Our pals in the Portland via San Francisco boy-girl sci-fi doom-unit Prizehog are here in New York this week, not only making an appearance at our beloved WFMU for a live session hosted by Imaginary Radio with Chris M, but laying waste to Death By Audio with consistently crushing locals VAZ, the Dazzling Killmen-descended XADDAX, and the surgically precise STATS. We’re psyched to have put together such a flawless bill(if we do say so ourselves) and look forward to seeing you there.
* Let’s Paint TV, John Kilduff’s long-running public-access television program, which has grown from anomaly of the airwaves in his native Los Angeles to international phenomenon, will be translated to the realm of L I V E performance for a special, rare appearance here in NYC. Mr. Let’s Paint will be joined by a backing band for this show. You’ve seen him run on a treadmill while painting, taking calls from viewers, cooking food, playing ping pong, and making blended drinks but you haven’t seen him multitask like this. We can’t wait to see what he pulls off this time.
* Lame Driver as King Nebuchadnezzar – Home Blitz/Lame Drivers member, WFMU radio personality, and faxes your head with a rare solo performance.
* Enforcer – PC Worship/The Dreebs offshoot, an enforcer’s job is to deter and respond to dirty or violent play by the opposition.
* Haribo (with doggiesatnight) – HARIBO is the combination of artists Raul De Nieves, Jessie Stead, and Nathan Whipple. A master blend of early 21st century performance options.
Saturday, April 13 2013
The Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York
Thrones and Vaz with the recently reformed Floor tonight at Saint Vitus in Greenpoint. We’re told tickets are scarce so do what needs to be done. RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/566006650078014/
We are thrilled to be carrying the debut LP by Richard Papiercuts in our store and even MORE thrilled to say we’re working on something with ECCE HOMO, a recently mutated strain from the same perfectly demented laboratory, to be released this year by SGG. Get acquainted, true believers.
Richard Papiercuts’ CV includes somber musique concrete and noise experiments for Azul Discografica, collaborations with Mattin (including 2011’s Exquisite Corpse LP), action-drumming for a certain NY-based Slavic psych-noise trio, and as LF Restaurant, 14 years as singer / songwriter / guitarist in The Chinese Restaurants. With that slippery outfit, Papiercuts crafted two ignoble classics of 2010 in the EPs “River of Shit” and “Summer Romance,” celebrated art-punk slabs that turned heads at WFMU, The Wire, and Maximum Rock ‘N’ Roll alike. As the blogosphere might put it, “fidelity-wise this is a major step up” from those Chinese Restaurants singles. A Sudden Shift took over a year to record, during stolen late night hours at a secret 24-track analog studio, deep inside a Harlem warehouse on the verge of demolition, with Richard overdubbing most of the tracks himself. How’d it turn out? A dense, throbbing art-rock/postpunk/singer-songwriter record, riddled with secrets, brimming with hooks — a bleak ‘n’ anguished New York song cycle shot through with oblique humor. Richard sang like a beast, and arranged, played guitars, drums, keys, etc. Avant-reedsman Ed Bear (Twistycat) played tenor sax; Rabbi Martha Mozszinsky played cello; Criss Criss lent his molten, double-dong leads to one key track. Malcolm Tent (Ultrabunny), Pascal Ludet (Pop. 1280), and LF himself pumped the Chinese rock in a shit-hot version of the Restaurants’ protest song for all seasons, “River of Shit.” Andrew Dreyer engineered the album, Cale/Ra inheritor Matt Mottel (Platinum Vision, CSC Funk) played piano and synth, and Bil Bowen (DJ/Rupture and Nettle) baked it ’til it was done. The recordings are “upper-mid-fi” and crystal-clear. A Sudden Shift is an ophthalmology of rock history that connects the febrile dots between postplunk, legitimate UK pop, and the 20th Century “serious music” canon. References so obvious, yet so out of place, they make you doubt yourself: Robert Plant (solo), Cold Sun (twice), outsider folk garbage, Current 93, Tilt, The Velvets, Howlin’ Wolf, the Coltrane Quartet, Songs From the Big Chair, Comus, The Idiot, Sand, and, as ever, Joy Division. Influences? No: References. Intertexts. But even at its most “conceptual,” A Sudden Shift is an insistently tuneful, emotionally loaded song-cycle, deliberate and precise in its diction even if Dick’s agenda isn’t easy to figure. Clean and fucked up. Sweet and sour. A Sudden Shift sounds like no other record in recent memory. -Pena Records
Thanks go out, as always, to you fine Glossolalians for making our Austin takeover a success, not to mention all the old and new friends who turned out at the Vaz/Multicult shows on the way there in the fine cities of Richmond, Atlanta, and New Orleans..Oh, New Orleans….
