Katalog
Suchergebnisse
- 01. Exit here
02. Abstracted
03. Sickly Sweet
04. Whateveryouwant
05. Daily Voices
06. Birth Create Dissipate
07. EntranceBLACK MATH
Birth Create Dissipate
[engl] Black Math is a three piece band from Durban, South Africa. Their sound is raw, unforgiving and will punch you in the face when you least expect it. They have developed their own unique sound that draws from genres like garage rock, psychedelic rock, stoner rock, punk and heavy metal.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 25.11.2019
- 01. Dreamers On The Run
02. Setting Sun
03. Time To Get Away
04. What He Set Out To Be
05. Cockerel’s Waiting
06. My Name Is Duglas (Don’t Listen To What They Say)
07. Home Before Dark – In The Industrial Zone
08. Hop Skip Jump (For Your Love)
09. The World Was Round
10. Things You ThrewBMX BANDITS
Dreamers On The Run
[engl] BMX Bandits are back with their twelfth studio album, their most musically ambitious so far - 'Dreamers On The Run'. An album dedicated to all the outsiders out there.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 26.04.2024
- EAN
- EAN 4015698235449
- 01. Theme From Dreaded Light
02. Mysterious Nurse
03. Shutting Out The Light
04. Urination Jazz
05. I Heard A Baby Crying
06. Early One Morning (What's Wrong With You)
07. Kettle O’ Worms
08. Night Riding
09. Tuning In
10. Love Theme
11. Long Forgotten Summers
12. Smorgans
13. Early One Morning (Reprise)
14. Duncan's Theme
15. Family Values
16. SAT NAVs And Drugs
17. A Dark Figure
18. Twist the Knife
19. Never Come Back
20. New Revelations
21. Discovering Duncan
22. Thrilling
23. Spinning Through TimeBMX BANDITS
Music for the film “Dreaded Light”
[engl] „If I could be in any other band, it would be BMX Bandits" Kurt Cobain allegedly said. A great artist with excellent taste. The BMX Bandits have been around in varying formations since 1986 and come from great Scottish guitar pop lineage. Something must be in the drinking water in and around Glasgow, the density of legendary, fantastic bands is striking; Teenage Fanclub, Belle & Sebastian, Primal Scream, Vaselines, Pastels and... the BMX Bandits. With Duglas T. Stewart as the focal point, the band has been releasing great indie pop albums irregularly since 1989. Their first album "C86" is a classic and since then the band has had a worldwide fan base, be it in Tokyo, Hamburg and...well of course, Seattle. Deeply rooted in the golden era of pop - the 60s - as well as the DIY indie pop scene of the 80s, Duglas and the Bandits created their own sound and style. Humorous, heartfelt and always featuring great melodies. Humorous, heartfelt, great melodies...that's exactly our field of expertise! And so it was surely only a matter of time until we, Tapete Records, finally had the honour of releasing a BMX Bandits album. Welcome aboard!- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 13.01.2023
- EAN
- EAN 4015698147216
- 01. Hollow Men
02. At the BijouBOBBY CONN
Hollow Men
Der unbestrittene Meister des Glampop ist mit zwei außergewöhnlichen Songs zurück. Hollow Men: 80er Jahre, Bobby und seine Freunde rauchten Nelkenzigaretten, hörten Bauhaus und Gary Numan und lasen dunkle Poesie, die sie nicht wirklich verstanden haben. Bobby begeisterte sich für T.S. Eliots "The Hollow Men" - cool, völlig düster, deprimierend und apokalyptisch. Jetzt ist Bobby etwas älter und laut eigener Aussage: ein düsterer Teenager seiner selbst - und versteht immer T. S. Eliot noch immer nicht wirklich.“ Aber was steht, ist die Lust am tanzen. Ist das (Auf)-Begehren. Der Anspruch, mit einem Knall, anstatt mit einem Wimmern das Leben zu beenden. Und so türmte Bobby zusammen mit Monica Vokale über Vokale auf und schufen diese divenhafte Version von „Hollow Men“. At the Bijou: ... ist Bobbys Tribut an das erste amerikanische Gay-Porno-Filmtheater - eröffnet 1970 in Chicago. Das Bijou, dessen Hochzeit in den 70er und 80er Jahren war, war einer der ersten Orte mit „playrooms“ für ungezwungenen Gay Sex. Der Besitzer ging zweimal wegen Unzucht ins Gefängnis und steht damit auch für ein anderes, ein freies Amerika. Jetzt ist es einfacher offen schwul zu sein, Pornos gehören zum Alltag und „Theater“-Besuche wurden uninteressant. Grindr und Internetpornografie taten ihr übriges. Und so kam es wie es kommen mußte. Die Nachbarschaft wurde schließlich zu teuer, um es als Theater zu halten, also schloss es vor ein paar Jahren und wurde verkauft. limitiert auf 300 copies- Format
