VARIOUS ARTISTS - Thoughts From Screeching Lake CD
Singing Knives - £5.00
New compilation from Singing Knives featuring Dylan Nyoukis, Harappian Night Recordings, A Wake, Shiggajon, Pekko Kappi, Ross Parfit, Helhesten, Serfs, The Navigators, Stephanie Hladowski, Plum State, Ben Nash, Infinite Light, BAO, U-Boat, Christine Sehnaoui, and Alberorovesciato. Packaged in nice full colour digipack.
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Saigon Rock And Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968 - 1974 2xLP
Sublime Frequencies £29.00
The long-awaited foray into the Vietnamese Rock, Pop and Soul sound of the late 1960s and early 1970s is finally here. Saigon Rock and Soul delivers the goods International retro collectors have been searching for in vain for many years - and it delivers beyond belief. Every song is a mini-masterpiece be it heavy acid rock psychedelia, horn and guitar drenched funk grooves, or gripping soul ballads reflective of life during wartime. The tracks that form this collection cut a window into a rich musical Vietnamese music scene that has long been obscured, and for the most part, forgotten. As the scope of electrified Vietnamese music from the 1960s and 1970s begins to be revealed, it becomes evident that this was among the heaviest and most eclectic musical scenes of South East Asia at the time. These songs tell of war, love and what war does to love. All of them were recorded in makeshift studios and even US army facilities while the Vietnam War raged – and were issued by a handful of Saigon record companies on vinyl 45s and reel or cassette tapes. Westernized forms of music in Vietnam had appeared during the latter nineteenth century, and especially during the early 20th century, under the influence of the French colonizers. Tan Nhac (modern music) always incorporated both domestic and international sounds, and continued to develop alongside Western musical trends. During the 1960s and 1970s, pulp ballads were being recorded by leading crooners of the time who alternated between modern and traditional forms of regional music. When the electric guitar hit the streets of Saigon, Vietnamese renditions of contemporary instrumental trends such as surf rock, beat and twist soon emerged, followed by some pretty deep soul sounds inspired by Motown radio hits as well as funk grooves brought on by James Brown and his contemporaries. By the mid-1960s, Vietnam had been ravaged by war for years. American G.I.s had become a standard fixture in Saigon, as did many of the cultural artifacts they brought with them. This certainly included the music. The sounds of rock and roll dominated the radio waves, and Saigon nightclubs were teeming with new sounds. Musically, the Shadows and the Ventures soon gave way to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as an enthusiastic set of young Vietnamese rockers signed on to the lifestyle, always eager to hear the latest musical trends the G.I.s would bring in on LP or tape. This era saw the birth of a vibrant rock scene yet rock music and anything that came close was commonly referred to as ‘soul’ in the Vietnamese genre-listings. Like many cultures in Asia, Vietnamese music is recorded, marketed, listened to and disposed of in a relatively quick manner. This level of advanced ephemera ensures a degree of difficulty when trying to unearth and discover cultural histories. Literally, most of the music heard here has been brought back from the dead. Artists featured include some of Vietnam’s most popular at the time: Elvis Phuong, Hung Cuong, Mai Lei Huyen, Le Thu, Thai Thanh, Giao Linh, Mai Lei Huyen and the CBC Band. This limited edition 2-LP vinyl release features 70 minutes of classic original recordings compiled by Mark Gergis housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold jacket with extensive liner notes.
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna LP
Sublime Frequencies - £25.00
For centuries, the Jemaa El Fna (Rendezvous of the Dead) has remained the stage for one of the most spectacular social forums on the planet. By day, this central square in the city of Marrakesh, one of Morocco's great imperial cities, fosters a kaleidoscope of entertainment for its local inhabitants; storytellers, acrobats, magicians and snake charmers all create intriguing displays of bewitching spectacle. As the sun sets, the evening grows frantic with the pulse of the crowd; it is then that the night musicians set up. Free from the restrictions and expectations of light entertainment for a tourist crowd, these musicians manifest ecstatic performances that animate the audience and players alike. The groups represented on this album; Troupe Majidi, Amal Saha, and Mustapha Mahjoub, are working and carrying the torch of their musical heroes nightly in the square. These songs come from the repertoire of Morocco's greatest musical exports: Nass El Ghiwane, Lemchaheb, Jil Jilala, Larssad and many others from the Chaabi (Moroccan popular music) canon and are given a raw, emotional and fiery interpretation. Instruments are powered by car batteries and blown out through megaphone speakers. These recordings represent a rare opportunity to hear this music at such close proximity taking in all the power and passion of the performances. The raw fidelity captures an unflinching immersion of what is simply some of the greatest street music on earth. Recorded by Hisham Mayet in 2005, a few of these performances were featured in his film Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway (Sublime Frequencies DVD SF041). This collection also contains tracks not present in the film for a more potent snapshot of the ecstatic Jemaa El Fna. Limited edition LP comes in a beautiful full color gatefold Jacket with photos of the musicians and liner notes by Hisham Mayet.
