Browse by Label: BIRDMAN RECORDS

Artist:	O.S.T.
Title:	Carnival Of Souls
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 012CD

"In 1962 an industrial filmmaker named Herk Harvey set out to make a feature length horror movie. With the help of writer John Clifford he made Carnival of Souls -- the story of a a girl who survives a car crash only to find herself haunted by ghouls. The movie played a meager run at drive-ins and later wound up as a staple on late night TV. In the late 80s it was re-released as an art house film and won a surprising amount of acclaim -- even People magazine ran a feature on it. George Romero has cited the film as the primary influence on Night Of The Living Dead and its dark eeriness is still unsettling by today's standards. One feature that enhances the film's creepiness to great effect is the pipe organ score of Gene Moore which is simultaneously atmospheric and chilling -- imagine Korla Pandit's never recorded Halloween album and you get the picture. Birdman Records is proud to announce for the first time ever the soundtrack to this cult classic complete with stand out bits of dialog from the film and music that was recorded for the film which hit the cutting room floor. This is music that guarantees nightmares."

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:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Super Are
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 019CD

Domestic jewel case issue of the most recent Boredoms album (previously available on Japanese Warner Bros. in a puffy plastic case). "On their 10th full length album Japan's Boredoms turn on, tune in (to each other) and drop out to an astral plane that you never even knew existed. Gone is the hyperactive, channel surfing, genre hopping of the past. In its place is communal psych jamming the likes of which have not been heard since vintage Butthole Surfers (remember that anyone?) or Amon Duul 1 or the most psychedelic sounds Funkadelic ever made all channeled through Eye and the band's encyclopedic musical knowledge. It all adds up to one disorientingly great listen that you will not soon forget. The US release is packaged with a massive 16 page booklet of Eye (damaging) artwork."

Artist:	PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:	Constructive Melancholy: 30 Years of Pearls Before Swine
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 021CD

"Fantastic 30 song compilation from Tom Rapp's Pearls Before Swine. This collections spans the group's post-ESP years when they called Reprise Records their home. The cream of their 5 Reprise albums (recorded between 1969 and 1972) are here as well as a smattering of previously unreleased material and rare radio broadcast recordings. With extensive text from music scholar Byron Coley, this is an essential package for fans of quality music." Two new versions of ESP-era tracks are added (with backing from Damon & Naomi and Tom's son, David Rapp).

Artist:	ELECTRIC PRUNES
Title:	Lost Dreams
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 022CD

"Between 1965 and 1969 Los Angeles' Electric Prunes recorded some of the best psychedelic/experimental/garage/punk of the era. The band is probably best remembered for their US hit 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night', though they generated a staggering amount of stellar material for a band that existed for such a short period of time. This 23-track CD is the definitive collection by these '60s psychedelic legends. Only recently have their first two classic LPs been finally made available on CD by the Collectables label (taken from nth-generation tapes and mastered atrociously, unfortunately). Now, for the first time, the 'Prunes' finest moments have been captured on digital format in pristine sound. Taken from original master tapes and painstakingly restored and mastered under the guidance of 'Prunes leader James Lowe, these recordings have never sounded better. Collecting the best tracks from the band's first two albums, ultra-rare singles sides, demos, and a hilarious radio spot for Vox wah-wah pedals, this is the only release anyone will ever need by the Electric Prunes."

Artist:	TURNER/THE AFROSSIPPI ALLSTARS, OTHA
Title:	Senegal to Senatobia
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 025CD

"In 1997 Birdman was proud to release the debut album from 90 year old drum and fife musician Otha Turner, Everybody Hollerin' Goat. The album featured field and studio recordings that spanned a five year period. In 1999 Birdman flew percussionists from a drum troop in Senegal, Africa to Senatobia, Mississippi to join Otha and his crew to create a rhythmic trance that has no equals. Bringing the heritage of dum music full circle from its foundations, Senegal to Senatobia is a landmark album."

