LP 45rpm. Edition of 400. Bandcamp $20 The fourth release by this Durham NC-based duo is also their second on Feeding Tube. We did their excellent When Sorrows Encompass Me Round cassette in 2021, and are delighted to be able to do this new one on 45 RPM vinyl. The players, as always are Courtney Werner on cello and fiddle, with Evan Morgan playing guitars, banjo, pump organ and shruti box. Tarantism came together in the depths of the Plague in the spring and summer of 2020 while the pair was living on a mountainside near Hayesville NC. As with their other recordings, the musical textures they play with have traditional Appalachian resonances, but their compositional approach often cuts against any orthodox grain. Courtney… Read more »
LP Edition of 450. Co-Release with Shagrat Records $20 Because he is a relentless seeker of strange truths (especially as they relate to music), Nigel Cross was the gent who uncovered the fact that the London-based artist, Jill Tipping, had been a member of a Sunforest-style folk-rock group back in the day. Further investigation uncovered information that the band had actually recorded some material and these tapes had not been lost! Pressing his case, Nigel got his hands on said tapes and came up with a proposed LP. We were excited when he asked us to participate in the project, and this lovely album is the result. Here are some notes from Jill on what’s what. It’s early ’70s London… Read more »
LP Edition of 300. Co-release with KRAAK. $24 CIRCLING RAGAS OF RESOUNDING POWER FROM THE BEATING HEART OF BELGIAN DRONEVOLK Hailing from Geel, Jef Mertens has been researching, documenting and subtly exploring the experimental music scene in Belgium and beyond for the better part of two decades. As a filmmaker, he’s dug deep in the realm of Flemish primitive fringe (Dronevolk) and chronicled the makings of giants like Sonic Youth and Borbetomagus. After running the now-defunct free tape label Dadaist Tapes, Mertens comes with a release of his own: NO MATHEMATICS, the first record collab between KRAAK and Feeding Tube. It’s an entrancing debut, where shruti box and guitar conjoin to create circling ragas of solemn yet resounding force. K118/FTR708… Read more »
LP Edition of 150. Numbered. Original One of a kind Hand Painted Covers by Jeff Tobis, please jackets come as they are. Artist’s Bandcamp $30
LP Edition 490 (300 x Black & 190 x 2 Colour Swirl Vinyl) Co-Released with Cardinal Fuzz Post Trash Premiere psychedelicbabymag Premiere BLACK VINYL REPRESS – $20 Massively ripped sophomore LP by this Portland OR psych sextet. Half of the line-up has shifted in the two years since their great debut album, but the same berserk stack of musical elements remains on the table. A lot of bands who fly the psych banner these days have a minimalist view of the music, and choose a sort of post-shoegaze lassitude to present their “vision.” This can be astoundingly great, of course, but it also fails to address the central gobble-crazed nature of true psychedelia. Many of history’s greatest psych outfits were hewn… Read more »
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 »
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 »
CD Edition of 300. bandcamp $11 This is our fifth release with the Vienna-based guitarist Eric Arn, and as with each of his albums, Kost Nix (No Cost) is different from all that have preceded it. Eric is a musician whose interests and techniques are constantly evolving, so it has been a pleasure to observe his evolution from a power raunch generator (with Crystalized Movements, then Primordial Undermind) into the wildly unpredictable improviser he has become. This is the third duo album we’ve done with him, following Paranza Corta (FTR384) with Margaret Unknown, and Hydromancy (FTR493) with Jasmine Pender, and it is another stone killer. Eric’s sparring partner this time is Eyal Maoz, the great Israel-born, NYC-based guitarist who has… Read more »
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 »
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 »
