Dissonant Plane

Lots of awesome lo-fi noise and more from Aaron Dilloway’s Hanson Records.  The new  Emeralds CD was left out of the box by accident, but should be here early next week.

• Darksmith  ”Total Vacuum”  LP  (Hanson Records)  $15  - creepy, weird, subterranean sounds, ltd 300
• David Russell Snake, The  ”Three Secret Murders”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - old fashioned noise loops, C30
• Dead Machines  ”Minister To A Mind Diseased”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - low grade analog electronic static horror sounds, C30
• Dilloway, Aaron  ”Beggar Master”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $10  - harsh noise, you can hear the Wolf Eyes connection
• Dilloway, Aaron  ”Boggs Vol. 1″  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - very minimal electronics, tape & voice experiments, C30
• Dilloway, Aaron  ”Boggs Vol. Two”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $7  - throbbing, pulsing, minimal noise & a really nuts track
• Dilloway, Aaron  ”Chain Shot”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $10  - layered noise loops w/metal or overmodulated horns
• Dilloway, Aaron  ”Door With No Handle”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - distant washes of howling sound, C30
• Dilloway, Aaron  ”Second Foul”  C60  (Hanson Records)  $6  - starts off very minimal but gets into thick sounds, C60
• Dilloway, Aaron & Yeh, C. Spencer  ”Squid, The”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $10  - cosmic noise w/violin, loops and lots of delay
• Emeralds  ”Emeralds”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - murky inner mind explorations, C30
• Emeralds  ”Solar Bridge”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $10  - mind bending outer space drones
• Emeralds & Dilloway  ”Under Pressure”  C60  (Hanson Records)  $6  - very cosmic old style electronic music, C60
• Haters, The  ”In The Shade Of Fire”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $10  - pivotal 1986 album of destroyed sounds
• Haunting, The / Failing Lights  ”Devaluing A Mind”  C60  (Hanson Records)  $6  - crude ghostly Michigan lo-fi noise, C60
• Monsturo  ”7734″  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - wind tunnel like sounds from modular synths, C30
• Nath Family  ”Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $10  - authentic trance sounds recorded in Nepal
• Nath Family  ”Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer Vol. 2″  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - more material equally as amazing as the CD, C30
• Nevari Butchers, The  ”Shatter All Organized Activities”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - heavy sounds w/Aaron Dilloway & Skin Graft guy, C30
• Nyoukis, Dylan  ”Dadgum My Bubblegum”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - insane vocals noises, Prick Decay member, C30
• Pedestrian Deposit  ”Fatale”  CD  (Hanson Records / Hospital Productions )  $7  - insane cut up harsh noise
• Raven Strain  ”Trisagion”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - murky metallic noise, C30
• Romero, Damion  ”Missing Link”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - heavy drones, C30
• Speculum Fight  ”Lost Live 2″  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - thick sounds from Damion Romero, C30
• Spine Scavenger  ”Plays The Writings of Commander X”  C60  (Hanson Records)  $6  - raw minimal analog synth from Aaron Dilloway, C60
• Trepaneringsritualen  ”Septentronal”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - Swedish doom industrial like Cold Meat Industries, C30
• Turman, Robert / Dilloway, Aaron  ”Split”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - 1 side by each, completely different from the CD, C30
• Turman, Robert & Dilloway, Aaron  ”Blizzard”  CD  (Hanson Records)  $10  - early NON member & ex-Wolf Eyes = heavy ambient
• Twilight Memories  ”Septentronal”  C30  (Hanson Records)  $6  - dark thick sounds, C30

• Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraisio U.F.O.  ”Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!)”  2 x LP  (Resonant / Static Caravan)  USED  $35  - OOP 2001 release, ltd 1000, 1 LP black, 1 LP purple
• Artificial Memory Trace  ”Vol. 13: Erozion”  LP  (E.R.S. Records)  USED  $8  - organic drones & loops, 3 long tracks & 18 lock grooves
• deRidder, Willem + Crawl Unit  ”Voice & Sound”  7″  (Povertech Industries)  USED  $4  - Dutch Fluxus & Hafler Trio guy telling tall tales,  ltd 300
• Hands To  ”Cipher”  7″  (Povertech Industries)  USED  $4  - Jeph Jerman’s lo-fi noise project, ltd 300
• [multer]  ”Neskt”  10″  (Genesungswerk)  USED  $4  - minimal & experimental beats from Germany, ltd 500
• NON  ”Solitude”  7″  (Mute Records)  USED  $8  - features 8 lock grooves + extra center hole, ltd 700
• Pan Sonic  ”B”  12″ EP  (Mute Records)  USED  $4  - Finnish masters of heavy minimal analog beats
• Project W  ”Snake Legs”  7″  (Apraxia)  USED  $2  - improv jazz w/Shoup, ltd 500, red vinyl, missing cover
• Ransone, Key  /  Leonard, Cheryl E.  ”Apraxia Composer Series Vol. 1″  7″  (Apraxia)  USED  $2  - Small Cruel Party guy & ex-member of Caroliner
• Shifts  ”Eight Line”  LP  (E.R.S. Records)  USED  $10  - cool drones from Frans (Beequeen, Freiband), ltd 200
• snd  ”MakeSND Cassette”  2 x LP  (Mille Plateaux)  USED  $10  - clicks’n'cuts style from 1999, 2 LPs in single pocket
• Solid Eye  ”It’s a Salon”  7″  (Detector)  USED  $10  - very cool glow in the dark vinyl!  weird LAFMS sounds
• Sound  ”Screaming Zenith”  2 x LP  (Beta-Lactam Ring Records)  $14  - mondo weirdo sounds from Texas, ltd 300
• Spiritualized  ”Pure Phase Tones for D.J.’s”  LP  (Spaceman Records)  USED  $20  - ltd release of phased ambient electronics
• Tzotziles  ”Psalms, Stories and Music”  LP  (Sub Rosa)  USED  $10  - festivals & rituals of a Mayan group recorded ‘75-’85
• Vote Robot  ”RUR”  LP  (Vegas / Catsup Plate)  USED  $20  - Canadian swirling & glitch electronics & loops, long OOP
• Vote Robot  ”Versions”  LP  (Vegas-p)  USED  $30  - remix album w/Climax Golden Twins, ltd 100, very rare

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

• 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.

