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Jake Kobrin 
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Joined: September 20 2008 Status: Offline Points: 1303 |
 Posted: September 20 2009 at 02:38 |
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I go to this store all the time (in real life zomg) and it's surprisingly small but it has a fantastic selection, especially for metal.
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avestin
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625 |
Posted: October 03 2009 at 09:09 |
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.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. Beloved Customers and Friends: Hi folks! Once again, it's Friday night (or Saturday morning, as the case may be) and we're cranking out the latest AQ New Arrivals list. Betty Davis is blaring in the front of the store as we write this, Andee's new favorite band True Widow is blasting in the back (hopefully coming soon on an upcoming list), alternating with a reissue of his favorite local band from when he was 14, San Diego's ASSASSIN! (hopefully on an upcoming list as well!). We're exhausted but almost done, and we're feeling good about this week's selection of music reviews. Also good about the impending weekend. Last time we sent out a list it was on the eve of Root Strata's On Land festival, which was awesome. This weekend, a different and much bigger festival is scheduled in SF, the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass fest up in Golden Gate Park, always worth checking out so we're looking forward to that. Also in the park this weekend is the World Veg Fest, where you can go to try all sorts of delicious vegetarian foods, check out various local and non-local veggie businesses, or just learn about vegetarianism and animal rites, and weirdly enough, that's where Andee's headed this weekend (mostly to visit his pals who run the amazing Food Fight Grocery in Portland, check it out: http://www.foodfightgrocery. The Record Of The Week honors this time 'round go to two releases. One, a long overdue, eagerly anticipated, utterly essential reissue. From the UK's Teenage Filmstars, a double cd featuring not one, not two, but three albums from this band we always argue should have been bigger than My Bloody Valentine. We made the reissue of Star a Record of the Week last year, and two of the albums included on this new reish (1993's Rocket Charms and 1997's Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness) are as good or BETTER. Can't recommend it enough. THIS is why we have a "Record Of The Week" award. Get it!!! The other Record Of The Week is the new album from Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval and her Warm Inventions. It's been worth the wait, this mysterious chanteuse delivers a chilling and beautiful hazy pop record that all her fans here are absolutely swooning over. And, as usual, there's plenty o' highlights... AMORT: Now on vinyl, a killer compilation of previously cassette-only jams from this abstract doomlord. ANCESTORS: The heavy stoner rock Ancestors unleashes some crushing prog epics. ASTRA: Speaking of prog, this band brings back the '70s stylings of Yes, King Crimson, and the like...and we like! THE BEETS: Now on cd, from Captured Tracks, this naive lo-fi garage pop gem. PIERRE BERTHET: An experimental installation of dripping water, long wires, tin cans, & loudspeakers makes for one of the most interesting drone recordings we've heard in a while! BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB: '70s library music reissued (and/or revamped), icy electro Kraftwerkian grooves we can't get enough of! BOREDOMS: 2x12" vinyl of the latest in the Super Roots series, featuring a super cool remix from disco DJ Lindstrom! CARTER FAMILY: Essential old timey bluegrass reissued on vinyl by the wonderful Monk label. ANDREW CHALK x 4: Four great discs from this dronologist, finally back in stock! CIRCULATORY SYSTEM: With Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel on drums, the new CS might be one of the best pieces of pop from the Elephant 6 camp since the classic Olivia Tremor Control daze. Coulda been a third ROTW... CIRCUS: Reissue of 1969 British pop/psych/jazz album gem, featuring fuzzy groovy covers of both the Beatles and Mingus. THE CLIENTELE: Warm snuggly pop from these UK faves. ALICE COHEN: An intense sketchbook of sonic seances on this Olde English Spelling Bee LP. COLD CAVE: Now on vinyl, the Cremations collection from our number one coldwavefaves. ERIC COPELAND: Black Dice guy gets more abstract and repetitive on this mind blowing solo disc made with broken gear. ELIZABETH COTTEN: Nice vinyl Smithsonian Folkways reissue from this country/folk guitar legend. BETTY DAVIS: '70s funk diva's UNRELEASED 1976 album, holy crap! And it's even better than we'd hoped! ELM: 1/2 of Barn Owl (our half) is back with a new, limited Digitalis cd of his hazy, heavy guitar dronefolk. JOHN FAHEY: Collection of crucial tracks from Fahey's lost years in the '80s and '90s on the Varrick label. FAR EAST FAMILY BAND: Classic cosmic Japanese progpsych produced by Klaus Schulze, originally released in '75, reissued. THE FRESH & ONLYS: Another 7" blast of fuzzed out garage pop from these SF noise poppers. BILL FRISELL: Lovely album of sepia toned, haunting short instrumentals from this guitar master. GANGLIANS: 7" on Captured Tracks of slightly new wave-y, very Beach Boys influenced, reverby fuzz pop from this great band. LISA GERMANO: Young God album number 2 from Ms G, bleak and beautiful. THE GIRLS: 7" from local sensations, following their popular full length last list! GIRLS AT OUR BEST: '80s post punk pop reissue for fans of recent Slumberland darlings Liechtenstein especially! GRASS WIDOW: Another self-titled 12" vinyl release from this Bay Area art punk combo! HARVEY MILK: Limited. Vinyl. Live. HARVEY MILK!!!! MAYER HAWTHORNE: Retro soul genius from Stones Throw. HEADS: Vinyl-only, killer limited live album recorded on tour in Europe w/ Wooden Shjips, super spacious drone drenched psychedelic garage rock heaviness!! HORDE OF HEL: Terrifying Swedish black metal blasphemy, up there with Funeral Mist, super heavy and strange and intense. HUNX & HIS PUNX: Vinyl-only (so far) collection of out of print "gay" singles from this fun band. IMMORTAL: The blizzard beasts are back! Better than ever even. Cd and limited import vinyl. JAN DUKES DE GREY: 2-on-1 reissue of this UK prog/folk outfit's two albums, crucial for Comus fans!! LEYLAND KIRBY: Aka The Caretaker, 1st part of a vinyl trilogy, blurred 78 sourced ambience for cold grey rainy days. KOWLOON WALLED CITY: SF locals bring the heaviness, again. KUUPUU: Imagine a Finnish forest Grouper! L'ACEPHALE: Now on vinyl! Their latest unleashings of avant outsider black metal mystery. LIGHT: 2nd cd-r from of doomed, droned, slowcore crawl from this dark duo. MARK LORD / MORGAN EGG: Limited split LP, Lord going for synth pulses and drum machine propulsion, Egg all about industrial drone, both sides pretty cool indeed. BARBARA LYNN: Water label reissue of 1968 lp by this not-well-known-enough soul singer. MOON DUO: New Sacred Bones label vinyl only 12" from this fantastic Wooden Shjips side project!! THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: Lush, sometimes rocking new 4AD album longtime AQ fave, on cd and while they last limited purple (as well as black) vinyl. NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS: Very limited, very lovely, very droney new double cd + comic book from NSB. PASTELS / TENNISCOATS: Twee pop teamup, between the Scottish vets and their Japanese friends. PAX NICHOLAS: Super Afrofunk reissue! THEE OH SEES: Ol' John Dwyer does it all on this new Oh Sees joint! OM: Break out the bong, Om is back!! YOKO ONO: Also now on vinyl, the great new Yoko album featuring Cornelius among others. PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART: More practically perfect sunshiney jangle pop from these big time aQ fave. ISRAEL QUELLET: Another disc of fantastical noisemaking from this Swiss sonic alchemist. ELIANE RADIGUE: Long overdue reissue of this insanely limited disc of varispeed tape music, drone drone drone... RAMESES III: Hazy ambient daydream guitarscapes from this UK trio. SNOWBLOOD: The metal Mogwai? Four new tracks of post rock that explode into grinding crushing heaviness! TIMES NEW VIKING: The ruling lords of the kingdom known as sh*tgaze, offer up another lo-fi noisepop masterpiece! TRANSITIONAL: Members of God, Head Of David, Fear Falls Burning, Jesu, and others, create heavy, brooding, industrial metallic drones and rhythmscapes. So good! THE SANDWITCHES: Debut from this awesome all female SF pop band! SIMON FISHER TURNER: Super limited cassette, one side field recordings, the other solo piano pieces for film, both sides quite cool. SILVER PINES: Shoegazey stoner country-rock, a new aQ fave, now available on vinyl! STROSZEK: Latest in the ongoing Lovecraft tribute series, this one is dark and acoustic, a dreamy abstract minimal bit of haunting folk from the Frostmoon Eclipse member. V/A CIAO MY SHINING STAR: Long overdue tribute to the genius of Miracle Legion's Mark Mulcahy, a star studded compilation to honor his recently deceased wife. V/A KONKANI SONGS: Amazing compilation of Konkani music from Trikont, a record that could have easily been on Sublime Frequencies! V/A MATA LAPENA: A new MISSISSIPPI comp, a fantastic collection of mysterious sounds from all over the world, with nice Chris Johansen cover art. KURT VILE: Latest from this lo-fi / classic rock / punk rock phenom, his best yet. SYLVIE WALDER: Ambient washes and slow burning drones created from collaged tapes and field recordings and piano, so lovely. WHITE HILLS: 4 song 12" of blissed out space rock heaviness from these long time aQ faves. LIMITED of course... THE XX: Sleek and sexy post punk electronic radness from this UK combo. Plus lots more, some other cool "now-on-vinyl" items, a few neat items for the more metal amongst you, more kid stuff from They Might Be Giants, and other treats... Read On! But first, got another ticket giveaway. Local noise rockers Kowloon Walled City, whose bad ass debut full length is reviewed on this week's list, played yesterday with Kylesa, a show we mistakenly announced as KWC's record release party. That wasn't, but THIS is: aQuarius recOrds and Alcoholocaust Presents RECORD RELEASE PARTY FOR KOWLOON WALLED CITY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23RD Annie's Social Club / 917 Folsom Street @ 5th Street / San Francisco KOWLOON WALLED CITY (Record Release Party / on Perpetual Motion Machine Records) Headliner http://www.myspace.com/ http://inthewalledcity.com/ MADRASO (from Seattle, WA) http://www.myspace.com/madraso http://madraso.com/ LUCIKA (from Eugene, OR) http://www.myspace.com/ CARTOGRAPHER (members of Replicator) http://www.myspace.com/ Doors open at 8:30pm / Show at 9:30pm $7.00 Admission / 21+ We have two pairs of tickets to give away, if you want 'em, just email [email protected] with the subject line KOWLOON TIX, and we'll pick two winners at random. Thanks as always to the aQ faithful! Now on with the list... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ |
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avestin
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625 |
Posted: October 10 2009 at 08:33 |
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___________|_______|_________ ______________|_______|______ _________________|_______|____ Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings! Some of you may have been expecting this (like if you read our blog) but for the rest of you - SURPRISE! Yes, it's -another- Aquarius Records New Arrivals list, only one week after our last one! We bumped it up a week like this back in August when Allan had to go away to a wedding, and now we're bumping the list up a week -again- in order to get us back on the original schedule (which will prevent us from having to do a list on Christmas Day, for one thing, which might have been a little inconvenient). We suppose we could have bumped it back a week instead to accomplish the same thing, but then you'd be waiting 3 whole weeks for a list from us and that would be a bummer, wouldn't it? Much better to get two installments of our reviews two weeks in a row. And don't worry, even though we only had one week to get this thing together, we didn't half ass it (any more than usual). There's a ton of good stuff. In fact, it really makes us realize just how much great music is constantly being released, after all, this list isn't much shorter than our usual ones. Though, there was lots more than we wanted to get to but couldn't, being pressed for time... and then there were some things we DID review, but our suppliers let us down and we didn't get 'em in time... but there's always next time for those. So we beefed up this list a little bit with a special SALE section, at the bottom, check it out. Something else to check out, local folks: the 2nd Annual Frisco Freakout, an all-ages, all-day psychedelic rock extravaganza being held tomorrow Saturday October 10th at Thee Parkside. Co-sponsored by KUSF, Arthur Magazine, and Aquarius Records, presented by Heavy Lode, benefiting Creativity Explored. Doors at 1:30 in the afternoon, show starts at 2pm, and goes 'til probably 2am... Here's the whole amazing lineup/schedule: 2pm Heavy Hills, 3pm Powell St. John & The Aliens, 4pm 3 Leafs, 5pm Lumerians, 6pm Wooden Shjips, 7pm Sun Araw, 8pm Barn Owl, 9pm Citay, 10pm Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, 11:15pm Magic Lantern, 12:30am Liquorball with Steve Mackay (from The Stooges)!!! Wow. Should be rad, last year's was a blast. Don't miss it. For more info, go to www.friscofreakout.com Also, be sure to watch our blog and/or Twitter for one or more special announcements in the very near future about some upcoming instore performances that promise to be very exciting. Well, they're not 100 percent confirmed (which is why we're not giving you the details now) but seem likely... so stay tuned. Ok, back to the reviews at hand. We've got two Records Of The Week. One an out-of-the-blue new fave from a band we hadn't ever heard of before, the other a crucial reissue (among several, we're also highlighting) from one of our all time faves, never before reviewed by us though. The new band is True Widow, a 'stonergaze' slowcore indie rock act from Texas that we can't stop listening to. The old fave is the one and only Jesus Lizard, with arguably their best ever album, Goat, newly reissued and remastered, with bonus tracks and new liner notes, the works. (You'll find all their other great Touch and Go reissues in the Highlights section as well, unfortunately though we haven't been able to quantities enough of the vinyl reissues to list, just the cds for now.) And here are the Highlights: A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: The most return of 'NYC's loudest band', and it's the dream fuzz blowout we were hoping for. THE ACCUSED: Yes, a NEW album from these punk-metal splatter masters, on Southern Lord! AKATOMBO: Limited edition, oddly packaged cd+dvd-r artifact from a mysterious sound artist melding dubstep with industrial soundscapery and more. BARN OWL: New vinyl-only Root Strata release from local fave dronelords!! BLIND BLAKE: The wonderful Monk label's latest vinyl release of vintage blues! BLO: 2-on-1 reissue of a couple early '70s Nigerian Afro-funk fuzz rock classics. BUILT TO SPILL: Yay! More twangy, swirly, expansive and super rocking indie rock guitar heroics from these longtime faves. EVAN CAMINITI: 1/2 of Barn Owl (that's not Elm) presents a solo disc on Digitalis of heavy smoldering droneguitar bliss. ANDREW CHALK: Back in print, another sublime essential from this UK dronemaster. VIC CHESNUTT: Another powerful and epic and DARK outing on Constellation from Mr. Chesnutt. DE KIFT x 2: An LP and 7" reissued on MISSISSIPPI from this late '80s Dutch artpunk group. DEMDIKE STARE: Mysterious blackened DUB from this sinister, cinematic UK duo, featuring one of the Finders Keepers fellas. DIDIMAO: Dark and spastic, creepy and crawling f**ked up sound from this local band, LP only. EIAFUAWN: Limited LP of warm blissy home brewed 4-track dreampop. FACTUMS: Vinyl only release of this band's gloomy gothic post punk new wave music, getting kind of soundtracky too. THE FUN YEARS / .CUT FEATURING GIBET: Limited split 10" from warbly ambient turntably faves the Fun Years and another cool group. THE GATES OF SLUMBER: The latest and perhaps greatest from these Circle Of True Doom stalwarts! GOSSIP: Now on a major label, produced by Rick Rubin! Still HAMSOKEN: Twisted, synth-heavy black metal from one of the members of Rorschach! HIDDEN CAMERAS: One of this year's best indie pop albums! MICHAEL HURLEY: Another MISSISSIPPI label LP reissue!! DEREK JARMAN: Limited cassette release on Tapeworm, spoken word from interviews with LEYLAND KIRBY: 2nd limited edition release in the vinyl trilogy from ambient drone haze genius Kirby aka The Caretaker. JOSH LAY: First proper cd release from this out of the ordinary noise artist. JESUS LIZARD x 3: We made Goat our ROTW, but arguments did ensue that we could have picked any of these other JL reissues: Down, Liar and Head/Pure. MELVINS: Everyone's favorite heavies made even weirder by a bunch of insane remixers, including Eye from the Boredoms, Matmos, Merzbow, MERCEDES HELL: 7" single from the latest in the New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal (i.e. Circle and friends). MISSISSIPPI SHIEKS: Another great Monk label LP, collecting some of the best of this classic country string group. MUM: Lovely new full and lush record from this Icelandic group, now with cellist Hildur Gudnadottir as a full time member. NO BALLS: Debut 7" of damaged lofi hypnotic looping metallic krautpunk from one of the members of the frickin' BRAINBOMBS! ON: Type label reissue on cd and LP of the 2003 collaboration of Sylvain Chaveau and Steven Hess of Pan American and Haptic, with additional input from Deathprod! PSYCHIC REALITY: A haunting, damaged and enchanting cd-r from local soundstress Leyna Noel. For fans of Grouper, Kuupuu and The Skaters... HOPE SANDOVAL: Along with her new album (Record Of The Week last list) there's also a reissue of Bavarian Fruit Cake! MATT SHOEMAKER: Limited edition cd-r from this cool dronemusik dude. SPARKLEHORSE + FENNESZ: Hushed dreampop and drifting drones from this totally right on collaborative pairing, should have happened sooner! SPIRACLE: Limited, expanded 2cd reissue of an even more limited cd-r by expatriate Japanese acoustic drone designer, beautiful stuff. BERNARD SZAJNER: Reissue of an unclassifiable, Magma-related, 1980 French coldwave synthprog concept album, very weird and cool. TERRORAZOR / H418OV21.C: Super limited split 7" release from one of the guys in Varghkogarghasmal and some electronic metal weirdos named after a Beherit album. THORR'S HAMMER: Vinyl reissue of the very first Southern Lord release! TO KILL A PETTY BOURGEOISIE: Hazy midnight dream drift and drone with with ethereal female vocals on this new Kranky release! V/A PSYCH FUNK 101: Incredible compilation of vintage fuzz/funk/psych rarities from around the world, highly freakin' recommended! THE VAN PATTERSON QUARTET: Amazing blown out psych garage fuzz from the '60s (supposedly) on the limited ed. Tapeworm tape label. VARGHKOGHARGASMAL / H418OV21.C: 'Wooden metal' horde shares a split cassette with another weird black metal outfit, also on the split 7" mentioned above. WHEN BITTER SPRING SLEEPS: Super limited, hand burnt (with flame) cd-r of Jewelled Antler-y black metal recorded outdoors, in a nature preserve!! Plus plenty more cool stuff, including as we mentioned a bunch of special sale items... so read on! And thanks again as always for buying your records from us. It's what keeps us going! We'll be back in TWO weeks with another list. Jam packed with more amazing sounds as always. Have a great weekend, now on with the list... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625 |
Posted: October 24 2009 at 09:26 |
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((+:+:+:+:+:+ aQuarius recOrds ((+:+:+:+:+:+ New Arrivals #331 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ October 23, 2009 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ Beloved Customers and Friends: Hey hey hey! Thanks for tuning in to another of our New Arrivals lists! Hope everyone's having a nice October. Its sure was beautiful sunny, remarkably summery day here today in our neck of the woods, though we were mostly indoors unfortunately, getting tonight's list all ready for you. We were a bit behind, 'cause this week's been hectic. On Sunday, of course, we hosted Yo La Tengo who played a fantastic instore for a happy crowd of fans who jammed into the our small space to see 'em. The band had a great time, and so did we. Big thanks to YLT for "supporting the scene" here at AQ and being such super nice people. Also thanks to Tartine baker and Ritual coffee for helping with the hospitality for YLT. Then, as the week went on, we had some other distractions. First off, our pals Jussi and Mika from Finland's Circle came to town to visit, having driven across the USA from Miami on vacation with their girlfriends! They wanted to play an instore too, as their duo Ratto Ja Lehtisalo, but with Andee on drums. Alas there wasn't time to make it happen, too bad, would have been cool. Although Andee, who's already busy with school learning computer graphics stuff, and dealing with tests and projects and all that good stuff, was a bit relieved, 'cause he's already stressing out practicing his drum parts for a very soon upcoming special one-time reunion show with his old band P.E.E.! That's next week, on the 29th, watch our Twitter feed and blog for info about the show... Furthermore, this past week also included Allan's 40th birthday, and of course a great deal of celebration was associated with that (he even got to hear "Happy Birthday" sung to him in Finnish!). Jim just returned from tour, Nick went down to LA to play a show, there's been a lot going on. But as always, none of that stopped us from getting the ol' list together, and it's a big one this time, lots of great stuff. Only one Record Of The Week, but TONS of highlights, many of which could have also been picked as ROTWs, really. The Record Of The Week is from former Kompakt label artist Klimek, doing Pop Ambient in a dark haunting cinematic style on "Movies Is Magic", a disc that itself is magic. The tons of Highlights include TWO new Mississippi titles, TWO Boris vinyls, TWO new Sublime Frequencies, and too many more cool things to include in this sentence, so here's the rundown... AIR: New disc of gorgeous electronica from these French faves. ARMAGEDDON: Hard rocking mystical psychedelic proto metal classic reissued! A STORM OF LIGHT: Hot off a split with Nadja, some serious post rocking doom heaviosity from a member of heavy(metal)weights Neurosis. BACHELORETTE: Killer new single from this excellent NZ songstress! AIDAN BAKER + BRANDON VALDIVIA: One half of Nadja teams up with a drummer for some spaced out blissy jazziness, super limited 3"cd. BARE WIRES x 2: Two records from this fuzzed out garage rock Snake Flower 2 side project. BASEMENT JAXX: Another awesome batch of modern dance music from these masters. BASILLICA: Solo joint of creepy abstract riffage from one of the members of UK dronedoomdruglords Bong. BLACK HEART PROCESSION: Latest record from these San Diego dramatic doom troubadors, cd, lp and Black Heart shaped USB locket! BLOODLINE: Bad ass Swedish black metal featuring members of Naglfar, Shining, and Ondskapt. DOCK BOGGS: A vinyl reissue of some classic American folkmusic from Dock Boggs, one of our all time favorites! BO MARLEY VS. DISRUPT: Tripped out 8bit video game dub music! BONNIE PRINCE BILLY: Two song single, both covers, BPB covering Susanna K. Wallumrod aka Susanna & The Magical Orchestra. BORIS x 2: Feedbacker available again on vinyl, and volume 2 in the new 7" series. CALIFONE: Another incredible bit of brooding moody tang from this post Red Red Meat combo, one of their best yet. CLUBROOT: Our dubstep record of the year, now available on vinyl, totally different mixes, comes with the original cd! Two records in one, blissed out dubbed out beauty. CONGA DE LOS HOYOS: A mind blowing collection of carnival music from Eastern Cuba, released on Soul Jazz sublabel World Audio Foundation. CONVERGE: The legendary masters of grinding explosive heaviness return, another post Jane Doe classic! CURSILLISTAS: Abstract, clattery foresty folk drone, from these mysterious sonic alchemists, gorgeous packaging, on Time-Lag. THE DEVIL'S ANVIL: Nice new reissue of this Middle Eastern styled fuzz rock gem from '67, an AQ Record Of The Week in 2001. EAGLE TWIN: Now on vinyl!! Heavy Southern Lord duo, ex-Iceburn! ENOID: Buzzing black metal insanity from this sick Swiss one man band. ESPERS: First record in three years from this Philly collective, sun dappled, gauzy nocturnal medieval acid-psych! EXPO 70: Super limited 3"cd-r, more gorgeous spaced out kraut drone drift. FLAMING LIPS: The new record, and the most f**ked up and freaked out disc from these guys in AGES. f**k BUTTONS: Record number two from FB: a noisy f**ked up head spinning chunk of noise rock bliss pop infused with all manner of electronics!! So good. