Three Lobed Recordings was established in late summer 2000 with the singular purpose of aiding in the presentation and distribution of adventurous, experimental music. The label’s collective output is closely curated with each artist so as to help them realize their vision for any particular release. This close attention to detail is shown through high-quality audio media such as 180 gram vinyl, highly individualized packaging such as intricate silkscreened covers, letterpress covers or high end old style print goods and - where appropriate - bonus materials. Three Lobed strongly believes that a manufactured album is an all-encompassing experience that provides a listener with artistic engagement on both an audio and visual level. All of the label’s artistic and executive decisions are approved by a feline triumvirate. Three Lobed is proud to have worked with a host of luminaries from the entire realm of experimental music: Bardo Pond, Jack Rose, Sun City Girls, Six Organs of Admittance, Lee Ranaldo, Mirror/Dash, GHQ, Wooden Wand, Heavy Winged, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Magik Markers, Mouthus, Bark Haze, Steve Gunn, Matt Valentine & Erika Elder, Howlin’ Rain, D. Charles Speer & The Helix, Yellow Swans, Rachel’s, Tarentel, Eternal Tapestry, Vanishing Voice, Mick Flower, Hush Arbors, Tom Carter, Mick Turner, Surface of Eceyon, Kinski, Tim Midgett, Davenport, Idyll Swords, Sarin Smoke, Hassara, Spectre Folk, Enos Slaughter, Turnstone and Basalt Fingers.
500mg
"Bardo Pond soar and fly in hazy mists of smoke, 500mg (Bardo guitarist Michael Gibbons) takes a different route into the fog of musical meditation. 500mg crawls and creeps through a forest and sits alone on a log playing acid dripped sitars and banging out free-formed rhythms on the trees while
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Originally available as a highly limited CD offered only to pre-order purchasers of 500mg's Apocatastisis, this title track stays within the album's focus and helps expand the
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Bardo Pond
Bardo Pond ventured onto 10" vinyl for the first time ever to help Three Lobed Recordings with their first release. The three dense recordings laid down in late 1998 melt speakers and hearts. Ever wondered what music would sound like if it was ripped from the space directly preceding sleep? The
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Long out of print from from Three Lobed Recordings' Purposeful Availment CD series.
"In Purposeful Availment, Bardo Pond have offered up a new slab of sludge that shows them exploring two of their sides at their strongest. "Orange Horse" is a gem lifted from the vaults ....
Originally released as a series of web only MP3s, the material on Cypher Documents I is a collection of Bardo jams from the Lemur House studios. Ranging from spaced out, to rockin' to all points between, Cypher is a collection of choice nugs for the Bardo consumer. Get ready to truly zone
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Both Bardo Pond and Three Lobed Recordings wanted to do something special to commemorate the sixth Terrastock Festival in 2006. After some thought, the ultimate decision was to display the band's various talents and Sublimation is the result. This disc features brand new material from Bardo Pond
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"Adrop parallels Bardo Pond's 2006 release Bardo Pond Presents: Sublimation in being more of a self-contained compilation of recordings done by different incarnations of the group rather than as specific separate group or solo projects. Divided into three parts but mastered as one
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Batholith is a collection of six tracks that are near and dear to Bardo Pond but, for some reason or another, have never previously been released. That one-sentence description might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material - neither conclusion
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Originally available as a highly limited CD offered only to pre-order purchasers of Bardo Pond's Batholith, "Threefold" is a lengthy, focused Bardo jam that expands on the mood and theme presented within the
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Circuit VII is a massive, forty-four minute cosmic exploration by the Bardo Pond configuration of Michael Gibbons, John Gibbons, Clint Takeda, Isobel Sollenberger and Jason Kourkounis. If you think about it, no further explanation is really
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Originally available as a hightly limited CD offered only to pre-order purchasers of Bardo Pond's Peri, "Game Five And A Half" is a lengthy, nugget recorded in tribute to a very special evening from the fall of 2008 that left a great impression on the band.
