LVD 125
$10.00
An album of electro-acoustic experimentation from Shining Path's Preston Swirnoff. Piano, tone generators, organs, guitar and tape machines are used here to create otherworldly soundscapes.
LVD 126
$14.00
Yes, our first DVD (NTSC and PAL, region free) of a terrific performance by Uptight.
52 minutes of sights and sounds you won't believe!
LVD 122
$10.00
Reissue of long out-of-print classic from 1992. High point in the evolution of a sound that goes back to the Pin Group, Scorched Earth Policy, Victor Dimisch Band, etc. Remastered by Brian Crook and includes bonus material.
LVD 095
$10.00
Amazing new formation of members from The Renderers and Sandoz Lab Technicians. The hybridization feels completely natural, filled with memorable songs, free improv, and drifting atmosphere. An instant classic?
LVD 118
$10.00
We've heard John before on the Idle Suite album, but here he's in singer/song-writer mode. Reminds me of the Barrett solo albums, Alex Spence, Nick Drake, etc. So I've already been accused of 'going emo' by releasing this. I don't know what that means, but find out for yourself!
LVD 120
$10.00
Wildflowers Under the Sofa
Electronic/atmospheric album that. masters both the experimental & accessible cards simultaneously, 'Wildflowers' is a welcome addition to an often too-austere sub-genere.
LVD 115
$10.00
Members of the Free Players appear once again under the banner 'Vapaa'. Classic psychedelic improv much again to our Krautrock favorites, though with less structure. Great feelings of nostalgia!
LVD 116
$10.00
First release in over a decade from legendary New Zealand rockers. Close in spirit to Touch and Little Things, but with some maturity and perspective added. Shades of Velvet Underground and Wire, but as always, the Terminals remain their own band.
LVD 114
$10.00
This album is from a different time and place. Found myself thinking of Eno's 'soundtracks' album along with Tangerine Dream's Zeit. Accomplishes some kind of weird, lonely, other-worldliness that I only associate with a tiny minority of artists.
LVD 111
$10.00
Last Visible Dog loves New Zealand, and apparently the reverse is also true. This is Stephen Clover's project (you probably know him from Seht) along with Antony Milton and maybe others. Weird subterranean drift that occasionally decides to kick out the jams now and then.
LVD 110
$10.00
The Idle Suite are new to us, but unless you've been ignoring all our releases, everything on Corpus Hermeticum, the NZ output from Siltbreeze, Ajax. etc. you should know what you're up for here.
LVD 117
$10.00
Urdog's Jeff Knoch (also on Area C's Haunt) goes solo producing an idiosyncratic collection of harmonium and organ pieces; including covers of Robert Wyatt and Nico. Knoch's approach to music is wholly unique, and while challenging, it is likely to find no equal.
LVD 1003
$10.00
Compilation assembled by Ilya Monosov featuring Nick Castro, Andrew Deutsch/Joe McPhee, Chie Mukai, Sarah Peebles, Preston Swirnoff, Masayoshi Urabe, and Ilya Monosov. Explores boundaries between composed and improvised, music and sound (field recordings), etc.
LVD 099/100
$12.00
First in a new series of compilations. Features the Free Players, Western Automatic, Northern Sea, Monosov / Swirnoff duo, Andrea Belfi, Sunken, Paper Wings, Northern Cross, Brasil and the Gallow Brothers Band, Kawaguchi's New Rock syndicate and Oaxacan
LVD 109
$10.00
Psychedelic improv from core members of Subarachnoid space. The master tapes of this performance were lost for some time, and only now released to the public 8 years later!
LVD 113
$10.00
The addition of Jeff Knoch (eyes like saucers, urdog) creates a new fusion of texture that may occasionally remind one of Soft Machine or other prog favorites, while the music remains the stuff of planetariums and other sites of academic-based psychedelic enlightenment.
LVD 105/06/07
$18.00
Curved Surface Destroyer (3 CD set)
Live retrospective documenting the evolution of BCM's music across 8 years and spanning the globe. All of the selected material has never been heard before and represents the best of the BCM sound.
LVD 063
$10.00
6th release find SLT doing what they do best--creating music that falls safely into no category whatsoever. At its root is improvised musics, but informed by the NZ free-noise scene of the 90's.
LVD 096
$10.00
Another new voice from Providence who has already been widely recognized as something not to be missed. With 'pieces', previous folk exploits have been abandoned in favor of deep, explorative guitar textures and space. Something like Young's Deadman soundtrack performed by Keiji Haino.
LVD 1001
$10.00
A summing up of the music that Jack has been playing for 15 years; representing a turning point in his career? What's next?
Animalistic, new structures and patterns in music. Difficult listening!
