New comics for Wednesday April 11th 2007
Hey Kids!!!
All good news today.
The store website is back up and running at full capacity. WEEEEEE!!!
http://www.greenbrain.biz
Starting today (SAT April 7th) all Orange stickered Graphic Novels are 50% off cover price. Lot's of overstocked treasures in this bunch folks get the good stuff soon because it's gonna go fast.
Next Wednesday (April 11th)is our monthly comic jam.
Special extended store hours from 7pm to 10pm
Bring your favorite pen and contribute to the improv comic strips.
S.P.A.C.E. (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo) is on the weekend of April 21 and 22 in Columbus Ohio. If you enjoyed SNAP! last year consider making the day trip to check out this show featuring hundreds of small press creators.
http://www.backporchcomics.com/space.htm
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday May 5th
Thats only 4 weeks from today.
http://www.greenbrain.biz/fcbd.htm
Scott McCloud will be appearing on FCBD
http://www.scottmccloud.com
http://www.scottmccloud.com/makingcomics/tour.html
In conjunction with AlterEgo Management -
Detroit Techno Militia dj T. Linder and DJ Conspiracy will be spinning at various times throughout FCBD.
http://www.myspace.com/detroittechnomilitia
http://www.myspace.com/tlinderdetroit
http://www.myspace.com/alteregomanagement
Jones Soda is participating in FCBD with a giant stack of their new sodas featuring all natural cane sugar. One free Jones Soda per person while supplies last.
http://www.jonessoda.com/
We are working with Gleaners Food Bank on FCBD for a canned food drive. Bring in a non-perishable canned food item and get an extra Free Comic Book Day comic.
http://www.gcfb.org/
There will also be a used book drive for the Friends of the Library Dearborn. Bring in a gently used book (with pictures or without, but please no stapled comics) and get an extra Free Comic Book Day comic.
http://dearborn.lib.mi.us/fold/fold.htm
These last two offers will be limited to one per person.
I'll think of more stuff later. STORMY update after the new list.
Oh yeah, have a safe and happy holiday.
New comics for Wednesday April 11th 2007
ACTION / ADVENTURE
AFTER THE CAPE #2 (OF 3) $2.99
BATTLE POPE VOL 3 TP PILLOW TALK (MR) $12.99
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CYLON APOCALYPSE #2 $3.50
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ZAREK #4 $3.50
BIG BANG COMICS PRESENTS TEENREX #5 $3.95
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #124 (MR) $2.99
BOMB QUEEN III #2 (OF 4) (MR) $3.50
CONAN & THE MIDNIGHT GOD #3 (OF 5) $2.99
DESPERADOES BUFFALO DREAMS #3 (OF 4) $3.99
DYNAMO 5 #2 $3.50
FALLEN ANGEL IDW #14 (MR) $3.99
FELL #8 (RES) $1.99
FERRO CITY VOL 1 TP $15.99
GI JOE DECLASSIFIED TP $18.99
HELIOS UNDER THE GUN #3 (OF 4) $2.99
HIGHLANDER #6 $2.99
JUNGLE FANTASY ANNUAL #1 (MR) $4.99
LIBERALITY FOR ALL #4 (OF 8) $2.99
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #1 $2.99
NIGHTLY NEWS #5 (OF 6) $2.99
PIRATES VS NINJAS #4 (OF 4) $3.50
SEEKERS #1 $2.99
STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC #15 $2.99
STARSHIP TROOPERS DAMAGED JUSTICE #2 (OF 4) (MR) $3.50
TMNT MOVIE ADAPTATION #1 $4.99
TMNT MOVIE PREQUEL 3 DONATELLO $3.25
TRANSFORMERS PRIME DIRECTIVE MOVIE PREQUEL #3 $3.99
TRANSFORMERS STORMBRINGER MANGA VOL 1 TP $9.99
TWO GUNS #1 (OF 4) $3.99
WASTELAND #8 (MR) $3.50
WASTELAND BOOK 1 CITIES IN DUST TP (MR) $11.95
DC COMICS
52 WEEK #49 $2.50
CLAW THE UNCONQUERED TP $17.99
GEN 13 #7 $2.99
GREEN ARROW #73 $2.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #11 $2.99
GRIFTER MIDNIGHTER #2 (OF 6) $2.99
JLA CLASSIFIED #37 $2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 3RD PTG #1 $3.99
RUSH CITY #6 (OF 6) $2.99
STORMWATCH PHD #6 $2.99
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #7 $2.99
ALL STAR SUPERMAN VOL 1 HC $19.99
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #7 (OF 8) $3.99
CRISIS AFTERMATH THE SPECTRE TP $12.99
TEEN TITANS #45 $2.99
TRIALS OF SHAZAM #6 (OF 12) $2.99
WONDER WOMAN #7 $2.99
MARVEL COMICS
NEW AVENGERS #29 CWI $2.99
BLADE #8 $2.99
CIVIL WAR TP $24.99
GHOST RIDER #10 $2.99
HEROES FOR HIRE VOL 1 CIVIL WAR TP $13.99
IRON MAN #16 $2.99
IRON MAN 2ND PTG #15 $2.99
LEGION OF MONSTERS MAN-THING #1 $2.99
LONERS #1 (OF 6) $2.99
NEWUNIVERSAL #5 $2.99
NOVA #1 $2.99
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #6 $2.99
SHE-HULK 2 #17 $2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #7 $2.99
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN 2ND PTG #17 $2.99
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN 2ND PTG #35 $2.99
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN FERAL TP $13.99
SPIDER-MAN BACK IN BLACK HANDBOOK $3.99
SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #1 $4.99
SPIDER-MAN FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (OF 4) $2.99
SPIDER-MAN MAGAZINE $5.99
SPIDER-MAN REIGN PREMIERE HC $19.99
THUNDERBOLTS #113 CWI please inquire for variant pricing $2.99
NEW X-MEN #37 $2.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #485 $2.99
WHITE TIGER #5 (OF 6) $2.99
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #13 $2.99
KIDS / ALL AGES
AMELIA RULES #17 $4.95
ARCHIE #574 $2.25
ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #178 $3.69
BATMAN STRIKES #32 $2.25
CARTOON NETWORK ACTION PACK #12 $2.25
MAD KIDS #7 $4.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #23 $2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES FF VOL 5 ALL 4 ONE 4 FOR ALL DIGEST TP $6.99
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED JUNGLE BOOK $2.99
SARDINE IN OUTER SPACE VOL 3 SC $12.95
SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE #17 $2.99
VERTIGO / DC mature readers recommended
FABLES #60 $2.99
LOVELESS #17 $2.99
SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE SLEEP OF REASON #5 (OF 5) $2.99
SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE VOL 5 DR DEATH TP $19.99
HORROR / SUSPENSE mature readers recommended
28 DAYS LATER THE AFTERMATH GN $17.99
BPRD GARDEN OF SOULS #2 (OF 5) $2.99
CLIVE BARKERS GREAT & SECRET SHOW #11 (OF 12) $3.99
CONLUVIO TP $19.99
DOOMED PRESENTS ASHLEY WOOD TP $7.99
FIENDISH FABLES ONE SHOT #1 $3.50
FRANK FRAZETTAS DEATH DEALER #1 $3.99
FRIDAY THE 13TH #5 $2.99
HACK SLASH VOL 2 DEATH BY SEQUEL TP $18.99
MEDIEVAL LADY DEATH WAR O/T WINDS #6 (OF 6) $3.99
MR STUFFINS #1 (OF 3) $3.99
PANDORA ANNUAL #1 $4.99
UTOPIATES #4 (OF 4) $2.95
XOMBIE #1 (OF 6) $3.50
HUMOR / DRAMA mature readers recommended
BREATHE #1 (OF 4) $2.99
COLD HEAT #4 (OF 12) (MR) $5.00
EMO BOY #11 $2.95
OPTIC NERVE #11 (MR) $3.95
POISON ELVES VENTURES VOL 2 AMRAHLYNN TP $15.95
WILLY WEASELY (MR) $7.95
GRAPHIC NOVELS mature readers recommended
ART OF CARETTA HARD CANDY SC $14.95
COMPLETE PEANUTS VOL 7 1963-1964 HC $28.95
COMPLETE UNIVERSE OF DUPUY & BERBERIAN TP $55.00
FLOWER & FADE GN $13.95
GARAGE BAND GN $16.95
HARRY THE RAT WITH WOMEN NOVEL $12.95
KAFKA GN $14.95
LOOKIT VOL 2 YARG AND OTHER STORIES GN $11.95
MOME VOL 7 GN $14.95
ADULTS ONLY
A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #55 $4.99
MAGAZINES
MAD MAGAZINE #477 $3.99
hey all,
happy easter and happy passover. my mom died on easter, so it's not my favorite holiday, but i hope all the rest of you get to visit with people you love and have a nice meal or something to mark the occasion. do something nice for yourselves!
