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MENAGERIE compilation CD (Split release with Menagerie)
Blackest Rainbow - £6.50
An Eclectic compilation complied by my brother Jake that collects a bunch of new tracks and live tracks. The new tracks are from Winter Drones (members of Hush Arbors) and Ben Nash, some total bliss drone pieces, Cam Deas and Spoono show off their fingerpicking skills, Rivulets is a straight singer-songwriter guy, Skygreen Leopards do super nice dreamy folk song , and Jerusalem & the Starbaskets bust out a seriously raw garage blast! The live tracks are from Hush Arbors (with a fantastic guitar shredding version of 'Gone', MV+EE with The Golden Road and Beequeen. Limited to 500, cream card sleeves with baby blue print, and REAL CDs with kelly green Menagerie logo print!
ROBE. - Time Dilation CDR (OFFER)
ON SALE! £3.50
Massively epic new release from this American duo of stark echoing multi-instrumental drone, layers of charcoal to black emptiness that has gathered pretty solid sound throughout the releases they've unleashed last year, this is bleak, not harsh, just dark, and unrelenting for it's immense near 80 minute duration... Fans of Sunn O))), Robedoor, and occult ritual nightmares will zone into this. Limited to 150.
HELHESTEN - Graphical House CDR (OFFER)
ON SALE! £3.50
Long time coming release from this Towering Breaker offshoot. Like some total weirdo bluesy jams - in the most loose possible. Most recently these guys were seen on the incredible 4x3" CDR set on Psykick Dancehall, and also a split LP last year on Upset The Rhythm. Limited to 100 with colour sleeve by the band. Limited to 100.
PLANKTON WAT - Visions of Otherness CDR (OFFER)
ON SALE! UK £3.50
Follow-up to last years CDR on Stunned and cassette on DNT from Dewey of Eternal Tapestry/Jackie-O Motherfucker/Bloodbiker... Opening with some very nice guitar layered with relaxed vocal bursts, the following tracks have a super nice guitar vibe to them. 'In the Realm of Magic and Death' has a more distorted dark aspect to it with an almost tribal ritual drum layering. The disc climaxes with an almighty piece entitled 'Transfiguration of Infinite Nature', wailing guitars, pounding drums, droning vocals... Expect more from the Wat on BR later in the year! Limited to 200.
ROBERT HORTON AND SINDRE BJERGA - Can't Go Fast Enough to Get There Early CD
ON SALE! £5.50
Wild and eclectic mail collaborations from one of America's most recently on fire jammers Robert Horton, and Norway's drone master Sindre Bjerga. Both have incredibly solid resumes of collaborations and releases, what with Sindre's ongoing collaboration with Jan Iversen, and Robert's collaborations with Tom Carter and the Mudsuckers crew of Pete and Gabe (of Yellow Swans), which also includes Carter. 'Can't Go Faster Enough to Get There Early' features a massive range of instruments and sounds, from multiple instrument based layered drone to down right weirdness, and total outsider vibes. Also features Hal Hughes, Lisa Graves and Jan Iversen. Glass mastered CDs, limited to 264 in white digipaks with stickered covers and a small 4 page insert of liner notes. Please note some tracks feature digital clicks and pops, this is meant to be there.
BEN NASH & SOPHIE COOPER - Alchemy CD
ON SALE! £5.50
Recorded over a weekend back in the early months of 2009, here are 2 tracks of multi instrumental composition from Ben Nash and Sophie Cooper (CooperJones). The music here is truly beautiful, personally I think this is some of the best work to come from both Ben and Sophie so far. Total late night guitar meanderings blurred with a haze of deep churning scrapes from various instruments and layered drone bliss, creating 2 totally immersive and beautiful psychedelic drone. Some of the guitar playing here has a beautiful Loren Connors mets Ry Cooder Paris Texas era sound, and then when both Ben and Sophie reach for the gee-tars you have the beautiful mix of Ben's reflective electric blues and Sophie's purely relaxed acoustic musings, totally fantastic. This really has it down for me as something truly different, lets hope that they continue to record as this duo. I certainly cannot wait for more... Glass mastered pro pressed CD (not cdr) in pro printed full colour card wallet, one time pressing of 1000. Co-released with Ben's own Recollections of Knulp label.
