Browse by Label: ECSTATIC PEACE

Artist:	NOTEKILLERS
Title:	(1977-1981)
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	E 03B

"The Notekillers were a Philadelphia based band between the years of 1977 - 1981. They were a nowave guitar/drums, instrumental band that had one amazing self released 7" in 1978, 'The Zipper' b/w 'Clock Wise'. They played in NYC a couple of times, most memorably opening for Glen Branca, which is how they came to the attention of Ecstatic Peace. A few years back, Sonic Youth's/Ecstatic Peace's Thurston Moore was asked to make a fantasy mix tape for Mojo magazine. He included the song 'The Zipper', saying, 'It was one of those records that resonated fully with all of us at the time --a genuine hybrid of radical approach (Ayler/Pistols!)' This rock based group from the age of punk rock and disco featured talented musicians that had two main goals. The first was to experiment; to push their combined abilities to uncommon results. The second was that their efforts should be able to follow any record on their turntable, whether it be reggae, rock, acoustic or punk and the influences would be evident while maintaining their own driving rock sound. This new release from Ecstatic Peace includes the song that started it all, 'The Zipper' and its B-Side, 'Clock Wise', the never released single, 'Run Don't Sto' b/w 'Juggernauts' and eleven tracks taken from 2-track reels, dusty cassettes and an actual 8-track cartridge." Limited stock.

Artist:	MAGIK MARKERS
Title:	BOSS
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	E#100F

"When confronted with an example of magnificence in nature, such as a waterfall, Jane Goodall reported that the chimpanzees she observed were captivated, as if in awe of the beauty of the world. On BOSS, the Magik Markers have tried to capture the chimps' awe. A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previously recorded material is present on BOSS. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; BOSS is that vision made manifest. The tug of war the Markers enact, the way they are fully prepared to start yanking their world apart as they find themselves losing their place in, makes moot possibilities of greatness or mediocrity. It makes them unapologetic soothsayers with their ears pressed to the ground, waiting for footsteps. With Peter Nolan, we finally hear what Lou Reed would have sounded like had he sallied with the drums instead of getting seduced by the easy praise of front man status. Like Rashid Ali squeezed into the Teutonic leather pants of Faust, Nolan drums like there are hell hounds at his heels but he just can't be bothered. Here both laconic and frenzied, Nolan's drumming arms reach out like an octopus': tickling the ivories, humming the organ and blasting taps on some kind of endtime trumpet. As a pianist, Nolan reminds us that the piano is a percussive, beating out the whoomp of some old war dance, a bare foot-fall rhythm of fighters to battle and the heavy hands of a whiskey burlesque in the afternoon. Nolan is easy to underestimate, but finally, here is high fidelity record of the strange soul of one of America's most natural and quizzical musical minds."

Artist:	WOODEN WAND
Title:	James & The Quiet
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	E#100G

"The prolific James Jackson Toth, working under the nom-detune Wooden Wand has released some 20-plus albums over a handful of years. However, Toth considers James & The Quiet only the third proper Wooden Wand full length. While each release has explored a psychedelic-folk wonderland, this album is far and away one of the most concisely focused and downright catchy recordings in the WW oeuvre. Co-arranger and vocalist Jessica Toth may be the record's secret weapon. While perhaps best known for her role as lead vocalist and occasional guitarist in Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, on James and The Quiet she emerges as the perfect foil to Toth's inimitable artistic voice. Together with Ranaldo, Jessica wrote and fine-tuned most of the album's exquisite harmony vocals and piano lines. Hoping to transcend genre tags, Toth, with more than a little help from his friends, has crafted a consistent and creative batch of songs that rewards repeat listens and continues to showcase his talent as a songwriter."

Artist:	LITTLE CLAW
Title:	Spit and Squalor Swallow the Snow
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	E#104B

"New 2007 LP from this Michigan rock-brut trio who combine the more hypnotic aspects of The Magic Band and Sun City Girls with great/possessed female vocals that are somewhere between Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Markers and Sandra Barrett of Major Stars. This album also has a particular post-'billy hiccup to it that's reminiscent of the way that The Cramps or even The Gun Club modified early country blues styles with burlesque rock moves and future-primitive energies. And that's a combo that I wish more avant-hucksters were plugged into. But this sounds great."

