hey guys,
here's the latest Carbon newsletter. bunch of new Carbon releases, and
a TON of new mailorder items. and a SALE thru XMAS!

thanks for the time.

joe



hey,
welcome to the December 2004 edition of the Carbon Records
Newsletter. i've condensed the Mailorder section of this newsletter to
only include the new items added since the last newsletter. the list
was just getting too long. hope that works ok for you. for a full
listing, check out www.carbonrecords.com/mailorder/ which is fully
searchable.

(if you know someone who wants to be on this list, have them email me.
if you are on this list and would like to be removed from it, send me
an email at joe@..., and sorry in advance. ok, on with
the news:)


News:
====================
- Man, the years just fly by! well, the 10YR.Series. a collection of
10 CDRs, one released every 36.5 days throughout 2004 is now complete
with the release from Blood Stereo (Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance)
on December 3rd at 12pm. This is the last in the series, it is now
COMPLETE. well, almost. the only item left in the series is the
handmade box to hold all 10 releases in the series. This will be
available near the end of the month/year. it promises to not
disappoint.

**** and to celebrate the completion of the series, i'm extending the
discounted subscription offer until Xmas day (Dec 25, 2004). So, for
$64US, the price of 8 releases, you can get all 10 releases along with
the box. After Xmas, the price will bump up slightly, so hurry and get
the deal while it lasts!

--- here is the release schedule, if you missed it:.

01/10/2004 - 12am - Joe+N
02/15/2004 - 12pm - Mike Shiflet (of Noumena, Gameboy Records)
03/23/2004 - 12am - Ming
04/28/2004 - 12pm - Dead Machines (John Olsen of WolfEyes and Tovah
O'Rourke)
06/04/2004 - 12am - Crawlspace
07/10/2004 - 12pm - Coffee
08/16/2004 - 12am - Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Shawn McMillen
09/21/2004 - 12pm - Andy Gilmore
10/28/2004 - 12am - Howard Stelzer and the Cherry Point
12/03/2004 - 12pm - Blood Stereo (Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance)

Check out the 10YR.Series page regularly for updates, etc.
www.carbonrecords.com/10yr_series/

and to order, click here:
http://www.carbonrecords.com/mailorder/search.php?
search_field=catalog_id&search_value=CR_10YRSeriesSub


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- MAILORDER YEAR-END SALE -- for the next 2 weeks, all items in the
Carbon Mailorder site will be on sale (with the exception of the
already discounted 10YR.Series subscription).
5% OFF all NEW ITEMS
15% OFF all USED ITEMS.
****** sale ends on Dec 24, 2004, so get your Xmas shopping done.
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New Releases:
====================
NOTE: For new Carbon releases - check out
www.carbonrecords.com/mailorder/new.asp

The last couple weeks have been busy around Carbon HQ. along with the
completion of the 10YR.Series, TWO NEW releases are also available:

Entente Cordiale - 100 yrs (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
a little over 34min of triple-guitar damage and drone. 2 tracks. not
too far from their first release, 1904, at first. but the second track,
ends with a crushing 10+min drone and dual-drummer action. even
took us by surprise ; ) covers are hand-silkscreened, edition of 102.
2 color print job. about 30 of them are silver and gold, while the rest
are silver and dark blue, on heavy watercolor paper (textured). folded
into a plastic sleeve.

SQ - ROUND (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
first in the SQ.Archive Series. this recording is from 1996 and is a
piece for 6 guitars, positioned in a circle, following in a round.
lo-fi recording with hi-fi texture. Branca-esque. covers are
hand-silkscreened, edition of 90. 3 color print job, on heavy
watercolor paper (textured). folded into a plastic sleeve.

and the final 10YR release:

Blood Stereo - Hymn for the Crippled Mulato (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year
anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of
static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brother's Harley. kicks
ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis]

and recent releases still in stock:

Howard Stelzer and the Cherry Point - Gross (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
Andy Gilmore - Lord, hold my hand while i run this race. (CDR) - Carbon
Records $8.00
Joe+N - Crickets and Friends (2CDR) - Carbon Records $12.00
Tom Carter and Shawn McMillen - colors for (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00

A bunch of new releases are coming up soon!!! including releases from
Chad Oliveiri, various SQ releases (more in the SQ.Archive series as
well as new material), Joe+N CD, 10YR compilation CD, various joe+n
day-tour 2004 releases/formats (DVD-R, HDD, CDR(s), Phroq CDR
(Switzerland), Lunt CDR (France) and much more.


Band Info:
====================
- Pengo will be playing the NoFunFest on March 18, 19 and 20 in
Brooklyn. more details here: http://www.nofunfest.com/


Shows (Rochester, NY):
====================
Sun Jan 2nd - Birchville Cat Motel (NZ), DOnna Parker (Boston), Howard
Stelzer (Boston) and Joe+N (Rochester) - AV (8 Public Market,
Rochester) - 9PM

Mon Jan 17th - From Between with Tatsuya Nakatani, Michel Doneda, and
Jack Wright, Blood and Bone Orchestra, and Tunis/Nuuja duo - AV (8
Public Market, Rochester) - 9PM

Wed Feb 9th - EMIL BEAULIEAU, JESSICA RYLAN (CAN'T), JOHN WIESE and
PENGO - AV (8 Public Market, Rochester) - 9PM

Fri Mar 18th - No Fun Fest 2005 - Hook In Brooklyn (, ) - 9PM

Mon Mar 21st - Dead Machines, Hauntings and Pengo - La Sala Rossa
(4848 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal) - 8PM

Tue Mar 22nd - Dead Machines, Hauntings and Pengo - AV (8 Public
Market, Rochester) - 9PM

you can also check out the Carbon Shows Calendar Site at
http://www.carbonrecords.com/calendar/ for up-to-the-minute
additions/changes/etc.



