Sloow Tapes - Moon

DRMWPN
Smoker
CS 51
Sloow Tapes - Moon

Light your dreamweapon with some of Chicago’s most enlightened Heads. Improv band rocking the outer limits of Quantonia featuring Michael Zerang, Adam Vida, Liz Payne, Sam Wagster, Majahbeen, Steve Krakow, Jim Becker, Jim Dorling, Carol Genetti and Dan Mohr. A galactic transmission from beyond. 70 copies.

Sloow Tapes – Moon

Im Jahrtal
Reprisen Und Instrumentalstuecke
CS 40
Sloow Tapes – Moon

Post-Pilz folk instrumentals from the mountains of Tyrol. Jahrtal is the one-man project of Ewald Spiss, who has been involved in music and art since the early eighties. Tranquil melodies, exotic instrumentation and barking dogs echoing peaceful mountains and forests. 70 copies.

Sloow Tapes – Moon Of The Plants

Von Himmel
Space Communion
CS 45
Sloow Tapes – Moon Of The Plants

Mysterious recordings by anonymous band that crashed my doorstep and skull. Never knew where it came from nor where it’s heading to. Headmusic for the Kraut gathered on Strawberry Hill. Combine the most spaced-out Ash Ra Tempel passages with late-period Cosmic Jokers sexy collage. Wow. 70 copies.

Space communion indeed! This is one cosmic cassette - mysterious drones, flute drifting through the ether, clanking space debris, hypnotic hum and some mellow space-rock moves. (Boa Melody Bar)

Sloow Ley Lines – C

Cybele Collins
Book
Sloow Ley Lines – C

Very pleased to present this collection of beautiful drawings by the amazing Cybele Collins. She also records as Blue Shift and her visions have graced covers for labels such as Last Visible Dog and Rare Youth. Drawings have appeared in dozens of magazines including Morbid Curiosity, Paper Rodeo, Sound Projector, Free Radicals, The Ganzfeld, Cemetery Dance, Shimmer, Dark Animus and Vial. Full color cover, 36 b&w pages.

Sloow Tapes – Moon Of The Worms

Expo 70
Awakening
CS 50

Sloow Tapes – Moon Of The Worms

Crystallized visions of krautdrone love connecting you with the physical pleasures of analogue drum machines and celestial guitar odysseys. One of Justin Wright’s best shots so far. Hand-colored cover art wrapped around a big insert, 70 copies.

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Cosmic synth drones and delicate guitar lines echoing into the distance. This comes with a colour cover and a fold-out poster / insert. (Boa Melody Bar)

This tape is limited to 70 copies. We got exactly HALF, it's already sold out at the label, so these are THE last copies anywhere. And it's awesome. Less heavy than some of the other Expo's, Awakening, features some super stripped down drumming (or drum machine, hard to tell), locked into an endless groove, pulsing over a swirling spacescape of smeared riffs and fragmented melodies, it sounds a bit like Goblin, very soundtracky and otherworldly, space-y and mysterious, and not at all cheesy, more sort of classic new age / krautrock, think Klaus Schultze, scoring some super abstract French sci-fi flick from the sixties, and you'll sort of get the vibe.
Like all Expo 70 stuff, dark and dreamy, warm and warbly, drone-y and hypnotic, but the addition of drums really adds a new dimension, and the soundscapes swirling around the groove seem to be endlessly shifting and transforming. Awesome stuff as always. Total blissed out new age spacey krautiness, as only Expo 70 can do it. WAY recommended. And it's also recommended that if you want one of these you don't dawdle, as we mentioned before, this is LIMITED TO ONLY 70 COPIES! AND WE GOT HALF!! Already sold out and out of print, so you get one shot at these. Nicely packaged in a hand colored psychedelic fold out sleeve. (Aquarius)

Sloow Tapes – Moon Of The Worms

Benjamin Franklin
Splitsing
CS 60

Sloow Tapes – Moon Of The Worms

A dark trip in the neither world of Benjamin Franklin (Buffle, R.O.T.) sleepwalking along deep low humming casio rumblings and floating urban soundscapes. 70 copies.

