kHz - 1018 — Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny - Drueling LP

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After a year of inter-continental correspondence, Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny crossed paths in the Spring of 2023. Derek was touring in Europe, playing solo sets with his electric shahi baaja, an instrumental obsession shared by Turner. Turner invited Derek down to Marseille for a session in his aerial basement studio overlooking the city. The result was the first shahi baaja duet for either musician. Spontaneous Mars music in the shadow of enormous transmission towers, pylône electrique crackling up above in humid air. 24 hours on Mars and then Derek hit the road again, setting another strange orbit loose in his wake. Drueling was recorded live to Zoom recorder, no overdubs, no microphones, evening and morning, March 30-31, 2023. Drueling was mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.​

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**Included in this LP is "An Amateur's Guide to the Keyboard-Zither Family." The text, illustrations, and research done by Turner Williams Jr.

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kHz - 1017 — Descending Pharaohs - Ritual of Light LP

kHz - 1017b — Descending Pharaohs - Telesterion 7"

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Ritual of Light is the first full length from Descending Pharaohs. Recorded in mid-2022, it marks the band in its first year as a trio with a sound that is mainly implemented by the conventions of guitar, bass, and drums and enhanced by rich textures created by Turkish saz-baglama, greek tzoura, and oud as well as drone-driven electronics.This work has an urgency to it and these compositions are timely given the unchecked powers of evil that have wreaked havoc for centuries. To answer this, Ritual of Light evokes a soundtrack to imaginary worlds where the indigenous triumph over colonial rule. Ritual of Light was mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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Telesterion is a limited edition 7-inch was produced as a companion piece to Ritual of Light. . Mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 200.

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kHz - 1016 — Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran - Abacomancy LP

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Abacomancy is the result of a one-day recording session in Monypeny's adopted town of Joshua Tree, CA in the spring of 2022. Entirely improvised, the tracks display an impressively wide variety of approaches/moods/emotions: from blistering Sharrockian skronk (Part One) to meditative Eastern-influenced shimmer (Part Three, which features Monypeny on shahi baaja), to dark, foreboding long-form drone (Part Five). There's a remarkable synergy at work here; particularly impressive is Corcoran's highly sympathetic and textural playing on the quieter, more drone-based tracks. Monypeny, whose free-improv guitar playing has not been much documented on record, presents a gamut of sounds and dynamics, taking Abacomancy far beyond a typical document of a high-energy/free-blowing session. Mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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**Included in this LP is a photograph book entitled Mojave Traces by Kevin Corcoran.

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kHz - 1015 — Cecyl Ruehlen - Oozetones / Fleshscapes LP

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While Cecyl Ruehlen's Oozetones / Fleshscapes was written and completed in early 2022, the work here reflects about a decade's worth of developing a unique approach to improvising, super-imposition, and sound engineering as a method of constantly shifting and expanding composition. In many ways this work is the logical conclusion of the desire for, and searching after, a certain sound and feeling...

...The ooze is all encompassing. The ooze moves across and through all things. The ooze is action and thought. The ooze is place and also the disintegration of place. The ooze is a dark river flowing from nowhere to nowhere. This is an album that is as much about leaving a place as it is about being a body in a place. Not really a goodbye—More like an exasperated exhale... Mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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**Included in this package is a graphic book and narrative for Oozetones / Fleshscapes. All content by Cecyl Ruehlen.

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kHz - 1014 — Khoury / Sehnaoui / Yassin - TAQATO3 LP

kHz - 1013 — Fellahin - Live at Space Mountain LP

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Violinist Mike Khoury came together with Sharif Sehnaoui (guitar, percussion, bouzouki) and Raed Yassin (bass) to create some very natural and organic improvised music during the Irtijal Festival in 2018. Khoury said, “the three of us had an instant connection with a common understood language that predated all of us.” The music was not a part of a festival performance but a sparate effort by the three musicians.  Mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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Fellahin is a violin, wind and percussion format for violinist Mike Khoury.  He has assembled this instrumental grouping several times under that moniker.  For this album, Khoury travelled to Miami to work with Kenny Millions (Keshavan Maslak) on clarinet and guitar, and Steven Bristol on percussion. Mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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kHz - 1012 — Porcelain Hammer - Born for Years LP

kHz - 1011 — TBA​

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Porcelain Hammer formed in 2018 for the purpose of expanding the direction of Ben Miller's multiphonic guitar work into a full ensemble. This new direction in Miller's music is the melding of art, psych, world and no-wave with lyrical hypnagogia.  Miller plays a modified Gibson Kalamazoo that has an inverted neck pick-up over the first fret which is output, along with the bridge pickup, to stereo. Contact mics are placed on the body and headstock and are also split stereo. Mike Khoury (violin) and Deanna McMullen Lee (cello) contribute maximum tension to the song cycle which is driven by Mike List's demanding percussion. Finding patterns in the freedom of improvisation.  Mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

 

kHz-1011 is being reserved for a project that has been long in production.

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kHz - 1010 — Derek Monypeny - Cibola LP

kHz - 1010b — Derek Monypeny - Remote Duets 7"

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Cibola is in some ways a continued exploration/distillation of the approach and methodology that Monypeny first introduced on The Hand As Dealt: the 15-string Indian electric banjo known as the shahi baaja again features prominently, and many of the tracks could be called "drone-based." Limited Edition black vinyl LP. Cibola was mastered by Charlie Stavish and Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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Remote Duets is a limited edition 7-inch was produced as a companion piece to Cibola. These songs (Source 2, In Tribute) consist of two open-source drum/percussion tracks performed and recorded by Ted Byrnes in Los Angeles, CA, mixed by Derek Monypeny, at Studio Pendejo, Yucca Valley, CA. Mastered by Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 200. 

