Browse by Label: LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS

Artist:	YERMO
Title:	Yermo
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 004CD

"Austere drone / sound collage / aural texture. The two pieces here (one at 50 min, the other at 30) fuse ideas from contemporary minimalism (Bernard Guenter, Annea Lockwood, etc.), Japanese noise artists (such as Aube) and 20th century classical (Ligetti, Pendereki, etc.) to create slowly evolving soundscapes that occasionally build to crescendos or reveal accidental harmony. Yermo made up the electronic aspects of MCMS and has had previous releases on LVD as well as Birchville Cat Motel's Celebrate Psi Phenomena label."

Artist:	TSURUBAMI
Title:	Kaina
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 023CD

"Yet another entry into the exponentially increasing catalogue from Kawabata Makoto comes outside of the realms of The Acid Mother's Temple. Fellow Acid Mother's Templar Higashi Hiroshi brings his bass to Kawabata's guitar, alongside the newcomer Emi Nobuko on drums. The album opens in similar fashion to Kawabata's Father Moo & The Black Sheep album, with a synthetic wash of pitch-shifting / multiverb guitar tones. Slowly these ambient tonalities develop into shimmering fragments of melody half appearing, then dissolving into kosmische haziness." -- Aquarius. This CD reissue comes with an exclusive bonus track, pushing the album length up to just shy of an hour.

Artist:	INABA, SHUJI
Title:	Yoenzange
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 025CD

"Perhaps this wispy history, built as much upon the shadow ground of myth, rumor and superstition as upon sun-kissed fact, accounts for the spooked air that animates Inaba's every breath. The spirit of personal myth permeates too his lyrics, which at their most opaque seem to float through the mists of a timeless rural antiquity. Heard here in his natural element of a live concert (his previous two albums, Innen Kaho on Planktone and Land of Prayer on PSF were both studio recordings) we can hear true the spirit winds whistling through ancient cryptomeria groves, stirring the bark shingles on shrine roofs." -- Alan Cummings.

Artist:	MIMINOKOTO
Title:	Live
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 048CD

One of the newer Tokyo psych bands to emerge. Comparable to White Heaven, Shizuka and many PSF bands. "Rising from the ashes of Tokyo Velvets obsessives and Keiji Haino collaborators Broomdusters, Miminokoto are a more immediately auraless proposition. Their dynamic blues constructions are held together by taut, clean guitar lines coiling and snapping around a rhythm section that's liable to alter course in mid-air. The hopping patterns beaten out by Ex-White Heaven bassist and drummer Koji Shimura anchor Kawaguchi's machine gun guitar, which stutters in a polyglot tongue drawing equally from Rory Gallagher, Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed. But Kawaguchi's remarkable vocal most defines Minokoto's sound, his distressed moan giving every track the urgency of deathbed blues." -- The Wire.

Artist:	INABA, SHUJI
Title:	The Rapture of Being Destroyed...
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 050CD

"Shuji Inaba is a Japanese avant-folk singer and guitarist who hasn't reached the same level of documentation as peers like Kan Mikami and Kazuki Tomokawa. No 13 CD box set for Shuji yet! And some might find the prospect of such a box set quite frightening -- a single disc of his raw acoustic guitar playing and whisper-scream vocalizations will be more than enough for a lot of folks. Others will find Inaba's Rapture Of Being Destroyed to be a harrowing yet compelling listen. With some tracks filled with stark outbursts from silence and others more 'song' like, this is a great record recommended for those who already dig the likes of Dead Raven Choir and the aforementioned Kan Mikami. This Last Visible Dog cd release comes with Inaba's poetic lyrics translated into English by Alan Cummings." -- Aquarius. Shuji has appeared on PSF records and has two releases on Planktone records. Similar to Kan Mikami and Kazuki Tomokawa. This CD includes a lyric sheet with translations by Alan Cummings.

Artist:	PILIA, STEFANO
Title:	Healing Memories and Other Scattering Times
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 051CD

"Stefano Pilía is an Italian-based artist who reminds me most of the mighty Campbell Kneale AKA Birchville Cat Motel. These frozen drones unfold like a slow blooming flower during the first month of spring. These tracks are beautiful in a heartbreaking way. It's like watching the sunset for the final time, knowing that tomorrow will never come." Reissue of Healing Memories in Present Tension with an album worth of bonus material. Stefano also appears as a member of 3/4 Had Been Eliminated, and as a collaborator with Black Forest/Black Sea.

Artist:	DEAD RAVEN CHOIR
Title:	Wine, Women, and Wolves
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 052CD

"Another transmission from the Dead Raven Choir, the work of a Polish ex-patriot Texan who calls himself Smolken. Whispered, accented vox deliver the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hilaire Beloc, Charles Baudelaire, A.A. Milne and others over doleful strings and abstractly strummed guitar. Smolken seems to be a creepy, well-read Eastern-European version of Jandek, and he's a master of atmosphere, going totally over the top with minimal means. Every note played, and every hiss between notes, turns the blood colder. If an album could sound cursed, this is it. Fans will of course pick this up, but if you haven't yet delved into Smolken's haunted sound-world, perhaps this is the one to try. The clincher, perhaps, is that aside from Smolken himself, the only other musician to appear on this recording is Jewelled Antler stalwart Glenn Donaldson (Thuja, Blithe Sons, Birdtree, Skygreen Leopards, etc.)." -- Aquarius. Weird avant-garde polish 'psychedelic' folk that can't be compared to much short of Jandek.

