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MYST007 | BURIAL HEX | CRESCENT CROSS| T-SHIRT
Two-color (Stone & Wine) Screenprint on Charcoal Gildan Ultra Cotton Shortsleeve.
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CQBL031 | STONE BREATH | TWIST OF THORN | C40
[Ltd. 100 Snow on Blood] Full 5-panel J-card with lyrics and notes.

Upon the opening of this cassette we are greeted by the familiar fresh air of Timothy Renner's unique finger-picking style, and lulled into mystical contemplation by his deep baritone voice. Layer after layer of devotional hymns push us further into the heart of the sacred grove that is Renner's own personal divine reality. Each song on this gorgeous album flows together like one long suite. Sparse and steady as ever, decorated in masterfully understated string work and inspired male and female vocal harmony; Stone Breath have conquered yet another peak in a rambling catalog of already staggering heights. A mere hint at the austere majesty of their upcoming LP on Brave Mysteries, this cassette is a stirring display of the continuous maturation and deepening that Renner and his kin have become known for. To anyone who does not yet know Stone Breath, there is no better way to describe them than to quote directly from their own biography: "Wood, skin, bone, bronze, steel, gut. These are the materials of acoustic instruments. Materials of the earth. Stone Breath wanted to make earth music. Timeless music. Music that could be made without electricity. Music that could be played in field or forest (or even in lonely graveyards as was the case in the early days of the band). Stone Breath have held true to this vision over 9 albums, several EPs, various compilation appearances, and almost 20 years." We are so honored to present "Twist of Thorn", especially as we bid farewell to the final days of Winter, growing intoxicated by the opening gestures of the next coming season. These songs were created as a celebration of nature in the mode of death, just as it is before the rebirth of Spring. Keep an ear out for Stone Breath's "Spear of Flame, Horse of Air" LP, coming this Summer on Brave Mysteries.

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CQBL030 | SANGRE DE MUERDAGO | C40
[Ltd. 100 Gold on Smoke] Full 5-panel J-card with lyrics and notes.

A gentle and warm rain soaks your brow as soft finger-picked guitar and bowed violin shimmer in the glow of a seaside sunset. The urgent finesse of Sangre De Muerdago conjures reverent fantasies of the Iberian northwest and the old Galician castros there. While Sangre De Muerdago's music begins with a solemn devotion to the mysteries of the megalithic past, a spiritual sustenance from the natural world, and a revolting sorrow over the fall of the old world and rise of modern society; the mournful seriousness of Sangre De Muedago's music was furthered by the passing away of it's founding member Jorge, who died just a few weeks before he would've traveled to join the rest of the band to finish this album. As the loss of their great friend and collaborator still weighed heavily on their hearts, Sangre De Muedago deepened their resolve to finish this great work in honor of their dead kin, both of the ancient and modern ages. A cascade of graceful violins, woodwinds, vocal harmonies and lush atmosphere support the deft lead guitar work and beautiful melodies. Carefully crafted over a period of several years, between living with a traveling caravan in California and wandering the hills of their native Portugal, Sangre De Muedago have accomplished a truly inspiring and gorgeous album of folk song. Remastered for cassette by Nathaniel Ritter.

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MYST006 | RAIN DRINKERS | YESODIC HELICES | LP
[Ltd. 250 on 150G Black Vinyl]
[First 100 include Cast of the Rye Wolf CDR Album]

Rain Drinkers consists of two long-time Madison folks, but yet none of us have any real contact with either of them and they have never played live. Xavier Kraal (aka Troy Schafer in one of his numerous musical disguises) has moved out to the country, withdrawing into family life and a myriad of solo projects and many collaborations )including Kinit Her, Compass Hour, Wreathes, Spiral Joy Band, Pelt, Burial Hex, Wormsblood, and many more). Joe Taylor musically focuses exclusively on Rain Drinkers and, though he has lived in the Madison area for many years now, none but Kraal have actually met him. Rain Drinkers also consistently credits the Creative Spirit as a third member of their line-up for all of their releases. Regardless of what sounds the Creative Spirit is actually contributing, both Kraal and Taylor are such talented multi-instrumentalists, it is impossible to distinguish which of them is playing what parts and, often the arrangements are so organically entangled, it becomes difficult to determine what the instrumentation might be in any given movement. Much like their amazing 2011 release Urthen Web, Yesodic Helices flows in an out of a wide variety of tone poems. Musically they bring to mind artists who tend to create their own visionary worlds with a classic sense of depth and dynamics, such as Ennio Morricone, Sun Ra, Iasos, Moondog, Popol Vuh or modern characters like Cyclobe, James Ferraro or Ulver. The essence of Rain Drinkers also clearly bears the mark of their own Xavier Kraal, who graces all his projects with an inimitable musical signature. We don't know where these sessions were recorded or how, but the band always features themselves on the cover of their releases, in various stark settings around rural Wisconsin, exposing themselves only to the excellent black and white portraiture of photographer Dani Dahlke. Their oblique gaze and anachronistic looks further plunge the imagination into mania. Luckily the music itself is not so intangible. The Rain Drinkers music is made with a heady passion that keeps them moving forward, continuously expanding their pallet of sounds and stylistic touchstones. Yet, no matter how adventurous or exciting the musical terrain may be, the listener remains safely strapped in and always guided along by a familiar and benevolent presence. This angel journeyman, alive within the music of Rain Drinkers, are surely the results of a special transmutation that occurs between these two intense and sincere old souls, and it is surely what they are acknowledging when crediting The Creative Spirit as a third unique member of their private ensemble. Video for 'Helix I' can be viewed here.

