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Quttinirpaaq – ‘No Visitors’ LP $15
180g purple vinyl. Quttinirpaaq, the shadowy Austin crew lead by Matt Turner, is back after a four year absence with their Rural Isolation Project debut No Visitors. Fans of Brainbombs, Skullflower, Les Rallizes Denudes or general lovers of speaker/inner ear destruction take note! Layers of in the red fuzz, feedback, vomit, claustrophobia, no eye contact, distorted 808 beats, extended sludge work outs, wind-up glam drums and suspicious voices from other rooms. A whispered vocal here, a bass bin begs for it’s life there, a transmission from a Tejano station hangs in the air with the spilled beer and haze of smoke. An EDP Wasp synthesizer vibrating off Dave Brock’s amp and crashing to the floor while Egyptian Lover totally wipes out while roller skating. Texas style sludge served up bleary eyed and passed out on the lawn. Including a wind tunnel cover of George Brigman’s DMT for all the heads. Past involvements include Rubble, Same Sac, Abrasion Ensemble. Pressed on 180 gram deep purple vinyl. Limited to 300 copies!

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Jari Pitkänen – ‘Anima Ombra’
Celestial ambient drone album by Jari Pitkänen with some Italian influences.// Album de drone ambiental Jari Pitkänen com influências do Italo disco.

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Mark Bradley – ‘Collection: The First and Last Five Years’
13 tracks spanning most of Bradley’s vast discography since 2008, housed in a handmade wooden box with a folded insert. Limited to 50.

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Technicolor Teeth – ‘Blood Pool/Drips’ 7″
Bio: Let’s be honest: every town has a dorky shoegaze band. While most of their shoegaze/dream pop peers seem to hide lazy songwriting behind heavy fuzz and hazy vocals, Technicolor Teeth doesn’t let their pop songs get completely buried beneath the distortion. When Technicolor Teeth released their debut LP, ‘Teenage Pagans’ last year, they brilliantly combined heavy grungy riffs with a dream pop sensibility. And on their latest single, Technicolor Teeth forge a darker path that still winds its way back to great pop music. “Blood Pool” peels away its heavy guitars like a dress, proceeding into bleak, beautiful hypnosis. This is the type of song hinted at on their debut LP, now fully realized. The B-side, “Drips”, channels early, playful Soft Machine pop, mingled with the downer vibes from the flip side. If you haven’t been paying attention to Technicolor Teeth, these two songs will make you take notice and realize why this new trio is one of the most exciting bands going.

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TR-023: IOM (Iker Ormazabal) – ‘Asgagagha’ CDr 4€
Iker Ormazabal (Vitoria, 1981) has been the last 15 years in bands such as Sorkun, Atomoog, Soizu or FFT Players. In recent years he has collaborated with Miguel A. Garcia, Animal Machine, C-utter, Oier Iruretagoiena, Arturo Blasco, Jordi Aligu or Borgia Branches. In his new album, “Asgagagha”, Ormazabal presents a cacophonous work recorded between Barcelona and London during 2012. The album presents four long untitled tracks, composed of improvisations with guitar, effects, oscillators and field recordings. The result is a resounding and industrial album, that evoques abstract, urban, and oppressive environments. The front cover is a photograph of Vanesa Bonilla of a power station in the neighborhood of Greenwich (London). “Asgagagha” is presented in a simple and austere CDr format in slim case, with 4 tracks and 38 minutes of music, in an edition limited to 50 copies. You can get it for 4 euro more postage and handling through Truco Espárrago.

TR-024: A LETTER FOR ELISE – ‘Lendt’ 3CDr 5€
“Lendt” is the first album of A Letter For Elise, a project of Jose Tena Vázquez (Ann Deveria), a triple CD that wanders between noise, dark ambient and industrial sounds in which only remain rage and desolation. “Lendt” is presented in three individually enveloped CDrs, with 4 tracks and more than 90 minutes of noise, in an edition limited to 25 copies. You can get it for 5 euros plus handling through Truco Espárrago.

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Human Skins – ‘Disnae Matter’ CDr $10
We are very excited to announce the release of the return to our roots. Human Skins’ debut CD-R “Disnae Matter” is compiled of the collected works of artist Medosevo (that would be me), from 2004 – 2008. Analogue drones based on cello, voice, and tape manipulation. This release is extremely limited to only 15 copies, the majority of which have sold. CD-R with spraypainted bronze face, Hebrew text written in black ink // hand-scored, cut, and folded black cardstock case stamped in pattern with gold ink // circular cardstock handcut pasted on front, Hebrew text written in gold ink // typewritten liner notes pasted into sleeve + insert with tracklisting on light brown paper // handnumbered with Haute Magie Elemenaleph logo handwrittern & drawn with gold ink.