Artist:	PYLON
Title:	Not Cobras
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 055CD

"Hyper-primitive like Cromagnon's Cave Rock LP or Amon Duul's Psychedelic Underground." From Aquarius: "Damn, another breath of fresh air blowing over from the Finnish cloudfort. Pylon sends echoing flutes & ram's horn trumpets over fragmented folk & space-rock marching junkshop drums, maybe there's an untuned guitar flailing along or a fuzzy Casio organ, someone beating out a morse code on an oven tray or a an old typewriter. Muffled abstract vocals are performed with earnest by Muppets, zombies & monks & are shrouded in effects pedals. This shares something in common with related-groups Avarus/Anaksimandros/Maniacs Dream, but it's just two guys, so there's more space around each clang & groan. dance with goats & green maidens, run wild with robots & monsters."

Artist:	WRIGHT, PETER
Title:	Distant Bombs
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 056CD

"Distant Bombs consists of recordings made in 2001-2002 while Wright was still located in New Zealand. In listening to this work one can hear the foundations built on in the intervening time by Birchville Cat Motel, Black Forest / Black Sea, and Double Leopards to name but a few. On Distant Bombs, Wright takes guitars, and runs them through various effects to extract their lulling essence in a rich, clear broth. Sometimes the sounds are taped and looped which further erodes their sharp edges. Everything here is assembled with the care and attention of a master craftsman. The drones achieve hypnotic calm through constant shifting of each component in relation to the others rather than microtonal variations on a dominant one. Figure and ground alternate as Wright brings different motifs to the foreground only to recede in subtle shifts in dynamics. It is as if Wright had realized the common threads that run through all of the disparate elements he worked with and coaxed them together to converge at a distant vanishing point. To emphasize this journey, most of the tracks begin with varied sources (anything from acoustic guitar or violin, to what sounds like a processed field recording of the ocean) that coalesce in layers into powerfully assured drones over their course."

Artist:	SEHT
Title:	The Voice of the Taniwha
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 057CD

"First real CD from little known NZ knob-twiddler/sound-sampler/drone-minimalist in the footsteps of Peter Wright and Omit. Seht is one Stephen Clover, who has released a handful of drone-oriented limited lathe cuts under different names. Not as single-minded as you might think; Mr. Clover's approach to the drone thing uses different instruments to create a series of droning and repeating pieces that vary wildly in mood from each other, and sometimes pull a sudden internal switcheroo too. There's everything from minimal acoustic-guitar plunk surrounded by clattering percussion to huge walls of all-enveloping feedback. Successfully marries analogue synth with 'digital treatments' of found sounds to create subtle ripples in the deep pool mirror of the 'other'."

Artist:	PHARAOH OVERLORD
Title:	The Battle of the Axehammer (Live)
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 058CD

"Quintessential psychedelic stoner rock." "The wonderfully named Pharaoh Overlord is the instrumental psychedelic 'stoner rock' side project of Circle's Jussi Lehtisalo and friends. The repetitive pulse of Circle jacked into some amped up, blown out Kyuss-worthy riffage. Here comes these Finnish freaks' third album, and it's more like their spacey rockin' debut than the more experimental, mellow menace of Pharaoh Overlord II. It's a live record, with versions of two songs from their 1st album and one from their 2nd, plus two new compositions (also rendered live). And the nature of this music means that live may well be superior to studio, due to the element of psychedelic improv exploration at play and the energy being projected. And the speaker shredding 'production' as well. A rumbling, bashing, single-minded beast. Not unlike Skullflower's Exquisite Fucking Boredom. The live sound is gritty, super-sludgy, with a bit of that Doktor Kettu murk." -- Aquarius.

Artist:	MILTON, ANTONY
Title:	Sirens & And Where the Coloured Planes Are Rafts
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 059CD

"An essential CD for those into the outsider NZ 'pop' scene -- you know, the one that includes the likes of Alastair Galbraith, This Kind of Punishment, The Renderers, Pin Group, Victor Dimisich Band/Terminals, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos...in fact, if you know the Xpressway sound (that label Bruce Russell ran back in the day) you should know what to expect here. For those unfamiliar, think what might have happened if the post-punk sound invented by Joy Division and Wire (Chairs Missing) never went away...well in New Zealand, it never did. This long-overdue release combines two albums that Antony recorded for his own Wire Bridge cassette label in the late 90's."

Artist:	NETHER DAWN, THE
Title:	Whiskey Mute-Down
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 060CD

"Antony Milton is one of the new important voices to appear from New Zealand in the wake of The Dead C and the mid-'90s 'free noise' scene. Milton is at all times an intelligent interpreter of what's come in the last two decades -- this is after all the same islands that brought us Xpressway Records and The Clean. The Nether Dawn is arguably Milton's take on free noise, though it feels less abstract (and off-putting) than the likes of Handful of Dust and Flies Inside the Sun, utilizing instead a warm, broken drone not unlike 'Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos' (Ajax); that is to say, this is a more mellow, intimate drone experience for one and guest. There may also be a hint of influence from Finnish collaborator Uton (who is the modern master of shortwave-drone-bliss)."

Artist:	MCMS
Title:	1997-2000
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	3CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LVD 061CD

Over three hours of Nebraska's most experimental band with extensive tongue-in-cheek liner notes and history by band mate Matt Silcock. Non traditional vinyl-sleeve packaging. "Imagine a weird, British style folk, loosely strummed acoustic guitars, warbly flute and urgently whispered vocals. Churning hyperdistorted guitars, random, 'free' percussion, sometimes just a simple plodding thud, all deteriorating into soft mumbly melodies and found sounds, mysterious and ambient. Dirty, gritty garage-y dirge/drone rock, Krautrock-ish rhythms filtered through a Dead C noiserock aesthetic that veers into noisy freakout territory, careening wildly from tuneless, Comus style pagan folk to chaotic free rock, to blissful dronescapes. A meandering soundscape of clatter and buzz, drone and thump, skree and whir, all very atmospheric. Moments of Sunroof! like lo-fi bliss disrupted by bursts of spastic percussive splatter and amp/instrument malfunction. Anyone into NZ noise rock (Dead C, Gate, etc), the current crop of free folk (Jewelled Antler, NNCK, Sunburned Hand, etc.) or just weird and wonderful, fucked up and noisy experimental free-folk-rock-noise-whatever definitely needs this." -- Aquarius.

