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Artist: ATMAN Title: Tradition Featuring Anna Nacher
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF45CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
***One of Poland's most astounding musical collectives, Atman have spent nearly two decades quietly releasing tapes on their own FLY (Freak Living Yourself) Music label between conducting workshops in instrument building and forestry. As you might expect, Atman's "forest music"ocreated with Tibetan liturgical instruments and acoustic instruments such as guitar, dulcimer and indigenous lutesois the most masterful swirling paleo-delic ethno-folk hybrid in existence.

Tradition features guest vocalist and long time collaborator ANNA NACHER, joining the core members of the group MAREK STYCZYNSKI, MAREK LESZCZYNSKI, and PIOTR KOELCKI, all multi-instrumentalists bringing life to a range of implements (from Slovakian pastoral fujara to baby rattles and zithers). Atman have expanded even further to include THOMASZ RADZIUK (bass guitar), TOMEK GULINSKI (vocals, harmonium, hand drums) and many other guests throughout the 65 minutes. Tradition ranges from green-blood-culling, acoustic dulcimer forest magic to blinding moves through rock territory, most brilliantly illustrated on a cover of HENDRIX's "Third Stone From The Sun," all capped off by the wailing punctuation of Anna Nacher (who sounds like Liz Frazier and Patti Smith rolled into an Eastern European forest mother). Ready to sign?

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Artist: BACK OFF CUPIDS Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF18CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
2/14/00
***Back Off Cupids is the solo project of a gentleman named John Reis. Having fronted the highly respected Pitchfork and later the hugely influential Drive Like Jehu, Reis is best known as the front man for Rocket From The Crypt.

Recorded and mixed on and off between 1994 and 1999 between RFTC tours and recording sessions, Back Off Cupids places all his previous musical ideas along with his strongest influences (Neu!, ELO, Gories) in a blender with puree engaged. That's one frothy shake.


Artist: BARDO POND Title: Bufo Alvarius
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF15
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
*** Baking lesson: take five gallons of guitar glub-n-skree, one frantically free drumset of highly domineering proportions, spice with effect-drenched flute and add pre-heated, zoned male/female vocals...stir until thick, gooey and black; eat with a spoon. The 30-minute closer, "Amen," will summon the spirits of poppy-seeds past, and leave you dazed and marvelling over how far our limp-lidded cooks were (indeed, are) prepared to go.

Also see Hash Jar Tempo.

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Artist: BILL, JASON / JACK ROSE Title: Via St. Louis
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF036CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
7/27/98
***Charalambides and Pelt guys swap war stories. A weekend spent staring into the white dot at the center of the sun or a cosmic gunfight at the 4-track corral? Both, you say? Not since Frank Marino and Ted Nugent had their coffee spiked with paregoric and MDA has there been a such a tense showdown of the 6-stringed minds.

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Artist: BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL Title: Siberian Earth Curve
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF043CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
10/5/98
***Campbell Kneale is a New Zealander with and impeccable ear for layering feedback, cymbals and electronic squall. Does the stillness of Thomas Koner get you There on a regular basis? Maybe some Aube-icious high-end volume stirs your coffee? Pull into the BCM parking lot and discover instant validation.

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Artist: BROTHER JT Title: Come On Down
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF35
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
10/27/97
***Original Sins founder John Terlesky releases his second Drunken Fish solo album. Previous releases on Twisted Village, Siltbreeze, Bar None and AuGoGo; Tyrannasuarus Rex-period Bolan strained thorough Pretty Things and soaked in bongwater, beer and choice microdot. Placid stupor never sounded this...stupefying. From 1997.

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Artist: BROTHER JT Title: Rainy Day Fun
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF30
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
***1996 release from Original Sin-er/Vibrolux guy BJT finds relative peace in a little smoke, some TV, and the company of a loved one. Fair comparisons to kindred lost souls Barrett, Bolan and Spence still don't do this one justice.

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Artist: CHIACCHIERI, PETE Title: Sonya's Web
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:
DF20
Price: $3.50 Label: Drunken Fish

Artist: CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP Title: Presents The Polyamorous Love Cult
Format: LP Catalog
Number:
DF29
Price: $8.25 Label: Drunken Fish
***Gavin Shaw (Sferic Experiment, recent King Loser entourage member) coughs out a dirty spoonful of fuzz.

Artist: HASH JAR TEMPO Title: Under Glass
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF044CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
3/22/99
***Roy Montgomery and Bardo Pond in full post-Terrastock glory. Imagine 56 minutes at 5 miles an hour. Ozone sludge only sounds sweeter when Teletubbies are in the house.


