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Gay Africa- Pizzaze! CDr EP

Bedded with the drone of an electronic raagini, Dark Meat offshoot Gay Africa completely improvises "Dream Cables," a 20-minute raga-rocker. Jim McHugh is in Richard-Thompson-channeling-Ravi-Shankar mode with a trio behind him kicking up the dirt and celebrating the spirits. The packaging is really something on this one, too. Each copy is entirely unique: hand-painted by Kate Burnet on reused, cut-up vinyl jackets. The insert is an origami fortune teller folded from old maps.

Price: $5.00

Gene Janas & Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut- RAY-GUN 3" CDr

Gene Janas' main gig with the fire-jazz unit Owl Xounds seems to be on temporary hiatus, so RAY-GUN is a welcome venture into a new language. Janas grunts spoken word over the squeal of his upright while Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut moves around the alto sax, trumpet and piano, playing colors outside/through/above the lines. This is some serious cleansing music. Black artwork printed onto 5"x5" heavy red cardstock folded into a sturdy mylar sleeve.

Price: $5.00

Nick Hennies- Paths CDr

Weird Weeds percussionist (and one-time Jandek drummer) Nick Hennies offers up his first recording for no-input mixer. The 24-minute work echoes Hennies' studious improvisational approach with careful shifts of high-pitched feedback and his attention to (a)tonal in/sensitivity. Artwork by Andrew Drummond printed on heavy cardstock with a dark blue gel slipped into a mylar sleeve to reveal the text.

Price: $5.00

v/a- Last Winter We Didn't Sing CD

This new compilation features winter-inspired music from the likes of Scott Tuma (ex-Souled American), The Instruments (Elephant 6 cellist Heather McIntosh), pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn, Greg Davi, Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan, Fabio Orsi, Nicholas Szczepanik and Chartreuse. It's a somber, reflective and sometimes haunting take on the season with a beautiful illustration by Ariel Kitch screen-printed on eco paks by Sire Press.

Price: $10.00

Talibam! / Wasteland Jazz Unit- Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP

First installment in the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series. Multi-part, proggy King Crimson destruction on the A-side and total reed distortion dragged through shards of filth on the flip.

Price: $12.00

Chartreuse- No More Paths to Sounder Sleep CD + 3" CDr

On the debut CD from Chartreuse, guitar melodies are weighed down by the murky and melancholic bliss of strings and loops swarming the headphones. The organ drones seep through the earth as if heard by a tape recorder buried underground. No More Paths to Sounder Sleep is a trance-inducing soundtrack to the end of the night.

SPECIAL EDITION. Stenciled and stamped artwork on arigato pak with a bonus 3" CDr of an early Chartreuse demo. HAND-NUMBERED & LIMITED TO 200.

Price: $12.00

Chartreuse- No More Paths to Sounder Sleep CD

On the debut CD from Chartreuse, guitar melodies are weighed down by the murky and melancholic bliss of strings and loops swarming the headphones. The organ drones seep through the earth as if heard by a tape recorder buried underground. No More Paths to Sounder Sleep is a trance-inducing soundtrack to the end of the night.

DIGIPAK VERSION.

Price: $10.00

Ecstatic Jazz Duos Subscription (N. America Orders)

SHIPPING INCLUDED ON THIS ITEM. Ships now: Talibam / Wasteland Jazz Unit LP, I Heart Lung / DWMTG LP.


The Ecstatic Jazz Duos Series collects six of the most innovative duos in the avant-jazz/free-noise realm on three LPs. We're offering a limited subscription to the whole series that includes all three 12"s plus stickers, buttons, and a CDr of exclusive content only available to subscribers. Incredible series design by Cristopher Cichocki.

In the series: Talibam!, Wasteland Jazz Unit, I Heart Lung, DWMTG, Valerio Cosi & Enzo Franchini, Jeremiah Cymerman & Matthew Welch.

