LAST VISIBLE DOG
"Third installment for our avant-garde / free-improv / difficult listening series. Compilation of unreleased and new, challenging music assembled by Ilya Monosov. Somethings #1 features Chie Mukai, Sarah Peebles, Masayoshi Urabe, Nick Castro, Preston Swirnoff, Andrew ...
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LVD1003 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"Austere drone / sound collage / aural texture. The two pieces here (one at 50 min, the other at 30) fuse ideas from contemporary minimalism (Bernard Guenter, Annea Lockwood, etc.), Japanese noise artists (such as Aube) and 20th century classical (Ligetti, Pendereki, ...
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LVD004 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"Islaja (Fonal) side-man and frequent tour-mate with Larkin Grimm (Secret Eye), Sala-Arhimo's debut oozes a slow psychedelic radiance from a half-frozen world of hibernation. A bit of ancient Pink Floyd as reference point, perhaps some of the jazz-like moments of ...
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LVD094 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"New full-length release from Finnish-based Tivol; sounding like part Amon Duul 2 (think the first track on Yeti), part Blue Cheer and part High Rise." (LABEL INFO)
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LVD079 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"Swagger Jack might draw comparison to John Fahey's Blind Joe Death, if only that both characters are completely fictional. Fans should have no problem detecting that this is New Zealand's Antony Milton in full-on songwriting mode (versus his noisier projects such as AM ...
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LVD097 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"Continuing with their exhaustive, snail's-pace release schedule, New Zealand elder-statesmen improvising trio Sandoz Lab Technicians have finally given birth to their 6th album in 13 years. The Lab Techs are particularly excited about this one, as it features as its ...
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LVD063 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"Perhaps this wispy history, built as much upon the shadow ground of myth, rumor and superstition as upon sun-kissed fact, accounts for the spooked air that animates Inaba's every breath. The spirit of personal myth permeates too his lyrics, which at their most opaque ...
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LVD025 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"52-minute DVD (all region, all format) of Up-Tight playing at their best. Incredible sound quality, the video is close-up and personal. Unless you have been lucky enough to catch this tremendous live band on tour, this is the only way you are going to experience the ...
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LVD126DVD | LAST VISIBLE DOG
"Three CD live retrospective covering 1998-2006 and including shows in New Zealand, Japan, Denmark and Scotland. Chronologically organized, the album also shows the evolution of Birchville's sound from the mid '90s slowly emerging drone-fields (and use of found sounds) ...
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LVD105/7 | LAST VISIBLE DOG
