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VINYL:
CHARLIE MCALISTER ”CREOSOTE” – 1 SIDED LP (UNREAD)
“Following on the heels of charlies last slab of vinyl “death water estates” (catsup plate) which collected previously released material from various mid-90’s cassettes, comes a new offering of anti-suburban bog tunes for banjo, guitar, violin, air organ, buckets and cans. twelve songs rattled out in true pysch-dixie fashion and sprayed with grease. “creosote” brings forth a return to the song, played from instruments handmade or long decayed. a definite clincher.”
$14 USA / $20 WORLD / VIEW CART
CHARLIE MCALISTER “CAROLINA BI-PRODUCT” – 7″ (UNREAD)
“four new delicious cuts of classic mcalister strum and fuckery on pink platter. span across and feel up some babes while square dancing on the beach. deal with the robot inside, and throw yourself out into the surf…only to drift away and rust up. limited to 500 copies, with seven or so diffrent hand screened covers.”
FOOT OX ”IT’S LIKE OUR LITTLE MACHIE” – LP (DISTANT COLONY)
This, my friends is by far my favorite record of 2008 thus far, and is a must have for sure. This is Teague Cullen’s third full length, but the first to be released in LP form. He is accompanied by a variety of various musicians throughout the record, filling out his odd pop songs to the fullest extent. Catchier than ever, this record has you on your seat until the very end. It’s circus freak, loner, pop songs that will give you goose bumps like no other. Greenish-grey marble vinyl with pro-printed covers and an insert. Limited to 500 copies.
$14 USA / $20 WORLD / VIEW CART
GOWNS ”RED STATE” - LP (KILL SHAMAN)
“Gowns sketch out a vision of what the future of the rock band could be. Their over-the-counter psychedelia draws no lines between acoustic guitars and feedbacked pianos, processed spazzoid drum flails and a cappella harmonies. For the past two years, former Mae Shi vocalist/gunk programmer Ezra Buchla and Amps for Christ guitar-wailer Erika Anderson have brought to the American West Coast a fertile marriage of eerie folk murmur and crushed, twisted electronics. With percussionist Corey Fogel, the sound conjured by Gowns is a digitally ruptured, gospel valentine to the heartlands. Recorded at home, in bedrooms and basements from rural South Dakota to Los Angeles, Red State tells the story of life lived in the flyover zones. Comes on transparent gold vinyl, with pro-printed covers.”
$14 USA / $20 WORLD / VIEW CART
NO PAWS (NO LIONS) / AM – 7″ (SILENCIO) - ONLY TWO LEFT
AM delivers three rock and roll tracks that is probably some of their best work. Catchy and fun with a slightly punk feel. No Paws gives us two incredible pop songs that is by far their best released material. Keyboards and drums with male/female vocal harmonies. One of the best bands to emerge from the Inland Empire in years. Black vinyl with pro-printed jackets. Limited to 300 copies.
SECRET ABUSE / LAZY MAGNET - 7″ (CALLOW GOD) - ONLY ONE LEFT
Jeff Witscher returns with some more abuse on this fantastic split with Lazy Magnet. It was released on his own, super under the radar label: Callow God, where the releases are often out of print before you hear about them. Keeping up with this man is a task all in it’s own, through all his traveling, name changing, and releasing on things on tons of various labels all around the world. He rages and lives out the scum noise dream harder than anyone I’ve ever met and is in a way, a hero of mine. This 7″ comes with a full color cover and two, large, color inserts. Black vinyl with pro-printed labels, all in a re-sealable plastic sleeve.
WHITMAN / JOHN THILL – 7″ (NATRIX NATRIX)
“One might wonder why this has only now come into existence, but none-the-less, here it is. A split between two of California’s most bizaare, original, and often under-recognized songwriters – bringing you an excellent collection of grime dipped pop songs that sway in polluted tropical winds and shine with an infecting neon glow. Black vinyl with pro-printed labels housed in full color covers, adorned with a sticker, and an insert. Limited pressing of 350 copies.”