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CQBL028 | URNA | LARVAE | C40
[Ltd. 100 Plum on Slate]
After fifteen years of carefully scattering a small handful of cryptic but consistently beautiful artifacts (including three releases on solemnly-revered Slaughter Productions), Italian post-industrialist unit, Urna continues to develope his evocative electro-acoustic devotionals. Witness dreamy epics woven from his wealth of folkish prayer implements and ceremonial electronic enhancements.
A video for 'Kangling' can be seen here.



CQBL027 | BALDRUIN | NACHFALTER | C30
[Ltd. 100 Moonsilver on Dusk]
Bavarian romantic animist Johannes Schebler is astrally navigating this young project Baldruin; whose output has mainly been splits with kindred Franconian spirits on the excellent sisic label. Over the course of 12 elegant post-industrial mementos, the gently expressive acoustics unfold and stretch out, ever-cloaked in a fog of ghostly electronics. Cast your lot with the new dreamers of the day.
A video for 'Wildwuchs' can be viewed here.



CQBL026 | LIGHTNING PATH | ASPIRE-{2}-YUGGOTH | C49
[Ltd. 100 Vericose on Sun]
Raw recordings of barbaric jubilee from little-known occult research unit in Columbus, Ohio. Thus far Lightning Path have only released a small preview of their sonic results to La Societe Voudon Gnostique. However, Brave Mysteries has now published a proper full length album, collecting sounds from a wide variety of Shamanic and Voudon Gnostic Thaumaturgy sessions.
A video for 'The Zoarites' can be viewed here.



CQBL025 | EMME YA | EROTOGNOSIS (VOICES FROM THE VOID) | C40
[Ltd. 100 Damballah Blue on Blood Sea]
Follow-up to his debut on Cold Spring Records, Colombian FR Kerval is brewing a dynamic cauldron of maddening post-voodoo intoxicants, rank with the hallucinatory memory of sex magic trance, detached and traveling the void of mystic star systems, while drawing out the double solar miracle mambo inside of us all.
A video for 'The Purple Tempple' can be viewed here.



MYST005 | PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS | AOXOMOXOA | LP
[Ltd. 250 on 150G Black Vinyl]
Most souls interested in modern underground music have already heard about Mater Suspiria Vision; whether through his breathtaking video output or his brooding dance mixes that all seem to go viral within mere hours of their release. Cosmas De Xam, director, composer, musician and multimedia guru has in recent years saturated the internet with his freakish videos, movies and multiple recording projects. He is also the mastermind behind the prolific Phatasma Disques imprint label, which releases CDX recordings and those of like-minded artists and friends, on very limited edition cdrs; all wrapped in his own fetishistic handmade collage art with Japanese obi-strips. His works are about fanaticism, psychedelia, mystery, nostalgia, drugs, magic; and very, very beautiful women. One of the first of his many highly-publicized obsessions was with Laura Palmer and the Twin Peaks television series. This deadly muse compelled Cosmas to release a two cdr compilations (Phantasma Disques' "A Witch House & Okkult Guide to Twin Peaks" volumes 1& 2), as well as some mesmerizing videos and a mysterious cdr titled "Inside the Black Lodge", under the name PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS. "Aoxomoxa" is the follow-up album to this first PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS release. Taking cues from progressive rascals like Nurse With Wound and German oddballs HNAS, Zweistein and Eroc, the music of PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS twists and turns like a kaleidoscopic reptilian nightmare, inducing a torrent of hallucinatory nausea not heard since the early solo tapes of James Ferraro. This vinyl is not only essential for being the only relic of PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS (and one of the very few in CDX's overall discography) to be released on wax, but this particular record seems to represent a pivotal moment in CDX's compositional styles. Since this work was finished, the trajectory of Mater Suspiria Vision has shifted from heavily screwed beats and zombie rave music into a continued refining of this very personal style of hypnagogic revelry, first explored through the PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS project. Though the "Witch House" kids may not appreciate or understand the cerebral and abstract direction of his current music, at least all his artwork and videos still have no shortage of Technicolor sex kittens and witchy euro femme fatales galore.

