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ABOS3-043 The Old Rig / Hobo Cubes / Saturn Finger / Balder- 2x 7" €8.00 The Old Rig "Near the Ground" / Hobo Cubes "Behind the Sun" Saturn Finger "The Idea of Fire and Air" / Balder- "Heavily, With All Her Splendor" Double 7". All four sides are 33 RPM. Black vinyl. Housed in spraypainted/stencilled 7" Arigato Paks. A limited pressing of 99 copies. Audio: Listen to some snippets from the records |
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ABOS3-077 The Big Drum in the Sky Religion "Vodou Chile" CD-R €6.00 |
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ABOS3-075 Illusion / Nebula VII "....." CD-R €6.00 Seemingly infinite possibilities on the Russian / Ukrainian outer space fetishizing ambient/noise spectrum as of late. Xladnokrovie 616 inhaled the industrial age. Saturn Form Essence journeyed through deep space. Illusion (an apparently debuting act) and Nebula VII (appearing on A Beard of Snails a second time), however, have made it to the moon. Taken specimins. Planted their freak flags. And pow! - four noise/ambient beauties. Presented in (non-home made) wraparound covers. |
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ABOS3-088 The End Springs "Caos" 3" CD-R €5.00 |
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ABOS3-087 Balder- "Ramblings" 3" CD-R €5.00 |
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ABOS3-086 Skin Revisionists "The Moonlanding Was Caked" 3" CD-R €5.00 Voice-based Inhihibitionists spin-off transmitting vocoded alien (m)uttering over minimal stoned synth twinkle / burn. |
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ABOS3-059 S/H/A/R/R/P/S & Inhibitionists / Skin Revisionists / Fugleøen / Pacific Mausoleum / Sunburnt Hand of Kann c40 LAST COPIES! €6.00 |
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ABOS3-066 Scared Crow "Love in a Dream" CD-R € 6.00 Warm and fuzzy like a good sweater or record (ahem, CD-R) should be, Odense scene staple Kasper Aagaard's 27½ minute debut displays smokey late '70s/early '80s Manchester cavern soirée vibes, with crooned vocals (S. Walker meets Edwyn C.?) over or beneath mondo catchy garage-gaze loops. Comes in a handpainted/stencilled Arigato Pak. Listen / purchase downloads: scaredcrow.bandcamp.com |
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ABOS3-056 Pacific Mausoleum "Gag Me With Devil Horns" c30 LAST COPIES! € 6.00 Jovial yet musty, this field trip through Hellfire cranks Pacific Mausoleum's quaint "sloppy/harsh psych/noise terror thing" up a few notches. A vast array of textures, here. Brian Green (specifically, samples of his cigar box synth and circuit bent objects) guest stars. In semi-holographic covers and hand decorated tape labels, 14 copies of these fuckers exist (the most ever for a Pacific Mausoleum release!) Audio sample: Wren Fare |
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ABOS3-070 Birdengine "I Like Totally Do Not Understand or Whatever E.P." 3" CD-R € 5.00 The talented Mr. Lawry Tilbury, aka. Birdengine, blesses us with a little disc of big songs - five dark, enchanting stories - lyrically sublime, vocally compelling, musically far transcending the conventions of "folk" and "singer/songwriter". A companion to the imminent / eminent "The Crooked Mile" LP/CD on Bleeding Hearts Records (actually, the E.P.'s songs were originally recorded for the LP, but the artist felt they did not fit), "I Like..." is presented in a hand made, hand stamped/stencilled cover, held together with string. MP3 sample: Death Rides a Black Horse More audio evidence: soundcloud.com/birdengine |
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ABOS3-081 Fugleøen "Broer Mellem Lufthuller" c30 LAST COPIES! € 6.00 Cleaner and more accessible than last year's "Prøvesprængninger" 3" - yet with the all whimsy and the looseness intact - this whole half hour odyssey coughs up quasi new age plonkers, vicious un-gabber benders, and jaded mini Moog action tunes. Limited to 11 copies. MP3 sample: Broer Mellem Lufthuller |
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ABOS3-042 Strongly Imploded / Matomeri 7" € 4.00 Strongly Imploded "Hier et aujourd'hui" Matomeri "Crow Bar Walk" Proudly presenting the very first vinyl release to be given an 'ABOS' catalog number - a 45 of two exhilarating three-minute jazz-punk scorchers from Europe's way-out corners. Italy's Strongly Imploded (fab CD-Rs on Kimberly Dawn and Ikuisuus) hits us with psycho sax outbursts and chopping block electronics, creative deconstruction, augmented by plenty of "rock" oomph! Finland's Matomeri (previous releases on OMS-B and Ikuisuus as well) takes a somewhat lower tech road, cave walls of sound unbound(ed), primal rippin' mad great! Limited to "approximately" 102 copies with hand decorated / stamped center labels and xeroxed paste-on art. MP3 sample: Excerpts from both tracks |