Price: $45.00

Ecstatic Jazz Duos Subscription (International Orders)

SHIPPING INCLUDED ON THIS ITEM. Talibam / Wasteland Jazz Unit LP ships now.

The Ecstatic Jazz Duos Series collects six of the most innovative duos in the avant-jazz/free-noise realm on three LPs. We're offering a limited subscription to the whole series that includes all three 12"s plus stickers, buttons, and a CDr of exclusive content only available to subscribers. Incredible series design by Cristopher Cichocki.

Series includes: Talibam!, Wasteland Jazz Unit, I Heart Lung, DWMTG, Valerio Cosi & Enzo Franchini, Jeremiah Cymerman & Matthew Welch.

Price: $65.00

Long Legged Woman- Something is Pressing Against It from the Inside 7"

The four-dude Long Legged Woman barrels through a bombastic trash-punk anthem on the A-side and a Syd Barrett downer-pop gem on the flip. Pressed on random-colored marble vinyl.

Price: $6.00

Special / Sale Price - nicolasTone- I'M TONE DEAF (musicpourlessourds) 3" CDr

Pulses heavy electronic beats alongside manipulated audio and cut-up fire-jazz sax squawks and battling war drums. "... a bombastic tantrum of rattling percussion ala Ettrick with extra limbs." -Animal Psi

Price: $5.00
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Special / Sale Price - Totally Dad- New Black Draughms CDr

Some seriously blown-out blues, deranged scuzz-rock and destroyed improv from Brooklyn’s Totally Dad. Listening to New Black Draughms‘ sewage-clogged rawk, you get the impression that an instrument is beaten senseless every time a song ends, and by the close of the album, there’s just nothing left.

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The Green Knight- The Eternal OM CS

Bong-hit noise scrapple from Jeff Rahuba (Long Legged Woman) and Doug Patterson (Better People). Abrasive tape manipulations fall down the stairs in paranoid murmurs. A longing for times past when majik and pagan rites were employed in direct communion with the forces of nature.

Price: $4.00

better people- salvia inside the broken home CDr EP

Athens' Doug Patterson's audio destruction in a perfect dose. "… a sonic manipulation of a drag strip race." - Foxy Digitalis

Price: $4.00

SFCD- How Saint Francis Tamed the Very Fierce Wolf of Gubbio CDr

Gubbio moves through raging Fushitsusha guitar feedback, meditative and metallic drone destroyed by battle drums, and a skewed blues reprieve.

Price: $5.00

Sweet Teeth- From the Fourth Hand... CDr

Sweet Teeth combines both the sounds and members of Dark Meat and Long Legged Woman — clusterpsych classic-rock tendencies paired with hypnotic avant-rock.

Price: $5.00

Special / Sale Price - v/a- Deeded to Itself: Athens Southernoise CDr

Deeded to Itself documents the bloody grit and kudzu-scuzz from or around Athens, Georgia. Features exclusive tracks from Altruizine, Telenovela, Chartreuse, Garbage Island, Long Legged Woman, Orthopedics, Killick, better people and Sailor Winters.

Price: $4.00
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I Heart Lung / DWMTG- Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP

Second installment in the series. I Heart Lung (Chris Schlarb: guitar, Tom Steck: drums) pummels through three symphonies for riots on the A-side, taking cues from Yes, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and Sonny Sharrock. Side B features the band Thurston Moore named his favorite bass/drums duo a few years back: DWMTG (Dale W. Miller: drums, Tony Gordon: bass). They run through 10 scrambling miniatures with a smart sense of humor you don't hear much in free-improv these days.

Price: $12.00

Mad Onion Burger- Talking Anus Cowboy 3" CDr

Haunting free-associative spoken/screamed mindjobs filtered through unnecessary echo with damaged turntablism.

