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[burlveneer-music]

Lori Vambe - Space-Time Dreamtime - Strut Records reissue of 2 private-press percussion albums from 1982

Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything – the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners, the keepers of secrets, the path-finders. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe. New on Strut, the first ever reissue of Vambe’s privately pressed original albums from 1982, Drumland Dreamland and Drumgita Solo. A self-taught drummer, inventor, and sonic experimentalist, Lori Vambe is a unique figure in British music. Creator of his own instrument, the drumgita (pronounced ‘drum-guitar’) or string-drum, Vambe intended to create a kind of music that had never been made in order to pursue access to the fourth dimension. Vambe was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and his father, Lawrence Vambe, was a noted Zimbabwean journalist and author. Moving to London in 1959, Vambe immersed himself in the Brixton squat movement of the early 1970s, teaching himself to drum and creating a short-lived performance group, The Healing Drums of Brixton (Vambe, the sculptor Alexander Sokolov and outsider musician Michael O’Shea). Vambe later had a dream-vision involving a feeling of ecstasy while playing an unknown instrument that extended from his own umbilical cord; the instrument would manifest itself as the drumgita. In 1982, he privately produced a pair of home recordings, the diptych set Drumgita Solo and Drumland Dreamland, releasing them on his own label Drumony. On these records, he rejected any commercial aesthetic and employed tape effects, temporal shifts, reversed sound and overdubbing to investigate space-time and access the fourth dimension. Combining layered drums with the rhythmic throb of the drumgita and, on Drumland Dreamland, an improvised piano performance by Brazilian concert pianist Rafael Dos Santos, the albums are both hypnotic and perturbing. Both albums were cut at Portland Studios by Chas Chandler and stand as a concealed monument of Black British experimental music. 500 copies of each record were originally pressed, and both were released together. The albums were never performed live. For this first ever reissue of Drumland Drumland and Drumgita Solo, Strut presents the two albums in their original artwork, housed in a deluxe slipcase including an additional 8-page 12”-sized booklet featuring unseen photos, liner notes and an interview with Lori Vambe by The Wire magazine writer Francis Gooding. Both albums are fully remastered by The Carvery. 

#Bandcamp #Lori Vambe #percussion #drumgita #private press #strut recordsm #reissue #experimental #uk #1982 #2023 #80s

[roguetelemetry]

#bababoo #artie the crooning ghost #dj shadow #private press

[superhotsongs]

Karen Brooks - Lost silence [1972]

This is a 4 track ep recorded by a then 17 year old Karen Brooks. Recorded on to a reel-to-reel tape recorder in an open courtyard at there boarding school. Karen Brooks had no idea their parents would have it edited and pressed into an album. Unlike most old folk artist like this you can still contact her. https://www.youtube.com/@karenbrooks1292 After this upload of the album surfaced on the internet and got popular on sites like rym. Karen Brooks actually commented on the video talking about how she is planning on making physicals for the project.

Miss Brooks intends to re-issue this EP with some bonus stuff (It's bin 3 months since then and i have no idea if this ever happened.)

This record is really unique in how it sounds. The fact that it was recorded in some court yard on a tape recorder and you can hear people talking in the background just makes the listening experience really special. Karen's voice is so soft and comforting the whole album feels very vulnerable. I think my favourite track on the album is the first track "king of fantasy" every time I listen too it I go on a emotional roller coaster. Highly recommend you give this one a listen. It's really easy to find a download link for this album so there is no excuse to not give it a shot.

#folk #obscure #70s music #Private press #Lost Media #Youtube

[mrkoppa]

8 November 2023 | Der Klubhaus

Getting to the bottom of these cases as I continue the experience of standing up ALL the type from eight drawers of dirty old Franklin Gothic, all to be arranged and printed in the forthcoming title, Understanding This Book, which ideally will be completed in time for the The Oxford Fine Press Book Fair on 9-10 December in one of my favorite countries. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The little lead shrapnel is nasty. This is a completely necessary task if I wish to truly enjoy my creative time in the future.

#utb #letterpress #understanding #gothic type #typogrpaphy #metal type #private press #artists book #creative process #creation #creative writing #heavy duty press

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Roy DeLaGarza "Jesus Took The Burden of My Sin"

#records #lp covers #lps #album art #record covers #albums #album covers #lpcovers #vinyl #albumcovers #gospel #christian music #christian records #private press vinyl #private press #delagarza

[strathshepard]

DJ Shadow and the GrooveRobbers “Entropy” (Solesides SS-001, 1995)

I got two copies of this record when it came out by calling the Solesides manager Jeff Chang on my landline and sending him a check through the mail

#dj shadow #gift of gab #blackalicious #jeff chang #records #hip hop #music #handwriting #private press

[uneasylisteningradio]

Shapes December 3, 2022

Illustration by Ronald Searle

stream on Mixcloud

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night The Diodes - Shape of Things to Come

DJ speaks over Sandy Nelson - No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)

