FLY PAN AM, LE N'ecoutez Pas (Constellation) cd 14.98
The title translates into English as "don't listen", but we'll be darned if we're going to let The Fly Pan Am tell us what to do with their newest album.
The second you press play on your cd player you'll notice something's different in FPA land (as is also reflected in their most vibrant and busy cover art to date) -- a departure of sorts from these French Canadians' well-trodden path of krautrock influenced jams. N'Ecoutez Pas is definitely on the more aggressive side of things with much seething raw rock energy, it pounds and gallops instead of grooves. When they appear, vocals come in the form of mutterings, textural whisperings and unhinged screaming (yes, screaming!). The calmer more familiar hypnotic, atmospheric moments as well as some nods to punchy retro pop ("Vos Reves Revers") do surface later in the album though. Mainman Roger Tellier-Craig (also guitarist for Godspeed You Black Emperor) has assembled another strong supporting cast for FPA's third full length excursion that includes AQ fave Tim Hecker. Pretty darn cool.
MPEG Stream: "Brulez Suivant, Suivante!"
MPEG Stream: "Vos Reves Revers"

FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS Hot Burritos!: Anthology 1969-1972 (A&M) 2cd 22.00
Remastered and reissued, this release collects pretty much all the essential material by this seminal post-Byrds California country rock band featuring Gram Parsons. Includes everything from their first three albums, "The Gilded Palace of Sin," "Burrito Deluxe," and "The Flying Burrito Brothers". In addition you get some later stuff and singles, and 2 songs from the live album "The Last of the Red Hot Burritos". Informative liner notes, photos (man, what outfits!), and credits round out the package.

FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS, THE The Definitive Collection (formerly titled: Sin City: The Very Best of... (A&M) cd 12.98
The Flying Burrito Bros were formed in 1969 by Gram Parsons, dearly departed father of country rock whose legend is still growing ever larger as his influence continues to be felt. I could go on and on and on about what a genius Parsons was, but then this description would be pages long, and anyway Ben Fong-Torres already wrote a book about 'im (Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons, highly recommended).
After leaving The Byrds, with whom he recorded just a single perfect album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Parsons formed the Burritos with ex-Byrd Chris Hillman and other compatriots. Though the Burritos have released many records since their inception, the only ones that Gram appears on are the first two, both of which appear here in their entirety (the "Train Song" single is also included here, making Sin City more complete than the other best-of comp, Farther Along). While the second Burritos album was in progress, Parsons starting hanging with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, who let him record the stunning version of "Wild Horses" found here. He drifted away from the band (or was asked to leave). In 1971 and '72 he released the two flawless solo albums, GP and Grievous Angel, that sealed his reputation as legend. By 1973 he was dead.
The two Burrito Brothers albums, then, are essential to any Parsons fan's collection, as well as fans of country rock, and "No Depression"-style alt.country in general. The combination of catchy melodies, rollicking good humor, joyous twang, and solid rock backbone make these records essential listening. Get this now!
RealAudio clip: "Sin City"
RealAudio clip: "Christine's Tune"
RealAudio clip: "Wild Horses"

FLYING CANYON s/t (Soft Abuse) cd 14.98
How can you resist a record with a sticker on the front proclaiming it to be "California doom folk"? Well, we sure as heck can't. And what if that sticker was pasted over a huge floating white-bearded head floating in the clouds like some spirit of Yahowha back from the dead to haunt our musical dreams? Well, you'd have us again. So we were pretty much sold before we got the disc to the player. But in all fairness, we should also mention that not only is Flying Canyon the project of one half of Golden Hotel, who we raved about on a past list, but that half also happens to be AQ regular Cayce Lindner, who you can see on the AQ customers page, and who haunts the hallowed halls of AQ on an almost daily basis.
But the fact that Cayce is a friend of ours isn't the reason we were so enamored of Golden Hotel, or the reason this slab of California doom folk has been kicking our asses. Nope. It's because Cayce has a way with a guitar and a killer knack for abstract free folk songsmithery. It helps too that in Flying Canyon he's teamed up with members of The Skygreen Leopards and Kelly Stoltz's band. Where Golden Hotel was dark and lugubrious, dreamy and droney, Flying Canyon is much more druggy and desert-y, twangy and sun baked, laid back and lysergic.
From the opening track, "In The Reflection", a dead ringer for Terry Reid's "Seed Of Memory", you're already wandering in a dreamlike daze, across some dusty windblown musical world, a wounded wasteland, that while inhospitable and rife with death and misery, is still strangely warm and safe, you find yourself clearing away some dust and rubble, dead leaves and brittle branches, laying back, eyes closed, the sun turning the inside of your eyelids a blood red, and letting the sun burn you away, bleaching your bones, as you become part of the landscape, your dust part of the swirling storm, the sound, a disembodied floating free folk, perfectly captured by the Flying Canyon.
The label website describes Flying Canyon as the Eagles on Robitussen, but it's a little closer to Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young on horse tranquilizers. A super lo-fi arid expanse of murky late afternoon haze and stoned fuzzy fug. The strainer on the snare drum rattles and drifts like the warning of a snake coiled up in the hot summer sun. The bass is thick like melted tar, a fuzzy fat rumble, warm warbly melodies wrapped around a soft focus folk drift, in the distance, fluttering flutes and warm swells of shimmering organ, like a musical mirage. All left all to hover in a lush field of room sound and drifting fuzz, above which float Lindner's ghostly vocals, an about-to-crack Neil Young warble, emotional and rich and honest, so much so that Lindner even manages to sing the words "rock and roll" in a song, without it sounding wrong. Instead, you can imagine that this is some sort of rock and roll. A rock and roll that was left in the sun too long, allowed to melt and change shape, a dusty, almost forgotten relic, that still retains some mysterious inner glow, a beauty that transcends the ravages of time. Go ahead. Sit back. Rest those weary bones, close those tired eyes. This is just about the perfect place for waitin' around to die...
MPEG Stream: "In The Reflection"
MPEG Stream: "Down To Summer"
MPEG Stream: "Crossing By Your Star"

