Skitliv "Amfetamin" CSR90 CD
Exclusive release from the Doom / Noise project of Maniac (ex-MAYHEM), featuring Kvarforth (SHINING), and with special guest vocals by Attila (SUNN O))), MAYHEM). From Black Metal through Funeral Doom and Demonic Noise, Skitliv cover all the bases in modern extreme sonics. The CD version includes bonus tracks from Skitliv's live performance at the Camden Underworld, London, 13th December 2007, with a special intro from CURRENT 93 (David Tibet & Andrew Liles).
Skullflower "Orange Canyon Mind" CBR45 CD
Orange Canyon Mind is the follow up to 2002's awesome Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult Records), and continues that albums utter mutation of stoned out riffs pulled taffy-like into eternity/oblivion and star-rupturing blasts of sonic white light. Over the 8 tracks/60 minute running time, Bower and cohorts build massive horizontal drones and melodic supernovas. Superb, beautiful, brain melting stuff.
Skullflower "Tribulation" CD cbr55
Tribulation. The new emission from the UK trance-noise legends SKULLFLOWER. A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar armageddon from Matt Bower since the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock/celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums, and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material.
Skye Klad
"Plays the Musick of Cupid's Orkustra Asleep in the Magick Powerhouse of Oz" CD Hand/Eye H/E013
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Skye Klad has always been known for working without a net, and this latest effort is no exception. After nearly eight years pushing the envelope of the darkest psychedelic/occultic noise rock imaginable, the group has once again confounded the faithful by returning from the cocoon of a long hiatus with a new album stemming from an approach most unexpected by anyone who has followed them in the past, and sure to intrigue and entice new listeners as well.
Their fascination with the ancient and the esoteric has not waned in the slightest, but the approach and instrumentation is utterly different from past efforts, while maintaining their adventurous and singular vision. Where past efforts pushed listeners through the sonic vortex and past the threshold of pain via dense, fuzzy, post-apocalyptic metallic sheen and pulsing, flowing rhythm, "Skye Klad Plays the Musick of Cupid's Orkustra Asleep in the Magick Powerhouse of Oz" seeks to reach the same end by much more meditative and organic means. Acoustic instrumentation is at the fore, augmented by field recordings, french horn, tribal percussion and a mantric sensibility. There are guitars and basses of course, but there are alsomore exotic stringed instruments such as saz and the custom, sitar-like "witchfynder" as well as flutes and a variety of unsettling found sound and echo effects. Not willing to completely eschew the loves of the past, there is still the occasional transcendent fuzz guitar, but in a much subtler fashion. Group leader Jason Kesselring's vocal style and lyrical sensibility have matured considerably since past efforts, and the lyrical motifs that he explores will certainly appeal to the shuttered bibliophiles among us; those who know the risks of their interest and forge ahead despite the consequences of their actions.
Musically, Skye Klad have always shown a knack for wearing their influences on their sleeves while amalgamating them successfully into a unique and modern aesthetic. Listeners to this latest effort will detect the influence of Bert Jansch and the ghosts of Davey Graham and Robbie Basho, as well as more modern influences such as early Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen, AntiGroup and others. In short, another adventurous album by this unique group, delivering the unexpected once again. Welcome to the new dawn.
Track listing: 1. The Wolf that Follows the Faun that Flies 2. The Cross of Lorraine 3. Fleeting Faunus and the Prophecy of the Fields 4. Mary Magdalene 5. Beyond the Ice and Storm 6. The Sleeper 7. Wildes Heer 8. When the Hounds of Spring are on Winters Traces 9. Rex Mundi 10. The Windy Tree 11. They Will Come from the North
Shane Speal "Stealing the Fire" CD Hand/Eye h/e028
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It could be a modern incarnation of the old blues scenario: A man sits in his single-wide mobile home with a primitive guitar (made from a cigar box, stick and 3 guitar strings) and belts out mean murder ballads and dark spirituals thruough a rusty harmonica mic. But it's not a "scenario." This is the real shit. Speal was living in the middle of a Pennsylvania trailer park. He plays a cigar box guitar. And he recorded this album on a simple 4-track cassette recorder..
“ Stealing the Fire” features stark homemade recordings of Speal performing the works of Timothy Renner on a primitive cigar box guitar. It was a simple premis in the beginning. Speal just wanted to know what Renner's dark folk music would sound like if were soaked in Delta blues.
