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 »
Andy Crespo “Two Cigarettes Kissing” 12″ (45rpm) Edition of 200 OUT OF PRINT! Andy Crespo has been the go-to bass players for sub-underground locals since time immemorial. Recording with mysterious free jazz units such as Gross, or the original Barn Owl (the trio with Matt Weston & Chris Cooper), or playing with one the countless live bands he’s been in, Crespo is a commandingly smoky, mysterious and powerful presence. Feeding Tube is tickled pink to present Crespo’s first solo vinyl — two side long excursions of bass generated sounds that’ll roam your interior fields like a cloud of bees searching for nico-nectar. Considering Crespo’s personal collecting policies, it’s crazy that he conjured up such a berserk set of splattered electronics/strings/feedback,… Read more »
Gary Wilson “Music For Piano” LP with download code Edition of 500 OUT OF PRINT! I LOVE GARY MUSIC VIDEO by JOEY PIZZA SLICE Although it might sound perverse to say so, Music for Piano may well be my favorite Gary Wilson record. Most people who dig Wilson are very into his lyrics, but I actually find them to be a bit taxing after a while. Those early records all sound and feel amazing, but what I really wanted was to hear the music without the words. I had high hopes when I found a copy of Another Galaxy, the 1974 Gary Wilson Trio LP, but it had a very different heft than that which Gary displayed on You Think… Read more »
Tredici Bacci “The Thirteen Kisses EP” EP (180 Gram Black Vinyl) with Insert / Download Code Edition of 300 Co-Released with 100% Breakfast Photo Cover by Zach Lanoue Painting Cover by Golden Sweet OUT OF PRINT! First vinylization of the great debut by this large Boston ensemble, helmed by Simon Hanes (ex-Guerilla Toss) and dedicated to reinventing the sounds that drove Italian cinema throughout the ’60s and ’70s. Their touch is goddamn perfect, including technical tropes you’ll recognize as updates of everyone from Nino Rota to Ennio Morricone and way way beyond. Largely instrumental the sound blends mysterious lone trumpets, plonking percussion twangers, syrupy organ bleeds, swathes of strings (real or imagined) and clomping rhythms in a way that’ll make you sit… Read more »
Jeremy Waun “City Vibes” LP with Download Code Edition of 150 / Hand Numbered So it was like 2 years ago when a SPIRITUAL GANGSTA reached out to me from tha big D! I could tell this dude was OFF THA CHAIN and next thing you know I’m in tha holy Donovan’s pub puffin on a crackstick and up walks tha holy JEREMY WAUN! We go out in tha parking lot and blaze a big hawgs leg! Next thing you know I hear his music and I say WHOA! THIS SHIT IS TIGHT AS A MOUFUCKA! Holy acoustic guitars mixed with spiritual and real lyrics! Holy electroshrymp vybes also with keyboards and sacramental samples! I’m feeling it BIG TYME! Now,… Read more »
Guerilla Toss “Smack The Brick” 12″ (45rpm) with download code Edition of 400 Slight line-up change in GT brings new faces to keyboards and bass, resulting in a rather plumper (and, dare I say, more soulful) bottom, without removing any of the pony-rending upper register dynamism we have all grown to love. This new width also adds a certain slinkiness to a few of the evil cheerleader routines that are part of Kassie Carlson’s magic kit. The band spins out streams of thick repeato-riffery, while Kassie’s vocals exhort everyone to explode. Word on the street is that GT’s new label has big things in store for them. So Smack the Brick is either gonna be veiwed as the end of… Read more »
Bugs And Rats “S/T” LP with Insert / Download Code Edition of 400 Co Release With Surveillance Investments BANDCAMP OUT OF PRINT! Nine song pus-rock explosion by this Quincy MA trio with guest vocals on a couple of tracks by Kassie Carlson (of Guerilla Toss). The sound has a mega-sludge hunch that will make you feel several sweet reefs to the wind, until you fasten your seatbelt and get ready for the ride. The band’s pace varies from machine-gun rattle to cough-syrup lunge (sometimes within a single song), so you’ll want to make sure your neck is well-braced, too. In the days when dumbos stodd around, hanging their heads, shaking them mopily to the beat, Bugs & Rats… Read more »
LP Edition of 400. Found a few in the vault… Second Cystalline Roses LP by local Renaissance man, Tony Pasquarosa, is a goddamn monster of readymade acid folk transcendentalism. Since Feeding Tube released the One Man Cult LP back in 2010, Tony has done an wonderful solo guitar album for VDSQ, the insane space-sludge of World Domination (FTR 123), the raunch zonk of Gluebag, and various other projects far too numerous to name. On this album, Tony creates a classic late night smoker soundtrack. A brilliant journey into and beyond ego, the blend of guitar, voice, bells, bamboo flute and whatnot will be transportational for even the straightest listeners. Cosmic Driftwood represents some of the deepest acoustic-based psych we’ve had… Read more »
Joanne Robertson “Black Moon Days” LP with Digital Download Edition of 300 OUT OF PRINT! Black Moon Days is the second amazing solo LP by British polymath Joanne Robertson. It comes six years after her 2008 debut, The Lighter (Textile), which was one of that year’s signal releases. In the meantime, she has continued painting (the activity for which she is best known), curating shows, writing, recording odd bits in trio Tom Greenwood and David Cunningham, touring and recording with Dean Blunt, and doing whatever the hell else it is she does. The songs on Black Moon largely proceed from the avant-volk tradition Joanne first explored on The Lighter. One can hear shards of Sibylle Baier’s deepest darkness in these acoustic… Read more »
