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

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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

Chicago based duo Locrian combine elements of noise, psychedelia, noise and drone.  We first heard it here on their CD “Drenched Lands“.  This fine album has now been reissued on vinyl in a very limited edition of 200 copies with a bonus 3″ CDR.  It seems like a really small edition, especially as we almost missed out on this - it seemed to sell out in a very small window of time.  Anyhow, we landed a few copies and it is gorgeously packaged in a letterpress sleeve with a glossy insert and pressed on clear vinyl.  The CDR is exclusive to this edition and is a live recording from Phil von Zweck’s program on WLUW FM.  For that session they were joined by Andrew Sherer of Valnias and Mark Solotroff of Bloodyminded and Intrinsic Action.  Heavy and doomy stuff.  We also got some of the last copies of Locrian’s 7″ “Plague Journal“.  All white, cover and vinyl, the 33 RPM grooves contain some awesome psychedelic noise.  Blissful stuff.

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

John Olson started American Tapes before there was a Wolf Eyes.  Early on he already had a diversity of musical projects and these days seem to be no different.  This week we got a box of the latest releases from the label, all new things that they didn’t have on offer at the recent Josephine show.  None of them is by Wolf Eyes, but most of them seem to be related in some way, if not in actual membership than in aesthetics.  All these releases are packaged in handmade covers with very little info and come in limited editions of 40 to 100 copies.  The oldest title we were able to get was the special edition of Dead Machines “Plays Kwaidan”.  Dead Machine is John Olson (Wolf Eyes) and his wife Tovah Olson.  This one of several releases where they create soundtracks for old movies, in this case the brilliant Kobayashi film from 1964 which had brilliant music by Toru Takemitsu.  The Dead Machines version was released as a 7″ by the Swedish label Ideal, but American tapes made a special edition of only 30 copies with a bonus CDR featuring exclusive tracks by Dead Machines, plus the solo projects Spykes and Tovah D-Day.  Slightly more recent is the Paul Flathery & Jeff Hartford one-sided LP “8-01-08” named for the date on which it was recorded.  Flaherty is a free jazz alto sax player and dominates the recording, athlought Jeff Hartford’s electronic noises can be heard in the mix as well.  This one is limited to only 100 copies, as is the other single-sided LP we were able to get, “Learning for Insipid Zeal“.  Peopled by Pool Water, People Pollution (members of Raven Strain and Sick Llama), and Imaginary Unit In Electronics, this album is a great little selection of murky noise electronics and seems to be the only appearance on vinyl of these groups.  However, Pool Water does have a CDR titled “Live at Warm & Covering” which is quite nice.  Although it is not revealed on the release anywhere, this group is made up of John Olson, Mike Connelly (Wolf Eyes, Hair Police), and Mike Collino playing violin, cardboard percussion, flute, tapes.  From here we go into the region of total mystery acts about which I know nothing, except that they sound good, and that is all that really counts in the end.  The other two CDRs in this batch are About ‘Needs’ and ‘Crisis’ by Rain of Dissolved Sedatives and Paradox 11.  Rain of Dissolved Sedatives is a great name and stirs up some wild electronics.  Paradox 11 is a magazine with the sort of wild graphics you see displayed on all American Tapes releases.  No text anywhere, just images, so you don’t even know who exactly is behind the insane noise on the accompanying CDR.  Rounding things up in this batch are three cassette only releases: How People Speak “I Was Tempted To Tell Him That I Had I No Idea What I Really Wanted But Decided To Keep It To Myself“, Sad Policemen “Uninvolved, and We Are The…“, and Zero Days United “A Front As Well As Any Other“.  All three are editions of only 50 copies and feature zany electronic noise.  If you like Wolf Eyes, branch out and check these things out.  You’ll be kicking yourself later if you don’t grab them.  The label has done over 800 release and the entire back catalog is already out of print.