"You shouldn't ever perform Blind Willie Johnson songs until you realize those damning lyrics could send one of the audience members to hell," says Speal, the self-proclaimed King of the Cigar Box Guitar. "In the same regard, you don't dare attempt Timothy Renner's music unless you first realize that you may be sending yourself through hell."
Speal covers Renner's work from Stone Breath, Spectral Light and Moonshine Firefly Jamboree and other recordings, along with Tara VanFlower's "Whore" and an original piece, "The Claw."
track listing:
1• The Claw
2• Black Horse Ride
3• Path of Nails
4• Sunshine in the Eyes of Death
5• Stealing the Fire from Heaven
6• The Eyelit Path
7• Song of the Scarecrow
8• The Bone Collector
9• Black Horse Ride (reprise)
10• Wisdom on the Moth's Wing
11• Whore
12• A Dream of You in the Garden of Gethsemane
(note: covers are hand-printed and may vary from the example shown here)
The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree "Scarecrow Stuffing" CD Dark Holler hollr991
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Listen to the lonesome banjo, the banshee fiddles, ghostly dulcimer, guitars, flutes, banjo-mandoline, harmonium…these haunted voices call from the dark hollows of another time This is The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree. Their music has been called old-time, Appalachian-gothic, wyrdfolk, dark-folk. As one reviewer put it, their songs are “the sound of musical cobwebs.” The songs are mostly traditional: murder ballads, ghost songs, 19th century Christian hymns- passed down through history, gathered by the band, and presented here with a few originals in a similar vein.
Timothy, the founder of The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree, grew up in a haunted farmhouse in rural Maryland. Though living in rural America, Timothy was not exposed to non-commercial rural American music until his mid-20’s. Upon hearing the music, Timothy said he felt like he had come home. A short time later he bought a banjo. The rest is history. Quite literally. For besides the old songs, Timothy plays banjo in the clawhammer style, a rawer style of playing, as old as the instrument itself, which predates the bluegrass finger-picking styles most people think of when they hear the word “banjo.” Timothy, who also founded the acid-folk band Stone Breath, is joined here by Sarada (also of Stone Breath), RA Campbell (of Stone Breath and Mourning Cloak), Prydwyn (Stone Breath and Green Crown), and Bob Buckingham, the man who first showed Timothy how to play clawhammer.
Track Listing:
1. God Bless the Moon
2. Tom Dula
3. Path of Nails
4. Black Horse Ride
5. Cold Rain and Snow
6. The Song of the Scarecrow
7. Walkin’ in the Palor
8. A Conversation with Death
9. The Bone Collector
10. The Cuckoo
11. Stealing the Fire from Heaven
12. Little Margaret
13. House Carpenter
14. Thirteen
15. Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
we have a VERY few new old stock copies in the ORIGINAL black/blue cover. Last chance!
Still "Remains" PG004 CD
Dälek Turntablist, Still (Hsi-Chang Lin) goes solo and unleashes a dark ambient masterpiece that borders on sonic terrorism. Created using only Technics 1200's and an array of effects pedals, Still's REMAINS is not a "turntablist" record in the traditional sense. Drawing from (and adding to) the history of alternative turntable use, REMAINS is an ambient record whose textures at times run side by side with the work of PHILLIP JECK or APHEX TWIN. Two laborious years were put into the 35 minutes that comprise the album. Each track was painstakingly mapped out and played live in the studio. Opening with aggressive noise and evolving into delicate ambience, REMAINS supersedes the preconceived range of the turntable, infusing emotion into an otherwise inhuman instrument.
First pressing of 1,000 contains limited edition, hand-numbered art that wraps around the jewel case and seals in the back
Stone Breath (with The Forest Beggars) "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird" 2CD + 5" record DELUXE BOX SET h/e0471
Limited edition deluxe box set version includes:
• Stone Breath "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird" (expanded) CD
• The Forest Beggars (with Stone Breath) "Virgo, Mater, Domina" CD
• The Forest Beggars (with Stone Breath) 5" record
• Booklet featuring lyrics, info, and full psychedelic illuminations for "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird."
