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NEW RELEASES APRIL 2008 STREET DATES 4-8-08 & 4-22-08 A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

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BARRY ADAMSON

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Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) Pink Martini Secret Shine Don Cherry Ornette Coleman New York Eye & Ear Control John Phillips Fieldwork The Three Day Band (Feat. John Fahey) Kluster Alan Licht & Aki Onda Birchville Cat Motel

MISS MURGATROID & PETRA HADEN HEARTS & DAGGERS Selling Points

Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden Hearts & Daggers Genre: Alt Rock Label: File Under: Music CD: FUM 3 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Miss Murgatroid: accordion, vocals Petra Haden: violin, vocals

Track Listing • We Formulate • Hummingbird • Fade Away • Baroque Lullaby • See Me See Me • Sleeper • Something’s Wrong • Ballad for Anne Bonney • Another Day

Key Markets Hometown: Portland & Los Angeles Also: San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Boston, Austin

STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

• First full album of original compositions from both artists since the release of Bella Neurox in 1999. • Petra Haden is a former member of The Decemberists, That Dog, and The Rentals who has toured and/or collaborated with the Foo Fighters, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Mike Watt, Bill Frisell, Victoria Williams, and many others. • Haden’s cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” was released on an Engine Room comp in August 2007. Major internet marketing push in support of the release, with Haden’s track as a key selling point. • Haden’s tribute to The Who’s Sells Out has achieved great critical acclaim, scanning nearly 10,000 copies. She has performed multiple concerts of Sells Out with an all-star choir • Miss Murgatroid has an extensive discography that includes five full albums and many collaborations (John Fahey, Negativland, Red House Painters), most recently guesting on accordion and vocals with PDX’s Boy Eats Drum Machine. • Miss Murgatroid was recently interviewed by PureMusic.com. • Three-panel digipak features stunning artwork by Christine Shields. • Hiring independent publicist and radio servicing company. • Majority of advertising will be done online, including MP3 giveaways.

Overview Reuniting after more than a four-year hiatus, Miss Murgatroid and Petra Haden convene anew for another bout of ebullient sonic symbiosis. Their simple but unique combination of accordion, violin, and voice delves into waters deep and strange, with a mix of vocals and instrumentals that transport the listener to eerie dark alleys, lush Italian seasides, and the false bottoms of haunted toychests. Their last effort, Bella Neurox, met with critical acclaim and delighted fan frenzy. In 2003 a mysterious anonymous benefactor approached Miss Murgatroid about reuniting with Petra Haden for a follow-up to Bella Neurox. Apparently he had written his last two books while listening to their collaboration, as well as to Haden’s fantastic solo disc Imaginaryland and Miss M’s spooky, surreal Through Alien Empires. He offered to help the duo make their next record with the honest motivation of simply wanting another one. The girls agreed, and their newest effort offers nine new tracks of absolute symphonic loveliness. Fueled by mutual heartache, spectral visions, grandiose baroque fantasies, and their undying fondness for one another’s brains, Miss M and Petra Haden have truly outdone themselves. Layering vocals, violin, viola, and accordion in ways that will utterly enchant and intrigue the listener, this is a true labor of love that defies as many genres as it is influenced by.

“A startling duo. Rose’s accordion sounds church-organ, big in some parts and then like the fiercest ’60sera electric keyboard in others, while Haden, formerly of That Dog (and the daughter of jazz bass virtuoso Charlie), wields a beautiful tone, terse but rich … a wonderful recording.” — Andrew Bartlett, Amazon.com

COLIN MELOY

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COLIN MELOY SINGS LIVE!

“Not everybody’s vinyl-only bonus track gets its own headline story over here at Pitchfork news, but yet again, not everybody we cover wrote ‘The Crane Wife.’ Hearts went pitter-pat last week when we reported that Decemberists frontman/coffee shop heartthrob/toy monkey enthusiast Colin Meloy’s forthcoming live solo acoustic disc, Colin Meloy Sings Live!, would arrive in April from Kill Rock Stars. But there’s more! It turns out that the vinyl incarnation of Colin’s album won’t be dropping via Kill Rock Stars at all, but rather from their buds at Jealous Butcher, which was responsible for the vinyl release of all of the previous KRS Decemberists LPs. It will come on two discs of 180-gram audiophile-quality virgin vinyl, and sport as a bonus track a cover of the oft-covered ‘Blues Run the Game’ by ’60s folkie Jackson C. Frank.” — Pitchfork “In the journey to indie superstardom, embarking on an acoustic solo tour is a rite of passage equivalent to earning your Eagle Scout merit badge. The Decemberists have solidified their path to greatness, and … frontman Colin Meloy has launched his own Eagle Scout campaign. Each [song] is delivered with the utmost honesty and precision, and between songs, Meloy exhibits an accessible charm that belies his growing level of fame. This is the sign of a true showman, and one who is still genuine and personable to boot.” — Harmonium Music

Selling Points • Colin Meloy is the lead singer/songwriter of The Decemberists. • Double LP pressed on 180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl. • CD to be released by Kill Rock Stars. • Contains exclusive bonus track “Blues Run the Game” and expanded art. • Extensive Spring 2008 tour in support of this release. • Ad placement in major media outlets.

Overview A 15-song set documenting The Decemberists leader’s 2006 solo trek across the US. The set runs the length and breadth of Colin Meloy’s songwriting career, covering his days as part of Missoula’s Tarkio up through the current Decemberists catalog. Meloy’s charmingly awkward stage banter, coupled with the passion and introspection given to the songs in this solo live context, make this record a wonderful view into the songwriter’s creative world.

“Colin Meloy’s voice has some lovely nuances and without the lush orchestration of a full band, you can really geek out on his lyrics, learn a few new words, and be astounded by a couple rhyme-schemes.” — Sound on the Sound

Colin Meloy Colin Meloy Sings Live! Genre: Alt Rock Label: Jealous Butcher 2XLP: JLO 65 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Double LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Colin Meloy: acoustic guitars, voices

Track Listing • The Devil’s Elbow • We Both Go Down Together • The Gymnast High Above the Ground • Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect • Dracula’s Daughter • Wonder • Barbara Allen • Engine Driver • The Bus Mall • California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade • The Bachelor and The Bride • Sea Shanty • Red Right Ankle • Blues Run the Game • The Bandit Queen

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Missoula, Omaha, Boise, Denver, Austin, Tucson, Chicago, Boston, Athens, Nashville

STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

Press Quotes “Picture an amalgamation of Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra Arkestra, the Beach Boys circa Pet Sounds, Radiohead, and the Flaming Lips, and you’d still only be touching the tip of the iceberg. Strap yourself in and get prepared for a wild and wooly sonic ride.” — All Music Guide “The guitar and violin that echo Robert Fripp and David Cross sparring in mid-’70s King Crimson also sounds like you’re fending off 10 pirates at a crowded bar and slicing out their tongues without knocking over a single beer.” — Pitchfork “Philly’s Make a Rising can genre-splice with the best of ‘em … [traversing] melancholy Beach Boys harmonies, chilly musique concr`ete, and clattery prog rock. But that’s not what makes the band special: for all their schizo tendencies, MAR’s songs maintain beautiful, compelling narrative threads that transcend any particular musical style.” — Time Out New York

Make a Rising Infinite Ellipse and Head With Open Fontanel Genre: Avant Rock Label: High Two CD: HGH 16 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Justin Moynihan: piano, keyboards, vocals, saxaflute, accordion John Heron: percussion Brandon Beaver: guitar, vocals John Pettit: bass, trumpet Jesse Moynihan: guitar, violin, vocals Andrew Ciccone: clarinet, bass clarinet Margie Wienk: cello Evan Lipson: double bass Dan Scofield: saxophone Mike Dur: trombone Ashley Deekus: marimba Salihah Moore: flute Lisa Stuempfig, Kelly Kietzman: vocals Mary Halvorson, Eliza Hardy: vocals Sharif Abdulmalik, Brendan Cooney: vocals Ben Leavitt: vocals

Track Listing • Sneffels Yokul • All One or None • Peaceful Paths • Woodsong Part One • Bradford’s Big Boatride [Beyond (The Dawn)] • Tranmutation • Your Karmic Obstable • Look, I’m Almost Dead • How’s ‘Bout a Love Supreme • Woodsong Part Two

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia Also: New York, Austin, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Chapel Hill

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“The group does work more in movements than songs, and it takes a stab at just about every genre. Classical, cabaret, hardcore, prog, folk—it’s all there.” — Washington Post

Selling Points • Debut album, Rip Through the Hawk Black Night, received rave reviews. • MAR has shared the stage with Dr. Dog, Dirty Projectors, Man Man, Lightning Bolt, and more. • Performance at SXSW 2008. • Full service to press and web outlets by High Two and Howlin’ Wuelf. • Full service to licensing agents by High Two. • Service to college and web radio by High Two. • Ads with Arthur, Signal To Noise, Copper Press, Magnet, and more.

Overview Philadelphia’s Make a Rising is back, bigger and better than ever. Expanded to a sextet for its second album, Make a Rising has realized its potential. After laudatory press for 2005 debut Rip Through the Hawk Black Night, MAR hunkered down and began working on an intricate, elaborate follow-up. Holographic in nature and transpersonal in effect, Make a Rising is a band that composes unlike any other. While most experimental bands reside either completely inside or totally outside traditional pop song forms, Make a Rising writes its own rules. The result is an excitingly original and marvelous amalgam of genres and influences, layered with spontaneity and energy. We wouldn’t say it if we didn’t mean it: absolute masterpiece. Infinite Ellipse and Head With Open Fontanel features contributions by members of Normal Love, Fern Knight, and Shot x Shot. The last three years have seen Make a Rising sharing the stage with artists such as Dr. Dog, Dirty Projectors, Lightning Bolt, Man Man, Uz Jsme Doma, Pattern is Movement, Gang Dance, and Neil Hamburger, as well as making two SXSW appearances and headlining the opening night of the Popped! Philadelphia festival.

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Make a Rising

Rip Through the Hawk Black Night CD: HGH 5 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “A proper full-length by Public Record is on the horizon, and expectations are already sky high.” — Philadelphia Weekly “[A] crazy hybrid of Factory Records clackity British funk, old soul dance 45s, and Balkan boogie à la early Camper Van Beethoven.” — Philebrity “An enjoyable set of instrumentals as primordial as they are melodic, as trance-y as they are dance-y. Their sound is fun and somber, with the cool mellow of the saxophone mixing with the itchy funk of the guitar and the muscular bass groove. It is simply impossible to categorize the sound, but it’s easy to enjoy. ESG? Blurt? Can? Krakatoa? Like a good stew, there’s a touch of everything in Public Record’s sound.” — LVHRD.org

Selling Points • Highly anticipated debut. • East Coast tour in Spring 2008. • Remix album with well-known contributors coming in Fall 2008. • Named a Top Band To Watch in 2007 by Philebrity. • Full service to music press and web outlets by High Two. • Full service to licensing agents by High Two. • Service to college and web radio by High Two. • Ads with Arthur, Signal To Noise, Copper Press, Magnet, and more.

Overview Philadelphia septet Public Record blends together a vast array of musical genres ranging from early-disco to shoegaze, Afro-beat to Scottish Postcard pop, and northern soul to Factory Records funk. The product of this co-mingling of musical ideas and sensibilities is a refreshingly creative take on dance music that manages to surprise and bewilder listeners with each changing verse and track. The 13 tracks of Public Record’s self-titled debut bring the band’s unique composite to fruition with great intricacy and cohesion.

Public Record Public Record Genre: Alt Rock Label: High Two CD: HGH 17 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Gareth Duffield: guitar, keyboards Brent Bohan: bass Greg Pavlovcak: guitar Hilary Baker: alto sax Ted Johnson: drums, percussion Matt Lyons: drums, percussion Charles Duquesne: drums, percussion

Track Listing • Intro • Look How Dead the Reeds Get • Fake Rain • French Suburb • A Beaten Path • Throw It Towards Rome • Mermaid’s Purse • Fall of the Fruit • Ca Purange • Heavy Ornament • You are a Mara • At the Blinds • Comfortability

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia Also: Washington DC, New York, Baltimore, Providence, Boston, Chicago

STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

Press Quotes “This is rich, hugely approachable music, utterly cosmopolitan yet utterly unpretentious. And it seems to speak to just about everybody … from grade-schoolers to grandmothers to the young and hip and beautiful.” —Washington Post “[Pink Martini] delivers a knowing sophistication backed by skillful arrangements … Ms. Forbes is an unpretentious, pitch-perfect chanteuse who can be breathy and girlish or sultry … she tempers heartbreak with savoir-faire.” — New York Times “No matter how Pink Martini gets described, there’s always an element being overlooked, a reliance on phrases such as lounge, cosmopolitan rumba, or neo-classical that only tells part of this rich story. Impressive at every musician’s station, this ensemble produces music that’s charming and elegant.” — Variety

Pink Martini Sympathique Genre: Pop Label: Heinz Records LP: HNZ 1 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 40 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists China Forbes, Pepe Raphael: vocals Gavin Bondy: trumpet Robert Taylor: trombone Aaron Meyer: violin David Eby: cello Dan Faehnle: guitar John Wager: bass Maureen Love: harp Doug Smith: vibes, percussion Richard Rothfus: bongos, drums, percussion Brian Davis: congas, timbales, percussion Derek Rieth: percussion Thomas M. Lauderdale: piano

Selling Points • Front Cover Sticker: High quality 180-gram vinyl. Free MP3 album download code inside. • Huge fan base established in key markets. • Analog recording re-mastered specifically for LP by Bernie Grundman. • Sympathique US CD sales +330,000. • Total band CD sales +1.8 million worldwide.

