Bastard Wing
(Eclipse - ECL018) Used LP $10.00
Piano, electric guitar, voice and bells from 2003 by one half of Charalambides. Edition of 250
Root King
(Eclipse) Used LP $5.00
All of side one is “Lighthouse,” a slow, shimmering glissando of gonging bells and elongated swells of feedback, a glacial yet effervescent guitar piece. The second side offers more elusive notes and flowing, held tones that constantly waver between a vague throat / tonal source.
IN CR EA SE
(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $15.00
Tom and Christina Carter’s four side-long excavations of the auditory plane from 2001, defined by interweaving threads of lap steel and chord organ, swept by intermittent currents of breath-born voice and serene modalities cycled upward into towering microtonal dissonance, and then flung down into corners of dark intimacy. Sealed
ERIC CLARK / KEENAN LAWLER / PELT
Keyhole II
(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $20.00
Their beautiful and memorable follow-up from 2001
ERIC CLARK / KEENAN LAWLER / PELT
Keyhole
(Eclipse - ECL006) Used LP $15.00
This album is drawn from a pre-dawn session in a stone silo at Mount Saint Francis, a Franciscan friary just north of the Kentucky-Indiana State Line. Four of the musicians, Keenan Lawler and Pelt members Patrick Best, Mike Gangloff and Jack Rose, had played earlier that night at Rudyard Kipling's Cafe in Louisville. They were joined at the friary by Eric Clark, a multi-instrumentalist and metal worker who makes musical instruments, such as singing bowls and bronze didgeridus. Mikal Dimmick used a stereo microphone to capture events as they unfolded in the early morning hours of 12 July 2000. Only acoustic instruments were played and no electronic effects or processing were used. Play at 45 or 33 RPM.
Live at Tzompantli
(Eclipse) Used LP $5.00
One side from the first No Fun Festival in March 2004 backed with an Ypsi street level throwdown at a screen-printing shop. “Dead-universe dying electronic creeping blast sound.”
A Pebble In Thousands Of Unmapped Revolutions
(Eclipse) Used LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
Immense, ungovernable music from 2001 that’ll turn your extremities purple. Processed voices seep through the wash of dark and hazy drones which evolve behind a primitivist mesh, slowly and organically without noticeable structure.
Halve Maen
(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $28.00
“The sound is an enveloping darkness, and not a gradual one, either; it comes down softly but with authority and takes hold as the twelve-and-a-half minute ‘Fatal Affront’ trips the listener into a fetal position. Utterly creepy yet primal and beautiful. Tension builds in the quiet, over-slow drones, single syllables by human voices. In its slow, meandering way, this music dares you to go further, to close out the world around you and go inside.” From 2003. Sealed
With And Without Late
(Eclipse) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Side one takes a quasi-psych drone form while side two veers off into stranger waters, playing off some unexpected juxtapositions and combinations of sounds. Edition of 110. Paste-on artwork on both the front and back covers.
MONOSOV SWIRNOFF / THE SHINING PATH
Two Recorded Works
(Eclipse) Used Split LP $5.00
Swirnoff’s brooding cinematic air organ slow gasps through magenta dust-clouds of bowed guitar. Sea-shanty bellows underscore the spectral traces of whistles and ghosted vocals The Shining Path side “rockets upward into the fuzzed-out expansive zones of the Rallizes sound, tethered to an on-edge, speedfreak shake of Suicide rhythm, just too fast for comfort.” Edition of 500
The Rest Is Silence
(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $12.00
“The third album from Italy’s fraternal duo is a cosmic blend of alien folky blues, avant-space sounds, and extraterrestrial melancholy performed with electric and acoustic guitars, pedal effects, and weird space toys.” Sealed
Greetings From The Great Void
(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $12.00
“While they keep their feet on earth by flirting with blues, rock and roots music, Maurizio and Roberto Opalio take every opportunity to hurl themselves and their listeners as far as possible into the galaxy. The universe of My Cat is an Alien is therefore one of intergalactic soundscapes where acoustic percussion and electronic sounds are perfectly integrated. Clear melodies, tight grooves. The tracks float in a vacuum, through the various rings of cosmic debris of an imaginary planet. Sometimes they are formed by the fine dust of a chirp-like sound, like a malfunctioning game console or by a haze of long tones that refuse to become a melody, while at other times deflected guitar sounds or various percussion.” Sealed
Red Horse, White Mule
(Eclipse) Used LP $35.00
“Rose’s 2002 solo debut was a bit of an outlier in the underground gestalt, coming just before the wave of releases from the new generation of Takoma / Fahey-inspired players. It balances the epic side-long raga title track against a second side of shorter pieces, including the ragged slide style of ‘The Colonel’s Blues.’ His technique doesn’t have the refinement that it would quickly find, but the compositions and performances have a rough hewn charm.”
Opium Musick
(Eclipse) Used LP $30.00
“An eclectic 2003 collection with pieces for 12-string, 6-string, and lap guitar. The raga-ish ‘Yaman Blues’ is a stand-out, featuring Mike Gangloff (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on tanpura, and echoes the extended modal work on the contemporaneous Pelt album, Pearls from the River.”
Raag Manifestos
(Eclipse) Used LP $25.00
Rose’s rawest and most experimental album cuts across various acoustic styles, with a jagged and 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.” The traditional “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord” finishes off the LP on a calming note. Sealed
Vivre Avec La Bête
(Eclipse) Used LP $10.00
Bizarre folk drones by Charalambides’ Christina Carter (electric guitar, voice) and Heather Murray (pedal steel guitar, voice). Edition of 500. Silkscreened jackets. Sealed
SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE
Spires That In The Sunset Rise
(Eclipse) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deliciously evil blend of cello, guitar, pedal steel, bells, banjo, and all manner of organic sounds from 2003 in a fine mesh of rock, psych, raga, punk, and folk. For fans of Raincoats, Current 93, Comus, Plastic Ono Band, Pelt, and the like. Sealed
Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog / Def In Italy
(Eclipse - ECL033) 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Released in 2004, this is the third in Eclipse's ten-volume Cloaven Cassette reissue series. Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog is the same sequencing as the cassette, minus "Entrail-Littered Savannah" (see Box of Chameleons for an edited version). Recordings are from 1983-1985. Def In Italy comprises live recordings from a 1984 US tour and features many songs not on the original cassette.
Oastem Vibe Orchestra
(Eclipse) Used LP $6.00
A huge excerpt from a two-hour show at Tommy’s in Richmond, Virginia, performed in April 1997 by the combined entire lineups of Pelt and Rake (with additional miscellaneous players). Their long improvisations varied from show to show, but often started with a bang, slowly expanded into open space where interesting details emerged, and subsequently cleared the room. Mike Gangloff (guitar, shenai, electronics), Jack Rose (lap steel), Patrick Best (guitar, bass resonator, conga), ~SKB (bass and percussion), V2G2 (nylon string guitar, percussion, shenai and voice), Planet C (moog, sax, percussion), Mick (dumbek and dijembe), Beth Jones (dijembe). Sealed
Ridin’ Free / Captain Labour
(Eclipse) Used LP $18.00
Multi-layered live recordings from 2004. Microcosmic sound world. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 400
