Dissonant Plane

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

I think a good year in the making, Ong Ong #5 is finally out.  The product of Lucy Morehouse (part time employee at Wall of Sound) and Scott Davis (Jive Time Records), this is their biggest issue yet comprising of two separate booklets, plus the usual CDR.  It’s a real friendly fanzine style affair with lots of artwork and poetry among with the interviews with Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records, Scott Colburn and Yann Novak.  They sum up the other tidbit thus: “Bunnies, friendship bracelets, field hippies, piles of textiles, Czech new wave, alternate realities, tree tops, Hotel art installation, advice, mental institutions, instrument selection, rings of history, people holding hands in a circle, Scott Davis at 17, pure purr energy, tree tops, lotuses, relationships, perception, floating skulls, tripped out line quality, Halley’s comet, fire damage, father figures, show reviews, AFCGT caricatured, snow, ladies with long hair carrying stars, Rumi… coalescence!”  A lot of things are very home paste up looking, with Eric Isaacson even handwritting his replies to typewritten interview question.  A very DIY effort, the whole is contained in a screen printed cover and tied together with string.  The bonus CDR culls 19 tracks from obscure vinyl releases, mostly private press items.  The only names you are likely to have heard of before are Bruce Haack and Lightnin’ Hopkins as the rest heads into little known folk and children’s records with a few nice cosmic and prog numbers from Europe through into the middle.

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!