Price: $2.00

The Pistil Cosmos- A Long Figure in a Dreamlike Place CDr

With releases on Blackest Rainbow, Peasant Magik, Stunned and others, Vincent Caylet sculpts shamanistic psychedelic-drones. He records with the acid-folk-drone duo Monks of the Balhill and solo as "V," but under this concurrent solo project, the Frenchman reflects a roughly hewn ambience as The Pistil Cosmos. The six untitled tracks that make up A Long Figure in a Dreamlike Place do just that: It's a vision of a spindly creature on a hill, walking into the fog. Screeching feedback permeates with harsh beauty, raindrop loops develop like flowers blooming and wilting all at once, synths worship at a hidden sun, and Caylet emits wordless chants, summoning more clouds. Pro-printed CDr comes in a mylar sleeve with an all-vellum insert. Edition of 100.

Price: $6.00

Bright Duplex- Strawberry Trust CDr

Vanessa Rossetto first knocked us out with a trio of CDrs on her own Music Appreciation label. Her violin/viola improvisations and compositions saw through drones in the way Tony Conrad conjures multiple waves of sound just from one instrument. And when accompanied by electronics, Rossetto uses feedback as a terrifying weapon. Her duo with fellow Austinite Matthew Armistead (drums, percussion, clarinet) is an exercise in taut communication. Bright Duplex delights in little percussion clatters, hiccuping gongs, snares rubbed raw, wild reed melodies and strings bowed hard against the wood. When the duo reaches a climactic paramount, the drones thunder from temples like Taj Mahal Travellers. Pro-printed CDr comes in a mylar sleeve with artwork by Matthew Armistead printed on heavy cardstock and a vellum wrap-around. Edition of 100.

Price: $6.00

Beru- What Would I Do Without You c48

On her cassette debut as Beru, Jessica Collins unravels a new American folk. What Would I Do Without You is both touched and untouched by tradition, mending the pieces of the world around her in collage. I first saw her destroying drums in the skronk-prov band Cat People, took a photo, and she unknowingly became the logo for TRHP. But as Beru, the LA-via-Georgia songwriter disembodies dub-noise, haunted gospel and improvised folk in loving, sinister ways. Her pastoral drones journey heavenward and pull the silver lining to Earth, collecting songs in the chaos. Limited edition of 100 pro-dubbed and imprinted c48 tapes with artwork by Kevin Phillips printed on vellum paper.

Price: $6.00

Robe.- Remains Of A Burning World c76

When Dante stood in the dark wood, perhaps contemplating his final evening, Virgil came to his side and shown him Inferno. Standing at its gates, Dante must have immediately seen the souls stirred by the storms beyond Limbo. Remains of a Burning World is that storm, an unrelenting, swarming gust of unforgiving doom. The duo of Robe. have repeatedly proven themselves masters of evil drone with releases on Small Doses, Blackest Rainbow, House of Alchemy and their own Tragic Creature. More than any other Robe. release, Remains is the duo's most considered, methodically stretching worn carcasses with ease rather than a full assault. Limited edition of 100 pro-dubbed and imprinted c76 tapes with full color jcard and vellum insert.

Price: $6.00

Mothguts- III CDr

There is a sanctum filled with crimson bile. With bleeding ears and bleeding eyes, a devil jazz quartet lures you up the stairs. It's a chaotic Anal Cunt-fueled path of destruction that, at times, actually swings. Taking cues from extreme free-jazz outfits like Painkiller and Last Exit, New Jersey's Mothguts is what happens when jazz shanks a metal vokillist and replaces him with a squalling saxophonist. In this case, it's Anthony Ware (sax), Mike Noordzy (bass), Ben Ross (drums) and Chris Welcome (guitar). III includes such future hits as "Knife Rape," "The Nacht Time Is The Racht Time" and "Jizz Factory." Limited edition of 150 pro-printed CDRs with heavy cardstock cover housed in vinyl jacket. First 50 copies come with a Mothguts sticker.

Price: $6.00

Entire Thor's Rubber Hammer Catalog

Everything still in stock at a ridiculous price. 2 LPs, 3 cassettes, 3 CDs, 12 CDRs, 1 7".

Price: $100.00