Showing posts with label spacerock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spacerock. Show all posts

4.07.2010

SILVER HORSESHOES-S/T, LITTLE RED ROCKET, 1995, C-40, U.S.A





















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The Silver Horseshoes -S/T cassette C-40
Little Red Rocket,1995. Oakland, Ca

This little gem sold out fast and was only available on tour if you happened to
catch the band Daredevil during the summer of 95. The Silver Horseshoes was a
side project headed by Daredevil & Indian Summer's guitarist Adam. Tracks from this release would have nestled in quite nicely with some of the better lo-fi country infused
projects of the same period ala Palace, Songs:Ohia & Rex. These tracks were
recorded at a West Oakland warehouse live via stereo cassette, a very cheap recorder
at that. That said the tracks still retain a rustic beauty and deserve to be shared among interested listeners, we're happy to provide...
A lovely packaged release comprised of a die cut fold out chipboard case. lino-cut print of stampeding horses and an unlucky upside down horseshoe. Hand written name and label logo with cut & glued xerox info squares. Even the shiny red staples keeping it all together were a nice touch.
Just 4 songs of haunted slide and discordant country guitar riffs, singing, jaw harp & samples. The songs are sandwiched between repeating record loops of stampeding horses, distorted and tangled in a slightly disturbing manner, a glorious addition...
The line up for these songs featured Adams brother Seth on drums (also of Indian Summer), Billy from Ordination of Aaron and Daredevil, Nate (RIP) of Bubblejug & Gang Gang Dance, Fawn & Quinn from Tarentela.
liner notes:
Songs:
intro (short)
blazing star KY.
silvery horseshoe
horses and angels
by the light of the lone star
outro (long)

recorded in the month of june 95
the silver horse country and western
band are:
adam m. guitars and yellpin
fawn g. singin and samplin

other players:
seth a. drums
nate country harp
bill s. country slide (trk 1)
quinn slide guitar

3.15.2010

LIGHT-TURNING, WURLITZER JUKEBOX, L.P., 1996, U.K.






























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Amazing 1996 release by sometimes Amp & FSA collaborator. UK based artist who recently released his John Peel sessions which are also fantastic and can be found via Unlabel. He borrowed gear (including Dave FSA's 4-track) to make this recording happen. For us it embodies everything a great spacerock album should have. its super lush and beautiful drifting vocals are quite a treat. Dave suppossedly ad's a hand on the B-side of this record, either that or Light summons the aid FSA 4-track ghosts to chime in... theres a 7" with the title track "Turning" on Wurlitzer Jukebox worth getting as well. both LP and 7" are pretty limited and hard to find these days... a pillar in the uk lo-fi spacerock catalog of releases. beautiful...

1.20.2010

GRIMBLE GRUMBLE-S/T ,LP, 1998, U.S.A




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Grimble Grumble S/T LP 1998
just about anyone heavy into music has had heavy doses of "shoegaze" beginning as early as the late 80's with groups from the u.k dominating the scene - my bloody valentine, slowdive, swervedriver etc. and other slightly lesser known groups like loop, bark psychosis, seefeel etc..however beginning in 1995 via the midwest spacerock scene, these for-runners of the genre began with singles on Enraptured and Orchre in the UK but also caught attention of labels such at Burnt Hair and Rocket Racer. with heavy nods to Windy & Carl, FSA, Amp and other spaced out drone groups of the period. Grimble Grumble, this album in particular really made waves when it was released in 1998. its elusive cover art (no band name, record label or track titles anywhere) in all it's shiney bronze glory only hand a letter pressed number on the back which seemed to be in an addition of 1000? all in all when cross-referenced with other friends collections that were also into the spacerock scene at the time, this record is somehow missing... possibly more rare than it seems, it remains a pillar in the Sanity Muffins archive from this period. Highly Recommended!!...