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Artist:	SUNROOF	Title:	Bliss
Format:	2xCD	Catalog Number:	VHF60
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Vhf
Release Date:	10/22/01
*The atmosphere of this somewhat delayed yet unstoppable annual collection from long-in-the-tooth UK vibe maestro Matthew Bower and friends (who include Neil Campbell, Rosalie Bower,** and maybe some other people - honestly, who can tell?) is mostly spaced and buzzing instruments and voices hovering and floating in the dense mix, all running together like some sort of alien shortwave broadcast. Disc 1 takes off from where last year's Found Star Sound left us - a mix of fuzzy guitar and organ rhythms jousting with voice, bowed strings, and unidentifiable percussion in a compressed fog. Disc 2 is a headlong rush into newish territory, with analog synth vs. birdsong, child's voice vs. sawing violin, chug vs. fizz, etc. There are many tracks on both discs that have subtle (and overt) melodic and rhythmic undercurrents suggesting a fuzz/hiss-dominated alternate-universe version of say, Harmonia or Richter Band. Probably a coincidence, but very, very appealing. There is always at least one guitar involved; at least one is droning at all times, but sometimes actual notes are plucked while an atonal echo is buried deep. Matthew Bower overlays hand percussion, sometimes to the point of drowning out whatever the guitar(s) are doing. Structure isn't a question here. It may sound like Gamelan or it may sound like Whitehouse.-www.worshipguitars.org Skullflower / Total / Sunroof / Bower fans have some catching up to do (but they're used to it) Limited double-disc set is guaranteed to rock your fuzz/hiss-dominated alternate universe We have your name and number Apparently, making Sunroof CDs is its own reward - contact Matthew Bower to put out his next CD! 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Columbine Kisses (i) Columbine Kisses (ii) Chirrups of Certain Being Gold Carnation Legacy Star Sound Distoria Bells Cloud Generator in the Blue Sky of China (i) Cloud Generator in the Blue Sky of China (ii) * Dirty Joke from Outer Space Dance of the Blessed Spirits Her Peacocks Fly Amain DFFOS 2 Bitterne Stonn Over Minfield If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. [please note that, due to international licensing agreements, not all Midheaven titles may be available for download in all territories].

Artist:	SUNROOF	Title:	Cloudz
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	VHF75
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Vhf
Release Date:	10/6/03
*Bi-annual collection of pillow sound from Matthew Bower & Co. Fairly mellow and spacey, à la the "Embroidered Birdsong Nearly Meadows" disc from Sunroof*'s 2001 Bliss* double-CD. Layers of twinkling keyboard, guitar, unidentified fuzz, short wave, etc. Very much in the style of Harmonia and Cluster in spots. There are a couple of amped-up moments here and there, including surprise lead guitar action on "Tornado Rose Canoe," and the excellent fuzz-grilled rock of "Primavera" (aka "AC/DC" - a staple of recent live sets). According to no less of an authority than Neil Campbell, Cloudz is "the best Sunroof ever." 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Machine Grasshopper Viva Zero Universal Acceleration Tornado Rose Canoe Silver Nazi Suicide Primavera Silver Zero If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. [please note that, due to international licensing agreements, not all Midheaven titles may be available for download in all territories].

Artist:	SUNROOF	Title:	Delicate Autobahns Under Construction
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	VHF041CD
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Vhf
Release Date:	6/14/04
*BACK IN PRINT!!! The debut album release from MATTHEW BOWER's new trio, following the retirement of SKULLFLOWER and TOTAL, mines territory similar to Total, but with a more group-oriented communal trance arrangement. Taking cues from minimalist composers, Indian music and assorted folk musics, Sunroof uses guitar, violin, hand percussion and reeds to build up layer upon layer of stratospheric bliss, creating the perfect cloud for Bower's sometimes gentle, sometimes excoriating electric guitar to float on. If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Sunroof "Delicate Autobahn Under Construction" If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.**

