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  • A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
    A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
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    With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Philip Corner – Philip Corner LP
    Philip Corner – Philip Corner LP
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    Philip Corner (1933) is an American composer, musician, artist, theorist and teacher. Corner studied at The High School of Music & Art and Columbia University NYC and under Olivier Messiaen [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Leda – Neuter
    Leda – Neuter
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    Sofie Herner (Enhet FΓΆr Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik III-X LP released on FΓΆrlag FΓΆr Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sofia Carbonara – On Names
    Sofia Carbonara – On Names
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    ON β€œON NAMES:” I recorded the voices of my parents (Joaquin & Daniela) reading off phonemes (the sounds in words) from Spanish, Italian, and German in search of what my […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
    Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
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    Ships by 7/28/23. Writing about Mazozma aka Ma Turner’s work is like trying to frame a river. Throughout the course of their prolific career and many projects, the Lexington, KY […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
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    Ships by or around 7/21/223 β€œDo you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?” Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore
  • Reynols – Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve
    Reynols – Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve
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    Many things have been said about REYNOLS over the past 30 years but altogether seem not yet enough to poroperly describe the unclassifiable Argentine group formed by MIGUEL TOMASIN, ROBERTO […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
    Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
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    Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • David Cunningham – Grey Scale
    David Cunningham – Grey Scale
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    “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
    Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
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    From the viscerally punishing and nerve wrecking, to the wistfully sublime, Kevin Drumm’s work often yield a ferocious intensity through the timbres of minute details. Now, throughout this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
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    What our staff has to say: “Insane amplified violin shredding on top of electric guitar on A side – I’ve never heard a violin sounding like that, blending completely with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
    John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
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    High Life is like a mini-album, a short journey or guide. The perfect use of the 7″ format, showcasing the range of this inventive duo with each playing their core […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hijokaidan – No Paris / No Harm LP
    Hijokaidan – No Paris / No Harm LP
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    Originally released on LP through Jojo Hiroshige’s Alchemy Records in 1988, Hijokaidan’s No Paris / No Harm captures the vitriol and terror of the legendary noise group’s studio and live […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Heart of Palm – Tropique ConcrΓ¨te: Collected CD
    Heart of Palm – Tropique ConcrΓ¨te: Collected CD
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    “The palm tree leaves have been uprooted. Each petal turns pink, shedding the season’s rime” The side project of Clotting’s Shea Hardacre, Heart of Palm is a fading audio [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • K. Reinshagen Technik – I Am Seeing Fear 7″
    K. Reinshagen Technik – I Am Seeing Fear 7″
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    Transitioning from from his longtime LFA/Liable moniker, Nostilevo label head K. Reinshagen delivers two sides of lurching tape loops and unvarnished industrial rhythms perfectly suited for the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • John Wiese – Camouflage Body 7″
    John Wiese – Camouflage Body 7″
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    Initially only available during John Wiese’s 2022 North American tour, the latest entry in his ever-expanding catalog of 7″s is now available in wider release.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
    Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
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    Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. “Sensitive Disturbance” is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
    South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
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    This is South Saturn Delta’s debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Limbs Bin – A Glass Of Sour Quince
    Limbs Bin – A Glass Of Sour Quince
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    18 new tracks of heartstopping blast chaotics from Western Mass noisecore legend Limbs Bin. 17 originals and a Bob Dylan cover in less than three minutes. When they said you’d […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Sound
    V/A – Sound
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    What our staff has to say: “Etats-Unis (Superior Viaduct’s more experimental reissue label) had a recent LAFMS drop (Smegma, ID Art #2, Blorp Esette Volume One, and the La Forte […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • V/A – I.d. Art #2
    V/A – I.d. Art #2
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    “Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle. Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Blorp Esette Volume One
    V/A – Blorp Esette Volume One
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    “Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle. Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • NBDY – Woods & Wires
    NBDY – Woods & Wires
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    Czech Republic based artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with precise immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
    The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
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    What our staff has to say: “Almost 5 hours of recordings from the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival on 4 cassettes and including a lovely 240 page book documenting […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Glands Of External Secretion – Neck Pillow
    Glands Of External Secretion – Neck Pillow
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    It’s astonishing to think that the most recent vinyl full length outing from Glands of External Secretion was the splendiferous Reverse Atheism 2xLP (Butte County Free Music Society, 2011). Not [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Masonna / Prurient – Annihilationism
    Masonna / Prurient – Annihilationism
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    Includes two-sided poster and download code. Years in the making, Annihilationism is a split full-length of brand new material of “harshtronics and exclamation” from Japan’s [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Dodssang Tempel
    Demonologists/Dodssang Tempel
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    cover art by Stomp The Holy Bones layout by Displaced/Replaced mastered by Grant Richardson split release with Liquid Death Records

