Browse by Label: FAMILY VINEYARD

Artist:	ANDERSON/DALE SOPHIEA, BRUCE
Title:	Strict
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FV 001CD

"Bruce Anderson and Dale Sophiea are usually associated with the juggernaut guitar attack of MX-80 Sound. Since the formation of the band in 1972, the two have continued crafting an unique and highly articulate musical dialog. Over the 10 pieces on Strict, Anderson's guitar carries its familiar tone, through instead of metallic sound sheets, the tones hover and massage over one another. He does offer some Mazzacane and Bailey-styled notes, especially on 'Father Damien,' though Anderson's playing is fully his own. Sophiea sculpts samples from elements of bells, voices, and field recordings, adding an opaque bed for Anderson to play over. His additional bass playing holds the pieces down with cavernous depth. MX-80 drummer Marc Weinstein performs on three tracks and Jim Hrabetin adds guitar on one. Strict is simultaneously made up of floating ambient waves and non-static free guitar playing."

Artist:	SAN AGUSTIN
Title:	Amokhali
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FV 003CD

"Employing improvisation as the group leader does not send the trio (Andrew Burnes, guitar; Bryan Fielden, drums; David Daniell, guitar) into flailing or clattering fits. The three instruments' resonance build layers of orchestral wealth containing slight cymbal clangs and singular guitar rings. Undoubtedly charting their own path, San Agustin does fit snugly into the ambient/non-rock/drone-tone of Thela and the Dead C -- or even the pastoral scape of the Dirty Three."

Artist:	GRAY/LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS, DARIN
Title:	This Past Spring
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FV 006CD

"Darin and Loren performed at the Monroe County Library in Bloomington, Indiana in March 2000. You can hear two people, their instruments, an audience and a library inside the same moment, shaping a present as though it were a malleable object, transforming it, conversing with it, appreciating it and, ultimately, transcending it by simply living within it. No small feat, and though free improvisation is a game that anyone can play, it takes two musicians who understand each other -- and dynamics -- to transform it into something huge and profound. If you lock yourself inside the recording, approaching it not as a relic or a document but as an ever-evolving present, it seems to melt beautifully inside of your head, falling through time like honey from a spoon, each glimpse a separate sub-atomic entity, but also part of a glorious, gigantic whole."

Artist:	SAN AGUSTIN W/ SUZANNE LANGILLE
Title:	Passing Song
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	FV 009CD

"The New York city based San Agustin has been performing with vocalist extraordinaire Suzanne Langille since 1997. The two have found an unmatchable connection in their expansive dialogue of impeccably matched twin guitars and percussion with the ageless blue moan singing and lyrics. These six passing songs are meticulous flares and luscious tales, crafted in the highest order. The lightly dissonant leanings and free spirit evoke the cries and slight gentle rhythm of Sonic Youth, Alan Licht, Thela, or Low, all while being held with the torn heart strings of Langille, a voice that is carried by a woman who has lived each word she sings. The songs are brutal in their searing beauty."

Artist:	O-TYPE
Title:	Lugubrious
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FV 010CD

"On Lugubrious, O-Type continues explorations and deconstructions with their most focused and startling document of the past two years. An extension of previous releases -- 'Strict,' 'Brutality II: Balkana,' and 'Medication' -- these late night improvisations have been edited, recycled and buffed by Sophiea. Entering a darker phase, the nine pieces are apocalyptic orchestrations for post-industrial and pre-death times. There is no dancing or chilling inside the forest of Lugubrious. Logging into the finer details of glitch expansion, from behind the mixing desk Sophiea draws out the micro-rhythms allowing them to fester and consume the rich tapestries of Anderson's crowing guitar all the while building backdrops of phase-shifting drones and tape works. Not part of any particular scene or genre stamp, O-Type's lurking calls out nods to academic works, film scores, French literature and the randomness and processing of electronic spindles. For the first time in the series, Anderson and Sophiea approach digital psychedelia with Lugubrious: the time-lagging effects of Steve Reich or Neu! loft about in this California living."

