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IE — “Pome” CS
7 / 8 / 2018
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IE – PomeIE (pronounced “eee”) is a five-piece from Minneapolis devoted to experiences of hypnotic minimalism— sonic rituals from the future and ambient, desert soundscapes. Their shows feature sustained tones, electronic whirrs, slow beats, video and film projections, metaphysical recitations, and carefully crafted atmospheres.
In 2017, IE received a extraordinary gift: an eight-person hot tub from their eccentric handyman. After a year of bathing in its therapeutic waters, the band’s minimal vibes began to take on startling evolutions into new harmonic fields and cultic auras. With the inclusion of two new members, IE wrote their first full-length album. The album includes three entirely new songs with vocals (Amulets, Gloam, and Moon Shot) and three classic IE jams that are here polished into studio recordings (Empty Vessel, Idol Horizon, and Nebula). Moon Glyph is thrilled to unveil the fruits of these sessions with their brilliant new cassette— Pome.
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Courtesy — “HEY” CS
5 / 4 / 2018
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Courtesy – HEYCourtesy has crafted an unclassifiable electronic blend of off-kilter atmospheric synths, otherworldly vocal harmonies, deep-house grooves, and weirdo-funk bass lines all sewn together via a persistent Oberheim DX drum machine. Throughout Courtesy’s three albums there has been a loose thread mirroring evolution and their process—from an amorphous single-celled Idmatic, to the lizard-like mass of reflexes represented in Slow Bruise, to the stumbling, playful, and exaggerated toddler of HEY.
Now a trio with the addition of Doug Malone, Courtesy’s new album was inspired by plastics, young bodybuilders as a metaphor for pop personas, the feeling of Andre Agassi’s pastel/neon Nike apparel line, and Ronald McDonald now wanting to be referred to as Ron. HEY is unabashedly weird yet accessible and all the more brilliant for it.
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Treasure Hunt — “Space Jam” CS
11 / 26 / 2017
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Treasure Hunt – Space JamFar out experimental collagist Treasure Hunt returns with a collaboration alongside Dennis Warren’s Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble. Warren’s unique approach to improvisation is informed by his understanding of resonance and quantum mechanics, reading into musics on a molecular and deeply vibrational level. The collaboration began with three live recordings from FMRJE, split up into individual players parts (trumpet, saxophone, drums, flutes, congas, bongos, electric guitar, bass, etc) which were then shipped to Treasure Hunt who took these pieces, sampled and re-sampled and combined them alongside his own peculiar brand of synthesis and production. Together, these cosmic jokers crafted Space Jam, a bewildering and tripped out free jazz album blended with modern electronics, the kind of boundary pushing that would make Sun Ra proud.
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Tara King th. — “Stellar Fantasies” CS
11 / 20 / 2017
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Tara King th. – Stellar FantasiesLike its namesake implies, Stellar Fantasies floats in celestial space with synth, organ and machine guided tunes harkening back to old sci-fi soundtracks and cosmic experiments. Known for their baroque psychedelic pop, Tara King th. returns with a solo endeavor from Ray Borneo alongside a few other guest accompaniments. The album is full of driving, grandiose space opera vignettes purposefully fitted alongside quiet kosmiche-inspired drifters. Melodically brilliant as ever, Stellar Fantasies hits that perfect spot between memorable, experimental pop and far out mood pieces.
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Henry the Rabbit — “Abraham’s Sausage Pot” CS
11 / 13 / 2017
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Henry the Rabbit – Abraham’s Sausage PotHenry the Rabbit’s third album Abraham’s Sausage Pot is a mixed casserole of daydreaming psychedelic folk culled from his unreleased archives. Recorded in Copenhagen between 2011 to 2015, the album is full of instrumental reveries about spring time, anchorites, visionary fruits, flowers and bee colonies. Similar to its predecessor, Henry’s sonic palette blooms and flourishes with glockenspiel, strings, ukulele, chimes, egg shakers and percussive household objects. Abraham’s Sausage Pot is an album holding a quiet strength, a comforting coalescence of celestial voices and intimate homespun compositions of personality and gorgeous twinkling beauty.
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Ivy Meadow — “Zodiac” CS
11 / 6 / 2017
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Ivy Meadows – ZodiacIvy Meadows is the solo moniker of Camilla Padgitt-Coles, also of the psychedelic electronic project Future Shuttle. Zodiac is an expansive listen of blissful and transportive ambient and new age electronics, recorded in sequence and sculpted over time as Camilla closely listened on loop, gazing upward from the floor of her Brooklyn apartment. It was composed as the only musical component of Rachel Day’s Zodiac-themed mailing list which distributed prints, zines and other astrology-themed artwork.
Sonically these tunes cover a spectrum of breathy and otherworldly synthesizers, plucked and strummed autoharp, fuzzy electronics, bowed strings and synthetic bell tones. Zodiac is the perfect mellow accompaniment for a day of mindfulness.
