wooden wand

wooden wand - born bad (mad monk/people in a position to know 2009)

"After probably one of the worst years of James Toth's life, he writes his best album to date, and has asked people in a position to know to corelease it with his Mad Monk imprint. twelve songs of haunting beauty and sadness." people in a position to know

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sore eros

sore eros - second chants (shdwply 2009)

"Sore Eros works as the songwriting platform for Robert Robinson, who in the past has worked with Ariel Pink. That this new album also features Gary War in the group underlines the hallucinatory time-flux quality of the sonics, with that familiar glazed/dreamtone Shdwply aesthetic further bolstered by perfect psych/folk stylings, padding motorik drums and a vocalist that flashes across zones previously inhabited by Woods and Matt Valentine..." volcanic tongue

"Sore Eros es la cara de visible de Robert Robinson, quien dentro de su prontuario, apunta colaboraciones junto a Ariel Pink. Junto a la ayuda del talentoso Gary War, “Second Chants” es un disco que pasea en las arenas del folk psicodélico pero con un sonido que no tiene nada que ver con contemporáneos como MV/EE o Wooden Wand, sino que se encuentra delineado en la ya característica línea volátil que ha llenado de elogios a un sello como shdwply.

La atmósfera generada por este trabajo, resulta ser ideal para acompañar esos días fríos y lluviosos que invitan a la retrospección. Según palabras del propio Robinson: “Me encuentro mas influenciado por la caída de las hojas en otoño y la nieve en invierno, que por las palmeras de Los Ángeles”. Esta fuente de inspiración es clave para lograr los satisfactorios resultados que entrega el disco a rasgos generales" iván daguer

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gin en tsubame

gin en tsubame - yukino (sloow tapes 2009)

"Gin en Tsubane are the Duo of Tansch and Tsubame. Repetitive acoustic guitar plucking shimmers through the cracks of fragile folksongs reverberating in clouds of acid dust guitar. Artwork by the band, insert by Sloow. Edition of 70." sloow tapes

maravilloso y dulce folk japonés: silbidos, psicodelia, flaviola e o bando do sol, eddie marcon, vashti bunyan...

filed under: delicious japanese sloow food

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the diamond family archive

“laurence collyer's diamond family archive is a unique, revolving ensemble, centring around his ghostly, deeply emotive songwriting. imagine mark kozelek's haunting folk with elements of robert wyatt heartwrenching vocals combined with collyer's beautiful songs.. this is a truly great little disc.” rough trade

“Strange and tender songs built around layered loops of live guitar, lap steel and electronica. Leftfield, oddball and gorgeous, a beautiful and fragile noise and sublime lo-fi melancholia” stolen recordings

walk of life runaround sue

luminaire

valentine (music)

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"Valentine is currently making an e.p, which will be released by Dala Horse shortly"

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tirath singh nirmala

tirath singh nirmala - growing into the wind (rhizome 2009)

“An excellent collection of electro-acoustic drones, eye-lolling bell tones and automatic musics in the vein of Neil Campbell/Richard Youngs/Matthew Bower/Vibracathedral Orchestra et al.” volcanic tongue

“Streams of electronic & casio light converge like thousands of beams of sunlight alongside massed hand percussion shake and clatter and frenetically fluttering flutes. A midway spot between Moondog and the jungle ecstasies of some of the recent Skaters’ extracurricular projects.” melody bar

"From elevated drones to gut-spit vocal edits, blown woodwinds and heavyelectronics, this is one of the finest summations of music made in ‘the Tirathera’ - English artist John Clyde-Evans has retired his Tirath Singh Nirmala name and now flies under the jce banner...." tomentosa

no sé qué decir, growing into the wind es uno de esos discos que parecen salidos de una realidad paralela, como the naïve shaman de richard youngs. through damp violence

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the ten thousand things - s/t cdr (the lotus sound 2008)

"Recently relocated to Athens, Georgia, multi-instrumentalist Wes Covey is this time joined by Savannah, Georgia’s psychedelic dreamstress Jessica Calleiro (uncle owen aunt beru), who blesses ‘The Song’ with vocals, drums and weather. Ben Peck, a native of Covey’s birthplace deep in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom adds scorching vocals to a retelling of the traditional ‘Who’s Gonna Be Your Man?’
On the remaining six songs, Covey utilizes his palate of guitars, bass, samples and various percussive instruments to create a series of compositions that face the light more than previous releases, while still holding the darkness at their backs.
Those who’ve had their ears perked by the sounds of Six Organs of Admittance, Pelt, Hala Strana and likeminded folk destroyers will want to set aside some time to give this slab a spin. Mostly, though, anyone interested in blending folk forms with drone experimentalism and the shivering blackness of doom will find want to free their minds to the sound of The Ten Thousand Things." the lotus sound
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red river dialect

qué bien que exista el blog de Lex (Beggin' Your pardon Miss Joan/Guanaco): siempre hay alguna sorpresa en forma de canción inédita del propio Lex...o descubres a Red River Dialect