- 7" lim
- Release-Datum
- 28.04.2017
- EAN
- EAN 4260016921492
- 01. Hollow Men
02. At the BijouBOBBY CONN
Hollow Men / Special Edition
Diese Special Edition entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Bobbys langjährigen Freund und Schmuckdesigner Jonathan Johnson (Deichkind, Bela B., Rocko Schamoni, Chilly Gonzales, Absolute Beginner). Für den Song hat Jonathan Johnson einen limitierten 7“-Adapter aus Messing entworfen - eine umgedrehten Dollarpyramide, deren Spitze ins Pentagon rast, umrandet von zwei Statuen der ägyptischen Göttin Isis, einem Schwan, einem Schlittschuh und einer Eisenstange. Frei nach Guy Debord's „Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels" oder um es mit den Worten Bobby Conn´s zu sagen: More than you need!- Format
- 7" special
- Release-Datum
- 28.04.2017
- 01. Recovery
02. Disposable Future
03. Good Old Days
04. No Grownups
05. Brother
06. On The Nose
07. Bijou
08. Disaster
09. It's a Young Man's Game
10. Always AlreadBOBBY CONN
Recovery
[engl] What's the point of recovery if we were never really healthy to begin with? I started working on this record about four years ago, thinking of the American obsession with self-help, self-care and self-empowerment as a cruel and cheap substitute for helping each other. It's a concept that rewards those that have the money to help themselves, and blames those that don't for not trying hard enough. Then there were some elections. Now there is a narrative of "recovering" our stronger, bolder, racially pure, cultural and economic glory days. And then some of my friends started getting sick, or dying, or committed suicide. So it got real. But don't worry – the record doesn't sound depressing!- Format
- LPcol
- Release-Datum
- 08.05.2020
- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 08.05.2020
- 01. Shame
02. Feed The Dog
03. People Say
04. Back For More
05. Borstal Breakout
06. Descender (Live 1992)
07. Mr 10% (Live 1991)
08. Little Suzie (1993 version)
09. Satisfaction
10. It's Alright
11. Sweet Charity
12. Motherfucking MotherfuckerBORED
Back For More
[engl] 12 tracks of the best bits by Australian Underground Legends BORED!. Geelong's most raucous guitar led rock action destroyers, whom started a whole scene back in 1987, 12 tracks picked by a long term fan/friend of the band as a tribute to Dave Thomas, leader of Bored! who passed away in early 2020. Dave Thomas from Bored! is widely regarded as a legendary riff master, a "scene" definer; many of the second (third?) wave of garage rock and roll noise from 1996 onwards owe many a debt, and a riff or two. All monies raised from this release to be passed to his surviving family. Its loud, and it rocks.. join in!- Format
- LP green
- Release-Datum
- 03.12.2021
- EAN
- EAN 5060446129586
- 01. Odprite muzeje
02. Kons
03. Na piramidi
04. Ljubljana spi (free)
05. Razocaranje
06. Jaz protestiram
07. Evropa umira
08. Razocaranja I
09. Moj crni tintnik
10. Destrukcije
11. Rodovnik
12. Blizu polnociBORGHESIA
Proti kapitulaciji
[engl] Borghesia’s new album is a free-floating retrofuturist industrial art rock epic based on Sre?ko Kosovel’s modernist poetry that sits somewhere between an alternative soundtrack of Blade Runner, the uncanny ambience of Coil, melancholy of Berlin era David Bowie and immediacy of Nine Inch Nails.- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 23.10.2018
- 01. Is The Season For New Incarnation
02. The Fool
03. Carletta’s In Hats Again
04. When My Day Of The Crone Comes
05. Ballet Of Apes
06. Heartbreak Jazz
07. TrixxxBRIGID DAWSON & THE MOTHERS NETWORK
Ballet of Apes