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MYST004 | HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE | DEAD SONS | 45 RPM 12"
[Ltd. 250 on 150G Black Vinyl]
From the skinny bellies of three Italian boys comes this shadowy scream of outsider post punk oblivion. His Electro Blue Voice have been shaking dancefloors with their nasty rock and roll, on a small handful of killer singles, over the last three years. This is the latest 12" 45rpm EP, and it features the most advanced moves in their young repertoire. This stuff is so far out, if they ever make a full length album, they are going to promptly fall off the map. Starting with a swinging bass line, they waste no time to simply explode. Scornful, acidic vocals burn through the heavy motorik backbeat and into a blackened hole of chainsaw fuzz guitars. Just after you bang the last of your speed, smash all of your wine bottles, trash your little bedroom, leave your shitty girlfriend behind, and decide that EVERYTHING you will ever need is right here in this spinning piece of pure, monolithic punk rock...... it all changes. The angry haze begins to fade as strange tape loops bubble up, throbbing bass, gliding flute and the chimes of oriental chords carefully refocus the entire experience. Suddenly you are alone in the desert, like you somehow stumbled upon a lost jam session by later-era Savage Republic. As the atmospheres continue to twist and shimmer, you completely forget about the massive angst grenade that just blew your world to bits. Eventually your meandering soul is lulled completely asleep, physically and spiritually exhausted, totally given over to an astral daydream, only to find the dark clouds returning as H.E.B.V. rears their head once more to unleash the most devastating song they have written to date. All that is just on the first side of this incredible platter. Recorded between 2009 and 2011, Dead Sons weighs in at just under 25 minutes, probably the longest outing this band has given up so far. We have been big fans of H.E.B.V. since their early singles on S.S. Records and Sacred Bones, but this record is both far more dynamic and simultaneously more aggressive than anything they have ever done before.

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MYST003 | BURIAL HEX | BOOK OF DELUSIONS | LP
[Ltd. 250 on 150G Black Vinyl]
During the period in which Clay Ruby first began working on this piece of art, he had become so completely surrounded by evil and deception that he was forced to begin summoning a particularly extreme and ancient force of protection and vitality just to make it alive through the end of 2008. Aside from spiritually fortifying Ruby's life, the complexities of these new elemental entities brought with them circumstances causing a much more rich and intense recording experience than he could have ever composed on his own. Since then, it seems that the world at large, and the art scene in particular, may have become even more self-destructive, nihilistic and pathetic as ever. In this context, we fear that much of the true aesthetic and spiritual content of this album could certainly be lost on many of it's listeners; or even worse, it could take root and potentially cause damage to the lives of those who come into contact with it. Over the course of the three years it took to compose and record this album, at least six different record labels have offered to release this album, and over the course of these years, all of those labels have either gone bankrupt or rendered themselves completely irrelevant. Though we dearly adore this highly detailed and inspired music, Brave Mysteries hesitates to have anything to do with the release of this record, because it is most certainly cursed. The lives that have been shaken and ruined because of it, whether directly or even subtlety, is already far too many. Clay Ruby has vehemently refused to offer any commentary on the biographical, conceptual or musical details about this album; stating only that "By the time you sell your last copy of this record, I will surely be dead." Our reactions to the harrowing darkness of this music and the ominous and fateful attitude of it's composer have left us at a total loss about how to proceed. All we can do is offer this landmark album to the public and pray for the lives of all who come in contact with it.

Wrapped in some of the most gorgeous artwork to have come out of the Harvest Abbey in Madison, WI. Exclusively limited to 250 copies, all orders come with a 12x12" poster flat and the first 150 orders will receive a bonus CD; featuring remixes of "The Book of Delusions" by Mater Suspiria Vision, Unison, FWY!, Funerals, Mueran Humanos, Dream Boat, Spettro Family, Burial Hex and many other inspired reworkings.

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MYST003 | BURIAL HEX | BOOK OF DELUSIONS REMIXES | CD
[Ltd. 50 Repress]
A small re-run of the Remix CD that originally came only with the first 150 orders of the Book of Delusions LP. Featuring remixes of The Book of Delusions track from: Devotion, Mueran Humanos, Moons, Funerals, Window Age, FWY!, Golden Donna, Dream Boat, Spettro Family, Unison, Mike Schults, Mater Suspiria Vision, and Clay Ruby himself.

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CQBL017 | CHICALOYOH | LAISSONS LES SORTRIR | C29
[Ltd. 100 Sanguine on Acid Rain]
Cryptic psych maneuvers from young French chanteuse Alice Dorlen and company. A perfect trip for these shimmering Summer evenings. Imagine Book of AM as played by a young Mazzy Star, all filtered through the lush analog squeeze of simple cassette four-track. The brilliantly acidic apparition of song and steam that hovers quietly in the opposite corner of your room, slowly sways and lurches it's way toward you, gently aiming to possess you. The music murmurs along suggesting something much more below the surface, a catchy sensibility to the grooves makes the music yearn to become alive again, yet always stuck just beyond the tangible.