Messed-up outer space casio synth-scapes peppered with junkyard debris from Buffle / ROT's Benjamin Franklin.

Sloow Tapes – Snow Moon

Andy Robbins
Red Sun Lines
CS 40
Sloow Tapes – Snow Moon

A psychedelic brew of catchy guitartunes spiced with abstract meditations on electronics, sitar, moog etc. Features contributions by David Hayward, Stephen Clarke, Ben Reynolds and Andy Jarvis. Art by Robbins, 70 copies.

Excellent cassette from Andy Robbins of Sculptress featuring contributions from Ben Reynolds, Andy Jarvis, Stephen Clarke and David Hayward. A mix of acid-drenched string ragas / intrumentals (played on sitar, acoustic & electric guitar and banjo) and abstract improvisations / tape collages. (Boa Melody Bar)

Sloow Tapes – Snow Moon

Gin En Tsubame
Yukino
CS 35
Sloow Tapes – Snow Moon

Duo of Tansch and Tsubame. Repetitive acoustic guitar plucking shimmers through the cracks of fragile folksongs reverberating in clouds of acid dust guitar. Artwork by the band, insert by Sloow. Edition of 70.

Delicate acoustic meanderings from Japan, in a similar vein to another Sloow release by Muffin, but with more of a folk feel. Soft breaths of female vocals and dreamily picked guitar. Lovely. (Boa Melody Bar)

Sloow Tapes – Cold Moon

Sedayne
Naked Season
CS 60
Sloow Tapes – Cold Moon

Experimental re-imaginations of English traditionals by the man who in a distant past was member of the Masstishaddhu cult. These tracks venture through dark medieval seasons of sheep stealers and John Barleycorn. Instruments played, among others, are hurdy-gurdy, voice, jew’s harps, crwth, citera and bones. Artwork by Sedayne, 70 copies.

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Reworkings of English traditions by a former member of the Masstishaddhu cult. He accompanies himself on a rather wonderful collection of instruments - jew's harps and bells galore, shruti box, clarinet, citera, bones and hurdy gurdy - creating a magical drone-based atmosphere throughout (particularly on the raga version of "Seeds of Love" which recalls the Family Elan). Excellent. (Boa Melody Bar)

Very interesting new cassette from Sean Breadin aka Sedayne, one-time member of Masstishaddhu alongside Richard Rupenus of The New Blockaders. Masstishaddu released one excellent, obscure LP on Steve Stapleton's United Dairies imprint. Sedayne are focused more on re-thinks of traditional English folk melodies using hurdy-gurdy, vocals, drone, jews harp et al. Comparable to Martin Carthy or the solo work of Andrew King with dense, acoustic-drone focused settings. This is a creative re-imagining of folk modes, one that effectively joins the dots between centuries of outsider prole art. Edition of 70 copies. (Volcanic Tongue)

Sloow Tapes – Cold Moon

Aminome
Blue Fishes
CS 35
Sloow Tapes – Cold Moon

Akiko Terashima (Doodles) and Masayuki Toshimitsu letting loose some classic mindbending baked goods. Part psychedelic guitar duets, part guitar/drums duels: these melodies are ripping the high mountain of vocal buzz apart. Artwork by the band, edition of 70.

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Gorgeous slow-burning psych ballads that sound a bit like a bedroom-recorded take on Nagisa Ne Te, complete with the fuzzed up guitar solos. Add male / female vocals and a feeling heavy with melancholy and you have a lovely release. (Boa Melody Bar)

Duo guitar/drums electric psych moves from Akiko Terashima of Doodles and Masayuki Toshimitsu. Downer folk songs with forlorn female vox and epic post-Neil Young guitar solos. Edition of 70 copies. (Volcanic Tongue)

Sloowjob - Festival

Sloowjob - Psychedelic Dreams At Play

EMBRYO [d]
JULIE MITTENS [nl]
PETER WALKER [us]
GNOD [uk]
GEOFF MULLEN [us]
+ films by Matt Valentine, Heidi Diehl, Roberto Opalio, Marja Mikkonen en Erik De Jesus

Sat 28 march 2009, Netwerk / centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst (16:00 7-10 EUR)

Ever since their debut "Opal" from 1970, seen as a master piece of psychedelic music, EMBRYO traveled around the world for the last 40 years with a mix of kraut rock, psychedelia, jazz and in recent years lots of ethnic music. Music as a life style, and open ears and minds for unexpected meetings with exotic surroundings and headstrong musicians such as Mik Quantius and No Neck Blues Band.

