THE DOOR AND THE WINDOW-PERMENANT TRANSIENCE, TAPE, 1979, UK

Willfully threadbare D.I.Y. post punk malarky in the Johan Kugelberg approved mode from this crew who'd also turn up as part of The Reflections (alongside Alternative TV's Mark Perry and The Lemon Kittens' Karl Blake) and the sprawling 49 Americans ensemble (together with David Toop and Steve Beresford), though the results here lurch in the direction of the grotty and improv abstracted far more so than they do on their Detailed Twang LP (which I shared all the way back in '07), with some of the decrepit knees-and-elbows lurches and low wattage synth corrosion here sounding like it could have just as easily been sourced from some lost Geniale Dilettanten NDW tape.

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FONDATION-METAMORPHOSES, TAPE, 1980, FRANCE

Following last week's post of their debut, here's more synthetic psychotropic delirium from the recesses of France's cosmic music continuum with the second of three releases by this duo of ex-Spacecraft/Musica Elettronica Viva member Ivan Coaquette and one Anannka Raghel, the two of 'em tunneling ever deeper into the filter swept and cyclically overlapping recesses of their synths and rhythm machines. Magnificent! Their final salvo Le Vaisseau Blanc will go up with my next round of posts...

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V.A.-STRING OF ARTIFACTS, 2xCD, 2005, VARIOUS

A sprawling 140+ minute compendium covering some thirty odd years of marginal fringe fuckery, this takes in several of the key trajectories covered on MS, from L.A. Music Society (Solid Eye, Points Of Friction, Smegma and Tom Recchion) to Caroliner Rainbow and it's various maladapted offspring ala Fat Worm Of Error and Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet alongside a raft of other notables like The Sun City Girls, Stilluppsteypa, Metalux, Mono Pause and several reps of the Michigan noise mafia from Wolf Eyes to Nautical Almanac. Peak bits here for me? Fat Worm Of Error's dada spasms, Solid Eye's fantastic live version of Flag Etiquette from their debut CD, The magical Francois Bayle-meets-Anne Gillis electroacoustics of Leticia Castaneda, the wonky robots-in-an-aquarium sonics of Points Of Friction, The Spider Compass Good Crime Band's martian tango, Stilluppsteypa's subterranean surrealism, Black Bear Combo's Che-Shizu-like see-sawing trudge, Hans Grusel's Krankabinet's morse code transmission to Raymond Scott, Caroliner's signature ergot poisoned wheeze, The Ritualistic School Of Error's ballet for broken vinyl and organ grinder's monkeys, Smegma with Wild Man Fisher's inspired extemporaneous non sequiturs and Tom Recchion's maniacal spin cycle "Voodoo Hell In Haiti".

disc 1
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Nautical Almanac - Found Round
Mitchell Brown / Albert Ortega - Baumhaus Softshoe
Fat Worm Of Error - Pesky Fly
Solid Eye - Flag Etiquette
Sun City Girls - Swami Blood Stool
At Jennie Richie - Warned
Leticia Castaneda - The Careful Steppin' Daisy
De Honden Koen Jes Fabriek - Judas In Takkitakki-Land
Gromskull - Microscopic Eyepiece
SIXES - Hinnom
Tom Grimley - Automatic Duet For Mobile Instrument With Legs, The Maestro (Pandoras Box) And Binary Remote Control
Points Of Friction - Neighbor's Purse
Masonic Youth - Debirth Through Rergressive Hypnotis
Spider Compass Good Crime Band - In Between The Kneed For Nourshment And Lateral Meniscal Cartilage-Bowls
Tres Quatro / Friends Forever - Graffiti Serpent
Quem Quaeritis - ...Giant Ants Who Ruled An Island And Ate All The Tourists
Monstrosity Brinkman - Eydie-Eyedie-Eydie
Wolf Eyes - Live Transmissions From Oakland, 5-5-5 AD

disc 2
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Stilluppsteypa - Demon Jukebox
Black Bear Combo - Wooden Ship
Liz Allbee - The Clibey Truce
Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet - Untitled #7
Caroliner Rainbow Water Tainted Finger Sap - Drying Of The Ocean
Panicsville - Bovine Dreams Of Slaughtering Scenes
Ritualistic School Of Errors - Macroglossia
Tarantism - Love Song Of The Hymenoptera
Fckn'Bstrds - Fokstrof
Smegma / Wild Man Fischer - ...As I Did Then
Bran (Another Plight Of Medic's...) The Pos - Forelump
Metalux - Crooked Mist
Pod Blotz - Fishing Through A Squeaky Pond
Mono Pause - Lowland Cyst
Tom Recchion - Voodoo Hell In Haiti
Damion Romero / Jarrett Silberman - Untitled
Nora Keyes / Count Loachfillet - Daddy's Gone (Loached)
Nautical Almanac - Found Round 1


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MODRY EFEKT & RADIM HLADIK-S/T, LP, 1974, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, NWW LIST

Recorded the year after their extraordinary Nova Synteza 2 LP together with the Czechoslovak Radio Jazz Orchestra which I posted a few years back, this is an even more toe-curling venture; the first of four albums that establish Modry Efekt (aka Blue Effect) in their peak mode, a superhuman synthesis of The Yes Album, mid 70's Floyd and the ecstatic hard rockin' acid prog of early Nektar and Hungary's Omega circa Time Robber. Sourced from a long out of print reissue, this also includes two bonus cuts from the same period with more of a crunchy hard rock edge.