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The Non Travellin’ Band – ‘Never Prayed Once’ CS $5
With a fire in their belly and a fist in the air, The Non Travellin’ Band of Madison, Wisconsin unleash their debut recordings as Never Prayed Once. Recorded live, the band evokes a classic American-bred psychedelia; the kind of tattered flags, discarded joints and El Caminos. Held together by the three minds of Lue, Brother Joseph and Dead Luke, the songs consist of stomping drums, ragged vocals, fuzzed-out grooves and explosive solos. The Non Travellin’ Band are as effortlessly infectious as they are daring, volatile, conscious and free. Never Prayed Once has shown us the light, and by god, is it beautiful. Ed. of 150

Erros Mágicos – ‘Shambhala’ CS $5
Shambhala, the debut release from Erros Mágicos has been underway since 2011 & since that time this side project to Magic Castles has mutated and morphed into an endlessly radiant pop soundscape. Songwriter Jason Edmonds, infused with a collaborative spirit, brings together the creative forces of eight revolving musicians to form their jangling, jungle-pop sound. Decidedly a suite of coalesced forms, the tunes here are comprised of guitar, bass, synth/keyboards, all manners of percussion, flute, four voices & a myriad of field recordings. As told by them, this collection came into being from “open minds, spare times, mild-depression, friends & Casio keyboards” & here at Moon Glyph we couldn’t be more thrilled to pass their journey to Shambhala, the city under the mountains, along to you. Ed. of 150

Beat Detectives – ‘Casual Encounters of the Third Kind’ CS $5
Venturing into Beat Detectives’ bizarro-verse is disorienting. Comprised of 4-track home recordings, the Minneapolis/New York-trio play outsider chopped and screwed dance hits from an imagined, weirdo urban radio station floating in the ether. Their vision can be confounding and kaleidoscopic, to be sure, crafted in a looping process of tape recording, slowing, and overdubbing. The result leaves you with a hazy club drip, newly opened third eye, and an appreciation for smooth jazz. Drawing on members of Food Pyramid and Radical Cemetery, they’ve donned this cassette Casual Encounters of the Third Kind establishing their (high) art aesthetic of “less Ibiza, more Nissan Ultima.” Ed. of 150

FWY! – ‘Any Exit’ CS $5
Returning from last year’s gorgeous San Clemente release is FWY!’s next slowmo coastal drift, Any Exit. Pushing his minimalist palette, San Francisco’s Edmund Xavier crafts with drum machines, aqueous soft-synths, submerged bass lines & endlessly bright melodies. As a transient passenger, we watch Any Exit bloom with understated movements and intoxicating grooves; complemented by Xavier’s organic aesthetic and laid-back composition (both visually and aurally). On this more diverse affair, Xavier is equally comfortable with the bass-lead dynamism of “Exit Downtown” and the ambient fallout of “Irvine’s” sublime latter half. On Moon Glyph’s fifty-fourth release, we present FWY!’s singular trajectory and his most expansive vistas yet on Any Exit. Ed. of 150.

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Lali Barrière, Noish and Xedh – ‘icgs el’ CDr
Two long form pieces of amplified objects, electronics, and computer from Lali Barrière, Noish and Xedh. Lali Barrière is active in the scene of free improvisation in Barcelona. She works with acoustic and amplified objects, electronic devices, field recordings and computer programming. Noish is the moniker of experimental programmer and musician Oscar Martin. He bases his work on the deconstruction of field recordings, non-conventional synthesis and the creative use of technological errors. Miguel A. García (aka Xedh) from the Basque country, is one of the most dynamic sound artists in the Spanish scene. His work focuses mainly on composition and electro-acoustic improvisation. He uses sounds taken from electronic residue, often interrelated with field recordings or acoustic instruments, in the search of an intimate, intense and immersive experience. Professionally printed sleeves and discs featuring macrophotography of minerals by A. Lighfoot. Edition of 50

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Roomrunner – ‘Ideal Cities’
We started Fan Death Records back in 2009, and ever since, we’ve seen two common tropes frequently pop up courtesy of a specific type of rock critic: the flustered search for an answer to “whatever happened to ROCK MUSIC?” and bold proclamations that “rock music is BACK!” The truth is, few live experiences compete with seeing a great, LOUD rock band, and Roomrunner’s chunky riffs, soaring hooks, and back-to-basics-get-in-the-van attitude just about make them an anomaly in 2013. On their debut full-length, Ideal Cities, Roomrunner refract the past 25 years’ worth of Guitar Rock innovations into their fully-realized vision of “chunch and bunge,” in which echoes of shoegaze noise-blur, grunge squall and snark, math-rock chops, and meaty Alternative Rock power moves coalesce into the essential guitar record of 2013. Recorded by bassist Dan Frome at his studio, Ideal Cities is the first Roomrunner offering recorded as a full band. Prior EPs, the self-titled Roomrunner (2011) and Super Vague (2012), were written and played by Roomrunner singer/guitarist Denny Bowen, and while landmarks in their own right, the full-band Roomrunner is a whole different animal, ready to come down there and kick their collective boots around. The record starts off fullbore, with the truTV-inspired anthem “Bait Car”. Their rhythmic pedigree is showcased on tracks like the stuttering “Wojtek,” where start-stop verses and propulsive drumming recall 90s titans like Helmet and Drive Like Jehu before the song collapses into one of their most melodic moments yet during the chorus. Side B starts with the one-two punch of “Weird” and “Duno,” two long-time staples of their live set driven by squealing feedback, which spark mosh pits and crowd-surfing in sweaty Baltimore warehouses. Tracks like “May” and “Snac Error” give a bit of breathing room, fusing the off-kilter guitar work of Polvo and Chavez, with the quiet-loud tension of 90s legends like Slint and Hum. The names they garner comparisons to may be heavy, but Roomrunner’s catalog thus far has definitively proven that they are no mere pastiche. Any dorks can make a record with a deep understanding of Loud Rock—and let’s be honest, a lot of them do—but on Ideal Cities, Roomrunner harnesses a discrete range of powers to forge a thrilling and vital path forward.