CQBL015 | THE SECOND FAMILY BAND | TWELFTH NIGHT REUNION | C70
[Ltd. 100 Lucite on Amethyst]
Many of our chronic listeners know well who the Second Family Band is, at least in name and reputation. The Second Family Band is a leaderless collective of improvising musicians, based out of Madison Wisconsin. What unites this group is the shared background of meeting and playing together in improv units around southern Wisconsin, between the late 90s and the grand jubilee of Pasture Music Festival in 2004. All members of Second Family Band have once been or are intimately related to members of The Davenport Family, Drunjus, The Grass Magic, Zodiac Mountain, All Do Gather, Organon, Candiru, A Mercury Ensemble, The Midwestern Mudslide Hootenanny and Free Pentecostal Family Jams, Outlet, Jesus Balls, Maths Balance Volumes, Mirror Man and th' Oshun Oxtra, as well as dozens of unnamed gatherings and lost memories. The Family does have a completely free improv policy, and their sessions have a very open community vibe about them, though this hardly makes them accessible to outsiders. Since most of the regular members cut their improvising skills in this brilliant flood of psychedelic improv units that flourished through Wisconsin at the time, the musicians of Second Family Band find themselves in a uniquely exclusive reality where this music is tread on intricately cut local paths and it's elementals are speaking only in the familial tongue. The oldest members of Second Family have learned from nearly fifteen years of jamming like this, that the more intimate and old the association of the people in a Second Family jamming unit at any one point, the stronger their psychic musicianship bond together, thereby manifesting a clearer portrait from which we can understand the highly organic order of the forms within Second Family's unique structure. This is a paradox of the Second Family Band, highly misunderstood from both those without and within. What is not mysterious is that the Second Family exists much like any other family. Despite having a never-ending pile of memories to sift through, it always seems that the best moments are never really captured. Despite knowing eachother better than anyone else on earth, there is still all the more room for miscommunication. Despite being together all the time, it is so easy to be too stuck inside your own head and completely out of tune with the rest of the house. So many familiar problems mount in such situations that it is easy for the music to implode more often that not. Yet this same tense and personal territory is also exactly where some of the most brilliant magic is born. We are so thankful that Brave Mysteries has so often been blessed with recordings that exhibit Second Family Band at the height of their paranormal potential. There recordings seek to show the public what happens when the Second Family Band have the focus and energy to rise together and lift eachother up to play this music in true harmony. Last season we were able to present the enchanting Veiled Gallery cassette and now we here have the honor of presenting Twlefth Night Reunion, a collection of vivid recordings from the Winter of 2010, culminating in the miraculous Twelfth Night Reunion party on New Years Eve; an exciting annual party that hosts as many of that eldest family members that can be gathered in this area.


CQBL011 | LOVE CULT | NEBULAES | C32
[Ltd. 100 Blood on White]
Hailing from deep within the songlands of Karelia, Love Cult is the duo of Anya Kuts and Ivan Afanasyev. When asked to tell us a bit more about these sessions, the duo only told us things that made us feel even more alien and confused than we were when we knew nothing at all. These are truly sounds of a thoughtfully intimate and exclusive nature, like the soft concentration of singing lullabies to your first love. Using only acoustic guitar, voice, bells, kantele, lap slide, kazoo and effects, Love Cult construct two side-long epics that are fully enveloping. There is an easy and comforting environment that is conjured as the duo negotiates their own unique type of propulsion throughout a dream-like stasis. While fragile acoustics are fingered in pensive circular patterns, sinewy loops wrap themselves around the shimmering esophagus gently intoning it's mantras. The expansive atmosphere of these workings give extra blur to the ghostly strands of melody slowly arching over fully hollow spaces between and around each note. Welcome to the shadowy bliss of the songlands.


CQBL007 | LENS | TECHTRON DAWN / CHIMERA GAME II | C35
[Ltd. 20 Grey on Orange| 80 Black on Clear]
Lens is the newest project by Woodman, an elder godfather within the Second Family Band and Davenport Family circles. For those of us lucky enough to get some of his rare self-released tapes, he also gotten us grooving by the name Mighty Diamond and also simply as Woodman. Woodman may be even more well known for his band Drunjus, a long-running, progressive and oblique drone-based duo with Endless. This latest moniker seems to be an extension of that devotional drone sound that he has been crafting with Drunjus. Though, where Drunjus can occasionally become towering, twisted and even atonal, Lens seems to be sitting completely still and focused in a disciplined meditation. Evocative waves of organ tone and simple analog synthesis come and go, pensive melodies gently interrupt the flow only to suggest themselves and disappear just as quickly. There is an organic regiment to the electronic motions of the first side, creating sequencer-like sensations that guide our drifting attention, perhaps bringing to mind Terry Riley and early Klaus Schulze. Over two side-long compositions, a balanced harmony gracefully haunts the tape, and while the first side indicates a developed and steady progression with organ and cosmic electronics, the second side takes things down even more to silent place where Lens can illuminate the room by sounding the ritual song of a single bell within a deepening chasm of a vacuous spacial drift.


CQBL005 | THE MUMBER TOES | ALWAYS ALREADY | C60
[Ltd. 20 White on Purple | 80 White on Purple Tint]
"(...) the generativity of something uttered always already seems to deny fixed fleshhas always already been exploited [...]" - Brian O'Blivion This is the latest living artifact, directly given from the line of King David, and ushered in by his/her wholly unholy manifestation as thee The Mumber Toes, also called Karen Eliot, and seen to his subjects as the Wing'd Master ov Thee UnEnding Beginning and TheE Timeless End Times. You will probably recognize this audio happening as another recording of senseless modern racket, or perhaps the latest in a long line of superior Alien Power Electronics. The reality is, it is impossible for any of us to truly know what in the Hell this really is. Clearly there is something being communicated to us through the constructs of garbage synthesis and failing echoes. The sound is sub-human and nauseating, leaving long lines of quivering oscillations to perpetual births and deaths within the coursing scores of grey vomit. Winding like a catheter up your spinal column, this is an ancient electronic language capable of properly calling the incantations necessary for conjuring the fires of a uniquely Qliphothic Kundalini. The newly crowned serpent phoenix, arisen through this astral union, is born a power complete, unleashed and free to conquer. The bull is slain and the rabble is scattered. The broken ego, now a sperm, now a spell, now a sigil, now left here as an offering for lesser spirits to suck. All eyes are closed, blessed to know there'll be nothing left to see.