"debo decir que tengo una nueva canción favorita, de un grupo que me encontré de casualidad en Myspace (también tiene sus cosas buenas). la canción se llama 'Distant Man' y el artista es 'Red River Dialect'. visita su myspace. es un disco realmente increíble.
además fueron el grupo invitado en el nuevo show de radio local fm de Falmouth y Penryn, que se llama 'Orpheus Baubles'. el programa está muy bien. por alguna extraña coincidencia una de las antiguas canciones de Beggin' Your pardon Miss Joan abre el show, lo cual me cogió de sorpresa ya que no tenía ni idea de que iba a aparecer. como ya he dicho es una radio local así que debe ser difícil encontrarla, pero puedes descargarte la primera parte en el blog de 'Red River Dialect', que puedes encontrar aquí. escuchadlo, os lo ruego". Lex Panayi

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orpheus baubles presents red river dialect

tulasi

tulasi - maa autaa (sloow tapes cassette 2007)

"Ethereal recordings by the duo of Kulkija (Uton, Keijo & The Free Players, Vapaa…) and Kutomo. Waves of flutes, voices and bubbling ambience drifting away on a soft whispered breeze blowing it out into thin cool air. Artwork by the band in an edition of 90 copies." sloow tapes

"Tulasi are a Finnish duo featuring Kulkija (Uton, Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players) and Kutomo." . This is gorgeous haunting music, easily at atmospheric as the Free Players stuff but with a totally different character, maybe more similar to Xenis Emputae Travelling Band. It sounds ancient and ghostly, like forest spirits floating in dense air. Lovely stuff." Boa Melody Bar

long legged woman

long legged woman - newtown nights (thor's rubber hammer 2007)

otro de esos discos que te hacen perder la noción del tiempo...a mí me recuerda a valerio sartori, the kitchen cynics, greg ashley o ese velo de misterio que siempre ha definido a pocahaunted, pero suena a long legged woman y solamente a long legged woman. voces atmosféricas y desenfocadas, suavidad guitarril y unas canciones pequeñas, cortantes, que no pierden nunca la dulzura: on death & dying part II & III; what comes after part II, we learned to survive...hay tantas

"Newtown Nights finds the Athens, Georgia boys branching out into musical realms once thought untouchable by a band of acid ears. Anchored by heavy waves of macabre feedback and dirty blues, Long Legged Woman has transformed the bastardized Haight-Asbury foreplay of peers into an album's worth of guttural ditties any Mississippi Delta backporch dweller would be proud to call kin. LLW refuse to sit onthe laurels thrown by tye-died consumers and black fedora stylist, preferring to mix it up in the mud and soot of music's filthy underbelly. To count the styles and sounds visited (and revisited) during the all-too-short Newtown Nights would only serve to spoil the supernatural surprises stored within its cardboard home." electronic voice phenomenon

"An endless rain of suffocating feedback and heavily treated loops ensues and if you're wasted enough you could even call it psychedelic." foxy digitalis

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olives

olives - fauna of the united states (moon glyph tapes 2009)

"Olives' second album was put to tape fast. "Fauna" finds Olives adding elements (beats, vocals, whistles) and layering their sonics as opposed to improvising live. Emboldened by Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings, the record was made in just five days. If "Cuba" is the band's wild island of guitar spikes and broken glass piano, their sophomore effort is an expedition into diverse psychedelia. The members could not tell you who played what during that week of recording in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Instruments were traded, concepts were discussed and then employed, unexpected trails were happened upon and likewise followed to stranger environs..." moon glyph tapes

foto: coquelicot, asleep in the poppies

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had a dad

had a dad

"he was the one
made me what I am today
it's up to me now
my daddy has gone away"

pocahaunted

pocahaunted - passage (with bobb bruno & cameron stallones) (troubleman unlimited 2009)

