Browse by Label: LOCUST

Artist:	MIGONE, CHRISTOF
Title:	Crackers
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 001CD

"In 1997, electronic sound installation artist Christof Migone enlisted the bodily aid of a group of Canadians through classified ads and over the radio for a cracking session and interview at Ottawa's Gallery 101. A what, you ask? Part ambient sound investigation and part wacked out art science project, Crackers is a 7 track collection of unadulterated recordings and clever digital remixes of the sounds of cracking knuckles, knees, wrists, jaws, toes, ankles, backs, necks, elbows, and hips. The percolating, popping polyrhythms are at once amusingly bubbly and oddly trance inducing. Cheaper than a trip to the chiropractor and far more entertaining. Crackers was first presented as an installation in a group show curated by Emmanuel Madan entitled 'Incredibly Soft Sounds' at Gallery 101, in January 1998 (originally documented in an exhibition catalog and limited cd-r). Documentation of Crackers was also featured in Site Of Sound: Of Architecture And The Ear, a book with CD edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 1999) and presented the following year as a solo installation curated by Michael J. Schumacher and Ursula Scherrer at Studio 5 Beekman in New York City, January 2000."

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	C Tune
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 003CD

2008 repress, originally released 2002. "Henry Flynt is a seasoned tourist of The World Of The Other Ear and C Tune is his ringing, psychedelic meditation on/from the cosmos. Call it a sonic postcard or call it late night head music or even call it ecstatic minimalism if you have to. On this forty seven plus minute foray, our man Flynt takes his electrified fiddle and blends his droning sonic calisthenics with lonesome swing melodies and high decibel screech to the somnambulistic playing of his expat mathematician pal Mr/Mrs. C.C. Hennix on Pran Nath Tamboura. Recorded in 1980 in an undisclosed pocket of the galaxy and now available for blissful consumption."

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	Raga Electric
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 006CD

"In the early '60s, fresh from his clean behind the ears years at Harvard, Henry was undergoing rapid ideological shifts: cavorting with Maciunas and the whole Fluxus bit, doing performances at Yoko Ono's loft and recording with La Monte Young; having it out with his Stalinist cohorts over the relative merits of a good blues run and searching for a new musical language outside of the various generic artistic restrictions before him at the time. What he arrived at was an expressive practice he dubbed audact (auditory acognitive cultural activity) and that is what you will hear on this collection. Collecting key material from 1963 to 1971, Raga Electric is a 7 piece distillation of some of Henry's most adventurous, audactatious, outsider musical endeavors. The record begins with, of all things, a hybrid, off the wall treatment of the traditional supranationalist anthem The Marine's Hymn sung in a thick tongued, fully untudored Hindustani vocalese to brilliantly sun drenched, lightly strummed acoustic guitar accompaniment. The title cut, 'Raga Electric', is a twisted, howling fake hindustani rag with staccato untuned guitar and bleating screams recorded at his home just a few short hours after catching Pandit Pran Nath at a downtown morning concert. The howling orgasmic yodel of a visionary's self-posession and certain surrender on this 1966 cut puts Henry somewhere at the epicenter of the folk isolationist world of Jandek and the ethnodislocation of the Sun City Girls, to name but a few. The side long closer, 'Free Alto', is a monstrous exploration of the ins and outs of the tenor saxophone which, upon hearing it, Terry Riley referred to as 'a very articulated musical program'. Though it remains Henry's single meeting with the instrument, over the course of some 13 odd minutes, he finds out everything he needs to know about the horn and gets into some pretty hairy free squelch and squeal territory in the process. 'I was just pulling sounds out of a hat and just stringing them together,' he recently told me. As hats go, this one should fit the heads of today's listeners just fine." -- Dawson Prater

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	Raga Electric
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 006LP

Limited edition 180 gram vinyl version with glossy insert. "In the early '60s, fresh from his clean behind the ears years at Harvard, Henry was undergoing rapid ideological shifts: cavorting with Maciunas and the whole Fluxus bit, doing performances at Yoko Ono's loft and recording with La Monte Young; having it out with his Stalinist cohorts over the relative merits of a good blues run and searching for a new musical language outside of the various generic artistic restrictions before him at the time. What he arrived at was an expressive practice he dubbed audact (auditory acognitive cultural activity) and that is what you will hear on this collection. Collecting key material from 1963 to 1971, Raga Electric is a 7 piece distillation of some of Henry's most adventurous, audactatious, outsider musical endeavors. The record begins with, of all things, a hybrid, off the wall treatment of the traditional supranationalist anthem The Marine's Hymn sung in a thick tongued, fully untudored Hindustani vocalese to brilliantly sun drenched, lightly strummed acoustic guitar accompaniment. The title cut, 'Raga Electric', is a twisted, howling fake hindustani rag with staccato untuned guitar and bleating screams recorded at his home just a few short hours after catching Pandit Pran Nath at a downtown morning concert. The howling orgasmic yodel of a visionary's self-posession and certain surrender on this 1966 cut puts Henry somewhere at the epicenter of the folk isolationist world of Jandek and the ethnodislocation of the Sun City Girls, to name but a few. The side long closer, 'Free Alto,' is a monstrous exploration of the ins and outs of the tenor saxophone which, upon hearing it, Terry Riley referred to as 'a very articulated musical program.' Though it remains Henry's single meeting with the instrument, over the course of some 13 odd minutes, he finds out everything he needs to know about the horn and gets into some pretty hairy free squelch and squeal territory in the process. 'I was just pulling sounds out of a hat and just stringing them together,' he recently told me. As hats go, this one should fit the heads of today's listeners just fine." -- Dawson Prater

Artist:	ON FILLMORE
Title:	On Fillmore
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 007CD

"The duo of On Fillmore is a rhythm section's revenge. After years spent in the coach house while bandmates bathed in caviar and showered in fine wines up the proverbial hill in the proverbial mansion, Darin Gray (Dazzling Killmen, Brise Glace, You Fantastic, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Will Oldham, Hoffman Estates) and Glenn Kotche (Wilco, Jim O'Rourke Band) concocted a lovingly brewed collection of spacious and glacial instrumentals that combine the irresistible power of raw improvised jazz grooves and pared down jam rock with emergent spooky and melodious lullaby suites. The result is a finely crafted collection of sonic architectonics between bassist Gray and percussionist Kotche that reflects a most deep understanding of Space, when to fill it out and when to file it down."

Artist:	KOTCHE, GLENN
Title:	Introducing
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 008CD

"As a member of Wilco, the Jim O'Rourke Band and On Fillmore and frequent soundtrack contributor (most recently co-scoring Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls with Jeff Tweedy), 31 year old native Chicagoan Glenn Kotche has come into prominence as one of the leading high demand percussionists on today's musical horizon as both a stabilizing rhythmic force and a sound explorer with a sense of wide eyed adventurousness and creative zeal. On Introducing, Kotche explores the concept and boundaries of rhythmic patterns in their broadest sense and transforms them into a subtle, deeply melodic aural lozenge that feels so good on the ears you can almost taste, touch, feel and see it. Over the course of four tracks, Kotche effortlessly blends microscopic particles of sound with warm, lush musical arrangements and seamlessly shifting rhythmic variations into a cinematic tour-de-force that brings to mind RZA's Ghost Dog soundtrack, mid-60s Steve Reich and Fennesz's Endless Summer. Derived solely from traditional and salvaged percussion, Introducing is the crowning achievement of 6 years of independent studio recording, electronic tweaking and obsessive mixing, matching and welding of sound patterns and rhythms a la the ingenious back room chemistry of a Smile era Brian Wilson."

Artist:	LIGHTBOX ORCHESTRA, THE
Title:	First Contact!
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 009CD

"First Contact! brings together highlights from nearly half a decade of recordings by an extended and ever changing superstar lineup of Chicago jazz, punk and rock musicians under the tutelage of cellist/ leader Fred Lonberg-Holm. What you'll hear on this disc is an uproarious gathering of sonic jouissance featuring composer, songsmith and producer Jim O'Rourke, laptop guitar cum electronics-whiz Kevin Drumm, Jeb Bishop, Guillermo Gregorio, members of Town and Country, Pillow, TV Pow, and dozens of other bright lights from this city's creative gene pool on acoustic instruments, homemade sound concoctions and blistering digital and analog electronics as they explore elements of sonic growl, guttural hornspeak, and wistfully spaced out playing. But this isn't just some dandy's hoity toity conceptual affair. Counterpoised somewhere between video game warfare and an explosive Arkestral moog freakout from many a Sun Ra episode, this superb collection begins surely enough teetering on the edge of a sonic collision that sets the pace for a grand, adventurous listening experience that just as easily blends the pointillism and angular attack of classic European free music with the raw, blissful emotional group flow of mid-1970s Henry Threadgill."

Artist:	JACOBS' VORTEX, HENRY
Title:	Electronic Kabuki Mambo: Highlights From The Legendary Vorte
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 011CD

"Electronic Kabuki Mambo is a stupefying pre-psychedelic vintage 50s affair featuring a tapestry of then local musical talents (One Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David Talcott, and William Loughborough). Prepare yourself for a liberation of your senses. Prepare for an irresistible taste of the 50s in all of it's sonic sci-fi glory because this caravan of sound is where head music really began! Think Taj Mahal Travelers meets Harry Partch in an echo chamber. Think?Think? It's difficult to believe but for a period in 1955, Henry Jacobs, the grandmaster of left coast Zen Surrealism (known to some for his radio art innovations, his many recordings of Lenny Bruce, satirical forays as Shorty Petterstein, a fringe personality with the beat poets and a dear collaborator with Buddhist icon Alan Watts) and coveted experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson convinced San Francisco's fledgling Morrison Planetarium to allow the duo to put on the Vortex Experiments -- a quadraphonic sound and vision show premiering strange audio collages of works by famed composers Takemitsu, Stockhausen, Berio and countless ethnic field recordings with weird, tripped out oscilloscope flicks, excerpts from Belson's classic Allures, and other kaleidoscopic visuals to a regularly sold out, packed crowd of local residents interested in seeing what this new and crazy sensory experience was all about. Electronic Kabuki Mambo presents the first digital reissue of the original 1959 Folkways in its entirety. Fully remastered. Features new liner notes and never before published photos and other ephemera."

