THE RESIDENTS "SANTA DOG EP" (1972)

L'ep santa dog del 1972 è la prima pubblicazione dei Residents (il primo album sarà pubblicato 2 anni dopo), nonchè la prima uscita della Ralph Records. Il disco, oggi introvabile, fu prodotto in una prima tiratura di un centinaio di copie e, leggenda vuole, fu spedito, oltre che ad amici e artisti, a Frank Zappa e a Richard Nixon (allora presidente degli stati uniti). L'EP fu poi ristampato nel '78.


;-) Santa Dog '78, Santa Dog '78, Santa Dog '84, Santa Dog '88

INDIAN JEWELRY - "INVASIVE EXOTICS" (2006)

Rispetto alla (no-)wave aliena degli esordi, Invasive Exotics (Monitor, 2006) accentua soprattutto la dimensione mistico-tribale, mettendo in scena una sorta di "apocalisse krautedelica". Un baccanale al tempo stesso primitivo e futurista, all'interno di un collettivo divenuto una stravagante milizia musicale: "We are legion" è il motto prediletto dal combo, che conta almeno una ventina di performer, alle prese con strumenti d'ogni sorta inclusi "percussioni ozark, ghostworm, sequential circuits e pizzazz".
Gli Indian Jewelry sono sciamani robot, venuti a rinnovare l'estetica acida e freak dei concittadini Red Crayola e Butthole Surfers, filtrandola con le morbosità elettroniche dei Suicide e gli sballi rumoristi di band come Sun City Girls e Gang Gang Dance. Il sound si fa ancor più violento e cacofonico, con la complicità di una incisione ruvidissima, che definire amatoriale è poco.
“E’ musica che fa scoppiare la testa” teorizza efficacemente Kerschen.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Lesser Snake
2. Powwow
3. Dirty Hands
4. Ratnoise
5. Come Closer
6. Going South
7. Health and Wellbeing
8. Partying With Jandek
9. Lying on the Floor
10. Lost My Sight


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PYLON - "CHOMP" (1983)

Chomp, released in 1983 by Athens, GA new wave band Pylon, has one of the best album covers ever. How can you go wrong with a giant picture of a T-Rex? Fortunately, the music on the record is just as awesome.

Pylon had a sound all their own - one highly regarded by fellow Athens acts of the same time such as R.E.M. and The B-52's. It was a killer combination of Vanessa Briscoe's yelp-to-growl vocals, Michael Lachowski's driving bass, Curtis Crowe's pulsating drumming and Randall Bewley's sharp, angular guitar. The material they created is bizarre and random, yet totally addictive and danceable.


Track listing:
1 - K
2 - Yo-Yo
3 - Beep
4 - Italian Movie Theme
5 - Crazy
6 - M-Train
7 - Buzz
8 - No Clocks
9 - Reptiles
10 - Spider
11 - Gyrate
12 - Altitude

fico, un loro pezzo (Italian movie theme) è stato rifatto anche dai Man or Astroman?

;-)

DECIBEL - "PUNK" (1978)

Tracklist:
01) Figli di…;
02) Paparock;
03) LSD Flash;
04) Superstar;
05) Il leader;
06) New York;
07) Col dito… col dito;
08) Il lavaggio del cervello




(Da Lamette.it) "Quando Enrico Ruggeri dice che il punk in Italia l’ha portato lui, sostanzialmente ha ragione. Che ci crediate o no, e soprattutto, che lo vogliate o no, il Rouge – capello biondo tinto e inconfondibili occhialoni bianchi – è stato a suo tempo il cantante dei gloriosi Decibel, la prima spaghetti bénd a incidere un disco punk di nome e di fatto. Per quanto i detrattori detraggano, infatti, il loro sottovalutato mini-lp d’esordio è uno dei pochissimi vinili nostrani esenti dal revival, nel senso che mentre in Inghilterra e nel resto del mondo spopolavano (o avevano appena spopolato) i Sex Pistols, i Damned, i Clash e compagnia cantando, qui in Italia vennero fuori 1000 copie circa di questo 33 giri, che – stando alle cronache del tempo – si beccò subito fior di stroncature e fu venduto a parenti e amici. Su cosa andasse invece per la maggiore quell’anno, è meglio stendere un velo pietoso: la morale della favola è che oggi, mai più ristampato, Punk è assurto al livello dogmatico di assoluta leggenda, come la poltrona in pelle umana di fantozziana memoria. Altra leggenda, che oggi confermo, vuole che la copertina sia un collage sul modello dei celeberrimi artworks realizzati da Jamie Reid per le pistole del sesso. Risultato bellissimo e naif, con tanto di svastica, bandierina yankee e logo Decibel inscritto in un cazzetto ritagliato (non venitemi a dire che si tratta semplicemente di una d e di una b!). Quando poi il disco gira sul piatto e partono le schitarrate, è immediatamente chiaro che non si scherza affatto".

