Bis Aufs Messer weekly News 01 October 2022

Hi. Welcome to another newsletter - a couple of cool things arrived like the ROBBIE BASHO - Bouquet - Song Offerings From Robbie Basho LP (!!), ROWLAND S HOWARD - Pop Crimes LP re issue, ROWLAND S. HOWARD - Teenage Snuff Film DLP, LAILA SAKINI & LUCY VAN - Figures LP, TOMAGA - Extended Play 1 & 2 DLP, BOURBONESE QUALK - s/t LP, AMELIA CUNI - Mumbai 04.02.1996 DLP, TOMAGA - Extended Play 1 & 2 DLP, DAITRO - collected LP, EMMANUELLE PARRENIN - Maison Rose LP + 7“. DYSTOPIA restock, BATHORY shirts, SONIC YOUTH Shirts, MAJORITY RULE LP restocks, ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - The Miraculous DLP, THE CAT'S MIAOW - Songs '94​-​'98 LP and much more We also received the DAITRO - collected LPs and shipped most pre orders. The NADJA & BRAK tapes are still not here. We keep you posted!!! In the meantime check out the new records Til then thank you for all your orders & support. Robert & Norman mailorder@bisaufmesser.com www.bisaufsmesser.com www.adagio830-records.bandcamp.com 7“ JON COLLIN - Two Dream Sequences 7“ (stoned to death - "These two sides were recorded at home in Stockholm in April last year, and are part of a series of recordings that I was making around that time that I called dream sequences for a number of reasons but partly because they mixed attempts at unconscious playing of music with intentional recordings of external sounds e.g. drilling through walls, street noise, that were affecting my consciousness at the time of recording. Also I like dreams but not so much talking about them." - Jon Collin) 10.00 LAST RIGHTS - Chunks / So Ends Our Night 7“ (taang - This 7" was the only output from Last Rights, Choke's band that was sandwiched between his time in Negative FX and Slapshot. The tracks are two dance floor stompers and have not been available as a 7" officially since its release in 1984.) 9.00 THE FREEZE - Bloodlights / Talking Bombs 7“ (tang - There's two great Freeze songs on this 7"! Originally released 1991.) 8.00 LP AMELIA CUNI - Mumbai 04.02.1996 DLP (black truffle - Following on from the stunning recording of her 1992 performance at the Berlin Parampara Festival (BT079), Black Truffle is pleased to continue its documentation of the work of Berlin-based Italian singer Amelia Cuni, one of the great contemporary exponents of dhrupad, the oldest surviving style of North Indian classical vocal music. Beautifully recorded in concert at Vishweshwarayya Hall, Mumbai. 04.02.1996 presents expansive performances of three ragas stretching across four sides and almost one and a half hours of music. Beginning with the serene Raga Lalit, Cuni dwells for over twenty-five minutes on its opening alap movement, accompanied only by tanpura, her limpid yet full-bodied voice moving from graceful exposition in free tempo to increasingly rhythmically active variations, gradually spiralling upward in register. She is then joined by master pakwahaj player Manik Munde for the raga’s dhrupad and dhamar sections, the resonant tone of the drum and his constant invention with the complex 14-beat cycle serving as the perfect accompaniment for Cuni’s ecstatic melodic developments. ) 36.00 ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - The Miraculous DLP (city slang - repress on colored vinyl - When Swedish singer/musician Anna von Hausswolff was young, her parents used to tell her stories about a place the family loved to visit. The location is seeped in a complicated history: a home, for example, to Sweden’s traditional folk music, it’s an area of outstanding natural beauty, but once provided the backdrop for a momentous uprising against the country’s king during which thousands of peasants were slaughtered, leaving its landscapes bathed in blood. It became, to her, a place of mystery, magic and terror, and, though she won’t say where it is, she still returns repeatedly, if sometimes only in her imagination. She calls the place Miraculous. Much of the music on The Miraculous draws from these stories and images while making excessive use of the Acusticum Pipe Organ in Piteå, Northern Sweden, whose colossal sound – with nine thousand pipes, it’s one of the biggest of its kind in the country – swells heroically throughout the album. Inaugurated in 2012, and designed by Gerard Woehl, it lends the record a unique edge, enabling moments of true drama and supplying the brooding drones and dreamy soundscapes that provide the album’s foundations.) 