Overview Sympathique, Pink Martini’s wildly popular debut album, was released in 1997. It has gone on to sell 800,000 copies worldwide and has taken the band around the world on tours to the Cannes Film Festival as well as across Europe, Lebanon, Turkey, Japan, and Taiwan, among other far-flung destinations. Nominated for Song of the Year and Best New Artist in France’s Victoires de la Musique awards, the album is Platinum in France and Gold in Canada, Switzerland, Greece, and Turkey.

Track Listing • Amado Mio • No Hay Problema • Sympathique • Que Sera Sera • La Soledad • Donde Estas, Yolanda? • Andalucia • Never on Sunday • Brazil • Lullaby

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC

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Pink Martini

CD: HNZ 3 Price Code: S

LP: HNZ 3 Price Code: Q

Hey Eugene!

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Pink Martini

CD: HNZ 2 Price Code: S

CD: HNZ 1 Price Code: R

Hang On Little Tomato

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Hey Eugene!

Sympathique

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Press Quotes “Armed with the ethereal mystery of the Cocteau Twins and the crunchy guitars of Lush, Secret Shine’s songs come in striking musical layers … a stirring and melodic blend of shoegazing bliss.” — Amplifier “Songs crescendo, shake, and shudder like a dense, hot mist falling on your shoulders, filling your head with visions of vistas and weightless elation. It’s flat-out majestic on the orchestral strings … like a trip by rail through snowy mountain ranges.” — Big Takeover “Immense swirling soundscapes that reek of the nostalgia of Slowdive but bristle with the undoubted influence of contemporaries Sigur Rós and Mogwai provide the orchestral backdrop to the mesmerizing ethereal boy-girl vocal harmonies. Irrepressibly gorgeous.” — Tasty Fanzine

Selling Points • Incredibly long-awaited sophomore album. It has been 14 years since their debut! • Secret Shine has a dedicated fan base, and demand for this new album is high. • The band is well-known in shoegaze circles, and for their output on cult indie label Sarah Records. • This year, seminal shoegazers My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain will tour again, indicating a possible shoegaze revival. • Press service by Twentyseven Media. • Core radio service by AAM Sunday Service. • National media campaign by NAIL Media. • Email blasts to tens of thousands of recipients via mailing lists including Clairecords, Tonevendor, Secret Shine, and target-specific fan sites for shoegaze and indie music.

Overview All of the Stars is Secret Shine’s second studio album, and their first in fourteen years. The band took an unscheduled nine-year break before returning in 2004 with the release of their back catalog on Clairecords, followed by two emphatically received EPs of new material in 2006 and live shows in Europe and America. Although it could sit comfortably alongside shoegaze classics like Slowdive’s Souvlaki, My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, and The Pale Saints’ The Comforts of Madness, All of the Stars is a unique treasure and possibly the new wave of “stargaze.”

Secret Shine All of the Stars Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords CD: CLE 74 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Kathryn Smith: vocals Scott Purnell: guitar Jamie Gingell: bass, vocals Dean Purnell: vocals, guitar Richy Lee: drums

Track Listing • Voice of the Sea • Know • Stars in the Sky • Café Crash • Another Day • Hate You When You Smile • All That’s Left • Oblivion • Last Leaves • The Sound of Light

Key Markets New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Washington DC

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Secret Shine After Years

CD: CLE 30 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

Press Quotes “Seventh-heaven dream pop.” — Chelsea Guitar

Selling Points • Ex-members of Evening Lights, Autocollants, Monterey, Laura Watling, and Shelflife Records-related bands. • US tour in March 2008 with veteran UK shoegazers Secret Shine. • Probable SXSW 2008 appearance. • Core radio service by AAM Sunday Service. • National media campaign by NAIL Media.

Tears Run Rings Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords CD: CLE 73 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview When the members of Tears Run Rings didn’t play well with a big-shot producer, they set off to create an album on their own. There was only one dilemma: they were now living in three different cities. This Portland-Seattle-Los Angeles collaboration was accomplished in the style of the Postal Service: occasional time together produced the framework for songs that took shape as they swapped tracks using CD-Rs and the internet. Three years and one self-released EP later, TRR presents its debut full-length. These pop veterans have traded their twee roots for dense wall-of-sound arrangements and aggressive, distorted guitars brimming with layers of boy-girl vocals inspired by the harmonies of ’60s groups such as The Lennon Sisters and The Caravelles.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Austin

Track Listing Happiness (part one) • How Will the Others Survive? • Beautiful Stranger • Fall Into Light • The Weight of Love • World Upside Down • Waiting for the End • Mind the Wires • Run Run Run • Send Me Back • Happiness (part two)

Press Quotes “While many artists are using a Moog, Roland, or Juno for bouncy pop, Park Avenue Music approaches the unique instruments as if they were gentle as flowers. It could be Jeannette Faith’s concert pianist training or simply a love for exquisite sounds. Either way, [it] is an alluring ensemble of downtempo and quiet, sophisticated pop.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • The final/crossover album by this incarnation of Park Avenue Music, now known as Hearts+Horses. • Ballboy vocalist Gordon McIntyre guests on one track. • Core radio service by AAM Sunday Service. • National media campaign by NAIL Media.

OVERVIEW Sacramento couple Wes Steed and Jeannette “Juju” Faith got a shiny new piano, so up went the mics and out came the music. Flowing pieces of raw improvisation were recorded, and then dressed in layers of modular synth distortion. While one mic picked up off-the-cuff vocals for several tracks, another picked up their beloved cat’s collar bell ringing in the background for what seems the sweetest topping to the already honeyed instrumental “Norway Kitty,” the opening track on what has become Park Avenue Music’s loveliest accomplishment yet. By Hearts+Horses may seem an odd title, but given that the band is indeed changing their name to Hearts+Horses, this last effort as Park Avenue Music seemed only fit to be thusly titled.