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‘Modern Duets‘ flexi disc
In an effort to transcend the stale tradition of location- and genre-based compilations, here is a Flexi Disc collection of one-minute instrumentals inspired by famous Modern sculptural busts. The pairings here are hilariously appropriate: Control Unit (Italy) blast open Jean-Pierre Dantan’s bust Victor Hugo. Hugo being, of course, the great Romantic noise band of the 1830s notable for works of industrial disaffection. Sea Urchin (Germany) evoke Amadeo Modigliani’s Primitivist La Saggezza with a wobbly dub-inflected burner. Modigliani, an important champion of early Dancehall. Half High (Australia) project dark ambient Surrealism on Elie Nadelman’s Head With Bowler Hat. Soviet Pop (China) play minimal electronics against a sharp, plaster study by Constantin Brancusi. Primitive Motion (Australia) yoke Jean Arp’s Bird Mancaricature with a playful Casio doodle. The Disc is bound into a booklet with reproductions of said sculptures. Includes a DOWNLOAD code.

Chicklette – ‘THE LONELIEST BITCH’ $6
Recorded to 4-track at Tong-Yi Studios. Keyboards, radio, karaoke. Six tracks of industrial love here. Chicklette sings for Angels in America. She sees personal trauma where I see vanilla ice cream and sprinkles. Lana Del Rey and Katy Perry become agents of dark fantasy and self-flagellation. Hello Kitty, an emblem of humiliation and disgust. Chicklette’s not upset, though. She talked about splashing in the local pool between cuts, feeding her fish Rex, eating popcorn. There’s no willful fuckedupness here. She’s just soundproofing the basement with oilies.

SON OF SALAMI – ‘SONTAVA NIGHTS’ $6
Recorded to tape in Vermont. Musical instruments, internal microphones, American snack satire. Son of Salami aka Joey Pizza Slice makes radio-pop singles on slim line tape players. Sontava Nights is like an old bag of Cheetos: crusty, bite-sized, miscellaneous, and oddly palatable. Son of Salami records songs like he eats said snacks: quickly, reclining, alone, and with the flicker of habitual regret. This isn’t some marchy, robotic jingle. J.P. Slice is an American songsmith of great sensuousness. The renditions are sultry, even moody. “Poutine Skies,” a wistful account of some greasy diner crap. Not unlike 711, there seems to be something for everybody.

BANANA HEAD – ‘GOON HOUSE’ $6
Recorded sitting down at Steve’s House. Sad tremolos, romantic refrains, sexual deviancy. Originally released on Lexi Disques in Brussels. Goon House offers midtempo crush joints for suburban daters. But the positive vibes are offset by flashes of melancholy, lewd whispers, gloomy intrigue. “I made you a promise,” says Banana Head, “and I broke it.”

YONG YONG – ‘MEET LORD PRINCE ‘I’ INFINITO’ $6
Yong Yong tap into some “Torraye Braggs shit.” Downtempo signals, ghetto tech jibber, skull caps under knit beanies, hacky sack. A kind of pan-ethnic cooking analogy comes to mind: a plume of brown spices, melodies like foreign legumes. Fire up Dr. Sammy Sample and reappropriate whatever, basically. Smoothness is definitely not a priority – don’t save this for your BeatsByDre. I use cellphone speakers and let the bass snap like a baby carrot. B-side trades in ADD groove splicing for an extended trip. Less cut-and-paste here; more long-form four the floor. Things melting into other things. For the dancefloor in your day spa.

HARMONY MOLINA – ‘HAPPINESS THIEF INSIDE’ $6
Recorded to Tascam 4-track and to computer in Hasenheide Park and Elsenstr. 74, Berlin. Second floor, ring “carlos”. Guitar, singing, talking. Harmony Molina, Chilean reality star, poolside voyeur, connoisseur of alternative women’s haircuts. “I was very focused,” says Harmony about the sessions on this tape. Half of this is actual music – guitar leads, choruses, bridges. The other half is gossip, shit talk, slices of Harmony’s reality filtered through shame and conceit, triumph and heartbreak. Says Harmony: “I’m very grateful of the mistake I did, so i can discover day by day, what kind of artist i am.”

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