Sunshine and Grease

New Web Address for Sunshine & Grease activities. Blog, Shop, Gallery information.

2010-04-22T22:37:00.000-07:00

www.sunshinegrease.com

2010-03-31T07:11:00.000-07:00

Events:

April 1. Stained Sheets Launch
April 2. Tim Coster, VDO and Judo Bronze
April 3. Candlesnuffer/Kim Myrh duo, Sean Baxter/Robbie Avenaim duo
April 8. Silk Ears, Acid Casualty and more to be announced
April 10. Candlesnuffer/Kim Myrh duo, Adam Simmons solo
April 15-May 1. Victor Meertens: Charles Ives Singer and his... world. From the archive of V.V. Music...

New stock:

Hermann Nitsch - Eighth Symphony (Tochnit Aleph) $34 Double CD with posters and notes Incredible Orchestral CD.
Henri Chopin - La Plaine des Respirs CD (Tochnit Aleph) $22
Masonna with Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock with Masonna - Clitoris projectile pump action CD (Tochnit Aleph) $22
Machine Gun TV - Cue EP 7" (Tochnit Aleph) $10

Government Alpha: Resolution Of Remembrance 1992-1999 [4CD BOX-SET] $42
yasutoshi yoshida's government alpha project started in 1992 and quickly became one of the leading names in the third generation of japanese noise music. government alpha was characterized by its ferociously intense signature sound. noise fans often speak of a feeling of "pure energy" felt when listening to noise music. few artists consistently embodies this better than government alpha.

audiences in the west first started to take notice when government alpha appeared on the susan lawly "extreme music from japan" compilation and vinyl releases on segerhuva and vinyl communications. but at the same time yasutoshi recorded a series of works released on the cassette format. these were (as often is the case with noise tapes) released in very limited editions. the "resolution of remembrance 1992-1999" box-set is a selection of 62 tracks from these obscure releases in the years 1992 to 1999, released by labels like harbinger sound, mother savage noise productions, hospital productions, utsu tapes, american tapes and of course yoshida's own xerxes imprint. the first cd also includes previously unreleased tracks from 1992/93.

an unstoppable natural flow of soundwaves seemingly unfiltered by human presence, as unpredictable a flow as any natural force. pure noise, not filtered through, but channelled by the musician. let me emphasise how happy i am to see this box set being realised. hopefully it will work as an eye-opener to those who are new to the music of yasutoshi yoshida.

- from tommy carlsson's liner notes
Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven CD (Pica Disk) $22

Blue Sabbath, Black Cheer - Crows eat the eyes from the leviathans CD (Release the bats) $23
Dolphins into the future - The music of belief CD (Release the bats) $23

Zoo - Trilogi Peradaban CD (Dual Plover/Tenzenmen) $20 Cool Indonesian psychedelic punk album in 3 parts. Mixing contemporary styles with elements of traditional Indo-folk sounds.
Dokaka - Human Interface CD (Dual Plover) $20 88 tracks! Japanese Beatboxer extraordinaire performs multi-tracked songs with his mouth!

A.B.C. Life CD-R $10 Anti-social behaviour recorded in the backstreets of Coburg and Brunswick in 2003 by Carl Von Bamburger and friends.
Rosalind Hall and Alice Hui-Sheng Chang CD $15

The Mops - Psychedelic sounds in Japan CD (World Psychedelia) $30

Ofege - Try And Love CD (Academy) $28
Ofege - Try And Love LP (Academy) $32 This great record was recorded by a bunch of high-school kids in Nigeria in 1973. Really sweet!

Various - Sons of YMA CD (YMA) $28 Great collection of Peruvian garage and instrumental bands from the 1960's.

Cambodia Rocks Vol. 1 CD (Khmer Rocks) $28 Now legendary compilations (Volume's 1 and 2) of Khmer 60's garage and pop.
Cambodia Rocks Vol. 2 CD (Khmer Rocks) $28

Takehisa Kosugi - Catch Wave CD $30 Classic album by ex-Taj Mahal travelling Fluxus artist; came to blow Australian minds a few years back as the director of Merce Cunningham's music committee.

Comus - Song to Comus (The Complete Collection) Double CD (Castle) $35

Kansas City Jammers - Got Good (If you get it) LP + 7" (Void Records) $32

Various - Psych Funk 101 double LP (World Psychedelic Funk Classics) $35

Love Tan 7" (Sweet Rot Records) $12
Dylan Ettinger and the Heat - Smokin' 7"(Notnotfun) $12
Lamps - Neil Bohr was an excellent Ping Pong Player 7"(Dull Knife) $12
Lamps - The role of the dogcatcher in African American Urban Folklore 7" (Fan Death Records) $12
Rosemary Krust 7" (Spleen Coffin) $12
Gummy Stumps - Update from he Nostalgiosphere 7"EP $12

Plenty more new 7"s in store now.

RITUALS OF THE CAPTURED MOMENT EPISODES 3, 4 AND 5

2010-03-03T20:14:00.000-08:00

At Sunshine & Grease (9 QUEENS PARADE CLIFTON HILL) this Friday and Saturday.

DVD LAUNCH - RITUALS OF THE CAPTURED MOMENT PARTS 3, 4 AND 5.

5-6 March 2010

Friday 5 March 6pm-11:30

constant singular cinematic screening

Saturday 6 March 4pm - 7pm

panel / workshop

multi=screen installation

stereo sound system

The Rituals of the Captured Moment 1000 movies series is a psychedelic rendition of a culture vomit resulting from an over-information toxicity roller coaster. Sourced from over 400 hours of footage documenting Australia's premier outsider, avant garde and other artists in their natural environments. Brutal noise, psyched-out pop, sincore, improvorama. Experience and memory is interwoven this time tapestry that blurs any line between audience and performer. The strobescopic transition between the hyper signified and the banal carry a severe epilepsy warning. "A kaleidescope adventure"

In a very special event Venting Gallery and Sunshine & Grease will present the five hours of Extreme Cinematic Insanity over two days! On Friday 5th March at 6pm - screening of the first 500 of the 1000 movie series - A cinematic marathon that can be appreciated in part or in its entirety. On Saturday 6th March at 3pm - a forum and workshop will be held with the creators of the Rituals. Nylstoch and Bonnie will talk about the production process of the 1000 films and will engage the audience with the creation of NEW LIVE RITUALS! A unique experience that cannot be missed [but may be repeated...]

New address. New Gallery

2010-02-03T04:40:00.000-08:00

Hi, I know it's been a long time since I've posted on here. What can I say. It's a struggle keeping up with everything.

I've recently acquired a URL address, which currently leads you here. Eventually you'll be able to buy directly through me online. the address, if you didn't come from there is www.sunshinegrease.com/ It has a nice cover page currently, designed by Lachlan Conn. Lachlan is working with me on the gallery side of things, and brings with him some great design skills and incredible taste in music and the arts. Also a great deal of experience through his 2 years running the amazing Forepaw in Northcote, which closed in December 2008.

Lach and I will see to it that Sunshine & Grease continues with the same style in 2010.

Stay tuned.

New stock arrived recently from Mississippi Records, Notnotfun, Olde English Spelling Bee and Bum tapes. Also just got copies of the new Graham Lambkin book and his new solo CD, as well as the Shadow Ring's "Life review" CD. Get in touch via patap50@gmail.com if you're after anything from these fine labels or anything else.

More soon.

2009-09-07T02:55:00.000-07:00

Hello Sunshine,

A big one this week at the shop and away from it.

Tuesday night at Make it up club: Warren Burt (solo electronics and sonic devices) Ryan Jewell (US) (solo percusion and electronics) Slawek Janicki (POLAND) (bass) , Quba Janicki (drums) (POLAND), Andy Sugg and Kris Wanders (saxophones), Tom Fryer (guitar)

And then after midnight, especially for those who didn't make it out:This Tuesday on O'Tomorrow, (Midnight til 2 Wednesday morning) Downpat is joined in the studio by Ryan Jewell for very special on-air performance.From Columbus Ohio USA, Ryan Jewell plays percussion for Pink Reason and Psychedelic Horseshit. Long arms flailing all over the kit like a mad muppet one moment, precise and to the point in the next, Ryan is a great rock drummer as well as an experienced improviser, working with percussion and electronics. Performing solo and in collaboration with many.

(Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8TShSBz0I&feature=related )

From his Bio: "Ryan regularly works as a solo performer in the arenas of very quiet free improv and very loud harsh noise, and is often called to play drums for established free jazz musicians, experimental rock bands, and iconoclastic songwriters. His solo playing encompasses the worlds of free-jazz, electroacoustic composition and far-out noise from a drum kit, an oscillator and a selection of bowed and wind instruments and accessories. In addition to being a perpetual traveler of the US, he also toured extensively in Europe. He was invited to perform at such respected international festivals as the SOWIESO 1 festival in Paris, the Kraak Festival in Brussels, the International Noise Conference in Miami, and SXSW in Austin.

On Thursday, Holy Balm (Sydney) play an instore at Sunshine & Grease. Starts early. 5pm!

Also on Thursday, at 730 pm, at Blindside Gallery, Lvl 7 of the Nicholas building, (Corner of Swanston st and Flinders lane)

I've curated a night for the blindside sound series. Playing in the following order:

Aaron Wallace and Tom Hall (Melb) duo,

The Charles Ives Singers,

Justin Fuller.

JK Fuller and Dell Stewart. Photo by Dell Stewart

Then on Friday, back at Sunshine & Grease, Pink Reason instore. Begins at 6pm.

New shipment of noise records in store now. On various labels. And expecting shipment from Siltbreeze this week.... Will list later!

