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/\ ()-()-()-()/ \()-()-()-() () () <( Aquarius Records )> <() ) New Arrivals #87 ( ()> <( March 16, 2000 )> () () ()-()-()-()\ /()-()-()-() \/ Aquarius is proud to welcome --Mouse on Mars-- who are coming to San Francisco for the second time ever. Remember when they opened for Stereolab a few years ago? Amazing amazing set. We're sponsoring their show on April 20 at the Great American Music Hall and will be giving away 2 pairs of tickets. You must come into the store to enter. The winning entries will be drawn at ramdom on April 13. Our own Andee is looking for a kind web-savvy person to assist him in designing the tUMULt website (mp3/flash/e-com). tUMULt has released the Souled American reissues and the Noisegate and is preparing to release new albums from Weakling, Circle, Iran, Hatewave, The Court and Spark, Harvey Milk, Thuja, Reeks in the Wrecks, a new Noisegate, Esoteric and more. Very exciting. He can't pay in cash but is more than willing to work something out. Please get in touch with Andee here or via his own email address: andee@tUMULt.net. There's a little interview with Windy here: http://www.powerstudents.com/jobs/job_dayinlife/000305_aquarius.shtml ----* ----* Records of the Week : ----* MILK CULT "Project M-13" (0 To 1) cd 13.98 Wow -- one of the rare AQ Unanimous Staff Favorites. Ex-members of ye olde local band Steelpole Bathtub have put together this AMAZING Milk Cult record. Sounding nothing like Steelpole whatsoever, this is an experimental melange of dance, rock, and lounge music that's so f***ing accessible and so kickass serious fun that we sell a copy almost every time we play this in the store. It features everything from throaty French singers to earth-trembling bass to random noises and disco, plus lovely wailing guitar soloes, exotica, bird calls, you name it. The recipients of a French arts grant, Milk Cult spent a month recording "traditional Corsican singers; Buddhist chanters; Algerian folk improvisors; French folkies; industrial noisicians; rockers; jazzbos; hip hop artists; spoken word artists; electronics experimenters; a thirty-piece African orchestra; a Conch player; all of whom played along with backing tracks prepared by Milk Cult but never with each other..." The entire thing is put together so well it is seamless, and we think you will love it. Highest recommendations for a record that really shouldn't be overlooked. DIRTY THREE "Whatever You Love, You Are" (Touch and Go) cd/lp 14.98/10.98 Dirty Three's fifth album is a masterpiece of instrumental melancholia. Quiet percussion and layers of evocative guitar are overlayed by the most emotional violin parts ever. Much of this album's brilliance is due to what our ears discern as the first time the band has overdubbed distinctly different violin melodies over each other. Although they've obviously overdubbed tracks before, it was mostly similar melodies meant to fill out the sound (perhaps they were worried about being able to do it live). This time, the delicately plucked and bowed violin parts weave in and around each other to deliriously lovely effect. One of their best albums. Highly recommended. ----* ----* Selected New Arrivals : ----* A.M.P. STUDIO "Unconscious Country" (Fourth Dimension) cd 16.98 The second solo album from Richard Walker of Amp features two lengthy tracks of atmospheric space-rock that venture into hazy electronic noodling with metronomic downtempo techno pulses and Roy Montgomery like improv-guitar solos. AEOLIAN STRING ENSEMBLE "s/t" (Robot) cd 15.98 The Aeolian String Ensemble is the work of David Kenny, whose resume includes Nurse With Wound and Current 93 (mostly as an engineer). The Aeolian Strings (aka wind harps) are coaxed to produce two rather lengthy pieces of immersive drones which bring together the rich textual dynamism of Organum's bowed cymbals and Maeror Tri / Troum's propensity for hazy melancholia. A beautifully dark album. ALIO DIE & ORA "The Door Of Possibilities" (Hic Sunt Leones) cd 16.98 Utilizing the same sort of packaging (dessicated leaves, twigs, and lichen encased between the jewel case and the tray) and exploring similar sounds as AQ fave l. chasse, this collaboration between Alio Die and Ora (here Andrew Chalk and Darren Tate) is a beautiful shimmering synthesis of dark ambience and organic droning. Recommended as with all of the Andrew Chalk releases we have heard to date! THE ANOMOANON "Songs From Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden Of Verses" (Palace) cd 14.98 Ned Oldham (Will's bro) sets quaint children's poetry by R.L. Stevenson to music, with the help of, among others, Aram Stith, Will Oldham, Paul Oldham, and Dave Pajo. No, Long John Silver does not make an appearance, but poems like "Land of Nod" and "Fairy Bread" are delightfully rendered in musical form. For ages 3 to 30, and up... ARCANE DEVICE "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Staalplaat) cd 16.98 On all twelve Arcane Device recordings, David Myers (who is AD) utilised an assortment of home-made feedback generator machines, that in lesser hands would have resulted in head-rattling noise. While much noise *was* generated, on "Also Sprach Zarathurstra" these machines create soft extended pulses of analog electricity and rich textural warmth that emerge from a black claustrophobic aural space and are processed in breathtaking fashion. Myers is certainly one of the most under-rated dronologists, deserving the same critical praise as Mika Vainio and John Duncan. A glorious reissue. ASANO, KOJI "Preparing For April" (Solstice) cd 14.98 Composer/multi-instrumentalist/improviser Koji Asano's 13th self-released cd is here! A beautiful yet strange, oddly recorded disc of solo piano meditations, 67 minutes spread over six tracks. The ambient background his/hum is at times as much part of the soundscape as is Asano's piano playing (not unlike one of his three earlier piano discs, the lovely "You Cannot Open The Door Because It Is Already Open", which was recorded in an abandoned castle near St. Petersburg which provides plenty of echoey atmosphere). This one, though, was recorded in Asano's new home of Barcelona, Spain, and the atmosphere probably comes from the monaural micro-cassette recorder used for the recording! With a nice cover photo as always, a desolate desert landscape/sky with hopeful saplings sprouting inside protective cages. BANGOURA, ABDULAI "Sigiri" (Avant) cd 21.00 1990 field recordings of master percussionist, balafon & kalimba player Abdulai Bangoura of Guinea. A follow-up to Avant's earlier "Drums of Death" disc. BELLE & SEBASTIAN "Lazy Line Painter Jane" (Matador) 3cd 15.98 No, that's not a typo. We, um, lucky Americans can now get all three previously import-only 