Out now:
RR18 Adam Rudolph..s Go: Organic Orchestra "Thought Forms" CD Limited ed.
Set the alarm clock for this one, cause it..s THE BOMB!! Magnificent composer and percussionist (and a lot more) Adam Rudolph conducts the Go: Organic Orchestra delivering rhythm directly to the soul. "Thought Forms" has a very natural impulse around the most intricate structure. You will hear things crashing, smashing and a lot of SERIOUS groove holding it all together.
Recorded live in Venice California with the production of Carlos Niño. Magic indeed!
RR17 Rob Brown & Andrew Barker Duo "Live in Chicago" CD Limited ed.
Recorded live at the Empty Bootle in Chicago by the late Malachi Ritscher (RIP). The fortunate ones that were around by the time this was recorded (MM) will know the energy kept in here. Creative musicians bringing some light to what the future may hold!
RR16 Harmonize Most High "Babylon" CD Limited ed.
H.M.H. are one of the most blessed free jazz, psychedelic collectives. Their debut album his out now on limited edition with a beautiful art cover painted by Robert Ryan. Guaranteed that their music will take you to higher places!!
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RR15 Michael Yonkers "No Kidding" CD Limited ed.
Michael Yonkers is no news (he..s good news)! Prolific guitar player since the early 60..s here on a solo noise guitar venture. "No Kidding" might be one of Yonkers most fierce records to date. Full of metal and melody, loud and beautiful!!
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RR14 One Might Add "Sailing Team" CD Limited ed.
Portuguese duo hailing from the capital..s underground movements. Truly excited about this debut album. Unique sounds using drums and home made electronics giving rhythm to psychadelia like no one, for your total listening pleasure.
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RR13 Temple of Bon Matin "Flower Footed Ghost" CD Limited ed.
"To listen to Temple of Bon Matin is like listening to some sort of urban summer field recording. As the sounds of varied musics escape from the opened windows of people’s one bedroom apartments and mingle with the surrounding traffic and pedestrian sounds thus creating a very ethereal but undeniably real sound, you become engaged in this near hallucinatory aural experience. True sonic pioneers, incredibly deft sculptors of sound. These guys have been around for at least a good 15 years pushing the boundaries of music by various means and have definitely been a favorite of mine for quite some time. This disc is definitely solid, as is most of their discography that I have heard(...)" - Kevin Richards, in Foxy Digitalis
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RR12 Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit "Alive" CD Limited ed.
BSPU are Mike Allard on Alto Sax, Steve Baczkowski on Tenor/Baritone Sax and Bass Clarinet, Michael Hermanson on Trombone, Leif Ingvar Nicklas on Contrabass, and Ravi Padmanabha on Drums and Percussion, playing live on this recording with Ringo Brill and Gabriel Gutierrez, AND i promisse you they will clean all evil from your ears, cause they love them!!!
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RR11 Tabata Mitsuru "We All Gonna Face The Rising Sun" CD Limited ed.
"Japanese guitarist Mitsuru Tabata’s name should be better known than perhaps it is... he was an early member of the Boredoms, is a current member of Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, and has served as KK Null’s axe associate in Zeni Geva for many many years, among other activities. He’s also made some brilliant solo albums, of which this is one (his third -- a fourth, on Utech, also just came out)!
Rather than making much use of the heavier guitar blurt that so many of his other projects feature, on this solo disc Tabata works with layers of lovely loops, quietly cycling ’round a spacey cosmos of his own invention... well for the most part, though the track "Annihilation" does sound appropriately amped up and ferocious. But most of these pieces are built from backwards tapes, shortwave drones, guitars and synths spinning out gentle folky melodies amidst soothingly tripped-out electronic effects. Abstract psychedelic lullabies, calm and spacious and really nice! Highly recommended, all Acid Mothers Temple fans should check this out -- and not just them!" -by Aquarius Record Store
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RR09 Tropa Macaca "Marfim" LP
"Three long tracks of cyclical minimal percussion stampede from a Portuguese experimental duo taking a somewhat purist approach to ambient noise. All three offerings are based around the same type of sounds, and adjust accordingly to suit pulse patterns and overall attack. If you filed off all the sibilance from Esplendor Geometrico and filtered it through the liquid, abstract psychedelic vibes outgassed from
Black Dice’s last few efforts, you’d get something approaching the sputter and cavernous tracks presented here. “Tronco Nu†takes up a full side and has the longest build, but its eventual “melodic†denouement plays off as striking and somewhat emotional. “Zona do
Bicho†steps up the aggression and comes closest to full-bore noise, but never lets go of the beat it’s anchored to. “Poço da Morte†ends this satisfying debut by taking a tattoo gun to Can and Blue Cheer records from across the street, building in intensity along the way. A bold and promising debut. 300 copies, white vinyl." - by Doug Mosurak on Dusted Magazine, 2007
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RR08 Charles Cohen & Ed Wilcox "Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes"CD
"Album of the month(s) right now is Those Are Pearls
That Were His Eyes, by Charles Cohen and Ed Wilcox, an
edition-of-500 CD release on the Ruby Red label from
Portugal, intense and quietly active electro-acoustic
synth/drums duo improv by two beyond-seasoned veterans
from the fringes of Philadelphia. Of course the "beeps
and boops" of antique space-age synthesizer and the
urban rainforest tickle of post-free post-jazz
percussion have always been a match made in heaven,
but I can’t think of another time they been so blended
as what Cohen on "Buchla Music Easel" and Wilcox on
"drums and gongs" have laid to tape here. Feel free to
turn it way up, because both musicians employ an
uncannily sympathetic light touch throughout -- in 10
tracks and 48 minutes, the music never agitates or
explodes, it only ripples and patters and somehow, at
any volume in any environment, seems to remain just
under the threshold. Cohen and Wilcox also played
together on one of my favorite rippling/pattering
under-the-threshold mutant jam albums of the 1990s,
the phenomenally wrecked Bullet In2 Mesmer’s Brain!
(Bulb Records, 1998), by Wilcox’s long-running
revolving-door concern Temple of Bon Matin. There were
nine people in the band for the sessions, such a
rarefied space-jazz-noise unit that when the CD came
out, the band had been rechristened Laser Temple of
Bon Matin for that album only. Wilcox’s mix is
unbelievable, multiple performances layered and
separated and crossfaded with dubwise boldness through
tiny sonic prisms into swinging mind-sized shadow
paintings. Yeah, it’s been good to pull out Mesmer’s
again, and good to have it spurred by Cohen and
Wilcox’s stunning new duo music CD. (And this just in:
"Well over six hours worth of Charles Cohen on the
Buchla Music Easel.")" in Blastitude magazine, July
2007
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