WHITE MANNA - 'BLEEDING EYES'

Formats

• AGIT049/CF090 - LP

  5060446121764

• AGIT049CD/CF090CD - CD

  5060446121771

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**SHIPS FOR 29TH SEP**Following on from an incredible one-two brace of releases on Holy Mountain, a release on Valley King, a limited Live album (Live Frequencies) on Cardinal Fuzz, and then their last sonic attack (PAN) on Cardinal Fuzz in 2016, White Manna release their new studio album as part of a joint venture between Cardinal Fuzz and Agitated Records. Unleashed at the end of September in Europe to tie in with a UK/EU tour that features another sure to be main stage storming appearance at Liverpool Psych Fest, Bleeding Eyes is the sound of White Manna soaring and searing with riffs and grooves that float their own take on SIKE ROCK! To a higher plane. The 8 tracks herein deliver serious motorik action along the way, with some lo-fi pop glaze over the top of solid rhythmic pummel. Riffs? You got it, great rafts of guitar interplay blitzing your ears in a dronesome scree, ricocheting through space and time to transport you to a sonic enlightenment. Recorded and mixed at El Studio San Francisco, Ca and The Compound, Manila, Ca by Phil Manley and White Manna. Mastered by John McBain at JPM Mastering San Francisco. 21 Sept UK Leicester- The Musician 22 Sept UK Newcastle- Cumberland Arms 23 Sept UK Liverpool- Psych Fest 24 Sept UK Leeds- The Library 25 Sept WAL Cardiff- Full Moon 26 Sept UK Brighton- Hope & Ruin 27 Sept UK London- Victoria Dalston 28 Sept UK Bristol- The Crofters Rights 29 Sept BE Liege- Garage Creative Music 30 Sept FR Paris- Supersonic 1 Oct CH Biel/ Bienne 2 Oct CH Boschbar- Zurich 4 Oct CR Zagreb- Mochvara 5 Oct IT Vienna- Tetris 6 Oct AT Vienna- Fluc 7 Oct CZ Prague- Theremin 9 Oct DE Berlin- Musik & Frieden w/ Acid Mothers Temple & The MPUFO 11 Oct NL Utrecht- Acu 12 Oct NL Eindhoven- Stroomhuis 13 Oct DE Schorndorf- Club Manufaktur 14 Oct BE Antwerp- Trix Desert Fest 

Tracks

Side A
Bleeding Eyes
Vimanas
Trampoline
Invisible Kings
Side B
Speed Dagger
English Breakfast
You Are The Movie
Freak

Press

Fans of Hawkwind, The Heads, Loop, Mugstar, White Hills, Spacemen 3, and Amon Duul will thrill to this. Northern California has never sounded so spaced out and visceral, plug in, turn it up and drone out?

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JOHN SAINT-PELVYN - 'A CLERICAL ERROR IN SHASTA COUNTY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO RUIN A SATURDAY NIGHT'

Formats

• SEELAND535 - 2 X 10"

  753762053516

Details

For years, the only way to hear the music of John Saint-Pelvyn was to search him out in one of Minneapolis’s notorious underground venues, or unearth one of his long out-of-print cassette releases. Finally, this double 10-inch record brings his idiosyncratic and very personal music out into the open air. Primarily a guitarist, the root of his playing is akin to traditional stride, but rich with quivering whammy bar wobble and shimmering feedback. He often plays the tailfin strings of his archtop like one would play harmonics, or retunes seamlessly mid-stream to create a shifting temperament across the length of a piece. An affinity for the likes of John Fahey, Loren Mazzacane-Connors and Sandy Bull can be heard, but the comparisons quickly fall away as one takes in his ambidextrous musical sensibility. He will sing otherworldly vocal duets with the theremin, while simultaneously accompanying himself fingerpicking, or will throw modulated feedback tones across otherwise inviting harmonic landscapes based on blues and folk motifs, overshadowing them with clouds of squelch that loom like an approaching post-noise squall, but ultimately swell and punctuate more like the tone clusters of Henry Cowell or the lyrical saxophone of Frank Lowe. Despite Saint-Pelvin’s penchant for playing multiple instruments simultaneously, he is accompanied here by notable guests including Naomi Joy of Mother Of Fire, and Ka Baird of Spires That In The Sunset Rise. At its heart though, A Clerical Error is a solo album. With the death of a close childhood friend as its inspiration and backdrop, the album fixes on an unshakable desire to re-imagine the very nature of fate. Saint-Pelvin explains: “If I’ve learned anything from music, it’s that there are experiences in this world that are neither real nor imaginary. I’m always searching for those places, and sometimes I get just about half way there.” Cryptic perhaps, but when he is wandering the stage singing into the F-holes of his electric arch top, bringing forth arpeggios of feedback, or waving the neck of his guitar in the vicinity of a howling theremin, indeed, he seems to be playing the very air itself.

Tracks

1.Yreka, Last Call 2. A Clerical Error In Shasta County Shouldn?t Have To Ruin A Saturday Night 3. Saint Herman?s Song 4. Song For Gold And Radon 5. That The Sun Might Rise In The West

Press

For fans of John Fahey, Loren Mazzacane-Connors, Sandy Bull, Henry Cowell, and Frank Lowe

Audio & Video

THE HUNTRESS & HOLDER OF HANDS - 'AVALON'

Formats

• SAD018CD - CD

  798577049620

• SAD018 - LP

  798577049729

Details

**Shipping 20th Oct**In 2015, MorganEve Swain was telling a reporter about her new identity she had recently accepted as her own: a widow. Two years later, she has channeled her lingering disbelief and recurring bouts of grief and redemption into The Huntress And Holder Of Hands, a potent reminder that even when life turns out differently than we expect, the human spirit is indomitable, our capacity to love and persevere immeasurable. For the past decade, Swain has been known for her work with Brown Bird, a chameleonic duo she fronted with her late husband, Dave Lamb. They charged out of Providence in the early 2000s, a heady hybrid of “Dark Americana,” blues, Eastern-European folk, and the far-flung influences of their upbringings. Just as the band was taking flight, with a handful of acclaimed albums, nonstop touring, and a star-making performance at the Newport Folk Festival, Lamb was diagnosed with leukemia. Though the year-long ordeal that followed was full of incredible support and unwavering hope, he succumbed in April 2014, gone far too soon at 36, leaving Swain to carry a torch for the duo’s brief but enduring legacy. This band took its name and the title Avalon from the last words that haunted the end of Brown Bird’s final album, 2015’s devastating Axis Mundi. In an intimate home recording he’d given her as a Christmas present, Lamb inadvertently laid out Swain’s artistic arc: “You’re a huntress and a healer and a holder of hands/ And your heart is the Avalon that I seek for my end.” It’s fitting, then, that this album is a powerful bookend to that farewell statement. It is a tough but important listen, a harrowing account of not just Swain’s anguish but also her resolve and profound love for Lamb and the community that formed around them and lifted her when she needed it the most. 

Tracks

1. Shadow Of The Hunted 2. Borealis 3. Call To Arms 4. My Kingdom 5. Severed Soul 6. ?tude 7. The Source 8. Shake Off Your Flesh 9. These Hands 10. Creatures In Flight

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