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GILGONGO
RELEASES.
(43). JAMES FELA - "Slots / Inner Sanctum /
Tusks / Desolation" (76:17) CD - $5ppd (USA)
Recorded in mid-April 2011, a
single 1 hour and 16 minute long improvised piece ranging from
free-form / non-music to harsh noise and drone, presented in it's
original raw form, with no edits
made to the waves of electronics, voice and saxophone which were
used to blindly craft an
entity that existed in gradual flux, consisting of small
scattered electroacoustic elements folding
over on themselves until succumbing to a wall of scathing yet
harmonious sound, volatile ambiance
spouting off jagged shrapnel, eventually calming into a steady
low-end migration and ultimately
dispersing at the end of it's descent. No run-on sentence
describing it can possibly compete with
the insatiable appetite exercised by the tools themselves during
the recording of this movement, a
process which was the product of a momentary black-hole in Tempe,
AZ and specifically in the
main operating room of Gilgongo Records, where the owner and
operator could have feasibly been
lost for an indefinable amount of time, as it's very easy to lose
control in certain situations, after all.
LISTEN HERE:
DIGITAL VERSION
AVAILABLE VIA:
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(41). VEGETABLE "C.F. b/w Sol" 7" - $5ppd.
Debut single
from brand new Tempe, AZ band, VEGETABLE, featuring Anna Nasty of
Hell-Kite
and XNA fame, and Paul, from a criminally unknown Phoenix group,
Chandails. Vegetable play
a spastic and soulful brand of post-punk, borrowing some of the
finest traits of bands like Au Pairs,
Delta 5, Kleenex and Devo, but also knowing how to play it calm
and cool as needed. Carefully
calculated and delivered with sharp tongues, these two songs were
recorded late 2010 in the
basement of XNA, leaving just enough time for these to have been
ready for their winter tour. MP3: "Castration
Frustration"
DIGITAL VERSION
AVAILABLE VIA:
Revolver / Midheaven, iTunes, Boomkat, Amazon, etc.
(40). AG DAVIS + JAMISON WILLIAMS "Auto De Fe (1481)"
7"
AG Davis
(voice) and Jamison Williams (Alto-Saxophone), two individuals
from Florida who have
no qualms in pushing the boundaries of what their tools are meant
for, in a display of free-improvisation,
cultivating two helpings of maniacal sound that conjur a
correlation to the most left-field Zorn or
Boredoms off-shoot. Not for the feint of heart at all, but ideal
for the listener who enjoys being perplexed
and simultaneously allowed to enjoy with a smile. Truely
cathartic and impressive material on this one.
(38). SISSY SPACEK - "Dash" LP- $12ppd.
Sissy Spacek is the long running project of JOHN WIESE and
CORYDON RONNAU. On DASH,
their second release for Gilgongo following the Fortune b/w The
Eyes Of Men 7", they are
joined by Norway's Lasse Marhaug (JAZKAMER) and Will Stangeland
(TEARIST, SILVER
DAGGERS). 41 tracks of scathing sound, cautiously partitioned
into short bursts of truly
obliterated hardcore, redefining "raw punk", and an
even more destructive force than the
already harsh and damaged tone of recent output. "The same
vein" in a sense, but ruptured
and bleeding out, heavily. Audio sample here: Sissy Spacek - Dash (20
Tracks) by
John Wiese
(37). ALAK - "I Don't Feel Anything" 7" $5ppd
“I Don’t Feel Anything” features 4 exclusive songs
that were recorded back in 2009 and
originally slated to be released as a split LP with Stephen
Steinbrink / French Quarter. That
project eventually evolved into his LP, “It’s Not Just
Kissing”, leaving these beautiful songs
from ALAK, without a home. Released alongside an ambitious tour
of the United States with
her partner, Pregnant, and on the heels of a new full length
cassette “Groups”, released
by KDVS.
(36). WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT / TIGER HATCHERY - split
7" - $5ppd.
Split 7" from two mid-west units with a slew of releases on
American Tapes, 905 Tapes,
5nakefork, Nashazphone, Fag Tapes, etc. Wasteland Jazz Unit bring
on an onslaught of
overblown reeds / electronics, a wall of scathing noise, while
Tiger Hatchery offer a more
traditional serving of dynamic and abrasive free jazz.