32.00 ASTUTE PALATE - Astute Palate LP (stoned to death. Here we have Astute Palate, band thats coming out of the strong background of aforementioned Richie Records / Philly scene and in these circuits it is certainly something like a supergroup. As it unites two top notch shredders Emily Robb (with very recent and killer solo album “How to Moon Walk” on Petty Bunco, follow up label to Richie Records) and David Nance together with Richie Charles (yes, of Richie Records) and Daniel Provenzano (from killer space rock Writhing Squares and with tour credit with Purling Hiss). And it sounds exactly as one could hope for: euphoric songs wrapped with superb mid tempo beat and desert riff bonanza, well buttered with spacy and timeless aura, yet ready to offer some hard shakes such as track Loose Wings, which will kick you off from your comfy couch and will have you headbanging in front of your stereo in no time.) 20.00 BLACK TRAIN JACK - No Reward LP (music on vinyl - Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent red coloured vinyl. Black Train Jack is known as the hardcore troupe from 90s New York. The band was founded by Token Entry's Ernie Parada, Nine Lives' Rob Vitale and joined by former Token Entry roadie Brian on bass and Nick on drums, who was new in music. Black Train Jack obviously owed stylistic debts to Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law, but with more of an ear for melody. In 1993 they released their debut album No Reward on Roadrunner, the album is all haywire energy and fight adrenaline, a blitz of surprisingly melodic vocal declarations supported by buzzing guitar.) 27.00 BOURBONESE QUALK - s/t LP (mannequin - The self named LP marked the fifth album and end of the first incarnation of Bourbonese Qualk. Julian Gilbert left the group after ‘The Spike'(1986) to concentrate on writing and theatre, leaving Steven Tanza and Simon Crab who parted ways after touring in Europe in early 1986 and recording this album. Steven Tanza went on to found the group ‘The State’ and while Crab continued as Bourbonese Qualk (with the new line-up of Miles Miles,Crab and Owen If), dissolved the Recloose Organisation label and founded ‘New International’ as the outlet for future Bourbonese Qualk and Recloose Org releases. "If we were awarding prizes for making people rush out of the room in blind panic Bourbonese Qualk would have a trophy cabinet to match Bayern Munich’s. Strange, because whilst some of their music is damned uncomfortable listening, an equal part is pleasantly ambient. Pretty, even. Their 5th album is no exception with different types of track side by side throughout, so that the listener can neither drift along in a state of slumber nor masochistically subject themselves to the audio equivalent of the chinese water torture. This makes it all a very stop-start thing but all the more rewarding as a result." Can't be Beat magazine - London 1986 ) 25.00 BOURBONESE QUALK - The Spike LP (mannequin - Bourbonese Qualk's third album "The Spike" was recorded during the period 1984-1985 and published by the Berlin based Dossier/Atonal label while Bourbonese Qualk were involved in organising the Berlin Atonal festival. Parts of Side 2 of the album is a recording of pieces made for a dance and film performance at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London in 1985. Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England, active from 1979 through 2003. They were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work: they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organization, and music venue (the notorious Ambulance Station). They refused to integrate into the commercial music racket and turned down publishing deals from major labels, stubbornly opting for total independence. ) 25.00 THE CAT'S MIAOW - Songs '94​-​'98 LP (world of echo - Songs ’94-’98 is a smart selection of material from The Cat’s Miaow, an Australian indie-pop group that gifted their decade with some of its finest songs. Released on World Of Echo, the album draws from the group’s string of excellent seven-inch singles, a small clutch of compilation contributions, and features one previously unreleased song, “I Take It That We’re Through”, recorded in 1998. Part of the burgeoning international pop underground of the nineties, The Cat’s Miaow’s legend has only built over subsequent decades, as more people discover this most quixotic and curious of groups: a recent appearance on A Colourful Storm’s compilation of Australian indie-pop, I Won’t Have To Think About You, is testament to their enduring influence. In part emulating the selection of tracks on the 1997 CD-only compilation, Songs For Girls To Sing, Songs ’94-’98 is also the group’s first ever full-length 12” vinyl collection – and if you score a copy of the initial edition, there’s an extra 7” featuring all the songs from their “Third Floor Fire Escape View” recording session. ) 28.00 CHAOS MOON - Languor Into Echoes, Beyond DLP + CD (col. vinyl) (bind rune - Chaos Moon’s 2nd full-length album finally on vinyl for the first time ever! Scorching US black metal, fueled by atmosphere and a unique dissonance!) 