1997 cdeps from these Scottish wimp-pop phemoms for the low, low, low price of $15.98! "Lazy Line Painter Jane," "Dog On Wheels," and "3..6..9 Seconds of Light", twelve tracks total. Even though they could have all fit on one disc, Matador decided to leave them as three individual jewel-cased cds packaged together in a cardboard slip cover. BLECTUM FROM BLECHDOM "Snauses And Mallards" (Musork) 12" 5.98 The second release from Kit Clayton's Orthlorng Musork label is from Blectum From Blechdom - the work of two local technicians showcasing their electronic output from the Mills College conservatory. This eight track 12", while playful and childlike, has a distinctly creepy and maniacal element, sort of like the sounds of scary funhouse at an evil carnival. Or something. It's full of dense sample mutilation, constructed into spasmodic yet anthemic rhythmic complexities. The music hints at both '80s electro and at early computer music with all of its nerdy whimsy & tinniness. Quality stuff for, say, fans of Matmos' textured 'organica' (to use Hrvatski's term for it). BOB TILTON "Leading Hotels Of The World" (Southern) cd 13.98 Lots of people have been talking about this fiesty British quintet for a while, and it's easy to see why. They have a unique take on the indie math rock thing, with some great melodies, weird arrangements, and with the youthful vigor of Repeater era Fugazi. BOREDOMS "Vision Creation Newsun" (WEA Japan) cd 33.00 It's still an expensive Japanese import, but not as expensive as the double cd boxed version we used to have. This, the new Boredoms album, is a worthy follow-up to their amazing, universally-lauded "Super Ae" disc, venturing even further into (to some, dangerously hippie) trance realms. Handsomely housed in a miniature gatefold LP-sleeve. This is to be released, in different packaging, by Birdman in the US at some unknown future date... BOREDOMS "Vision Creation Newsun EP" (WEA Japan) cd 22.00 Not to be confused with their new album of the same name, this ep takes the title track from that disc and adds a remix by Moochy (?) of "Mooncidal Sendencies" as well as lengthy (24 minutes) live track by what appears to be Boredoms variant called the "Uoredoms". Yeah, I'm confused too. But all anyone needs to know is that all three tracks are great, the live one especially: massive, spacey, LOUD. (FYI it's NOT the same as the live track found on the bonus disc that came in the boxed verison of the new album, and in fact, it's better.) Over 43 minutes total, not bad for an "ep", or at least ok for a $22 one. BRIGHT EYES "Every Day And Every Night" (Saddle Creek) cd 8.98 Indeed, a band on seemingly everyone's lips around these parts lately. This is an impressive ep from indie folk Bright Eyes. Five songs of urgent, warbling emotions pushed to the brink of manic/depressive outbursts. Not unlike a meeting of minds between Neutral Milk Hotel and Jandek. BYRDS, THE "Live At The Fillmore, February 1969" (Columbia) cd 16.98 Previously unreleased live concert recording from '69, with Roger McGuinn/Clarence White/John York/Gene Parsons lineup. Sixteen tracks. BYRDS, THE "(Untitled)/(Unissued)" (Columbia) 2cd 25.00 What was once a 1970 double LP set of live and studio material is now a double cd, with the original "(Untitled)" now accompanied by an extra disc of previously unissued tracks. The lineup: Roger McGuinn, Skip Battin, Clarence White, and Gene Parsons. Worth it alone for the jammed-out sixteen-minute (a whole side of the original vinyl) version of "Eight Miles High." And with all the other stuff here, this is a great place to start with The Byrds as well as an essential item for longtime fans! CALIFONE "Chicago" (Road Cone) cd 10.98 This may in fact be another eponymous release from Califone and not titled "Chicago" inspite of that word's prominent position on the front cover. Anyway, this five track cdep is the second release from Red Red Meat's Tim Rutilili of front-porch acoustic slow-mo bluegrass melodicism spiced up with studio experimentation not unlike Loftus or even Souled American. CAMPILONGO, JIM & THE 10 GALLON CATS "Heavy" (Blue Hen) cd 15.98 More fab western swing sounds from local guitar hero Campilongo and his band, also starring Joe Goldmark on pedal steel. Together Jim & Joe conjure the spirits of Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West. Adventurous, snappily dressed, fun stuff. Includes a cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" (alongside originals like "Mozart Woulda Played A Tele"). CHALK, ANDREW "Crescent" (Robot) cd 16.98 Andrew Chalk's haunting drones (from his work with Organum and Jonathan Coleclough) have become favorites here at Aquarius. And this collection of his earliest recordings from the late '80s is no exception. The influence that Brian Eno's ambient work had upon Chalk becomes apparent with the emergence of a few fragile arrangements for piano and decidedly synthetic spacey keyboard sounds. But even at this stage in Chalk's development, his talent at constructing textural collages of bowed metal and hazy tonal reverberations is as solid here as on his recent recordings. This disc includes contributions from David Jackman (Organum) on one track and a remix from Christoph Heemann. Highly recommended. CRYPTOPSY "None So Vile" (Displeased Records) cd 14.98 Finally reissued, the much sought-after second album from these over-the-top Canadian death metal merchants. Fans of the super intense, jawdroppingly technical brutality found on their popular "Whisper Supremacy" album will need to get this previous, equally insane effort! Featuring original vocalist Lord Worm, by the way... DAMAD "Burning Cold" (Prank) cd/lp 10.98/8.98 Second album from this Southern crust and doom metal outfit. Huge and droning and hypnotic and heavy and pretty weird, with a female vocalist that adds some surprising warmth and depth to the usually all too typical cookie monster metal vocals. Wicked cover art by Pushead (Metallica, Aerosmith, Septic Death, etc.) DJ FOOD "A Dub Plate of Food" (Ninja Tune) cd/2x10" 9.98/11.98 It's been a longtime since we've heard from DJ Food, and the funkjaztikally tricknological lingusitics of DJ Food have certainly been missed. Working on one track with the seductive baritone spoken word of Ken "Colors" Nordine, DJ Food lays down four tracks of slippery noirish trip hop that would make Barry Adamson proud. DWARVES "The Dwarves Come Clean" (Epitaph) cd 13.98 Blag, He Who, and the gang are back and on Epitaph. And, it's no joke, these bad boys are now fully year-2000 compliant, incorporating electronica & big beat sounds into their pop-punk blast. (Poppier punk than before, too. They're working all the angles it seems.) And it works. Surprisingly good for a band who we thought peaked