Browse by Label: WEIRD FOREST

Artist:	KLONDIKE & YORK
Title:	The Holy Book
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 002LP

2002 release, the earliest available Weird Forest album. From Arthur Magazine: "Chad Stockdale seemed like a pretty unassuming guy when we met, but his recordings on tenor saxophone, recorded with percussionist Nate Beier, are really wild. Under the procedural soubriquet, Klondike & York, the pair has released an LP, The Holy Book, that treads outsider jazz as strangely as Arthur Doyle might. Stockdale's tone is fractious and scattery, but follows neither the bellow nor the tinkle of the Euro free jazz tradition. If anything, he recalls the strangest players of the American fire music underground, who investigated internal chambers of passion with their reeds blazing softly. Skronky sax, scuddering drums, some wall-eyed synthesizer, everything blended like some sorta weird stew of darkly boiling orgone. Its one of the best free jazz duo records to come out of Sacramento since [your favorite here]. And frankly, its even better than that." --Byron Coley. Limited to 500 copies.

Artist:	STOCKDALE & KEVIN CORCORAN, CHAD
Title:	Kevin & Chad
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	WEIRD 003EP

2002 release. "This is the high and mighty speaker shredding first documentation of the duo of Chad Stockdale (Klondike and York) and Kevin Corcoran (Antennas Erupt, Get Get Go,). The idea behind this album was to make a hardcore record but through free jazz idioms. I played my tenor through a rat pedal and Kevin got in touch with his inner hardcore monster for the drums. Chris Woodhouse recorded for maximum potency. This is a 7" of loud whirlwind sudden blasts of howling, house-flattening, molten meltdown compression, chamber, free core. I'm VERY happy with this record. It came out just like I wanted." Limited to 300 copies on yellow vinyl with fantastic see-through cover art.

Artist:	HEXLOVE/FAULOUAH
Title:	Free Jazz From Slavery
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 007LP

"If one were dim enough to go about explaining the new double LP from Hexlove/Faulouah by pointing up parallels between it and the future-thinking music which has surely influenced its creator, I imagine the task wouldn't be too daunting. One may first notice that Free Jazz From Slavery is awash in the sublimely complex percussion patterns of 20th century composers like Harry Partch, Eugene Kurtz, and Iannis Xenakis. Or one might wonder if Zac Nelson, the man in the cockpit of this thing, hadn't been listening to Another Green World since he was in the womb. And certainly it wouldn't be a stretch to say that the jibing spirit of early-'80s Pere Ubu experimentation is all over the more flippant efforts like 'Don't Say I Didn't Warm Yah' and the watery blurb that opens the record, 'Aztec vs. Dolphin.' This, though, is the wrong way to go about listening to or talking about any of Hexlove/Faulouah's work. Musical ancestors are worn proudly on Nelson's sleeve, but as eagerly as he celebrates them, he also delights in taking them, along with himself, down a peg. The snarky punning of the album's title, the faux-shamanic chanting and cooing, the deliberately murked-up and buzzing arrangements, all belie an agenda that involves not only a glad embrace of the less austere reaches of avant-gardism but a pointed critique of its elitism and intellectual posturing. Tracks like the doom-laden 'Lots of Wings Carry Seeds,' which pulses like the metabolism of some slumbering extinct beast, display a staggering sense of grey beauty but are quickly undercut when Nelson begins to take a more blithe and self-deprecating tack. This, though, is not to the record's detriment; it never falls into mere novelty or self-parody. The sheer technical brilliance, evident on every track, earns quite a big spot on Nelson's cheek to put his tongue in. The most glorious moments, though, are those in which he is able to marry these two tendencies, as on the desperate and busy 'Grump up the Volume,' which opens the second side of the first record. And this is just the first record. All doubts that may have been lingering about Nelson's seriousness or capabilities vanish completely after even the most cursory listen to the second record. Alone, it is a startlingly focused and beautiful ambient masterwork, but it shines all the more when it is coupled with the chaos of the first record. The long, breathing pieces are tranquil and meditative, yet never naīve or on the look-out for a place in The New Age. Under every track, however, spare and delicate, lurks an anxiety that constantly threatens to swallow all delusions of well-being. Though it drones and broods, it is never without texture. Alive with the haunting organ of 'Exits Very Damp' or the subtle xylophone flourishes of 'Big Happy Lotus,' it manages to maintain a clean, coherent spirit without becoming sterile or devolving into massage music. The side-long closer and centerpiece of the album, 'Psychopomp,' though, is as sparse and heavenly as music gets, but it still attains such a raw human beauty that after you hear it, the last thing you want to do is lie down for a massage. Rather, you want to run out and find the human who created it and thank him." --Steve Rodgers

