big jullien & his all star - riviera sound no.1

it's now been reissued on CD (or vinyl) !!! OMFG !!!
fruity french acid stomp cabaret strident brassy kitsch cheese monster funk from 1970.
see here.
get it.
through your usual trusted whitebread outlet or drop sonorama a line.

blurt: kenny rogers' greatest hit ( take 2), & pagan strings

two out of printers for you to hopefully keep you from our door while we take our own sweet time sortimg out that powerdresser motherlode we promised you a while back.
we got disease, we got to move house. it will be a while but we will have it done.
anyhoo:
if you don't dig blurt, well you must be dead in the head, surely? for those not in the know: minimalist harmolodic chicken-walk no-wave glam-stomp afropop teddy boy dadaist funk band featuring ted milton's alternately benny hill show / braxton / jajouka yakety sax & barked & whooped cubist mouthwordings. early years incl "kenny rogers'..." steve eagles gtr & nic murcott drums; later on incl "pagan strings" chris vine gtr, paul wigens drums.
fkn ace.
1989: kenny rogers' greatest hit ( take 2 )
1992: pagan strings

yasuaki shimizu:"music for commercials" : re-post

cos it's in 320 & smartened up n that now.
clunky state of the art 80's fairlight technology comes over in sumptuous debussyesque herky jerky no-wave with fruity sax.
here, you bums!

eventually...

you'll have to forgive our limp and shriveled presence here: "real life" ensues !
hoping to re-do all powerdresser recordings, and the yasuaki shimizu cd in 320kbps 4 ya, real soon.
don't wait up though!

trumans water manifesto

make of this what you will:

brain of morbius flyer

just found this amongst detritus: flyer 1990-1993?






















i will take the opportunity to remind you of:

here comes the brain;

random compilation ( possibly most of "arse theatre"? );

ancient briton;

swimming down the tweed;

more stuff from "happy dirty"

harry pussy: vigilance ( with scan!)

ok we posted this before but we got 'round to scanning the cover this time, and on the joyous occasion that mister bill orcutt's "a new way to pay old debts" lp is available for purchase and enjoyment ( uk peeps go volcanic tongue, buy ), what better way to celebrate than with one of orcutt & hoyos' earliest & finest audio excursions.
side one or two here
side two or one here.
thanks as always to dylan and lisa for being so prescient, in there & out there as theee advocates through time.

dekorder records sale.

help out marc at dekorder records he's having a 50% clearout sale on all distributed mail order items, due to a big move.
If you're a sucker for the old fashioned physical media he has many many gems for you !
don't be too slow !

sun city girls: carnival folklore resurrection # 5: severed finger with a wedding ring

2000: number 5 in this limited "carnival folklore resurrection" series is a doozy.
the girls are captured live in seattle: we get loose sphinctered pisstake blues gurning, psychedelic egyptian munsters garage punk jams, aggressive and deranged beatnik pastiche, and some of the most simultaneously tight /loose improv flipping & flapping between various faux-ethnic touchpoints with inspired lunacy.
a true gem.
here
in 320

ronald shannon jackson and the decoding society: mandance

1982 antilles, and well out of print. i think this is elsewhere on the infotainment super highway but here at the xray we've rendered it in glorious 320 kbps as if you deserve it !
again poptastic harmolodic no-wave funk fusion maybe the lesser cousin of the peak that is "barbeque dog" but still better than much else i've heard in the last couple of decades

here

ronald shannon jackson: raven roc

1992 DIW: this is more of a roadhouse blues meets cosby show theme tune set, but with enough shamanistic harmolodic skew and rough edge to pique (peak?) the interest - no horns, but some of the guitars get paul leary-esque in places!
shannon jackson is dressed in some smashing leather gypsy pirate wizard black nail polish panto outfits on the inlays. neat-o

ronald shannon jackson & the decoding society: barbeque dog

been on an RSJ jag of late, and figured i'd take a look around for this OOP gem - found it - for pennies!

1983: Antilles: jeepers this is the business! wild, impassioned and woolly hyper-pop no-wave harmolodic funk-jazz instruMENTALISM!

flippin' perfect!

das ist fisch: owlinamy

repost just cos i got round to scanning the inlay.
freakin excellent.
stop wasting your time

no, really, please

moebius & plank: en route.

1986. (plus 3 remixes by manu guiot 1995).
dieter moebius & conny plank.
you should have a rough idea of what to expect.

here

god is my co - pilot: what doctors don't tell you

repost (because seemingly you don't know what is good for you, you emo fushitsusha slaves) 1993 shrimper tapes.
what is wrong with you?