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BEATRICE ANTOLINI "A DUE" (2008)

BEATRICE ANTOLINI

A Due

(Urtovox) 2008
songwriter, avant-pop

http://www.myspace.com/beatriceantolini

Tracklist:

1. New Manner
2. Funky Show
3. Morbidalga
4. A New Room For A Quiet Life
5. Modern Lover
6. Clear My Eyes
7. Pop Goes To Saint Peter
8. Sugarise
9. Secrete Cassette
10. Double J
11. Taiga

Il suo piano scalmanato fa spesso da controparte al canto afrodisiaco.

;-)

THE ALPS "III" (2009)

Artist: The Alps
Title Of Album: III
Year Of Release: 11/2008
Label: Type Records
Genre: Ambient / Downtempo / Experimental / Folk
Bitrate: VBRkbps
Total Time: 40:52 min
Total Size: 59.3 MB


Tracklist:
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01.a manha na praia 03:37
02.hallucinations 09:27
03.cloud one 04:43
04.trem fanstasma 07:42
05.labyrinths 05:09
06.pink light 01:49
07.echoes 04:20
08.into the breeze 04:05


Listing the personnel behind The Alps should
provide you with a rough idea of where this record
is headed: Tarentel's Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is joined
by Arp and ex-Tussle member Alexis Georgopoulos
plus Troll's Scott Hewicker, who come together to
create an utterly gorgeous, cinematic blend of vintage
psychedelia, Goblin-style bass grooves and melodies
that sound like they've been extracted from an obscure
Bruno Nicolai or Fabio Frizzi score, never more so than
on the giallo fuzz tones of 'Labyrinths'.

Elsewhere 'Hallucinations' channels the spirit of the more
out there krautrock of the 1970s, featuring some especially
wonky detuning effects and tape saturated choral passages.

In a similar vein 'Cloud One' recruits a line in open-tuned
guitar repetition, laying down a slack-stringed mantra over
which modal keystrokes flounce around. To put a more
contemporary spin on all this, you might align 'Into The
Breeze' with the sort of material to be found on Air's early
12"s, but if you had to restrict your palette of comparisons
to just one band throughout all this, you'd have to opt for
Popol Vuh, who have clearly made a big impression on
the Alps' wonderfully old-fashioned blend of euro-psych
soundscapes and deftly defined song arcs.

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THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - "ANY DAY NOW" (1987)

Formed in London in 1980, the Legendary Pink Dots moved to Amsterdam in the middle of the decade. Members throughout the band's career have been Edward Ka-Spel (vocals, keyboards) and Phil Knight (keyboards), also known as the Silver Man, with a shifting supporting cast over the years. The Dots' music is by turns melodic pop and exotic psychedelia, with classical influences, sampling, and relentlessly dark, violent, apocalyptic lyrics. After several releases for Mirrodot and Inphaze during the early '80s, the group signed to Play It Again Sam distribution for 1985's The Lovers, and released much of their best material (1990's Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, 1991's The Maria Dimension) on the label. Even as the Legendary Pink Dots neared their two-decade anniversary, the group continued to tour Europe and America quite consistently, appreciated by several generations of dark industrial/goth audiences (and documented by the 2000 live album Farewell, Milky Way). After releasing Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves in spring of 2006, the band embarked on their 25th anniversary tour.More cohesive than Island of Jewels and more streamlined than Asylum, Any Day Now stands as one of The Legendary Pink Dots' best albums of the ‘80s, ex-aequo with The Tower. There is no specific unifying theme this time, although alienation and estrangement seem to permeate the whole project. The Dots' keyboard patches were starting to get old by 1988, but in retrospect, this gives the album a vaguely retro charm. Edward Ka-Spel is in top songwriting shape, with "Casting the Runes," "A Strychnine Kiss" and "Neon Mariners" standing out as particularly catchy songs. The latter is especially haunting, thanks to careful arrangements and one of Ka-Spel's trademark vocal deliveries. Any Day Now is noteworthy for its lack of long experimental tracks, which (without unfairly diminishing the artistic interest of such efforts) makes the album somewhat more accessible to newcomers. The only extended track is the 10-minute "Waiting for the Cloud," but it is through-written, with the song proper in the first half (and a strong one at that), followed by an instrumental development that showcases why the Dots were often perceived as the unlikely link between Progressive Rock and Industrial, and a final recap of the song. Patrick Wright's violin is mixed somewhat higher on this album, giving more presence to his elegant lines. The original Bias release consisted of nine tracks (ending with "Cloud Zero"). Subsequent reissues added the complete Under Glass EP released the same year, a set of three weaker and somewhat more mainstream songs, including some slap bass in "The Plasma Twins" and a stadium rock-like double solo of violin and electric guitar at the end of "The Light In My Little Girls Eyes." (allmusic)

