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WDT! Black Velvet Fuckere CD-R £5.99 Part of Kris Abplanalp of Virgin Eye Blood Brothers new on-going series dedicated to documenting sounds from the wackier fringes of Kentucky’s new music scene, WDT! was recorded in 2003 in Louisville Kentucky and features readings from Michael Lesy’s notorious Wisconsin Death Trip first published in 1973. A bunch of Kentucky heads are gathered here, generating one hell of a sweet hillbilly noir, including Norman Minogue and Steve Good of Incomparables Club as well as Joe Conroy (bass, cello, viola, mandolin, banjo, guitar), Salena Felicia (rhythm track), Heather Floyd (trumpet, flugelhorn, soprano sax), Angie Stahly (voice), Dan Willems (baritone sax, bass clarinet), Tony Woollard (cornet, flutes, electric guitar), Mary Yates (voice) and Bill Zink (voice, banjo, guitar). The combination of wild old-timey blurt and accounts of horrible murder is both poignant and ridiculous, pulling yr ears in two directions at once and the whole set has a weird sepia-toned quality to it that makes it sound like it could have been recorded at any time in the past 100 years. |
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The Palace At 4AM Black Velvet Fuckere CD-R £5.99 Part of Kris Abplanalp of Virgin Eye Blood Brothers new on-going series dedicated to documenting sounds from the wackier fringes of Kentucky’s new music scene, The Palace At 4AM was originally supposed to come out as a private press LP way back in the day but for some reason that escapes me right now it never did. Incomparables Club are the duo of Norman Minogue (shortwave radio, turntable, cello, theremin, spoken word) and Steve Good (bass clarinet, clarinet, voice) with contributions from Mike French (electric guitar and wooden sticks), Andy Willis (synthesizer) and Martin Williams (acoustic guitar) and their sound is pitched somewhere between goofy LAFMS-styled avant form, spooked American hobbyist late-night electronics, blurts of improv fire, deadpan spoken word absurdities and the kind of cultural ass-crack atmosphere that permeates all the best oddball/loner sides. If this hadda came out way back when, these guys would be seriously hailed. Great cover snap too. |
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The Legend Of Black Six Black Velvet Fuckere No Cat LP £11.99 New on Kris Abplanalp of Virgin Eye Blood Brothers/Valley Of Ashes' label, The Phantom Family Halo features members of Sapat and ex-members of The For Carnation and take their sound from what sounds like a classically Cleveland mutation of scorched glam rock. First long title track marries the kind of agit-pop piano more commonly associated with Paul Marotta's Styrenes with classic Rocket USA psychosis and a weird real people vibe that's somewhere between later Mark Tucker and Kenneth Higney's "Night Rider". Second side is more straight ahead glam/metal with aspects of oddball strains like Debris et al. Hard to know what the fuck to call it. Sounds good tho. Silkscreened vinyl-only edition. |
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Halcyon Daze, Mystikal Stupors/Krackhausblooze Black Velvet Fuckere 7" £5.99 "Imagine if the Edgar Broughton Band spent their formative years in a crack house on the bayou swamping out the rock in desperate need of a shot of penicillin. Now exit that doorpass and enter again: peak to peak of Mainliner, Psychosexual RnB, Eric Dolphy-Gagaku, William S. Burroughs ghost writing a straight line diatribe for a vertiginous Howlin Wolf and Tony Joe Whites wah bleaching on the beach with a Sassquatch. While Sapat's forthcoming LP/CD on Siltbreeze is a bong shot of dusty sunlight vitamin C enveloper rays, this 7" single is a quarantined crater of wasabi soup strainer knock your dick in the dirt dixie raunch. Spins at 33rpm and clocks in at nearly 15 minutes! Members of various Kentucky head units: Valley of Ashes, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Phantom Family Halo, Dead Child, Son of Earth and Kark." - Black Velvet Fuckere. |
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...Things From Inside Your Body Black Velvet Fuckere No Cat LP £11.99 New on Kris Abplanalp's (Sapat/Virgin Eye Blood Brothers/Valley Of The Ashes) label: "JACKKWACKER crawled out of the bleak bubble of the early 90's Bloomington, Indiana followed by a short lived relocation to Madison, Wisconsin, where they soon dissolved. Thriving briefly as outsiders of the Midwest No-Wave scene, they shared bills amongst folks like Couch, Duotron, the Scissor Girls, The Flying Luttenbachers, To Live and Shave in L.A., Zerobot and Lake of Dracula. Steering clear of flaccid progressive rock virtuoso noodling, Jackwacker have instead created the perfect juxtaposition of primal noise and know-how rock sounds. Plainly speaking, they just fucking rock." - BVF |
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Neutron Dracula Black Velvet Fuckere 7 £5.99 "13 gestating years past and Crappy Nightmareville's pod unfolds in full colour via this 7" single which is not just their debut but also birth marks the first of a four part vinyl single series: an engraved introduction by way of alien-forceps excavation of their Old Kentucky Womb. Prior stages spiralled from Public-Prank to Outer-Earth Music-Concräte to Scaling-the-Scaur of Bavarian-Salt-Licks. Side A, "Neutron Dracula", imagines the scene from gypsy classic Latcho Drom when children sing "We are the bloody nail in the foot of Jesus on the cross", only reinterpreted as a Saturday morning cartoon. Side B, "Black Beam Dub", is smoke from a wounded nurse surrealing Sun Ra into a new form of dub music that will have you and your headphones installing a seatbelt into your couch for endless round trips. Crappy Nightmareville is one of Louisville's longest running aural magnetic-bananimals and shares drinking water with a huge cast of bands including The Web, Evergreen, The Belgian Waffles, Sapat and Kark. Beautiful post-nuclear fall-out full-colour sleeve. Edition of 350." - Black Velvet Fuckere. |
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Ho-Ho-Kus Black Velvet Fuckere No Cat LP £12.99 “At least pray God to give me patience in my suffering.' So concludes 'Lover Go From Hence,' a tale of tumultuous romantic upheaval on the new Amolvacy record Ho-Ho-Kus. Here we have hearts wrenched from guts and firmly planted in the dirt; but also sprouting new romance, seduction, and... the church? And the French? Francois Rabelais wrote Garantua And Pantagruel -- a major influence on this album -- in the early 16th c. to caricature the faux morality of his time. Amolvacy offer Ho-Ho-Kus in the same cantankerous spirit, but this time perhaps to parody their own morality. Love, marriage, sex, affairs, betrayal, and loneliness are all exposed in naked vulnerability and placed on the chopping block for emotional dissection. Lead vocalist Sheila Donovan (ex-Tall Boys) is a longstanding member of the Laboratory Theatre Company in NYC, and her partners are Aaron Moore of Volcano the Bear and Dave Nuss of the No-Neck Blues Band. Together they are the Amolvacy family. All things were shared in the making of this record, nothing hidden, no secrets left untold." Pressed on clear vinyl, in a die-cut sleeve. |