FLYING LIZARDS Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards (Mister E) cd 13.98
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While the Flying Lizards are best remembered for their new wave / post punk antics in the '70s -- avantgarde electronic novelty covers of pop tunes, most famously the dub influenced tinkering of their jaunty version of "Money (That's What I Want)" from '79, they had a more serious interest in dub and experimentation as well. "The Secret Dub Life..." is an example of such that should not go unnoticed, and here we have a reissue to check out. The somewhat murky story is that back in 1978, Flying Lizards main man David Cunningham was given the chance to remix some tracks laid down by Jah Lloyd and some unidentified Jamaican musicians. Confronted with a mono master only (and with no fancy studio or samplers at his disposal) he had to be rather inventive with the mixes, doing them in his free time so that this album was only fully completed and released in 1995! (Although, his original experience with these mixes informed much of his subsequent work through the eighties, we're told in his liner notes.) Real nice, authentic sounding low-tech ambient dub stuff, loaded with weird sound effects, and really not at all like the Flying Lizards "hits" you may have heard.
MPEG Stream: "Preface"

FLYING LIZARDS The Secret Dub Life Of Flying Lizards (Staubgold) lp 17.98
Newly reissued on vinyl, here's what we said about the cd:
While the Flying Lizards are best remembered for their new wave / post punk antics in the '70s - avantgarde electronic novelty covers of pop tunes, most famously the dub influenced tinkering of their jaunty version of "Money (That's What I Want)" from '79, they had a more serious interest in dub and experimentation as well. "The Secret Dub Life..." is an example of such that should not go unnoticed, and here we have a reissue to check out. The somewhat murky story is that back in 1978, Flying Lizards main man David Cunningham was given the chance to remix some tracks laid down by Jah Lloyd and some unidentified Jamaican musicians. Confronted with a mono master only (and with no fancy studio or samplers at his disposal) he had to be rather inventive with the mixes, doing them in his free time so that this album was only fully completed and released in 1995! (Although, his original experience with these mixes informed much of his subsequent work through the eighties, we're told in his liner notes.) Real nice, authentic sounding low-tech ambient dub stuff, loaded with weird sound effects, and really not at all like the Flying Lizards "hits" you may have heard.
MPEG Stream: "Preface"

FLYING LIZARDS, THE s/t (Microwerks) cd 12.98
Wow, we kind of forgot what a weird and wonderful record this is. We've always had a place for the Flying Lizards in our hearts, but their blaise post-punk dub covers of fifties and sixties songs always seemed to outshine their other interesting qualities. Led by avant-composer David Cunningham, with the help of David Toop, Vivien Goldman, Steve Beresford and the flat vocal delivery of Deborah Evans, The Flying Lizards got their break when Virgin released their first single in 1979, a purposely skewed and dispassionate version of Eddie Cohran's "Summertime Blues" and it became a minor hit. But it was their second single and more enduring cover of Barret Strong's "Money" with its clanging prepared piano and trap percussion that got them on the charts and signed for a full album deal. That song gets a little overplayed these days, but the long version has one of the best extended dub breakdowns of the period that just doesn't get played enough. But besides the two covers and the channeling of Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, The Art Bears) in the goofy cover of Kurt Weil's "Der Song Von Mandelay" that opens the record, lies a much stranger record. Sure there is the punk disco of "Her Story", "TV" and the danceable experimentation of "Russia". But there also is the triptych of minimalist dub experiments in the tracks "Flood" "Trouble" and "Events During Flood" that take the record to a much darker place. Culminating with Vivien Goldman's hushed and strange "The Window", proving that although the band was a one hit wonder, they were no one trick pony. This reissue doesn't contain the bonus tracks of previous reissues, but does include the single edit of "Money". Here's hoping Microwerks will reissue their other two records, Fourth Wall and Top Ten as well! Great stuff!
MPEG Stream: "Money "
MPEG Stream: "Her Story"
MPEG Stream: "Russia"
MPEG Stream: "Events During Flood"

FLYING LOTUS 1983 (Plug Research) cd 11.98
We fell so hard for the latest Flying Lotus release, Los Angeles, that we knew we had to go back and give the proper attention to his debut. We'd heard bits and pieces of it before but never really got to spend any quality time with. Until now.
Proving that his latest great record was not just some fluke, 1983 offers up for display lots of the roots and promise that would blossom into the powerful cosmic instrumental hip-hop/electronica that made the latest Flying Lotus release one of our favorites of the year. This disc, from a few years back, barely pales in comparison. While not quite as explosive and engaging as FL's newest record, it's still a skillfully crafted and delightful to listen to chunk of crunchy yet smooth flowing beats and melodies with equal nods to downtempo, hiphop, and electronica. Definitely the kind of record that should appeal to anyone into Madlib, Boards Of Canada, Prefuse 73 or even prime era Morr Music outings. Glad we took a moment to look back, as this is proving to be a record that deserves a home here at AQ and we hope on your shelves as well!
MPEG Stream: "1983"
MPEG Stream: "Orbit Brazil"
MPEG Stream: "Unexpected Delight (Feat. Laura Darlington)"

