Lowlight Situations - "Office Romance" CS
>> Saturday, February 18, 2012
This NNF release might be a little underappreciated. I like jazz when it's very syrupy.
This full length is 1/100.
From Decrepit Tapes' blog:
"Misery may love company but the reverse is true as well. And few
improv-y crews are as adept at coaxing delicious smoky noir heartbreak
as City Terrace quartet Low Light Situations. It only takes a couple
turtlenecks, two beards, three folding chairs, one clarinet, and a
single sizzle-chain for these itinerant east LA session players to
slow-roast a set’s worth of mesmerizing instrumental reverb chamber
mystery-jazz. Whispery percussion, piano bar bass noodles, echo-twang
guitar spiderwebs, and twilit ivory tickling slow-dance and romance in a
tall-ceilinged hall of mirrors, occasionally spilling over into
passages of dissonant drama or hushed emptiness. A great sustained mood
melodrama parsed into six subtle micro-movements."
$6 + shipping
Alex Body - "Little Hazey" CS
The now-defunct Iowa tape label, Moist Tapes, put out Alex Body's most tropical release C20 cassette release "Little Hazey" in a short run in 2010. Simply known as BODY these days, you might recognize him from a few early Night People releases. Joe Heuermann, the one of Iowa noise's elusive kingpins, ran Moist Tapes prior to going industrial as J. Pavilion and starting up All Hell Recordings in Iowa City.
This weird relic has it all: bright organ tangents, dub elements, blown-out kiddy vocals, peach-Os.
Side A: "naked we came"
Side B: "staring at a decent person", "little hazey", "michael jackson"
$4 + shipping
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Breathing Flowers - "Magical Order of the Seven Sacred Planets" CS
From label Sonic Meditation's prolific electronic psych roster.
Breathing
Flowers is a Kansas City native McKinley Jones. He has contributed to a
number of Expo '70 albums including the recent "Corridors to Infinity"
album. Sonic Meditations released 100 of "Magical Order of the Seven Sacred Planets" and the shop wound up with a good handful, but there remains just one copy left.
"Magical Order" is an out-of-body lazy river through seven bodies of the known universe.
Recommended to those who dig on Expo '70, Umberto, new mystic stuff, or have read 'Utopia' by Thomas More.
"Breathing
Flowers leads us away from the clichés of the sweaty indie-folk mass
through green fields, winding mountain paths and thick forests to a
leafy and secluded grove where child-nymphs and faun frolic in the
speckled sunlight by the lake, a pasty-faced magician casts runes under a
white oak..." 8/10/08 -- Matthew O'Shannessy - Foxy Digitalis
$7 + shipping
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Beru - "Daughter Of Eve" CS
>> Sunday, February 12, 2012
Beru, known also as Jessica Collin, leads a listener through a morose drifts in "Daughter of Eve". The full length cassette leads with a delicate request to follow her past a gated curtain of windchimes and through a forestal path of listless laments. Later, Beru sings a short yarn about a futile quest for love that leads her through Jerusalem and ends with an unobserved death. Austere stuff.
NPR's All Music Considered blog listed Beru - "Daughter of Eve" as one of the Best Cassettes of 2010.
"... After dozens of listens
to Beru's "Daughter Of Eve" I can say for certain: I know ghosts. Jessica Collin has crafted one of the most heartbreaking pieces of
music I've heard in ages. "Daughter Of Eve" is a dark journey through a
harrowing year. Think too much wine mixed with Bergman and you're
getting close...
Calleiro's voice is the star. hovering over fractured acoustic guitar melodies, sounding as if though it'll crack and break into tiny pieces at any moment, you can't help but be seduced. noise swashes, chiming percussion and various other parlor tricks create the perfect momentary distractions... Created as two 25 minute sides, "Daughter Of Eve" is expertly assembled..." 1 of 75.
Calleiro's voice is the star. hovering over fractured acoustic guitar melodies, sounding as if though it'll crack and break into tiny pieces at any moment, you can't help but be seduced. noise swashes, chiming percussion and various other parlor tricks create the perfect momentary distractions... Created as two 25 minute sides, "Daughter Of Eve" is expertly assembled..." 1 of 75.
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GSS Holiday Gift Guide
>> Thursday, December 22, 2011
Vintage Knits |
Tooled Leather Vintage Bags |
Mens vintage shoes and boots |
Womens vintage shoes and boots |
OAK vintage sunnies & shades |
Softspoken handmade hats and mitts |
Iron Sea handmade tees and totes |
Project Salvage handmade jewelry |
Last minute gift ideas for those of us who wait until the last possible second!
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