New Releases for March 2008

Index of New Releases for March 2008

CONFUSED RECORDINGS (GERMANY)

Artist:	BELSOM, RICHARD
Title:	Banshee
Label:	CONFUSED RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	CON 073EP

"The world famous Confused label says hello to a new artist: Richard Belsom. His debut track on Oliver Huntemann's cult imprint is called 'Banshee' and it is literally rocking as all hell. Plain and dry techno beats with super cool cymbal toppings underneath psychotic synth sounds and roaring basses that will turn any boring night into an extravagant techno party. To round out the package, it is up to our well known friends Piemont aka Phunklarique & Dejonka to deliver one of their rawest and most stripped-down remixes. Repetitive euphoria -- a must have!"

CONNAISSEUR RECORDINGS (GERMANY)

Artist:	ART BLEEK
Title:	Euphorized
Label:	CONNAISSEUR RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CNS 021EP

Arthur Pochon aka Art Bleek is the producer with a classically-trained jazz background who has released on labels such as Lounging Records, Rush Hour and Resopal Red. Art's sound has since mutated more and more in the direction of techno, minimal and deep house while still keeping a jazzy twist. With Euphorized, Art presents three outstanding and diversified tunes -- early '90s XTC vibes, to deep tech-house, these are tracks made for special moments in the club.

CONNAISSEUR SUPERIEUR (GERMANY)

Artist:	ROYA, SEBASTIAN
Title:	Andante
Label:	CONNAISSEUR SUPERIEUR (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CNSS 010EP

Sebastian Roya is back on Supérieur again, Connaisseur's sub-imprint, where he had his first release and his first hit. With "Andante," he shows his talent for massively drivin' voodoo grooves and weird soundscapes. He layers and builds until the track is a big rolling bulldozer no one can stop. Jens Zimmermann, a warhorse of electronic music for almost 20 years, is responsible for the outstanding remix. Sounds bustling about and echo chambers so 3D, you'd like to move into them.

CONSTELLATION (CANADA)

Artist:	EVANGELISTA
Title:	Hello, Voyager
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CST 050CD

We can call this a debut record of sorts, as it is the first album to be released under Carla Bozulich's new band moniker, Evangelista. Bozulich's first record for Constellation, issued in 2006, was released under her own name, and bore the album title Evangelista. That album title has now migrated to become the band name. So... this is the new album, titled Hello, Voyager, by the newly-named band Evangelista, featuring Carla Bozulich. You follow? No worries, there will not be a quiz. The Evangelista band continues to comprise Bozulich and Tara Barnes as its nucleus, and continues to build on its relationship with Montréal (where the last album was also made). Hello, Voyager was recorded in Montréal at the Hotel2Tango by Efrim Menuck in late summer 2007, with an even larger cast of Montréal musicians joining Carla, Tara and Shahzad Ismaily this time around, to work up a more stylistically diverse batch of songs. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes still underpin Carla's incantatory sung and spoken lyrics on the album's opening and closing tracks, but much of the rest of the record is more overtly composed. Blistering nuggets like the snarling 'Smooth Jazz' and the desperate 'Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space' are the most rocking tunes Carla has put to tape since the demise of The Geraldine Fibbers, while 'The Blue Room' (one of Carla's finest songs, and one she has been carrying around for many years) is finally captured in a stunning studio arrangement that includes organ, violin, cello and contrebasse. 'Lucky Lucky Luck' is a playful, sassy, fractured take on the misfit narrative and 'Paper Kitten Claw' is its methodical, reflective, poetic foil. Carla's voice perfectly sets and channels the prevailing mood on each song, and is strong as ever. The new album includes contributions from over a dozen Montréal players, including most of Thee Silver Mt. Zion (chiefly on string arrangements), as well as Nadia Moss (organ) and a corps of local drummers who bang out the thunderous rhythm track on 'Smooth Jazz' and drive the epic sprawl of the album's closing title track."

Artist:	THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA & TRA-LA-LA BAND
Title:	13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CST 051CD

"Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band have been making a big raw angry tender racket since the 2005 release of their last album, Horses In The Sky. With a focus on live performance and special projects over the past three years, the group proper has logged well over 100 shows in Europe and North America, in between sessions that yielded Thee Silver Mountain Reveries EP and Thee Silver Mountain Elegies Play War Radio tour (featuring four members of Mt. Zion and both members of label mates Hangedup), as well as collaborations with Carla Bozulich, Vic Chesnutt and Patti Smith in the studio and in concert. The music of the full band (two guitars, two violins, cello, contrebasse and drums) has grown louder, looser, full of spittle and tears. On 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons, riffs are the backbone more than ever. Anchored by new drummer Eric Craven (ex-Hangedup), the band works its slow build and burn with newfound patience, sinuousness and ferocity. Whether methodically framing walls of sound over the four-on-the floor punk dirge of '1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound' or exploding in sheets of free noise and melody on 'Black Waters Blowed,' the band has never rocked harder and has never sounded more determined, desperate and driven. A stuttered blues riff is the foundation for the album's title track, making its appearance after a blisteringly minimalist intro. 'Engine Broke Blues' features a gorgeous set of chords that build inexorably from multiple guitar, string and organ lines. Fans of the group will be familiar with much of this material from the band's live shows over the past couple of years. The recording, undertaken at the newly renovated Hotel2Tango facility in Montréal and co-engineered by Howard Bilerman and Radwan Moumneh (who is also the band's live sound person), ups the ante considerably, with crackling guitar crescendos setting the pace for dive-bombing swirls of strings, while Efrim's voice rasps and wails words of worry, hope and fury throughout. The band's hallmark group vocal passages are positively spine-tingling."

CORWOOD INDUSTRIES

CRAY1LABWORKS (SPAIN)

Artist:	MARTINEZ
Title:	Burning The Midnight Oil EP
Label:	CRAY1LABWORKS (SPAIN)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	C1LW 013EP

"Played by: Adam Beyer, Magda, Loco Dice, Tadeo, 2000 and One, Miss Kittin, Laurent Garnier, Joel Mull, X-Pansul, Matt Star. Groovie, dancefloor friendly and fresh is how the latest Martinez reference opens. It comes through Cray1labworks, again breaking frontiers, the Spanish label counts on the Danish genius Martínez, banner of Re:Connected, at the summit of current minimal. 'You' is an orgy of sound layers, frequencies and blurred voices. 'Stavanger' moves faster, with a vibrant percussion, overlapping and ever-changing. Dark minimal tech, remarkably complex & absolutely catchy. Perfect for even the most demanding clubs. 'Burning The Midnight Oil' opens with a rebellious force. Drums flying and bodies moving, the perfect mix between ritual & techno percussion. Suddenly it transforms into house: thick pads moving down your spine. And you are surrounded."

CUNEIFORM

Artist:	MILLER, PHIL
Title:	Digging In
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 034CD

2008 repress. "Guitarist Phil Miller started his career as a member of Delivery. After Delivery's demise, he ended up with Robert Wyatt who had just left Soft Machine in Matching Mole. Matching Mole ended prematurely due to Robert's paralyzing accident, and Phil found himself playing with some other ex-Delivery people for a band that eventually metamorphosed into Hatfield and the North. After two critically acclaimed and large selling albums with Hatfield, Phil continued on after their break up with 3 of the 4 members in National Health. When National Health came to an end, Phil began assembling his own band, In Cahoots in the early 1980s. Since that time, Phil has released 9 albums under his or In Cahoot's name. Guitarist and composer Phil Miller was a founding member of Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North and National Health, and has been in the public eye for over 35 years! Originally released in 1991, this was Phil's third solo album and features musicians who have played with Gong, Mike Oldfield, John Surman and many, many others. For fans of: Hatfield and the North, National Health, Picchio dal Pozzo, Soft Machine, Frank Zappa."

Artist:	THE STICK MEN
Title:	Insatiable
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 151CD

2008 repress. "In the early '80s, The Stick Men ruled the Philadelphia new/no wave scene. Reminiscent of James Chance and the Contortions with more hyperkinetic energy (!!), they created a frenzied psycho-funk-punk sound that featured gut-wrenching timing, extraordinary charm, personality with a plus, and tons of good humor. This CD contains the The Stick Men's entire recorded output as well as rare tracks from live radio broadcasts. Also included is bonus CD-Rom material: a 20 minute Quick Time video of the band. The band remains an incomparable phenomenon to this day."

Artist:	MATS/MORGAN
Title:	Trends and Other Diseases
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 267CD

"This was the first album release by Mats/Morgan, recorded in 1993-1995 and which was released only in Sweden. It has been remastered and includes a 15 minute bonus track. With this release, Cuneiform begins a reissue series that will eventually see all six of Mats/Morgan's Swedish-only albums released outside of Sweden for the very first time. Mats and Morgan have worked with a number of Frank Zappa-related musicians such as Terry Bozzio, Mike Keneally, Steve Vai, Denny Walley and Dweezil Zappa on various projects, including the Grammy Award-winning Zappa's Universe album in 1994."

DATAPUNK (GERMANY)

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Artist:	JANDEK
Title:	The Myth of Blue Icicles
Label:	CORWOOD INDUSTRIES
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	COR 0790

Artist:	KUSSEROW, FRANK
Title:	The Core/Atomsplit
Label:	DATAPUNK (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DTP 029EP