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords CD: CLE 75 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Cardboard Sleeve; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Track Listing

Park Avenue Music

Norway Kitty • Strawberry Magnet • Roxie’s Summer • Palaces+Prisons • (Soundtrack) • Tufts • Piet • Saltwater • Before • Japon Luvr

CD: CLE 53 Price Code: J

Key Markets Hometown: Sacramento. Also: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin

Park Avenue Music By Hearts+Horses

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For Your Home or Office

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Press Quotes “An ambitious work: a tidy chunk of minimalist rock with different licks, instruments, and dynamics unfolding every few minutes.” — Chicago Reader

Selling Points • A 20-piece ensemble featuring some of Chicago’s most well-known and developed jazz and free music players: Aram Shelton, Frank Rosaly, Keefe Jackson, Dave Rempis, Jason Ajemian, and more. • Exclusive engagements in Chicago and San Francisco throughout 2008. • Service to digital and physical press outlets by Contraphonic. • AAM will handle radio service to college and specialized stations across the nation. • Ads with Signal To Noise and The Wire.

Overview Never Enough Hope is the brainchild of Chicago-based composer/improviser Tobin Summerfield, whose most notorious work has been with Crush Kill Destroy and the Detroit-based Larval (Cuneiform Records). Utilizing rock and free music idioms in the orchestration—which takes shape in the form of a 20-piece ensemble—it is the precision voicing of every individual instrument that gives Never Enough Hope its weight. Summerfield composes with all members of the ensemble in mind, so each of their unique voices is represented. Never Enough Hope is like a family reunion, and an all-star team.

Never Enough Hope The Gift Economy Genre: Avant Rock/Experimental Label: Contraphonic CD: CTP 67 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 50 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing The Banner • Des Moines • Two Ghosts at the Table • Grant Park • The Light Tilts Out • A Gift

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia

Selling Points • The band has been playing the Southeast US consistently since 2001 and has built a large following. This is the first release made available to the public for purchase. • Drummer John Byce worked with Branches (Contraphonic) and Fruit Bats (Sub Pop). • Recorded and produced by John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake). • Service to digital and physical press outlets by Contraphonic. • AAM will handle digital radio service to college and specialized stations across the US. • Ads with Signal To Noise and The Wire.

Overview

Rocket Number Nine Zoom Zoom Up Rocket Number Nine Zoom Zoom Up Genre: Jazz Label: Contraphonic LP: CTP 65 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Monty Craig, Andy Nagel, and John Byce (Fruit Bats, Branches) are Rocket Number Nine Zoom Zoom Up: a trio of modern-jazz-inflected musicians looking to contribute something significant and tuneful to the massive volumes of recorded works by the masters of the field. The band, while certainly not the first group to approach jazz in a unique way, hopes to strip it of its weighty harmonic baggage and rhythmic clichés in the way the Ramones did for rock music. On the group’s self-titled debut, the members spent a great deal of time developing material that main songwriter Monty Craig brought into rehearsals. With the help of Chicago producer John McEntire (Tortoise, Stereolab, The Sea and Cake) fleshing out the production, the album stands as a progressive, funktinged, experimental-leaning journey set atop mountains of melody and billowing rhythms. It’s music for the discerning jazzbo and the pizzeria alike. It’s a nod towards tradition and innovation, and is ultimately successful because the group has made it its very own.

Track Listing Mellow • See Me • Sue • With • Before • 567 • BBQ • Alan • Monders • Maglev

Key Markets Hometown: Greenville, SC. Also: Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Athens, Columbia, Asheville, Austin, Chapel Hill, Philadelphia, Boston STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

Selling Points • Digitally remastered; manufactured in the US by the original label. • New digipak format. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Overview

Don Cherry Live at Café Montmartre 1966 Vol. 2 Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4043 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Volume two of the Don Cherry at Montmartre collection continues with more superb music, this time from March 1966. This unique performance actually represents the third Cherry appearance at Copenhagen’s Café Montmartre. He had just recorded his first album for Blue Note Records, Complete Communion, in December 1965. Another added attraction is the mini-suite in tribute to Albert Ayler, the medley of Ghosts and Holy Spirit. Gato Barbieri is on fire throughout all three performances, Karl Berger constantly has a fast-paced conversation going on his vibes, and Bo Steif keeps a pulsating rhythm on bass upon which Berger and drummer Aldo Romano float.

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Press Quotes “For this Town Hall concert, Ornette Coleman debuts with his new trio (a unit that would return in 1965) featuring the remarkable bassist David Izenson and drummer Charles Moffett. Together they perform ‘Doughnut,’ ‘Sadness,’ and an extensive 23-and-a-half minute version of ‘The Ark.’” — All Music Guide

Overview On Christmas evening 1962, Ornette Coleman produced and recorded his own concert at Town Hall in New York with David Izenzon (bass), Charles Moffett (drums), and a string ensemble. An important release documenting a point of change in Coleman’s work, the song “Dedication to Poets and Writers” for string quartet is now widely recognized as his first harmolodic chamber music based on the ideas he would later call Harmolodics. This classical string quartet piece fits together curiously well with the three trio pieces.

Ornette Coleman Town Hall, 1962 Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1006 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “This is a very interesting set, music that was freely improvised and used as the soundtrack for the 34-minute short film New York Eye & Ear Control. Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler leads the allstar sextet (which also includes trumpeter Don Cherry, altoist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray) on two lengthy jams. The music is fiery but with enough colorful moments to hold one’s interest throughout.” — All Music Guide

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Albert Ayler, et al. New York Eye & Ear Control Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1016 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

• Digitally remastered; manufactured in the US by the original label. • New digipak format. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Overview Director Michael Snow is a Canadian national treasure and a true Renaissance man. He assembled a stellar group to improvise a soundtrack for his art film Walking Woman, featuring a silhouette that is rumored to have been inspired by Carla Bley.

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STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

Selling Points • Digitally remastered; manufactured in the US by the original label. • Contains previously unreleased bonus material. • New digipak format. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Overview Frank Lowe produced this session for ESP. The player labeled “The Wizard” on this recording was probably Leroy Jenkins, who was under contract to another label at the time. This version of Black Beings contains 15 minutes of additional material thought to have been lost. Even more material has recently been located, and will be released later in 2008.