Altre info su "Any day now"

Tracklist:

1 "Casting the Runes"
2 "A Strychnine Kiss"
3 "Laguna Beach"
4 "The Gallery"
5 "Neon Mariners"
6 "True Love"
7 "The Peculiar Fun Fair"
8 "Waiting For the Cloud"
9 "Cloud Zero"
10 "Under Glass" *
11 "The Light In My Little Girl's Eyes" *
12 "The Plasma Twins" *
(*) Included only on CD versions – taken from the Under Glass 12".

Band Line-up:

The Prophet Qa'Sepel (Edward Ka-Spel) - voc, keyb

The Silver Man (Phil Knight) - keyb, soundscapes

Stret Majest Alarme (Barry Gray) - guitar

Graham Whitehead - keyb

Patrick Q (Wright) - violins, violas, pianos

Jason (Salmon) - bass, perc

GUESTS: Lady Sunshine (Marylou Busch) - vocals

Tony Copier - drums

;-)

VAMPIRE WEEKEND S/T (2007)

sound: Indie/Pop
length: 12 songs, 35.17 minutes
myspace

1. Mansard Roof
2. Oxford Comma
3. A-Punk
4. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
5. M79
6. Campus
7. Bryn
8. One (Blake's Got A New Face) (With Slinger Francisco)
9. I Stand Corrected
10. Walcott
11. The Kids Don't Stand A Chance

If you don't already know about this album then you've been living under a rock for the last year.

;-)

TIPSY "BUZZZ" (2008)

It's been a while since we had the last release from experimental lounge-funk progenitors Tipsy, but here they are, making a return on Ipecac with sixteen new excursions into jazzy exotica and avant-garde assaults on easy listening. Despite their apparent obscurity, in the years since they started out Tipsy have appeared in the background on TV shows like Sex And The City and The Sopranos, meaning that they've stealthily assumed the muzak disguise they've always toyed around with. On Buzzz there's less in the way of loop and sample-based composition than has been evident on previous outings, placing renewed emphasis on live instrumentation (there are vocals on here too: Japanese singer Coppe joins in on 'Hot Banana' for some excellent Pizzicato Five-style silliness), but there's still a beguilingly off-filter, People Like Us feel to tracks like 'See The Beauty, Touch The Magic'.(boomkat)

Tracklist
1. Tipsy - Midnight Party (2:34)
2. Tipsy - A Night On The Town (3:00)
3. Tipsy - Lipstick Tree (3:19)
4. Tipsy - Sweet Spot (3:15)
5. Tipsy - Swingin' Spaceman (2:56)
6. Tipsy - Chocolate Moon (2:21)
7. Tipsy - Chop Socky (2:52)
8. Tipsy - Electric Blue Eyelashes (3:51)
9. Tipsy - Kitty's Daydream (2:34)
10. Tipsy - Kadonka (3:16)
11. Tipsy - Big Business (3:03)
12. Tipsy - Good Little Demon (3:31)
13. Tipsy - See The Beauty, Touch The Magic (3:05)
14. Tipsy - Wet Rainbow (4:43)
15. Tipsy - Hot Banana (3:08)
16. Tipsy - Up 'til Dawn (2:52)

;-)

HELIOCENTRICS/MULATU ASTATKE "INSPIRATION INFORMATION" (2009)

Strut Records’ Inspiration Information series continues with Ethiopian jazz composer/arranger Mulatu Astatke (best known in the States for Jim Jarmusch’s use of his music in the film Broken Flowers and for his cuts found on the Ethiopiques comps) and British soul-jazz/psych troupe the Heliocentrics. Due out April 14, this collaboration is my favorite in the series so far. Think James Brown, David Axelrod, and Sun Ra go to Addis Ababa, smoke some killer weed, and lay down the jazz-funk of the spheres, aglow with eerie melodies and throbbing with inventive rhythms.