"The Pocahaunted whole album is bathed in a rich, ambiguous echo from which Bethany and Amanda's peyote trip vocal entanglements ebb and flow. In keeping with the African/Native American/other influences that tend to permeate their work, you'll hear plenty of ceremonial-type percussive elements along with strange, droning guitar harmonies that bring to mind Indian ragas and the more out-there work of the Velvet Underground in equal measure. Tremendous." boomkat

"Great new mini LP from this female psych duo, joined here by Bobb Bruno and Cameron Stallones. Four long tracks that combine thudding, nod-out acid rock rhythms with wordless choirs of abandon and power vocals extrapolated from hypnagogic 1980s pop. Something in the achingly elongated guitar lines and orchestras of throat that is just supremely addictive, joining the dots between Father Yod and Brother Louie in ways you never dreamed possible. Pocahaunted are at the absolute peak of their powers right now." volcanic tongue

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beggin' your pardon miss joan

beggin' your pardon miss joan - no-one belongs here more than you (digital copy 2009)

"I have decide to post the new beggin' your pardon miss joan e.p as a digital copy for those that want it. 'No-One Belongs Here But You' is likely to be the last full release you hear from beggin' your pardon miss joan for a while, however there are a number of collaborations in the works. This is a digital copy of the tape due on Centre Of Wood so if you dig be sure to buy a copy to support the label...

In other news updates on Beggin' Tapes will feature here until shit is pulled together. Beggin' Tapes will be a short run label for tapes that are no longer than 30 minutes, be it e.p's or full length's. Copies will run to a maximum of twenty and will be composed of black and white art on white tape, with white casing. If you want to get in and about this idea drop me a line...

Keep well,

Lex" lex panayi

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peaking lights

peaking lights - imaginary falcons cs (not not fun 2009)

"Since you asked, here’s a new truism we vibed out of the cosmos: Isolation (not Necessity) is the Mother of Invention. ‘Cause distance makes the heart grow radder, remember? And drift-pop duo Peaking Lights (aka epic newlyweds Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis) have proven this in spades, by beating a sweet retreat from the big city to a cool commune deep in the rolling, wooded hills on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin, where they’re free to bond with the land, breathe easy, and levitate lofty organic magic from their unique analog electronics mainframe. Imaginary Falcons digs deeper and flies higher than anything else they’ve ever laid to tape by miles. Seven strung-out sing-song serenades of Suicide-style drum machinery, groovy lost ghost candle crooning, dubby keyboard echoes, gentle guitar gestures, and narcotic harmonia, woven into an expertly sequenced lucid dream you never wanna wake up from. This is the sound of Peaking Lights peaking; hold it your ear as long as you can. Already dangerously high on our “One To Beat For ‘09” file. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with pro-printed full-color J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 150. Also available on lp from our friends at Night People." nnf

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castlemusic

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árvore

trains across the sea (silver jews cover)

held (smog cover)

dos versiones campestres y entrañables de bill callahan y david berman, grabadas en un móvil por rafa/arbore. canciones de guitarra, pajaritos y voz. one two three one two three oklahoma soul!

filed under: grabaciones de campo

drunjus

drunjus - zone grown cassette (pizza night 2009)

"New fresh est tapee from Drunjus. Dense, primordial mud-drones and clammy earth-synth from this unit that features Clay Ruby and various members of the Davenport cultus. “Sounds like the tropics meet Wisconsin ” volcanic tongue

'Zone Grown' is a pretty deep wade through some pea-soup drone, and ends with this killer 1950 sci-fi computer processing peak. the ship is on auto and ready for docking...

The Flip side 'Porch Approach' is one of many recordings from this summers 'Dream Porch' sessions. Fair weather sundays outside on the porch 114 N. Brearly st. soaking it in and sending out. I think the neighboors even drop by for a visit. The time spent decompressing before entering the earths atmosphere after time away, can seem far longer than it actually may be. Of course, this makes the final arrival all that much better..."

guanaco

guanaco - caves of holy light (dust wind tales 2008)

"Guanaco create simple song structures based around repetition, drones and vocal melody driven by the odyssey and the everyday. This is simple trance blues..."
"I was once asked why I started the label & I said it was to "release the dust wind tales of bands & individuals to the people who need to hear...". Well believe me people you need to hear Guanaco. Lex Panayi creates beautiful sound scapes that float in and out of your head, trapping you in their way. You will not want to let go once you get hooked on these trance blues...
Spray painted 3" cdr packaged in a clear pvc case together with a cover featuring some amazing artwork by Vanessa Panayi. Includes a small hand numbered insert. (Edition of 40) dust wind tales

The first 10 copies come with two bonus tracks (including Skylla's Wrath)...

