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New Releases

4 Bonjour's Parties
Pigments Drift Down To The Brook
PS, US 4 BONJOUR'S PARTIES is a seven member strong ensemble from Tokyo, Japan. Their debut full-length release, "Pigments Drift Down To The Brook", with it's expansive, chamber-music approach to song structure and production, hints at modern risk-takers Architecture In Helsinki and The Arcade Fire. Alternating between sweet and majestic, the combination of male and female vocals, sung both in English and Japanese, is an aural wonder. Keyboards and wind instruments lay on top of a bed of dream-rock guitar, bass, and drums, creating moments of 60's guitar pop, Neu inspired repetition, and modern electronics, all within the same expansive track. "Pigments Drift Down To The Brook" marks 4 Bonjour's Parties as a band that deserves close attention.
Mush-256
CD
$9.00

Acnode One
Acnode One
PS, US 30-year anniversary reissue of this LAFMS cassette artifact, in a deluxe gatefold double LP presentation. "When one goes digging into the caverns of free jazz, underground, DIY, improvised or noise music, the Los Angeles Free Music Society is a group that you'll find crawling alongside the greatest artists in its under appreciated history... and future! ACNoDE ONE was created by two of the LAFMS's key members: Dr. Id and Ju Suk Reet Meate of Smegma fame. Recorded in 1977 as a hand-made cassette, side A was Dr. Id and friends and side B was all Ju Suk. With influences ranging from Beefheart, Nervous Norvus, and Ron Geesin through the whole ESP catalog, this is one of the defining examples of the LAFMS sound. They travel with ease from Zappaesque freak outs, teeth rattling tape loop drones; psychedelic kiddy record cut ups, to a beautiful bowed bass solo in the vein of Scott la Faro or Henry Grimes. It marks an important turning point in Smegma's development. As Ju Suk points out, 'It was a time of great transition. With only one Smegma "gig" in two years, our music was going inward. The reel to reel tape decks at the time lent themselves to wild misuse... they were very exciting times experimentally.'"
Poobah-008
DLP
$20.50

Aloha
Light Works
PS, US Aloha's most gorgeous, ambitious, and fully realized songs on a 30-minute long mini-album. Richly detailed, moody, intensely rhythmic, and flowing with melody. Aloha multi-instrumentalist and studio wizard TJ Lipple mixes in the studio magic while leaving the free-spirited vibe of the recording sessions intact. Piano, brass, oddly tuned guitars, drums, bass, mallet instruments, and vintage keyboards fill out the arrangements.
Polyvinyl
CD5
$8.50

Angell, Theo
Auroplinth
PS, US "What can I say about Theo Angell? He's an artist, a musician, a filmmaker, a shaman. He lives and works in New York City, but plies his trade all over the country. Angell is perhaps best known for his work in Hall of Fame and Jackie-O Motherfucker, and also as part of Samara Lubelski's live band. But with the release of Auraplinth, all that will change. This is Theo Angell's opus. This is his masterwork. It finds him at his absolute peak and delivers an album unlike anything else. He uses his voice to etch out a detailed map of the stars, made up of dirt and bone, proving the organic nature of the cosmos. Auraplinth is an amalgamation and invention, joining foundation with the ether. Both of these forces are constantly at work throughout these 15 tracks."
Digitalis-050
CD
$10.25

Bailey, Marco
Wahnsin
PS, BELGIUM This is Marco Bailey on his more minimal techno-oriented MbSelektions imprint. "Wahnsin" is a crate-saver, and don't forget Danilo Vigorito's remix on the flip... a fucking blinder. ELECTRONIC
Mbselektions-014
12
$9.50

Band Of the Holy Joy, The
Leaves That Fall In Spring
PS, UK One of the quintessential 'Rough Trade' bands of the 80s and beyond, The Band Of Holy Joy are a truly unique proposition. Combining the dark but unapologetically humane poetry of singer Johny Brown with the instrument action of Chris Brierley (violin) and Alfie Thomas (accordion, keyboards), as well as many other more occasional contributors, BOHJ built a loyal international fan-base for their by turns romantic and bleakly humorous songbook. Critically adored, the band featured on the covers of several music papers and magazines in their heyday, journalists citing them as 'pop deviants inside the urban wasteland', or 'outsider art you can dance to'. With the vast majority of their records out of print, this 'Best Of' has been specifically selected by the band, drawing on a catalogue of some eight albums and a similar number of singles. Includes a brand new, never before released recording of 'Real Beauty Passed Through'. Extensive sleeve notes written in co-operation with the band, including fan testimonials, as well as lyrics, unpublished photographs and a complete discography, complete the whole package. The Band Of Holy Joy are current active on the live circuit again, making this the perfect time to re-discover the magic.
CherryRed-341
CD
$15.50

Blome, Benno
From Antenna to Antenna 1
PS, GERMANY "Not many labels established in the '90s have managed to achieve a consistent advancement without alienating from their roots. Even fewer labels have created a true brand thanks to their very own aesthetic of sound and artwork that are loved and respected by DJs and producers around the globe. Wearing the fitting title From Antenna to Antenna 1, it contains a 17-track CD mixed and compiled by label-head Benno Blome with a best-of from recent releases that have been released only on vinyl previously. Additionally, it brings four previously unreleased tracks." Artist list: Bloody Mary, Yapacc, Misc., And Again, Bond & Blome, Error Error, Phage, Benno Blome, Andre Crom, Frank Martiniq, Franklin De Costa, Baby Ford & Benno Blome, Vincent Radar & Weltzwei. ELECTRONIC
Sender-070
CD
$17.00

Bodies Of Water
Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink
PS, US BODIES OF WATER started in DAVID METCALF and MEREDITH ARTHUR'S closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used for recording. They eventually formed a musical group to play David's songs. Meredith figured out the piano, and their friends Kyle Gladden and Jessie Conklin learned to play the bass and drums, respectively. In the ensuing years, the four have learned to deftly spin those threads which inevitably weave their way through every Bodies of Water song: ebullient group singing, melodic invention, thundering polyrhythms, and sublime dramatic tension. "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink" is their first full-length record, and the first release from the band's own THOUSAND TONGUES label. The songs stray from verse-chorus structure but are engaging and memorably crafted, drawing on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows. Since its inception Bodies of Water have added an auxiliary corps of musicians and when playing in L.A. their ranks can swell to as many as 11; hitting, blaring, strumming and bowing away. The four core members' vocal synchronicity remains the group's hallmark. Their calls, responses, shouts and harmonies ride above and around a retaining wall of sound in a fleeting burst of neo-tent revival immediacy.
SecretlyCanadian/ThousandTongues-12
CD
$11.50

Bonde Do Role
Marina Gasolina
PS, US Brazilian Bonde Do Role return with a ten track EP of new material and remixes, just in time for your office Christmas party! A new version of live favorite "Marina Gasolina", three new baile-funk bump and grinders, and remixes by the likes of Peaches, Ladytron, CSS, and Architecture In Helsinki - not released in North America - round out this release.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD5
$7.00

Bosmann, Karl
Eskalation
PS, GERMANY "Escalating drone sounds like a mixture of Cluster/Kluster and KTL or Sunn O))) with vocal parts in the style of Tazartes and Tibetan monks. The 20-minute long title track sounds like a swelling version of Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy for Lilith. Comes in deluxe silver foil cover, with silver foil insert and postcard. Printed inner sleeve and additional inserts also included."
YouDon'tHaveToCallItMusic-003
LP
$34.00

Brotzmann/Wilkinson Quartet
One Night At Burmantofts
PS, UK "A long overdue meeting of two of the titans of the saxophone today. Alan Wilkinson (alto, baritone & voice) and Peter Brötzmann (clarinet, tarogato & tenor) together with Willi Kellers (drums) and Simon H. Fell (bass) blow up one hell of a storm. The individuals on this recording consciously commit, putting themselves 'out there,' over the edge. The energy, the electricity, generated by saxophonists Wilkinson and Brötzmann, is a result of their fearless approach to the precipice and their willingness to stare, unblinking, into the abyss. And yet while this music, free jazz, improv, call it what you will, exists at the boundary of our cultural existence, it echoes the sounds first identified as jazz, back at the birth pangs of the modern age. It is the commitment to a collective sound devoid of ego with the fearless individual, that makes this music extraordinary, that provides the moments of almost spiritual communion." JAZZ
BoWeavil-027
CD
$17.25

Butterfly Effect
IMAGO
PS, US One of Australia's hardest touring bands return w/ a release that exceeds all expectations. Recorded by US producer Joe Barresi (Tool), in LA, IMAGO takes the listener on a journey; emotive lyrics & intense arrangements, w/ heavy peaks in contrast to moments of soothing motif. They have proven themselves as a reputable rock act, w/ solid writing skills, amazing live shows & commitment to hard work.
CaptivaRecords
CD
$13.50

By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos
Complex Full of Phantoms
PS, US Coming off the heels of the scarcely limited 3" CD series - and a full two years after the release of their debut album - BY THE END OF TONIGHT has finally dropped the anvil of badass on us with six new jams. In the two years since the release of their brilliant "A Tribute To Tigers", BTEOT have toured almost non-stop, playing every rock club, living room (or even barn) that would have them. Their relentlessness has paid off, as their half of this split album with good friends and like-minded power jammers TERA MELOS is far and away their most accomplished work to date. Not to be outdone, Sacramento's Tera Melos have also been on the road more than they've been home this year, touring with the likes of Fall of Troy and Horse the Band. Their frantic, absurdly complex songs are the perfect compliment to By the End of Tonight's darker, more sinister instrumental metal. Though both bands play a hyper-catchy, addictive form of spastic punk, Tera Melos brings to mind a hybrid of fellow Sacramento speed freaks Hella and Cap'n Jazz, while BTEOT draws an unfathomable arc between Blink 182 and The Jesus Lizard. The combination makes this by far the strongest release to date from either band.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-128
LP
$7.50

Canned Heat
Vintage
PS, RUSSIAN FED. LP version. "Canned Heat was formed in 1965 by Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson (guitar/harmonica/vocals), and Bob 'The Bear' Hite (vocals). Before hitting the charts in 1968 with their version of Jim Oden's 'On The Road Again' (#20 in the USA, #10 in the UK), here is how they sounded in 1966 when R&B pioneer Johnny Otis produced their first recordings."
Lilith-139
LP
$22.50

Carbonara, Eric
Exodus Bulldornadius
PS, US "Exodus Bulldornadius is Philly multi-instrumentalist Eric Carbonara's contribution to Locust Music's ongoing Wooden Guitar series. Carbonara's playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk to form a kind of exalted pidgin style of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease."
Locust-104
CD
$13.75

Cex
Exotical Privates
PS, US 4 remixes from Cex's critically acclaimed album Actual F*cking.
Automation-007
LP
$6.75

Chaim & James Blonde
Roxy Feeling
PS, GERMANY James Blonde and Chaim present their debut 12" on MBF, a tribute to Roxy Music. "Roxy Feeling" is hypnotic with sequencers creating a super, seemingly effortless dub-groove in a timeless, stripped-down arrangement. The first and original mix of "Crack" is a traditional synth-driven song, with ghostly voices out in the distance. A more minimal remix follows by Hamburg's Pelle Buys - straight, rocking, stripped-down German techno-house. ELECTRONIC
MyBestFriend-12038
12
$9.50

Crash That Took Me
Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes
PS, US "Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes" Debut record is a colorful blending of sounds brought together to create an abstract pop record. Full of layered textures mixing fuzzed-out guitars and orchestral instrumentation, Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes is lyrically and musically based on the relationship between color and music, expanding their experimental pop into a sonic wall saturated with reverb & a sprinkle of psychedelics to weave a tapestry of visual imagery. Notable influences include Roller Skate Skinny, early Mercury Rev, the psychedelic stages of The Kinks and VU, topped off with Jon Brionesque celesta solos. Guests incl. Brandon Carr (EARLIES) on vocals, Kris Youmans (PAPER CHASE) on cello, Ryan Fitzgerald (POLYPHONIC SPRESS) on guitars. Recorded, produced & mixed by Casey Diiorio (MIDLAKE, [DARYL]) at Valve Studios in Dallas; mixed down onto half-inch tape and sent to Abbey Road Studios in London for mastering by Sean Magee (Spiritualized, Placebo, Paul McCartney)
Idol-064
CD
$11.75

Culteral Amnesia
Press My Hungry Button
PS, GERMANY "A selection of the best work of Cultural Amnesia spanning 1980-1983. Includes remastered tracks from their three released cassette albums and from compilations. Nearly half the tracks are previously unreleased, including pieces from two unfinished late albums that the band consider amongst their strongest songs."
VinylOnDemand-045
DLP
$32.50

Dashboard Confessional
The Shade Of Poison Trees
PS, US Vinyl LP. "Tom Petty, Springsteen, Neil Young, and Pearl Jam...these are the people I look to," says Chris Carrabba, the creative force behind Dashboard Confessional. "They do what they want and follow their hearts, going wherever their music is taking them. I look to those guys, and I start to think: how does it work for them? What were they holding on to, and do I hold on to that as well?" With the release of his fourth full-length album Dusk and Summer, the Boca Raton, Florida resident is no longer simply an up-and-coming musician; he's a career artist. Dusk is certainly the most defining album of what has already been a remarkable career; on one end, it's a return to the full band sound of Carrabba's earliest, pre-Dashboard work, and yet also the most forward-thinking and innovative record he's ever recorded.
Cobraside/Vagrant-1117
LP
$13.50

Destroy The Heart
S-T
PS, US Epic power-pop from Darren Robbins (ex-Time Bomb Symphony). Featuring Adam Schmitt sharing the instrumentation duties while catching the frequencies. Highly Recommended!
HomeTapingIsKillingMusicRecords
CD
$9.00

Devillock
These Graves
PS, US Edition of 333 with hand-screened and inked, textured cardstock covers. All sounds by Justin Meyers, recorded live May-June, 2005.
ToneFilth-033
LP
$13.75

Draheim, Charlie
Possession
PS, US "Pressure. Steam. Scrap yard drainage, leaking into the corners. Mold and mildew - seepage. Cracks, crevices containing black days and red nights. The infection is spreading. False and forgotten. The Butcher, as he's known amongst friends and enemies, slices his way though flesh and bone on his first vinyl appearance and his finest moment to date. Contaminating the A-side with sick tones, nauseating hiss and whine, the rumble and wet sadism of clogged sinuses led to climax in an orgy of rotten magnetic tape. Mongrel howls and junkyard threats make up the unhealthy flip of this record - the slowest of rhythmic thump wrought in contrast to relentless clang reminding of the new, no, The OLD Blockaders. It ends the second you wake up. Throw your vacant body in the gutter." -Greh Holger (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound). Edition of 320 with hand-screened textured card stock covers.
ToneFilth-020
LP
$17.00

Drake, Nick
Family Tree [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US Vinyl Version: Comprising recordings made at Nick Drake's family home and in France before his 1969 debut, Family Tree offers a unique insight into a nascent songwriting genius. Spread over four sides of 180 gram virgin vinyl, its 29 songs range from folk standards and compositions by his mother Molly to early versions of future classics taped by his Cambridge friend and arranger Robert Kirby at Cambridge in 1968. Mastered at Abbey Road and featuring 29 rare tracks (one previously only available on iTunes), as well as a deluxe gatefold sleeve, rare photographs and a lavish insert including lengthy sleeve notes, this lovingly assembled set is sure to become a prized item amongst lovers of Nick Drake. Non-limited or numbered second pressing now available.
Sunbeam
DLP
$31.75

Drake, Nick
Fruit Tree [3LP+DVD, 2007 Edition]
PS, US Limited edition reissue of the box featuring all three of his classic albums incl. the DVD bio "A Skin Too Few" for the first time and a new 108-page booklet. LIMITED 2000.
Fontana/Island
LP-BOX
$63.00

Drake, Nick
Fruit Tree [3CD+DVD, 2007 Edition]
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Included in the box are the original three albums in mini LP-like cover sleeves (two of which are gatefolds). Also included is A Skin Too Few, a 48-minute documentary that contains on-camera interviews with Boyd, Gabrielle Drake (Nick's sister), Wood, Paul Weller, Nick's parents (who are not shown on camera), and a few others. The documentary offers few new clues but there are some devastatingly beautiful moments... One thing that is universally agreed upon is that the box should exist in some kind of definitive way, and it has been lovingly assembled with everything getting the grand treatment, aside from the glaring omission of those five cuts. No matter which of his three albums is a personal favorite, the quality of the music is the one thing that cannot be argued here -- it will simply continue to endure and grow in terms of its legend and importance, enlightening and engaging new listeners as they encounter it in the 21st century."
Fontana/Island
CD-BOX
$60.00

Esplendor Geometrico
1980-1989|First Decade
PS, GERMANY "Two LPs of the box with Diez Años double cassette (a collection of unreleased tracks from the '80s with some tracks from compilations). The third vinyl includes: 'Avance Rapido' (from La Zona Compilation LP 1988), 'Fungus Cerebri' (from Sinn und Form Tape 1982 ), 'Raskin' (from 80s Tracks CD) 'Primera Tundra' (from '80s Tracks CD) 'Trans Unmma' (from '80s Tracks CD) and the superb live performance from 1987 from the special Bruitiste box set. The 7" contains 3 superb tracks including 'Moscú Está Helado.'"
VinylOnDemand-046
3XLP
$88.00

Eulberg/Gabriel Ananda, Dominik
Kirschplunder & Jasmin Tee Bei Gabriel
PS, GERMANY This is the second collaboration between these two artists on Traum. Their weekly visits have become somewhat of a ritual, meeting at Ananda's factory for some cherry Danish pastries & jasmine tea. What sounds harmless ends up being a real rave bomb. "NGC 101" is a 10-minute freakout that relies on a reduced beat. "Supernova" sneaks in a lovely chord that makes its way through layers of bass and knob twists, warming the heart of every clubber. ELECTRONIC
Traum-093
12
$9.50

Eux Autres
Cold City
PS, US Eux Autres (pronounced ooz-oh-tra), a Portland-based duo, plays pop music. The band consists of brother and sister Heather and Nicholas Larimer. Heather plays drums, Nicholas plays guitar, and they both sing. Practices frequently devolve into shoving matches. Eux Autres write compact songs with sparse instrumentation. Their music has been unfairly described as "fun." But while the surface of the songs might seem nonchalant, the lyrics offer skewed observations and fierce barbs. Most of their songs are about a) military history b) being "done wrong" or c) sports. Sadly, Eux Autres are the only people who notice this. The band sounds like the unrequited love song Doug Martsch would have penned for Francoise Hardy, had the time/space continuum conveniently collapsed. Eux Autres' debut 7", was released in 2003, and their first full-length CD, Hell Is Eux Autres, recorded by Jeff Stuart Saltzman and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney/Quasi), was self-released in 2004 and re-released in 2006 by Grenadine Records (Montreal, QC). The band's second album, Cold City, will be released in late 2007 on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records (Athens, GA).
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-092
CD
$12.25

