03.28.11
‡ Now available! - Milo Fine's
album "SOUND CARVINGS (ONGOING CELEBRATIONS OF INSIGNIFICANCE)" is finally available! This record was recorded live at the Heliotrope music festival. Here Mr. Fine performs using electric piano, electronics, voice and acme whistle. more...
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10.25.10
‡ Now available! - Thunderbolt Pagoda's
second full-length album "Second Ascension" is now available! This album
is released in conjunction with New
Ruins Recordings and it is also available here. more...
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02.09.09
‡ Now available! - a reissue of the
first album by Japanese underground legends Overhang Party! This incredible,
rare (200 original copies) record is finally available again. more...
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05.23.08
‡ Available now - the first album
by Thunderbolt Pagoda! Former members of Salamander, Skye Klad, the Pins
and Salubrious Invertebrae team up to create a modern kraut/space-rock album.
more...
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04.21.07
‡ New Release! Michael Yonkers With
The Blind Shake "Live at Heliotrope 3" CD-R. Killer live set from this awesome
matchup. CD-R "Silver Series" release, limited to 200 copies with hand screen-printed
covers and CDs. more...
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01.09.05
‡ Paul Metzger's Solo LP has been
voted as the top vinyl release of 2005 by Neddal Ayad at Foxy
Digitalis
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01.09.05
‡ The catalog page has been updated.
We are now using PayPal for secure credit card transactions.
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12.18.04
‡ The
Paul Metzger LP has been voted to be one of the top 10 local releases
by City
Pages.
The review:
TVBC frontman Paul Metzger spent much of the '90s and early '00s in top-secret
project mode, designing the heavily modified string instruments that first
engorged local psych-folk lovers' sensoria when he began playing solo shows
in 2003. Metzger's weapon of choice for this album's inspired pair of nameless
improvisations is fretless acoustic guitar, fitted, sitarlike, with sympathetic
drone strings. Track one, by turns meditative and ecstatic, extends his
trio's raga-rock rhizomes simultaneously toward Mecca and the moon. Metzger
dons his difficult-music hat for the album's closer, a harrowing succession
of hairpin turns and abrupt halts that ends with a boldly stated question
mark. --Rod Smith
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09.9.04
‡ Now available! Paul
Metzger's debut solo LP! Guitarist for Minneapolis' legendary band TVBC,
Paul Metzger has been burning up electric ragas for years. He has also been
spending years at home building and modifying his own instruments and composing
solo pieces. Recently he has been coaxed into some very well received live
shows, which have inspired him to bring some of these compositions to the
world. This LP is composed of two side-long pieces played on Metzger's modified
fretless acoustic guitar, which has had additional drone strings added.
This will be a limited-edition 180 gram LP with a hand-printed covers, each
unique and printed by the man himself. Available now! Paul's
website
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09.09.04
‡ New Sean
Connaughty "Five Hands Tall" CD now available! Salamander/Vortex
Navigation Company singer/guitar player Connaughty
has created a stunning acoustic record, recording at home onto a four-track.
All the songs are improvised, with all the lyrics made up on the spot. More
Info
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07.19.04
‡ The Di
Dollari CD is now available! Prairie pickin' spagetti western grooves
with a side of raunch indie rock.
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