ARTIST

High atop this haunted mountain in old Los Angeles
comes a sound both frightening and inviting. Moving
further away from the holiday themed titles, this
seems to dedicate itself to a place AND a time.
Recorded outside, but definitely manipulated inside,
this acoustic/electric affair is a truly cybernetic
synthesis of our modern world. Acoustic guitars and
banjos collide and juxtapose nicely with looped
keyboards and feedbacking Jew’s Harps and
harmonicas.

Sometimes just referred to as Giants Day by
enthusiasts, this release of jumbled, dreamy
confusion is a slumbering giant in its own right. Many
of the “songs” seem more like implications of songs
that are long gone or have yet to arrive, faint traces of
something familiar and warm. But this feeling comes
with a grim chill, like realizing you are standing in a
giant’s footprint. “Descending”, one of the most
ominous of the tracks, takes a simple keyboard line
and collapses it down into a black hole of sound, while
“Calming Air Raid Interlude” imagines a blissful and
welcome reaction to the end of the world as we know it.

(VxPxC) comes in all shapes and sizes. John Parker
Day was a Micro Cassette with five short tracks. Very
little is known about Licence Plate Liberation Day
besides the mischievous feeling of the title and the
thick drones within... This is the only 3inch offered in
the Artist Cover Series and is specially priced.

The second long-form tape in a later series with
Judgement Day and Nanakusa-no-sekku. This
one celebrating Noche de Rabanos, the Night of
the Radishes festival. Four long tracks to take you
on a journey through the Zocalo in Oaxaca to
observe the spectacularly carved radishes of this
celebration.

One of the first new sessions after (VxPxC)
returned to threesome status, this session, along
with Hobbit Equinox rank as some of the group's
best work (or so they say)

The first in a series of long-form thematic tracks.
This one is all about the court room. From the initial
trial through the turbulent trial to the final acceptance
of the sentencing, these three tracks are sure to
please the voyeur in all of us.

Beginning with a loping Western tune might not be the
way to kick off this “tribute” to the mind and body of a
legendary Asian philosopher, but heck, this is
Hollywood. Following it quickly with some obviously
tinkered-with organ and guitar, Confucius H&F Day
follows the more refined sound of second-era (VxPxC)
but with a little more craziness added in for good
measure. With a driving tune worthy of Mogwai or
GYBE lodged firmly in the middle of the mix (Towards a
Brighter Future, Crawling), it is the gooey mess that
surrounds it that truly defines and makes this album
remarkable.

EACH OF THESE CD-r RELEASES IS THE COMPLETE VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL SESSIONS,
RECORDED IN 2005 and 2006. EACH HAS BEEN REDONE WITH THE HOLIDAY - TITLE THEME
IN MIND AND SPIRIT. THESE WILL BE PACKAGED WITH FULL COLOR FOLDED COVER, B+W
INSERT, BLANK FACED CD-r, AND ALL HELD WITHIN A SIMPLE VINYL SLEEVE.

$5 bucks, plus shipping (1 buck for US, 3 bucks WORLD) except 3inchs $3 plus shipping

THESE WILL STAY IN PRINT FOR AS LONG AS WE HAVE BREATH AND WE'LL RELEASE 5 - 10
EVERY COUPLE OF MONTHS.