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BLACK SKY CHANTS – ‘I’ll Sleep until i see the moon’ CS
Only the second tape release on Aguirre. Black Sky Chants is Russian Sergei Dmitriev,  already known to some of you through his wonderful Karelian compositions as Bedroom Bear. On his first release, BCC lets us have a look into his beautiful dark dreams infused by radio signals. Recorded may-june 2011 St. Petersburg.  Mastered by M. Geddes Gengras.  Dedicated to Lew Welch 303-30.  Limited to 75 copies.

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Rainbow Teeth – ‘Rainbow Teeth’
The album is an adventure through the musical spectrum. It is a denouement of our experience with music as we move through branches of indie, surf, post, experimental, math, black metal, atmospheric, punk, jazz, and try to bring everything together into something that we really enjoyed writing, playing, and listening.. It was emotionally debilitating with every detail scrutinized. We used nine guitars, five basses, and four vocalists to develop the tones for each section. We exposed ourselves completely with this album. It is an honest album with nothing held back.

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Sound Collision Alliance – ’53:38′
sound collision alliance is a group of three composers who were brought together by their shared interest in exploring the world outside the western classical conservatory style of sound creation. the three composers – darren bartolo, sam krahn, and sarah ritch – rarely discuss melodic or harmonic structure before playing. instead, they use improvisation as a means to investigate the interplay of sound. they experiment with the spatial, harmonic, and chronological elements of sound in order to create a forum to experience vibrations and resonance in an uninhibited environment. 53:38 is the first album from sound collision alliance and was recorded in one session over the course of 6 hours. the sounds created range from pure spontaneous noise to repetitive rhythmic grooves. in addition to guitars, cello and laptop you will also hear gu zheng, guitars, cello, and slinky.

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La Piramide di Sangue – ‘Tebe’
La Piramide di Sangue is a seven piece psichedelic rock band with middle eastern influences from Turin, featuring members of other active bands like Movie Star Junkies, Love Boat and King Suffy Generator. The project started with the first solo cassette from member Gianni Giublena Rosacroce (clarinet, percussions), a mixture of middle eastern melodies, mediterranean folklore and spiced teas. The thing soon became a full band including two guitars, two basses, percussions and synths. Thousands of perfumed rivulets invade the city streets of Turin and meet below the Egyptian Museum becoming stronger and melting into furious anthems. La Piramide di Sangue is a mosaic of meditative and restless sounds with no sonic boundaries which embrace spores of psychedelic rock of all ages, mediterranean cultures and wah-wah explosions. The record has been recorded live at Blue Record Studio in Turin in one take. ‘Tebe’ is released in a 500 copies red vinyl limited edition, co-produced with Sound of Cobra from Berlin.

Luciano Maggiore and Francesco Brasini – ‘How to Increase Light in the Ear’
Luciano Maggiore and Francesco Brasini returns with a new record on Boring Machines after their monumental Chasm Achanes of 2010. ‘How to Increase Light in the Ear’ is the second release on Boring Machines by the duo part of the fertile Bologna (IT) area where sound/art projects like Xing/Raum, Netmage and Sant’Andreadegliamplificatori are run by a community of forward thinking artist and musicians to create a meeting point for different languages and sensibilities. As for its predecessor, this record has been created using tape recorders and several electronic devices (Maggiore) and a number of self-built guitars (Brasini), under the control of Mattia Dallara who gave shape to the sound in the acoustic space from the mixing board. While the previous Chasm Achanés was based on low and rumbling frequencies, Maggiore and Brasini research is now focused on high pitched waves, through which they create a continuous movement of overtones and resonances. Tiny mechanical cracks are heard through the frequency bliss of the first track, a last resemblance of humanity into this otherwordly atmosphere. The second track has a continuous click, almost a clock, hidden under the microtones of three different frequencies which create another blissful and luminous drone with an ecstatic feeling. When the track is almost coming to an end, a monstruous bass frequency, who lied in the background forever, finally comes in, changing shapes and colours of the drone. Headphone listening is recommended.

