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lp 2011/1966 new Williams is one of the most idiosyncratic blues performers of any era. He improvises and picks/slides both notes and their many chopped-short cousins & distant relatives, out of of a... |
4 Men With Beards |
$18.00
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lp 2008/1967 new So, you know why Scott Walker became obsessed with Jacques Brel & Tim Hardin, right? Say you're a member of a band that's ripping off the Righteous Brothers (& it was of course, the... |
4 Men With Beards |
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lp 2008/1968 new Rich & heavy as 400 year old velvet drapes, Walker wraps his thick, succulent baritone around plunging and soaring string arrangements by Wally Stott, Reg Guest & Peter Knight. This... |
4 Men With Beards |
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lp 2008/1969 new It's gonna take cultural theorists another thousand years before they figure out how to peel away all the varying layers of irony, majesty, camp, teen hysterics, brechtian gloom, and... |
4 Men With Beards |
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lp 2010/1968 new Infamous dip into psychedelia, which isn't super trippy but does have Pete Cosey spewing some fierce & shattered guitar distortion. There's a Stones cover that rethinks the song as... |
Cadet |
$11.00
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lp 2011/1960 new Before 1940, the Louisiana State Penitentary, commonly known as Angola, was a for-profit farming corporation. It specifically used the one thing that came to it free, manpower, to... |
Doxy |
$23.00
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lp 2008/1982 new Acapella appalachian ballads, which range from murder to baptism & make a small shelter against the pitiless work of coal mining. Workman was a miner for nearly half of his 99 years... |
Drag City |
$14.50
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lp 2009/1995 new 1st comeback album, issued during the initial flush of Walker's post-career in the US. Though the album certainly has antecedents in 83's 'Climate of Hunter', there's a pretty clear... |
Drag City |
$13.00
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lp 2012/1989 new Two brothers from some mysterious spot in the UK, who make very limpid, dripping wet & lightly bonking instrumental records. Some guitar, woodwinds, & miles of echoey processing.... |
Drag City |
$17.00
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lp 2013/1978-86 new Train wreck of backasswards instrumental funkadelic ripoffs with phased whispers, thick brapps of Hendrixified solos. Such mud-covered production that it could easily be mistaken... |
EM |
$19.50
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3lp 2009/1974 new To get the big, round, slow, & airy sound he wanted, Wada made his own giant conch shells out of discarded plumbing pipes, and here you get 4 of them along with a pedal point drone... |
EM |
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3lp 2012/1978 new After growing up hearing Zen Buddhist chants & studying with Pandit Pran Nath, Wada was more than ready to explore vocal pieces. Here he gets 2 pals besides himself to om along to a... |
EM |
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lp 2012/2008 new Gary continues to keep it in the family, with his crack team of Endicott cheesefunk players and teen-dream-gone-wrong songs about Mary, Lisa & Karen. It's the seeping through of what... |
Feeding Tube |
$23.00
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lp 2010/1976 new Black power poetry over funk by an English teacher at Oakland's Merritt College (where a couple of her students started the Black Panthers). Sarah Webster Fabio was 48 & a mother of... |
Folkways |
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lp 2008/1969 new It's no easy feat to pull off a string orchestration dedicated 'to the Neo-Stalinist Regime', even tougher when you're a blond fading pop star who (for unknown reasons) never closes... |
Four Men With Beards |
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2lp 2012/1972 new Loud & dumb early 70s proto-metal from the UK that has more in common with St Vitus than psychedelia. The band didn't record themselves especially well, but Guerssen has done as... |
Guerssen |
$33.50
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2lp 2012/1968-72 new Mud-covered heavy thudders from this Northampton UK biker band led by Martin Weaver (who went on to be in the Dark). Perfect endless chugging & phased-to-shit solos, and the... |
Guerssen |
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lp 2008 new Wolf Eyes make the sounds & Sickness edits them in a Merzbow churn-chop style. I'm told there are actually some folks who think that Chris Goudreau is sullying himself by collaborating... |
Hospital |
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lp 2009/1981 new With super tight rhythms, Igbo vocals & major key guitars constantly chiming & overlapping each other, Dr. Sir Warrior announces the sound of Nigerian highlife in the 80s.... |
Klimt |
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lp 2012/1972 new Sons of Champlin-style soul with lots of psychedelic touches, hammond, & some pretty blackhearted fuzz thrown in the mix too. Band was from Gallup, New Mexico, meaning they played... |
Lysergic Sound Distributors |
$21.00
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lp 2009 new Jon Lorenz & John Rich of Cincinnatti get bent. Supposedly on sax & clarinet, except that these swooping, coagulating pools of feedback & gritty tatters of distortion could've just as... |
Nashazphone |
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lp 2013/1972 new 2nd self-produced album by Zambian lovers of Hendrix & Cream, which was all over the radio in the big city of Lusaka. This album leans toward San Fran/dead/Allmans influenced guitar,... |
Now Again |
$21.00
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lp 2013/1976 new By this point Witch had toured with Osibisa and they were becoming more professional and more musically traditional, with a lot less of the heavy blazing Cream influence from their... |