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:	BOREDOMS
Title:	Vision Creation Newsun
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 028CD

New domestic version now available. "Vision Creation Newsun follows the groovitude of the much-love Super Are with additional funkiness and space-time continuosity. It is funk, it is trance, it is drum'n'bass, and it is wayyyyy psychedelic. The Boredoms' pirouettes into new musical highs with each subsequent release have consistently impressed the world's rich supply of joyless humbugs, impressed the clinically indifferent, and amazed the unamazeable. They've been doing it for years. The same reliable line-up -- vocalist Yamantaka Eye leading a celebratory loin-cloth journey to the heart of the sun; guitarist Yamamoto Seiichi surfing grooves effortlessly with the silkiest pickin' since Ry Cooder discovered Sangria; Yoshimi P-we adding her graceful-as-the-kitchen-sink drumming style while keeping it with the corps; plus a new starship trooper who just pushes the beat farther into space -- that has always created music for all 'noids to rejoice to."

Artist:	LEWIS, HERSCHELL GORDON
Title:	Eyeball Popping Sounds of...
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 029CD

"In 1962 exploitation filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis and his partner David Friedman (a former carny and future porno kingpin) abandoned nudie films and invented a new film genre. Dubbed 'the godfather of gore' by John Waters, Lewis began his career in graphic gore with Blood Feast, a film that shocked and disgusted drive-in movie audiences across the country. He followed Blood Feast with a string of gore, biker, horror, juvenile delinquent, and sexploitation films that all bore his trademark style, part of which was his unique soundtrack music. Whether incidental, bluegrass, rock'n'roll or pop, the music in his films was almost always written and often performed by Lewis himself. When outside help was needed, he usually called on inept garage bands and lounge acts to do the job. The Eye Popping Sounds of Herschell Gordon Lewis collects the very best songs from his entire filmography in one bloody package for the very first time. Thirty-seven tracks in all, including rare radio spots and hilarious soundbites, and a beautiful, 24-page color booklet full of disgusting stills from his films and liner notes from the Godfather himself. This package is an absolute must for any fan of grade-Z films and trash culture."

Artist:	FRAZER, PAULA
Title:	Indoor Universe
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 030CD

"Paula Frazer is the former lead vocalist of the critically acclaimed Bay Area band Tarnation. Tarnation's releases on Warner/Reprise and 4AD showed Paula to be a singing/songwriting force to be reckoned with -- her rich voice radiates beauty. Occupying the space between Patsy Cline and the Cocteau Twins, Paula takes her country-infused influences to wonderfully dark extremes. Some have called her music 'country gothic' but Birdman's David Katznelson just calls it excellent. Indoor Universe is Paula's first solo effort and it is unquestionably her finest work to date. Her heavenly voice has never sounded better and the dreamy expansiveness of her music never more vibrant."

Artist:	OOIOO
Title:	Feather Float
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 031CD

"Pronounced 'oh-oh-eye-oh-oh,' OOIOO follow up their debut album on Kill Rock Stars with the magnificent Feather Float. Yoshimi of Boredoms/Free Kitten on guitar and vocals, Kyoko on guitar and vocals, Maki on bass, and Yoshiko on drums recognize no one musical style but manage to touch on nearly all of them. New wave, no wave, pop, punk, electronic, trance -- it swirls organically in every direction. Like the Boredoms, there is a prevalent primal groove recurring throughout, yet it is so melodic in parts as to be almost accessible (for a Boredoms-related project, that is)."

