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NAFH26 Mike Tamburo and Wilson Lee - Boyinger DBL 3" $10
The Boyinger was a site specific 24 foot instrument built and performed
by Mike Tamburo out of a broken mandolin. The first disc features a solo
performance of the instrument. Disc two features Wilson Lee (Fathmount)
remixing, reworking and performing with the music on disc one.
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NAFH24 The Amazing Trapeze - God Will Fail John's Horn 3" $8
Tamburo and Mcdowell are back with a piece dedicated to John Fail utilizing
piano guts and electronics to create a beautiful and often terrifying
piece of 21st century composition.
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NAFH20 Nux - The Signal CD $10
Matt Mcdowell (Arco Flute Foundation, The Amazing Trapeze) spent 3 weeks
staring at the sun making predictions of the coming apocalypse and then
recorded this as its soundtrack, Mcdowell delivers one of the most brutal
guitar recordings these ears have heard. This is serious speaker torture.
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NAFH18 Egghatcher - Accidents CD $10
Everyday sounds and events filtered through the musical genius of Robert
Horton and presented back to us as a sacred music for our new millenium.
This is a stunning release.
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NAFH17 Fathmount - Six String Renderings CD $10
For fans of guitar terror. Fathmount is Wilson Lee from Hong Kong's experimental
duo "new fairfield parks & recreation". By playing 6-string guitar, mics
and mixer feedback, fathmount makes itself an improvising project that
combines noise drone/ electro-acoustics and folk. Performed/collaborated
with Brad Rose, Birchville Cat Motel, Antony Milton and FM3 (china duo).
Recently completed 3 records "6-string renderings 1 & 2" (releasing on
newamericanfolkhero and later foxglove) and "continuum overflow". "6-string
renderings (one)" is the beginning of the project that works with drone,
noise and guitar overtones.
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NAFH16 Mike Tamburo and His Orchestra - Ghosts Of Marumbey CD
$12
Co-Released with The Music Fellowship. Mike Tamburo is back again picking,
droning, buzzing and rocking with the biggest line up of the Universal
Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge
(his backing band) yet. Collaborators on this project include Ken Camden
(Meisha), Keenan Lawler, Brad Rose (North Sea, etc.), Jeff Komara .(Arco
Flute Foundation, Air Guitar Magazine), Matt Mcdowell (Nux, Arco Flute
Foundation), Pete Spynda (Meisha, Arco Flute
Foundation, Air Guitar Magazine), Bryan Camphire (Bloody Panda), Blake
Mcdowell (Bloody Panda), Wilson Lee (Fathmount), John Fail (Lied Music,
etc.), Tusk Lord, Nick Schillace, Charlie Vinz (Head of Femur, STMonroe,
Bobby Conn Band). "The Ghosts of Marumbey were born in a dream. Most
interesting things are…implanted in our minds, intentionally or
not, signposts pointing to anywhere. Mike Tamburo has spent the last few
years searching for Marumbey in every nook and cranny of this fucked up beautiful country,
and in other places, too. Under the rugs and behind the couches, out back
behind green gardens and underneath gray-gold branches of sun kissed forest.
Or maybe it was just here all along, invisible to the touch but breathing…the lives of so many that have come before.
This is the sound of a place that never existed but still pulses with
bubbling, mutating life. This is a ballad for a battle never fought…a
dream never-ending…" Lee Jackson.
