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Artist:	SUN CITY GIRLS
Title:	Juggernaut (Original Soundtrack Recording)
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABD 002CD

Originally released as a limited edition LP by Abduction Records in 1994, and released on CD for the first time ever, this is an essential yet overlooked Sun City Girls recording consisting of various electric and acoustic tracks with a few compositional ideas rarely heard or revisited in their immense back catalog. And when we say compositional, we mean improvisation as composition which was basically the SCG method of operation in the studio. The record opens with two patented SCG stretched electric guitar/bass/drum works of dark beauty and then things become weirder as odd keyboards, acoustic instrumental and percussive pieces, and strange vocals start to dominate the rest of the album, setting the mood for Piasa... Devourer of Men which was recorded directly after Juggernaut. These tracks were exclusively created for a short film project by Mark Roman Bodnar and Kyrill Kazemirovitch Protsenko (a Ukraine/USA co-production) which resulted in a limited promo VHS release and a few festival screenings before the film was buried and forgotten. Segments from many of the ten tracks were actually used in the film, although there is much more to hear on the original full-length cuts found here. Some of the most unusual SCG studio recordings are contained on Juggernaut, all recorded live to 4-track cassette in 1993 in Seattle by Scott Colburn.

Artist:	SUN CITY GIRLS
Title:	Piasa... Devourer of Men
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABD 003CD

One of the strangest and most overlooked Sun City Girls recordings, Piasa... Devourer of Men was originally released on vinyl in 1994 and went out-of-print almost immediately. The record contains a series of short, folk-based tracks of raw beauty and intense moods. Most of the tracks were recorded in 1993 right after the completion of the Juggernaut soundtrack and some of the same ideas carried over into this project. A young and enthusiastic Italian director by the name of Antonio Pomola contracted SCG to create these recordings for his new film. The film was never completed and perhaps it was only an idea, but if it were to ever manifest, this music would certainly seem to fit the story line and the director's vision; the legend of a giant pre-historic flying reptilian terrorizing an early 1800s Indian tribe in Midwest America. Most of the tracks were created with acoustic instruments and voice and, with the exception of two tracks, the entire score was improvised. Recorded live to 4-track cassette by Scott Colburn, there is a strange, cohesive feel that runs throughout the album including several ceremonial and pan-ethnic tracks. Some cuts are completely indescribable. Reissued here on CD for the first time on Abduction, here is your chance to finally hear the cigarette played as a percussive instrument in an ashtray on the track "Nighthunting," among many other highly unique SCG tracks.

Artist:	ALVARIUS B
Title:	Alvarius B
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABD 004CD

CD reissue of the first Alvarius B record. Thirty-two instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird lo-fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of several folk guitar styles, some which may never have existed before. From abrasive to delicate, these lucid antique paintings with acoustic guitar employ Appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash, alien tunings, pseudo eastern drones, cinematic backroad twang, and other hybrid ideas not easily described. This record is a folk drifter classic and is now available again for the first time in a decade. Originally released as 1000 copies (vinyl only) in 1994 on Abduction. Recorded from 1981-1989 by Alvarius B (aka Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) onto various portable cassette decks and includes the original 28 tracks from the LP plus four unreleased bonus tracks.

Artist:	SUN CITY GIRLS
Title:	Jacks Creek
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABD 006CD

The Sun City Girls' Jacks Creek was originally released in 1995, now reissued here on CD for the first time since the limited edition vinyl original went out-of-print 12 years ago. As Robert Dayton reviewed the LP version: "This album was reviled by the more avant-hipster snob crowd. As time passes, its reputation surely grows to put it right up there with the finest of The Sun City Girls' diverse canon. And that is saying something! Being an act that can already alienate the unready, what caused this record to alienate their more uptight fans? Maybe it's because it was their hillbilly album. Maybe it's because the album opens during a still evening on a back porch with them talking about a mysteriously colored smell that predates an Indian burial ground and moaning 'He wore red to keep the devil away' and distant howling and warnings that get more and more spooked out, gradually turning into a disfigured, slackjaw, downhoe preying on urban fears over its thirteen-plus minutes running time. Then follows a percussive piano-based swamp chase led by a gnarled stick shaker which turns over into improperly distilled moonshine chants. Side two contains lots of little musically inventive snapshots and curios. A good time jamboree on termite wood called "Useless Stillborn." A Civil War call to arms for people way too rot gut broken down to ever pass the draft. And oh so much more to offer from this trio who go above and beyond the call of duty of what could have been (but not in their hands) a one (or thirty) joke premise. I take it that you are already musically adventurous, well, give this a try! Feels like they're shrinking (expanding) your head and preserving it in a jug."

