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[alt.vinyl] AV020
Second Family Band - Good Blood
LP // $12

Good Blood:Second Family Band is a musical collective from Madison, Wisconsin which rose from the ashes of legendary free-folk outfit Davenport. They've had releases on Sloow Tapes, Earjerk, Gods Of Tundra, Bumtapes and a whole host of other crucial underground labels. Alt.Vinyl Records is proud to release 'Good Blood', an absolutely necessary slice of bold psychedelic absurdism from a tribe of musician-magicians operating at the very peak of their dark powers.Line-up: Endless, Woodman, Nico Kain, Clay Ruby, Dave 3000, Ivan Mariesse, Tyler Ol'Son and Lliam Lee Zian. Opening scuzz-haiku 'Below The Arch' instantly enthrals with some throbbing maltronics circling a quivering cardboard totem , a sky of sound pinpricked open with some gently rabid Ponca drumming and delicate wafts of fragrant fuzz. In seven minutes we are ascended beyond cloud level onto a crystalline plateau of ringing light and trembling breath. It's a shamanistic free-drone space-jam in miniature, rather like some strange confluence of The Necks, Sunburned Hand Of The Man and Circle at their most obtuse. The next track 'Night Graces of the Morning Temple' slowly balloons us back to earth, the music seemingly deflating the speakers as she goes. A choir of rusty radiators throb, moan, creak and boing along a half-dreamed corridor of mournful wah-wah. It sounds like Morphogenesis playing Berio at the bottom of a sewer, or the soundtrack to some Lynchian nightmare - very cool and grubby, bathed in a sort of undulating aural moonlight. Total deep listening mirage-music.Side 2 is comprised of a single 23-minute track, 'Good Blood', a delightfully pungent slab of relentless exotica blending elements of Les Baxter and Martin Denny with a nice Wooden Shjips-esque vibe, the whole mad soup bled through with some really sensitive electronic splashes and splutters. At about seventeen minutes we emerge from hypnosis into a clearing, bleary-eyed and stomach-cramped, and face a dramatic climax. The boulder-strewn groove threatens to topple at any moment, the air is awash with the flash and hiss of cymbals and feedback, it just rocks harder and harder.... then it's over, and my hand is reaching for the needle to spin it again.'Good Blood' is a towering piece of psych-prog ritualism. Bloody brilliant!

[Brave Mysteries] CQBL004
Second Family Band - Veiled Gallery
cassette // $7

Every music city in America has a group like the Second Family Band. Musicians will go to each other’s shows, hang-out, tour together, and maybe share rent on a house or practice space. Eventually they all end up in the same room together, jamming. Someone sets up a microphone, turns on the tape recorder and soon thereafter another album of “shadowy” group improv is set loose on the world. The Second Family Band matches the pattern, but with an important distinction: Their music is worth listening to. Theorists would have us believe that improvisation is a democratic art, built on consensus through musical dialogue. It’s a wonderful ideal, but if a band isn’t air-tight there’s usually one or two musicians tasked with holding back anarchy. On Veiled Gallery the distinction goes to the banjo player and drummer (The musicians are not credited with any specific instrument). Together they supply the backbone of the album, an interlocking exchange of hypnotic riffing with the metronomic thud of a floor-tom. The arrangement is spacious, giving momentum while allowing the rest to drone, bleat, and squawk their heart’s content. Typical to these communal jam-sessions is the drifting coherence and shaky performances that crop up occasionally on the album. This is not to say that Veiled Gallery is a mess. The recordings was edited by someone with an ear for the band’s strengths as wells as a sympathy for the audience. The Second Family may play on with ecstatic abandon, but the listener is, for the most part, spared from having to hear the musicians run out of inspiration. Releasing improvised music used to be more of a gamble, but the proliferation of new distribution and recording technologies has lifted cost and labor barriers, making it easy and cheap for any odd group to get together, hash together a few songs, and then throw out product into an already saturated market. The Second Family Band avoids that cycle by judicious self-editing. When so many groups today trade in images of mystery, it’s good to listen to one that believes some things are best left unheard.~Matthew Spencer

[Skulls of Heaven] SFBSHT1
Second Family Band - Vernal Mystery Hour
cassette // $7

"It only takes one minute to pull a tooth, but it took the Second Family hours to celebrate the return of the sun. This tape offers one hour of highlights from our Vernal Equinox proceedings. The finest in American technicolor fantasia."

