JAHRTAL - 'William Blake - Lieder Von Unschuld Und Widerfahren' CD (Ahnstern)
This is the second album by the Austrian Psychedelic-Folk artist Jahrtal. The man behind Jahrtal is Ewald Spiss, a artist from Tyrol, who started doing electro-acoustic music and sound-installations in the early 80s. Jahrtal today is authentic psychedelic Folk music, maybe only comparable with In Gowan Ring. The lyrics of the second album are poems of "Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience" by the English poet William Blake (1757-1827), translated by Ewald Spiss, as near as possible to the original Blake-texts.
JAMES JOHNSTON / PHILIPPE PETIT - 'Fiends With A Face' CD (Dirter)
An hommage to the golden era of horror movies. Our two fiends wanted to conjure up blood-curdling and haunting soundscapes, playing with unsettling ambiances in order to create a contemporary soundtrack for those who like to be frightened. Philippe Petit is interested in soundtracks, even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer. James Johnston is the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of influential UK band Gallon Drunk. He also plays with Krautrock legends Faust and was a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from 2003-2008, (originally touring with the band in 1994). Ltd x 1000 copies in a beautiful full colour gatefold sleeve with a printed inner sleeve.
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JAMES MACHIN & STEVE PITTIS - 'Guitar & Electronics Music' CD (Dirter)
Four lengthy, improvised guitar & electronics duet pieces (almost 1 hour of music) from James Machin (Splintered, Husk, Slugbait) and Steve Pittis (Band Of Pain, Splintered). An overwhelming cascade of skewed psychosis and serrated sweat capturing an essence often promised but rarely delivered in today's stakes. Recorded live to DAT at Elsewhere, Whitstable, 4 November 1996. No overdubs. Mastered by the legendary Denis Blackham. Ltd x 500 copies and a rare piece!
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JANITOR - 'Qoumran 4-Ever' CD (Tesco Organisation)
This is Janitor's 3rd full-length release. The two masterminds Lina Baby Doll (aka Peter Andersson of Deutsch Nepal) and BJ Nilsen (Hazard, Morthond) got together again to produce an outstanding mix of rhythms, industrial elektronic soundscapes and romantic tunes. With the distinct voice of Lina Baby Doll, this is a sentimental journey into their world of weirdness. After years of contemplation and research in the monastery caves of Qoumran, Nilsen and LBD found the hidden treasures they were looking for. The dry wind as a tapestry of sand in an elektronic desert, structures and ornaments hidden in the storm of Saudi. Another surprising release from the Swedish duo, presented in a digipak.
JARL - 'Akatisi / Somnolens' CD (Tantric Harmonies)
Solo release from Erik Jarl of IRM. Sustained static fields and repetitive patterns construct expressive layers of sound in contrasting colours. Delicately and ambitiously put together to a transcendental cycle. Music for occidental meditation. Presented in an outsized gatefold sleeve. Russian import. Ltd x 500.
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JARL - 'Fragile Confrontation' CD (Annihilvs)
This Swedish Dark Ambient sound sculptor (who has already shown his mettle as a member of IRM) has also released albums for such noted labels as Malignant Records, Autarkeia and Segerhuva. "Fragile Confrontation" finds Eric Jarl looking back into the sparse, cold isolationist landscapes of "Sealed Void", while instilling an undercurrent of impending violence, like a blade slowly moving toward flesh in tense, scraping frame-by-frame action. Metallic drones and static waves slide against each other as the confrontation between steel and skin comes to a mind-numbing collision. Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre).
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JARL - 'Turbulence Colour' 2 x CD (Autarkeia)
"Turbulence Colour" is the tenth album of talented Swedish composer Erik Jarl (IRM), containing two and a half hours of new, never released sound material over two CDs. In terms of music, Erik Jarl remains loyal to his original but dismal style. Very long, hypnotic tracks convey unbearable, depressing and morbid states of human psyche. "Turbulence Colour" is at the same time a journey into the grey matrix of anxiety where the listeners are masterfully taken through the sickly labyrinths of the author’s mind. The latest Erik Jarl’s release is the top class drone psycho-collage. Presented in a stunning debossed 6-panel digipak inserted into an embossed slipcase. Extremely high quality product! Ltd x 500. Lithuanian import.
