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BIRDMAN
Artist: KHAN, BADAR ALI Title: Lost In Qawwali Iii
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BMR032CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Birdman
Release
Date:		 6/4/01
***Flowing with infectious rhythm, hypnotic percussion, mesmerizing repetition and spine-tingling vocal improvization, Qawwali music has thrilled listeners since the 10th Century. One family - the Khans of Pakistan - has dominated this vibrant musical form with an unbroken line of truly great male vocalists. As Qawwali music rides an unprecedented wave of worldwide popularity, the star vocalist of the next generation, the voice that will carry Qawwali music to a whole new level, has emerged to claim the musical baton of his storied family. At 33, Badar Ali Khan has already released 22 albums in his native Pakistan. Most recently, working with producer/arranger/composer Suresh "Baba" Varma, Badar has leaped to the forefront of his art, becoming a Qawwali superstar with Baba Records' multimillion-selling album, Good Karma 1. Blending the traditional with the contemporary, the ethereal with erotic, Badar Ali Khan has succeeded in transforming this ancient artform into something totally modern, incredibly potent and powerfully intoxicating for today's young audiences.

  • Qawwali music's rise in popularity has yet to crest
  • Khan has sold millions of records worldwide; this is his 23rd release
  • The Birdman label's crusade to return sincerity and meaning to the word "eclectic" continues
  • File under The Real, God-Loving Psychedelia, 'K'

    • RECORDHEAD
    Artist: EYESINWEASEL Title: Live In The Middle East
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 LUNA 33 CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: Recordhead
    Release
    Date:    		 6/4/01
    ***Former GUIDED BY VOICES co-leader TOBIN SPROUT returns to the forefront with a brand new live album recorded October 28, 2000 at the Middle East Restaurant and Bar in Cambridge, MA, while Tobin was on tour supporting his Wrinkled Thoughts album. Twenty-five tracksóincluding a handful of GBV hitsóreleased in a very limited edition of 1,000 copies (with only 600 available for distribution).
    SHRIMPER
    Artist: HERMAN DUNE Title: They Go To The Woods
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR121
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 6/4/01
    ***Herman Düne are comprised of two Swedish brothers and a man named Omé on the drums. Last year they released Turn Out the Light, their critically acclaimed debut on the European Prohibited label. Mojo magazine observed, Herman Dune's idiosyncratic vistas capture the imagination, recalling the cut-and-paste lyricism of Julian Cope, the deliciously woozy chug of the Velvet Underground and the metronomic repetition of Can. The band has toured the citrus-deprived, pestilence-ridden land mass of Europe, stopping off for appearances on John Peel's radio show and otherwise making quite a name for themselves abroad.

    The trio currently resides in Paris, France. The brothers Herman Düne - David-Ivar and André - cite as important influences their family home in Dalarna, Sweden (with its silence, space, and trees), the German writer Franz Jung, and the music of VU, Sebadoh and other usual suspects. The band will be playing shows stateside in support of They Go to the Woods, and made an appearance at the SxSW tradeshow in Austin.

  • Finally, a melodic yet discordant record by two Swedish brothers and a man named Omé we can all enjoy
  • Shrimper is home to Sentridoh, John Davis, the mighty Dump and Buzzsaw
  • They listen to all the right bands and promise to play all the right places
  • Gimme Scando rock!

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    The Right Path Lays Open Before Me
    They Go to the Woods
    By the Door of the Temple
    Heed the Wrath
    From German Streets
    I Look at You at Night
    Strange Plot
    I'll Come Back When I Come Back
    Deer Wild Baby
    For the Night
    Black Dog

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    TEDIUM HOUSE PUBLICATIONS
    Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #15
    Format: MAG+CD Catalog
    Number:    		 BF15
    Price: $9.50 Label: Tedium House Publications
    Release
    Date:    		 6/4/01
    ***Christine Shields
    Interview with this issue's cover artist, the author behind surreal, dreamlike Blue Hole comic book, and banjo-player for Appalachia-influenced Grouse Mountain Skyride (also featuring Dame Darcy and Ian Christe). On the CD: "Monkey Goes to the Moon" and "The World Is My Home"