Artist:	GINSBERG, ALLEN
Title:	New York Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 012CD

"Here it is! This is the defining document of the beat legend Allen Ginsberg and celebrated lower east side shaman, odd ball filmmaker and songcatcher Harry Smith. New York Blues: The Harry Smith Recordings brings together vintage 1970s tunes by Allen Ginsberg and his trusty harmonium. Such favorites as CIA Dope Calypso, Dope Fiend Blues, Come Back Christmas and 5 other enjoyable ditties are intimately captured by Smith in his Chelsea Hotel haunt. New York Blues is as much a commemoration of a lifelong kinship between the two free spirits as it is a rare chance to get a truly whimsical earful of Ginsberg doing his thing. Digitally remastered from the original Folkways tapes."

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 014CD

"Here we find ourselves hot on the skidmarks of Henry's brawl with sonic self invention documented on last summer's splendid Raga Electric with two complementary volumes emerging from the same physical time but a very different head space continuum indeed. On BPHB Volume 2, avant-hillbilly master fiddler Henry Flynt scuffles through a most peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches circa early to mid 1960s. From the enviable opening 'echo rock', in which Flynt does his best to compete with the electro-echo buzz of a Jorgen Ingmann or Link Wray to the beauteous instrumental glow of the extended modal country jam of 'Jamboree', Flynt proves once again that his is not a music simply rooted in the taut belt of New York isms, schisms and jisms. This is music that howls from a unique voice whose love for the folk songbook (known and imagined) is as resonant as a cowbell and as deep as a freshwater well."

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 014LP

180 gram vinyl. Issued on CD in 2002, now on vinyl. "Here we find ourselves hot on the skidmarks of Henry's brawl with sonic self invention documented on last summer's splendid Raga Electric with two complementary volumes emerging from the same physical time but a very different head space continuum indeed. On BPHB Volume 2, avant-hillbilly master fiddler Henry Flynt scuffles through a most peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches circa early to mid 1960s. From the enviable opening 'echo rock', in which Flynt does his best to compete with the electroecho buzz of a Jorgen Ingmann or Link Wray to the beauteous instrumental glow of the extended modal country jam of 'Jamboree,' Flynt proves once again that his is not a music simply rooted in the taut belt of New York-isms, schisms and jisms. This is music that howls from a unique voice whose love for the folk songbook (known and imagined) is as resonant as a cowbell and as deep as a freshwater well."

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 016CD

"Like a hidden relic from the far side of the Harry Smith catalog, these early 1960s recordings are a splendid collection of High lonesome hillbilly fiddle and ukulele instrumentals that are surely Henry Flynt's most articulated statements to date of his honest to god, true to life affinity and love for that dry earth choogaloo upper mountain lower boogaloo foot stomping folk music. Standouts include the acid fried 13th Floor Elevators-ish 'Sky Turned Red' and the 15 plus minute lazy zen epic hum and strum album closer, 'Blue Sky, Highway and Tyme'. No doubt, this is Appalachian bruit driving music bar none."

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 016LP

180 gram vinyl. "Like a hidden relic from the far side of the Harry Smith catalog, these early 1960s recordings are a splendid collection of high lonesome hillbilly fiddle and ukulele instrumentals that are surely Henry Flynt's most articulated statements to date of his honest-to-god, true-to-life affinity and love for that dry earth choogaloo upper mountain lower boogaloo foot stomping folk music. Standouts include the acid fried 13th Floor Elevators-ish 'Sky Turned Red' and the 15-plus minute lazy zen epic hum and strum album closer, 'Blue Sky, Highway and Tyme.' No doubt, this is Appalachian bruit driving music bar none."

Artist:	JACOBS, HENRY
Title:	Radio Programme No.1: Henry Jacobs' Music And Folklore
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 018CD

"Locust Music continues its foray into the many sided head of Henry Jacobs with the re-release of his coveted 1955 Folkways debut. Culled from hours and hours of bits from his weekly radio program 'Music & Folklore' which originally aired on Berkeley's once revolutionary KPFA radio station, Radio Programme No. 1: Henry Jacobs' Music & Folklore is a stunningly surreal sonic goulash of brilliantly conceived, tight rhythmic loops & tape collages, ethnic and experimental musics, twisted satirical interviews with Shorty Petterstein (Henry's beat hipster alter ego), phony academic authorities (the muttering Jocko on Raga and politics, imagined Hebrew scholar Sholem Stein waxing bogus on the subject of calypso!) to Berkeley field recordings of Kay Dunham (nephew of the legendary Katherine Dunham) and friends getting lost in an informal drumming session. This is, no doubt, an essential document in the annals of early American oddball recordings."

Artist:	WHITMAN, KEITH FULLERTON
Title:	Dartmouth Street Underpass
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 019CD

"With the release of Dartmouth Street Underpass, Keith Fullerton Whitman (AKA Hrvatski) inaugurates the first of 12 monthly installments in our new Location Sound Series, 'Met Life', in which we asked a number of musicians from all over the world to field record an event in a city of their choice and devise a response to it (both source recording and response comprise the two tracks on the CD). For his efforts, Whitman sat in on the acoustic world of the tunnel that connects Boston's back bay station to the Copley Plaza under Dartmouth street. The sounds are a combination of pumped in Muzak, children's voices bouncing off the glass walls, the sudden rush of commuters, and the glorious, rumbling low end buzz and rattle of the train ushering in and out of the station. Whitman electronically processed elements of the field recording and devised a brilliantly conceived thing of beauty that slowly and effortlessly unravels into an entrancing long form drone."

Artist:	AU
Title:	Recycling
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 022CD

"Part of the Location Sound Series devoted to city sounds and reactions, we're happy to present the first stateside release by the psychedelic electronic duo, AU. Based in Holland, multimedia artists Jan Borchers and Paul Klaui, naturally bring us into the soundworld of the Haag by doing what most everybody there does -- they ride their bikes. The twist in the spoke is that AU recorded their tour through the city and captured everything from the squeaky sound of old bicycle seats to a sudden intrusion on a street parade. The result is a fun panoramic earshot of the pace of the city's life. AU's musical response is a subdued yet loose piece incorporating elements of the field recording, analogue electronics and reverberating guitars that recall the efforts of German Krautrock bands like Cluster or a mellowed out Faust."

Artist:	DORNER AND FRED LONBERG-HOLM, AXLE
Title:	Object 1
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 023CD

"The Object series is Locust Music's shot at documenting worldwide currents in creative improvisation and composition but as you may expect by now, we're doing it with a twist. For each release in this ongoing series, we've worked with the musicians to arrive at audio-visual ties between sounds and objects that may indicate a visual tie to the music. In this case, a bowling ball and a Brill-o pad grace the cover. Object 1 teams together trumpeter Axel Dorner, an internationally celebrated German instrumentalist of prodigious technique and deep sensitivity, with one of the hardest working musicians and organizers in Chicago, Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm (The Brotzmann Tentet, The Lightbox Orchestra). Together they produce a series of 5 remarkable pieces that brew and percolate into a deeply tactical tableau of raw yet calculated /creative sound."

Artist:	EKG
Title:	Object 2
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 024CD

"Volume two of our splendid Object Series. EKG is the Chicago based duo of sound artist and musician Ernst Karel on trumpet and analogue electronics and classically trained musician Kyle Bruckman on english horn, Chinese suona, raita and analogue electronics. On Object 2, prepare yourself for a remarkable miasma of extended, swelling sound meditations that at once soar an emotive, elevated plane while still tracing the coarse contours of sudden eruptive pulses and rumbling electrical sound signals. Stunning."

Artist:	REYNOLS
Title:	Rampotanza Ronil Rempelente
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 028CD

"The primordial psychedelic sounds of Argentina's Reynols continue the Met Life Series with the raw, rhythmically entrancing field recordings of city workers in Buenos Aires drilling a hole into a busy city street. The natural response by this mysterious quartet doesn't drill so much as gleefully massage the head with a monumental freakout of onomatopoeia and uber-intonation commandeered by the band's lead vocalist Miguel Tomasin with the accompaniment of some seriously spaced-out delay driven tribal percussion, bellowing horn, piano plod and guitar plunder."

Artist:	HELVACIOGLU, ERDEM
Title:	A Walk Through The Bazaar
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 029CD

"Helvacioglu is a tremendous electronic music talent based in Istanbul, Turkey whose contribution to the 'Met Life' series captures the energetic day to day activities of an Istanbul market where one can hear the sounds of hawkers buying and selling things, children running about, traditional music in the distance and get a feeling for the texture of the place. His response is almost like an enriched memory of that place that musically retains much of that raw earth feeling one initially encounters. By incorporating field recorded voices into harmonically rich choruses, he elevates the source material into a highly rhythmic, infectiously danceable tune that seems to soar above the very marketplace. It's reminiscent of Holger Czukay's (of Can fame) shortwave radio experiments."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Wooden Guitar
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 033CD

2008 repress, originally released in 2003. "A simple title with a simple concept. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica & a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germany's Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattle's Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japan's Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginia's Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Wooden Guitar
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 033LP

Limited 180 gram vinyl version. "Fall 2008 marks the 5th anniversary of Locust's inaugural Wooden Guitar compilation touted then, as today, as a simple title with a simple concept. Back in print on CD and available on double 180 gram vinyl for the first time. First vinyl edition housed in screenprinted jackets much like the original compilation's first CD release. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern delta-delica and a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germany's Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattle's Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japan's Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginia's Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions."

Artist:	DELAURENTI, CHRIS
Title:	The Night I Met Maria C.
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 034CD

"Locust's fifth installment of their adventurous 'Met Life' series of city field recordings and responses brings us a tongue firmly in cheek offering from the rapid cut up techniques of Seattle's Chris Delaurenti. Simply put, it's a little exercise on waste and getting wasted. This field recording documents the removal of waste at a transfer station in Seattle and the response rides the pun to its excessive extreme as DeLaurenti quickly becomes a participant in the flailing and drunken fanfare at a party, raising the ever important question 'What on earth are we all doing!' No doubt, it's this style, edgy humor and raw guerrilla techniques that make DeLaurenti a sort of Fellini of the audio underworld."