45.00 DAEVA - Through Sheer Will And Black Magic... LP (20 buck spin - Five years on from the wantonly indecent 20 Buck Spin-released debut EP ‘Pulsing Dark Absorptions’, Philadelphia’s Daeva rise like blistering flames from the hellish depths with the long-smoldering first album ‘Through Sheer Will And Black Magic…’. A fiery maelstrom of early demonic Black Metal and jagged edge Thrash convulsions forms the inherent basis of the album, where Daeva have perfected their art like gleaming forged steel. Within this blueprint for madness guitarist Steve Jansson imposes a deliberate brandishing of Death Metal’s maggot strewn corpse and a vigorously lethal dose of pure 80s metal spirit and zeal. The journey through these scorched wastelands persistently guided by the venomously inventive acid-tongue of vocalist Edward Gonet. ) 28.00 DAITRO - collected LP (Adagio830 - There will be 300 copies on FRANKENSTEIN RED (Adagio830) and 300 copies on DOLPHIN BLUE (echo canyon) This records contains the out of print stuff from the split LP w/ Sed Non Satiata, the split 7" w/ Ampere and the 2 songs that were on the US tour 7“.) 15.00 DARE - Against All Odds LP (revelation - With a reputation established by such seminal bands as Adolescents and Uniform Choice decades ago, Orange County, CA, is known as a breeding ground for superb hardcore punk. Proving their appeal crosses over to several styles of heavy music, Dare has done treks with the likes of Terror and Creeping Death. With "Against All Odds" finally hitting stores, there's no question Dare are comfortable in their skin. LP includes a 12" x 18" poster.) 25.00 DESPISE YOU - West Side Horizons LP (tank crimes - 62 songs of hateful death core from the streets of Inglewood, California. Bleak, cruel and relentless in execution, this is a precious testament of urban decay and violence written during the mid-90’s. The collection includes the unreleased split LP with MAN IS THE BASTARD, split EPs with STAPLED SHUT, SUPPRESSION and CROM, "pcp scapegoat" EP and compilation tracks, with a total of 44 minutes.) 24.00 DYSTOPIA - Human=Garbage DLP (tank crimes - CLEAR VINYL - Dystopia = doom-ridden, metal-laced, down-tuned punk with a "love earth-hate people" philosophy. Members of Dystopia have previously played in Mindrot, Confrontation and Carcinogen.) 27.00 DYSTOPIA - The Aftermath DLP (tank crime - Legendary sludge metal/crust punk band from Oakland, CA. 12 tracks + 16 page booklet. Download card included. Pressed onto Clear Vinyl. Contains all Dystopia tracks off of The Aftermath 12" (1-4) Backstabber 7" EP (5-7), Dystopia / Skaven split LP (8-11), Dystopia / Suffering Luna split 7" (12)) 27.00 ED YAZIJIAN – Gansrud LP (HP CYLCE - Recorded between February 1996 and 2009 in Syracuse, New York, Chicago, Illinois, and Greenville, South Carolina. An alternate version of Salt Curse of the Onandaga originally appeared on the self-titled release published by Feed & Seed Records. Violinist and steel guitarist Ed Yazijian aka Dr E'weerd Yijji has played the Lee Underwood to Dredd Foole's Tim Buckley for past few decades with barely a thought to the contours of his own musical soul. For anyone expecting 'simply' a series of solo violin and guitar readings, Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye(his first solo lp) will come as a real curveball, as the central orbit around which most of these tracks swing is mostly based in rhythmic/percussive ritual in a way that more immediately brings to mind the rain of stones that defines much of the Angus MacLise back catalog. There's a heavy, devotional air to much of the activity that speaks of personal trance as eloquently as the works of Alice Coltrane, albeit transposed to a much more punk primitive palette of hand-drums, bows and traditional acoustic drones." – David Keenan, The Wire) 20.00 EMMANUELLE PARRENIN - Maison Rose LP + 7“ (souffle - LP + 7’’ housed in a slipcase
Exclusive artwork by Charles Berberian for both the slipcase and the 7’’ - The additional 7’’ contains 2 unreleased tracks - An album such as this obviously owes a lot to the atmosphere in which it was recorded, which we can imagine was magical. We know it took place in Fromentel, Normandy, in a farm converted into a studio by the producer Jacques Denjean, known for his work with Dionne Warwick or Françoise Hardy as well as having been a member of the Double Six. It was also at Fromentel, that Denjean would record two fantastic albums with Albert Marcoeur. When Emmanuelle Parrenin followed in his footsteps a year later she was in good company: the sound engineer at the studio was her partner and therefore uniquely capable (we imagine) of creating an adequate soundscape for her delicate universe. What is more, five years previously, Bruno Menny, the sound engineer partner, recorded his first and only album, but what an album: in electroacoustic terms we can hear things which make him appear as the spiritual son of his mentor Xenakis! ) 30.00 ERNESTO DJEDJE - Roi Du Ziglibithy LP (analog afrca - If someone would have told me years ago, when I started the label, that one day I would be releasing music by Ernesto Djédjé, the king of Ziglibithy himself, I would have personally driven them to the closest psychiatric institute such is the magnitude of the artist and his iconic tune “Zighlibitiens”. The star of Ernesto Djédjé started rising in the late 60s, when he became the guitar player and leader of Ivoiro Star, founded by Amédée Pierre, star of Dopé, the leading musical style at the time. Annoyed by the “congolisation” of the Ivorian music that was taking place within the band, Ernesto left the group and emigrated to Paris in 1968 to record his first few singles arranged by Manu Dibango and influenced by Soul, Rhythm & Blues and Jerk. Those recordings reflect the musical mood at that time which was dictated by two musical trends within the Ivoirian scene: Traditional music, embodied amongst others by Amédée Pierre on one hand and imported music from the States, Cameroon and Zaïre on the other. And while the first trend was generally neglected, the youth fully embraced the second and as a result bands such as "Les Black Devils", "Djinn-Music", "Bozambo”, “Jimmy Hyacinthe”, shot to stardom overnight by recording mainly funk and disco music. It is within this context that Ernesto would draw the inspiration for a future formula. ) 35.00 FLOWER TRAVELING BAND - Made In Japan LP (life goes on - Since it would seem nearly impossible to follow Flower Travellin' Band's psychedelic powerhouse album Satori with anything comparable, Made in Japan went in the opposite direction. (And actually, it was made in Canada.) Lighthouse’s Paul Hoffert produced the album, and where its predecessor had mirrored (and expanded on) the heavy acid-doom pioneered by Black Sabbath, here the mellow opener “Unaware” plays more like a folky rendition of “Planet Caravan”, except for the trippy vocal effects. But the following song, “Aw Give Me Air”, loosened up some slack on the production leash, letting the band play some of its blisteringly loud blues-rock, replete with Joe Yamanaka’s snarling vocals and plenty of scaled leads dipping in and out of restrained freakouts. His vocals ramped up into crazed falsettos on the outstanding “Kamikaze”, a more muscled take on Japanese biker rock blossoming from the same proto-metal family tree planted by contemporaries like Gedo and the more rootsy Blues Creation. "Hiroshima" nearly invented a doom-folk genre, with Yamanaka wailing dirges over hushed instrumentation. The riff-heavy “That’s All” drones like a Japanese version of The Doors.) 24.00 IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT - Inceste LP (col. vinyl) (The epitome of a paradox, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT combines an obsession with musical progression with a philosophical fixation on destruction, decay, and the crumbling of the spiritual, mental, and physical fabric that binds humanity. Dissecting the lifeless corpse of post-industrial New York City and using a canvas of black metal, jazz fusion, death metal, doom, and various other soundscapes to paint a bleak portrait of a post-modern world left to rot, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT serves not as a voice in and of itself, but as many legions of tortured, aching screeches possessing a single entity with no goal in mind other than the mutilation of the benevolent host. Disregarding conventional references in extremity and replacing them with the mechanisms for cultivating a truly unnerving and abysmal atmosphere, this is not so much a metal album as it is an exercise in the deconstruction of the psyche. There is no preparing yourself. There is no hope. There is no beginning. There is only the eternal ending. ) 25.00 JOE GIBBS - Dub Serial LP (green leaves - Excellent re-press of a long lost dub set, the first Joe Gibbs dub album in fact, originally issued circa 1973 alongside other classic early dub sets including Lee Perry's Black Board Jungle and Rhythm Shower, Aquarius Dub, Java Dub, Prince Buster's The Message Dubwise and others. Virtually unheard since that time, it's a dubhead's dream come true, with early raw drum and bass cuts to Gibbs's cut to Satta Massagana, Love Me Girl, Money In My Pocket and the killer cut to He Prayed used by Big Youth for his Foreman Vs Frasier. Spare on the effects, just a bit of echo and reverb and a couple of vicious tape rewinds, similar to the first African Dub chapter. Hitherto ultra-rare this is an important part of the reggae jigsaw slotted into place at last.) 25.00 KARK - The Hermit LP (HP cycle - "Debut album from this massive free ensemble from Louisville which features a revolving cast of over 50 musicians including members of Sapat, Valley of Ashes, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Son of Earth, Taiwan Death and the Belgian Waffles. The Hermit consists of three extended pieces that offer spaciously abstract atmospheres as well as moments of righteous cacophony. Utilizing a multitude of brass, reeds and percussion the album careens through numerous passages where intricate harmonics are created from the densely layered sounds. When the full force of the ensemble is unleashed individual elements appear and quickly recede into the squall. As