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For BiD006 they've pulled off quite the coup, enlisting renowned artist Matt Sewell to release his fledgling audio project, Sewell & The Gong on the label.

4 guitar led mystical meanderings and deep meditations of cosmic transcendental psychedelic folk. Like his art, his music is very much inspired by nature, earth magic and cosmic wanderings. His 'A Crushing Glow' compilations are pretty much a defining list of inspirations. Never heard by anybody outside of the family home that all changed after Matt started working with Newcastle based multi-instrumentalist, fellow pathfinder and astral traveler Chris Tate. Combining forces Chris helped build a beautiful world for Matt's melodies to wander in, deep and lush and always, always positive.

It only feels right that this music now gets to stretch its legs in the outside world...

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Renowned illustrator and nature advocate Matt Sewell unleashes his musical endeavour through local label of love - Before I Die. We couldn't think of a juicier pairing! Get those orders in!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Tonight We Fly
A2. Passing Oort Clouds
B1. The Stars In The Sky And The Stones In The Earth
B2. Better Words

Gong

Angel's Egg (RSD23 EDITION)

    THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

    50th Anniversary - Abbey Road Half Speed Master by Miles Showell cut using the 2018 96k24bit files.
    The 180gram black vinyl is housed in a gatefold sleeve and comes complete with a replica of the original 16-page “Blue Book” of lyrics and drawings plus an Abbey Road Certificate and Obi.
    Recorded in August 1973 at Pavillon Du Hay, Sens, France on the Manor Mobile (24 Track)
    Produced by Gong and Simon Heyworth
    Engineered by Simon Hayworth
    Remastered in 2018 from the original Virgin analogue masters by Simon Heyworth
    Released on Virgin Records in 1973, ‘Angel’s Egg’ was Gong’s 4th album and 2nd in their ‘Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy’.
    It features Gilli Smyth aka Shakti Yoni on vocals / ‘Space Whisper’ and was the first Gong album to feature Steve Hillage as a full-time band member.
    Contains such fan favourites as “Other Side of The Sky”, “Flute Salad”, Oily Way” and “I Never Glid Before”.
    Line Up & Down:
    Gilli Smyth aka Shalti Yoni: Vocals ( Spacewhispers)
    Daevid Allen aka Dingo Virgin: Guitar, Vocals
    Steve Hillage aka Submarine Captain Hillage: Guitars
    Mike Howlett aka T. Being esq: Bass
    Tim Blake aka Hi T. Moonweed: Synthesizer, Vocals
    Didier Malherbe aka Bloomdido Bad de Grass: Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Sax, Backing Vocals
    Mirielle Bauer aka Mirielle de Strasbourg: Glockenspiel
    Pierre Moerlen aka Pierre de Strasbourg: Drums, Marimba, Vibraphone


    TRACK LISTING

    SIDE A
    01: Other Side Of The Sky (7:32)
    02: Sold To The Highest Buddha ( 4:27)
    03: Castle In The Clouds (1:13) 
    04: Prostitute Poem (4:52) 
    05: Givin’ My Luv To You (0:47)
    06: Selene (3:38)
    SIDE B
    01: Flute Salad (2:09)
    02: Oily Way (3:37)
    03: Outer Temple (1:09)
    04: Inner Temple (2:34)
    05: Percolations (0:46)
    06: Love Is How Y Make It (3:28)
    07: I NEVER Glid Before (5:37)
    08: Eat That Phone Book Coda (3:09)

    Market

    The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong

      FOR FANS OF: Big Thief, Parquet Courts, Cate Le Bon, Elliott Smith, LVL UP. On their debut for Western Vinyl, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist Nate Mendelsohn and his band use lyrical maximalism for the powers of good. Where Market’s previous home recorded releases shifted genre restlessly, on The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong Mendelsohn took a core band of longtime collaborators to a house in rural Massachusetts where they carved out space for his words to speak through with humor and intensity. Though he comes from a background in experimental music, Mendelsohn’s ear for pop has prevailed. Certain moments on Bullshit Gong reveal his stranger side, as on the thundering bridge of “Scar,” which sounds like a more unhinged Parquet Courts, or the angular “I Would Do That,” which takes cues from Cate Le Bon.

      On the whole, though, this band of close friends insists on directness, their arrangements clear despite the intricacies. Guitars and synthesizers tangle fluidly atop the rhythm section’s tight bedrock, evoking the tenderness and backbeat-centric qualities of Elliott Smith or Big Thief. After college, where he met most of the members of Market, Mendelsohn became an engineer and producer at the Brooklyn studio Figure 8 Recording. Through that community he’s recorded artists like Frankie Cosmos and Wendy Eisenberg, and played with Yaeji, Vagabon, Katie Von Schleicher (who co-produced Bullshit Gong with him), and Sam Evian, who mixed the album. Creating intimacy out of manic self-reflection requires a delicate balancing act, one Mendelsohn tackles with abandon.