Artist:	NO.9
Title:	Where Come From? And Where To?
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	LOCUST 035CD

"No.9 (Joe Takayuki) is an unsung electropop mastermind from Tokyo's invigorating onkyo scene whose knack for melodious electronic pop, jazz grooves and varied rhythms owes as much to the cinedelic scores of Umiliani and TV spy jazz as it does to the simple, meditative sounds of nature transformed. Where Come From? And Where To? features the aforementioned cut off of his forthcoming disc, Mushi no-n, and two generous remixes: Hrvatski locks No.9 into a galactic rub and dub mix of typically high quality tom foolery and Chicago producer/musician Bundy K. Brown (Directions in Music, Pullman) gives Where come From? his usually high caliber surgical treatment." 18 minute EP.

Artist:	DOCKSTADER, TOD
Title:	8 Electronic Pieces
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 036CD

Reissue of a 1961 Folkways electronic music album. "Tod Dockstader assembled this terrifically unique and fresh collection of synthetic analog sound for release back in 1961. Dormant and nearly forgotten for some 40 years, Locust brings this gem back into print for another go around you won't want to miss out on. Dockstader has been characterized by many as a true antecedent to the techno and ambient electro scenes popularized by the likes of Aphex Twin, a visionary figure who the Washington Post has called One of the Giants in his Field. This brand new re-edition features original notes, newly remastered sound and new liner notes by Jason Ankeny with present-day reflections by Dockstader himself."

Artist:	ROBB, J.D.
Title:	Rhythmania: Electronic Music From Razor Blades To Moog
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 037CD

Reissue of a 1970 Folkways electronic music album. "Not many people walk away from a successful international law career to devote their time to making electronic music at the ripe age of 49 years. John Donald Robb did just that when he set up shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941 and dove head first into a career as a composer, ethno-musicologist and an early electronic music noodler whose bizarre and singular electronic music recordings are short on same old same old and long on quirky, beat audacity. This exciting collection combines the choicest cuts off of his two off beat Folkways records into one great package of out there Moog music."

Artist:	FLYNT & THE INSURRECTIONS, HENRY
Title:	I Don't Wanna
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 039CD

2006 repress. "Our man Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short lived basement rock protest band, The Insurrections, from 1966. Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind: Flynt's version of protest music isn't your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. It's aggro and Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium induced vox and the electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed). Imagine a mix of Sky Saxon (of Seeds fame) with a dash of Roky Erickson thrown in on vocals, a little bit of the Cramps' scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage Pussy Galore and you get an idea what Flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. Features legendary sculptor Walter De Maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist there's a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. Photos by George Maciunas."

Artist:	FLYNT & THE INSURRECTIONS, HENRY
Title:	I Don't Wanna
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 039LP

180 gram vinyl. "Our man Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short-lived basement rock protest band, The Insurrections, from 1966. Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind: Flynt's version of protest music isn't your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. It's aggro and Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium-induced vox and the electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed). Imagine a mix of Sky Saxon (of Seeds fame) with a dash of Roky Erickson thrown in on vocals, a little bit of the Cramps' scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage Pussy Galore and you get an idea what Flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. Features legendary sculptor Walter De Maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist there's a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. Photos by George Maciunas."

Artist:	DRAGONS 1976
Title:	On Cortez
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 040CD

"Dragons 1976 is the Chicago Horn-Bass-Drum trio of Aram Shelton. Jason Ajemian & Tim Daisy. Cool, steady and swinging, On Cortez is a perfect tonic for the modern jazz lover in search of a shady retreat from the hot coals of fiery free jazz. These boys make a catchy, flavorful music -- let's call it noir jazz. Dragons 1976 turn more corners with their brand of infectiously tight grooves and cinematic twists than a Screen Gems tornado roaring through the heart of downtown Los Angeles."

Artist:	GAMELAN SON OF LION
Title:	The Complete Gamelan in the New World
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 041/42CD

"This is the first proper re-release of two legendary recordings by the innovative Gamelan Son of Lion. This New York performance group has counted as its founding members Fluxus pioneer Phillip Corner, electronics composer Daniel Goode (Tzadik), and core member Barbara Benary. Equally inspired by the resonant decaying sounds of New York school composers like Morton Feldman, the stunning pacific gamelan music of its namesake & the wild antics of Fluxus, their sound is trancelike and beautifully inspiring collection. Brought back into print for the first time in over 20 years, this fully remastered features new liner notes by Author Marcus Boon."

Artist:	ESPERS
Title:	Espers
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 044CD

"Espers are a boy/girl/girl trio from Philly featuring singer/songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons who combine the elemental sound of acid-folk with the baroque arrangements of late 60s chamber rock. Fully versed in the sumptuous vernacular of drug music, the cradle of Appalachian song, and the succinct truths of the three-minute pop ballad, their full length debut is an irresistible collection of sweet and subtle songs essential for fans of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Jackson C. Franck, Bread, Love & Dreams and Bert Jansch. Espers are the sound of the New Weird America the way it should be heard -- with the ease, infectious grace and absolute beauty of an ever expansive trio bound for ever greater pastures."

Artist:	NO.9
Title:	Mushi-No-Ne
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 045CD

"No.9 is Joe Takayuki, an unsung electropop mastermind from Tokyo's invigorating Onkyo scene. No.9's sound is focused but there's no doubt that he has a knack for combining all 31 musical flavors and then some. Right from the opening track, 'Gate', with it's chase scene thematics and stuttering rhythms, it's hard not to get pulled into a Rollercoaster that's a wily, playful joyride rife with the wistful mod 60s pop hooks ('Where come from?', 'Alternate'), a tv spy jazz vibe ('survive'), an occasionally somber feel propped up by chill natural field recordings of insects ('bug beats', 'Eco Ego'), minimal techno ('Insatiable World') and a perfect blend of flamenco style acoustic guitar playing and electronics ('For Sister')."

Artist:	CYANN AND BEN
Title:	Spring
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 046CD

"The Parisian quartet, Cyann & Ben, recorded their extraordinary debut, Spring, in an isolated country house in 2002. The pastoral retreat made a perfect backdrop for Cyann's delicate, breathy female vocals and the band's organic, analogue sound. The result is a dense and lovely and often intense musical landscape that owes its sound in equal measure to epic catharsis of groups like Sigur Ros, the folk flavors of Robert Wyatt & the Canterbury folk-rock scene as it does to the exceptionally concentrated psych soundscapes of early 70s Pink Floyd."

Artist:	BEN-ISRAEL, DANNY
Title:	The Kathmandu Sessions
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 047CD

"To a small circle of psychedelic music fans, the re-discovery of native Israeli, Danny Ben- Israel's sole, privately released album, Chantarish 3, a few years ago was nothing short of a revelation. Despite having been sung in his native Hebrew, there was no getting away from the blissfully fuzzed out guitars and a voice that belted out resistant words like some mad cantorial singer. Now, after 35 years, Danny Ben Israel's much talked about Katmandu Sessions produced for a Western audience and recorded in Tel Aviv and Austria between globetrotting stints around Europe finally sees the light of day. The seven tracks that make up the Kathmandu Sessions are nothing short if not completely over the top -- both of its time and prophetic (take the line, for instance, 'the hippies of today are the assholes of tomorrow'). Every tune is delivered with that rare combination of wisdom and wonder, sung in a joyous English that brings together Tim Buckley's melancholic operatics with the lunatic vocal escapades of Mick Farren (of Deviants fame) making this easily one of the true revelations for the 21st century."

Artist:	WATTS AND FRIENDS, ALAN
Title:	This is It
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 048CD

"A psychedelic holy grail re-issued. This is It -- originally cut in 1962, is regarded by many of the who's who of psych fanatics as the first aural document of psychedelia. It is a plundering, blistering, free form freakout of totally unselfconscious group sonic exploration. What's more: it's a great, great album that stands the test of time. Legendary Zen guru Alan Watts led a cadre of musicians and non-musicians alike through communal chant, primitive choogle and raw American tribalism that features many of the same Bay Area Heads that appeared earlier on Locust's Electronic Kabuki Mambo -- the inimitable satirist and collage whiz Henry Jacobs, genius percussionist William Loughborough (early performer with Chet Baker/Harry Partch) among many others. This is where the so-called 'Weird America' begins and if you don't find yourself with that rare facial twitch of awe, befuddlement and unbridled glee, then surely you need your head checked."

Artist:	WATTS, ALAN
Title:	Zen and Senryu
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 049CD

"During his lifetime, Alan Watts (1915-1973) became, and remains, one of the most beloved interpreters of Eastern thought. For more than forty years, Alan Watts introduced the Western world to the full range of eastern philosophies and arts all filtered through his buoyant personality and charm. His life and work reflect an astonishing adventure. There remain few treats as wonderful and lively as this, one of three records originally put out on the Sausalito based MEA label. Haiku and its companion release, Zen and Senryu, hold the truly unique position of documenting a poetic form (Haiku) or philosophy (Zen) and Satire (Senryu) through both lecture and stunning performance. Both discs feature the instantaneous Japanese translations by Sumire Hasegawa Jacobs to the spare musical accompaniment of Vince Delgado, Robert Garfias and Henry Jacobs. This brilliant tension between Alan Watts' self assured delivery and Sumire's urgent cries, makes both Haiku and Zen and Senryu two of the most essential documents for admirerers of Watts' rich personality, eastern thought, and the heavy ways of 1960s counterculture."

Artist:	WATTS, ALAN
Title:	Haiku
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 050CD

Artist:	BORN HELLER
Title:	Born Heller
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 051CD

Josephine Foster: (harp, mandolin, guitar); Jason Ajemian: (stand up bass). Born Heller are the earthen folk duo of Josephine Foster (Children's Hour) & Jason Ajemian and one of the better kept secrets to emerge out of Chicago's clandestine campfires and music dens. Their sound captures an Appalachian- transatlantic folk tradition so effortlessly that if it didn't already exist, they would have had to invent it themselves. Foster's spine tingling vocal delivery has been rightly compared to the likes of British folk legend and current hipster fave, Shirley Collins. On their debut, that voice is finally given full justice by the spare rhythmic arrangements of Ajemian on strings. Recorded by Paul Oldham in Louisville Kentucky."