Artist:	SANDOZ LAB TECHNICIANS
Title:	The Western Lands
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 063CD

"Continuing with their exhaustive, snail's-pace release schedule, New Zealand elder-statesmen improvising trio Sandoz Lab Technicians have finally given birth to their 6th album in 13 years. The Lab Techs are particularly excited about this one, as it features as its centerpiece (and title track) the band's first truly hi-fi DDD recording, having been laid down in a fully-armed digital recording studio in Sydney, Australia during 2005's micro-NZ Noise Festival (featuring fellow NZers Birchville Cat Motel, The Stumps, 1/3 Octave Band, seht, and Oz wizards Castings and 6majik9). The Western Lands is an aural journey through a constantly shifting miasmic landscape of sinister beauty and the band hereby challenges even the most recalcitrant reviewer to toss the 'lo-fi' tag at this one (okay, 2 of their last 5 albums WERE recorded entirely on Sony Walkman...). The Western Lands is book-ended by two shorter tracks recorded earlier at the groups long-time practice space at 8 Canongate, Dunedin -- the beautifully befuddled 'Nebulous' and the soothing faux-Japanoise lullaby 'Crocus Blossom.' All in all, it's a bona fide full-scale 3D mind-movie of an album, featuring the usual wide range of instrumentation (guitars, piano, violin, drums, effects, computer, autoharp, fender Rhodes electric piano, bush sax, reed flute, bamboo flutes, melodica, walkie-talkies, hand drum & cymbal, bells, glass and water... lots and lots of water)."

Artist:	LSD MARCH
Title:	Suddenly, Like Flames
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 064CD

"More PSF-worthy psychedelia. Strong comparisons can be made to Les Rallizes Denudes, the first PSF Fushitsusha, White Heaven, Shizuka, etc." "LSD-march, named for a track on the first, heaviest album by krautrockers Guru Guru, slowly whisper and wander through a veil of feedback and plodding rhythms. There's both gentle and searing stuff to be found here. These guys are more serious, mysterious and melancholy than Acid Mothers Temple, with a definite Velvets vibe at times. And when the guitars get cranked, this sounds like the Neil Youngiest of Nagisa Ni Te freakouts. With liner notes (and stamp of approval) from translator/psych expert Alan Cummings." -- Aquarius.

Artist:	BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA
Title:	Radiant Symmetry
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 065CD

"Black Forest/Black Sea are Providence, Road Island duo Miriam Goldberg and Jeffrey Alexander. Both were previously members of acid-folk group The Iditarod, whose music felt decidedly Old Worldly, referencing the likes of Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Trees to create their own take on traditional Anglo forms. What sets apart Black Forest/Black Sea from The Iditarod's songbook is their willingness to introduce certain aspects of improvisation and free music to the mix, both as catalyst to generate ideas and as an end to itself. Radiant Symmetry is the group's third full length album, which documents shows and improv sessions from the pair's recent European tour when they were joined by fellow folk distortionists, most notably Daniel Padden from Volcano the Bear and The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden."

Artist:	HALA STRANA
Title:	Fielding
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LVD 066/7CD

"Hala Strana, is a project of LA-based multi-instrumentalist (and multi-instrument builder) Steven R. Smith, who is a member of Jewelled Antler flagship improv psych group Thuja and a solo artist in his own right. Hala Strana is his vehicle for instrumental droned-out Eastern European folk music appreciation/interpretation, and really represents some of his finest work to date. Multitracking turns Steven R. Smith into a one-man village orchestra, playing everything from violin to optigan, bul bul tarang to gourd guitar, harpsichord to clay flowerpots! Bouzouki, cello, harmonium, percussion, etc. These songs also incorporate snippets of field recording tapes and sampled recordings of traditional music. Amazing 2 disc work which built up a huge reputation as an extremely limited CDR. This edition sports about ten minutes of additional material, filling out the set to a nice 92 minutes."

Artist:	UTON
Title:	Whispers from the Woods
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	3CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LVD 068/70CD

"This set brings together several limited edition releases that you may or may not have been lucky enough to track down, along with a few tracks that have never seen the light of day before. The foundation of the release are the three albums Tämän Sanan Jälkeen (Haamumaa 2002), Mikä kasvaa maan sisällä (Hammasratas 2003) and Ay Um Au Lam." (Jewelled Antler 2003). 'Uton is that robot dream. Here electronic drones and pulses merge with accordion, noises, distant signals, ghost calls and rumbling low percussion. Here there are no people, no animals, just nature, land and eons of time. Glaciers form, move over centuries and carve the landscape. Music as deep and intense is the consequence of the mental journey by these musicians, it is an end point, where it is concentrated into pure sound that becomes one with the air.'" -- Lord of Misrule, Unbroken Circle.

Artist:	BRASIL AND THE GALLOWBROTHERS BAND
Title:
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 071CD

"First CD release from these Polish artists. Very European sounding lounge-psyche with heavy use of sound-space and field recordings. Brasil is the work of Dominic Savio and Mirt known from their ambient-psychedelic formation One Inch Of Shadow. ...Summer 2003 saw hot, calm and indolence with folk-jazz improvisation -- 'the band plays on, the dunes move on (caught me with my eyes closed)'. Somnolent improvisation on acoustic guitar and clarinet, boys playing football, sunburnt psychedelic trip, and nightlife recorded on mini disc. Finally young lovers finding out that Leon doesn't exist... Everything done in order to express the atmosphere of endless summer. 'the band plays on, the dunes move on (caught me with my eyes closed)' is the postcard from Mirt and Savio. Play that music and imagine green trees, colorful flowers, avenues bathed in sunlight and girls in light dresses with scent of summer in their hair... We are wandering till spring and only summer can stop us, at 534 kilometer of the river."