"Vertigo Emission" is the twelfth album of Swedish genius Erik Jarl. The composer remains loyal to the style he propagates. Slow, very heavy and dismal sound waves grip the listeners and take them into the colourless, uncanny and morbid world. Like the previous ones, this album reminds a person who could earlier see the colours but became colour blind and in order to adapt to the new situation has to understand familiar yet irreversibly changed signs anew. The aesthetics of Erik Jarl's sonic decoration is like always very austere and merciless, however, it is marked by endless charm resulting from especially sensitive and subtle construction. Ltd x 200 copies in an embossed glossy digipak.
Vertigo Rebirth is the 14th album from Swedish composer Erik Jarl (IRM) and the third and final part of the Vertigo trilogy. Like the earlier albums, this one generates particularly severe emotions: isolation, intoxication and especially negative, poisonous intuition. The album opens with a track that has a construction uncharacteristic to his previous works. This composition contains quite strange rhythms and is rather dynamic, which generates deceptive elation. But that’s only the first track of the album. The rest fling the audience back to the cold uncompromising space of drone, piercing and crushing all attempts to perceive the phenomenon of Jarl’s impasse. This is one more remarkable album for potential suicides. Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak.
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JASON CRUMER - 'First Two Records On CD' CD (Freak Animal)
You missed the first two vinyl albums of just about the best American harsh noise out there? The sold out LPs on RRRecords ("Future With No Chance", 2007) and Harsh Head Rituals ("Burning In Hell", 2008) are now collected onto one full length CD. Check out the total analogue destruction, tape manipulations, frantic vocals and infernal rumbling noises with amazing textures. Don't miss out this time!
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JASON KAHN & ASHER - 'Vista' CD (and/OAR)
"By mail" collaboration mixing Asher's recordings of machine noises from the alleys and side streets of Back Bay, Boston and Kahn's recordings made on the shores of Zurich Lake and in the Swiss Alps. Addressing the idea of hearing and seeing out and beyond spatial planes, the title "Vista" references both the aural expanses of Asher's home on a hill in the town of Somerville and Kahn's trips in Switzerland. In processing and mixing the discrete details of a landscape, we hear them from a real physical distance. Through the incidental combinations of processed local sounds and sound materials which are entirely foreign to us, an imaginative aural view is created which obscures any relationship to a documentary account of the original locations recorded for Vista. Digipak.
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JAZZFINGER - 'The Little Girl On The Plane Who Turned Her Dolls Head Around To Look At Me' CD (Muzamuza Records)
Rare debut album from the UK electro-acoustic / avant-garde / experimental duo of Ben Jones and Hasan Gaylani, here investigating classic lo-fi psychedelic noise in a post-Bower / Campbell / Youngs style. "A caustic soundscape of high end streaks, like howling dogs and balloons being rubber together morphs into a thick fuzzy dirgescape thick with industrial scrapes and warbly organ, like some long lost Dead C jam, then some damaged acoustic guitar beneath a field of buzzing electricity... Thick and caustic and noisy but somehow so creepy and pretty" (Aquarius). Ltd x 500 copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve with vellum wrap.
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JAZZKAMMER - 'New Water' 3" CD (OHM Records)
Jazzkammer's Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, captured live in Singapore in 2003, during the height of the SARS epidemic. "This CD sees them playing with noise and feedback, despite the use of some water sounds and short outbursts of rhythmical elements. For the bigger part it's still Merzbow influenced noise music" (Vital). 20 minutes of beautiful broken sounds and horrendous feedback! Comes in a beautiful little gatefold digifile.
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JAZZKAMMER - 'Sound Of Music' 3" CD (OHM Records)
"The title of this Jazzkammer (Lasse Marhaug / John Hegre) release is a very nice reference to their tactics: they create sound out of music. With the help of electronic equipment and a guitar, they blast their way through definitions of the term that shocks so many. This little disc leaves no questions about Jazzkammer's intentions: they want noise and they'll make it happen. In twenty minutes time they offer the whole spectrum of the genre as we know it: fierce rumbles, glitches, hisses and piercing tones. And not to forget: some looped melodic elements, heavily distorted and, more often than not, buried under an avalanche of other noise... Way to go!" (Vital). Comes in a little gatefold digifile.
The Jazzkammer side is a 20 minute freak-out with tapes, radio and turntables, while Opec offer a more subtle but no less intense soundscape. Ltd x 323 copies on black vinyl in a hand-printed, silkscreened transparent sleeve with insert. Mastered by Goodiepal & Rashad Becker at D+M in Berlin. Danish import.