Evans, Nate
Pardon My Innocent Heart/Main Squeeze
PS, US Originally released in 1972. "Three gorgeous Twinight 45s for the discerning collector. All three come from our landmark collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation. As with the previous seven in the series, these finely crafted singles come housed in a stock Twinight sleeve and are limited to 500 copies."
Twinight-156
45
$5.25

Fedi, Simone
Belzebù Tales
PS, BELGIUM The very first release from another fresh Eskimo find, straight from Tuscany. Choosing vintage analog synthesizers next to real instruments such as guitars and an electric bass, Simone Fedi manages to perfectly sculpt his deep and original sound, mixing funk, Italian disco, house and synth pop. ELECTRONIC
Eskimo-501974
12
$9.50

Fela Ransome-Kuti And His Koola Lobitos
Highlife Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969)
PS JAPAN Long awaited 3CD collection (39 tracks) of Fela's earliest material to be released. WORLD
P-Vine
3XCD
$49.50

Fisher, Nate
DoNotEatOnLSD
PS, GERMANY This is the first release for newcomer Nate Fisher on Max Ernst, written and produced by Thomas Brinkmann. Fisher works together with musicians like Alex Under and Brinkmann to create warm, minimal-tech dance that doesn't compromise. The A-side is a humorous tribute to Japan and it makes people dance like crazy. The B-side has some dark 'n' wacky techno. ELECTRONIC
Maxernst-022
12
$9.50

Galwad Y Mynydd
Galwad Y Mynydd
PS, UK "Gruff Rhys joins the Finders Keepers team once again to produce this, the third instalment in our critically-acclaimed and best-selling Welsh Rare Beat series - combining the 2 ultra rare Galwad Y Mynydd EPs on one album for the first time ever! Galwad Y Mynydd defined a Dyfed-centric harmonic gentle vocal sound. Formed by brothers; Alwyn (17) and Eifion (16) Daniels, their Camarthen grammar school friend Derek Brown (18), and Camarthen Technical College student Mike Harries (19) on drums; Galwad Y Mynydd (The Call of The Mountain) ticked all the right boxes in their quest to deliver in their own words 'a new style of contemporary Welsh folk music.' Choosing musicality over volume, beauty and heartache over protest and politics, they were a young anomaly in Welsh language pop. The follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Welsh Rare Beat compilation and accompanying album to the new Welsh Rare Beat 2 compilation, this album features exclusive liner notes from Gruff Rhys and Derek Brown (in Welsh). These two EPs have previously been unavailable on CD, or indeed anywhere outside of their original 7" EP releases."
FindersKeepers-015
CD
$20.50

Glass Organ
Two Tapes
PS, US "A reissue of the two out-of-print Glass Organ tapes. Building blown out desolate guitar and saturated tape. Co-released with Twonicorn. Edition of 365 with hand-screened white matte covers."
ToneFilth-045
LP
$17.00

Gravelpit
Snow Globe
PS, US This is obscure release on the Rockadelic label, not sure when it came out, seems to be from 1999 or so. Contemporary (at least, at one point in time) Portland, OR rock group. Random office quote on a Saturday afternoon: "Sounds like Bono!" "This record certainly affirms the boundless parameters of the Rockadelic Records label and it's 'open to all those worthy' release philosophy. The group Gravelpit were a very talented group whose single Rockadelic album release seems to project equally in lyric and song, an ample dealing of post damage recovery vibes. In short, victory despite its spoils."
Rockadelic-005
CD
$15.75

Growing
The Social Club Nº 8
PS, US Marking their recent addition to THE SOCIAL REGISTRY'S roster, Olympia-via- Brooklyn's GROWING present their first contribution to the label with this installment in our ongoing 7" series. Consisting of members Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria, Growing's already legendary status among ambient and noise-rock circles has solidified their reputation. The two songs found on this 7" represent the best of the band, spotlighting their uncanny ability to extract alien and ethereal sounds from the now-traditional format of the electric guitar.
TheSocialRegistry-058
45
$5.50

Guillemots
Back To Mine
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The Back to Mine series started as a way for DJs and electronica or electronica-leaning artists to compile some of their favorite late-night songs (the first volume, by Nick Warren, was released in February of 1999 and artists like Morcheeba, Faithless, Danny Tenaglia, Tricky, and Underworld have all followed suit). While it's true the Guillemots do incorporate a variety of different styles into their music, and that many previous bands didn't necessary stick to downbeat or techno -- Audio Bullys, for example, had a particularly rock heavy set -- the Guillemots are the first true rock or pop band to put their name on the Back to Mine cover. Some of the choices on here make a lot of sense, like Joan As Police Woman's (with whom Guillemots toured) "The Ride," Liars' "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack," and even Sonic Youth's "Providence," while others, while they assuredly hold meaning to at least some of the members, hardly fit with the rest of the selections or the band's sound (Roots Manuva's "Witness (1 Hope)" and Raphael Saadiq's "Still Ray" being the most prominent examples). All of which means that this specific installment of Back to Mine works better for someone who wants to listen to what Guillemots like, not necessarily music that sounds like Guillemots like or even a particularly cohesive mix." (Marisa Brown)
DMC
CD
$16.75

Hedberg, Johan
5-spars EP
PS, SWEDEN Labrador proudly presents the solo debut from Johan Hedberg of Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. "5-spårs EP" (mean "Five track EP" in Swedish) is nothing less than brilliant - a splendid mix of electronica, Tropicalia and pop. Welcome to the sound of a true pop genius. In the summer of 2007 Johan Hedberg bought a computer with an installment plan. This new gear gave him inspiration to do some productions on his own. With the motto "fast production and no turning back" Johan's way of working is quite the opposite of the one of Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. The latter is famous for re-recording, re-writing, re-making and polishing their songs over and over again before they're finished. Surprisingly or not, the fast way of making art works perfectly for his solo productions. "5-spårs EP" will be released in a limited edition of 500 copies on 10" vinyl.
Labrador-110
10
$11.00

Helm, Levon
Dirt Farmer
PS, US
Vangaurd
CD
$16.25

Hey Willpower
Hundredaire
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Tomlab-071
45
$5.50

Hey Willpower
Hundredaire
PS, US The title "Hundredaire" (let you go) is a play on words of Kelis and Andre 3000's "Millionaire". An homage with a life of its own. No money, same problems. WILL SCHWARTZ from HEY WILLPOWER sings it like he means it; a postmodern take on a love gone awry. Inspired by real life events, and masterpieces like "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Walk On By", it's a story everyone can understand. Whether it's the beat of the snare that happened to be there, the Yamaha "Bar Mitzvah Keyboard" on which Will plays the lead riff, or the vocal choir that catapults the simple phrase in the chorus "Let You Go" straight into your heart, there's something for anyone who has felt the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows.
Tomlab-071
CD5
$5.50

Idlewild
Scottish Fiction: Best of Idlewild 1997-2007
PS, US
Caroline
CD
$15.25

Ito, Hidenobu
Wake
PS, GERMANY "Hidenobu Ito is not really known in Europe, although he already has a list of releases to show, but on the other side of the world - in Japan. Hidenobu grew up in Inagi City, a municipality of Tokyo. Since his childhood he has been interested in game and experimental music. So, he started working as a cartoonist to afford his own music equipment. In the 1990s, he began producing his first tracks, music compilation albums and soundtracks. Up to now, Hidenobu Ito released his music on labels such as Flyrec, Elegantdisc, NS-com, TripTrap, Sub Rosa, etc. The first contact to the Mo's Ferry crew was his track 'Lover' on the third series of the 10" label, Fenou. After that, one of his tracks had been included on the Mo's Ferry Prod. 25 last year. Now, there's his first solo release for the label called Wake. The title track definitely helps to find a proper genre for this EP (like minimal), but it already shows Hidenobu's vision to include no out-of-the-box samples, but experimental and organic snippets." ELECTRONIC
Mo'sFerry-032
12
$9.50

Jansen, Steve
Slope
PS, US "Former Japan band member and regular David Sylvian collaborator Steve Jansen releases his astonishing solo album on Samadhisound this Autumn. On Slope, tension underlies the crisp rhythms and intricate programming, while a collection of distinctive vocalists draw out the sentiment and expression in his songwriting. As Jansen explains, 'with this album I approached composition attempting to avoid chord and song structures and the usual familiar building blocks. Instead I wanted to piece together unrelated sounds, music samples, rhythms and 'events' in an attempt to deviate from my own trappings as a musician.' The album features guest contributions from Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Thomas Feiner, Anja Garbarek, Nina Kinert, David Sylvian, Theo Travis and Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman). Presented as ever in a beautiful digipak featuring exquisite artwork from Australian artist Dan McPharlin and designed by Chris Bigg."
Samadhisound-012
CD
$15.25

Jeremy Jay
We Were There
PS, US The new single "We Were There" will be released this Winter as JEREMY JAY's 2nd Single this year on K. Hot on the heels of his 1st single "Airwalker", The single "We Were There" was recorded in Angel Town with Nick Pahl on drums.
Krecords-113
45
$3.75

Jobin, Antonio Carlos
Wave
PS, RUSSIAN FED. "By the time this album was released, Antonio Carlos Jobim was already an international superstar. Having recently won a Grammy (1965) for 'The Girl From Ipanema,' by 1967 all the big name stars from up north were breaking down his door to work with the new 'Gershwin of Brazil.' In fact, Jobim had just finished working on an album with Frank Sinatra when he went into the studio to record this album. Recorded in 1967, Wave is actually one of the lesser known masterpieces of Brazilian music, and undoubtedly one of Jobim's greatest. Here Jobim and the great Claus Ogerman lead a top-flight cast on hidden classics like 'Batidinha,' 'Triste' and 'Wave.'"
Lilith-143
LP
$22.50

Kane, Jonathan
The Little Drummer Boy EP
PS, US Do JONATHAN KANE'S fat-bottomed grooves take your breath away, make you lose your mind? Well, it's the holidays, and Jonny can give as well as he can take, so here's his gift to you, boys and girls. It's a classic, "The Little Drummer Boy", done in his inimitable style, with layers of guitars, snow-drift-deep bass -- and you'd better believe there's drums. Hop into this sleigh -- it's jacked-up, tricked-out, it's got 850 horses and not a restrictor plate in sight. Yep, it's always a Blue Christmas when Jonathan Kane comes to town.
TableoftheElements-809
CD5
$9.00

Killers
Don't Shoot Me Santa
PS, US Enhanced w/"Don't Shoot Me Santa" video. All proceeds go to Red Foundation Charitable Trust. J card w/ slimline sleeve.
Island-0010247-32
CD5
$3.25

Legendary Pink Dots
Early Recordings 5 LP Box
PS, GERMANY "This 5LP box features the very early '80s tape recordings by The Legendary Pink Dots ('80-'82) including Kleine Krieg, Chemical Playschool 2 - edition 2 which is Chemical Playschool Vol.1 and 2 plus outtakes and Live in Cologne 1983."
VinylOnDemand-048
5XLP
$97.25

Lets Go Naked
Insides
PS, UK This is 16 track career retrospective compiles singles, selected album tracks, unreleased gems and 2 new tracks from Brisbane's Lets Go Naked. Re-mastered and first time on CD. John Peel favorites. Band now reformed, writing and recording new material for 2008 release - launch gigs in Brisbane and Sydney. Band contains well known Brisbane TV celebrity, news anchor man Andrew Lofthouse and ex The Go Betweens John Wilsteed. Let's Go Naked had an initial burst of activity in the eighties with the release of the album "Everything" on Sydney's Waterfront Records. This album found Let's Go Naked as exponents of the Brisbane sound, with an angular, driven guitar style, incorporating keyboard sounds for certain tracks. Think the Go Betweens early records. The "Three Limbs" single on Trust Records then found Let's Go Naked emerging with their own refreshing sound. This track became a favourite of the late John Peel on his BBC shows bringing Lets Go Naked to a wider audience. The late eighties and nineties found Let's Go Naked exploring this sound, recording intermittently, including the single "Sometimes"; finding perfect moments and moving on to the next one. The new century seen renewed interest in Let's Go Naked, initially prompting the re-mixing of a few lost gems and ultimately writing and recording again. Two recent new tracks appear on this retrospective and find the band in rude form. Recording is well under way on a new album for 2008 release. October 2007 saw a return to the stage at The Zoo in Brisbane for a well received re-union show. Lets Go Naked are Murray Power (vocals, guitar), Andrew Lofthouse (bass guitar, backing vocals and keyboards), Nick Patterson (drums and backing vocals) and ex Go Between John Wilsteed (guitars). Rosalinda McGovern, Martin Thompson, Steve McKensie and Anthony Perrott have also been members and contribute to the retrospective CD.
Egg-022
CD
$15.00

Leutwyler/Joint Custody, Matthew
2007
PS, GERMANY This is a limited, colored, split 12" featuring tracks by two young new artists who will release solo records on Traum in 2008: Mathew Leutwyler from Mexico and Joint Custody from Tampa Bay, Florida. Mathew Leutwyler's track is a perfect Christmas techno-groover, with heart-warming melodies and a melodic style that fits perfectly on Traum. The duo Joint Custody deliver a stripped-down rocker which rocks with its groove, massive elements and its central vocal. Happy New Year! ELECTRONIC
Traum-094
12
$9.50

Libertines
Time For Heroes
PS, US Time For Heroes" is a timely reminder of the unique talent of Albion's favorite sons, bringing together the tracks that defined a generation, from the epochal debut, "Up The Bracket" to their self-titled follow-up. Includes "Don't Look Back In To The Sun", never before available on either of their albums. Also includes the classic singles "Can't Stand Me Now", "Time For Heroes", fan picks "What A Waster", "Boys In The Band", and live favorites / b-sides "The Delaney" and "May Day". "Like The Clash before them, The Libertines draw primarily from decades of rock tradition - blues, dub, a healthy whiff of the English countryside, and a few gorgeous rock riffs straight from the brainstem of Chuck Berry - and fuse them into an unruly and triumphant monster of an album" - Pitchfork.
RoughTrade
CD
$10.75

Libertines
Best Of: A Time for Heroes
PS, US AVERSIOIN REVIEW: "Besides being the best British rock act of their era, The Libertines used their mix of Jam-like riffs, Clash-like energy and drunkenly loose arrangements as a chisel at which to pummel the haughty sensibilities that were at the heart of the English music world. Borne in days when Radiohead's most esoteric albums duked it out with Coldplay's most overwrought arena posturing and the dying remnants of the failed DJ revolution, The Libertines were that much-needed wake-up call that rock didn't need to attach itself to fashions, concepts, cutting-edge technology or the ass end of the print media as a reason to exist. Simple rocking, and rocking well, was always reason enough to exist. Now, with the chaff culled from a pair of already strong albums, Time For Heroes delivers a set that outshines most retrospectives from acts with five or six albums in their back catalog -- and proves that ultimately, the Libertines will be remembered for making great music."
RoughTrade
CD
$12.50

Lightning
Lightning 1968-1971
PS US "Lightning was an offshoot of Minneapolis '60s legends Litter that featured guitar wizard Tom 'Zippy' Caplan. After recording the Litter's 1966 garage classic Distortions and 1968 psych masterpiece $100 Fine, Caplan split from the Litter and formed Lightning. The band started out as a power trio and cut one fierce Cream-inspired single 'William' b/w 'Of Paupers And Poets' in 1968 under the White Lightning moniker with Twin Cities record producer Warren Kendrick. The band regrouped into a quintet and scored a record deal with P.I.P. which issued their eight-song album. That album has since become a highly collectable LP. Lightning became one of the Midwest's hardest working rock acts and toured extensively throughout the region during their three-year tenure. This authorized CD reissue includes their entire LP, the aforementioned 45, plus six additional bonus tracks (including edited 45 mixes of two album tracks) all wrapped in an archival 12-page booklet with lots of photos and liner notes by Litter-scribe Doug Sheppard. Between this package and Arf Arf's White Lightning Strikes Twice [1968-1969] release, the band's entire musical legacy has been properly archived. Fans of Blue Cheer, Cream, Hendrix, and Arf Arf's four psychedelic Dose comps will really dig this new disc."
Arf!Arf!-100
CD
$13.00

Lindisfarne
Very Best of Lindisfarne
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Gathers together an excellent cross section of tracks from the three years (1970-1972) of Lindisfarne's first phase, considered to be the band's most attractive and adventurous period. EMI's collection presents 18 tracks of the group's finer moments from Nicely Out of Tune, Fog on the Tyne, and Dingly Dell, plus two previously unreleased recordings tacked on at the end. Opening with the band's two biggest hits ("Meet Me on the Corner" and "Lady Eleanor"), The Very Best of Lindisfarne immediately showcases how diverse the group was with psychedelic folk and British Invasion-tinged pop, with clever orchestration and the rawer elements of soft rock creeping to the surface. Perhaps the two unreleased recordings are the only downside to The Very Best of Lindisfarne, as they were obviously recorded at a later date than the rest of the material and lack the urgency and excitement of the meat of the collection. Regardless, The Very Best of Lindisfarne is a fantastic set for those curious about what the band was all about." (Gregory McIntosh)
Caroline
CD
$16.25

Lowfish
Burn the Lights Out
PS, US Lowfish is back with a new full length LP (2x12) and CD release for this fall 2007. Synth pop gone wild mashed up with breaks, wrapped in emotive melodies and pumped full of bass for the dance floor characterize his new LP . A total of 10 new tracks and two of his golden ones from the Sat.31 ep. Lowfish again determines his destiny in a positive, individualistic styled manner that can be described as complex, yet fully enjoyed by most listeners. Bladerunner, Wave Noir, or William Gibson breaking out the synths are a few words to describe this style Electro. Post Modern for sure considering the artful and seamless interweaving of various close connected genres from past and present coming together to define a sound that is new and only Lowfish. Artwork by 310K with a sleeve done in 60's pop fiery orange and some of the coolest Graphics to come out of the Amsterdam design scene. As always no expense on mastering with professional cuts made by Frankford and Wayne NY city. A lot of work went into this release to deliver the highest quality in overall production and sound.
Satamile-41-1
DLP
$11.50

Lubelski, Samara
Parallel Suns
PS, US With "Parallel Suns" SAMARA LUBELSKI has flown to a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. They combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. The music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound.
TheSocialRegistry-056
LP
$10.25

Malin, Jesse
Glitter In The Gutter
PS, US
AdelineRecords
CD
$15.00

Marine Girls
Lazy Ways/Beach Party
PS, UK 1988 release, reissued. "Once upon a time there were three girls called Alice, Jane and Tracey. The three combined to create the very special sound of 'The Marine Girls.' Their debut album Beach Party was originally released on Dan Treacy's (Television Personalities) Whaam! Records and is included here with the Cherry Red album Lazy Ways. The Marine Girls split amicably in 1983; Tracey concentrating on Everything But The Girl and the Fox Sisters (Jane and Alice), going on to form Grab Grab The Haddock with Lester Noel (later to play in Beats International)."
CherryRed-044
CD
$17.00