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[SP-28-EP] : Campo Santo – ‘Chengue X/Flor de Hierro’ 7″
Stark, lo-fi nightmarish techno and mechanized dark synth isolationism from this new project featuring Antonella, Martin, and Pablo from Uruguay experimental collective Fiesta Animal. Buried, dreamlike sounds drift beneath a dense layer of saturated pulse and hiss. Screenprinted art on parchment paper.

[SP-29-CS] : Mold Omen – ‘Every Day a Dream, Every Nickel a Nectarine’ CS
Operating on the fringes of the Baltimore experimental music scene, this duo have quietly released a number of great cassettes on various micro labels. This new tape is their most diverse effort to date, and yet it stands out as the most “album-like” of their output. Intuitive and psychedelic “noise” music, with free music and post-industrial leanings. Some of the sounds on this tape would fit well into the the early output of 90s cassette labels like Apraxia and Chocolate Monk, while others blend elements of Sun City Girls, Noggin, and even touches of early Loren Mazzacane style disjointed blues riffing. Artwork constructed from 1920s sheet music and embrittled 1950s dress-making tissue paper templates with hand typed text. Limited edition of 50.

[SP-30-CS] : Comfort Link – ‘The Gentle Sounds of Comfort Link’ CS
Debut cassette release for this reclusive Baltimore archivist. Spontaneous compositions crafted from piles of hand-spliced cassette loops. Screenprinted art on 2 different colored construction paper inserts. Recommended for fans of Bert Kaempfert and Philip Jeck. Limited edition of 50.

[SP-31-CS] : Rosemary Krust – ‘In Hollenshade Basement/Deskulling Society’ CS
Our favorite Baltimore duo’s first release in 2 years, and first sPLeeNCoFFiN release since 2008’s “Slow Light,” is a collection of improvised and live recordings, showing off the band’s more experimental, instrumental leanings. “In Hollenshade Basement” is a compilation of drone heavy four track recordings almost entirely guitar based, calling to mind Trapdoor era Dead C and 1990s 7″s by the likes of Roy Montgomery and Azusa Plane. “Deskulling Society” is a harsh, primitive, post-industrial drug experience — a live recording capturing what is probably Rosemary Krust’s most completely unhinged live performance to date, recorded at the defunct Hexagon space in Baltimore. Art is screenprinted in sliver and black paint on kraft paper, screens exposed from used typewriter ribbon impressions on acetate, with the used ribbons also hand-rubbed onto the cassette shells themselves. Limited edition of 100.

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Cubs – ‘Willowfield’ EP
Rusted Rail is proud to announce the release of “Willowfield” a ten-track 3inch extended player by outsider-folk outfit Cubs. Recorded in Belfast, Cork, Galway and Sheffield, these bijou pieces form an intriguing mosaic of 21st century psychedelic-folk. For this recording, Cubs comprise six collaborators: Aaron Hurley (Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon), Cecilia Danell, Eddie Keenan (The Driftwood Manor), Paul O’Reilly, James Rider (United Bible Studies) and Keith Wallace (Loner Deluxe) who craft a fine patchwork of lysergic late night lullabies, spooked campfire ballads and space age folk transmissions. This 3” EP is housed in a hand-assembled and hand-stamped card sleeve featuring a cover photo by Cecilia Danell of an acoustic guitar that perished during the recording of the EP.

Good Shepherd – ‘Ah…Good The Sea’ EP
Rusted Rail is proud to announce the release of “Ah…Good The Sea” a five-track 3inch extended player by Good Shepherd. Following the arrival of a handwritten letter and cd at Rusted Rail HQ the disc hasn’t left the stereo since. The origins of the Cambridgeshire based recording project of Duncan Poyser are explained by the man himself: “On the 20th August 1991 we sailed Good Shepherd IV the mail boat crossing the choppy Scottish waters between Shetland and Fair Isle. As the swell rose tiny Stormy Petrels bounced off the wave crests and White-sided Dolphins rode the bow. We were tied to the rails so we could use our binoculars without fear of pitching into the foaming, grey waters. Adventures at sea at sweet sixteen. Good Shepherd is my Tascam digital 8 track, I boarded her in the spring 2005 and these are my tentative sailings.” Let Good Shepherd’s hushed midnight musings and elemental, atmospheric acoustica guide you home. This 3” EP is
housed in a hand-assembled and hand-stamped card sleeve featuring artwork by Jason Paul Graham.