another huge list of used cds this week, along with a nice batch of new releases including COCO ROSIE, GRINDERMAN, POLE, RAFAEL TORAL, WIRE MAGAZINE, KK NULL, and CARL CRAIG. fun fun fun!!!
down below we have the green brain new arrivals and the bo house update. also some info on petitions to help internet radio and arts funding in the state of michigan.
free comic book day is in 4 weeks (may 5th!!), and we're having a special event that day!! a BJORK listening party! we'll be playing the Volta cd in the shop, watching Bjork videos, and drinking wine and eating cake. we still need to decide on a time for the big kickoff, but it will be an added great reason to stop by the stormy/green brain collective on free comic book day!! (we have decided the listening party will be from 5pm to 8pm)
please call or email if you need something on hold or you want to do mailorder. the new website should be up and running next week!!!!
windy
stormy records
13210 michigan ave
dearborn, mi 48126
313-581-9322
MERCILESS DEATH Evil In The Night lp or cd $15.99 each
Great classic sounding thrash band from California….Ltd.
COCOROSIE Adventures Of Ghosthorse on Touch And Go cd or lp $14.99
Third ventricle of the COCOROSIE liturgy is a collaboration w/ BJORK's producer VALGEIR SIGUROSSON…an ochestral array of sounds and beauty - a vaudevillian opera, if you will.
GRINDERMAN s/t cd or lp on Anti cd $15.99 lp $12.99
The new more BIRTHDAY PARTY (aka punk?) sounding project of NICK CAVE's…LP is already out of print BUT all copies, since they brought in the import, have blown-out bottoms and were sealed so it's contained but the vinyl weirdos will be bummed.
NEKROMANTIX Life Is A Grave and I Dig It!!
cd $14.99 picture disc $16.99
New one from the great German psychobilly entity.
WYRD Huldrafolk 2xlp $19.99
Amazing atmospheric and natural black metal sounds in the styles of ULVER, AGALLOCH and AZRAEL while paying tribute to Norweigan black metal fore
fathers DARKTHRONE, SATYRICON and BURZUM. For fans of XASTHUR, LEVIATHAN, etc. Great gatefold vinyl with new artwork and a vinyl only bonus track!
WAX POETICS magazine BETTY DAVIS - #22 $7.99
Great BETTY DAVIS cover and feature on yours truly's B'ham soul comp!
FIELD From Here We Go Sublime cd on Kompakt $16.99
Debut full-length release by Stockholm's own Axel Willner. The blissful, addictive, transformative sounds here absolutely speak for themselves. 10 perfect tracks of narcotic, propellant stuff. PITCHFORK BEST NEW MUSIC
GUSTAFSSON / YOSHIMI Words on the Floor cd on Smalltown $15.99
Gustafsson (THING, GUSH, DISKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS TRIO) a lSounpg etirmjaez zfan of Yoshimi's work (BOREDOMS, OOIOO), teamed up with her for a duo show at Malmo Konserthus in Sweden in April 2005. The show was recorded & here is the result. A mighty piece of music.
A monumental zen like psychedelic drone piece for saxes & voice. The sound on the CD was created by slide saxophone (Mats being of the few in the world today to play this instrument), tenor sax, baritone sax, alto fluteophone & electronics, all by Mats, as well as Yoshimi's voice plus electronics. Cover art by Kim Hiorthoy
MERZBOW Merzbear cd on Important $14.99
Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz & early electronic composition as well the physical arts (especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau), Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear, the 6th release in his utterly essential Merz series, pulses & pounds w/distorted droning guitar feedback, pulsing noise blasts & the swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Synthi. Merzbear is a significant document of his ever evolving improvisational style
MINSK Ritual Fires Of Abandon double lp on Gilead Media $19.99
VINYL LIMITED TO 1000
PINHAS, RICHARD Chronolyse cd on Cuneiform $14.99
Limited repress of first solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, one of the first to meld rock & electronics. Half live Moog electronics that make fantastic use of stereo imaging & mix aggression w/the repetition of Philip Glass or Terry Riley, & half w/all of HELDON in a 30 minute King Crimson-ish stormy drone epic of mellotrons, electronics, guitar, bass & drums later sampled on the second UNKLE LP.
PINHAS, RICHARD Iceland cd on Cuneiform $14.99
Limited repress of third solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, & the first to be issued after the demise of Heldon. Currently performing & recording w/noisecore freaks WOLF EYES! "A slower, more classical recording w/the capacity to hypnotize the listener without their knowledge."-AP
PRURIENT / MINDFLAYER Split 7" on Important $10.99
Pressed in an edition of 500 on colored vinyl. Double sided screen printed jackets. In the works for 4 years, some things are never better than late and this 7" is one of them
SONIC YOUTH Destroyed Room: B-Sides double lp on Goofin' $17.99
NOW ON DELUXE 2LP!!! Band chosen collection of near hidden gems, all previously vinyl or comp only or as int'l b-sides
STARS OF THE LID Their Refinement ......double cd on Kranky $14.99
free poster with purchase
...of the Let Down" Painstakingly recorded, processed & assembled over the last 5 yrs, SOTL once again deliver a massive work filling 2 CDs & 3LPs, clocking in at over 2hrs. They take time itself & stretch, compress & turn it inside out, altering what would otherwise be an
arduous test of nerves into an interlude of half awake dreams that ends too soon. They've created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant. Simply put, this album is a masterpiece
SORRY - vinyl delayed several weeks..........