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP-1010
Second Family Band - Live at Nottingham
cassette // $6

Recorded live at Madison's notorious eccentrics cooperative in October 2009, featuring a nine-person lineup. Two side long slabs of sweltering drones, psychedelic arabesques and driving tribal percussion.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP-1009
WIFE - Live at the Wisco
Cassette // $6.00

Brian Steele, the man behind Wife, calls this Regressive Metal. And ain't it the truth! This is some of the best shit since I was a teenage metalhead back mid80's high school hell! Think Priest, Maiden, leather and denim and you're there. A live bar show and the bands 2nd show ever, this starts out a little shaky and just gets better from there. By the end the reels are melting off your tape deck. The band completely come together. The label says the same program is on both sides to preserve continuity and that's the right idea cause this just builds and builds a pure and brutal climax. Freight train mosh riffs, shredding guitar solos and shrieking vocals. Six songs recorded live at The Wisco pub in the winter of 2009-2010.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP-1008
VOSELLGLAAS - GLATTE ANA LOGITALIS
C46 pro-dubbed PURPLE cassette (hand numbered limited edition of 24) or CDR - $6.00

The fourth full length from this "Wisconsin Krautrock" project continues down the electronic trail, featuring gobs of analog synths and no guitars. Inspirations include early Cluster and Kraftwerk, as well as Subotnick and Tomita. Six tracks, 45 minutes.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP1007
Meen Mistreeter - Now That The Roast Beef’s Gone
c46 or cdr // $6

Guess who’s in for it this time on Meen Mistreeter II? Canada’s greatest band is deconstructed in two sidelong suites: Blueberry Ice Horse and Manitoba Mama. Who do you like better, a guitar player with a million styles, or a singing piano player who triples up on harmonica and flute? This is the “live motion stereo” mix of a piece composed for 6-channel surround sound.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP1006
Meen Mistreeter - Side 3 (For T.K.)
c46 or cdr // $6

It’s downright mean to mistreat your precious vinyl records from the 70’s, but don’t tell that to the Meen Mistreeter. Terry Kath’s Free Form Guitar from Chicago Transit Authority gets blown up real good in this album-length tribute to the best selling feedback and noise track of all time.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP1005
Ye Uphall Knyte Fryars Psychedelic Underground - Vol. 1
c60 or cdr // $6

Stay up all night with the Fryars! Travel through time and space in the grand tradition of the global psychedelic underground with this pseudonymous quartet of Second Family Banders on the lam. The Trans-Galactic Be-In is someplace to be! But the Trans-Temporal Be-In is the real trip -- how did they manage to record this one in Golden Gate Park way back in 1967?? Festivities conclude at dawn with a slow-motion dubscape.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP1004
Vosselglaas - 3 Lieder Von Space
cdr // $5

The title of the third full-length CD from this “Wisconsin Krautrock” project translates as 3 Songs From Space and includes three side-long synthesizer drone pieces. Space Nachlass (Space Relaxation) is good for preparing yourself to enter a state of suspended animation. Electrische Indien (Electric India) will give you something to dream about on your journey. But beware the Space Besorgnis (Space Anxiety)!

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP1003
Second Family Band - Jerusalem
c46 // $6

Is their a more mystical and perilous city in the world than Jerusalem ? Old Testament dread haunts the first side. The Family sings of Glory while Pan dances and plays impishly outside their circle. Side two commences with the sand blown sounds of the Ancient City, before Night Journey finds the band escaping heavenward through dark skies.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP1002
Second Family Band - Naked Ladies and Dragons
c60 // $6

Second Family takes you on an erotic “D&D Quest” in this hour long ambient-prog synthesizer fantasia. On the A side Naked Ladies shimmer in the moonlight; flip it over and Dragons circle dreamily overhead.