Artist:	BLITHE SONS, THE
Title:	We Walk The Young Earth
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 021CD

"We Walk the Young Earth is the third full-length release from The Blithe Sons, the duo of Loren Chasse (id Battery, Thuja) and Glenn Donaldson (the Birdtree, Thuja, Mirza). Acoustic and battery-powered instruments were recorded via field-mic in a grassy meadow bristling with insects, birds and wind. We Walk the Young Earth continues this outdoor-recording practice and was edited from performances that took place under a creek bridge in San Gregorio and inside WWII-era bunkers on sea cliffs in the Marin Headlands, California. With acoustic guitar, harps, bells, harmonium, toy-amplifiers, gongs submerged in a creek, cymbals, battery-powered keyboards, vocals, banjo, birds, pipes, bell-blocks, drums, branches and the location itself as an instrument, We Walk the Young Earth weaves minimalist hymns with stark drones."

Artist:	CONNORS, LOREN
Title:	The Departing Of A Dream Vol. II
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 022CD

"Avant guitar legend Loren Connors (aka Loren MazzaCane Connors) returns with the sequel to 2002's critically acclaimed The Departing of a Dream. The NYC blues guitarist, who has been recording and releasing albums since 1978, extends the theme (which was a loose tribute to Miles Davis' 'He Loved Him Madly') into a fragile and floating eight-part piece of acoustic/electric/ and bass guitar mixed with field recordings and the unsettling m�nage of found sounds and ambient hiss. Whereas the first Departing smoldered into a dark meditation with hardly a glimpse of light,Departing II offers notes of hope in the form of lifting melodic airs and distant bird calls. Replicating the sound of Davis' mute trumpet through extended guitar and recording techniques, Loren has created another startling and unique album of despair and awakening that can stand next to previous classics In Pittsburgh or Hell's Kitchen Park."

Artist:	LOVELY MIDGET
Title:	North Head
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 024CD

"Lovely Midget is Rachel Shearer, an integral player in the New Zealand underground. Performing with Kiwi bands Angelhead and Queen Meanie Puss during the 1990s, Rachel entrenched her sound in the ears of adventurous stateside record collectors, recording for labels like Flying Nun, Xpressway and Siltbreeze. Since becoming Lovely Midget in 1995, Rachel has created a transcendent world of shivering ambient sounds, distant ruptures and warm washes of analog sheen. Building pieces around aching tube equipment, and delicate strokes of guitar, bass, percussion and vocal hum, Lovely Midget's international appeal has far surpassed her meager output. Somehow crossing the paths of Brian Eno to Jason Lescalleet and Elanie Radigue to Fran�ois Bayle with a personal intimacy and the lovingly woven aural tapestries New Zealand has become known for. North Head brings together two years of recording to reinstate Lovely Midget as a sublime aural architect of a new order."

Artist:	TIGERSMILK
Title:	From the Bottle
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 028CD

"The second album by Tigersmilk, the trio of cornetist, electronicist and Brazilian-based laptop manipulator Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground, Isotope 217, solo releases on Mego, Delmark and Moikai), Chicago-centered acoustic bassist Jason Roebke (Rapid Croche, Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio, Terminal 4) and Vancouver percussionist Dylan van der Schyff (Francois Houle, Talking Pitctures, John Butcher). Tigersmilk is a full-improvising unit that surpasses the jazz-as-jazz sound for an individualist style steeped in a continuously unfolding mood. Without overplaying or extending any instrument, the three eloquently display deep orchestral colors and momentum that can shift from chattering avant garde interplay to ambient suspensions. The hard-bop tendencies and staccato horn of their 2003 self-titled Family Vineyard debut return with a more sinister and daring stylistic flourish. Mazurek's cornet runs create sensuousness and melancholy that find an equal standing next to Roebke's wobbly lines and the tumbling pro/anti-beat of van der Schyff. Whereas Mazurek's electronics and sonic depth charges were a mere accent on the first album, here they are riding up front, propelling a bright force of abstraction and connecting stasis and activity."

