Animal Psi

WHITMAN/QUEM QUAERITIS – ‘TACOS LIKE E’RYDAY/TACO PARTY’ split CS
Quem Quaeritis was a trio comprised of Walt Disney, American Gil, and Mark TV who performed what they self-proclaimed as “tropical hip-hop”. In 2005 they played thier “final” show but made a brief comeback a year or so later. During this short-lived reuinion they recorded “Taco Party” and released it online in the form of a music video. Shortly after it’s release the band once again called it quits, this time for good. Now, years later, we are giving this single a proper release, along with a remix done by the band, and it only seemed right to pair it with Whitman’s “Tacos Like E’ryday”, which aside from being released into the digital music world in 2010 along with a music video of it’s own, had yet to see a proper release either. On this track Whitman sets down his acoustic guitar, wipes the tears from his eyes, and raps about eating tacos and living in LA. This song is a collaboration with Clark 8 and came to fruition in the car while the two were on tour together (a little internet digging will turn up video proof of this). In addition to Whitman’s original, there are five additional remixes of the song. Released in an edition of 100 pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes houside inside a full-color, wrap-around o-cards with artwork by Brian Blomerth. Includes a digital download card.

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bm06 BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL – ‘Orb’ LP
Originally released as private press limited cdr in 2001, ‘Orb’ is now available for the first time on vinyl. Second full length after the classic Kenneth Anger’s ‘Lucifer Rising’ cult soundtrack, ‘Orb’ is a mystic and psychedelic rock opera influenced by Indian imagery. The perfect soundtrack to listen to while reading traditional epic Indian literature. ‘Orb’ is a perfect fusion between ethereal synth, ethnic ritual percussions and the evolution of Lucifer Rising psych-progressive rock sound. Cover art (‘Odin’s Eye’) by Bobby Beausoleil printed on heavy cardboard, innersleeve comes with an intense and deep autobiographical tale by Bobby himself about his life and his approach to the spiritual thought contained in the Vedic traditions, and his approach in Nada Yoga, the practice of using audible tones as the focus for inspiring and stimulating awareness of the true self, as in meditation. limited to 300 copies!

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Allen Ginsberg – ‘London Mantra’ C45
Solo recordings of Allen Ginsberg playing a small hand-pumped harmonium from India and singing mantras and songs to the cosmos. These recordings were made in the early seventies by the American poet and bibliographer George Dowden. From the vaults of Gerard Bellaart’s Cold Turkey Press (who also made the cover). 100 copies.

Hiiragi Fukuda – ‘Seacide’ C50
Hiiragi Fukuda nails it again. ‘Seacide’ starts off with some trippy and fucked-up synth mayhem and ends up with long spaced-out guitar soloing on top of endless drumloop boogie. 100 copies.

Hans Plomp & Eddie Woods – ‘Poëzie Als Wapen’ C60
In September 1978, Amsterdam hosted a major international literary gathering at three of the city’s hippest venues for an entire week, bringing together some 40 shamanic and visionary poets from Europe, North America, and Asia. Known as P78, it was the first of the late Benn Posset’s several One World Poetry festivals and numerous other events. Later that year the poets Hans Plomp and Eddie Woods compiled and presented a one-hour program featuring recorded highlights from that momentous happening that was aired on Dutch national radio. It includes on-scene recitations by the likes of Brion Gysin, Patti Smith, Michael Brownstein, Lewis MacAdams, Harry Hoogstraten, Simon Vinkenoog, Ira Cohen, Mignon van Ingen, Magic Mike Taylor, the rock & roller Herman Brood, and many others. Both the program and the festival might best be summed up in Eddie Woods’ words: “A world/of imprisoned minds/needs anarchy now.” Bilingual edition of 100 copies.

Razen – ‘Rim Saraband’ C40
Esoteric improvisations deeply rooted in medieval, world and folk music. This Brussels duo plays an impressive variety of traditional instruments (santur, bombus, bouzouki, psalterium, bagpipes, hurdy gurdy etc) in transcendental dimensions. Has Bryan Lewis Saunders reciting on one track. 80 copies.

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HC090 (D)(B)(H) – ‘Beyond Antibiotics’ C58 $8
Reincarnating lost limbs of (D)(B)(H) in the sextet shuffle where improvised mobility and collaborative crossroads wag, wink, and squint a come-hither. The air in Russian Recording Studio, July 20tth, 2012, is occupied by the deliberate exhalations of cymbals, saxophones, box fan, trumpet, prepared cassette, harmonica, piano, percussion, plastic balls, and other objects, electric and acoustic. They are made useful in the hands, at the feet, and between the lips of Justin Rhody, Marty Belcher, Daniel Wick, John McCormick, Joe Stone, and Chris Rall. No instrument is matched with a fellow, leading one to speculate the phantom unit winding through the jungle gym without personal property rights, stitching the stream of subconscious, in the studio forest, not without manners or sense of historical timing, picking opportune moments to swap 88 keys for a ping-pong ball, an eruption of rhythm and tone for call and response tempo modulation, an alluring melody for a scuff. A real “dreamer” of a session. Cover photograph by Vinnie Smith. Professionally duplicated. Limited to 100 copies.