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS: Twangy saucy garage rock from this long time fave, includes on track that sounds almost like Earth! GROUP BOMBINO: Another awesome modern world music artifact, the second part of the Tuareg guitar music from Agadez series on Sublime Frequencies. GROUP DOUEH: The lp version disappeared in no time, but now we've got the cd, another fantastic Sublime Frequencies. HARDAL: Another amazing Turkish psych reissue! HARMONIA & ENO '76: This lost krautrock classic finally gets a proper reissue. MICHAEL HARRISON: Incredible, just intonation solo piano that has been blowing our minds. HAT: They may be called Hat, but these Norwegians are as grim and kvlt as they come! HEY COLOSSUS / DETHSCALATOR: Killer heavy tag team, one half sludge-y doom, one half f**ked up noise rock. HIDDEN CAMERAS: Smart, infectious pop we just can't get enough of. HYPOTHERMIA: The last killer collection of loping blackened depressive jangle now on vinyl! INCA ORE: Brand new full length of high end shimmer and effect drenched vocal soft noise balladry. So good. KAITO: Newest disc of techno bliss from this Japanese DJ, on Kompakt! KARUNA KHYAL: Long awaited reissue of this Japanese seventies hippy psychedelic masterpiece. KRAFTWERK x 3: Three Kraftwerk classics remastered and reissued! KRYPTIC MINDS: Some dark brooding, junglized dubstep from the UK. KYLA: Awesome single of depressive black buzz from these miserable Swedes. LAZERCROTCH: The first American Skweee jam, and it's a doozy! SHAWN LEE & CLUTCHY HOPKINS: Another batch of lost orchestral seventies funk, or something that sounds a lot like it! LIGHTNING BOLT: Latest disc of super frenetic bass and drums brilliance from this half masked duo. MASERATI: Super rad rhythmic post rock from these long time aQ faves. MARC MCGUIRE: The dude behind Emeralds goes it acoustic, and it works! MELVINS / WALSBY: Two live Melvins shows bundled with a bad ass comic, number 4 in the series. MOUNTAINS: Another disc of blissed out loveliness. NEMESIS: Legendary pre Candlemass doom classic reissued! NEON INDIAN: Like Ariel Pink stealing Daft Punk beats, making the kind of swirling effortless sounding pop that's just pretty damn impossible to resist. NEW DAWN: Lost, lonesome psych classic from 1970 that fits right in with some of our indie pop favorites today. NIHILL: Progressive black metal weirdness with a helping of doooooooom, second in their trilogy, newly released on Hydra Head. OH SEES / PAUL CARY: Split 7" that leaves us wondering where's the Thee? PELICAN: First Southern Lord full length from these premier heavy post rock instrumentalists. PORTAL: Down under death metal weirdos return with another avantgarde and incomprehensible album on Profound Lore. PULSE EMITTER: Limited cassette-only collection of sci-fi space drone synth bliss from big time aQ fave. PYLON: Necessary DFA reissue of '83 album from these Athens, GA post-punk greats. RAVEONETTES: If you like great pop you will love this record! ROBEDOOR: On Not Not Fun vinyl, another sprawling drone space psychedelic doom bliss workout from these SoCal sonic explorers. SIMON SCOTT: Pop Ambient meets dark distorted rhythmic quasi-industrial soundscapes and song on this nice new Miasmah disc. SHRINEBUILDER: Some heavy friends here: Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Al Cisneros (Sleep), Dale Crover (the Melvins), and Wino (The Obsessed). Supergroup, superheavy! SIXX: Reissue of the cult goth project spawned by Bay Area black metal pioneers Von back in the early '90s! SKELETONWITCH: Their blackened deathly '80s thrash attack is back, your neck better beware!! JOSEPH SPENCE: ***Mississippi Records alert*** Fun and fantastic record from this Bahaman guitarist. T & K: Lastest 12" of dancefloor delight from the Italians Do It Better label. TEENAGE FILMSTARS: Back in stock (for a bit), the Record Of The Week from just a few weeks ago! TINARIWEN: New cd + documentary dvd from everyone's favorite Toureg band. V/A CAN YOU DIG IT?: Soul Jazz delves into Blaxploitation cinema soundtracks!! V/A FRISCO FREAKOUT I: Limited live cassette of live tracks from last year's fest, featuring Wooden Shjips, Earthless, and more, all proceeds to benefit Creativity Explored! V/A KOMPAKT 10: Now on vinyl! Triple lp of cutting edge minimal techno bliss. V/A MORTIKA: ***Mississippi Records alert*** A double LP boxset of old time Greek Rembetika! V/A THE ROOTS OF CHICHA: '60s Peruvian "chicha" bands will liven your day on this great comp, featuring Juaneco Y Su Combo and others. V/A ZE 30: RECORDS STORY 1979-2009: Strut put together this fine compilation for freaky left-field disco connoisseurs, Happy Birthday Ze! WARPAINT: A brooding doomic chunk of gloomy murky indie rock loveliness from LA. IMAAD WASIF: Lush and dark, twang and jangle, some classic rockin' too, on this great second solo album from the former lowercase frontman. WHITE RAINBOW: Kranky cranks out another colorful psychedelic dose of nu new age dream-hop. WUVABLE OAF: Issue 3 of Ed Luce's wuvable comic book (featuring bad tripping kitties, big hairy guys, the bands Ejaculoid and Sphincterine, and more). YOGA: The recent Record Of The Week, now on vinyl!! Plus, even more, including the new issue of The Wire, indispensable as always, and some other stuff now on vinyl that we probably should have highlighted too (like the Sparklehorse+Fennesz ferinstance), etc. And before we go, should mention we have ANOTHER cool instore coming up really soon. Next week in fact. On Wednesday October 28th, at 5:30pm, please come welcome Dutch avant-lutist Jozeph Van Wissem!! He's also playing a few shows around time. Here's all the details: aQ Instore Wed. 10/28 5:30 pm Thursday 10/29 Amnesia Bar, SF w/ Mira Cook Saturday 10/31 Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut, Oakland, CA w/ Jim Haynes and Gregg Kowalsky Here's our review of Van Wissem's A Priori We have become increasingly enamored with the recordings of Dutch renaissance and baroque lute player Jozef Van Wissem, whether it be through his solo output or through his many collaborations with guitarists Gary Lucas, Tetuzi Akiyama and most recently James Blackshaw (Brethren Of The Free Spirit). You wouldn't think that there would be such wide-ranging approaches to such an antique instrument, yet with each release, we're let into a new realm of sonic possibility. Sometimes it's classical deconstructions; using palindromes, mirroring, backwards compositions and cut-up techniques. Sometimes it's more Takoma-style fingerpicking and bottleneck playing. Or more avant, flinging sparse and reductive fragments of loosely connected tones into large voids of silence. Or augmented by subtle electronics and field recordings of airports and other public spaces. On his latest release A Priori, arguably his prettiest and most engaging to date, Van Wissem pushes forward the beauty of the melodic form but frames it in a stark restraint. Using a glacial pendulum-like progression and D minor tuning (the most melancholic of all tunings), Wissem establishes an up-down-up riff taking a pause between each turn before repeating, letting the tones ring out over the empty spaces. Occasionally he lets subtle nuances like an octave change or a bottleneck run appear, yet he takes great pains to avoid filling the space unnecessarily. With each song on A Priori, he explores this limitation to its outermost boundaries that connects each piece to the whole, forcing our headspace to slow down to this intensely meditative pace in order to experience its lovely tonal revelations. If Earth 2 was transcribed for renaissance lute, it might sound something like this. Liner notes by David Tibet of Current 93. Highly recommended! And on top of that we have a bunch of rad tickets to give away. First, VENETIAN SNARES at the DNA Lounge, Friday November 6th. We have two pairs of tix, just email [email protected] with the subject VENETIAN TIX. Then we have POSSESSED! Their first SF show in 25 years! With Impaled, Sadistic Intent, and Witch Haven. November 1st, also at the DNA Lounge. We have two pairs for this show too. Just email [email protected] with the subject POSSESSED TIX. And finally, also at the DNA Lounge, MARDUK!!!! With Nachtmystium, Mantic Ritual, Black Anvil and Merrimack. Got ONE pair for that show. Just email store@aquariusrecords with the subject MARDUK TIX. Okay, that should do it, enjoy this week's list. Thanks for reading as always, and if you discover something cool you like, please try to order it from us. Every little bit helps. Thanks all. We love you... Now it's bedtime. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. 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It's our first list of December (there will be one more before Christmas, on the 18th) and it's like Santa's come early with all the goodies we've got, including a new Necks, the TG buddha machine, a Circle release (and two fantastic new releases from Circle's Ektro imprint), the eagerly awaited Hellbent For Cooking heavy metal cookbook (really!), a couple '70s Japanese psych reissues, plenty of krautrock, drones, doom, African groove, and all sorts of other treats, including a brilliant disc of vintage psych ballads, Forge Your Own Chains, that's been getting plenty of in-store play... Two Records Of The Week this week, both on the heavy side, weird too, highly recommended obviously, and hard to find... THE PURITAN: After much effort, we FINALLY managed to get copies of this unique Finnish ultra-doom masterpiece, a compact disc collecting two out of print 12"s by the warped and weird new band of former Reverend Bizarre frontman S.A. Hynninen, aka Sir Albert Witchfinder! JUTE GYTE: Incredible obscure cd-r of super strange mandolin laced blown out crumbling ultra raw industrial tinged synth laden black metal! Then there's a host of Highlights, as follows... 3 LEAFS: Local druggy psych rockers unleash an LP called "Space Rock Tulip"! ALL HAIL THE TRANSCENDING GHOST: Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk (MZ.412, Toroidh, Folkstorm, etc.), teamed up with his Tim Bertilsson of Fear Falls Burning! ANIMA MORTE: Goblin-esque giallo prog from England! MULATU ASTATKE: Great collection of this Ethiopian jazz genius's groovy best, circa 1965-1975! JULIANNA BARWICK: Now available, this 2006 self-released cd of Grouper-like daydreaminess. CANNIBIS INDIA: Archival release of killer ELP-ish prog from krautrock combo! CIRCLE: Now on double cd, the previously vinyl only Triumph by our favorite Finnish space rockers. NICOLAS COLLINS: Japan's EM label reissues this '80s digital sampling classic, plus extras! COLOSSLOTH: What it sounds like, cinematic dronedoom galore, on limited vinyl! PATRICK COWLEY & JORGE SOCARRAS: Rediscovered mid '70s synth-wave/post-punk from San Francisco disco producer and friend. THE DRY SPELLS: Super gorgeous female fronted psychedelic folk from right here in SF! EMERALDS: Back in print, this No Fun disc of cosmic vibes from this great outfit. FAR OUT: Truly far out 1973 Japanese psych classic finally reissued! RICHARD GARET: Double disc from this minimalist drone artist, limited to 300 copies! HELLBENT FOR COOKING: Yes! It's here, the heavy metal cookbook, with cult recipes from your favorite headbangers!! ROSCOE HOLCOMB: Now on vinyl, a Smithonian Folkways collection of this country-folk legend's "high lonesome sound"! HOLY SONS: New solo album from Om/Grails drummer Emil Amos, another great collection his of hushed, lovely songs. JAWBOX: Classic '90s indie rock post punk album reissued! JASON KAHN & RICHARD FRANCIS: Collaborations between quiet NZ dronester Francis and sound artist Kahn. LE SYNDICAT: Cassette cuts from this French '80s Industrial act collected on cd, full of harsh noise and Conet numbers stations samples. LONESUMMER / MARSH: This awesomely confusional weirdo black metal split, formerly on cassette, now on cd-r! LOTUS EATERS: Super deluxe vinyl reissue of this out of print ambient metal supergroup classic. LUSIFERIININ ARMOSTA: Super catchy psychedelic punk power trio featuring Circle's Jussi Lehtisalo, inspired by '80s NYC noise rock among other things! MAGIK MARKERS / SIC ALPS: Need we say more? Limited split 12" from these two noise pop units. MELT-BANANA: Mindboggling -live- album from this spazztastic Japanese rock act, utterly insane. MOEBIUS: Vinyl reissue of krautrock classic from 1/2 of Cluster. MUSIIKKIVYORY: On Ektro, a cd reissue of a 1981 cassette of quirky DIY noise drone done by a 15 year old Finnish kid! THE NECKS: First studio album in 3 years from these trance-inducing drone-jazz geniuses!! NIHILIST ASSAULT GROUP & BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER: Some harsh noise here from BSBC and Nihilist friends, limited LP. THE NOTWIST: Soundtrack by this popular German groop, in a deluxe package, on LP with bonus cd version and large photo book. OMIT: Back in print, the double disc Tracer from this NZ experimental fave. OPHIDIAN FOREST: Forest wizard black metal cd-r from this online, international Dutch/Croatian/San Franciscan trio! OPHTHALAMIA: Reissue of this unusual 1995 black metal meets Greg Ginn's Gone album featuring It from Abruptum. ORCHESTRE POLY RYTHMO DE COTONOU: 2nd volume of '70s Afro-beat awesomeness from this band collected by Analog Africa. OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD: BCM's Campbell Kneale's new act is back with a new cd-r, and we've got most of 'em! PEOPLE: Reissued again on cd -and- also now on vinyl, this early '70s Japanese psych classic. PETIT MAL: Live 3" cd-r of scrape and drone made with reel-to-reel, shortwave, and bicycle wheel! REAL ESTATE: Full length of rough, raw but not that lo-fi indie pop perfection on Woodsist! REVEREND BIZARRE: Posthumous collection of rare tracks from the Finnish doomlords, some of their best and strangest stuff! ROEDELIUS: Vinyl reissue of krautrock classic from 1/2 of Cluster. RUSSIAN CIRCLES: Math rock / post rock gone super heavy!! SKITLIV: First proper album from these Scandinavian black metal / art rock unit, featuring both Maniac from Mayhem and David Tibet of C93, among others! SOUND PROJECTOR: Latest issue of one of our favorite music 'zines, packed with record reviews, like getting 10 AQ lists all at once!! SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN: Most recent cd-r of freaked out anti-rock ragas and foresty free folk from this musical commune. TENHORNEDBEAST: At last, more blackened ritualistic dronemusic from one of our faves. THROBBING GRISTLE: It's here, the "Gristleism" box of TG loops, a la the Buddha Machine, incredible packaging too. In Black or Red (Chrome coming later on). TIA CARRERA: Not the Wayne's World actress, the heavy-duty Texas psych guitar combo! TWINSISTERMOON: Latest disc of blissed out psychedelic dreamfolk from one half of underground darlings Natural Snow Buildings! V/A AFRICA BOOGALOO: Honest Jon's introduces us to some killer Afro-Latin grooves! V/A FORGE YOUR OWN CHAINS: Wonderful comp of dirgey international psych ballads that's been in heavy rotation here at AQ! V/A FREEDOM RHYTHM AND SOUND: Soul Jazz showcases some crucial cosmic groove freeform jazz/funk from back in the day. V/A GHANA SPECIAL: Sprawling Sound Way comp of "Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanian Blues"! V/A STEPPAS DELIGHT 2: Second collection of killer dubstep jams... V/A TEXAS METAL ARCHIVES: Lovingly curated comp of cult demo tracks from the Texas '80s metal underground, awesome stuff!! V/A THIS INFERNAL LOVE OF LIFE: rare collection of Swedish electronic, darkwave, and experimental music, reissued! WICKED KING WICKER x 2: Two new records, one a super limited lp, one a not quite as limited cd, ultra heavy abstract noise drenched drone doom from this East Coast duo, slow and low... YE OLDE MAIDS: Cold Cave alert!! Pre-CC band here in a similar coldwave vein, already out of print, we only have a handful! ZELIENOPLE: Gorgeous disc of hazy dream folk ambience from these Type Records dreamweavers. The lp comes with a bonus cd, featuring an original soundtrack by the band... Plus, actually, loads more cool stuff, including some sale 7"s, a bunch more crucial now-on-vinyl items (Flaming Lips! Girltalk! The Soundcarriers! Neon Indian! Kraftwerk x4!!), some now-on-cd action too (Cluster!), and back-in-prints, also a cassette from Italy's Father Murphy (only 10 copies, and we're not getting more), a super limited 10" Siltbreeze sampler, and MORE... Ok, read on, and also be sure to watch your email (and our Twitter and/or blog) 'cause we're planning another one of our after hours "shopping parties" this month, sometime soon before Xmas. Also, for mailorder customers, a reminder from the mailorder elves... We're rapidly approaching the holiday gift-giving crunch, so if you need any items within a particular timeframe (or if you have alternate choices or any special order requests), please be sure to let us know. We'll do our best to make it happen! Finally, for those of you who haven't seen the black metal movie UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US, it should be opening in a theater near you soon, you should definitely check it out. For more info check the end of this week's list. Thanks as always, now on with the list... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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And we've got a good one for you all this time around, lots of items you're gonna want/need for yourself, plus possibly some good stocking stuffers for loved ones too (though we should mention, if you're mailordering, it's close enough to Christmas that, well, Santa might get there first, we'll do our best to get stuff out super quick but can't make any guarantees of Dec. 25th delivery). All right, there's 3 Records Of The Week, quite a diverse trio too. First up, imported from Italy, we present the sad, psychedelic Goblin meets Doom Metal music of one-man-band Tony Tears: eerie, hypnotic, and vaguely dubby dirges that are soooo sad and beautiful, and heavy too. Also, we're super stoked on the "Oriental Jazz" stylings of Lloyd Miller, who put Persian instruments and Indian ragas into his compositions back in the '50s and '60s, as documented on an amazing new collection of his otherworldly "world music" jazz sides. And last but not least, our third Record Of The Week is from cosmic electronic project Oneohtrix Point Never, who have other stuff on this week's list as well, but get the ROTW nod for their double cd Rifts, anthologizing OPN's three vinyl releases of 2009, a sprawling selection of ambient sonic vapor trails passing through moonlit nightscapes redrawn in neon hyperdelic colors... Get those... and then as many of these as you can, too! The further Highlights of this week's list: A HANDFUL OF DUST: Latest document of difficult avant action from New Zealanders Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith. OREN AMBARCHI: Killer collection of unreleased, super limited, out of print tracks from this Aussie guitarist and soundscaper and sometime SUNNO))) collaborator. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: New ep on cd and 12" from these indie faves. ARARAT: Incredible psychfolk solo album from the guitarist of South American stoner rock gurus Los Natas! BONG: Doomy druggy new cd from these freeform freeks, two long tracks of stoned sitar/guitar/drums. BONNIE BILLY & THE PICKET LINE: Vinyl-only new outing from Will Oldham, getting all old timey bluegrass on us. BROWN JENKINS: New cd from this mysterious Texan one man band, blending Burzumic black metal and blown out distortion drenched shoegaze. CABLE: Heavy noisy latest from a great band we're inexplicably only listing for the very first time. EVAN CAMINITI: 1/2 of Barn Owl, back with another solo cd-r, limited and lovely. CANT / ARTHUR RUSSELL: 7" pairing an unreleased A.R. cut with solo output from one of the Grizzly Bear guys! CODE: The black metal Interpol returns, and now also reminds us of Morrissey... along with Satyricon. Awesome! CRUSHED BUTLER: Now on 12" vinyl, this proto-metal/proto-punk gem, with bonus track. DIETER BIHLMAIER SELECTION: Rad krautjazz jamming from 1973, for bass, drums, and FLUTE!! DRUDKH: Digipacked reissue of Ukrainian black metal masters debut from 2003, essential stuff finally back in print. EGYPT: Now reissued on cd, this overlooked stoner/doom AQ fave. EL-G: Twisted collaged schizophrenic cabaret French pop folk weirdness from this mysterious troubadour, vinyl-only. EXPO 70: More epic and dense heart-of-the-sun blissed out heavy space drones from this prolific artist, on cd w/ bonus disc while they last. GNOD: Limited cd-r or cassette release from hypno space doomsters who've shared splits with both Bong and White Hills in the past. IAN HOLLOWAY + BANKS BAILEY: impressive cd-r collaboration between the British drone specialist Holloway and Arizona-based field recordist Bailey. HORNA: Our favorite Finnish black metal horde offers up a 2004 recording that's grim, yes, but also strangely melodic. INCA ORE / GROUPER: Back in stock on vinyl, this female vocal-oriented noise-psych split! IMPETUOUS RITUAL: New on Profound Lore, this killer Portal-related act take Death Metal and murk it up and slow it down, one of the best deathly dirges we've heard this year. KGB MAN + ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: Double cassette from OPN and ambient alter-ego KGB Man, super limited, we only have 10 copies, sorry!! KOREKYOJINN: New cd+dvd release from this mindboggling Japanese power-prog supergroup featuring Yoshida of Ruins and others! LA IRA DE DIOS: Fuzzed out, revved up, raw and retro "Peru Psicodelia Punk" from these kick ass rockers. LOCRIAN / HARPOON: Killer tag team 7" of blackened heaviness from two Chicagoland bands. MEW: A poppy but proggy rock treat from Denmark we shouldn't have slept on. STEVE MOORE: Limited 10" 2-songer from Zombi's synth wiz, a close encounter of the eerie synths meets minimal pulsating beats kind! MYRMYR: Marielle Jakobsons (aka Darwinsbitch) and Agnes Szelag present fragmented post-classical orchestrations alongside minimalist avant-folk restrained electronics. NIGHT TROLL / TREMOR OF THE BLACK MANX: From the same label that brought us Jute Gyte, a split 3" cd-r of more blackened synthy grind weirdness. NIRVANA: Legendary live record finally gussied up and released! Three formats... NO BALLS: Post Brainbombs raw kraut punk one riff blown heaviness, super limited full length lp. So awesome!!!! ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: Killer vinyl lp of sci fi space synth from one of this week's Record Of The Week honorees. OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD: New lp of gorgeous soft cacophony from Campbell Kneale's post Birchville Cat Motel project. REV. LOUIS OVERSTREET: Kick ass new lp of super grooving gospel on MISSISSIPPI!! OXBOW: Brand new 12" from these hometown heroes, fierce and heavy and damaged and brilliant as always. One side live, one side improvised in the studio! HARRY PARTCH: Long overdue lp reissue, a perfect introduction to this iconic composer, his music, and his home made instruments. PHANTOM LIMB & EARTH'S HYPNAGOGIA: Hypnotic and otherworldly drone music falling somewhere between Riley and Niblock. So nice. TOMAS PHILLIPS & DEAN KING: Gorgeous dark minimal sound making inspired by Maya Deren's 1943 film Meshes Of The Afternoon. Q & A: One of the most original slabs of dance music we've heard this year! Featuring members of The Alps, Arp and the Phenomenal Handclap Band. RAPE & HONEY: Issue number two of this post Oaken Throne mini mag, this time the subject is black metallers Funeral Mist. CLARA ROCKMORE: The Art Of The Theremin, reissued on vinyl, with fancy new artwork, on MISSISSIPPI! JACK ROSE & THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS: R.I.P Jack Rose, you will be missed, a gorgeous 7" from Rose and his pals playing old timey bluegrass, so good. SANDWITCHES: Latest batch of badass lo-fi garage folk jams! SCANTILY CLAD: Second disc of cosmic synth-drone-rock instrumental improv from these aQ faves. IRWIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE: Another long lost krautrock artifact, an incredible soundtrack from what is essentially CAN! TY SEGALL + MIKAL CRONIN: More weirdo garage pop weirdness, Syd Barrett covering the Brainbombs anyone?!?!? CARL SIMMONS: Some gorgeous outsider folk weirdness, a long lost tape finally reissued on Sacred Bones. SIX FINGER SATELLITE: That's right, a goddamn brand new record from the original synth punks, Rhode Island's pride and joy and shame, the mighty 6FS!! STARVING WEIRDOS: Gorgeous live lp of dark drones and free form drift from the Weirdos along with Tom Carter of Charalambides and Shawn David McMillen 13TH CHIME: Finally on cd the complete record works of these obscure eighties new wave goth punks. THROBBING GRISTLE: The third in the Gristleism music box series, this one is CHROME, oooooooooh. UCHIHASHI/YOSHIDA: Latest from this intense Japanese improv duo, featuring Yoshida of the Ruins. V/A ALAN LOMAX IN HAITI: Long in the works 10 cd box of amazing and unheard field recordings from Haiti, housed in a gorgeously designed box. V/A THE BYG DEAL: Latest mind blowing comp from the always kick ass Finders Keepers / B-Music label. V/A EVERY NOISE HAS A NOTE: Killer collection of tracks from out of print singles, includes music from Circle, Telescopes, White Hills, Bardo Pond and more... V/A NOISE VS. SUBVERSIVE COMPUTING: Super cool USB drive release, noise artists making music about subversive computing, hackers programming about noise, how rad is that!! JOSEF VAN WISSEM: More dreamy palindromic lute dreaminess from this big time aQ fave. VILLAGE OF DEAD ROADS: Latest disc of post metal heaviness from these Pennsylvania bruisers. VOLCANO SUNS x 2: Two totally legendary indie rock / post punk classics from the mid eighties reissued with tons of bonus tracks. VOLTAIC OMEN / FIRE ISLAND, AK: Latest batch of grim jamz from this Northwestern black metal weirdo, teamed up with the noisy and equally weird Fire Island, AK. XENO & OAKLANDER: Cold eyed dark-eyed synth-pop from these new favorites. YETI: Latest issue of this always impressive music and arts mag, tons of cool stuff and a bonus cd jam packed with exclusive music from lots of aQ faves. And tons more, including a new issue of The Wire, some more now-on-vinyl treats, and, well, read 'em all!! Ok, please read on, but first a note to local folks, please come to that party we mentioned, it's this Saturday, as in tomorrow (or tonight, depending on when you're reading the list!). here are the details: Everybody had such a good time at the last aQ after hours party, we figured we should definitely do it again. Especially since a bunch of folks weren't able to come the first time. So if you missed out, here's your chance, to hang out, play games, eat, drink and buy records! Plus this time around, we can combine all that hanging out, eating, drinking, playing video games and buying records, with a special Record Release Party for the long long long in the works Alan Lomax In Haiti TEN CD box set, newly issued by our pal David's Harte label. The recordings gathered together in this box were originally recorded between 1936-1937, when Lomax and his wife were documenting music and rituals for the Library Of Congress. Over 50 hours of field recordings, captured on aluminum discs (over 500 in all), from street musicians, to children's songs, far out jazz to dreamy vocal music, classical piano to angelic torch songs, voudou worship to big band, an incredible collection of sounds, none available to the public before now!! The box is gorgeous too, and includes two books, one is Lomax's Haitian field journal, the other a hard bound set of liner notes and essays, as well as a a facsimile of Lomax's period map of Haiti, covered in his handwritten notes. WOW. But besides the record release celebration, it's also, of course, a chance to do some record shopping, pick up some cool tunes while you sup and sip and socialize. The perfect time to get some of that last minute Xmas shopping done, while eating creme brulee and talking to Andee about his baffling love of crabcore, or getting some D&D pointers from Allan, or just shooting the musical sh*t with aQ staffers and customers alike. And like last time, We'll be staying open late, we'll have snacks, sodas, a bunch of beer (but you can BYOB too!), and as most of you know, we have some awesome video games, we'll set 'em on free play. We'll have some snacks too, the usual party fare, and there'll be plenty of other munchables, thanks to some of SF's food cart elite, the Creme Brulee Cart is coming by for sure, as is The Magic Curry Cart, and possibly one or two of the other amazing purveyors of portable food in the city. In fact, if you read our list, and have a cart yourself, feel free to come by and set up outside and be a part of the festivities! So please come and spend part of your weekend with us, should be a blast, make an evening of it, we'd love to see you, and please help support our shop by buying some records while you're here! SATURDAY 12.19.09 aQ After Hours Record Shopping Shindig #2 + Alan Lomax In Haiti 10cd Boxset Record Release Party From 9-11pm Right here, aQuarius recOrds 1055 Valencia Street (btwn 21st and 22nd) Hopefully we'll see you all there. And for those of you who are looking for something grim for your Xmas eve / Xmas morning, try tuning into KFJC, our very own Andee, aQ pal Josh, and aQ pal and KFJC DJ Number Six will be spinning some seriously sick sounds. Here's the lowdown on that: KFJC 89.7 FM presents Christless Eve, 15 hours of the sickest, harshest and most damaged black metal, unrelenting noise, grinding filth and tortured doom from around the world. Starting at 7pm Thursday December 24th Number Six returns to host the 5th overnight seige that originally aired in 2003. Special guests Andee from aQuarius recOrds and his pal Josh, DJ's Cy Thoth, Moodkiller, Groundswell and others expose the true nature of the season and crush what's left of your will to live until 10am Friday December 25th. For more information go to kfjc.org or contact Number Six at [email protected] And that's it. See you on Saturday we hope. And we also hope every one has, and is having, a fantastic holiday, all the best to our faithful customers and friends, we love you all. Now on with the list! ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. 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Anyway, hope you all have been having happy holidays and were doing something a bit more fun and relaxing today than what either Andee or Allan were up to! So, here's the deal: there were SO many possibilities for Record Of The Week this time around, that we decided it was simplest for us not to pick any single one in particular, though had we, it probably would have been the Opium Warlords, or the Cleaning Women, or that Emitt Rhodes collection we've always wanted to list, or if we let Andee have his way maybe even the Freedom Hawk, or, well, that's why we couldn't decide... The list itself is a bit shorter than usual, thanks to the holiday circumstances, distros closed, people away, and it's ALL Highlights. That's right, nothin' but Highlights, a bunch of which could have been Records Of The Week. Plus we added a HUGE sale section this week. With tons of amazing deals, and lots of great records, past highlights, a Record Of The Week or two, some things that have never been reviewed or listed, lots of expensive lps now with their prices slashed, trying to make room for new goodies, and get ready for inventory, so be sure to check the sale section, it's at the end of this week's list! As for those highlights... ALTER: Gorgeous sprawling atmospheric doompop from one half of doomduo Pussygutt. Limited lp.... AURICLE: Spacey tripped out sounds, violin, French horn, ukulele and sampler! Members of 3 Leafs. BIRD TRAPS: Gorgeous shimmery ambient dreamdronemusic from Australia. BOHREN: The Latitudes cd back on stock. Dark and brooding beauty. BUNKUR: Second record from these Dutch ultradoomlords, back in stock! CLEANING WOMEN: Record number three from these Finnish crossdressing rhythmic hypnorock weirdos. Our new favorite record for sure! DEATH DOMAIN: Killer 7" of retro cold wave gloom rock, form a super exciting up and coming label. DESIRE: Latest 12" remix record from these aQ fave dancefloor destroyers. ENOID: New blast of furious blackened grimness from this Swiss one man horde. FREEDOM HAWK: Insanely heavy, catchy, hard rock stoner metal radness, one of our most listened to new records! FRESH & ONLYS: Another double shot of perfect pop from these Bay Area garage poppers. THE GILDED ROOKS: Rustic melancholic American country folk from right here in SF, so lovely! THE GIRLS AT DAWN: More fuzzy, haunting girl group sounds, on the always kick ass Captured Tracks label. THE GOLDEN RING: Reissue collecting rare singles and unheard tracks from these Iranian garage rockers, one of our favorite reissues of the year! GR & FULL-BLOWN EXPANSION: Rhythmic bluesy krautrock weirdness from France, by the guitarist of aQ faves The Gunslingers. GRIPPERS NOTHER ONSERS: James Ferraro returns with his latest outfit, full band this time, and Prince like vox, weird combo but it works! HORISONT: Seventies style heaviness and grooviness from these Swedish psychedelic blues rockers. IRON MAN: Now on vinyl, the latest from these Maryland doom metal veterans. JAVELINA: Noisy, melodic, metallic heaviness from these Philly beardos, crushing melodic radness, like Eyehategod gone NWOBHM. KALLABRIS: Latest Drone Records Release, dark ambient drone music of course. And so nice. MARIACHI EL BRONX: One of our favorite punk rock band goes mariachi and it rules! ABBASS MEHRPOUYA: Fantastic reissue of this legendary lost holy grail of psychedelic Indian funk, sitar saturated grooves! MIST: Emeralds side project of retrograde electronics, lp only and of course limited. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER / KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN / NO FUN ACID / PREHISTORIC BLACKOUT: Double cassette of electronic synthy goodness. EXTREMELY LIMITED. OPIUM WARLORDS: Latest from Albert Witchfinder of Reverend Bizarre, hot on the heels of the his recent Puritan aQ Record Of The Week, extreme avant outsider doom. ORANGE GLASS: Super limited cd-r from this unsung Hallifax indie rock / power pop band, features one half of The Memories Attack! ORDO INFANDORUM RITUUM OCCULTUS / WACHT: Two rad obscure Swiss black metal outifts team up for a limited single of extreme sonic sickness. PALACE OF WORMS: Debut record from this new Bay Area black metal one man band, frenzied and distortion drenched, avant and post rocky, a new BM fave for sure! PIRATE CAT RADIO: Support pirate radio! Buy a calendar! PUSSYGUTT: Latest lp from this Northwestern doom duo, one song, two sides, epic dense darkness. STEVE REID: Legendary free jazz artifact reissued! EMITT RHODES: FINALLY, all four records from this legendary pop singer songwriter available in one collection, some of the most beautiful music you'll ever hear. SADNESS SATURN: Mysterious mediative black metal from these USBM-ers, released on the killer Japanese Frozen Veins label. SCROTUM POLES: Excellent vinyl collection of rarities from this legendary and unsung Scottish punkish poppers. SECOND DECAY: Killer reissues from this eighties German electronic pop outfit. SECRETS OF THE MOON: Latest disc of buzzing blackness from these French misanthropes. SILK FLOWERS: Eerie and experimental gloom pop, that will totally push all your coldwave buttons. SIX ORGANS: Incredible new disc of psychedelic folk, the soundtrack to a novel that accompanies both the lp and the cd. THE SKADEN: Eikenskaden returns with a new record, a new name, and a sound that has somehow gotten even weirder. SLOMATICS / SELAAH: Half crushing sludge doom, half cyclical hypnotic experimental guitarscapery, limited to 200 copies. SOLID DUDES KITCHEN: Our new favorite kitchen show, tattoos, stupid jokes, metal, pot brownies, mac and cheese, lots and lots of MEAT. TAKE UP SERPENTS: Super limited cd-r of tripped out psych noise collaged weirdness from this mysterious outfit, recorded live on the radio. TODD: Extreme heavy noise rock from the UK, featuring members of sh*t And Shine. TYVEK: Latest ep from thes noise poppers, limited lp released on Raccoo-oo-oon's Night People label. ULTRABUNNY: Ex-Bunnybrains trio fill up two sides of an lp with improvised psychedelic spaciness. V/A LIGHT: ON THE SOUTH SIDE: Latest Numero Group release, incredible book of photos, double lp, chronicling the the blues scene on the South Side of Chicago. V/A STEPPAS DELIGHT 2: This recently reviewed collection of killer dubstep back in stock. V/A WARP 20: UNHEARD: Unreleased tracks from Boards Of Canada, Broadcast, Autechre, Flying Lotus and more! YVES/SON/ACE: Dark warped synthy sci fi weirdness from this Factums side project, super limited lp. In place of the Records Of The Week, you'll find our AQ Staff Picks for Top 10 (or 13, or 20) Records Of The Year. They mostly should all be in stock or easily obtainable by us, so please don't hesitate to order any of 'em that happen to catch your eye/ear, that you might have missed out on before... And, also, that means we're ready to start accepting YOUR email submissions for your 2009 Top Tens too. Send 'em to [email protected] with the subject line "TOP TEN 2009". And no, they don't have to be exactly ten, though if you can keep it fairly short that will make it easier when we get around to compiling them to share 'em on our website. What's that? Oh yeah, you're right, we never did get 2008's customer Top Tens up there did we. Sorry, procrastination and forgetfulness got the best of us. Well, there's still AQ gift certificates to be won! We'll randomly pick two people who submit Top 10s and award 'em with $25 gift certs! And, yeah, maybe this time we'll also get around to actually compiling everybody's lists together on our site. In fact, Allan says he's gonna try to do the 2008 ones this week as well, which if he actually does it will be sorta cool 'cause you've probably forgotten what you liked in 2008 and might want to revisit some of that music too... 2009 was a year with its ups and downs, obviously the economy didn't treat everybody all that well, but we kept pretty busy and had some excellent instores (not to single anybody out, but thanks Yo La Tengo!) and shopping parties and such. Record Store Day kicked ass, as did our first ever South By Southwest showcase that we did with WFMU (and we're doing another one again this year, stay tuned!)... Lots to be happy about. But looking forward to even more and better in the new year. Best to all of you as well! Thanks for sticking with us. It means so much. We love you. And obviously couldn't do what we do without you. Oh, and one more thing before we get down to buisiness, we have an instore coming up next week, and you won't want to miss it: THURSDAY January 7th 6PM All the way from Austin, TX: SILVER PINES and PURE ECSTASY Each band doing a short 20 min. set Here's what we previously said about them: Silver Pines revel in a sound that can be best described as shoegazey stoner country-rock. Thick, warm, slow-burning and gauzy with lots of reverbed slide guitar and heavy psych amp fuzz underscoring the female singer's pretty heavy-lidded drawled vocals, the songs on Forces remind us of smoky perfumed parlors from a forgotten age. The kind of music that instantly transports you to an a dreamy antiquated time but in a way that seems refreshingly unfamiliar and charmed. Reminiscent of a fuzzier more narcoleptic Mazzy Star or a more heavier slow-rocking Beach House, Silver Pines has taken us all quite by surprise by their majestic grace and atmospheric beauty. Already assured a spot on our top ten lists for the year. Soooo good!! Pure Ecstacy comes from the same home-grown Austin scene as Yellow Fever, Silent Land Time Machine and Smokey Emery, and includes members of Silver Pines. This is their first self-released 7" of lackadaisical lo-fi stoner rock, taking its time to unfurl through hypnotic washes of wah'd and delayed guitar and low-key vocals that slowly build, reminding us a bit of Ducktails on a breezy Beach Boysish roadtrip through the American heartland. They will have a new 7' available during the tour! these are the california dates for their tour Jan 2- Tin Can Ale house w/Pure Ecstasy, Moonbeams Jan 3- Echo Curio (LA) w/Pure Ecstasy Jan 4- UC Irvine w/Pure Ecstasy, Woodsman, Tan Dollar Jan 5- Audie's Olympic (Fresno) w/Pure Ecstasy Jan 6- Hemlock Tavern (SF) w/Pure Ecstasy and Carlton Melton Jan 7- aQQQQQQQQQQQ Jan 8- Poolhouse (Davis, CA) w/Pure Ecstasy All right, we're pretty exhausted, so let's get on with the list, and on with 2010!! ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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Though, that doesn't apply to the South By Southwest showcase we're planning on presenting again this year in cahoots with our friends from amazing independent radio station WFMU, like we did last year. Yep, it's coming together again, it's too soon to tell you about the line up but we'll just say that more than one previous AQ Record Of The Week honoree will be performing. We're getting excited, and look forward to when we can make an official announcement about it all. Speaking of announcements, one we have to make to our United States mail order customers is that we've had to make some changes to our domestic shipping rates. As you may or may not know, both the United States Post Office and the United Parcel Service increased their rates on January 1st of this year, which is not the first time that's happened since the last time we changed ours. So, we took a few weeks and came up with a NEW AND IMPROVED freight scheme that takes those increases into account, somewhat anyway. The good news is, although some shipping may now necessarily cost slightly more, we also figured out ways to provide a few options for CHEAPER shipping than we'd offered before, as well! Hopefully that way, everyone will be happy. The new domestic shipping rates are given at the end of this list, and also are found on our website on the "about mail order" page and on the order form page when you place your order via the web. Basically, though, the way we used to have it was that orders of 1-2 items would be sent USPS Priority for $5, and 3 or more items would go UPS for $7.50. Now, it's a little more complicated, but not much more... Now, if you're just getting one (1) item sent to you, and it's a cd or cassette or dvd or 7" (but not 10" or 12" vinyl, or books or box sets), we'll send it USPS First Class for $2.95. If you're getting MORE than one item AND we can fit it into a 8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8" USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate Box, then that's how it will go, for $4.95 (basically, up to 3 cds or cassettes or dvds or combination thereof, but not 7", 10" or 12" vinyl or anything bigger like books or box sets). Stuff too big or too numerous to go in one of those flat rate boxes will be sent UPS Ground, at a flat rate cost of $9.95. So, ok, that's a little bit more complicated than before but we'll all get used to it, and price-wise we think it's still pretty reasonable. The most expensive shipping went up $2.45, but the cheapest went down by $2.05. In addition, however, we're now also offering a second option for even cheaper shipping for certain orders. That's right, USPS Media Mail (which, we imagine, takes a little longer to get where it's going, however). On the order form, you can click a button to select Media Mail instead, which means 1-3 items will ship to you for $5.95, and 4 or more items will ship to you for $5.95. That's it. Simple. Another way of looking at our new domestic shipping rates is like this: All orders, any size, will now ship UPS Ground ($9.95), unless your order consists of just one item smaller than a 10" vinyl record (example: 1 cd), then it will be sent USPS First Class ($2.95), or unless your order will fit into a 8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8" box (example: 2 cds and a cassette), then will go USPS Priority ($4.95). But, if you really want to save a few bucks, you also now have the option to select USPS Media Mail (which costs either $5.95 for 1-3 items or $7.95 for 4+) instead of getting your order shipped via UPS - in other words, it wouldn't make any sense to pick Media Mail if your order would have otherwise gone First Class or Priority, obviously! If you want our advice, though, for larger orders and/or orders with vinyl, we'd say stick with UPS, it's the the better choice for speed and safety and doesn't cost much more than Media Mail will anyway. As before, the UPS shipments are trackable, and also automatically insured for up to $100 of value. The various USPS shipments, including Media Mail, are all trackable too. Ok, enough of that business, on to the main event! We've got a BOUNTIFUL list for you folks this week, for sure... First, Records Of The Week: ACID EATER: Record number two from these Japanese noise psych garage rock freeks, fronted by Masonna, spitting out ultra distorted, organ driven demented garage, and covering Crime, the Miracle Workers, and Schulmadchen Report! HARVEY MILK: Finally officially available, the long lost debut full length from these legendary slow motion sludgelords, total divine heaviness, raw and blown out and epic, even nearly 20 years later. V/A MINIMAL WAVE TAPES: An incredible collection of long lost cold wave, new wave and synth punk jems. Some of the best tracks culled from the Minimal Wave reissue library as well as plenty of unreleased rarities!! And about a billion highlights: AFCGT: Brand new record of twisted and fractured post punk free form esoterica from this killer combo: Climax Golden Twins and the A Frames. ALTRES: Double cd-r collection of this unsung band's incredible synth driven new wave space drone sounds... THE ARRIVAL OF SATAN: French black metal insanity, blazing and buzzing and frenetic, featuring he former drummer of aQ faves Diamatregon. ASGARD ROOT: Newest issue of this incredible metal magazine, packed with some of the coolest, cultest bands around. BEACH HOUSE: Latest disc of swoonsome dream pop from these long time aQ faves, comes with a dvd featuring videos by different directors for every song. BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER: Super limited lp collecting previously released tracks as well as unheard rarities, total droning black doom filth. 300 COPIES. URSULA BOGNER: &" single featuring more lost tracks from this mysterious electronic music pioneer who may or may not be a figment of some musicians imagination. BRULVAHNATU: Epic majestic and melodic, haunting doomic crunch mixed with blasting, muddy, murky, frenzied black metal buzz. CABOLADIES / ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: Super limited split, one side blissy abstract lysergic anti-pop, the other side gorgeous space age sci fi synths! CANIS DIRUS: Debut full length from this Midwestern Burzumic black metal duo. TIM CATLIN & MACHINEFABRIEK: Two abstract avant guitarists, team up for some abstract avant guitaring! So nice. CITAY: Latest disc from these local heroes, with a whole new line up but the same sound that made us fall in love with them in the first place. CHIN CHIN: MISSISSIPPI RECORDS reissue of this all girl eighties Swiss Punk pop combo! CLOAK OF DISPLACEMENT x 2: Two discs from this Black metal / black ambient mystery man, one disc of stumbling black buzz, the other of oozing blackdrones, both limited to 24 COPIES! DENGUE FEVER: An awesome collection of classic sixties and seventies Cambodian pop collected by Dengue Fever, all of their faves, with the proceeds going to charity! EAT SKULL: New short sharp 7" of noise damaged punk rock power pop, snotty, noisy and catchy as f**k. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN: The legendary Halber Mensch lp finally reissued on vinyl! FINAL FANTASY: Latest disc of dreamy classic pop music from the man behind the gorgeous strings and arrangements on half the indie rock records out there. JOSEPHINE FOSTER: Soft fluttery folk versions of Emily Dickinson poems. Lovely. FREEDOM HAWK: Debut disc of super rocking, ultra heavy and groovy stoner rock, with Ozzy like vocals and bad ass jams, if you loved the new one, you're gonna want this one too. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG: Latest disc from Serge's daughter, produced by Beck! GUILLAUME GARGAUD: Another fantastic release from this French guitar and electronics improviser. HASEGAWA-SHIZUO: Mysterious, improvised raw drone ritual from this Japanese duo. HAZARD: Reissue of Land, a gorgeous release from BJ Nilsen's Hazard project, so great! HUMAN BEING: Incredible reissue of this lost live krautrock set, pre-Kluster / pre-Cluster!!! INDIGNANT SENILITY: Leyland Kirby like reintepretation of Wagner by this Portland sound sculptor, blurred into gorgeous drone-y ambience. INFINITE BODY: Blissed-out noise and heavily synthesized powerdrone workouts from this L.A. noisemaker. INFINITE BODY / TERRORS: Spaced out synthdrone versus mopey outsider downer pop. KLV: A twisted disc of fractured melodic doom weirdness, from the man behind Reverend Bizarre, The Puritan and Opium Warlords, comes with a free shirt while they last! JEFRE SEI GETSU LEDESMA: Ultra limited tape of motorized guitar ambience from this Tarentel / Root Strata dude... LED ER EST x 2: A full length lp and a 7" from the Brooklyn based cold wavers. LINDSTROM & CHRISTABELLE: Italo disco infused space jams, soulful and funky, from this aQ fave here teamed up with one of his favorite female vocalists. LITTLE SKULL: Gorgeous handmade super limited cd-r release of this mysterious musicians delicate and dark dronescapes. LOVE CRY WANT: One of the heaviest, most freaked out, damaged and delirious slabs of f**ked up far our free jazz we've ever heard, on vinyl for the first time! MAGNETIC FIELDS: latest disc of dour pop, their 'baroque folk' record. MARSFIELD: 2005 project featuring Andrew Chalk along side Vikki Jackman, Robin Barnes, and Brendan Walls, gorgeous metallic dronemusic on Faraway Press. MONOS: Vintage live recordings recontextualized into a constantly shifting sinewy mass of undulating drones. MUSLIMS: Before they were the Soft Pack, they were the Muslims, and they were poppy and catchy and hyped to high heaven (and sort of rightfully so). NEKRASOV / ADERLATING: Split lp: Aussie black metal noise merchant Nekrasov, and cinematic black doom weirdo Aderlating (aka Gnaw Their Tongues). NGOZI FAMILY: Another killer document of Zambian heavy fuzz rock ("Zamrock"!) from the '70s! NJIQAHDDA: The latest from this UNblack legend, a dizzying collection of buzzing white metal, loping post rock, and deep droning ambience. WILLIAM NOWIK: Long forgotten, private press, early '70s pastoral American psych-prog, reissued! OH NO: A head spinning, ear tickling collection of jams all inspired by and created from rare sixties and seventies Ethiopian grooves... THEE OH SEES: One sided, single song, etched 12" from these garage rockers, the song is a super extended live version (with a drum solo!) and the etching is gorgeous. LIMITED. ORANSSI PAZUZU: Incredible Finnish space prog black metal weirdness. BILL ORCUTT: Super limited lp of super raw primitive Appalachia from this former Harry Pussy axeman. THE ORKUSTRA: Fantastic double lp archival collection of Eastern tinged jazz rock weirdness from Manson pal Bobby Beausoleil and his Orkustra. On Mexican Summer. OZMADAWN: Double cassette of brain wave sleep music, one disc hushed and pretty, the other droney and dark and noisy, incredible packaging. JAMES PANTS: Dark retro-futurism and cosmic pop turbulence that sounds like Vangelis getting high with Bauhaus and George Clinton while listening to Hawkwind. DAVID PARSONS: Beautiful disc of meditative modern new age music, hypnotic and dreamy. QUANTEC: Gorgeous, blissed out minimal techno-dub, like Chain Reaction dubstep... ACHIM REICHEL & MACHINES: This legendary krautrock jem, and past Record Of The Week, finally reissued (minus the companion disc, but now with a dvd!). RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR: latest disc of heavy rocking indie pop from Low's Sparhawk and friends... SHADOWS GROUND: Frosty black metal grimnity from the Ukraine, like Old Wainds or Nav. Killer. SHANNON AND THE CLAMS: A smoking brew of haunted and infectious down and dirty garage pop from this Oakland crew. SIGH: New disc of twisted freaky what-the-f**k black metal from these demented Japanese legends. RICHARD SKELTON: The man behind A Broken Consort creates huge washes of long-form bowed string drones and piano tones in a deep engagement with his natural surroundings. Nice! SKULLFLOWER: A double disc of ear shredding guitar damage, maybe the heaviest harshest disc to date, limited to only 300 copies! SMITH WESTERNS: Endearing and charming fuzzy bubblegum garage pop from Chicago! SPACEMEN 3 x 3: Three essential records from one of the greatest bands ever, reissued on vinyl! STROSZEK: Side project of Italian black metal outfit Frostmoon Eclipse, brooding, heavy gloom pop a la Katatonia. Gorgeous. SUN ARAW: Psychedelic spaced out weirdness from these sonic explorers, with just a touch of funk and reggae this time around! SUN OF THE BLIND: Killer atmospheric black metal from one of the members of Swiss black space metal horde DARKSPACE! UNHUMAN DISEASE: Blasting raw blackness on German label Viva Hate, but from right here in the USA (Oklahoma to be precise)! UNO ACTU / MALEDICERE: Black metal / Black ambient split, one side ritualistic drone weirdness, one side pounding raw black buzz. V/A ANATOLIA ROCKS: An awesome lp compilation of kick ass Turkish psych. V/A CLOUDS CARVED THE MOUNTAINS: Super limited double cd-r comp of live sessions from cool local bands like Barn Owl, Tussle, Drumz, Ascended Master and more! V/A GOOD GOD BORN AGAIN: Another fantastic collection of gospel goodness from the always impressive Numero Group label. V/A GRIND MADNESS AT THE BBC: Collected Peel Sessions from Napalm Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Godflesh, Heresy, Unseen Terror, Intense Degree and Extreme Noise Terror! V/A HIGH ALL THE TIME VOL. 2: The second installment in this excellent '60 fuzz psych series. V/A MESSTHETICS #107: Latest collection of DIY recordings by obscure post-punk bands from the UK. V/A POP AMBIENT 2010: The latest installment of blissed out ambient pop from Kompakt, practically perfect as always, maybe a bit darker, which is in no way a bad thing. V/A SOUND CARTOGRAPHY: Gorgeous hand screened limited lp of brooding minimal drone music from members of Iron Lung, Pig Heart Transplant, Brainoil, Lana Dagales, Running For Cover and Cages. V/A THE STRANGLERS: Double disc of doom and sludge heaviness, featuring Atavist, Moloch, Austrasian Goat and more more more.... VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA x 3: Three brand new albums of spaced out ur-drones and blissy druggy space rock ambience, a killer trilogy, featuring members of Total and Sunburned Hand! WEEKEND: Pricey two song 10" of fuzzy lo-fi shoegaze pop on Mexican Summer. WETHER: Cancerous electronic drones from Delaware, super limited cassette. WOLVES IN THE THRONEROOM: These Cascadian black metallers captured live at the Roadburn festival, cd AND dvd. WORMDOOM: Fake Christian '70s heavy psych from members of Crystallized Movements, Magic Hour, Vermonster, B.O.R.B and others, a blast from the past... HANS ZIMMER: The kick ass and awesomely moody and minimal score to Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. And lots of other nifty items too, including new issues of such great magazines as The Wire and Wax Poetics, some more "now on vinyl" and "back in stock" things, so read the whole dang thing, ok?! Also, tons of rad shows to announce, Johann Johannsson, Matt Waldron, Big City Orchestra and more, all those details at the end of the list. Ok. Allan's at Saint Vitus, Andee's going home... Enjoy the list! ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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STRAPPING FIELDHANDS: At last reissued, a masterpiece of '90s indie noise rock shot through with '60s British Invasion pop stylings, sure to strike a chord with all the kids who have been digging the new wave of home brewed retro lo-fi garage pop, now that they'll finally get to hear this genius album! BLESSURE GRAVE: San Diego's coldest goth-cult, dirge-punk lo-fi art pop combo unveil their debut full-length, after a bunch of buzz-worthy splits, cassettes, and singles. ETIENNE JAUMET: From France, a surprise epic of cosmic, psychedelic space-out groove, mixing electronics, jazz, techno, and more, for fans of Zombi AND Zomby, Klaus Schulze and Carl Craig (who mixed it!). Also, there's a ton of Highlights, so please check these out... ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: Reissue of their early Campfire Songs set! AIDAN BAKER: Nadja's dronemeister with chamber music ensemble! AUTHOR & PUNISHER: Not just another doom-drone document, this dvd-r is worth watching to see this artist's unique drone-making MACHINES, which sound amazing too. BELLOWS: Incredible cd-r of super heavy doom jazz core made with TUBA, sax, and drums - no guitars! PAUL BRADLEY & COLIN POTTER: Double cd of lovely dronemusik from these two veterans. BREATHILIZOR: One of the dumbest, most demented and damaged metal 7"s ever. BURNT HILLS: Latest limited LP blast of monstrous psych-noize from this collective, with xylophone! CAVE IN: Now on cd, with dvd bonus, the latest from these pop-capable metalcore faves on Hydra Head. ANDREW CHALK: Elegant new album from one of our all-time drone faves. COLD CAVE / PRURIENT: Limited LP that was once a limited cassette, teaming up these two for a coldwave/blacknoise collab that's surpisingly spacey and droney and lovely. COLDWORLD: One of last year's ultimate depressive and beautiful black metal faves, finally re-pressed and back in stock! LEO COOMANS: Limited LP of way-wacked out experimental free jazz WTF from Belgian weirdo circa '78-'82. COSMETICS: One of 4 new Captured Tracks 7" on this week's list, all of 'em awesome. CREMATION: Early '90s demo tape death metal murk reissued on cd and lp, total weird genius material here. CULTED: Epic blackened sludge doom made by a band who have never been in the same room together! DARKBLACK: Limited edition debut cd from traditional epic metal crew with a dual guitar attack a la The f**king Champs. DEMONTAGE: A crazed Canadian old school metal mashup, like Danava doing an advanced version of Venom, part black thrash, part epic prog, all heavy! DIGNAN PORCH: One of 4 new Captured Tracks 7" on this week's list, all of 'em awesome. DOOMHAWK: DIY LP-only release of self described "Fantasy Calliope Metal with a heavy love for late night techno radio"! JOHN DUNCAN & GIULIANA STEFANI: Back in stock, this year 2000 collaborative drone composition. EDITORS: One of Andee's fave gloom pop bands is back, and gone all-synth! EINSTURZENDE NEUBATEN: The German industrialists' tremendous debut reissued on cd. EMUUL: Narcotizing tone-float on tape, limited to 100 copies. THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE / b*****d NOISE: Killer power violence split, including remixes from The Rita and really weirdly and radly, electronic music pioneer Noah Creshevsky! EPILEPTINOMICON x 2: Two limited cd-r's of mysterious blackened one-man drone ambience. THE EX + TOM CORA: *Mississippi* lp reissue of our fave Ex album, with the late avant-cellist Cora adding extra emotion and beauty. FELL VOICES: Two long vinyl only sides of epic black buzz from this Santa Cruz horde. FOUR TET: A return to form for this old fave. KIM FOWLEY x 2: Two volumes of fab garage/surf/psych from this eccentric and enthusiastic '60s producer/artist in his own right, tons of fun, and some of it previously unreleased! FOXDYE: Slice and dice, chop and loop, bleep and bloop, electro pop sonic mayhem and some ambient shimmer too! FREDRIK: Glorious otherworldly pop from Norway, their second album! FRICARA PACCHU: After ages and ages, finally back in stock, a former Record Of The Week of Finnish freakiness! f**kED UP: Double disc collection of the singles that made 'em the punk rock IT band dujour. GEIST: German black metal horde with flair for ambience and a handle on classic Nordic black buzz too, a la old Satyricon. GIRLS: Latest 7" from this blowing up big band, with a non-album B-side that sounds like MBV doing a '60s heartache girl group broken hearted lament. GODHEADSCOPE: More mysterious classical black ambience, a cd-r "poet's edition" including book of poetry... STEFAN GOLDMANN: One of two new Tapeworm label cassettes, this one meticulous studio manipulated guitar improvisations. GRUENEWALD: 2nd album from these Teutonic slowcore black doom drifters! HERBIE HANCOCK: Inexpensive reissue of a cosmic jazz classic!! HANOI JANES: One of 4 new Captured Tracks 7" on this week's list, all of 'em awesome. HIGUMA: Limited already out of print LP from ambient folk drone duo featuring 1/2 of Barn Owl. ILLUSION OF SAFETY: Reissue of one of these Chicago isolationist's best, featuring Jim O'Rourke. KING MIDAS SOUND: Kevin Martin (The Bug, etc.) joins the Hyperdub roster for a record we've been wanting to list for while! KLABAUTAMANN: 3rd album of post-black metal from this complex German outfit. LARVAL HAIRS: Double cassette intended for simultaneous synchronized play from this synth drone artist. LOVESLIESCRUSHING: Ultra limited deluxe double cd wooden box set of shoegazing delights. MARTIAL CANTEREL: Another from the Wierd [sic] label, from 1/2 of Xeno & Oaklander. MESA RITUAL: Harsh cd-r from experimental guitarist extraordinaire William Fowler Collins and cohort. MIST: Surprise restock of this Emeralds side-project LP, not long for this world. MONOLAKE: Another fantastic sounding disc of dubbed-n-chilled downer techno, with gestures of arctic ambience... MOON DUO: Wooden Shjips' guitarist Ripley returns with another super psych outing from his other great group, on Woodsist. MOTOR: Uber awesome none-more-techno action from these guys, like skweee gone Sprockets! MUSIIKKIVYORY: Back in stock, on Ektro, archival '80s teenage DIY cassette culture post punk outsider noise art from Finland! OH NO: The amazing Ethiopium mix now on vinyl!! PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA: Recently remastered 1976 debut album from this unclassifiable act, one of our favorites. PIERCED ARROWS: Essentially, the return of Dead Moon!! RAIONBASHI: 10" of deconstructed tapes and mangled silences from this German experimentalist. ROEDELIUS: Now reissued on cd, the Cluster/krautrock legend's fourth solo album from '81. ROLL THE DICE: Limited LP of spacey synthscapes from Swedish producers, on Digitalis. SARDONIS: Brutal Belgian instrumental metal guitar/drums duo on MeteorCity. SEKTOR 304: Epic crushing metallic industrial heaviness a la Swans / Godflesh / Cop Shoot Cop! 6BLOCC VS. R.A.W.: Bad ass, super limited live cd packed with dubstep/hip hop/jungle/dancehall dubplates, loads of big beats and heavy BASS. SOLSTAFIR: Icelandic post-black metal psychedelic rock, moody, epic and heavy! SOUNDS OF LIBERATION: Early seventies reissue from this early seventies free-jazz-funk supergroup. SPACE VACATION: Super catchy, melodic NWOBHM / arena style hard rock from right here in SF! STROTTER INST: Latest disc, of hypnotic rhythmic, turntable abuse from our favorite Swiss mad sonic scientist. THE TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU: Jazzkamer meets Thorns for a cassette of dense drones on The Tapeworm label. UNHUMAN DISEASE: Another disc of filthy, droning, buzzy blackness from this Oklahoman one man black metal horde. UNITS: This past Record Of The Week now on vinyl! Moog-enabled seventies synth punk subversion straight outta San Francisco! V/A ELECTRIC ASYLUM VOL. 4: Killer fourth volume of this series collecting 'Rock Hard British Freakrock'. V/A LAL LAL LAL FESTIVAL 3: Super limited cassette of sounds from this Finnish festival: Fricara Pacchu, Astral Social Club, Semimuumio, Suohumala and Pylon. V/A SHIR HODU: Fascinating collection of Hebrew paraliturgical songs by Eastern Jewish singers living in India. VETCHE: Twisted electronic blackness from members of Lucifugum and Nokturnal Mortum. WATERLOO: Another awesome seventies prog reissue, Belgian, psychedelic, organ and lots of FLUTE! WETDOG: One of 4 new Captured Tracks 7" on this week's list, all of 'em awesome. THE WICKER MAN OST: This legendary soundtrack, available again on vinyl! WITCH: More '70s "ZamRock", super rad African Fuzz garage psych! WOLD: Latest disc of blown out noise drenched blackness from these Canadian weirdos. WORM OUROBOROS: Meditative, dark and dreamy, somnolent moodiness from Gault / Amber Asylum members. THE WOUNDED KINGS: Latest druggy spaced out missive from this UK doom duo. YEASAYER: Twisted electronic cabaret pop, like Sparks meets Pretty And Nice meets Animal Collective meets Phoenix. YELLOW FEVER: K Reords style stripped down, girl group garage pop! And much more, including some crucial "back in stock" items like the retro-doom of Burning Saviours debut, also some more "now on vinyl" treats, and actually a bunch of other cool things that we'd have highlighted if we had more of 'em in stock... All right, now for the big South By Southwest show announcement. This is the second year we've put on a special showcase, we had so much fun last year we had to do it again, plus our friends at NY/NJ independent radio station WFMU wanted us to do it again w/ them too... Hopefully a lot of you reading this can make it to Austin, Texas and will come by our show, if you do look for Andee and say hi! (Sadly, our non-existent travel budget doesn't allow for the entire AQ staff to attend, so 40 year old Andee, the only one here who hates going to shows will be representing, go figure). And even if you aren't attending SXSW, you'll be able to listen in to a lot of the show via WFMU's live broadcast, either over the air if you're in their area, or online. We'll be providing more details and reminders as the date approaches, which by the way is Friday March 19th, at the club now called Encore (formerly Spiro's, so same as last year). But now, let's tell you about the bands, which include a few with releases on this very week's list, several past AQ Record Of The Week honorees, and other longtime faves!! DENGUE FEVER Incredible Cambodian garage pop from these long time aQ faves, former members of Dieselhed teamed up with vocalist and Cambodian pop princess Chhom Nimol to not only cover classic 'Cambodian Rocks' pop and psych rock gems, but to also compose originals, which are just as fantastic as the songs and singers they pay homage to. One of the best live bands around, we're so honored to have them playing our show! DRUNKDRIVER We've yet to get any DD records for the store (working on it), but a few aQuarians have some Drunkdriver stashed in their collections which was enough to get us to want these guys to rock our showcase. Crusty, filthy, pummeling noise rock, think Brainbombs, Twin Stumps, Billy Bao, Rusted Shut, total crushing noise drenched heaviness, wild, unhinged, chaotic, blown out and plenty f**ked up. EPILEPTINOMICON Mysterious rhythmic drone / doom outfit, whose sound is somewhere between, tripped out blackened psychedelic kraut doom, and pulsing minimal Chain Reaction style minimal murk, heavy and dense and druggy. HEADDRESS Texas trippers Headdress, have expanded from a duo, to a four piece, as they've shifted sonically from psych folk to druggy, spaced out heavy psychedelic dronemusic, shoegazey and dreamy, but definitely dense and heavy, think Brightblack meets Earth Meets Nadja... HOME BLITZ Super noisy and f**ked up, totally irresistible, sloppy, chaotic garage power pop, that actually sort of ends up sounding a bit like noise rock guys unleashing their inner power pop demons. Home Blitz are responsible for one of our pop jams of last year ("Two Steps") and had an aQuarius Record Of The Week. IRON MAN Veteran Maryland doom metal legends, heavy and fuzzy, doomy, dramatic, epic and totally metal. Fans of Black Sabbath, The Obsessed, Trouble, Candlemass, Witchfinder General, Saint Vitus, Solitude Aeternus and all of that sort of heavy doomy stuff should worship at the altar of Iron Man! LITURGY "PURE TRANSCENDENTAL BLACK METAL" from New York City. One of our favorite black metal outfits, whose sound is a strange hybrid of raw blasting blackness, and epic soaring high end trills, which make the songs sound like black metal composed by Arvo Part, sprawling and majestic, explosive, exhausting and incredible. MOON DUO This two piece psychedelic drone groove offshoot of psychedelic space rockers Wooden Shjips, treads similar ground, but moves further away from the Shjips overt rocking, exploring a sound much more fuzzy and abstract, sprawling repetitive drone rock, hypnotic and mesmerizing, a sound motorik and krauty, absolute super-rhythmic, dreamy psychedelia. PIERCED ARROWS The band formerly known as Dead Moon, Fred and Toody Cole return with a new drummer, but the same glorious stripped down scuzzy retro rock sound, fuzzed out and melodic, catchy and raw, driving and steady, absolute classic sounding Pacific Northwest garage rock. sh*t AND SHINE Multiple drummers, multiple bass players, occasionally someone playing lawnmower, crushing, noisy, tribal, hypnotic, a sound equal parts vintage Butthole Surfers, classic Hawkwind, and modern kraut-psych-drone-rock a la Circle or Pharaoh Overlord or Cave. Supposedly performing a new song written just for SXSW, with a phalanx of drummers gathered from all over Austin... Also a former aQ Record Of The Week! SONNY & THE SUNSETS Awesomely sunshine-y jangle pop from right here in SF, fronted by local luminary Sonny Smith, backed up by a who's who of local rockers, which sometimes includes Kelly Stoltz, John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees, Shayde Sartin of the Fresh & Onlys, Flying Canyon and Kelly Stoltz's band and Tim Cohen (Fresh & Onlys, 3 Leafs, Amocoma!), from brooding moody lope, to shimmery doo wop flecked surf rock to stripped down classic power pop, to fifties style balladry, to twangy back porch folk... SPEEDWOLF A recent discovery for us, these Colorado thrashers totally destroy, a killer mix of Venom and Motorhead (and a little Bad News!), with a vocalist who is a dead ringer for Lemmy, crushing riffage, pounding drums, tracks range from full bore neck snapping frenzy, to loping hooky groove, to pounding almost doom, totally heavy and insanely catchy, dying to see these guys live. TODD Riffy and raw, rhythmic and heavy and in the red, a pounding and relentless blowout a la Brainbombs and Rusted Shut and Twin Stumps and White Mice and the Mayyors, howled marble mouthed vox, riffs crumbling with distortion, bowel rattling bass rumble, the drums pounding and frantic, from unhinged Scratch Acid / Jesus Lizard noise rock, to seasick post rock groove, to lurching sludge-y doom, to full on filthy space rock trip out. TRUE WIDOW Incredible, totally intense and brooding, nineties style slowcore, heavy and dark, epic and so catchy, one of our most listened to records last year (and even still!), and one of the most freaked-out-over Records Of The Week ever, and for good reason, amazing songs, irresistible hooks, gorgeous production, lush and warm, and so goddamn good. Dying to see TW live, hear some of those tracks we've been playing to death, and to hopefully hear some new songs from the forthcoming record! Not bad, eh? Here's the show schedule with set times for the venue's two stages, indoor and outdoor: OUTSIDE 7p Liturgy 8p Speedwolf 9p Iron Man 10p Moon Duo 11p sh*t & Shine 12m Pierced Arrows 1a Dengue Fever INSIDE 7p Epileptinomicon 8p Drunkdriver 9p Home Blitz 10p Headdress 11p Sonny & the Sunsets 12a True Widow 1a Todd So, note that down... but don't worry, we'll be posting this info again, and again... and we'll have posters soon too. Can't wait! Before we get to the list, we have one more show announcement, we're happy to be presenting the P.E.E. reunion show at this year's Noise Pop festival, not just cuz it's Andee's band, but cuz the show is packed with aQ faves! Check it out: P.E.E. / True Widow / Ovens / Grass Widow Saturday, February 27th Cafe Du Nord AND, we have two pairs of tickets to give away, but before we get to that, let's talk about the bands playing. P.E.E., for those who weren't around when they were still a band, were a kick-ass grind pop / noise pop outfit that trafficked in blink-and-you-miss-them short sharp burts of tangled progpop, dueling boy / girl vocals, plenty of harmonies, and of course Andee behind the kit. An aQ customer once described P.E.E. as sounding like all the bridges (not the choruses, not the verses, the BRIDGES) from all your favorite pop songs strung together into a seamless whole. Which is not all that far off. First proper show in 11 years!! Andee / P.E.E. handpicked the openers, three big time aQ faves, first, True Widow, whose recent Record Of The Week blew everyone away, AND who will be playing our showcase at SXSW, but if you can't make it to Texas, this is your chance, completely amazing nineties style brooding emotional, super heavy slowcore, dark and moody and so catchy. As if that weren't enough, SF's own Ovens are playing too, a rare occurrance now that the members all live in different cities, we're so psyched to see these guys again, they played our SXSW last year and kicked ass, confusionally choosing to play all eighties straight edge hardcore covers, even though they are SF's masters of ultra short pop song genius, equal parts Guided By Voices, Weezer, f**king Champs, Melvins, heavy and hooky, most songs less than a minute, lots even shorter than that, songs about getting high, getting hurt, getting fired, their recent record on tUMULt was a huge hit around these parts... And finally, another local fave, Grass Widow, whose awesome art punk garage rock has been totally hitting the spot lately. So there you go: P.E.E. / True Widow / Ovens / Grass Widow Saturday, February 27th Cafe Du Nord We have two pairs of tickets to give away, just send an email to [email protected], with the subject P.E.E. TIX, we'll pick two at random. We also have a pair of tickets to give away to one of the film screenings, a movie called Downtown Calling. Here are the details: DOWNTOWN CALLING Friday Feb. 26th at ATA (right across the street from aQ) “In the late 1970s, the “greatest city in the world” was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en masse housing corruption gave way to a city in crisis. Yet out of the economic and social strife that held the “Big Apple” hostage, a family of homegrown cultures that would forever change the world began to emerge.Downtown Calling not only documents, in detail, the evolution of New York City’s fertile music and art subculture during this period, but how its collective output continues to play a prominent, driving role in the international fashion, art and music industries today.” Featuring Fab 5 Freddy, Bobbito Garcia, Jazzy Jay, Mos Def, TV on The Radio, DJ AM (RIP), James Chance, and many more. Narrated by Debbie Harry. Directed by Shan Nicholson TRT 76 mins Q&A with Producer Ben Velez and Director Shan Nicholson following the screening If you want to check it out, email [email protected], with the subject DOWNTOWN TIX, we'll pick one email at random. And that's it. Let's wrap up this intro and get to the good stuff... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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Speaking of shows, more SXSW news. Last time we announced the lineup for our showcase, shared with our pals at WFMU. Pretty soon we'll be able to unveil the limited edition posters we're having made to commemorate the occasion, designed by the one and only Savage Pencil! We'll keep you, ah, posted. Also, if you're gonna be in Austin, there's a free daytime outdoor party on Thursday March 18th, curated by our pal George Chen of Zum, that we're co-presenting along with KXLU, part of something called What By What-Ever. Some of the bands playing include Eternal Tapestry, Weird Weeds, Total Abuse, White Rainbow, Abe Vigoda, Infinite Body, Earn, among others! For more info on that and the other WXWE activities, go here: http://domybookstore.com/ All right, now on to what you're really all here for, the list proper! Starting with 3 Records Of The Week, as follows... DWARR: Eccentric outsider "doom metal" from the '80s, psychedelic and strange, like DIY Black Sabbath meets Todd Tamanend Clark... HADEWYCH: Mysterious occult sonic rituals from this UK horde, a dizzying blend of black drones, dense doomic dirgery, skittery electronics, bizarre vocalizations, all blurred into an epic, sprawling, haunting otherworldly soundscape songsuite. Packaged in handmade wooden sleeves wrapped in leaves and ULTRA LIMITED. LI JIANHONG: Sheer, untrammeled outward bound electric six string axe action from this Chinese amplifier worshipping guitar god: heavy, epic, blown out and so beautiful. And as always, a whole mess of highlights: A BROKEN CONSORT: Elegiac shimmering acoustic string drone from Richard Skelton. AMANAZ: Another awesome "Zam Rock" reissue, full of gentle grooves and fierce fuzz! ART MUSEUMS: On Woodsist, new project featuring members of Skygreen Leopards and Whysp, lovely lo-fi pop with an '80s indie vibe. ASH POOL: Dom from Prurient's USBM duo return with a remarkably, uh, poppy and rockin' (yet grim) new disc! AUTHOR & PUNISHER: AUTODIGEST: New Tapeworm cassette, limited to 100 copies, allegedly containing "Every Bootleg Ever" (or at least the tape hiss of every bootleg ever)! BAD ACID: Latest mindboggling issue of this stoner/psych/metal/noise magazine, tons of your favorite bands in the zine and on the several-hours-long dvd-r mp3 compilation that comes with it! BARDO POND: Reissued, the Philly drone/drug rockers debut full-length, with bonus track! BARE WIRES: Two new tracks on 7" of this band's killer garage rock/power pop! BLACK BONED ANGEL: Latest slab (vinyl only, and limited!) of sprawling outsider minimal ambient sludge doom drone from Campbell Kneale's BBA. BLAKCPULLET GRIMOIRE: On cd-r, an eclectic and confounding art-prog project from a local artist into sonic weirdness. BOHREN AND DER CLUB OF GORE: Domestic vinyl via Hydra Head of the latest from our Teutonic doom jazz faves. BRAST BURN: Welcome reissue of way underground, freaked out '70s Japanese psych platter, the companion album to the Karuna Khyal disc. CATHOLICON: Blasphemous black metal and Southern sludge from this long running (until now) Louisiana band, offering up their final album + dvd-audio demos etc. collection! CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED: Extreme metal with extremely good actual SINGING, shredding too, some of the heaviest "power metal" ever. COUGHS: Some killer noise rock on vinyl, that we only just got into... CROCODILES / GRAFFITI ISLAND / DUM DUM GIRLS / PENS: 4-way 7" split from some coolest of the current crop of lo-fi garage poppers. CROMAGNON: Jackpot vinyl reissue of this all-time freaked out AQ fave, originally released on ESP-Disk in 1969. DARK STAR: Classy NWOBHM album from '81 reissued, heavy melodic and rockin'! NATHAN DAVIS: Another exotic jazz artist's anthology from the label that brought us Lloyd Miller. DNTEL: Triple disc of catchy IDM-based electronica originally released back in the '90s by one half of Postal Service. DAMIN EIH, A.L.K. AND BROTHER CLARK: Surreal and subversive private press psych from 1973, lovely and trippy and occasionally violently fuzzed. LEIF ELGGREN: Another limited new Tapeworm cassette, from the always mischievous Swedish conceptual artist and sonic expermentalist. FUQUGI: A floational guitar album from a blissful new Japanese artist. FRANCOISE HARDY: Breathtaking and beautiful 1971 album from this French songstress, not newly reissued, but newly swooned over here! HIDEOUS GNOSIS: A collection of essays and presentations given at the recent Hideous Gnosis academic black metal theory symposium. GRIM!!! KECAK GANDA SARI: A long time aQ favorite, this recording of Balinese Kecak, a classic, grab one if you don't already own it and love it. KERASPHORUS: Killer debut from this Bay Area black metal super group, gnarled buzzing blackness featuring members of Angelcorpse, Revenge, Order From Chaos, Cremation, Axis Of Advance and Horn Of Dagoth. BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA: Awesome contemporary West African sounds, first release on the new Sub Pop world music imprint. ROBERT LOWE: Cosmic loops and shimmery vocals, rhythmic tripped out beauty from aQ pal Lowe, NOW ON CD. MAGIK MARKERS / SIC ALPS: This killer split, available again, but not for long! GIL MELLE: The far out, weirdo electronic soundtrack to The Andromeda Strain finally reissued! HEATHER LEAIGH MURRAY: Lp reissue of this long out of print cassette, totally blissed out guitar drones / ragas. NEKRASOV: Latest ultra limited release from this Australian master of buzzing blackness and ear shredding blacknoize. JOANNA NEWSOM: Massive new TRIPLE LP from this harp wielding chanteuse. BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA: Super limited tape, of electronic cosmic space drift, really great! PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST: Gorgeous hushed delicate dreaminess from this Italian artist, on Japanese label PSF. PANTHA DU PRINCE: Totally mysterious, warm and moody minimal beat driven bliss, maybe the best electronic music record this year. ROBERT POLLARD: The latest from the ever prolific former Guided By Voices frontman, and it's great! PSYCHIC REALITY / LA VAMPIRES: One side, vocal driven tripped out psychedelic drone, the other, crate digging abstract