An understated whopper of an album is what we've got here. 27 songs by over a dozen artists and groups working out of Canada circa the late 1990s, and centering around the great Royal Art Lodge. Compiled by Michael Dumontier {Eyeball Hurt & the Medicine) from a tape he sent us back in the day, with a few other additions, this slab o' wax captures a miraculous period not only in musical exploration and song creation, but accurately sums up what it's like to work on such endeavors in the comfort of your own homes when no one else is around. Great vibe throughout both sides.
Features pieces by Eyeball Hurt & The Medicine, Untanned Hide of a Young Cow, Drue & Myles Langlois, Alien Hybrid, NDF, Rudy Bust, Albatross, Pot Roast, Tom Elliott, Go action with da-da sound, Adrian Shalom Williams, The Garage People and Todd Martin. It's funny, its poignant, its brilliant from start to finish. If you like compilations that come at you from all sides, and find a place of honor in your collection - this is the LP for you.
Edition of 210 copies, screen printed cover, four-page booklet. Not many left. $12 each.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I GOT MY HANDZ FULL!
Oh boy. DJ Dirty Pillowz is known to wreck vibes at otherwise groovin' get togethers. Why people keep asking him to spin is beyond us. Yet there he was recently kicking a lone turntable to change up the skipping vinyl he was playing for a "crowd" at a "show." Apparently, he thought enough of himself to put together a cdr of sliced up hip hop 12" singles that he reconfigured and played on shitty turntables. He gave us a few copies done in a totally bootleg street vendor style - crummy cover image, blurry porn, and no info whatsoever anywhere - and we're passing them on to you if you dare. So, like, it's an edition of 4 copies (about 50 minutes of music) for $5. Please.
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LUCKY WAFFLES
Stewart Voegtlin and Marshall Avett were invited by Todd the Werewolf to do whatever they wanted in an old warehouse before it was converted into - guess what? - lofts! So they dragged a drum kit, some horns, other percussion items, a reel-to-reel machine and some microphones and hit it. The result is this recording, which shows the depth of the space they invaded and just how cool nails sound when hurled across a cement floor towards a shitty microphone. Is it jazz? Is it metal concrete? Uh...
Edition of 50, color inserts, $5 each, and named after their cats (circa 2001).
"The strangeness of this artifact may derive from the fact that it was recorded in an empty warehouse... you wont know where to put yourself as you spin this blarting oddity and succumb to its acoustical conundrums." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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Edition of 50, color inserts, $5 each, and named after their cats (circa 2001).
"The strangeness of this artifact may derive from the fact that it was recorded in an empty warehouse... you wont know where to put yourself as you spin this blarting oddity and succumb to its acoustical conundrums." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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NUCLEAR WINTER
Two lengthy ice-cold jams from Zandosis recorded in an empty concrete and glass room in February of 2005 or 2006. After the war, you spent weeks? months? years? in that bunker trying to tune your emergency radio in to any signs of human life out there. Finally, you decide to open the hatch and venture out. Your house is gone. Your neighborhood is gone. Your city is gone. There is only a gray landscape and these constantly falling big fat snowflakes that seem to glow in the white sky. You stick your tongue out, catch one of these flakes, and taste these sounds. Edition of 50, color cover, $5 each.
"This one could be something of a grower; it has some sense of rawness and import which you wont find among the more polite end of the acoustic-improv spectrum." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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"This one could be something of a grower; it has some sense of rawness and import which you wont find among the more polite end of the acoustic-improv spectrum." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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?
Old Gold is proud to unearth and release onto wax these melodic masterpieces which have a timeless, tireless power unto themselves. Like the spawn of the Beach Boys and the Beatles, the glorious Italian duo LMALL sound like they have been entertaining tourists on the coast of Brescia for decades, with lovely, multi-instrumental flourishes to their unusual pop songs reminiscent of Martin Denny and Harry Mancini. To wake up or make your day, this is music that simply feels good.
The lyrics are English but in a whispery accent that is at times hard to grasp. The band name, Le Man Avec Les Lunettes, is strangely untranslateable (the man with the crescent moon shaped glasses), and to add to the esoterica, the album title is simply "?" - wild courage from these young poets of the old country.
But following a thorough listen, tracks like "She's a Dogsitter," "Hallo Hallo", and "Victoria's Swimming Pool" reveal a great since of humor; we're all having fun together. Sometimes we're not sure if it's ironic, but we can all laugh and cry at the infatuations of young love/lust that recur lyrically amid the happy/sad dreamscapes that rise from the spinning vinyl. (Pink Floyd/Tim Buckley references intended.)
