Artist: Paul de Jong
Title: This Is Who I Am
Album: IF
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Paul de Jong is best known as the cofounder, cellist and resident found sound savant of the beloved, defunct collage-pop duo, the Books. Five years after that band delivered their final album, The Way Out, to much acclaim, de Jong delivers his first solo album, IF.

IF sets the Books' early albums (particularly The Lemon of Pink) as a starting point, and elevates that beguiling sense of wonder and amazement to genuinely transcendent new heights. De Jong's ability to find the musical in the mundane has always been uncanny — it is part of what made the Books so magical – and that gift is what makes IF such a marvelous curiosity, and such a true pleasure to hear. In de Jong’s world, everything around him is a potential instrument: his mind-bogglingly vast collection of forgotten private press regional folk records, spoken-word oddities of indeterminate origin unearthed in discarded thrift store piles, and various everyday household utensils that we tend to take for granted. One man’s trash is de Jong’s tool to craft yet another treasure.

Featuring a handful of friends and family as musical guests, IF steers a course from joyously eccentric folk-pop to humorously inside-out jazz, resulting in a refreshing piece of outsider art with a replay value that's off the charts.

©2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

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Rafi Bookstaber
Late Summer
LP / Digital
Woodsist084

Release date: July 1, 2016

1. we can find a way
2. you get high
3. ocean above you
4. in the shade
5. the crystal fire
6. blue eyes crying in the rain
7. (gonna be a) late summer
8. make up yr mind

-produced by Rafi Bookstaber, Paul Grimes & M. Geddes Gengras.
-Limited to 300
-member of death chants, aswara, von himmel, mendocino


"we'd like to welcome back our old friend rafi bookstaber. it's all good…the immediate thing i felt when i jammed his "late summer" for the first time was wanting to hug life, cosmic love in the underground.
this is a diff kind of human digitata, it's sweet analog. you dig spring reverb, then maybe flesh it with sum RA-fi. pure jam. extended solos and explorations go from downtown woodland discord and eternal reverie to relatively clean rivers & beat earth poetics. pretty darlin' indeed...
what a vapor trail of music, very groovy to see folks finally catching up to this HEAD. dawn of a new vibration out of his occult pedigree in so many spaced out earth objects (death chants/aswara/von himmel/mendocino). bookstaber also logged golden hours with time-lag and that deep scene. the beginning of an ear and golden spirit juice. mined private press vision with his own azriel and humito imprints, shucked handmades -> there's also his groove & howl with the wolfpack in the MV/EE axis. oxide, preserves and records…rafi hummed the music of maidens. iron maiden this is not, shipbuilding it sails, four sail and many years ago i was there, so was rafi's FI. you dig apache? find some wampum, blow a journey, be here now for late summer eternal…"

- matt "mv" valentine

Rafi Bookstaber - We Can Find A Way

From the Near Negative EP available December 15th, 2017 from Western Vinyl

"Monday Give Me Monday" showcases Art Feynman's signature grooves, krautrock slink, and staccato bounce, all captured on his trusty four-track cassette recorder.

Earlier this summer, Art Feynman released his debut full-length album Blast Off Through the Wicker and toured the US with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier. Pitchfork describes him as "a cool purveyor of coked-out dub-kraut." Consequence of Sound calls his debut a "funky, psychedelic slice of afro-pop" and Tiny Mix Tapes regards it as an "analog masterpiece."

In 2018 Art Feynman will return with his sophomore LP that takes us even further into his motorik and afrobeat inspired world of sound.

Near Negative

Art Feynman - "Monday Give Me Monday"

new single off her new album "If It's Written" out Sept. 14th

DENA -  Speculations feat. Erlend Øye

Angel Bat Dawid is a Black Earth Traditional composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, and vinyl addict. She is also a sonic archaeologist gathering and excavating soundz/music from space, the heavens, the ether and beyond. She restores peace, love and healing to the world, using the most powerful tool imaginable: omniversal sound. In 2017, Angel self-released the EP, The Joy of Living; and in 2018, she composed a “cosmic love opera” based on Song of Solomon that was performed at Co-Prosperity Sphere, an experimental arts and cultural center in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood that is home to International Anthem Recording Co, Lumpen Radio, Public Media Institute, and a handful of other grassroots organizations. This evening, the Brothahood will consist of Xris Espinoza (percussion, saxophone), Adam Zanolini (woodwinds, bass), Isaiah Collier (saxophones, percussion) and N.W. Long (electronics).