Artist:	RINALDI, RENATO
Title:	Hoarse Frenzy
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 075CD

"Although Renato has been very active in Europe he may come as a complete unknown to our US audience. With releases on Bowindo, Fusetron, Fringes and Public Eyesore, this level of obscurity is inexcusable and fortunately Hoarse Frenzy has arrived just in time to let us know what slackers we've been. Hoarse Frenzy is a single 40-minute track that explores both musicianship and soundspace, comparable in its totality only to the likes of Faust or other similar-minded artists who erected large scale pieces that were in scope far more than the sum of their parts. But Hoarse Frenzy is perhaps a little more brilliant than that; with first listen this is easy and accessible, not at all suggesting what is to be accomplished -- this is done cryptically, and with repeated listens the whole becomes clear. A fine little record that will go largely unnoticed and despite the new directions in music it suggests, the radio will go on sounding the way it has..."

Artist:	CJA
Title:	Ironclad
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 076CD

"This is the same Clayton Noone who isn't (but will soon be) a legend; the same man behind the art-punk Futurians and junk-noise Armpit. Nevermind his super obscure CD-R- only collaborations with Last Visible Dog label-mate Antony Milton, going under the name 'Claypipe.' Ironclad however differs from so much of Noone's output in that it is both more personal and more accessible. While none of the trappings of the low-fi New Zealand noise aesthetic are gone, this is more gentle, more melodic; a folk album of sorts, constructed out of feedback and distortion of course. Standing tall with the Dead C, Terminals and Roy Montgomery, Ironclad is a rare intimate encounter with one of the most uncompromising artists of the Southern Hemisphere."

Artist:	DE GENNARO, MATTHEW
Title:	Humbled Down
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 077CD

Following The Wire's declaration of the 'new weird america' and more specifically pigeon-holing artists as remote as Jack Rose, the Jewelled Antler collective, Matt Valentine, Six Organs of Admittance and who knows what else into a genre they termed 'outsider folk,' there has been an ever- rising tide of new players delving into the arena of instrumental acoustic guitar. "We hear very atmospheric moods with some minimal layers of colours that fit perfectly on top of each other, like in the old fashioned way of painting, where ground colours gleam through giving the perfect glance and makes certain focused parts livelier. One of these layers is done in moments with some environmental sounds, like birds or crickets. The organ, and sometimes harmonica and some other droning effects, usually stimulates the mood. The acoustic guitar lead is the most descriptive part. But often also the resonance chamber is melting with the other sounds when it becomes its environment and surrounding, 'droning' space. Although the acoustic guitar almost everywhere leads the meandering descriptions, I heard also other instruments, like the accompanying second fingerpicking instrument, the banjo, something like cello or violin, and perhaps a few more instruments. A very beautiful, very descriptive musical trip with a reflective environmental soundscape for inner peace." -- Gerald Van Waes.

Artist:	DAVENPORT
Title:	Free Country
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 078CD

"Dirt-soaked dirges and country-fried jams filter through the backwoods of their Madison, Wisconsin home on Free Country. This is the beginning. This is the moment Davenport was truly born. Clay Ruby and his clan bring us an album full of diamonds and pearls. Conjuring up the spirits of No Neck Blues Band and Jackie-O Motherfucker, Ruby and his primitive choir sing late into the night. The entire proceedings are a celebration of the journey. Where it leads is of no consequence, but embarking on a trek to find something new is what matters."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	6CD
Price:	$46.00
Catalog #:	LVD 080/6CD

"Enormous 7-1/2 hour 6CD compilation featuring almost everyone from the label roster along with plenty of new faces. Inspired by Drunken Fish's mid '90s Harmony of the Spheres box, each artist has contributed an EP's worth of exclusive material (10-20 minutes) specifically recorded for this release (not the normal throw away material that appears on other comps.) The line-up includes: Black Forest/Black Sea, Birchville Cat Motel, Wolfmangler (Dead Raven Choir), Loren Chasse (Blithe Sons, Hala Strana, Thuja) Bardo Pond, es, Stefano Pilia, Sunken (Antony Milton & Pumice), Kulkija, Tomutonttu (Kemialliset Ystavat), UP-TIGHT, Flies Inside the Sun, Uton, Mudboy, Steven R. Smith (Hala Strana, Thuja), Keijo, Doktor Kettu (Circle), My Cat is an Alien, One Inch of Shadow, Fursaxa, Ashtray Navigations, Peter Wright, Geoff Mullen, Urdog, Miminokoto, Area C, Ben Reynolds, Seht, Avarus, Renato Rinaldi and Matthew De Gennaro."

Artist:	ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS
Title:	The Love That Whirrs
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 087CD

"English artist Phil Todd has been an underground presence for well over a decade, engaging in countless groups and collaborations, signing on as an occasional member of Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunroof!, and releasing numerous documents of dissident art via his Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers and Memoirs of an Aesthete labels. Todd's major achievement, though, is his ongoing solo project Ashtray Navigations. Releasing a baffling amount of cassettes, LPs, CDs and CD-Rs, Todd has refined a singular take on modern sound construction that references the dynamics of rock, the emotional evisceration of blues and the white-light intensity of noise."