Artist:	BADAR ALI KHAN, USTAD
Title:	Lost In Qawwali III
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 032CD

"Flowing with infectious rhythm, hypnotic percussion, mesmerizing repetition and spine-tingling vocal improvisation, Qawwali music has thrilled listeners since the 10th Century. One family -- the Khans of Pakistan -- has dominated this vibrant musical form with an unbroken line of truly great male vocalists. As Qawwali music rides an unprecedented wave of worldwide popularity, the star vocalist of the next generation, the voice that will carry Qawwali music to a whole new level, has emerged to claim the musical baton of his storied family. At 33, Badar Ali Khan has already released 22 albums in his native Pakistan. Most recently, working with producer/arranger/composer Suresh 'Baba' Varma, Badar has leaped to the forefront of his art, becoming a Qawwali superstar with Baba Records' multimillion-selling album, Good Karma 1. Blending the traditional with the contemporary, the ethereal with erotic, Badar Ali Khan has succeeded in transforming this ancient artform into something totally modern, incredibly potent and powerfully intoxicating for today's young audiences."

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:	WAHL & THE AMADANS, JON
Title:	Sour Suite
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 034CD

"For more than 10 years Jon Wahl fronted the Los Angeles skronk-punk-jazz-metal band Clawhammer, whose sound earned them a hardcore following across the country and record deals with Sympathy, Epitaph and Interscope. Jon's saxophone, harmonica and guitar abilities have landed him guest appearances on recordings by Mudhoney and several In The Red recording artists, including the Bassholes and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. On Sour Suite, his debut post-Clawhammer effort, he has taken a subtler yet equally twisted musical path. Using acoustic and electronic instruments, Sour Suite weaves a very dark and haunting musical fabric. Equal parts Eno-era Roxy Music, Tom Waits and Spike Jones, this album sounds like nothing else."

Artist:	BROTHER JT
Title:	Maybe We Should Take Some More ?
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 035CD

"Combining the classic trappings of '60s psychedelic guitar rock with an eccentric spirituality, Brother JT records are deep, penetrable and seek to entertain. He has racked up a multitude of impeccable releases on a multitude of independent record labels with impeccable taste. His palette expands with each passing release. Heavy pop, thick with guitars, thumping drums and stoned, tremulous melodies takes the listener on a trip through the complex patterns and designs that are unique to the mind of JT. From stretched-out zoner wail to agile, psychedelic strum, his body of work is singular, odd, outstanding and unimpeachable. It's a pretty tall order to name a contemporary artist with enough panache to carry on the legacy of wrecked pop and what writer Byron Coley would call 'Blieb Alien rock' left behind by the likes of Syd Barrett, Roky Erickson, Skip Spence and sandbox-era Brian Wilson, but Brother JT is the only name worthy to stand alongside."

Artist:	VA
Title:	It Came From Memphis Vol. 2
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 036CD

"The 1996 publication of Robert Gordon's It Came From Memphis book unleashed the untold story of the underground history of the rich music scene of a little town we like to call Memphis, Tennessee. While the stories of Elvis, Sun Records, and Stax had been well documented already, the stories of Charlie Feathers, Furry Lewis, RL Burnside and Barbarian Records had yet to be told. Needless to say, owning this book, as well as the accompanying CD that featured loads of obscuro rock and blues artists, were mandatory for lovers of American music." Artists include: Good Kid Robert, Otha Turner, Moloch, Sid Selvidge, Mud Boy and the Neutrons, Hammie Nixon, Van Zula Hunt and the Beale Street Jug Band, Johnny Woods and Bobby Ray Watson, Phineas Newborn Orchestra, Tav Falco's Unapproachable Panther Burns, B.B. Cunningham, Jerry Lawler, Jim Dickinson and the New Beale Street Sheiks, Soldiers of the Cross, Band of Ones, Lawson and Four More, Insect Trust, Bootleggers Quartet.

Artist:	HOWLAND, DON
Title:	Land Beyond The Mountains
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 038CD

"Don Howland is best known for founding seminal blues-roots-deconstructionist outfits The Gibson Bros., The Bassholes and supergroup Ego Summit. On The Land Beyond the Mountians, Howland is by himself with guitar, piano and unidentified percussive instruments. This is Howland's music how it's meant to be heard -- recorded in a basement on a four-track for under fifty bucks. Darker and moodier than previous works, thanks in no small part to the covers he's chosen (Pearls Before Swine's 'Sail Away,' Jessie Mae Hemphill's 'Cowgirl Blues,' Furry Lewis's 'Judge,' and the Edgar Allen Poe poem 'The Conqueror Worm'), Land Beyond The Mountains stands as one of his finest achievements."