Artist:	ESTRIBOU & JEAN-PAUL PICKENS, GENE
Title:	Intensifications
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 052CD

"By no means household names, both Jean Paul-Pickens & Gene Estribou levitated around the Bay Area scene and each made a subtle mark along the way: Pickens was one of San Francisco's legendary 'Diggers' and a knockout banjoist with poet David Meltzer's folk rock outfit Serpent Power. Gene Estribou famously recorded the Grateful Dead's second studio sessions & released their first 45 single in 1965. Footnotes? Sure. But that should only make the discovery of this lost gem all the more tantalizing. Cut in the mid-1960s, Intensifications is an obscure and illuminating slice of Marin county raga folk, a taste of latter day deltadelica that's a must for fans of the acid folk sound old and new. Together, Estribou and Pickens each cut a side of brilliant, meandering unaccompanied instrumentals: Estribou on acoustic guitar and Pickens on banjo. This single document has only ripened with age and should make it clear to anyone who ventures to give it a listen that both Estribou & Pickens deserve their place in the inner sanctum of charismatic acoustic guitar legends. Originally released on Henry Jacobs' MEA label."

Artist:	MATMOS
Title:	Rat Relocation Program
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 054CD

"A street rat was breaking into our apartment, eating our food and chewing holes in our clothes, skittering across our kitchen in the dark, scuttling inside our walls late at night. Since we already had a pet rat, the prospect of trying to kill one rat while feeding another struck us as intolerable hypocrisy, so we bought a non-lethal 'Have-a-Heart Trap'. After several days of luring the invader closer and closer towards and then inside the trap with peanuts, we captured her. The first track is an unedited recording of the rat protesting its incarceration. The second track is our response, in which the timing and duration of the rat screams from the first track have been preserved. The following morning we took the rat to a wealthy suburban neighborhood and set it free." -- Drew Daniel. "The dynamic hybrid electro-rock duo Matmos strike again hot on the heels of last year's celebrated Matador full length the Civil War with this zany, completely mesmerizing 2 track contribution to the Met Life series of field recordings and ingenious sound responses. The Matmos boys stretch an ominous canvas with the bare sounds of an incarcerated rat ensconced in a friendly trap and paint an unlikely response. Rat Relocation Program is a heavily elevated, gleeful electro-rock epic that combines Matmos' patented blend of humor, drill & bass with cinematic prog reminiscent of the cult fantasy sci fi film The Fantastic Planet."

Artist:	SENDER, RAMON
Title:	Worldfood
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 055CD

"'In those pre-Buchla Box days, we cobbled together whatever odd bits of equipment we could beg, borrow, steal and occasionally buy to coax whatever squeaks and chirps or sequences of noises we could from their complaining depths.' -- Ramon Sender. Worldfood is a wild, psychedelic warble & drone of looped, overlayed tape pieces produced by 'goosing' an ampex tape player with a computer calibration device. The resulting two pieces -- 'Worldfood III (To See With my Eyes)' and 'WorldfoodX!!' -- both part of a number of variations in a series -- make for gorgeous, careening sungazing music. Leave your glasses behind. Ramon Sender is a legendary figure in the Bay Area scene -- first paving the way for the San Francisco Tape Center with Mort Subotnick (Silver Apples of the Moon) and Pauline Oliveiros at the dawn of the 1960s where the stunningly out pieces on this disc happened. In subsequent years, he played an active role with the San Francisco Diggers -- the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture --and co-founded the legendary Morningstar Ranch Commune in Sonoma County. Worldfood is the first in an ongoing series of archival discs to come from Ramon Sender's exceptional vaults."

Artist:	BJECT
Title:	Object 4
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 056CD

"The Object Series is Locust Music's shot at documenting ongoing currents in creative improv with a devotion to the Synesthetic curveball ties between everyday and not so everyday static objects and sound. Following their knock out debut on Japan's Hibari label, the collective trio Bject comprised of three fabled players in Tokyo's vibrant Onkyo scene -- Masahiko Okura, Tetuzi Akiyama & Utah Kawasaki -- deliver us the 4th installment in our Object series of creative improvised sound. Over four tracks, Cell phone trickle, turntable w/out records, disemboweled guitar, willowing tube & saxophone chirps & ticklish synthesizer sputter produce a warm, surprisingly shapely textural soundfield."

Artist:	BNSF
Title:	Object 6
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 058CD

"Inspired by natural cycles of texture and repetition, BNSF creates music with an organic momentum. Building music from the melodic noise and polyrhythms of industrial activity, BNSF exists between aleatory structure and song form, music and noise. Adam Diller, Jason E Anderson, and Matt Crane met through their involvement with Open Music Workshop, an offshoot of the recent explosion in Seattle's improvised music scene. A sense of purpose was established during the first improvisations of the trio, spurring the formation of BNSF. Meeting at their practice space near a train junction in downtown Seattle, they realized the importance of the environment's influence on their music. Drawing on their surroundings, BNSF took their name from a passing train car. They began experimenting by playing in construction zones, under a highway overpass, through a huge metal tube in a shop yard, and next to unloading freight trains. Volume 6 of Locust Music's Object series."

Artist:	MIMAROGLU, ILHAN
Title:	Agitation
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 059CD

"Finally back in print, we're happy to present two albums of 'agitprop' electronic music -- Tract & To Kill A Sunrise cut between 1968 and 1975 -- by mysterious & controversial Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu -- one of the truly underrepresented pioneers of the golden age of the Princeton-Columbia electronic music scene. Produced as a direct reaction to an extended period of intense repression, counterrevolutionary terror, & execution style murder in Turkey, Tract is a scrambled mash up peppered with spunky electronic bursts, radio ads looped ad nauseum, the breathy, soulful & defiant voice of Turkish singer Tuly Sand & the go-golicious backing jams of little known psych group Topsy Turvy Moon -- all shot up with lines lifted from old left wing standbys Chairman Mao, Karl Marx & Bertolt Brecht among others. To Kill a Sunrise follows suit with a wild, uncompromising orgiastic electro-dirge for those who are murdered by the lackeys of the ruling class while the collection closer, 'La Ruche', brings the audio gestalt to a somewhat more subdued end. Brilliantly remastered from the original tapes, Tract features close to 80 minutes of music and original liners. Ilhan Mimaroglu emerged out of the Columbia -- Princeton Electronic Music Center and public radio programs at New York's WBAI where his socially and politically charged radio programs took the city by surprise. He is best known for his work with Edgard Varese, mentor Vladimir Ussachevsky, a spellbinding collaboration with jazz musician Freddy Hubbard and as a chief composer of Fellini's Satyricon as well as electronic albums released on his own Finnadar label."

Artist:	PATCHEN, KENNETH
Title:	Reads with Jazz in Canada
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 060CD

"This modern-day minstrel is as fascinating and interesting as any swing or blues singer - phrases and thoughts so beautifully woven into the jazz background, and so expertly phrased and timed, that it is a revelation to the ear and mind." -- Los Angeles Examiner. "On a single October evening in 1959, fabled people's poet Kenneth Patchen and Vancouver's Alan Neil Quartet made a little bit of history. Together, they cut one of the first jazz-and poetry recordings to disc -- fiery, spontaneous and free of pretensions, where hard bop playing wailed neck-and-neck with Patchen's scathing, slurred, rabid vocalizations. Today, many see Jazz In Canada as among the very first truly beat documents on record -- preceding efforts by Kerouac, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg. This new edition features original notes by Alan Neil & new retrospective notes by rock'n'roll poet of the San Francisco renaissance David Meltzer."

Artist:	BISHOP, SIR RICHARD
Title:	Improvika
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 061CD

"By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika, Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism. A very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, django inspired gypsy arcs, & latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richard's follow up to his part on Locust's celebrated Wooden Guitar collection and second full length release after his debut on John Fahey's Revenant label."

Artist:	BISHOP, SIR RICHARD
Title:	Improvika
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 061LP

180 gram vinyl, packaged in deluxe silkscreened art paper. "By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world once sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika, Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism.. A very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed Arabesques, Django-inspired gypsy arcs, & Latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richard's solo installment for locust's long running Wooden Guitar series."

Artist:	FOSTER & THE SUPPOSED, JOSEPHINE
Title:	All the Leaves are Gone
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 062CD

"You may have gotten a dose of opera school dropout Josephine Foster's startling mixture of avant arrangements & acoustic mountain folk as half of the spare twisted up Appalachian duo, Born Heller. To many, the effect of her voice -- on record and in concert -- has been nothing short of chilling since the duo's Locust debut. After a 180 degree shift in style only, Josephine Foster & the Supposed offer up a 12 cut blow out that's exuberant and hard hitting. On All the Leaves Are Gone, Josephine embraces her rock and roll heart and intuitively summons up the mojo of legendary songstress Patti Smith as she rides the crest of a fluid and angular rhythm section that's as triumphant as the sound of classic Television and trebly west coast psychedelia from decades gone by. Lyrically, stylistically and musically, this is a fearless, soon to be classic post-punk rock and roll record that delivers the goods from start to finish."

Artist:	CYANN AND BEN
Title:	Happy Like an Autumn Tree
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 064CD

"French quartet Cyann & Ben create a dark and worrying universe tinted with melancholic beauty. Their debut album, Spring, was a hazy calliope ode. Happy Like An Autumn Tree continues to traverse the seasons with a captivating album that's as rich and beguiling as the fall's harvest, bearing the short-lived fruits between the summer's sweat and the winter's crisp chill. Happy Like An Autumn Tree is a hypnotizing, oneiric collection of epic rock for our favorite season."

Artist:	NO.9
Title:	Micro Films
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 065CD

"After a stellar performance on Mushi-No-Ne, No. 9 continues to indulge in childlike whimsy on Micro Films -- a small story in sound and pictures of the entire world of plants and animals. This is organic music that evolves with time -- like the memory of a good movie or book -- and, as the album title suggests, with just a little light & magnification, dazzling new audiovisual vistas are opened up to the naked ear. Micro Films is a tour de force of animated mellow electropop encompassing downtempo, pop minimalism, ambient glitch drill'n' bass and acid jazz, where the rhythms of insects and the scurrying impressions of city life on the Tokyo streets are one in Joe Takayuki's design. Packaged with a beautiful collection of 13 illustrations by 13 contemporary Japanese artists."

