Pumajaw - Curiosity Box [2008]

A brand new album from Pinky Maclure and John Wills, Curiosity Box finds Pumajaw faithfully replicating the post folk revival fusions of the early '70s with a little help from fellow Brit folkers Alidair Roberts and James Yorkston. While the songwriting and vocal delivery is very much shaped by traditional folk values, the sort of instrumentation Pumajaw utilize defies convention, having more in common with Six Organs Of Admittance than Shirley Collins, something demonstrated ably by the trance-inducing psychedelia of 'Visiting Hour Pt. 2'. The relatively faithful harmonium-driven balladry of 'Mother & The Two Trees' shows that the duo can adhere to old-fashioned values when they want to, although it's not long before the almost inevitable close call with Wicker Man-style wyrdness crops up on 'Buds', which in no small way resembles an electronically enhanced 'Willow's Song'. Curisosity Box has a lot going for it - it's a highly enjoyable and gratifyingly unpredictable alt. folk outing with all the right leanings towards gothic storytelling and pastoral melancholy.

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Curiosity Box [2008]

PuMaJaW

MV,EE and Gabriel Walsh - Temptation To Zoology [2003]

Un impulso de sus reflejos han capturado las escenas mágicas que abstractas dan forma a esta obra "Temptation To Zoology" bajo la cuna de Children of Microtones en el año 2003, Matt Valentine, Erika Elder y ahora la colaboración de Gabriel Walsh.
Historia orgánica custodiada por las hievas, es medicina natural, cual es el similar efecto que se riega en amor a la distancia para emerger en los colores de su isla?, en continuidad sonora y sensorial profunda de oídos atentos, observando las frecuencias que activan el baile de la mar, un paso en el cielo que mantuvo con fé, ahora estas preparado para flotar!.

El formato de video en el cual lo he subido es avi.
The format of video in which I have raised it is avi.


Matt Valentine Interview / Dream Magazine

Matt Valentine has made some of the most enjoyable acoustic based psychedelic improvisational music ever recorded, both in his several solo albums (usually with Erika Elder aka EE, pictured above with MV), and work with the band Tower Recordings (with folks like: P.G. Six, Helen Rush, Erika Elder, and Tim Barnes among others). Matt’s solo albums tend towards the more spare and spectral end of the spectrum; acoustic explorations that show their Fahey roots as well as a deep love of Indian classical music and much more. The music he makes with Tower Recordings fuses a Takoma Records acoustic based organic folk sensibility with a spaceman/caveman psychedelic tribalism that employs: various (mostly) acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, marimba, tin whistle, Wurlitzer electric piano, ring modulator, shakuhachi, cello, piano, tapes, primitive electronics, autoharp, oscillator, drums, and more with a sense that they are also playing the acoustics of the given space they are reverberating within. There is some Incredible String Band in the mix as well; along with, the earliest recorded blues, ESP Disk outsider vibes, and clouds and clouds of smoke. Some of Matt’s finest solo outings include: Tonight! One Night Only! MV & EE in Heaven (originally issued on Matt’s Child of Microtones imprint, and later on vinyl by Time-Lag), Space Chanties (Fringes Recordings), and Glorious Group Therapy (Ecstatic Yod). A couple essential TR releases are: Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles (Siltbreeze), and Folk Scene (Communion).

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Temptation To Zoology [2003] (part1/part2)

MV + EE w/ Willie Lane - East Mountain Joint

Jackie-O Motherfucker : Freedomland [2008]

Artist: Jackie O Motherfucker
Album: Freedomland
Label: Very Friendly
Review date: Oct. 9, 2008


Freedomland documents a series of live performances by the summer 2006 incarnation of Jackie O Motherfucker, an outfit centered around guitarist and turntablist Tom Greenwood, but with a rotating cast of supporting members. This version of JOMF is a particularly incendiary one, jettisoning the gentler folkier experiments of the Theo Angell/Samara Lubielski years, and focusing instead on a noisy, freely improvised clatter and storm.

The impetus for the shift is likely Inca Ore’s Eve Salens, who also sang with JOMF on 2006’s Valley of Fire. She is an extraordinarily volatile presence here, caterwauling and moaning and free-associating through a minefield of explosive sounds. Utterly unconstrained, she has a speaking-in-tongues quality that encourages everyone else in the band to greater levels of cacophony. Consider for instance, the relatively accessible opening track "Devotion" where she chants "You know devotion," over and over at escalating volumes. As she approaches catharsis, the drummer, Danny Sasaki, follows right along with her, his pounding coalescing into an almost continuous barrage of pounding. The guitars, too, erupt into jagged masses of discord, underlining the chaotic crescendo. The lyrics seem almost random. They are delivered in a flat sing-song with odd syllables emphasized. And yet, the excitement is palpable.