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Bastard Noise
    Demonologists/Bastard Noise
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    One thunderous and meticulously crafted track from the mighty BASTARD NOISE. Three blackened, scathing tracks from DEMONOLOGISTS featuring vocals by MOUTH WOUND. NOISE IS MUSIC. NOISE IS LIFE.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
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    Released October, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Utarm
    Demonologists/Utarm
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    Released December, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
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    What our staff has to say: “EPA return with a disc of duos. I would say this is a good disc for all Improv Heads, Kraut Rock Dropouts, & Kentucky […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
    Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
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    On April 2, 1979, Japanese musicians and Fluxus practitioners Takehiosa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki recorded New Sense of Hearing at Tokyo’s Aeolian Hall. Described by Suzuki as the β€œculmination” of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
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    What our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
    Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
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    Waiting and Counting : Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field Material for this release is based around a performance determined by a partial system of cues (max patch) that occur […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Black Pus – All My Relations
    Black Pus – All My Relations
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    Black Pus is Brian Chippendale, who rose to prominence as the drummer of noise rock titans Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer. The first Black Pus CD-R was self released in early […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Lea Bertucci – Metal Aether / Resonant Field
    Lea Bertucci – Metal Aether / Resonant Field
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    What our staff has to say: “I’ve been following Lea Bertucci since we stocked her 7″ on IDDB. This LP is very melancholic and a lesson in tonal energy. I […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mary Lattimore & Growing – Gainer
    Mary Lattimore & Growing – Gainer
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    Critically acclaimed harpist and experimental composer Mary Lattimore and big amp ambient pioneers Growing have united for their first collaboration: Gainer. Remastered here from its original [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Dean Spunt, John Wiese ? The Echoing Shell
    Dean Spunt, John Wiese ? The Echoing Shell
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    Veteran noisemakers Spunt & Wiese debut as collaborators by drawing from the rumble and crash of Dean’s drumkit, finding dimensions of hiss and crunch on beyond his No Age style. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Wire – #463 September 2022
    The Wire – #463 September 2022
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    On the cover… Neu! + 50 Years Of Motorik A special cover feature on the motorik rock originators Neu! to mark half a century since their game-changing debut album. This […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Drone – A Perfect Blind
    Drone – A Perfect Blind
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    The 2nd in our 3 drΓΈne reissues, released on cassette for the first time, in anticipation of new material from the band late ’19, early ’20 a perfect blind was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
    Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
    $11.00 | Ships on/around Aug 01, 2022 Add to cart

    ‘Sissy Spacek reaching full maturation – Hyper destructive low end heavy cut ups. Harsh noise from unheard nether-realms.’ -Brandon Hill (Fantastique / Starved Relations) [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Wire  – #460 June 2022
    The Wire – #460 June 2022
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    “On the cover: Phew. The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Artbreakhotel – Karas LP
    Artbreakhotel – Karas LP
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    Nobuo Yamada returns with his first LP under the moniker ARTBREAKHOTEL (Saitama, Japan). KARAS swivels two unyielding junk-metal-compositions of wheezing steel, fluid screeching, and a horde of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
    Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
    $300.00 | Add to cart