Also, from the What is Music HQ. An urgent call-out for your participation. Read on:

Dear Bands/Musicians/Soundmakers,Whatismusic festival is presenting a very special large scale event for the 2009 festival - the project is called 50/50. 50 bands in 50 minutes, all set up simultaneously in a single room. Ambitious - yes, crazy - well...yes as well. At the moment we're looking for keen young (and old) go-getters who would like to be a part of the event - if you have gear and a minute's worth of creativity, or even pure derivative hilarity, then we'd like to hear from you!The event will be taking place at the ABC's Iwaki Auditorium Southbank on the 19th of December, and will be recorded and broadcast by Radio National an hour following the gig. A project of such absurd and amusing magnitude has never been attempted on Australian shores, and should prove to be an amazing experience for anyone involved.If you would like to be on the bill, send through a short description of who you are, what you do, and preferably a link to a short soundclip of your work to lloydhoneybrook@gmail.com* and we will endeavour to get back to you ASAP with some more details about locking your group in for the project.Looking very much forward to hearing from you all, and making some ludicrous large-scale history!all the best,Robbie Avenaim & Lloyd Honeybrook*for those of you who don't know Lloyd Honeybrook, he is co-ordinating and assisting the WIM festival with Robbie Avenaim this year, and in charge of the co-ordination for this particular project. Whatisrobbie is still behind the wheel though!

If there's any questions at all, don't hesitate to contact me through here, or I think you've all got my number 0402234548. Thanks heaps dudes, much obliged!

x.Lloyd

So: Tuesday - Make it up Club and O'Tomorrow.

Thur - Holy Balm instore, Blindside sound series.

Fri - Pink Reason instore.

Hope to see you out there.

Pat

New Stock and Re-stocks. June.

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New stock and re-stock list. June 2009

Undecisive God 'A Vinyl Construction' 7" - $12 Undecisive God's recent experiments with multiple turntables and prepared/broken records come to full fruition here with a release that poses questions both to the use of turntables as instruments and vinyl as a format. The music - crunchy multi-layered improvisations/processes that randomly sample small broken chunks from the original vinyl materials - is itself presented on 7" vinyl, in handmade covers reconstructed from old record covers and broken vinyl shards; each cover is different, individually numbered and an interesting one-off creation in itself. Limited edition of fifty copies from Revolution Records.

Topeng Cirebon – Tarawangsa – Sundanese music from West Java CD (Welt Musik) $32

Kath Bloom and various artists – Loving takes it’s course CD (Chapter) $26. 2 disk set. The first one features artists such as Bill Callahan, Laura Jean, Mark Kozelec, Mick Turner with Peggy Frew, Devendra Banhart, Scout Niblett , Josephine Foster, Meg Baird and others covering Kath’s songs. Disc 2 features Kath Bloom doing her versions of the songs.

Kath Bloom – Terror CD (Chapter) $25

Songs for Nao – Fourteen bands from Japan CD (Chapter) $26 Great compilation of Japanese Out pop. Features Tenniscoats, Nagisa Ni Te, Haher Shalal Hash Baz, My pal foot foot, Andersens, G.Spot hunter, etc.

Sunken – Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve CD (Pseudo Arcana) $18 Stefan Neville (Pumice) and Antony Milton!

Swill Radio is a label run by Scott Foust, A man of many talents, and many musical projects. He is involved in Idea Fire Company, Tart, The Pickle Factory and has also been a member of the Shadow Ring. He also runs the Pineapple tapes cassette label and is a man of many great ideas. Read some of his writing at http://www.anti-naturals.org/ Below is some music released on the Swill Radio label. All un-compromised, beautiful music. Come in and have a listen.

Ian Middleton – Aural Spaces LP (Swill Radio) $32 Beautiful moody electronic minimalism of the highest order.

Asmus Tietchens - Teils, Teils LP (Swill Radio) $30

Idea Fire Company – The Island of taste LP (Swill Radio) $32

Idea Fire Company – Vital CD (Swill Radio) $28

Idea Fire Company – Stranded LP (Swill Radio) $30

Idea Fire Company – Anti-Natural LP (Swill Radio) $28

RLW – Early W two LP (Swill Radio) $28

Tart – Radio Orange LP (Swill Radio) $28

Tart – Bring in the Admiral (Swill Radio) $28

The Shadow Ring – I’m Some Songs (Swill Radio) $30

Moondog – The Story of Moondog LP (Honest Jon’s) $32

Moondog – More Moondog LP (Honest Jon’s) $32

Sprigs of Time – 78s from the EMI Vaults double LP (Honest Jon’s) $42

Marvelous Boy – Calypso from West Africa double LP (Honest Jon’s) $42

Cluster – Self Titled LP (4 Men With Beards) $35

Spiritual Singers – Ntsamina LP (Mississippi) $35

COB – Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart CD (Radioactive) $24

Son of Ice Woman – Tin Food CD-R $16 Oliver Hextall’s primitive synth and tape loops. In

beautiful handmade packaging.

Purple Duck – Duck Side of the moon CD (Dual Plover) $16

Vialka – Success Planetaire International CD (Dual Plover) $16

Naked On The Vague – The Bloodpressure Sessions CD (Dual Plover) $16

Mrs. Rice Corpse CD (Dual Plover) $16 What kind of government would send a lunatic artist,

whose idea of self expression is smashing amplified glass against his face, off to China to become a cultural ambassador? Australia the lucky country of coarse! And that’s’ exactly what happened to Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham). With under two months in Beijing he formed the pick up band Rice屎Corpse, (named after the Chinese character for shit, 屎 which itself is the combination of two characters "尸" corpse and "米" rice), jammed with them four times (two of which were recorded for the album Mrs Rice) before heading off for a ten city tour of China.
A Trio of glass, drums and piano was in Lucas’s minds ear when he arrived and two completely different musicians came forward to form this unlikely band. First to be recruited for drums was Yang Yang whose antics in his own band Mafeisan has given him the reputation of being the craziest exponent of the normally conservative Beijing scene. His ultra loud out and proud personality is in stark contrast to the mild mannered and brutally shy saxophonist Li Zenghui who came to the project as pianist, cause simply put there were no suitable pianists in the city.

Jamie Fielding – Extinct LP (Dr Jim’s) $30 Pretty sure this is final copies of this amazing LP.

Artefacts of Australian experimental music 1930-1973 CD(Shamefile) $30

Muslimgauze – Sulaymaniyah CD (Staalplaat) $20

Muslimgauze – Syncophant of Purdah CD (Staalplaat) $20

Prurient – Cocaine Death CD (Hospital Productions) $27

Carlos Giffoni/Prurient – Heavy Rain Returns CD (Ideal) $27

Prurient/Kevin Drumm – All are guests in the house of the lord CD (Hospital Productions) $27

Hotogisu/Prurient – Snail on a razor CD (Hospital Productions) $27

Controlled Bleeding – Shanked and Slithering CD (Hospital Productions) $27

Diapsiquir – Pacta Daemoniarum/Crasse 2001 double CD (Hospital Productions) $30

Hair Police CD (Hospital Productions) $27

Hair Police – Obedience Cuts CD (Freedom From) $25

Zaimph – Sexual Infinity CD (Hospital Productions) $27

The New Blockaders with Thurston Moore/Jim O’Rourke – The Voloptulist CD (Hospital

Productions) $27

Jason Crumer – Ottoman Black CD (Hospital Productions) $27

Kevin Drumm – Imperial Distortion double CD (Hospital Productions) $30

Hanatarash/Runzelstirn & Girgelstock/EB.Ersonna 12” (Tochnit Aleph) $25

The Haters – Fckn Bstrds 7” (Dead Mind records) $10

Incapacitants – Box is stupid, 10 CD box set (Pica Disk) $120 Amazing 10 CD set of

Incapacitants tape releases from the 90’s. Includes 40 page book with liner notes from Jim Sauter, Yoshihide Otomo, Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai.

Hijokaidan – Polar Nights Live CD (Pica Disk) $24

Birchville Cat Motel – Gunpowder Temple of Heaven CD (Pica Disk) $24

Hild Sofie Tafjord – Kama CD (Pica Disk) $24

Jim O’Rourke – Disengage double CD (Staalplaat/Korm Plastics) $30

Zbigniew Karkowski & Damion Romero – 9 before 9 CD (Blossoming Noise) $24

Z’EV – Forward CD (Korm Plastics) $27

Z’EV – Outward CD (Korm Plastics) $27

1/3 Octave Band – Icarus CD (Humbug) $22

Pink Reason – Cleaning the Mirror CD (Stained Circles) $20

Warmer Milks – Let your friends in CD (Release the Bats) $24

QuintetAvant – En Concert á la sale des fétes CD (Editions Mego) $26

Daisuke Suzuki, Brendan Walls – Aftertaste CD (Donovan’s hands) $18

Seht – Dead Bees CD (Pseudo Arcana) $18

Dove Yellow Swans – Live during war crimes Vol. 2 CD (Release the Bats) $25

A.M. – Rag Red Reverie CD (Pseudo Arcana) $18

Dialing In – Cows in Lye CD (Pseudo Arcana) $18

Leif Elggren – 45 Minutes from underneath beds CD (Absurd) $20

New Waver – Neuters CD (Dual Plover/Spill) $16

Dachise – Sugarpath/Eager 7” (Tochnit Aleph) $12

Kevin Blechdom – Children’s Suite 7” and CD (Dual Plover) $16

Alps/Frase + Bri Lathe cut 7” (Shrieksounds) $10

Raccoo-oo-oon – Behold secret kingdom CD (Release the bats) $24

Raccoo-oo-oon – CD (Release the Bats) $24

Wet Hair – Dream CD (Release the Bats) $24

Compact listen – VA CD $18 Great NZ compilation featuring Rosy Parlane, Tim Coster & Nigel

Wright, A.M., The Futurians, Stefan Neville, Greg Malcolm and others.

A.Wallace and Tom Hall – Transcendental Gang Bang CD-R $10 New ten buck gold nugget from this psyched Melbourne duo.

A.Wallace and Tom Hall – Infinity Computer CD-R $10 Dig the genius hand drawn artwork on

the disk.

A.Wallace and Tom Hall – Fuckscape in Dreamville CD-R $10

Tom Hall – Liquefying Clouds CD-R $10

Penguins 3”CD $8

Bunyip Moon CD-R $20

Pronoun CD-R - $20

Vincent over the sink – Lathe 7” $12 Feature’s Christopher Schueler and Matthew Hopkins from

Naked on the Vague. Handmade cover by Christopher Schueler.