Frank Lowe Black Beings Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 3013 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “For his debut as a leader, drummer James Zitro leads a couple of lengthy blowouts (‘Freeken’ and ‘Happy Pretty’), plus the dense ‘Fourth.’ With altoist Allan Praskin, tenor saxophonist Bert Wilson, trumpeter Warren Gale, pianist Michael Cohen, and bassist Bruce Gale keeping the ensemble quite crowded, these mostly free-form performances will be seen as either fascinating or monotonous, depending on one’s viewpoint.” — All Music Guide

James Zitro Zitro Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1052 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview James Zitro was the percussionist on Sonny Simmons’ second album on ESP. When he was invited to produce his own album for ESP, he chose Seattle native Bert Wilson and Michael Cohen, who doubled as a lawyer in San Francisco.

Press Quotes “Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs, and Geoff Mann create genuinely unpredictable soundscapes throughout this highly diverse disc, but always with attention to organic development and flow … Yuganaut proves that their chosen style of musical expression can be the sound of something genuinely startling.” — All Music Guide

Overview Drawing from the traditions of Sun Ra and the Art Ensemble of Chicago as well as Miles Davis in his ’60s and ’70s electric period, multi-instrumentalists Steve Rush, Tom Abbs, and Geoff Mann expand the trio format to new heights. From frenzied free-for-alls to delicate compositions, Yuganaut takes music into outer space and back.

Yuganaut This Musicship Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4044 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

Selling Points • Highly anticipated sophomore album. • Harsh terror tekk band with a strong fan base. • Produced by German cult band Captive of Society. • Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media by COP International. • MySpace campaign with 30,000 contacts. • Ads with Vampire Freaks.

Overview

Nurzery [Rhymes] Thorns Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: COP International CD: COP 109 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Nurzery [Rhymes] laid the foundation for a promising career with their club hit “Blood and Wine” and their stellar first album Injections, but they did not rest on their laurels. Instead, they went on to produce an amazing second album, Thorns, produced by Sebastian Schleinitz (Captive of Society). The result of this collaboration is a breathtaking tour de force: strobe lights, punching bass lines, captivating synth riffs, and a voice that lures you straight into the abyss of hell! Nurzery [Rhymes] blends harsh club music with emotional honesty. The combination is irresistible, giving the album a wonderful sense of diversity and intensity.

Track Listing Thorn Contamination • Cuore Sanguinato • Stigmatized • My Babylon • Thorn Disease • Confession • Bloodline • Du! • Coroner • Thorn Detoxication • Son Of God • Circle Of Pain • Defy • Thorn Healing?

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STREET DATE APRIL 8, 2008

Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Miami

nail welcomes harte recordings to its roster! Harte Recordings was created by music fanatics (and music industry veterans) with a wish to create extrasensory sonic experiences by releasing high-end, multi-dimensional reissues. From collectible vinyl releases to extravagant box sets, Harte seeks to create its own innovative pathway using Bear Family and Revenant Records as its inspirations.

Press Quotes “A genuine lost treasure” — Rolling Stone [HHHH]

Selling Points • Front Cover Sticker: Heavy vinyl reissue of ex-Mamas & Papas mastermind John Phillips. Debut solo album produced by the legendary Lou Adler from a new analog to digital transfer from the original mix tape. • Features many of the session musicians who contributed to the success of The Mamas & The Papas, Elvis Presley, and Ricky Nelson. • Limited radio mailing to most influential CMJ/PR stations. • Press release to blogs and tastemakers around LP release. • Press mailing to reissue- and vinyl-oriented publications.

Overview In 1969, when John Phillips was moving past The Mamas & The Papas, he assembled a collection of songs at his home studio that would eventually become his first solo album, the only one to be released during his lifetime. It is an album reflective of the changing era, and the ever-changing composer and arranger.

Track Listing April Anne • Topanga Canyon • Malibu People • Someone’s Sleeping • Drum • Captain • Let It Bleed, Genevieve • Down the Beach • Mississippi • Holland Tunnel

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Austin 12

STREET DATES APRIL 8 & 22, 2008

John Phillips Wolfking of LA Genre: Country/Rock Label: Harte Recordings LP: HRT 100 Price Code: T (SRP $18.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 50 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE APRIL 22, 2008

BARRY ADAMSON

BACK TO THE CAT

Press Quotes

“A chaotic jazz-funk shuffle … brass-backed, Sixties-style soul … breezy country-and-western … swampy Southern States blues—[Adamson’s] new songs shone brightest.” — The Times “All over the place, swinging through dark pop, atmospheric instrumentals, and demented circus music … unique with great personality.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points • Adamson’s eighth studio album, and second on his own Central Control International label. • Premiered live in London in November 2007 during Adamson’s stint as Artist-In-Residence at the London Jazz Festival. • Promoted and marketed in the US by Girlie Action and Central Control International. • Debut solo US tour in Summer 2008, preceded by the digital single “Spend a Little Time.”

Barry Adamson Back to the Cat

Overview Back to the Cat is the work of one of the most original, inventive, distinctive voices in British contemporary music at the height of his considerable powers. With a full consignment of brass and strings and a wealth of musicology behind him, Barry Adamson is about to take you on an epic adventure in sound. Adamson’s eighth album is where it all comes together: a life’s passions poured into ten tracks that at once sound strangely familiar and dazzlingly new. A musical odyssey through noir jazz, sun-drenched pop ballads, fractious urban funk, devilish gospel, heavenly blues, and subversive soul … not to mention a Hammond organ salute to the late, great Jimmy Smith. As befits the man who invented the idea of the imaginary soundtrack album with his 1988 solo debut Moss Side Story, every song is rendered in vivid widescreen, with a narrative as compulsive as an Alfred Hitchcock chiller. With a wicked sense of humor and a beady eye for detail, Adamson charts the complexity and duplicity of human nature, often deliberately contrasting stories with sounds. From a late-sixties Bacharach swinger and a mournful steel guitar breathing a country sigh to a heady gospel lament from an incarcerated Prince of Darkness, Back to the Cat takes you places you never expected.

