Religious Knives - Resin

Maya Miller and Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards) and Nate Nelson along with Todd Cavallo (Mouthus) are together 'Religious Knives'. Since their first release for No Fun Productions, the collection of early LP's/singles entitled 'Remains', the Religious Knives have grown into a stunningly assured and powerful rock n' roll band of sorts, one liberally and noticeably immersed in the smoke-addled haze of the psychedelic underground. Resin marches ahead with a vigorous potency that accurately shares its bloodline with the best psychedelic acts of the past. This is Brooklyn's true Psychedelic Rock.

Religious Knives - Resin part 1
Religious Knives - Resin part 2

Evan Miller - Beeswax Ephemera

Evan Miller makes finger picking folk music with lots of nods towards the san fransisco freak folk scene and the midwestern noise scene. Iowa City's six-string guru Evan "Swain" Miller pounded out this release just in time for the Night People (Raccoo-oo-oon/Evan Miller) east coast tour of 2007. Handcrafted paper with impressive printing and stitching packaging on the physical level, while the audio supplied features Evan expounding on his intricating fingerpicking stylings while evoking the spirit of Fahey's finger angels into your most vivid coloured dream of raga-intricated satisfaction. Highly, highly recommended.

Evan Miller - Beeswax Ephemera

Blues Control - Puff

Blues Control is duo Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, plays a twisted blues in hazy, space world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all. Check this.

Blues Control - Puff

Death Chants - s/t

Enigmatic Maryland residents Death Chants are a relatively new group, but already their homegrown space folk ramblings have drawn some well-deserved attention. The new DIY Americana of bands like Death Chants has merged the familial comforts of porch friendly music with the ethereal sweep of modern psychedelia. Death chants seem to succeed at exploring the cosmic side of folk music, and are definitely a group to keep an eye on. I definitely recommend snatching up anything you can get your hands on by these guys.

Death Chants - s/t

Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You

Wooden Shjips, a quartet from San Francisco heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism, and garage rock excess, started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and group improvisation. Hypnotizing driving rhythms drone on and on while the fuzz of guitar, organ, and indecipherable vocals swirls around your head, and time passes ceaselessly while you don't have a care or clue. Next thing you know, you're already in wonderland.

Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You

White Rainbow - Zome

White Rainbow's ZOME is the first major release by Adam Forkner since his great [[[[VVRSSNN]]]] album and the first major release under the White Rainbow name. The music is soft, growing, beautiful, patient, and breathing. It is 4 songs and 42 minutes that is such a peaceful and beautiful piece of music to listen to again and again.

Here is what Adam says about this album:

"ZOME was recorded in the fall of 2003 with members of Landing in their attic studio as an audio love letter to my (at that point very new) eternal love vibe-partner Honey Owens. It Is the last sort of "ambient rock" recordings I've made, with guitars, effects, keyboards, bass, vocals, drums, and drum machine. It was during my national tour in support of my very first solo record called [[[[VVRSSNN]]]]. At the time of this recording, all the VVRSSNN vibes were starting to dissapear and the idea of White Rainbow as a name and a vibe and a more infinite concept was born. So this is sort of a segue between what i was doing as VVRSSNN and the more abstract ambient music I have been developing for the two years since then. It is one of my favorite recordings I have ever made and I am so proud and happy that is it finally coming out. So please, give it a listen and let me know what you think!"

White Rainbow - Zome

Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headdress

This group is spiritually aligned in the same smoke-filled room with other such contemporary purveyors of modern psych as The No Neck Blues Band, Six Organs of Admittance, The Major Stars, Charalambides, and very few others. Headdress opens tentatively enough with a repetitive spindle of staccato guitar and vocal yelp, pronouncements of the coming celebration. Then, this 11-piece ensemble begins to engage and take off, employing bass, djembe, shakers, horns, flutes, keys and congas to produce a hypnotic mix that burns with percussive clatter, incisive guitar, rhythmic drones and the respective, shared passions of friends.

Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headdress

Currituck Co. - Ghost Man On First

With a transatlantic sound that brings together both UK and American folk influences, Currituck Co.'s Ghost Man On First CD is a unique blend of sonics that occasionally brings to mind an imaginary meeting of Bert Jansch and Robbie Basho, the mixture of covers and originals is a mesmerising stew. There's the traditional banjo/vocal two-step of "I Truly Understand", Jansch's "Silly Woman" and Nina Simone's "Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair" (reworked as the folk-raga piece "A Raga Called Nina") as well as Barker originals like "Requiem for John Fahey", the astounding "A Raga Called Pat Cohn", which blends acoustic guitar with tablas and Silvertone air organ to hallucinatory effect, and the fearsome "March of the People Who Do Not Know You", an electric guitar freakout bound (and likely aimed) to upset folk-purist dullards everywhere.

Currituck Co. - Ghost Man On First

Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple - Split EP

This is one of the best collaboration album ever. History:

"Kinski met Kawabata Makoto in 1999 when he was playing guitar in Mainliner. It was our first tour and, though the shows were small, we had a great time playing with them and quickly became friends.

Over the years we played with Kawabata's Acid Mothers Temple whenever they came through Seattle and toured the east coast with them in 2002.

In December of 2001, Kinski went to Japan to play six dates with Acid Mothers and one in Tokyo with High Rise. The shows were amazing. We also had several days off to wander around Japan and see the sights (and scour the record stores). We ate tons of seafood and drank a lot of shochu and beer. (Note: Cheap shochu leaves a truly stunning hangover.)

One night off in Nagoya we went to Hiroshi's flat (Acid Mothers' rhythm guitar and keyboardist) for nabe and drinks. We brought our guitars and pedals along and recorded before dinner. Kawabata, Hiroshi, Matthew and I played guitar, Lucy played bass and Dave played bongos. We jammed for an hour and then started cooking nabe, Yoko made tempura, and we all cracked open more beers.

It was a mindblowing 2 weeks.

Months and months later, I sat down with the tapes and began mixing what seemed to be the most interesting 10 minutes of the session, which became "It's Nice to Hear Your Voice." Kawabata wanted to overdub onto my mix (along with Tsuyama, Acid Mothers' bassist, who wasn't at the original sessions) and the result are "Planet Crazy Gold."

"Fell Asleep on Your Lawn" and "Virginal Plane 5:23" are new Kinski and Acid Mothers Temple tracks (respectively).

Chris Martin, July 2003" (taken from their site)

Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple - Split EP

Six Organs of Admittance - Compathía

Compathía, the classic album from Six Organs of Admittance, is so surprising. Ben Chasny, whose largely meditative Dark Noontide proved a major launching pad for this New Weird sound, has toned down the drone and made what is essentially a pop record. It retains the Eastern tinge of past recordings, but Chasny’s voice, and furthermore his lyrics, separate this from anything he’s done before this.

Six Organs of Admittance - Compathía

Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!

INDIAN JEWELRY, who recoiled back to the oil soaked mud of Houston, just finished up their second full length "FREE GOLD!" It is an astonishing album, completely filled with pop singles. Yes, INDIAN JEWERLY are still pissed, but this album has some serious wall-bangers! A digital maxi-single will be announced shortly followed by the release of "FREE GOLD!" on May 20th.

Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! part 1
Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! part 2