Dissonant Plane

• Acephale  “Mord und Totsclag”  CD  (Aurora Borealis)  USED  $10  - audio CD in DVD case
• Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.  “Electric Heavyland”  CD  (alien8 Recordings)  USED  $8  - zonked out Japanese psychedelia
• Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.  “Never Ending Space Ritual”  2 x DVD  (Swordfish)  USED  $24  - documentary and live footage
• Alatar, Mohammed  “Iron Wall, The”  DVD  (PalestineOnlineStore)  USED  $10  - documentary about Jewish settlements in West Bank
• AMK/GX  “Two Dead Guys”  CDR  (Banned Production)  USED  $3  - CDR, cut-up best of with GX (Haters)
• Andorkappen  “Assorted Live Shits - Vol. 1″  DVDR  (Bastardized)  USED  $3  - DVDR  of crazy vocal noise
• Angel Witch  “2000: Live at the LA2″  CD & DVD  (Zoom Club Records)  USED  $8
• Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra  “Muse”  CD  (Creative Nation Music)  USED  $8
• Bream, Julian  “plays Dowland and Bach”  2 x CD  (Deutsche Grammophon)  USED  $10  - 1950s recordings of master lute & guitar performer
• Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band  “Safe as Milk”  CD  (Buddha Records)  USED  $8  - amazing debut from 1968 with wonderful bonus tracks
• Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band  “The Best Of”  CD  (EMI Gold)  USED  $8
• Cavity  “Laid Insignificant”  CD  (Hydra Head Records)  USED  $8
• Chrystal Belle Scrodd  “Beastings”  CD  (United Dairies)  USED  $15  - out of print anthology of NWW side project
• Clouds  “We Are Above You”  CD  (Hydra Head Records)  USED  $8
• Courtney, Andrew & Perry, Emily  “The Israeli Wall in Palestinian Lands”  DVD  USED  $10  - documentary on the wall separating Jerusalem
• Deathprod  “Morals and Dogma”  CD  (Rune Grammofon)  USED  $8  - deep and solemn music from Norway
• Einstürzende Neubauten  “Drawings of Patient O.T.”  CD  (Thirsty Ear)  USED  $8  - 1983 album of metal percussion and German angst
• Fab Trio  “Live in Amsterdam”  CD  (Porter Records)  USED  $8
• Fennesz  “Endless Summer”  CD  (Editions Mego)  USED  $8
• Fewell, Garrison  “Variable Density Sound Orchestra”  CD  (Creative Nation Music)  USED  $8
• Foreman, Richard  “Sophia: The Cliffs / 35+ Year Retrospective Compilation”  DVD  (Tzadik)  USED  $18  - experimental theater from 1972
• Gas  “Nah und Fern”  4 x CD  (Kompakt)  USED  $22  - 4 CDs of minimal ambient techno
• Gorguts  “From Wisdom to Hate”  CD  (Olymipic)  USED  $8  - Tech avant garde Death
• Gotan Project  “Santa Maria”  CD EP  (XL Recordings)  USED  $4  - downtempo / future jazz
• Haddad, Bassam  “Arabs & Terrorism”  DVD  (Arab Film Distribution)  USED  $10  - neocons vs so-called Arab “terrorists”
• Hakmoun, Hassan  “Fire Within - Gnawa Music of Morocco”  CD  (Music Of The World)  USED  $8
• Health CD  (Lovepump United)  USED  $8  - LA noise rock
• Heavy Lids  “Things are Happening at the Same Time”  CDR  (Dragon’s Eye Recordings)  USED  $4  - audio CDR, 36 minutes of delicate & spacy guitars
• Holy Modal Rounders, The  “Bound to Lose”  DVD  (Carnivalesque)  USED  $14  - crazy psychedelic folk group with LPs on ESP
• International Nothing, The  “Mainstream”  CD  (Ftarri)  USED  $10  - very pure sounds
• irr.app.(ext.)  “An Uncertain Animal, Ruptured; Tissue Expanding In Conversation”  CD  (Errata In Excelsus / Fire Inc.)  USED  $8  - early release from this current NWW collaborator
• Isis  “In the Absence of Truth”  CD  (Ipecac)  USED  $8  - Atmospheric Sludge
• Krokodil  “Krokodil / Swamp”  CD  (Azir)  USED  $8  - Swiss bluesy psych/prog w/sitar from ‘69/’70