years ago. However, this record may disappoint diehard Dwarves fans, no tooling for warm teabags on this one, although plenty of cocaine and sex with 14 year old girls. FANFARE CIOCARLIA "Baro Biao: World Wide Wedding" (Piranha) cd 16.98 Super intense, wild Gypsy wedding music from this 12-piece Romanian band. Lots of crazy dancing potential here. FLUORESCENTS "Exposure" (Boori) cd 8.98 The Israeli band The Flourescents delve into retrogarde indie theatricality with a bombastic vocal delivery like Peter Murphy, with multiple attack fuzz guitars playing a Make Up style glam-rock revival. FLYING LUTTENBACHERS "...The Truth Is A Fucking Lie..." (Skin Graft) cd 14.98 The notorious Weasel Walter and co. return with their seventh album of Chicago death-jazz spazz. This album features two almost diameterically opposed covers: "De Futura" by French prog giants Magma and "Black Perversion" by sub-cult black metal band Havohej, both fitting in nicely along with the Flying Luttenbachers' usual skree. Instrumentation on this disc includes mellotron, cello (played by Fred Lonberg-Holm) and 'abyssic guitar', in addition to the more ordindary drums, bass, saxophone, etc. FRISELL, BILL "Ghost Town" (Nonesuch) cd 16.98 A truly solo album from stellar guitarist Frisell (he plays electric & acoustic guitars as well as as banjo, loops and bass). The material here ranges from Frisell's own compositions to pieces by John McLaughlin, Hank Williams, and the Gershwins. Very pretty, liquid, and appropriately-lonely sounding stuff. GAYLE, CHARLES "Ancient Of Days" (Knitting Factory Works) cd 15.98 NYC free-jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle's latest. As always, intense, spiritual stuff. GIANT SAND "Chore of Enchantment" (Thrill Jockey) cd 14.98 Fifteen new songs from the pen of Howe Gelb (and one by the late Rainer Ptacek, to whom this album is dedicated) make up this, the newest full length from Giant Sand. Yet another band whom we've not heard from in quite a while. Oh certainly, there's been a veritable plethora of side projects and solo efforts from John Convertino, Joey Burns, and Mr. Gelb, but y'know it's just not the same. The fine tracks here were recorded in three cities - Tucson, Memphis and New York - with a giant list of guests, instruments and toys. Produced by Howe Gelb, Kevin Salem, Jim Dickinson, and John Parish. GOATSNAKE "Dog Days" (Southern Lord) cd 11.98 LA stoner/doom metal with former members of Wool, Scream, Engine Kid, The Obsessed... Well, whatever, is it any good? Well, there's a great, devastating song called "Raw Curtains" which, however, is also found on their recent split cd release with Burning Witch. And then they do a cover of Free's "Heartbreaker" that maybe wasn't such a good idea, although they do it well. Fans should dig this, though, as long as they don't mind getting "Raw Curtains" twice... GUIDED BY VOICES "Hold On Hope EP" (TVT) cdep 10.98 Limited edition 9-track cd single with one song from their recent "Do The Collapse" album and 8 others not found there! HIGH ON FIRE "The Art of Self Defense" (Man's Ruin) cd 12.98 The Bay Area's slowest, heaviest, potsmokin'est doom metal combo Sleep (RIP) lives on in the form of ex-Sleep guitarist/vocalist Matt's new band High On Fire. Sleep's last album, the infamous "Jerusalem", consisted of but one, super-long super-slow track. High On Fire speeds things up a bit (only a bit) but maintains the heaviness and the trademark Sleep sound. Right on. HORVITZ, WAYNE & ZONY MASH "Upper Egypt" (Knitting Factory Records) cd 15.98 Avant-jazz keyboardist Horvitz (best known for his role in John Zorn's Naked City) and his Seattle-based band Zony Mash return with this new disc, dedicated in part to Pharoah Sanders, whose "Upper Egypt" is performed here, hence the title. Zony Mash is a tight and funky quartet, fitting for a band named after a Meters tune. THE IMP #3 (Chris Ware issue) newspaper 4.00 By constructing The Imp in the style of each profiled comics author, Daniel K. Raeburn's publication pays tribute in the most loving fashion. For example, the Chris Ware issue is called The Smartest Cartoonist on Earth, a variation on Ware's own Acme Novelty Library, the main story of which chronicles the weird inner life of Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth. (We always try to carry issues of Acme Novelty Library, so ask if you're interested -- they're amazing.) Fully in keeping with Ware's oldfashioned style, The Imp #3 is a fold out 20 page newspaper printed on sturdy, cream colored paper. Features extremely lengthy interview with Ware, lots and lots of drawings and comics, much analysis of Acme's content and themes, and a full color insert with comics ABOUT Ware by such fans as Archer Prewitt, Terry Laban, and Jessica Abel. Such a beautiful object! THE IMP #2 (Jack Chick issue) comic book 5.00 Daniel K. Raeburn constructs each issue of The Imp in the style of its profiled comics author. Thus far there are issues devoted to Dan Clowes (Eightball), Chris Ware (Acme novelty Library), and now Jack Chick. Haw haw haw! The Jack Chick issue looks just like a slightly larger version of the Chick tracts, those little pro-Jesus comic books you see everywhere. At over four hundred million of them sold to date, they're worth examining... As The Imp points out on page 1: "People who dismiss hate literature offhand are going to miss the point of this tribute to Chick, which is that hate literature reveals not only its own corruption but the sick society that hatched it. ... Like the Protestant zealots who colonized and raped this country, Chick tracts and the violence in them are as American as apple pie." Comes with a 30-page dictionary of the world according to Chick, and an account of an intense 'interview' with the reclusive author. Super cool. IMPALED "The Dead Shall Dead Remain" (Death Vomit Records/Necropolis) cd 14.98 The Bay Area's finest...shit-metal band? Their brethren Exhumed had cover art featuring bloody butchery in the kitchen, now Impaled (with ex-Exhumed guys) come along with even more disgusting cover art illustrating gory toilet follies. What's next, carnage in the rec room? Or the den? Anyway, Impaled play fast, fierce death-grind with titles like "Immaculate Defecation" and "Faecal Rites". IMPERATOR "Evolution of a Man" (By Any Means Music) cd 13.98 Imperator is a Los Angeles (via New York) underground hip hop specialist and freestyle lyricist blending East and West Coast styles of abstract often jazzy hip hop. Tons of guests appear from members of Jurassic Five, Freestyle Fellowship, Cipher 7, and Project Blowed. IN EXTREMO "Verehrt Und Angespien" (Metal Blade) cd 16.98 Germany's In Extremo strikes again, bringing their unique medieval fire-breathing, costume-wearing, bagpipe-wielding