Volvox – The Damage begins at the mouth CD (Dual Plover) $16

Volvox – Egg Pluto Pup CD (Dual Plover) $18 Special blue and white screenprinted cover!

Free Choice/Mental Powers split 7” (5th Column) $11

Pink Reason – Winona 7”(Woodsist) $12

Deaf Wish – Deaf News 7”(Stained Circles) $10

Clockcleaner – Skinheaded lady 7” (Stained Circles) $10

The Stabs – Split Lips 7” (Stained Circles) $10

Dave E. & the cool marriage counselors – Searching through Sears 7”(Christmas pet records) $12

Solo tracks of incredible, unique clarity by one-time Electric Eels frontman Dave McManus, stripped of the trappings of a proto-punk band but finding ways to impact a similarly unsteady, leering quality about them. These have been sitting on cassette tapes for close to 30 years, but the statements therein are so complete and timeless that any generation is lucky to have them. “Searching Through Sears” is easily my new favorite song, one which I played six times in a row just now before writing this. Dave plays sax, rhythm guitar and xylophone, singing about the way Cleveland’s suburbs had turned into an unshifting tableau of chain stores and restaurants, and sarcastically “searching for values”throughout these establishments, the xylophone ratcheting up the demented proceedings to an unparalleled, half-insane glee. Side two’s tracks “Love Meant to Die” and “Psychology 101” cover being broken-hearted in similarly bent approaches, with the former nothing more than Dave in the studio at WCSB (or WRUW, I guess), singing these jazzbo lyrics a capella, crime stories about how his woman’s dooming him to the grave. It’s as captivating and terrifying as when I heard this about one year ago in a living room in North Philly, and it’s stuck with me since. McManus wears the tortured, antisocial Ohio genius mantle as well as anyone who’s ever donned it, and is luckily still with us should he choose to tell us more. 500 copies, no info, good luck. Dusted review.

The Holy Modal Rounders – 1 & 2 CD (Fantasy) $28 The worlds first “Indie” folk band. East

Village idiots. These songs will change your life.

The Holy Modal Rounders ... Bound to lose DVD (Badbird) $35

Sumatran Folk Cinema DVD (Sublime Frequencies) $35 Sumatra. Sumatra. So close..... yet so far. Incredible real life music and art captured on video by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop.

Daisies DVD (Facets) $41 Czech new wave masterpiece made by Vera Chytlova in 1966.

Sweet Movie DVD (Criterion) $46 Dusan Makavejev is like an intellectual Jodorowski. Definitely a king of the European “Out” cinema. Sweet Movie, full of unenlighted lunacy, is not really a film at all. It is a social disease. - Jay Cocks, 1975

Negative Guest List fanzine #1 $6 Brisbane punk fanzine features interviews and articles on The

Hospitals, Der T.P.K, Castings, Daniel Striped Tiger.

Distort fanzine - #22 Cult Hardcore Punk $5 Local zine. Mostly reviews. Home made punk t-shirts feature.

White Fungus Magazine #8 $14 NZ mag features an article Smegma + art and NZ history.

White Fungus Magazine #9 $14 Annea Lockwood, Dead C, Greg Malcolm, John Weise.
Portraits from life by David Collier. (Drawn & Quarterly books) $18 Short Graphic stories by the amazing David Collier.

Hamilton Sketchbook by David Collier (Drawn & Quarterly books) $20 Just what it says.

Winsor McCay Early works VI (Checker Book Publishing) $20

The Head of Vitus Bering – Konrad Bayer (Rigmarol Books, Australia 1979) $12

Please Listen I have something to tell you about what is by Chris Johanson (Damiani Books) $45 Chris Johanson is a painter from Portland Oregon. His style is outsider and comical. I first saw his work on the cover of the very fine “Last Kind Words” compilation on Mississippi records and have loved his work ever since. 1 copy in stock. Very cheap.

Between You and Me – Poems by Amber Fresh $15 Great poems, written and read easily. By a young Perth writer with a big crush on Bukowski.

The & Files by Paul Foss (IMA Publications) $20 Modelled after a famed sci-fi TV series, The &-Files gathers a covert body of documents following the long and often controversial career of Art & Text, one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1981 by Paul Taylor (1957–92), who quickly moved to New York to make his mark as an art critic, the magazine became one of a handful of international art magazines that succeeded in capturing the turmoil and passing brilliance of those postmodern years. Narrated through the eyes and ears of its longtime publisher and editor, Paul Foss, The &-Files comprises an open letter, a lengthy interview, two questionnaires, and other commentaries and bibliographies, offering an insider’s account of the extraordinary advantages and pitfalls of publishing an art magazine. Co-published by Whale and Star, Florida.

Hany Armanious - Morphic Resonance Book (IMA publishing) $35 Sydney sculptor Hany Armanious makes formally diverse work, marked by its perverse conflation of opposing values. He morphs high-minded modernist formalism into hippy neo-paganism, confuses Scandanavian modernism with Arabian bazaar kitsch, and short circuits Bauhaus 'intelligent design' with Christian fundamentalist 'intelligent design' and Raelian 'intelligent design'. His work exploits our tendency to make links between things which resemble one another in form, material, function and process. He makes bogus analogies, sometimes with the seriousness of a conspiracy theorist, other times with prankster humour. There is a perversity to his project—sometimes he seems intent on elaborating some 'big picture' cosmology, at other times on scrambling the sensible. His underlying point is, however, phenomenological, pointing to our turns of mind. Our new monograph on Armanious surveys his work over the last decade or so, and features substantial new essays by Robert Leonard and Jason Markou. Jointly published with City Gallery Wellington.

Beep... Crackle... Contemporary Art from the middle of nowhere Book (IMA publishing) $30 Crackle showcases the work of seventeen contemporary Australian artists: James Angus, Kate Benyon, Pat Brassington, A Constructed World, Michael Doolan, Fiona Foley, Marco Fusinato, Simryn Gill, Andrew Hurle, Mathew Jones, Danius Kesminas, Callum Morton, Patricia Piccinini, Tim Silver, Ricky Swallow, Louise Weaver, and Ah Xian. It includes short essays on each artist by Stuart Koop and lots of pictures. Crackle has been supported by a grant from the Besen Foundation.

Chris Marker OWLS AT NOON PRELUDE: The Hollow Men by Adrian Martin and Raymond Bellour Book (IMA publishing) $11 A heavily illustrated study of French filmmaker Chris Marker's portentous video installation Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men, with essays by Adrian Martin and renowned French film theorist Raymond Bellour.

Many more new and Second hand Books, Records, CD’s, Cassettes and DVD’s in store now. Give me a bell if you don’t see it on the list and you’re looking for it. I’m also buying second hand and always looking for new stuff. Contact me on patap50@gmail.com.

Coming up! Instore performance on the 26th of June at 6pm. Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn

New stock and some you may have missed.

2009-04-17T05:36:00.000-07:00

Hey kids,

It's been a while.
Here's some new things at the store.

Mississippi stuff is really limited, so get in quick.

The Stumps – Live at Happy Bar September 1st 2007 CD-R (Pseudo Arcana) $18 NZ

Supergroup features A.Milton (PSEUDO ARCANA, too many great bands to mention), James

Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians), and Sephen Clover (AKA Seht)

Sun of the Seventh Sister – Old Dust of Absent Wars CD-R (Seedy-R) $16 From NZ tour of 07!

Futurians – Robots in Disguise CD-R (Seedy-R) $16

Peter Wright – Unvarnished, Untreated, Unzipped CD-R (Seedy-R) $16

Matthew Nidek and Anthony Guerra – “NB” CD-R (Seedy-R) $16

SunnO))) – The Grimmrobe demos CD (Southern Lord) $18

SunnO))) – White1 CD (Southern Lord) $20

Oren Ambarchi & Martin Ng – Vigil CD (Quecksilber) $15

Stasis Duo – Hammer&Tongs CD (Impermanent Recordings) $25 Debut from this heavy duo
featuring Matt Earl from xNoBBQx, Breakdance the Dawn Label and Adam Sussman. From 2002.

Joel Stern and Anthony Guerra – Stitch CD (Impermanent Recordings) $25

Peter Blamey – Salted Felt CD (Impermanent Recordings) $25

Brett Larner /Toshimaru Nakamura – After School Activity CD (Impermanent Recordings) $25

Arek Gulbenkoglu – Points alone CD (Impermanent Recordings) $25

Arek Gulbenkoglu and Adam Sussman - CD-R (The Rhizome Label) $16

Arek Gulbenkoglu – Document 09 CD-R $30

Werner Dafeldecker, Franz Hautzinger, John Tilbury, Sachiko M – Absinth CD (Grob) $16

Michel Chion – Requiem LP (Sub Rosa) $30

James Rushford – Vellus CD (Cajid Media) $25

Thembi Soddell – Intimacy CD (Cajid Media) $17

Thembi Soddell – Instance CD (Cajid Media) $25

Bruce Mowson – Static Tones CD (Cajid Media) $25

Camilla Hannan – More songs about factories CD (Cajid Media) $25

William S. Burroughs – Break Through in the Grey Room Limited LP (Sub Rosa) $35
LIMITED!!

William S. Burroughs – Break Through in the Grey Room Limited CD (Sub Rosa) $32

Stuart Busby – Radiance and Decay CD-R (Kindling) $16 1 part of the Deadnotes. Recorded out
doors in Victoria and Tasmania.

Son of Ice Woman – Tin Food CD-R $16 Oliver Hextall archival recording in beautiful hand made packaging.

Always – Cruising/Gross Odour 7”(Chapter) $12

Gyaatees – 1 CD (Captain Trip) $20 Japanese group mind party jams

Islaja – Palaa Aurinkoon CD (Fonal) $29

Islaja – Ulual YYY CD (Fonal) $29

Islaja – Meritie CD (Fonal) $29

Kemialiset Ystavat CD (Fonal) $29

Es – Kaikkeuden Dauneus Ja Kasittamattomyys CD (Fonal) $29

Charalambides – Joy Shapes CD (Kranky) $30

Winter Family – Double CD (Sub Rosa) $33

Seefeel – Succour CD (Warp) $20

Rasheed – CD-R (Breakdance the Dawn) $10

Antipan – Live at the Frequency Lab CD-R (Breakdance the Dawn) $10

Zsa Zsa Gabor – CD-R (Angel’s Blood) $10

Drunk Elk cassette (Inverted Crux) $8 Tasmanian Downer rock on Sean Bailey’s Inverted
CRUX.