Media Updates:
====================
- i'm going to be updating the video and audio archives over the next 2
weeks. check back regularly for updates, including 10YR.Series
snippets, etc.


A TON OF NEW Releases since 11/10/2004 (57 items!!!!!!!!)
==============================================

500MG - Vertical Approach (LP) - eclipse $12.00
"Michael Gibbons, of monolithic sounds-great-on-any-substance rockers,
Bardo Pond, delivers all the fuzzed out good you'd expect on his 1st
solo LP. However, Gibbons really is hitting the true loner path here,
forged by weirdos like Deuter, Sandy Bull, early Robert Wyatt and even
Neil Young's dusty Dead Man soundtrack. Yes, these are cyclical, even
largely stripped-down meditations -- call it komische raga folk, maybe?
Whatever the case, that staring-into-the-sun / Skip Spence vibe
prevails-this is a headswirler with feeling, from an underrated and
understated guitar god. Sitar, plaintive acoustic guitar, electronics,
sampled snatches of manipulated vocals, and that glorious trademark
FUZZ. Is it for late nights or early mornings? That is for you to
ruminate on."

A Real Knife Head - thought paint control (CDR) - Slow Toe $6.00
Real Knife Head¹s first release, Thought Paint Control, was recorded in
their practice space, The Box, in the Collinwood neighborhood of
Cleveland.  Straight to 4track, it¹s a mixture of sonic shit, minimal
guitar and drum, and some poem speak.  A Real Knife Head work the idea
of freedom within the limits of equipment, cash and technique.   

A Real Knife Head - split sky (CDR) - Slow Toe $6.00
A Real Knife Head¹s second release, Split Sky, was recorded in their
practice space, The Box, in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland.
 Straight to 4track, it¹s a mixture of sonic shit, minimal guitar and
drum, and a cover of Jandek¹s Just Die.  A Real Knife Head continue to
work the idea of freedom within the limits of equipment, cash and
technique.

Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost (OTHER) - Revenant $92.00
By 1958, Albert Ayler and his horn had made some rounds: from boy
prodigy to teenage member of Little Walter's Blues Band, from "Little
Bird" of Cleveland to featured US Army Band soloist. Then he resolutely
set out to forget everything he'd ever learned about how to properly
play the sax so that he could really PLAY it -- unhinged, free from
strictures of pitch and form, drawing on spirituals, folksong, marches,
and other big whopping chunks of collective musical memory -- to
channel symphonies to God out his horn. Seeking nothing short of Truth
in music, Albert Ayler became THE catalytic force in defining the sound
of the tenor in Free Jazz, and was a heavy influence on John Coltrane's
later work. Holy Ghost is the first comprehensive attempt to build a
monument in sound to Albert Ayler. The settings -- radio and TV
sessions, studio demos, private recordings, live concert footage --
find his music at its most liberated. And with the sponsorship and
assistance of Ayler's family, friends, and colleagues, Holy Ghost
documents his never-before-heard first and last recordings, bookending
rare and unissued music from every stage of his career. Albert Ayler:
heard ABOUT more than heard. But that's all about to change.
9 CDs of rare & unissued recordings
208 pg. full-color hardbound book
new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer & other Ayler scholars
unpublished photos & family memorabilia
artist testimonials of first encounters with Ayler's music
exhaustive chronology of Ayler performance activities
housed in lavish Spirit Box cast from handcar original

Anaksimandros, The - River of Finland (LP) - eclipse $12.00
"Finland's Anaksimandros play avant-folk music that is improvised and
psychedelic. Some of the members are involved with other groups you may
be familiar with such as Kemialliset Ystävät and Avarus. These
recordings from 2002 feature strummed and plucked strings, clattery
percussion, chanting vocals, reeds, hand percussion, bowed instruments
and more that I cannot properly describe. Edition of 500 copies with
printed jackets featuring some great black and white artwork from the
group. Highly recommended for fans of Finnish folk, Jewelled Antler
label, Sunburned Hand of the Man, No Neck Blues Band, Jackie-O
Motherfucker, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra...You need to hear
this."

Ashtray Navigations - to your fucking feather'd wings (CD) - Gold
Soundz $10.00
(CO-RELEASED WITH ABSURD) --- Absurd and Gold Soundz proudly presents a
slab of acid psychout noise from Ashtray Navigations. Phil Todd has
been toasting brains for years now with a number of great releases. But
nothing cuts right into his acid dreams like this smokebomb of pure
psych-wah. Nearly an hours worth of perfectly fried head AND skull
music. Definately one to be had...

Ashtray Navigations - the beast series (3inch CDR) - Memoirs of an
Aesthete $6.00
one long track of dub dreams with mutating beast hiss projector. warm
and willing

Ashtray Navigations - heavy flow traffic or blind faith (3inch CDR) -
Memoirs of an Aesthete $6.00
noisy try-outs for the cigars sessions with Chloe Jarvis rat guitar
input….deflect you warheads, deflect!

Ashtray Navigations - live in etruria temple garden (CDR) - Memoirs of
an Aesthete $8.00
unreleased 1996 scenes retrieved from uncle thurston’s love
cupboard…first 50 in clamshell package

Ashtray Navigations - ssssanres... (3inch CDR) - Memoirs of an Aesthete
$6.00
reissue of ultra-limited 2001 item - several short sound shuttles and a
long delay fixation featuring Jarvo.

