[Af_List] New stuff

[PseudoArcana]

Hi,
Been a busy few months getting these ready for release. Pray excuse the
embarrassing enthusiasms of the other labels blurbs..:

A.M- 'Rag Red Reverie'. (PseudoArcana)
Full on over-the-top psychedelic noise guitar assault from Antony Miltons
A.M project. With beats!
Eschewing the last vestiges of embarrassment at several years 'lost' to rave
culture in the late 90s A.M channels the furious ecstasies of phasing tones
and pounding beats through electric guitar lined red hot into an ancient
tape recorder to produce a riff driven avant-party album... With its endless
driving riffs and noise incursions ascending to ever higher levels of
intensity the sudden free falls into sudden deep ambient bliss are like the
first glimpses of dawn on a mountain top on acid..
And then the beats kick in again.
A 'wave your arms in the air' boogie noise record? Who would have thought?
CD. NZ$17.

THE BAD STATISTICS.- 'Lucky Town Gone'. (PseudoArcana)
On the follow up to last years debut 'Static' LP ((Kr-aa-k)3) The Bad
Statistics have set about laying waste to the New Zealand suburban dream
with this album, a much darker and heavier affair than their debut. Led by a
bald suit clad psychopath named Thebis Mutante (rumoured to be the alter-ego
of NZ improv/fire music impressario Jeff Henderson) who chants and howls and
grunts throughout their doom laden droning rock mantra the closest
comparison I have been able to come up with is some sort of hybrid of The
Birthday Party, Circle, and The Reynols.
If the debut LP  were to be regarded as the Mission Statement of
BadStatistics Great Annual Report in the Sky, 'Lucky Town Gone' is not
theBusiness Highlights chapter to be expected next, but a sideways
lurchstraight to Appendix 17: Corrupted Data.
Recorded onto degraded old cassette tape, 'Lucky Town Gone' is a
collectionof mean-spirited practice room jams that sees the core four-piece
of BADSTATISTICS further embracing the stoner doom drone rock that already
definedlarge parts of 'Static'.
The seven tracks of 'Lucky Town Gone' are again spearheaded by the
abrasive,sense-eluding vocal emissions of Thebis Mutante. Critical response
toMutante¹s contributions on 'Static' was deeply divided, and the new album
is expected to further polarise opinions. Mutante is backed by Mark
Williams(Marineville, Idle Suite, Cookie Brooklyn) on guitar, Justin
Barr(Raskolnikovs, Users, Wrongdoings, Delaney Ghost Orchestra) on bass,
andJohannes Contag (Jay Clarkson, Cloudboy, Sleepytime) on drums
andproduction.
CD. NZ$17

GLORY FCKN SUN.- 'Spectra'. LP (Tipped Bowler).
Limited to 300 copies this is the follow up to the book/cd on PseudoArcana.
Heres what the label says:
'The sky done clouded over after Glory Fckn Sun's debut album, yielding this
brooding and corrosive follow-up. The New Zealand sorta-super group of
Antony Milton , Ben Spiers, and Simon O'Rorke concoct a slow-burning
behemoth of metallic shivers and distortion churn, dark enough to invoke the
dread name Haino.
Spectra is an unsettling mind-meld: Spiers desolate soundscapes bleed into
Milton's heavy drones, which are complemented perfectly by O'Rorke's
restless percussion. Group improvisation is the natural language of these
three; even listing their solo and collaborative albums over the past decade
would take way more effort than I can muster. Suffice to say this is a
stellar and unique record to add to their massive discographies.
In an edition of 300 red 160 gm. vinyl records, housed in silk-screened,
heavy-gauge recycled stock jackets'.
LP. NZ$25

Paper Wings -'Ash Field'. CD (PseudoArcana / Black Petal split release)
Paper Wings is the electric guitar duo of Australian Anthony Guerra and New
Zealander Antony Milton. Recorded in a small room on a winters day in Sydney
in 2005, their full-length debut drifts through beautiful bowed drones,
tender melodic excursions and harsher sonic adventures. Four pieces that
find these two guitarists at the top of their game.
Paper Wings previously appeared on the Last Visible Dog compilation 'Crows
of the World (Volume 1)' with the track "Horse Lattitudes'.  Reviews
said:....
".. The real reason to pick this [compilation] up, though, is to hear Paper
Wings' "Horse Lattitudes", an extended twin guitar dirge layered with
whispered and wailing vocals. Beginning slowly and chaotically, it unfolds
into a colossal mesh of The Velvet Underground at their most primal and
Earth at 16rpm.  Just when it threatens to peak, the duo fall back into
another bout of feedback induced guitar meltdown, wringing every amplified
note out of their instruments until the bones of the piece have been picked
clean"  Edwin Pouncey, The Wire....
"A masterclass in free improv that is even better at ear-splitting volume"
Simon Lewis, Terrascope....
CD NZ$17

Antony Milton/ PseudoArcana
PO Box 24409
Wellington 6142
New Zealand
pseudoarcana.com
myspace.com/pseudoarcana
myspace.com/antonymilton

New releases.
A.M.- 'Rag Red Reverie'. CD (PseudoArcana)
Glory Fckn Sun.- 'Spectra' LP. (Tipped Bowler)
Paper Wings. -'Ash Field' CD. (PseudoArcana/BlackPetal)
Nthnth/sthSth (A.M/Uton) LP. (Release the Bats).
The Nether Dawn.- 'Long Shadow of a Dream'. (CD. Students of Decay).

PseudoArcana:
Bad Statistics. 'Lucky Town Gone'. CD (PseudoArcana)
Keijo.- 'Carry On With Us'. CDR/Book.
Seht.- 'Dead Bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite)'. CD.
Sunken.- 'Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve'. CD

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