Artist:	LAU NAU
Title:	Kuutarha
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 066CD

"Last year saw an explosion & all too welcome interest in a vital, tightly knit scene of artists from Finland. Out of the communal circle of prodigious Finnish musicians comes this lovely 10 song debut solo outing of abstract folk, stray kiss lullaby & plucked blues by Laura Naukkarinen (vocalist in Kiila, P�iv�ns�de, The Anaksimandros). Sung in her native tongue, Kuutarha intimates a secret language outside traditional word speak into something utterly beautiful & unrestrained. Melody is suggested through the contours of voice, guitar & violin and arrangement has less to do with the placement of things than with Lau's comfort in letting sounds fall where they may. Line up: Laura Naukkarinen (acoustic bass, bass recorder, five-stringed kantele, acoustic guitar, tenor recorder, violin, bamboo flute, colorful juice glasses, mortar, mandolin, witch laugh megaphone, baby's rattle, bike bells, banjo, cowbells, electric guitar, organ, willow whistle, tablas, percussion, cymbals, comb, beer cans); Pekko K�ppi (tamboura, jouhikko).

Artist:	FLYNT, HENRY
Title:	Purified by the Fire
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 067CD

2006 repress. Recorded 12/14/81. "The psychedelic sounds of musical pioneer Henry Flynt's drone works with collaborator C.C. Hennix are quietly becoming the stuff of legend. Over some 40 plus minutes, we are treated to a true tour de force that's part Hindustani inflected musical miasma and part warped hillbilly vibrational swing that sways in and out of auditory focus. This is vertiginous music for the third ear. Line Up: Henry Flynt (Violin); C.C. Hennix (Pandit Pran Nath Tamboura).

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 068CD

"Hazel Eyes is an invitation to get lost in the wide-eyed acreage of song throughout the ages -- a bent and intuitive collection of supernatural balladry. Earthen hymns, cosmic madrigals, flapper blues and acid folk are sewn into one luminescent patch from one of America's most adventurous and pioneering songstresses. Self produced in the studio with an array of unusual instruments and eclectic arrangements, Hazel Eyes is a fearless collection of 14 self penned originals to stir the spirited souls of nymphs and shepherds alike. First widely available solo release after 2004's acclaimed album with her rock band, The Supposed, and her debut duet with Jason Ajemian as Born Heller."

Artist:	APOTHECARY HYMNS
Title:	Trowel And Era
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 069CD

"With a treasure trove of analogue, swirling effects, arch songcraft and a sweet yet assured vocal delivery, Trowel & Era brings to the table the epic debut long player by the one man band Apothecary Hymns (AKA Alex Stimmel). Stimmel has made a collection with one foot in kaleidoscopic coastal loner psych that floats on a musical bed of whimsical levity and another foot rooted firmly in the grand ethos of east village troubadours of the mid 60s." Alex Stimmel: acoustic & electric guitars 6 & 12 string guitars, banjo, bass, drums, wurlitzer, analog synth, organ, flute, recorder, kalimba (African finger piano), autoharp, glockenspiel, voice, & tape manipulation.

Artist:	ROSE, ETHAN
Title:	Ceiling Songs
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 071LP

"Between the machine and the composition there are the wonderful accidents. Whether it be taped-up player piano rolls, broken music boxes, or instruments of a more traditional sort, all the sounds on this album were carefully and randomly interrupted by my hands, before being arranged into larger pieces. For the most part it is a love of the archaic mechanizations of gears spinning and paper scratching, of textural sounds discovered in old things, that propelled me into making these songs. But, as the ideas came from the outside in so did they return from the inside out, blurring the line between my own artistry, and the natural inclinations of the materials at hand. This is what made the Ceiling Songs." -- Ethan Rose. Ceiling Songs is the first full-length release by Portland, Oregon musician Ethan Rose following a handful of long out of print small edition multiples issued on Locust over the last two years. Limited 180 gram vinyl only release w/ handpasted covers.

Artist:	AKIYAMA, TETUZI
Title:	Pre-Existence
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 072CD

"Tetuzi Akiyama is frequently associated with the insurgent improvising community in Tokyo generated around guitarist Taku Sugimoto but to be sure his sound owes as much to a unique strain of country blues engulfed in negative space. His loosely strewn playing skirts the usual clich�s of the guitar in both the free improv and trad folk scenes. Pre-Existence is a puzzling and often achingly beautiful slurred guitar meditation. Sit back & let your ears bear witness to a Zen blues of the most elemental, meditative form. This disc marks Akiyama's solo contribution to Locust's celebrated Wooden Guitar series."

Artist:	ESPERS
Title:	The Weed Tree
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 073CD

"When discussions were first taking place for a teaser album before Espers' next 'proper' studio full length, it didn't take any of us long to agree on the timeliness of an album of cover songs. Over the last few years while out on the road supporting their self titled debut, audiences were floored by renditions of traditionals like the bittersweet 'Black is the Color' or the intergalactic take on master traveler Michael Hurley's 'Blue Mountain.' An album of covers & traditionals was a perfect plan. Simple, no big deal. Selections were made: Hurley, Nico, Durutti Column, Blue Oyster Cult, trad cuts inspired by Bert Jansch & the Famous Jug Band & a new original called 'Dead King' -- a single dispatch from the future -- would fill out the album. We could call The Weed Tree yet another exemplary example of acid folk, baroque psych or sunshine pop with a sinister edge but none of this brings us any closer to giving meaning to a mess of unexplainable tears -- the result of the old happy/sad life humdrum that, by now, is a personal blueprint for an album gifted with the arch beauty of the Weed Tree. So, The Weed Tree is an album between the stations but, as transitions go, this is just further proof that Espers are at the nadir of what makes music meaningful & meaning matter in music today."

Artist:	FUNCTION
Title:	The Secret Miracle Fountain
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 076CD

"Function is the communally based, shape shifting brainchild of Australian native & general globe-trotting nomad Matt Nicholson. The Secret Miracle Fountain is a lush & transcendental rock album recorded & produced in over ten cities worldwide -- from Sinai, Egypt to Brooklyn, New York; Kyoto, Japan to Venice, Italy -- over a 3 year period with the participation of close to 3 dozen friends & musicians. It goes without saying that there is nothing small about the scale or scope of The Secret Miracle Fountain. It's a remarkable introduction to the world at large of a mesmerizing rock album that proves every bit worth the 4 years it took to complete it. The Secret Miracle Fountain marks the band's first stateside album after a couple lathe cut records, cassettes & smallish CD releases. Featured artists include Chris Smith (Fat Cat, Emperor Jones), Stuart Dempster (New Albion), and lakshmi shankar & subash chandran, Indian music masters of voice and percussion."

Artist:	FAZZINI
Title:	Sulphur, Glue the Star
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 077CD

"Locust is pleased to welcome West Yorkshire artist Fazzini aboard our growing roster of new outre rock & inward psych folk artists. Sulphur, Glue the Star is Fazzini's debut following long-running stints as 1/3 of the acclaimed trio A Small Good Thing. 'Sulphur' is an enchanted song cycle detailing a rich interior world of homegrown lullabies and attic songs that eerily drift through tales of ghostly encounters, underwater dreamscapes, morbid jealousies and karmic return."

Artist:	GAMELAN SON OF LION
Title:	Metal Notes
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 078CD

"Metal Notes resuscitates a long-lost, decades-old cassette-only release by the great New York collective Gamelan Son of Lion and brings to the fore the incredible metallic drones of a group whose innovative minimal music has rightfully earned them a place among the likes of La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Steve Reich & Charlemagne Palestine -- to name a few. At almost 80 minutes, this collection of eight songs is nothing if not totally spellbinding & hypnotic. Features founding members Barbara Benary (early collab w/ Philip Glass), Fluxus pioneer Philip Corner, David Demnitz, Daniel Goode, Peter Griggs, Michael Byron, and half a dozen other composer/performers."

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 079CD

"Over the course of just a few years, Josephine Foster has captivated audiences & critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry (Born Heller), fiery psych rock gestalt (All The Leaves Are Gone) to the voice of an outsider folk siren (Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You). The two constants are the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice & the bravery of her iconoclastic spirit. For anyone else, what lies inside her latest offering, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, might be a freakish turn but for Josephine Foster this is a grand part of a continual movement. And so it goes, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is a deeply absorbing, magical reconstruction of 19th century miniature German art song -- the intimate sibling to operatic arias customarily performed in the parlor. The album floats in a wash of blissed out voice and electric guitar in an almost dreamlike fashion through a salon of her own invention. In a music where sacred cows roam the pastures a plenty, Foster pays tribute -- on her own terms -- and in the process makes a case for German as a new found romance language."

Artist:	COACH FINGERS
Title:	No Flies On Frank
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 083CD

"Coach Fingers is serious about having fun and with the debut long player No Flies on Frank, no one is spared from the plentiful good vibes Frank has to offer. Packed with more hooks than a ship crowded with one armed pirates, No Flies on Frank is a meaty affair of giddy but bearded late '60s/early '70s outlaw boogie rock & roll prominently featuring three members of the New York free noise whatsit collective The No Neck Blues Band -- Coach Jason Meagher, Dave Nuss & Dave Shuford -- along with Meagher's brother Sean on keys and -- future guitar god worshippers take note -- the Coach's secret weapon, master shredder George Devoe. So come on, friends, it's time to join the Fingers friends & family in the Beaujolais Revolution; take a sip from a glass full of Ronnie Lane's boozy rock, the charming laissez-faire balladry of Kevin Ayers (circa Joy of a Toy & Whatevershebringswesing) & a whole lot of crazy fun."

Artist:	COACH FINGERS
Title:	No Flies On Frank
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 083LP

"Now on limited DMM 180 gram vinyl! Coach Fingers is serious about having fun and with the debut long player No Flies On Frank, no one is spared from the plentiful good vibes Frank has to offer. Packed with more hooks than a ship crowded with one-armed pirates, No Flies On Frank is a meaty affair of giddy but bearded late '60s/early '70s outlaw boogie rock & roll prominently featuring three members of the New York free noise whatsit collective The No Neck Blues Band -- Coach Jason Meagher, Dave Nuss & Dave Shuford -- along with Meagher's brother Sean on keys and -- future guitar god worshippers take note -- the Coach's secret weapon, master shredder George Devoe. So come on, friends, it's time to join the Fingers friends & family in the Beaujolais Revolution; take a sip from a glass full of Ronnie Lane's boozy rock, the charming laissez-faire balladry of Kevin Ayers (circa Joy of a Toy & Whatevershebringswesing) & a whole lot of crazy fun."

Artist:	ROSE, ETHAN
Title:	Ceiling Songs
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 084CD

"Ceiling Songs is a bewitching album of gently pulsing ambient drones, gurgling melodies, rhythmic scratches and reborn sound machines culled from inspiring, reinvented sound sources -- from taped up player piano rolls, broken music boxes, or instruments of a more traditional sort. To date, Portland-based artist Ethan Rose has produced two small run multiples for Locust: 2004's Miniature & Sea & 2005's The Dot & The Line in addition to a 2005 vinyl-only issue of Ceiling Songs."