Artist:	SUN CITY GIRLS
Title:	Dulce (Original Soundtrack Recording)
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABD 010CD

Originally released as a limited edition LP of 1000 copies in 1998, this is another mysterious soundtrack work by Sun City Girls, featuring guest appearances by Eyvind Kang, The Ruins and Jesse Paul Miller. The music flips back and forth from melodic and reflective themes to shards of noise and collective improvisation. Throw in some clarinet lounge music and spooked-out drama and you have the backdrop to a film that was never completed, explained further here from the original liner notes by Alan Bishop: "A nervous, stuttering Japanese gentleman phones me in the Fall of 1995 requesting soundtrack services from Sun City Girls for his new film project about a secret underground alien base in New Mexico most commonly referred to as 'Dulce.' The real kick for us came when our new Japanese friend finally announced his allegiance to the esoteric Aum Shinrikyo group most famous for the sarin gas poisoning in a Tokyo subway not long ago. He also professed to be a former associate of Aum technical minister Hideo Murai who was killed by a Korean hitman in April of 1995. Murai joined the Aum priesthood in 1986, becoming the head of its science unit focusing on the current state of electromagnetic weapons development including EM beams using lasers and plasma. We flew to Japan to perform a few shows in April of 1996 and a clandestine meeting was arranged with our mysterious director friend on one of our days off in the electronics district of Osaka which happened to be less than a mile from where we were staying. So Doctor Gocher and I pretended to take a souvenir-gathering stroll down the hill and met 'Hachiro Maki' (a pseudonym, I'm sure) nearby in a temple courtyard. After thirty minutes of reviewing rough cuts on his swivel-screen Hi-8 camera and discussing the necessity of anonymity in today's international fast lane, we were one million yen richer with an 8mm tape in my back pocket. Haven't heard from him since..." --Alan Bishop, 1998

Artist:	HAWK, GERALD
Title:	King of River Canoe
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	ABD 017

Debut release by this obscure filmmaker (?). The last non-member of the Sun City Girls to release something on their Abduction label (Hal Russell) didn't live long to tell about it, but Gerald evidently thinks he's made of tougher stuff. This recording features acoustic muddle and the whispered rants of somebody with no fear of waking up in a bunker. A certain amount of Jandekian adulation/emulation/ass-ination raises the intrigue and as for the wind, it continues to blow. Don't be afraid to jump, straight down. Limited stock.

Artist:	NEUNG PHAK
Title:	(Mono Pause)
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABD 025CD

2004 release, now fully available. The precursor to the radically life-changing Fucking USA 7" (ABD 031). Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how you'll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great "career move" where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: some roots "Molarm beat" from the Lao countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase. On second thought, stay where you are and don't ruin it for the rest of us whose souls are firmly embedded in the great tunnels beneath the underground cities of Angkor stretching their way to the sewers of Soi Cowboy. It's starting to get too crowded over here! Stay where you are!

Artist:	HAWK, GERALD
Title:	The Honey Guide Bird
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	ABD 026

"The second CD from obscure artist Gerald Hawk, The Honey Guide, is the music of opposites: laughter and misery, crazy and the grim, toytown and the city of fear. This curious recording is filled with hypnotic sound-fields and a queer feeling of humility. Stories of giants and witches are embedded in an outerworldly atmosphere. The music betrays an ability to enter into the supernatural space of abstract hoverings. Is he communicating with the dead, performing underwater rituals, or sketching a lush photographic awareness of the world?"

