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cd 2011/2010 new Beirut-based trio of trumpet, bass & acoustic guitar, but they mostly sound like helicopters trying to break out of a cage, or doves having an ugly argument. Lots of threatening... |
Al Maslakh |
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cd 2010/1996/1970 new Hairy Chilean bloozerock with a bit of Jefferson Airplane in the vocals & some swashbuckling & low slung guitar solos. With their first record sporting the band sitting naked in... |
Relics |
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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 |
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cd 2011/1971-77 new Over the top wailing hard rock band from East Java that played lots of covers live, doing all originals here and nipping constantly from Zep, Sab, ACDC, Purple, Mountain, you name... |
Strawberry Rain |
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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 |
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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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cd 1995/1972 new Swedish trippy hippies, who are not yet (though they would be shortly) delving into prog. Spaced-out medieval violins, jew's harps & tablas are mixed up with wiggy Moog synths & a... |
Silence |
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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 |
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2cd 2012/1998/1994-96 new Friend, the stars are always falling on Alaburma, and blood & mud are still the only truths to tell. Plenty of all of that on this thick-ass slab, wherein the... |
Abduction |
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cd 2011/2005-11 new If you haven't been waiting for the next message from Al. B- & waiting like you're crouched behind a tomb and the shuffling noises won't go away- then I warn you little one,... |
Abduction |
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cd 2011/2006 new Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. Last time this was around I named it my favorite record of the last five years. Guess I'll have to make it ten or twelve then. Vocal overdubs... |
Abduction |
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cd 2006/1994/1981-9 new One-eyed pirate attacks on a guitar with six extra holes in it recorded onto a shitty cassette recorder hanging from a rope in the middle of an old shed. A few breaks for... |
Abduction |
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cd 2006 new Moody floating laptop drones and blackened tape murk from Washington state. Tracklisting: Standing, Panterns, Cavern. |
Audiobot |
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cd 2008/1975 new Lots of African psych doesn't blend influences so much as it stacks up strikingly different ones next to each other, but this one's a fascinating missing link. Cream-type rhythm... |
QDK |
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cd 2013/1970 new Couple of UK guys were in a heavy rock band, and whenever they broke down & did their metal ballad, the crowd would go wild. So they quit & decided to just do acoustic songs instead.... |
Prog Temple |
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2cd 2011/1929-34 new Ardoin's wheezing duets with fiddler Dennis McGee are the starting point for all things cajun/zydeco. Ardoin has a high tenor voice that ripples like a flag & hiccoughs on cue... |
Tompkins Square |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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cd 2007/1973 new Large, horn heavy funk ensemble from Indiana that was born when two earlier bands merged. Starts off in an Earth Wind & Fire mode (and that trumpet is wayyyy too high in the mix,... |
Now Again |
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cd 1998/1974-76 new Bedbug snortin' crazy 70s free jazz from Kansas City, led by Dwight Frizzell on sax & clarinet. Unequaled in the history of album concepts, in that it's supposed to evince the... |
Paradigm Discs |
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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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cd 2013/1970-75 new Impossibly funky drummer Ed Apple Nelson lived in LA but grew up in New Orleans. He was a total hustler, swapping women & drugs around while trying to tall tale his way into a... |
Now Again |
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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 |
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cd 2008/1970 new Not as extreme as 'A Jackson In Your House' or 'Reese and the Smooth Ones', but a groovy title with enough little instrument breakouts to keep freaks happy & one that works well for... |
Soul Jazz |
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cd 2012/1980/1975-76 new French rock in opposition/prog band, pretty early along in their catalog. Lots of horns pumping around super super fast. Minor key songs that seem like they all could've been... |
Sub Rosa |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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2 cd set 2006/1968-71 new Spanish easy listening soundtrack composer who nearly won Eurovision a few times, and is the spitting image of Peter Sellers. By our ears anyhow, his best album would be "Mi... |
Rama Lama |
$24.50
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cd 2004 new Overdriven heavy rock like they only make in Japan. Unless you followed your 'Tokyo Flashback' series all the way out to volume 5 (we all get busy now & then), you probably missed the... |
Slant Eye |
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cd 2010 new Lastest slab of distended, heavy Jap sludge. For whatever reason, this band is completely overlooked (perhaps just because they weren't formed until 2002?), but don't be fooled. 3rd album... |
Utech |
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2cd 2012/1977-78 new Joan Jett is awesome and everything, no argument, but fuck her. When Penelope Houston opens up her mouth you can still hear the jumble of disdain, disgust, sarcasm, and... |
Water |
$21.00
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2cd 2006/1972-80 new Career overview of the ace from the 2nd generation of Turkish rockers. Edip started out winning a song contest and was soon cranking out electrified saz laments. His voice has a... |
Shadoks |
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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 |
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cd 2012/2011 new Oren Ambarchi, Mats Gustafsson & a rhythm section that includes the guy from Tape. Fascinating mix of personalities, and together, they pretty much take the shape of a rock band. Sax... |
Rune Grammofon |
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cd 2010/1969 new Auffray was a French DJ at a lava lamp dance club in the late 60s. He was employed by Barclay to start a sublabel that could issue a bunch of prog records- something to compete with... |
Vadim |
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cd 2012/1975 new Ghanian forerunner of hiplife (highlife + hip hop + dancehall), which is just another way of saying that Ambolley is commonly known as the first guy in West Africa to flat out talk... |
Academy/Voodoo Funk |
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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 |
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cd 2009/1970 new Cherry's fluid pocket trumpet, kalimba & flute go up against Appleton's dry, unbending wall of patch chord gorp. They solve the problem by having Appleton process Cherry & spit it... |
Water |
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cd 2006/1969 new 1st solo album outside of the Soft Machine, written while hiding out on the beach in Spain after his first experience touring the USA made him so uncomfortable he gave away his bass.... |
Water |
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cd 2008/1970 new Ayers' 2nd. Loose & British whimsy songs with stretches of avant sax & woodwinds. And as always, they show off Ayers' baritone nicely. David Bedford, Lol Coxhil, Mike Oldfield (who... |
Water |
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cd 2006/1973 new His 3rd, with David Bedford (whose orchestral arrangements are a real highlight), Mike Oldfield, & Robert Wyatt helping out. 'Song From the Bottom of a Well' is his most aggressive,... |
Water |
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