archive 22-23- KEIJI HAINO+ SITAAR TAH! “ANIMAMIMA” 2
XCD
Another double CD release which features
Haino San in a live setting from 2004 in Tokyo playing
accompaniment to Sitaar Tah! The Japanese sitar orchestra.
Features Haino on vocals, Flute, Electric tanbur, rhythm box,
eclectic hurdy gurdy, and electric scuthi box. Also guesting on
this one Fuyuki Yamakawa on Igil and throat singing. A
completely mammoth set of drones with Haino acting as the
accent man added flare over top of the dense background of
working sitars. Was listed on WIRES list of top 50 releases for
2006. Released jointly with Important records, single pressing
of 1000 copies which are sold out. Recording and photogrpahy
work by my favorite human Phil
PACKAGE- a diecut letterpress cover with
inner photographic work that was saddle stitched inside.
Artwork and design by Stephan O’Malley.
SOLD OUT
left a whole bunch of Haino discs.. above
boxes of Sitaar Tah waiting for shipping!
archive 23 GOSLINGS
“GRANDEUR OF HAIR” CD
Yeap that’s right catalog
number 23.. I suppose the Haino Sitaar Tah! Should have been
21-22 but things were happening fast and I lost track of what
the hell I was doing.. Anyway happy hunting for 21 since it
doesn’t exist at this point.
GOSLINGS “grandeur of hair” in a lot of ways a release that exceeded
any expectations I’ve had for the label. Up until this
point the label had mostly focused on live recordings (beyond
the Plotkin/ Wyskida release) but this project was more the
full visualization of a project as the band had been working on
the recordings for some time. In a nutshell a 60’ish min.
collection of tracks that feature husband wife duo of Max and
Leslie Soren of FL. Practicing the fine art of analog tape
annihilation and over saturation. Predominately a wall of
fuzzed to hell guitar noise mixed lightly with some drum beats
here and there sprinkled with some sweet female vocals. One of
the things that always pulled me in is the subtle guitar
melodies that are buried beneath the haze. I’ve seen a
number of reviews and comments about this release giving it the
Sunno))) meets My Bloody Valentine tag, not sure if I fully see
that myself but whatever. Single pressing of 1000 pieces. I
still have copies on the 1st page of the shop. And you should
also be able to find this titles at a number of the
distro’s in the link section.
-PACKAGE first project to date that I
hired on Alan Sherry of SIWA records to silkscreen 2.5 panel
covers on a heavy weight black cardstock. Graphic work from
Chris Alpino with guidance from Max and Leslie.
archive 24 BARDO
POND “live
in Philadelphia” CD
A release that was really inspired from
my side by a simple minimal photographic layout. Two years or
so after the live content was recorded I was screwing around
with photographs I had taken from the live event. At the time I
was talking with Michael Gibbons about a different project and
I pitched him on this idea. And that was that. Live set was
something I would return to listen to from time to time as
being on of the more unique Bardo sets that I had seen
personally over the past 7 years of seeing them play live in
their home town 5-10 times a year. Recorded at a “party/
show” at the apartment of some Espers folks in the city.
The set is mostly acoustic due to the fact that show space had
neighbors. Maybe a better term would have been volume
limiting?? Line-up included Ed on Percussion, Clint on electric
bass, John on cumbus (I don’t recall him playing any
electric at all, but we did credit him as electric guitars as
well), Michael on Electric guitar, and Isobel on vocals, flute,
and violin. First trx called Amur is a fairly long loose jam
with a very Middle Eastern drone feel to it. Second trx Walking
cloud is a much different version then appeared recorded else
where. Content wise a really nice little release that is a lot
of things I wanted archive to be and do. Offer documentation of
unique one off events and to allow more then the 20 people who
were present to actual hear the music.
PACKAGE- Up until this point I’ve
had what I would think were pretty smooth releases in terms of
getting the covers and discs done with out issue. The cover for
the release features text free photographs that I took from the
actual live show. The first batch of 600 discs that came in
from the pressing plant had a disc color that didn’t even
come close to the print work. In concept the disc faces were
supposed to seamlessly overlay the inner print work by blending
with a color match. The only text on the whole release was
matte finish on the disc face itself. After getting the first
batch of discs in I decided against using them for the release
and decided to have them repressed to get a better color match.
So as not to totally waste the entire 600 bad color discs, and
help with some of the demand and general interest the release
was getting we decided to use 125 copies of the bad discs in a
2nd sleeve using different art. The designation for these discs
was the PMS721 (the color number for the disc face). 2nd
pressing of CD’s later came in, and while they
didn’t match either, they were closer in color and I went
ahead and used them. This pressing was 600 pieces in the
photographic sleeve.
these discs sold very quickly.
sold out
Above the pms721 sleeve I also like to
call this one the has pipe sleeve. right above the photographic
sleeve
archive 25
NARITA MUNEHIRO “ETHER”
CD
2 different live solo electric guitar
improvisations from NARITA MUNEHIRO, legendary guitar hero from
the Japanese pysch underground band HIGH RISE. With Highrise
left as an inactive band at this point, Narita has been
performing one off gigs with different players and some solo
outings in and around Tokyo. This release was to let some of
that out into the general public and offer a grittier
alternative to the cleaner sounding solo PSF CD. Single
pressing of 600 copies recorded once again by my favorite human
Phil. With mastering by Plotkin.
-PACKAGE layout was design and formed by
myself using a bunch of photographs that my favorite human Phil
took from one of the live dates. I used a more analog approach
printing the photographs and then treating them with bleach
which of course produced the bleeding acid washed effects.
These were then re-scanned into the computer and text was
added. The Inner background photograph was actually produced
using the same blue smoke photo that makes up the blue version
of the sunno))) live white CDR back cover. These were the first
covers I had made with an extra heavy gloss coat applied to
them. All text by Chris Alpino SOLD OUT
left applying bleach to the background
photo’s used for the inside. above the finished covers
out of the boxes and finished packed up release