We have the complete in print catalog of Misanthropic Agenda in stock now.  Misanthropic Agenda is a label run by noise artist Gerritt.  Gerritt seems to be best known for playing with Sunn 0))) and also in Stephen O’Malley’s project Ginnungagap.  So right off the bat, I can tell you about the lovely Ginnungagap LP “Return To Nothing/Nothing To Return - Live At The Flux Factory, Queens 10th March 2004“.  Previously released on CD and long out of print, this vinyl version features an alternate mix and comes packaged in a lovely screen printed jacket printed by Andy of Broken Press.  Pressed on yellow vinyl and limited to 500 copies, the music is doomy and for Gerritt’s remix on side B, quite droney.  Gerritt is also half of the black noise project Deathroes, the other half being SIXES.  Their LP “Final Expense” is also limited to 500 copies, but comes in a printed jacket and is co-released with No Fun Productions.  But Gerritt is also an active solo artist, as I knew from his 3″ CDR released by P-tapes a few years back.  On his own label, Gerritt has released the “Space Level Blaze” CD and the “Flash Vault” 7″ which is a split with Manpack Variant.  Both display a lot of quick cut actions with noise electronics.  This style continues on “The Disappearing Act EP” which Gerritt recorded in collaboration with John Wiese although the last track on this has a lot of silence.  John Wiese seems to be something of a regular on Misanthropic Agenda in many combinations.  One is LHD the powerful noise duo with Phil of The Cherry Point who are represented on this label by the “Limbs of the Fawn” CD.  Another is the group Sissy Spaceck with Corydon Ronnau and sometimes Danny McClain.  They are the trio for the “Remote Whale Control” CD which sees them freaking out on guitar, drums and electronics.  Quite a contrast is “Glass” on which Sissy Spaceck are reduced to the duo of Wiese and Ronnau.  On this disc, the sounds are all highly amplified breaking glass reminding me of the glory days of The Haters.  John Wiese also has a CD in collaboration with Merzbow on this label entitled “Multiplication” on which the two let loose the intense noise they are both best known for.  The master of Japanese noise also has a solo release called “Frog +“.  Merzbow’s “Frog” LP was one of the earliest releases on Misanthropic Agenda and is long out of print, but the music remains available on this expanded reissue which added another CD of unreleased bonus material.   And if that weren’t enough there is also a double CD called “Merzbow “Frog” Remixed and Revisited” which features xclusive tracks from Boris, Fennesz, Gerritt, Hecker, House Of Low Culture, Hrvatski, John Wiese, Pita, Sunn 0))), Terror Organ, Ulver, When, Never Presence Forever, Russell Haswell, and Merzbow himself.  The one last release we have from this label is by the up and coming Jason Crumer who is constantly impressing with his recent releases. His fourth and latest full length release is the “Walk With Me” CD which shows a real talent for composing noise.  His stuff has been real hot lately, and this one is a good one to check out to hear why.  Plus all these CDs from Misanthopic Agenda are priced affordably.  And if you come down soon you can picked up some nice color postcard that Gerritt has sent for past live shows he  has put on in Oakland.

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Cool new things on our shelves:

Ambient/Drone:

Taiga Remains / RV Paintings LP  (Blackest Rainbow Records)  $18  - lush organic soundscapes; w/Brian of Starving Weirdos

Wada, Yoshi  “Earth Horns With Electronic Drone”  CD  (EM Records)  $20  - 1st release of awesome 1974 drone piece

Doom Metal:

Bong / Quttinirpaaq LP  (Blackest Rainbow Records)  $18  - split of doom that sounds like early Skullflower, ltd 300

Grails  “Doomsdayer’s Holiday”  LP  (Temporary Residence Limited)  $18  - guest vocals by Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls)

Experimental:

Bjerga, Sindre & Horton, Robert  “Can’t Go Fast Enough To Get There Early”  CD  (Blackest Rainbow Records)  $17  - warm and fuzzy noise drones, ltd. 264