FLYING LOTUS 1983 (Plug Research) lp 16.98
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We fell so hard for the latest Flying Lotus release, Los Angeles, that we knew we had to go back and give the proper attention to his debut. We'd heard bits and pieces of it before but never really got to spend any quality time with. Until now.
Proving that his latest great record was not just some fluke, 1983 offers up for display lots of the roots and promise that would blossom into the powerful cosmic instrumental hip-hop/electronica that made the latest Flying Lotus release one of our favorites of the year. This disc, from a few years back, barely pales in comparison. While not quite as explosive and engaging as FL's newest record, it's still a skillfully crafted and delightful to listen to chunk of crunchy yet smooth flowing beats and melodies with equal nods to downtempo, hiphop, and electronica. Definitely the kind of record that should appeal to anyone into Madlib, Boards Of Canada, Prefuse 73 or even prime era Morr Music outings. Glad we took a moment to look back, as this is proving to be a record that deserves a home here at AQ and we hope on your shelves as well!
MPEG Stream: "1983"
MPEG Stream: "Orbit Brazil"
MPEG Stream: "Unexpected Delight (Feat. Laura Darlington)"

FLYING LOTUS Cosmogramma (Warp) cd 17.98
Coming up with a new album on the heels of a hit like Los Angeles is definitely difficult, but Flying Lotus have created a pretty perfect follow up with another amazing disc of esoteric electronica, rife with everything we loved about LA, as well as some serious sonic twists and turns.
While their past releases always found Flying Lotus with a foot firmly planted in the world of hip-hop production, Cosmogramma finds Flying Lotus branching out much more with an energy that is both frantic and majestic, a combination that is pretty damn hard to pull off, but they do manage it here with flying colors!
What makes Flying Lotus so unique and sound so ahead of their peers is that you can't sum up their music with one word, genre or catch all phrase. Yes there are moments of dubstep, and hints of their more hip-hop minded past but there is also a nice use of instrumentation including harps, strings, horns, and keys that help give the record a rounded and celestial feel. But along with those majestic and pretty moments there is a whole lot of frantic and urgent energy that runs throughout the record. Like the last outing, there are a few tracks with guest vocals (including Thom Yorke!), and with all these varying ingredients, what makes Cosmogramma such a success is that they all meld together so seamlessly and create a true album listening experience. This is a start to finish listen, in that you get to really feel the music, and get swept away by the range of sounds and the feelings that weave all these songs together into a single organic and expansive whole. So great!
MPEG Stream: "Zodiac Shit"
MPEG Stream: "Pickled!"
MPEG Stream: "..And The World Laughs With You (feat. Thom Yorke)"
MPEG Stream: "Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph"

FLYING LOTUS Cosmogramma (Warp) 2lp 27.00
NOW ON VINYL!!
Coming up with a new album on the heels of a hit like Los Angeles is definitely difficult, but Flying Lotus have created a pretty perfect follow up with another amazing disc of esoteric electronica, rife with everything we loved about LA, as well as some serious sonic twists and turns.
While their past releases always found Flying Lotus with a foot firmly planted in the world of hip-hop production, Cosmogramma finds Flying Lotus branching out much more with an energy that is both frantic and majestic, a combination that is pretty damn hard to pull off, but they do manage it here with flying colors!
What makes Flying Lotus so unique and sound so ahead of their peers is that you can't sum up their music with one word, genre or catch all phrase. Yes there are moments of dubstep, and hints of their more hip-hop minded past but there is also a nice use of instrumentation including harps, strings, horns, and keys that help give the record a rounded and celestial feel. But along with those majestic and pretty moments there is a whole lot of frantic and urgent energy that runs throughout the record. Like the last outing, there are a few tracks with guest vocals (including Thom Yorke!), and with all these varying ingredients, what makes Cosmogramma such a success is that they all meld together so seamlessly and create a true album listening experience. This is a start to finish listen, in that you get to really feel the music, and get swept away by the range of sounds and the feelings that weave all these songs together into a single organic and expansive whole. So great!
MPEG Stream: "Zodiac Shit"
MPEG Stream: "Pickled!"
MPEG Stream: "..And The World Laughs With You (feat. Thom Yorke)"
MPEG Stream: "Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph"

FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles (Warp) cd 15.98
There is no doubt that this record is going to find itself near the top of many of our year end favorite lists. This is one of those rare records that on first listen you are grabbed by its immediacy & intensity and with each repeated listen you melt deeper into its richness. While just in his early 20's Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus) has crafted a record wise beyond his years. There is a fluidity and transcendence on Los Angeles that defies categorization. Call it instrumental hip-hop if you want, but these are songs that would sound right at home next to spiritual Afro-jazz, psychedelic soul and even dubstep. Taking inspiration from the late great J Dilla, Flying Lotus understands how to extract such punch and soul from all the sounds he takes and creates. Flying Lotus has a wide world vision that's as informed by Eastern grooves and psychedelia as it is hip-hop, electronica, video games and cartoon culture (he used to make music for Adult Swim). This is stirring many of the same emotions and excitement as when Four Tet released the Rounds record and in many ways it brings to the next level what so much of Prefuse 73 tries to do.
It actually didn't surprise us that much to find out that Ellison is the great nephew of Alice Coltrane as you can hear the amazing legacy of her spiritual and universal consciousness in the sounds that Flying Lotus create. In fact there are a few upfront Coltrane moments on the record including "Aunti's Harp" which is an all too short but beautiful majestic minute of Alice on the harp. Flying Lotus has found a spot next to Madlib as a much needed ambassador of someone taking hip-hop as a launching pad orbiting to such pleasing outer dimensions. In fact , some of us couldn't help but daydream about a Flying Lotus/Erykah Badu collaboration as they both are so tapped into a magical and exciting landscape of hip-hop & soul that soars in spiritual and psychedelic horizons. Filled with undeniable passion and of course highly recommended!
MPEG Stream: "Camel"
MPEG Stream: "Riot"
MPEG Stream: "Golden Diva"

FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles (Warp) lp 21.00
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There is no doubt that this record is going to find itself near the top of many of our year end favorite lists. This is one of those rare records that on first listen you are grabbed by its immediacy & intensity and with each repeated listen you melt deeper into its richness. While just in his early 20's Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus) has crafted a record wise beyond his years. There is a fluidity and transcendence on Los Angeles that defies categorization. Call it instrumental hip-hop if you want, but these are songs that would sound right at home next to spiritual Afro-jazz, psychedelic soul and even dubstep. Taking inspiration from the late great J Dilla, Flying Lotus understands how to extract such punch and soul from all the sounds he takes and creates. Flying Lotus has a wide world vision that's as informed by Eastern grooves and psychedelia as it is hip-hop, electronica, video games and cartoon culture (he used to make music for Adult Swim). This is stirring many of the same emotions and excitement as when Four Tet released the Rounds record and in many ways it brings to the next level what so much of Prefuse 73 tries to do.
It actually didn't surprise us that much to find out that Ellison is the great nephew of Alice Coltrane as you can hear the amazing legacy of her spiritual and universal consciousness in the sounds that Flying Lotus create. In fact there are a few upfront Coltrane moments on the record including "Aunti's Harp" which is an all too short but beautiful majestic minute of Alice on the harp. Flying Lotus has found a spot next to Madlib as a much needed ambassador of someone taking hip-hop as a launching pad orbiting to such pleasing outer dimensions. In fact , some of us couldn't help but daydream about a Flying Lotus/Erykah Badu collaboration as they both are so tapped into a magical and exciting landscape of hip-hop & soul that soars in spiritual and psychedelic horizons. Filled with undeniable passion and of course highly recommended!
MPEG Stream: "Camel"
MPEG Stream: "Riot"
MPEG Stream: "Golden Diva"

FLYING LOTUS Pattern + Grid World (Warp) cd ep 12.98
A frenetic 7 song ep that finds Flying Lotus building more nervous kinetic rhythms and lurching arcade game textures than on past releases (though we got some hint of it on the first half of his last full length Cosmogramma) This reminds us a bit of a Zomby's One Foot Ahead of the Other, but on a more wonky tip than Zomby's 8-bit rave-ups. We're not sure if this is just a moment to release some pent-up anxious energy or a sneak peek into a possible full blown assault on their next outing. Got to give them credit for their exploration and experimentation, but we find ourselves missing the majestic downtempo moments from past releases.
MPEG Stream: "Kill Your Co-workers"
MPEG Stream: "Time Vampires"
MPEG Stream: "Camera Day"

FLYING LOTUS Until The Quiet Comes (Warp) cd 15.98
Flying Lotus is back and with every new release seems to bring something new to the table. This time around he doesn't spread himself as far out sonically as he did on Cosmogramma but instead reigns himself in to refine the details of his complex musical palette. This is definitely a late night record, full of lucid dreamy qualities, referencing obscure quiet storm RnB, celestial jazz, and narcoleptic funk, but with a soaring jewel-like exactitude. Cinematic in scope, we don't just listen, but become engrossed in his floating oceanic soundworld. Guest stints by Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke, Thundercat and others add to the ponderous gauzy midnight feel. Recommended! Vinyl comes with download.
MPEG Stream: "All In"
MPEG Stream: "See Thru To U"
MPEG Stream: "The Nightcaller"
MPEG Stream: "Me Yesterday // Corded"

FLYING LOTUS Until The Quiet Comes (Warp) 2lp 28.00
Flying Lotus is back and with every new release seems to bring something new to the table. This time around he doesn't spread himself as far out sonically as he did on Cosmogramma but instead reigns himself in to refine the details of his complex musical palette. This is definitely a late night record, full of lucid dreamy qualities, referencing obscure quiet storm RnB, celestial jazz, and narcoleptic funk, but with a soaring jewel-like exactitude. Cinematic in scope, we don't just listen, but become engrossed in his floating oceanic soundworld. Guest stints by Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke, Thundercat and others add to the ponderous gauzy midnight feel. Recommended! Vinyl comes with download.
MPEG Stream: "All In"
MPEG Stream: "See Thru To U"
MPEG Stream: "The Nightcaller"
MPEG Stream: "Me Yesterday // Corded"

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS Destroy All Music Revisited (Skin Graft) cd 14.98
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Reissued Weasel Walter classic.

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS Trauma (ugExplode) cd 14.98
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Trauma finds long time no wave free jazz attackers the Flying Luttenbachers doing their usual brutal best to channel the spirits of Brotzmann and Ayler and Takayanagi and the like. It's primal stuff originally recorded in 2001, newly reissued on cd for those that missed it the first time, and want a taste of that intensely improv Luttenbachers phase (before their more recent forays into tech guitar mutant metal prog scifi spasms). On this disc, squealing saxophone and rumbling bass vie with the frenzied percussive pummel of bandleader Weasel Walter, the whole screaming machinegunning shebang never really letting up (the eleven tracks on this nearly 70 minute disc are aptly titled "Trauma 1" through "Trauma 11").
Go to YouTube to watch this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PU4pVVM5wb4) brilliant video for a track from Trauma, depicting panic in the streets and the nightmarish effects of multiple nuclear blasts, for which the Luttenbacher's freeform blasting is the perfect soundtrack. The images, so scary in the '80s (they're all edited together from the TV movie The Day After, remember that?) hilariously, horrifically fit the music and vice versa. No more need be said by us, that should do the trick.
MPEG Stream: "Trauma 1"
MPEG Stream: "Trauma 2"

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE ...The Truth Is A Fucking Lie... (Skin Graft) cd 14.98
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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.