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Web of Sunsets — “Chaos Waltz” CS
5 / 15 / 2017
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Web of Sunsets – Chaos WaltzWeb of Sunsets is a trio crafting pastoral psychedelic folk and wistful acid country tunes. Their sonics aptly compare to sepia-soaked memories or the final golden hour of sunlight. Webs is a uniquely collaborative project in that all three members (Sara Bischoff, Sarah Nienaber and Chris Rose) split duties between penning songs, playing guitar and singing across their catalog. Writing their fourth album, Chaos Waltz, the band was geographically split between Portland and Minneapolis, giving each songwriter even more autonomy and freedom to hone their particular vision. Blending and coalescing these three minds resulted in Chaos Waltz, a beautiful album of their distinctly dreamy and emotive power.
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Larry Wish & His Guys — “Not From My Come From” CS
11 / 29 / 2016
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Larry Wish & His Guys – Not From My Come FromLarry Wish brings together His Guys for a set of far-out pop tunes and outsider jams. A fixture of weirdo music in Minneapolis, Adam Werven (who is Larry Wish) wrote these songs over the course of three years at the Organ Haus. They were originally recorded as 4-track bedroom prog songs with Adam overdubbing each part, drums, cheap keyboards, etc. The songs are about daily observations, reflections, interactions, and trying to understand love and life without analyzing either to death. Not From My Come From features a band of talented and wonderful musicians who have learned the parts and applied their own stylized filters to them. It is the third album by Larry Wish & His Guys, and the first to include guitarist Nate Johnson on the electric guitar. The cover painting is by Adam’s Grandfather, Lawrence “Bump” Werven.
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James Chen — “Taiwanese Folk Style” CS
7 / 25 / 2016
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James Chen – Taiwanese Folk StyleWalking home from school around 1962 in Chia-yi, Taiwan, James Chen heard wild guitar noises reverberating from a nearby building. Compelled by its tone and sound, he stumbled upon a local musician playing guitar and immediately inquired for a lesson. In the ‘80s he began to write songs at home, talking about cicadas molting in the summer, the pleasures of leisurely sipping tea, blooming Poinciana flowers and a wistful longing for his family after living in the States for many years. Lovely, personal works.
Cut to present day, James’ son Hewson (The New Lines) took his father’s tunes and alongside his bandmate Davis White, fleshed out the production adding additional guitar, synthesizer and drums. Hewson titled this Taiwanese Folk Style because growing up around his fathers music, this is what he thought traditional Taiwanese cultural music sounded like. Over 30 years in the making, this inter-generational collaboration is as beautiful as it is sublime.
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Corum – ”Grand Vudu Staircase” (excerpt) video
7 / 21 / 2016
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Corum — “Coastal Vudutronics Voyage” CS
7 / 11 / 2016
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Corum — Coastal Vudutronic Voyage CSCoastal Vudutronic Voyage is the solo work of Grant Corum from the psychedelic troupe Million Brazilians. The tunes are flush with humid atmospherics, flickering twilight synth lines and ancient rhythms ingrained with an experimental fervor befitting of its spiritual voyage. It’s a heavy listen to be sure, simultaneously rooted in sublime worldly travels, sweat lodge visions and unheard alien soundscapes. Look inward and dig deep into Coastal Vudutronic Voyage’s lush drift.
Corum has also freshly completed his Beguiling Isles Trilogy LP series (Beguiling Isles / Effigy Mounds / Magic Mirror) on his stellar label, Psychic Sounds Records. Please listen.
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6 / 16 / 2016
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Geist & the Sacred Ensemble — “Within” CS
2 / 29 / 2016
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Reggae 90210 — “Reggae 90210″ CS
2 / 16 / 2016
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Corum presents Magic Mirror: Coastal Vudutronics Tour 2016
2 / 1 / 2016
Corum is touring the West coast in February in support of forthcoming Magic Mirror LP on Psychic Sounds and Coastal Vudutronic Voyage cassette on Moon Glyph.
February 4 – Olympia, WA @ Cryptatropa
Arrington de Dionyso & Oomung Varma / Skrill Meadow / Versionary performs THE SEX LIFE OF MUSHROOMSFebruary 5 – Seattle, WA @ Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
Arrington de Dionyso & Oomung Varma / Geist & the Sacred Ensemble / God and VanillaFebruary 6 – Portland, OR @ Xchurch
Arrington de Dionyso & Oomung Varma / CLOWN CAR (Smegma / MSHR) / Dolphin MidwivesFebruary 12 – Oakland, CA @ Life Changing Ministries
FaTHErs (Headboggle / Tusco Terror) / White Gourd / Goddess Aphonic w/ Andrew Scott Young (Tiger Hatchery)February 13 – Davis, CA @ The Morgue
Quartzthrust / White Gourd /Joe WindslowFebruary 14 – On the Air @ KFJC
Live video & sound streaming w/ White Gourd / Joe WindslowFebruary 15 – Oakland, CA @ the Church (5-10)
White Gourd (w/ Kinko Milada of 3 Moons) / Mummy Dust Trippers (Joe Windslow & Corum) / Dry Lick (Virtual Vahalla) / KSUN Spacebag Orchestra / Turkish Tea Lounge all evening….February 16 – San Francisco @ A.T.A.
White Gourd / Joe Windslow / Special Guest TBAFebruary 17 – Santa Cruz, CA
Village of Spaces / White Gourd / Joe WindslowFebruary 19 – Los Angeles @ Coaxial
Nephila (Shannon of Pedestrian Deposit) / White Gourd / Joe WindslowFebruary 20 – Joshua Tree @ Beatnik
White Gourd / Joe Windslow