KING CHAMPION SOUNDS - 'DIFFERENT DRUMMER'

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• WORM019 - LP W/ CD

  3481574495213

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*SHIPPING FOR 14TH OCT* If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. King Champion Sounds came to life after being asked to open for Mike Watt at the start of 2013. Ajay (Donkey / The Bent Moustache) picked up the challenge of opening for a musical inspiration (and friend) and wrote an entirely new set of songs for a one-off show. Recruiting GW Sok (lyrics commandante and ex The Ex vocalist), Oli (Shrug / Year Of Birds), Mees (a 17 year old wunderkind drummer) and a horn section featuring ol' school jazzers Ditmer and Chris, the band set about a period of intensive rehearsals and culminated in a show that received acclaim from a packed venue and from Watt and his cohorts as well. The gauntlet was thrown for better things, and duly taken by the band. More well received shows were played and an album has been recorded titled "Different Drummer" (to be released on Monday 14 October). These tracks reached the ears of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who insisted on KCS opening for them at a sold out show at the Paradiso in July. October 2013 sees the release of the debut album ("Different Drummer" will be released on the band's own label Wormer Bros.) and 13 shows in 13 days taking in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK. Touching on the jams created by The Fall, Can, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart, Public Image Limited, King Tubby, this band will set your pulse racing. Don't miss out!!! LP comes with a 

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Wed 23 October: LONDON / Strongroom Studios
Thu 24 October: LONDON / Buffalo Bar (w/ The Nightingales)
Fri 25 October: MANCHESTER / Ruby Lounge (w/ The Lovely Eggs)

Sat 26 October: PRESTON / The Continental (w/ The Primitives, The Nightingales, Yeah Yeah Noh, The Wolfhounds)

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WHITE FENCE - 'LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO'

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• CF028 - LP

  819162013748

• CF028CD - CD

  819162013755

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WHITE FENCE, 1st of the LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO series from Castle-Face. Everyone with any degree of hearing loss knows that, at its best, the loose and shaggy beast of a band balancing on the crest of their capabilities is the ideal, the firefly that all records aspire to capture in a jar for your repetitive pleasures. The live record promises better, but somehow most fall flatter than the painstakingly refined and honed tones of a studio creation. Who better to try to right this wrong than a bunch of home friers, 4 track freaks, and DIY gear-cookers? John Dwyer had the idea of recording our friends live with his Tascam 388 and it rapidly galvanized into a real crew of heavy hitters and voila, we come bearing the fruit of that unholy union... WHITE FENCE throw a fork in the light socket with their blistering live set, captured in all it's ragged glory to tape on Thee Tascam 388 under the sternly masterful yet tender care of low-budget luminaries Eric Bauer, Chris Woodhouse, Bob Marshall, and of course, our own John Dwyer. They were screaming out of the speakers that night and we kept it safe in a jar for you, undiluted and unsullied. This and the whole series will be packaged in handsome but simple trappings - a thick gloss jacket featuring black and white photos of the evening (shot to film!) that you can marvel to in envy as the jams pour out of your speaks and into infinity. However, this being the first of (we hope) a long and fruitful series, catching the band eternally between two instants of a amazing night at a tiny club full of sweaty, lucky souls. THRILL - as your old favorites are paid muscular tribute CHILL - at the mellow vibes interspersed strategically LISTEN - to jokes and banter, immortalized in wax WAIT - there's going to be more where this came from 

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LETHA RODMAN-MELCHOIR - 'HANDBOOK FOR MORTALS'

