Friday Afternoon Cartunes July 30th, 2021

We are back with an extra hour tomorrow.  Live on Facebook then uploaded in high quality for posterity to Youtube.  Get yer weekend started with John and Wayne.  you can check out older shows here if inclined.  👽

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDKwvdOC7szPS4Kbco4axg

Archival Release Coming Soon: Fredericton NB's The Angered Wrecks 1981

Here's a snippet of  "diatribe"...you'll have to buy the Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube vinyl LP release this October to get the rest of the scoop ! 😉 

The Angered Wrecks 1981

Just after high school in 1978, I played in what was likely Fredericton, New Brunswick’s 1^st new wave/punk  band called The Curbs.  We were playing all raved up covers of shit by Robert Palmer, Judas Priest, Max Webster, The Ramones, The Cars etc.  We played a handful of gigs over a two year period as I recall and had a lot of fun.  The Curbs consisted of myself (John Westhaver) on vocals, childhood friend, Geoff Graser on guitar, Dan Fleming on bass and Rick Thompson on drums.  Sadly we never recorded anything.  In late 1980 we played a gig called “The Sid Vicious Memorial Concert” At Memorial Hall on the campus of The University Of New Brunswick.  A band called The Vogons opened for us that evening.  I would a year or so later become for a short period of time the Vogons vocalist, but that’s another story.  This gig at MEM Hall would prove to be the last Curbs gig ever.  We ended the night with a 20 + minute rendition of the Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” and were joined on stage by Vogon’s leader Danny Silk and audience member Mark Carmody.  At a point the stage became a wresting ring with guitars being used playfully as “weapons” and I think Silk even bled after being crowned with an axe as the concert came to a tumultuous end. Carmody, Silk and I decided to form The Angered Wrecks a week later and drafted Curbs drummer Rick Thompson......

The vinyl version will be 300 copies and there is a SUPER LTD. Sam Giles LP Replica version on gatefold cover CDR which will also feature 6 bonus tracks! Cover design on both formats by Brother Brett Savage and music mastered by Chris Hardman!  

               https://soundcloud.com/john-westhaver/angered-wrecks-burn-out-carmody-silk

      LOVE AND RESPECT AS ALWAYS TO THE CARDINAL : DAVE CAMBRIGE  R.A.F.R 💕
   

New Releases Coming Soon From The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol

 Pleased as punch to say The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol have several new albums seeing release over the coming weeks ahead!  First will be an album on CD and cassette respectively on Cardinal Fuzz and NoiseAgonyMayhem.  This album "In Space We Trust" collects fully improvised tracks never before released on any format and both issues will be very ltd. Details on that will follow shortly as this one is out within the next few weeks!  Late October/early November is an album entitled "Ensemble 8/3/2016" which is ultra heavy psyched out space rock with 2 sidelong untitled improvised pieces featuring 8 players (whom are/were TBWNIS members).  Needless to say it's a full on SCORCHER!  This Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube records release will be 300 Vinyl copies and 50 Sam Giles LP replica sleeve CDR versions 💕👽

Shit will be up on bandcamp when the time comes...while I'm at it, check out our bandcamp site here in the meantime as there's a ton of music to peruse!  Some titles are still available from me on Vinyl, CD and Cassette in fact so if yer interested get in touch regarding purchase 😎

                                        https://thebandwhosenameisasymbol.bandcamp.com/

CD and Cassette

Cardinal Fuzz / NoiseAgonyMayem

LP and CD

Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records

Birdman Sound Multi Dealer POP UP SHOP 7/31/2021

 LOADS OF WICKED WAX...591 BANK ST., OTTAWA BESIDE THE OLD BIRDMAN SHOP ! 