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Cataclysm (ugExplode) cd 13.98
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Holy crap. This is the Luttenbachers' fourteenth (we think) album release, the follow-up to 2004's The Void. Their instrumental insanity features as always drummer extraordinare Weasel Walter (Lake Of Dracula/Hatewave), this time assisted by these three equally high-level technicians: on guitars Ed Rodriguez (Gorge Trio/Colossamite/Iceburn) and Mick Barr (Ocrilim/Octis/Orthrelm/Crom Tech), and on bass Mike Green (Burmese). Together they're an unstoppable frenzied skronk attack, pulling stop-start ADD fretboard and percussive maneuvers off in their own blackened jazz sci-fi galaxy... It's like (heck, it is) metallic mathrockers practicing their scales, ensemble style, amidst a barrage of ominous dirge. The appropriate response at the end of each piece can only be "Whew!". If you haven't heard the Luttenbachers before (or only their earlier material with jazz horns and not so much electric guitar), but do like Mick Barr's various bands, you will like this -- Barr fans needn't hesitate!!
The song titles are ever so appropriate: "Demonic Velocities", "Insektoid Horror", "The Elimination Of Incompetence"... They are masters of their realm, that's for sure. And their special brand of heaviness is one that can go from a punishing rocker like "Interstellar War" into the relative calm and beauty of "Movement Four Of L'Ascension" (yes, an Olivier Messiaen cover).
By the way, despite the lack of lyrics, this is a concept album, just like their last few releases. Have you been following along, and learning the future fate of the Earth? No? Well don't say they didn't warn you...
MPEG Stream: "The Elimination Of Incompetence"
RealAudio clip: "Interstellar War"

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Destroy All Music (Skin Graft) cd 13.98
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Now-on-cd reissue of vinyl from a few years back, this Chicago no-wave jazz improv combo makes an unholy racket worthy of their death/black metal heroes, but different. Featuring drummer Weasel Walter and reedsman Ken Vandermark (who replaced original Luttenbacher Hal Russell).

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Destructo Noise Explosion! Live At WNUR 2-6-92 (ugExplode) cd 12.98
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FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Gods of Chaos (Skin Graft) cd 13.98
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New one from the Chicago jazz-grind band that used to boast reedsmen Hal Russell and Ken Vandermark in their ranks, slimmed down to a trio led by drummer Weasel Walter (also of Lake of Dracula and Hatewave). They kind of go for a no-wave meets black metal image, and are probably equally influenced by the music of Albert Ayler and Norway's Immortal...

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Incarceration By Abstraction cd 12.98
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FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Infection And Decline (Troubleman Unlimited / UG Explode) cd 10.98
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The umpteenth (tenth, actually) long player from Weasel Walter's constantly mutating free jazz / black metal / no wave / prog monster. "Infection And Decline" is the first recording to document the latest incarnation of the now-stripped down trio featuring bassists Jonathan Hischke and Alex Perkolup. That's right: bass, bass and drums. Nothing else. Six dense, blistering tracks of sonic destructo-insanity -- including the massive sixteen minute version of the Luttenbachers' live staple, Magma's "De Futura". (It's a different version than on their "Truth Is A Fucking Lie" album, with the new lineup, natch). Sick.
RealAudio clip: "De Futura"
RealAudio clip: "The Elimination Of Incompetence"

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Infection And Decline (Troubleman Unlimited / UG Explode) lp 8.98
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The umpteenth (tenth, actually) long player from Weasel Walter's constantly mutating free jazz / black metal / no wave / prog monster. "Infection And Decline" is the first recording to document the latest incarnation of the now-stripped down trio featuring bassists Jonathan Hischke and Alex Perkolup. That's right: bass, bass and drums. Nothing else. Six dense, blistering tracks of sonic destructo-insanity -- including the massive sixteen minute version of the Luttenbachers' live staple, Magma's "De Futura". (It's a different version than on their "Truth Is A Fucking Lie" album, with the new lineup, natch). Sick.

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Systems Emerge From Complete Disorder (Trouble Man Unlimited) cd 12.98
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More instro-avant-jazz-metal mayhem from recent Chicago-to-San Francisco transplant Weasel Walter & Co. Except, there's no Co. on this album, it's just the Wease. The concept here (we're told) is that the record is about "a horrible planetoid being [who] configures itself from atomic chaos". Cool. It's noisy, fusiony, and no-wavey. 45 minutes of this is either gonna be sheer punishment or pleasure, you probably already know where you stand on that. We're impressed, regardless. Especially by the 20 minute finale "Rise Of The Iridescent Behemoth"! Weasel works hard at this stuff and succeeds. Nerdy noisy prog rock for punks.
MPEG Stream: "Kkringg Beyond Nggggg"
MPEG Stream: "Thorned Lattice"

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Systems Emerge From Complete Disorder (Trouble Man Unlimited) lp 12.98
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More instro-avant-jazz-metal mayhem from recent Chicago-to-San Francisco transplant Weasel Walter & Co. Except, there's no Co. on this album, it's just the Wease. The concept here (we're told) is that the record is about "a horrible planetoid being [who] configures itself from atomic chaos". Cool. It's noisy, fusiony, and no-wavey. 45 minutes of this is either gonna be sheer punishment or pleasure, you probably already know where you stand on that. We're impressed, regardless. Especially by the 20 minute finale "Rise Of The Iridescent Behemoth"! Weasel works hard at this stuff and succeeds. Nerdy noisy prog rock for punks.
MPEG Stream: "Kkringg Beyond Nggggg"
MPEG Stream: "Thorned Lattice"

