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Artist:	CIRCLE
Title:	Andexelt
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 013CD

"Finally back in print!! America's original introduction to the masters of Finnish hypno-rock, Circle! Originally released on Finnish weird-prog label Metamorphos, Andexelt was the first Circle release widely available outside of Finland, released in the states on tUMULt in 2000. Out of print for years Andexelt is now available again. Nine tracks of droning, hypnotic neo-Kraut rock from one of our absolute all-time favorite bands. Finland's Circle are the northernmost heirs to the Krautrock tradition, taking basic riffs, stretching and reshaping them, creating bleak, ever-shifting underwater grooves and dizzyingly repetitive rhythms, sounding like an otherworldly This Heat or a more damaged Can. A mesmerizing wall of sound delivered with the sheer force of Loop or Godflesh, but with dark precision and melodic restraint. Mellow, delicate, jazzy passages intersect with crushing Bonham-esque beats. Fans of Salvatore and Tortoise and Mogwai and Trans Am and all other practitioners of epic bombastic hypno-rock or hypnotic math rock should definitely check this Finnish combo's ability to out-post most post-rock bands and out-space most spacerock bands. Includes a bonus 10-minute track and a kick ass secret track not on the original Metamorphos version."

Artist:	BURMESE
Title:	A Mere Shadow and Reminiscence Of Humanity
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 076

"The return of the four headed hydra, Burmese, San Francisco's grind/noise/sludge behemoth. Cutting a swath of mayhemic brutality and entropic dissonance, Burmese make their table-tossing, audience-baiting, tantrum-throwing peers look like charm school graduates. Punk rock Gallant to Burmese's skull crushing, soul poisoning, ear shredding Goofus. Now with an extra drummer and a renewed, dangerously unhealthy obsession with Whitehouse, Burmese have slowed things down a bit. Gone are the hyperspeed blast beats and in their place are midtempo dirges, stumbling drunkenly through nihilistic, grinding sludge, spewing bile and ultraviolence. Pounding militaristic beats demarcate vast expanses of throbbing feedback, gutteral growls, tarpit washes of bowel loosening low-end and 16 rpm grindcore."

Artist:	AVARUS
Title:	Ruskeatimantti
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 319

"This double CD collects the early recorded works of the mysterious Finnish free folk collective Avarus. Previously released as limited run CD-Rs and 7"s (in tiny runs of 50-200 copies), these tracks are a tantalizing glimpse into the mist shrouded musical world of Finnish underground music, equal parts the hypno rock of fellow countrymen Circle, the pagan ritualism of The Wicker Man, the droning throb of Faust, the propulsive rhythm of Can, and the lo-fi clatter and skree of the Dead C. Imagine a land of forests and fjords, a land of dark skies and windswept landscapes. Then imagine the sort of music this land would evoke. Droning hypnotic clattery free folk, dark and propulsive, mesmeric Krautrock, rhythmic pagan musical rituals, all detuned guitars and hand drums, chanting and wild free percussion, and everything in between. Avarus combine psychedelic folk rock, motorik Krautrock, free jazz and modern noise into a totally mesmerizing, totally unique modern avant noise/folk, unfurling lengthy meandering almost funereal jams, desolate and mournful, but dreamy and pastoral, machinelike and hypnotic at the same time. Strummed acoustic guitars frame distant throbbing caveman percussion, dreamy soundscapes are punctuated by occasional clang and clatter, all swaddled in the warm drone of amp buzz and ambient hum. Lo-fi, rambling, ramshackle blues jams mutate into wildly propulsive psych-folk with intensely strummed guitars and far-away flute melodies."

Artist:	SOLAR ANUS
Title:	Skull Alcoholic: The Complete Solar Anus
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT SA

"An essay by French writer/philosopher Georges Bataille... a burst of plodding pummel from UK free-drone outfit Skullflower... but also a band whose music conjures up a mysterious land of legendary monsters, ancient customs, cult beliefs and ritualized incest, all hidden just below the surface of our everyday world, a place only accessible through Matsuri, a group trance during which music and sound, lights and pictures help transport participants back to those mysterious other worlds and ancient times. Such is the strange world of Japan's mighty tranced-out psychedelic doomlords Solar Anus, whose sound most definitely exists as Matsuri, a music designed to lull us into a trance and carry us off...mesmeric, hypnotic and HEAVY. Here, for the first time ever readily available outside of Japan, is the entire recorded output of the legendary Solar Anus, all collected into one massive head crushing, mind melting double CD. Skull Alcoholic chronicles the band's dizzying trajectory, from stumbling, buzzing, bloody-stumped, sludge doom behemoths to druggy, tranced out psychedelic outer space visionaries, swinging wildly toward both extremes the whole time. An impossible blend of Black Sabbath, Hawkwind and the Boredoms, Flower Travellin' Band, Pink Floyd and the Melvins."

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