Dissonant Plane

A year is a long time.  So I have probably forgotten a few things.  But here is what comes to mind as my favorite new releases and reissues that came out in 2009:

• AFCGT - AFCGT (Uzu Audio) LP
• Laurie Scott Baker - Gracility (Musicnow) 2xCD
• L. Berner - Blackout Nights (Zen Enthusia) 2xCass
• Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak Of Araby (Drag City) CD
• Crystal Hell Pool - Wind Blows Through Me (Crippled Symmetry Recordings) CDR
• Dropp Ensemble - Safety (and/OAR) CD
• Luc Ferrari - Labyrinthe De Violence / DANCE (Alga Marghen) 12″
• Ibliss - Supernova (Garden Of Delights) CD
• The Inner Space - Agilok & Blubbo (Wah-Wah Records Sound)
• Demian Johnston - Forever (Dead Accents) Cass
• Demian Johnston - Still (Dead Accents) Cass
• Dave Knott - Sweet Little Guitar Ditties (Not On Label) CD
• R Millis - 120 (Etude Records) CD
• Hiroaki Minami - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol.10: Electronic Symphony No. 1 (Edition Omega Point) CD
• People Band - People Band 69/70 (Emanem) 2xCD
• Eliane Radigue - Triptych (Important Records) CD
• Eliane Radigue - Vice Versa, Etc.… (Important Records) 2xCD
• Matt Shoemaker - The Sunken Plethora Consumes All (Mystery Sea) CDR
• Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Syria (Sublime Frequenices) CD
• Sperm - Shh! Heinäsirkat (De Stijl) LP
• Sun City Girls - Napoleon & Josephine (Sun City Girls Singles Volume 2) (Abduction) CD
• Akio Suzuki - Ki-date (Ichinomiya City Memorial Art Museum of Setsuko Migishi) DVD
• Giancarlo Toniutti - The Early Tapes Period (Vinyl-On-Demand) 3xLP + 10″
• UnicaZürn - Temporal Bends (uZu Music) CD
• Simon Wickham-Smith - A Seventh Persimmon (Tape Drift Records) CDR
• Zaïmph - Serpent’s Bite (Heavy Blossom) CD
• Various - 1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies) CD

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE!
FOREST OF GREY
for those of you who missed the legendary 30+ minute song, or just still need to get a shirt it’s
FRIDAY JAN 15th @ 6:45 PM
Prime Evil (the fate of our existence)
t-shirts are very limited run, so grab one now!  bring $15 (or $20 for ladies) cash tonight to buy them from the band.

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE

SATURDAY DECEMBER 12, 2009

DAVE KNOTT

6:00 PM



He started playing with sound in his grandfather’s junkyard in the early 1970’s, began guitar in 1981, served in the US Army 1988-1991, became a luthier in 1994, performed guitar music, built instruments, co-creatively engaged audiences and completed a degree in Music Therapy in 2000.



Since 2002, Knott has practiced as a music therapist at both Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Bailey-Boushay House. The Sweet Little Guitar Ditties have been developed over the past seven years within a music therapy practice with critically ill and injured adults and children. 



These guitar miniatures are musical offerings intended to engage and then calm individuals who face medical interventions and related anxiety and pain.  Knott’s collaborators in the Messenger Girls Trio helped him to refine the Ditties in weekly improvised music sessions from 2001-2007.



For more information about David Knott’s music therapy practice, go to:  http://www.seattlechildrens.org/about/stories/sound-of-music-therapy/



Music therapy is an allied health profession with a national independent certifying body.  Knott obtained his board certification in 2001 and completed his advanced training in Neurologic Music Therapy in 2006.

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Dave Knott has recorded with Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Rob Millis & Jeffery Taylor (Climax Golden Twins), Animist Orchestra and Yes, Well (Jeph Jerman), Omake (Matt Shoemaker) & Johnson, Greasy, Erik Major, Mike Shannon, Steve Barsotti, Eric Lanzillotta and many others.  He has had the great fortune of studying with Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster.  Knott has created numerous installations for participants to realize kinesthetic expressions in sound and promote deeper listening and has organized large, semi-improvised community sound-making experiences.  With instrument building, performances, workshops and recorded works, he seeks to stimulate the listener to a point of resonance and discovery of their own musical being.