the music nearly becomes unhinged, the sound disintegrates into a godzilla-like rockist thud propelled by the rhythm section and soaring horns before drifting to a sparse conclusion. The LP comes in a full colour jacket with homespun artifacts gracing the cover." - HP Cycle) 20.00 LAILA SAKINI & LUCY VAN - Figures LP (boomkat - Laila Sakini and Lucy Van’s sought after 2017 EP Figures resurfaces on a newly expanded and remastered edition, deploying taut poetry and creeping electro-pulses for an alchemical suite of slowly encroaching trip hop x dub-pop - highly recommended if you’re into CS + Kreme, Laurie Anderson, Leslie Winer, YL Hooi, Bullion, Jonnine, Kallista Kult…) 28.00 LOCRIAN - New Catastrophism LP (profound - “New Catastrophism”, the first LOCRIAN release in seven years sees the iconic experimental music trio return back to their roots through four immersive tracks that signal towards the band’s signature expressions through dark ambient, experimental music, drone and post rock. Massive dystopian soundscapes through the intricate, layered, and spacious sound palette LOCRIAN unveil. LOCRIAN is a prophetic voice of decline. From the band’s inception, it has comfortably straddled both the experimental and metal underground, weaving themes of apocalypse, urban decay, environmental destruction and birth/death/rebirth throughout its multifaceted and genre-defying releases. The trio formed in 2005 in Chicago and features Terence Hannum (synthesizers, vocals, tape loops), André Foisy (guitars, electronics), and Steven Hess (drums, electronics). Over their sixteen-year history, Locrian have released six studio albums, three collaborative albums, and numerous limited-edition releases. ) 30.00 MAHA - Orkos LP (habibi - Completely unknown album by Salah Ragab's Cairo Jazz Band vocalist Maha, recorded in Cairo in 1979. Features productions by Hany Shenoda of Al Massrieen. Maha’s “Orkos,” originally released on cassette, is one of these standout musical diamonds that combines Jazz and Egyptian vocal traditions with Funk, Latin and Soul. Out via Habibi Funk October 10th. The arrival of the cassette age was a turning point in the music industry all over the world. Manufacturing a vinyl record was a time-consuming process, as well logistically and financially a barrier of entry for many. This soon led to a proliferation of smaller acts and record labels dedicated to a particular sound without the barriers present in making vinyl. ) 26.00 MAI MAO - Ricshari LP (Comes in a silkscreened chipboard jacket with obi, inserts and a postcard. Limited to 285 ex. First LP from Japanese free improvising duo MAI MAO. Consisting of Shizuo Uchida of Hasegawa-Shizuo, Albedo Gravitas, archeus, Kito Muzukumi Rouber, TERROR SHIT, UH, etc. on bass, and Kyosuke Terada, of HUH (who have their own release due on An’archives soon), TERROR SHIT, Bay City Rolaz, Praymate, The Obey Unit, etc. on guitar, they’ve previously released two wild cassettes, Curvature Improvement Plan (Haang niap, 2020) and Folk Dope Rally (2021), both documenting one-take improvisations from live gigs. Ricshari was recorded by Nobuki Nishiyama in January 2021, and is proof, if any was needed, that this duo is one of the most fiercely unique, out-there units currently extant – in Japan, or anywhere, for that matter. ) 32.00 MASAHIKO TOGASHI QUARTET - Speed And Space LP (Recorded in November 1969 at Teichiku Kaikan Studio, Tokyo, "Speed and Space - The Concept of Space in Music" is one of those landmark works in which Masahiko Togashi is accompanied by talented musicians who possess a unique style and innovative approach. The album is an exploration of Togashi's notion of the “Time Law" and can be seen as a study of how texture, rhythm and differing rates of change effect our perception of the passage of time in music. Sounding quite obscure and contemplative, the brief introductory theme signed as “Presage” prepares the listener for powerful and scathing Free Jazz. In a pace of increasing intensity, “Panorama” remits us to the liberating ways of an absorbing percussion where the more muscular interventions are interspersed with moments of enormous sensitivity. Grounded by Togashi’s varied percussion, the disconcerting piano of Masahiko Sato and the vigorous bass of Yoshio Ikeda mark the guidelines of this long abstract exercise. Among several solo notes and brilliant moments played through an energetic improvisation, this theme of 14:35 minutes flows into a grand finale with the involvement of all the musicians. “Expectation” closes the A side in a short but intense reverie of percussion, bass and flute, guided by an improvisation free of harmonic prejudices. The floating world of 'Expectation' closes side A in a brief but intense reverie of percussion, bass and flute, guided by an improvisation devoid of harmonic prejudices. ) 35.00 MAUSIM – ...The New Humanity LP (HP cycle - Trying to communicate something abstract using an unfamiliar language and the message becomes just sound. The sound is amplified yet it brings no further clarity. It is still just sound, dense and ever shifting. Pause for a breath. Start to become aware of the physicality of its construction. Simple moments reflect off one another. Subtle movements alter each cascading layer. Another step forward and turn. The electrical pulses transmit outward while the signals overlap into a distorted reality. Take in the air as it gradually dissipates. The final phase emerges, enveloping all and pushing beyond consciousness. Visualization takes hold but uncertainty remains. Is it the end or the beginning? Is this the new humanity?) 