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Label Focus : Mental Experience @ Birdman Sound

Mental Experience (Spain) is one of the coolest deep shit music labels on planet earth and one of my fave labels!  Birdman Sound has been onto their game since earliest dayz and we sell and constantly stock many of their releases!  Here's some cherry albums you may well not be aware of which are almost always instock in the shop. 👽 

Basking Sharks are one of the unsung heroes of the original minimal/synth-pop/wave era. Formed in 1980 in the North of England, members Adrian Todd, Ged McPhail, and Martyn Eames used an array of home-made electronic instruments plus customized second-hand synths to provide unique sounds. On stage they always played "live" without the use of backing tracks. Their stage act included a slide show, films, and computer visuals synced into the stage performance. Their music merged electronic pop with European influences and experimentation. During their existence, they toured extensively throughout the UK, did a session with John Peel and produced a single, an EP, and an LP plus numerous videos and live recordings. Here's their first ever vinyl retrospective, including a selection of tracks from their sought-after album, Shark Island originally released in 1983, the complete Diamond Age (1983) and Thrill Of The Game (1983) singles plus fantastic previously unreleased recordings. Master tape sound and insert with detailed liner notes and rare photos.

                                                      https://youtu.be/HXqjjYIi8uc

Steve Piccolo's debut album from 1982, Domestic Exile. A hidden gem of minimalist beauty, mixing a post-punk/DIY/lo-fi aesthetic with art-rock and spoken poetry. Steve Piccolo has been in active since the mid-1970s in music, theater, performance art, sound installations, video and film soundtracks. In 1979, he started with the Lurie brothers the "fake jazz"/no wave band, Lounge Lizards. Domestic Exile was recorded one year after the seminal Lounge Lizards debut, at a time when Steve was living a kinda schizophrenic existence: working at Wall Street by day and going to clubs and art spaces almost every evening (he was one of the artists filmed for the no wave documentary 135 Grand Street New York 1979). Early on, he was influenced by Mose Allison, Tom Lehrer, Randy Newman, and "people who put thoughtful witty lyrics onto rather standard pop music". In just two weeks, Steve wrote the collection of songs which would form Domestic Exile. Somebody described them as "Neurotic City Folklore" as the lyrics dealt with living in NYC, urban angst, isolation, yuppies, nuclear paranoia. The recording took place at the ZBS Foundation in New York, engineered by Bob Bielecki (a collaborator of Laurie Anderson and La Monte Young). Steve sang, played electric guitar, bass/double bass and percussion. He was joined by Lounge Lizards bandmate Evan Lurie on Farfisa keyboard and G. Lindahl on synth. Although one of the tracks, the catchy "I Don't Want To Join A Cult", was an underground hit in Manhattan -- even Debbie Harry (Blondie) wanted to do a cover version -- no one expressed interest in releasing Domestic Exile. Soon after, Steve went to Italy and Domestic Exile was finally released on a local label. The result was a minimalist art-rock masterpiece which could be described as a lo-fi version of John Cale's Music For A New Society. 

                                                    https://youtu.be/QtA8A-xOqkU

Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy, originally released in 1974. The legendary debut album by Canterbury scene pivotal figure, performance poet, painter, and experimental musician June Campbell Cramer, better known as Lady June. Produced by Kevin Ayers, who also plays on the album along with Brian Eno, Pip Pyle (Gong, Hatfield And The North), and David Vorhaus (White Noise). Originally released by Virgin's budget imprint Caroline (home also of artist like Faust With Tony Conrad, Gong, Lol Coxhill, etc.), Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy is a surreal, eccentric, psychedelic oddity of interest to fans of the Soft Machine-Gong-Canterbury family as well experimental/sound poetry/art-rock explorers. This cult album was included on the legendary Nurse With Wound list.

                                               https://youtu.be/HRNemVmOwWg

 

Requiem's For A World After, originally released in 1981. Dark, progressive, synth ambient meets Berlin-School sounds on this obscure kraut album, which "tells the story of a world annihilation through nuclear war." For A World After is full of delayed psychedelic electric guitar, effects, cold drum machines, waves of analog keyboards (Korg MS20, Casiotone 201, Crumar DS-2, Jupiter-4), and cosmic atmosphere. George Speckert is a conceptual electronic composer based in Hannover, but of North American origin. Working as a music teacher in Germany in the '70s, he started to write and produce music in his spare time, inspired by the European rock and electronic scenes of the time (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Jean Michel Jarre, Emerson Lake & Palmer, etc.) He met another American expat, David Cassidy, who ran a small record label/studio - that's when Requiem started to take form. A chance meeting with a terrific guitar player named Massimo Grandi, led to Massimo adding some amazing electric guitar to the album. After six months, For A World After was released in a privately-pressed edition of 1000 on the small, Daviton label.