Artist:	AWESOME COLOR
Title:	Electric Aborigines
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	E#104C

"Awesome Color is a power trio updated for the 2060s, noise provocateurs and impressionists, ace players with punk rock flair, inspired citizens of a small modernist nation of musical, visual, and literary outrage on the outskirts of Brooklyn, or a rainbow amalgam of all of the above at once. Following a non-stop touring schedule since their debut release including stints with Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth in the U.S., UK , and Europe, the band took their honed brand of turbo chemistry into the studio to create the highly-anticipated Electric Aborigines."

Artist:	KEFFER, LESLIE
Title:	Feels Like Frenching
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	E#105B

"When Leslie Keffer lived in Athens, Ohio she was asked about the noise scene there. 'You're looking at it,' she responded. Indeed. Leslie is one of the more fascinating proponents of homegrown Middle American noise music. A single girl drawn to the more ravaged and magical aspects of noise as source music, art and lifestyle. She has since moved to Nashville where she has been developing and progressing her personal take on what is basically a highly marginal genre of music. Her inputs are radio transmission wave-noise, the living aura of Lindsay Lohan, punk, pop, Madonna, her amazing girlfriends and defiltering the terror of male-centric Power Electronic depravity and goon-ism. Her last two No Fun festival performances, in duo with Thurston Moore in 2006, and the noise into dance beat into 'Where's The Party' slumber party freak out where all the noise girls fem-exorcised an already somewhat de-clawed noise misogynist is already legendary. Leslie's sound has been heard on various cassette labels (Rampart, Gameboy, I Just Live Here, Epicene, Cherried-out Merch) and most recently, her own imprint, Action Claw. She has issued a number of hand-made CDRs with her own touch of knitted fabric pouches. She has two tracks on the 2CD Tarantula Hill Benefit, one with Baltimore's Nautical Almanac who have been championing Leslie's work for years now. We are only too happy to release this premier full-length LP of Leslie's demonstrating where she's been and where she's going."

Artist:	X04
Title:	Cataracts
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	E#105D

"Debut vinyl release by the Western Massachusetts drone/scrape trio of Bill Nace, John Truscinski and Jake Meginsky. These guys have developed into one of the most soul-glowing sound/improv units out there today. And we mean out there -- sparkling shards of guitar/amp/file machinations dance and intercede with rolling thundercloud dreamdrum dramatics. Nace you know from his killer duo throwdowns with Chris Corsano as Vampire Belt as well as the more recent weirdness with Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Lollypop as Ceylon Mange and in duo with Thurston Moore as Northampton Wools. Truscinski and Meginsky are the fine gentleman who've recorded as Slaughterhouse Percussion, Meginsky a student of, and student assistant to Milford Graves at Bennington College."

Artist:	EMERALDS/TUSCO TERROR
Title:	Vaporizer/Feral Cousins
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#105H

"Emeralds is Mark McGuire, John Elliott & Steve Hauschildt. They are currently based in and around Cleveland, Ohio. Direct descendants of the history of adventurous punk, post-punk, whatever music spilling out of Ohio the last 35 years or so from Pere Ubu, Devo, Rocket From The Tombs, The Raspberries, The Cramps, Dead Boys, Great Plains, Fuzzhead, et al. Emeralds is the sound of exploration of space/time conundrums utilizing vintage synthesizer beauty and guitar experimentation. Unfolding sweet-leaf shifts and gorgeous curves of kosmiche abandon are played with devotion and desire. With a palpitating discography of cassettes, CD-Rs, etc., both self-released and on righteous labels (Hanson, Gods Of Tundra, American Tapes, Chondritic Sound) Emeralds have already distinguished themselves as new yet timeless, young yet ageless. Tusco Terror was introduced to us by fellow Ohioan (at that time) Leslie Keffer, (whose Feels Like Frenching LP was released on the label) as her favorite band in Ohio. She sent us some cassette releases and we were immediately blitzed. The sound of reckless confrontation, living room shambles, chaotic slipstreams and glorious friendship noise crackled from one brain stem to another. Tusco Terror resides in Akron, OH when they're not wheeling around the country setting up in any bewildered basement scene or delirious donut shop across the USA to wig out anyone fortunate enuff to be 'there.'"

