Limited 2006 self-released CD-R from Eva aka Inca Ore is a bit of a departure for her that works as a primer for her forthcoming 5RC album with Lemon Bear's Orchestra. Here Eva flits between a host of instant vocal styles keyed to the free improvisatory modes of sparring partner Lemon Bear who works flashes of scale-blurring saxophone, magickal percussion moves, Arkestral rants and orbits of known form into awkward constructions that Eva blows to exquisite dust. Eva's vocals touch on aspects of Meredith Monk's solo trancework, the epiglottal ecstasies of Patty Waters and Diamanda Galas and kind of huge crests of sound previously shaped by the lips of Linda Sharrock. Limited run in spray-painted sleeves with insert.

Warehouse find of a bunch of exact repro reissues of this seminal 1968 Group Sounds side from Japan’s Mops. Cool freakbeat moves, nuts cover versions and their classic “I Am Just A Mops” A great insight into first-wave Japanese psych mere seconds before the deluge. Some tiny scratches on the sleeves.

Limited edition of 100 copies CD-R issued on Paul Hession’s own label to coincide with his appearance with Bill Orcutt at 2009’s Colour Out Of Space festival: “BJ’s Breakfast is the first document of the high-energy free jazz duo of drummer Paul Hession and alto saxophonist David Keenan. Recorded live in London during their first UK tour in October 2007, the music is completely improvised, drawing on Hession’s extensive experience in jazz and improvised sound and Keenan’s background in punk primitive noise and free folk. Hession and Keenan met in early 2007 and instantly bonded over a shared love of balls-to-the-wall energy, DIY folk art and the expressive power of spontaneous creation. Hession’s relentlessly questing drumming style works in waves of polyrhythmic force, exploding linear approaches to form with cymbal work that sparkles like electricity and a tonal approach to the kit that would confuse harmony and time. Keenan plays all the way up inside the saxophone’s most phantom registers, working modulated feedback tones and snatches of distorted folk melody into explosive love cries. On BJ’s Breakfast, Hession and Keenan simultaneously bolster and blow-apart the outlaw tradition of muscular UK free jazz.” – DG.

Limited self-released cassette from Keffer documenting her new collaborative project with Scott Martin aka Hobbledeions. Synth, beats and distant female angel vox combine in some of Keffer’s most straightforwardly beautiful bedroom jams. Flip is Martin’s solo project, with crude breakbeats and rolling synth.

Wow – insane that anyone would even think to hunt down and re-release this, but this is a major public service for anyone attuned to the glorious sound of the late-60s European commune scene. Reportage: Spela Sjalv has been misattributed to the group Trad Gras Och Stenar but it’s actually a series of field recordings put together with Trad Gras’s Bo Anders Persson and Solveig Bark, an experimental composer and contemporary of Folke Rabe et al. Released in 1970, the LP is a document of various non-musicians making experimental/ritual/spontaneous sound across a bunch of contexts. There are ecstatic percussion and string jams that float whole rooms full of voices, stumpy acoustic dirges, traditional folk melodies re-birthed as tickets to tomorrow, NNCK/Vibracathedral-style primitive drones, solo ragas... the section with children singing and playing on the second side is particularly out and a lesson in the potential of spontaneous body soundings for alla the modern would-be sound poets out there. It succeeds not just as a convincing document of ‘music’ made by ‘non-musicians’ but as a time capsule from the Swedish underground and a transposing of Trad Gras/International Harvester/Parson Sound’s monolithic drone work to festivals and acoustic folk settings. Comes in a replica sleeve. Highly recommended.

More beautiful tone sorcery from Christelle Gualdi’s bewitching Stellar Om Source project. Seven tracks on this limited self-released CD-R that move from the sound of soft, brain-massaging arpeggios through early Popol Vuh styled hymnals and lucid re-wirings of 20^th century synth timbres that generate endless neon/neon/neon. A whole bunch of heads are currently plugged into the new age synth zone but no one takes you *there* so completely or with such an intuitive feel for the liminal aspects of devotional electronica as Stellar Om Source. Highly recommended. Sold out at source.

Limited tour-only CD from Carlos Giffoni’s new solo project dedicated to primitive techno and acid house. Two minimal tracks that combine Industrial drones with squiggles, beats and synthesized wormholes.

Limited CD-R from this European ritual/synth/loop project. Aspects of Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Hermann Nitsch and the organic electronics of Maurizio Bianchi make for a heady, hypnotic atmosphere. 

Exact repro of this *insane* LP from Viennese Actionist, convicted child molester and radical avant garde artist Otto Muehl. Muehl was one of the founding fathers of Vienniese Actionism alongside Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Gunter Brus but he quickly retreated from actions and happenings - seeing them as bourgeois - and instead focussed on establishing reputedly authoritarian communes that worked to reject bourgeois values and lifestyles completely. Psycho Motorik was privately pressed in 1971 and it’s a feral assault on avant garde modes with psychotic sound poetry, recordings of mass vocal hysteria, orgasmic sex, weeping, grunting, threats to the listener, auto-destructive piano rituals.... it’s completely relentless and as disturbing as it is ‘entertaining’. If you’re a fan of the work of Graham Lambkin and Scott Foust and you dig the hysteric atmospheres of the Kommissar Hjuler/Mama Baer/Ludo Mich/Blood Stereo axis then this is surely your cup of meat. Recommended - but not for the faint-hearted.