PETER WALKER is a monument. In the sixties he released two legendary albums, "Rainy Day Raga" (1967) and "Second Poem to Karmela" (1969) on which he combines the eastern influences of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan with American folk. He teached Jim Gurley (Big Brother and the Holding Company) his first guitar chords and cooperated with LSD guru Timothy Leary. In recent years Walker mainly focussed on flamenco. Expect an instense trip with one of the masters of nylon strings.

GNOD is a cosmic collective from Manchester who are constantly looking for new boundaries. In a swirling universe full of delay, distortion, wahwah and fuzz they destroy minds and reap souls. Dudes jammed with White Hills and stuff. Gnod bless Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind, Sun Ra and Acid Mothers Temple. Expect the unexpected. Gnod have mercy.

JULIE MITTENS still is The Netherland's best band, which was noticed by labels as Rococo and Holy Mountain. The intrumental jams of this guitar/bass/drums trio send loud feedback blues, hammering rhythms and hypnotic bass lines to the point where their free rock disolves in an intoxicating psychedelic harmony of electric spheres.

Slow drones spread their tentacles over deserted grey landscapes, a scratched surface of resonating strings and buzzing amps. GEOFF MULLEN brings together guitar, banjo and analog synth to psychedelic abstractions, New England reverb and weird noises. He cooperated with Family Underground, Kris Lapke and Pumice.

FILMS
Eric de Jesus (USA): Born Of Jackals (2008)/ My Heart And I Agree (2007)/ History of WHH (2007)/ Easy Commercial (2007)
Dreams and reality become one during a lazy afternoon in the fields. Taking it easy.

Marja Mikkonen (FIN): Rondo (2006) / Marraskuun Lohtu (2005) / Lyömätön Perhe (2005) Abstract, experimental films with soundtracks by Musta Hevonen, Boris Morgana en Horst.

Heidi Diehl (USA): Moon Void Of Course (2006)
Tour diary of a 13 week long American tour of Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, including jam sessions in the desert.

Matt Valentine/Erika Elder/Gabriel Walsh (USA): The Temptation Of Zoology (2003)
Surrealistic and psychedelic short film referring to the same abstract mythology and visions in which Matt Valentine’s lyrics and music unfold.

Roberto Opalio (IT): Light_Earth_Blue_Silver(2008)
Existential journey of an alien in the mountains. Soundtrack by My Cat Is An Alien.

For more info please visit
http://www.kraak.net/en/events.php#4
and
http://www.netwerk-art.be/nl/activities/sound/359

see you in the pit

Sloow Tapes - Fir

Sloowroad
S/T
CS 60
Sloow Tapes - Fir

Space hymns from deep woods within by Sloow Tapes Bart De Paepe and Golden Roadie Matt Valentine, crawling beyond shredding wah-wah guitars and intoxicating synth, culminating in twisted chouffe raga and porkslap pulse. Reissue of obscure Heroine cd-r, 100 copies.

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Des hymnes enfumés pour les fins de soirées embrumées, tout un programme. SLOOW ROAD, c’est la rencontre entre Bart de PAEPE (le père de Sloow Tapes) au synthé et Matt Valentine (celui de MV & EE) à la guitare. Sur la face A, on trouve des chansons qui oscillent entre le blues et le folk psychédélique. La deuxième chanson est énorme, un riff de guitare bien crade passé à la fuzz vient dévaster les enceintes d'entrée de jeu. On a envie d'augmenter le volume en balancant sa tête de gauche à droite en gueulant comme un porc et en renversant sa bière. La face B est irrécupérable, un trip halluciné pour vieux papy nostalgique.Excellent ! (Venice Beach Communication/Young Girls)

Reissue of a long gone Heroine cdr. Sloow Road are a duo featuring Matt Valentine and Bart de Paepe. Some great zoned-out psych guitar from Matt and equally interplanetary synth textures from Bart. (Boa Melody Bar)