folk-metal into our racks (and maybe your home), like a crazed cross between Rammstein, Comus, and Accept. Whoops, I may have just insured that no one will ever buy this record...but it's really pretty great, as was their debut. Electric guitar riffs borrowed from Sabbath meet flutes and lutes and Latin lyrics declaimed in a peculiar Popeye voice. And then they do a Sisters of Mercy cover to make it all even more ridiculous! JANDEK "Later On" (Corwood Industries) cd 8.98 The isolationist. The neurotic. The one. The only. Jandek. In what may be a response to the queries about the status of his earliest work (which has been out of print for almost two decades), this hermetic Texan has now been re-issuing these records. "Later On" is his second album of lithium-soaked folk; a pseudo-jangle on the guitar barely carrying a tuneand daydreaming poetry crooned with a creepier voice-crack than Will Oldham could ever conjur. The mysteries of Jandek, personal and musical, may never be fully revealed, but his peculiar genius is highly recommended none the less. JAPANCAKES "s/t" (Kindercore) cd 11.98 Instrumental twee metronome pop with lots of squiggly analogue synths and that constant quick paced guitar strum that harkens back to the earliest Stereolab recordings. KENNY PROCESS TEAM "94 - 97" (Bingo) cd 13.98 Released on Sasha Frere-Jones' (Ui) label, this album from the Kennt Process Team collects a bunch of work from 94 - 97 including an out-of-print Hemiola album. Whimisical post-rock for guitar, bass, and drums tries to replicate a Capt. Beefheart Trout Mask with punkish Firehose-esque complex stumbles. KRISIUN "Conquerors Of Armageddon" (Century Media) cd 14.98 Brazilian death metal madmen Krisiun return with their first domestic release (fourth album overall). Those who saw them play here on their last tour tell me that Krisiun are perhaps the fastest and most insane death metal band ever. Certainly they take the instrumental portion of the death metal experience to the extreme that all bands in the genre really should aspire to; it's like they're the Nitro of death metal (Nitro being the uber-epitome of LA glam glass-breaking screamin', hyperspeed guitar soloin' hair metal who were so laughable yet so amazing that even today they have a cult following). Fans of the baroque brutality and sinister speed of Morbid Angel (whose guitarist Eric Rutan produced this rippin' disc) must hear Krisiun! LIVE HUMAN "Monostereosis: The New Victrola Method" (Hip Hop Slam) cd/2lp 14.98/17.98 These popular local artists' album was previously only available as an import, now finally it's available as a domestic release! What we had to say about the import still applies: San Franciscans Kushin, Mathias, and Quest (DJ that is) come up with a kick ass 'new jazz'/turntablism/hip hop hybrid for their debut album. A couple of the tracks from their previous singles on Fat Cat pop up on the album which is loaded with wykked scratching, sikk beats, and phhat bass. Excellent! LOPEZ, FRANCISCO "Temizlemek" (Linea Alternativa) 2cd 22.00 In answer to the first question... yes, you can hear this Lopez record. When the often inaudible Francisco Lopez gets audible, the results are some of more interesting manipulations of field recordings (along with L. Chasse, John Hudak, and Giancarlo Toniutti). And this double cd may be the best work that we have encountered. Slow burning drones layered from undefined yet organic source material lull beautifully within all of the disperate textures. Recommended. LOPEZ, FRANCISCO "La Selva" (V2 Archief) cd 17.98 Documenting the environmental sounds of a Costa Rican rainforest, Portuguese composer / ethnomusicologist Francisco Lopez has composed this continuous collage weaving the multitude of sounds from the forest: frogs, birds, rain, watrerfalls. The true feat of this album is the liner notes which features a lengthy taxonomy of the almost all of the species causing these sounds (i.e. at 29'09" there's the croak of Debdrobates pumulio - the Strawberry Dart-poison frog). MAFFEO, LOIS AND BRENDAN CANTY "The Union Themes" (Kill Rock Stars) cd 12.98 "See me walking around like I own the whole place. Well, I do!" Yes, she's come a helluva long way since she first sang this refrain, but it still hold true. You may better know her as simply Lois. And who doesn't love lois? Adore her. She kicks ass. Queen of the k records / Olympia scene and beyond. Collaborator with many (to name a few: early on in the band Courtney Love with Yoyo records' Pat Maley, later with Calvin Johnson and Dub Narcotic, and here with Brendan Canty of Fugazi), and not one to shy away from something new. She's the whipsmart brain behind such wonderful tunes such as "Strumpet" (see lyrics above), "Davey"... Songs that spoke truths to and for indie girls (and boys) everywhere. Well listen up, she's got a new album out now on Kill Rock Stars. Warm guitar strumming and piano melodies. Soft moments with a touch of twang. And her sweet voice. MASTER'S APPRENTICES "Complete Recordings 1965 - 1968" (Ascension) cd 16.98 The Master's Apprentices are one of Australia's best (yet rarely heard) 60's psych / beat / garage groups not too far from early Kinks or The Count Five. This compilation has 23 tracks in total, taken from the original masters with some unreleased stuff. MEKONS "Journey To The End Of The Night" (Quarterstick) cd 14.98 The latest from critica faves/ underground heroes, the Mekons. More drunken and bedraggled indie rock twang, a kind of 'British Americana' with touches of '80s southern alt-rock (like "Green"-era R.E.M.). Nice. MEKONS "United" (Quarterstick) cd 14.98 Originally released as a companion piece to the Mekons' art book "United," this album features several reinterpretations of previously issued Mekons songs which had been sampled, mangled, and mashed into something new. MONKEYWRENCH, THE "Sugarman/The Pusher" (Estrus) 7" 3.99 No... it really can't be! But Yep, it gosh darn is. The Monkeywrench are back after a mule's age. Please don't ask me what a mule's age is. Just figure it's a pretty long time. you may better know The Monkeywrench as: Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner, Gas Huffer guitarist Tom Price, Martin Bland, and the infamous Tim Kerr. Many moons ago, these fine fellows released an awesome bourbon and reverb-drenched fiery full-length on SubPop. Join them today in the ol' saloon as they perform "Sugarman" by Jesus Rodriguez and Hoyt Axton's "The Pusher" as only they know how. The latter features that familiar raspy howl courtesy of Mr. Arm. Sigh, very cool. NO DEPRESSION "#26" magazine 3.95 Jimmie Dale Gilmore on the cover, plus Beachwood Sparks, Neko Case, Chris Cacavas, Camper van Beethoven, etc. NON-PHIXION "Black Helicopters" (Matador) 12" 4.98 