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A Bolha Um Passo a Frente cd

A Bolha Um Passo a Frente cd

cd 2010/1971-73 new 2nd album by the former Brazilian jovem guarda band The Bubbles, who'd just switched to the Portuguese version of their name. Having backed Gal Costa & Leno & visited the UK for...
Lion $15.00

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Alvin Lucier Sferics/Music for Solo Performer cd

Alvin Lucier Sferics/Music for Solo Performer cd

cd 2010/1987/1965-81 new If a single person can be said to be responsible for the rise of site-specific sound installations, then Alvin Lucier's your man. A member of the Sonic Arts Union with Robert...
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Amen Dunes Dia cd

Amen Dunes Dia cd

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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Annette Peacock I'm the One cd

Annette Peacock I'm the One cd

cd 2012/1972 new You know how whenever there's a group of friends who all do the same stuff, everybody ends up sleeping with everybody until eventually they all hate each other? Well, when Carla Bley...
Light in the Attic $14.50

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Anonymous Inside the Shadow lp

Anonymous Inside the Shadow lp

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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Asmus Tietchens Soiree cd

Asmus Tietchens Soiree cd

cd 2011 new Tietchens makes 'I Am Sitting in a Laptop'- that's to say he tries to take musical processing to it's ultimate conclusion. Using specific computer pieces from his past catalog, he re-runs...
Line $12.50

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Beat Boys cd

Beat Boys cd

cd 2013/1968 new The Beat Boys were the band that backed Gilberto Gil when he sang 'Alegria Alegria' at the Third International Song Festival, which nearly had the crowd in a riot and exhuberantly...
Lion $15.00

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Bernard Pretty Purdie Lialeh cd

Bernard Pretty Purdie Lialeh cd

cd 2010/2002/1974 new What could be more American than a soul-porn soundtrack? Bernard Purdie was already the world's premiere soul session drummer, and he'd released a record as a leader ('Soul...
Light in the Attic $13.50

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Betty Davis cd

Betty Davis cd

cd 2007/1973-4 new The fantastic first album of slick & nasty funk from Miles Davis' wife. Betty ate men for breakfast, hijacked half of Sly Stone's band for her backing musicians, and she'll slip...
Light in the Attic $14.00

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Betty Davis lp

Betty Davis lp

lp 2008/1973-4 new The fantastic first album of slick & nasty funk from Miles Davis' wife. Betty ate men for breakfast, hijacked half of Sly Stone's band for her backing musicians, and she'll slip...
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Betty Davis They Say I'm Different cd

Betty Davis They Say I'm Different cd

cd 2007/1973-4 new The skankiest, nastiest hotshit fonkay music ever made comes outta the sweet lips of Miles Davis' one time wife Betty. You'll get the sick afro sweats after just one listen. Legend...
Light in the Attic $14.00

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Black Pus Primordial Pus cd

Black Pus Primordial Pus cd

cd 2011/2006-09 new At last! After 4 low run cdrs & a 7 inch made over the course of 6 years, somebody finally ponied up for a proper full length. Brian Chippendale's (Lightning Bolt) solo project is...
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Brainstorm Smile a While cd

Brainstorm Smile a While cd

cd 2009/1971-72 new Sax-led prog from Baden-Baden, Germany. Lots of Soft Machine inspired jazz sections & bucketfuls of electric piano. Roland Schaeffer (the sax player) would go on to join Guru Guru...
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Charles Packy Axton Late Late Party lp

Charles Packy Axton Late Late Party lp

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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Christof Migone Crackers cd

Christof Migone Crackers cd

cd 2001/1997 new Processed field recordings of Canadian ladies & gents cracking their fingers, toes, elbows, wrists, necks, backs, knees, & hips. Migone found the folks to make the noises by putting...
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David Tudor Neural Synthesis 2cd

David Tudor Neural Synthesis 2cd

2cd 1995 new Nobody who's been around the block as many times as David Tudor should be expected to still have gonzanga-sized balls, but this one proves he does. Killer direct-recorded needling...
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Dino & Montevideo Blues s/t cd

Dino & Montevideo Blues s/t cd

cd 2007/1972 new Uruguay is home to the Shakers, Dias de Blues, Hojas, El Kinto, Los Mockers, El Syndikato & Totem, and yet somehow the musicians felt overshadowed by the tropicalia & beat scenes...
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Donnie & Joe Emerson Dreamin Wild cd

Donnie & Joe Emerson Dreamin Wild cd

cd 2012/1979 new Outsider AM radio funk made by a couple of teen farmhands in rural Washington state. Their dad built them a $100k log cabin studio and a 300-seat concert venue on the back 40 of his...
Light in the Attic $13.50

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Donnie & Joe Emerson Dreamin Wild lp