TAMBURO, MIKE & his Orch Ghost of Marumbey cd on Music Fellowship $15.99
He's back again picking, droning, buzzing & rocking w/ the biggest line up of the Universal Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge (his backing band). Collaborators on this project incl. Ken Camden, Keenan Lawler, Brad Rose, Jeff Komara, Matt Mcdowell, Charlie Vinz (Head of Femur, STMonroe, Bobby Conn Band) & many more
FOLKSWINGERS, THE :Raga Rock CD $16.99
This heady blend of instrumental pop covers, fuzzed-up guitars and sitar is a kitsch blast from start to finish. Featuring the cream of L.A.'s session players alongside sitar virtuoso Harihar Rao (Ravi Shankar's senior disciple), it was originally released in 1966 and makes its long-overdue CD debut here, showing itself to be the first and best "sitarsploitation" album ever recorded.
TORAL, RAFAEL: Space Solo 1 CD $15.99
This is Rafael Toral's 11th release, the first for the Quecksilber label, and another continuation of his "Space Program." After 15+ years of accomplished work on guitar and electronics, the Portuguese musician, producer and sound engineer announced that he was to embark on a long-term project, which was to be a multi-faceted work-in-progress representing his new approach to music. With the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous Space, he managed to disrupt the notions of avant-garde music, choosing to focus on "single sound events." The sounds are generated by self-devised electronic equipment set into action by the performance of gestures, by bodily action (take a look at the video samples of the "Space Study 1" on his web site, where he "plays" glove-controlled computer sinewaves). Thus, the music is created by individual decisions in real time - just like in jazz, as Toral emphasizes. So basically, this is electronic music played with a jazz sensibility. Toral brings a performative aspect to electronic music that it often sorely lacks. The initial album Space is like a roadmap, accompanied by three distinct serieses: the performance series "Space Studies" (which started in 2004), and the record series "Space Elements" and "Solo Series." The latter are unaccompanied real-time solo recordings on one instrument only (as opposed to "Space Elements," where Toral collaborates with other musicians). The present CD is the first in that series and the second materialization of the program. Whereas Space featured an orchestral approach to composition (and thus a diversity of elements), Space Solo 1 presents the listener with music that is narrowed down almost to a point: everything is concentrated on a single element. The key feature of this music is that it was performed with a degree of skill, a commitment and a depth of exploration that could not be found on an orchestral record. On this album, Toral appears as a musician who simply plays an instrument on an individual, human and physical level. One cannot help but notice that Toral is opening up a new dimension in music - and maybe also in language. Welcome to a new mode of expression.
POLE:Steingarten CD on Scape $16.99 (back in next week - i sold the whole batch while putting the email update together)
This is Berlin-based producer Stefan Betke's sixth full-length release, and his second release on his own ~scape label. After his duties remixing and producing such artists as John Tejada, T.Raumschmiere and Barbara Morgenstern, and a collaboration with Burnt Friedman and Kit Clayton, Pole presents music that could be architecture, with his elegantly spare form that reaches out into space. After minimalist experiments with elements of hip-hop and dub, Steingarten has hardly any concrete references. What has remained, though, is the minimalism so characteristic of Pole. Built around little loops, his arrangements dispose with any kind of ornamentation. A stark contrast with the album's title and cover - which shows a picture of the famously ornate, gingerbread-style castle Schloss Neuschwanstein. But despite some funky grooves, this is no dancefloor record. And despite its simplicity, the music never comes across as meager or repellently cool. This might be due to the fact that Pole has found a perfect middle point between avant-garde and pop. The beats are groovy, but never overtly dance-oriented. Melodies are used as harmonic dashes of color, but remain fragmentary rather than sing-song-y. Some cracking noises pop up, but not as a dissonant element - they just seem a logical part of the sound structure - a structure that creates space and order. Things dark, nebulous and irrational are alien to Pole, so it's all the more amazing how well it nurtures daydreams - and practically invites listeners to drift off on flights of fancy. There is indeed one thing that Pole's music shares with the visions of King Ludwig, who, in building Schloss Neuschwanstein, wanted to create a world for himself shielded from reality: Pole's warm bass and powerful but elastic production style conveys a feeling of coziness; it doesn't take on the outside world, doesn't mirror it or comment on it, but creates a world all its own. LP version forthcoming.
NULL, KK:Fertile CD on Touch $15.99
K.K. Null is legendary Japanese noise experimentician Kazuyuki Kishino, and this is his first full-length solo release on Touch, following his collaboration with Chris Watson and Z'ev in 2005, which Boomkat called "moving and atmospheric," and The Wire wrote "...a complex dramatic work from a strict economy of means." K.K. Null is a composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of seminal noise group Zeni Geva and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a wider context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early '80s. Kazuyuki writes: "In June of 2006, I had the good fortune of visiting Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia and explored in Kakadu National Park with some good friends. I took my digital recorder along with me and did some live field recordings there. First we encountered a flock of wild birds just beside the South Alligator River, and then we happened to find 'bush fire' flaring just beside the road we were on. I also had a unique opportunity to record a magnificent symphony orchestra of insects, frogs and birds in wetlands just before sunset. At that time I had no idea or no specific purpose for using these field recordings, and in the middle of working on this album (Fertile) in my home studio, suddenly came up with the idea of mixing these field recordings into some of the tracks that were unfinished. I felt comfortable with layering & mixing different sounds from different locations and times, digital and analog sounds into one piece. I like also the balance of spontaneity (field recording) and intentional act (studio recording)." After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, K. K. Null has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica. His intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures and droning isolationist material could be described "cosmic noise maximal/minimalism.
CRAIG, CARL: Science Fiction 12" $13.99
Repress of this four-track 1995 release."Super rare promo reissue. Fantastic single from the original Landcruising 95 LP on Blanco. Superb Detroit techno from the master with a phat Kenny Larkin remix.
FURSAXA: Alone in the Dark Wood LP on Eclipse$17.99
Beautiful new release from Tara Burke (aka Fursaxa) features 12 tracks recorded in Philadelphia and Ulvila, Finland (recorded by Sami Sänpäkkilä). Also has Tara's cover design and artwork in a nice 12x24 inch foldout insert. Edition of 950 copies.
CLUSTER: Cluster II LP version $22.99
Originally released in 1972, this is the second album by legendary German ambient pioneers Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Moebius and Roedelius essentially create ambient electronic soundscapes that ebb and flow, droning on in a suspended world of anti-gravity where machine has conquered man.