The Ex - Prism Song Scarecrow - Ouroboros The Shitheads - Centroszóma Round

DJ speaks over Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Triangles

The Clean - Circle Canyon Patsy Cline - Tra Le La Le La Triangle Zero Boys - Vicious Circle The Waitresses - Square Pegs Personality Cult - Circles The Satans - Lines and Squares Brendan Behan - The Old Triangle

DJ speaks over New Order - Bizarre Dub Triangle

The Savages - The World Ain't Round It's Square Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms Unseen - Square Einstürzende Neubauten - In Circles Anorexia - I'm A Square The Staple Singers - Will the Circle Be Unbroken

DJ speaks over The Village Stompers - Washington Square

David Bowie - The Width of a Circle (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 10/20/72) Radical Kitten - Full Circle Eddy Current Suppression Ring - It's All Square Celtic Frost - Circle of the Tyrants

DJ speaks over Ornette Coleman - The Circle with a Hole in the Middle

Hawkwind - Motorhead The Spaceshits - Squarehead Siam Sur - Squared Les Thugs - Square of Lights Young Wasteners - Stained Circle Red Red Krovvy - Square Man

DJ speaks over The Electric Tomorrow - Sugar Cube

The Make-Up - I Am Pentagon Emo Summer - Man Sitting in Chair, Staring at Cube The Spiders - Walking Around in Circles U.X.A. - Social Circle Devo - Blockhead

DJ speaks over Les Baxter - Pyramid of the Sun

Fucked Up - Circling the Drain

#radio #community radio #wprb #shapes #punk #new wave #emo #space rock #garage rock #cold wave #glam rock #metal #industrial music #private press #folk rock #country music

[be1lion]

(Day End Records)

#SoundCloud #music #Day End Records #soul jazz #private press #rare #1975

[dyingforbadmusic]

Cliff Honiker "Holy Mother, Let It Be" (Talcon Record Production, 19--?) (LP)

This album has made the rounds of the let's-make-fun-of-old-album-covers scene, due to the novelty graphics on the front cover, which show the beatnik-y looking young guitarist kneeling in the forest with cartoon flames lapping around his legs, reminiscent of that classic Louvin Brothers cover from the 'Fifties. Although the liner notes describe this as "country music with a real down home flavor," the arrangements aren't all that twangy, and seems to have been provided by an (anonymous) pop-rock ensemble, doing a work-for-hire gig behind the decidedly amateur singer. The songs pursue some pretty eclectic themes, including a couple with religious lyrics, "Come On, Satan" and the title track, "Holy Mother, Let It Be." Then again, he also sings stuff like "I Need A Woman," "Night Time Lover" and "Marriage On The Rocks, so he had his feet set in the real world as well. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Clifford F. Honiker, Jr (d. 2010) was a working class guy, the owner of his own flooring and carpet cleaning business, which was still advertising in local papers in the late 'Sixties and 'early 'Seventies, when this was made. He later moved to Georgia, though I'm fairly certain he didn't play live gigs in either state. A single was broken off this album, with these two discs apparently the sum total of his forays into the music business. A "private" album, if ever there was one!

source Discogs obituary

#private press #country music #outsider lounge rock #Youtube

[romantictimes]

Lori Longmire & Crown Of Creation – A Day In The Sun (1974)

Lori can't sing (she also sounds like she had a sore throat on the day she booked the studio), but does that really matter?

She sure does choose all the right songs to cover. We've got the Reverend Al Green ("How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?") and Roberta Flack ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face").

Then all of a sudden it's The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace"? And it's not even Lori who's singing the song?

Either Lori and her friends don't understand what it means to record an album - although I'd love to hear why they decided to shoehorn a '50s teeny bopper pop song between jazz and r&b standards - or the Crown of Creation told her that the price for recording with her was that they could pick and record a song or two of their choosing. No matter how genre inappropriate.

It's a charming record. Check it out.

#private press #vinyl #records #vintage #jazz #Youtube

[mywifeleftme]

280: Reveen // Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating

Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating Reveen 1978, Reveen Recordings

Novelty record with a fab sleeve here, featuring hypnotic self-help suggestion courtesy of the Man They Call Reveen, an Australian-born magician who toured a trough through Atlantic Canada for 35 years. Due perhaps to the limitations of the LP format, Reveen spends the majority of each side of the record inducing the listener into a hypnotic state by telling you Hooow reLAXed Yooouuuu Arrreeee and COUNting DOWN in a DRONing CADEnce before rather briefly outlining what is bad about smoking and over-eating respectively and supposedly planting the suggestion you mightn’t want to do either of those things anymore. Reveen’s accent is kind of stuck in one of the middle stages of Animorphing between his native Australian and a poncy Received British accent, which makes everything he says funny. I’ve never been susceptible to hypnosis (…unless?), so neither side pulled me under and cured me of my ways, though the record is acceptable as ASMR and I conked right the fuck out listening to it this afternoon.