$8 USA / $10 WORLD / VIEW CART
WHITMAN / TREASURE MAMMAL – 7″ (TINY PANDA)
“Here is a split that will take you from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other within minutes. It has two new offering by each artist. Whitman gives you a psychedelic jam on how to make Riverside the ideal homeland utilizing fireflies as well as a cover of a song by I.E., stripping this club song down to ukulele and percussive noise. The Treasure Mammal side on the other hand brings a jazzy, electronic life lesson, and karma-tic Casio ballad. Black vinyl, with inserts containing lyrics, and covers designed and printed by Matt Hart. Limited to 337 copies.”
$8 USA / $10 WORLD / VIEW CART
COMPACT DISC:
ADAM LIPMAN ”BOTH SUNDAYS” – CDR (DUST WIND TALES)
What can I say about Adam Lipman. Well for a start Adam is a
true gentleman, a kind spirit. He writes songs full of luscious melodies
and dusty tales. Once they have found your soul they will make you keep coming back again & again. This is a collection that will never leave you and
an ep that you must own. LIMITED EDITION OF 60 COPIES.
AMERICAN GIL & THE MAJOR DUDES S/T – 2×3″ CDR (NARF)
This is a fantastic collection of songs by ex-Quem Quaeritis member, American Gil. This is a double 3″ CDR release and includes one disc of solo work by American Gil that jumps back and forth across musical genre’s. It the type of record that’s catchy and will have you smiling and nodding your head, after a brief “what the fuck is happening” moment. The second disc is with the full band and is made up some local all-stars, such a Sam Woodson (of No Paws (No Lions), Brizzahh Cripp (of Child Pornography), Kristen Mason (of Las Vegas Club), and Sean Pineda. This disc will get you moving, without any hesitation with it’s catchy drum beats, keyboards, and guitar riffs. It’s been a long time since a jem like this has emerged out of the smog cluster of Riverside, Ca., but this release is a must. Comes in a full-color gatefold case.
TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER!
ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD / FLASPAR / GOLDEN BOOTS – 3 WAY SPLIT CD (NIGHTPASS)
This 3 way split by some amazing bands from the Southwest is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest things this label has ever been associated with. Hailing from Tucson, Las Vegas and Phoenix, all three groups produce next level pop music that is strange, beautiful and eminently listenable. Flaspar drops psychedelic dance pop that latches onto a deep groove and pummels you with extracurricular orbital effects direct from Ra himself. Andrew Jackson Jihad melds together feelings of pain, beauty and joy all with a wry, at times brutal, comic touch while affecting some bluegrass breakdowns. Golden Boots writes mind bending free-association pop songs with serious studio wizardry, horns and spirit. This is the first manufactured CD release from Nightpass, and hopefully it will set the standard we’ll live by. All said, that’s a high bar because I freaking love this CD. Its strengths are manifold; quality songwriting, musicianship, and yes, even a highly developed pop sensibility, which recalls everything from Neutral Milk Hotel to the Beatles to Talking Heads.
$10 USA / $14 WORLD / VIEW CART
ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD “CANDY CIGARETTES AND CAP GUNS” – CD (SELF RELEASED) - ONLY THREE LEFT
This is the first album by one of the most important bands from Phoenix, Az. The album marks an early stage in singer, Sean Bonnet’s, writing capabilities, but is none-the-less a classic album in their discography. Their guitar and upright bass lineup is accompanied here by drums, making the album a little more rockin’ than you might be used to. Pressed on real CD’s, and comes in a nice plastic, gatefold sleeve, with an insert containing all the lyrics.
NICOLE KIDMAN “20 YEARS OLD AND NO GIRLFRIEND” – CDR (BRIDGETOWN)
“13 songs about Nicole Kidman movies plus a Keith Urban cover. Bedroom pop meets casual conversation. Edition of 31 hand-colored CDs with multicolor inserts and a unique Kodak photograph sleeve. “
NO PAWS (NO LIONS) “DON’T BE AFRAID OF WHERE YOU LIVE” – CDR (NARF) ONLY ONE LEFT
You should already know by now that this band rules. After a hand full of of limited cd-r’s and a 7″ split with A.M., they have created a full length of noisy pop jams that will blow your mind. drums, keyboard, and skuzz. Released in a limited run of cd-r’s in full-color, handmade digipak’s that look amazing.
STEPHEN STEINBRINK “UGLY UNKNOWNS” – CD (GILGONGO) ONLY ONE LEFT
“STEPHEN STEINBRINK makes his 11 song debut release under his own name after playing and constantly touring as FRENCH QUARTER for the past several years. His last full length has been a personal favorite and this new one has shaped up to be the same.”
