Hello!
Many of you have asked about the Grouper LPs -- I'm out of them. I might get a few more tomorrow, but it's really impossible to say how likely that is. On to the list:



The new (and new-ish) stock:

MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS:
Deeds - Much of the Nuance Is Lost - $6

WISEBLOOD MEDIA:
The Slaves - Ruins - $6

AGENTS OF CHAOS:
Flower Man/Rene Hell - split - $7
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Live Generators (1.5) - $7
Any Given Sunday - Take Me To Your Dealer - $7

EKHEIN:
Earn - Lacewing - $7
Driphouse - Airlocks and Pallet Jacks - $7
The Compass Rose - The Plough Horse - $7
M. Geddes Gengras - Enduring Doubt - $7
Josh Burke - Adapt - $7
Pale Blue Sky - Apricot - $7

DRAFT:
A. Diller - Still Life - $7
Frak - Tournament City/Dry Vanadis - $7


JUGULAR FOREST
Mirror To Mirror - The Door With A Lock - $7
Earn - In A Year - $7
Cloaked Light - Drapery - $7
Harpoon Pole Vault - Outside This Area - $7
Pale Blue Sky - Souvenir - $7


ALBERT'S BASEMENT:
Morning and the Sleepy Kids - Songs 2004-2007 - $6
Terror Bird - Demos - $6
Pissypaw/Weirding Module - split - $6
Silk Ears - CDR - $6

Oscar Vicente Slorach-Thorn - Teeth - aB10 - $5

ARBOR:

Cloak Light - Plain Curtain - $6
Strange and intriguing piece on the A side that very carefully and simply creates a sonic space unlike anything I've come across. An AM radio sermon is folded onto itself several times so that while one voice is distinct, the others create a low murmur, reverberating and moving in a vast, imagined space. What's striking is the sense of nothingness beyond the activity of these several voices -- reminds me a lot of Beckett's The Lost Ones. Very mysterious.

Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants: Early Experiments - $6
Varied and visceral sound pieces that all share the emphasized, tactile mid-range of rough tape recordings. What's best about this stuff is its sense of mystery -- never quite knowing where or when the recordings were made, or what was being recorded. My favorite part is on side B when a high, organ-like tone is paired with a strange buzzing that sounds almost like a fly.

Justin Meyers - The Amplitude of Neighbors - $6
Deep, enveloping tone-work of weight and substance. The honey-like richness of Roland's beloved Juno 60 synthesizer tone is augmented with a sine-wave generator and electronics for a very appealing fullness of sound. Side B begins in a similar position to the flip but forgoes its low swells and visceral rumbling in favor of exploring the upper frequency territory of the drone-scape. Incredibly focused and well-executed stuff.


BEZOAR FORMATIONS:

Sogol - Miniature Orbits - $5

Radiant Husk - Points and Lines - $5

DNT:

Caboladies - s/t LP - $11

Family Underground - Demon Parade LP - $11

Sean McCann - Chances Are Staying LP - $11

Plankton Wat - Dawn of the Golden Eternity LP - $11


DIGITALIS LIMITED:

"Air Rings vol. 2" Xela/Matt Carlson/Analog Concept/Cliffsides 2 tape, 4-way split - $12

Brother Raven - VSS-30 LP - $14

EGGY RECORDS:
Nodolby - s/t - $5

The Woolen Men - Sunday - Eggy Number Twelve - $5
5 song missive from the Woolen Men goes from jangle-pop to extended freak-outery to big-melodied anthem keeping it short, sweet and catchy.

Jovontaes - Masks of the Land - Eggy Number Eleven - $5
Kentucky skater-kids discover krautrock, set the fidelity dial to "0" and pour on the sludge. Heavy duty.

Lame Drivers - Demoverse - Eggy Number Nine - $5
After spending many years in East Coast basements honing their pop craft and rotting their brains on too much Gizmos, the Lame Drivers get weird on this tape. Not like stoned and jammy weird but like, hyper-crafted, manic genre-surfing weird. Very catchy despite the over-the-top nature. Lots of palm muting.

The Woolen Men - Pavilion - Eggy Number Seven - $5
Energy, melody, simplicity. Six songs starting down a good path.

The Polyps - Fennel's Daughter 7" - Eggy Number One - $4

EKHEIN:

Evan Miller - Spool/Thread - $7
Made at the same time as the tape for Gel and the four-way Taterbug, Treetops, Abelar Scout split on Young Tapes, I believe, "Thread" and "Spool" and both drone-focused guitar pieces. "Thread" is directly in the mode of the other tapes of this period -- simple, focused and balanced -- while "Spool" is more emotional and less stoic, and rides a slow, ethereal melody. It's a gorgeous piece, very reminiscent of Last Days Last Nights-era Popul Vuh in the way that it's quietly ecstatic.




FAUX PAS:

Kommisar Hjular und Frau/i'd m thfft able - split - $6

Sord - Endless Muselike Vision - $5


Sam Gas Can/Rusty Spoons - Split - $4

FEEDING TUBE RECORDS:

Happy Jawbone Family Band - Hotel Double Tragedy LP and CD - $13

Couchie Poochie - $4

GEL TAPES:

Evan Miller - Contracting the Eye - GEL06 - $6

51717 - Sch - GEL07 - $6

V/A - Radio Malaysia Volume One - GEL08 - $6

GIFT TAPES:

Panabrite - Wizard Chimes - $7

Mi Or and the Pedestals - Eos - $7

Nathan McLaughlin - $7

Oregon Painting Society - Radian Dream Face - $6
Plants and square waves.