Artist:	SO SO MANY WHITE WHITE TIGERS
Title:	So So Many White White Tigers
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	PIC. DISC
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 009LP

2005 release. "San Francisco-based rock band So So Many White White Tigers play bad-energy, propulsive, off-timed noise skree with lots of ballsy guitar moves and dysfunctional vocal shrieks and squeals from Liza that are sure to sting and cause infection. Gerald lays waste to the drums and guitarist Ned positively shreds the strings. Garage-y punk and chunks of mammoth wall of noise, like if Harry Pussy made rock songs or something. Whatever it is, one thing's for sure -- something just ain't right with these kids. So So Many White White Tigers were born to come to your town and freak you out. Recorded by Mr. Chris Woodhouse. And we're not just saying it's good: the band was picked as a Bay Area Best by the SF Chronicle and the packaging, designed by Aaron Winters at Abide Visuals, was recognized as one of 2005's best designs in HOW magazine's International Design Annual." Limited to 660 copies on kitty-head collage picture discs.

Artist:	YELLOW SWANS
Title:	At All Ends
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 010LP

"At All Ends is the third major record in the Yellow Swans vast body of work. This record is an assured record of chiming drone and heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the Yellow Swans camp that are more hushed, and whisper with the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam-guided minimal transmission with dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink Oxycontin. Guitar lines sketch out a melodic vision that stupifies with hypnotic repetition with layer upon layer of rich and dense guitar chug build into multi-orgasm songscapes that leave the loins sore and the mind spent. An exhausting journey into pleasure and single-mindedness. Elements of lush drone stretch the proceedings in vast strokes. Yellow Swans veer towards Krautrock territory with this new record, and it will go down in the big books as their most beautiful and vibrant record thus far. Limited to 1000 copies with beautiful single pocket gatefold jackets with art by Jamie Potter."

Artist:	INCA ORE
Title:	Brute Nature versus Wild Magic
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 011LP

2005 release. "Inca Ore is the solo voice of Eva, the singer of such fine bands as Alarmist and Malibu Falcon. Inca Ore travels the cosmos on fiery phoenix mattresses with the voice of a goose-quilled cloud pillow siren calling to all the constellations in the universe. Eva uses her vocal range and delay complement to create the sounds of entire sorceress covens through her lone voice. Lovely psychedelic drone mixed with narcoleptic folk. An enchantress of the highest order! Side A was previously issued as a CD-R in a small pressing of 100 copies on the Collective Jyrk label. The B-side is a brand new track consisting of one astounding, 18-minute interstellar vocal trance-out!" Artwork by Aaron Winters at Abide Visuals.

Artist:	YELLOW SWANS AND MOUTHUS
Title:	Conan Island
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 012LP

"An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin' it out in the primordial mulch and all the gods are cowering in their presence. The dual intertwining guitar-attack impacts and fragments into the dense concrete percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing caterwauling skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic & heavy proportions... just like you want it to be. Play loud for optimum effect! Cover art by Brian Sullivan. Limited to 500 copies."

Artist:	YELLOW SWANS
Title:	Psychic Secession
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 016LP

2005 release. "This is the third Yellow Swans vinyl release on Weird Forest and they've really tattooed it out of the ballpark on this one. It's a pulse-pounding, synapse-blasting expedition straight to the cacophonous pleasure points of your innards. It must also be known that it's one of the most grooving releases I've heard all year, dig? Makes me shake it maniacal. Yellow Swans? Yeah, they do all these things, baby. Their ultimate release -- simply phenomenal -- features a treasure-trove of guests including Christina Carter, Inca Ore, Axolotl, The Dead Science, Gerritt, Silentist, The Cherry Point, Leif Sundstrom, White Rainbow, and Jeremy Romagna." Includes a side-long bonus track not on the CD versions! This is the vinyl edition of the CD release on Load Records. Limited to 1000 copies."

Artist:	FAMILY UNDERGROUND
Title:	Black Hole
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 019LP

2007 release. "Family Underground drenched the East Coast of the USA in molten syrup last year and they toted along a tour CD-R entitled Black Hole released by the fine folk of Secret Eye. Mega bummed I didn't get to feel their magic live but I ordered that tour disc post-haste. Man, when I got it, I was slain. I thought it was their finest work to date so I had to invoke it on vinyl. I tapped into the band's communication network and together we figured this would make a killer double LP, definitely one for the record books. So The Underground sent me a half hour of unreleased musics to fill the vinyl sides to fruition. Holy Hannah, was I unprepared for A! How well the new jams mind-melded with the other tracks. And B -- the superb variation of the entire work with paramount peaks and deep arcane valleys. Get it and trip!" Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl with full color gatefold jackets.

