Group Bombino: Guitars from Agadez Vol 2

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Rhythmic desert blues/funk/psychedelic from Sublime Frequencies. Jam it!

"Group Bombino is the latest salvo from the Agadez music scene. Led by the guitar virtuoso Omara Mochtar (Bombino), the group’s debut CD-- Volume two in the Guitars from Agadez series, represents the latest chapter in the modern sound of the Tuareg revolution. As of 2008, the Tuareg rebellion is in full force again, and Bombino is in exile to parts unknown. Agadez has been cut off from the rest of Niger. The only road that connects this legendary city with the rest of the country is littered with land mines and the only escorts are the military. This music and its messages of hope, justice, and desire for validation of the Kel Tamachek way of life ring louder than ever. Group Bombino are gaining mythic status in and around the Tuareg community for their incendiary live performances. Coming from the same scene as Group Inerane and sharing some of the same musicians, Group Bombino showcase both sides of the Tuareg Guitar style. The first half features the “Dry Guitar” sound, an unplugged selection of songs sung among the dunes and stars of the Tenere desert. The second half showcases the electric fury of the full band, a melding of heavy, psychedelic guitar heroics with a raw garage sound, back beat percussion, all swirling in extended trance rock moves. Recorded live and unfiltered in Agadez and the surrounding desert in early 2007, with the band’s equipment powered by generators and an unflinching dedication to the rebellion, Group Bombino’s music transcends any influence and ignites the raw passion of its message to the outside world."-Sublime Frequencies

The Four Aims

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This is the second album by Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof, Michael Flower Band) and Chris Corsano (Flaherty/Corsano, Jandek, Rangda). The Flower/Corsano Duo creates crazy, complex, hyper-kinetic percussion, electric slide and Japanese banjo drones. This is experimental at its finest. Highly recommended!

Youth of America

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The second album from Wipers in 1981. Compared to its predecessor "Is the Real?", Youth of America consists of longer, bass driven songs. Enjoy!

PAKISTAN: Instrumental Folk & Pop Sounds 1966 - 1976

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"A mind-blowing set of Pakistani instrumentals spanning the period between 1966 and 1976. It’s all here: rock and roll beat, surf, folk traditional mixed with pop, film tunes, electric guitars, sitar and organ solos, brilliant percussion and arrangements crafted by the grooviest bands of the period: The Panthers, The Mods, The Bugs, The Blue Birds, The Abstracts, The Aay Jays, The Fore Thoughts, Nisar Bazmi, and Sohail Rana. Limited Edition 2-LP vinyl set with full color gatefold jacket."-Sublime Frequencies

False Flag

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Drag City's super group Rangda is Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and Chris Corsano (Flower/Corsano Due). False Flag covers rhythmic freakouts, middle Eastern guitar melodies and drones, free jazz, western themes and psychedelic folk. What you might expect from these three gentlemen, plus a little more. Where all three leave me in awe individually, together they create a musical machine. Enjoy!

Saigon Rock & Soul

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Sublime Frequencies "Saigon Rock & Soul" Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974" was easily one of my favorite releases in 2010. Influenced by music brought over by American soldiers during the war, delivers fuzzed out, riffed out, freak out, psychedelic rock songs, unlike anything I have heard before. This is a must have.

"The tracks that form this collection cut a window into a rich musical Vietnamese music scene that has long been obscured, and for the most part, forgotten. As the scope of electrified Vietnamese music from the 1960s and 1970s begins to be revealed, it becomes evident that this was among the heaviest and most eclectic musical scenes of South East Asia at the time. These songs tell of war, love and what war does to love. All of them were recorded in makeshift studios and even US army facilities while the Vietnam War raged – and were issued by a handful of Saigon record companies on vinyl 45s and reel or cassette tapes.
Westernized forms of music in Vietnam had appeared during the latter nineteenth century, and especially during the early 20th century, under the influence of the French colonizers. Tan Nhac (modern music) always incorporated both domestic and international sounds, and continued to develop alongside Western musical trends."-Sublime Frequenices

Peripheral Star

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From Olympia, WA, Broken Water is another great band in the Perinnial Records family. For fans of Sonic Youth/My Bloody Valentine, Broken Water creates a dreamy shoegaze with a punk rock spirit of Perinnial. Enjoy!