hermeto pascoal: 5 albums

these are gleaned from all over the interweb but the tags have been corrected n all that OCD bidniss.
we thought it worth presenting them here and highlighting the fact that hermeto's euphoric choro / samba / jazz fusion frequently sounds more like zappa or koenji hyakkei's tangliest than his soul patch'n'sandals endorsees might lead you to believe.
hermeto plays pretty much any instrument but favours a coarse wayne shorter / gary bartz tone on soprano sax, or any one of a number of flutes, or the piano accordion, or the clavinet etc etc... "e grupo" lay down his polyrhythmic fundament.
1979: zabumbe-bum-a features a long, menacing zeuhl plodder and a spectacular electronics / horns / percussion jam
1980: cerebro magnetico features "Música das Nuvens e do Chão" - some kid of squarepusher meets ruins via kenny g samba HIT, and a buncha euphoric flutey stuff that sounds like it could only be used to soundtrack pokemon type creatures tumbling down grassy hills in a hiyao miyazaki movie
1986: brasil universo apparently one of morgen ågren's favourite lps
1992: festa dos deuses you'd swear half of this was tatsuya yoshida
2004: mundo verde esperanca super tangly zappaesque progism with blithely beatific acid jazz noodlings

grauzone: eisbär

bob drake

dan stearns: one step from the street

jad fair - best wishes

posted this years back as all 42 tracks on a single 128kbps track.
here it is now all 42 tracks are 320kbps, separated, IDed & zipped.
jad in instrumental mode - recorded 1982-85. best wishes released on lp on no man's land records.
beautiful scraggly bouncy earshredding naive textural pop hyperactivity like no other.
hints of late 70's residents, but way more playful & much further out than that.
here

metabolist: hansten klork lp, cassettes & singles

UK: 1979-1981: malcolm lane - guitar, synth, vocals; simon millward - bass, vocals, synth; and mark rowlatt - drums, percussion.
minimalist dub zeuhl?
PiL 2nd ed at 16rpm w/ horns? (actually it's pretty pacey)
arkansas man in a dank rusty reverb tank?
shub niggurath rendered as art-brut lobotomy punk?
here

tomoe shinohara: deep sound channel

1999: cheesy as hell disc of remixes of ms tomoe w/ a couple of (fairly unremarkable) originals thrown in to boot. of course the japanese language rendered in shinohara's remarkable reedy helium with the occasional soft vibrato closing phrases and the odd falsetto hoot/hiccup here & there comes over as so much high pitched hyperactive gibberish to the uneducated western ear, but that of course is where part of the appeal lies for many of us. some of these mixes depend on a knowledge of the original track for them to make "sense", but a good proportion of these work themselves up into an infectious dayglo tizzy before you realise you're on the podium ... with glow sticks ... in the studio filming the children's tv show. blow your whistle. here

ed hall: gloryhole; motherscratcher; la la land

3 releases from this stellar outfit from austin, texas.
"gloryhole" is the bomb.
ed hall got most commonly compared to the butthole surfers, whose king coffey ran the trance syndicate label on which these three albums were released. we tend to describe them as if nomeansno had changed direction after touring with flipper on a non stop diet of pot, mushrooms & mexican food. wiry psycho-boogie bass, needling guitar, stomping caveman rhythms. classic rock moves are played off against angular nerdisms and wildly unhinged vocals.
on "motherscratcher" and "la la land" the band appear to have mellowed a little, meaning some of their residential hillbilly grindings are less urgent, more perfunctory and maybe less than the sum of their parts, but we do get some super spacey pink floyd / TFUL282 w/ cast iron balls action in places which is well worth it (also a couple of super 20min cd-runout soundscapes on these two).
gloryhole
motherscratcher
la la land

bob bannister: "easterly" 7 inch (in full), and "eight day clock" lp

hello all.
you'll have to excuse our limp presence of late but we're out playing in the sunshine!
ok, so:
"eight day clock" from 1992 on twisted village records.
surely you know mister bannister - tono bungay n all? psychedelic drone guitar / bass / organ ragas? a hint of folky blues, a hint of synthetic futuristic escapism via 4 track home studio hiss?
this is really really good.
here
in 320 kbps.
also i posted a lo fi "rising 33" (best thing he ever done) off the "easterly" seven inch (remora records 1194) years back - but here it is in 320 w/ the rest o the tracks.
knock yrself out.
here

bogshed 26/10/87 peel session

those kind folks over at the perfumed garden blogspot have reactivated their post of our erstwhile heroes' finest peel session, offering a better rendering of "six to one and likely" than my post of months (years?) ago, and the full stretch of "from the stubble to the rubble" which is a rollicking non-stop locomotion of a thing despite the radio interference.
get it while it lasts:
here

loren connors: sails, baby ! sails !

heyup.
disc 1
disc 2
bye.

loren mazzacane connors: long nights i-vi

table of the elements:"calcium":1998: a scathing elegiac set that does what it says on the tin. as per usual out of print so here it is.

