Gallon Drunk w/ Derek Raymond

Gallon Drunk w/ Derek Raymond
"I was Dora Suarez"
1994 (Clawfist) / 2008 (Sartorial)

1. Empire Gate - 28:55
2. Roatta (Dora version) - 12:53
3. The Detective - 02:45
4. Scene of the Crime - 08:46
5. College Hill - 06:50
6. Dora - 04:07
7. Close - 12:46

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By Cathi Unsworth from Wire Magazine (January 2010):
"At the inspired instigation of their friend Geoff Cox, who became the project’s unofficial PR, Johnston and Edwards made an album with the noir writer Derek Raymond, an adaptation of his 1990 book I Was Dora Suarez. The novel was a revelation. Raymond wrote of a London “scoured with vile psychic weather”, a frightening, fracturing city that evinced Margaret Thatcher’s curse: “There is no such thing as society.” His nameless Detective Sergeant worked a grim adjunct of the Met called A14 Unexplained Deaths, tending to the souls of the lost like a grievous, avenging angel. The black-haired girl at the centre of this story was a picture in a book of crime scene photographs that had affected Raymond so deeply he spent the next 18 months constructing the identity of Dora Suarez and, as he put it, taking her out of “that lifeless place”. Johnston, then living off Brick Lane, channelled the score from long walks around the East End, taking particular inspiration from the sounds of Liverpool Street Station. Empathetic sensitivity to the text is reflected in the soundtrack he and Edwards constructed, the sound of the trains forming the opening piano motif, the ominous drones and fractious free jazz squawks and screams that render the atmosphere of terror and decay, bringing the private hells of Suarez, her killer and the DS into focus."

Club Foot Orchestra

Club Foot Orchestra
"Wild Beasts, Kidnapped, And More"
1995 (Rastascan Records)

1. Theme From Club Foot (From The Club Foot LP) - 02:18
2. Elk's Dance Hit (Wild Beasts) - 05:04
3. Visions - 00:47
4. Wild Beasts - 04:06
5. Hip Hopi (Wild Beasts) - 03:17
6. Chinese Flowers (Wild Beasts) - 03:20
7. Time Axe Bag Dad (Wild Beasts) - 04:53
8. Suerte De La Noche (Wild Beasts) - 04:28
9. Entrance (Kidnapped LP) - 02:18
10. They Say Over There (Kidnapped LP) - 04:09
11. Take It To Mars (Kidnapped LP) - 04:34
12. Kidnapped Coed - 04:58
13. Zoogaloo (Kidnapped LP) - 02:32
14. Thrashinsky (Kidnapped LP) - 02:45
15. Innocent (Kidnapped LP) - 03:08
16. Clair (Kidnapped LP) - 03:46
17. Devil In My Soup (Kidnapped LP) - 04:35
18. Neolithic Female Goddess (Kidnapped LP) - 04:18
19. Theme From Club Foot: Medley (From The Club Foot LP) - 02:20

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Review: AMG

American Death Ray

American Death Ray
"Welcome To The Strange And Erotic World Of The American Death Ray"
2001 (Sympathy For The Record Industry)

1. Hip Hugger Suit(E) - 06:08
2. Black Dahlia - 04:43
3. Who's That Knockin' - 03:29
4. Rockets (Red Glare) - 06:16
5. Tight (El Gato Negro) - 05:00
6. Make Me Sick - 04:45
7. Sweet Sensation - 02:59
8. Tight (Reprise) - 01:25

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(I will post this one in V4 as it is the only version going and it's wierd one)

Cloudland Canyon

Cloudland Canyon
"Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004"
2006 (Tee Pee Records)

1. Opening / Ice Of Rift - 03:23
2. Clearlight Intry - 02:46
3. Carolina Foxtail / Sea Chirp - 09:01
4. Field Ghosts - 03:02
5. Coastal Breathe - 02:55
6. Holy Canyon - Vanquish - 05:40
7. Joyful Noise - 02:30
8. Secondary Chanting - 03:16
9. Summer Cloth - 02:39
10. Bright Beijing - 07:17