Artist:	SUNROOF	Title:	Found Star Sound
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	VHF46
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Vhf
Release Date:	5/8/00
***Found Star Sound is the annual dispatch for 2000 from Matthew Bower and friends, continuing their long legacy of outward-bound audio veritE. Recorded mostly at Bower's Cumbrian home in the rainy and windy UK "Lake" district, the group's droning guitars, organs, voices, and violins blend with twinkling percussion to evoke an atmosphere perfectly suited to such an environment. Following a brief living-room organ-with-built-in rhythm-section-gone-haywire introduction on "Pink Stream 1," the CD builds a vibe around Bower's thickly buzzing - but mellow 'n' casual - guitar. Steadily picking up momentum, the record peaks with the chugging sound-of-trains epic "Pink Stream 2," calms briefly, and then goes out strong with a rousing blast of guitar and violin scrape on "Silvera." Another scuff from the UK's biggest scuffmakers! The names Matthew Bower, Total, Sunroof and Skullflower all command awed hushes of acquisitive anticipation from completist fans of droning noise-blur 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Pink Stream 1 Bright Pacific Streams Pink Werewolf Radioactivity Glycerine Sweet Pacification Long Hair Glisten Milky Rockets Thin Radiance Pink Stream 2 Betsy Braves the Billows Silvera If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Sunroof "Found Star Sound" If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Artist:	SUNROOF	Title:	Silver Bear Mist
Format:	2xCD	Catalog Number:	VHF 91
Price:	$16.00	Label:	Vhf
Release Date:	9/26/05
****Silver Bear Mist,* Sunroof!'s first release in over two years, is an epic double-CD of inimitable buzz. Recorded during a period when guitarist Matt Bower (Skullflower) was also concentrating on writing material with Marcia Bassett of Double Lepoards for their duo, Hototogisu, Silver Bear Mist diverges from recent releases like the collagy USSA, Splat, Wings Over America, and the last major Sunroof! release-- the krautrock-ish Cloudz-- to revel in thick, billowing fuzz bombs. Aided by Vibracathedral Orchestra's Mick Flower and US duo The Skaters, Bower lets rip on rockers like the Tibetan-oriented "Buried in the Sky" and the immense "Sky Blue Sword." Disc two mixes it up a bit, with the unexpectedly docile "Stacked Diamonds" featuring The Skaters, alongside the scouring surge of Bower leads on "Be Sure to Boogie" and "Luminous Kite." First release in over two years from Skullflower guitarist Matt Bower under the Sunroof! moniker Features guest appearances from members of Vibracathedral Orchestra and The Skaters 30-second MP3 excerpts: White Stairs Briar Parch Bear Melt Buried in the Sky Mariuana Suicide Blizzard Emblem Treaty Sky Blue Sword Be Sure to Boogie Great Empty Display Shelves Placed Before the Burning Green Forest Luminous Kite Stacked Diamonds Trampled Dawns If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: go to iTunes to browse downloads for Sunroof "Silver Bear Mist" If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Artist:	SUNROOF!	Title:	Panzer Division Lou Reed
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	VHF105CD
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Vhf
Release Date:	8/20/07
**Beneath the usual lovely psychedelic artwork on the cover of Panzer Division Lou Reed lurks Sunroofis most explosive and assaultive record ever. The key track here in the Sunroof! evolution is the opener iSlew Plateaus #1,i with Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra) on guitar and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man) on drums. This live shot of electricity gradually ramps up from Flower and Matt Boweris dueling guitars to the point where Moloneyis drums come crashing in after about six minutes, leading to a furious crescendo that lasts for the remainder of the 19-minute track. iSlew Plateaus #2i is a lengthy collaboration with underground gadabout Mattin, whose previous collabs with Tony Conrad, Bruce Russell, Eddie Prevost, et al. hopefully prepared him for the Bower wrecking ball delivered here. The other two cuts are absolutely blistering demolition work, which, in spite of their visceral impact, reach a state of zen-like stasis after a couple of minutes, la the best of Boweris work with Hototogisu. 30-second MP3 excerpts: Slow Plateaus #1 Etoile Sauvage Slow Plateaus #2 Stairways And Terraces Descending One Beyond Another In A Stupefying State Of Exhaustion If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Sunroof! "Panzer Division Lou Reed" If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. This title is also available for download at AmazonMP3. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

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