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NAFH15 Dave Krejci - The Cleophone CD $10
Dave Krejci's earliest memory of music is that of trailing his mother
while she vacuumed. Krejci would hum along with the vacuum's drone sliding
in and out of pitch to create vibrations in his chest. This attraction
to the visceral and hypnotic characteristics of sound has fed Krejci's
fire for more than 25 years. His adulthood obsession with organs, Leslies,
the Cleophone and pianos is nothing more than an adult extension of his
vacuum-chasing days. Krejci grew out of Austin, Minnesota, a small hog-slaughtering
town curiously full of musicians. "Classically trained" on the
piano, Krejci spent the majority of his musical time writing his own compositions
and playing piano in bands. In 1987, Krejci escaped the miserable town
and fled to Minneapolis to attend the University of Minnesota. In the
late 1980s and early 90s, Krejci played Hammond organ for TwinTone/Prospective
recording artist GREEN MACHINE, a psychedelic trio that produced several
full-length CDs and 45RPMs. In the Spring of 2005, built the CLEOPHONE,
an electronic stringed instrument built out of heavy piano strings, Rhodes
electromagnetic pick-ups and a microphonic copper stand. The instrument
is played hrough two Leslie Speakers and manipulated with piano hammers, bows,
sticks, bones, brushes and ball-bearings.
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NAFH14 Bradam Streiple - AAB CD $10
Bradam Streiple is one man made of two, a mysterious and sometimes threatening
bloke with a moustache. Birthed by accident in August 2004, Bradam Streiple
plays guitar, synth, violin, effects, and other sundry items. Bradam Streiple's
music exhibits a tendency towards simple statements and minimalist extrapolations.
With a propensity for drones inspired idiosyncratically and rather convolutedly
by hockey video games.
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NAFH13 Tusk Lord - Familiar Trails CD $10
"Though Tusk Lord began as a continuation with Mike Kasunic's grimy, ghastly
work as part of the duo Slices, he's more recently exited the grimy underground
tunnels that birthed the dark and foreboding work of his self-titled debut,
and wandered into new realms. Slices, a band of both ear-searing electronic
squall and massive guitar/drums plodding thunder, dissolved just as they
entered a new phase of existence. And while the Tusk Lord moniker and
Kasunic's solo work were birthed during Slices' short lifespan, it was
after the duo were no more than Tusk Lord became Kasunic's main vehicle,
and the receptacle for the bevy of ideas that Kasunic so eagerly soaked
up from various corners of the musical spectrum. Tusk Lord's self-titled
debut cdr is an album heavy on inner ear torture and ugly sounds, though
not without signs of the about face that Kasunic was soon to make. Familiar
Trails finds Tusk Lord in a decidedly different mode, making largely acoustic
music in a more meditative, mildly psychedelic manner. The sun-speckled
tracks that make up the disc may not boast the forceful impact of Kasunic's
earlier work, but Familiar Trails finds Tusk Lord in perhaps his most
confident delivery yet. This is the music of unexplored forests, clouds
gathering on the horizon, and rocky foothill paths, all viewed through
a filter than lends an unnatural veneer to the terrain. It's music of
the earth, imperfect and unpolished, and all the more beautiful for it."
- Adam Strohm
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NAFH11 Keenan Lawler - Ghost Of A Plane of Air CD $12
Co-Released with the Music Fellowship. R.Keenan Lawler has spent the last
25 years developing his own personal sound world, constantly pushing himself
in new directions and developing new techniques, while remaining completely focused on his vision.
His experiments on his 1930 National Resonator guitar are the stuff of
legend you sometimes hear from town to town by someone who may have had
the good fortune to witness one of his performances. Words such as cosmic,
monolithic and deeply American have been used to describe the experience
of his music. He has worked with other like-minded musicians such as Matmos,
Pelt, Rhys Chatham, John Butcher, Charalambides, Ignaz Schick, Philip
Samartzis, My Morning Jacket, David Watson and Lukas Ligeti. In 1999 he
self released The Ghost of a Plane of Air, It quickly went out
of print and has since been heralded by many as a minimalist masterpiece.
It is now available for a larger audience. Lawler here pushes the bounds
and very definition of the resonator guitar: bowing, picking, scraping,
knocking and combining it with electro-acoustic manipulations and on site
recordings. The sound that pours from the speakers is dense, affecting,
cavernous and like no other, often delving from delicate picking into
a flurry of notes and ecstatic drones. Ghost of a Plane of Air
is the sound of a man looking deep into his soul and coming out the other
side changed, scarred and poetic. This reissue has been
remastered, and includes one new additional track recorded during the
same time period.