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anahita

anahita - matricaria (important 2009)

"Anahita is Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and cellist Helena Espvall (Espers). Tara recently showed up on Important as part of the duo of Tau Emerald with Sharron Kraus while Helena contributed a beautiful piece to the James Blackshaw currated Garden Of Forking Paths compilation. Anahita is a beautiful, laboriously created and floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing and subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment conjuring up a natural woodland romp and stomp.
The album was recorded between 2005 and 2008. All tracks were recorded on a 4 track by Tara and Helena in their homes." important

larga vida a tara burke

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second family band

second family band - oui (ourecordings 2009)

"By 2002, many volk had gathered 'round and beat the bounds within the walls and yards of the Tomb. Many musical stories were born, such as The Davenport Family, The Grass Magic, Thee Botanical Shrine Band, Zodiac Mountain, All Do Gather, Organon, Candiru, The Crowned and Conquering Children, A Mercury Ensemble, Orthodox Blood Orchestra, The Midwestern Mudslide Hootenanny and Free Pentecostal Family Jams, Outlet, Jesus Balls, Mirror Man and th' Oshun Oxtra, as well as dozens of unnamed gatherings. These events have resulted in hundreds of hours of recorded musik and the tapes continue to pile up as most of us still live and work and play together. So now we have christened the advent of the Second Family, our new and unified banner for all of these our ancient (and future) rites. Peace, -=z.::.w=-"

Freeeeeeeee Jams

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mountainhood

mountainhood - goldeness being part 1 in the multivisorial dream saga called the light (father yod 2009)

"Full Color comes in Heavy Weight Vinyl Sleeve with paper inner sleeve. Artifactual insert art affixed to sleeve and handcut to geologic proportions by John from Sunburned. Get it from Father Yod/Ecstatic Yod Collective"

Michael Curtis Hilde, a.k.a Mountainhood is an american singer, songwriter, and visual artist. Prior to performing and recording as Mountainhood, Hilde was at various times known as Almaden, Almaden Wood, or Almaden Wood and the Transplendence XIV. Though style and genre shift from album to album, it has been written that "This is introverted music played as the blues should be."

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Ø+yn

Ø +yn ~ la canción del ciempiés / quise ser búho cdr (ikuisuus 2008)

"This is Ø +yn (puede prununciarse omasín u ómásín u o + in u omas omasin o +in o+yn omasin también): a group formed by Gustavo Valerga, María Victoria Arener, Pablo Picco and César Young. Four people from different parts of the country mixed together in Córdoba.

Recorded in 2007 and mixed this year, ¨La canción del ciempiés¨ comes from the same recording sessions of ¨Copa de un árbol sin raíz¨.

Vocals are mostly throat singing by María Victoria, Gustavo makes all the guitar walls, César does the drumming and Pablo the keyboards & flutes. Spectral melodies in second track ¨Quise ser búho¨, sung by the special quest, our friend Gubia from Ecuador. Long minutes of electric static after some thick guitar and keyboard barriers, mixed with tons of voices, just to uncannily land in some woods near home, calmly hypnotized by some hand made stick flutes. We like folk, we like drone, we like to hit electric guitars, we like overtone singing and we like the trees that cover us at night. Just sit back there and enjoy the music from the heart of the centipede." Ø +yn

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la canción del ciempiés (sample)

quise ser búho (sample)

he in the sun

01. soil - claypipe

02. clè elum - fursaxa

03. harhailua - hannu

04. circling - the blithe sons

05. sleep - guanaco

06. over the garden - beggin' your pardon miss joan

07. the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb - brethren of the free spirit

08. the sun falls - barn owl

09. chestnut vistas - the golden oaks

10. mennaan ajelulle - joose keskitalo

11. the colour of the day - claypipe

12. elegia - quilapayun

13. atlas - these wonderful evils

14. the dirty south - fern knight

15. tiktaalik - scott tuma

16. every path - alela diane

17. the hungry stones - mv & ee with the golden road

18. lectric 'lashes - big blood & visitations

19. chloe - zak riles

20. spirit roundup - the goner

21. what are we - sal paradise

22. espantoso - el oso goloso

23. ross creek wander - matthew de gennaro

24. elephant clouds - the cave singers

feliz cumpleaños mr indisoluble, este recopilatorio es por y para ti :o)

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keijo

keijo - hetki (267 lattajjaa 2009)

damaged folk blues from Keijo, released 31.1.2009 mmm!