Bats'l Son - music of the highlands of chiapas (CD) - Locust Music
$12.00
Legendary downtown New York producer & engineer Richard Alderson
captured some of the most essential sounds imaginable on tape at the
dawn of the 1960s by the likes of The Fugs, The Holy Modal Rounders,
The Godz, Pearls Before Swine, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk
and a host of others. In the early 1970s, he dropped out of the scene
and relocated to Chiapas, Mexico. For five years he travelled
throughout the Chiapas highlands with a microphone in hand, putting to
tape some of the most stunning music imaginable. Bats' I Son means
'real song,' and this foundational collection represents the
culmination of Alderson's years spent documenting the raw, rarely-heard
songs and ritual performances of an acoustic ecology that's all but
disappeared today. Brilliantly remastered from the original master
tapes at Alderson Acoustics in 2003, Bats' I Son features
never-before-published photos, heavily revised liner notes and updated
track-by-track accounts by Alderson

Ben Reynolds and Andy Jarvis - s/t (CDR) - Memoirs of an Aesthete $8.00
twin acoustic guitar open tuning meltdown from Andy (SCULPTRESS, ANNA
PLANET, A WARM PALINDROME) and Ben (THE WOW) like basho playing free
jazz in the mirror.

Birchville Cat Motel - With Maples Ablaze (CD) - Scarcelight $12.00
"sunburned guitar drones, and iridescent NZ folk" --- "The Birchville
Cat Motel Orchestra was formed by Campbell Kneale inviting some
likeminded souls to contribute source material from which he created
this album. Bruce Russell (Dead C) contributed "fire", Rosy Parlane
lended electronics, while Reynols mysteriously contributed "reynols",
and Kohei Nakagawa added "boiling water", and "shibaki electronics" to
the palette from which Kneale has crafted a singular, and moving album
of sunburned guitar drones, and iridescent NZ folk. aQuarius Records
said "Most of us thought that Birchville's recent double cd Beautiful
Speck Triumph was perhaps as good as it could get (in fact even Kneale
mentioned something to that effect recently) but the more we listen to
this one, the more it holds up as one of BCM's best" while Manifold
Records said "An amazing record, a precisly crafted trip with ten
pieces that flow into the each other but have no track titles, composed
of incredible instrumental and environmental ambient." "

Bitch Pile-Up / Sword Heaven - come here, sandy (LP) - gameboy $8.00
Sword Heaven & 16 Bitch Pile-up split a tape. They did a couple tours
together. They grew up next door neighbors, were the prom king & queen,
got married and had three kids. They moved to the burbs, hallowed out a
house and turned it into a suburban cave. They shrieked, screamed and
ate what they killed. The neighbors looked the other way long enough
for this long player to see the light. Originally supposed to be out
in time for their September trek across the uncivil states; not one,
not two, but three different parts were lost in the mail at three
different times in production process. The spooked cavemen and women
thought the man inside the skyfire had cursed them for their tendencies
to indulge. at long last the mud demon fought on their behalf and out
of the earth 500 12" records were spat. Ambient sludge meets thunder
drum sludge while time stands frozen. Co-released with Cephia's Treat
and dedicated to the state of Florida, a region felt to have some great
mythical power. Shudder. Be still.

Blood Stereo - Hymn for the Crippled Mulato (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year
anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of
static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brother's Harley. kicks
ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis]

Bruce Russell - Essays and aphorisms towards an aesthetics of noise.
(BOOK) - Slow Toe $12.00
First Edition: 600 copies
30 pages
Staple-bound, 8.5 x 11" A collection of five essays written by Mr.
Russell during 1994-2004.
Bruce Russell has spent the last 20 years refining a unique approach
to musical practice which owes much to more esoteric disciplines such
as sound art, free 'noise' improvisation and electro-acoustic
composition. Coming from a 'rock' background, he has broadened his
interests, methods and arsenal of techniques to include practices and
approaches to sound that have moved him to a position outside any
musical mainstream one could care to name. At the same time he has done
much to network like-minded New Zealand artists, and to actively
promote these artists in the international music scene. He is now a
minor but firmly established fixture in the international improvisation
underground, known both for his own work and that of his label, Corpus
Hermeticum. He performs regularly with the Dead C., A Handful of Dust,
and as a solo artist. He also writes criticism and theoretical essays,
some of which are compiled here.

Charalambides - Joy Shapes (CD) - Kranky $12.00
"To say that the words 'unique' and 'singular' are over-used in
describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the
sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas
group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement.
To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this
of any artist's work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But
they have surely broken new ground in the
primitive/folk/mystic/improv/psych valley in which they toil. This new
album is certainly not for the faint of heart. Five songs stretch and
crawl over 75 minutes, with Christine Carter finding a new fearlessness
in her voice that will draw comparisons to Patty Waters or the early
work of Meredith Monk. Joy Shapes is the first studio album recorded by
Charalambides in a long time."

David Nzomo Trio - sweet soul of kenya (CD) - Locust Music $12.00
The Sweet Soul Of Kenya resuscitates a long-lost gem of a disc by the
East African David Nzomo Trio from 1950s Kenya. Listen in on a glimpse
of eight beautiful selections of swinging guitar and rich male/female
harmonizing, sung in the native Kikamba language. Cradled by jazzy
rhythms and upbeat melodies, The Sweet Soul Of Kenya is a lovely, quiet
revolt cut at a moment when countrywide rights to organize were illegal

Entente Cordiale - 100 yrs (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
a little over 34min of triple-guitar damage and drone. 2 tracks. not
too far from their first release, 1904, at first. but the second track,
ends with a crushing 10+min drone and dual-drummer action. even took us
by surprise ; ) covers are hand-silkscreened, edition of 102. 2 color
print job. about 30 of them are silver and gold, while the rest are
silver and dark blue, on heavy watercolor paper (textured). folded into
a plastic sleeve.

Excepter - KA (CD) - fusetron $12.00
CD compiling the previous 2 Fusetron vinyl-only releases. "Excepter is
the new group spearheaded by J F Ryan, former electric tree-branch
swinger for the No-Neck Blues Band. Using a mutating system of
synchronized electronics engineered to ensure live sequencing, Excepter
seeks to carry freestyle composition from the tip of the tongue on down
to the ones and zeros. All tracks on this LP were performed and mixed
live to stereo. Digital editing was only used to arrange the
phantasmagoric second side, a tribute to HP Lovecraft's novella
Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath. Excepter also marks the singing debut of
dancer/choreographer Caitlin Cook. Guaranteed to make you dream in
color." Also includes the Vacation 12".