THROBBING GRISTLE: Part Two CD on Mute $17.99
The legendary Throbbing Gristle have completed their first new studio album in 25 years, entitled Part Two. Almost 30 years on since their inception from the ashes of performance art troupe/media guerrilla cell Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle's challenging, expressive, self-empowering manifestos and music are as relevant today as they were back in the bleak mid-'70s. As historically important during their active period of 1975 - 1981 as contemporaries Can, The Sex Pistols, and Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle's influence on today's music (from experimental production techniques and confrontational live shows to independent promotion via their own Industrial Records label) runs far deeper than they are often credited.
LSD MARCH: Empty Rubious Red LP on Tequila Sunrise $24.99
For those of you already living a couple of years ahead of the rest of us, you will know that this will be the fifth full length by this band, and that it was originally released in 2006 on their own white elephant imprint. It's actually more like a solo outing by LSDM front-man Shinsuke Michishita (on voice, guitar, bass and percussion), accompanied on two tracks by legendary drummer Ikuro Takahashi (High Rise, Fushitsusha, Tamio Shiraishi, Kosokuya, Che-Shizu, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nagisa Ni Te, etc). most of the songs here are intimate, in-your-inner-ear ballads, hypnagogic and melancholic, achy hangovers from the third Velvets LP - sorrowful birds on the last tree in the universe, thinking themselves into being, then forgetting themselves, then remembering again. except for the title track, that is - an 8-minute doppler-effect trance that gets you wasted on polonium 210, sets the dials of the Kabbalah for the heart of the sun, and clicks 'send.
WIRE, THE: #278 April 2007 MAG $8.99
On The Cover: Terry Riley (The pioneer of 1960s American minimalism reveals the range of his interests, from his Irish and Italian roots to Indian ragas and space music for NASA.); Features: Aufgehoben (The English free rock unit disclose the studio processes behind their improvised sonic barrage); Islaja (The songs of Finnish mult-instrumentalist Merja Kokkonen are imbued with spiritual longing); Michio Kurihara (Alan Cummings talks to the Tokyo psychedelic underground's most in-demand guitarist about his first solo album); Cross Platform: Hal Rammel (The American instrument builder's inventions reflect his deep interest in comic utopias and surrealism); Invisible Jukebox: The Dead C; Maja Ratkje (The Norwegian singer moves freely between noise, electronics and Improv with her solo projects and as a member of SPUNK and Fe-Mail); Eyeless In Gaza; Epiphanies: A booty of pirated mixtapes opens a window on the world of dancehall and bashment reggae for Dave Stelfox.
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BO HOUSE UPDATE!!
4/6: Butterfly Explosion with Freer and Zoos of Berlin
This show is brought to you courtesy of Bohouse family member Kim Paris' Sinister/Foxy Productions. Butterfly Explosion is from Dublin and was a big hit last year at SXSW. They get compared to an absurd mixture of bands on the internet; more info on them to come. Freer is rock band that's notable for dramatic, slightly tortured pop gems. Formerly based in Detroit, it's now more Chicago-centric. Still totally Detroit based, Zoos of Berlin plays music that is full of changes without being convolouted.
Just Added! 4/9: Gunda Gottchalk
Gunda is an improvising violinist/violist from Germany. Her early background was in classical violin, but for last 20 years or so, she has collaborated with noted New Music musicians, including Peter Kowald, William Parker, Assif Tsahar, Fred Frith, Oliver Lake and many others. Doors at 8 pm; sliding scale $5-10.
4/13 and just added 4/14 : Gerald Cleaver with Andrew Bishop, Tim Flood and Ryan Macstaller
This has been expanded to a 2 night run! Detroit raised drummer Gerald Cleaver played with some of the cities most adventurous musicians, like A. Spencer Barefield, Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden and Wendell Harrison, before leaving to make good in NYC. His career there has included playing with Peter Kowald, Assif Tsahar, Roscoe Mitchell, Toots Thielman, Andrea Parkins, Bob James, Joe Morris and many others. He'll be joined by some great Detroit/NYC talent. Doors at 8:30pm; $10 suggested.
Late show 4/13: Interdimensional Transmissions & Dethlab present
JAKthe ripper
Traxx (Nation, Kode, Creme Jak and beyond) Chicago
Cowboy Mark NYC
BMG Dethlab
This show will be in the ballroom
12 pm; $5
4/15 Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara plus Jason Stein and Kevin Davis
These Brookly based Anthony Braxton alumni can walk the line between free improvisation and pretty avant-folk songwriting. Leader Taylor Ho Bynum plays cornet with Braxton and in Cecil Taylor's large band, as well as with many hybrid music groups . Mary Halvorson is a flat-out amazing guitarist who uses a very original vocabulary. Percussionist Tomas Fujiwara has played with many creative music greats, including Butch Morris, William Parker, Roy Campbell and Daniel Carter. Opening is bass clarinetist Jason Stein, previously seen at the Bohemian with Ken Vandermark and company in the group Bridge 61, and Kevin Davis, a Chicago cellist.
Doors at 8 pm; sliding scale $5-10.
4/25 The Thing
Some of northern Europe's finest improvisers. Free jazz, energy-music and covers of Lightning Bolt and The White Stripes! Gustafsson is one of Sweden's primary musical exports, playing with great musicians like Joe McPhee (an occasional member of The Thing), Ken Vandermark, Derek Bailey and Hamid Drake. Flaten and Nilsen-Love are Norway's heaviest rhythm section and the choice of any improviser who hits the country.
Mats Gustafsson (Sweden):REEDS
Ingebrigt H. Flaten (Norway): BASS
Paal Nilsen-Love (Norway): DRUMS
Just added! 4/28: CD release for Frank Pahl's "Songs of War and Peace"
Some of you may know the side of composer/inventor Frank Pahl that has a weak spot for protest songs from a few of his recent, frenetic acoustic performances. His new CD "Songs of War and Peace" features some of this material, but in settings that bear a closer resemblance to the pretty and challenging music he's best known for. With a couple great send-ups of patriotic songs opening and closing the record, you'll be all set for this year's Fourth of July. Doors at 9 pm; $5-10.
Coming Soon:
Just Added! 5/5: Willowz
Just Added! 5/8: Sightings
5/18 The Old Haunts
6/3 Rob Brown 3tet with William Parker and Gerald Cleaver
June 8th & 9th: 2nd Annual Festival of Improvised Music
Currently confirmed to perform!
Friday, June 8th:
Noah Howard/Hakim Jami/Calyer Duncan
The Raw Truth (Michael Carey, Skeeter Shelton, Ali Allen Colding, Greg Cook)
Thollem McDonas (solo)
Saturday, June 9th:
Engines (Dave Rempis, Nate McBride, Tim Daisy)
Hakim Jami/Salim Washington/Pamela Wyse/Sean Dobbins
Lotte Anker/Gerald Cleaver/Craig Taborn
The Gold Sparkle Trio
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack
Keenan Lawler (solo)
More TBA shortly
Coming in October: Trevor Watts and Jamie Harris
Bohemian National Home
3009 Tillman (22nd)
Detroit 48216
313 737 6606
All good news today.