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

• Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast CD  (Fleece Records / Wholly Other)  USED  $8  - Heather Murray (ex-Charalambides) & Shawn McMillen
• Bishop, Richard  ”God Damn Religion”  DVD + CD  (Locust Music)  USED  $12  - CD & DVD set, no guitar here, just dark experimental
• Cage, John  ”Variations IV”  CD  (Legacy International)  USED  $6  - fantastic sound collages, reissue of 2 LPs from 1965
• Cluster  ”71″  CD  (Water)  USED  $9  - early dark & cosmic electronics from Germany
• Cluster  ”II”  CD  (Spalax)  USED  $9  - really good!  like good spacey TG, but years earlier
• Crass  ”Christ the Album”  2 x CD  (Crass Records)  USED  $9  - 1982 album of anarcho-peace punk
• Culver C90  ((oTo))  USED  $2  - droney noises, 1 side only, C90,  ltd 50
• Doc Wör Mirran  ”Power of Positive Obscurity, The”  C60  (Old Europa Cafe)  USED  $2  - spacey lo-fi creations from Germany on Italian label C60
• Faust with Conrad, Tony  ”Live:  London - Queen Elisabeth Hall - February 1995″  C60  (Klangbad)  USED  $2  - live concert recording released by the band, C60
• Fennesz  ”Fennesz Plays”  CD EP  (Moikai)  USED  $4  - instrumental electronic glitch covers of Stones, 7 mins
• German Oak CD  (Radioactive)  USED  $9  - obscure Krautrock instrumentals from 1972
• Godz  ”Contact High”  CD  (ESP Disc / XYZ Music)  USED  $9  - drop out folk weirdness from 1966
• Harvester  ”Hemat”  CD  USED  $9  - great trance psychedelic rock w/folk touches from 1969
• Jackie-O Motherfucker  ”Europe 2002″  2 x CD  (Cast Exotic Archives)  USED  $12  - out of sight collective weirdness
• Kawabata Makoto  ”You Are The Moonshine”  CD  (Mar/Ino / Elsie & Jack Recordings)  USED  $15  - beautiful ambient sounds, ltd 150, long out of print
• Knaack, Donald  ”Dance Music”  CD  (RRRecords)  $8  - contemplative & creative experimental
• Kubli, Thom  ”Mondok Spots”  CD  (BMB Lab)  USED  $7  - very beautiful subtle drones like Rafael Toral, ltd 300
• L’infonie  ”Volume 333″  2 x CD  (Mucho Gusto)  USED  $12  - bizarre jazz, rock, experimental, classical mixture
• Lacy, Steve  ”Saxophone Special +”  CD  (Emanem)  USED  $9  - very free playing with some of the greats of the day
• Limbus 4  ”Mandalas”  CD  (Spalax)  USED  $9  - one of the greats of early free music w/ acoustic instrs.
• Lost in Translation  ”Wednesday Tapes, The”  C90  (Black Velvet Fuckere Recordings)  USED  $2  - old school cosmic electronics, C90
• Malanga, Gerard  ”Up From The Archives”  CD  (Sub Rosa)  USED  $8  - from the archives of this Warhol collaborator
• McLean Mix, The  ”Golden Age of Electronic Music, The”  CD  (CRI)  USED  $10  - great early analog electronics, out of print
• Miller, Donald  ”A Little Treatise on Morals”  CD  (Audible Hiss)  USED  $8  - solo pieces from Borbetomagus guitarist from 1982
• MNortham  ”Breathing Towers”  CD EP  (Dorobo)  USED  $8  - ltd 400, OOP, 22 minutes, lovely drone
• Moondog and his Friends CD  (Moondog’s Corner)  USED  $8  - reissue of 1953 material using tape overdubbing
• Möslang, Norbert / Guhl, Andy  ”Deep Voices”  CD  (Urthona)  USED  $9  - 1978 FMP debut of the duo that became Voice Crack
• Musica Elettronica Viva  ”The Sound Pool”  CD  (Spalax)  USED  $9  - 1969 large ensemble free for all, originally LP on BYG
• Nath, Pandit Pran  ”Raga Cycle”  CD  (Sri Moonshine)  USED  $9  - contemplative Indian classical w/La Monte Young
• Of  ”Rocks Will Open”  CD  (Digitalis)  USED  $8  - delicate acoustic sounds, Thuja member, ltd 500
• Oliveros, Pauline  ”Primordial Lift”  CD  (Table of the Elements)  USED  $9  - with guests Tony Conrad and David Grubbs
• Romero, Damion  ”Feedback in a Lover’s Telegraph”  CD  (Harbinger Sound)  USED  $7  - gentle and warm self-sustaining feedback drone
• Screamin’ Mee-Mees & Hot Scott Fischer  ”You’re Now In Our World: Warp Sessions ‘72″  CDR  (Slippy Town)  USED  $6  - lo-fi primitive “Godz meets Amon Düül”, CDR, ltd 125
• Smegma  ”Ism”  CD  (Tim/Kerr Records)  USED  $10  - long out of print 1993 album by these Portland weirdos
• Speare, Jed  ”Sound Works 1982-1987″  2 x CD  (Family Vineyard)  USED  $12  - great unreleased musique concrete from the 1980’s
• Throbbing Gristle  ”Live Volume 1, 1976-1978″  CD  (Mute Records / The Grey Area)  USED  $12  - out of print, early murky Industrial sounds, vellum cover
• Ya Ho Wha 13  ”Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony”  CD  (Cold Sweat)  USED  $9  - reissue of 1974 LP, acid-mantra psychedelic death trip

Dissonant Plane will be open late for the Ballard Art Walk on Saturday August 8th.  To celebrate, Sparkle Girl (Jim) will be making fun noises to mix with the sounds of the space.  Jim is moving away in less than two weeks, so this might be one of your last chances to catch him for a good while!