Artist:	BLITHE SONS, THE
Title:	Arm of the Starfish
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 029CD

"Arm of the Starfish is the fifth full-length release from the outdoor wandering The Blithe Sons, the Jewelled Antler-related duo of Loren Chasse (id Battery, Thuja) and Glenn Donaldson (the Birdtree, Thuja, Mirza), and their second CD for Family Vineyard. Performed mostly in coastal environs on acoustic and battery-powered instruments, the sound of waves, wind, tide pools, seabirds and shifting sand plays an active role in these minimalist folk atmospheres. Incorporating 12-string cuatro, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, banjo, harmonium, percussion, toy amplifiers, wood flutes, Thai mouthorgan, violin-uke, Casio and Donaldson's mysterious vocal utterances, Arm of the Starfish evokes haunted shorelines, windswept cliffs and vast undersea caverns."

Artist:	MX-80
Title:	We're An American Band
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 030CD

"We're An American Band -- MX-80's first studio album in over a decade -- is both hilariously depressing and morosely upbeat. The ground-breaking Bay Area quartet, known for its searing guitar work -- by founder Bruce Anderson -- and deadpan commentary of vocalist Rich Stim, has managed to combine the worst of the digital and analog worlds to create a masterwork that mixes Satan, Howard Hughes and current theories on brain transplants. In a bit of musical cannibalism, We're an American Band, includes samples from the cinematic tapestries of O-Type, the musical side excursion guided by MX founders Dale Sophiea and Anderson. Claimed as an inspiration by many underground stars, MX-80's 30 year career is crowned by this tract on the modern American, living up to its moniker as the 'the most arty Heavy Metal band in the world.'"

Artist:	O-TYPE
Title:	Western Classics
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 031CD

"O-Type is members of the legendary and iconoclast MX-80 sans singer Rich Stim. Here Bay Area guitarist / bassist Bruce Anderson, sampler/sound sculptor Dale Sophiea, Jim Hrabetin (guitar, bass) and dual drums of Dave Mahoney and Marc Weinstein facilitate a dark venture into electronic ambient tendencies within a six-string frame that references the sustained tones of Morton Feldman to Ennio Morricone. Western Classics is not a tribute per se to the films represented as song titles ('Mean Streets,' 'The Searchers,' 'Out of the Past') though each musical venture takes a nod to the cinematic view before remorphing and adding fields of abstraction."

Artist:	CONNORS, LOREN
Title:	The Departing of a Dream Vol. III: Juliet
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 034CD

"'You can't hold on to things,' Loren Connors says. 'With great happiness comes great sorrow.' So brings us to the spectrum that is Departing of a Dream Vol. III: Juliet. Like the previous volumes, Juliet is a tribute of sorts; and here the focus is clearly love, the kind of love willing to face desolation and ultimately death. Recorded in Connors' Brooklyn apartment, his electric guitar emits a pulsing web of blues notes that settle against the utterly intimate human ambience of a creaking chair, tumbling objects, smoke curled absence and his signature canvas of tape hiss. The story of Juliet and her Romeo is told in a lyrical outpouring that Connors has rarely shown in recent years, a style associated which his Rooms (1990) and Evangeline (1999) albums. Though the 20-minute album opener contains a devastating core of mire and foreboding that only Connors can create."

Artist:	COLD BLEAK HEAT
Title:	It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 035CD

"Cold Bleak Heat is the East Coast's maximalist tour de force of spontaneous sound construction. It is a staggering group line-up that raises the eyes and the ante. It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War, is the debut from a subterranean assembly of today's most active: Connecticut's prevailing operator of the alto/ tenor saxophones, Paul Flaherty; the seemingly ten-handed/ footed drummer Chris Corsano (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance), definitely today's leading light in pure spectrum propulsion; sound sculpting trumpeter Greg Kelley (nmperign, Heathen Shame), who opens into full-force gales during this session; and Earth-boom grounding acoustic bassist Matt Heyner (No Neck Blues Band, Test), whose tone/shape-shifting agility wrangles all these wild horses into one field. From the start Flaherty's combusting, scorched tone burrows into the torrential grooves with a bleating and vivid lyricism that never waivers. His 30+ years of New England horn calling is at its apex with these younger brothers-in-arms. The human electric pulse and ecstatic goal of Cold Bleak Heat keeps these four riding the lighting from end to end."