Now Again |
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lp 2011/1969 new Backup singer for James Brown, soul sister number one, and official owner of the best blond afro of all time. Sick sock-it-to-em funk in the pared-down, JBs rave-up style that is so... |
Polydor |
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lp 2009/1981 new Wyatt was invited to spend a week improvising to tape & collaging it into a radio show. He got excited about the prospect of using a studio without much of a goal in mind, but of... |
Rai Trade |
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lp 2008/1967 new This 2nd album (even though it's called 'Part One') is rather Fowley-influenced (which makes sense, as he introduced the members to each other), with a Zappa cover & still sporting a... |
Reprise |
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lp 2008/1968 new Aka 'A Child's Guide to Good and Evil'. By this time Bob Markley was controlling the output of the band (because he had all the money) & Michael Lloyd & the Harris brothers were... |
Reprise |
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lp 2010/1980 new Times like this I wish my town had cruising streets so I could buy a Hyundai Pony & tap cigarettes & bare feet alike on the dash. Ridiculous hard rock from nowhere Virginia. Cheap... |
Roach |
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lp 2011/1958 new Aka the Sheik of the Shake. Right after Willis moved to Atlantic, he immediately started hitting the charts with songs like 'CC Rider'- a song he totally owned until Mitch Ryder came... |
Rumble |
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lp 2011/1959/1957-59 new Uptempo R&B from Los Angeles by way of New Orleans that shrieks & raves as hard as Little Richard, who Larry went to high school with. They stayed friends for life, even... |
Rumble |
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lp 2008/1975 new Another blasted to shit Hendrix ripoff from Africa, this time from Zambia. A touch of harmonizer pedal on the guitar solos once in a while (think Boston's 'More Than A Feeling'), and... |
Shadoks |
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lp 2010/1969 new Fifth album, and yep, it's just as creepy as all the others. Michael Lloyd and the Harris brothers were perfectly decent pop songwriters, able to work their way though most of the... |
Spiral Groove |
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lp 2010/1974 new 3rd album of aching-sweet soul with impossibly high, soaring vocals & cozy string arrangements. Produced not in Philly, but Baltimore, by George Kerr (apparently they were his pet... |
Stang |
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lp 2010/1972 new 3rd lp by Baltimore band that effortlessly nails a Philly harmony soul sound. Aching sweet falsetto from Billy Herdon, and plenty of stabbing strings & funk bass. Has a great O'Jays... |
Stang |
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2lp 2012/2009 new Wyatt set out to visit a music festival & when it turned out to be cancelled, took a trip through the country to record performances instead. Some of her wanderings checked in at... |
Sublime Frequencies |
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lp 2011/1964 new Cagey & crooked surf parodies made by the very studio cats who whipped vocal surf songs into such a chart topping frenzy in the first place. Sax heavy arrangements, lots of monster... |
Sundazed |
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lp 2011/1964 new E Pluribus Rat Finkum. One of the more brilliant ideas to ever hit the basement echo chambers hidden under Hollywood & Vine is captured here when Gary Usher has his backup singers... |
Sundazed |
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3lp 2008/1968-70 new Who can resist the quaalude soft melancholia & haunted female harmonies of 'The Winter is Cold'? Wendy & Bonnie Flower were real live teen glee club sisters whose Dad was a jazz... |
Sundazed |
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2lp 2011/1960-71 new Looks at first glance like some greatest hits for the uninitiated, but no! Meticulously collected set of fairly serious rarities and side projects, swank notes, the whole nine... |
Sundazed |
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12 inch 2011 new Watson's from both Cabaret Voltaire & the Hafler Trio, but I think his solo field recording work is some of his most fascinating. Recreation of a cross-country train journey in... |
Touch |
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lp 2013/1983-85 new Ethnic minority music from northern Nigeria. The Gbari/Gwari language is centered around the intersection of the Niger & Benue rivers smack in the middle of the country. This... |
Touch |
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lp 2006 new Squealing feedback, interruptive beats & militaristic preening from these great queeny screamers. Frothy threats of S&M & multilated children, and the lyrics are nicely printed out in the... |
Very Friendly |
$21.50
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2lp 2009/2003 new Bennett & Sotos prove once again that they're the Rodgers & Hammerstein for our times, and their flower drum song is filled with squealing electric hate. Tracklisting: Why You Never... |
Very Friendly |
$25.00
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lp 2007/2001 new The premiere power electronics band, probably also the funniest, and definitely the queeniest. Processed screaming histrionics joyously brimming with misogyny, sociopathy, etc.... |
Very Friendly |
$29.00
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lp 2009/1970 new 1st Witthuser & Westrupp, although the latter doesn't get credited on the cover. Acoustic ditties in German, about vampires & other verboten/unusual topics. If you don't speak... |
Wah Wah |
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lp 2007 new Cool pairing of glacial ice king and droning, groaning yeti. Seems to be Spencer improvs & Wiese processes. |
What The |
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