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In early 2008, Bardo Pond and Three Lobed Recordings teamed up to assemble Batholith, a collection of tracks that were close to the band's heart but for various reasons had never been released. The result was an extremely cohesive and vital statement that was positively received by both old
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Bardo Pond & Tom Carter
three lobed recordings is exceptionally proud to expose an unsuspecting public to 4/25/03 from bardo pond and tom carter. 4/25/03 was recorded on that very date at the tritone in philadelphia, just two days after when the bardos and carter spent all of the 23rd in the lemur house studio recording
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Three Lobed Recordings is exceptionally proud to bring the landmark 2004 drone epic 4/23/03 from Bardo Pond and Tom Carter to vinyl for the very first time. While both of these artists have spent decades carving out corners of the American underground, the album collects the output of a single
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Bark Haze
"Andrew MacGregor (better known as Gown) and Thurston Moore (better known as Kim Gordon’s other half) team up once again as Bark Haze. For their contribution to Three Lobed’s Oscillation III series, we’re treated to 35 minutes on screeching tunnel vision. One for Merz is pure noise drone, though
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Basalt Fingers
Performed by three guitar impresarios - Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire) and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus, Eskimo King, White Rock) - at the Tar Pit in Brooklyn in January 2007. All three players' guitars were plugged in and no walls or neighbors were
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Chuck Johnson
Crows in the Basilica is from an edition of approximately 750 hand-numbered copies and is pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry. The album is housed within a handsome multi-color silkscreened jacket bearing new artwork from Michael Elrod (based on a photograph by Chuck Johnson) and ....
D. Charles Speer & The Helix
Recorded live in April of 2008 at the Turf Club in St. Paul while the band was touring with Jack Rose, Of Snow Smoked Moose presents Speer and the Helix working at a fever pitch in their favorite setting - in front of an audience. The set presents a healthy dose of material from both of the
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Copies of Distillation ordered from Thrill Jockey include the special pre-order only bonus CD "Of Snow Smoked Moose" (TLR-073) presenting a full, killer live set from the full band recorded on April 25, 2008 at the Turf Club in St. Paul, MN. This CD is not available seperately!
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Enos Slaughter
miracle blend of spring : dirt stains from psiring
the raised cleats are flying one finger width away from eyes
shadow realm of legends - the winter refuge for vacationers and practitioners who swing the subtle club
the revolutionary's reign is unbowed
Walt Dropo answered ....
Eternal Tapestry
Three Lobed Recordings is excited to announce the release of Palace of the Night Skies, the new album from Eternal Tapestry. While this trio first turned heads with their expansive psych/kraut/blues guitar explorations as embodied within a series of small run cassette and CDR releases, their 2007
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Evan Caminiti
West Winds is limited to 600 hand-numbered copies housed within a custom silk-screened jacket featuring artwork from Evan Caminiti
Evan Caminiti is a guitarist full of big ideas and even bigger sounds. Currently known as one-half of the San Francisco Bay area avant droners Barn Owl, ....
GHQ
Culled together from a live January 2006 performance in Brooklyn, Heavy Elements displays the then-trio GHQ exploring the intricacies of electric/acoustic drones and ragas in one of the most intense recordings in their entire catalog. For this performance/recording the band consisted of the
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Recorded by Steve Gunn, Marcia Bassett and Pete Nolan in late 2006, Crystal Healing is GHQ's most accomplished recording to date. A collection of layered acoustic drones and ragas that mix and whirl throughout both sides. It will not take more than one spin for you to realize that this is one of
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GHQ are in their element when they are dangling from the very precipice of being but, unlike most, when they stare deep into the blackened abyss beneath them they don’t find it staring back. Everywhere At Once finds Steve Gunn, Marcia Bassett and GHQ “newcomer” Jon Truscinski doing what they
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Glacial
Glacial is Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), David Watson (Afternoon Saints), and Tony Buck (The Necks)
On Jones Beach is from an edition of approximately 750 copies and is pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry. The album is housed within a handsome multi-color silkscreened jacket
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Golden Gunn
Three Lobed Recordings is proud to offer forth this monumental collaboration between two of its favorite contemporary artists as its 2013 Record Store Day exclusive. The album is pressed by Record Industry to 140 gram vinyl and suitably housed within old style Stoughton tip on sleeves ....
