Dissonant Plane

Ah the blossoming Seattle noise scene…  Phase Locked Loop brought in their self-released C30 and it is the first time I have heard of them.  The tape opens up with a nice swell of noise on “Subtract” and then going through the other three mathematical operations explore a few other techniques keeping the cassette from being too homogeneous.  The second side is made up of the piece “Pillar Of Smoke/Casual Laces” which plays with quieter noises with a nice record skipping kind of pulse in the background.  Nice stuff and limited to 25 numbered copies in a j-card which keeps folding out.

Actually, this is stuff that came in last week, but it’s been so busy around here I haven’t found time to write about them until now.

Ashtray Navigations “Monocycle American” LP - Super stupid tiny edition of 99 copies on multicolored vinyl with a paste-on cover as one might expect from the highly collectable Qbico label.  I guess that is better than the original edition of only 50 copies on CDR, but not by much.  For bettr or worse, the music on this single-sided LP is actually quite impressive heavy psychedelic electronics.  Probably one of the best Ashtray Nav things I have heard in a long time.

Aidan Baker “Gathering Blue” 2 x LP - Limited edition of 444 copies in a heavy gatefold sleeve, out of which 294 are pressed on mottled peacock blue vinyl which we got one copy of.  Featured among the original compositions is a cover of Joy Division’s “24 Hours”.

Laurie Scott Baker “Gracility” 2 x CD - Unreleased archival recordings from 1969-1975 of graphic scores and text pieces.  Baker was an early friend of Cornelius Cardew’s and was in the Scratch Orchestra as well a performer in Hair and with Alex Harvey, Robert Wyatt and Manfred Mann.  According to the liner note, he and John Paul Jones were the ones that got EMS to make their famous suitcase synthesizer.  This collection documents his experimental work and it is quite impressive!  The title track is a mass of sound like the early AMM recordings, and no wonder as joining Baker are Keith Rowe, Derek Bailey and Gavin Bryars.  Following this is a lovely 6 minute piece for solo soprano sax performed in 1975 by none other than Evan Paker.  Taking up the above referenced EMS Synthi VC3, along with bass guitar and plenty of tape echo, Baker is joined for the 51 minute “Bass Chants & Cues” by John Tilbury (AMM) on organ and Jamie Muir (King Crimson) on drums and vocals as captured in 1972.  It’s a stunning work of minimalism with rock freak out energy.  Closing the set is “Circle Piece” performed by the legendary and rarely recorded Scratch Orchestra (here featuring Andy McKay, Christopher Hobbs, John White, Michael Parsons and many other) back in 1970.  Given who is performing here, it is no wonder that the music came out so great.  Since this really doesn’t have any US distribution, I ordered these directly from the label in UK.  We got three copies and they are all spoke for at the moment.  So why even mention it?  Well, if anyone else wants to pick up a copy of this, we will order more.  So let us know if you’d like to get one of these.

Sir Richard Bishop “The Freak of Araby” LP or CD - Rick’s latest is truly fantastic.  He’s gone electric and added a backing back and channels his Lebanese roots through a collection of originals and Arabic covers.  This is one that will reach out even to those simple minded folks who think that “Torch of the Mystics” was Sun City Girls’ only decent record.  He played last night at the Crocodile and it was stunning in person.   We’ve got this one on both LP and CD.

Burning Star Core “Challenger” LP - Hailed by many as C. Spencer Yeh’s best work, this album was originally released on both LP and CD by Hospital Productions, and like everything that label puts out went out of print.  Thankfully reissued by Plastic Records.

Cornelius Cardew “Treatise” LP - Pages from the masterwork of graphic scores performed by one of Cardew’s closest friends Keith Rowe (ex-AMM) and Oren Ambarchi (Sunn0))))).

Cobalt “Eater of Birds” CD - Blackened war metal from Colorado.  This is their 2007 album which we got along with restock of their latest “Gin”.  Like many Profound Lore releases, this one has a guest appearance by Jarboe of Swans.  Driving with some nice acoustic tracks.

Current 93 “Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain” CD - Three years in the making, this album shows some of the influence of all the metal bands that David Tibet has been working with recently (Sigh, Skitliv, Aethenor).  The sound is heavier and doomier matching Tibet’s apocalyptic lyrics.  As usual there is a rather star studded cast with James Blackshaw, William Breeze, Ossian Brown, John Contreras, Baby Dee, Andria Degens, Sasha Grey, Andrew Liles, Alex Neilson, Steven Stapleton, Andrew W.K., and perhaps mostly strangely of all, Rickie Lee Jones.  It’s a regular priced CD but includes a fat booklet of lyrics and photos, plus a poster of fans that put up money for the album in advance.

