Bleak Bliss

Makoto Kawabata - Musique Cosmique Electro-Acoustique

Deep-space psychedelic electronics vinyl, released on Qbico in 2003.

Musique Cosmique Electro-Acoustique

Sun Kich - Lucky Mountain Hey!!!!!!!!!!

Sun Kich were Seiichi Yamamoto and Tatsuya Yoshida and I think that it is the only release under that name.

Released on Japan Overseas in 1997.

Lucky Mountain Hey!!!!!!!!!!

Jon Rose & Otomo Yoshihide - Tatakiuri

Inspired collaboration that covers just about every piece of ground you can think of! Bewildering, sublime and very funny at points.

Released on Japan's Creativeman Disc. in 1995.

Tatakiuri

Bongwater - Jimmy / Lesbians of Russia

Shockabilly - The Ghost Of Shockabilly

In 1982, Shockabilly was formed out of the ashes of Eugene Chadbourne's LSD Country & Western quintet The Chadbournes. When John Zorn and the late Tom Cora departed, they left a trio in their wake. Eugene Chadbourne, Kramer and David Licht carried on as the newly named Shockabilly.

Mark Kramer has appeared in some absolutely seminal outfits such as Half Japanese, B.A.L.L., Bongwater, Butthole Surfers and The Fugs. He also owned and operated the legendary and unique Shimmy Disc label. The label had such a singular take on the world that I would buy every new release without knowing what it was...just because it was a Shimmy release! They released Ruins "Stonehenge" onto an unsuspecting Western world ferchristssake! Some corporate shites took Shimmy Disc over in the '90's and (from memory) then went bust. I called it Karma at the time! Kramer has since set up Second Shimmy where he continues to release weird and wonderful music and has (re) remastered some of his work.

David Licht has also played in B.A.L.L., Bank Of Sodom, Bongwater and When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water.

This CD release on Shimmy Disc from 1989 compiles remastered versions of the first two lps "Earth Vs Shockabilly" and "Colossseum".

If you have never heard Shockabilly, you will have no reference points! Bizarre, inverted, twisted and exhilarating all the way down!

Ghost

Owl Xounds & Family Battle Snake - Split

CDr released on Blackest Rainbow in 2007.

Family Battle Snake is Bill Kouligas' long-standing experimental project.

Owl Xounds & Family Battle Snake

Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy vs Datashock - Split

C40 released on Meudiademorte in 2007.

Datashock are a "German neo-hippie-spook-folk collective with no fixed line-up, a policy, which suits their without-portfolio sound down to the ground. Datashock strays away from the instrumental template towards a more shamanic (and shambolic) conjuring of ancestral voices from an array of junk electronics, effects pedals and DIY tape manipulation rigs." Which makes for a neat fit on this tape.

Galaxy & Datashock

Owl Xounds - Stoned & Zoned

2 x 3" cdrs released on Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions in 2007.

"As one of NYC’s most aggressive fire-jazz units, Owl Xounds continues to link ESP’Disk and the Misfits, but here also approaches beautiful noise on two 20+ minute pieces. Mainstays Adam Kriney (drums) and Gene Janas (upright bass) are augmented by Bonnie Kane on amplified flute and sax with electronics. Kane’s contributions bring the unit to its most psychedelic paramount, her feedback-sax worshipping at the gates of guitar gods like Les Rallizes Denudes and Blue Cheer, yet affectionately rooted in Albert Ayler. Kriney (La Otracina) moves the action forward, ravaging without destroying, and Janas (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bern Nix’s Sedition Ensemble) practically rips the strings off his bass, yet both know when to let textures form on their own."

Stoned & Zoned

Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy - Touch The Iceberg

C44 released on Fuck It Tapes in 2007. Side A is a live recording at the Flywheel Arts Centre in Easthampton, MA in November 2006 which includes the aforementioned Moore brothers.

Kind of sounds like a ghost orchestra warming up in the basement beneath you and then decomposing from there. Which is a good thing.

Touch The Iceberg

Arrington de Dionyso & Owl Sounds - Cow On Mushrooms

CDr released on Colour Sounds Recordings in 2005.

Arrington de Dionyso also appears in the excellent Old Time Relijun.

Don't have a pic of the cover but they appear in the jpeg with Gene and Thurston Moore who appear on the next tape.

Cow On Mushrooms