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| Artist: |
VA |
| Title: |
Not Alone |
| Label: |
JNANA (CANADA) |
| Format: |
5CD |
| Price: |
65€ |
| Catalog #: |
JNANA 1963 |
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"Five-CD box featuring
music by a wide variety of artists traversing many boundaries
and genres. All proceeds go to benefit Médecins Sans
Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), specifically
their work on the AIDS pandemic in Africa. The majority of
tracks on this collection are previously unreleased and exclusive
to this set." Artists: Vashti Bunyan, William Basinski,
Bill Fay, Simon Finn, Six Organs of Admittance, Angels of
Light, Antony, Baby Dee, The Hafler Trio, Pearls Before Swine,
Jarboe, Devendra Banhart, Pantaleimon, Faun Fables, Nurse
With Wound, Current 93, irr. app. (ext.), Thighpaulsandra,
srmeixner, Little Annie Anxiety, Jim O'Rourke, Lynn Jackson,
Small Creatures, Michael Yonkers, Linda Perhacs, Edward Ka-Spel,
Teenage Fanclub, Richard Buckner, Mary 5E, Anomoanon, Isobel
Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, David Surkamp, Matmos, Jad Fair,
Sundial, Ghost, Mirror, Bonnie Prince Billy, Marc Almond,
Damon and Naomi, Charlemagne Palestine, Mount Vernon Arts
Lab, Unveiled James William Hindle, Rose McDowall, John Maslen,
Larsen, Mr Durt, Shannon Lyon, John Contreras, Brett Smiley,
Cyclobe, Blue Eyed Black, Stephanie Volkmar, Howie B, Bevis
Frond, Thurston Moore, Shockheaded Peters, John Terrill, Max
Richter, Colin Potter, AUBE, Keiji Haino, Jeremy Reed, The
Hollowings, Tom Recchion, Fursaxa, Amy Curl, Joolie Wood,
Genesis P-Orridge, Suishou no Fune, Coil, Eric Lanzillotta,
Scott Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Ghostigital. |
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| Artist: |
TOM CARTER |
| Title: |
Glyth |
| Label: |
DIGITALIS |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
13,5€ |
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Originally issued on
excruciatingly limited edition cdr for the Wholly Other label,
this is the ‘proper’ release of one of Charalambides
mainman Tom Carter’s most engaging solo jaunts. Housed
with the usual Digitalis care and attention in a thick card
gatefold sleeve hand painted by Carter himself, everything
about ‘Glyph’ feels deluxe, apparently Carter
has even remastered these recordings for this issue –
what’s more, there’s a story behind it, these
three extended tracks were the final recordings he made in
the Bullbabe studios in Austin, Texas before he upped and
left for Oakland, California. Having produced most of the
Charalambides and related material in those studios there
is a sense of an era coming to a close here, a sense of finality
whether intended or unintended which gives the tracks a haunting
and involving quality. Like John Fahey’s final album
‘Red Cross’, it might be the context in which
you hear it that makes you read something else into the music
– but here I think Carter means to conjure these feelings
up, so let’s run with that. The first track is performed
entirely on acoustic guitar and showcases what I love best
about Carter’s work – the passion and drive in
his fingers as he furiously plays. I could compare this quite
easily to the aforementioned Fahey or even psych-folk rambler
Ben Chasny aka Six Organs of Admittance (who joins Carter
in the Badgerlore project…) but Carter’s sound
is his own, and as we’re dragged into the reverberating
second track, played on lap steel, this fact becomes only
more obvious. Another intriguing and highly enjoyable album
from the wilfully odd Digitalis label. |
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| Artist: |
FE-MAIL |
| Title: |
BLIXTER
TOAD |
| Label: |
ASPHODEL |
| Format: |
2CD |
| Price: |
17,5€ |
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Fe-Mail is the noisey duo of Rune Grammofon’s Maja Ratkje
and Hild Sofie Tafjord - both members of avant jazz fiddlers
Spunk. In Fe-Mail they concentrate their experimental efforts
on making electronic belches, glitches and moans and draping
them in Ratkje’s well-practiced vocalisms. Imagine Wolf
Eyes, turn the volume down a touch and add a haunting (read:
mental) girl vocal over the top – sound like your cup
of tea? Well it’s certainly mine, an expansive, ambitious
and rewarding record – and in one double cd compilation
these two Norwegian ladies are showing the boys exactly how
it’s done. More forward thinking than Wolf Eyes, more
interesting to listen to than Merzbow and more ear shattering
than Prurient, Fe-Mail’s noisey pseudo pop will have
you pressing the repeat button rather than angling for the
off switch. Devilishly loud and guaranteed to plant a big
smile on the face of any noise freaks..you know who you are.Fe-Mail
is the noisey duo of Rune Grammofon’s Maja Ratkje and
Hild Sofie Tafjord - both members of avant jazz fiddlers Spunk.
In Fe-Mail they concentrate their experimental efforts on
making electronic belches, glitches and moans and draping
them in Ratkje’s well-practiced vocalisms. Imagine Wolf
Eyes, turn the volume down a touch and add a haunting (read:
mental) girl vocal over the top – sound like your cup
of tea? Well it’s certainly mine, an expansive, ambitious
and rewarding record – and in one double cd compilation
these two Norwegian ladies are showing the boys exactly how
it’s done. More forward thinking than Wolf Eyes, more
interesting to listen to than Merzbow and more ear shattering
than Prurient, Fe-Mail’s noisey pseudo pop will have
you pressing the repeat button rather than angling for the
off switch. Devilishly loud and guaranteed to plant a big
smile on the face of any noise freaks..you know who you are.
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| Artist: |
MIELE |
| Title: |
miele |
| Label: |
Humptydumpty records |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
15 euro |
| Catalog #: |
Hmpty001 |
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Sweet and refreshing mixture of pop and rock’n’roll made in Belgium influenced as well by Gainsbourg then by The velvet underground. Sing in French. First release of a new Belgian label. |
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| Artist: |
COIL |
| Title: |
The Ape of Naples
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| Label: |
THRESHOLD HOUSE (UK)
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| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
29 E |
| Catalog #: |
THRESH 002CD
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First pressing sold out; repressed in Feb.? "This will be the final ever album from Coil -- sure to become a classic in the traditions of melodic Coil albums like the Music to Play in the Dark series, Love's Secret Domain and of Horse Rotorvator and Scatology. It includes songs recorded in Trent Reznor's New Orleans studio, now extensively re-worked by Peter in light of events, right through to new works that Jhonn Balance recorded the vocals for, just days before his death." Features material written and peformed over the years 1982-2005, packaged in cardboard sleeve with extensive fold-out lyric sheet/poster. An stunning final chapter from Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson, perfectly realized. |
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