Lakes – Cloven CD – (RIP society records) $15 CD re-issue of now out of print vinyl release of
last year.

Weave EP CD (Human Ear Music) $16

Patinka Cha Cha CD-R (Albert’s Basement) $15

Vlady Vivaldi CD-R (Albert’s Basement) $16

Extreme Wheeze – CD-R (Albert’s Basement) $14

Primitive Calculators and Friends 1979-1982 – CD (Chapter) $25

Summer Winds Compilation – CD-R $7 Features 19 Australian punk, noise, Gutter Glitter
bands. Summer Winds is a free annual music festival curated by Sean South.

Redd Kross – Born Innocent CD (Frontier) $30 First album from this incredible rock band.
Released back in 1991.

Circle Pit – 7” (RIP Society records) $10 Australian Rock and Roll heros deliver 2 sides of
Sydney filth.

Baby Grandmothers – CD (Subliminal Sounds) $30 Scandinavian Psyche from 67!

Art and Language and the Red Krayola – Corrected Slogans CD (Drag City) $27

David Palliser – Boiled Fog CD $20 Sax, Percussion and Delay by one time member of People
with Chairs up their noses.

Soft Machine – The Soft Machine CD (Water) $30

Soft Machine – Volume 2 CD (Water) $30

Biff Rose – The Thorn in Mrs Rose’s side/Children of Light (Water) $30

Christopher Komeda - Rosemary’s Baby OST CD (Tsunami/First Floor) $28

Peter Joseph Head – Normal Ours CD (Albert’s Basement) $24

Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 1 CD (Subliminal Sounds) $30

Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 2 CD (Subliminal Sounds) $30

Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 3 CD (Subliminal Sounds) $30

Konono No. 1 – Congotronics CD (Crammed discs) $30

Music! The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000 4CD set with 284 page book. (Wergo) $52
CD1 – Wax Cylinder Recordings (1893-1954)
CD2 - Monophonic Tape Recordings (1951-1974)
CD3 – Stereophonic Tape Recordings (Field) (1967-2000)
CD4 – Stereophonic Tape Recordings (Concert) (1973-2000)

Shakur – Bear Tamer’s Music CD (Sub Rosa) $30 Romanian Gypsy drumming trio. Recorded
in one night.

Night Music of West Sumatra CD (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) $30

Kalimantan Strings CD (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) $30

ESG – A South Bronx Story CD (SoulJazz) $32

Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train and other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes CD
(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) $30

Mary Lou Williams – Black Christ of the Andes CD (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) $16

Cisco Houston – The Folkways years CD (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) $16

Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn CD (Trikont) $30

Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie LP (Mississippi records) $30 Reissue of Michael Hurley’s
1971 lp with a new back cover. His 2nd record including hits such as "Werewolf" , "Penguins", "Light Green Fellow". & "Sweedeedee". A long out of print classic. This one wont be around long.

Abner Jay - True Story of Abner Jay LP (Mississippi records) $32 Compilation culled from

Abner's self released Lps & 7"s featuring hits such as "I'm so depressed", "Cocaine", "Vietnam,"&
"The reason young people do drugs". Abner Jay was a one man band singer/songwriter deserving of a wider listening audience than he received in his day. This is the first vinyl release of his material since the 1970's. Great soulful folk & R&B music. LP includes a press photo of Abner, transcriptions of his spoken word pieces, a reproduction of an informative pamphlet about Abner & a press statement penned by Abner himself. Tip on jacket.

Kath Bloom and Loren Connors – Sing the children over/ Sand in my shoe Double CD (Chapter) $28 Incredible 2 album re-issue of incredibly sensitive lyricist supported on guitar by one of the world’s most sensitive guitarists.

Frida Hyvonen – Silence is Wild CD (Chapter) $25

Maher Shalal Hash Baz – Live Aoiheya January 2003 CD (Chapter) $25

Migrating Bird – The songs of Lal Waterson CD (Honest Jon’s) $32 One of the finest
Songwriters, Lal Waterson’s songs covered by the likes of Michael Hurley, James Yorkston,
Victoria Williams, Vashti Bunyan, Richard Youngs, Alasdair Roberts, Lavinia Blackwell and Alex Neilson. Incredible!

Fare thee well, 2008.

2008-12-14T20:18:00.000-08:00

Sunshine + Grease news.
Kri$Mas opening hours: Wed 17/12 from 12-5. Thu 18/12 from 12-6, Fri 19/12 from 12-8, featuring Free Choice performance at 6:30 pm! Sat 20/12 from 12-5 Wed 24/12 from 12-5.
Sunshine +Grease will be closed from Kri$mas until Thursday the 8th of January 2009. Thats 2 whole weeks off! What’ll I do? Any ideas, email me on patap50@gmail.com .
I hope to see you in the next week or so. If not, have an amazing break.
Here’s the news...
Lots of awesome (new) second hand stock in right now. Books on cults, conspiracy and underground thought. Lots of vinyl, cds, and great cd-rs and cassettes. Come and buy your grandmother the new Gugg tape or the new Circle Pit 7”that she’s been looking for at Brashs. Kri$mas is upon us and I’ll be opening the shop an extra day this week as well as Wednesday next week. That’s right. I’ll be in Sunshine + Grease on Wednesday as well as Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I wont sleep! Speaking of Friday, At 6:30 Friday night we welcome Free Choice into the foyer for a very special instore! For those of you who don’t know, Free Choice is Jarrod Zlatic from Fabulous Diamonds, on the keys and way out there. He’s been away for some time, so come down for and welcome him back.
Also, Downpat is on the radio over the summer break. Wednesday nights from 10 til Midnight on 3RRR, Get OUT! will replace Dance Cadaverous until the 14th of January, (taking a night off on New Years eve.) It’ll be radio like you’ve never heard before.
Seasons greetings, children!
Summary:
More opening hours to spend at S+G (see above)
Free Choice instore on Friday 19th at 6:30pm.
New second hand gear as well as lots of new new stuff instore now.
Some new stock.
Cassetes by Gugg, Gauntlet and KristovkristoFFerznon + Chris LG Hill design KKf’sonTee shirt.
Natasha Anderson – Spore CD
Pateras, Baxter, Brown - Live at L’Usine CD
Anthony Guerra and Black Petal releases
Expecting more any day now....

Guerra + Mayson Duo at Sunshine + Grease 2pm Saturday 14/12/08

2008-12-09T17:19:00.000-08:00

Just as the Out of Space show is winding up at Bus Gallery this weekend, there is more amazing live performance. This Saturday at Sunshine + Grease (In the very same building), a very special instore is taking place. Anthony Guerra, (Antipan, Your intestines, Paper Wings, Black Petal Label boss) is in town and playing a very special show with Rob Mayson, (Grey Daturas, Bone Sherrif, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam) Anthony has been living in Japan for the last 3 years and chances are we wont see him around here for a while after this. If you can’t make this show, he also plays at the Toff on Sunday night at the Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn CD launch at the Toff.
Guerra /Mayson duo - 2 pm start.
Sunshine+Grease – 117 Little Lonsdale st Melbourne.
sunshineengrease@blogspot.com
Sunday:

Alberts Basement & Maximum Arousal present
Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn CD LAUNCH.
Sunday December 14th at the Toff In Town.
Doors 8pm. $10 entry.
Playing Times:
DJ Joe Charles and Josh from 8pm.
8.45pm Scratchplate
9.15pm Witness Girl
9.45pm Anthony Guerra(Japan)
10.30pm Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn.

Look at these weird weeds.

2008-12-04T08:54:00.000-08:00

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Musicyourmindwillloveyou

6magik9 - Thank you for being my codeine AKA Untouched beams that have seen music from inside. cd-r $13
Innig - Liminal Chorus of Dawn cd-r $15
6majik9 - kate moss cdr $15
Brothers of the occult sisterhood - Preying in circles cd (on Root Strata from Belgium) $15
Terracid - Out dual vibration cd-r $15
Terracid - Skies cd-r $15
6majik9 – the majik house cdr $15
Rmeaajlimk - Orphans all around us cd-r $15 (Members of Blank Realm and 6magik9)
Blank Realm / 6magik9 Live 2007 cd-r $15
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Room40