Artist:	POOR SCHOOL
Title:	The Holy Master
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#105J

"Poor School started in April 2005 with Bryan Ramirez (gtr), John Niekrasz (drms) and Nathan Hoyme (sax). We first caught wind of this sick noise/jazz/postpunk rock trio when John Olson, he of American Tapes, Wolf Eyes, Dead Machines, etc. brought Ramirez' other combo Ex-Cocaine (who have a sick LP on Siltbreeze) to the No Fun basement a few years back and Ramirez laid some Poor School CD-R action on us. Needless to say, we were buh-lown away by the manic improv hepness and immediately emailed the dude to see if we could slam some Poor School magic onto black plastik. And unto Ecstatic Peace was delivered The Holy Master. Ramirez and Olson go waay back when the two of them jammed together in the nascent Michigan underground psychedelic troupe Universal Indians. Ramirez took off to Missoula, Montana to investigate micro-brews and mountain air and help put together the awesome Ex-Cocaine. He's still there. Niekrasz went to get high on life in India but is expected back sooner than later. Upon his return, we can hopefully expect Poor School to shed new love and light and chaos for the future. Keep yr eyes peeled."

Artist:	16 BITCH PILE-UP/MIKE SHIFLET
Title:	Make Like a Fetus and Abort/Extract, Behold
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	E#105LP

Edition of 500. "Ohio has been rampant on the Ecstatic Peace play lists lately with the release of a long player earlier this year by Leslie Keffer and a forthcoming split LP by Emeralds and Tusco Terror. Like Keffer, who's moved to Nashville (to be closer to Be Your Own Pet), 16 Bitch Pile-Up and Mike Shiflet are both ex-pats of Ohio. 16 Bitch to California and Shiflet to some weird small town in Japan. Mike Shiflet we've known for years as he has produced some of the more interesting tapes and whatnot of Midwestern out-ness from his Gameboy label and from his legendary duo tour with Burning Star Core/C. Spencer Yeh of a few years back. Like the amazing beard he has sported since childhood, his music is a free-fall of acoustic wonder. He is also the cat responsible for turning on most of the world to the radical charms of three girls from Ohio wickedly named 16 Bitch Pile-Up. With a name like that you may have expected something just kinda funny but what made itself imminently obvious was that 16 Bitch was really and extremely into producing a wholly personal thrombosis of noise improvisation. Crystallized to the trio of Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter, this trio has become one of the most consistently exciting live experiences of the last five years. These recordings by both artists were done when both were still residents of Ohio and reflect that time and space right before each other's exodus. They are raw and righteous and ready for you to take a bite."

Artist:	ISLAJA
Title:	Blaze Mountain Recordings
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	E#106CD

"Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a visual artist and musician from Helsinki, Finland. She's been releasing records on Finnish label Fonal since 2004. The first one, Meritie, introduced her lovely sense of musical wonder to the world and garnered excited praise from the more astute ears at The Wire (UK) and Dusted Magazine (USA). The 2nd release Palaa Aurinkoon was equally boss and brought Islaja to North America with compatriot Finnish folk experimentalists Lau Nau and Kuupuu where she mesmerized audiences with a captivating minimalism of sweet singing and small toy and hand-made instruments played by herself and companion Jukka Raisanen. In 2007, she released her third album Ulual Yyy which expanded her sound into further psychedelic paths. Since then Islaja has played numerous large festivals including Eurosonic, Sonar and the 2006 All Tomorrows Parties/Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Thurston Moore. Animal Collective invited Islaja to play a two week support tour with them in Europe. Blaze Mountain Recordings is a live document, all music and words by Merja and played by Merja and Jukka. It's the perfect portal to enter the living world of Islaja's music/art spirit with a unity of traditional Finnish forest mystery and a radical song universe."

