RELEASES
		SM001 EXPO 70 "Center of the Earth" CS52 Expo '70's now 2006 classic heavily layered drone epic "Center of the Earth" get an analog release on cassette. Praised by Aquarius Records, Foxy Digitalis & The Wire Magazine. Limited to 150: 3 styles of cassettes 100 Solid light grey w/ printing SOLD OUT 40 Black reel-to-reel hubs SOLD OUT! 10 Vintage National C52 - SOLD OUT 100 charcoal colored cobalt hi-bias C52 SOLD OUT! All cassettes pro-dubbed.
		EXPO 70 "Center of the Earth" 2xLP The 2006 epic heavy drone suite. Deluxe 180 gram audiophile virgin vinyl housed in gatefold tip-on jackets. 400 black and 100 iridescent blue vinyl reserved for pre-orders. Mastered for vinyl by Pete Lyman of Infrasonic Sound. 100 milky blue audiophile grade 180 gram vinyl. 400 black audiophile grade 180 gram vinyl
		SM002 SOUNDING THE DEEP "Glacier" CS/CDr Third album, second released, from David Williams recorded by Justin Wright of Expo 70. Tracks written in one day and recorded 2 days later. Inspired by footage of life beneath the ice of Antarctica. Patient sounds summoning Propol Vuh, Earth and Eluvium. Deep tones for meditations... Limited to 100 copies on Cassette. SOLD OUT! Limited CDr version. SOLD OUT! SECOND PRESSING 2011 - SOLD OUT! 30 clear cassettes 30 CDr
		SM003 EXPO '70 "Corridors to Infinity" CS60/CDr Recorded in one day, side a features McKinley Jones of Breathing Flowers on Moog and Justin Wright on electric guitar and analog drum machine. A 29+ minute excursion into inner melodies touching cosmic tones with blissful beats. Side b features the second recording of the day, joined by Matt Hill on Hammond organ. Reaches further into textural melodies and and harden beats pushing aura tones into the Neo Age. Drifting cosmic tones. Gocco printed covers, gold metallic ink on red metallic fleck paper. 150 produbbed red cassettes SOLD OUT! 40 limited edition produbbed red hub reel-to-reel style cassettes. SOLD OUT! 10 Reel Cleer Vintage 80's reel-to-reel Cassettes SOLD OUT! 100 Limited hand #'d CDr version. SOLD OUT! 65 additional CDr's on darker metallic red paper. SOLD OUT!
		SM004 UMBERTO "From the Grave" CS/CDr Matt Hill's UMBERTO channels the great late 70's Italian Horror movie genre created by Fabio Frizzi, Goblin, Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter. Inspired by the movie Pieces, UMBERTO is the long lost soundtrack to a great horror movie that can only be conjured in your mind. First album finally released into the masses. 2nd album in the works! Cover illustration by Ashley Lande. Limited to 150 Cassettes. SOLD OUT! Limited CDr available. SOLD OUT! SECOND PRESSING 2011 - SOLD OUT! 100 cassettes, updated artwork matching LP release
		SM005 DAS ENERGI "Recitations" CS/CDr Steve Lande has been making some great albums over the years. "Recitations" was recorded by Lande and collects some great instrumental acid folk jams, washed in echoed delays and feedback. Hints of William Eaton, MV & EE, inspired by 60's & 70's experimental folk and prog music, Lande's music is sure to take you on a wandering journey. Cover illustration by Ashley Lande. SOLD OUT! 100 Cassettes 100 CDr
		SM006 GNOD "The Crystal Pagoda" CS/CDr Gnod unleash 2 stellar jams, the first "The Crystal Pagoda", insired by the film "The Invasion Of Thunderbolt Pagoda" which Angus Maclise provided a stunning soundtrack to, Gnod throw down a perpendicular astral jam full chants, hand percussion aligned with a solid bass loop. "Tony's First Disco" takes up side B with a tight, hypnotic lock groove drum and bass beat akin to Faust with Tony Conrad, layered with chants, synths and brass! Artwork by Justin Wright, 2 color offset on metallic mustard yellow paper. SOLD OUT!! 180 CS42 Cassettes! 150 CDr's