• Krokodil  “Sweat and Swim”  CD  (Azir)  USED  $8  - Swiss blue rock; reissue of 1973 Bacillus double LP
• Merzbow  “Space Metalizer”  CD  (alien8 recordings)  USED  $8  - more cosmic noise on this one
• Mitchell, Roscoe  “Solo Concert”  CD  (AECO Products / Katalyst Entertainment)  USED  $8  - Art Ensemble of Chicago member recorded 1973-74
• Möbius, Guido  “Gebirge”  CD  (Karaoke Kalk)  USED  $8  - funky electronic music with plenty of clang & clunk
• Moondog CD  (CBS)  USED  $10  - out of print CD which reissues LPs from 1969 and 1971
• NON  “God & Beast”  CD  (Mute Records)  USED  $8  - noisy album with Douglas P. & Rose McDowell
• Nurse With Wound  “Rock’n Roll Station”  CD  (United Dairies)  USED  $16  - UD edition, features Peat Bog & Chrystal Belle Scrodd
• Popol Vuh  “Aguirre”  CD  (SPV)  USED  $8  - reissue of 1976 LP; soundtrack for Herzog film
• Pyramids 2 x CD  (Hydra Head Records)  USED  $12  - remixes by Blut Aus Nord, Colin Marston, Plotkin, etc
• Quiet American  “Plumbing and Irrigation of South Asia”  CDR  (and/OAR)  USED  $6  - ,CDR field recordings, title really says it all
• Roedelius, Hans-Joachim  “Jardin Au Fou”  CD  (Bureau B)  USED  $8  - ‘79 album of light electronic music from half of Cluster
• Rollins, Sonny  “Saxophone Colossus”  DVD  (Acorn Media)  USED  $10  - legendary jazz improvisor
• Rollins, Sonny  “Silver City”  2 x CD box  (Milestone Records)  USED  $10  - anthology covering 1972 to 1995
• Shalabi Effect  “Pink Abyss”  CD  (alien8 Recordings)  USED  $8  - slow moving, psychedelic & experimental
• Shedding  “What God Doesn’t Bless, You Won’t Love; What You Don’t Love, The Child Won’t Know”  CD  (Hometapes)  USED  $8  - lonely ambient soundtracks
• Skinny Puppy  “Brap (Back & Forth Vol. 3 & 4)”  2 x CD  (Nettwerk)  USED  $10  - unreleased early tracks & “Too Dark Park” outtakes
• Sonic Youth & Yamatsuka Eye  “TV Shit”  CD EP  (Ecstatic Peace!)  USED  $8  - short EP of crazy noise, out of print
• Swans  “Body To Body, Job to Job”  CD  (Young God Records / Sky Records)  USED  $8  - early heavy material
• Theoretical Girls  “Theoterical Record”  CD  (Acute Records)  USED  $8  - unreleased 70’s NYC no wave w/Glenn Branca
• Throne of Katarsis  “An Eternal Dark Horizon”  CD  (Candlelight Cult)  USED  $8  - Norwegian BM
• Trial of the Bow  “Ornamentation”  CD EP  (Release)  USED  $5  - eastern inspired ambient with acoustic instruments
• Urdog  “Eyelid of Moon”  CD  (Secret Eye)  USED  $8  - low key trancey grooves
• Urdog  “Garden of Bones”  CD  (Secret Eye)  USED  $8  - contemporary psych rock from Rhode Island
• Various  “Audible Geography”  CD  (Room 40)  USED  $8  - w/La Casa, Vitiello, Jerman, Tsunoda, Berhens, López
• Various  “I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey”  CD  (Vanguard)  USED  $8  - covers of Fahey by Devandra Banhart, Pelt, Peter Case
• Various  “In Formation - A Tribute to Throbbing Gristle”  CD  (Attention Deficit Recordings)  USED  $8  - 2000 album of TG covers w/Non, Melvins, MSBR, etc.
• Windy & Carl  “Songs for the Broken Hearted”  CD  (Kranky)  USED  $8  - ethereal female voice, guitars & wash of sound
• Woman Year  “Aeon Centers Faded”  CD  (Porter Records)  USED  $8  - weird songs
• X, Malcolm  “In His Own Words…”  CD  (KRB Music Companies)  USED  $6  - black power straight from the source
• Zenlo  “Skelethal Antics”  CD  (Porter Records)  USED  $8  - archival 1983 minimal synth / experimental recordings
• Zivich, Alivia & Young, Nate  “Video Madness IV”  DVDR  (AA Records)  USED  $8  - DVDR, Nate is in Wolf Eyes & Demons, 19 minutes

• Akitsa - Sang Nordique
• Amesoeurs - s/t
• Kylesa - Static Tensions LP
• Ludicra - Fex Urbis, Lex Orbis CD & LP
• MoHa! - One Way Ticket to Candyland  LP
• V:28 all three of their full lengths
• Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
• Waldteufel - Sanguis
• Waldteufel - Rauhnacht
• Fearthainne - s/t
• Althes - Althea
• All three Psyopus full lengths
• Sunn0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
• Deathspell Omega - Fas
• Arum - Prelude to the Cataclysm
• Gorgoroth - Uder the Sign of Hell
• Horna / Behexen - split
• Infernum - Taur-Nu-Fuin
• Krisiun - Assassination
• Macabre - Murder Metal
• Mayhem / Emperor - split
• Nortt - Galgenfrist
• Nortt - Graven
• Nortt - Ligfaerd
• Sigh - Hangman’s Hymn
• Wyrd - Vartimmen Part 2
• Wyrd / Häive / Kehrä - split
• Xasthur - s/t

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.

Thank you everyone for coming down to the wonderful Demian Johnston in store last Friday.    For those of you who missed it, it was great heavy noise drone.  Demian made a special CDR entitled “Coal Lung” for the in store in an edition of 13!  Several lucky souls picked up a copy Friday night, but for those of you that didn’t Demian left us a couple copies to sell in the store.  The music is pretty fantastic noise doom with some guitar picking and each cover is a little different.  This one is released on Demian’s Dead Accents label from which he also brought us the Shining Ones CDR.  This is a live recording from their debut show (I think) at the Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater on February 20 of this year.  Shinings Ones features Demian on vocals and manipulations, Dan LaRochelle of Lesbian on guitars and Andy Crawshaw of Broken Press on percussion and Alesis Micron 1 keyboard.  Their sound is heavy doom with ambient drone intro and outro.  Andy did an amazing job on the covers with a two-color screen print on nice paper with an obi, but there are only 100 of these made.  And since he was bringing us stuff, Demian also left us with one more Playing Enemy title, this one a CD by the name of “Accessory“.  From outside appearances, this might look to be another 2 song EP, but the disc runs a full one hour and eighteen minutes.  Most of the disc is the epic “To Her, To Thank Her” which finds them in much slower and trancy form.  The disc is capped off by a cover The Beatles’ “She So You” which find them in more heavy form, albeit with a more experimental middle section.  It seems fitting that Sam from Debacle Records also brought his latest release that night as it is likewise heavy and noisy.  Not part of the Emerald Debacle series, this 18 minute CDR is by Brent Landon of Brooklyn and is between power electronics and intense metal, or as Sam put it “between Mouthus and Pig Destroyer”.  The kind of thing I could see coming out on Hospital Productions.

Over the weekend, Sam from Debacle Records dropped off the new Hemingway CDR on his label.  It’s a fan CD, which means that there is on 3″ of metal to encode music on, but the disc is a full 5″ across as the empty space is taken up by clear plastic.  So it’s a short EP of a little over 11 minutes.  The two tracks are “Hutterites” and “Dreckolage”.  The first is a doomy slow noise rock song which ends in a blast of noise, which is carried on by the second track.  Just guitars, drums and vocals by Demian Johnston and Shane Mehling, but still a heavy thick sound.  This disc is part of The Emerald City Debacle Vol. 2 and like the others in the series comes in a hand numbered edition of 100 copies.  It’s only $5.00, so grab one while you can.

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 .