$10 USA / $15 WORLD / VIEW CART
CASSETTES:
JOHN THILL “BROKEN FREEWAYS” (UNREAD)
“newer then new cassette from john thill…by and by…inland strum. high concept recordings dealing with a future of absent fuel in the suburbs of los angeles…mainly west corvina. but not limited to. listen close to the new sound of songwrite. hearty and full. ”
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JOHN THILL “GIRLS OF METH” (UNREAD)
“newest cassette release (i am sure there are more hot on this ones heels) from prolific inland empire balladeer. john strains and strums like heartbeat on speed. love and loss drug songs, overblown and in the red. makes my mouth dry up and thirst for beer. may or may not include found drug bag from streets. ”
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NICK EYMANN / TEAGUE CULLEN – CASSETTE (DISTANT COLONY)
Nick Eymann’s (better known as Children’s Crusade) side of this cassette blew me away the first time I heard it. It caught me off guard a little at first, for it i nothing like what you might be used to seeing him do live, but instead it is a collage of filed recordings strung together with piano and other various background noise. It almost comes of as a film score in some senses, but as a whole is absolutely breathtaking. Teague Cullen (better known as Foot Ox) on the other hand, stays a little closer to the sounds you are familiar with,only this cassette tends to lean more toward instrumentals than songs themselves. Playful and sad, fantastic, as always. Comes packaged in full-color artwork with a photograph of the two as kids and is dubbed on white cassetted, decorated with marker.
WHITMAN / STELLALUNA – CASSETTE (TINY PANDA)
Whitman has claimed to be “goth” for some time now, and perhaps we all thought he was joking, however this cassette may show otherwise. He delivers four dark and uncomfortable songs, each one about some dying whom he either knew directly or in-directly, and accompanied by some amazing musicians, such as Anni Rossi, Zombelle, and Jocelyn of Alas, Alak, Alaska!. Stellaluna also gives us four songs, all of which are poems by the likes of Bukowski, Ginsberg, Emerson, and Whitman. Black cassette’s packaged in a case with three black and white graveyard pictures, and a lyric booklet sewn together with red thread. Limited to 100 copies.
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MARRIED IN BERDICHEV – 7″ (GILGONGO) ONLY TWO LEFT
“MARRIED IN BERDICHEV is Brittany Gould, and is a vocal-based sound / noise project that spans the terrain between soft and soothing and jagged and abrasive. Voices and organic sounds are looped and layered over each other,
sometimes providing the back bone of a GROUPER or INCA ORE type piece, but at other times, ricocheting into scathing movements that tear through speakers and pierce ear drums, simultaneously beautiful and powerful
This two song 7” is MARRIED IN BERDICHEV’s first release outside of several self-released CDrs and an appearance on the 2008 DEATHBOMB ARC TAPE CLUB (w/ Lucky Dragons, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Hawnay Troof and more), and features art created by and hand-screened by Brittany herself, is released alongside an October 2008 European tour with KEVIN SHIELDS, and is limited to 300 copies. Brittany is a former member of TRANSISTOR RADIO SOUND and has played a huge role in the Denver collective venue / space RHINOCEROPOLIS and as MARRIED IN BERDICHEV, she has collaborated with other artists such as JANDEK (live), KEVIN SHEILDS (as a duo called CALDERA LAKES), GLOCHIDS (live) and JAMES FELLA (of TENT/CITY, SOFT SHOULDER). She has done various album and poster art for artists such as FRENCH QUARTER and FOOT VILLAGE.”
NO PAWS (NO LIONS) / RAPID YOUTH – TOUR CDR (SELF RELEASED) ONLY ONE LEFT
Limited edition tour CDr for the 2008/2009 No Paws (No Lions) and Rapid Youth (ex-Hey Buddy and the Pals) North-West tour. Edition of 100, each hand numbered. Stamped Cdr’s with full color artwork by Christopher Payne.