Paranoid, def underground NYC hiphop from this crew newly signed to noted rap label Matador. Trax from their upcoming full-length debut "The Future Is Now". Totally aiming at the X-Files market with the black helicopters theme and the rad computer artwork, lettering and logo courtesy of Voivod's Away! O.S.T. "Live @ Static" (Phthalo) cd-r 12.98 This cd-r from the maverick Phthalo label showcases San Francisco's O.S.T. at his most punishing. Recorded live at the rotating if sporadic Static club, O.S.T.'s arsenal of distorto-Aphex-crunch beats smash against agressive melodic chords, all wrangled through his banks of effects. A very nasty piece of electronica. OLD MAN'S CHILD "Revelation 666: The Curse of Damnation" (Century Media) cd 15.98 Fourth album by evil-looking bald-headed Norwegian black metal dude Galder and his various creepy cohorts (no session musicians this time). Mid-tempo, keyboard-heavy melodic blackness in the standard vein. Pretty good, though, as all OMC releases have been, due to Galder's ability to come up with some excellent riffs. OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL "John Peel Session 18.3.97" (otc) cd 9.98 A semi-legit (well, the band is selling it on their website) bootleg of the Olivia Tremor Control's supreme psych-pop, recorded for a '97 Peel Session, mostly culled from the classic "Dusk At Cubist Castle" album, as well as two unreleased tracks and cuts from the fab "The Giant Day" 7". OTC/Elephant Six fans, commence drooling! We're pretty sure this is limited and we're unlikely to get any more when they run out, so, as we like to say, buy now or cry later... ORGUES-A-BOUCHES RITUELS DES MURUNG "s/t" (Inedit) cd 19.98 The Murung people are an isolated society from a densely forested region of Bangladesh. Just as their religion has remained a type of spirit worship, Murung's ritualist music has developed independently from the rest of the world. It is a hypnotic cyclical music which has preceeded the minimalism of Terry Riley and Steve Reich (but done much better!!!) by eons. The Murung perform their songs on 'plung' - mouth organs built of gourds punctured by bamboo and reeds resulting in eerie sustained trills. It may be an irrelavent point, but during these rituals, the Murung get pretty drunk on rice beer - yet remain calm, mirroring the methodic pulse of the ecstatic sounds emanating from their mouth organs. An excellent documentation. Anyone who enjoyed the compilation of music by the Ede people of Vietnam which was one of our 'records of the month' back in February should check this out too! PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE "Schlingen-Blangen" (New World) cd 15.98 NYC drone-pioneer Palestine takes us on a 71-minute trip of shimmering bliss, utilizing not his usual Bosendorfer piano but rather a baroque organ. First realized in 1979, recorded in 1988, and finally now released. "Schlingen-Blangen" is a sustained organ drone in which Palestine manipulates the timbre subtly throughout the piece. Very reminscent of the works of Palestine's contemporary La Monte Young. To be filed under "disembodied organ sonority"! PAUL NEWMAN "Machine Is Not Broken" (My Pal God) cd 12.98 After a couple of Trance Syndicate releases, Paul Newman (the band whose bassist's name is also Paul Newman) follows the humid instrumental post-rock done Texas style from Winsdor For The Derby or Bedhead. PAWNSHOP "Aloha From Saturn" (Beard of Stars) cd 14.98 Stoner/cock rock from Norway's Pawnshop whose religious icons are located under the hood of a '66 Ford 289 Mustang as well as in their pants. Required listening alongside Kyuss, Hellacopters, and Monster Magnet. PERSONA "Maximal" (Vinyl Communications) cd 12.98 Eric Cook, the drummer from Michigan noisemongers Gravitar, goes on an unlikely excursion into broken electronica rhythms not unlike Aphex Twin's "Digeridoo" with a slew of more traditional drum 'n' bass breaks, all crunched together with a white-hot electric distortion. Remixes courtesy of AQ-fave Lesser, the ubiquitous Kid 606, Warn DeFever, Totemplow, and Marumari. Excellent. QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE "Unreleased: Lost Gold & Silver" (Collector's Choice) 2cd 28.00 Hot dang! Two discs of vintage Frisco ballroom '60s psych from the influential QMS. Disc one comes live from '68, showcasing Quicksilver's advanced abilities at both playing and arranging. The lineup is the same as on their first two classic albums, the self-titled debut and "Happy Trails" (meaning, the acid guitar sound of John Cipollina is in full-effect). Excellent live audio quality too. The material ranges from blues to folk to hardrock, including versions of "Back Door Man," "Codine," "Smokestack Lightning," "Who Do You Love," etc. The second disc features rare demos and alternate, early versions of QMS classics, as well as stuff from a film soundtrack and a single release. RAPOON "What Do You Suppose?" (Staalplaat) cd 14.98 "What Do You Suppose?" is a conceptual departure from the curatorial duties of Rapoon's Robin Storey (ex-Zoviet France) whose previous releases have been anthropological collections of looping drones culled from fictional non-Western cultures. Sampling heavily from a symposium on the nature of alien lifeforms, Rapoon's previous ambiguity has been anchored heavily in conspiracy theory, but retains his musical expertise in delay happy percussive drones. RILEY, TERRY "Music For The Gift / Birds Of Paradise / Mescalin Mix" (Cortical) cd 16.98 This compiles four works from Terry Riley that are linked by their common usage of jazz passages, even as they deteriorate over the course of the disc. Beginning with "Music For The Gift" (1963), Riley works with Chet Baker for a pretty straight meditative jazz composition for Baker's warbly horn and a painterly stand-up bass. "Birds Of Paradise" (1965) is a tape-manipulation piece which loops seemingly random tape segments of jazz horns (perhaps from the Baker sessions???) with a phasing delay predating the work of Zoviet France. "The Mescalin Mix" is a murky Robert Ashley-esque collection of neurotic whispers. The finale of the disc is "Concert for Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders" which could easily be a No-Neck Blues Band 'pipe fight' ('pipe fight' being a utilitarian term we've come up with for field recordings that sound..well..like a pipe fight) with an odd play-by-play narration of the concert. An awesome collection of seminal recordings. THE ANANDA SHANKAR EXPERIENCE & STATE OF BENGAL "Walking On" (Real World) cd 16.98 Ananda Shankar (RIP) met up in '99 with British "Asian Underground" DJ State of Bengal for this sitar-funk-electronica session. Indeed an "illustrious cult figure in the secret history of pop culture", Shankar was famed for