Massi DL
Wonderland
PS, GERMANY Massimo di Lena (aka Massi DL) has appeared on Frankie Records, Archipel, Safari Electronique and Tic Tac Toe Records. He attracted the attention of Trapez when he was first approached to remix an Alex Under track. Massi DL is a gifted producer who can animate minimal techno with new and different emotions. Like Under, he loves rhythmic cascades and crazy sounds. "Acidland" is one of the craziest minimal trax you'll ever hear and "Wonderland" controls the pace like no other. ELECTRONIC
Trapez-082
12
$9.50

McGregor & The Bronzettes/The George McGregor Brothers
Temptation is Hard to Fight/Every Time I Wake Up
PS, US "Three gorgeous Twinight 45s for the discerning collector. All three come from our landmark collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation, while TWI 102EP features a previously unreissued cut in 'Everytime I Wake Up.' As with the previous seven in the series, these finely crafted singles come housed in a stock Twinight sleeve and are limited to 500 copies." Originally released in 1967.
Twinight-102
45
$5.25

Minus Story
Make The Dead Come
PS, US "Make the Dead Come" is a limited edition mini-album that MINUS STORY created as a creative outlet in the middle of making their upcoming full-length "My Ion Truss" (due out June 19, 2007). In between recording sessions for "My Ion Truss" with producer JOHN CONGLETON (THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY) at Electrical Audio and Low Key, the band self-recorded "Make the Dead Come" on their 8-track in Kansas City. A thematic continuation and resolution of the death/ghost songs from their last two full-lengths "No Rest For Ghosts" and "The Captain Is Dead Let the Drum Corpse Dance, Make the Dead Come" is a darker and scarier journey with the group of Boonville, MS natives. On it, they rejoice in their trademark intuitive & distorted self-recorded style, which they've warmly named the Wall of Crap. This is their first recording with new band member Lucas Oswald, who contributes hammer dulcimer and background vocals.
Jagjaguwar-114
CD5
$7.50

Misraki, Paul
And God Created Woman
PS, ITALY "Although Brigitte Bardot was already famous in France, this is the movie that made Bardot an international star. She was the first foreign language star to gain such widespread popularity abroad and she opened the door for others to follow in her footsteps. Bardot was a bombshell in any language... and you certainly didn't need to read the subtitles to see that! The tag line to the movie was 'And God Created Woman... but the devil created Brigitte Bardot!' An erotic drama (the scene with Bardot dancing barefoot on a table is still hot enough to melt any acetate it's printed on) co-starring Jean-Louis Trintignant (who Bardot allegedly had an affair with) that tells the tale of 'life and love' on the Riviera. It made St. Tropez the popular resort for the rich and famous that it soon was to become. French director Roger Vadim (known for his affairs with beautiful women) was Brigitte's husband at the time and he wrote this film specifically for her, in hopes of adding more depth to Bardot's on-screen characters.." CLASSICAL
Dagored-180
LP
$19.00

Monster Island
Children Of Mu
PS, US "The Children of Mu is a group of songs, lyrics & extended performance revolving around the psychic and mythic origins of Mu, a Pacific island or 'lost continent' (and counterpart to Atlantis) some believe to be fiction and others the 'cradle of civilization,' and relevant to our present condition. This is the fourth album by Monster Island, a four year project, whose previous recordings included; From the Michigan Floor, Dream Tiger and Peyotemind. This double LP is an edition of 500 copies with fabulous four color + metallic gold cover by ratty art genius Gary Panter. Performances by; Aliccia Berg (Slumber Party), Bill Brovald (Larval), Matthew Smith (guitar, bass, pipa, Outrageous Cherry, THTX), Robert Waller (synth, Pere Ubu), H.H. Ma Meenakshi Devi (Indian Saint and classical Hindi singer), Anneke Auer (psychic voice), Johnny Evans (sax, Howling Diablos), Len Bukowski (bass clarinet, Northwoods Improvisers), Tim Barnes (percussionist, Quakebasket), Mattin (avant-noise, Sakadda), words & music: Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters), mastered by Warn Defever."
TheEndIsHere-013
LP
$23.00

Morricone, Ennio
I Crudeli OST
PS, ITALY "Morricone is at his best here in this 1967 spaghetti western (aka The Hellbenders), directed by Sergio Corbucci, the lesser-known father of the spaghetti western, and director of the genre-defining Django, released later that same year. Here some ex-Confederate soldiers, with a dream to see the South rise again, steal a million dollars from the Union army and hide it in a coffin to make it past the Union patrols. Will they succeed in getting the money back to their Confederate stronghold or will a femme fatale foil their plans?" CLASSICAL
Dagored-176
CD
$16.25

Morricone, Ennio
L'Alibi OST
PS, ITALY "Morricone works his magic again in this 1969 Italian production directed by Luciano Lucignani, Vittorio Gassman, and Adolfo Celi. Vittorio, Adolfo and Luciano (this film is based loosely on the lives of the directors of the film) were great friends during their days at the Academy for Dramatic Arts, which they attended in the years just after the Second World War, but they lose touch soon after. Adolfo goes to Brazil where he becomes a very successful actor; Vittorio remains in Italy and he also becomes a stage and movie star; and Luciano becomes a director, playwright, film critic, scholar and ardent Communist. Adolfo, after many years away, begins to miss home and sends a telegram to Vittorio and Luciano to inform them of his return to Italy. During the trip, Adolfo thinks fondly of his school days and dreams of a happy reunion with his friends, but both Vittorio and Luciano have changed." CLASSICAL
Dagored-178
CD
$16.25

Morricone, Ennio
Trio Infernale OST
PS, ITALY "This French production, directed by Francis Girod, and originally released in 1974 (in the USA and UK with the title The Infernal Trio) is set in post-WWI France. A successful attorney and war hero, along with two of his lovers, (two German sisters) Philomene and Catherine, defraud life insurance companies by signing policies for dying people. Given their success, they become bolder and bolder and even resort to the murder of a rich pawnbroker Noemie and her lover, Chambon. They get rid of the bodies by melting them down with sulfuric acid. Their final heist, however, has a fatal ending for Catherine, but Philomene and George are now filthy rich after cashing in five life insurance policies on Catherine's death." CLASSICAL
Dagored-177
CD
$16.25

Murder In The Cathedral
Afraid Of...
PS, GERMANY "Amazingly underrated French neo-psychedelic band. Arisen from the ashes of The Heretic Dreams, Murder in the Cathedral was founded in the beginning of the '90s by brothers Stephane (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Pascal Moru (bass, keyboards) and drummer Gilles Lepron. Influenced by new groups like Plasticland, Prisoners, and in the tradition of 13th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watchband or Plastic Cloud, the boys tried to create their own sound. Their first eponymous album (included as a bonus album on this CD), released in 1996, shows a mixture of guitar-oriented neo-psych in the vein of Plastic Cloud, Morgen and Grateful Dead. It consists of 8 titles, instrumental pieces alternating with vocal ones (sung in English). It was very positively received in the neo-psychedelic underground and the limited edition of 500 was sold out within a few months. 2nd album Afraid Of... saw the light of day in 1999. Now the music is much more structured and contains less jam-like passages. According to the reviewers, the crucial sound influences range from The Byrds to Bevis Frond, combining the San Francisco acid sound of the '60s with Oriental sounds. Again the album (limited edition of 500) was sold out within a few months. Although Long Hair is specialized in psychedelic/progressive music of the '60s and early '70s, we would like to present all lovers of psychedelic music this outstanding band."
LongHair-060
CD
$21.00

Mystiques
So Good To Have You Home Again/Put Out The Fire
PS, US Originally released in 1969. "This comes from our landmark collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation. As with the previous seven in the series, these finely-crafted singles come housed in a stock Twinight sleeve and are limited to 500 copies."
Twinight-112
45
$5.25

Nascimbene, Mario
L'Eneide OST
PS, ITALY "Mario Nascimbene's music for the 1971 hit TV series of Virgil's immortal epic, the Aeneid, is not so much a comment on the scenic action, as a study of sounds and themes used to emphasize the psychological nature of the various characters. Amidst instrumental and vocal sounds (including the splendid voice of Olga Karlatos) an extremely new and intriguing concept in film music of the '60s/'70s is born. The viola of Dino Asciolla - warm and vibrating - manages to transport the listener into an ocean of sound of rare intensity. The splendid and sensible conducting skills of Maestro Carlo Savina add (especially in the five voice canon, a reinterpretation of antique and archaic melodies) a certain expressive luster that makes Mario Nascimbene's new sounds a confirmation of his great artistic genius." CLASSICAL
Dagored-179
CD
$16.25

Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation
Nic
PS, UK Welcome to the wonderful electro-jazzy-funky-chunky magical world of Norway's Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation, or NIC for short [pronounced nick]. Based in Oslo, NIC is a fearless band of experienced sonic explorers bound together by a common thirst for musical challenge and diversity. This is a multi-faceted sound, without boundaries, that takes its influences from punk, jazz, reggae, soul, dub and electronica. A few years back, drummer Ted Parsons [Swans, Prong, Jesu, Killing Joke] spent some time hanging out in London with ex-PIL guitarist Keith Levene, jamming, chewing the fat, having a few beers and making plans to record together. Eventually, a few years later, Keith found himself in Oslo's Mok Studios alongside Ted and the rest of the NIC crew keyboard wizard Markus O Klyve, Texan guitarist and vocalist Chuck Frazier, bassist Matti Hansen, audio/dub scientist Fredrik (Kjeks) Kjelman, producer Scotty Hard and an elastic bag full of flexible ideas. This is the result, a ravishing album of laidback and funkadelic tunes. Vibrant, intensely textured guitars and keyboards layered over complex rolling rhythms sprinkled with some sweet soul vocals. And to cap it all they managed to recruit legendary Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær to contribute some beautifully haunting trumpet on track 4, Tume.
MaliciousDamage-629
CD
$17.75

New Colony Six, The
Sides
PS, UK Often compared to Paul Revere & The Raiders (with whom they shared digs in LA), Chicago's New Colony Six burst onto the scene and into the charts with the garage-pop classic "I Confess" in early 1966. They followed this with a string of excellent Anglophile-influenced singles and scored further hits with "I Lie Awake", "Love You So Much" and "You're Gonna Be Mine", all released on their own tiny Sentar label. In 1967, their sound changed with the addition of Ronnie Rice and the band began licensing their singles out to Mercury Records. Pursuing a more harmonic pop style reminiscent of The Association or The Buckinghams they scored their biggest hits so far with "I Will Always Think About You" and the timeless "Things I'd Like To Say" in 1968. The four albums New Colony Six released between 1966 and 1969 are all excellent and feature a wide-ranging sweep through garage rock, harmony pop, light psychedelia and even jazz-influenced sounds. Sides, as the title suggest, collects various singles, alternate versions and unreleased tracks from across their entire career which have largely escaped reissues of their work so far.
Rev-Ola-231
CD
$15.50

Nourallah, Salim
Snowing In My Heart
PS, US SALIM NOURALLAH isn't a superheroŠhe's a father, a husband, and an award winning musician and producer. His latest effort "Snowing In My Heart" is filled with melancholy tempered with acceptance and honesty. Salim's lyrics paint a picture of a man accepting loss and powerlessness over the effects of time and age. Despite subject matter, the songs feel upbeat, with their driving rhythm section and unforgettable pop hooks. This is what makes "Snowing In My Heart" so remarkable.
WesternVinyl/TapeteRecords-04
CD
$11.50

Onodera, Yui
Suisei
PS, US "Suisei is a work composed from field recordings and pump organ. Edited and re-mastered by Dale Lloyd. With Suisei, each listener's inner cinema will find its camera lens slowly panning and cross-fading from one enigmatic location to another, as if unveiling ambiguous visual clues pertaining to some wondrous culminating event that many might not fully understand, yet it will still manage to leave an indelible impression upon the subconscious mind and a very subtle pull on the emotions. A mystery drone soundscape journey along the shores of an unfathomable glistening sea. Packaged in four-color digipak. Very limited at 300 copies."
And/Oar-028
CD
$12.00

Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
PS. RUSSIAN FED. LP version, 180 gram virgin vinyl. "With the release of their debut LP in 1968, Os Mutantes cracked the already red hot Tropicalia scene wide open. Fusing traditional Brazilian music, psychedelia, rock and a good dose of pure experimentalism, they quickly became giants both in Brazil and in the outer fringes of pop music, where they have managed to reign supreme for the past four decades. Not an easy task in such a crowded arena. Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Tom Zé, AND Os Mutantes? What do these people put in their drinking water? The band went on to release several more albums, but this one was their magnum opus."
Lilith-141
LP
$22.50

Pagan, Chase
Oh, Musica!
PS, US Soft-spoken Southerner has created an album that is both intimate & grandiose in this, his debut. Musically, Pagan's songs feat. complex structural progressions over stripped-down instrumental processions: a wisp of guitar here, a few lines of piano there, all under his nearly limitless vocal range. Embracing the theatrical, he writhes & bleeds a florid combination of rock, soul & country.
MilitiaGroup-053
CD
$13.25

Pancake Mountain
Episodes 3 and 4 (2005)
PS, US Dance Party with Eyeball Skeleton, and The Candy Band! Original song & video by Fiery Furnaces + Special Performance by Arcade Fire, and The Pancake Mountain theme song performed by Niki Barr! Also: appearances by George Clinton, Scissor Sisters, and local DC hero Henry Rollins!! Out takes, extended music, Rufus interviews, extras bloopers and more.
Monkeyboy
DVD
$15.00

Pants Yell!
Alison Statton
PS, US The title pays homage to the lovely young Welsh girl who fronted Young Marble Giants & Weekend. The songs pay
homage to failed relationships & the uncertainty of youth via a batch of intelligently informed compositions; one that should appease fans of Jens Lekman, Orange Juice & the early Belle & Sebastian records. Female vocals float through the back drops as trumpets & saxophones spurt lost Stax lines, a glockenspiel chimes, guitars feedback, drums flail & a young man sings sweetly about all the things young men should sing sweetly about. Alison Statton confirms Andrew Churchman's position as top-notch modern songwriter. His words & themes flirt as much with the films of Truffaut as they do with Jonathan Richman's earnestness & the Go-Betweens'golden days of mellifluous pop truisms.
SoftAbuse-025
CD
$11.50

Pawas
Never Met Them
PS, GERMANY "Pawas is now back with his very own three-track EP on the label of Koletzki & Meindl. All tracks were created in Pune in India, Pawas' hometown, and the EP is about three different characters: Alicia, Charlie and Edward. Each one of them has a certain distinctive vibe about them: 'Alicia' is deep and eloquent; 'Edward' is more hectic and restless while 'Charlie' seems the funky and witty sort. In terms of music, 'Edward' is carried on a powerful, deep synthie melody, a big breathing bass line and some great percussive clicks and clacks that turn into a slightly ravey minimal burner later on in the tune. Very hot! 'Charlie' is a little lighter and is pushed forward by a great funky melody that creates the perfect after hour moment. Imagine yourself on the beach when the sun is coming up. 'Alicia' on the A-side is a deeper, more housey affair and has a melodic, percussive and Detroity appeal. Pawas has managed to create a very fresh and unique signature sound and with releases on Squonk, Connaisseur and Flash Records, 2007 seems to be the year for him." ELECTRONIC
FlashRecordings-006
12
$9.50

Plastikman
Nostalgik.3
PS, CANADA Nostalgik.3 follows up 2005's Nostalgik.2, with recovered, unreleased material from the Plastikman archives. Both tracks on this release are unsolicited (and unexpected) reworks by two producers who are long-term Plastikman aficionados. Dubfire (aka Ali Shirazinia) remixes 1993's "Spastik," adding contemporary beats, bass and hat patterns, subliminal efx and tweaks. "Panikattack" (originally released on Plus 8 in 1996) gets a more radical overhaul with Guido Schneider excavating and enhancing the gritty funk of the original for some serious peak-time action. ELECTRONIC
Minus-003
12
$9.50

Pluramon
The Monstrous Surplus
PS, GERMANY LP version. This is the fifth full-length release by Marcus Schmickler aka Pluramon. The Monstrous Surplus bears three different vocalists and as many narrative voices. Featuring appearances by Julia Hummer, Julee Cruise & Jutta Koether. The fourth vocalist is Marcus himself on one song as well as background on other songs. ELECTRONIC
KaraokeKalk-049
LP
$15.00

Prophet, Chuck
Hurting Business
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Singer/songwriter and cracking guitarist Chuck Prophet breaks the Americana mold on his fifth solo recording, and pops turntablism and noisy Tom Waits-style clanks into his formal songs as an experiment. It works: there's the bouncy Farfisa-toned title song, and "Lucky" is an absolute hit single right in the minimalist pocket with its guitar, drums, Hammond organ, and falsetto vocals (all certainly atypical on a Prophet-style production). "God's Arms" has a melodious Eastern hymn spin thanks to swirling Mellotron and mando guitar subbing for sitar. Though Homemade Blood was his high-water mark, new listeners may want to connect with this so-called departure before digging deeper into Prophet's wealthy storehouse of songcraft." (Denise Sullivan)
CookingVinyl
CD
$14.25

Record Collector
#344 (Christmas 2007)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.00

Rootmasters
Push Once
PS, UK Anyone remotely interested in the South London music scene over the past 15 years will know the names Alex Paterson and Nina Walsh. They're sprinkled all over it. Nina, a composer, performer and producer of the highest calibre, has worked extensively with Primal Scream, Andrew Weatherall and The Orb as well as her own material, both electronic and acoustic. Alex Paterson is The Orb. Enough said. This is a taste of Rootmasters, a project they've been working on together over the last year or so. The album will be out in 2008 and this limited edition vinyl 10" is meant to whet your appetiteŠ ROOT ONE book of hours janis joplin's mum ROOT TWO elephant puddle book of hours [AUTOLUMP].
MaliciousDamage-628
10
$14.00

Sachiko
Kunado
PS, US "Japanese vocalist and instrumentalist Sachiko (Overhang Party, Vava Kitora, Kosokuya) looses a second, white-hot solo release. Her brilliant debut You Never Atone For on There/Musik Atlack rode gilded wings straight to the heart of the psych sun. The journey continues with Kunado. A tincture of Taj Mahal Travellers, wispy oscillations and lysergic vocals bathes the recording in delicate atmosphere as Sachiko's sonic attack leaves vicious and harrowing results. A listen not soon forgotten." ELECTRONIC
UtechRecords-012
CD
$15.75

Schlarb, Chris
Twilight and Ghost Stories
PS, US A work of personal identity and deep catharsis, "Twilight & Ghost Stories" is a dense 40-minute modern composition featuring a disparate cross-section of musicians from the avant-garde, independent folk, jazz and electronic communities (including DIRTY PROJECTORS, SUFJAN STEVENS, WALTER KITINDU, CASTANETS, PARKER PAUL, BHOB RAINEY, and MICK ROSSI). A creative and accomplished jazz guitarist, CHRIS SCHLARB cut his teeth producing hip-hop tracks, teaching music workshops and co-founding the free music collective CREATE (!). Chris Schlarb is also one-half of I HEART LUNG, which Tiny Mix Tapes called "some of the most energetic free-jazz to spit out of America." Spanning all of these endeavors, "Twilight & Ghost Stories" finds Schlarb playing acoustic piano, organ, electric and acoustic guitar as well as tapes and percussion.
AsthmaticKitty-404
CD
$11.50