CQBL003 | BODY COLLECTOR | NEW EDEN | C30
[Ltd. 20 Red on Grey | 80 Red on Black]
From beyond the other side of great lake Michigan transmits Khristopher Reinshagen; aka Scorpio & Glass aka Khurst aka Nurse Etiquette aka Nuhrst. It has been rumored that this may be the final BC release ever, and if so, this project ends with just as much unsettling fury and disgust as when it began. Using bleak themes and imagery to drive the manipulation of industrial elements into the accumulation of brooding noise walls and filthy tape grime, Body Collector has released twenty or more focused and intense installments of sonic nausea over the last three years of his short life. This cassette sets you off into another strange aryan-voodoo nightmare dimension, haunted by an always tense, menacing presence, calling out through the hiss and hum of the threshold between our dimension and the New Eden. Broken tape systems consume every sound, encrusting them with analog waste. Metal vomit gushes between each gasp of sickly feedback. Every motion of sound seems like it is trying to force it's way past the other sounds and flop out of the speakers, onto the floor, to hemorrhage and die right there before you. Despite the generous mutations of all the machinery, you can always hear Khurst himself underneath it all, conducting the steel, slowly churning and mashing his ritual tools of scrap metal and material decay. A formidable requiem to such a morbid project, if ever there was one.


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BURIAL HEX | BLOOD BETWEEN HER LAKES | LP | Holidays Records
"Remastered reissue of the long-out-of-print tape released on Turgid Animal in 2008. An incredible example of Midwest Horror Electronics recorded live during a show at the Tomb in Madison, Wisconsin. Side A starts slow and builds to a tense and creepy crescendo of industrial devastation bringing the song to its dramatic climax aided by the metallic ring of a bell. Side B captures the unleashed rage of the performance made of crawling chains, whistling wind and metallic echoes. Amazing harsh epilogue drilled through many layers of screams of torment, rage and anguish." - Holidays

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TROY SCHAFER / CANNIBAL GIRLS | CD-R | 0bpm
"Turbulent and magical, this split between Troy Schafer (from the unbelievable Kinit Her, Rain drinkers, wreathes etc etc) and Joel Shanahan, who dons the colorful pseudo name "Cannibal Girls" offers a bubbling experience of deep drones, eerie ambient environment and frantic violin shredding." - 0bpm Edition of 200.

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CHAGAS AND SCHAFER | SCALPING THE WRAITH | 3" CD-R | Shifting Sands Congregation
Blurring critical analysis, outsider improvisation that crosses stylistic and temporal boundaries. Featuring: Paulo Chagas – flute, bass clarinet; Troy Schafer (Kinit Her, Rain Drinkers, et al.) – violin, sheet metal. 2012. Limited to 50 copies.

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RAIN DRINKERS | SPRINGTIDE | CD-R | Reverb Worship
"Another gorgeous release from Rain Drinkers, steeped in melancholy. This opens in a subtly dramatic style with neo-classical piano and strings and then drifts into mysterious ambience. Track 2 "Breach" is a delicately rhythmic and hypnotic exploration on nylon strings - very Steve Reich. Lastly "Hyacinth" is similarly hypnotic - a cascade of joyous synth over mournful brass." -Boa Melody Bar

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TROY SCHAFER | EVENING SONG AWAKEN | CD-R | Recital
"Here Recital is presenting its first "classically" inspired program. "Evening Song Awaken" is the first real full length release by Troy Schafer, a young man from Wisconsin (affiliated with the Second Family Band, Burial Hex, Spiral Joy Band - to name a few). To me, this album is set aside from the rest of his body of work, it feels more pure and focused. Schafer's ability to intertwine passionate composition and technical proficiency is rare and inspiring. Throughout the album counter-themes emerge and propel the pieces though frantic climaxes. These flares are contrasted though many slow pastoral reflections. You can really hear his devotion to the music." - Sean McCann of the Recital label.
Full color artwork in jewel case, with hand numbered and stamped insert. Edition of 200.

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CIRCULATION OF LIGHT | TWILIT HOMELAND | 3" CD-R | Shifting Sands Congregation
Kinit Her's Nathaniel Ritter returns for his third solo offering as Circulation of Light, continuing where the lathe-cut on alt.vinyl left off. "brazen warmth wove of remembrance shining. haunted blonde dust beast, crying. soothed transcendence. Ltd Ed 50 Galaxy Gold on Matte Blue Marble, foil, tied with brown leather." - Shifting Sands Congregation

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SILT OF THE SPHYNX'S TOR | 3" CD-R | Shifting Sands Congregation
An ultracharged, mutant sound sigil to reverse all polarities and deliver world peace. Dani Dahlke and Troy Schafer of Kinit Her, Wreathes, Devotion, Rain Drinkers, et al. Recorded in Sauk City, Wisconsin. 2011. Limited to 50 copies.