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JENNIFER GENTLE & KAWABATA MAKOTO - 'The Wrong Cage' CD (A Silent Place)
Re-release of "The Wrong Cage", the superfreaky, acid rock album that introduced Italian psych-pop mavericks Jennifer Gentle to the rest of the world, leading to their subsequent Sub Pop signing. Originally self-released in 2002, "The Wrong Cage" saw the young Italian quartet join forces with Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) for a live album that captured the band at it's most ferocious. Over 30 minutes of wonderful sonic carnage: two long, ultra-heavy guitar freakouts plus a eerily beautiful solo sarongi track played by Kawabata. All in all, a must for all fans of heavy, guitar-driven psychedelic avant-rock. Inlcudes a bonus track - an 18-minute long version of "Bring Them" from another night of that tour. Digipak.
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JENNIFER GENTLE - 'A New Astronomy' CD (A Silent Place)
Official re-issue of the ultra rare 2005 Sub Pop release (Ltd x 100 copies), now in a digipak. This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius. "A new astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release to date. Recorded mostly in Marco Fasolo's bedroom on a 4-track cassette machine, the album was conceived as the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a homage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included.
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JENNIFER GENTLE - 'Concentric' CD (A Silent Place)
Better known as purveyors of quirky, semi-sleazy avant pop gems on their Sub Pop albums, Jennifer Gentle have also issued through the years a series of weirder releases, running the gamut from out-there psychedelic rock to “crunching and hefty slab of tripped out musique concrète worthy of Joji Yuasa, Kunihara Akayima or one of their equivalent early ‘60s greats” (Julian Cope). Concentric is the last and also their bleakest, most uncompromising and probably best experimental album to date. This time Fasolo took his and into his own studio, recorded them and then spent hours painstakingly editing the material, adding here and there the odd effect and generally directing what sounds like a nightmarish Surrealist movie perversely shot in lush Cinemascope, or a hellish version of Lumpy Gravy as played by a freaked-out jazz combo. Digipak.
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JENNIFER GENTLE - 'Live In The House Of God' SINGLE SIDED 12" (A Silent Place)
Recorded in an empty, deconsecrated church in summer 2003, this LP is another installment in an on-going series of records documenting the weird life of Jennifer Gentle in the foggy plains of Northern Italy. Basically the sound of JG's mainman Marco Fasolo going wild with an old, battered electronic piano and a bunch of sound effects, "Live at the House of God" is a side-long improvisation sharing the same spirit of those 20-minutes keyboard freak-outs Sun Ra used to record in the late 60s. Alternatively spacey and noisy, the piece is a dark, often unnerving exploration in sound, shimmering all the way through with a distinct Krautrock / early Cluster vibe. The new owners of the church were horrified and outraged by the sheer loudness of the performance, but God liked it a lot. Single-sided white vinyl in a deluxe spot-varnished sleeve with insert. Strictly limited to 300 copies only!!! LAST COPY - ACT FAST!
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JOB KARMA - 'Punkt' CD (Obuh)
New album from this Polish duo, who are gradually becoming the spearhead of landscapists of the genre. These two boosters of post-industrial tradition have forged 8 well-shaped and perversely tuneful pieces, which form an ideal soundtrack for an apocalyptic soap opera that eats up bits of our lives every now and then. Escape from...but where? Everywhere is the same in the giant guts of the mechanical Leviathan. The cosmos serves more and more darkness from the frighteningly far galactic preserves, the black hole gets bigger and bigger. But do not be afraid. The Mind Grinding and Oppression Machine (the fearful MGOM), choking and wheezing with its own enormity, gets jammed and broken more and more often. The fight goes on. As ever. 6-panel digipak with phenomenal cover design by Arek Bagiński.
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JOHANNES FRISCH & RALF WEHOWSKY - 'Tranende Wurger' CD (Korm Plastics)
'Tränende Würger" is based on free improvisations by the Frisch / Wehowsky duo, reworked by electro-acoustic means. The compositional process did not intend to mask the nonlinear nature of the improvisations. Quite on the contrary - their organic character has been emphasised by crystal-clear sharpening of details. Complex structures and dark atmospheres, not unlike those on some P16.D4 releases, though absolutely rooted in the 21st century. beauty and poisoning are not far from each other. Comes in an outsized sleeve with the artwork on six separate sheets, dealing with poisonous plants.
JOHN DUNCAN - 'Da Sich Die Machtgier...' CD (Die Stadt)
Asmus Tietchens sent processed recordings of himself reading excerpts from two texts by E. M. Cioran. Duncan worked on and manipulated them, creating three pieces. There is little of Tietchens remaining in these abstract creations. Speed-altered voice tracks are stacked, swirling electronic sounds in the background providing proof of deeper processing. "Freih zein hoem macht..." ranks among Duncan's harshest pieces to date, while "Aber..." is more "typical" Duncan: a drone derived from the sound source but from which the sound source has been obliterated, and yet makes its ghostly presence palpable. Presented in a nice digipak with tasteful spot varnish and insert. Ltd x 1000.