“Delivered with a bravura that makes it work. A treat.” — The Independent ALSO AVAILABLE

Barry Adamson

CD: CCI 1 Price Code: M

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Stranger on the Sofa

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Genre: Alt Rock Label: Central Control Intl. CD: CCI 7 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: CCI 7 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 50 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Barry Adamson: vocals, bass, guitar, drums, keys

Track Listing • The Beaten Side of Town • Straight ‘Til Sunrise • Spend a Little Time • Shadow of Death Hotel • I Could Love You • Walk On Fire • Flight • Civilization • People • Psycho_Sexual

Key Markets New York, San Francisco, Boston, Portland, Chicago, Miami, Houston

The Long Way Back Again

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STREET DATE APRIL 22, 2008

FIELDWORK DOOR

Press Quotes “Vijay Iyer’s arrangements range over a broad swath of improvisational and textural ground, flirting with hip-hop, ambient drone, and jazz noir.” — Pitchfork “Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer amplifies that tangle of anger, pain, and motion with a spinning-wheel score.” — Rolling Stone “A graceful yet sturdy sort of chamber jazz, consistently surprising and unique.” — The Wire

Selling Points • Engineered by noted hip-hop and rock producer Scotty Hard (Medeski Martin & Wood, Björk, Wu-Tang Clan). • Pi Recordings previously released Fieldwork’s acclaimed 2002 debut Your Life Flashes and the widely praised follow-up Simulated Progress. • Door is being released simultaneously with the new Vijay Iyer Quartet CD on Sunnyside Records. There will be a coordinated publicity push for the two CDs. Previous Vijay Iyer release has shipped +5,000 units. • Tyshawn Sorey’s debut CD That/Not has received glowing praise and has been widely cited on critics’ year-end lists. Door will be his second release as a leader. • Steve Lehman’s latest Pi release, On Meaning, appeared on many yearend lists and received a coveted Critic’s Pick in the New York Times. • Jazz Clinic Media will do a full press mailing. • Pi Recordings will do a full radio mailing and will launch a targeted online campaign through various relevant sites. • Ads with Down Beat, JazzTimes, All About Jazz, and more.

Fieldwork Door Genre: Jazz Label: Pi Recordings CD: PIE 26 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Vijay Iyer: piano Steve Lehman: alto sax Tyshawn Sorey: drums

Overview Praised on NPR’s Fresh Air as “a jazz power trio for the new century,” Fieldwork makes its most powerful and fiercely imagined statement to date with Door, the group’s third album for Pi Recordings. An important marker in this New York collective’s ongoing evolution, Door documents three years of intense collaboration and is the first Fieldwork recording to feature the jaw-dropping contributions of Tyshawn Sorey, drummer, composer, and co-leader of Fieldwork since 2005. Rounded out by saxophonist/composer Steve Lehman and pianist/composer Vijay Iyer, Fieldwork reflects and refracts the American jazz tradition, modern composition, African and South Asian music, underground hip-hop and electronica, and the influential music of Chicago’s AACM.

Track Listing • Of • After Meaning • Less • Balanced • Bend • Cycle I • Pivot Point • Ghost Time • Cycle II • Rai • Pivot Point Redux

Key Markets Hometown: New York Also: Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland ALSO AVAILABLE

Fieldwork

Vijay Iyer

Steve Lehman

CD: PIE 16 Price Code: Q

CD: PIE 5 Price Code: Q

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Simulated Progress

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“Fieldwork’s rhythmic logic can be immensely involved, but the results are disarmingly concise … dark yet uplifting, intellectually demanding yet effortlessly funky.” — JazzTimes

STREET DATE APRIL 22, 2008

Your Life Flashes

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Blood Sutra

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On Meaning

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press quotes “John Fahey [was] a pioneering acoustic guitarist in the 1960s who became an underground-rock icon in the 1990s … Fahey was a supple finger picker who fused his passion for vintage folk and blues with the advanced harmonies of modern composers such as Bela Bartók and Charles lves. A genuine blues scholar, Fahey wrote his UCLA master’s thesis on the legendary Charley Patton and rediscovered Bukka White. But Fahey’s albums, many of which he issued on his own Takoma label, explored the mystique as well as the manner of roots music, evoking a mythic America.” — David Fricke, Rolling Stone

Selling Points • The Three Day Band was a three-day collaboration between John Fahey and Ayal Senior. • This disc includes 15 tracks of John Fahey reading selected excerpts from his writing. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview John Fahey and Ayal Senior laid down the tracks for The Three Day Band in a Woodburn hotel room at some point in 1999. These tracks show an undocumented, improvisational side of Fahey. It’s certainly not earlyperiod Fahey, but not TOTE era either. At night, after the recording sessions commenced, Senior would record Fahey reading selected excerpts from his writing. Fifteen tracks of Fahey reading are included here. From Ayal Senior’s liner notes: “I think I first met John Fahey at a Vince Martin gig in Manhattan at some point in 1998. He was sitting in the back of CBGB’s ‘other’ space, listening to the gig and painting with fat bright markers in a notebook he carried around with him. It was impossible not to notice this guy. Big, bald, white beard, black sunglasses, wearing shorts and wool socks with black basketball shoes in a triple sized red t-shirt. I didn’t even know who John Fahey was, but John Allen, who brought Fahey out to the East Coast and who I have always greatly admired, learned me to the game. John Fahey and Vince Martin in the same room. Incredible. I wonder if they spoke … I asked John for one of the pieces he was working on and he casually ripped a sheet out of his notebook and gave it to me. “At night, Fahey would lie in bed and I’d record him reading various excerpts from his writings. He reminded me a lot of Kurt Vonnegut in his cynicism and gallows humor. I think they would have gotten along great. I love the unfinished Fahey short story about Elie Wiesel meeting Doc Boggs on a park bench. Boxes were strewn all over his room filled with spiral notebooks. Fool’s gold.”

The Three Day Band The Three Day Band/John Fahey Reads Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 185 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists John Fahey: guitar Ayal Senior: guitar, amplifier, cheap toys

Track Listing • Untitled Jam #1 • Untitled Jam #2 Fahey Reads: • In These Stories • How I Tell Stories • The Great Koonaklaster • Entertainers 1 • The Factory Pt. 1 • The Factory Pt. 2 • The Factory Pt. 3 • Collectors • Entertainers 2 • Entertainers 3 • The Spirit Of Seriousness Kills • Misfits • Record Collecting • Religion • Creativity

Key Markets Hometown: Toronto Also: New York, Boston, Portland ALSO AVAILABLE

John Fahey

The Mill Pond EP CD: IPT 183 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE APRIL 22, 2008

press quotes “Conrad Schnitzler is an artist and musician who has been organizing sounds into musical works that have consistently blown minds all across the world since the late sixties.” — Angbase “Many consider Conrad Schnitzler to be the grandfather of European electronic music. In the late sixties/early seventies, it was Schnitzler who convinced Tangerine Dream and Kluster … to ‘go electronic,’ embracing the then-unexplored realm of synthesized sound. Having set those individuals on a new sonic course, Schnitzler went off to pursue a solo career that has lasted over three decades.” — Sonic Curiosity

Selling Points

Kluster Admira Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 179 Price Code: T (SRP $18.99) Deluxe Gatefold Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Conrad Schnitzler: electronics Klaus Freudigmann: electronics Wolfgang Seidel: electronics