Artist:	NEVILLE, STEFAN
Title:	Do Not Destroy
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 088CD

"This is the same Neville behind Pumice (Raft previously on LVD, and Yeahnahvienna (Soft Abuse) as well as a collaborator with the likes of C.J.A, Witcyst, Matt Middleton, Antony Milton, Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs) and Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel), so you should know what to expect: eccentric one-man-band lo-fi goodness. But where Stefan's other releases have always taken the existence of pop-music for granted albeit filtered and fucked 'til broken,' Do Not Destroy makes no such assumption. Recorded in the night-times, while daytimes were consumed with a mundane and low-paying filing job, the Do Not Destroy album is an exercise in desperate escapism that is ultimately more personal than Neville's other works (and also his most challenging.) Recorded back when Pumice was still a two piece, Do Not Destroy is the original noisy, primitive Neville, back when making a shit-load of noise was still the best sort of music to release!"

Artist:	WRIGHT, PETER
Title:	Pariahs Sing Om
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	3CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LVD 089/91CD

Three CD retrospective collecting two complete albums (Pariahs Sing Om, Catch a Spear As It Flies'), significant excerpts from Duna and A Tiny Camp In the Wilderness and various unreleased tracks. None of this material has ever been available outside of small CD-R runs. "The finest in underground free noise / drone...mostly from New Zealand but all around the world as well. For those of you new to the CpsiP label, imagine classic Siltbreeze (Dead C, etc.) mixed with Jewelled Antler (Thuja, Blithe Sons etc.), dark and deep listening that sometimes verges on all out noise, but more often than not remains subtle experiments in avant drone and abstract sound." -- Aquarius Records.

Artist:	MUDBOY
Title:	This Is Folk Music
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 092CD

"Now here's an odd one. Mudboy makes and recreates old circuit bent church organs, customising and retrofitting old keyboards for his own nefarious means. Then he plays rich music that hints at psychedelia and drones on them, mixing in field recordings, noise and complementary sounds, and even the odd drum sound that sounds like he's been let loose on Aphex Twin circa Ambient Works 85-92's drum machine. At times it sounds like a primitive electronica, far abstracted from the hyper-beats of so-called 'IDM,' and reclaimed for the contemplative and wide-eyed explorers and discoverers of new territories and new states of mind."

Artist:	MIMINOKOTO
Title:	Orange Garage
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 093CD

"At this late date, anyone who hasn't yet heard of Miminokoto simply hasn't been paying attention to (or has no interest in) the Japanese psychedelic underground. In all respects a super-group (with ties to LSD-March, White Heaven, Broom Dusters, Aihiyo, Chie Mukai, High Rise, etc.), Miminokoto has quickly earned a name for itself with its restrained, Velvets-influenced sound (as opposed to the all-in-the-red, fuzzed-out approach so common to so many other Japanese psychedelic groups). With most of their releases available only from Japan (at high import prices), Last Visible Dog once again offers a domestic-priced alternative in the form of Orange Garage, a top-notch live release that rivals Miminokoto's studio efforts. Featuring three songs unavailable anywhere else (one over 16 minutes), and revamped 'heavier' versions of some of the band's best numbers, Orange Garage is perhaps Miminokoto's most immediate and well-balanced release to date."

Artist:	SALA-ARHIMO
Title:	Sala-Arhimo
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 094CD

"Islaja (Fonal) side-man and frequent tour-mate with Larkin Grimm (Secret Eye), Sala-Arhimo's debut oozes a slow psychedelic radiance from a half-frozen world of hibernation. A bit of ancient Pink Floyd as reference point, perhaps some of the jazz-like moments of Faust's more gentle side, but here all comparisons end. This is another one of those 'you need to hear it, but there's no way to get it' Finnish geniuses whose music shares much affinity with the Lal lal lal crowd (Kemialliset Ystavat, Avarus, etc.), but focuses less on the purely experimental, and more on rich, melodic drones and voice."

Artist:	RENDERIZORS
Title:	Submarine
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 095CD

"The band came together in 2000, featuring members of The Renderers (Brian and Maryrose Crook) and Sandoz Lab Technicians (Nathan Thompson and James Kirk). Held up for years due to technical faults with the recording of 'Twister,' the band has at last salvaged a classic NZ album as great (or better) than we might expect from the conjunction of these two bands. In sound, it is a heavy atmosphere; ponderous psychedelic country (if you consider The Renderers country), adrift in washes of weird noise improv that somehow fits the songs best. A better soundtrack for Inland Empire than Lynch managed, and perhaps a sister album (at least spiritually) to Bardo Pond's Amanita. And when one thinks there is nowhere left to go after the still beauty of 'Weirder,' the album at last kicks up the tempo, finishing with the terrific rocker 'Slow Motion' (which is not that slow at all). For any who've loved the two bands that have merged here, nevermind the likes of The Terminals, Dadamah, Dissolve/Roy Montgomery, Flies Inside The Sun, Alastair Galbraith, etc., etc. Here's your next purchase."

Artist:	MULLEN, GEOFF
Title:	The Air In Pieces
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 096CD

"This second full-length CD shows Mullen working in much the same way he does live, namely, The Air in Pieces is a completely different side of Mullen than the one we hear on his first CD. Comparisons come in two forms: It is easy to think of the Neil Young that wrote the Dead Man soundtrack, just as it is easy to think of Keiji Haino in pure guitar exploration mode (those darker Fushitsusha moments), but it isn't musicians one thinks of when they listen to The Air in Pieces. Instead come vacant worlds, glaciers and the near frozen ecosystems underneath them, endless skylines and silence save the sound of your own breath. If there is a soundtrack to that perfect, beautiful isolation, Mullen's efforts here seem right on the mark."

