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Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Trees Outside The Academy
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	E#91C

"It's Thurston's first solo outing since 1995's Psychic Hearts. Of course, Thurston's been releasing records here, there and everywhere, mostly in the context of rowdy and rambunctious noise/improv escapades but this new one is killer diller SONGS! Unlike Psychic Hearts' skeletal trio rock, this new jammer, 12 years post, has a far fuller bouquet of sonic depth and proves this Sonic dude to have a very real songwriting life outside of the legendary Sonic Youth (of which he is a founding figure, duh). This newborn disc is 12 songs long. Thurston recorded primarily on acoustic guitar and bass, laying down the core of the tunes with drummer compatriot Sonic Youth's Steve Shelly and violinist Samara Lubelski, a noted player from MV/EE and The Golden Road, Hall of Fame and other awesome gatherings as well as solo artiste. Most of the tunes are lyric driven but there are a couple of majestic instrumentals like 'Trees Outside The Academy,' which brings the album to a musical and breathless close. There's also some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early '70s making some kind of sound-theatre. It's kinda nuts, and it's the last 'hidden' track. Tracks like 'Frozen Gtr,' 'The Shape Is In A Trance,' 'Silver>Blue,' 'Never Day' and 'Fri/end' (a theme song to the hippest TV show yet to be broadcast) will lead you in to a sparkling and heavy new world of Thurston's heart, mind and soul."

Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Psychic Hearts
Label:	GOOFIN'
Format:	2LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	GOO 010LP

"Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore's 1995 solo album, Psychic Hearts, is available again in a deluxe double-LP vinyl edition on the band's own Goofin' label. In addition to Moore on guitar, bass, and vocals, the album features guitarist Tim Foljahn (Two Dollar Guitar) and Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley on drums. For this release, the fourth album-side contains bonus tracks previously unavailable on CD." Bonus material is from the Geffen promo 7", the Road Cone 7", the Male Slut 7" on Stomach Ache!

Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Kapotte Muziek By...
Label:	KORM PLASTICS (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	KP 3015

"In April 2002, Kapotte Muziek returned to the USA for their second tour (the first one was in 1993), this as a trio of Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks. On stop was at the rural city of Easthampton and the audience that night was rather small, but among them were Scott Faust, Gregory Whitehead and Thurston Moore. That particular concert showed Kapotte Muziek in probably their most fluxus element: the process of making music was made audible. The amplification of the opening of the bags, searching out objects to play and from there built the concert was a new, and as of yet, unrepeated, idea. For the 12th part in our series of Kapotte Muziek by... we asked Thurston Moore to expand on this idea and in a totally free setting of piano, guitar and small objects, he recreates the concerts by removing the concert and replacing it by his own playing, where the original recording serves as a score. Thurston Moore is a well-known improviser, having played with Nels Cline, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Tom Surgal and William Hooker. Besides all of that, he also plays in rockband."

Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Piece For Jetson Dolma
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 045CD

One 66-minute piece broken into 2 parts by the trio of Thurston Moore (guitar, amplifier, microphone), Tom Surgal (drums, perc.) & William Winant (drums, perc.). Recorded live at Victoriaville 5/17/96. Beautifully ignited sound waves ala the Klangfarbenmelodie... CD on Corpus Hermeticum. "The sounds on this disc are about colliding cultures. They are about Thurston Moore creating massive Bertoia-like sound sculptures that dangle ominously above the shiny pates of the massed cogniscenti while Tom Surgal turns his limbs into a riot of machine guns, and William Winant's percussion zyzzles through the air like sheets of burning napalm. There are moments when Surgal sounds like Jonathan Jackson power pumping his 12 gauge into a target range full of white cops' exploding heads. There are moments when Moore's guitar, amp and Japanese toys send huge resonant rainbow red arcs pulsing through the crowd's Kirlian clouds. There are moments when Winant's tympanic burling BECOMES a bridge into the hole of nada." --B. Coley

Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Alabama Wildman
Label:	WATER ROW PRESS
Format:	Book
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WR TM

A hardcover book, collecting various short prose and poems from the former editor of Killer! (and Sonic Youth guitarist). Some of the longer texts include "On The Loose" (recollections of moving to NY in 1977-79), "In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader" (deep artificial penetration) & "SonicXsmith" (a long, affectionate interview with Patti Smith recorded in Lowell, MA, 1995). A handful of way-early archival photographs are interspersed to totally get you in the mood. Looks & feels just right, an artifact in the making from Sudbury, MA's Water Row Press. Edited by Byron Coley. Afterword by Richard Meltzer. Preface by Lisa Crystal Carver. 112 pages, cloth bound. Cover price is $18.95.

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Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Please Just Leave Me (my Paul Desmond)
Label:	PURE
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	PURE 37