    In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 40 handnumbered copies. Includes one handnumbered insert. 10 audiotqps with interviews/statements, experimental and electronic music by William Burroughs, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex Cunningham – Armor
    Alex Cunningham – Armor
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    Six tracks of solo acoustic violin improvisation, recorded at home in October 2020. Alex Cunningham – violin, objects, artwork

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • R Giradin – Emotional Music
    R Giradin – Emotional Music
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    R. Girardin – Emotional Music is a collaborative release from Palto Flats and Zero Grow, a contemporary rendering of synthetic midi-fusion and DAW experimentalism. Drawing links between Rashad [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Flanger Magazine
    Flanger Magazine
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    β€œA set of spry, pastoral Aecoustic Guitar and errant Electronic pieces that harken back to libraries by Teisco, Vittorio Marino, and the like, yet mapped in an alien manner unlike […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • The Wire – #459 May 2022
    The Wire – #459 May 2022
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    “On the cover: Reynols. As one of the most singular groups in all of rock release their first western album in two decades, following drummer Miguel Tomasin’s Henry Viscardi Award [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Merzbow & Lawrence English – Eternal Stalker
    Merzbow & Lawrence English – Eternal Stalker
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    On their first official collaboration, Japanese noise pioneer Masami Akita aka Merzbow and Australian sound sculptor Lawrence English present a harrowing, surrealist portrait of nocturnal [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alie – Whole
    Alie – Whole
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    𝐼𝑛 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘œπ‘’π‘›π‘‘π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘  π‘œπ‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘› π‘œπ‘“ π‘šπ‘¦ 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘šπ‘–π‘›π‘‘ 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 π‘‘π‘œπ‘€π‘› For π‘Šβ„Žπ‘œπ‘™π‘’, Berlin-based Alie illustrates a selection from the Ashtavakra Gita with a sprawling excursion of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Tarkamt – 1100dB
    Tarkamt – 1100dB
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    Tarkamt, the solo project of Egyptian artist Cherif El-Masri (The Invisible Hands), unfolds its second release 1100 dB. A deluge of mass psychotropic soundscapes, churning crude spurts of coarse [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
    pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
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    The first cassette release by pnl(a), a project conceived by Brandon Auger (Halifax, NS) in 1995 and now highly active after some torpid years. Compulsion Fabric droops sentimental tones tangled [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Daniel Wyche – Earthwork
    Daniel Wyche – Earthwork
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    “β€œA lot of this record is about memory and long stretches of time – not just making, but remaking, constantly tinkering.” That’s Daniel Wyche – a Chicago-based guitarist, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • David Tholfsen – Walk With Me
    David Tholfsen – Walk With Me
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    What our staff has to say: “Layered vocal melodies that guide you through a natural world. FFO Avant yodeling.” – Dan David Tholfsen is an American musician and artist living [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Loopsel – The Spiral
    Loopsel – The Spiral
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    2022 U.S. Reissue Fans of the Swedish underground should be familiar with Elin EngstrΓΆm from her time playing in Monokultur, Skiftande Enheter, and excellent solo recording project Loopsel. Her [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
    Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
    $14.00 | Add to cart

    Joke Lanz and Sudden Infant once again return in their razor-sharp trio setting whereby the absurdist nature that Joke’s work is already cut with is reconfigured in a gnarled and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Orquere – Foundations
    Orquere – Foundations
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    With an explorative approach Orquere organizes concrete sounds into experimental structures of cold and dry sonic landscapes where sounds appear as objects. Stripped down to their bare essence. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
    Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
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    2017 release on BLUESANCT, “Phantoms Of Place” is a psyche-pastoral hymnal which seems to be as informed by noise shows in West Coast Basements as it is by the Blue […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
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