Artist:	MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD
Title:	Gettin' Gone
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	E#109B

"Still riding high on the glorious steed that was Green Blues (heads are still processing its smoked grooves and wild-at-heart paeans to love and kosmiche carnality), Matt Valentine and Erika Elder entered a Western Mass studio armed with enough fresh material to choke a whole team of horses. You may ask, 'how can this be?' Well, since recording their Ecstatic Peace! debut, the duo has toured extensively, all the while writing tunes, scavenging esoteric guitar equipment & revamping their backing band to suit the environment of Gettin' Gone. A new sound has organically evolved that will most certainly astonish listeners new & old, but still find a special place on the formidable shelf of their back catalog. So rejoice in this disc, which boasts some of MV & EE's most finely-crafted songs to date and along with The Golden Road present a feast of tones & riffs that will stick to your ribs for a long time. Like its predecessor, Gettin' Gone is a family affair of like-minded freak and friendly hair waves. Most fascinating is the Ecstatic Peace! soundboard premier of Zuma, one of the coolest dog minds north of New York City. Also the one part golden addition of Doc Dunn and the harmonium magic of Luisa, she of Mascis child. Oh and J his self blams some mountain heavy drumming on a few of these tracks. Matt and Erika's devotional dharma is open to all true vibes of rock n' roll and folk n' roots ramble both tender and tuff."

Artist:	MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD
Title:	Gettin' Gone
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	E#109BLP

Double vinyl version, gatefold sleeve. "A new sound has organically evolved that will most certainly astonish listeners new & old, but still find a special place on the formidable shelf of their back catalog. So rejoice in this disc, which boasts some of MV & EE's most finely-crafted songs to date and along with The Golden Road present a feast of tones & riffs that will stick to your ribs for a long time. Like its predecessor, Gettin' Gone is a family affair of like-minded freak and friendly hair waves. Most fascinating is the Ecstatic Peace! soundboard premier of Zuma, one of the coolest dog minds north of New York City. Also the one part golden addition of Doc Dunn and the harmonium magic of Luisa, she of Mascis child. Oh and J his self blams some mountain heavy drumming on a few of these tracks. Matt and Erika's devotional dharma is open to all true vibes of rock n' roll and folk n' roots ramble both tender and tuff."

Artist:	SIGHTINGS
Title:	Through The Panama
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	E#25B

"Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic twine envisioned in future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the dark matter of the universe quivers in a deadly orgasm. Guitar, bass and drums reconfigured for a new purpose. This is the band's sixth album and takes the notch so much higher than previous efforts in terms of songwriting and production. With Andrew W.K. as a producer, some of the caustic curtains that swathed past albums have been parted to reveal a coldly pulsing artificial heart. And the beat of this heart sounds off in an alien tongue of bass and drums. Guitars descend like unforgiving sheets of napalm from the smoldering skyline. Songs pop out of this miasma that tick off icy coolness with piano and vocal stylings. Indeed, hot and cool. To accentuate the difference this album has versus previous Sightings records, a Scott Walker cover is included. This is a rock album, but a rock for times coming, a sound of future days. Break the chains from the days of past, listen to Sightings and evolve. Limited edition beautiful high gloss gatefold LP."

Artist:	TALL FIRS
Title:	Too Old To Die Young
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	E#41D

"On Too Old To Die Young, Tall Firs move away from the underground electric folk of their self-titled debut and toward experimental rock, trading trippy introspection for a more fleshed-out, structured sound that still has an organic warmth in its intricate guitars and artfully shambling drums. By sharpening their focus and turning up the volume, Tall Firs also strengthen the similarities between their sound and Sonic Youth -- 'So Messed Up' and 'Hippies' recall the avant-jam band epics that Thurston Moore has been perfecting since "The Diamond Sea" and Too Old To Die Young's overall vibe recalls the laid-back friendliness of Moore's Trees Outside The Academy. However, this is also some of Tall Firs' most wide-ranging work: 'Good Intentions' dives into textural rock with searing guitars, 'Warriors' builds from a whispery start to a noise maelstrom, and 'Lookout' has a stillness that recalls Tall Firs despite its charging dynamics. The band even tries out some poppier fare on the surprisingly sweet and hopeful love song 'Hairdo,' while the wry melody of 'Loveless' feels like commiserating at a bar after that relationship goes bust. And on 'Secrets and Lies,' a duet with the Jealous Girlfriends' Holly Miranda, Tall Firs map out confessional territory that many of their peers couldn't approach. A rare mix of intimacy and experimentalism, Too Old To Die Young will resonate with indie rock fans who know what that album title really means." --Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Artist:	POLAR GOLDIE CATS
Title:
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#49

Los Angeles instrumental group, with their debut album (following a couple of 7" appearances). Produced by Nels Cline and Tom Grimley. The band have been referred to as a "Shaggsian Magic Band," and there is a stellar 'n crudely rendered Beefheartian flavor to the way they construct new sound waves out of mere guitars, bass and drums. And although they've been influenced by some grade school listening to the likes of DNA, the Contortions and other no-wave seminal classics, they've updated that lineage with a hypnotic power rock splurge, added other outsider interests (gamelan, Scottish piping music, cosmic wavelength theory) and created a weird 'n wonderful detuned accessibility.