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE The Void (Troubleman / ugEXPLODE) cd 12.98
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As the Luttenbachers fly on and on into the void, they just get more and more metal, don't they? Now a Bay Area based trio (including one of the Mikes from Burmese on bass), they offer up their thirteenth album! This latest episode of Flying Luttenbacher insanity features nine tracks of feedback-filled, drum-blasting, chaotically complexified, metallic skree that can't be topped by almost anyone in the known universe -- heck parts of this even remind us a bit of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha, which is a comparison we don't make too often. The Void is an all-instrumental tour-de-force that believe it or not could be the missing link between black metal and no-wave, surely band leader Weasel Walter's life's work. Track after track, each cut here builds and builds without much in the way of release, racheting tension to head-bursting levels. Judging from comments in the liner notes, perhaps this is Weasel's howling response to the Republican take-over of the United States. In any event, it's a serious dose of heavy, frenzied, jazz-damaged, post-rock, post-metal, mathy mayhem!
MPEG Stream: "The Void Part Five"
MPEG Stream: "Sword Of Atheism"

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK Chorus (Drag City) cd 12.98
From the liner notes: "This album brings together some tracks originally used for our John Peel session, the Planet Records single and for our contribution to the Speed Kills compilation EP... These tracks make up an ongoing album idea begun before Further and finished some time after that LP. We hope they now make sense as a whole. This album marks the end of FSA phase one... When we return with phase two -- who knows where the wind blows..."

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK Chorus (Drag City) lp 8.98
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From the liner notes: "This album brings together some tracks originally used for our John Peel session, the Planet Records single and for our contribution to the Speed Kills compilation EP... These tracks make up an ongoing album idea begun before Further and finished some time after that LP. We hope they now make sense as a whole. This album marks the end of FSA phase one... When we return with phase two -- who knows where the wind blows..."

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK Further (Drag City) cd 14.98

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK Mirror (Drag City) cd 14.98
When Third Eye Foundation first experimented with fusing drum & bass beats with guitar dissonance, it stood as the awkward realization of what one might imagine My Bloody Valentine's (as yet undocumented) drum & bass sound to be...
While Third Eye Foundation's sound has since developed into gritty drum & bass dirges, fellow Bristol space rockers Flying Saucer Attack have also taken up the drum & bass / bliss rock challenge, with a rather groovy yet wholly blissed-out result. While half the tracks from "Mirror" are injected with the hyperactive speed of jungle breaks, their breathy Nick Drake style pastoral folk songs are remain, and of course "Mirror" is still laden with sleepy guitar fuzz. Complete with colorful, psychedelic cover and gatefold art by Savage Pencil.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK Mirror (Drag City) lp 12.98
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When Third Eye Foundation first experimented with fusing drum & bass beats with guitar dissonance, it stood as the awkward realization of what one might imagine My Bloody Valentine's (as yet undocumented) drum & bass sound to be...
While Third Eye Foundation's sound has since developed into gritty drum & bass dirges, fellow Bristol space rockers Flying Saucer Attack have also taken up the drum & bass / bliss rock challenge, with a rather groovy yet wholly blissed-out result. While half the tracks from "Mirror" are injected with the hyperactive speed of jungle breaks, their breathy Nick Drake style pastoral folk songs are remain, and of course "Mirror" is still laden with sleepy guitar fuzz. Complete with colorful, psychedelic cover and gatefold art by Savage Pencil.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK New Lands (Drag City) cd 14.98
While many of rock's deconstructionists have found themselves at the dead end of ambient, Flying Saucer Attack have veered from such a trajectory by reclaiming the "rural psychedelia" that made their first album so stunning. Big Phil Spector reverb drums demarcate the feedback that at times sound like the new Dead C album Tusk though from a less abject & more isolationist sensibility... Their best record in god knows how long.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK New Lands (Drag City) 2lp 15.98
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While many of rock's deconstructionists have found themselves at the dead end of ambient, Flying Saucer Attack have veered from such a trajectory by reclaiming the "rural psychedelia" that made their first album so stunning. Big Phil Spector reverb drums demarcate the feedback that at times sound like the new Dead C album Tusk though from a less abject & more isolationist sensibility... Their best record in god knows how long.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK P.A. Blues (VHF) cd-r 9.98
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P.A. Blues is a super limited cd-r that's been out for a while, but we haven't been able to get enough to list until now. A selection of unreleased live material hand picked and edited by FSA's Dave Pearce. Blissed out and dense, thick washes of guitar ambience and slowly shifting, dark and droning swoosh and shimmer. The focus of this disc is the lengthy title track, a massive collage of live recordings chopped and edited into a single huge swelling throbbing movement. As with most things Flying Saucer attack, this is epic and gorgeous spaced out, dreamy and mesmerizing drone rock of the highest order!
MPEG Stream: "FSA Tapes Vol. 1: Unreleased Pt. 2"

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK s/t (VHF) cd 13.98
Classic first full length recording.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK Sally Free and Easy (Drag City) cdep 7.98

FLYING SWEETY DOG Songs About Men (Celebrate Psi Pheomenon) cd-r 13.98
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Another batch of super limited and beautifully packaged cd-r's from Campbell Kneale's (Birchville Cat Motel) Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label. The finest in underground free noise / drone, culled mostly from New Zealand but all around the world as well. For those of you new to the CpsiP label, imagine classic Siltbreeze (Dead C, etc.) mixed with Jewelled Antler (Thuja, Blithe Sons etc.), dark and deep listening that sometimes verges on all out noise, but more often than not remains subtle experiments in avant drone and abstract sound. And when we say limited we mean LIMITED. Thes babies come in pressings of 30-80, out of which we get a whopping 10 copies!!
Flying Sweety Dog is a London based noise duo, of Danish / Japanese origin, and are a bit of a tough proposition to figure out. Twenty seven tracks, titled either "Cinema", "Inside" or "Outside". On a couple tracks they mix things up with tracks titled "Anders Outside, Take Inside" and "Take Outside, Anders Inside". Not that the song titles tell you anything about the sounds contained within. They do at least give you an idea that you're dealing with something well outside the realm of the ordinary. All the tracks are relatively short, super spare and minimal with ambient clatter, occasional sort-of rhythms, far away whistles, squeaks of ear piercing feedback, and what sounds like the duo hard at work assembling or dismantling various broken musical instruments. Weird.
MPEG Stream: "Cinema"
MPEG Stream: "Inside"