We didn’t sleep much…
…and the drives were brutal…
But we wet our beaks on fine sounds and quality hangs so no complaints..
Now back to work! So many exxxciting releases in the pipeline…
Very few copies available of this strictly limited repress of the finest Vaz effort to date, with brilliant new packaging, made to coincide with a massive tour of Australia, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Lovingly assembled in cooperation with Australian imprint WeEmptyRooms, a small number of these gems have been set aside for SGG mailorder marauders.
Hand screen printed sleeves on deluxe 250 GSM, navy blue, recycled stock. Sky blue and dark blue print.
Risographed 12X24 insert.
Hand numbered out of 150.
Includes immediate download of 10-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
Head over to our store to snag one without hesitation.
We swam with frightening beasts down under, we survived night after night of stage dives and motorcycle rides in Indo, and we stayed one step ahead of the law in Kuala Lumpur. Therefore, it would be impossible to adequately express here the extent of our gratitude to those who made our time in Australia, Indonesia, and Malaysia such a tremendous experience. I even tried to give it some time before writing this, to let the jetlag subside a bit before rattling what hasn’t been blown of my mind in order to “consolidate”(or as our Aussie mates would say, “chuck together”) my thoughts into a clear statement, but so much of our adventure still seems a blur of good, better, and completely unreal times. So, with that said, I’ll just cover all the bases with a heartfelt “RIPPER” until we can deliver both our tour film(er, DOCO) and our “Live From SE Asia” record, both of which I can barely contain my excitement for, to show you what we mean.
Mr. Mike
New York City 2013
Above is just the tiniest morsel of a wealth of footage of our exploits — a house party in Perth that was one of twenty-billion surprises on an unforgettable tour..
It’s finally here, the eve of our long, long journey across the planet to bring the good word of VAZ to ears far and wide. The Australian leg of the tour is augmented by the fine heaviness of our down-under coconspirators in DEAD and we’re very happy to be traveling in this cursed caravan. SGG-heads can expect a documentary film and a very unique live record upon our return to NYC. Please get in touch with any suggestions for things that must bee seen/heard/tasted in these parts of the world. Thanks heaps!
Thu Nov 22 – Castlemaine – CASPA*
Fri Nov 23 – 2pm – 3CR- Live to Air on ‘Burning Vinyl’
Fri Nov 23 – Melbourne – The Tote
Sat Nov 24 – Adelaide – Crown & Anchor
Sun Nov 25 – Geelong – Black Hatt
Mon Nov 26 – Melbourne – Northcote Social Club
Tue Nov 27 – Leeton – Leeton Hotel
Wed Nov 28 – Canberra – House Show*
Thu Nov 29 – Wollongong – Yours & Owls
Fri Nov 30 – Sydney – Sando
Sat Dec 1 – Brisbane – The Waiting Room*
Sun Dec 2 (early) – Brisbane – Tym Guitars*
Sun Dec 2 (later) – Lismore – Wasp Factory*
Mon Dec 3 – Recording —
Tue Dec 4 – Tamworth – The Youthie*
Wed Dec 5 – Newcastle – Whites Records 5PM SHOW*
Thurs Dec 6 – Sydney – Blackwire* (6-9pm)
Fri Dec 7 – Ballarat – Karova Lounge
Sat Dec 8 – Perth -CXLLD – looking for new venue
Sun Dec 9 – Fremantle – Mojos
–SE Asia–
Tue Dec 11 – Jakarta
Wed Dec 12 – Bandung
Thu Dec 13 – Jogjakarta
Fri Dec 14 – SG
Sat Dec 15 – KL
Sun Dec 16 – KL
Mon Dec 17 – – Recording —
Tue Dec 18 — back to Australia —
Wed Dec 19 – Melbourne – Anchor*
*All Ages
What to wear while hollowing the tips of your ammunition in preparation for the war against all things false? Got you covered. This fine garment celebrates the union of Mick Barr and Brooks Headley in unholy barn burning and heaven storming. Limited edition and available in muddy brown or smokey gray…over in our store, of course. http://sleepinggiantglossolalia.bigcartel.com/product/oldest-shirt
MjolniirDXP have called a momentary truce with the internet in order to make their recent “Erosion The Owl” track available to users of computers. More recordings likely to surface..stay tuned… http://soundcloud.com/mjolniirdxp/erosion_the_owl
The boys played an unlikely outdoor gig at McCarren Park in Brooklyn earlier this Summer and treated the audience to a set of new barn-burners from their upcoming album.