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topaz rags

topaz rags - tarot harem 7" (not not fun 2008)

"Topaz Rags is a new late night downer trio devoted to mapping these sour times and long goodbyes. this is their debut vinyl release featuring members of pocahaunted and robedoor. 2 sides of bleak piano and post-beatnik ruin. in hand-silkscreened sleeves with die-cut backs. edition of 250." nnf

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bill callahan

jim cain

my friend

the wind and the dove

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caethua

caethua - the pleasures of manhood (night people 2008)

"...my stepfather, Robley Wilson, is an amazing poet, and a wonderful man. i wanted him to understand how important his words are to me, but also to collaborate with him, so i rearranged/adapted one of his poems to music. but there's also this deep cavern within me that is constantly trying to figure out manhood, my own and everyone else's. and so i thought i'd try to articulate that cave with "The Pleasures of Manhood." clare hubbard en foxy digitalis

"Caethua is Clare Hubbard, traveling songstress, multi-instrumentalist, and general exceptional artist and person. On the Pleasures of Manhood Clare gives tribute to her stepfather poet Robley Conant Wilson on this elegant tape of reverb soaked folk gems. One of Night-Peoples highest fidelity and most considered releases yet, The Pleasures of Manhood, has an uplifting but somber side that allows the feeling of Clare’s excellent vocals and playing to shine through." night people

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antique brothers

antique brothers - sons of winter (abandon ship 2008)

"This album was conceived in the cold unforgiving days between the end of 2006 and the start of 2007. My brother and I were together in the land we grew up in for the first time in almost a year. We improvised acoustic duets, and over the next year, built a record around them. I like to think the spirit of our Mother was present during these sessions. Our Father was present in body as well as spirit. We thank him for opening his doors and heart to us, as he has done time after time since we have both left home on our own roads." antique brothers
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bill callahan

"the breeze/my baby cries" bill callahan

"Look out for "Loving Takes This Course: A Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom", due out on Chapter Music on March 14. A tribute album with recordings of Kath's songs by the likes of Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Mark Kozelek, Josephine Foster, Scout Niblett and many more, Loving Takes This Course is a 2cd set, with one disc of covers and one disc of Kath's originals." chapter music

y en primavera nuevo disco de bill: sometimes i wish we were an eagle

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miles devens

miles devens - atlantic woman (pacific city sound visions 2008)

"New limited cassette on The Skaters own New Age imprint presents their first ever non-Skaters related release, a full cassette album from Miles Devens aka Belgian folk-blues loner Ignatz with a bucket full of his more off-the-map creations, all compiled and edited by Spencer Clarke of Skaters/Vodka Soap. Visions of Jandek, Incredible String Band, Comus, Nico, Witthuser and Westrupp, Henry Flynt and John Cale all flit through your brain as this great tape unfolds in drawls of ancient sounding organ, ritual percussion, slow bowed strings and that great narcotic Kosmiche feel that defines everything the Skaters get their hands on." volcanic tongue

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way of the cross

way of the cross - mind of the dolphin (phoenix vinyl 2008)

"American/European big band that unites Dave Nuss of The No-Neck Blues Band with Spencer Clark and James Ferraro of The Skaters alongside Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystavat, Jonna from Kuupuu, Stellar Om Source, Mik Quantius from Embryo and Tiitus Petajaniemi and Jari Koho of Uton/Keijo."

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peonies

peonies - infinity has no exits (sloow tapes 2008)

"Continuous fascinating and mysterious vocal harmonies unfolding into raw infinity. This acid-soaked haunting psychedelia truly has no exits. 100 copies." sloow tapes

"Peonies have become a real Melody Bar favourite with previous releases on Time Lag, Blackest Rainbow & House of Alchemy among others. This one is just as special. Two spaced-out lullabies with layered female vocals ushering you to a strange dreamworld and one ragged song that reminds me of Alistair Galbraith. Gorgeous." boa melody bar

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kuupuu

kuupuu - tinakenkalurtta cs (scumbag relations 2008)

"New Lady Garden secretions from Jonna! Two live sets...one recorded at home and the other on John Cavanaghs Soundwave." scumbag relations

