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Artist:	TURNER/THE RISING STAR FIFE & DRUM BAND, OTHAR
Title:	Everybody Hollerin' Goat
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 018CD

"Amazing debut album from this North Mississippi 90 year old legend! Mind-boggling trance-like drum and fife music that has to be heard to be believed. Jungle rhythms and primitive blues -- this is as pure as music gets." Recorded at Othar Turner's farm in Tate Country, MS (1992-97). Turner on cane fife and vocals, Luther Dickinson on bottleneck guitar, numerous contributors on snare and bass drums. A new document of primitive American music.

Artist:	EXTENDED ORGAN
Title:	XOXO
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 026CD

"Extended Organ is a 'supergroup' of experimental sound artists whose members are culled from the ranks of that seminal West Coast 'slacker' noise cult the Los Angeles Free Music Society. The four members of Extended Organ have been improvising with sound for over two decades and although they have played together in various configurations in the past, this is the first time the quartet has ever played together as a total entity. The foursome each have active and well established careers on their own. Paul McCarthy is a world renowned art superstar. His work in Extended Organ consists of free form vocal/lyrical improvisations which play off the instrumental improvisations of the other three members while at the simultaneously setting a mood, telling a story and responding to the general ambience of the performance situation. Fredrik Nilsen is a founder of the Los Angeles Free Music Society and a noted photographer. Nilsen conceptually founded Extended Organ in which he plays prepared acoustic guitar and both an antique analog organ and a modern digital keyboard, all in an especially unorthodox style. Fredrik's approach, which acknowledging minimalist composers, spins equally from gothic horror movie soundtracks. Joe Potts is a founder of the LAFMS and mastermind of Airway, which has been called 'the gnarliest noise band of all time'. Potts is omnipresent on his chopped optigans -- instruments he crafts from dismantled 70s optical samplers. With up to 64 simultaneous samples per instrument, the chopped optigan is the ultimate drone machine. Tom Recchion is a founder of the LAFMS and member of the Doo-Dooettes and B People. Recchion uses Kurzweil, guitar, radio, CDs, etc. to accent the other instruments as well as the occasional lush crescendos. Tom also acted as producer on the record as well as mixing and processing the sound of the entire ensemble live during the recording. Three years in the making, XOXO is creepy and wonderful. It may sound like a gross exaggeration, but we are wondering if this CD might not just be the Sgt. Pepper's of noise records."

Artist:	ALI KHAN, NUSRAT
Title:	The Final Moment
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 033CD

"Qawwali's devotional themes of love come from Allah and are sung by men who belong to a Sufi tradition and trace their music back over seven hundred years to the spiritual Samah songs of Persia. There is a long tradition of Qawwali singers in the Ali Khan family, including the man who brought Qawwali to the West -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Like his father, uncles and grandfathers before him, Nusrat sang with a fervor and style that reverberated within the being of all his listeners. During his lifetime, Nusrat saw his audience grow from Pakistani devotionalists to a larger, more international group comprised of many races and religions from around the world. When Nusrat passed away in 1997, he was at his peak in popularity. He had just completed his biggest American tour to date and was signed to a major recording company. His voice was clear, powerful and inspirational. The Final Moment documents one of the last concerts of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His group also featured Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, who continues the Ali Kahn legacy. Longtime collaborator Baba Varma recorded this 1996 concert of ecstatic Sufi compositions, a celebration for all who attended, now a vital and loving document of the Voice of the Century."

Artist:	WALKER, PETER
Title:	Spanish Guitar
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BMR 116CD

"In 1966, Peter Walker's Rainy Day Raga translated the sound of Eastern ragas into the consciousness of America's LSD generation. The record is still considered a classic of its genre, cited as a primary influence on the new psych/ folk sounds of today's generation. Like the great blues guitar pickers before him, Walker disappeared from public and recorded life for decades, yet continued to practice and study all along. Spanish Guitar is the culmination of this past era, finding Walker continuing where he left off with Rainy Day Raga, tracing his beloved Indian sound to Spain, where the gypsies redefined Spanish music and created what is now known as flamenco. This record is to flamenco what Rainy Day Raga was to raga -- an inspired sound that views all of Walker's studies with his Western lens, so unique and beautifully played that it seems like an entirely new genre. This is a sound unlike anything elsewhere -- a transcendental sound, one that until now only belonged to the heavens." Recorded live in California, 2006.

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Artist:	TWILIGHT SINGERS
Title:	Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	BMR 050CD