Discography:  http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dave+Knott

These are the 30 top selling titles over the last year at Dissonant Plane:

• Bixobal #5 magazine
• Forest Of Grey s/t CDR
• Sun City Girls Fruit of the Womb / Polite Deception 2 x LP
• Baker, Laurie Scott Gracility 2 x CD
• Chalk, Andrew Shadows from the Album Skies CD
• Ghosts on Water Senshu CD
• Mood Organ Visiting A Burning Museum CDR
• Our Love Will Destroy the World Polished Glass Autobahn 7″
• Thunder Grey Pilgrim Demogorgon CDR
• Astral Social Club Monster Mittens 7”
• Chalk, Andrew River That Flows Into The Sands CD
• Hellgrammite demo C12
• AFCGT 10″ EP
• AFCGT LP
• Beausoleil, Bobby The Lucifer Rising Suite 4 x LP box
• Chalk, Andrew River That Flows Into The Sands II CD
• Chalk, Andrew & Suzuki, Daisuke Days After CD
• Deep Listening Band Non-Stop Flight CD
• Deep Listening Band Then & Now Now & Then: Celebrating 20 Years 2 x LP
• Dempster, Stuart Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel CD
• Jackman, Vikki Whispering Pages CD
• Johnston, Demian A Fortress At Terra Sea C90
• Johnston, Demian Forever C60
• Johnston, Demian Still C90
• Knott, Dave Sweet Little Guitar Ditties CD
• Various …and Shiva Came For Charlie LP
• Various Wooden Guitar 2 x LP
• Wright, Peter Magpie Attack on the Back Road to Albert Town 7”
• Wright, Peter Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong 7”
• Zaïmph Death Blooming Pleasure LP

We still have a few posters for the Kawabata Makoto performance left.  While supplies last, you can get a free screen printed poster made for us by Broken Press.  All you have to do is buy something by Kawabata or Acid Mothers Temple or make a purchase over $20 and we will give you a poster.  It’s really beautiful and only 50 copies were made.  So rush on down and grab yours before they are history!

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCEFRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
7:00 PM
KAWABATA MAKOTO
?ALOS
AERIAL RAIN

Founder of Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, Kawabata Makoto has been recording and touring for 30+ years. His projects and collaborations have brought him all over the globe, working with many prolific artists along the way such as Keiji Haino, Mani Neumeier(Guru Guru), Daevid Allen(Gong), Damo Suzuki(Can) and Kinski. From beautiful ambient dreamscapes to full blown psychedelic freakouts by way of sonic experimentation(often in the same song!), Kawabata’s music is as unrestrained as it is inspired.

Where do these sounds come from? Who is sending them out? That is not something for me to know, and neither is there any way that I could find out. I simply believe that they come from the ‘cosmos’.
-Kawabata Makoto

Kawabata Makoto leads prolific psych-rock behemoths Acid Mothers Temple, but on his own he often opts for beatific guitar emanations that suggest a strict regimen of Zen Buddhist meditation rather than AMT’s grandiloquent jamming and sonic holocausts. You could say the man loves his extremes. The INUI series of albums Kawabata’s recorded for VHF Records—as well as I’m in Your Inner Most and Hosanna Mantra—stands as a beautiful, solemn monument to his mellower inclinations, but you should probably bring earplugs, just in case the Japanese ax master gets into one of his ornery moods. Bonus: Dissonant Plane will give you a limited-edition poster to commemorate this event with any Kawabata/Acid Mothers–related purchase or any $20-plus purchase of merchandise.
  - DAVE SEGAL in The Stranger

http://www.acidmothers.com
http://www.myspace.com/kawabatamakoto
http://www.myspace.com/acidmotherstemple

• Aethenor  ”Betimes Black Cloudmasses”  CD  (VHF)  USED  $8  - with Stephen O’Malley of Sunn0))), Khanate, KTL, etc.
• Ahmed, Ilyas  ”Between Two Skies/Towards the Night”  2 x CD  (Digitalis)  USED  $10  - 2 CD set from Portland based troubadour
• Ahmed, Ilyas  ”Vertigo of Dawn, The”  CD  (Time-Lag Records)  USED  $8  - psychedelic folk from Portland
• Anubi  ”Kai Pilnaties Akis Uzmerks Mirtis”  CD  (Danza Ipnotica Records)  USED  $14  - Weird obscure psych based metal from Lithuania (rare)
• ARC  ”Arcturus”  CD  (DiN)  USED  $8.00  - sequencer driven keyboards like Tangerine Dream
• Asva  ”What You Don’t Know is Frontier”  CD  (Southern Records)  USED  $8  - heavy & slow descent w/ amazing treatments
• Banhart, Devendra  ”White Reggae Troll”  12″  (XL Recordings)  USED  $10  - single sided psychedlic 12″ w/reggae & African influence
• Bishop, Sir Richard  ”Freak of Araby, The”  CD  (Drag City)  USED  $8  - Arabic driven rhythms. highest recommendation!
• Chromatics  ”Chrome Rats vs. Basement Ruts”  CD  (GSL)  USED  $4  - Portland based post punk/ synyh pop
• Datashock, Aidan Baker, Leah Buckareff LP  (Hlava / Meudiademorte)  USED  $50  - ltd 93, 1 side only, 2nd side screenprinted
• Deathspell Omega  ”Fas-Ite, Maledicti in Ignem Aeternum”  CD  USED  $8  - Extreme scary French BM
• Deathspell Omega  ”Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice”  CD  USED  $8  - French BM supergroup ritual
• Earth  ”10 1990″  LP  (The Ajna Offensive)  USED  $50  - alt. versions of “Extra-Capsular” track + 16rpm tracks
• Hoor-Paar-Kraat  ”An Anagram Hypnotic”  LP  (Goat Eater Arts)  USED  $6  - drones and deep chords, ltd 281
• Hoor-Paar-Kraat  ”In Eros Veritas”  LP  (Goat Eater Arts / KNVBI Records)  USED  $6  - creaky experimental soundscapes, ltd 300
• Hunter, Jana / Banhart, Devendra LP  (Troubleman Unlimited)  USED  $10  - great split of psych infused folk
• Jodorowsky, Alejandro  ”Santa Sangre”  2 x DVD  (Comstar)  USED  $10  - bizarre circus, murder freakout! incredible stuff
• Joyce, James  ”Ulysses”  book  (Vintage International)  USED  $5  - controversial, influential & for a while, a banned book
• Khanate  ”No Joy (Remix)”  12″  USED  $20  - 45 RPM 12″ with exclusive remix, out of print
• Larsen  ”Musm”  2 x LP  (Enterruption)  USED  $6  - post rock w/bonus screenprinted anti-record
• Mothlite  ”Flax of Reverie, The”  2 x LP  (Southern Records)  USED  $8  - 4 dreamy sides w/member of Sunn 0))) and Guapo
• Muslimgauze  ”Gun Aramaic Part 2″  CD  (Soleilmoon Recordings)  USED  $12  - Arabic infused electronica, ltd. 2000, OOP
• Nokturnal Mortum  ”To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire”  CD  USED  $5  - Ukrainian symphonic folk
• Nokturnal Mortum  ”Twilightfall”  CD  USED  $5  - Ukraine BM ‘95 release
• Om / Current 93  ”Inerrant Rays Of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)”  10″  (Neurot Recordings)  USED  $15  - split EP, doom vs. apocalypse, green vinyl
• Popol Vuh  ”Hosianna-Mantra”  CD  (SPV)  USED  $8.00  - Dreamy ambient offering from 72 w/ bonus track
• Squarepusher  ”Burningn’n Tree”  2 x LP  (Warp)  USED  $15  - great double LP of electro glitch bass madness
• Squarepusher  ”Feed Me Weird Things”  2 x LP  (Rephlex)  USED  $25  - 1996 debut, glitchy, bass heavy, for fans of Aphex Twin
• Squarepusher  ”Go Plastic”  2 x LP  (Warp)  USED  $20  - Richard D. James discovered him in a club!!!
• Squarepusher  ”Maximum Priest E.P.”  12″  (Warp)  USED  $5  - 1999 release with Autechre & Wagonchrist remixes
• Squarepusher  ”Venus No. 17″  12″  (Warp)  USED  $10  - 2004 EP, glitchy, bass heavy
• Squarepusher / Thomas, Richard  ”Am Carnal, and I Know That You Approve”  12″  (Lo Recordings)  USED  $5  - 1999 collaboration, glitchy, bass heavy
• Stokes, Saul  ”Metacollage”  CDR  (stokes Music)  USED  $10  - Limited CD-R w/ hand signed card. recommended!
• Sunn 0)))  ”CandleWolff ov thee Golden Chalice”  LP  (Anti-Mosh)  USED  $100  - 2004 Peel sessions, same music both sides, out of print
• Sunn 0)))  ”GrimmRobe Demos, The”  2 x LP  (Southern Lord)  USED  $30  - heavy doom, black vinyl edition of 1000
• Teresa 11  ”Smoky Heaven”  CD  (Eibon Records)  USED  $8  - Exotic electronica from Japan w/ acoustics
• Various  ”Down in a Mirror : A Second Tribute to Jandek”  CD  (Summersteps Records)  USED  $6  - feat. Jeff Tweedy, Brother JT, Kawabata Makoto, etc.
• Various  ”Naked in the Afternoon: A Tribute to Jandek”  CD  (Summersteps Records)  USED  $6  - Eclectic mix of artists feat. Bright Eyes, Kid Icarus, etc.

