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Artist:	TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.
Title:	Horóscopo: Sanatorio de Molière
Label:	BLOSSOMING NOISE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	BN 016CD

"Horóscopo, Vatican temporal assassin, is ordered to fall 300 years through time to prevent Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière) from writing the scabrous Tartuffe. A portal divides, doors fly open... Horóscopo's eyes roll back into his head, and an empty scabbard clatters across marble. 'Taisez-vous, et songez aux choses que vous dites.' The Nightgaunts descend...TLASILA: Rat Bastard, Ben Wolcott, Don Fleming, Mark Morgan, Andrew Wilkes-Krier, Chris Grier, and Tom Smith, with Thurston Moore."

Artist:	TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.
Title:	The Wigmaker
Label:	MENLO PARK
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MPK 7020CD

"For five years people have been asking about, talking about, and wanting to frolic in The Wigmaker; incredibly complex, and (already) steeped in musical folklore, there is no doubt you have never heard anything like this before. For five years each track was intensely labored over, mixed, splintered, and tweaked to perfection. This is unique; Tom Smith, T.L.&.S.I.L.A. founder, has an incredible array of musical knowledge, using recording and mastering techniques that span every kind of music imaginable, he took ideas from whatever flew into his ears during his years, and found a way to apply those sounds to his art form; understand that this is not noise or experimental, or avant-anything, this is the inspired journey of one man's mind, uncompromised, and to the gut.. .these songs have melody, dense structure, incredible character, and a fuji sized gamut of dynamics. This isn't post anything, this is a new beginning, this is against the grain, this is 'pre'."

Artist:	TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.
Title:	Noon and Eternity
Label:	MENLO PARK
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MPK 7041CD

"For this album TL&SILA return with it's core unit, with the show being run by Tom Smith and fellow captains Rat Bastard (bass) and Ben Wolcott (oscillator), but added 5 additional members: Don Fleming (guitar), Chris Grier (guitar), Thurston Moore (guitar), Mark Morgan (guitar), Andrew W.K. (drums). Um, wow. Recorded well over a year ago at Sonic Youth's Echo Canyon Studios, and mixed and mastered over the last year, TL&SILA give you 4 songs which equate to a 67 minute journey. Noon and Eternity will once again have people questioning what have I been listening to all this time! If you had to one could say that The Wigmaker defined a futuristic approach to punk, and Noon and Eternity is a futuristic vision of psych. Each song is made up of various interludes and connecting chapters of thought, this is not verse chorus verse music, though probably their most accessible work to date."

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