nifty new arrivals
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