Angel Bat Dawid - "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black Dr. Burroughs"

About The Freelancer's Blues

The Freelancer’s Blues, the second full-length LP from Brooklyn’s country crooner Dougie Poole, captures its cur-rent moment like nothing else. Poole updates the story-telling backbone of country music for an audience that is young, urban, romantically alienated and financially pre-carious, using the same threads spun by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson before him to write his own anthems for a new generation of country music fans. With his debut album Wideass Highway Dougie Poole established himself as forerunner in a class of musicians who grew up in a post-genre ecosystem equally as likely to be influenced by Ariel Pink and Animal Collective as Dolly Parton and Dwight Yoakam. On The Freelancer’s Blues, Dougie graduates from drum machine and synthesizer bedroom country to a full band with honky-tonk harmonies, wailing pedal steel, and carefully constructed arrangements. Produced by Jonathan Schenke (PC Worship, Gong Gong Gong, Public Practice) The Free-lancer’s Blues does the seemingly impossible of staying true to Poole’s heritage in the DIY scenes of New York and Providence, while simultaneously certifying him as a country music bonafide.

About Dougie Poole

Dougie Poole is a musician and songwriter living in Brooklyn, New York. Coming of age in Providence, he dabbled in heavier and more exprimental music before maturing into a country auteur. He writes earnestly about his experience (life in the big city, heartbreak in the digital age) and approaches country as an experimental music form, as well as a tradition. He has shared tours nationally with Jerry Paper, Still Corners and Bong Wish, and in 2019 guested on the Drugdealer album Raw Honey.

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Dougie Poole - Vaping On The Job (From 'The Freelancer's Blues' album out 6/12)

The Physical Life of Marilyn

Release date: August 7th, 2020
https://elparaisorecords.com/

Martin Rude (Sun River) & Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui) team up for a genre-defying record that was recorded during an exceptional session on March 3rd 2020. Martin brought his Double Bass, Acoustic & Baritone guitar into the studio of Causa Sui, where Jakob's drums were already miked & prepped by soundwiz Jonas Munk, freshly tuned from the new Causa Sui recordings. The music they played ranges from sprawled out pre-fusion electric jazz to psychedelic folk ragas. After the sessions, the hours of free floating music was edited & dubbed by Jakob Skøtt into shorter cohesive segments, but maintaining the improvised vibe of these first takes. 

It is a record that pays homage to the great innovators of jazz: Miles & Trane (or perhaps more fittingly their peak-drummers: Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette & Elvin Jones), as well as Mingus at his fiercest or Sun Ra at his most exotic. Not merely a tribute, the album doubles down with guitar pickings ala John Fahey & Sandy Bull, as well as sparse layers of oddly-tempered mallet percussion and synthesizers. But perhaps the closest reference isn't something of a certain place in time, but rather a free flowing ethos of stoic proportions: letting happen what it may, turning the accidents and mistakes along the way into something vital.

Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo: "A New Arrival"

Dublin noisers Girl Band are at the controls for the 30th mixtape of the series (also the first of 2021).
The cult quartet graced us with nearly three hours of selected tunes - from avantgarde compositions and industrial to post punk and hip hop.

Tracklist:
1. Don Reed featuring The Voice Of Love - Nature Boy
2. Philip Glass - Floe
3. Roly Porter - In Flight
4. The Flaming Lips - Are you a Hypnotist?
5. Portishead - Machine Head
6. Death Grips - Come Up And Get Me
7. Yoko Ono, The Flaming Lips - Cambridge 1969/2007
8. Meridian Brothers - Puya del empresario
9. Los Saicos - Demolicion
10. Richard Swift - Lady Luck
11. John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chickentown
12. Cumbia Siglo XX - En la Naga Pedale
13. Los Piranas - El venado triste
14. Adonis, Osain del Monte - La Guaracha
15. Jean Grae, Quelle Chris - Gold Purple Orange
16. Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats - Track 07
17. The Fall - Dr Buck's Letter
18. Sun City Girls - The Shining Path
19. Lankum - Willow Garden
20. Junior Brother - Full Of Wine
21. Isao Tomita - Suite Bergamasque: Clair de Lune
22. Lankum - The Pride of Petravore
23. Executive Slacks - The Bus (12" Version)
24. Talking Heads - The Great Curve
25. Naive Ted - the punisher's wrath (Sherkin mix)
26. Swans - She Loves Us
27. Lightning Bolt - Dead Cowboy
28. Paula Temple - Monstro
29. Special Request - Spectral Frequency
30. Pan Sonic - Rahina II
31. Paula Temple - Gegen
32. Lot.te - History of Discipline
33. Slam - Severed

Angel Bat Dawid - "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black Dr. Burroughs"

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