Artist:	SWAGGER JACK
Title:	The Feral Blood of Swagger Jack
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 097CD

"Swagger Jack might draw comparison to John Fahey's Blind Joe Death, if only that both characters are completely fictional. Fans should have no problem detecting that this is New Zealand's Antony Milton in full-on songwriting mode (versus his noisier projects such as AM and Nether Dawn.) Self-described hillbilly/bluegrass/folk music, Antony couldn't have been more wrong. This is the sort of brilliant misinterpretation (has Antony every heard hillbilly music?) that almost always results in something truly new and innovative. With most of 'Swagger Jack's' sound still being derived from the lo-fi, downer-pop of New Zealand legends like This Kind of Punishment, The Terminals, Roy Montgomery, Alastair Galbraith and even The Clean, Swagger Jack's veins are filled with the feral blood of the Velvet Underground, Joy Division and Wire (Chair's missing.) How all this becomes synthesized into edgy-folk-like songs about camping is hard to say. A deeply creative and melodic album that makes sense in New Zealand, but may be completely beguiling to all the rest of us."

Artist:	AREA C
Title:	Traffics + Discoveries
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 098CD

"If you picked up Last Visible Dog's recent six-disc Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box, you were treated to a 19-minute exercise in drone poetics, courtesy of Providence, R.I.'s Area C. His track, 'Chain Bridge,' led off the final disc of the set and proved that this relatively new voice in the drone scene was definitely worthy to sit alongside the likes of Ben Reynolds, Ashtray Navigations and My Cat is an Alien. As great as Eric Carlson's contribution was to the compilation, it was just a tease, preparing us for this, his debut full-length. The fact that Traffics + Discoveries was crafted primarily with guitar loops and effects pedals does not mean that you know what to expect from it before you even listen. The sounds that Carlson achieves with this palette are definitely not monochrome -- a broad spectrum of sound washes over you during the entirety of the album. There is never a dull moment, as each track takes on a separate dynamic realm and the songs themselves change shape, eliciting a stimulating listening experience."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Crows of the World Vol. 1
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LVD 099/100CD

"First entry in an on-going 'annual report' style compilation, programmed with the same sensibilities as 2005's Invisible Pyramid compilation by label guru Chris Moon. This entries' line-up includes: Keijo's Free Players, Brad Rose's North Sea, Western Automatic, the Ilya Monosov/Preston Swrinoff duo, Andrea Belfi (previously heard on the Invisible Pyramid comp), Paper Wings (Antony Milton + Anthony Guerra), Northern Cross (new Geoff Mullen + Kris Lapke duo), Brasil & the Gallowbrothers band, Sunken (Pumice + A.M.), Kawaguchi Masami's New Rock Syndicate (Miminokoto) and the never-before-heard Oaxacan. Over 2 hours and 20 minutes of new, exclusive material from the very furthest outside of what is already an outside label."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Somethings #1
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 1003CD

"Third installment for our avant-garde/free-improv/difficult listening series. Compilation of unreleased and new, challenging music assembled by Ilya Monosov. Somethings #1 features Chie Mukai, Sarah Peebles, Masayoshi Urabe, Nick Castro, Preston Swirnoff, Andrew Deutsch/John McPhee and of course Ilya Monosov himself. This collection stresses an ill-defined region between composed music and improvisation, where both elements come into play. Some of the pieces use traditional instrumentation, others use field recordings. Regardless of construction, these are all artists working at the farthest boundary of what is defined (or not yet defined) as music, hence the title of the album."

Artist:	FURSAXA
Title:	Amulet
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 101CD

"Fursaxa has never quite turned out a studio album that reflected the power and awe of her live shows. Instead, fans have had only a series of tour CD-Rs as compensation for this deficiency in her output. Rectifying this problem (at least in part), comes the CD reissue of Amulet along with half of her previous tour CD-R, From the Cult of Moon Mountain. This hour plus selection of live material captures Fursaxa at her very best, and will hopefully make believers of those who haven't yet had a chance to catch her during her tours. Two of the tracks include feature extra fuzz and wah from Bardo Pond's Michael and John Gibbons! This is the Fursaxa that people need to hear, raw and intoxicating; beautiful and perhaps still a little bit dangerous."

Artist:	KEIJO
Title:	For a While
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 102CD

"Keijo hails from Jyväskylä, Finland -- a small town in the north that claims to be the center of the universe. In the sprawling Finnish underground, Keijo is the wise sage who everyone admires. He has worked and collaborated with Finnish acts such as Vapaa, Avarus, and Kheta Hotem, while seeing CD-r releases on the ultra-hip pseudo Arcana and Lal lal lal labels. While using all acoustic sources, For a While is flat out weird. Essentially the structure utilized here is folk, but somewhere way beyond the analogy of Tim Buckley's Lorca dream-structure being used to break down reality subconsciously. It isn't even easy to listen to. Unsettling minimalist guitar riffs drift under sheets of detuned/stretched-out bell samples. No, this isn't the sort of weirdness that grabs you by the collar and shakes you around a bit. This is another, more insidious weirdness that isn't apparent right away, but rather you wake up one morning and realize you weren't the person you were before."

Artist:	FREE PLAYERS, THE
Title:	The Free Players
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 103CD

"The Free Players are a super-group featuring members of Finnish free-jazz pawnpins Vapaa, Kheta Hotem, Kundalini Snakes and the venerable Keijo Virtanen. While previous documents of this band exist, this is apparently the more democratic version (no longer is it 'Keijo and the Free Players'), a shift documented by the more accessible sound here. What we have here is an hour long set of jams that seems more reminiscent of Floyd and the Dead than what we've come to expect from Keijo's previous output. Wild guitar leads and wailing sax (nevermind the space-organ) reveals immediately what cloth this recording has been cut from -- which is to say that The Free Players is a true psychedelic album!"