                                                                    https://youtu.be/K8JSCzHdcGk

Cozmic Corridors is an underground kraut-kosmische monster, recorded and produced circa 1972-73 in Cologne by Toby "The Mad Twiddler" Robinson for his Pyramid label. The album was apparently released as an ultra-limited handmade edition back in the early '70s, but no original copies have surfaced. Featuring Mythos drummer Hans-Jürgen Pütz on percussion and effects, alongside synth/keyboard freak Alex Meyer, poet/vocalist Pauline Fund, and the mysterious guitarist Peter Förster. Cozmic Corridors is an album if tripped-out electronic ambient soundscapes, dark atmospheres, drones, plenty of MiniMoog, gothic Hammond organ, Rhodes, electric and 12-string acoustic guitars, ritual chants, effects, and horror cinematic vibes. It is not advisable to listen to this alone in the dark.

                                                                     https://youtu.be/iAW-TW1Ydxg

 Golem's Orion Awakes. Orion Awakes was recorded and produced circa 1976 by Toby Robinson, aka Genius P. Orridge, while he worked as second engineer at the famous Dierks Studio in Cologne. Memories from those hazy times are sketchy, but all evidence leads you to believe that the musicians featured here were well-known names from the kraut scene working under pseudonyms, recording 100% underground, non-commercial music under Toby's guidance, just for fun. Apparently, Orion Awakes was released as a very limited hand-made pressing housed in a silver foil sleeve on the Pyramid label, which was run by Toby and his friend Robin Page, the Fluxus artist. No original copies have ever been found. The fascinating liner notes by kraut expert Alan Freeman talk about seeing an original copy of Golem at a record shop in Germany many years ago and he also sheds some light on who could be the real musicians involved, as well as discussing the controversial story of the Pyramid label and the accusations of Golem being a manufactured '90s "fake" instead of a real vintage '70s recording. A glorious blend of space-rock, kraut, and psychedelia, courtesy of the mysterious Golem -- Plenty of Hammond organ, analog synths, ripping guitar, effects, trippy jams.

                                                      https://youtu.be/fKLl4rjkvTU

Galactic Explorers' Epitaph For Venus. Another album from the Pyramid label shrouded in mystery and produced by Toby Robinson in Cologne, circa 1974. Kosmische and head sounds with plenty of Minimoog, analog synths/keyboards, effects, loops, tape manipulation, treated percussions, etc., courtesy of Galactic Explorers, an electronic, minimal, ambient krautrock trio featuring Reinhard Karwatky (Dzyan). Take a trip to the inner regions of your mind, see ancient solar systems forming, and listen to cosmic winds and vibrations while sine waves of pure bliss will give you total peace of mind.

                                            https://youtu.be/Tm9Qw6f06vU

Pure, unadulterated, psychedelic krautrock courtesy of Pyramid, an obscure studio project produced by Toby Robinson, aka The Mad Twiddler. These sessions were recorded circa 1975-76 in Cologne for the underground Pyramid label, which was operated by Toby and his friend Robin Page (the Fluxus artist). During that time, Toby worked as engineer and assistant at various studios in Cologne, including the famous Dieter Dierks studios, where most of the albums from the Ohr/Pilz/Cosmic Courier catalog were registered. Having access to the studios during dead hours, Toby recorded lot of sessions just for fun without any commercial interest, featuring friends and musicians who frequented the studios and the underground art/music scene of Cologne. Some of these sessions were later released as handmade vinyl micro-pressings on his Pyramid label.

                                                https://youtu.be/E9_nyvj-uxI

Probably the most "rock" sounding of all the Pyramid titles, Temple were an ad-hoc outfit born out of several late-night sessions at Dierks Studios (where Toby was working at that time), involving local friends of Toby and other musicians from adjoining studios, among them Zeus B. Held (Birth Control). Temple played a kind of heavy, dark psychedelic krautrock with ahead of its time proto-Goth vibe. Loud guitars, Hammond, Mini-Moog, Mellotron, distorted and echoing vocals, effects!

