LOCUST

"Prepare yourself for a liberation of your senses. prepare for an irresistible taste of the 50s in all of it's sonic sci-fi glory because this caravan of sound is where head music really began! For a period in 1955, Henry Jacobs, the grandmaster of left coast zen ...
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"Et Sans is the Canadian duo of Roger Tellier-Craig (Fly Pan Am, Godspeed You Black Emperor) and Alexandre St-Onge (Undo, Shalabi Effect). Composed using upright bass, guitars and musique concrete style collages of their own tape treated voices, L'Autre is a drifting, ...
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special offer, new copy, sealed "NNCK LP soundtrack for the upcoming nnck movie of the same name, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer. this album presents recordings from the first NNCK rehearsal space at 195 Chrystie St. NYC in the years 1995-97. Two pieces were recorded ...
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"Recorded live to tape in two days, after a sleep deprived month of Beefheart style creative lockdown, Begushkin - Dan Smith's 8 headed hydra - lay to rest the twilight folk of 2007s Nightly Things and reemerged with the wicked & strange hard rock gypsy shake of King's ...
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special offer "Exodus Bulldornadius is Philly multi-instrumentalist Eric Carbonara's contribution to locust music's ongoing Wooden Guitar series. Carbonara's playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk to ...
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"Mambo Mange is the eponymous 4th & final album by a fine NY ensemble who unfortunately imploded at the peak of their game. Originally fronted by twin femme vocalists Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) & celebrated visual artist Rita Ackermann, for what would be the ...
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"To a small circle of psychedelic music fans, the re-discovery of native Israeli, Danny Ben-Israel's sole, privately released album, Chantarish 3, a few years ago was nothing short of a revelation. Despite having been sung in his native Hebrew, there was no getting away ...
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"The Parisian quartet, Cyann & Ben, recorded their extraordinary debut, Spring, in an isolated country house in 2002. The pastoral retreat made a perfect backdrop for Cyann's delicate, breathy female vocals and the band's organic, analogue sound. The result is a dense ...
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"Locust released their fuzzed-out '60s folk-rock debut last month to relatively little fanfare, but holy shit, this band's great-and way more Zeppelin and Sabbath than their woodsy name lets on. Then again, if you saw the name and thought "Jethro Tull," you wouldn't be ...
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"No.9 (Joe Takayuki) is an unsung electropop mastermind from Tokyo's invigorating onkyo scene whose knack for melodious electronic pop, jazz grooves and varied rhythms owes as much to the cinedelic scores of Umiliani and TV spy jazz as it does to the simple, meditative ...
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