Artist:	ELECTRIC PRUNES
Title:	Stockholm 67
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 039CD

"In the winter of 1967, a psychedelic-garage-punk band from Woodland Hills, California, arrived in Europe for what would be their first and last tour of the continent. On the strength of their hit single 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night,' the band was welcomed with open arms by European rock fans as well as British rock royalty -- they smoked out with Hendrix, partied with Brian Jones and Keith Moon, and hung out in the studio with the Beatles -- but were also subjected to harassment and ridicule over the fact that their homeland was at war in Vietnam. Yep, good times, good times? Twenty days and six countries later it was all over. Luckily, on the last stop of the tour someone pushed the record button and this artifact is the result. Stockholm '67 finds the Electric Prunes at the height of the powers. Some ninnies have griped that the 'Prunes were nothing more than a psychedelic one-hit wonder, and a studio project at best. This performance burns the criticism to the ground. Over-amplified and fuzzed to the max, the 'Prunes here are explosive, noisy and wild. This recording proves that the Electric Prunes deserve to be ranked alongside the very best bands of their era."

Artist:	STATIC TAXI
Title:	Closer 2 Normal
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 043CD

"If trash-punk guitar virtuoso Bob Stinson had a way of making fellow musicians feel like it was him and them against the world, most of these musicians also got the impression that the world was winning. Recorded in 1989 and 1990 by Stinson's 'art blues' outfit, Closer 2 Normal has remained unreleased until now, half a decade after The Replacements guitarist's death. Since Stinson's final drug spiral, it has been difficult to romanticize that era. Birdman Records has decided that the grace period has ended and these songs were worth resurrecting for more than the sake of nostalgia or the opportunity to mourn. The lyrical ache of the cascading guitar shimmer on these recordings is enough to make you weep. Stinson's springtime-sludge textures elevate Ray Reigstad's snotty choruses and jumpy rhythms to the level of great gonzoid power-pop. There was chemistry amid the chemicals of that train car - now everyone can hear it for themselves."

Artist:	PFFR
Title:	United We Doth
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 044CD

"PFFR is a Brooklyn-based electro-rock-crazed combo made up of a small group of highly motivated young people (early teens and older) who started a band in order to cause a riot in the local public library. Inspired by The Boredoms, early Ween, and Add N To X, the group has created an underground following in New York City. Their fans visit PFFR's one-of-a-kind shows for the comedy, cynicism, rage and euphoria, but they stick around for the unique blend of synthesizers, guitars and noise. After several seven-inch records released by obscure French labels (all sold out), United We Doth is their first compact disc. Every instrument is used, every yowl rings of freedom. Frequently fantastic, incorrect, loose-limbed and choking on horsehair, PFFR is the final knife fight between theory and vehement concrete specimen. United We Doth answers the eternal question 'Would I?' with a resounding 'Hair-lip'."

Artist:	CUTS, THE
Title:	2 Over Ten
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 045CD

"The Cuts are four twenty-somethings from Oakland, California, who make some of the best garage pop that you'll find today. The Cuts' wild sonic tantrums and lust-scorched anthems are so soaked in Nuggets history it's hard to believe they weren't conceived in the same fertile musical ground that produced bands like the Sonics and ? and the Mysterians. The band blends old-school, psychedelic garage with '70s NYC proto-punk noise (a couple songs are so Television it's crazy) -- but these guys make the blend seamless. The guitars come off cheap and messy; the vocals are amped, snotty, and slightly distorted; the keyboards whiz around like some woozy Dennis Hopper drug sequence, and the rhythms switch between jangling so loosely they're gonna slip right out of your speakers and getting wound so tight they're gonna snap."

