Bleak Bliss

Vulture Club - Pure Agitator

Vulture Club was the work of Thomas Lee. He didn't get the chance to release much music before cancer took him in 2007. These two releases and the Wailing Bones track are the only things that saw the light of day ...

CDr released on his own Invisible Generation label in 2006.

Pure Agitator

The Vulture Club - Live Young, Die Fast And Leave An Exquisite Corpse

CD of feedback drenched doom drone released on Utech Records in 2007.

Live Young...

Various - Wailing Bones Volume Ten

Gavin Prior (of United Bible Studies), Ian Thomas' The Vulture Club, Grey Park and New Fairfield Parks And Recreation.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2007.

Volume Ten

Kheta Hotem - Live At Yläkaupungin Yö Festival Jyväskylä 2005

Kheta Hotem traced their roots back three thousand years to nomadic Artic tribes. They took this very seriously and incorporated their musical ethnography with indigenous instruments from across the world. They are also notable for having Keijo [Virtanen] as a core member who went onto make a huge impact on the labels that you would expect in this territory and records to this day.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Live At Yläkaupungin Yö Festival

Kheta Hotem - Bowl Ceremony

The Shamanism that you get when the sun doesn't go down for a very long time ... this was a CDr released on Ikuisuus in 2008. I've just realised that it is for free download on the Ikuisuus bandcamp with a lot of other really great things so feel free to go there instead.

Bowl Ceremony

Kheta Hotem - Winter Solstice

Stranger than the two that will appear above given the deconstructed good time jazz piano ...

CDr released on Foxglove in 2007.

Winter Solstice

Various - Wailing Bones Volume Eleven

Now it's the turn of Aineettomaksi Temperamentin, Jeff Gburek, Kheta Hotem and Wilson Lee's Fathmount.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2007.

Volume Eleven

Seaworthy - Tapes

... and we stay in Australia for the stratosphere defying drones of Seaworthy.

Self-released CDr from 2009 that saw the light of day in an edition of 50.

Tapes

Tim Coster - Star Mill

Listening to Tim Coster's music, it won't come as a surprise that he is originally from Auckland. Even though he is now based in Melbourne, he has the sound of subunderground New Zealand in his bones. CDr released on his own CLaudia label in 2007.

Star Mill

Various - Wailing Bones Volume Twelve

Here you get Thousands (Grant Capes, M. Geddes Gengras and Tim Goodwillie), Tim Coster, Seaworthy (Cameron Webb, Greg Bird and Sam Shinazzi) and Anthony Guerra & Matthew Nidek.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2007.

Volume Twelve

Stone Baby - If English Is Good Enough For Jesus, Then Its Good Enough For Me

Extraterrestrial drones and hovering guitars.

CDr released on Carbon Records in 2010.

If It's Good Enough For Jesus...

Ghost Brames Of The Cerf - Static Aero

Droning loops and shaman clatter from Jacob Garet and Florian Tositti on this CDr released on Leaf Trail in 2007.

Static Aero

Ghost Brâmes - Eagle Arpegi

Nearly forty minutes of growling freak folk on this CDr from Foxglove in 2007.

Eagle Arpegi

Various - Wailing Bones Volume Thirteen

Magnus Olsen Majmon's Elektronavn, Florian Tositti and Jacob Garet's Ghost Brames, Cory E. Card and Jennifer Marquart's Stone Baby and Aurélie Brouet and Constantin Dubois' Przewalski's Horses.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2008.

Volume Thirteen

Natural Snow Buildings - Shall I Kill My Own Child, I Will Never Sing The Glory Of Satan!

This is the first self-released tape and again is from 2001. There is "only" the titular track here but it is an epic long form version of the track on the preceding tape that takes the music into a completely different direction.

Shall I Kill My Own Child, I Will Never Sing The Glory Of Satan!

Whilst we are on the subject of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte. A few weeks ago, they have released a free six disc masterpiece.

Trust me, you really need it!

Natural Snow Buildings - Two Sides Of A Horse

This is a self-released C40 from 2001. As a private release, there were very few physical copies and presumably were only given to friends ...

Two Sides Of A Horse

Natural Snow Buildings - Tracks On The Bloody Snow

There are only two physical copies of this 2008 self-released CDr and they were given to Brad Rose of Digitalis Recordings and Nemo Bidstrup of Time Lag Records. These tracks are the earliest recordings of NSB, originally created between 1998 and 1999. This version of "The Dissociation Of Sir William Gull" is over three times as long and completely different in every other respect than the one that appears on the Two Sides Of A Horse tape.

Tracks On The Bloody Snow

Various - Wailing Bones Volume Fourteen

Wailing Bones was a series of CDrs released on Foxglove between 2004 and 2008. On the 14th and final volume, you get Greg Carson's Phosphene, Florian Tositti's Xochipilli, Sky City (Tom Carter, Robert Horton & Lee Ann and Lisa Cameron) and Natural Snow Buildings.

Released on Foxglove in 2008.

Volume Fourteen

Various - Greening Wave

Let's face it, you don't really read the crap that I write.

Let's just say that this is a quadruple C20 set alongside a CDr. And let's also just say that this was released on Jeff Astin's remarkable Housecraft Records in the less remarkable year of 2008.

Luckily for everyone you get a lot of Jeff Astin.

On the tapes: Xiphiidae, Royallen and Hairmaiden Of The Totem Robe, Jeff and Kane Pour's Tricorn And Queue, Jeff & Jason Nicolaus's 1994, Kane Pour's Hundreds as well as Kyle Conklin's Do Tell.

The CDr has live recordings of Xiphiidae, Royallen, Hairmaiden Of The Totem Robe, Hundreds and Jeff and Evan Galbicka's Cyquoia project.

Now do you really want me to tell you what I think about this or are you just going to download and listen? Thought so ...

Tapes

CDr

va - Gold Leaf Branches

Digitalis Recordings, run by artists Eden and Brad Rose since 2003, is probably the second or third greatest experimental/drone/folk/free-music label ever to come out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not only has their work as publisher/curators (and producers of the Foxy Digitalis webzine, RIP) been massively prolific, they have also heroically highlighted sub-underground, zero-visibility artists from America, Finland and New Zealand, putting Digitalis in roughly the same category as fellow visionaries/travelers Last Visible Dog, Jewelled Antler, Pseudo-Arcana and Celebrate/Psi/Phenomena. In other words, if it's on Digitalis (or sub-label Foxglove) it's probably worth your time.

Intrigued? Well, then this giant compilation ought to keep you busy for a while. "Gold Leaf Branches" came out in 2005 as a triple CD, with an extra bonus CDR for people who pre-ordered directly from the label. It's a pretty good representation of what Digitalis was about, with some music by the Roses' more well-known favorites (Six Organs of Admittance, Hala Strana, Hush Arbors, Marissa Nadler, Weird Weeds) and lots by artists that might be new to you: Plat Ypus, 6majik9, The Golden Oaks, Snowfoxx, Agitated Radio Pilot, Braspyreet, Kulkija, and too many more to list. Dive in!

disc 1
disc 2
disc 3
bonus disc

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