      His words never skew too poetic or grandiose, and when he invokes the ugly it’s met with a sonic tonality that sets him right again. In tender moments, his voice is often flanked by bandmates Natasha Thweatt or Von Schleicher, who help skew his words toward the universal. Still, Bullshit Gong is an obsessive look inward, one in which Mendelsohn simply asks himself if he is good to those he loves. It’s an act of trust between the artist and the imagined listener he takes with him. 

      TRACK LISTING

      01 Bag Of Jeans
      02 Scar
      03 Looking Back
      04 Watergate
      05 I Would Do That
      06 Old
      07 Control
      08 NBA
      09 Therapy
      10 Little Wants

      John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Wilder Zoby & Andres Renteria

      Gong Splat

        • Latest in quickly selling-out series of John Dwyer (OSEES frontman) with friends lock down experimentations and improvisations.

        • Featuring fantastic collage art by Dan Lean.

        • Recorded at Stu-Stu-Studio by John Dwyer in the peak of dope smoke lock down.

        What’s this? Today’s holiday gift? One final transmission from the core of the planet! Cresting slabs of concrete and powdered bone, rich soil—improvisation freak flag flitters atop a gutted highrise: Gong Splat. Featuring Ryan Sawyer on drums, Greg Coates on upright bass, Wilder Zoby on synth and mellotron, Andres Renteria on conga, bongos and hand percussion, and John Dwyer on guitar, synths, pan flute, cuíca, hand percussion, space drum and effects.

        This one is spitting fat and neon night-light city drives, white in the corner of the pilot’s mouth. Furry, fuzzy and frenetic, motorik and full of blood-rich ticks…maggots unite! There’s a show tonight! Welcome back humans.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: You always know you're in safe hands with Dwyer & co, and this one is a brilliantly heavy swerve into eastern-influenced psychedelia via garage percussion and brain-melting avant-synth swells. Elsewhere loungy keys meet jazzy tentative drum fills. Predictably brilliant, entirely mad.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Gong Splat
        2. Cultivated Graves
        3. Toagut
        4. Anther Dust
        5. Yuggoth Travel Agency
        6. Hypogeum
        7. Oneironaut
        8. Minor Protocides
        9. Giedi Prime

        Scientist

        Watch This - Dubbing At Tuff Gong

          When people think of Tuff Gong they usually think of the record label Bob Marley set up to release Wailers tracks in the 1960s. However Tuff Gong was also the name of a complex that included a top level recording studio, pressing plant and distribution centre.

          Located at the former residence of Island Records boss Chris Blackwell at 56 Hope Road, and moved to Marcus Garvey Drive following Marley's untimely death from cancer in 1981, Tuff Gong studios was used by many of Jamaica's top musicians and producers. 

          Engineers working at the facility included Errol Browne who had worked at Treasure Isle studios, and Hopeton Overton Browne known as “Scientist”, named by the great producer Bunny “Striker” Lee who, having worked with him previously at King Tubby’s and Channel One studios, described Browne's style as being like that of a scientist.

          For this release Jamaican Recordings focus on the work carried out by the great Scientist on the songs of the Black Solidarity Label run by Ossie Thomas (aka Joe The Boss) recorded at Tuff Gong studios. 

          The legendary psych-rockers return! Compelling and other-worldly, "2032" represents the first time Steve Hillage has recorded with original Gong founder, Daevid Allen, since 1974's "You" album. "2032" is a new instalment that continues Gong's famous "Radio Gnome" album trilogy which includes the milestone psychedelic progressive rock albums - "Flying Teapot" (1973), "Angel's Egg" (1973), and "You" (1974). The band line-up on the album includes Daevid Allen (guitar, lead vocal): Steve Hillage (lead guitar), Gilli Smyth (Space Whisper and poetry), Miquette Giraudy (synthesiser), Mike Howlett (bass), Chris Taylor (drums), and Theo Travis (sax and flute). Original Gong members Steve Hillage, Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Miquette Giraudy, wrote the songs for "2032" when they were in Australia. The new album also grew out of the enthusiasm and fun the band experienced playing live together again. Together with the rest of the band, Daevid and Steve have crafted a rich and fresh sounding powerhouse of an album that is a more than worthy successor to the legendary Radio Gnome trilogy that Gong released at their creative peak in the 70s. Special guest performances on some tracks include former Gong member Didier Malherbe (soprano sax, duduk, and flute) and Yuji Katsui (electric violin) of the Japanese progressive / psychedelic jam band Rovo. 2032 is the year that the Planet Gong makes full contact with the Planet Earth and a major new chapter in the continually evolving Gong mythology, says Daevid Allen.


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