| KILLER ALBUM | 25 09 2006 | |
| Michio Kurihara is the shit! | ||
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| Scary KTL | 25 09 2006 | |
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| New HAROLD MULCH poster design | 25 09 2006 | |
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| 25 09 2006 | ||
| Archive Recordings is pleased to present Japan’s LSD March and Kawaguchi
Masami’s New Rock Syndicate on their only East Coast tour dates in 2006. They’re traveling light, packing only guitars and pedals (amps and drums provided stateside by tour-mates Bardo Pond), bringing their ultra-loud riff-heavy three-piece psychedelic rock to the states. For those of you who haven’t been keeping track, over the past two decades the Japanese underground has produced some of the most influential and forward-thinking psychedelic music anywhere in the multiverse, from the Candle-lit folk-psych of Ghost to over-the-top feedback trios of Highrise and Fushitsusha. Individually the members of LSD March and Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate have jammed with a who’s-who of luminaries from this rich scene, including the aforementioned bands, as well as Keiji Haino, Acid Mothers Temple, White Heaven, Mainliner, and members of the legendary Les Rallizes des Nudes. Some of these artists have even planted their freak-flags on US soil. Now, it’s their turn. LSD March take their name from a completely acidic jam on the first LP by Kraut-rock titans Guru Guru (who recently played that very song for the first time in 25 years at an academic symposium in Basel, Switzerland last January, honoring Albert Hoffman’s 100th birthday). Their sound has been described as “downer murk and amp-flaming distorto rock” that ranges from “gentle voice and guitar to delay-drenched, searing walls of fuzz.” Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate won't be known yet by most, since it's a brand-new unit. Leader and guitar monster Kawaguchi Masami, though, should be recognized from his work with Miminokoto, the aforementioned LSD March, and Broomdusters, among others. This is their first tour outside Japan. Previously, LSD March have only played three dates in the US, and chances are you missed ‘em, cause most folks did (unless you were at the million tongues festival in Chicago, or frequent New York’s Siberia or L.A.’s Silver Lake Lounge). And that was way back in 2004. Tony Vogdes, of Tequila Sunrise records, recalls that “due to faulty information, we only got there in time to see the last ten seconds of their show, but it was the best damn ten seconds we ever saw!” Here’s your chance to take a committed dose. The two bands share members. To start off their East-coast dates, Shinsuke Michishita, Ikuro Takahashi, and Masami Kawaguchi will perform a series of intimate low-key solo sets at Philadelphia’s Big Jar bookstore, Wednesday evening October 11. This is the first time any of these guys have performed solo sets outside of Japan. Then on Thursday, October 12, LSD March and Masami Kawaguchi’s New Rock Syndicate will perform at Tonic in New York City, with Philadelphia’s Bardo Pond headlining the show. Then Friday the Thirteenth – after recording a live session at WFMU studios in the afternoon, LSD March and Masami Kawaguchi’s New Rock Syndicate return to Philadelphia for a massive show at Vox Populi that evening. the opener’s for this show will be Alasehir (a Bardo Pond side project) and local heavy-psych upstarts Birds of Maya. Turn on, tune in, drop by. Thursday, October 11 8pm Bardo Pond LSD March Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate The Tonic 107 Norfolk Street (btwn Delancey and Rivington) New York, NY 10002 01-212-358-7501 www.tonicnyc.com ------------------------ Thursday, October 12 8pm Shinsuke Michishita Ikuro Takahashi Masami Kawaguchi Big Jar Books 55 north second street (btwn market and arch) philadelphia, pa 19106 01-215-574-1650 bigjarbooks@gmail.com -------------------- Friday, October 13 8pm LSD March Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate Alasehir Birds of Maya Vox Populi Gallery 1315 Cherry Street, 4th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 01-215-568-5513 www.voxpopuligallery.org | ||
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| KHANATE | 24 09 2006 | |
| Recent discussions have dictated a direction where KHANATE has called it a day. Thanks for the six years of attention, interest, touring, megastructure and tension. We will continue to pursue the release of our 4th studio work (which is in the mixing phase) and the Japanese reissues of our first two releases, via Daymare. | ||
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| tour shirt 1 | 19 09 2006 | |
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| 19 09 2006 | ||
| KTL is now available on CD for preorder from editionsMego:
http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/PurchasePage From the site: "6 tracks: Estranged Forest Floor 1 Forest Floor 2 Forest Floor 3 Forest Floor 4 Snow Total Time: 77:49 Cover by SOMA Threatening new collaboration taking in parallel worlds of Extreme Computer Music and Black Metal. KTL is Stephen O'Malley (SUNNO))), Khanate) and Peter Rehberg (PITA). A six part collision amongst the increasingly fading prescences between the light and the dark. This work came about as the two were composing sound and music for a piece by Gisčle Vienne and Dennis Cooper, entitled 'Kindertotenlieder'. Pieces were recorded in a resistance fortress in southern France during a thunderstorm. Others in a wintergarden drenched in the sunlight. Buy or die! This will emerge on 2LP from Aurora Borealis in the next months as well. | ||
| HARVEY MILK | 15 09 2006 | |
| "Special Wishes" on Troubleman Unlimited... highly recommended. | ||
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| Boris Tour Day 7 pt 1 | Asheville, NC | 08 09 2006 |
| The Orange Peel. Cool town here... small city in the mountains. Hit a good record store here called Static Age... | ||
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| Boris Tour Day 7 pt 2 | Asheville, NC | 08 09 2006 |
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| CIRCLE stone | 08 09 2006 | |
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| 08 09 2006 | ||
| Hi
On BBC radio 3-BBC scottish symphony orchestra project with AMM and John Butcher this saturday 9.9,23.00 british time.This is also available on the internet till 16.9.Hope you find it interesting Varese, Webern, Scelsi, Tenney, solo improv John Butcher and AMM. see www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/hmiky All the best Ilan Volkov | ||
| Boris Tour Day 6 pt 1 | Athens, Orange factory & Atlanta | 07 09 2006 |
| The Earl in Atlanta. These pics are all pre-show, more to come. The mighty Zoroaster is opening... they rolled in with a 2000s, T, Matamp, 215 118 etc SUNN cabs, Green 412s, etc etc. Impressive! Thats their box truck there.