Leighton Craig – 11 easy pieces CD $28
D.N.E (Eugene Carchesio) – 47 songs that humans shouldn’t sing CD $28
Erkim (Luc Ferrari) & Thomas Lehn – Les protorhythmiques CD $28
Tenniscoats – Totemo Aimasho CD $28
Ueno – Sui Gin CD $28
Greg Davis & Jeph Jerman – Ku CD $28
Robin Fox & Clayton Thomas – Substation CD $28
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Bulbs – Light ships cd (Freedom to Spend) $20
Green Beret - one and part two cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Absoluten Calfeutrail – Total Scum Materials cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Absoluten Calfeutrail/Blarke Baier – Conflict Resolution Seminar cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Moffarfarah – Little More cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Default Jamerson – Stable Government and Adequate Sanitation cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Aux Assembly – Even cowgirls get dementia cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Bone Sheriff – Moonee Ponds cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Pikelet – Pre-flight jitters cdr (Sabbatical) $16
Chris Smith and Justin Fuller – cd (Sweat Lung) $16
Birchville Cat Motel – The birds call home their dead cd (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $20
Whitehorse – Live at Sinkagura,Osaka 29/06/2005. cd(No Cat)$20
Ian Wadley – Three uneasy pieces cd (Sweat Lung) $12
Magnetics - We are the mountains. We are the fields cd (Sweat Lung) $12
Blarke Baier/Bone Sheriff - Split CD cd (Sweat Lung) $12
Justice Yeldham – Crctrix cd (Sweat Lung) $16
Zbigniew Karkowski – Elasticity of Time cd (Raw Special Effects) $18
Terracid – Skies cdr (musicyourmindwillloveyou) $15
A.M – Rag Red Reverie cd (Pseudo Arcana) $18
Pumice – Sexual*Live Recordings cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
Dialling In – Cows in Lye cd (Pseudo Arcana) $18
Temples – Murk cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
CJA – Silent Blood cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
Keijo and the Free Players – Untitled cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
Keijo – Unfolding Emptiness/Decomposing Dawn 2cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $20
Pumice – Spears cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
V/A - A lowtides rising cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
Seht – Communion 3”cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $12
1/3 Octave Band – The system likes you and wants to be your friend cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
The Franciscan Hobbies - At the worlds end cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
Antony Miltion and Anthony Guerra – Paper Wings cdr (Pseudo Arcana/Black Petal) $18
Sam Hamilton and Chris O’Connor - Tidal Dee’s and Harboured Dum’s cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
The Skaters – Gambling in Ohpa’s Shadow cdr (Pseudo Arcana) $16
Peter Wright – The Broken Kawai cdr (The Seedy R label) $16
Matthew Nidek Anthony Guerra – nb cdr (The Seedy R label) $16
Vluba - .... cdr (The Seedy R label) $16
Anla Courtis – Live In LA cdr (The Seedy R label) $16
Tim Caitlin/Jon Mueller - Plates and Wires cd (edition of 300) (Crouton) $28
Tim Caitlin - Slow Twitch cd (Doctor Jim) $20
Tim Caitlin - Radio Ghosts cd (23 Five Incorporated) $25
Bruce Russell - Gilded Splinters cd (Spirit of Orr records) $24
Bixobal zine - No.5 October 2008 $8
Issue contains: Rob Millis’ Talking Machine; Record History and Rip offs, NNCK’s Dave Nuss spends time with the Source, Ond, Michael Griffin remembered by Aaron Gorseth, Tunnel Canary, Assophone Records, Reviews and Classifieds
BOOKS:
Hi God People:On the Astral Plane: An incomplete history of Melbourne Underground Gig Fliers Lisa Radford (ed) $35
Screened Out - Jean Baudrillard $20
The Incredible String Band: Gently Tender - Ken Brooks $18
Imaging her erotics - Carolee Schneemann $35
Sacred Bordello - Charlemagne Palestine $35
A place tells a story: An and collective book project (Book and cd)$49
“Place is layer, is fabric. Community is detail, is flux Definition and Identity are never so clear cut.”
Thank you (scalo) - Robert Frank $16
Jean Cocteau and the Testament of Orpheus - Lucien Clergue $40
Phaidon Encyclopaedia of Surrealism – Rene Passeron $17
Made in Mexico – Institute of Contemporary Art $30
You and I - Poems by Leonard Nimoy $8
My sisters hand in mine – The collected works of Jane Bowles $24
Love and Rockets - Los Brothers Hernandez Various Issues from 1984 to 1994 $8 each
Jimbo - Gary Panter Various Issues $8 each
Black Hole - Charles Burns Various issues $10 each
Try – Dennis Cooper $10
Jerk - Dennis Cooper (artwork by Nayland Blake) $12

Ernie Althoff opens Out of Space at Bus Gallery

2008-12-04T08:44:00.000-08:00

7 shows to go over the next 2 weeks. Come on down.

Out of Space: A Festival of Performances and Sound Installations starts this THURSDAY! It's at Bus Gallery, 117 Little Lonsdale st. The festival features 23 artists over 2 weeks with nightly performances and daily installations. The opening night is this thursday 4th Dec, 8pm, with the automated contraptions of Ernie Althoff, Robbie Avenaim and Dale Gorfinkel. Bus gallery will literally be out of space, filled with sound sculptures, self-made instruments, contraptions, lasers, musicians and artists and audiovisual wonderment.

OUT OF SPACEFestival of Performances + Sound Installations4-13 December 2008
BUS: 117 Little Lonsdale St Melbourneperformances 8pm sharp, except sunday 3pminstallations+constructions wed-sat 12-5pm$5/10 donation
thurs 4thErnie Althoffwonderment+inventionsSSL: Robbie Avenaim/Dale Gorfinkelprepared vibes+automated percussion
fri 5thChris Nylstochmultiple TVs+electronicsJezzatamplified objects,captured noise
sat 6thRoss Manninglights+electronics+invented contraptionsThe Donkey's Taleexperimental garage ensemble
sun 7th, 3pmRoss Manning/Dale Gorfinkel/Robbie Avenaimcontraptions+automatonsMarco Fusinato/Oren Ambarchimodified guitars+electronics
wed 10thRobin Foxlaptop+lasersDylan Martorellnew selfmade instruments
thurs 11thRiki-Metisse Marlowautomated sound sculpturesLachlan Conn/Michael Priorlight,dope+locked grooves
fri 12thPhilip Samartzis/Rosalind Hall/Arek Gulbenkoglu/Dale Gorfinkel/Natasha Andersonmultiple speakers,laptop,modified saxophone,electronics,objects,giant recorder,percussion
sat 13thNatasha Andersonlatex sound sculptures+giant recorderHelmet Headlive AV duo from outer space

Bus gets spaced by the Out of Space festival from the 4th of December

2008-11-19T20:24:00.000-08:00

Bus gets spaced by the Out of Space festival from the 4th of December

OUT OF SPACE Festival of Performances + Sound Installations 4-13 December 2008
BUS: 117 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne performances 8pm sharp, except sunday 3pm installations+constructions wed-sat 12-5pm
Performances $5/10 donation
thurs 4th
Ernie Althoff
wonderment+inventions
SSL: Robbie Avenaim/Dale Gorfinkel
prepared vibes+automated percussion
fri 5th
Chris Nylstoch
multiple TVs+electronics
Jezzatamplified
objects,captured noise
sat 6th
Ross Manning
lights+electronics+invented contraptions
The Donkey's Tale
experimental garage ensemble
sun 7th, 3pm
Ross Manning/Dale Gorfinkel/Robbie Avenaim
contraptions+automatons
Marco Fusinato/Oren Ambarchi
modified guitars+electronics
wed 10th
Robin Fox
laptop+lasers
Dylan Martorell
new selfmade instruments
thu 11th
Riki-Metisse Marlow
automated sound sculptures
Lachlan Conn/Michael Prior
light,dope+locked grooves
fri 12th
Philip Samartzis/Rosalind Hall/Arek Gulbenkoglu/Dale Gorfinkel/Natasha Anderson
multiple speakers,laptop,modified saxophone,electronics,objects,giant recorder,percussion
sat 13th
Natasha Anderson
latex sound sculptures+giant recorder
Helmet Head
live AV duo from outer space
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And something well worth heading north for:Begins on the 26th of November. For more info, go to http://www.audiopollen.org/diaries/

2008-11-06T06:04:00.000-08:00

I've never been to Tasmania, but if I do get down there one day, I'll be going to gallery 6a.... And I'll be looking for a Tasmanian Devil to bring back to the mainland to keep my housemate's cats company. Gallery 6a is accepting submissions for a film festival...I think they'll even accept video if you ask nicely. Look here:

Instore performance on Saturday 8/11/08

2008-10-29T20:35:00.000-07:00

2pm start on Saturday. Joel Stern, Rosalind Hall, Dale Gorfinkel and Ian Wadley Carnival Band.
Come down for some Hot improv and some cool refreshments.

New gear at Sunshine and Grease from great Australian Labels.

2008-10-29T20:03:00.000-07:00

Sunshine + Grease has recently received stock from some truly independant Aussie labels.
They are Trapdoor Tapes, White Circle, Lexicon Devil, Naturestrip, Breakdancethedawn and Musicyourmindwillloveyou. Below, you will also find a listing of very limited and extremely rare quality releases from Australian ex-pat label, Black Petal. Dig.

Recieved yesterday in the mail was a box of very beautifully packaged releases from Japan. The label is Black Petal, run by a bloke named Anthony Guerra, Australian ex-pat, living in Japan for the last few years. If you don’t already know about Anthony and his music, you should. An unique and inventive and adaptable improviser and all round good guy.
Anthony has played with all manner of people over the last 10 years or so, including Dean Roberts, Joel Stern, Oren Ambarchi, Rob Mayson (Grey Daturas), Antony Milton, Peter Blamey, Matt Earle, Adam Sussman. and is going to be in Melbourne later in the year. Look out for show at the Toff.

He started Black Petal 3 or 4 years ago just before he moved to Japan and has released nearly 20 deeply beautiful, heavy, and often demanding releases since. Now at Sunshine & Grease. Please note that all releases are very limited. :

Anthony Guerra – ‘empty kingdoms’
First release on the label... Melancholy dripping from Anthony’s strings as our lonesome Guerra returns from his quest to find all was for naught.

Muura - ‘ scarlet urmine sandstone lady’
Primal vocals, electric guitar, bludgeoning drumkit and analog synthesiser all played simultaneously, recorded direct to cassette deck in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales,. Muura is matt earle, also of stasis duo, x-wave, your intestines, antipan, XnobbqX and more. cdr with beautiful handmade covers.

Antony Milton ‘guitar has strings’
A year without your guitar can seem a lifetime. Psuedo Arcana boss returns from india to his beloved beast and makes this record. simple fucked up guitar figures break through cassette deck mud. we proudly guarantee no flash finger frenzies.. this is raw folk glories and blues for everybody. cdr with handmade covers.

Mattin 'songbook 3'
Post-VU down-strummed trash nihilism and savage intent. werner dafeldecker (autistic daughters, polwechsel, etc) adds his most bloody-minded bass playing on half the tracks, and the other half feature Noid of Vienna on cello. cdr with handmade covers.
Ray Off 'nothing like a ribbon around a parcel'
Jimb Currin presents the new big-band incarnation of Ray Off.. with pamela poppins, katrina thomson and mr tim cornelius (sandoz lab technicians). haunted laments and frazzled insanity in equal doses..beautiful moments to end your night and to destroy your day. cdr with handmade covers.

