Long Legged Woman:
+ Like an old security camera tape of the Velvet Underground in an endless hall of mirrors.
+ ...two wizards for a shamanicoïde.
+ An endless rain of suffocating feedback and heavily treated loops...
nicolasTone:
+ ... like three or four different albums being played simultaneously in some parking garage by a group of teenage pranksters...
Chartreuse:
+ ...an orchestra tuning in a backwards harmony.
+ ...a charcoal-hued ambient guitar drone with the epic thrust of a video game RGP overture.
Sweet Teeth:
+ ...it's kind of like a night of genre-busting improv at a sweaty roadhouse.
+ Sounding like tribal beats deep within a cavern, [Sweet Teeth] brings a howling justice to the minds of the listener.
better people:
+ a vast amount of mystery, unease, and... hollowness...
+ ...an echo chamber of psychotropic amplifier belches and disembodied voices
TRHP, in general:
+ [TRHP] is one of those labels which is required listening - Ghost Don't Walk
+ In any case, [Thor's Rubber Hammer] has not only begun to document the deep underground of the Athens scene, but has also, by way of providing an outlet for it, inspired more creative energy in this area. So, hell yeah. -Flagpole
Last Winter We Didn't Sing CD OUT NOW Last Winter We Didn't Sing features winter holiday-inspired music from the likes of Scott Tuma, The Instruments (Elephant 6 cellist, and Gnarls Barkley touring bassist Heather McIntosh), pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn with a hauntingly beautiful 16-minute solo improvisation, Greg Davis inspired by a Simon & Garfunkel "Silent Night" arrangement, Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan, Fabio Orsi playing an ambient noir-jazz piece like something out of Twin Peaks, Nicholas Szczepanik and Chartreuse slowing down a traditional French waltzing carol. It's a somber, reflective and sometimes haunting take on the season with a beautiful illustration by Ariel Kitch screen-printed on eco-packs by Sire Press. Hand-numbered edition of 300.More info and free MP3 download here.
The Ecstatic Jazz Duos Series collects six of the most innovative duos in the avant-jazz/free-noise realm. Each duo contributes a side of vinyl over three LPs (each in an edition of 500) to be released over 2008. The subscription (limited to just 100) includes all three 12"s plus stickers, buttons, and a CDr of exclusive content only available to subscribers. Artwork and series design by Cristopher Cichocki.
LP1: Talibam! / Wasteland Jazz Unit (OUT NOW)
LP2: I Heart Lung / DWMTG
LP3: Valerio Cosi & Enzo Franchini / Jeremiah Cymerman & Matthew Welch
No More Paths to Sounder Sleep CD by ChartreuseOUT NOW
Ecstatic Jazz Duos split LP with Talibam! and Wasteland Jazz UnitOUT NOW
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RELEASES
[TRHP23] V/A- Last Winter We Didn't Sing CD
[TRHP22] I Heart Lung- Interoceans 2xLP date tba
[TRHP21] Gene Janas & Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut- RAY-GUN CDr EP
[TRHP20] Nick Hennies- Paths CDr
[TRHP19] Talibam! / Wasteland Jazz Unit- Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP
[TRHP18] (deleted, for now)
[TRHP17] Gay Africa- Pizzaze! CDr EP
[THRP16] Long Legged Woman “Something is Pressing Against It from the Inside” b/w “Scalpels in the Sky” 7”
[TRHP15] nicolasTone- I’M TONE DEAF (musicpourlessourds) 3” CDr
[TRHP14] Totally Dad- New Black Draughms CDr
[TRHP13] Chartreuse- No More Paths to Sounder Sleep CD
[TRHP12] The Green Knight- The Eternal Om CS
[TRHP11] better people- salvia inside the broken home CDr EP
[TRHP10] Long Legged Woman- Newtown Nights CDr
[TRHP09] SFCD- How Saint Francis Tamed the Very Fierce Wolf of Gubbio CDr
[TRHP08] Sweet Teeth- From the Fourth Hand of the Buddha the Lotus Was Born for the Seventh Time CDr
[TRHP07] Owl Xounds- Stoned and Zoned 2x3”CDr SOLD OUT
[TRHP06] V/A- Brownturnsblack CDr SOLD OUT
[TRHP05] Chartreuse- Summit 3” CDr SOLD OUT
[TRHP04] Long Legged Woman- The End of False Religion CDr SOLD OUT
[TRHP03] Elephant 666 Orchestra- The Crisis! Compendium 2xCDr SOLD OUT
[TRHP02] V/A- Deeded to Itself: Athens Southernoise CDr
[TRHP01] Mad Onion Burger- Talking Anus Cowboy 3” CDr
aw, thanks brother!! truly appreciate the kind words (don cherry's on of my favorites as well, right next to albert ayler). we should talk about a release later this summer! we're working on a c60 for stunned right now + some various splits, but when those are done, we should do a tape or some vinyl...
Sometimes an album comes along that just sweeps us right to those endless summer nights where lying back on the still-warm grass, we realize the scope of inverted abyss in the sky above and breathe deep in awe. Rambutan’s ‘Broken Infinity’ is just such a listening experience. Crafted by the hands of the poly-talented Eric Hardiman of the Tape Drift label & Century Plants/Burnt Hills fame, this solo release is filled with aching intention and eye opening wanderlust. Past Rambutan releases tend toward carving out crushing scoops of night-tinged tones with his nimbly-processed six string. That wall-of-guitar power is also found here, but additionally Eric investigates stretches of glassy vibrato downpour & spooked twilight sustain. It’s relieving to find compositions willing to breathe like this, balancing dark and dominant outer forces with the levity of an inner infinite impulse, broken as it may temporarily be. Hand numbered edition of 100 painted cdrs with full color sleeve & insert card in vinyl jacket.