Shake Some Action
The Ultimate Power Pop Guide (Book w/ CD)
A lovely 9" X 9" mini-coffee-table book that comes with an awesome rarities CD added with it. See below for information on this CD.
PBPOWERPOPBOOK /NotLame Book
BOOK/CD
$28.75

Shindig
Shindig! Volume 2 Issue 1 Nov/Dec 2007
PS, UK "Moby Grape: they had it all... the talent, the tunes, the looks, the attitude. So whatever happened to Moby Grape? The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream: the freak-out in London in 1967. Laguna Beach 1970 Christmas Festival: 'Some guy drank a whole bottle of acid!' The Moody Blues: misunderstood psych heroes. John's Children: what happened next? Fairport Convention: Liege & Lief Revisited. The Band: did they ruin British rock music? All the hottest new releases and reissues reviewed! Psych, garage, beat, power pop, soul, folk... for people who want more!" 82 pages, 4-color art.
Shindig-V2#1
ZINE
$8.25

Shooting Spires
S-T
PS, US The bedroom art-pop project of BJ WARSHAW, bassist & vocalist for PARTS & LABOR. Warshaw showcases his ability to harness drone, noise, tweaked electronics & singed circuits. He fuses off-kilter electronic beats, oscillator blips, glitchy loops, toy keyboards, distorted guitars, saxophone, drums & found percussion.
CardboardRecords-007
CD
$10.00

Sigur Ros
Heima (2PC, Digipack Packaging)
PS, US "Heima", which translates as both "at home" and "homeland", chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. The entire tour was filmed and provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before, with performances in deserted fish factories, at far-flung community halls, in sylvan fields, darkened caves, canyons, and fjords. Limited deluxe edition is individually numbered and includes 100 page bound book. Standard edition is amaray-sized digipak with 8-page booklet.
XLRecordings
DVD
$19.00

Sigur Ros
Heima [Deluxe Edition] (With Book, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition) (DELAYED)
PS, US "Heima", which translates as both "at home" and "homeland", chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. The entire tour was filmed and provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before, with performances in deserted fish factories, at far-flung community halls, in sylvan fields, darkened caves, canyons, and fjords. Limited deluxe edition is individually numbered and includes 100 page bound book. Standard edition is amaray-sized digipak with 8-page booklet.
XLRecordings
DVD
$35.00

Simmons, Jeff
Naked Angels OST
PS, GERMANY Deluxe full color gatefold edition. "This is the first of two Straight label albums by Zappa's multi-talented 'sideman,' Jeff Simmons. In Seattle 1968 Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa were at the sound check for Jeff's band Easy Chair and were fascinated by Jeff's talent. He was soon signed to Straight records and later Jeff was in the Mothers of Invention at the time of 200 Motels. Both albums, Naked Angels and Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up were recorded in 1969. Reflecting strong fuzz guitar, heavy and psychedelicate surf-rock, Naked Angels, the original soundtrack for a Roger Corman cult biker movie, is a sequence of mostly instrumentals that combine the freedom of the late '60s mood and melody perfectly. This LP reissue comes with the original gatefold cover artwork by John Williams and includes the original French movie poster. This album is one of the coolest soundtracks made in the late '60s and was carefully remastered to sound today as fresh as it was 40 years ago."
WorldInSound-007
LP
$24.50

Society of Rockets, The
Our Paths Related [LP vinyl & digital download ticket]
PS, US And away we go... Part 70s fuzz-soul, part bleary-eyed shoegaze, part California sunshine-pop, the Society of Rockets' experiment machine chugs on, devouring all parts and functions in its wake and spitting out an ever-widening array of dizzying psych-rock gems. The latest full-length release in a long line of left-turns and surprises, "Our Paths Related" is a cosmo-tour of potentialities, a series of violent hybrids and stylistic feints, rooted heavily in the often (and unjustly) ignored black rock wing of psychedelia: early Funkadelic, Muddy Waters' "Electric Mud", Chains and Black Exhaust. But this is just the framework, the launching pad - a jumping off point to which other systems and avenues can be joined and explored. The sonic experiments of the album play against each other, each element running headlong into the others... At this point in the band's career (both in its previous incarnation as the Shimmer Kids Underpop Association and on previous albums "Sunset Homes" and "Where the Grass Grows Black"), the 10-?member strong collective has rambled across a wide swathe of American musical territory, from quiet country-tinged balladry to ceiling-shattering garage rock, and, much like similarly restless heroes Neil Hagerty and Jason Pierce, the band continues to push the boundaries of their playing in an effort to find more room to grow. With its energetic wall of sound and kaleidoscopic backdrop of experimental films, combining equal parts distorted guitars, three-part harmonies, and Stax-Volt horns The SOR deliver the record-collector's version of a raucous Sunday church service. Hallelujah, and welcome to the congregation.
Underpop
LP
$10.00

Someone Else
Pen Caps Remixed
PS, US Following up the Pen Caps and Colored Pencils full-length album by Someone Else, this is Pen Caps Remixed, featuring album tracks remixed by Losoul, Barem and Easy Changes. Barem reworks the funky, stripped-down minimal tune into a crafty, groovy, Kraftwerk-y electro-ditty. Easy Changes turn it into a bouncy dancefloor-burner with a psychedelic sound-play. Losoul revamps it into a quirky, swingy, nine-minute long-play with a touch of Matthew Herbert-esque dexterity. Remixes are fun! ELECTRONIC
Foundsound-017
12
$9.50

Songs:Ohia
Protection Spells
PS, US A LIMITED NUMBER OF RECENTLY UNEARTHED COPIES OF THIS LONG-UNAVAILABLE, SOUGHT-AFTER RELEASE. "The Protection Spells" is a collection of songs recorded over a period of several SONGS: OHIA tours. Presented here are nine entirely improvised pieces. The approach to these songs involved no rehearsals, no second takes, no additions and no going back. What you have here are songs that just happened in real time. The many musicians on these recordings were friends, bandmates, and, at times, total strangers. I have long hoped to offer the listener a chance to have some of these great accidents on record. It is a direct look at my songwriting process, only a little more risky, and nobody has any idea what direction we are going until we all start working on it together. I think that the years of improvised music I played in the past helped to strengthen the risk-taking with these songs. Here the goal was to still have basic songs without falling into long freak-out noise experiments, saving that kind of exploration for live settings. You will notice the appearances and disappearances of ideas that could never be recreated, not that they are all brilliant, but they are certainly not forced. The seemingly arbitrary moments of strange repetition the lyrics, the clear lack of a preconceived system of established song parts, all are the marks of improvised songwriting. Since even the singing had no idea what the floorplan of the song was to be, there were some unanticipated troubles and some shy steps taken, but I have preserved these mappings of the dangerous musical byroads that Songs: Ohia has always depended on. I hope you enjoy this. -Jason Molina, July 10,2000
SecretlyCanadian-037
CD
$11.50

Songs:Ohia
The Ghost
PS, US A LIMITED NUMBER OF RECENTLY UNEARTHED COPIES OF THIS LONG-UNAVAILABLE, SOUGHT-AFTER RELEASE. "The Ghost" is a dark affair. As a matter of content, its themes are bleak, on the verge of total blackness. Loneliness, alienation, desperation, and dark, anxious nights. As a matter of atmosphere, the album is even darker. Surface noise has never been so important to a record's mood and tone. Yes, it sounds like it was recorded on a highway, but this is a dark fucking highway at a lonely, desperate hour and the only set of keys you have are those to the car that won't take you any closer to home. It's dead and you're scared and totally alone. It's just such an occasion that JASON MOLINA sings and plays of in a roundabout way on "The Ghost". Recorded in one day direct to Jason's boom box with the tiny little microphone, this brand new batch of songs was written in a very short period in the early months of 1999. For Jason, fidelity was never an issue, in fact it was a tool. The boom box's inefficient battery-powered motor is just as integral to the recording as the vocal and guitar performance that occurred that February afternoon in Jason's room on his day off of work. This recording may be noisy but it is not a demo. It was originally made available in limited quantities-to be sold on the SONGS: OHIA tour of the East Coast with Drunk in the Spring of 1999 and the European tour in the early Summer 1999, however Secretly Canadian recently discovered enough parts of this release to resurrect it one more time.
SecretlyCanadian-027
CD
$11.50

Springsteen, Bruce
Magic
PS, US
Sony
CD
$18.75

Stack Waddy
Bugger Off!
PS, UK "Cherry Red are delighted to announce the release of Stack Waddy's second and final studio album, Bugger Off. Originally released in 1972, John Peel favorites Stack Waddy were a raucous rock'n'roll 4-piece from Manchester who were signed to the late DJs Dandelion Records in the early '70s. This release also includes the 'lost' BBC Peel Session of 1972."
CherryRed-331
CD
$17.00

Starr, Garrison
The Girl That Killed September
PS, US The Girl That Killed September is singer/songwriter Garrison Starr's latest album and self-described "best work." Buy this album and you will be an immediate fan of her voice, talent, and honesty.
MediaCreature-89969
CD
$12.00

Supermayer
The Art Of Letting Go
PS, GERMANY Kompakt's superheroes Michael Mayer and Superpitcher aka Supermayer get assigned to rescue their friend Ewan Pearson from the greedy Psychoprog's slippery tentacles. On his dub mix, Ewan focuses on the weird details hidden in the original, letting them ride on a thunderous, take-no-prisoners, bass-heavy groove. The instrumental edit stays real close to the original, but as soon as nobody's looking, he starts flirting with some unknown musical genre. ELECTRONIC
Kompakt-167
12
$9.50

Synclair
Synclair Remixes
PS, BELGIUM Areal Records proudly presents four remixes of Synclair's anthem. First is Expander with a mix that rolls up the theme from somewhere underneath and reminds us of all those wonderful parties we used to have. Cylob transforms the gorgeous original into a track that makes us old, die-hard aficionados go crazy. Kid606's remixes makes the most of Areal Records' guideline "make whatever you want, man, we don't f.....g care..." squeaking us into blissful happiness.
Areal-046
12
$9.50

Taj Mahal Travellers
August 1974
PS, JAPAN Repressed! Double CD reissue of the 2nd Taj Mahal Travellers album, originally issued by Japanese Columbia in 1974 as a 2LP set. Legendary higher-key improv-drone extravaganzas that more than live up to their reputation, the group was led by the infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi (electric violin, harmonica, voice, etc.) ELECTRONIC
P-Vine-1463/4
DCD
$36.50

Tea Company, The
Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company
PS, GERMANY "From New York City, The Tea Company was one of the early birds from the U.S. psychedelic underground scene, with an LP on the market, originally released on Smash Records, in '68. This album stands for the evolution of the 45 rpm psych-garage bands to the upcoming LP-generation with extended improvisation parts. The music is inspired by The Beatles, using exactly the same equipment as them. The Tea Company played with lots of freaked out echo organ/guitar noises on a 12 string Rickenbacker and various stereo madness, reminding strongly of Syd Barrett's spirit but more driven by hard hittin' drums. The album is a mind-blowing, intense production (CD includes 4 bonus tracks by The Naturals). Remastered for this CD-release the sound is experimental, intense and fresh, the 8 page booklet contains a nice bio, photos and memorabilia. A must for those who wanna feed their minds with unusual early heavy psychedelic rock!"
WorldInSound-1037
CD
$19.75

Tea Company, The
Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company
PS, GERAMANY LP version, including 3 bonus tracks by The Naturals. This LP release has been remastered and includes an insert with a nice bio and photos. "A must for those who wanna feed their minds with unusual heavy psychedelic rock-ROOTS!"
WorldInSound-006
LP
$21.75

Tender Forever
Wider
PS, US When it's love, you can say all the right things. We can teach wolves to whistle. We can kiss while the planets spin and fall around us. This sensation is just the beginning of TENDER FOREVER'S second full-length album, "Wider." Tender Forever is Melanie Valera, the striking singer, multi-instrumentalist and performer who touched us last year with her breakout LP "The Soft and the Hardcore". Each song on "Wider" moves you deeper into that warm, dimly lit place we all want to be: the eloquent, blunt, fantastic tragedy where big harmonies, insanely contagious hooks and a turn of phrase can make you feel that the world is good; that those calluses can yield; that the soft focus of the future feels clear and present.
Krecords-188
CD
$11.50

Things
Wild Psychotic Sounds
PS, US 6 songs of ultimate garage rock horror. Each one grabbing you & twisting you until you dance. These are it boys & girls the last release before these Irish boys hit the big time.
BigNeck-060
12
$9.25

Throw Me The Statue
About To Walk
PS, US The title track the "About To Walk" ltd. ed. single is a Neutral Milk Hotel-fueled concoction of fuzzed synths, doubled bedroom beats and epic vocal harmonies. Also present are the upbeat handclapper "Lolita" and Elverum-esque "The Old Believer." Conceived and fronted by Scott Reitherman, THROW ME THE STATUE will release its debut full length, "Moonbeams" February 19th, 2008 on SECRETLY CANADIAN.
SecretlyCanadian-178
CD5
$3.75

Uncut
#128 (January 2007) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.00

Various
Trip In Time Vol. 2: Psychedelic Rock Reflections
PS, GERMANY "Trip in Time presents the artistic, emotional and intense side of music and revives an almost forgotten genre: psychedelic rock! A fusion of rock'n'roll, blues, folk, jazz, soul and classical music to a powerful unit. This compilation features only unreleased music from the years 2006-2007, with the influences of the psychedelic music revolution from the Summer of Love, 1967. Our focus is to present and to discover young artists, whose passionate celebration of music has the potential to convince the new generation of psychedelic freaks. Disc 1 (62 mins) contains 13 international and ambitious newcomer groups ranging from progressive space sound, high speed rock'n'roll, Syd Barrett and Love acid-folk style to heavy garage/surf psychedelia. Also included are live recordings from Trip In Time events (La Ira De Dios, Treacle People). This 2CD set combines two variations of psychedelic rock, the tightly-arranged song format on disc 1, and wild atmospheric improvisations on disc 2. A 12-page booklet presents each contributing group, all songs are remastered to a high class sound. This CD is a challenge for all music listeners who search for an innovative sound and intensity, maybe we see a few of these folks on the big stages to start the psychedelic revolution soon!" Artists include: Obskuria, Crystal Caravan, El Cuy, Les Trees, In The Company Of Wolves, To Get Her Together, The Magnificent Brotherhood, The Shivas, The Illiad, Jayahdeva, Treacle People, Serpentina Satelite, La Ira De Dios, Embryo meets Karmic Society, Oozing Goo, The Invisibles and Drahk Von Trip.
WorldInSound-2502
DCD
$21.00

Various
Welsh Rare Beat 2
PS, UK "Gruff Rhys joins the Andy Votel, Dom Thomas and the Finders Keepers team once again to produce this, the second instalment in our critically-acclaimed and best-selling Welsh Rare Beat series. Derived from Dyfed bands with added friends from further a field in the Swansea valleys, Cardiff and Flint in the north, this is a wide and wonderful collection of bands - some were part of a political upheaval that empowered Welsh speakers to sing and express themselves in their mother tongue, part of a wider international youthquake, others were singing from the heart, paying the bills and just happened to live in Wales during this cultural crossroad. Here for your enjoyment are songs mostly about the sky, flying, seagulls, clouds and ghosts. But also songs that deal in political activism, The Mabinogi, or issues of Welsh identity. Girl group boy meets girl songs, parodies of boy meets girls songs, Welsh language covers of English and American hits of the day sung in a traditional Welsh style counteracted by traditional Welsh folk songs played in contemporary Anglo-American styles. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Welsh Rare Beat compilation, this album features exclusive liner notes and track-by-track annotations from Gruff Rhys as well as a number of tracks previously unavailable on CD."
FindersKeepers-014
CD
$20.50

Various
Stockingtop Pop: Dream Babes Volume 8
PS, UK Our latest collection is a follow on from Vol.7's Beat Chic which leaves the kinky booted girls in '66 to turn into up tempo brassy birds of '67-70. Lots of curios for collectors to get their teeth into including: TV and Radio personality Gloria Hunniford's first record, written and produced by Alan Hawkshaw; actress and comedienne Faith Brown with her first solo disc produced by Kenny Young successfully cloning his Clodagh sound; one of the first singles by later disco diva Tina Charles, produced by Valerie Avon, Bo Bo's Party which still goes down well in clubs today and a killer from The Chanters with their alter ego Birds Of A Feather and then there's the wonderfully named Stockingtops, aka Sue and Sunny. Plenty never on CD, many previously 'uncomped'. Volume 8 sure is a welcome continuation in the popular Brit Girl series "Dream Babes". You're Never Gonna Get My Lovin' - The Stockingtops / The Man I Love - The Chantelles / Remember December - The Paper Dolls / Pretty Red Balloons - Rosetta Hightower / The Love Of A Boy - The Cameos / Are You Ready For Love - Gloria Hunniford / I Don't Ever Wanna Be Kicked By You - The Stockingtops / He's Got Everything - The Butterflies / Lock Me In - Faith Brown / Hurry On Home - The Feminine Touch / Mississippi Paddleboat - The Chanters / Blacksmith Blues - Birds Of A Feather / You Don't Know What Love Is All About - The Stockingtops / Don't Push Me Baby - Maxine Nightingale / Pretty Shade Of Blue - The Cameos / I'm Getting Hungry For Your Lovin' - Lisa Collings / My Boyfriend's Back - The Paper Dolls / Out Of My Mind - The Chantelles / The World We Live In's A Lonely