Artist:	UNSTABLE ENSEMBLE
Title:	Embers
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 037CD

"Unstable Ensemble's third full-length is their most finely- honed improvisational gesture. Embers is a m�nage of sax/guitar melody slivers shifting amongst crackling electronic tones and bowed percussion. Existing amongst the shadowy fringes of North American improvisation since 1999, Unstable Ensemble's driftage has carried itself vast miles toward border crossings and large/no audiences to bestow ephemeral sound demonstrations as anti-placates to jazzbo tokers and noise-junkies. Encapsulating many forces, Embers surges with titanic electronic gale and absolute stillness while inner lyrical intricacies summon forlorn memories. A wholly distinct extension of the Musica Elettronica Viva and AMM world-view."

Artist:	GAYLE, PHILIP
Title:	The Mommy Row
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 038CD

"The Mommy Row is guitarist Philip Gayle's monstrous, magma opus; the biggest, jaw-popping swallow one can now take in the upper/outer echelon of free thinking acoustic voyagers. Recorded in pristine audiophile splendor, the NYC-via-Houston-based Gayle multi-tracked himself in duo, trio, hell -- sextet catacombs of 12-string guitar, aluminum egg bar, prepared toy piano, baritone ukulele, hand held cymbals, classical guitar, gongs plus an isle more of stringed wood and tempered metals. Orbiting an overtly damaged sphere risen from Derek Bailey, Sun City Girls, Thelonius Monk, Christopher Tree, Harry Bertoia, and years of bedroom perfection, these pieces owe most to the moment of recording. Gayle's style remains totally unique, crossing itself with Oriental motifs, classical, humor, flamenco and free improv leanings."

Artist:	FLAHERTY/CORSANO, CHRIS, PAUL
Title:	The Beloved Music
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 039CD

"The most thoroughly realized blueprint for a post-hardcore take on improvised jazz to date from the duo of legendarily long-serving New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and young firebrand drummer Chris Corsano. Forsaking the call and response modes of countless improvising ensembles, the duo deal more in a simultaneity of sound, an elemental non-stop gush of ideas, rhythms and epiglottal forms that at points feels like a small-group response to the orchestral conceptions of the Peter Brotzmann and John Coltrane big-bands as much as epochal duo deals like the Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe and Muhammad Ali/Frank Wright sides."

Artist:	COLD BLEAK HEAT
Title:	Simitu
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 041CD

"Simitu is the second album from Cold Bleak Heat, the dream-team, East Coast avant jazz line-up of alto/tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty (Dream/Aktion Unit), drummer Chris Corsano (Vampire Belt, Six Organs of Admittance), trumpeter Greg Kelley (Nmperign, Heathen Shame), and acoustic bassist Matt Heyner (No Neck Blues Band, Test). While explosive as their 2005 debut, Simitu brings a melancholic, even sensitive feel to these improvisations. Yet, no need to worry about these four wipin' tears on their sleeves. CBH wages between the melodic centers/ghostly solos of Flaherty/Kelley and loose, downhill, free blow outs you'd expect, all while maintaining the grand swell of a hardcore jazz symphony. Even as complex and multi-paced beats sink into bowed-drones and vocal hollers, focused lyricism remains the returning leader. Features liner notes and drawings by Christina Carter (Charalambides)."