LVD 102
$10.00
The releases keep getting weirder around here. The Finnish sage-king Keijo comes down from the mountain to destroy all concepts of music with a release that sounds like Lorca performed by Sun Ra... This one's a sleeping giant, purchase at your own risk!
LVD 1002
$10.00
Catching up with Bob Marsh after our 'Motions' release of his Emergency String Quartet (LVD 037) finds him in duo mode at the legendary Luggage store gallery in SF. There is a classic ESP sound to this one (Alan Silva especially!)
LVD 104
$10.00
New formation of Brad and Eden Rose with Robert Horton. Special guest appearances by Tom and Christina Carter, Jason Bill and Dan Plonsey. Experimental but with soft, round edges and nice, nearly ambient dirges that feel welcome but really aren't normal.
LVD 025
$10.00
Reissue of one of our favorite early releases. Often compared to Mikami and Tomokawa but more ferocious. Absolutely stunning recording of apocalyptic Japanese folk, remastered by Kris Lapke.
split release with Ultra-Hard Gel
LVD 079
$10.00
Amon Duul 2 hybridized with Mainliner all-in-the-red stoner rock that hits enough pleasure centers that I don't question why or how, I just turn the volume up!
LVD 108
$10.00
Ashtray Navigations collaborator gives us his own solo take on things. Noisy and at times out-right strange (just the way we like it!) Perhaps a somewhat more cosmic sunroof?
LVD 094
$10.00
Solo release from frequent guest player with Islaja. Beautiful psychedelic-folk and krautrock sounds. This one is a no-brainer, especially if you are already a fan of releases on Fonal.
LVD 103
$10.00
The other side of Keijo's universe. Here he is met by players from Vaapa Kheta Hotem, and Kundalini Snakes for the sole purpose of transforming into the great Finish psychedelic jam band. There might even be a blues-rock riff in here. Could anyone have expected this? Not me.
LVD 89/90/91
$18.00
A three CD set collecting some of Peter Wright's best material including all of 'Pariahs sing Om' , 'Catch a spear as it flies' and parts of his previous release on LVD, 'Duna'.
LVD 004
$10.00
Yermo
"The whole thing builds [into] a howling storm of feedback and
buzz, dotted with thick bursts of jagged NOISE. Fans of Total,
Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof!, the Dead C and the like best start
paying close attention to Yermo,
'cause they have yet to disappoint!" (Aquarius Records)
LVD 080-86
$40.00
6 disc compilation
10-20 minute submissions from thirty-one artists. 7 1/2 hours long! Follow the the link for detailed contents.
Please count as THREE items when calculating postage
LVD 097
$10.00
Not-so-secret Antony Milton project which once again showcases his amazing songwriting ability.
'Best of' selection from the four Swagger Jack cd-rs.
LVD 078
$10.00
Rural-psychedelic-commune-freak out that could have been recorded thirty years ago but wasn't. This CD includes extra material pushing the whole thing up to a whopping 74 minutes!
LVD 088
$10.00
Long over-due reissue of Neville's solo work. Recorded piece by piece on a daily basis while slaving away at a filing job, 'do not destroy' is raw, tattered and intimate--indeed, Raft sounds quite polished by comparison.
LVD 077
$10.00
Acoustic guitar exploration; expansive with plenty of space, but also multi-textured, allowing a seemingly traditional 'folk americana' sound to hybridize with drone in a way that seems natural and compelling.
LVD 101
$10.00
Dream reissue of 1.5 tour cd-rs as a real cd with all new artwork. All of Amulet, with the later half of Cult of Moon Mountain tagged on to fill out the CD. This is the live Fursaxa sound (with guests from Bardo Pond) that is not well represented on Tara's studio albums.
LVD 075
$10.00
Indescribable Italian artist who has had previous releases on Fringes, Fusetron and Public Eyesore. Hoarse Frenzy is like Faust doing a folk album; terribly beautiful and weird. Incredible use of sound space and field recordings.
LVD 098
$10.00
If you already have the Invisible Pyramid comp, or have had the pleasure of seeing Area C in and around Providence, then the music of Eric Carlson needs no introduction. For the rest of you, this is a one man + guitar act (+ a million pedals). Gorgeous loops and drones!
LVD 076
$10.00
Long overdue domestic CD from Clayton Noone (also with releases as Armpit on Celebrate Psi Phenomena). This one is a bit on the melodic side (especially having heard 'headache') and might possibly be the ideal introduction to the world of CJA.
(split release with digitalis recordings)
LVD 093
$10.00
Great new material interspersed with some revved up versions of older numbers, may be their most immediately accessible and well-balanced release yet. Like Battle of the Axe-hammer, this seems to be another live album that easily eclipses its studio counter-parts.