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Freedomland [2008] (part1/part2)

2008.06.04 / Live at O-nest in Shibuya / Tokyo : Nice One

Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer - A Rather Solemn Promise / From The Great American Songbook [2007/2008]

From The Great American Songbook CD

Preservation sure now how to package their releases: this second collaboration between Charalambides' Tom Carter and Christian Keefer comes housed in a lovely fold-out sleeve housing thick card inserts with liner notes for each song as penned by some of the avant-folk royalty these two are prone to hanging around with. Wooden Wand, Sharron Kraus, Glenn Jones, Tetuzi Akiyama and Tony Conrad are among the writers who pay tribute not only to Tom and Christian, but their source material - all of which comes from American traditional folk songs now in the public domain. As you'd probably expect, these two aren't always prone to sticking closely to their original texts, and familiar standards like 'Camptown Races' are given a fairly liberal overhaul. Tony Conrad writes at length about the interesting use of 'Doodah' in the original, citing this as one of the earliest examples of scat singing. That's the kind of info most albums just wouldn't bother giving you, but you'll be glad of the pains Preservation have gone to in providing context for these often very obscure songs (usually made that little bit more obscure by the adventurous cover artists). Highly Recommended.

A Rather Solemn Promise CD

Charalambides' Tom Carter teams up with fellow string alchemist Christian Kiefer for some Loren Mazzacane Connors-influenced spectral blues. Once you've got over the gorgeous hand-screened sleeves (courtesy of Badgerlore's Rob Fisk) you're in for the kind of freeform guitar duets that made similarly-minded outings (such as last year's excellent Tetuzi Akiyama & Donald McPherson head-to-head) such captivating listening. The tone varies between the rollicking Takoma-isms of 'Glass Palace' and the slide guitar weirdness of 'Song the Land Sings', via the ghostly banjo bust-ups of 'Snake River', with each piece delivered with a stereo dynamics setup whereby one musician takes the left, the other the right, giving a real sense of being in and amongst the performance. Tom Carter's guitar in Charalambides has always been enriched with a kind of starkly atmospheric resonance, and in Kiefer he's clearly found a likeminded artist. Consequently, it's a great pleasure to hear the two meandering through these psyched-up American Primitive discourses with such a gnarled authenticity.

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From The Great American Songbook [2008]

A Rather Solemn Promise [2007]

Christian Kiefer *Live* George Washington

Suki Ewers - Kind of Hazy [2008]

Suki Ewers has spent her career perfecting a glorious, countrified strand of dream-pop as part of bands Mazzy Star, Opal and Anemone, and this new Kramer-produced solo outing is comparable with the slowcore loveliness of Low, the stargazing Nashville sounds of Cortney Tidwell, and most obviously, the opiated balladry of former bandmate Hope Sandoval, particularly on the brilliant opener 'Time After Time'. The songwriting and production are in perfect harmony, sounding like a pedal steel-toting Velvet Underground on 'All Day Long', whilst spouting blasts of echoing guitar distortion and searing synthesizer on 'This Must Be Heaven'. Sidestepping the dream-pop pitfalls, Ewers never hides her songs - or for that matter her vocals - behind the array of studio techniques and effects that help shape this album, and Kind Of Hazy resounds far more clearly than its title might have you believe.

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Kind of Hazy [2008]

"Know What You're Saying" Suki Ewers

Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - S/T [2008]

Photo by Paul Santoleri


Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh
See also: Espers, Ghost

Helena Espvall MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/helenaespvall

Ghost Home Page:
http://www.ab.cyberhome.ne.jp/~pochamal/

Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - S/T [2008]

Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh (1 of 1) @ Terrastock 7

Matt Valentine + Erika Elder - "Ragas of the Culvert" / "Total Loss Songs" [2008]

MV & EE is a group of musicians focused around Matt "MV" Valentine and his partner Erika "EE" Elder. Matt Valentine was in the neo-psychedelic group, The Tower Recordings. While the duo recorded under many different names, including MV & EE Medicine Show and The Bummer Road, most of the records center around both artists and feature a rotating cast of additional musicians. Their style is self-described as "lunar ragas", with many of the lyrics dealing with celestial imagery. They combine Indian raga style composition with Appalachian folk and post-psychedelic electrical experimentalism. They use Western and Eastern acoustic instruments amplified and augmented with effects such as reverb, delay, and flange. Their compositions occasionally feature vocals, which are off-kilter and rambling, while seeming drugged.