Vodka sparrows 'death a thousand times over'
late night comedown heaviness for drinkers close to gone. anthony guerra & mark leacy (castings) on electric guitars. cdr with super special cord-bound washi wrapped covers.

dj white pimpernell 'lovedjwhitepimpernellxxx'
black petal debut for the white pimpernell. shit-hot white noise and sick beats mate. a one man tour de (brut) force of drum machine, electronics, electric guitar, shredded voice... and he still manages to pump his fist. djwhitepimpernell is adam sussmann of mosseisley, stasis duo and your intestines. cdr with handpainted covers.

muura 'el dorado'
muura returns on a sombre note. winter music. cdr with handmade covers.
the north sea: 'on the endless golden skyway'
brad rose joins the black petal family, with contributions from valerio cosi. Tender earth-bound songs for hand and hoof eventually grow wings and scramble straight into the core of the sun. cdr with handpainted covers. Very last copies.

the impromptulons 'beat it / beat off'
6 piece improv slop from brisbane featuring mr joel stern and members of such classic brisbane groups as the perfect lovers, no guru and faber castell. apparently born from the mantra of 'everybody solos, nobody solos'; this sounds more like 'everybody is on the one, nobody is on the one'. 3" cdr with handmade covers. Black Petal says this is sold out, so I’d say these2 are the last available.

matt earle 'golden guitar'
sometimes muura just wants to be himself. harshest yet. vocals and acoustic guitar recorded by a dying fire in the murky winter dark of the blue mountains. cdr with special thread-bound covers.

the minerals 'sapphire mind'
a pre-Muura project and the inspiration for 'scarlet urmine sandstone lady'. existentialist robot fucken love blues. strictly limited 3" cdr with reversible cover. now sold out at source (that was fast). please contact eclipse, boa melody bar or warszawa for last copies.

geodesic domes of the eastern seaboard 'viscous '70s magnets multiplied by nothing' (back in stock)
savage fuzz guitar recast into alien dancefloor shapes by one of sydney's best kept secrets. there is only one true gentleman of the guitar: mr peter blamey. 3" cdr. a couple of copies now back in stock.

city people's farmer's music 'afternoon tea' (back in stock)
tender drone damage from nz's finest, sam hamilton and mark sadgrove. drink a cup of the new blood. 3" cdr. a couple of copies back in stock.

muura 'black bird sings'
the brutal (re-)return of muura. in the pounding style of 'scarlet urmine sandstone lady' multiplied by infinity. cdr. out now and selling fast. hooly dooly!

michael rodgers 'curtained moon'
long awaited solo guitar release from mr michael rodgers of broken hands. pure nightime ritual music.. the street enters the house.. and the guitar weaves around the sounds of london which intrude from every window and every door..

paper wings 'ash field'
New! - the paper wings (anthony guerra & antony milton). debut album, following their competition-smashing contribution to Last Visible Dog comp "crows of the world". out now to coincide with mr milton's cancelled european conquest. cd. split release with pseudoarcana.

Trap Door Tapes
Melbourne was recently visited by the mysterious and shitTrapdoor Tapes label. Bands played shows and fortunate minds were blown. I picked up a bunch of stock before Luke flew north. Check out their myspazz if you need any more evidence that the devil is taking his holidays on the Sunshine coast. I’m not really up to speed on a lot of this stuff, and I still haven’t heard them all, so I’m just going to list them.
If you want more info, or want to hear em’come into the shop.
Armpit-Tron 2 cd-r Awesome NZ huffers play the blues.
Arklight-Apmonia-Isonomy-Attunement cd-r
Unique Oil free air - New Stuff cd-r
Hillspirit-Occult of Lambs blood cd-r
Apple in a cathedral – s/t cd-r
Septic Surge – We are cancer cd-r.
Ded Stix cd-r
Mshing-Live at Sedition cd-r
Neckhold – Horse tape
Sun of the sevent sister -290906 tape
Minxxxxxxxxx-Dry dock tape
Shambolic Destiny – Vestigal Limb tape

Lexicon Devil:
F/i – Space Mantra cd
F/i-Blue Star/Merge Parlour cd
F/i-The past darkly/The future lightly. Rare and unreleased 1983-1989 cd
F/i-Why not now?...Alan! cd
F/i-Paradise out here cd
Vibracathedral Orchestra-My gate’s open, tremble by my side cd

Naturestrip:

Joel Stern-Objects Masks Props
NS3006 - Joel Stern - Objects, Masks, Propsmp3 sample - Dead Lakes (track 6)
Brisbane based but often found wandering throughout Australia and regions far further out, Joel Stern, has been restlessly, compulsively, devising, capturing, constructing this album on and off over the past 6 and a bit years (2001-2008). Created from instrumental debris, snatches of environmental sound (Ethiopia, India, Toowoomba, his lounge room), and a poetic sensitivity for incoherence, Objects.Masks.Props, is the clearest and most potent reflection yet of Joel's musical and artistic approach - somewhere between music concrete, art brut, free noise, cinema, abstraction, and the farmyard..

Toshiya Tsunoda – Scenery of decalcomania
Tarab – Surfacedrift
Loren Chasse – The Footpath

White Circle Records:
John Nixon’s White Circle Records is a cd-r label primarily focused on releasing Nixon related projects.
Just in today:
The Donkey’s Tail- Progression
The Donkey’s Tail-Radio Mix
The Donkey’s Tail-Live Stutter presents at Horse Bazaar
The Donkey’s Tail-Second hand watch
And 2 DVD’s of live Donkey’s Tail performances:
Maximum Arousal presents with Marco Fusinato DVD
Toff and Toff Backwards DVD

Vijay Thiliamuthu instore at Sunshine + Grease FRiDaY 17/10/08

2008-10-15T20:21:00.000-07:00

This Friday at Sunshine and Grease. 6pm start.

Vijay Thillamuthu is doing an instore at S+G on Friday at 6pm> > Vijay Thillaimuthu is an experimental musician/filmmaker that has his> roots in free jazz improvisation and esoteric analogue electronics. He> creates a situation whereby anarchic and defunct technologies> democratically combines analogue debris and signal feedback. The> result is an extreme environment of heavy voltage sensory stimulation.> >

www.xenosine.com> >

Sunshine+Grease is at Bus Gallery which is at Lvl 1 of 117 Little> Lonsdale st Melbourne.> Open 12-6 Thu – 12- 8 Fri – 12 – 6 Sat.> www.myspace.com/sunshinegrease

New at Sunshine & Grease 19/09/08

2008-09-19T03:40:00.000-07:00

Big shipment from the US arrived last week... More goodness in-store all the time.
For those of you who have not visited, the shop can be found open on Thu 12-6, Fri 12-8 and Sat 12-6 at 117 little Lonsdale st Melbourne (Bus Gallery). Buying and selling new and second hand quality sound, literature and Audio-visual product.

Contact the shop during the above hours on 03 9671 4566. Or email me at patap50@gmail.com. I do mail order all over the world and take paypal and all major credit cards except Diners.

Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescaleet -The Breadwinner cd $27 (Erstwhile)
Anthony Pateras and Robin Fox-Flux Compendium cd $27 (Editions Mego)
Anthony Pateras-Chromatophore cd $29 (Tzadik)
Teiji Ito-Watermill cd $29 (Tzadik)
Valerio Tricoli-Metaprogramming from within the eye of the storm cd$20 (BW)The
David Behrman-On the other ocean cd $28 (Lovely Music)
Robert Ashley-Now Eleanor’s idea cd with book $40 (Lovely Music)
Steve Gunn-Sundowner cd $25 (Digitalis Recordings)
Taku Sugimoto-Mienai LP $34 (Weird Forest)
Takehisa Kosugi-Violin Improvisations cd $27 (Lovely Music)
Celer-The everything and the nothing cd $27 (Infraction)
Christian Fennesz-Fennesz plays 10” $22 (Editions Mego)
Schneider-Albertino 12” $25 (Cadenza)
Fairmont-I need medicine 12”EP $24 (Border Community)
Intrusion-Tswana Dub 12” $25 (Echospace)
Subway-Simplex{Gatto Fritto Mix} 12” $24 (Soul Jazz)
Belong-Same Places (slow version) Single sided LP with Savage Pencil engraving on second side $30 (Table of the Elements)
Rick Reed-Dreamz/Blue Polz LP $35 (Elevatorbath)
Gazheart (Rita Ackerman with Dave Nuss) single sided LP with Rita Ackerman etching $35 (Locust)
No-Neck blues band-Intonomancy cd $25 (Sound@1)
No-Neck blues band-Aftypiclipse>for Jazzfinger LP $30 (Sound@1)
Locum-Metal Bird and Horror Bell cd $20 (iiii)
Daniel Beban-The Aldwych cd-r $12 (Silt Loam)
Lukas Simonis-Stots cd $24 (No Label)
Kawabata Makoto-We don’t know where we came from pt. 1 & 2.$35 (Important)
Storm Bugs-Up the Middle Lp $28 (Fusetron)
Dennis Duck-Dennis Duck goes disco double LP $38 (Pooh Bah records)
The Mysterious Thai Record LP $20 (Mississippi records)
Lichens-Omns cd+dvd $30 (Kranky)
QuintetAvant-En Concert á la sale des fétes cd $27 (Editions Mego)
Suarasama-Fajar Di Atas Awan cd $25 (Drag City)
Harry Tausig-Fate is only once and other blues, ragtime, and fingerpicking tunes LP $26 (Tompkins Square)
Richard Crandell-In the flower of our youth solo acoustic guitar $26 (Tompkins Square)
The Legendary Pink Dots-Poppy Variations double LP $38 (Beta-Lactum ring records)
Lau Nau-Nukkuu cd $27 (Locust)
Lau Nau-Nukkuu LP $32 (Locust)
Nalle-The Siren’s wave LP $32 (Locust)
Richard Metzger-Deliverance LP $32 (Locust)
Henry Flynt & the Insurrections-I don’t wanna cd $28 (Locust)
Henry Flynt & Nova Billy double LP $40
Townes Van Zandt-Absolutely Nothing cd $29 (Normal)
Simon Finn-Pass the distance LP $45 (Mayfair Music)
Maya-Y 10”$24 (Discalcula)
Josephine Foster-The Coming Gladness cd $30 (Bo’Weavil)
Josephine Foster-A wolf in sheep’s clothing cd $28 (Locust)
Sun City Girls-You’re never alone with a cigarette cd $28 (Abduction)
Royal Trux-Hand of Glory LP $25 (Drag City)
Stone Harbour-Emerge cd $29 (Lion Productions L.L.C/Hallucinations)
Angel Blood-Mambo Mange LP $30 (Locust)
Xhol-Motherfxxkers GMBH & Co KG LP $42 (Wah Wah)
The Dog Faced Hermans-Mental Blocks for all ages LP $20 (Mississippi records)
The Lollipop Shoppe-Just Colour cd $30 (Rev-Ola)
True Primes/Black Vatican-White hot now wave split 2 ways LP $30 (Locust)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz-Live-1984-85 cd $32 (PSF)
Reiko Kudo-Rice field silently riping in the night cd $24 (Magikick records)
Various Artists, compiled by the Climax Golden Twins-Victorola Favourites-Artefacts from bygone days: first edition HC book + 2 cd. $60 (Dust to Digital)
Various Artists-Thai Beat A Go-Go cd Vol. 2: Groovy 60’s sounds from the land of Smile cd $32
So so many white tigers-Picture disc LP $28 (Weird Forest)
....Also Amazing stuff on Venting Gallery. Just in. Enquiries most welcome. Will list individual items with prices next time. Vital.