Parasol New Arrivals • December 04, 2007
Hey all, First of all be sure to check out the Parasolarians' Favorite Albums of 2007. Our lists are up. Second of all let me offer my sincere apology to Dinosaur Jr. for forgetting to add “Beyond” to my year-end top ten list. I mean, come on! As Wayne would say, “Have you gone mental”? You know, Wayne…Wayne’s World. Garth knows what I’m talking about (no, not Garth Hudson). Drrr. I mentioned last week that the new releases were simmering down as the year comes to a halt but if you take a glance at the list below you can see how wrong I was. Sometimes, it’s good to recognize your flaws. Ok then, cast your eyes downwards and we’ll meet you back here next Tuesday. Shaaa, Ol' Roy and Paul
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	The Society Of Rockets "Our Paths Related" LP & Digital Download Ticket $10.00 (Underpop Records) All new kozmic soul-psych opus from The Society of Rockets, formerly known as iconic San Francisco psych-pop collective The Shimmer Kids Underpop Association. Part horn-happy 70s fuzz-soul, part bleary-eyed shoegaze, part California sunshine-pop, the Society of Rockets’ experiment machine chugs on, devouring all darkness and spitting out an ever-soulful array of dizzying psych-rock gems. LP vinyl in gatefold jacket includes coupon for free digital download of the entire album plus a exclusive bonus track. Hear sound samples on our front page.
Jim's 11th Hour Scandinavian Pick
	Mattias Barjed & Various Artists "Upp Till Kamp OST" DCD $20.00 (Razzia) Special Pre-Order: Happens every year, an 11th hour addition, in fact it's not even here yet! Please pre-order and we'll do our best to get it to you before the Holidays, but we cannot make any promises. Mattias Barjed, glowering guitarist for The Soundtrack of Our Lives, created and curated this double-album soundtrack for a hip new Swedish miniseries (about twenty-something rockers in early-70s Gothenburg) that plays out like a gritty retro-rock opera! Features contributions from Barjed's TSOOL bandmates, plus members of Elope, Hipwhips, Jan Martens Frustration and many more. Also includes a new, unreleased song by The Tallest Man On Earth. Check out sound samples on our front page. I'm calling this my Album Of The Year and just in time to take the top spot on my list of fave Nordic albums of 2007! Full list here.
New Releases 4 Bonjour's Parties Pigments Drift Down To The Brook PS, US 4 BONJOUR'S PARTIES is a seven member strong ensemble from Tokyo, Japan. Their debut full-length release, "Pigments Drift Down To The Brook", with it's expansive, chamber-music approach to song structure and production, hints at modern risk-takers Architecture In Helsinki and The Arcade Fire. Alternating between sweet and majestic, the combination of male and female vocals, sung both in English and Japanese, is an aural wonder. Keyboards and wind instruments lay on top of a bed of dream-rock guitar, bass, and drums, creating moments of 60's guitar pop, Neu inspired repetition, and modern electronics, all within the same expansive track. "Pigments Drift Down To The Brook" marks 4 Bonjour's Parties as a band that deserves close attention. Mush-256 CD $9.00 Acnode One Acnode One PS, US 30-year anniversary reissue of this LAFMS cassette artifact, in a deluxe gatefold double LP presentation. "When one goes digging into the caverns of free jazz, underground, DIY, improvised or noise music, the Los Angeles Free Music Society is a group that you'll find crawling alongside the greatest artists in its under appreciated history... and future! ACNoDE ONE was created by two of the LAFMS's key members: Dr. Id and Ju Suk Reet Meate of Smegma fame. Recorded in 1977 as a hand-made cassette, side A was Dr. Id and friends and side B was all Ju Suk. With influences ranging from Beefheart, Nervous Norvus, and Ron Geesin through the whole ESP catalog, this is one of the defining examples of the LAFMS sound. They travel with ease from Zappaesque freak outs, teeth rattling tape loop drones; psychedelic kiddy record cut ups, to a beautiful bowed bass solo in the vein of Scott la Faro or Henry Grimes. It marks an important turning point in Smegma's development. As Ju Suk points out, 'It was a time of great transition. With only one Smegma "gig" in two years, our music was going inward. The reel to reel tape decks at the time lent themselves to wild misuse... they were very exciting times experimentally.'" Poobah-008 DLP $20.50 Aloha Light Works PS, US Aloha's most gorgeous, ambitious, and fully realized songs on a 30-minute long mini-album. Richly detailed, moody, intensely rhythmic, and flowing with melody. Aloha multi-instrumentalist and studio wizard TJ Lipple mixes in the studio magic while leaving the free-spirited vibe of the recording sessions intact. Piano, brass, oddly tuned guitars, drums, bass, mallet instruments, and vintage keyboards fill out the arrangements. Polyvinyl CD5 $8.50 Angell, Theo Auroplinth PS, US "What can I say about Theo Angell? He's an artist, a musician, a filmmaker, a shaman. He lives and works in New York City, but plies his trade all over the country. Angell is perhaps best known for his work in Hall of Fame and Jackie-O Motherfucker, and also as part of Samara Lubelski's live band. But with the release of Auraplinth, all that will change. This is Theo Angell's opus. This is his masterwork. It finds him at his absolute peak and delivers an album unlike anything else. He uses his voice to etch out a detailed map of the stars, made up of dirt and bone, proving the organic nature of the cosmos. Auraplinth is an amalgamation and invention, joining foundation with the ether. Both of these forces are constantly at work throughout these 15 tracks." Digitalis-050 CD $10.25 Bailey, Marco Wahnsin PS, BELGIUM This is Marco Bailey on his more minimal techno-oriented MbSelektions imprint. "Wahnsin" is a crate-saver, and don't forget Danilo Vigorito's remix on the flip... a fucking blinder. ELECTRONIC Mbselektions-014 12 $9.50 Band Of the Holy Joy, The Leaves That Fall In Spring PS, UK One of the quintessential 'Rough Trade' bands of the 80s and beyond, The Band Of Holy Joy are a truly unique proposition. Combining the dark but unapologetically humane poetry of singer Johny Brown with the instrument action of Chris Brierley (violin) and Alfie Thomas (accordion, keyboards), as well as many other more occasional contributors, BOHJ built a loyal international fan-base for their by turns romantic and bleakly humorous songbook. Critically adored, the band featured on the covers of several music papers and magazines in their heyday, journalists citing them as 'pop deviants inside the urban wasteland', or 'outsider art you can dance to'. With the vast majority of their records out of print, this 'Best Of' has been specifically selected by the band, drawing on a catalogue of some eight albums and a similar number of singles. Includes a brand new, never before released recording of 'Real Beauty Passed Through'. Extensive sleeve notes written in co-operation with the band, including fan testimonials, as well as lyrics, unpublished photographs and a complete discography, complete the whole package. The Band Of Holy Joy are current active on the live circuit again, making this the perfect time to re-discover the magic. CherryRed-341 CD $15.50 Blome, Benno From Antenna to Antenna 1 PS, GERMANY "Not many labels established in the '90s have managed to achieve a consistent advancement without alienating from their roots. Even fewer labels have created a true brand thanks to their very own aesthetic of sound and artwork that are loved and respected by DJs and producers around the globe. Wearing the fitting title From Antenna to Antenna 1, it contains a 17-track CD mixed and compiled by label-head Benno Blome with a best-of from recent releases that have been released only on vinyl previously. Additionally, it brings four previously unreleased tracks." Artist list: Bloody Mary, Yapacc, Misc., And Again, Bond & Blome, Error Error, Phage, Benno Blome, Andre Crom, Frank Martiniq, Franklin De Costa, Baby Ford & Benno Blome, Vincent Radar & Weltzwei. ELECTRONIC Sender-070 CD $17.00 Bodies Of Water Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink PS, US BODIES OF WATER started in DAVID METCALF and MEREDITH ARTHUR'S closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used for recording. They eventually formed a musical group to play David's songs. Meredith figured out the piano, and their friends Kyle Gladden and Jessie Conklin learned to play the bass and drums, respectively. In the ensuing years, the four have learned to deftly spin those threads which inevitably weave their way through every Bodies of Water song: ebullient group singing, melodic invention, thundering polyrhythms, and sublime dramatic tension. "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink" is their first full-length record, and the first release from the band's own THOUSAND TONGUES label. The songs stray from verse-chorus structure but are engaging and memorably crafted, drawing on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows. Since its inception Bodies of Water have added an auxiliary corps of musicians and when playing in L.A. their ranks can swell to as many as 11; hitting, blaring, strumming and bowing away. The four core members' vocal synchronicity remains the group's hallmark. Their calls, responses, shouts and harmonies ride above and around a retaining wall of sound in a fleeting burst of neo-tent revival immediacy. SecretlyCanadian/ThousandTongues-12 CD $11.50 Bonde Do Role Marina Gasolina PS, US Brazilian Bonde Do Role return with a ten track EP of new material and remixes, just in time for your office Christmas party! A new version of live favorite "Marina Gasolina", three new baile-funk bump and grinders, and remixes by the likes of Peaches, Ladytron, CSS, and Architecture In Helsinki - not released in North America - round out this release. DominoRecordingCo. CD5 $7.00 Bosmann, Karl Eskalation PS, GERMANY "Escalating drone sounds like a mixture of Cluster/Kluster and KTL or Sunn O))) with vocal parts in the style of Tazartes and Tibetan monks. The 20-minute long title track sounds like a swelling version of Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy for Lilith. Comes in deluxe silver foil cover, with silver foil insert and postcard. Printed inner sleeve and additional inserts also included." YouDon'tHaveToCallItMusic-003 LP $34.00 Brotzmann/Wilkinson Quartet One Night At Burmantofts PS, UK "A long overdue meeting of two of the titans of the saxophone today. Alan Wilkinson (alto, baritone & voice) and Peter Brötzmann (clarinet, tarogato & tenor) together with Willi Kellers (drums) and Simon H. Fell (bass) blow up one hell of a storm. The individuals on this recording consciously commit, putting themselves 'out there,' over the edge. The energy, the electricity, generated by saxophonists Wilkinson and Brötzmann, is a result of their fearless approach to the precipice and their willingness to stare, unblinking, into the abyss. And yet while this music, free jazz, improv, call it what you will, exists at the boundary of our cultural existence, it echoes the sounds first identified as jazz, back at the birth pangs of the modern age. It is the commitment to a collective sound devoid of ego with the fearless individual, that makes this music extraordinary, that provides the moments of almost spiritual communion." JAZZ BoWeavil-027 CD $17.25 Butterfly Effect IMAGO PS, US One of Australia's hardest touring bands return w/ a release that exceeds all expectations. Recorded by US producer Joe Barresi (Tool), in LA, IMAGO takes the listener on a journey; emotive lyrics & intense arrangements, w/ heavy peaks in contrast to moments of soothing motif. They have proven themselves as a reputable rock act, w/ solid writing skills, amazing live shows & commitment to hard work. CaptivaRecords CD $13.50 By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms PS, US Coming off the heels of the scarcely limited 3" CD series - and a full two years after the release of their debut album - BY THE END OF TONIGHT has finally dropped the anvil of badass on us with six new jams. In the two years since the release of their brilliant "A Tribute To Tigers", BTEOT have toured almost non-stop, playing every rock club, living room (or even barn) that would have them. Their relentlessness has paid off, as their half of this split album with good friends and like-minded power jammers TERA MELOS is far and away their most accomplished work to date. Not to be outdone, Sacramento's Tera Melos have also been on the road more than they've been home this year, touring with the likes of Fall of Troy and Horse the Band. Their frantic, absurdly complex songs are the perfect compliment to By the End of Tonight's darker, more sinister instrumental metal. Though both bands play a hyper-catchy, addictive form of spastic punk, Tera Melos brings to mind a hybrid of fellow Sacramento speed freaks Hella and Cap'n Jazz, while BTEOT draws an unfathomable arc between Blink 182 and The Jesus Lizard. The combination makes this by far the strongest release to date from either band. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-128 LP $7.50 Canned Heat Vintage PS, RUSSIAN FED. LP version. "Canned Heat was formed in 1965 by Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson (guitar/harmonica/vocals), and Bob 'The Bear' Hite (vocals). Before hitting the charts in 1968 with their version of Jim Oden's 'On The Road Again' (#20 in the USA, #10 in the UK), here is how they sounded in 1966 when R&B pioneer Johnny Otis produced their first recordings." Lilith-139 LP $22.50 Carbonara, Eric Exodus Bulldornadius PS, US "Exodus Bulldornadius is Philly multi-instrumentalist Eric Carbonara's contribution to Locust Music's ongoing Wooden Guitar series. Carbonara's playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk to form a kind of exalted pidgin style of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease." Locust-104 CD $13.75 Cex Exotical Privates PS, US 4 remixes from Cex's critically acclaimed album Actual F*cking. Automation-007 LP $6.75 Chaim & James Blonde Roxy Feeling PS, GERMANY James Blonde and Chaim present their debut 12" on MBF, a tribute to Roxy Music. "Roxy Feeling" is hypnotic with sequencers creating a super, seemingly effortless dub-groove in a timeless, stripped-down arrangement. The first and original mix of "Crack" is a traditional synth-driven song, with ghostly voices out in the distance. A more minimal remix follows by Hamburg's Pelle Buys - straight, rocking, stripped-down German techno-house. ELECTRONIC MyBestFriend-12038 12 $9.50 Crash That Took Me Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes PS, US "Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes" Debut record is a colorful blending of sounds brought together to create an abstract pop record. Full of layered textures mixing fuzzed-out guitars and orchestral instrumentation, Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes is lyrically and musically based on the relationship between color and music, expanding their experimental pop into a sonic wall saturated with reverb & a sprinkle of psychedelics to weave a tapestry of visual imagery. Notable influences include Roller Skate Skinny, early Mercury Rev, the psychedelic stages of The Kinks and VU, topped off with Jon Brionesque celesta solos. Guests incl. Brandon Carr (EARLIES) on vocals, Kris Youmans (PAPER CHASE) on cello, Ryan Fitzgerald (POLYPHONIC SPRESS) on guitars. Recorded, produced & mixed by Casey Diiorio (MIDLAKE, [DARYL]) at Valve Studios in Dallas; mixed down onto half-inch tape and sent to Abbey Road Studios in London for mastering by Sean Magee (Spiritualized, Placebo, Paul McCartney) Idol-064 CD $11.75 Culteral Amnesia Press My Hungry Button PS, GERMANY "A selection of the best work of Cultural Amnesia spanning 1980-1983. Includes remastered tracks from their three released cassette albums and from compilations. Nearly half the tracks are previously unreleased, including pieces from two unfinished late albums that the band consider amongst their strongest songs." VinylOnDemand-045 DLP $32.50 Dashboard Confessional The Shade Of Poison Trees PS, US Vinyl LP. "Tom Petty, Springsteen, Neil Young, and Pearl Jam...these are the people I look to," says Chris Carrabba, the creative force behind Dashboard Confessional. "They do what they want and follow their hearts, going wherever their music is taking them. I look to those guys, and I start to think: how does it work for them? What were they holding on to, and do I hold on to that as well?" With the release of his fourth full-length album Dusk and Summer, the Boca Raton, Florida resident is no longer simply an up-and-coming musician; he's a career artist. Dusk is certainly the most defining album of what has already been a remarkable career; on one end, it's a return to the full band sound of Carrabba's earliest, pre-Dashboard work, and yet also the most forward-thinking and innovative record he's ever recorded. Cobraside/Vagrant-1117 LP $13.50 Destroy The Heart S-T PS, US Epic power-pop from Darren Robbins (ex-Time Bomb Symphony). Featuring Adam Schmitt sharing the instrumentation duties while catching the frequencies. Highly Recommended! HomeTapingIsKillingMusicRecords CD $9.00 Devillock These Graves PS, US Edition of 333 with hand-screened and inked, textured cardstock covers. All sounds by Justin Meyers, recorded live May-June, 2005. ToneFilth-033 LP $13.75 Draheim, Charlie Possession PS, US "Pressure. Steam. Scrap yard drainage, leaking into the corners. Mold and mildew - seepage. Cracks, crevices containing black days and red nights. The infection is spreading. False and forgotten. The Butcher, as he's known amongst friends and enemies, slices his way though flesh and bone on his first vinyl appearance and his finest moment to date. Contaminating the A-side with sick tones, nauseating hiss and whine, the rumble and wet sadism of clogged sinuses led to climax in an orgy of rotten magnetic tape. Mongrel howls and junkyard threats make up the unhealthy flip of this record - the slowest of rhythmic thump wrought in contrast to relentless clang reminding of the new, no, The OLD Blockaders. It ends the second you wake up. Throw your vacant body in the gutter." -Greh Holger (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound). Edition of 320 with hand-screened textured card stock covers. ToneFilth-020 LP $17.00 Drake, Nick Family Tree [vinyl re-issue] PS, US Vinyl Version: Comprising recordings made at Nick Drake's family home and in France before his 1969 debut, Family Tree offers a unique insight into a nascent songwriting genius. Spread over four sides of 180 gram virgin vinyl, its 29 songs range from folk standards and compositions by his mother Molly to early versions of future classics taped by his Cambridge friend and arranger Robert Kirby at Cambridge in 1968. Mastered at Abbey Road and featuring 29 rare tracks (one previously only available on iTunes), as well as a deluxe gatefold sleeve, rare photographs and a lavish insert including lengthy sleeve notes, this lovingly assembled set is sure to become a prized item amongst lovers of Nick Drake. Non-limited or numbered second pressing now available. Sunbeam DLP $31.75 Drake, Nick Fruit Tree [3LP+DVD, 2007 Edition] PS, US Limited edition reissue of the box featuring all three of his classic albums incl. the DVD bio "A Skin Too Few" for the first time and a new 108-page booklet. LIMITED 2000. Fontana/Island LP-BOX $63.00 Drake, Nick Fruit Tree [3CD+DVD, 2007 Edition] PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Included in the box are the original three albums in mini LP-like cover sleeves (two of which are gatefolds). Also included is A Skin Too Few, a 48-minute documentary that contains on-camera interviews with Boyd, Gabrielle Drake (Nick's sister), Wood, Paul Weller, Nick's parents (who are not shown on camera), and a few others. The documentary offers few new clues but there are some devastatingly beautiful moments... One thing that is universally agreed upon is that the box should exist in some kind of definitive way, and it has been lovingly assembled with everything getting the grand treatment, aside from the glaring omission of those five cuts. No matter which of his three albums is a personal favorite, the quality of the music is the one thing that cannot be argued here -- it will simply continue to endure and grow in terms of its legend and importance, enlightening and engaging new listeners as they encounter it in the 21st century." Fontana/Island CD-BOX $60.00 Esplendor Geometrico 1980-1989\|First Decade PS, GERMANY "Two LPs of the box with Diez Años double cassette (a collection of unreleased tracks from the '80s with some tracks from compilations). The third vinyl includes: 'Avance Rapido' (from La Zona Compilation LP 1988), 'Fungus Cerebri' (from Sinn und Form Tape 1982 ), 'Raskin' (from 80s Tracks CD) 'Primera Tundra' (from '80s Tracks CD) 'Trans Unmma' (from '80s Tracks CD) and the superb live performance from 1987 from the special Bruitiste box set. The 7" contains 3 superb tracks including 'Moscú Está Helado.'" VinylOnDemand-046 3XLP $88.00 Eulberg/Gabriel