Artist:	MODEY LEMON
Title:	Thunder + Lightning
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 046CD

"Modey Lemon are a two-man hurricane of sound and a genuine force to be reckoned with. Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA (home of George Romero) and clocking in at barely 20 years of age, The Modey Lemon have developed a sound unlike anyone else's. Guitar, drums and Moog synthesizer, equal parts late '60s hard rock, early '70s hard rock, and early '90s grunge filtered through punk from all three decades. This inventive, creative duo are caked in gritty, high-wattage garage punk and B-movie rock'n'roll, a twisted influence of greaser / garage rock sounds, adjusted with an art punk mentality, channeled through some big amp rawk."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Jim Dickinson Field Recordings: Delta Experiment Project #3
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	BMR 047CD

"Memphis musician/producer Jim Dickinson is a legend in his own right (having played keyboards on the Rolling Stones' 'Wild Horses,' performed on Bob Dylan albums, produced Big Star and Alex Chilton albums, etc., etc.) and he definitely knows a thing or two about blues roots and field recordings of legendary and should-be-legendary blues artists from the south. Dickinson captures raw and spontaneous performances from some of the most important blues artists in the Memphis / Mississippi area on these exclusive recordings by Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes (whose performances feature the guitar work of Ry Cooder), Otha Turner, Mose Vinson, Johnny Woods and Alec Teal. These pure examples of Delta blues were committed to tape at Sam Phillips studios, Ardent studios, the Orpheum Theater, and various fields in and around the Memphis area. Raw, gritty and real -- just how the blues should be heard."

Dickinson says, 'The Blues is a musical tradition born from the dark prison of slavery. Torn from family and homeland, separated from custom and culture, the call and response of the African work song took on new emotional depth. A lonesome sound in the darkness -- a howling dog or passing train -- echoed by harmonica or guitar became a raw, powerful statement of hard times, long work, and fast pleasure; a voice in the southern night complaining about the human condition.'"

Artist:	FRAZER, PAULA
Title:	A Place Where I Know
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 049CD

"Over the years, angelic-voiced Paula Frazer has amassed quite a catalogue of beautiful songs. She has performed in the various incarnations of Tarnation as well as with other players backing her on her solo pursuits. Her approach to songwriting is consistent; she is a firm believer in the bedroom demo recording. Alone, in her room, with her Yamaha four-track, Paula has recorded all of the songs that have made it onto her various releases, as well as countless others. Bedroom hiss plays along with the guitar and voice on these pure, fragile and haunting recordings. A Place Where I Know compiles the choicest of these recordings, taken from 1992 to 2002."

Artist:	ASHLEY, GREG
Title:	Medicine Fuck Dream
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 052CD

"Coming from Houston, settling in Oakland, friend to the Cuts, loved by the Modey Lemon. Makes sense this acid-tinged, macabre piece of beauty falls on the lap of Birdman. Think Roky Erickson, Syd Barret, Mayo Thompson, post-ax wielding Skip Spence; the songs on Medicine Fuck Dream are hypnotizing, mind-altering, dark, fuzzy bits about love, love and death, love and war, and Technicolor love from the leader of Texas' Mirrors (not the old Mirrors from yesteryear)."

Artist:	MODEY LEMON
Title:	Predator
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	BMR 056CD

"The two-piece has toured the US, UK and Australia, blowing away audiences with their over-amplified, art-damaged, garage punk metal. Lead singer / guitarist / synth-player Phil Boyd receives as much attention for his Calvin Klein good looks as he does his musical prowess, and drummer Paul Quatrone is the most wildly accomplished rock percussionist since Neil Peart. Predator features the stand-out title track taken from Thunder + Lightning, a new alternate version of 'Tongues (Everybody's Got One)', as well as three new scorchers that are guaranteed rock you in exactly the way you'd hope to be rocked."

