Jug Fusion Jug Fusion
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It´s Blind Willie Johnson vs Godzilla. It´s Fat Albert's junkyard band on acid. Our friend and sometimes conspiritor, Shane Speal, reinvents the blues centered around his obsession, cigarbox guitars. The music roams from heavier pieces to jug band sounding numbers to raw blues.
Jumbo's Killcrane "The Slow Decay" CBR42 CD
The 4th album from Kansan Doom-Prog juggernauts JUMBO'S KILLCRANE. Leaner, darker, and far more crushing than their previous releases, The Slow Decay finds the Killcrane in an altogether apocalyptic frame of mind, unleashing subsonic frequencies that resonate with the decay of ages. Their monstrous riffs are more angular than ever, but this new manifesto also delivers soaring, stygian melodies that earlier releases only hinted at. Haunting and heartbreakingly heavy, the trio wind together barbed-wire hooks that snarl themselves around snail's pace rhythms and tarpit riffs.
Sarah June "This is My Letter to the World" Hand/Eye h/e040 CD
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Sarah June is a singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. She has been singing and playing piano and guitar since childhood. In high school she began writing songs inspired by the haunting imagery of the industrial wasteland she was surrounded by. When she was 18 she began to perform in Chicago and Detroit, and put together an EP called "three-quarter view" in 2001. Currently she lives in San Francisco. Still inspired by bleak urban landscapes, and the loneliness that lurks within us all, she spent this past year writing songs that she compiled into her debut album: "This Is My Letter To The World". She recorded and edited all of the songs alone in her apartment, being careful to preserve the sincere and delicate sound-quality of the original recordings. Many of the songs' lyrics pay subtle homage to some of Sarah's most beloved literary figures such as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury, and Gwendolyn Brooks. "This Is My Letter To The World" is a visual experience as much as it is aural, with imagery-rich lyrics woven into atmospheric and fragile melodies.
Though singer-songwriter seems too common a term to apply to Sarah June, however accurate it may be. Singer-songwriter she is, but the songs she writes and sings are both more beautiful and more haunting than the average fare. There is an uncommon ghostly aire to her album. Like the smell of flowers in a empty and abandoned house where sunlight comes shining through dusty window panes. Perfectly sparse and lonesome, these songs come from the edges of dreamland. 10 original compositions accompanied by 2 well-chosen covers (Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and a stunning version of Elvis’ “I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You .”)
Track listing:
1. We Lurk Late
2. Dial Tone
3. The Illustrated Man
4. Charlotte
5. Radio Wave
6. My Red Shoes
7. Emmeline
8. Can't Help Falling in Love
9. Sailor in a Bottle
10. If You'll Be Nice
11. Jungfrau Maria
12. When Doves Cry
Language of Light "Inside the Head of a Butterfly Dreaming of Being a Giant Moth Destroying Tokyo" etedrone musak CDr
Language of Light is the love child of Frank Suchomel of Inalonelyplace (Ethedrone Muzac) and R. Loftiss of The Gray Field Recordings (AntiClock Records).
The music blends guitar exacerbation with the swinging good times of a lobster quadrille. It is better than a sharp stick in the eye and has a crescent fresh feeling.
Limited to 50 numbered. Handmade stamp on fiberboard case.
Lycia "Estrella" CD silber040
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Estrella was Lycia’s last proper studio album (Empty Space was unfinished and Tripping Back Into The Broken Days was recorded and mixed as an Estraya release). The songs on Estrella were originally written in 1996 & fleshed out over a fifty show tour. Eight years later, Mike VanPortfleet has revisited the songs to remaster them using the engineering skills he’s improved over this time as well as the improvements of technology to make a definitive version of the release uncompromised by the hands of others. The artwork has been restored to the original version, unaltered from the artistic vision meant to match the music.
The goal of Estrella was to mix the lush orchestral sound VanPortfleet had developed over the previous eight years that had culminated in Cold with the more up-tempo rhythmic style of Wake & the unreleased Byzantine era. Estrella also marks Tara VanFlower’s move to primary vocalist & lyricist, enlarging the band’s ethereal fan base. Estrella became an instant hit within the darkwave genre, but now is the time to realize it’s a classic that transcends genre barriers.
Lycia "The Burning Circle and Then Dust" CD silber048
The classic darkwave album remastered by Lycia frontman Mike VanPortfleet & released in this definitive version.
"Keyboards wash over the listener as drums & guitars weave a hypnotic spell. Reminiscent of the Cocteau Twins' older material, Lycia's music is more quixotic & atmospheric"