Donnie & Joe Emerson Dreamin Wild lp

lp 2012/1979 new Outsider AM radio funk made by a couple of teen farmhands in rural Washington state. Their dad built them a $100k log cabin studio and a 300-seat concert venue on the back 40 of his...
Light in the Attic $18.50

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Dug Dugs cd

Dug Dugs cd

cd 2011/1976/1971 new With their blister-riddled fuzz, sharp backbeats & chimerical sense of songwriting, the 1st Dug Dugs is unbeatable (or Dug Dug's, as these boys apparently had just as hard a...
Lion $14.00

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Ed Schrader's Music Beat Jazz Mind cd

Ed Schrader's Music Beat Jazz Mind cd

cd 2012 new Duo that switches between two modes. One is cozy, reverbed crooning over evil blobs of bass (reminds me of Nick Cave). The other is sped-up bashing syncopated against screechy yelling...
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Eduardo Mateo Bien Se Lame cd

Eduardo Mateo Bien Se Lame cd

cd 2007/1972 new Here's the Uruguayan Skip Spence, who dresses like a cast member from Sesame Street, but was apparently so drugged out during the early 70s that he had to be led to the studio under...
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Eduardo Mateo/Jorge Trasante Mateo Y Trasante cd

Eduardo Mateo/Jorge Trasante Mateo Y Trasante cd

cd 2009/1976 new Mateo is something like the Syd Barrett or Skip Spence of Uruguay. 4 years since his 'Bien Se Lame', and most of the local musicians had left the country or stopped playing. The...
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El Kinto Circa 1968 lp

El Kinto Circa 1968 lp

lp 2008/1967-69 new El Kinto were a late 60s band from Uruguay related to both Limo Nada & Eduardo Mateo. They began, like most local bands did, with a mix of candombe and bossa nova. But immediately...
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Enkidu Live in Kyoto 2lp

Enkidu Live in Kyoto 2lp

2lp 2007/2004 new Voilin player Chie Mukai of Che-SHIZU & Taj Mahal Travellers' side project East Bionic Symphonia meets up with guitarist Seiichi Yamammoto of the Boredoms & Omoide Hatoba. And...
Locust $25.00

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Folklords Release the Sunshine cd

Folklords Release the Sunshine cd

cd 2008/1968 new Canadian folk trio with low key male-female harmonies & autoharp on Allied (Reign Ghost, Plastic Cloud, Bill Bissett, Intersystem, etc). Some slightly ditzy drumming caused by a last...
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Four Levels of Existence cd

Four Levels of Existence cd

cd 2009/1976 new Not the Pink Floyd-inspired bubbles of Aphrodite's Child, nor the dark Hendrix-blues of George Romanos. Instead, I think 4 Levels of Existence had more in common with Anatolian rock...
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Free Design Heaven Earth cd

Free Design Heaven Earth cd

cd 2011/1969 new Chris Dedrick & sisters start adding a bit of now downer sound to their very white world on this 3rd lp, with a couple of folkier versions of the lounge hits of the day. Still as...
Light in the Attic $13.50

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Free Design Kites Are Fun cd

Free Design Kites Are Fun cd

cd 2011/1967 new Kings of whitebread softpop from upstate NY (& later Canada). On Enoch Light's easy listening label Project 3. The single 'Kites are Fun' was a sub-hit, but such a big seller for...
Light in the Attic $13.50

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Free Design Sing for Very Important People cd

Free Design Sing for Very Important People cd

cd 2004/1970 new As the boomer generation hit child-bearing age, there was a huge upswing in unusual children's records. Here's a great one by these super-white & totally square vocal quiltmakers....
Light in the Attic $13.00

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Free Design Stars Time Bubbles Love cd

Free Design Stars Time Bubbles Love cd

cd 2004/1970 new Sunshine pop with a kabillion choral waterfalls & wide-stereo arrangements by the decidedly un-Californian Dedrick family. 4th album includes some of their sweetest, dippiest lyrics,...
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Free Design You Could Be Born Again cd

Free Design You Could Be Born Again cd

cd 2011/1968 new 2nd & most optimistic album from these whitey-white softpoppers. Also adds another voice for more interesting blends/arrangements with the youngest Dedrick sister, Ellen. The sheer...
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Gabor Szabo Jazz Raga cd

Gabor Szabo Jazz Raga cd

cd 2010/1967 new Szabo's best album stirs his usual cheeseball exoticism into a creamy fervor. Though his interest in teen schmaltz made this record unacceptable to jazz snobs upon issue, it's swank...
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Getatchew Mekurya Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol. 5 lp

Getatchew Mekurya Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol. 5 lp

lp 2011/1972/1970 new Aka 'Negus of Ethiopian Sax', the 14th volume in the incredible (and now long gone) Buda Musique Ethiopian cd series. Mekurya played folk songs on sax (that were usually vocal &...
L'Arome $15.50