KEVIN GREENSPON “CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES” – CDR (FAMILY TIME) ONLY ONE LEFT
50 song report about each of the U.S. states, bouncing between a multitude of genres in 50 minutes. Features 23 collaborations with Nicole Kidman, Foot Ox, French Quarter, Las Vegas Club*, Jacob Smigel, Bri White, The End Springs, Sleepwalkers Local, James Fella, Hell-Kite, Whitman, Splinter Cake, Obdulio, tik///tik, PST, Your Yellow Dress, and American Gil. Edition of 200 CDs packaged in a silkscreened manila folder with 10 page “report” of lyrics and notes.
FLASPAR ”DOUBLE TROUBLE” – 7″ (NATRIX NATRIX)
“Fantastic images of an extroadinary plasticity. black acid laser, moon howling kick outs, wolf n witch, ghost son of acid serpent, vietnam splash hack, broken booth crammedwich, double bubble, boiling trouble.”
MOTHERFIGHT “HOPSCOTCH” – 7″ (NATRIX NATRIX) ONLY TWO LEFT
The extravagant Austin pop band, MOTHFIGHT, release their #1 hit. Black vinyl with full-color covers.
BRI WHITE “DIXIE BENEDICT” – CDR (DISTANT COLONY) ONLY ONE LEFT
Pop songs drowned in hiss. Lo-fi at it’s best. Limited edition Cd-r’s in digipaks with awesome, full-color cover art and an insert.
UGGAMUGGA “PINECONES” – CDR (TINY PANDA) ONLY ONE LEFT
This is a project headed by Tristan Jemsek (of Fathers Day and Haunted Cologne) who is a really amazing song writer. This is an amazing collection of pop songs done with guitar and bass, and with just the right amount of additional instrumentation, adding the likes of drums, glockenspiel, and melodica. This is the kind of record that could make you smile, no matter what kind of mood you’re in. Packaged in recycled-cardboard, gatefold sleeves with artwork by David Bassent.
STELLALUNA “EEP!” – CDR (TINY PANDA) ONLY TWO LEFT
This is a great EP by Stellaluna (Frances Lopez of Uggamugga). It’s three songs, sung with a heavy heart, and accompanied by Amber Gore on cello. In a way these songs are so honest they’re a bit haunting. Limited to a hundred-something cd-r’s in plastic sleeves with full-color artwork by Christopher Payne.
SECRET ABUSE “VIOLENT NARCISSUS” (NOT NOT FUN) - ONLY TWO LEFT
“Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. He’s lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his loner lifestyle, utopian fashions (“refugee chic”), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witscher’s maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. But, despite his restlessly shapeshifting spirit, the past year plus has seen him settling ever deeper into his Secret Abuse sinkhole mode, and here’s hoping he lingers a while longer, cause it’s a fucking winner. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics. Repressed, burning, and emotional as only a young man pushing away everything can be,Violent Narcissus is as definitive a document as has thus far yet emerged from the SA canon (and lord knows there’s been a grip of gems). Look long and hard; the mirror is a bitter mistress. Black LPs, mastered by Bill Hutson, housed in jackets designed by Witscher. Edition of 445.”
$14 USA / $20 WORLD / VIEW CART
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY “SHE’S GOT LEGS” – CD (DEATHBOMB ARC) -ONLY ONE LEFT
“Can one grow old gracefully with a name like Child Pornography? Apparently, yes. On this 3rd full length, She’s Got Legs, the youthful perkiness that has always characterized this band is not lost. Left behind though is the lo-fi buzz and hum. With clarity as a weapon, Child Pornography drive decisive guitar slices through epileptic beats for the most memorable autism-pop you’ve yet to hear. This evolution in sound is not a change to maturity, but just a refining of how much yappering, melo-drama, and exclamation a band can really stuff into the sound known as ROCK. Don’t call them electroclash or nu-rave or whatever. These guys are the Rolling Stones of YOURgeneration, so get struttin.”