The store website is back up and running at full capacity. WEEEEEE!!!
http://www.greenbrain.biz
Starting today (SAT April 7th) all Orange stickered Graphic Novels are 50% off cover price. Lot's of overstocked treasures in this bunch folks get the good stuff soon because it's gonna go fast.
Next Wednesday (April 11th)is our monthly comic jam.
Special extended store hours from 7pm to 10pm
Bring your favorite pen and contribute to the improv comic strips.
S.P.A.C.E. (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo) is on the weekend of April 21 and 22 in Columbus Ohio. If you enjoyed SNAP! last year consider making the day trip to check out this show featuring hundreds of small press creators.
http://www.backporchcomics.com/space.htm
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday May 5th
Thats only 4 weeks from today.
http://www.greenbrain.biz/fcbd.htm
Scott McCloud will be appearing on FCBD
http://www.scottmccloud.com
http://www.scottmccloud.com/makingcomics/tour.html
In conjunction with AlterEgo Management -
Detroit Techno Militia dj T. Linder and DJ Conspiracy will be spinning at various times throughout FCBD.
http://www.myspace.com/detroittechnomilitia
http://www.myspace.com/tlinderdetroit
http://www.myspace.com/alteregomanagement
Jones Soda is participating in FCBD with a giant stack of their new sodas featuring all natural cane sugar. One free Jones Soda per person while supplies last.
http://www.jonessoda.com/
We are working with Gleaners Food Bank on FCBD for a canned food drive. Bring in a non-perishable canned food item and get an extra Free Comic Book Day comic.
http://www.gcfb.org/
There will also be a used book drive for the Friends of the Library Dearborn. Bring in a gently used book (with pictures or without, but please no stapled comics) and get an extra Free Comic Book Day comic.
http://dearborn.lib.mi.us/fold/fold.htm
These last two offers will be limited to one per person.
I'll think of more stuff later. STORMY update after the new list.
Oh yeah, have a safe and happy holiday.
New comics for Wednesday April 11th 2007
ACTION / ADVENTURE
AFTER THE CAPE #2 (OF 3) $2.99
BATTLE POPE VOL 3 TP PILLOW TALK (MR) $12.99
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CYLON APOCALYPSE #2 $3.50
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ZAREK #4 $3.50
BIG BANG COMICS PRESENTS TEENREX #5 $3.95
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #124 (MR) $2.99
BOMB QUEEN III #2 (OF 4) (MR) $3.50
CONAN & THE MIDNIGHT GOD #3 (OF 5) $2.99
DESPERADOES BUFFALO DREAMS #3 (OF 4) $3.99
DYNAMO 5 #2 $3.50
FALLEN ANGEL IDW #14 (MR) $3.99
FELL #8 (RES) $1.99
FERRO CITY VOL 1 TP $15.99
GI JOE DECLASSIFIED TP $18.99
HELIOS UNDER THE GUN #3 (OF 4) $2.99
HIGHLANDER #6 $2.99
JUNGLE FANTASY ANNUAL #1 (MR) $4.99
LIBERALITY FOR ALL #4 (OF 8) $2.99
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #1 $2.99
NIGHTLY NEWS #5 (OF 6) $2.99
PIRATES VS NINJAS #4 (OF 4) $3.50
SEEKERS #1 $2.99
STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC #15 $2.99
STARSHIP TROOPERS DAMAGED JUSTICE #2 (OF 4) (MR) $3.50
TMNT MOVIE ADAPTATION #1 $4.99
TMNT MOVIE PREQUEL 3 DONATELLO $3.25
TRANSFORMERS PRIME DIRECTIVE MOVIE PREQUEL #3 $3.99
TRANSFORMERS STORMBRINGER MANGA VOL 1 TP $9.99
TWO GUNS #1 (OF 4) $3.99
WASTELAND #8 (MR) $3.50
WASTELAND BOOK 1 CITIES IN DUST TP (MR) $11.95
DC COMICS
52 WEEK #49 $2.50
CLAW THE UNCONQUERED TP $17.99
GEN 13 #7 $2.99
GREEN ARROW #73 $2.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #11 $2.99
GRIFTER MIDNIGHTER #2 (OF 6) $2.99
JLA CLASSIFIED #37 $2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 3RD PTG #1 $3.99
RUSH CITY #6 (OF 6) $2.99
STORMWATCH PHD #6 $2.99
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #7 $2.99
ALL STAR SUPERMAN VOL 1 HC $19.99
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #7 (OF 8) $3.99
CRISIS AFTERMATH THE SPECTRE TP $12.99
TEEN TITANS #45 $2.99
TRIALS OF SHAZAM #6 (OF 12) $2.99
WONDER WOMAN #7 $2.99
MARVEL COMICS
NEW AVENGERS #29 CWI $2.99
BLADE #8 $2.99
CIVIL WAR TP $24.99
GHOST RIDER #10 $2.99
HEROES FOR HIRE VOL 1 CIVIL WAR TP $13.99
IRON MAN #16 $2.99
IRON MAN 2ND PTG #15 $2.99
LEGION OF MONSTERS MAN-THING #1 $2.99
LONERS #1 (OF 6) $2.99
NEWUNIVERSAL #5 $2.99
NOVA #1 $2.99
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #6 $2.99
SHE-HULK 2 #17 $2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #7 $2.99
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN 2ND PTG #17 $2.99
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN 2ND PTG #35 $2.99
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN FERAL TP $13.99
SPIDER-MAN BACK IN BLACK HANDBOOK $3.99
SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #1 $4.99
SPIDER-MAN FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (OF 4) $2.99
SPIDER-MAN MAGAZINE $5.99
SPIDER-MAN REIGN PREMIERE HC $19.99
THUNDERBOLTS #113 CWI please inquire for variant pricing $2.99
NEW X-MEN #37 $2.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #485 $2.99
WHITE TIGER #5 (OF 6) $2.99
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #13 $2.99
KIDS / ALL AGES
AMELIA RULES #17 $4.95
ARCHIE #574 $2.25
ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #178 $3.69
BATMAN STRIKES #32 $2.25
CARTOON NETWORK ACTION PACK #12 $2.25
MAD KIDS #7 $4.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #23 $2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES FF VOL 5 ALL 4 ONE 4 FOR ALL DIGEST TP $6.99
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED JUNGLE BOOK $2.99
SARDINE IN OUTER SPACE VOL 3 SC $12.95
SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE #17 $2.99
VERTIGO / DC mature readers recommended
FABLES #60 $2.99
LOVELESS #17 $2.99
SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE SLEEP OF REASON #5 (OF 5) $2.99
SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE VOL 5 DR DEATH TP $19.99
HORROR / SUSPENSE mature readers recommended
28 DAYS LATER THE AFTERMATH GN $17.99
BPRD GARDEN OF SOULS #2 (OF 5) $2.99
CLIVE BARKERS GREAT & SECRET SHOW #11 (OF 12) $3.99
CONLUVIO TP $19.99
DOOMED PRESENTS ASHLEY WOOD TP $7.99
FIENDISH FABLES ONE SHOT #1 $3.50
FRANK FRAZETTAS DEATH DEALER #1 $3.99
FRIDAY THE 13TH #5 $2.99
HACK SLASH VOL 2 DEATH BY SEQUEL TP $18.99
MEDIEVAL LADY DEATH WAR O/T WINDS #6 (OF 6) $3.99
MR STUFFINS #1 (OF 3) $3.99
PANDORA ANNUAL #1 $4.99
UTOPIATES #4 (OF 4) $2.95
XOMBIE #1 (OF 6) $3.50
HUMOR / DRAMA mature readers recommended
BREATHE #1 (OF 4) $2.99
COLD HEAT #4 (OF 12) (MR) $5.00
EMO BOY #11 $2.95
OPTIC NERVE #11 (MR) $3.95
POISON ELVES VENTURES VOL 2 AMRAHLYNN TP $15.95
WILLY WEASELY (MR) $7.95
GRAPHIC NOVELS mature readers recommended
ART OF CARETTA HARD CANDY SC $14.95
COMPLETE PEANUTS VOL 7 1963-1964 HC $28.95
COMPLETE UNIVERSE OF DUPUY & BERBERIAN TP $55.00
FLOWER & FADE GN $13.95
GARAGE BAND GN $16.95
HARRY THE RAT WITH WOMEN NOVEL $12.95
KAFKA GN $14.95
LOOKIT VOL 2 YARG AND OTHER STORIES GN $11.95
MOME VOL 7 GN $14.95
ADULTS ONLY
A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #55 $4.99
MAGAZINES
MAD MAGAZINE #477 $3.99
hey all,
happy easter and happy passover. my mom died on easter, so it's not my favorite holiday, but i hope all the rest of you get to visit with people you love and have a nice meal or something to mark the occasion. do something nice for yourselves!
