Excavation At Hobbs Lane: The Early Days Of Community Radio
(Burselm Crypt Recordings) CDR $8.00
“Totally oddball little loopy songs and scenarios,” marvels Duncan Harrison, “Creeping radioplay-style narrative occasionally revealing itself, the ever pervasive mysteries of Burselm, forever.”
Seedy Arcing
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $10.00
Alex Abalos on modular synth, homemade electronics, custom software and gongs from the Philippines; Bryan Day on noisy tabletop devices (constructed of film canisters, bocce balls, fishing weights and measuring tapes), homemade FM radio, and homemade effects. Inspired by the buzzing and trembling sounds of bargain electronics dealers worldwide and the spicy shucos of San Pablo. Electro-tweezer music for long sleepers. Edition of 60
Modern Day Playlist
(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + CDR $15.00
Anla Courtis, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Tim Whalley, and Adam Buffington’s long-distance collaboration on electric and acoustic guitars, voices, environmental field recordings, bird sounds, loops. Full-color book contains 24 drawings made by Sigmarsson. Edition of 60
Live At Union Pool
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $10.00
A document of two back-to-back shows in NYC. Lots of unknowns, lots of freedom by Jordan Allen, Drew Davis, Paige Draiss, Jeffrey Alexander, and Sarah Basilio. Edition of 60
Three Christs of Ypsilanti
(Siltbreeze - SB131) LP $15.00
The first post-BUFMS-boxset disgorgement of ramshackle outsider clatter and howl from one of California’s many rural nowheres exposes previously hidden, 25-year-old whack-off (à la Smegma and other bent LAFMS trippers, the UK’s A Band, 5 Starcle Men, Yximalloo, Gastric Female Reflex, Id M Theft Able, and the sort of visionaries currently promoted by labels such as Chocolate Monk and Beniffer Editions). The murky “Take It Out And Kill It” whirls around in conflicting directions in a manner one critic long ago described as “schizophrenic muzak.” “Dark Surprise,” a 1986 recording from the crossroads of DIY autism and darkened psychedelia, is previously unreleased (the first playback of the master tape didn’t happen until 2008). In contrast to the group’s usual embrace of any and all kitchen sinks in the immediate vicinity, this recording was made solely with electric guitars, voice and prerecorded audio frottage. Book-ending both sides are excerpts from an after-hours, no-audience, guerrilla action recorded in a multistory, split-level university student union, using hurled cafeteria cutlery, defective boomboxes and answering machines blaring prerecorded tape, the public piano, and a variety of unidentified flailing objects. “[As] secretive as a posse’ve Masons bidding in a goat auction … a weird , befuddlin storm comin’ outta the night … tryin’ to charm you into the muddy arms of the undertow.” –Roland Woodbe, Siltblog
Rock Power
(Nashazphone - NP13) LP $25.00
With Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Flower-Corsano Duo) on guitar, Nashazphone’s vinyl reissue of a European tour CDR (Rural Electrification Program 2003) documents a period between the dreamlike psychedelia of Cloudz or early Hototogisu and the brutality of Panzer Division Lou Reed, Spitting Gold Zebras or the more recent Skullflower. Edition of 500
Rammed Earth
(Nashazphone) LP $22.00
“Absurdist tape collage and haunted electronics from this confounding musical collective, a perfect soundtrack for the chaos and contradictions of the present moment. As aberrant exemplars of sound culture, according to Dr. Bruce Russell, Lucian Tielens, The City Councilman, Gnarlos, and Tom Chimpson, wrangle disjointed loops, degraded electronics, and broken narrative fragments into a grotesque and exhilarating whole. Rammed Earth sounds like a transmission from a parallel dimension—one that’s funnier, darker, and far more unstable than our own.” —Soundohm
Studio Sardena
(Nashazphone - NP14) LP $22.00
DJ Sardena is a major player in Egypt’s electro-shaabi wave (better known locally as mahragan) characterized by heavily auto-tuned, loud vocals, beats featuring synthesizers, and electronic effects. Five tracks representing the studio’s stripped-down and minimal mahragan style, with an array of MCs such as Salsa El-Ageeb and Halabessa. Green vinyl. Edition of 500