Aaron Dilloway “Chain Shot / Execution Dock” LP - The ex-Wolf Eyes guy who runs the Hanson label provides one of his strongest moments on this LP of noise loops.  It will have you thinking it is stuck in a lock groove until it actually evolves into something else.

Eat Skull “Wild and Inside” CD - It’s lo-fi and rough, but oh so catchy and melodic.  Pop music for people who require a slightly dirtier sound.

FM3 “Buddha Machine II” soundbox - They are back, everyone’s favorite self contained drone machine.  They are really cool and the new one has pitch bend on it.

Guru Guru “UFO” CD - Restocked yet again, this an essential Krautrock recording.  Originally released in 1970 by the wonderful Ohr label, this unreleased some heavy psychdelic sounds.  Track titles like “Der LSD-Marsch” and “Next Time See You At The Dalai Lhama” should tell a lot.  Sadly, original Guru Guru bass player Uli Trepte passed away earlier this year.

Hospitals “Hairdryer Peace” CD - Take some members of Eat Skull, and their sound, and totally blow it out with distortion and you have this.

Koenjihyakkei “Nivraym” CD - RIO [Rock in Opposition] is not dead!  Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins and Acid Mothers Temple leads this group in some intense progressive rock that recalls Zeuhl, Henry Cow and the like.

Les Rallizes Denudes “Yodo-Go-A-Go-Go” CD - Legendary, but almost impossible to hear as they released so little in their time, some artifacts of Les Rallizes Denudes have been appearing in recent years.  Unfortunately they tend to disappear just as fast often.  This 70 minute CD (not a CDR like many others by this group) collects primal psych-rock from the groups activitity between 1967-1982.

Ghérasim Luca “Two Poems” LP - Like Tristan Tzara and Isidore Isou, Gherasim Luca came from Romania to create strange art.  Mostly known as a poet, Luca recorded these two works in the early 1970’s and I don’t think they were released before.  Made in the Swedish EMS studios, Luca layers his voice to create charming works of sound poetry.  This is much more facinating that the double CD of work released by Editions José Corti some years back.

Malkuth “Sefirah Gevurah” LP - Second album from this NYC black metal trio which features members of No Neck Blues Band.  Like their debut, this one is on Hospital Productions and of course instantly sold out from them.

Paul Metzger “Anamnestic Tincture” LP - Strings with a serious bent, as Metzger builds his own variations on the banjo and acoustic guitar, but he still plays them with finger picking skill.  Rob Millis commented that Paul’s set was one of the most outstanding opening acts on the recent Sir Richard Bishop tour.

Nurse With Wound “Spiral Insana” CD - Out of print for some years, this is a brand new CD edition of NWW’s 1986 LP for Torso in Holland.  Apparently it was one of their better selling records, a fact which Steve blammed on it being advertised along with Torso’s titles by The Residents.  This one has lots of short tracks which contribute to the ongoing soundscape of the album and I always thought it was one of their better albums. Guests on this one include Robert Haigh (Sema) and David Jackman (Organum).

Omar Souleyman “Highway To Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria” 2 x LP - Sublime Frequencies vinyl - blink and you will miss it.  We did secure a few copies of this already out of print reissue of Omar’s wonderful first CD.  The man and his band have the Arabic groove like no one else.  They just completed a tour of Europe which apparently blew some minds. According to Alan Bishop, Omar declared himself to be better than 60 Jamacans at the Sonar Festival in Spain.

Spiral Joy Band “Little Sparrow” CD - From the ashes of Pelt has come Spiral Joy Band.  While Jack Rose has head off into finger picking territory, Mike Gangloff and Pelt engineer Mikel Dimmick choose to explore the drone in more depth.  It’s not a pleasant soft drone though, but one with a lot of scrape and harsh tones closer to early Organum  or Tony Conrad.  On this album, the quartet play fiddle, gong, singing bowls, harmonium, sruti, spiral cymbal, crash cymbal, crank whistle, flute, bells, and stickbanjo.