                                                https://youtu.be/0F7GWBdZPDo

Welcome Back Lance Rock Records...Making Dreams Come True !

 At some point in 1986, at CKCU-FM here in Ottawa, I was tasked one day as a volunteer, to process the new arrivals for our library.  I ran across a cassette album in the pile of swag from Calgary, Alberta's Color Me Psycho called "Kiss Me, Then...Color Me Psycho".  In the listening room across from the on air studio, I slammed it into deck and proceeded to lose my mind!  TOP shelf, snarling, hard driving, brain baking,  Canadian punk rock influenced garage rock!  I immediately thought of England's The Damned as an influence and then thought it was right up there with other Canadian gems like Forgotten Rebels, Durango 95 / Purple Toads, UIC, etc.  I was gonna pump this fucker on my show "No Future Now" on it's next voyage!  I ended up nabbing a copy (which I still have btw) at either Records On Wheels or the Record Peddler in Toronto later that year while down that way to see a show (Alex Chilton perhaps?)  Color Me Psycho fucking RAWK!  The band waxed a second album in 1988 called "Pretend I'm Your Father" (also kick ass) and then later evolved into the stellar behemoth: Forbidden Dimension (also fucking RULED)!  

2 weeks ago at 4 a.m. in the morning I saw a post by Jack Tieleman (Lance Rock Records/The Black Dot/ The Black Tie), and literally gasped!  A fucking vinyl version of "Kiss Me Then..." after 35 years !  Christ I had nearly given' up hope !  Here's the scoop...there only 200 copies...it will go fast!  I have a few available here in the shop,  as do others of course, somewhere and in the western part of our large nation, hit Jack up direct at The Black Tie https://www.facebook.com/The-Black-Tie114361483643543 

"Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus..."  His name at this very moment is Jack Tieleman...😉💕👽

                                                           https://youtu.be/1wYveoz8ga0

                                                                        YEAH HUP !

More Major Burners Arrive @ The Birdman Sound Shop!

A veritable feast of deep shit ear candy, curated by legitimacy.  Decades of immersion in the craft...we know and you should...👽 

https://therootsman.bandcamp.com/album/the-rootsman-meets-muslimgauze-amahar

https://guerssenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/brain-suck-expanded-edition-2

https://feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/direction-we-know

https://anika.bandcamp.com/album/change

sample here : https://www.juno.co.uk/products/joe-mcphee-jen-clare-the-mystery-j/837979-01/

https://dinosaurjr.bandcamp.com/track/hide-another-round

Birdman Sound Vinyl Pop Up Shop: Saturday July 24/21

 

New and Restock @ Birdman Sound

 

Some wicked stuff in ltd. quantities arrived from the mighty Cardinal Fuzz in the UK !  Some brand new releases and some tasty restock of last copies we will never get again, so now's the time eh!  👽

                 Mouth Painter - Tropicale Moon LP  (Cardinal Fuzz / Centripetal Force) 2021

                                                       https://youtu.be/SbogSssnj04

                          Upupayama - S/T LP  (Cardinal Fuzz / Centripetal Force) 2021

                                         https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/upupayama-s-t

             Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapour - Good Goddamn LP  (Acid Test/Little Cloud) 2021

      https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/sisters-of-your-sunshine-vapor-good-goddamn-acid-test

              The Myrrors - Invocaciones: Singles and Strays 2014-2016 LP (Cardinal Fuzz) 2021

      https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/the-myrrors-invocaciones-singles-and-strays-2014-2016

                                      Kohoutek - Jurad LP (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube) 2021

                                         https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/kohoutek-jurad

                      Alien Mustangs - Beat Of The Earth LP (Cardinal Fuzz/Little Cloud) 2021

                          https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/alien-mustangs-beat-of-the-earth

                                           Diagonal - S/T  LP  (Acid Test/Little Cloud) 2021

                                     https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/diagonal-s-t-acid-test