his East-meets-West psychedelic pop experiments decades ago, and this is a fun and fitting finale to his career. If you were into the "Untouchable Outcaste Beats" comp (which featured an old Shankar track alongside folks from the new Asian/UK DJ scene) and/or are a fan of the likes of Talvin Singh, you should check this out. SIAMESE TEMPLE BALL "Welcome to the Land of the Smile" cd 14.98 Not much information comes with this disk, on the shrink wrap there's a faux pidgen English descritption claiming: "Flight comes to Thailand in the Year of the Rat. Siamese Temple Ball provide the lilting soundtrack for a chemical journey. Schoolgirls dance bashfully for the expectant throng. Life continues at a comparatively slow pace away from the rigours of fierce sun-light." Which is followed by the (label's) description: "In the tradition of Sun City Girls, Ya Ho Wha 13, The Spacious Mind, Taj Mahal Travellers, Mu, Word of Life, Group 1850, and Ghost, Siamese Temple Ball give maximum pleasure for thirsty brains." Quite a roster of comparisons, the most fitting of which is definitely the Sun City Girls. So while we assume that this record was recorded by a group of precocious, dilatante, ethnomusicologist hipsters, we like to suspend our disbelief and imagine this to be a genuine Folkways-style field recording, as the recording certainly has a genuine field recording presence - a single stereo microphone in a good location. The music itself is a catchy and mesmerizing steady pulse of various sundry percussion instruments (metal, wood, skin), hollers, yelps, and rococo melodic lines spun out by tinny electric guitars, xylophones, flutes and Khan (mouth organ.) And yes, it's quite good. SILVER SCOOTER "Orleans Parish" (Peek-A-Boo) cd 13.98 Silver Scooter is a Texan trio whose best Smiths / James / late 80s Brit-pop interpolations within the context of Americana indie-rock makes us look much older than we really are. SOFT MACHINE "Noisette: Live 1970" (Cuneiform Records) cd 13.98 Elton Dean, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, and Lyn Dobson live 1970. Another fine entry in the seemingly never-ending series of archival recordings being dug up of this classic Canterbury rock-jazz act. STALATIKEN OCH MIRJAM "Angestmaskin" (Phthalo) cd 12.98 A band with a purposefully lengthy Nordic name on the outsider electronica label Phthalo is not going to make for the easiest of listens. Fortunately, this actually *is* a really good listen albiet difficult, in which Stalatiken Och Mirjam erratically sets squiggly electronic sequences of semi-Acid modulations in non-techno circumstances, adding fractured hip-hop anti-funk and piercing manipulations of surface noise. A truly experimental record that ends up falling somewhere between the mania of V/VM and the academic headiness from the Raster label. STOOGES, IGGY & THE "Double Danger" (Bomp!) 2cd 16.98 Two discs of "Raw Power"-era live Stooges, for everybody who can't get enough of "Metallic K.O."'s live chaos. Over a hundred minutes of what had to be 1973's punkest rock shows. Not a boot, this is part of the official Iguana Chronicles series on Bomp! Sound quality is about what you'd expect, but at least Iggy's between-song foul-mouthed banter comes through pretty clearly (as does the piano, which I've always guessed was the latter-day Stooges attempt at adding a Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls Of Fire" type of edge to their already dangerous sound). And Iggy's wit and wisdom combined with a noisy, fucked atmosphere is really what you're after, isn't it? THE STRANGER "s/t" (Phthalo) cdr 9.98 Affiliated with the Manchester electronica terrorist outfit V/VM (Jansky Noise has provided additional production on a few tracks), The Stranger has produced one of the best records to emerge from that school of circuit / brain frying. Released on the outsider West Coast label Phthalo, this cdr release (limited to 250) is an alchemic concoction of boiling and crashing swells of digitized drone and sporadic post-Autechre break-skitter. Recommended! SUMAC, YMA "The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection" (Capitol) cd 15.98 21 tracks of vintage Yma Sumac exotica, and we do mean exotica: monkeys, volcanos, and pagan rituals all figure into these songs, taken from classic albums like "Voice Of The Xtabay" and "Legend Of The Sun Virgin". This is a good starting place for anyone who has yet to explore the Technicolor work of this "Peruvian" singer and her lounge-y '50s sounds. Her four and a half octave voice will wow you, the liner notes are informative, and you get the "hits" here plus some unreleased tracks ("Inca Waltz" for one) as well. SUPER XX MAN "Vol. IV" (Peek-A-Boo) cd 13.98 Best known as the frontman of Silver Scooter, Scott Garred has turned to the new moniker of Super XX Man for this collection of touching, country-laced tales not far from the likes of Belle & Sebastian. SWANS "Filth / Body To Body, Job To Job" (Young God) 2cd 17.98 This double cd is a documentation of the very earliest abject thud-rock from the Swans. Along with the first full studio album, "Filth," this features a whole slew of early live material, with their bleak tape squeals accompanying their trademarked atavistic pummel. It should be noted that this is the third time "Filth" has been issued, and the second for "Body To Body," with 24 minutes of unreleased live material not found anywhere else. TIME'S UP "Obsolete" (Staalplaat) 3"cd 9.98 I'd be hard pressed to believe that Time's Up has nothing to do with Stock, Hausen, & Walkman, as the outfit replicates the ironic digital cut'n'paste ethos of SHW with surprising ease. This cute little three inch presents a rather nostalgic view of obsolescence in constructing a festive collage of electronic beats littered with samples of early arcade games, Commodore 64 muzak, and Atari bitmap music. "Obsolete" is the science fiction of youth having grown up with Pong, Tron, and Space Invaders. Totally great. TIMONY, MARY "Mountains" (Matador) cd 14.98 What can you expect from Mary Timony's first solo album? Well, from an initial look over the song titles and lyrics... more mystical tales of another time and place. Painted horses, poison moons, and golden fruit. Musically, many a bent note, deep rough strings, and those oh-so familiar vocals that sweeps from low, almost spoken phrases to prickly falsetto. Not surprisingly, this does sound quite like a Helium album, but here all music is performed by Ms Timony and Christina Files with guests John McEntire and Ash Bowie. As you might expect, the three tracks that Mr. McEntire plays on (especially the instrumental "An-Deluzion") end up sounding a bit like Tortoise and a bit out of place. TOSCA "Suzuki" (G Stone / Studio K7) cd 16.98 Richard