Starving Weirdos “Into An Energy” CD - Another impressive act on the American noise scene, Starving Weirdos have delivered a great album here.  It’s noisy but pulled back and drony.  It reminds me of some of the early Voice of Eye recordings, if anyone remembers them.

Sun Araw “Boat Trip” 12″ - Bloody hell, this is a 45 RPM 12″ single priced about the same as an LP.  It is at least 9 minutes per side however, and the music is really stunning.  Originally released as a 3″ CDR in an edition of 50 copies, it is nice the music is actually available to a wider public.  I thought Cameron Stallones’ other Sun Araw records were good, but this one really stands out.  It’s got a kind of intensionally murky sound which the label describes as “some hidden soundtrack to Donkey Kong warp-whistling straight into Ayahuasca Country.”  Maybe the rhythms in here make for the Donkey Kong reference, but the beautiful guitar work remininscent of early Skullflower is what really pushes this combination of sounds into the strasosphere for me.

Tecumseh “Crossing Divides” LP - I wasn’t sure if we would get this one back in again, as they only made 384 copies, but here it is again.  This Portland trio is one of the better doom / drone acts going right now and shares one member with Trees.  I saw them live with Troum and Nadja last year and found their almost unmoving sound to be quiet pleasing.

Throbbing Gristle “The Third Mind Movements” CD - New CD made for their recent tour of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York in April of this year.  I stunned Pete Swanson, Marcia Bassett and myself by playing this and discovering it actually sounds quite contemporary, like it could be Emeralds or some one like that.  It’s more electronic and not so much of Gen’s vocals.

V:28 “NonAnthropogenic” and “SoulSavior” CDs - Pounding industrial metal from Norway which has been proving rather popular with our customers.  Kind of neat to see some old names from the Cold Meat Industry label (Deutsch Nepal and raison d’être) make guest appearances on “SoulSavior”.

Whisper Room “Birch White” CD - Aidan Baker of Nadja features in this new rock trio exploring droney territory.

John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh “Live in Nottingham” LP - I would guess by sales that people around here are familiar with noise man Wiese and certainly know C. Spencer Yeh’s Burning Star Core.  This is a pretty solid noise set from England released in an edition of 330 copies in a lovely cover with concrete poetry inspired artwork.  Released by Spencer’s ‘bootleg’ What The…? Records label.

YaHoWah 13 “Magnificence in the Memory” LP - The second of what could be 11 volumes of unreleased archival material by this religious / psych group that at one time ran a vegetarian restaurant in L.A. and featured Sky Saxon of The Seeds.  Their privately pressed LPs were long the stuff of legend and were inspiration for Byron Coley’s choice of label and store name.  YaHoWah 13 have been getting a lot of attention in recent years as a number of their original LPs have been reissued, there has been a book and movie about them, and they have reformed and toured, although without founder and leader Father Yod, who died in a hanggliding accident in Hawaii long ago.  Drag City previously released a rather tepid album credited to Children of the Sixth Root Race, which was a Yahowa off shoot and in my opinion not very inspired Christian rock.  “Magnificence in the Memory” however was assembled by Dave Nuss of The No-Neck Blues Band and features some awesome psych jams with Father Yod leading.  Recorded in the prime era of 1972-73, this material really takes off and is the kind of lost psych that people hope for with these kind of reissues.

Various “Open Strings” 2 x CD - Very cool collection of 78 sides from Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkey recorded in the 1920’s with a second disc of modern responses.  The 78s are obviously very swell and have been restored wonderful. I had my reservations about the second disc, especially in this pairing, but discovered it to be very strong.  I knew Sir Richard Bishop would be good, but there are also great tracks by Michael Flower, MV & EE, Six Organs of Admittance and Paul Metzger.

As should be obvious, this is only a fragment of recent arrivals, and there is plenty more I could write about, but there is more to do than blog here at the shop.

- Eric Lanzillotta

Thunder Grey Pilgrim makes heavy doom laden sounds.  It will fit in the dark atmosphere as Sunn0))), but unlike that group Thunder Grey Pilgrim seems to stay away from rock instrumentation.  “Demogorgon” is the name of the brand new CDR on Debacle Records that showcases this sound.  The two times I’ve played it in the store so far, its gotten attention.  Three long track of thick and ominous atmosphere slowly dredge the air.  Of course Sam of Debacle is thrilled about the release, and that is one thing that makes this label so good - Sam loves the stuff he works with.  This is another chapter in his documentation of Seattle noise artists, and like the others is limited to 100 copies.