Excepter - Vacation/Forget Me (LP) - fusetron $11.00
"For the second time in a row now, one of Brooklyn's grandest
experimental entourages have presented us with a sonic totem whose
jaunty and bright packaging belie an almost certain palpable sense of
unease. Here Excepter have perhaps crafted a treatise on nothing less
than the uncomfortable aspects of having to leave ones home. Or they
may well have been channeling the soundtrack to a particularly bizarre
road trip I once went on involving an Indian burial ground, a cross
eyed woman Xeroxing chain letters at a supermarket, and an extremely
sadistic alligator farm outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas where I
witnessed a stuffed Fiji Merman. Unease indeed. But of course, like on
any worthy and good vacation, once you've become used to new unsettling
sensations like foot blisters and sunburn you realize how sublime the
landscape is. And sublimity is what Excepter trades in spades."

freiband - martin. seven [new] aspects (3inch CDR) - TIBProd $5.00

Gastric Female Reflex - moments (CDR) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Gold Soundz proudly presents 2 new works by canadian psych/ noise group
Gastric Female Reflex. The music is generally rather low-key with some
wonderful bursts of noise...All kinds of weird instruments are being
amplified and recorded through different devices, there's a bit of tape
manipulation and electroaccoustic clatter and rumble... on the second
album even some voice loops... All mashed together and whipped up for
your listening pleasure... You get flashbacks of "classic" NZ noise
(Surface of the earth, Sandoz lab tech etc...) and perhaps some of that
Dylan Nyoukis or American Tapes madness.... Both CDRs come in numbered
editions of 50 copies, the actual discs are beautifully handpainted and
the covers are individually made.

Gastric Female Reflex - s/t (CDR) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Gold Soundz proudly presents 2 new works by canadian psych/ noise group
Gastric Female Reflex. The music is generally rather low-key with some
wonderful bursts of noise...All kinds of weird instruments are being
amplified and recorded through different devices, there's a bit of tape
manipulation and electroaccoustic clatter and rumble... on the second
album even some voice loops... All mashed together and whipped up for
your listening pleasure... You get flashbacks of "classic" NZ noise
(Surface of the earth, Sandoz lab tech etc...) and perhaps some of that
Dylan Nyoukis or American Tapes madness.... Both CDRs come in numbered
editions of 50 copies, the actual discs are beautifully handpainted and
the covers are individually made.

hush arbors - under bent limb trees (CD) - Digitalis Industries $12.00
"with nine new tracks extracted from the earth through shamanistic
rituals, this is easily one of the year's top releases. with
endorsements from ben chasny, mats gustafsson, and more, what's not to
like? keith wood concocts massive emotional releases in his head, and
transfers them to tape using the most organic means possible. bowed
dulcimer, singing bowl, banjo, and more dot the horizon of this
majestic release. the spirit of the forest is dancing throughout "under
bent limb trees;" it is graceful and subdued, but always audible. keith
wood is a master and with hush arbors, we are privelaged be allowed
into his world. "under bent limb trees" is a masterpiece on every
level."

Id M Theft Able - sings: A just B (7inch) - Humbug $5.00
NOTE: this is actually a 5" lathe cut record ---- Just to make life
that little bit easier we decided to make this a separate
release.....(originally intended as a bonus for first 40 copies of the
"cl amo/ang or/er us/ et c" CDR (Humbug021), but didn‘t really
coincide). A total of 4 minutes of music, to be enjoyed at 45 rpm. A
strangely satisfying object! And a step in the right direction, for
sure. Edition of 40.

Jack Rose - Raag Manifestos (LP) - eclipse $13.00
"This is Jack's third LP release on Eclipse. Raag Manifestos was issued
on CD by the VHF label (now o/p). Raag Manifestos cuts across various
acoustic styles much like Rose's Opium Musick LP, but with a more
aggressive attack. 'Black Pearls from the River' and 'Hart Crane's Old
Boyfriends' are dense, serious assaults on the 12-string, with the
intensity of the latter enhanced by Ian Nagoski's roaring electronic
backdrop. With subtle tabla accompaniment by Eric Carbonara, 'Crossing
The Great Waters,' is another epic modal journey in the style of Pelt's
'Road To Catawba' and Rose's own 'Red Horse.' The traditional 'Blessed
Be the Name of the Lord' finishes off the album on a calming note."

Jumbo's Killcrane - the slow decay (CD) - Crucial Blast $10.00
The new full length from prog-sludge wizards JUMBO'S KILLCRANE. This 6
track full length is a dark descent into molasses-covered riffs and
anguished anthems....crushing, desperate, like a psychotic marriage of
NIRVANA's Bleach and EYEHATEGOD's Take As Needed For Pain. Produced by
Robert Rebeck at Black Lodge Studios (GET UP KIDS, COALESCE, SLOWDIVE).