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BURIAL HEX / IRON FIST OF THE SUN | ACTAEON / GROWN UNDER ENGLISH ICE | SPLIT LP | Cold Spring Records
Superb trans-Atlantic Power Electronics / Death Industrial face-off between Wisconsin's Burial Hex and Birmingham's Iron Fist Of The Sun. Burial Hex presents 2 "pre-industrial" conceptual compositions. Aside from one synth at the end of the first track, this music was all made with acoustic sounds. Intense Power Electronics, but without using amplification or electronically generated sounds. Just like how many industrial artists have flirted with depicting sounds and atmospheres from the first and second World Wars, these pieces were composed imaging atmospheres closer to the American Civil War era. IFOTS's 4 tracks were recorded at Crushing Obelisk, Birmingham, England. Dedicated to betrayers of family / faith / country. 40 minutes. Ltd x 500 copies.

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HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE | ANIMAL VERSES B/W BLACK VEILS | 7" | Bat Shit Records
The fourth 7" single by Italy's ever progressing post-punk outfit. Here lies two tracks of dark and brooding gothic masterworks by one of Italy's finest. Throbbing bass, piercing guitars and metronome percussion all layered perfectly beneath scornful, shouted vocals. 500 copies. Artwork by Francesco.

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KINIT HER | GRATITUDES | CD | Small Doses
Gratitudes finds Kinit Her doing what they do best – crafting unique compositions and blending influences from all over the map. Elements of doom metal, dark ambient, and early industrial music all work their way into Kinit Her's eclectic brand of ritual neofolk msuic. This release reissues their masterful Divine Names cassette and includes an unreleased full-lenth companion recording, bringing their complete vision to fruition. Mastered by James Plotkin and features artwork by Sineater. The first 50 copies sold include a 3″ cdr of their Lord of Power 8″ lathe release and an extra insert.

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THE WORLD ON HIGHER DOWNS | EUCLID B/W A MUTED STREET SONG | 7" | Merck/Plop
The precursor to Brave Mysteries' own Compass Hour, The World On Higher Downs is Kinit Her's Nathaniel Ritter and Troy Schafer collaborating with Green Bay, WI eletronic musician Eric Bray (Arctic Hospital, Window Age). This 7" features two tracks from their debut CD "Land Patterns", which was released on Tokyo based label Plop in May 2007. Initial listens spring up visions of Tortoise, Labradford, or Slowdive, but their music sits somewhere between the murky depths of seasonal depression, cabin fever, and the blooming first days of spring. It has an intellectual quality to it, but maintains a child-like innocence in the way many of its melodies flutter and the implementation of many pitched percussion instruments. Limited to 333 copies.

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V/A | BOUND WITH SKIN VOL. 1 | CD | Skulls of Heaven
A massive collection of confounding experimentation and psychedelic revelry. Each artist was asked to take their time and stretch out within one of their most obfuscating compositions ever. Full of rare and highly unusual entries, all tracks are exclusive to this series.
Tomutonttu - Samaan Aikaan Toisaalla
The Skaters - .:-:-:.
Ashtray Navigations - the winking halogen devil / lazy screens / bunnys with bullets in their mouthes
Zodiac Mountain - The Loki Hex (pts 1&2)
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Djin Rummy: The Poetry of Lunacy



V/A | BOUND WITH SKIN VOL. 2 | CD | Skulls of Heaven
A massive collection of confounding experimentation and psychedelic revelry. Each artist was asked to take their time and stretch out within one of their most obfuscating compositions ever. Full of rare and highly unusual entries, all tracks are exclusive to this series.

Pengo - Moats
Maths Balance Volumes - Elegy for Breeze Von Goodyear / the gravediggers dance
Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood - <<.!.>>
White Dog - Answers never questioned
Armpit - Grunge King



V/A | BOUND WITH SKIN VOL. 3 | CD | Skulls of Heaven
A massive collection of confounding experimentation and psychedelic revelry. Each artist was asked to take their time and stretch out within one of their most obfuscating compositions ever. Full of rare and highly unusual entries, all tracks are exclusive to this series.

Fursaxa & Zaimph - Swordforest
Axolotl - Anola (for ERA)
Astral Social Club - Uroo Uroo Uroo
Excepter - Cruel Sensation
PW Best - Sundogs



V/A | BOUND WITH SKIN VOL. 4 | CD | Skulls of Heaven
A massive collection of confounding experimentation and psychedelic revelry. Each artist was asked to take their time and stretch out within one of their most obfuscating compositions ever. Full of rare and highly unusual entries, all tracks are exclusive to this series.

Uton - Universumista Sormenpäihin
Watersports - Elomog
Anla Courtis - A-649170/43
Pan To Scratch - The Southern Gate
Taikuri Tali - kello rittui



V/A | BOUND WITH SKIN VOL. 5 | CD | Skulls of Heaven
A massive collection of confounding experimentation and psychedelic revelry. Each artist was asked to take their time and stretch out within one of their most obfuscating compositions ever. Full of rare and highly unusual entries, all tracks are exclusive to this series.

