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new arrivals

Friday, July 10th, 2009

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

tons of new vinyl arrivals

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

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!

used arrivals

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
  • 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