Le Man Avec Les Lunettes (or simply LMALL) are Fabio Benni and Alessandro Paderno. This release corresponds to their successful CD on Italy's Zahr records. This is their first American release, and the first release of Old Gold Lucky 13, a pop/noise imprint of Old Gold Records. AND it's only $10!
REVIEWS:
"Old Gold has branched out with a subsidiary! Lucky 13 is a "pop" imprint, and the first release is an LP from this Italian (yes, Italian - the album as released on CD in Italy) band. Le Man is a duo who can apparently, between them, play most any instrument. It's good, diverse '60s-derived psychedelic pop, sung in English in a relaxed, Lennon-like style, harmonies and all. It's all very light and pleasant, with friendly organ, acoustic guitar, adn moments of musical whimsy. I guess there'll always be a place for music like this. Le Man pull it off as well as, or better than, most." (Dugan Trodglen, Stomp and Stammer, July 2007)
Le Man Avec Les Lunettes is, in their own words, "an Italian project, that have a French name and that sings in English". They claim to be influenced by "Belle & Sebastian, Blur, Beatles, Beach Boys", and probably some other bands that start with B. The name of this track may or may not be "Sybil Vane", but either way it's pretty damn good: - Chris (gorillavs. bear blog)
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The lyrics are English but in a whispery accent that is at times hard to grasp. The band name, Le Man Avec Les Lunettes, is strangely untranslateable (the man with the crescent moon shaped glasses), and to add to the esoterica, the album title is simply "?" - wild courage from these young poets of the old country.
But following a thorough listen, tracks like "She's a Dogsitter," "Hallo Hallo", and "Victoria's Swimming Pool" reveal a great since of humor; we're all having fun together. Sometimes we're not sure if it's ironic, but we can all laugh and cry at the infatuations of young love/lust that recur lyrically amid the happy/sad dreamscapes that rise from the spinning vinyl. (Pink Floyd/Tim Buckley references intended.)
Le Man Avec Les Lunettes (or simply LMALL) are Fabio Benni and Alessandro Paderno. This release corresponds to their successful CD on Italy's Zahr records. This is their first American release, and the first release of Old Gold Lucky 13, a pop/noise imprint of Old Gold Records. AND it's only $10!
REVIEWS:
"Old Gold has branched out with a subsidiary! Lucky 13 is a "pop" imprint, and the first release is an LP from this Italian (yes, Italian - the album as released on CD in Italy) band. Le Man is a duo who can apparently, between them, play most any instrument. It's good, diverse '60s-derived psychedelic pop, sung in English in a relaxed, Lennon-like style, harmonies and all. It's all very light and pleasant, with friendly organ, acoustic guitar, adn moments of musical whimsy. I guess there'll always be a place for music like this. Le Man pull it off as well as, or better than, most." (Dugan Trodglen, Stomp and Stammer, July 2007)
Le Man Avec Les Lunettes is, in their own words, "an Italian project, that have a French name and that sings in English". They claim to be influenced by "Belle & Sebastian, Blur, Beatles, Beach Boys", and probably some other bands that start with B. The name of this track may or may not be "Sybil Vane", but either way it's pretty damn good: - Chris (gorillavs. bear blog)
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LOVE CHANGES
Man, these guys could put on a live show! But they also rocked a studio for these songs and they sound every bit as dreamy as they did live. Forever was Ben Young's post-Bad Poet/pre-Bon Vivants group, and if you are familiar with either of those incarnations you'll be ripe for this sweet fruit. It's an actual CD with a poor reproduction of one of Ben's paintings on the cover - a kind of nod to Love's Forever Changes LP. Get it? I knew you would. $5.
"Forever pretents nothing more than to be just a pop band. Making good songs and tunes is their trade. They sound unpretentious, friendly and a litle folky. Their are some nice instumental (distorted) parts. Nice arrangments also. These people seem to be in good balance. So have a good time with 'Love changes'." - Vital Weekly
"The simplicity and the honesty is the beauty of it." - Tom Schulte, Outsight
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"Forever pretents nothing more than to be just a pop band. Making good songs and tunes is their trade. They sound unpretentious, friendly and a litle folky. Their are some nice instumental (distorted) parts. Nice arrangments also. These people seem to be in good balance. So have a good time with 'Love changes'." - Vital Weekly
"The simplicity and the honesty is the beauty of it." - Tom Schulte, Outsight
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