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LES LUTHIERS-SONAMOS, PESE A TODO, LP, 1971, ARGENTINA

Though a goodly chunk of the humorous content here will fly right past non-Spanish speakers, the musical eccentricity of this Argentine satirical troupe registers clearly enough. Armed with both conventional and handmade instruments and a will to subvert booth the classical and folk idioms, the results on this debut album of theirs are variable, but there's enough distinct nuttiness afoot to merit it being featured here, with chamber music and Argentine folk themes subjected to various de-tunings and structural improprieties and surrounded by sound effects, massed muttering and avuncular narration. Thanks to blog friend Jack C. for providing this one.

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FONDATION-SANS ETIQUETTE, TAPE, 1980, FRANCE

Not to be confused with the similarly named French underground outfit of the same period La Fondation (whose site is linked off of our sidebar), this Fondation was the baby of Ivan Coaquette and Anannka Raghel, formed upon the dissolution of Coaquette's devastating and short lived band Spacecraft opposite Red Noise's Patrick Vian and many years after Coaquette and his then wife Patricia spearheaded a brief formation of Musica Elettronica Viva that can be heard on their Leave The City LP. Psychonauts should take note here, as the work found on Sans Etiquette delves ever deeper into the lysergic tidal pools and time tunnels mapped by fellow French cosmic music movers Heldon and Lard Free, with ectoplasm dripping moire patterns forming from interlocking webs of phasing and pitching synths and asynchronous rhythm machines over which Raghel emits bleary organ flows and delirious moaning.

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MARC MOULIN-SAM SUFFY, LP, 1975, BELGIUM

The musical metamorphosis of Belgian keyboardist Marc Moulin (who sadly died a few years back) is certainly a dramatic enough story, having managed over the course of the 70's to completely transform himself from stalwart jazz rock icon via his sublime Canterbury-derived work in Placebo to progenitor of Belgium's Man Machine future via his work as half of Kraftwerk-ian technopop avatars Telex. Outside of Placebo, Sam Suffy was Moulin's prime contribution to the jazz rock canon and also a final hurrah for the form he was soon to abandon in favor of a candy colored synthetic future. Awash in the sorta hazy rhodes and string synth flows that marked his work in Placebo, side A is mostly absent the Nucleus-derived horns that defined so much of that band's vibe, the focus instead being directed toward Moulin's keys, with some of the vamping here taking a decided turn toward the greasily funky. The significantly larger horn factor on the side-long Tohu-Bohu suite that occupies side B (in the person of ex-Placebo member Richard Rousselet) briefly corrals this back into more familiar zone, but this track quickly zig-zags into it's own distinct territory, as extended washes of vaporous keys intermix with outbursts of intensive Miles-like trumpet work, location recordings and sound effects for a supremely heady brew.

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THE OFF BAND + WAFFELSCHMIEDE-ALL THE PLANETS, TAPE, 1986 (RECORDED 1983-1986), GERMANY

Two side-long slabs of outwardly bound and hard to peg post Neue Deutsche Welle screwiness from these two interrelated outfits. At times like a more hectic version of Norway's Famlende Forsok, with rounds of incessant but distant lip flap swarming around inside multiple layers of either queasily woozing or systemic synth patterns, from which other themes and variations emerge like mirages. At other times, this taps a vibe simpatico with the work of artists as disparate as The Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, Johan Hedran,and 80's Italian fringe units like XX Century Zorro and Magazzini Criminali. Superb stuff, folks...don't casually blow past this one!

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BJORN J:SON LINDH-SISSEL, LP, 1973, SWEDEN

Continuing my posts of Swedish underground fare from the 70's (and carrying on as well from the Janne Schaffer album I posted a short while back), here's the third release from this Swedish flautist who made a string of very choice funky fusion albums in the early 70's before joining (along with his sideman Schaffer) the extraordinary Ralph Lundsten's Andromeda All-Stars. Sissel is a consistent joy to behold and covers a large swath of territory, from a horn-centric krautrock intensity that reminds me of Germany's Brainstorm and Embryo to others that sound like Thick As A Brick period Tull and the flute-y end of early 70's fusion from Jeremy Steig to Chris Hinze. Dig!
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NATHAN MICHEL-TREBLY, CDR, 2003, USA

Fab technicolor stuttering and blinking laptop abuse from this artist most known for his releases on Tigerbeat6. The work on this live document (somewhat distinct from his more polished studio outings) sits somewhere between the blipping cellular cascades of Nobukazu Takamura, the ragged laptop spasticity of Secret Mommy or Libythth and the sorta diamond cut absurdist musical fragmentation that Goodiepal specializes in; all of these glistening amoebas, spluttering rhythmic dysfunctions and Carl Stalling clusterfucks being daisy chained into strings of inspired dadaist non sequiturs.

