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September 25th, 2009

Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

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Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
Glistening Inn

Perhaps the strangest collection of mutant cartoon sound songs I’ve come across to date, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase is Chris Cooper’s (formerly of Deerhoof, etc.)  9-year in the making collage of demented detritus and sputtering sound spam. Electronic noise, tape loop, plastic guitar, banjo, egg slicer, broken toys and more meet up with cello, bassoon and chipmunk infested vocals from Jess Goddard (formerly of Deerhoof, etc.) for a puzzling but somehow stickily engaging surrealist smash-up glump of a record. Highly digestible after much chewing.

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From Angst:

Poor rabbits quickly hide when they see the redhead with the twitching eye play his tunes with more than 34 hands at the same time. This could be the soundtrack for some seriously fucked up road circus. Dead rabbits crawl out of a lazy elephants hat while a sad tapeloop of a rotting harmonium plays your uncle vomit’s fave cough sirup tap dance blur, oozing for some romantic noise crackles, the nostalgia of the banana fish days puts him down in his cough again, weeping like a black cat on an attic in New Jersey!

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from Ultra Eczema (sick website)

September 24th, 2009

Another perfect couple

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

cart pocahaunted

cart pocahaunted

This one was easier because it’s pre-packaged: Christina Carter | Pocahaunted split. Dreamy ethereal vocals over electric guitar swirls for some dreamy ethereal song-waves. Christina Carter is a little less waifey than usual while Pocahaunted are a little more waifey than usual sounding nearly like the Cocteau Twins at times. It all adds up to a wonderfully balanced record (and another gem from Not Not Fun)

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on dreamy ethereal marbled vinyl

September 23rd, 2009

Foxy records

Posted by john devore in Music, Stuff

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September 23rd, 2009

A perfect couple

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

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Christina Carter
Lace Heart

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Kan Mikami
Nishiogi no tsuki

Singer songwriter guitar. What more do we really need? OK maybe some angst and a reverberant space to wail away your laments within. Christina Carter’s Lace Heart is a triple-sided treat of her lonesome superly-slow-finger picked minimal meanderings through life’s quieter moments while Kan Mikami’s guitar not-so-gently weeps as he scruffily shouts grunts and moans from his dark place on Nishiogi no tsuki.

Mikami’s tears are the perfect bookend to Carter’s long last breath.

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Lace Heart‘s fourth side is etched with Carter’s drawing

September 22nd, 2009

Vinyl ist Wundervoll!

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, News

Yes my fellow vinyl-lovers, German luxury underwear maker Wundervoll feature fellow record lovering underwearers in a series of ads.

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wundervoll

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Finally a vinyl-related story worth uncovering.

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September 22nd, 2009

lo-fi

Posted by michael lavorgna in Audio

lo-fi

September 18th, 2009

Permanent Record

Posted by john devore in Great LPs

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Coming back from a lumberyard in Greenpoint I happened upon Permanent Records on Franklin.
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September 18th, 2009

Cold Cave

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

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Cold Cave
The Trees Grew Emotions And Died

Dark synthesizer-washed drum-machined shuffle till it hurts post-post-punk lo-fi danceable fun from Cold Cave (& they’re some damn catchy tunes).

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and another winner in the Best Naked Cover contest

September 17th, 2009

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Posted by michael lavorgna in Audio, News

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September 16th, 2009

Les Rita Mitsouko

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Indispensable Records, Music

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Les Rita Mitsouko
The No Comprendo

Through a memory darkly. As I flipped through the new arrivals bins at PREX yesterday, I came across these two b/w french faces staring up at me as if to say, “What, you don’t remember?”

I knew I knew them but was surely uncertain as to where we met and if we ever co-habitated. As soon as I got home, I put Les Rita on the spinner and out came really wonderful 1980′s French New jangly danceable Wave lightness with attitude and farting fake trumpet, snappy guitar from Fed Chichin and wonderful French and English vocals from Catherine Ringer (Les Rita regulars) joined by guest musicians playing accordian (of course!), violin, sax, trumpet, trombone, cello…

The odder part is while I know this music, every song, I can’t recall where I was when I listened to it. I have no connections other than to the music. But it makes me smile and want to jump around which is pretty fucking great.

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I just read that Godard included footage of Les Rita in the studio while making this record in his film Soigne ta droite (which I don’t recall seeing) and helps explain that sticker on the front cover.

September 14th, 2009

Noveller

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

noveller
Noveller
Paint on the Shadows

Sarah Lipstate is Noveller. Sarah plays guitar (unconventionally). Sarah also makes art and films and lives in Brooklyn. Paint on the Shadows is three tracks of lovely meditative slow-moving bowed plucked drone and noise with hints of Eno and Branca (she played in the big Branca and Rhys Chatham guitar orchestras). Sarah is also the newest member of Cold Cave (yea!). Sarah lists einsturzende neubauten, maja ratkje, nurse with wound and sonic youth as influences. Sarah is a strong candidate to be the first Mrs. Mejias.

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300 copies released on No Fun Productions (not to be confused with Not Not Fun).

September 14th, 2009

R.I.P.

Posted by michael lavorgna in Music, News

jim carroll
August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009

September 11th, 2009

Ducktails

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

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Ducktails
Ducktails

“I feel like my music is somewhere between pop and noise”. So do I. Matthew Mondanil, Mr. Ducktail is a native New Jerseyian who likes images of palm trees (real or fake ones), dreaming of the dream of California and making music out in a shed with only cows around. Samples, guitars and other machines make for some lovely and surprisingly light droney mostly instrumental popish songs. Animal Collective Beach Boys tasty cakes, “potent Fake Escapism”. Released on Not Not Fun Records the same label that brings us Sun Araw.

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September 10th, 2009

Cave

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

cave
Cave
Psychic Psummer

These guys can play and play they do on Psychic Psummer. Progish licks, repetitious knacks, power chords and ripping guitar solos mixed down low make for a perfect psummer psyche pout. Head waggin’, hand wavin’, air guitarin’ (only if you’re really ace) over-driven brain ticklin’ fun. Stereolab on psteroids with more than a hint o Zeppelin.

Let’s Cave. Another Important record from

September 10th, 2009

Nisennenmondai

Posted by michael lavorgna in Great LPs, Music

nisennenmondai
Nisennenmondai

Stephen figured I’d like this and I have to say – what’s not to like? Three-piece power noise by bassist Yuri Zaikawa, drummer Sayaka Himeno and guitarist Masako Takada. These tracks were recorded way back in ’02/03 but this LP was released this year by Heartworm (14 copies left as of today) who also released Cold Cave’s Love Comes Close. Comparisons to Einstürzende Neubauten are a bit of a stretch as Nisennenmondai (the name refers to the nearly fictitious Y2K ‘problem’) is more rooted in song, albeit long/repetitive, form. And there’s no one banging on metal things. But I love their straight ahead crush-rock and bare but brutal sound.

And since I don’t listen or select my music blind (either), this doesn’t hurt the overall oeuvre either.

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