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cd 2012/1973-77 new Heavy psych from India, by one of the precious few groups to form outside of the Bollywood film industry. Compilation that switches uneasily between both of the band's very... |
Now Again |
$21.00
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cd 2005/1990/1958-63 new Nick Tosches is a smarter guy than me, and as he says, the Haze is as essential as toilet paper. The one & only one-man rockabilly band, with truly sick homemade guitar... |
Norton |
$13.00
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lp 2005/1990/1958-63 new Nick Tosches is a smarter guy than me, and as he says, the Haze is as essential as toilet paper. The one & only one-man rockabilly band, with truly sick homemade guitar... |
Norton |
$13.00
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lp 2012/1975 new The prime output of Ahmed, who's a generation younger than Eshete & Astatke & eventually helped popularize Ethiopian music in the West. He began as a shoeshine boy from the south... |
Mississippi |
$14.50
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cd 2011/2002-11 new About ten years ago, Rudiger Carl & Oliver Augst put out an FMP record ('Blank', with Christoph Korn) which is one of my top faves on the label, even if it's an extrememly late... |
Mille Plateaux |
$16.00
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cd 2012/1971 new Manuel Gotsching & Klaus Schulze (who'd already done time in Tangerine Dream) discover the floating power of the chord that never moves. Their 1st, best, & most cosmically melted.... |
MG Art |
$16.00
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cd 2012/1973 new Klaus Schulze rejoins the band after a spell with a solo career, and impressively it's his drums rather than his famed EMS synthi that make this one the krautrockinest of all their... |
MG Art |
$16.00
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cd 2012/1973 new Timothy Leary, 3 years escaped from jail & lately divorced, had been running around Switzerland doing heroin, banging girls, reading occult books & pretending to have telepathic... |
MG Art |
$16.00
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cd 2012 new As usual, Ambarchi puts on a new hat. Supertaut moog-bass & ticky trap drums make for a long one-note-riff that is hypnotic & krautrocky but oddly slick. Almost the entire record is taken... |
Mego |
$15.00
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cd 1994/1982-83 new A circuit is a garden, and AMM grew this solitary & diaphanous blossom, in a landscape arid & alien, when nobody but nobody was walking around thinking the same thing. The classic... |
Matchless |
$18.00
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cd 2008 new Even after 40 years, AMM is so subtle it makes other improvised records seem like they were put together with jackhammers. Never just a drone, never just chirping, but curling waves of... |
Matchless |
$18.00
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lp 2008/1968 new Fine & raw heavy psych with completely drugged out lyrics written by Steve Farmer & the inimitable Ted Nugent. Recorded amidst a whirlwind of lineup changes, many of them due to... |
Mainstream |
$13.00
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lp 2008/1968 new Simple but poppy Mamas & Papas light psych that occasionally spotlights a Grace Slick style female singer. Band was from Massachuetts (Newton, I think) & there's a Tim Hardin cover.... |
Mainstream |
$15.00
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cd 2013/1976 new Credible, tasteful mix of West Coast influences, and therefore greatly beloved by Acid Archives & seemingly every record collector over the age of 50. Same sorts of vocal harmonies... |
Machu Picchu |
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2cd 2010 new Ashley and Jacqueline Humbert mumble bits of stories that have been chopped up & re-ordered so that you have to put the plot back together like a puzzle. One is about a long moment &... |
Lovely |
$24.50
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cd 2009/2006 new Recorded alone in a cabin, but the result is closer to Sic Alps' burned & buried pop than anything you'd associate with going blind from too much moonshine. Fuzzed out, but light... |
Locust |
$13.00
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lp 2013/1976 new Credible, tasteful mix of West Coast influences, and therefore greatly beloved by Acid Archives & seemingly every record collector over the age of 50. Same sorts of vocal harmonies... |
Light in the Attic |
$20.00
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lp 2011/1965-67 new Tenor sax player who was the son of Estelle Axton (the 'ax' of Stax) and nephew of Jim Stewart (who provided the 'st'). His band the Mar-Keys was the label house band before the... |
Light in the Attic |
$18.00
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lp 2011/1964 new 2nd session, and his 1st in NYC after coming home from Copenhagen. Cecil Taylor's rhythm section (Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes) plus a couple of Clevelanders on trumpet & a 2nd... |
Klimt |
$21.00
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lp 2011/1969 new Slobbering, slugging UK fuzz bombs that you could easily pass off as being by the Groundhogs, and on the comedown cuts there's some acid-drenched Phantom of the Opera organ. Resume... |
Klimt |
$23.00
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lp 2013/1971 new Aka Robert Patterson, the man who dared to play drums at the same time as Elvin Jones & brother of sometime Ayler drummer Muhammad Ali. He started playing with Coltrane in 1965, &... |
Klimt |
$23.00
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lp 2012/1970 new Philly band with 3 guitars & produced by Todd Rundgren that tries to do it all. West Coastish harmonies, hard rock squalls, a little lite psych, drums with phasing. One guy went on... |
Kismet |
$21.50
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cd 2012/1987 new Atlanta Coltrane-worshippers who have somehow not figured out that they traveled forward 20 years in a time machine to 1987. They're at their best when they're taking it slow rather... |
Jazzman |
$16.00
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cd 2012/2011-12 new Mattias Gustaffsson works out of a little town in Sweden, & his reel-to-reel collages are appropriately solitary & haunted. Wind blowing on a mic or droning electronics are the... |
Hasten & Korset |
$12.00
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2cd 2012/1998 new Unobtrusive & bucolic Syrian classical ensemble. Shipshape interplay of zither, oud, a couple of singers, flute & hand drums. The zither player is originally from Paris instead of... |
Harmonia Mundi |
$23.50