• Lyric/info pamphlet for "Virgo, Mater, Domina"
• Art/inserts/lyrics for 5" record
track listing
CD1 Stone Breath "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird"
1. The Song of the Bone-White Bird
2. The Vision of the Face in the Well
3. In A Breath: One-Thousand Years
4. Even the Dead Shall Sing
5. The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels
CD2 The Forest Beggars (with Stone Breath) "Virgo, Mater, Domina"
1. Hymn of the Angelus I
2. A Ballad of Trees and the Master
3. The Blessed of the Holy Trees
4. Crown Under Crown
5. Cantus Cordialis
6. Stabat Mater Dolorosa
7. On the Still Surviving Markes of Our Saviour's Wounds
8. Did Those Feet
9. Hymn of the Angelus II
10. Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (Revisitatio Brevis)
5" record The Forest Beggars (with Stone Breath)
side 1: The Benedictine Ultima
side 2: Simple Things
Stone Breath (with The Forest Beggars) "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird" 2CD h/e047
Stone Breath's visionary creation of Eastern-influenced rural acid folk finally comes to CD. From fingerpicked acoustics; to clawhammer banjo excursions; to the 20+ minute exaltation that is “The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels,” Stone Breath manifest their best work to date; an entire set of originals with the strange and beautiful harmonies and instrumentation which graced their past work. This expanded edition restores "Even the Dead Shall Sing" to its full length (it was edited to fit on vinyl) and adds a second full album, "Virgo, Mater, Domina" which was recorded over many years of collaboration with The Forest Beggars. Comes with booklet featuring lyrics, info, and full psychedelic illuminations for "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird."
track listing
CD1 Stone Breath "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird"
1. The Song of the Bone-White Bird
2. The Vision of the Face in the Well
3. In A Breath: One-Thousand Years
4. Even the Dead Shall Sing
5. The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels
CD2 The Forest Beggars (with Stone Breath) "Virgo, Mater, Domina"
1. Hymn of the Angelus I
2. A Ballad of Trees and the Master
3. The Blessed of the Holy Trees
4. Crown Under Crown
5. Cantus Cordialis
6. Stabat Mater Dolorosa
7. On the Still Surviving Markes of Our Saviour's Wounds
8. Did Those Feet
9. Hymn of the Angelus II
10. Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (Revisitatio Brevis)
Stone Breath "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird" LP Hand/Eye h/e046
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Stone Breath returns with their first album in over 5 years, “The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird;” a revelational creation of Eastern-influenced rural acid folk, inspired by visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. From fingerpicked acoustics; to clawhammer banjo excursions; to the side-long exaltation that is “The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels,” Stone Breath manifest their best work to date; an entire set of originals with the strange and beautiful harmonies and instrumentation which graced their past work. They are clear in sight, united in purpose, and shining in the darkness. Comes with booklet featuring lyrics, info, and full psychedelic illuminations....
track listing:
Side One
• The Song of the Bone-White Bird
• The Vision of the Face in the Well
• In a Breath: One-Thousand Years
• Even the Dead Shall Sing
Side Two
• The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels
This limited edition release is vinyl LP only.
The CD version will arrive in 2010.
Stone Breath "The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird" LP + CDr Hand/Eye h/e046
Same LP as above but with a CDr of the LP audio enclosed with the record.
Stone Breath "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons" (expanded edition) 2CD Hand/Eye h/e033
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Hand/Eye proudly presents the second in our series of expanded Stone Breath reissues. Originally released in 1998, “A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons,” is now expanded to two CDs with essential bonus material. The first disc presents the original album, long out of print, in all its acid-forest-drone-mantra-folk glory. These songs are of earth and spirit love, sunlight splitting open threatening clouds, trees and birds that talk, the smell of wet earth and the sting of rain on an upturned face, firebrands scattering columns of sparks into the red twilight. The second disc returns some lost songs to Stone Breath, adds some rare songs from compilation appearances, and presents a previously unreleased track featuring Fit & Limo. 27 tracks total over 2 CDs.
track listing:
CD1:
1• Seed
2• The Silver Thread
3• The Rainbow-Guilded Leaves of Autumn
4• Peppermint and Clover Honey
5• The Clouds of Red Twilight
6• Evening Air
7• Summer's Night
8• My Heart is an Acorn Buried in the Black Earth
9• Odalisque
10• Fleance
11• Rain of Days
12• Listen, Listen, Listen
13• Leaves About Our Feet, We Reached for the Moon
14• Devotional One
15• Devotional Two
CD2:
1• Through the Trees (a prophecy)
2• The Bone Collector
3• Path of Nails
4• Dark Globe
5• Black Horse Ride
6• The Song of the Scarecrow
7• Golden Hair
8• Stealing the Fire from Heaven
9• Thirteen
10• Red Twilight (featuring Fit & Limo)
11• Listen, Listen (agape mix)
12• Devotional Three (Always All One, All Ways Alone)
note: cover is available in 2 styles charcoal linen and white. We will send the charcoal covers while they last, but if you would prefer the white cover, just ask. No problem.