TLR 062: MVEE ragas of the culvert LP

out of print.

released 17 june 2008. ragas of the culvert, previously self-released as a CD-R in an edition of less than 50 copies as well as a quickly sold out cassette on fuck it tapes, is a glorious revisiting of the lunar raga style that created so much of MV+EE's past. this meditative and purely instrumental six track voyage is guaranteed to transport you to distant worlds. click here for a downloadable preview, "you matter."

ragas of the culvert will be from an edition of 840 copies pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. the record will be housed within "old style" stoughton LP sleeves bearing a new design by both matt and erika. we are expecting this one to ship in early june. copies pre-ordered by may 20, 2008, were accompanied by a bonus CD, total loss songs (TLR-063), featuring 50 minutes of previously unreleased and newly recorded material.

TLR 063: MVEE total loss songs CD

out of print

released 17 june 2008. performed and recorded by matt valentine, erika elder and the golden road in late 2007 and early 2008. from a limited edition of 480 copies. included with all pre-orders of MVEE's ragas of the culvert LP.

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Ragas of the Culvert [2008]

Total Loss Songs [2008]

Matt Valentine & Erika Elder Festival Sinsal Salón Teatro

G h o s t

The constant evolution renews the organisms of the shaded environment, a resonance magneto catches spectra before the silence of the houses-habitación-celdas, the movement in a situation, sonorous investigation(research) Ghost, catches primitive frequencies of the human body, they transport messages of carbon dioxide, bloom ova, a beam of light returns to turn in the anatomical compression, towards one perfect contemporary symphony of Post Rock & Acid Folk.

La constante evolución renueva los organismos del entorno sombrio, un magneto de resonancia capta espectros ante el silencio de las casas-habitación-celdas, el movimiento en un trance, investigación sonora Ghost, capta frecuencias primitivas del cuerpo humano, transportan mensajes de dioxido de carbono, florecen ovulos, un rayo de luz vuelve a girar en la compresión anatómica, hacia un perfecta sinfonía contemporanea de Post Rock & Acid Folk.

MySpace.com - Ghost - Tokyo

Overture: Live In Nippon Yusen Soko 2006 [2007]

In Stormy Nights [2007]

Hypnotic Underworld [2004]

Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet [1999]

Snuffbox Immanence [1999]

Lama Rabi Rabi [1996]

Temple Stone [1994]

Second Time Around [1992]

Ghost [1990]

Ghost - Live at Lux Frágil

Lsd Pond (lsd march & bardo pond)

lsd pond - self-titled

(lsd march & bardo pond)
aRCHIVE, 2008

Este año el placer de encontrar la obra del bardo junto al ácido LSD extrae mi absoluta satisfacción auditiva, en un monologo repetido en compaces extensos, la producción de material libre, expansivo, es una tarde de sol suave, en pleno invierno, la claridad de la naturaleza pasiva, tranquila, tal como un zorzal que pliega sus alas grises bajando en un cuadro de montes, por los senderos de viento frío en el sur, en el cielo, que estalla sonidos.

tracklist:
disc 1: recorded live, october 11, 2006.
1. we are lsd pond (17:22)
2. hikari naki sekai (23:13)
3. tamerai to kurushimi (5:20)
4. utuwa no naka no mizu (15:43)
5. dosyaburi no naka de (10:47)

disc 2: recorded live, october 14, 2006.
1. we are lsd pond (25:06)
2. sugatanaki kyofu (27:00)
3. yoru kara yorue (19:44)

parte I / parte II / parte III


Lsd March 7/07


Bardo Pond - Be a Fish~?

