Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Vanishing Voice
Stone Tablet

Important Records Imprec-122

CD
£6.99


Beautiful drug-woozy ensemble psych that builds from the slightest hints of tape-loop sci-fi chamber huzz into the most celestially charged space blues to come out of the ranks of the Vanishing Voice to date. Endlessly gorgeous music box melodies get trapped in wows of wonked taped while satellites chatter like small children lost in tall, tall grass and zonks of percussion build lush hymnals from sidereal harmonic/rhythmic constructs. When the whole group start to slowly march towards the speakers with chugs of single chords and those flighty, padding drums you could well be crossing the drawbridge into Schloss Norvenich during the first live actions that would birth Can's Monster Movie and Heidi Dahl's immaculately conceived vocalisations are every bit the match for Malcolm Mooney's bringing-down-the-sun style. If yr at all into the endless garage hypnotism of the '66 Velvets and the way that the various German/Euro communes turned that music from an up-tight urban spike into a wide-open form of communal narcosis then this is surely your poison. Highly recommended.

Vanishing Voice
Stone Tablet

Important Records Imprec-122

LP
£10.99


Limited vinyl version (500 copies) of the new Vanishing Voice album, which features different mixes from the CD and an extra track as well as screenprinted sleeves. Beautiful drug-woozy ensemble psych that builds from the slightest hints of tape-loop sci-fi chamber huzz into the most celestially charged space blues to come out of the ranks of the Vanishing Voice to date. Endlessly gorgeous music box melodies get trapped in wows of wonked taped while satellites chatter like small children lost in tall, tall grass and zonks of percussion build lush hymnals from sidereal harmonic/rhythmic constructs. When the whole group start to slowly march towards the speakers with chugs of single chords and those flighty, padding drums you could well be crossing the drawbridge into Schloss Norvenich during the first live actions that would birth Can's Monster Movie and Heidi Dahl's immaculately conceived vocalisations are every bit the match for Malcolm Mooney's bringing-down-the-sun style. If yr at all into the endless garage hypnotism of the '66 Velvets and the way that the various German/Euro communes turned that music from an up-tight urban spike into a wide-open form of communal narcosis then this is surely your poison. Highly recommended.

Vanishing Voice
Nordic Visions

Important Records Imprec-132

CD
£6.99


New CD edition of what was originally a limited self-released CD-R and an LP on Gispy Sphinx. Hypnotic jam logic in a higher-minded JOMF/PÑrson Sound style interwoven with beautiful group chants, almost songs and flights of pure boo joy. Heidi Diehl's vocals still have the power to reduce grown men to pools of heartbroken mope with the slightest breath. Also features G. Lucas Crane, Steven J. Taveniere and special guest Pete Nolan of Magik Markers et al.

Vanishing Voice
Vellum

Meudiademorte MDDM-28

One-Sided C50 Cassette
£7.99


Major album from The Vanishing Voice minus Wooden Wand and Satya Sai in an edition of 200 copies with gold silkscreened sleeves. Starts off in a beautifully evocative almost Mirror-esque glassy trance style before levitating through screaming radio waves ala MEV into something quite unlike anything else in their back catalogue, something that more closely resembles the more Bower-reverent moments of Pete Nolan's early Spectre Flux material. Either way, it sounds fantastic and might just be the best release by this cabal to date. OOP.