motown marty feldman

morton feldman's "for samuel beckett" & "turfan fragments".
as performed by the orchestra of the s.e.m. ensemble w/ petr kotik conducting.
sometimes i think i should just get a coupla sets of massive windchimes.
these two pieces are pretty aggressive / relentless in comparison to the rest of mister feldman's ouvre.
here

dogbowl: flan

aaaahhh this is more like it ! like a steven sondheim butthole surfers bugsy malone 60's psychedelic pop musical. songs from stephen tunney(dogbowl)'s "novel" of the same name - wonky eyed pop showtunes here

upsilon acrux: LST pirates of upsilon

again out of print: imagine robert fripp & adrian belew weeping tears of emasculated jealousy into a 5 dimensional wormhole containment unit.
here

seigen ono: the green chinese table

1988. ok so it's not "comme des garcons" volume one or two, but nevertheless, an interesting document of pseudo soundtracky new-age chamber music with michael brook-like acoustic guitar / delay workouts, and sleepy takemitsuisms, imbued w/ that 1980's NY loft "feel" you may well recognise. and you know we would go crazy about a 10 second arto lindsay guitar solo even if it was on a bette midler album (it would be all the better if it was, no?).
here

tesla coils

these kinda tickled me:

fushitsusha: i saw it! that which before i could only sense

2000: more self parody from mister haino's freeform blue cheer act.
nice rattly little trap set, bass could do with cranking up a little, but hey, you can't go turning back time without getting some really quite nasty friction burns.
guitar here is some of haino's howliest. well worthwhile.
disc 1
disc 2

osanna: palepoli

1973: italian blues-rock gone nutzoid-glam-prog-stomp outfit osanna here give it their utmost on their (in our view) best album which is again sadly out of print. epic operatic scale with lengthy build-ups, soppy mediterranean balladry, jethro tull-style flute action, razor sharp guitar, crazy jazz-rock asymmetrical swing-time rhythm section and rock wildman vocals:
beautiful, beautiful stuff.
here

cristina: doll in the box

1978: breathy self-reflexive bimbo-disco from cristina monet (is this an august darnell production?) as favoured by dj hipsters and no-wave types who have become bored of the "hear my song" antics of noisy guitar slingers. features dancefloor sensation "la poupée qui fait non"


here

bogdan raczynski: samurai math beats

1999: bogdan stands triumphant, king of the toytown drill'n'bass heap. not so splattergun or postmodern as venetian snares, but storming relentless kids tv electro with silly vocals, killer pop tunes and a distinct lack of "amen" samples, bogdan always favouring more of a big black drum machine type sound.

here

jamaaladeen tacuma: dreamscape

again piked & bounced for reasons too tiresome to go into, but enjoy the benefit!
more heavy metal than our previous JT posts.
rogers nelson should have got these guys on board when he lost his mind.

here

fIREHOSE: 1988 peel session

piked & bounced from somewhere else - saves you looking, i guess!
here

derek bailey, john zorn, & william parker: harras

1996: avant records: guitar sax & bass, abstract non-idiomaticism. some interference from the spirit of jazz
here

jamaaladeen tacuma

years ago i copied a tape cassette of the prime time section of ornette's "in all languages" for a friend who is a big ornette enthusiast. he took a listen and summarily accused me of going senile.
mr tacuma was the bassist on that album (as well as the inassailably great "body meta" & "dancing in your head") and his work can be an acquired taste - left to his own devices he leads a loose sphinctered no wave-y harmolodic funk outfit through his tunes with his crosseyed burbling trebly bass guitar up-front, and all sorts of electronic drums & handclaps & female scat singing happening out back.
the man also rocks the afro-futurist pierrot zoot-suit like no other.
1983 we have show stopper which is great, save perhaps a puzzling slushy strings & vocals number which might be more at home during a sob story / trash-to-glam makeover show "reveal";
1984 we have renaissance man where the funk gets a little more crosseyed, ornette appears on peculiar sounding sax (sounds like the "sax" button on a casio keyboard) on a handclap funk version of "dancing in your head", some puzzling spoken word about paul robeson's treatment during the mccarthy era, and a cracking great number for string quartet.
and also for your pleasure we have live in zurich 1983 where JT & the boys get brutal on the funkiest of the above two sets.
enjoy!

dogbowl: "tit... an opera"

1989 shimmy disc: gentle psychedelic pop / rock - surprisingly transportative - exemplary songwriting with fruity clarinet, silly lyrics and "psychedelic carousel" organ
here

audrey limpet

an old cassette i got from elwell (ratcatcher) of the brain of morbius early nineties.
elwell looked after keyboards in the brain and his solo guise of "audrey limpet" maintains much of the seasick seaside barrell organ quease, but is more joe meek, more asmus tietchens (v prescient of mr tietchens "hematic sunsets" work), more bbc radiophonic workshop and lots of fun to listen to.
mostly instrumental - excuse lack of track division, but hey! i got stuff to do, it's not the end of the world, now, is it ! (?)

clothes disarster side 1
clothes disarster side 2

_:zoviet*france:_

ok so shadow, thief of the sun after endless hassle uploading the bugger.
the last i shall proffer on these bods at least for a while.

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brain of morbius again

most of the "happy dirty" cassette here - two tracks omitted as previously posted, one track omitted cos i can't bear to listen to it. oh - we did "remix" "shitters" (badly) by popular consensus as the happy dirty version is way too rushed with wimpy production.
the playground / toilet humour is an acquired taste, especially when delivered in bones' south east london brogue, but that's only a small aspect of the playful comic surreallism on hand here. the music wins out in the way you should hopefully now be gaining familiarity with - victorian music-hall vaudeville corkscrew asthma-inhaler-abuse punk with a heavily concussed ray manzarek making the best he can of a distorto steam-pipe-organ after a few pints.
so, what there is of it, from 1993, is (amongst other places) here