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SK013 ALBEROROVESCIATO - 'Tigers On Acid In The Hell Of The Brushwood' CD
SK012 SHIGGAJON - 'Fire Sange I Gul Og Rod' CD
SK011 PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES - 'Bataille De Battle' CD
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SK010 DIRECTING HAND - 'Songs From The Red House' LP (ltd 250)
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SK009 MV&EE Meet Snake Pass & Other Human Conditions (180g lp//ltd 500)
SK008 STEPHANIE HLADOWSKI - The High High Nest 10"
Four traditional songs exquisitely sung by Stephanie with accompaniment on bouzouki, clarinet and pedal harmonium by her brother Chris & cello by Isobel Campbell. Sleeve artwork by Hanna Tuulikki & extensive liner notes by Alex Neilson.
SK007 THE WHOLE VOYALD - 'Live At The Heeley Institute' CDr
Awesome live recording from Autumn 06. Psychedelic music fills the air.
SK006 CHORA - 'The Baptist Grip' CDr
£5 incl. p&p
Just under an hour of the finest post noise gamelan blues.
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SK005 THE HUNTER GRACCHUS EP1 CDr
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DEBUT LP OUT NOW ON CHIRONEX RECORDS, LATEST CDr ALBUM OUT NOW ON CHOCOLATE MONK
SK004 McWATT CD Album
£6 incl. p&p
'McWatt's untitled track on flute, accordian and double bass is a pensive slice of chamber folk that unfolds with the grace and weight of a Gavin Bryars piece.' (Derek Walmsley/The Wire)
SK003 SINGING AT THE MOON COMPILATION CD
£6 incl. p&p
'Contributions all fall within the parameters of improvised folk or homemade psychedelia, but with a diverse instrumentation and hands-on song craft, Singing At The Moon manages to be always idiosyncratic and occasionally otherwordly.' (Derek Walmsley/The Wire)
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SK002 THE FEATHER GATHERERS 7" (J Marshall/S Kraus Duo)
£3 incl. p&p
'As swank a pairing of contemporary acoustic sadnesses as you'll find in a month of Mondays. The blend of their voices is like biting into the best pickle you ever ate.' (Byron Coley/The Wire)
SK001 PERIL HILL - 'Scream At The Jackdaw, Make Him Stop' CDr
£6 incl. p&p
'Arcane and surreal bindings of dream like images unwrapping, in the gentlest voice, into plain, epic horror.' (Coke Machine Glow)
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
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Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.
Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink
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Tues 12th May 2009, The Klondyke Club, Burnage Range (off Albert Road), Levenshulme, Manchester, 8pm, £4
xNoBBQx (Australia) + Hathor Duo (UK) + Trinity (UK)
BACK ON!!!
We're absolutely delighted to say that, after much hassle at the airport and having to fly back to Berlin, xNoBBQx are now able to play the scheduled show at the Klondyke Club. The dude of can-do Chris Tipton has managed to sort out work permits for the band so it's all groovy. Yes! It's gonna be a really amazing show, so please come show some love to these weary travellers who, we promise, will give you a gig to remember.
xNoBBQx Skewer 10" LP (Ltd to 300 copies) - Out May 12th
We first came across xNoBBQx (just call them No Barbeque, I guess) in Piccadilly Records last year when the Siltbreeze vinyl reissue of their first CD-r appeared on its shelves. The Siltbreeze label being a bastion of all that is great in terms of dirgy, lo-fi, transcendental unmusicality, we were thus intrigued to hear this slab. And, we have to say, it was one of the greatest shop-listening experiences of all time. Here was a duo, probably of fully grown men, bashing away at their instruments in a manner that suggested they had never really learned any 'proper' technique. We later read a review, in fact, that put it thus:
"So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point. " (Cyclic Defrost)
Well, yes, that does largely seem to be the point. But it's a helluva point. The duo, in spite of their unabashed simplicity, manage to create sounds that are warm as an old-fashioned blanket, each piece having the ability to induce a state of complete, dribbling mental stasis. It's disjointed, scratchy and 'difficult', yes. But it also manages to be completely absorbing. If you like your rock deconstructed to the nth degree, we highly recommend you dig this.