KPTMichigan - s/t (CD) - Aesthetics $10.00
"Germany's Kptmichigan (Michael Beckett) is an exploritory guitarist
who chooses a variety of diverse musical ideas.\n\nCurrently Michael is
part of Schneider TM's live group (they met in 1996 when Michael was
touring with his band, Tuesday Weld, & Schneider was touring with his
band, Hip Young Things) as well as the band Beautiful New Born
Children. \n\nTogether, he & Schneider TM released a record on City
Slang which included a hit cover of The Smith's 'There is a light that
never goes out', which gained them international recognition. For the
record, that release was a collaboration, although press has seemed
happy to date with only giving credit to TM. \n\nTuesday Weld
eventually broke up, leaving Michael without a band & a bitterness
towards rock music. He started messing around with a sampler and a
groovebox. This eventually would lead to the creation of 'Hey Love',
his 1st record as Kptmichigan. This Kpt. record is the one most
inspired by electronic music, which is ironic, as it was recorded
entirely onto a 4 track. \n\nAs 2001 rolled around, Kpt was feeling
bored of the clinical, hi-fi ness of electronic music, which he states
as having 'no sex & a major lack of attitude'. 'Player, Player' his
debut Aesthetics release, was created with only a 400 mhz/64 mb PC
along with some other gear. 'Player, Player' is loud, dirty (with
hissing throughout) & sexy (the occurances of Jamican frequencies). Kpt
describes it as 'my statement against the general poo that was going on
around me'. It ends with a prophetic song about a man who was about to
destroy the U.S. & the rest of the planet. \n\nOver the years he has
remixed tracks from: Calexico, Tennis, Shinsei & Schneider TM, and has
tracks on compilations on Mute, Kraak3 & Tigerbeat6. \n\nHe is
presently working on a collaborative record with Belgium's Kohn
(Kraak3) which will release in 2005, and is producing an album for Mek
Obaam (Christian of Schneider TM experience)."

Lost Domain - sailor, home from the sea (CD) - Digitalis Industries
$12.00
"the lost domain are an avant-folk/drone/jazz/improv ensemble out of
brisbane, australia that has been at it since the late ’80s, but due to
virtually no promotion has remained in obscurity. with no labels even
vaguely compatible in brisbane, and none until recently in the rest of
australia, and no overseas connections, it was easier just to
concentrate on enjoying making music and release it in limited editions
on their own shytone imprint. they figured that eventually their track
record would speak for itself and with this release we’re definitely
getting there. but if people just would have been able to hear the
band’s epic folk/jazz improvisations earlier iam sure that they already
would have a fan base of the same size as critically acclaimed outfits
such as no neck blues band or jackie-o motherfucker."

Noise Makers Fifes - monomania of instinct (CDR) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Co-released with Humbug --- Finally this great NMF live recording from
Stockholm 1998 is seeing the light of day (after many delays). Loosely
based on Bachelard's animalistic aggression theory applied to the
writings of Lautreamont ("Les Chants de Maldoror"), this MS Stubnitz
live audio-visual performance stands out as one of NMFs perhaps
strongest live performances. One very long track (65 minutes), it takes
you from the inaudible to the full-on sense attack and back, it's
exploding with strong emotions... Perfomed partly on homemade sound
sculptures, they have developed a musical language that is quite
unique. Edition of 250 numbered copies in fold-out slipcase cover.

origami minimalistika - x12 (CDR) - TIBProd $8.00
from what i can gather, the minimal subunit of the origami
non-organization.

Paivansade - Puhalluspelto (LP) - eclipse $12.00
"Following their impressive CDr release on the Dutch label Whistle
Along, comes the debut vinyl release from Finland's avant folk group
Päivänsäde. Members of this group also perform with Rauhan Orkesteri,
Lauhkeat Lampat, and Kiila which some of you may be familiar with. The
sound? Well, you hear strings plucked and scraped, hand percussion and
drums, woodwinds, vocals (sometime wailing), and other instruments I
cannot identify. If you dig the Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystävät,
Avarus, Pylon, etc., you'll want to hear this. Edition of 500 copies
with beautiful full color printed sleeves."

Peter Swanson - gnarly shocks (CDR) - JYRK $8.00
solo material from Peter of JYRK. tone based textures. mesmerizing at
times.

pulseprogramming - Tulsa for one second (CD) - Aesthetics $10.00
Pulseprogramming's 'Tulsa For One Second' is a remarkable record, rich
and personal with understated textures and wintry elegance while
presenting an array of styles that reference artists such as Boards of
Canada, Matmos, early Mouse on Mars, & Telfon Tel Aviv (whose Charlie
Cooper mixed 'Tulsa'). On 'Tulsa' Pulseprogramming have expanded their
use of vocals (including contributions from Lindsay of L'altra) to
create a handful of pop gems that interact with their lingering
instrumentals and make for a singular listening experience.\n\n'Tulsa
For One Second' is a truly unique record, offering a musical and
emotional range that is unusual for an electronic record. 'Blooms
Eventually' opens the record as a superbly eager love song with a
rhythmic hope that belies the loss it expresses ('precious little time
to spend with you/so take my hand/hush now before you go'), while
'Bless The Drastic Space' closes the record flawlessly with a striking,
buoyant melody. With richer arrangements and detailed rhythmic
deftness, Pulseprogramming haven't just grafted a human element onto
their songs, but have permitted warmth that is rare in electronic
music.\n\nThe intent of the packaging (printed on Tyvek by Blanchette
Press in Canada) is to be a vehicle for 'Tulsa's' inviting, intimate
qualities while conveying impressions of 'home'. Illustration is used
to manifest qualities such as tradition, hospitality and to achieve an
unassuming, homemade look and feel.\n\nWith 'Tulsa for One Second',
Pulseprogramming have created a defining record for contemporary
electronic music in 2003. 1st pressing of lp & cd transform into a
house. 1st pressing of vinyl is also on white vinyl."

Sindre Bjerga - tales of the topographic oceans (3inch CDR) - TIBProd
$5.00
"..This week sees a much more interesting solo release by Sindre
Bjerga. He's one half of Fibo Trespo and runs the Gold Soundz label. I
am told that many of his tracks take up to twenty minutes, so the
format of 3" CDRs is well spend on him. Although it's unclear what his
sound input is, Bjerga seems to be improvising around here with
electronics and percussion elements. Although two distinct sources, the
two swirl nicely in and out of the mix. Sometimes the electronic
element is stronger than the other and there is some extensive use of
reverb. One could even say it's a far cry to the well-known David
Jackman sound, or rather his Organum sound, in the areas of 'Vacant
Lights'. Quite nice, this one." -- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

Sir Richard Bishop - Improvika (CD) - Locust Music $12.00
By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine
paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to
travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls
medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only
by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika,
Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's
1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian
symbolism.a very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel
string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors &
dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed
arabesques, django inspired gypsy arcs, & latin terracotta flourishes
like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his
alone. Improvika is Sir Richard's follow up to his part on locust's
celebrated Wooden Guitar collection and second full length release
after his debut on John Fahey's Revenant label.

sound 00 - micronoise (3inch CDR) - TIBProd $5.00

SQ - ROUND (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
first in the SQ.Archive Series. this recording is from 1996 and is a
piece for 6 guitars, positioned in a circle, following in a round.
lo-fi recording with hi-fi texture. Branca-esque. covers are
hand-silkscreened, edition of 90. 3 color print job, on heavy
watercolor paper (textured). folded into a plastic sleeve.