Artist:	SMITH/JOHN STEVENS, GARY
Title:
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#52

A series of seven improvisations for electric guitar and drums, recorded live to DAT in a London studio in 1993. This presents the young UK free guitarist Smith alongside the late, legendary Spontaneous Music Ensemble drummer Stevens (also found briefly on mini-trumpet, in what unfortunately will have to be remembered as one of his final studio dates). Gary Smith has released one amazing solo CD previously (Rhythm Guitar on the Impetus label), and here develops a full palette of what has been referred to as "electroacoustic free/scratch guitar," a decidedly post-Bailey language of volume-pedal-manipulated in/out chatter that mixes dense rhythmic build ups with long, stretched note explorations (that occasionally almost drowse themselves to a non-blues-centered Mazzacane-esque haze). The whole thing coalesces with beautiful fragility, adding a new sub chapter to the contemporary world of non-metered improv. Limited stock.

Artist:	THELA
Title:
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#53

Debut of guitar-based New Zealand trio of internal-hum and hypnotic clang. Thela is a young trio of Dean Roberts (guitar), Dion Workman (guitar, bass) & Paul Douglas (drums, piano); this is their first full length release following some unobtainable local releases. Thela's sound falls somewhere in between the alien tongue first spoken by the likes of intense art-rockers This Heat and the organically thrilling sound waves of prime-era Dead C. Guitarist Dean Roberts also records under the name The White Winged Moth (see Poon Village PV04). New Zealand's new transcendental sound.

Artist:	WATSON, DAVID
Title:	Throats
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	E#89B

David Watson (bagpipe) w/ Shelley Hirsch (vocals), Makigami Koichi (vocals & jaw harp). "The writhing and resolving glissandos, so familiar to East Village ears by now, were still edgy enough to send a few Lincoln Center new-music wimps dashing for the exits. It's my feeling that the bagpipe is an inherently avant garde, push-the-envelope type of instrument anyway." --Kyle Gann; "From 1981-86, Watson was active in the New Zealand music and art scene, as a member of Primitive Arts Group, appearing in the first N.Z. International Arts Fest, and co-founded Braille Records to record the local improv music scene (which released 12 LPs in the '80s). He released three LPs on Braille, and did much to create an improv/noise-music scene where previously there was none."

Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Trees Outside The Academy
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	E#91C

"It's Thurston's first solo outing since 1995's Psychic Hearts. Of course, Thurston's been releasing records here, there and everywhere, mostly in the context of rowdy and rambunctious noise/improv escapades but this new one is killer diller SONGS! Unlike Psychic Hearts' skeletal trio rock, this new jammer, 12 years post, has a far fuller bouquet of sonic depth and proves this Sonic dude to have a very real songwriting life outside of the legendary Sonic Youth (of which he is a founding figure, duh). This newborn disc is 12 songs long. Thurston recorded primarily on acoustic guitar and bass, laying down the core of the tunes with drummer compatriot Sonic Youth's Steve Shelly and violinist Samara Lubelski, a noted player from MV/EE and The Golden Road, Hall of Fame and other awesome gatherings as well as solo artiste. Most of the tunes are lyric driven but there are a couple of majestic instrumentals like 'Trees Outside The Academy,' which brings the album to a musical and breathless close. There's also some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early '70s making some kind of sound-theatre. It's kinda nuts, and it's the last 'hidden' track. Tracks like 'Frozen Gtr,' 'The Shape Is In A Trance,' 'Silver>Blue,' 'Never Day' and 'Fri/end' (a theme song to the hippest TV show yet to be broadcast) will lead you in to a sparkling and heavy new world of Thurston's heart, mind and soul."