20.00 MAXINE FUNKE - Pieces Of Driftwood LP (A collection of non-album singles, tracks recorded for compilations, and new material.) 27.00 THE MISSING BRAZILIANS - Warzone LP (on u send - Another Science Fiction Dancehall Classic! Originally released in 1984, this is one of the most envelope-pushing records on the On-U Sound label: a rhythmic collision of noise, dub and electronics. Adrian Sherwood pushed the possibilities of the studio to the limit, capturing dystopian mid-80s cold war menace with layers of spatially-disorientating percussion, alien keyboard sounds and teeth-rattling distortion. Features vocal contributions from Shara Nelson (Massive Attack) and Annie Anxiety (Crass Records).) 28.00 PANOPTICON - Collapse DLP + CD (indrune - A sonic warning to the masses! The long out of print 2nd album brings Panopticon’s scathing depiction of societies fall back into print! Crippling black metal with folk flourishes incorporated into the fray!) 42.00 REIKO & TORI KUDO - Tangerine LP (back in stock - A Colourful Storm presents Tangerine, a collection of songs by Reiko and Tori Kudo. Recorded at Village Hototoguiss, Japan, during autumn, winter and spring 2011 and 2012, the makeup of Tangerine is the culmination of over thirty years of experimentation, improvisation and intimacy between Reiko Kudo and Tori Kudo. Beginning their collaborative musical activities in the late 1970s and documenting their movements as Noise, it would be an earlier Les Rallizes Dénudés gig that would prove influential in shaping the duo’s lifelong impulse for collaboration and free play - it was, after all, where they first met. Over the course of a decade, they became associated with Hideo Ikeezumi’s seminal PSF (Psychedelic Speed Freaks) scene, Tori playing with the likes of Ché-SHIZU and Fushitsusha and self-releasing cassettes before forming the first incarnation of Maher Shalal Hash Baz.) 23.00 ROBBIE BASHO - Bouquet - Song Offerings From Robbie Basho LP (Lost Lagoon - Almost 40 years since its original release on cassette, Robbie Basho's 13th album is now available for the first time on vinyl. Remastered from the original master recording (discovered during the production of "Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho"), it has never sounded better. The four-page insert includes rare photos, images from Basho's illustrated songbook and notes from the original lyric sheet, as well as texts from Glenn Jones, Henry Kaiser and others.) 27.00 ROWLAND S. HOWARD - Teenage Snuff Film DLP (MUTE - back in stock - "Teenage Snuff Film was the long awaited first solo album recorded and released by Rowland S.Howard in 1999. Rowland recorded the album at the Birdland & Sing Sing recording studios in Melbourne with longtime colleague and collaborator Mick Harvey contributing drums, organ and guitar and Brian Hooper on bass. The album was produced by Lindsay Gravina and engineered by James Mason & Jade Martin, and released to critical acclaim both here in Australia and internationally. Teenage Snuff Film featured 8 original songs; 'Dead Radio', 'Breakdown (and then...)', 'I Burnt Your Clothes', 'Exit Everything', 'Silver Chain', 'Undone', 'Autoluminescent', 'Sleep Alone' and 2 cover versions; 'White Wedding' (Billy Idol) and 'She Cried' (The Shangri-Las). Fat Possum Records is set to release a limited edition double vinyl set of the long out of print 'Teenage Snuff Film'. This record is highly sought after by collectors, with rare copies appearing on eBay selling for huge $ amounts. Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl.“) 26.00 ROWLAND S HOWARD - Pop Crimes LP (ROWLAND S. HOWARD started playing in teenage bands in late ‘70s Melbourne. Whilst still a callow youth he wrote “Shivers,” an undisputed classic. The song was recorded by his band THE BOYS NEXT DOOR who mutated into the BIRTHDAY PARTY and then relocated to Europe to wage a guerrilla campaign against the trivialities of the ‘80s, until they turned their fire upon themselves and disintegrated mid-decade. Whilst his former associates have moved on to weekend color supplement acceptability, Rowland has commonly been perceived as the banished wastrel prince... exiled to a squalid garret on the colder edges of the kingdom, accompanied only by his dreams and inclinations. His demeanour (pale, gaunt, stick thin, sickly, dark