[engl] Tip-top of our osmosis list is the first quiver of tunes from Brigid Dawson and her newly minted Mothers Network: wise warnings dyed in dark hues, knotted and hard-won torch songs from the edge of a turbulent sea, bittersweet balladry spun in defense against evils familiar and unknown. Lovely though it may seem from a distance, the striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. “Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls - in Australia with Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring), in San Francisco with Mike Donovan (ex Sic Alps), Shayde Sartin (ex Fresh & Onlys/lifetime ringer) and Mike Shoun (ex Oh Sees/Peacers), and in Brooklyn with instrumental heavy-weights Sunwatchers - and the results are spellbinding. At the focal point of this maelstrom, our lady, as if illumed by candlelight, intones, pleads, consoles - white magic perhaps but it carries with it the anodized tang of blood.- Format
- LPcol
- Release-Datum
- 03.06.2020
- 01. Vous Et Nous
02. Patriarcat
03. Mon Enfance
04. Vent D'Automne
05. Le Serveur Du Dôme
06. Je Suis Venu Te Voir
07. Rien Que Changer
08. Le Ciel Est Doux
09. Les Epis
10. Le Repas Des Dromadaires
11. Vous Et Nous
12. L'Amour Parfait
13. Un Soleil
14. Dans Ma Rue
15. L'Orage Est Fini
16. Gamme
17. Le Brin D'Herbe
18. La Harpe Jaune
19. Je T'Aimerai
20. Diabolo
21. Cher
22. Ce N'Est Pas Un Ennemi
23. Encaustique
24. Petit Sapin
25. Mon Lit
26. Je T'Aimerai
27. La Déchirure
28. Le Petit Cheval Bleu
29. Personne
30. Les Roses Sont Farouches
31. Le Bouc
32. Dessin
33. Les MuzdusBRIGITTE FONTAINE ARESKI BELKACEM
vous et nous
[engl] Art is a matter of different phases and influence. The artists' core reaches out like heat waves. And very rarely do these artists' core merge like Brigitte Fontaine and Arseki Belkacem have. Their Saravah Era lasted ten years (1969 to 1979), ten years of "folle sagesse" (crazy wisdom), above all genres and song limitation. « Le plaisir secret que donne une chanson, dessin à la craie sur le mur de tes sons » (the personal delight within song, a chalk drawing on your wall of sounds) whispers Areski, right after Brigitte's voice on the penultimate song of the double album "Vous et nous". Released in 1977, this free flowing record contains 33 songs, it's their 6th album after « Comme à la radio », « Brigitte 4 », « Je ne connais pas cet homme », « L'incendie » and « Le bonheur », and it continues to spread the wide and generous spectrum of the couple fully blossoming talent. Electronic experiments, North African trance, refined acoustics and medieval drones gracefully blend with the acid and candid tongues of the singers, surprising us each step along the way. The making of this record was also full of twists and turns. It started out as a solo effort by Areski at Jean-Pierre Chambard's studio. Little by little, as Areski was filling tapes with poems and improvised skits, Brigitte would sneak into the studio at nightfall, adding her voice here and there, her whispers then became screams, giving fuel to the fire in a total blaze, a surreal blaze. The solitary work ("je") thrived to become us ("nous") and you ("vous") …- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 18.10.2018
- 01. Los Angeles
02. Final Day
03. Jonestown
04. Lighthouse
05. 1993
06. Once
07. Every Kind Of Light
08. Burn The Sky
09. Singles
10. Down Below
BRING THE HOAX
Single Coil Candy
[engl] Swedish alternative rock group Bring the Hoax are set to release their debut studio album ”Single Coil Candy” in May 2023. Combining sweet melodies with fuzzed out guitars into colorful, energetic, and dynamic rock music, the album contains the four tracks from Bring the Hoax’s self titled EP from 2022 (previously only released digitally) plus six new, until now unreleased songs. Produced and recorded by the band members themselves, the album offers massive soundscapes inspired by the punk-, indie- and grunge-era of the 90s’. Perfectly capturing the dynamic nature of the Stockholm based band, ”Single Coil Candy” hits the sweet spot where nostalgia meets modern expressions, and where unpolished, distorted, and riff-based rock meets beautiful, bittersweet vocals and delicate nuances - it’s everything you want in an action-packed 2023 indie rock record.- Format