FOREST CREATURE - Frustrated Analogue CD
ON SALE! £5.50
Very pleased to announce the first 'proper' release from this local duo of Ben Moon and Richard Sides, and a very new sound for Blackest Rainbow. Forest Creature has been through many different sounds, starting as a fairly harsh noise experience opening for bands like Wolf Eyes and Jazkamer back when we did shows. They later on incorporated live drums and screwed up vocals, and a purely animal live experience. The duo's sound has progressed more and more over the last year, with different sounds collating to make Forest Creature reach a point where they have their very own sound. Their previous sound would've fitted nicely into the Load Records roster, and then building to sound more like some kind of blend of Black Dice, early Animal Collective and Fuck Buttons. But now over the last few months I've experienced some of their best live performances yet (performed in near total darkness with flickering TV screens and bulbs) they pummel their audience with thumping beats, raging psychedelic synth, broken glitches and clicks, they seemed to have found a definite place that seems to be right for them. Strangely enough some of this material even reminds me of the supreme days of Sheffield's techno and IDM music boom back in the late 80s and early 90s with legends like Autechre, Black Dog, and the hay day of Warp Records best releases. If you're into Black Dice, early Warp Records, Animal Collective and aren't afraid of a little beat here and there then I suggest you check out Forest Creature! Glass mastered pro pressed CD (not CDR) in full colour pro printed CD wallet.
MARK BRADLEY - Eternal CDR
ON SALE! £3.00
New CDR from this American experimentalist who's had previous releases on Reverb Worship and Basses Frequences. Six tracks across only 19 minutes, totally far out dream tone keys blending into one another pushing you into an almost nightmarish state of mind. Eternal could almost work as a 70s Italian horror soundtrack with its minimal blurred humming almost reminiscent of some kind of devil organ. Limited to 100 copies. Pro-manufactured CDRs with on disc print.
TWINSISTERMOON - The Hollow Mountain CD
Blackest Rainbow £7.00
Twinsistermoon is the solo project of Mehdi Ameziane of Natural Snow Buildings, The Hollow Mountain was originally issued by Dull Knife Records in 2009 as an LP limited to only 105 copies, unsurprisingly it sold out in a matter of hours. Widely regarded by many Natural Snow Buildings fans as one of the best releases from their camp, this reissue has been remastered by Ben Nash, includes new artwork, and brand new unreleased material. The album has a beautiful earthy lo-fi feeling throughout which perfectly compliments its short and sweet folk songs, and occasional wanderings into psychedelic drone ambience. This is an album that really is totally beautiful and probably one of my favorites from Mehdi. The CD is packaged in a square artwork booklet and a pro-printed card wallet showcasing the superb original artwork from the LP sleeve. Limited to 1000 copies.
THE BLUE TREE - s/t CDR
Blackest Rainbow - £5.00
Debut release for this collaborative project between Andrew Paine (frequent Richard Youngs collaborator, and Sonic Oyster head honcho) and Matthew Shaw (the man behind Apollolaan Records). Six tracks of experimental excursions into far off plains of weird-ed out crisp autumnal psyche, blending piano, guitar, distroted vocals, earthy drones and much more. Limited to 100 copies in digipak with professionally printed full colour stickers of photographs of the Blue Tree.
EYEBALLS - The Invisible Castle CD
ON SALE! £5.50
Richard Dawson's project that debuted on Blackest Rainbow earlier this year, which was followed by CDRs on Bells Hill, Low Point and Dead Pilot, and another release on Blackest Rainbow, a split cassette with fellow UK droner Gareth Hardwick. The Invisible Castle is far more intense, and in some ways heavier than the previous releases on BR, but retains Dawson's own dark take on the world of psychedelic drone music, and this is a proper drone release, clocking in an hour for the full piece. Intense and superb! Limited to 1000 copies in pro-printed wallets.