Artist:	ROPE
Title:	Heresy, And Then Nothing But Tears
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 042CD

"Rope formed in Poland as a guitar/bass duo in 1998. Since relocating to Chicago in 2000 they have become one of the city's most flummoxing avant rock groups. Heresy, And Then Nothing But Tears is their second full-length album. Robert Iwanik (bass, vocals), Przemyslaw Krzysztof Drazek (guitar) and Michael J. Kendrick (trap set, percussion, electronics) blend deconstructed strains of Swans' emotional weight and Last Exit's fury with Krzysztof Komeda's classical suspense into lush and often uncompromising no wave abrasion. Rope's constantly evolving ocean of rhythms, screaming guitar and Iwanik's hissing voice adds up to an ultra-dynamic group force of cryptic awe. Features guest vocals from Grazyna Auguscik and songwriting/vocal collaboration by Oxbow's Eugene Robinson on four songs. Cover art by famed Polish fringe painter Stanislaw Ignacy 'Witkacy' Witkiewicz."

Artist:	FLAHERTY, PAUL
Title:	Whirl of Nothingness
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 043CD

"Saxophonist Paul Flaherty is New England's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. Even before his 1978 debut, Flaherty remained unshakable in the pursuit of soul healing and demon dashing through freedom music. Whirl of Nothingness, Flaherty's second solo album, is eight pieces of alto and soprano saxophone steeped in the theme of loss channeled through blasting improvisations that showcase his fabulous wailing and inferno of sound to stark bluesy melodies. Even without drum buddies Chris Corsano or Randall Colbourne, Flaherty's horn shudders and roars in gargantuan ways. In the slim cannon of solo horn records (alongside Anthony Braxton, Coleman Hawkins, Peter Br�tzmann, Arthur Doyle), Whirl of Nothingness stands triumphantly strong and wholly distinct as a shifting sphere of sound poetry and spiritual tongue."

Artist:	HIGUCHI, HISATO
Title:	Dialogue
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 044CD

"Dialogue is the first American release by Tokyo's Hisato Higuchi. Originally a puppeteer, Higuchi has transformed his glacial, shadow-box inspired hand movements to the twilight theater of electric guitar. His six-string melodic tones and hushed vocals fan out from the haunted torch songs of Patty Waters and moon-like ambiance. Higuchi's seemingly wordless Japanese croon is a smoky, after-hours call of loss or introspection. The songs of Dialogue float like specters, each piece manifests itself in a unique and singular conception that seeps into your mind and soul. The perfect introduction for stateside listeners."

Artist:	TIGERSMILK
Title:	Android Love Cry
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FV 045CD

"It gets nasty at times -- feedback laden, meters in the red -- even psychedelic as Tigersmilk pour it on thick, straight from some cosmic mind's eye teat. Android Love Cry is the third album from the voodoo concr�te jazz crew of Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground Duo, Mandarin Movie, Exploding Star Orchestra) on cornet, laptop/synth (and banjo), acoustic/electric bassist Jason Roebke (Rapid Croche, Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio), and percussionist Ylan Van Der Schyff (Talking Pictures). It's a dynamically gorgeous and dissonant thirteen part cycle that delves into obscure conditions of wilderness and transformation backed by a pulsing and often volatile syncopation not far from Max Neuhaus' electro-acoustics or even Cluster's space 'n' rhythm glow. Even with engorged synthesizer and percussive fields Tigersmilk's heart is the post-bop flare of Bill Dixon's late-60s orchestra and the oceanic pull of minimalist cool. Tradition is deep in these abstractions -- it's the unshakable bond of these three travellers who've created an album even a dark prince would love."

Artist:	DREDD FOOLE
Title:	Daze On The Mounts
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FV 046CD

"The Foole, aka Dan Ireton, has finally come out and ended a near decade of silence and Daze on the Mounts, a spiraling three-dimensional crest of the so-called avant-folk expression, is the celebratory homecoming. Originally a limited 2004 CD-R, this reissue presents the colossal side for all. In collaboration with Matt Valentine and Erika Elder (MV&EE/Bummer Road and Tower Recordings), two of modern-time's purest interstellar travellers, Dredd Foole bounds between Tim Buckley-esque bellow and a hyper-extended take on the song form (a dewy mash of Ra-space and Vermont-lore) alongside environmental treatments (harmonica, synthesizer, percussion) and his own acoustic guitar work to fully transcend limitations. From the visceral '80s garage days with The Din to becoming a beacon for many a free folk explorer, the Foole remains a bona fide master of universal revelation."

