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Bull Tongue Review Number 1

BULL TONGUE REVIEW - No.1 ( / )

A Quarterly Journal of Post-Rock Cultural Pluralism, edited by Byron Coley. In this issue: Todd Abramson, Steve Albini, Alan Bishop, Bree, Rej T. Broth, Joe Carducci, Lisa Carver, Benoit Chaput, Sharon Cheslow, Byron Coley, Karen Constance, Nigel Cross, Chris D, Irene Dogmatic, Lili Dwight, Ray Farrell, Andrea Feldman, Tom Givan Tom Greenwood, Mats Gustafsson, Angela Jaeger, Elaine Kahn, Ira Kaplan, Maria Kozic, Matt Krefting, Ted Lee, Donna Lethal, Owen Maercks, Marc Masters, Hisham Mayet, Richard Meltzer, Thurston Moore, Dylan Nyoukis, Gary Panter, Tony Rettman, Bruce Russell, Suzy Rust, Andy Schwartz, Chris Stigliano, Brian Turner, Naomi Yang. 50 pages, black & white 8.5″ x 11″.  

BULL TONGUE REVIEW no. 1

BULL TONGUE REVIEW - No. 2 ( / )

A Quarterly Journal of Post-Rock Cultural Pluralism, edited by Byron Coley. In this issue: Todd Abramson, Steve Albini, Alan Bishop, Bree, Rej T. Broth, Joe Carducci, Benoit Chaput, Sharon Cheslow, Byron Coley, Karen Constance, Nigel Cross, Chris D, Georganne Deen, Lili Dwight, Erika Elizabeth, Ray Farrell, Andrea Feldman, Eddie Flowers, Tom Givan, Tom Greenwood, Mats Gustafsson, Lisa Marie Jarlborn, Ira Kaplan, Maria Kozic, Matt Krefting, Tom Lax, Ted Lee, Heather Leigh, Donna Lethal, Owen Maercks, Marc Masters, Hisham Mayet, Phil McMullen, Richard Meltzer, Thurston Moore, Dylan Nyoukis, Gary Panter, Brigid Pearson, Charles Plymell, Tony Rettman, Joanne Robertson, Bruce Russell, Suzy Rust, Savage Pencil, John Sinclair, Chris Stigliano, Brian Turner, Tesco Vee, Naomi Yang.  80 pages, black & white 8.5″ x… Read more »

Manas - Manas ()

LP with MP3 Download / Insert by Ben Chasny Edition of 400 Adhoc OUT OF PRINT  First LP by Manas, a duo comprised of guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Thom Nguyen. Tashi, who’s based in Asheville NC these days, has been cutting a wide swathe through the guitar underground over the past few years. Originally focused on acoustic weaponry, he has added electric guitar to his arsenal, without giving up any of the weird angular bite of his initial work. Thom is known to have played with a couple of Asheville free rock bands, Nest Eggs and Mendocino, but this is the first exposure his excellent work will be having outside of Buncombe County. As a duo, Manas explores lots… Read more »

BULL TONGUE REVIEW - No. 3 ( / )

In This Quarterly Journal Of Post-Rock Cultural Pluralism: Todd Abramson, Alex Behr, Tosh Berman, Alan Bishop, Trevor Block, Benoit Chaput, Sharon Cheslow, Byron Coley, Karen Constance, Chris D, Georganne Deen, Irene Dogmatic, Lili Dwight, Erika Elizabeth, Ray Farrell, Andrea Feldman, Eddie Flowers, Maria Frankland, Tom Givan, David Greenburger, Tom Greenwood, Mats Gustafsson, Michael Layne Heath, Tom Hinely, Michael Hurley, Angela Jaeger, Lisa Maria Jarlborn, Ira Kaplan, Maria Kozic, Matt Krefting, Tom Lax, Ted Lee, Donna Lethal, Samera Lubelski, Owen Maercks, Marc Masters, Hisham Mayet, Phil McMullen, Richard Meltzer, Thurston Moore, Dylan Nyoukis, Gary Panter, Brigid Pearson, Charles Plymell, Sara PRess, Joanne Robertson, Susy Rust, Savage Pencil, Andy Schwartz, Orchid Spandiafora, Chris Stigliano, Brian Turner, Gregg Turner, Valeria Webber, Naomi Yang,… Read more »

Bryan Gillig - Cave Trilogy ()