Stone Breath "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" expanded CD reissue Hand/Eye h/e031
Presaging the free/freak/acid-folk boom by almost a decade, Stone Breath carved a unique place in what was then a very lonely neighborhood. “Songs of Moonlight and Rain,” the first Stone Breath album, struck a spectral note somewhere between Syd Barrett singing nature poetry and The Incredible String Band’s more lonesome moments; blended with experimental graveyard-songs and acoustic drones into a brew of darkness and hope; nature and supernature; love and loss.
This 10-year anniversary edition presents the entire original album with nine bonus tracks! Several bonus tracks from the same period – dating back to the very first Stone Breath song ever recorded (1995), all of the songs from the "Strange Familiars" 7" ep, and related songs from later periods, including a collaboration with Fit & Limo.
track listing:
1• The Ghosts of Sounds Long Dead
2• Seven Things Placed in a Hollow Tree
3• Pennies (Stolen from the Eyes of a Dead Man)
4• Wisdom on the Moth's Wing
5• Perched Upon the Temple Bell, the Butterfly Sleeps
6• Flowers on Your Grave
7• Earthlights
8• The Sound of Ghosts Long Dead
9• Words Written on Petals
10• Willowisp
11• The Strength to Face the Stars Above
12• To Cull Undying Flowers
13• The Flight of the Black Swan
14• Long Lost Friend
15• Snaketooth Vision
16• Thunder Runs Through Me
Bonus Tracks:
17• Footprints of a Ghost Girl
18• My Ghost
19• Leafwalker
20• Funeral Gifts
21• Rain Song
22• Snaketooth Vision (Birth)
23• Seal of Seasons
24• Will-o-Wisp (featuring Fit & Limo)
25• The Long Lost Friend (cobweb'ed)
Stone Breath "Knotwork" CD Hand/Eye H/E043
Knotwork presents many out of print, rare, and previously unreleased songs from Stone Breath. Ranging from Eastern-tinged folk to deep drone-songs to more traditional fare, Knotwork shows the band’s deep roots finding dark earth while the leaves above open to the sun. This album serves as a bridge between Stone Breath’s earlier recordings and their new album (look for it in 2009).
Track listing:
1• The Passing of the River
2• A Silver Crown Song
3• A Dream of You in the Garden of Gethsemane
4• Bitter Was the Night
5• The Dead-Leaf Relics
6• Where the Holy Ghost Haunts the Forest Gods
7• Ring Thing
8• Sacco’s Last Letter
9• The Lily and the Heron
10• Shine On Harvest Moon
11• Christmastime Will Soon Be Over
12• The Holly Crown
Stone Breath "The Silver Skein Unwound" (expanded) CD Hand/Eye H/E045
The last in Hand/Eye’s Stone Breath expanded reissue series. “The Silver Skein Unwound” is rural acid folk, informed by the furrowed fields and green forests, shaded by falling leaves and falling dreams; time-worn, weird, blood-red, rattled and ragged. Sparse in places with thick tangled drones in others, aged in mouldy oak barrels for flavor, hidden from the sun, decayed, withdrawn. Here expanded with a previously unreleased song from the same sessions – includes the original illuminated color lyric booklet housed in special packaging.
track listing:
1• Veil of Tears
2• Wasp-Sting, Thorn, and Arrowhead
3• A Bottle of Breath
4• The Prayer of the Circling Birds
5• Last Lost Love Song
6• Secrets Bound in Skin
7• Through the Trees Again
8• Bless the Lily, Bless the Rose
9• Ephrata Sacred Heart
10• Midgard for a Dreamless Sleeper / The False Bird
11• The Hidden heart
12• For Those with Ears to Hear Us
13• Let the Towers Fall
14• Arrowhead, Thorn, and Wasp-Sting
Stone Breath "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" (expanded) 2CD Hand/Eye H/E042
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Now expanded to 2 CDs with many rare and unreleased tracks! Including a guest appearance by Fit & Limo.