HEAVY WINGED - FieldS Within Fields LP + CD
Three Lobed - £18.50
They're back. Heavy Winged has continued to stretch their leathery, scarred, er, wings and grow since their last release for Three Lobed Recordings, 2008's "Alive In My Mouth." From that time to the present the group has ventured to release three complete albums ("Spreading Center," "Shaking, Waking" and "The Thinner The Air"), and a full-length collaboration with Inca Ore, each displaying a few additional wrinkles to Heavy Winged's sonic palette. While these additions to the band's distorto-electro-bombast may be most apparent to those who have closely tracked their total output, "Fields Within Fields," their latest and, all hyperbole aside, greatest album to date, displays the band's grand developments in a fashion apparent to even casual outside observer. Every great band has that one totally assured statement album. For Heavy Winged, it is "Fields Within Fields." The band was determined to make "Fields Within Fields" into a significant part of their discography from the very outset. In October 2009, the band decided to enter the 5D Studios in Brooklyn to engage in what would be a first-time experiment - recording in a multi-track studio with overdubs planned from the session's start. Prior to this experience the band's entire catalog was centered on displaying their ferocious live spirit. Having already proven themselves to be adept at creating grand and heavy statements in an improvised, one-take-only setting, they felt that were ready for the challenge of being both improvisational and composition-minded. The band hunkered down for the session and even brought in some friends to help augment the Heavy Winged vibe. Their time in 5D yielded the two dark fruits which combine to form "Fields Within Fields." Brutal and hard, "Among The Maori" leads the album off and encompasses the entire first side of vinyl. The track opens with a slow, deliberate fade into Jed Bindeman's tribal drumbeat. This beat may start controlled but the track's velocity and volume continue to accelerate, eventually turning "Among The Maori" into a highly tuned jet engine. Ryan Hebert's guitar playing is exceptional throughout, beginning with an initial prolonged banshee-like wailing and slowly building and fully giving way to a fantastically cranking and grinding post-metallic din by the track's conclusion. "Among The Maori" stands out among the band's entire catalog as perhaps their truest moment. The album's second side is fully dedicated to the drone doom opus "The Hum Of The Universe." "The Hum..." adds Bob Jones on viola to the band's three piece lineup. The results of this pairing are epic and haunting. Jones' viola couples nicely with Brady Sansone's low-end work to create a churning sound vortex that will pull you in and release you only when the stylus reaches the run-out groove. "Fields Within Fields" is a powerful and assured statement, one that strongly rings "death to the new flesh - long live Heavy Winged's drone!" “Fields Within Fields” is pressed on RTI vinyl and housed within a textured old-style Stoughton tip-on sleeve bearing new artwork from Rebecca Carlisle-Healy. The album will be accompanied by a downloadcoupon for DRM-free MP3s of the album. This one will be released on/around June 15. “Fields
Within Fields” is from a one-time pressing of approximately 1000 copies. All these copies are accompanied by "Infinite In Every Direction," a glass-mastered CD (TLR-079) presenting an additional thirty-plus minutes of studio material (including a long studio droner featuring a guest appearance from White Hills' Dave W.) that is not available for individual purchase
EVAN CAMINITI - West Winds LP
Three Lobed - £15.00
evan caminiti is a guitarist full of big ideas and even bigger sounds. currently known as one-half of the san francisco bay area avant droners barn owl, caminiti has spent a great deal of time the past few years playing and recording gorgeous solo explorations focused primarily on the guitar, but, when need be, accented by additional instrumentation. following several prior releases, caminiti’s abilities have been honed to the razor sharp point of his new lp, west winds. three lobed recordings is proud to present this album, caminiti’s most mature and meditative to date. west winds is a discourse on solitude and cosmic exploration set primarily to an open tuned guitar. it is a logical successor to caminiti’s strong, large(r) scale solo debut, psychic mud shrine (digitalis, 2009) and calls to mind roy montgomery, hex-era earth and popul vuh. the album is the result of caminiti’s six-month long focus on each song’s form and musical composition. over that span of time, caminiti assembled and came to know each song intimately, constructing a series of strong structural bases. that knowledge permitted him to record the final takes accentuated by numerous potent improvisational flourishes as heard on west winds. this long-form approach of adding chaotic, off-the-cuff elements to such long-crafted tracks is basically the opposite approach to that which is used within the context of barn owl. through its contemplative tone, west winds is the perfect soundtrack to your next night alone in the literal or figurative desert. west winds is pressed on czech vinyl and housed within a spiffy mutli-colored silkscreen jacket bearing new artwork from caminiti. the album will be accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the album. limited to 600.
