Browse by Label: POOBAH RECORDS

Artist:	BLACK MONK
Title:	Black Monk
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	7"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	P7 003EP

"After a short hiatus for tennis and philosophy, Black Monk is back with two painstakingly crafted beats. With both feet planted firmly in hip-hop, Monk uses his advanced knowledge of chords and harmony to offset his club banging rhythms. The result is an amazing blend of meticulous engineering and song crafting. Intricate enough to warrant countless headphone listens, but always with that 'punch to the gut' bass that explodes out of club speakers." Limited to a small pressing of 300 copies.

Artist:	RECCHION, TOM
Title:	The Incandescent Gramophone...
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	78
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	PB78 001EP

...and The Song of Mister Phonograph. "The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), Poo-Bah Records, and The Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission brings you an homage and exploration of the 78RPM vinyl medium in true 78 phonic quality. The proposal was to make a mysterious object out its time -- a conundrum. Something technologically obsolete, by the most standards. It is an homage to the beginnings of recording technology by combining current methodologies with older mediums of sound reproduction. The compositions derive its sounds from only 78rpm records -- the clicks, cracks, scratches, samples of previous recordings, internet mp3s, as well as the sounds that the record makes as an object in 3 dimensional space. Tom says, 'I wanted to make an object that will force people to seek out ways to listen to it. Most homes don't have 33rpm turntables anymore and even less with 78 players. For the 100 copies left in public spaces, the piece requires a personal effort of exploration. Those that don't ever listen to it and end up storing it on a shelf, it becomes an object of mystery and is transformed into something other than what it is intended for. It becomes a curiosity. Some will disregard it totally. I'm interested in a historical and technological collision and the confusion that may occur.'"

Artist:	TAKE
Title:	Took One
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	10"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	PBS 003EP

2006 release. "With the release of this 10" EP, Take continues to push the boundaries of instrumental hip hop music. As if his previous release Forward Motion From Behind Tall Weeds wasn't off center enough, here on Took One, we are treated to a pair of 9-minute songs that further blur the constraining lines of genre. 'Rehearsing my Thoughts,' and 'The Universe Collapses' are continuously evolving compositional collages leading the listener down a dust covered road of bit-crushed melodies and molested jazz samples. Imagine Dimlite and cross him with The Books, sprinkle in a bit of Morton Subotnick and you're halfway there. These are dense layers of meticulous samples intertwined with moments of symphonic beauty, wide-open drums."

Artist:	EISENSTADT, HARRIS
Title:	The All Seeing Eye + Octets
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PBS 007CD

"For his sixth recording as a leader, drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt takes on two different-but-related tasks; re-imagining the classic Wayne Shorter recording The All Seeing Eye and interpreting two new Eisenstadt chamber octets. Eschewing saxophones, trombone and piano -- Eisenstadt mixes a balance of wood (clarinet and bass clarinet) and metal (vibraphone) to re-cast The All Seeing Eye and Eisenstadt's octets as both forward-looking modern composition/improvisation and roots music."

Artist:	ACNODE ONE
Title:	Acnode One
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	2LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	PBS 008LP

30-year anniversary reissue of this LAFMS cassette artifact, in a deluxe gatefold double LP presentation. "When one goes digging into the caverns of free jazz, underground, DIY, improvised or noise music, the Los Angeles Free Music Society is a group that you'll find crawling alongside the greatest artists in its under appreciated history... and future! ACNoDE ONE was created by two of the LAFMS's key members: Dr. Id and Ju Suk Reet Meate of Smegma fame. Recorded in 1977 as a hand-made cassette, side A was Dr. Id and friends and side B was all Ju Suk. With influences ranging from Beefheart, Nervous Norvus, and Ron Geesin through the whole ESP catalog, this is one of the defining examples of the LAFMS sound. They travel with ease from Zappaesque freak outs, teeth rattling tape loop drones; psychedelic kiddy record cut ups, to a beautiful bowed bass solo in the vein of Scott la Faro or Henry Grimes. It marks an important turning point in Smegma's development. As Ju Suk points out, 'It was a time of great transition. With only one Smegma "gig" in two years, our music was going inward. The reel to reel tape decks at the time lent themselves to wild misuse... they were very exciting times experimentally.'"

Artist:	DENNIS DUCK
Title:	Dennis Duck Goes Disco
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	PBS 2425CD

Essential reissue of this LAFMS cassette-only release from 1977 -- the first in a series of archival LAFMS release from the label based in the store that was ground zero for the orginal movement to begin with -- Poo-Bah Records! Great booklet with new liner notes by Dennis, design by Tom Recchion. "Dennis Duck Goes Disco was originally released as a hand-made cassette in 1977. Only 20 were made, numbered and given to friends. The album was made entirely with a phonograph and records, utilizing skipping and pitch changes for most of the effects. In the 1970s amidst piles of disco 12"s, The Carpenters LPs, and Kiss records, emerged an idea: turntable manipulation. The concept had been used before and dates as early back as the '50s. Ace Farren Ford remembers collecting 'skips' on cassette tapes as early as '69 or '70 and DJ Kool Herc was said to have started scratching by at least 1973, so in 1977 a hand-made cassette produced with only records and a record player wasn't totally unusual. What was different was how Dennis used the turntable. His skills as a drummer combined with a pure understanding of sound and improvisation created a drum machine out of his record player. From loops that play out like he's using a sampler, to speaker confusing scrambles of squirrel music mayhem..."; "The classic 1977 L.A.F.M.S. cassette debut solo by the multi-talented Mr. Duck that changed the sound of music forever." --L.A.F.M.S. web site

Artist:	MYSTERY BAND, THE
Title:	Wood
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	PBS 818CD

Third album from this long-running CA-based group, including Ace Farren Ford (Ace & Duce, The Child Molesters, L.A.F.M.S.), and Richard Snyder (Capt. Beefheart circa the Doc At the Radar Station tour and Ice Cream For Crow album). "The Mystery Band was started as a conspiracy between Ace Farren Ford, Richard Snyder, Gary Riley & Pierre Dupuy in 1987. Originally a quintet including Maurice Jones (who left in 1996 for an illustrious solo career) the group debuted at the legendary and now defunct Palomino club in North Hollywood in March of 1988."

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