The third album from Stone Breath, “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis,” finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, “Songs of Moonlight and Rain” and “A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons.". The darkened deep woods folk and acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of sound that may well define “wyrdfolk” (a term coined by Stone Breath’s tiMOTHy to express the music that he and his friends make).
For “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis,” Stone Breath founding member, tiMOTHy, is again partnered with Prydwyn (who appeared on the “… Silver Thread…” CD) and then-new members Ra Campbell, and Sarada. The diverse instrumentation that Stone Breath has been known for is here continued with acoustic guitars, banjos, flutes, whistles, sitar, dulcimer, harmonium, and many others being melded together by the band in their trademark ghostly earth songs. Strange new tunings, and beautiful harmony vocals have only added to Stone Breath’s magic bag.
With a darker sound than past albums, “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis” finds tiMOTHy tracing a theme throughout the record: a silver thread weaving together such elements as St. John the Baptist, Osiris and Isis, John Barleycorn, Templar Knights, King Solomon, and Jesus Christ all shown in the light (or shadow as the case may be) of Stone Breath’s ever present nature poetry/observations.
The songs will speak louder than words: from the mysterious opening track to the subdued tones of COB’s “Solomon’s Song,” to the medieval dance, “Estampie” (actually a traditional Appalachian song somehow made more ancient by Renner’s clawhammer banjo and Prydwyn’s deft recorder and percussion), to the epic closing track, “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis” will lead the listener on a journey through the night shadows of forgotten truths.
Track listing:
CD1:
1•Sunshine in the Eyes of Death
2•The Eyelit Path
3•Sword Baptismal
4•Solomon's Song
5•The Way of Green Osiris
6•John Barleycorn
7•The Red-Crossed Knight
8•It's Hard to Dance with the Devil on Your Back
9•Sleep then, with the Incense of Orchids around You
10•The Face of God
11•Estampie
12•Moongazer
13•The Lantern of the Greening Light
CD2:
1•Osiris
2•The Blood of the Woven-Vine
3•A Soldier's Dream
4•The Song of the Last
5•Of Bloody Wings and Sleep's Death
6•Love Song
7•Footprints Filled with Rain
8•Treehugger/Decay
9•The Unbinding String (Epistle to Prydwyn)
10•Man Should Surrender
11•The Eyes of Death (featuring Fit & Limo)
12•A Bottle of Breath
13•The Heart and Star of Sacred Memory
14•The House Carpenter
15•The Lantern of the Greening Light
Stone Breath "Praying Tree" t-shirt
100% cotton. Size L or XL only. Dark brown shirt with light tan ink. Pro-silscreened. Please specify size when ordering.
Taiga Remains "Obelia" CDr BF023
Alex Cobb's Taiga Remains returns with "Obelia", two long pieces and one short that juxtapose the warm drift of a harmonic-laden minimal acoustic blues raga with dense droning machine noise. The album is housed in vinyl slip cases, limited to 100 copies.
Mike Tamburo "Dance Enis Dance" CDr BF025
Mike Tamburo returns with an epic 32 minute suite of Basho-esque fingerpicking and psychedelic drones, that are exhilarating yet meditative and clearly an expression of deep catharsis. The album is packaged in full colour sleeves featuring cover art by Pete Spynda, housed in vinyl slip cases, contains an insert and is limited to 100 copies.
Techix "monosymphonic" CD anticlock
Techix, started in 2001, is the agglomeration of the musical interests of founder Justin Jones. Heavily influenced by both classical and modern elements and instrumentation, the project seeks to combine the beauty and organization of classical structure with the raw emotional energy of experimental improvisation. "...remarkably enticing and even hypnotic in its unbridled dedication to strangeness." - Sonic Curiosity
Terry Earl Taylor Another Time CD Dark Holler HOLLR231
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Terry Earl Taylor plays a Fender Allegro five-string banjo in the two-finger picking style. He draws from the folksong traditions of the UK and Appalachia , and like all the great banjo songsters, he adds much of his own style to the music. A comparison might be Clive Palmer (though Terry has never heard Clive´s music!), or perhaps Dock Boggs if he was from the UK. But really, Terry is his own man, playing his own music, timeless and original.
"Another Time" is a collection of songs that range from originals, to the partly traditional (with additional lyrics by Terry), to the wholly traditional. This music resides in the lonely back roads, haunted dark hollers, and graveyards of the rural traditions that bore it. One listen to the spine-chilling "Go Make another Grave" will make it apparent why we felt this Dark Holler was the right home for Terry Earl Taylor.