FLYNT, HENRY Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1 (Locust) cd 14.98
Even packaged to look strikingly similar to an old Folkways LP release, this pair of Flynt releases on Locust sure do fit the "Hillbilly Blues" label more than any other release we've heard yet from him. And what's more, they're fucking great! No, you won't find any pseudo-ragas on either of these discs. This is wild and relentless, drone-y and hypnotic, sonically overwhelming neverending foot stomping, finger picked blues work outs. But as one might expect the workouts are static, shifting minutely and almost imperceptably if at all. Like a redneck hillbilly Terry Riley or La Monte Young.
The tracks on volume one go a little like this:
Track 1: Three and a half minutes of solo electric blues guitar, thankfully stripped of that awful standard blues chord progression.
Track 2: a short two and a half minute blast of nasal auctioneer style vocals, over a primitive country electric guitar riff.
Track 3: A massive twelve minutes of retarded toe tapping, to a hillbilly pizzicato on the fiddle that develops into increasingly manic sawing on just three notes.
Track 4: A gorgeous chunk of primitve, droney minimal blues, with humming vocals clocking in at a whopping 16 minutes.
RealAudio clip: "The Snake"
RealAudio clip: "Blue Sky, Highway And Tyme"

FLYNT, HENRY Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2 (Locust) cd 14.98
Even packaged to look strikingly similar to an old Folkways LP release, this pair of Flynt releases on Locust sure do fit the "Hillbilly Blues" label more than any other release we've heard yet from him. And what's more, they're fucking great! No, you won't find any pseudo-ragas on either of these discs. This is wild and relentless, drone-y and hypnotic, sonically overwhelming neverending foot stomping, finger picked blues work outs. But as one might expect the workouts are static, shifting minutely and almost imperceptably if at all. Like a redneck hillbilly Terry Riley or La Monte Young.

The tracks on volume two go a little like this:
Track 1: Five minutes of minimal amplified fiddle with lots of echo/delay, like music for some sort of space rodeo.
Track 2: 13 minutes of what sounds like a similar version of the first track, although this time without the echo/delay and a little more sawing on the higher notes of the fiddle.
Track 3: very traditional sounding blues progression on the fiddle, but stretched out a little. Definitely the easiest listening on either disc.
Track 4: Ten minutes long. Revisits the melodies of track two, but the sawing is more feverish and the sound is more thick and much less minimal. Eventually mutates into a super saturated, head nodding, blissed out transcendental hoedown!
RealAudio clip: "Echo Rock"
RealAudio clip: "Jamboree"

FLYNT, HENRY Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, Volumes 1 & 2 (Bo Weevil) 2lp 38.00
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Finally available on vinyl, both volumes of Flynt's Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, on a deluxe double lp. And very limited!
Even packaged to look strikingly similar to an old Folkways LP release, this pair of Flynt releases on Locust sure do fit the "Hillbilly Blues" label more than any other release we've heard yet from him. And what's more, they're fucking great! No, you won't find any pseudo-ragas on either of these discs. This is wild and relentless, drone-y and hypnotic, sonically overwhelming neverending foot stomping, finger picked blues work outs. But as one might expect the workouts are static, shifting minutely and almost imperceptably if at all. Like a redneck hillbilly Terry Riley or La Monte Young.
The tracks on volume one go a little like this:
Track 1: Three and a half minutes of solo electric blues guitar, thankfully stripped of that awful standard blues chord progression.
Track 2: a short two and a half minute blast of nasal auctioneer style vocals, over a primitive country electric guitar riff.
Track 3: A massive twelve minutes of retarded toe tapping, to a hillbilly pizzicato on the fiddle that develops into increasingly manic sawing on just three notes.
And the tracks on volume two go a little like this:
Track 1: Five minutes of minimal amplified fiddle with lots of echo/delay, like music for some sort of space rodeo.
Track 2: 13 minutes of what sounds like a similar version of the first track, although this time without the echo/delay and a little more sawing on the higher notes of the fiddle.
Track 3: very traditional sounding blues progression on the fiddle, but stretched out a little. Definitely the easiest listening on either disc.
Track 4: Ten minutes long. Revisits the melodies of track two, but the sawing is more feverish and the sound is more thick and much less minimal. Eventually mutates into a super saturated, head nodding, blissed out transcendental hoedown!
Track 4: A gorgeous chunk of primitive, droney minimal blues, with humming vocals clocking in at a whopping 16 minutes.

