Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

WWVV
Phases In Meticulous Orbit

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

CD-R
£6.99


Brand new album, limited to 250 hand-numbered-copies from the band formerly known as Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice. This one features four 'phases' across one long 30 minute track that sees the whole cultus broke down into its constituent parts. First up we get a sumptuously stoned and minimal Diehl/Taveniere jam that then segues into a great "Dark Star -esque Crane/Toth face-off which in turn morphs into a Nolan/Toth jam before the whole group kick in with a fanfare of heavy psychedelic electricity. Recorded live at Strange Maine, Portland, Maine April 2007. Comes with tour diary extract on double sided A4 sheet on the inside of the package. Both the insert and the sleeve are printed on a very thing paper (kinda like newsprint) with tiny red flecks built into the paper.

(VxPxC)
Struggling With Heavy Clouds

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

CD-R
£6.99


"Brand new CD-R from trio of Grant Capes, Justin McInteer and Tim Goodwillie recorded in LA. Wavering multi instrumental folk-psyche-drone jams across 4 tracks, total bliss! Again comes in the same lightweight paper as the WWVV with fold out all over artwork by Darryl Norsen. Limited to 110 hand-numbered copies." - BRR.

Claudio Two
The Corpse

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

Cassette
£5.99


Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies from the duo of James and Jessica Toth (aka Chazz Improv and Norma Bates) with Max ‘Mev’ Wicker, their first release outside of Toth’s own Mad Monk imprint. Some classically bleak Kraut-inspired dirge bombs cut-up with the kind of blues breakdowns and deranged avant-gardisms that best defined Toth’s previous Hassara outings.

Ryan Jewell
Of Keeping Everything From Happening At

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

CD-R
£5.99


“New piece from this Ohio based percussionist experimentalist whose collaborated with a buncha folks recently (C.Spencer Yeh, Fossils, etc). One extremely minimal piece of drone, totally acoustic with an insane ending... In Ryans words 'it's all acoustic. Supersonic acoustic sine waves interfering with one another making audible sweeps, etc. It's all just a floor tom. Secret f**kin' ninja jedi mind moves and s**t'... Edition of 80 in gold sprayed and stickered sleeves of painted and stamped sleeves, everyone individual in either maroon, black or white papers...” – BRR.

Attar Cups
Untitled

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£13.99


Hand-numbered edition of 299 copies with colour paste-on sleeves from this communal Maine-based free folk unit that features Nemo Bidstrup of Time-Lag/Drona Parva, Sparrow Wildchild of MV’s The Bummer Road and three members of Visitations. Long acoustic jams that share headspace with Tower Recordings or even a more folk/less Fall reverent Shadow Ring, with minimal, repeating acoustic jags that fall just the right side of lonesome to re-kindle memories of My Company Is Misery-era US Saucer.

Stefan Kushima
Inner Hands

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

Cassette
£6.99


“Second release on BR from Stefan to end the summer heat with a sweltering black cloud of electric bolts... much more of a solid beast than the more mellow 'Don't Touch The Walls' disc we put out a few months back, this is one baron piece of heaviness... solid. Limited to 50 copies.” – BRR.

Helhesten
Graphical House

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

CD-R
£6.99


Cool new album from this UK underground group with associations to Towering Breaker et al. Helhesten operate at the same kind of avant/primitive interface as much of the Dylan Nyoukis/Chocolate Monk cabal, albeit with less overt gonzo stylings and a ‘straighter’ approach to the source. Which isn’t to say they’re not fucked up, they’re just not quite so animal in their appetites. Factoring in aspects of drone, sound poetry, small instrument improvisation and free jazz, the group work pointillist levitations that would strip the whole Double Leopards/Taj Mahal Travellers stormcloud style of its aura of fug, replacing it with a sum of electro-acoustic sound events that are as individually detailed as they are overtly group-minded. The violin and reed work feels particularly lucid and Anglo-drone focussed. Seems like a buncha next generation UK style has come of age of late and this is another one to add to the pot.

Starving Weirdos
B/P/M Series 1

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£12.99


New album from Starving Weirdos in an edition of 500 copies. Very different from their last few screwed and chopped drone sides, B/P/M is mostly based around the transportive potential of various piano strategies, with the opening track possessed of an aggressive avant garde edge that combines splinters of ivory with sudden percussive thunks. Further strategies include deep-sea key soundings, with haunted melodies bubbling up through an ocean of F/X and some fast, strumming piano minimalism somewhere between John Cale and Charlemagne Palestine before we arrive in more familiar territory with the extended electronic tones of the closer.

MV & EE
Road Trips: Live Road 2002-2009

Blackest Rainbow Recordings BRR-120

12xCassette Box Set
£45.99


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).

