MP Hopkins and Mark Harwood // Disfigured with Abbreviations LP

MP Hopkins and Mark Harwood // Disfigured with Abbreviations LP

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オーストラリアの実験音楽家MP Hopkinsとイギリスの実験レーベルpenultimate press主宰Mark Harwoodが、2018年にリリースした共作レコードです。

物音コラージュ5曲を収録。マスタリングはGiuseppe Ielashiが担当しています。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Penultimate Press releases available at Tobira.

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Limited edition of 250 copies.

"Debut recording from two troubadours of oppositional creep. Inspired by Philip K. Dick and the useless machines that haunt us all, Disfigured with Abbreviations is a roundtable exquisite corpse which crawls through a miraculous and unnerving environment, at once sinister and sensual.

How is it that the perpetual promise of a future lands us in a deeper quagmire?

How do two gentlemen with scruffy vocabularies fall into a sonic landscape of such haunted beauty?

Following their debut live performance on the rooftop of a bakery in Northcote, Victoria in January 2018 Harwood and Hopkins soon set about making a recording. Initially structured with individual recordings placed on each other regardless of content and positioning the works soon evolved into a rich labyrinth of found sound, field recordings, electronics and voice with all elements mapping out a landscape heroic in it’s embracing of utter failure.

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi with artwork by MP Hopkins and Mark Harwood. Comes with a printed inner disco sleeve housed in a charming reverse board sleeve."

artist : MP Hopkins and Mark Harwood

label : penultimate press

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オーストラリアの実験音楽家MP Hopkinsとイギリスの実験レーベルpenultimate press主宰Mark Harwoodが、2018年にリリースした共作レコードです。

物音コラージュ5曲を収録。マスタリングはGiuseppe Ielashiが担当しています。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Penultimate Press releases available at Tobira.

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Limited edition of 250 copies.

artist : MP Hopkins and Mark Harwood

label : penultimate press

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Andrew ChalkやKevin Drumm、Jim O'Rourke、Merzbowなどとも共作を発表しているドイツのベテラン実験音楽家RLW aka Ralf Wehowskyが、2024年9月にイギリス・ロンドンの実験レーベルPeneltimate Pressからリリースした2枚組CDです。コラージュ〜ドローン27曲を収録。6面デジパック、シュリンク仕様です。以下、レーベルによる解説です。 "Colonia Dignidadは、ドイツの福音派一派の入植地だった。ドイツで児童虐待で起訴された後、1961年にチリに逃れた。類似の宗派と同様、外見上は統一された神々しい共同体であり、文化活動や社会福祉も充実していたが、内面や環境は抑圧、性的虐待、搾取に満ちていた。1970年代には、政治犯の投獄や拷問、武器の製造などに協力し、ピノチェトの恐怖政治に疑いもなく介入した。1980年代末から、チリにおけるC.D.の犯罪が法的に再評価されるようになった。その後継組織は観光業で生計を立てている。...