another huge list of used cds this week, along with a nice batch of new releases including COCO ROSIE, GRINDERMAN, POLE, RAFAEL TORAL, WIRE MAGAZINE, KK NULL, and CARL CRAIG. fun fun fun!!!
down below we have the green brain new arrivals and the bo house update. also some info on petitions to help internet radio and arts funding in the state of michigan.
free comic book day is in 4 weeks (may 5th!!), and we're having a special event that day!! a BJORK listening party! we'll be playing the Volta cd in the shop, watching Bjork videos, and drinking wine and eating cake. we still need to decide on a time for the big kickoff, but it will be an added great reason to stop by the stormy/green brain collective on free comic book day!! (we have decided the listening party will be from 5pm to 8pm)
please call or email if you need something on hold or you want to do mailorder. the new website should be up and running next week!!!!
windy
stormy records
13210 michigan ave
dearborn, mi 48126
313-581-9322
MERCILESS DEATH Evil In The Night lp or cd $15.99 each
Great classic sounding thrash band from California….Ltd.
COCOROSIE Adventures Of Ghosthorse on Touch And Go cd or lp $14.99
Third ventricle of the COCOROSIE liturgy is a collaboration w/ BJORK's producer VALGEIR SIGUROSSON…an ochestral array of sounds and beauty - a vaudevillian opera, if you will.
GRINDERMAN s/t cd or lp on Anti cd $15.99 lp $12.99
The new more BIRTHDAY PARTY (aka punk?) sounding project of NICK CAVE's…LP is already out of print BUT all copies, since they brought in the import, have blown-out bottoms and were sealed so it's contained but the vinyl weirdos will be bummed.
NEKROMANTIX Life Is A Grave and I Dig It!!
cd $14.99 picture disc $16.99
New one from the great German psychobilly entity.
WYRD Huldrafolk 2xlp $19.99
Amazing atmospheric and natural black metal sounds in the styles of ULVER, AGALLOCH and AZRAEL while paying tribute to Norweigan black metal fore
fathers DARKTHRONE, SATYRICON and BURZUM. For fans of XASTHUR, LEVIATHAN, etc. Great gatefold vinyl with new artwork and a vinyl only bonus track!
WAX POETICS magazine BETTY DAVIS - #22 $7.99
Great BETTY DAVIS cover and feature on yours truly's B'ham soul comp!
FIELD From Here We Go Sublime cd on Kompakt $16.99
Debut full-length release by Stockholm's own Axel Willner. The blissful, addictive, transformative sounds here absolutely speak for themselves. 10 perfect tracks of narcotic, propellant stuff. PITCHFORK BEST NEW MUSIC
GUSTAFSSON / YOSHIMI Words on the Floor cd on Smalltown $15.99
Gustafsson (THING, GUSH, DISKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS TRIO) a lSounpg etirmjaez zfan of Yoshimi's work (BOREDOMS, OOIOO), teamed up with her for a duo show at Malmo Konserthus in Sweden in April 2005. The show was recorded & here is the result. A mighty piece of music.
A monumental zen like psychedelic drone piece for saxes & voice. The sound on the CD was created by slide saxophone (Mats being of the few in the world today to play this instrument), tenor sax, baritone sax, alto fluteophone & electronics, all by Mats, as well as Yoshimi's voice plus electronics. Cover art by Kim Hiorthoy
MERZBOW Merzbear cd on Important $14.99
Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz & early electronic composition as well the physical arts (especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau), Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear, the 6th release in his utterly essential Merz series, pulses & pounds w/distorted droning guitar feedback, pulsing noise blasts & the swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Synthi. Merzbear is a significant document of his ever evolving improvisational style
MINSK Ritual Fires Of Abandon double lp on Gilead Media $19.99
VINYL LIMITED TO 1000
PINHAS, RICHARD Chronolyse cd on Cuneiform $14.99
Limited repress of first solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, one of the first to meld rock & electronics. Half live Moog electronics that make fantastic use of stereo imaging & mix aggression w/the repetition of Philip Glass or Terry Riley, & half w/all of HELDON in a 30 minute King Crimson-ish stormy drone epic of mellotrons, electronics, guitar, bass & drums later sampled on the second UNKLE LP.
PINHAS, RICHARD Iceland cd on Cuneiform $14.99
Limited repress of third solo album from founding member of French New Rock giants HELDON, & the first to be issued after the demise of Heldon. Currently performing & recording w/noisecore freaks WOLF EYES! "A slower, more classical recording w/the capacity to hypnotize the listener without their knowledge."-AP
PRURIENT / MINDFLAYER Split 7" on Important $10.99
Pressed in an edition of 500 on colored vinyl. Double sided screen printed jackets. In the works for 4 years, some things are never better than late and this 7" is one of them
SONIC YOUTH Destroyed Room: B-Sides double lp on Goofin' $17.99
NOW ON DELUXE 2LP!!! Band chosen collection of near hidden gems, all previously vinyl or comp only or as int'l b-sides
STARS OF THE LID Their Refinement ......double cd on Kranky $14.99
free poster with purchase
...of the Let Down" Painstakingly recorded, processed & assembled over the last 5 yrs, SOTL once again deliver a massive work filling 2 CDs & 3LPs, clocking in at over 2hrs. They take time itself & stretch, compress & turn it inside out, altering what would otherwise be an
arduous test of nerves into an interlude of half awake dreams that ends too soon. They've created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant. Simply put, this album is a masterpiece
SORRY - vinyl delayed several weeks..........