Ananda, Dominik Kirschplunder & Jasmin Tee Bei Gabriel PS, GERMANY This is the second collaboration between these two artists on Traum. Their weekly visits have become somewhat of a ritual, meeting at Ananda's factory for some cherry Danish pastries & jasmine tea. What sounds harmless ends up being a real rave bomb. "NGC 101" is a 10-minute freakout that relies on a reduced beat. "Supernova" sneaks in a lovely chord that makes its way through layers of bass and knob twists, warming the heart of every clubber. ELECTRONIC Traum-093 12 $9.50 Eux Autres Cold City PS, US Eux Autres (pronounced ooz-oh-tra), a Portland-based duo, plays pop music. The band consists of brother and sister Heather and Nicholas Larimer. Heather plays drums, Nicholas plays guitar, and they both sing. Practices frequently devolve into shoving matches. Eux Autres write compact songs with sparse instrumentation. Their music has been unfairly described as "fun." But while the surface of the songs might seem nonchalant, the lyrics offer skewed observations and fierce barbs. Most of their songs are about a) military history b) being "done wrong" or c) sports. Sadly, Eux Autres are the only people who notice this. The band sounds like the unrequited love song Doug Martsch would have penned for Francoise Hardy, had the time/space continuum conveniently collapsed. Eux Autres' debut 7", was released in 2003, and their first full-length CD, Hell Is Eux Autres, recorded by Jeff Stuart Saltzman and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney/Quasi), was self-released in 2004 and re-released in 2006 by Grenadine Records (Montreal, QC). The band's second album, Cold City, will be released in late 2007 on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records (Athens, GA). HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-092 CD $12.25 Evans, Nate Pardon My Innocent Heart/Main Squeeze PS, US Originally released in 1972. "Three gorgeous Twinight 45s for the discerning collector. All three come from our landmark collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation. As with the previous seven in the series, these finely crafted singles come housed in a stock Twinight sleeve and are limited to 500 copies." Twinight-156 45 $5.25 Fedi, Simone Belzebù Tales PS, BELGIUM The very first release from another fresh Eskimo find, straight from Tuscany. Choosing vintage analog synthesizers next to real instruments such as guitars and an electric bass, Simone Fedi manages to perfectly sculpt his deep and original sound, mixing funk, Italian disco, house and synth pop. ELECTRONIC Eskimo-501974 12 $9.50 Fela Ransome-Kuti And His Koola Lobitos Highlife Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969) PS JAPAN Long awaited 3CD collection (39 tracks) of Fela's earliest material to be released. WORLD P-Vine 3XCD $49.50 Fisher, Nate DoNotEatOnLSD PS, GERMANY This is the first release for newcomer Nate Fisher on Max Ernst, written and produced by Thomas Brinkmann. Fisher works together with musicians like Alex Under and Brinkmann to create warm, minimal-tech dance that doesn't compromise. The A-side is a humorous tribute to Japan and it makes people dance like crazy. The B-side has some dark 'n' wacky techno. ELECTRONIC Maxernst-022 12 $9.50 Galwad Y Mynydd Galwad Y Mynydd PS, UK "Gruff Rhys joins the Finders Keepers team once again to produce this, the third instalment in our critically-acclaimed and best-selling Welsh Rare Beat series - combining the 2 ultra rare Galwad Y Mynydd EPs on one album for the first time ever! Galwad Y Mynydd defined a Dyfed-centric harmonic gentle vocal sound. Formed by brothers; Alwyn (17) and Eifion (16) Daniels, their Camarthen grammar school friend Derek Brown (18), and Camarthen Technical College student Mike Harries (19) on drums; Galwad Y Mynydd (The Call of The Mountain) ticked all the right boxes in their quest to deliver in their own words 'a new style of contemporary Welsh folk music.' Choosing musicality over volume, beauty and heartache over protest and politics, they were a young anomaly in Welsh language pop. The follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Welsh Rare Beat compilation and accompanying album to the new Welsh Rare Beat 2 compilation, this album features exclusive liner notes from Gruff Rhys and Derek Brown (in Welsh). These two EPs have previously been unavailable on CD, or indeed anywhere outside of their original 7" EP releases." FindersKeepers-015 CD $20.50 Glass Organ Two Tapes PS, US "A reissue of the two out-of-print Glass Organ tapes. Building blown out desolate guitar and saturated tape. Co-released with Twonicorn. Edition of 365 with hand-screened white matte covers." ToneFilth-045 LP $17.00 Gravelpit Snow Globe PS, US This is obscure release on the Rockadelic label, not sure when it came out, seems to be from 1999 or so. Contemporary (at least, at one point in time) Portland, OR rock group. Random office quote on a Saturday afternoon: "Sounds like Bono!" "This record certainly affirms the boundless parameters of the Rockadelic Records label and it's 'open to all those worthy' release philosophy. The group Gravelpit were a very talented group whose single Rockadelic album release seems to project equally in lyric and song, an ample dealing of post damage recovery vibes. In short, victory despite its spoils." Rockadelic-005 CD $15.75 Growing The Social Club Nº 8 PS, US Marking their recent addition to THE SOCIAL REGISTRY'S roster, Olympia-via- Brooklyn's GROWING present their first contribution to the label with this installment in our ongoing 7" series. Consisting of members Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria, Growing's already legendary status among ambient and noise-rock circles has solidified their reputation. The two songs found on this 7" represent the best of the band, spotlighting their uncanny ability to extract alien and ethereal sounds from the now-traditional format of the electric guitar. TheSocialRegistry-058 45 $5.50 Guillemots Back To Mine PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The Back to Mine series started as a way for DJs and electronica or electronica-leaning artists to compile some of their favorite late-night songs (the first volume, by Nick Warren, was released in February of 1999 and artists like Morcheeba, Faithless, Danny Tenaglia, Tricky, and Underworld have all followed suit). While it's true the Guillemots do incorporate a variety of different styles into their music, and that many previous bands didn't necessary stick to downbeat or techno -- Audio Bullys, for example, had a particularly rock heavy set -- the Guillemots are the first true rock or pop band to put their name on the Back to Mine cover. Some of the choices on here make a lot of sense, like Joan As Police Woman's (with whom Guillemots toured) "The Ride," Liars' "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack," and even Sonic Youth's "Providence," while others, while they assuredly hold meaning to at least some of the members, hardly fit with the rest of the selections or the band's sound (Roots Manuva's "Witness (1 Hope)" and Raphael Saadiq's "Still Ray" being the most prominent examples). All of which means that this specific installment of Back to Mine works better for someone who wants to listen to what Guillemots like, not necessarily music that sounds like Guillemots like or even a particularly cohesive mix." (Marisa Brown) DMC CD $16.75 Hedberg, Johan 5-spars EP PS, SWEDEN Labrador proudly presents the solo debut from Johan Hedberg of Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. "5-spårs EP" (mean "Five track EP" in Swedish) is nothing less than brilliant - a splendid mix of electronica, Tropicalia and pop. Welcome to the sound of a true pop genius. In the summer of 2007 Johan Hedberg bought a computer with an installment plan. This new gear gave him inspiration to do some productions on his own. With the motto "fast production and no turning back" Johan's way of working is quite the opposite of the one of Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. The latter is famous for re-recording, re-writing, re-making and polishing their songs over and over again before they're finished. Surprisingly or not, the fast way of making art works perfectly for his solo productions. "5-spårs EP" will be released in a limited edition of 500 copies on 10" vinyl. Labrador-110 10 $11.00 Helm, Levon Dirt Farmer PS, US Vangaurd CD $16.25 Hey Willpower Hundredaire PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Tomlab-071 45 $5.50 Hey Willpower Hundredaire PS, US The title "Hundredaire" (let you go) is a play on words of Kelis and Andre 3000's "Millionaire". An homage with a life of its own. No money, same problems. WILL SCHWARTZ from HEY WILLPOWER sings it like he means it; a postmodern take on a love gone awry. Inspired by real life events, and masterpieces like "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Walk On By", it's a story everyone can understand. Whether it's the beat of the snare that happened to be there, the Yamaha "Bar Mitzvah Keyboard" on which Will plays the lead riff, or the vocal choir that catapults the simple phrase in the chorus "Let You Go" straight into your heart, there's something for anyone who has felt the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows. Tomlab-071 CD5 $5.50 Idlewild Scottish Fiction: Best of Idlewild 1997-2007 PS, US Caroline CD $15.25 Ito, Hidenobu Wake PS, GERMANY "Hidenobu Ito is not really known in Europe, although he already has a list of releases to show, but on the other side of the world - in Japan. Hidenobu grew up in Inagi City, a municipality of Tokyo. Since his childhood he has been interested in game and experimental music. So, he started working as a cartoonist to afford his own music equipment. In the 1990s, he began producing his first tracks, music compilation albums and soundtracks. Up to now, Hidenobu Ito released his music on labels such as Flyrec, Elegantdisc, NS-com, TripTrap, Sub Rosa, etc. The first contact to the Mo's Ferry crew was his track 'Lover' on the third series of the 10" label, Fenou. After that, one of his tracks had been included on the Mo's Ferry Prod. 25 last year. Now, there's his first solo release for the label called Wake. The title track definitely helps to find a proper genre for this EP (like minimal), but it already shows Hidenobu's vision to include no out-of-the-box samples, but experimental and organic snippets." ELECTRONIC Mo'sFerry-032 12 $9.50 Jansen, Steve Slope PS, US "Former Japan band member and regular David Sylvian collaborator Steve Jansen releases his astonishing solo album on Samadhisound this Autumn. On Slope, tension underlies the crisp rhythms and intricate programming, while a collection of distinctive vocalists draw out the sentiment and expression in his songwriting. As Jansen explains, 'with this album I approached composition attempting to avoid chord and song structures and the usual familiar building blocks. Instead I wanted to piece together unrelated sounds, music samples, rhythms and 'events' in an attempt to deviate from my own trappings as a musician.' The album features guest contributions from Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Thomas Feiner, Anja Garbarek, Nina Kinert, David Sylvian, Theo Travis and Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman). Presented as ever in a beautiful digipak featuring exquisite artwork from Australian artist Dan McPharlin and designed by Chris Bigg." Samadhisound-012 CD $15.25 Jeremy Jay We Were There PS, US The new single "We Were There" will be released this Winter as JEREMY JAY's 2nd Single this year on K. Hot on the heels of his 1st single "Airwalker", The single "We Were There" was recorded in Angel Town with Nick Pahl on drums. Krecords-113 45 $3.75 Jobin, Antonio Carlos Wave PS, RUSSIAN FED. "By the time this album was released, Antonio Carlos Jobim was already an international superstar. Having recently won a Grammy (1965) for 'The Girl From Ipanema,' by 1967 all the big name stars from up north were breaking down his door to work with the new 'Gershwin of Brazil.' In fact, Jobim had just finished working on an album with Frank Sinatra when he went into the studio to record this album. Recorded in 1967, Wave is actually one of the lesser known masterpieces of Brazilian music, and undoubtedly one of Jobim's greatest. Here Jobim and the great Claus Ogerman lead a top-flight cast on hidden classics like 'Batidinha,' 'Triste' and 'Wave.'" Lilith-143 LP $22.50 Kane, Jonathan The Little Drummer Boy EP PS, US Do JONATHAN KANE'S fat-bottomed grooves take your breath away, make you lose your mind? Well, it's the holidays, and Jonny can give as well as he can take, so here's his gift to you, boys and girls. It's a classic, "The Little Drummer Boy", done in his inimitable style, with layers of guitars, snow-drift-deep bass -- and you'd better believe there's drums. Hop into this sleigh -- it's jacked-up, tricked-out, it's got 850 horses and not a restrictor plate in sight. Yep, it's always a Blue Christmas when Jonathan Kane comes to town. TableoftheElements-809 CD5 $9.00 Killers Don't Shoot Me Santa PS, US Enhanced w/"Don't Shoot Me Santa" video. All proceeds go to Red Foundation Charitable Trust. J card w/ slimline sleeve. Island-0010247-32 CD5 $3.25 Legendary Pink Dots Early Recordings 5 LP Box PS, GERMANY "This 5LP box features the very early '80s tape recordings by The Legendary Pink Dots ('80-'82) including Kleine Krieg, Chemical Playschool 2 - edition 2 which is Chemical Playschool Vol.1 and 2 plus outtakes and Live in Cologne 1983." VinylOnDemand-048 5XLP $97.25 Lets Go Naked Insides PS, UK This is 16 track career retrospective compiles singles, selected album tracks, unreleased gems and 2 new tracks from Brisbane's Lets Go Naked. Re-mastered and first time on CD. John Peel favorites. Band now reformed, writing and recording new material for 2008 release - launch gigs in Brisbane and Sydney. Band contains well known Brisbane TV celebrity, news anchor man Andrew Lofthouse and ex The Go Betweens John Wilsteed. Let's Go Naked had an initial burst of activity in the eighties with the release of the album "Everything" on Sydney's Waterfront Records. This album found Let's Go Naked as exponents of the Brisbane sound, with an angular, driven guitar style, incorporating keyboard sounds for certain tracks. Think the Go Betweens early records. The "Three Limbs" single on Trust Records then found Let's Go Naked emerging with their own refreshing sound. This track became a favourite of the late John Peel on his BBC shows bringing Lets Go Naked to a wider audience. The late eighties and nineties found Let's Go Naked exploring this sound, recording intermittently, including the single "Sometimes"; finding perfect moments and moving on to the next one. The new century seen renewed interest in Let's Go Naked, initially prompting the re-mixing of a few lost gems and ultimately writing and recording again. Two recent new tracks appear on this retrospective and find the band in rude form. Recording is well under way on a new album for 2008 release. October 2007 saw a return to the stage at The Zoo in Brisbane for a well received re-union show. Lets Go Naked are Murray Power (vocals, guitar), Andrew Lofthouse (bass guitar, backing vocals and keyboards), Nick Patterson (drums and backing vocals) and ex Go Between John Wilsteed (guitars). Rosalinda McGovern, Martin Thompson, Steve McKensie and Anthony Perrott have also been members and contribute to the retrospective CD. Egg-022 CD $15.00 Leutwyler/Joint Custody, Matthew 2007 PS, GERMANY This is a limited, colored, split 12" featuring tracks by two young new artists who will release solo records on Traum in 2008: Mathew Leutwyler from Mexico and Joint Custody from Tampa Bay, Florida. Mathew Leutwyler's track is a perfect Christmas techno-groover, with heart-warming melodies and a melodic style that fits perfectly on Traum. The duo Joint Custody deliver a stripped-down rocker which rocks with its groove, massive elements and its central vocal. Happy New Year! ELECTRONIC Traum-094 12 $9.50 Libertines Time For Heroes PS, US Time For Heroes" is a timely reminder of the unique talent of Albion's favorite sons, bringing together the tracks that defined a generation, from the epochal debut, "Up The Bracket" to their self-titled follow-up. Includes "Don't Look Back In To The Sun", never before available on either of their albums. Also includes the classic singles "Can't Stand Me Now", "Time For Heroes", fan picks "What A Waster", "Boys In The Band", and live favorites / b-sides "The Delaney" and "May Day". "Like The Clash before them, The Libertines draw primarily from decades of rock tradition - blues, dub, a healthy whiff of the English countryside, and a few gorgeous rock riffs straight from the brainstem of Chuck Berry - and fuse them into an unruly and triumphant monster of an album" - Pitchfork. RoughTrade CD $10.75 Libertines Best Of: A Time for Heroes PS, US AVERSIOIN REVIEW: "Besides being the best British rock act of their era, The Libertines used their mix of Jam-like riffs, Clash-like energy and drunkenly loose arrangements as a chisel at which to pummel the haughty sensibilities that were at the heart of the English music world. Borne in days when Radiohead's most esoteric albums duked it out with Coldplay's most overwrought arena posturing and the dying remnants of the failed DJ revolution, The Libertines were that much-needed wake-up call that rock didn't need to attach itself to fashions, concepts, cutting-edge technology or the ass end of the print media as a reason to exist. Simple rocking, and rocking well, was always reason enough to exist. Now, with the chaff culled from a pair of already strong albums, Time For Heroes delivers a set that outshines most retrospectives from acts with five or six albums in their back catalog -- and proves that ultimately, the Libertines will be remembered for making great music." RoughTrade CD $12.50 Lightning Lightning 1968-1971 PS US "Lightning was an offshoot of Minneapolis '60s legends Litter that featured guitar wizard Tom 'Zippy' Caplan. After recording the Litter's 1966 garage classic Distortions and 1968 psych masterpiece $100 Fine, Caplan split from the Litter and formed Lightning. The band started out as a power trio and cut one fierce Cream-inspired single 'William' b/w 'Of Paupers And Poets' in 1968 under the White Lightning moniker with Twin Cities record producer Warren Kendrick. The band regrouped into a quintet and scored a record deal with P.I.P. which issued their eight-song album. That album has since become a highly collectable LP. Lightning became one of the Midwest's hardest working rock acts and toured extensively throughout the region during their three-year tenure. This authorized CD reissue includes their entire LP, the aforementioned 45, plus six additional bonus tracks (including edited 45 mixes of two album tracks) all wrapped in an archival 12-page booklet with lots of photos and liner notes by Litter-scribe Doug Sheppard. Between this package and Arf Arf's White Lightning Strikes Twice [1968-1969] release, the band's entire musical legacy has been properly archived. Fans of Blue Cheer, Cream, Hendrix, and Arf Arf's four psychedelic Dose comps will really dig this new disc." Arf!Arf!