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クイックビュー {"id":8131171549434,"title":"Maths Balance Volumes \/\/ Cycles of Tonight LP","handle":"maths-balance-volumes-cycles-of-tonight-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003e過去にchocolate monkやkyeなどから発表をしているアメリカ・ミネソタの実験フォークトリオMaths Balance Volumesが、2023年12月にイギリスの実験レーベルPenultimate Pressからリリースしたレコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e亡霊フォーク〜ストレンジビーツ〜物音コラージュ11曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/products\/mbvac\"\u003e前作\u003c\/a\u003eもオススメです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYogMVZTuvg?si=asz9OOz0QFo5yaLy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w3l6WvKcguA?si=ctf4ny1FDC5ARWNN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydRAFqR_Fms?si=gTLpTtiMyalVkBHh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YMEpL8JwY4Q?si=TIcp1KP7AM8zr5rf\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvBb48jrL9I?si=d2WVEctxhAu6THVa\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHxG1KN3f3k?si=X4qag4ZEvBRYCryq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Penultimate Press releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk us for digital files. 12\" black vinyl. Edition of 300.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStay 03:38\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanet’s Song 03:13\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThursday Afternoon 03:25\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTonight 01:29\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEgyptian Wedding 03:06\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForming a round 04:04\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dream of you 03:01\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStaples to Nimrod 03:52\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey leave their Horns 02:11\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYellow for Doddie 04:48\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ll Know You 03:05\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenultimate Press:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaths Balance Volumes follow up their acclaimed 2020 release A Year Closer with a further and sturdier bucket of songs scraped from the dust of being. Haunted, fragile and beautiful, this is music that explores the ghostly zones of its own creation. The loneliness and vulnerability that unfolds with the opening cut Stay lays the way for exploration of sound and song with simple melodic guitar and organ whilst the subsequent Janet’s Song weaves mirror elements alongside the sound of pebbles on water.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is evocative music made thoroughly by humans with the most basic of tools. Unafraid to step away from their screens Maths Balance Volumes stroll with breezy resistance to the current thread of platform regurgitation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTonight flips the song on its side as a barnstorming melange of concrete hustle made from shakers, animals, humans and beelzebub knows what. Egyptian Wedding sounds like they operated off the depths of a rotating well. Forming a round is a dusty scratchy heartbreaker that encapsulates the hybrid Smithsonian Folkways label approach that only MBV do.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere is something enormously human about Maths Balance Volumes take on underground experimental music, one far more so\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e than the human pitched music made in the mainstream today. In the 20th Century it was the other way around. What has happened ? I will let you contemplate that. But for me, in this case explicitly this press scribe is chuffed at the consequence of this reversal. Very happy indeed.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Maths Balance Volumes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Penultimate Press\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-01-08T19:47:54+09:00","created_at":"2024-01-08T13:33:31+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["drone","folk \/ left-field pop","lp","new","Penultimate Press","strange beats"],"price":448800,"price_min":448800,"price_max":448800,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":44970092364026,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Maths Balance Volumes \/\/ Cycles of Tonight LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":448800,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ton1_bfb6af60-e27a-4377-aa4d-c42b09be0239.jpg?v=1704688413","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ton2_c2d48d7c-3498-49ef-a3cc-e004bb16cda1.jpg?v=1704688413"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ton1_bfb6af60-e27a-4377-aa4d-c42b09be0239.jpg?v=1704688413","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":32943515336954,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ton1_bfb6af60-e27a-4377-aa4d-c42b09be0239.jpg?v=1704688413"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ton1_bfb6af60-e27a-4377-aa4d-c42b09be0239.jpg?v=1704688413","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":32943515369722,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.967,"height":1200,"width":1160,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ton2_c2d48d7c-3498-49ef-a3cc-e004bb16cda1.jpg?v=1704688413"},"aspect_ratio":0.967,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ton2_c2d48d7c-3498-49ef-a3cc-e004bb16cda1.jpg?v=1704688413","width":1160}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e過去にchocolate monkやkyeなどから発表をしているアメリカ・ミネソタの実験フォークトリオMaths Balance Volumesが、2023年12月にイギリスの実験レーベルPenultimate Pressからリリースしたレコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e亡霊フォーク〜ストレンジビーツ〜物音コラージュ11曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/products\/mbvac\"\u003e前作\u003c\/a\u003eもオススメです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYogMVZTuvg?si=asz9OOz0QFo5yaLy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w3l6WvKcguA?si=ctf4ny1FDC5ARWNN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydRAFqR_Fms?si=gTLpTtiMyalVkBHh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YMEpL8JwY4Q?si=TIcp1KP7AM8zr5rf\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvBb48jrL9I?si=d2WVEctxhAu6THVa\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHxG1KN3f3k?si=X4qag4ZEvBRYCryq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Penultimate Press releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk us for digital files. 12\" black vinyl. Edition of 300.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStay 03:38\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanet’s Song 03:13\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThursday Afternoon 03:25\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTonight 01:29\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEgyptian Wedding 03:06\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForming a round 04:04\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dream of you 03:01\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStaples to Nimrod 03:52\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey leave their Horns 02:11\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYellow for Doddie 04:48\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ll Know You 03:05\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenultimate Press:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaths Balance Volumes follow up their acclaimed 2020 release A Year Closer with a further and sturdier bucket of songs scraped from the dust of being. Haunted, fragile and beautiful, this is music that explores the ghostly zones of its own creation. The loneliness and vulnerability that unfolds with the opening cut Stay lays the way for exploration of sound and song with simple melodic guitar and organ whilst the subsequent Janet’s Song weaves mirror elements alongside the sound of pebbles on water.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is evocative music made thoroughly by humans with the most basic of tools. Unafraid to step away from their screens Maths Balance Volumes stroll with breezy resistance to the current thread of platform regurgitation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTonight flips the song on its side as a barnstorming melange of concrete hustle made from shakers, animals, humans and beelzebub knows what. Egyptian Wedding sounds like they operated off the depths of a rotating well. Forming a round is a dusty scratchy heartbreaker that encapsulates the hybrid Smithsonian Folkways label approach that only MBV do.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere is something enormously human about Maths Balance Volumes take on underground experimental music, one far more so\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e than the human pitched music made in the mainstream today. In the 20th Century it was the other way around. What has happened ? I will let you contemplate that. But for me, in this case explicitly this press scribe is chuffed at the consequence of this reversal. Very happy indeed.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Maths Balance Volumes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Penultimate Press\u003c\/p\u003e"}