"Finnish goddess jonna karanka plays "Home baked freeform folk songs, strange lo-fi loops, vocal drones and psychedelic cut-ups, made using weirdly tuned plucked and strummed strings, bells, clattery percussion, unidentifiable wind instruments, backwards tape loops and a ton of other noisemakers all played and recorded by herself; accompanied by her distinctive voice (often looped and layered) with vocals sung and whispered in her native Finnish language making the whole atmosphere even more haunting and. Kuupuu creates and intimate space where the listener feeks kuje sitting next to her in a small chamber or outside in the woods where she sings a lullaby just for him" dekorder

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sun circle

new harbours music series vol. 2

"peace noise"

sun circle

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guanaco

guanaco - caves of holy light 3" cdr (dust wind tales 2008)

"I was once asked why I started the label & I said it was to "release the dust wind tales of bands & individuals to the people who need to hear...". Well believe me people you need to hear Guanaco. Lex Panayi creates beautiful sound scapes that float in and out of your head, trapping you in their way. You will notwant to let go once you get hooked on these trance blues...

Spray painted 3" cdr packaged in a clear pvc case together with a cover featuring some amazing artwork by Vanessa Panayi. Includes a small hand numbered insert. (Edition of 40)" dust wind tales

"Guanaco create simple song structures based around repetition, drones and vocal melody driven by the odyssey and the everyday. This is simple trance blues..."

sleep (mp3)

foto: littlegirlblue

la nueva aventura de Lex de Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan se llama Guanaco. además, en su blog hay otra sorpresa en forma de (preciosísima) canción:

over the garden (mp3) ~ beggin' your pardon miss joan

alela diane

alela diane ~ to be still (rough trade 2008)

“Alela Diane is a real american songwriter. Both flinty and beautiful. She draws from a tradition that might include Sandy Denny and Karen Dalton and she suffers not a jot in comparison” geoff travis

"Alela Diane is a wanderer. I don’t mean just in the idealized sense, that she’s a mythic folkie who prefers the nomadic life, walking from town to town with just her guitar, singing songs for bread and shelter from the storm, but in how, well, unsettled she is. To Be Still shows a naked, stark vulnerability that most songwriters would shy away from. Gosh, is it beautiful.
Thankfully, Diane’s rustic-folk songs aren’t obscured by the arrangement; instead, the song’s gentle backing only makes Diane’s rich, wise-beyond-her-years voice shine even brighter. And it’s her voice that drives the song, that breaks your heart, that’s forced me hit repeat all day. “I was sifting through the piles/ in my hand, a tangled thread/ each patient tug upon the sorrow/ is a glimpse of what has been,” she sings. It’s ok, Alela...we’ve all been there." michael mannheimer

to be still es la mejor forma de despetarse por la mañana, (y un inesperado regalo de cumpleaños para ainhoa: felicidades!;)). banjos y silbidos aislados, canciones nuevas, canciones familiares de sus directos en daytrotter session ahora con una producción más cuidada, y la voz de raymond raposa, siempre tan especial, en 'age old blue'.

filed under: gospel ladie

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second family band

second family band with jooklo duo & peaking lights - family jams vol. ii (earjerk 2008)

"Another totally spontaneous, universal sludge jam from Family II (db Pedersen, Iam Lee, Endless, Clay Ruby and Karen Eliot), Jooklo Duo, Peaking Lights, Sam Henry (Plastic Boner Band) and Jason Soliday. All the things you want from all parties involved. fluid improv jams, weird prog moments, and menacing noise. When people come to Wisconsin they just wanna gather round and jam. (cd-r, lovingly hand packaged in envelopes with one-of-a-kind artwork. Limited to 50 copies" earjerk

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mv/ee with the golden road

mv/ee with the golden road - astral bleachers/big moment: pete’s picks volume one (ecstatic peace 2008)

"real raw 'you are here' sound captured live in the deep tapers pit by number one uk golden road archivist pete coward. this disck is a window into sweet harvests from a handful of shows, most notably an electric "easy livin" eye opener from a back room in brighton from the 'gettin' gone in aquarius' tour, plus a soaked "tea devil" from dylan nyoukis' 'colour out of space festival' as well as a blown out epic "canned happiness" from this years 'golden cherry ball' jam at instal. fasten yr jaw on the big league chew-z "environments" bubble featuring the usual heads (mv/ee/doc dunn/samara/chris davis) along with mick flower, chris corsano, the cherry blossoms and phil todd. child of microtones and ecstatic peace joint release - golden roadies unite!" ecstatic peace

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mv & ee

mv & ee - hick smoke (child of microtones 2008)

"howdy lunar listeners, it's been awhile since a real moonblood Child of Microtones was birthed, so we offer you Child of Microtones 33, mv & ee "hick smoke". mainly recorded at maximum arousal farm in pure analog, this one is limited to 99 copies and comes in a heavy oilboard sleeve with color covers, insert and astral dimensions in spectrasound. ayup, spectrasound. a good new year palette/pallet cleanser for the 'too much is not enough' synapse. hope you all are diggin' the arrival of the capricorn moon. eternal thanx for a great year...

featuring contributions from the golden road (doc dunn/mike smith), jeremy earl (woods), asa irons (feathers, et. al)..."

