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VHF
Artist: PELT Title: Brown Cyclopaedia
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF25
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
***1995 album (previously vinyl-only) from Virginia ensemble. "Blending improvisation with composisition, lo-fi detail, and the brute force of white noise with sullen beauty." --Bill "Me Later" Kellum

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Pelt "Brown Cyclopaedia" (VHF)

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Artist: PELT Title: Dauphin Elegies
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF112
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 6/16/08
The first new studio recordings from Pelt in three years picks up where 2005's Untitled CD leaves off--delivering massive slabs of heavy, all-acoustic drone action.

"Waning Crescent" is an ominous workout for three large gongs, rich with overtones and subsonic rumble. "Fire Signs Along the Field" offers a slightly jarring quartet of spare string noise, with Nathan Bowles (Black Twigs, Spiral Joy Band) sitting in on double bass. "Cast Out to Deep Waters" is an immense 30-minute epic in the vein of Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky and Untitled's "I" that fits into the archetypical classics in the Pelt canon. The all-too-brief "Crown of Comets" closes the CD with the chiming, overlapping ring of bells recorded in Virginia's Falls Ridge caves.
Artist: PELT Title: Empty Bell
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 VHF043
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 5/24/99
Artist: PELT Title: Empty Bell
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF043CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 5/24/99
***Another chapter in this mid-Atlantic ensembleis existence finds them transforming their one- word moniker from a noun to a verb. And what a verb it is: Empty Bell Ringing In The Sky includes a 12-minute surprise (eek!) collaboration with Drunken Fish artists rhBand, Peltis complete 35-minute set at Terrastock II (nominated by many as the highlight of the entire goddamn festival and nicknamed iThe Hillbilly Theater of Eternal Musici), a magically resonating 17-minute slice from a typical East coast hippie warehouse party, and a new 18-minute home recording (heavy on the Tibetan bowls, Chester). The home recordings are of the digital ilk and finally capture Peltis forceful, multi-layered sound accurately and appropriately. Recent dates with the Sonic Youth Band, a West coast tour this Fall, appearances at Transmissions (NC) and Terrastock III (London), and continued releases on the bandis own Klang label demonstrate that Pelt can promote themselves like no oneis business. If Entertainment Weekly doesn't return Bill Kellum's calls, it's their loss.

Artist: PELT Title: Max Meadows
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF28
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
***Third full-length release from Virginia trio. Studio/live/rehearsal recordings; combines the jaw-droppingly downer songcraft heard on "Brown Cyclopaedia" with the free-formist trappings displayed on the followup "Burning/Filiment/Rockets."

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Artist: PELT Title: Skullfuck / Bestio Tergum Degero
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF98
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 5/1/06
***Now available to all, a new pressing of the extremely limited edition live CD previously attainable only on the band's 2006 European tour. Contrary to the Grateful Dead reference in the title, Skullfuck is a tight recording of a single, intense November 2005 performance from NYC's Knitting Factory. The set begins with an epic group arrangement of Jack Roseis "Calais To Dover," with Rose's 12-string shadowed by Mike Gangloff's fiddle, and the thick drone of Mikel Dimmick and Pat Best's harmonium and srutis. The three-part "Bestio" suite follows, with the group moving to Tibetan bowls and gongs, building up a huge sheet of sound which peaks in a brief "encore" of wild gong smashing. This new edition is packaged in a gatefold "eco-wallet" with cover art designed by fabric and fiber-artist Emily Keown.
Artist: PELT Title: Techeod
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF36CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 3/30/98
***Washington DC guys go three-for-three for VHF. Contemporary and traditional musics collide and spatter the attentive listener with tamboura, violin, guitar, tabla, flute, banjo,lap steel, oscillator, voice, organ, and a variety of other instruments, both conventional and homemade.

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Pelt "Techeod"

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Artist: PELT Title: Untitled
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF90
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 7/11/05
***(untitled) is devastating set of almost pure white light from the newly upgraded Pelt lineup. The album's intense drone music represents a return to "sonic-ism" for the quartet of Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, Patrick Best, and Mikel Dimmick. Like 2003's effort Pearls from the River, (untitled) is an all-acoustic affair. The group concentrates on producing dense clouds of overtones from guitar, cello, tibetan bowls, gongs, sruti, and esraj. Track one is an overpowering straight line a la the Theatre of Eternal Music, an atmosphere of stasis with gong and bowl flickering subtly over the massive track bed. Track two is a 32-minute epic that begins with the soft strains of Jack Rose's 12 string, picks up dueling cello and esraj and gradually builds in intensity with the sounds of gongs and other unusual percussion. Track three is the live staple "Sundogs," where Rose's Weissenborn lap guitar and Gangloff's resonator guitar produce a stream of unearthly high, singing overtones in an uncanny acoustic impression of electric feedback. The final track is an epilogue of Best's keening cello, again ignoring the usual technique associated with the instrument in the pursuit of pure weirdness.
Artist: PELT Title: Pearls From The River
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF76
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 10/6/03
***First new music in a couple of years from the trio, focusing entirely on their acoustic side-- a single session recorded in Virginia by Mikel Dimmick. "Up the North Fork" is a trio for banjo, baritone banjo, and cello-- after the snaky bowed introduction, the fast thwacking of the banjos and forcefully strummed cello take over and whip up a storm. The other two tracks are lengthy ragas (one in C, one in D) with the virtuoso modal guitar of Jack Rose front and center. "Pearls From The River" features Rose on 12-string, dueling with Mike Gangloff on esraj. Pat Best's thick, sonorous double bass bowing anchors the duet between the lightning thrumming and plucking of Rose's guitar and Gangloff's arcing, sharply bowed half-time melody. "Road To Catawba" has Rose on 6-string, with Gangloff moving to tamboura, for a full exploration of the D Lydian mode. Mmmm, D Lydian mode... Best's bass is again the foundation, with whistling overtones rising from his bow over the low drone.

30-second RealAudio excerpts:

Up the North Fork
Pearls from the River
Road to Catawba

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