FLYNT, HENRY C Tune (Locust) cd 14.98
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Another gorgeous document of keening high end drone exploration from this central figure in the sixties Fluxus scene. The focus (as always) is on Flynt's electric fiddle, that squeals and scrapes and glides effortlessly between notes and deep into outerspace. Flynt's fiddle is accompanied by tamboura lending this piece a distinctly Middle Eastern flavor. Fans of Riley, Palestine, Nitsch, Cale and drone music in general will definitely want to pick this up.
RealAudio clip: "C Tune"

FLYNT, HENRY Graduation (Superior Viaduct) 2lp 25.00
Originally released as a cd on the Ampersand label way back in 2001, now available on vinyl via local reissue label Superior Viaduct. Here's our (brief) review of Graduation from when we listed the Ampersand version...
After hearing the excellent "hillbilly drone improv" found on the recent double cd archival release You Are My Ever Lovin'/Celestial Power by this obscure but fascinating Fluxus artist, we were excited to discover this additional archival release (of material unreleased these past 20-odd years) see the light of day. But, our enthusiasm was a little dampened somewhat by the preponderance of vocals (!) found here. There's some prime drones to be found here for sure, and some truly sublime moments, but you'll have to also deal with some not-so-prime folksy singing. Which, for us, makes this unfortunately a somewhat disappointing listen in the Flynt oeuvre - but obviously not all Flynt fans (like the folks at Superior Viaduct, obviously) would agree with us about that.
Includes download code.

FLYNT, HENRY Graduation and Other New Country and Blues Music (Ampersand) cd 14.98
After hearing the excellent "hillbilly drone improv" found on the recent double cd archival release "You Are My Ever Lovin'/Celestial Power" by this obscure but fascinating Fluxus artist, we were excited to see this additional archival release (of material unreleased these past 20-odd years) see the light of day. But, our enthusiasm was dampened somewhat by the preponderance of vocals (!) found here. There's some prime drones on this disc, to be sure, but you'll have to also deal with some not-so-prime folksy singing. We couldn't. Disappointing.

FLYNT, HENRY New American Ethnic Music Volume 3: Hillbilly Tape Music (Recorded) cd 16.98
Aquarius' favorite fluxus hillbilly intellectual returns with yet another collection avant-folk. We say 'returns' and yet, with the exception of one from 1976/2001, these tracks come from 1971 and 1978. Much of the goods here are similar to his last two releases on Locust ("Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Vols. 1 & 2"). For instance track one, "Violin Strobe", begins with slowly pulsing notes scratched out on violin which, through some tape device, begin to accumulate a hypnotizing tapestry under Flynt's playing. Hillbilly tape music indeed! Track two, "Guitar Rebop", is a duet for demented tremolo laden swamp guitar and sitar-like drone. Not all Flynt's tracks here are of the hillbilly variety though. For instance, two "Leather High" compositions in A and E (recorded in 1978 appropriately enough) sound like an erstwhile disco guitarist recovering from trauma. In both, a boogying disco rhythm guitar rapidly decays into a series of reverberant swells of guitar through a volume pedal. It's these two tracks, along with the 15 minute ending track "S&M Delerium" -- a continuation of "Leather High in E" -- which make up the bulk of the play time on this disc. It's too bad as, while they're fine tracks in moderation, it would be nicer if the earlier tracks like "Violin Strobe" (which lasts a mere 5 minutes) could be left to degenerate for another 10. Or 20!
MPEG Stream: "Violin Strobe"
MPEG Stream: "Leather High in A"

FLYNT, HENRY New American Ethnic Music Volume 4: Ascent To The Sun (Recorded) cd 16.98
You know it's a good day when a new Henry Flynt release comes out, especially one as good as this.
Ascent To The Sun is the fourth volume of the New American Ethnic Music Series, the first one being the two disc stunner of recordings from the early eighties, You Are My Everlovin'/Celestial Power. Recorded in December 2004, Ascent To The Sun is one forty minute track of layered electric violin. Sounding at times like a steam-powered freight train bound for glory or a heavily reverbed and fuzzed out harmonica, Flynt deftly applies Applachian back-porch idioms to his longform minimalist compositions that are ecstatically hypnotic in their alchemical channelling of pre-war American musical history. A quality in which he has been known to lambast his minimalist contemporaries for ignoring. Incredible!
MPEG Stream: "Ascent To The Sun"

FLYNT, HENRY Purified by the Fire (Locust) cd 14.98
Purified By Fire is much like a sequel to the much loved Flynt album C-Tune. Like that album, Purified By Fire features Cathrine Christer Hennix on tamboura and Henry Flynt on amplified fiddle. Over the steady metallic drone of Hennix's tamboura Flynt weaves together Hindustani and Appalachian modes in a 40 minute improvisation. At the risk of over using a tired homily these really are two great tastes that taste great together. Bringing together the modal droniness of Appalachian folk music and classical Indian music in a completely unpretentious and, dare I say, punk rock way is totally welcome here at Aquarius.
MPEG Stream: "Purified By The Fire"

FLYNT, HENRY Raga Electric: Experimental Music, 1963 - 1971 (Locust) cd 14.98
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Fluxus mainstay and relative unknown until this recent spate of reissues, Flynt has dabbled in the supreme drone, explored hillbilly country and now on this reissue explores the 'raga' and traditional Indian music, but with his own bizarre twist. The opening track is a mutated version of the traditional Marines Hymn sung in a made up 'Hindustani' style, accompanied on simple acoustic guitar strums, creating a static almost drone. Tracks 2 through 5, titled Central Park Transverse Vocal #1-#4, are short sharp bursts (between 00:15 and 1:30) of wild howling and bizarre vocalising. The title track, Raga Electric, is a faux Hindustani raga, with droning un-tuned guitars and wild howling, supposedly recorded only hours after seeing Pandit Pran Nath perform. It actually sounds pretty great until the vocals, which become grating almost immediately. But it's still quite fascinating. The final track is Flynt playing the alto sax, an instrument he had never played, and never played again after this recording. Wild skronking and high pitched shrieks and whistles. Thirteen minutes of skreeeeeeeeeeee that definitely tests the endurance of your eardrums.
RealAudio clip: "Marines Hymn"
RealAudio clip: "Raga Electric"