DIRTY BEACHES - 'STATELESS'

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• ZM022 - LP

  655035052212

• ZM022CD - CD

  655035052229

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Stateless is the sixth full-length release from Dirty Beaches, the artistic identity of 33-year-old Taiwanese-Canadian artist Alex Zhang Hungtai. On the four-song album, Zhang Hungtai further explores the instrumental side of his identity that has been present since his first release in 2007 on Montreal label Fixture Records. Of course, since then the artist crafted 2011’s breakout record, Badlands, and its critically lauded followup double-LP, Drifters / Love Is The Devil. He has also found the time to compose film scores for Evan Prosofsky’s eerie Waterpark short and Jeremy Lynch’s The Hippo. Stateless is a reflection on Zhang Hungtai’s upbringing in various locales (Taipei / Honolulu / Montreal) and the past two years of living and drifting in Europe. The title reflects several years of reflection on associated ideas like Diaspora, borders and hybridism. A somber meditation on memories from an exiled man on a never-ending search for an imaginary homeland, Stateless puts the finishing touches on a chapter of artistic activity that began when the Badlands LP captured the imaginations of listeners the world over.

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1. Displaced
2. Stateless
3. Pacific Ocean
4. Time Washes Away Everything

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STATELESS trailer by Dirty Beaches from Alex Zhang Hungtai on Vimeo.

VARIOUS - 'THE 78 PROJECT: VOL 2'

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• 78P002 - LP

  655036010211

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The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78 RPM records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. With one blank disc. In one three-minute take. Inspired by folklorist Alan Lomax, The 78 Project celebrates the artistry and craft that captured America’s musical forms of a century ago, exploring the deep historical significance of American folk songs in the process. This album is the companion to the critically acclaimed documentary The 78 Project Movie, which was shot during a year spent driving across America, visiting artists to cut once-in-alifetime recordings. In Tennessee, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, these folk singers, punk rockers, gospel and Cajun singers from The 78 Project Movie share their lives through intimate performances, and find in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy. “The ineffable romance of old recordings makes for magic … ripe with wonder.” —The Austin Chronicle “I didn’t imagine anything like The 78 Project, in which we discover that not only are dead media platforms not dead at all, but that they can be gateways into their own peculiarly new universes of creativity.” —William Gibson for The Oxford American “… [R]ises above simple vintage worship and does more than just glorify the past—it helps us experience it.” —The Village Voice “The 78 Project grabs American music by the roots.” —USA Today • Original soundtrack to The 78 Project Movie, now in theaters nationwide! • One-of-a-kind recordings by extraordinary artists not available anywhere else • Accompanying clips and information available on http://www.The78Project.com • Includes two Grammy-winning and six Grammy-nominated artists and one Emmywinning composer • Advisors include the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institute • The second installment in an ongoing series • Includes digital download card

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1. Victoria Williams ? Take This Hammer
2. Sea of Bees ? In My Time of Dying
3. Louis Michot, Corey Ledet &
Ashlee Michot ? ?Trape Mon Chapeau
4. John Reilly & Tom Brosseau ? Careless Love
5. Reverend John Wilkins ? I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
6. John Doe ? Skip to My Lou
7. Gaby Moreno & Adam Levy ? After You?ve Gone
8. Joe Bussard ? Guitar Rag
9. Little Wings ? Nobody Knows the Trouble I?ve Seen
10. Coati Mundi ? Billy Boy
11. The Bo-Keys feat. Percy Wiggins ? Deep River
12. Worried Man Blues ? Ben Vaughn
13. Ella Mae Bowen ? The Love of God
14. John Paul Keith ? The Knoxville Girl
15. The Easy Leaves ? Saddle Fork (Cotton Fields)

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ICKY BOYFRIENDS - 'LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO'