• Antaeus  ”Blood Libels”  CD  $13
• Aosoth  ”self-titled”  LP  $14 -  French BM with MkM of Antaeus
• Averse Sefira  ”Advent Parallax”  2 x LP  $18  - Double LP, splatter vinyl, gatefold, printer inner sleeves.
• Bobby Beausoleil  ”The Lucifer Rising Suite”  4 x LP box  (Ajna)  $48  - “Now, for the first time, all of the music composed for the soundtrack project has been compiled into a single public release. ‘The Lucifer Rising Suite’ begins with the 1967 version of the soundtrack and continues through a logical sequence of the recordings made in the years spanning 1976-79. With respect to the latter, the original master tapes were mined for music that had not been heard by anyone in nearly three decades. The newly unearthed recordings were then restored, cleaned up and combined with those previously released to make the anthology as complete as possible. The compositions that comprise the Suite are sequenced in an order that tells a story, after a fashion. It is a story that may be impossible to tell in a strictly literary manner, one that - like a mirror’s reflection into another - is both personal and allegorical. A complete anthology of the recordings made for the ‘Lucifer Rising’ motion picture soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil with The Freedom Orchestra and The Magick Powerhouse Of Oz. This fully authorized and definitive release includes: - Remastered recordings spanning 11 years, from the ‘67 recording to the Tracy Prison recordings of ‘78. - 4 full-length LPs worth of ‘Lucifer Rising’ material with half being never-before-heard sessions personally selected by Bobby BeauSoleil. - 9 new pieces of art from Bobby: 8 record sleeve panels and one 2′ x 3′ poster. - 2 posters: one by Bobby BeauSoleil and one by Dennis Dread. - A much-extended version of the ‘Fallen Angel Blues’ piece by Bobby that originally appeared in the Kenneth Anger DVD set. - ‘Hymns to the Solar Temple’ - impressions on a visit to Bobby at the Oregon Correctional Facility in Pendleton, Oregon by Dennis Dread. - The Saga of a Soundtrack by Michael Moynihan. - Art from Dennis Dread for the back of the LP box, also included as a 2′ x 2′ poster. - Art from Dennis Dread for the front lid of the box which will provide a window into the works of Bobby’s to be found within. Remastered by Robert Ferbrache, well known for his work with Blood Axis, 16 Horsepower and others.”  last copies from the label!
• Deathspell Omega  ”Chaining the Katechon”  CD  $10
• Deathspell Omega  ”Kénôse”  digi CD  $13
• Elend  ”The Umbersun”  2 x LP  $21  - Official anniversary reissue of the 1998 album. Remastered by Elend, featuring 1 bonus track from the original recording sessions. Gothic Symphonic Neoclassical.
• Funeral Mist  ”Maranatha”  CD  $13  - Gnarly Swedish BM from Marduk singer
• Reencarnacion  ”888 Metal”  DLP  $18  - Colombian classic re-issued with 7″ and live material, 12×12 booklet, poster and one black/one silver vinyls
• Weapon  ”Drakonian Paradigm ”  LP   $14  -  First full length from these Canadian Devilpigs!

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
6:00 PM

ALGIERS

RED SQUIRRELS

PHILLIP HARRIS

From Alaska to Seattle and now resident of Portland, Oregan, Levi Berner (Algiers) has almost secretly unleashed a series of small run cassettes of noise music.  Most recently released through his new label Zen Enthusia, his work recalls the 1980’s glory days of Hands To and The New Blockaders while standing resoundingly in the present.  Using analog open reel tape decks among other sources, he is able to create a full sound unheard in many other contemporary digital noise acts.  Levi has curated this evening’s line up as a Zen Enthuisa showcase. http://www.myspace.com/isitstillasecret