DVD
Here’s to Love! - A film by Scott Foust $30 (Swill Radio)
The Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda - Ira Cohen $48 (Arthur/Saturnalia)
The films of Kenneth Anger Volume 1 $42 (Fantoma)
The films of Kenneth Anger Volume 2 $42 (Fantoma)
Lichens-Omns cd+DVD $30 (Kranky)
The Holy Modal Rounders...Bound to Lose $28 (Badbird)
Strangers with candy-Season 3 Double DVD $28 (Comedy Central)

Books
Victorola Favourites-Artefacts from bygone days: first edition HC book + 2 cd. $60 (Dust to Digital)
Compiled by the Climax Golden Twins.
My battle of Algiers: A memoir-Ted Morgan HC book. $24
Bixobal #4-Digest Fanzine edited by Eric Lanzilotta. Articles on Stomu Yamashta, Fernando Arrabal, Raymond Dijkstra as well as Akio Suzuki’s diary and loads of reviews. Quality! $6
The Hearing Trumpet-Leonora Carrington (Exact Change) $29
Joseph Cornell’s dreams-Joseph Cornell edited by and with an introduction by Catherine Corman(Exact Change) $28
Just in Time: Poems 1984-94 – Robert Creely (New Directions) $22
Charlemagne Palestine-Sacred Bordello $35
Scar Lover-Harry Crews $16
Feast of Snakes-Harry Crews $16
Sincere apologies to he who emailed me about this the other week. I can’t find the email or your details. Pls contact me asap if you would like me to put these aside for you.
T-shirt
Kriztovvkristofferson-$20

Much more in-store.
Peace.

Launch and opening hours

2008-07-29T02:42:00.000-07:00

Sunshine & Grease Opening hours from Thursday 24th of July.

Thu 12-6

Fri 12-8

Sat 12-6

117 Little Lonsdale st Melbourne Victoria, 3000.

Last Thursday saw the opening of the shop. Finally.

Over the weekend, Bus hosted the Sunshine & Grease opening weekend festival. (I couldn't think of a better name, but I couldn't think of a better line-up either.)

19 acts performed over 2 days in an icy bus on a concrete floor. Sunday night must have been close to freezing. But a good crowd of good folks came out to drink beer and warm the shop with some good company and great music. I'd like to thank all who played: Cougar Flashy, eyeoff, Jason Heller, Always, Juarez and Absoluten Calfeutrail, Wasted Truth, The French, Paeces, Anthony Pateras, Lost Animal, Circle Pit, Panel of judges, Bam Brothers, Neil Sweeney, Evelyn Morris with Bum Creek, The Ancients, JKFuller, Helmet Head and Collapsed Toilet Vietnam.

And to all others who helped out: Sarah, Kristie, Liz, Annalee, Ai, Pegs, Lachlan, Chris and Simon and also to the artists that gave their work for the raffle: Rod, Harriett, James, Grant, Simon, Dylan, Chris and Fjorn. Thanks.

Sunshine & Grease is here! Real shop open soon!

2008-04-07T01:44:00.000-07:00

Sunshine & Grease is a new store , sharing a home at 117 little Lonsdale st with Bus Gallery.

SG will stock the best of local and imported literature, music and dvd's as well as anything else I feel is worth your attention. I'll be doing new and secondhand, cos' I hate the disposability of culture today and good work has legs. So If you've got things you think I might want, please get in touch. New or second hand. I'll stock anything from bedroom production to Capital records if it's any good.

I'll be stocking underground music: rock, punk folk, jazz, ol'timey blues, hillbilly, 20 & 21C composition, electronic, ethno, pop, noise, outsider musix and just about anything else of substance.

I am also searching for the best in self published books, zines, comics and art catalogues. Once again, please feel free to let me know if you think you've got something to share. I have my eye on a bunch of stuff overseas but have had trouble finding good local gear recently. I know it's out there. As well as this, I'll be stocking quality second hand literature, new fiction and non, art books, politics, etc, and maybe even the odd glossy magazine.

I'll also have some quality dvd and video.

A list of favourites: Films and Directors:

Wicker Man
Come and see
Festen
La Grande Bouffe
Herzog
Bad Santa
Sweet Movie
WR
Nashville
Holy Mountain
Daisies
Walkabout
Fassbinder
Warhol
Waters
Kuchars
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Some Writers:

Paul Bowles

Jane Bowles

Charles Bukowski

Jerome Badanes

Dame Darcy

Cocteau

J.G Ballard

Leonora Carrington

Christos Tsiolkas

Thoreau

Some things for sale will be listed here. If you like the look of something, copy and paste it into an email to me. I'll send you my paypal and you can make a payment. Email order first, as I have limited quantities of just about everything. I'll also accept Direct debit if you're in Australia. And I'll keep this blog up and running until I have a website of some description for all of you outside of Melbourne. My email is patap50(at)gmail(dot)com

I'll be more than happy to send stuff overseas, of course.

All prices listed on this blog will be WITHOUT postage.

Postage and handling within Australia is $3.oo for 1 or 2 CDs, , $5 for 3–4 CDs. $3.00 for a DVD, and $3 for a video or zine. Vinyl orders 1–3 LPs will cost you $8. 1–3 x 7" inches will be $3 to anywhere in Australia. International shipping for a CD should be about $5 to anywhere in the world. My intention is to charge good fair shipping rates. Please be patient with me as I'm new at this. Keeping this in mind, these listed postage prices may change once I'm a little the wiser.

The MUSIC

So that Beauty shall not perish. Vol. 1 (Antireality) 7" AU$15

A small but passionate collection of mystifying music from around the world, culled from vernacular 78's (and one postage stamp!) of Asia and Africa. Cultures represented are Swahili (Kenya), Kannada (India), esraj music (India), Armenian, Bhutanese, and North Vietnamese.

Alastair Galbraith - Orb (Nextbestway) CD AU$25

Alastair's first album of songs in years. Orb is every bit as good as earlier solo efforts. Alastair's distinct sound (backward tape-looping, home recording techniques, timeless songwriting) is definitely a precurser to the "new w. folk" thing. Deeply intimate mood abounds, as you'd expect. It's immediately apparent that he's as good as ever as the opening track "Here not there" floats around the room like thick smoke. One of the most unique voices in modern music.

Valerio Tricoli - Metaprogramming from within the eye of the storm
(Bowindo Recordings) CD AU$20

"Valerio Tricoli is at the centre of a resurgent Italian interest in the possibilities of electroacoustic sound design and radical improvisation...

Metaprogramming..., a single, 35 minute drift, has an aleatory feel to it, but is in fact an artfully assembled audio environment. A cryptic, two-sided square of card sits inside the jewel case. There's a grainy image, the details hard to make out. Sickly light seeps into the frame from a distant window, but it doesn't penetrate far-we're left with a shadowy space, nameless obstructions strung across it, and, at the centre, a dense smudge which could be someone's head. Listening to "Metaprogramming..." is like exploring this room and it's nameless random contents. There are passages of almost total silence-sporadic, distant rustles, the faintest of evanescent chimes-and then sudden, almost industrial incursions, the aural equivalent of scraping your shins on a lurking chunk of rusty metal.Later in the piece, Tricoli introduces hovering, processed drones, arcane buzzes and shrieks gather in the upper register and the sense of simulated space is opened and shut with disorientating speed, the painstakingly constructed soundstage collapsing in on the listener. Tricoli summons a string of shockwaves from his minimal resources, and by the time it reaches its indeterminate conclusion, "Metaprogramming..." has attained a brooding intensity which borders on the psychedelic."Chris Sharp (The Wire 271 August 2006)

Tricoli recently played 3 nights in Melbourne as part of the MIBEM festival. Solo, and in Collaboration with Sean Baxter (Embers/Pateras,Baxter,brown) and with Passenger of Shit, he shone in all situations. Valerio is also a member of 3/4hadbeeneliminated.

3/4 HADBEENELIMINATED -
Dimethyl atonal calcine/Shifting position dub redux 7" AU$10

The white label side of this 7 (It has blank labels) ends with one of the best locked grooves I have ever heard. If that aint value enough, both of these tracks are amazing, though the "Shifting position dub redux" on the black side, is a serious slab of wonky strangeness. On real heavy black vinyl.

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SNAWKLOR - Quick be the feet that run to mischief (Outer) CD AU$20

“Quick be the feet that run to mischief” mixes elements of field recordings, electronics and live instrumentation

such as trumpet, damaged guitar, analogue synth, recorder (played by Julie Burleigh), home made instruments and junk.

The album sees long time collaborators, Dylan Martorell (Hi-God People) and Nathan Gray tripping through the bush, lost at night, eyes flashing in the shadows from every dark place. A strange sonic world filled with swamps and weird amphibious creatures, huge Lizards stomping through the scrub and birds of colours you’ve never seen before. Prehistoric sounds of a different kind. PO'B

AI YAMAMOTO - Euphonious (Outer) CD AU$15

On Euphonious, Ai creates simple modern pop-scapes. Post Aphex/Eno/Rifle/Kraftwerk ambience.