-100 CD $13.00 Lindisfarne Very Best of Lindisfarne PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Gathers together an excellent cross section of tracks from the three years (1970-1972) of Lindisfarne's first phase, considered to be the band's most attractive and adventurous period. EMI's collection presents 18 tracks of the group's finer moments from Nicely Out of Tune, Fog on the Tyne, and Dingly Dell, plus two previously unreleased recordings tacked on at the end. Opening with the band's two biggest hits ("Meet Me on the Corner" and "Lady Eleanor"), The Very Best of Lindisfarne immediately showcases how diverse the group was with psychedelic folk and British Invasion-tinged pop, with clever orchestration and the rawer elements of soft rock creeping to the surface. Perhaps the two unreleased recordings are the only downside to The Very Best of Lindisfarne, as they were obviously recorded at a later date than the rest of the material and lack the urgency and excitement of the meat of the collection. Regardless, The Very Best of Lindisfarne is a fantastic set for those curious about what the band was all about." (Gregory McIntosh) Caroline CD $16.25 Lowfish Burn the Lights Out PS, US Lowfish is back with a new full length LP (2x12) and CD release for this fall 2007. Synth pop gone wild mashed up with breaks, wrapped in emotive melodies and pumped full of bass for the dance floor characterize his new LP . A total of 10 new tracks and two of his golden ones from the Sat.31 ep. Lowfish again determines his destiny in a positive, individualistic styled manner that can be described as complex, yet fully enjoyed by most listeners. Bladerunner, Wave Noir, or William Gibson breaking out the synths are a few words to describe this style Electro. Post Modern for sure considering the artful and seamless interweaving of various close connected genres from past and present coming together to define a sound that is new and only Lowfish. Artwork by 310K with a sleeve done in 60's pop fiery orange and some of the coolest Graphics to come out of the Amsterdam design scene. As always no expense on mastering with professional cuts made by Frankford and Wayne NY city. A lot of work went into this release to deliver the highest quality in overall production and sound. Satamile-41-1 DLP $11.50 Lubelski, Samara Parallel Suns PS, US With "Parallel Suns" SAMARA LUBELSKI has flown to a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. They combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. The music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound. TheSocialRegistry-056 LP $10.25 Malin, Jesse Glitter In The Gutter PS, US AdelineRecords CD $15.00 Marine Girls Lazy Ways/Beach Party PS, UK 1988 release, reissued. "Once upon a time there were three girls called Alice, Jane and Tracey. The three combined to create the very special sound of 'The Marine Girls.' Their debut album Beach Party was originally released on Dan Treacy's (Television Personalities) Whaam! Records and is included here with the Cherry Red album Lazy Ways. The Marine Girls split amicably in 1983; Tracey concentrating on Everything But The Girl and the Fox Sisters (Jane and Alice), going on to form Grab Grab The Haddock with Lester Noel (later to play in Beats International)." CherryRed-044 CD $17.00 Massi DL Wonderland PS, GERMANY Massimo di Lena (aka Massi DL) has appeared on Frankie Records, Archipel, Safari Electronique and Tic Tac Toe Records. He attracted the attention of Trapez when he was first approached to remix an Alex Under track. Massi DL is a gifted producer who can animate minimal techno with new and different emotions. Like Under, he loves rhythmic cascades and crazy sounds. "Acidland" is one of the craziest minimal trax you'll ever hear and "Wonderland" controls the pace like no other. ELECTRONIC Trapez-082 12 $9.50 McGregor & The Bronzettes/The George McGregor Brothers Temptation is Hard to Fight/Every Time I Wake Up PS, US "Three gorgeous Twinight 45s for the discerning collector. All three come from our landmark collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation, while TWI 102EP features a previously unreissued cut in 'Everytime I Wake Up.' As with the previous seven in the series, these finely crafted singles come housed in a stock Twinight sleeve and are limited to 500 copies." Originally released in 1967. Twinight-102 45 $5.25 Minus Story Make The Dead Come PS, US "Make the Dead Come" is a limited edition mini-album that MINUS STORY created as a creative outlet in the middle of making their upcoming full-length "My Ion Truss" (due out June 19, 2007). In between recording sessions for "My Ion Truss" with producer JOHN CONGLETON (THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY) at Electrical Audio and Low Key, the band self-recorded "Make the Dead Come" on their 8-track in Kansas City. A thematic continuation and resolution of the death/ghost songs from their last two full-lengths "No Rest For Ghosts" and "The Captain Is Dead Let the Drum Corpse Dance, Make the Dead Come" is a darker and scarier journey with the group of Boonville, MS natives. On it, they rejoice in their trademark intuitive & distorted self-recorded style, which they've warmly named the Wall of Crap. This is their first recording with new band member Lucas Oswald, who contributes hammer dulcimer and background vocals. Jagjaguwar-114 CD5 $7.50 Misraki, Paul And God Created Woman PS, ITALY "Although Brigitte Bardot was already famous in France, this is the movie that made Bardot an international star. She was the first foreign language star to gain such widespread popularity abroad and she opened the door for others to follow in her footsteps. Bardot was a bombshell in any language... and you certainly didn't need to read the subtitles to see that! The tag line to the movie was 'And God Created Woman... but the devil created Brigitte Bardot!' An erotic drama (the scene with Bardot dancing barefoot on a table is still hot enough to melt any acetate it's printed on) co-starring Jean-Louis Trintignant (who Bardot allegedly had an affair with) that tells the tale of 'life and love' on the Riviera. It made St. Tropez the popular resort for the rich and famous that it soon was to become. French director Roger Vadim (known for his affairs with beautiful women) was Brigitte's husband at the time and he wrote this film specifically for her, in hopes of adding more depth to Bardot's on-screen characters.." CLASSICAL Dagored-180 LP $19.00 Monster Island Children Of Mu PS, US "The Children of Mu is a group of songs, lyrics & extended performance revolving around the psychic and mythic origins of Mu, a Pacific island or 'lost continent' (and counterpart to Atlantis) some believe to be fiction and others the 'cradle of civilization,' and relevant to our present condition. This is the fourth album by Monster Island, a four year project, whose previous recordings included; From the Michigan Floor, Dream Tiger and Peyotemind. This double LP is an edition of 500 copies with fabulous four color + metallic gold cover by ratty art genius Gary Panter. Performances by; Aliccia Berg (Slumber Party), Bill Brovald (Larval), Matthew Smith (guitar, bass, pipa, Outrageous Cherry, THTX), Robert Waller (synth, Pere Ubu), H.H. Ma Meenakshi Devi (Indian Saint and classical Hindi singer), Anneke Auer (psychic voice), Johnny Evans (sax, Howling Diablos), Len Bukowski (bass clarinet, Northwoods Improvisers), Tim Barnes (percussionist, Quakebasket), Mattin (avant-noise, Sakadda), words & music: Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters), mastered by Warn Defever." TheEndIsHere-013 LP $23.00 Morricone, Ennio I Crudeli OST PS, ITALY "Morricone is at his best here in this 1967 spaghetti western (aka The Hellbenders), directed by Sergio Corbucci, the lesser-known father of the spaghetti western, and director of the genre-defining Django, released later that same year. Here some ex-Confederate soldiers, with a dream to see the South rise again, steal a million dollars from the Union army and hide it in a coffin to make it past the Union patrols. Will they succeed in getting the money back to their Confederate stronghold or will a femme fatale foil their plans?" CLASSICAL Dagored-176 CD $16.25 Morricone, Ennio L'Alibi OST PS, ITALY "Morricone works his magic again in this 1969 Italian production directed by Luciano Lucignani, Vittorio Gassman, and Adolfo Celi. Vittorio, Adolfo and Luciano (this film is based loosely on the lives of the directors of the film) were great friends during their days at the Academy for Dramatic Arts, which they attended in the years just after the Second World War, but they lose touch soon after. Adolfo goes to Brazil where he becomes a very successful actor; Vittorio remains in Italy and he also becomes a stage and movie star; and Luciano becomes a director, playwright, film critic, scholar and ardent Communist. Adolfo, after many years away, begins to miss home and sends a telegram to Vittorio and Luciano to inform them of his return to Italy. During the trip, Adolfo thinks fondly of his school days and dreams of a happy reunion with his friends, but both Vittorio and Luciano have changed." CLASSICAL Dagored-178 CD $16.25 Morricone, Ennio Trio Infernale OST PS, ITALY "This French production, directed by Francis Girod, and originally released in 1974 (in the USA and UK with the title The Infernal Trio) is set in post-WWI France. A successful attorney and war hero, along with two of his lovers, (two German sisters) Philomene and Catherine, defraud life insurance companies by signing policies for dying people. Given their success, they become bolder and bolder and even resort to the murder of a rich pawnbroker Noemie and her lover, Chambon. They get rid of the bodies by melting them down with sulfuric acid. Their final heist, however, has a fatal ending for Catherine, but Philomene and George are now filthy rich after cashing in five life insurance policies on Catherine's death." CLASSICAL Dagored-177 CD $16.25 Murder In The Cathedral Afraid Of... PS, GERMANY "Amazingly underrated French neo-psychedelic band. Arisen from the ashes of The Heretic Dreams, Murder in the Cathedral was founded in the beginning of the '90s by brothers Stephane (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Pascal Moru (bass, keyboards) and drummer Gilles Lepron. Influenced by new groups like Plasticland, Prisoners, and in the tradition of 13th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watchband or Plastic Cloud, the boys tried to create their own sound. Their first eponymous album (included as a bonus album on this CD), released in 1996, shows a mixture of guitar-oriented neo-psych in the vein of Plastic Cloud, Morgen and Grateful Dead. It consists of 8 titles, instrumental pieces alternating with vocal ones (sung in English). It was very positively received in the neo-psychedelic underground and the limited edition of 500 was sold out within a few months. 2nd album Afraid Of... saw the light of day in 1999. Now the music is much more structured and contains less jam-like passages. According to the reviewers, the crucial sound influences range from The Byrds to Bevis Frond, combining the San Francisco acid sound of the '60s with Oriental sounds. Again the album (limited edition of 500) was sold out within a few months. Although Long Hair is specialized in psychedelic/progressive music of the '60s and early '70s, we would like to present all lovers of psychedelic music this outstanding band." LongHair-060 CD $21.00 Mystiques So Good To Have You Home Again/Put Out The Fire PS, US Originally released in 1969. "This comes from our landmark collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation. As with the previous seven in the series, these finely-crafted singles come housed in a stock Twinight sleeve and are limited to 500 copies." Twinight-112 45 $5.25 Nascimbene, Mario L'Eneide OST PS, ITALY "Mario Nascimbene's music for the 1971 hit TV series of Virgil's immortal epic, the Aeneid, is not so much a comment on the scenic action, as a study of sounds and themes used to emphasize the psychological nature of the various characters. Amidst instrumental and vocal sounds (including the splendid voice of Olga Karlatos) an extremely new and intriguing concept in film music of the '60s/'70s is born. The viola of Dino Asciolla - warm and vibrating - manages to transport the listener into an ocean of sound of rare intensity. The splendid and sensible conducting skills of Maestro Carlo Savina add (especially in the five voice canon, a reinterpretation of antique and archaic melodies) a certain expressive luster that makes Mario Nascimbene's new sounds a confirmation of his great artistic genius." CLASSICAL Dagored-179 CD $16.25 Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation Nic PS, UK Welcome to the wonderful electro-jazzy-funky-chunky magical world of Norway's Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation, or NIC for short [pronounced nick]. Based in Oslo, NIC is a fearless band of experienced sonic explorers bound together by a common thirst for musical challenge and diversity. This is a multi-faceted sound, without boundaries, that takes its influences from punk, jazz, reggae, soul, dub and electronica. A few years back, drummer Ted Parsons [Swans, Prong, Jesu, Killing Joke] spent some time hanging out in London with ex-PIL guitarist Keith Levene, jamming, chewing the fat, having a few beers and making plans to record together. Eventually, a few years later, Keith found himself in Oslo's Mok Studios alongside Ted and the rest of the NIC crew keyboard wizard Markus O Klyve, Texan guitarist and vocalist Chuck Frazier, bassist Matti Hansen, audio/dub scientist Fredrik (Kjeks) Kjelman, producer Scotty Hard and an elastic bag full of flexible ideas. This is the result, a ravishing album of laidback and funkadelic tunes. Vibrant, intensely textured guitars and keyboards layered over complex rolling rhythms sprinkled with some sweet soul vocals. And to cap it all they managed to recruit legendary Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær to contribute some beautifully haunting trumpet on track 4, Tume. MaliciousDamage-629 CD $17.75 New Colony Six, The Sides PS, UK Often compared to Paul Revere & The Raiders (with whom they shared digs in LA), Chicago's New Colony Six burst onto the scene and into the charts with the garage-pop classic "I Confess" in early 1966. They followed this with a string of excellent Anglophile-influenced singles and scored further hits with "I Lie Awake", "Love You So Much" and "You're Gonna Be Mine", all released on their own tiny Sentar label. In 1967, their sound changed with the addition of Ronnie Rice and the band began licensing their singles out to Mercury Records. Pursuing a more harmonic pop style reminiscent of The Association or The Buckinghams they scored their biggest hits so far with "I Will Always Think About You" and the timeless "Things I'd Like To Say" in 1968. The four albums New Colony Six released between 1966 and 1969 are all excellent and feature a wide-ranging sweep through garage rock, harmony pop, light psychedelia and even jazz-influenced sounds. Sides, as the title suggest, collects various singles, alternate versions and unreleased tracks from across their entire career which have largely escaped reissues of their work so far. Rev-Ola-231 CD $15.50 Nourallah, Salim Snowing In My Heart PS, US SALIM NOURALLAH isn't a superheroŠhe's a father, a husband, and an award winning musician and producer. His latest effort "Snowing In My Heart" is filled with melancholy tempered with acceptance and honesty. Salim's lyrics paint a picture of a man accepting loss and powerlessness over the effects of time and age. Despite subject matter, the songs feel upbeat, with their driving rhythm section and unforgettable pop hooks. This is what makes "Snowing In My Heart" so remarkable. WesternVinyl/TapeteRecords-04 CD $11.50 Onodera, Yui Suisei PS, US "Suisei is a work composed from field recordings and pump organ. Edited and re-mastered by Dale Lloyd. With Suisei, each listener's inner cinema will find its camera lens slowly panning and cross-fading from one enigmatic location to another, as if unveiling ambiguous visual clues pertaining to some wondrous culminating event that many might not fully understand, yet it will still manage to leave an indelible impression upon the subconscious mind and a very subtle pull on the emotions. A mystery drone soundscape journey along the shores of an unfathomable glistening sea. Packaged in four-color digipak. Very limited at 300 copies." And/Oar-028 CD $12.00 Os Mutantes Os Mutantes PS. RUSSIAN FED. LP version, 180 gram virgin vinyl. "With the release of their debut LP in 1968, Os Mutantes cracked the already red hot Tropicalia scene wide open. Fusing traditional Brazilian music, psychedelia, rock and a good dose of pure experimentalism, they quickly became giants both in Brazil and in the outer fringes of pop music, where they have managed to reign supreme for the past four decades. Not an easy task in such a crowded arena. Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Tom Zé, AND Os Mutantes? What do these people put in their drinking water? The band went on to release several more albums, but this one was their magnum opus." Lilith-141 LP $22.50 Pagan, Chase Oh, Musica! PS, US Soft-spoken Southerner has created an album that is both intimate & grandiose in this, his debut. Musically, Pagan's songs feat. complex structural progressions over stripped-down instrumental processions: a wisp of guitar here, a few lines of piano there, all under his nearly limitless vocal range. Embracing the theatrical, he writhes & bleeds a florid combination of rock, soul & country. MilitiaGroup-053 CD $13.25 Pancake Mountain Episodes 3 and 4 (2005) PS, US Dance Party with Eyeball Skeleton, and The Candy Band! Original song & video by Fiery Furnaces + Special Performance by Arcade Fire, and The Pancake Mountain theme song performed by Niki Barr! Also: appearances by George Clinton, Scissor Sisters, and local DC hero Henry Rollins!! Out takes, extended music, Rufus interviews, extras bloopers and more. Monkeyboy DVD $15.00 Pants Yell! Alison Statton PS, US The title pays homage to the lovely young Welsh girl who fronted Young Marble Giants & Weekend. The songs pay homage to failed relationships & the uncertainty of youth via a batch of intelligently informed compositions; one that should appease fans of Jens Lekman, Orange Juice & the early Belle & Sebastian records. Female vocals float through the back drops as trumpets & saxophones spurt lost Stax lines, a glockenspiel chimes, guitars feedback, drums flail & a young man sings sweetly about all the things young men should sing sweetly about. Alison Statton confirms Andrew Churchman's position as top-notch modern songwriter. His words & themes flirt as much with the films of Truffaut as they do with Jonathan Richman's earnestness & the Go-Betweens'golden days of mellifluous pop truisms. SoftAbuse-025 CD $11.50 Pawas Never Met Them PS, GERMANY "Pawas is now back with his very own three-track EP on the label of Koletzki & Meindl. All tracks were created in Pune in India, Pawas' hometown, and the EP is about three different characters: Alicia, Charlie and Edward. Each one of them has a certain distinctive vibe about them: 'Alicia' is deep and eloquent; 'Edward' is more hectic and restless while 'Charlie' seems the funky and witty sort. In terms of music, 'Edward' is carried on a powerful, deep synthie melody, a big breathing bass line and some great percussive clicks and clacks that turn into a slightly ravey minimal burner later on in the tune. Very hot! 'Charlie' is a little lighter and is pushed forward by a great funky melody that creates the perfect after hour moment. Imagine yourself on the beach when the sun is coming up. 'Alicia' on the A-side is a deeper, more housey affair and has a melodic, percussive and Detroity appeal. Pawas has managed to create a very fresh and unique signature sound and with releases on Squonk, Connaisseur and Flash Records, 2007 seems to be the year for him." ELECTRONIC FlashRecordings-006 12 $9.50 Plastikman Nostalgik.3 PS, CANADA Nostalgik.3 follows up 2005's Nostalgik.2, with recovered, unreleased material from the Plastikman archives. Both tracks on this release are unsolicited (and unexpected) reworks by two producers who are long-term Plastikman aficionados. Dubfire (aka Ali Shirazinia) remixes 1993's "Spastik," adding contemporary beats, bass and hat patterns, subliminal efx and tweaks. "Panikattack" (originally released on Plus 8 in 1996) gets a more radical overhaul with Guido Schneider excavating and enhancing the gritty funk of the original for some serious peak-time action. ELECTRONIC Minus-003 12 $9.50 Pluramon The Monstrous Surplus PS, GERMANY LP version. This is the fifth full-length release by Marcus Schmickler aka Pluramon. The Monstrous Surplus bears three different vocalists and as many narrative voices. Featuring appearances by Julia Hummer, Julee Cruise & Jutta Koether. The fourth vocalist is Marcus himself on one song as well as background on other songs. ELECTRONIC KaraokeKalk-049 LP $15.00 Prophet, Chuck Hurting Business PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Singer/songwriter and cracking guitarist Chuck Prophet breaks the Americana mold on his fifth solo recording, and pops turntablism and noisy Tom Waits-style clanks into his formal songs as an experiment. It works: there's the bouncy Farfisa-toned title song, and "Lucky" is an absolute hit single right in the minimalist pocket with its guitar, drums, Hammond organ, and falsetto vocals (all certainly atypical on a Prophet-style production). "God's Arms" has a melodious Eastern hymn spin thanks to swirling Mellotron and mando guitar subbing for sitar. Though Homemade Blood was his high-water mark, new listeners may want to connect with this so-called departure before digging deeper into Prophet's wealthy storehouse of songcraft." (Denise Sullivan) CookingVinyl CD $14.25 Record Collector #344 (Christmas 2007) PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Rootmasters Push Once PS, UK Anyone remotely interested in the South London music scene over the past 15 years will know the names Alex Paterson and Nina Walsh. They're sprinkled all over it. Nina, a composer, performer and producer of the highest calibre, has worked extensively with Primal Scream, Andrew Weatherall and The Orb as well as her own material, both electronic and acoustic. Alex Paterson is The Orb. Enough said. This is a taste of Rootmasters, a project they've been working on together over the last year or so. The album will be out in 2008 and this limited edition vinyl 10" is meant to whet your appetiteŠ ROOT ONE book of hours janis joplin's mum ROOT TWO elephant puddle book of hours [AUTOLUMP]. MaliciousDamage-628 10 $14.00 Sachiko Kunado PS, US "Japanese vocalist and instrumentalist Sachiko (Overhang Party, Vava Kitora, Kosokuya) looses a second, white-hot solo release. Her brilliant debut You Never Atone For on There/Musik Atlack rode gilded wings straight to the heart of the psych sun. The journey continues with Kunado. A tincture