Artist:	EASTERN FOX SQUIRRELS
Title:	Eastern Fox Squirrels
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 104CD

"Eastern Fox Squirrels is a collaboration between Brad, his wife Eden and Robert Horton. Along the way they are joined by the talents of Tom and Christina Carter (Charalambides), Dan Plonsey (a player in the company of Anthony Braxton and Eugene Chadbourne) and Jason Bill (Charlambides, also recording with Jack Rose.) Sonically, Eastern Fox Squirrels has a varied pallet. Like the Jewelled Antler folks, we have bouzouki, glockenspiels, bowed banjos, weird exotic flutes and who knows what else being used to great effect. The results being very much like what you'd expect; experimental but with soft, round edges and nice, nearly ambient dirges that feel welcome but really aren't normal."

Artist:	BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL
Title:	Curved Surface Destroyer
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	3CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LVD 105/07CD

"Three CD live retrospective covering 1998-2006 and including shows in New Zealand, Japan, Denmark and Scotland. Chronologically organized, the album also shows the evolution of Birchville's sound from the mid '90s slowly emerging drone-fields (and use of found sounds) to the more dynamic sound we have come to know from the more recent releases such as Beautiful Speck Triumph and Chi Vampires. For Campbell Kneale, this release is a 3-hour aural report on the state of things, capturing the full spirit of what he's accomplished over the past 10 years. In doing so, he's assembled the best possible overview of his work under one title, without rehashing any material from previous releases. Thus, what we have here is a 3 disc best-of, featuring all new material! Packaged in a custom vinyl wallet (versus a traditional jewel case)."

Artist:	REYNOLDS, BEN
Title:	Book of Beyond
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 108CD

"Ben Reynolds is one of the newer voices from the same UK scene that includes Ashtray Navigations and many of the VHF celebrities (Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Richard Youngs, etc.) It should be of little surprise then that Book of Beyond fits very nicely among the recordings of those other artists -- noise/junk drone. As in his previous recordings, this at times dissolves into more acoustic offerings, but the Fahey influence appears to be mostly gone, and what remains in the quieter moments is far more bewildering. Time-stretched bells and weird short-wave transmissions, one helluva lot of well used ring-modulator (nice to hear it done well for a change), fumblings on more traditional instrumentation (flute, guitar, etc.) but never coming together to form anything you might call a song. Book of Beyond may truly be well titled, since this is music stretches out beyond his two other recent releases, taking what he's learned from his participation in Ashtray Navigations and focusing more on texture and aural disorientation. This is definitely the kind of uncomfortable music we are proud to release!"

Artist:	IDLE SUITE, THE
Title:	Up Two Sticks Road
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 110CD

"The Idle Suite are a six piece improv-rock group from Wellington, New Zealand. The band members come together from a variety NZ underground acts including Sferic Experiment, MarineVille, The Stumps, Dress, Sandoz Lab Technicians, King Loser, Cloudboy and Bad Statistics. Driven by two drummers, The Idle Suite's music is open-ended improvised rock. At times the band is content to sit on one note, at others burst into dissonance or evolve melodies. Some tracks bear the influence of the band members' background in making 'song' based music. The band's line-up is Greg Cairns (drums), James Kirk (drums), David Hall (guitar, bass), Mark Williams (guitar), Kristen Wineera (keyboards), Johannes Contag (keyboard/sampler) with guests Bevan Smith (guitar), and Andrew Wright (keyboard)."

Artist:	STUMPS, THE
Title:	The Black Wood
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 111CD

"The Stumps are a New Zealand based noise-rock trio made up of members Antony Milton (Pseudoarcana, The Nether Dawn, Mrtyu, etc), James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Black Boned Angel, Gate, etc), and Stephen Clover (Palindrone, seht). Formed in Wellington in 2003, the group is known for its noisy guitar soundscapes and improvisational take on psychedelic rock music. Most often, Clover plays bass, Milton sings and plays electric guitar, and Kirk plays drums, though the group are known to expand their instrumental palette using synthesizers, field recordings, electronics, and guest musicians. With a laundry list of individual accomplishments preceding them, The Stumps bring high expectations. They've been compared to such seminal acts as The Dead C, Guru Guru, Acid Mothers Temple, Fushitusha, Les Rallizes Denudes, Sun Ra and the Velvet Underground, but these Kiwis have their own twist in their psychedelic cosmic explorations. They are robust and powerful; an exciting and often overwhelming listening experience. It'll burn out your eardrums and douse the flames in hot wax. But fear not, within these methodic blasts are moments of icy calm. Underneath all this chaos is a relaxed thread, keeping some semblance of order intact."

Artist:	CIRCLE
Title:	Tower (Featuring Verde)
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 112CD

"It should surprise no one that this is yet another new sound for Circle, and I think one that most of us will happily welcome. Although still bearing the moniker 'New wave of Finnish heavy metal,' this one definitely bares more relationship to In a Silent Way than Aces High. No sign of vocals at all, just chilled-out grooves that still have Prospekt at their core (though perhaps their exterior is more like a heavily-sedated Soft Machine?) The line-up is the current core of Circle + Mika Rintala (Verde) so he is listed here as special guest super-star. Like everyone else, I've scratched my head a bit at all the new directions that Circle has tried in the past 5 years, but here I think they've really hit on something brilliant. I don't know a lot of people who would leap at picking up a new fusion album, but Circle has reinvented it in a way that no one other than Circle could pull off. What do we end up with then? A perfectly accessible album that still pulls off the insatiable/addictive pulse of Prospekt."

