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Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	The Re-Releases Of The Un-Releases
Label:	K RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	KLP 120CD

US mass market reissue of this previously limited to 1000 copy release. "Swelling at nearly 72 minutes in length via 33 tracks, The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases claims the throne as the definitive Chicks on Speed document. It is a remix collage of Chicks on Speed tracks by Viennese Ramon Bauer (Mego) and Gerhard Potuznik (Cheap, Mego, Breakin, IT). It features the more experimental and avant-garde side of the chicks, sewing the songs together with live recordings, chicks interviews, caustic noise bursts, and a lot of rare historic chicks material like the very first chicks recordings ever made. Equal parts cultural commentary and audio alchemy, you'll be hard pressed to encounter anything more crucially modernist than Chicks on Speed. Melding effortlessly the scorching tirade of Atari Teenage Riot, the sassy wave of the Human League, the nihilistic spiral of Suicide, and European techno from Kraftwerk to Pan Sonic into a singular fire-breathing animal, The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases documents the organic movement of Chicks on Speed."

Artist:	DE DIONYSO, ARRINGTON
Title:	Breath of Fire
Label:	K RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	KLP 176CD

"While Arrington's work with Old Time Relijun has brought much in the way of both critical praise and notoriety for ecstatic-rock deconstructions and a frenzied performance on the edge of possession, Breath of Fire is a very different sort of beast. Recorded on Christmas Day in a nameless town in Southern Italy, the album uses voice, bass clarinet, and jaw harps to invoke the spirits in a mind-bending ritual of technical mastery and emotional freedom. Like field recordings from a lost continent, these short pieces conspire to present a completely mysterious sound universe, unlike anything you may have heard before. To be sure this voyage is not without its reference points -- fans of Old Time Relijun's live performances have longtime been aware of Arrington's multiphonic vocal research, unearthing the missing links between Tuvan throat-singing and free improvisation. In Breath of Fire, this research is presented in its purest form- spontaneously, without overdubs or processing of any kind; an ethnography of intergalactic avant-primitive folk music, a dream diary without words, that enwraps in resonant sound."

Artist:	MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ
Title:	L'Autre Cap
Label:	K RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	KLP 179CD

"Composing his music to be played by amateur musicians, Tori Kudo, the enigmatic conductor of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, has been called 'The Master of Mistake.' On L'Autre Cap he is a wickedly inspired bandleader, presenting a tight package of 27 songs both fierce and fragile. Barely held together by threads, these songs seem just a note away from falling apart completely. The effect is at turns serene, dissonant, enchanting, rockin' and intensively catchy: kind of a Langley School kid's orchestra alongside Syd Barrett with Charles Ives conducting, fusing the most captivating elements of twisted jazz, psychedelic rock rebellion, and dreamy pop chamber music to form a most intimate and cohesive vision of the future of music on Planet Earth."

Artist:	MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ
Title:	C'est La Dernière Chanson
Label:	K RECORDS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KLP 210CD

"Tori Kudo, the conductor and band leader of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, fuses stray elements of pop, folk, jazz and experimental music into pieces of candid musical gestures. C'est La Dernière Chanson is a double album of songs composed by Kudo between 2005-2007. For the recordings, Kudo assembled nine musicians from Japan and bunkered down for six days in St. Pierre-Eglise, France. Bassoon, guitar, drums, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, glass percussion, organ, rocks and sticks are expanded by a sophisticated counter-repetition technique into an extensive tonal range of colors; the effect is at turns serene, dissonant, enchanting, crisp, spacious and maddeningly catchy. The future of music on Planet Earth. Listen closely, please."

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