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lp 2011/1969 new Doctor Rock is indeed a rockin' Doc! Totally loveable little record that looks forward to power pop more than around at it's peers in the contemporary pop-psych scene. Catchy as shit... |
Guerssen |
$25.00
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cd 2011/2010 new Father Yod's guitar player, who, full disclosure, I once went as for halloween & who got entirely miffed with me in 2007 when I called him 'deeply inept' in a newspaper. Djin grew up... |
Global Recording Artists |
$14.50
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lp 2011/1982-83 new Pretty much perfect, fast & simple punk rock. Band's from a suburb in California that also birthed Lord Buckley, Gil Evans, & Pavement in their own time. Their complete... |
Get Hip |
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lp 2009/1978 new ATV could've been a slightly darker answer to the Buzzcocks, but almost immediately they began to implode under the headstrong cantankerousness that made them want to hang out with... |
Get Back |
$14.00
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lp 2007/1971 new Absolutely top shelf Santana rip off with hot dark fuzz wailing all over the place, interspersed with a few echoed-out bits of hash-fried CSNY. English lyrics with heavy Peruvian... |
GDR |
$30.00
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lp 2012 new Matthew Thurber is a comics guy, mostly known for his book 1-800-MICE. Really loopy & colorful semi-linear skit about childhood time travel & field trips to inner space on one side. Flip... |
Feeding Tube |
$18.50
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cd 2008/1965 new Albert Ayler is pretty much the Plato of experimental jazz- sometimes it seems like everything else is just a footnote in his story. A rollercoaster of raw energy, tears of sax that... |
ESP |
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cd 2005/1964 new The visceral clarion call for the entire world of free jazz, and still one of it's clearest expressions. Ayler's tone is so rough & vibrato so wide that most of the time it sounds... |
ESP |
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10 inch 2012/1964-70 new Levert's brother Gene had a one-shot-wonder Billboard hit in 1957, and used his success to open a soul food joint. Both fellas had grown up singing in church, and Levert got... |
En Avant La Zizique |
$20.00
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cd 2004/1984 new The second I heard this, it became one of my favorite releases of the year, and I'm completely stoked to have it back around after several months of unavailability. Fried and... |
EM |
$19.50
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2cd 2006/1974-2004 new Mostly early 70s afro-freedom big band by the guy from the legendary Pyramids. A bunch from their best album ("Birth Speed Merging") and even some unreleased material. Unlike... |
EM |
$25.00
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lp 2011/1984 new Tender plinking on 10 string ukulele & harpsichord. Every chord is arpeggiated across a constant stream of eighth notes, so that you slip along a fanciful river of lonesome. Askew... |
Drag City |
$15.00
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lp 2010/1957 new Laid back & arpeggiated piano with lots of old timey class, plus a little bit of R&B singing that's slow & so, so smooth. Very Charles Brown meets King Cole, touch of barrelhouse as... |
Doxy |
$20.50
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cd 2004/1978-79 new Live in SF just a few shows before they broke up, at a club that was way too polite for a real punk show. Penelope Houston was the real deal, and you can still hear the jumble of... |
DBK |
$17.00
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cdr 2011/1978 new Buchla 200 pieces made for dancers & at the Columbia Princeton Electronic music studio when the means to make this kind of oscillator gorp was very new & clunky. The dance piece was... |
Creel Pone |
$10.00
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cdr 2010/1974-76 new Klaus is from Salzburg & has been running an Austrian new music festival since the mid-70s (2012's was in May). Just before founding it, Klaus took a trip to Stockholm to play... |
Creel Pone |
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cdr 2005/1955 new Short (it was a ten inch originally) musique concrete parable for children in french. Weird sound effects, stultifying delivery. My french isn't great, but the story is by Rudyard... |
Creel Pone |
$8.50
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cd+dvd+7 inch 2001/1998/1977 new LAFMS' first businessman & label-owner Joe Potts decided during the late 70s that he needed a project that was meant to deliver subliminal messages. His basic idea... |
Cortical Foundation |
$30.00
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lp 2007/1969 new Dorothy grew up in Detroit & discovered the harp in highschool, using it to play be-bop (!) around town. As the fad for trippy sounds hit the mainstream in the late 60s, Ashby... |
Cadet |
$11.00
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lp 2011/1970 new Inviting hippie cash-in that boasts jazzfunk grooves played by electric harp, koto, vibes, kalimba, flute, oboe & more. Dot wrote the lyrics based on the 1859 Edward Fitzgerald... |
Cadet |
$11.00
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lp 2011/1969 new I think this is THE Art Ensemble lp, capturing them at the beginning of an extended stay in Paris. You can point to plenty of bands who took their cue from Ayler, John Cage or even... |
BYG |
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lp 2011/2009 new Aussie guitarist & drummer live in Israel. Starts with high energy & only gets hotter until drummer Avenaim is just letting gigantic thuds drop in free time. Playing ping pong with... |
Boweavil |
$23.00
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8cd 2012/1979-95 new After a short career in Chicago's hard bop scene, Abrams founded the AACM, playing with Anthony Braxton, members of the Art Ensemble, Marion Brown, etc. He moved to New York in... |
Black Saint/Soul Note |
$48.00
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cd 2012/1973 new Chicago large ensemble spiritual jazz, with some members who were in the AACM. Almost all instros, with lots of brass, electric organ, & echo to make things smeary for that rainy... |
Black Jazz |
$12.00
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cd 2010/1968-69 new Jap band that plays hard but simple 'tardo bar blues suddenly crimps itself into a flash fire of blister-riddled psych with the vocalist acting as fuzz bomber by singing through... |
Bamboo |
$16.00
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