Artist:	GARLAND, DAVID
Title:	Noise In You
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FV 049CD

"Noise In You is an album of gorgeous music about noisy emotions: our desires and distractions, anxieties and passions, love and loss, and the living hum of our bodies. It is David Garland's 8th album since entering New York City's downtown scene in the 1980s, and it's the first to receive the wide distribution and attention his music deserves. Garland is a multi-instrumentalist currently exploring the sumptuous jangle of a 12-string guitar; he sings with a voice that's deep, honest, and intimate. Noise In You is unclassifiable: pop music that's both experimental and accessible, and is rich with intricate layered harmonies and startling colors and textures. It features the beautiful, sometimes mystical voices of a younger generation of musicians -- Sufjan Stevens, Mira Romantschuk (of Mi and L'Au), Diane Cluck, Viking Moses, and David Deporis -- together with guitars, flute, piano, clarinet, sarode, oboe, and more. Noise In You unfolds into a wondrous, subtly interconnected song cycle that sweeps you up in its imaginativeness, drama, and sensual pleasure."

Artist:	SPEARE, JED
Title:	Sound Works 1982-1987
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FV 052CD

"Jed Speare is a crossover artist who has been working in sound, video, and performance for over thirty years. Sound Works 1982-1987 reflects his investigation and uniquely expressive practice of musique concrete-like analog sound/field recording, editing, combining and mixing during that era. He is the creator of the Smithsonian Folkways LP Cable Car Soundscapes (1982), a project that begins as a sound documentary and ends as a tape composition based on cable car sounds. In the early '80s, he recorded with the San Francisco groups, Research Library (appearing with and solo on the legendary Red Spot compilation LP; Subterranean Records), Ultrasheen (7" EP; Subterranean), and Appliances. This 2CD collects five of Speare's long-form compositions for the first time. Splicing together sources into towering movements used for stage and screen, these two hours of music take you to the heart of sound where nothing can own you. A 12-page booklet features an introduction by video artist and writer George Quasha, Speare's detailed notes on each piece, rare photographs and score reproductions. Remastered by Bhob Rainey (nmperign)."

Artist:	HIGUCHI, HISATO
Title:	Butterfly Horse Street
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FV 053CD

"Tokyo-based guitarist/singer Hisato Higuchi has shaped an inimitable sound sphere of solitary electric notes that drape across his unearthly moan during the course of two full-lengths and an EP. Channeling loneliness and desire as elegant six-string tone poems, Higuchi has reached the heights of fellow travelers from Meredith Monk to Charalambides. Though Butterfly Horse Street adds an unexpected snarl as Higuchi erupts into a free/noise, wall of sound guitar style that echoes the most ecstatic string manipulation of Masayuki Takayanagi or Donald Miller (Borbetomagus). Ferocious and howling, Higuchi still paints desolation whether bleeding into the red or as hushed beauty."

Artist:	CONNORS, LOREN
Title:	As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	FV 054CD

"As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 is a 2CD set of Loren Connors' most melodically rich and stunning miniature compositions. Inspired by O'Carolan's airs and other Irish airs of the past, these works, recorded from 1992-2002, are melded with Connors' distinctly personal adaptation of the blues. He considers these 43 pieces his complete airs. The collection is culled from 10 albums (eight of which are out-of-print ) and one single, including his groundbreaking Hell's Kitchen Park (Black Label, 1993), Moonyean (Road Cone, 1994), as well as obscure titles like St. Vincent's Newsboy Home (Item Recordings, 1998) and Lullaby (Carbon, 2001) plus four unreleased airs. Nearly the entire critically-heralded Airs (Road Cone, 1999) is remastered and included as well. A timeless collection of the most gorgeous and accessible work from one of America's most iconoclastic artists." Also includes pieces from the Five Points EP (Table of the Elements, 1994), 9th Avenue (Black Label, 1995). Calloden Harvest (Road Cone, 1997), Evangeline (Road Cone, 1998), Standing Upright on a Curve (Sub Rosa, 1998) and Sails (Table of the Elements, 2006). Remastered by Jim O'Rourke."

