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Noveller 'Red Rainbows' CD, available now at  http://www.nofunproductions.com

NFP-50 Noveller 'Red Rainbows' CD
Debut CD from Brooklyn musician and film maker Sarah Lipstate. Red Rainbows is full of growing tonal drones that evoke visions of menacing multicolored skies alongside tracks full of beautiful minimalistic structures that shoot straight for the heart. Sarah uses double-neck guitar and various electronics to create breathtaking atmospheres with an intensity that works on both a cognitive and emotional level. These tracks are either really beautiful or really dirty when the time is right, which is the key here. Sarah knows what she is doing and when to do it. This is an essential initial document from one of the new artists bending abstract sound into meaningful structures. Includes a collaboration with Carlos Giffoni. This is an enhanced CD and includes the short film 'Interior Variations'. Artwork by Caroline Contillo.

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595)Sparklehorse + Fennesz/In The Fishtank: Indie crew amble like awkward suitors in presence of hyper-confident fuzzmaster.#5
 
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Someone asked the question on a forum I'm on "what are your 20 favorite albums of this decade" and I got a little more involved in writing/choosing than I thought I would... probably because I was horrified at Gorilla vs. Bear's list that I saw earlier today So, for your pleasure...

No particular order:

Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD, 2006)
If you were to force me to pick one album for the decade it would probably be this one. He spent eight years making it and it shows. It's just an objectively incredible album, nobody else has done anything this ambitious and accomplished... and the music is nightmarish in the best way possible.

The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (4AD, 2004)
The Mountain Goats were once my favorite band, for years. In hindsight, this was really the last Mountain Goats record that I can fully get behind. It's by far the best thing Darnielle ever did in a recording studio (rather than on his boombox) and it's the first album he made where he sang about his real life. It's just a start-to-finish great album and unlike "The Sunset Tree", doesn't really signal the beginning of the end of this band being any good. I can't even stand to listen to the recent ones.

The Shivers - Beaks to the Moon (self-released, 2008)
Keith is my favorite active songwriter and this is his best record. Recorded with a full band in a pro studio, this is the first Shivers album without any filler tracks. Brutally honest and moving, as always.

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway (2003, Jet Set)
Mark Kozelek is my OTHER favorite active songwriter and this is hands down the best record he's ever made. I know a lot of people are attached to the early RHP albums but nothing can really touch this. It's mature, well thought out, completely effortless and comfortably composed and performed. It's been 9 years and I still put this on at least a few times a month.

Lionel Marchetti - Knud un Nom de Serpent (Le Cercle des Entrailles) (2001, Intransitive)
Easily my favorite work of 'musique concrete' in recent history. It's the result of years of work and is a stunning and seemingly never-ending array of electronic sounds, voices, and field recordings of music from all over the world.

John Duncan - Tap Internal (2000, Touch)
The absolute most intense, mind-bending immersive electronic music I have ever heard. This one is a monster and still my favorite Duncan album, despite how many great ones he's put out since.

Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian, 2005)
Maybe the gayest album ever made... When I first heard Antony it was all I could listen to for months. That's subsided a lot in the last year or two but this is a perfect album.

Loren Mazzacane Connors - Portrait of a Soul (2000, FBWL)
With such a huge discography (and a lot of it sounding pretty similar) it's hard to get into Connors' work sometimes, but if I were asked to pick only one Connors album then it would be this one. Widely regarded as his definitive work, breath-takingly beautiful.

Lungfish - Feral Hymns (2005, Dischord)
Not sure why some Lungfish devotees didn't like this album. Hopefully not (but probably is) their final album, this is bare bones, monolithic, transcendent stuff. The simplicity and rawness of it makes it feel like the definitive Lungfish album for me.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part (2001, Reprise)
Hands down the best thing Nick Cave has ever done. It took me a long time to get into Nick Cave but once I heard this one and The Boatman's Call I was hooked.

Mekons - OOOH! (Out of Our Heads) (2002, Quarterstick)
Out of about a bazillion albums, this is by far my favorite Mekons record. The perfect combination of punk rock urgency and "mature" songwriting, I can't even really explain what's so good about this but it fucking rules.

Baby Dee - Love's Small Song (2002, Durtro)
Maybe the most heartbreakingly gorgeous album ever made exploring love, joy, abuse, and other such universal themes. Truly an overlooked classic.

Deep Dark United - Ancient (2004, Blocks Recording Club)
Whenever I play this for people the first thing they say is, "How is it possible that I've never heard this???" A weird mix of bawdy folk songs, free improv, rock n roll, and more. Alex Lukashevsky is an unbelievable songwriter with a unique sense of humor and melodic/harmonic conception.

Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter (2007, Constellation)
Jem Cohen was smart enough to get Chesnutt out of major label hell and paired him with musicians and an engineer/studio that would take his amazing songs to new, vibrant places rather than the major label studio BS that plagued some otherwise great songs on Silver Lake and Ghetto Bells.

Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies - Live Classics, Vol. 1 (2005, Thrill Jockey)
I don't normally care that much about live albums but this particular album isn't really "live" in the sense that it was recorded in a studio with pro gear, though a live audience was present. The amazing thing about this album is that it documents Bobby Conn with his band the Glass Gypsies who are, without a doubt, the best live band I have ever seen. Hands down. No I am not exaggerating. They pick the best songs from all of Bobby's sometimes inconsistent back catalog of albums and play them louder and faster than they ever were on the records. It's a shame Bobby Conn/Monica Boubou had kids because I'm guessing that's what put a stop to this band touring. If you ever get to see them do not miss it.

Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home (2003, Young God)
This is the only AoL album of the first three that doesn't go on too long, the production is immaculate, and the songs are incredible and it's the last thing Gira did before Akron/Family came into the picture and Gira's music went a decidedly softer direction.

Cerberus Shoal - The Land We All Believe In (2005, North East Indie)
I think the reason this album wasn't a huge success is because Cerberus Shoal was around for about 10 years prior as a more or less not-so-great psych/improv band. What the started to hone in on with "Bastion of Itchy Preeves" was perfectly distilled on this record. It's succinct, on point, and the musicianship is amazing. Another lost classic.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master & Everyone (2003, Drag City)
Fuck the haters, Will Oldham is an amazing songwriter. Period. Sure, like anyone who releases as much music as he has, it's not all gold but this album is a restrained, understated masterpiece of folk music.

Uncle Jim - Superstars of Greenwich Meantime (2005, Abduction/Black Velvet Fuckere)
The greatest 'spoken word' album ever recorded. Alan Bishop's literary/oratory genius has never been better than it is here, even within Sun City Girls' ridiculously large discography.

Gentleman Jesse & His Men - s/t (2008, Douchemaster)
Among all the garage/punk/power pop revivalist bands flitting around these days, I haven't heard a single album that seemed as special as this one. For being a 'fun' and light-hearted pop album, it's shocking how catchy and consistently great these songs are. Almost two years later and I can't stop listening to this album.

Greymachine "Disconnected" CD (Hydra Head) Collaborative effort between Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh, Napalm Death etc..), Dave Cochrane (Head Of David, God, Ice), Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu, Godflesh) and Aaron Turner (ISIS, House of Low Culture, etc..).

Espvall, Helena and Masaki Batoh "Overloaded Ark" CD/LP (Drag City) Backed by two of Batoh's Ghost-mates, Kazuo Ogino and Junzo Tateiwa, and joined by ancient music specialist Haruo Kondo

Reichel, Achim "AR5 - Autovision" CD (World's Leading Terrorist State) 1974 echo-guitar awesome-ness. 

Six Organs of Admittance "Luminous Night" CD/LP (Drag City) aka Ben Chasny, bringing along Eyvind Kang whose sound on viola shines with a guiding glow throughout the album. The other invaluable contributors to the album are Hans Teuber on flute, Tor Dietrichson on tabla, Matt Chamberlin on drums, and Dave Abramson on percussion. 

Variant "The Setting Sun" CD (Echospace) Stephen Hitchell (Intrusion, cv313) delivers a serious treat for his legion of devoted followers with the next logical step in the Echospace saga leading to this release exploring sublime ambient electronics in a textured, analog style.

546)Liturgy/Renihilation: Branca acolytes bring black metal to the Dream House.#7.5

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Helado Negro "Awe Owe" LP (Asthmatic Kitty) aka Roberto C. Lange who is a member of Savath & Savalas who puts folk, jazz, electronic, and pop music through a distinctly Latin filter.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums "The Snake" CD (The Control Group) Sweden's extraordinary drums and vocals duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums return.

From: Root Strata <list@rootstrata.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:30 AM

Greetings,

A double LP, two DVDr's and a two day, three show music festival this time around!

We are not selling copies of the Oneohtrix Point Never DVDr, please check with the usual distributors for copies.

All the info on the festival, which will take place September 19th & 20th here in SF, can be found here:
http://www.onlandfestival.com/
Tickets are on sale via phone, web, or at Aquarius Records.

As usual drop a line for any questions, concerns, or complaints, and we hope to see you next month!

Jefre / Maxwell

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Christina Carter
Lace Heart
x2 LP

Double LP reissue of a 2005 CD-R released on Christina's own Many Breaths imprint. Six love songs comprised of elliptical bell like guitar phrases, barely there, sometimes even coaxing silence, set behind the extended vowel sounds of voice. Soft gentle performances here, like this whole record was cut very very late at night or in the early hours of the morning. An unhinged 'nowness' is pervasive in Christina's work, and 'Lace Heart' is no exception. There is a very private feeling here, some kinda intimacy that just feels really rare. Lovers of past, present & future all collapse into one. Memories of smells, tastes & textures all channeled into wide open song. No one really does it like this. Three sides of music & and an etching of one of Christina's drawings on the fourth side. Red vinyl with maroon splatter. Edition of 500.

Oneothrix Point Never
Memory Vague
DVD-R

Memory Vague is the first collection of music videos by Daniel Lopatin under his solo handle, Oneohtrix Point Never. Created entirely from YouTube videos and edited in Windows Movie Maker, Lopatin recomposes outmoded video graphic landscapes via repetition and abuse, serving as allegory for his compositional style. Much of the footage is appropriated high fidelity equipment advertisements -- a point of fascination for Lopatin whose aesthetic culls from recontextualizing1980's synthesizer and computer music. Less time warp, more time-space fold, Memory Vague is a kaleidoscope of brain seizures played out on a two-dimensional grid-scape. Edition of 150

Tarentel & Paul Clipson
Over Water
DVD-R

Latest installment of the ongoing collaboration between San Francisco based Tarentel & filmmaker Paul Clipson. Three shorts of Super8 film and music mostly culled form live performances in Italy & Switzerland in 2005. Filled up & painted out to the edges. Edition of 100.

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