Release Date: 2003-06-24, Audio CD, Locust

"Bishop's playing is astonishing; he makes more clatter and bliss with an acoustic guitar than the [Sun City Girls] did on the originals, plugged in ... Bishop's solo stuff, though, has focused more on craft than on innovation,...(more)

Release Date: 2007-10-22,

2004 saw an explosion of, and all-too-welcome interest in, a vital, tightly knit scene of artists from Finland. Out of that came this lovely ten-song debut solo outing of abstract folk, stray kiss lullaby, and plucked blues by Laura Naukkarinen...(more)

"Swinging violently between eastern and western melodies, the violin playing here also emulates the sorrowful double stops of old Appalachian folk music and the scale-bending sarangi slide-work of an Indian master such as Ustad Sabri Khan...(more)

After a stellar performance on Mushi-No-Ne, No. 9 continues to indulge in childlike whimsy on Micro Films - a small story in sound & pictures of the entire world of plants and animals. This is organic music that evolves with time - like the...(more)

French quartet Cyann & Ben create a dark and worrying universe tinted with melancholic beauty. Their debut album, Spring, was a hazy calliope ode. Happy Like An Autumn Tree continues to traverse the seasons with a captivating album that's as...(more)

By trade, Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. However, in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke-filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. In the twilight hours of a...(more)

Last spring, you may have gotten a dose of opera school dropout Josephine Foster's startling mixture of avant arrangements & acoustic mountain folk as half of the spare, twisted-up Appalachian duo Born Heller. To many, the effect of her...(more)

Finally back in print, we're happy to present two albums of "agitprop" electronic music (Tract and To Kill A Sunrise) cut between 1968 and 1975 by mysterious & controversial Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu - one of the truly...(more)