MONKEY 3 - 'BEYOND THE BLACK SKY'

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• PSYCHOBABBLE072 - LP

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• PSYCHOBABBLE072CD - CD

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The year 2010 was really busy for Monkey 3: after having played at the famous Roadburn Festival 2010 (Holland) and the Hellfest (France), the band started recording their fourth album: ? Beyond the black sky ?. The quartet decided to work with a young and talented producer: Johann Meyer. The result of this collaboration is an album which will certainly become a classic and be important in the career of the band. Monkey 3 found their own sound and their own way: the best combination of modern and vintage vibes. An instrumental album which drives you through a disturbing and mysterious dream. Monkey 3 is well-known for their amazing live performances and they will prove it next April on their European tour. The band was founded in 2001 and already had a stoner-rock and psych vibe, which will remind you of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mono or Pelican. With their first self-titled album, which came out in 2003, Monkey 3 received great reactions and reviews all over Europe, placing them as one of the best newcomers in the stoner rock genre?. Their second album, ?39 Laps?, released in 2007, contains a mind-bending cover from one of the biggest cinema classics ?Once Upon A Time In The West?, from the Master Ennio Morricone. The third album, ?Undercover?, is actually an EP featuring covers (Archive, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple) and contains songs with two awesome singers: the Legend himself, John Garcia (Kyuss, Hermano), and Tony Jelencovich (Transport League, M.A.N.)! Due to the success of this record, the band hit the European roads (France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland) from October 16th until November 7th 2009.

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Tracklisting:
Camhell ? 6:19
One Zero Zero One ? 04:04
Black Maiden ? 08:51
Tuco The Ugly ? 02:13
K.I ? 02:31
Motorcycle Broder ? 05:33
Gate 57 ? 03:49
Through The Desert ? 08:53

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VERNON WRAY - 'WASTED'

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• SSP009 - LP

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Sebastian Speaks has just completed the reissue of VERNON WRAY's legendary and impossible to find Wasted LP from the early seventies. It's a remarkable country rock record with should-have-been classic songs, tasteful arrangements, and some serious downer moves. It's got shades of Kristofferson, Hazelwood, and of course the later work of Vernon's own brother LINK WRAY. The LP has been completely remastered, and the insert features rare photos of Vernon and some very personal remembrances penned by his daughter SHERRY, who also co-produced this project.

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PINK REASON - 'SHIT IN THE GARDEN'

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• SB106 - LP

  655030110610

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In the four years since Siltbreeze released Pink Reason's Cleaning the Mirror, Kevin DeBroux's subsequent singles and EPs have been concise, individual statements, together charting an atlas of depression and the struggles with a darkness that threaten to swallow him up every day. Compressed into Debroux's five- and six-minute songs are weeks, months and years of labor and experience, not the least of which are his travels to places where he catalyzed and received underground energies-from Wisconsin and Ohio, through Melbourne and Santiago de Chile, to New York City. Try to map out how these songs are put together, and one finds that the apparent simplicity of DeBroux's riffs and chord progressions gives way to an epic complexity. Now that the dust is settling and the commercial concerns of a thousand "lo-fi" projects have vacated the underground for a better life in the dorm rooms of America, the influence of Cleaning the Mirror on the past half-decade is clear. And DeBroux is still here, using cheap technology, creating rich, enveloping psychological environments, giving voice to a restless inner life-manifesting drum-and-bass beats, hardcore dissonance, Ian MacCulloch's larynx-and blooming like sunflowers amid the debris.

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1. Holding On
2. I Just Leave
3. Sixteen Years
4. Cranes Are Flying
5. Here On In
6. You Can?t Win

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JEREMY BIBLE & JASON HENRY - 'VRYASHN'

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• INFX049LP - LP

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"Two lengthy, sonorous tracks with looming, viscous currents offset by a seductive parade of pattering detail. Fluttering piano notes pierce shifting planes of texture, catspaws of white noise skip across the swell, and Echoplexed flurries float, like distant birdsong, back and forth across the threshold of audibility. Vryashn reveals a perfect balance between fluidity and architecture before disappearing into a haze of chiming bells." - The Wire "Here be the sad sounds of drowning. This Ohio-based pair has quietly amassed an intriguing catalogue of digitally treated dronemusic and manipulated field recordings, with Vryashn being maybe the best so far, oozing with a gorgeous subaquatic melancholia. Aside from all of their sound design tricks, the piano is the central instrument on Vryashn with its notes stretched and elongated into sinewy tones. When wrapped into the slow-motion whirlpool of oceanic reverb and and cyclical drone construction, the brooding notes of the piano sound as if they are the last notes being played by some madman trapped on the ship slowly sinking into the depths of the Black Sea. Tactile bits of organic scrapes and cracklings sweep across the stereo field and dissolve into the ever deeper and blacker void of the waters below. Like Gavin Bryars' similar opus on oceanic collapse, The Sinking Of The Titanic, there is a sublime beauty to these sinking sounds. Recommended, for sure!" - aquariusrecords.org

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