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Golem Orion Awakes cd

Golem Orion Awakes cd

cd 2010/197x new Diving & sweeping intrumental psych with heavy hammond swirls. Credits on the album have always seemed bogus (producer is "Genius P. Orridge"). Most people think that the music was...
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Gordon Mumma Studio Retrospect cd

Gordon Mumma Studio Retrospect cd

cd 2000/1959-1982 new Sonic Arts Union dude who was one of the first to try and build his own circuits. He also got the scene going in Ann Arbor, MI, starting up the electronic music studio there &...
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Hell Hoarse Cold Planet cd

Hell Hoarse Cold Planet cd

cd 2012 new Local hero Brendan Murray & DC/NYC fella Chuck Bettis set out some juicy synth blorp that quivers like jello on a countertop. Sliding electronics, rippling synths & a few zaps of space...
Living Myth $6.00

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Hollins and Starr Sidewalks Talking cd

Hollins and Starr Sidewalks Talking cd

cd 2012/1970 new One of those post-Simon & Garfunkel records that tries to be folky, funky, jazz & pop all at once & easily slips into just being... for lack of a kinder adjective, tasteful. Lots of...
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Jade Fly on Strangewings cd

Jade Fly on Strangewings cd

cd 2012/1970 new Gentle UK folk trio with a female singer who compares solidly to Sandy Denny. Guy from Piccadilly Line/Edward's Hand was their keyboard player & provided tidbits of...
Lightning Tree $22.00

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Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg lp

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg lp

lp 2010/1969 new Jane et Serge get kinky with some deeply funky string-laden arrangements & those infamous orgasm sounds. The followup hit '69 Annee Erotique' is here as well. As Jane herself never...
Light in the Attic $22.00

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Jane Birkin Di Doo Dah cd

Jane Birkin Di Doo Dah cd

cd 2010/1971-73 new Those who've checked out some mid-70s Gainsbourg will enjoy, as this record is bascially a rework of the funky string arrangements of 'Melody Nelson'/'Jane et Serge'/'Je T'Aime...
Light in the Attic $14.00

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Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg cd

Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg cd

cd 2010/1969 new Jane et Serge get kinky with some deeply funky string-laden arrangements & those infamous orgasm sounds. The followup hit '69 Annee Erotique' is here as well. As Jane herself never...
Light in the Attic $13.00

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Jarvis Street Revue Mr Oil Man cd

Jarvis Street Revue Mr Oil Man cd

cd 2011/1970 new Canadian hard psych from just north of Duluth that is over the top in it's stumbling plops of guitar crud. Lyrics tend to be about how corporate bosses are screwing up the...
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Jim Sullivan UFO cd

Jim Sullivan UFO cd

cd 2010/1969 new Not to be confused with the British session guitarist. This Jim Sullivan was a down & out Los Angeles singer-songwriter in leather fringe. He played at all the bars and hobnobbed...
Light in the Attic $14.00

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Joan LaBarbara Voice Is the Original Instrument 2cd

Joan LaBarbara Voice Is the Original Instrument 2cd

2cd 2003/1974-80 new An overview of the prime period of one of my very fave singers. Some of her extended vocal techniques were previously thought physically impossible & led the cream of avant...
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Karen Dalton 1966 lp

Karen Dalton 1966 lp

lp 2012/1966 new Previously unreleased rehearsal tape (not the same stuff that's on 'Cotton Eyed Joe' or 'Green Rocky Road') from her time in the Colorado mountains. Accompanied by her sometime...
Light in the Attic $20.00

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Karen Dalton Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best lp

Karen Dalton Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best lp

lp 2009/1969 new Her 1st album. Greenwich village obscuro who's lauded by & hung with Dylan, Fred Neil. Her voice has an interesting brassy quality that always reminds everybody of Billie Holiday....
Light in the Attic $18.50

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Karen Dalton In My Own Time lp

Karen Dalton In My Own Time lp

lp 2006/1971 new Greenwich Village folk singer who drew Fred Neil, Dylan, & so on like moths to flame. 2nd & more orchestrated album, with a couple of slightly misguided pop covers ('When a Man Loves...
Light in the Attic $20.00

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Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz in Canada cd

Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz in Canada cd

cd 2004/1959 new A generation older than the typical beat poets (he hung out with EE Cummings in Greenwich Village in the 40s, & his book 'Albion Moonlight' came out in 46). Released originally on...
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Kilslug Bringing Back the Dead lp

Kilslug Bringing Back the Dead lp

lp 2010/2007 new Utterly bereft of brain cells to begin with, Kilslug turns out to be completely impervious to ravages of time, drug use, or court orders. Larry Lifeless (Sickness, Upsidedown Cross,...
Limited Appeal $15.00

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