Hand-numbered edition of 150 copies digipak CD-R documenting a May 2008 show from Matthew Valentine, Erika Elder and The Golden Road, here consisting of Doc Dunn on guitar and vocals and Samara Lubelski on bass and violin. Excellent fidelity, stoned/laidback feel, track listing: “Easy Livin’”, “Get Right Church”, “Cold Rain”, “The Burden”, “East Mountain Joint” and “Powderfinger”. Recommended.

Limited edition of 250 copies with 12 pro-dubbed cassette housed in a presentation box documenting the many live musical incarnations of Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder between the years 2002 and 2009. All unreleased material except for the Guitar Barn set which was previously released by MV as a Heroine CD-R. The box runs in chronological order and culminates in a Pete’s Pix Vol.2 compiled by the legendary Pete Coward featuring 7 tracks from dates mainly in the UK, including a big band jam from Thurston’s Nightmare Before Christmas and Dylan Nyoukis’s 2006 Colour Out Of Space, both of which feature Chris Corsano. Full run-down:

- The MV & EE Medicine Show 'Citybillies' Brooklyn, NY 5/23/02 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE With The Bummer Road 'The Suncatcher Blossoms A Novatone' Tonic, NYC 7/18/2005 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE With The Bummer Road 'Abstarct Blues and Egyptian Mud' Campfire Sounds, Acra, NY 7/15/06 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE with The Bummer Road 'Pastis King' Paris, November 11th, 2006 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE with The Golden Road 'Barn Joint' Red Barn, Amherst, MA, 10/16/07 (feat. J Mascis and Tom Carter) (PREVIOUSLY RELEASED ON HEROINE)

- MV & EE with The Golden Road 'Lobstora Vs Tone Crabs' Floristree Auditorium Baltimore, MD, 6/14/08 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE with The Wolfpack 'Yurt Aspects/Rural Centrifuge' Wickermania Festival, The Yurt, Goshen, MA 8/2/08 / Tinderbox, Brattleboro, VT, 8/3/08 (UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE with Jeremy Earl '"He's On Tonight, Saddleback"/"Multiple Gravitrons" Cakeshop, NYC, 1/20/09 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE with The Wolfpack 'Mamma Zooed' The Triple, Richmond, VA, 1/23/09 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE 'Smoked Bossier' Art Space, Shreveport, LA, 1/29/09 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE with The Golden Road 'Sequential Circuits' Vintage By The Pound, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2/7/09 (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

- MV & EE 'Pete's Pix Vol. 2' 2004 - 2006 (tracks from Cambridge UK, Colour Out of Space, Thurston's ATP, Oxford, London, and more. Features Nemo, Chris Corsano, Samara, Willie, Jiggs, Sparrow, Simoes) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED).

Rarity: “A-side is a dusty gem of a solo track, unearthed on a mysterious Space Shanties-era tape reel last new years day, and now presented to the masses after quite a time lapse. A prime slice seeped in the lo-fi analog glow of Tower Recordings, with MV spilling some lucid lyrics & smokey vibes. B-side is a more recent counterpoint, a bit more bent on the rural/spectra solo wandering of his most zoned & serene acoustic/electric back porch pickings. Sweet vibrations, folks... packaged in a two tone heavy textured art paper cover, with silver/blue/black offset printing & silver/blue labels. Edition of 550 copies.” – TL.

Fantastic looking/sounding LP that upgrades what was originally a self-released Heroine CD-R: live from-the-pit ringside action from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder with highlights from their winter 2006 UK tour. This one features the full set from their 31/1/07 in Sheffield, in the UK . The line-up here is stripped to just MV and EE and it’s a particularly luminous set, with a track listing that runs “Cold Rain”, “Tea Devil”, “Boo Woe”, “Anthem Of The Cocola Y&T”, “Suspended In The Sky”, “Mine All Troubled Blues” and “Freight Train”. Edition of 500 copies with full colour sleeves, insert and liners from MV and EE. Highly recommended.

2007-era duo jams from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder, with a run of early EP-era tracks taken apart at length: “Boo Woe”, “Satisfied”, “Drone Trailer”, “I Got Caves In There” and “East Mountain Joint”. Recorded at Dublab, LA on Valentine’s day 2007. So raise a fucking glass.

Love the cover shot on this one, the muzzy out-of-focus shot of Matthew Valentine, Erika Elder and Willie Lane perfectly captures the Xeroxed in nowhere USA feel of the sonics, with a set from Hudson, NY in July 2008 that trades euphoric candyfloss highs with tough, beautifully free-floating takes on material from all over the canon. Erika’s vocal sounds particularly dislocated, like a voice through a cloud. Weird fidelity that perfectly matches the artwork. What a trip. 