Artist: JEFFERIES / LONIE Title: At Swim 2 Birds
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF31
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
***Stunning instrumental album (originally recorded in '87 and released in a micro-edition by Flying Nun/Xpressway). Piano, violin, guitar.

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Artist: MAGIC CARPATHIANS Title: Ethnocore 2: Nytu
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF48
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
3/26/01
***Magic Carpathians are centered around the duo of Anna Nacher and Marek Styczynski, founding members of the now defuct Polish ethno-folk group Atman. Following the disbanding of Atman, Anna and Marek continue to create forest music, although the Magic Carpathians benefit from an infusion of traditional rock instruments and electronics, and a host of guests.

Recorded and mixed at the Krakow Radio Station Recording Studio by Aleksander Wilk between May and November 2000, Ethnocore 2: Nytú was composed and arranged by Anna and Marek, with Tomasz Radziuk (ex-Atman), Jan Kubek, Ramunas Jaras, and Wadada and Marek Miczyk (both of the European festival group Suns of Arqa). Also figuring into the composition are field recordings made by Anna and Marek during their travels to India and Nepal in autumn 1999.

Traces of nytú - a mythical, archaic technique of vocalization given in the language of Slavonic rituals, nowadays almost completely lost and forgotten - can be found in the remnants of ancient Carpathian culture and some archaic pagan rituals which have been stored within the folk religious tradition among the Carpathian villagers. The important common tradition of singing across Eurasia makes similar the vocal technique from Mongolia, the Altai region, Central Asia, Ukraine and the Balkan region. Anna has been working on reviving the tradition of nyt' through individual research and "Reclaim the Voice" workshops, run for women exclusively (which have garnered enough attention in Poland that Cosmopolitan published a brief article on Anna and the voice workshops).

Anna Nacher Voice, dulcimer, mini-harmonium, tscheng arco, sitar, percussion
Marek Styczynski Shepherd's woodwind instruments and Slovakian fujara, didjeridu, X oboe, French horn, Jew's harp, chimitra, voice.
Tomasz Radziuk Bass guitar (acoustic fretless and Kramer's bass guitars)
Jan Kubek Tabla, djembe, doof, percussion Ramunas Jaras - Minimoog, clarinet
Wadada Sitar
Marek Miczyk Violin


Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: 324 E. 13th St #7
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF28CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
11/8/99
***The time frame during which these songs were recorded brackets the demise of the seven-inch format (I wonder how many more sound media will bear a non-metric name?), a death by prohibition at the hands of the major labels. "Let them eat cassingles," they cynically proclaimed around 1988, and shame on humanity that no one was beheaded for saying so. The Shallows' songs, laid down three years after Roy's sides with thePin Group, were recorded in the midst of a Kiwi-pop boom that still admitted the single as a viable means of expression. The rest were laid down nine years later in two separate bursts of recording on either side of the United States during the format's Indian Summer.

When he recorded the majority of these songs with a four-track and a spaghetti copy of a Fender Jaguar in NYC's East Village, he was alone, but what he had was memory-of when the Byrds or Wire or Television made music that sounded like it could change his life and he was young enough to not completely dismiss the possibility-and knowledge-that music did change lives because he was alone halfway around the world partly because of it.

Alone except for an audience of cockroaches, Roy remembered what singles used to be-singular statements, discreet moments. He learned how to use that four-track and recorded a litter of songs that faced down all those looming influences; McGuinn, Newman, Verlaine and Lloyd. Then those little Yankee microlabels put them out and they floated to the top of the seven-inch glut, and we drank 'em down, and bought 'em up, and traded 'em for foolish amounts of money after they sold out. We plugged into his little universes for a while."
-liner notes excerpts by Bill Meyer


Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: Allegory Of Hearing
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF47CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
8/21/00
***After the success of last year's Roy Montgomery album on Drunken Fish, And Now The Rain..., and the first installment of Roy's singles compilation 324 E. 13th St. #7, The Allegory Of Hearing is set to bring even more adoration upon New Zealand's true "guitar hero."

