Atrax Morgue - Spasmosynthetics

Thoroughly unpleasant screaming by Marco Corbelli, released on tape by Labyrinth in 1997.

Atrax Morgue - Spasmosynthetics

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Ajilvsga - The Origin Of The Chaul




Ajilvsga were Brad Rose & Nathan Young. Of their many releases, this is probably the crowning achievement. Four tapes of varying lengths released on the Digitalis sub-label Dial Square Tapes in 2010.

The Origin

The Chaul

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Two




The Futurians, Robert Horton Vs. Egghatcher (i.e. himself), Michael Donnelly's Terracid and Brad Rose & Nathan Young's mighty Ajilvsga.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2005.

Volume Two

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Seht - Dronemusic




... and this is the aforementioned and self-explanatory release. I'm pretty convinced that this includes some of Stephen's earlier work as Logstore but given that the assumption is based upon the existence of one of those lost New Zealand lathes maybe I'll never know for sure.

CDr released on Campbell Kneale's revolutionary and revelatory Celebrate Psi Phenomenon in 2001.

Dronemusic

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Seht - Goodbye, America, And Have A Nice Day




Looped drones and field recordings from Stephen Clover. This serves as a partial reconstruction of the earlier Dronemusic CDr.

Released on Antony Milton's PseudoArcana in 2002.

Goodbye, America, And Have A Nice Day

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Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood - Statues From Space




The visionary Sisterhood are siblings Kristina and Michael Donnelly and Ian McIntyre. This is a CDr released on Mike's Music Your Mind Will Love You in 2006.

Statues From Space

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Apple Snails - Only On A Macadam Road




Apple Snails appears to be the work of Tami Russell. Inner space explorations released on Foxglove on 2007.

Only On A Macadam Road

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Three




Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Apple Snails, The Serial Harvest and Stephen Clover's Seht.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2005.

Volume Three

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The North Sea - The Oscelot Chronicles Vol. 1




The extremely talented and prolific Brad Rose does it again ...

CDr released on Foxglove in 2004.

The Oscelot Chronicles Vol. 1

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The North Sea - The Oscelot Chronicles Vol. 2




Lovely guitars and field recording / found sound wrapped up in a CDr released on Foxglove in 2004.

The Oscelot Chronicles Vol. 2

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Four




The Stumps, Brad Rose's The North Sea, Mike Shannon and Robert Horton's Broken Mask and Alex Cobb's Taiga Remains.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2005.

Volume Four

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The Clear Spots - Electricity For All




Exquisite double CDr that excites and delights me more each time I hear it ... the hint of the fret damage and chaos created by early Sonic Youth only serves to seal the deal.

Electricity

For All

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Heavy Winged - The Thinner The Air




Stone cold genius trio of Brady Sansone on bass, Jed Bindeman on drums and Ryan Hebert on guitar.

C36 released on Blackest Rainbow in 2009.

The Thinner The Air

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The Lost Domain - Something Is...




Effectively, this is the "Alain-Fournier's Dream" CDr released on Shy Tone in 2001. You also get the 29 minute "Malcolm Mooney For President" which in itself is an admirable ambition for our future reality.

CDr released on Rhizome in 2004.

Something Is...

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The Lost Domain - White Man At The Door




Semi-surreal Australian subundergrounders who, on the first track, churn out a barely recognisable version of Zep's "In My Time Of Dying" for 14 and a half minutes. Top Banana!

Released on Digitalis Recordings in 2007.

White Man At The Door

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Five




The Clear Spots, Wolfskull, The Lost Domain and the great Heavy Winged.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Volume Five

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Keijo / Robert Horton - 50




This was released to coincide with 50th birthday of Robert Horton. The first disc was recorded on Keijo Virtanen's 50th birthday some five years earlier. You get Keijo performing live improvisations with Jarmo Saarti, Sami Nybacka, Jari Kaukua and Jussi Karsikas of Finnish bands Khem and Numinosum.

Double CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

51

52

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Bjerga / Iversen - Hijacked Frequencies




Sindre Bjerga and Jan-Morten Iversen doing pretty much what it says on the tin.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Hijacked Frequencies

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Emerald Cloud Cobra - Red Rayon Flower, Night Beneath The Sea




Drone as religious ritual from Emanuel Côté on this CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Red Rayon Flower...

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Six




Emanuel Côté's Emerald Cloud Cobra, Ville Moskiitto, Bjerga / Iversen (Sindre Bjerga and Jan-Morten Iversen) and Keijo.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Volume Six

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Niagara Falls & The Clear Spots - Plays Spiral Isles / Smokehouse Debris




On here, Niagara Falls are Noah Raymond Levey, Norman Fetter and Sam Cusumano and deliver top-notch ritual psychedelics. The Clear Spots were Adam, Matt and Thomas Bugaj with Kevin Moist and bring a swerve to the discordant fuzz-rock. It's a shame that both bands were so short lived ...

CDr released on Deep Water Acres in 2006.

Plays Spiral Isles / Smokehouse Debris

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Annapurna Illusion vs Niagara Falls - Split




Annapurna Illusion is the work of Maxime Primault who also creates as High Wolf and Enfer Boréal (amongst others). The heavy drones of Annapurna act as the perfect counterpoint to the blissful comedown of Niagara Falls.

CDr released on Amid The Waves in 2009.

Annapurna Illusion vs Niagara Falls

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Robert Horton - Moving Along One Line To Vastness




Deep (inner) space awaits on this C60 released on Sloow Tapes in 2005.

Moving Along One Line To Vastness

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Robert Horton - Diamond-Beak-Hornet-Hell




Steel bar nightmare blues. CDr released on Sindre Bjerga's Gold Soundz in 2006.

Diamond-Beak-Hornet-Hell

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Seven




Robert Horton, Niagara Falls, Gart & Seekatze and Seán Óg's Trihornophone (aka Seán Mac Erlaine).

CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Volume Seven

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(VxPxC) - Arroyo Mountain Day




This is an early self-released CDr from 2005 replete with broken banjo.

Arroyo Mountain Day

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(VxPxC) - Strange On Hind Legs




Two-thirds of Thousands plus Justin McInteer bringing you slow-burning psychedelics on this self-released CDr from 2006.

Strange On Hind Legs

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Eight




The Anvil Salute collective, Gayle Brogan's Pefkin, New Zealand's Rory Storm and Grant Capes, Justin McInteer, Tim Goodwillie as (VxPxC).

CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Volume Eight

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The Golden Oaks - Autumn Testament




They remain the words of the day ... CDr released on the seminal Digitalis Recordings in 2005.

Autumn Testament

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The Golden Oaks - We Enter These White Woods




Wistful and serene are the words of the day ...

CDr released on Music Your Mind Will Love You in 2005.

We Enter These White Woods

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Various - Wailing Bones Volume Nine




Brad Rose and Keith Wood's The Golden Oaks, Paul G. Smyth, Metsämorfeus and Clayton Noone's CJA.

CDr released on Foxglove in 2006.

Volume Nine

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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

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Ghost Brâmes - Eagle Arpegi




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

Eagle Arpegi

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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