		SM007 PLANTE "Shroud of Winter" CS/CDr Recorded December 2008 by Justin Wright, Andrew Plante's project conjures the heaviness of SunnO))) with the techniques of Robert Fripp. 4 tracks of heavy doom drones. Debut release coming on Peasant Magik with art by Justin Wright. "Shroud of Winter" is Plantes first studio recording. *This album features "Fripping Awesome" on side B and the CD version for "Shroud of Winter" with features reverable artwork for this bonus album. SOLD OUT!! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CD version with "Fripping Awesome"
		SM008 PLANTE "Fripping Awesome" *This album is side B on "Shroud of Winter" and is containd on the CD version for "Shroud of Winter" and features reverable artwork for this bonus album. Plante's tribute to the great Fripp & Eno. Two extended songs in the looped tradition of the duos early excursions. Plante's take is a sure fire resemblance to the originals. These are not covers, but interpretations, sprawling soundscapes utilizing guitar and stomp box effects to conjure the spirits of Fripp & Eno. Recorded by Justin Wright early 2009. SOLD OUT! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CD version with "Shroud of Wnter"
		SM009 BRAINWORLDS "•••" CS/CDr Mason Brown's Brainworlds conjures heavy extended meditative guitar workouts akin to early New Age artists Michel Genest, Klaus Shulze, Ariel Kalma and Brian Eno. 2 - 30 minute improvised jams. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes - SOLD OUT! Limited correction to song title side "A" 25 Cassettes Limited duplicated CD's in printed eco wallets - SOLD OUT!
		SM010 EXPO '70 "Psychic Funeral" CS37 Originally a limited released on Ruralfaune (France) as a double 3"cdr in an edition of 75. 2 tracks recorded Novemeber 2008. Features Matt Hill on one track and David Williams (Sounding the Deep) on both with Justin Wright. "'Black Candles' is a stunning drone composition in the same spirit as those early Goblins soundtracks for Dario Argento's films, but slowed down to a snails pace with a pulsating heartbeat as our only guide through this trip. As amazing as this track is, 'Psychokenesis Within Meme' is even more ambient and tripped out. Listening to this track will actually slow life down around you." - MyRecordCollection.org Covers printed on silver metallc paper SOLD OUT! FIRST PRESSING: Limited to 150 Cassettes SECOND PRESSING: 50 Cassettes
		SM011 EXPO 70 "Blackout" C64 Two live sets from the 2009 East Coast tour that spawned the Immune 2xLP, "Where Does Your Mind Go?", between the touring duo of Justin Wright and Matt Hill (Umberto). Side A consits of the stellar set from Ithaca, NY two days prior to the Immune Recording, headliners were Blues Control that night. Side B is the last set the duo played the last day of tour in the afternoon at WNYU in Manhattan, NY on less sleep than you can imagine. This set of live shows aptly named "Blackout" after a show at the now defunct New Market Hotel as part of an anti-CMJ show where the duo blacked out, probably scaring half the people responsible for the venue and show. OUT NOW! Limited to 200 Cassettes CDr version on from Debacle Recordings, limited to 200.
