Decline of the West

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Emil Amos, producer/drummer/songwriter of Grails, drummer of OM, and Lilac & Champagne mastermind, solo entity Holy Son's Decline of the West. Psych, folk, hip-hop, this album has it all, delivered by the master. The haunting opener "Gnostic Device" starts the album off in perfect form and continues to carry until the end of the album. Highly recommended, Enjoy!

"...I got to daydreaming about what it would sound like if the next Holy Sons record was produced by someone as inventive as Lee Scratch Perry, or MF Doom, or Carl Sagan for that matter. At the time I'd felt 'Peaceful Life' could've suggested a career of musical pacification and that bothered me. Too much in culture is warped and diluted by the desire to pander to an imaginary audience... but when we retreat to the inner temple of the self, worthwhile art is created. This tension, in itself, is a good platform for an upbeat misanthropic concept record. So for the leaner and meaner genre-hoppers>> Decline of the West. Hybridizers unite!"

Certain Blacks

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More from the Art Ensemble of Chicago in Paris. Enjoy!

Les Stances a Sophie

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The Art Ensemble of Chicago's 1970 soundtrack for the French film "Les Stance A Sophie". Just like Miles, the Art Ensembles time spent in France was gold. Enjoy!

Well Oiled

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The first collaboration between Bardo Pond and Roy Montgomery, Hash Jar Tempo's drugged induced improve session, Well Oiled. Float away and enjoy!

Lilacs & Champagne

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...and finally the release, you are in for a treat! Emil and Zack of Grails deliver a hazy experience on Mexican Summer blending 70's film scores, trip-hop beats, stoned out riffs, dub grooves, and of course Morricone worship, all done on a Akai MPC sampler, Lilacs & Champagne is something special. Enjoy!




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La Catacomb

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New tape available from guitarist Steven R. Smith's project Ulaan Khol on Soft Abuse. Enjoy!


"La Catacomb, purloined from a great abyss of uncertainty, is finally among us. The fourth album proper from Steven R. Smith’s blisteringly psychedelic “power trio” guise, La Catacomb languished for a few years awaiting release from this label & that before landing at Soft Abuse HQ. La Catacomb is the perfect follow-up to Ulaan Khol’s Ceremony trilogy, offering more smoulder than flame, more rumination than provocation. Smith's meticulously-crafted heavy drones & dirges have rarely sounded this harmonic. Once again, he's pushed further out."

Ulaan Khol "Pariah Dogs" by Soft Abuse

Le Venerdì Mixtape Vol. 56 - What have you done to our daughters?

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With the Lilacs & Champagne LP release and Black Tar V in the near future, Emil Amos has been busy. Here is his Le Venerdì Mixtape Vol. 56 - What have you done to our daughters? for vice magazine. Filled with remixes of Italian jams from the 70's. Enjoy!