April 26th Newsletter
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Chicago, IL 60647
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  • Group Material – Intimations
    Group Material – Intimations
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    Intimations marks the first official release of Group Material, the sound work of Eric Sanchez and Avalon Kalin. Released as a limited edition cassette on Slug Spitter. Dreamlike, “Intimations” [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
    Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
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    Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is the music of listening after listening, when water runs relative to the sound of your own footsteps, and you lean over the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
    Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
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    Out December 16th, 2022 – Pre-Orders ship immediately! “Wasteland Jazz Unit is a staple in the world of destroyed music. With countless releases cataloged by a literal who’s who [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • James Fella & Gabriella Isaac – CCTK Music
    James Fella & Gabriella Isaac – CCTK Music
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    CCTK Music combines Gabriella Isaac’s exploitative use of laptop as feedback loop / sound source / physical device and James Fella’s electro-acoustic / tape as instrument approach. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Soft Shoulder – Formerly On Flourescent Paper
    Soft Shoulder – Formerly On Flourescent Paper
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    Formerly on Fluorescent Paper delivers 14 jaunts culled from the artist’s tape soup collage of several generations’ worth of punk and no-wave adjacent music. Be it jagged, angular, short tracks… [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Max Nordile – Building A Better Void
    Max Nordile – Building A Better Void
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    *Max Nordile (Preening, Violence Creeps, Uzi Rash, et al.) tosses Gilgongo 30 minutes of trudging, free-form sprawl that draws unassuming and collateral reference points (in the label’s [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Waxy Tomb – Imminent Fold LP
    Waxy Tomb – Imminent Fold LP
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    LP includes a 25 page full-color art booklet. Amorphous and perplexing, Jules Litman-Cleper’s work as Waxy Tomb can incidentally incite a notion of chaos or randomness in the foreground while [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • James Fella – Inactive Parts
    James Fella – Inactive Parts
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    “Inactive Parts” was a December 2014 installation at The Trunk Space in Phoenix, AZ consisting of paintings, screen printed xerox pieces, lathe cut 7″ records and two sets of [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Filthy Grin – Saturn In The Mirror
    Filthy Grin – Saturn In The Mirror
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    Gerald Biggs developed Filthy Grin as a living sound journal to document explorations in the sonification of sculpture and body movement. Currently located in Montreal, over the past decade he [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Soft Shoulder – Contextual
    Soft Shoulder – Contextual
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    Two months after the recent ‘Aerosol Can Stand’ 7”, James Fella’s long-running group Soft Shoulder returns with 10 tracks recorded throughout 2018-2019 at various live performances, at their [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Drew Daniel & John Wiese – Continuous Hole LP
    Drew Daniel & John Wiese – Continuous Hole LP
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    Gilgongo Records is pleased to announce “Continuous Hole”, a collaborative album by Drew Daniel and John Wiese. The fruit of over ten years of home recordings in San Francisco, Los […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tashi Dorji & John Dietrich – Midden
    Tashi Dorji & John Dietrich – Midden
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    While the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sandy Ewen – You Win
    Sandy Ewen – You Win
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    While it’s relatively easy to refer to Sandy Ewen’s use of guitar as unconventional or abstract, the true nature of her work is much more exploratory in nature. The instrument […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek / Smegma – Ballast
    Sissy Spacek / Smegma – Ballast
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, and Ju Suk Reet Meate (three original members) are joined by Rock ’N’ Roll Jackie (35 years in the band), John Wiese (approximately 10 years), […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mia Loucks – Sister Honey Demos LP
    Mia Loucks – Sister Honey Demos LP
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    Bedroom music” as a genre is perhaps questionable, and yet when first hearing the cassette that these songs were originally released on, this was the thought that I was fixated […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • James Fella – Weak Left Input
    James Fella – Weak Left Input
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    Weak Left Input” LP (GGGR-070, September 2014): Two improvised and unedited pieces focusing on meandering / overlapping electronics, guitar and tape noise. Over an hour of material ranging [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic