Music:
Member Since: 12/11/2007
Band Members: Nolan, Tomlinson, Truscinski
Sounds Like: Arbitrary Signs Currently Available titles:The Folk Spectre "Blackest Medicine" lp $10Crafted home-made pop/noise statement from Pete Nolan of Magik Markers. A 4-track. Here's what band mate Elisa had to say in Arthur:"Here drum-dilweed extraordinaire Pete Nolan takes on new dimensions of low-fidelity radness through the Woodsist imprint. The infamous label in charge of releasing other super-jammers such as Axolotl, Loosers and Blues Control, Woodsist put this mother out in the o 7. So many good songs, I don’t know where to start; it’s like Gene Clark in a manhole with Von LMO in Bushwick. This is another artist criminally unappreciated for his solo work, most probably due to his surly manner. Just ‘cause the man don’t hold doors for people doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to build castle bridges of strangeness into the void. LISTEN."Spectre Folk "Black Jacks" cdr $10Post blackest medicine jams on new hi-fi recording gear. Goes through weird synth moves to way wide open guitar jams that sound really good in the desert zones like death valley. Cool.Spectre Folk "Black Bones" cdr $10Here we get devotional ragas like the myspace hit "exterminating angel" and full band jam take on Blankest Meds featuring Julie Tomlinsynth and Milford Graves acolyte John Truscinski on skins. Also some creepy oozing synth jams that have that "the Thing" era Morricone feel. A solid heady troubling brew for your buck.Spectre Folk "Requiem for Ming Aralia" CD $10 (3 lobed)A nice record that paves the 4-track road that the Spectre would drive down throughout this period. Twindly guitar moves, noise w/Spencer Yeh of BXC and some out-right fuzz pop burners like the Pointed Horn.Magik Markers Boss lp $12.00The best albums of 2007 Chosen by: Mike Wolf, music editor Time Out New York 1. Magik Markers Boss (Ecstatic Peace). "The year’s greatest transformation resulted in its best album, a fiercely beautiful rip through the heart of rock. "This is the rare lp version of the Magik Markers Lee Ranaldo produced album BOSS. Screen printed by drummer Pete Nolan in an edition of 1000 on his own Arbitrary Signs label. This is the way the album was meant to be heard in all it's tremendous analog glory.Magik Markers "Feel the Crayon" lp (notnotfun) $10Markers basement studio opus, featuring halucinatory rumbling's and patented "electric toothbrush" fuzz guitar. Great mid-period Markers statement of fucked discontent. Features classic "white bikini". Purple vinyl with awesome cover drawing by George Meyer of Breaking world records.Magik Markers "Volodor Dance" lp (Southern Latitudes) $12Ulitmate studio record of trio era Markers. After a very heavy European tour, the Markers were locked in a London studio for a long day with wizard Harvey Burrell. This is the sound of the Markers trio at the height of their powers, surf, alien, psych, free spew with an overall feeling of impending doom and a remembered melody trapped in a heavy revoloving sheet of glass. A feverish and exhilerating jam.GHQ "Crystal Healing" lp (3lobed) $10Bushwick ghetto seer's take on "new age" light sources. GHQ electro acoustic ensemble use acoustic and electric guitars, chord organs, and processed violin tones to create some meditative and hushed mystery. A nice calming neo-psych bath.Vanishing Voice "Nordic Visions" cd $10 (important)Vanishing Voice's first post wooden wand statement. A golden Charriot ride to the heart of the norse-gods lightning fields on the a-side long jammer. A solid piece of Krauty goodness yields to three shorter pieces of folk weirdo electronic loveliness that wouldn't be out of placed on a wwvv record and are not unlike Finish compatriots Kymeliastat Ystavet. Nice cd.Vanishing Voice "Stone Tab" cd $10 (important)A self consciously American statement of more excessive dimmensions. A huge and unrelenting journey that spills from one side to the next, through the valley of the family, into some kind of massive drone naseu and leaves you there for dead. Not always a good trip but a truly fucked statement from a band that was pushing the issues that they felt no-else was pushing.Stayed tuned for new Markers goodness in the near future.
Record Label: arbitrary signs
Type of Label: Indie