Browse by Artist: YETI

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#4
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	YETI 004

Book + CD; 242 pages, 6" by 9" book w/ metallic cover. "On the CD: 28 exclusive/unreleased tracks, including: Okkervil River, Destroyer (2 solo tracks from an old cassette release - orig. edition of 50!), Michael Hurley with Tara Jane O'Neil, Califone, Bobby Birdman, Bright, Page France, Souled American, Alela Diane, Ghosting, Fauna Polly, Somos Marquis Homos (the 'rock lottery' supergroup with Spencer Moody & David Bazan), Rob Walmart, The Blow, We March, Fly Ashtray, The Golden Bears, We/Or/Me, The Plants, Reverend E.W. Clayborn, Valet, Theo Angell, and some old-school black gospel. Plus there's this Eritrean folk song field-recorded by Mike Doughty that totally rules, and a rare Kenyan 78 as well. IN THE BOOK: -- In-depth, archival interview from 1997 with sci-fi author Octavia Butler, the MacArthur 'genius' award winner who died earlier this year. -- Brutally honest tour diary by Will Sheff, the Okkervil River guy. -- Drew Daniel of Matmos tell us 'How To Sing Along to 'Sweet Home Alabama.' -- Crime writer/historian Peter Doyle unearths archival crime-scene photos from Australia (these things are amazing and the text and images rival Luc Sante's brilliant Evidence book). -- Dan Bejar of Destroyer is interviewed by his eight-year-old mini-me. -- The legacy of streetcorner gospel-blues great Rev. Louis Overstreet. -- Psychedelic painter Fred Tomaselli talks in-depth about his art and his punk/ fanzine beginnings. -- Meredith Brosnan goes off about the ABC No Rio open mic scene in NYC in the mid-'80s. -- Interviews with Sam Lipsyte, Todd Barry, Souled American, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and The Blow."

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#5
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	YETI 005

Book + CD; 226 pages, 6" x 9" book w/ metallic cover. "Yeti 5 features musical contributions from and/or interviews with: Iron & Wine, Akron/Family, Will Oldham, Dean and Britta (covering Galaxie 500 on the CD), Jeff Mangum (who not only contributes visual art to the issue, but also supplies us with four of his favorite, never anthologized sides from old 78s for the CD); Deerhoof, D+, Mt. Eerie, Anglin Brothers, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, the Spiritualaires, Cooper Moore, and more. Also: Awesome travel journals from the Western Sahara by Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet; Erik Davis on P.G. Six; Mike McGonigal on Blind Willie Johnson's 'Dark Was the Night, Cold was the Ground'; Scott Seward on 'the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth & highly technical modern extreme metal'; Luc Sante on photography; drawings by German Surrealist Unica Zürn; an excerpt from Meredith Brosnan's new novel; an interview with Nicola Bowery about enigmatic '80s fashion icon Leigh Bowery; fiction by Kevin Sampsell (with lithographs by Alan Griswold); AIM conversations courtesy of BloodNinja; visual art from Saul Chernick (dig the pink bulldog on the cover), Kevin Arrow, Kyle Field (from Little Wings), and Michelle Blade. As usual, Yeti 5 will be a book + CD: a 226-page 6 x 9" matte gloss journal with a gorgeous metallic cover (this time by Saul Chernick)."

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#6
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	YETI 006

Book + CD; 226 pages, 6" x 9" book, $11.95 cover price. ""On the CD: Rare & unreleased tracks from: the Clean/the Great Unwashed (plus covers of Clean/ G.U. songs by Times New Viking & Crystal Stilts); Megapuss (debut of Devendra Banhart's new band); Sun City Girls; Frankie Rose's awesome noisy demo of the Vivian Girls' 'Where Do You Run To'); Mingering Mike; Cause Co-Motion!; Eat Skull; Brothers Unconnected (Richard + Alan Bishop); Collections of Colonies of Bees; Blank Dogs; Sad Horse; Dixon Brothers; Ilyas Ahmed; E*Rock & Mat Brinkman; Grass Widow; Way of the Ancients (Thom Bullock from Rub 'n' Tug doing a lengthy tribute to 'Set Your Controls for the Heart of the Sun'!) & a few more. Inside the book: Sic Alps + Eat Skull interview each other; The Clean: a career-spanning interview with the legendary NZ pop band; Vivian Girls interviewed by Rob Simonsen; Mugshots From 1920s Australia: selected and introduced by archivist/author Peter Doyle; Sun City Girls: Lengthy, archival oral history (one of the very few times that the late, great Charles Gocher ever talked to a reporter); Tim Lawrence on the neglected role of disco in NYC's '70s Downtown scene; Mingering Mike: Eric Isaacson pays tribute to the self-taught visual artist about his newly unearthed a capella recordings; Luc Sante: Folk photography (incredible portfolio of hand-made postcards from the 1920s); Thom Bullock: Andy Beta's hilarious & enthused interview with the roots-disco DJ, formerly of ARE Weapons and a dozen other groups; David Fair's paper-cut artwork; More!"

