Lola V. Stain - 1992 - Mansarda / Ikona CD

Blind Dog Records ‎– 002 

Lola V. Stain was the band from Skopje, Macedonia, YUGOSLAVIA, formed in 1987 by musician Zlatko Oridjanski . The name of this band has been taken after one of the Margaret Dirass’s novel. The music of Lola V. Stain could be described as electroacoustic ambient music with mixture of traditional macedonian ethno music played by various guest musicians. They’ve released two antology albums Ikona (1990) and Mansarda (1992) on Croatian label Blind Dog Records. Zlatko Oridjanski shortly joined group Anastasia and reached worldwide success with their soundtrack for the Oscar nominated movie „Before the Rain“

Laurence Vanay - 1974 - Galaxies LP

SFP ‎– 024

Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of music producer and musician Laurent Thibault (ex-MAGMA). Here is her debut album entitled "Galaxies", a very rare item indeed and a Holy Grail for most collectors of 70ies underground French progressive
*Galaxies* opens in a progressive instrumental mood, a style elegantly dominating the entire record. The powerful swirling organ, with a sound that owes to early CATHARSIS, sets an atmosphere of acid hallucinatory mellowness which prevails throughout the whole recording. The sublime folk twists add an aura of quiet and restrained melancholy, soft and seductive yet in perfect emulation with the dreamy flute play. Refined sonorities are interwoven with troubled twists of anguish, to faint in an aetherial vaporous climate reminding delicate second Cressida or early Gracious. An album of inconspicuous, sincere beauty and a masterwork of the french progressive folk scene.

Kurt Vile - 2013 - Wakin On A Pretty Daze CD

Matador ‎– 998

Kurt Vile is slowly, quietly becoming one of the great American guitarists and songwriters, of our time. This 69-minute double album is comprised of sweeping, expansive songs that are both very intimate and conversational. Wakin On A Pretty Daze is a timeless record that would have sounded great 30 years ago, sounds great today, and will still sound great in another 30 years’ from now.
Beautifully produced by John Agnello, the record is filled with hazy, swooning guitar lines and dreamy, beatific, and occasionally sardonic vocals. It is summed up by the staggeringly gorgeous 9-minute opener, Wakin On A Pretty Day. The song is also the first video, directed by Jonathan Demme in the spirit of his landmark Springsteen video “Streets OfPhiladelphia.”
The record has other connections to Kurt’s home town. Steve Powers (ESPO), the renowned Philly street artist, painted the cover mural on an abandoned building near the Northern Liberties. The album is being announced via a mini-doc of Powers creating the mural with Kurt’s commentary, and the two of them talking about Philadelphian music and visual arts. The mural will be re-created in London, Los Angeles and New York.

Kelompok Kampungan - 1980 - Mencari Tuhan

 Strawberry Rain ‎– 007

 One of the true gems of the Indonesian scene, this album stands to be one of the best, and also one of the most unique albums to come from the region. Banned by the Shuko government soon after release, it remains somewhat obscure to most collectors up until now. An album created by Bram Makahekum (who had no musical experience or training at all) Kelompok Kumpangan had multiple members by trying to recreate the sounds of nature, even using original handmade instruments invented by the band themselves. The end result is nothing short of brilliant, one of our personal favourites from the region. There isn’t much to compare this to, maybe the Indonesian equivalent of a Paebiru or Genesis from Columbia at times, but it’s very unique and stands on its own. Wonderful progressive folk of the highest caliber interweaving flutes, violins, acoustic guitars, Indonesian percussion and other instrumentation. We can’t stand behind this one enough, it’s truly brilliant. 700 copies housed in paste on covers, includes insert with photos and history written by Indonesian music journalist Denny Sakrie. One time limited edition, CD limited to 1000 copies and has 4 songs not on the LP version that were never released on vinyl before

John Fahey - 2011 - Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958-1965) 5xCD