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ARIEL PINK AND VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION UPDATE

Just a little bulletin to let all of you know that the forthcoming Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti album "Before Today" on 4AD Records will contain a track by Ariel's new alternate outfit Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz, this recording having been produced by Vas Deferens Organization, the band/production team that I'm a part of. Added Pizzazz is comprised of Aaron and Stefan Gonzalez (double/electric bass and drums/vibes, respectively) and Jim Lehnert on sax and trombone, with guest appearances from Dennis Gonzalez on trumpet and Tamara Cauble on violin and with engineering, production and sound design by Vas Deferens Organization. Further announcements about these and similar matters will follow in due time...

MUZ-S/T, LP, 1997, USA

Continuing my posts of material by Vas Deferens Organization and it's satellites, here's the first solo outing by my bandmate Matt Castille under his Muz alias, this eponymous LP and it's two untitled side-long slabs of strangeness having emerged from the period during which the VDO And Christopher "Suspension" LP was recorded. Extending tendrils into zones only briefly tapped on that album and subtly underpinned by the snake-y and vaguely Mick Karn-like bass figures of David Fargason, this splits the difference between Suspension's kosmiche swarms and glaze-y vaporlocked atmospheric abstractions and the African Head Charge-like dub manipulations that have always emerged more from Matt's side of the picture, though all of it is notably enacted with an appreciably less frenzied and more meditative approach than other VDO work from this period.

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KAREN COOPER COMPLEX-SHINJUKU BOARDWALK, 1981, USA, UNRELEASED

Despite the fact that this album has already been featured on a handful of other sharity blogs ('cause I was evidently asleep at the switch when it was being proffered), it feels essential to mount this unearthed gem inside the Mutant Sounds vitrine, as it both extends from one of the more significant bands featured on the NWW list (namely Bomis Prendin, whom Karen Cooper Complex's Bill Altice played with before this) and approaches the medium of post punk from a completely screwy perspective. As would be expected, there's a degree of hangover from Altice's days in BP, but the vibe here, while undoubtedly art fucked is absent some of the hot house freakishness of the early era of Bomis Prendin that Altice took part in. The tip that this feels like it's coming off instead is one that shares some of the inscrutable lopsided charm of Tom Fazzini, the off the cuff wacky gal whimsy of The Inflatable Boy Clams and Y Pants and, when the freakiness is foregrounded, a whiff of Milo Fine's old Residents-damaged unit Teenage Boatpeople. Hopefully, some enterprising reissue label will snatch this one up, as it's too good to exist only in the ephemeral form of a download.

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CHUTE LIBRE-S/T, LP, 1977, FRANCE

Highly fluid French fusion with funk inclinations and a subtly masterful touch. Lotsa flute driven passages of percolating grooviness in the mode of The Chris Hinze Combination, Jean Cohen-Solal and Jeremy Steig along with others whose combination of intensive depth and frothy effervescence call to mind Michal Urbaniak's Fusion and the Dutch jazz rockers Solution.

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MILLIONS OF DOLLS-DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES, TAPE, 1984, GERMANY

Downcast and hollowly knocking D.I.Y. post punk experimentation with a really mysterious x-factor about it from the waning days of Germany's Neue Deutsche Welle scene. Like their latter day NDW contemporaries in Poison Dwarfs, this crew take a claustrophobic and vivisected approach to the syntax of rock; one that lands them somewhere between The Swell Maps at the end of their avant tether and Australia's Laughing Hands at the most insular point of theirs.

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JANKO NILOVIC-SOUL IMPRESSIONS, LP, 1975, YUGOSLAVIA

Following my posts of his Percussions Dans L'Espace and Supra Pop Inpressions LP's, here's another piece of period brilliance from this Yugoslavia-by-way-of-France composer/arranger/library music kingpin, this one issued on the highly collectible Montparnasse 2000 imprint. Despite the title and cover shot, the soul component here is in fact rather minimal, though the fabulously greasy exploitation psych and wakka-chakka funk moves that Nilovic's become revered for are in full bloom here, his approach having altered nary a whit in the five years since his other two albums that I posted.

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VAPAA-JAMIT TAI EI MITAAN, CDR, 2007, FINLAND

More expanding and dilating drone, billow and bluster from these Finnish exponents of third eye/third mind/hive mind free psychedelic action, Following a spate of posts of their material all the way back in 2007 by both Jim and moi. Issued in an instantly deleted edition of 100 copies, this essentially comprises the same line-up as Keijo And The Free Players, though unlike the expansive and liminal nature of that outfit's approach, the sootier and blearier angle of engagement here makes me think of burning tires as much as burning incense.

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