Track Listing Admira 1–12

Key Markets New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Seattle

• Newly discovered material from this highly regarded experimental group captured during a fascinating and transitional period. • These original Kluster recordings have been unreleased until now. • Packaged in extremely deluxe die-pressed jackets emulating the early artwork on the first two Kluster records. • Conrad Schnitzler is highly regarded as an architect for the modern electronic music movement. He was an early leader of some very influential groups including Kluster and Tangerine Dream. • Select promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview Admira is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member and Tangerine Dream engineer Klaus Freudigmann. It is presented here for the first time in this deluxe package. The intense sessions were made with Conrad Schnitzler at the helm, as always, after the departure of Mobius and Roedelius from the group. Admira is limited to 1,000 copies and is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket made to emulate the original die-stamped puffy packaging for Kluster’s album Klopfzeichen. When you look at documentaries from the late sixties, it looks like California was everywhere. Endless summer, or a never-ending Woodstock. What we did not know than was that the Woodstock movie showed the pictures people wanted to see. The guys who made the film knew that, and the success at the box office was their reward for not disappointing their audience’s expectations. Berlin was quite different. The winters were bitter cold. The people lived in old houses with little coal ovens, and keeping them working was a task that could consume half a day. Rock ‘n’ roll, and its adventurous sibling psychedelia, were effective remedies against climatic, political, and mental cold. A few years ago Klaus Freudigmann found a suitcase that hadn’t been opened for twenty years. Out popped a bundle of tapes from the Kluster sessions (1970–1973) that had stood the test of time quite well.

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Conrad Schnitzler Trigger Trilogy CD: IPT 114 Price Code: 3J NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE APRIL 22, 2008

press quotes “Conrad Schnitzler is a genuine legend in the krautrock and electronic music worlds … Looking back at Schnitzler’s career it becomes obvious that he was an architect who helped draw the blueprints for some very significant musical movements. Perhaps overlooked, or at least desperately under-appreciated, it hasn’t slowed Schnitzler down.” — Brainwashed

Selling Points • Newly discovered material from this highly regarded experimental group captured during a fascinating and transitional period. • These original Kluster recordings have been unreleased until now. • Packaged in extremely deluxe die-pressed jackets emulating the early artwork on the first two Kluster records. • Conrad Schnitzler is highly regarded as an architect for the modern electronic music movement. He was an early leader of some very influential groups including Kluster and Tangerine Dream. • Select promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview Vulcano is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member and Tangerine Dream engineer Klaus Freudigmann. It is presented here for the first time in this deluxe package. The intense sessions were made with Schnitzler at the helm, as always, after the departure of Mobius and Roedelius from the group. Vulcano is limited to 1,000 copies and is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket made to emulate the original die-stamped puffy packaging for Kluster’s album Klopfzeichen. Summer of Love? Kluster was formed in West Berlin, much closer to Siberia than to San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, and Golden Gate Park. And in 1970, a lot of the optimism of the mid-’60s had already ceased. But the political movements of the late sixties were a child of the same optimism that fueled the rapid developments changing not only the material side of life but also the arts, music, and the way people interacted. The new left and the hippie movements where all these ideas concentrated weren’t the result of poverty, but were built on the belief that with modern technology there is enough for everybody.

Kluster Vulcano: Live in Wuppertal 1971 Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 180 Price Code: T (SRP $18.99) Deluxe Gatefold Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Conrad Schnitzler: electronics Klaus Freudigmann: electronics Wolfgang Seidel: electronics

Track Listing Vulcano 1–23

Key Markets New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Seattle

That optimism had a soundtrack that was based on the same technology. From the electric guitar, reverb, and echo units to the first synthesizers, everything that sounded as if it came from the future was welcome. Future meant space travel, so it’s quite natural that the first effects widely used were those that sent the listener to a space he’d never been before. That Kluster made simple music on DIY instruments, droning and banging on one note for half an hour, did not mean they were into any kind of primitivism. The group did not want to go back. If the future was inevitable, they wanted to shape it—at least sonically. What Kluster did was get rid of the schemes of pop music to find out what else they could do with their tools, polishing and lubricating them for a future music.

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Conrad Schnitzler Klavierhelm

CD: IPT 113 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE APRIL 22, 2008

Selling Points • Previously out of print—now available again! • Contains twelve rare and out of print solo 7”s, twenty-two unheard recordings, and a detailed twenty-four-page booklet. Includes essay by renowned blues scholar and former National Endowment of the Humanities chairman Dr. William Ferris.

Overview

Loren Connors Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976–2004 Genre: Avant Rock Label: Family Vineyard 3XCD: FVR 36 Price Code: 3J (SRP $29.99) Triple Digipak; Box Lot 10 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Night Through spans four decades of recordings, from Connors’ first solo 7” (Ribbon o’ Blues on St. Joan) and critically acclaimed rare singles issued by Table of the Elements, Road Cone, Father Yod, Menlo Park, Gyttja, and Union Pole to his late nineties band Haunted House and recent acoustic recordings. In all, this 3XCD set contains three and half hours of music: twelve 7” singles, private CD-R releases, collaborations with Suzanne Langille and Robert Crotty, compilation appearances, and twenty-two unreleased pieces including a two-part tribute to Miles Davis and a 1959 recording by Connors’ mother Mary Mazzacane. Remastered from the original tapes by Jim O’Rourke, this is the definitive overview of Connors’ journey as a consummate solo artist.

Track Listing Come On In My Kitchen • Ribbon o’ Blues 7” • Mother & Son 7” • Five Points 7” • The Stations of the Cross 2x7” • Deirdre of the Sorrows 7” • Battle of Clontarf Pts. 1-6 • Betty Mae • Night Through • Exile 7” • The End, The Afternoon, The Light 7” • Desire 7” • Adonais 7” • Spirit 7” • In A Street Full of Rain 7” • Air • Oh Bonny Doone • Woman Taken in Adulter • For NY 9/11/01 • Pretty As Ever • The Departing of A Dream Vol. 4 • Moon Gone Down 7” • Peace • Why We Came Together • Suzanne’s Rain • I’ve Had Trouble, I’ve Had Joy • Untitled • Haunted House CDR Single • Shadows • Only When You Sleep • I Love You Porgy • Star of Bethlehem Pt. 1 • Star of Bethlehem Pt. 2 • Earth • Stars • Night in Vain • Untitled • Untitled • Untitled • For Miles Davis • For Miles Pt. 2

Press Quotes “A frequent participant in Phil Todd’s tall-standing Ashtray Navigations, Reynolds has been pretty prolific on his own … and a lot of his stuff has vacillated between and/or swirled together Fahey-inspired acoustic traveling and idea-heavy noise, but here he seems to have gone fully over to that second side, with 48 minutes worth of unerringly excellent results.” — Noiseweek