Artist:	SPECS ONE
Title:	Return of the Artist
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABD 028CD

"FINALLY! The Holy Ghost of Northwest underground hip hop becomes visible after two decades of producing an insane number of limited edition cassettes and CDRs from his mysteriously drifting pirate studio. A Seattle native, Painter, graffiti artist, sound manipulator, and local visionary, Specs possesses the uncanny ability to combine simplicity and complexity to create honest, and significant hip hop that is both classical and timeless. Journalist Charles Mudede, who once dubbed Specs as 'Seattle's Baudelaire' says: 'Nothing but beauty streams out of Specs beat machine, and his raps address the listener intimately, as if he were rapping to you alone'. Return Of The Artist marks his first National release since the compilation Fourteen Fathoms Deep on the now defunct Loosegroove Records in 1996. An addictive vibe floats across the entire record. The rhymes are clever, never overstated, with occasional tripped-out choruses if the tracks are longer but if he's made his point, he's under and out. Standout cuts include 'Ode To Mics', 'Attack Of The Clones', 'Who Is He?' and 'Rap Stuff'. Also included here are some of his beautifully cryptic instrumental beats, a favorite side of many of those who've heard Specs earlier work. Return Of The Artist is written and Produced by Specs One."

Artist:	MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE
Title:	The Visible Sign of the Invisible Order
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABD 029CD

"Siphoned from flying graveyards and fed through giant funnels of navigatory spirits to the haunted outskirts of behavior and all of its rickety platforms, an intuitive, much weirder America is on the rise. One formed from necessity and adaptation. One that won't give up their guns or their souls to the agencies trained to occupy them. Those who can communicate outside of language and direct energy on the inside are the only valid resistance to the creeping tumors of controlled humanity. Founded as the result of the album Lesser Angel of Failure by John Schuller, the Master Musicians of Bukkake are a loose-knit posse of Seattle-based musicians performing collective ceremonial music, far removed from category and pushing well beyond the 'outsider' fashions of those willing to settle for less. From the opening gong of 'Enter the Wang' to the extreme spiritual beauty of the finale 'Circular and Made of the Earth', this music directs itself without a leader and that direction is as venerable, majestic and frightening, if not more so, than ANY music currently swirling through North America. On this stunning debut release, Schuller is joined by core members Randall Dunn, Brad Mowen, Don McGreevy, James Davis and the mysterious 'Milk N' Cookies'. Violinist Eyvind Kang also appears on the record and has said of the Master Musicians of Bukkake: 'It is illegal music..it's criminal what they are doing..you'll see!' (Kang is NOT referring to the 9 MM being fired repeatedly on track 13: one of a number of tracks recorded outdoors at undisclosed coastal/forested locales with the balance recorded in the studio). Also noted as performing on various tracks are Alan Bishop/Charlie Gocher (Sun City Girls), Eryn Young, Shahzad Ismaily, Hammy, Branden Harper, Evan Schiller, Paul Moore, Olli Klomp, Javier Gallegos, Andrew McInnis, Benjamin Kennedy, and Luke LaPlante."

Artist:	NEUNG PHAK
Title:	Fucking USA
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	7"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	ABD 031EP

Oakland, CA-based Neung Phak are hit-playing Southeast Asian psych-pop fusion artpranksters. Their exotic alter ego Mono Pause shares members with absurdist cut-and-paste legends Negativland. When Pyongyang Airlines flight 009 from North Korea landed at San Francisco International Airport, the members of Neung Phak stepped defiantly onto the tarmac -- clutching the master tapes of their compelling new single Fucking USA, which were rushed to Abduction records for immediate release. This is the first recording ever made by "Americans" in Pyongyang's Kim Studios -- and it shows! The extended play B-side features a new version of the Thai classic "Tui Tui Tui" and a journey into experimental pop balladry that is second to none -- a radio friendly "Far King USA." This vibrant explosion of color and hatred comes dressed to kill in a beautiful package on the thickest vinyl there is. Neung Phak backsides the forefront once again! Edition of 300 copies, thick vinyl, and full-color picture sleeve!

Artist:	SEA DONKEYS
Title:	Volume 1
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	ABD 033LP

This is the debut recording from an anonymous Seattle outfit of assembled misfits, sub-criminals, and castaways. Jettisoning down the fast current from the foggy low tides just off the glossy-lipped pucker, this renegade band of pirate fuck-me-naughts slip into the dead stream with unwitting direction, abandoning tired navigational tools for a less reliable fate. Imagine the Manson Family singing on a sinking ghost galleon sippin' salt water, willing to go down, down with the ship. Originally hatched on a decrepit boat, where some of these tracks were recorded on soupy nights till dawn upon the Puget Sound, the Sea Donkeys patrol the uncharted waters smuggling Barbary coast psychedelia into northern ports for their infrequent role as Lord Summerisle's house band. Edition of 300 copies on 180 gram vinyl with insert. Limited stock.

