Dissonant Plane

Latest batch of used goodies:

• 3/4 Had Been Eliminated  “A Year of the Aural Gauge Operation”  CD  (Häpna)  $10  - gentle filmic rock with nice little sounds
• Badalamenti, Angelo  “Soundtrack from Twin Peaks”  CD  (Warner Bros.)  $8  - Eric stopped watching TV when this went off the air
• Balmorhea  “Like Water in a Dream of Thaw”  CD  $7  - soft instrumental post rock with acoustic instruments
• Balmorhea  “Tour EP”  CDR EP  $3  - CDR EP, instrumental post rock, ltd. 175
• Circle  “Sunrise”  CD  (No Quarter)  $10  - like a psychedelic Motorhead
• Dif Juz  “Extractions”  CD  (4AD)  $8  - jazzy instrumental rock produced by Robin Guthrie
• Eckhart, Eric  “Lost and Found”  CD  $2  - slickly produced folk songs & indie rock
• Electronicat  “21st Century Toy”  CD  (Disko B)  $7  - ‘electric-glam-rock n roll’; promo w/no tray
• Galbraith, Alastair  “Cry”  CD  (Emperor Jones Records)  $10  - guitar, drones, loops, vocals in a dreamy combination
• Galbraith, Alastair / De Gennaro, Matt  “From the Dark (South Island)”  CD  (Xeric)  $9  - awesome acoustic long string drones
• Grouper  “Wide”  LP  (Weird Forest)  $8  - fragile lo-fi echos, clear & black vinyl mix, only 500 made
• House of Cosy Cushions  “Animal Dream”  CD  (Seadog Records)  $7
• Jeck, Philip  “Surf”  CD  (Touch)  $9  - subtle textures created from vinyl and loops
• Kemialliset Ystävät CD  (Fonal)  $10  - wild freak folk from Finland
• Mountain High  “Co-Op Shmo-Op”  7″  (Hot Dog City Record Co.)  $2  - garage / indie rock
• My Cat Is An Alien / Roden, Steve  “Cosmic Debris Volume II”  CD  (A Silent Place)  $10  - split of quiet sound, reissue of extremely ltd art LP
• No Land’s Band  “Percolating Joys”  CDR  (Ero)  $2  - CDR, ambient noise electronics
• Oracle  “Doomed to Reign Volume Two”  CDR  (Scatalogical Liberation Front)  $5  - CDR, ltd. 100, Seattle black metal
• Oval  “Ovalprocess”  CD  (Thrill Jockey)  $7  - glitchy ambient electronica
• Pink Floyd  “More”  CD  (Capitol)  $8  - originally releaed in 1969
• Popol Vuh  “In Den Gärten Pharaos”  CD  (SPV)  $8  - essential ‘71 album of Moog ambiance w/bonus tracks
• Pretty Things, The  “S.F. Sorrow”  CD  (Edsel Records)  $10  - very psychedelic pop from 1967
• Various  “KVRX Local Live, Vol. 13″  CD  $2  - w/Donkeys, Half Japanese, Akron/Family, Balmorhea
• Weirdlords  “The Book of Weird Vol. 1″  CDR  (Council of Serpentry Music)  $2  - experimental & lo-fi rock from Seattle
• Weirdlords  “Zizlore’s Mansion”  CD EP  (Council of Serpentry Music)  $2  - heavy rock from Seattle; 26 minutes
• Whitman, Keith Fullerton  “Playthroughs”  CD  (Kranky)  $8  - pretty drones
• Zorn, John  “Cartoon S&M”  2 x CD  (Tzadik)  $12

Late next Thursday night is a screening the black metal documentary “Until the Light Takes Us“.  It’s only playing Thursday the 28th and Saturday the 30 at 11:30 PM and the directors will be there.  The film features Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, Varg “Count Grishnackh” Vikernes, Jan Axel “Hellhammer” Blomberg, Kjetil “Frost” Haraldstad, Olve “Abbath” Eikemo, Harald “Demonaz” Nævdal, Harmony Korine, Bjarne Melgaard, Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg, and Bård “Faust” Eithun.  Plus it has music by Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, Ulver, Thorns, Gorgoroth, Enslaved, Boards of Canada, Black Dice, Sunn 0))), Múm and Lesser.  Don’t miss your chance to see it on the big screen!  Details about these screenings can be found here:
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/892
and details about the movie are here:
http://www.blackmetalmovie.com/

Yesterday and this morning I’ve been continuing to enjoy the Blue Sabbath Black/Penetration Camp split 12″ Bleak Village::Mob Rules. We have a few copies left at a nice price for you thrifty shoppers. No sooner had I finished posting the blog that I came across a new interview with BSBC. You can check it out here: http:​/​/​hammersmashedja​zz.​blogspot.​com/​In addition to a host of new releases from these bog death demons I realized we still had a few Gnarled Forest releases in stock here at the store. Since all their releases tend to sell out or become quickly hard to find we’re lucky to have a few in stock.Currently in addition to their split with Penetration Camp we still have copies of GF21 BSBC/Terrortank, GF23 Dried Up Corpse and my personal fave of these three GF24 which is a split between Dried Up Corpse and the broken noise of SLATES. All tapes are C10 housed in oversize bags with evocative B+W cardstock covers.  