Gown
A solo guitar exploration from Gown (aka Andrew Macgregor). From a long out of print miniature edition of 301 CD copies enclosed with pre-order copies of Gown's For The
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Gown & Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Gown (aka Andrew Macgregor and otherwise known as one-half of Bark Haze with Thurston Moore) moved from western Massachusetts to Nova Scotia in mid-2007. Before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember the grand old Mass times. With that goal in mind, Gown went into the studio
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Gunn-Truscinski Duo
Sand City is from a hand-numbered edition of 624 copies pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl pressed by Record Industry and housed within a handsome silkscreened jacket bearing new photographic artwork from Anjali Bhojani.
The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the ....
It is with the greatest excitement that Three Lobed Recordings announces the release of Ocean Parkway, the second album from the Gunn-Truscinski Duo. Ocean Parkway is a unique and masterful album, one that sees the duo building and expanding upon the already telepathic chemistry that they
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Hans Chew
Hans Chew’s skill as a piano player has previously been on display both in a complementary fashion to Jack Rose (appearing as a member of Jack’s live backing band at Arthurdesh as well as on both The Black Dirt Sessions and Luck in the Valley) and as a integral member of D. Charles Speer & the
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2nd pressing of 500 copies now available pressed on 160 gram Czech vinyl and housed within a full-color wraparound jacket bearing the same art as the first edition but for the fact that it is a "regular" cover rather than a gatefold.
The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free ....
Hassara
The "Backyard" series was originally issued by (Wooden Wand) Hassara in 2005 and 2006 as three micro edition CDRs. Weeing as each of these discs came from editions of 100 or fewer copies, Three Lobed Recordings became more than a bit concerned. Those numbers meant that there were a lots of folks
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Heavy Winged
Blacc Lust, the first proper CD release from bi-coastal rock deconstructionists Heavy Winged, collects two long out of print CDR releases, "A Serpent's Lust" and "Blacc Stork," released in editions of 100 and 50 copies each, respectively. The album's three epic length pieces perfectly
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last summer's cd release for heavy winged, blacc lust, flew out of here and really seemed to find a good home with folks. following up on that response comes the massive and dense blowout that is alive in my mouth. comprised of two of the band's dirtiest and, quite simply, heaviest tracks, it is
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Fields Within Fields is pressed on RTI vinyl and housed within a textured Stoughton tip-on sleeve bearing new artwork from Rebecca Carlisle-Healy.
The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the album and is from a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies. Initial orders ....
"Infinite In Every Direction" is a 35 minute companion album to Heavy
Winged's "Fields Within Fields" consisting of additional studio takes
by the trio. The first track, "Forty Fourth Parallel", was recorded at
the same sessions that yielded "Fields..." and features Dave W. of
White Hills on
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Hush Arbors
"Landscape of Bone is the new album by Hush Arbors AKA Keith Wood - age unknown, no fixed address - and is a major leap forward for a dude who's probably best known so far for his auxiliary membership in such bands as Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and Wooden Wand and
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Confident and assured, Hush Arbors produces modern folk/rock/coutnry/psych of the highest order.
Recorded May 2010 in London - Keith Wood - vocals & instruments - Lizzie Oswell- vocals. Thanks to: Andrew Liles, Leon Dufficy, Rick Tomlinson & Cory Rayborn. ....
Idyll Swords
Idyll Swords were a trio of guitarists based in Chapel Hill, NC and New York. Dave Brylsawski (Polvo, Black Taj), Grant Tennille (Black Taj), and Chuck Johnson (Spatula, Shark Quest) formed the project in 1997 as an outlet for their interest in acoustic folk music and stringed instruments collected
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Jack Rose
Let's get the dirty work over with first. The Black Dirt Sessions is, all hyperbole aside, Jack Rose's most complete and telling work to date. Those who have been following this Philadelphia wanderer's development and growth as a solo artist (both live and on record) know that such a
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Key Demo
As a smart person once said, Key Demo is the best kept secret in New York. Secret no more! Here is the debut from this folk / gospel / psychedelic duo starring Margot Bianca and Dave Shuford. Excelsior!