Wolfskull - Builder
United Bible Studies - The Black Lighthouse
Kyrgyz - Ghosts of the Winter run
Navy Black - Kids are the new pets
Clixcx (Nonhorse) - Ygrycsil



THE PUKE EATERS | HELLO VALHALLA | LP | Skulls of Heaven
Does anyone remember a remarkable piece of psych-styled rubbish called "God is Free" by The Puke Eaters, released on Chocolate Monk back in 2004? Of all the odd wonders and incestuous secrets to emerge from Finland in the last 20 years, The Puke Eaters could be thee greatest. "Hello Valhalla" is the first long playing record by this anti-prolific group (featuring the extraordinary line-up of Jan Anderzen, Chris Corsano and Reijo Pami). The applied methods range from accidental to free and from psycho-motorik to ritual. For any points of reference think of the swamp into which Fille qui mousse, Cromagnon and 'Jesus Christ' era Smell & Quim were dumped. After years of tireless experimentation in the cynical utopian ruinscape of their collective butterfly mind, The Puke Eaters have loosened their belts and finally unleashed their deadliest recordings for thee future caveman. Endless volcano-brain spewing on the ur-reality of limitless psycho-dynamic sound clash, all totally high on Scandinavian pussy juice.



SEJAYNO | SEDAINTY | LP | Skulls of Heaven
Sejayno is Don Sallo (Peter B), Jak Russel (Severiano Martinez) and Burt Duns (Carson Garhart).Beginning with twisted vocal expressions, caveman hymns and growing percussion rituals sealed with babbling hypno-blood sacrifice. Daredevil chant, noise invocation and aural abuse mounts as Sejayno begin to witness the delirium and psychic expansion of time travel as they learned ancient electronic time travel techniques: flipped delay, maraca skip, and ultrasound speech rotation. Sejayno is enacting a multi-year-long journey from electronic time travel techniques to those based on the ancient lute. Sejayno strongly believes that as long as we truly imagine ourselves to be ancient people we will always be ancient people. Featuring unique soulcrafting on some very psychedelic ritual tools and instruments created by Peter B, you may know him better as inventor and musician Peter Blasser, a.k.a. "ciat-lonbarde" and/or the next incarnation of Dr.Who imagining Bob Moog as interpreted by the paper circuit in the form of the seed of life. Sejayno is much more like a mushy ball of resin rubbed off from between the shared thumbs of Sun Ra and David Tudor. Each record contains it's own original piece of artwork! Severiano Martinez is the man behind it all. co-released by Shinkoyo, Heresee, Skulls of Heaven, BOC, and Ignivomous.



DB PEDERSON | CARROT CARROT! | CD | Skulls of Heaven
db is a folk artist who has rambled long around the world getting loaded, making trouble, and breathing fire. At some point, he lands himself on a sheep farm in rural Wisconsin where he screamed towards the sun until his vocal chords broke. From then on, whenever he belted out his cries, his throat emitted a heavenly multi-tonal song. Some call this style of singing throat singing, most often identified with the Tuvans such as Huun Huur Tu. However, db does a lot more than just traditional throat singing: he is a skilled nature mimic, recreating the sounds of many mammals, birds, and insects; he is a vocalist of near operatic depth and prowess. His music is a backdrop of proggy basslines navigating through psychedelic naturescapes of animal and insect sounds, bansuri flute, percussion, and minimal effects, while his throat singing soars over and through these environments. This album is a concept album, loosely based around the journey of childhood and adolescence; db has even rolled up his sleeves and written lyrics for some of these songs, though the emphasis remains on his wordless imaginary flights of vocal gymnastics.



HINTERGEDANKEN | HINTERGEDANKEN | CD | Barbarian Records
Prog/psych wizardry from metaphysical media gurus Karen Eliot and Clay Ruby. Hint ergedanken. The thought behind the thought. The dream one can never quite recall. The irr-uption of the id. The space between the spaces. The hypnogogic reverie of the Mauve Zone. The LAM called Lux. In the world of the mundane, Hintergedanken may manifest as "merely" the latest in a long .. line of cosmic supergroups reaching from the Cosmic Jokers through German Oak to the Emeralds of today. To the inititated ear, however, an entirely different picture presents itself. Hintergedanken: the land of the living atavistic dream. The house of the risen Osiris, concealing within himself the Double Current of the new Aeon. Turn off your cellphone, mellow out and float downwind with these veritable oarsmen of the boat of Ra, the demi-mythic "Black Ark" spoken of by the ancients. Hintergedanken:gezuntite. Hintergedanken being another manifestation of praeternatural entities enthralling Karen Eliot and Clay Ruby (( with the invaluable assistance of Dan Woodman, Tony Endless, Michelle Kunz, Nico Kain, Azrael, Nic Stage, Billy Lee, Theresa Behnen, db Pedersen, Jeremy Evans )) Their message for the faithful takes the form of an infinitely cosmic beast, much in the vein of '60's private press killers such as Yahowa 13 and Frolk Haven. Hintergedanken spews non-local quantum froth from the far realms of Zothyria, which blows over the quivering cadavers of their sacred zombie prostitutes used in the eeire twilit rituals of the forbidden bongload. You might want to check this out. If you can survive the coming...tranformations... Aum. Ha.



