"Paul Metzger continues to pile up the plaudits from critics and peers alike for his virtuosic string-slinging, gaining notice through his CD on Chairkickers and his split LP with Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano on Roaratorio. Metzger's modified banjo is tricked out with ...
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ROAR14 | ROARATORIO
""All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."_Pascal - Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since Community (Kye, 2016). Recorded mostly during ...
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BF-060 | BLANK FORMS EDITIONS
"Recorded from late 1996 through early 1997, Hold Onto I.D., The Shadow Ring's fourth album, marks the apogee of the trio's experimental rock epoch - their last record clinging to their factitious bandness before they let all song and structure go awash in sonic malaise ...
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BF-042 | BLANK FORMS EDITIONS
"Coffin was many listeners' introduction to the Shadow Ring, who had hitherto self-released their music, courting a steady stable of international fans through the magazine and mail-order catalog Forced Exposure. For their follow-up, the duo reached out to the ascending ...
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BF-040 | BLANK FORMS EDITIONS
"A veritable supergroup consisting of Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo), Los Pirañas, the Colombian Avant-Latin experimentalists, returnwith their most formidable and forward-looking album yet. Improvised ...
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GBCD167 | GLITTERBEAT
Moonshake was formed in 1991 by David Callahan (vocals, guitars, samplers), formerly of The Wolfhounds, and New York musician Margaret Fiedler (vocals, guitars, samplers). Callahan and Fiedler recorded a demo for Creation Records, and were joined by John Frenett (bass) ...
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PURE#351LPX | TOO PURE/BEGGARS GROUP
"Among Corner's most fascinating works are those created between 1962 and 1964, during the period when he was resident composer at the Judson Dance Theatre, one the great occurrences in the emergence of avant-garde dance, movement, Happenings, and performance art. Even ...
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PLANA-C44NMN160 | ALGA MARGHEN
4CDs, 154-page book, 16 festival posters, plus a previously unannounced LP featuring rare performances and answering machine messages. ""Cello Anthology" is a collection of documents-sonic and photographic-as well as original texts and testimonials, made available for ...
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PLANA-M27NMN064 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Bill Fontana investigates the physics of perception itself. Side A: tape collages where sound becomes both material and force. Side B: Wave Spiral for 5 Rin Gongs - a sidelong, 21-minute centerpiece where pure sine waves create interference patterns, frequency made ...
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plana-F 50NMN168 | ALGA MARGHEN
Bill Orcutt's latest release for Fake Estates, his ongoing opus of obsessive rearrangement, seamlessly melds these audio landmarks. Fittingly, Reich described Four Organs as "the longest V-I cadence in the history of Western Music," and as such, it neatly envelops all ...
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FAKE-015 | FAKE ESTATE