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| Boris Tour Day 6 pt 2 | Athens, Orange factory & Atlanta | 07 09 2006 |
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| Boris Tour Day 6 pt 3 | Athens, Orange factory & Atlanta | 07 09 2006 |
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| Boris Tour Day 5 pt 1 | Athens, Georgia | 07 09 2006 |
| Caledonia Lounge | ||
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| Boris Tour Day 5 pt 2 | Athens, Georgia | 07 09 2006 |
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| Boris Tour Day 4 pt 1 | Birmingham, Alabama | 06 09 2006 |
| At the Bottle Tree on 3rd Ave South | ||
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| Boris Tour Day 4 pt 2 | Birmingham, Alabama | 06 09 2006 |
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| Boris Tour Day 4 pt 3 | Birmingham, Alabama | 06 09 2006 |
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| 05 09 2006 | ||
| Hospital Productions presents another Malkuth desecration Wednesday, Sept. 6th:
Glass House 289 Kent bet. south 1st and 2nd Williamsburg 9pm start w/ Prurient, Air Conditioning,FFH, Withdrawal Method, and Malkuth. | ||
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| 15.5 million hits! | 05 09 2006 | |
| Wow, that was fast... I was waiting for the 15 million mark... just noticed this.
Greetings from Birmingham... Alabama. Bleak out here. Soliloquy For Lilith (endlessly recommended) provided an uncannily apt sound design for our exit from the 65 into the downtown here this grey afternoon. On the road with Boris driving em around for a few weeks. | ||
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| XRAY REX | 05 09 2006 | |
| Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings
In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film. I've long sought some images. Researcher Camille Cloutier pointed me to these, collected and posted by József Hajdú. Here's what he says about them: During the late 1930s and early 1940s the prevalent sound recording apparatus was the wax disk cutter. As a consequence of the lack of materials in the war-time economy, some inventive sound hunters made their own experiments with new materials within their reach. I do not know the name of the inventor who first utilized discarded medical X-ray film as the base material for new record discs; however, the method became so widespread in Hungary that not only amateurs, but the Hungarian Radio made sound recordings on such recycled X-ray films. I felt that those X-ray record albums relate to our contemporary lives in many ways, especially when considering such terms as 'multimedia' or 'recycling'. I copied the X-ray films with their engraved sound-grooves on photosensitive paper and made enlargements of certain details. I was quite lucky to find a considerable amount of similar sound records in private collections. These are also interesting from the visual aspect. By utilizing different photographic processes, I created from them pictures meant to be exhibited in galleries. In an online paper called The Historical Political Development of Soviet Rock Music , Trey Drake, at the University of California, Santa Cruz offers further historical perspective on this street use of technology: Owing to the lack of recordings of Western music available in the USSR, people had to rely on records coming through Eastern Europe, where controls on records were less strict, or on the tiny influx of records from beyond the iron curtain. Such restrictions meant the number of recordings would remain small and precious. But enterprising young people with technical skills learned to duplicate records with a converted phonograph that would "press" a record using a very unusual material for the purpose; discarded x-ray plates. This material was both plentiful and cheap, and millions of duplications of Western and Soviet groups were made and distributed by an underground roentgenizdat, or x-ray press, which is akin to the samizdat that was the notorious tradition of self-publication among banned writers in the USSR. According to rock historian Troitsky, the one-sided x-ray disks costed about one to one and a half rubles each on the black market, and lasted only a few months, as opposed to around five rubles for a two-sided vinyl disk. By the late 50's, the officials knew about the roentgenizdat, and made it illegal in 1958. Officials took action to break up the largest ring in 1959, sending the leaders to prison, beginning an orginization by the Komsomol of "music patrols" that later undertook to curtail illegal music activity all over the country. I'd love to find out more about this street use. Pointers welcomed. From http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/StreetUse | ||
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| 02 09 2006 | ||
| RICHARD MILLS R.I.P. | ||
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