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• SB158 - LP

  655030115813

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Known by the alias Tretetam, Letha Rodman-Melchior has released singular sound constructs on CDR and cassette since 2008 on such labels as Ikuisuus and Robert & Leopold. For her first-ever vinyl release, she sheds the veneer of mystery and comes clean with this sweeping haboob of sound, as deft and defying as horns on a hen. From the vantage of time and deep insight, some (i.e. Tom Lax) say Tretetam / Rodman-Melchior’s unique audio gems find a middle ground between United Dairies (notably HNAS) and Vanity Records (ditto Mad Tea Party). But why not the let the artist herself fill you in on the Handbook for Mortalsbackstory? “From early on, I found that I liked listening to blended sounds of familiar things; TV, lawnmowers, children playing outside. I noticed that when I played records, I wouldn’t flip them over because I found comfort in hearing the needle stuck in its groove. “When I lived in Chinatown on Canal Street in New York, I loved to lay in bed and listen to the vendors shouting, blending with the heavy traffic and tiny wind chimes; I would pretend I was someplace else, somewhere I didn’t know. I love that feeling. “I became interested in field recording after hearing Salmon Run by Graham Lambkin, and had found a website called The Quiet American. I began piecing my tracks together under the name Tretetam, and was influenced by Lambkin, Marcel Türkowsky, Emiliano Maggi, Moondog, Maya Deren’s films and more recently Aaron Dilloway’s Modern Jester and Ryan Martin’s York Factory Complaint / DeTrop. I also must say my husband Dan Melchior has been my musical hero since I met him in 1999.” Siltbreeze is proud to add Rodman-Melchior to its illustrious and unique discography. A portion of all sales will go to the Letha Rodman-Melchior Cancer Fund. For more info on this, visit: http://melchiorfund.blogspot.com  

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VARIOUS - 'MOUNTAINS OF TONGUES: MUSICAL DIALECTS OF THE CAUCASUS'

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• LM7 - LP

  656605764016

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Because of its unique geography—situated at the borders of Europe and Asia, between the Caspian and Black seas—the Caucasus has been at the crossroads of multiple empires as well as home to an exceptionally diverse population, resulting in a rich mosaic of history, culture, religion and language. Early Arab travelers referred to the region as the “Mountains of Tongues,” a term that reflected both the geographic and linguistic variety. An incredible number of languages and traditions still exist, but many have yet to be thoroughly documented and are close to disappearing completely. Since the fall of the Soviet Union the majority of attention the Caucasus has received from the outside world has been as a result of wars in Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The countries of this region have also struggled to forge national identities, a process that has often resulted in the exclusion of smaller folk cultures (ethnic Azeris from Georgia, Kurds from Tbilisi, Avars and Lezgis from Azerbaijan, or Molokans in the South Caucasus, all groups that don’t fit the category of “national” folk music). Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects from the Caucasus includes recordings of songs in languages that have rarely been caught on tape (Lezgi and Batsbi), instruments that only exist in extremely small numbers (the Tushetian chianuri, of which there are only two, and the agach komuz from the remote territory of Dagestan) and performances from a variety of underrepresented ethnic minority communities. These musicians, whether they recognize it or not, are guardians of the distinct musical cultures of the Caucasus, a region whose many traditions are still relatively unknown to the rest of the world. The Sayat Nova Project is a non-profit group with the goal of preserving and promoting the musical dialects of the Caucasus. The recordings on this album were made between September 2012 and June 2013 in villages, towns and cities across the South Caucasus. Members of the project recorded more than 50 musicians playing a wide variety of instruments and singing in ten different languages. Mountains of Tongues presents the music of the Caucasus without regard to political borders. Through the inclusion of recordings by Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Chechens and many others ethnicities, it represents this region’s unique traditions and shared histories and emphasize the diversity that exists within these “mountains of music.”

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MV / EE - 'SHADE GROWN'

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• BRR270 - LP

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Shade Grown is the new studio LP from Vermont psych folk rulers, Matt  Valentine and Erika Elder. Their first studio jam for Blackest  Rainbow, something we've been keen to do for a while now after our  previous live release for the duo. Shade Grown drops just in time for  their November/December EU/UK tour, which judging by this LP, you  won't want to miss out on. The record features MV & EE channelling  some spaced out tones with various incarnations of The Bummer Road,  the more free cosmic jamming back up unit they venture out with from  time to time. This personnel this time round reads as a who's who of  talent in the current psych/folk underworld... Jeremy Earl  (Woods/Woodsist), Herbcraft, Rongoose, Carson 'Smokehound' Arnold, Doc  Dunn, Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra/Flower Corsano Duo) and  Muskox. You're in for a treat of lunar blues, psych folk, and free  form outer limit jammin'. We're keeping this release strictly  analogue. No download, no streaming. Vinyl only, like the good old  days. Pressed in an edition of 600 copies package in a full colour  sleeve with insert. 300 copies on 180 gram transparent teal vinyl, 300  copies on 180 gram black virgin vinyl.

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