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JONAS RUCHENHEVER “Maze/Haze” CS
Smeraldina-Rima 14
edition of 50 tapes, screenprinted sleeve
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JOZEF VAN WISSEM ‘A Priori’ CD
“Once some music dropped through my letter-box; let’s summon their sounds into our world now, and deliver their names as Roses or Stations. The picture they imagined was both clear and cryptic: the certainties of the 17th century holding tight the ugly beauty that we now see scattered around us. I loved these CDs by Jozef van Wissem, A Rose by any other Name and Stations of the Cross. And then I received a new album, A Priori, and I immediately played it and heard its stark and repetitive intensity, its stately and glacial march. There is nothing quite like it that I have heard before—it is timeless, breathing deeply and exhaling showers of snow, endless circles, mirrors, spirals, the sea. When Jozef plays the lute, he pours out endless space. What can I say but let the rain come, close your eyes and watch the stars fall and rise and fall again.”
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LADYSCRAPER / DESPOILAH ‘Split EP’ 12″
Break-core split EP with inside & outside screenprinting by Jelle Crama
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Nate Wooley “Trumpet/Amplifier” LP
Smeraldina-Rima 11
Edition of 496, heavy-weight vinyl with screenprinted open sleeve. Liner notes by Ben Hall.
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“Trumpet/Amplifier: three pieces of unrelenting pressure, from choking bursts of muteness to firestorms of sound. Trumpeter becoming trumpet. Brass ventriloquism.” —ttt
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Panicsville “A Dragonfly For Each Corpse” LP+7″
Smeraldina-Rima 10
Edition of 400, heavy-weight vinyl with screenprinted open sleeve.
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“A Dragonfly For Each Corpse is a record that stands no daylight. A feverish nightmare of an album, dragging us into a brown paper bag —ferocious cannibal jungle ambience seeping through— till we’re cast down some stairs into a cellar made out of spit. A twirling folkballad sung by a ghost made out of chewing gum turns into a symphony of typing fingers, ticking clocks and slamming car doors, like a noirish soundtrack to the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, accompanied by squeaking stuffed animals as eyewitnesses. A record that feels like a horror franchise turning into understated drama, where mourners and killers change places in unexpected and drastic fashion. With the collaboration of John Wiese, Josephine Foster, MV Carbon, Thymme Jones.” —w
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Peeesseye + Talibam! 2xLP
Smeraldina-Rima 13
Only 600 copies available, artwork by Rachel Lowther.
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“Talibam! (Kevin Shea on drums, Matt Mottel on keyboards) and Peeesseye (Jaime Fennelly on electronics, Chris Forsyth on guitars and Fritz Welch on drums) have been pals and Evolving Ear labelmates for a while now, so it was only a matter of time before they all got together and let it rip. And rip this certainly does, driven on by the double-barrelled percussion attack, underpinned by Fennelly’s drones and scribbled all over by Mottel and Forsyth, whose wild gonzo soloing is a happy and healthy reminder that one-chord jamming was part and parcel of American alt.rock before the word alt.rock even existed, back when Fugs roamed the Earth and Angus MacLise still turned up for rehearsals, back when these laddies were still twinkles in their daddies’ eyes. Of course, it’s not all one-chord rock —sometimes they dispense with chords altogether and dive headlong into the primeval murky soundpool, with scant regard for whatever sharp rocks and nasty beasties might be lurking under the surface. Loud, messy, dangerous and glorious.” —Dan Warburton
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RYAN GARBES “Unbreakable Flower” CS
Smeraldina-Rima 7
first edition of 100 tapes, screenprinted in black & yellow
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SECOND FAMILY BAND ‘Good Blood’ LP
deluxe edition ltd to 300 copies. Hand screened sleeves by levi seeldraeyers, artwork by wouter vanhaelemeesch…beautiful and essential document of this seminal US band
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SPIRIT OF THE POSITIVE WIND LP
Smeraldina-Rima 15
edition of 300 LPs, open sleeve with artwork by Nate Nelson and screenprinted inner sleeve
SOTPW: some sort of supergroup, featuring Brian Sullivan & Nate Nelson (Mouthus), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Spectre Folk) and Karl Bauer (Axolotl). The LP features two side-long tracks of bubbling, meandering noise-drone collages.
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Steven H “Ik, Steven H”
This 12″ is by a rapper called Steven H from Kaster, Belgium, who sings in Kaster dialect, a dialect incomprehensible by anyone not living in Kaster. Fascinating!
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