 Dust-to-Digital ‎– 021

As with all histories, context and an appreciation for the times are essential. In 1958, when the earliest of these recordings were made there were probably no more than a handful of reissues of pre-war country blues 78s available on record in the United States. The long-playing 33 1/3 record was, itself, only a recent invention. Today, with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pre-war blues and hillbilly reissues available and in print, when it’s possible to walk into any halfway decent record store (to the extent record stores, halfway decent or otherwise, still exist) and find the complete recordings of Charley Patton or Blind Willie Johnson, it may be difficult to comprehend just how obscure and how otherworldly this music once was. — Glenn Jones, from the Introduction to Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You

Inca Ore with Lemon Bear's Orchestra - 2006 - The Birds in the Bushes CD

5 Rue Christine ‎– 072

Rock critics, present company included, throw around the term "primitive" too
much. We use it to describe instrumentally underdeveloped but effective music.
In my mind, the word "primitive" alludes to pre-homosapien humanoids. When
describing an artist, the word, then, describes a caveman-like tribe
semi-rhythmically smashing rocks together in some type of ceremony around a
fire. From all the critical mythos surrounding The Godz, the first time I heard
them, I expected them to be a bunch of Cro-Magnon men communicating in grunts
with a guitar being played like it dropped out of the sky from a portal to the
future. It'd take someone pretty unpretentious and wacky to make something I
could simply grace with the "primitive" label.
Inca Ore is a wacky lady. She has an affinity for shouting Dadist,
free-association poetry and clanging pots and pans. Occasionally, she imitates
animals and blows a slide whistle. Her backing band, Lemon Bears Orchestra,
creates banging and scraping sounds and sometimes adds to Ore's animal battle
cries. Occasionally, there is a reverb-ridden flute line thrown into the mix to
remind us it is the 21st century. The whole thing is an organic chaos with a
very urban tint.
The majority of the songs on the album revolve around loose, almost calamitous
percussion and Ore's spoken-in-tongues vocal chanting. Ore's nonsensical
blathering echoes the language-approximation methods of the Sun City Girls but,
unlike the Girls, Ore never seems like she is attempting to be coherent. Even
when she is shouting in English, her sentences seem disembodied from any
meaning. Her voice evokes a child's wide vocal range — from the ethereality of
playground chants to the anger of a hissy fit.
One such hissy fit provides the album's best moment. The horrific "Glossolalia
the Gift of the Tongue" finds Ore shouting like Punky Brewster as her backing
band rips a piano's chords and provides clinking sword percussion and a bizarre
low moan. A venomous mix of insanity and disorientation occurs.
A lost-in-the-woods motif runs through a lot of Ore's compositions. The group
emits animal chants and vocal imitations of natural sounds to a backdrop of odd
percussive timing or perhaps weird piano clanging. Even when the group employs a
limited use of dissonant fuzz, as they do on the expansive mindfuck "Cape Meares,"
it seems organic. Of course, the lost-in-the-woods motif leads to an inevitable
fluting and guitar strumming on "Blue Train," but Ore and the Bears never fall
prey to the nostalgia hang ups many of their peers demonstrate. Instead, the
band floats the flute sounds in an eerie manor and uses a guitar to imitate a
slow moving train, highlighting dual vocal melody that sounds like the Manson
family reinterpreting the Velvet Underground's "Murder Mystery."
A sexual gloss adds flavor to the calamity. One of the male members of Lemon
Bears Orchestra provides a rhythmic thrusting voice for the percussion on "Lucky
One." Ore works her way into orgasmic swing, slowly building a chant along to
the point of a scream filled with ecstasy and violence. It's one of the first
times I've heard bare animalistic sexuality replicated perfectly in sound art
form.
The Birds in the Bushes is a step away from the doldrums of the whole
freak folk, new weird jive, but it is not an album that will appeal to a broad
audience. To the unwilling/untrained ear, the album sounds like a cataclysmic
mess of clanging and screaming. In his two and a half sentence review of Inca
Ore's album for Rock-A-Rolla, Bobby Bone wrote: "The result is an
unlistenable and irritating mess of clatter, hissing and chanting. Absolute
nonsense." Some people just aren't evolved enough to appreciate the primitive.

