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S-R 020CD
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Formal reissue of Twilight Peaks, guitarist Robbie Basho's last recordings. It was originally issued in 1984 on a tape label called The Art of Relaxation, and never got any reviews or attention at the time. For this proper release it was mastered by Glenn Jones (of Cul de Sac fame) and Matt Azevedo, from the original demo tapes, provided to Glenn Jones by Basho himself as he was working on the album. The CD has two extra live tracks, also culled from the original demo tapes. Amazing liner notes by Glenn Jones and Rich Osborn.
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S-R 020LP
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Limited repress. LP version with download code. Formal reissue of Twilight Peaks, guitarist Robbie Basho's last recordings. It was originally issued in 1984 on a tape label called The Art of Relaxation, and never got any reviews or attention at the time. For this proper release it was mastered by Glenn Jones (of Cul de Sac fame) and Matt Azevedo, from the original demo tapes, provided to Glenn Jones by Basho himself as he was working on the album.
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S-R 016LP
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2011 release. Extra Sexes is AG Davis, a sound poet, writer, performance artist, and composer from Jacksonville, Florida. Spiral Mirror is the third release under his current moniker, following several years of activity as Boy + Girl. A relentlessly aggressive disc of stripped-down dark electro-noise, sprinkled with some kinder moments. You'll need to go outside for a minute after this one! Edition of 300 in a cyan and magenta screen-printed sleeve featuring artwork by Tessa Deceuninck.
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S-R 023LP
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When it comes to music, Karen Willems is an all-embracing soul. Best known as the percussionist of Yuko and Stef Kamil Carlens' Zita Swoon, she has manned the skins for a myriad of other artists: Delvaux, Nive Nielsen, Silver Junkie, and Kaboom Karavan, to name a few. With an eclectic resume of projects under her belt, Willems finally embarked on a more personal sonic journey in 2012: Inwolves. This is quite a different animal, a pet project bred in Willems' attic from her own artistic vision. With Air+, her debut release as Inwolves, Willems captures alluring, otherworldly sounds inspired by Meetjesland, a countryside area between Ghent and Bruges renowned for its vast, dynamic landscape architecture of forests, polders, creeks, and watercourses. Ominous yet soothing, the interweaving synth layers of bandmates Jürgen de Blonde and Ward Dupan coincide towards a primal rhythmic surge. But make no mistake: Inwolves doesn't draw much on traditional song structures, if at all. Includes download code.
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S-R 010LP
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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse is a record that stands no daylight. A feverish nightmare of an album, dragging us into a brown paper bag -- ferocious cannibal jungle ambience seeping through -- 'til we're cast down some stairs into a cellar made out of spit. A twirling folk-ballad sung by a ghost made out of chewing gum turns into a symphony of typing fingers, ticking clocks and slamming car doors, like a noirish soundtrack to the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, accompanied by squeaking stuffed animals as eyewitnesses.
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S-R 015LP
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2011 release. Spirit of the Positive Wind: some sort of supergroup, composed of Karl Bauer (Axolotl), Nate Nelson (Mouthus), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers), and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus). Their debut self-titled LP features two side-long tracks of bubbling, meandering noise-drone collages. Edition of 300, featuring cover art by Nelson and a screen-printed inner sleeve.
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S-R 022LP
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2013 release. Two sides split between two bands. The A-side features American trio Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing, consisting of Nate Wooley on trumpet, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and electronics, and Jason Roebke on bass. On the B-side is Belgian trio Sheldon Siegel, made up of Erik Heestermans on percussion, Gerard Herman on saxophone, Gino Coomans on cello, and all three on several other instruments. Screen-printed open sleeve on heavy white stock; screen-printed insert on heavy black stock. Housed in a heavy PVC sleeve. Pressing of 380 copies on heavy black vinyl. Heavy! Two sides of grainy textures and truly happening improv.
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S-R 024LP
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2013 release. Indiscreet Mirror is London-based musician and producer Alex Monk's eagerly-awaited follow-up to 2010's The Safety Machine (S-R 017LP). The album features guests Gavan Kearny (Sand Snowman), Gareth Jones, and Steve Dowle, as well as an impressive array of instruments including the Novation Bass Station, the Casio SK-1, and a 17-string Vietnamese zither. As with previous outings, Indiscreet Mirror is a somber, melancholy affair, but this time around there's a marked organic feeling driven by acoustic instruments and voice. Rife with experimentation, the album explores pastoral folk terrain, while maintaining the tuneful kosmische vibe of The Safety Machine. At its best, it combines the two worlds to impressive psychedelic effect. Screen printed sleeve in two versions on heavy white stock, housed in a heavy PVC sleeve. Edition of 200 copies on gorgeous heavy translucent white vinyl.
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S-R 017LP
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2010 release. Drenched in a frozen, hypnotic melancholy, The Safety Machine is a double-LP tour de force by London-based musician and producer Alex Monk. Incorporating '70s kraut-synth psychedelia, cosmic ambient drones, and haunting melodies into an ambitious framework of multi-layered sonic bleakness with hints of early Eno, Klaus Schultze, Robert Wyatt, and Moondog. Monk creates a world that's filled with loss, loneliness, and ethereal beauty -- staring into the abyss while the icecaps are hugging your skull... Hand-numbered edition of 310 with a screen-printed open sleeve. Includes MP3 download voucher.
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S-R 028LP
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Since forming in 2008, The Gate, the trio made up of Dan Peck on tuba and amplifier, Tom Blancarte on electric upright bass, and Brian Osborne on percussion, have forged a unique and uncompromising aesthetic. The Gate seek to break down and confuse the conventional roles of a horn-bass-drums ensemble, revealing the most raw and elemental aspects of organized sound. Their music, dividing time between improvisation and Peck's compositions, ranges from bleak landscapes of near-silence to massive, horrifying sound sculptures. With three international tours and three albums under their belt, The Gate now present Stench, their fourth studio album. Recorded by engineering wizard Colin Marston at his Thousand Caves Studio in Queens, New York, it features new friends Nate Wooley on trumpet and amplifier and Tim Dahl on electric bass. The album is in many ways a continuation of the band's gloom-jazz stylings, but Wooley's impeccable sense of extemporaneous composition and Dahl's psychedelic brand of bizarro-funk provide incomparable additions to the brooding nature of the music, making Stench the gnarliest and blackest experience yet from The Gate. High-quality heavy vinyl housed in an open screen printed sleeve on heavy stock. Edition of 300.
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S-R 012EP
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Relay I is the first in Smeraldina-Rima's Relay series. An artist for the A-side is chosen by the Smeraldina-Rima clan, after which the A-side artist decides who will get to fill the B-side. For every Relay 7″, a different artist will be chosen to create the outside artwork. The A-side of Relay I fell to Jack Allett, the finger-picking whirlwind formerly known as Spoono. Allett chose Kalbakken for the B-side, whose shamanistic folk track is a great foil to Allett's strong and drone-y guitar track. Comes in an open two-color screenprinted sleeve by Smeraldina-Rima. Pressing of 200 copies, cut and pressed by Record Industry.
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S-R 011LP
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"Trumpet/Amplifier: three pieces of unrelenting pressure, from choking bursts of muteness to firestorms of sound. Trumpeter becoming trumpet. Brass ventriloquism." --TTT; Edition of 496, heavy-weight vinyl with screen-printed open sleeve. Liner notes by Ben Hall.
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