“It looks like there are a few new faces in the crowd.”
The following releases by SGG affiliates/co-conspirators are available, but on a temporary basis. Head over to our store to stock up before time runs out. Sesso Violento “Pacificador” one-sided LP from Brazilian/UK horde “..all the violence of the new generation of punked-up black metal, with a lunar module half-built in the practice space.” -Prison Tatt Shit and Shine “229-2299 Girls Against Shit” 2XLP “..could be the soundtrack to that summer, the beating of rats with sticks, the shooting of girls with gat guns, swimming in a mang ridden cut and the discovering of dead dogs and maggots. Ah, those were the days my friend.” Excellent gatefold jackets with superb photography/illustration. Wrangler Brutes “The Tape” LP This LP contains the tracks recorded prior to their Steve Albini-engineered “Zulu“ album for Kill Rock Stars, and until now only available as a cassette! Members of Oldest, Born Against, MRP, Skull Kontrol, White Shit, UOA, Monorchid, Great Unraveling, etc……hardcore pwide! The Skull Defekts “The Black Hand” LP Before the DFX were a Daniel Higgs-fronted, hypnotic, post-everything ritualistic “rock” band, they specialized in conjuring deep drone and tone, as delivered here through layer upon layer of buzzing synth.The Skull Defekts were for this recording Henrik Rylander on no-input mixing desk and feedback units and Joachim Nordwall on Drone Machine and effects. Cover design by infamous artist Fredrik Söderberg. Impressive black-on-black woodcut-style jackets. All too limited. Multicult “Open Fire b/w The Costume” 7″ Two of MCs most sensible offerings on the most sensible format around, the 7″ single. Enjoy responsibly. Todd “Big Ripper” LP “It is the sound of TODD inside your house.” This record truly lives up to its name. Fantastic cover art. Vaz “The Lie That Matches the Furniture” LP 3rd full-length from the “extremely ominous Brooklyn noise-pop band, spun off from the revered and semi-defunct ’90s outfit Hammerhead”. Ludicrously limited! Vaz “Dying To Meet You” LP Apollo Liftoff and Deft Garlands, working here as a duo, offer two sides of paranoia overtime originally released way back by GSL and repressed in limited quantities by our German pals at X-Mist. ” …a more macho Depeche Mode covered by Midwestern punks discovering Joy Division in their first summer of cheep beer and wide-eyed discontent.” – Who comes up with this shit?? Vaz “Demonstrations In Micronesia” LP Don’t let the obtuse island-music title throw you off. This is one of the world’s finest examples of genre perfection in existence. Vaz, when this was recorded (for Load/X-Mist and Thin the Herd in 1999) were a two-piece with original members of Minneapolis goliaths, Hammerhead. Paul Erickson and Jeff Mooridian Jr. wrote the most focused batch of cold, futuristic noise jams since we-don’t-know-when. Nothing hopeful, melodic, or…anything.. but motorik and ever-forward Fargo-Moorehead desolation rock, done impeccably on Demonstrations. This is back in print. But for how long? Third, very limited pressing of 100 copies with silkscreened heavy covers. Clear red vinyl. Courtesy of the fine folks at Wantage USA and X-Mist.