Mountainhood
Death Pod

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£10.99


“Our very first one sided LP, which is a bizarre trip from Michael Curtis Hilde's Mountainhood project. This one follows on from the two LPs on Time Lag's Red Records label a few months back which vanished super fast, as well as other releases on Reverb Worships and Yod. Total outsider midnight missions into weirdness... strange strings twang and rattle into the darkness, a very strange experience spread across one side of black wax. Limited to 320 copies in pro-printed wrap around sleeve featuring art by Michael.” – BRR.

Starving Weirdos with Tom Carter & Shawn McMillen
Live At The Accident

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£13.99


"Crazy 3-way collaboration from some of America's best underground musicians... Charalambides Tom Carter is joined by Shawn McMillen, sometimes member of Warmer Milks and Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, with the added power of Starving Weirdos. This two tracked collaboration has been around since 2007 and it landed in my mailbox a few months back, and man, it’s a real beauty... A totally bizarre jam, which just opens more potential ventures up for these artists, hopefully we'll see more from this collaborative team soon. Limited to 320 in pro-printed wraparound sleeves." – BRR.

Our Love Will Destroy The World
Fucking Dracula Clouds

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£13.99


Edition of 400 copies LP from Campbell Kneale’s earth-quaking Our Love Will Destroy The World. Violent Industrial rock that works in stormclouds of overtone and omni-directional propulsion and feels like the soundtrack to the birth pains of galaxies. Is that a xylophone in there? Comparable to Matthew Bower’s most gridlocked and monumentally powerful recordings. Three tracks of vertical ascension.

MV & EE
Live Road

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£12.99


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.

Silvester Anfang 2
Commune Cassetten

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£13.99


More communal jams from the Funeral Folk collective, with a sound that moves from macabre forest folk through full-tilt monolithic freak rock ala Trad Gras Och Stenar/International Harvester et al. Edition of 550 copies, full colour sleeves, already sold out at source.

Aritomo
Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages

Blackest Rainbow Recordings BBR-180

LP
£12.99


Necessary vinyl reissue of the debut album from Japanese acid folk loner Aritomo. Originally self-released on vinyl in 2005, the album was recorded between 2003-2004. It’s a magical side, recalling aspects of Go Hirano, the Org catalogue and early Ghost. Aritomo’s vocals have a slurred/alien tongue feel that is nicely drugged and the music moves from avalanching acoustic downers ala Leonard Cohen through weird flute and field recordings that reflect on the more ‘environmental’ aspects of Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and fragile/lucid folk songs that combine gentle ritualistic atmospheres, Hallelujahs-style melodies and a vocal that’s way beyond the blank. A classic side of PSF-styled acid folk. Edition of only 300 copies. Highly recommended.

Cam Deas
Blind Chance

Blackest Rainbow Recordings BRR-175

LP
£12.99


“Fantastic new LP from Cam Deas, which was issued in a tiny run CDR for his recent euro tour with Jack Allett earlier this year. This is a slightly different release from the previous LP and split LP with Spoono, essentially this is one long improvised acoustic freak-out. Loose frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger shredding plucking. This still retains Cam's signature traditional playing somehow, especially the more intense heavier moments. A solid recording. Limited to 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with photography by Cam and printed labels. Pressed at the superb Record Industry in the Netherlands.” – BRR.

Isengrind
Modlitewnik

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£14.99


“Debut vinyl release from Natural Snow Buildings' Solange Gularte's solo project, Isengrind. Modlitewnik continues Solange's fantastically far out occult psych-folk-drone trip outs, 12 tracks across the length of this LP, considerably shorter pieces in comparison to her work with Mehdi in Natural Snow Buildings, Isengrind retains a certain amount of the sound of the duo, but it is a whole other beast, in many ways much stranger and darker, but still hauntingly beautiful with some fantastic blissed out vocal drones, dreamy guitars, and psyche soaked dark drone zones. Heavyweight vinyl, housed in a pro-printed full colour fold over sleeve with all 4 panels featuring stunning artwork by Solange, the inside of the cover is especially spectacular. One time pressing of approx 400 copies.” – BR. Already sold out at source.

Celer
Dwell In Possibility

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£12.99


“Dwell in Possibility, is the debut vinyl LP by the formerly active American husband and wife duo Celer, and is also their first release for Blackest Rainbow. Consisting of 15 different sections sprayed across two sides of vinyl, with little if any distinctions, 'Dwell in Possibility' is arranged as a muted patchwork of keyless voices blinded by sunlight, hollow echoes from unlit interiors, and scrolls of unrolled piano tunes. Enclosed in empty shadows, with vague slides of unanswered prayers, these two sides etch a dateless form into weak ends, and pyrrhic dells. Everydays are left empty-handed, and enjoyed only then. Positions change, and rely only on your imagination to wake from this, to sleep, in hope to feel again. Full colour fold over pro printed covers featuring vintage photography. Limited to approx 400 copies.” – BR.