		SM012 BREATHING FLOWERS "Magical Order of the Seven Sacred Planets" CS/CDr Breathing Flowers is a Kansas City native McKinley Jones. He has contributed to a number of Expo '70 albums including the recent "Corridors to Infinity" album. "Breathing Flowers leads us away from the clichés of the sweaty indie-folk mass through green fields, winding mountain paths and thick forests to a leafy and secluded grove where child-nymphs and faun frolic in the speckled sunlight by the lake, a pasty-faced magician casts runes under a white oak..." 8/10 -- Matthew O'Shannessy - Foxy Digitalis SOLD OUT! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr
		SM013 MATT HILL "Untitled" CS/CDr Matt Hill who is Umberto and part-time Expo '70 contributor's first solo venture. "From start to finish, Hill's debut succeeds in creating an atmosphere of subtle, yet undeniable, dread. But while the sounds may be bleak, Hill showcases promising talent that should leave listeners optimistic for what's to come." 8/10 -- Franklin Teagle (Foxy Digitalis) SOLD OUT! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr
		SM014 COMOROS "On Abjection" CS/CDr Comoros are Adam and Jennifer Melinn who run Fedora Corpse Records in Philadelphia. "On Abjection" collects 10 tracks of improvised spaced out Krautrock-styled drone pieces that seem to be culled out of longer improvisational jams. Touches on guitar melodies with synth loops and swooshes sporadically intertwining shifting phases forming washed out drone compositions. Recorded in their basement in Philly, it's hard not to believe these weren't jams from ancient hippy in an underground bunker in Europe. Comoros begain in 2007 and have had an LP and a handful of CDr's as well on their imprint label. SOLD OUT! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr version
		SM015 DRUNJUS "Celestial Realms" CS/CDr The duo from Madison featuring members of Lens and Second Family Band, lay down an epic interpretation of a rare cassette found at a thrift store entitled "Celestial Reals" by Laraaji & Lyghte. Drunjus capture thier owtheirssed-out darkened version of this lost New Age treasure, heavier and longer than the original, their brooding dark synth textures with touches of light melodies are remnicent of the original cassette offering. OUT NOW!! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr version
		SM016 AARON MARTIN "Night Erased them All" C30/CDr Aaron Martin is a very talented multi-instrumentalist from Topeka, Kansas who has releases on Experimedia and Preservation. Martin has played Kansas City regularly and has become an influential artist around the midwest and Kansas City. "Night Erased Them All" is Martin's soundtrack to late-night driving, a well thought-out soundtrack to the highways and back roads of Kansas as would be enjoyed by Martin himself. Music touches on his usual cello moods and transcends through choral vocal drones shifting into washed out dronescapes that carry the listener through vast highways of musical knowledge. SOLD OUT! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited pro printed eco wallet CDr of 100
		SM017 SOUNDING THE DEEP "A Union According to Energy" CS/CD New studio album recorded locally by J. Ashley Miller (Ssion, Carnal Torpor, Child Being). Initially demoed by Justin Wright a year ago, Sounding the Deep has added MIke Vera as a permanent member on percussion and headed into the studio with more refined versions of the initial demo. Vera brings a new dimension to the layers of warm sounds that are Sounding the Deep. Their new sound is captured in the third release, "A Union According to Energy". Vast and colorful drum techniques from Vera give a slow and steady pulse to swirling and rich guitars that swell, drift, then reign you in for the crushing climax. This album will surely please fans of Earth, Steve Roach, Borhen & Der Club of Gore, Brian Eno and Eluvium. Presented in a 6 panel digipak CD with a limited run of cassettes. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes - SOLD OUT Pro digipak CD version
		SM018 ANCIENT OCEAN "I" CS/CDr John Bohannon's Ancient Ocean is filled with shimmering ambiance made from guitar and samples. Building from silent humming tones, guitar melodies and delicate tonal drones envelope into lush soundscapes. Moods are similar to Sounding the Deep and various solo works of Kawabata Makoto, but carry their own majestic quality. As the album progresses, the longest track features Daniel Carter on saxophone and adds a tender experimental jazz element to the brooding guitar textures. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr version