- LP pink
- Release-Datum
- 01.01.2023
- EAN
- EAN 7340148114577
- 01. High - Lo
02. Wasted
03. 1984
04. Choice
05. Psycho Static
06. Love and Poverty
07. Set Free
08. Close
09. Stone
10. Beach
11. Boyfriend Hole
12. Mother
13. Normal Never Happened
14. Faux king vogue
15. SeasideBROKEN WATER
Wrought, 45s, and Seaside 2009-2015
[engl] A follow up to 2012's widely-praised Tempest, Olympia, Washington favorites BROKEN WATER’s new album was recorded and mixed with STEVE FISK (Nirvana, Soundgarden) and features a mix of noisy, fuzzed-out guitars and melodic vocals. Features a guest appearance from LORI GOLDSTON (EARTH) on cello- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 19.09.2015
- EAN
- EAN 5055869539333
- 01. Cape Palms
02. Every City
03. Lists of Things
04. Beast Quotations
05. OST
06. Everyone You Know
07. Barnacle
08. Afternoon Sass
09. HackBURNING ALMS
Afternoon Sass
[engl] "It’s 2019 and the planet is a mess. But back with a lightning flash and new tracks are the three enigmatic individuals collectively known as Burning Alms — Thomas Whitfield, Sebastian Lenton and John Biggs, formerly of Calories and Distophia, with 'Afternoon Sass'. Captured during a bleak English winter by recording engineer and long-term collaborator Tom Livemore, the resulting album fuses punk noise and lo-fi pop with ornate jazz flourishes, garnished with the occasional Derek Bailey-esque skronk. 'Afternoon Sass' is being released in Europe by Croatian label Geenger Records. Reminiscent of the likes of Superchunk, Sebadoh and Jim O'Rourke, the record is made up of nine songs including imminent single releases 'Every City' and 'Everyone You Know'. The album is a follow up to their previous recording, 'In Sequence'. "- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 24.05.2019
- EAN
- EAN 0705604992507
- 01. Right About Time
02. Subhuman Girl
03. Crackin' Up
04. One Good Night
05. Spill Your Guts
06. Since You've Been GonE
07. Oh Yeah?
08. Punkrocker
09. Fun & Games
10. From The Bughouse
11. Only You
12. Cherry Kicks
13. Perfect Match
14. Love BubbleCAESARS PALACE
Cherry Kicks
[engl] The second album from 2000 vinyl for the first time in 20 years and this time it’s got extra tracks. Hits galore! Punkrocker, Crackin’ Up, From The Bughouse and even a Lee Perry-cover.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 27.11.2020
- EAN
- EAN 7331915024748
- 01. Over 'Fore It Started
02. Candy Kane
03. Mine All Of The Time
04. Let My Freak Flag Fly
05. Cheap Glue
06. Jerk It Out
07. Burn The City Down
08. Do-Nothing
09. I Gun For You, Part II
10. Fifteen Minutes Too Late
11. She Don't Mind
12. I Gun For You
13. Black Heart
14. Thousand-Mile-Stare
15. Crazy Chick
16. Can't Feel My Toes
17. Get Off My CloudCAESARS PALACE
Love For The Streets
[engl] Their third album from 2002 vinyl for the first time since it came out and this time it’s got extra tracks. Jerk It Out, Over ’Fore It Started, Candy Cane and more!- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 27.11.2020
- EAN
- EAN 7331915024762
- 01. Sort It Out
02. My Abduction Love
03. Let's Go Parking Baby
04. Optic Nerve
05. (I'm Gonna) Kick You Out
06. You're My Favourite
07. Suzy Creamcheese
08. The Cannibals
09. Anything You Want
10. She's A Planet
11. You're My Favourite 2
12. You Don't Mean A Thing To MeCAESARS PALACE
Youth Is Wasted On The Young
[engl] Their glorious 1997 debut album on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Filled with hits like Sort It Out, (I’m Gonna) Kick You Out and You’re My Favourite.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 27.11.2020
- EAN
- EAN 7331915024748
- 01. Phenobarbital
02. 3D-TV
03. Automatic
04. This Man, This Monster
05. Crap Thinker
06. Pupo Diavolo
07. You´re My Favorite
08. Shake it
09. Odd Job
09. Born Cool
10. Out of My Hands
11. Wasted
12. New TasteCAESARS PALACE
¡Rock De Puta Mierda!
