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valet / richard youngs - Tsuki No Seika Vol. 2
*just 400 of these made - we have just a small amount available for sale!* Following on from the Grouper / Xela split that began the series, Root Strata's Tsuki No Seika project continues with a split release from Valet and Richard Youngs. This is actually a subscription-only outing, of which we've managed to secure an extremely limited number of copies, so as you'd expect, this is one of those get-it-while-you-can releases. The theme behind the Tsuki No Seika series is a restriction to acapella music, so each contributor has to operate within vocals-only guidelines (whilst supplying their own artwork for the sleeve, incidentally). Kranky artist Valet (aka Honey Owens) offers what ostensibly seems to be a radical cover version of Mudhoney's seminal 'Touch Me I'm Sick', which here is rendered within a swarming, groggy swirl of edited vocal tones that brings a kind of cloudy beauty to the piece. At times it sounds as though it's got some oral percussion going on in there too, which is most welcome. Richard Youngs is no stranger to this acappella lark (take a listen to his Summer Wanderer LP, for further details), and his hypnotic 'Fen Flowers' manifests itself as a minimalist, abstracted, multitracked take on the traditional, Ewan MacColl school of hand-on-ear folk singing. It's a strange blend of disciplines, but his hypnotic delivery has real weight and resonance to it. Tremendous stuff from both parties. Snap one up before it's too late...
LAND OF KUSH'S EGYPTIAN LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Constellation
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Sam Shalabi presents an ambitious ensemble blurring lines between middle eastern musics and free-jazz
VENDETTA
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Sludgy, underground doom-metal collaboration, mastered by James Plotkin
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O
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Four loose variations on Terry Riley's 'In C' from the Japanese spacerock legends
NOT NOT FUN
LP // £15.99
Haunting and enigmatic lo-fi song sculptures from Californian psych maven Eva Saelens
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
Easily one of the standout LP's of year: haunted loops, half-remembered lullabies and layered embers of sound.
Gristleism (Buddha Machine 3.0)
Industrial Records Ltd
LOOP PLAYER // £19.99
Throbbing Gristle's very own Buddha Machine, featuring 13 custom-made loops.
KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN / NITE JEWEL / VARIOUS
Beaterblocker
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Beautiful compilation feat Nite Jewel, Es and Keith Fullerton Whitman...
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CD // £7.99
Incredible album fusing in elements of Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis, Slowdive and Badalamenti...
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Type Recordings
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Very Special triple gatefold/digifile CD edition featuring Thomas Köner’s seminal first three albums.
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
The very last studio album from the mighty Yellow Swans...
RICHARD YOUNGS & SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH
VHF
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Gargantuan set of four albums (on on vinyl, three on CD) from Youngs and Wickham-Smith.
Root Strata
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A tumultuous bed of wide basses and churned rhythms for Youngs' folk-learned croon.
Root Strata
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FLAC Download // £2.50
A righteous pick for anyone looking to travel further than their Emeralds or Oneohtrix records will allow...
Root Strata
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's masterpiece from 2007, now with two extra tracks. Highly Recommended.
Root Strata
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Lushly pastoral neo-kosmische/new age ambience for the lovers.
Root Strata
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Arrestingly enigmatic debut solo from Elm and Barn Owl guitarist Jon Porras.
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Glistening kosmiche/synth music minimalism from Arrow Kleeman, who is also known as Lilienthal.
Root Strata
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Ben Vida returns with two extended sides of new age-inflected synth raga majesty.
Root Strata
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**Pungent, droning works for guitar from seasoned shredder and Charalambides man Tom Carter*
Root Strata
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Glooming, ghostly drones and gaseous shapes from Evan Caminiti (Barn Owl) and Lisa McGee.
Root Strata
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Gregg Kowalsky & Marielle Jakobsons with sublime soundscapes somewhere between The Alps and Air.
ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU AND STEVEN HESS REWORKED BY DEATHPROD)
Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
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For all intents and purposes, the great 'lost' Deathprod album...
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Recurring Dream & Apocalypse of Darkness
Important Records
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A.M.T. take on a detuned, predominantly sludge-fuelled guitar sound comparable to SunnO)))
DIGITALIS
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Expanding Erik Skodvin's extremely limited 2008 cassette edition Penpals Forever...
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Type Recordings
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Dense, harrowing and intense Death ambient from the heart of New Mexico...Highly Recommended.
FENN O'BERG (FENNESZ, O'ROURKE, REHBERG)
Editions Mego
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Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg with their first 'proper' studio album - so so good...
Type Recordings
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Like an all-analogue take on Fennesz's noisier moments, complete with drone-pop and shoegaze signatures.
Glacial Movements
CD // £13.99
Polar-themed electroacoustic abyss-sculpting from the acclaimed Spanish composer
Touch
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Exalted sonic alchemist and sound artist Philip Jeck presents his wonderful sixth solo album for Touch.
FSS
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Extreme avant-garde percussion from these two master improvisers