Dorfmeister (as in Kruder & ...) joins Rupert Huber for his Tosca side project. Downtempo trip-hop anthems for fans of Air or the aforementioned Kruder & Dorfmeister. TREMBLING BLUE STARS "Broken By Whispers" (Sub Pop) cd 15.98 Aaah, could it be... the return of the shoegazer? Definite shades of early Stone Roses. A little twee and precious, but pretty, mellow, and easy-going with some lovely lush cello and a little bit of simultaneous English-French male-female vocalising to subtly spice things up. The first track absolutely destroys me, which may be due to me missing all this sort of stuff as a high school hessian. V/A "300% Dynamite" (Soul Jazz) cd 17.98 Truly dynamite! Yes, it's sooo very true. The third volume of this Soul Jazz Records series is exactly that from start to finish. An extensive array of sounds from Jamaica: ska, dancehall, soul, rocksteady, calypso, funk, and dub. It's all here. The 15 tracks here feature the likes of Prince Buster, Lee Perry, Augustus Pablo, Sister Nancy, Byron Lee, Jackie Mittoo, and more! We also have the first and second volumes ("100%" and "200%") in the series, also great (and also $17.98). V/A "Clicks & Cuts" (Mille Plateaux) 2cd 17.98 Following the awesome 'Modulations & Transformations' compilations, Mille Plateaux presents yet another veritable encyclopedia of electronica minimalism. A nice addendum to the 20' to 2000 series, 'Clicks & Cuts' features a handful of electronica technicians recontextualizing digital residue into a variety of melodic & rhythmic structures. While only a few of the tracks are exclusive to the compilation, it's still quite a handy collection. The artists include Wolfgang Voigt's All moniker, Thomas Brinkmann (recording under his dead sister's name and sampling Blixa Bargeld), Pan Sonic, Kit Clayton, Vladislav Delay, Goem, Pole, Panacea, Kid 606, Stillupsteypa, and more! V/A "Tool" (Microwave / Staalplaat) 7"/cd-r 8.98/14.98 By its name, this 7" of hyperminimalist techno locked grooves is meant for consistant hypnosis and turntablist manipulation. Acid laiden Pan Sonic style techno is provided by /Slo-Fi. Richard Chartier offers a variety of chlorine soaked loops of electronic clicks, low-end tonalities, and flanged squiggles. Interspaced with a few caustic scrapes, Goem's solid monophunktrax are mirror images of Mike Ink's structural techno. V/A "Wide Angles" (Blindside) cd 15.98 Fifteen exclusive tracks from the hip hop underground from Mos Def & Talib Kweli, Truth Enola & De La Soul, L Swift, Pharaohe Monch, Mr. Complex, J Live, Big Kwam, Invisible Mics, and more! V/A "Knitting On The Roof" (Knitting Factory Records/JAM) cd 15.98 Yes, it's "The Fiddler On The Roof" as interpreted by an interesting selection Knitting Factory friends. The Magnetic Fields do "If I Were A Rich Man," Negativland does "Tevye's Dream", The Residents do "Matchmaker"...you get the idea. Definitely a fun concept. (Although whether this has a deeper meaning in the context of the downtown nyc new Jewish music movement I don't know). Kf's michael dorf says "the inspiration for this project came from a combination of humor and commercialism." Other participants include David S. Ware, Uri Caine, Eugene Chadbourne, Elliott Sharp, Come, Hasidic New Wave, The New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, Naftule's Dream, Jill Sobule, and The Paradox Trio. V/A "In His Own Sweet Way: A Tribute To Dave Brubeck" (Avant) cd 21.00 Jazz legend Dave Brubeck gets the tribute treatment courtesy of John Zorn's Avant label, who have gathered together a bunch of the usual suspects to cover Brubeck's compositions. For me, the highlight is the Ruins' version of "Blue Rondo A La Turk", a piece tailor-made for their hyper, heavy, and humorous delivery, but we also hear from the likes of Bill Frisell, Uri Caine, Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, Eyvind Kang, Erik Friedlander, Anthony Coleman, and Medeski, Martin, & Wood among others. Quite enjoyable. WALL, JOHN "Fractuur" (Utterpsalm) cd 21.00 John Wall's "Fractuur" is a high density composition for digital fragments culled from both recordings and live improvisation meant for this work. Sampled sources include Evan Parker, John Zorn, Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, Disinformation, The Hafler Trio, Penderecki, Mauricio Kagel, David Toop, Stockhausen, Xenakis, and Luigi Nono among others. In addition, there's use of "live fragments" played on violin, double bass, bass clarinet, and cello. Not unlike an even more austere Oval deconstructing European jazz (i.e. ECM stuff). Beautifully packaged in a deluxe cloth-bound book. WOODFIRE "Sounds Of The Earth" (Oreade) cd 12.98 We've been stocking selected titles in this import nature sounds series (croaking frogs, dripping caves, singing whales) while ignoring the cheesier entries (wind chimes I, wind chimes II, evening birds, etc.). Here's another disc in series that makes the AQ-cut: 72 minutes of a crackling woodfire. As always, best if listened to at an unnaturally loud volume. "Warm your hands and thoughts to the woodfire sound on this album" is the suggestion, but we think this might also be a good purchase for black metal fans eager to sonically picture an authentic church burning (you'll have to imagine the cries of the priests though). Or, if you have two stereos, play this simultaneously with Oreade's "Deep Into The Earth" cave-sounds disc and simulate life as a prehistoric caveman. Roasting frogs is another, somewhat sicker possibility. Y "Pseudo Youth...Human Cesspool" (Sound Pollution) cd 10.98 Y's "Psuedo Youth...Human Cesspool" is a collection of hypersonic start/stop thrash heaviosity from this German outfit. Contains their "Ali Bomaye" lp, a couple of singles, and a few unreleased tracks, all now on cd for the first time. _______________________________________________________________________ SPOONBENDER CONTEST No, you don't have to bend spoons to win this one. To win the new I Am Spoonbender cd 'Teletwin', a button, and other goodies, all you hafta do is answer the following questions correctly, and we'll draw three of the correct entries at random on the last day of March. Email or walk-in entries will both be accepted. Good luck. 1. The name I Am Spoonbender references what pop culture icon? 2. What eighties pop classic was given a new title and new lyrics and covered on Spoonbender's 'Teletwin' three-sided 12"/cd ep? 3. What is counter-intuitive about I Am Spoonbender's logo? Bonus Question: 4. Name three crucial elements of "DANGERWEAR", the new dangerous fashion often sported by Spoonbender keyboardist Marc. Here's some of Jim's descriptions of I Am Sponbender: "For all of the plastic / new wave / This Heat sheen that Spoonbender applies to their songs, their structures may in fact