[engl] The Stockholm-based psych/60s/garage/indie-act Caesars had a wild ride around the turn of the century. Their three first albums, released in Sweden under the moniker Caesars Palace, were riddled with hits like Jerk It Out, Punkrocker, From The Bughouse, Sort It Out and more, but they only had limited release outside Sweden. The ultra limited vinyl versions of the albums have been highly sought after collector items for 20 years now and even if you’re lucky enough to own originals, these new editions have superior quality pressings, bonus tracks and better sleeves. Limited editions will include fanzines made by bass player David full of pix and trix. Classic 1996 ep for the first time on vinyl with lots of extras including their 1995 debut 7” and other rarities. Caesar’s Palace (aka Caesars) in their infancy was a screaming mess of garage, psych, beat, lo-fi and cycledelica with great pop sensibilty.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 31.01.2019
- EAN
- EAN 7331915024106
- 01. Acceleration
02. Let's JumpCANNIBALE
Acceleration
[engl] 200 copies. Hand screen printed sleeve.- Format
- 7" lim
- Release-Datum
- 15.03.2019
- 01. Rememory
02. The Warbler
03. Hidden LightsCARLTON MELTON
Hidden Lights
[engl] San Francisco tripmakers-supreme Carlton Melton return with a new 25 minute-plus three track 12" EP for Agitated Records, their first release since their widely received 2LP "Out To Sea" in 2015 and ,indeed the accompanying 2016 RSD "Aground" 12" release.. Hidden Lights is the first missive from recent recordings undertaken once again at El Studio with the watchful engineering and collaboratory help of Phil Manley (Trans AM / Lifecoach / Fucking Champs).. Phil throws in some slinky guitar moves that help make the Carlton Melton Magick Karpet soar…. John McBain (Evil Acidhead /Monster Magnet /Wellwater Conspiracy ) also guests on guitar, and has once again mastered the ’Melton’s sike-adelic-drone to perfection…Released on 500 12”’s or unlimited DL!!! Take a trip to the hidden lights.- Format
- 12''
- Release-Datum
- 18.08.2017
- 01. Untimely
02. Electrified Sky
03. The Lighthouse
04. Eternal Returns
05. Snow Moon
06. A Basketful of Trumpets
07. Sea Legs
08. Way Back When
09. Climbing The Ladder
10. Atmospheric River
11. PsychoticedelicosisCARLTON MELTON
Mind Minerals
[engl] This will be their first full length release since 2015’s widely lauded “Out To Sea” double opus, itself a languid drifting of drones and psychedically enhanced riffmongering. Sure, there’s been some long EP releases since.. Hidden Lights in 2017 (featuring the immeasurable drone sike float on “Rememory”) and Aground in 2016 (a companion, the Desert Island weather beaten psych-flow follow up to Out To Sea), now its time to soak up.. Mind Minerals. Mind Minerals finds Carlton Melton in fine fettle, all the songs were recorded and engineered at El Studio in San Francisco by Phil Manley on September 3rd and 4th 2016 (except 'untimely' - recorded at the Dome by Brian McDougall), the studio setting suits them -- a logical progression from a weekend’s recording out at the Dome. Under Manley’s watchful ear/eye, Carlton Melton have created a futurescape soundtrack.., a “3001 Space Odyssey”. The drums are more pounding and direct than before, the constantly re-assuring bass creates a helping hand to propel you through the clouds of static and shards of electrifying guitar dazzling your horizon. Synths help soothe the sharp edges and lull you into some out of body experience whilst and orchestrated calamitous scree pulls you back…. This is a breathless, yet deep breathing album. It demands full immersion.. Searing guitar piercing the drone with relentless power, the core trio of Carlton Melton; Andy Duvall (drums/guitar), Clint Golden (bass guitar), and Rich Millman ( guitar/synth), have some alchemical bond that’s helped them create a post –rock / psychedelic / freeform organic slab of American Primitivism / space drift , this is unashamed head-music from the melting pot of Northern California.. 5 decades ago this album would have been released on the ESP Disk Label or even Apple.. there would have been no helter skelter if the desert Hippies had locked onto these vibes, plug in, turn on, tune out..float free.. Carlton Melton can provide your own aural microdose to reset your Mind / Psyche!! Andy Duvall plays juno synth on 'the lighthouse' special guests - Phil Manley - juno synth on 'snow moon' and 'sea legs' / Guitar on 'eternal returns' and 'psychoticedelicosis'. John McBain - guitar on 'electrified sky' and 'way back when' / synth/mellotron/guitar on 'atmospheric river'. All songs mastered by John Mcbain at JPM mastering. Cover artwork is “Walls” (2013) by Andy Vogt- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 20.09.2018