LOVE CRY WANT - s/t 2xLP
Weird Forest - £14.00
PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO POST MEN SOME OF THE CORNERS ARE A LITTLE BASHED, NOT TOO BAD THOUGH, THUS THEY'RE CHEAPER THAN THEY SHOULD BE...
Nearly 40 years after its creation, Weird Forest is proud to release this seminal jazz album for the first time ever on vinyl. The incendiary grooves captured in this wax defy description. It is not free, funk, fusion or fire music — it encompasses all of these sounds and then blasts far beyond them. Featuring the late great organist, Larry Young (Miles Davis circa Bitches Brew, Tony Williams’ Lifetime, etc), this album is mandatory listening for fans of Miles Davis' “Live Evil” fusion era, Young’s own “Lawrence Of Newark”, Sun Ra’s cosmic explorations and even Japanese guitar terrorists like Keiji Haino and Masayuki Takayanagi. Beautifully packaged, Weird Forest-style, in a deluxe double-gatefold cover and remastered for vinyl by Weasel Walter, the Love Cry Want 2xLP is an essential document of a criminally unheralded group. Here’s the scoop: “June 1972. “The times were filled with darkness and turmoil. This music, of loving, of crying, of wanting, makes a powerful statement. It is awash with the anguish of the times, yet it heralds the promise of better days to come. “Love Cry Want was a legendary jazz fusion group based in Washington D.C., and led by guitarist, Nicholas. This recording took place during a series of concerts in Washington, held across from the White House in Lafayette Park, and featured the late, great jazz organist Larry Young, who had just recorded the historic “Bitches Brew” LP with Miles Davis and had left the Tony Williams Lifetime and guitarist John McLaughlin to combine forces with Nicholas and drummer, Joe Gallivan. “This second incarnation of Love Cry Want featured the triumvirate of Nicholas, Gallivan, and Young performing some of the most important music in the history of jazz. No record company would release this music, which was ahead of it's time. “Nicholas, who pioneered the development of the first guitar synthesizer (in association with Electronic Music Laboratories) performs on the first prototype guitar 'synth' along with fellow musician, Joe Gallivan, who pioneered the development of the drum synthesizer with inventor, Robert Moog. “June 1972, Lafayette Park. “Richard Nixon was President. There was a nasty war going on in Vietnam, good people were rioting in the streets and cities were aflame. During this series of concerts outside the White House, President Nixon ordered aide, J.R. Haldeman, to pull the plug on the concert fearing that this strange music would “levitate the White House.” This is that music, remastered for this first time-vinyl release by Weasel Walter.”
GROUPER - Wide LP
Weird Forest - £12.50
SECOND PRESSING! Grouper is Liz Harris and this is her second album "Wide". Submerged in this music a vast pasture forms near a great sea just before dawn. the early morning vapors were everywhere hovering just above the ground. Soon the sun swells up and the vapors transmogrify into a tempest of hornets..the hornets envelope the sun with impressive fervor but it melts them into haze again and the vapors migrate out to the sea. Grouper has collaborated with Jandek, Xiu Xiu, Ilyas Ahmed, Six Organs of Admittance, Jorge Behringer, Badgerlore, and others. This is the vinyl edition of the cd released on Free Porcupine Society.
SACHIKO - Golden Hypnos LP
Audiomer - £10.00
PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO POST MEN SOME OF THE CORNERS ARE A LITTLE BASHED, NOT TOO BAD THOUGH, THUS THEY'RE CHEAPER THAN THEY SHOULD BE...
Stellar vocals and drones by Sachiko of Overhang Party; three pieces of hypnotic, gliding delight. This is Sachiko's first —all-drone— vinyl release, in an edition of 350. Heavy-weight vinyl & paste-on sleeve with artwork created by Johan De Wilde. AudioMER. edition in collaboration with Croxhapox gallery. Edition of 350 copies
MAGIC LANTERN - Showstopper 7"
Not Not Fun - £5.00
companion banger to the platoon lp, this 33 rpm single finds the lanterns firmly in retro motor city rave-up rockist terrain, covering the cult classic “showstopper” on the a, backed with their own james brown soul revue funk-rock shaker “cypress” on the flip. recorded during the platoon sessions and mastered by james plotkin. black vinyl 7 inches in cosmic boogie collage jackets designed by cameron stallones. edition of 500... already out of print.
