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Artist:	LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY
Title:	Blorp Esette
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	4CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 022CD

2011 remastered edition. Remastered in June of 2011 by Ju Suk Reet Meate. Perhaps the only logical follow up to the historic LAFMS: The Lowest Form Of Music 10CD box on RRR, is this 4CD compilation based around the 2 LP volumes of Blorp Esette which Ace Farren Ford released under the LAFMS umbrella in 1978 (Vol. 1) and 1980 (Vol. 2, a double LP set). Both of the LPs featured cover & label art by Don Van Vliet which as been reproduced on this CD reissue. Capt. Beefheart cover art was quite a coup for the times and these LPs have long been some of the most desirable LAFMS artifacts (but basically never available to anyone outside of the LA underground at the time of their release). The four CDs are packaged with a 32 page booklet of artwork and notes, and include nearly 3 hours of previously unreleased tracks! The LAFMS bridged the gap. Features performances by: Smegma, Le Forte Four, The Reverend Toad-Eater, Electric Willy Trio, the Di-Dee Dos, Ace Farren Ford, Rick Potts, Doo Dooettes, Henry Kaiser, Dennis Duck, Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Ace & Duce, Child Molesters, Jerry Bishop, Nopar King, The South Pasadena Free Music Ensemble, Gage Kenady, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Reverend Marty Nation, many more. "In January of 1976 the non-musician comedy team of Ace & Duce officially joined ranks with the newly formed Los Angeles Free Music Society for the legendary Spaghetti Works show in what was then truly old towne Pasadena with fellow stalwarts Le Forte Four and the Doo-Dooettes. When we had begun our forays into 'free music' we had figured to be lone venturers without peers, yet at this point we found ourselves in a sort of like-minded union. Enthusiasm reined supreme, who soon led us to the question of doing an album. For reasons that seem to escape me now, we decided to do a various artists compilation. Response was plentiful, so much so that before it was done plans were underway for a volume 2., which grew to become 2 records. It was a lot of fun. It was also a nightmare. Technology had not yet reached us, and suddenly we had many reels of tape and cassettes, all of varying quality or lack thereof, many with little or no information as to what exactly was on them. We were, in fact, forced to master volume 2 in mono due to varying levels and other technical hardships. Now due to the vision & lack of good sense on the part of Mr. Sheppard, we present the Blorp Esette experience, including volume 2 in stereo as originally intended, and many of the tracks that could not have been included in the original volumes due to time constraints and other maladies, with many new surprises." -- Ace Farren Ford.

Artist:	BLACK STRAP MOLASSES FAMILY
Title:	Travelling Medicine Show
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 024CD

A trio of Dame Darcy (banjo, saw, vocals, tambourine), Pandora Pumpkinhead (flute, vocals, slide guitar, concertina, harmonica, kazoo, train whistle) & Black Strap Jack Shellac (guitar, vocals). Recorded in Hollywood, April 1998, this features the trio dealing with all traditional tunes like "Fatal Flower Garden," "'Electric Chair Blues," "In My Grave I'd Rather Be," "God Is My Friend," etc. Plus Leadbelly's "Keep Your Hands Off Her".

Artist:	MATA, PATRICK
Title:	Hydrocarbons From a Meteorite (Green)
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 051CD

"Patrick Mata's legacy and reputation precede him. Founder/composer/leader and shapeshifter of the legendary death rock/gothic/industrial band Kommunity FK, mainman of Sativa Luv Box and conjurer of various other musical concepts, he releases his first solo CD, Hydrocarbons from a Meteorite (Green). Mata calls this first solo effort 'an experiment with chances improved for the love of mystery.' Mata went into the studio with only dreams and destiny, writing the tracks as the ideas and notions appeared from within. Able, with the opportunity to do anything he wanted, he put together this incredible experimental, avant garde masterpiece, straight down to the artwork and packaging. 'All of these songs and sound pieces were conceived with total love and psychedelic abandon, tattooed with question marks.' -Patrick Mata"

Artist:	APE HAS KILLED APE
Title:	Mattricide
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 052CD

"This project contains members of Leather Hyman and W.A.C.O., along with three Theremin and sampled dialog from Planet Of The Apes films. It is both a satire of rock music and a Swiftian essay on the nature of power and control found in same. Actors from Planet Of the Apes films frequently perform, in costume, with this group, who manage to draw hundreds of people to each of their shows. The front cover shows Leather Hyman drummer Matt Stein with his mother (Mattricide -- get it?) and frying on LSD at school marching band practice, age 14, on the back."

Artist:	O.S.T (GREGOROPOULOS, STEVE)
Title:	Faith Of Our Fathers
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 053CD

"Hamilton Sterling's dark and skeptical film Faith of our Fathers was a hit at the Los Angeles Film Festival a couple of years back. Since that time, it has played in art houses from New York to Cairo, to audiences who have found its strange mix of parable and borderline documentary/manifesto style both alluring and disturbing. One thing noted by reviewers and spectators alike has been the importance of the music -- with opera singers, prepared piano and exotic percussion augmenting a traditional orchestra -- to the themes of the film. This is a CD of the full score, plus several bonus tracks. All the music was composed, arranged and conducted by Steve Gregoropoulos and was produced by the director. It features several well-known names in new music in Los Angeles in uncredited (but nonetheless stellar) performances."

Artist:	PROVISIONAL RIVIERA
Title:	Autumn Leaves
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 056CD

"Avant noir 'easy listening' (cello and musique concrete) from Solid Eye co-founder William Leavitt. Ten pieces that flow perfectly into one album. Perhaps a little reminiscent of classic Siegfried Palm or Lynn Harrell DGG avant cello records, yet completely refreshing, innovative and original." Performed solo on cello and synthesizers by William Leavit, produced by Joseph Hammer. Mysterious west coast experimentalism of a very high order.

Artist:	SUN RA
Title:	The Eternal Myth Revealed Vol. 1
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	14CD/BOOK
Price:	$130.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 316CD

"A co-production of The Sun Ra Music Archive and Transparency. Thirteen hours of unreleased and ultra-rare music plus definitive Sun Ra autobiographical commentary, curated by Michael Anderson. Additional liner notes by Bennett Theissen. Volume one in this new series covers the years 1914-1959, across 14 CDs plus a spectacular 128 page 5" x 10" paperback book, all contained in a large box. Improjazz selected this box set as one of the two best reissues of 2011."

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Artist:	SPECULUM KAIDAN
Title:
Label:	TRANSPARENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TRANS 015CD