$10 USA / $15 WORLD / VIEW CART
GOD WILLING / PRIVY SEALS – LP (ARBOR) – OOP! - ONLY ONE LEFT
“God Willing and Privy Seals are two of the prime purveyors of meditative harsh tones. God Willing’s guitar and oscillatior drone has been reaching epic levels of hypnosis lately and this piece is a great example. The repetitive nature of textured signals act like the swaying charm of the pocket watch: onward march. Matthew Sullivan has been crafting his Earn project recently, and this, one of the final Privy Seals recordings acts as a logical bridge. Heavy, hi-end guitar and tape interlacing: a harsh movement, but possessing transcendently soothing qualities buried under the deprivation of distorted tones. At the end of the hallway a door lies open. A long overdue document of the LA Diaspora. In an edition of 300 LPs with silkscreened chipboard covers by Ren Schofield. ”
$14 USA / $20 WORLD / VIEW CART
TREASURE MAMMAL / THE NUMERATORS – 7″ - ONLY ONE LEFT
“This is a record that you wanna get if you need to start the party to rock the bodies. Listen everyone! You are sick, and the prescription is to buy this record. I suck at grammar if you haven’t noticed. Oh yeah, this came out on mixed vinyl sooooo all of them are different in their own special way. Cholos in the bathtub design by Jason Moore .”
MICEMEAT OR TENSPEED “ALL CRITTERS” – LP (DEATHBOMB ARC) -ONLY ONE LEFT
“One day, young Davey Harms wanted to make some techno music. But unlike every other red-blooded American boy, he had no drummachine, no sampler, no sequencer, and not even a computer. Despite being such a deprived little punk, Davey was resourceful and so he looked around his room for something else that he could make some beats out of. Gathering up all his guitar pedals and a mixer, he asked himself, “Can I make accessible beat driven music with a rock n’ roll edge using just these fx pedals?” Any gear nerd would have told him that this is impossible, because guitar pedals need some sort of source sound in order to work. But Davey was also deprived of friendship at this point in his life, so no one like that was there, and instead he defied such unknown expectations and assembled all his guitar toys into what is essentially a synth circuit the wrangles mixer-feedback into fierce rhythms. In other words, this is the cyberpunk dream come true. You know, those movies in the 90s that depicted snot-nosed teens “hacking” into common everyday electronics and making them do incredible things like steal all the money out of the US treasury. Technology transcended and turned into pure magic. That is exactly what Davey did. And thus MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED was born.
Now it is many years later, andMINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED has explored and mastered the vast possibilities of this guitar-pedal synth set up. He also has many friends now. Adult mother-fucking friends that know what’s what and think thatMINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED is the most fascinating music being made. Friends like Dan Deacon who recently named MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEEDone of the best acts of 2007 in a recent Pitchfork pole. Friends that understand that “Party Like a Rock Star” and Justice’s techno-rock are just beat songs about rock n’ roll, while MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED is beats born from a perfect marriage of rock n’ roll and techno. Friends that have seen how far this pedal-synth setup has come. That now it is capable of much more than insane aggressive beats, but can also manifest beautiful melodies and emulate so many tones and timbres that you ask yourself, “Is that a banjo inside of his Big Muff or is he just happy to play Someone’s in the Kitchen With Dinah for me?” So, with this awesomely honed powers, and with powerfully awesome friends like that, it is only natural that the first MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEEDalbum has been born. Lifted on high by a trinity of record labels, this 12” will instantly show you the new world of sounds that shall move your feat, expand your mind, and get you really fucking high. This is magic on a plate. So rub it with a needle and remember the boy
who grew like a seed into a Manthing that now everyone is good friends with. The feel good hit of 2008!”
$14 USA / $20 WORLD / VIEW CART
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE RELEASES FROM THE AWESOME, BUT NOW DEFUNCT LABEL NIGHTPASS. THESE ARE THE LAST REMAINING COPIES OF ALL OF THESE TITLES:
DOG SHIT TACO – CD QUILT 26 – 3″ CDR - ONLY TWO LEFT
“Like grease on bone china, this is the sound of blight on the pure, but you know, they still have a good time at it. One of the great new additions to the utterly undefinable LA noise scene, DST combine classically trained vocals, totally degraded electronics, bass, drums and a penchant for sound exploration. This release includes a beautifully mutilated cover of Steve Reich’s “Four Organs,” as well as an original. At the end of it you’ll have a headache and new sense of resolve.”
PETER HOLY – CD QUILT 25 – 3″ CDR
“Peter Holy hails from Austria and you might call him a musical painter. His layered, texturally significant piano based tracks are staggeringly beautiful. One encounters both white caps and utterly glassy seas on this musical voyage. Holy is definetely one of the best proponents of mood and texture in the quilt series. This work evokes a poignant sense of longing without any ugly emo overtones. Maybe he could be the continental Simon Joyner.”