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ABOS3-048 Hokkei Quartet "Hempty's Love" c40 LAST COPIES! € 6.00 The debut tape release from this Ukrainian combo (including members of Moglass, Riasni Drova, and Noah Coward) consists of two side-long deconstructivist pieces of basement incantation, expert clatter, and freeform reed rides, forming something akin to shamanic doom jazz. Or...? Heavy on atmosphere, loose on structure (though the B side does end with inciting post-post punk-esque dirge-drum assaults), "Hempty's Love" is... love! A pro dubbed edition of 52, with artwork that pays homage to the Cramps Records DIVerso LPs of the '70s. MP3 sample: Two excerpts from the tape |
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ABOS3-069 Clathrus "Lanugo" 3" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 4.00 After a bold C30 on Digitalis Ltd., Clathrus (one of several Russian projects setting our ears happily ablaze recently) summons up "Lanugo" - 17 brief but engaging minutes of ethnic/tropical space-folk swirls, acid pop sensibilities, and rhythmic dreamchillin'. In a mini CD-R case housed in a homemade cardstock outer cover. MP3 sample: Suda Re Kopta Ho More audio evidence: clathrus.bandcamp.com |
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ABOS3-074 Dao De Noize "Nasreddinoize" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 6.00 Dao De Noize (a relatively new project with a steadily growing discography) references the infamous Sufi "philosopher" Nasreddin on this single 36-minute burner/churner. Sand encrusted distortion, electronic washes, and mystical transmissions from a lysergic mosque... with plenty of, as the artists puts it best, "noise, soul, effects." Presented in a 14 x 14 cm homemade cardstock sleeve with paper inserts. MP3 sample: Nasreddinoize (excerpt) |
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ABOS3-045 Matthew Riley / The Big Drum in the Sky Religion c48 LAST COPIES! € 6.00 Among the first tape releases from A Beard of Snails Records proper is this monster of a split C48. Presenting two very different directions in/of 'stoned Americana', both pieces/sides have an apparent 'paranormal' theme in common. Starting off is a new stunner from Matthew Riley, wherein doom piano and environmental sounds morph into pulsating drones and chugging, jagged edged nightmare psych... a trip, man... a storm. The flip side finds the ever mysterious, ever prolific Big Drum in the Sky Religion luring us in with an engaging, dusty, double tracked primitivist onslaught. An edition of MP3 samples: Smoke Spear (excerpt) by M. Riley / The Supernatural Bride (excerpt) by The Big Drum in the Sky Religion |
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ABOS3-047 nodolby "nodolby" c8 LAST COPIES! € 3.00 Mic Scariot, proprietor of the mighty Dokuro label, furnishes us with this wild new cassingle: short, tasty morsels of attention grabbing n-o-i-s-e, hyperactive sashimi wrapped in sandpaper. As the titles imply, there are 'bass magnitudes' in abundance here, wrestling with eargasmic electronics - screeching signals and technicolour'd tonality. Love it! An edition of 30, on red tapes. MP3 sample: Two excerpts from the tape |
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ABOS3-054 HysM?Duo "Vorstellungen" c30 LAST COPIES! € 6.00 From the hallucinatorium of Jacopo Fiore and Stefano 'Solquest' Spataro comes this sweet slab of frantic improvisation on spaced out strings and perky percussion, equally shredded and understated prog psych / fusion jazz / un-rock grooves, with plenty of electronic freakout contours. All in all, "Vostellungen" is rife with well placed experimentation - a bumpy magic carpet commute to bliss and beyond. This one's an edition of 28 white cassettes. MP3 samples: Vorstellungen Pt. 1 (excerpt) / Wille (excerpt) More audio evidence: hysmduo.bandcamp.com |
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ABOS3-062 Mark Bradley "When Art Imitates Life" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 7.00 Technocentric head music from the always reliable Mark Bradley. A 33 minute opus spanning loud 'n' proud glitch gabber, over deconstructed drum 'n' bass and punchy synth zaggin', into deeper cybernetic dream rave dimensions. Artwork affixed to white digipaks, 35 copies made. MP3 sample: Power of Glory |
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ABOS2-039 Old Man Forest "Made Up Saints" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 7.00 First - and possibly (but hopefully not) last - release from this brilliant, defunct Lewiston, Maine group of Denise Gill, Jessy Kendall (Rough Ride of Crafts), and Jordan Berube. "Made Up Saints" is 26 minutes of folk pop 'n' poetry with experimental quirks, striking and dream-like. A definite K Records-esque vibe here, too. In hand stamped orange, green, or blue 14x14 cm envelopes. MP3 sample: Afraid to Make Sense More audio / video evidence: my_____ |