Artist:	MOORE, THURSTON
Title:	Trees Outside The Academy
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	PIC. DISC
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	E#91CPIC

Limited picture disc vinyl version of Thurston Moore's second album proper. "This newborn disc is 12 songs long. Thurston recorded primarily on acoustic guitar and bass, laying down the core of the tunes with drummer compatriot Sonic Youth's Steve Shelly and violinist Samara Lubelski, a noted player from MV/EE and The Golden Road, Hall of Fame and other awesome gatherings as well as solo artiste. Most of the tunes are lyric driven but there are a couple of majestic instrumentals like 'Trees Outside The Academy,' which brings the album to a musical and breathless close. There's also some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early '70s making some kind of sound-theatre."

Artist:	MOORE, GEORGE
Title:	Plastic Flowers
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E 91B

"George Moore lives in Connecticut. He is the 20 year old son of Ecstatic Peace recording artist Gene Moore. Regardless of these obvious bloodline connections George Moore's musical world should, would and could easily creep into the living underground on its own mystic merits. He recorded these instrumental pieces at some point in early 2001 and issued them privately in an edition smaller than Albini's dick. The music therein is an amalgamation of spurious signals wholly independent though readings and mis-readings of John Fahey, Whitehouse and Jackie-O Motherfucker are in probable detection. The basement aura of this session will appeal to anyone even slightly aroused by the aforementioned troika. Ecstatic Peace will continue to release artifacts from the Moore boys and their Connecticut 'Nutmeg State of Mind' environmental joob." Limited stock.

Artist:	DARA
Title:
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#70D

"Detroit/NYC guitarist, singer, songwriter, photographer, filmmaker, artist Dara was a member of His Name Is Alive for a few years. She was part of upstate NY based multi media 'performance art' group Brown Cuts Neighbors doing films, playing drums, guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, and guerilla street performance. She collaborated through the mail w/ Warren Defever on a project called Nu Grape. They have a CD available though Time Stereo. She had a group w/ Ron Asheton called Creature79. She worked w/ artist Steve Cerio on a project called Lettuce Little featuring members of the Residents. She now performs with husband Nick in a duo they call Laudanum. Her influences/interests range from Japanese 'noise' bands/performers such as Masonna and Melt Bananna, jazz of Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Coltrane. The Stooges, Neil Young, 80's hardcore bands, New wave, Harry Partch, artwork of Jackson Pollack. Hammer horror flicks. Film Noir. Spooky stuff. William Blake, William S Burroughs, Bukowski, Nietzche, Kathy Acker, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Slayer. The Ecstatic Peace record: All of it is Dara playing vintage Farfisa keyboards, Casio keyboards, guitar, radio. Recorded in Dara's kitchen in 1997 on 4 trk. All artwork/photography by Dara. Album was heavily influenced by love of 80's synth pop and heartbreak. Like OMD, Depeche Mode and John Hughes films which she loved as an 80's teenager."

Artist:	AHWESH & BARBARA ESS, PEGGY
Title:	Radio Guitar
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#86D CD

"Radio Guitar is nine tracks of fantastic music and noise utilizing radio sound and electric guitar as realized by artists Peggy Ahwesh and Barbara Ess respectively. Filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh came of age in the 1970's with feminist politics and the experimental film underground. She started working with Super-8 film in her teens and went on to make feature films, including Splice This (1999) and Girls Beware (1997). Her work has recently been shown at Rotterdam, Osnabrook, and The New York Film Festival. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the NYSCA Film Production Grant, Jerome Foundation Grant and a grant from Art Matters, Inc. She is presently teaching at Bard College. Barbara Ess has been performing music in NYC since the 1970s w/ such famed no-wave groups as The Static and Daily Life as well as The Glenn Branca Ensemble and Y Pants, a trio of women playing music on toy instruments. Most recently she has been a member of Ultra Vulva. She has also worked as a publisher of Just Another Asshole -- a series of anthologies of artists works in various formats. She concurrently works as a visual artist making and showing large scale photographs. A book of her photo work, I Am Not This Body, has been published by Aperture in Fall, 2001."

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Artist:	STINSON, G.E.
Title:	Vapor
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	E 17 B

Artist:	NOISEADDICT
Title:	Def
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	10"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	E#34

Artist:	SUNBURNED
Title:	Z
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	E#58C

Artist:	AESTHETICS, THE
Title:	My Right To Riches
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	E 04B

Artist:	GANG WIZARD
Title:	Jeckyll Loves Hyde
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E 83F

Artist:	POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND/SMACK MUSIC 7
Title:
Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	E#83D