Category: 2013
The Atomic Buddha – Blottered
75OL-170 The Atomic Buddha – Blottered CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download of the album is available here. CD contains two songs not included on the digital download.
Track listing
1. Cosmic Band
2. Dying Star
3. You’re Not In Reach
4. Ginger Baker’s Nightmare
5. I’m So High
6. Guilty
7. Should’ve Seen It Coming
8. Fading Fast
9. Now You Are Gone
10. Atomic Buddha
“Blottered” is a 10 track collection of pounding garage rock from The Atomic Buddha. Each of these songs is an unapologetic mash of raucous guitars, bass, drums and vocals careening from hallucinogenic depths to the sharp ends of accusation. Along the way are some raw psychedelic blasts (I’m So High, Fading Fast) and some pile driving rock with the energy of The Who (Ginger Baker’s Nightmare, You’re Not In Reach). It all ends with “The Atomic Buddha” an 11 minute guitar freak out-not for the timid!
Limited to 100 copies on brown jackets, 25 copies on white jackets.
All copies bought through the label webpage will ship with a link for a digital download of nine demo songs from the sessions.
Crotchthrottle – Fictional Syntax
75OL-166 Crotchthrottle – Fictional Syntax CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track listing
1. Move Yr Fingers and Click
2. Triple-A Toledo (free mp3)
3. Muttonchop Commuter
4. Every Piece Has Purpose
5. Forgotten Pocket
6. Frozen Rainbow Particles
7. Moon Wolves Are Apparently Giants
8. That Late 2001 Gear Architecture
9. Anonymous Buzz (free mp3)
10. Immense Density of Tiny Bubbles
11. Lima Luna, The Ultimate Pet
12. Long Gone John and the Horn of Plenty
13. Seersucker Proxy
14. To Link The Now Click Below
15. Carbon Pivot
16. Flourescence
Has it really been two years since the last full-length release from this fever dream of a band? That’s what the calendar tells us, but we haven’t really been sure of anything since the last dose of quinine. Following in the footsteps of Everything Odder Than Everything Else, Fictional Syntax finds Crotchthrottle sinking even further into the morass that is “structured” music, embracing things like melody, rhythm, and occasionally even intelligible vocals. They still remain totally obtuse on the genre front, swerving from quasi-electronic shenanigans to fuzzy freakouts, sometimes within the same song. When asked “What the hell were you thinking?” by management, the band refused to elaborate in any legally binding format.
The first 25 copies sold will get a special gift, hand packaged by the band.
Haunt the House – Rural Introspection Study Group
75OL-171 Haunt the House – Rural Introspection Study Group CD
$7.50 S&H Included
Digital download of the album is available here
Track listing
1. Byrd Island
2. Vampyre
3. When I Once Lived
4. Eden
5. Moses
6. Bright Star
Haunt the House is Will Houlihan. This album is a collection of songs that have been referred to as deep woods gospel and painfully delivered spirituals.
You can listen to Will’s appearance on the That’s Not incredible! podcast by going here.
Eric Baylies – Heroin’s Rainbow book
75OL-165 Eric Baylies – Heroin’s Rainbow book
[sold out]
Exclusive 75orLess Book Special! All book orders come with one Baylies Band album on cd from the label archIves.
Heroin’s Rainbow by Eric Baylies is a memoir of a neighborhood and a city. New Bedford, Massachusetts sits somewhere on the edge of nowhere, a twilight interzone at the end of the world. It is the underground history of the secret city. Big Dan’s, strip club rampages, cruising the avenue, crooked cops, high school suicide solutions, drinking problems, crack houses, shooting galleries, gay bar stabbings, god, guns, heroin, devil dogs, angel dust, acid, mushrooms, mescaline, weed, whales, wishes, dreams, and nightmares come true, they are all here. This is the way, step inside.