Artist:	FLAHERTY/RANDALL COLBOURNE, PAUL
Title:	Bridge Out!
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 055CD

"Don't call it a comeback. Bridge Out!, the first release in almost a decade by the outlaw duo of saxophonist Paul Flaherty and percussionist Randall Colbourne, is better thought of as a renewal, a reawakening of a collaboration which has lain dormant for too long. Joining forces in the late 1980s, these two New Englanders released over a dozen uncompromising albums of avant garde jazz on their own and other labels that have since vanished into legend. Since then, Flaherty has expanded across the world stage in improv, out-rock and noise (with Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Wally Shoup, etc.) while Colbourne pursued private study. Together again, they've created eight instant compositions of coiling sax lines and polyrhythmic patterns that commemorates the past and celebrates the new. Includes liner notes by Nick Cain."

Artist:	DREDD FOOLE
Title:	Kissing The Contemporary Bliss
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FV 056CD

"For over 30 years, troubadour wailer Dan Ireton, aka Dredd Foole, has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic Stooges n' Velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. Whether solo or leading mass, Foole hints at the classic forms of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks, Buckley's Starsailor and the celestial fug of Sun Ra's third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man). Produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by Matt 'MV' Valentine (Bummer Road, Tower Recordings), Kissing The Contemporary Bliss spans 50 miles of elbow room (it's a double CD) and kicks up the most outward bound and staggering approaches to Gus Cannon's 'Walk Right In' and Robert Johnson's 'Stones In My Passway' while offering ear-popping originals colored by Erika Elder's jug blowin' and Coot Moon's ecstatic, reverb-dosed banjo. You'll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book with photos of The Foole in action."

Artist:	LICHT & AKI ONDA, ALAN
Title:	Everydays
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 058CD

"Debut collaboration of New York artists and long-time duo partners Alan Licht & Aki Onda, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds, including Fennesz, Loren Connors, Takemura Nobukazu, Lee Ranaldo, and Toriko Nujiko. In the past decade their montage-inspired solo work -- Licht's permutational guitar and tape pieces on Rabbi Sky and A New York Minute, Onda's field recording recontextualizations on Bon Voyage! and Ancient & Modern -- has co-existed with their experimental sound/visual projects Text of Light (Licht) and Cinemage (Onda). Everydays is five grandly formed soundscapes that mix Onda's poetic/textural cassette sounds and the rhythmic/lyrical pull of Licht's guitar. Morphing from recognizable structures to dissonant hammered chunks and rapid cut-ups, the album perfectly weaves their signature applications of sound diaries, minimalism, grainy fidelity, looping and free blues into a dynamic and ambitious statement."

Artist:	TERRILL, JOHN
Title:	Frowny Frown
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FV 060CD

"Between 1988 and 1998, John Terrill (co-founder of the late '70s new/no wave Dancing Cigarettes) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. In another era, it could have stood next to Scott Walker or Michael Hurley's early albums or even Randy Burns' LPs on ESP Disk. It's an out-of-time classic that mixes honey-baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop-psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. Now reissued for all and remastered with a bonus track from 1984." "I feel this album is a little gem. Lyrically, a man up against it (Frowny Frown) as opposed to (Smiley Smile), but still leaning towards humor, kindheartedness, and no bitterness within the adversity. A very feeling album and all kinds of sonically interesting things. The kind of direction Brian Wilson might even have taken himself if his own circumstances had been different. Beach Boys meet Mothers of Invention." --Bill Fay

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