		SM019 LUPERCI "Jhator" CS Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico comes Luperci, the main project of Joseph Angelo. Luperci has been very active over the last few years releasing a hand full of private releases via CDr, cassette and a vinyl. "Jahator" is the newest offering from Joseph, which explores deeply into heavy sitar compositions. To say this release is epic would just scratch the surface, the spectrum Luperci explores through the chosen instrumentation is very vast, taking the sitar and forging between light eastern-influenced ambiance to blown out noise and back, easing the listener's mood by shifting textures with melodic, yet doomed-out compositions. A brooding journey sure to lift you into another world free of society, creating a full body experience through vibrational sound. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr version
		SM020 UMBERTO "Prophecy of the Black Widow" CS "Within minutes all I can think of is the finest elements of Goblin & Zombi rolled into an evocative driving, behemoth of an album! You know, the real striding prog-horror deal. I can take or leave a lot of this stuff to be honest - taken out of the context of a quality 70's/80's shocker, this derivative style of mock-incidental music can often err on the side of simply kitsch, but this? The clarity of production and the powerfully brooding low-end have me creaming myself! This is deep, innovative retro-progressive music with a relentless stalker mentality, wearing a full-on dirty groovesuit. Can you stalk someone in a suit? Patrick Bateman did I'm sure. I don't just want to sit here raving about the way this genre-flaying record makes me feel this crisp Autumn morn. It's one of the finest examples I've heard of that classic post-Italo sound, constructed by a fully-fledged genius in waiting. The sinister, dystopian synths on Prophecy Of The Black Widow are to die for on here, it is a truly hypnotic, all-consuming journey that transcends plagiarism somehow, due to its beautifully crafted nature." - Norman Records Housed in mini VHS/Library style cases imported from UK. Vinyl version released on Not Not Fun, SOLD OUT! Limited to 200 Cassettes
		SM021 BREATHING FLOWERS "Lumeria - Sirius - Draco" CS/CDr Breathing Flowers' new release has been carefully crafted over the last year at Justin Wright's (Expo '70) studio. Jones has created his most mature album to date fusing folk, electronic passages and heavy psychedelic playing into his newest album. Songs contrast moods, capture time while teleporting the listener through magical landscapes conjured by Jones knack for songcraft and choicesong craftumentation. Deep meditation can be sought out through the shifting rhythms and melodies, this is sure to be a timeless album which will stand the test of time and weight as the sonic mass of "L.S.D." begins the journey though your eardrums and pass into the psyche. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr version
		SM022 NOVA SCOTIAN ARMS "Sacred Drift" CS/CDr Hailing from Georgia, Grant Evan's main project Nova Scotian Arms has been quite prolific over the last year having releases on Digitalis, Ru ralfaune and his own label Hooker Visions. The newest offering is comprised of tape loops that span a total of 30 minutes per side. Heavily textured in sound color, the albums sprawls and unfolds through sonic drones shifting and pulsing. Reminiscent of early Troum work like the "Tjukurrpa" series. OT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr version
		SM023 EXPO '70 / COMOROS "Live at Germ Books" CS Recorded by Scott Slimm of aRCHIVE Sound October 2009 in Philadelphia at Germ Books. OUT 2011 Limited to 150 Cassettes AVAILABLE APRIL 2012
		SM024 MILLION BRAZILIANS "Sexual Desert" CS/CDr Million Brazilians are no strangers to Kansas City as half of them used to live here and now reside in Portland, Oregon where there is no shortage of free thinking and experimental music inspired by nature and the environment it's self. "Sexual Desert" is a continuation in their "New Ideas for Psychic Music" series, this being a conceptual journey through the desert sweating out sexual vibrations by way of free improvisation. The music will no doubt lift you to the inner hallucinations of tribal squandering and frantic ritual out-of-body experiences if you let it. Recorded last year in Kansas City while on their US tour by Ashley Miller. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr
		SM025 SOUNDING THE DEEP "Night" CS First self-titled release now available on cassette! "David Williams is an experimental/ambient musician from Kansas City, USA who began composing under the moniker of ‘Sounding The Deep’ in 2007. ‘Sounding The Deep’ approachs the world of experimental/ambient music with rich guitar workings that aren’t necessairly anything new by way of their structuring or arrangements, however, I think that the musical outcomes of these workings lend themselves to a very unique sense of cinematic interpretation. For this project David Williams specifies that inspiration for the works on his latest release ‘Night’ were found in the plains and skies of the midwestern region of the United States. In retrospect of my experience with David’s work, I would venture to assert that the pieces on ‘Night’ characterize these influential factors quite well, as the subtle guitar interludes seem to adequately summon the innate sense of melancholy that defines the naked emptiness of the plains in the midwestern United States. Given this, the musical content of the works found on ‘Night’ provide dense droning backgrounds amidst slight melodic guitar infusions. The dynamic of these works moves predominantly from minimal to more involved via the use of a variety of rather intricate chord progressions that constitute the backbone of the pieces. All in all, I’ve found this music to be extremely enjoyable and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in guitar-based experimental ambient music." OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes Self-released CD (2008)1000
