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"Moris Tepper, also known for his work with such luminaries as Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Frank Black, Robyn Hitchcock, and more is releasing his seventh offering in two decades of growth and maturation as a solo artist. Building A Nest finds him in a more intimate, reflective state. Like his past releases, this new album casts various emotions and styles. But, as the album's title suggests, a new path is blazed here; moving in a more 'homeward bound' direction. These songs reflect a large swath of Tepper's life, experiences, and adventures. Like a master cartographer, he has distilled much of it, creating an audible map leading him home and inviting us to follow. As expected from Tepper, the album is not without its surprises, humor, and despair. Tepper has never been one to create a collection of songs in the same set of colors and tones. His track orders are often filled with 'turn-on-a-dime' twists and Building A Nest does not disappoint. Intimate folk ballads like 'In The Morning,' reside next to the cardboard box delta blues, 'Blackbone Chicken,' seasoned and served with a McCartney/Stones style rocker, 'She Had To Run.'"
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"Primal and earthen, Essence is by far their most expansive work to date. The second full-length effort from the band ventures deep into the avant garde, citing influences like the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra, but also maintains a nervous punk energy."
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"In January of 2009, Neil Benjamin and Ryan Hamilton stepped into a basement in Queens, New York. Without having a sense of what the music would sound like or who would be playing what instrument, they almost immediately created their first song, 'Statehoarders.' It became the precedent of chemistry that Columboid (named before the first practice) would establish and a full set of dirty primal-synth new wave minimalism followed suit. Their first proper studio recorded release We Were One is set for release, naturally, by La Societe Expeditionnaire. Columboid consists of past and/or present members of many outfits, most notably Coyote, Man-Man, Lewis and Clarke, Vaz, and Icy Demons."
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LP version on clear vinyl.
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LSE 018CD
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"Soars is a reflection and by-product of Eastern Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley; a fertile creative pool over the past decade, spawning a healthy number of noise/experimental/punk artists, bands, and venues (Brother JT, Pearls & Brass, etc). With NYC and Philadelphia in close proximity, it's all too common for the artist-as-drone to flee one's breeding grounds, leaving the assiduous worker-bees to tend the hive. Comprised of four long-time mainstays of the LV's spirited independent community (members of Memes, Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air, Dark Circles and We Have Heaven), the band's atmospheric scapes of dream-pop are awash with gauzy hints of Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, propelled by lockstep industrial rhythms. While destroying and rebuilding sonic textures and lyrical myth, Soars mirrors the depth, beauty, and character of their regenerative post-decay rust-belt colony."
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LSE 018LP
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LP version. Limited edition colored vinyl -- digital download included.
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"Dragon Turtle's Almanac is a heavy trip; a document of transformation, entropy, and causality. Dragon Turtle evokes Morricone landscapes as if painted by Glenn Branca, where dream atmospheres meet brutal realities of nature and relationships. These forces are both beautiful ('Causality', 'Belt of Venus') and destructive ('Moon Fallout', 'Burn the Leaves'). The textures and layers move with a sense of urgency and purpose ('Hometime', 'Hourglass'). The duality of Tom Asselin and Brian Lightbody's musical relationship is also at play, converging an influence of sound spanning from John Cale and Eno to post-punk conglomerates of folk and Krautrock. Late night sessions took place into the dawn during the height of dark transformation: post 9/11 America. The recordings began with an M Box and 3 mics in Asselin's Pocono Mountain basement, and over the course of time, acquisition of gear, and massive trial-and-error, the bunker blossomed into One Forest Studio. An empty roller rink was used as a reverb chamber while sampling Brahms' Requiem Mass. Musical recruits were brought in to flesh out ideas with distinct instruments which were effected, layered, chopped, and collaged together."
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