TAMBURO, MIKE & his Orch Ghost of Marumbey cd on Music Fellowship $15.99
He's back again picking, droning, buzzing & rocking w/ the biggest line up of the Universal Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge (his backing band). Collaborators on this project incl. Ken Camden, Keenan Lawler, Brad Rose, Jeff Komara, Matt Mcdowell, Charlie Vinz (Head of Femur, STMonroe, Bobby Conn Band) & many more
FOLKSWINGERS, THE :Raga Rock CD $16.99
This heady blend of instrumental pop covers, fuzzed-up guitars and sitar is a kitsch blast from start to finish. Featuring the cream of L.A.'s session players alongside sitar virtuoso Harihar Rao (Ravi Shankar's senior disciple), it was originally released in 1966 and makes its long-overdue CD debut here, showing itself to be the first and best "sitarsploitation" album ever recorded.
TORAL, RAFAEL: Space Solo 1 CD $15.99
This is Rafael Toral's 11th release, the first for the Quecksilber label, and another continuation of his "Space Program." After 15+ years of accomplished work on guitar and electronics, the Portuguese musician, producer and sound engineer announced that he was to embark on a long-term project, which was to be a multi-faceted work-in-progress representing his new approach to music. With the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous Space, he managed to disrupt the notions of avant-garde music, choosing to focus on "single sound events." The sounds are generated by self-devised electronic equipment set into action by the performance of gestures, by bodily action (take a look at the video samples of the "Space Study 1" on his web site, where he "plays" glove-controlled computer sinewaves). Thus, the music is created by individual decisions in real time - just like in jazz, as Toral emphasizes. So basically, this is electronic music played with a jazz sensibility. Toral brings a performative aspect to electronic music that it often sorely lacks. The initial album Space is like a roadmap, accompanied by three distinct serieses: the performance series "Space Studies" (which started in 2004), and the record series "Space Elements" and "Solo Series." The latter are unaccompanied real-time solo recordings on one instrument only (as opposed to "Space Elements," where Toral collaborates with other musicians). The present CD is the first in that series and the second materialization of the program. Whereas Space featured an orchestral approach to composition (and thus a diversity of elements), Space Solo 1 presents the listener with music that is narrowed down almost to a point: everything is concentrated on a single element. The key feature of this music is that it was performed with a degree of skill, a commitment and a depth of exploration that could not be found on an orchestral record. On this album, Toral appears as a musician who simply plays an instrument on an individual, human and physical level. One cannot help but notice that Toral is opening up a new dimension in music - and maybe also in language. Welcome to a new mode of expression.
POLE:Steingarten CD on Scape $16.99 (back in next week - i sold the whole batch while putting the email update together)
This is Berlin-based producer Stefan Betke's sixth full-length release, and his second release on his own ~scape label. After his duties remixing and producing such artists as John Tejada, T.Raumschmiere and Barbara Morgenstern, and a collaboration with Burnt Friedman and Kit Clayton, Pole presents music that could be architecture, with his elegantly spare form that reaches out into space. After minimalist experiments with elements of hip-hop and dub, Steingarten has hardly any concrete references. What has remained, though, is the minimalism so characteristic of Pole. Built around little loops, his arrangements dispose with any kind of ornamentation. A stark contrast with the album's title and cover - which shows a picture of the famously ornate, gingerbread-style castle Schloss Neuschwanstein. But despite some funky grooves, this is no dancefloor record. And despite its simplicity, the music never comes across as meager or repellently cool. This might be due to the fact that Pole has found a perfect middle point between avant-garde and pop. The beats are groovy, but never overtly dance-oriented. Melodies are used as harmonic dashes of color, but remain fragmentary rather than sing-song-y. Some cracking noises pop up, but not as a dissonant element - they just seem a logical part of the sound structure - a structure that creates space and order. Things dark, nebulous and irrational are alien to Pole, so it's all the more amazing how well it nurtures daydreams - and practically invites listeners to drift off on flights of fancy. There is indeed one thing that Pole's music shares with the visions of King Ludwig, who, in building Schloss Neuschwanstein, wanted to create a world for himself shielded from reality: Pole's warm bass and powerful but elastic production style conveys a feeling of coziness; it doesn't take on the outside world, doesn't mirror it or comment on it, but creates a world all its own. LP version forthcoming.
NULL, KK:Fertile CD on Touch $15.99
K.K. Null is legendary Japanese noise experimentician Kazuyuki Kishino, and this is his first full-length solo release on Touch, following his collaboration with Chris Watson and Z'ev in 2005, which Boomkat called "moving and atmospheric," and The Wire wrote "...a complex dramatic work from a strict economy of means." K.K. Null is a composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of seminal noise group Zeni Geva and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a wider context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early '80s. Kazuyuki writes: "In June of 2006, I had the good fortune of visiting Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia and explored in Kakadu National Park with some good friends. I took my digital recorder along with me and did some live field recordings there. First we encountered a flock of wild birds just beside the South Alligator River, and then we happened to find 'bush fire' flaring just beside the road we were on. I also had a unique opportunity to record a magnificent symphony orchestra of insects, frogs and birds in wetlands just before sunset. At that time I had no idea or no specific purpose for using these field recordings, and in the middle of working on this album (Fertile) in my home studio, suddenly came up with the idea of mixing these field recordings into some of the tracks that were unfinished. I felt comfortable with layering & mixing different sounds from different locations and times, digital and analog sounds into one piece. I like also the balance of spontaneity (field recording) and intentional act (studio recording)." After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, K. K. Null has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica. His intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures and droning isolationist material could be described "cosmic noise maximal/minimalism.
CRAIG, CARL: Science Fiction 12" $13.99
Repress of this four-track 1995 release."Super rare promo reissue. Fantastic single from the original Landcruising 95 LP on Blanco. Superb Detroit techno from the master with a phat Kenny Larkin remix.
FURSAXA: Alone in the Dark Wood LP on Eclipse$17.99
Beautiful new release from Tara Burke (aka Fursaxa) features 12 tracks recorded in Philadelphia and Ulvila, Finland (recorded by Sami Sänpäkkilä). Also has Tara's cover design and artwork in a nice 12x24 inch foldout insert. Edition of 950 copies.
CLUSTER: Cluster II LP version $22.99
Originally released in 1972, this is the second album by legendary German ambient pioneers Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Moebius and Roedelius essentially create ambient electronic soundscapes that ebb and flow, droning on in a suspended world of anti-gravity where machine has conquered man.