JEFF MAGNUM - Orange twin field works vol. 1 (Orange Twin) CD AU$15

Orange Twin Field Works Vol. I is a series of musical doors and paths taking you into areas of Bulgaria and the surrounding regions. Recorded and edited by Jeff Mangum, these recordings amazingly transform the listener into feeling as if he or she were on site watching celebrators march down the streets in suits made of bells or winding thru crowds to hear angelic harmonies rising in the distance. The songs are all traditional to the areas in and around Bulgaria and performed by an array of local talent.

Please note that this site is still in production. Please feel free to contact me about anything you see here. There will be more added soon.

J D EMMANUEL - Wizards (Dreamtime Taped sounds, Belgium) LP AU$32

There's a reason why this album has been the object of nerdly desires for years, and the subject of a 2007 reissue. Wizards' 37 minutes contain some of the most delicate, captivating minimal electronic ideas ever put to tape. It is a song cycle containing five parts, each one based upon a cyclical synth pattern along with some form of melody. "Part II: Prayer" builds upon "Part I"'s simple repetition of notes with a more free-form use of sharp synth melody. These two tracks are similar in theme to much of Cluster's Zuckerzeit or parts of Low's second half. That is, it wanders along with other classic kosmiche nebula not missing a beat.The album's three remaining tracks are longer and even more cosmic in spirit. Actually, the more I listen to these longer pieces the less Terry Riley I hear. These parts are more raw than anything the American minimalists recorded, and actually remind me of Conrad Schnitzler's Rot and Blau albums and Klaus Schulz's best work. Emmanuel does an excellent job of humanizing the synth without sacrificing the idea that it is an electronically programmed device. At its best, Wizards can either assist in relaxation as an ambient soundtrack or be the vehicle to whatever conscious voyage you wish to take.It goes without saying that 2007 is a great revival year for Mr. Emmanuel. Still alive and well and living in Texas, Daniel has recently updated his site and has been posting some rare pressings of his work on eBay. The demand for a vinyl reissue of Wizards twenty five years after its release is direct proof of his growing influence on modern spiritual music. He says that a cd reissue is in the works, so those of you without turntables who want a copy won't have to wait much longer. But for now, you must seek out the last remaining copies of the vinyl or play the samples he provides on his website. Either way, Wizards and all of Emmanuel's work is worth your time.

(Population Doug Blogspot)

Screenprinted cover.

J D EMMANUEL - Wizards (North Star Productions) LP AU$35

Original 1982 pressing of the above record.

J D EMMANUEL - Wizards (North Star Productions) CD AU$29

Cd releae of the abve record.

J D EMMANUEL - Rain forest music, Ocean music, Visions of life (North Star Productions) CD AU$29

This complilation is created from the original tapes and LP. The tracks were cut from the original tapes and digitized at 196 hHz/24 bit for the production of this CD.

Synths, processed guitar and processed field recordings of and inspired by nature.

BETA ERKO - I'm ok You're ok (Quecksilber) CD AU$30

Beta Erko features members Anthony Pateras, Martin Ng, Robin Fox an MC Vulk Macedonski. No comparison will do this justice. This is the maddest hip-hop you will ever hear.

CHARLRMAGNE PALESTINE & TONY CONRAD - An aural symbiotic mystery (Sub Rosa) CD $31

On An Aural Symbiotic Mystery, their first-ever issued collaboration from what was their fourth concert together in three decades-- Conrad and Palestine happen upon one of the most inspired releases of either of their careers.

(Pitchfork.)

BRION GYSIN - One night at the 1001 (Sub Rosa) CD AU$40

One cd is rare recordings by Brion Gysin himself in his club in Tanger, mid-‘50s, the other is a long monologue about Sufi rituals.

MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA - Boujeloud (Sub Rosa) CD AU$31

In the mythology of the village of Joujouka, Boujeloud is a half-man/half-goat creature who bears a great resemblance to the ancient god Pan. Each year for a week following the Islamic festival of Aid El Kebir (the Big Feast) the musicians enact the pagan-like ritual of Boujeloud. A man sewn into black goat-skins dances wildly while the musicians play a suite of music to both calm the beast and to scare him away. Joujouka music is played on either small bamboo flutes called liras or on the loud oboe-like rhaita and is backed by their primal drumming. The Masters Musicians utilise circular breathing to play long notes over which the lead pipers play melodies and solos. This CD demonstrates the trance inducing sounds of Joujouka.

THE GNOUA BROTHERHOOD OF MARRAKESH / THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA - Moroccan trance music 2. Sufi (Sub Rosa) CD AU$31

JOHN FAHEY - The great Santa Barbara oil slick (Water/Revenant) CD AU$31

In his later years, John Fahey might have given this album a different title – maybe The Great Albatross Hung Around My Neck. Recorded in concert at San Francisco’s Matrix in 1968 and at an undetermined location about a year later, this is the kind of stuff that made Fahey’s music so well loved, and it’s exactly the sort of thing that he spent most of his late career excoriating. I can see why; what artist wants to compete with their own near-perfect early work?

(Dusted)

JON APPLETON & DON CHERRY - Human Music (Water) CD AU$31

"This 1969 avant-garde collaboration between trumpeter Don Cherry and electronics pioneer Jon Appleton was originally released on legendary jazz producer Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label. Consisting of four compositions with the titles 'Boa,' 'Oba,' 'Abo,' and 'Bao,' Human Music finds Cherry stretching out on various flutes and African percussion instruments in addition to pocket trumpet. Original artwork. Detailed liner notes." Includes two bonus tracks, "Don" and "Jon."

THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS - Bird song Live 1971 (Water) CD AU$31

"Calling the Holy Modal Rounders 'legendary' is an understatement. Peter Stampel, Steve Weber and company were the original 'acid folk rock' band. This 1971 previously unreleased live radio broadcast, captures these wild and wacky visionaries at their peak. Includes their two biggest 'hits' -- 'If You Want to be a Bird' (featured in the Easy Rider movie & soundtrack) and 'Boobs A Lot' (not politically correct, but still very funny). There's also a song by former Rounder and legendary playwright Sam Shepard and a Johnny Otis tune thrown for good measure as well. This expanded seven piece version of The Rounders cover rock, latin, swing and everything in between during this nearly hour long show -- all through a good time, beatnik haze."

BATTIATO - Fetus (Water) CD AU$31

"Fetus is an album beyond all definition. It’s a masterpiece of daring and almost stupid risks that work every single time..... In little more than half-an-hour, Battiato takes us through eight uniquely super-detailed songs that tug at the heart strings as no other experimental record ever could. "

(Julian Cope)

RICHARD BRAUTIGAN - Listening to Richard Brautigan (Collector's choice/Harvest) CD AU$20

Listening to Richard Brautigan began as a spoken-word record album project at Zapple, a subsidiary of The Beatle's Apple Corps Ltd. record label, but was never completed. Resurrected by Harvest Records, it contained poems, anecdotes, and telephones. The effect was an alternative view of Brautigan.

COOLHAVEN - Stromblocque Phantasien (Stora/Freibank) CD AU$20

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Strawberry Jam (Domino) CD AU$30

MICHAEL YONKERS - The Big Balloon/It's you again 7" (Artschooldropout) AU$10

2 awesome Michael Yonkers tracks on this beaut' 7'' with screenprined artwork by Nathan Gray. Side A's the big balloon comes from 68. (out-take from Micro-Miniature Love sessions) What a year! What a riot of a song! Side B comes from 2004...Yes, well, its a different time, alright, but Yonkers still has IT! Amazing!

FABULOUS DIAMONDS - Self titled (Nervous Jerk) 7" and bonus CD AU$13

Fabulous Diamonds Deliver 5 soupy pop dervishes that hit hard and hang in the air like bong smoke. Recorded in 2006, this one is ltd to 500 copies. If you're in the US, look out for them in June when they tour with Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit

FABULOUS DIAMONDS - 7 songs (Nervous Jerk) CD AU$20

The Fabdime duo of Nisa Venerosa (Percussion & Vocals) and Jarrod Zlatic (Organ, Tape, Delay, Sax, Voice) return with 7 songs, (It's true) More dubby minimal punk monk mantra jams to feel alright to. Great artwork as always.

HI-GOD PEOPLE/DEAD C - Split 12" (Nervous Jerk) LP AU$26

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Books:

DAVID TOOP - Exotica - Fabricated soundscapes in a real world. AU$15

Although Toop's subject is predominantly that of fabricated soundscapes in a real world, a music which has come to be categorised as exotica, his roots are literary and extend to novelistic cosmographers like Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and William Burroughs. Toop is erudite, but refreshingly unacademic in the way his texts are interspersed with autobiography, anecdote, interviews and fiction. Bringing imaginative criticism to bear on a range of subjects from the beginnings of ethnic music to Josephine Baker and Yma Sumac, Les Baxter and Martin Denny, Toop succeeds in aligning the concept of the exotic with world music. In a century in which we have grown to be increasingly interiorised, television often providing our point of contact with the external world, so music has come to assume the role of transporting geography into our rooms. In this respect Les Baxter's floridly contrived soundscapes prove central to Toop's thesis, for Baxter was throughout the 1950's to offer his listeners package tours in sound. According to Toop Baxter's music provided 'running excursions for sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll around some taboo urges before lunch, view a pagan ceremony through gaps in the bamboo, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home stereo comforts in the whitebread suburbs.' Baxter's albums carried titles such as Caribbean moonlight, Jewels of the Sea, Ritual of the Savage and Ports of Pleasure, and by hinting at sexual licentiousness in exotic landscapes, the music was to prove irresistible to a 1950's record buying public.

David Toop is a marvellous guide to the curious, the bizarre, the culted and the durable in 20th century music. His book includes interviews with the eclectic likes of Burt Bacharach, Ornette Coleman, Bill Laswell, Maroumi Hosno and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the renowned Pakistani popular singer. Jeremy Reed

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