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cd 2009/2008 new High energy saws, skronks, & bumper car rides from this UK trio. Wilkinson's alto/baritone honking is definitely inspired by Brotzmann, but he darts & flits fast to keep things from... |
Bo Weavil |
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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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cd 2010/1963-64 new White started playing music at parties, passing himself off as an adult to get more girls as early as age 14. He played baseball in the Negro leagues, boxed, gave BB King his... |
Water |
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cd 1994/1983-86 new Sporting a backup singer whose odd adam's apple noises effectively replicate the 13th Floor Elevators' jug sound, and plenty of drug damage to juice up his lyric delivery, Butch... |
Teenbeat |
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cd 1995/1987-90 new Star of the Heavy Metal Parking Lot dvd, Butch may have an unconventional voice (slightly nasal, like his hero Mick Jagger), but his rock 'n' roll dream burns brighter than any... |
Teenbeat |
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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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cd 2008/2003 new Onetime member of Cabaret Voltaire definitively eclipses his past on the strength of these attentively edited field recordings. A national reserve in Kenya growls & swishes. A valley... |
Touch |
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cd 2012/1971/1952-71 new David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, David Behrman (on violin), & Gordon Mumma (on harmonica & french horn!) all help out on this classic. Two of the pieces are very early... |
Wergo |
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cd 2012/2011 new Here's a little series of concerts that Jon Abbey put on last fall at the Stone in NYC. Both gents played tabletop guitar, and while AMM's Rowe had tons of little boxes & pedals as... |
Erstwhile |
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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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2cd 2009/1964-71 new Demos for harmony pop songs (that have a dead-on power pop feel, several years ahead of the era) by one of the UK's 70s one hit wonders. Ward bobbed along at the edge of London's... |
Wooden Hill |
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cd 2011/2010 new Two different solo performances on sopranino and tenor sax. Ware's a great solo player- giving you just enough tonal structure to follow various arcs, but also lots of quarter tones... |
Aum Fidelity |
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cdr 2010/2004 new Strongest stomachs only please! Hoary top 40 hits get irreparably mangled by cheap keyboard presets. But that's not enough, not when they could have their lyrics rewritten to... |
BWIE |
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cd 2009/1979 new Discreet & cozy as a proper English garden, these soothing strings turn the violent abundance of biology into a warm, friendly, & vaguely educational diorama. Composer Edward... |
Trunk |
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cdr 2007/1971 new Now here's a litmus test of your schadenfreude that's sick in many senses. Local boot of a record made by a South African doctor (who was presumably familiar with the charms of... |
BWIE |
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cd 2007/1968 new Gary from the wonderful Walker Bros. (where he was considered the untalented tagalong) along with Joey from Badfinger. Slightly imperfect sense of melody, & not particularly well... |
Distortions |
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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 |
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cd 2009/1968-72 new Selection of yummy contributions to the long running German porn soundtrack series 'Schoolgirl Report'. Swank, brassy lounge & organ swish, with smartly stolen lines from the Dr.... |
Crippled Dick Hot Wax |
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cd 2004 new Not a collaboration, but a three way split. Gurgling sound poet extraordinaire & Selektion's installation/architecture gent exceptional, who are abetted by one track from the contemporary... |
Flying Swimming |
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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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cd 2012/2004-10 new Live sets from the last several years, plus a contribution to some sort of Wire magazine swill, but it's all sitting here expressly to make you feel like you're choking. Huge... |
Pan |
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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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cd 2011 new Wynne trashpicked 300 speakers around London & stacked them up in a room so that they enveloped a player piano. He connected the whole thing and somehow powered it all by attaching... |
Sub Rosa |
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cdr 2012/2009 new Some highlights from the only music festival that still matters, Colour Out of Space in Brighton UK. Absurdist collage master Joseph Hammer (LAFMS, Solid Eye) lets a bunch of globs... |
Chocolate Monk |
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lp 2013/2004/1994-02 new Early drone pieces with guitars hung from apartment ceilings, a Fender Rhodes, viola, trumpet, and not much in the way of modular synths. Tracklisting: Twin Guitar Rhodes... |
Kranky |
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2cd 2002/1958-61 new Korean war vet half Shawnee who couldn't sing live (only one lung) & couldn't hear unless he used multiple amps (childhood measles). Nobody holds a slow, mean song with a tempo... |
Sundazed |
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cd 1990/1956-58 new Norton's great series shows off the varied talents of the world's hardest rockin' Native American juvenile delinquent, king of the fuzztone Link. The inventor of the distorted... |
Norton |
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cd 2011/2010 new A tweedling rivulet of twists & twirls as the trebly clarinet & soprano sax braid tightly round each other. A few chirps or squawks, but both mostly stick to a short range of high... |
Incus |
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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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cd 2008 new Longstanding Western Mass percussionist who's booked ten jillion shows, played with everybody in town. He turns what could be mere stick twiddles into a clackety mess that stumbles forth... |
7272 |
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cd 2012/2006 new Waisvisz, the director of Amsterdam's STEIM since the turn of the 80s and the inventor of the cracklebox, spent his life making sure that electronic music was something that you... |
Al Maslakh |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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cd + dvd 2011/2009 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... |
Sublime Frequencies |
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dvd 2013 new Two different, intensely drunken parades that celebrate two different Hatian voodoo deities. Deeply wasted people without shoes walk on mud trails for days on end. Cows are sacrificed,... |
Sublime Frequencies |
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cd 1999 new Just one great big field recording of a UK racetrack, with lots of loud & close up engine vrooms, bristly idling, fans cheering, and an annoucer with a thick & unintelligible British... |
Ash International |
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cd 2008/1967 new That's Porter's own apartment in the cover shot, with no pictures on the walls & the lampshade with the plastic still on. Throughout the late 60s Porter's albums were all organized... |
Omni |
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cd 2006/1966-77 new Porter Wagoner wore enough makeup and bangles to be mistaken for a drag queen. But he seriously upped the ante on country concept albums with a series that cast him as a... |
Omni |
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cd 2010/1970-79 new Porter's songs are lurid sonic soap operas. There are innumerable characters, plot twists, dramatic swishes of curtain, and at the center, moral dilemnas carefully constructed to... |
Omni |
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cd 2009 new Ralph White plays amplified kalimba, banjo & fiddle, while Raub from Horaflora puts his speakers with Ralph's sounds coming out on top of snare drums, or underneath balloons. In other... |
Resipiscent |
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cdr 2009/1973-74 new German prof who taught electronic music (at Karlsruhe) for over 30 years. Raw oscillations & generators with some wicky-wack crude effects. One piece has classic Robby the Robot... |
Creel Pone |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 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 2008/1967 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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