Art work by Andy Burkholder: http://andyburkholder.blogspot.com/
(34).
JAMES FELLA - "Singular Set" (series) cassette - $5ppd Each “volume” of the “Singular Set”
series is limited to one. There is no “master” on
another tape
or hard drive somewhere else. The 10-25 minutes of sound on
each cassette was recorded directly
to it, using a stereo mixer’s output directly into the
rear phono jacks of the deck, and more often than
not, using headphones rather than a monitor. The date and
time of each cassette’ creation is marked
on the spool
casing.
The idea behind this series is to create unique connections with
people. There is a non-uniformity to
the approaches and feel, the range depending on mood and
whatever devices are set up at any
given moment, but the emphasis is on reaching out and
sharing something specific with one other
person, that an unrepeated portion of time and creation was
individually cut and passed on to one
other person to hold onto as their own.
(29). THE TRADEWINDS - 6 song 7"- $5ppd
Highly addictive and obscured pop-punk from Tempe, AZ circa 2008.
Featuring members of Foot Ox,
Splinter Cake and the "French Quarter" live band, this
is unpolished, upbeat and "real", in the vein of
The Bananas and for fans of Lehigh Valley's late 90's scene.
(27).
STEPHEN STEINBRINK - "Ugly Unknowns" CD - $10ppd
STEPHEN STEINBRINK makes his 11 song debut release under his own
name after playing and
constantly touring as FRENCH QUARTER for the past several
years. His last full length has been a
personal favorite and this new one has shaped up to be the
same. Blissful and uplifting survival
songs recorded throughout Arizona at various friends' homes.
Urgent, sincere and real.
DIGITAL VERSION
AVAILABLE VIA:
Revolver / Midheaven, iTunes, Boomkat, Amazon, etc.
(26). FOOT
VILLAGE - "Fuck the Future 2" CD - $8ppd In anticipation of their upcoming full length "Anti
Magic" on Upset the Rhythm, LA's FOOT VILLAGE
have compiled a second batch of vinyl only tracks. Four
humans (you know them from Gang
Wizard, Friends Forever, Rose for Bodhan and A++, and as
members of 2008’s Boredoms 88
drummers performance) emerge from the apocalypse, exploring
the primitive wasteland and creative
a new nation of their own, using only drums and their voices.
Housed in a digipack made using
partially recycled material, with art work by Brittany Gould
(Married In Berdichev!), "Fuck the Future
2" collects the material from: their split LP with
Black Pus (Deathbomb ARC / DNT), two recent 7”s
(on Too Pure and Rock Is Hell), the “Pisspounder”
triple LP (w/ Sword Heaven, Aa, Grey Skull,
Rainbow Blanket and Dreamhouse also on DBA) and the recent,
wild, collaboration 12” with Health,
Captain Ahab and Jason Forrest on Ravesploitative,…
assembled and mastered together by
Pete Swanson. MP3: FOOT VILLAGE -
"Bones".
DIGITAL
VERSION AVAILABLE VIA:
Revolver / Midheaven, iTunes, Boomkat, Amazon, etc.
(25).
CHANNELS 3 AND 4 - "Christianity" LP - $12ppd.
Originally slated to come out on Summer Lovers United several
years ago, as a follow up
to their “Christian Girls Like to Get Cut” 12” ep
w/ Johnny Jewel – this long delayed collection
of Vancouver riot grrl synth punk has finally made it’s way
out there. Members of SHEARING PINX
and TWIN CRYSTALS, their output includes many obscure gems in the
realms of cassettes and
lathes on their respective ISOLATED NOW WAVES and DEAR + BIRD
labels. Dancey, manic
outbursts from three of the many prolific members of the modern
Vancouver scene. RIYL: Glass
Candy, Crystal Castles, Screamers, Huggy Bear
(22).
HELL-KITE - "I Am Your Cabin, Live In Me" 7" -
$5ppd.