outsider lo-fi DJ mix weirdness. RIMFROST: Grim frosty, thrashing black metal madness from Sweden. JACK ROSE: Final record of modern bluegrass / Appalachia from this amazing guitarist, who recently passed away. One of his best, and a gorgeous reminder and celebration of his life and his music. SAINT VITUS: Legendary slab of Vitus doom, on vinyl for the first time EVER. SANDWITCHES: Female garage folk pop from SF, featuring members of Brilliant Colors, The Fresh & Onlys and Pillars Of Silence. SHINING: Some super intense 'black jazz' from Norway, far out, f**ked up and freaky. SOFT PACK: Total Strokes style jangle pop, catchy and so goddamn good. One of our most listened to discs lately... SOLARS: Brand new, super limited tape of cosmic psych synth drone from Vancouver. SPENCEY DUDE & THE DOODLES: Fun and catchy garage pop from right here in SF. STICKEM: Brand new SKWEEEEEE 7"from the REAL first American practitioner of the form! SURFER BLOOD: One of our new favorite jams, jangly surf rock lo-fi garage pop, like XTC meets Pavement... TAPE & BILL WELLS: Ultra dreamy instrumental collab, sparse and lush and melancholy. DARREN TATE: Bleak sci-fi analog electronics from this long time aQ fave (and frequent Andrew Chalk collaborator. U.S. GIRLS: Ramshackle psychedelic lo-fi noise-pop grey-wave experimental weirdness... MIKA VAINIO: Pricey but super cool double disc / hardcover book set, of film scores from one half of Pan Sonic. V/A BLACK MAN'S CRY: A whole collection of bands influenced by and indebted to the music legacy of Fela Kuti. V/A BOB BLANK: Long overdue collection from this unsung seventies disco legend. V/A BRAZILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS: Just look at the title, bad ass collection of Brazilian psych. BANANAS! V/A CASUAL VICTIM PILE: Awesome collection of underground / unsigned bands from Austin Texas... V/A DANCEHALL 2: Volume 2 in Soul Jazz's awesome series of Dancehall compilations, tracing the roots of Dancehall from the eighties on. V/A IN A CLOUD: Killer collection of unreleased tracks from SF bands: Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Fresh & Onlys, Kelly Stoltz and more... V/A STROKE: Incredible collection of Chris Knox / Tall Dwarfs covers, including the first new music from Jeff Mangum in years, a benefit to support Knox's post-stroke recovery. V/A TOKYO FLASHBACK 7: Another killer document of underground Japanese psychedelic music from PSF. WHITE HILLS: Kick ass new full length of drone-y druggy psychedelic Hawkwind hypno-rock from these NY space rockers. YEAST CULTURE: Weirdo mid eighties industrial weirdness on this super limited cassette. YELLOW SWANS: Final record from this defunct noise duo, and maybe their prettiest yet. Plus the usual "much more", including a new issue of The Wire, and some more "now on vinyl!" treats... But before we get to the list proper, we have a bunch of announcements and giveaways. UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US IN BERKELEY The award-winning film ’Until The Light Takes Us’, tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture. Opens on Friday March 5th at Rialto Cinemas Elmwod at 2966 College Ave in Berkeley. www.rialtocinemas.com If you missed it in SF, this will be your last chance. For trailer and more info, please visit WWW.BLACKMETALMOVIE.COM We have FOUR pairs of tickets to give away, good for any showing, any day during the first week, March 5 until March 11! Two showings each night, 8pm and 10pm. We'll also be giving away two full-size, 27 x 40 glossy posters, to enter the drawing, send an email to [email protected], with either the subject UNTIL THE LIGHT TIX, for a chance to win a pair of tickets, or UNTIL THE LIGHT POSTER, for a chance to win one of the posters. Also, our pal Antony Milton spent the last year traveling through South America, and ended up making an incredible recording, that he's now selling to raise money for the community trust in the Bolivian village he was staying in. The recording is fantastic, and it's for a good cause, here are the details: Antony Milton - San Miguel del Bala In September and October of 2009 Antony Milton spent 3 weeks working as a volunteer for the San Miguel del Bala community in the Bolivian jungle. His project for this time was to record a work representing the sound environment of this location, the sounds of the jungle and of the local village and its musicians. This experience was a real adventure and involved a 3 day journey in dugout canoe up into the deep jungle of the Madidi National Park in order to record Howler Monkeys and other more exotic animals. The final album is a filmic 35 minute suite of sounds and music. Upon receiving payments an email will be sent back as soon as possible containing the download links. The download includes a txt file documenting the sound sources for these recordings. All money from this release will be forwarded to the San Miguel del Bala Community Trust, an initiative set up by Conservation International as an alternative to the logging which was the main source of income for villagers prior to the trust funds various tourism based operations. There is a lot more information about this album on Antony Miltons myspace blog. www.myspace.com/antonymilton To order go here: http://www.pseudoarcana.com/ That's it, there are a few more announcements at the tail end of this week's list, but right now, let's get to all these awesome new sounds... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. 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They are: RAMLEH: Double cd reissuing 2 killer cassettes from the '80s by this pioneering UK drone-noise-rock act. For fans of Skullflower and SUNNO))), for sure!! FOREST SWORDS: LP-only release on Old English Spelling Bee, our favorite new release in the newly christened DRONESTEP genre, maybe the only one ever as well! NICE FACE: New on Sacred Bones, tweaked lo-fi pop for fans of two previous Record Of The Weekers Night Control and Blank Dogs. On heavy rotation here in the store! BILLY GREEN (STONE OST): Psychedelic "Ozploitation" biker movie soundtrack from '74, reissued on Finders Keepers, weird electronics and groovy fuzz, incredible! Highlights, a lot of 'em, here they are: AFTERNOON SAINTS: 2lp of improv action on turntables, drums, guitars, and bagpipes from some well-known names! ARKHA SVA / WOODS OF INFINITY: Limited split 7" from two bizarre black metal cults. A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW: New 12" from these fave poppy shoegazers. BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL: 41 minute epic composition from this amazing dark ambient dirge folk alchemist, new on Bindrune! BOHEMIAN GROVE: Brilliant black metal debut from this elite Greek act, both avant and aggressive. BURNING STAR CORE: An epic space drone collage made from 66 live recordings! THE C + B: Siltbreeze 7" of archival lo-fi strum and clang predating The Shadow Ring. CELESTIIAL: Another new Bindrune release, more foresty dreamy doom from this fave! THE CHINESE RESTAURANTS: 7" from some NY lo-fi new wave noiseniks, who'd like us to think Barack Obama is in the band. CIRCLE OF OUROBORUS: Now on vinyl! One of the freakiest from this freaky Finnish horde! CLOAK OF DISPLACEMENT: Super limited homebrewed cd-r of blasting lo-fi f**ked up blackness from this one man band. COCONUTS: Droned out slo-mo krauty psych groove, spacey and druggy, via this NYC trio's debut on No Quarter. DRUNKDRIVER: Unhinged noiserock 7" from this band, playing our SXSW showcase soon! DUM DUM GIRLS: Teaser 7" for this band's upcoming Sub Pop full-length, featuring a Rolling Stones cover! HAMZA EL DIN x 2: Two of the Egyptian oud master's classic early albums finally reissued! ELUVIUM: More somber soundscapes from this gorgeous group, but now with vocals and percussion. EMIT: Second posthumous collection from these black metal weirdos. ETERNAL TAPESTRY: Cd-r reissue of one of this Portland psych group's heaviest sets! EVIL OCEAN: NZ fuzz-doom-DIY band with an unhealthy Pharaoh Overlord obsession, and a drum machine!! FAR EAST FAMILY BAND: '70s Japanese space rock masterpiece reissued!! JAMES FERRARO: Former Skaters soundscaper returns with another LP of his 'hypnogogic pop'! FINAL + FEAR FALLS BURNING: Limited LP-only collaboration from these two heavy dronesters!! GUNSLINGERS: Our favorite frenzied French psychedelic garage trio kick out the jams on record number 2! HAYAINO DAISUKE: Headspinning ep of powermetalgrind on Hydra Head, ex-Discordance Axis. SEAN HAYES: Local rootsy troubadour's latest! HELLVETE: Vinyl only Sylvester Anfang side-project, so good! HEY COLOSSUS AND THE VAN HALEN TIME CAPSULE: New name, same ultra heavy out-there rock action! HIGH ON FIRE: Latest from this always reliable metal juggernaut, even heavier and catchier than ever! MICHAEL HURLEY: Another Hurley LP reissued by Mississippi, this one a bit of a country-rocker! TOSHI ICHIYANAGI / TOSHI KOSUGI / MICHAEL RANTA: The next best thing to a long lost Taj Mahal Travellers album, reissued from '75! INNERCITY: Cd-r of spacey futuristic sci-fi synthscapery for fans of John Carpenter and Oneohtrix Point Never! JONAS REINHARDT: 2nd album on Kranky from local kosmiche krew, now featuring members of Mi Ami and Trans Am! TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS: More catchy power pop from this guy, always a treat! LOCRIAN: Epic blackened drone limited to 200 cassette copies! LOSCIL: More gorgeous dream-ambient music from this Kranky artist! LOW ANTHEM: Delicate deep folk rock from this new fave. LUDICRA: SF's avant black metal urban warriors return with their latest, now on Profound Lore! MALACHAI: Sounds like '70s psych-pop and glam, done electronica style, with computers and samples as well as real instruments. MANIC SHOOTER: Another cd-r on the Upstairs (Oneohtrix) label, all sci-fi synth weirdness. MARTYN: Great dubstep DJ mix from this gent. MOON DUO: Cd version of these hazy SF psych shjipmates' Sacred Bones ep! GEOFF MULLEN & KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN: Another cd-r on the Upstairs (Oneohtrix) label, from these two who need no introduction. NEKRASOV: Missed the last one? This one's even better, less limited, and on an actual cd! OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD: 7" of guitar based doomdrone from former Birchville Cat Motel, Black Boned Angel fella! PAVEMENT: Time for the BEST OF, seriously! EWAN PEARSON: Kompakt makes us love techno, yet again! PEVERELIST: Dubsteppish electronica followup to his batch of killer 12"s... PILL WONDER: Tropical outsider pop damage, reissued from cassette, now on LP (only), via Underwater Peoples! PINK NOISE: More from Sacred Bones, a lo-fi LP of murky, synth-driven noisy new waveishness! POCAHAUNTED: Latest from these ladies, LP-only hazy drones on Not Not Fun. ROEDELIUS: Reissue of Cluster/krautrock legend's 1982 solo album! ROTTING CORPSE: Sick '80s underground Texas thrash reissued! SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB: Odds and sods from ol' Slim! SPEED GLUE & SHINKI: More '70s Japanese psych reissued, a classic from these super stoned savants. STIELAS STORHETT: Russian black metal ep of the YEAR! SYLVESTER ANFANG II: Latest collection of gorgeous drugged out free folk rituals from these Belgian freaks, LP-only on Blackest Rainbow. BERNARD SZAJNER: Reissue of French electro-prog weirdo's most experimental album. ANDREW THOMAS: Kompakt REALLY makes us love techno, yet again!! THE TIMES: 2cd reissue of 3 albums from Ed Ball's old band... one of 'em anyway! Pop genius. ALI FARKRA TOURE & TOUMANI DIABATE: African, awesome. TYVEK: Early Tyvek action now on vinyl!! ULAAN KHOL: The third in Steven R. Smith's heavy trilogy!! V/A MINIMAL WAVE TAPES: Recent Record Of The Week, now in stock on vinyl, for a minute anyway! V/A POMEGRANATES: B-Music/Finders Keepers comp of '60s/'70s Persian psych pop funk folk, so great!! V/A UNDERWATER PEOPLES WINTER REVIEW: Another great sampler from this label, with tracks by Julian Lynch, Pill Wonder, Ducktails, etc. VASAELETH: On Profound Lore, a crushing ritual of doomic death metal, blackened and arcane! WELTER IN THY BLOOD: Super elaborate limited LP from this LA black metal horde! BILL WITHERS: Final, forgotten album from this soul singer, mostly mellow and melancholic, reissued! WIND: Part Can, part Deep Purple, heavy kraut prog from '71! WOLFBANE: Raw and riffy, Sabbathy NWOBHM demos reissued, for fans of Witchfinder General and Angel Witch and the like! WOODS: Dreamy loner-stoner folk 7". ZU: Slayerized jazz mayhem, on vinyl! It's got sticker with a blurb from our review of the cd, so you know it's good! And (as always) even more, now on vinyl stuff, back in stock stuff, warehouse find stuff (original Grong Grong vinyl!), magazines, and lots of random treats we just didn't happen to get enough of to highlight... Before we get to the list, got a bunch of announcements, as well as a whole bunch of ticket give aways. First, next Tuesday, spaced out black metallers SERVILE SECT will be coming to town, and will be playing a show on THE BUS. As if that weren't enough, they'll be playing with two of our favorite local bands, PRIZEHOG and PIGS! We'll be announcing the location via our Twitter, so if you don't know where to find THE BUS, sign up to follow us on Twitter, and we'll let you know exactly where and when. Also, we're presenting a show along with Club Sandwich, and it's a doozy. Check it out: Burmese sh*t & Shine (UK, feat. Eugene Robinson of Oxbow) Mokele Mbembe Naupli Tuesday, March 23rd @ 7:30pm, $7, all ages 21 Grand, 416 25th St, Oakland Wow! Definitely don't want to miss that. And one lucky soul out can win a pair of free tickets. Just email [email protected] with the subject BURMESE TIX, and will pick one lucky winner at random. Also, we have tockets to give away to a few more shows, featuring lots of aQ faves, new and old: Tues. Mar. 23 at GAMH - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists + Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves ($17 - Doors 8, Show 9) For their fifth full-length release (and first with Touch and Go Records), Ted Leo and the Pharmacists met up with Brendan Canty (Fugazi) at Long View Farms to iron out a new set of anthems that arrive with a confident and outspoken immediacy. With "Living with the Living," Ted & Co. wipe clean the slate that once held names like Weller, Strummer and Bragg and indulge some of their farthest-reaching musical ambitions. Fri. Mar. 26 at GAMH - The Low Anthem + Timbre Timber + The Barr Brothers (of The Slip) ($15 - Doors 8, Show 9) From its hand silkscreened cover art to its meticulously crafted songs, The Low Anthem offers work meant to be held, savored, contemplated, and occasionally stomped along to. The Providence, RI, trio's Nonesuch debut offers a distinctly human touch in an era of instant uploading and ephemeral expression. The mood of Oh My God, Charlie Darwin is melancholic from the start—quiet, intimate, full of longing, and often hauntingly beautiful. In its lyrics, a dog-eat-dog society is nearing collapse and relationships are bruised, broken, or irretrievably lost. Yet in their tenor there is a pencil shaving of hope. The Low Anthem combines folk and blues arrangements with the elegance of chamber music and the fervor of gospel. Much of Oh My God is hushed and hymn-like, but the trio throws a clamorous curve with raw, stomp-and-holler tracks. Sat. Mar. 27 at GAMH - Dead Meadow + Imaad Wasif + Upside Down (members of Sprindrift) ($15 - doors 8, Show 9) Darlings of both the stoner rock and modern psychedelia worlds (and featured in the new movie on heavy rock named after one of their tracks, "Such Hawks, Such Hounds"), DEAD MEADOW transcend both. Over the last ten years, they've reacted to the country's swelling conservatism with a particularly escapist, surreal, lovely, and deafening sound of their own, and an exponentially growing audience tuning in. You know the drill depending on which show you want to try and win tickets to, email store@aquariusrecords. org, with one of these subjects: TED LEO TIX, LOW ANTHEM TIX or DEAD MEADOW TIX. Will pick emails at random, and give away two pairs to each show. Be sure to check the end of the list for some more announcements and show info. Now, let's get to the music... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. 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[] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> aQuarius recOrds [] <> <> New Arrivals #342 [] <> <> 26 March 2010 [] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> Beloved Customers and Friends: Crazy week! Andee got back from SXSW on Sunday, with a list coming up, and then PLAYED drums with sh*t & Shine for two shows, including one just last night. You can bet he's worn out. But all the shows were awesome, the ones he played, and the one (yup, just 1!) he saw at SXSW, of course it was ours, the showcase with WFMU, 13* of our favorite bands, it ruled, thanks everbody who played, everybody who showed up to see it, everybody who wanted to but couldn't as well (which includes a bunch of us here at AQ, actually)! Almost makes us want to do it again next year, we'll see. (*was supposed to be 14, but one of 'em got in some trouble and couldn't make it...) Anyway, maybe Andee will write some more about his adventures at SXSW, and post it on the blog or something, if you follow our Twitter you already heard a bit about the show, and we posted some photos on the aQuarius facebook page, or maybe you HEARD the show itself if you tuned in to FMU, and if you haven't heard it yet, you can check it out here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/ Three Records Of The Week, which are so often cd-only but this time 2/3rds vinyl-only, for now anyway. They are: BLACK BUG: Furious feral synth driven Swedish new wave garage punk ultra blown out, bloodied and bruised, gloom-wave noise-pop genius! We've been DYING for this record!! ZOLA JESUS: Incredible new record from this long time aQ fave, her most polished, emotional, epic and haunting record yet, classic eighties style dark gothic pop. So good. OMAR KHORSHID: Latest Sublime Frequencies winner, a double LP documenting of the genius of this '70s Egyptian electric guitarist, so good!! HIGHLIGHTS APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE: Now on Profound Lore, here's the 2nd album of epic-emo-doom from these Midwestern metallers! AUTECHRE: Latest from former IDM overlords, may or may not be a return to form, but some of us are digging it! BAD ACID: Already, another issue of this insane psych/sludge/metal/ DOCK BOGGS: Another Monk label vinyl archival issue from the old timey banjo great! BLACK TAMBOURINE: Former Record Of The Week collection from these Slumberland popsters repackaged w/ bonus tracks! BOOK OF SAND: Debut cd from a former member of Light, playing obscure blackened and murky hypnometal! TRISTAM CARY: Trunk label vinyl collection of crucial music from this inventive/influential British electronic soundtrack composer. CRUCIFIST: Also on Profound Lore, a delightful disc of blackened old school filth from members of Orodruin and Brutal Truth. DAILY VOID: Latest 12" from Sacred Bones, a nice slice of crusty punk given a lofi garage rock makeover! DAUGHTERS: Catchy chaotic noiserock from this Hydra Head outfit. DEAD AS DREAMS: Cd ep from this Weakling-worshiping black metal combo! SUGAR PIE DESANTO: Import anthology of '60s soul from this amazing singer. DOUBLE DAGGER: Record number two from these bass and drums only post noise rockers. EGONOIR: Warped and wonderful reissue (w/ bonus track) of old demo by these depressive German BM weirdos. EMERALDS: Now on compact disc, the s/t album by this popular synthnoisebliss band. EPMD: Reissued hiphop classic, one of our faves! FAR OUT: Now on vinyl, a reissue of this '70s Japanese psych grail. DJ FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION: Vinyl only mix from this local DJ/turntablist/soundsculptor, a member of psych band 3 Leafs, etc. FLOOR: Eight cds, a deluxe packge containing everything ever recorded (and then some) from these pre-Torche heavies!! FLYING LIZARDS: Reissued '79 debut from this project known for their novelty/experimental covers, and punk disco/dub too. FUJITA & JELINEK: Prepared vibraphone meets ambient electronics on this lovely, delicate, droning disc. GONJASUFI: On Warp, the debut from the interesting singer last heard guesting on Flying Lotus' Los Angeles album. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sub Pop unleashes the jangly lofi power pop hooks of Happy Birthday, featuring one of the guys from Feathers (and Witch!). BRIAN HARNETTY & BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY: Gorgeous and dark chamber rock / dark jazz vignettes with bits of old timey Appalachia. HAUD MUNDUS / WORMLUST: Ireland/Iceland black metal tag team release! HELVETETS PORT: Over the top '80s style retro metal recommended to us by Jussi from Circle, eccentric and absurd and so cool! HORSEBACK: Last copies of this limited 7" of ambient drift and blackened crush from these guys. HUNX AND HIS PUNX: Now on cd! All his gay singles. INDIGNANT SENILITY: Plays Wagner, part 2, dusty thrift store vinyl blurred into beautiful soundscapes. GREGORY ISAACS: A brilliant 1978 dub jam we recently rediscovered! AKIRA ISHIKAWA & COUNT BUFFALO: Found some final copies of this amazing '70s Japanese African themed psychjazzprog reissue, a former Record Of The Week!! JABLADAV: Limited to 100 copies cd-r of blackened ambience made mostly with Buddha machines!! JAWBREAKER: '90s pop punk legends beloved debut reissued, we're psyched!! KOSS: Japanese ambient electronics to bliss out to! LIARS: Never know what you'll get from these guys, but it's good this time, and while they last comes with killer remixes disc. LOCRIAN: Limited, vinyl-only epic from this great Chicago duo delving into drone, doom, power electronics, with help from some heavy/blackened friends. FRANCISCO LOPEZ: Double cd collecting some of the untitled tracks by this environmental recordings experimentalist. LOVESLIESCRUSHING: Remix cd of a disc almost nobody ever heard anyway, so it's its own thing basically, a great new slice of shoegaze from this band. MAINLINER: Long overdue LP version (clear vinyl!) of this maximum fuzz monster from '97, by the famed Japanese garage psych power trio supergroup. MAKO SICA: Limited LP from psych tripping band whose PlusTapes cassette took us by surprise a little while back. LASSE MARHAUG: Pure brutalist noise from Scandinavia. THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL / OLD CORPSE ROAD: Split release from two UK black metal bands, Meads being old faves our ours, here with new tracks and covers reveling in their love of crusty punk!! MIR: Heavy electronics and percussion from this drums/synth/bass trio doing improv free rock skree filled soundscapes in the tradition of the great 16-17!! MONOS: Now as a single cd, this fantastic drone album is available once again! MOTORPSYCHO: Norwegian space/prog/pop rockers umpteenth unclassifiable effort, 3rd for Rune Grammofon, it's a heavy one. NADJA: Now on vinyl, the recent double album from prolific drone doom duo Nadja! NECHOCHWEN: From Bindrune, a new artist with a unique, Native American take on all sorts of extreme metal, quite excellent!! BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA: Back in stock, this fine collaborative album that celebrates a "love for drones, Scandinavia, and alcohol." OBSKURIA: Members of Peru's La Ira De Dios team up with psychfreaks in Germany and the USA for spacey, Hammond organ laden jamming that somehow also incorporates some Slayer! PANOPTICON: This awesome slab of weirdo pagan anarcho black metal now on vinyl, deluxe with bonus Amebix cover! HARRY PARTCH: The one of a kind composer's Delusions Of The Fury now reissued on double vinyl! LEE PERRY: Dubstep 12" of the year so far, The Upsetter + "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath!!! RADAR BROTHERS: Still Floyd-y, but even poppier, the beloved RB bring us their 5th full-length. RAMLEH: Following last week's ROTW reissue, we now have a brand NEW Ramleh album, good stuff for noiseniks! RANGERS: Another new one on Old English Spelling Bee, another chunk of weirdo lo-fi retro pop whatthef**k on LP. R.Y.N.: Brand new, ultra limited, super deluxe lp from these architects of grim drone and black ambience. SANKT OTTEN: Brand new record from this German combo who channel Portishead and Bohren into dark smoldering skittery washed out electronic dreamscapes. GIL SCOTT-HERON: An awesome return to form for this legendary musican / poet, dark and moody and a little dubsteppy! TY SEGALL: New 7" with exclusive B-side from this fave poppy garage rocker. SHE & HIM: Latest disc of sweet sunshiney pop from M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel. SKULLFLOWER / WHITE MEDAL: Killer split, one of the most blissed out SF jams in ages, and some blurred blown out blackness from WM. THE SPLINTERS: Super smart all female post-punk from right here in SF. SUN ARAW: Latest cloud of smoked out dub psych damage, a sprawling double lp epic! SCOTT TUMA: Yet another gorgeous disc of hushed abstract Appalachia and drifting dreamlike dronemusic from this one time Souled American guitarist. UMBERTO: NOW ON VINYL, some quite excellent Italian giallo soundtrack worship from this Expo 70 member. UNEARTHLY TRANCE / VOLITION: Two modern doom outfits cover two classic slo-mo jams from legendary doomlords WINTER! V/A FRAMEWORK 250: Massive four disc collection of field recordings from tons of aQ faves! V/A LAGOS DISCO INFERNO: A new favorite African comp, overflowing with burning, sweat-soaked funk/disco grooves! V/A MAXIMUM PROG: The title says it all! 16 Rare Gems From The Golden Age Of British Progressive Rock!! V/A NIGERIA SPECIAL: The latest in Soundways kick ass series of seventies Nigerian sounds! V/A OUAGA AFFAIR: Another fantastic collection of African music, this one focusing on Burkina Faso, from 1974-1978! V/A PHYSICAL, ABSENT, TANGIBLE: Fanatastic experimental compilation featuring various artists creating sounds evoking "the in-between immaterial spaces". V/A TROUBLED TROUBADORS: Far out compilation featuring yet another batch of demented and twisted classic country weirdness. WARMTH: Super limited tape, gorgeously packaged of hushed distant drones and abstract black ambience. WET DOG: Rad off-kilter totally addictive all female post punk from the UK. BILLY EDD WHEELER: Fantastic reissue from Omni, a massive collection of classics from this unsung singer / songwriter. WES WILLENBRING: Second disc from this SF soundscaper, piano and guitar driven bliss out ambience. WOODEN SHJIPS: Finally! the second Shjips singles and odds and sods collection, gathering up tons of awesome out of print rarities. XASTHUR: Awesome two track demo of murky buzz from way