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JOHN DUNCAN - 'The Tailing' DVD (Von Archives)
"Slow writhing in near-total darkness. Intertwining drones from a church organ. Movement and sound heavy, thick as oil. Erotic and forbidden". "The Tailing" is a hammond organ soundtrack improvised by John Duncan at Diapason, New York. Premiered at Three Days Of Struggle, Vittorio Veneto in February 2010. Produced and directed by John Duncan. Ltd x 500 copies.
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
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JOHN DUNCAN / C.M. VON HAUSSWOLFF - 'Our Telluric Conversation' CD (23five)
The second collaborative album from audio sculptors John Duncan and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff. A bold, expressive piece of sound art, confident in its multiplicity of perspectives caught in a constant flux of attraction and repulsion. Performed with shortwave, data streams, uncanny use of the human voice, oscillators, sonar, and wire tapping microphones. The recording comes with a 40 page booklet with an interview between Duncan and Hausswolff about their histories, ideas, and methodologies. Furthermore, the packaging is completed with a braille embossed cover slip. Heavy, quality piece.
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JOHN DUNCAN / KONTAKT DER JUNGLINGE / C. M. VON HAUSSWOLFF - 'Untitled' CD (Die Stadt)
A compilation of live recordings, specially released for a Die Stadt label night featuring all 3 artists at Argos in Brussels on 18 October 2007. The John Duncan recording was made at The Compound , San Francisco on 21 July 2007. Kontakt der Junglinge (Asmus Tietchens & Thomas Koner) 'Montreal Solution 1' is an excerpt from their live performance at Mutek Festival, Montreal on 28 May, 2003. The final track on this CD is by C.M. Von Hausswolff and was recorded at 'Easy To Swallow', All Tomorrows Parties, SEOne Club, London, curated by Russel Haswell, on 2 June 2005. Released in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies.
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JOHN WATERMANN - 'Babel #1' CD (Stille Andacht)
1993 CD from late Australian experimentalist and visionary John Watermann. Features an incredible recombinant use of English verbal phonemes to simulate natural speech, but babelised. The tower of babel as the source of communication problems. File next to Asmus Tietchens.
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JOHN WATERMANN - 'Calcutta Gas Chamber' CD (Cold Spring CSR52CD)
The concept of aurally conveying the horror of a gas chamber was realised through field recordings in an abandoned electrical power station in Brisbane in 1992. The sounds are grating and harsh, a mixture of field recordings and electronic manipulations. One can rarely pinpoint a location or action but the images the sounds conjure up are of all sorts of nefarious activites related to death by machinery. The sleeve notes take you into the horror that is the Calcutta Gas Chamber. A beautifully composed and produced CD, completely remastered and re-packaged.
JOHN WIESE - 'Black Magic Pond' CD (Blossoming Noise)
Compounded recycling report from the East Coast and debut solo outing on Blossoming Noise, following LHD's release "Young & Restless". In Wiese's output, "Black Magic Pond" sits somewhere between the density of "Arrhythmia Wave Burst" and "Panner Crash" but working within the same conceptual framework of his recycling trilogy "Magical Crystal Blah". Housed in a digipak.
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JOHN WIESE - 'Magical Crystal Blah Volume 3' MCD (Helicopter / Kitty Play Records)
Volume three of a recycling music project. All tracks produced by John Wiese (Bastard Noise / LHD) using Crystal Blah Vol 2 as source material. Vol 3 takes a more physical approach than its predecessor, which seemed to have been constructed with an almost meticulous hand. This music is more brutal, and relies more on sheer density of sound and dynamics. The only thing the listener can know for sure is that the music won't be in one place for long. 17 minutes of music dissected over 37 tracks.
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JOHN WIESE / C. SPENCER YEH - 'Compound' 7" (Von Archives)
C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and John Wiese (Sissy Space, LHD, ex-Bastard Noise), recorded August 26, 2007 at The Compound, San Francisco, California. A threshold of sound composed from the electro-acoustic improvisations of Yeh and the surgical abrasive noise patches of Wiese. A Majestic Experiment by this two unclassifiable masters of the new improv. Ltd x 300 copies. Italian import.
