Three new releases for this side of Xmas

[A Beard of Snails]

Greetings from the urban tundra,

Finally, three new releases to report about!
Other peoples' fantastic music is, as always, difficult to put into
words, but here goes...


ABOS2-007: The Big Drum in the Sky Religion "Hymn to the Beast With
Two Backs" CD-R
Beast-like in all senses, "Hymn..." consists of a single 75 minute
track: hypnotic, chaotic, sexed up scuzz, damaged transcendental
shoegaze-y Kraut rawk, free-punk... seemingly endless, definitely
amazing! Comes in an oversized sleeve (with imagery by C.K.) that'll
keep your Arklight (ABOS2-005) and Lee Noyes/Bruno Duplant (ABOS2-006)
CD-Rs company. Appropriately priced at €6.66.


ABOS2-031: Pregnant Spore / Dementia and Hope Trails / Inappropriate
King Live "The Three Braces of Naivité" 3x CD-R
No less than three discs worth of solo projects from Justin Marc Lloyd
(Rainbow Bridge Recordings chief)! Over 3½ hours of immersive,
sublimely intricate sonic mayhem, dark rumbles, ethereal fuzz,
manipulated field recordings, and aggressive electronics. Pregnant
Spore and Inappropriate King Live present two directions of noise/
glitch/creative sound manipulation, sometimes abrasive, sometimes
soothing, while Dementia and Hope Trails delivers an evolving,
shimmering, melodic / blissed out ambient guitar excursion lasting an
hour and sixteen minutes (if you've enjoyed DAHT's recent [mp3/CD-R]
releases on Pandafuzz and Twilight Luggage, you'll love this piece.)
Strictly limited to 16 copies.


ABOS2-038: Mold Omen "Mold Omen" CD-R
Seven intriguing musical sculptures from this debuting Baltimore duo -
free form dystopian motorcade melanges of ol' time radio, violin,
organ, and other noise toys, equally mysteriously moribund and
eccentrically vibrant. Like a vintage horror movie-on-tape (yeah, or
CD-R), recorded on ancient Polynesian burial grounds, then smoked -
resulting in new, otherworldly tone textures... tasty colours you can
feel. A personal favourite, this one! Comes in an envelope sleeve with
photography by Mr. Livingston, and gouache tinted art.


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Despite there being little time to spare 'tween Xmas 'n' NYE, another
three shall be finished and officially issued in about 10 days from
now:

- Solquest's exquisite "The Blind Town"
- Anders Thode's rippin' "Apartment Rocking With Anders Thode"
- Satanism Around Hollywood's heavenly "Uncontrolled Winds" (members
of Dead Black Arms and Shiggajon)

...conveniently putting A Beard of Snails at 20 releases for 2010 (19
CD-Rs and a tape.)

A lot more tapes, and a lot fewer CD-Rs in 2011 (well, still got about
11 CD-Rs to do) - and vinyl, too (none this past year, for various
reasons... but a good number of people who I've been [more or less
secretly] wanting to put out on wax one way or another have already
gotten that taken care of elsewhere in 2010, so that's great!)

More about A B of S's 2011 in the next newsletter!


Jingle all (or some of) the way,
Christian / A Beard of Snails