Artist:	AREA C
Title:	Haunt
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 113CD

"Haunt is a swirl of Farfisa organs, loops, stretched-out guitar, and the fragmented, fractured beats of an analog drum machine and tube amplifier static. The album was recorded by Erik Carlson & Jeff Knoch late 2005. What began as a plan to record a dual-Farfisa album (both Erik & Jeff are Farfisa aficionados) quickly and organically turned into much more. The two musicians convened and over the course of two brief sessions, spun out a sequence of songs whose repetitions and details hold much more than the surfaces first reveal. These spontaneous compositions emerged fully formed with barely a pause to switch tape, the only addition being a similarly inspired track recorded live on a radio performance in early 2006. The title, Haunt, refers to frequented places or states of mind, places we return to again and again, sometimes obsessively, sometimes in a somnambulistic trance. These are not ghost stories, but we can't deny the unexplained other's spectral presence (as in so many of AREA C's compositions). The title was originally inspired by a book of the same name by poet Keith Waldrop. Remnants of other times and places, outdated technologies, signals sent out but never received -- this is the bed over which Erik & Jeff layered their revolving organ lines and pulses. The results are mesmerizing."

Artist:	RST
Title:	Axes
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 114CD

"While clearly responding to the same imperatives as the nearly-contemporary Surface of the Earth, his sound effectively came out of nowhere. Indeed, at that point, one of the few things I'd heard operating in the same area was Earth itself. While now the plague of black metallers and second-rate 'drone-istas' have made this seem like a starting-point obvious to the point of being passé, 12 years ago that was far from true. So it's easy now to listen to the new rst album, his third in the last decade after releases on Ecstatic Peace! and Corpus Hermeticum, and think 'I've heard that before.' But in fact, all you've heard is everyone who copped this shit from the originators. This immaculate blend of scrubbed and polished metallic tones, layered and sculpted like automotive bodywork of the first order, is in fact the real deal. rst had this first, and remains best at doing it, because he's kept his head down, kept off bad drugs, and continued to refine his work in relative obscurity -- not caring whether or not you know about it. It's hard not to lose yourself in this because for me it sounds like the operation of the cosmos, amplified to audibility. This is electric guitar sound with all the extraneous 'music' stripped out. Electricity in action: natural like electro-magnetism, and devotional like the wind from the sun." --Bruce Russell

Artist:	VAPAA
Title:	Hum Hum Hum
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 115CD

"Vapaa is a loose collective of musicians but this recording represents the basic 'core' group; Joel Kivela, Tiitus Petajaniemi, Keijo Virtanen and Jari-Pekka Koho. We met in Jyvaskyla, Finland in year 2003-2004 and after that we have made many records to different labels and played live shows around Finland and one tour in Europe as Keijo and the Free Players. Organic, drifting psychedelic improv without much in the way of modern equivalents. Easily compared to a few Krautrock favorites (early Amon Duul 2 and a very quiet Ash Ra Tempel) -- but in general a bit more relaxed (perhaps a little International Harvester?) For those well versed in the LVD sound, this is fairly definitive."

Artist:	TERMINALS, THE
Title:	Last Days of the Sun
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 116CD

"Last Days of the Sun is the fifth album by long-running New Zealand avant-garage kings The Terminals. Bruce Russell has often described them as 'New Zealand's best rock band bar none,' and these days they often get called 'legendary' and while that may have as much to do with the fact they are in their twenty-first year they continue have a big reputation for the intensity of their live performances. Last Days of the Sun is their first release since the 1997 Terminals Live CD on Medication and the 1996 7" single 'Medusa' on Chicago label Roofbolt. It combines driving garage-rock and swirling guitar/organ interplay with dark, brooding, melodramas and quietly haunting ballads. There are twelve songs of love and anxiety, with The Terminals' characteristic ebb and flow dynamics and Cogle's unearthly tenor soaring right over the top."

Artist:	EYES LIKE SAUCERS
Title:	Still Living In The Desert (And Mostly Inside My Own Head)
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 117CD

"Eyes Like Saucers is the solo project of Jeffrey K., formerly the Farfisa organist for Secret Eye recording artists urDog. Eyes Like Saucers explores the darker, more organic regions of inner space via a slightly modified Indian pedal harmonium, effected voice, percussion and electronics. Drawing inspiration from such artists as Nico, Robert Wyatt, Popol Vuh, Current 93, and early 20th century German poet, Georg Trakl, Eyes Like Saucers channels the incessant and labored breathing of the ancient harmonium to evoke a mood that is bleak and doom-laden, while reaching for the sublime. The title Still Living In The Desert (And Mostly Inside My Own Head) is derived from a late journal entry of Nico's. Jeffrey spent most of the year 2006 living within a Volkswagen van in the northern Arizona desert, with his dog, his harmonium, and a 4-track cassette recorder, and much of the material on Still Living... he recorded during this period. The music often betrays a childlike simplicity -- as though the artist were completely unaware of what he was doing; yet a close, critical examination will reveal that certain patterns and structures do emerge, and perhaps even more. There is undoubtably a cohesiveness, a logic, and, for want of a better term, an underlying -- and unstated and inextricable -- 'numinosity.'"

Artist:	WHITE, JOHN
Title:	Mogwash
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 118CD

"Originally from Dunedin, New Zealand, John White plays in Mëstar, The Zoo Polluters and Sunsets On Acid. In the last few years John has been involved in several cultural exchanges, including an extensive European tour with avant noise pop Cloudboy, providing live soundtracks to archival New Zealand footage. Last year John traveled to South Korea with Wellington noise band Amalgam to perform a special performance in a Buddhist monastery. The new LVD release of Mogwash is a compilation of the two dream-pop folk albums Balloon Adventure (2000), a one-day spark in reaction to months of arduous Mëstar recording, and Mogwash (2003) which was recorded in Berlin with

Artist:	TIVOL
Title:	Interstellar Overbike
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 079CD