back in 2005. MICHAEL YONKERS: Yet another killer vinyl reissue from this eccentric visionary. And plenty more new goodies (Johnny Cash! Galaxie 500 reissues!), back in stock stuff, some sweet now-on-vinyl items (including Coconuts, Malachai, Infinite Body, Jonas Reinhardt, AMT and others, all those being previous highlights on cd), your regular magazines, etc. etc. ALSO - WE HAVE SAVAGE PENCIL POSTERS FROM OUR SXSW SHOW!! They have their own section on this week's list, just scroll down and have a look. They're crazy limited, and crazy cool, so grab one while you can! We're also pleased to announce a show we're co presenting, should be incredible, here's all the information: Aquarius Records Presents: Jooklo Duo plus The Phil Musra Trio and Cotton Museum Wednesday, April 21st @ 8:30pm (doors 7:30pm) $12 adv/ $15 door 21 & over Cafe du Nord 2170 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415-861-5016 www.cafedunord.com JOOKLO DUO: http://jooklo.altervista.org/ The Jooklo Duo is Virginia Genta on tenor sax, flute and voice and David Vanzan on drums and percussion. They formed in 2004 and have traveled extensively in Europe and Scandinavia ever since. Their first LP,"Free Serpents” was released by QBICO Records in September 2007. This is only their second time in the US and their first visit to California. Sometimes labeled as free-jazz or sonic experimental improvisation, Jooklo tries to expand beyond the realms of particular styles and incorporates voice, tribal chants and noise of all sorts to exchange feeling for sound and the result takes them and the listener to extremes of any musical experience. The effort is heavily influenced by classic improvisational performers like Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane but blended with a dose of mysticism from Middle Eastern and Gamelan sounds. Their complexity and diversity moves them closer to the outer fringes of contemporary experimental performance art. Imagine Sun Ra’s “Outer Reach Intensity” with even more unfettered freedom. Genta and Vanzan also manage the label Troglosound which is their underground music corporation for the production of records, concerts and collaborations with many international musicians. In addition to Troglosound they have releases on other labels including 8mm, QBICO, Holidays Records, Conspiracy Records and Utmarken. Since 2006 Jooklo Duo has performed with many artists under names including Golden Jooklo Age, Neokarma Jooklo Trio, Sextet and Octet and Jooklo Finnish Quartet. Artists they have collaborated with include Chris Corsano, Sonny Simmons, Andrew Barker, Charlie Waters, Maurizio Abate, Luca Massolin, Sami Pekola, Makoto Kawabata, Sonic Youth, Takehisa Kosugi, John Paul Jones and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. THE PHIL MUSRA TRIO: http://www.myspace.com/ The Phil Musra Trio is Phil Musra (soprano sax/reeds), Don Hooker (drums) and Steve McGill (congas). Their music is contemporary spiritual improvisation but like nothing you've ever heard before. The music is constantly exploring new boundaries of free-jazz. Phil studied the sax and other instruments (flute, percussion, and more) at the AACM-Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians- School of Music in Chicago, IL from 1967-1969. He went on to form a group in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his twin brother Michael Cosmic (piccolo, organ, flute) and Huseyin Ertunc (drums/percussion). He also worked with the World's Experience Orchestra along with poet-vocalist Ntozake Shange, author of the Obie Award winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Phil Musra’s albums include The Creator Spaces and More Beautiful Vibrations from the Creator and played on Huseyin Ertunc Trio's album Musiki and Michael Cosmic's Peace in the World. The self-released original recordings sound fantastic but very rare and command hundreds of dollars on eBay. COTTOM MUSEUM: http://www.tastysoil.com/ COTTON MUSEUM is a solo electronic sound project by visual artist Chris Pottinger (Tasty Soil Records, Slither, and Odd Clouds) hailing from Detroit, Michigan. His music generates sounds of decomposing swamps with rotting, cancerous beasts and swarms of buzzing insects. Chris Pottinger began this project in 2002 after years of exploring his interest in experimental electronic sounds. His music has been released on various labels including QBICO Records (Italy), American Tapes, Hanson Records, and SNSE Records. As well as recording many albums, he has shared a release with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and has appeared in various publications such as the New York Times and the Wire magazine (U.K.). Cotton Museum’s name stems from the deformed cloud-like beasts that adorn all of the album covers, and the sounds created, are inspired by the artwork that he’s developed for each release. We will hopefully have tickets to give away by the next list, and by then we should also have a Jooklo Duo instore sorted out, and we will for sure have a tour only exclusive Jooklo Duo cd-r, avaialble ONLY at aQuarius, or at the show! We'll keep you posted. Now, on with the list... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. 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((+:+:+:+:+:+ aQuarius recOrds ((+:+:+:+:+:+ New Arrivals #354 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ September 10, 2010 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings special friends! Having recovered (a bit) from Labor Day weekend festivites - including multiple BBQs, an instore, and an actual festival, the On Land one, which was fantastic - another AQ list is upon us... Lots of great things as usual, and now that the summer's just about over (tho seeming more and more summery here in SF), it's only gonna get better, tons of cool stuff coming out. This time 'round, two Records Of The Week, one a vinyl krautrock reissue we consider pretty essential, the other a cd (vinyl coming soon, delayed a bit) by a current fave, whose music is overtly krautrock influenced, but here gets into dream pop territory, lots and lots of highlights, including 4 new Utech titles, an Ariel Pink rarity now on vinyl, more krautrock, a super cool, super strange NWOBHM reissue, and all kinds of heaviness, poppiness, blackness, bluesiness, glitchiness, and more!! And the list is extra long 'cause we're relisting most of the "new" things from last week's list 353.5, like all those Mississippi lps, just in case you missed 'em. First off, thanks everybody who came out Sunday for the On Land instore (thanks also to Ilyas, Liz, and Christina for playing). It was a blast, as was the festival itself. It was also great seeing so many folks from out of town who were visiting for the festival, who dropped in to shop at AQ while they were here. Locals, by the way, we've got another event planned for next weekend, Saturday the 18th 1-6pm is the annual KFJC Penny Pitch (not Pinch) so come by then and make a donation. More on that below. Some other cool instore performances are also in the works, we'll keep you posted, among 'em will be White Hills and Fabulous Diamonds! So, to get on with list bizness, here are the Records Of The Week... GERMAN OAK: This legendary krautrock classic, and ALL TIME AQ favorite gets reissued on vinyl, after being out of print for way too long, Heavy and weird and dark and damaged, hypnotic and bizarre, spaced out and rhythmic, incredible! CLOUDLAND CANYON: After years of channeling noise drenched krautrock drift, these aQ faves embrace their love of pop and whip up an otherworldly noise drenched lysergic dream pop classic, fuzzed out and deliriously droney!! And that lengthy list of Highlights... AGALLOCH: Early material by this grim foresty atmospheric black metal horde from Portland. ALTER EAGLE: Now on cd! An incredible disc of heady swirling murky dreampop, cold wave drift, eighties style shoegaze shimmer, and post industrial pop flecked fuzz! ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS: Brand new single from this iconic vocalist featuring a Beatles cover and a Dylan cover. ASH BORER / FELL VOICES: Super limited, killer split tape of sprawling avant post black metal from these two California hordes... AURAL FIT: Positively apocalyptic distorted psychedelic crush from this infamous Japanese power trio... BEST COAST: Finally we've got our latest and greatest pop crushes in on vinyl!! BOREDOMS: DVD documentary / concert film of the 7.7.7. Boa Drum 77 drummer performance in NYC back in 2007, finally available! BRAINTICKET: lp reissue of this legendary 1971 debut from these trippy Swiss krautrockers... BUDOS BAND: Number three from THEE tightest and most masterful players of Afro-soul-funk around! CABOLADIES: Latest disc of celestial crystallizations blossoming from piles of smeared analog tones... CAVITY: Now on picture disc vinyl, this legendary slab of crushing groovy heaviness from these Florida bruisers, pre Torche and Floor! CINDYTALK: Lush, elongated drones and fuzzed digitalia from this reinvented post punk outfit. CITY SURGICAL: Killer collection of warped avant electronica, thick buzz drenched skitter and glitch... DAD THEY BROKE ME: Maybe one of the heaviest bands we've heard from Australia, seriously blown out, black-hole-heavy doom dirge sludge, lurching, lumbering and pummeling. DEEP SWITCH: Another unearthed NWOBHM rarity, this one REALLY WEIRD, there's even rapping on one track! Totally strange, and totally great! DUCKTAILS: Brand new single of dreamy warped and woozy jangle pop... DYSTHYMIA: Awesome Icelandic black metal, super distorted and melodic, a new favorite for sure. ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE: Gorgeous new lp release from this solo project of one of the Starving Weirdos. FENNESZ / DANIELL / BUCK: Now on cd, awesome live sonic summit, textural and psychedelic and surprisingly loud and heavy! FIRE WITCH: Two out of print cd-r eps reissued on a proper cd from these Australian bass and drums crushers, heavy heavy heavy! FORMLOFF: Bizarre blend of blasting grimnity and soaring melody (with autotuned vox!) and lots of other things from this obscure Norwegian duo. FREDERIK: A gorgeous mix of softly shadowed faery folk choral passages, gentle clattering percussion and sighing brass from this Norwegian duo, now on vinyl! RICHARD GARET: Incredible disc of radioluminescent tones, nocturnal stillness and mysterious flickering minimalism. WALTER GIBBONS: Killer comp documenting the work of one of the most influential DJs, remixers and game changers in New York's dance scene of the '70s and '80s. GNAW THEIR TONGUES: Latest disc of bleak cinematic orchestral blackened doom, the most baroque and symphonic yet, still grim and evil though... KING GOBLIN: Progressive space psychedelic death rock weirdness from Japan! GOG: Super limited 2 sidelong song lp soundtrack to an art installation, epic heaving blackened buzz drenched dark drone heaviness... HEARTLESS: Twisted buzzing black metal weirdness from China, featuring some of the most insane and ridiculously over the top vokills EVER! HIGH WOLF: Looped lysergic psychedelia from this mysterious French one man band... HOTOTOGISU: This long out of print raga drone classic repressed as a double cd, blissed out and utterly divine. HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA: Extreme black black heaviness, record number three of crushing droned out doom misanthropy.... ICE: Got a small handful of this WAY out of print dubbed out industrial classic, Kevin Martin and Justin Broadrick remixed!!! INTERPOL: Latest from these brooding dark rockers, the best Interpol record in a while for sure... IRAN: Debut record from these SF noise pop freaks, the vinyl version of the tUMULt cd, long out of print, but discovered a secret stash of this rare chunk of vinyl... IRON MAIDEN: The latest from these legends, and you know what. it's pretty dang good. ISLAJA: Newest album of mesmerizing dreamy Finnish avant pop from this bewitching vocalist, this one her most lush and evocative yet.... KOWLOON WALLED CITY / FIGHT AMP / LADDER DEVILS: Three way split of extreme heaviness, all three bands slay, especially local boys KWC! ED LUCE: Wuvable Oaf #2 SPECIAL EDITION, with glow in the dark cover, custom picks, and a killer etched one sided 7" of spazzy synth grind heaviness!!! MAN FOREVER: A dizzying all drum freakout free for all from Oneida drummer Kid Millions... SEAN MCCANN: Another tripped out and mesmerizing album of ever-changing kaleidoscopic whirl from this prolific soundmaker. MADLIB: Volume 8 in the Medicine Show series, this one featuring tons of classic jazz from the last 4 decades!! MOGWAI: An awesome live concert film, and live disc combo from the masters of quiet/loud post rock majesty. MOONHEARTS: Finally, a brand new full length from our favorite new kick ass garage pop combo!!! GEOFF MULLEN: Beautiful lp of manipulated guitar, processed synth, woven into dark droning, fuzz drenched melancholia. NEUROSIS: One of our favorite discs from these Oakland heavies, reissued, and sounding as amazing as ever. OVAL: Sprawling double disc full length of fantastically glitched out modern post rock and experimental electronica from this long long long time aQ fave. PADANG FOOD TIGERS: Gorgeous and dreamy, field recording laced folk drift, featuring members of Rameses III. PAYSAGE D'HIVER x 4: The final four installments in the comprehensive reissue campaign of all the recorded works of this mysterious wintery Swiss black metal one man band! PIGEONS: Latest single of pastoral drum machine flecked modern folky bliss from this husband and wife duo. PIVIXKI: Weirdo Aussie insanity, a killer mix of blasting grindcore (the drummer) with avant-garde modern chamber music (the keyboardist), genius! ROCKET SCIENCE AND THE n****r LOVING fa****S: Pre-TV On The Radio noisy weirdness from SF, long out of print, discovered a stash of these rare lps! RST: Another fantastic, dense chunk of gloriously dark and mesmerizingly heavy dronemusic from this NZ dronelord, on Utech. SERVILE SECT: Ultra limited tape of alien black metal and psychedelic black buzz from these aQ faves. SLEEPWALKER: Two super limited cd-r demos from this blissed out post rock black metal outfit, a side project of the drummer from Santa Cruz black metallers Fell Voices. SOFT MOON: Cool, difficult to describe dirgey early 80's dark wave garage pop 7" from one of our favorite new bands... STARGAZER: Latest disc of dark, twisted blackened death metal from Australia, feauring former members of weirdo Aussie metalheads Portal, on Profound Lore. TEENAGE FILMSTARS: One of our favorite records EVER now on vinyl, better than My Bloody Valentine? We say hell yeah! TWIN SISTER: One of the most woozy and deliciously bittersweet pop records of the year! V/A DARK MATTER: Fantastic double disc collection of dark and bas heavy dubstep from this influential label/studio. V/A I'LL BE SO GLAD WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN: One of five new Mississippi releases, all part of this reissue series of Alan Lomax's legendary 'Southern Journey'! V/A I'LL MEET YOU ON THAT OTHER SHORE: One of five new Mississippi releases, all part of this reissue series of Alan Lomax's legendary 'Southern Journey'! V/A I'M GONNA LIVE ANYHOW UNTIL I DIE: One of five new Mississippi releases, all part of this reissue series of Alan Lomax's legendary 'Southern Journey'! V/A WAVE THE OCEAN, WAVE THE SEA: One of five new Mississippi releases, all part of this reissue series of Alan Lomax's legendary 'Southern Journey'! V/A WORRIED NOW, WON'T BE WORRIED LONG: One of five new Mississippi releases, all part of this reissue series of Alan Lomax's legendary 'Southern Journey'! V/A ROUGH GUIDE TO DESERT BLUES: An awesome collection featuring tracks by Tinariwen, Tartit, Terakaft, Etran Finatawa, and a bonus disc: the debut Etran Finatawa full length. V/A THE HISTORY OF INDIAN FILM MUSIC: Massive 10cd boxset of Bollywood film music, from the '30s until NOW, comes with a huge book, so cool! VENETIAN SNARES: Wild junglized drill and bass, like only VS can do, another killer head spinning disc of twisted rapidfire electronica... WHITE BOY AND THE AVERAGE RAT BAND: Surprise vinyl reissue of this weirdo 1980 metal rarity, fuzzy psychy new wavey metal that is! WHITE STATIC DEMON: First release from Justin "Jesu" Broadrick's power electronics outfit, on Utech! And yes, lots more, including Southern Lord's BXI (Boris + Ian Astbury) ep now on vinyl, that awesome '80s Ayers lp reissued on vinyl too, Horse Meat Disco II too, two new Monk titles (The Carter Family and Blind Blake), a restock of Children Of Doom's magical dirtbag psychedelic metal anarchy, a nifty collection of Bruce "The Electric Lucifer" Haack's vocoder "hits" on Stones Throw, a whole bunch of JB's funk lps, etc. Before we get to the list, here's the info for the KFJC / aQ Penny Pitch: Saturday September 18 from 1 to 6:PM @ aQuarius recOrds 1055 Valencia St in San Francisco. map We finish up our Penny Pitch season with a Live Broadcast and DJs spinning at aQuarius recOrds in San Francisco. Bring your change and dump it into our change bucket. Free food and drinks! Come out and support KFJC! And aQ!! Live KFJC DJs: 1:PM C.H. Skewer 2:PM Cynthia Lombard 3:PM Maybelline 4:PM Belladonna 5:PM Captain Jack And for local folks, a killer show right down the street from aQ at Amnesia: Tuesday. September 21, 2010 853 valencia street INFINITE BODY (LA) PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT (LA) COPY LAKE (SF) SCOTT ARFORD (SF) 9pm / $6 And finally, you may have noticed another issue of Wuvable Oaf on this week's list, well right down the street from aQ is Goteblüd a vintage zine store run by our pal Matt, who also publishes Wuvable Oaf, so if you're out and about this weekend, why not stop by Goteblüd on your way to aQ! Here are some more details: Goteblüd buys and sells all manner of **vintage** music zines, right down the street from AQ. From 70s to 00s - punk, hardcore, industrial, noise, indie rock, hip hop, rave, metal, garage, pop and more. Also on display, current show - "Punk Tabloid" - large format zines of first wave SF Bay Area punk featuring "Search & Destroy", "Damage" and "Another Room Magazine". Goteblüd is at 766 Valencia @ 19th. In the old New College building. Open Sat/Sun 12-5. All right. Read on, rock on!! ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. 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They tend to be fascinated by the fact that we do a relatively brisk business in such things as frog noises, or music made by Thai Elephants, or the sound of melting ice! And the all time classic is of course The Conet Project, now sadly out of print... a 4cd collection of shortwave radio transmissions from the mysterious "numbers stations". We sold at least 800 of them before we couldn't get any more! Frogs though, we've still got, and they remain popular, a periennial. Ribbet, ribbet. So, we've picked a few of our found sounds faves and present 'em below. The subjects of these recordings range from the cute (Cats & Kittens, awww) to the creepy (the Ghost Orchid collection of Electronic Voice Phenomena, spooky). There's straight-up nature recordings, like those of extreme listener Chris Watson, and also field recordings that have been manipulated into soundscapes, or woven into music, the example we've chosen of the latter, here, being by our pal Loren Chasse of Jewelled Antler fame. We've got ALL kinds of animals: we've got loons, cicadas, crustaceans, cows (and their bells), musical elephants, and even dinosaurs (ok, the latter is a fake, but fascinating). Also, the human animal... drunk, disorderly, & demented, as represented by the the infamous Ray and Pete "Shut Up Little Man!" recordings! (If you've never heard that, you're in for a... treat.) Or not so drunk, but equally disturbing, via the Sounds Of North American Doomsday Cults cd. Obviously this is just a selection, we could easily do a Part II someday, in fact we probably will! There's more we'd have included if we could, but a lot of old faves are unfortunately out of print (like the Conet, and Insect Noise In Stored Foodstuffs, and the Daddy's Curses cd-r, and Stephen P. McGreevy's VLF recordings, or the one of howling sled dogs in the Yukon...). Others simply happened to be on backorder at our suppliers, like Christopher Delaurenti's field recording edits of his "Favorite Intermissions" from a classical symphony orchestra, but hopefully that'll be back in stock someday soon. So if we do a Part II in the future, that'll be there. And the Rutting Red Deer (we do have ONE of those, actually, right now, act fast if you want it), and Peter Cusack's Baikal Ice, and some of the more soundscapey of the Sublime Frequencies series, and certainly some Francisco Lopez and Toshiya Tsunoda... we could go on and on. Probably good we confined ourselves to a short list of faves this time. Not only are the 15 recordings listed below some of our top favorites in the found sounds/field recordings genre, but actually they're in several cases some of our favorite albums EVER. And heck, if you find yourself loving lots of these, why not spend some time on the aQ site in the Found Sounds and Field Recordings section, there's so much more!! So enjoy: http://www.aQuariusrecOrds. Oh, and please come by here tomorrow, Saturday September 18th for the annual KFJC Penny Pitch, from one 'til six in the afternoon. KFJC's DJs will be broadcasting from the sidewalk right outside aQ, with food and drinks inside! Also, still plenty of chances to win tickets to a bunch of cool shows. Here's a list of the various shows that still have tickets up for grabs: ______ Dead Meadow at the Great American - Tues. Oct. 5 For a chance to win, email [email protected] with the subject DEAD MEADOW TIX ______ Dungen, Fresh And Onlys, The Entrance Band at the New Parish in Oakland - 9/29 For a chance to win, email [email protected] with the subject DUNGEN TIX ______ Chapterhouse + Ulrich Schnauss at the Mezzanine - 10/29 For a chance to win, email [email protected] with the subject CHAPTER TIX ______ Neon Indian + Prefuse73 at the Mezzanine - 9/30 For a chance to win, email [email protected] with the subject NEON TIX ______ And finally Fennesz + Odd Nosdam at the Swedish American Hall - 9.28 For a chance to win, email [email protected] with the subject FENNESZ TIX ______ Okay! On with this week's in-between list!! And as always, while you're at it, be sure and check out last week's still fresh New Arrivals list #354!! ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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Their pals, a previously unknown band called Black Valleys!! We're assured that White Hills fans will dig 'em, A LOT, so come by on Friday at 4pm to see Black Valleys do a special super spacey synthy set for us. ALSO, please "save the date": the night of Monday October 25th. We're planning something special to celebrate 40 years of aQuarius Records. Yup, the big 4-0 is upon us, the store was founded in 1970 y'know (hence the name, it was all about the Age of Aquarius back then). We'll let you know all about it really soon, so stay tuned, and mark Oct. 25 on your calendars now. Thanks! Ok, now on with this list, that's what you came for: As we said, 5 Records Of The Week! New stuff from some old faves, a crucial metal reissue, both cds and some vinyl-only items... PHILIP JECK: Latest disc of otherworldly ambience, from one of our all time favorites, a series of hazy and gauzy record player driven dreamscapes, woven from hushed drifts of blurred sound, buried melodies, and murky textures and muddied rhythmic swells, as always so fantastically breathtaking. GROUP INERANE: Latest from the Sublime Frequencies label, another fantastic record of buzzing cyclical hypnotic African Tureg Guitar music from these legends, the third in the Guitars From Agadez series, super limited and vinyl only. BRUTAL TRUTH: Perhaps one of the greatest grind records ever, hell, maybe one of the best metal records ever, industrial doom thud collides with whirling psych grind madness collides with abstract noise, catchy and heavy and WAY weird, finally reissued on Earache with bonus tracks, including a Celtic Frost and Pink Floyd (!) cover!!!! b*****d NOISE: The one time members of powerviolence legends Man Is The b*****d, finally fully drag their newer, more abstract, electronic noise outfit kicking and screaming into the knuckle dragging fray of old school blast and pummel, for some serious noisy mathy heaviness!! SUN CITY GIRLS: The final record from these weird genius sonic mystics, the last to be recorded before the untimely death of their drummer, an expansive, soundtracky epic, rife with Morricone influences. Introspective, haunting, and at times quite beautiful. And yes, then there's a bunch of Highlights! LUKE ABBOTT: A truly unique collection of minimal techno / left-field electronica that's become a fast fave around here... ARKHONIA: Gorgeous and heady deep listening, melding pop ambient shimmer from these mysterious electronic dronescapers. ARP: Latest collection of kosmiche synth textures from this member of The Alps, dreamy and warm and rhythmic and fantastically textural and evocative. ASH POOL: Most recent disc of twisted black metal weirdness from this NYC horde, now on vinyl! AUTRE NE VEUT: An awesome bit of retro pop weirdness, minimal synths, keening falsetto vox, woozy bass, stumbling skeletal rhythms, cheesy electronic drums + super dramatic melodies! AIDAN BAKER: Now on cd, a long out of print cd-r of gorgeous sonic mystery from 1/2 of dronedoomdrift duo Nadja! BELIEVER: Expansive synth-based shimmer, beautifully minimal and impressionistic, from these members of Tarentel and The Drift... BIG TROUBLES: First full length vinyl from these fuzzed out drum machine driven new wave flecked shoe gaze garage pop retroists, we can't get enough! BLONDE REDHEAD: Latest from these long running indie pop experimentalists, sweet, melancholy, synthy, sensual, dazed and languid and so good. BUKE AND GASS: Amazing disc of chaotic ramshackle folk flecked noise pop, played on homemade instruments, a wild and loose folky swampy blues / indie rock hybrid. CANTU-LEDESMA / CLIPSON: A fantastic collection of this duo's film/musical collaborations, we have the super limited version with a bonus disc of unreleased music. EUGENE CARCHESIO & LEIGHTON CRAIG: Back in stock, this disc of mysterious sounds culled from semi-improvisational communions with the Australian landscape... CAUCHEMAR: Now on vinyl, killer female fronted true doom / speed metal from Canada, think Acid, Pagan Altar, Motorhead, The Devil's Blood, Jex Thoth, witchy and haunting and HEAVY. CENTURIONS GHOST: Third album from these UK metalcore doomsters, chunky guitars, hoarse HC vocal shouts, and pummelling drums! CEPHALIC CARNAGE: Grinding weed fueled