Track Listing:
1. I´ve been Away 2. Where the Cock don´t Crow 3. John Lankin 4. Wish I had a Parker Pen 5. She came down to Town 6. Long Journey Home 7. Go Make another Grave 8. Motel in the Pines 9. Sadie Grove 10. Dock Boggs is Dead 11. Hanging at Picnic Rock 12. Prettiest Girl I ever Saw 13. Waterbound 14. Poor Clarence Hopkins 15. Billy Bones 16. November 31st 17. Going ´round the World
tiMOTHy "Every Fallen Leaf an Angel's Wing" CDr Hand/Eye h/e039
This long-lost set of songs, recorded in 2005, is the bridge between Stone Breath’s acid folk and Crow Tongue’s tribal drone. Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for both bands, tiMOTHy presents here a set of songs dealing with mystical and magical trees. Holy trees; haunted trees; tree spirits; praying leaves and more. Sparse acoustic folk opens up the album, then quickly turns into deep drones and extended improvisation, broken rhythms and chant.
Track listing:
1. Heartwood Eidolon
2. Black Walnut Tree
3. Holy Spring
4. Oakheart Halfghost
5. St. Michael Beneath the Leaves
6. Wake Nicodemus
Timothy, Revelator "Lost Gospel Music Volume I: Beneath the Bleeding Moon" CDr Hand/Eye H/E017
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"Beneath the Bleeding Moon," the first volume in Timothy´s "Lost Gospel Music" series was recorded at Unreal House, direct to tape (yes, analog) over the course of a few nights in September 2004. With the exception of some overdubbed bowed-dulcimer on two tracks, all songs were recorded live with vocals and ent-banjo, an instrument of Timothy´s design.
Here are moon-songs to God and the green wood, and secret songs to night angels - drawing influences from east (Ostad Elahi, Abdelah Ghania) and west (Buell Kazee, Derroll Adams), Timothy blends the Middle Eastern/African roots of the banjo easily with its American descendant. Improvisation is blended with structured songs. Timothy´s music is blended with Richard Crashaw´s words (Crashaw was a Catholic metaphysical poet, 1613-1649, 4 of his poems are set to music on this release). The end result of these mixtures is "Beneath the Bleeding Moon," an album unique in both concept and sound.
Track listing: 1. The Weeping Eye of God 2. Petals on the Arms of the Wind 3. On the Still Surviving Markes of Our Saviour´s Wounds 4. Blessed of the Holy Trees 5. In Silence and in Shadow Keep 6. Upon the Infant Martyrs 7. Song Upon the Bleeding Crucifix 8. Within Your Halo 9. A Song 10. Angel of the First Dream 11. Another Eye
The Trees Community "The Christ Tree" CD (plus bonus tracks) Hand/Eye h/e030
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“The Trees Community was a musical group as well as a community. We started out as disparate individuals who were just looking for the truth. In the summer of 1970 we stumbled upon a semi-abandoned loft in New York City with no locked door and through it, entered a collective life in the service of God. The language of our service was original music played on 80 instruments from around the world.
The early music was powerful, intricately beautiful and inspiring. Sometimes it was as if thousands of voices were joining and pouring through our own, like several Mellotrons being played at once in different keys, the music liquid, dynamic, ever changing. One night we might travel along a hot, dusty road in Ancient Egypt, with the sounds of donkey’s hooves and clanging pots. Another night we were adrift in a foggy sea, the boat groaning and creaking and a distant bell tolling. We were part of a living, breathing unrehearsed story -- a symphony. God handed us each separate parts yet no one knew the script. Eventually the music evolved, but never traveled far from these mystic roots.
In the spring of 1971 we embarked on a pilgrimage without a destination. Our journey was so named because we had no itinerary, traveling from place to place by pure faith. We lived in a converted school bus and traveled extensively for seven years throughout the U.S. and Canada. We visited many churches and fellowships including Trappist, Benedictine, Franciscan and Paulist monastic communities, evangelical and social outreach groups of every denomination, a Hutterite farming collective, and eventually returned to New York City to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, where we became a community in residence. We continuously learned from every group and person we met, sharing our lives, slowly building a musical expression of the gift of faith we had been given.
