BENT ARCANA - 'BENT ARCANA'

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• CF130 - LP

  767870662782

• CF130CD - CD

  767870662799

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Ft. John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone & Marcos Rodriguez “This is the first interstellar transmission from five days of electrified and improvised sessions recorded at Stu-Stu-Studio, edited down to forty minutes for your earballs. “Bent Arcana is the inceptive chapter in what I hope to be several releases showcasing these types of off-the-cuff musical compositions. So you can try your fry on and turn off. This one is very much on the ECM / ’70s hard fusion / prog-kraut tip. It is a many pronged weapon, swung by the spontaneous sentinel.” —John Dwyer

Tracks

1. The Gate
2. Outr? Sorcellerie
3. Misanthrophe Gets Lunch
4. Mimi
5. Oblivion Sigil
6. Sprites

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Large ensemble of players, led by John Dwyer of Oh Sees, plays electrified and improvised jams in the realm of ECM ,?70s hard fusion and prog- kraut.
? Features many players, including members of Sunwatchers, TV On The Radio, Flying Lotus, Feels, Prettiest Eyes, Mr. Elevator, and many, many others.

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BURNING BUS - 'S/T'

Formats

• ITR343 - LP

  759718534313

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Another Don Howland-related album! That’s right, In The Red is putting out two albums by the man at the same time! It’s how much the label loves him and his music. This full length is by his now defunct five piece band Burning Bus. The band released two 7-inches earlier this decade and recorded this album, which has laid dormant until now. While Howland’s solo work and the Bassholes tend to be stripped-down, treble-kicking affairs, Burning Bus is a full throttle three guitar and bass attack. It’s much noisier and more brutal than anything else he’s done. Fans of Pussy Galore will want to take note.

Tracks

1. Irrational Front
2. Platform
3. Come On In
4. Life Goes On
5. Watch You Go
6. Burnt Bridges
7. I?m Coming Down
8. Faith Healer

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Formerly in the Bassholes and
Gibson Bros.

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CRAZY DOBERMAN - 'HYPNOGOGIC RELAPSE AND OTHER PRENUMBRAL PHENOMENA'

Formats

• DR45 - LP

  767870663918

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“Penumbra, from the Latin paene (almost) and umbra (shadow), refers to the partially luminescent fringe of an opaque object, like the streetlight outlining the sole of a shoe hurtling towards your eye. Hypnagogic, from the Greek hupnos (sleep) and agōgos (leading), refers to the drowsy state before sleep. Crazy Doberman here comprises seventeen players from the greater Europe of the Midwest. Basement glyphs. Who’s on the lease? And what’s under the rug. The owner pays them to keep away the beast of busco. They do spontaneity, welcoming simultaneity, montaged in post. Further spool’t month to month, basking in the stroboscope.” —Sam Lefebvre

Tracks

1. Hypnogogic Relapse
2. Through A Fog, Riddled With Light
3. Walking On Thunder Clouds
4. Distant Bells
5. The Opening And Closing Of The
Tinctures
6. Hermetic Fragments
7. The Twenty-Eight Incarnations
8. Chemical Traces

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? Black hole free jazz band from LaFayette
Indiana
? Featuring John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Landon
Caldwell (Burnt Ones, Creeping Pink),
Mark Tester (Burnt Ones), Tim Gick
(TV Ghost) and many others from the
Midwest scene

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FRANKE ENE - 'NO LONGER'

Formats

• EMP046 - LP

  767870663819

• EMP046CD - CD

  767870663802

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“No Longer is a suite of six absorbing, patient reveries on conflicted concupiscence and encroaching darkness by Berkeley songwriter Frank Ene, who composed the material in a period of solitude following the demise of his noise-pop group Pure Bliss. Ene abstained from socializing to write the songs, venturing outside mostly to work in the basement of a frame-shop or observe students on the nearby UC Berkeley campus, vintage self-help paperbacks stuffed in his pockets. When it came time to record, he opted to play nearly every instrument himself. ‘Some songs are affirmations,’ he said. ‘The saddest ones I can’t remember writing, as if someone entered my mind and body in a really brutal way.’ “Suffused with an atmosphere of slow-simmering tension, No Longer traffics in understated grooves reminiscent of latter-era Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, with Ene’s rich voice somehow sounding at once wispy and full-bodied. ‘Flesh In The Womb,’ one of the songs to feature songwriter and Fresh & Onlys guitarist Wymond Miles, channels the lasciviousness of Serge Gainsbourg as well as the beguiling sparseness of Dean Blunt. The lyrics to ‘Housing Alcove,’ a crushing meditation on childhood trauma, reveal competing, interconnected feelings of vulnerability and ambition (a duality captured by the evocative album art). A dynamic, repeat listen, No Longer stands among the most musically arresting and emotionally contoured Bay Area solo debuts in recent memory.” —Sam Lefebvre

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DON HOWLAND - 'ENDGAME'

Formats

• ITR342 - LP

  759718534214

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In The Red are proud to announce the new solo album by Don Howland. Howland’s been pursuing his brand of scuzzy roots rock for over a quarter of a century, first as a member of Columbus’s beloved Gibson Bros. and later as the main man in the Bassholes. His music is a raw convergence of country blues, ’76 punk and lo-fi garage. Howland was one of the original flagship artists for In The Red and the label is happy to be working with him again. He’s been a crucial figure in underground music for several decades and is one of the American underground’s true originals. “Howland’s music is a tinnily mixed, macabre mix of psychobilly, swamp rock, and Captain Beefheartian avantgarde weirdness, peopled with weird and disturbing images, relaying troubled encounters and stories with a streak of wild-eyed glee.” —Richie Unterberger

Tracks

1. Endgame
2. Half Off
3. Party In Hell Pt.1
4. Sleep In Cars
5. Treetops
6. In With The Out Crowd
7. Buckeye Jam
8. Thank You CIA
9. How Now (Brown Cow)
10. Looking Glass Rock

Press

New solo album by American
underground original, formerly in
Gibson Bros. and the Bassholes

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