    Mal Sharpe
    Interview with author, jazz musician, and Man-on-the-Street interviewer most well known as half of '60s prankster duo Coyle and Sharpe, whose legendary put-ons have been released on CD by the 21361 and Thirsty Ear labels. On the CD: Coyle and Sharpe "Transporting Captured People"

    Ana-Maria Avram
    Translation of an interview by Costin Cazaban with Romanian acousmatic composer and Editions Modern recording artist whose uncompromising, demanding music gives heavyweights like Dumitrescu and Fernando Grillo a run for the money. On the CD: the 13-minute "Etude (I), computer assisted music."

    Volcano the Bear
    Interview by Neil Campbell with this mind-expanding UK surrealist quartet whose music straddles "a strange, ambiguous line between comforting and terrifying." Collaborations with Nurse With Wound and Aube, releases on United Dairies, Misra, and Pickled Egg. On the CD: "Phantom, tha will be done"

    mad-cow.org
    Interview with Dr. Thomas Pringle, webmaster of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation's site containing almost 8,000 articles on mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and numerous other crimes against nature that should drive any sane person to veganism.

    John Crouse
    Guest editorial plus one other previously unpublished text by this inspirational author whose writing has been described as "a non-stop torque conflating the distinctions of sky, people, forest, political costume store Ö He makes his own vocabulary rushing forward at full tilt, the 'camel of wow'." On the CD: Crouse reads an excerpt from Lapses (O Books, 1995) with Stanley Zappa on sax

    Rats With Wings
    Freeform essay and images by this emerging Australian noise artist with releases planned on Plate Lunch and Freedom From. On the CD: "Horse Eat Grass"

    Volvox
    Interview with two members of this Australian band with a posthumous CD released by Dual Plover. Ant-honey Riddell, the leader of the band, was brain-injured and comatose after a fall through a skylight several years ago. "Next to Milk," a chapter from his phenomenal novel Betrayed by the Senses (Menisicus, 1999), is also reprinted. On the CD: "Extraordinary Swordfish" amd "Milkhead," from Egg, Pluto Pup and You

    Agog
    Interview with Damien Bisciglia, noise artist and sculptor of Rohrshach-like, nightmarish creatures made of melted plastic and various found materials. On the CD: "Waters Black from the Dung of a Thousand Camels"

    VHF
    Artist: BLACK TWIG PICKERS Title: North Fork Flyer
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 VHF61
    Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
    Release
    Date:    		 6/4/01
    ***North Fork Flyer represents the continued persistence of a type of Appalachian folk music that has come and gone from the popular radar over the years, but has never completely disappeared from the Black Twig Pickers' Southwest Virginia home. The songs on North Fork Flyer are mostly traditional numbers (with a few originals sprinkled in) that form the backbone of a century-old tradition - the music of bonfires, front porches, coal miner's festivals, and informal gatherings. These "mountain ragas," as the group calls them, have been recorded, performed, and revised continually by a who's who of true American artistry - luminaries such as Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, John Fahey, Bob Wills, Holy Modal Rounders, New Lost City Ramblers, etc., etc.

    Recorded live to DAT on front porches and in family rooms, North Fork Flyer blends the fiddle blues of Ralph Berrier Jr., Isak Howell's sinewy guitar and the drone and twitch of Pelt's Mike Gangloff's fretless clawhammer banjo with the trio's rough-around-the-edges but warm vocal harmonies. Played to the accompaniment of night insects, passing trains, and the noise of wandering children, the music retains the charm of tradition but is free of fake antiquarianism and nostalgia. Regardless of age, the music is just as relevant today as it was 100 years ago and the band plays it as though they mean it. And they obviously do.

    The name of the band comes from the oldest, most crotchety apple variety in the orchard that fiddler Ralph Berrier's family maintains along the musically fertile Virginia-North Carolina line. Black Twig plays regularly in Southwest Virginia.

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