LSD March

(It gets so lonely in the belly of a whale. But the acoustics are fantastic. The pitch and yaw of its cavernous gut lowing with a long, guttural song burst. This is met by a loud, wailing which drone swells up as millions of gallons pass through tons of ambergris. These massive internal sound collisions resonate into a monstrous feedback of even greater proportion than the beast itself. And Jonah smiles. This is the sound of LSD March. Be the body of Christ and let the whale take of YOU.
LSD March is a Japanese psychedelic rock group, based in the city of Himeji. It is led by singer and guitarist Shinsuke Michishita. The group is named after a track by krautrock group Guru Guru. Michishita has also played with Magura Mozart and Doodles.) *

La figura de los cuerpos ovalados de tus ojos resplandeciendo por ingesta de mescalina sin medida, un oscuro tunel de energía cosmica se hace tan solo en el vientre de una ballena. Pero la acústica es fantástica!!!. El diapasón se expande y guiña de sus mugidos cavernosos viscerales con una explosión de canción larga, gutural, costante en el tiempo, experimentando en la conciencia miles de aperturas a distintas y llamativas dimensiones. Esto es encontrado por un ruidoso golpe amplificado, llorando, cual zumbido se hincha, como millones de galones que pasan por el mar de ámbar gris. a colisiones masivas internas sanan, resuenan en una regeneración monstruosa de proporción aún mayor que la bestia en sí mismo. Jonás reira hasta cansarse. Esto es el sonido de marzo LSD. Esté el cuerpo de Cristo y deje a la ballena tomar de USTED.

LSD marzo es un grupo de rock japonés psicodélico, basado en la ciudad de Himeji. Es conducido por el cantante y el guitarrista Shinsuke Michishita. El grupo es llamado asi también, por una pista de la legendaria maquina de krautrock Guru Guru.
Michishita también ha jugado con Magura, Mozart y Garabatos obsenos disueltos como materia en movimiento de melodias para un gran viaje.

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MySpace.com - LSD MARCH - Hyogo Himeji-city

Nikutai No Tubomi [2007]

Constellation of Tragedy [2007]

Live [2006]

Empty Rubious Red [2005]

Shindara Jigoku [2004]

Kanashimino Bishounen [2004]

Totsuzen Honoo No Gotoku (Suddenly, Like Flames) [2002]

1997-2001 At Mushroom [2001]

lsd march @ vox populi in Philadelphia

Electrodomesticos + El Resplandor / Carlos Cabezas

Chilean band of the old school, his ultramodern offer in ' 80s, difficult receptive digestion, but extremely valued with posteriority, new materials.
Domestic appliances I saturate of sharp sheens in the musical mentioned environment, inside the sound box that appeases the guitar, he found in the way the surrounding sonorities, working from the keyboards, it is the most precise way of speaking with the experimentation.
The discs that I am sharing with you are full of suggestive ideas, you sink because of the feeling, the human condition of meat that disarms the social knots, conintesidades exploiting energy, and moribund collapses of freedom in the calm room speaker, mechanical solution does not exist, while they join grain after grain the new melody derock to be left to go.

Banda chilena de la vieja escuela, su propuesta vanguardista en los '80s, difícil digestión receptiva, pero sumamente valorada con posterioridad, nuevos materiales.

Electrodomésticos saturo de brillos agudos en el ambiente musical mencionado, dentro la caja de resonancia que aplaca la guitarra, encontró en el camino las sonoridades envolventes, trabajando desde los teclados, es la forma más precisa de hablar con la experimentación.
Los discos que estoy compartiendo con ustedes están llenos de ideas sugestivas, naufragas a causa del sentimiento, la humana condición de carne que desarma los nudos sociales, con intesidades eruptando energía, y moribundos colapsos de libertad en la tranquila habitación parlante, no existe solución mecánica, mientras juntan grano tras grano la nueva melodía de rock para dejarse llevar.

La Nueva Canción Chilena [2004]

Viva Chile! [1986]

+ El Resplandor / Carlos Cabezas [1997]

yo la quería - electrodomésticos

Dead Meadow

It supports the energy at the edge of the psychodelic dementia of classic bands as the Sabbath, riff intense sharing matter with a melodic voice. To my taste you have to light a cigarette and raise the volume to your sound system, play with equalizer well the low ones.

Mantiene la energía al borde de la demencia sicodélica de bandas clásicas como los Sabbath, riff intensos compartiendo materia con una voz melódica. A mi gusto tienes que prender un cigarrillo y subirle el volumen a tu equipo de sonido, ecualiza bien los bajos.

Deadmeadow.com.

MySpace.com - Dead Meadow.

Dead Meadow [2001]

Howls from the Hills [2001]

Got Live if You Want It! [2002]

Shivering King and Others [2003]

Feathers [2005]

Old Growth [2008]

Dead Meadow- What Needs Must Be