過去にchocolate monkやkyeなどから発表をしているアメリカ・ミネソタの実験フォークトリオMaths Balance Volumesが、2023年12月にイギリスの実験レーベルPenultimate Pressからリリースしたレコードです。亡霊フォーク〜ストレンジビーツ〜物音コラージュ11曲を収録。前作もオススメです。レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Penultimate Press releases...

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クイックビュー {"id":7819581751546,"title":"Sam Esh \/\/ Jack of Diamonds\/Faro Goddamn 2xCD","handle":"sam-esh-jack-of-diamonds-faro-goddamn-2xcd","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカのアウトサイダー・ブルース作家Sam Eshが、1990年代前半にひっそりとリリースしたカセットの音源がこの度2枚組CDで再発。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e酒とドラッグ、ギターによるミニマルなLo-Fi実験ブルース・ロック21曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=675718704\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Penultimate Press releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoused in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eglossy 6 panel digisleeve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMike \"Rep\" Hummel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \/ Penultimate Press:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIf Alan Licht ever continues with his revered Minimal Top Ten lists then Sam Esh would surely be added to the pile.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePenultimate Press is proud to release one of the most audacious and unrelenting entries in the entire minimal cannon. A collection of recordings from a true American eccentric maverick pioneer, Sam Esh. Originally available as 2 x cassettes in tiny editions on Mike Rep Hummel’s Old Age \/ No Age label these are now bound together on a 2CD set which does not interrupt the unrelenting creativity of Mr Esh. What does it sound like? Picture Moondog taking a turn for the far worse morphing into a way further crazed Legendary Stardust Cowboy who eschews any song tradition for an unrelenting hypnotic acoustic hurricane complete with glossolalia vocals.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is raw primitive repetitive street blues, an acoustic freight train barreling through your brain. It is unlike anything you have encountered prior.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e_________________\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt was Ron House (Great Plains \/ TJSA \u0026amp; others) that first steered me to the music of Sam Esh circa 1990. Sammy would bring his self made cassettes to Usedkids Records and Ron thought it would be something that would interest me, which\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e indeed it did.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI had a cassette-only label I started in 1985 called OldAge\/NoAge which had just started to garner interest in the outside world thanks to a RARE cassette review in Byron Coley's Underground column for Spin Magazine (the 1989 Nick Cave issue) which was quite a surprise unto itself as it was a format Coley usually disdained.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI always knew Sam as a street slumming angel, never a bad word about anyone and always humble about his own prolific art (Sam also painted). Sadly there is so much more material that will likely never be heard, much of which is in an archive I call \"The Esh File\".\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSammy was born and raised circa 1940 in Ephrata, PA. a small Amish\/Mennonite town. His mother was a Smucker, a family famous in America for its jelly \u0026amp; jam empire. The school in Ephrata Sam attended as a teen specialised in linguistics because its founder was fluent in seven languages. Sam is a highly intelligent man who can read those seven, and also speak two of them; French \u0026amp; Swedish. Hence comes the roots of \"Esh-ese\", as I call the generally incomprehensible to most folks he slips in and out of, his lyrical dialogue. I am quite likely the only person that has heard his 'alternative language' enough to understand most of it! Sam often sang and played in drug induced states hence this unique lingual hodgepodge streams direct from his altered temporal reality.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA large part of it has to do with a tragic event in Sam's life 50+ years ago. He and his wife were in San Francisco during the late 60's and imbibed in most of the indulgences that time \u0026amp; place was known for. They 'took a trip' to a remote area of Baja Mexico, and during an extended acid trip Sam caught dysentery, a bacterial disease that results from contaminated food or water. Being he was in a rural undeveloped area at the time, and under the influence of said drugs Sam very nearly died from lack of proper medical attention, and was severely affected cognitively by this near death experience.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe result of this trauma was a cognitive state that has ever since required medications psychotropic medications that do not mesh well with alcohol which Sam has been on and off for decades. Regardless Sam liked to drink, and when he did he developed something of a 'Jeckyl-Hyde' personality as a result. Sam was never violent or antisocial, but often quite difficult to relate to for most people.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne can only surmise this is why Sam was relegated to a quasi-street life existence by the time we started working together. Through six months of amazing shows (I drummed for the band he recruited to back him up called Hard Black Thing) Sam was quite charismatic on stage. We recorded the Incendiary release \"Sam Esh \u0026amp; Hard Black Thing \/ Montezuma Baby Duck\" released on Siltbreeze Records from '92. Get a copy while they still have 'em (I think a few are still available)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWell I could go on, but am thinking I have said enough. Sammy now lives in seclusion far away from his Midwest roots in the deep South, but we still exchange correspondence art \u0026amp; music periodically.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinally on Sam's behalf I want to thank Mark Harwood, Tom Lax and Graham Lambkin for helping make this release happen.