LITTLE WINGS - 'EXPLAINS'

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• WOODSIST077 - LP

  655035047713

• WOODSIST077CD - CD

  655035047720

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**INSTOCK NOW - REPRESSED ON COLORED VINYL**“Kyle Field, professionally known as Little Wings, is a living legend. He is the modern embodiment of the traveling bard and the singing troubadour. Kyle’s discography is vast and impressive, full of tunes plucked from the lexicon of great American songwriting. On his latest effort, Explains, he crafts melodies so haunting and familiar, it’s as if he’s not composing them at all. He is tapping into something greater, acting as a vessel for the collective unconscious that is folk music. “This is an album that is immediately accessible and also unfolds slowly, revealing greater depth with each listen. Kyle’s lyrics are direct yet poetic, funny yet sad. Explains is a fantastic record that celebrates the enduring spirit of a great artist. Its release on Woodsist is all too fitting—a label whose very foundation seems based on lasting creative integrity.” —Alex Bleeker

Tracks

1. By Now
2. Light Brang
3. Fat Chance
4. Hill Hidden Nog
5. Old Apocalypse Style
6. A Blade of Grass
7. A Sky
8. Around This World
9. Hollowed Log
10. This Evening
11. Where

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K.LEIMER - 'USELESS EPITOMES'

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• PoL012019 - 2xCDs

  700261471266

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Originally released in 2008, The Useless Lesson and Lesser Epitomes have been revisited, remixed, remastered and expanded with the 40-minute bonus EP Three Adaptations. K. Leimer founded Palace Of Lights in 1979. Leimer’s work has also been issued by Autumn, First Terrace, Les Giants, Invisible Inc., Origin Peoples and RVNG . His early cassette work is included in the critically acclaimed VOD box set American Cassette Culture and will be included in Cherry Red’s upcoming Noise Floor series. Leimer has been actively producing music since the mid 1970s— his current catalog includes eighteen solo albums plus collaborative albums with Savant and Marc Barreca. His work is included in the collection of The British Library. “Lesser Epitomes provides three short suites of music all composed using a system of chance to give shape to basic musical elements. The listener is then advised to randonly re-order them, creating a vast number of permutations within the set... as brief episodes of grouped strings move past each other with the stately indifference of dancers in a ballroom.” —The Wire “The opening pieces set the bar remarkably high: ‘To force closed our eyes’ introduces the album with mournful string patterns that recall Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 (aka Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), and ‘Failing need of more,’ a fourteen-minute collaboration by Leimer and phonographer Anode, billows heavenly like a gargantuan, almost imperceptibly moving cloud mass. By album’s end, I’m none the wiser as to how Leimer produced The Useless Lesson but the largely glorious results speak loudly enough all by themselves.” —Textura

Tracks

The Useless Lesson
1. To Force Closed Our Eyes
2. Failing Need Of More
3. Music That Conceives
Of Itself As Music
4. Anosognosia
5. Trio (Sentimental Music)
6. After Dowland
7. Declension Of Need

Lesser Epitomes
1. Nonadaptive Layers ( 1 ? 5 )
2. Nine Approximations ( 1 ? 9 )
3. Na?ve Music
( 1 ? 7 )
Three Adaptations
(Digital-only bonus EP)
11. Adapted
12. Approximation
13. Na?vet?

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Reissue of 2008 works by cult electronic
artist that have been remixed, remastered,
and expanded

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GUIDED BY VOICES - 'ZEPPELIN OVER CHINA'

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• GBVI87CD - CD

  655035088723

• GBVI87 - 2xLPs

  655035088716

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*VINYL REPRESS ALERT* Zeppelin Over China is a major and majestic work in the GBV canon, spotlighting the scope and genius of Robert Pollard’s songwriting. With thirty-two songs in 75 minutes, the massive double-album Zeppelin reaches lofty heights on its musical journey. Pollard continues to deliver endless invention and emotional wallop in two and three-minute guitar rock gems. Pollard has assembled his greatest supporting cast ever—Doug Gillard (guitar), Kevin March (drums), Mark Shue (bass), Bobby Bare Jr. (guitar) and Travis Harrison (engineer)—and this line-up’s virtuosic talents spur him to his most ambitious work yet, a grand album of emotional resonance and narrative drama. After well-deserved acclaim for the mind-boggling milestone of Pollard’s 100 career albums, Zeppelin Over China is a wonderful entry point for new listeners to experience Guided By Voices for the first time. Not resting on his laurels, Pollard’s tireless tenacity pays off with spectacular results.

Tracks

1. Good Morning Sir 2. Step Of The Wave
3. Carapace 4. Send In The Suicide Squad
5. Blurring The Contacts 6. Your Lights Are Out
7. Windshield Wiper Rex 8. Holy Rhythm
9. Jack Tell 10. Bellicose Starling
11. Wrong Turn On 12. Charmless Peters
13. The Rally Boys 14. Think. Be A Man.
15. Jam Warsong 16. You Own The Night
17. Everything?s Thrilling 18. Nice About You
19. Einstein?s Angel 20. The Hearing Department
21. Questions Of The Test 22. No Point
23. Lurk Of The Worm 24. Zeppelin Over China
25. Where Have You Been All My Life
26. Cold Cold Hands 27. Transpiring Anathema
28. We Can Make Music 29. Cobbler Ditches
30. Enough Is Never At The End
31. My Future In Barcelona
32. Vertiginous Rafts

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