W artists



Pix Title- Label Price
Alan Wilkinson/John Edwards/Steve Noble Live at Cafe Oto cd

Alan Wilkinson/John Edwards/Steve Noble Live at Cafe Oto cd

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 $16.00

Add:

Bukka White Mississippi Blues cd

Bukka White Mississippi Blues cd

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 $15.00

Add:

Butch Willis & the Rocks Repeats cd

Butch Willis & the Rocks Repeats cd

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 $9.00

Add:

Butch Willis Etherocks cd

Butch Willis Etherocks cd

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 $9.00

Add:

Chris Watson Weather Report cd

Chris Watson Weather Report cd

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 $14.00

Add:

Christian Wolff For Piano I cd

Christian Wolff For Piano I cd

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 $25.00

Add:

Christian Wolff/Keith Rowe cd

Christian Wolff/Keith Rowe cd

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 $13.50

Add:

Clifford T Ward Path Through the Forest 2cd

Clifford T Ward Path Through the Forest 2cd

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 $21.50

Add:

David S Ware Organica cd

David S Ware Organica cd

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 $12.50

Add:

Dr. Winter The Songs of Food Safety cdr

Dr. Winter The Songs of Food Safety cdr

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 $5.00

Add:

Edward Williams Life on Earth cd

Edward Williams Life on Earth cd

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 $16.00

Add:

Eugene C. Weinberg A Child's Cry: A Clue to Diagnosis cdr

Eugene C. Weinberg A Child's Cry: A Clue to Diagnosis cdr

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 $5.00

Add:

Gary Walker & the Rain Album No. 1 cd

Gary Walker & the Rain Album No. 1 cd

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 $11.00

Add:

Gert Wilden Schulmadchen cd

Gert Wilden Schulmadchen cd

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 $9.50

Add:

Henri Chopin/Pan Sonic/Achim Wollscheid Composition cd

Henri Chopin/Pan Sonic/Achim Wollscheid Composition cd

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 $15.00

Add:

John Wiese Seven of Wands cd

John Wiese Seven of Wands cd

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 $16.00

Add:

John Wynne Installation for 300 Speakers cd

John Wynne Installation for 300 Speakers cd

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 $14.50

Add:

Joseph Hammer/Karen Constance & John Wiese Live cdr

Joseph Hammer/Karen Constance & John Wiese Live cdr

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 $10.00

Add:

Link Wray & the Wraymen Slinky 2cd

Link Wray & the Wraymen Slinky 2cd

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 $25.50

Add:

Link Wray Hillbilly Wolf Missing Links Vol. 1 cd

Link Wray Hillbilly Wolf Missing Links Vol. 1 cd

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 $13.50

Add:

Lol Coxhill/Alex Ward Old Sights New Sounds cd

Lol Coxhill/Alex Ward Old Sights New Sounds cd

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 $19.00

Add:

Matt Weston Not to Be Taken Away cd

Matt Weston Not to Be Taken Away cd

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 $10.00

Add:

Michael Waisvisz/Christine Sehnaoui Shortwave cd

Michael Waisvisz/Christine Sehnaoui Shortwave cd

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 $16.00

Add:

Olivia Wyatt Staring Into the Sun cd + dvd

Olivia Wyatt Staring Into the Sun cd + dvd

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 $26.50

Add:

Paul Williams Santa Pod cd

Paul Williams Santa Pod cd

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 $12.00

Add:

Porter Wagoner The Cold Hard Facts of Life cd

Porter Wagoner The Cold Hard Facts of Life cd

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 $17.00

Add:

Porter Wagoner The Rubber Room cd

Porter Wagoner The Rubber Room cd

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 $17.00

Add:

Ralph White/Horaflora Sound System cd

Ralph White/Horaflora Sound System cd

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 $10.00

Add:

Reinhold Weber Elektronische & Phonetische Kompositionen cdr

Reinhold Weber Elektronische & Phonetische Kompositionen cdr

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 $9.50

Add:

Simon Wickham Smith A Seventh Persimmon cd

Simon Wickham Smith A Seventh Persimmon cd

cd 2009 new Intimate & slow piano & guitar beds, feathery soft drift. Eventually gives way to backwards & upsidedown processing of same. Like a drawing that gets crumpled & recrumpled until the paper...
Tape Drift $7.00

Add:

Simon Wickham-Smith Love & Lamentation cd

Simon Wickham-Smith Love & Lamentation cd

cd 2008 new Text pieces that have been layered over themselves & pitch-stretched, with many of the digital bumps & hums from the process left inctact as electronic background. Tracklisting: Sandokai,...
Pogus $12.50