Artist:	GROUPER
Title:	Wide
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 027LP

"Grouper is Liz Harris and this is her second album, Wide. Submerged in this music, a vast pasture forms near a great sea just before dawn. The early morning vapors were everywhere hovering just above the ground. Soon the sun swells up and the vapors transmogrify into a tempest of hornets. The hornets envelope the sun with impressive fervor, but it melts them into haze again and the vapors migrate out to the sea. Grouper has collaborated with Jandek, Xiu Xiu, Ilyas Ahmed, Six Organs of Admittance, Jorge Behringer, Badgerlore, and others. This is the vinyl edition of the CD released on Free Porcupine Society." Limited to 1000 copies with beautiful tip-on style single pocket gatefold jackets featuring photography by Peter Harris.

Artist:	DEAD WESTERN
Title:	Dead Western
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	WEIRD 040EP

"Dead Western plays the type of music that makes genres obsolete. It is not that DW does the cross genre pollination clusterbarf, but that Troy Mighty's sounds exist outside of any one (or two or five) genres. Perhaps, just perhaps the music recalls the mellow, introspective side of Current 93 or the druggy downer folkishness of Legendary Pink Dots, but that is stretching things as much as claiming that Troy's voice is a melted version of Bing Crosby. Yes, there are elements of downerism and croonerdom in Dead Western, but DW goes deeper than weird and depressing. There is something beautiful in this bizarre world. Definitely not for the orthodox, but also far from being so out there that the music is incomprehensible. I am very much taken with this record." --Scott Soriano, Z-Gun. Limited to 500 hand-crafted copies on clear vinyl with die-cut, full color sleeves.

Artist:	SUGIMOTO, TAKU
Title:	Mienai Tenshi
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 042LP

"This is Taku Sugimoto's very first solo release originally released in 1988 by the artist himself in a small edition of 100 copies. Its a far cry from his current style. Back then, Taku was very much influenced by MC5 and The Velvet Underground. This is a fiery live in-the-red solo electric guitar improv blowout! Fans of Masayuki Takayanagi and High Rise take heed! Mastered from the original reel-to-reel tapes. Faithful reproduction of the original insert and the debossed handmade covers. Limited to 500 copies."

Artist:	PUMP KINN & DON/BRIAN MILLER & KEVIN SHIELDS
Title:	Virgin Passwords
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 050LP

"So Cal noise Nor Cal. Recorded at the end of nearly 9 months of touring, Virgin Passwords reflects a long evolution in sound and concept for Brian Miller & Kevin Shields. A combination of mechanical grindings and digital sweeps, mortal shovings and sudden transportations into secret chambers hold the secrets of the Virgins themselves. The Virgins that control the universe. The mafia of the cosmos. Beyond the cliched metaphor of purity and straight to literally not having sex at all. Because a Brian Miller & Kevin Shields performance proves that a noise show can be (hyper)active, crowd-engaging and knock everything to the floor without invoking angst and self-loathing. In other words, without hate-fucking everyone. Virgins. Pump Kinn & Don: 'Hijokaidan by DJ Screw.' One side apiece from each of these duos of destruction." Limited to 300 copies with beautiful DJ-style jackets designed by Aaron Winters at Abide Visuals.

Artist:	DEAD RAVEN CHOIR
Title:	Cask Strength Black Metal
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	3LP BOX
Price:	$52.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 666LP

"The most insane black metal release ever!!! Three, yes three vinyl LPs of the harshest sounding evil, atmospheric off-kilter black metal. Call it black metal folk. The loudest, noisest, crazy, insane-sounding blasts of skree with strange folky melodic undertones of banjo, cello, mandolin, and percussion and the most frightening vocals ever dared to be recorded. Many traditional folk songs shrouded in blasts of white noise armageddon. For fans of twisted, unique, raw black metal with a very bent edge. Pray (no, commit ritual sacrifice) to the underworld that your stereo survives! This release compiles the 'Sturmfucklinglieder,' 'Grand Ravishing Extravaganza,' 'Sevenfold Songs Of Death,' and 'Sheath And Knife' EPs, all previously released in very small pressings and all long, long gone!" Limited to 999 copies on pitch black vinyl with 7 inserts in a beautiful dark forest-clad box.

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