While getting this new disc, we also got copies of the recent Summon Thrull title.  This self-titled release is the creation of Dustin Kochel of Physical Demon (you might remember them for their recent set opening for Wolf Eyes and Black Dice).  This one has all kinds of crazy electronic noises which are in constant motion.  There are some harsh moments here, but the majority of the disc is more in the strange territory.  As above, this one is limited to 100 numbered copies.

- Eric

Wednesday night that was a great show at the Josephine.  Local synth duo Brother Raven, and out of town solo acts Magneticring, Pete Swanson and Zaïmph.  Brother Raven used old analog tools to evoke the atmosphere of the Sky Records’ 1970’s output.  Magneticring’s LP is in a similar vein, but this performance he used the EMS Synthi to create some sounds reminenscent of early electronic pioneers.  Pete Swanson, one half of the now defunct Yellow Swans, used an old open reel tape deck to build up lovely noise loops on top of which he added heavily distorted and processed guitar and vocals to great effect.  Zaïmph played three pieces focusing more on vocals than her in store performance here at Dissonant Plane last week.  While each piece was distinctive, the whole set glowed with a slow motion noise bliss.
The following day, Pete and Marcia (a.k.a. Zaïmph) stopped in the shop on the way to Vancouver, B.C.  This gave us a chance to expand our selection of Yellow Swans in the shop, which was actually at nil since we had sold out of everything.  As I alluded to above, Yellow Swans are no longer a going concern, but apparently have only recently finished their last studio album and will have a few more recordings coming out.  As anyone who has looked into them should know, they discography is vast, but only a small number of titles are available at any given time as most are very limited.  We were able to get CDs released under the names Descension Yellow Swans, Doubled Yellow Swans, Drowner Yellow Swans, and just plain old Yellow Swans by themselves and in collaboration with The Cherry Point, Mouthus, and John Wiese.  The CD “Portable Dunes” with Wiese is the newest of the bunch.  So new that is not actually released yet. as it is on John’s Helicopter label and John is currently in Poland where he is playing the Musica Genera festival this weekend.  Of course that was the first thing I threw on and I found it opens with a serious roar of sound and through its five tracks becames progressive more calm and meditative.  Of course variety courses through the veins of the Yellow Swans catalog.  It is all more or less “noise music”, but one disc will be droning while another will add active element on top of this bed or push the sounds the further extremes.
In the past there have been a handful of Pete Swanson solo releases, and now he’s got two really limited tapes.  He says they are essentially for sale at shows only, so we were only able to get one copy each of “Denim Life” and “Unlimited Options”.  Meant to get around more at the two CDs releases on Pete’s new label Freedom To Spend.  The first is by Bulbs a guitar and drums duo that sounds nothing like their instrumentation would suggest.  Pete himself compares this group’s sound to the releases on the Kompakt label as their music is very glitchy and experimental with rhythms and sounds you might expect from a laptop artist, but obviously with more life in them.  The second release on the label  is by Dragging An Ox Through Water.  This one is a weird mix of folky guitar and vocals with homebuilt electronics.  It’s got songs, and you could sing along to it, but its plenty strange too and makes for a unique and enjoyable album.
Eric

Extraordinary Pigeons are a loose collective of Seattle noisemakers.  They seem to often have the core of Jeremiah Smith, Jason Young and Richard Rehm.  Noise is a decent way to describe them in that that term does really mean too much specifically.  Listening to the selection of releases that Jeremiah brought in Monday, I am happy to find each one a bit different.  They’ve all got the hallmarks of noise - indefinable sounds, lack of concern with melody or rhythm, long sprawling development.  But some are a little heavier, like the “Wasted Tapes” cassette, and some more subdued, like the “Intergalactic Scavengers” CDR, with the nice echoy and spacious opening track “Repeat Procedure”.  A lot of times they are a mix, too rough to be ambient background and not painful like power electronics.  What they do have is lots of great electronics noises and effects which seems to be more of a sit down and enjoy experience.  In addition to the above mentioned 2009 releases, we got the older CDRs “Desghidorah”, “Help Jason Eat”, “Rotten Apple” and the out of print Debacle title “What The Fuck Are You Looking At Sugar Tits???”.  With the exception of the the last title, which was an edition of 100 copies, all of these are in micro editions of 10 to 12 copies.  On a related note, Jeremiah also brought us “The Date Fork Seeps the River Volume Two” a compilation which features Extraordinary Pigeons along with Alvarius B, Sun City Girls, The Haters, Id M Theft Able, and a ton of unknown and very weird acts.