be closer to Funkstorung's experiments with fracturing electronica by shifting rhythmic elements in and out of atmospheric moods." "Spoonbender disrupt and misinterpret the original signals of This Heat and Gary Numan into mutant grooves propelled by Dustin's post-Jaki Leibezeit percussion and Brian's prog bass angularity. On top of all of this rhythmic disruption, Cup's delicate synth melodies fall somewhere in between the tropes of early 80's new wave and Nurse With Wound's 'Soliloquy for Lilith'." "I Am Spoonbender replicate Human League-esque synths with a frantic bassline matching the complex punch of the snare fills. Sounds decompose into digital glitch manipulated organ drones which could easily have origins in the soundtrack to classic, freaky horror film "Carnival Of Souls"." ______________________________________________________________________ UPCOMING RELEASES ----> sometime, maybe soon, maybe not... Pauline Oliveros "Primordial Lift" on Table Of The Elements (w/ Tony Conrad and David Grubbs!) Ex-Girl "Big When Far, Small When Close" a cappella album! ----> March 21st Cat Power "The Covers Record" Console "Rocket In The Pocket" domestic issue on Matador Ice Cube "Vol. 2-Peace Disc" Panacea "Brasilia Achitettura vol. 4" on Caipirinha Pantera "Reinventing The Steel" Patti Smith "Gung Ho" Beachwood Sparks on Sub Pop The Reverend Horton Heat "Spend A Night In The Box" Dio "Magica" Fatboy Slim "Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook" on Hip-O Springheel Jack "Treader" domestic (includes "Sound of Music" ep) Mix Master Mike "Eye Uv The Cyclops" 12"/cdep on Asphodel Anti-pop Consortium "What Am I" 12"/cdep on 75 Ark Dean Roberts "And The Black Moths Play The Grand Cinema" DJ Cam "Presents The French Connection" ----> March 27th/28th Ink & Dagger "s/t" A Silver Mount Zion "He Has Left Us Alone..." lp/cd on Constellation (three members of God Speed You Black Emperor!) Do Make Say Think "Goodbye Enemy Airship..." lp/cd on Constellation Derek Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, & Calvin Weston "Mirakle" on Tzadik Fatboy Slim "On The Floor At The¡" Cracker "Garage d'Or" Air "Playground Love" 12"/cdep Gas "Pop" Cephalic Carnage "Exploiting Dysfunction" Incantation "Infernal Storm" Eternal Elysium "Spiritualized D" on Meteor City ----> also in March? Built To Spill "tba" Duran Duran "tba" Hermann Nitsch "Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters" 8cd box !! on Organ of Corti ----> April 3rd/4th Smog "Dongs Of Sevotion" Apples In Stereo "Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone" The For Carnation "Standard lp" (it's a cd too) DJ Food "Kaleidoscope" The Monkeywrench "Electric Children" Delta 72 "OOO" LTJ Bukem "Journey Inwards" Gregg Bendian's Interzone "Myriad" The Double U "Falling Lanterns" Pip Proud "Oncer" Chumbawamba "What You See Is What¡" Haysi Fantayzee "Battle Hymns For Children¡" reissue Lou Reed "Ecstasy" ----> April 10th/11th Cradle of Filth "From the Cradle To Enslave" ep domestic release on Metal Blade with a bonus track Del Tha Funky Homosapien "Both Sides Of The Brain" solo debut Marianne Faithfull "Vagabond Ways" John McLaughlin "My Goal's Beyond" reissue Rashied Ali Quartet "New Directions In Modern Music" reissue Andre Williams "The Black Godfather" Knoxville Girls "In The Woodshed" limited edition vinyl only Ass Ponys "Some Stupid With A Flare Gun" Da Brat "Unrestricted" Miles Davis/John Coltrane "The Complete Columbia Recordings" Kronos Quartet "Caravan" Tin Hat Trio "Helium" ----> April 18th Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society "Stronger Than Death" The Makers "Rock Star God" Matthew Shipp Quartet "Pastoral Composure" Dave Thomas (Pere Ubu) and Foreigners "Bay City" ----> April 24th/25th Steven Wray Lobdell "Automatic Writing By The Moon" on Holy Mtn. (guitarist of Faust) Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret "The Cowboy And The Lady" reissue on Smells Like Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe "Duo Exchange" reissue ----> supposedly in April Modest Mouse possibly... Gate "The Wisher Table" ----> May 2nd Sleater Kinney "All Hands On The Bad One" ----> May 9th Jayhawks ----> supposedly in May Grandaddy "Sophomore Slump" Sweep The Leg Johnny "Sto Cazzo!" on Southern Atombombpocketknife "Alphasounds" on Southern Erykah Badu k.d. lang Runaways UK full-length Pearl Jam _______________________________________________________________________ RECOMMENDED SHOWS --THUJA--, the new band consisting AQ-favorite Loren Chasse of Id Battery and the former members of Mirza, are making their live debut at an interesting event this Saturday. Music by: Thuja, Brown Boy, the Church Steps, Sounds of the barbary Coast, Total Shutdown, and Xtinct and Clepto. DJs: 2421, DK, Seijiro, Kyung Rok. Also there'll be artwork and installations. Saturday March 18th Tehama Clit Stop (557 Howard St.) $5 / 7pm-4am! The following three items are proof that if you live in San Francisco and you're not out at a show this coming Tuesday, you don't have much of an excuse... NYC's --LILIENTHAL--, who plays a skittery, dreamy electronica kind of like a cross between Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, makes a rare appearance at Static this coming Tuesday. We're thinking AQ-customers would want to know about this because we've sold so many copies of Lilienthal's album. Also on the bill: AQ-fave Kit Clayton, O.S.T., and if.then.else. See you there for sure. Tuesday March 21st 330 Ritch St. Probably around $5. Action starts after 10pm. Also on Tuesday, Japan's --OHKAMI NO JIKAN-- (members of High Rise, Mainliner, Toho Sara, etc.) bring their dark, psychedelic trance music to our shores. Also on the bill: Mystic Sensorium, Nanjo Asahito of Ohkami No Jikan and all those other bands playing solo, & Liquorball. Allan will see *you* there for sure. Tuesday March 21st Club Cocodrie (1024 Kearny St.) $6 / 9pm. And, if the above weren't enough, --THE CHAMPS-- are also playing on Tuesday opening for Chrome at the Great American Music Hall... __________________________________________________________________ ONLINE MAILORDER PROCEDURE See the Order Form _______________________________________________________________________ The Aquarius Records New Arrivals list has 3852 subscribers. If you like our list, please buy your records from Aquarius; we produce this list for you and it's a lot of work! * Aquarius Records --------------- * * 1055 Valencia Street * * San Francisco, CA * * 94110 USA * * tel 415.647.2272 * * fax 415.647.3447 * * store@aquariusrecords.org * * http://www.aquariusrecords.org * "BEATLES : A rock music group who opened up a Pandora's box when they hit the U.S. with their druid beat in the 1960s. 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