Zaimph - Coast to Coast - $6
Mysterious, grainy, warbly, hiss-laden guitar drone.

Concessionaires - Skyline - $6
Hazy synthscapes from Brad Rose of Digitalis/North Sea and Pete Fosco.

GNAR TAPES:

The Woolen Men - Portland Building - $7

GOATY TAPES:
Sohni Chambers - Yaw-Mah-Ha - $6
Banana Head/Rosemary Krust - split - $6
Silk Ears - Bed Room Water - $6
Baronic Wall - Traditional Appearance $6
Smegma/Komissar Hjular and Mama Baer - split - $7

El Jesus de Magico - Ragtime Hors - $6
Scuzzy art rock that locks in and grooves into oblivion.

Bone Patrol U.S./Varlet Tarsod - split - $7

HOLY CHEEVER CHURCH RECORDS:

Pete Fosco - Negative Mind - $6

Chris Dadge - What Comes After Dust - $6

Gino Robair - NoiseBox - $6


Mike Khoury/Chris Rigss - My Words Came Out Slow And Od - HCC024 - $6

HOOKER VISION:

Aerial Jungle - Mosaic 3" CDR - $6

Moss Swarm - Seance Horizon 3" CDR - $6

JUGULAR FOREST

Mirror To Mirror - The Door With A Lock - $7

Earn - In A Year - $7

Cloaked Light - Drapery - $7

Harpoon Pole Vault - Outside This Area - $7

Pale Blue Sky - Souvenir - $7

IMPOSE:

DD/MM/YYYY - Black Square - $5
Very peppy, energetic indie rock very much in the vein of Les Savy Fav.

ISOLATED NOW WAVES:

Shearing Pinx - White Tiger Prepade - $6

LA Lungs - No 213 - $6

MISSISSIPPI RECORDS:

Orchestre Regional De Mopti - S/T LP - $10
Just take a look at those guys on the cover! I think it says it all -- the three fellas with electric guitars let you know that you're in for some hypnotic, poly-rhythmic, interwoven melody lines, while the traditional garb and pastoral setting let you know that this is no hard-hitting, psych-funk-afro-fusion affair, rather the music of the Mopti people taken a few clicks into the modern world. A wonderful, open, and at it's heart very strange record.

Michael Hurley - Blue Hills LP - $10
New recordings from Mr. Hurley, made largely in Astoria during the past year. Six songs in all, solo except for a little violin on the last one. Long, loose, emotional songs, stripped down to the essentials and played slow. Amen. Highlights include a version of "Tea Song," which was originally on Hurley's 1965 debut on Folkways -- one of those songs that just rolls over you like a steamroller, leaving you flat as a pancake -- and a very sweet, wistful new one called "Meara O'Reilly.

Abner Jay - Folk Song Stylist LP - $10

V/A - Fanajana: Field Recordings and Photography from Madagascar LP - $10

Uke of Philips - Peppermint Birdhouse Tea Shanty Shack LP - $10

V/A - I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore LP - $10

V/A - Fight On Your Time Ain't Long LP - $10

Joseph Spence - Good Morning, Mr. Walker LP - $10

Rev. Louis Overstreet - An Evening With... LP - $10

NIGHT-PEOPLE:

Dunebuggy - "Live: White Paint/High Jinx and the Perfume Tuxedo" C20 - $6

Sleep Over - "s/t" C20 - $6

Lazer Zeppelin - "Pyramid Echo" C40 - $6

Dirty Beaches - "Night City" C32 - $6

Rene Hell - "Baroque Arcade" C20 - $6

Pageants - "s/t" C20 - $6

The Savage Young Taterbug - "Syrupy Evenings" C20 - $6

EMA - "Little Sketches On Tape" C32 - $6

Hochman and Hopkins - Live NYE - NP077 - $6

Sewn Leather - NP082 - $6

Ryan Garbes - Born Under the Sun - NP089 - $6



NU NEW AGE:


Jefre Sei Getsu Ledesma - Namu Kie Butsu - $6
Rolling waves of abstract texture, like starting into a sea of mercury.


OMS-B:
Dim Holys - Is There Heat Rising In Your Neck - OMS-B011 - $7
Beautiful, sleep drones from Brian Mumford of Dragging an Ox Through Water.

Prarie Fire:

Gremlynz/Ajilvsga - split - $6

RARE YOUTH:

(D)(B)(H) - Not All Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - $6

RRRECORDS:

Pulse Emitter - $4

Pedestrian Deposit - $4

Evil Moisture - $4

Nautical Almanac - $4

Wolf Eyes - $4

John Wiese - $4

Kites - $4

STUMPARUMPER RECORDS

Reveille - s/t - $5


STUNNED TAPES:

Granit Korridor - III - $7

TONE FILTH:

Justin Meyers - Permanent Pressure - $7

Scott Goodwin - Referent - $7

Helm - Direct Landscapes - $7

Chambers - Soon - $7

UHU TAPES:
Ghost to Falco - $5

WEIRD FOREST:

Grouper - Wide LP - $15

DJ Yo-Yo Dieting - Bubblethug LPx2 - $22

Love Cry Want LPx2 - $22

WUSS TAPES:

Taco Leg/Constant Mongrel split - $5
Good, clean, dumb fun from Australia. I be would surprised if any of the songs topped either two minutes or three chords, which is to say, this tape rules. Taco Leg got some sort of nod from Terminal Boredom recently, so they're on their way to making millions, no doubt. One of the two bands has a great song about Indiana Jones that gets stuck in my head all the time.


SELF-RELEASED:


SAD HORSE - S/T - Self Released - $3