Two very special items from Japan:

Akio Suzuki “Ki-date” DVD & book
A beautiful retrospective of this very special Japanse sound artist.  The 210 minute all region NTSC DVD features live performances on Akio’s instruments such as the Analapos and Suzuki Type Glass Harmonica, as well as exhibition views and field recordings.  The performances are sublime as Suzuki lets loose delicate and magical sounds from his instruments and plays with small objects.  Also in the box is a 190 color catalog with texts in Japanese and English (translations by Alan Cummings) documenting 40 years of sound creation with many lovely photographs.  Also included in this set is a map of the location that Suzuki marked for ‘Oto-Date’.   This on going projects marks good listening spots in urban areas with Suzuki’s whimsical icon combining feet and ears.  This map shows the locations around the museum that Akio liked and the DVD documents these spots.  In a stroke of genius the video faces the opposite direction of any action so that sounds are heard, but the visuals are mostly stationary, yet impart the sense of the place.  The performance recordings on the DVD, these sounds are also recorded by Kuwayama Kijima of Lethe.  Documents of Suzuki’s work are always hard to find and therefore in demand, so don’t miss your chance to pick up this set!

Lethe “Catastrophe Point #6″ CD
Privately released limited edition CD from 2005 packaged on an A4 (about letter size) cardboard sleeve with beautiful artwork by Isao Mizutani.
Nagoya based Kiyoharu Kuwayama has an interest in reverberant spaces, recording under bridges and flyovers as well as in warehouse and Shinto temples at night. Although he occasionally employs cello, his works tends to explore space and perspective in utterly unconventional ways. Typically, he favours objects found in situ to sound the acoustic environment and is as likely to use a chair scraped along the floor as a standard musical instrument. But music this most definitely is. The first piece on offer here foregrounds what sounds like a handful of pebbles being clicked together against a distant backdrop of scraped sheet metal. The thickness of the room’s acoustics lends the whole an almost frightening clarity, and there’s an unreality to the way the two different reverberant layers combine that only adds to the sense of unease. We’re thrown into a subtly heightened acoustic realm, in which scale and perspective are altered, to disquieting psychological effect. The second piece heightens and complicates the acoustic picture even further, and increases the density of the sonic activity. The sound sources here seem to be bundles of sticks, bottles, tea trays and iron girders thrown down lift shafts. Once again the ear tries to make sense of the altered relationships Kuwayama set up between loud and soft, close and distant. Slowly, the piece starts to focus more and more strongly on a huge, dark vibration at the furthest end of the acoustic spectrum, which builds in intensity, racking up the tension and subtly disturbing the mind’s equilibrium. By this point, the music sounds like it’s taking piece in a vast, pitch black aircraft hangar of the soul. - Keith Moline (Wire No. 264)
Volcanic Tongue made comparisons with Christoph Heemann, Sean Meehan and AMM when describing this one.

Four new titles from Hospital Productions in for the first time:

Cold Cave “Cremations” CD - Old style minimal synth - simple melodies and rhythms with monotone vocals.  Cold and perverse atmosphere.  This collects tracks from the instantly out of print 7″, cassette and LP releases.

The Grey Wolves “Judgement” CD - Lo-fi, creepy, ritual industrial from the U.K. originally released on cassette sometime in the 1980’s.  The Grey Wolves were still associated with T.O.P.Y. at this early point in their history as can be seen on the logos from the original cover art reproduced here.  The Grey Wolves are better known for power electronics, so this is an unusual release for them and sounds more like Trev’s other project Nails ov Christ.

Malkuth “Sefirah Gevurah” CD - Underground, raw and rough black metal from New York.  This is their second album, the first one was vinyl only and sold out very fast.  Malkuth features members of Zashiki-Warashi, No Neck Blues Band, and K-Salvatore and sounds nothing like those bands.

Yellow Tears “Don’t Cry” 12″ - Dark and psychologically disturbing trio from New York.  The sounds of pain, fear and dread.

Also, back in stock:
Controlled Bleeding “Shanked and Slithering” CD - totally violent electronics/vocals/junk metal assault
Jason Crumer “Ottoman Black” CD - heavy noise and thick drones
Diapsiquir “Pacta Daemoniarum/Crasse” 2 x CD - reissue of two rare black metal French CDs from 1999 and 2001
Kevin Drumm “Imperial Distortion” 2 x CD - deep and minimal stark atmospheres
Carlos Giffoni / Prurient “Heavy Rain Returns” CD - deep throbbing analog power electronics noise