                         The Mirrors - The Lost 3rd Album LP (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)

                            https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/the-mirrors-the-lost-3rd-album

Friday Morning Cartunes July 16, 2021

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Ax Genrich - Come Back (Sunhair)

Poobah - Jump Through The Golden Ring (Monster Records)

Richard and Duncan Pinhas - Puisannces Infectees (Bam Balam)

Atomic Bitchwax - Marching On The Skulls Of The Dead (Red Sun)

Abronia - Cross The Hill (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube)

E-Gone - Follow Moonmilk Rivers / Build Your Camp Out Of Alpine Moss (Sunrise Ocean Bender / Deep Water Acres)

Carlos Nino and Friends - Nightswimming (International Anthem Recording Co.)

Fangnawa Experience - Gnawi (Strut) 

Camera - Prosthuman/Apptime (Bureau B)

Northern Haze - Angayuksakuluk (Aakuluk Music)

Anunnaki - Martyr Of Alexanddria (Noise Agony Mayhem / Cardinal Fuzz)

Hawklords - Brave New World (self released)

RG Rough / Kawabata Makoto - Running Underwater (pt. 1&2) (Bam Balam)

RSD 2 Vinyl Pop Up Shop...

 

Friday Afternoon Cartunes July 9th, 2021

                                                     https://youtu.be/e8yTQDrnNqI

Steve Dalachinsky & the Snobs - Near Death In A Concrete Plant/Language Is An Orgasm (Bam Balam)

Comets On Fire - Dogwood Rust (Sub Pop)

Mark Carmody - Crusin' (unreleased track 1980)

Decade Of Dreams - Just Like The End (DTK)

Deniz Tek / James Williamson - I Need Somebody (Leopard Lady)

Cub Koda & The Points - Baby Let Me Rock And Roll Ya' (Baron)

Sula Bassana - Vegetable Man (Nasoni)

Parades Against Parades- Driving Me Stoned (Cardinal Fuzz)

Styrenes - All The Wrong People Are Dying (Overground)

Diamondtown - Hide (Label Obscura)

Custard Flux - Power Pigs (Fruits de Mer)

Roy - Take Off your Tin Hat (Idee Fixe)

The Mushroom Project - Imperial Eye (Talking Elephant)

Chrome - Perfumed Metal  (Don't Fall Off The Mountain)

Top 20 Selling Artists @ Birdman Sound May/June 2021

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol

CAN

Sons Of Kemet

Miles Davis

Funkadelic

Erkin Koray

Elevator To Hell / Eric's Trip

Wasted Cathedral

Frank & The Hurricanes

Alan Vega

Guru Guru

Herbie Hancock

Sonic's Rendezvous Band

Earthless

Dark Bird

Ian Carr

Nebula

Love

Richard Pinhas

 

July 10th, 2021 record Shop Pop Up...

 

Our selection is at the top of every hill always....💕

Platter Matters @ Birdman Sound

 

There are zero dull moments ever at Birdman Sound!  It's been a lifetime journey of discovery and connecting the dots in the pursuit of higher elevation.  Until we become dust, this trip never ends.  Loads of sides in and more arriving.  Old and new releases comfortably nestle side by side in the shop and the energy felt in the space is cosmic, without even a single sound to be heard, you literally can feel it and it feels good. 

Here's a rundown on some recent arrivals...live a little and check out the samples provided for each...who knows, something may just become the perfect soundtrack of your life...👽

Carlos Nino & Friends - More Energy Fields, Current (International Anthem Recording Co.)

Total zoner, deep space, jazz-mystica and a chilled trip to the stars.  Nino leads a cast of players including guests like the legendary Laraaji and Shabaka Hutchings.  Late night or early morning an album of subtle strength and majestic beauty.  💕

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/salon-winds-with-jamire-williams-nate-mercereau-jamael-dean-and-aaron-shaw

Angel Bat Dawid and Tha Brothahood - Live (International Anthem Recording Co.)

