Catalogue By Labels

ARNOLD DREYBLATT - THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS - RESOLVE (LP)

"Dreyblatt"s minimalist conception - a rhythmic drone played on a double-bass strung with piano wire, playing in concert with other stringed instruments performing in 20 unequal microtones per octave and changing key but keeping the same fundamental pitch - dates back ...
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DC877 | DRAG CITY

FAHEY, JOHN - PROOFS AND REFUTATIONS (LP)

"Recorded in 1995 and 1996, mostly in John Fahey"s room at a Salem, Oregon boardinghouse, the performances on Proofs and Refutations prefigure the ornery turn of the page that marked Fahey"s final years, drawing another enigmatic rabbit from his seemingly bottomless ...
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DC759 | DRAG CITY

O'ROURKE, JIM - HANDS THAT BIND (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) (LP)

"O'Rourke's process - sourcing resonant sounds to be enmeshed together into a music that supersedes their resident parts - makes a fitting soundtrack for Kyle Armstrong's "prairie gothic" tale of down-on-the-farm horror way up north in Canada. His minimalist score ...
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DC839 | DRAG CITY

GASTR DEL SOL - MIRROR REPAIR (MLP)

1994 EP by Gastr Del Sol, i.e. David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. feat. John McEntire, produced by Steve Albini. cover art by Albert Oehlen - 2013 repress
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DC54 | DRAG CITY

SIC ALPS - A LONG WAY AROUND TO THE SHORTCUT (2LP - USED m-/m-)

"first-time-ever-on-vinyl 2LP reissue of 'A Long Way Around To A Shortcut' is somehow a greatest hits of the golden not-quite-decade of Sic Alps. 'A Long Way Around To A Shortcut' was issued as a CD in 2008. It collected songs that were first issued throughout the epic ...
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DC400 | DRAG CITY

AMBARCHI, OREN - SHEBANG (CD)

"Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has long been interested in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on exploring the guitar, "taking the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it is no longer ...
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DC853CD | DRAG CITY

BITCHIN' BAJAS - BAJASCILLATORS (2LP)

"Mastered directly from half-inch analogue tape, Bajascillators floats transparently from the speakers, its expansive grooves gathering resonance and building momentum over the four sides, from genesis to reconclusion, cascading ecstatically. The elastic magic of time ...
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DC781 | DRAG CITY

MOORE, ANTHONY - FLYING DOESN'T HELP (LP)

"40-plus years since its original release, the pop-punk-new wave inventions of Anthony Moore's Flying Doesn't Help are freshly remastered, blasting the sparkling, angular sounds into today with perfect vitality." (label info)
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DC840 | DRAG CITY

RED CRAYOLA AND ART & LANGUAGE, THE - BLACK SNAKES (LP)

"Black Snakes was issued in 1983 as a co-release by Switzerland's Rec Rec and Germany's Pure Freunde label. With a quartet featuring synthist Allen Ravenstine doubling on soprano sax, this was a smaller group than had appeared on either of the Crayola's two previous ...
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DC104 | DRAG CITY

ISHIBASHI, EIKO - IMITATION OF LIFE (LP)

"drag city presents the first domestic release of any kind from the japanese singer-songwriter eiko ishibashi - and the first vinyl release of any kind on this already-accomplished performer. and what a release! imitation of life isn't just another pop record from ...
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DC566 | DRAG CITY

O'ROURKE, JIM - SIMPLE SONGS (LP)

"2015 and the silence has been broken with 'Simple Songs'. Jim O'Rourke is ready to talk to you again with his first pop album since 2001. 'Simple Songs' is an amazing record of musical song entertainment because Jim O'Rourke knows what he wants and how to get it. The ...
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DC620 | DRAG CITY

SIC ALPS - VEDLEY (7")

"Weaving like a fighter, floating not drunken but like a butterfly in a vat of sweet brine, Sic Alps bring you 23 of the nearest misses we've heard recent..." (label info)
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DC508 | DRAG CITY

SIC ALPS - BATTERY TOWNSLEY (7")

"Alps's, bold as love. Like a pamphleteer hawking their latest tract down the back lanes of your neighborhood, Sic Alps are the paper boy, song-blogging but in the real world instead, a 7" for ever ditty on every tick of the calendar." (label info)
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DC495 | DRAG CITY

BISHOP, SIR RICHARD - THE FREAK OF ARABY (LP)

"The Freak Of Araby is the debut of Sir Richard Bishop and his Freak of Araby Ensemble, a talented quartet of players getting deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it ...
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