death metal damage, convoluted ultra complex and insanely technical, and weird as sh*t! CIRCLE PIT: New Siltbreeze LP, sleazy scumrock pop!! CLOUDLAND CANYON: Last week's krauty dream pop Record Of The Week, now on vinyl! CROCODILES: Brand new disc of huge fuzzed out shoegazey stoned summery distorto pop bliss. DRAKH: Most recent record from this one time member of MZ412, dark and mysterious, electronic beats and fractured black ambience. THE DRUMS: One of our pop records of the year, sunshiney and retro, Echo And The Bunnymen meets the Cure meets the Boo Radleys meets Surfer Blood, so great! DUCKTAILS: Another glorious blast of summery hypnogogic exotica lo-fi garage groove, recorded live on WFMU, super limited vinyl! DUNGEN: Latest slab of dreamy psychedelic pop from these Scandinavian faves... EL GUINCHO: Perfect bright, bouncy and colorful world music pop, perfect for summer, or just wishing it was still summer! ENDLESS BLOCKADE / UNEARTHLY TRANCE: Ultra heavy split, power violence meets doom metal... EXPRESSWAY YO-YO DIETING: The man behind Indignant Senility, applies his unique skills to hip hop and comes up with a twisted disc of chopped and screwed weirdness. FAILING LIGHTS: A grimly gorgeous disc of bleak minimalism and metallic dread from this member of Hair Police and Wolf Eyes. Strangely beautiful. GRINDERMAN: Latest disc of swaggering testosterone fueled punked out blues from Nick Cave and company. BERNARD HERRMANN: Incredible 4 lp set of 3 of Herrmann's most legendary Hitchcock soundtracks... HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT: Super dense and complex head spinning instrumental freakouts from these UK avant/free/math/jazz/prog rockers. LA OTRACINA: More spaced out heavy jammy psychedelic proggy stoner riffed awesomeness from this Brooklyn outfit, their most METAL yet. LETHE: Back in stock, a fantastic collections of strange drones and mysterious sounds from t his Japanese soundscaper and audio alchemist. LIAM: Gorgeous super melodic black metal shoegaze bliss from Germany, on Chinese label Pest Productions. LIL B: A baffling disc of twisted genius new age synth hop. Huh? YEP! LIMONIOUS: Latest full length from the master of SKWEEEEEE, Flogsta Danshall label head honcho Frans Carlqvist! MARK MCGUIRE: Brand new record from this member of Emeralds, a strange shift in direction, but one we're digging a lot. NADJA: Brand new record of blissed out, show gazey, crushing doomdrone heaviness, the standard version of the now out of print pricey boxset. Maybe their best yet? NEKRASOV: Latest disc of noise drenched black metal weirdness, this one heavy on the melody, and the black ambient bliss, but still noisy and twisted and damaged. NEKRASOV / HUMILIATION: Killer split of filthy blackened heaviness, teaming up Aussie blackmetalnoize merchant Nekrasov with Canadian knuckle dragging doom mongers Humiliation. BRANDON NICKELL: New record from the man behind aQ faves Aemae, some seriously sharpened skull scraping noisiness. NITE JEWEL: Latest 12" collection of blissed out hazy synth pop and dreamy drift from this aQ beloved chanteuse. NURSE WITH WOUND: Back in stock, Steven Stapleton's least favorite NWW record, but one of our favorites... OOOOO: Super limited vinyl only release of tripped out ethereal electronica Witchhouse, gorgeous and haunting and incredible! ORPHAN: Latest vinyl only slab of UBER heavy, thudding, thunderous, destructive, distorted buzz and fuzz from this boy/girl art metal duo. PYRAMIDS: Incredible 5 cassette box set of remixes and interpretations of these weirdo avant black metallers, a who's who of aQ faves, preorder one of these while they're still around. STEVE RODEN: A beautiful and mysterious bit of installation sound from this long time aQ fave, back in stock. FRANKIE ROSE & THE OUTS: Drummer from Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, and Crystal Stilts strikes out on her own, for some awesomely warm and woozy pop. LAETITIA SADIER: First solo record from the voice of Stereolab, emotional and ethereal and melancholy. SKIN HORSE x 2: Both super limited discs from these troop of SF doomlords, back ins tock for a very limited time. SOUL CENTER: A fantastic disc of groovy monophunk techno from Thomas Brinkmann, getting lots of spins in the store! MAVIS STAPLES: Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, joins this blues/soul legend for a brand new record. S.T.R.E.E.T.S.: They're heavy and shreddy and bad ass and their acronym stands for Skateboarding Totally Rules, Everything Else Totally Sucks. RAD! SUPERCHUNK: First new full length in 9 years from these indie pop legends and it's totally fantastic!! SWANS: Brand new disc from these NYC legends, not a reunion, a reactivation, but whatever you call it, it RULES. SWORDS AND SANDALS: Final record from this local short-lived free music trio (featuring Thee Oh Sees' John Dwyer behind the kit!). TORCHE: Brand new record from the sludge pop heroes, maybe even better than Meanderthal!!! US CHRISTMAS: Latest chunk of spaced out, rural heaviness from these North Carolina psychedelic space rockers... UTSURO BUNE: Killer disc of heavy unprocessed guitardrones, dense and thick and dark, brutal and hypnotic and WAY limited! V/A BLOODY WAR: Awesome collection of war time blues rarities, on Tompkins Square. V/A DIGGIN' DOWN ARGENTINA: Freaky, garagey goodness, all from rare 45s by bands straight outta Argentina circa '69-'75! V/A URSK BOX: Incredible 9 cd limited edition box set from Utech, featuring 9 cds, a bonus remix cd, art cards, slipcover, #'d and signed, incredible, and we're the only store that has 'em! VASELINES: 20 years later, these Scottish twee poppers sound better than ever, and way less twee than they did back in the day! WEEZER: Brand new record from these indie pop legends, their best in a long while! And yes, loads more, including a new issue of The Wire, a couple new Dynamophone releases, some cool now-on-vinyls, a wonderful Tim Hecker reissue, a super limited SUNN-related cassette, and more! --------------------------------------------------------------- And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! --------------------------------------------------------------- As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. Plus it makes ordering almost effortless 'cause a single mouse click will pop an item directly into your shopping cart! No more trying to remember everything that you wanted to order after having read a hundred or so reviews! And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Also it's a good choice since of course we've got all the tUMULt stuff in stock (right Andee?). Not only that, but we're putting all tUMULt stuff on sale, marking everything down by a couple dollars (permanently!)!! We figured that some of you who get our list nowadays maybe weren't doing so back when tUMULt first began, so some of these AMAZING releases might be, in fact, new to you. A little history... Andee started doing the tUMULt label back in 1999, to put out reissues of the first 4 albums by one of his all time favorite bands, slowcore countryrock stoners Souled American. He went on from there, keeping it just a little bit country, or at least "No Depression" with the debut from Court & Spark, getting proggy with Guapo and Circle, and doomy and droney with discs by Skullflower and Harvey Milk, amongst others. And of course, also delving into another genre that AQ is well known for: (Black) Metal. For sure tUMULt gets mega metal cred for releasing the first albums from both Bay Area USBM legends Weakling and Leviathan... not to mention the debut from Hammers Of Misfortune, now out of print on tUMULt but recently reissued by Metal Blade. The likes of Draugar, Crebain, Eikenskaden, Varghkoghargasmal, Diamatregon, Amocoma, and Pyha also joined tUMULt's black legions. Way grim. But there's also a major pop streak in the tUMULt catalog, with bands like Ovens, The Memories Attack, and Iran (sort of). And then there's all the totally unclassifiable stuff, like Solar Anus and Worms and Thuja and Like A Kind Of Matador, and the Painted Black compilation featuring Fennesz, Circle, Acid Mothers Temple, Loren Chasse and many more... So, we're hoping folks who maybe missed out on some of these titles the first time through will find a few new faves by perusing this list. If, like, ten people who never heard the Worms cd picked that one up now, we'd be really stoked!! For the nerds who'd be into it, we'd give you the complete tUMULt discography with catalog numbers and release dates, but actually Andee can't remember 'em all (and has been known to accidentally use the same catalog number twice!). In any case, most (though sadly not all) tUMULt stuff is still in print, and you'll find our reviews of what we've got, below. Over the years, Andee has often threatened to stop doing tUMULt, but then suddenly there's a spurt of activity and a truckload of boxes show up here at AQ containing some crazy new release. So never fear, there's more tUMULt to come! Among the upcoming releases, more Bay Area Black Metal from mysterious USBM one man band Mastery, the long threatened double cd from Finnish weirdos Dead Reptile Shrine, a cd version of the recent synth punk masterpiece from Black Bug, and a bunch more... All right, we're gonna try to get this sent out early today, so we can relax and enjoy the instore we've got going on at 4pm: some spaced out White-Hilled, kraut bliss from Black Valleys. Can't wait!! Also, another reminder, aQuarius turned 40 this year, and to celebrate we've got something special planned for the night of October 25th, so save the date. More will be revealed very very soon. So if you're all ready, attain tUMULt-uousness, here: http://www.aQuariusrecOrds.Org/cat/3555.html And of course, we'll be back in a week with another regular New Arrivals list (and for the impatient, lots of the new stuff to be reviewed on the next list can be found below, in the 'In Stock, Not Yet Reviewed' section!!!)... Thanks! Now, on with the list... --------------------------------------------------------------- And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! --------------------------------------------------------------- As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. Plus it makes ordering almost effortless 'cause a single mouse click will pop an item directly into your shopping cart! No more trying to remember everything that you wanted to order after having read a hundred or so reviews! And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Hey all,
Lordy, lordy, look who's 40! Us, that's who. That's right, aQuarius has been "getting the music to the people" since 1970 (hence our Age-of-Aquarius monicker). So 2010 marks our 40th anniversary. Wow. Of course, none of us here now have been at AQ quite that long. But still, it's a milestone worthy of note. And we're certainly proud of aQuarius' history as San Francisco's oldest surviving independent record store. aQuarius was SF's punk rock/new wave store back in the '70s (when we were located on Castro St.), and over the years we sure have seen lots of music trends/scenes/formats come and go. All along, doing our very best to bring you the best, music-wise. We said "surviving", and we won't kid you, as you can imagine, in the current economy, it's not always easy. But we'd sure like to be doing what we do for a long time yet to come. And thanks to all the folks like you reading this, hopefully we will! Everybody here feels like it's a special thing to be a part of aQuarius, a chance to be involved with the music we love, getting it to the people who will appreciate it. And we couldn't do it without you! In fact, there'd be no point. So, to celebrate 40 years of aQuarius, we're throwing ourselves a "surprise" birthday party. Real soon. And you're invited! It's in a little over two weeks, on Monday October 25th, doors at 7pm show starting at 8pm sharp, at the Cafe DuNord, 2170 Market Street (www.cafedunord.com) We've got six great bands lined up for the event (not necessarily in this order): THE MANTLES power pop drone rockers, with records on Siltbreeze and Mexican Summer THE LUMERIANS psychedelic hypno dirge space rock, & maybe they'll do "Crazy Horses"! DZJENGHIS KHAN retro-proto-metal garage rock power trio a la Blue Cheer PIGS heavy, rifftastic punk-metal radness sorta like a scuzzier Melvins DATE PALMS boy-girl dream-drone duo from Oakland with a fantastic debut lp just out on Root Strata PLUS a special, secret headliner!!! We can't tell you who they are just yet, but there's a pretty good chance you bought their new album from us... and their shows are usually at places a bit bigger than the DuNord... and they're on the poppier, sunshinier side of things... huge faves here. We'll have some birthday cake to share with folks who get to the show early enough (you'll want to anyway, with six bands it's gonna start on time, if not earlier!). Also we'll be doing a drawing for $40 aQuarius gift certificates at the start of the show as well. Admission is just $10, advance tickets will be available here at AQ and at the DuNord box office soon. We really hope to see you all there (and tell your friends!). Please come out, see some great music, support AQ, and make it a 40th to remember! We'll be emailing you again with reminders and updates, it's really soon though so mark your calendars now. Thanks!!! (And yes, we know, it's been 2010 for a while now... but as you get older, you start forgetting things.) ____________________________ Here's our reviews of some recent releases by the awesome bands kindly playing our party: MANTLES "s/t" Latest from the Mexican Summer label, in their ongoing campaign to seemingly release at least one record by every one of the coolest bands around these days, which has been a pretty serious success so far (barring the always inordinately OUCH-worthy Mexican Summer pricetag), and continues to be, with this, a brand new ep from SF power pop drone rockers The Mantles, who with the opening track, “Cascades”, a brief two minute blast of some seriously perfect pop, render the aforementioned pricetag a non issue, cuz, you NEED this track, and if there was ever a $26 jam, this is it. Easy, the shortest, sharpest, catchiest track the Mantles have produced, it's still got some of that Velvet Underground swagger, but it's doused in power pop perfection, a crazy killer main melody, some sweet “ooooooh” background vocals, propulsive drumming, all wrapped in a dreamy haze, we'd be surprised if you didn't find yourself playing that one track over and over and over. But once you've got that out of your system, you can dig a bit deeper, the very Wipers sounding “Situations”, all dour and minor key, the sun dappled hypnorock of “Lily Never Married, sounding a bit like a slightly more upbeat Spacemen 3, “Summer Read” all fuzzy and retro, with another cool tangly guitar melody, the sound crunchy and raw and urgent, a little Swell Maps, and still a lots Velvets, and finally, “Waiting Out The Storm”, a brooding dirgey slowpop gem, all minimal drumming, and super distorted low slung riffage, laconic vocals, laid back and woozy and druggy, think Loop or Spacemen 3 again, but even slower and more washed out and lysergic, the sort of jam that live could get stretched out forEVER... PIGS "Illuminati House Party" There's lots of ways we find out about cool new bands. We finally listen to a promo that came in the mail, or a customer raves about them, or we read about 'em in a fanzine or on the internet, etc. etc. One of the best ways though, is to randomly see a band playing live that you've never heard of before, and be impressed. That's the deal with how we discovered local SF heavies Pigs. I (Allan) just moved into a new apartment here in the Mission, that's not too far from the Potrero del Sol skatepark. On one of the days I was moving stuff, I could hear live music coming from the direction of the park, where they do sometimes have outdoor shows. Sounded like yr basic punk rock, but then a band started playing that - as best I could tell from several blocks away - sounded much more metallic and interesting, with shredding guitar leads and chunky riffage and everything. And obviously very loud. So, needing a break from my moving tasks, I wandered over to the park posthaste to check out what was going on. When I got there, the band I'd heard was still playing, and they were GREAT. Super heavy, fairly hairy power trio (boy drummer, girl bassist, bearded dude guitarist / sometime vocalist) kicking out the jams big time, sorta like a scrappier, scuzzier Melvins, in their earliest, fastest, punkiest incarnation. Like, with some more Motorhead mixed in. I had a blast watching the rest of their set, totally into it, already wondering if they had any recordings I could get my hands on for Aquarius. Also wondering, just who the heck they were. Well both questions were soon answered when the drummer held up a garish purple, very DIY looking handscreened LP emblazoned with the name Pigs, saying they'd just put this record out. Better yet, moments later a friend of mine appeared, who it turned out was friends with band as well, and told me that he'd just been telling Pigs before they played that they should bring their album down to Aquarius. And so they did, a week or so later, not just the limited vinyl but also a cd version too. Just like their live set, the album is a blast (of distortion, among other things). Sometimes slow and sludgy, equally often full of frenzied jamming, Illuminati House Party is pure metal-punk underground awesome, with more than a few nods to classic rock catchiness. Pigs traffic in Black Sabbathy riffs (most definitely in "Lurch"), their songs furthermore having plenty of rollicking swing to 'em a la both Sabbath and Sleep. The guitarist constantly peels off tangly, widdly leads like they're coming back into style. All the tracks here (11 of 'em) rule, from the sick-o smartassery of "Hard Lovin' Van", a song with gnarly Ginnish licks and hoarse, strangled vox that could almost be an old Tad tune (some of the lyrics: "let's go the lake, and feed the ducks...get in the van, take the candy"), to the even more punk "Population Control", to the wasted doom of "Hessian's Revenge" and sheer shred of "Surf's Up". And then there's the epic instrumental 3-part rifftastic "Taser Trilogy" wherein Pigs show off their Champsy chops, not to mention stoner sense of humor (and not for the first time on this record). Yeah, great stuff! Is it possible to imagine an unholy hybrid of, um, Electric Wizard, Breadwinner, and, er, Pissed Jeans?? Pigs might be it. Soooo glad I was within earshot of the skatepark that day! DATE PALMS "Of Palms" Date Palms is the new project of heavy electronic / cassette tape manipulator Gregg Kowalsky and Marielle Jakobsons (Myrmyr, Darwinsbitch) and is a strange, yet fantastic fusing of Eastern style raga drones, and hypnotic Spacemen 3 style bass buzz, which seems like a weird combo, but it definitely works, situating the Oakland duo right between those two not so disparate (as you might think) sounds, the music almost like some sort of slowcore spacerock dronedrift, writ abstract and minimal and Eastern, if that makes any sense. Sure it's on Root Strata, and both Date Palms are individually involved in the avant garde, but this could have easily come out on Kranky, or some other similarly outrock label, and these two could totally tour with a band like Low, or Stars Of The Lid, their slow smoldering drift a perfect fit, but the exotic array of Eastern instruments, and the duo's deft arrangements, and meticulous crafting of this hushed meditative minimal dronemusic, most definitely positions this just as easily outside the realm of 'rock music', and firmly in the world of the 'experimental'. The opener is a perfect example, beginning with layered drones, the sound is immediately recognizable as some sort of Eastern raga, but the minute the bass comes in, the sound is transformed, and we can't help but hear Spacemen 3, at their most blissed out, and heck, they did make a record called An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music after all, which if we're not mistaken contained no sitar at all, the point is, Date Palms are channeling the same sort of druggy psychedelic minimalism, but adding that distinctly Eastern element, this opening track sounds like a way slowed down Moon Duo, with the keyboard swapped for some mysterious Indian instrument, and the guitar swapped for a bass, the groove is glacial, and is the perfect anchor for the more abstract buzz and drift. The bass does dissipate briefly, and at that point it sounds like Indian classical music, but then when the bass comes back in, along with some gorgeous melodic guitar counterpoint, the sound is brought right back to something more Western. The push and pull is dizzying, but subtly so, a fantastic hybrid, that works perfectly, combining to musics that both traffic in repetition and drone, the resulting hybrid is absolutely mesmerizing, the sort of rare sound that would appeal to the space rock bliss out crowd as much as the abstract minimal dronemusic crowd. The rest of the record follows suit, the warm liquid basslines introducing a looped style mesmer, while all around, the duo introduce various bits of percussion, tinkling chimes, processed tape loops, sympathetic overtones and harmonics, on at least one track, the sound grows particularly fierce, the drone and drift wrapped in a squall of tangled psychedelic guitar, but that leads directly into the most blissed out of the bunch, the nearly 14 minute centerpiece, a smoldering drift where the bass part is so slow it almost sinks right into the background buzz like another layer, this time the processed guitar shimmer definitely evokes Sound Of Confusion era Spacemen 3, a gorgeous blurred dronescape that is utterly hypnotic, and 14 minutes is not even nearly long enough. The record closes though with what to us is the strangest of the bunch, definitely the most traditionally melodic, with a proper 'riff', the bass pronounced and fuzzy, and the melody played on an organ, the vibe almost classic rock, weirdly enough, but again, slowed waaaaaaay down and stretched waaaaaaay out, resulting in another gloriously abstract bit of raga drone slowcore drift. DZJENGHIS KHAN "Hey You" Hey all right!! We hadn't heard much from these local, long haired, lost-in-time rockers for far too long, 'cause their singing drummer moved away for a while, but is back in town, and now they have a new album out, however only released on limited edition vinyl, a European import (which by the way comes with a cd-r burn of the album as well). We just got some of the last few copies there are direct from the band. If we weren't already familiar with 'em, and didn't deal with these guys in person, though, we'd coulda been fooled into thinking it was a reissue of something from the early '70s proto-metal era, or ever earlier, as they so convincingly channel the likes of Sir Lord Baltimore, Blue Cheer, Highway Robbery, Speed Glue & Shinki, James Gang, Dust, and other inspirations of that ilk in their badass heavy psych groove, totally authentic circa 1969-'72 sounding (well, except that we think we hear 'em make an anachronistic reference to Beyonce in the lyrics to "Nasty Girl"). And amidst the lumbering riff-rock, they also get into what's simply fuzzed-up '60s garage, Nuggets style, so bands like The Seeds are probably big influences too. Plus, most of the lyrics pertain to girl trouble, a traditional, very garagey subject. So if you're into heavy fuzz rockin', this is quite recommended. Furthermore, we were delighted to discover that side one contains a Rodriguez cover!! They do "Only Good For Conversation", the fuzziest one from the Detroit Dylan's cult classic 1970 debut Cold Fact, a track we described in our review of the Cold Fact reissue as a "stone(d) cold classic when it comes to heavy duty fuzz guitar crunch" so it's a natural for the Dzjenghis Khan boys. Very cool. Also very cool is that side two starts off with a recording of Dzjenghis Khan's best song ever, or at least our favorite, called "God Damn", we remember it from probably the first time we ever saw 'em play, always a show stopper, encapsulating everything rad about this band. LUMERIANS "Burning Mirrors" Another badass slab of psychedelic hypno dirge space rock courtesy of local boys The Lumerians, who definitely have the druggy drone-y dirge dirgey thing down pat. If you dig the Wooden Shjips, Sleepy Sun, Cave, Moon Duo, and other practitioners of blown out drug rock mesmer, well then you're gonna love the Lumerians. Channeling Spacemen 3, mixing in some serious krautrock, adding heaping doses of spaced out FX, these guys lock into a groove and then ride it out, totally hypnotic, cyclical, trancelike. Reverb soaked guitars, murky distorted vox, washed out, looped bass, buried melodies, all blurred and smeared into lysergic drone rock that is totally captivating. Be sure to stick around for the B-side, a barely recognizable cover of the Osmonds' infamous killer jam "Crazy Horses", given a total hazy space drone dreamdrug makeover. So awesome. Now we have just one question, WHERE'S THE FULL LENGTH?!? And then like we said, there's one more, can't tell you just yet... Lots of love from your devoted AQ staff -- Allan, Cup, Jim, Andee, Irwin, Scott, Jon, Nick and Andrew |