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#7
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	YETI 007

Book + CD; 196 pages, 6" x 9" book, $11.95 cover price. "On the 80-minute CD, there is rare and previously unreleased music from: Grouper, Abner Jay, Dum Dum Girls, Wooden Shjips, Dutchess and the Duke, Jacuzzi Boys, Great Unwashed, Nodzzz, Zola Jesus, Crystal Stilts (their cover of the Velvets' very fun 'Temptation Inside Your Heart'), Finally Punk, 39 Clocks, the Bible Aires Spiritual Singers, Fresh + Onlys, Moon Duo (an awesome W. Shjips 'offshoot' band), Explode Into Colors, Limes, Eternal Tapestry, Woods, Christmas Island, some Jamaican gospel -- and yes, even more. It's probably the best CD we've ever done. And inside the 196-page perfect-bound book: interviews with artist Jim Woodring, author Lynne Tillman, SF-based band the Nodzzz, author and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, also SF-based band the Wooden Shjips, and fiction by Mimi Lipson. Plus a look at Joe Brainard's remarkable cover illustration and design, a rare manuscript by Abner Jay detailing his time at the antebellum-fetishizing Stephen Foster Center in Florida, Grouper talking to Ilyas Ahmed, an account of the life and work of poet and educator Nancy Dupree, comics drawn by clients at Portland's Full Life center for developmentally disabled adults (who were given 14 pages to create new work), drawings by J. Bradley Earl of Woods/ Woodsist/ Fuck It Tapes, and a look at the collaborative music of Black Twig Pickers and Jack Rose. Contributors include Erik Davis, Doug Elliott, Justin Farrar, Ross Simonini, Sara Jaffe, Kevin Elliott, Jesse Studenberg, and Michael Neault. The lovely cover is a detail from a new painting by Mingering Mike (image of Pres. Obama as a boxer) plus reproductions of his new Obama-themed works inside. Other art includes full-page illustrations by Tara Sinn, E*Rock, Mark Weakley, Pedro Lourenco, Forrest Martin, Jess Fogel, Sylvie Spencer, and Susan Wilmarth."

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#8
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	YETI 008

Book + CD; 196 pages, 6" x "9" book, $11.95 cover price. "On the CD: rare/previously unreleased music from: Ty Segall, Woven Bones, Fergus + Geronimo, Zola Jesus, Aran Ruth, Vaselines, Little Claw, Tyvek, Evan Miller, Pigeons, Pete Swanson, Mantles, Jim Dickinson, the Splinters, Brown Recluse, Neverever, Gospel Songbirds, Limes, Bishop Perry Tillis, Inca Ore, Vampire Hands, Myelin Sheaths, the Moles. Inside the book: Interviews with Explode into Colors and Zola Jesus; famed musician/producer Jim Dickinson recalls growing up playing music in the segregated South, and how it's changed; a new look at the instruments Harry Partch created (with many full-page photos); the story of the unreleased album Johnny Mathis and Chic made together; extended interview with composer Eliane Radigue; Olivier Malosse's photographs of abandoned Japanese amusement parks; Amos Harvey's interview with the multiple personalities assumed by gospel-blues great Bishop Perry Tillis; visual work by Nicole Eriko Smith and Andrew Neyer; and the hand-built noise instruments of Flower Electronics and King Capitol Punishment."

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#9
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	YETI 009

"On the CD: All rare/unreleased music, lots of raw wonderful stuff this time out, including Indian music from 78s selected by Rob Millis and three Pip Proud songs never on CD before. Artists include: Fantastic Palace, The Art Museums, Ko + Friends, Pip Proud, Bobby Charles, Rhythmical Wright Singers, Rev. Lonnie Farris, Bishop R. Mcdaniel, Puppy Hearts, Aias, Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa, Teenage Panzerkorps, US Girls, Geoff Soule, Vak Ranga Rao, Mukesh, Tiruvasanaliur Narayanasami Iyer, Sembannarkovil Ramaswamy Pillay, Spencer Moody, Plankton Wat, Reading Rainbow, Human Eye, X-Ray Eyeballs, Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa, Modern Women, Marisa Anderson. Lengthy interview with groundbreaking artist Bruce Conner, done for the Smithsonian in the early 1970s; Photos and text forming a kind of tour diary by your favorite member of Speedy & the Castanets, Dean Wareham; Two archival interviews with electronics pioneer Maryanne Amacher; Pip Proud in the 1960s: Excerpt from ex-Cannane David Nichols' forthcoming massive history of Australian rock on the bizarre, whispery, often revelatory work of Mr. Proud; Reprints from Tuli Kupferberg's wonderful self-published Birth Press titles from the 1960s; Some very awesome comics from the talented Brooklyn-ite Lizz Hickey; Erik Davis talks to our favorite contemporary British folkie Alasdair Roberts; New drawings by intrepid artist/musician Arrington De Dionyso; Short story by the very talented Kingston, NY resident Mimi Lipson;: A sort-of comic done by Beatriz Monteavaro just for Yeti; Vak Ranga Rao: Groovy article about a collector of Indian music 78s, image-heavy and sweet, by Rob Millis; Another comic done just for Yeti, this one by James Turek -- we are very lucky; Previously unpublished translation of under-known South American writer Joaquin V. Gonzalez; Recent works on paper by Portland, OR-based artist Alisha Wessler." 192 pages, 6" x 9" book, $11.95 cover price.