BONG - Gilgamesh Lives CD
Blackest Rainbow - £7.00
Amazing new live jams from Newcastle's BONG. Two long tracks of stoned slow motion drums, guitar, bass and sitar... This is a great follow up to their previous split LP we put out earlier in the year, edition of 1000 copies is bleak pro-printed card sleeve with cover artwork by Chris from Gnod and back artwork by the band.
ENFER BOREAL - Break The Illusion CDR
Blackest Rainbow - £5.00
New disc from Maxime Primault who has been making music under the Enfer Boreal name for a few years now and has a nice little discography with releases on labels such as Digitalis, Tape Drift, 267 Lattajjaa and Stunned Records. This three track disc is bookended by two shorter pieces, with the epic middle track hitting in at 25 minutes. Opener 'Fingers Cut' blurs wildly psychedelic electric fusions with hazy feedback bliss outs. The epic title track follows which sounds like being underwater with neon lamps drowning beneath you with fantastic high riff-ery blazing throughout. 'Dusty Map' closes the disc with a whirring somewhat darker drone zone with almost industrial sound sparking away in the background, this dark industrial sound surpasses with a lulling guitar meditation and completes the album perfectly. Limited to 69 copies in parchment paper covers with new photography by myself.
SACRUM - s/t CDR
Blackest Rainbow - £5.00
First release from the trio of Robert Horton, Lisa Cameron and Douglas Ferguson. 'Parakeets Of Doom' opens for the disc and musically its as far out and weird as its title, churning twangs, background blues jams and an underlying percussive bassy rumble. 'This Transmission Is Fucked' again equally has a vibe that its title clearly sums up, here the trio melt into one metallic rust almost 18 minute disaster... certain moments sound like thick metal panels are literally being sliced in two. The release finishes with the epic 33 minute 'Somewhere In Oakland (Horizontal Mix--', opens with a freakish blend of music box and wavering underlying dark fuzz and drone, the drone gets bassier throughout with string wig-outs and more gentle strumming laid over at various moments. A great release of odd improvisation and multi-instrumental blurts from start to finish. Hand stamped CDRs in full colour covers, with insert, limited to 70 copies.
DEAS & DENTON - s/t CDR
Blackest Rainbow - £5.00
I'm excited to be releasing this debut of thorbbing feedback and riff based destruction from this new duo of Cameron Deas and Adam Denton. This is one long dark 32 minute nightmare with some serious guitar and feedback abuse... I guess this will be pretty unexpected for some of Cam's fans, but its a good insight into the ever changing ventures and willingness to explore sound from this young artist. Professionally manufactured CDRs, limited to 100 copies with cover artwork by Adrianne Neil. Also available on cassette.
BEGGIN' YOUR PARDON MISS JOAN - Edges CD
Blackest Rainbow - £6.00
Edges will be the first widely available release by Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan, and is a collection of several old songs from previous highly limited releases on Centre of the Wood, Dead Pilot and Reverb Worship, plus 5 new tracks. The project is from the minds of Lex and Vanessa Panayi, Lex some of you may recognise as he also plays under the name of Guanaco±, who earlier this year had the Sky Burials LP released on BR. On this 9 track CD there are moments comparable to some of the material on the aforementioned LP, but at times it has a more singer-songwriter sound with more vocals, as well as merging autumnal psychedelic vocal excursions and traditional folk guitar meanderings. A really gorgeous collection of songs. Edition of 500, full colour pro printed card wallets.
MILLIONS - Into The Flood CDR (LAST FEW)
Blackest Rainbow - £5.00
New full length 3 track album from Brooklyn based sound artist David Suss and his Millions project, whose had previous releases on Baked Tapes, Abandon Ship and Peasant Magik. Three long form tracks of futuristic spaced out fuzzy mind blazers for star gazers. These three tracks churn you brain with its whirring and buzzing, putting you into a trance-like state. Housed in minimal colour sleeves. Limited to 50.