3xLP Edition of 200 A few years back, Bryan Gillig was the frontman of the great Turners Falls MA band, Loudville. Plans were broached for a record, but nothing ever worked out and Loudville quietly devolved into pumice. A while later, Feeding Tube’s Mr. Lee became enamored of a cassette of songs Bryan recorded in his car. Before anything could be done with that, however, Bryan reported back that he had recorded most of his repertoire under a bridge, by the banks of the Connecticut River in Turners. It was a lot of stuff, but it was fucking cool, so here ya go. Bryan’s songs are nearly open-form in spots, and sometimes push against the bounds of known völk traditions…. Read more »

Lily Konigsberg / Kassie Carlson "Muriel : Utter Perfection"

Kassie Carlson / Lily Konigsberg - Muriel : Utter Perfection ()

CS-24 Edition of 150 Out of Print! Lily and Kassie both have their own bands (Palberta and Guerilla Toss, respectively), but they also share an unhealthy fascination for the berserker wing of the electo-pop underground. Kassie has previously explored this side of her personality on the Jane La Ondo/Size Queen “split” (FTR180), but here she uses her own name proudly. And why not? Lily shows that she’s as much of a weirdo with her pulsing, bubbling mix of vocals and stubby pulse-rondelays. At times it sounds as though she’s making music for the devil’s own roller rink. And we can only say, “Olé!” Kassie’s side is more summery, like a beach party for the staff of K Records with music emerging… Read more »

Orchid Spangiafora - Flee Pasts Ape Elf - OUT OF PRINT

Orchid Spangiafora - Flee Past’s Ape Elf ()

2xLP with booklet / MP3 Download Edition of 700 OUT OF PRINT Splendid, expanded reissue of this monster album, which most people know from its placement on the NWW List. Stapleton even went so far as to name a track (“Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree”) after a mis-hearing of one of Flee Past’s’ many memorable lines. The music has its roots in Hampshire College’s Electronic Music Studio in the early 1970s. While taking a class on Electronic Composition, Robert Carey was smitten by the potentialities lurking inside piles of reel-to-reel tape. Presented with a stack of such stuff, mostly recorded off of television, he began an epic stumble into the universe of musique concret. Carey refashioned banal spoken… Read more »

MV EE Alphine

MV & EE - Alpine Frequency ()

2xLP Edition of 500 Matt Valentine and Erika Elder have been cutting new synaptic pathways through brainic underbrush since before most people became capable of breathing air. That said, their albums (many of which are CDR only issues on their own Child Of Microtones imprint) often have a specific delirious blueprint, designed to shift only a certain batch of molecules and/or air into forms that translate into music. Such is not the case with Alpine Frequency. This lazily explorative 2LP set was sewn into a whole from various tattered swathes of sound, pieced together like the jeans Neil Young wore on the cover of After the Goldrush. A Spectrasound production, AF includes appearances by a vast array of MVEE enablers… Read more »

Mystical Gangsta - Frank Hurricane

Frank Hurricane - Fuck Wit It High : A Mystical Gangsta’s Reflection Vol.1 (Pympstrumental) ()

LP Edition of 300. In a world with nothing to love, you can’t love anything that’s of this world. You need something holy. Better yet, you need something holy and spiritual. EVEN better would be something holy and spiritual that fights for righteousness instead of destruction. Well, your fuckin’ troubles are over, dude –the Holy Spiritual Gangsta Frank Hurricane is back! And he’s mystical too!But first, a story (that may or may not help): Thirteen or fourteen years ago I had an idea. I can’t remember if I was in Aaron Rosenblum’s car or Willie Lane’s, but I was in one of their cars and the idea caught on like wildfire among the three of us regardless of whose car I… Read more »

Dag Stiberg / David Vanzan / Jon Wesseltoft / Virginia Genta - Det Kritiske Punkt ()

Virginia Genta, Dag Stiberg, Jon Wesseltoft, David Vanzan “Det Kritiske Punkt” LP Edition of 150 OUT OF PRINT Spine tingling free improv fire-blast from an international quartet with deep underground roots. Italian reeds player Genta and drummer Vanzan form the basis or all Jooklo aktion (Duo, Golden, Stellar, et al.). Norwegian reeds dude Stiberg and guitar/electronics manager Jon Wesseltoft also collaborate in Maranata. Together in Oslo in 2012, the quartet laid down this very hard-blown and stylish session. There are let-ups in the attack, but there aren’t many. Broken into five parts “Det Kritiske Punkt” (“The Critical Point”) surges along like an unbroken chain of climaxes. Even when one or two of the instruments start to move laterally, as though… Read more »