Old Ballard resident Jason Young (Red Squirrels) has lived in the same house for something close to fifteen years. The inside is strewn with all manner of folk instrument.  DIY/broken, acoustic/electric, drums, guitars, hurdy-gurdy, tone-generators, tape monsters, delay pedals, homemade speakers… Likewise his records inhabit similar space. Mod Podged sound collage of weird electronics, drones, space noise, raga, Sufi prayers, psych rock, field recordings, etc. Previous efforts have been realized with the likes of At Jennie Richie, Algiers, and a slew of other Seattle musicians including Tiny Vipers and a member (members?) of Kinski. He has had long OOP cassettes and CDRs on labels such as Scumbag Relations, Enteruption, Wasting, and Debacle. http://www.myspace.com/redsquirrelz

Phillip Harris recently disappeared into the neither world that is North Portland. Not particularly part of any local scene or genre yet aware of the giants of free jazz, drone, music concrete, etc.Rarely playing out, existing solely outside of the scenester noise circles, yet bringing a reckless abandon to his live performance when given the opportunity. He hails from the psychedelic/psychic wasteland that is Florida. http://www.myspace.com/philipgharris

AMBIENT/DRONE:

Deceh LP  (Important Records)  $21  - acoustic/electronic drone, screenprinted insert, ltd 400

Eleh  ”Homage To The Sine Wave”  LP  (Taiga)  $22  - minimal drone electronics, numbered edition of 500

FM3  ”Buddha Machine II - Lime”  Soundbox  (FM3)  $24  - new loops, pitch control, better speaker, lime case

Radigue, Eliane  ”Triptych”  CD  (Important Records)  $14  - awesome archival minimalism from France

Radigue, Eliane  ”Vice Versa, Etc…”  2 x CD  (Important Records)  $16  - awesome archival minimalism from France, 2 discs

CLASSICAL:

Brown, Earle  ”Folio and Four Systems”  CD  (Tzadik)  $15  - early avant-garde & graphic scores, friend of John Cage

Gibson, Jon  ”Criss X Cross”  CD  (Tzadik)  $15  - solo flute & saxophone, worked with La Monte, Riley, etc

Stockhausen, Karlheinz  ”Spiral I & II, Pole, Wach, Japan, Zykus, Tierkries”  2 x CD  (EMI Classics)  $14  - reissue of amazing 2 LP box of experimental pieces

EXPERIMENTAL:

Airway  ”Live at LACE”  LP  (Harbinger Sound)  $25  - 1st vinyl reissue of early (1978) influential wall of noise

Conrad, Tony & Olson, Tovah  ”Let There Be Music”  LP  (Tovinator)  $13  - ltd 200, instantly sold out from the label, one side only

De Martinville, Edouard-Leon Scott  ”Au Clair de la Lune”  7″  (Parlortone)  $8  - 1st experiment in recording sound from 1860!!!

H.N.A.S.  ”Im Schaten der Möhre”  CD  (Streamline)  $14  - finely crafted German weirdness, their best album

Starving Weirdos  ”Father Guru”  CD  (Azul Discografica)  $14  - long trancey tracks

Winderen, Jana  ”Noisiest Guys on the Planet”  C40  (Ash International)  $7  - field recordings of underwater crustaceans, ltd 250

JAZZ/IMPROV:

Supersilent  ”7″  DVD  (Rune Grammofon)  $23  - stellar DVD video of a live concert

ROCK:

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The  ”Gorilla”  CD  (EMI)  $12  - humorous English music w/Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall

Fushitsusha 2 x CD  (P.S.F. Records)  $38  - heavy rock w/Seijiro Murayama, Yasushi Ozawa, 2 CD

Neung Phak  ”Fucking USA”  7”  (Abduction)  $8  - great cover of Korean anti-American rock tune, ltd 300

Sic Alps  ”A Long Way Around to a Shortcut”  2 x LP  (Drag City)  $20  - lo-fi garage noise rock

Six Organs of Admittance / Azul  ”Split”  LP  (P.S.F. Records)  $21  - meditative & folky, ltd 800, already sold out from label

SOUNDTRACK:

Seazer, J.A.  ”Den’en Ni Shisu”  CD  (Showboat / Sky Station)  $28  - for Shuji Terayama film w/members of Tenjo Sajiki

WORLD:

Souleyman, Omar  ”Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria”  CD  (Sublime Frequencies)  $14  - fantastic Arabic pop music that really moves

Various  ”String of Pearls”  LP  (Mississippi Records)  $14  - cool collection of rare 78s from around the world