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kHz - 1009 — Diminished Men - Damage Mécanique LP

kHz - 1009b — Diminished Men - Invasive Species 7"

 

Damage Mécanique thrusts the listener into a malfunctioning industrial sci-fi soundscape. Trance inducing guitars beckon with haunting wails, high-tension wires spin and spit with a crackling hiss. Circular kosmische rhythms and anxiety-drenched beats destroy and rebuild around fractured melodies and noise. The band oxidizes and melts into experimental post-punk and acousmatic environments as hypnotic groove and vertigo copulate in cinematic assemblage. Limited Edition black vinyl LP. Damage Mécanique was recorded by Evan Schiller, mixed by Randall Dunn at Figure 8 in Brooklyn, NY and mastered by Alan Jones at Laminal Audio, Tracyton, WA. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500. 

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Invasive Species is a limited edition 7-inch that was produced as a companion piece to Damage Mécanique. It was recorded by Evan Schiller and Diminished Men. Artwork by Constantine Katsiris. It was pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 200. 

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kHz - 1008 — Idol Ko Si - S/T LP

kHz - 1008b — Idol Ko Si - 12-inch Maxi single

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Idol Ko Si is an abstracted supergroup from Seattle featuring members of Aframes, Climax Golden Twins, Factums, Dreamsalon, AFCGT, Sublime Frequencies, and Yves Son Ace. Fractured sounds, broken beats, cocaine ambiance...low key, lo-fi and hazy. This is the first IKS full-length tangible material object, having previously released several full lengths only digitally. Limited edition black-vinyl LP. The album was mastered by Mark Gergis and pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500. 

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Idol Ko Si also recorded a limited edition 12-inch maxi-single that is bundled with the LP. This fine item has been mastered by Mark Gergis and designed by John Hubbard. The record comes in a matte black center-hole cut jacket. Limited edition of 200. 

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kHz - 1007 — Algae & Tentacles - The Mouth is a Resonant Field LP w/ chapbook

kHz - 1007b — Algae & Tentacles - Wave the Ocean cassette

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The Mouth Is a Resonant Field brings together a variety of approaches to the mouth as a space for resonance. Stretching between feedback improvisation and folk song form, this music reaches into the inchoate space within, around, and under the common field of human endeavor we think of as singing, as song. Songs are machines, too, and here they are in conversation with and plugged into a lungs-throat-mouth-microphone-electricity-amplifier assemblage. Limited Edition black vinyl LP. The Mouth is a Resonant Field was mastered for vinyl by Geoff Saba and pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago. The TMIARF chapbook was constructed by Amanda Beehuizen and Jeik Ficker at Tanline Printing in Tucson. Edition of 500. 

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Wave the Ocean cassette was created as a pre-order companion piece to The Mouth is a Resonant Field. Wave the Ocean was mastered by Geoff Saba and Mark Gergis and made by A to Z Media. Edition of 100. 

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kHz - 1006 — Derek Monypeny - The Hand as Dealt 2LP

kHz - 1006b — Derek Monypeny - Plays Sun City Girls Songs on the Shahi Baaja 7" 

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The Hand as Dealt is a double LP release with limited edition 7 inch.  The record was recorded in Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree, California and is inspired by and dedicated to Umm Kulthum, Terry Riley, Alice Coltrane, and Don Cherry. Monypeny, who was born and raised in Yuma, has spent time in the Freak of Araby Ensemble with Richard Bishop and the trio ALTO!. The 7-inch is dedicated to the memory of Charlie Goocher

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kHz - 1005 — Mount Meru Anthology Box Set -- Wooden Case 

 

The first four records of 2182 Recording Company combined in a handmade wooden box with all of the companion pieces from each release including tarot cards, DVD, and lathe cut. Edition of 50.

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kHz - 1004 — The Alternative Particle Choir - The Black Hole Diaries 2LP

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In the summer of 2017, W. David Oliphant, Alan Bishop, and Joel Robinson came together to create a three sided LP that redefines the concept of 'sun damaged' often ascribed to Arizona sounds.  This release brought W. David Oliphant, Bob Anderson, and Ryan J. Bruce together to start 2182 Recording Company.

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kHz - 1003 — Sunn Trio - Electric Esoterica LP

kHz - 1003b — Sunn Trio - 8 inch Square Lathe Cut

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'Electric Esoterica' adds to Sunn Trio's growing catalogue and follows 2018's "Fayrus' on Unrock Records.  This Phoenix group helps keep a sound tradition going in the valley while forging an entirely new path.  First experiments in a "real" studio.

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kHz - 1002 — Sun City Girls - Live At The Sky Church - September 3, 2004 LP/DVD 

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'Live at the Sky Church' is Sun City Girls's provocative performance at the Experience Music Project in Seattle on September 3, 2004.  One of only a few recordings to be released after Sun City Girls disbanded in 2007.

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kHz - 1001 — Sir Richard Bishop and W. David Oliphant - Beyond All Defects LP

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This was composed and recorded live in the studio in Phoenix, AZ in December of 2011. The sonic landscapes presented here find their origins in Tibet, and are heavily inspired by Tibetan Buddhism -- specifically the body of teachings known as Dzogchen.  The recording was mastered by Mark Gergis in the summer of 2018.  Limited edition clear 180g vinyl.