humorred, fatalistic) has perhaps inadvertently added far too much credence to this interpretation of events. The shadow of this myth has seemingly obscured the sheer volume of his creativity and the singularity of his musical vision. Always respected by his peers, a scan through Rowland’s catalog of work sees him allied with the likes of Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Wim Wenders, Barry Adamson, The Gun Club, Nikki Sudden, the Beasts Of Bourbon, the Hungry Ghosts and HTRK. Rowland’s own ensemble THESE IMMORTAL SOULS gun their engines in the ill-lit background and the legacy of his work with The Birthday Party scores the skin of successive generations of musicians and fans. But it’s a history Rowland would gleefully put a match to. With or without it Rowland S. Howard would make tense, beautiful music, would deliver us his personal vision of the world, would create Pop Crimes.) 27.00 SIMANSKY NIESNER - V​š​echno Dobré LP (stoned to death - (excerpt from liner notes by Miloš Hroch) Czech guitarists Jakub Šimanský and Tomáše Niesner drew their inspiration from the roots of 1950s classic country blues or American folk songs. But also the cross section of the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachian Mountains' traditional music informed by atonal elements of the European avant-garde. This musical style has been often labelled as “American primitive guitar”, contested and often reductionist genre term. On the album Všechno dobré, Šimanský and Niesner reinterpret these guitar idioms by developing an idiosyncratic vocabulary for the wooden instrument through their own lived melancholy paradoxes of Central Europe. While their previous 2019 album, Tance neznámé, was wreathed around the guitar motifs of Jakub Šimanský with assistance from Tomáš Niesner, on Všechno dobré, their roles are equal. The album is based on improvisation sessions that the duo recorded themselves two years ago in the modest kitchen inside the book publishing warehouse where Šimanský lived for some time. The complex of halls and parking lots was on one side, surrounded by the highway, and on the other, the river Svratka separated them from the busy shopping centre. As Šimanský and Niesner note, their work is now more intuitive and they approach music in most spare way possible.) 20.00 SPECTRAL WOUND - Infernal Decadence LP (profound lore - re issue with an embossed gatefold sleeve - “The beauty of this album is that it manages to be memorable without relying on a specific gimmick: there’s no needless clean chorus, nor pointedly overwrought leads. Each song is built on the best foundation available for a metal band: the almighty riff. With solid riffs dropping out only to make room for other equally enticing sections, it allows the competence of the rest of the band to shine without any showboating or cheese. If only there were more of this in metal.” —Vice) 30.00 SWIRLIES - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons LP (tang - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons is the second full-length album by Boston indie rock band Swirlies. Released in April 1996, three years after their previous LP, this was the group's first major recording effort after a change in half of Swirlies' lineup. Working again with engineer and co-producer Rich Costey, the band developed a wider scope of sound than the shoegaze and lo-fi pop which characterized their earlier releases, as Salons makes heavier use of synthesizers, dance beats, and other electronic sounds, drawing comparisons to groups like Stereolab and their Krautrock forebears. In 2014 music writer Andrew Earles placed the record on his list of 500 essential American underground rock albums.) 27.00 TOMAGA - Extended Play 1 & 2 DLP (hands in the dark - 'Extended Play 1 & 2', a double vinyl compilation of the two latest, masterful EPs from Londoners TOMAGA. The first was released on vinyl in 2019 in a limited edition, and today is almost impossible to find. The second, released digitally the following year, now has its first vinyl release on this pressing. The duo, formed by Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen, are considered one of the most exciting and innovative experimental groups of the 2010’s. These extremely special productions afford us the opportunity to come to know the full extent of Relleen’s talent after losing him suddenly a few months before the release of the album 'Intimate Immensity' in summer 2020. The intuitive musical dialogue held between the English bassist and electronics engineer and Italian drummer/percussionist Magaletti is based on dark, subtle jazz, with psychedelic and minimal nuances, and enriched, as with each new offering, with exotic idioms hitherto unused. ) 32.00 VALENTINA MAGALETTI & YVES CHAUDOUET - Batterie Fragile LP (London based Valentina Magaletti, is a composer, producer and percussionist experimenting with new materials and sounds. She is one of the most prominent musicians of the