Staplerfahrer - depths in perception (3inch CDR) - TIBProd $5.00
"staplerfahrer started out to be me, some ten years ago, when
Icircuitbended the amplifier of my first record player....the
resultturned out to be some ecstatic noise and from that moment on I
washooked....from then on sound was the law....and I do (or try to
do)just about everything with it...." "'Depths In Perception' is the
follow-up of 'scsi vs ata', also on TIBProd (see Vital Weekly 392) by
fellow Dutch man Steffan de Turck. The long gap has been used to
produce these eight tracks of microscopic sounds, but I'm told that
Steffan is also using circuit-bending to generate his sounds. I think
this new release is a major step forward. He combines 'real' samples of
instruments with sounds that are fully loaded with plugins. With these
samples at hand he manages to craft almost melody like stuff in these
small sketch like tunes. Breaking away from the really abstract
microsound and moving towards a more poppy sound." ---Frans de Waard in
Vital Weekly 452

Sun City Girls - Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog/Def in Italy (LP) -
eclipse $18.00
[THIS IS A DOUBLE LP!] - "Reissue series of Cloaven cassettes continue
with two 1987 releases (recorded from 1983-85). This is the 3rd of 10
dbl LP's -- all housed in heavy duty gatefold sleeves featuring artwork
/ photos from the time of the recordings. Fresh Kill was recorded
between 1983-1985 and Def in Italy was recorded in tour in 1984.
Features liner notes by BonBan. One time pressing of 1000 copies."

Super Unity Group - Box Set #1 (OTHER) - JYRK $18.00
This is a 5x CDR Box Set, limited 50 copies. Each box is hand-decorated
by a member of Super Unity Group. Included is a b&w flipbook. The first
in a series of collections documenting the constantly evolving Super
Unity Group, and their unique aproach to music and performance.
Featuring a slightly shifting 5 person membership, they incorporate
acoustic and electronic sounds, dance, and most exceptionally,
incedental and audience generated sound scape. Includes several live
performances, home recording sessions, and radio shows.

Tamio Shiraishi and Sean Meehan - In the City (LP) - fusetron $14.00
"each summer tamio shiraishi & sean meehan pair up for a series of
outdoor concerts in new york city always in a different location, the
concerts explore unwatched and unconsidered sites of the city. (this
LP) is the first release of this summer tradition. 12" vinyl with a
b-sided etching by knickerbocker." - sean meehan. Recorded underneath
the West Side Highway at 59th Street, NYC, by Geoff Dugan, 21 july
2001. SEAN MEEHAN - "Current performances generally find Meehan playing
only the snare drum in a manner that sheds conventional usage and
reconstructs the conception and function of the instrument." Meehan has
collaborated with Sachiko M, Mamoru Fujieda, Michihiro Sato, Edwin
Torres, Muigel Algarin, Greg Kelley, Ami Yoshida, Taku Sugimoto,
Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetzui Akiyama, Kiyoharu Kuwayama and many others.
Additionally he has performed throughout North and South America, Asia
and Eastern Europe. TAMIO SHIRAISHI - Shiraishi has been performing
since the late 1970s, including playing drums and synthesizer in an
early incarnation of Fushitsusha. His first released recordings,
consisting of solo sax with broken drum machine, were included on the
1981 Aiyoku Jinmin Juji Gekijo compilation on Pinakotheca (who also
released the first Keiji Haino LP). Hes currently living in NYC and
occasionally collaborates with the No Neck Blues Band. GEOFF DUGAN -
"Geoff Dugan has been performing, recording, and producing sonic
environments since 1983. Recent projects include a binaural
psychogeography recording and performance: "aberto/fechyado parque
serralves" at the Serralves Foundation in Oporto and an audio
psychogeographical report from New York performed at the 2002 Zeppelin
Festival of Sound Art in Barcelona. Geoff runs the recording label GD
Stereo that has released a series of compilation compact discs
organized around psychogeography and the theory of the dŽrive among the
various (the artists): The Architecture of the Incidental (1999) and
Psychogeographical Dip (1997). Solo projects include Play in random or
shuffle mode. (GD Stereo, 2001), Surface Tension (Open Circuit, 2000)
and the Stomach Ache Records release Technical Comfort Formalistic
Style Features (7" vinyl - 1994). Geoff is also an
architect and lives in NYC."

Taurpis Tula - Sparrows (LP) - eclipse $14.00
"Taurpis Tula from Glasgow, Scotland is the duo of Heather Leigh -
(Charalambides and Scorces) on pedal steel / vocals and David Leigh -
on guitar, navigating rivers of steel string with their fists and
throats. Their all-improvised music works loops of spectral sound into
beautifully fucked tonal hymns. 'Examining drones and loops from the
epic cragginess of The Dream Academy and Terry Riley to its currency
amongst laptop popsters and free-guitar types has long been a passion.
To create improvised, trance-driven music with subtlety, emotionalism,
hymn-like melody and physicality is rare. Sparrows, sometimes sounds
like futuristic gamelan-folk music for 250 years down the road.' This
is such a beautiful and haunting record from a lovely duo."

