Eugene Chadbourne, The Sun City Girls & Elliot Sharp - Country Music in the World of Islam, Volume XV

"Matt Groening was supposed to do the cover for this, but got too busy with a new show called The Simpsons, so I had to finish it as Matt Groening, with his blessings, but under a command not to do anything too nasty with his characters. The music is the main thing but after a few years of the production being reissued with added stuff I think it sounds better the way it came out in the first place, so the added stuff has been shitcanned" - Eugene Chadbourne

Just what the title says, country music from a foreign land most of you have never been to. Some of you won't want to go back, but me? I live there. Link in Comments.

Climax Golden Twins - 5 Cents a Piece

Climax Golden Twins are back in action and perhaps better than ever here with this gorgeous limited edition 180 gram slab of wax. This is their debut release on the Abduction label and we’re wondering why it took so long? These grooves are sewn together like a patchwork quilt of audio curiosities from a boarded-up backroads museum—the kind that’s haunted by vaudevillian ghosts of days gone by. There’s the heavy electrified trio improv attack mode they’ve been utilizing at live shows lately to maximum effect along with some twisted front-porch twang and twilight melodic folk stitched together with odd field recordings and occasional sinister pathways not unlike their “Session Nine” soundtrack work. And where did that drummer come from? The finale “For the Exited” ascends and swirls into a deep coma of electro-cosmic rock. Turn it all the way up! If you always wanted to explore CGT only to find that most of their back catalogue is long out of print, this LP is a great way to start but you better hurry because it’s a one-time pressing limited to 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl with vintage pulchritudes printed on the labels so wedge yourself between two hooters, farm boy because there’s fifty ways the cleavage smothers!

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"Spike" Jones - 1941 to 1948

Sir Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American farmer, teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, miner, and composer. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Jones and Morgan Jones.

"I can't believe how awful this music is" - Alanis Morrisette.

Sir Spike Jones, knighted by the Queen in 1945, was a hillybilly faggot who loved to molest little boys; many of his own children were victim to his incredibly savage sexual tendencies. It has been said that Spike Jones used to stick his 'Buntline Special' into the anus' of his premature victims, often threatening their lives while he thrusted disease into their cavities. This music is the culmination of the sexual energy Mr. Jones gathered from each of his victims. From it you will gain a dark and exact view of life on america's frontier land, before "god" and/or "society", shit all over the free form workings of the artistic sins of man. A fine aristocrat indeed.

You will find three links in the comments of this posting. Do not download this album from these links. Do not enjoy!

The Champs - Music for Films About Rock

Presently known as The Fucking Champs, once upon a time, way back in the early 90s, they were known simply as The Champs.  Tim Green of Nation of Ulysses fame was not yet in the band, and they released this tape, Music for Films About Rock.  Includes a killer cover of Motley Crüe's "Merry Go Round", too.

Ripped from my own cassette.  I'm guessing there aren't too many copies of this still around.  Other weirder, more obscure cassettes to come soon.

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"Case Against the Fed" Written by Murray Rothbard [Audio Book]

The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed.

Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration of the gold standard. His popular treatment incorporates the best and most up-to-date scholarship on the Fed's origins and effects.

* Introduction: Money and Politics
* The Genesis of Money
* What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
* Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
* Legalized Counterfeiting
* Loan Banking
* Deposit Banking
* Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
* Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
* Booms and Busts
* Types of Warehouse Receipts
* Enter the Central Bank
* Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
* The Central Bank Buys Assets
* Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
* Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Steet Discontent
* Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
* Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
* The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
* Culmination at Jekyll Island
* The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
* The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans
* Deposit "Insurance"
* How the Fed Rules and Inflates
* What Can Be Done?

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L. Voag - The Way Out

Reissue of the genuinely strange and idiosyncratic masterpiece reclusive and light-sensitive LV. In the guise of VERY OPEN and stretched pop songs, experiments stream out at A LOT per minute. A melange of snappy tunes, highly unobvious arrangements, left handed humour, sound research, super radical mixing and one off words and singing style. With extra material including the legendary and wholly perfect Beauty Spreads 7-inch. In my view, this is a benchmark best of the late 70's Magnum Opus. - ReR

It should be that calling a piece of music "punk rock" is much more specific than calling it simply "punk"; after all, the former term clarifies that this isn't classical, isn't jazz, isn't koto music. Yet mostly, the basic punk concept--- "I don't _want_ to pay for no goddamn lessons first!"--- was and is a rock concept, and the punkiest-sounding, most defiant efforts in other genres are, in fact, devised by people who've spent thousands, even tens of thousands, of hours becoming fully masterful at the traditions they wish to subvert. And L. Voag, at first, was yet another primitive driven to rock, leading the punk band The Homosexuals. But it didn't take him more than a year or two to ask himself "why can't a beginner-level jazz bassist, a bad clarinetist, a bad gypsy-violinist, an enthusiastic fledgling drummer or two, and an incompetent but versatile singer like me make jazz music?". It was a good question, and to judge by the evidence of this Wayside Music disc, he must've answered something like "because it would sound cruddy. But that's what studio tricks are for!".

THE WAY OUT is a fairly quiet album anchored by thoroughly convincing, if simple, jazz bass and by quasi-jazz drums that are interesting because of miking oddities, weird artificial volume alterations, fake reverb or deadening applied for no more reason than "this sounds cool, eh?", cut'n'paste rhythm, and unusual choices in percussion: from snare to cymbal to tuned triangles to bicycle-bell to hospital beeping sounds to detuned banjo hits to pioneering equivalents of rap-music "scratching". Soft drones and tremoloes of many heretofore nonexistent types join in, and so does folky acoustic guitar. Altered vocal samples from unknown media are presented for sound rather than articulation (I especially like how "Franco's Prayer" alternates sung a capella, line by line, with what a swarm of insects would sound like if instead of buzzing they were arguing about sports at incomprehensible speed). But even at its most clamorous, say "Boxing And Sparring With The First Dimension" or whichever song has tuneful females singing "Hatred of all things fair! Destruction of nice hairdos!", every weird little element can be individually picked out, and plenty of songs allow tiny silences to crack their unpolished surfaces. Voag could quite possibly sing, but prefers to either squeak or intone like a Homer Simpson with less intellectual gravitas. It's entertaining that way, and this Mr. Science Blows Things Up Without Hurting Anybody approach to jazz does not require any previous appreciation for Miles Davis. Fortunately. - some website

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Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet - Another Miserable Day [Vinyl Rip]

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Hans Grüsel (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Grüsel began her acting career as a child by appearing in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She rose to fame in teenage popular culture via her roles in the Fox series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and the films I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James.

As a musician, Grüsel has been signed by Atlantic Records and Jive Records. She is primarily known for her recordings in the experimental genre and has an contralto vocal range. To date, her most successful release is "Happy As Pitch".

Biographers believe that Grüsel was educated at home in her early years owing to poor health (which plagued her throughout her early life), receiving tuition from John Walsall, a graduate of Oxford with a strong leaning towards Puritanism. She entered Fachhochschule Bielefeld college, at the age of twelve, living for three years there together with her older brother Susan under the personal tutelage of Dr John Whitgift, future Archibishop of the Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany. It was in Munich that she first met Hitler, who was impressed by her precocious intellect, and was accustomed to calling her "the young Lord Keeper".

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Released on Ultra Eczema Records, limited to 500 vinyl copies. Order HERE. Link in Comments.

Black Lodge Singers - Mickey Mouse

When Walt Disney arrived on the Mayflower, he quickly made an out of sorts "friend" with an indian named Squanchy (his name means "man who acts like manly woman"); a very unorthodox companionship for the times. Walt taught Squanchy the traditional european ways of masturbating bull dogs in order to bring good luck from Satan. Squanchy always returned the favor to Walt, giving him jewelry made of dried poop and body hair, as well as body grease, a traditional method used to relieve pain in the toes. Until one day in 1812, when Walt was overseeing the enslaved workers who were building the monorail in Orlando, he was presented with a piece of native american music written to honor him for being the first white person to ever have sex with a native american by choice (of course this excludes rape). Available for download is a version of the composition written by Squanchy and performed by a group called "The Black Lodge Singers". This group consists of the children Walt Disney had with 5 different native american women.

Make conscious the subconscious.

Sun City Girls - Montreal Pop

This LP contains some of the more magical moments of a SCG show at the Montreal Suoni Per Popolo festival in June 2004. It appears to be recorded from the soundboard and the fidelity is excellent and some of the material is unbelievably FUCKED! We couldn't have done it better ourselves!

"A fabulous recording captured from the soundboard and broadcast quality. Perhaps the best representation of the more modern period of this band live, craziness, crowd heckling and talk of killing children, what more could one want." — Forced Exposure

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Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle

"... Song Cycle ... attempts to embrace the breadth of American popular music; smooth jazz, pop, rap/rock -- nothing escapes Parks' radar..." - Lindley Armstrong Jones

Song Cycle is a 1981 genre spanning album by Van Dyke Parks, known for its high ambition, gigantic budget for the era (it is still one of the most expensive albums ever made allowing for inflation), and subsequent low sales. Song Cycle has been quoted as being Queen Elizabeth's favorite album.

Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1969)is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer. He won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards. His clothing line earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. His music career spans six decades, and he has worked with luminaries from Grace Kelly to the Beach Boys and the Byrds, and recently, Mudvayne and Toby Keith.

**In response to the poor sales of the record after its release (despite some rave critical reviews), Warner Bros. Records ran full page newspaper and magazine advertisements that said they "lost $35,509 on 'the album of the year' (damnit)." The ad said that those who actually purchased the album had likely worn their copies out by playing it over and over, and suggested that listeners send in worn out copies to Warner Bros. in return for two new copies, including one "to educate a friend with." ((What a great idea from a company that has turned to shit!!))

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Sun Ra - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght, Volume 1

Just look at the sexy African-American badass sitting at that Moog. He is Ra, god of more than the Sun; for he is also god of my heart. Accredited to him, every beat and palpating flutter dispersing an entire armies worth of adrenaline and endorphine; Bullets of pleasure in a war with silence traveling through my veins in super sonic rhythm. He is with me right now, teasing my heart into such acts as (1)making my pp cry tears of ecstacy (2)coloring my skin, tones much more exciting than white (3)emptying my tear ducts, the roots of which tickle my soul; he will never leave me. For him I write poetry, nearly every waking hour, contemplating my man. Here is an example ...

He calls to me across the universe
Night winds carry his song
They float on the breeze and through my windows
Falling gently upon my ears
- Hush -
I hear him now.

He calls to me from the heavens
Glittering stars cannot compare to the sparkle of his eyes
When he looks at me, I am consumed by the fire
OH I see him now.

He calls to me through my dreams
Dancing together in the shadows of my sleep
Where we laugh and love once again
I am in his arms
I feel him now.

Sun Ra calls to me
Every moment of every day
Distance couldn't keep us apart
When destiny drew us together
I'll hold him for eternity
As long as he keeps calling.

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Sein Chit Ti - New Arrangements for Hsaing Ensemble (Burma)

Although outlawed in nearly all countries today, forms of slavery still exist in some parts of the world, such as Burma. Historically in Burma, most slaves were captured in wars or kidnapped in isolated raids, but some persons were sold into slavery by their parents, or by themselves, as a means of surviving extreme conditions. Most slaves were born into that status, to parents who were enslaved. The dominant group in an area might take captives and turn them into slaves with little fear of suffering the like fate. It is not uncommon for average everyday families to own a slave or two; they are cheap as dirt to acquire and they are treated as such.

Burmese slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive compensation (such as wages) in return for their labor; often as musicians in large slave ensembles. As such, the Burmese music industry is growing at a staggering rate!

*The slave owner or grand master, sits in the center of the circle with his whip

Sein Chit Ti is the grand master (owner) of the Hsaing Ensemble, the name means "hanging circle" a reference to the drum-circle ceremony to the god of death "patt waing" in which a slave is offered to the gods at the end of the ceremony. This is a recording of such a ceremony; no titles were included in the original cassette. A Field Recording by Robert Garfias ("For fear of poor performance and angering the "patt waing" I didn't feed any of the slaves .... plus I was bloody hungry myself!")

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(09.08.2007) Jackie-O Motherfucker - Live at MFNW

Led by Tom Greenwood, these masters of psychedelic improv can produce anything from sleepy folk to explosive prog on a given day, but last Saturday at Towne Lounge they went with their classic, standard mode of wandering, dream-gospel. Greenwood stood shaking maracas before taking a seat, manning his guitar and effects pedals, and reading from new lyrics scrawled on loose pieces of paper, not out of his usual notebook. Then a very strange thing happened. Greenwood led his tribe into a song. The four musicians performed “Hey Mr. Sky” off the critically acclaimed 2005 album Flags of the Sacred Harp. Fans seated on the floor exchanged mystified glances and drank in the rare opportunity to hear Jackie-O play a song they knew by heart. -HARP

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(09.02.2007) The Sea Donkeys - Live at Halleluwah Festival

The Sea Donkeys (known performers include; Hisham Mayet and Robert Millis) live at Holocene in Portland, Oregon. Link in Comments.

(09.02.2007) Master Musicians of Bukkake - Live at Halleluwah Festival

Master Musicians of Bukkake w/ Special Guest Damo Suzuki (for one song). Live at Holocene - Portland, Oregon. Link in Comments.