The Driftwood Manor – ‘Dominican Black Abbey’ EP
Rusted Rail is proud to announce the release of a 6-track 3inch extended player by Irish avant-folksters The Driftwood Manor called “Dominican Black Abbey”. Driftwood Manor mainstay Eddie  Keenan worked with a number of long-time collaborators including co-producer Keith Wallace  to create an EP which features fiddle player Neil Fitzgibbon, vocalist Annemarie Deacy and guitarist Bryan Higgins making their marks on the recordings. After a drunken conversation about various musical styles and their similarities, Keenan decided to collaborate with Bryan Higgins of Galway doom metal merchants Rites on the new recording, adding some darker edges as well as light to a number of the songs, while Galway composer Annemarie Deacy (formerly of local legends Mirakil Whip) also added her vocal talents to the fray. The lyrics to the songs emerged from an experiment that Keenan was carrying out with a dream journal, recording the stranger elements of his unconscious dream states and interpreting them into the songs. This 3” EP is housed in a hand-assembled and hand-stamped card sleeve featuring a cover photo by Sarah Grimes (September Girls).

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MYRRH – ‘Hymns’  C32 $6(US)/$7(Can/Mex)/$9(World)
Sludge-mystics trigger involuntary trance-mode. Myrrh is the power trio of Jackie Beckey (of Brute Heart), Andie Mazorol (Mother Of Fire) and Jason Millard (Lighted). They have made a name for themselves around Minneapolis with their epic and minimal form of instrumental doom pummel, but the instrumentation itself also sets this group apart. Viola, Lap Steel, Electronics and Drums weave together to form what could possibly be the heaviest folk music ever made. There is an air filled sense of space throughout these recordings, while still providing detailed crunch and clarity to the goings on. Sweeping strings and percussive plucking folded over sliding fuzz and tone-crackle, backed by enormous crushing rhythm. Restrained yet unbelievably massive. Masterfully recorded by Jason Misik to 2” tape, and beautifully mastered by John Marks (Art of This), “Hymns” comes as a very powerful follow up to their excellent self-titled debut album, soon to be re-released on vinyl from Soft Abuse. Real time duplicated black shell cassette with lacquer sealed black & white labels comes with a double-sided glossy cardstock J-card featuring layout and original black and white photography by Andie Mazorol. Dramatic and drifting psychedelic doom anthems for tomorrow’s sweat soaked summer soirée.  Edition of 100.

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EMT006 – Kösmonaut/Adderall Canyonly split CS $8(US)/$12(World)
limited-edition of 100 on red chrome cassette. Split between cosmic voyager Kösmonaut from Texas and Adderall Canyonly from Oregon. A-Side features Kösmonaut’s album “The Four Directions of the Universe” and the B-Side features Adderall Canyonly’s colossal 29-minute “Btonal”.

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Ghuna X – ‘Ghuna X Plays Philicorda’ C40
Cinta del músico electrónico portugués Ghuna X en Afeite Al Perro. 40 minutos de melodías magnéticas salidas de películas no rodadas de Dario Argento y Ridley Scott tocadas con el olvidado teclado Philicorda. Doble portada a color y en blanco y negro sobre papel rosa metálico y cinta tóxica. 70 copias. 2 euros.// Cassette tape by portuguese electronic musician Ghuna X in Afeite Al Perro. 40 minutes of magnetic melodies played with a Philicorda organ out of non filmed Dario Argento and Ridley Scott movies. Double cover: full color and b/w printed in metallic pink paper. Toxic cassette. 70 copies. 2 euros.

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Two Bit Dezperados/Beat Mark split 7″
300 copies limited. Every summer needs a hit records. This is Summer 2012’s hit record! Italo-Portuguese “Two Bit Dezperados” team up with french “Beat Mark” to deliver the freshest 7″ for this hot summer. Female and male vocals, poppy guitars, groovy rhythm sections creates a mix of tropicalia, indie-pop, garage and shoegaze with a touch of psichedelia. Artwork by french illustrator Vanessa Funuele. Layout by italian illustrator and drummer Matteo Valicelli.

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