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Eric’s favorites of 2009

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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

nifty new arrivals

Friday, September 4th, 2009

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

 

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