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ABOS2-040 Riasni Drova Consort "Berezhene" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 7.00 Aided by ethnic flutes, tortured strings, mystical percussion, et al., Ukrainian trio Riasni Drova Consort (Рясні Дрова Consort) crank out delightful acoustic abstractions and alien improvisation - more "free" than "folk"! An edition of 50, housed in 14x14 cm envelopes with full colour art. This one's especially recommended if you liked our Armali Lari and Lee Noyes & Bruno Duplant CD-Rs. MP3 sample: Some Vinelike Small Flame Trumpets More audio evidence: Bandcamp / my_____ |
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ABOS2-003 The Diamond Family Archive "Dyke Road Drive" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 7.00 MP3 sample: Making Friends More audio evidence: my_____ More info: thediamondfamilyarchive.com You may know Laurence Collyer from his participation on Woodpecker Wooliams' 2009 "pre-debut" album "Fledgling." He also has a number of fine releases by his own project, The Diamond Family Archive, under his belt... and as such, A Beard of Snails Records are pleased to be working with LC again, and with TDFA for the first time. So here's a ten track album (a nice introduction to the Archive, yes), displaying two sides of Laurence's talent: dream-like rural psych instrumentals (with the banjo and melodica playing important roles; here, these usually quirky instruments only help augment the wintery, melancholy feel) and reflective, well written songs - perhaps more sadcore than acid folk, but brilliant regardless of categorisation. Hints of field recording(s), percussion, and subtle electronics appear throughout. A personal, unique record. |
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ABOS2-008 The Child of the Creek "Whispering Tales Under an Emerald Sun" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 7.00 MP3 sample: Under the Emerald Sun More audio evidence: my_____ More info: thechildofacreek.it This, the fourth album from Italy's The Child of a Creek, is a gleaming, lysergic gem for sure. Eight stunning neo-folk shoegaze tracks (four of which are instrumentals), equally rural and cosmic, with touches of almost Floydian / Frippian prog. Fragile, electricfied, cinematic. An edition of 60, in pearlescent bronze envelopes with minimalist emerald sun art. |
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ABOS2-023 Bury My Heart "Bury My Heart" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 7.00 MP3 sample: Know This Bury My Heart, the Dunedin Dream, return with their second self-titled release (this is a different one than last year's five song CD-R on Root Don Lonie For Cash) - a sweetly chaotic marriage of CJA and Smokehouse's (The Strange Girls, yes) duelling overdriven-but-relatively-clean |
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ABOS2-014 Armali Lari "Ma tu la pasta la vò?" CD-R LAST COPIES! € 7.00 MP3 sample: Maruna e ciuru di burrania More audio evidence: my_____ This shining collaboration between Italy's Francesco Calandrino (Oper'azione Nafta et al.) and Nicola Giunta (summerTales) finds the pair playing anything they can get their hands on (prepared tapes, Casio, trumpet, nylon string guitar...) Something somewhere within the spheres of naive surrealist folk, minimalist jazz, and tape manipulation is constructed and/or improvised - spry hits of weird quirk are formed, without the usual conventions of said "non-genres." A radical oddity of an avant album - sit back and chillax. 100 copies in existence. "Ma tu la pasta la vò?" was previously available on tape through Stunned Records. |
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v/a: "Vinyl Snails" LP (BSBTA Vinyl) LAST COPIES! A: Hunton Quintet "Original Record 2", Monks of the Balhill / Pillars of Heaven "La Voz de la Que Había", Anla Courtis / Paz Levinson "El Alud", Lee Noyes / Bruno Duplant "This is Our Post-Exotic Anthem", vvalter de maria "GIBSRUMCOLALGEBSBTA" B: Century Plants "Cresting", (VxPxC) "About to Collapse", Lee Noble / Steve Molyneux "Born Buried", Lars Ro / Sometimes Jasmine "Ind i kuglen" € 12.00 Yet more psychedelic collaborative recordings from more of our international friends on this (needless to say) follow-up/companion piece to 2008's "Vinyl Beards". "Vinyl Snails" is 45 minutes of haunting voices, prepared instruments, battered blues, mesmeric lo-fi pastorale, and semi-controlled ritualist psychosis. Of a limited (mystery) edition in hand stencilled jackets. |
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v/a: "Vinyl Beards" LP (BSBTA Vinyl) LAST COPIES! A: Sea Zombies "Trapped and Wounded", We Wait for the Snow / throuRoof "The Red is Gone", Cones "Haffu Daffu Waffel", Family Battle Snake / Sarah's Charity "Violet Lotus Vision" B: Donato Epiro / Vanessa Rossetto "A Flower Tried to Eat Me", Shiggajon "Atolla", The End Springs / A Man & A Guitar "Dusty Train", Fabio Orsi / Valerio Cosi "Cold Fusion (in Our Fingers) (Alt. Mix)" € 12.00 Eight collaborative tracks from some of our favourite 'psych/folk/noise-underground' people. Individually stencilled outer sleeves. Edition of 206. |