The Music on this CD set is both the audible manifestation and remnant of who we were as a musical community. As we evolved so did our sound, culminating in a musical mediation called 'The Christ Tree'. This meditation was enacted live during many prayer services and concerts, with several recordings including a studio recording on a vinyl LP in 1975. This CD release includes what was on this recording as well as additional music and other material from our shared experiences. This endeavor captures some of the magic and mystery of the time, and our hope is that there is more to be re-created in the heart of the listener.” – The Trees Community, 2005
The Hand/Eye version of “The Christ Tree” is the ONLY official version, licensed from and approved by The Trees themselves.
8 panel digipak reissue with notes on the creation of the Trees, musical influences, and commentary on the individual tracks.
track listing:
1. Psalm 42
2. The Parable of the Mustard Seed
3. Psalm 45
4. Invocation (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
5. Village Orchestra
6. Jesus He Knows
7. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless
8. Chant for Pentecost
9. Psalm 46
10. Bird Song
11.Lift Your Weary Hand
12.Your Name...is an ointment poured forth
13.Raga*
14.Psalm44
15. Annunciation
16. Symphony of Souls*
17. Baptism
18. There is Such a Love...that steals into the heart, planting a kiss on deep wounds
* previously unreleased, not included on the box set
Trees "Lights Bane" CD CBR66
The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similiar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals. Features members of the PDX psych-sludge outfit Tecumseh (Important Records). This CD edition of the TREE's debut comes in a Stoughton printed 4-panel gatefold case.
(NOTE: This is NOT the Trees aka Trees Community from Hand/Eye. See above for Trees Community and "The Christ Tree")
Trees "Freed of This Flesh" CD CBR83
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The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees return with their second offering on Crucial Blast, Freed Of This Flesh, with two new fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Each of these tracks averages around fourteen minutes, an extended death-rattle formed from black glacial riffs suspended in space, tectonic percussive rumbles, anguished shrieks of torment and abject suffering, deep guttural demon-toad throat singing, and endless sheets of glistening metallic feedback that spill and drift to the far edges of their extreme time-stretched ambient doom, a crumbling, blighted majesty, noxious ambient blackdoom adrift on putrescent tides. The wretched vocal effluvium creeps formlessly across austere slabs of crushing heaviness arranged into ghoulish constructs of atmospheric dread, moving so slow that the music seems to lose all sense of propulsion at times, becoming lost in a fog of howling amplifiers and buzzing feedback, the guitars stretched into massive decomposing drones, the spaces between infested with controlled bursts of drums that skitter and rumble, almost "jazzy" in a vague sort of way, but still incredibly slow and ponderous. Freed Of This Flesh inhabits the same sort of black-tar depths as the likes of Burning Witch, Monarch, Khanate, and Bunkur while stripping the slo-mo heaviness into their own twisted, skeletal configuration.
(NOTE: This is NOT the Trees aka Trees Community from Hand/Eye. See above for Trees Community and "The Christ Tree")
tvbc Man with a Movie Camera CD
tvbc is Paul Metzger's band, sometimes known for a more rocking approach, here they take a more subtle and atmospheric approach as they perform their live soundtrack to Dziga Vertov's 1929 silent film, "Man with a Movie Camera."
Twilight Circus Sound System presents "Cultural Roots Showcase" CD MCD480
Twilight Circus production/mixes.
track listing: 1. Michael Rose - Shilling (Extended Mix) 2. Admiral Tibet - Have The Strength (Extended Mix) 3. Ranking Joe - Gideon Time (Extended Mix) 4. Mikey General - Tell It Like It Is (Extended Mix) 5. Ranking Joe - Shaka Zulu (Extended Mix) 6. Ranking Joe - Original Fire (Extended Mix)
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System "Dub Plates Volume 2" CD MCD180
When we first started getting interested in reggae and dub music, we were wondering why we hadn't found the connection to other psychedelic and experimental music...but here it is. Ryan Moore, sometime collaborator with Legendary Pink Dots ...and here is a collection of special dubplate mixes and exclusive tracks previously only available to sound systems and DJs.
Uton "Highway Nation" CDr BF016
Finnish drone king Jani Hirvonen aka Uton returns with "Highway Nation", a five-tracker of drones clocking in at just over 40 minutes. Undoubtedly Uton's most minimal works to date, with each piece seemingly drawn from a synaesthesic pallette of angel-crossed silences and divine undulations, less has never seemed more. "Highway Nation" comes housed in vinyl slipcases with insert, features cover and insert art by Hirvonen and is limited to 100 copies.