01. Masengo
02. Cha Cha
03. Addis Black Widow
04. Mulatu
05. Blue Nile
06. Esketa Dance
07. Chik Chikka
08. Live From Tigre Lounge
09. Chinese New Year
10. Phantom Of The Panther
11. Dewel
12. Fire In The Zoo
13. An Epic Story
14. Anglo Ethio Suite

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DEAD ELVIS & HIS ONE MAN GRAVE

Back from the grave, takin’ care of business!

Dead but still kickin’ ass!!

Now this grave only fits one, one dead man’s feral howl, Guitar and a backbeat!… Dug up by ‘the undertaker’ in a desperate attempt to save what’s left of real rock ‘n roll!

It’s Dead Elvis and his one man grave!



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MI AMI - WATERSPORTS (2009)

Genre : Indie,Noise-Rock,Post-Punk,Psychedelic,Experimental GOOD!!
Myspace

Tracklist

01 echononecho
02 the man in your house
03 new guitar
04 pressure
05 freed from sin
06 white whife
07 peaceatalks/downer

Quarterstick Records, Touch and Go's partner label for the last 17-plus years, is pleased to welcome San Francisco-based drum punk trio Mi Ami to the folds. Featuring two key members of Dischord's hyper-percussive Black Eyes (Daniel Martin-McCormick on vocals and guitar, and Jacob Long on bass) as well as Damon Palermo on drums, Mi Ami builds on the promise of Black Eyes' spastic energy and renowned live performances, but steers it into a more focused, volatile, and personal direction.

Mi Ami's first single on Quarterstick, Echononecho, will be released as a 12" and digitally January 27, 2009, with the follow-up full length, Watersports, out February 17, 2009. The band fully takes flight and thrives in the live setting, with shows turning into all-out pulsating rhythmic throwdowns, so save up some energy and be sure to catch them on their extensive tours throughout 2009



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WAVVES - WAVVES (2008)

Lo-fi beach punk anthems by San Diego's Nathan Williams. Beautiful timeless melodies on top trash can guitars & blown out drums. 14 tracks in 35 minutes.

http://www.myspace.com/wavves

Fat Possum Records

California, United States

1. Rainbow Everywhere
2. Beach Demon
3. To The Dregs
4. Sun Opens My Eyes
5. Gun In The Sun
6. So Bored
7. Goth Girls
8. No Hope Kids
9. Weed Demon
10. California Goths
11. Summer Goth
12. Beach Goth
13. Killr Punx, Scary Demons
14. Surf Goth

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DEATH - "...FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE" (1974)

Detroit proto-punk/garage rock three-some's entire collection of recorded material, finally seeing the light of day 34 years after being recorded. An excellent (if all too short) glimpse into a future that never was from a band that burned brightly and then faded into memory, but for a few very rare 7" singles the band self-released in '75.

http://www.myspace.com/death;

Tracklist:

1. Keep on Knocking
2. Rock-N-Roll Victim
3. Let the World Turn
4. You're a Prisoner
5. Freakin Out
6. Where Do We Go from Here???
7. Politicians in My Eyes

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THE SHAGGS (1969-1988)

"The Shaggs are real, pure, unaffected by outside influences. Their music is different, it is theirs alone. They believe in it, live it. It is a part of them and they are a part of it. Of all contemporary acts in the world today, perhaps only the Shaggs do what others would like to do, and that is perform only what they believe in, what they feel, not what others think the Shaggs should feel.
The Shaggs love you, and love to perform for you. You may love their music or you may not, but whatever you feel, at last you know you can listen to artists who are real. They will not change their music or style to meet the whims of a frustrated world. You should appreciate this because you know they are pure what more can you ask?
Betty, Helen and Dorothy Wiggin are the Shaggs. They are sisters and members of a large family where mutual respect and love for each other is at an unbelievable high. They study and practice together, encouraged and helped by those around them. Betty, Helen and Dorothy live in a small town in New Hampshire, in an atmosphere which has encouraged them to develop their music unaffected by outside influences. They are happy people and love what they are doing. They do it because they love it".
Philosophy of the World liner notes

Philosophy of the world (1969, Third World) ;-)


The Shaggs (1988, Rounder) ;-)