wide experimental world. The prolific drummer collaborates with many musicians and releases albums in all musical directions (from noise to jazz by way of dub...). She was part of the acclaimed duo Tomaga until the tragic passing of Tom Relleen in 2020. Lately Valentina Magaletti collaborates with Joao Pais Filipe, Lafawndah, Marlene Ribeiro, Julian Sartorius among many others and she is part of bands like Vanishing Twin, Better Corners, Holy Tongue, Uuuu, Avvitagalli, Moin... She released 3 solo albums, La Tempesta Colorata (A Colourful Storm, 2022), A Queer Anthology Of Drums (Takuroku/Cafe Oto, 2020) and Valentina Plays The Batterie Fragile (Un je-ne-sais-quoi, 2017). ) 27.00 TAPES JAKOB BATTICK & TONGUE DEPRESSOR – Revolution Blues TAPE (stoned to death - Raise the Dead is a collaborative album from Connecticut drone duo Tongue Depressor and Maine-born, Philadelphia-based songwriter Jakob Battick - Steeped in ritualistic necromanticisms and a spectral, sprawling sense of composition, the album is a lush and alien trip through some of the furthest reaches of songcraft and 'the song.' The 38 minute LP's two side-long pieces are mergers of the haunted vestiges of 20th century songwriting and contemporary avant-garde classical exploration, deeply informed and inspired by the liberating fearlessness of extreme metal. Tongue Depressor's Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey utilize all manner of microtonal and just intonation instrumentation to frame Battick's deceptively gentle baritone and occult-fixated lyrics within a sonic landscape that shimmers at the nocturnal end of the spectrum of light as it creaks and groans under its own nightmarish weight. These songs are at once potentially disturbing and richly romantic, combining elements both familiar and phantasmic to synthesize something truly difficult to place within the current American underground. Raise the Dead follows Tongue Depressor's prolific 2021 string of LPs on labels as diverse as XKatedral, Working Man Lay Down, and Redscroll Records, and also acts as the bigger, darker, and stranger sequel to Battick's self-released cult folk LP Rabbit's Moon from the same year.) 10.00 MATT UELMAN - Diablo II TAPE (Hands Of Steel - Matt Uelman ´s masterpiece game soundtrack for Diablo II. If you are a fan of this game, you know this soundtrack slays. Top notch dark ride exploring gothic folk, guitar bonanza, off beat action score and dark ambient. Released on Hands of Steele.) 12.00 SOUL GLO - The Nigga In Me Is Me TAPE (SRA - Brilliant 2019 album from the Philadelphia hardcore band.) 15.00 CD FALLS OF RAUROS - Key to a Vanishing Future CD ("Key to a Vanishing Future" is an intended departure from the sounds explored throughout the band's back catalog, while still retaining characteristics inherent to Falls of Rauros. Never content to make the same album twice, the group has once again invited new influences into their aesthetic, this time including more explicit nods to death metal and prog rock while still drilling deeper into the black metal and North American folk-rock that makes up their core sound. This is once again their heaviest album to date, as well as their most technically demanding. The album was recorded by the band themselves in their rehearsal space in late 2020/early 2021, befitting of the natural and organic sound pursued for the album, while mixing and mastering duties were handled by Colin Marston. The striking artwork was created by Austin Lunn (Panopticon). Photography by Drew Buerhaus.)18.00 ROBBIE BASHO - Bouquet - Song Offerings From Robbie Basho CD (Lost Lagoon - Almost 40 years since its original release on cassette, Robbie Basho's 13th album is now available for the first time on vinyl. Remastered from the original master recording (discovered during the production of "Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho"), it has never sounded better. The four-page insert includes rare photos, images from Basho's illustrated songbook and notes from the original lyric sheet, as well as texts from Glenn Jones, Henry Kaiser and others.) 16.00 MAGAZINES
 WIRE - #465 I Nov 2022 MAG (Tyshawn Sorey: The genre straddling polymath unifies improvisation and composition into his own rigorous and powerful sense of expression. By Stewart Smith. Plus: Black Composers: After a century of racist and Eurocentric marginalisation, the AACM and others forged new strategies for creative experimentation. By Paul Steinbeck Devin Townsend: The Canadian studio wizard gets emotional with synaesthetic prog pyrotechnics. By Joseph Stannard - Joyce: After facing industry sexism and blacklists, the Brazilian singer-songwriter is back on her own terms. By Joshua Minsoo Kim Horse Lords: The Baltimore noise rock quartet gallop through a panoply of tunings and philosophical ideas. By Dan Wilson - Invisible Jukebox: Big Joanie: Will the UK feminist punk trio want to take The Wire’s mystery selection Back Home? Tested by Leah Kardos.) 8.00