Though usually a guitar/vocals style project, featuring heavy /
gloomy (but beautiful) songwriting
by recent Tempe transplant Ann Marie Philipp, "I Am
Your Cabin..." features drums and vocals-only
versions of four songs, conjuring a Scout Niblett or Young
People vibe, very minimal but sedative and
uplifting. Features Soft Shoulder / Tent/City skinner, John
Ryan on drums. Keep an eye out for a full
length and tons of touring in 2009.
(21).
FOOT VILLAGE - "Friendship Nation" LP - $12ppd. NEW FULL LENGTH LP from Los Angeles "post
apocalyptic / electricity free hardcore" band,
consisting of four drummers / vocalists unleashing primal and
brutally catchy scream-alongs.
Members of destruction jam/van band FRIENDS FOREVER (Load), free
noise unit GANG WIZARD
(Load/Ecstatic Peace/Gilgongo) and DEATHBOMB ARC mastermind Brian
Miller. CD version released
in Europe on TOME. Alternate description: "Foot Village is
the first nation built after the apocalypse.
Foot Village have a duty to rebuild the world, a new nation out
of the ruins of civilization atop the
ruins of Hell, after the oceans have all evaporated. All we know
so far is revealed on their first
album World Fantasy, a collection of songs about other countries.
Now Foot Village have created
their own country and the songs on Friendship Nation, recorded by
Jonathan Snipes of Captain
Ahab". MP3: FOOT VILLAGE -
"Materialist Crap".
(18).
LITTLE WOMEN - "Teeth" LP - $11ppd.
“Official BIO”: Brooklyn quartet Little Women formed
two years ago to create music that blurs the
line between structure and spontaneity. The group’s
sound distilled from a broad range of influences
that stretch from classic Chicago free jazz thru pop music,
punk rock, math metal, and harsh noise.
Little Women never stop pushing into new sonic territory:
splitting overtones to create ghost notes,
violently disassembling their instruments onstage, and attacking
written and improvised material with
equal ferocity. During performances band members often experience
side-effects more commonly
associated with prescription drugs such as nausea, dizziness, and
internal bleeding. Little Women
stomp all over genres, creating some of the most
adventurous, in-the-moment, wrenchingly honest
music of their generation.
"Teeth" is 20 minute piece, recorded in one long,
single take, covering an impressive range of sound,
and is an intense and dynamic presentation of what they are
doing as a band. Art work by MICK
BARR (Orthrelm, Crom-Tech, Ocrilim, etc).
Also: Members of Little Women have recorded and/or performed with
some of the top names in
jazz/improvised music such as: Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy,
Mark Dresser, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn,
Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Chad Hugo (The
Neptunes), Gerry Hemingway, Joe
Morris, Matt Wilson, Michael Formanek, Mat Maneri, and Dave
Koz. Members of Little Women also
play in bands such as Zs, Extra Life, Cutter, Period,
Archaeopteryx.
(17).
BRI WHITE / JAMES FELLA - split 7" - $5ppd.
Split 7" from two busy-bodies from Arizona. BRI WHITE (Flux
Conquistador, Foot Ox), who usually
creates pretty piano based singer-songwriter music, offers a six
minute piece which is both beautiful
and haunting (primarily using a weird piano / violin hybrid
instrument called a pianolin, which is obscure
enough to not even have an article on wikidpedia about it), and
falls somewhere between the blurry
lines of Spires That in the Sunset Rise and White Magic. (She is
currently up in Portland)! JAMES
FELLA (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City) offers layers of clarinet,
guitar, vocal-based sound and noise in
a piece that is much more calm and quiet than the majority of his
usual sound / noise / splice work.
Full color covers enveloping thick blue (w/ splashes of white)
vinyl.
(16).
FRENCH QUARTER - s/t LP+CD, CD (out of print).
FRENCH QUARTER is Stephen Steinbrink from Phoenix, AZ. After
releasing and selling out of
several DIY / handmade recordings (both done on his own and by
labels such as Arbor and C-Salt),
this self-titled LP, which comes with a CD version inside, is his
first properly issued recording, and
comes highly anticipated by anyone who has seen him on one of his
excursions across various parts
of the country. Stephen crafts memorable, vocal based songs using
a variety of approaches and
methods while maintaining a smooth consistency in sincerity,
making these 10 songs an engaging and
moving listen. Though comparable to others from past and present,
(Neil Young? Woods? The
Microphones? Karl Blau?) and despite his young age, Stephen is
hard at work creating his own set
of unique songs that feel like old friends upon first listen.