Artist:	GRIS GRIS
Title:	Gris Gris
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 058CD

"A machine is born created out of the embers of all the distortion and blissed-out feedback the devil birthed in Texas circa 1967. Rollercoasting from the surreal goodness of Ashley's Medicine Fuck Dream to Can-flavored head-bobbing environments, to that particular corner of garage rock that testified to the Detroit losers in the guise of Back From The Grave and Nuggets compilations, the Gris Gris's debut Birdman release is rock'n'roll that will save some and rattle the rest."

Artist:	APES
Title:	Tapestry Mastery
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	BMR 059CD

"The debut Birdman release from this Washington, DC quartet contains three stories from the beyond told to the band's blind weaver, Maximilla, as a guide for her to weave a masterpiece. Tapestry Mastery presents six mind-numbing recordings (over 25 minutes of music) with sounds more bombastic, fertile and charismatic than any Apes release to date. They rip it apart live with their signature bass-keyboard-and-drum grooves and singer Paul's sheer intensity. Tapestry Mastery finds the Apes creating a recording that equals the thrills of their live shows."

Artist:	COYOTE
Title:	Insides
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BMR 068CD

"Coyote formed when members of the Holy Fallout, Excelsior and The Rabble Rousers convened in a West Philadelphia basement. Meaning: the heart of the Philadelphia music scene thrown into one supergroup is releasing their debut, and you are there. The driving pianos, screaming vocals, and fuzzed-out champion guitar leads produce a unique sound that is ready to be unleashed. They have been compared to The Black Heart Procession, The Doors and The VSS/Slaves."

Artist:	RECCHION, TOM
Title:	I Love My Organ
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 069CD

"The bulk of the material on Tom Recchion's second album for Birdman was recorded just after the completion of Chaotica in the mid-'80s, and sounds like a natural continuation of that record (despite the absence of any Esquivel). Recchion is assisted on some tracks by noted musician, composer, author, journalist for The Wire, and music curator David Toop (himself a collaborator with Eno, Jon Hassell, John Zorn, Talvin Singh, Adrian Sherwood, and Scanner). Recchion labored on I Love My Organ for years and years; dark and atmospheric, it is simultaneously creepy and relaxing lounge music for psychotics. Tom Recchion has been a notable personality in the Los Angeles underground avant-garde experimental music scene since the '70s, having been a founding member of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, art rock band The B People, and creepodelic quartet Extended Organ. He's collaborated with the likes of Keiji Haino, David Toop, and done numerous installations at galleries in the United States and abroad. There's even a planned collaboration with the Kronos Quartet in the works. In 1996 Birdman released Recchion's first solo album, an astounding sound collage of looped, manipulated, and extrapolated music by Esquivel. Like soundtrack music to a never-before-seen David Lynch film, Chaotica sounded remarkably fresh and timely when released (even though it had been recorded at least 10 years earlier)."

Artist:	TWILIGHT SINGERS
Title:	She Loves You
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 071LP

"Birdman Records is proud to release the one and only, ultimate vinyl version of the new Twilight Singers album, She Loves You. There is also a bonus track at the end of the record not available on the CD. Known for their incendiary live renditions of great covers, The Twilight Singers, featuring Greg Dulli, decided to record an entire album of their favorite songs. The result is an astonishing accomplishment of a diverse spectrum of style and time. Greg pays the utmost respect to the songwriters, while adding his own signature flavor to each song."

Artist:	MIRRORS
Title:	A Green Dream
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 074CD

"For fans of true psychedelic music � la The Electric Prunes, The 13th Floor Elevators, and Syd Barrett. Welcome to the first recorded dream of modern psychedelic poster child Greg Ashley. Before the dream became Medicinally Fucked, before the rise of The Gris Gris, before young Master Ashley was even close to drinking age, before he left the confines of Houston for the ghetto in Oakland, there was the legendary Mirrors -- school buddies with a zest for the melting paisleys. Greenhorns making green swirling music, recorded when all those involved were still in their mid-teens. Released on vinyl back in the day and long since out of print."