WREATHES | THE REIGNS | 7" | Bathetic Records
Limited to 300 copies. Perennialist pop unit Wreathes unleashes their epic debut single "The Reigns" b/w "Full Turn". This daring 7" is the triumph of Wisconsin duo Nathaniel Ritter and Troy Schafer, who started their dark music intimacy within a preceding band, the well-beloved Kinit Her, and have since been involved with a slew of other projects including Burial Hex, The World On Higher Downs, Rain Drinkers, Compass Hour, Circulation of Light, and The Second Family Band. For many years, people were captivated as Kinit Her progressed from flurries of primitive forest hymns to billowing gusts of advanced musical ceremony. Now Wreathes climbs to a higher level within this same architecture. In fact, this easily could be their most elegant and profound working to date. Wreathes continue to work with precious acoustic instruments, subtle electronic manipulations, and a deep spiritual longing to create their unique style of haunted folk music. Witness these dark masters harness their personal demons and exploit their supernatural earnings in a maelstrom of percussion, catchy guitar hooks, dreamy horn arrangements, and the commanding presence of their voices ever-locked in the soaring harmonies of arcanum. Wreathes is born!



TAIGHEIRM | 3" Cd-R | Shifting Sands Congregation
Ltd. 50 Copies. Ian Adcock of The Second Family Band and the mysterious Javier Krassen join forces on this live recording at the Bornless Sanctuary in Madison, WI. Dark atmospheres abound. This is the innagural release from Shifting Sands Congregation - a new label centered around the Madison, WI improvisational scene.

"Lachlain answered that he would not cease till he had finished his work if all the devils in hell came. At the end of the fourth day, there sat on the end of the beam in the roof of the barn a black cat with fire—flaming eyes, and there was heard a terrific howl quite across the straits of Mull into Mowen."
Sample here: soundcloud.com/shiftingsandscongregation


JOURNEY TO IXTLAN | MIRAGE | CD-R | Desert Lotus
We are proud to present a re-issue series featuring the complete catalog of the DESERT LOTUS label. Epic and strange works of funereal desert rock mixing with psychedelic animism, originally released on private edition cassettes, now available re-mastered on CD-R for all. From the scene revolving around "New Age Desert Doom" band JOURNEY TO IXTLAN, the Desert Lotus label captured the sound of these isolated creeps doing music for themselves, their friends and their spirit guides, while attempting to reach sun-baked nirvana in the true cult of California. Each all-black CD-R is ltd to 200 copies, and is presented in a petal-opening envelope - stamped with the Desert Lotus imprint.
Journey to Ixtlan start off the series with their finest compostion, "Mirage". The document of this musical working has a holy place in the history of the Desert Lotus scene, it being their sonic manifesto and their first attempt at recording their group musical workings. Based on a simple hypnotic rhythm, enveloping guitar riffs, deep vocals uttering solar evocations, and a mesmerizing flute played through cloud banks of reverb, "Mirage" fits somewhere between The Cure's Carnage Visors soundtrack and a melted Southwestern new age cassette. - Desert Lotus / Journey to Ixtlan Family
Samples here: http://soundcloud.com/solar-urn


HESPERIA | CD-R | Desert Lotus
Hesperia is the solo outing from the lead guitarist of Journey to Ixtlan. Hesperia has a heavy late night highway feeling, minimalist electric guitar compositions based around extremely repetitive riffs. All you can hear is one guitar-slinger's sorrowful trance, and the lonesome high atmosphere of his expanding desert surroundings, slowly pulsing just above the cyclical din of a dark, psychedelic blues. Recorded in a desperate fit of inspiration, just after the sudden death of a close friend to the family, Hesperia was the first Desert Lotus tape to be circulated throughout community. - Desert Lotus / Journey to Ixtlan Family
Samples here: http://soundcloud.com/solar-urn


DR. ECKASHA AAH AHALAA | CD-R | Desert Lotus
Little is truly known about the good Doctor but, over the years, we have gathered some interesting clues about him. He seems like the oldest brother to be actively involved with the musical aspect of the community. He seems to be the only member of Journey to Ixtlan that is also on the Desert Lotus Council of the Twin Creator, an inner order which handles most of the spiritual operations and social direction of the group. He seems to be the only member of Journey to Ixtlan to have any real recording equipment or internet access. In the past, he was actively involved in marijuana law reform and has participated in university-level research in the field of Etheogenic Botany. He is known by many names, such as: Kash, Lost White Brother, E Prime, Ahalaa Ahalaa, Coyote, Poppy, Warlock Doctor of the Wastelands and Moon Maiden of the Hi Desert Star. Within Journey to Ixtlan, he seem to be the lead vocalist and keyboard player creating dense layers of otherworldly atmospheres of analog synth and guttural chanting. As a spiritual leader within the scene, the Doctor uses this music to open the doorways between this world and the Desert Lotus dimensions of totemic spiritualism. - Desert Lotus / Journey to Ixtlan Family
Samples here: http://soundcloud.com/solar-urn


OCOTILLO | CD-R | Desert Lotus
This ensemble started as a rebellious joke and ended with the creation of a whole new dark form of high desert magic, as well as this incredible album. Of all the "shamanic" or star-eyed mystic types that came and went throughout the existence of Desert Lotus, Ocotillo, a self-described "qliphothic cactus cult", were working with a much more sinister style of sorcery than anyone else within the community. In response to transcendent feeling of the Journey to Ixtlan album, Ocotillo soon held their own fraternal gathering to create and record their own musical rites and what results is this beautiful album of dark folkish meditations that sonically interpret the twisted astral pathways unlocked and navigated by these spiritual mavericks alone.- Desert Lotus / Journey to Ixtlan Family
Samples here: http://soundcloud.com/solar-urn