- EAN
- EAN 5060446121863
- 01. Prescribed Skies
02. Elsewhere (Need To Be)
03. So The Story Grows
04. High Alert
05. Route ThirteenCARLTON MELTON
Resemble Ensemble
[engl] Carlton Melton, from Northern California, are now a practising fourpiece in the arts of melted-minds psychedelia. With the added kraut-oomph and sike-flutter of fellow Californian Anthony Taibi (whom you may know as being a member of White Manna, and also DDT with Andy) Rich Millman, Andy Duvall, and Clint Golden have now embellished the Carlton Melton sound. Pushing forward as a fourpiece, the band recorded Resemble Ensemble in July 2021 (just before Andy moved back over East!) at Anthony’s home studio, 3D Light in Freshwater, CA. Anthony did all the recording and mixing. The Melton Magick Karpet settled, and our favourite contemporary sikedelic warlods plugged in, amped up and let it flow.. and flow it does. .from the krautrock fuelled pszych-raga of Prescribed Skies, the fluid dronescape of Elsewhere that welcomes you into its arms with a warming tone, almost a missing Spacemen 3 demo at the feast here… So The Story Grows has the drone scraping through a murk of dazzling feedback and pummel, with the fuller sounding Melton giving the genre a proper wobble, hold on to your brains people… High Alert.. whas this? Synth and guitar interplay jambusting, this is the Melton wigging out and almost interweaving 70s high table rock with some odd and downright perverse synthfunkpunk rhythms.. get weird.. or get wired..or both.. easily done here.. Closing out the album with Route Thirteen is the road trip home.. they’ve been, they’ve massaged and mangled your synapses, plug in the satnav and take the higher-route home.. if you get our drift.. Carlton Melton, starting 2023 in a better place than most, soaring high on their synaptic-dazzling magick karpet…- Format
- LP white
- Release-Datum
- 27.01.2023
- EAN
- EAN 5060446128183
- 01. Turn To Earth
02. Cloudstorming
03. Vanquished
04. Cosmicity
05. Canned Head
06. Sundering
07. Unlock The Land
08. Roboflow
09. Last Times
10. Migration
11. MutinyCARLTON MELTON
Turn To Earth
[engl] Northern California psychedelic sorcerers Carlton Melton are brain surfers, mind trippers, … “psychlists,” if you prefer. The band will take your head for a ride, occasionally rushing at superluminal speeds through a wormhole or gliding softly on a gentle breeze in a leafy glade. Sometimes your brain needs to rage, and sometimes it needs to repose. For a decade and a half, the band has yo-yo’ed, almost schizophrenically, between these two modes: walloping space jams with furious guitar solos in one hemisphere of the brain and ethereal, feather-light splashdowns in the other. Not to mention a track here and there that builds from the latter into the former. But with two new releases in 2023, the band has evolved. Whether psych rock or ambient trance, their sound remains driving, organic, and flowing. With the addition of Anthony Taibi (White Manna, DDT), however, the group’s metal freak-outs are Hawkwindier and their droning kraut trances are Spacemen 3-er. In January, the quartet released the playfully spacey Resemble Ensemble, recorded in Taibi’s home studio 3D Light. October now sees the band Turn To Earth, a work with scents of Autumn, a season of death and transition. The cover art evokes a vine-covered, electric crucifix. The sound is, well, earthy but also gritty and striving towards change. The album was recorded in Fall 2022 and now harvested in Fall 2023. Phil Becker (Terry Gross, Pins Of Light) contributed drums and percussion to a few tracks on Turn To Earth, recording the album at El Studio in San Francisco. With Becker at the helm, the synths have become more prominent (“Cosmicity,” “Roboflow,” “Migration”) and