Recorded in Montgomery's harbor cottage in Lyttelton, NZ, during October 1998 on his trusty Tascam Porta One and mixed in January 2000, Allegory is a return to an instrumental palette first witnessed on his debut DFR CD Scenes From The South Island and Temple IV CD (Kranky). Armed with newly acquired Rickenbacker 12-string and vintage Farfisa electric organ, plus is usual Teisco, e-bow, and Quadraverb arsenal, RM has created eight short soundtracks of a particularly meditative nature. All, save one, clock in at under six minutes, making this a slightly more digestable dish for those with smaller appetites. But fans of Montgomery's high-profile contribution to Harmony of the Spheres collection will be pleased with the exception, "Resolution Island Suite," which clocks in at over 17 minutes, was premiered at Terrastock II in San Francisco 1998, and appears here reworked in an instrumental form. The title, by the way, refers to an island at the far southwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand named for British explorer Captain James Cook's vessel, the Resolution, from his second visit to NZ in 1773. The island was used 100 years later by an Irish immigrant named Richard Henry (1845-1929) as a sanctuary for endangered flightless birds that were being hunted into extinction. Unfortunately, the hundreds of birds he transferred perished, as he'd misjudged the distance small mustelid and rodent predators could swim. He retired a decade later, rather despondently, unaware that his amateur ornithological work would provide the basic knowledge and practice for conservation work for the next century and beyond. The album is therefore dedicated to Richard Henry other socially flightless birds who have turned their talents toward nature.


Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DFR41
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
4/13/98
***Do the names Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond and Hash Jar Tempo mean anything to you? How about one of the finest one-sixths Harmony Of the Spheres had to offer? New Zealander Montgomery's past and present include such dignified solo and collaboratory moments, as well as work with Pin Group, Dadamah and Dissolve. Nobody else can do things like this with naught but a guitar, piano, four-track, and an armful of effects boxes.

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Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: E.N.D.
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:
DF027
Price: $3.50 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
11/16/98
***Stands for "Eulogy for Nick Drake." Solarized bedroom recordings from the master of murmur and occasional Flying Saucer Attack collaborator-- three new songs.

Artist: MONTGOMERY, ROY Title: Scenes From South
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF22
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
***Also see Hash Jar Tempo, Flying Saucer Attack. Pin Group/Shallows/Dadamah/Dissolve founder flees New Zealand for self-imposed exile in the US, armed with only a $150 guitar, a handful of effects boxes and a battered 4-track. Result: a beautifully melancholy work that shimmers, drones, swells and vibrates in a manner most rewarding.

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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Scriptures Of Golden
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF17CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
1/10/00
***REISSUE. Solo recordings, live to tape at the Knitting Factory in late '88 and '89. Guaranteed sonic salvation in the form of great slabs of feedback drift, tape delay, and the voice of a lone storyteller in the midst of a storm. Co-release with Father Yod; check out Lee's other releases on the Starlight Furniture Company (carried by Midheaven) and Atavistic labels.

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Artist: RHBAND Title: First Tone
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF039CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
10/5/98
***Pack your pipe and loosen your jaws-- the California-based collective known for their extended explorations of the Ur-drone are coming to town. Hide your cracked electronics and homemade long-string instruments, because that's what these inhalers crave.

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Artist: RHBAND Title: Third Order Parasitism
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF33
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
***Improvisational California quartet messes with your head. Subtle droning interaction puts idle LFO-jockeys to shame.

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Artist: SFERIC EXPERIMENT Title: Eight Miles
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF16
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
***From 1989. Improvised Dunedin artrock that probably won't alienate fans of Dead C.

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Artist: SOUTHERNING Title: Templates Made Or Found
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DFR38CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
3/16/98
***Andy Brown of Jessamine is joined by in-law David Farrell for some non-combative, subwoofer-scraping jet stream journeys. Moody electronic meditations and amorphous underwater rumblings perfect for getting all pruney in your on-vacation neighbor's hot tub.

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Artist: STARFUCKERS Title: Infrantumi
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DFR42CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
3/16/98
***Third full-length release by Italian "concrete rock" collective. Highly disconnected, lurching, disorienting and minimal: music for drum sets that go bump in the night. This Heat and Oval are among the namecheckable comparisons.

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Artist: V/A Title: Fit For Kings
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
DF037CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
7/27/98
***A series of fuzzy, warm and extended New Zealand moments: collected limited-edition 8" lathecut polycarbonate discs by the likes of Paramentier, Witcyst, Crude, the Aesthetics, Children's Television Workshop, the Pointsman, Casagrante Apparatus and White Saucer.

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Artist: V/A Title: Harmony Of The Spheres
Format: 2xCD Catalog
Number:
DF50CD
Price: $16.50 Label: Drunken Fish
Release
Date:
11/8/99
***Good old Pythagoras. He is many things to many people. The prototypical stoner, an ancient template for all subsequent seekers hungry for consciousness expansion, the master of prophecies involving a bunch of rocks floating in a vacuum. He defined harmony as "an arrangement of the contents of the gospels designed to show their parallelism, mutual relations, and differences." Harmony of the Spheres was originally released by Drunken Fish in November of 1996 as a specially designed, triple-LP boxset produced in an edition of 3,000. It quickly sold out its one and only pressing and has remained unavailable since.


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