TRANSISTOR RADIO SOUND – CD QUILT 23 – 3″ CDR
“What’s that sound? It’s the optimistic buzz of drum machines and guitar jangle. Transistor Radio Sound know the hooks and blows that make a sick avant pop track work. Beautiful, scattered and gleeful, these songs touch on aspects of the everyday, the mundane. TRS apply such light and clarity to the most minute events that it makes them glow.”
TAWEE – CD QUILT 20 – 3″ CDR
“For years now Evolve Music have been one of the great unsung groups out of California’s Inland Empire, fusing hip hop, noise, free-jazz and more into one of the most potent and potentially confusing blends around. This new contribution to the quilt series by Tawee is just one incredible peice of the puzzle. Tawee bends the mind and circuits with smooth maximal ambience, twisted folk songs, disentegrated hip hop and psychedelia. Tawee stands as a true example of someone who aproaches noise and ambient music from a completely different direction than your average harsh noise hesher.”
THE KIWIS – CD QUILT 17 – 3″ CDR
All I gotta say is, they’re better than the Shins, especially if you prefer a little slop and humor in your indie dream-pop. Dream pop, indeed this stuff is repleat with visions of the beyond or something like that, great melodies and off-kilter harmonies. Kiwis are a great representation of the multifaceted Atlanta pop scene of late and a seriously fun listen.
OXALIS – CD QUILT 13 – 3″ CDR
“Another addition to the folk-noise cannon. This one an awesome mix of violent keyboards, outdoor scrapings and what are genuinely pristine folk songs. Oxalis critique the technology demon while simultaneously utilizing all the throw away technology they can find. Features a member of Our Brother Native who recently signed up with Fat Cat Records.”
ANTI-CHRIST OVERDUB – CD QUILT 11 – 3″ CDR - ONLY ONE LEFT
“Crazy folk-noise woman combines south-asian textures, static, and crazy operatic vocals. Incredibly complex and bizarre sounds from one of the great unheard voices of folk-noise.”
TAWEE – A STATIC RAINBOW: GREEN
“Tawee’s potent blend of free jazz, hip hop and noise can be beautiful almost crystalline in structure while at other times it is brutal. On this release Tawee produces two pieces; one ten minutes in length, the other composed of ten one minute excursions into what could be called noise fusion. Organic, free-flowing, textural and bright Tawee has managed to create some of the most positive and bold sounding noise around.”
BODY VEHICLE – A STATIC RAINBOW: WHITE
“This Russian group produces sound whose origins are obscured and processed almost beyond recognition, creating new timbral landscapes. At times Body Vehicle sounds as though they use voice, saxophone, violin, guitar and drum machine, but their sounds are so far removed from their sources that they sound like new instruments entirely. Their visceral intensity recalls John Zorn, their angular variations recall Karlheinz Stockhausen, but really they sound like nothing else out there. bodyvehicle’s raw experimentation sounds like the chemical hybrid of free jazz and noise.”
MICOSE & THE MAU MAUS – A STATIC RAINBOW: YELLOW
“Micose and the Mau Maus is the amorphous sound project of Miguel Serra based in San Francisco. It sounds like some kind of bizarre digital age tribalism, which uses folk instruments and dissolves them in chirping tones. Rhythm arrives and then fades into squelches. Like venturing into an audio jungle full of calm musical clearings preceded by dense sound overgrowth. Micose and the Mau Maus is an extraterrestrial interpretation of sound, the familiar running astride with the completely foreign. This tape contains two long and varied pieces by M&MMs, comes with screened art by Miguel, as well as amalgamations of play doh, spray paint and modeling clay. Running time is about 27 minutes”
EILIYAS – A STATIC RAINBOW: VIOLET
“Eiliyas is not just an artist who fuses sounds from disparate zones; noise, hip hop, jazz, spoken word, he’s a dude who melts sounds down, makes them brittle through some alchemical process, creating his own disentegrated blend of sound. It sounds unlike anything ele you’re likely to hear. Get down with chunks of static, boiled over slow groove, samples, horns, words. Maybe you’ve been waiting all week to get your grand mal siezure groove on: well Saturday night is hear fool.”