[Boondock Pissoir] BDP1001
Second Family Band - Nandi
cdr // $5

Mysteriously added to the SFB discography in early 2009, this session is finally officially available to the public. The two-part title track Egesta of Nandi encapsulates the entire history of raga-rock in one gigantic headsploitation pisstake. Mystery Mojo Rising uses an electric organ to summon the ghosts, while Cramped is the Family’s first rockabilly freakout!

[SRM] SRM023
Loop Retard - ADD
c10 / $4

It slices, it dices, it juliennes! If you don’t have ADD, this cassette could induce it. Scattered beats and brain altering Rip Hop loops. You could probably dance to this stuff but you would surely pull a muscle. Sounds like about 200 songs compressed into a ten minute tape but there are only 29 songs listed. Plastic slipcase with insert and random colored cassette.

[SRM] SRM022
Loop Retard - Rage Tape Vol. 1
c20 // $4

Loop Retard - Rage Tape Vol. 1 - Spazzoid sample-a-rama cassette from Loop Retard. Always a hit at the International Noise Conference, Loop is well known for his live, humorous MC antics solo and with the infamous Right Arm Severed and the hilarious duo Reale Sadd. Plastic slipcase with insert and random colored cassette.

[NPOI] NPOI333
Mister Fuckhead - 333
c66 // $9

Incorporating various carefully crafted haywire anamolies that were featured in Dead Tech/Circuit Bending type of art gallery events, and much of his experience from performing with live bands or working with various drug addled beat industrial/hip hop artists, among other things, Mister Fuckhead wrote the first beginning from this album in 2003, while living in a 2nd floor closet, squatting in a rat-infested house that only had power in one outlet, and that in the flooded basement. This was created for his first performance at a public venue. The cassette is limited to an edition of 99, across 3 different color cassettes (solid orange, solid purple, black), with 3 different label designs, a 3 panel, two sided, full color insert, and a color transparency.

Mister fuckhead and Company - s/t
cassette // $9

The initial idea for this project started with a brass group on April Fool's Day that just did reverb-laden drones, and other ideas presented themselves from there. Later we incorporated junk metal scrape, chains, vacuums, glass, drills, guitar, keyboards, field recordings, classical samples, and tape loops. This is a live document from the last 2 years or so; edited, and recontextualized; mastered obsessively without compression, limiting, etc.

[Striate Cortex] S.C.08
Drunjus - Sleep Trader
cdr // $8

"Woodman and Endless enter the binary world for the first time since the Enceladus cd-r was released on Peasant Magik way back in 2008. The boys figured if it was going to be commited to disc, they might as well record straight to ones and zeros this time around. Packaged up right, by Striate Cortex, this comes in a hand-stamped and hand sewn bag with an insert, the disc and skeleton leaf all tucked neatly in a clear plastic baggie. But what about the sounds, you say? This one is definitely not recommended for use while operating heavy machinery. You got yer field recordings, yer analog synth and yer epic slow-build. What more do you want? Oh yeah. Well, you got more! Absinthe Minds' Max Elliott weaves his vocal moan-drones around theses heavy-lidded vibrations so deftly that you are hard pressed to discern what is man and what is machine. Like some kind of universal lullaby... but kinda spookier.

Hintergedanken
cd-r // $10

The thought behind the thought. The dream one can never quite recall. The irr-uption of the id. The space between the spaces. The hypnogogic reverie of the Mauve Zone. Hintergedanken is the manifestation of praeternatural entities enthralling Karen Eliot and Clay Ruby (with the invaluable assistance of Dan Woodman, Tony Endless, Michelle Kunz,Nico Kain, Azrael, Nic Stage, Billy Lee, Theresa Behnen, db Pedersen, Jeremy Evans)Their message for the faithless faithful takes the form of an infinitely cosmic psych/prog beast, much in the vein of '60's private press killers such as Yahowa 13 and Frolk Haven. Hintergedanken spews non-local quantum froth from the far realms of Zothyria, which blows over the quivering cadavers of their sacred zombie prostitutes used in the eeire twilit rituals of the forbidden bongload. You might want to check this out. If you can survive the coming...tranformations... Aum. Ha.