Raging full-on big band studio side from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder, with the duo joined by Doc Dunn, J Mascis, Mike Smith, Jeremy Earl of Woods, Justin Pizzoferrato and Mango Zanahoria. The duo nail the live favourite “Get Right Church” with a great fuzz/wah groove that is totally addictive, while “Summer Magic” gets a doomier/heavier re-think with EE and MV’s voices suspended in space while the fuzz crackles and twin leads collide. “Wandering Nomad” may be their most euphoric twin guitar blaster to date, exploding out of the gate with wailing lead strings over heavenly distorto chords. Something about the studio process feels more inventive than on previous EP albums, with the result that this feels more like Anthem Of The Sun than Working Man’s Dead and it’s a real guitar album, with the vocals perched on high plateaus above some of the best, up-front six string jams of their studio existence. Dig the sleeve too. Recommended. 

Hand-numbered edition of 350 copies self-released 7” from Willie Lane of The Bummer Road, Slurp Dogs et al. A-side is a wailing slab of electric Spectrasound while the flip presents an hallucinatory matrix of acoustic and electric strings that feels like the perfect candyfloss trip.

Edition of 400 copies live album from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder, joined by Ron Schneidermann (Sunburned et al), Doc Dunn and Chris Corsano. Live Road focuses on the more extended Environments style of MV & EE and makes for one of their most psychedelic and otherworldly sides, pitched somewhere between ’72 Dead, Alan Silva’s Skillfulness LP, the early lunar COM style and some of the wilder of the recent Heroine sets. The version of “Mine All Troubled Blues” that opens the set features some of Valentine’s most wayward guitar picking, a beautiful demonstration of how far-reaching his re-think of the possibilities of country-blues guitar has become. Takayanagi couldn’t have phrased it better. Then there are two versions of “Environments” spliced together to generate a hallucinatory headspace that combines plumes of outside strings with peacock drones and visions of melting steel. The B side sees Corsano piloting the group into a tear-it-up power stomp through “Tea Devil” before they dissolve back into another “Environments”. One of the MV and EE’s furthest orbits of form, beautifully realized by Blackest Rainbow with wraparound jackets featuring cover art by Jeremy Earl of Woods. Highly recommended.

Foxy tribute to Rudolph Grey in the title launches a massively spaced duo set from Iowa City in 2009. Very ethereal spectrasound renderings of a set list that runs “The Hungry Stones”, “Huna Cosm”, “Positively Forth Street”, a “Ringwald-Grey Rap” and then a massive jam that flows from “Home Comfort” into “Environments” and on into “Cold Rain”. One of the weirdest COMs, a really narcotic sound on this one, with ethereal guitars and distant vox.

Duo set from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder recorded at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur 25/9/09. Lucid renderings of “Twitchin’” and “Huna Cosm” and a jam that runs from “Cold Rain” into “Tea Devil” and “Environments.”

Brand-new self-released COM in a numbered run of only 99 copies packaged with full colour sleeves and inserts from the duo of Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder. A collection of massively dosed studio recordings, Liberty Rose opens with beams of elegiac solo guitar before dropping into a classic slow-burning jag with puffs of echo/delay damaged vocals melting into hallucinatory afterimages while Erika slides quicksilver runs all the way down your spine. “Crow Jane Environs” has a deep desert feel that could almost be Mu if it wasn’t for Erika’s oracular vocals and MV’s post-Takayanagi soloing. The stark, stripped down version of “Death Is My Friend” features a stunning/chilling vocal performance from Erika and Doc Dunn joins the duo for the last two tracks, with “Out In Space” as dazed and lonely as anything on Skip Spence’s Oar and “Streams” featuring clouds of lucid unison vocals that you could disappear inside. I guess at this stage Child Of Microtones has the same relationship to the Ecstatic Peace releases that Richard Youngs’ No Fans imprint has to his releases on Jagjaguwar, functioning as a repository for some of the most psychedelic, experimental and personal music to escape from the personal stash. And this is a major instalment. Dedicated to Dr Ragtime. Highly recommended.

Killer new 7” from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder with one of their wildest post-Kousokuya heavy metal masses on the A featuring some wailing lead guitar from MV, Erika on electric firebird mandolin and silicon fuzz, two drummers, bass and harmonica. The flip is a classic slow-burning duo performance. Comes on gold coloured vinyl.