Written by Margot Bianca.
Recorded at Powers Sound, Brooklyn, in April 2010.
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Kinski
"Kinski's contribution to Three Lobed Recordings' Modern Containment series is much more in line with the band's live alter ego Herzog, where they eschew the frenetic, hotwired Motorik music that helped make their name in favor of dark, moody improvisation. This side was first heard on a
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Lee Ranaldo
Lee Ranaldo's Maelstrom From Drift provides an excellent snapshot of his entire solo career, collecting tracks recorded over the span of a decade plus and with numerous different sorts of collaborators. From the album's start with a track from Ranaldo's Glacial project with David Watson
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Magik Markers
Gucci Rapidshare Download is the Magik Markers at their most intense and subversive. Ready to rock your ass with more than just guitar and drums, the Markers are coming at you this time around with violins, manipulated dumpster-dived hip hop tapes, synths, Joshua Burkett on organ, Ben Chasny on
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Mirror Dash
Mirror/Dash is a Kim Gordon/Thurston Moore improv experiment that, while quite long-running, has only unleased a scant few recorded artifacts. "I Can't Be Bought" represents the duo's entire performance from the Le Weekend Festival in Stirling (Scotland) on May 27, 2005 and it pure energy from
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Mouthus
Nate Nelson and Brian Sullivan have continuously thrilled those fortunate enough to follow their exploits as Mouthus over the last several years. In their "official" releases on labels such as Ecstatic Peace! and Load through their more exploratory self-released missives, the duo's powerful fuzz
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MV & EE With The Bummer Road
Ellas McDaniel's original played by the MV, EE and their Bummer Road buddies in a fashion like you've never heard it before. Uranian rays indeed.
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MV & EE
Ragas of the Culvert, previously self-released as a CD-R in an edition of less than 50 copies as well as a quickly sold out cassette on Fuck It Tapes, is a glorious revisiting of the lunar raga style that created so much of MV+EE's past. This meditative and purely instrumental six track
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Performed and recorded by Matt Valentine, Erika Elder and the Golden Road in late 2007 and early 2008. Previously released in a physical edition of 480 copies that were included with pre-orders of MVEE's Ragas of the Culvert
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2nd pressing of 375 now available. Now in new white stock jackets and pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl. The album is housed within gorgeous multi-color silkscreened jackets bearing new original artwork by both Jenny McGee Dougherty and Lucy Isabel Graves.
The album is accompanied by ....
Fuzzweed is from an edition of approximately 900 copies and is pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry. The album is housed within a handsome multi-color silkscreened jacket bearing new artwork from John Moloney. (As an added bonus, be sure to pop your LP cover under ....
Pete Swanson
Pete Swanson sat down in the final days of 2010 in an isolated Oregon cabin to record the solo guitar tracks that comprise "I Don't Rock At All." Each of these album's three tracks can be used by the listener as a sort of talisman against fishers from the outside (or whatever your own personal
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Prairie Dog Flesh
"Prairie Dog Flesh have been playing shows for a number of years around Philadelphia, and are a somewhat mysterious side project of Bardo Pond. The band started as a permutation of Bardo Pond with their "old" drummer, Joe Culver, and "new" drummer, Ed Farnsworth. Resembling the earlier, dirty,
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Rachel's
Originally released in 2005 as the final installment to Three Lobed
Recordings "Purposeful Availment" subscription series, "Technology Is
Killing Music" is an ideal companion to the excellent
"Systems/Layers." Assembled in the same cut up style as that album,
"Technology..." is a long-form
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Rhyton
“When one thinks of a power trio, the ears tend to gravitate to bands like Blue Cheer, Cream, post-Scratching the Surface Groundhogs, Freedom and bands of that ilk. In improvised music, the saxophone stood in for the guitar, giving us groups like Sonny Rollins’ trio with Wilbur Ware and Elvin
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Sarin Smoke
Originally available as a highly limited CD offered only to pre-order purchasers of Sarin Smoke's Smokescreen, this represents a live set from Pete Swanson and Tom Carter in April of
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"Beautiful wartime blues from Sarin Smoke, the collaborative project of Tom Carter of Charalambides and Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans, both arguably two of the more influential people in underground psychedelic and noise rock today. Is it possible to imagine contemporary psych rock without
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Spectre Folk
"Automatically, the word "spectre" draws your attention. Your mind starts racing, wondering if this is a ghostly soundtrack -- music for an ancient horror film full of gore, greed, and redemption. Teenagers half-clothed, run from a masked maniac wielding a mighty axe or a rusty chainsaw. The small
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Steve Gunn
Copies of Boerum Palace ordered from Thrill Jockey include the special pre-order only bonus CD "Too Early For The Hammer" (TLR-074) presenting new, scarce and previously unheard Gunn material that is not available seperately!
Steve Gunn’s prodigous talent for fusing traditional ....
Performed and recorded by Steve Gunn at different locatations. "Lansdowne Shuffle" performed and recorded by Steve Gunn in 2009. "Dusted Mind," "No Atlas" and "For Harvest" performed by Steve Gunn and recorded by Cory Rayborn at the Transfigurations festival at the Diana Wortham Theatre in
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Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Recorded in 2006 as an alternative soundtrack to Ira Cohen's 1968 film The Invasion Of Thunderbolt Pagoda, The Mylar Tantrum is a glimpse of the Sunburned crew operating at an extremely high level. Perfectly freaky and every bit as classic as Angus MacLise's original
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Performed and Recorded by the Sunburned lineup of John Moloney, Sarah O'Shea, Ron Schniederman, Rob Thomas and Paul Lebreque at the London ICA in June of 2008 and London's O2 Arena in April of
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During a late 2007 trip to the United Kingdom the Sunburned lineup of Paul Labrecque, John Moloney, Sarah O'Shea, Robert Thomas and Ron Schneiderman trekked into the studio along with John "Herb Diamante" Godbert and Michael Flower. A Grand Tour Of Tunisia is a massive double LP providing
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Surface of Eceyon
Surface of Eceyon is a supergroup of sorts whose music has been described as ambient, space rock. This unit, which has a penchant for the phantasmagoric, includes members of from Landing and Yume Bitsu, two notable psychedelic rock groups. This EP was released as a part of Three Lobed Recordings'
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Tarentel
Gentle yet effective, adventurous yet restrained - Tarentel's "Fear Of Bridges" is an exercise in controlled
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The Michael Flower Band
Autumn 2006. The Sunburned European tour over, Moloney and O’Shea hole up at the Flower House, Leeds UK. Good food was cooked and music was played. TG was also hiding out in Leeds and many other kindred spirits passed through in the new few months. The Michael Flower Band (Mick Flower on guitar,
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Tom Carter
"steel string rivulets funneled into a narrow tonal canyon, with wrecked soloing slammed on top. similar in mode to recent live gigs, only replacing the 16 second delay with a vox jaguar, lapsteel, and ebow."
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Vanishing Voice
Totally freewheelin' all into the joint, in The Morning After Vanishing Voice have simultaneously assembled a wonderfully understated snapshot of the band's current artistic status as well as a love letter to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Whether it is through the near-hypnotic groove
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Various Artists
Three Lobed Recordings is excited to release its first ever Record Store Day exclusive – the guitar composition compilation Eight Trails, One Path. Eight Trails, One Path is a celebration of the various styles, approaches, and concepts used by eight contemporary guitar masters. The last decade
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Wooden Wand And The Omen Bones Band
Recorded in one sitting and reportedly Toth's favorite of his own releases, Horus is a quixotic, picaresque song cycle of characters, situations and tales. Dedicated to Bobby Beausoleil. Strictly
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Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice
Over the course of their recording career, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice have proven to be multi-faceted and difficult to define. They have successfully allowed the body of their work to be cryptic, proto-spiritual, emotionally bare, brashly exuberant, and, throughout it all, completely
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Yellow Swans
"Consisting only of two tracks that clock in together at about 30 minutes, it's a slow, bleat descent for the listener. The duo of GMS and Pete Swanson recorded this disc live, but the attention to detail would fool anyone into thinking that it was a more premeditated set of multitracked
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