Artist:	STARLESS & BIBLE BLACK
Title:	Starless & Bible Black
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 085CD

"Starless & Bible Black make beautiful spirited & catchy songs in the grand tradition of classic British folk rockers Pentangle and John & Beverly Martyn straight on up through the halcyon days of early 4AD records. On their debut self titled outing, the diverse Manchester 3 piece brings to bear much of the lively attitude, passion and rain, rain, rain of the old textile city they've all come to call home for the last several years. The result is a great collection of 11 songs -- at once earthen and elevated -- that are given added mood & flavor by the charcoal vocals of French chanteuse H�l�ne Gautier. The other contributing members are the main rhythm men in the Manchester music scene -- Paul Blakesley on bass and Brian Edwards on drums -- they have perfected their craft playing with the likes of local heroes such as Aidan Smith Smith, John Stammers and Jane Weaver."

Artist:	STARLESS & BIBLE BLACK
Title:	Starless & Bible Black
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 085LP

"Now available on vinyl! Starless & Bible Black make beautiful, spirited & catchy songs in the grand tradition of classic British folk rockers Pentangle and John & Beverly Martyn straight on up through the halcyon days of early 4AD records. On their debut self-titled outing, the diverse Manchester 3 piece brings to bear much of the lively attitude, passion and rain, rain, rain of the old textile city they've all come to call home for the last several years. The result is a great collection of 11 songs -- at once earthen and elevated -- that are given added mood & flavor by the charcoal vocals of French chanteuse H�l�ne Gautier. The other contributing members are the main rhythm men in the Manchester music scene -- Paul Blakesley on bass and Brian Edwards on drums -- they have perfected their craft playing with the likes of local heroes such as Aidan Smith, John Stammers and Jane Weaver."

Artist:	TRUE PRIMES
Title:	We Have Won
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 086CD

"The Brooklyn duo of Che Chen (founder of the cool O Sirhan O Sirhan magazine) and Rolyn Hu (operatrix of the fine Glasslands performance space) disinfect disaffection with their brand of elemental buzzing unrock. Guitar, girl voice, off drum & unidentifiable noisemakers & homemade gadgets are the foundation for a sound that grafts a smiley face on the body of no wave's penchant for alienation. The unified duo are out on a mission to reverse the flow of negative energy through anthemic fractured ecstatic noise pop and feedback wash. Inspired by DNA, Henry Flynt, Sigmar Polke, Ramnad Krishnan, P.I.L., Yoko Ono, Arthur Russell, Friendship, French folding bicycles and those Eskimo girls who sing into each other's mouths to create harmonic overtones."

Artist:	TRUE PRIMES
Title:	We Have Won
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 086LP

"Now available on LP!! The Brooklyn duo of Che Chen (founder of the cool O Sirhan O Sirhan magazine) and Rolyn Hu (operatrix of the fine Glasslands performance space) disinfect disaffection with their brand of elemental buzzing unrock. Guitar, girl voice, off drum & unidentifiable noisemakers & homemade gadgets are the foundation for a sound that grafts a smiley face on the body of no wave's penchant for alienation. The unified duo are out on a mission to reverse the flow of negative energy through anthemic fractured ecstatic noise pop and feedback wash. Inspired by DNA, Henry Flynt, Sigmar Polke, Ramnad Krishnan, P.I.L., Yoko Ono, Arthur Russell, Friendship, French folding bicycles and those Eskimo girls who sing into each other's mouths to create harmonic overtones."

Artist:	SILMARIL
Title:	The Voyage of Icarus
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 087CD

Reissue of this 1973 album. "Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian-themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's highly collectable privately-pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up, No Mirrored Temple."

Artist:	SILMARIL
Title:	The Voyage of Icarus
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 087LP

Limited double LP version. "Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman, by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian-themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's highly collectable privately-pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up, No Mirrored Temple." Last copies...

Artist:	BISHOP, SIR RICHARD
Title:	While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 090CD

"This is an essential document by one of America's most original and inventive unaccompanied guitarists working today. While My Guitar Violently Bleeds is a splendid three piece gem in which the good sir branches out & nods to points West, East & otherworldly with the classic spaghetti western-tinged, spidery fretwork of 'Zurvan,' to the Fushitsusha style psych decay & feedback drench of 'Smashana' to the brilliant 25+ minute raga epic 'Mahavidya.'"

Artist:	ENKIDU
Title:	Live in Kyoto
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 091LP

"Enkidu is the mythical Japanese psychedelic noise project of legendary performers Chie Mukai (Taj Mahal Travelers, Che-SHIZU, East Bionic Symphonia, Dadnur), Eric Cordier & Seichi Yamamoto (the Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rashinban, Ontoko). Over four bruised side-long cuts, Live in Kyoto faithfully captures the intensity of one particularly eviscerating evening of ritualized self expression at Kyoto's Tanq space in 2004. This is liminal ecstatic drone, clatter & relentless sound bursts with a rough-around-the-edges vibe that maintains a loose kinetic debt to everything from La Monte Young & the Theater of Eternal Music to Keiji Haino, AMM & Fushitsusha. Hand-numbered edition of 525, 2 X 180 gram vinyl housed in a black silkscreened bottom-folded heavy jacket. Chie Mukai (kokyu, electronics, voice, percussion & dance) Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar & electronics & percussions) Eric Cordier (hurdy-gurdy & electronics)."

Artist:	GAZHEART (RITA ACKERMAN/DAVE NUSS)
Title:	GazHeart
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 094LP

"With GazHeart, celebrated visual artist Rita Ackermann (voice) & the No Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss (found percussion) created a playful spontaneous sound that seemingly bridged the gap between the broken pop sounds of certain strains of the no wave movement, sound poetry and catchy, otherworldly art folk using the barest of resources available to them. One time pressing of this special edition one-sided LP features an original etching by visual artist Rita Ackermann on the flip side. GazHeart is housed in a plain jacket with two opposing drawings for front & back by Ackermann reproduced on high quality archival paper stock.""The GazHeart recordings were made in August of 2004 after the disintegration of Angelblood at ATP in April. Rita and I traveled every August to Budapest to be with her family, who live in the hills outside the city in a small German village called Buda�rs, created after WWII. The mise-en-scene of our life there was total village simplicity -- grandma's cooking, dogs running the streets, babies with leaky diapers on big wheels, and gypsies hanging out in bars. We would go every Sunday morning to the gypsy market where the vendors would spread out a bunch of garbage on blankets in a parking lot, all the proprietors drunk by 10am on wine consumed from coke bottles. At the time of recording, Rita had adopted the surrealist idea of automatic, unmediated writing direct from the unconscious, using spontaneous text to create song-like atmospheres, in the spirit of Tristan Tzara. For the percussion, I wound up keeping it simple and true to the environs: a bucket, a glass jar, a coffee can & a straw broom. All recordings were made to magnetic tape in the back yard late at night after the village was sleeping." --Dave Nuss.

Artist:	ANGELBLOOD
Title:	Mambo Mange
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 095LP

"Mambo Mange is the eponymous 4th & final album by a fine NY ensemble who unfortunately imploded at the peak of their game. Originally fronted by twin femme vocalists Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) & celebrated visual artist Rita Ackermann, for what would be the band's final foray, the duo enlisted Anders Nilsson (Aorta), Matt Heyner (NNCK), Dave Nuss (NNCK) & Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance, Cranium). Ackermann's Yoko Ono-inspired freak-outs, feline growls & orgasmic yodels and Bougatsos' breathy wordless space panting over Matt 'the Count' Heyner's seriously beefy power chords, Nilsson's sinewy solos, DeGraw's bass thump & Nuss' propulsive drumming made for the most thoroughly realized vision of Angelblood's art + metal sound. Angelblood played decidedly out of bounds & ahead of the curve. It was a risky proposition to begin with (who can get by playing heavy metal in Chelsea art galleries?) but goddamn if this isn't great music."

Artist:	ROSE, ETHAN
Title:	Spinning Pieces
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 096CD

"On the heels of last year's celebrated Ceiling Songs debut full length by Portland, Oregon electronic musician Ethan Rose, comes Spinning Pieces -- a collation of nearly five years of small edition art object releases produced for Locust music. The aptly-titled collection chronicles one man's obsession with & magical approach to old mechanical noisemakers both big and little -- from a carillon in California ('Singing Tower'), to the sounds of old player pianos ('The Dot & The Line') in a dusty Portland piano shop to modified music boxes ('The Miniature & Sea'). Ethan's approach and music exudes a deep compositional sense and inviting warmth that often eludes the cold & foreboding genre of electronic music."

Artist:	230 DIVISADERO
Title:	230 Divisadero
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 097CD

"The transcontinental duo 230 Divisadero make stately, finely-crafted atmospheric songs that stand outside the bounds of contemporary musical trends. Their self-released languorous drone EP has drawn comparisons to SunnO))) and Nurse With Wound. On their self-titled full length debut, the duo of Britain's Matt Shaw (Tex la Homa) and Monaco's Nick Grey have honed in the wide audio brush strokes of their EP and have produced one of the finest blends of Brian Eno-inspired art song we've heard in years. 230 Divisadero is simultaneously refreshing and reminiscent of classic acts like Talk Talk & New Zealand's sterling & sadly underrecognized act, This Kind of Punishment."