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JOHN WILLIAMS - 'The Music Of Star Wars - 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition' 8 x CD Boxset (Sony Classical)
John Williams' stunning score for the Star Wars Trilogy, digitally remastered and expanded. This Limited Edition numbered 8-CD set contains: All-new Corellian Edition, Episodes IV, V & VI packaged in the original double-LP artwork and an exclusive CD-ROM featuring original LP inserts, poster and photos. Also contains never-before-seen poster and collectible stickers.
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JONATHAN COLECLOUGH & ANDREW LILES - 'Torch Songs' 2 x LP (Die Stadt)
Coleclough and Liles met in October 2004 when they both performed at Intergration 3 in Preston, UK. Liles subsequently reworked the recording of Coleclough's solo performance from that evening. He went on to add, subtract, multiply and divide further live recordings supplied by Coleclough, and the eventual result was this double LP. 'Torch Songs' is packaged in a heavy gatefold sleeve featuring 'I Dreamt I was a River', a poem composed and painted by Geoff Sawers during a performance with Coleclough in Geneva in March 2005. The sound of Geoff's brush painting this lettering can be heard on side B of 'Torch Songs.' Ltd x 300 only!
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JOY OF LIFE / APOPTOSE - 'Warrior Creed' LP (Tesco Organisation)
In 1988 British post punk group Joy of Life released their song 'Warrior Creed'. 20 years later 'Warrior Creed' is back - seen though the eyes of Apoptose. The voice of Joy of Life leadsinger Gary Carey has matured and the rhythm section is reinforced by an entire band of drummers, the Fanfarenzug Leipzig. Now the music sounds even darker. This LP celebrates the return of that classic song. It features two new interpretations by Apoptose, both sung by Gary Carey, alongside the original Joy of Life version which has been unavailable for more than a decade. The vinyl-only release is limited to 600 copies and is packed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with metallic bronze embossing.
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JUDAH - 'Judah' CD (Small Voices)
Second full album by those clones of NY’s legend Suicide! This album is even more close to the very typical Suicide sound than the first one.. they sound extremely close to the originals! An incredible collision between cold and analogue minimal electronics with toxic and vicious vocals, rock 'n roll and savage punk. A real cult project / cult release.
Juhyo (Minneapolis artists Brian Kopish of Hear More! and Bill Henson of Housepig) teams up with Joshua Norton Cabal (Andrew Nolan of The Endless Blockade) for a two-pronged Noise investigation into the world of human trafficking and modern slavery. Features Eric King (The Endless Blockade) on guest drums and source material from Nekrasov. Ltd x 500 copies.
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JULIE'S HAIRCUT - 'Our Secret Ceremony' 2 x CD (A Silent Place)
"Our Secret Ceremony" is the fifth album by Julie's Haircut. The record lives on the osmosis of different styles and approaches, from pop to electronica, from psychedelic rock to experimentation, still never lacking in coherence and unity. The first disc has a more classically orientated song structure, accompanied by the second part which has a looser feel. In a way, it's as if there are the two basic aspects of the creative process and, ultimately, of the human existence, living side by side: light and shadow, consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and dream. Presented in a hardback cardboard 6-panel digisleeve.
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JULIE'S HAIRCUT with SONIC BOOM - 'N-Waves / U-Waves' CD (A Silent Place)
In late September 2005 Sonic Boom, (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3, Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research) meets Julie’s Haircut at Studio Alpha in Bologna to co-operate with them in the final editing of their latest album. Only a part of 3 days of studio recordings was released in the original 10" edition of this release (Ltd 524). "N-Waves / U-Waves" contains two takes produced in that session: 'Gemini, pt. 1 & pt. 2' presented here in its first take; and 'Scarfo Spanks DC' - another completely unreleased improvisation. Two more studio improvisations complete this CD release, with Sonic Boom playing esotic electronic devices such as the Raagini, Kraakle and the EMS Synthi AKS sinthetizer. CD slip with embossed outer sleeve.
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JUSSI LEHTISALO - 'Rotta' LP (Ektro Records / Full Contact Records / Svart Records)
The international heavy metal bass superstar and aspiring Finnish singer-songwriter Jussi Lehtisalo has taken a break from his duties in the hard rock group Circle and gone solo to seek direct means of expression for his inner moods. The resulting vinyl-only album "Rotta" is a touching collection of psych-rock / ambient / experimental tunes, which lead the listener through the sidewalks, back alleys and small corner pubs of Lehtisalo's hometown Pori. Ltd x 500 copies with art by illustrator Jussi S Karjalainen.