The Intima - Panic and Peril (LP) - JYRK $10.00
Limited to 500. Covers Silk Screened and Letter Pressed. Co-release
with ZUM CDs on Slowdance

THe Mass - city of dis (CD) - Crucial Blast $10.00
THE MASS deliver unto us a scalding blast of sax-assisted King
Crimson-meets-Slayer art|thrash|core worship, all light-speed riffing,
shrieking vox and burly singing, malevolent soft jazz,insidious tempo
shifts, and bloodthirsty dynamics. Disparate elements of No Wave,
damaged pop, grindcore, post-punk, thrash metal and math-rock are
crafted into a blast of avant-garde fury, but catchy as fuck. Pure
dissent...

The Mystery Water Saloon Boys - shall we be ruled by one peeled scurvy
priest? - we will ring! (CDR) - Memoirs of an Aesthete $8.00
the two man one man band ring out - Phil Todd and Chris Hladowski
(SCATTER, THE ONE ENSEBLE OF DANIEL PADDEN) duets for bazouki, guitar,
droners and cheap beatbox

Thurston Moore / Dylan Nyoukis / Carlos Giffoni - make no mistake about
it (CDR) - Gold Soundz $8.00
(CO-RELEASED WITH ECSTATIC PEACE! AND IMVATED) ---- "Thurston yelling,
bitching and yodeling along the third track of the Chewing Smoke disc,
into a hand held recorder while driving his car. Dylan says: "Pretend
yr some little fan boy who was stowed away in the back of Ts car, feel
yr heart sink as yr idol destroys all his cred, like yr paw dancing at
a wedding..." Imvated catalog.

Tom Carter - Monument (CD) - Kranky $12.00
"Monument is a recording of guitar music from Tom Carter of
Charalambides and is the second in a series of Charalambides-related
reissues by Kranky. The two tracks of solo lap steel guitar were
recorded live to DAT by Tom Carter a few days before a live performance
in March, 2001. Monument was originally released by Wholly Other in an
edition of 55 CDRs. The first track, 'Monument 1 (Memorial)' is
slightly longer than two minutes and barely reveals itself. The second,
'Monument 2', is 47 minutes in length and considerably more expansive
and louder than the opening cut. The album was made using lap steel
guitar, glass slides, digitech tsr-12 stereo reverb, a rat distortion
pedal and craftsman screwdrivers."

Topon Das - eleven songs (CDR) - Ghetto Blaster Records $6.00
Sultry Eastern rhythms, ethnic melodies, Eastern singing, strange
guitar-sounds, samples of different nature sounds.

Tore Honore Boe - summertime blues (CDR) - TIBProd $8.00
"..Also quite nice is the release by Tore Honore Boe. On the cover of
this CDR we find the cryptic note: 'for the realisation ov this
project, Tore went swimming'. The one piece is called 'Even Poolboys
Get The Blues' (subtitled: 'Opus for longing loins, fm synthesizes and
blending outside) on this CDR starts out with a short sample that is
being repeated ad infinitum. Over the course of thirty-five minutes two
grainy, low resolution samples are added, one on the right side and one
on the left. Nothing much else, until things slow down towards the end.
Simplistic one might say, but played at a somewhat higher volume this
is certainly a most captivating piece of minimal music, but it
stretches the level of what the listener can handle to considerable
length." ---Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

Uton - XXX (CDR) - Gold Soundz $8.00
A new great album from the Tampere, Finland psych-noise favourites.
Quite a bit more intense and claustophobic than many of his previous
albums. Perhaps somebody's put something funny in the drinking water...
Uton has released many albums the last 2-3 years on Pseudo Arcana,
Jewelled Antler and his own imprint Haamumaa. Edition of 100 copies.

Various Artists - Wooden Guitar (CD) - Locust Music $12.00
Back in print! If you missed the numbered, silkscreen edition, here's
another chance to pick up this wonderful compilation. Wooden Guitar is
an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica
and a loosely worn blues by four unaccompanied guitarists doing their
thing and going it alone for a really long time. A simple title with a
simple idea, Wooden Guitar brings together some of our favorite
guitarists for a fine tour de force of unaccompanied performances.
Germany's Steffen Basho-Junghans , Seattle's Sir Richard Bishop (the
Sun City Girls), Japan's Tetuzi Akiyama and Virginia's Jack Rose (Pelt)
give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with a handful of
gloriously stretched out solo compositions in the spirit of the great
Takoma gatherings of years past.

