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Artist:	SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN
Title:	Rare Wood
Label:	SPIRIT OF ORR RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SO 027CD

2004 release, repressed. "An expected gift is not worth giving. After several false starts, the wood is ready. With this stroke the Sunburned Hand Of The Man unleash their singular collective spirit into the common marketplace to provide an open door to those who have heard about, but not yet heard, the magic mayhem that is the music. The music on Rare Wood was recorded in the most lively of settings, and then brought together in this composite. A smattering of recordings that will separate the talkers from the walkers. Sunburned Hand Of The Man again brings you something you didn't expect, Rare Wood."

Artist:	TEMPLE OF BON MATIN
Title:	Infidel
Label:	SPIRIT OF ORR RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SO 038CD

"Ed Wilcox is constantly refining his art, his message. As a painter, he describes what you will find in his work with, 'my love of circus, the unrepentant whim of the Cobra Group, the recycled resurrections of Eduardo Paolozzi, and most important to me, Persian and Mongul miniatures.' Ed Wilcox approaches his musical efforts with the same level of thoughtfulness and joy in exploration. A self-declared 'Space Metal' band, there is much influence of Sun Ra (Philadelphia for crissakes!) as there is Judas Priest. Together with a crop of accomplished and loyal fellow travelers, the Temple Of Bon Matin has ventured in and out of sight, but has continually remained true to Ed's single vision of pushing clattering jazz through the heaviness of hard rock. The result is always explosive and primal, always Bon Matin. Infidel, Temple's sixth full length, is the record made when the pedal hits the metal. A full on blow out featuring Ed's powerful shouts and revving drum attack, amidst psychedelic-punk guitar blasts and blaring horns."

Artist:	RUSSELL, BRUCE
Title:	Gilded Splinters
Label:	SPIRIT OF ORR RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SO 049CD

"About the project: I have been interested in the use of sound recordings to make 'music' for a long time. In the early 1980s one of the things that drew me to the work of groups such as Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall and This Heat was their use of recordings as an element in their work, and as a way of restructuring played pieces once they had been recorded. In my own work, I started making tape works from day one, buying my first open reel tape machine in 1983, the same year I bought my first electric guitar. The first Dead C. album included 'The Wheel' and 'Mutterline,' both of which I constructed from tapes (1987). Later about half of the third Handful of Dust album; 'From a Soundtrack to the Anabase of St.John Perse,' was constructed in the 'studio' (1995). When I began to record under my own name, one of the things I wanted to focus on was tape work, as opposed to documentation recordings of live improvisations, which most of my other work has been. My first solo single was produced by the simple expedient of halving the tape speed, thereby doubling the beauty of the original ultra-lo-fi recording. A great boost to my resolve in this area was given by Ralf Wehowsky's invitation in 1996 to participate in what became the Tulpas project. His faith in me gave me confidence to consider my work as a form of composition, and has led directly to this album. In this regard, the support of Matthew Leonard has also been very helpful. My plan was to compile examples of my tape work over the last few years, as a way of showing the different approaches and developing methodologies that I have employed. Originally I envisaged a double CD, but this has proven to be both too expensive and ultimately too hubristic. Making these recordings has been a learning process, but a very satisfying one. My working practices have often been deliberately primitive and brutal, and I make no apology for that. It is the ideas and their expression that should be of interest, not merely questions of technique. It remains only to note the inspiring example of many more illustrious names in this genuinely twentieth century art form. I will not compile a list of names, as these lists have a way of becoming almost too famous, but national pride compels me to mention the late Douglas Lilburn. He founded, in 1966 at Victoria University of Wellington, the Southern Hemisphere's first Electronic Music Studio. Recently his magnificent analog electronic works have entered the digital domain in a long overdue re-edition. Hurrah!" --Bruce Russell, Lyttelton, 2004.

Artist:	SHRIN
Title:	Rin Liminal Switch Vols. 2 & 1
Label:	SPIRIT OF ORR RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SO 17

"Shrin is a band that was known in the late 1980s as Bimbo Shrinheads. They were founded in roughly the same northeast CT-area scene that sprung M16, Crystalized Movements and The Deadbeats. Rin Liminal Switch is a blistering foray into heavy feedback drone, bowed cymbals, and chants mixed with earnest and earthy folk rock coming together with an adeptness of styles that is perhaps comparable to the Sun City Girls. It is also an album that can be mindful of both Patty Waters and Sandy Denny at the same time. In many ways, Shrin could be pointed to as much of a keystone of the current ESP-Disk aesthetic as many of today's outsider troupes such as the No Neck Blues Band, The Tower Recordings, or perhaps Sunburned Hand Of The Man." Limited stock.

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