Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Hildegard
Acte Gratut

Feed & Seed

CD-R
£8.99


Feed & Seed is a great new CD-R label based in the North East of America and run by Daniel Presnell, a member of Astral Blessing, a group that also features Paul Labrecque of Sunburned Hand Of The Man and who opened the second day of the now-legendary Brattleboro Free Folk Fest back in May of 2003. Acte Gratut is the latest recording from this group, now swollen to a quarter and featuring Presnell and J. Pace alongside P. Mulcahy and K. Wood. Sub-titled “Works For Multiple Timbres 1-7”, this is a series of trance-trouncing meditations scored for bells, glasses, flute, organs, shruti, strings, harmonium, short wave, oscillators, drums and tapes that vibrates in mid-air with all of the solemn majesty of Terry Riley, Klaus Schulze, Tirath Singh Nirmala your favourite presiding daemon. Totally beautiful: Presnell and the rest of the Feed & Seed roster are ones to watch this year for sure. Packaged in a handmade card case with Mylar insert and tracing paper credits. Highly recommended and very limited.

Owl Klub
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Feed & Seed No Cat

CD-R
£8.99


Debut release by a new backporch hillbilly psych/drone group that features Daniel Presnell (Astral Blessing/Hildegard), P. Mulchay (Hildegard) and Ed Yazijin (Dredd Foole & The Din/Cul de Sac et al). The instrumental armoury includes guitar, fiddle, organ and drums and the music spans droning folk dirges that reference Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention and punk primitive jams that reconcile psychedelic power trio blats with cracked avant-Kraut weight and some Velvets-style amphetamine heat. Comes in a fold over oversize screened card sleeve with insert.