Hakaristi - 2022 - Työ & Kuolema

 

Filth And Violence – none

VA - 2008 - Music for Museums 2xCD

 

Kwanyin Records – kwanyin 028  415.61MB FLAC

VA - 2009 - Send + Receive: 10 Years Of Sound - 1998-2008

 

Send + Receive Editions – none  2.98GB FLAC

VA - 1999 - Harmony Of The Spheres 2xCD

Drunken Fish Records – DFR-50  692.25MB FLAC

 

Taylor Ho Bynum - 2016 - Enter the PlusTet

 

Firehouse 12 Records – FH12-04-01-025  870.39MB FLAC

  

VA - 2010 - Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. III : USA 2xCD

 

Important Records – IMPREC262  1.11GB FLAC

VA - 1994 - Ambient 4 - Isolationism 2xCD

Nirgiv – 8 39810  727.31MB FLAC

 

Tracklist:

1-1 KK Null / Jim Plotkin – Lost (Held Under)  7:44

1-2 Jim O'Rourke – Flat Without A Back  4:47

1-3 Ice – The Dredger  6:36

1-4 Raoul Björkenheim– Strangers  4:42

1-5 :Zoviet France: – Daisy Gun  7:38

1-6 Labradford – Air Lubricated Free Axis Trainer  3:22

1-7 Techno Animal – Self Strangulation  6:04

1-8 Paul Schütze – Hallucinations (In Memory Of Reinaldo Arenas)  8:17

1-9 Scorn – Silver Rain Fell (Deep Water Mix) 5:25

1-10 Disco Inferno – Lost In Fog  5:02

1-11 Total – Six  5:34

1-12 Nijiumu – Once Again I Cast Myself Into The Flames Of Atonement  9:10

2-1 Aphex Twin – Aphex Airlines  6:18

2-2 AMM – Vandoevre  7:28

2-3 Seefeel – Lief  6:07

2-4 'O'Rang – Little Sister  6:59

2-5 E.A.R. – Hydroponic  6:18

2-6 Sufi – Desert Flower  6:23

2-7 David Toop / Max Eastley – Burial Rites (Phosphorescent Mix)  5:59

2-8 Main – Crater Scar (Adrenochrome)  6:09

2-9 Final – Hide  7:27

2-10 Lull – Thoughts  8:02

2-11 Thomas Köner – Kanon Part One: Brohuk  10:35

Tristan Honsinger & Olaf Rupp - 2010 - Stretto

 

FMP – FMP CD 148  295.54MB FLAC

Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O'Rourke - 2023 - Tonic 19-01-2001

 

Black Truffle – BT100  438.33MB FLAC

Transit, Jeff Arnal, Seth Misterka, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley - 2005 - Transit

 

Clean Feed – CF055  295.21MB FLAC

VA - 2011 - Bridges 2x12''

Self-released – none  221.39MB FLAC

 TRACKLIST:

A Jim Denley & Espen Reinertsen – Bergerslagbrook

B Burkhard Beins & Jon Mueller – Netterden Channel

C Mats Gustafsson & Nate Wooley – Rhine

D Eric Carlsson & Steven Hess – Waal

The Residents & Renaldo And the Loaf - 2014 - Title in Limbo

 

Ralph Records – RR 8351  185.78MB FLAC

Toshinori Kondo - 1987 - 337

 

Cpie/Yons – 32•8H-103  207.49MB FLAC

Toshinori Kondo - 1995 - 東京Shadow

Polystar – PSCR-5424  362.55MB FLAC

 

Toshinori Kondo - 1993 - Touchstone

 

Moon Records – AMCM-4159  264.20MB FLAC

Toshinori Kondo / Tristan Honsinger - 1996 - This, That & The Other

 

Basic – basic 50007  229.70MB FLAC

Tristan Honsinger Quintet - 1996 - Map of Moods

 