Add:

Wah Wah Watson Elementary cd

Wah Wah Watson Elementary cd

cd 2012/1976 new Over the top skeezy guitar funk with tons of bass popping, and definitely has more wah on it than could possibly be prudent. Nearly every solo has buckets of effects besides wah as...
Get on Down $14.50

Add:

Walker Brothers Images cd

Walker Brothers Images cd

cd 2008/1967 new Last & best album by the UK's answer to Righteous Brothers. Glorious & gigantic productions of high melodrama about the the machinating plans of gigolos, the yearnings of melancholy...
RPM $16.50

Add:

Walker Brothers Take It Easy cd

Walker Brothers Take It Easy cd

cd 2008/1965 new Los Angeles knockabouts who were subbing in surf bands get a rich kid pushover as a drummer. His stepdad gives them the dough to move to London, where PJ Proby had just hit huge, to...
Water $14.00

Add:

Warmer Milks Soft Walks cd

Warmer Milks Soft Walks cd

cd 2008/2007 new Shambling epic country improv that's tender at times, with bruised & yearning vocals. Nice to see Animal Disguise take a stretch in this direction. Will Oldham's brother guests....
Pet $11.00

Add:

Wee You Can Fly On My Aeroplane cd

Wee You Can Fly On My Aeroplane cd

cd 2008/1977 new Norman Whiteside was the main recording force behind my favorite Numero release, the overview of Ohio's Capsoul label, and I think the label may've outdone themselves with this one....
Asterisk $13.00

Add:

Wendy & Bonnie Genesis 2cd

Wendy & Bonnie Genesis 2cd

2cd 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 $25.50

Add:

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Companion cd

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Companion cd

cd 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 $16.00

Add:

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Where's My Daddy cd

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Where's My Daddy cd

cd 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...
Aurora $16.00

Add:

Western Jazz Band Songs of Happiness Poison & Ululation cd

Western Jazz Band Songs of Happiness Poison & Ululation cd

cd 2011/1973-75 new Trebly Tanzanian highlife with clean, concise echoey guitar picking & extremely laid back, quietly murmuring congos instead of trap drums. A heavy Congolese influence, but much...
Sterns $16.00

Add:

Wicked Lady Psychotic Overkill cd

Wicked Lady Psychotic Overkill cd

cd 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 nice...
Guerssen $16.00

Add:

Wicked Lady The Axeman Cometh cd

Wicked Lady The Axeman Cometh cd

cd 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 $16.00

Add:

Wicked Witch Chaos cd

Wicked Witch Chaos cd

cd 2008/1978-86 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 $17.00

Add:

Wilcox Sullivan Wilcox An Album of Original Music cd

Wilcox Sullivan Wilcox An Album of Original Music cd

cd 2010/1973 new New Mexico folk trio with sufficiently airy vocal harmonies (male vs. female a la G Parsons/E Harris), to make acid folk nerds swoon right out from under their floppy hats. Starts...
Goldust $14.50

Add:

Wilson McKinley Message Brought to Us cd

Wilson McKinley Message Brought to Us cd

cd 2008/1970-73 new Credible country-rock in a vaguely Flying Burrito mold, made by one of the first Xian rock bands. The guys in the band had recently jumped onto the tail end of one of Gary...
Tanignak $15.00

Add:

Witch Introduction cd

Witch Introduction cd

cd 2010/1973 new 1st & superior album by this group of Zambians wishing to make like Yardbirds/Cream/Hendrix instead of the afrobeat you might expect. Heavily accented English lyrics make for some...
QDK $15.00

Add:

Witch Lazy Bones cd

Witch Lazy Bones cd

cd 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...
QDK $15.00

Add:

Witch We Intend to Cause Havoc 4cd

Witch We Intend to Cause Havoc 4cd

4cd 2012/1972-77 new Witch's 'Lazy Bones' is one of the most popular reissues of the last several years, and rightly so as it's one libidinous fuzzbomb. I can hear you grumbling that you don't want...
Now Again $35.50

Add:

Woo It's Cosy Inside cd

Woo It's Cosy Inside cd

cd 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 $13.00

Add:

Workbench Live From the American Snake Machine cdr

Workbench Live From the American Snake Machine cdr

cdr 2005 new Solo snog from Mike Bernstein of Double Leopards, Religious Knives, Heavy Tapes, etc.
Chocolate Monk $10.00

Add:



Happy listening & crank 'em up loud.