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~000000000~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Arrivals #356 ~~~~~000 ~~~~~~~000000000~~~~~~~~~~ 08 October 2010 ~~~~~000 Beloved Customers and Friends: Howdy folks! List time again, yeaaaahhhh!! Andee's making us listen to a Cro-Mags song with rapping and scratching on it right now, but we'll do our best to finish up this intro and get the list out anyway. October is shaping up to be a festive month for us here at AQ. We've already had one great instore - a week ago when Black Valleys (better known as White Hills) graced us with a special shoegazey set. Got a great recording of it too, so maybe those of you who couldn't come down to see 'em in person will still get to hear it someday... Thanks again to those fine folks for playing, awesome as always. And then NEXT Saturday (not tomorrow, but a week from then, October 16th), we'll be having another special instore: SUPERCHUNK!!! That'll be at 5pm, but we'd recommend getting here early enough to do some shopping... And if that wasn't exciting enough, we're also putting on a show to commemorate our 40th anniversary! That's right, AQ is 40 years old. Has been since January actually (well, nobody really remembers the day the store opened back in 1970, nobody here anyway!). But yeah, 2010 marks forty years of "getting the music to the people". So we figured we'd better do SOMETHING to celebrate. A surprise birthday party as it were, 'cause it's in about 2 weeks, Monday October 25th at the Cafe DuNord. We sent out an email invite to you earlier today, actually, and the details are repeated at the end of this list as well. This is what we were talking about on recent lists when we asked you to "save the date"... So, please come to our party, besides some cake we'll also have a bunch of great bands playing: The Mantles, Lumerians, Dzjenghis Khan, Pigs, Date Palms... and a special secret guest headliner that we can't reveal quite yet... but there's a good chance you bought their album from us, especially if you like super sunshiney stripped down garage pop. So, we're pretty excited about all that. But also excited about THIS LIST. A good one, yep. Four Records Of The Week, let's hear about 'em... MAJEURE: Epic, sprawling spaced out sci-fi electronic minimal kraut disco epics from one half of Zombi, total John Carpenter / Goblin / Vangelis worship, propulsive, motorik and psychedelic... on vinyl and cd (& the cd comes with an entire extra bonus disc of remixes, including one by Justin Broadrick of Jesu). SALEM: The poster boys (and girls) of 'witch house' live up to the hype, a dizzying disc of blissed out hypnogogic shoegazey drift, lurching, chopped and screwed style Southern crunk, majestic choral dreaminess, blurred beat heavy collaged electronica, and sample heavy blown out synthbuzz epicness! WOW. CLAIR CASSIS: Now on cd! The long awaited debut of this post Velvet Cacoon combo, the buzz and blur of VC, jammed into shorter 'pop' songs, with super melodic basslines, transforming black metal buzz into something much more gloomy and melodic and catchy and weirdly f**ked up and brilliant! GERMAN OAK: Also now on cd, and with 3 BONUS TRACKS! A legendary krautrock classic, and ALL TIME AQ favorite, reissued, after being out of print for way too long. Heavy and weird and dark and damaged, hypnotic and bizarre, spaced out and rhythmic, incredible bunker-recorded underground insanity. And then plenty of the highlights you like, ranging from Mississippi lps to skweee to proto-metal to black metal cassettes... ARP: Now on vinyl, the latest collection of kosmiche synth textures from this member of The Alps, dreamy and warm and rhythmic and fantastically textural and evocative. BRULVAHNATU: Second album of grim, doomy, black and HEAVY outsider metal, a twisted mix of post rock guitar jangle, downtuned noise drenched dirge + harsh blasting blackness. BURIAL HEX / KINIT HER: Some seriously ominous apocalyptic industrial tinged seventies style acid folk from these two sonic alchemists, limited tour only lp. BURNT HILLS: A single sided, ultra limited lp of blown out in the red sheer psychedelic freakout, FOUR guitarists and xylophone... CLOCKCLEANER: Latest blast of swampy, bluesy, clock-cleaning noise rock crush from these Philly noiseniks, with one track that almost sounds like Interpol! LYN COLLINS: Incredible James Brown produced funky soul from this legendary vocalist! COMMIX: First new music from dubstep legend Burial in the form of a one sided remix of this jungle outfit, blissed out and atmospheric and so good. COMMON EIDER KING EIDER: An ultra limited one sided silkscreened 12" ep of splendidly dark and somber, atmospheric folk from these SF locals, only 100 copies! THE CONVIVIAL HERMIT: A fantastic and ultra varied new metal mag, featuring tons of old faves and new discover, definitely a new favorite read! COOLIES: A killer mix of NZ noise pop and garage punk girl-groop soundz featuring Stefan Neville of Pumice! CORRIDORS: Gorgeous tapestries of shimmered and glassy-eyed drone from this Niblock cohort. COWARDS: Huge voltage blasts of distortion and noise, resonant droning shimmer, impressionist rumble, and spooky ambience from this duo. DATE PALMS: Debut lp from this SF slowcore krautdrone raga duo, fuzzed out bass lines underpinning gorgeously buzzing Eastern instruments, hypnotic and incredible! DAWNBRINGER: Latest disc from these Chicago metallers, equal parts black, and thrash, NWOBHM and true, traditional, advanced, experimental and totally great. DEAD C: A brand new record from these NZ noise rock legends, and it's just as good as you would expect, droney, rhythmic, noisy and beautiful. DEERHUNTER: Brand new disc of swirling pop shimmer and warm underwater whir, equal parts hookiness and dreamlike texture... our favorite Deerhunter record yet! DISPIRIT: First tape from this new SF black metal horde fronted by John Gossard, he of SFBM legends Weakling, as well as Gault, Asunder and Burzumic Mayhem! DOZER: First two Man's RUin full lengths from these Swedish stoner metal legends reissued together, with bonus tracks, heavy and groovy and totally ruling! EN: Debut lp from this SF duo, a series of darkly delicate dronescapes and hushed shimmery ambience, lush and mysterious and lovely, super limited, on Root Strata. ENSLAVED: Latest record from these Norwegian Viking black metal legends, proggy, and heavy with lots of surprising (but seriously cool) clean vocals... FACTUMS: One sided 12" of twisted deconstructed cold wave weirdness, tripped out and rhythmic and freaky as hell. Awesome! FATHER MURPHY: Latest from this mysterious Italian post punk noise rock drone folk oddballs, brooding and droney and dramatic and strangely psychedelic. ARETHA FRANKLIN: A legendary record from this legendary vocalist now reissued on vinyl! THE FRESH & ONLYS: Latest disc of dark garage pop crunch from this SF combo, brooding and melancholy but still somehow sunshiney and jangly. So good. (Not for sale 'til Tuesday, though.) GARY WAR: Now on cd, some gorgeously bizarre, warped catchy, electronics melded with ultra f**ked up pop for something mysterious and magical! GHAST: A brand new two (long) song full length from this Welsh horde, totally classic black metal flecked TRUE DOOM!! TROOOOOOOOM!! GOLEM: Another lost krautrock gem: freeform, all-instrumental, organ and synth heavy space rock that rules, for fans of The Heads, Guru Guru, and the like! GREATEST HITS: New 4 song 7" ep of twisted retro super danceable eighties electronic pop weirdness, fuzzy, and groovy, and crazy catchy! HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR: Reissue of a 2006 release from this amazing cellist and soundscaper, brooding and dramatic and utterly lovely. TWIG HARPER & DANIEL HIGGS: A strangely psychedelic vinyl-only vocal driven experiment from this long time aQ fave and his cohort, electronics and voices never sounded so tripped out. TIM HECKER: Ultra limited and sorta pricey new 7" from this master of blurred and droned out dreaminess, a single gorgeous crumbling epic split over two sides and seven inches. HELL PREACHERS INC: Long overdue reissue of this mysterious 1968 exploito-psych album, featuring members of krautrock proto-metallers Lucifers Friend (maybe)!! INNERCITY: Insanely limited triple tape set of murky, mechanical hypnogogic loopscapes from this Belgian soundscaper and synth minimalist. JUNIP: First record from Jose Gonzalez's new band, lush, proggy, smart and emotional pop that is definitely one of our new favorites. LENINGRAD BLUES: Warehouse find, a classic yet sadly OOP disc from this heavy, shambolic psych outfit led by Zeni Geva guitarist Tabata Mitsuru, VERY FEW COPIES! LIL B: Now on cd, this baffling disc of twisted genius new age synth hop. Huh? YEP! L'ORCHESTRE NATIONAL A DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU MALI: Fantastic collection of music from Mali, on MISSISSIPPI!! TED LUCAS: Rad reissue of this 1971 hazy and drifty psych-folk gem, druggy and dreamy. MARSH / THORAZINE GAZE: Super limited split tape, freaked out, depressive, super creepy plodding black metal meets blackened miserablist gothy doom pop. MARK MCGUIRE: Now on cd, brand new record from this member of Emeralds, a strange shift in direction, but one we're digging a lot. MILTON NASCIMENTO: Now on vinyl, one of the best psychedelic pop records ever from this legend, a perennial aQ favorite... NEW MIMINKOTO: New PSF disc of Tokyo Flashback style Japanese underground psych rock, slipping from languidly paced mellow meanders to fuzz-filled blow-outs. NO AGE: Latest and greatest from these long time aQ faves, heartfelt and hooky and punky, a gloriopusly adrenaline fueled musical rush. NYMPH: Awesomely psychedelic witched out weirdness, Yoko Ono meets Gang Gang Dance meets Deerhoof meets Death:Sentence Panda! ONMUTU MECHANICKS: Dubbed out ambient electronica, a collection of skeletal skitters, deep billows of fuzzy synth, low slung bass throb and minimal industrial crunch, on the Echocord label. MARIKA PAPAGIKA: Fantastic collection of gorgeous Greek folk music from this under appreciated female vocalist, on MISSISSIPPI! PARLOUR: This Louisville supergroup returns with their best record yet, mesmerizing and hypnotic, equal parts melodic meander and rhythmic churn, like a heavier Tortoise! DUANE PITRE: Now on cd, from Root Strata, fantastic collection of recordings from this amazing bowed guitar ensemble! POCAHAUNTED: Final release from this now defunct weirdo psych combo, this 7" featuring their short lived 3 vocalist lineup, hazy, woozy and seriously druggy and dreamy. POOBAH: Heavy duty acid rock n' roll action with plenty of psychedelically shredding guitar, from 1972, reissued!! THE POSIES: New disc of classic Posies style power pop from these long time faves, a grower that quickly took over our stereo! SAM PREKOP: Big surprise from this Sea And Cake frontman, an all analog electronic disc of BBC Radiophonic Workshop style bleep and bloop and whir and shimmer. SO GOOD! ROBEDOOR: Short and sweet 7" ep of dirgey psychedelia, the prettiest most songy one yet... ROYAL BATHS: First release from this relatively new SF band, fantastic gloomy garage, a gorgeously hazy and murky collection of dour rhythmic hypnopop bliss. SAINT VITUS: Finally on cd these LA doom legends' 2nd full length album Hallow's Victim and subsequent 12" ep The Walking Dead originally released in 1985! THE SECRET: Latest onslaught of pummeling heaviness from these Italian blackgrind crustmetal crushers, one of the heaviest records of the year so far for sure. SKAGOS / PANOPTICON: Killer black metal split, one side crusty weirdo math abstruse black metal, the other melodic, and melancholy Cascadian black metal with incredible vocals! THE SPARTAN LOVER: Awesome new 7" single of skweeeeeeeeeeeeee... SUN ARAW: Latest chunk of damaged noise drenched dubbed out psychedelic weirdness from this weirdo one man band, his best yet! TAMARYN: New Mexican Summer release of hazy shoegazey dreampop from this SF combo... THREE MILE PILOT: San Diego legends return with a killer new record, of dark expansive brooding prog pop epicness. THE CORIN TUCKER BAND: A surprisingly subdued collection of dark indie pop from this former Sleater Kinney frontwoman. V/A FUTURE BASS: Killer Soul Jazz collection of post dubstep buzz and skitter, stutter and warble, dark and funky with loads of BASSSSSS.... V/A SWEET HAWAIIAN DREAMS: Incredible collection of Hawaiian '78s, dating from 1913-1936, so nice. VERONICA FALLS: Another fantastic batch of glorious fuzzy girl pop, summery psychedelia crossed with urgent post punk jangle. BUKKA WHITE: Another fantastic vinyl reissue from this blues legend. WHITE HILLS: Super limited 12" of studio outtakes and rarities, spaced out Hawkwindy heaviness, droney and psychedelic and heavy and dreamy. WHITE NOISE SOUND: Blissed out Spacemen 3 worshipping drone rock, lots of heavy blow outs and long stretches of languorous raga like buzz, a big time new favorite. NEIL YOUNG: Brand new disc, surprisingly noisy and heavy, we're digging this a LOT! Wow, right? Plus even more, including the first couple of Grails albums now on vinyl, some other now on cd stuff... Plus got some more tix to give away, 2 pairs, to see TRANS AM! Here's the info: Saturday, November 6 TRANS AM Nice Nice Jonas Reinhardt Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell St SF 8:30 pm $15 For a chance to win, just email [email protected] with the subject TRANS AM TIX!! Ok, read on, order up, come by, let's do this!! --------------------------------------------------------------- And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! --------------------------------------------------------------- As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. Plus it makes ordering almost effortless 'cause a single mouse click will pop an item directly into your shopping cart! No more trying to remember everything that you wanted to order after having read a hundred or so reviews! And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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o o o o o New Arrivals #357 o o o o o o o o o o October 22 2010 o o o o o Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings nice people! We're feeling pretty good here at aQ, got a great list for you tonight, we're looking forward to our big 40th birthday celebration/show on Monday, and all still smiling from the fantastic Superchunk instore last Saturday. Thanks again to Mac and Jim for serenading us and the assembled enthused crowd acoustically with their indie-rock awesomeness! That aQ40 show, if you haven't heard, has completely sold out! Holy cow. We're so gratified. Sure it's in part 'cause of our "special secret headliner" (BEST COAST, yay!), but actually we'd already sold tons of tickets before we even announced 'em. We really appreciate the support, folks! Sorry to those of you who want to go but didn't get tickets. There's a good chance we'll try to do something similar (but bigger) next year, so hopefully you can be at our 41st. Those of you who are coming out Monday, be sure to get there on time (early) if you can, the first band, Pigs, really will start at 8pm sharp, you don't want to miss them (or the birthday cake we'll be serving), and things should zip right along, the show will be over by about 12:30 but if you wanna stay out late on a school night and keep partying, we'll be heading over to the Lucky 13 afterwards, down the street from the DuNord. Which is also a good chance for folks who couldn't get tickets to come down, hang out, and help us keep celebrating! Again, thanks to all the great bands who agreed to play, thanks also to the labels that provided us with some cool "party favors" and goodies to raffle off (LOTS of killer stuff!), thanks to the DuNord for hosting, and thanks especially to all of you who bought tickets! It's gonna be great, we're really excited!! All right, better get on with the business at hand. The list! Picked 4 Records Of The Week this time, here they are: PURLING HISS: Incredible collection of ramshackle ultra lo-fi perfect pop, tripped out druggy psychedelic drift, GBV like home brewed hookiness, and fractured tape experimentation, all woven into a warped and warbly, hiss drenched masterpiece, lp-only on Woodsist. SOLAR BEARS: Amazing debut from this difficult to describe Irish outfit, whose sound is futuristic, but also pastoral, droney and a little sci-fi, blissed out and a little new agey, organic and poppy, jangly and dreamy, sci fi synth wave meets fuzzy dream folk meets ambient glimmering drift. So gorgeous. UMBERTO: Once again, from the Expo 70 orbit comes this second dark disc of faux giallo soundtrack music / Goblin worship, this one way more Italo disco infused, some seriously funky and freaky haunted soundtracky grooviness. Vinyl-only. SUN CITY GIRLS: Now on cd! The final record from these weird genius sonic mystics, the last to be recorded before the untimely death of their drummer, an expansive, soundtracky epic, rife with Morricone influences. Introspective, haunting, and at times quite beautiful. And then hella highlights, among them a new album from Circle, a ton of rad tapes, plenty of black metal, African psych reissues, witch house action, and other good things: AIAS: One of our new faves, naive charming garage pop from Spain, warm and minimal and smart and so good! ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS: The most emotional and personal record yet from these aQ faves, darkly intimate yet suffused with hope and love, totally stunning... BALAM ACAB: First proper vinyl release from this 'witch house' produce, and it's gorgeous, a fantastically dreamy chunk of electronic ghostly minimal dream pop. BEFORE, AFTER: Limited cassette of post-noise dronescaping, cold oscillations of electrical hum and arcs of dual-tone ambience. Nice! BELLE AND SEBASTIAN: Brand new record of exquisitely constructed bittersweet pop from these twee Scot popsmiths. BLUES CREATION: Finally reissued, this proto-metal essential, from Japan's answer to Black Sabbath, total '70s Japanese heavy psych hard rock radness! BOHEMIAN GROVE: Brand new ep of frenzied avant black metal madness, furious gnarled riffage, incredibly dense, complex drumming and gorgeous epic twisted melodies from these Greek BM masters. ADAM BUGAJ: Blissful, bedroom-recorded Casio-dub instrumental music, tape hiss, simple melodies, mechanical rhythms and dubby reverb... THOMAS CARNACKI: Awesome audio surrealism from this sometime member of irr.app.(ext.) and Nurse With Wound. CIRCLE: Latest masterpiece from our favorite Finnish hypnorockers.... JOE COLLEY: Available again, this stunning disc of harsh digital noises, piercing arpeggiations, and noxious jump-cuts. COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER: A cd-r reissue of the recent 12" ep of splendidly dark and somber, atmospheric folk from this SF outfit, limited to 300 copies, and like the 12", super nice packaging. CURVED BLADE: Stumbling, death obsessed keyboard laced black metal primitivism, warbly and warped, loose and chaotic, twisted and droned out and seriously damaged... DIE ANTWOORD: Finally a full length from this YouTube famous weirdo redneck South African rap, and it's just as amazing as we'd hoped. DWARR: Just reissued on Drag City, this past ROTW of eccentric outsider "doom metal" from the '80s, psychedelic and strange, like DIY Black Sabbath meets Todd Tamanend Clark... ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE: Latest lp from Brian Pyle of RV Paintings and Starving Weirdos, channeling '70s and '80s progressive electronics through modern dark trip synthiness. DYLAN ETTINGER: A fantastic collection of synth driven sc-fi new age/wave atmospherics for fans of Majeure, Zombi, Umberto and similarly minded retro futurists... GAMES: Super limited 7" of loops of muffled robot-speak vocals, dopey-eyed slow-jam rhythms, and '80s computer skipped disc jitter from this Oneohtrix side project. GLASSER: Colorful, swirly pop, organic and lush and a little witch house-y like Zola Jesus or Islaja fused with Kate Bush or Bjork, another new fave. GONJASUFI: Awesome remix record of one of our recent electronic faves, featuring versions by Oneohtrix Point Never, Bear In Heaven, Broadcast & The Focus Group and more! GUINEA WORMS: Epic double lp from this drunken and damaged, drugged out and demented, super noisy, stumbling, chaotic, metallic, garage rock combo, f**ked up and awesome! HALLO GALLO 2010: New 7" from this new group made up of Michael Rother of Neu!, Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, and Aaron Mullen from Tall Firs, amazing modern krautrock. HAPPY DAYS / EINDIG: Split lp of depressive black metal, buzzy and black, but weirdly poppy and melodic, great stuff from both bands. HELL MILITIA: Record number two from this French black metal super group, a dark and grimy, grim and filthy, harrowing and heavy, a seriously scary collection of hellish black art. KOWLOON WALLED CITY: Now on cd, this crushing slab of AmRep style noiserock sludge from these locals. LARSEN & NURSE WITH WOUND: A serious aQ dream team collaboration, audio surrealists NWW joined up with Italian avant post rockers Larsen! CHERYL E. LEONARD: Incredible collection of field recordings from Antarctica, animals, whipping wind, cracking crumbling glaciers, definitely for fans of Douglas Quin. LORDS OF FALCONRY: ULTRA fuzzed, freaked out, high energy, heavy psychedelic guitar jams with some warped and weirdo vocals. MARSFIELD: Ultra limited deluxe lp from Andrew Chalk and Brendan Walls, smeared texturesm, elongated drones, shimmering resonant tones and lush hypnotic thrum. MOON UNIT: A twisted blown out psychedelic hybrid of Vibracathedral Orchestra and Fush*tsusha, sprawling space/psych jams, that slip from dark and droney to explosive and in-the-red... PALACE OF WORMS: Brand new blast of avant post rock flecked black metal buzz from this local horde, featuring members of Elk and Dead As Dreams, cassette only! PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT: A fantastic collection of frightening, haunting recordings for cello and electronics, thick with echoing drones and ghostly shadowy shimmer. PHANTOM PAINS: Ultra limited cassette from this SF noisemaker, electroid-psychedelic smears of guitar/synth/pedal fuzz and hiss. PIGEONS: Latest 7" of woozy, dreamlike downtempo psychedelic folk from this husband and wife duo, Portishead style trip hop meets seventies style acid folk. SAILORS WITH WAX WINGS: One of two new Pyramids offshoots, this one a lush atmospheric expanse of blackened metallic slowcore dreampop bliss. CHRISTINE SHIELDS: An amazing record of hauntingly atmospheric chamber folk, organic vocal harmonies, intricate guitar work, melodica, piano, percussion and bells, On Awesome Vistas. SKY LARKIN: Brand new disc of smart noise pop radness from this UK band, crunchy, propulsive, mathy, with amazing choruses, and incredible vocals, darker and moodier but still catchy like crazy. SLOUGH FEG: A kick ass new record from San Francisco's idiosyncratic old school metal masters, heavy, ripping, raw and majestically melodic, not to mention sorta '70s rock too! SNAILFACE: This Kowloon Walled City sideproject offers up two whole albums of blown out fuzzy stoner pop, hooks galore, and packaged in a cardboard box with a pin and some Yeti fur! MARNIE STERN: Absolutely shredding melodic full throttle, fast and loud, tempo changing proggy punk radness! SWANOX: Limited cassette of stellar, drugged-out, cosmic-pop from this awesome local one man band. TIMMY'S ORGANISM: A blurry blast of noise-rock-space-garage-what- TIROGO: Rad reissue of badass obscure African '70s garage fuzz rock from this amazing Nigerian outfit... TITAN: Brand new blast of spaced out prog-tastic heaviness from this Brooklyn quartet, proggier and heavier and radder than ever! TREY TOLD 'EM: A super rad DJ mix assembled entirely from the Thrill Jockey catalog, includes three megamixes too, Tortoise, Trans Am, and an Oval mix that supposedly features every Oval song EVER. SCOTT TUMA: Super limited cassette from this master of ethereal folk ambience, 5 new songs, and a reinterpretation/homage on the flipside, already out print, last copies! V/A F*>K DANCE, LET'S ART: Incredible comp of 'witch house' and other related electronic dreaminess, featuring oOoOO, Balam Acab, Animal Collective, Washed Out, Bear In Heaven and loads more. V/A ROOTS OF CHICHA 2: A fantastic second volume of fuzzy and psychedelic, washed out and surfy Peruvian Chicha, soulful and groovy and a unanimous store fave. V/A RUSSKIE WIG-OUT!: A twisted over the top, ultra fun and far out collection of "Demented Surf / Electro / Exotica From Behind The Iron Curtain". On the Omni label of course... V/A SECRET MUSEUM VOL III: Third incredible volume of outerworld music from lands and peoples past and lost, fantastic packaging and extensive liner notes! V/A THE WORLD IS A MONSTER: Killer compilation of forties and fifties hillbilly music from The Columbia Record Vaults, on the always amazing Omni label... VEGAS MARTYRS: Unreleased second album from these East Coast purveyors of pop flecked black metal weirdness, only on cassette, featuring members of Cold Cave, Prurient, Ash Pool and others. TOSHI WADA: A vinyl only release of this stellar set of classical minimalism from San Francisco based composer Wada, incredible and intense rasping, singing violin drones in the spirit of the '60s minimalists. WATER BORDERS: Latest from these SF based electronic alchemists, glimmering high end, lush synth swells, looped percussion, haunting 'witchy' ambience, and deep crooned vocals, one of our new favorite records for sure! WHITE MOTH: One of two new Pyramids offshoots, this one a twisted shoegazey, blissy chunk of black metal flecked drill and bass electronica, with guest vocals from John Gossard of Weakling! WINTERFYLLETH: Record number two from these British neo-pagan black metallers, buzzing majestic blackened epics, even better than their first. WITCH: Finally a reissue of this Zambian band's 1973 debut, fuzzed out wah wah'd guitars, infectious rhythms, unrestrained organ playing, awesome '70s African garage psych action! WOE: Brand new batch of black metal brilliance from this East Coast one man band, insanely fast, furious buzzing blackness, infused with amazing and distinctly not black melodies and harmonies. YOSHIDA, TATSUYA: Warehouse find! A killer compilation released in 1994 of a decade's worth of tracks by various and sundry bands featuring Ruins mastermind drummer/vocalist Tatsuya Yoshida. ZOLA JESUS: Latest from this long time aQ fave, darkly dramatic, lush and layered, a cleaner sound, but still plenty rough and raw, and so so beautiful. And more, more, more. Including a new issue of The Wire, some other now-on-vinyl treats, and other worthy items. Oh, and the limited edition posters from the Superchunk instore. _____________ And be sure to check out this amazing performance / opening next week for a new exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, called Hauntology, and curated by our very own Scott Hewicker, and featuring performances by two other aQ-er's, Jim Haynes and Jon Porras(with Barn Owl!), here are the details: Hauntology: a L@te event at BAM/PFA Indignant Senility Barn Owl Jim Haynes and a special performance by Marielle Jakobsons featuring multiple projections and films from the PFA programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Hauntology, curated by Scott Hewicker and Larry Rinder on view until Dec. 5th, 2010 Berkeley Art Museum/ Pacific Film Archive Friday Oct. 29th 7:30 sharp! $7.00 2626 Bancroft Way 2621 Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA http://www.bampfa.berkeley. _____________ And just a reminder, we've got two pairs of tix to give away to this amazing upcoming show: aQuarius recOrds and Lido Starr present An evening of psychedelic-folk-drone music featuring: Expo 70 Numinous Eye Waldteufel Lumen (of Lux Interna)* November 4th at The Red Devil Lounge in SF $5 advance/$8 door doors: 8pm show: 9pm *Just added! For a chance to win, email [email protected] with the subject EXPO 70 TIX! _____________ All right, once again, as always, thanks for your attention (and orders)... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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