29 AUGUST 2010
Ducktails: Back To The Beach
NEW RELEASES
Hey everyone – another major batch of releases from VT, headed off with two killer new limited CD-Rs on Nyali Recordings, a new album from Smoke Jaguar and a killer collection of radio sessions from Pumice that stands as one of his best long players to date. Also got the new limited to 500 copies Ducktails LP, Live On WFMU, on Inflated Records. New upgraded vinyl reissue of J.D. Emmanuel’s amazing loner synth side Wizards on Important Records. New hardback book + CD-R from Graham Lambkin on Penultimate Press that collects 100 new drawings. All VT copies come from the sub-edition of 100 copies that are signed and hand-numbered by Lambkin himself. Excellent new Eli Keszler LP on ESP-Disk featuring American Idol hero Andrew Fenlon (!). Killer new LP from Brisbane garage band Kitchen’s Floor. New Moon Unit LP on Blackest Rainbow Recordings. Ophibre 3” on Kendra Steiner Editions. Major new Heroine CD-R from MV & EE with Mick Flower, Hit The North, full lick by our COM correspondent at large, Andrew Ross, below.
RESTOCKS
Paul Dunmall/Chris Corsano LP on ESP-Disk. Sir Plastic Crimewave and Derek Rogers CD-Rs on Kendra Steiner Editions. Trauma and Masami Kawaguchi’s New Rock Syndicate CD-Rs on Nyali Recordings. MV & EE with the Golden Road No Floor Tour April 2010 box set on Blackest Rainbow Recordings.
TIP OF THE TONGUE
Pumice
Worldwide Gullet
Nyali Recordings 5
CD-R
£7.99
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22 AUGUST 2010
Les Rallizes Denudes: Nada Nada Nada Nada
NEW RELEASES
Hey everyone – great to meet so many customers at VT’s Subcurrent 2010 fest last night, thanks to everyone who came out for making it such an amazing night. Back to the latest releases: killer new self-released CD-R from the Flower-Corsano Duo that expands on the torrential blueprint laid down on The Chocolate Cities. Amazing new edition of 99 copies MV & EE CD-R, Bollywoe, on Child Of Microtones. Balam Acab 12” on Tri Angle Records. Two excellent archival unearthings from Alga Marghen, a feral collection of sound poetry and action from original member of the Lettrist International Jean-Louis Brau and some mesmerizing duo improvisations from Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti. Also scored the vinyl reissue of an extremely obscure UK DIY cassette from 1982, Narki Brillans of The Homosexuals’ cracked classic, Narki Goes Into Orbo, on War Extension. Limited to 100 copies split 7” from Christina Carter and Islaja on Root Strata. 7” from Games (Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford) on Hippos In Tanks. Much-anticipated vinyl editions of Les Rallizes Denudes’ legendary Heavier Than A Death In The Family and Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes on Phoenix Records, as well as a vinyl edition of the self-titled Speed, Glue & Shinki double. Beautiful outer space synth work from Pulse Emitter on Expansive. Amazing, unclassifiably dark ‘noise’ album from Relay For Death on Hanson.
RESTOCKS
Les Rallizes Denudes CDs on Phoenix Records. A ton of LPs/CDs on Alga Marghen. Various Charalambides/Christina Carter releases.
TIP OF THE TONGUE
Flower-Corsano Duo
You’ll Never Work In This Town Again
No Label No Cat
CD-R
£7.99
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15 AUGUST 2010
Matthew Valentine, Erika Elder & Doc Dunn: Meet Wee Boaby
photo by David Keenan
NEW RELEASES
Hey everyone, counting down to VT’s Subcurrent festival next Saturday with a bumper harvest from MV & EE including four new limited Heroine CD-Rs and a limited eight cassette box set – No Floor Tour – on Blackest Rainbow Recordings. We’ve called in our resident COM-watcher, Andrew Ross, to give us the full lick on the new titles while Matthew Valentine has contributed a tour diary and a picture gallery in order to bring it on. Check it out here. This week’s Tip Of The Tongue is the vinyl reissue of White Boy And The Average Rat Band’s insane 1980s punk/metal private press side. New LPs on Siltbreeze from Fabulous Diamonds and Alastair Galbraith. CD-R from xNoBBQx on Black Petal and a new zine, Hakisou, with contributions from Joshua Burkett, Matt Earle (xNoBBQx/Craft Bandits et al), Suishou No Fune, Tetuzi Akiyama and more. Limited No Balls (Brainbombs offshoot) 7” on DF. Oneohtrix Point Never/Antony/Fennesz 7” on Editions Mego with Antony covering the title track from OPN’s Returnal. Two Killer LPs on Pete Swanson’s new private press, a solo album and a split LP with Rene Hell. New Darren Tate CD on Fungal. Insane new limited CD-R from Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine’s new group, Urban Parable, on Sonic Oyster Records, furthering the Ultrahits style with a series of, uh, house, techno, trance and drum and bass tracks (??!!). New Various Artists compilation on Blackest Rainbow Recordings with exclusive tracks from Akron/Family, Joanne Robertson & Matthew Ashworth, Wand, Natural Snow Buildings, Married In Berdichev, Moon Duo, The See See and Seadog.
RESTOCKS
Last copies of the Craft Bandits CD and the La Grieta CD on Black Petal. Emeralds & Oneohtrix Point Never on Editions Mego. Tons of stuff on Siltbreeze. Out of print Tyvek LP. Last copies of the Vertical Slit LP. International Hello LP.
CONTRIBUTOR COLUMN AND PHOTO GALLERY
Matthew Valentine
Matthew Valentine’s Child Of Microtones imprint was one of the first labels to fully explode the CD-R format, combining deluxe packaging with exploratory psychedelia and extended rural glam. He was the brains and the conceptual clout behind Brattleboro’s legendary Free Folk Fest in 2003, an event that was pretty much ground zero for the contemporary underground and that gathered alla the emergent tribes in the same spot for the first time. But really MV has been a key player since back in the day, with Tower Recordings being a central component of Siltbreeze’s first wave while his editorial duties on the sadly-defunct Cock Displacement buzzed a whole bunch of brains. But it’s his work with partner Erika Elder that has best brought together his various obsessions, minting a recording process known as Spectrasound that exposes the most sidereal aspects of the jam while fusing Dead/Allman Brothers-style improvisations with free jazz, raga, folk and blues in order to mint a visionary take on underground modes. MV is free folk. He’s also a wordsmith par excellence, an inspired writer (check out his first novel, Small As Life & Infinitesimally As Pure) and filmmaker (The Temptation To Zoology) and an active proponent of the up country good life. We’re lucky to have him. Here he’s reminiscing about the April 2010 No Floor Tour in anticipation of his headlining shot at VT’s Subcurrent 2010 fest. Look out for the winner of the top ten middens…. http://www.volcanictongue.com/columns/show/16
UPCOMING SHOWS
VOLCANIC TONGUE PRESENTS:
SUBCURRENT 2010: No Concept/No Clue
Back by popular demand
MV & EE w/John Moloney and Mick Flower
Richard Youngs (Ultrahits set)
Heather Leigh
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides
Smoke Jaguar
Saturday, 21 August 2010
The CCA, Glasgow
Doors 6:30PM
Music starts at 7PM SHARP!
£10 (no advance tickets/pay on the door)
No VT stall at the event but the shop will be open all day on Saturday as usual: 11am-6pm.
TIP OF THE TONGUE
White Boy And The Average Rat Band
s/t
Roach Records MM-11761
LP
£15.99
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