the tone heavier on the doom (“Cloudstorming,” “Unlock The Land,” title track): several moments could even serve as background music for epic dark fantasy films like Conan the Barbarian, Fire and Ice, or Heavy Metal. As exquisite as Turn To Earth is, Melton are best appreciated as a live act: their recordings as well as their gigs are largely improvised – not so much composed as birthed. And yet their most recent tour ended abruptly and perilously. The group had to cancel its final three shows once members were admitted to Arnhem hospital in the Netherlands. Five years later, reinforcements have strengthened the band and restocked its arsenal of great tracks. Turn To Earth, sure … but keep your head in outer space.- Format
- DoLPcol
- Release-Datum
- 06.10.2023
- EAN
- EAN 5060446127902
- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 06.10.2023
- EAN
- EAN 5060446127919
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 06.10.2023
- EAN
- EAN 5060446127896
- 01. The Stars Are Dying
02. Butchery
03. Waylay
04. Dezebelle
05. Smoke Drip Revisited
06. Crown Shyness
07. Three Zero Two
08. Porch Dreams
09. CloserCARLTON MELTON
Where This Leads
[engl] Nestled deep in the forests of Mendocino County in Northern California, huddled under the protective shade of towering redwoods and within earshot of frothy waves crashing against the Pacific coastline, squats a geodesic dome that has served as crucible for the experimental genius of Carlton Melton. Nature and Man operate under different logics. But here, Carlton Melton wholly entrusts this idyllic environment with the task of inspiring and guiding their musical improvisations. The Dome has been the ideal setting to facilitate their creativity. Without forcing a specific dynamic or theme, the band inhabits its womb-like confines to improvise, explore, dream. Their music draws on psychedelia, stoner metal, krautrock, and ambient atmospherics to convey, above all else, a mood. A prickly guitar melody will float lazily, a wall of dissonant feedback will resolve into a hypnotic drone, or a colossal riff will exhume the soul of Jimi Hendrix. One hears Hawkwind or Spacemen 3 jamming with Pink Floyd at Pompeii. Indeed, Carlton Melton have one foot in the ancient world and one tentacle in deep space. They are both the pack of proto-humans drumming with femurs in Kubrick’s 2001 and the film’s inscrutable monolith hinting at the universe’s mysteries. The “Stoned Ape” theory holds that early hominids ingested psychedelic mushrooms that provided an evolutionary boost to their brains, helping them blossom into Homo Sapiens. Imagine such cavemen trippin’ balls, their nightmarish visions sending them into feverish bouts of rage and then gentle moments of introspection. They very well could have heard the music of Carlton Melton rattling inside their skulls, first driving our ancestors mad then upward into a higher realm. Andy Duvall (drums, guitar), Clint Golden (bass), and Rich Millman (guitar, synths) have yet to play Pompeii, but they have already wowed crowds at European festivals such as the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, Roadburn, and Desertfest Antwerp. Live, they are jaw-dropping. On record, mind-altering. In fact, with each album, Carlton Melton adds a subtle new element, synapses firing new neural connections. In 2020, they release new full-length Where This Leads, marking ten years of the band’s working relationship with their UK label Agitated Records and five years of recording with Phil Manley in his El Studio in San Francisco. With Where This Leads, the band rewires the listener’s mind. “Smoke Drip Revisited” is a ticklish acid flashback, “Porch Dreams” a dabbling in country psych, and “Closer” a driving, freak-out of guitar heroics. One senses that the group is conveying a message that cannot be expressed verbally but only suggested through synth sighs, walloping rhythms, and soaring solos. Would Carlton Melton therefore be a group of stoned apes dizzily grasping for meaning or telepathic futurists communicating to us through crude man-made instrumentation? Well, lower the stylus to find out. - Eric Bensel, Paris July 2020- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 30.10.2020
- EAN
- EAN 5060446124741