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Elektronavn / Exquisite Russian Brides 7" (BSBTA Vinyl) LAST COPIES! Elektronavn "Cosmic Depth / A Sense of Coherence" Exquisite Russian Brides "Golden Rain Over Fascist Europe" € 3.00 A perfect pairing of two meditative dronescape/avant-psych pieces from two of Denmark's finest musicians in the field; Magnus (Elektronavn) and Marc (ERB) also make up two quarters of Pink Luminous Invocation. Loops, zurna, bansuri, cello, bells, vocals and xylophone are utilized. Magic is made. An edition of 270, in block printed sleeves (each individually stamped, two different designs - "cello" and "bansuri" - to choose between.) |
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Inhibitionists / Afterlife c63 (Stunned) LAST COPIES! € 7.00 "Whether he’s running one of Europe’s best underground labels or tearing it up as Inhibitionsists, Christian Kann has always been a guy to look out for. On this split edition with NY synth sons Afterlife, Kann drops some of his most dynamic work yet, which is saying something significant for those aware of past Inhibitionists output. Sequestering every variety of bent and dented tone, this Side A is forward-propulsive antics of the highest order. Schizoid algorithms are interrupted by free-clatter & string passages, deftly bouncing back to form and repeating similar manic cycles a few more times before passing the torch to Afterlife. Within seconds of the handoff, Ryan McGill and Franklin Teagle are snapped to breathless attention, their circuitry poised for astral action. Never failing to astonish with their proprietary flavor of team-synthesizer, the side they offer here can be considered the essential post-script to their recent Stunned cassette (no. 116). Darker in shade and even foreboding at moments, this piece suggests the colored showers of “Hypnautic Rinse” can also be converted to temporary cloudcover. For this reason and many more we turn a closer listen to these skilled musicians of the nebulous realm. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c63 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." (SOLD OUT AT SOURCE) -- Stunned Records |
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Inhibitionists "Trapezoid Man" CD-R (Ark Tarp) LAST COPIES! € 8.00 "Christian Kann is truely a man of many faces and personalities. A man with an impressive count of alter egos and releases both in playing music and as the founder of various highly respected DIY labels in Copenhagen. It's no surprise that Trapezoid Man is just as colorful as the creator and embraces a wide range of minimalistic lo-fi landscapes and surreal sound patterns. You wanna get this one!" (Housed in an Arigato DVD Pak with fun inserts - picture of packaging.) -- Ark Tarp |
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Inhibitionists "Lithium Salt Mines" CD-R (Tape Drift) € 6.00 "Solo project from Christian Kann, from Copenhagen, and brains behind the amazing Beard of Snails record label. Ostensibly a "noise" record, this is so much more. It's simply a phenomenal collection of tracks that cohere and make aural sense in a way that most music never will. Every sound is perfectly placed, the timing is impeccable, and the music consistently inspires. Somehow Christian has managed to create a set of mysterious sounds that balance multiple worlds and serve as a lightning rod to the cosmos. Easily one of the best and most welcoming noise records we've heard, but it sacrifices absolutely nothing for its accessibility. Next level indeed." -- Tape Drift |
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Inhibitionists "Pfeiffer at the Gates of Hawn" 3" CD-R (Kimberly Dawn) LAST COPIES! € 3.00 These are abstracted tonal mazes provided by Denmark's strangest sonic alchemist, Inhibitionists (aka Christian Kann from A Beard of Snails fame). Expertly crafted pathways of textural complexity give way to reveal a moist core. It's a dream vacation on darker pathways - lanterns not provided. Weird nods to 60's psych and pop actresses give no immediate answers as this music exists on another plane entirely - where going to the movies is like washing your face with wet cement. Available in a numbered edition of 50 hand stamped 3" cdrs. (SOLD OUT AT SOURCE) -- Kimberly Dawn |
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We Wait for the Snow "Lullabies From Our Dreams" CD (Finalmuzik) LAST COPIES! € 8.00 ""Lullabies From Our Dreams" is WWFTS's first official album; the songs are about dreams, lullabies and tales from the forest, stories of stones, woods, leaves, dead men, big trees, and girls that speak with demons (...) For fans of raw, occult and lo-fi recordings, Fursaxa, Troum, Current 93, Jackie O'Motherfucker, Islaja, drone music and neo psych-folk, folk noir, field recordings, concrete noise and acoustic melodies... in a few words: Troum meet Espers, or something like that!" (SOLD OUT AT SOURCE) -- Andrea Penso |
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