THROBBING GRISTLE: Part Two CD on Mute $17.99
The legendary Throbbing Gristle have completed their first new studio album in 25 years, entitled Part Two. Almost 30 years on since their inception from the ashes of performance art troupe/media guerrilla cell Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle's challenging, expressive, self-empowering manifestos and music are as relevant today as they were back in the bleak mid-'70s. As historically important during their active period of 1975 - 1981 as contemporaries Can, The Sex Pistols, and Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle's influence on today's music (from experimental production techniques and confrontational live shows to independent promotion via their own Industrial Records label) runs far deeper than they are often credited.
LSD MARCH: Empty Rubious Red LP on Tequila Sunrise $24.99
For those of you already living a couple of years ahead of the rest of us, you will know that this will be the fifth full length by this band, and that it was originally released in 2006 on their own white elephant imprint. It's actually more like a solo outing by LSDM front-man Shinsuke Michishita (on voice, guitar, bass and percussion), accompanied on two tracks by legendary drummer Ikuro Takahashi (High Rise, Fushitsusha, Tamio Shiraishi, Kosokuya, Che-Shizu, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nagisa Ni Te, etc). most of the songs here are intimate, in-your-inner-ear ballads, hypnagogic and melancholic, achy hangovers from the third Velvets LP - sorrowful birds on the last tree in the universe, thinking themselves into being, then forgetting themselves, then remembering again. except for the title track, that is - an 8-minute doppler-effect trance that gets you wasted on polonium 210, sets the dials of the Kabbalah for the heart of the sun, and clicks 'send.
WIRE, THE: #278 April 2007 MAG $8.99
On The Cover: Terry Riley (The pioneer of 1960s American minimalism reveals the range of his interests, from his Irish and Italian roots to Indian ragas and space music for NASA.); Features: Aufgehoben (The English free rock unit disclose the studio processes behind their improvised sonic barrage); Islaja (The songs of Finnish mult-instrumentalist Merja Kokkonen are imbued with spiritual longing); Michio Kurihara (Alan Cummings talks to the Tokyo psychedelic underground's most in-demand guitarist about his first solo album); Cross Platform: Hal Rammel (The American instrument builder's inventions reflect his deep interest in comic utopias and surrealism); Invisible Jukebox: The Dead C; Maja Ratkje (The Norwegian singer moves freely between noise, electronics and Improv with her solo projects and as a member of SPUNK and Fe-Mail); Eyeless In Gaza; Epiphanies: A booty of pirated mixtapes opens a window on the world of dancehall and bashment reggae for Dave Stelfox.
latest used cds
air - playground love $5.99
air - sexy boy $3.99
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BO HOUSE UPDATE!!
4/6: Butterfly Explosion with Freer and Zoos of Berlin
This show is brought to you courtesy of Bohouse family member Kim Paris' Sinister/Foxy Productions. Butterfly Explosion is from Dublin and was a big hit last year at SXSW. They get compared to an absurd mixture of bands on the internet; more info on them to come. Freer is rock band that's notable for dramatic, slightly tortured pop gems. Formerly based in Detroit, it's now more Chicago-centric. Still totally Detroit based, Zoos of Berlin plays music that is full of changes without being convolouted.
Just Added! 4/9: Gunda Gottchalk
Gunda is an improvising violinist/violist from Germany. Her early background was in classical violin, but for last 20 years or so, she has collaborated with noted New Music musicians, including Peter Kowald, William Parker, Assif Tsahar, Fred Frith, Oliver Lake and many others. Doors at 8 pm; sliding scale $5-10.
4/13 and just added 4/14 : Gerald Cleaver with Andrew Bishop, Tim Flood and Ryan Macstaller
This has been expanded to a 2 night run! Detroit raised drummer Gerald Cleaver played with some of the cities most adventurous musicians, like A. Spencer Barefield, Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden and Wendell Harrison, before leaving to make good in NYC. His career there has included playing with Peter Kowald, Assif Tsahar, Roscoe Mitchell, Toots Thielman, Andrea Parkins, Bob James, Joe Morris and many others. He'll be joined by some great Detroit/NYC talent. Doors at 8:30pm; $10 suggested.
Late show 4/13: Interdimensional Transmissions & Dethlab present
JAKthe ripper
Traxx (Nation, Kode, Creme Jak and beyond) Chicago
Cowboy Mark NYC
BMG Dethlab
This show will be in the ballroom
12 pm; $5
4/15 Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara plus Jason Stein and Kevin Davis
These Brookly based Anthony Braxton alumni can walk the line between free improvisation and pretty avant-folk songwriting. Leader Taylor Ho Bynum plays cornet with Braxton and in Cecil Taylor's large band, as well as with many hybrid music groups . Mary Halvorson is a flat-out amazing guitarist who uses a very original vocabulary. Percussionist Tomas Fujiwara has played with many creative music greats, including Butch Morris, William Parker, Roy Campbell and Daniel Carter. Opening is bass clarinetist Jason Stein, previously seen at the Bohemian with Ken Vandermark and company in the group Bridge 61, and Kevin Davis, a Chicago cellist.
Doors at 8 pm; sliding scale $5-10.
4/25 The Thing
Some of northern Europe's finest improvisers. Free jazz, energy-music and covers of Lightning Bolt and The White Stripes! Gustafsson is one of Sweden's primary musical exports, playing with great musicians like Joe McPhee (an occasional member of The Thing), Ken Vandermark, Derek Bailey and Hamid Drake. Flaten and Nilsen-Love are Norway's heaviest rhythm section and the choice of any improviser who hits the country.
Mats Gustafsson (Sweden):REEDS
Ingebrigt H. Flaten (Norway): BASS
Paal Nilsen-Love (Norway): DRUMS
Just added! 4/28: CD release for Frank Pahl's "Songs of War and Peace"
Some of you may know the side of composer/inventor Frank Pahl that has a weak spot for protest songs from a few of his recent, frenetic acoustic performances. His new CD "Songs of War and Peace" features some of this material, but in settings that bear a closer resemblance to the pretty and challenging music he's best known for. With a couple great send-ups of patriotic songs opening and closing the record, you'll be all set for this year's Fourth of July. Doors at 9 pm; $5-10.
Coming Soon:
Just Added! 5/5: Willowz
Just Added! 5/8: Sightings
5/18 The Old Haunts
6/3 Rob Brown 3tet with William Parker and Gerald Cleaver
June 8th & 9th: 2nd Annual Festival of Improvised Music
Currently confirmed to perform!
Friday, June 8th:
Noah Howard/Hakim Jami/Calyer Duncan
The Raw Truth (Michael Carey, Skeeter Shelton, Ali Allen Colding, Greg Cook)
Thollem McDonas (solo)
Saturday, June 9th:
Engines (Dave Rempis, Nate McBride, Tim Daisy)
Hakim Jami/Salim Washington/Pamela Wyse/Sean Dobbins
Lotte Anker/Gerald Cleaver/Craig Taborn
The Gold Sparkle Trio
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack
Keenan Lawler (solo)
More TBA shortly
Coming in October: Trevor Watts and Jamie Harris
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