Reputedly a reissue of an obscure Heroine CD-R (you ever seen one?), this is a zoned duo date from Matthew ‘MV’ Valentine and Mr Bart De Paepe, rocking a long mellow stone on the porch in Vermont with MV dropping elegiac Lee Underwood styled single note gems into the eye of the sky in a way that seems linked to his earlier guitar style circa I Burned One With God. Totally slo-mo folk-drone-for-eternity feel. This one is endless, edition of 100 copies and already sold out at source. (Volcanic Tongue)

Sloow Tapes – Fir

Sachiko
With Lament
CS 50
Sloow Tapes – Fir

New album by one of Japan’s key players in the psychedelic underground. Sachiko was also a member of legendary bands such as Overhang Party and Kousokuya among others. ‘With Lament’ finds itself in the lost worlds of eerie devotional chants drowned in eternal reflections of kaleidoscopic electronic powers. Paste-on cover, silkscreened insert and edition of 100 copies.

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Fantastic new solo album from Sachiko, ex-Overhang Party/Kousokuya et al and long-term VT fave in an edition of only 100 copies. This is the closest she has yet come to cutting a full set of choral/early/devotional vocal settings, albeit dosed with hallucinatory levels of F/X and positioned on the lip of the most beautifully smudged void of sound-on-sound your ears ever curled round. If you dig the sounds of Grouper/US Girls/Inca Ore et al but have a more classically-bent psychedelic taste and worship at the feet of Japanese underground gods like Shizuka, Nijiumu, Toho Sara, Angel’n Heavy Syrup et al then this is the bomb you set out for. Highly recommended. (Volcanic Tongue)

Side one of this tape is a flowing sequence of pieces using Sachiko's voice, looped and layered into a lovely sort of chorale. It seems a bit strange to write this, but the one thing it reminded me of was the closing track on my own Phosphene album with Lol Coxhill and Raymond MacDonald, not that I'm suggesting this was any influence! Side 2 has spiraling spacey drones and a harsher electronic piece too. Another good Sloow Tape release. (JC/Boa Melody Bar)

Sloow Tapes – Elder

Aswara
S/T
CS 40
Sloow Tapes – Elder

Space hymns echoing in swirling psychedelic synth patterns, zoned guitartones and out-there primitive percussion. Featuring members of Death Chants and Muntjac. Devotional raga wrapped in appropriate silkscreened offering. 80 copies.

Featuring members of Muntjac and Death Chants. Haunting plumes of recorder waft over echoing percussion and exotic pluckings. Minimal snake-charming music. Silk-screened sleeve. (Boa Melody Bar)

Sloow Tapes – Elder

Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate
Live In Japan 2007
CS 40
Sloow Tapes – Elder

Kawaguchi Masami (Miminokoto, LSD March, Broomdusters) returns with his New Rock Syndicate, recorded live in Tokyo. Monster guitarpsych feedback screech and heavy dosed garagerock insanity. 100 copies.

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Blistering new live album in an edition of 100 copies from one of the hands-down best guitar/psych/jam units currently active on the Japanese underground. Kawaguchi was previously a member of LSD March, Broomdusters and Miminokoto but his New Rock Syndicate are his most rock-inflected project to date, channelling the pre-punk sound of Television and Rocket From The Tombs into long post-Ayler noise jams. Excellent. (Volcanic Tongue)

The sort of live recording that makes you wish you'd been there. It was smiles all round for me as one song ended by very nearly turning into Interstellar Overdrive. Another was most unlike Like A Hurricane, but the guitar solo could've dropped into it very nicely and then there was the bass riff from the Damned's Neat Neat Neat which, again, went into a song not remotely like the reference point at the start. Lots of fun and very rockin' with an A4 poster inclusion folded wrapped with the tape in a neat (neat neat) paper band. (JC/Boa Melody Bar)

burnin’ tape covering a live set by masami kawaguchi (ex lsd-march) ‘s new rock syndicate ...quite present & detail-discernable room recording placed this squarely in the “tokyo flashback” lineage (Mimaroglu Music Sales)