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Sacred Bones has announced a preorder for one of my favorite synth records of all time. Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia.

https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/coll ... -plantasia

Discogs has an exclusive cassette and TP (sold out). I had to grab a tape, looks too cool.

I actually just posted this record a few days ago on the @spintheblackestcircles instagram, for the coming of spring.

Glad to see a legit reissue.

Thanks for the heads up on that. It took some googling to find that stupid discogs site. I could not remember what it was.

https://exclusives.discogs.com/product/ ... -cassette/

I'm sampling the album on bandcamp now. First song is pretty awesome. I'll probably end up ordering the tape.

FYI, Bleep has its own limited vinyl variant for Plantasia: HERE

Rough Trade also has a variant.

Happy to see Sacred Bones take a risk on this after the Fifth Dimension guys bootlegged the hell out of this for the last however many years.

I'm listening to the digital of Plantasia right now with the Sacred Bones reissue LP ordered. I don't own any Garson stuff but I hope SB re-releases more of his stuff. He did that Lucifer/Black Mass album that I remember listening to on youtube years ago and really digging it.

DigitalHiss wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:38 pm I'm listening to the digital of Plantasia right now with the Sacred Bones reissue LP ordered. I don't own any Garson stuff but I hope SB re-releases more of his stuff. He did that Lucifer/Black Mass album that I remember listening to on youtube years ago and really digging it.

check out this Deep Cut thread i did in 2014.

http://www.spintheblackestcircles.org/b ... 96&t=42513

Ataraxia/unexplained, Lucifer/black mass, wozard of iz, plantasia, all fun albums for sure. Glad SB is doing this, have the others but never found plantasia all these years. Especially after fifth dimensions shitty bootlegs

My first exposure to Mort Garson. I ordered that tape. Any other suggestions on albums to listen to. Lucifer/Black Mass has my interest on name alone :)

Ataraxia/unexplained is an amazing record.

Pretty tasty release from Gibbons and Krzysztof Penderecki https://www.normanrecords.com/records/1 ... phony-no-3

This is already sold out but I recommend finding a copy. I ended up finding one for about €35. It's one of those you could never fit into a genre. It reminds me the most of William Onyeabor maybe? But jazzy. Anyway, check it out... This one is a killer record, there is just something about it.

And then for fun, late at night get your head right, throw on the headphones, and pitch the record down -8, I like this record even better slowed down. The normal pitch has too much urgency, and these are super awesome as dreamy offkilter chill tracks.

As an aside.... love that centre label!

A truly fine listen, Tex. Very unique and worth anyone's time.

Finders Keepers continues to release more from the archives of Suzanne Ciani (my new obsession!)

As a genuine vanguard of electronic music composition at the forefront of the modular synthesiser revolution in the late 1960s, Suzanne Ciani’s forward-thinking approach to new music would rarely look to the past for inspiration, which makes this unheard composition from 1969 a rare exception to the collective futurist vision of Ciani and synthesiser designer Don Buchla. In choosing to adapt the controversial prose of French poet Charles Baudelaire, Suzanne would join the ranks of ongoing generations of pioneering musicians like Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Serge Gainsbourg, Etron Fou Leloublan, Celtic Frost and Marc Almond (not forgetting Star Trek’s William Shatner!), all equally inspired by the 19th century writer’s works of “modernité” (modernity), a self-coined term dedicated to capturing the eeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, best exempli ed in his symbolic, erotic and macabre ode to Parisian industrialisation, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers Of Evil).
In her varied career that would combine art gallery installations, major lm soundtrackings and commissions for Atari, Suzanne Ciani’s earliest experiments remain some of her most challenging, beguiling and timeless... Flowers Of Evil ticks all the above boxes and icks switches that would power-up a new uncharted universe of her own musical modernité. For the many enthusiasts that have already drawn the parallels between Baudelaire’s writings and experimental/ electronic music (a relationship rivalled only by the likes of J. G. Ballard and Aldous Huxley) some might instantly recognise an unconscious sistership between this recording and another 1969 electronic adaptation of Flowers Of Evil by celebrated female electronic composer Ruth White. An interesting distinction of White’s excellent version of Flowers Of Evil (released via Limelight records, home to the likes of Fifty Foot Hose and Paul Bley) is that its dark tone generation and vocal manipulation was created with a Moog synthesiser, the commercially triumphant rival to Suzanne and Don’s Buchla Systems (Buchla and Moog’s historic, simultaneous, neck-and-neck synth developments are well documented.) The fact that Ciani’s version was never intended for commercial release (not unlike her 1975 Buchla concerts, which could easily have taken Morton Subotnick’s Bull by the horns!) is also poetically re ective of the nature of Ciani and Buchla’s alternative perspective. The choice to present this extract from Flowers Of Evil in its intended French language further distances Ciani’s faithful reaction from some of its better-known variations. Having attempted to voice the poem herself, the multilingual Italian-American composer’s French accent did not meet her own standards, resulting in the request for a fellow unnamed French student who lived on campus at Mills College in Oakland to accurately verbalise the section of Baudelaire’s collection entitled Élévation.

https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp. ... rs-of-evil

Some new synthy goodness released on Friday through lakeshore records.

Skeleton Beach - Ritual



A little info via Vehlinggo
https://vehlinggo.com/2019/06/19/premie ... lood-moon/

https://iamskeletonbeach.bandcamp.com/album/ritual


He is releasing an LP, it is currently up for pre-order at LITA for $19 (cheap!) and 2HD. Vinyl should be shipping later in July.

Majeure has a new release coming out: Mass Flashback. There will be vinyl and cassette.

LINK

reddye6 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 2:05 pm Majeure has a new release coming out: Mass Flashback. There will be vinyl and cassette.

LINK

Thanks for the heads up on this. I will definitely be grabbing the cassette

reddye6 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 2:05 pm Majeure has a new release coming out: Mass Flashback. There will be vinyl and cassette.

LINK

That single is very good. I've missed the past few releases Majeure has done, I'm tempted to pick this one up.

This new Majeure LP sounds damn fine. Sidebar: I miss VCO Recordings.

Lakeshore is releasing a synth album called Hollydoom. Has artists like John Carpenter, Ogre (from Skinny Puppy), Carpenter Brut, Power Glove, Wojciech Golczewski, Pentagram Home Video, and Umberto.

HERE

Polypores got album of the week at Norman!

maxlevel wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 7:55 pm Polypores got album of the week at Norman!

It's a good one.

Mike Patton + Jean-Claude Vannier = ❤️

Out in September!

https://mikepatton.bandcamp.com/album/corpse-flower

I have heard a few songs from this album and it is appropriately nutty. I always enjoy both of these artists and will likely pull the trigger again.

Incoming from project revinyl Japan jazz heat

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gJ-P9JZnh ... hare_sheet