of Taj Mahal Travellers, wispy oscillations and lysergic vocals bathes the recording in delicate atmosphere as Sachiko's sonic attack leaves vicious and harrowing results. A listen not soon forgotten." ELECTRONIC UtechRecords-012 CD $15.75 Schlarb, Chris Twilight and Ghost Stories PS, US A work of personal identity and deep catharsis, "Twilight & Ghost Stories" is a dense 40-minute modern composition featuring a disparate cross-section of musicians from the avant-garde, independent folk, jazz and electronic communities (including DIRTY PROJECTORS, SUFJAN STEVENS, WALTER KITINDU, CASTANETS, PARKER PAUL, BHOB RAINEY, and MICK ROSSI). A creative and accomplished jazz guitarist, CHRIS SCHLARB cut his teeth producing hip-hop tracks, teaching music workshops and co-founding the free music collective CREATE (!). Chris Schlarb is also one-half of I HEART LUNG, which Tiny Mix Tapes called "some of the most energetic free-jazz to spit out of America." Spanning all of these endeavors, "Twilight & Ghost Stories" finds Schlarb playing acoustic piano, organ, electric and acoustic guitar as well as tapes and percussion. AsthmaticKitty-404 CD $11.50 Shake Some Action The Ultimate Power Pop Guide (Book w/ CD) A lovely 9" X 9" mini-coffee-table book that comes with an awesome rarities CD added with it. See below for information on this CD. PBPOWERPOPBOOK /NotLame Book BOOK/CD $28.75 Shindig Shindig! Volume 2 Issue 1 Nov/Dec 2007 PS, UK "Moby Grape: they had it all... the talent, the tunes, the looks, the attitude. So whatever happened to Moby Grape? The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream: the freak-out in London in 1967. Laguna Beach 1970 Christmas Festival: 'Some guy drank a whole bottle of acid!' The Moody Blues: misunderstood psych heroes. John's Children: what happened next? Fairport Convention: Liege & Lief Revisited. The Band: did they ruin British rock music? All the hottest new releases and reissues reviewed! Psych, garage, beat, power pop, soul, folk... for people who want more!" 82 pages, 4-color art. Shindig-V2#1 ZINE $8.25 Shooting Spires S-T PS, US The bedroom art-pop project of BJ WARSHAW, bassist & vocalist for PARTS & LABOR. Warshaw showcases his ability to harness drone, noise, tweaked electronics & singed circuits. He fuses off-kilter electronic beats, oscillator blips, glitchy loops, toy keyboards, distorted guitars, saxophone, drums & found percussion. CardboardRecords-007 CD $10.00 Sigur Ros Heima (2PC, Digipack Packaging) PS, US "Heima", which translates as both "at home" and "homeland", chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. The entire tour was filmed and provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before, with performances in deserted fish factories, at far-flung community halls, in sylvan fields, darkened caves, canyons, and fjords. Limited deluxe edition is individually numbered and includes 100 page bound book. Standard edition is amaray-sized digipak with 8-page booklet. XLRecordings DVD $19.00 Sigur Ros Heima [Deluxe Edition] (With Book, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition) (DELAYED) PS, US "Heima", which translates as both "at home" and "homeland", chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. The entire tour was filmed and provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before, with performances in deserted fish factories, at far-flung community halls, in sylvan fields, darkened caves, canyons, and fjords. Limited deluxe edition is individually numbered and includes 100 page bound book. Standard edition is amaray-sized digipak with 8-page booklet. XLRecordings DVD $35.00 Simmons, Jeff Naked Angels OST PS, GERMANY Deluxe full color gatefold edition. "This is the first of two Straight label albums by Zappa's multi-talented 'sideman,' Jeff Simmons. In Seattle 1968 Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa were at the sound check for Jeff's band Easy Chair and were fascinated by Jeff's talent. He was soon signed to Straight records and later Jeff was in the Mothers of Invention at the time of 200 Motels. Both albums, Naked Angels and Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up were recorded in 1969. Reflecting strong fuzz guitar, heavy and psychedelicate surf-rock, Naked Angels, the original soundtrack for a Roger Corman cult biker movie, is a sequence of mostly instrumentals that combine the freedom of the late '60s mood and melody perfectly. This LP reissue comes with the original gatefold cover artwork by John Williams and includes the original French movie poster. This album is one of the coolest soundtracks made in the late '60s and was carefully remastered to sound today as fresh as it was 40 years ago." WorldInSound-007 LP $24.50 Society of Rockets, The Our Paths Related [LP vinyl & digital download ticket] PS, US And away we go... Part 70s fuzz-soul, part bleary-eyed shoegaze, part California sunshine-pop, the Society of Rockets' experiment machine chugs on, devouring all parts and functions in its wake and spitting out an ever-widening array of dizzying psych-rock gems. The latest full-length release in a long line of left-turns and surprises, "Our Paths Related" is a cosmo-tour of potentialities, a series of violent hybrids and stylistic feints, rooted heavily in the often (and unjustly) ignored black rock wing of psychedelia: early Funkadelic, Muddy Waters' "Electric Mud", Chains and Black Exhaust. But this is just the framework, the launching pad - a jumping off point to which other systems and avenues can be joined and explored. The sonic experiments of the album play against each other, each element running headlong into the others... At this point in the band's career (both in its previous incarnation as the Shimmer Kids Underpop Association and on previous albums "Sunset Homes" and "Where the Grass Grows Black"), the 10-?member strong collective has rambled across a wide swathe of American musical territory, from quiet country-tinged balladry to ceiling-shattering garage rock, and, much like similarly restless heroes Neil Hagerty and Jason Pierce, the band continues to push the boundaries of their playing in an effort to find more room to grow. With its energetic wall of sound and kaleidoscopic backdrop of experimental films, combining equal parts distorted guitars, three-part harmonies, and Stax-Volt horns The SOR deliver the record-collector's version of a raucous Sunday church service. Hallelujah, and welcome to the congregation. Underpop LP $10.00 Someone Else Pen Caps Remixed PS, US Following up the Pen Caps and Colored Pencils full-length album by Someone Else, this is Pen Caps Remixed, featuring album tracks remixed by Losoul, Barem and Easy Changes. Barem reworks the funky, stripped-down minimal tune into a crafty, groovy, Kraftwerk-y electro-ditty. Easy Changes turn it into a bouncy dancefloor-burner with a psychedelic sound-play. Losoul revamps it into a quirky, swingy, nine-minute long-play with a touch of Matthew Herbert-esque dexterity. Remixes are fun! ELECTRONIC Foundsound-017 12 $9.50 Songs:Ohia Protection Spells PS, US A LIMITED NUMBER OF RECENTLY UNEARTHED COPIES OF THIS LONG-UNAVAILABLE, SOUGHT-AFTER RELEASE. "The Protection Spells" is a collection of songs recorded over a period of several SONGS: OHIA tours. Presented here are nine entirely improvised pieces. The approach to these songs involved no rehearsals, no second takes, no additions and no going back. What you have here are songs that just happened in real time. The many musicians on these recordings were friends, bandmates, and, at times, total strangers. I have long hoped to offer the listener a chance to have some of these great accidents on record. It is a direct look at my songwriting process, only a little more risky, and nobody has any idea what direction we are going until we all start working on it together. I think that the years of improvised music I played in the past helped to strengthen the risk-taking with these songs. Here the goal was to still have basic songs without falling into long freak-out noise experiments, saving that kind of exploration for live settings. You will notice the appearances and disappearances of ideas that could never be recreated, not that they are all brilliant, but they are certainly not forced. The seemingly arbitrary moments of strange repetition the lyrics, the clear lack of a preconceived system of established song parts, all are the marks of improvised songwriting. Since even the singing had no idea what the floorplan of the song was to be, there were some unanticipated troubles and some shy steps taken, but I have preserved these mappings of the dangerous musical byroads that Songs: Ohia has always depended on. I hope you enjoy this. -Jason Molina, July 10,2000 SecretlyCanadian-037 CD $11.50 Songs:Ohia The Ghost PS, US A LIMITED NUMBER OF RECENTLY UNEARTHED COPIES OF THIS LONG-UNAVAILABLE, SOUGHT-AFTER RELEASE. "The Ghost" is a dark affair. As a matter of content, its themes are bleak, on the verge of total blackness. Loneliness, alienation, desperation, and dark, anxious nights. As a matter of atmosphere, the album is even darker. Surface noise has never been so important to a record's mood and tone. Yes, it sounds like it was recorded on a highway, but this is a dark fucking highway at a lonely, desperate hour and the only set of keys you have are those to the car that won't take you any closer to home. It's dead and you're scared and totally alone. It's just such an occasion that JASON MOLINA sings and plays of in a roundabout way on "The Ghost". Recorded in one day direct to Jason's boom box with the tiny little microphone, this brand new batch of songs was written in a very short period in the early months of 1999. For Jason, fidelity was never an issue, in fact it was a tool. The boom box's inefficient battery-powered motor is just as integral to the recording as the vocal and guitar performance that occurred that February afternoon in Jason's room on his day off of work. This recording may be noisy but it is not a demo. It was originally made available in limited quantities-to be sold on the SONGS: OHIA tour of the East Coast with Drunk in the Spring of 1999 and the European tour in the early Summer 1999, however Secretly Canadian recently discovered enough parts of this release to resurrect it one more time. SecretlyCanadian-027 CD $11.50 Springsteen, Bruce Magic PS, US Sony CD $18.75 Stack Waddy Bugger Off! PS, UK "Cherry Red are delighted to announce the release of Stack Waddy's second and final studio album, Bugger Off. Originally released in 1972, John Peel favorites Stack Waddy were a raucous rock'n'roll 4-piece from Manchester who were signed to the late DJs Dandelion Records in the early '70s. This release also includes the 'lost' BBC Peel Session of 1972." CherryRed-331 CD $17.00 Starr, Garrison The Girl That Killed September PS, US The Girl That Killed September is singer/songwriter Garrison Starr's latest album and self-described "best work." Buy this album and you will be an immediate fan of her voice, talent, and honesty. MediaCreature-89969 CD $12.00 Supermayer The Art Of Letting Go PS, GERMANY Kompakt's superheroes Michael Mayer and Superpitcher aka Supermayer get assigned to rescue their friend Ewan Pearson from the greedy Psychoprog's slippery tentacles. On his dub mix, Ewan focuses on the weird details hidden in the original, letting them ride on a thunderous, take-no-prisoners, bass-heavy groove. The instrumental edit stays real close to the original, but as soon as nobody's looking, he starts flirting with some unknown musical genre. ELECTRONIC Kompakt-167 12 $9.50 Synclair Synclair Remixes PS, BELGIUM Areal Records proudly presents four remixes of Synclair's anthem. First is Expander with a mix that rolls up the theme from somewhere underneath and reminds us of all those wonderful parties we used to have. Cylob transforms the gorgeous original into a track that makes us old, die-hard aficionados go crazy. Kid606's remixes makes the most of Areal Records' guideline "make whatever you want, man, we don't f.....g care..." squeaking us into blissful happiness. Areal-046 12 $9.50 Taj Mahal Travellers August 1974 PS, JAPAN Repressed! Double CD reissue of the 2nd Taj Mahal Travellers album, originally issued by Japanese Columbia in 1974 as a 2LP set. Legendary higher-key improv-drone extravaganzas that more than live up to their reputation, the group was led by the infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi (electric violin, harmonica, voice, etc.) ELECTRONIC P-Vine-1463/4 DCD $36.50 Tea Company, The Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company PS, GERMANY "From New York City, The Tea Company was one of the early birds from the U.S. psychedelic underground scene, with an LP on the market, originally released on Smash Records, in '68. This album stands for the evolution of the 45 rpm psych-garage bands to the upcoming LP-generation with extended improvisation parts. The music is inspired by The Beatles, using exactly the same equipment as them. The Tea Company played with lots of freaked out echo organ/guitar noises on a 12 string Rickenbacker and various stereo madness, reminding strongly of Syd Barrett's spirit but more driven by hard hittin' drums. The album is a mind-blowing, intense production (CD includes 4 bonus tracks by The Naturals). Remastered for this CD-release the sound is experimental, intense and fresh, the 8 page booklet contains a nice bio, photos and memorabilia. A must for those who wanna feed their minds with unusual early heavy psychedelic rock!" WorldInSound-1037 CD $19.75 Tea Company, The Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company PS, GERAMANY LP version, including 3 bonus tracks by The Naturals. This LP release has been remastered and includes an insert with a nice bio and photos. "A must for those who wanna feed their minds with unusual heavy psychedelic rock-ROOTS!" WorldInSound-006 LP $21.75 Tender Forever Wider PS, US When it's love, you can say all the right things. We can teach wolves to whistle. We can kiss while the planets spin and fall around us. This sensation is just the beginning of TENDER FOREVER'S second full-length album, "Wider." Tender Forever is Melanie Valera, the striking singer, multi-instrumentalist and performer who touched us last year with her breakout LP "The Soft and the Hardcore". Each song on "Wider" moves you deeper into that warm, dimly lit place we all want to be: the eloquent, blunt, fantastic tragedy where big harmonies, insanely contagious hooks and a turn of phrase can make you feel that the world is good; that those calluses can yield; that the soft focus of the future feels clear and present. Krecords-188 CD $11.50 Tender Forever Wider PS, US When it's love, you can say all the right things. We can teach wolves to whistle. We can kiss while the planets spin and fall around us. This sensation is just the beginning of TENDER FOREVER'S second full-length album, "Wider." Tender Forever is Melanie Valera, the striking singer, multi-instrumentalist and performer who touched us last year with her breakout LP "The Soft and the Hardcore". Each song on "Wider" moves you deeper into that warm, dimly lit place we all want to be: the eloquent, blunt, fantastic tragedy where big harmonies, insanely contagious hooks and a turn of phrase can make you feel that the world is good; that those calluses can yield; that the soft focus of the future feels clear and present. Krecords-188 LP $10.25 Tex La Homa Some Lost Bliss PS, US UK based singer, composer & producer Matt Shaw in one of his many guises. This cd is heartbreakingly pretty and scarily lovely, blending Matt's quiet vocals with lo-fi guitars & electronics to create a sequence of chilled-out,cinematic ballads. AllIsNumber-004 CD $10.25 Things Wild Psychotic Sounds PS, US 6 songs of ultimate garage rock horror. Each one grabbing you & twisting you until you dance. These are it boys & girls the last release before these Irish boys hit the big time. BigNeck-060 12 $9.25 Throw Me The Statue About To Walk PS, US The title track the "About To Walk" ltd. ed. single is a Neutral Milk Hotel-fueled concoction of fuzzed synths, doubled bedroom beats and epic vocal harmonies. Also present are the upbeat handclapper "Lolita" and Elverum-esque "The Old Believer." Conceived and fronted by Scott Reitherman, THROW ME THE STATUE will release its debut full length, "Moonbeams" February 19th, 2008 on SECRETLY CANADIAN. SecretlyCanadian-178 CD5 $3.75 Uncut #128 (January 2007) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Various Trip In Time Vol. 2: Psychedelic Rock Reflections PS, GERMANY "Trip in Time presents the artistic, emotional and intense side of music and revives an almost forgotten genre: psychedelic rock! A fusion of rock'n'roll, blues, folk, jazz, soul and classical music to a powerful unit. This compilation features only unreleased music from the years 2006-2007, with the influences of the psychedelic music revolution from the Summer of Love, 1967. Our focus is to present and to discover young artists, whose passionate celebration of music has the potential to convince the new generation of psychedelic freaks. Disc 1 (62 mins) contains 13 international and ambitious newcomer groups ranging from progressive space sound, high speed rock'n'roll, Syd Barrett and Love acid-folk style to heavy garage/surf psychedelia. Also included are live recordings from Trip In Time events (La Ira De Dios, Treacle People). This 2CD set combines two variations of psychedelic rock, the tightly-arranged song format on disc 1, and wild atmospheric improvisations on disc 2. A 12-page booklet presents each contributing group, all songs are remastered to a high class sound. This CD is a challenge for all music listeners who search for an innovative sound and intensity, maybe we see a few of these folks on the big stages to start the psychedelic revolution soon!" Artists include: Obskuria, Crystal Caravan, El Cuy, Les Trees, In The Company Of Wolves, To Get Her Together, The Magnificent Brotherhood, The Shivas, The Illiad, Jayahdeva, Treacle People, Serpentina Satelite, La Ira De Dios, Embryo meets Karmic Society, Oozing Goo, The Invisibles and Drahk Von Trip. WorldInSound-2502 DCD $21.00 Various Welsh Rare Beat 2 PS, UK "Gruff Rhys joins the Andy Votel, Dom Thomas and the Finders Keepers team once again to produce this, the second instalment in our critically-acclaimed and best-selling Welsh Rare Beat series. Derived from Dyfed bands with added friends from further a field in the Swansea valleys, Cardiff and Flint in the north, this is a wide and wonderful collection of bands - some were part of a political upheaval that empowered Welsh speakers to sing and express themselves in their mother tongue, part of a wider international youthquake, others were singing from the heart, paying the bills and just happened to live in Wales during this cultural crossroad. Here for your enjoyment are songs mostly about the sky, flying, seagulls, clouds and ghosts. But also songs that deal in political activism, The Mabinogi, or issues of Welsh identity. Girl group boy meets girl songs, parodies of boy meets girls songs, Welsh language covers of English and American hits of the day sung in a traditional Welsh style counteracted by traditional Welsh folk songs played in contemporary Anglo-American styles. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Welsh Rare Beat compilation, this album features exclusive liner notes and track-by-track annotations from Gruff Rhys as well as a number of tracks previously unavailable on CD." FindersKeepers-014 CD $20.50 Various Stockingtop Pop: Dream Babes Volume 8 PS, UK Our latest collection is a follow on from Vol.7's Beat Chic which leaves the kinky booted girls in '66 to turn into up tempo brassy birds of '67-70. Lots of curios for collectors to get their teeth into including: TV and Radio personality Gloria Hunniford's first record, written and produced by Alan Hawkshaw; actress and comedienne Faith Brown with her first solo disc produced by Kenny Young successfully cloning his Clodagh sound; one of the first singles by later disco diva Tina Charles, produced by Valerie Avon, Bo Bo's Party which still goes down well in clubs today and a killer from The Chanters with their alter ego Birds Of A Feather and then there's the wonderfully named Stockingtops, aka Sue and Sunny. Plenty never on CD, many previously 'uncomped'. Volume 8 sure is a welcome continuation in the popular Brit Girl series "Dream Babes". You're Never Gonna Get My Lovin' - The Stockingtops / The Man I Love - The Chantelles / Remember December - The Paper Dolls / Pretty Red Balloons - Rosetta Hightower / The Love Of A Boy - The Cameos / Are You Ready For Love - Gloria Hunniford / I Don't Ever Wanna Be Kicked By You - The Stockingtops / He's Got Everything - The Butterflies / Lock Me In - Faith Brown / Hurry On Home - The Feminine Touch / Mississippi Paddleboat - The Chanters / Blacksmith Blues - Birds Of A Feather / You Don't Know What Love Is All About - The Stockingtops / Don't Push Me Baby - Maxine Nightingale / Pretty Shade Of Blue - The Cameos / I'm Getting Hungry For Your Lovin' - Lisa Collings / My Boyfriend's Back - The Paper Dolls / Out Of My Mind - The Chantelles / The World We Live In's A Lonely