Chris Weisman “Maya Properties (Volume 5)” LP Edition of 220 Original Art by Sarah Smith & Printed Art by Ruth Garbus Vinylization of the digital release by OSR Tapes ! Available on YOUTUBE ! This is the fifth and final vinyl volume of Chris Weisman’s massive Maya Properties project, originally a download of 88 songs, now a gorgeous set of LPs with individually hand-crafted cover art. There are a couple of extra players on this one. Chance McNiff plays sax on “Another Sphinx” and Patricia Hartland plays bass on “Love Will Live On.” But the rest is all Weisman all the time. The mood throughout is classic early folk-rock. There are snootfulls of the Liverpool docks (circa Rubber Soul), Manhattan’s bridges (circa The Sounds… Read more »
Chris Weisman “Maya Properties (Volume 4)” LP Edition of 220 Original Art by RAFTAR & Printed Art by Ruth Garbus Vinylization of the digital release by OSR Tapes ! Available on YOUTUBE ! The fourth vinyl volume of Chris Weisman’s extraordinary Brat-Pop download (88 songs in all) is perhaps the most aggressively eclectic in the batch. A mixed baguette of the most delicious variety. From the raw, raw, raw guitar scuzz of “Mystical Ringo” to the nicely burbling (if somewhat Beck-ian) keyboard chug of “Dear Dandy” (perhaps based on second-hand Gary Wilson form-looting?) to the sickeningly catchy “Irish Stuff,” with its hideously treated leprechuan vocals, Volume 4 touches its figurative lips to many corners of the world’s style map. But, except for the… Read more »
EP with booklet by Scott Seward & Byron Coley Limted Numbered Edition of 200 This LP exists through an act of sheerest serendipity. Scott Seward of John Doe Jr. Records up in Greenfield, MA was talking to one of his regulars, an Amherst-based photographer named Bob Cantius. In the course of their conversations, Scott learned that Bob had — in a former life — done some experimental sound recording, portions of which featured his own homemade string instrument: The Brunt-Milter. Eventually, Bob was able to turn up tapes of two finished pieces. Both were begun with the Brunt-Milter in 1964, then finished off with added sound sources and mixing in 1968. When they were started, Cantius had just finished his arts… Read more »
The Magnificent Pussies “Mouth To Mouth” CS Edition of 200 Artwork by Dennis Tyfus Letterpress / Printing by Middle Press There were we — and by “we” I mean “us” –starving, hysterical, naked, prowling the Hebrew streets at dawn, way the fuck out where Brooklyn meets Queens, searching for an angry snack. We did not find it, but we were hungry because we had just finished our first performanec as the MPs at Dennis Tyfuss’ free funk festival in the ‘hood. I was reading from the book of my writing Dennis had issued a year previously. Ted Lee was playing a cymbal he had borrowed from Dennis six months earlier, falsely promising to return it filled with fresh urine. Gary… Read more »
Devin And Gary “Go Outside” LP with Download / Insert Edition of 400 First vinyl issue (and an expanded one, yet!) of the taste-tastic 2008 set recorded by Devin Flynn & Gary Panter, just prior to their reconfiguration as a trio with Ross Goldstein (who only guests hereupon). I will be damned (and I mean truly damned) if I can recall who set this project in motion, but once it was started it rolled like the blimp of eternity it so closely resembles. Gary and Devin had been doing odd, punchy keyboard/guitar juke-a-thoms for a while by then, spinning their way into the bellies of classic ’60s tunes, then clicking their mandibles in sequences they thought of themselves. Their music… Read more »
Glenn Phillips “Lost At Sea : 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition” 2xLP Edition of 500 (Co-Release with Shagrat & SnowStar Records) OUT OF PRINT! In collaboration with Nigel Cross’ Shagrat label, and Glenn’s own Snow Star concern, Feeding Tube is tickled to release the 40th Anniversary Deliuxe edition of Glenn Phillips’ first album released under his own name, Lost at Sea. Originally issued by Snow Star in ’75, then licensed by Virgin in the UK, after Peel started playing it, LAS has long been a favorite of people of true refinement. Glenn had joined the legendary Hampton Grease Band while still in high school. He played with them their whole six year span, and was a key component of the sound… Read more »
CS30 Edition of 100 pink cassettes
Myriam Gendron “Bric-à-brac / The Small Hours” 7″ Edition of 500 Letterpress Cover by Kiva Stimac of Popolo Press Co-Released with L’Oie de Cravan OUT OF PRINT! Following her acclaimed debut LP, Not So Deep As a Well, Montreal’s Myriam Gendron has created musical settings for another pair of Dorothy Parker poems — “Bric a Brac” and “The Small Hours.” The slow, sensuously beautiful combination of Myriam’s voice and guitar, combined with dolorous genius of Parker’s words is as intimate as ever. The pairing is seamless and natural, conveying an instant warmth that is a wonderful way to see out the winter, hailing the spring on our doorstep, with hints of the endless circle of seasons to follow. With a letterpressed… Read more »
Daniel Bachman “Grey-Black-Green” LP with Download Code Small Second Pressing in White Vinyl – Edition of 200 OUT OF PRINT First vinylization of the 2011 CDr release, with which Daniel shucked the performing name he’d been using (Sacred Harp) and laid his naked ass on the line. Bachman already sounds like a wizened player here (an image that was solidified when his mug was plastered on the box for Tompkins Square’s Obscure Giants of Acoustic Guitar trading cards), but he was actually still a babe of the Fredericksburg woods at the time this came out. Regardless, his technique is massive, and his approach to the material — based on a color wheel tuning system developed by the late Robbie Basho — is… Read more »
Guerrilla Toss / Sediment Club “Kicked Back Into The Crypt” LP Edition of 600 Co-Released with Sophomore Lounge Out Of Print Although the cover makes this look like there’s a goddamn Voi Vod reunion afoot, the sounds are a mighty pleasure to behear. This release pairs Boston’s amazing quintet, Guerilla Toss, in their most explosively whacked set yet, and NYC’s Sediment Club, a trio with literal blood roots in the late ’70s Lower East Side grunt scene. The Guerilla Toss side is a bit less high-pitched than previous efforts, and manages to create a bizarrely shifting clot of sideways-moving aural-mung that is obliteratively perfect. They craft and destroy riffs, rhythms and melodies faster than most bands can turn on their… Read more »