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#10
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	YETI 010

"Inside the book: 36-pages from Internet monsters Everything Is Terrible!; interviews with musician Robert Scott (the Clean, the Bats) and writer Amelia Gray; music profiles of S. Fla's finest, The Jacuzzi Boys, and UK '90s cult band Disco Inferno; fiction by Stacey Levine; photographs by Ted Barron and Gracie Remington; art by Saul Chernick, Pavel Tchelitchew, Cassie Ramone, Ilyas Ahmed.
On the CD: Noveller, Ô Paon, Alkibar Gignor, the Weeds, Electric Blood, the Clean, the Bats, Robert Scott, Jousting Vandals, Joan + Anthony, Heavenly Dreamers, Jacuzzi Boys, Abba Ag Gargando, Daniel Kroha, the Gories, Derek Monypeny, Orca Team, the Golden Hours, the Babies, Cheikh Ag Mohammed, Starving Weirdos, and V>L>A>D>R>M (Viva L'American Death Ray Music)." 180 pages, 6" x 9" book, $11.95 cover price.

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#11
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	YETI 011

"Inside the book you'll find: an absolutely stunning 22-page comic by Victor Kerlow; an archival (1978) interview with Joe Brainard by Anne Waldman that is just so deliriously great I cannot tell you; many lovely pages of Polaroid's taken in Ethiopia last year by genius filmmaker/ethnographer/musician Olivia Wyatt; New Zealander Roy Montgomery interviewed by Portlander Liz Harris AKA Grouper (who is such a great interviewer, wow); short fiction by R. Foggo and Kimberly Parko; new photography by Portland's Megan Holmes; a selection of rare posters from the Situationist-inspired uprisings in France in May 1968. Plus a lengthy look at Spencer from the Skaters and a really in-depth interview with drone master Phill Niblock and finally, Brian Chippendale talks to Ian Johnson about 'If N Oof' and Lightning Bolt.
On the CD there are 12 tracks, all rare/unreleased from the heavy electro space boogie of White Rainbow to the crazed and cool song-cycle by Brooklyn's Happy New Year, and a brilliant and creepy and long thing from Oneida, plus this Phill Niblock piece is ridiculously good. Other artists on the CD are Roy Montgomery, Gospel Creators, Snake Hole, Golden Retriever, Sloppy Heads, Atole, Johnita and Joyce Collins, plus finally this incredible recording of syncopated panpipes from the Dirashi tribe of Ethiopia by Olivia Wyatt."

Artist:	YETI
Title:	#12
Label:	YETI
Format:	BOOK/7"
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	YETI 012

New Yeti format: the 7 inch includes Grouper's cover of Dead Moon's "Demona." "The first issue in the new format: 8" square with a hard-vinyl 7" stapled inside the back cover. On the hard-vinyl 7" EP: Four archival, killer, never before heard songs: Mississippi Fred Mcdowell (two unreleased 1959 Lomax recordings). The Tiki Men's blown-out cover of Duane Eddy's 'First Love, First Tears,' ca. 1994. Plus a new recording by dreampop slayer grouper of Dead Moon's 'Demona,' recorded just the other month! Inside the 8" by 8" book: Awesome cover by Carson Ellis. Portfolio of photographs from Alan Lomax Archives ca. his 1959 'Southern Journey.' Translator/poet Margarita Shalina's personal look at the NYC 1980s hardcore punk scene (she was there, man). Kim Spurlock's heavily annotated trove of Neal Cassady ephemera. Jamaican Gospel 7" label scans. Great drawings by Tim Miller, James Trotter and Jana Cleveland. Killer photos by Nina Dudoladova of Long-Abandoned Forts in Kaliningrad, Russia. A monumental, look at the work of Sacramento, CA's forgotten '90s surf band the Tiki Men. An interview with translator and author Susan Bernofsky (best-known for her work with Robert Walser). A great story by Mimi Lipson. Image-heavy interview by Chris Kirkley (Sahel Sounds) with contemporary African sign-painter Thiam Bellou."

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