This is Jim Evans of Sparkle Girl a your guest blogger today. Last week after posting the updates about the not one but two intriguing in store performances we have this month at Dissonant Plane. Mr Chad Allen of …Wind…Swept…Planes stopped in and didn’t get upset at my description but we narrowed it down somewhat to “elctroacoustic desolation” he also promised a new set that would be more of a change to those sounds heard on his releases here at the store. …Wind…Swept…Planes will be appearing at Dissonant Plane On Thursday, May 21 at 7pm.If you feel like checking out the artist before the in store we still have two different WSP cassettes (final copies I believe). We also have cassettes of Chad’s metal band Hellgramitt and his avant free project with Garrison, Forrest Friends. No sooner had Chad left the store than I had the great pleasure of meeting Jonathan Way. Jonathan is going to be performing with Simon Wickham-Smith here at Dissonant Plane for an in store performance on Thursday, May 28th. One week after WSP. Nothing like to talking to the performer themselves. Jonathan works with field recordings in multiple ways. Sounds good to us and we look forward to his collaboration with Simon Wickham-Smith. It should be a mighty interesting in store and who knows when you might see this duo collaborate again.Review for the morning: Blue Sabbath Black Cheer/Penetration Camp: Bleak Village::Mob Rules (Drug Front Productions, 12″ Split LP. 12″ Split LP by Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and Penetration Camp. This has already become one of my favorite releases of the year by far. BSBC start off the fun with two tracks on side one ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Elektrisches Begrabnis’. Playable at 33rpm these are two awesome tracks from these fine purveyors of PACNW bog-death-doom. Paranoid made me feel like a man on the run from the leper haus as lightning makes your hair stand on end then you slip in the filthy muddy trench as the exiled living dead grab at your thin sick bones. Great shrieking atmospheres of bleak wet horror noise. The second track Elektrische Begrabnis starts with a menacing bass throb and fried electronics when the sick vocals start to creep up on you. A shattering tortuous maelstrom kicks in and helps swath the menacing rhythm. You can almost hear the scythes slit the throats. Side B is Penetration Camp with Mob Rules. At 45rpm their track lives up to it’s title. Recently reading about the Black Plaugue and this track could be a soundtrack.Imagine being inside a monastery where the twisted brothers have turned to the devil for salvation from the sickened masses. Just as soon as PC had elicited this vision in my mind there is a crash and then you realize the mob now rules inside the gates. This is probably my favorite PC recording so far with all the power and atmosphere of their live sets. Two excellent bands on one LP housed in a beautiful screened sleeve, hand applied art print front and two cardstock insets one from each artist. Really wonderful split from folks at Drug Front Productions.

Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions has none done well over 200 releases of power noise and black metal.  Sadly, most of the releases are limited edition leaving only a handful of titles available at any time.  We stocked up on what is available and got:

• Akitsa  ”Le Grande Infamie”  CD  (Tour De Garde)  $11 - Canadian black metal
• Controlled Bleeding  ”Shanked and Slithering”  CD  (Hospital Productions)  $11  - totally violent eletronics/vocals/junk metal assault
• Crumer, Jason  ”Ottoman Black”  CD  (Hospital Productions)  $11  - heavy noise and thick drones
• Giffoni, Carlos / Prurient  ”Heavy Rain Returns”  CD  (Ideal Recordings)  $11  - deep throbbing analog power electronics noise
• Hair Police CD  (Hospital Productions)  $11  - cut up harsh noise in the vein of K2, Pain Jerk, etc.
• M.B.  ”Symphony for a Genocide”  CD  (Hospital Productions)  $11  - reissue of ultra rare Sterile LP, a classic of early noise
• New Blockaders,The  / Moore, Thurston / O’Rourke, Jim  ”Voloptulist,The”  CD  (Hospital Productions)  $11  - classic crunchy noise from old school characters
• Prurient  ”Cocaine Death”  CD  (Hospital Productions)  $11  - power electronics, material from very limited tapes
• Prurient - Drumm, Kevin  ”All Are Guests in the House of the Lord”  CD  (Hospital Productions)  $11  - dark and intense collaboration 

plus a few more not worth mentioning as they sold even before we could price them!

We finally got more weird metal from these guys. Including more of Genghis Tron’s first two albums (Cloak of Love & Dead Mountain Mouth). Albums you need to check out are Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood by Italian black, horror, noise, project Gnaw Their Tongues, Six by Wildildlife (local psych, avant rock / metal), A New Species of Deviant by Corpus Mortale a Danish Brutal Death Metal band. Advent Parallax by Averse Sefira isa  really awesome ugly, gnarly, black metal hellstorm. Some very special items we got in stock are Scattered Ashes, which is an Emperor guitar tablature book with a CD containing the songs. The Other is a very limited digipak of Mayhem’s Life Eternal containing De Mysteriis songs with Varg’s basslines in the mix, 10 exclusive stickers, and a scrapbook foldout of Mayhem pictures and documents in ‘93 (put together by Attila). Other items include:

•  In the Woods - Strange in Stereo
• Satyricon - Age of Nero
• Primordial - Gathering Wilderness
• Crebain - Night of the Stormcrow
• Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vestusta
• Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vestusta Part 2
• Forgotten Woods - Race of Cain
• Diagonal
• Wildildlife - Six
• Emperor - Wrath of the Tyrant/Emperor LP
• Emperor - IX Equilibrium

Be sure to check this stuff out.

We recently received many great items from Southern Lord including…

• Burial Chamber Trio - WVRM
• Deathspell Omega - Chaining the Katechon
• Deathspell Omega - FAS
• Earth - Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
• Earth - Hibernaculum
• Funeral Mist - Devilry
• Funeral Mist - Salvation
• Lurker Of Chalice
• Joe Preston and Daniel Menche - Cerberic Doxology
• Sunn0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth
• Sunn0))) - Domkirke (double LP)
• Sunn0))) / Boris - Altar   
• Wolves In The Throne Room - Malevolent Grain (LP)

We have also pre-ordered a few copies of Black Cascade by Wolves in the Throne Room .