A stellar double Live LP set from Dawid and her band; primarily recorded in Berlin, Germany late in 2019.  Deeply emotive with a super sonic sound stage through all 4 sides (8 members, including 2 drummers)!  A modern spiritual jazz trip that will impress the old guard and should turn on a new generation of acolyte's without question!  The fire and energy is spellbinding.  Wow!💕

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/black-family-2 

Jeff Parker - The New Breed (International Anthem Recording Co.)

Long awaited repress of fabulous modern out-jazz soul sounds from multi-instrumentalist and Tortoise member Jeff Parker! Originally released in 2016.  Oh so good !!!  💕

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/jrifted

Jamie Branch - Fly Or Die (International Anthem Recording Co.)

Back in stock here and a fave @ Birdman Sound!  Chi-Town Trumpeter Jamie Branch knocks it out of the park with the first volume of "Fly Or Die".  Explosive free jazz from the wicked modern underground Chicago jazz scene!  YOWZA !💕

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/theme-nothing

Craven Faults - Enclosures (Leaf Label Ltd.)  

Finally repressed and back in stock and a fave from late 2020!  2nd proper full length from Yorkshire, UK Kosmiche mystery project Craven Faults.  The entire body of prior released work to date is exemplary and if Berlin School style deep space electronics is your trip then take it as it's front seat magic!  One of the great ones from 2020. 👽

https://cravenfaults.bandcamp.com/track/hard-level-force

The Bobby Lees - Skin Suit (Alive Records)

Young, vital and in yer' face garage punk 'n' roll from Woodstock, NY.  Their 2nd LP appeared last year and turns our crank as much as Amy & The Sniffers with regards to "new breed"!  Fun and just fucking RAWKIN" !💗👽

https://alivenaturalsound.bandcamp.com/track/drive 

Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Live, Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, 01/14/78 (Alive Records)

Released officially first in 2007 from TOP SHELF Detroit supergroup (MC5/Stooges/Rationals). One of a number of essential in yer face LIVE LPs from a band who only ever officially released 1 7" single ("City Slang"💗).  Re-stocked here at Birdman Sound for the first time in awhile!  Motor City Madness at it's most explosive {:>))))! 

https://youtu.be/Yt29aaVreGk 

Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Kill City (Bomp Records)

Re-stocked and an all time top seller at Birdman Sound.  Iggy's 1977 Bomp LP and a monster fave of ours since debut!  Not a lot to be said that ain't already over these many decades.  Just a KILLER! 💣

https://youtu.be/gRDXMFnSAQQ

The Hypstrz - Hypsterization (Bomp Records)

A total blaster we first heard when released in 1980 on the GREAT VOXX record label.  Minneapolis, MN, band led by the Batson brothers.  A smokin' R&R album with loads of searing over the top covers of past nuggets!  Just an ultimate barn burning load of energized fun as R&R was meant to be.  Re-stocked here for the first time in awhile and a historical top seller {:>))))

https://youtu.be/_uijGSV4kZ0

Pandora - Space Amazon (Supreme Echo)

Total killer proto punk / hard rock scorcher from the bowels of NY circa 1974! Future members of  The David Johansen Band, Twisted Sister, Black Widow and more.  Sizzling balls out rocker, TOP SHELF!  Awesome package which includes bonus 7" and massive book insert.  Ltd. Edition and fully authorized.  Do not miss this!  Pull the trigger now! 💣💕👽 

https://supremeecho.bandcamp.com/album/pandora 

People - Ceremony-Buddha Meet Rock (Life Goes On Records)

Recent ltd. repress (finally) of exceptional Japanese deep psych ultra rare fave from 1971!  Godlike guitar work of Kimio Mizutani!  A clear winner here.  Just re-stocked again and highly recommended from our perch here at Birdman! 💕👽

https://youtu.be/WGmMXkrF7Fk

Friday Afternoon Cartunes Returns 7/9/2021

Studio renovations are complete.  Our ship returns to earth this Friday after a long journey.  Join John and  Wayne on Facebook then later on You Tube for 2 hours of music and chatter, Friday's from 4-6 pm EST...👽

Archival show from May here.... https://youtu.be/qyPxNcpnlsM