Reveen was both a mesmerist and a magician—I’m just old enough (41) to have possibly caught the tail end of his career, but never saw a performance. From what I can gather from the sparse clips online, he ran a very old school show, dressing himself in faux Eastern finery and no doubt reciting borrowed stage patter about having learned certain of his arts from Oriental mystics. His illusions look fairly stock, but he probably didn’t have to do more than the basics to thrill rural Canadian audiences in an era before widespread cable television and the internet. He’s largely forgotten these days, though his resemblance to Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys is the source of a running gag, but in his day his gently hokey mysticism was woven into the fabric of his adopted country, and a warm nostalgia still faintly clings to his powerfully coifed visage.

280/365

#reveen #magician #hypnosis #self help #quitting smoking #quitting overeating #therapy #quackery #atlantic canada #private press #vinyl record #kitsch #camp #magic #illusionist #asmr #sleight of hand #legerdemain #prestidigitation

[jpnnewmusicdaily]

雨あがり (Ameagari) by Niningashi / ににんがし

Album: Heavy Way Year: 1974 Label: Private-press Lyrics & Music: Kazuhisa Okubo / 大久保一久

#japanese new music #niningashi #1974 #private press #kazuhisa okubo #70s singer-songwriter music #70s independent music #subcategory: folk-rock/blues #admin fave #hidden gem #ににんがし #Youtube

[days-of-steam]

Days Of Steam 008: Icarus Redux

(Released July 11, 2023)

Restrained freakout sonics and subcranial rhythms from @icarus-redux — “earth-moving kicks, baleful, eyes-dilated synths, and rough, mostly unsampled breakbeats. Fog machine bathing all as one.” Inspired as an artist by a mixed bag of artists and theorists that cast light on the darkness - Fisher, Graeber, Preciado, Shadow, Sprinkles, Tiqqun, Weatherall - this mix is one of the first I’ve heard that approaches AI-assisted technologies (demuxing, polyrhythmic mixing, etc) in a way that reminds me of early cut-and-paste techniques or Richie Hawtin’s Decks x EFX mixes that reassemble contexts on a micro-level, not just layering tracks over each other but reconstructing them, and here it’s far more subtle. It’s enticing and unnerving to me but such is the effect of the dawn of a new form of technology that has the principle for use and abuse. Here it’s done to only positive effect, again highlighting the spaces between the notes, the snatches of memory that flit through your brain. A lot of the tracks from the early 2010s are records I remember hearing and playing when I lived in Leeds, which I had associated with a very different scene that I naively believed at the time would never truly take off Stateside. At the same time, Disclosure were getting big then and I thought the US would pass them over. From downloading italo and house rips off of Bicep's old blog to seeing them headline warehouses in Brooklyn that charge $40+ admission. Mais je divague...

Bianca Scout - Kingdom [First Terrace, 2022] Herbert - Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) [Curle, 2016] T++ - Dig [Honest Jons, 2010] Avatism - Self Control [Vakant, 2017] Basic Soul Unit - Jak'd Freq (A Made Up Sound - Puur Natuur Mix) [Crème Organization, 2010] Ayln - Victim [Nous, 2018] Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud [WNCL Recordings, 2018] Reckonwrong - Morton [Pinkman, 2015] Taraval - Bart's Sanctuary [Text, 2016] Blawan - Iddy [Hessle Audio, 2010] Martyn - Body Music [Dolly Dubs, 2018] Pugilist - Déjà Vu [Banoffee Pies, 2022] Ryan James Ford - Brixa Endt [SHUT, 2018] Shed - Lumber Fix TT [The Final Experiment, 2018] Private Press - Wetweird [Of Paradise White Label, 2022] Clark - Superscope [Warp, 2014] Andrea - Rainbow [Ilian Tape, 2015] Glaskin - Grey Lines [Hotflush, 2018]

#SoundCloud #Icarus Redux #Bianca Scout #Herbert #Basic Soul Unit #T++ #Avatism #A Made Up Sound #Ayln #Tenebre #Reckonwrong #Taraval #Blawan #Martyn #Pugilist #Ryan James Ford #Shed #Private Press #Clark #Andrea #Glaskin #days of steam

[abvchicago]

Artifacts of Sound - Private Press

Brad Clark’s been doing this beer thing for quite some time now. Previously of Jackie O’s, he went out to the coast to brew some beer, throw it in barrels and sell it in a membership-only club. (For more on that, listen to our Private Press episode featuring an interview with Clark.) He understands beer and barrel-aging, so it would make sense that Oil of Aphrodite – one of his most notable…

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#bad band metaphor #band metaphor #beer review #private press #walnuts

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Tim Morgon "Live! at the Ice House"

#records #lp covers #lps #album art #record covers #albums #album covers #lpcovers #vinyl #albumcovers #live! #tim morgon #lounge records #private press #pasadena #vintage clothes #ugly shirts