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped...
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 098CD

...Live at Ken's Electric Lake. Reissue of this old S@1 48/49 double CD from 1998. "Nearly ten years of swimming up stream through the sonic flotsam & jetsam, the folks have gotten freaky, noise is the 'new noise,' the chin scratchers have joined the metal circus and the No Neck Blues Band remain as relevant today as ever. Their indoor /outdoor audio assaults in upper & lower Manhattan are the stuff of legend but on 1998's Live at Ken's Electric Lake the band took a distinct turn, crossed the Canadian border, hooked up w/ some Sunburned folks and made a sudden diaspora to a rural retreat in the country for a full day's session of acid-head tribal percussion clatter that is utterly different than anything the band had put on the public record up to that time. Looser, groovier & more in that communal state of mind than ever, NNCK's long out-of-print fifth release from 1998 is a classic testament to the urban dwellers' gone wild & ranks as among their finest displays of tribal churn and choogle in the band's 14 year history. Neo-Dada attacks were swapped out for psychedelic vibrations, midrange mystery for outdoor atmospherics. Ken's is a peak communal moment for New York's most enigmatic, longest running experimental collective." --Dawson Prater

Artist:	FLYNT & NOVA'BILLY, HENRY
Title:	Nova'Billy
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 101CD

"Taste the magic! Nova'Billy is another edible audible from Henry Flynt's dusty lower Manhattan bunker and it stands as one of the fullest, most beauteous document of Flynt's tenure with a full working rock band to date. For less than one calendar year between 1974 and 1975, Henry Flynt's hard driving, heavy jamming agit country rock band, Nova'Billy embraced bareknuckled deep fried groove attacks, bearded hippie jam band workouts & a monstrous melange of blues, boogie and free jazz squeal into a musical souffl� that could only have come together with Flynt cooking up what was proven to be, time and again, an impossible vision within the confines of the SOHO art orbit of the 70s. After a couple performances at Anthology Film Archives and studio sessions in Richmond, Virginia and Manhattan, the band postered SOHO in a last ditch effort to get some traction with the hipsters that read, 'Party on down to the Kitchen. Stoned country music for rock country.' The gig, like all the others before it, was poorly attended. Nova'Billy played what would be their last live gig at the Kitchen on June 27, 1975. Nova'Billy covers a damned fine and important moment in Henry Flynt's musical career. If the Insurrections laid the foundation for his anti-war primitive garage rock sound, the emergence, nearly a decade later, of Nova'Billy is the realization of Henry's own vision of obtuse personal politics ('I was a creep'), provocative left-wing posturing (check their version of the world communist anthem 'The International!') and a gleefully recombinant spin on southern music. 13 cuts and 60 minutes of old glory!"

Artist:	FLYNT & NOVA'BILLY, HENRY
Title:	Nova'Billy
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 101LP

Double LP version, deluxe gatefold packaging. "Taste the magic! Nova'Billy is another edible audible from Henry Flynt's dusty lower Manhattan bunker and it stands as one of the fullest, most beauteous document of Flynt's tenure with a full working rock band to date. For less than one calendar year between 1974 and 1975, Henry Flynt's hard driving, heavy jamming agit country rock band, Nova'Billy embraced bareknuckled deep fried groove attacks, bearded hippie jam band workouts & a monstrous melange of blues, boogie and free jazz squeal into a musical souffl� that could only have come together with Flynt cooking up what was proven to be, time and again, an impossible vision within the confines of the SOHO art orbit of the '70s. After a couple performances at Anthology Film Archives and studio sessions in Richmond, Virginia and Manhattan, the band postered SOHO in a last ditch effort to get some traction with the hipsters that read, 'Party on down to the Kitchen. Stoned country music for rock country.' The gig, like all the others before it, was poorly attended. Nova'Billy played what would be their last live gig at the Kitchen on June 27, 1975. Nova'Billy covers a damned fine and important moment in Henry Flynt's musical career. If the Insurrections laid the foundation for his anti-war primitive garage rock sound, the emergence, nearly a decade later, of Nova'Billy is the realization of Henry's own vision of obtuse personal politics ('I was a creep'), provocative leftwing posturing (check their version of the world Communist anthem, 'The International!') and a gleefully recombinant spin on southern music. Thirteen cuts and 60 minutes of old glory!"

Artist:	FAMILY ELAN, THE
Title:	Stare of Dawn
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 102CD

"The Family Elan is the intuitive, devotional project of Glasgow's free wheeling folk dervish Chris Hladowski (Nalle, The One Ensemble, Scatter) built around Chris's gently lilting vocal offerings & the absorbing droning modal sounds of his long-necked lute. Stare of Dawn is one of those special little records -- searchingly beautiful, seemingly effortless, deeply enchanting & completely hypnotic. Elan draws on a vast array of folk musical traditions the Greek Rebetes of the 1920s, the tanbur playing of the Kurdish Sufi mystic Ostad Elahi and �shyq songs of the Azerbaijani s�z master Edalat Nasibov to revivalists offerings from Anne Briggs's bouzouki inventions, early Incredible String Band & Hungarian revivalists Muzsik�s to name just a few points of reference."

Artist:	FAMILY ELAN, THE
Title:	Stare of Dawn
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 102LP

LP version. "The Family Elan is the intuitive, devotional project of Glasgow's free-wheeling folk dervish, Chris Hladowski (Nalle, The One Ensemble, Scatter) built around Chris' gently lilting vocal offerings & the absorbing droning modal sounds of his long-necked lute. Stare of Dawn is one of those special little records -- searchingly beautiful, seemingly effortless, deeply enchanting & completely hypnotic. Elan draws on a vast array of folk musical traditions -- the Greek Rebetes of the 1920s, the tanbur playing of the Kurdish Sufi mystic Ostad Elahi and �shyq songs of the Azerbaijani s�z master, Edalat Nasibov to revivalist offerings from Anne Briggs' bouzouki inventions, and early Incredible String Band & Hungarian revivalists Muzsik�s, to name just a few points of reference."

Artist:	METZGER, PAUL
Title:	Deliverance
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 103CD

"Minnesota's Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention. On Deliverance -- a real time performance on his overhauled 21 string banjo -- you'll be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying & impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia you're ever likely to hear. Clocking in at nearly 60 colossal minutes, Deliverance is 3 tracks of unfiltered aural transcendence; a hypnotic raga epic that's by turns a slow burning meditation & an urgent mind / body duel. Paul's playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bull's searching inventiveness, Billy Faier's out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens' tweaked Americana, Henry Flynt's searing harmonic drones or Big Jim Sullivan's psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, Metzger is no idolater and we're all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own singular post in this post-Fahey world."

Artist:	GRIMAUD, DOMINIQUE
Title:	Les Quatre Directions
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 105CD

"Dominique Grimaud is a hidden treasure of France's psych, free rock, electronic & jazz improv scenes. As a founding member of the legendary psych/Krautrock inspired French act Camizole (1970-1978) to his equally celebrated no wave/new wave duo Video-Aventures (1978-) whose groundbreaking music has been viewed as a precursor to the sound of Stereolab, and in more recent times, jawdropping audio visual performance installations & live performances with celebrated performer Colleen, Grimaud has spent his entire life exploring the musical fringes of the French underground. With Les Quatre Directions, Grimaud re-emerges with his first release in nearly a decade and it's a whirlwind, mind-altering, long-form microgroove composition of grand proportions that hearkens back to the expanded audio visioneering & spiritualism of '60s electronic music luminaries from Stockhausen to Ramon Sender. On Directions, Grimaud combines the otherworldly synth effects of his Moog, EMS Synthi AKS & Sequential Circuit Prophet and the hairy electric guitar bravado of his Fender strat with shamanic chanting, commune improv sessions with fellow travellers with odd acoustic instrumentation into a celestial homemade orchestra. Les Quatre Directions pays homage to the culture of the American Indians of the Great Plains, to their rituals & their paintings. This culture is deeply rooted in the themes of the circle and the cardinal points that they call the four winds. The whole piece evokes the outside world with the Four Elements : water, air, earth, fire and at the same time our inner world: heart, mind, body and spirit. Grimaud views Les Quatre Directions as four different paths in a person's life with his contradictions, his period of stagnation, and his return."

Artist:	HELLO, BLUE ROSES
Title:	The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed...
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 106CD

...To Capture Your Beauty. "The sweetheart duo of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) & Sydney Vermont (visual artist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) have tied the knot around an infectious readymade classic with their 14-track self-titled debut. The Portrait Is Finished folds the last few decades of pop music together, drawing on everything from an unabashed love of '80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) to the cheery mysticism of young Scotland (Orange Juice & Felt) to prime Aquarian age femme folk of the '60s & '70s. The Portrait Is Finished was written and recorded over a period when Dan & Sydney took time out of regular life to hang out together, write and read and think about life differently... and be in Spain. From M�laga, Spain's balmy Mediterranean winter -- where the songs first started getting demoed -- to the rainy Vancouver climes where the album was recorded at Bejar fave JC/DC studios, the 14 songs -- all penned by Sydney (except Kevin Ayer's 'Hymn') and arranged by Dan, maintain the unencumbered, free and easy spirit in which they first took root resulting in a sparsely populated, timeless pop sound."

Artist:	HELLO, BLUE ROSES
Title:	The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed...
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 106LP

LP version, limited blue vinyl. ...To Capture Your Beauty. "The sweetheart duo of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) & Sydney Vermont (visual artist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) have tied the knot around an infectious readymade classic with their 14-track self-titled debut. The Portrait Is Finished folds the last few decades of pop music together, drawing on everything from an unabashed love of '80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) to the cheery mysticism of young Scotland (Orange Juice & Felt) to prime Aquarian age femme folk of the '60s & '70s."

Artist:	BISHOP, SIR RICHARD
Title:	God Damn Religion
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	DVD/CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 107DVD

"Official DVD release of Sir Richard Bishop's cracked movie God Damn Religion. First edition comes with a bonus audio CD of the quasi soundtrack Elektronika Demonika, originally issued by Locust as a vinyl-only escapade in 2006. 'For centuries, man has used organized religion to control the hearts and minds (not to mention the pocketbooks) of the ignorant masses. Well, Richard Bishop has decided he would like a piece of the action. This film is a diabolical experiment in hypnotic mind control -- a phantasmagoric presentation of demonic and divine imagery, meticulously assembled and designed to put the viewer into an altered state of darkened awareness. Includes original music from Elektronika Demonika, as well as unreleased material. If you ever wanted to go to hell and back, this film will get you halfway there. Some viewers may find the imagery used in this film to be disturbing, but that's the idea. Contains some strong sexual content (as all true religion should). Not for the weak-minded, faint of heart, or those suffering from occasional seizures.'" DVD is NTSC format, probably region free. 9

Artist:	TRUE PRIMES/BLACK VATICAN
Title:	Split
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 108LP

"In this arranged marriage of sorts, Brooklyn's True Primes & Iowa's Black Vatican each turn in a side of kindred primal now wave on this untitled split LP. True Primes, our beloved Shaggs of noise pop, keep it in the red, turn on the damage and deliver a side of wiggy aggro vocal moans, broken beats & confounding electro grit. It's all so very dystopian & punk but we know Che & Rolyn will get over it. Not so with Black Vatican -- the duo of Andy Roche & Owen Gardner -- who make their Locust debut here after a sweet cassette on the Night-People label. Over their six cuts, they take a few cues from classic Suicide & Pere Ubu sides, make utopia, mercy & perversion a playground for Roche's crooning vocalese, and ride the austere white light of metronomic beats, minimal electronic sunshine melodies & arrested guitar strangulations, triangulations & thwacks. A steal at nearly 60 minutes of music."