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topaz rags

topaz rags - california ash cs (not not fun 2008)

"People in the West blame weird moods on a string of things: the wind (those Santa Anas), the end (of the country), the moon (crescent is cursed), even the movies. But it doesn’t matter which is right/real, because the effect is the same, freaked souls in a trapped environment, lotuses floating on a lake littered with bodies. Topaz Rags is a new late night downer trio devoted to mapping these sour times and long goodbyes, and California Ash is their 2-sided elegy for the Golden State’s darkest ghosts, the rich hills full of fire, the day after the kool-aid. Back-alley bass lines plod under smoky piano shadows, drums stalk a straight line in a house with the power out, a trumpet mourns from a warped 78 spinning in the basement. Wasted, grey, drug jazz lost somewhere between Bohren & Der Club Of Gore and some half-destroyed pre-Portishead demo. Gold-on-white pro-dubbed cassettes in spraypainted cases with doomed hippie chick portrait cover photo and bedecked with a hand-cut shred of neon palm tree fabric. Edition of 100." nnf

Topaz Rags son Amanda (Pocahaunted): drums & vocals; Britt: bass & trumpet y Ash: piano & vocals.

foto: ▼ A Fötos alison scarpulla

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sloowroad

sloowroad ~ s/t (sloow tapes 2008)

"Space hymns from deep woods within by Sloow Tapes Bart De Paepe and Golden Roadie Matt Valentine, crawling beyond shredding wah-wah guitars and intoxicating synth, culminating in twisted chouffe raga and porkslap pulse. Reissue of obscure Heroine cd-r, 100 copies." sloow tapes

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tovah olson & pocahaunted

tovah olson & pocahaunted - tovahaunted lp (tovinator 2008)

"Numbered edition of 200 copies on grey vinyl, already sold out at source. Tovahaunted is of course the perfect description of a particular syndrome that affects awkward fan-boys in the wake of seeing Tovah Olson rocking the bandstand but here it also works as cover for a collaboration between Tovah and Pocahaunted that is one of the darkest and most beautifully fucked recordings to come from either camp. Here they carve whole storms of slow-moving feedback, dragging grunting electronics and black ethereal waves of breath through the kind of narcotic formless environs more associated with uk amplifier fetishists like Ashtray Navigations or Skullflower minus anything approaching a riff or a hook. Excellent." volcanic tongue

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second family band

second family band - wisconsin gospel (skulls of heaven 2008)

"The ever living theater of Midwestern brethren (formerly casting itself as Davenport Family, Candiru, Zodiac Mountain, The Grass Magic, All Do Gather, A Mercury Ensemble, Orthodox Blood Orchestra, Jesus Balls, etc etc etc,) has birthed it's final phoenix as Second Family Band. Arising here is the first four discs in an on-going documentary anthology, originally intended as an LP series, these cdrs present the material as intended for consumption in the right now. "Wisconsin Gospel" collects unreleased material compiled by Clay Ruby from 10 years worth of gatherings and archival recordings. As always, the groups fearlessly treads through senseless psychedelia, energetic kraut/tribal workouts, ecstatic prayer sessions, and deep analog explorations flush with broken folk gestures and perfect accidents" skulls of heaven

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john martyn

"love is a lesson to learn in our time"

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gnod

gnod - the somnambulist's tale (sloow tapes 2008)

"Kosmische Musik from Manchester speaking through hypnotic percussion grooves and splashes of synth delayed into eternity." sloow tapes

"The Somnambulist's Tale from Gnod eases in gently with spoken word passages over a hypnotic keyboard pattern and melodica and builds into a long piece which, at times, evokes Stratos-Fear era Tangerine Dream, only with some large drums (possibly tablas?) along with the synths, leading to something spookily groovy towards the end. Even if you don't normally buy cassette releases, by ignoring this you're missing something rather special. There are only 90 copies and it deserves to be heard by a lot more people than this implies will get to listen to it." boa melody bar

foto: cross record

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01. castlemusic - you can't take anyone (blue fog 2008)