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NAFH10 Keenan Lawler - The Strange Tale of Eddy Westport 3"
$8
Newly Reissued!!! 3 beautiful tracks from the master himself. When I am
asked about the evolving spirit of Americans pushing musical traditions
to new levels I always mention Keenan Lawler. He is a true genius and
has created a guitar style totally unique to himself. He is a master of
the slide and the bow. The passion that goes into this music is unmatched.
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NAFH08 Number None - Nervous Climates CD $10
Newly reissued!!! Masters of timbre and duration Number None came out
to my cabin and the tension they created between beauty and chaos got
to be so high that I was really afraid all the animals in the forest would
riot. Instead we were visited by a giant cobra that covered Number None
until it finally stopped raining. Beautiful nuanced harmonies of drones.
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NAFH06 Robert Horton - Expotition CD $10
Reissue of classic Robert Horton now with new artwork and shiny plastic
jewel case. Again Robert Horton amazes and dazzles. This recording spans
from 1983 until yesterday before dinner. It is so amazing to hear Robert's
thought process evolve over the years yet be so cohesive to never stray
from Robert's life vision. I never knew what visionary meant in the 21
century until i met Robert Horton.
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NAFH05Mike Tamburo & Matt Mcdowell - Searching for Auggie Leonard
Senior CD $10
Proper reissue of the infamous duo's (also sometimes known as The Amazing
Trapeze) first release. This collection of recordings were made during
the final months of Arco Flute Foundation's implosion. One track also
features the Universal Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge in all their glory!!!
Over 30 instruments went into the making of this recording!!! It is the
perfect mixture of acoustic and electronic sounds. Fans of Tamburo's Beating
of the Rewound Son will love this one.
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NAFH04 Meisah - Secret of Paul Groper CD $10
Reissue featuring new artwork and a lovely plastic jewel case. The final
Meisha recordings ever or thus far??? This recording finds the boys toting
acoustic and electric guitars, electronics, tons of bows and for chist
sake the ever loving drone. The interplay on this recording is amazing.
Its definitely one of the group's best.
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NAFH03 Mike Tamburo - Screwing Six Bolts Into Last Tuesday CD
$10
4th pressing of the first non guitar Tamburo release now features gorgeous
artwork and jewel case. "Screwing Six Bolts Into Last Tuesday is an especially
impressive solo piece for piano, vibes, feedback and effects that builds
from tasteful piano strikes to a processed cycle of electronics and distortion
that altogether makes me think of Steve Reich's reverberating flights
to infinity, with some speed fluctuations and inter-dimensional shifts
further adding to the processed build-up confusion. Often quite disturbed
and haunted in the same space". - Lee Jackson.
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NAFM02 Robert Horton - Winter Suite 3" $8
2nd pressing now available!!! Robert Horton is a sound producer of the
highest order. When I received this recording I was almost instantly put
in a trance. All of a sudden i was in my back yard on a mission - building
string instruments triggered by wind chimes and tall totem pole flute
like instruments that were played by the arctic winds. Robert Horton has
a musical language that no one else speaks. He builds his own instruments
and conjures an alien harmonic orchestra out of the instruments that existed
before he arrived on our planet. In the last year he has released a slew
of amazing recordings both solo and in collaborations (with Tom Carter
and Loren Chase among others). This was one of the first of Robert's recordings
to land on earth. It is now finally available again.
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NAFH01 Meisha - For Sayas CD $10
Newly reissued with new artwork and jewel case. Recorded between 1998
and 2000 this collects several unreleased recordings from the Meisha Returns
Meisha Forever sessions as well as a live show from a tour in 2000. Beautiful
and incredible interplay featuring guitars, bass, piano, keyboards and
even some vocals. This is the missing link between the 2nd and third Meisha
albums.
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