LVD 071
$10.00
First CD from One Inch Of Shadow's Mirt doing the next new, weird, perhaps even inexplicable thing on LVD. Broken down lounge-pop with field recordings?
LVD 087
$10.00
Over 70 minutes of the absolute best A. Navigations, with the added help of Ben Reynolds and Alexander Neilson. 'Trash drone' (IE Sunroof, Vibracathedral Orchestra) done in a manner only possible by this amazing trio.
LVD 066/67
$12.00
Steven R. Smith's (Jewelled Antler, Thuja, etc.) reworking of Eastern european folk recordings and sound samples -- the result is a two disc psychedelic tapestry not unlike some Krautrock.
LVD 051
$10.00
Reissue of 'Healing Memories in Present Tension' (part of the LVD cd-r series) with an album's worth of new tracks. Pilia uses guitar and electronics to create a mood that is gentle, warm and inviting.
LVD 056
$10.00
Another NZ droner, Wright's music has a warm, organic quality to it, and he even manages a short song here to close the CD.
LVD 068/69/70
$18.00
A three disc collection of important early releases which only appeared on CD-R and are now out-of-print. Finland's Uton has appeared on Jewelled Antler and Pseudo Arcana as well as the upcoming 'Invisible Pyramid' comp.
LVD 064
$10.00
If there was an inheritor to the sound first invented by legendary Le Rallizes Denudes, it must be LSD-march. Their second (and best) release with bonus tracks.
LVD 060
$10.00
Antony Milton's take on NZ free-noise & drone, but like all other things, Milton never imitates but reinterprets. Instead of just another album of low-fi guitar hum (don't we have enough already?), this is a warm, moody drifter that wraps around your head like a short-wave broadcast at 3AM.
LVD 055
$10.00
Predecessors to Avarus, recorded in 2000. Strange Finnish quasi-pagan-psychedelic freakouts that will be difficult for Westerners to understand.
LVD 059
$10.00
With shades of Alastair Galbraith and Peter Jefferies, Mr. Milton puts down some of the best NZ ballads since the
heydays of Xpressway records. Both albums have been compiled on a single disc.
LVD 050
$10.00
Harrowing avant-folk guitar and vocals. Comparable to Kan Mikami and Kazuki Tomokawa but starker and more confrontational.
(split release with UltraHardGel)
LVD 057
$10.00
Yet another of the post H-Corp NZ bands that have risen in the aftermath of the mid-90's free noise frenzy. Seht is much more about minimalism, field recordings, and still, beautiful moments.
LVD 005/20/61
$18.00
Three CD retrospective featuring all of MCMS 3, MCMS s/t (aka '4', aka 'the album of love'), and substantial excerpts from their other releases.
LVD 062
$10.00
There is an idea of NZ pop music that isn't pop music at all: Pin Group, Alastair Galbraith, Peter Jeffries and Antony Milton. Enter Stephan Neville and the most broken down, lo-fi approach to pop yet!
LVD 048
$10.00
Raw and beautiful Japanese psych-rock in the tradition of bands like White Heaven, Shizuka and even Le Rallizes Denudes but with a clear choice between psychedelic ballads and rock, Miminokoto chooses rock!
LVD 065
$10.00
Radiant Symmetry
Live document of their spring 2004 European tour, masterfully culled and edited, featuring various guest performers (Volcano the Bear, Kemialliset Ystavat, Stefano Pilia, etc.)
LVD 023
$10.00
Acid Mothers Temple side project Makoto Kawabata, Hiroshi Higashi and Nobuko Emi. Bonus material added for this CD reissue.
LVD 058
$10.00
Battle of the Axehammer (live)
Pharaoh Overlord is a stoner rock side-project of JussiLehtisalo's brilliant Circle. Over an hour of this band at their absolute best. Far superior to their studio albums!
T-Shirt S/M/L/XL
$10.00
PLEASE COUNT AS TWO ITEMS FOR SHIPPING.
LVD 052
$10.00
Wine, Women & Wolves
First CD release by jagged Eastern folk weirdo. Reference points are still the bleak winter, black metal, improv/noise, acid folk, Poland and maybe Jandek. Super guest-star Glenn Donaldson appears throughout.
LVD 124
Annual compilation with Valerio Cosi, Shelter Death, Bosch's With You, Renato Rinaldi, Ashtray Navigations, RST, Pigs of Lead, Eyes Like Saucers
LVD 121
Most damaged recording by this band that I have heard. As mighty as High Rise II, but completely out of control and shredded!
LVD 119
More from Clayton Noone. I understand in NZ this is considered something of a classic (well, that's what Pumice told me), and one can hear why listening to this. One of the best Armpits I've heard to date.
LVD 123
Remastered re-release of this long out-of-print classic from 1995
LVD 128/129
LVD 127
LVD 130
LVD 131-133