Artist:	DICKINSON, JIM
Title:	Fishing With Charlie (And Other Selected Readings)
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BMR 089CD

Spoken word release from legendary Memphis session man, bandleader and producer. "As a performer, Dickinson has notched plenty of prime-time hours on sessions and stages everywhere. He's been in bands capable of setting listeners' ears on fire, and recorded songs that have permanent positions on radio play lists across the planet. But underneath it all, like the true Southern gentleman, he is a storyteller. Because no matter what form of emotional reality Dickinson is working in, he is above all else telling a tale, with his hands on a keyboard, his voice at the microphone or his body behind a recording console. He will use whatever it takes to sell that story to the listener. In that way, he is almost like an auctioneer, spinning out music as he takes the performance to its highest bid in an attempt to be better and smarter and more alive, plugged into the huge beating heart at the center of all true art forms. Now, Dickinson is stripping his talent down to its essence on Fishing with Charlie, using only words to paint the pictures he is so good at. And what potent portraits they are."

Artist:	HOWLIN RAIN
Title:	Howlin Rain
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BMR 090CD

"Howlin Rain came together with the intention of making a good, old-fashioned, free-wheeling rock album with a bared soul and a body that hangs joy, hysteria and darkness on the same rambling bones. They play unfiltered music in all its grit and all its glory; music to beat the steering wheel of your van to or sing along with while drinking whiskey in the bathtub with your dog on a Saturday night. Formed in 2004 in San Francisco, the band features Ethan Miller (singer and guitarist for Comets on Fire), John Moloney (shaman leader and percussionist for Boston's Sunburned Hand of the Man) and Ian Gradek (bassist, iron worker, banjo-picker and world traveler)."

Artist:	FRAZER & TARNATION, PAULA
Title:	Now It's Time
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BMR 095CD

"After nearly a decade, classic 4AD band Tarnation, led by the angelic Paula Frazer, returns with a brand new studio album. Inspired by events that happened during one summer in San Francisco, Now It's Time is a heartbreaking, beautiful testament to love and loss, with a touch of redemption at the end. Like classic Tarnation, Frazer blends alternative country roots with dark, psychedelic tones and warm instrumental accompaniments that perfectly frame her ethereal voice. Now It's Time is a return to form for those who miss Tarnation, and an incredible starter for beginners."

Artist:	MIDNITE SNAKE
Title:	Shaving the Angel
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BMR 096CD

"Like a bat out of hell, these heavy psych-metal stalwarts are back with a sophomore release that might just erupt Mount Olympus. This fresh slab of digital drudgery presents songs that are longer and deeper than anything the Snake has done before. It possesses the richness of a dark and deathly metal, but now adds layers of wandering prowess, like a lost soul in Young Goodman Brown's devil-riding forest, looking for his Faith upon which to rest his head. But none is to be found. Midnite Snake's instrumental intensity would make a late-era Coltrane and current-era Acid Mother's Temple want to get back on the road again, just so they could check out the band night after night and steal all their secrets. Shaving the Angel is bigger and more powerful than their debut -- complex, sexually bombastic metallic rock and roll -- with a hint of forest acoustic darkness breaking through the wall of whiteness. Evil like the naked, mask-covered ritual sacrifice on the cover. This record plays loud at a soft volume, and is sure to cement their place in the hearts and souls of all the stoned rockers foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr."

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Artist:	VA
Title:	More Oar: Tribute to Alexander Skip Spence
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 023CD

Artist:	AUDIO ACTIVE
Title:	Bong
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	BMR 027CD

Artist:	WARLOCKS
Title:	Phoenix
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	BMR 040EP

Artist:	YOUNG JAZZ GIANTS
Title:	Young Jazz Giants
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 054CD

Artist:	FOETUS
Title:	(Not Adam)
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	BMR 072CD