Thank you Chad for the wonderful in store performance last night. We got most of it on video (stupid camera) and Jim Evans recorded it to something like 6 tape deck placed around the room. Chad made a new C12 release for the store last night which is Volume V of “Songs for Melting Lovers”. We are already sold out, but hopefully will get more. I think he made less copies than the number of people that showed up last night, so I’m not sure about that.
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://hammersmashedjazz.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.
Today’s guest blogger is yrs truly, Jim Evans of Sparkle Girl Thursday, May 21st: 7:00pm …Wind…Swept…Planes Thursday, May 28th: 7:00pm Simon Wickham-Smith and Jonathan Way As we approach one of my personal favorite holidays, May Day. We thought we would send out a new blog mentioning some of the cool things we have going on here at Dissonant Plane for the month of May.First order of business is to mention the cool instore performances we have coming up soon at the Plane.On Thursday, May 21st we’ll have ….Wind…Swept…Planes. Wind Swept Planes is the solo project of Chad Allen who also performs with Forrest Friends and Hellgrammite. Utilizing everything from scrapes, rattles, vocals, drums and guitar Chad manages to conjure up some bleak desolation in sound. What personally attracts me to the sound of WSP is the rugged mix of instruments with dark slow vocals. Listening to his great cd “The Rose, The Prickliest of Thorns” on Debacle Records I could hear elements of rough Tom Waits experimentation, the magnificent clatter of Finland’s Avarus as vocals delivered like Michael Morely.This should be a treat and you don’t want to miss out because Chad doesn’t often play out as Wind Swept Planes.Speaking of not missing out. One week later we have another instore. This time it is none other than the multitalented musician, translator and astrologer Simon Wickham-Smith! If you are not sure who Simon is this performance should open your eyes a little. Getting a handle on all the music Simon works with can be daunting. Starting with Richard Youngs in the A-Band (great stuff) his musical career has encompassed avant folk, electronic as well as truly experimental music in a variety of releases on a multitude of labels. What is amazing is that along with a extensive discography of lovely challenging sound work Simon has also traveled quite a bit, spent time in a monastery, is working on an astrology text focusing on intersex and transgendered people and if that is not enough to interest you he is also a leading translator of classic Mongolian literature. Whew. Come down to the store on May 28th to hear Simon perform with Jonathan Way. As for music, well, we’ve got lots. Speaking of Wind Swept Planes we not only have his cd on Debacle but also a couple of very limited cassettes handmade from the artist himself. We also have quite a few selections from the extensive catalog of Simon Wickham-Smith.Let’s not forget about the other killer shows we have going on our fair city. List courtesy of Mr. A. Moses.
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I just learned that after 10 years in Seattle, Levi Berner is moving to Portland. It sounds like he’s got a nice situation lined up down there, and we wish him luck, though will miss seeing him in the shop on a regular basis. Before he moves at the end of the month, there will be a show with …Wind Swept Planes…, Algiers, Drowner, Red Squirrels and Worthless Eaters at the Seattle Metaphysical Library (which is less than a block from us) on April 13th (a week from Monday). Some time after he has resettled down south, he will return to Seattle for a Zen Enthusia in store performance featuring Algiers and Sterile Garden. Zen Enthusia is of course Levi’s label, we just got the latest release which is a C26 by Algiers. It’s an edition of 40 copies and as usual comes in a double sided full color J-card. The sounds contained within are a thick blanket of static noise - it sounds like things piled up on top of each until the details blend together into one large mass of sound. In this sense, its like the early Hands To recordings. At the same time, we got a couple copies of a Vertonen C20 on What We Do Is Secret entitled “Rogyapas Bath“. This one is a bit different from other Vertonen recordings I have heard and is very peaceful ambient.