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• CF043 - LP

  819162017012

• CF043CD - CD

  819162017029

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“You like anchovies? Morning breath? Dried blood? The sun-up residue after a night of hard drugs? Well, you’re gonna love Icky Boyfriends. “I painted houses for a couple years with an old-school San Francisco artist / musician dude who would let me run the boombox while we worked. This was right around the time I became obsessed with Icky Boyfriends. I would play the shit all day and wax about how I much I loved them. He piped up one day and asked what they were called again. ‘Icky Boyfriends,’ I said. ‘Oh yeah, I remember those guys…man, they could clear a room.’ “That’s the Ickys—an acquired taste for people who maybe have eyes that feel natural when trolling the gutter for nutrition. These are stories of strung-out super heroes singing the praises of the old school San Francisco freak scene. Hilarious at times, genius always and as scuzzy as anything you could ever hear. “Live in San Francisco was recorded masterfully by the Castle Face engineers team at the grand SF Eagle. There are many classic favorites here, as well as a couple new jams (I challenge anyone to tell the difference). We’ve kept it primal and simple as the Ickys always have. What a treat, now let’s eat!” —John Dwyer

Tracks

1. 22 Fillmore
2. Miss Nevada
3. Cuckoo
4. Ecophobia
5. My Disciples
6. I?m Not Fascinating
7. Frank?s Mom
8. Don?t Read the Bay Guardian
9. I Was?
10. Toenails
11. Even Richard Nixon?s Got Soul
12. Bay Colony Baby
13. Rock and Roll Asshole
14. Resurrection Ale
15. Pigs 1
16. Pigs 2
17. No Duh
18. Drug Wars (Original)

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NOTS - 'WE ARE NOTS'

Formats

• 114GONE - LP

  600385252713

• 114GONECD - CD

  600385252720

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A longtime collaboration between Natalie Hoffmann (guitar) and Charlotte Watson (drums), Nots has evolved into its wildest incarnation yet. Now featuring Madison Farmer on bass and Alexandra Eastburn on synthesizer, the Memphis band follows up their first two singles on Goner Records with their guitar-driven, synth-laden debut LP. We Are Nots was put to tape over the summer by Doug Easley and arrives just in time to land a spot on your Top Ten of 2014. “There’s a constant post-mortem and excavation of the Memphis music underground by vultures of both the Euro and American varieties. Bands form, toil and scheme, mutate, play and record only to wither away in the seemingly unrelenting wall of indifference. Plod ahead a few years, label X or label Z discovers and excavates the musical rubble as much for autocratic as historic purposes. A gold star and a box of records to the winner. “Nix the assertion Nots are a side project, a spin off, a revival of some fashionable subset of your record collection. Evolving headstrong, their white noise is without compromise or concession. Brass venom yelled atop a torrent of twisted guitar shards, so human, barbed and unruly. Obliterate the retroactive retreat; Nots are now.” —John Hoppe

Tracks

1. Insect Eyes
2. Decadence
3. Reactor
4. Strange Rage
5. Get Along
6. Black Mold
7. Static
8. Monochromatic
9. White Noise
10. Televangelist
11. Talk Show

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ALLOY ORCHESTRA - 'THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA'

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• TMR254 - 2xLPs

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It was only a lucky few iNDie Festival attendees who witnessed Alloy Orchestra's performance of their soundtrack to the 1929 silent film "The Man with the Movie Camera" in our Blue Room last Fall, so we are pleased to bring the recording to you in the form of a double LP. Alloy Orchestra is a 3-man musical ensemble — Roger C. Miller, Ken Winokur, & Terry Donahue — who use "racks of junk," synthesizers, and all sorts of other unusual instruments, found objects, and unlikely noisemakers to aurally accompany silent films. Roger Ebert has called them "the best in the world at accompanying silent films," and we can't disagree. "The Man with the Movie Camera," directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova, is a documentary with no specific cast or narrative. In the film, a man carries out his day in the city as a member of the proud proletariat, capturing invention and the relationship between man and machine in Lenin's Soviet Union.

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