		SM026 BRAIN SYNDROME "Disconnect" CS Mysterious thrift store find, not much info, but has to be some early 80's synth wizardry conjured out of Germany's cesspool of minimal kraut n' roll. Early goth new age synthesis, the 3 tracks here are a mix of experimental sounds blended with melodic images of 2 dudes blasted out in a basement somewhere in the USA via (to my knowledge) the early 80's. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM027 EXPO '70 "Awakening" LP/CS/CD Long out-of-print cassette originally released on Sloow Tapes (Belgium). Recorded after Expo '70 played France in 2008, just a week after the IAO festival where the label owner and musician met. Upon returning to the states, the experience spawned the 2 day recording session materializing these 2 improvised tracks. "Awakening, features some super stripped down drumming (or drum machine, hard to tell), locked into an endless groove, pulsing over a swirling spacescape of smeared riffs and fragmented melodies, it sounds a bit like Goblin, very soundtracky and otherworldly, space-y and mysterious, and not at all cheesy, more sort of classic new age / krautrock, think Klaus Schultze, scoring some super abstract French sci-fi flick from the sixties, and you'll sort of get the vibe." - Aquarius Records OUT JUNE 2011 Limited to 500 LP 180 Gram vinyl Limited to 200 Cassettes Limited digipak CD of 200
		SM028 BRAINWORLDS "•••••" CS/CDr The fifth album by Mason Brown's Brainworlds and Sonic Meditations second releases for Brown's project continues epic celestial journeys comprised of processed guitar, sounding much more synthesized than what it was created with. Two 30 minute-long journeys in spaced out in classic kosmische fashion, carefully crafted improvisations that'll surely life your brain into another world.... SOLD OUT! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr
		SM029 SHROUD OF WINTER "Solstice Eclipse" CS/CDr I like more than drone, I fancy some metal and even the darkest realms of nasty metal, which some deem to call "Black Metal". A first for the label, here presented is Andrew Plante's first foray into that dark abyss with the help of Sounding the Deep members on percussion and acoustic guitar, Plante's vision for, which I believe is the first Black Metal outfit in Kansas City, bring 4 carefully crafted melodic and droned out blackened tunes. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM030 SOUNDING THE DEEP "Anthems of Light" CS/CDr Sounding the Deep have been very prolithic and ever-changing. The Kansas City based group has released three full-length albums. “Anthems of Light” collects outtakes from “A Union According to Energy” and unreleased material recorded prior to “Glacier” fills this album well, drifting tones and melodies the way Sounding the Deep does best. All material is solo performances by David Williams. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes Limited CDr version
		SM031 LAMP OF THE UNIVERSE "Arc of Ascent" CS Excited to issue the first cassette for Craig Williamson's Lamp of the Universe project. William's has been producing albums under Lamp of the Universe since 2001. "Arc of Ascent" is the sixth release from 2007. Eastern influenced long-form drones via New Zealand. "Two tracks of Acid drone improvisations to take you higher! Bowed eastern instruments take part in a hallucinatory free noise time travel of epic proportions..... clattering buzzing swirling onward and upwards to the centre of the universe. Free jazz drumming, cosmic synths, ritual chanting, guitar feedback." - deletedscenesforgottendreams.blogspot.com OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM032 COUDLAND BALLROOM "Infinite Mind" CS Following the recent release on Aguirre Records, "Illusion Circles", comes "Infinite Mind". This new release from U.K. based musician and visual artist James R. Moore, features two long-form tracks of blissed out driving new age excursions fueled by synthesizers. More focused meditative and mind relaxation tones sure to open those realms infinitely inside your mind. Moore is also behind Black Mountain Transmitter, who released the great notable "Theory & Practice" cassette.. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM033 SUNGOD "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others" CS Sungod from Austin, Texas have been working hard and consistently since I was introduced to them at SXSW in 2011. Expo '70 shared the same stage that night early on in the showcase week along with Quiet Evenings, Hubble, Woodsman, Toby Aronson, Kevin Shields, Thousand Foot Whale Claw, just to name a few. Unfortunately I arrived to the show just as Sungod were in on the main stage performing, I didn't get to catch much that evening, but Mike of Sungod and I swapped tapes. Some point in the week I busted out their self-released hand packaged cassette release and came to find out that this was a majestic collection of superb drones, crafted well with great tones and the patience to let the instrumentation blend together. This is a re-release of that great cassette that was traded to me. Sounds hints of early Six Organs of Admittance, La Monte Young and obscure new age synth workouts while incorporating free-form playing under those synth textures, building each track with intensity. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM034 WHITE HILLS "The Process" CS “The Process” is a series that looks at what went into the making of the WHITE HILLS album "H-p1". Other releases in the process series include the “Measured Engery” 45 on the Irish label Trensmat, a split LP with Farflung on Cobraside Records, and a series of nine abstract paintings by Dave W. that were created during the mixing of the album. If you've managed to catch White Hills lately you know they're capable of some epic splrawling jams and this tape collects 2 of those solid work-outs. I have yet to hear the new album, but if this is any indication of the solid performing that will be on it, it'll be top-notch! SOLD OUT! Limited to 250 Cassettes
		SM035 J.D. EMMANUEL "Peaceful Kingdom Concert 1982" CS J.D. Emmanuel should need no introduction, the composer has had his classic album from 1982, “Wizards”, re-released a few years ago received with much praise and buzz around it. Having been resurrected out of private press obscurity, J.D. Emmanuel’s music stands the test of time, especially in the current state of underground New Age-inspired electronic music. I’m excited to bring forth a unreleased live recording from 1982. J. D. Emmanuel was the first show for “Music and Ideas: A Celebration and Harvest” - A Benefit Concert for “Peaceable Kingdom” presented at the Washington On the Brazos State Park, Texas, October 1, 1982. This live document is a close live representation to the material on “Wizards”, which was released the same year as the performance. OUT NOW! Limited to 200 Cassettes
		SM036 KOI POND "So Higher" LP/CS Koi Pond is comprised of 3 friends who get together when the time is right to do what is known to many band participants as “jamming”. This term may be a bit harsh on your eyes, but when friends David Aron, Arik Roper and Pete Vogl some together to “jam”, its an epic dense solid session of heavy playing. Koi Pond originally released a cassette on Night People entitled Volcano, which I has the pleasure of happening on to. That limited cassette peaked my interest, sounding like a basement tape from Exmagma or some other lost recording from the mid seventies. After contacting the band to find out this is a one-off project between friends, I coerced the trio into reuniting for a recording, which became So Higher, a recording of 2 side dimensions between locked Krautrock groove with washes of synth exploration. Side two is a very different affair, more improvised heavy jamming comprised of solid bass line, dubby drumming and heavy psych guitar workouts. Those same elements from the cassette “jams” are there, but more focused and sonically represented. At times side A showcases a beastly resemblance to Monster Magnets 25 - Tab mixed with Spacemen 3, side B on the other hand, is a journey unto its own... "Koi Pond is a three piece from NYC made up of some generally awesome dudes. Arik Roper plays bass and is a legendary artist/illustrator who does work for numerous bands, labels and publications such as Arthur, Southern Lord etc. while also playing in other bands such as Under Satans Sun and Mattalama. Pete Vogl plays synth while also jamming in Bow Ribbons, David Aron plays drums, is the perpetrator for Little Cakes Gallery, used to skateboard alot, makes rad visual artwork, and jams in USUN with Mark Borthwick and Hisham Bharoocha. Despite these dudes epic resumes, Koi Pond is epic all on its own. "Volcano" (debut release on Night People) is all about cosmic grooves, deep often minimal, endless repetitions that slowly evolve into more psyched out blissed out trances. Roper and Arons tight rhythmic foundations create the perfect backdrop for Vogal's synth improvisations. This is a meditative listen that never gets old, it just keeps grooving on and on forever. Like Neu! covering Dark Magus in a Tibetan Monastery." - sunflowerchakramilk blog OUT NOW! Limited to 300 LP / screenprinted gatefold jackets OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes - OUT SOON!
