Wholly Other Mail Order Catalog
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ARTIFICIAL SUBTERANNE - Water Regions of the Southwest USA CD (wholly other)
$10 postpaid in US, $12 UK/EU/Americas, $14 elsewhere)
Enigmatic third solo release (c. 1997) from Paul Guilford/Lacosta. For nearly ten years, current New Zealander Paul Guilford was an unsung but important and mysterious presence in the Texas experimental music scene, performing first with infrequent improvisational assemblages and settling down semi-permanently in 1994 as half of the DaveDovePaul Duo, whose wide-ranging electroacoustic improvisation was captured on their excellent 1995 CD A. Guilford has (seemingly singlehandedly) rescued the bass-triggered synthesiser from guitar-geek hell, rewriting the rule book for this much-maligned instrument via extreme signal processing and a fearless curiousity for unknowable sonic terrain. Recorded as an 'ambient' exercise in producing natural sound by completely mechanical means, Water Regions is also a topographical study of a buried aquatic underworld, from trickling fissures in monolithic granite to mirrored pools spilling out in vaulted cavernous space. Or to render it concretely: Four long tracks of layered stereophonic synthesised sound. Or anecdotally: long ago upon walking into Paul's studio upon playback, I thought I was hearing the freeway construction out back-until the microbial diamond drills began their synesthetic flashing beneath my eyelids. And to sum it up- completely transportational.
CHRISTINA CARTER- ELECTRICE LP (wholly other)
$18 postpaid in US, $25 UK/EU/Americas, $27 elsewhere
A recently-surfaced (and dwindling) stack of this
wholly other vinyl reissue of CC's first 'proper' kranky release. Classic Christina aching song-poem modality,
trax sunk in reverb-melted beauty. LP edition of 500, features individually
drawn/watercolored/signed & numbered matte covers & a superior mastering job by Golden.
TOM CARTER- SHOTS AT INFINITY 1 CD (Important Records)
$12 postpaid US, $14 UK/EU/Americas, $16 elsewhere
PLEASE NOTE that the LP and CD issues of this are two totally different records with totally different music. Heavy psych long-form blowout, representative of recent live motion. From the imp. rec. catalog- "Shots At Infinity 1(the CD) is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern USA from late 2007. Steering away from the more delicate string environments and modal folk improvisations of previous CDs, the disk features maximum loop delay drone overload stretched over long, densely harmonic tracks, retaining the melodic content and flow of earlier releases."
TOM CARTER- ROOT KING LP (Eclipse Records)
$18 postpaid US, $25 UK/Europe/Americas, $27 elsewhere
Second solo release (first if CDRs don't count) by Charalambides member Tom Carter. White Les Paul copy, lap steel, and a purloined bell collection layered into three long tracks of string moan and slithering hum. A manifesto of grounding during an uprooted time, an attempt to bend in the wind. A slice of a long winter and a momentary flash of cranially pooled guitar sound suddenly scattered by unexpected freedom. A guitar album (mostly).
CHARALAMBIDES- BRANCHES CD (wholly other)
$10 postpaid US, $12 UK/EU/Americas, $14 elsewhere
A rare document of a brief arc in Charalambides' 17 year (and counting) trajectory, somewhere between the extreme spatial attenuation of the long gone Crucial Blast CDR Being As Is and the gentle intergalactic trio sway of the kranky disk Unknown Spin- and quite distance from both the exclamatory exhalations of Joy Shapes and the layered songcraft of Likeness. Christina (voice) and Tom Carter (guitar) improvise non-textual melodic lines around an locus of mirror clarity, occasionally overlapping various strands using two DAT machines and a mixing board, in a nod to the pre ProTools digital scrap heap. Originally issued as a Peter King lathe cut LP on Eclipse Records in an edition of 100 in 2000, this reissue is remastered from a superior source for maximum clarity. Inkblot artwork courtesy of Heather Leigh Murray. The whole package is dedicated to Bruce Connor (R.I.P.). The reissue at hand is an edition of 500, with fold-over printed sleeves in the style of Electricity Ghosts.
CHARALAMBIDES- ROSE/THORN LP (Klang!)
$18 postpaid US, $25 UK/Europe/Americas, $27 elsewhere
Long-awaited Klang debut of Charalambides. This record has been brewing since 2000, and is now finally available under the auspices of Eclipse/Klang. Two side-long improvisations in much the same vein as IN CR EA SE, a bit more topographical perhaps, but still horizontally serene and horizonless. chord organ, lap steel, vocals.
FRIDAY GROUP- WHO WANTS TO LOOK AT A BUNCH OF BROKEN POTTERY WHEN YOU CAN HAUL ASS DOWN THE FREEWAY 1-sided LP (wholly other)
1-sided LP $18 postpaid in US, $25 UK/EU/Americas, $27 elsewhere)
one sided LP of looped/ live collage action swirled up into mass gtr/ drum ritual terror. far darker than previous FG stuff.... blank LP side is a blood-red silkscreen. shipped in clear polyvinyl sleeves.
ZAIKA- BIG JAR CD (Archive)
$12 postpaid US, $14 UK/EU/Americas, $16 elsewhere
A complete 30 minute set from 2007 at big jar books in philly, PA,
fueled by good vibes and yuenglings. Intertwining twin gtr tidewater,
straight up the spinal column. Stellar recording and packaging, as
always, courtesy of Slimm and Archive. Archive says: "Comes packaged
in an oversized heavyweight half fold cover with two color letterpress
print work and vellum printed photos inset in center die cut. Graphic
works wonderfully executed by Demian Johnston."
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