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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 |
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![]() CQBL030 | SANGRE DE MUERDAGO | C40
| ![]() MYST006 | RAIN DRINKERS | YESODIC HELICES | LP
| ![]() CQBL028 | URNA | LARVAE | C40
| ![]() CQBL027 | BALDRUIN | NACHFALTER | C30
| ![]() CQBL026 | LIGHTNING PATH | ASPIRE-{2}-YUGGOTH | C49
| ![]() CQBL025 | EMME YA | EROTOGNOSIS (VOICES FROM THE VOID) | C40
| ![]() MYST005 | PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS | AOXOMOXOA | LP
| ![]() MYST004 | HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE | DEAD SONS | 45 RPM 12"
| ![]() MYST003 | BURIAL HEX | BOOK OF DELUSIONS | LP 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.
| ![]() MYST003 | BURIAL HEX | BOOK OF DELUSIONS REMIXES | CD
| ![]() 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.
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[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.
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![]() 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.
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[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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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." |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |