@elljott: sure! have added them into the description now :)

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Diaper Island

Peace on the Rise

Chad VanGaalen - Peace on the Rise

peche

Another end and a new beginning.
A circle.
A road to nowhere and nothing.
A fatal bluff,
Honesty doesn’t come easily but soon you’ll see.
You get what you want in the end.
You just don’t want what you want and the circle continues.

Life is the hard place between nothing and a cold shoulder,
All the bolder:

Life is no where.
Life is misery
Life is apathy.

And life is happening so brace yourself

But also embrace yourself.

Your misery is yours, 
Cradle it,
Nurse it,

Because the gods will not reimburse you
And your statutory rights do not apply

So get by by escaping 
Because as Heraclitus said nature loves to hide,

And so the best of life grows in those darkened places

And on the faces that are worn out, and grey and old, 
The wretchedness and the stink
On the brink of giving up
Hot coals and cold suns
The suffering

___________________________________________________________


I am unable to carry this weight on my own

A bashful admission but a truthful position

the fable of our constitution came clear in times apart 

I know where I am unwanted.
I know when I am unwanted.

And in this deceitful disconnect the gifts I lay at your feet grew of mould and decay

I was wasted and wasting and now I am wasten

But the circle doesn’t care anyway, it just continues.

___________________________________________________________

This is not to say that thing are unfair. The measuring stick just doesn’t fit.

So get used to it.

And get used to it again. 

And again.

And again.


Circle

Buy ltd edition pin badge w/ download code:
http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/574704-zee-town-the-dog-boys-plastic-boy-1-pin-badge

Belated but rather delightedly we are welcoming Zee Town and The Dog Boys to our Pin Pal Club. Continuing a love affair that first begun when we stumbled across an early Black Tambourines demo in a Falmouth record shop, Zee Town & The Dog Boys are the latest Cornish band to catch our attention.​ We were hooked after hearing last year's EP 'II' - perfectly summarised by their label as "an alluring haunting 15 minutes that takes you to the last sunset of the season, most probably on a cliff top in Kernow. Cut up cassette tapes, weighty slow jams and delicate melancholy voices​". Plastic Boy is the first new track since the EP and showcases an exciting advance from their previous material. It was mastered by Dan E Brown which in our minds is always a good seal of approval.

Zee Town And The Dog Boys - Plastic Boy

Mario Batkovic self titled LP to be released on Invada Records on all formats 17/03/2017

Mario Batkovic - Quatere

Prana Crafter is William Sol, a musical mystic who blends the raw energies of nature with guitars, synthesizers, singing bowls, and a dose of flow-consciousness. The resulting sonic nectar flows out from the amplifier, cascading in the mind of the listener, splashing mantras against the listener’s third ear. Some music is meant to entertain, to be consumed like flashing patterns on a TV screen. Not so with the music of Prana Crafter. This music is a sonic-tapestry of energies that are meant to envelop the listener and deliver a message that, as Sol puts it, cannot be known through symbol or through sign. Prana Crafter has released albums of kosmische flavored psych rock and acid folk on Beyond Beyond is Beyond, Eiderdown, Deep Water Acres, and Reverb Worship. Sunrise Ocean Bender and Cardinal Fuzz Records are proud to join in the journey with the psych-folk boon ‘Enter the Stream’.

Likened to artists across the psychedelic and folk spectrums—Neil Young, Popul Vuh, Agitation Free, Träd, Gräs & Stenar, Ben Chasny, Elliot Smith—Sol’s self-professed mentors-in-spirit Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, and Manuel Göttsching are present as well in familiar and surprising ways. In review it has been said that Prana Crafter’s music is “an example of psych-folk at its finest” (Raven Sings the Blues), “like a long lost pressing from the early 70s, it’s a mist shrouded mysterious meditation” (Shindig Magazine), and even that, “few other musicians are making music as ambitious and genuine as Prana Crafter” (The Active Listener).

Sol has said he thinks of himself as a conduit for the music and ‘Enter the Stream’ once again proves it. At times highly personal and gently psychedelic, the album always wears its kosmic heart on its sleeve. ‘Enter the Stream’ is an album in the way that so many albums these days are not. Not a collection of singles, not tailor-made for an audience. This is a carefully flowing composition blooming into a kosmische-acid-folk opus. From start to finish, ‘Enter the Stream’ is a journey that takes the listener through a landscape of pristine natural beauty, human emotion, and esoteric undercurrents.

8 tracks, 38 minutes.

Limited edition transparent green/white or black with multi-format download included. Available as a download only or limited edtion Sam Giles version CD.

Releasing on/around 07/31/18

Enter The Stream

SOB Store

Woke Up Drunk

Instrumental from the fourth LP album Opera

Opera 

Hymn

Charity single in aid of The Alzheimer's Society of Ireland, released on September 22nd 2020.

Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xuah1iRUsk&t

'Memory' by Aural Air & Patrick Mc Eleney
Artwork by Tom Doig
Recorded at Attica Audio by Tommy McLaughlin
With support from Richard Roche and Earagail Arts Festival.

Lyrics:

Am I awake, or still asleep?
Is this a dream?
I wander through, these corridors
They sing for me
This melody, is still with me
It sets me free
These corridors, these memories
Play that song for me

Somethings wrong, inside of me
Yeah I know, yeah I know, know
But inside me, lives a melody
Sing it low, sing it low, low

Am I awake, or still asleep?
Am I losing me?
But mirrors rest, on these walls
Still looks like me
These locked doors, these melodies
Have I found the keys?
These corridors, they’re who I am
And I’m still me

They think the walls, are closing in
I say no. You’re not listening
These corridors, I hear them sing
They give me life, I start again

Something’s wrong, inside of me
Yeah I know, yeah I know, know
But inside me, lives a melody
That I know, that I know, know
This melody, you won’t take from me
No you won’t, no you won’t, no
In my dreams, lives this melody
Sing it low, sing it low, low

Memory

'Memory' -- Aural Air & Patrick Mc Eleney

Debut Album from BUCKBUCKMOOSE.
Many thanks.
xx

C ROD J FRUIT pt1.

Robbie Basho - Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes
A 5CD Box Set - All Tracks Previously Unreleased
Available 12/4/2020
PRE- ORDER : http://www.tompkinssquare.com/bashoboxset.html

Robbie Basho (1940-1986) is widely regarded as one of the progenitors of what's commonly known today as American Primitive guitar. Growing up in Maryland alongside neo-traditional guitar explorers John Fahey and Max Ochs, Basho's path would take a decidedly different turn, bringing Hindi, Indian, Japanese and Native American musical traditions into his work. His albums for Takoma and Vanguard have left an indelible trail of influence across generations of musicians, from William Ackerman and Pete Townshend to Ben Chasny and William Tyler.

Liam Barker first became aware of Basho having purchased Tompkins Square's reissue of Venus in Cancer, released in 2006. This led him on an incredible fact-finding expedition, unraveling the many layers of mystery surrounding Basho's life and death, all deftly compiled and depicted in his documentary film, Voice of the Eagle : The Enigma of Robbie Basho.

During the research process, Barker came across a large cache of unheard Basho tapes recorded throughout his career, ranging roughly from 1965-1985. By arrangement with Basho's Estate and the original custodians of the tapes, Tompkins Square is set to release Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes, a 5CD set of previously unreleased material, on December 4th, 2020. The set includes notes by Barker, Henry Kaiser, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones and Richard Osborn, as well as many unseen photographs. The box set package featuring gold foil inlay, poster and extensive booklet, was designed by Barbara Bersche, known for her work on the 2009 Grammy-nominated Alan Lomax in Haiti box, as well as the new Dust-To-Digital Harry Smith B-Sides box.

TSQ 5715 - Robbie Basho / Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes - 5CD set

Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes

American Sunday

Speedy Wunderground release their third single, ‘The Bride’ by TOY & Natasha Khan on July 1st.

The track will be available as a limited edition of 250 7” and features a dub version of the track, ‘Here Comes Dub Bride’ on the B-Side.

www.speedywunderground.com | @speedywunder | toy-band.com | @thebandtoy
 

‘The Bride’ is a re-working of Iranian song "Aroos Khanom" by Amir Rassaie from the record "Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation", an album which had been on relatively continuous loop in the studio whilst TOY and Dan were working on new material.

After weeks of obsessing over this one song in particular, they decided to cover it and make it the next Speedy Wunderground recording.  TOY took the basic chord pattern of the original track and made it their own.  Natasha then dropped by the studio, heard the track and loved it and started re-working the lyrics (after having them translated) and the melody.  The entire recording was completed in 5 hours.  The speediest Speedy Wunderground yet.

In keeping with the label’s ‘manifesto’ the single was recorded live in the dark with smoke and lazers and features the Swarmatron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyub78p924.  It was produced by Dan Carey in his South London studio throughout a night and mixed the following day.

On the previous Speedy Wunderground recording session the ‘label ruling’ of ‘no lunch break’ had to be relaxed during recording when members of the Archie Bronson Outfit complained of hunger.  A similar rule-breaking episode occured during their third recording when a rough edit of the track was taken to TOY’s Field Day afterparty and played out to much delight from the crowd before final mixing of the song the following day.

An interview about the label and its 10 point ‘manifesto’ can be found here via The Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/11362-speedy-wunderground-dan-carey-interview-listen-steve-mason-emilana-torrini-toy-i-go-out

The label released their first single, ‘I Go Out’ by Steve Mason & Emiliana Torrini in February which was followed by the second release, ‘I Was A Dead Duck’ by Archie Bronson Outfit in May.



SW003: TOY & Natasha Khan - The Bride

"The Line" is the third single taken from Mood Rings debut album VPI Harmony. 

www.mexicansummer.com

Mood Rings - "The Line"

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