Wow!  Fantastic in store last night from Zaïmph.  Thank you very much Marcia.  If you didn’t come down, you really missed out, but we restocked a lot of Marcia’s wonderful recordings:

Bassett, Marcia & Giffoni,Carlos  “Organized Anatomy”  CD  (Blossoming Noise)  $10  - edition of 300, Basset is in Hototogisu, Double Leopards
Hototogisu  “Green”  CD  (Heavy Blossom)  $10
Hototogisu  “Pale Fatal Sister”  2 x LP  (Important Records)  $19  - M. Bower (Skullflower) & M. Bassett (Double Leopards)
Hototogisu  “Robed in Verdigris”  LP  (Nashazphone)  $19  - discounted due to bent corner (damn post office!!!)
Hototogisu  “Sculpture Built Upon The Graves”  CDR  (Heavy Blossom)  $9  - CDR, edition of 200 copies
Hototogisu + Burning Star Core LP  (Yik Yak)  $11  - discounted due to bent corner (damn post office!!!)
Zaïmph  “Bird of Prey”  7″  (Arbor)  $7  - beautiful dreamy sounds
Zaïmph  “Death Blooming Pleasure”  LP  (No Fun Productions)  $11  - limited to 300 copies, reduced price due to bend corners
Zaïmph  “La Nuit Electrique”  CD  (Utech)  $10  - limited edition of 500 copies
Zaïmph  “Serpent’s Bite”  CD  (Heavy Blossom)  $11  - member of UN, Double Leopards, Hototogisu, GHQ
Zaïmph  “Sexual Infinity”  CD  (Hospital Productions)  $10

“Death Blooming Pleasure” seems to the current as we already sold 3 of the 5 copies we got last night.

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
ZAIMPH
THURSDAY, JUNE 18th, 2009
7:00 PM

Zaïmph is the solo project of Marcia Bassett, a New York City artist and musician. Flaubert, in his novel Salammbô, fabricated the Zaïmph. Bassett appropriated the name in 2003, releasing a handful of CD-rs on Heavy Blossom. Later CD and LP releases have appeared on numerous independent labels such as Hospital Productions, W.M.O.r, Utech Records, Gypsy Sphinx, Volcanic Tongue, and No Fun Productions.

A drop out from the music school elite, Zaïmph uses guitar and vocals to transform traditions of song writing and noise music. After spending years of ethonographical culture studies living within the decaying framework of the USA and Europe, she currently chooses to live in an ill-coded building perched above the streets of delicately arranged trash in New York City. Zaïmph conveys an environment of industrial grit and pleasure. The sound is both seductive and laden with the doom of the coming storm.

Marcia is also a member of Hototogisu (with Matthew Bower of Skullflower), GHQ, Double Leopards, Zaika (with Tom Carter of Charalambides) and defunct Siltbreeze band un.

http://www.zaimph.org/

The last week has seen a lot of vinyl arrive in the store - our vinyl bins are considerable more full now.  Nonesuch Explorer Series, Table of the Elements guitar series, Robbie Basho, Boris with Merzbow, Tim Buckley, The Bug, Vashti Bunyan, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Dirty Projectors, Pierre Henry, Daniel Johnston, Kraftwerk, Ennio Morricone, Nico, Nurse With Wound, Odetta, Om, Radiohead, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis, Frank Zappa, Rune Grammophon, Devendra Banhart, Carla Bley, Bröselmaschine, Karen Dalton, Dungen, Heldon, Matthew Herbert, Gary Higgins, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Popol Vuh, Wayne Shorter, Suarasama, Vainicia Doble, Scott Walker and more!

• 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

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE

6:00 PM

The second Saturday of every month is the Ballard Art Walk. Since we have been staying open for the art walk, we thought we would make it more interesting by having some live music. So come join us from 6 to 8 this Saturday. We have a little something for everyone. Sparkle Girl will do a field recording and shortwave set. Hellgrammite present their underground black metal sound. Aural Antithesis & Gohger bring prepared violin and electronics. Amphetamine Virus mix dark beat and noise. All are local acts represented on the shelves of Dissonant Plane. It is a great way to check out a variety of local underground weirdness.