Browse by Label: TUMULT

Artist:	VA
Title:	Drone Records: A Selection of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 000CD

"An incredible collection of some of the best tracks from the early years of German vinyl-only drone label, Drone Records. An institution in the underground music community, every Drone release is ultra limited and hand assembled by the artists themselves. This compilation collects some of the most amazing early works, originally vinyl-only, available here on CD for the first time ever, from Maeror Tri, Alio Die, Dual, Ultra United, Delphium, Inade, Aube, Vance Orchestra, Osso Exotico, Klood, Vir, Reynols, Spear, Dronaement, Toy Bizarre, Tarkatak, Francisco Lopez, Kallabris, Yen Pox and Die Feinen Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim. A completely mesmerizing collection of droning, drifting bliss. From barely-there minimal ambience to thick clouds of whirring fuzz, to glistening expanses of ghost-like melody. Essential for all drone lovers. And of course recommended for fans of Colelcough, Chalk, Aidan Baker, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Tiermes, Noisegate, William Basinski, Philip Jeck, and the whole current crop of minimal CD-R soundmakers."

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:	WORMS
Title:	Pelican Songs
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 111

"Will Finland never cease to surprise us? How can one tiny country continue to produce so much progressive, transgressive, creative and fucking perfect experimental rock? Circle, Keuhkot, Avarus, Anaksimandros, Mieskuoro Huutajaat Pharoah, Overlord, Ektroverde, Skepticism, Kemialisett Ystavat. So here it is, finally, and man it is something. Five tracks of beautiful brutality. A dark and wintry, more motorik My Bloody Valentine, mixed with a little Circle and a little Filth-era Swans. Or some Frankensteinian dirge rock band, equal parts Godflesh, My Bloody Valentine, the Shadow Ring, and the Swans. The disc starts off with a massive 30 minute medley, a droning hypnotic dirge, like Terry Riley composing for Godflesh or the Melvins and quite reminiscent of Dutch riff gods Gore.Definitely for fans of all the above mentioned bands as well as connoisseurs of drone/dirge/doom. Crushingly beautiful."

Artist:	IRAN
Title:	The Moon Boys
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 121

"This is the second missive from San Francisco's premier NOISEPOP band, not noise pop in the jangly-pop-punk-San-Francisco-festival-tight-pants-thrift-store-t-shirt-wanna-be-on-MTV-bullshit sense, but the gorgeous-pop-songs-buried-under-a-thick-splatty-wall-of-buzz-hum-whir-skree-guitars-set-on-self-destruct-Beatles-filtered-through-Skullflower sense. Like Sebadoh or Pavement being backed up by Throbbing Gristle or Whitehouse. Or Nurse With Wound fronted by Elliott Smith. You get the idea. Gorgeous, heart-breaking, voice-cracking lo-fi love (and un-love) soup, delivered in a wavery falsetto, over gentle guitars naive drumming and strange but wonderful backgrounds woven from vocals, amp hunt, guitar buzz, as well tumbling low end and squealing feedback."

Artist:	SKULLFLOWER
Title:	Exquisite Fucking Boredom
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 212

"First release in 7 years from mighty UK heavy/drone/psych gods Skullflower. Matthew Bower (Sunroof!, Total ) resurrects his slumbering free-noise behemoth with this gorgeous blast of hypnotic, pummeling, droning crush, equal parts shimmering skree, damaged motorik rhythms, murky and druggy psych-rock riffs and swirling fuzzed-out guitars. The album's core is the epic, expansive and never ending, four part suite 'Celestial Highway', a sludgy Sabbathy seventies rock riff, repeated ad infinitum, a dangerously unstable entropic jam wherein the riff slowly drifts apart, sinking into a churning tarpit of abstract whir and hum, gradually mutating into a drifting, throbbing pulse, as warbly synths, chirping birds, and thick washes of dreamy sonic turbulence overtake and subdue any traces of the original riff. Mesmeric and hypnotic and totally otherworldly. Like UK mantric rockers Loop, on repeat play, while your boom box runs out of batteries, or a sweeter, prettier version of Dutch minimal metal gods Gore, or imagine Steve Reich or Terry Riley composing for Black Sabbath. Packaged in a gorgeous two tone digipak, and featuring sonic contributions from Vibracathedral Orchestra's Neil Campbell and produced by Colin Potter."

Artist:	REEKS AND THE WRECKS
Title:	Knife Hits
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT 217

"An old drum kit. Homemade amps. A dented old trombone. A bucket and a handful of firecrackers. The Reeks make a sound that is otherworldly. Dark and stumbling, folk-flecked basement blues. A mix of woozy slide guitar, swampy trombone, sparse and erratic percussion, tape hiss, amp buzz, shortwave interference and dark doomy brilliance. Like a ghostly, indie rock New Orleans funeral jazz band or Roland S. Howard fronting the Dead C. Haunting, mesmerizing, gorgeously raucous, dreamily creepy and absolutely unlike anything you have ever heard."

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:	VA
Title:	Painted Black
Label:	TUMULT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TUMULT BLK

Long awaited compilation of "covers" of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It BlacK", inspired by Fennesz's legendary Mego single. "A pop song ruined. Everyone's favorite becomes ours. A seamless whole: variations as movements of a single greater interpretation. An international appreciation/depreciation in sound." Artists include: Mieskuoro Huutajaat, James Plotkin's Joy Of Disease, Stilluppsteypa, Kit Clayton, Acid Mother's Temple, Hrvatski, The Tape-Beatles, Troum, Fennesz, Circle, and Loren Chasse

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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