Artist:	NALLE
Title:	The Siren's Wave
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 109CD

"Imagine for a moment the Wicker Man manned by the late Teiji Ito -- resident avant composer for Harry Smith & Maya Deren -- with psych-folk giants Comus sitting in for good measure and you've got some idea of what Glasgow avant folk trio Nalle have put together on their mesmerizing sophomore effort, The Siren's Wave. Centered around Hanna Tuulikki's rich and expansive vocals, with a heady, kaleidoscopic mix of vintage whirling oscillators, Moog synths and buzzing harmonium, alongside the intrepid string explorations of Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy, these six pieces continue the long trek through other worlds of sound to form a dense, cohesive suite that meshes everything from Japanese gagaku, European plainsong, Near Eastern modal drones and more. With Siren's Wave, Nalle have procured a special place where folk conventions are curiously uprooted & seamlessly meshed with otherworldly avant tendencies. Features members of The Family Elan, Scatter & the One Ensemble of Daniel Padden."

Artist:	NALLE
Title:	The Siren's Wave
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 109LP

180 gram deluxe gatefold vinyl version. "Imagine for a moment the Wicker Man manned by the late Teiji Ito -- resident avant composer for Harry Smith & Maya Deren -- with psych-folk giants Comus sitting in for good measure and you've got some idea of what Glasgow avant folk trio Nalle have put together on their mesmerizing sophomore effort, The Siren's Wave. Centered around Hanna Tuulikki's rich and expansive vocals, with a heady, kaleidoscopic mix of vintage whirling oscillators, Moog synths and buzzing harmonium, alongside the intrepid string explorations of Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy, these six pieces continue the long trek through other worlds of sound to form a dense, cohesive suite that meshes everything from Japanese gagaku, European plainsong, Near Eastern modal drones and more. With Siren's Wave, Nalle have procured a special place where folk conventions are curiously uprooted & seamlessly meshed with otherworldly avant tendencies. Features members of The Family Elan, Scatter & the One Ensemble of Daniel Padden."

Artist:	O.W.L.
Title:	Of Wondrous Legends
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 110CD

"'Proof that there's still excellent albums out there to discover. Drawing mainly on art rock and early light-prog aesthetics, O.W.L deliver an ambitious song cycle which at its best transforms into dazzling psychedelia. A pro-level recording and elaborate arrangements that utilize keyboards, flute, vibes and multi-tracked male vocals make for an appealing surface, and unlike the typical Moody Blues derivates, there's lots of personality and depth. The mood is cerebral and refined, but the commitment and songwriting should impress even those with no immediate love for the genre (like me). The dominating style is dreamy melodic prog-rock like the British album Spring, but the vocal style and ghostly soundscape may at times recall Freeborne and Time on Shadoks, while the chamber music intimacy reflects a possible Pearls Before Swine influence. There's more keyboard than guitar, which is typical for the style. Impressive on many levels, with hypnotic Eastern lysergia on 'Midnight Carnival,' the album's epic center-piece. The artist was formerly with the pre-LP Mountain Bus, and recorded this as the first in a projected series of albums.' --Patrick Lundborg, author of The Acid Archives. Of Wondrous Legends is a Chicago baroque psych classic recovered from the dustbins of history. To the few who have heard it, it has earned comparisons to Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine, and '60s British prog-folk. O.W.L was founded in 1968 on Chicago's north side by Stephen Titra. A founding member of the beloved Midwestern hippie jam band Mountain Bus, Titra left that band just as their Dead-inspired, bluesy jams gained serious regional traction in order to fully devote himself to the inward-looking, singular vision of O.W.L. Of Wondrous Legends was recorded at Chicago's Universal Studios over a six month stretch in 1971 and a handful of test pressings were produced and circulated, but despite serious interest from a number of major labels, this gem went unreleased. The passage of time only further helped ensure the album's place in near total obscurity until a copy of one of the test pressings was unearthed in a Chicago junk shop in 2004. Following several years of collaborative efforts on this lost epic, Of Wondrous Legends now sees its first public release after some 35 years of obscurity. Mastered from the original source tapes. Features copious liner notes and vintage photos."

Artist:	O.W.L.
Title:	Of Wondrous Legends
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 110LP

Limited edition 180 gram vinyl version. "'Proof that there's still excellent albums out there to discover. Drawing mainly on art rock and early light-prog aesthetics, O.W.L deliver an ambitious song cycle which at its best transforms into dazzling psychedelia. A pro-level recording and elaborate arrangements that utilize keyboards, flute, vibes and multi-tracked male vocals make for an appealing surface, and unlike the typical Moody Blues derivates, there's lots of personality and depth. The mood is cerebral and refined, but the commitment and songwriting should impress even those with no immediate love for the genre (like me). The dominating style is dreamy melodic prog-rock like the British album Spring, but the vocal style and ghostly soundscape may at times recall Freeborne and Time on Shadoks, while the chamber music intimacy reflects a possible Pearls Before Swine influence. There's more keyboard than guitar, which is typical for the style. Impressive on many levels, with hypnotic Eastern lysergia on 'Midnight Carnival,' the album's epic center-piece. The artist was formerly with the pre-LP Mountain Bus, and recorded this as the first in a projected series of albums.' --Patrick Lundborg, author of The Acid Archives. Of Wondrous Legends is a Chicago baroque psych classic recovered from the dustbins of history. To the few who have heard it, it has earned comparisons to Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine, and '60s British prog-folk. O.W.L was founded in 1968 on Chicago's north side by Stephen Titra. A founding member of the beloved Midwestern hippie jam band Mountain Bus, Titra left that band just as their Dead-inspired, bluesy jams gained serious regional traction in order to fully devote himself to the inward-looking, singular vision of O.W.L. Of Wondrous Legends was recorded at Chicago's Universal Studios over a six month stretch in 1971 and a handful of test pressings were produced and circulated, but despite serious interest from a number of major labels, this gem went unreleased. The passage of time only further helped ensure the album's place in near total obscurity until a copy of one of the test pressings was unearthed in a Chicago junk shop in 2004. Following several years of collaborative efforts on this lost epic, Of Wondrous Legends now sees its first public release after some 35 years of obscurity. Mastered from the original source tapes. Features copious liner notes and vintage photos."

Artist:	LAU NAU
Title:	Nukkuu
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 111CD

"Naukkarinen manages to take a million-and-one risks while keeping things subtle, understated, aesthetically intriguing, and emotionally resonant." --Pitchfork (8.0). "Nukkuu (Finnish for 'Sleeps') is the long-awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave, Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract and emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new-found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics and vacant dens on off-hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately-crafted nine-song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness."

Artist:	LAU NAU
Title:	Nukkuu
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 111LP

180 gram deluxe gatefold vinyl version. "Nukkuu (Finnish for 'Sleeps') is the long-awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave, Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract and emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new-found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics and vacant dens on off-hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately-crafted nine-song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness."

Artist:	BEGUSHKIN
Title:	King's Curse
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 112CD

"Recorded live to tape in two days, after a sleep deprived month of Beefheart style creative lockdown, Begushkin -- Dan Smith's 8-headed hydra -- lay to rest the twilight folk of 2007's Nightly Things and re-emerge with the wicked and strange hard rock gypsy shake of King's Curse. Smith yells and carries on like a man possessed with tales of the damnation of a robber king and the band plays it ultra tight and ultra heavy. King's Curse is higher-tier creep-rock."

Artist:	BEGUSHKIN
Title:	King's Curse
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 112LP

Limited edition 180 gram vinyl LP version. "Recorded live to tape in two days, after a sleep deprived month of Beefheart style creative lockdown, Begushkin -- Dan Smith's 8-headed hydra -- lay to rest the twilight folk of 2007's Nightly Things and re-emerge with the wicked and strange hard rock gypsy shake of King's Curse. Smith yells and carries on like a man possessed with tales of the damnation of a robber king and the band plays it ultra tight and ultra heavy. King's Curse is higher-tier creep-rock."

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Clomeim
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 113CD

"Locust is proud to announce the release of Clomeim, the new studio album from New York's No-Neck Blues Band. Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline and a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged -- a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of Heresie era Univers Zero, and krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid -- a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages."

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Clomeim
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 113LP

Limited double vinyl LP version. "Locust is proud to announce the release of Clomeim, the new studio album from New York's No-Neck Blues Band. Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline and a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged -- a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of Heresie era Univers Zero, and krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid -- a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages."

Artist:	AMEN DUNES
Title:	Dia
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 116CD

"A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time -- especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes's 12 tracker Dia is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit that owes a debt to the DIY soundz of the George Brigmans of the world. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes -- Damon McMahon -- calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what'll come out of that."

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	At 6AM We Become The Police
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 117LP

"NNCK LP soundtrack for the upcoming NNCK movie of the same name, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer. This album presents recordings from the first NNCK rehearsal space at 195 Chrystie St. NYC in the years 1995-97. Two pieces were recorded for Harmony Korine's Gummo soundtrack but never released. Others are quintessential NNCK moments, including the first session joined by Butoh princess Michiko Takahachi, who instantly became a permanent member. The closing of the 195 Chrystie St. studio in 1997 marked the end of NNCK downtown as they set their sites for Harlem. This soundtrack and the upcoming film closely document this transitional period." - Nuss

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Artist:	ET SANS
Title:	L'Autre
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 002CD

Artist:	BAUDER & JASON AJEMIAN, MATT
Title:	Object 3
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 038CD

Artist:	LE DOIGT DE GALILEE
Title:	Object 5
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 057CD

Artist:	CAST KING
Title:	Saw Mill Man
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 074CD

Artist:	BASHO-JUNGHANS, STEFFEN
Title:	Last Days of the Dragons
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 082CD

Artist:	CARBONARA, ERIC
Title:	Exodus Bulldornadius
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 104CD

Artist:	FLYNT & CC HENNIX, HENRY
Title:	Dharma Warriors
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 114CD