Artist:	POREST
Title:	Tourrorists!
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABD 034CD

Abduction Records presents the fourth full-length release from Oakland, California's one-man detonator, Porest. Tourrorists! is a diabolical folk power-stew told through swirling Mid-Eastern psych-rockers, contraband cut-ups, illegal pop epics, instrumental songs of political sabotage and clever tales about travel, terror and more. This album is a lit-fuse, bound to be banned! Discover the awful truth about becoming a U.S. citizen. Bear witness to the tragic disco anthem of a Guantanamo escapee. Discover the inner-secrets of an emerging global cannibalism trade and get powerful information on some of the most exciting terror cells operating both in and outside of the United States today! Five-thousand Americans died to bring you this album...and 5,000 more will die if you don't buy it RIGHT NOW! Also featured are special musical guests including Finland's Aavikko.

Artist:	UNCLE JIM
Title:	Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABD 036CD

This is a CD reissue of this previously vinyl-only, limited-edition 500-copy release, originally issued on the Black Velvet Fuckere label. Ruling at the perpetual pivot and pole of a peerless sound world over the past 25 years, the Sun City Girls are one of the few last Arab cowboys of genius. Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime is the premier long player from Uncle Jim (aka Alan Bishop) -- a smoked out X+Y= Fuck You dialectic. Rawer than Rudy Ray Moore, shrewder than Lenny Bruce, more spoken tongue wizard insanity than Lord Buckley and more deranged than Charles Baudelaire; this is Bishop's own personal anthology of black humour, filled to the brim with cranky diatribes backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the Sun City Girls). A masterpiece of the SCG canon. Featuring Charles Gocher, Richard Bishop, Alvarius B, Liz Allbee, Andrew McGinnis, Specs One and Porest.

Artist:	DIAMANTE, HERB
Title:	May I Light Your Cigarette?
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABD 037CD

This debut release from the mysterious Herb Diamante will transport you on a naughty journey through his speakeasy of debauchery and sin. These eleven tracks of alcohol, tobacco, and desire are driven by his rich, golden voice atop a psychedelic showroom of sound. Herb Diamante is perhaps the most unique lounge singer around. He sings songs about eggplants, yellow kazoos, and delicate stilettos. Then, he'll "hail the fish-king" and finish you off with "a wasp in a jam jar." The elusive Englishman has finally allowed himself to be documented amidst a career built of legendary "word of mouth" appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. A long, tragic set of strange circumstances and sporadic insanity has somehow combined to create Herb's extended and sometimes frighteningly vivid hallucinatory universe. However, he remains a hopeless romantic and will forever pursue his difficult and evasive vision.

Artist:	MULLIGAN & S. FUTURE, MIC
Title:	Original Space Neighbors
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ABD 039CD

From the mind that brought you Return Of The Artist in 2004, pops two more figments of imagination straight from the ether: Mic Mulligan and S. Future are Original Space Neighbors. Planet Earth, ready yourselves for a cosmic awakening soaring deeper into late-night satellite smoke from this mini-LP of mega proportions. Sci-fi beats from lo-fi outer space intersect the big-bang theory of hip-hop morphing humanity into dripping plasma as S. Future's floating laboratory hovers low over the earth. These messages from the outer spheres of urban spaceship exotica are delivered in and out of time and rhyme by the Mic of Mulligan with a handful of cameo appearances. Those special guests include: Uncle Jim (aka Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls), Jah Nice, Niggerachi, and the Space Needle! Limited to 500 copies.

Artist:	SUN CITY GIRLS
Title:	You're Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1)
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABD 040CD

Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls' most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2LP idea was presented to them but Majora Records quickly stepped in to begin releasing most of the material. Included here are five tracks from early Majora singles: "100 Pounds of Black Olives" and "The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria" (the complete unreleased 12-minute version) from the single "You're Never Alone with a Cigarette" and all three tracks from Record #1 of the double 7" Three Fake Female Orgasms -- "Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling," "The Beauty of Benghazi," and "Souvenirs from Jangare." The short piece "Harmful Little Armful" is from the triple 7" box set Bruce Lee, Heroin, and the Punk Scene (from a Bay Area label Massacre at Central High) and rounding out the set are three unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the Torch LP: never before heard versions of "Amazon One," "Sev Acher," and "Wild World of Animals." This is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time.

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Artist:	BROTHERS UNCONNECTED, THE
Title:	Tour CD
Label:	ABDUCTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ABD 042CD