The Wire ()

LP Co-release with Cardinal Fuzz Release Date – Feb. 14th, 2025 – preorder available – $24  Ajay Saggar is BHAJAN BHOY. “With BHAJAN BHOY, Saggar synthesizes all of the stylistic approaches he’s explored over the years, swirling them into an intoxicating musical blend, with an earthy spirituality. Even the project’s name reflects the dual aspects of Saggar’s upbringing coming together in harmony. In Hindi, a “bhajan” is a devotional song, sung in the mandir, or temple, while “bhoy” is a Scottish and Irish derivation for a young man. There’s a searching quality to Bhajan Bhoy, as if Saggar is still hunting for transcendence with each track, whether through an expansive drone, an orchestral facility on the piano, or an electronics-augmented… Read more »

Myriam Gendron - Mayday ( / / )

LP Co-Release with Thrill Jockey Black Vinyl – $21 Green Vinyl – $22 CD – OUT OF PRINT CS – $12 Mayday is the third LP by Montreal-based artist, Myriam Gendron. It follows her earlier, critically acclaimed albums, Not So Deep As A Well (2014) and Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found (2021). Myriam began exploring the complex folk traditions of Quebec (and beyond), with Ma délire, which combines traditional and original songs with arrangements that make space for avant-garde musical interludes by such folks as guitarist Bill Nace (Body/ Head) and renowned jazz percussionist Chris Corsano. Mayday presents an even more syncretic fusion of the elements Myriam uses to create her sound. Most of the songs are… Read more »

Troposphere 7 - To Keyi Toko Zonga ()

LP Edition of 500. Download included. Co-Release with Massachusetts Institute of Contemporary Music $24 MB Jones and Rey Sapienz first encountered one another in 2018. Jones was living in South Korea and visited Kampala, Uganda with his partner. Before their trip he was surprised to find that the Nyege Nyege label knew of him through his ROK SPY record, which had even led certain label associates to wonder if, because of that project’s presentation, he was an actual secret agent. Jones stayed for a few days at Villa Nyege, where label co-founder Arlen Dilsizian introduced him to Rey Sapienz. Prompted by a question Jones had about a man in Uganda building rockets in his backyard, Dilsizian had the notion to… Read more »

Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me

Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me ()

LP with Digital Download. Gold Foil Cover Edition. OUT OF PRINT  LP with Download. Black and White Cover Edition  $22 Finally a new vinyl issue of Gary Wilson’s monumental 1977 LP, with the original cover art (c/o Owen Mareck’s well-loved copy), a glamorously shiny foil cover, and delicate lay-out work by Scott Allison. All of which makes it, perhaps, the last copy you’ll ever need. You Think You Really Know Me (also the title of Michael Wolk’s 2005 documentary about Gary) was Wilson’s second LP, but the first he recorded as a vocalist, hewing to his own bizarre vision — a syncretic collision of romance, new-wave-cocktail-jazz, heartbreak, disco-porn-soundtrack-music and experimental tape manipulation. Home recorded in Endicott, NY, the album found… Read more »

Orchid Spangiafora - Eel Asp Flaps Feet ()

CD Edition of 300. $12 Fifty years after I first encountered the music of Orchid Spangiafora, it is a pleasure to be listening to new work by this most bonny of modern sound manipulators. Like Flee Pasts Ape Elf (FTR 096), which we reissued in expanded form in 2013, Eel Asp Flaps Feet (the title of which is an anagram of the earlier set) is an assemblage of immaculate invention. It manages to produce a unique splotch of confusing analog surrealism in an increasingly digital world, and Robert Carey (aka Orchid himself) deigned to provide these notes on creating the music: “This album is a combination of some new material and ideas and some older stuff that had not found… Read more »

Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Tales Of The Golden Skull ()

LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz $24  Plastic Crimewave Syndicate returns with one collective foot in overdriven space-biker scuzz rock, but the other bigfoot kicking upward into new galaxies of synth punk, no-prog, and freek funk. Yes, dare we say it, the new PCWS LP, Tales From the Golden Skull, GROOVES–but from the perspective of the Japan n’ Kraut/Eurorock undergrounds, coated in some nasty Windy City grime. Aided by the Chicago Cosmonaut Couriers Crew, ala famed renaissance man Mac Blackout (synths/horns/electronics), Przemyslaw Krys Drazek (trumpet) of longtime zone-jammers Drazek Fuscaldo/Mako Sica, Will MacLean on Moog keytar (!– of local Silver vocoder-ed Apples lovin’ treasures Protovulcan), plus the oldest-school synthlord Bil Vermette, who’s been modulating since the 70s. We’ll call Tales From… Read more »

Yerba Mansa - Gravity’s Joke ()

LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz OUT OF PRINT Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records have the pleasure of unleashing the sizzling contact high sounds of Yerba Mansa’s new LP release – ‘Gravity’s Joke’. As the heppest of you undoubtedly know, Yerba Mansa are Edwin Stevens (guitar and member off – Irma Vep, Klaus Kinski, The Web of Lies ) and Andrew Cheetham (drums – Richard Dawson, Jane Weaver, Waterless Hilss) as well as both been members of Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura, and are purveyors of raging, mind-bending primitive garage infused Middle-Eastern Free-Rock psychedelia. Showcased here is Edwin’s mesmerizing guitar playing, capable of conjuring sonic specters from thin air and Andrew’s limitless drumming, rooted in jazz and totally mesmerizing in fluidity… Read more »