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"If You Know Where You Are Standing \/You Are Standing Still\". Sam's music flows eternal\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Sam Esh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Penultimate Press\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-05T10:33:48+09:00","created_at":"2022-10-25T15:27:02+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["cd","folk \/ left-field pop","new","noise","Penultimate Press"],"price":279000,"price_min":279000,"price_max":279000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43580777398522,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sam Esh \/\/ Jack of Diamonds\/Faro Goddamn 2xCD","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":279000,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ja1_133502c7-e264-4f6c-8d24-ade35f5019e8.jpg?v=1666679224"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ja1_133502c7-e264-4f6c-8d24-ade35f5019e8.jpg?v=1666679224","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":30839941136634,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ja1_133502c7-e264-4f6c-8d24-ade35f5019e8.jpg?v=1666679224"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ja1_133502c7-e264-4f6c-8d24-ade35f5019e8.jpg?v=1666679224","width":700}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカのアウトサイダー・ブルース作家Sam Eshが、1990年代前半にひっそりとリリースしたカセットの音源がこの度2枚組CDで再発。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e酒とドラッグ、ギターによるミニマルなLo-Fi実験ブルース・ロック21曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=675718704\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/pepr\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Penultimate Press releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoused in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eglossy 6 panel digisleeve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMike \"Rep\" Hummel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \/ Penultimate Press:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIf Alan Licht ever continues with his revered Minimal Top Ten lists then Sam Esh would surely be added to the pile.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePenultimate Press is proud to release one of the most audacious and unrelenting entries in the entire minimal cannon. A collection of recordings from a true American eccentric maverick pioneer, Sam Esh. Originally available as 2 x cassettes in tiny editions on Mike Rep Hummel’s Old Age \/ No Age label these are now bound together on a 2CD set which does not interrupt the unrelenting creativity of Mr Esh. What does it sound like? Picture Moondog taking a turn for the far worse morphing into a way further crazed Legendary Stardust Cowboy who eschews any song tradition for an unrelenting hypnotic acoustic hurricane complete with glossolalia vocals.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is raw primitive repetitive street blues, an acoustic freight train barreling through your brain. It is unlike anything you have encountered prior.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e_________________\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt was Ron House (Great Plains \/ TJSA \u0026amp; others) that first steered me to the music of Sam Esh circa 1990. Sammy would bring his self made cassettes to Usedkids Records and Ron thought it would be something that would interest me, which\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e indeed it did.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI had a cassette-only label I started in 1985 called OldAge\/NoAge which had just started to garner interest in the outside world thanks to a RARE cassette review in Byron Coley's Underground column for Spin Magazine (the 1989 Nick Cave issue) which was quite a surprise unto itself as it was a format Coley usually disdained.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI always knew Sam as a street slumming angel, never a bad word about anyone and always humble about his own prolific art (Sam also painted). Sadly there is so much more material that will likely never be heard, much of which is in an archive I call \"The Esh File\".\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSammy was born and raised circa 1940 in Ephrata, PA. a small Amish\/Mennonite town. His mother was a Smucker, a family famous in America for its jelly \u0026amp; jam empire. The school in Ephrata Sam attended as a teen specialised in linguistics because its founder was fluent in seven languages. Sam is a highly intelligent man who can read those seven, and also speak two of them; French \u0026amp; Swedish. Hence comes the roots of \"Esh-ese\", as I call the generally incomprehensible to most folks he slips in and out of, his lyrical dialogue. I am quite likely the only person that has heard his 'alternative language' enough to understand most of it! Sam often sang and played in drug induced states hence this unique lingual hodgepodge streams direct from his altered temporal reality.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA large part of it has to do with a tragic event in Sam's life 50+ years ago. He and his wife were in San Francisco during the late 60's and imbibed in most of the indulgences that time \u0026amp; place was known for. They 'took a trip' to a remote area of Baja Mexico, and during an extended acid trip Sam caught dysentery, a bacterial disease that results from contaminated food or water. Being he was in a rural undeveloped area at the time, and under the influence of said drugs Sam very nearly died from lack of proper medical attention, and was severely affected cognitively by this near death experience.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe result of this trauma was a cognitive state that has ever since required medications psychotropic medications that do not mesh well with alcohol which Sam has been on and off for decades. Regardless Sam liked to drink, and when he did he developed something of a 'Jeckyl-Hyde' personality as a result. Sam was never violent or antisocial, but often quite difficult to relate to for most people.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne can only surmise this is why Sam was relegated to a quasi-street life existence by the time we started working together. Through six months of amazing shows (I drummed for the band he recruited to back him up called Hard Black Thing) Sam was quite charismatic on stage. We recorded the Incendiary release \"Sam Esh \u0026amp; Hard Black Thing \/ Montezuma Baby Duck\" released on Siltbreeze Records from '92. Get a copy while they still have 'em (I think a few are still available)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWell I could go on, but am thinking I have said enough. Sammy now lives in seclusion far away from his Midwest roots in the deep South, but we still exchange correspondence art \u0026amp; music periodically.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinally on Sam's behalf I want to thank Mark Harwood, Tom Lax and Graham Lambkin for helping make this release happen.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"If You Know Where You Are Standing \/You Are Standing Still\". Sam's music flows eternal\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Sam Esh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Penultimate Press\u003c\/p\u003e"}