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T01 – Friends & Farmers – ‘Friends & Farmers’ CS $8
As a guitar/drum duo, Friends & Farmers brings new life to a genre that has in recent years become all too conventional. Combining a traditional country blues style with a folk-punk-rock aesthetic and a loud-louder-loudest dynamic approach, these two are not easily overlooked. Ben Dumbauld pounds out strong, earthy rhythms on his tom, snare and cymbal while David Evan blasts a dry and gritty guitar sound. Retaining short, upbeat song forms and strong, catchy melodies, Evan’s crankish vocals evoke imagery of what can only be some kind of deranged, post-apocalyptic farm.

T02 – International Surrealist Bulletin – ‘Ten Wounds Wiser” CS/CD $8
The self-described “Best Psychedelic Accordioncore band on the East Coast,” creates abrasive yet melodic music with some unconventional instruments: accordion, vibraphone, marimba, synth. Their second album in over 5 years, “Ten Wounds Wiser” maintains the dark aesthetic of their first album, but diverges from the atmospheric musique concrète of their previous work to encompass a more diverse range of influences. Here you find accordion and synth-laden industrial, reggae, noir, thrash, and free jazz tracks seamlessly tied together to create a complete, unique work.

T03 – Spaghetti Blacc – ‘RUN Digital Millenium Copyright Act X: Thutmose tha Gully.exe’ CS $8
Recorded in 2012, “RUN Digital Millenium…” is a blend of dark and atmospheric beats, combining eerie synths and samples with rapidly delivered rhymes, and elements of funk, jazz, and world music.

T04 – Stepkid – ‘Cosmonaut’ CS $8
The 10 tracks on Stepkid’s new tape, Cosmonaut, are short blasts of sound, sometimes less than a minute long, composed of blunt shards of synthesizer, flurries of white noise, and cascading cymbals. It’s the latest in a string of releases from Stepkid—which is the work of one Benjamin Tyler, a drummer who’s sat in with a number of bands around town. With Cosmonaut, Tyler has made what sounds like the freaky soundtrack to those scenes from old science-fiction shows, in which the hero somehow gets himself drugged, and it’s visualized by all kinds of primitive camera tricks—double vision! Blurriness! Jittery camera movement! Color washes! NED LANNAMANN

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Venn Rain – ‘Questing’ $7.5(US)/$11.5(CAN)/$14.5(WORLD)
Thudding felts cajole airy string serenades passionate and lush. Trilling steps incite passages of head waves. Soft attacks cast reflective fading tension. Pro-dubbed, limited edition of 100.

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[RVR0172] Yuuko Haii – ‘Non-Civilisation’
Haiiyuuko is a Japanese noise player, is an adult video actress, and is a psychiatric patient. Cut the whole body with a kitchen knife, or vibes is put into anal, or live, excessive. The guerrilla live is performed even in the University of Tokyo or Musashino Art University. Suicide by jumping down is carried out and it comes back alive from the 14th floor a long time ago. While such excessive private life jumps into eyes, investigation of sound with thorough music is carried out. The music is good although the inside of the head of haiiyuuko is just expressed as it is. Do you listen to the music of haiiyuuko which makes the new music which was out of order from always experimental soul, and what do you consider?”

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Dumb Talk – ‘Love Sea + 7’ CS $4
Pressing of 100 cassettes through Sloppy Disk Records. Garage pop slackers from Beekman, New York’s debut 2011 EP, rereleased on cassette with a b side of demos from their full length LP.

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Mark Alexander McIntyre – ‘Grapes’ LP $12
Edition of 300. The second LP by the mysterious Mark Alexander McIntyre. Don’t let the floral artwork fool you, M.A.M.’s Grapes is one of the bleakest records I’ve ever heard and I’m incredibly “pleased” to be hoisting this slab of depression upon you all. This is a very down-and-out album of original songs written from the point of view of man who seems to be close to the void, or perhaps already within its deathly grips, reaching out to us with his weary, wraithlike voice. The songs seem to be interconnected, with the same characters and themes appearing on multiple cuts. Some of the lyrics deal with pain and loss obliquely, while others confront the harshness of reality head on: stomach problems, factory work, cancer treatment. Most of the material is recorded onto a wavering and echoey tape machine with just acoustic guitar, but as the album progresses, electric instruments and a full band cut through the fog. It’s truly a harrowing work, but one that I’ve been unable to stop listening to since I received these murky recordings nearly two years ago as an unsolicited demo tape. First review is already in…

Joeri Bruyninckx – ‘I Bake Your Pardon? I Never Promised You An Avant-Garden book’ $8
Edition of 200. One Kind Favor’s first foray into printed matter, a handsome chapbook of Interviews conducted by Joeri Bruyninckx entitled “I Bake Your Pardon? I Never Promised You An Avant-Garden.” Subjects include: Richard Youngs, Matthew Bower (Skullflower), Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Id M Theft Able, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Mad Nanna, Cave Bears, Spencer Clark (The Skaters), Kevin Drumm, El-G, Billy Bao, Leyland Kirby (V/Vm), Mama Bar, Paul Labrecque (Sunburned Hand of the Man) and others. All of the artists are in a class of their own and the interviews are very thoughtful and revealing. Very excited about this one as some of these have only been published in translation, and never in their original English form. Bruyninckx’s work has appeared in Foxy Digitalis, Ruis Magazine and other respected publications around the world. Cover art by Malcy Duff.

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