02. caethua - if the river dries up, i may be gone for a long, long time (saxwand 2008)

03. head of wantastiquet - mortagne (ecstatic yod lp 2008)

04. paavoharju - laulu laakson kukista (fonal 2008)

05. lau nau - nukkuu (fonal 2008)

06. pocahaunted - island diamonds (arbor 2008)

07. bird show - untitled (kranky 2008)

08. stag hare - black medicine music (a. star 2008)

09. rambling boys - pastures of plenty (7'' 2008)

10. beggin' your pardon miss joan - dear nautilus (reverb worship 2008)

11. christina carter - texas working blues (blackest rainbow 2008)

12. kelly nesbit - beaks that could smile (l'animaux tryst 2008)

13. inca ore - birthday of bless you lp (not not fun 2008)

14. cursillistas - thee seven storey mountain (cdr 2008)

15. antique brothers - hot shit (really coastal 2008)

16. pocahaunted - mirror mics lp (weird forest 2008)

17. fursaxa - kobold moon (sylph 2008)

18. spires that in the sunset rise - curse the traced bird (secret eye 2008)

19. valerio cosi - heavy electronic pacific loop (digitalis 2008)

20. mv & ee - meet snake pass & other human conditions (singing knives 2008)

21. beatbeat whisper - wonder continental (self-released 2008)

22. josephine foster - this coming gladness (bo'weavil 2008)

23. of - rocks will open (digitalis 2008)

24. arborea - s/t (fire museum 2008)

25. keijo - neverending blues (ikuisuus 2008)

26. ilyas ahmed - the vertigo of dawn (time-lag 2008)

27. these feathers have plumes - untitled cs (period tapes 2008)
28. robert martin - long goodbye lp (yik yak 2008)

29. jow jow - no country livin (yod tapes 2008)

30. james blackshaw - white goddess (tompkins square 2008)

31. christina carter - masque femine (many breaths 2008)

32. castanets - city of refuge (asthmatic kitty 2008)

33. scott tuma - not for nobody (digitalis 2008)

34. milton cross - light in the west (digitalis 2008)

35. muffin - tane (sloow tapes cs 2008)

36. jack rose, dr ragtime & pals - s/t (beautiful happiness 2008)

37. micah blue smaldone - the red river (immune 2008)

38. the blithe sons - the great orthochromatic wheel (family vineyard 2008)

39. sun watcher - two and a half men (wagon 2008)

40. the child readers - music heard far off (soft abuse 2008)

41. the big eyes family players - donkeysongs (rusted rail 2008)

42. small sur - we live in houses made of wood (tender loving empire 2008)

43. the rural tradition - the miserable effects of a wasted life (dorset paeans 2008)

44. albaialeix - albaialeix (sones la colazione 2008)

45. painting petals on planet ghost - fallen camellias (a silent place 2008)

46. the big eyes family players - donkeysongs (rusted rail 2008)

47. black twig pickers - hobo handshake (vhf 2008)

48. grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill (type 2008)

49. isengrind, twinsistermoon, natural snow buildings - the snowbringer cult (students of decay 2008)

50. visitations & big blood - lectric 'lashes (l'animaux tryst 2008)

51. wild gunmen - wild gunmen (white tapes 2008)

52. wondrous horse - cavallo meraviglioso (fire museum 2008)

53. gnod - the somnambulist's tale (tape 2008)

54. evening fires - figures of earth (digitalis ltd 2008)

55. fabio orsi & valerio cosi - we could for hours (a silent place 2008)

56. the moss collector - let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees (cdr 2008)

57. higuma - haze valley (root strata 2008)

58. shoreline - time well spent (willkommen 2008)

59. larkin grimm - parplar (youn god 2008)

60. hush arbors - s/t (ecstatic peace 2008)

61. sparkling wide pressure - touching pasture (students of decay 2008)

62. sons of noel & adrian - s/t (shelsmusic 2008)

63. twi the humble feather - music for spaceships and forests (friendly ghost 2008)

64. maailma - noitalauluja (tjärnen lp 2008)

65. valerio cosi - collected works (porter 2008)

66. islaja - blaze mountain recordings (ecstatic peace 2008)

67. christina carter - a blossom fell (many breaths 2008)

68. brethren of the free spirit - the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb (important 2008)

69. v - we are crossing fences through rocky fields (housecraft 2008)

70. scorces - dreamers of decadence (volcanic tongue 2008)