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Review from Wire Magazine (August 2006):
"Brooklyn guitarist Kip Uhlhorn and German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan first met in 2002 when Uhlhorn was touring Europe with his group Panthers. Requiems Der Natur 20022004 combines the guitarist’s rock stance with Wojan’s more electronically inclined leanings. Other hands were invited to leave their mark on the project and the tapes were further treated by the duo before being finally let loose. The pleasing result is a sometimes stunning neo-psychedelic experience where the musical spirits of This Heat, Ash Ra Tempel and The Mahavishnu Orchestra are evoked, celebrated and absorbed inside Uhlhorn and Wojan’s shifting cloud formations of sound."

Ass

Ass
"Ass"
2006 (Headspin Recordings)

1. Guidelines For Bespoke - 05:47
2. Two Different Ways - 03:05
3. Stealing Apples - 03:19
4. Why Astrid Smiles - 06:32
5. Don't You Tell A Word - 05:17
6. Chinese Dream - 05:16
7. Feud In, Feud Out - 06:39

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2007):
"Andreas Soderstrom’s debut album as Ass is built out of lush Fahey-style acoustic guitar picking and his warm, velvety trumpet, and comprises both songs and instrumentals. “Two Different Ways” seeps into your heart on a fanfare of brass, glowing with afternoon light over forest-rimmed Swedish lakes. The same bittersweet sorrow infuses vocal tracks like “Don’t Tell A Word”. The two closing instrumentals “Chinese Dream” and “Feud In, Feud Out” are the highlights, where the insistent fingertip strumming and string scratching resemble Klaus Dinger’s trademark motorik drum tick. On “Chinese Dream”, it is further filled out with glockenspiel and organ chimes, while “Feud In, Feud Out” has a monophonic synth melody daubed with a child’s crayon."

Primordial Undermind

Primordial Undermind
"Loss of Affect"
2006 (Strange Attractors Audio House)

1. Intercessor - 05:43
2. Breathe Deep - 05:30
3. 3rd Class Sissy - 05:36
4. Color of Nothing - 04:51
5. Diftglass - 07:03
6. In Violation - 02:11
7. Tremens - 04:14
8. Pertussis - 03:36
9. Blinding Stars - 07:59

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Review from Wire Magazine (December 2006)
"Ex-Crystalized Movements guitarist Eric Arn formed Primordial Undermind in 1988 as a continuation of his enthusiasm for acid rock. On Loss Of Affect, he steers PU through a tangled Ambient swampland into musical territory that sounds like an alternative soundtrack to Apocalypse Now. Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds and improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen-style epics, PU have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special."

Mostly Other People Do The Killing

Mostly Other People Do The Killing
"Shamokin!!!"
2007 (Hot Cup)

1. Handsome Eddy - 05:51
2. The Hop Bottom Hop - 08:28
3. Shamokin - 03:50
4. Dunkelbergers - 07:48
5. Factoryville - 04:51
6. Lover - 04:33
7. Andover - 03:50
8. Evans City - 06:41
9. Baden - 06:37
10. A Night in Tunisia - 21:32

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Review from Wire Magazine (December 2007):
"Oliver Sacks’s collection of clinical case studies The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, which inspired an unsuccessful Michael Nyman opera, has the story of Witty Ticcy Ray, a “weekend jazz drummer” fuelled by Tourette’s Syndrome. During the week he’s calmed by haldol, but he needs his ticcing energy for drumming and leaves off treatment at weekends. Kevin Shea’s spasmodic percussion assaults on “The Hop Bottom Hop”, from the marvellous new album by Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do The Killing, made me recall Witty Ticcy. In this Mingus/free jazz parody, Shea meshes insanely with funky old-time pizzicato – imitating players from the pre-amplified era – from bassist and leader Moppa Elliott, whose stutters mimic turntablism and plunderphonics, apparently in real time, while alto saxist Jon Irabagon pours out beautifully judged bluesy licks."