Eric Baylies writes for The Boston Noise and was a dj on WUMD. He attended U-Mass and Harvard University. He has played all over America and Europe in the bands Temple of Bon Matin, Bad Motherfucker, Club Math, and Baylies Band. Baylies has recorded or played with members of The Stooges, Violent Femmes, and Sun Ra. Baylies has delivered coffins, unloaded fishing boats, taught special education and been a substitute teacher in public schools, pumped gas, done dishes, tended bar and worked the door at a biker bar, and worked construction. Eric worked at a butcher shop, renaissance fair, golf ball hell, the Zeiterion Theater, factories, the Salvation Army, call centers and maybe thousands more. Baylies has lived in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Martha’s Vineyard and currently lives in New Bedford. Eric has no wives that he’s aware of, but knows where the bodies are buried.
MW Ensemble – 6 songs
75OL-164 MW Ensemble – 6 songs CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download available here
Track Listing:
1. C(#)
2. AM
3. Park
4. Film
5. 12-tone #1a (Sequences of length= 4, add 3 then 9, for piano)
6. 12-tone #1b (Sequences of length= 3, add 3 then 9, for piano)
MW Ensemble is Nancy Wheeler and Mike Winters, who make piano/cello music that is sometimes integrated with field recordings and/or electronic sounds. Songs are predetermined, but can also be improvised at times.
Limited to 50 silkscreen copies on numbered brown and white jackets.
Jeff the Postman – The Postman Speaks
75OL-163 Jeff the Postman – The Postman Speaks CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Jeff the Postman, ‘The Postman Speaks’ is a collaboration between Prescott Cronin and the poet Jeff the Postman. The words on this recording were written by Jeff the Postman. The entire process from inspiration, conception, practice, to production occurred in 02885, the smallest town, in the smallest county, in the smallest state in the U.S.A. Jeff the Postman offers his eternal thanks to all his neighbors who let him practice his delivery. This project was tracked entirely on an iPhone, using samples and live instruments, at 90 Union, except for “As a Guest,” which was recorded in the elevator at Parker Mills in Warren, RI. ‘The Postman Speaks’ is an epic work that exemplifies what can be done these days with small equipment and conviction. Twenty two tracks.
Track Listing:
1. Touched
2. As I Speak
3. Beliefs
4. Katrina
5. As A Guest
6. Displaced
7. The Village Fool
8. Lurking
9. Vailed
10. The Vail
11. Winds of Time
12. Threads
13. Microcosmic
14. Twelve
15. Dancing
16. Balloon Thoughts
17. Hellbent
18. Latitude
19. Recycled
20. Demo (free download)
The first 25 copies will be signed by Jeff the Postman.
150 silkscreen white and brown jackets with green and black ink.
Ralph Gauvey Jr – 4XCD Audio Set
75OL-161 Ralph Gauvey Jr. – Zen, Men, Zoom, Death Audiobox
$25.00 S&H Included
Ralph Gauvey Jr., self-professed Zen Mystic-Poet-Writer, spent time this winter at the Fort Foreclosure studio to adapt four of his books to audiobooks. ‘Zen of Men’, ‘Zen for Lovers’, ‘Zoom A Road Novel’ and the unpublished ‘Death, Been There’. We later added some ambient musical textures to provide a relaxing background for his stories. This 4XCD set, on a mix of white and brown jackets, is a silkscreen edition of 25 and all individual copies are signed by Ralph Gauvey Jr.
Various Label Band Pins
75OL-168 Various Band Pins
[sold out]
We recently discovered a bag of pins that were thought to be long lost. You’ll get a mix of 15 different band & label pins.
Vertical Twin – ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ Silkscreen Poster with Download
75OL-162 Vertical Twin – ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ Silkscreen Poster and Album Download Card
$30.00 S&H Included
Vertical Twin’s ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ was released in December 2012 and a limited number of posters were printed to celebrate the release. Providence artist Ryan Lesser drew the cover image. Fifty glow in the dark 19″x 25″ hand silk screened three color posters, featuring the album cover image, will be offered for sale and include a digital download code for the album.