Various Artists - February 2003 (BOOK) - Slow Toe $15.00
Features poems by Todd Colby (Riot in the Charm Factory, Soft Skull
Books, 2000 and former lead singer of Drunken Boat), Alex Gildzen
(Swimming, Submarine Enterprises, 1976), Thurston Moore (Fuck a Hippie…
but be a Punk, Glass Eye Books, 2001, guitarist with Sonic Youth),
Matthew Wascovich (Boxes of Shattered Dishes, Slow Toe Publications,
2003, guitarist with A Real Knife Head).
First Edition, 1,500 copies
122 pages | perfect bound, color cover. "It was a beautiful concept.
Get four writers, from different pockets of the U.S. to commit to
composing a poem a day during the year’s shortest month. Then shuffle
those poems together like a deck of well-handled cards and see what
epiphanies develop.
      The four poets involved – Todd Colby, Alex Gildzen, Thurston
Moore, Matthew Wascovich – would seem to have little in common, besides
deep humanist resonances, and certain tendencies towards emotional
telegraphy. But they all threw themselves into the project. And while
the country watched itself being sucked inexorably into Bush War 2,
they wrote what they saw and said what they felt.
      Each of the writers has personal themes that emerge over the
course of the month: movies, recipes, cultural riff-raff, levy’s
Cleveland, email, music. These and other topics are rolled by gentle
fingers, prodded by moist tongues, tamped into cigarette-sized
abstracts that rub against each other in a variety of ways. Sometimes
it seems as though the poets are reading each other’s minds, each
other’s moods; that they are connected by synaptic veins scrolling
across the cold vastness of American February. Their thoughts and words
sync up, forced into strange cohesion by the unstoppable forces of
grave reality. But that’s only sometimes. Mostly, they blow free,
letting format and rhythm and content and mood erupt in reaction only
to what each of them has written previously.
      As though in the thrall of Heraclitus’ declaration that it is
impossible to step in the same river twice, everyone here seems to be
making an effort to repeat neither form nor function. All four appear
to be highly attuned to the flow of their month’s work, extremely
interested in seeing that their words are headed forward in all ways,
dedicated to the idea of a personal, interactive narrative. And it
works. It really works.
      Everyone who’s likely to read this book in the next twenty
years lived through this month. And as you read these poems, little
bits of the feel of February 2003, the tremors generated by the
collapse of common reason, the general grasping-at-straws of the month,
will flood your mind. This total commonality of experience between
writer and reader has an unexpected effect. It sucks me/you/us into the
give-and-take of the narrative flow to a much higher degree than usual.
Like assholes talking back to their televisions, we will find ourselves
drawn into the communicative subtext of this collection, penciling some
of our own thoughts on the period into the margins. Hey, why not? If
you bought the book, you can do whatever the fuck you want with it!
Live it up.
      But I must admit. What is perhaps most noteworthy to me about
this volume is that its most arcane bit of underground rock trivia was
written not by Thurston Moore (noted archeologist of lame duck rock
facts), but by Alex Gildzen. Indeed, Gildzen’s reference to the early
line-up of the Numbers Band may rate as the single best bit of pure
information in February 03. But the rest of it still fucking great. To
wander in these words, to amble through these minds, to have the
opportunity to recast this savage month in new, more fully graspable
terms…well it’s just a goddamn treat.
      So live it up. Again. And do it right this time." --Byron
Coley, Deerfield MA 5/03

Various Artists - Locked Grooves (7inch) - Little Mafia $10.00
This is a double 7" set!!! Edition of 300
Track listing:
Side A: COCK E.S.P. - Cock VH1
Side B: MASON JONES - If Seeing Is Believing, What Do Your Ears Tell
You?
Side C: FELLAHEEN - Brotzmann
Side D: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - Three Postcards Of Tin Foil Island,
Falling...
This double seven inch release can best be described as difficult. It
was difficult to finish after being shelved for five years while I
sorted out my divorce, child custody, and life in general. Finished,
it will be a difficult consumer product if you are lucky enough to get
one of the 300 hand numbered units.The two singles will come wrapped
in a card stock sleeve wonderfully designed by Bri Hermanson and hand
screened by Bearded Lady in Austin, TX. The sleeve will be further
packaged in a clear plastic sleeve and a bolt will lock everything
tight. Once you unbolt the package, all four sides play from the
inside out and lock on the outside groove. Many of you will have to
trick your turntable into playing them. If you are clever enough to
get to the music, your ears will be treated to the stimulating sounds
of noise, free jazz, drone, and trance represented within it's
grooves.

Wolf Eyes / Smegma - The Beast (CD) - DE STIJL $12.00
"Smegma man, fucking Smegma. They started the whole damn thing. Sure
there was Lee Rocky & some soundeffects 78s that set the crew in motion
but screw it.. you wouldn't be blasting The Beast or any Weird
Handdrawn LP with rotten ears if it wasn't for this truly motley crew.
In high school my sweet momma would give me ten bones a week for lunch,
come Monday by noon that shit was blown at the local rec shop. When I
only had a couple of raggedy bux left from gripping Zorlac stickers,
the only option was the dollar bin at the store. It was there that John
Bender, Haystacks Balboa, Nik Reicnek, & Peter Catham LPs blew open my
teen mind to the netherworlds. Among the giants was this homemade
wreckord by Ju Suk Reet Meat. Looked amazing.. had no idea. Threw it on
for nearly every day since. Mutant loops, improv from alien swamp prom
& deviant horrible ideas. Changed my life. Just what a young mind
needed to replace the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Found out later it was
from the Smegma camp, a strange unknown mystery troupe from Portland.
No photos ever... just a numbling clip on a RRR comp video Lessard gave
me & Dilloway, a tunnel view into the spiritual mecca that would the
Smegma klan. Before the first Wolf jaunt out west we dropped them a
postcard saying it would be good to meet. Soon it mangled into a
recording session. We would be so honored. The day came. The Smegma
house, totally pink, queued us in to rainy green Portland. We knocked.
A femme voice said through the door, 'use the bell'. Nate pushed it and
out came a gargled electronic siren. The door opened, Rock 'n Roll
Jackie, 5 foot tall, grinning & long beautiful grey hair. We all fell
in love. Soon after we meet Ju Suk & one by one slowly met all the
Smegmas in one of the strangest nights ever. Burned Mind, Meltzer,
Stan, Amazon Bambi, others. All weird as hell, checking us as much as
us checking them. Yep, this is who we wanted to be with the rest of our
lives... the Michigan crew had never been so inspired & moved but by
this unholy blending of mutant minds... So we jammed. It was fucking
amazing. Here are the results. Every year we are going to see them &
hang like the best friend weirdo family. A total pilgrimage. Nate & I
once got so blasted from Portland cloud that we projected that Smegma
has always existed, ever since the beginning of time. Someone will
always carry it on... might be this dude in Ypsi who has no face.
Really. No nose, barely a mouth, always has a broken arm or something..
smells like shit. Dude is totally in Smegma. Fucking life rules. --
John Olson.

World - s/t (CDR) - JYRK $8.00
Lmtd. 100 copies. Very deep world-psych music featuring ex-members of
((vvrssnn)), Yume Bitsu, Nudge, Valet, Jackie-O Motherfucker, and
Nirvana.




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