Releases

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 »

Daniel Bachman - Daniel Bachman : Miscellaneous Ephemera and Other Bullshit ()

LP with Download. Edition of 500 First off, the cover. Let’s make it clear — this was totally Daniel’s idea and is based on the original art for Tony Rice’s California Album (Rebel SLP-1549, 1975). Why? We cannot say exactly. The album is considered to be in Rice’s all-time top five. But so what? Who amongst us can claim to have fully plumbed the depths of Bachman’s mind? The guy is a genius and those types just have “their ways.” So shut up about the cover already. This album itself was released under the title Daniel Bachman by an English label — Lancashire and Somerset — last year. But copies evaporated like mom’s milk, so here’s a sonic jug from… Read more »

Palberta - Shitheads In The Ditch ()

Palberta “Shitheads In The Ditch” LP / Insert / Free Download Edition Of 300 Another great album by this Hudson Valley trio (again, first issued as a cassette by OSR), continuing their plunge into the ocean of post-punk readymaids. Palberta’s sound collages together many of the greatest female outfits of the classic Rough Trade era (Kleenex to Raincoats to Modettes and onward) while retaining an after-core blurtage that can momentarily call to mind anyone from Slant 6 to Huggybear. The trio’s own personae shine through as well — giving everything a sputzy Saturday morning cartoon quality. This requires blending naive-sounding pieces of sound-art inside extremely sophisto form-molds and Palberta manage to pull this trick off seamlessly (whether by design or… Read more »

(New England) Patriots / Palberta - Special Worship ( / )

Palberta / (New England) Patriots “Special Worship” 12″ 45rpm / Insert / Download / Numbered SECOND PRESSING – CLEAR VINYL – Edition of 100 OUT OF PRINT FIRST PRESSING – OUT OF PRINT! Edition of 250 Released to coincide with a tour shared by these two monsters of the uncharted North, Special Worship is only the second vinyl dab by Boston’s (NE) Pats, and the first wax by the Hudson Valley’s Palberta. The (NE) Pats revel in squealing feedback, raunchy spuzz-riffs and mutable vocals that make me think of a cross between the Cows and some weird Texas just pre-core punk bands whose named I can’t recall. Rough, woozy and powerful, even though the trio sports no bassist, the (NE) Pats… Read more »

The Cradle - Drink The Water ()

The Cradle “Drink The Water” CS Edition of 150 The Cradle is the solo recording project of Brooklyn-based musician Paco Cathcart. Mr. Cathcart is a prolific solo generator, but actually first came to our attention via his studio work for the always incredible Palberta. This led to knowledge about Paco’s own musical work, both as a member of Big Neck Police and on his own, as The Cradle. Unlike the noisy avant splange of Big Neck Police, The Cradle’s music (at least on Drink the Water, which is one of about 20 albums Paco has recorded) is a sort of woozily teetering assemblage of  neu-volk moves, overlaid with basement pop vocals, and tossed with a lot of sideways form-moves of… Read more »