FMP – FMP CD 76  452.72MB FLAC

Ingrid Laubrock - 2018 - Contemporary Chaos Practices / Two Works For Orchestra With Soloists

 

Intakt Records – Intakt CD 314  742.57MB FLAC

Jos Smolders & Jim O'Rourke - 2021 - Additive Inverse

 

Moving Furniture Records – MFR091  174.01MB FLAC

VA - 2007 - Traditional Music Sessions from Ireland

 

Not On Label  – none  358.42MB FLAC

Tristan Honsinger - 2000 - A Camel's Kiss

 

Instant Composers Pool – ICP 036  232.19MB FLAC

Toshinori Kondo & IMA – 1984 – 大変 = Taihen

 

Polydor – 3113-33  226.54MB FLAC

Sun Yizhou & Zhu Wenbo - 2022 - Responses

 

zappak – zappak-002  210.49MB FLAC

Atrium Carceri – 2015 - The Old City - Leviathan (Official Soundtrack)

 

Cryo Chamber – none

Yannis Kyriakides, Andy Moor - 2014 - A Life Is A Billion Heartbeats (Improvisations On Old Rebetika Songs)

 

Unsounds – 47u  318.97MB FLAC

Vanligt Folk - 2025 - Dischorealism

 

iDEAL Recordings – none

Dischorealism was initially intended to be a conceptual work about ”milk” but we quickly got tired of the idea and the result was partly something completely different. Nevertheless, partly the same in the sense of sucking the life out of somebody, exploiting and over consuming trust in any form. Dischorealism explores the cost of dual nature and circulates around themes such as friendship, sex, violence and drug abuse.

Dischorealism is IMAGE and SOUND and a collaboration between Vanligt Folk and videoartist Tobias Toyberg. This is the SOUND part of the collaboration.

Bambi - 2025 - TRAP OR DIE

 

Baila Ella Records – Not

Michalina Włodarczyk (born 28 October 2003), known professionally as Bambi, is a Polish trapper and songwriter.

In 2018, Bambi appeared in the blind auditions for the inaugural season of The Voice Kids with the song "Sweet Creature" by Harry Styles. The song's performance resulted in 3 coaches' seats being turned around. She was invited to the teams of Tomson and Baron, Dawid Kwiatkowski and Edyta Górniak. Bambi chose Tomson and Baron. She did not make it to the live episodes, having been eliminated at the battle stage…

On 1 January 2023, Bambi signed a contract with Bailla Ella Records, which is owned by Young Leosia. On 10 February, she released her first full-fledged single under the BE banner entitled "IRL", which topped the Polish charts, resulting in a gold certificate 3 months after the premiere.

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I honestly thought this was a parody album on first listen. Had to dig deeper than Wikipedia and translate some articles to learn this is straight up Polish pop, Rising Stars/Who's Got Talent division Bronze medalist stuff. Nothing I or probably anyone else on this site listens to.

But the music hit me like the first time I listened to Die Antwoord with the twist of being ultra-pop instead of anti-pop. The mixing and production on this album are as close to perfect as I can imagine. Speed rapping in Polish should be an Olympic event.

Srsly, I hate every style of song on this album but have never heard any of them performed or produced this well. Made me grin. Even the autotuning is enjoyably slick. I kept trying to dismiss this one but the longer I listened the more I noticed that every break, segué, opening and closing was perfect. Musical clichés set to 11 and performed/mixed at 110%.

Andy Emler - 2025 - Le Temps est parti pour rester

 

PEEWEE! – PW1016

Andy Emler's Music has this peculiarity, he composes to highlight the soloists who will interpret the work he hears. After some experiments in composition, for string orchestras, for brass instruments or even saxophones, a clarinet orchestra imposed itself on him.

Usually gathered as a quartet, this time it is eight clarinets that will be accompanied by Claude Tchamitchian, Eric Echampard and Andy Emler. Time has gone to Stay is an ode to this instrument offering a wide wealth of registers. The team, as virtuoso as it is facetious, promises an unforgettable concert both by the music and by the humanity that emerges from them when they are reunited.