Selling Points • Ben Reynolds is a member of the long-running and highly influential Ashtray Navigations and Motor Ghost (with Alex Neilsen of Directing Hand). • Appears on numerous recordings in the tight-knit UK drone scene, including those by Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunroof. Solo excursions released through underground mainstay labels Last Visible Dog, Digitalis Industries, and Time-Lag. • Deluxe recycled cardstock packaging and offset printing by Stumptown Printers. • RIYL: Sir Richard Bishop, Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Jack Rose, Peter Walker. • Full press and new media/blog mailing. • Ads with Arthur, Signal To Noise, and The Wire

Ben Reynolds Two Wings

Overview

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Glasgow guitarist Ben Reynolds has been a prominent player and contributor to the United Kingdom’s fertile underground psych/drone scene for many years. Reynolds puts his electric guitars aside in favor of exploring expressionist acoustic steel string terrain on his astonishing new solo recording Two Wings. Entirely improvised, Two Wings effortlessly weaves shimmering melodic lines together to form spontaneous compositions of dazzling depth and clarity.

Key Markets New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Austin, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago

STREET DATE APRIL 22, 2008

Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: Strange Attractors Audio House CD: SAA 54 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “A storyteller of nonchalant musings on the everyday, a nice break from the usual downer fare we are accustomed to.” — Billboard

Selling Points • US tour in Spring 2008. Has shared stages with M. Ward, Louden Wainright, and others. • Full PR campaign by HUSH. • Full college radio mailing by AAM.

Shelley Short Water for the Day

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Genre: Alt Folk Label: HUSH CD: HSH 76 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

For her third album, Shelley Short has assembled a collection of intimate songs, referring to them as “a diary of a barmy time that was 2006 and 2007.” Leaving Chicago in the wake of her widely praised Captain Wildhorse, Short jettisoned her band and took up residence in Los Angeles with her new love and sometime collaborator Alexis Gideon. There she picked up the pieces of a halfrecorded album (with Jamie Carter in Chicago) and molded the collection into a coherent whole with recording engineer Raymond Richards. She is accompanied by veterans Rachel Blumberg (M Ward, Bright Eyes, Decemberists) on drums, Tiffany Kowalski (Bright Eyes) on violin, Gary James on bass, and Alexis Gideon with some clever guitar work.

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Selling Points • Features guest appearances by Tim Bertilsson (Switchblade), Johannes Persson & Magnus Lindberg (Cult Of Luna), and Dave Vanderplas (Ontayso). • Fear Falls Burning successfully supported Jesu on a European tour in December 2007.

Overview

Fear Falls Burning Frenzy of the Absolute Genre: Avant Rock Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 61 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Over the past two years, Fear Falls Burning has manifested itself as a willful and unique statement amidst the ever-expanding drone genre with numerous limited and exclusive releases on both vinyl and CD. This new album blends drone with slow-building, repetitive drums and additional guitar layers, manifesting a work that is equally as groundbreaking as it is familiar to those in touch with the Fear Falls Burning world.

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LP: CNS 61 Price Code: 2S (SRP $37.99) Gatefold Double Jacket; Box Lot 10 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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press quotes “Over the past few years, Campbell Kneale has been slowly but surely consolidating the disparate musical threads that define the breadth of his passions. Fortunately for us, he has done this very publicly on a series of increasingly sophisticated and accomplished releases under the moniker Birchville Cat Motel.” — Fakejazz

Selling Points • Limited edition of 500 copies on 180-gram vinyl: 150 on clear vinyl, 350 on black vinyl. • Includes coupon for a free MP3 download of the entire album. • Full color fold-out sleeve with artwork by Seldon Hunt.

Birchville Cat Motel Four Freckle Constellation

Overview Six new tracks by New Zealand’s Birchville Cat Motel, who has gained international recognition as one the bright lights of drone music. Campbell Kneale has to be one of the most exciting proponents of the New Zealand noise-avant-garde scene, engaging the full spectrum of electroacoustic sound exploration over numerous releases on Ecstatic Peace, Drunken Fish, Freedom From, Last Visible Dog, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, and more. Four Freckle Constellation is no less then a mindfuck of epic proportions.

Genre: Experimental Label: Conspiracy Records LP: CNS 59 Price Code: X (SRP $31.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 12 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Get nailed... on the road Colin Meloy

Secret Shine

LP: JLO 65 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) UPC: 751937326113 4/7/08 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa 4/8/08 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater 4/10/08 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse 4/11/08 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel 4/12/08 Charlottesville,VA – Satellite Ballroom 4/13/08 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club 4/15/08 Somerville, MA – Somerville Theatre 4/16–17/08 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg 4/21/08 Chicago, IL – Park West 4/22/08 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater 4/23/08 Madison, WI – Barrymore Theatre 4/25/08 Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall 4/26/08 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre 4/28/08 Los Angeles – Henry Fonda Theatre 4/29/08 Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theatre 4/30/08 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore 5/2/08 Seattle, WA – Showbox 5/3/08 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom

CD: CLE 74 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) UPC: 808804007429 3/18/08 St Louis, MO – The Cavern 3/19/08 Indianapolis, IN – Melody Inn 3/20/08 Milwaukee, WI – The Borg Ward 3/22/08 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews

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Pink Martini Sympathique

LP: HNZ 1 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 751937106616 3/12/08 Buffalo, NY – SUNY Buffalo Center for the Arts 3/16/08 Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre 3/18/08 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre 5/5/08 Thousand Oaks, CA – Civic Arts Plaza 5/6/08 Irvine, CA – Irvine Barclay Theatre 5/8/08 Temecula, CA – Pechanga Resort 5/10/08 Napa Valley, CA – Lincoln Theater 5/13/08 Scottsdale, AZ – Scottsdale PAC 5/14/08 Flagstaff, AZ – Pine Mountain Amphitheater 5/15/08 Santa Fe, NM – Lensic PAC

All of the Stars

Dengue Fever Venus On Earth

CD: M80 101 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 723721330354 3/12/08 (with Angelique Kidjo) Los Angeles, CA – UCLA Live 3/13/08 Los Angeles, CA – Echo Park Film Center 3/22/08 Seattle, WA – Neumos 3/25/08 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 3/26/08 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive 3/28/08 Austin, TX – Club Deville 3/29/08 Houston, TX – Orange Show Center 3/30/08 Ft. Worth, TX – Lola’s 4/1/08 Flagstaff, AZ – Orpehum Theatre

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Fieldwork

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