Other notes: Brittany Gould (of Married in
Birdichiev fame, Rhinoceropolis (Denver venue) co-runner) painted
the art for this release. FRENCH
QUARTER did a full US tour in late fall. This LP comes out in
between that and another full US tour in
early winter 2008.
DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE VIA:
Revolver / Midheaven, iTunes, Boomkat, Amazon, etc.
(13).
ZS - "BUCK" CD - $10ppd. Fifty minutes of live recordings from New York City
prog/jazz/math kings Zs. Previous releases on
Troubleman and Planaria. Pieces which range from long and
scattered minimalism to pieces which
showcase their ability to craft fast paced mind-numbingly complex
compositions. For fans of
everything from Upsilon Acrux to Steve Reich to Flying
Luttenbachers.
(12).
SOFT SHOULDER - "2 Song Hit Single" 7" - $5ppd.
Two new songs from Arizona's SOFT SHOULDER, who play loud and
noisy but equally catchy
no-wave post-punk (X-Ray Spex, Contortions, Sleetmute
Niightmute). The A-Side being one of the
original set's staple, "Mary Ann", which originally
surfaced in the form of a music video on a DNT
VHS compilation with Shearing Pinx and others. The B-Side is a
slightly longer piece, the old set's
staple closer, with a long, clean and broken bridge over trouble
skronk. Handmade covers
(spray-paint, stencils, collages, burns, stains, ect) made by the
band.
(9).
SHEARING PINX - "POISON HANDS" - $10ppd. Full-length recording from Vancouver, Canada's no-wave
take on Unwound. A reissue of a double
3-inch CDR, originally released by Not Not Fun. After nearly 30
CDr and cassette releases over the
past two years, this was the gem that shined through. Noisy and
catchy and fun. “Gnarly
skronk-shred jams that morph into free shriekback post-jazz
dead-zones.” Featuring members of
Channels 3+4 and In-Flux and the head-honcho behind the
incredible short-run / vanity label,
Isolated Now Waves.
(8).
FATHERS DAY - "I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS" 7" -
5.00ppd. Wall of noise thrash punk played by four Phoenix youth
who take on the roles of various cliché father
figures (Golf Dad, Business Dad, Drunk Dad, Classy Dad). 30
second - minute long songs about DAD
STUFF, like finding out your son is playing Dungeons and Dragons
after school and not actually going
to baseball practice, or how the "hot new secretary" is
"just a friend"! Several newer studio tracks,
three live cuts, including their OLD SKULL tribute, and their
infamous set-ending piano ballad,
"sometimes". Find out why this band managed to get
banned from a few PHX venues like it's the
early 80's all over again. 100% fun, seriously. MP3s: "This Really
Happened".
(7).
GEORGE MOSHINGTON - "177-Fuck You" 7" - $5.00ppd.
8 songs of fast colonial punk rock from this Phoenix, Arizona
band featuring members of Where
Eagles Dare. 3 new tracks on the A side with their entire 5 song
demo crammed on the back. If
you're idea of awesome cover art includes a cut and paste collage
of Mickey Mouse wearing a
KKK mask while giving a blow job to George W. Bush (decked out in
a Nazi uniform), this one is
for you! Up da punx!
(5).
TENT/CITY - "Drought" one-sided LP - TEMPORARILY OUT!
(additional photos: (front) (back) (record).
Tent City play free-form sound / music; broken folk meeting
crackling noise, somewhere between
artists such as Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Don Cherry,
The Dead Machines and The
Davenport Family. Twenty minute live set recorded in Feb. 2006 at
a show in Phoenix, AZ with The
Dead Science, after one of the longest recorded droughts in
Phoenix history. Limited to 330, "Drought"
is Tent/City's first "proper" record, following several
short-run and sold-out releases on Not Not Fun
and Night People, and is a one-sided clear record, the B-side
being multi-screened and color-blended.
This labor of love was a long-time in the making and is finally
ready to be unleashed.