		SM037 INSPIRED SCHOOL OF ASTRAL MUSIC "10:10 Opening the Digital Door" LP Split release with Psychic Sounds and originally self-released on CDr and cassette. Birthed as Bill Doob, Inspired School of Astral Music is Sam Jones of Million Brazilians, who also played drums in a few Kansas City bands before departing for Portland a few years ago. The synth-driven solo project of Jones' captures minimal synth explorations in the tradition of Brian Eno's "Ambient" series, early New Age explorer's and moments of Terry Riley's tape loop melodies. More of a conceptual project that also features essays with each release and concentrating on deep meditation and out-of-body experiences, ISOAM will surely bring the calm, float your brain and drift your body. More on ISOAM and sound samples HERE. OUT NOW! Limited to 150 LP Records
		SM038 FJORDS "April Fjords" CS Fjords are a new guitar and keyboard duo from Boston, MA. Their debut reelease is comprised of improvised recordings that fuse melodic guitar with moody synthesized passages, creating a lush lanscape that flows gently while building sonically. A bit like Troum jamming with Barn Owl in a forest cave watching the sunset. Much patience was excercised in the music and it really shows. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM039 LAUBE "Ausmerzen" CS Originally self-released by the band in plain white CD jackets. "This German trio of Nils Lehnhäuser (bass), Christian Dräger (drums) & Eric Bauer (piano) have produced a wonderful set of minimal, melodic, ambient jazz. The instrumentation is sparse, the melodies free-falling and the mood tense yet underscored with a studied lethargy. I'm reminded, favourably, of Angelo Badalamenti's scores for Twin Peaks as "Ausmerzen" has that same dreamy quality to the music. It's a twilight album full of sleepy colours and vague shapes and for the most part it's really quite beautiful. I'll admit to being less than enamoured with the final track as the musicianship and musicality of the rest of the album is replaced with atonal, avant-garde crashes and bangs. It sounds like an Einsturzende out-take or a Z'ev composition and as such feels remarkably out-of-place here. In other circumstances I'd have probably enjoyed it but after the sublime beauty of the preceding tracks it is a disagreeable end to a sumptuous album.“ - Review by Wonderful Wooden Reasons OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes AVAILABLE MARCH 2012
		SM040 LUPERCI "Scorched Earth" CS OUT SOON! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM041 KYLE LANDSTRA "Thought Conjurer" CS Kyle Landstra has been producing some self-released music and recently had a cassettes released on Already Dead Tapes and Sacred Phrases. This recording was made in April of 2011 using a Juno-106, completely improvised through the night, it captures Landstra's moods and reflections from the night's aura. Music, like the title, conjures majestic images of night, echos of silence and corridors of thoughts constructed though images on the canvasses of closed eyelids. No New Age wankery, just pure improvisation. OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes
		SM042 DUANE PITRE "Monolithic Youth" CS Duane Pitre has been fairly productive over the last few years having released music with NNA Tapes, Root Strada and more recently, two new releases ("Feel Free" CD/LP & a split LP w/ Eleh) on Important Records. "Monolithic Youth" features a newly recorded track on side A and a live solo concert recording from September 10, 2009 at the Community School of Music & Arts in Ithaca, NY on side B. "Monolithic Youth" captures a more bright tonal pitch and choral movement within tones and underlying pulses of shifting bass, similar to Terry Riley, Charlemange Palestine and Brainworlds. OUT NOW! Limited to 150 Cassettes
		SM043 CARLOS VILLENA TBA CS OUT SOON! Limited to 150 Cassettes
		SM044 STAR TURBINE "Gravity" CS Star Turbine is the long-distance duo of Sindre Bjerga from Stavanger, Norway and Claus Poulsen from Copenhagen, Denmark. Sindre Bjerga is a very active live musician, touring 2-3 times evey year since 2006 all over Europe, and have released more than 200 records, mostly known from the hyper-productive duo Bjerga/Iversen. Lately he has mainly been playing more solo gigs, including improvised voice as a new element in the mix. Claus Poulsen is a ”formal” multiinstrument musician as well as noise improviser and music producer, who enjoys working in very different music styles, and has worked for 8 years in Sound ensemble Alarm112, and now with Small Things on Sundays (amongst many other projects). OUT NOW! Limited to 100 Cassettes