Conrad, Tony & Olson, Tovah  “Let There Be Music”  LP  (Tovinator)  $15  - ltd 200, instantly sold out from the label, one side only

Ichiyanagi, Toshi  “Electronic Field”  CD  (Omega Point)  $26  - wild electronics from Yoko Ono’s first husband

Master Musicians of Bukkake  “The Visible Sign of the Invisible Order”  CD  (Abduction)  $14  - “outsider ceremonial folk masterpiece” w/SCG members

Mechanical Children  “I Rise To Cover All”  LP  (Blackest Rainbow Records)  $18  - good industrial noise from Jazzfinger members, ltd 300

Minami, Hiroaki  “Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 10: Electronic Symphony No. 1″  CD  (Edition Omega Point)  $26  - unreleased cosmic analog sounds from ‘76, ltd 500

Moha!  “Jeff Carey’s MoHa!”  7″  (Rune Grammofon)  $7  - white vinyl, 500 copies, different mixes of both tracks

Nurse With Wound  “The Surveillance Lounge”  CD  (Dirter Promotions)  $17  - back to the creaky disturbing sounds of old

Starving Weirdos  “B/P/M Series 1″  LP  (Blackest Rainbow Records)  $20  - piano based experimental like earlier NWW, ltd 500

Tomutonttu CD  (Fonal)  $17  - Kemialliset Ystävät guy, re of OOP Beta Lactam LP

Tomutonttu CD  (Fonal)  $17  - Kemialliset Ystävät guy, re of OOP Ultra Eczema LP

Jazz/Improv:

Sun Ra featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold  “Live at Judson Hall”  CD  (ESP Disk)  $14  - ultra rare private press LP + 45 min unreleased material

Rock:

Alvarius B. CD  (Abduction)  $14  - solo wooden guitar by Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop

Deas, Cam  “My Guitar Is Alive And It’s Singing”  LP  (Blackest Rainbow Records)  $18  - gorgeous solo acoustic guitar, ltd 300

Deas, Cam / Spoono  “Greetings from the Isle of Man”  LP  (Blackest Rainbow Records)  $18  - gorgeous solo acoustic guitar, ltd 350

Death In June  “The World That Summer”  CD  (NER)  $17  - reissue of goth double LP from ‘86 w/David Tibet

Grouper  “Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill”  LP  (IOG)  $16  - ethereal folky songs with dream production, orange vinyl

Hawkwind  “Space Ritual”  2 x CD  (EMI)  $17  - monster space rock w/pre-Motorhead Lemmy

Inner Space, The  “Agilok & Blubbo OST”  CD  (Wah Wah Records)  $20  - early unreleased pre-Can recordings

Neung Phak  “Fucking USA”  7”  (Abduction)  $9  - great cover of Korean anti-American rock tune, ltd 300

Ong Ong  “5″  magazine & CDR  (Ong Ong Press)  $8  - CDR with private press rarities

Rose, Jack & Black Twig Pickers, The  LP  (Klang Industries)  $19

Sun City Girls  “Jacks Creek”  CD  (Abduction)  $16  - reissue of 1995 LP, absolutely off the wall!!!

Sun City Girls  “Napoleon & Josephine (Singles Volume 2)”  CD  (Abduction)  $16  - the weird volume with theatrical pieces

Walker, Peter  “Rainy Day Raga”  LP  (Harte Recordings)  $16  - lovely mixture of Indian raga & American folk from 1966

World:

Mayet, Hisham  “Palace of the Winds”  DVD  (Sublime Frequencies)  $20  - guitars in Morocco!  limited edition of 1000 copies

Souleyman, Omar  “Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria”  CD  (Sublime Frequencies)  $14  - fantastic Arabic pop music that really moves

Various  “1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground”  CD  (Sublime Frequencies)  $16  - infectious Algerian music from extremely rare 7’s